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O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old South Year 37 , No. 9 The Ottawa South Community Association Review OCT 2009

OSCA PORCH SALE Photo by Tom Alfoldi By Brenda Lee various needs or non needs have been, Then on to a new event that will and Carly Cook for organizing this and the Porch Sale has also faithfully offered hopefully become a Porch Sale tradition. to the Business Community in general or years now on the second what I think we all enjoy the most…a This year the Business Community for giving us all such a variety of fun Saturday in September and the chance to connect with our neighbours added to the fun of the Porch Sale. All activities to participate in. It was very days immediately following I am after a summer apart, to catch up on along Bank Street various musicians well organized and a terrific day. If you F news, and to get a glimpse into what we could be heard playing, my own loved it as much as I did, mention it to often greeted or greet people with the phrase “So did you find any treasures at each consider to be junk or invaluable. personal favourite being the bag pipers. your local businesses when you drop the Porch Sale?” This Sept 12th was no different, There were face painters, and clowns, in for a purchase. Let them know how My search has always been fruitful, except perhaps weather wise. Old demonstrations by Douvris, animal appreciated they are! either I find what I was looking for or find Ottawa South was blessed with a warm, totem readings, balloon artists, kids A great day, a great tradition and a what I never even knew I was looking sunny day for the 17th Annual Porch Sale. games, Henna art, birthday cake at the great way to find new treasures while for. My needs/wants have changed over I was out looking for bargains by 7:30 Clothes Secret and sales everywhere. getting rid of some older “treasures”. the years. In earlier years that Pop up and was certainly not alone. Coffee in An end of day event at the Georgetown The Porch Sale is indeed a wonderful Book of the Royal Family, the vintage hand, rubbing the sleep out of our eyes, Pub featured the Blues Fest Be in the part of what makes Old Ottawa South Six Million Dollar Man board game, we early birders wandered the streets Band winners and the Jess Green Band. such a lovely place to live. Now I am and eight matching wine glasses was looking for that bargain and chatting with The Bank of Nova Scotia was where a off to read about that wiley Davies and considered quite a big score …this neighbours who also sipped a morning few others and myself found ourselves his fascinating life and then to visit with year a hardcover copy of a Robertson beverage and tried to remember what shucking corn and running a BBQ my old friends Miss Elinor and Miss Davies biography, a copy of Sense and else they had in the garage that needed with proceeds going to OSCA. It was a Marianne Dashwood. Sensibility and a toy fridge with plastic to be pulled out to the curb. A true Old lovely day and a lovely addition to the See you next year…. who knows food was quite exciting. Whatever my Ottawa South tradition. event. Big Cheers to Arthur Macgregor what treasures we will all find then?

Sod-Turning For Firehall Renovation Shopper’s Sunnyside Site Demolition

Photo by Tom Alfoldi OSCA After School

Sept 15 the following got together for a ceremonial dig.: Phil Piazza, Ottawa City Project Manager; Riad-El-Ghazal, president of GR Construction and Site Development; Introductory Ice Hockey At Michael Jenkin, President Ottawa South Community Association; Anthony Leaning, architect -- CSV Architects; Clive Doucet, Ottawa Councillor. Construction to begin Brewer Arena Is Back! see page 4 for details soon. Photo by Tom Alfoldi Page 2 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

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The OSCAR thanks the following people who brought us MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM to your door this month: FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames and SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* Kim Barclay, Wendy Robbins, Jim and Carrol Robb, Kelly Haggart, Taiyan SUNDAY CLOSED Roberts Kevin and Stephanie Williams. *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Family Gref- Innes, Gabriela Gref- Innes and Fiona Fagan, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, Stephanie and Kulani de Larrinaga. ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Laine Mow, Hayley At- WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? kinson, Leslie Roster, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the James-Guevremont family, the Williams family, Sylvie Turner, Lynne Myers, Jeff Pouw, Curt LaBond, Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 Brendan McCoy. Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Arthur Taylor, - South Branch 730-1082 Curt LaBond, Charles and Phillip Kijek, Sam & Avery Piche, Kit Jenkin, Rob Campbell - [email protected] 730-8128 Michel and Christina Bridgeman. Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), the Crighton family, Emily Keys, Centretown Community Health Centre 233-5430 the Lascelles family, Gail Stewart, Mary Jane Jones, the Sprott family. CARLETON UNIVERSITY ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), The Adriaanse Family, Gaia Cher- CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 nushenko, The Rand family, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. Graduate Students Association 520-6616 ZONE E1:Brian Tansey(Coordinator) , Wendy Johnson, John Sutherland, the Community Liaison 520-3660 Rae Brown-Clarke Family, Anna Cuylits,Mary O’Neill. Mediation Centre 520-5765 ZONE E2: Chris Berry (Coordinator), Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder and Lor- Athletics 520-4480 raine Stewart, the Hunter family, Brodkin-Haas family, Allan Paul, Christina CITY HALL Bradley, Karry Ostler. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, Janet Clive Doucet, City Councillor ([email protected]) 580-2487 Jancar, the Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Mike Wilson and Niki De- Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 vito, Dante and Bianca Ruiz, Wendy Kemp, Walter and Robbie Engert. Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), the Tubman family, Karen Fee, Paulette Emergencies only 9-1-1 Theriault, Mark McDonald, Susan McMaster. Serious Crimes 230-6211 ZONE G: Bernie Zeisig(Coordinator), Claudia and Estelle Bourlon-Albar- Ottawa Hydro 738-6400 racin, David Lum, Cindy MacLoghlin, Hannah and Emily Blackwell, the Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 al-Asad family, Katya and Mikka Zeisig. Brewer Pool 247-4938 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Brewer Arena 247-4917 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler, Kathryn Brookfield. Ottawa East: Brian Lowley, Dave White OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as the address and phone number. Lettters may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to [email protected] or leave in print at the Firehall. Re: OOS 10 K River Run Re: NFB Films n response to the letter appearing in the which if weren’t followed, resulted in September issue of OSCAR relating some form of disciplinary action. Is Ms lthough Michael Dobbin history. to the OOS 10 K River Run, I Laframboise saying she is above the rules was, admittedly, aiming for Bill Kretzel I conciseness in his article on the Fifth Ave. am the individual who reported Ms for this particular event? A Laframboise’s “error” to the race director Recently in the Beijing Olympics history of Canadian cinema (July/August for taking the wrong path during the race. I several sprinters were disqualified in issue; pg. 15), including only a single, Michael Dobbin’s Response: first saw Ms Laframboise on the outward the sprint and relay finals because they insubstantial mention of the National Several years ago I launched a Canadian trip to the 2.5 K turn around point in the placed their foot on the lane markers. A Film Board is clearly inadequate. The film festival in England called “Just first of two laps. As I exited the tunnel foot ! Also, recently in our own National NFB has repeatedly been recognized Watch Me!” which featured many of the under Bank Street, I saw a woman with Capital Marathon the entire leading internationally - including by NFB’s treasured short films, and even a red shirt running very smoothly on the group was disqualified because they took Hollywood’s Oscar -- over the past an Oscar-winning short called “Ryan” lower dirt path. My immediate thought a wrong turn when a traffic barrier was 60 years as one of the preeminent which focused on Ryan Larkin, one of was that she should be in the race as she removed accidently. It wasn’t their fault institutions of world cinema – in artistic, the NFB’s most renowned animators. was setting a good fluid pace. Having and yet I didn’t see one letter in the local educational and technological fields. Celebrating Canadian cinematic never run in this area before, I found it papers from any of these athletes, and Just this summer, the life work of accomplishments is something that I easy to stay on course as there was an they lost prize money. Norman McLaren -- 82 films, almost all practice as well as write about. official in place near the tunnel’s exit and I guess all this comes down to, what of which produced at the NFB -- was Although I’m aware and appreciate with the presence of yellow caution tape lesson does one wish to learn from this recognized as a globally significant the work of the NFB and in particular, on trees at the right of the course, I simply event. Of course, in my mind it is simply, cultural expression to be included in the McLaren, the focus of this particular followed the paved path, and the runners “ I made an error, I move on from here.” UNESCO Memory of the World archive. article was dramatic feature films. The in front. It is not a new concept to follow Veering off course was, hopefully, an Perhaps Michael Dobbin considers National Film Board of Canada does the marked path or runners ahead. error in judgement, and there is nothing the films not competitive with Hollywood not produce dramatic feature films - its I am really at a loss at the logic, or race director in question should have done products (the success of which is mandate is exclusively animation, shorts lack thereof, in Ms Laframboise letter differently but to disqualify the person almost solely measured by box office and documentaries. Giving an overview to the Editor. A wrong was created. concerned. As previously mentioned, revenue) as “also-rans” not worthy of of almost a century of Canadian feature Acceptance should follow. End of story. “the rules of competition are the rules.” mention. This ignores, however, the real film in a couple of pages unfortunately However, I do understand In my mind, the course was well marked achievements of Canadian cinema in the did not allow this tangent to be explored. Ms Laframboise ‘s frustration and and there were volunteers well positioned context of actual disappointment in being disqualified after on the course. My congratulations goes she ran such a great time. But the simple out to the race director and the group of fact of the matter is, she veered off course energetic volunteers. I sincerely hope this Re: Squirrel Talk not once, but three times. She must have tempest in a tea pot does not deter the known of her mistake because on the final race director from staging this excellent would have liked to have been to run their errands. (For the record I leg home, she did in fact run on the marked neighbourhood event next year.. surprised when I read Tania and like many shops in OOS, but I think we path that all the other runners followed. Thanks also to all the neighbourhood I Michael’s “Squirrel Chatter”, but I could benefit from some of the basics, I have been a competitive runner for the kids who were out to give oodles of wasn’t. They long for OOS in its early like a grocery store and a pharmacy for past 35 years and understand there are encouragement to all the runners. Let’s days when it was a new suburb with empty starters.) rules for races as there are in all aspects of have more high fives next year, kids. lots, quiet streets and a “countryside As for noise, I don’t see how you our lives. Ms Laframboise claims to have Play fair in sport. feel”. There still are places like that in can escape it given how close the houses been an athlete training and completing Ottawa’s outer suburbs like Greely and are to each other. (My neighbours and at the National and International level. Dennis Ferris North Gower. Although I have nothing I could have a conversation from our Surely there were rules that governed Orleans against these places I certainly don’t want respective kitchens, but we prefer to athletes and athletic events at these levels to live there, which is precisely why I live pretend we can’t see each other…) in OOS. I don’t want my neighbourhood Noise is part of the deal as far as I am to look or feel like a rural village. concerned and I say live and let live. However, I’ve lived in OOS for a few Tania and Michael do list noises they years now and recognize that there are deem to be acceptable, such as “people competing visions of our neighbourhood: having a nice time as a family” and “kids the vibrant downtown neighbourhood vs. playing”. Those are noises some people the imagined village of yesteryear. like hearing, while others may prefer I live here for proximity to work, music or “friends talking”. We should services and leisure. I would like to be each tolerate one another. able to bike and walk most places I need I want OOS to have all sorts of to go to. So I love the idea of having a people (yes, students included), doing pharmacy at Sunnyside and Bank. Sure all sorts of things, and, within reason, it is big, probably too big, but that is at all sorts of hours. I want to live in a what new stores are like these days and vibrant downtown neighbourhood, not an people (including OOSers) vote with exurban village. their wallets. I prefer to have a store that people use, rather than a small store Karl van Kessel people remark is picturesque as they Roslyn Avenue drive by on their way to South Keys More Letters to the Editor on page 19. Send your comments to [email protected] or drop them off at the Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue.

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death, your right to say it. ....Voltaire Page 4 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009 Brief Notes From the Firehall

OSCA After School Introductory Ice Hockey At Brewer Arena Is Back!

SCA is pleased to offer group if need be. this popular introductory Skates, helmet with shield Oprogram on Tuesdays and or cage, gloves and a stick are Thursdays (you can sign up for mandatory. either or both) from 4:00 pm to 5:00 Recommended are shin guards, pm at Brewer Arena for children elbow pads, neck guard and mouth aged 6 to 8 years. The program will guard. start on Tuesday, October 6 and will run for 10 weeks. Cost is $120 for REGISTRATION: Online at Welcoming in the New Season either Tuesdays or Thursdays – if you 9:00 pm on Wednesday, September choose both days, the cost is $240 for 30 at www.oldottawasouth.ca. In Registration for Fall programs 10 weeks. Dave Ho is the instructor. person at Southminster Church at By Regis Alcorn for all ages is now on-going at www. We have also booked the ice for 9:00 am on Thursday, October 1. oldottawasouth.ca, with space filling up 10 weeks in the Winter and will offer all has brought children back to quickly in some programs. Please visit our the same programs or adjust the age school in the warmth of sunshine and new schedules with various activities website or call the OSCC office at 613-247- F 4946 or drop-by at 15 Alymer Ave., are in place for all. The Firehall is about ready for the Many thanks go out to our awesome renovation crews. We are settling in quite staff and the wonderful young volunteers Return Of The Fall Fest well to our new temporary surroundings including Laurent, Michael, Vladimir, at Southminster Church during the OSCA Samantha, Erik, Maddy and Christine who By Brenda Lee daytime programming. Playgroup space helped make Summer 2009 Summer Day is still available on Wednesday, Thursday Camps a great success. Camp participants all has always been my favourite time of year. It is a time of preparation and Friday mornings for caregivers and ranging in age from 3 to 14 and parents and a time of farewells. I rejoice in the abundance of fresh fruits and families with young children. Preschool commented on the amazing summer Fvegetables at this time of year and every year I am brought back to afternoon programs start in early October activities and treasured the good memories my roots as the urge to jar and pickle takes over. I am also drawn back to with space still available for the popular that completed each day. my childhood and memories of the beginning of the school year, as I feel Sport Ball, Crafty Athletes and Magic The community is looking forward the need to reorganize, start fresh, discard the old and bring in the new. Fall Carpet with Darcy. The After-School to the Fall Fest event in Winsor Park now has always been when my “Spring Cleaning “ starts. I start to say goodbye program is presently full, with a short scheduled for Sunday October 25 from to the carefree summer and prepare for the upcoming winter, discarding my waiting list. OSDSB PA day will be held 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. The OSCA staff and grasshopper tendencies and embracing my inner ant. on Friday October 9 and the Firehall staff volunteers invite you to join in this fun I also love the Fall because of its beauty. Fall blesses us with warm days are planning a day of “cool things” so stay event with entertainment, games and food and cool nights, blasts of intense colour, rich, warm smells, crisp tastes, and tuned and register soon. OSCA evening for all. the best sound in the world, in my opinion, the sound of leaves crunching and some Saturday programs are held at Enjoy the colours of the season. underfoot. Hopewell School Gyms with sports and I know I am not alone in this love of the Fall season. I am not the only fitness keeping everyone actively involved. one who waves goodbye to the geese as they fly overhead, not the only one who has been stopped dead in their tracks by the sight of a maple tree shining in it’s splendour against a bright blue backdrop, and not the only one who stares at a proliferation of produce and rifles through old recipes overcome by a pressing need to store and preserve. With this knowledge, comes the need to share in the joy of the Fall season. After an absence of four years, the OSCA Special Events Committee is very pleased to announce the return of the Fall Fest. Windsor Park will once again be the site of this beloved Fest, on Sunday, Oct. 25th from 11a.m. till 2 p.m. Activities include a multitude of games and a scavenger hunt for the children. Hay Bale Toss for the adults. Raffle tickets with a variety of prizes. A fall hayride around Windsor Park. BBQ hotdogs, hamburgers and drinks for sale. Coffee and Drinks from Starbucks. Halloween Pumpkins and Fall Bulbs for sale. Kerry Duffy, from Life of Pie, and Colleen Forer from Yummy Cookies will be selling their delicious wares (a good time to stock up the freezer). Join the contest for Best Soup, Jam, Pie and Preserve/ Pickle (bring your entries clearly labeled to the Park before noon). We will be serving the soup as well so bring a full pot! Winners can claim bragging rights in the neighbourhood, a prize and (for those willing to share) a recipe credit in the next OSCAR. And of course the return of the beloved and slightly odd, GOAT BINGO! If you do not know what this is…well I can’t really adequately explain it…so just come and see for yourself. Every Fall Fest I laugh so hard, I cry when this “Bingo” is played. Come early to buy your tickets, they sell out fast! Check out the Osca website at www.oldottawasouth.ca in Oct. for a full list of activities and times. As always, we can use plenty of volunteers for this event. If you would like to volunteer or would like more information, please call the community centre at 247-4946 or Brenda Lee at 733 0608. Brenda with goat for goat bingo OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 5

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT The Future of Lansdowne Park

By Michael Jenkin the Board? Well once you wade through designed to facilitate the construction access to major transit facilities such as the details of the project, several things of a 400,000 square foot shopping mall the TTC subway and the GO Train, as t the beginning of the summer stand out starkly. First, the project is and related commercial facilities (to well as the Gardiner Expressway/Don I mentioned in my column that designed in such a way that the City bears be built in two phases) that could very Valley Parkway. the City’s proposal to develop a disproportionate share of the risks and well crowd out existing private sector Given the importance of this issue I A costs and the private sector developers retail establishments in our part of the urge you to get involved and make your Lansdowne Park in conjunction with a private consortium, what is now known (OSEG) gain a disproportionate share of City. The scale of this development will views known. You can read up on the as the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment the benefits. We get to pay over $129 have a devastating impact on the retail various positions on the development, Group (OSEG), would be released million to rebuild the stadium and half of infrastructure of the Glebe according first by visiting the City’s website to sometime over the holidays. Well as you the new parking structures, and give the to a professional analysis done for the get the “pro” view of the development now know, the release of the proposal developers rent free access to land for Glebe business community. Given that at www.ottawa.ca, and by clicking was delayed and was finally presented to 30 years on which to build a shopping this mall will be only a few hundred on Lansdowne Partnership Plan on Council on September 2. You may have mall, hotel and cinema. The developers metres from our section of Bank Street, the main page. Second, for a good read some of the preliminary coverage get access to all revenues from the site it would be fair to assume that we can summary of all the arguments against on the proposal in the local newspapers, (store rents, football game receipts etc.). expect equally negative impacts on our the development you can visit www. or seen coverage on the local television As taxpayers about all we can count on merchants in Old Ottawa South – in fact friendsoflansdownepark.ca where you stations. The proposal is a very complex (if the project is a success) is tax revenue many of our businesses are closer to will find detailed analyses of the traffic, one and to truly understand it, and its from the site and the potential ownership Lansdowne Park than those in the Glebe. land use, and financial implications of the implications, you have to plough through of 30 year old buildings at the end of the Any hopes we may have had of a vibrant development from a citizen perspective. many detailed and technical documents. proposed partnership between the City traditional Main Street on our section of You can make your views known by Because of this, I asked OSWATCH, and the developers, buildings that will Bank Street may face a serious, if not participating on-line in the Council’s OSCA’s planning and development be in need of major renovations within fatal, challenge. public consultation on the “Lansdowne committee, to review the proposal as a few years of the City taking them over. The other major concern is the Partnership Plan” which will run from soon as it became public and to report The development will provide very little traffic that will be generated by the retail September 28 to October 11 at www. back to the Board at its September 15 new green space, but will result in the facility, which on weekends especially, ottawa.ca. From September 28 to meeting with its preliminary assessment sale of condominium housing on the will make an already overloaded Bank October 6, you can also participate in as to whether the project was a good, north side of the site. Street even more dysfunctional. This, person at “open houses” to be held at six or bad, one for the City and for our It is hard to understand why the City of course, is in addition to the traffic locations in the City. See page 8 for a community. is, in effect, subsidizing with significant congestion that will result from bigger listing of the dates, times and locations. OSWATCH’s assessment of the sums of public money a major private stadium crowds attending football and In the interim, the special OSCA project is that it is bad for the City and sector retail development and a for profit other sporting events as a result of the working group will be preparing bad for our community, so bad in fact, professional football franchise when newly renovated stadium. Estimates of a presentation to ensure that the that it recommended to the Board that what we have been hearing from City the numbers of spectators and available community’s views on this project OSCA actively oppose the development. managers over the past several years parking spaces and the carrying capacity are clearly made to Councillors and After an in-depth discussion the Board is that the City’s capital resources are of transit services and roads seem to point the Mayor. In addition, the working agreed with OSWATCH’s evaluation stretched and that there are insufficient to gridlock as well during these events group will liaise with other concerned and passed unanimously a resolution to funds to build or renovate badly needed that could last several hours as the transit community associations, such as the oppose the development. OSCA also public infrastructure. The $129 million and road system serving Lansdowne are Glebe and Old Ottawa East, to share established a special working group to the City is proposing to invest in a not designed to cope with such large data and analysis and to develop a co- develop a detailed analytical position stadium and parking facility could buy surges of traffic. This is why major sport ordinated approach to City Council on on various aspects of the project and to a lot of libraries, recreation facilities, venues such as Scotiabank Place where this issue. Given this is a fast moving plan on how make sure the City, and City sewer and water projects, transit the Senators play are located in suburban issue, the working group will keep the Councillors, are aware of our opposition facilities, paramedic facilities and public areas where there is access to lots of community posted on its work through the and the reasons for our opposition. health clinics. parking and major highway capacity OSCA web site at www.oldottawasouth. Why, you may ask, has the proposal But perhaps the most depressing part such as the Queensway, or in the case of ca under the “What’s Hot” section on the sparked such a negative reaction from of the proposed deal is that it is essentially the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, with main page. Stay tuned!

Michael Jenkin with media at Firehall Renovation sod turning Photo by Tom Alfoldi Grocery Committee Petition n e-mail notice regarding an new tenant--much more flexibility regarding online petition to remove the the property’s use. As citizens of Old Ottawa restrictive covenant on 1115 Bank South we welcome any new businesses that StreetA (which prevents it from being used as a contribute to making our neighbourhood grocery store) went out in mid-September. A vibrant. short time later, we (the grocery committee) The petition is located at: http:// learned that a new tenant had signed a lease www.agrocerforoldottawasouth.info/ on the property and would be moving in in petition. Please consider signing it and then October. I spoke to Michael Paoletti--the asking all your neighbours to do the same. landlord and owner of the property--and he verified that he is still interested in doing what Many thanks, he can to remove the restrictive covenant Avra Gibbs Lamey (which is still in place for the next 10 years). on behalf of the grocery committee Removing the covenant would give any [email protected] tenant or owner of the property--including the Page 6 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

Take a visual walk along Camerson Street, on the North side starting at Seneca Street, heading east and ending at Willard and Good-Bye From Second Cup Bellwood. Thank you for being our loyal customers during the last Ten Years. We’ve decided to retire as we are at that age. Tom Alfoldi has taken photos of every building along Cameron -- Unfortunately Second Cup was not able to find new franchisees to replace us. North and South, and provided OSCAR with the photos. (See OSCAR The Glebe Second Cup has promised to honour all our bean customer cards. previous issues for other street photos) We enjoyed having you as our guests. The photos continue from this page, starting at Seneca Street, con- The children were just wonderful. tinues to page 17, where we reach Willard and Bellwood. The visuall The Hopewell kids were great. Loved making special drinks for them. walk continues along Cameron Street on page 26, from Riverdale to We had a lot of fun. the Ottawa Tennis & Lawn Bowling Club. We will miss all the chit chat, the excitement, chaos, etc. Join us another time when we will again walk with Tom’s Camera. Hopefully we will see some of you at future Ottawa events.

Thank you Tom! Maurice and Fenny Benoit Second Cup, Bank & Sunnyside Windsor Pups’ Owners Take to the Golf Course by Gary Lum

n a mid August morning, 12 unsuspecting dog owners ventured up to the Monte St. Marie Golf OCourse to participate in the 3rd annual “Wag Bowl” Golf Tournament. I say unsuspecting because the weather was undoubtedly one of the hottest/humid days this summer. Imagine, a group of mostly duffers, trudging over 18 holes on the Gatineau Hills in death defying conditions. Your undergarments needed a complete change after a warm-up round on the driving range. I am pleased to announce that the Course Marshall, ( 17 years on the job and still going) awarded our golf party the “Slowest golfers ever” to play their course !! That being said, we probably covered portions of this course that have never been frequented by species of our sort since its creation. Sweat, blisters, dying thirst are images that come to mind. From this inferno Rob Cook emerged as the Champion of the 3rd annual Wag Bowl. Lesser, but nonetheless important winners were recognized for their outstanding efforts. Sheila Ellis, Lyne Burton and Gary Lum for Low Gross. The tournament was followed up by a Release Heat Therapy Session at Cindy Harris’ cottage on a bay in the Gatineau River. Sumptuous delicacies were consumed and life saving liquid refreshments were available. Awards from Wag were presented to the winners. They sipped from the Wag Bowl doggy-style in front of all the admiring golf enthusiasts. The day ended with the ceremonial burning of score cards, to ensure we eliminated any incriminating evidence. From left to right, starting with the front row: (Names have been enlarged to protect the innocent) Dog owners can participate in this annual event and enjoy the Gary Lum, ( ‘Barney’), Lyne Burton of Wag,( Fergus and Marley) Peter Wells (Brynley) camaraderie that accompanies this perplexing game. Simply contact Janice Jones,( ‘Dexter’) Cindy Harris, (‘Norah’), Rob Cook ( ‘Mocha’* ) Brian Tansey. Rumour has it that our canine buddies may be enlisted Chuck Wheeler ( ‘Mitch’), Mike Oster ( ‘Buddy’ and ‘Sparky’ ), Tom Sawyer ( ‘Abbey’* and next year ?? It’s bad enough we have to pick up after them let alone be Evey), Brian Tansey (Tournament Organizer - ‘ Lucky’ ), Sheila Ellis ( ‘Rupert’ ) and Chris humiliated by their out - performing us in this game!! MacIntosh ( ‘Daisy’* ) Brighton Park Oak Tree for the chop! By Peter Kemp Councillor Clive Doucet have both received some reaction from some he landmark old oak tree in OOS residents, so they have apparently Brighton Park is under threat of postponed a final decision. There may Tbeing chopped down by the City be some community consultation before of Ottawa. action is taken, however the city wants The city forestry department’s to deal with the tree before the arrival of concern is the amount of deadwood winter snows. over the pathway. According to them the It seems that the city is reluctant to crown of the tree is dying back so much spend money to trim the tree when in that even trimming the deadwood back their view it is likely to die soon anyway. might not save the tree in the long run. In a balanced forest that could make The amount of deadwood and the hollow sense. However, with so few mature core of the tree make them pessimistic oak trees left, this tree is irreplaceable about the tree’s chances for survival. and some think it is still worth trying to While reluctant to cut down a tree of this save. Contact the Councillor’s office with stature, they believe it is the best solution. your views. The city and the office of the OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 7

CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Welcome to the Lansdowne Shopping Centre

Dear OSCAR Readers: in the opposite direction than Council to hand over the largest park it owns to name. had directed. It hadn’t gotten better, it be converted into a shopping mall. There are alternatives which won’t BRING ON THE LIONS got worse. The financing of this project is high cost us hundreds of millions, which are We will have four hundred thousand risk and creates a financial exposure for sustainable, which will beautify the city, Bring on the lions. square feet of commercial retail, within the city that would be larger than any not impoverish it. Lester Johnson’s is Let them howl at the moon a few kilometres of other big retail like of the other tax increases the mayor one of them. I encourage you to look at with impotent meows. The Trainlands on Industrial, Billings has given us - bigger than the cost of his renderings (www.clivedoucet.com) Bring on the lions. Bridge on Bank and the Rideau Centre any of the previous capital projects he and request that your city council return Let them chase and thunder on Rideau. Let me be crystal clear. This voted for in annual budgets (like the to an open, public competitive process to at our bows. will kill Bank Street. 400,000 square feet Congress Centre), bigger than the cost of determine the future of the park. doesn’t fill up with independent local the disastrous transit strike, bigger than Check my website for the most Bring on the lions, shops. It fills up with chains. Anybody the legal settlement for the cancelled current news and more details on the and we will glide on by. remember what the Rideau Centre did to light rail project. A separate article will fight to do Lansdowne right: www. We will glide on by. Rideau Street and Sparks? be required to cover all the financial clivesdoucet.com. The key dates to Our boats singing in the water. In a nutshell, the new Lansdowne shortcomings of this project. watch for are: We will glide on by Live proposal is a shopping mall with Not only is this sole source deal a • October 26th – this project will be balanced between motes of sunlight a sports stadium attached. The amount very bad business and ethical precedent at committee and in perfect momentum. of green space added is negligible. Take but if allowed to proceed it will wreck the • November 12th – it will be back out the cement overflow parking which Glebe and Old Ottawa South as we know before all of Council. - from Canal Seasons is coloured green in the Lansdowne Live them. These are two of Ottawa’s oldest plan. (It’s cement blocks with holes for communities, which have grown to make Coffee with Clive Welcome to the Lansdowne Shopping grass which the proponents assure us is a success for small scale, vibrant, local Centre fine for kids to play soccer on – because businesses. They have no capacity to Coffee with Clive happens in Old kids can play in parking lots.) Take adapt to this scale of commercialism, in Ottawa South at Bridgehead, 1176 Bank n September 2 the Lansdowne out the city baseball fields adjacent to terms of transportation, transit, business Street, on the second Thursday of the Live tsunami arrived at Council the park which appear as part of the or culture. month from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. and in the media. We are into Lansdowne Live proposal because they What began as an example of O are already there. Take out the NCC the wrong way to tender large public All the best, the aftershocks now. Back on April 22, Council had landscaping which appears as part of the projects has become a nightmare. We Clive Doucet stipulated no housing and the scale Lansdowne Live project because it is need to wake up. There’s no sense City of Ottawa of commercial development to be in already there. Add in two new roadways, wasting tax dollars to wreck any part of 110 Laurier Avenue West, keeping with a traditional Main Street one around the stadium and one around the city. This is not a sound vision for Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 in the sole source deal. The big surprise the Aberdeen pavilion and there isn’t the City. The stakes are high because tel.: (613) 580-2487 was the revised Lansdowne Live new usable park space as claimed. if this project gets the green light, there fax: (613) 580-2527 proposal had more residential and even Again to be blunt, the situation we will be no going back. No one is going [email protected] more commercial space than before. are facing is that, without consideration to tear down five story buildings and www.clivedoucet.com The deal negotiated with city staff went of any other options or having an open 400,000 square feet of retail. Lansdowne and competitive process, the city is about Park will exist only in memory and the The Little Witches From Little Witch Press Are Back And They Want You To Join Them In Their Latest Celebration! By: Susan Atkinson This second book will be especially fun once the excitement of Halloween dear to those readers living in the area is over. Haven’t you ever wondered he zany witches from Little because instead of seeing the witches if they “…hang up their robes, their Witch Press are back, but visit the world, What Do Witches Do? cloaks and their hats, tune-up their unlike their ‘little witches’ who is set right on the back doorstep of Old broomsticks and relax with their cats?” traveledT the world in Where Do Witches Ottawa South. Illustrator Elizabeth You might find yourself surprised at the Go?, the creators stayed home to cook Todd Doyle drew inspiration for places the witches end up! up a new story which takes place right her work from local businesses and The Halloween season is already here in Old Ottawa South. In true Little storefronts. Both writer and illustrator gearing up to be a very busy time for Witch Press fashion, the little witches agreed there was no better place on ‘the little witches’. With readings are throwing another Halloween party the planet for a witch to do all she booked at various bookstores and to celebrate their second book, What wanted to do! On a deeper level, the pumpkin patches (including Valleyview Do Witches Do?. The witches are book explores the idea of community Farms and Saunders Farm) look for the thrilled to invite everyone to join them and urban living which again supports witches popping up everywhere. All in what promises to be a ‘ghoulishly’ Ottawa South as a wonderful choice for Little Witch Press books are curriculum- good time. The party/launch is to be setting! Come to the launch and have related, so don’t be surprised if a witch held at Southminster United Church fun picking out familiar landmarks shows up in your classrooms as well! from the neighbourhood. October is here and there’ll be lots of (temporary home to the Firehall) at 15 Elizabeth Todd Doyle (L), illustrator, The new book will appear in opportunity to ask the question “What Aylmer Avenue on Saturday October and Susan J. Atkinson (R), writer th bookshops this October. Written in do witches do?” 24 from 2pm – 4 pm. Come dressed in at the Local Authors festival at the Halloween costume and be prepared to Rideau Chapters on August 15th rhyming stanzas, the story explores what have some fun! a witch might do for leisure time and Page 8 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

The OSWATCH Column

By Mohammad al-Asad and Billing’s Bridge rehabilitation project did deteriorated over the past few years, with encourage a more vibrant commercial Gary Shechtman not include plans to widen the sidewalks the loss of a number of key businesses. area in our neighborhood. Everyone along Billing’s Bridge, but will look into Bank Street in Old Ottawa South appears seems to have an opinion about the his is the first article of a new OSWATCH’s suggestion about widening to be lagging behind commercial streets reason for the problems on Bank Street. column that OSWATCH will the sidewalks and accommodating in other similar neighborhoods such as OSWATCH, however, has felt it is be contributing on a monthly bike lanes. In any case, we have been Glebe, Westboro, Wellington Village, important to get input from the relevant T informed that construction work on the and Beechwood Village. The commercial professionals (i.e. commercial real estate basis to update the Old Ottawa South community regarding its activities and bridge most probably will be postponed streets in these other neighborhoods are agents, developers, city planners) so that about issues affecting the state of the until 2012. much more vibrant, as evidenced by we could understand the root causes of built environment in the community. the many more people strolling on their the problem. To that end, OSWATCH Lansdowne Live streets. will devote its next meeting to this topic. Shoppers update OSWATCH will be providing an We will be inviting a few commercial The City has approved the project’s analysis of the Lansdowne Live Proposal For some reason, it seems that real estate agents, developers, city site plan, and the contractor has begun to the OSCA Board to form the basis of businesses aren’t interested in renting planners, and local business owners to site-preparation work. There are the Community Associations position the vacant buildings in Old Ottawa share their viewpoints and suggestions. concerns that construction work might on the development. All residents are South, and developers aren’t interested The meeting is not intended to discuss hinder the drop-off and pick-up of encouraged to take part in the upcoming in developing the underdeveloped any specific developments, but rather students from Hopewell and might public consultations on this important properties. Since a vibrant commercial to have a general discussion about the jeopardize their safety, particularly as issue. area is important to the quality of life in commercial area on Bank Street. We are they enter or leave the school through Old Ottawa South, OSWATCH feels it hoping some good ideas will come out Sunnyside Avenue. Hopewell’s Student Proposed meeting on the Bank Street is important to become more proactive of this meeting and that OSWATCH will Parent Association is keeping an eye on business area on this topic. OSWATCH would like be able to identify actions we can take this matter and has been coordinating If you’ve recently strolled down to understand the reasons why the to encourage a more vibrant commercial with OSWATCH regarding it. Bank Street in Old Ottawa South, you’ve commercial area on Bank Street in Old street. The results of the meeting will probably noticed a growing number of Ottawa South has lagged behind the main be summarized in a future article in the Billings Bridge rehabilitation: vacant storefronts and underdeveloped streets in other similar neighborhoods. OSCAR. The City had indicated that their properties. Our main commercial We would like to determine if there are street seems to have stagnated or even any actions OSWATCH could take to Public Input On Landsdowne

here is a very little time for public input on this sole-sourced, mega project that will cost City taxpayers millions of dollars, commercialize public land, create a transportation and parking nightmare, and have a huge, negative impactT on neighbouring communities. It is critical that citizens participate, ask questions and let their views be known.

The meetings will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. as follows: Monday, September 28, Lansdowne Park, Salon A, 1015 Bank Street Tuesday, September 29, Ron Maslin Playhouse, Lobby, 1 Ron Maslin Way, Kanata Wednesday, September 30, City Hall, Jean Pigott Place, 110 Laurier Avenue West Thursday October 1, Jim Durrell Complex, Elwood Hall, 1265 Walkley Road Monday, October 5, Tom Brown Arena, Hall, 141 Bayview Road Tuesday October 6,Shenkman Arts Centre, Lower Lobby 245 Centrum Boulevard, Orléans On-line consultations from September 28 to October 11, 2009 at the www. ottawa.ca web site. Find out more information about the issues at http://www. friendsoflansdownepark.ca Lansdowne Live Proposal Presented To City By James Hunter

he consortium of local businessmen that is leading the “Lansdowne Live” concept has presented their proposal to the city for discussion. The full Tproposal is available on the city’s web site and makes interesting reading. The city will be setting up public consultation sessions in the next few weeks. Keep an eye out on the OSCAR events email list for the dates/times when these events are announced. The proposal includes: revitalization of Frank Clair Stadium for use by a CFL franchise and the Civic Centre ice rink for use by the Ottawa 67’s, creation of parkland, development of a shopping plaza, restaurants, perhaps a movie theatre complex, a hotel, residential housing, underground parking, public event space and space for the farmer’s market. It is a controversial proposal in terms of cost to the city and benefit to the private company that is proposing the development as well as due to the “sole source” nature. Several features of the plan would perhaps benefit OOS: there will be less asphalt, more parkland and a better use of the land. However, issues of increased traffic and noise and loss of public land are some of the pitfalls. OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 9

OSWATCH’s Position On Lansdowne Live

ansdowne Live is contrary more than a steady trickle of people. The to Smart Growth, a planning proposed development will attract not Lconcept adopted by the City of just customers but also delivery trucks Ottawa in 2001 and part of our Official and other service vehicles, and these Plan, and represents poor use of prime are no better served than the expected city land. It will have a negative effect customers. The developers admit this on traffic, businesses, and the overall with the various creative scenarios put quality of life in Old Ottawa South. forward to deal with their transportation OSWATCH recommends that the dilemma including satellite parking, OSCA Board oppose this proposal. which would be accessed via a steady This project is sole sourced. stream of busses that would need to OSCA has already expressed its move along Sunnyside, and for the opposition to this and asked the City largest events, the closing of Bank Street to return to a process which would and Queen Elizabeth to all traffic except encourage competition between busses. The Official Plan states that private parties after a transparent development should be in “a location public process. Competitive bidding is on a road with sufficient capacity to standard procedure at other levels of accommodate the anticipated traffic Government, and a principal of good generated and/or a location adjacent to governance. Also, what if the sports or within walking distance of a transit franchise or some of the commercial station.”(OP Section 2.5.1) This is not or residential developments fail? Who the case with Lansdowne Live. pays the bill? The City’s P3 experience More specifically for OOS, all is mixed at best. access to the site for those located south Does the City of Ottawa need an of the canal will be along Bank Street, enlarged football/soccer stadium? If so, through OOS. The Bank Street stretch it should be built where there are good along OOS in addition will act as a public transit links. Lansdowne Park collector for south of the canal traffic has congested road links (Bank Street coming from Bronson, which will and Queen Elizabeth Drive) and poor go through Sunnyside, and for traffic transit connections (the number 1 & 7 coming from Main / Smyth, which will bus routes). The stadium should not be go through Riverdale and Sunnyside. increased in size. It is already difficult These arteries are already congested on to access during large events. workdays during rush hours, and Bank There is a good argument for is also congested on weekends. It will developing commercial retail space be completely impractical for these road with office or residential above it along networks, with their limited capacity, the Bank Street stretch of Lansdowne to accommodate the large number of Park, where it would fill in a gap people who will be driving from various and provide continuity between the other parts of the city located south of business districts along Bank Street in the canal, whether on weekends to go the Glebe and OOS. A hotel and some to the mall, or for special events such as residential infill could be attractive, sports games or concerts. though some argue they should not Considering the extensive use that be built on city land. However, the developers envision for the site, the retail space stretching into the whether sports events or concerts, Aberdeen Pavilion risks becoming a the levels of noise pollution it will vacuum sucking commercial activity cause will be very high and the 18,000 off Bank Street and into this “Mall.” residents of the nearby Glebe and OOS According to the Official Plan’s section will be subjected to considerable noise on Traditional Main Streets “in order pollution on a regular basis during the to retain their role as an integral part late spring, summer, and early fall. of their surrounding community, new Very little new green space is development must be of a type and scale provided. The total, including existing that is compatible in form and considers parkland is approximately a quarter of the context of the street.”(OP Section the site. This is because there is a new 3.6.3) This development is neither, as larger stadium, a lot of new commercial it is primarily a mall off Bank street. buildings, as well as new roads and The 400,000 square feet of commercial walkways. A surface parking lot where space, most of it off Bank, represents a the developers plan to try to grow grass doubling of the commercial space in the through the pavers is not real green Glebe. This is potentially devastating space, though it is classified as “green to this historic commercial street. and open spaces.” The Glebe has little Poor transit and modest road green space, less than most areas of the connections means the site has and will city; they deserve more real park space. continue to be difficult to access for any Page 10 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

Old Ottawa South And Glebe Residents: Time To Wake Up And Get Behind Clive!

By Janine Debanné ideas by an open design competition and Orleans, Lees Avenue, Riverview Park, spaces! (Let’s face it, too many of Ottawa’s public debate is shoddy process indeed. Industrial Park, Overbrook – places that green spaces are primarily ‘visual’ esidents and business owners Why would Ottawans put up with such are already far better equipped to absorb greens lining automotive thoroughfares). of Old Ottawa South and the nonsense and greed? We must hold the higher traffic volumes. In any of these Imagine, for a moment, Lansdowne as Glebe should be very concerned quality of our public urban spaces to the places, the proposed development might a vast rolling park; imagine a generous R highest standards. Do Ottawans really bring positive change, but a thorough outdoor swimming venue for Ottawans to about the Lansdowne Live project. Aside from an enlarged Frank Clair believe that great cities result from chance examination is needed to determine this. enjoy in the summer, or a place to go for stadium (supporting football, soccer and and speculation? Coming back to the question of a picnic for those not fortunate enough to concerts), a hotel and residences, the 2. Independently of the site, the the fate of Lansdowne Park -- when have access to a cottage. development proposes 400,000 square project for a football/soccer + shops and Councillor Clive Doucet suggested that Think of the Olympic-size outdoor feet of retail space – more retail than in entertainment center has many merits Lansdowne Park should be redeveloped pools at Stanley Park in Vancouver, or the entire Glebe and Old Ottawa South. and Ottawans seem to desire this in as a “park,” he was mocked by several those of Ile Sainte Hélène in Montreal. That’s a massive increase for the two their city. The problem with Lansdowne interested parties including the Mayor. Imagine a treed park large enough residential districts: Lansdowne Live Live is that these amenities have been The mayor and his team however are that the city recedes into the distance. is a big intervention that would change tied to a specific site. They need not be working – in my view - with a very Vancouver’s Stanley Park, yes, but also the existing fabric and communities in achieved at the cost of destroying public biased and deeply flawed conception of Toronto’s High Park, Montreal’s Park du lasting and profound ways. spaces. A tight urban site does not suit public space, one that assumes that the Mont Royal, New York’s Central Park, the sheer scale, attendance patterns and city should pay for its public parks and London’s Hyde or Regent’s Parks, Paris’s Two central issues must be discussed: related vehicular loads of such facilities. all non-income generating civic spaces Montsouris, Citroën, or La Villette, (1) the public nature of Lansdowne Park This kind of venue comes with cars, and in a short time frame as is the case in a New Dehli’s Lodi Gardens, Chengdu’s and the correct process for determining lots of them. And while promoters argue business. It is a huge mistake to accept this Renmin Park, Cairo’s recently completed the destiny of this precious piece of that an improved public transit system argument. Public parks and infrastructure Al-Azhar Park... These are but a few Ottawa land, and (2) the best location for a will take care of the parking shortfall on don’t necessarily get funded entirely up examples of the large, rich and complex large sports, mercantile and entertainment event days, their “conveniently green” front: if they are truly excellent, then planned parks in world cities that might venue. argument is not honest. There will be the city recoups its investment manifold inspire Lansdowne’s development. 1. Lansdowne Park is public land – abundant vehicular overflow. The streets over decades. History as well as recent The Mayor’s dismissive comparison this means that it belongs to the Citizens of the Glebe and Old Ottawa South will example makes it obvious that cities of a park on the Lansdowne site with the of Ottawa, and indeed to all Canadians. be invaded by masses of cars when the with well-developed outdoor spaces arboretum is shortsighted. In this moment Developers and city counselors have underground parking lot is filled, their are more desirable places to live. They of urban intensification, another arboretum brushed this fact under the rug, but quiet balance and neighborly intimacy attract businesses, people, institutions and located closer to the core would be just Lansdowne’s publicness is far from upset forever. A further threat to the cultural life, and generate tax revenue and great, and in the future it would be even incidental and should be reason for existing neighborhood grain is the huge city income. Once public land is sold, it is more valued. Clive Doucet’s suggestion pause. Public land trusts must be tended retail component that will undoubtedly gone forever, and with it, the opportunity to develop Lansdowne as a park is sane in a fundamentally different way than overshadow Bank Street’s storefront to make truly civic places. and informed. commercial sites available for developer businesses. Mis-locating the project will Well, Ottawans and Canadians, what While there is still time, Ottawa speculation. They are and remain exempt do great disservice to the Glebe and Old do you think? Is Councillor Doucet’s residents, and Glebe and Old Ottawa from the imperative of monetary viability Ottawa South, well balanced and well suggestion of a park really so silly? A South residents in particular, really should measured in dollars alone. They exist on functioning neighborhoods just as they solid argument can be made that our rally behind this proposal. Please join in an a different plane. Public lands are vested are, but it also misses an opportunity cities’ liveability depends on them. At open public discussion about the planning with our civic identity, collective dreams for other neighborhoods: the sports, a time when Ottawa is growing, and its of our public land on Monday October 5th and aspirations. Their fate must be the entertainment and mercantile center could neighborhoods (including the Glebe from 7 to 9 pm, in the Champlain Room topic of thoughtful and unhurried public bring a welcome burst of life and activity and Old Ottawa South) densifying, of , 110 Laurier Avenue debate. The most informed voices on to a part of the metropolitan region that Ottawa’s public spaces and parks take West, as part of Architecture Week events. urban issues should be consulted; the most currently lacks civic assets and pedestrian- on greater importance. Every responsible For more information check out the ORSA talented architects, designers and planners friendly spaces. There must be a site, one municipality knows that parks are the website (http://www.orsa.ca/). You can should be involved in their shaping. better able to handle the project’s spatial counterpart to buildings and streets in the also sign the online “Lansdowne Needs All parts of those lands should remain requirements, in a less densely built and urban density equation. Urban growth You” petition at http://www.clivedoucet. open and accessible. To push through a more commodious part of Ottawa. A must be paired with spaces for relief and com/. profit-driven, developer-initiated idea site might be found, for example, in the respite - not coat-pocket green patches without testing or comparison with other vicinity of South Keys, Hunt Club, Vanier, nor green embankments – but real green Area Church Service Times

Sunnyside Wesleyan Chuch 10 am – Eucharist or Morning Prayer in 58 Grosvenor Avenue (at Sunnyside) Chapel Sunday Worship Service at 9am & St Margaret Mary’s Parish 11am (10am only June 14 – Aug 30) 7 Fairbairn (corner of Sunnyside) Children’s program offered during both Sunday Liturgies : 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 worship services. a.m. Christian Meditation: Mondays at 7:30 Trinity Anglican Church p.m. 1230 Bank Street (at Cameron Avenue) Evening Prayer: Tuesday at 7 p.m. Sunday Services 9.30 am -- sung eucharist (summer schedule June 14 to August 30) Southminster United Church Regular 8.30 eucharist , and 10 am 15 Aylmer Avenue sung eucharist with church school 10:30 a.m.: Worship and Sunday School and nursery, resume Sundays, starting - September through June September 6) Thursdays OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 11

An open letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty, September 13, 2009 John E. Martin, The cost of the new stadium compared at www.vitallyottawa.ca.) over. Founder/Fondateur to the massive restructuring required of In addition to rapid transit no major This is the whole reason for RFP or Vitally Ottawa - Absolument Ottawa the existing becomes even less expensive parking is required since the Tunney’s mandatory open competitive bidding Public Interest Advocacy when you factor in the parking since the Pasture Federal Area with thousands of processes that developers will happily - l’Avancement de l’Intérêt Public new stadium at the Bayview/LeBreton parking spots is available (presumably for pay substantial fees to participate in. [email protected] or/ou area has ready access to close to 4,000 a small parking fee that they would likely This is not about waiting, we can have [email protected] empty parking spots at the Federal be more than happy to receive) and empty our tender submissions in by December www.vitallyottawa.ca or/ou www.vo-ao. Tunney’s Pasture which is empty every every time there would be a game and 31, 2009 with judging to take place during ca time of a game and is one short Rapid located one Rapid Transit stop away. the months of January and February by a Transit ride away. This will also invite the audience from select committee of experts, community Dear Premier McGuinty, The local neighbourhoods of Gatineau who would be able to simply leaders, and all levels of government with wish to bring your attention to the Hintonburg and Dalhousie will not be hop over one of two bridges and have results handed to the City. matter of the Sole Sourcing of several disturbed due to ease of access by rapid easy park and ride access and will help the This will get us the desired results; best I hundred million dollars of taxpayer transit N/S, E/W and the supporting success of any development there. value for taxpayer money. money here in the City of Ottawa with shuttle service that will remain off local It is also transit-oriented development respect to the current city administration streets by using the on the and adjacent to the proposed Federal All the best, and major Civic Development. south end of the stadium and the Parkway Cultural Centre (Possibly the new John E. Martin It is important to realize that we have from the north. Science Museum) as outlined in found no legal basis for the City Director The current City backed suggestion the NCC Master Plan. (See Federal All following links above may be found at and Supply Manager to have authorized of achieving commercial density in an Land Use at www.vitallyottawa.ca). www.vitallyottawa.ca the current Sole Source Negotiation with Historic Park adjacent to a UNSECO Transit Oriented Development is 20 point proposed Request for Proposal OSEG under the City of Ottawa World Heritage site is ill conceived part of the City of Ottawa Master easily modified to incorporate Federal/ Procurement Procedure By-Law #50. particularly when so much available Plan in particular for new large civic NCC objectives You may appreciate the danger of the commercial development space is structures and facilities and also known NCC Development Area/Federal Land current situation that will place the City available on a Transit Hub at the proposed internationally as TOD and the model Use in another litigable position as well as site for the new stadium in the Bayview/ by which urban planners are designing Sample illustrations/photos attracting more unwanted and unflattering LeBreton Flats area. efficient and effective cities the world Sample brochure national and international attention. Site cleanup at Bayview Rail Yards Although The Municipal Act is a in the LeBreton Area is within one year Provincial Responsibility and cities decide as confirmed by the Ministry of the how best to interpret that Act, a matter of Environment. This is corroborated by Sole Sourcing several hundred million the experience just down the road in dollars goes contrary to your publicly Montreal. declared directive of open, transparent The McGill University Health Centre and competitive bidding practices that is was developed on the Westmount/ in addition to being contrary tot he City of Vendome Rail Yards. Ottawa’s own directives. The site in Montreal was three times A suggestion for the proper and the size as the Bayview site and cleaned responsible way to proceed to avoid messy up in 15 months. litigious entanglements is simply for the A site 3 times the size cost $39 million City to apologize to the OSEG and SSE for a complete soil remediation and was groups, and invite them to resubmit as completed in 15 months. We can, as part of the mandatory RFP or Request confirmed by our own Ministry of the For Proposal, that is required under the Environment, do our cleanup within a existing By-Laws, and that can go out as one-year timeline with anticipated costs early as October 1, 2009 as outlined in the of $15 Million to $20 Million dollars. Ministerial Briefing below. The development area is over 40 acres A portion of the current plan put forth at the Bayview/Somerset Development under the sole source negotiations has Area and has been pre approved by the City agreeing to the displacement of the City of Ottawa Council in 2005 for 250,000 visitors to the Trade Shows at mixed Commercial, Residential, Retail Lansdowne Park and replacing those and Civic development. visitors with 1100 parking spots at a cost Developers will do extremely of between $35,000.00 to $45,000.00 per well while at the same time being spot of underground parking in a granite environmentally sensitive and environment close to the water table. This accommodating community needs, Civic equates to a direct onetime cost of between development and affordable housing $38 Million to $50 million dollars plus requirements. the estimated annual loss of more than Developers would be highly $10 million dollars of economic stimulus interested in the adjoining development to the area. opportunities at the adjacent LeBreton It is also known that new stadium Flats and the mixed Private/Federal lands construction at a different location is on the far shore nearby, all of which are 70% less expensive than old stadium centered by the Rapid Transit Exchange renovation. for the City of Ottawa and linked across It becomes even less expensive when the to Gatineau via an you calculate in Infrastructure support existing rail bridge over Lemieux Island that new site construction is eligible for, that will be rejuvenated. but for which current sole source plans at The Bayview Site adjacent to Lansdowne are not. LeBreton Flats is the number 1 site There are also a variety of private by the City’s own study for stadium sector financial supports that will become location. available reducing government costs once (Please see CRG Study for the City lucrative offsite densities become available. of Ottawa 2008, Findings page 10 seen Page 12 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

Squirrel Chatter From Small To Big And Back To Small ichaël was brought up being and without concern for waste or ethics Ottawa South ? Well, understanding taught a lot about nature and or other “byproducts” of our passage. No how we fit in the world, and how things Mcamped often in the rockies wonder there’s a plastic island the size around us are related gives a context to and western national parks. “It was of Texas in the pacific; you may find a base decisions on. We’d like to invite during those times with my parents in TED talk on the topic here http://bit. you to help us develop a list, here is one the nature that I first learnt to be one ly/11qgWi . idea thread to start off responsible, and eventually lower cost, with nature, to appreciate and respect Another memory we have from sources that generate electricity from it.” Tania grew up in the countryside growing up is watching David Suzuki Traffic: wind, water, sun, waste, tidal forces, … and the outdoors is second nature to her. with great enthusiasm, we’re sure • Imagine a useful (fast) and all of these are already deployed around Now, together, we enjoy hiking in the you have seen him many times also. comfortable clean public transit system, the world and some in Canada. Electrical woods and canoeing together. At home, Recently, he went to Europe with his and a city infrastructure biased to infrastructure also enables us to use we enjoy walking through Old Ottawa daughter and looked into what they are encouraging use of this system. We like new technology as it becomes available South and surrounding areas with the doing about being green. You can find a a network of electric trains/ subways/ and economically viable: just switch trees, rivers, canal, or just popping out to preview here http://bit.ly/1EamTa or see street cars, running very often. Why not out the power source but keep all the Gatineau for some fresh air. the show in four parts here http://bit.ly/ convert some main roads into routes for infrastructure. As we fast forward in time, we dwugy . Suzuki comments that being these. This approach would reduce now look down at cities during flights green is about placing values on what’s • Walking, biking and in-line costs (ie. taxes), and more importantly and notice how flat our civilization really important to us as humans: living skating: Imagine roads and paths that improves our quality of life. We are given is. Once off the ground, tall buildings healthy happy lives. As it turns out, being are useful for leisure but also practical, one gift when we are born: time. It’s up suddenly look flat. Cars look like ants green doesn’t cost more, in fact it creates such as for going to work, maintained to us to decide how we want to spend it: as the plane engines work hard to lift us jobs, makes us and our environment year long. Today Sunday, Tania said living healthy full lives, or wasting it on slightly upwards. This perspective is in healthier, is convenient (yes, convenient “imagine if Colonel By drive was like items like driving our cars, being less fact correct: Our mighty civilization is !), and can even be cheaper (especially today reserved for bicycles but instead healthy than we could be, and in other a very thin shell. The thin layer of air if you calculate the true cost of items, for 7 days a week. Wouldn’t it be great, ways our quality of life is reduced. that supports life on earth is very small for example without the government fast and safe to go to work on that. I’d do And as Suzuki says, by basing our and we are tiny compared to that. Yet subsidies that favour big industry in it all the time.” decisions on proper values such as these, we humans have taken ownership of “food”, petrol/nuclear energy, and so • Park-and-drive for suburbs (plus we don’t have to pay more to achieve anything we can harness, using earth’s forth). local busses) with express trains to the proper goals. Achieving the goals resources including animals, the ground, Now you ask, how does being green downtown. Imagine them zipping into listed above are not unrealistic, but they the water, and we use these with no limit and respecting the earth relate to Old and out of the city core quietly, with do require deciding to do better than low pollution, and quickly. Wouldn’t the current ways. These changes can be our suburban neighbours like to brought into our lives incrementally and have some more spare time instead with little economic risk. Setting such of driving or using slow public changes in motion today will not only transportation ! improve our lifestyles, but ensure that • Since suburbs would use an the following generations enjoy a better ‘efficient’ public transportation (to lifestyle. their own benefit), this would remove We wanted to finish this column the traffic congestion problem for with a second photo, namely of Old them and for us and for downtown. Ottawa South. Who needs to drive when you can get Notice the potential richness in our there quickly and walk. environment: 2 waterways, Brewer Park, • Less time wasted driving and the bike path park across the river, and parking our cars means more time unseen on the photo, Carleton and Dow’s at home with our families, relaxing, Lake. Big ugly patches appear to be having fun and being less stressed by Bronson and a big tar and cement patch overloaded schedules. called Landsdown. Bank Street seems • So we imagined changing to a like a small street and likely should be healthier walk/ bike/ comfortable & made to be that. Imagine if Bronson had clean & convenient public transport, trains in the middle and 1 lane for cars what did this do for us : (California and other places have that • Less car related accidents sort of street), and imagine if Landsdown • Less noise was a nice big park which people can • Less time wasted driving and enjoy every day ( see Clive’s proposals in traffic jams http://www.clivedoucet.com/ ). We’d • Less pollution making the air have efficient transportation and a green healthier space people can enjoy. • Public transportation making Blending human values with nature better use of city space and reducing and environmental responsibility is what energy consumption compared to we see as the sort of city life we can be personal cars (even electric) proud of, and that the next generation • Healthier lifestyle and air mean can enjoy as legacy. We are convinced less sickness, including for example this can be done with greater economic asthma, which means less need for efficiency compared to the current big hospitals and less suffering people • More exercise makes us healthier and happier Cont’d Page 14 • Powering travel from more OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 13

THE BIG PICTURE A Bumper Crop Of Canadian Cinema At This Year’s Toronto International Film Festival

By Michael Dobbin Canada’s first queen) was seemingly an The much anticipated student cameos by no less than music icons unlikely second feature for the director comedy set in Anglophone Montreal, Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop. s September saw many return best known for the internationally directed by Jacob Tierney called The And this is just the tip of the to class and their places of successful C.R.A.Z.Y. Trotsky has been well received. The iceberg. Including more features by Abusiness, similarly the arrival The long-awaited and disaster film stars Ottawa’s own Jay Baruchel, newly discovered Canadian directors, of the Toronto International Film plagued production The Imaginarium as well as Colm Feore, Saul Rubinek, documentarians and short filmmakers, Festival saw the film industry fix their of Dr. Parnassus, directed by Terry and another up-and-coming Ottawa Canadian film saw dozens of titles eyes on the year ahead. With summer Gilliam (an alumnus of Monty Python) actor Dan Beirne. added at this year’s festival, promising box office numbers now tallied, all eyes was finally screened for Canadian Defendor, stars Woody Harrelson as a bumper crop of audience winners for turned to Toronto where the next crop audiences. A fantastical tale about a a delusional man who is convinced he’s the year to come. of films jostled for position in cinemas travelling theatre company, the film, a superhero, playing opposite Sandra Provided that Canadian films for the coming months. which is a Canadian co-production stars Oh and Kat Dennings was directed by can compete to be seen and heard by Now the world’s second largest Christopher Plummer, Jude Law, Colin first-timer Peter Stebbings. audiences through the white-noise of film festival (after Cannes), over ten Farrell, Johnny Depp and the late Heath Other titles to watch include Xavier vacant Hollywood fare, Canadians days of galas, screenings and a flurry Ledger in his last performance. Dolan’s J’ai Tué Ma Mère, Brigitte will be thrilled and entertained by of wheeling-and-dealing, this year’s Ivan Reitman and Atom Egoyan’s Berman’s Hefner: Playboy, Activist and home-grown Canadian cinema and co festival unspooled a whopping 335 films Chloe is a film about trust in a troubled Rebel, Ruba Nadda’s Cairo Time with productions. For more information and from 64 countries. Most importantly marriage stars Julianne Moore, Liam Patricia Clarkson, and Rob Stefaniuk’s access to online trailers, visit www.tiff. for Canadians, festival audiences have Neeson and Amanda Seyfried, and is an musical vampire romp Suck, starring net now caught a glimpse of some of the English language remake of the 2003 Malcolm McDowell, Dave Foley and Canadian titles to come. French film Nathalie. Unveiling at the festival this year Cooking with Stella stars Don was Jean-Marc Vallée’s Young Victoria. McKellar, Seema Biswas and Maury The star-studded biopic starring Emily Chaykin and is directed by Dilip Mehta Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, and is a story about a long serving cook Miranda Richardson and Jim Broadbent at the Canadian High Commission in about the 19th century monarch, (and Delhi.

Michael Dobbin’s Newest Film

he Nation’s Capital will soon New York. His first French language film be transformed into the set of Maison Jolie Maison is financed with a Ta twisted dark-comedy movie grant from Le Conseil des Arts et Lettres entitled Eddie. The satirical story is du Québec and is slated for production in about a once- famous painter who the fall of 2009. rediscovers inspiration after he befriends Michael’s past work as a producer a sleepwalking cannibal. Telefilm includes Toni Harman’s debut horror Canada recently backed the project to entitled The Devil’s Curse (aka Credo), be directed by Boris Rodriguez (Havana (currently available through Lionsgate Kids, Beso Nocturno) and produced by and iTunes), as well as Matt West’s Ottawa native Michael A. Dobbin (The award-winning family comedy Devil’s Curse, The Funeral…Again!). The Funeral… Again! He is currently The stars of the film will be producing David Chernushenko’s announced in the coming weeks, and the anticipated documentary, Powerful: production intends on using locations Energy for Everyone. His international in and around Ottawa-Gatineau as well experience has seen him working as local crew and talent. “The National with writers, directors and producers Capital is the ideal setting for this movie. from across Canada, the European Union I’m really looking forward to working and around the world. Michael was here” says Boris. mentored by BAFTA-winning producer Director Boris Rodriguez is a of East is East, Leslee Udwin. He’s a graduate of Concordia and the Canadian multi award winning short-film director Film Centre. His past work includes the in his own right and is an alumnus of the award-winning documentary Havana film programme of Ryerson. In October Kids about Youth in Havana in 1996. 2006, Michael founded the ‘Just Watch Boris’ films Beso Nocturno (Night Me!’ Canadian Film Festival in Kiss) and Perfect both had premieres at London, England and as a story editor, the Toronto International Film Festival script doctor and lecturer is in steady (TIFF) and Beso Nocturno was selected demand on both sides of the Atlantic. for a retrospective at the M.O.M.A. in Page 14 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

The Left Bank of the Rideau Colin Morton

olin Morton’s 2008 book, The writing. Even so, when I read the final managed from Whitehall. Canada’s would like to happen. In his brief Local Cluster, is short-listed for manuscript on a plane while flying over claim to the North-West Territories (now appearance, MacDonald upbraids Cboth the Ottawa Book Award and Saskatchewan, I had tears in my eyes. Saskatchewan and Alberta) had still to Walsh: “Get to the point, man. Don’t tell the Lampman-Scott poetry award. By I’m not a person who tears up easily. be tested. The forty-ninth parallel had me of their humanity. I don’t care a dram the time this issue of OSCAR arrives, we For me, there’s no such thing as a three- been marked on maps and by a string of for Sitting Bull. His people are nothing should know whether it won both, or one, hanky movie – two guffaws are more stone cairns on the ground, but it was an but an expense and embarrassment or neither. Since both Colin and I have like it. But the story, the form, and the open question whether that border would to me. What galls is when some little sat on juries, we know that there is an skill of this book – a mature poet writing hold. police inspector spouts off to the element of chance involved in deciding about a significant moment in Canadian Sitting Bull’s people were greeted press on Dominion policy and talks to winners – juries must reach a consensus, history, and channelling the voices of its on their arrival by the entire Canadian Yankee officials without going through and sometimes the book that is second many actors – did it for me. presence in the region: a few traders, channels.” on everyone’s list is the one that wins. The Hundred Cuts tells the story fewer than a hundred members of the After quietly kicking over the However, if The Local Cluster wins of Canada’s first big refugee crisis, newly-formed North-West Mounted spittoon in MacDonald’s office, Walsh either or both prizes, we’ll know it’s when 5,000 Lakota people under the Police, and the Metis scouts and reflects because of the book’s outstanding merit. leadership of Sitting Bull arrived at interpreters who worked for them. For Colin’s 2009 book, The Hundred Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan with the Major James Walsh of Fort Walsh in . . . all my heroes died in battle. Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major, made U.S. Cavalry in pursuit. It was 1877, and Wood Mountain, it was the challenge of I am sure my country would a brief appearance at the reading for a year earlier the Lakota had defeated the a lifetime. love me better Lampman-Scott finalists on September U.S. Seventh Cavalry under Custer at the The cover photo of The Hundred if I did the same. 10, and should be in local bookstores battle of the Little Big Horn (also known Cuts shows Sitting Bull’s war bonnet, now. Publisher John Buschek brought as Custer’s Last Stand). News of the which he presented to Major Walsh in But Wolfe died winning an the first copy from the printer to give the defeat and the deaths of all its soldiers 1880 when he returned to the United empire, local poetry audience a taste of things to reached Americans just in time for their States. The gift is the measure of the Brock and Nelson, saving their come. centennial celebrations on July 4, 1876. respect that developed between the two country. I had the privilege of a ring-side It was the September 11 of the men. My thankless task – not to win seat on the creation of The Hundred nineteenth century, and Sitting Bull was Colin Morton has searched the a war Cuts, from a casual conversation about as popular in the U.S. as Osama bin archives and histories to find the words of but at any cost to smother one. a library book we both read (Across Laden is now. When the Lakota arrived people who witnessed this relationship: the Medicine Line, by Frank Turner) in Saskatchewan, Canada was ten years Sitting Bull’s mother Her-Holy-Door One of the first in a long line of through a concept to research to the old, and its foreign policy was still and his wife Seen-by-the-Nation; the Canadian peacekeepers, Walsh died at interpreter Louis Léveillé, and artist, his home in Brockville. Sitting Bull Henri Julien; bugle boy, Fred Bagley, returned to the U.S., to prison and a tour and junior constable, Billy Walsh. with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. He was murdered in 1890, shortly before Spotted Eagle Speaks the massacre at Wounded Knee. In a postscript, Colin Morton writes of You know how a pelican visiting Sitting Bull’s grave at Standing having snared its fish Rock in North Dakota, “behind Taco plays it and tosses it John’s”, where the chief might or might till scales and all it slides down not be buried. the throat. You come to the end of this book with a sense of regret – for an opportunity This is how the Long Knives missed, for a people humbled, and play my people’s hopes and because you’re at the end of the book. soon America will swallow us whole Author Note: Mary Lee Bragg is then settle down to sleep while married to Colin Morton, but thinks she we digest. is still qualified to write about his work.

Spotted Eagle’s prediction is precisely what Sir John A. MacDonald

Squirrel Talk ... Cont’d From Page 12 business driven plans. In the last squirrel talk we travelled back in time to earlier days and observed how some of the values and some aspects of the world created by our parents and grandparents were good. This time we went from observing the earth we live in and seeing how it can impact our local decisions that affect our future. We ended up concluding that what matters the most are people (our families and friends and even strangers) and the surrounding ecology including animals. After all these are all related and we all exist together. Treating all of these with respect leads to better decisions which lead to a better quality of life. We love to hear your ideas, comments, or topics you’d like in future Squirrel Talk. BTW, have you seen any squirrels having little parties outdoor? Finally summer’s sun is here and it’s time to enjoy the fall. Please write us at [email protected] Tania and Michaël OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 15

OTLBC’s Lawn Bowling Tradition to End with 2009 Season

By Camille Lewis this activity. We considered the Club’s given our society’s aging population, revenues of an even smaller percentage. financial sustainability and its need to people no longer gravitate towards lawn Clearly, there is a strong emotional t was Ron Stein’s duty as President carry out necessary capital improvements bowling as they once did. Other activities argument to maintain lawn bowling at to inform the affected members as on an ongoing basis as well as the need to such as golf seem to be eclipsing it… the Club given its long history here as put soon as possible and thus, on the keep the Club competitive in the Ottawa The Board, for each of the past three forward eloquently by John Jarrett at last afternoon of August 26th, 2009, a marketplace. Unfortunately, all of these years has reviewed the Club’s ability to night’s meeting. …In conclusion, this has combinationI of letters and emails were goals are compromised by the losses offer lawn bowling for the subsequent been a very tough decision for the Board posted to the Ottawa Tennis & Lawn incurred annually by lawn bowling. season. …Following the results of the and I think each and every Board member Bowling Club’s current lawn bowling As you know, our lawn bowling past several seasons, we had to conclude was challenged by his or her sense of members... membership has dropped dramatically that maintaining lawn bowling in 2010 obligation to do what was best for the over the years to the point where this year was no longer in the best interests of Club. Under the circumstances, I believe It is my duty to inform you that the there are just 34 members. Ten years the Club. We concluded in fact that it that it was the right decision. Board of Directors decided yesterday ago we had almost 100 lawn bowlers would be irresponsible to do so not only evening not to offer lawn bowling which was already cause for some for the reasons stated above, but also in Yours sincerely, memberships at the OTLBC in 2010. concern and which initiated the first of light of the fact that we are now doing an Ron Stein Please know that this decision a series of discussions spanning several increasing amount of capital fundraising Board President has been taken only after lengthy and Boards about the sustainability of lawn (by necessity), and explaining to a serious consideration on the part of bowling. However, the recent lows for potential donor why we are carrying a Lawn Bowling in Ottawa Board members. We realize that lawn lawn bowling membership revenue with losing sport year after year that occupies Historical OTLBC documents bowling has been part of the Club for a no reliable indication of a turnaround 25% of our land is not feasible. In indicate that, in May 1935, the district very long time, but the Board’s primary have created an undue, and with respect, addition, lawn bowling uses a highly was home to seven lawn bowling clubs, responsibility is to consider the best unrealistic strain on the Club. disproportionate share of the energy and including ‘Ottawa, Vittoria, Highland interests of the Club as a whole. In This diminishment of interest in lawn time of volunteers and staff alike given so doing, we concluded that the Club bowling is not exclusive to our Club and that bowlers constitute roughly 3% of can no longer afford to lose money on for reasons which appear to defy logic, our total membership base and generate Cont’d Page 41 Sad Ending to a Proud History By Heather Jarrett

inancial difficulties imposed by the needs of the tennis members atthe Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club (OTLBC) on Cameron Avenue in FOld Ottawa South mean the 2009 season will be the death knell of lawn bowling at the Club. It is one of the earliest lawn bowling clubs in Canada, dating to 1881, and an integral part of the Club since 1905; however, the straitened circumstances the OTLBC is facing are conspiring to write the final chapter of the oldest lawn bowling group in the City of Ottawa. Recent upgrades to half the tennis courts and the desire to upgrade the remainder are the main reason for the financial problems. Although showing a modest increase this year, lawn bowling membership at the Club has fluctuated ever since its merger with the tennis component over a century ago. It is interesting to note that, for over 40 years of Club history, lawn bowling membership was healthier than that of the tennis component and bowlers’ annual fees carried the Club through those lean years. As recently as the 1980s, lawn bowlers were being asked to help shoulder the costs of developing a more expansive tennis operation. After several years of abortive attempts by the Club’s management to finance better tennis facilities by approaching developers to purchase the bowling greens and the resulting rumors circulating about the potential demise of lawn bowling, bowling membership has dropped drastically as bowlers migrated to other clubs in Ottawa, drawn by lower fees and more supportive management at those clubs. Now, a recent OTLBC Board decision to eliminate the Lawn Bowling part of the Club and to pursue the sale of the lawn bowling greens to the City of Ottawa will be the coup de grace for the bowling membership. The sale, if consummated, would bring capital for the improvement of tennis facilities at the total expense of lawn bowling. This would allow loans that financed tennis court improvements over the past several years to be paid off. These loans have figured prominently in the shaky financial situation of the Club. Naturally, after all the decades of work in maintaining the greens and supporting the overall Club, lawn bowlers are unhappy about becoming sacrificial financial goats through the proposed sale, but their declining numbers leave them poorly positioned to influence the decision. Not only is their substantial historic contribution to the Club being ignored, the lawn bowling members who are also shareholders are seeing their shares rendered valueless, with no compensation forthcoming or planned by the Board of the Club. The future may show that the OTLBC will regret the loss of the lawn bowling faction. Demographics indicate a decline in the age group that has been the major client base for tennis, with a corresponding increase in the typical prospective lawn bowling age group. Other lawn bowling clubs in the City will be well positioned to benefit as the “baby boom” moves off the courts and onto the greens. Page 16 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

AFTER THOUGHTS

Blowing Bubbles from Richard Ostrofsky the time. the same in their turn. I see these bubbles core of science is just critical thought of Second Thoughts Bookstore I believe in an evolving, self- sometimes fighting and puncturing each – a willingness to reject certainty as (now closed) organizing universe, eco-system and other, but returning eventually, in any such, to live in permanent suspicion of www.secthoughts.com society, not a designed and ordained case, to the same busy emptiness from one’s own beliefs. This attitude takes [email protected] one. For better and worse, good and which they came. Beneath this froth, habituation and practice, while Carol evil, things are what they became sustaining and being sustained by it, I (like so many others) has been too busy bout six months ago, at a hostel by themselves – not what any ‘god’ see a flux of suggestions – much like doing other stuff. See my OSCAR piece in Mexico City, responding wanted them to be. I see Life (Life in hypnotic suggestions – shaping those of a few months ago on life and meta- to a comment I had made in general) as a kind of infection that bubbles and prodding them every which life. A What can be relished in this post- conversation about Mexico’s ‘quiet some planets catch. I see each human way. I see our social relationships revolution’ toward a post-Catholic existence (my own, for example) as just and interactions as a bandying and modern condition is that the very absence society, comparable to the one in Quebec one of innumerable participants in this processing of suggestions, back and of ready-made myths and values both about 40 years ago, my interlocutor global infestation – a briefly existing forth, and every which way, sometimes challenges and leaves me free to create asked about my own religious beliefs. bubble of feelings and thoughts and reinforcing one another, sometimes my own. On this level, the traditional There was no hostility in his question, consciousness, changing over the course coming into conflict – but, above all, religions have some interesting and but it was a kind of friendly dare. W.C. of its life cycle and telling stories as it building the patterns that we live in, and useful suggestions to offer – provided Fields once said, “Every man has to does so. I see these bubbles interacting live by: the patterns that we become and they are understood as suggestions only, believe in something. I believe I’ll have – trying to grow in collaboration, and are. and not as Revealed Truths. Of the great another drink.” The dare was to show at each other’s expense, and changing Summarized in a single paragraph, religious thinkers, Siddhartha Gautama whether an atheist could do any better their stories to support their current this is the world-view of modern (known as the Buddha, the enlightened than Fields’ sardonic wit. With half a patterns of alliances and rivalries. I see science: the world-view that has one) probably came closest to the year to think it over, and days of leisure these bubbles becoming attracted to one emerged in about 400 years of empirical modern viewpoint as I’ve just described to write, I can probably offer something another, giving rise to and sponsoring and critical thought, if we take Galileo’s it, when he said that “All beings are more articulate than what I answered at the growth of new bubbles that will do work as the marker. It’s the world-view, fundamentally without self.” He was more or less, and as best I can pointing to a creative emptiness – more put it, of any modern man or less as I’ve just described it – at the or woman who has his head core of life. His point, as I understand more or less around where it, was that people are themselves the thought has gone in the last cause of their own sufferings and their few hundred years, and is own joys too, through the selves we not clinging nostalgically to invent for ourselves. He recommended one of the traditional world- a certain detachment from the ‘real views. world’ of man-made delusions. I would Carol, my former recommend getting involved in the partner, found this a totally parts that authentically attract you, bleak philosophy of life; and while doing your best to ignore the crap though I think I understand – of which there is entirely too much. why she and many others Anyhow, the core of my ‘religious think so, on the contrary, I belief’ is this vision of creative emptiness find it liberating – though – with all the room in the world for my a tremendous challenge, own interests, projects and plans. I find possibly an insuperable myself in good company, even with the one, to human wisdom and Buddhist affinity ignored (as I mostly maturity. As I see it, the do). In the Western world, Leibniz as problem is this: Comparative a young man wrote that “Bubbles are anthropology and the the seed of everything,” and later, in ecoDarwinian paradigm his mature philosophy, described a of self-organizing systems cosmos of bubble-like monads. At the between them have wrecked end of The Tempest, Shakespeare gives the credibility of ALL the main character of his last play the revealed religions for anyone famous line: “We are such stuff as willing to follow modern dreams are made of, and our little life thought to its conclusions. is rounded by a sleep”; and then in We are no longer living the end, has Prospero acknowledge in world of myths – his whole existence as a work of art. anthropocentric stories – but Christianity itself, in one of its versions, in our best current guess can be read this way – taking Jesus as at value-free, empirically “Lord of the Dance” and its leader, as in grounded knowledge. This Sydney Carter’s hymn. is not to say that everything So yes . . . I believe I can do better that scientists now believe than just having “another drink.” is true. On the contrary, the OCT 2009 Page 17 www.freecycle.org Changing the world OSCAR Needs free & open to all Volunteers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year For Monthly Distribution in Old Ottawa South

Serious Cheese By Bert Plomer locked production location. The Canadian equivalent is Riopelle from hen Grace in the Kitchen the Isle au Gru in Quebec, where introduced a cheese the fromagerie is exposed to the St. Wcounter to their already Lawrence River. Because the cows overflowing store, owners Rob are eating grass exposed to salt-water Olafson and Bert Plomer knew it air, Riopelle has a saltier taste than wouldn’t be long before they ran out Brie de Meaux with all the rounded of room. Now, less than a year later, flavour of the classic brie. they have opened Serious Cheese, But these are just the classics. a shop just down the street to focus Serious Cheese has expanded their solely on the cheese counter. selection of exotic cheese, like the Serious Cheese is stocked floor Thai Curry Cheese that tastes just like to ceiling with cheese from all over an authentic yellow curry. Guiness the world – cow, sheep and goat’s Cheddar is an old favourite, and Grace in the Kitchen became croissants are baked in house every milk – in any size and colour you can now you can try the Porter Whiskey famous for stocking the sought-after day, and Rob likes to try his hand at imagine. Rob insists on tasting every Cheddar as well as Cheddar with Art-is-in Bread in the Old Ottawa new cookies, like his Oatmeal Ferrero cheese, and welcomes customers to Chocolate and Grand Marnier. These South neighbourhood, and don’t Rocher cookie. do the same so they can decide what cheeses are perfect for parties and worry, you can still find it there. But Rob and Bert have spent months flavours best suit their palette. serve well with a real glass of their Serious Cheese has welcomed another dreaming up new ways to bring Besides just sampling to get to liquor counterpart. local bakery, True Loaf on Gladstone cheese to Ottawa in a different way know the cheese, Serious Cheese also Goat cheese is another sought- Street who specialize in whole-grain so people can learn to love it just as has a cafe menu with two flavours after treat and Serious Cheese has a and flour-substitute bread like their much as they do. of homemade macaroni and cheese variety of options. Aside from the Kamut Baguette or a Raisin Chai It sounds cheesy but it’s actually – classic and a spicy Mariachi – as fresh goat cheese of Salt Spring Spice loaf perfect for toasting. Fresh very serious. well as grilled cheese, ham and turkey Islands, British Columbia, there is sandwiches. Rob and Bert use one- a variety of goat Goudas available year-old Perron Cheddar and Thunder straight from Holland, in flavours Oak Mild Gouda as the house cheeses. like wild garlic, nettle and garlic, There is also Creamy Tomato or and the brand new Goat Rosso, a Curried Chicken soup on the menu washed-rind goat cheese with a made by specially Village Kitchen for flavour that will last on your palette Serious Cheese. You can enjoy all the for days. delicious, homemade treats at a small Goat cheese is known as a cafe in the store, alongside a variety healthy choice, but many people of organic juices, flavoured water and don’t know that there are low-fat imported British soda or a coffee of and low-sodium cheese available. your choice. Cantenaar is a Dutch cow’s milk The variety of cheese for sale cheese low in fat and salt but still is almost overwhelming – Serious maintaining a rich, carmelly texture Cheese boasts a selection of local like many of the famous Gouda’s in and Canadian cheese as well as Holland. Thunder Oak Mild Gouda exclusive European imports. Neal’s is another healthy choice, and it Yard Dairy in London, England comes right from Thunder Bay, Ont. is a popular fromagerie at Serious where a Dutch family relocated and Cheese, responsible for the dry yet brought their famous Gouda recipe buttery classic Colston Basset Stilton, with them. the creamy yet powerful washed- And speaking of Gouda, Serious rind Stinking Bishop and three Irish Cheese has three other classic recipes, Ardrahan, Gubbeen and Blue gouda options including two extra- Crozier. old Beemsters and the limited edition Everyone knows Italians for Graskaas made with milk from cows their parmesan, so Serious Cheese grazing on the first grass of the year. stocks both a 24- and 36-month aged To serve the wide variety of parmesan straight from Italy. It weighs cheeses, Serious Cheese also offers an a tonne, but it flakes beautifully atop accommodating selection of utensils, pasta, pizza or salad adding a salty such as knives for any consistency of sharpness to any dish. cheese, cheese domes, and fondue and Many people consider brie a light, Raclette sets in various sizes. salty cheese but the original recipe There are also many kinds of from Normandy is a full-flavoured. cheese pleasers to serve alongside Unpasteurized cheese offers the your selection, like a Blood Orange full flavour of the terroire where the and Carmelized Onion compote, a cows feed, so Brie de Meaux bears variety of pates and terrines, and noticeable truffle undertones amidst six flavours of Gone Crackers from an earthy taste because of its land- Surrey, B.C. th Page 18 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR OCT 2009

OTTAWA SOUTH HISTORY PROJECT More Memories Of Sunnyside In The Thirties related by Bob Stoakes shop was located in the back lane, and neighbourhood, and then there was a gas pump at the corner there were the air raid unnyside Avenue near Bronson of Hopewell. Only the barbershop sirens that were tested was a world with few rules back remains. Delivery of bread and milk every morning at 8 a.m. Sin the nineteen thirties. It was was the norm then, with horse-drawn during the war. a wonderful place for children, where carts. Summertime saw vegetables By Hartwells Locks freedom with relative safety reigned. being hawked by farmers. “My mother there was a overflow Bob Stoakes knew it well. He grew up in would invite them in for tea...she was a stream to the river a house that has stood on Sunnyside near country girl, too.” (overflow now goes Seneca for more than a hundred years, Summer also meant swimming at back into the canal) that and he lives there still (after seeing a Bathing Island, just opposite the tennis looked like a mountain great deal of the world). courts. It was a city beach, where brook. “We’d walk along The house itself has not changed each spring a bridge of 2x4s was built there for picnics, and it greatly over the years. Shortly after to provide access, then dismantled at was always an adventure Bob’s father bought it in 1915, he added summer’s end. It’s still there, though because you never knew a kitchen and built a back shed. neither an island nor a beach today. when they would open the But the sturdy two-storey building Across the river was Cowan’s ice house overflow and transform has weathered well, with minor changes (Cowans had a general store at Bank and the stream into a raging to the interior layout. Cameron), with ice cut from the river. torrent !” This was very much an Anglican As a boy, Bob explored it all. The whole area across neighbourhood back in the thirties. Carlton University didn’t exist, but from Bronson was rather Trinity Church was a fixture, with a there was a road going along the canal wild and wonderful — general Sunday morning parade to to Hog’s Back and what is now Vincent officially outside the city church and Sunday School for children. Massy Park. Many people had summer limits, it was a “no man’s A few Irish Catholics made the trek to St. cottages there — completely unserviced land” replete with cow Margaret Mary’s, of course. — to which they could easily walk. pastures, squatters and Everything you really needed was Even the lockmaster didn’t have power; even a hermit. Gypsies The Mayfair theatre on Bank Street close to hand: Clothier’s general store it was simply the way things were. arrived each spring in big, black Packards (open from noon to midnight) was a and post office was on the corner (now The river would flood every spring, and set up tents in the field where the beacon for everyone. Especially in the occupied by Fida’s), complete with a and the water came right up to the end university is now. It was a wonderful winter, kids thronged to the Saturday memorable portrait of Queen Victoria of Sunnyside, covering the tennis courts area for picnics, fishing expeditions and afternoon serials and westerns. And on the wall. At the Sunnyside/Seneca up to Cameron. Kids would go walking explorations, with just the right element not only kids. Housewives could slip intersection, there was a butcher stop, in the water with their rubber boots, of the unknown. A few people lived up there in the afternoon to see Jeanette a shoemaker, a barbershop, a soda oblivious to the reality that it was an open there winter and summer, in makeshift MacDonald, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice fountain, pharmacy and de Prato’s sewer. For a while garbage was dumped quarters, relying on trees (and there were Chevalier ... supermarket. Pat Donovan’s car repair into the landfill on the other side of plenty) for fuel. Billings Bridge, though not far Bronson (complete with accompanying In winter snow was cleared, though away, was another world — a separate odour) and all of this could be under not the way it is now. Driving on hard- community. “I do remember wooden water. “We were all warned to stay away, packed snow made chains standard sidewalks there. In an early grade at especially in early spring when the water equipment. The streetcars had sweeper Hopewell, our teacher brought the class would ice over, but kids are kids.” brushes to clear the tracks, and a horse- to visit the functioning blacksmith shop at Another irresistible draw was drawn plow helped keep sidewalks Billings — As a small boy, I was suitably the White Horse trestle bridge for the accessible. Kids learned to ski at the impressed by the burly blacksmith and CP freight line: we would gather our Arboretum with those awful universal the open forge and bellows.” courage and walk across the trestle, bindings before they discovered Camp Bob lives today in the same house never knowing when a train would Fortune (which was accessible by CP on Sunnyside (see above) to which he come. It was a long way down, looking rail to Old Chelsea). returned after that school trip so many at that white water below ... “Organized sports were few, years ago, but the world he sees from his Water often beckoned. The sound especially during the Depression, and I porch is more than a little changed. of a steam whistle from the Loretta and was fortunate that my parents were very Agnes P. tugboats on the canal could much do-it-yourselfers. I developed Contact the Ottawa South always bring out kids to see boats and a interest in recreational sports early, History Project at HistoryProject@ barges passing under the bridges as they inspired in part by my father, who would OldOttawaSouth.ca or visit us carried coal, lumber and other supplies bike to Manotick on Sunday mornings online at www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/ to industry along the canal. on his one-speed CCM. Because there HistoryProject. We would like to thank There were other whistles as well: were few cars, biking was a joy, although Maura Giuliani for her help in preparing Eddy’s mill blew a five o’clock whistle you soon learned a healthy respect for this and another recent profile of long that was recognized by everyone in the streetcar tracks!” time residents of Old Ottawa South.

Ottawa Quakers To Hold Conversations With Public Figures

ttawa Quakers announce a series of conversations Wed Oct 21 with Ajahn Viradhammo, a Buddhist with public figures on where they find spiritual monk in the Thai forest tradition. Canadian born Ajahn Osupport for their daily lives, for their work or their Viradhammo has practiced in Thailand, England and New play. The background for such discussions arises from Zealand where he built a teaching monastery. Currently the traditional Quaker stance on simplicity of living, and he heads a new centre in Arnprior the Quaker commitment to the peace testimony which Wed Oct 28 is still being arranged denies all war. We invite the public to join with us at the Wed Nov 4 with Caroline Balderson Parry, a birthright Meeting House, 91A Fourth Avenue (just east of Bank Quaker from Pennsylvania, author, musician and Street), 7 pm, on the following dates facilitator who is now working with the Unitarian Church Wed Oct 14 with Cree Elder Gordon Williams, MA in Montreal coordinating their children’s programs. from McGill in divinity. These conversations will involve considerable sharing Williams has worked in federal, provincial and both ways with all who come, that we may learn from aboriginal governments for the last 25 years each other’s life stories. OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 19

MORE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Mr. Mike Turner at 481 increase property values anywhere in place to prevent the clearing of forests 613-580-2424 ext. 18733) Sunnyside, between nine and 30 per cent. in suburban areas before development 2..You are also encouraged to • Trees help improve our water occurred, or to regulate the cutting of consider making a carbon-offset that t was with great shock and dismay quality, as they filter surface water and large, distinctive trees that stood out in will compensate the environment for that many of us learned of the prevent erosion. Ottawa’s communities. Many residents the removal of your tree. You can read destruction of the lovely old (from City of Ottawa’s “Trees make look to the City to preserve Ottawa’s all the information you need about this I the city a great place to live” website: tree coverage and many have asked the on the David Suzuki website (www. distinctive tree on your property. We realize that you likely feel http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/public_ City to regulate tree cutting. The by-law davidsuzuki.org) and this is a link to just you had full rights to take down a tree consult/urban_tree_conservation/ will help the City conserve trees in the one of the organizations they recommend on your own private property. We introduction_en.html urban area, three quarters of which are that provide an online system to make an hope however that you can appreciate It further saddens us that you on private property. offset for carbon-producing behaviours: that most of us have chosen to live brought down this tree, which has stood We are sorry about the loss of the http://planetair.ca/modules/ in Old Ottawa South because we in Old Ottawa South longer than most tree for a number of reasons, including: smartoffset/offset.php?formid=home value the strong sense of community, of the houses in the area, just before • The sound protection it offered The website allows you to make a mutual respect and green space that the City’s impending Distinctive Tree from the traffic noise of Sunnyside Ave. ‘gift offset’ in any amount you choose. characterizes this neighbourhood. protection by-law comes into force • The shade it provided for our From the profit you seek to make from st Many of us specifically chose to live in on September 1 , 2009. This by-law homes and gardens either selling or developing your land, a neighbourhood where features such will require landowners to apply for a • The cardinals which have often please consider putting at least $500 as older trees was a major attraction. permit to remove any ‘distinctive tree’ sat and sung in that tree towards the good of the neighbourhood And although you are likely concerned wider than 50 cms in diameter. Your tree • The lovely sight of its branches of which you are a member. This amount with your ability to sell or develop your must have been at least 1.25 metres in and leaves is the lowest fine you would have been lot, and all the environmental reasons diameter at the base, judging from the • The natural environment being, expected to pay had you cut down your for tree preservation aside, it is well- remaining stump. Chances are the City yet again, compromised for profit and tree without a permit after September st documented that the presence of older would not have approved your permit personal gain 1 . (The upper range for these fines is trees adds value to property and to a for environmental reasons, and also In homage to this old oak, we $100,000.) community. given the requirement of 7 days public respectfully submit this request for you We urge you to please do your part For example: notice, we your neighbours surely would to consider: to help keep Old Ottawa South, the City • Trees in Ottawa’s urban core store have responded strongly in protection of 1. Please make amends to the of Ottawa and the planet a green place or sequester enough CO2 to offset 10 this tree. environment and to the community by to live. million car commutes to and from work. In the event that you did not know planting several trees on the patch Respectfully, • One large tree provides a day’s of this impending by-law, the City of of green space between Bronson Ave Christine Mylks and Rew worth of oxygen for up to four people. Ottawa website describes the rationale and Bronson Place to help reduce MacCrimmon • Wind protection and shade for this Urban Tree Conservation bylaw noise pollution and encourage urban 85 Fulton Av cover from trees can save households as follows: reforestation. You can buy maples or On behalf of a group of concerned anywhere between 10 to 50 per cent in In the past, the City has had limited pines for as little as $50, or even get neighbours in Old Ottawa South heating and cooling costs. ability to ensure the conservation of trees a free tree from the City’s Trees for • Research shows that trees can on private property. There was no process Tomorrow program ([email protected] or

OOS River Run Incident- A Matter of Due Process

wish to protest against the objectionable and deplorable letter to the editor written by Deirdre Laframboise and published in the September issue of the I OSCAR. This person was caught cheating in a community-organized fun run and she deserves no more recognition than Ben Johnson and any other athlete seeking glory in a reprehensible way. The Old Ottawa South River Run is a renaming and rebirth of the Ottawa South Neighbourhood Run which Larry Osler and others generously organized twenty years ago. There are many Old Ottawa South residents who remember running these races that started and ended at the Hopewell Public School. I am still wearing a 1990 T-shirt from that era. The Old Ottawa South River Run is a foot race by the community, for the community and to the benefit of the community of Old Ottawa South and is not a venue for athletes to qualify for national and international standings. As with most other community foot races, the OOS River Run has a predetermined measured course and follows commonly acceptable standards. It is not a race sanctioned by a governing athletic body to measure the prowess and progress of its members for internationally recognized standings and possible financial help during their training. The Old Ottawa South River Run is not a sanctioned race. This is just as well for Deirdre Laframboise because being caught cheating in a sanctioned race would have been the end of any aspirations in an athletic career. Just ask Ben Johnson! Deirdre Laframboise cheated by leaving the official course to take a short- cut on a lower unauthorized poison-ivy dirt path. With all the athletic experience that she claims to have, Deirdre Laframboise cannot in any way deny that she did not know the difference between competing honestly on a course and going off- course for a personal advantage. That she has the gall to complain makes it even more disturbing. By cheating, Deirdre Laframboise set a bad example of the worst kind to all the children and aspiring athletes participating in the race. By drawing attention to Larry Ostler, the organizer who has devoted so much of his life to the Old Ottawa South community, Deirdre Laframboise has destroyed much of our appreciation that we had for her achievements. Cheating is not to be condoned. Deirdre Laframboise needs to apologize to the community for her detestable letter. Jean-Claude Dubé Aylmer Ave Page 20 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

BOOK REVIEW The Lieutenant - Author: Kate Grenville her typical gentle and sensitive writing she refused to invent one for them), here world” beyond Rooke’s hut and space: Kate Grenville has achieved something Grenville has Dawes’ notes that describe the tentative efforts by the Governor to admirable and exciting with this novel: his growing friendship with a group of establish communication with the locals, by recreating a fictionalized version of Cadigals, and in particular Patyegarang, the military operations against prisoners the actual events of the time, she has the model for the fictional Tagaran, and and aboriginals, etc. She develops shown how human beings can succeed their often playful attempts at learning believable characters around Rooke, in in interacting across any language each others language. The fictional particular Captain Talbot Silk, a friend of and cultural divide and as a result can story is created around the unique direct Rooke’s from an earlier navy expedition. develop friendships that will change dialog and Dawes/Rooke’s reflections on Based on the historical Watkin Tench, them fundamentally. language and meaning, clearly set off in he is quite the opposite in character to Daniel Rooke, similar to William the text by italic print. Rooke: smooth talking, jovial and with Thornhill in The Secret River, her Grenville evokes the calm that a contract for a book chronicling their 2005 award winning novel, is loosely comes over the isolated outpost that early experiences in the settlement. By Friederike Knabe based on a real person: William Dawes, Rooke has created for himself - a different Events are not going well and, in the end, a little known soldier with an keen world that makes him - and the reader - like Dawes himself, Rooke is confronted o warm one’s hands by the fire interest in the stars, the strange natural forget the reality of the early encounters with a moral choice and his decision will and then... to squeeze gently the beauty of the local environment and, between military and locals and the decide his life’s path from then on. Tfingers of another person.” This last but not least, a talent for languages. precarious situation the settlement For me Grenville’s novel came is a long winded explanation for the He inspired and informed Grenville’s finds itself in. Upon arrival Rooke had dramatically alive in the encounters word “kamara”, the Cadigal expression fictional treatment of a subject matter established a very basic observatory on a between Rooke and the aboriginal for something like ‘my friend’. The that has not lost its importance for promontory close to, yet separated from, group. The importance of that section Cadigal are one of Australia’s aboriginal Australians since. Beyond the specifics the new settlement at Syndey Cove. He carries through to the end. Anybody ‘tribes’ who Daniel Rooke, astronomer of historical events, Grenville has had grown increasingly fond of this, his who has ever been an outsider within a by passion and soldier by necessity, imagined a beautifully rendered intimate private space, “[a] place so strange [it] completely foreign culture will relate to encounters after landing in New South account of “first contact” between took a layer of skin off a man and left the hero’s experience: the first efforts at Wales with the First Fleet in 1788. two very distinct cultures realized by him peeled... where the solitude without communication, the misunderstandings, Rooke, a loner since childhood, highly two unusual individuals, Rooke and matched the solitude within.” Yet, it is the children’s whispering and repeating intelligent and curious about science, but a young aboriginal girl, Tagaran. In also the starting point for a journey of of words and phrases, reflecting their awkward in his dealings with people, is fact, Grenville came across Dawes’ discovery of his other inner self that complete lack of experience with a an unlikely hero for an engaging gentle notebooks by chance while researching will bring him both deep happiness and person not familiar with their language, story of first intercultural encounters her earlier book. Whereas in Secret River an existential, and unavoidable, moral their gestures and customs. Grenville with aboriginals as the new British the aboriginals are, while strongly in dilemma. captures this combination of awe and administration struggles to establish evidence, without a direct voice (because Grenville does not ignore the “other elation on both sides magnificently. the first settlement in Sydney Cove. In NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB The Healthy Gardener By Eleanor Rose

ntil the renovation of the Firehall is complete, the Garden Club will meet at Southminster United Church Hall in the Ladies Parlour (Room 7 on the 2nd Ufloor). As well as a new location the meetings will take place on a new day and time, the second Tuesday of each month from 7:30 until 9:30 p.m. The September meeting of the Old Ottawa South Garden Club featured a presentation on how using the right tools and the right moves can alleviate those aches and pains we occasionally feel after an enthusiastic afternoon caring for our flowers and vegetables. Linda Wright, the customer service representative from Lee Valley Tools and an enthusiastic gardener, arrived bearing an armload of tools and devices designed to take the pain out of gardening and bring back the joy. Linda briefly explained how “ergonomic gardening” can reduce the stress on muscles and joints and went on to outline how gardening aids such as the folding garden cart, the garden wagon and the folding kneeler/stool are beneficial, reducing both workload and discomfort. Using raised bed grow boxes were another recommendation to alleviate back pain associated with the bending required in ground level gardens. During the next segment of the presentation, Linda demonstrated a number of tools that ease the load and add to the fun of gardening, including Felco pruners, adjustable grass shears, telescoping garden tools, ergonomic hand and digging tools. Following the presentation Linda answered questions and those present enjoyed the opportunity to handle and try out these tools that so impressed the audience that many were talking of adding these to their Christmas lists. An impressive pair of Felco pruners were donated by Lee Valley Tools to the Garden Club for their silent auction. (Felco® of Switzerland is probably the world’s most highly regarded manufacturer of hand pruners. If you have ever had the misfortune of using a poorly made pruner, you will really appreciate the feel and performance of the Felco line. The difference can be likened to that between grade-school paper scissors and precision surgical scissors… from www.leevalley.com) For the September meeting, Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library also provided a display of Garden Books available at the branch and a brochure “Gardening with Ottawa Public Library” which included such intriguing titles as “Another splash of the gin and tonic gardener: further confessions of a reformed compulsive gardener” by Janice Wells. There was also a display of members’ garden photos showing gardens past and present and a table of “freebies” (items in need of a new home) including plant pots, garden books and a bouquet of hydrangeas. Next month the Garden Club will meet at 7:30 p.m., October 13th at Southminster United Church and feature a presentation by Tivoli Florist on “Bringing the Garden Indoors – Overwintering Plants”, how tender plants, common annuals, and more exotic tropicals, can be brought indoors for the winter and returned to the garden in spring. OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 21

TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH New Trinity Rector New Trinity rector drawn to wells in 16 countries. An estimated one neighborhood church billion people worldwide lack access to by diverse cultural, ethnic safe drinking water. • The Red Cup campaign of the backgrounds of parishioners United Nations World Food Program helps millions of malnourished By Jim Robb schoolchildren get a healthier start in life through its Red Cup campaign. The everend Andrea Thomas, cups are filled each day with nutritious Trinity Anglican Church’s new food by UN workers. The WFP helps Rrector, is counting on diversity, feed 60 million boys and girls in Third energy and spirituality to help make the World countries. neighborhood church an even stronger Rev. Thomas, 53, calls North Gower force for God and good in Old Ottawa home. She has lived in the village South. for many years. But she was born in She said in an interview recently France where her father was serving that she was drawn to Trinity by “the as a fighter pilot in the Canadian Air wonderfully diverse group of people Force under NATO command. I met here. Diverse in heritage, in Coincidentally, she married a Canadian culture, in ethnic background.” fighter pilot when just out of university. “I am really excited about being here. Sadly, he died of brain cancer “way too The friendliness in Old Ottawa South young,” in 2002. He was diagnosed is the friendliness you find in a country with the disease on the couple’s 25th Rev. Andrea Thomas, new incumbent village.” wedding anniversary and died six rector of Trinity Anglican Church goes Blessing Of The Animals Set She said that “Trinity is a place that months later. over scheduling for special events with For Oct. 4 At Trinity is strongly rooted in our Anglican They had three children, two girls Robert Taylor, chair of the Worship heritage, open to people yearning to and a boy. Rev. Thomas now has two Committee. By Jim Robb encounter a loving God.” grandchildren and expects to see a third families who had lost a child. In practical terms, her immediate arrive on or before Christmas Day. She has also worked with a widow rinity’s traditional Blessing of the goal is to work with the congregation Trinity’s new priest had a career before support group and spent time before Animals service, celebrating all God’s to meet the spiritual needs of adult being ordained that would have served she was ordained as a birth coach with creatures, takes place Sunday, October members and to build a strong church her well in any endeavor. She graduated T single mothers and street kids. 4 at the 10 am family service. school and program of activities for from university with a veterinary She thought at one time of becoming October 4 is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, older youth that will connect them to nursing degree, worked at it for a year, an obstetrician, birthing babies. “Now patron saint of animals and the environment. the church and to the wider community then worked as a librarian, was an at- I’m birthing souls.” Children are invited to bring their pet dog, cat, and the world. home mom while her children were When she finds time to relax, you’ll or other animal so that it can receive a blessing “This has to be an exciting place where growing up, and then sold real estate likely find her riding her blue-eyed for the coming year. children can gather, talk freely, and ask for eight years. Quarter-Horse, Electric D Renegade, If a child doesn’t have a pet, they are welcome questions about who is God.” Rev. Andrea said she knew in her aka Phoenix, the name she uses for her to bring a favorite Teddy bear or other stuffed Outreach has always played a central twenties that she was destined for the equine friend. animal. role in the activities of Trinity’s church but “spent many years fighting A horse lover and rider since The service goes back many generations in parishioners and she wants to continue with God” because of career ambitions. childhood, less a 20-year hiatus while the Anglican church, growing out of the ritual that emphasis, strengthening and She put her name forward as a candidate raising her children, Rev. Thomas of blessing the domestic animals and livestock expanding it to embrace the local and for the priesthood in 1996, entered the acquired Phoenix after her husband so necessary for a farm family’s well being. the international community. Anglican Studies program at St. Paul’s died. Horse and rider are experts at a St Francis was born circa 1181, into a She cited two programs that she thinks University and was ordained in 1999. technique called “Western Reining,” wealthy family in Umbria, Italy. After a riotous would help young people in Trinity Then followed stints at St. Thomas in which involves an exciting program youth he renounced worldly wealth and took a gain a deeper grasp of Third World Stittsville, and eight years as rector of of intricate, fast-paced manouvres vow of poverty. realities: the parish of Metcalfe-Greely-Vernon, requiring close co-operation and It’s said he once tamed a ferocious wolf that • Ryan’s Well was started by before coming to Trinity. empathy between the two. was terrorizing a neighborhood, surrendered Kemptville high school student Ryan Rev. Thomas brings many strengths Two golden retrrievers also vie for her his sleeping place to a donkey, and preached to Hreljac in 1998. Ryan raises money to the priesthood. She has extensive attention at home. attentive birds. through a foundation to provide safe training in counselling grieving Trinity Anglican Church is located at Animals sit with their families during the water for poor villages in the Third families and spent eight years in 1230 Bank Street, corner of Cameron service and are generally well behaved although World. To date • • Ryan’s Well has volunteer work as a chaplain at Avenue. Main entry of the church is on the occasional yelp punctuates proceedings. raised enough money to enable partner Queensway-Carleton Hospital helping Cameron. Water bowls and paper towels (just in agencies in Africa dig 500 village case) are located at the rear of the church. Page 22 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

SOUTHMINSTER HAPPENINGS Back to School (Again)!

unday school is starting again! activity that supports our work. You can Music at Southminster John the Divine, Victoria, St. Matthew’s Our teachers are getting ready to find more information about Sunday Anglican Church, Ottawa and as Swelcome back last year’s students, school on Southminster’s website. Southminster Music for Charity and Director of the Choir of Men and Boys and meet new students. The first week Community (SMCC) is hosting another at St James’ Cathedral Toronto. Since of regular classes is September 20th. On Another Season of Centre 7! A Call night of music on October 19 featuring 2003, he has been Organist and Director September 13, we will have a special for Volunteers. Old Ottawa South resident Matthew of Music at Christ Church Cathedral event to support participants in the Terry Larkin on piano. Mr. Larkin, along with Ottawa, whose Choir of Men and Boys Fox Run, and then will participate in the For over 10 years, Southminster David Thies-Thompson (violin) and was choir-in-residence at Ely Cathedral Church’s annual corn boil. has been host to the Centre 7 Out of the Fraser Rubens (tenor), will be performing for a week, July 2009. Southminster has three Sunday Cold Suppers on Saturday nights during the works of Vaughan Williams, Gerald Mr. Thies-Thompson has performed school classes: the Bethlehem class for the coldest months on the year. This Finzi and John Corigliano. as concertmaster for Thirteen Strings, pre-schoolers and kindergarteners, the season begins on November 7th and runs The concert is in support of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, and the Nazareth class for early elementary, and through March 27th, 2010. While the Christ Church Cathedral Choir travel Opera Lyra Ottawa Orchestra and has the Capernaum class for late elementary lengthy bus strike last season factored fund. been heard in recital on CBC Radio. / intermediate. For the very young, we into the supper’s attendance, Centre 7 Mr. Larkin has been music director Dr. Rubens is a cardiac surgeon at have a quiet and comfortable nursery provides hot, healthy meals to an average of the Ottawa Choral for five seasons the University of Ottawa Heart Institute room with a speaker over which the of 60 guests each week. as well as being the director of the and a ‘regular’ at SMCC events and other service is broadcast. Toddlers share The program is run on donations and Larkin Singers. From his website concerts around the city. space with the Bethlehem class and are is supported by Southminster, Trinity (matthewlarkin.ca): welcome to join in any activities they Anglican, St. Margaret Mary’s Parish, Well-known both as an organist SMCC is an independent charitable wish. St. Matthew’s Anglican and many other and choral conductor, Matthew Larkin organization dedicated to supporting We are looking forward to a fun and volunteers from Carleton University, received his early musical training as peace, justice and well-being through interesting year for our Sunday school residents of Old Ottawa South and a chorister at St. George’s Cathedral, music. Tickets for the concert are $20 kids and teachers. Over the course of beyond. Kingston, and was assistant organist and are available at Southminster (15 the year, we’ll be learning more about However, there is always a need for there while in high school. He was Aylmer Avenue), the Ottawa folklore God, the lessons he teaches us, and the additional volunteers to assist with set- Organ Scholar of Trinity College at the Centre (1111 Banks Street) and Compact gifts he gives us. We’ll also be exploring up, meal preparation, serving and clean- University of Toronto where he studied Music (785 Bank Street). The concert different ways that we can share our up. Why not consider this ecumenical with John Tuttle, and later attended the begins at 7:30pm. gifts with others in our community, outreach program as part of your gift to Royal College of Music (UK), where he neighbourhood, city and world. Friends help those in need? For more information studied with Nicholas Danby. and new students are always welcome on duties and dates to volunteer please A tireless advocate of boys’ choirs, to participate in our Sunday school, contact Margaret Moyston-Cumming at Mr. Larkin has served as Organist and volunteer to teach, or to take on another 613-730-0926. Director of Music at the Church of St.

Family Wilderness Walks In Our Region

By Paige Raymond Kovach

oung children tend to get parents up early. So, while the weather is still fine, get outdoors where children can lead the way. Ottawa boastsa Ynumber of great trails to follow your kids in every compass direction. Here are a few examples in the north, south, east, west, and some closer to home. • Gatineau Park has several walks, but here are a few suggestions of shorter ones: • Pink Lake is named after the Pink family who owned this property at one time. There are two hikes to choose from. The lake trail skirts the lake most of the way, and there are many interpretive panels to explain flora and fauna. The abandoned mica mine shafts are foreshadowed by the glittering rocks, and kids love to peer into the green lake for fish, frogs and logs. We saw several blue jays and one wood pecker on our last visit. The stairs were a great workout for all, but the littlest legs found the last quarter of the walk long. Parking is available, but it’s not a large lot. Best bet is to go out early on weekends, or try and go during the week. The trail is closed after the first snow fall. If the Pink Lake trail parking lot or Pink Lake Look-out lot is full, head back to the Hickory Trail. This short walk through the forest is flat and meandering. Panels describe the stages of a forest. There’s a large picnic area and outhouse. • Sugar Bush Trail in Chelsea is hidden behind the parking lot of the Gatineau Park Interpretive Centre. The 1-km walk starts with a log-sided bridge over a stream. The circular trail is wheelchair and stroller accessible, and provides great vistas of fall foliage. The interpretive center also makes a good stop. There are helpful park interpreters, exhibits, and bathrooms. • - Originally conceived to reduce urban sprawl, the Greenbelt offers many walks and hikes for families. • Stony Swamp/Wild Bird Sanctuary is a quiet oasis away from traffic, yet easy to find. As soon as you get everyone out, get the birdseed ready. The chickadees love sunflower seeds in the shell and are almost always waiting right at the beginning of the trail to swoop down and eat out of your hands. The trail is well marked, though quiet most days. Stroller and wheelchair accessible (some of the stonier parts are tough for small wheels). The trail is tucked away in Bells Corners, park at P11 off West Hunt Club Road. • Beaver Trail/Chipmunk Trail is also in the west end. This trail is just

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ABBOTSFORD HOUSE Learning A New Craft: Fidgety Quilts

By: Julie Ireton for them. I’m hoping we can make at least one quilt each over the five weeks.” new program at Abbottsford The completed pieces will go into Community Centre for adults 55 Abbottsford’s Silent Auction at the plus will teach the art of making Annual Bazaar (on Saturday November A 28) or be used by the Glebe Centre’s fidgety quilts for those living with Alzheimer’s. residents or clients in the Day-Away Quilter Grace McNab is teaching the program at Abbotsford. five-week course. MacNab also volunteers every “The story goes,” explains MacNab, Friday at the Emergency Department at “there was a hurricane down south. A the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital. church group was helping people with She says from time to time, patients with Alzheimer’s and they didn’t have enough Alzheimer’s end up there for medical quilts to go around so they cut up quilts reasons. and rebound them, adding buttons and “They often don’t know who they things. It worked. It acts as a sedative or are”, she says, “They’re poor lost soles.” like a security blanket.” So last winter, a call went out for some These unique quilts have lots of fidgety quilts. colour and different textures. They MacNab says these quilts can be a also sport zippers, buttons and beads or comfort to anyone who has to visit the pockets that have little things inside when hospital. The Quilter’s the patient reaches in. guild makes little quilts for little babies Photo by Patricia Goyeche MacNab says the recipients of these too. blankets often just sit with the warm quilt MacNab is a member of the guild. on their knee and fiddle with the bobbles She says every year they make hundreds and beads. of quilts for premature babies staying This quilt course is one of the new at the Rich Little Nursery at the Civic. activities on Abbotsford’s fall program. There’s another group making quilts for It’s on Wednesday mornings, starting in people with cancer, and yet another for September. soldiers hurt in Afghanistan. Personal Financial Planning The registrants/volunteers will be The fidgety quilt course is just one We will review your current financial position and making small quilts with 16 squares that of the new activities on Abbotsford’s recommend a plan that is designed to achieve your goals. are each about eight inches. Abbotsford fall program. Also now on the schedule Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P has a lot of fabric available and fidgety is a bioenergetic exercise class and an Tel 613.798.2421 1276 Wellington Street [email protected] things on hand. They don’t need patterns, aerobics and muscle-toning combo class. Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3A7 www.invested-interest.ca nor is experience required. MacNab notes, Beginner Pilates and Bridge are on offer as with making things for small children, this fall as well as a Come Sing with the quilters will have to make sure all the Us group on Friday afternoons. A Wii buttons and fidgety extras are sewn on gaming consol has been added to the line- tight, so no-one can’t pull them off. up in memory of Annamarie Groot “who MacNab has made many fidgety loved to have fun”. Drop in to Abbotsford quilts, but this will be her first time or the Sunnyside Public Library and pick- teaching a workshop. “I’m a little bit up a fall program guide. nervous about it, but there’s such a need

Family Wilderness .... Cont’d From Previous Page

under 3-km, so save this for a day when you have lots of time. It’s located between Moodie and Richmond Roads, and park at P8. • At Mer Bleue your family can travel to Hudson’s Bay without leaving Ottawa. Yes, Mer Bleue is home to a bog with similar vegetation as the sub- arctic. The boardwalk cuts through a bull rush framed marsh, through a larch bog and ends in a short forest trail. It’s a magical 1.2 km walk -- or run like my boys did. Caution, the boardwalk can be slippery on wet or damp days. The trail is wheelchair and stroller accessible. This is the eastern part of the Greenbelt. Take Innes to Anderson and follow the signs to Mer Bleue boardwalk. Parking is available at P22. • Closer to home is the Arboretum. It has so much to offer. Go for a little walk or for a longer walk and stop for a picnic. Each tree is marked with its common and Latin name, and many are fun to climb. There are sticks of all shapes and sizes to discover. Stop at a vista, take a meandering path. Cross the street to visit the Friends of the Farm garden. Or walk a little further and visit the Fletcher wildflower meadow. Take Prince of Wales, around the traffic circle, and park where indicated. Be on the lookout for dogs, dog walkers, and bike commuters. • If you have just a short time, a stroll along the Rideau River is a great escape. Start under the Riverside Bridge and end at Windsor Park. On our recent walk we saw a toad, cormorants, squirrels and swans. Sometimes the best wilderness is closest to home.

Sources The National Capital Commission website is www.ncc.gc.ca. A Greenbelt trail map can be printed from the website or purchased at the main office 90 Wellington, across from the Parliament Buildings.

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BACKYARD NATURALIST Gardening? It’s for the Birds!

heads of Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia) and Purple Coneflower (Echinaceae) become balls loaded with seeds. The colourful Sedum spectabilis (stonecrop) we enjoy through September when so few other flowers are left, will transform into bouquets of seeds if left undisturbed. Other common perennials that attract birds include asters, coreopsis, poppies, goldenrods, and Penstemon (beardtongue). What’s interesting about these plants is that, while some of them are native plants, many are not. These plants are all fairly common By Linda Burr garden flowers, but could serve as more than just decoration if you any gardeners like to leave them over the winter. And next “clean up” their flower spring when you go to the garden beds in the fall, cutting centre to choose your flowers, think M of the birds as well, and choose a few down the dead stalks and getting everything ready for spring planting. varieties they might enjoy. But let the procrastinators among us Here’s another tip: when you do rejoice! Because now there’s a really finally decide it’s time to cut them good excuse to postpone your chores down, let the stalks lie where they until the spring. For the seed heads fall on the garden bed. They form you leave will help the birds through a natural mulch that the birds will the winter. love poking around in to find things Many of the birds we like to to eat. And as they decompose, the feed in the winter are seed eaters: organic matter will be good for the chickadees, finches, juncos, soil. sparrows, and the like. Many of the An added bonus to this “lazy” common annuals and perennials we approach to gardening is how your grow in our gardens for their lovely winter garden will be so much more flowers will eventually dry up, and interesting as the snow collects on leave a stalk with seed heads. If these the stems, stalks and fruits. In the seed heads are left alone, they can spring, as the snow begins to melt, poke up above the snow in winter it’s fun to see the contrast between and provide our birds with food. last year’s old growth and the fresh And if you delay chopping them greenery sprouting up. down in spring, you’ll also benefit While it doesn’t always pay spring migrants passing through in to procrastinate, sometimes a little early May. laziness can go a long way to benefit So which annuals and perennials wild creatures. So you can put those do the birds enjoy? Keep in mind that pruners away until spring and the birds prefer old-fashioned varieties or birds will thank you for it! Putting up native plants, and nothing too fancy bird feeders can be a delightful way or of a hybrid variety, as these often to enjoy attracting wildlife into your produce few, if any, seeds of interest. yard or garden, especially through Grasses are excellent seed plants the winter months. But buying all and will look decorative through the that bird seed can get costly if you winter. Cosmos, an old favourite, have several feeders and a regular produces elongated hard seeds that flock of visitors. Happily, there’s are appreciated by sparrows and another way to feed the birds and it juncos. Birds also enjoy the seeds won’t cost you anything. Nature’s of Zinnia, that old-fashioned annual. own bird feeders may be already in An unusual-looking seed-producer is your yard! the Amaranthus cauditus (love-lies- bleeding or tassel flower) with its Linda Burr lives in Old Ottawa long red “tail” of flowers – its seeds South and is a biologist and avid backyard naturalist. are enjoyed by many small birds. In the perennials, the flower

Hunter Family on horseback in Peru

see pages 28-29 for full story. OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 25 Two Hopewell Kids on Sabbatical In mid-August, Old Ottawa South back of the pick-up truck that carried residents Patti Ryan and Mark Newman the extra bikes (see sidebar). The bike left Canada for a 6.5-month trip to ride took us along big, scenic roads and Asia with their two children, Chloe, 9 paths. The tour guide would stop us at and Ciaran, 6. Over the next half year, different interesting temples and other they plan to backpack their way around places, such as enormous banyan trees, southeast Asia and India, covering and explain a bit about them. Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, One of the main things to do in Vietnam and southern India. Chloe and Ubud is to visit the sacred monkey Ciaran, who will miss a good chunk of forest. The monkey forest is a big, lush, grades 4 and 2 respectively, are hoping green forest filled with monkeys and a to send monthly articles to the OSCAR few temples. The monkeys have no fear with descriptions and updates from their of humans whatsoever. If you have any travels. This is their first instalment. food or drink with you, they’ll find it and go through the effort of unzipping your Hello from Bali bag or even tearing it open to get at what they want, from a peanut to a banana. By Chloe Ryan At the end of our trip to the monkey forest, a monkey hopped over and sat on o here we are: We’re in Ubud, my lap. It was pretty small. I would say Ciaran and Chloe with Munduk children Bali. Bali is an island in it was a baby, probably just about two or three months old. It was one of the Indonesia. We’ve been travelling friend hop off my lap. And that was the guess the people here think it’s normal, S cutest baby monkeys I have ever seen— for approximately two weeks. So far, end of my encounter with my monkey but personally, I think it’s crazy. The maybe the cutest. He moved from leg to everything is great. We survived the 27- friend. streets are bumpy and rocky, and there leg. After sniffing my lap and inspecting hour plane ride, we’ve gotten used to the The streets of Ubud are packed are chickens running everywhere. There my clothes for a while, he decided to new food and I think we’re used to Bali with shops. Everything is super cheap, are more motorcycles than cars, and the see something new… my face. So he now. I looooooved the plane ride (yeah, and it’s so pretty that you want to buy motorcycles race down the streets and rose from his sitting position on my lap, right!). By now we’re also pretty much everything! In some other places in Bali, weave around all the cars, coming from and ran two little, tiny, cute paws up my over the 12-hour jet lag. Here is a bit such as Legian, the storekeepers want all directions. There are horns honking belly until I, Chloe Ryan, was staring about what I’ve noticed and done in Bali you to buy so badly that if you stop for and motors roaring. There are different face to face with a little round-eyed baby so far. even one second to look at something, lanes, but the cars and motorcycles don’t monkey. We began our trip in Legian, a they’re on you. And if you stop because stay in them. There are no street lights to He gazed at me with curious and busy beach town close to the airport, you actually really like something, and say stop, slow down or go, and if there but quickly moved on to Ubud, which get interested in it, they start to bargain were, I’d bet you 99.9 per cent of the is one of Bali’s most artistic cities. with you. If you decide that you don’t drivers wouldn’t listen to them. As you We’re spending 10 days here. Almost actually really like it, and you try to can see, it is IMPOSSIBLE to cross the everything and everybody here has leave, they ask you, “Why no?” street. something to do with art, music or There is no shortage of interesting dance. There are lots of things to do. For contrasts here. The shops and scenery are example, there’s a library right across beautiful, but the streets are a disaster. I Cont’d On Page 26 the road from our guesthouse—it’s the only library in all of Bali—and it offers classes. My brother, Ciaran, and I took music lessons, where we learned how to play a Balinese gamelan (orchestra) xylophone. A few days later we took a three-hour Balinese painting lesson, and after that I took a Balinese dancing lesson. In Balinese dancing you use mainly your hands, arms and eyes. Our favourite class was painting. I sketched and painted a Balinese dancer and Ciaran adorable little eyes that looked like they made a hibiscus flower. could have stared at me for hours until, Those are only a few of the things by mistake, I broke the trance by pulling that there are to do here. We also went my head backwards because there was a on a bike trip. The idea was to cycle little tongue slowly but steadily making around rural Bali and see small villages its way towards my cheek. and rice fields. Ciaran didn’t quite fit Afterwards I concluded that I on the bike that was provided for him. should not have done this, because I He couldn’t reach the handlebars easily. would have preferred a little monkey So he and my Dad had to ride on the kiss to having my new little monkey Page 26 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

Cameron Street South, starting at Riverdale Ave and continuing to The Ottawa Tennis & Lawn Bowling Club.

Two Hopewell Kids ..Cont’d from Page 25

But still, Bali is a wonderful place. in the north of Bali, and Padangbai is a pretending to spray me with his hose and It’s beautiful and artistic. If I could use small beach town on the east coast. After Q: What are some of the coolest shoot me, and he often picks me up and only one word to describe it, it would be that we’re off to a small Balinese island things about Bali? shakes me around for fun. People are friendly or inviting. Everyone is open and called Nusa Lembongan, and then we’ll I love the palm trees and coconuts. always asking how old I am and getting helpful, and anywhere you go, no matter be flying to Singapore for three days. The offerings are also interesting. me to give them high-fives. how poor or unlucky they are, they seem Then, off to everywhere else. Offerings are what people put out on the happy. They laugh together and play, streets and sidewalks for their gods every Q: How do you like being out of make jokes, and are always cheerful. An interview with Ciaran morning to thank them. They are made school and having your parents as There are no children whining or asking of flowers, bamboo, incense and bits of teachers? for anything, just happily helping their Q: What is the most memorable food, like rice. You have to be careful not It’s very cool. I’ve never been parents make supper, or weaving a thing you’ve done so far in Bali? to step on them everywhere. homeschooled before. My Dad teaches basket together. My impression is that Once at the end of a long day of me in French and my Mom teaches the Balinese never lose hope. If New sightseeing, I got to ride home in the dark Q: What are the people like? me in English. It’s sometimes hard to York is the city that never sleeps, then on a motorbike. I got to sit in the front, Some of the men wear hats that concentrate when we do lessons by the Bali is the island that never cries. and not wear a helmet. That day I also got match their clothing. The women wear pool and I really want to jump in and Next on our trip we’ll be going to to ride on the back of a pickup truck and dresses and sarongs a lot. They’re very play. I sometimes give them a hard time Munduk and Padangbai for four days ride a mountain bike. My mother called friendly. For example, there’s a guy but I’m getting better about it. each. Munduk is a tiny mountain retreat it my hat trick of dangerous activities. who works at our guesthouse who keeps

An Interview with Bank Street Businesses

By William Burr maker who occupied the building before him. About fifty percent of Malak’s clientele is Arabic, immigrants from a wide took a walk today down Bank Street today and spoke to variety of countries. Malak admits that it is hard living in local business owners to hear their story and to ask them if the neighbourhood without speaking English. Nevertheless, they had felt the economic crisis. Growing up on Belmont he is happy here, and asserts that it is a community of “des I personnes de qualité.” and Cameron avenues, I’ve been walking down Bank Street all my life. So it was nice to meet some of the people behind some Evelyn Huer, co-owner of Mother Tongue Books, on of its businesses. Bank just north of Sunnyside, describes Old Ottawa South as With each of the six business owners I interviewed, a love “a reading community.” She picked her location based on the for Old Ottawa South was the similarity between them. proximity to Carleton, to the public library, and because it was The most remarkable story, I found, came from Tsegaye in a community “very committed to the neighbourhood.” “And Dessalegn, owner and sole employee of Dollar It! at Bank with the university nearby, there are hopefully – hopefully,” and Hopewell. Dessalegn did not plan to find himself at the she stresses, “people committed to learning.” Since opening helm of Dollar It! . “It just happened out of the blue,” he says. in 1994, Huer has seen customers who came into the store as “I was trying to finish my Phd.” – on ethnic problems in his teenagers accompanied by parents return as instructors looking native Ethiopia – “at Carleton. The location became available. to order their course books. My friends [who are also business owners] said this is a great Likewise, at Boomerang Kids, Manager Elise White talks opportunity.” By then, Dessalegn had already fallen in love about the relationship she gets to establish with her customers: with Old Ottawa South while studying at Carleton. He sent his “[Getting to know the kids in the neighbourhood] is the best kids to Hopewell and then Glebe, despite living on the other part of the job. And you get to know the mums. They come in side of town. But starting the dollar store here has not been when they’re pregnant – and we’re excited for them.” entirely positive: “I may have been proven wrong,” he says. “I Heather Cairns, of Framed at Sunnyside and Bank, Lyne didn’t expect to work at least 12 hours a day every day of the Burton at WAG next door, and Anthony Power, of New week for the past two years. I didn’t have any experience.” Morning Futons and Furniture near Bank and Glen, all laud Asked if he has learned from these years, Dessalegn replies the urbanity of Old Ottawa South. Power was based at Bank emphatically: “Oh yes! I have tons of experience now. We and Pretoria before moving to his present location in 1998. have weathered the storm,” he adds. “We can see the light. “[The two locations] are essentially the same. But here the I’ll be here for another five years at least.” On November 6th parking is better and there is better walkby.” I stored the term Dollar It! will be celebrating its three year anniversary. “walkby” in my head – surely a key to business vocabulary, I found another interesting immigration story at Malak no? Meanwhile, Cairns likes OOS because “it’s an urban Lebanese Pastries, at Bank and Cameron. When I asked to neighbourhood, it’s central, but it’s still a neighbourhood.” speak to the owner, the man at the counter said, “Yeah, but Burton describes OOS as having an “old village” atmosphere, do you speak French?” Hassan Malak, founder of the store, “like a small town inside a city.” And Power was amazed at the immigrated from Lebanon to France over forty five years ago. reception his neighbours gave him upon his opening, 11 years There he founded a Lebanese pastry shop and also mastered ago. “A lot of people came into the store just to say ‘Welcome the art of French pastry making – a practice he continues to this to the community.’ It made me feel at home.” day. “You just have to order them in advance,” says Malak. I asked business owners how they had felt the economic He is also a proud maker of gelato – “Best in the region!” he crisis from where they see it. I wanted to see if all the hype affirms. In 1970 he followed his brothers to Canada, who in the newspapers has had any real affect at the small business now practice medecine in various parts of Ontario. They all level. Generally, it didn’t seem like the crisis had caused much fled war in their home country. Malak spent his first twenty nine years in Buckingham, Quebec, but found that most of his clients were based in Ottawa. So he moved across the river. Cont’d On Next Page He chose his present location because he knew the shwarma OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 27

WINDSOR REDUX B PART 7 Tree Rats And Other Delicacies

For nearly eight years, from February within range for a short dash to victory. She Who Must Be Obeyed the other 2008, for her admiration for Cleo, the 2000 to August 2008, OSCAR carried And in absence of herds of antelope at night about even more varietals that are dog who could climb trees. a monthly column. The Windsor Windsor Park, we let slip the leashes of expected to sprout on the front lawns this (2) This is Zoscha’s first reference Chronicles, written by Zoscha the our racial memory in the noble pursuit fall. Those two have discussions in the to a political campaign. Her Alpha Wonder Dog. Zoscha became something of ... squirrel. spring about which bedding out plants was a neighbourhood political activist of a celebrity in our neighbourhood, and I know. You don’t have to remind to put in the garden. It seems they have and many of her subsequent adventures her observations on the passing scene, me. You think it is very undignified for even more difficulty reaching consensus detailed his election campaigns. See, from a canine perspective, attracted her me to try to climb up the tree after the on which mushrooms will be allowed to for example, “Holocaust of Crows,” share of loyal readers as well as critics. squirrel. Maybe I get carried away, but flourish in the front lawn this fall. Windsor Chronicles, February 2006. OSCAR is reprinting some of Zoscha’s please leave me to my fantasies. One In the meantime, I’m just enjoying (3) The “plastic mushrooms” are musings from eight years ago. The day, I truly believe, my paws will take myself leaving my scent on all of this election lawn signs. See Valery Kaduck editors have annotated where we feel hold in the bark of that maple tree by the exotic flora. If there are more mushrooms Sherman, “The Politics of Zoscha – that today’s readers may need to be bike path, and you’ll find me up there in coming, we’ll have even more fun in the Independent Thinker or Tory Prisoner,” informed of references that may no the crown of the tree, along with some next few weeks. University of Toronto Press, 2006. longer be remembered by readers today, astonished furry-tailed beasties. (1) (4) The 2000 municipal vote elected or where recent scholarship has shed Have you noticed the lawns this Here’s to the magic mushrooms Bob Chiarelli as Mayor and returned further light on the world described in autumn – how they’re sprouting a very Zoscha Clive Doucet as ward Councillor. the Windsor Chronicles.. peculiar crop of mushrooms this year? (5) Jim Watson had left municipal Biggest mushrooms I’ve ever seen. I (1) The ability to pursue squirrels politics to run provincially. Inez Berg October, 2000 find that their stems have a woody scent. into the trees was a recurring fantasy did not stand for re-elected in the newly Dear Boomer, And the caps! Well, some of the caps for Zoscha. See Part 81, “Le Gout de amalgamated city. smell of plastic. (2) Snow,” Windsor Chronicles, January h, Fall, when a young dog’s You don’t see these mushrooms fancy turns to thoughts of ... in everyone’s front yard. You never Asquirrels. find them in the back yard. They have And what a bountiful harvest there some strange kind of heliotropism, but is this year, too. Cheeky little rascals, it doesn’t seem aligned to the position dashing across the fallen leaves. They’re of the sun. Instead, they seem to grow slower and plumper than in the summer, at right angles to the street, no matter but still able to scamper up a tree in less which direction the street runs. (3) time than it takes me to wag my tail and There’s a few varieties of these bark. mushrooms I’ve seen before, and some I know that, as a beagle, your tastes that are new. I recognized that Doucet are more inclined towards rabbits. And and Chiarelli colouring from some I will acknowledge, there’s little beneath mushrooms that cropped up in the front a full moon that can beat the pleasure of yards when I was a much younger pup. a midnight dash back and forth in pursuit (4) of Flopsy, Mopsy or Cottontail. But there’s new varietals that I’ve But I do believe my ancestors were never seen before, which I call Cain the kind of dog to track their dinner and Bickford. And there’s some patterns across the steppes, using their ears and that I haven’t seen at all this year that sense of cunning. Not for us the nose I remember in the dim recesses of my to the ground. We kept our heads up memory – the Watson and Berg varieties and our ears forward, and stalked with are nowhere to be seen. (5) infinite patience until our prey was I overheard my Alpha talking to

Bank Street ..Cont’d from Previous Page

of a stir at all. “We didn’t feel it,’ says Power. “But Ottawa is so insulated. We don’t experience the peaks, or the troughs [in the global economy.] We’re so dependant on the government and they are unlikely to lay people off [in an economic crisis.] Sales are up.” According to Malak, his sales might be slightly down, but the change is not significant. Huer at Mother Tongue Books felt a strain a long time ago when people started to shop at big box bookstores or online. “But people return to their neighbourhoods. They rediscover simple pleasures,” she says. In terms of the recent crisis, the impact was minimal. White at Boomerang Kids, Burton at WAG, and Dessalegn at Dollar It! all reported growth during what was supposed to have been a difficult period. At Framed, Cairns articulated an idea that was repeated at many of the small businesses I visited: that people continue to invest in the things they care about during a recession. “People are more careful with their money. We have to be careful with what we market to them,” she says. “If you’re selling unnecessary items, you will feel more of an effect. People care more about sustainability and quality.” th Page 28 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR OCT 2009

The Hunter Family in Peru By The Hunter Family

ur family of four went to Peru to take in the Andes mountains, the Inca ruins and also to give back to the Peruvians, where the Omajority live below the poverty line. My husband James has been raving about Peru for the past 22 years since his last trip there, so when I saw a seat sale on Travelzoo.ca, I jumped at the chance. The return tickets were only $300 US taxes included per person. We chose to support Helping Hands, a Cusco-based charity that provides education and tutoring for orphans, indentured students and children of illiterate parents. Our family donated money and also fundraised from friends and neighbours. Thanks to Staples at South Keys who gave us a 10% discount on items that were already 75% off, an entire suitcase was filled with school supplies for the students, mostly pencils and pens. Two other large bags were filled with donations such as Spanish school books and stickers donated by Leslie Roster from her bookstore, Girol. Toronto-based Veahavta.org donated three kinder kits which are backpacks filled with a years worth of school supplies for one child. We also purchased toys. For me, the highlight of the trip was to go and deliver our donations to the school. The kids were delighted to meet us and receive the gifts and they clamoured around us to get a Canadian flag tattoo. Helping Hands founder, teacher Mario Diaz Ugarte took us to see a school that he is building thanks to a $7500 donation from an American. We also donated cash towards completing the school. Our family made lots of contact with native Quechuan families who do not speak Spanish or English by giving out candies to the children. We also left behind some no longer needed clothing. OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 29

Anyone interested in sending encourages anyone with children 10 and Our recent trip to Peru made us very a long time to hand wash and hang dry money or sponsoring a child can contact up to go there for a family vacation. aware of the things we are blessed to have clothes. It sure is handy to have our own helpinghandscusco.com. There are those that go on vacation in Canada that many countries do not washer/dryer or at least to be able to go to rest and relax and then there are those have. Here is our list of top things that we to a laundromat and be finished your Here are the impressions of Elisha, who want to experience some adventure missed from home: laundry within an hour or so. age 13 and Isabel, 11. and see something different and new. That 5) Bacon What amazed us was that dogs roam was our goal in a visit to Peru this summer 1) Free, Clean Bathrooms and free It was very rare to see a meal with around on their own. – and I must say, we were successful. It toilet paper bacon in it. In fact, there are few meals The traffic was “freestyle” meaning was not the most restful vacation, but it There’s nothing like paying 50 centavos that have large quantities of meat. The that there aren’t many stop signs or traffic sure was interesting. We spent most of our to use a washroom, being given 5 hamburgers that are sold in Peru are not lights, so people take turns going. time in the Andes Mountains surrounded squares of toilet paper and then finding ground beef, but thin strips of steak. If you looked up to the sides of hills, by lovely landscapes, colourful markets, out that there are no toilet seats. When 6) Public Transit you could see cool designs carved in the and historic Inca ruins. in Peru, you need to carry a roll of toilet There is transit available everywhere in hillsides, for example: llamas, “Vive el In addition to our travels, we were there paper with you at all times (just in case). Peru , mostly taxis, but also collectivos Peru glorioso” and names of schools in to help out a school for underprivileged 2) Clean tap water (collective, independently owned buses) the area. children. We had collected funds from You’re never quite sure if the water is and long distance buses. Almost no-one Each town has a central square with friends and neighbours and purchased drinkable. Luckily, we had the newest owns their own car. Therefore, there are a statue of an important figure such as three large bags of school supplies which addition to our camping kit: a battery no malls and no need for large parking mother Mary holding the infant Jesus or we delivered to the school. It was great to operated ultraviolet water sterilizer lots which waste so much of our space. an Inca warrior often holding up a cob of meet Mario who initiated the school and which removed all bacteria and viruses And we can be sure that the big-box corn because corn is a food staple. Every to meet the children that are being helped. from the water by zapping it for 30 mall will never work there! The problem town also had a Mercado with local We gave them toys and put on Canadian seconds. with all the taxis is the duplication, noise crafts. We learned how to bargain with flag tattoos. 3) Milk and pollution. Granted, we never had the merchants and it was a great way to One other different thing we did in There is no milk industry in Peru. All to call a taxi as there was always many learn Spanish numbers. Quanta Questa Peru was to get some dental work done. they have is canned condensed milk or passing by. The quality of the rides Senora? Teeth cleaning and dental work is MUCH UHT treated milk. Cafe con Leche is a was very variable: the last cab we took The weather was sunny and warm cheaper in Peru and we located some very staple, but try asking for a glass of milk! had 700,000 km on the odometer and during the day but cold at night. After friendly and good quality dentists. This is Milk is expensive, so they don’t serve it rumbled like a tank. freezing in some of the hotels, we found a good way to save some money to help much. out that you can rent a heater for an extra pay for travel. 4) Laundromats fee as even though it was winter in the Some of the most enjoyable There are always laundry services Cont’d On Page 32 Andes mountain range, there is no central activities we did were white water rafting available, and the quality is good since heating. on the Vilcanota river (a tributary to the they hand scrub the clothes, it just takes In the towns of Peru, people are a Amazon). The girls were in the front of mix of Spanish and first nations people the raft and screamed over each rapid! who are mostly Quechuan. The people We also spent a day horseback riding in the cities mostly wear westernized in the hills above Cusco, taking in the clothing; whereas the indigenous people lovely mountain views and ruins. This wear colourful distinct costumes and was a very free-wheeling horseback ride hats related to their local town / family. I where we could take off in any direction found it interesting how every town had a (as opposed to following in a line as is different hat. commonly done here). One night when we were on an Inca ruins are ubiquitous in southern overnight bus, crossing through a Peru, we saw the best ones in the Sacred mountain zone, we looked out the Valley including Machu Picchu. The window and saw a llama crossing sign. Incas always built their cities high on Llamas are all over Peru and their owners mountain ridges overlooking valleys. let them roam freely along with their This leads to some spectacular locations. alpacas, goats and cows. Each night the It’s hard to believe the amount of work people come and gather up their livestock that went into creating the terraces used because there are pumas in the hills. for agriculture and the perfectly cut stone Overall, we found our experience in buildings that they lived and worshipped Peru was filled with adventure, excitement in. and kind friendly caring people. We were able to pick up a lot of basic Spanish words on our trip including And James says: such hits as: “cuanta cuesta?”, “jugos de Peru is a country filled with naranja” and “aqua caliente por favor”. To breathtaking scenery, adventure and this day, in Quebec, we still mistakenly warm people. We toured Inca ruins high talk to shopkeepers in Spanish. The in the Andes mountains such as Machu girls got quite good at bargaining in the Picchu, Pisaq, Ollyantaytambo and merkados. Sacsayhuaman. The Inca specialized in Something that takes getting used building their terraced town sites high to is having to bargain for every item. on the mountainsides. They grew food in Nothing is a fixed price and every price terraces and this continues today. is up for discussion. The issue in Peru is Adventure highlights of the trip that as a gringo, people are always trying were white-water rafting in the Vilcanota to charge us more for things. river, a tributary to the Amazon; free- It was a bit spooky passing through range horse-back riding in the lovely hills some airports and bus terminals with the around Cusco while visiting ruin sites and H1N1 virus rampant, workers are wearing hiking to Machu Picchu. The hot springs masks – which leads one to ask – should I were a fabulous place to relax our muscles be wearing a mask? after hiking but we suspect that’s where we might have picked up ringworm. What We Are Grateful For Our family had a great time and Page 30 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

OCCSB TRUSTEE REPORT “PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST”

Kathy Ablett, R.N. elcome back to another will all work out. and 10 science textbooks Trustee Zone 9 school year and a very warm I look forward to meeting many of you at • $165,000 to continue Kindergarten Capital/River Wards Wwelcome to students joining parent information nights and renewing tutoring program in six Children Support us for the very first time. The first few acquaintances as the year unfolds. schools Telephone: 526-9512 weeks can be hectic, learning bus times, • $170,000 for child care support to classroom locations etc. but be assured it Transportation Enquiries enhance ESL training program Enquiries with regard to • $110,000 for Elementary arts transportation should be directed to the education including music, dance, drama Ottawa Student Transportation Authority and fine art at http://www.ottawaschoolbus.ca or by • $30,000 for Intermediate and telephone at (613) 224-8800. Secondary arts education. The budget highlights areas where Balanced 2009-2010 Budget the Board provides programs and Approved services that are distinctive in their The Board has approved a balanced Catholic vision. budget for the 2009-2010 school year “This balanced budget is focused totaling $388.5 million. on student success initiatives in “We are pleased with this balanced all elementary, intermediate and and compliant budget. It meets all secondary schools. It directs an Ministry of Education guidelines and additional $884,000 or 5.6% over our reserve for Working Funds 2009- that of last year towards classroom 2010 will be maintained at a level spending for 2009-2010,” said Director sufficient to meet Board requirements.” of Education, James McCracken. said Chairperson Gordon Butler. The budget provides educational This budget incorporates the programming for approximately 37,200 following new initiatives that directly students with enrolment growth of 0.2% benefit students and further enhance at the secondary level and a decrease of student and staff success: 3% for the elementary level. • 15 additional Special Education Go to http://www. Teaching Assistants ottawacatholicschool.ca/content. • 1.5 ESL teachers to support php?doc=43 for the June 9 Board intermediate students agenda package. • 1.0 Vice-Principal for pilot program at St. Patrick’s High School If, at any time, I can be of assistance • 1.0 increase for Principal/Vice- to you please do not hesitate to call me Principal/Guidance to support Safe at 526-9512. Schools portfolio and St. Nicholas Adult Sincerely, High School Kathy Ablett 3.5 additional staff for HR “Your Trustee” Leadership Development Branch • $120,000 additional start-up funding for St. Francis Xavier High School • $150,000 for additional Grade 9 OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 31

OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT Ontario School Board Governance Changes?

By Rob Campbell to provide more detailed and more recognizes the conundrum it has created Trustees or might move decision-making consistent reporting to the public and to for itself with respect to EQAO. In a to an executive committee and so forth. he government is modernizing its the Ministry. I have zero problem with this consultation paper released this June Boards inevitably have factions; however, relationship with school boards in as long as: the extra costs of compliance they frankly note their concern with and unless we wanted to also introduce a Ontario. It was a matter of time are recognized, expected multi-year plans getting the right balance between de facto party system on school boards T aren’t still subject to annually changing making sure both that Boards are not this is not a good way to go in my view. before this happened but also it has been prompted by the current government’s government funding and policy and as micromanaged (which would be poor Governance matters usually make involvement with a couple of Boards in a long as the government invites the public governance modelling!) and that we also people’s eyes glaze over I know. However high profile way the past few years. to hold it to account for the same measures somehow recognize the whole student. this time around at least, its worthwhile Most notoriously the Trustees provincially. Personally I recommend focusing on the for citizens to stay tuned and get involved at Toronto Catholic were providing More intrusively, the government ultimate rollup graduation rate and also when this all gets debated in the legislature themselves with lavish expense accounts, wants to reserve a new right to itself to take on gaps in EQAO achievement between and in the media in the Fall. personal assistants and also were not over boards, or to formally intervene with socioeconomic strata. If you have a suggestion or a dealing well with their deficit situation. them if their EQAO student achievement Finally, the government is proposing concern, or would like to be added to my There has been a lot of high profile in- or graduation rates are not up to snuff. Its setting some best practice standards for e-newsletter list, then please contact me fighting at Toronto Public regularly unclear to me there is any Board closed school boards. Again, I have no problem via [email protected] or at 323-7803. reported in the Star and elsewhere. Its to advice or not caring to improve and so with the basic idea, but might with the Meeting and document info available at unfortunate but true that Toronto really why such a heavy hand might be needed details. One floated proposal would allow www.ocdsb.ca is the centre of the universe for Ontario is unclear. a majority to discipline a minority of education and that what happens at those First and foremost, something like two boards really can affect the rest of the 40% of student achievement has been 70. shown to vary with socioeconomics, Consultation papers have been or factors located outside of the school produced and dialogue is ongoing setting, and we have very different Boards between education stakeholders and the across Ontario and have defined Boards’ government as we look forward to a draft mandates and limited funding. Also, Regulation which will hit the press early EQAO especially is a narrow criterion on Fall. The government could have gone which to base a notion of success - what several ways but has decided, in my view, about citizenship, physical and mental to propose a relative reform-lite. health, arts and music and so forth? They propose requiring Boards To its credit, the government See You In China!

By Rob Campbell

ore and more homeowners in Old Ottawa South appear to be taking advantage of the City’s lead pipe replacement program. Under the program, Mthe homeowner is responsible for the cost of digging on their property and the city on theirs. The city offers a one call service though by which the homeowner pays the city the homeowner’s portion. There is a waiting list to get on the program. Deciding to get this work done can be a judgement call based on lead levels, landscaping plans, financial constraints and other considerations. Call the city to enquire about the program if you are interested in joining it. In the Carlyle Avenue dig, pictured above, the homeowners elected, given their concern with protecting nearby tree roots, to largely coordinate the work on their side themselves. Pictured hard at work are their temporary labourers: Freja, Kueoni, Pablo, Torin, Grace, Margaret and Sam. The last known words of this enthusiastic crew were “See you in China!” and they have since vanished from the dig site.” Page 32 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

Hopewell Avenue Public School Turns 100! Open Door

By Candice Bernes

here are seven people going to sit to eat, to watch a movie, where are they going to sleep? The cooking pots are not big enough, the Wkitchen table is not big enough, the car is not big enough! Our family has decided to host two foreign students this year. We are not new to hosting. We have hosted students from Brazil and Japan, but only one at a time, and most of that time we only had two children of our own. Now our family is comprised of a rug-rat, two yard-apes, a German, a Mexican, two supreme commanders (so we like to think) and even our birds have had babies! The students are here to learn English and to experience life away from home. Why do we want them to stay with us? The busy-ness of everyday life and hockey bills seldom leave room for travel, so we bring the world to us. We have learned as much from our students as they have from us. Of course we have expanded our understanding of different cultures, but also we have learned about ourselves. It is an amazing thing to see your city through new eyes over and over again, to appreciate what is around you everyday that you have ceased to notice. Preconceived notions are challenged and our children learn to be open and welcoming. I love to watch our boys proudly explain things to the older students; and the best part is when our two year old brings th he 2009/2010 school year marks the 100 birthday of Hopewell Avenue me by the hand to make sure everyone gets their good-night kiss. Public School. What started as a small red brick school is now a vibrant We have a blackboard on the bathroom wall (our version of bathroom Tschool that is a hub for the community of Old Ottawa South. Stay tuned graffiti) and it is covered in expressions in Spanish, German, English, French for special events that will be organized for Hopewell students, Hopewell and Creole. We have a kitchen cupboard filled with food we would never had alumni and the community to celebrate 100 years of learning at Hopewell. known or tasted (chilli powder and sugar on watermelon?). We laugh our way through dinner more often than not. And when the students go back home, we The Hunter Family ... Cont’d keep in touch and even visit. A wise neighbour once told me that when you have three children, any from page 29 semblance of control you had over your life disappears. Chaos is the rule of the day and, because it is unavoidable, you give into it in an almost Zen The long distance buses were owned by kind of way. How much more so with five kids in the house. This is why our several different companies with a huge family would not trade this experience for anything. Life may be chaotic, but variation in quality. One bus we were on so are the best parties! broke down in the middle of nowhere for If you are interested in knowing more about opportunities to host international several hours, and we later saw a bus from the same company crashed into a bridge. students (teens and adults), please contact the OSCDB’s Homestay Managers 7Landscaping at: 613 686-6764 x2 or email ottawahosts@canadahomestayinternational. There was very little grass or trees in Peru com, or apply online at www.canadahomestayinternational.com , just lots of rubble and dirt everywhere. There was often very little aesthetically pleasing in our environment. 8) Pavement The road pavement in Peru leaves a bit to be desired. Specifically, there’s lots of potholes and cracks in the roads that make driving very bumpy. 9) Bathtubs It’s all showers in Peru, we didn’t see one bathtub. Perhaps this has to do with the quantity of water required.

There are many things in Peru that we will miss in Canada. Notably: 1) The laundry is hand scrubbed and really comes clean! 2) Food is prepared fresh every time with fresh ingredients, nothing is every frozen. 3) Fresh squeezed juice (squeezed while you wait) is available everywhere. 4) There is an incredible sense of history with the Inca ruins everywhere. The Inca society from long ago is communicating with us through the ruins. 5) Taxis: There are so many taxis available that you never have to call one or wait long. 6) Everything is very inexpensive in Peru. OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 33

Get Paid to Wait by Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, have cut dividends while others have problem is that over the past decade or The foregoing is for general FDS, R.F.P. actually increased their dividend payout so, people have been spending more than information purposes and is the to shareholders. they could afford and not re-investing in opinion of the writer. This information he headlines continue to report But, let’s first explain what a their future. is not intended to provide personal bad news. Corporate bailouts, dividend is and how we can use this Now let’s get back to our discussion advice including, without limitation, high unemployment figures and information to our advantage. The cash on dividends. Equity prices have fallen investment, financial, legal, accounting T flow or revenue of a company comes on an abundance of good quality or tax advice. Commissions, trailing ballooning government deficits, not to mention swine flu, make the average from the sale of goods and services. From businesses with superior products and commissions, management fees and Canadian wonder why invest in equities this income the company pays expenses services that continue to pay dividends. expenses all may be associated with at all? But what are the alternatives? such as salaries, materials, rent and other These businesses are well managed and mutual fund investments. Read the Interest rates are at historic lows. After operating expenses. The remainder is the stand to benefit greatly as the economic simplified prospectus before investing. taxes and inflation you are spinning your amount that the company has to claim as recovery takes hold. Many dividend Mutual funds are not guaranteed and wheels and going backwards by saving income. The government takes a share in rates on these companies are currently are not covered by the Canada Deposit in guaranteed investments. tax and the left over is either used by the in the 3-5% range and in some cases Insurance Corporation or by any other Given the volatility and negative company to re-invest in more modern higher. Have you looked at guaranteed government deposit insurer. There can news we have witnessed over the past equipment or buy supplies etc. The investment rates lately? It’s not easy to be no assurances that the fund will be year there are many who wonder if money that is left over after expenses, find a guaranteed rate in the 3-5% range. able to maintain its net asset value per investing in equities is really worth taxes and re-investment is what the Our investment strategy is simple. security at a constant amount or that it. Here’s a strategy that can prove to company has to reward its shareholders Always keep your short-term savings in the full amount of your investment in you that patience can really pay, with by way of a dividend. a safe and liquid investment. Have faith the fund will be returned to you. Fund dividends, literally. If you think about it, it’s very similar that there will be an economic recovery, values change frequently and past Yes, equity prices did fall and hit to the concept of cash flow management there always has been. Only invest in performance may not be repeated. bottom last March. However the sky did at a personal level. You earn income equities with your long-term savings. Please call or write to Rick Sutherland not fall and we appear to be recovering from employment. You pay your living This allows you to have patience and CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P., to discuss your nicely from the lows of last spring. expenses and taxes and then you can even invest more during market declines. particular circumstances or suggest a Meanwhile, many mutual funds invest either save or spend the remainder. The Consult with a trusted advisor who can topic for future articles at 613-798-2421 in businesses that have continued to amount you save is your investment in coach you through troubled times. And or E-mail [email protected]. pay dividends. Yes, some businesses your future. The amount you spend is get paid to wait. Mutual Funds provided through FundEX your personal dividend to yourself. The Investments Inc.

www.freecycle.org How to Revoke a Will Changing the world free & open to all By Anna Sundin children of the deceased spouse. might be unintended family squabbles There is also the example of a couple about who should be raising the minor 24 hours a day, 365 days a year here are four ways to revoke a who is in the process of separating. They children if both parents are deceased. will in the Province of Ontario. have started to negotiate a separation 1. By getting married agreement but are not yet divorced. T One of the spouses dies. The surviving Financial Divorce Specialist 2. By making another will 3. By a written document, provided spouse will likely inherit according to Avoid costly mistakes with professional financial it is signed like the will was signed, the terms of the will as there is no legal assistance in the division of assets. which is either in the hand writing of the presumption that the deceased intended testator or in front of 2 witnesses to revoke the will. There is also the 4. By taking some action to destroy possibility that the separation agreement the will with the clear and provable has been signed. Unless there is a release Contact: Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P. intention of revoking it. of the estate included in the agreement, 1276 Wellington Street, Ottawa ON K1Y 3A7 the surviving separated spouse might Although a marriage automatically Phone: (613)798-2421 Email: [email protected] revokes a will made prior to the marriage, also inherit according to the terms of the a separation does not automatically will in addition to the payment received revoke a will made during the marriage. pursuant to the Separation Agreement. However, after a divorce order is Common law spouses sometimes granted, any gift made in the will to assume that their common law Guidance, Protection the former spouse or appointment of a relationship means they are automatically former spouse as executor or trustee are entitled to inherit if the other spouse automatically revoked by the legislation. dies. That is not the case as common law and Peace of Mind. As a result, there may be spouses have no rights to inherit from the Anna E. Sundin, Barrister & Solicitor consequences that were not intended by deceased unless specifically mentioned GEnErAl PrActicE includinG: the Testator when the will was made. as a beneficiary in a will, even if they Family Law, Wills, Real Estate, Incorporations, Litigation and Collaborative Family Law For example, a dating couple each make have a long-standing relationship. – A Cooperative and Dignified Approach to Separation and Divorce.– a will taking into consideration their There are other good reasons for obligation to their children from previous making wills in addition to avoiding relationships. They then decide to get unintended consequences, such as the married, assuming that the previously ability to name a guardian of minor existing wills are still enforceable. In children. This is often an important fact, neither of them will have a valid will consideration for parents. The in such a circumstance. If either of them appointment of a guardian needs to be were to die before making a new will, confirmed by a court within 90 days of the survivor spouse has rights against the the date of death of the last surviving deceased spouse’s estate which might parent. However, if there is no statement have precedence over the rights of the in the will naming a guardian, there

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Local Veterinarian - Dr. Emily Black The Skinny on Fat Cats

By Emily Black Lets start with why it’s not a great amount of fat heads in the blood to thing to be overweight if you’re a cat. the liver where it congeals effectively s promised this week we are Reason #1; Diabetes. As in people shutting down the liver and killing going to talk about a subject there is a causal link between obesity the kitty. For this reason, all cats, but near and dear to my heart. I and diabetes in felines. The disease can especially our pet cats, should never A start up on it’s own due to this body type, really go for more than 24 hours without am the proud owner of an overweight Feline, the star of last weeks article; or it can be brought on by a number of eating and unfortunately, anorexia is a Mr. Fair Dinkum (Dink to his friends). other conditions as well as treatments as fairly common feline response to many Dinkum has a colossal belly on him. It a secondary complication. things that ail them both physically and is so impressive that many a young vet Reason #2: Hepatic Lipidsosis emotionally. student has mistook his paunch which (Fatty Liver). This is a deadly disease to Reason #3: Arthritis. Arthritis in weight loss or emotional blackmail…. extends 4cm either side of his skinny which Fat cats are particularly prone, for cats is a fairly underestimated disease Doesn’t make an ounce of difference to little legs for a disease called Feline the following reason. In the wild cats are because it’s hard to recognize a cat that the metabolic response of the cat. This Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). Nope, I say very very skinny, hunting for their food sleeps all day and doesn’t tend to move is the reason that a lot of the store bought with my trained eye, that’s just fat. and being riddled by parasites makes around much because they are sore from diet cat foods don’t actually cut it, because Now, as many of my clients will weight gain difficult. When any cat a cat that sleeps all day and doesn’t tend rapid weight loss in cats kills cats so they attest, I am the first to admit a generously stops eating, either through starvation to move around much because, well, can’t make an over the counter food that proportioned feline is one of the cutest or sickness, the natural response of their they’re a cat. Arthritis is a vicious circle causes weight loss without danger… and things on this planet, the way they walk body is to summon up all their available on its own, you don’t move because it is never a good marketing plan to kill with their little swagger, wee paws fat cells all at once for use to keep them you’re sore and not moving makes you off your customers. moving quickly in time just to keep up going until the next meal or until they more sore. If you throw in an extra 5 lbs Also, as already mentioned it is with the sway of their belly. It’s also regain sufficient health to eat again. In on top of already sore joints the pain is really really hard to deny our cats when hard to deny them food, especially when our chubby friends, mobilizing all their worse, and the not moving makes it more they bug us for food. They are skilled they ask so nicely and so often! colossal fat stores means a very large difficult to keep those 5 lbs off. Nasty. hunters and bring their tasty prey down Reason #4, and the most with a series of meows, leg twisting embarrassing: Dirty Bum syndrome. and relentless bombardment on their Many cats experience this highly hapless owners. Actually filling up a cat embarrassing syndrome in which they so they don’t beg for food goes a long find themselves with an ill kept hair way to helping curb the feeding cycle. coat, increased dander as well as dirty By increasing the fiber in the diet the Bum back from their shoulders. These cat feels full, they also have to spend cats seem to have beautifully clean more time chewing… both techniques shoulders but the sad truth of the matter designed to lengthen the time between is that due to their substantial girth, they feedings. can no longer flex sufficiently beyond On this same topic I always those shoulders to reach the rear half of recommend moving your cat’s food their bodies. They are unable to remove bowl from the kitchen. The kitchen is extra hair and convert it to hairballs, the natural congregating place in the the hair matts up and the dander which house, as such it is where the people are is normally sloughed with extra hair and a cat who wants attention will seek build up to make a greasy and flaky cat. out people. Often times the underlying The dirty bum predisposes them to both motivation of the begging isn’t hunger skin diseases and bladder infections as at all but rather a drive to interact. That well as being a humiliating cause for said when the food bowl is refilled, it’s embarrassment. a hard thing to resist, but often times in So what to do what to do. these cats you see them take one or two Nutrition: There are two schools bites and that’s it. They have used the on weightloss in cats, and both share food and that brief interaction to satiate aspects of validity. The first is the Atkins a need which could have been more school of weight management. Here it healthily addressed through a cuddle or is said that a diet high in protein low in a game. fat can support loss of fat tissue without That leads us to the second aspect jeopardizing crucial muscle tissue of weight loss; Exercise – now I want (such as heart muscle). The second is you to go out and buy yourselves little the weight watchers school of thought, mini cat treadmills… just stay with that where you increase the fiber of your diet image a second, it will make you have while decreasing but not eliminating the a better day I guarantee it. But you are fat. In doing so you decrease the drive right it is ridiculous. Cat’s don’t exercise to consume fatty calories and promote in the traditional sense, but they do play effective but slow weight loss. and vigorous playing for 20 minutes a In humans both can prove equally day can really go a long way not only to effective. In cats, the high protein weight increasing that sluggish metabolism but loss route has some unwanted side also lubricating the joints and promoting effects. As already mentioned, we don’t range of motion which will make more want our feline friends to loose weight exercise even easier. Great ways of rapidly… or they can die of fatty liver. It doesn’t matter why that fat is being mobilized, in the name of disease, or Cont’d on next page OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 35

M.P.P. OTTAWA CENTRE A Place to Call Home By Yasir Naqvi, MPP everyone in Ontario has the opportunity attend, representing dozens of service to achieve their full potential. Our plan organizations, affordable housing veryone needs a safe and affordable pledges to reduce the number of children providers and communities from across place to call home. Having a stable living in poverty by 25 per cent over 5 the city. This group spent two hours in living environment gives people years – that would translate into 90,000 working groups brainstorming ideas E kids being lifted out of poverty. and suggestions, and a summary of their the security they need to live a full and happy life. To ensure this happens, we have passed vision can be found in the Affordable We understand the importance of the first poverty reduction legislation Housing Consultation Report on my “home”, and that is why our government in Ontario, ensuring that successive website at yasirnaqvimpp.ca. is committed to improving access to governments remain focused on the fight If you were unable to participate in affordable housing in Ontario. To do against poverty. The Poverty Reduction the consultation last month, you can still this, we will need to make some serious Act 2009, passed in May, requires future submit your suggestions directly to me investments in social housing and take governments to report annually on their or you can visit the Housing Strategy bold steps toward establishing a plan that initiatives to reduce poverty and on key website at ontario.ca/housing. ensures sustainable affordable housing indicators of opportunity such as income We need a plan that will build for the future. levels, education, health and housing. It stronger communities and ensure all In June 2009, we signed the also requires Ontario to develop a new Ontarians reach their full potential, and Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing strategy at least every five years, and I look forward to hearing your ideas on agreement and pledged to invest $622 mandates future governments to consult how to achieve this. million in social and affordable housing before developing these strategies, Please do not hesitate to contact me for a total federal–provincial two year including consultation with those living at my Community Office at ynaqvi.mpp. commitment of $1.2 billion. This means in poverty. [email protected] or 613-722-6414 at we are investing: $153.9 million for new The cost of ignoring poverty is any time. Together, we are building a rental housing for low income seniors; simply too high. That is why we have greener, healthier and stronger Ottawa $28.8 million for new rental housing for developed a long-term plan to break the Centre! disabled persons; and $352.2 million for cycle of poverty. A key component of the repair and retrofit of social housing. lifting people out of poverty is ensuring In total, this program will build 4,500 adequate, affordable and suitable housing. new affordable housing units and repair To do this we need a plan – and we need approximately 50,000 social housing your help. units across Ontario. Our government is currently This is good news for affordable consulting Ontarians on the development housing here in Ottawa. So far, we have of a Long-Term Affordable Housing already announced $6 million for a 55- Strategy for Ontario. To make sure this unit project sponsored by Shepherds of plan is effective we need your thoughts, Good Hope, $720,000 for six units project ideas and suggestions. sponsored by the City of Ottawa, and On August 19, I hosted a community $18.3 million to build 248 new units at consultation on affordable housing to Beaver Barracks right here in Centretown. gather feedback and ideas to contribute This is all part of our larger Poverty to Ontario’s housing strategy. I was Reduction Plan to help ensure that so thrilled to see over 100 people

The Skinny on Fat Cats ... Cont’d from previous page accomplishing this include laser toys (be Enriching their lives means they are busy careful of the eyes), wrestle gloves and doing something else when they could be fetch up and down stairs. eating. At the cottage recently, everyone You can also increase the latent exercise hung out on the screened in porch all day. in your felines day by taking their daily They had access to inside but went to the food allowance and splitting it into little food bowl approximately half as often, dishes and dispersing them around your because they were busy. “The indoor cat house at various heights attainable with initiative” is a great program put on by the limited effort by your cat. The top of university of Ohio. It details numerous the dyer is a great place, or the top of the ways to enrich the life of your indoor cat, dresser in the guest room. You show the most of which are far easier and cheaper cats where the food is and then during than building a screened in porch. the day while you’re at work instead of So, before I finish I want to impart once having to get up from the floor to the again the importance of not allowing food bowl and back down, fluffy now has rapid weight loss in your cat. 10% of to “hunt” for his food around the house, their body weight loss per month is the there is a little more effort involved, it maximum they should lose and it should keeps him busy and he spends a few more be gradual. Oh, and Mr. Fair Dinkum calories eating. would like everyone to know that since This is an example of what we call the screened in porch incident he is life enrichment. It works just as well in down by 0.2kg but more importantly, cats as it does in people. As I always he has a clean bum! Goes to show that say, it doesn’t matter how hard or how sometimes a little change can make a lot long I run, at least it gets me away from of difference. the fridge. The same applies to cats. Page 36 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

SURROUND CIRCLE YOGA Get “Pinked” with Yoga

By Maureen Fallis that protect, thus leaving us even more minutes of shavasana (deep relaxation). Surround Circle Yoga vulnerable to the disease. The results were sound: the yoga group Yoga, now considered beyond showed improvements in their physical ancer changes everything.” the fringe of alternative medicine, is fitness and their heart rate, both when Cancer survivors commonly a wonderful tool for releasing stress, resting and after exercise. They found reflect on how their lives have calming the central nervous system and the yoga group compared to the control C stilling a busy mind. Whether newly group had significantly less tension, been transformed ~ often, they say, it’s been for the better. Before diagnosis, the diagnosed, in treatment, recovering or a anxiety, depression, confusion, anger, stress of daily living, the frenetic pace cancer survivor, a gentle and restorative fatigue, and emotional irritability. The of a demanding job, or the race towards style of yoga is ideal for healing. one surprising negative finding was what might seem like a better future Stretching and movement with intention the students reported more pain, which just over the horizon, can be the cause and attention is paramount. However, researchers speculated might be related of much unhappiness and heartache. At it is important not to overdo the yoga to increased body awareness as a result the time of a cancer diagnosis, many practice. The cardinal rule, “do less” of their practice. The research on this people find themselves taking stock of comes from Sudha Carolyn Sundeen, my continues… their lives. Questions come up, “Am I beloved Kripalu yoga teacher and three- Managing one’s cancer can be a spending my time and energy wisely? time breast cancer survivor. She taught difficult, demanding task. Even with “Am I doing what I am supposed to be me to, “Remember that healing is a the consistent support from family and doing here on this earth?” “Have I taken body-mind-spirit process. It may or may friends, each day can be a struggle to advantage of my strengths and interests to not include a “cure” but when movement assess one’s failing energy, to change or do meaningful work?” Being diagnosed feels impossible or progress seems sometimes just endure the uncomfortable, stalled, it’s best to visualize what it felt often painful side-effects of treatment, with cancer or not, asking these types Maureen Fallis - Photo by Eva Seilitz of questions can be beneficial for all. like when the actual pose or movement to struggle against depression at the Sometimes it takes a life-threatening was possible.” thought of further weakness and death. diagnosis to slow down enough to do Susi Hately Aldous, founder One cannot overestimate the value, to cancer a 45-minute private yoga session this important work. Healing requires of Functional Synergy, along with someone in that condition, of a moment for a fee of $10.00 (value of $45.00). slowing down, an unravelling of tension, researchers from the University of of ease, joy, and well-being. The proceeds from this initiative will be an unwinding of the senses, a calming of Calgary, studied the effects of yoga To help relieve the stress of living donated to Breast Cancer Action Ottawa. the mind from its incessant worrying and on cancer survivors. The study was with cancer, to help you breathe a sigh of thinking ahead of dreadful possibilities. designed to compare how women relief while rebuilding your resources of To find out more about classes, A challenging task at the best of times who were treated for breast cancer felt energy, and to provide a safe and sacred workshops and or to register for the becomes still tougher when informed compared to a control group during place to clear away the mental debris Pink Partnership Program, please call of having a tumour growing inside and after participating in a once-a- through yoga and meditation, Surround 613-730-6649. Surround Circle Yoga is you. While acute stress has the effect week seventy-five minute yoga class Circle Yoga is pleased to announce the located in Southminster United Church, of stimulating the cells that protect our for seven weeks. The class consisted launch of ‘Pink Partnership’ with Breast 15 Aylmer Avenue (Bank Street & system; chronic stress, the kind of daily of gentle breathing in the pose Viparita Cancer Action Ottawa. From October the Canal in Old Ottawa South). The worry and constant pressure, akin to Karani (Legs-Up-the-Wall), which was 2009 to October 2010, Surround Circle entrance is on Galt Street on the 2nd what a cancer patient might typically followed by fifty minutes of gentle Yoga will be offering anyone who floor. www.surroundcircleyoga.com experience, markedly depresses the asana (postures) modified to meet their has been diagnosed, is being treated, function of the natural “killer cells” needs, and finally they ended with fifteen recovering &/or is a survivor of breast

l’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa

Nouveau : Cercle de de ce genre peuvent encourager le conférences, totalement en français et amoureuse de son curé Joseph Roy en perfectionnement de leur vocabulaire et sans traduction simultanée, sera donnée 1916. Ils fuient le nord ontarien pour discussions articulation. Ainsi va de même pour tous par Francis Beaulieu, le directeur du prendre pignon sur rue à Billings Bridge Par Jean-Claude Dubé ceux qui veulent améliorer leur usage du Muséoparc de Vanier le 21 octobre, 19h, où Joseph Roy achète plusieurs terrains [email protected] français. dans l’auditorium de la bibliothèque sur la rue Pleasant Park et l’avenue La première soirée du Cercle de municipale, rues Metcalfe et Laurier Billings. Ils y eurent trois enfants. nspiré du succès des rencontres discussion aura lieu à 19h le jeudi 15 ouest. L’entrée est libre et le public Plus tard, Joseph Roy délaisse sa mensuelles de son Cercle de lecture, octobre 2009 au « The Arrow and the y est cordialement invité. Monsieur conjointe et ses enfants pour retourner Il’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa Loon », à la croisée de Bank et 5ieme Beaulieu parlera des premier temps de ce à sa vocation religeuse. Claire Trépanier vous propose des soirées bistro pour avenue, dans le Glebe. Pour commencer musée voué à l’histoire et le patrimoine décrit la misère noire et la vie minable son nouveau Cercle de discussions. le jeu, le sujet choisi pour ce soir-là sera : francophone de l’Ontario. de Marie-Louise qui éleva trois enfants Chaque mois, un sujet d’actualités sera « Le Parc Lansdowne et son avenir ». Claire Trépanier, membre de durant les durs jours de la Grande choisi pour être discuté en français tout L’ambiance sera une de convivialité et première heure du Cercle de lecture de Dépression. Marie-Louise a demeuré en mangeant (ou buvant) dans un bistro de camaraderie. Les sujets et endroits l’Amicale donnera une conférence sur dans Ottawa-sud sur la rue Bank et puis de notre voisinage. Ces rencontres ne subséquents seront choisis par accord son livre « C’est le temps d’en parler » le Sunnyside. Ensuite, elle demeura dans seront pas structurées et auront pour commun des participants d’une rencontre 14 octobre, 19h, aussi dans l’auditorium la Glebe et puis en Haute-ville et puis la but d’encourager l’usage de la langue à l’autre. de la bibliothèque municipale rue Côte de Sable. de Molières par les francophones et Les membres de Ottawa Heritage ont Metcalfe et Laurier ouest. C’est une histoire fascinante et de francophiles du voisinage. Beaucoup de adopté le nouveau nom constitutionnel Claire Trépanier, qui habite le grand intérêt local. Claire Trépanier francophones vivent et travaillent dans de « Ottawa Heritage / Patrimoine Glebe, a écrit l’histoire vraie de Marie- mérite d’être encouragée en allant à sa des milieux où leur langue maternelle Ottawa » lors de leur assemblée Louise, une jeune fille de Hanmer, en conférence. n’a pas la priorité et des rencontres annuelle ce printemps. Une de leurs Ontario qui devient l’objet de l’affection OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 37 Music Education By Arthur McGregor ran it for 3 years. I have a B.C.H. with earning regular money. To earn regular honours!) money, we have to have ‘good’ jobs. And usic education are two words So, why is education in the arts on so we are confronted with an education that carry both a huge amount the wane? Indeed, funding for the arts system designed to fill those jobs to earn of baggage and, at the same is constantly in jeopardy in all areas of that money to… well, you can see where M our society and that jeopardy is based this is going. time, an offer of a doorway to a future of escape, joy, discovery and sharing. on sub-standard funding and leadership Over the past couple of decades, to begin with! Is the need for job fodder Research has shown a lot of the inclusion of music education in our to fill the perceived requirements for the what we are doing in computer school curriculums has become spotty at multi-national corporations driving us to studies, especially at the best and non-existent at worst. (Actually, ignore the humanistic areas of education? lower grades, is not useful, the thought of a teacher with no musical Are math and sciences offered as the particularly when it is done at background offering a music education panacea for job-worries in this world of the expense of more hands on in our schools is just about as scary as international free trade and economic activity such as the arts. Dennis no music education in our schools!) Our priorities? Are the multi-nationals F. Tupman, April 24, 2000 current education system seems to be set. offering funding for computers, labs etc. focusing on teaching our kids how to As I had no idea what I wanted to leading students to these fields of study? Music education (interchangeable get a job in the new “global economy’, do with my life after highschool, I was Is this a bad thing? with ‘Arts Education’) offers a different without considering if this is necessarily expected to go to university because “you Is this movement to ‘education for direction for our growth. It is commonly how to become better humans, or better can’t get a good job without a university employment’ as opposed to ‘education accepted that music education helps Canadians. By the time our kids get to the degree”. At that time a general arts to make better choices’ driven by our develop critical areas of the brain and end of high school, 16 or 17 years of age, degree was the focus of many, a choice endless need for more ‘stuff’? We are creates a more rounded person. If we the choices are often based on whether that was considered a dead end job-wise. constantly bombarded with solicitations consider the meaning of ‘more rounded’, you want to be employed at the end of (Ironically, although I dropped out of to buy more, cheaper, now, bigger, we enter the area of social responsibility, university or not. Take a computer/math/ classes after my first year, I did receive faster… the adjectives are as numerous science/business degree and you’ll be a big chunk of training at Carleton U: as the colours of iPod nanos. In order Cont’d on page 38 I started Rooster’s Coffee House and to amass all this ‘stuff’, we have to be COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS Access Your Email More Efficiently By Malcolm and John Harding, the site a Favorite for easy access in the can choose to download only selected of Compu-Home future. This web-based access used to be attachments or, preferably, you can a bit clunky, but now actually has many write back to Aunt Mabel and ask her to ands up, all those people who advantages over a client: be more considerate! don’t use their computers Universal access: Whether you are Integrated calendar: It’s primarily for email - not very in an Internet cafe in Moosejaw, or your extremely easy to use the web-based H sister’s computer in Halifax, or have calendars, and they have the added many, in our experience. Despite the recent estimates that spam is well over just switched from your desktop in the bonus of being able to trigger emails to 80% of today’s email traffic, there are office to your laptop on the porch, your be sent to your Inbox to remind you of still lots of attractive features in email mail website is exactly the same in all your scheduled events. that make it so popular: you have a of those locations, with no special setup written record, and the ease of filing required. Just enter your password and Switching to web-based access of correspondence efficiently and digitally your Inbox is waiting for you. All of your email doesn’t have to be an all- will eventually make filing cabinets into your incoming and outgoing messages or-nothing thing. Give it a try, and quaint antiques, and furthermore, you are are in their folders, and not just the see if you appreciate its advantages. not tied to someone else’s convenience ones that you sent from this particular Eventually, you will probably prefer it. as you are with a phone call. computer, as would be the case if you There are two main strategies in were using a client. Malcolm and John Harding dealing with email: First, you can use No setup required: If you buy are the owners of Compu-Home, a program on your computer, called a new computer there is no need to go specializing in assisting home and a client. The most popular client is frantically searching for the esoteric small business computer users. Outlook Express, which comes free with mess of data that you need to set up a Visit www.compu-home.com and all versions of Microsoft Windows. OE’s client so that it can log into your email go to Suggested Websites to see a list big brother, Outlook has a few additional account – just go to the website and get of our favourite useful and interesting features such as a calendar/scheduler, started. websites. but you have to buy it separately or Reduced spam: When an email Write to as part of the Microsoft Office suite. comes to your provider’s incoming mail harding@ Another very popular freeware client is server, most of them filter spam to a compu-home. Thunderbird, from Mozilla, and there special folder. Later if your client logs com or phone are many others. Macintosh users have into your account, that spam is usually 613-731-5954 the choice of Mail, the client that comes downloaded onto your computer along to discuss with their OS, or Mac versions of most of with the legitimate messages. When computer issues, the popular alternatives. Their downside your access is web-based the spam stays or to make is that clients have to be meticulously in its folder, and can be checked and suggestions for set up so that they can log into your emptied at your leisure. Your Inbox is future columns. email account, and they have a wealth of far less clogged this way. possible options and preferences, which Customized folders: Whether you vary from program to program, and from organize your messages by subject, by version to version. date, or by sender/recipient, the new The second strategy for using web-based interfaces allow you to create email is to bypass the client altogether. folders for efficient storage. An increasing number of people are Improved speed: If you are an finding they prefer this route. Most Outlook Express user and Aunt Mabel Internet Service Providers, (and also the sends you six huge digital photos of the email providers like Gmail and Yahoo wedding, the next time you log into your Mail) have websites you can log into account you will be stuck for however to manage your email that allow all of long it takes for them to download to the functionality of a client (and more) your computer. (If you are a dialup user without the limitations. You can find that might literally be forever – your your ISP’s email website very easily by client will probably timeout over and logging into their homepage – they all over again before the message finishes have a button there and you can make downloading.) With web access you can see the potential problem remotely. You th Page 38 The OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR OCT 2009 Red Apron Cooks ith Harvest Season in full or spirits from the Otherworld (sound Halloween! pork and brushing with cold mop every swing, we have been inspired familiar?). 45 minutes, about 6 hours total. Wby the abundance of local This year Halloween/Samhain falls Slow Roasted Heritage Boar If using a BBQ, add more charcoal produce to challenge ourselves to create on a Saturday so it might be an opportunity as needed to maintain 225°F. to 250°F. two weeks of Red Apron Menus in which to do something a little different. Why For dry rub temperature. the key ingredients will be sourced from not host your own Samhain party and start 3 tablespoons coarsely ground black Transfer pork to clean rimmed local growers and producers within a 100- some new traditions? pepper baking sheet. Let stand until cool enough mile radius of Ottawa. Visit our website at And what might we do to prepare 3 tablespoons (packed) dark brown sugar to handle. Shred into bite-size pieces. www.redapron.ca for more information. for a Samhain festival? I think we would 3 tablespoons paprika Mound on platter. Pour any juices from We will also be preparing a number of focus on cooking food items that remind 2 tablespoons coarse salt sheet over pork. . Re-warm in a 350°F tasty treats for Thanksgiving, which us of the fall harvest – apples, pumpkins, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper oven covered for 25-30 minutes. can be picked up, in our Retail Pantry, slowly roasted meats, fall fruits, nuts and 2 untrimmed boneless pork shoulder including whole roast turkey with all the seeds.. We should decorate our home halves about 6 pounds total – preferably Butternut Biscuits trimmings, and much more. Visit our with pine cones, pumpkins, gourds and heritage breed pork like Tamworth or website for a complete list. Quantities on autumn leaves. We might even invest in a Berkshire. 4 cups all-purpose flour some items are limited so call in advance deck of Tarot cards and tap into our inner 1 tablespoon baking powder to reserve. psychic. And since it’s a form of New For mop 1 tablespoon baking soda October is also that time of the year Year, we might want to reflect upon some 1 cup apple cider vinegar ½ teaspoon salt where we celebrate Halloween which resolutions we might want to make for the 1/2 cup water 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon has it’s roots in Celtic celebration of winter months. 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg “Samhain” (pronounced sow-en). This For a quick and healthy dessert, try 1 tablespoon coarsely ground black ½ cup sugar Gaelic festival became associated with stuffing and baking apples. Hollow out pepper 1 ½ cup cold butter, cut into cubes the All Souls’ Day and eventually became the core of an apple and stuff it with 1 tablespoon coarse salt 1 cup butternut puree (Roast Butternut Halloween. Samhain was identified whatever you like: chopped walnuts, 2 teaspoons vegetable oil and scoop out flesh, mash with a potato in Celtic literature as the beginning of almonds, brown sugar, cinnamon, masher) the Celtic year and today contemporary nutmeg, raisins, granola, even chocolate This recipe can be slowly roasted 2 eggs beaten calendars produced by the Celtic League chips. Bake them with a bit of butter on a BBQ or in the oven. It is important 3/4 cup buttermilk begin and end at Samhain. and apple juice in a casserole dish for 20 to keep the temperature under 250°F 1 teaspoon vanilla Samhain was time to take stock of minutes until the apples are tender and the degrees F. If doing on the BBQ, the the herds and grain supplies, and prepare flavours have melded. flavour would be enhanced by wood Preheat oven to 450 F. Lightly for the winter. There was feasting, music, Our Menus for this month focus smoke chips, soaked in cold water at grease a baking sheet. fortune telling and games, including one on some very local and very seasonal least 30 minutes. Whisk together flour, sugar, salt, where young people would put on strange ingredients and will require a bit of baking, powder, cinnamon, nutmeg. disguises and roam about the countryside, cooking time – but what better way to Make dry rub: Place flour mixture in a food processor pretending to be the returning dead spend the last day of the old year? Happy fitted with the metal blade. Add cold Mix first 5 ingredients in small bowl to butter and pulse until mixture resembles blend. coarse breadcrumbs. Place pork, fat side up, on work Remove to a bowl and stir in surface. Cut each piece lengthwise butternut, buttermilk, eggs and vanilla. in half. Place on large baking sheet. Mix just until moistened and a soft Sprinkle dry rub all over pork; press into dough forms. If the dough is too wet pork. Cover with plastic; refrigerate at to handle, stir in additional flour, just least 2 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. enough so you can handle it. Keep chilled.) Scoop dough using a large ice-cream scoop and place on prepared pan 1 inch Make mop: apart and brush with melted butter or egg wash. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes, until Mix first 6 ingredients in medium bowl. golden brown. Cover and refrigerate. If cooking in the oven set the Yield: about 18 large biscuits temperature to 250°F , cook covered until meat thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 165°F., turning

Curbside Give Away - Weekends 2009 • Fall Give Away Weekend will take place at the end of Waste Reduction Week – Saturday, October 24 and Sunday, October 25, 2009 http://city.ottawa.on.ca/residents/recycling_garbage/giveaway/index_en.html

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personal responsibility, quality of life and F. Tupman the choices that resonate from those. This Which all leads to learning to be will help us make critical decisions in life: more musical in your lives. Singing, who to vote for (not the guys who cut the playing an instrument, joining a musical arts!), how religion fits in your lives, how group, drumming, all of these are mindful to deal with stress and difficulties, how to undertakings that could not only fill your help yourselves and others. days with music but indeed, change your way of living. And age is not a The Getty Foundation for consideration! the Arts affirms that our arts C’mon…give it a try. We have programs should balance the great teachers, interesting courses following principles in what is and… called disciplined-based arts instruments for sale or rent. education: perceiving, creating, Guitar picks are fifty cents. comprehending, and judging. Much fun, much foolin’ round, From: Recapturing Soul and Come make a musical sound…. Spirit: Towards a Vision For Arts Then all you have to do is play, Education in Canada By Dennis just play. OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 39 The Threads of Weaving: Sixty Years of the Guild Ottawa Weavers’ and to the present membership of over a fingertips. However, throughout the “More Than Cloth” th hundred. In 1986, the Guild grew again exploration and experimentation of the Ottawa Valley Weavers’ and Spinners’ Spinners’ Guild 29 st with the addition of spinners and now 21 century, the threads still lead back Guild Exhibition and Sale - More encompasses many fibres arts. to the simple techniques of the backstrap 29th Exhibition and Sale, Oct. 30, 4-8, Than Cloth The interlacing of yarns may remain loom and the crofters’ cottages. Oct. 31, 10-5, Nov. 1, 10-4 the same, but the styles and fashions The OVWSG 60th Anniversary Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third By Heather Sherrat have changed over the years from the Exhibition and Sale gives everyone the Avenue, Ottawa technically correct patterns of the ‘40s opportunity to see the traditional and Free Admission and ‘50s, to the earthy experiments of contemporary entries in the Challenge Free Parking at Corpus Christi School he basic techniques of weaving the ‘60s, to the new yarns and computer and to buy from the wide variety of after 6 pm Friday have not changed for many st assisted weaving of the 21 century. fibres artists exhibiting at the Show at the www.OVSWG.com Tcenturies in many cultures around The 2009 60th Guild Anniversary Glebe Community Centre. the world. From the ancient Egyptians’ Annual Exhibition and Sale, October fine cottons and the delicate silks from 30, 31, November 1, includes a juried China to the backstrap looms still in exhibition, The 60th Anniversary use in parts of Africa, the interlocking Challenge. Both these anniversary of threads has been part of the art and events reflect the changes in fashion in culture of civilization for thousands weaving, from the intricate designs and of years. In North America, the early fine weaving of linen and cotton table settlers brought the more portable parts wear, to the funky woven wire sculptures of their looms with them from Scotland, of Denise Atkinson and classic baskets Germany, Scandinavia and other parts of John Toft. The traditional crafts of of Europe. They rebuilt their looms rug hooking and felting have come alive with local wood and set to work using under the skilled hands of Loretta Moore the patterns and techniques of their and Edwina Sutherland. Many weavers homelands. such as Francesca Overand, Judith Rygeil Handweaving today reflects the traditions and Ellen Good combine dye techniques of these early pioneers but incorporates with weaving to create new effects, new technologies, new ideas and new while some prefer to produce their own fibres. In the ‘40s, handweaving began yarns from their herds of alpacas, llamas to re-emerge from the shadow of the and angora goats. industrial revolution, partly due to New natural fibres such as bamboo, soy increased leisure time and partly as or tensel, made from wood fibres, have rehabilitation for returning war veterans. opened avenues of exploration in colour As interest grew, so did weaving groups and texture for other weavers. Computer and guilds, with the aim of promoting technology has been applied to the and developing their craft. The Ottawa ancient art and computer assisted designs Valley Weavers’Guild, formed in 1949, and looms have put complex patterns and has grown from a group of five weavers colour combinations at the handweavers’

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260 FINGERS: 26 of Ontario and Quebec’s Finest Potters and Clay Artists

Glebe Community Centre 175 Third Avenue Ottawa Ontario Opening Night: Friday November 6, 6-9 pm Saturday November 7 and Sunday November 8 from 10 am to 5 pm

or the fifth consecutive year, the Glebe Community Centre is the place to see 26 of Ontario and Quebec’s finest potters and clay artists under one Froof. In a gallery-like setting in the beautiful main room of the community centre, the visitor will see an impressive display of ceramic art that ranges from sculptural to functional; from wildly exuberant colour to understated earth tones; from contemporary forms and decoration to more traditional styles. As well as the fact that all the artists work with clay, what they have in common and display in this invitational exhibition is originality of expression and a high level of proficiency and craftsmanship. Many of the artists have been recognized nationally and inernationally. New this year are two exceptional artists form Quebec- Audrey Killoran from Montreal and Kinya Ishikawa, the well known founder of 1001 Pots in Val David Quebec as well as Diane Sullivan, a highly original ceramic artist from Alberta who has recently moved to Ottawa. The vernissage on Friday evening from 6 to 9 pm will give visitors a chance to be among the first to view and select from the works of these 26 potters and clay artists. This elite show comes to Ottawa only once a year – it’s the first and only chance in 2009 to see the collected works of these celebrated artists and to purchase their artwork. The artists come from many rural and urban areas- Ottawa, Montreal, southern Ontario and many rural parts of eastern Ontario and western Quebec such as Perth, Almonte, Wakefield, Chelsea and Prince Edward County and Burnstown. The exhibition and sale will continue Sat. Nov. 7 and Sun. Nov. 8 from 10 am to 5 pm. Visitors are invited to join guided tours on both these days at 2 pm. Page 40 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT OTTAWA CENTRE Protecting Nortel’s Employees

By Paul Dewar money to completely pay all the debts. It is doing so by claiming rights to the to the government to protect their hard- Through no fault of their own, Nortel income earned by the sale of Canadian earned pensions, severance packages his summer many people in our employees and pensioners will be the assets. As such there will be nothing left and LTD benefits. I believe that the gov- communities were worrying ones who will suffer the most. As it for pensioners here. Despite these grim ernment must also take action to keep about how they were going to pay stands today, the Nortel pension is under- facts the federal government has done Nortel’s high-paying jobs, its patents and T funded by more than one billion dollars. nothing to protect Canadian interests. properties in Canada. the bills. The economic recession has hit Ottawa like the rest of the country partic- This means that at best Nortel pensioners The federal government does have Protecting pensions while saving ularly with the loss of good paying jobs will receive 30 percent less pension than a role to play in safeguarding Nortel Canadian jobs and know-how will be a in the high tech sector. they are owed. Nortel employees who pensions and LTD benefits. The Parlia- focus of my work in parliament this fall. One of the most prominent issues in are currently receiving long term disabil- ment has already endorsed solutions put In late August Mayor Larry O’Brien my office over the past several months ity (LTD) benefits will be doubly hit. Not forward by New Democrats. Our plan wrote an article in the Ottawa Citizen has been the situation at Nortel Networks only will their pension be reduced, but for pension reform was adopted in the stating that Nortel was not the ‘poster and the limbo in which thousands of cur- their LTD benefits will cease as soon as House of Commons. One key aspect of boy’ for high tech companies in Ottawa. rent and past employees now find them- the Nortel sell off is completed. this plan would give pensioners priority While Mayor O’Brien may want to look selves. At a time when governments at all at the head of the creditors’ line should forward he should remember the thou- In the absence of federal leadership levels should be asking what they can a company declare bankruptcy. This is sands of Nortel employees who made to save Canadian jobs and know-how, do to minimize the impact of the Nortel an approach similar to the way the US the high tech industry in Ottawa what it Nortel is now being broken up into piec- bankruptcy, they continue to close their is protecting Nortel pensions for its citi- is today. es and sold off to the highest bidder. The eyes to the problem. In the United States, zens. It’s time for the Conservatives to money earned from the sales will be used the U.S. Pension Benefit Guarantee Cor- act on these solutions. to pay off debts incurred by the company. poration has stepped in to protect the At this time of crisis, thousands of However, there will not be enough pensions of US based Nortel employees. Nortel’s past and present employees look

Do Wars Ever End?

By Jennifer Jones Patulli of war. Two important ethnic markers of war and trauma are “chosen trauma,” n May 2003, U.S. President George and “chosen glory.” The traumas and W. Bush declared the end of major glories of a group weave together to combat in Iraq. Insurgency, guerrilla form an important part of their identity I and group story. This story gets told warfare, riots and looting put a question mark on his statement. from generation to generation, and helps Reflecting on what this question to define a group’s relationship with their mark meant to me, I came across a book world. The socio-cultural effects of war called Every War Must End by Fred can persist for centuries after the final Charles Ikle (2005). Ikle argues that it is bomb is dropped. Two examples are: the a lot easier to get into a war than to get historic battle of Kosovo (in 1389) still out of one. He uses historical examples forms an important part of the Serbian to show the difficulty in pinpointing the socio-cultural story; and in Quebec, real endings of wars. Despite the debates the battle at the Plains of Abraham (in over the war in Iraq, Ikle does not make 1759) recently re-surfaced as a wound in an anti-war argument; rather, he calls nationalist identity. attention to the need for reflection on Jean-Paul Lederach presents us with war, its effects, and its reality in our a more optimistic look at ending wars. lives. In, Building Peace (1998), Lederach In my research, I found that war approaches conflict as a process. In this does, in fact, extend far beyond the example, ending war means engaging cease-fires and the peace-treaties. The with the peace-building process. The reality of war is entangled with long- peace-building process seeks to transform Need Renovations? term psychological and socio-cultural a war-system (the system of an area that effects. For better, or worse, these long- is deeply divided, hostile and violent) term effects shape who we are and how into a peace-system (interdependent we interact with our world. system that can apply non-violent In, Trauma and Recovery (1997) conflict management mechanisms). Judith Herman focuses on post- The goal of peace-building is to attain a traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a continuous, dynamic, self-regenerating lingering psychological effect of war process. It is not an “ending” of and trauma. PTSD surfaces in many something undesirable; rather, Lederach ways, and its healing is a complex issue. argues that the peace-building process In Herman’s examination of trauma is way of constructively transforming healing, she alerts us to power in seeing, conflicts. or recognizing trauma, and its effect For my own reflection, I believe on our definition of reality. She argues that ending a war is a complex issue that trauma isolates people and destroys that requires a lot more attention than social bonds. For the survivor, speaking is provided through a victory speech Custom Designed Additions and about the trauma has the creative power and a post-war military exit strategy. to restore social bonds. Healing is Understanding both the dynamics of the Major Renovations that respect the possible, although, it may take many war and the complexity of its ending are years and sometimes many generations key factors in creating future stability for Craftsmanship and Architectural (due to the intergenerational transference all parties involved. of trauma). Healing from PTSD, and Jennifer Jones Patulli style of your older home. healing trauma, she argues, is a part of MA Candidate, Conflict Studies 594-8888 our post-war reality. Saint Paul University / University of In, Bloodlines (1998), Vamik D. Ottawa www.gordonmcgovern.com Volkan explains the socio-cultural effects OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 41 Tasty Tidbits From Trillium Bakery The Baker Who Wouldn’t Go Home: Zen is the Art of …. By Jocelyn LeRoy up racks of burnt cookies, and unpacked paying the bills, the rent, the suppliers, times, by contributing to the happiness cases of jams, coffees and juices. A employees, the tax man, none who had and well-being of the bakery and thus nce upon a time, some people mountain of flour sacks would soon an ounce of sympathy for even an hour turning their own lives around, after life worked at a job until it was take over the kitchen space. There area a of lateness. Ever. had thrown them unexpected curve balls. done, and then they got paid for million little tasks as well as the baking The look that he gave me was of A healing space can raise the spirit. O production: we do the quick step. pure incredulity. That I would even their labour, by contract price, by the hour, or by bartering. Our frustrated architect plunged in mention such mundane things, so far Down to Earth Apple Pie And, once upon a Trillium time, we wholeheartedly. He was often a little beneath his passion for his work, his employed one of the best bakers we’ve late, but ever so wiling to make it up at artistic self-expression. His contribution • Your favourite pie crust, fresh, frozen, ever known. Unusually focused, skilled, the end of the day. In fact, he suggested to the world of art, and breadmaking in wholegrain or white flour kind, polite, patient, and devoted to his he could sleep here if it was too late to particular was not being recognized as • Peel and slice 6 cups of apples craft and to our little bakery. Actually, catch his bus. the glorious act of creation to which he • Sprinkle with ground cinnamon we taught him how to bake bread, which I thought that a bit odd. so lovingly devoted himself. • Toss in a handful of flour is what he wanted to learn. He had a Om my What to do? • Add sugar to taste (anywhere from ½ knack for it – the sensitivity to and Some of the breads were coming We dug deep into our own creative cup to 2 cups) brown or white is fine understanding of the dough and how it out of the oven in unique shapes. wells to find a way to avoid the inevitable • Stir carefully to coat all the apple pieces works. Submarines, skyscrapers, log fences,,, – the door – back out into the real world. • Dot with small pieces of butter This gentleman had been an all kinds of brilliant designs. Theses He painted the bakery – he helped Options: architect in New York City. He told us took a long to create and perfect, each me with flowers, he campaigned to save • Save some pie dough for a lattice top he was overwhelmed by the fast pace, and every one had its own distinctive our lilac tree, and I even enlisted him • Use a second pie crust for a top. Slit deadlines (I should have paid more work of art. to participate in the Winterlude snow top with a knife for air to escape. Crimp attention), and hustle and bustle of a Our baker was getting happier by sculpture competition, thinking an edges to seal top and bottom crust. huge city. He seemed to be a thoughtful the day. Our baker had found his niche! architect on board would give us the edge • Top with granola or oat crumble. person, seeking a more ‘hands-on’ and He was practicing the art of zen. No one to win. Eventually, he moved on, and • Some fresh cranberries added to the slower paced career. wanted to ruin these creatures by eating surprisingly – he left quite cheerfully. pie add a nice tartness and colour. Not that we move slowly in the them. Our payroll was rolling over the “The best experience of my lifetime.” • Bake at 350 -375 F until crust is golden bakery. top. “You should just pay me however I’m not sure that was really true. and apples are tender. If we did we’d have a riot of long it takes. I’m willing to work twelve Next month, I’ll tell you about three Bon appétit! overflowing rising bread, Dali-esque to fifteen hours each day or night.” amazing people who healed themselves cakes draping out of their pans, backed I explained the stark reality of from their “dark places” and difficult OTLBC’s Lawn Bowling .... Cont’s from page 15 Park, New Edinburgh, Central, Glebe, and of a future uptick of interest in bowling, the major problems of small membership value received by member players (and Elmdale…’ Of these original clubs, only which is wished for the remaining clubs, and low fees made it difficult to pay the match cost to deliver). Something is Highlands (Westboro), Elmdale (Civic they could be well-positioned to serve the bills and maintain the facilities… the right because our proportion of returning Hospital) and Central (at the northeast next bowling generation. importance of aggressive membership members has stabilized and grown since corner of Gladstone and Bronson drives was urgently stressed year 2007. Avenues) will remain open after this How is Membership Anyway? after year in both tennis and bowling The next pricing challenge season. Ironically, club Minutes dated in Every season, some time after the sections,…” (p.17, 1980 edition) in 2010 is courtesy of the Ontario 1931 reveal that one of the lawn bowling first or second month, we at the club are In spite of recent strength in our core government’s decision to implement a clubs still in existence today was rumoured subtly but frequently asked “sooo, how’s area, the club has already for tradition’s single or harmonized sales tax (“SST”). to be closing in 1932 and the Ottawa club membership?” Now there seems to be a sake spent its goodwill currency in the Recreation services in Ontario generally “felt that it might get some, if not all, their heightened interest in the answer(s) to this lawn bowling arena over the past 10 to have attracted only GST (currently 5%) members to join this Club but…it was not question. Piqued interest could be also due 15 years. The OTLBC will remain, in but, next year, users will be burdened considered advisable to take any action to some misinformation aired via the CBC essence and in perpetuity, a tennis club. with an additional 8%. For the most part, at present…” A subsequent 1936 report radio program All In A Day (September Other sports and activities can be offered the OTLBC plans to treat this as a 2011 of the Playing Committee welcomes into 9th) in which one interviewee stated that that make good business sense. challenge by getting the message out to the club’s membership several bowlers of the 2009 lawn bowling membership had our members to register well in advance ‘the disbanded Vittoria Club’. And then increased modestly whereas tennis and The Future is Bright! of the sales tax increase effective July 1, …there were six. pool had declined. In fact, the club’s lawn The OTLBC remains fortunate 2010. The OTLBC’s bowling section grew bowling membership is unchanged from in many respects. The location is from 99 bowlers in 1935 to a high of 196 2008 at 34 people; the pool membership treasured by all its users and, in spite of What’s Next at 176 Cameron Avenue? bowlers in 1980 (just over two-thirds of 100 plus has increased for the second the occasional dance or light from the Some members and neighbours have capacity). These glorious membership consecutive season; and, the tennis courts, the neighbours too appreciate the asked about the name of the club. This numbers lasted until the late 1980’s after membership, while off-target by about proximity of such a wonderful facility. topic was accurately addressed in The which the club records revert to a focus on 8%, is a strong 850 people. Not bad for But also, the sport of tennis is very Ottawa Citizen on September 10, 2009 the need to increase membership. After a recession! popular and welcomes all ages. We have when an article by Zev Singer reported 1998, the club would never again have It is accurate to say that the recreation a member who is 3.5 years old and loves that, “Stein said it’s possible the club’s more than 100 full fare members and and club membership industry in Ottawa to run around and hit tennis balls with his name will stay as an anachronism, but thus, the recent Board decision. Ottawa is challenging —some years are downright papa or mama and we have members in changing the name is also an option. “We appears to have experienced a greater nail-biting—and the margins slim, but the every age group up to the 80’s. Perhaps, may, but we’re not talking about it right percentage drop than the rest of Canada. OTLBC runs a successful tennis facility. they run around less but their hand-eye now.”” Lawn Bowls Canada reports that the This success on the courts and in the coordination is excellent! Peaks times on The other big question relates to the number of registered bowlers in Canada pool is measured by the sheer number of court include summer mornings 9-11am future use of the land. Strategic planning declined by about 3,000 members to paying, returning users in addition to the (weekday and weekends) and week day of the past couple of years has explored 15,000 during the ten-year period to 2008. several hundred, happy juniors in tennis evenings at which time players eagerly the possible sale of a portion of the land The OTLBC Board decision is, camp every year. book courts and waiting times occur and the club’s January 2009 shareholder understandably, not popular among its but typically are not lengthy. Hence, meeting fully disclosed the status of remaining bowlers and is particularly sad The Business Statistics Canada identified tennis as one preliminary discussions with the City of for long-time bowlers who have remained The club is a non-profit company, of Canada’s Top Ten sports in its 2005 Ottawa in this regard. Nothing new has loyal over the years. Within this season’s meaning that any surpluses are retained for report released last year. And, this high transpired since that time period with contingent of 34 bowlers, it appears use in the activities of the club and never participation rate is why the City of regard to a land sale. Last winter, the club that 18 people (including 5 couples) distributed. However, not unlike many Ottawa includes tennis as a “core” sport considered introducing beach volleyball have been club members for 15 years or organizations, the surpluses have been within its master plans, along with the at the site but was not convinced that a more! However, the bowling executive modest when they happen and the need likes of swimming, volleyball and, ahem, good fit existed between all sports that at the season finale last weekend very to grow a capital fund has been deferred soccer. would be in close proximity. graciously displayed names of other lawn over the past 30 years. Interestingly, the The Board of 2006 made an excellent It is fair to say that the strategic bowling clubs in the district along with definitive club history by J. Leo Kelleher, decision to renovate and rebuild eight of planning committee ‘has its work cut key information pertaining to each. The first compiled in 1975, recalls… the 18 courts and the club membership out’ for the off-season. And so, the Elmdale and Highlands lawn bowling “…the Club experienced difficult has benefited from this capital always intriguing OTLBC story is “To Be clubs both offer good bowling with times through the Twenties and Thirties. improvement ever since. Accordingly, Continued”. camaraderie to match and certainly stand And records show that in the years prior we have increased tennis membership to gain members next season. In the event to and following the Great Depression, fees every year since 2005 to better reflect Page 42 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009 Our Immunity Vanessa Riddell RNCP ROHP carbohydrates. Vegetables and fruit are dairy are better as they can provide us Exercise also keeps us fit by Balancing Nutrition - Riverside carbohydrates. We need 5-9 servings with carbohydrates and/or healthy fat at oxygenating our cells and thus increasing Acupuncture & Wellness Centre a day for adults. Fresh vegetables and the same time - again we get more bang our basal metabolic rate. Exercise fruit give us many vitamins, minerals for our buck with these foods. maintains good lymphatic circulation and bioflavonoids (anti cancer causing Fish, nuts, and avocados provide us (where the rest of our immune cells are) ollowing the H1N1 reports in the phytonutrients in our food), but with essential fatty acids. Omega 3’s are and it has been shown to manage stress. media have me concerned. Will especially vitamin C, a powerful immune essential for a healthy immune system. Taking ones stress load seriously and there be enough vaccinations for F booster. The fresher the produce the more Good fats should be about 20% of our managing it effectively is essential. everyone? Is vaccination even the right vitamin C it contains. Linus Pauling won caloric intake. Good fats include some Apart from diet, one of the more answer? How will the health care system the Nobel Prize for his research on the saturated but mostly polyunsaturated intriguing things we can do to try and take care of me if I or someone in my benefits of vitamin C. Vegetables and and monounsaturated oils. This means a maintain our health involves Traditional family gets sick? I think, in spite of the fruit also give us fiber which keeps bit of dairy or meat fat but mostly cold Chinese Medicine, an ancient source of promise of mass vaccinations, I still the digestive tract moving and helps pressed or fresh oils and fish oils. Young knowledge based on trial and error and need to take some responsibility for my eliminate toxins and cholesterol. children and athletes especially need experience. TCM connects illnesses families health. Whole grain breads and pasta, these fats to stay healthy. with emotions. In order to stave off As a committed nutritionist I think brown rice, millet, quinoa, rye, oats In addition we want our digestive an external illness from becoming an eating well while foods are freshest, and barley are all wonderful methods of tracts to run at optimum levels; eat some internal illness (deepening into the body getting plenty of sunshine, exercise, rest, getting long lasting low glycemic energy fermented food every day, drink lots of and becoming more serious), not only managing stress and practicing gratitude from carbohydrates. The germ on the pure filtered water, take probiotics, and are good nutrition and specific healing and forgiveness could all help. Let me whole grain gives us essential fatty acids foods like spirulina or wheat grass can treatments required for the individual, explain. and protein, and this makes it a whole keep our insides “clean”. but according to TCM it is also important Our mothers may have told us to food - it gives us more bang for our buck There are other things we can do to cultivate a sense of gratitude and eat our vegetables but did you know that essentially. What we need to get through too, besides trying to eat right. Sunshine forgiveness. Interesting, not only does 80% of our immune system resides in our busy days. makes vitamin D on our skin, an immune it have the potential to protect us from our digestive tract? It stands to reason Protein is another important aspect boosting vitamin, so being outside is the flu but it might also make us all more then that eating well would be our of a healthy diet. It should be about 20% important. It takes a while for our skin to pleasant to be around! best weapon in protecting our immune - 30% of our caloric intake. Amino acids turn the sunshine into vitamin D however systems. repair tissues in our bodies and give us (about 16 hours) so wait until morning But what is optimum nutrition? long term stamina. Protein sources like before bathing off the cholesterol from Optimum nutrition means getting beans, lentils, tofu, eggs, fish, nuts and skin from exposure the day before. 60% of our caloric intake from When Choosing A Financial Advisor, Ask The Right Questions

By Bob Jamieson time or expertise needed to thoroughly my situation? As an investor, you have • What sort of resources can you understand the investment world. your own special set of characteristics: draw upon? Find out if a prospective ow do you choose a financial So how do you choose the right level of assets, stage of life, long-term investment professional has access to advisor? Like most people, you financial advisor? You can start by goals, etc. Before you sign up to work quality research and technical expertise probably are busy with your asking the right questions. Here are a with a financial advisor, you need to in key areas, such as investments, H few to consider: make sure he or she is comfortable insurance and estate planning. In some work and family, and may not have the • Have you worked with people in working with someone like you. cases, a financial advisor may be able • What are your credentials? to bring in added expertise through a Inquire about a prospective advisor’s relationship with another professional, qualifications. Make sure anyone you such as a lawyer or accountant. might work with has all the necessary • How are you paid? Investment securities licenses. professionals can be paid through fees, • Are you or the firm you represent commissions, percentage of assets under affiliated with regulatory organizations? management or even a combination of Ask whether the advisor or the firm these. You need to know, right from the he or she represents is regulated. For start, how your financial advisor is being example, any firm or advisor who is compensated. a member of the Investment Industry • Can you provide me with Regulatory Organization of Canada references? A lot of people are too shy to (IIROC) would need to comply with ask for references. However, a reputable rules that protect client assets if a firm financial advisor will be happy to give becomes insolvent. you some names of people you can • What is your investment call. Of course, you shouldn’t expect philosophy? Just like investors, financial a financial professional to provide advisors have different investment you with the specifics of other clients’ philosophies. Some might be naturally financial transactions. But you should more aggressive, while others are more be free to ask about a financial advisor’s conservative. But the ideal advisor style, responsiveness, etc. can provide you with guidance based Your association with a financial on your risk tolerance and investment advisor is one of the most important preferences. business relationships you’ll ever have. • How will you communicate Making the right choice today can pay with me? Make sure your financial off into the future. If you would like to advisor will communicate regularly discuss how I could work to advise you, with you. Find out when you’ll receive or if you would like a complimentary statements and how often you’ll meet 2nd opinion on your portfolio, please in person to review your portfolio. give me a call at 613-526-3030. Will your financial advisor call with Bob Jamieson, CFP suggestions and recommendations? Are Edward Jones, Member CIPF you free to contact him or her at any time? Remember, you’re entrusting this person with your financial future – so you have a right to always expect open, honest and frequent communications.

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An In-depth Journey into Nutrition Vitamins – Part 1

By Karen Cowan found in animal food sources and its 3000 IU Vitamin A RDAs from “Staying name provides a clue as to one part of the Healthy with Nutrition”, Dr. Elson Haas ontinuing on from my article last body vitamin A is especially good for – Good Sources: with Buck Levin, PhD, RD month on Macronutrients, which the eyes (Retina) and sight, particularly Cod liver oil, halibut, salmon I hope you found useful, we will night vision. Beta-carotene is found Animal livers This article is not intended to treat or C in orange/yellow fruits and vegetables. Eggs diagnose and is for education purposes now look at Micronutrients, starting with Vitamins. Beta-carotene is converted to retinol Butter only. If you have any nutritional issues, What are vitamins? Well, vitamins in either the upper intestine or liver, in Cheese please consult a qualified nutritionist are organic, meaning that they contain ideal circumstances, but diabetics and (preferably me!) or healthcare provider. carbon and are found in plants and those with low thyroid activity may have All yellow/orange vegetables and animals. They are essential for growth, reduced ability to convert. It is thus fruits such as carrots, sweet potato, Many thanks again to Melanie Seed. health and vitality. Vitamins act mainly preferable for these individuals to get mango, apricots, papaya, etc as coenzymes (co-factors to enzymes) their vitamin A from animal food sources. Green leafy vegetables and herbs Karen Cowen is a Registered in the body. Enzymes promote or speed Vitamin A, being an antioxidant such as parsley, mints, chives, and Holistic Nutritionist (RHN) living in Old up the body’s many chemical reactions, (more about antioxidants later), is helpful watercress Ottawa South. Having studied Nutrition i.e. production of energy from food. in fighting off the effects of environmental Dunaliella - a group of red algae that for 2 years at the College of Naturopathic Without vitamins, these reactions would pollution. It is also beneficial for cell grow in high temperature environments, Medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland; she proceed very slowly, if at all. Vitamins protection and resistance to infection. where sunlight is very strong (available at moved to Ottawa with her husband and thus are what enable us to make use of or Vitamin A also aids in growth, including some health food stores) continued her studies with the Canadian metabolize the macronutrients: proteins, bones and teeth, and tissue healing. Please note: vitamin A works School of Natural Nutrition, graduating fats and carbohydrates, we consume. Further, it promotes healthy skin by optimally in the body when there are with merit. She is also a Reiki Master and Historically, the first vitamin preventing collagen breakdown and plays sufficient amounts of protein and the utilises crystals in her Reiki work. (Thiamine, or B1) was isolated in 1911 a role in cancer prevention.Requirements: mineral zinc in the diet. Karen considers one lifetime to from rice polishings. Fat soluble vitamins are measured in This concludes our look into Vitamin be too short to learn everything about There are two categories of vitamins: International Units (IUs) - each unit being A and I hope it was helpful. Next time we holistic practices but in an attempt to water soluble and fat soluble. The water equivalent to 3.33 micrograms (mcg). will move onto Vitamin D – the sunshine at least learn as much as she can, she soluble vitamins are B(s) and C. The fat The amount of vitamin required per day is vitamin. J Until then, I wish you is currently studying Reflexology at the soluble vitamins are A, D, E, F (essential referred to as the RDA or Recommended abundant health, energy and well being. International Academy. fatty acids), and K. Dietary Allowance and is “the average If you should have any queries or Appointments can be made with Karen Fat soluble vitamins can be toxic in daily nutrient intake level sufficient to require further clarification, please do for Nutritional Counselling or Reiki at excess amounts as they are stored in body meet the nutrient requirements of nearly not hesitate to contact me (cowen.k08@ Soul Matters, 1093 Bank Street on tissues, unlike water soluble vitamins all healthy individuals in a particular gmail.com) or make an appointment for Tuesdays from 15th September 2009. which are excreted. Consumption of the life stage and gender group.” The key Nutritional Counselling at Soul Matters. Please call Soul Matters at 613 730 7685. standard North American diet is unlikely word here is “healthy”. In theory, the Yours in Health, Karen to cause toxicity, but when considering amounts of vitamins required are higher supplementation, this should be taken for individuals who are ill or chronically into account. stressed. This month, we will look at one of the fat soluble Vitamins – A, in detail; For Vitamin A, the RDAs are as follows: what it does in the body, sources and how Males and Females 1-3 years much is required. 1000 IU Males and Females 4-8 years Vitamin A – the first vitamin officially 1333 IU named Males and Females 9-13 years Vitamin A comes in 2 forms: retinol 2000 IU and beta-carotene. Retinol is primarily Males and Females 14 and older

Octopus Books proudly presents: The War In The Country - How The Fight To Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future Please celebrate the new book by Thomas F. Pawlick, an award-winning writer and the author of the praised The End of Food on Saturday, October 17 @ 11 a.m. at the Main Farmers’ Market, 223 Main Street. Come early to enjoy the local products of the Farmers’ Market and participate in a raffle: win a copy of the new book or a lunch with the author in the Green Door Restaurant! For more information contact Laura at Octopus Books: [email protected]

The SimplyRaw Living Foods Detox Manual”, written by Natasha Kyssa and published by Arsenal Pulp Press has recently been released, and Natasha has been busy touring Canada & the U.S. On Saturday, Oct.17, (10-2pm), Natasha will be doing a “Meet the Author/Book Signing event at Brittons in the Glebe. Page 44 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

CARLETON CORNER What Colour Are The Leaves? – Sips From the Poetry Café s Carleton University opened its system unique. In the event of an emergency, campus to new and returning students computers across campus will freeze and give By: Susan Atkinson As a youngster (or a youngster at Ain September, it also welcomed the user specific instructions about what to heart for that matter) it is ample esteemed guests and introduced cutting-edge do. This new technology could save lives on t’s that time of year again amounts of fun to scuffle through initiatives in university safety and pandemic campus and is part of the university’s ongoing and though the sun hasn’t fallen leaves, the crackling of crisp preparedness. safety initiatives. stopped since the beginning edges stirring the earthy smell of On Sept. 9, university staff and faculty The university also became the latest I nature as it begins to settle for the of September, the early morning warmly greeted 4,000 new students at the school to join Project Hero, providing financial is definitely breathing the perfume winter. How many of us secretly New Student Convocation. Carleton was aid for children of Canadian Forces personnel of change. The air is redolent with (or not that secretly for that matter) proud to have prominent activist Beatrice killed while serving in an active mission. The a sweet woodsy scent, the thin delight at the thought of jumping Mtetwa, a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer, scholarship pays tuition for four years and sun hints at the crunch of leaves into a freshly raked pile of leaves? as the convocation speaker. Mtetwa, who has residence fees for one year. The scholarship underfoot, the trees changing ever And how many of us notice the defended freedom of the press in high-profile is open to those who live in Canada, are 25 so slightly hinting at a new blush colours burning under the warmth cases involving journalists despite repeated years old or younger and registered as full-time of colour. That ever so slight of the afternoon sun? Whatever reprisals against her, just completed her term students. change gets us talking. It fills our the colour of your autumn leaves as president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe Like other post-secondary institutions, conversation and has prompted my here’s hoping you all enjoy the and has been recognized for her efforts by the Carleton also released its Pandemic Influenza latest thought for the month. new season! Committee to Protect Journalists. Recently, Response Plan which outlining how it will An artist, a poet, a writer Mtetwa was named the 2009 recipient of the respond in the case of an outbreak of the H1N1 relishes the canvas of Autumn, October Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights virus. The university’s website has a section with its vibrance, its abundance Prize, making her the first African since Nelson dedicated to providing the Carleton students, and its ability to pique every sense, Winter sits Mandela to be so honoured. faculty and staff with updates, information much is created from the season’s on the doorstep The university welcomed other highly and tips on how to protect themselves from inspirational notes. With this waiting regarded guests at the inaugural Sir William the flu virus. In the event of a serious outbreak in mind it struck me how we are to blow Osler Distinguished Lecture, which took place on campus, the website will be one of the always looking for a fresh way to all the colour Sept. 23. The lecture, William Osler: Disease, primary channels through which Carleton describe the blazing colours. We away Medicine and the Human Condition was given communicates news and information about the search for adjectives, for shades, and the desperate by Michael Bliss, professor emeritus at the university’s response. for tones – apricot, balsamic, elfin leaves shiver University of Toronto and one of Canada’s most In October: The popular Carleton Science green, ruby-red, tangerine, longing claret and copper distinguished Canadian and medical historians. Café begins again with two features in at the to pick the right shade that has bullied by This lecture series is intended to draw public Wild Oat Café on Bank Street. For more never been used before. I wonder if the wind they bend attention to historical and continuing problems information, please visit: http://www.carleton. it’s just me or if other poets search their veins of prejudice and ignorance that can accompany ca/science/cafe/. the palette to create a variation supple and curved social attitudes towards illness and disease. More information on Carleton’s events from the poems of old when like a ballerina’s spine. Carleton also unveiled its cutting-edge can be found at www.carleton.ca/events. “Autumn leaves are red, yellow Emergency Notification System (ENS), which Carleton Corner is written by Carleton and gold”, a seasonal favourite of ran its first campus-wide test Sept. 25. The University’s Department of University my mother and a recitation I often system is considered a leading tool in campus Communications. As your community heard as a child! safety since it combines three ways of letting university, Carleton hosts many exciting Regardless of the descriptor, the Carleton community know about an events of interest to Ottawa South. For more Autumn leaves are certainly emergency such as an armed intruder or fire information about upcoming events, please go something young and old enjoy. hazard. It sends out emails and text messages. to carleton.ca/events. But the third element is what makes Carleton’s A Tale of Two Battlefields by Don Cummer drive of fortifications that were built in the age of black powder and flint- ver the summer holidays, I had lock musket – and both are named Fort the opportunity to visit two bat- George. tlefields. Each played pivotal Fort George on the Moray Firth is O the largest fortification in Europe. It was roles in the history of their respective countries. Each was the site of some of built to suppress any hope of another ris- the bloodiest fighting in their respective ing of the Highland clans, and to deter national history. a possible French invasion. It has never In 1745, the Battle of Culloden, in been attacked. northern Scotland, destroyed forever the Today it is the regimental head- hopes of the Stuart dynasty to return to quarters of the Black Watch while they the British throne. It crushed the power deploy in Afghanistan. It also hosts the of the Highland clans. My ancestors museums of many of the most famous were among the Atholl Highlanders who regiments in the British army. You can charged across the moor. spend hours looking over the memora- In 1814, within earshot of Niagara bilia from bygone wars. Falls, the Battle of Lundy’s Lane stopped Fort George on the Niagara River the last American army to make a serious is a reconstruction of the palisades and attempt to conquer Canada. earthworks that were smashed in 1813, Culloden hosts a remarkable in- commands the hill. Laura Secord is bur- Each battle has been traditionally when an American army captured what terpretive centre. With the aid of com- ied here. A few statues note there was seen as a fight between two nations at has become Niagara-on-the-Lake. puter graphics, you can easily follow the once a battle, but it is very difficult to get war; but both are more properly regarded It is staffed by re-enactors in period complex movements of the two armies any sense of the past among the noise as a final resolution of a civil war. costume who, after dark, come back to as they maneuver up and down Britain from the traffic in one of main thorough- Scots fought in both the Stuart army the fort to conduct ghost tours. Pay close in the months leading to the battle. A fares in the City of Niagara Falls. of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Ha- attention to the people who embark on filmed re-enactment and a large comput- But below the cemetery, beside the noverian army of the Duke of Cumber- the tour with you. Over the years, many er layout of the battle tactics demonstrate housing subdivision, you can sit on the land. visitors claim that, once inside the fort, how the battle was fought. bench in a grass park and look up the At Lundy’s Lane, Canadian militia the tour has been joined by others in peri- From the roof of the interpretive slopes where the American army and the fought alongside British regulars. But od costume. Only certain people can see centre, you survey the entire battlefield, Canadian Volunteers pressed forward on among the American regiments was a these newcomers. They disappear before before exploring the trails that lead to the a hot July night. newly-minted regular unit known as the tour leaves the fort. These ghostly important sites of the fighting. Down at this park, you won’t find the Canadian Volunteers. It was led by interlopers arrive frequently enough that And Lundy’s Lane? The museum plaques to commemorate the Canadians a former member of the Upper Canada they’ve been given names and identities is a very shabby affair among the strip who died on both sides here. legislative assembly named Joseph Will- by the tour guides. malls down the road. The museum’s bat- But there is enough tranquility to cocks. He and his followers believed The two battlefields offer many tle display features a toy soldier diorama contemplate one of the bloodiest events that Canada would be better served as a similarities. But the biggest contrast constructed by a local schoolboy. to shape a separate Canadian Identiry in republic. between the two is how they are treated The heaviest fighting at Lundy’s North America. Both battlefields are within a short today. Lane took place in a cemetery that still OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 45

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARIES Sunnyside Branch Library Sunnyside Branch Library Stimulus Fund for this project, expects the building raised funds for new furnishings for the 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa the branch to close for renovations from • Foundation repairs branch. 613-730-1082, mid-November until early April 2010. • New carpet on the main floor Sunnyside Branch is one of the OPL’s The branch will be closed for this period The branch, which was built in 1951, community branches. In 2008, 339,857 Adult Services, extension 22 of time because the planned work is had its last major renovation in 1985. items were borrowed from the branch, Children’s Services, extension extensive, and includes: Those renovations cost $594,000, and and 8,422 people attended programs at 29 • New community meeting rooms the building was closed for 10 months. the library. The renovations, one of a • Children’s programming space As a result of the renovations, Sunnyside number of projects for which the library Major Improvements Planned for • Renovation of the children’s area will have an increased capacity for its received infrastructure funding, represent Sunnyside Library • Three self checkout stations, two in the popular children’s programs, and the a commitment on the part of the library adult area, and in children’s separate program space will allow other to keep the community branch network By Inta Douglas, Manager, • 24/7 external book returns for the borrowers to continue browsing and strong and vital. public borrowing from all areas of the collection The branches nearest to Sunnyside Rosemount, Sunnyside & • New borrower services counter for during the program period. It will also be (Alta Vista at 2516 Alta Vista Drive, Carlingwood Branches faster, more efficient service possible to offer adult programs without Main at 120 Metcalfe, and Rosemount Ottawa Public Library • New public computer area detracting from regular services on the at 18 Rosemount Ave.), expect to see • Accessible washrooms designed to main floor. Book returns will be more increased traffic. Sunnyside staff will Planning is well underway for significant comply with current standards convenient, and checkout will be faster. be re-assigned to these locations to help renovations to the Sunnyside Branch of • New main entrance doors Library supporters, including Friends of with the additional activity. the Ottawa Public Library. The Library, • Conversion of the garage into staff the Ottawa Public Library, Friends of More information about the closure will which received $1,275,000 from the work space the Sunnyside Library, and the Ottawa be announced when the construction federal government’s Infrastructure • Energy efficient lighting throughout Public Library Foundation, have already dates are finalized. Alta Vista Branch Library Alta Vista Branch Adult Programs Parents et fournisseurs de soins sont les Programmes Speciaux Pour Enfants D’halloween 2516 Alta Vista Drive bienvenus. Pour les 3 à 6 ans. The Great Pumpkin Contest Register: 613-737-2837 x28 (Bilingue) Les mardis, 22 septembre-27 Fall leaves fall! Guess the weight and win the pumpkin! octobre, 10 novembre-15 décembre , 10 Stories, videos and crafts. Ages 4-8. Ages 4-12. h 30 (45 min.) (Bilingual) Saturday, October 3rd, 2 p.m. October 13-October 31. Programs Offered At Alta Vista Library (45 min.)* Programmes Offerts A La Bibliotheque Book Clubs / Clubs De Lecture Bonjour l’automne! Grand concours de citrouille Alta Vista Book clubs for children/Clubs de lecture Contes, vidéos et bricolage. Pour les 4 Devinez le poids de la citrouille et pour enfants à 8 ans. gagnez-la! Pour les 4 à 12 ans. Pre-School/Prescolaire (Bilingue) Samedi 3 octobre, 14 h (45 Du 13-31 octobre. Babytime The Dawg Lounge! Woof! min.)* For babies and their parent or caregiver Share your favorites and discover books N.B. Registration for fall programs with stories, rhymes, songs and with our boys’ book club. Ages 8-12. Haunted Halloween stories starts on September 16./ L’inscription activities. Ages 0-18 months. Tuesday, October 6, 4:15 p.m. (45 Wear your Halloween costume and pour les programmes d’automne Thursdays, September 24-October 29, min.)* come to the library to share your scariest commence le 16 septembre./ Programs November 12-December 17, 10:30 a.m. stories! Family program. followed by an * require registration. (30 min.) Un livre à partager Saturday, October 31, 2 p.m. (45 min.)* / L’inscription est requise pour les Club de lecture pour ceux qui aiment programmes suivis d’un *. The address Toddlertime lire. Pour les 8 à 12 ans. Teen Special Programs of the Alta Vista Library is 2516 Alta For toddlers and a parent or caregiver Lundi 19 octobre, 16 h 15 (45 min.)* Game On! Vista Drive, Ottawa and the phone with stories, rhymes, songs and Challenge your friends to get gaming. number of the Alta Vista Library 613- activities. Ages 18-35 months. Timbit Girls Compete on the Wii or blast the X-Box 737-2837./ L’adresse de la bibliothèque Mondays, September 21-October 5, An after-school book club for girls who for bragging rights. Ages 13 and up. Alta Vista est le 2516, promenade October 19-October 26, November love to read. Ages 8-12. Monday, October 5, 6 p.m. (1.5 hr)* Alta Vista, Ottawa et son numéro de 9-December 14, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.) Monday, October 26, 4:15 p.m. (45 téléphone est le 613-737-2837. min)* Animanga A-go-go! Storytime Candy sushi, cosplay, anime…what Program registration will be done Stories and rhymes for young children- Book club for teenagers more could a fan want? Come, hang out on-line only. Ottawa Public Library parents and caregivers are welcome to Mmm…Books! and let your inner otaku out. Ages 13 cards are needed to register on-line./ join. Ages 3-6. Teens talk about their favourite reading and up Part of Teen Read Week-Read L’inscription des programmes est faite (Bilingual) Tuesdays, September material with other book lovers. Ages Beyond Reality. Cosplay welcome. seulement en ligne. Les cartes de la 22-October 27, November 10-December 12-17. Saturday, October 17, 2 p.m. (2 hrs.)* bibliothèque publique d’Ottawa sont 15, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.) Monday, October 26, 6:30 p.m. (1 hr.)* requises pour l’inscription en ligne des Contes programmes. Contes et rimes pour les enfants. Special Programs For Children / Halloween Contest/Concours A HARD DAY’S PLAY Tales of Tattling

By Mary P. hasn’t. So of course I send him off to do And then, William’s voice calls out in No. that thing. alarm. See, Ralph is lingering at his snack. The ary! Mary, Tyler ate a piece of “Mary! He has all the books!” “Mary! Tank’s on top of the table!” rest of us — including the Tankmeister apple!” “Mary! She is stompin’ her feet and I And so he is. — have long since left the table. But “Mary! Nissa’s playing with don’t LIKE that!” With this climbing machine in the house, Ralph is … savouring his pears and theM shoes!” “Mary! Emily says her daddy is bigger I’ve taken to my standby response: apples. Sitting on a bench. “Mary! He din’ wait for his TURN!” than my daddy!” render the tabletop inaccessible by either And Tank, being Tank, has seen his Ralph is visiting us this week. Ralph And of course I drill him in “Is anyone pushing the benches right under the opportunity, scrambled up the bench and has always been a bit of a prima donna, hurt? Is it dangerous? Is anyone table, or by tipping them upside down. scaled the tabletop. and a year of school hasn’t lessened this bleeding?” And of course, every time So far the first solution (easier for me) is And now sits on the table, RIGHT tendency one whit. the answer is NO, NO, and NO. “Well, working just fine. Tank hasn’t figured out BESIDE RALPH. You recall Ralph, “Mary! It is supposed to be MY turn with unless it’s DANGEROUS, or someone how to push the benches out again, and the Tattle King? Ralph, who tells me the ball!” could get HURT, or someone is so he just climbs up onto a bench, then EVERYTHING? Every TINY infraction “Mary! Noah’s touchin’ my cup!” BLEEDING, you don’t need to tell me.” complains mightily when his head bashes of even POTENTIAL rules? That Ralph? “Mary! The babies are bumping into Ten times an hour. All morning long. repeatedly into the underside of the table. Ralph has not said a word. Not.One. me!” (YES, he’s gotten worse since the last And I laugh. Mwah-ha. Word. And of course I ask him “Did you talk time I saw him. His grade one teacher So how could Tank be up on the table? to [whoever] about it?” And of course he must just love him to bits…) Has he learned to push the benches out? Page 46 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR OCT 2009

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the car! $6,495 OBO. Call 613-730- beam house on non-motorboat lake 20 Seeking: House-cat-plant-sitter end Nov. For Sale 2933 or email [email protected] minutes from OOS. Wood beams, stone /09 to early Jan. /10, or part thereof. ------fireplace, stained glass, great views, Let’s discuss. 730-4804 Used snowboard (Rossignol) with For sale: 2 hot air balloon tickets, third clean water and hiking. $975 monthly, ------bindings ($100) and boots (size 12) off commercial price. 730-4804 inclusive- laundry, heat, hydro, wood, Seeking: old ladders, any condition. 730- ($50); barely used ski boots (fit men’s ------snow plowing. www.celticcrosslodge.ca 4804 size 8 to 9) ($50); gently used hockey For Sale: Macintosh eMac desktop ------skates (men’s) sizes 4, 5.5, 6 and 6.5 computer (Mac OS X, version 10.4.11, Available Nov. 1 to May 1 (some LOOKING FOR - MEC or CHARIOT ($35 per pair); aquarium (20 gallon) with 512 MB RAM), $150. Adjustable swivel flexibility) Sunny, comfortable home double bike stroller with covers. Please filter, light, thermostat, gravel, fish food, office chair on wheels (teal blue), $40. in Old Ottawa South. Fully furnished contact Larry or Bonnie 613-730-9080 chemicals, etc. ($100); YAMAHA flute [email protected] and equipped. Two bedrooms and two ------(ideal for beginner) - $400. Call (613)- Looking for an after-school dog walker ------bathrooms. Fireplace in Den/TV room. 730 0136. Single Cougar Chariot jogger with bike for a 1-hour walk (less on very cold Ideal for a professional couple. Parking ------accessories and baby seat purchased new days). Dog weighs ~20lbs. Great with for two cars. $1600.00 plus utilities. For Sale: Black Thule roof rack. In good in 2005, new costs over $1,100. $650 kids of all ages. Loves retrieving ball Call 613-730-7921 condition with keys. Can fit at least 4 obo. 730-1225. when rewarded with treats. Will pay $5 pairs of ski’s. $200 obo. 613-730-6053 ------per day. Willing to split between two ask for Sam or Kate. Two adult dwarf bunnies, including two Child Care or three teenagers if not available 5 ------mid-size cages. The bunnies are two afternoons. Start ASAP. 730-1225. For sale: piano, antique upright, 58” years old and in good health. Asking French tutor- assistance with homework, wide, 52” tall, 27” deep, plus bench. $25 each including the cage. Please conversation, grammar, reading and Reasonable offer. 730-4804 email at [email protected] for more Found writing. $15/hr. Contact Madeleine ------information or for pictures or phone 613- [email protected], tel. 613 Broiler King BBQ, Bar Fridge, Plastic 680-2472 and ask fro Matt ! 730-3251. composter, Harvest Table. Call 613-730- FOUND: Keys, near Hopewell / ------5972. Leonard, during Porch Sale Sat. Sept. Need a Tutor Retired Teacher. Grs.1-6, ------12. Call 730-4804 Accommodation Reading, Writing. In Your Home. $35. For Sale: Handmade Baby Quilts and ------Call: Bev 613-730-2411 Crocheted Baby Blankets. Various Federal Public Servant being transferred Lost Rabbit – FOUND! Thanks! Prices, starting at $35. Excellent Gift, to Ottawa is seeking a house with 4 “Buns” our recently adopted Lion Head Excellent Price. 613-730-2411, Will bedrooms or more in Old Ottawa South to Looking For Rabbit decided to go on self directed e-mail Pictures accommodate couple and their children. neighbourhood tour this past weekend ------Hoping to rent for two years or more as while under the care of a neighbor. In Fischer Crown X-country skis 200 cm of December 2009 or January 2010. We our absence, “Lost Rabbit” signs were Looking For.... Eccentrica, a small Salomon bindings, as new $40. Please are non smokers. Please contact Richard posted and an “International” search self-directed choir, singing mostly call 613-233-6670 Meredith at 867-334-1290 or 867-667- ensued by many Fentiman Avenue Renaissance and Medieval pieces, is ------8984 or email at richard.meredith@ neighbours. Thanks to J + A for taking seeking to expand. All voices, SATB. CAR FOR SALE: 1999 VW Passat GLS ppsc-sppc.gc.ca. on the task of Bunny Sitting and to all Ability to read music a must. Sight- V6 Sedan. 99,800 km, A/C, sunroof, ------who contributed to the search. Special singing ability an asset. We live up to our alloy rims, ski rack included. Excellent thanks to whom ever found our rabbit FOR RENT. New, large fully furnished name! Call 613-730-0690. condition. Single owner. Family outgrew and made the call to the Humane apartment/studio in spectacular post & Society. Kate, jack and Dawn. Around Town La Leche League Canada on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at corner of Bank St. and Aylmer Ave. and dinner, in addition to spectacular has a group in Old Ottawa South 7:00 p.m. at the Bronson Centre, 211 Information - (613) 230-8841 or www. fall scenery, beautiful churches, and Are you breast-feeding your baby? Are Bronson Avenue, Ottawa. The location heritageottawa.org Gregorian Chant sung by the Chorus you pregnant and planning to breast-feed? is the old Immaculata High School, Ecclesiae. A La Leche League meeting is a between Lisgar and Nepean, just North My Kids Funky Closet will host For further information and relaxed, supportive and non-judgmental of Somerset Street and East of the St. and event Sunday October 18th at The reservations, call 613-567-7729. place where you can: meet breast- Vincent Hospital. Take OC Transpo bus Glebe Community Center at 175 Third feeding women, ask specific questions #95, free parking in rear. ave from 10:00am – 3:00pm.Visit The Ottawa Glass Bead Artists about breast-feeding, learn more about Ontario’s new Adoption Disclosure www.mykidsfunklycloset.com for more (OGBA) are holding their Second breast-feeding from accredited leaders Law now permits adult adoptees details. Annual Bead & Jewellery Show who have breast-fed their own children and birth parents to gain access to on Saturday November 7, 2009, and who volunteer their time, get information about each other. To learn Attend the Annual Ecumenical 10:00AM - 6:00PM and Sunday tips for working through best breast- more, plan to attend the meeting. For Day of Sharing and Reflection at November 8, 2009, 10:00AM - feeding challenges, find out more more information call 613-730-8305 or Rideau Park United Church, 2203 4:00PM at the Hellenic Centre, 1315 about getting ready to breast-feed (if check www.parentfindersottawa.ca Alta Vista Drive on Saturday, October Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON you are pregnant), find out more about 24, 9 a.m. to 12 noon. The World Day the benefits of breast-feeding for baby Heritage Ottawa’s Walking of Prayer focus country is Cameroon Frosty’s Fair, Saturday, Nov.7, and you, borrow books about breast- Tour of Old Ottawa South - Sunday, and the theme is “Let Everything that 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Have fun doing feeding and related parenting topics. October 18, 2:00pm has Breath Praise God”. some early Christmas shopping. You’ll Meetings every second Tuesday of the Join Old Ottawa South community For more information, telephone love the Christmas crafts, sewing and month from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at 36 Glen activist, Leo Doyle, for a walk through 613-736-0232 or 613-723-0465. knitting. Buy your Christmas cards. Ave. Next meeting October 13. For the former Nepean Township village Check out the jewelery. Stock up more information call 613-238-5919, of Ottawa South. Learn how the Lawrence Harris and the Chorus on jams, jelly, preserves and home the local La Leche League phone line. City’s streetcar service stimulated the Ecclesiae are planning two of their baked treats. Get some treasures at construction of new housing and the popular trips to historic churches this the Attic Treasures Table. Go to the Book The Parent Finders Meeting overall development of one of Ottawa’s fall. On Saturday October 24, the group Nook. Bid at the Silent Auction. There Location has Changed! The next public first “streetcar suburbs”. Cost: $10.00 will visit heritage churches in Kingston, are activities for children and a Secret information of Parent Finders National ($5.00 for Heritage Ottawa members). Ontario, and on Saturday, November Room where they can shop for family and Capital Region (PFNCR), a search Reservations are not required, meet 21 they will visit historic churches in friends. Trinity Church, 1230 Bank St. and support group for all members of at the departure point in front of Montreal. These all day trips leave the adoption community will be held Southminster United Church at the in the morning and include lunch OCT 2009 The OSCAR - OUR 37th YEAR Page 47 YourMarketplace

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