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O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old Ottawa South Year 33 , No. 4 The Ottawa South Community Association Review APRIL 2007 Province Gives $200,000 to Firehall Savour the Flavour An Old Ottawa South Gourmet Event

When? Saturday, May 26, 2007 Who? The first 100 people to buy tickets What? A gourmet dinner catered by 4 local chefs Where?At the Firehall Why? To raise money for the Firehall Redevelopment Fund

What else do I need to know? We’re still working hard to raise money to redevelop the Firehall, and we need your support! Buy a ticket or donate an auction item. This event will feature food created by chefs from Carmen’s Verandah, Passion in the Kitchen, The Red Apron and Domus. There will also be Canadian wines, Ontario beers, a wine-tasting event, an exciting auction and live music. Michel Jenkin, President OSCA, and Liberal Cabinet Minister Jim Watson sit with Tickets are $65 (with a charitable tax receipt for $30), Firehall staff and children who enjoy photo: M A Thompson and will be on sale by mid-April at the Firehall. Call 247- By Mike Lascelles and media interviews, both Jim and Richard 4946 for more information. We hope to see you there! urged ECOS/OSCA to apply to the provincial n March 23, 2007, Liberal Cabinet Trillium Foundation for funds to help green Minister Jim Watson and Ottawa the Old Firehall. ECOS intends to work with Be an agent for change – OCentre MPP Richard Patton presented OSCA and the City to prepare a joint Trillium OSCA and the City with a very generous application by the end of May. Fill out the OSCAR Survey cheque from the Government of Ontario to pay – page 44 for the detailed design to renovate and expand (Please go to page 5 for more information on the Old Firehall. After the formal presentation $200,000) Carmen’s Veranda Fêtes 3 Years

By Pierre Gratton artist hang in a few spots, while a large reproduction of his Marilyn Monroe classic n a community that has seen several looks down upon eating customers. The popular shops close in recent months colourful, 1950s stainless steel diner tables I(e.g. Hortus Urbanus, Casa Luna), it and chairs add a quirky touch, a counterpoint was uplifting to attend a birthday celebration to the fine cuisine on order. at one of Old Ottawa South’s newer The menu is short and straightforward, establishments. written on a blackboard for customer Carmen’s Veranda saluted its customers consultation. Every day there’s a choice of on February 24th when the bistro celebrated three appetizers, followed by five or six main its third anniversary at its Bank Street courses. While the selection may appear location. My wife’s and my unplanned limited, the choice is varied so that there is night out led us to the one remaining table always something to cater to every taste and that evening. Once seated, a complimentary craving: fish, beef, chicken, vegetarian and glass of bubbly arrived at our table, as our thin crust pizza. waiter informed us of the special occasion. The wine selection is similarly pleasing. Owners Ken Karook and Carmen Three reds and three whites and one bubbly Letourneau are no strangers to Ottawa’s are on offer, all for the same reasonable restaurant scene. They’ve both worked in price in the low $30s. Wine quality assured; many well-known establishments; Carmen customers can focus on the grape, not the was the original chef at Domus when it price. And each week Carmen’s highlights opened in the market on Dalhousie. But a “Dream Wine”, a higher end but also after years of working for others, the Old affordable option that appeals to the wine- Ottawa South residents took the plunge and tasting crowd. opened their own delightful bistro. The birthday evening saw my wife and As one enters Carmen’s Veranda, its I both enjoying a Boston and frisée salad distinct character is immediately apparent. with pine nuts, pear and maple vinaigrette. An Andy Warhol theme permeates the For a main course, she had beef tenderloin place; signed prints by the legendary pop stuffed with blue cheese, pear and walnuts,

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CONTRIBUTIONS The OSCAR The OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY Contributions should be in electronic format sent either by e-mail to ASSOCIATION REVIEW [email protected] in either plain text or WORD format, or as a printed copy delivered to the Firehall office, 260 Sunnyside Avenue. 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/oscar SUBSCRIPTIONS Please Note: The OSCAR Has No Fax Moving away from Old Ottawa South? Know someone who would like The OSCAR PhoneLine: 730-1045 to receive The OSCAR? We will send The OSCAR for one year for just E-mail: [email protected] $40 to Canadian addresses (including foreign service) and $80 outside of Canada. Drop us a letter with your name, address, postal code and Editor: Mary Anne Thompson 730-1045 country. Please include a check made out to The OSCAR. Distribution Manager: Craig Piche 730-5838 Business Manager: Colleen Thomson Advertising Manager: Gayle Weitzman 730-1058 SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS [email protected] (not classy ads) The OSCAR is sponsored entirely from advertising. Our advertisers are often not aware that you are from Old Ottawa South when you patron- ize them. Make the effort to let them know that you saw their ad in The NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 20 OSCAR. They will be glad to know and The OSCAR will benefit from their support. If you know of someone providing a service in the com- The OSCAR is a community association paper paid for entirely by ad- munity, tell them about The OSCAR. Our rates are reasonable. vertising. It is published for the Ottawa South Community Association Inc. (OSCA). Distribution is free to all Old Ottawa South homes and businesses and selected locations in Old Ottawa South, the Glebe and FUTURE OSCAR DEADLINES Billings Bridge. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not April 20 (May issue), May 18 (June issue), June 15 (July/August is- necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA. The editor retains the right to edit sue). and include articles submitted for publication.

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ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames, MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM Kim Barclay, Marvel Sampson, Wendy Robbins, Ron Barton, Jim and Carrol Robb, Kevin and Stephanie Williams. FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Andrea and Cedric Innes, the Mont- SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* gomery family, Laurie Morrison, Norma Reveler, Stephanie and Kulani de SUNDAY CLOSED Larrinaga. *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. ZONE B2: Lorie Magee Mills (Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Hayley Atkin- son, Caroline and Ian Calvert, Sheilagh Stronach, Matthew and Graeme Gaetz, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the James-Guevremont family, the WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? Williams family, Sylvie Turner, Lynne Myers, Bob Knights, Jeff Pouw, the Franks family. ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Arthur Taylor, Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 Charles and Phillip Kijek, Sam & Avery Piche, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Chris- Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 tina Bridgeman. Ottawa Public Library - South Branch 730-1082 ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), the Crighton family, Emily Keys, Rob Campbell - [email protected] 730-8128 the Lascelles family, Gail Stewart, Bert Hopkins, Mary Jane Jones, the Sprott Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 family. Centretown Community Health Centre 233-5430 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), Ian Godfrey, Eric Chernushenko, CARLETON UNIVERSITY Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 ZONE E1: John Calvert & family (Coordinator), Brian Tansey, Doug Stick- Graduate Students Association 520-6616 ley, Wendy Johnson, Anna Cuylits, David Lum, Mary O’Neill. Community Liaison 520-3660 ZONE E2: Nicola Katz (Coordinator), Frida Kolsster-Berry, Mary-Ann Mediation Centre 520-5765 Kent, Glen Elder and Lorraine Stewart, the Rowleys, Dave White, the Hunter Athletics 520-4480 family, Brodkin-Haas family, Christina Bradley. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, Janet CITY HALL Jancar, the Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Niki Devito, Dante and Bi- Clive Doucet, City Councillor ([email protected]) 580-2487 anca Ruiz, Walter and Robbie Engert. Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), the Tubman family, Karen Fee, Shaugh- Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 nessy and Kyle Dow, Paulette Theriault, Mark McDonald, Bea Bol, Jill Emergencies only 9-1-1 Moine, Paris Dutton. Serious Crimes 230-6211 ZONE G: Jim and Angela Graves (Coordinator), Peggy and Brian Kinsley, Ottawa Hydro 738-6400 Shelly Lewis, Peter Murphy, Claire and Brigitt Maultsaid, the McLemaghan Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Rowat family, Roger Ehrhardt, Norma Grier, the Ostrander-Weitzman family. Brewer Pool 247-4938 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Brewer Arena 247-4917 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Bank Street-Glebe: Craig Piche. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 

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. Crossing Colonel By Resolving Climate Change To the editor of OSCAR, Requires a New Goal

would like to draw attention to the difficulty in crossing the stretch of Dear Editor Col By in the region of Leonard and Rosedale. However, I believe I am I not the first to express concerns about this! ow that politicians of all stripes are singing the green tune, our task is On the canal side is the NCC maintained pathway primarily used by to make sure that they understand the lyrics. pedestrians and cyclists. Also in season, the NCC maintains very attractive N It needs to be made clear that the growth phase of the human story flower beds. However getting there can often be a challenge for both young is drawing to a close, and that, collectively, we are overwhelming the Earth’s and old. Due to the curves at either end of this stretch, neither pedestrian ability, both to provide natural resources and to absorb our waste. Continuing nor driver has much warning of each other. I believe that there is a good efforts to expand the material economy are self-defeating. argument for a cross-walk in this area, ideally with manually activated signal Is it proper, now that our biggest problems result from our size, to hold lights. I hope that OSCA will pursue this issue with the NCC with some growth as a goal? priority. Wouldn’t it be better to focus on securing necessities for everyone within While I have the opportunity, I would like to float an even more radical the carrying capacity of the Earth? idea. How about a footbridge over the canal in this vicinity? The canal is It is a Question of Direction. fairly narrow at this point with high ground on both sides. There would We do not have to grow until we drop! appear to be several possible locations for a bridge, but I’ll leave that to the The first step toward resolving Climate Change is to question the present imagination of the engineers, just as long as it integrates with the pedestrian/ goal. Broad public discussion about goals is essential if we are to meet the cyclist path system on both sides. I can see a number of advantages for challenge of our times. such a bridge. Besides allowing cyclists a safer option to cross the canal As a species, the human family has grown up. We have reached a mature than either Bronson or Bank Street, it would also open up the south side of size capable of seriously damaging our planet. It is critical that we take the canal to recreational users. I believe this latter aspect may interest the responsibility for our strength and set our sights on living well, within planetary NCC as most casual visitors usually remain on the Dows Lake/Glebe side limits. of the canal. I would be interested to hear what your readers think of this For more detail see “The Challenge and the Goal” at: http://www. proposal. SustainWellBeing.net

Peter Button Mike Nickerson Mike Nickerson is the author of: “Life, Money & Illusion; Living on Earth as if we want to stay” He will be talking at the Ottawa Public Library, 120 Kind Words From OSCAR Reader Metcalfe St. on April 26, 2007, 7:00 - 9:00 pm To OSCAR:

irst I must say how much I enjoy the Oscar. All of you who put it together deserve a big THANKS as it’s just a great little read . I Fwish I knew something so that I could write a little article or some thing… Fred Woolfrey

Letter From the Editor: Concerns About OSCA Governance Model

s representative of the residents of Old Ottawa South, OSCA provides services that help the community to live a good life in a Ahealthy environment. I applaud OSCA’s desire to involve every member of the OSCA Firehall Board, and yet I wonder about the wisdom of the proposed Governance Model as presented at the regular monthly meeting of OSCA, March 20. 2007. It is proposed that the regular Board meetings of the 20 members be reduced to 6 per year, rather than having the regular 10 monthly meetings, presently held every 3rd Tuesday of the month, excluding July and August. It is proposed that an executive committee, made up of 5 members, would meet monthly, and 3 management committees – Finance, Operations, and External - would meet less often and report to the Executive Committee, rather than to the Board at large, even though it is the Board who has the ultimate responsibility for the decisions of OSCA. I do not question the good intentions of every member of OSCA: my concern is for transparency, accountability and the flow of information to the community. The community must be informed of decisions made by the whole Board and the reasons for those decisions and have the opportunity to have input in a timely way. Democracy is cumbersome and slow, but important and necessary. I encourage everyone in OOS to become involved, in some form or other, in your Community Association-- the body that makes decisions that affect your community. After all, it is your community.

Mary Anne Thompson Page  The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Brief Notes From the Firehall

By Dinos Dafniotis

egistration is now underway for all Spring programs Rand Summer Camps at the Ottawa South Community Centre. Registration is as easy as going to www.oldottawasouth.ca. You can also register in person at the Ottawa South Community Centre 260 Sunnyside Ave. regular centre hours. Information is available on the website about all our programs or you can pick up a copy of the brochure at the centre. As registration picks up for the OSCA T-Ball League and Soccer League we hope parents will consider volunteering to coach a team . The success of the leagues have long depended on parent participation . Please contact Deirdre McQuillan at (613) 247-4872, if you can lend a hand. Coach Bruce Kjarsgaard and the Atom OSCA Basketball Team Those looking to add some fitness work of Dave Steele, Coach of the of a councillor. Students at least 16 camp, though older students will be to their schedule will find something Firehall Novice Basketball Team years of age and with experience placed in the Campquest Day Camp). of interest in the variety of Health/ and Bruce Kjarsgaard, Coach of the working/volunteering with 3 – 5 year Students should have an interest in Fitness and Sports programs we offer. Firehall Novice Basketball team. old children can drop off a resume working with children and enjoy One of the programs we hope you They coached the teams in the West at the centre to the attention of working in a team setting. A letter of will consider is the Saturday morning End Basketball League, the first year Program Ccoordinator Re: Preschool interest (identifying the weeks they are Core Yoga class run by Instructor we competed in the league. Paul Councillor. They must be available available) should be dropped off at the Andrea Robertson. The class was Armstrong organized our entry in for a week of staff training in late June Firehall. The majority of Firehall staff first introduced during the Winter the league and recruited two strong and be able to work Monday to Friday, started as volunteers before being Session and has been a great start to community minded individuals who 30 – 40 hours per week, from July 3 hired. Letters should be submitted the weekend for a dedicated group of did a great job. Both teams competed to August 24. Rate of Pay depends on by May 1 and addressed to Program participants. One regular participant solidly in all games and ending the experience. Deadline for Resumes is Coordinator Re: Summer Volunteers. who has taken yoga in a variety of season by playing above .500 ball. April 15. community centres and yoga studios We hope to have teams in the league We are also looking for High Next month we will introduce our praised Andrea and her class as “one again next season. Information will be School students who are at least 14 Summer Camp staff. of the best yoga classes in Ottawa.” available in our Fall brochure. years of age to volunteer in our summer I would like to thank all the hard Our Preschool camp is in need camps (primarily in our Preschool

Coach Dave Steele and the Novice OSCA Basketball Team APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Province Gives $200,000 to Firehall Renovation Project Province Gives $200,000 to renovation. Possible New Governance OSWATCH, ECOS, and our dealings Firehall Renovation Project There are few community Structure for OSCA with other community associations, projects that the City has funded in the City, Queen’s Park etc. The am delighted to be able to tell the past decade that can claim this As a community association, idea would be to make better use of you that the province, through level of community and financial OSCA is constantly trying to see Board members’ time and also give I the Ministry of Health Promotion commitment. I believe it is now how it can be better run and make them a more direct involvement and its Minister Jim Watson, has the time to press our case with the its volunteers more effective. in committee activities. It would donated $200,000 to the City of City to fund the construction phase Currently OSCA consists of a 20 probably also require us to change Ottawa to provide the “soft costs” of the project. The design that the person Board and several working the date of our annual AGM (at which for renovating the Firehall. The soft community has developed supports committees dealing with Programs, the Board is elected) from November costs are those related to carrying out and captures the major goals we are planning, development and traffic to May so that a new Board could the detailed design and engineering trying to achieve as a modern and (OSWATCH), finances, environment deal with setting the budget for the work to allow the renovation and progressive city. It preserves a unique issues (ECOS), special events, new financial year (which runs from addition to be constructed. heritage building and puts it to new Firehall redevelopment and external September to August). This is a huge vote of confidence and improved uses. It will ensure relations. The whole Board meets The Board will be discussing this by the Province in our development that we have a leading edge green once a month (except in July and issue over the next couple of months proposal and makes the project a building that will be energy efficient, August) and its many committees and I will hopefully be able to report serious contender for City funding in use sustainable energy resources, meet many times a year, often back to you on the resulting decisions the next budget cycle. We now have create a healthy living environment monthly. before the summer. If you have any over $165,000 in our charitable trust and reduce its environmental impact The idea is to reduce the number views on how the Board is governed, that we have put together through fund on the surrounding area. And the of times a year the full Board meets please feel free to e-mail me your raising over the last eight years and development will be an example of by about a half and to create four views at: [email protected] OSCA has also committed significant smart growth, making maximum overview committees: an executive funds in its reserves to provide for use of scarce urban land, providing committee that would meet frequently equipment and facilities purchases a ‘walk to’ facility in the heart of the and deal with budgets, strategic in the existing and renovated Firehall community next to three transit routes planning etc.; a finance committee that now amount to over $100,000. that also leverages the advantages of to deal with financial management; Taken together with the Province’s nearby public facilities - Hopewell an operations committee to deal with contribution this amounts to close School’s gyms and the Sunnyside staffing, program affairs, special to a half million dollars - a very Public Library. events and the like; and an external significant down payment towards and community affairs committee the $2.4 million estimated cost of the to deal with work carried on by

MPP, Ottawa Centre, Richard Patten; Minister of Health Promotion, Jim Watson (former Capital Ward City Councilllor and former Ottawa Mayor); Mi- chael Jenkin, President of Old Ottawa South Community Association; and Clive Doucet, City Councillor, Capital Ward, at the Firehall, March 23, 2007, for the handing over of $200,000. Page  The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007

NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB Spring Planting

By Colin Ashford annuals such as: Scaevola (naupaka), Sanvitalia (creeping zinnia), and Argyranthemum (dill t this time of the year, as winter slowly daisy)—all great for hanging baskets and ground draws to a close and gardeners start cover; drought-resistant million bells; shade- Ato think about spring planting, it was tolerant Torinea; and bell-like Nieremergia. timely that Estelle Laporte of Laporte Garden For stunning colour during the summer, Centre in Orleans (www.orleansonline.ca/ Estelle recommended: Thunbergia (vine), JALaportes) came to talk to members of the Old Osteospermum (african daisy), Antirrhinums Ottawa South Garden Club on new perennials (snapdragon), Lobelia, and Euphorbia. and annuals for 2007. In response to a number of questions A self-taught gardener, Estelle and her husband, regarding mildew on crab-apple trees and black Jean, took over the small Orleans nursery tar on japanese maples, Estelle noted that the twenty-six years ago; it now boasts seventeen wet summer last year was a contributing factor green houses and a busy retail store. With the and that treatment with dormant oil spray, close exception of flats of annuals, the Laports grow attention to cleanliness, and allowing more all their own annuals, perennials, trees, and air circulation through plants were important shrubs as Estelle put it “…from the heart…” precautions. She also noted that the sterilization To brighten the evening, Estelle brought in of gardening tools such as spades and secateurs specimens of Cleome ‘senorita rosalita’ (spider was becoming more and more important to stop flower), kangaroo vine, a couple of Oxalis (one the spread of disease. in bloom), and an aptly name grass—fibre optic Estelle plans to open her garden centre grass (Isolepis scirpus cernua). around the middle of April. Estelle began her presentation with a slide The next meeting of the Garden Club will be show of colourful perennials including: blue on Monday 16 April, 2007 at the Old Firehall on poppy (Meconopsis betonicifolia)—difficult to Sunnyside at 7.00 p.m., when Master Gardener, grow from seed but successful from cuttings; Edythe Falconer, will be talking about plant Heuchera—great for mass plantings in shady combinations that show up well in soft lighting areas especially with Hostas; Hibiscus—be and can be enjoyed on a summer’s evening. patient, they will not sprout until June; and Drop-in membership for the evening is $5 and various varieties of Echinaceas some with new members are always welcome. double flowers, some with two sets of petals, and Echinacea purpurea all in new vibrant colours. Estelle shared with the gardeners her belief in low-maintenance Who Would’ve Thunk It!!!! Savour the Flavour: An Windsor Park Rinks… Old Ottawa South Gourmet Event By Gary Lum witnessed a generation of users pass through. he chatter amongst the dog walkers We have some 50 residents that chip Out with the Lobsters, in was one of total disbelief…have in during those frigid winter evenings with Local Cuisine… Tyou ever experienced a January to ensure young toddlers, children, like this??? The geese were stunned into adolescents and adults have a sheet of believing that they had arrived without ice to play out their fantasy games. It By Patti Ryan ever leaving. Windsor Park had its own is the commitment of all the volunteers flock right up to the 14th of January. I that makes our community fortunate to ark your calendar now for this not-to-be-missed food was beginning to believe that we were have such a fine outdoor facility. extravaganza. We’re still working hard to raise funds about to have a green winter right up to The community is also blessed to Mto redevelop the Firehall, and this year’s event will be this spring. have a community group known as the something really different: a gourmet dinner catered by some of Old Lo and behold winter did arrive and the Boosters. They have been coordinated by Ottawa South’s finest eateries. minds of many were put to rest. Once the Rick Howard to support the ice flooding Chefs from Carmen’s Verandah, Passion in the Kitchen, and The cold set in, it continued unabated until efforts at Windsor. The Boosters were Red Apron, as well as Old Ottawa South resident John Taylor (of Saturday, March 3!!!! It was the first time out three times every week to ensure Domus in the Byward Market), will join forces to create a fabulous in my 16 years that the rinks continued that we have some of the finest ice in the meal for 100 at the Firehall on Saturday, May 26. for an entire season uninterrupted by a City of Ottawa. In keeping with the local flavour of this event, we’ll be featuring major thaw. It was an ideal winter for ice Rick also coordinates volunteers Canadian wines and Ontario beers. The evening will kick off with making and ice maintenance. We had a that supervise the rink from Monday an optional wine-tasting. As usual, there will be an auction—we’re winter of below freezing evenings and to Friday to provide an after school hoping to feature some of the most popular services and goods a minimum amount of snow. Confusing program for users that are 14 years of from years past. We’re also working on getting a live jazz band for for observers of climate change and age and younger. They have been active background music. global warming??? for several years and their participation Tickets will cost $65 (offered with a charitable tax receipt for It was an exceptional ice making provides Ottawa South with an $30, as always) and should be on sale by mid-April. There will be season. This year we decided to flood 6 opportunity to maximize our winter just 100 tickets available, so keep an eye out and be among the first nights of the week. As we are a volunteer skating and hockey season. to get yours! organization, it was quite a statement On behalf of the community I would If you think you may have a special service, item or work of art to about the people in Old Ottawa South like to thank all the individuals that donate to our auction, please call Deirdre at the Firehall (247-4946) to that we missed very few evenings. Our committed their time and energy to serve let her know. And if you know someone else who may have a special volunteer brigade has individuals that our community. Their participation helps service, item or work of art to donate, give them a gentle elbow—and have been doing this work for so many make Old Ottawa South an outstanding Deirdre’s phone number. See you in May! years that we can say that they have place to live in. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 

CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Budget, LRT, Reconstruction and More

Dear OSCAR readers, things that would reduce our long- resources, public consultation, greatly compromise the pedestrian term costs. In fact, we accelerated Environmental Assessments, and crossings. There is lots of space at Data The Gatineaus Ottawa’s investment in new roads, building political consensus. Centre Road that doesn’t have nearly which will only drive operating costs In the absence of a north-south the impact on pedestrian movements The Himalayas higher in years to come. 2007 will be light rail expansion, there will be as the Riverside intersection does, and once surrounded Ottawa a record breaking year as we pave 200 pressure to try to solve the needs of we are determined that staff look at with white crests kilometers of new roads, up from our commuters from the south using more that option seriously as an alternative. bold enough to wrestle usual 100 km. expensive options like bus transitway The good news is that there is lots of with starts and deny all life The good news is we avoided extensions or arterial road expansions time for public input as they will not but theirs. many nasty cuts like tree planting like twinning the Airport Parkway. be working on the final design phase The passage of years or daycare and kept the transit fare Not only will these options cost more of this leg of the project for two or have reduced them to nubs, increase to 2% instead of the 9.5% and pollute more but they won’t move three years, nor commencing the work rose coloured, moss covered which were facing. The bad news is people as reliably. for three or four years at the earliest, elders that funding for cycling, pedestrians, depending on budget allocations. that greet the dawn traffic calming, and renewal of Reconstruction at Bank If you are interested in the plans with a modest hello, community resources is virtually all and Riverside please contact my office. We will we’re still here gone in 2007. be keeping a database of interested To sustain 0% or near 0% persons so we can send out for project but changed. Bank Street from Billings Bridge increases, Ottawa will have to invest updates, open house locations and and heading south is coming due for in things which will reduce our any other relevant news as this moves Budget major reconstruction. We are in the operating costs. It is no coincidence forward. early design stages and plans are being that environmental and financial he 2007 budget bought us considered to make changes along sustainability involve the same sorts time and goodwill around the Bank to make it safer for pedestrians, Coffee with Clive of solutions. The real challenge will Council table to start working cyclist and cars. The section of Bank T be moving in that direction for the towards more sustainable solutions from Riverside to the transit and In Old Ottawa South, please join next budget. for Ottawa even if in the short run it railway bridge is a trouble spot. me on the second Thursday of the takes us in the wrong direction. The most significant changes are month from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. at The outcome of the budget was Light Rail the proposals to make the turns in the Second Cup, corner of Bank and not great but probably the best we the channels wider to accommodate Sunnyside. could get under the circumstances. Light rail is dead. The mayor’s 18 wheeler truck traffic. We will be Regards, We delivered a near 0% tax increase task force will hopefully report back challenging those ideas as this project but mostly in very short term or one in early summer. Then we will have unfolds as we don’t believe that trucks time only ways. We didn’t invest in to restart the process of: securing should be using this access which will Clive Doucet Page  The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Something to Crow About by Linda Burr

t looks as though some noisy neighbours might be moving in Inext door. In fact, the American crow family is pretty hard to miss, what with all the loud cawing and general commotion when they’re around. They are likely setting up household in a nearby tall tree. That’s fine with me: in a few weeks we will hear barely a peep out of them. Once mother crow has her eggs laid, they won’t be wanting to attract any unwelcome visitors. But for now they are declaring that this is their territory, so don’t get any ideas about moving in, if you are from another crow family, that is. No wonder that a person who is bragging or gloating loudly is said to be “crowing”. In spring, the crows that went south one or two hundred kilometres return to nest, but a few resident crows always remain in the neighbourhood all winter and get a head start on the best nesting spots. Common Crow Photo by Peter Robinson Look for small groups of crows in springtime – it is probably an more. These “adolescents” stay with of crows that gather in the fall and are a crow, but many people have extended family group of male and the parents and form family groups, early winter, often in the trees near negative associations with these female with several of their young with as many as 15 individuals from the Rideau River. This communal birds. They do have a few bad habits from previous years. Crows may pair five different years! roosting behaviour occurs only at that (such as raiding your plastic garbage for life, and the young birds do not Residents of Old Ottawa South time of year. Crows are very sociable bag), and the large roosts can be a breed until they are four years old or will not fail to notice the large flocks birds, and seem to enjoy these annual nuisance in urban areas. It is very gatherings, where they return each difficult to frighten crows away from evening after spending the day out their roosting spots. feeding in the surrounding area. The Part of the problem is that crows crows always leave and return to the are very intelligent birds, and some roost along established flight lines, experiments have shown they are so you can stand in one place and able to solve simple problems. In one watch seemingly endless streams of instance, a rook (a close relative of crows going overhead. In fact, they crows) figured out that if it put a plug may fly up to 80 kilometres from the into the drain hole of its aviary, it roost in one day in search of food. could create a pool of water in which No one knows exactly why crows to bathe. Crows are known to pick gather in such large groups, but they up nuts and fly high up with them, may find out about good feeding then drop them onto a paved surface, areas by following the other crows, to crack them open. If a car runs and the large group provides better over it, all the better! In tests that protection from predators such as the involve reasoning or learning, crows Great Horned Owl. sometimes perform as well as dogs How many crows are there? On or monkeys. Crows store extra food, December 17th, 2006, participants burying it in the ground or hiding it in the annual Christmas Bird Count in trees, and are able to remember found a total of 14,640 crows in the thousands of hiding spots. Ottawa count area. (That may seem Crows are fascinating, but there like a lot, but the largest known roosts is still a lot we don’t know about their North America, in Oklahoma and complex lives. What I want to know Nebraska, numbered over one million is, why are the lines at the corner of crows!) In contrast, birders in the my eyes called “crow’s feet” and not Toronto Christmas Bird Count found “chicken’s feet” (or some other bird), only 72 crows on the same day. The and why do we say “as the crow flies” reason for this difference in numbers when we mean travelling in a straight is most likely West Nile virus. Of all line? If you can find the answers to the bird species, the American crow these questions, you will indeed have is the most susceptible to this disease, something to crow about. which has killed large numbers of crows in areas in and around Toronto. Linda Burr lives in Old Ottawa A close relative of the crow, the Blue South and is a biologist and avid Jay, is also easily affected. The good backyard naturalist. news is that the total population of crows across Canada is still going strong. Well, it is good news if you APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page  NCCP PeeWee Girls Win The Gretzky Tournament By Gary Driver Ice Cats. The Caps jumped out to a Brianna McGahey and Sam Morell to and contributors to the women’s game 2-0 lead on goals by Addi Halladay ride to a 3-2 victory. of hockey. NCCP players have earned he National Capital and Kourtney Shayanpour, before The final game was a rematch of positions on Team Canada, provincial Competitive Program (NCCP) allowing a single goal, to post their the nullified game against Oshawa. and NWHL teams, and earned TPeeWee hockey team recently second victory in as many games. Again the Caps shut out the Lady scholarships for prep schools, colleges, captured the championship of the After that second game, the Caps Generals, 2-0, on goals by Morgan and universities in Canada and the Walter Gretzky tournament in learned that the two local teams in the Richardson and Brianna McGahey, to United States. In Old Ottawa South, Brantford, Ontario. tournament, Brantford and Stoney complete their perfect 4 wins and no the PeeWee Caps are represented The team’s trip to Brantford Creek, balked on their opening game losses weekend and capture the gold by Cassie Charette, Gabriele Dawson was a slow and treacherous journey of the tournament, due to the poor medals. and Kathleen Dawson. through the worst snow, ice and weather conditions. As a result, The Caps would like to thank their The NCCP program of excellence wind storm of the season in southern tournament organizers nullified the sponsors for their support, including is founded on positive and focused Ontario. Everyone arrived safely for Caps opening game victory. Dr. Giles Leo, TD Capital Private on-ice and off-ice experiences and the first game against the Oshawa Rather than being 2-0 and having Equity Investors and Dr. M. Khedmat on play in exhibition games at the Lady Generals. It took the Caps two a spot in the final clinched, the Caps Gozar. appropriate level and in tournament periods to shake off their “bus legs” entered their final game of the round The NCCP was formed over and provincial championship play. from the long trip, but in the third robin, against the Stoney Creek 20 years ago to achieve the goal of The Program continues to offer a period Rebecca Watson and Gabriele Sabres, in a must-win situation to providing girls in the National Capital unique experience for girls who Dawson managed to find the twine, guarantee a shot at the gold medals. Region the chance to play at the same aspire to excellence in hockey. For while Cassie Charette stood tall Despite allowing the first goal of high level of competitiveness as girls more information, visit http://www. in goal, and the Caps posted a 2-0 the game to the Sabres and finding in other, more populous areas of nccpwomenshockey.com/. shutout win. themselves behind for the first time Southern Ontario. During this time, Game two saw the Caps face off in the tournament, the Caps stormed the NCCP has earned a reputation of against the home town, Brantford back with goals by Hayley Evershed, developing some of the best players

NCCP PeeWee girls celebrate with their gold medals at the Walter Gretzky tournament. Lying in front: Cassie Charette. Kneeling (left-to-right): Addi Halladay, Myf Thomson, Hannah Driver, Rebecca Watson, Sam Morell, Gina MacDonald and Kourtney Shayanpour. Standing (left- to-right): Brianna McGahey, Rachel Dods, Kathleen Dawson, Gabriele Dawson, Hayley Evershed and Morgan Richardson. Back row (left- to-right): assistant coach Reg Charette, coach Gary Driver, assistant coach Chris Thomson and trainer Virginia MacDonald.

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Carmen ... from Page 1 deliciously cooked and delectably presented. tempting. In our case, we split a molten- A pizza addict, I went for the double-smoked chocolate cake, a must for any chocoholic. bacon pizza with goat cheese and caramelized The quality of Carmen’s cuisine would onions. suggest an adult-oriented affair. But Old When the time for dessert arrived, Ken put Ottawa Southers can dine finely with kids the music volume up and walked around in tow – our 7-year old daughter’s a regular hanging a half-dozen T-Shirts with 3’s inked with us. It’s no wonder Ken and Carmen are all over them. Names placed in a hat were celebrating – as should the community to drawn and satisfied customers laughed as have such a tasty venue at our doorsteps. their names were announced and T-Shirts Carmen’s Veranda is open Tuesday to awarded. A little speech and word of Friday lunch: 2-5, dinner: 5-9 , Saturday and thanks from Ken topped off the evening’s Sunday brunch: 10-2. Closed Sunday celebration. night and Monday. Phone: 613-730-9829. We weren’t done, though, since dessert Reservations recommended. remained. Again, the choices are rich and Page 10 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Calling All Friends of the Ottawa Farmers Market

This group is still just in its infancy and is looking for people to lead or join an organizing committee, as well as those who might just be willing to lend a hand. Among the promotional suggestions offered are developing a market logo and slogan, signage and a website, putting articles in community newspapers and featuring that week’s produce on a large sign at the Bank Street entrance. Local restaurants can attest that they use market produce with recipes and window signs: “Food from Š..” with the farm’s name. Community volunteers, possibly local high school students seeking their 40 volunteer hours, can help set up stalls, administer and analyse customer surveys and manage demonstrations with chefs and nutritionists to show people what they can do with that week’s featured produce. The market also needs administrative help for tasks such as developing a customer-based campaign to keep the market alive, getting Lansdowne as a permanent location, drafting market bylaws and bookkeeping. If you’re interested in lending a hand, getting involved, or even leading the Friends of the Farmers Market volunteer group, please come to a meeting on Wednesday, April 25th at 7 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre (175 Third at Lyon). It’s a chance to support local foods and local farmers The Ottawa Farmers Market is trying to ensure By June Creelman and ensure that the Ottawa Farmers Market has a that this second year of a two-year pilot program is successful future. a success, so that it can become a more permanent any of you enjoyed the Ottawa Farmers offering. It is looking for people who support the If you can’t make the meeting, but would like to Market inaugural season at Lansdowne market to join a volunteer support group-the Friends volunteer, please contact farmersmarket@glebeca. Park. The market will continue this M of the Farmers Market. ca summer opening on Sunday, May 6. Forty-eight The idea is to get a volunteer group together to returning vendors have confirmed. All are from assist the Farmers’ Market with communications, Ottawa or within 100 miles of the city and will sell promotions, site set up, administration and advocacy. only what they produce.

779 Bank Street (613) 237-1483 APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 11

HOSPICE AT MAY COURT

Come Hike in The Hospice at May Court’s Fifth Annual Hike for Hospice By Joanne Steventon Hike for Hospice across Canada The Hospice at May Court is one of he Hospice at May Court invites over 80 Hike locations across Canada all members of the community hosting a Hike for Hospice on this day. to attend its fifth annual Hike Three other Hikes will take place in T th for Hospice. Whether you’ve had direct Ottawa on May 6 raising money for experience with the Hospice in the past different Hospices. and are looking to reconnect, or you’re Build Your Team just looking to have a good time for This year, we would like to invite a great cause, Hike for Hospice is for groups walking together to form a you! team. Team members can raise pledges This year’s Hike, presented by separately, and they will be combined Tracy Arnett Realty Ltd., consists of on the day of the event. Prizes will be a 5 km walk along the Rideau Canal awarded to the teams that raise the (via Echo Drive), and a picnic with most money, and have the most spirit. live entertainment on the Hospice’s Sign up now! scenic grounds along the Rideau River. There will be no registration fee Hikers are encouraged to raise pledges, for this year’s Hike. We do ask that which will go directly towards the participants collect a minimum of $25 Hospice’s $1 million fundraising goal in pledges. All Hike participants will for 2006/2007. This event raised nearly receive an event t-shirt and lunch. The $55,000 last year. registration form and pledge sheet are More than just a fundraiser available at the Hospice, or online at This is a very special day for www.hospicemaycourt.com. Why not friends and families who would like get a head start on raising pledges? to celebrate the memory of someone This year’s top individual fundraiser special. Participants can add a name will receive a prize package which of the person who they are walking in includes a $250 gift certificate for the memory of to the memory window at Lord Elgin Hotel! the event and on the event t-shirt. For more information, call Joanne at (613)260-2906 or visit www. hospicemaycourt.com .

Mozart’s Requiem Saturday May 5, 2007, 7.30 pm By Margret Brady was Mozart’s last composition and Nankivell was featured in the Oscar-winning film Amadeus written by Peter Shaffer. ozart’s haunting Requiem The film shows Mozart composing will be the centrepiece of the work on his deathbed with the St. Matthew’s Anglican help of rival composer Antonio M Salieri. How much of the music was Church’s spring concert on May 5, 2007 at 7:30 pm. Musical director composed by Mozart before his death Stephen Candow will be conducting in 1791 and how much by his friend the combined choirs of St. Matthew’s Franz Xaver Süssmayr -- and possibly as well as an orchestra of professional other composers -- are matters of musicians. The concert will also considerable debate. feature professional soloists, including The oratorio was commissioned soprano Maghan Stewart, alto by amateur musician Count Franz Christina Stelmacovich, tenor Dillon von Walsegg, anonymously through Parmer and bass Gary Dahl. intermediaries. The penurious Mozart Last year, Ms. Stelmacovich won had received half of the payment in first place for best interpretation in advance so his widow Constanze the prestigious 2006 International arranged for its completion by another Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, composer so that she could collect the Austria. The Toronto-based singer balance. was described as “an elegant and The concert will also feature noble singer whose beautiful voice choral works by Fauré, Mendelssohn, and attention to diction captivated Parry and Joubert. the listener.” Ms. Stelmacovich studied vocal performance under the Tickets for the concerts may incomparable Lois Marshall and has be purchased at the church office, performed with renowned conductors 217 First Ave., Compact Music & such as Elmer Iseler and Sir David CD Warehouse outlets. Reserved Willcocks. This is her second seating tickets $30 sold at church performance at St. Matthew’s, which only. Unreserved seating: Adults $20, is known for its musical program and Seniors & Students $15. A premium excellent acoustics. Last year she sang of $5 will be charged for tickets in the church’s annual Messiah, as did purchased at the door, 130 Glebe Ave. tenor Dillon Parmer. To place an ad in the concert program The Reqiuem Mass in D minor please contact Peggy Nankivell at 613-230-8669. Page 12 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Old Ottawa South History from OSCAR Past Issues

Firehall Community Centre History 1996 to present February 2007 (Mary Anne position to take a view about its relative as we do now. Our communities need complex at Brewer Park. Thompson, editor) merits. In particular, the views of the community centres accessible to OSCA President’s Report by OPL and its Board about the merits residents. A community centre located October 1997 Michael Jenkin of proceeding with this project are at Brewer Park would simply not meet Development Proposal for a Sunnyside critical. As a result, the OSCA Board the needs of either Glebe or Ottawa OSCA President’s Report by Library and Community Centre passed a motion at its January meeting South residents. Greg Wright to empower its Executive Committee A community centre is more than Community Centre Move Doug Casey, the head of to engage in discussions with the a building – it is the heart and soul A majority seem to favour moving Charlesfort Developments, briefed OPL Board to determine their views of the community. I have expressed our Community Centre. If the “straw the Board at its January meeting of, and their interest in, the proposal. my displeasure with staff for putting poll” conducted at our September 25 on a development project that has Once we have a better view of the forward a proposal that was never town hall meeting is any indication, potentially big implications for our OPL’s position and more details on even discussed throughout the studies Old Ottawa South residents are community. What Charlesfort wants the proposal and its implications, during the past year. favourable disposed to moving our to do is to purchase the Sunnyside the Board will be looking at how On June 20 at 7 pm in Assembly Community Centre from the Old Library site from the Ottawa Public to best engage the community Hall at Landsdowne Park, we will Firehall to 214 Hopewell at Brewer Library and build a condominium and hear its views on the matter. host a public meeting to let staff know Park. apartment building on the property. how much we cherish our community In return, Charlesfort would June 1996 (Peter Hecht editor) centres and to put a stop to this Brewer Random Notes from the Firehall propose to build a new library and Front page Park option. by Dinos Dafniotis community centre on the vacant lot Community Centre Future in The question asked of me at the north-west corner of Bank and Question by the OSCA Board of July 1996 frequently, lately is “What do you Sunnyside. It is proposed that the Directors OSCA President’s Report by think about the community centre land for the new building would be In mid-May [1996], OSCA Greg Wright relocating to Brewer Park?” The obtained on a long term lease from its learned that City of Ottawa staff had Thank you to everyone who answer is not an easy one. Moving current owner. put together a plan to merge the Glebe turned out at the June 20 Public to 214 Hopewell Ave will provide us According to Charlesfort’s Community Centre and Old Ottawa Meeting at Landsdowne Park to “save with more program space, something proposal, funds from the sale of the South Firehall Community Centre into our community centre.” Rarely does which is needed from a recreation original library site would cover a mega-facility to be built in Brewer one have the privilege and pleasure point of view. We would be located part of the cost of building the new Park. Neither community association of witnessing first-hand such a large, by the swimming pool, arena, soccer structure. The building would have or Councillor Jim Watson were aware vocal, enthusiastic and committed fields and ball diamonds which will two floors, plus a basement, with the development of such a proposal. group -\(between 100 -1200!) rallying allow parents to do one stop shoping each floor providing about 12,000 … for a worthy cause. The meeting for all their recreation needs. Drop off sq.ft. The building would front on “We’ve been talking to the City was highly successful in sending one child for their swimming lesson at both Bank Street and Sunnyside about the need for more and better the right message to City officials. the pool while the other takes a dance and would have large windows and facilities in this community for two At its conclusion, Commissioner class next door at the new community high ceilings. A partially covered years….” Says Greg Wright, President Suzanne McGlashan announced that centre. In the summer, we could parking facility on Sunnyside would of OSCA. her department will not recommend offer a greater range of affordable provide space for some 40 cars. It is to City Council a mega-complex at camps such as soccer, multi-sport, proposed that the library would be Page 5 (June 1996) Brewer Park and the amalgamation swimming, drama… located on the ground floor and the City Councillor’s Column by of the Glebe and Old Ottawa South On the other hand, moving to community centre on the second floor Jim Watson community centres there. Brewer Park would mean a longer with its main entrance on Sunnyside. Help Save our Community Centre walk for children in our After Four As we understand the proposed City Councillor’s Column program. If bussing couldn’t be design, the space available for Following months of working Community Rallies to Save Our arranged from St Margaret Mary’s a library branch and certainly a with the community, City staff have Community Centre by Jim Watson and Hopewell children could possibly community centre would be larger come up with the very disappointing My sincere thanks to the more be walking to 214 Hopewell Ave in - than the current facilities. Having recommendation to close both the than 1,200 people who attended the 15 degree weather. We would still be two new, custom designed community Glebe Community Centre and the Old rally and public meeting June 20 about using Hopewell Public School for our facilities co-located on the same site, Firehall and to build a new community the future of the Old Firehall and the gym programs because there are no and right next to Hopewell Public centre at Brewer Park serving both the Glebe Community Centre. plans for a gym in the new location. School, is obviously an attractive idea. Glebe and Ottawa South. It was encouraging to see so As a City of Ottawa employee, I There are, however, many aspects of I am very upset with this many members of the community have tried to stay neutral in the “should this proposal that are complex and recommendation. I believe we should sending out a resounding No! to the we move or stay” debate. What I need to be worked out, especially about maintain independent community City Staff proposal to close these two would like to see is more community financing, before the Board is ina centres in the Glebe and Ottawa South community centres and to build a new involvement in this debate. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 13

Old Ottawa South History from OSCAR Past Issues.... Continued

November 1997 meeting to discuss the future of our pre-school, primary, teens, and seniors attractiveness of the building, on its OSCA President’s Report by Community Centre. Whatever the (this might entail identifying new location relative to schools and other Douglas Stickley decision, it will be one we will live program venues in the community); community amenities like the library The location of our Community with for some time. better use of the existing facilities and shops, on the importance of the Centre is up for discussion again with through changes in scheduling; cross Firehall for maintaining community the City offering us the use of 214 Two Clear Options promotion and packaging of programs support and participation for the non- Hopewell Ave as a replacement for the Option #1 – 214 Hopewell with Brewer Park, Arena and Park; programming aspects of the OSCA’s Old Firehall. The move is not being In the judgment of the OSCA sub- and pressure to ensure continued, if mandate and on the emotional dictated to us but we need to determine committee, the following conditions not increased, access to Hopewell attachment that many have for the very clearly what is best given the should be attached to a choice to School. site. wants and needs of community move the community centre to the Many Board members expressed residents. The move committee can’t 214 Hopewell site: December 1998 disappointment at the apparent apathy do this alone and is seeking volunteers • the development of a new set OSCA President’s Report by within the community on the future to join in discussion so that all aspects of OSCA programs, similar to those Douglas Stickley site of the community centre. Only of a possible move are carefully outlined in the Firehall Option, with OSCA to Stay at Firehall thirty or so residents attended a town scrutinized. If this issue is of concern the exception that new venues would In probably the most important hall meeting on November 12 to to you, call Deirdre to get your name not need to be sought. and contentious issue OSCA has faced discuss the two options – this despite on out contact list. A fully satisfactory in recent years, the Board of Directors community wide advertisement redevelopment plan for the site, one narrowly voted to retain the Firehall and four page insert in the October December 1997 that overcomes many of the layout as our Community Centre rather edition of the OSCAR. Less than 3% OSCA President’s Report by and other shortcomings of the Firehall than move to the old City of Ottawa of households bothered to fill out the (estimated cost is $430,000) questionnaire in the insert seeking Douglas Stickley training building in Brewer Park. • an attempt by OSCA to gain a their opinions on the choice before Two new sub-committees were commitment from the City to sell the the Board. established this year. The first will OSCA to Stay at Firehall by John Firehall only to prospective buyers While differing on the relative work with the Region, Bank Street Graham, OSCA Vice President willing to retain the existing Firehalll merits of the two sites, Board members merchants and residents on the After three and a half hours of structure. were unanimous that the status quo upgrading of Bank Street between the passionate but nonetheless courteous • a commitment from the City to is not acceptable. Consequently, in bridges, planned for 1999. debate at its November meeting, the include OSCA representatives on a the next few months the Board will The community Centre OSCA Board decided to remain at City committee to set the terms of sale be developing and executing an Committee, directed by John Graham, the Firehall on Sunnyside Avenue for the Firehall and evaluate any bids action plan based on the following will examine the City’s verbal offer to rather than move to the former City elements: move the Community Centre from the of Ottawa training centre at 214 Option #2 – The Firehall • Undertaking some cosmetic Firehall to the Building immediately Hopewell. The vote was 10 for the In the judgment of the OSCA sub- improvements to the Firehall south of the of the Brewer Pool (214 Firehall and 7 for the 214 Hopewell committee, the following conditions through cleaning, painting and minor Hopewell) using the proceeds from site, with 2 abstentions. should be attached to a choice to keep maintainance the sale of the Firehall to refurbish the No Board member found the the community centre at the Firehall: • Seeking other venues, such as new Centre. decision an easy one. The Hopewell • a commitment in the immediate improved access to Hopewell School, If this offer can be confirmed, we site has approximately double the term to make some cosmetic to provide for enriched and expanded will review it in detail. The group will usable space for programming improvements – this can be largely programming consult the community on process purposes, is close to a number of City done by the OSCA Board with the • Improving the linkages between and issues to develop quotes for, and recreation facilities and thus offers help of other community volunteers. the Programming Subcommittee and recommendations to, the OSCA Board the potential for expanded or enriched • the putting into place of a long the Board, and who would convey a decision to City programs for tots, elementary school term re-development plan for the • Launching a major Board staff. This is a major issue requiring children (“after four” programs), teens facility – a plan that would need to initiative to develop a long-term plan careful study. and seniors. Moreover, it would be a enter the City’s existing queue for aimed at upgrading the Firehall. more suitable working environment capital projects. A major renovation The Board has also written to the for City and OSCA staff. October 1998 of the interior including the addition City, urging it to lease rather than sell Those opting for the Firehall, on OSCA President’s Report by of 2000 sqft in the existing basement the 214 Hopewell site so as to preserve the other hand, based their choice, Douglas Stickley appears to be the best option at a cost parkland and keep open future options among other things, on saving an Community Centre Decision Time of $650,000 but other options would for community use of the site. important heritage building, on In this OSCAR, there is a four- be considered as well as including the keeping the Community Centre in page section on the Community Centre examination of other potential sites. (Compiled by Mary Anne Thompson) the heart of the community with easy options. Take the time to understand • additional programming access for residents living on both the issues and attend the Townhall initiatives, particularly in regards to sides of Bank Street, on the physical Page 14 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007

Garden Glimpses Trusted Perennials For Your Garden By Ailsa Francis deadly since sometimes we shouldn’t by garden fairies playing “paint ball”, The last is a plant that is very (or can’t) even work the ground until but by the seed heads of the gas plant easy to grow, colonizes easily (read n late winter, gardeners around the late April. (Many of us who have exploding and forcefully ejecting the “colonize”, not “invades”), has world start receiving catalogues visited Canada Blooms in Toronto seeds inside! Besides being very attractive & reliable foliage and Ifrom plant nurseries that are and returned home with little pots of entertaining, this plant is a very strong beautiful blooms in late summer, advertising their latest and greatest the newest perennials in mid March grower; its’ stems with dark green early fall. How many perennials can additions for the new year. Some have found this out already!) A cold- foliage stand upright to a height of you say that about? This one is called of the most atrocious plant breeding frame is the best answer for early around 36” and dusky purple-veined Anemone tomentosa ‘Robustissima‘, is taking place out there with results protection of potted perennials but or white flowers appear mid-summer known as the Grape-leaf Anemone that are truly frightening – lots of not everyone has this kind of set-up in in vertical clusters. Dictamnus is a and hardy to Zone 3 (so quite a bit perennials with golden foliage (many their garden. long-lived perennial in sun or part- colder than us here in Ottawa). This look chlorotic to me!), quadruple There are many perennials sun; like the peony, it prefers to stay perennial can grow to a height of about petals (the worst case of “more is available at good independent put once planted and rewards the 2 ½ -3’ while in flower and prefers better” syndrome) and the un-ending nurseries that are not given the respect gardener with an attractive, low- sunny to partially shaded conditions. quest for the blue rose. The problem they deserve. Often not carried by the maintenance shrubby plant for years It is not fussy about soil, although if with many of these new plants (if big-box garden centres, these plants and years. it is given optimum conditions (i.e. they’re not just ugly) is that in their are flying low under the radar – but The next “must-have” perennial moist, fertile earth) I’m sure it would rush to the mass marketplace, many gardeners in the know rely on them is called Meadow rue or Thalictrum be very vigorous (i.e. would travel have not been adequately tested for for their great performance year after delavayi ‘Hewitt’s Double’. I about at will!). It grows in my garden things like life-span, disease and pest year in their gardens. Let me share discovered this plant years ago facing the western sun and I do have resistance, hardiness and colour & three of them with you now. from Suzanne Patry (at Whitehouse to chop it at the edges almost every form reversion. First is a plant called the Gas Perennials in Almonte) who was really year to allow its neighbours space to Your job, as a gardening Plant (Dictamnus); not an attractive enthusiastic about it. It is one of those flourish, but I would never be without consumer, is to be cautious of these name I know, but given it because of ethereal plants that can reach up to it because it is so reliable. The flower highly touted newcomers – many the volatile oil that is given off by the about 6 or 7 feet in the sun or partial buds are velvety dark pink, opening come with a hefty price tag and are plant (particularly the seed heads), shade and helped by fertile, moist to pink with bold, golden centres and tragically doomed to die early, rather especially in the evenings. The result soil, take up very little visual space. fading softly with maturity – indeed than later, in your garden. Why? is that the foliage and flowers, when Such a statuesque plant usually needs the petals drop and form a carpet on the Because many mail-order companies brushed, smell intoxicatingly of some supporting but not so for this ground much like apple blossoms. If advertise the newest cultivars or lemons. I remember sitting on my one: with strong stems and branched you’re looking for a strong, attractive, hybrids in “limited quantities” (they back porch on a late summer evening foliage that resembles a cross between self-reliant perennial, this is it. usually are) and therefore available a few years ago hearing an unusual a Maidenhair fern and a Columbine, So with all the new plants on on a first-come, first-served basis. popping sound within the garden. this perennial shows off with delicate the block, don’t forget about the old This often translates into very early Making my way over to where the pinky-purple blooms much like that of guard. There are many perennials that ordering and a resulting early delivery skirmish seemed to originate, I Baby’s Breath without the distraction have been available for years that are date. To us here in Ottawa, this can be realized this noise was being made not of bamboo or ugly plastic stakes. In solid performers and deserve a place my garden this plant does not seem to in every garden. come back with absolute certainty year after year, but I don’t mind replacing it from time to time in order to enjoy its unique beauty. Double-Double Book Launch

Sponsored by Kaleidoscope Kids Book and Prime Crime Bookstore

Saturday, April 14 Fifth Avenue Court, Fifth and Bank 2 to 4 pm

Guest speaker: Gavin Liddy, Superintendent of the Rideau Canal

As part of the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Rideau Canal, Deadlock Press presents two books of Rideau Fiction:

Locked Up edited by Sue Pike Eighteen of Canada’s best mystery writers present tales of mischief and mischance along the Rideau Canal Waterway.

Shillings by Vicki Cameron A Bytown history mystery for middle grade readers. Stampeding horses, a stolen payroll and the Hogs Back Dam is about to burst.

Sue Pike, an OOS resident is an award winning author and an editor of The Ladies’ Killing Circle anthologies, Fit to Die, Bone Dance and When Boomers Go Bad.

Vicki Cameron is an Edgar nominee and author of half a dozen children’s novels, including Clue, mysteries and More Clue Mysteries. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 15

BOOK REVIEW The Idylls of an Icon

Review by stephen a. including his own father. Yet, there doesn’t provide a sequential scenario, a particular type, Bethune resorts to haines was clearly more to Bethune than our but follows the kind of jotting a man having the donor strapped to a bed history books give us. Dennis Bock under extreme pressure might be forced while the blood is taken. Bethune’s The Communist’s Daughter uses well-honed prose skills to add a to use. He lets Bethune skip about complex character is revealed in his by Dennis Bock flourish to the standard image. He’s in time and place. In a less skillful respect for the donor’s fears, while HarperCollins Publishers, invented a daughter that Bethune has writer, this would be distracting and enraged at the obstinence based on 2006 never seen. perhaps difficult to follow. As a series superstition. His rages in China were The creation of a fictional daughter of seven missives, listed as “Envelope common, even his assistant Ho being ISBN: 0-00-200528-X adds a new dimension to Norman One” through “Seven”, each titled subjected to Bethune’s tantrums. Bethune. While we all know of his in typescript, the only focus is the Has Bock depicted his subject in humanitarian efforts - he’s the man surgeon’s desire to relate his life to photographic clarity, or invented a renowned for inventing the M.A.S.H. the distant daughter. We learn that modified Bethune for our interest and unit to rapidly treat the wounded in his Ontario childhood lacked stability. enjoyment? Only Bethune himself military engagements - Bethune’s Bethune’s parents, particularly his can answer that. What the author personal life remains vague. In this father, were evangelicals, leaving has given us is a plausible person of series of letters to that daughter, Norman facing minimal options. At Bethune’s outlook and experience. Bock demonstrates that Bethune’s a young age, however, he learned that There will be those who grouse about caring nature went beyond his clinical the road to Damascus is not a one- this or that invention or missing abilities. Bock has him reaching out way street. Revelation can lead away element. Those are false grievances. through time and space with endearing from divine mysteries and dogmas as In creating the daughter, Bock must comments to the girl, transcending the readily as attract the unwary to them. modify the man he’s thoroughly likelihood that the letters may never For Norman, it was the knowledge researched. Whatever his successes reach her. His life in the field is too that he, and every other human is at field medicine or vagaries of demanding and the on-going conflicts alone. That isolation can be alleviated temper, Bethune is shown as a real seem endless. only by people who are also aware human in his letters to the daughter. We don’t learn what prompted his of that state and take steps to reach The title is purposely misleading as here’s a rising number of entry into the Spanish Civil War, but out to their fellows. For Bethune, the Bethune’s “communism” is much less novelists using fiction to once there he remained working until Communist Party was a means to that an element in his life than saving lives Tproduce biographies. For circumstances forced a change. The fellowship and medicine a practical or opposing Fascist imperialism. In some of these, imaginary children experience gained there prompted manifestation of it. Spain, it is the Fascisti who rebelled prove a useful ploy through which relocating to China where the Treating the wounded, particularly against a legally elected Republican to depict a life. Peter Carey’s “True Japanese invasion is being resisted in China, dominates much of government, and in China it is that History of the Kelly Gang” is an by Mao’s Communist forces. During the text. Not the clinical details, nation that has been invaded by outstanding example: the notorious his shift of site, he has learned of his although those are present, but the Japan, not the other way around. bushranger writes a long missive to daughter, born of his Madrid lover, personalities Bethune can identify While Bock’s Bethune may do little an unseen daughter in the midst of Kajsa von Rothman. A Swedish and convey them. The Chinese were preaching about those circumstances, a siege by policemen. Dennis Bock anarchist, Kajsa brings light into unused to Westerners, and Bethune’s he leaves his “daughter” [and the has followed a similar course, with a Bethune’s sombre outlook. Bock’s commanding presence often awed reader] with no doubt of where the similar character. Norman Bethune, portrayal of Bethune’s view of her them. In his effort to provide care, faults lie. This is a book portraying who resides among the icons of admirably captures a man’s intense he’s faced with shortages, particularly a sensitive man, written by someone Canadian history, is presented as sense of real love discovered after a of blood. With much transfusion who understands how to reveal those a man beset on many sides. In this long, sometimes futile quest. experience gained in Spain, the feelings. [you can reach stephen a. case, it’s the Japanese Imperial The letters, typed out on an ancient doctor’s efforts were baulked by the haines at [email protected]] Army in China, the Fascisti in Spain and unreliable typewriter, impart his Chinese fear of taking blood from and scattered personal opponents - life in brief, intense sketches. Bock their bodies. In one instance, needing

ennis Bock, born in Belleville in 1964, a collection of short stories, Olympia, which IMPAC prize, Bock promises to be the figure to has emerged as one of Canada’s leading garnered several Canadian awards - most notably watch in the coming years. He resides with his Dwriters. After studying English and the inaugural Danuta Gleed Award for best first family in Guelph. Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, collection of stories by a Canadian author. With he spent a year in Spain. His first work was a first novel, The Ash Garden, short-listed for the Page 16 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Singing: Not Just About the Songs!

directions to enter and exit a stage, and to sit and poet Jim Lanthier in memory of his wife, Jane. stand when necessary. These are not easy tasks for The performance will be conducted by Matthew one person - especially when dealing with multiple Larkin and feature soprano (and University of rows and having to coordinate entrances and exits Ottawa alumnus) Pascale Beaudin, tenor Michiel on both sides of a stage. Yet despite the challenges, Schrey, baritone Peter Barrett, and pianists Jean she notes that there are a few perks to the job. Desmarais and Roland Graham. “Besides singing, this is the thing I find the most “Our April concert is very rhythmic,” says interesting and enjoyable about being in the choir,” Mary. “All have different rhythms and there is lots she says. “As Choir Marshall, I have to speak with of percussion…it’s all very earthy and vibrant.” the conductor to find out anything they want the Ironically, the very first piece Mary ever choir to do, whether it’s standing up or sitting down performed in concert with the Ottawa Choral at a certain point during the concert.” As a result, Society is also the work that the choir will perform Mary has had the opportunity to come face-to- with the National Arts Centre Orchestra on May face with some of the best conductors in the world 31 and June 1. Pinchas Zukerman will conduct the including Trevor Pinnock, Franz-Paul Decker and choir and orchestra in a concert featuring Verdi’s Nicholas McGegan. Requiem. As well, Mary has been the OCS Production Mary says that Old Ottawa South is no stranger Manager for the last four years. In this role she rents to choral music. “I have lots of neighbours who instruments, coordinates stage lighting for each love choral music,” she says. “I often have all of show, arranges to have enough risers for the choir, my immediate neighbours in the audience! Choral and ensures there are dressing rooms available for music audiences are definitely among residents of the soloists, among other “behind the scenes” tasks. Old Ottawa South.” Mary Martel Once, she even had to find two large potted palms Ticket information for Exuberance and for to use on stage for a production! Verdi’s Requiem is available on the Ottawa Choral By Lindsey Parry Mary is also part of a small ensemble Society’s website at www.ottawachoralsociety.com comprised of approximately 24 OCS members. or by calling (613) 725-2560. Visitors can also learn ld Ottawa South resident, Mary Martel, is This group literally sings for money: at birthday more about hiring the ensemble group for their not exaggerating when she says that music parties, shopping malls, for weddings and funerals, special event. Ois her life. and even once at a confirmation of a priest. Funds The OCS meets Wednesday nights at Blessed The semi-retired elementary school teacher and raised from each performance go toward the choir’s Sacrament (in the Glebe) to bring to life the former Vice-Principal moved to Ottawa in 1972 and operational budget. masterpieces of some of the world’s most famous joined the Ottawa Choral Society (OCS) in 1973. On April 21 at St. Joseph’s Church, Mary and choral composers. Thirty-four years later, she is still part of the city’s the Ottawa Choral Society will present Exuberance: The OCS is also on the lookout for new voices largest and longest-running choir. a concert including Carl Orff’s well-known Carmina of all ages. The choir offers bursaries for young In addition to being a second soprano (the lower Burana and Sid Robinovitch’s Canciones por las men who wish to sing tenor or bass. For audition range and counter-harmony of the soprano singers), Americas. The choir will also perform the world and bursary information, please call 613-725-2560. Mary is also “Choir Marshall” of the OCS. Her premiere of Wife in Winter, written by OCS music job: to ensure that 100 singers properly follow her director Matthew Larkin, with words by Canadian

A HARD DAY’S PLAY

By Mary P. Knead until smooth. (Since it will be HOT, I knead while wearing rubber laydough is a favourite activity gloves which I coat with a thin layer round here. We have a basket of vegetable oil to prevent sticking.) Pfilled with playdough toys Store in an airtight container. - rollers and cookie cutters, plastic This stuff keeps for-EVER. Alum knives and garlic presses, straws and is a pickling spice, keeping things dry safety scissors - and within this sits and preserved. Some people prefer not a plastic container of playdough. We to use alum, in which case you may don’t mess with those sissy teeny substitute cream of tartar, but I find it commercial pots, either. We make our doesn’t work as well. As long as we playdough around here, and we make remember to keep the lid on when it’s it in respectable quantities. Two cups not in use (some people even keep it in at a time, generally, often a double the fridge), one batch can last several batch for more. That’s one substantial months. lump o’dough. The recipe I use is taken from the Unless, of course, someone More With Less cookbook put out by decides to get even more creative than the Mennonites Central Committee. I’d usual. No mere playdough sausages give you all the publishing details, but and pancake sculpting for our mystery my copy is so old and well-thumbed tot. Someone wanted dimension, that its cover and initial pages have someone wanted texture! been loved right off it. I’m sure you can get your very own copy at the Ten Thousand Villages store on Richmond Road (opposite the new MEC).

Mix together in bowl: 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons alum Heat to boiling: 1 1/2 cups water 1/2 cup salt 1 tablespoon oil food colouring Stir liquids into dry ingredients. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 17

WINDSOR CHRONICLES B– PART 72 The Prodigal Cat

Dear Tera, there, and when she had no food your pet.” you praised me. left, and there was a severe famine. But the Alpha said to the rest of “But when this cat returns, he days get longer and the Not even a mouse to catch. the family, “Quickly, bring a ball who has taken your generosity for sun warmer. Winter still So the cat went and hired of catnip. Bring her cushion and granted, and treated us all with Tkeeps a few blasts in reserve, herself to watch the infants in a put it on our own bed beside our condescension, you open a tin of just to remind us to be grateful for daycare. The toddlers would pull pillows. And open a tin of salmon salmon for her.” the days when the snow melts and her tail for their entertainment, and and let us celebrate. For this cat of And Alpha said to him, “Dog, new smells rise up from the mud. squeeze her tightly. And she would ours was dead and has come to life; you have always been with me, and A season when the sap runs gladly have filled herself with the she was lost and has been found.” all that is mine is yours provided and the urge to travel rises among milk in the baby bottles, but had to And they began to celebrate. you don’t try to put your paws up many of us. You may have make do with the scraps tossed her Now, the family dog was in the on the furniture. But we need to noticed: the telephone poles way. park fetching sticks, and protecting celebrate and rejoice, for this cat have been festooned with lost So she said to herself, “What the children from squirrels. When of ours was dead and has begun pet announcements. Some have am I doing here? Back home, the he approached the house, he to live, and was lost and has been pictures of wayward animals who family treats even the dog better heard the celebration. And the found.” have wandered off. than this. I will go home and say to neighbour’s dog said to him, “The That’s the way of the world. Usually cats, you’ll notice. that guy with the can opener, I am cat has come and your pack has We accept our lot, and we hope This time of year, the cats are on no longer worthy to be called your opened a tin of salmon.” that all those families who have the prowl. cat. Treat me as a dog.” The dog became angry. He did posted notices on the telephone A family had two pets. The So she found her way back to not want to go in. And he said to poles will be opening their tins of cat said to the Alpha, “Hey, you! her neighbourhood. But when she Alpha, “Look! For so many years salmon very soon. Give me all the pet food that is was half way down the block, the I have served this family. I have my share,” and the Alpha divided Alpha saw her coming down the slept by the door to guard against all the food between the cat and sidewalk, and he ran and scooped strangers. I have fetched balls and Off to guard the door, the dog. And not that many days her up in his arms and stroked her sticks and brought them back to Zoscha later, the cat gathered everything sides and scratched her ears. you. I have sat when you said sit; and went on a journey to a distant And the cat said, “Alpha, I have lain down when you said lie down; neighbourhood. sinned against heaven and in your hung my head when you called me But she squandered all her food sight. I am not worthy to be called a bad dog; jumped with joy when Page 18 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Red Apron Cooks

pril has long been associated have a special recipe passed on to 2 tablespoons canola oil Remove from oven. Let cool 5 with spring, renewal, birth, you from someone you love? Is there 1 medium onion, chopped minutes. Run a think knife around the Anature, and Easter. Easter was a dish that revives fond memories of 3 cloves of garlic, peeled and edge of each tart, invert & remove. originally a pagan festival, celebrated family dinners and special occasions? chopped Serve with a dollop of sour cream and hundreds of years before the birth of Have you traveled and brought back 2 pounds carrots, cut into medium a few slices of smoked salmon. Christ to honour the ancient Goddess memories of a favourite dish? We dice * The Pelican Fishery at 1500 Bank Eostre – the Great Mother Goddess would love to hear from you. 2 tablespoons of diced fresh ginger Street makes their own hot and cold of the Saxon people in Northern Between now and April 30th we 1 cup white wine (optional) smoked salmon on site. Europe. Her name was derived from will collect your recipes and create a 4 cups vegetable or chicken broth the ancient word for spring: “eastre.” week of Red Apron Dinners dedicated 2 cups whipping cream Hot Cross Buns Buns marked with a cross (Hot Cross to your ideas and suggestions. 1 medium Butternut Squash, split in Buns) were eaten. It is thought the Participants’ names will be entered half, seeds removed This recipe was taken from a 1956 bun represented the moon and the into a draw to win one week of Red salt and pepper to taste issue of House & Garden Magazine. cross the moon’s quarters. Apron Dinners for two. Email your If you don’t feel up to baking bread April 1st is a time for practical recipes to [email protected] Directions from scratch, the Wild Oat at 817 jokes! In 1957, in a classic prank, the before April 30th to qualify for the Bank Street sells Hot Cross Buns BBC television program Panorama Draw. 1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. every April. The Red Apron will also ran a famous hoax showing the Swiss Place squash face down on an oiled be taking orders for Hot Cross Buns harvesting spaghetti from trees. For more information on the Red baking sheet and cook until tender. for April 3rd, 4th and 5th. Numbers of people contacted the Apron Dinner Service, visit www. Allow to cool slightly; peel and chop. BBC wanting to know how to grow redapron.ca or call us at 613-321- 2. Heat oil in a large pot over 1 cup scalded milk their own spaghetti trees. 0417. medium heat. Cook and stir in onions 1/2 cup butter In Japan during the month of At some point this month you until translucent and tender, about 5 1/2 cup sugar April, you might participate in a might be preparing Brunch for friends minutes. Add ginger and garlic and 1 teaspoon salt Cherry Blossom Festival. The trees, & family, so we are sharing some cook for another 1-2 minutes. Deglaze 1 cake compressed yeast (or 1 Japan’s national flower, do not yield recipes that would make a wonderful with white wine and reduce until most package of active dry yeast) fruits like other cherry trees. Cherry addition to a Brunch Menu. of the liquid has evaporated. Stir in 1 egg, well beaten blossom viewing has been a Japanese carrots; season with salt and cover 4 cups sifted flour custom since the 7th century. Today, Carrot, Ginger & Butternut with broth. Simmer until carrots are 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon the festival is like a big picnic. People Cream Soup tender. Add Butternut and enough 1 cup currants BBQ and buy food from street vendors liquid (broth or water) to cover all the 1 egg to eat under the Cherry trees. Our customers love this soup! vegetables. 1 tablespoon water 3. Remove from heat and allow to Icing This April, the Red Apron is Ingredients cool slightly. holding a “Call for Recipes.” Do you 4. Transfer to a blender or food 1. Pour the scalded milk over the butter, processor and blend until smooth. sugar and salt; cool to lukewarm. Return to soup pot, add cream, and Add the crumbled yeast (or active heat until warmed through. Season dry yeast) and let rest for 5 minutes. with salt and pepper, and serve. 2. Add the egg, flour and cinnamon to make a soft dough. Knead until Potato & Onion Tarts with smooth (about 5 minutes). Fold in the Smoked Salmon & Sour Cream currants. You can also add candied orange peel and/or chocolate chips. Ingredients Let rise in a warm place (80 to 85°F) until double in bulk — about 2 hours. 2 tablespoons butter, softened, plus Punch down and shape into large buns more for muffin tin and place an inch apart on a buttered Sea salt and freshly ground pepper baking sheet. Slightly flatten each bun 1 tablespoon dark-brown sugar and then score into quarters, cutting 2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar almost all the way through the dough, 6 sprigs fresh rosemary so that as each bun rises, it has a well- 1 tablespoon all purpose flour marked cross on it. Let rise in a warm 1 small red onion, sliced into six 1/4- place until double in bulk —1 -2 hours. inch-thick rounds 3. Brush tops of buns with 1 egg slightly 4 medium Yukon Gold or Russet beaten with 1 tablespoon of water. potatoes, coarsely grated Bake in a preheated 400°F oven for 1 large egg, lightly beaten 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. 1 cup of sour cream or crème fraiche 4. When cold decorate top of each ½ pound of thinly sliced cold smoked bun with an icing cross. Place 1/2 egg salmon (or hot smoked) * white in a small mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon, beat in as much Directions powdered sugar as the egg white will absorb and add 1 teaspoon of lemon 1. Preheat oven to 400°. Generously juice gradually as the mixture thickens. butter a large (six 1-cup) muffin Alternatively, before cooking you tin. Sprinkle each cup with salt, can make a paste for the crosses with pepper, pinch of sugar; drizzle each plain flour and 2 tbsp cold water. Mix cup with a touch of vinegar. Put until it is soft enough to pipe through a rosemary sprig in each cup, and a nozzle. Pipe a cross on each bun. cover with an onion round; set aside. When baked, you can brush the tops 2. Toss potatoes with flour and of each bun with warmed Corn Syrup egg in a medium bowl; season for a sweet glaze. with pepper and salt. Divide among cups; dot each with butter. 3. Bake until potatoes are tender and well browned, about 30 minutes. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 19 Ottawa South Snow Birds Bowl in Arizona

by Tony Bernard locate on the gold coast of Australia, however a Tournament, January 26-28, 2007 in Sun City number of Ottawa natives lawn bowl in Arizona. West, Arizona, at the Johnson Lawn Bowling Club. he confines of Ottawa hosts half a dozen Elmer Janzen, Beulah Tulloch-Janzen, Dave Our bowlers adapted to the very fast greens and lawn bowling rinks and local bowlers flee Smith, members of the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn enjoyed the experience which will stand them in Tthe snow covered greens of their home Bowling Club, and Sandra and Dave Jefferies good stead when the area clubs open in May. clubs to hone their skills in southern climes. Some all participated in the George Ralston Triples Page 20 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Urban Meltdown by Clive Doucet - Book Launch

have decades. Urban Meltdown is about this as evidenced by the author’s observations that: fundamental environmental change, the life of • economic growth has no built-in one city councilor and how he came to think environmental accountability; that knowledge wasn’t the problem, politics • until the political thinking about growth was.” – Prologue to Urban Meltdown and the progress model itself is changed, our environmental concerns will never be properly addressed; apital Ward councillor Clive Doucet • we need a new governance paradigm at all will be expanding on the thesis of his three levels, and Clatest publication, Urban Meltdown: • the cautionary tale of how the 1960s tried Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual, to take us down a different route but failed, not at his book launch to be held at Southminster for lack of leadership but because the system United Church on Friday, April 27 at 7:30pm. didn’t permit it. Southminster’s Mission and Service Fund Mr. Doucet is the author of over a dozen Committee is hosting the event as part of their publications including the 1980 best selling goal to encourage discussion and understanding memoir, My Grandfather’s Cape Breton. He of advocacy and justice work that also includes has also written four books of poetry and several environmental sustainability issues. plays. Mr. Doucet first became councilor for The 240-page book, published in soft cover Capital Ward in 1997 and has been returned to by New Society Publishers, will be available office in three subsequent municipal elections, for sale at the book launch. Urban Meltdown most recently this past fall. will be available at independent bookstores on April 12 and will be for sale at chain book Southminster United Church is located at stores starting May 1. Copies can also be 15 Aylmer Avenue at the corner of Bank Street ordered directly from the publishers’ web site across from the Sunnyside Library branch. (http://www.newsociety.com). The price of the In 2007, Southminster is celebrating its 75th By Craig Piche book is $20.95 plus taxes. anniversary and events such as the book launch A brief synopsis of the book is featured are an integral part of these celebrations and “Change comes very slowly for human on the publisher’s website and includes the outreach within the neigbourhood and the governance. Unfortunately climate change has following information: wider community. rewritten both the stakes and the time available Urban Meltdown describes how we got here, to adapt to our changing circumstances. We why we got here, and what can be done about it, no longer have centuries. We may not even

“News From the Pews”

By Craig Piche

aster Sunday (April 8) will feature a Sunrise Service at Southminster at 8:30 a.m., followed by the annual Easter Sunday Ebreakfast at 9 a.m. The full worship service will commence at its regular time of 10:30 a.m.

The annual Southminster rummage sale will take place on Saturday, April 21 beginning at 9 a.m. Come browse through the hundreds of nearly new and previously treasured items. Enter the church through the Galt Street doors. Contact Martha at the church office if you have any contributions that can be dropped off, at 613-730-6874. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 21 From Streetcars to LRT (?) all the time and resources Mr. Bonsall expensive and that the introduction of had to convince councillors to opt with LRT into the existing mix of cars and his supposedly cheaper busway plan. buses on Slater and Albert wouldn’t work. The council was “sold” on a $97 million Beyond Riverside South the first point is 3 corridor busway plan in 1979 which probably true, even the section beyond by 1985 ended up costing $440 million, Lietrem could have been delayed.. a cost escalation of 450 % ! Calagary The point about over engineering is built a 3-line LRT system of similar debatable and the 50 % cost escalation kilometrage at the same time for the was partly due to the over-extension and same price and theirs included LRVs and some things being hidden. The actual facilities whereas ours didn’t. cost would have been $33 million per Why did the road engineers like km, much lower than other rapid transit busways so much? A train of three projects underway in Canada and lower articulated LRVs can carry eight regular than the C$41M/km average for 13 LRT bus loads of passengers, or lets say three projects underway in the USA. It is in regular buses and three articulateds. the ball-park for Toronto’s proposed That’s six times as many operators seven new LRT lines. Surface operation required for a trunk service and six times downtown can work if express buses as many movements to program. With are replaced by suburban bus services By Greg Ross decade with the environment starting to that many more vehicle movements, feeding trunk bus and LRT lines. become a concern and the blossoming grade separation is needed for a much One lesson to be learned from he Ottawa Electric Railway began of the community activism movement, lower capacity threshold than for LRT. this debacle is never again to give the operating electric streetcars on people began to talk about how to This means much more engineering whole job to one big consortium under TOttawa streets in the 1890s and improve public transit. Ken Fogarty work for special structures. The bonus is a P-3 arrangement and secretive bidding within a relatively short time had built ran for mayor an one on a platform of buses are less appealing and thus attract process. up a comprehensive system. By 1901 it building a subway from Tunneys Pasture less ridership than rail transit so there is If I had been on the last and present included the long line out to Britannia to Vanier and once elected the plan was still more work to be done on building councils, I would have argued vigorously operating on its own private right of way never heard of again. roads. for some changes but it the end would west of Holland Ave. The OER had a I was then a student at University Transit ridership grew in the 1970s have voted for the project despite some manufacturing subsidiary across Albert of Ottawa and convinced several other due to expansion of the service area, flaws.. In spite of the head-spinning St from its main car barn; the Ottawa students to work on a plan for better bus reorganized routes, some reserved lanes price tag, the project would have cost Car Co. built streetcars for many street service. The 1971 proposal included and new express routes. The best was in the city almost nothing because Bob railways and interurbans across Canada. reserved lanes on the Queensway and 1974-5 when the bus fleet grew by 50$%. Chiarelli’s success in getting senior Due to Ottawa’s often heavy snowfalls a transfer terminal near the Nicholas This was partly due to the preceding govt. grants and lining up gas tax the OER invented the rotary rattan exit. The OTC paid no heed to it so we measures but mainly due to the Feb. money as our matching funds. The sweeper to blow snow away. This device regrouped and came up with a new 1974 decision to withdraw free parking money and land were assembled and the was usually attached to a works car. plan. This one advocated a 64 mile for thousands of federal civil servants environmental assessments done. Now The OER had its own power generating elevated monorail system to be financed and the introduction of flextime. the implementation of any LRT line or station on Middle Island. entirely by the federal government and Another tragic outcome of the system is set back by at least two years The Hull Electric Co. Operated run on a no-fare basis by the NCC. busway decision was route selection. and the city is at risk of a huge payout three streetcar lines in Hull and a long While participating in this pie-in-the- When selecting corridors, only those for nothing. This horrendous debacle has “interurban” line to Aylmer which access sky exercise, a friend brought over a capable of accommodating either prodded me out of retirement as a transit Union Station over the CPR track on pile of “Headlights”, a magazine about busways or LRT were considered. activist. I’m back with a vengeance! Interprovincial Bridge. The Hull system tramways and LRT. I fell in love with the Busways require a 50% wider right of was abandoned in 1945. concept and once the monorail proposal way (even more for stations) because LRT NOW - Have Your Say Although subject to a few minor was quickly dismissed , I went to work buses are not guided by rails. In addition prunings, most of Ottawa’s streetcar with new associates on my third transit the noise and pollution make them less While some rail fans can take partial system was intact to the end. George proposal in five years. desireable to have nearby. credit for the arrival of the O-Train, Nelms, the new mayor of Ottawa after In the late 80’s, with bus congestion the subsequent LRT project was well several terms of Charlotte Whitton was The Highway Man Comes To downtown becoming an issue, then sanitized from the involvement by transit determined to bring the city up with the Town RMOC chair Peter Clark promoted a users / advocates, community people or bus tunnel. This $2 billion megaproject times. He had the city purchase a fleet of Not long before working up this rail fans. It had no public constituency would have done little to improve transit modern packer garbage trucks, banned new proposal for LRT, the new regional apart from a few people involved in the ridership. I organized against it and it hose-drawn delivery wagons and (sadly) government was getting more serious environmental assessment. Our new LRT died. decided the streetcars were outmoded. In about some form of rapid transit. The NOW group intends to change that by an August 1958 board of Control meeting, Ontario government was busy trying offering a soon to be created website that it was decided to bustitute the Bank-St. to invent transit without wheels with The City Drops The Ball Again will have an interactive “have your say” Patrick car line, followed within weeks its “mag-lev” scheme and building a Through the 80’s and into the early function that will enable to the public to a decision to scrap the entire electric new agency around this. Meantime ‘90’s , together with Charlie Shrubsole “vote “ on the various implementation system including the Bronson trolleybus the RMOC’s “transportation planning and Mark Walton, I was busy publishing plans and routes for each corridor we route. The Bank car line was gone before department” (roads department would Transit News Canada magazine in my have identified or may yet come forth.. Christmas and the last tram ran on the be more accurate) hired a transportation spare time. I also attmepted to represent LRT NOW asks the Mayor’s Task Britannia line 4 May 1959. (roads) engineer John Bonsall to head up Britannia Ward on city council three Force and Ottawa city council to: (a) General Motors had been the rapid transit planning. Mr. Bonsall times. In each of thse quests I came make electric LRT the mode of choice for aggressively buying up street railways was very keen on busways and was a close but not close enough. After ‘94, the major corridors of our future transit across the United States from the 1920s smooth persuasive individual. my interests went off in other directions system; (b) get on with developing an through to the ‘50s and replacing electric Together with Charles Shrubsole and I had no involvement in the struggle implementation plan for such a system traction with motor buses, knowing the and Harold Ade, I spent nine months to get the O-Train in service or with and (c) choose an initial project to use inferior bus service would drive people preparing a detailed report which the recently aborted North-South LRT the $800 million spending envelope into their car showrooms. Ottawa had indicated the advantages of LRT .It project. which is still on the table. As completing been adding transit service to new post- suggested a system which would have The North South LRT project had a comprehensive regional LRT system war suburbs with buses, mostly bought had a first line running from the Merivale several things right, the choice of electric will require a greater amount of money, from Canadian Car in Thunder Bay. Corridor (land assembled for a hwy 416 LRT, surface operation downtown, a LRT NOW supports the establishment Seeing Ottawa as a target for corridor just cancelled), a hydro right “new” corridor in need of better transit, of a regular federal funding program for streetcar conversion, GM cut a good of way close to Kirkwood, Scott St and servicing the embryonic Riverside urban transit. Canada is the only OECD deal to supply 107 of the 1940’s style corridor, Queen St transit mall, Rideau South community with good quality country not to have one. A special ‘old look’ bus, then in its last year of St, McArthur, Ogilvy and south side of transit from the beginning. The latter incentive for electrification would be production. Queensway to Orleans. plus was also a minus as too many a useful component as electricity is Transit ridership hit a low point in This plan received positive response councillors, not knowing when or how cleaner energy, makes us less dependant the early 60’s when for a few years more from some councillors but the rapid their areas were to get LRT, found there on fossil fuels and electric rail transit is a buses were being retired than acquired. transit study was getting underway. By was nothing in it for them for such a proven generator of new ridership. Ridership picked up a bit in the late 60’s then I had an organization behind me but costly project. but traffic congestion was becoming my five minutes of fame at each of the Critics would argue that it was much more severe. 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LRT NOW - The Way Forward (excerpt from proposal presented to CityHall) By Greg Ross The cost of converting the transitway requiring full grade separation. The Friends of the O-Train from Orleans to Kanata is reported to It uses clean non-polluting Proposal he purpose of this brief is to be $1 billion according to the Citizen. electric power which can be derived The “friends” proposal has keep the flame alive for an A downtown subway tunnel is costed from a number of sources, including some good elements: surface eLRT Telectric Light Rail Transit out at a minimum of $500 Million renewable sources as hydro, downtown, an upgraded one and half component of our transit system for the saving of a few minutes of wind-power and modern waste track O-train service to the south in Ottawa. Those who support this travel time at best. Add to the cost of incineration. end with extensions to Manotick brief are committed to encouraging construction, the cost of maintenance Electric LRT has been the mode Station and Gatineau. So is the use people to ride transit, help shape and security of downtown subway of choice for more than twenty cities of O-Trains on existing OCR & VIA a more sane (less auto-dependant) stations. A downtown tunnel in North America over the last three track to Kanata North & Barrhaven urban development and contribute should only be considered after the decades. Seven other cities with respectively. The eLRT extension to the reduction of greenhouse gas major corridors are built and only remaining old streetcar lines chose to CHEO/ General Hospital makes emissions. if the surface operation becomes to upgrade them to a modern LRT sense. In the wake of the aborting of the unmanageable. standard. LRT has also caught on The fatal flaw of this proposal is planned North -South LRT corridor big in England and France where the removal of all buses downtown project, it is urgent that we get back A Tale of Two Cities they saw the success of modern LRT and the book-ending of the minimal on track as soon as possible. As this The transit vision for the future systems upgraded from tramways downtown eLRT shuttle with massive brief is prepared, there is still the $200 mooted here follows closely what in neighbouring countries. LRT is transfer stations. These may prove to million each from Federal and Ontario Calgary started nearly thirty years ago often chosen because it has a proven be impediments to the logical outward governments on the table and the and continues to build on. They built track record of generating new transit extensions of the eLRT line. Worse matching funds that the City of Ottawa fairly quickly three LRT corridor lines ridership. still, everyone would be forced to has allocated from “gas tax” money. It radiating out a significant distance transfer; many of these riders having is highly imperative that the city does from a surface transit mall downtown. The Defunct North-South already made a transfer or two to get not fritter away this gas tax money These have since been extended; Project there. Express buses would still have on minor busway improvements, more extensions and two new lines The good things about the aborted a wasteful dead-head run for most of OC Transpo operating subsidies and are planned. N-S Line were: it was to be electric their journey. other projects. The money should be The Calgary three-line 29 km LRT, serve a significant corridor and This proposal relies too heavily banked until the city figures out its initial LRT system cost $450 Million operate on the surface downtown. The on diesel LRT (O-train) and not transit future which we hope proceeds in the early 80’s, the same cost at cost per km was to be lower than any enough on eLRT. There are roles for along the following concept. the same time that Ottawa paid for other rapid transit project in Canada at the O-Train equipment but not for use its three-line 31 km busway system. this time. The land and funding were on major urban corridors with well The Concept Calgary’s project cost included assembled and the environmental established ridership. This technology The system we plan should feature vehicles and their facilities, Ottawa’s assessments had been done. is useful for: electric LRT on three or four extensive did not. Only about 60% of Ottawa’s Its drawbacks were being (a) as a development tool pump- corridors linked through the city core was on purpose-built road. Our overextended, over-engineered, an priming undeveloped corridors; it did by a surface operation on Albert and/or planners had convinced our politicians escalated price tag and a secretive so admirably in it current role and it is Stater Streets. For this to work, there that busways would be cheaper. P3 type contracting procedure that now time to re-deploy. would have to be significant reductions prevented all but large international (b) for orbital lines on existing of bus and automobile traffic on these Why Electric LRT consortia from bidding. The location track lacking the ridership growth streets. The express bus system could Electric LRT is the modern of the maintenance shops was potential to justify eLRT. be largely phased out and replaced by evolution of the tramway. LRT features controversial. In spite of these warts, (c) for “long-thin” commuter higher frequency feeders and trunk articulated vehicles , multiple-unit it would have been smarter for council lines to surrounding towns. line service. The trunk bus service train operation (lower crew costs, to have proceeded. would be replaced by LRT, corridor fewer movements), various sorts of The main rational was to serve the Credits: This brief was prepared by corridor according to an overall private rights of way and on-street new Riverside South community in by Greg Ross with assistance of and/ plan and sequence that would have traffic separation measures, and its early stages of development. The or suggestions from Glenn Clark, Kyle broad political and public support. transit priority-signaling. The latter idea was to have a transit line in from Cooper, Mark Walton, Mike Meikle & Over an extended phase-in period allows for transit to be given priority the get-go so that people would adopt Theo Gaeretz. buses and LRVs would be sharing over other traffic inexpensively in transit riding habits in an area under- portions of transitway with rails time rather than expensively in space. serviced by roads. It would also have The website is not yet running, imbedded in the pavement. Pittsburgh LRT is quieter and occupies less drawn development towards the south but you can email or phone Greg has several sections of such bi-modal lateral space than a busway allowing end thus easing the growth pressure Ross for more information and to get transitway. The cost of converting more choices for line placement. It on the far-east and far-west suburbs. the full reports with all the maps that transitway segments to bimodal also requires less grade separation due This is good planning but bad politics have been created. operation should be relatively low as to fewer vehicle movements. LRT is as there were more politicians whose 949-8917 (w) 820-8309 (h) or they were pre-built to allow for the much cheaper than conventional rapid wards would not benefit from the [email protected] possible conversion to rail service. transit or other high-tech systems project than those who did. Some of the Priorities in Plan D by Glenn Clark

Top Priorities (within 5 years) from Greenboro to Baseline Station. Transitway to Barrhaven Town Centre. LRT west from downtown via the West- 4.Kanata-Scotiabank Place: Extend bus Further extend LRT across the Rideau ern Transitway, Byron Avenue, Lincoln 1.Bayshore Shopping Centre: Complete lanes from Eagleson Park and Ride lot to River also to Barrhaven Town Centre. Fields, Bayshore and finally crossing over the gap in the Western Transitway to Bay- Scotiabank Place and negotiate to use the An alternative would extend LRT along the Queensway and following the south shore Shopping Centre and build it to parking lot as a Park and Ride lot. the Via Rail corridor to near Confedera- side of the Queensway to Scotiabank LRT standards. 5.Airport: Build an electric LRT spur just tion Heights along parallel track. This Place. This would be done in stages with 2.Riveside South: Build an electric LRT south of Lester Road into the airport pro- would depend on the feasibility and cost a branch from the cross-town line to Sco- line from Lebreton Flats to the proposed viding direct service between the airport of building parallel track. tiabank Place possibly done earlier. Bowesville Road LRT maintenance facil- and downtown. 3.Orleans: Gradually extend LRT from 5.General Hospital Campus: Build a ity via downtown, Hurdman Station, Bill- Hurdman Station to Orleans South via Transitway from Hurdman Station (using ings Bridge, Greenboro, and Leitrim. Subsequent Priorities (5 to 20 Blair Station, Blackburn Hamlet and the a portion of the southeast Transitway) to 3.Cross-town and Kanata: Using existing years) Orleans transit corridor. This will be the General Hospital Campus. This could OCR track, run diesel or dual mode LRT built over a number of years as popula- later be extended south to Walkley Road trains from Greenboro Station to Kanata 1.Riverside South: Extend LRT through tion growth warrants it. Also extend the using the Alta Vista Parkway corridor. Business Park and extend the track to the community as population growth war- eastern Transitway to Trim Road as bus shore Shopping Centre March Road and Terry Fox Drive. As an rants it. lanes. alternative, a Transitway could be built 2.Barrhaven: Extend the southwestern 4.Ottawa West-Kanata: Gradually extend APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 23

Rapid Transit Plan D (excerpt from proposal presented to CityHall) By Glenn Clark the Transitway and on other heavily used important part of the network. Many Rail Station bus routes entering downtown. This people have advocated laying track on 2. Smiths Falls to Ottawa Via Rail Station he purpose of this report is to type of bus may offer the opportunity to the Transitway as a lower cost means of via Richmond and Barrhaven deliver a rapid transit plan that move more people through downtown delivering LRT to Ottawa. Despite the Tre-uses existing infrastructure because of its smaller footprint in lower costs, this may not be cost effective The first has already been studied and when possible to keep implementation comparison to articulated buses. Use because transit users are already very is likely the most viable. Such a service costs to a minimum and provide a long- of double decker buses will also make well served by buses on these routes and could be introduced in cooperation term strategy for the City of Ottawa. Ottawa distinctive and will be attractive relatively few new transit riders may be with Via Rail if it believed that there is It takes ideas from the failed North- to tourists. Consideration must be given attracted by a simple switchover to LRT. sufficient ridership. This type of service South LRT project, the Friends of the to handicapped persons to make sure that It will be far better to extend LRT into will likely use heavy commuter cars. O-Train plan and from other sources their needs are still properly served if this parts of the city not already well served in an attempt to come up with a better type of bus is introduced. by the Transitway. In some cases, it Downtown Congestion overall plan. It attempts to deliver rapid may be advantageous to use parts of transit using a balance of Transitways, Electric LRT the Transitway for this purpose instead The congestion issue was another LRT and commuter trains. Because of building entirely new right of ways significant reason why the north-south the implementation has several phases, This type of train should be used from downtown, if new right of ways LRT project did not receive popular priorities can easily be changed based in the main urban area of Ottawa are possible at all. In any event, our support from the public. The most on population growth patterns across the where noise and pollution is a prime Transitways already provide direct rapid obvious and expensive solution will city. Each proposed route terminates at consideration. transit bus service to downtown from involve building a downtown tunnel. a logical location for each phase in its many parts of the city. It is critical that At the present time, the city of Ottawa construction. Dual Mode LRT this service be maintained until better likely cannot afford such an endeavour, rail alternatives are available. however, it should not be ruled out for the Goals This is a relatively new development future. A second choice was presented in the industry which allows trains to Existing Queensway Bus Lanes by the Friends of the O-Train which Use existing infrastructure operate on both electrified and non- proposed to replace almost all downtown In creating this plan, every effort has electrified track. These trains have all the In many cases, the Transitway is buses with electric LRT. Many transit been made to incorporate the existing same features as electric LRT including simply bus lanes on the Queensway. riders object to this approach because Transitway, rail lines, abandoned rail a short turn radius which will permit Although LRT is often suitable for on- most transit riders traveling to or through corridors and right of ways already operation on downtown streets. They street operation and in mixed traffic downtown will have to transfer at assembled for future transit projects. can be powered by electricity in urban situations, it will be unsafe to do this on congested transfer stations. Furthermore, As much as possible, new right of ways situations where noise and pollution are a the Queensway. Traffic speed is too high a large proportion of riders will have will not be created in order to keep concern but in less critical areas, they can and there is simply too much of a risk of to stand on trains entering downtown. implementation costs to a minimum. be powered by diesel fuel. The benefits a vehicle veering into the path of a train. The Friends of the O-Train proposal In addition, existing rapid transit lines are obvious. Existing freight tracks can In order to convert bus lanes on the dramatically changes the nature of (Transitway or O-Train) will not be re- be used without electrification and new Queensway for LRT use, the lanes must downtown transit service and the effects built unless this offers opportunities track in suburban areas does not need be separated from regular traffic by at on ridership are unpredictable. It is also to expand transit service in such a way to be electrified. Serious consideration least concrete barriers. If this interferes a significant departure from the rapid that will result in increased ridership should be given to this type of technology with traffic flow at interchanges, then a transit model used in most other cities or will support the city’s policy of in order to save on track electrification completely separate right of way will be including Calgary which has had a great intensification. costs. required. deal of success with its LRT network. Service Improvements Prioritized Most cities run rapid transit lines from 1.Kanata O-Train the suburbs directly into downtown. Diesel LRT (O-Train) 2.Orleans In order to address congestion, we 3.Riverside South and Findlay Creek need to look for a more creative solution. The O-Train has been in operation The O-Train has been a tremendous 4.Barrhaven We must make sure that we do not for a number of years. Although it has success. This success has been a major 5.Downtown Bypass inconvenience transit riders. Changes proven successful in Ottawa, there are factor in creating objections to a possible 6.Airport three year shutdown while the route is to downtown service designed to several limitations. First, the equipment reduce congestion should be introduced is too large to operate on downtown upgraded. In order to deal with this issue, General Comments and gradually and carefully so that we can Ottawa streets and the fumes produced it is suggested that the O-Train be retained Recommendations learn from successes and failures and by the diesel engine makes them less than and that LRT service be redirected using Service Frequency make changes as we go along. ideal for urban situations. In addition, the southeast Transitway to Hurdman In order for rapid transit to truly speed It is suggested that a hub and spoke the turn radius is greater than Electric Station and then to downtown. up travel times and facilitate transfer model be phased in. As rapid transit or Dual Mode LRT making sharp turns There are intensification projects between routes in order to improve service is extended to various parts of more difficult or not possible at all. planned for Carleton University and the transit network, service must be the city, suburban express routes may Electric and Dual Mode LRT can also Walkley Road, which would have taken frequent. On all rapid transit routes, a be replaced with more frequent local handle steeper grades than Diesel LRT advantage of the electrification of the minimum of 15 minute service frequency shuttles. If properly set up, travel times trains. Since these trains are generally O-Train route. If these projects are is recommended. The exception to this do not have to suffer and by having the less maneuverable, it is recommended considered important, then we may still will be commuter services delivered to transfers take place in the suburbs, it is that they be restricted to use on existing consider electrification of the line without outlying areas. not necessary to construct large transfer rail lines. Ideally, dual mode LRT should double tracking. This kind of switchover may be achievable over a summer stations near downtown as suggested be used in its place when possible. by the Friends of the O-Train. Careful Equipment flexibility while Carleton University has reduced scheduling of buses or trains from In selecting equipment for rail based operations. Although electrification will Commuter Trains these suburban stations can reduce the service, every effort should be made to cost a significant amount of money, there will still be substantial savings from overall number of vehicles traveling to use equipment that can run throughout These are heavy passenger trains that not rebuilding the bridge at Carleton downtown and therefore ease congestion. as much of the rail network as possible. can only be used on existing rail corridors. University or doubling the Dow’s Lake If double decker buses prove feasible, Most or all trains to be used in urban and The only suitable terminals in Ottawa tunnel. If single track electrification there would be a further opportunity to suburban situations should be suitable are the two Via Rail Stations located on proceeded, the diesel O-Trains could be reduce congestion because of the smaller for on street and downtown service. Tremblay and Fallowfield Roads. The redeployed on a cross-town route. footprint of those buses. This recognizes that downtown will former would be the best choice for a continue to be the most important transit central terminal with connecting transit In developing a revised plan, we destination. Via Rail service to downtown. Since this type need to minimize the negative aspects of Use of Via Rail Track presents of train is also not designed for frequent the original plan while taking advantage problems. First of all, there are 18 service, it will be best used to service of as many of the positives as still Track Gauge scheduled daily trains running on most of more distant suburbs such as Casselman. possible. One way of doing this is by Uniform track gauge should be used the track of interest. This would present It is questionable whether the population re-routing LRT to downtown using the to allow trains to be able to be directed significant LRT scheduling difficulties. in outlying communities along existing southeast Transitway and via Hurdman throughout the rail network as much as There have been some discussions rail lines is yet sufficient to support Station. This will allow the O-Train to possible. with Via Rail about the introduction of commuter rail, even one round trip per remain intact on its existing routing and a commuter service. This will involve day. the Hurdman connection would be a scheduling one or two morning and Equipment Types first step in providing east end service. evening trains and running them to and Double Decker Buses Transitways The route to the south can be phased in This kind of bus should be tested from distant suburbs. Two possible At the present time, the Transitway as the southern suburbs grow instead of further. If all problems can be resolved, routes are: is our rapid transit network. For the building the whole route at one time. they should be considered for service on 1. Casselman and beyond to Ottawa Via foreseeable future, it will remain an Page 24 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Two of the Many Rapid Transit Proposals

Ottawa Street Cars of Yesteryear

photos of streetcars from private collection of Greg Ross APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 25 Firehall March Break at Fulton’s Pancake House and Mer Bleu

Celebrating St Patrick’s Day at the Firehall

Ken Ross in Colour

OSCAR apologizes for the poor quality of the photo of Ken Ross in March 07 Page 26 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007

HOPEWELL HAPPENINGS Enriching The Lives of the Children at Hopewell Avenue Public School By: Susan Atkinson

t’s official! All the hard work, the co-ordination and effort were worth it and Hopewell Avenue IPublic School’s Enrichment committee is now in the process of evaluating the success of their lunchtime programming. The first 8-week session has just finished to a nod of approval, which in fact is more than a nod, as everyone involved would agree that the enrichment programs were a resounding success. The students loved them, Administration loved them and Parent Council loved them! The Enrichment Committee, working hand in hand with Hopewell’s Administration, spent the first term of the school year creating programs and coordinating lunchtime availability for instructors and school space. This was no small feat considering the size of the school’s population and its busy, busy schedule. This huge undertaking was completed in time to have the programs up and running by the beginning of January. Overall, 300 students were able to enjoy such activities as drama, yoga, creative writing, science, drumming, art and poetry. These activities are an amazing opportunity for students to expand their interests beyond the classroom. For some students Hopewell students will find their lives enriched! teacher Ms. Walsh competed in the Regional their experiences were completely new, whereas for In other Hopewell news the Intermediate Science and Engineering Olympics. Hopewell had others it was a chance for them to pursue a passion students were kept busy for weeks rehearsing what an outstanding day! within the school environment. would be their Musical Extravaganza. This year’s The day consisted of six different events, With a new session of the activities starting annual musical was a production of Annie and it was each one involving a science and/or engineering after the March Break it is expected that even more a show not to be missed. The hours of dedication challenge. Twenty-two teams competed in the from Musical Director day’s events and this is how things shook down and Music Teacher for Hopewell Avenue. In both the Bionic Arm E x t r a o r d i n a i r e , and Fun Machine events the teams placed 5th. In Ms. Woyiwada the Electromagnet event Hopewell was 3rd and in shone through with both the Pasta Bridge and Web Page categories the personality, pizzazz Hopewell Teams walked away with Gold medals. and colour, making the To round out the day there was a scavenger hunt show fit to rival any based on science and engineering facts, which once Broadway production. again the “champs” of Hopewell won! When all Grade 7 student, Ciana the points from each event were tabulated Hopewell was exquisite as the Avenue finished on top and were awarded the Gold young orphan Annie medal award. who is whisked away Proud science teacher, Ms. Walsh, commented to live in the home of that it was not only an amazing day of results for rich Daddy Warbucks. the Hopewell students but it was also a wonderful With 37 principal roles, learning experience. She said that the Hopewell the show glowed with students enjoyed meeting students from other fabulous performances schools and comparing what they were doing. The that were at times Hopewell teams had been chosen based on an in- funny and at others school competition. Each student had been given rather touching. All a choice of a category and using in-class time and Intermediate students homework assignments they completed their work were involved in one before showing it in class. Those with top honours shape or form with in each event went on to represent the school. the production. Many It has been a quiet month in competitive sports sang in the chorus at Hopewell as the basketball teams practice for while others helped upcoming tournaments and games. A lunchtime as stagehands behind intramural basketball league organized and run by the scenes. With three Hopewell teacher Mr. Cino is being enjoyed by 140 amazing performances junior students. The games are all friendly, giving for students, families students a chance to gain experience in the sport. and the Hopewell And while the Junior Grades play, the Intermediates Community, the show referee. did its job, entertaining Hopewell’s character education focus for the and winning the hearts month of April is caring. Again this focus is an of its audience. umbrella for caring about oneself, one’s school, Earlier in the month one’s peers and the environment. Staff, parents Intermediates had and students alike have all commented that the new dazzled on a completely initiatives set forth by the Safe and Caring Schools different stage. A team Committee are making a difference in the School. of young scientists One of the most noticeable differences is a renewed led by Hopewell sense of school pride. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 27

CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL Corpus Christi Steps into Spring Kathy Mahoney for her energy and Transformation Committee is enthusiasm in bringing our school excited to report that with the help community together. of consultant Ann Coffey they have In the Art @ Lunch programme put together the first draft of the site this past month students created plan for coming improvements to beautiful Easter eggs using Ukrainian the school yard. If you would like to egg-dying techniques. Over twenty contribute to our fundraising drive or dozen eggs were dyed and only 6 help with installation and landscaping were broken! Next month students for the project please call the school will make hand dyed silk scarves for office and leave a message for the Mother’s Day. Transformation Committee at 613- Hip Hop is due to return to 232-9743. Corpus Christi this spring (not long after the Easter Bunny hops through To find out about registration for all our patch). Students are very excited grades and Corpus Christi School because - hurray! - Kailena is coming activities please visit: corpuspta@ back! Kailena Van Nes, from the sympatico.ca or call the office at 613- Glebe Community Centre will teach 232-9743. groups of students from grades one through six during weekly lunchtime sessions. The School Grounds

Corpus Christi students Nathan and Thomas display the beautiful Ukranian-style eggs they made in the Art @ Lunch Programme by Missy Fraser in the project. Grade five students Stephanie, Alexandra, Luisa and uring this Lenten season, Carina worked together to decorate a Corpus Christi School special collection box in the lobby of Dembarked on a new initiative the school. called “Warm Feet Moving Forward”. The Corpus Christi Mardi Gras Students have collected new pairs of held on March 7 was a smashing socks and filled them with personal care success with record attendance and a items like shampoo, toothbrushes and whole lot of fun had by all. Attendees toothpaste. At Easter the filled socks munched on pizza and delicious will be delivered to the Shepherds of home-baked treats while perusing the Good Hope for distribution. auction tables, book sale and Bottle Project organizer, Kim Campbell Bingo. The games area was extremely commented that, “The students have busy with kids lined up to try all of a really positive attitude and are the exciting activities right until the working hard to share their enthusiasm end of the evening. Corpus Christi and commitment”. Each school day, School thanks all of the community- grade six students Katherine, Kate, minded businesses, organizations Vanessa and Brianna have created and individuals who generously and performed jingles and slogans donated items, services and tickets on the morning announcements to to our Silent Auction. And a promote school spirit and interest big warm special thank you also goes out to Mardi Gras organizer

OSCAR wishes to thank Norma Grier for 20 years of service delivery the OSCAR. That’s over 6000 newspapers over the years.... thanks so much!

OSCAR mourns the passing of Robert “Bob” Knights. Mr. Knights was a former psychology professor at Carleton University, a resident of Old Ottawa South and an OSCAR delivery person. Mr. Knights was 72 years old. Page 28 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007

OCCSB TRUSTEE REPORT “PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST”

Kathy Ablett, R.N. trustees an update on their organization. 15 to March 24, 2008. 2007 to July 31, 2008. Beginning in Chair of the Board & CSPA fosters and supports Catholic The trip will provide an this school year, student trustees will education by providing a platform for opportunity for French immersion receive an honorarium of $2,500. Trustee Zone 9 communications between education students to gain an appreciation of For our Board, this is an increase of Capital/River Wards decision-makers and Catholic School French culture while in Paris. The $1,500 per student trustee. Students Telephone: 526-9512 Councils. Trustees commented on students will be at the Vatican in Rome will now be allowed to attend certain how lucky the Board was to have such for Easter Sunday worship services. portions of the Board’s in camera hank you to the Corpus a dedicated group of parent volunteers sessions; though not attend any items Christi School Community for that commit their time and expertise Ontario Focused Intervention pertaining to personnel issues. Tinviting me to share in your to the Association on behalf of all the The Ministry of Education has Student trustees bring a high “Mardi Gras” celebration. As always, students. provided $424,572 to the Board for school youth perspective to the the energy and enthusiasm on behalf CSPA meets monthly, distributing the Ontario Focused Intervention Board, attending many meetings of the children resulted in a fun filled information on a wide range of Partnership (OFIP). This money while providing an invaluable liaison time for everyone and added to the complex educational issues while will be used to support some of our function with the Joint Student spring break. assisting parents in becoming active schools in achieving EQAO targets Advisory Council (JSAC). Now, back to school – hopefully partners in education and effective and further developing professional refreshed and ready to focus on the advocates for their children. learning communities. In total, 16 Second Annual Gala Dinner, last semester of this school year. There will be a Director’s Forum: schools are being funded through the Cabaret & Auction Best Practices for School Councils at OFIP partnership. The Catholic Education th Here is some recent Board news Notre Dame HS on April 16 at 6:30 To ensure success, the Staff Foundation of Ottawa-Carleton that might interest you. pm. Please ask your school Principal Development, Evaluation and is hosting its second annual Gala about this event. Research Department and the Dinner, Cabaret & Auction on May Parents as Partners: Catholic th School Parent Association (CSPA) Educational Programs Department 10 at the Hellenic Banquet Centre. Joanne MacEwan, Chair of the School Trip Approved are leading this interdepartmental All proceeds from this event go Catholic School Parent Association The Board approved travel initiative bringing in partners from to CEFOC’s Helping to Alleviate introduced members of her volunteer for senior students and teachers at across the Board. Poverty in our Schools Program. The executive to the Board, giving the Immaculata High School for a trip to general public is welcome. Tickets London, Paris and Rome from March Student Achievement Funding are $50 per person; a table of 8 is $390 The Board received $492,547 and tables of 10 are $480. Please additional funding from the Ministry buy early as this was a sell-out event of Education to offset costs that last year. For tickets, inquiries and the Board had already incurred payment please contact Lise Cupido on targeted student achievement at (613) 224-4455 ext. 2283 or Lise. initiatives. The Board approved [email protected]. $270,800 of additional expenditures Tax receipts and seating arrangements for: replacement of 200 desktop will be done at the door. We hope to computers for teachers; assistive see you there! technology for special education students; plus additional temporary If, at any time, I can be of support for Notre Dame High School, assistance to you please do not hesitate considered a smaller high school. to call me at 526-9512. Sincerely, Partners at the Board Table: Kathy Ablett Student Trustees “Your Trustee” The Board approved two student trustees for the school year August 1,

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Sunnyside Wesleyan Chuch St Margaret Mary’s Parish 58 Grosvenor Avenue (at Sunnyside) 7 Fairbairn Sunday Worship Services are at 9 Sunday liturgies: Saturday at 4:30 a.m., 11 a.m. p,m. Sunday at 10 a.m. Children’s programs are offered dur- Evening Prayer: Tuesday at 7 p.m. ing both services. Southminster United Trinity Anglican Church 1230 Bank Street (corner of Cam- Church 15 Aylmer Avenue eron) 10:30 a.m.: Worship and Sunday Sunday services at 8 a.m. and 10 School - September through June a.m. Church School adn Nursery at 10 a.m. APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 29 OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT Spring is Sprung

By Rob Campbell total number of PACs goes down started with a $28m deficit for next considering everything that is resulting in some re-siting of the year, cut $7m in teaching staff and not a teacher expense (having pring is sprung and there is remaining PACs for equity of been helped out now by $2m, we already considered those and given a lot of very good energy at geographic access. The Deaf and now apprehend a $19m deficit for collective agreement provisions SOCDSB schools and at Board Hard of Hearing class at Glebe next year. preventing further cuts there). Up HQ. I will focus again however on Collegiate will have a part-time With the revenues now for debate will be school budgets, our dreary Board budget business itinerant teacher replace a full- known, Board staff will be coming transport entitlements, non- instead in this column due to its time teacher. The school has plans forward with a full-fledged budget teaching staff such as educational importance and the public interest in place to make this work for the recommendation in about 4 weeks assistants and much much else. it seems to elicit. students involved. – it takes time to work out the Stay tuned. The Board recently elected to The recently announced detailed impacts. Also anticipated cut about $7m in teacher positions Provincial budget has about for receipt at about that time will If you have any questions for next year. These are mostly in $2.6m in new money for capital be the Special Assistance Team’s or comments, concerns or extra teachers providing schools purposes, which is welcome but (SAT) final report on the OCDSB’s suggestions, or wish to be added the flex to run extra programming which doesn’t help us with our budget situation. And so, around to my newsletter distribution list, in areas such as music or art or operating deficit. We received the end of April, the last important then please contact me via 613 drama. Intermediate schools may the expected money for teacher’s phase of the budget debate will 730-8128 or [email protected] be particularly affected. What this salaries and for implementing the resume for next year. We will be means on the ground will vary primary class size cap but this was importantly with each school and planned in a long time ago and also will depend on what it decides to does not help us with our deficit. make a priority. As expected, funding for salaries After very extended debate at and benefits is going up 3% while Board, special education teaching these costs go up 4.5%. Our CFO is positions (non-gifted) took a estimating over all that, with some relatively light cut but were largely grant lines being up and others preserved for one more year. down, that the Provincial funding Mutchmor’s Primary Assessment announced does help our deficit to Class is being removed. The the tune of about $2m more he can bank than expected. So, having

Want Happiness and a Flat Stomach? among the dance community in New York because it allowed dancers to improve their technique or recover from injuries. Since its early years and the death of Joseph Pilates in 1967 at the ripe old age of 87, it has gained a broader popularity. It is no wonder when you discover that the outcome for the person who practices Pilates is a balanced body which is strong and supple, a flat stomach, balanced legs and a strong back. By Megan Doyle At Makin’ Moves, which is probably better known for its hip hop, jazz and “Physical fitness is the first requisite of break dancing classes taught by its owner, happiness. In order to achieve happiness, Erin Dube, the Pilates classes are taught by it is imperative to gain mastery of your Louise Darling. A certified STOTT Pilates body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and instructor, Louise has been teaching Pilates out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are for over 6 years and as a certified teacher supple and strong, then you are young.” with The Royal Academy of Dance she Joseph Hubertus Pilates has taught ballet for over 20 years and t is one of Old Ottawa South’s best been the Director of her own school for kept fitness secrets. It quietly happens 15 of those years. Louise provides expert Iduring the lunch hour at Makin’ Moves individual attention in a small class setting studio at 1196 Bank Street where a group at the Makin’ Moves studio. of people practice Pilates. So, if a flat stomach and strong and What is Pilates? Named after its supple body is what you are striving for founder, Joseph Pilates, it is series of why not try Pilates. Call Erin at (613) controlled movements that involve 614-4590 or visit www.makinmoves.ca for gentle exercises done on a mat either more information about classes, birthday sitting or lying down. Since the 1920’s parties and day camps. when Joseph Pilates brought his unique exercise method from his native country of Germany to New York City it has steadily gained popularity. It first became popular Page 30 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007

WESTBORO ACADEMY A World of Difference at Westboro Academy

Westboro, les semaines du Sud, le Mexique ou la Corée du internationales sont Sud. L’histoire, la géographie, la culture et la musique sont au menu un rendez-vous avec le de l’apprentissage des élèves de monde! Westboro. Et lors du dernier vendredi Pendant deux semaines, célébrant ces deux semaines, nos chaque classe, de la maternelle à globe-trotters en herbe paradent aux la 8ième année, se documente sur un mille couleurs des pays étudiés. Le tout pays. Jamais le même d’année en se terminant dans une apothéose de année. De la France à la Russie, saveurs lors d’un buffet international. en passant par Cuba, l’Afrique

By Ann Winters developed presentations that featured its best qualities. Of note was the ur International Weeks are a sophistication of the Grade 7 and much anticipated Westboro 8 students with their PowerPoint OAcademy tradition. With and oral presentations. The entire Canada’s heritage of multiculturalism, undertaking from JK to the senior there was a rich expanse of world grades entailed considerable cultures represented by our students. research, resulting in considerable Different continents and countries learning. At the end of week two, the were chosen by each grade - Mexico, finale was a parade of costumes from Australia, South Africa, France, Kenya, our global community and a buffet Holland, England, South Korea, Cuba of international foods sampled by and Russia - with a specific focus on the children, parents and staff. politics, social systems, geography and culture. As “ambassadors” for their chosen country, the students Westoboro ...Cont’d on next page APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 31

AMICALEMENT VOTRE

ou le solstice d’été ou la St-Jean. Si rendez-vous francophone pour enfants - Vous serez heureux d’apprendre que cette idée vous plaît, écrivez-nous toujours d’actualité dans la section l’Amicale était présente au premier un mot à [email protected]. jeunesse de la bibliothèque Sunnyside déjeuner du maire O’Brian qui Enfin, j’aimerais souligner le travail les vendredis après-midi entre 16h30 recevait la communauté francophone, exceptionnel de deux bénévoles de et 17h30. le 21 mars dernier. Doreen Drolet l’Amicale : Karine Briand a repris - Campagne d’adhésion. Nous vous et Guy Giguère nous ont très bien par Monique Sénéchal avec brio notre chronique et missive rappelons que les adhésions peuvent se représentés. mensuelles pendant plusieurs mois faire en tout temps. Le montant de cette - Le comité de développement tandis que Doreen Drolet assure adhésion est de 5 dollars par famille continu sont travail de sensibilisation ne raison première de avec panache qu’une programmation ou par personne pour l’année 2007. de services en français auprès des l’Amicale est de permettre aux en français existe dans nos centres Notre campagne d’adhésion vise à commerçants de nos quartiers. Pour francophones et francophiles U communautaires. Merci à toutes assurer le financement des diverses en savoir plus ou vous impliquez, qui le désirent de socialiser en français. deux. activités de l’Amicale comme par joindre Guy Giguère à notre adresse De fait, notre rêve commun est de exemple, payer l’hébergement du site de courriel. bâtir un sens d’appartenance à une Internet de l’Amicale. Le formulaire communauté francophone dans nos Carnets de l’Amicale d’adhésion est disponible sur demande quartiers. Les comités de l’Amicale - Vous pouvez vous inscrire à la Mosaïque francophone: à : [email protected] organisent parfois des activités sociales nouvelle session du groupe de jeux - L’Amicale francophone a participé ou culturelles, mais notre espoir est pour bambins « Copains - copines ». - Il existe maintenant un site avec la Ville d’Ottawa à l’élaboration que nos membres initient eux aussi Ce groupe de jeux se déroule en Internet sur lequel les organismes d’un guide francophone des loisirs des activités selon leurs goûts. Ainsi, français tous les jeudis matins au centre francophones d’Ottawa peuvent qui est maintenant disponible il me fait plaisir d’annoncer qu’un communautaire du Vieil Ottawa Sud. annoncer gratuitement leurs activités. à notre centre communautaire. petit groupe aimerait bien organiser Il est encore temps de vous y inscrire Visitez le www.francoOttawa.info Vous y retrouverez entre autre la un pique-nique au parc Windsor le 23 avec votre bambin en contactant Dino programmation de l’Amicale dans nos juin 2007 pour célébrer, selon votre à : [email protected]. centres communautaires. disposition, la fin de l’année scolaire - « Les petits francos à la biblio » un Where Are The Healthy Butternut Trees? By Charles Billington help from landowners and interested Recovery Strategy for Butternut. trees. In spring 2006, 2000 butternut Director, Community persons to inform us of locations In early 2006, the Rideau Valley seedlings were planted on 150 sites of healthy Butternut trees. We are Conservation Authority (RVCA) in with the assistance of the Eastern Relations interested in urban ‘backyard’ trees as partnership with the Ferguson Forest Ontario Stewardship Councils Rideau Valley Conservation well as woodlot Butternut. Please e- Centre started a Regional Butternut and Conservation Authorities, mail, fax, or phone your name, phone Recovery Program funded by the Wetland Habitat Fund, Crosby Lake he Rideau Valley Conservation number, Butternut location (property Ontario Trillium Foundation, Tree Association, the NCC and many Authority are very pleased to owner and civic address if possible) Canada Foundation and Rockcliffe private landowners. A lot more Treport a generous donation from to Rose Fleguel at rose.fleguel@ Park Environment Committee. We collecting and planting of healthy the Government of Canada Habitat rideauvalley.on.ca or fax 613-258- try to locate, assess and map as many seedlings is planned. Stewardship Program for Species at 6187 or phone 613-258-3678. Butternut trees as possible within the For information on Butternut Risk to help locate and collect seed Butternut is listed as an endangered geographic area of Lanark, Leeds & Canker go to: http://www.fgca.net/ from healthy Butternut trees in Eastern tree at both the provincial and federal Grenville Counties and east to the conservation/sar/butternut.aspx Ontario! The Butternut Recovery levels. It is being seriously threatened Quebec border. http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/ Program is now widening the search by a deadly canker disease spreading We have 326 seed-producing pubs/howtos/ht_but/ht_but.htm . for seed trees and especially disease- throughout its entire range in North Butternut in our database, 51 of resistant trees thanks to the additional America. Finding potentially disease which appear to be canker-free. More funding provided by the federal resistant trees though not yet proven, assessment will have to be done to government. We are asking for is one of the goals of the National confirm the disease status of these

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Ours is a world of and for people. To book an OSCAR ad Winners from our Grade 4 to 8 We would like to extend an invitation call Gayle In-house Heritage Fair will present to our neighbours in Ottawa South at their projects to a set of judges at the to join us in making a world of Regional Heritage Fair at the War difference for Shane, a seven-year- 730-1058 Museum during the first week of old boy who is battling A.L.L. - April. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - at Our Grade 7 and 8 students are CHEO. His ambition is to break the in the midst of intense training in world record for most birthday cards advance of the Regional Science Fair received on his birthday, May 30th. at Carleton University at the end of Wesboro Academy students are March. As part of the preparation, responding to the goal by creating scientists will be visiting Wesboro many, many cards. Please participate Academy to quiz the entrants on their by bringing your cards to the school projects, making sure they know and and we will ensure that they, along understand the technical elements of with the ones our children are drawing their work. will be delivered to Shane. Understanding is the key to real learning. So, after attending the If you are interested in your child NAC’s dress rehearsal for “Othello”, becoming part of our Westboro our grade 7 and 8 students will delve Academy world, please call us at into the art of theatre. Their Westboro 613-737-9543 or visit us at www. world will become a stage and they westboroacademy.ca . merely players in it as the students write and mount a production of their own play. Page 32 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 How OSCAR Gets Printed By Mary Anne Thompson When the owners the press there is colour only on these pages. The retired in 1981, Bud bought the second plate contains pages 2, 23, 26 ow does OSCAR get printed? printing part of the business. and 47. Thus, when there are 8 pages In the not too distant past, The business has grown to in colour these are the other 4 pages in HOSCAR was laid out on large a staff of 11 full and part-time colour. sheets of paper, with articles, ads and employees. Winchesterprint The newspaper must be prepared in photos created on computer, printed and support local businesses and postscript text into one bit TIFF file for then waxed down. These large sheets does not buy from companies the CT server, an ECRM News4, which would be photographed at the printer’s, that have moved their business is the output device. It is this machine one sheet at a time, and then printed. off-shore. They print small that writes the newspaper to thin Before computers became available, community newspapers, aluminum plates that have been coated moveable lead type would be used. OSCAR and Glebe Report with a thin layer of photopolymer, which Now, OSCAR is prepared on a among them, as well as several permits the transfer of the material to be Bud with 2 sizes of ‘W’ in moveable type iMAC G5, using Adobe software, which ethnic newspapers, and much printed to the plate. includes Photoshop and Illustrator for much more. Their main clients The aluminum sheet is ready for while logged on the Winchesterprint preparing ads, and InDesign for layout range from Ottawa to Cornwall printing when the parts to be printed are website. of the newspaper with articles, ads and Brockville. remaining while the blank parts of the Winchesterprint has been a and photos. When finished, OSCAR is Winchesterprint produces page are where the aluminum is bare. family business since 1981, when Bud saved as a high quality pdf, with CMYK magazines, books, pamphlets, posters, The basic principle of this method is not Raistrick bought the printing press from transparency and colour protocol, saved telephone books and directories, new: just the chemistry has changed. Winchester Press, the local newspaper. to CD and delivered to Winchesterprint business cards and stationary. They can The idea is to have a surface to which the Bud began as a paper boy for the in Winchester, south of Ottawa. OSCAR print just about anything. One of the ink can adhere and imprint upon paper. Winchester Press and rose to become ranges from 40 to 100 MB, depending magazines that they print is created in The raised portions of photopolymer on its operations manager. During that on the number of pages – too large to Vancouver, sent to Winchesterprint, and the aluminum, which will be the visible time, Winchester Press was both the send by email. The Firehall Brochure there it is printed, labeled and delivered. parts of what we see in the newspaper, newspaper and a printing operation. is less than 10 MB and is sent by FTP To make the magazine, after printing are attracted to ink, while the denuded it, they use the saddle stitcher, which portions of the aluminum holds water. is a long machine that collates the The ink and water repel each other. pages of the magazine, inserts ads or There is an aluminum sheet made for

Kreg, Kent and their father, Bud, beside a roll of paper used to print newspapers such as OSCAR

subscriptions cards as needed and each 4 pages and for each of the colours staples the final magazine, not by – cyan, magenta, yellow and “key.” stapling but by stitching from a large Thus for colour pages 1, 24, 25 and 48, roll of fine metal thread. there would be a plate for each of the When OSCAR on CD gets colours as well as for the print and black to Winchester, it is placed into a parts. The plate of the 4 pages makes 5 computer and subjected to ApogeeX, passes before being complete. a software, which preflights the layout, allowing colour correction and The printing press is a monster improving resolution of photos. The of a machine that fills the length of a newspaper, when created in InDesign new section of their building. With the is in numerical order, from page one additional sections on the top, added to the end, page 48 for example. For onto the original machine, the press is printing, the pages must be set up for capable of printing a maximum of 48 large sheets of paper, so that there are pages of newspaper. The rolls of paper 4 newspaper pages per plate. In the are loaded in the press and threaded so example of 48 pages, pages 1, 24, 25 that a continuous sheet can print the 48 and 48 are on one plate. That is why, pages and 4300 copies of OSCAR. when there is colour on four pages, The aluminum plates are laid in APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 33 order in the printing press. If there is greatly contributes to global warming. colour, it is done first, one colour at a time. But not all VOCs are bad. Trees are an Imagine buckets of goopy ink, CYMK, 4 important biological source of VOCs colours to make up the myriad of colours such as isoprene and terpenes. Anyone in a colour photo on the front page of interested in aromatherapy knows the OSCAR. C is cyan, M is magenta, Y is VOCs of different essential oils have yellow, and K is key or black. different beneficial properties. The color seen on a computer screen is To save trees, there are several other often different from the color of the same future alternatives. Hemp is a good object on a printout since CMYK and source of fibre for paper-making, but RGB have different properties. Computer there are prohibitive regulations about screens use an RGB color space, which growing that make it an impractical represents colors as additive mixtures of source. Bamboo is another possibility. red, green and blue light, whose sum on The best, however, is kenaf, an African the screen is white light but is a muddy grass that can be harvested 3 times a year brown when printed, whereas, CMYK in southerly climates. Kenaf is grown in colours are subtractive because cyan, magenta, yellow, and key printed together on white paper result in black. In printed materials, since the RGB combination cannot be directly reproduced, computer- generated images must be converted to the CMYK equivalent in ink colors. The newsprint paper used to print OSCAR comes in very large rolls, almost a meter wide and over a meter in outer diameter. There is enough paper in one roll to print more than several months’ worth of OSCAR’s. The paper is made in Quebec and New Brunswick. To make newsprint, wood fibre is ground into a pulp, whereas fine paper is made by chipping wood, which creates longer fibres. Recycled paper most often goes into making newsprint because newsprint buyers do not expect a white and fine paper. High glossy papers are no longer made in Canada, but in China, Italy and France. Environmentalists are concerned about acid levels of paper, its levels of VOC – volatile organic compounds, and the composition of inks. At Winchesterprint the inks used are vegetable based. They buy paper that has Two views of the printing press with a roll of paper being printed low acidity but is not acid free. Wood, many parts of the world and there are in its natural form is slightly acidic with more than 129 names for it around the 5 to 6 pH. Processing to bleach it, can world. add more acidity and buffers are often As the roll of paper is printed, added to reduce the pH. Bleaching with the pages of OSCAR fall in order, Oxygen can keep down the acidity but they are cut and folded, insertions is quite costly and not used in making made, such as the Firehall Brochure, newsprint. and OSCAR is bundled, ready for VOCs are organic compounds that delivery to Craig Piche’s house. He is can vaporize and enter the atmosphere. the Distribution Manager, who makes Some sources of harmful VOCs include sure that OSCAR is delivered to every paint thinner, dry cleaning solvents, and home in Old Ottawa South as well as loading and offloading of crude oil tankers to the businesses along Bank Street, and petroleum fuels. Methane, emitted in Old Ottawa South as well as the by termites, ruminants, such as cows, Glebe. Need Renovations? and cultivation, is a greenhouse gas that

Custom Designed Additions and Major Renovations that respect the Craftsmanship and Architectural style of your older home. 594-8888 Kent beside a cannister of black ink www.gordonmcgovern.com Page 34 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Talk to Elderly Parents About The “Wow” Power Of Their Financial Situation Wallpaper By Bob Jamieson program they may have through a current or by Jennifer Davies former employer for the payment of doctors’ f things are going well in your life, you bills, some prescription drugs and related f you are considering painting this spring season, why probably have many things for which services. And even so, your parents may need not incorporate some wallpaper into your decorating to be thankful. And you are particularly supplemental insurance policies. Of course, Ischeme? I the chances are pretty good that your parents fortunate if you have elderly parents who are According to latest trends, wallpaper is making a still in good physical and mental condition. already know all these things; nevertheless, comeback, and why not? It’s a perfect way to spice up a While your parents are healthy, you should it doesn’t hurt to make sure they’re well room, bring in added texture and colour, and maybe even an take the opportunity to discuss matters informed and that their health-care bills are interesting geometric pattern. of significance - such as their financial under control. Small powder rooms are a perfect place to incorporate situation. Existence of a Will - If you don’t know wallpaper if you’re a little shy of hanging it in the open, but There are probably many things you’d if your parents have a Will now is the time to want to experiment. Or, consider applying it to one wall rather do than talk about finances with your find out. And if they don’t have a Will, urge in the living room behind a piece of furniture or artwork, parents -but it’s a conversation you need to them to have one prepared. Your parents or as wainscoting in another for a bold, artistic statement. have, because there is a lot that you need to have worked hard all their lives and they There really is no end to the possibilities if you use your discover. So, find a comfortable time in which undoubtedly want their assets distributed imagination. The ceiling is even an opportunity! to talk to your parents, approach the subject in according to their wishes, and not according Farrow and Ball manufactures some beautiful papers, in as unemotional a manner as possible, and try to a court’s decree, which is what would lovely colours and remarkably contemporary designs. As an to elicit the following pieces of information: happen if they die “intestate” (without a Will). added bonus, they are made with environmentally-friendly, Location of investments - It isn’t Even if your parents have a simple Will, they water-based paints. You can check out the F&B Web site at necessarily essential that you know precisely may still need to take further action. If you www.farrow-ball.com for more information or visit Farrow which investments and life insurance policies believe they have a sizable estate or want to and Ball at 343 Richmond Road here in Ottawa. your parents own. But it is important that give significant gifts to charitable groups, Randall’s at 555 Bank Street, in the Glebe, also has you know some things. Do they work with encourage them to consult with a financial a large assortment of wallpaper books arranged by style - a financial advisor? If so, whom? Are their planner and with a lawyer who specializes in whether it be traditional, country, or modern. It’s a terrific investments and life insurance policies spread estate planning. place to while away some creative time on a Saturday out among a variety of financial institutions? Willingness to create power of attorney - afternoon. You’ll need to be familiar with these things By creating a durable power of attorney, your If you’ve tried wallpaper, and want to take it one step in case your parents become incapacitated or parents will name someone to make financial further, you might want to commission an artist to paint a die unexpectedly. You can avoid “unclaimed” and/or health care decisions on their behalf mural for a special room. Or, maybe paper wallpaper isn’t property, including investments, from should they become unable to do so. As you adventurous enough, and fabric wallcovering would make a slipping through the cracks if you are aware might suspect, this is a sensitive topic, so more intriguing statement. of these details. you’ll want to approach it with great care. By Whatever your preference, don’t be afraid to experiment. Insurance Coverage for Health and bringing up these issues with your parents, Wallpaper is art, and it can be as bold as you like it, or as Medical Needs - Long-term care and health you can gain some valuable knowledge of discrete as you like it. Just let your imagination go! care expenses can be a major concern of their financial situation today - and a clearer Jennifer Davies is owner of “Interiors for Living”, an the elderly. That’s why you need to know understanding of what you can do to help Ottawa-based interior decorating business. If you have who’s insuring your parents and where your them in the future. decorating questions, or comments on this article, you can parents keep information related to their Bob Jamieson, CFP, Elder Planning contact her at [email protected] or 613-521- insurance policies. You should also have a Counselor your Edward Jones financial 2990. basic understanding of any health insurance advisor. Member CIPF APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 35

Member of Parliament Ottawa Centre Canada’s Seniors Short-Changed By Paul Dewar Ordinary seniors needed that Another Step in Reducing According to calculations from money to keep up with rising prices Greenhouse Gas Emissions Australia, where similar legislation ast summer, Statistics Canada for groceries and other essentials. For is being introduced, lighting, which discovered that it miscalculated anyone relying on CPP or OAS, life I am in the process of drafting is mostly from incandescent lamps, LCanada’s inflation rate between literally became less affordable. a Private Members’ Bill that I will represents 12 per cent of greenhouse July 2001 and March 2006. This After the StatsCan error came to introduce into the House of Commons gas emissions from households, about matters to ordinary seniors because light, pension rates were corrected. that would phase out the sale and use 25 per cent of commercial-sector public pensions are “indexed”— But what about benefits unfairly held of incandescent light bulbs and replace emissions and another 25 per cent benefits increase as the cost of living back between 2001 and 2006? them with compact fluorescent lights from emissions associated with public goes up. A mistake took place. Seniors paid that are more energy-efficient. and street lighting. The botched calculation means the price. Does the Harper government Did you know that the incandescent This is a simple measure that will Canada Pension plan and Old Age really think it’s enough just to blame light bulb uses electricity that flows make a huge difference in how we treat Security recipients were underpaid for the old Liberals for this? through a filament to create light and our environment and in your electricity five years by at least a billion dollars. I will continue to work along that approximately 95 per cent of the bills. I will keep you updated on the The Harper government admits with my Caucus colleagues to ensure energy each standard light bulb uses Bill as it passes through Parliament seniors were short-changed by a billion Canada’s seniors get the dignity they is wasted. In comparison, fluorescents and will call on you to help me raise dollars—but won’t take responsibility deserve—and the pension benefits use only 20 per cent as much electricity this issue with all other parties in the for correcting this unfairness. they’re owed. to produce the same amount of light. House of Commons.

Computer Tricks and Tips

By Malcolm and John Harding and other security issues, all of which might have of Compu-Home required separate (and maybe even conflicting) applications in the past. To Vista, or Not to Vista ... What This enhanced capability is not without Are the Questions? its price. First is the cost of Vista itself, which varies from just over $100.00 to nearly $500.00, he frantic hoopla of January is relaxed depending on which edition you are buying and a bit now but there may still be readers whether it will be an upgrade or the full version. Twho are wondering about upgrading to Next will be the possibility that you may have to Microsoft’s long-awaited new Windows Vista improve the level of your computer hardware and operating system. After all, the television software, which might easily mean an extra few advertising campaign was very intense, and it hundred dollars or more. Not to be overlooked certainly piqued our curiosity about what this is the fairly steep learning curve to master all of snazzy new environment was all about. these wonderful and sophisticated new features; Looking back in history at the introduction the security is especially challenging, and many of previous operating systems, the most unique users have commented that the Macintosh distinction this time is that there does NOT television commercial poking fun at PC having seem to be a flood of users crabbing bitterly to “Cancel or allow” every action, are not much about its foibles and shortcomings. Microsoft of an exaggeration. certainly appears to have learned its lesson; the Bottom line: Our advice is that it is introduction of Vista was delayed several times probably not worth upgrading a computer that but now that it has finally hit the street, we is a year old or more. (After all Windows XP is are not hearing about widespread crashes and a highly regarded operating system and it will security vulnerabilities and complaints of the likely continue to be supported by Microsoft consumer being the guinea pig, as we invariably and by local technicians for years to come.) On did with the earlier generations of Windows. the other hand, if you purchased a computer in There are four editions of Vista, in an the fall of 2006 or later and it came with a Vista attempt to address differing needs and interests upgrade coupon, you would probably be well of potential users. This is also in recognition advised to go ahead. Those who are now in the of the fact that we don’t all have the newest market for a new machine right now are in the and most powerful machines, and might not be luckiest position of all because there will be at able to run the more demanding versions. In least some saving, since the cost of Vista will fact, it has been estimated that barely 10% of be absorbed into the overall purchase price... computers in use today can run Vista at all, given just make sure that you first go to the Microsoft the high levels of RAM, processor and video website and know exactly which edition will hardware that even the lowest edition demands. suit your needs. The Microsoft website (below) can take you to detailed pages describing each edition’s Microsoft Vista Website: features, and the computing power required to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ run it. Next, you can download a small utility products/windowsvista/default.mspx that can analyze and assess which edition (if CNET Vista Learning Hub: any) fits within your computer’s capability. http://help.cnet.com/Vista_Learning/2001- Vista brings more functions into the 13259_39-0.html?tag=nl.e407 operating system itself, reducing the need for individual applications to do various chores. Malcolm and John Harding are the owners For example: Windows Photo Gallery, which is of Compu-Home, specializing in assisting home a built-in Vista feature, is capable of importing and small business computer users. photos from your digital camera, cataloguing Visit www.compu-home.com and go to them, performing basic editing chores, and even Suggested Websites for links to some of our sending them out to a processor for printing. favourite websites. Under the general heading of “Safety,” a host Write to [email protected] or of integrated features take care of data backups, phone 613-731-5954 to discuss computer issues, parental controls, virus and spyware protection or to suggest subjects for future columns. Page 36 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Foggy Day in Old Ottawa South

Photo by Tom Alfoldi What Is Governance And How Does It Effect You?

By Anna Sundin councils after open and public debate. the officers and managers of the Not for profit corporations, There are rules about the conduct of corporation to carry out the decisions including community associations, he purpose of rules of the debates, who is entitled to vote made by the Board on behalf of the also have Boards of Directors who are governance is to provide the and how the votes are conducted that shareholders. Proposals made by the answerable to a constituency. Ttransparency needed to make aid transparency. Each respective Board are called motions. If they The members of the Board of an organization truly accountable bureaucracy then carries out the are passed they become resolutions, Directors of these organizations are to its constituents. The rules can be decisions made by the governing which are the official decisions of the usually volunteers who stand for generated within the organization or bodies. Board. election at an annual general meeting. mandated by legislation. Corporations are accountable to The federal and provincial At Board meetings, the members of the Federal, provincial and municipal their owners, the shareholders. The governments have laws that provide Board makes decisions in the interests governments make decisions in their Board of Directors is the corporate minimum standards for rules that of its constituency after debate. The respective houses of parliament or decision making body. It instructs corporate Boards of Directors must Executive (as in “to execute”) is then follow. These are the rules of mandated to carry out the decisions of corporate governance. For example, the Board to the extent the decisions certain corporate documents are relate to something within its control, Guidance, Protection available for review by shareholders, or to make representations and and there are annual general meetings recommendations to other decision to be held where the shareholders making bodies in areas that are outside and Peace of Mind. must review and approve financial its control but affect its constituency. Anna E. Sundin, Barrister & Solicitor decisions made by the Board and The structure of the board and GEnErAl PrActicE includinG: elect members of the corporate Board its decision making power, who Family Law, Wills, Real Estate, Incorporations, Litigation and Collaborative Family Law of Directors. can stand for election to the Board, – A Cooperative and Dignified Approach to Separation and Divorce.– Lately, rules of governance how Board elections are conducted, have come under scrutiny as several the availability of public meetings Boards of Directors of large public and the kind of information proved corporations, including Enron, did not and its timing, are all set out in the prevent senior levels of management rules of governance and affect the of the corporations from breaking the interaction between the Board and its law in pursuit of corporate profits. constituency. Rules of governance have been changed to make members of Boards of Directors more responsible for the actions of the corporations.

Sundin-OSCAR-Ad-2006.indd 1 7/27/06 11:15:35 AM APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 37 Sneezy Waters and Lynn Miles play Underground Sound

By Leslie Fulton tuneful stories steeped in pop, folk at Compact Music, the Glebe and country. She was acclaimed by Community Centre (GCC), and usic lovers will get two Billboard magazine as one of the top the Ottawa Folklore Centre. Doors great artists for the price of 10 performers of 1996, along with open at 7 p.m. with a concert start Mone at the last Underground Sheryl Crow, Curtis Mayfield and of 7:30. The GCC is located at 175 Sound concert of the season on Beck. Her last album, Love Sweet Third Avenue at Lyon. Wednesday, May 9th. Love, has been praised for its intense The Glebe Community introspection, but also for its overall Association (GCA) and the Glebe upbeat musical tone. The New York Business Group host Underground Times commented, “Lynn Miles Sound, a series of concerts run by makes being forlorn sound like a state volunteers to raise money to bury of grace.” the hydro wires when Bank Street Sneezy Waters is best known undergoes reconstruction. Close for portraying Hank Williams in the to $40,000 has been raised so far, runaway hit Hank Williams: The with significant contributions by Show He Never Gave. The show corporate sponsors ScotiaBank, toured extensively in Canada and the Loeb Glebe, Capital Home United States from 1977 to 1990. The Hardware, Glebe Pharmasave movie version of the play garnered Apothecary, Councillor Clive rave reviews, and was shown on First Doucet, Compact Music and Keller Choice Superchannel and CTV in Williams Ottawa Realty. If the Canada, on HBO and Z Channel in the City of Ottawa decides not to bury Guthrie, Frank Zappa, Philip Glass, Unites States, as well as on stations the lines, the money will be spent on Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Lester Young, in Great Britain and Scandinavia. other improvement projects to make Juno Award winning singer/songwriter Charlie Parker, John Lennon, Willie In 1984, Sneezy won the Best Actor Bank Street beautiful. Lynn Miles and country legend Sneezy P. Bennett, and Ian Tamblyn, Sneezy Award in the 3e Festival International Waters and his band will take to the is treasured for his vast repertoire and du Film Musical in Grenoble, France, stage at the Glebe Community Centre sensitive interpretation of a song. and the film was nominated for the for an evening of stellar music. Both Tickets for best country motion picture at the are long-time Glebe residents. the concert are 19th Annual Academy of Country Lynn Miles won a Juno in 2003 $20 each ($25 Music Awards. Paying respect to a Financial Divorce Specialist for her album Unravel. She is at the door) and wide range of influences from Woody renowned for her plaintive style and are available Avoid costly mistakes with professional financial assistance in the division of assets.

Contact: Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P. 1276 Wellington Street, Ottawa ON K1Y 3A7 Everyday Tax Saving Strategies Phone: (613)798-2421 Email: [email protected] by Rick Sutherland been the obvious planning opportunity to shift retirement income to a lower income spouse n Canada we supplement our four seasons of or partner. The federal government announced weather with additional seasons to represent last fall that pensioners, starting in 2007, could Imajor money and tax saving events. We split up to 50% of pension income with their have just passed the “RRSP Season.” It’s the spouse. Due to age restrictions the viability of a time of year when people who want to save a spousal RRSP still warrants a close look. few dollars on their income taxes will sock a Opening up “in-trust” accounts for minor few dollars away in an approved Registered children could have the effect of shifting Retirement Savings Plan. We have now entered income into the hands of your child. Capital the “Tax Season.” This is the time of year when gains are taxed in the hands of the child rather everyone has to reconcile his or her income and than the parent. Watch out though, as dividend expenses with the federal government. and interest income will still be taxed in the It’s too late to make tax-planning decisions hands of the parent. that will have much of an impact on your 2006 Plan your retirement income carefully. tax return. Other than RRSP contributions, the It may be to your advantage to convert your time to do that was before December 31. You RRSP into a Registered Retirement Income can however, begin making plans that will have Fund, RRIF, early. The concept is to reduce the an impact on the taxes you pay in 2007 and RRIF capital and therefore lower the mandatory beyond. RRIF payment in later years. This strategy Decisions to place money into a Registered could be helpful to preserve your ability to Retirement Savings Plan, RRSP, will reduce receive the Old Age Security benefit without your taxable income and possibly result in a the claw back. The current claw back begins at tax refund or reduce the amount of tax owing. income levels above $63,511. The RRSP has added benefits of tax deferral Tax planning strategies should not be and tax sheltered growth. You can defer this seasonal but should be considered very income to a later date, possibly to a time when carefully throughout the year. Speak to your you are earning much less income and realize a financial planner to learn more about these and huge tax saving. During the period of deferral other tax planning strategies. your investment grows tax free or sheltered. The name of the RRSP game is immediate This is a monthly article on financial tax reduction, tax deferral and tax sheltered planning. Call or write to Rick Sutherland CLU, growth. CFP, FDS, R.F.P., of FundEX Investments Inc. Another tax planning strategy is income with your topics of interest at 798-2421 or E- splitting. This involves decisions that will mail at [email protected]. shift income from a high-income person to a low-income person. Spousal RRSPs have Page 38 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Shine Bands Off to 35th Annual MusicFest Canada

wo Shine Music Academy bands have been invited to the 35th TAnnual National Festival MusicFest Canada, May 15-19, 2007, in Richmond, B.C.. MusicFest is an annual national event bringing together more than 10,000 of Canada’s finest young musicians who perform, attend workshops and clinics. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to demonstrate and share their musical achievements and creativity. Students gain invaluable educational experiences. Not only do they perform for adjudicators at North America’s largest annual event, they also attend showcase concerts, clinics and workshops. All students have the opportunity to make lifelong connections and participate with Canada’s finest musical talents: educators, performers and composers. For more details and photos of last years’ highlights go to: www.musicfest.ca Shine participants are hardworking and dedicated to achieving excellence in their performance. Two of their bands, the Friday Night Band and Jazz Focus, have been recognized by adjudicators at regional MusicFest events as achieving Gold Standard. This signifies that the bands have demonstrated excellence in all facets of their performance. With this Gold Standard, the Friday Night Band and Jazz Focus have each received an “Official Invitation to Perform” for the national MusicFest. Students will be applying for scholarships and awards granted can be issued for $750.00 (or 2500 points equals the umbrella organization dedicated to the promotion through the MusicFest Scholarship Program. $75.00 etc.) of performance, education and production of music Outstanding musical talent in Ottawa’s youth needs 2. RBC Rewards/Avion points are for hotel in the National Capital Region. continued support, encouragement and recognition. costs and can be redeemed for gift certificates. 100 RBC rewards $1.00 in CWT Gift Certificates. Either individual or corporate donations would There are three ways you can help support these ** Note: RBC rewards must be redeemed for be greatly appreciated and charitable receipts will young musicians: Carlson Wagonlit Travel Gift Certificates not RBC be issued for the equivalent in CAD. 1. Aeroplan can be transferred to defer air travel travel rewards. See online www.rbcrewards.com or Contact: Shine Music 613-233-0990 contact@ costs. Aeroplan donations of 25,000 points or the call 1-800-769-2512 shinemusicacademy.com equivalent of a ‘seat’ is given, a charitable receipt 3. A donation / sponsorship of Shine Foundation Kelly Craig is the Shine Program Director Minimize Tax Through Smart Non-Registered Choices

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By Mary Belotti America, the UK and Europe. His discography includes seven recordings in the role of Choral ttawa has a rare chance to hear the Director and more than twenty as organist and combined talents of two internationally accompanist. Oacclaimed musicians in concert together He is well known as a composer of liturgical at Dominion Chalmers United Church on 16th and vocal music and his many commissions April. They have never met, they are both British include At Round Earth’s Imagined Corners for and both are masters of their wind instrument: the 1994 Commonwealth Games and Arts Festival one is a trumpet player, the other an organist. in Victoria, works for the Tallis Choir of Toronto “She has the capacity to draw the sweetest sounds and the Amadeus Choir of Toronto. A Song for out of the trumpet to soothe even the most savage St. Cecilia’s Day, was performed by the Ottawa beast.” (John Wallace, Gramophone Magazine) Choral Society in its 1999-2000 concert series, This is not the description of a celestial angel, and when he became Music Director of the OCS but of a very down-to-earth twenty-seven year in 2005, the choir performed his composition old called Alison Balsom, an EMI recording Four Songs of Love to great acclaim. The OCS artist, Best Young British Classical Performer at will be performing his new work at a concert on the 2006 Classical Brit Awards and Classic FM 21st April at St. Joseph’s Church. Listeners’ Choice Award winner at the prestigious Matthew Larkin’s work at Christ Church Gramophone Magazine awards, an annual Cathedral where he is Organist and Director of event in the United Kingdom. She was in good Music is much revered. A tireless advocate of company as the year 2006 also saw Canadians the Anglican tradition of male voice choirs, his Angela Hewitt named as Best Artist and Gerald devotion to the heritage of Anglican Church music Finlay, Editor’s Choice for his album ‘Stanford is fully manifested every week at the morning and Songs of the Sea’. evening services at the Cathedral. Ms Balsom’s inspiration came from her Alison Balsom and Matthew Larkin will be music teacher, Bill Thompson, and the “amazing performing an exciting and diverse program of music department” at her school, Tannery baroque and contemporary works. Croft. “Of those of us who started playing there For more information, visit www.cathedralarts. around the age of eight, four of us have become com/special events.htm or telephone 613 567 professional musicians: it’s a brilliant example 1787. of good teaching when you’re young…” she Tickets are available from: says. She was a member of the school band and Christ Church Cathedral, Sparks and Bronson, Matthew Larkin of Old Ottawa South makes sure she gets back to play with them every 613 567 1787 photo by Catherine Culley. Christmas. Dominion Chalmers United Church, 355 Her new album ‘Caprice’ – which was named Cooper, tel 613 235 5143 ‘Solo CD of the Year 2006’ by Brass Band World Compact Music, 190 Bank, tel 613 233 7626 Be an agent for change – and 785-A Bank, tel 613 233 8922 Magazine – includes transcriptions of well-known Fill out the OSCAR Survey classics especially written for – and in many cases Leading Note, 370 Elgin, tel 613 569 7888 by – Alison Balsom. Books on Beechwood, 35 Beechwood – page 44 Matthew Larkin, Ms Balsom’s accompanist, Avenue, 613 742 5030 has appeared as organ recitalist throughout North

Allison Balsom with her trumpet Page 40 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Here Comes the Sun!

and enhance your circulation. By Maureen Fallis, Athletic programs from gymnastics Surround Circle Yoga to football now incorporate yoga for its systematic approach to stretching ith spring comes a natural muscles, tendons, and joints. Fitness anticipation of new growth enthusiasts are often pleasantly Wand revitalization. Finally, surprised by how quickly the addition we are able to strip off our heavy of yoga postures to a workout routine winter coats and put on light shirts can improve tone and posture. & shorts. It feels like heaven to have Someone once told me they actually the sun’s warm rays bathe our bodies felt taller after practicing yoga! again. Then one little niggling thought pops up ~ “will my sluggish winter Try this Reclining Leg-Stretch Pose body be ready to hit the running trails, with a Strap (Supta Padangusthasana) will I have the energy to get out for and see for yourself: a speedy ride around on my bike or will I feel supple enough even to bend ♦ Lie down on a carpeted over to plant the garden?” floor. You can place a folded blanket Yoga is an ideal elixir for this time under your head and neck, but this is of year. Whether you intend to run not mandatory. Align your body so a 10Km race, cycle in the Gatineau that it is in a straight line. Place your Hills, or be the first to get out on the legs together, with your kneecaps golf course, yoga can prepare you for facing the ceiling. your activity of choice. A strong, stable body that is fluid ♦ Inhale, and with an and flexible creates the foundation exhalation, bend your right knee and for a healthy, injury-free joyful place a strap (an old tie works well) return to spring activities. Consider over the arch of your foot. Hold one a lone tree whipping in the gales of end of the strap in each hand. Use a wicked windstorm. A brittle, stiff the strap to pull your leg toward your tree will crack and break off while face. Keep both knees straight and a fluid flexible tree will bend and your left leg on the floor. Roll your lean, ultimately withstanding the left leg inward slightly, so that your fiercest of storms. Yoga postures can inner heel presses against the floor. increase your flexibility, strengthen your muscles, improve your posture, ♦ When your elbows start to bend, move your grip higher on the strap. Make sure your shoulders remain relaxed. Keep your chin dropped down.

♦ Focus your attention Maureen Fallis, Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, with her associate equally on the lifted leg and on the leg teacher, Nathalie Cloutier on the floor. Press out through the ball of your raised foot and out through the your face. Do not force the leg past breaths, slowly lower your leg to the inner heel of the leg on the floor. the point of a healthy, strong but still floor. Once your leg is back down, pleasant stretch. align your body before practicing ♦ When you are comfortable Reclining Leg-Stretch Pose on the in the pose, with each exhalation, ♦ After three to five full other side. bring the leg a little closer toward ♦ Surprise ~ you may very well feel one leg is longer than the other until you stretch out both legs!

Maureen Fallis, Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, with her associate teacher, Nathalie Cloutier, are excited about bringing yoga to Old Ottawa South. Surround Circle Yoga is located at Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Avenue at Bank Street. We are celebrating!

~Surround Circle Yoga invites you to an Open House on Wednesday, April 25th from 4 – 7:00pm~

Drop in and see our beautiful new yoga space and find out more about our spring session of classes. Please Personal Financial Planning seewww.surroundcirleyoga.com or We will review your current financial position and call Maureen Fallis at 613-730-6649 recommend a plan that is designed to achieve your goals. for class schedule and details.

Rick Sutherland, CLU, CFP, FDS, R.F.P Tel 613.798.2421 1276 Wellington Street [email protected] Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3A7 www.invested-interest.ca APRIL 2007 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR Page 41 Planet Botanix - Organic Products and Services By Lisa Xing Heather shows the soapnuts—nuts but they go on for more because they her own garden—she grows drought- that grow on certain trees in Nepal get playing!” Heather currently runs resistant plants, which are great for n a society becoming more and India that releases a “sudsy” the ones on body care but she hopes to the environment since they don’t need and more health-conscious and substance for cleaning when you put begin others courses soon on intuition watering and in the long run, need less Ishifting toward a better quality of them in warm water. “Things like and chakras. maintenance. “The imperfections are life, Planet Botanix engages customers these are good for you and good for the With spring inching nearer, she part of the perfection,” she says. with a new kind of experience. Earth,” she says, referring to giving will soon be selling organic seeds Heather is also a big supporter Tucked comfortably between an customers a “wholistic experience.” and other garden items. She stresses of the local economy and tries to buy athletic store and a shawarma shop in By this, she means further blurring the importance of organic plants, all of the products for the store from the Glebe, owner Heather Garrod says the lines by incorporating physical especially if they’re for cooking. the area. “I like to support Canadian the business is blooming. health with spiritual health. There is “They shouldn’t be contaminated or and fair trade businesses,” she says. In 1995, the certified a massage room in the back as well as sprayed with toxins,” she says. “The She carries makeup from Guelph and aromatherapist began by selling her part of a room dedicated to intuition things we put into our bodies should soaps from the Ottawa area. own line of homemade natural skin angel readings. “It’s a great way to get be as natural as possible.” The mother of four says she care line, Beebalm and Basil, out guidance,” says reader Brian Calhoun. But, she doesn’t just go for things loves having the store where it is so of her home in Ottawa. But after a “It helps to free up energies and stress we eat. Heather also sells organic she can get to know the customers decade, she wanted to bring it into and gets people toward where they herbs and flowers for the garden better. “Having grown up in this area, a shop. “I wanted a place so people should be going in life. Everybody and come spring, the store will have this store has a neighbourhood feel. I could come in anytime and also have has guides—there’s no denomination new garden ideas including growing know the customers’ names. It’s like a place for “do-it-yourselfers,” she to it.” shrubs, perennials, herbs and sage in friends coming in, and in a mall, you Vivian Dickie is the registered place of grass. She also talks about wouldn’t get that as easily.” Heather has another commitment on top of all this. “I also have a full time job with the government,” she says. “But this is where my heart is.” She explains she balances out the two better and better as more of the routines are established with her store. She smiles. “Eventually, I would like to be doing this full time.”

Heather Garrod, Rachel Black, and Monika Salva

says. By this, she means encouraging massage therapist there, offering shoppers to learn about and make reflexology expertise and chi nei their own natural body care products tsang, an abdominal massage based through workshops offered monthly on ancient Taoist practices. in the store. This concept is drawing crowds That’s just scratching the surface. to Planet Botanix. “People can come Planet Botanix, which turns two in, buy whatever they need. They can years old soon, is becoming more than take a workshop about natural things a place to buy things—it’s becoming or have a massage,” says Heather. a landmark site for general well-being “It’s whatever they seem to need at and all things organic—from makeup the time.” The workshops have gotten to body care products (even bug spray!) great response from the community. to baby and pet care products, to foods “People go crazy for it,” she laughs. and garden solutions. This includes “It’s fun, and people get to choose organic toothpaste, deodorant and their own products (to make.) The most interesting—cleaning supplies. session is supposed to be two hours Page 42 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 Ottawa City Street Design Policy Nurturing the

he City initiated preparation of a new Street The completion of the Street Design Policy is Planet Design Policy in April 2006. This policy will projected for summer 2007. Tfocus on setting standards for the design of by Barbara Campbell special streets within the City. Criteria will be established to determine which For more information on this project and a related s a new member of the Green streets warrant special design treatment, such as, burial one on Right-of-Way Lighting Policy, please contact: of hydro and telecommunication cables, decorative Party, I am frequently called on paving, street trees, pedestrian streetlights, and Charles Lanktree, MCIP, RPP, CSLA, OALA Ato explain why I am embracing benches. It will also determine how and when these Urban Designer this political party. I see a common thread improvements will be financed and how they will be Area Planning and Design Division amongst the six fundamental principals maintained. The general intent is to create a higher Planning Transit and the Environment of the Green Party of Canada: Ecological design standard for certain specific special streets in City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th. fl. Wisdom, Social Justice, Participatory the city. Ottawa, Ontario Democracy, Non-Violence, Sustainability You can view this discussion paper on the City Telephone: 613-580-2424 ext. 13859 and Respect for Diversity. To me, they Website at the following link. Fax: 613-580-2459 share an element of nurturing. It seems http://www.ottawa.ca/public_consult/street_ E-mail: [email protected] to me that saving the planet will require design/index_en.shtml all of the skills and qualities involved http://www.ottawa.ca/public_consult/street_ design/index_fr.shtml in nurturing, whether we apply them to ourselves, our individual relationships, or the organizations and structures that allow us to co-exist. I think that the fast pace of western lifestyles, the instant gratification of information technologies, and the compartmentalization of so many once integrated ‘nurturing’ elements of our lives (care for the sick, teaching of the young, tending the family vegetable garden, help for the disadvantaged, burial of the dead) has resulted in a real loss of nurturing skill sets. In many ways, I believe a lack of nurturing on various fronts, not just environmental, has led to the current state of the biosphere. But there is no reason they can’t be reclaimed and applied to global benefit! There is someplace in the human psyche an instinct to nurture; we just have to help each other find it. I don’t see green policy anywhere on the linear, left to right continuum used to describe Liberal or Conservative orientations. To me it is a three dimensional globe, based on the robust science of ecology, acknowledging the contributions of traditional economic studies, where appropriate. In other words, it is on a completely different conceptual plane, and the relative importance of traditional economic theory has been inverted to a more subordinate position. While I see an emphasis on human nurturing skills as part of the Green Recipe for planetary health, identifying and taking advantage of opportunities related to climate change crises may very well be another. If you are interested in finding out what the Green Party in the Ottawa- Centre Federal Riding is all about, why not attend the Annual General Meeting, scheduled* for 7 pm, Thursday May 31st at the McNabb Community Centre 180 Percy St. The website www,greenparty,ca includes Green policy content and www. ottawagreens.ca will confirm meeting details in the event an election is called and the meeting is postponed.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARY Sunnyside Branch Library

Children girlzone hear local poets recite at the Sunny- Disease. Initially inspired by stories A monthly lunchtime book chat side Library, two different poets each recounted by Barbara about her Babytime group for girls in grade 7 and 8 at Thursday night. Chris Levenson, mother, Dancing in the Elevator has For babies and their parent or care- the Sunnyside Library. Registration. local poet and Sunnyside customer, been featured in The Ottawa Citi- giver with stories, rhymes, songs and Friday, Apr 20, May 18 and June 15 coordinating Poets. Thursdays, Apr. zen, in Ottawa Fifty- Five Plus, and games. 0-18 months.Tuesdays, 2:15 at 12:05 (45 mins) 5, 12, 19 and May 3 at 7 p.m. (1.5h) in several community newspapers, p.m. (30 mins) April 10-May 22 as well as on CFRA. Barbara and Adult What’s Good About Allergies? Donna will share their experiences in Toddlertime Understanding Our Body’s Heal- planning and producing the book and For toddlers and a parent or care- Adult Computer Programs ing Wisdom. Explore the meaning read some of the anecdotes. Thurs- giver with stories, rhymes, songs and 15 minutes Computer Tutorials behind our body’s discomforts and day, April 26, 7pm (1hr) games. Ages 18-35 months.Tuesdays, Having problems with the Library symptoms. Homeopathic medicine 10:15 a.m. (30 mins) April 10-May Catalogue? Accessing the web? is a holistic method of tapping into Jim Robertson: Explore Wildlife 22 OR Thursdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 Email issues? Register for your our inner healer. Symptoms such as Join Jim Robertson as he talks about mins) April 12-May 24 own 15 minutes computer tutorial sneezing, congestion, and hives can Iqaluit; Beekeeping; Maple Magic; Mondays between 10 and 11:30 a.m. help us gain insight into our inner na- Florida’s Feathered Friends and Storytime (April 16-June 18) ture and what it’s in need of. Join us more. The last of the 15 sessions Stories and rhymes for young chil- for a free lecture with Julek Meissner, of the Explore Wildlife series being dren - parents and caregivers are Basic Internet Search Techniques ND. With over 20 years experience offered at different branches of the welcome to join. Ages 3-6. Wednes- Learn basic Internet search tech- in holistic health care, Meissner has Ottawa Public Library from April 2 days, 10:15 a.m. (30 mins) April niques. Participants should have a wealth of insight into the fascinat- - May 2. Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 11-May 23 some previous experience in access- ing world of natural healing. Visit his p.m. (1.5 hrs) ing the Internet. Registration. Limit website at www.homeopathyrocks. Mother Daughter Book Group of 12 participants. Friday, April 13, com.Tuesday, April 10, 7pm (1hr) A place for girls and the special 10:30 (1.5 Hrs) women in their lives to share excel- Dancing in the Elevator J lent books. Ages 10-12.Mondays, 7 Adult Programs oin Barbara Schulman and Donna p.m. April 16, May 28 (1hr) Lordon, co-authors of Dancing in the The Poetry Experience Elevator: A Compilation of Anec- Teen In celebration of Poetry month come dotes about Life with Alzheimer Alta Vista Branch Library Alta Vista Branch professionals. PRE-SCHOOL Remarkable Readers Book Club Ottawa Public Library Tuesday, April 10: Understanding An after-school book club for 2516 Alta Vista Dr. the Aging Process Babytime those who love to read. For the To register call: 737-2837 x3 Tuesday, April 24: Strategies for Thursdays, April 12-May 24, more advanced readers. the Caregiver 10:30 a.m. (30 min.) Monday, April 23, 4:15 p.m. (45 Tuesday, May 1: Making the Most of Adult Programs min.)* Community Resources Toddlertime Book Banter 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. The Portrait Mondays, April 16-May 14, 10:30 Eager Readers Book Club by Iain Pears Wildlife Festival a.m. (30 min.) An after-school book club for Thursday, April 5, 2 p.m. (1hr.) Irwin Brodo presents: The Diversity those who love to read. Beginner and Importance of Lichens in Storytime to intermediate readers. The Swallow of Kabul Canada’s Northern Lands. (Bilingual) Wednesdays, April 11- Tuesday, April 24, 4:15 p.m. (45 by Yasmina Khadra Thursday, April 12, 6:30 p.m.(1.5 May 23, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.) min.)* Thursday, May 3, 2 p.m. (1 hr.) hrs.) Contes (Bilingue) Les mercredis, 11 avril- SPECIAL PROGRAM Infusion littéraire Bird-watching Takes Flight 23 mai, 10 h 30 (45 min.) L’alchimiste Eve Ticknor from the Ottawa Music Together! de Paulo Coelho Field- Family Storytime You’re invited to sing, dance, chat Mardi le 17 avril, 14 h (1 h) Naturalists’ Club will explain Tuesdays, April 10-May 22, 10:30 and move. Join music teacher how you Lignes de faille a.m. (30 min.) Liz Benjamin for a fun music de Nancy Huston can become involved in birding. program. Ages 0-5. Mardi le 15 mai, 14 h (1 h) Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 BOOK CLUBS / CLUBS DE Tuesday, April 3, 10:30 a.m. (45 p.m.(1.5 hrs.) LECTURE min.)* Tuesday Book Group Meets every other week. Teen Programs Un livre à partager N.B. Programs followed by The Malaise of Modernity Club de lecture pour ceux qui an * require registration. / by Charles Taylor Teen Book Club aiment lire. Pour les 8 à 12 ans. L’inscription est requise pour Tuesday, Apr. 3, 17, 7 p.m. Drop in to share some great reads Lundi 16 avril, 16 h 15 (45 min.)* les programmes suivis d’un *. with other teens. Ages 12-15. Tuesday, Apr. 24, 7 p.m. (1 hr.) Writers’ Circle Teen Chick Lit Join other writers and learn If you love « Gossip Girl » or techniques to improve your Teen Chick Lit Book Club writing. If you love Gossip Girl or other other books like it, bring your Tuesday, Apr. 10, 6:30 p.m.(1.5 hrs.) books like it, bring your favourite favourite reads to share with reads to share with others. Ages 14- others! Ages 14-18. Caring for Seniors 18. Monday, April 16, 4:30 p.m. (1 Monday, April 16, 4:30 p.m. (1 Three free workshops for those hr.) hr.)* who care for an older adult, led by Page 44 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007 OSCAR Survey Be an Agent for Change Please fill in the following form and deliver it to the Firehall, or mail it to 260 Sunnyside, K1S 0R7. 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You’re Children’s Consignment Sale in Mexico, Uruguay and Canada. The , while parents can browse the white welcome to join your neighbours twice Sunday April 15th 2007 10:00am evening will be in Spanish and English. elephant table, the used book sale, plant per month at Trinity Anglican Church. - 3:00pm at The Glebe Community Admission is free and the reading will sale or place a in the silent auction. It’s a great time and place to share ideas, Center. The Ottawa Police will be be followed by a question period and The Meibion Prysor Choir, a male voice inspiration, scrapbooking tools and even hosting a Child Finger Print Clinic live music by Duetto Forte (Monika choir from Wales, will be concluding a tasty treat (and if you’re new, there’s and Little Rays Reptiles will perform. Salva & Marlene Cruz-Lozano). The their Canadian tour with a one-night plenty of experience in the room). The Donations for The Ottawa Food Bank Main Library is located at 120 Metcalfe benefit concert in Ottawa on Tuesday, sessions already run on the first and and Snow Suit Fund will be accepted. St. For a complete list of Library events May 1st.2007. The performance will third Sundays of the month in Bender Limited spaces will be available for visit www.biblioottawalibrary.ca be held at Westminster Presbyterian Hall of Trinity Church, 1230 Bank new consignors. Please visit www. Church, 470 Roosevelt Avenue, at 7:30 St., from 1 to 5 p.m. The cost is $10 mykidsfunkycloset.com for times and Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10, with all proceeds per person for use of the church. You details. pm,,. Linda Ghan will present going to assist Highland Park Wesleyan must ring the doorbell to enter through her novel, Sosi, at Mother Tongue Church in running a sports camp for at- the Bank Street door. Please RSVP to Ottawa has a rare chance to hear Books, 1067 Bank Street. Winnipeg risk youth in Odessa, Ukraine later this Pauline at 613.733.4281 or pauline_ the considerable talents of two Free Press called Sosi “A remarkable, summer. For further details and to pre- [email protected] each time you internationally acclaimed musicians heartbreaking and beautifully written order your tickets, call Elf at 613-741- plan to attend so I can set up a table and in recital together: Alison Balsom, story about the universal and timeless 9633, or email cmpincanada@gmail. chair for you. Hope to see you there! British award-winning trumpeter themes of love, loss, longing and com. Details are also available at the and Matthew Larkin, organist, will displacement.” The daughter of a Muslim choir’s website:www.meibionprysor. What’s Good About Allergies? be presenting an exciting program Turk father and an Armenian Christian org The Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa of baroque and contemporary mother, Sosi is orphaned at the age of Public Library (OPL) invites you compositions at Dominion Chalmers seven when her parents are murdered Start the Canoe Season with to explore the meaning behind our United Church on Monday, 16th April by their own neighbours. The cities of Kevin Callan The Ottawa Public body’s discomforts and symptoms on at 8pm. Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Montreal for Library (OPL) presents canoe expert Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m. Homeopathic For further information and a fascinating political backdrop for the Kevin Callan at the Main Library on medicine is a holistic method of tapping tickets, visit www.cathedralarts.com/ story of Sosi, who cannot turn her back Wednesday, May 2 at 7:30 pm. Callan into our inner healer. Symptoms such as specialevents.htm. Tickets are also on her past and who must find her way will discuss his new book A Paddlers sneezing, congestion, and hives can help available at Dominion Chalmers United as a survivor, mother, and wife. Guide to Quetico and Beyond. Callan is us gain insight into our inner nature and Church, 355 Cooper 613 235 5143, the author of numerous canoeing books, what it’s in need of. Join us for a free Compact Music, 190 Bank 613 233 7626 Dancing in the Elevator Ottawa - The including the bestselling A Paddler’s lecture with Julek Meissner, ND. With and 785 Bank 613 233 8922; Leading Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Guide Series. Admission is free. The over 20 years experience in holistic Note, 370 Elgin 613 569 7888 and Library (OPL) invites you to come join Main Library is located at 120 Metcalfe health care, Meissner has a wealth Books on Beechwood, 35 Beechwood Barbara Schulman and Donna Lordon, St. of insight into the fascinating world 613 742 5030 co-authors of Dancing in the Elevator: of natural healing. Visit his website A Compilation of Anecdotes about Ottawa Welsh Choral Society Spring at www.homeopathyrocks.com The Minto Run for Reach, Sunday, April Life with Alzheimer Disease. Initially Concert. Sunday, May 5, 2007, at 3 pm. Sunnsyide Branch Library is located at 15 at Ottawa City Hall. Beneficiary inspired by stories recounted by Barbara St Giles Presbyterian Church corner 1049 Bank Street. is Reach Canada a non-profit 25 about her mother, Dancing in the of Bank and First Ave. Welsh music year old organization which provides Elevator has been featured in The Ottawa and refreshments. Visit owcs2001. Journey to the Yukon’s Three Rivers lawyer referral services for people Citizen, in Ottawa Fifty- Five Plus, and tripod.com or phone 613-521-1504 or – A CPAWS cross-Canada tour with disabilities and educational in several community newspapers, as email [email protected] for more Ottawa – Thursday, April 12th, 2007, programming for people with well as on CFRA. Barbara and Donna information. 7:30pm (doors open 7:00pm) Canadian disabilities, their family members, will share their experiences in planning Museum of Nature (240 McLeod St.) health/social service providers, law and producing the book and read some Hintonburg Garden Plant Exchange Multi-media event featuring unique students and other lawyers. www.reach. of the anecdotes. Thursday, April 26, & Sale Saturday May 12th From 10am northern images, art and song Reception ca 7pm (1hr) Until 12am At The Parkdale Park At and raffle to follow Join CPAWS The Minto Run for Reach has events Parkdale & Wellington(behind the for a special evening featuring art, for all ages and abilities including the Canadian Mothercraft is pleased to farmers market). northern voices and music in support of Enbridge 5 & 10 runs, TD Canada Trust announce a night of comedy from conserving the Yukon’s Peel watershed half-marathon, Tim Hortons 3Km. Mark Breslin’s Yuk Yuk’s On Tour The spring issue of Hospice News – one of the world’s great wilderness Family walk & run, Team Challenge, performers in support of the Birth and is now online! This spring has been a areas. Learn more about what CPAWS wheelchair & Half-Marathon inline Parent Companion Program! The event time of great change at The Hospice at is doing to protect the Yukon’s Three skate. TECH shirts, great food and race will take place Thursday April 26th at May Court. Check out the spring issue Rivers – the Snake, Wind and Bonnet kits included. Tudor Hall, doors open 7:30 pm. Tickets of Hospice News to learn more about Plume – and what you can do to help. Register through the Running are $25.00 in advance and $30.00 at who will be replacing our out-going Tickets $15 / $10 for CPAWS members Room or www.reach.ca/613.236.6636. the door and are available by phone Executive Director Barbara O’Connor, Available at: MEC (366 Richmond Contact: reach@ 613.236.6636 at 613-728-1839 x500 or at Canadian and get to know our new Director of Rd) / Canadian Museum of Nature gift Mothercraft, call for details. The Clinical Programs and Education, boutique For more information visit Hillcrest High School is hosting their evening performances will feature Joey Elaine Leipe. The Hospice is also www.cpaws.org 13th annual Cancer Drive on Thursday Elias, Phil Shuchat and Bill MacIntosh preparing for its fifth annual Hike for April 19th, from 5:00 – 9:30pm. and is bound put a spring into our step Hospice on Sunday May 6th. This event Stone Soup Puppet Show Volunteers will be canvassing in the areas … a good laugh for a good cause! consists of a 5 km walk and a family Announcement - The Ottawa of Alta Vista, Canterbury, Riverview picnic on the Hospice’s scenic grounds Puppetry Club invites families to our Park, Hunt Club Park, Greenboro and Lady Evelyn School Council along the Rideau River. There is more 10th Anniversary presentation of Stone Upper Hunt Club. If you are outside presents “SWING INTO information on this fun family event Soup, an original puppetry production these areas or would like to drop off a SPRING FUNDRAISING in the newsletter. Registration and based on the European folktale. donation, feel free to do so at Hillcrest EVENING”. Cocktails, hors deouvres, pledge forms can be downloaded online Mischief, music and colourful puppet High School located at 1900 Dauphin dancing, silent auction and much at www.hospicemaycourt.com . We characters cook up the perfect recipe Road between 5:00 and 9:30pm. more! Everyone over 19 welcome. hope to see you there! All the best for for family fun. Performances take place Saturday, April 28th 7-11pm at Lady a pleasant spring from everyone at The at Orleans Theatre, April 14 at 1:30p.m. An Evening with Camila Reimers Evelyn Alternative School, 63 Evelyn Hospice at May Court! You will need and the Glebe Community Centre, April The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) Avenue. Childcare included in price of Adobe Acrobat to view Hospice News 29 at 1:30p.m. & 3:00p.m. A special presents Chilean-Canadian author ticket: $12.00. For more information online. Please send an e-mail to info@ fundraiser show at Connaught Public Camila Reimers at the Main Library please email Shahla Khan Salter at hospicemaycourt.com or call (613)260- School starts at 7:30p.m on April 27th. on Wednesday, April 25 at 7:30 pm. [email protected] . RSVP by 2906 x. 232 to have a copy sent to you Tickets are $7.50 For information call Reimers will be reading from her April 20th if childcare is required. by post. (613) 728-7043. Email: opcpuppets@ book Tres lotos es un mar de fuego. magma.ca Visit: www.magma.ca/ Ms. Reimers was born in Chile and Come one, Come All to the Alta Vista ~puppet immigrated to Canada in 1980. The public school annual spring fair, author of numerous short stories in April 28, 2007 10am - 1:30 p.m. Kids Page 46 The OSCAR - OUR 33rd YEAR APRIL 2007

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