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Cold, clear weekdays make for a smooth surface and small crowds on the Rideau Canal Skateway. To get outdoors, see the article by travel writer and Winter Programs OOS resident Laura Byrne Paquet on page 35. PHOTO BY LAURA BYRNE PAQUET at the Firehall COMMUNITY CALENDAR Jan. 7-12 OSCA “Try-It-Free” Program Week, Registration is now open! Firehall CHECK OUT OUR 2020 WINTER Mon, Jan. 13, 19:00-21:00 OOS Garden Club - Armchair Guide to Costa Rica with Christine Libon, The GUIDE FOR PROGRAM LISTINGS! Firehall Tues, Jan. 14, 10:00 SWOOS Snow Mole Team Group Walk Audit, Firehall Thurs, Jan. 16, 18:30 Hopewell Avenue P.S. Kindergarten Information Session, Hopewell P.S. YOGA POTTERY School Library ARTS PILATES SPORTS Sat, Jan. 18, 11:00-13:00 The Great Canadian Kilt Skate, L INTEREST DANCE GENERA Lansdowne Park Skating Court WWW.OLDOTTAWASOUTH.CA Sat, Jan. 18, 16:30 Music at Trinity: The Ottawa Guitar Trio, Trinity Anglican Sat, Jan. 18, 19:30 Master Piano Recital Series: Beethoven Sonatas III, Southminster United Sun, Jan. 19, 9:00 Chemistry Magic Show, Carleton 2020 SUMMER CAMP University Jan. 20-24, 8:30-16:00 Kindergarten Registration Opens, REGISTRATION Hopewell P.S. REGISTRATION OPENS Sun, Jan. 26, 13:00-16:00 CAG Winter Party in the Park, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30TH Brantwood Park AT NOON ONLINE AND Thurs, Jan. 30, 12:00 OSCA Summer Camp Registration Opens IN-PERSON Thurs, Feb. 6, 19:00 Glebe CI 100th Anniversary Brainstorming Session, Glebe Collegiate Check out our 2020 Summer Camp Guide To see the latest listings, go to the online events calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca for a full list of camps and pricing! NEXT DEADLINE:

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BUSINESS BEAT PetSmart closing, used car dealership takes Noel’s place

By Erik van der Torre to see what the “re-revisioning” of Lansdowne might change, but it Another short Business Beat this seems unlikely we’re going to see a month. I am settling into my new part- vibrant, exciting retail mix anytime time role as OSCA’s Communications soon. I wonder how much longer until and Marketing Coordinator, but as other large tenants like Winners and you may have noticed, December is Structube will also cut bait? somewhat of a busy month all around, and OSCA is no exception. Bank Barbershop Back in October I reported that we Lansdowne losing another tenant were getting (yet) another hair place on PHOTOS BY BRENDAN MCCOY In the Air now open January 5th will be PetSmart’s last Bank Street. Last month I had a chance I have not (yet) been able to poke my day at Lansdowne. So after the earlier to pop in and I wasn’t disappointed. Eddie’s Autowa head in (and perhaps that’s not the best demise of The Source, Lansdowne has Hussain, the incredibly friendly owner, Well, that didn’t take long. And the idea anyway…) at In the Air which now lost another large tenant. I really gave me a quick, great barber cut, and result is exactly as predicted. Now describes itself as “The Premier Knife don’t know what this all means, but it I was in and out in about 20 minutes. that Noel’s was shut down by the City and Axe Throwing Bar,” but they are is somewhat depressing that even these The prices are very competitive, and I after one complaint, the space was now open for business. Walking by large, national chains can’t survive at think you would be hard pressed to find filled within weeks with, guess what, the other day, I did notice that there Lansdowne, or at the very least have no a quicker, cheaper haircut. All in all, a second-hand car dealership. And I is a bunch of artwork on the walls, desire to be there, even if they are not a nice addition to that stretch of Bank have nothing against the business; this with descriptions, and maybe prices? losing money. It will be very interesting Street. is exactly what it was before. I guess I am just still angry that an actually This would be a great addition to an already intriguing business, and I am CANADA’S ONLY OATMEAL CAFE interesting use of parking space got quashed “because of the rules.” And sure I will have a chance to check it remember, those rules apparently apply out in the near future. There is actually only sometimes, and only if you are not a chance I will have been before this a developer. So, everything is back to gets published, as there is a rumour we normal, and the lot is now filled with might check it out for our OSCA staff second-hand cars, surely a lot better Xmas party. But I can’t tell if they are and nicer than (temporarily) parked serious... bobcats and a landscaping business. Business Beat is a monthly feature Cylie delayed that highlights new and existing Unfortunately for them, and for businesses in Old Ottawa South. us, the opening of Cylie’s chocolate Opinions are my own. If you know store had to be postponed due to of any new businesses opening up or Fashionable construction delays. It must hurt for want to share your thoughts about them to have missed out on the holiday existing businesses, send a note to: Oatmeal season, but I am hopeful they will [email protected]. be able to bounce back and make a Erik van der Torre has lived in Old successful go of it once they open. Open 365 days a year 7am-4pm Ottawa South with his wife and I distinctly remember thinking how three sons for over 10 years. He is there was no chance Stella Luna would 1154 BANK STREET @ GLEN a member of Hopewell Avenue PS’ survive their first winter after their Parent Council and OSCA’s Traffic opening was delayed into the fall. How & Safety Committee, and is OSCA’s wrong I proved to be on that one! Communications and Marketing Coordinator.

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NEWS Reimagining the Fieldhouse at Windsor Park

Participants expressed passionate views on the future of the park. Each participant was given six sticky ‘dots’ to then vote for their preferred options in each category; three for facilities (or structures), and three for PHOTOS BY DARCY MIDDAUGH programming.

By Shehryar Sarwar some sort of food service or catering users, OSCA will miss the application this issue forward. We’ve learned that capability. Correspondingly the ideas deadline for the City’s 50-50 Major residents are passionate about their On November 26th, OSCA hosted for facilities attracting the most dots Capital Asset program (which is at the park, we’ve heard inspiring ideas on a public meeting at the Firehall (votes) included: a kitchen/canteen, end of March 2020). The application what could be packed into it, and we seeking residents’ views on the future a stage for performances, a gazebo, would instead be filed in 2021; really want to get this right! of the fieldhouse at Windsor Park. picnic tables, an outdoor brick oven, meanwhile OSCA will continue to The meeting was attended by about and a dog washing station. Solar panels listen to residents and seek the next Shehryar Sarwar is a longtime 30 people including our Councillor, were suggested, both to keep costs available funding window from the resident of OOS and an OSCA Board Shawn Menard. down and to reduce the new structure’s City for this ambitious and much- member. OSCA Board members Michael carbon footprint. needed project. Jenkin and Luc Pellerin launched a An ad-hoc committee established presentation that displayed vividly Online survey by the OSCA Board to review options the fieldhouse’s current dilapidated The ideas collected at this meeting for the fieldhouse at Windsor Park will state, and estimated the potential matched closely the results of OSCA’s integrate the results of this meeting, the costs of a renovation and a rebuild. online survey that ran for two months online survey, and other submissions Two flipcharts invited participants’ starting in October, and sought by residents into a report to the OSCA suggestions for the structural residents’ views on the state of the Board at its January meeting with changes, as well as new or enhanced fieldhouse. That survey, completed by recommendations that will help move programming in the park. Each over 50 people, similarly demonstrated participant was handed six sticky ‘dots’ Old Ottawa South residents want a to then vote for their preferred options larger and more useable fieldhouse to in each category; three for facilities (or support multiple outdoor and indoor structures), and three for programming. activities. Programming activities were very similar to those proposed Form follows function at the public meeting. Unsurprisingly, The meeting was lively and given the dilapidated character of the animated to the end, with participants current fieldhouse, there was virtually expressing passionate views on the no support to renovate the existing future of the park. And there was much facility; rather people wanted to see a dissatisfaction with the current state. new purpose-built facility, as expressed Several residents of Belmont Avenue, at the public meeting. whose homes run along the northern edge of the park described how the Next steps absence of accessible facilities in the The meeting also highlighted a need park forces children (and grown-ups to reach out to the broader community too) to request use of their washrooms. of Windsor Park users. The park Sometimes park users relieve attracts day-care providers, wading themselves in residents’ backyards that pool users, dog walkers, river users, adjoin the park. Accessible washrooms children’s play area users, skaters and were identified as the single most hockey players, and those who play important need for the planned soccer, basketball, and tennis. The renovation. Accessible change-rooms OSCA Board will reach out for their were a close second. views on renewal of the park. Participants suggested any redesign The presentation estimated that a of the fieldhouse should follow the rebuild for a 2,000 sq. ft. structure principle of “form follows function,” a would cost around $880,000 not suggestion that freed everyone to first counting interior furnishings or the imagine the kinds of programming additional costs the City imposes, and activities they want the park to in the form of permits and other accommodate, in turn allowing those regulatory requirements. This would ideas to determine the structures clearly need a major OSCA fund- and facilities that should be built. raising effort in addition to a grant from Prominent programming ideas, both the City. indoor and outdoor, included kids’ Because of the importance of camps, adult fitness programs, and additional consultation with groups of Page 4 The OSCAR l January 2020

NEWS Synchronicity in the park Well, a place to sit is the most obvious answer. We found ourselves asking, “What is a park without a bench?” For anyone who just wants to sit in a park this was a serious omission. Hence, the beginning of our park bench project. In October 2015, Jo Hauser (a resident on Osborne Street) proposed to the City that if they would install a bench, his mother Daphne, a forty-year resident of Osborne Street, would be happy to contribute the funds. Daphne Hauser would not be able to enjoy it personally because for the last 8 years, she was a resident at the Perley Rideau Veterans Health Center with Alzheimer’s disease. However, Daphne would be there in the memories of those who knew her in the neighbourhood. And so the plans for a memorial bench began. This past spring there was much activity in the park as one of the main criteria for installing a bench was completed: the creation of a walkway to accommodate the disabled. The Hauser family was very excited to see the path and platform for the bench created. The summer passed, however, Jo Hauser, son of Daphne Hauser, sits on the Hauser memorial bench on Osborne Street, off Cameron Ave., near the and no bench appeared. Snow came early in November and it looked like Rideau River. PHOTO BY NORA MCKNIGHT the bench would not appear this year. Osborne Street in Old Ottawa South down Osborne to the banks of the On the morning of November 28, By Nora McKnight 2019 Daphne Hauser moved on to her has a lovely park that runs midway Rideau River. It is a small park, too small really for a fieldhouse or afterlife. At the moment when she was recreational facility, but just the right drawing her final breath, the City crew size for neighbours to share a common arrived at Osborne Park and the bench Holiday green space. was installed. Pre-made You can often see people playing Daphne’s family is thrilled to share with their dogs. Children are drawn to this memorial to a wonderful woman Gift the park to enjoy their doggie friends who gave so much to her community. Baskets and owners. It has just the right amount The commemorative plaque dedicates for everyone on the bench to her husband Gordon your gift list. of grassy open space to play tag or kick a soccer ball, and just the right amount and son Tony who also lived in the Starting at: of big trees to play hide-and-seek. No family home on Osborne Street and Gingerbread Houses 99 cars drive by since Osborne Street ends are fondly remembered by many in the 9 Complete kit or prebuilt & 9 ea. community. 24 ready to decorate 0 at the river. 1 In warm weather there are all sorts of watercraft to watch, from standup Nora McKnight is a grandmother, paddleboards to canoes, kayaks and yarn architect, Song Kitchen Choir small fishing dinghies. What more member, Green Dreamer and a could anyone wish for in a park? resident of OOS.

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AT THE FIREHALL OSCA’s Winter Art Show By Winnie Pietrykowski from all local artists has turned up some surprising results. Who knew January marks the second month of that a fellow dog walker from Windsor OSCA’s Winter Art Exhibit at the Park was also an accomplished acrylic Firehall. The exhibit continues to the painter, or that another neighbour’s end of February 2020 and is open for sewing room produced images in fabric viewing seven days of the week, the so popular that if you didn’t see it the same hours of operation as the Firehall first week of the exhibit, it was gone the at 260 Sunnyside Avenue. next. In November 2019, over 30 artists More important than the sales, submitted “artistic expressions of however, has been the opportunity winter” using a variety of mediums for local artists to display their talent such as photography, needlepoint, in our community. We invite you to ceramics, clay, watercolor, and acrylic. come to the Firehall, browse through The number of submissions by local the art in our main foyer, and consider artists has grown since the 2019 spring the possibility of entering the next art and fall exhibits, and so have sales. exhibit beginning in March 2020. One hundred percent of each sale goes directly to the artist. Winnie Pietrykowski is an OSCA Some of the art pieces on display are Board Member and a longtime the products of painting and pottery resident of OOS. classes offered at the Firehall. However, the decision to include submissions

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January 2020 marks the second month of OSCA Winter Art Show and Sale at the Firehall. The exhibit continues to the end of February and is open for viewing seven days of the week in the Firehall lobby.

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PLANNING AND ZONING Ottawa’s new Official Plan: new information By Laura Urrechaga streets within neighbourhoods, which small apartment buildings, while at transects. Each transect will have will be designated as minor corridors. the same time proposing an easing specific policies. We don’t know Council approved preliminary policy The policy document doesn’t show of Site Plan Control, which regulates exactly where the boundaries for directions in December to guide which streets in Old Ottawa South, or landscaping, garbage provisions and these will be yet. Again, we have development in all neighbourhoods any other community, might become other aspects of development, for asked that the City provide more until 2046, marking its next step corridors. While increased heights smaller buildings. Site Plan Control information and that they collaborate towards a new Official Plan. are already allowed on mainstreets, is something we may want more, with our community and others as There is much to like in the minor corridors will also see greater not less, of in order to ensure high they go about preparing the policies policy directions. The new plan intensification. That will mean that development standards. that will affect us, rather than will respond to climate change, “low-rise, ground-oriented building The new Official Plan will include presenting them to us for comment increase intensification in existing forms” up to four storeys high, with a Heritage Management Plan with next October after they have been neighbourhoods in order to minimize the possibility of elevator rooms, ‘special districts’ along the Rideau developed and drafted. the amount of undeveloped land mechanical spaces and/or amenity Canal, including one that takes in Please sign up for more City turned into subdivisions, and pursue spaces for resident use on the roof, the Heritage Overlay along Colonel information at https://engage.ottawa. the goal of making Ottawa the most might be allowed on some of our By Drive. There are no details yet, ca/the-new-official-plan, stay on top livable mid-sized city in North residential streets. We don’t know but we have asked that the City work of proposed changes as information America. how deep into the neighbourhood, on with Old Ottawa South as they did becomes available, and be willing to OSCA’s comments, printed on page either side of corridors, these types when we worked on the Heritage speak up if you have concerns. Our 7, also flagged some policy directions of buildings would be allowed. We Overlay. We need to be at the table to Planning and Zoning team will do its that are concerning. have asked that, if some of our streets promote new policies that conserve best to help, but our neighbourhood Arterial and Traditional are to be designated as corridors, that this historic viewscape and enhance and its future direction will depend Mainstreets, like Bank Street, will they be limited to the depth of the lot and strengthen the existing Heritage on your participation. be designated as corridors in the new facing the corridor street only and not Overlay along our portion of the Official Plan with policies for their go deeper into the neighbourhood. Canal. Laura Urrechaga is an OSCA Board development. New corridors will also Proposed policies promise a Finally, the new plan proposes Member and Co-Chair of the OSCA be identified along with some smaller substantial increase in the number of to divide the City into areas called Planning and Zoning Committee.

PHOTO FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA CA21246 Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club to get heritage designation By Brendan McCoy has been a fixture in OOS since it moved to the community in 1923. The heritage status designation will In early December 2019, the City of help the club receive federal grants Ottawa Built Heritage Subcommittee to assist with the preservation of passed a motion to grant heritage the clubhouse, and to keep it as a status to the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn community landmark for years to Bowling Club (OTLBC) clubhouse. come. The OTLBC on Cameron Ave. (Top photo) The OTLBC Cameron Avenue clubhouse, designed by one of Ottawa’s premier architects John Albert Ewart, in its early days in the still

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PLANNING AND ZONING

On behalf of the Old Ottawa South Community Association, I am We therefore request that Council: sending this submission on the New Official Plan - Preliminary Policy Directions to the joint meeting of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs and • Provide direction to staff on the future of established Planning Committees on December 9, 2019. neighbourhoods, to maintain their character and cores even as With only five days allotted for public review and comment since densities increase through redevelopment on community edges, policy directions were released, we have focused on matters with the mainstreets and municipal lands and through truly compatible infill greatest potential impact on Old Ottawa South. We understand that throughout the area. the committees’ directions will move on to Council two days later, on • Release a preliminary plan for consultation between March and December 11, 2019. If approved, staff will then draft a new Official June 2020 that maps the new “transects” and their subareas Plan for release in October 2020. with their nodes and corridors identified, along with associated We strongly support development of a more sustainable city in policies for housing and other development. Council will receive response to climate change. We understand that this means housing a report in March on the addition of urban lands to accommodate more people on lands within the current urban boundary and limiting growth. This report will detail what additional development lands growth by expansion into new lands. It also means making walking, will be needed after planning and mapping for growth through cycling and transit viable options. In partnership with the City, the redevelopment and intensification in existing communities Old Ottawa South Traffic and Safety Committee has made great has been taken into account. Old Ottawa South and other strides in this direction through reduced speed limits, traffic calming communities would like to be consulted on redevelopment measures and new and improved pedestrian crosswalks. and intensification and how it affects them. Council has been The preliminary policy directions point to widespread change inside cautioned by its lawyers in the current report against changing the greenbelt with new zoning that regulates building form rather its mind downstream, so waiting for the release of the full plan in than the number of units in a building. Infill that expands the range October 2020 could be too late for us. of housing options, such as apartments on smaller lots, will become more prevalent. Our older residents in particular will appreciate Thank you for your consideration of these requests. We will provide greater rental apartment availability, something our Seniors more detailed comments on the preliminary policy directions once Committee, SWOOS, has been working on for some time. Denser we have time to complete our review. The documents are at: https:// forms create a need for more open spaces and services to support engage.ottawa.ca/the-new-official-plan/news_feed/preliminary-policy- an expanded population and these will need to be provided. directions However, the ways in which these proposed policies will affect our community and its residents is still unknown. There is no mapping Sincerely, or other information about how policies will apply to individual communities. There is no information as to whether there will be new Richard Slowikowski corridors proposed in our neighbourhood or how wide they will be. President The community worked hard with the City to secure the Heritage Old Ottawa South Community Association Overlay along Colonel By Drive in 2013 to conserve this historic viewscape in the zoning by-law. The preliminary policy directions propose a Heritage Management Plan and a “special district” adjacent to the Rideau Canal, which includes the first row of properties fronting on the Canal, with design policies on heritage and character. We need to be consulted on this policy as it develops www.pbdental.ca and ensure that new policies complement and strengthen existing protections. New policies for small residential buildings recommend a “less-onerous” Site Plan Control process, even though this process potentially regulates features important to neighbours and communities. We caution against any proposed policy that diminishes or eliminates the additional level of scrutiny provided by Site Plan Control both for existing and for new proposed housing forms. 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CHRISTY’S CORNER Gearing up for a great year full of activities, programs and events By Christy Savage, OSCA look for the summer camp guide in this EVENTS/PROGRAMS Executive Director month’s OSCAR. There are a number of new and exciting specialty camps We’re so excited for a few new in addition to our tried, tested and true events and activities in the New Year. Winter is upon us, and what a start it’s EBTKS, CampQuest and Trailblazers been. We’re gearing up at the Firehall camps. Try it Free Week for another successful year ahead full Come to the Firehall during the of activities, programs and events for March Break camps week before programs from January the community. Without further ado, March break camps runs from March 7th –12th and participate in any of our here are a few highlights. 16th to 20th. Don’t forget to check out free programs. For more information, stay tuned for more. All of the art on our programs and register early. you can check out the schedule in our display is for sale. Ask us for details if Windsor Park Rink Winter Guide on page 28. There are you’re interested. Thank you to our wonderful Lunchtime lounging for grade 7 & 8s a variety of programs for all ages and volunteers for keeping the Windsor Students at Hopewell school are interests. Women’s Day Event, Sunday March Park Rink up and running. welcome to come to the Firehall during 8th This little, sometimes unknown, gem their lunch period daily from 1:30 Valentine Trivia Night Join us for this incredibly powerful is a favourite of our community. From pm – 2:10 pm and play cards or board Join us on Wednesday, February 12th annual event. This is an opportunity to pick-up hockey to a calm and easy games, read, do homework or hang out for another exciting themed OSCA meet others, learn our stories, network family rink beside it, bring your skates with friends. Trivia Night. and empower each other. All are and have fun. welcome. Cool Down Coffee Club Winter Art Show at the Firehall Winter programs As a community centre, we’re open The next time you’re in the Firehall 55+ Special Programs There is still space in some of our to the public and all are welcome. don’t forget to take a bit of a break to Check out our easy to reference winter programs, which begin the week Whether your attending programs and admire the beautiful art by local artists. schedule of programs for those 55+ on of January 13th. You can always go to want to stay a while after to chat with We have an art show each season, for page 23 of our program guide. From the website to see what programs have friends, or whether you’re attending the length of the season, and our Winter Stronger For Longer with Joanne Hale; space, or call the front desk if you’re the Re-Gen programs, or simply Art Exhibit opened in late November a variety of free programs such as book not sure. want to get out of the house. We have and will continue until February 29th. club and card club, as well as I-Gen something for everyone. Monday to If you’re an artist and wish to submit walking group; pick up painting; fall Summer camps Friday from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm. something for the Spring 2020 show prevention; pickleball and more. Summer Camp registration opens (March 14-May 30th) get in touch or January 30th at noon. Don’t forget to

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Taking Action on Traffic Complaints Want to join the • If you witness ongoing traffic violations, for example, OSCA Board? drivers not obeying stop signs or running red lights or If you have an interest making illegal turns, it’s critical to report your concerns to the Ottawa Police. You do not need an accurate license and may have the plate, driver description, or vehicle description. • When you submit a traffic complaint, the information helps skills needed, identify patterns or problem areas. The data collected is contact the used to highlight trouble spots to guide where officers are most needed for enforcement. Nomination • Having actual incident data can also help prompt changes Committee at OSCA to intersections and roadways, or justify implementation of proactive safety measures or other interventions. nominations@ • Your observations can play an important part in keeping Board our neighbourhood safe. oldottawasouth.ca • File a report online at www.ottawapolice.ca/onlinereporting

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OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Help wanted… By Richard Slowikowski, OSCAR, the monthly newspaper work being done by the Planning & OSCA President delivered to your front door, and News Zoning Committee, the Senior Watch Between the Bridges, the weekly, (SWOOS) Committee and the Traffic

electronic newsletter. & Safety Committee. It’s the New Year and many of us Many know OSCA as the place And then there is the administration are thinking about resolutions. Make for educational, sports, fitness and work. In addition to the Board of new friends? Try new things? Learn recreational programming. Directors, there are committees something new and interesting? Find a Others are familiar with the breakfast focused on Communications, Finance, way to use your skills and experience program, after-school programs, PD Governance, Nominations & Elections, to do some good? Ever thought about Day programs, March Break programs and Programs. And most importantly, getting all of these plus more while If you want to ask some questions or and summer camps, which are there is a small group of dedicated making a difference in your own get involved, please contact Christy important to working parents. staff. neighbourhood? Savage, OSCA’s Executive Director at You might know OSCA as the place OSCA is a busy place. It is a The Old Ottawa South Community [email protected]. for your favourite club: Book, Card, place where you can have fun, learn Association (OSCA) is a volunteer- I hope you have a great day. Crafter’s, Garden, Intergenerational new things and make new friends based organization that works to Walking, Shutterbug, etc. while you make a difference to our improve the quality of life in our Or, you might know OSCA as the neighbourhood. Help is wanted. In community. OSCA needs volunteers to place for events: Fall Fest, Christmas particular, we need people to volunteer help and it may be the place for you. Craft Fair, Fall and Spring Art Shows, for working on our committees and Almost everyone knows OSCA Youth Nights, Trivia Nights, etc. we need people to consider becoming for its two information vehicles: The In addition, there is the advocacy a member of the Board of Directors.

Consider making a commitment to your community! By Sue Neill changing all that. We would like to year term and six new Directors • Board and Committee members find enough enthusiastic residents of are elected at each AGM in May. are expected to be active, and Following on from the review of the OOS not only to fill all the positions OSCA is currently transitioning they are! Discussions at meetings bylaws and governance practices on the Board but also to add to the from the previous system of are lively but respectful, always which OSCA undertook over the last hard-working committees which one-year terms with a new Board undertaken with the objective of six months, OSCA has had a hard strive to make Old Ottawa South a elected every year. making OSCA and Old Ottawa look at its nominations and elections great place to live, work and play. • Candidates for the Board must be South even better than they are! procedures for positions on the Board Please consider becoming involved members of OSCA. of Directors and at procedures for with OSCA and help shape and • Committees include: Finance, If you would like to consider building more robust committees. contribute to the community in which Nominations and Elections, letting your name stand for a Residents of Old Ottawa South are you are a resident. Planning and Zoning, Programs, position on the Board, or to find out very committed to the community Here are a few facts about OSCA Seniors Watch (SWOOS), Traffic more about OSCA, the Board and and many are keen to help out on and the Board and Committees: and Safety, and Communications. the Committees, please contact: particular projects or to cheer on In addition, there are working [email protected] or neighbours as they take part, but • The objective of OSCA is to groups (e.g. Governance) and [email protected]. for some reason, there has been a promote the quality of life in the committees that we need to create reticence to stand for a position on community of Old Ottawa South (e.g. Human Resources). Sue Neill is the Chair of the the Board of OSCA or to volunteer so that it is a pleasant, fulfilling • Board meetings are held on the OSCA Nominations and Elections to become a member of an OSCA and meaningful place to live. third Tuesday of the month at the Committee and an OSCA Board Committee. • The Board consists of 18 Old Firehall and usually last about Member. The OSCA Nominations and Directors. In principle, each two hours. Committees meet on Elections Committee is committed to Director is elected for a three- an as-needed basis.

Windsor Rink Windsor Rink Shack Hours Volunteers Needed! OSCA is looking for volunteers to The rink shack will be open assist in maintaining the outdoor rink (weather Permitting): at Windsor Park. Your duties would Monday - Friday 4:30 pm - 9:00 pm include helping to build the base, Saturday 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm flooding the rink a couple of times Sunday 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm over the season, and snow blowing the rink occasionally during heavy For information on ice conditions snowfall. If you’re interested or would go to: Instagram: windsor.rink like more information, contact Darcy Facebook: facebook.com/windsorparkrink Middaugh at OSCA at [email protected] Page 10 The OSCAR l January 2020

THE OSCAR 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar ISSN: 0715-5476 The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. Upcoming deadlines: January 17 (February issue); February 14 (March [email protected] issue); March 20 (April issue); April 17 (May issue); May 15 (June issue); June 12 (July/August issue); August 14 (September issue) Editor: Brendan McCoy [email protected] Layout and Design: Bess Fraser Business Manager: Susanne Ledbetter [email protected] Advertising Manager: Gayle Weitzman [email protected] 613-730-1058 To book an OSCAR ad (not classy ads) call Gayle at 613-730-1058 Volunteer Proofreaders: Maura Giuliani, Mary Low, [email protected] Kathy Krywicki, Scott Valentine, Roger Williams The OSCAR is printed by Winchester Print. The Old Firehall Ottawa South Community Centre The OSCAR is a community paper paid for entirely by advertising. It is published by the Old Ottawa South Community Association Inc. (OSCA). 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 Distribution is free to all Old Ottawa South homes and businesses. It is also e-mail: [email protected] available at selected locations in Old Ottawa South and the Glebe. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA website: www.oldottawasouth.ca OSCA. Contributions should be in electronic format sent by e-mail to: PHONE 613-247-4946 [email protected]. All submissions will be acknowledged by Monday To Thursday 8:00 am - 9:00 pm e-mail. The Editor has the final say about style, format and content. The Friday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm OSCAR Editorial Policy, and Guidelines for Submissions, are available on the OSCA website. The OSCAR is available online at www.oldottawasouth. Saturday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm ca. Some articles will be posted on the OSCA website. Sunday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Lansdowne Park’s Aberdeen Square renamed OSEG proposal for Lansdowne Park

On September 25, 2019 local media outlets (CBC and CTV) announced I appreciate the fact that the City has decided to take the time required that the Aberdeen Square at Lansdowne Park had been renamed Lac Leamy to examine issues related to the day-to-day booking and coordination of Casino Plaza, because of a naming rights deal signed with the City. operations of Lansdowne, including the opportunity for public feedback. According to the CBC report: “ A city memo says OSEG is paying the city However this more ‘measured’ approach to a significant change in the $143,521 for the naming rights and managing a $25,000 annual dedicated operation of the public spaces at Lansdowne came ONLY after a hastily programing fund”. called public meeting by the Glebe, Old Ottawa East and Old Ottawa South According to the 12 October 2012 Lansdowne Partnership Plan Associations on October 28. At that meeting, an overflow crowd expressed Agreement, OSEG has no rights in respect of the naming of the Aberdeen their opposition to the handing over of the remaining public space to a Square. Furthermore the City cannot sell naming rights for Aberdeen private, for-profit enterprise. Square as it is to retain its traditional name under the general description of In the future, I would suggest that the Lansdowne Community Consultation “Lansdowne Park.” Group, that was established with OSEG and neighbouring resident groups, According to the Capital Ward Councillor, the naming rights were be true to its name and be used as a starting point for discussions regarding assigned by delegated authority. any further changes to the management and operation of Lansdowne. My complaint is: How is it possible for the City to grant naming rights Lansdowne’s evolving development does generate strong feelings among to OSEG or any other corporation using delegated authority when the 2012 residents because we are invested in its success. What residents don’t agreement clearly specifies that naming rights cannot be granted. appreciate is being surprised or sideswiped by decisions which seem contrary The City’s 2013 Delegated Authority Policy states that anyone who has to the spirit of full and meaningful consultation and being a good neighbour. a complaint or concern about the contravention of the use of delegated Residents interested in Lansdowne are not ‘still fighting….the authority should write to the City Clerk, who is to notify the City Council development.’ Lansdowne today is better in many ways than the Lansdowne and the City Manager. The City’s clerk is Mr Rick O’Connor. His e-mail is: of old. Over the years, the City had let the Park become a group of non- [email protected] descriptive buildings and a structurally unsound stadium sitting on a concrete If there is any citizen who is angry about this abuse of the use of delegated parking lot. However, the development could have been much better than authority, they should join me in writing to the City Clerk, with a copy to the what we have now in terms of architecture, community integration and Ward Councillor and the Old Ottawa South Community Association. social animation. Therefore, we will continue to be vocal and put pressure on the city and OSEG to push the Park to become the ‘urban village’ we were Isla Paterson, Glebe Resident promised when this process started a decade ago. [email protected] Gerald Bailie

Windsor Park Fieldhouse

What a great idea – a larger space in Windsor Park complementing what we already have in the Firehall and at Brewer Park! But hang on a minute! Your article suggested that the cost of a new building could run between $880,000 and $1.6 million. In what world would we be Brokers Diane Allingham & Jennifer Stewart required to pay that much? As a point of reference most of the homes in our neighbourhood are about the same 2,000 square feet envisaged for a new facility. Mine has a modern IS 2020 YOUR YEAR FOR A MOVE? kitchen, 3 bathrooms and a finished basement and I am assured it could be rebuilt for less than $500K. THE TIME TO CONTACT US IS NOW. It’s true the proposed Fieldhouse would have a larger kitchen and more bathroom space – so add $50 to $75K. But what else would double, triple or even quadruple the cost of building a basic 2,000 square foot facility in the park? And remember, the Fieldhouse would be built on slab (no foundation costs) and we already own the land (in our neighbourhood the land can represent half the value of a $1 million home). Let’s sharpen our pencils! And let’s also ask ourselves if this could truly become a neighbourhood project. We have some great architects, builders and trades people in the neighbourhood who might volunteer some time and expertise if they felt a true sense of ‘community ownership.’ There are dozens of community-minded folks up and down our streets who could do some framing, assemble and install SOLD IN 1 DAY! cabinets, wield a hammer or a paintbrush with a modicum of professional LITTLE ITALY 2-BDRM CONDO WELLINGTON VILLAGE SEMI guidance/supervision. Not so likely to happen, of course, if the City takes over 170 Preston Street #201 126 Faraday Street and goes to its developer friends to do the job. Listed at $469,900 Listed at $739,900 My bet is that we could build a good facility for less – a whole lot less – than the first ballpark estimates now circulating. Let’s talk about all of our options.

Boyd McBride

SOLD! SOLD! OSCA Seniors Lunch Bunch WESTBORO SEMI GOLDEN TRIANGLE SINGLE! ALTA VISTA SINGLE 208 West Village Private 67 Waverley Street 346 Pleasant Park Road In November I went to the OSCA Seniors Lunch Bunch. We were greeted at Listed at $725,000 Listed at $839,900 Listed at $799,900 the Firehall by Katherine Boisvert, who is a Program Coordinator. She not only drew in the several guests with the tasty lunch she had prepared, she engaged Get your advice from the Top. us in conversation with guidance and fun. Katherine is a real asset in our Top 1% across Canada for Royal Lepage community. dianeandjen.com 613-725-1171 Tracy Morey [email protected] Page 12 The OSCAR l January 2020

COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Looking back at 2019 and ahead to 2020 By Shawn Menard for a new Community Centre in Old experience. Ottawa East and Heron Park has now Collaborating with another former As I write this, 2019 is winding down, been committed, with more investment school board Trustee, Bay Ward we’re preparing for the holiday season coming for Old Ottawa South, Glebe Councillor Theresa Kavanagh, we and looking ahead to a happy and and Annex and Dow’s Lake – we’re added a commitment by the city productive 2020. It’s been a busy very happy making progress on what I to invest in affordable, accessible, and rewarding year. Together, with hope makes life better in Capital Ward quality, and responsive childcare. community members, staff and other and across the city. Many families in our city suffer Councillors we’ve been able to realize In December, City Council reviewed without accessible childcare, and this some significant achievements. the Term of Council Priorities and next new emphasis will lead to better and In April, we passed the Climate year’s budget. I’m pleased to say that more equitable social and economic Emergency Declaration, along with there were a number changes we were outcomes. concrete actions and substantive able to make to both. taking ParaTranspo. It is my hope measures to fight climate change and Budget 2020 we’ll be able to provide better, more improve city sustainability. These are Term of Council Priorities Pouring over spreadsheets and accessible transit for many of our most unrolling across all city departments The Term of Council Priorities financial returns isn’t everyone’s cup vulnerable residents. now. outline the key issues that the city will of tea, but a city’s priorities are only Finally, our motion to increase We found ways to make our streets focus on over the next three years. carried out if they are reflected in its funding to the Community safer. With staff and community help, They will guide councillors and staff, budget. I’m happy to say that we were Environmental Project Grants we made safety enhancements to ensuring that we are always working able to achieve three key improvements Program passed. It provides support Bronson Ave and improved traffic towards solving the most significant to city budgeting. to non-profits that conduct small-scale light signals for pedestrians. We helped issues the city faces. First, by a margin of 13-9, we passed community-based initiatives that get kids a safer walk to school with There were two issues that we felt a motion instructing staff to investigate enhance environmental sustainability in more crossing guards in the ward and were missing, and with the help of how the city could implement our city, and funding hadn’t increased implemented 30 km/h gateway speed community advocates and city staff, we participatory budgeting in Ottawa. since the 1990s. Now, this program zones, which will gradually expand to were able to make important changes This is a popular program in many will be able to do more for Ottawa the entire core of Ottawa. And most to council’s priorities. cities, and it gives residents greater residents. recently, we secured a motion to have First, working with Kanata North input into the budget process. This is city staff work on a plan to eliminate Councillor Jenna Sudds, we passed a good for responsible budgeting and Looking Ahead traffic fatalities by 2035. motion that sets a goal for accelerating for democratic engagement. I made There is a lot left to do. In the We got a hockey rink back to the our diesel bus fleet to electric buses. this a campaign promise last year, so New Year, there will be a number of Mutchmor schoolyard, increased OC This will lead to better environmental it makes me happy to announce this development issues that arise, and Transpo service on routes 6 and 7 with and health outcomes for residents, as direction. we’ll keep working to make sure that more to come (and needed), funding well as reducing the noise pollution we Improving transit service, access development suits the needs of the and equity is always an important city and residents. We’ll be hosting issue for my office. Right now, public consultations on the future there’s significant inequality in our of Lansdowne Park. We’ll continue transit system. We offer free transit pressing the city to deal with issues like days to seniors on Wednesdays and affordable housing and poverty. And, Sundays, but only on OC Transpo. we’ll be working closely with staff to Seniors with differing abilities who improve transit service, which has been rely on ParaTranspo don’t receive this. unacceptable. This is unfair. Working with Orleans I’m excited to continue working with Councillor Matthew Luloff, we made neighbours and friends to build a better ZINN RICHARDSON an inquiry with staff to develop a city; there’s so much more we need to DESIGN BUILD RENOVATE capital plan to find out how we can fight for and accomplish. Thank you extend free transit days to seniors for reading this column. A UNIQUE PROCESS TO SAVE YOU MONEY. FIND OUT HOW. Hopewell Avenue P.S. Kindergarten

Information Session RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL PROJECTS Thursday, January 16th from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm in ZINNRICHARDSON.COM 613-809-5089 the Hopewell P.S. school library Kindergarten Registration The launch of Kindergarten registration at Hopewell Avenue P.S. takes place January 20th to January 24th, 2019. Children The Homework Club who will be four years old by December 31st, 2020 are eligible Affordable, Quality, After-School Care for Kindergarten. To register your child for Kindergarten, A Girls Homework, Play & Arts Club please come into the school office between the hours of 8:30 3:30-5:30 pm * Grades 1-8 am and 4:00 pm. Two proofs of address (which needs to be a Property Tax Bill, Assessment Notice or Purchase/Rental/Lease Research Projects * Dioramas * Presentation Practice Agreement plus Driver’s Licence or Utility Bill) and proof of age Daily Fr & Eng Reading Out Loud for Younger Students (birth certificate or passport) and health card are necessary to Slide presentations * Posters * Study & Editing skills complete the registration process. Tutoring for Math/French/English Literacy Hopewell Avenue P.S. On the Sunny 2nd floor of Southminster United Church 17 Hopewell Ave Supervised Pick up available from Hopewell Phone: 613-239-2348 Call 613-818-3006 Email: [email protected] 18 Yrs Academic Support & Quality After-School Care Kindergarten in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Excellent Local References is a two-year bilingual program consisting of 50% English instruction and 50% French instruction. The OSCAR l January 2020 Page 13

NEWS Milestone anniversary for Glebe Collegiate Institute

By Connie Boynton

“Yellow and blue, yellow and blue! What we want we always do! Who are you!? Who am I!? We’re the gang from GCI! A-rick-a-rack a-rick-a-rack, hullabaloo, balloobala, humpty dumpty, rickety-rack, sis boom ba! GO GLEBE!”

Plans are underway for celebrating Glebe Collegiate’s 100th anniversary in 2022/23! Glebe School Council is seeking input from community and alumni for ideas to mark the special occasion. We are holding Glebe Collegiate Institute ca. 1929-30. a brainstorming session at Glebe in various disciplines in the arts and for this landmark 100th anniversary ocdsb.ca for updates. Also, watch for Collegiate on February 6th, 2020 at sciences. Glebe even has its share celebration. We are planning our appearance on Rogers Daytime on 7pm. Spread the word and come on out of illustrious alumni such as Peter fundraising events in the new year, as January 14th to learn more and find out and join us! Mansbridge, Alanis Morissette and well as a brainstorming symposium what we’ve discovered in the archives! Angela Hewitt. with the community to see how we History should celebrate this event. To stay Connie Boynton is a Glebe resident Glebe Collegiate Institute (Glebe A plan informed, please watch for the next and member of Glebe parent council. CI) began holding classes in the fall As an almost 100 year old building, Glebe CI article in the OSCAR and/ She is the parent of a current Glebe of 1922. The school wasn’t fully Glebe is in need of some revitalization. or check the school’s website at glebe. student and a future Glebe student. completed at that time and had the Certain aspects are difficult to fix in an official opening in 1923 when the older building, as anyone who lives in building was finished. an old home will know. One difficulty Glebe CI was created as an is the lack of air conditioning. Some of expansion of Ottawa Collegiate the classrooms are unbearably hot in Institute (OCI) which was housed the spring and fall when temperatures in the building that is now Lisgar are still high. A fundraising effort is Collegiate Institute. In 1919, the underway to provide fans to all these Adolescent School Attendance Act had classrooms. Some fans have already made attending school compulsory been purchased but more are required. until age 16, leading to a dramatic rise If you would like to contribute to the in secondary school enrolment. Glebe Glebe Fan Club, please bring cash was built on what was the outskirts or a cheque to the school office. Tax of town in this era. In old photos, you receipts are available. can see dirt roads and empty hills. At Other parts of the school are ageing that time, the Glebe was considered far but can be repaired. One large project from the downtown. that has been brought to the attention OCI initially consisted of the Glebe of the School Council is to fix the and Lisgar campuses which led to auditorium. The auditorium is well much rivalry between the schools. used by the high school and also by the Early on, Lisgar students were community, including other schools. attending a banquet at Glebe when a For example, Mutchmor public school food fight broke out! Only the principal holds their Grade 6 graduation there was able to quiet things down and to accommodate all the people who bring peace. Eventually, Glebe and would like to attend the ceremony. The Lisgar became separate entities with Glebe CI community would like to their own administrations. facilitate repairs and upgrades so the Glebe CI holds fond memories for auditorium can be used more widely by the many alumni and families who the school and community. were affiliated with the school, and Glebe school council is beginning strong devotion from current students. the planning and fundraising process Past students have gone on to excel

Glebe CI 100th anniversary Brainstorming Session Thursday, February 6th, 7:00 pm Glebe Collegiate Page 14 The OSCAR l January 2020

FAITH COMMUNITY Southminster welcomes new Pastoral Minister By Lawrence S. Cumming period. He has found Southminster a “good fit” at this stage of his career At the beginning of October, and looks forward to ministering Southminster warmly welcomed its with this committed community of new Minster, the Rev. Dr. Steven faith and its gifted lay leadership. Moore, pastor, padre and scholar. He is an enthusiastic supporter of A Maritimer by ancestry and birth, Southminster’s very active music Steven Moore was born in Fredericton. program, under Roland Graham’s He took his early schooling and direction, one which includes both university education close to home in the worshipping community itself New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The and greater Ottawa. He also sees the holder of two Masters degrees, the Centre 7 Out of the Cold Suppers as first in counselling at the University key to Southminster’s community of Central Florida, in Orlando, and engagement, along with other spiritual the second in Divinity at the Atlantic development and outreach activities School of Theology in Halifax. He was that he has found here. In an era of called to ministry in the United Church declining church membership and of Canada and ordained in 1990, then religious practice generally, he sees he served in two early short-term growth and outreach as essential. pastorates in Nova Scotia. Dr. Moore’s theology embraces what Marrying into a military family, the World Council of Churches has he found himself attracted to a life in termed “justice, peace and the integrity uniform, one which offered a diversity of Creation.” His current passion is the of ministry, both nearby and far flung. well-being of the natural environment, His military career lasted 22 years. and he has proposed a single use Military chaplaincy is a particularly plastics project as the congregation’s intense form of pastoral ministry, he 2020 Lenten “giving up” project. notes, involving not only preaching and A challenging preacher, Dr. Moore celebration of the sacraments and other is not afraid of tackling contentious liturgies, but also counselling, crisis issues like food policy, and wasteful intervention, care for the bereaved, production and consumption practices, Southminster’s new Minster, the Rev. Dr. Steven Moore. personnel supervision, administration as he did on World Food Day this and many other functions. October. A later sermon addressed the Later in his chaplaincy career, Steven Centre in Kingston, he became deeply he co-developed the Integrative growing disparity of wealth – how it enrolled at Saint Paul University – engaged in research, development Peace-building Program to prepare is created and how it is distributed. known by some of its admirers as “one and training in the field of Religious government, NGO and other staff for He prefers to preach with the aid of of Ottawa’s best kept secrets” – and Leader Engagement, a doctrine and set overseas missions. images projected onto on a screen – a obtained a Ph. D. in Theology in 2008 of practices now officially adopted by Dr. Moore is a published author, with quotation, an arresting photograph, a with emphasis on conflict studies. In the Canadian Army. Between 2012 and works including Military Chaplains few facts and figures, a famous work the three years 2009 through 2012, 2014, with Dr. Vern Neufeld Redekop, as Agents of Peace: Religious Leader of art – in the belief that a picture will at the Canadian Army Land Warfare a Mennonite theologian and pacifist, Engagement in Conflict and Post make a greater impact than words Conflict Situations (Roman and alone vanishing into the sanctuary Littlefield) and numerous scholarly air. Though always biblically based, articles and book chapters. his sermons address contemporary Steven’s chaplaincy and later ethical, theological and spiritual issues. postings in Canada have included Prophetic ministry involves challenges Gagetown, Shearwater, St. Jean, that may sometimes be unsettling, but Kingston as well as Ottawa. Among he is committed to dialogue and mutual his short and mid-term overseas understanding. assignments, he lists the Golan Dr. Moore has shared his many Heights, Bosnia, Haiti, Afghanistan years of ministry with his gifted (Kandahar) and Ireland (as a visiting partner, Deborah Moore, a successful lecturer at the United Nations Training artist. Together, they have three sons Centre in Dublin). (Ryan, Josh and Andrew) and two Since 2013, Dr. Moore has carried granddaughters (Avery and Quinn). out short-term interim and transitional ministries at a number of City and Ottawa Valley pastoral charges, Lawrence S. Cumming is a longtime most recently at Emmanuel Church member of Southminster United on Smyth Rd. He is now ready to Church and the OOS community. welcome a more settled parish ministry where he can enjoy closer community relationships over a more sustained

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MUSIC Music at Trinity: The Ottawa Guitar Trio By Fabien Tousignant, Artistic Director

The Ottawa Guitar Trio returns to the Music at Trinity concert series for the first concert of 2020. After a very successful concert at Trinity in October 2018 they have prepared a new eclectic program incorporating classical music, film and video game music, and music by local composers. This promises to be a fun and diverse concert where one will be exposed to a wide array of music arranged for classical guitar almost exclusively by members of the trio. From the classical repertoire, they will offer arrangements by François Lacelle of three piano pieces by Maurice Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn, À la manière de Borodine and the beloved Pavane pour une infant défunte. Alexandre Bougie chose to make an arrangement of Erik Satie’s famous Gymnopédie No.1 while Nathan Bredeson tackled the powerful and dramatic Prelude for piano Op.23 No.5 by the Russian composer Sergei The Ottawa Guitar Trio. PHOTO BY BEN BORG Rachmaninoff. To complete the classical selections for the concert, John Armstrong’s The Stars Within and of 2018, the trio has in their first This concert will be held on January the trio will perform an arrangement Patrick Roux’s Carnaval and Comme season alone taken part in concert 18th 2020 at 4:30 pm at Trinity Domenico Scarlatti’s Fugue K417 by un Tango arranged by François Lacelle. series for the Ottawa Guitar Society, Anglican Church (1230 Bank Street @ Jacques Chandonnet. Winners of the 2019 Chamberfest Trinity Anglican Church, Saint Luke’s Cameron) with the Ottawa Guitar Trio. Those who have enjoyed playing Rising Stars Showcase, The Ottawa Anglican Church of Canada, as well as Admission is by freewill offering. video games on the famous Nintendo Guitar Trio has made it their mission the Chamber Pints series presented by consoles will be pleased by François to highlight the accessibility and Ottawa’s reputed Chamberfest. Lacelle’s arrangements of Super reliability of classical music to modern Mario Brothers and Mario 64 by audiences. composer Koji Kondo, adding also François Lacelle, Alexandre Bougie Korobeiniki (the Tetris Theme) based and Nathan Bredeson explore the on a Russian folk song. At their last classical guitar’s unique dynamic concert in the Music at Trinity concert and textural palette to bring to life series, the Ottawa Guitar trio presented a repertoire of movie soundtracks, a convincing performance of John nostalgic video game scores, timeless Williams Star Wars suite. This time classical repertoire, as well as original around, the trio will present the Nathan music for the classical guitar. Each Bredeson arranged Hans Zimmer/ of them prolific arrangers, the trio Klaus Badelt suite from Pirates of thrives in challenging themselves the Caribbean along with Alexandre to authentically adapt a wide Bougie’s arrangements of Harry Potter array of repertoire, be it originally and the Philosopher’s Stone by John for solo piano, chamber music, 743 Eastbourne Ave. - $1,429,000 3301-38 Metropole Pvt. - $2,990,000 Williams and Linus and Lucy by Vince electronic compilations, or orchestral Manor Park Westboro Guaraldi. compositions. They also pride We will also have the opportunity themselves in showcasing pieces Considering the sale of your home? not sure what improvements to make? to hear music by two Ottawa based by local as well as up-and-coming Don’t wait until the last minute! composers: John Armstrong and composers. Making their debut in the summer Discover how working with Ottawa’s Best Patrick Roux. The trio will perform gets the most out of your home. Contact Sezlik.com today! The Ottawa Guitar Trio January 18th at 4:30 pm Charles Sezlik, Cindy Sezlik, Dominique Laframboise, Trinity Anglican Church Sara Adam Sales Reps. & Trystan Andrews Broker Admission by freewill offering 613.744.6697 #1 in Ottawa - Royal LePage* #1 in Eastern Ontario - Royal LePage*

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OPINION A new deal for Ottawa By Clive Doucet through the leafy western suburbs Water collects at this point from by the Committee of Adjustment; of Westboro and west Ottawa was two directions, the south Rideau the LeBreton Flats spot rezoning “If you don’t understand the past, incomprehensible. What city chooses watershed and the underground from 30 to 65 stories irrevocably you are doomed to repeat it” is an to put its premier, high density drainage pattern of the Ottawa River blew apart the LeBreton Flats plan; old saw but a true one. Like it or not, service at the fringes of where people – which flows around the southern the reversal of the Tunney’s Pasture the past matters both for good and ill. live with a broad river on one side edge of the Parliamentary Hill people’s choice for a new Civic The first step for Ottawa in 2020 will and lightly populated suburbs on promontory – following exactly same Hospital in favour of the political be understanding what happened and the other? It should have gone along underground route the LRT tunnel choice of Dow’s Lake in spite of why with the LRT. The second will Carling Avenue. goes. increased costs, geological and be understanding how past decisions Carling is a direct, straight route access problems; the Lansdowne will affect future choices. to Kanata; has had rail on it before; financial sink hole, Kilmorie House It would be difficult to design a was entirely owned by the city and in Cityview. The list is longer than transit project for Ottawa that would consequently had no expropriation we have space here. cost more (7 billion+) and do less. costs; no trees to cut down and the To have a city that’s different The LRT is a replacement system. It route served hospitals, shopping than the one we have today, you simply replaces a rapid bus system malls and about a third of the city’s need to imagine it as more than a (the Transitway) that was there population. It was what the NCC series of ‘deals’ with powerful land before and was highly regarded. After wanted, not the parkway. It was the developers. It starts with faith in your twenty years of planning and costing obvious choice. What happened? residents and their ideas about how billions, Ottawa transit has actually The LRT planning disaster they want ‘their city’ to grow and contracted with less bus routes, fewer continued right on into the look. Developing that vision starts drivers and more transfers. engineering choices. The sinkhole with listening and respecting the This service disaster started with at the corner of Sussex and Rideau city’s own public consultations; if the planning. The western LRT extension happened for a reason. The station city had it would look very different may be convenient for the Mayor’s was a bad engineering choice. today. commute, but the choice of the Sussex and Rideau is the lowest We would have a real park not a western parkway and a winding route point in the Rideau River watershed. mall at Lansdowne. We would have Why was the higher ground at a surface rail system to the entire the original Parliament station city including Gatineau. We would switched to the lower ground at have preserved the national heritage the Rideau/Sussex station by the landscape around Dow’s Lake instead Mayor? What happened? of building the new hospital at Dow’s INSPIRING The LRT mess continues Lake. There never would have been today into the finances which are a mega men’s shelter in Vanier. headed for the courts where it There never would have been a long, GIRLS will be fought out for years. All difficult struggle over the Chateau We are experts in how girls of this will have consequences Laurier extension. Collectively, learn, lead and succeed. in 2020 because the billions for these changes would have created a the LRT project have drained different kind of our city, a greener the city’s piggy bank. Every city with effective, surface transit; city expenditure is going to be transit that animates communities, held hostage by the LRT debts. instead of reducing community green This means the Go Train system spaces and cutting into gathering INFO SESSION (modeled on Toronto’s) proposed places; and happily, we would have PRE-K TO GRADE 12 during the last election will less debt so more of our taxes would become not just more attractive be coming back to the community WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 � 6:30 P.M. but necessary because of its much instead of going to the banks. reduced costs (2 million per It’s worth remembering all this kilometre.) It also means surface because the future of our city is going Join us for our upcoming Info Session routes like Carling will happen to be more of the same until we are where you and your daughter will have the chance to: faster than presently anticipated able to elect a Mayor and Council • tour the school and our new facilities today. who will put the city and its people Most important, the ‘deal of the first, not real estate deals. A new, real • meet students, teachers and the Head of School day’ mentality that has occupied deal at City Hall will start there. • participate in hands-on learning activities. City Hall needs to be replaced by a coherent, sustainable vision Clive Doucet is an author. His most Find out how we can inspire your daughter for the city. 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SENIOR WATCH OLD OTTAWA SOUTH Snow Moles root out winter walking problems March 31, 2020 day when you need to com for further information. At this https://coaottawa.ca/transportation/ go out (best after some winter weather event you may also be able to learn has occurred), and a destination (e.g. about OSCA’s new Winter Walkability Responding to climate change bus stop, grocery store, school, library). App, which is in development. In the winter of 2019 (which Use the Snow Mole questionnaire actually began with heavy snow in to audit your walk. Go to: www. The 2019 Snow Mole Report November and December of 2018) coaottawa.ca/snowmoles to fill in the Last month the CAO released the Ottawa experienced record snow questionnaire or download a paper 2019 Snow Mole Report. Here are falls, severe winter storms and over copy. If using a paper copy, please drop some of the findings from the 2019 60 “freeze-thaw” cycles that led to icy off or mail it to: The Council on Aging Snow Mole Report: and treacherous roads, pathways and of Ottawa (CAO), 1247 Kilborn Pl, sidewalks, particularly in residential Ottawa, ON, K1H 6K9. • 225 snow moles completed the areas. After fighting a second year Why not take your family, dog or a questionnaire (66% were seniors). of massive flooding, on April 24, neighbour and do a Ground Hog Day • 80.6 % said their sidewalks 2019 Ottawa City Council voted By Peggy Edwards Snow Mole Audit on February 2. The were unsafe – icy and not well overwhelmingly to declare a climate Council on Aging of Ottawa (CAO) is ploughed, sanded or salted. emergency. We believe that dealing Are you concerned about winter hoping that residents across the City • 54% said they could not get with walkability in winter must be part walking conditions in Ottawa? will do the Snow Mole audit walk on to their destination or bus stop of the actions taken to show that the Be a Snow Mole and help us gather the day we will hear whether or not we because of dangerous conditions City is serious about protecting citizens information and report problems about are in for six more weeks of winter. around bus stops, at intersections from the impacts of climate change, winter walking in your neighbourhood. and on pathways, sidewalks and and that Ottawa is indeed an Age- Anyone can be a snow mole but we 2. The second way to be a snow roads. Friendly City. are particularly looking for seniors mole is to do the audit with a • Many people reported falls on and children to participate, as well as neighbourhood group. their walks; some went to hospital people who use mobility devices (e.g. Join the SWOOS (Senior Watch emergencies but most were not Peggy is a resident of Old Ottawa canes, walkers and wheelchairs). Snow Old Ottawa South) Snow Mole Team officially reported. Others reported South and a member of the Age- moles are checking winter walkability for a fun group walk audit on Tuesday that “a fear of falling” kept them Friendly Walkability and Pedestrian in neighbourhoods all across Ottawa. January 14, 2020. Meet at the Firehall from going outside. Safety Committee of the Council on at 10:00 am. Walkers will divide in • Most older residents needed to Aging of Ottawa. There are 2 ways to be a Snow Mole: small groups and audit several routes. use ice grips on their boots and/ The walk (about 20 minutes) and or walking poles. Many said they 1. On your own. discussion after will take about 45 were “necessary mobility aids.” Pick any day between January 1 and minutes. Contact swoos2018@gmail. You can see the full report online at

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AT THE FIREHALL Extra! Extra! Broadway Workout embraced by OOS community and is here to stay! By Laura Allardyce

When Broadway Workout officially got started in early 2019, the Old Broadway Workout participants pose with the December issue of the OSCAR. Each week they learn original Ottawa South Community Centre was choreography to a popular Broadway song. That week they had been dancing to the song ‘Carrying the Banner’ from one of the first venues to welcome the musical Newsies about the real-life 1899 newsboys strike in New York City. us into its space. On Feb 3, eighteen people arrived at the Old Firehall to try session in June, we celebrated with You see, it wasn’t my idea to pose space. out the class where we teach original gelato at Stella Luna. with the newspaper for our cast photo Broadway Workout is new and choreography to a popular Broadway We took a break for the summer and (which we take at the end of each unique to Ottawa and already a song. The class is structured like a returned in the fall for another 9-week class for fun). One of our members permanent fixture in Old Ottawa South dance audition but there’s no pressure session. This time the numbers at saw the fresh stack of newspapers hot thanks to how we’ve been embraced by because, as we like to say, you have the Firehall nearly tripled, word had off the presses and suggested that we the community. Dancing in the Michael already got the part! That first class caught on and a whopping 16 people pose as newsies with the latest copy Jenkin Hall at the Firehall is a joy, went so well that in the spring we signed up. A few returning friends of the Ottawa South Community with its high ceilings, big windows, joined the OSCA programming to offer brought their friends, and new people Association Review (OSCAR). That booming sound system, helpful front a full 9-week session. heard about it and decided to give it creative person was my former high desk staff, ample street parking and The Sunday morning group was a try. It became the kind of thing that school art teacher, with whom I got to proximity to excellent gelato. We small with only six people registered friends planned as their weekly catch reconnect with because she signed up look forward to Sunday mornings for for the spring session. But it was one up, others came and made new friends, for Broadway Workout with one of her a long time to come. At Broadway of the best classes in the city because, and some even reconnected with old teacher colleagues. Workout, everyone is welcome and no as with everything in life, it’s what friends – including myself. Which It’s the people who make Broadway experience is necessary, but you will you make of it. The dedicated group leads me to the tale of the photograph Workout work. This community leave having had an experience. showed up to dance, sweat, and have shared with this story. program has grown thanks to the word Join the cast of Broadway Workout fun – and on the last day of our spring of mouth and support of the people Sunday mornings at the Firehall from who keep coming back, who share January 19 to March 29. Register their ideas and song suggestions, with code BWAYW20 at https:// who bring their friends and kids, who oldottawasouth.ca. hold their birthday parties at class, who bring costumes to share during Laura Allardyce is the owner/ Halloween week, who match their operator of Broadway Workout. She outfits to the song of the week, and created the program because she who throw out the idea of perfect in loves Broadway and just needed to Footsteps favour of learning a new skill and dance to show tunes with like-minded having a good time in a judgement-free people. Visit BroadwayWorkout.ca

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TheDisabilities City of Ottawa funds two programs, Snow Go and Snow Go Assist, which help seniors and people with disabilities with their snow removal. The City partners with nine community agencies to run these two programs. The Snow Go program vets snow removal workers and matches them with seniors and people with disabilities to get their snow cleared. Residents pay the workers directly for their services. The Snow Go Assist program goes one step further and helps low-income seniors and people with disabilities with the cost of their snow removal. To be eligible for the Snow Go Assist program funding, applicants must: 1. Be a senior at least 60 years old or a person with a disability. 2. Have a low-income and show proof of an annual income below $31,500 if single and below $39,200 for a household of two persons or more. To apply, contact the partnering local agency in your area. For a list of these agencies, visit ottawa.ca/snowgo or call 3-1-1. The OSCAR l January 2020 Page 19

HEALTH AND WELLNESS How to help your aging parent as they adjust to a new season of life By Meg Stickl to get involved and do some simple stretches along with them. Are you a caregiver for a senior parent? (Grandkids usually get their way!) At times do you feel guilty because you Seniors are more likely to be active aren’t doing enough for your parent? when they see how it is linked to Here are 5 steps to help support your their independence. senior parent as they age so you both can live with peace of mind. 3. Find new purpose in life Your parent may have found their 1. Listen to understand purpose in their job, household Your parent has lived a full life and duties, and raising you! Now things their priorities have changed since have changed. They may have lost raising a family. When was the last their independence and reason to get time you asked your parent what they up each morning. Ask your parent desire in this later stage of life? about what they enjoyed doing Ask your parent what is important when they were younger. Were Meg Stickl of AIM Fitness. to them now, and then LISTEN to they artistic? Help them find a local what they have to say. art class to join. Have they always PHOTO BY STACEY STEWART STAR BRAND PHOTOGRAPHY Often, we ‘listen to respond’ and loved children? Many schools love their grandkids, and stay in their own meditate, or chat with a friend. Give have a response ready before our having volunteers or have students homes. Find out what motivates them yourself permission to disconnect and parent even stops talking. Instead, who need volunteer hours and could to keep going and what fears hold put in healthy boundaries. You may ‘listen to understand’ what they are visit your parent regularly. Do they them back. feel guilty for not doing enough for saying by being present, putting your have an inspiring story that needs to your parent. Acknowledge that you phone away and giving them your be told? Hire someone to interview 5. Put yourself first as you care for are doing the best you can and know full attention. Repeat back the main your parent to help them write their others that when you invest in your own points of what you hear, even if you memoir. Help your parent find new Caring for a senior parent is health you will be happier, healthier don’t agree. When you listen without purpose in life. exhausting. Many adult children burn and more able to care for your parent distraction or judgement, your parent out because they give too much and as they age! will feel validated, understood and 4. Changes in motivation sacrifice their own health. As you loved. When your parent was younger, care for your parent, remember that Meg Stickl is a Seniors Fitness they were motivated to get a job, it’s vital to ‘fill your own cup first’ Expert and Founder of AIM 2. Get your parent moving purchase a home and provide for before you give to others. Maybe it’s Fitness-In-Home Personal Training The saying “Use it or lose it” the family. But what motivates them time to rediscover a past hobby. What for Seniors & Adults 50+. www. couldn’t be more true! When your now? As seniors age, they may be helps you relax? Go for a daily walk, activitiesinmotion.ca parent is in good shape, they will feel held back by fear. Your parent may more mobile and less reliant on you. be afraid of falling or worried about Going for a daily walk will help their declining health. them maintain their strength and Find out what is motivating them mobility. However, encouraging them now by asking, “Mom/dad, now that to do so can be more challenging! you’re older, what keeps you going?” Tell your parent that doing daily Many seniors are motivated by stretches will help them get out of maintaining the life they’ve always bed easier. Create a healthy habit lived. They want to stay independent together by going for a “Walk and and strong so they can go to church, Talk” by the canal. Ask the grandkids visit with their friends, be there for

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Margaret Tallmire Montgomery By Layabout it was “Go out and play. Come in when to join her in a related enterprise, a the street lights come on.” Screen time store dealing in ladies’ fashions and Margaret Tallmire Montgomery was not a thing, except for the Saturday children’s clothing. They opened in recently celebrated her 95th birthday. movies at the Mayfair. 1939, not a very propitious year for We don’t normally report on a In late August, the Central Canada starting a new business – after ten years woman’s age, but at 95 the taboo is Exhibition signalled the end of summer of depression and the real threat of a long gone; every new day is a gift holidays, the end of freedom, of world war. In a time when the whole and an act of defiance. Longtime Old skinned knees and muddied clothing, world appeared to be going from bad to Ottawa South residents may remember the return to books and chalk, to worse, courage and optimism were the her from the Tallmire’s Specialty Shop lessons and tests. essential ingredients for success. at 1096 Bank Street, a location now In later life, Margaret Tallmire occupied by the Sunnyside Barber married a man with a grand name, Shop. Flight Lieutenant Lincoln McDermott Her father, William Tallmire, was a Montgomery; his friends called him travelling salesman based in Ottawa, Monty, like the British Field Marshal. representing a number of clothing A picture of the young Monty hangs manufacturers, and his territory (Above) Margaret Tallmire. on the wall looking over her big chair, included Quebec and the Maritime PHOTO BY NANCY POWERS a handsome young man in military Provinces. Margaret’s mother, Eileen uniform, replicas of his service medals Noonan, was a young unmarried (Right) A photo from an article about around the edges of the mat. woman in Summerside, PEI when her Margaret Tallmire in the March 1979 As her parents were aging, Margaret mother (Margaret’s grandmother) met OSCAR. left her job at CBC headquarters and Mr. Tallmire in church. She chatted took over operation of the Tallmire’s receive a little tag that you would stitch him up and invited him to come home store. She employed seamstresses, onto your bathing suit. Windsor Park for supper. The fix was in; the young sales women and a bookkeeper and ran was then just a wild bush, a perfectly Miss Eileen Noonan became Mrs. a successful business until its 58th year, unsupervised place for youthful games Tallmire. her 73rd year. She retired and closed and adventures. In winter, skating rinks Margaret was born in 1924 and In 1939 Margaret father was still the shop in 1997. were cleared on the river. grew up in Ottawa South on Fentiman travelling. Who would even think Helicopter parenting had not yet Avenue. Her young summers were of walking away from a job in the been invented. Children were told to Bruce Grant, retired engineer, filled with days at Brighton Beach, a dirty thirties? This kept him away “Go out and play. Don’t be late for occasional writer and layabout, is a privately operated affair where you from home and family so much that supper.” In the long summer evenings, resident of Old Ottawa South when could buy a seasonal membership and Margaret’s mother persuaded him he’s not travelling.

POETRY

New Glasses Triage Ice Storm By Susan McMaster By Mary Lee Bragg By Colin Morton

I’m beginning to annoy myself It’s not a line you want to be at the front of. That was the winter of our disconnect, for the disappointment I feel Not like business class when towering trees, weighed down, each time I check the mirror or a VIP pass. fell through our powers lines, and ice wearing my new glasses. paved the roads, if clear, with peril. I always look more frayed, My cousin in California sniffs messy, incoherent at your Canadian medical system Neighbours sawed up fallen trees than the image in my mind when I mention a wait of months. and kept fires going for some who fled as I don my clothes, fluff my hair, to shelters when the lights went out. inside the mental photo Yes, I say, if the homeless guy The rest kept busy to keep warm of forty years before. keels over panhandling, I get in line behind him. Nothing in the freezer spoiled But it’s no good, these glasses though it became instead and ice-box show me what happens And yet I elbow past, as we ate our way through summer’s when I let the wind catch staring at the ceiling from surplus tomatoes and stews. my thinning mop. a gurney in a hospital corridor. Highlight every bulge. Blankets, Afghans, quilts our grandmas Point out that even if I pare Electrodes glued to my chest sewed for us when we were born these flabby pounds, say she will pass, all found love again as we the remaining sad sheath she must pass. huddled under them by the fire. will just sag a little more. From “The Landscape That Isn’t There.” At night the streets were dark, Time for me to fashion OOS writer Mary Lee Bragg is the author silent as in Lampman’s time. a different stance: of the prize-winning poetry collection Over gleaming fields of snow the wide legged, hip-armed, “Winter Music.” the stars looked near, and cold. hat-pulled-down watcher on the edge of the field From the Lampman Challenge anthology. where others work and play, Colin Morton is a poet, author, teacher who claps and applauds and an OOS resident. but no longer expects it back.

The knowledge that at last I’m not becoming but become.

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FILM REVIEW The Cave Reviewed by Tony Wohlfarth

In the eight-year history of the civil war in Syria, many documentary films have been made depicting its victims and its legacy. The Cave is one of the most recent – and most compelling. The opening scene is sedate. The sun rises over the ancient city of Damascus. But the mood of calm is soon shattered the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance by a series of three large explosions. Film Festival that year. The Cave is set in the Ghouta district The Cave screened at the 2019 of Damascus in 2017-2018. Half a International Documentary Film million civilians remained in the Syrian as are the drops of blood on the floor. and one of his subjects Salim Namour Festival (IDFA) in Amsterdam in capital as the Syrian Armed Forces, The explosions are deafening. Wave appeared on stage following the sold- late November. The audience voted aided by Russian aircraft, bombarded after wave of injured civilians – many out screening, while doctor Amani it as the 2nd best doc film of the year the opposition held sections of the of them children – arrive into the Ballour joined the conversation via (the winner was For Sama, which I city in a callous manoeuvre to defeat hospitals’ narrow passages to receive Skype. Both doctors received long- will review next month). At the 2019 remnants of the rebel Free Syrian emergency treatment. The human standing ovations for their courage in Toronto International Film Festival The Army. drama is riveting and has the audience the face of relentless pressure. I was Cave won the People’s Choice Award. The filmmaker, Feras Fayyad on the edge of its seats. Two members especially moved when Salim was The Cave is also one of a handful of began filming in the hospitals in of the 700-member medical team asked about his future. He said he did films considered to be front runners for 2013. As the carnage continued, one quickly emerge as leaders – Amani not want to be a doctor, as he did not the best documentary feature length hospital remained open. It was built Ballour and Salim Namour. Amani is a want to endure the smell of blood. film award at the 2020 Academy underground, and not found on any 30-year-old pediatrician, elected by the Then he said he wanted to move to Awards ceremony on February 9. map, so managed to escape direct hits staff to head the hospital. Salim is also Canada. The Cave was released in Canada on and continue operating. Until 2017 – a doctor. The director knows Syria well. November 1st. The running time is one when the film begins. The filming in I found the action in The Cave In 2017 Feras Fayyad directed Last hour and forty-seven minutes. cinema verité style is very powerful. numbing and relentless. The images are Man in Aleppo – the story of the The moving images are very real, gruesome, and the suspense is gripping. White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based In Amsterdam, the director Fayyad volunteer organization. That film won freelance film writer.

Searching For a Beautiful Bachelor from humble Old Ottawa South to the Florence and Rome Film Festivals By Peter Evanchuck

George Pollack the director of Margaret Rutherford in her interpretation of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple series years back stated, “All the costumes for Rutherford’s Miss Marple movies came from her own clothes closet.” Saving money is always on the mind of movie makers. In our low budget Searching For a Beautiful Bachelor, lead Helene Lacelle found all her costumes in her daily wear as well. “This creates a more natural look and performance by the lead.” Despite its moderate budget, we used multiple locations for our movie, thus combining our love of travelling and boosting the production value. After all in the story Helene was on a mission to find a beautiful bachelor, so it was natural for her to search extensively. Filmmaker Helene Lacelle beside the Salmon River near Fredericton, NB.

This gives the movie some very PHOTO BY PETER EVANCHUCK watchable backgrounds from Ontario to Nova Scotia. Silver Wave festival in Fredericton, in the Loo’ (the art is on display in As a result of years of hard work NB, as well as the Indie Fest in L.A. the washrooms). Also we have award creating Searching For a Beautiful Searching For A Beautiful Bachelor winning art on display at Trinity Bachelor, its success has proven the and another of our movies, A Short Gallery and The Ottawa Arts Network worth of every hour of that work. We History Of Poverty, have been selected at the Shenkman Art Centre, Orléans are a ‘team of two’ with Helene Lacelle to screen in the prestigious Florence and Gallery Annexe at the Ottawa Art and I not only doing the acting, but also and Rome Film Festivals. So it’s off to Gallery. camera, sound, editing and all the post Italy in the spring. production work required to complete this docu-dramedy (combining Those wishing to see other creative Peter Evanchuck is an OOS artist documentary and drama with comedy). media by Helene Lacelle and me will and filmmaker. For more information Old Ottawa South participants in find them ‘not in the Louvre but in the go to: movieshandmade.com, Searching For a Beautiful Bachelor Loo’ at Life of Pie on Bank Street in marvelousrealismcanada.blogspot. were on the big screen recently in the Ottawa South where we are ‘artists ca. The OSCAR l January 2020 Page 23

FINANCIAL PLANNING This year, try making and sticking to a financial New Year’s resolution By Bob Jamieson, CFP with an appropriate plan to help you contributions can be deducted from relying on your credit cards for the get you where you want to go. your income, which will help reduce necessities of life. And it’s just as New Year’s resolutions are easy to the amount of income tax you pay. In important that you not tap into your declare but often much harder to 2. Take full advantage of your RRSP, addition, any growth earned in your retirement savings, or you could put actually keep. TFSA and RESP RRSP is not taxed as income until your retirement plans in jeopardy. This year, for a resolution with As part of your retirement and funds are withdrawn, usually in a lower So you might find it’s a prudent goal real significance, why don’t you try children’s education planning, don’t tax bracket during retirement, meaning in 2018 to have the ability to get the committing to improving your personal miss out on the chance to utilize your RRSP investments grow tax- equivalent of three to six months’ finances? It might help you stay on these valuable savings vehicles the deferred so the total value may grow worth of living expenses into an target toward key goals, such as a government has put in place for you. more quickly. emergency fund. comfortable retirement. Here are four As early as possible this year – and You can also save and invest up to ideas you might want to consider: every year after that – make sure you $6,000 per year in a Tax-Free Savings 4. Cut your debts contribute the maximum amounts Account (TFSA). Your investment It sounds simple, but it’s difficult to 1. Understand your full financial you can. All three programs have the choices are the same as an RRSP, as is achieve. Remember that every dollar picture enticement of key tax advantages. the fact that whatever growth occurs that doesn’t go toward a debt payment It’s important to know where you With the Registered Retirement within the account does so tax-free. In can be applied toward your retirement stand today in terms of your assets Savings Plan (RRSP), you have an addition, with a TFSA you can take the savings. So this year, you might and debts, as well as your goals for the attractive structure for housing a money out whenever you desire, with want to commit to borrowing only future – particularly as they relate to portfolio of investments such as stocks, no tax being paid on that withdrawal. when necessary, shopping around for your retirement – so you can come up bonds, mutual funds and more. Your It can be a great complement to your competitive rates, paying off credit card RRSP. balances every month, consolidating The Registered Education Savings your investing or banking in one place, Plan (RESP) allows you to save and and generally looking for ways to cut benefit from tax-deferred growth until whatever costs you can while living the accumulated amount is used for within your means. financing your children’s education. Although you are not able to deduct Here’s one other commitment that your contributions from your income, might be the most valuable of all: If the money you contribute can generate you don’t already have a financial additional funds through the Canada advisor, make this year the year you Education Savings Grant (CESG), get one. A qualified financial advisor a program that adds government can objectively evaluate your situation, contributions to your RESP. suggest appropriate financial strategies for helping you achieve your long- 3. Build an emergency fund term objectives, and maybe even help You should have some easily you stick to your financial New Year’s accessible cash kept aside specifically resolution. Feel free to give me a no- for emergencies. If something obligation call at 613-526-3030. unforeseen happens, you want enough in your emergency fund to avoid

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RED APRON COOKS Happy New Year! PHOTO BY KELLY GAUTHIER By Jennifer Heagle Fitness more time outside, and surrounded by Often our resolutions involve serious nature, especially trees. A forest walk The New Year presents us with an commitments to fitness and exercise. can have huge physical, mental and opportunity to reflect – on our careers, That’s wonderful if it works for you, health benefits that we are only recently our health and our family – and set our and all of us could benefit from more able to quantify. Exposure to forests intentions for the coming year. What movement. Maybe there are other and trees has been proven to boost the are the major goals we want to set for opportunities to increase movement immune system, lower blood pressure ourselves this year? What small changes in ways that speak more to your heart and stress, improve your mood and do we feel we are capable of making to and soul? I love to dance, so look I increase your ability to focus. It can improve our life? How are we going to for opportunities to go dancing any accelerate recovery from illness and take better care of ourselves and those time I can. My business partner takes increase energy levels while helping to around us in 2020? couples dance classes each week at improve sleep. Talk about drug-free cure I find that we can be hard on Fred Astaire. You can go Salsa Dancing for what ails you! ourselves. We all struggle to treat every week at Rahim’s Salsa on Elgin ourselves with kindness, and I believe (rahimlovessalsa.com). If dancing isn’t This January, the Red Apron will be that our resolutions and intentions your thing, then walk more. nourishing our customers with a month should reflect kindness, to ourselves of meals that are designed to boost especially. It’s easy to say ‘I resolve to Gratitude your immune system, increase your lose 20 pounds’ this year and then be One of my most important resolutions vegetable consumption, reduce your self-critical when we find it a difficult that I try to practice each day is meat consumption, and introduce new goal. It would be much kinder to say Environment expressing gratitude. Like everyone, I colours and flavours into your diet. Our ‘I intend to fill my beautiful body with In this time of concern for the climate, experience struggles, challenges, set- ‘Nourish Yourself’ menu features a more delicious and nutritious vegetables there are many ways we can reduce backs, frustrations and loss. It’s part weekly vegetarian and a weekly vegan every day.’ our impact. Resolve to bring your own of life, and the older we get the more meal, and is posted on our website. shopping bags, and purchase items opportunity we have to experience these Meat that are packaged in fully recyclable things. However, I am very focused Tacos! The vegan and vegetarian trend is containers, or not packaged at all. on the things in my life that cause me This month I wanted to share easy strong and there can be a lot of pressure Become familiar with our City’s blue joy and I try to show appreciation for ideas for Taco Meals. I love tacos and on meat eaters to conform. However, and black box program and be clear on these gifts every day. I communicate find them to be a very simple way to eat there are still many very ethical farmers what goes in these bins. You can find my appreciation and gratitude verbally a nutritious breakfast, lunch or dinner. out there producing ‘clean’ meat, free resources at ottawa.ca/en/garbage-and- to those I love, and work with and I am If you keep your freezer stocked with a of hormones and antibiotics. They recycling/recycling. At the Red Apron very aware of how fortunate I am. Some package of corn or wheat flour tortillas, care about their land and their animals we are working to ensure that all of people find a gratitude journal is very you can execute a delicious meal in and often focus their efforts on raising our packaging can be either re-used, helpful, and others count their blessings very short order using mostly leftovers heritage breeds, which themselves are composted or goes into the blue, black each morning or night before bed. Being in your fridge. This type of meal is endangered creatures. We can resolve or green bin in the City of Ottawa. A grateful has made a huge difference in extremely popular with young kids too, to eat less meat for our health and the significant amount of our packaging is my life and it has honestly changed the and allows them to participate in making environment, and be careful to only made in Canada, and made from 100% person I am. some of their food choices. support trusted and local sources. This recycled materials. More and more of is a resolution I have been practicing our packaging is made from plants and Nature Jennifer Heagle is Chef, foodie & for many years in our home and our is compostable. One really important personal co-owner of the Red Apron. She is a business. resolution I have made is to try to spend longtime resident of OOS & East. Red Apron Recipes Breakfast taco ideas Lunch or dinner taco ideas

I like to lay out a buffet of small plates, with a pile of warm taco shells and We often serve tacos on the Red Apron menu and the varieties are endless. We some, or all of the following ingredients: have done duck, pork belly, fish, chicken, beef and vegetarian versions. Here are my suggestions on how to build an amazing taco buffet: • Scrambled eggs • Black beans – warmed in a bowl with a sprinkle of cumin and a drizzle of In the taco olive oil • Bacon or thick sliced pork belly • Protein of your choice – this could be any leftovers from a previous dinner • Grated cheddar cheese • Cheese – we like cheddar, goat cheese, or Monterey Jack • Sliced ripe avocado or leftover guacamole • Salsa – this could be a store-bought variety, or one you make yourself • Diced tomatoes or a tomato salsa • Slaw – slaw makes a great taco garnish, and any combination of shredded vegetables tossed in a spicy vinaigrette will do! Warmed taco shells, 2-3 per person • Guacamole – easy to make with ripe avocado, diced tomatoes, lemon or lime juice and salt • Beans – any variety, including re-fried • Hot Sauce Dr. Pierre Isabelle • Corn or wheat flour tortillas

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TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY A birdly outing By Jocelyn LeRoy

November can be such a blah month, so I decided to do something different. I signed up for an adventure. Rumbling along in a small school bus towards the Saint Lawrence Bird Preserve I do a count of the passengers. Serious bird watchers they were. Lets see, nine Tilley hats, two beat up old gob hats, and one straw panama hat. No baseball caps or hatless heads except for my seatmate and me. We soon discover that we are the least birdly of the bunch. She a sculptress and I a baker, out for a nature jaunt and hoping to discover what birders are like as a species. Serious for sure, quiet and polite, loners. This is clearly not a social event; it is an academic experience. Little books and pencils slide from pockets. I have one of those marvelous little cloth books with flaps and pockets, but I have no idea what to do with it. What are they writing about? Secrets. My seatmate and I peer out the window, and at the others scribbling in their books. It is a A Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica). PHOTO BY JJ HARRISON big mystery; there are no birds in sight. Finally we disembark at the edge of a sculptress. feathers. Easily mistaken for those of Novembers. large swamp. “None, and I was hoping to see the other birds. I’ll watch for one next time As I write this, here comes the “What are you looking at?” I ask a bird I have been commissioned to build! I’m in a bird preserve. cardinal family that winters in my gob-hatted, blue-coated, large-breasted Iron. And five feet tall! All neck.” Canoeing slowly on early morning daughter’s backyard every year! These observer, who was craning skyward. I “Maybe you should go to Florida.” glassy waters, watching for birds. When are my kind of birds. Who needs to get remember the sound of her voice. I offer, “There are lots of long necked I get lucky, I can follow an osprey all shivery and wet in the Ottawa bird “A Hudsonian Godwit it is!” She birds down in their alligator swamps.” for hours while it swoops from tree preserve in November! Not me! chirps. I couldn’t see a thing. Defeated, Feeling definitely in the wrong swamp to tree. And the woodpeckers tapping Happy New Year from all of us at I wander off to find the sculpture lady. here. We look at each other and shrug, on the trees in the Algonquin forest Trillium and Alta Vista Flowers. We discuss art and recipes for turkey smiling in our shared knowing of always give me a thrill; their rhythmic stuffing, until the bus beeps its departure nothing new about birds. But I am drumming sends bits of tree spewing hours later. All the birdly types file into inspired to find a use for my little in all directions. Getting nose to beak Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/manager the bus. We respectfully let them go birder’s notebook, and apricots and with a humming bird inspires awe at of Trillium Bakery in Old Ottawa first. Then we slump into our seats none turkey stuffing? Right up my alley. their breathtaking colours and wings South since 1980. the wiser. I do remember the Hudsonian beating so fast they are a blur. I think “Did you see any birds?” I ask the Godwit’s unique notch in its tail I will observe birds in books in future GMSElemAdGR19BW.pdf 3 2019-10-18 3:52 PM Trillium Recipe Apricot dressing for turkey, duck or cornish game A Montessori hens classroom 1 ½ cups of cooked apricots cut into strips. Combine with 4 cups dried breadcrumbs or 3 cups of cooked rice. is where • 1 ¼ cup of melted butter the joy • ½ a tsp. of salt • ¼ tsp. of pepper of learning • Scant Tbsp. of sage • 2 Tbs. full of Pine nuts (optional) C comes • grating of fresh nutmeg M naturally • 2 Tbs. full of orange marmalade (available for sale at Trillium!) Y

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MAYOR’S REPORT Turning the page on a new decade By Jim Watson, Mayor We’ve also prioritized protecting LRT go further east to Trim Road, west the environment by investing record to Algonquin College and Moodie The New Year is an opportunity to amounts in cycling infrastructure and Drive and south to Riverside South and look back on the year that has past active mobility, which helps reduce the the Ottawa International Airport. We and reflect on the year to come. It’s an carbon footprint, and implementing have successfully secured funding for opportunity to tally our successes and the Ottawa River Action Plan (ORAP). Stage 2 and we are now working on our challenges, revise or set new goals The key element of ORAP is the planning for Stage 3 to see LRT go to for ourselves or even establish New construction of the Combined Sewage Stittsville, Kanata and Barrhaven. Year’s resolutions. However, the 2020 Storage Tunnel (CSST), which will In 2017, Ottawa was the epicentre of greatly reduce the frequency of sewage Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, New Year is a little more special than some challenges. We’ve seen overflows during storms from entering and we saw the entire nation come others, as we turn the page on the past devastating floods and tornadoes test the Ottawa River. Once in operation in together as one as we celebrated our decade and enter a new one. our resilience, but as we have seen time 2020, the CSST will help protect our country’s 150th anniversary. 2017 was As Mayor of Ottawa, I have had the and time again, when faced with great river for generations to come. truly an unforgettable year. privilege of serving the residents of challenges, the residents of Ottawa The last decade has also been marked And this past June, Ottawa’s Ottawa for almost the entire decade, come together in great numbers to by the construction and launch of our population officially surpassed the 1 and I’ve seen our beautiful city support those most in need. Light Rail Transit system, which was million mark. Despite this significant transform, grow, and learn from the I have never been prouder to be the culmination of many years of hard population milestone, our city still has challenges we’ve faced. Mayor of this incredible city and I look work and planning. While the system that great welcoming charm of a small One of my immediate priorities after forward to the upcoming decade as we has undergone some growing pains, I city, but with the added benefit of big taking office in 2010 was reinstating continue to grow Ottawa’s economy, am confident in long term this is the city amenities. In fact, Ottawa has been fiscal discipline at City Hall. I’m proud protect our environment, invest in right investment for Ottawa’s transit designated as one of the best and most that over the last 3 terms, I’ve kept critical infrastructure, improve public system, economy and the environment. livable cities in Canada year after year my promise to keep your taxes low transit and ensure that we remain a Construction for Stage 2 of LRT has by several well-respected publications. while investing in the core services we livable, sustainable, prosperous and already started, and we will see the But the last decade also presented depend on. caring city.

CARLETON CORNER Start the new year with Carleton If you know Carleton alumni Sign up at athletics.carleton.ca/senior- PLANT Architect, will give a free University! We have many programs deserving of any of these awards, ravens-membership. public lecture titled “Between the and events for all ages to help make please submit your nomination by Feb. Cracks” on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, at this year your best. We look forward to 29, 2020 here: alumni.carleton.ca/ Capital Hoops 6 pm. It takes place at the Ottawa Art welcoming you to campus throughout awards/ The annual men’s and women’s Gallery, Alma Duncan Room, as part of 2020. basketball rivalry game is at TD Place the Forum Lecture Series presented by RECREATION & ATHLETICS for the first time. The Capital Hoops Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Recognizing Carleton alumni Classic between the Ravens and Gee- Architecture and Urbanism. Lisa will Each year, outstanding Carleton Ravens men’s hockey two-for-one Gees teams tips off on Friday, Feb. 7, discuss PLANT Architect’s work in the alumni are recognized for exceptional Get two Ravens games for one 2020. Tickets are on sale now at TD murky edges – from the tiny ‘Tête à contributions to their communities ticket! Carleton Ravens men’s hockey Place. Visit tdplace.ca/event/capital- Tête’ to Nathan Phillips Square. through work and volunteering – faces UQTR on Friday, Jan. 3 and hoops to buy tickets. locally, throughout Canada and abroad. McGill on Saturday, Jan. 4. One Lifelong learning The Carleton University Alumni ticket gets you into both games. Puck U SPORTS Final 8 Carleton is offering an exciting Association is accepting nominations drop for each game is 7 p.m. at the The best in U SPORTS Basketball winter 2020 selection of affordable, for the following awards: Carleton Ice House. Get your tickets at comes to TD Place for the Final 8 non-credit lecture series and workshops • The A.D. Dunton Alumni Award goravens.ca/tickets. national championships starting on on the main campus and at the Carleton of Distinction Thursday, Mar. 5, 2020. Tickets are on Dominion-Chalmers Centre. Attend • The Alumni Volunteer of the Year Senior Ravens membership sale now at TD Place (https://www. the Ottawology lecture series for Award The new four-month (Jan. 1 to April tdplace.ca/event/2020-u-sports-final-8- unique perspectives on Ottawa as • The Humanitarian Alumni Award 30, 2020) Senior Ravens Membership championships/) both a national capital and a living • The Young Alumni Achievement includes access to parking, the pool city. You can also learn about film Award and fitness centre, strength classes, Accelerate your career without music, plagues and pandemics, • The Founders Award pickleball, yoga, tai chi and more! leaving your job logical fallacies, famous artists of the The Sprott Professional MBA Renaissance, understanding grief and program is designed for working loss, Italian or Spanish for travellers, professionals with a minimum of and much more. Classes begin five years of relevant professional Monday, Jan. 13. See details, join our Happy 2020! experience, who wish to continue in mailing list and buy gift certificates their careers while completing their through the Learning in Retirement All Fall and Winter fashions degree. Structured in an intensive program – which is also open to all are 20-80% off now. executive format over 16 months, adults – at carleton.ca/linr or by calling It’s the perfect time with Friday to Saturday courses on 613-520-3699. alternating weekends, the professional to save BIG. MBA program is designed to let you balance life and work. Carleton Corner is written by For additional details and webinar Carleton University’s Department dates, visit sprott.carleton.ca/mba. of University Communications. As your community university, Carleton Architecture and Urbanism’s Forum has many exciting events of interest Lecture Series to Old Ottawa South. For more How can we use tiny remnants information about upcoming events, of land to create public space with please go to carleton.ca/events.

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MPP’S REPORT Action needed on retirement homes’ use of trespass orders By Joel Harden, MPP know that most operators don’t care and group homes were heart engage in this practice, but some are wrenching. One woman spoke about Imagine not being able to visit your using trespass orders to muzzle and how her parents were forced to move 97 year-old mother for 316 days, intimidate people into silence. back in with her after she was issued missing her birthday, Thanksgiving ACE has said that in addition a trespass notice barring her from and Christmas. That’s exactly the to being inappropriate, the use of the home. Her indiscretion? Raising situation Mary Sardelis found herself trespass orders to exclude family concerns about meal time and a in after she spoke out about her members is actually against the law broken elevator at a meeting with the mom Voula’s living conditions at an because of the rights residents have home’s management. Ottawa retirement home. She missed to receive visitors. This is something This is wrong, illegal, and it has Christmas, Thanksgiving, and even that we’ve repeatedly emphasized to stop. We’re going to keep urging her mother’s birthday. to the Minister for Seniors and the government to take action on public-private partnership model of Following a CBC Marketplace Accessibility, but he has yet to take this important issue. If you’ve been delivering major projects. investigation that highlighted Mary’s any action to address the problem. excluded from a retirement home or In addition to panelists Sarah story, I called on the Minister for Since raising the issue in the long-term care facility and want to Wright-Gilbert (citizen transit Seniors and Accessibility to launch legislature, we’ve had numerous calls share your story, please contact our commissioner), Sally Thomas (Para a full investigation in to the use of and emails from family members office. Transpo rider and activist) and trespass orders by some retirement who have been banned from visiting Shawn Menard (Capital Ward City home operators to exclude family residents. That’s why on December 5, Transit town hall Councillor), over 100 people turned members for raising concerns on we held a round table discussion with On November 30, our office hosted out to share their ideas for improved behalf of their loved ones. The families affected by this issue to hear a town hall to discuss the state of public transit. Ottawa Citizen has similarly called directly about their experiences and public transit in Ottawa, and the We’re preserving these ideas in a for the government to take action so how we can continue to advocate for kind of transit system we need in report that will be shared with the that this practice is stopped. change. About 20 people joined us our city and across the province. In city and province so we can build Far from being an isolated incident, for the conversation, including some the midst of a climate emergency, a transit system that truly meets Mary’s situation is only the tip of the folks from across the province via it’s vital that we think about how we people’s needs, and addresses the iceberg. The Advocacy Centre for the teleconference. can get large numbers of people out climate crisis. Keep an eye out for Elderly (ACE) estimates that they The stories we heard from of cars and on to alternative modes this report on our website. receive 1 call per week regarding people who were excluded from of transportation. Not only that, the trespass orders in retirement homes visiting their loved ones not only in issues plaguing the launch of the LRT and long-term care centres. We retirement homes, but also long-term raise important questions about the

MP’S REPORT A new beginning in Ottawa Centre By Catherine McKenna, MP 300,000 children out of poverty critically important in this role, is with the Canada Child Benefit. that we all play together – cities, The New Year is upon us and I am • Lowered the age of eligibility provinces, the private sector, and thankful to be able to share these for Old Age Security and the not-for-profits – in delivering new beginnings with the residents of Guaranteed Income Supplement infrastructure that improves the lives Ottawa Centre. As I head back to the to 65. of Canadians all across this country. House of Commons, I want residents • Increased the Canada Pension This is all about making life better to know that I will continue to work Plan benefit by up to 50%. for people. hard and create real change for not • On track to fighting climate One, my first priority is getting only the families in this riding but for change by banning single-use things built quickly that matter to the all Canadians. plastics by 2021. lives of Canadians. More than ever, communities in Ottawa Centre and We accomplished so much in 2019 we need to invest in the economy, all across Canada. for the middle-class: And there’s so much more to support families, contribute to the Let’s get to work! • We created over 1 million jobs for do, starting with supporting our growth of communities and create Canadians. communities and our economy by jobs that strengthen the middle class. • We reached a historic low for making significant investments This takes collaboration, Canada’s unemployment rate. to create clean, healthier, greener cooperation, and open • Cut taxes for the middle class and communities for Canadians. communication, and that means we raised it on the wealthiest 1%. I am excited to start my new role can actually make a real difference. • We Lowered taxes for small and as the new Minister of Infrastructure And I look forward to working medium-sized businesses. and Communities. What I think is with all of you to create better • Our government helped lift

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Join up and join in! Any of those hundreds of members as we do,” said Blakely who notes are welcome to apply for an executive Abbotsford members give thousands of role with the Abbotsford council, hours every year, thereby keeping costs which acts as a liaison between the for programming low. membership and administration. “The Abbotsford members’ council “We all work together,” said Bill is a body of people that can give Robertson, the current chair who’s us feedback and make sure what been a member at Abbotsford since we’re offering is what they want to he retired. “It’s a very low-key kind participate in,” she said. of thing, we’re not running General Robertson, a member since 2002, Motors here. We keep to an advisory said every long-term care agency, role and stay out of management.” like the Glebe Centre, “needs an The roles of council chair, president, Abbotsford” that keeps seniors active vice chair, member at large and and healthy so they can remain in their treasurer are all vacant and will come homes longer. up for election at the council’s annual “It saves the system,” said general meeting in June. Robertson. “The socialization, life-long Robertson said the council represents learning, expanding their knowledge, the interests of the members, it gets meeting interesting people in the involved in outreach with the wider neighbourhood. It gives people a life community and maintains a small beyond their former life.” fund to help out with small projects or Members interested in becoming furnishings inside Abbotsford. active in the executive council are The council is just one of the welcome to attend the annual general volunteer-led pursuits at the seniors’ meeting in June. centre. In fact, according to Karen Anne Blakely, director of community Abbotsford is your Seniors Active services for Abbotsford at the Glebe Living Centre. We are the community Staff, volunteers, folks on Abbotsford’s Members’ Council – which is featured Centre, the place just couldn’t offer programs of The Glebe Centre in the article – and some Abbotsford ‘members at large.’ A flavour of the the variety of programming on the Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit, people who make Abbotsford tick. PHOTO BY JOSEPH CULL schedule without about 150 volunteers organization which includes a 254 bed long term care home. Find out has more than 600 members seeking who do everything from answer phones By Julie Ireton more about our services by dropping exercise classes, entertainment, social at the reception desk, to drive people to by 950 Bank Street (the old stone support, volunteer opportunities medical appointments, and spend time As baby boomers retire, it’s not house) Mon- Fri 9-4 pm, telephoning and good company all year long. with people with dementia at the day- surprising that membership at 613-230-5730 or by checking out all Membership increased 20 percent over away program. Abbotsford House at the Glebe Centre, of The Glebe Centre facilities and the past year, equal to the increase seen “Volunteerism is essential to our continues to grow. The seniors’ centre community programs on our website in the previous year. agency to serve as many people across from Lansdowne Park now www.glebecentre.ca

HEALTH AND WELLNESS Staying safe while running in the winter By Christian McKinnon, PT season. Many people continue running the streets as you run through the Closer to home safely outdoors even once the roads winter. Another easy tip is to try to keep Though we got an early taste of winter and sidewalks are peppered with the route a bit closer to home. If ever last month, we’ve been fortunate fresh snow and signs of ice. Though it Conditions you’re out there and find yourself ill- enough to stretch our running season does bear some risks, using the right First and foremost, we have to adjust equipped for the conditions, or get a bit longer this year. However, the technique and footwear can keep you to the conditions. The snow and ice surprised by a puddle or (knock on arrival of winter weather doesn’t moving safely and free from injury. might make your usual route harder to wood), an injury, you can more easily have to mean the end of your running Here are a few tips to help you conquer navigate. Try exploring different routes pop back home to rest or warm up. that may not have as much ice or be kept in better conditions. Sidewalks Shorter strides closer to main roads and city paths Slightly tweaking our running (such as along the Rideau Canal) tend to be the best bet once the snow starts. Continued on pg. 29

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Cont. from pg. 28 Extra grip Dress appropriately With these tips and tricks in mind, You can also look into running Last but definitely not least, dressing running through the winter is a definite technique is an easy and effective way shoes that provide extra grip. Check appropriately and keeping warm are possibility for everyone. Stay safe and to stay safe while running in the winter. out your favourite sportswear or shoe important for running in the winter. enjoy the winter weather! Running with slightly shorter strides store and ask for running shoes suitable Dress warmly and in layers to fight (smaller, quicker steps) is a simple way for winter running. You can also try the risk of hypothermia and frostbite. Christian is a physiotherapist at to stay stable and upright on slippery adding crampons or grips to your usual Keep your hands, feet, head, ears, and Function Physiotherapist on Bank surfaces. This works by keeping our running shoes. These work well while face well covered, especially during the Street in Old Ottawa South. centre of gravity above where our foot running on ice and snow but be careful colder days. lands on the ground, preventing our since they may actually be more feet from slipping out from under us. slippery on clear asphalt.

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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS Play Day! / Au jeu! ADULT BOOK CLUBS Knit & Knatter Drop in preschool fun! Play with Have you always wanted to learn Maker Mondays / Lundi Créatifs puppets, crafts, building blocks, and Second Friday Adult Book Club to knit, crochet or improve your Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, more! / Un programme porte-ouverte Meet new people and join in skills? Come to Sunnyside and bring draw & so much more with our low- pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! stimulating discussions on selected your knitting needles and yarn to tech mobile maker station! / Joue, Jouez avec des marionnettes et des titles in a friendly and relaxed begin or share your project. Enjoy construis, crée, découpe, plie, tricote, blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! atmosphere every second Friday of conversation and a cup of tea while dessine et pratique une foule d’autres Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes the month. Newcomers are welcome. you knit! We now meet weekly. activités avec notre nouveau poste Saturdays, 10:15 am (1 hr) /Les Drop-in program. Drop-in program. mobile de création à faible technicité! samedis, 10h15 (1h) Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Wednesdays, 11:30 – 2:30 pm Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes January 11 – February 29 / 11 janvier January 10 January 8 – August 16 Ages 8 & up/ 8 ans et plus – 29 février January title: Regeneration by Mondays, 4:00 pm (1 hr) Patricia Barker Conversations Among Canadians Les lundis, 16h00 – 17h00 (1h) Saturday Family Storytime February title: The Age of Innocence In this program, we will continue to Stories, rhymes and songs for by Edith Wharton share our experience, knowledge, Homework Help / Aide aux Devoirs children of all ages and a parent or reflections and ideas relevant to life Come get help with reading, math, caregiver. Drop-in. Sunnyside Mystery Book Club in Canada, past, present and future, science, French, English, etc. Led by Saturdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) Do you enjoy reading mysteries? doing so with a sense of community Frontier College. / January 25 Share the enjoyment of good among Canadians and with others in Reçois de l’aide avec la lecture, mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. the world. Drop-In program. les maths, les sciences, le français, CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUBS Join us for discussion usually every Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm l’anglais, etc. Avec des bénévoles de third Friday of the month. Drop-in January 8 – June 17 Frontier College. Mighty Girls Book Club program. Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes A children’s book club focused Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm French Conversation Group Ages 6-10/ 6-10 ans. on exploring brave, strong and January 17 Améliorez votre français parlé Mondays, 4:00 pm (1 hr): January intelligent girls in books. Parents, January title: Case Histories by Kate et rencontrez des gens dans une 7 – May 27 guardians or caregivers are Atkinson ambiance décontractée et conviviale. Les lundis, 16h (1h): du 7 janvier au encouraged to accompany their child. February title: The Cuckoo’s Calling Niveau intermédiaire. Programme 27 mai Ages 8 & up. Registration required. by Robert Galraith portes ouvertes / Practice your Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) French language conversation Babytime January 27: Sanity and Tullulah by Sunnyside Adult Book Club skills and meet new friends in a For babies and their parents or Molly Brooks Join in stimulating discussions relaxed and friendly environment. caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs on selected titles in a friendly and Intermediate level. Drop-in program. and games. 0-18 months. Drop-in Bookworms Book Club relaxed atmosphere on the last Friday Les jeudis, 18h30 / Thursdays, 6:30 Tuesdays, 2:15 pm (30 min.) Come share the enjoyment of of the month. Drop-in program. – 8:00 pm January 14 – February 25 reading books with other kids ages Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm January 9 – June 26 8 & up. Parents and/or caregivers January 31 Family Storytime (Bilingual) / are encouraged to accompany their January title: Warlight by Michael Conversations about Community Contes en Famille (bilingue) child. Titles for this club are decided Ondaatje Convened in an extended sense of Stories, rhymes and songs for by book battle! Come to a meeting February title: Say Nothing by community, topics of conversation children of all ages and a parent or to participate and to help choose the Patrick Keefe range from the local to the global. caregiver. / Contes, comptines et next title. Registration required. Drop-in program. chansons pour les enfants de tout âge Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) European Book Club (EUNIC Saturdays, 10:00 – 12:00 pm et un parent ou gardien. January 20 Canada) Jan. 4 – June 13 Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. Join us for the ultimate armchair Tuesdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) / Les Eager Readers Book Club (5-7 travel around Europe. The European Conversations about Earth and Us mardis, 10h15 (30 min.) years) Book Club is offered in partnership Conversations about rethinking our January 14 – February 25 / 14 janvier A children’s book club for kids who with European Union National situation. – 25 février are beginning to read independently. Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Drop-in program Join us on the first Saturday of every Ottawa to promote European authors Thursdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Wee Wednesdays! / Mercredi Mini! month to chat about the book, do a and their works. Drop-in program. January 2 – June 18 Drop in preschool fun! Play with fun activity and share some ideas Wednesday, 6:00 – 8:00 pm puppets, crafts, building blocks, and about what to read next. Parents January 15 A Word in Arabic more! /Un programme porte-ouverte and / or caregivers must accompany Learn a few words in Arabic. Drop-in pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! their child. Ages 5-7. Registration Ottawa ComicBook Club program. Jouez avec des marionnettes et des required. The Ottawa ComicBook Club Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:30 pm blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! Saturdays, 2:30 pm (45 minutes) is a small group of ComicBook January 8 – June 17 Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. February 1: Snail and Worm by Tina enthusiasts who meet once a month Wednesdays, 10 am (1 hr) / Les Kügler to discuss a graphic novel. For teens Science Cafés with Carleton mercredis, 10h (1h) and adults. Drop-in program. University January 8 – February 26 / 8 janvier – TEEN PROGRAMS Monday, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Professors from the Faculty of 26 février January 6 Science share their discoveries with Teen Study Group 2020 you. Drop-in program. Family Storytime Come to Sunnyside to study for ADULT PROGRAMS Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm Stories, rhymes and songs for your exams in a quiet, supportive, January 8 & 29 children of all ages and a parent or group environment. You’ll find us The Writing Workshop caregiver. 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AROUND TOWN Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church, at 100 Main St. in Old Ottawa East, La Leche League Canada has a group in OOS. Are you breastfeeding/ has Mass at 5:00 pm on Saturdays, 10:00 am on Sundays, and at 11:30 am chestfeeding your baby? Are you pregnant and planning to breastfeed? A La Tuesday to Friday. Leche League meeting is a relaxed, supportive and non-judgmental place where you can meet other parents, learn about nursing your baby and ask PAND is a non-profit settlement service organization. We strive to provide questions. Meetings every second Tuesday of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm settlement, training, support services and programs to bridge the gap between at 36 Glen Ave. Next meeting is January 14th. For more information call 613- newcomers and society. We organize ongoing workshop and classes for 238-5919 or go to www.lllc.ca newcomers to Ottawa. We have free English conversation group sessions for students and newcomers on Mondays 5:30 pm – 7 pm at the McNabb Ottawa Brahms Choir Open Rehearsals - Jan 6th and 13th. Come sing Community Center (180 Percy Street). Since these sessions are free of charge with us! Ottawa Brahms Community Choir welcomes new singers. All and open to public, we are in need of volunteers who are fluent in English and voices invited to join, especially tenors and basses. No auditions required! can have one-on-one, or group conversation, with participants every Monday. Rehearsals every Monday from 7:00-9:30 pm at St Giles Church at First and For more information go to: www.pandsettlement.ca Bank. Contact Sieglinde 819-568-8169 or just drop in. For more info: https:// ottawabrahmschoir.ca and www.facebook.com/ottawabrahmschoir/ The Glebe Centre Community Programs at Abbotsford is looking for volunteers to support the new Caregiver program. We need volunteers to Come and join the Pacesetters Walking Club at Billings Bridge Shopping help on Sunday afternoons 1- 4 pm for a drop-in program for caregivers. Mall. Activities include walking with your friends, social gathering, knitting Volunteers would help with set up, serving coffee, tea, drinks etc. and for charities, puzzles, library. Located in the basement of the Tower at the help with clean up. Volunteers would also support the program by helping northwest corner of the Mall. Open from 7:30 to 10 am. Low cost of $10 per with crafts, hosting a book club, photo club or history club. If interested year covers our expenses. Call 613-521-6740 for information. please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 613 238-2727 ext. 353 or email [email protected]. Mature high school students needing their 40 Army Cadets Seeking 12-18 Year Olds. Come join the Governor General hours would be welcome. Foot Guards Army Cadet Corps. There is no cost. If interested, please check us out any Wednesday night at 6:15 pm at Cartier Square Drill Hall (2 Queen Ottawa Quakers hold a largely silent Meeting for Worship, Sunday mornings Elizabeth Dr.), email us at [email protected], or visit our website at at 10:30 am, 91A Fourth Avenue in the Glebe. Newcomers welcome! www.2784ggfg.com. Page 32 The OSCAR l January 2020

ARTS AND CULTURE New exhibitions at City Hall and Life of Pie Cafe By Maureen Korp

City Hall Signal: 2019 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection fills both galleries on the ground floor at City Hall. The portion on display at the Karsh-Masson Gallery will be there until January 12; at the City Hall Art Gallery, the exhibition runs longer, until January 29. In both galleries, there is a lot to see and applaud. Much art was commissioned or Andrew Morrow, “Study for untitled” (commission at O-Train Confederation Line St-Laurent Station), 2016, purchased by the City in 2019. A oil on board – which is on display at the Karsh-Masson Gallery at City Hall. PHOTO BY THE CITY OF OTTAWA number of artworks were also donated to the collection. Two small bronze sculptures by Bruce Garner (1934- Are the trains running late? Walk teardrop-shaped sculpture by Pierre Life of Pie cafe 2012), for example, are among the inside Pimisi Station. Overhead hang Poussin. The artist invites you to have a How often has your day begun with donations acquired in 2019. a multitude of canoe paddles – 101 seat. He designed the elegant sculpture the question: “Do you believe this Among the juried works of art wooden paddles in all, each one to be both landmark and bench. Tell weather we’re having?!” purchased by the City, are several Artists Helene Lacelle and Peter digital prints by Christos Pantieras. Evanchuck seem to have asked ALL THE BEST, 2015, is a particularly themselves that very question in their wry comment on social mores. new exhibition at Life of Pie cafe. Pantieras knows what “ghosting” (i.e., Seasons on the Canal is a series of rejection) looks like on a computer four pictures, each a photograph of a screen – words dribbling off into familiar site along the Rideau Canal. nothing, nothing at all. In this work, the They are not, however, specifically artist has the last word, literally, and the summer, fall, winter, or spring. They last laugh, truly. are moments of transition from this, Can anything good be said about that, to the other; all are marvelous and the City’s new LRT? Yes. Building the mysterious indeterminate moments. LRT enabled the City to commission Lacelle and Evanchuck have 24 artists to create well-placed worked for a number of years with public art along the Stage 1 O-Train, photography and software in a manner Confederation Line corridor at 13 they call “magical realism.” Their different stations. approach might be described as one of Along three walls of the Karsh- holding light just a moment longer in Masson Gallery a diagram of the the frame. LRT route from Blair to Tunney’s At Life of Pie cafe, Seasons on the Pasture displays photographs of the Canal will be found in the larger of commissioned, completed artwork as it the café’s two washrooms. The artists is today throughout the Confederation chose this location specifically for their Line Stage 1 corridor. A selection of The Rideau Canal in summer from “Seasons on the Canal” at Life of Pie. work. Hanging their work “in the loo, the artists’ preliminary drawings and PHOTO BY HELENE LACELLE not the Louvre” assures people a quiet, models accompany the exhibition. private moment to look at what’s on What sort of work was chosen for individually painted, each one capable your friends to meet you there. They the wall. the Confederation Line? Work inspired of taking someone upstream or down. will find you. The necessities of life include art. by movement, place, and nature, often Algonquin Canoe is the work of Simon At Cyrville station, a grove of 13 Well worth your time to have a look. work specific to each station. Inside Brascoupe, Emily Brascoupe-Hoefler, tall, stainless steel trees stands at the Blair station, for example, an intricate Sherry-Ann Rogers, Doreen Stevens, north end of the station. The sculpture, Maureen Korp, independent critic, glass installation moves delicately, and Sylvia Tennisco. entitled Stand of Birch, is the work of curator, and historian, has lived long silently within breezes created by trains Don’t want to paddle your own Don Maynard. It, too, was designed as in Ottawa. and people in motion. Lightscape was canoe? Then, if you are lucky enough a station landmark. As trains pass by, designed by cj fleury and Catherine to be at Bayview station, make your people will know how far along the Widgery. way over to Cascades, a tall, blue line they have travelled. Trees, plants, birds are referenced in eight of the Confederation Line’s site-specific installations, abstract Signal: 2019 Additions depictions of light and motion in seven to the City of Ottawa others. The remainder are varied scenes Art Collection with people in them. One of the more intriguing is a City Hall Art Gallery and work by Andrew Morrow. The artist Karsh-Masson Gallery, describes it as nonspecific history 110 Laurier Avenue painting. His preliminary Study for Continuing in City Hall Untitled, 2016, is a painting with Art Gallery until January a grand depiction of mountainous 29, and at Karsh- figures, quite like Greek gods. They Masson Gallery until loom over the humans below them January 12 – hard-working, anonymous folks, people getting by from day-to-day. In Seasons on the Canal St-Laurent station, however, Morrow’s grand study became three digital Life of Pie, 1134 Bank murals, two on the west platform, Street the other on the east. Have the gods The show is ongoing. disappeared? The OSCAR l January 2020 Page 33

THE CREATIVE CURRENT Un-common sense, social smarts and creativity things because someone told him too. In looking back on his past Rob He formed his own opinions and made surmised, “Customer service fit me, his own way. In Rob’s view, “if you’re but working under management was mainstream you’re not creative because a no go – the ambitious ones who it’s all been done before.” Pioneering, were not competent and did not work looking and working outside the for me.” And on the heels of that box breaks a mold and allows for came, “I not one for blindly following relationships and interactions to take rules.” While not exactly a regret, root in novel ways. Rob did comment on a missed career Another employee at Druxies was opportunity he might have had as a scared to operate the brisket cutting successful teacher. In speaking with machine. Rob knew she could do it. Rob, and living on the block with him He told her he would help her if it got for many years, it is clear to me that busy, only to appease her anxiety. It Rob is a teacher; he leads by example. did get busy and Rob let her handle He models behaviour based on his own the machine herself. She didn’t even clarity of direction and purpose, a deep realize she was doing the very thing understanding of the others, and novel she feared, effortlessly, because approach to problem solving. someone had believed in her and trusted she could do it. Rather than Here’s to a New Year filled with micro-manage her, Rob applied his helping ourselves and others in creative un-common sense to her fears and she and innovative ways. flew. Rob enjoyed working in the service industry because he got to learn a lot Vanessa Coplan is an artist, art about people. He understood what teacher, creative coach and a resident being that new employee felt like, of OOS. much like what it felt like to be that new kid in a new school, in a new city, Robert Cowan. PHOTO BY REINA COWAN multiple times. Rob’s most recent incarnation is working on home renovations part- By Vanessa Coplan the greatest impacts being the social time for a neighbour across the street. smarts he acquired learning about One of my New Year’s resolutions is to different kids in different cultures, expand upon our current understanding and how to adapt and navigate of creativity; to move it beyond the within different parameters. confining definition as it relates to an When he came home to Ottawa art form, and into the broader context after living abroad Rob realized of lifestyle, thought patterns, how he was “not mainstream.” Four one sees and lives in the world with different schools in four years oneself and others. We can use creative highlighted his differences from understanding and expression as a lens other kids his age who had a through which we see the world and, more conventional up bringing. like a kaleidoscopic, allow for all the Rob sees the impact of these various patterns, colours, shapes and early years abroad as fostering the light to pass through our eyes, into our ability to “See people as they are/ brains, our heart and move towards who they are, to not make false a greater place of tolerance and assumptions about people,” and awareness. Assert inventiveness and “to get into the other person’s imagination into your life and ... see shoes.” what transpires. In the working world Rob was able to develop these insights Rob Cowan further. Working as a manager My neighbour, Rob Cowan, is a guy at Druxies Deli was a learning who lives very much according to this curve. He had one co-worker kind of creative “creed”; he embodies who used to go into abandoned a life that combines a purposeful, building sites and make fires, intention-based, socialistically engaged for fun. Rob realized that this existence. deviant behaviour manifested out These creative elements forge a of boredom and restlessness so road less travelled. A quiet one, and as her manager he gave her more one that is not followed by many. It is responsibility and she excelled. a path that is ripe with originality and Rather than call her out, or judge shedding some light on it may pave the her as incompetent, Rob spent way for others who are also interested the time figuring lout what she in living according to the beat of their needed; resentment and people own drum. mistrusting her led her to act out. Rob grew up in different countries Rob felt it was a ‘no brainer’ in 3 Trees Fabulous February Sale before landing in OOS with his family how to help her; treat others the of origin at the age of 11. His dad was way you would want to be treated Bargain Basement open a linguistics professor and brought and things turn around. We pay the tax young Rob and the family to various Rob attributes his Leap into 29 days of parts of the world, including Beirut, unconventional approach to England, and Rhode Island. Looking management based on his early Shopping outside the Box Store back on this type of unconventional experiences in having to think for 202 Main St. 613 230 0304 Instagram@3treesshop up-bringing, Rob remembers one of himself. He didn’t go along with Page 34 The OSCAR l January 2020

NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Holiday workshop By Colin Ashford The Old Ottawa South Garden Club will meet next on Monday Following on from the successful flower- 13 January 2020 at The Firehall arrangement workshop held last April, the Old at 260 Sunnyside Avenue at 7:00 Ottawa South Garden Club held a workshop pm when Christine Libon will for the creation of wreaths and urns for the describe her travels and hikes festive season. Amber Tied of Riverwood in Costa Rica which is noted for Gardens (www.riverwoodgardens.ca), led the biodiversity of its mountains the workshop on a rather chilly Sunday at the and parks. Her stunning photos beginning of December. Amber demonstrated will reveal some of its varied and making an urn for the festive season from amazing plant life. evergreens, dried flowers, and trims from her flower garden in Osgoode. Together with two colleagues from Riverwood Gardens, she Colin Ashford is a member of then helped the thirty or so members of the the Old Ottawa South Garden Garden Club and their friends to make their Club. own holiday urns or wreathes. Members of the Old Ottawa South Garden Club executive committee organized refreshments, a door prize, and a silent auction. Amber Tied with her completed festive urn. PHOTO BY COLIN ASHFORD

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ROAD TRIPS Get outdoors in January hiking routes in Gatineau Park: the Sugarbush, Lauriault and Pioneer trails, and the Capital Pathway. And for a pleasant day trip, try Foley Mountain Conservation Area in Westport.

Skating Forest skating – where you glide along a groomed trail winding through a woodland – has been growing in great workout. You can rent a fat bike popularity in the last few years. On a from Expéditions Wakefield and check day trip, you can try Skating Through out some of Gatineau Park’s 30.5 the Forest, a three-kilometre route kilometres of fat biking trails. in Lac des Loups, Quebec. There’s also RiverOak, a skating trail located Other winter sports between Metcalfe and Russell on Hiking, skating and fat biking are Ottawa’s southeastern edge. And about just the tip of the winter iceberg (so to an hour from Old Ottawa South, you’ll speak). There are also countless places find the Perth Outfitters skate trail in to go downhill or cross-country skiing, central Perth. snowshoeing, tubing or tobogganing. Short on time? No worries. You So get out those toques and mittens and can lace up your skates and try the shake off that cabin fever! This year, I Brewer Park Oval or the Rideau Canal vow to be out there with you. Netflix right here in Old Ottawa South, or the can wait. A view of Westport from a hiking trail at the Foley Mountain Conservation Skating Court at Lansdowne Park. Area. PHOTO BY LAURA BYRNE PAQUET Fat biking Travel writer and OOS resident If you’ve never tried fat biking, Laura Byrne Paquet runs By Laura Byrne Paquet One drawback is that many you’re in for a hilarious treat. Well, it OttawaRoadTrips.com, which provincial parks in Eastern Ontario are was hilarious for me, when I tried it in offers tips on day trips and weekend I’ll admit it: I face a dilemma every closed in winter, but if you’re willing to the Eastern Townships a few years ago, getaways from Ottawa. You can see January. On the one hand, I’m usually drive a bit, Algonquin, Frontenac and because my nominal sense of balance an expanded version of this article feeling a bit heavier and more sluggish Sandbanks are open year round and doesn’t improve any while riding a there, with links. after weeks of holiday feasting, so I have lots of great trails. huge-tired bike on slippery snow. Your want to get some exercise. On the other Closer to home, you can hike for mileage may vary, though! And it is a hand, when it’s cold and grey outside, about five-and-a-half kilometres on the prospect of curling up on the couch the largely flat trails 43 and 44 in Pine with the remote control is awfully Grove Forest, a few minutes south appealing. of South Keys. On the Quebec side, If (like me), you need some extra you can choose from four winter

Frontenac Provincial Park, north of Kingston, has 11 kilometres of track-set cross-country ski trails (weather permitting).

PHOTO COURTESY OF ONTARIO PARKS motivation to get outside and enjoy winter, here are a few ideas for close- to-home trips that might just inspire you to put on your mittens and boots.

First Day Hike The First Day Hike concept has been spreading on social media for a few years now, and Ontario Parks is eagerly promoting it. It’s a simple idea: If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to get outside more often, start right away on January 1 with a fresh-air hike. To impress your friends, you can take a few photos and post them online with the hashtag #FirstDayHike, but you CENTRETOWN'S 37 FLORA AT BANK certainly don’t have to. After all, this NEIGHBOURHOOD is about getting back to nature, not communing with your phone. BREWERY & KITCHEN FLORAHALLBREWING.CA Page 36 The OSCAR l January 2020

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