The O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old South Year 40, No. 7 The Ottawa South Community Association Review JULY/AUG 2012 Goodbye 9 Rosedale and Mother Tongue Books

The last summer of roses at 9 Rosedale Update on Proposed Develpoment mother tongue books Closing Its Store at 9 Rosedale Avenue But Its Stories Live On tore hosting month-long series Co-owner Laura Rayner said By Kathleen Marsman of Adjustment, rendered September of events to celebrate, connect, all the owners felt blessed to be part 2011, granted certain variances but not mourn – and organize! of the creative lives of the store’s vid OSCAR readers will recall others for this property. The developer S The owners of mother tongue customers and community. appealed to the OMB for the variances that the English cottage-style books invite friends, neighbours and “One of the great joys of being a that were refused, while a group of 7 house at 9 Rosedale Avenue is customers to join them in celebrating bookseller is literally putting the right A neighbours appealed the severance up for demolition, pending the city’s the store’s many contributions to book in the right hands,” Rayner said. and the variances granted. The OMB approval of a building permit. Two community as they wind down its 18- “We are proud of the roles we’ve decision, rendered April 16, 2012 semi-detached units are planned for year run. played, and proud of the fact that we (Decision No. PL111126 available that lot. Here is an update on the “There’s no easy way to say it have been able to support the ideals, at www.omb.gov.on.ca), was a efforts of the neighbours of 9 Rosedale – we are asking our community to dreams and struggles of others.” disappointment. All variances were to prevent the by-law variances and help us celebrate mother tongue “Sadly, today, it seems that granted; even the two front yard set severance request from being granted: books as we prepare to close it,” said many love the idea of a small, back variances that the five members we have failed. The severance of the Evelyn Huer, mother tongue co- neighbourhood bookstore, and other of the Committee of Adjustment lot as well as the requested front yard, owner. “After 18 years serving our local stores, but don’t support them had unanimously rejected citing rear yard, and balcony variances were community, we are closing our enough,” Rayner said. “The balance safety concerns over inadequate approved by the Municipal beloved store…but not before we host just tipped for us, and we had to deal lines of sight for cars pulling into Board on April 16, 2012. An appeal to a month-long wrap-party to celebrate with mounting losses and escalating and out of the garages and laneway. the OMB of its own decision has been and connect with you.” financial pressures. We’re tired, we’re The new appeal we launched is based requested by the neighbours, together mother tongue books opened in full and we’re spent – and we have on certain errors and deficiencies in with a request for a stay of the building 1994, having grown out of the city’s other things we want to do!” the decision. One of the deficiencies permit pending the decision. Although feminist and women’s movements of The store is hosting a series of we emphasized is that the OMB our request is under consideration as the 1970s and 80s. mother tongue was parties and gatherings to wind down reversed the unanimous Committee of this writing, we are not optimistic. a social “hub” long before hubs had in style, and, of course, is offering of Adjustment decision without This type of request is rarely granted, WiFi, when local bookstores were at customers plenty of discounts and providing any specific reason as and will almost certainly be denied. If the heart of lively and engaged local great book bargains. The first event is at our request for a stay has been ignored, communities. Many different people a building permit may have issued came through its doors – all of them already. Cont’d on page 7 found a home. Cont’d on page 2 The decision of the Committee Page 2 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Meals On Wheels’ Angels Half of OSCA Staff Wish The Other Half Farewell

Thanks Denise (of OOS), Marie and Andrea for getting the wheels rolling Cathie, Jill, Deirdre and Dinos. Photo by Aletha Phillips. on our bike delivery program for Meals on Wheels on a rainy June 3. See related articles on pages 8 and 9.

Mother Tongue ... Cont’d from page 1 7:00 PM on Friday, June 22, featuring community to help us celebrate what Events are every Friday evening, to follow. Giller Prize-winner Elizabeth Hay, we’ve built, and plant the seeds for a starting June 22. More event details author of Late Nights on Air and Alone solid legacy.” in the Classroom. Hay is joined by acclaimed Ottawa-based singer- Friends of mother tongue books are songwriter Jill Zmud. invited to visit “Join us and help us close the celebratemothertongue.ca for a full store, not try to keep it open,” Huer open letter and an invitation to share said. “We want to engage our beloved stories, memories and experiences.

Laura and Evelyn, the owners of mother tongue books Photo by David Robbins JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 3

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ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Kim Barclay, Élie Cantin Nantel, Wendy Robbins, Jim and Carrol Robb, Terri-Lee Lefebvre, HOURS PHONE 613 247-4946 Becky Sasaki, Kevin and Stephanie Williams. ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Family Gref- Innes, Gabriela MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM Gref-Innes and Fiona Fagan, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, Susanne Ledbetter, Torin & Konstantine Assal. FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Hayley Atkinson, Leslie SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* Roston, Melissa Johnson, Lydia Oak, Sandra Garland and John Callan & SUNDAY CLOSED Diana Carr *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, Jesper Lindeberg, Jeff Pouw, Brendan McCoy, Bruce Grant, and the Woroniuk-Ryan family. ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Charles and Phillip WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? Kijek, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Christina Bridgeman, Anne Coyle, Patrick Hinton. ZONE D1: Mary Hill (Coordinator), Emily Keys, the Lascelles family, Gail Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 Stewart, Gabe Teramura, Oliver Waddington, Franklin-Flack family, the Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 Sprott family. - Sunnyside Branch 730-1082 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), The Adriaanse Family, Gaia Rob Campbell - [email protected] 730-8128 Chernushenko, Jacqueline Littlewood, The Rand family, Aidan and Willem Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 Ray, the Stewart family, and Mary Hill. Community Health Centre 233-5430 ZONE E1:Brian Tansey(Coordinator), Karen Wolfe/ Curt Labond, Norah Hutchinson, Steve Adamson, the Sanger/O’Neil family, John Sutherland CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 ZONE E2: Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder and Lorraine Stewart, the Hunter Graduate Students Association 520-6616 family, Brodkin-Haas family, Allan Paul, Christina Bradley, Caroline Calvert, Community Liaison 520-3660 Larry Ostler. Mediation Centre 520-5765 ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, the Stern Athletics 520-4480 family, Ellen Bailie, Dante and Bianca Ruiz, Peter Kemp, Kelly Haggart and Taiyan Roberts, Goutte family (Joshua, Leo and Alina), Walter and Robbie CITY HALL Engert. David Chernushenko, City Councillor ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Ryan Zurakowski, ([email protected]) 580-2487 Susan McMaster, Paige Raymond, Pierre Guevremont, Judy and Pierre Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 Chamberland, Valerie Dancause. Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 ZONE G: Bernie Zeisig(Coordinator), Claudia and Estelle Bourlon- Emergencies only 9-1-1 Albarracin, David Lum, Cindy MacLoghlin, Hannah and Emily Blackwell, Serious Crimes 230-6211 Katya and Mikka Zeisig. Ottawa Hydro 738-6400 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 -Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. Brewer Pool 247-4938 Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler. Brewer Arena 247-4917 Alta Vista Branch Library: Larry Ostler web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca Page 4 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Brief Notes From the Firehall

JULY/AUG 2012 at the Firehall CAMPS Art Gallery Van Gogh: Up Close spine and protect the internal organs. exercises are taken directly from Yoga A couple of late additions to our exhibit and explore 40 of his paintings This class explores ways to modify and Ballet. You will enjoy the benefits summer camp roster are listed below on display one afternoon. Art lessons Asana practice to build abdominal of training the core (abs, trunk, back) including a Apple Computer Camp are from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm and strength yet allow for softness of the by employing the rigors of the Pilates in conjuction with the afternoons spent in recreational belly. Instructor: Andrea Robertson method. Instructor: Lori Meyers Apple Store. Also to commerate a activities: swimming, cooking, games Saturday 9:15 am - 10:15 am July 7 - (bodyvida.wordpress.com) rare Canadian Exhibit of VanGogh (including an afternoon tour to the Aug 25 (8 weeks) $60 Thursday 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm June 28 - painting local artist Tami Galili Ellis National Art Gallery; open to half day August 30 (10 weeks) $75 offers a one week Discover Art Camp: participants as well). Half Day Option Iron / Core Yoga Van Gogh Up Close Available. Location: Southminster Andrea will combine elements of her Pilates - All Levels Church popular Core Yoga class with Iron This comprehensive mind/body Apple Camp at the Rideau Centre Full Day July 3 - 6 Tue - Fri 8:00 am - Yoga for an exciting new class. Iron workout uses your body weight as 8 - 12 years 4:00 pm $205 Yoga combines the benefits of yoga resistance to stretch and strengthen The Ottawa South Community Centre OR and weight training. You will perform your entire body. This program and Apple are excited to offer our Half Day July 3 - 6 Tue - Fri 9:00 am a variety of weight-training exercises combines the efforts of both the mind first joint Apple Computer Camp at - 12:00 pm $140 with low-weight resistance, executed and body to maximize your mental the Rideau Centre from *8:45am – in slow and controlled yoga poses. In and physical health. Modifications 11:15am. Nothing will beat Apple Youth Clay 8 - 12 years this manner you will help stimulate will be provided to accommodate Camp for a fun summer activity for Instructor Marie Hennessey will offer lean muscle growth.* Monday the newcomer and challenge the your kids. This summer, kids ages a themed hand building project to class small group format maximum regular participant. Instructors: Tue 8-12 will learn the ins and outs of challenge each student’s creativity and 12 participants. Instructor Andrea - Zina Richards, Thur. - Lori Meyers iMovie, Garage Band, iPhoto and expand their clay abilities. Pieces will Robertson. (Mon - No program July 2, (bodyvida.wordpress.com) other great Apple programs. Students be decorated with slips and glazes. August 6) Tuesday 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm July 10 - will create a movie, music, photo Cost includes materials and firing. *Monday 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm June 25 - August 21 (7 weeks) $53 projects and much more. On Friday August 27 - 31 Mon - Fri 9:30 am - Aug 27 (8 weeks) $60 or parents are invited to view their 11:30 am $95 Or Thursday 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm June 28 - child’s projects at the end of camp. Wednesday 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm June August 30 (10 weeks) $75 NO COMPUTER REQUIRED. We SUMMER PROGRAMS 27 - Aug 29 (10 weeks) $75 will use computers at the Apple Store. Not to late to register for our summer Gentle Hatha Yoga In the afternoon, participants will Yoga and Pilates classes. Check Flow Yoga This class is designed to relax and take part in field trips and a variety of oldottawasouth.ca for availability or Flow yoga has evolved from Hatha tone the muscles, increase flexibility recreation activities at the community call the centre 613-247-4946 Yoga and is quickly becoming the and balance, and revitalize the heart centre. *Camp participants will most popular style of yoga taught and mind. Time is spent learning leave for the Rideau Centre from Yoga For Athletes today. An active style of yoga, that physical alignment, proper use of Ottawa South CC at 8:00am and The foundations of yoga are links poses together in a fluid manner breath and the benefits of individual return to Ottawa South by 12:30pm used to bring awareness to the with the breath. Flow yoga modifies poses. The class will progress for afternoon activities. HALF DAY structural and muscular imbalances some complex or difficult poses for throughout the session by introducing Option available. caused by repetitive strain on the greater safety. It also provides lots new yoga postures each week. Gentle Full Day July 3 - 6 Tue - Fri 8:00 am - specific muscles and joints used in of options so that people at every Hatha Yoga is a great place to start 4:00 pm $160 running. Each week has a specific level of health will feel uniquely and for those who just want to take it OR body emphasis and leads to the successfully challenged. Flow yoga slower. It is an excellent introduction Half Day July 3 - 6 Tue - Fri 8:00 am development of an individualized can be practiced by everybody, and to Yoga and all its stress relief and - 12:30 pm $110 post-run routine. Yoga will help you brings a perfect balance of energy relaxation benefits. With Instructor increase range of motion, agility, and calm to the body and mind. With Diane Robertson. (No program July 2, Discover Art Camp: Van Gogh Up flexibility, lung capacity, endurance, Instructor: Zina Richards. August 6) Close 9 - 14 years and strength. Instructor Andrea Tuesday 7:05 pm - 8:20 pm July 10 to Monday 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm June 25 - Taking advantage of the first major Robertson. (No program July 2, August 21 (7 weeks) $58 August 27 (8 weeks) $60 Canadian Van Gogh Exhibition in August 6) You can register on-line, by phone over 25 years at the National Art Monday 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm June 25 - Yogalates 613-247-4946 or in-person at the Gallery. Instructor Tami Galili Ellis Aug 27 (8 weeks) $60 Experience the mesh of eastern and Ottawa South Community Centre 260 will expose young artists to the Dutch western fitness regimes - Yoga and Sunnyside Ave. post-Impressionist artist’s work and Core Yoga Pilates. You will move at a decent Once again check out the OSCA technique. Students will create their Develops core strength in a powerful tempo from pose to pose, from website www.oldottawasouth.ca, for own Vincent van Gogh inspired works flow class that emphasizes engaging exercise to exercise. In that the father all the community news and activities. of art using a variety of materials the core muscles. The body’s core of Pilates, Josef Pilates, was a student throughout the week. Tami will also is the central support system that is of Yoga and trainer of Ballet Dancers, lead the group through the National constantly working to stabilize the you will see that many of our poses/ OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT ... Cont’d from next page

May you have a long and enjoyable will be available at the OSCA office 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and it’s a great We do ask that you consider retirement Deirdre – you will always for most of the summer period and opportunity to offer up all those making a donation to OSCA of say be remembered and honoured at the the OSCA Executive members have a treasures that have been hiding in 10% of your sales to help us promote Firehall and in Old Ottawa South! mandate to meet and make decisions your closets, in the basement or the the event and cover the costs of on the Board`s behalf if necessary attic. People sell just about everything the special events we run in the Summer Holidays during the summer holidays. imaginable from clothes, to records, community throughout the year. You While summer programming kitchen appliances and utensils, can send a cheque payable to OSCA to continues at the Firehall, the OSCA Porch Sale furniture, books and movies, you the Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue, Board takes a break over the summer OSCA will be holding its name it. The Porch Sale is also a great Ottawa ON K1S 0R7, after the event. and does not meet in July and August; neighbourhood wide Porch Sale on opportunity to meet your neighbours our next meeting will be the third the first Saturday after Labour Day, as well as the hordes of people who Tuesday in September. Christy which this year is September 8. The come from far and wide to pick over Savage, our new Executive Director, event takes place rain or shine from our bargains. JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 5

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT New OSCA Editor, City Reduces Resources OSCA Executive, Farewell to Deirdre New OSCAR Editor we are all very proud. Brendan has a pose some major challenges for us. clicking on the “OSCA” tab at the top am pleased to be able to announce strong legacy on which to build and The City still supports us through of the main page. that the selection process for the we wish him well in his new role. a full-time program co-ordinator [See below for photo of OSCA Board I new OSCAR editor position has and helping to fund the provision of members] been completed and the selection City Reduces Resources at Firehall Customer Service Representative committee, chaired by Michaela OSCA was informed late in May at the front desk, but we are clearly Farewell to Deirdre Tokarski, has chosen Brendan McCoy by the City that the Centre Director concerned what the future holds for As many of you will know by now, as the new editor, succeeding Mary position at the Firehall will be us, both in coping with the current Deirdre McQuillan, our Executive Anne Thompson. Brendan, a long reduced from a fulltime to a half time reduction in resources and what Director for some twenty years, will time Old Ottawa South resident, has position effective in June. The Centre additional cuts may be in store for us be retiring at the end of June. It is served on the OSCA Board and as Director is responsible for the overall in forthcoming budget cycles. We will very rare for an organization to have co-chair of OSWATCH for a number management of the community keep you posted on how we intend to their senior staff person serve in a of years and is very familiar with centre`s operations and ensures that respond to these changes. leadership role for so long, in fact for community issues and interests. The the building is safe and secure and is a generation! Deirdre has seen OSCA position of editor is a contractual one able to cope with the programming OSCA Executive Officers and grow over the years and change as the for effectively a two year term which demands placed on it. The Director Committee Chairs Appointed community has. While Deirdre has is renewable with the agreement of has also played a key role in helping to In my last column I provided an been our key employee, she has been both parties. Brendan will be starting ensure that our programming operates update on the Board members who more than a staff member and over on the paper over the summer and effectively and, in an informal way, were elected at our AGM in May. As the years has put in countless hours taking over with the September helps us manage our programming at is traditional, once the Board meets of volunteer time as well, attending issue. A total of over 30 individuals the Firehall. The current incumbent, at its regular May meeting after the evening meetings, and organizing submitted applications for the position Cathie Buchanan, has been in the AGM it elects its executive members and managing a vast array of special in what emerged as a very rigorous position for close on twenty years and and appoints its Committee Chairs. and community events. She has also and demanding competitive process. will be familiar to many of you who For this year I will serve again as been a source of wisdom and advice From the applications the selection use the Firehall. Cathie has been a your President with Linda Hancock to Board members given her long committee interviewed seven of great supporter of community based as Vice-President, Steve Mennill as experience in delivering community the most promising candidates by programming at the Firehall and has Treasurer and Michaela Tokarski programming and events and indeed, telephone and three finalists in person. been of immeasurable assistance to us as Secretary. Program Committee in running a community organization. Our thanks go out to Michaela and the over the years in helping us deliver a Co-chairs are Emilie Taman and Ian We will miss her deeply and are members of the selection committee varied and responsive suite of programs Beck-MacNeil who will also serve as profoundly grateful to her for the for the many long hours they put in to to residents. I am sad to report to you executive committee members. Mike tremendous contribution she has made review the applications ad interview that we will also be losing Cathie`s Lascelles and Guy Souliere will co- to OSCA and the community over the finalists. wealth of experience and enthusiasm chair ECOS and Graham Deline will the past twenty years. At our June The Board would also like to as she has also decided to retire, co-chair OSWATCH. Gwen Gall will Board meeting we will be making thank Mary Anne for her many years effective the end of the first week in be our Web Committee chair once a presentation to Deirdre in honour of dedicated service as OSCAR June. A new City staff person will be again and Isla Jordan will serve as our of her service to OSCA and we will Editor during which the paper has assigned to take on the responsibility representative on the Federation of be hosting a reception in her honour grown significantly in terms of of managing both our centre and the Community Associations. We are still at Patty`s Pub on June 28 where both its content and its impact in Glebe Community Centre on Third searching for a Chair of the Special former colleagues and members can the community. We are all very Avenue. We are currently in the Events Committee and hope to find come and toast her on her retirement. grateful to her for her hard work and process of determining the impact of one soon. You can find the complete commitment to building a vibrant and these changes for our programming list of OSCA Board members on our Cont’d on previous page respected community paper of which operations and they will certainly website at www.oldottawasouth.ca by

OSCA Board members: Back Row (Left to Right): Steve Mennill (Treasurer), Muthanna Subbaiah, Mike Lascelles (Co-Chair, ECOS), Michaela Tokarski (Secretary), Ian Beck-MacNeil (Co-Chair, Program Committee) , Guy Souliere, Don Westwood; Front Row (Left to Right) Linda Hancock (Vice-President), Emilie Taman (Co-Chair, Program Committee), Michael Jenkin (President), Deirdre McQuillan (Executive Director), and Katie Black. Absent: Graham Deline (Co-Chair, OSWATCH), Sarah Fraser (Co-Chair, ECOS), Valerie McIntosh (Business Liaison), Gwen Gall (Chair, IT), Kendall McQueen, Greg Zador, Isla Jordan (Board Rep. on FCA). Photo by Judy Lascelles Page 6 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012

MAYOR’S MONTHLY COLUMN Order of Ottawa

By Mayor Jim Watson professional accomplishments to life By showing them that their dedication or any Client Service Centre. in the city, in any of the following and hard work is being noticed, they The nomination process will recently proposed to council the areas: are emboldened to continue to push begin following approval of the report creation of The Order of Ottawa. • Arts and culture harder and reach greater heights. The presented to Council and the deadline This award will be an opportunity • Business group who will be chosen each year for submitting nominations will be I • Community service will be role models to those inside and later this fall. The selection panel will to celebrate the extraordinary work and commitment of up to 15 • Education outside their chosen field and inspire consist of myself or a Deputy Mayor, distinguished Ottawa residents each • Public service others to work to make Ottawa a the City Clerk and Solicitor, the Chief year who help to make our city a • Labour, better place in which to live. of Police, the Chief Executive Officer better place in which to live. • Communications and media, Although there will be a selection of the Ottawa Public Library, the Chief Unlike the Mayor’s City Builder • Science panel deciding on who should receive of Protocol and the City Archivist. Award, which recognizes one • Sports the award, we will encourage residents Why not recognize someone in individual, group or organization • Entertainment and other fields to put forward nominations for those our community who has distinguished for their volunteerism at each City of endeavour that benefit Ottawa. people they think are worthy recipients themselves for the betterment of our Council meeting, The Order of Ottawa I believe that it is important that at ottawa.ca. Pamphlets outlining the City? will recognize those who have made we take the time to recognize those award will be available at local public significant contributions through their who do outstanding work in our City. library branches, community centres From My Table to Yours: Sharing Our Recipes in OOS! By Jane Allain (and we hope soon to be growing) list of renowned and soon to be renowned ow do you think Jamie Oliver chefs and bakers in Old Ottawa got started? Or Bonnie Stern? South. We (Jennifer Knight, Deirdre Or Susur Lee? Or Gay MacQuillan, Cheryl Davidson and H Jane Allain) are putting together Cook? Or Janet and Greta Podleski? Probably by cooking simple and an Old Ottawa South Cookbook delightful meals for their family and for a very good cause. We want to friends. And their friends and family raise money for the Out of the Cold kept coming back for more and more Suppers hosted each week at local delicious delights. From whisk kid churches in the neighbourhood. And to culinary genius may be but a few we need your delightful home recipes cookie batter strokes apart. to share and publish. We already got Now is your chance to become some local chefs to join in: Carmen just as famous and join a wonderful from Carmen’s Verandah and John

From left to right is Cheryl Davidson, Jane Allain and Jennifer Knight. The photo was taken by Steven Johnson (not in a boudoir costume). Absent were Deirdre MacQuillan and Peggi McNeil.

from John Taylor’s Genuine Food and of good food and drink to put the Wine Bar. If they are willing to go to ‘fun’ in fundraiser). Our publishing print on their tasty trade secrets, what house is ComputerWise, a non-profit is holding you back? We want to help organization supporting people with feed the hungry in our neighbourhood, physical and intellectual disabilities and we thought what could be more to master computer skills. We also inspired than raising money while need local artists to help us with the sharing food and wine ideas? artwork and photo ops. (Did we We are calling on each and mention again that this is a fundraiser? every one of you to put your best We will gladly put your name in bold dish forward. Moms, Dads, Sisters, and bright font but we can’t pay you: Brothers, Cats and Dogs. Those of you we hope to make money, not shell out who are still growing up, and those of money, to feed the hungry). us who are just growing sideways. Start your cuisinards, and get set We are hoping to have an eclectic to get into our cookbook. Please send mix and match to tempt everyone’s your ideas, your dishes, your name appetite: family dinners for you and and contact information to Christy yours, special evenings without the Savage, our new OSCA Executive kids, gluten free but not taste free, Director, at [email protected] sweet nothings that don’t put you into by September 15, 2012. Also let us a diabetic coma, “vonderful” vegan, know if your talents are elsewhere, quick and easy, or long and slow. and you are willing to pitch in. We We are hoping to go to print by need as much help as we can get. November so the Old Ottawa South And you know we are all going to hit Cookbook can be a little gift you give you up in the dog park, at the grocery to your friends, and family over the store, on the soccer pitch, at the coffee Christmas and Hanukkah holidays shops, the local pubs, in the Mayfair (Did we mention already that this line up. We are on a mission – and we is a fundraiser for a good cause? all know where you live! And nothing like sharing your love JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 7

CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT

Public Consultation: There’s A Right Way And A Wrong Way

ne of the comments an elected to the OSCA board. Feedback was contribute garden supplies or your do you love and what could you live representative hears most often welcome, but the details were scant time, please email colettestoeber@ without? I’ll host a budget consultation Owith regard to any project is, until very late in the process, so gmail.com.) for Capital Ward in September, but “We weren’t consulted.” Sadly, that’s residents could comment on little So how can we ensure effective I’m glad to receive input any time, so sometimes true. But often citizens were beyond the general location. While public consultation? please email or call. in fact given opportunities to provide the new site was popular with most • Provide lots of notification. Let feedback in the form of criticism, people, it has generated issues related people know about a proposed project/ Cycling on sidewalks: It’s always support or suggested improvements. to traffic, parking and noise that we’ve change as early as possible, through illegal I bring this up for two reasons: been working to address. Here is a as many channels of communication In my April column about safer First, Capital Ward lives with one case where better advance consultation as possible (electronic, print, cycling on our bridges, I stated: “If mega example of poor consultation: would have saved everyone — announcements at events, posters). you are not comfortable on the road, the redevelopment. residents, City staff, OFM managers • Provide multiple ways to give you should dismount and walk.” This Second, some OOS residents said the and me — some grief and extra work. feedback, including phone, mail was in the context of people saying City didn’t consult them on temporarily As for the community garden, I and meetings. Not everyone uses they should be allowed to cycle on moving the Ottawa Farmers’ Market cannot imagine how the consultation computers, so don’t rely solely on the sidewalk if they feel unsafe on the (OFM) to Brewer Park or on permitting could have been better. There was an online forms or email. road. A reader took me to task, arguing a community garden there. article in the OSCAR proposing the • Provide relevant background that my job was to ensure the roads are Lansdowne Park was presented to general idea and calling for location information in layperson’s terms, so safe, rather than discouraging cycling. citizens as more or less a fait accompli. suggestions; a presentation to OSCA; more people understand and engage in My point was that riding on the Sure, there were open houses and public meetings; two site changes the process. sidewalk is not only illegal but unsafe forms to fill in with comments, but the following neighbourhood feedback; a • Give greater weight to feedback because it adds unpredictability for broad strokes were already decided. public meeting on the Brewer Park site from the residents most affected. pedestrians and drivers. Nobody should It was clear to anyone who attended with no negative feedback; a (very) late People living close to a project site ride on the sidewalk, although we tend the tightly managed open houses that shift of location to address last-minute may have better insight into potential to cut little children some slack. minor tweaks were the best they could concerns; and an ongoing willingness opportunities or pitfalls, and are To demand respect as legitimate hope for. The views of nearby residents to listen and adjust where possible. motivated to offer creative solutions. road users, we must follow the rules. didn’t appear to be welcomed, and Now that’s community engagement! • Most importantly, listen to And yes, I will continue working to the project’s greatest weaknesses — As a result, the City has approved what the public has to say and ensure make the roads safer, and the behaviour traffic and parking — could not be the Brewer Park Community Garden, there is sufficient residual flexibility of all road users more predictable. meaningfully addressed within the to be located between Brewer Pool in the planning stages to actually already established parameters. The and Westboro Academy. It will have implement the best ideas brought forth Councillor David “consultation” process seems to have member plots, donation plots and a in consultation. been a waste of time and money. children’s garden, providing a place Chernushenko The other two cases are examples for residents to grow healthy food for Budget consultation 613-580-2487 | David. of mediocre and excellent consultation, a small membership fee, for volunteers Speaking of consultation, what [email protected] respectively. In the case of the Farmers’ to grow produce for food banks and do you think needs more investment Market move, there was considerable meal programs, and for children to in Ottawa? Where do you think the www.capitalward.ca advance notice and a presentation learn about gardening. (If you can City spends money needlessly? What

9 Rosedale ... Cont’d from page 1 to where an error had been made. neighborhood... the OMB has spoken. or you will lose ground. Indeed, shoulder. Further, with this property Assuming our appeal request will We have learned from our with this OMB decision, the whole and this decision as precedent, such be denied, the remaining options experience. One critical take-home neighbourhood has lost ground, “optimization” of any other lot in Old are to appeal to the court system or message being that the Committee not just the 7 neighbours adjacent Ottawa South can hardly be denied. to launch a judicial review, both of of Adjustment is the best place for to the property who launched the For a preview of the semi-detatched which are expensive, and neither of reasonale arguments of concerned appeal. The unsafe proximity of the units to be built in place of 9 Rosedale, which has much chance of success. neighbours to be heard. Without garages to the street is a detriment see www.teskey.com. The OMB has spoken: if a developer digressing into any perceived bias the whole neighbourhood will wishes to fill a lot to its permissable of the OMB toward development, it borders on all sides (and then some), was an unfortunate revelation to us so be it. that although the OMB will permit The proposed semi-detatched neighbours to speak, arguments that OSCA Annual Community Wide units will be built 5 inches from a do not emanate from the mouth of multi-family shared laneway to the an expert city planner will not be PORCH $ALE south, and about 2 m from NCC accepted as credible evidence. A property to the north, all of which is qualified planner, whose credentials Saturday, September 8, 2012 within the by-laws. The front yards must be accepted by the OMB as 9 am to 3 pm Rain or Shine (and garages) will be about 5 feet “expert”, must appear in person at the from the sidewalk, and the full lenth hearing. Turn your attic or garage clutter into $$$ of both back yards will be less than Such a planner may command 1000s Will Be Roaming Through a meter from the neighbour’s existing a per diem in the thousands of Old Ottawa South in search of treasures and more……. garden (which will no doubt be torn up dollars. On the slim chance that during excavation and construction). our appeal succeeds and we are A voluntary 10% of your sales to OSCA Such shallow back yards provide permitted a do-over of the OMB helps with advertising and community inadequate space to store bikes or hearing, we’ll have to hire such an initiatives such as Program Subsidies, strollers, much less garbage, compost expert to express our concerns for us. Friday Night Youth Program and Winter Carnival. and recycling bins. The second floor Though the written decision of the balcony will project into the diminished OMB commended us for an organized Please drop your 10% donations off at the Firehall starting front yard, vertically aligned about presentation, the result sent a punative Monday, September 10. 2 feet from the sidewalk. This has message to the neighbours: don’t 613-247-4946 been deemed “good design” for our meddle in matters of development, Page 8 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Thanks For The Memories By Deirdre McQuillan and with great dedication. They are a very special group of people and fter 22 years as Executive many of them have gone on to do Director at the Firehall, it is amazing things with their lives. difficult to say goodbye. I do Thanks to all the hundreds of A OSCA volunteers – board members, so with a great sense of fulfillment, fond memories and sense of special event volunteers --particularly accomplishment. I took on the job Brenda Lee who has been a stalwart as a temporary measure while my in special events for many years -- children were young – and never soccer and Windsor highboard rink looked back as I became caught up in volunteers, just to mention a few. You the dynamic of community life in Old are what makes your community the Ottawa South. special place it is. It’s been a wonderful job – I have Special thanks to Michael Jenkin met many interesting people, done who as President of OSCA has been many wonderful things– and it’s my boss for the last 10 years. He has always been fun and challenging. been a very supportive boss and was There are so many people who instrumental in getting the community made the last 22 years memorable. the ‘new’ Firehall of which we are all Firstly, thanks to staff at the Firehall, very proud. Thanks also to my other particularly Centre Director Cathie bosses, Susan Leah, Greg Wright, Buchanan , Program Coordinator Michael Lynch, Doug Stickley and Dinos Dafniotis, and CSR Jill Davis John Graham who all served as OSCA all of whom have been at the Firehall presidents during my tenure. almost as long as I have – in fact, Being responsible for fundraising Jill and I started the same day. We activities was always made easier by were a wonderful team who just made the Firehall fundraising committee – things happen for 20 years in that thanks to you all for years of Lobster ‘old’ Firehall with that tiny office – it Suppers, Dinners, Auctions etc. – was a miracle we didn’t kill each other without that money raised we would – However, we were very glad to get not have our new Firehall. the new building with more than one Thanks to my family for putting office. up with me working evenings and Also kudos to all the great young weekends and to my children for Deirdre in an apron, shlowing how she was always ready and willing to help people who worked at the Firehall ‘volunteering’ for OSCA when they Executive Director. Old Ottawa South. over the years. If you need to renew were young. Finally, volunteer for OSCA Thank you for 22 memorable your faith in the younger generation I am leaving OSCA in very good when you are able – you will feel good years which I will always remember – just watch the young staff at the hands and would like to welcome and it has a huge positive impact on as I start a new chapter of adventures Firehall do their job enthusiastically Christy Savage, the new OSCA everyone’s lives in the village that is in my life.

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Ottawa Fishing Festival Update

he 2012 Ottawa Fishing This event promises to be the biggest Festival will be held on fishing event in Ottawa! TJuly 14 and 15, from 10am- Some of the highlights of the festival 6pm, at Brewer Park during the include: Ontario license-free family fishing - Renowned local fishermen such week. The festival is our city’s as “Big” Jim McLaughlin, Captain effort to encourage more residents Pat of “Just fishing”, and to experience the excitement and Rob Atkinson from Fish-hawk. the benefits of recreational fishing. net. Ottawa Fishing Festival has partnered Apart from the festival fishing with Angels of Hope, a charity theme, we have also added non- foundation that is dedicated to raising related fishing activities such as: funds for brain cancer research. - Various cultural dance This event is supported by CHEO performances and food exhibits Foundation. 10% of all admission - Martial Arts demonstrations fees, plus all pledges and donations, - Dan Burgess “Elvis impersonator” will go towards charity. We are - Elliott Smith Magician now featured on the Ottawa Tourism - Sea food cooking courses website “These types of festivals - Carnival attractions such as: happening in Canada’s capital this face painting, inflatables and games summer are ideal for families that Please visit www. want to spend time together on holiday OttawaFishingFestival.ca for more learning new things and spending details time outdoors in this vibrant locale” JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 9 Goodbye to Cathie Buchanan – the Firehall’s Centre Director athie Buchanan is retiring name and always had treats for after many years with them. Cthe City of Ottawa – 20 Cathie was a tower of strength of those years spent as Centre throughout the renovation of the Director at the Ottawa South new Firehall. She was there to Community Centre. plan, move out to Southminster, Cathie has been the steady move back to the Firehall and hand on the tiller at the Firehall then the big job – making sure all – we could always rely on her the minor deficiencies in the new to remind us of the rules and building were taken care of – I regulations we should all be think she still has a list! following – thank you for that Old Ottawa South will miss Cathie – you saved our skins on you Cathie and thank you for 20 more than a few occasions. years of service to the community. I think Cathie knew We wish you the best for your everyone’s name in Old Ottawa retirement. South – particularly every kid’s name and would remind those Deirdre and staff at the kids to mind their p’s and q’s when needed. It goes without Firehall saying that she knew every dog’s

have worked for Cathie have made my years at The Buchanan for the past 20 Firehall an enjoyable and positive Iyears. Through the years experience. Barney (l) and Kipper (r) get one last snack from Cathie she’s seen me go from being a I will miss the conversations, Mom to 3 school-aged children, the jokes, the teasing, and her to becoming a widow, and most listening ear. However, I wish Farewell Cathie recently, the grandmother of 6!! her well in her retirement years, t 11:30am on Friday, June 8, scrape, this is what kept her interest In all of those years Cathie has which I know will be full of 2012 Cathie Buchanan left going year to year. remained the same: positive, kayaking, long walks with her the Ottawa South Community Cathie also had a special bond unflappable (unless there was a dog, Piper, and pursuing her love A job related to the building that of photography. Thanks, Cathie, Centre, The Firehall, for the last time with dogs. Along with Barney, as its Centre Director. A few minutes many of the centre’s canine visitors should have been done yesterday!), for all the years, and I know “the later sensing something was missing including Duncan and Kipper (to humble, sympathetic, a great best is yet to come”! at the centre our next door neighbour name a few) will miss interacting problem solver, private yet easy Pat’s dog, Barney, came running over with Cathie who made them work for to talk to, straightforward yet Jill Davis to the centre looking for Cathie. those sought after snacks. diplomatic...all these qualities Cathie Buchanan worked for the Cathie’s focus for the last five City of Ottawa for over 30 years in years was overseeing the renovation the Recreation Dept. with stints that of the Firehall and making sure all the included the Canterbury and Glebe post construction issues were dealt Community Centres. But the majority with. of her years were spent working at The staff at the Firehall will miss the Firehall. What Cathie enjoyed her level headed advice but we all most was the day to day contact with wish Cathie all the best in her well people. Whether helping a mom or deserved retirement. caregiver dress a child for the cold weather, comforting a crying baby or Dinos Dafniotis putting a band aid on a child with a

To book an OSCAR ad call Gayle at 730-1058 or email: [email protected] Rhubarb Chutney Ingredients Preparation: 2-1/2 cups (625 mL) chopped fresh rhubarb (or 1 bag/300 g In large saucepan, bring frozen sliced rhubarb, thawed and rhubarb, onion, garlic, currants, drained) sugar, ginger, vinegar, coriander, 1 onion, diced mustard seeds, hot pepper flakes, 3 cloves garlic, minced turmeric, cinnamon stick and 1/3 1/4 cup (60 mL) dried currants cup (75 mL) water to boil. 1/4 cup (60 mL) granulated sugar Reduce heat and simmer until 1 tbsp (15 mL) minced gingerroot rhubarb has disintegrated and 1 tbsp (15 mL) malt or cider onion is soft, about 20 minutes. vinegar Let cool. (Make-ahead: Refriger- 2 tsp (10 mL) coriander seeds, ate in airtight container for up to 2 lightly crushed weeks.) 1 tsp (5 mL) mustard seeds Makes about 2 cups (500 mL). 1/2 tsp (2 mL) hot pepper flakes 1/2 tsp (2 mL) ground turmeric Submitted by M. A. Thompson 1 cinnamon stick Page 10 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012

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. Response to May 2012 letter re CPR ast month ( May 2012) a letter and cost.. This is what the person who rushed away, with the implication it free training in our classes to anyone on this page from Anneke R. spoke to the letter writer did. He came was to avoid her questions, is untrue. who had the unpleasant experience Lmade comments about the with details, answered her questions The information we can provide today of classes they paid for but were not Community CPR Project that were and before he left he gave her our web was available at the time he spoke to held. We do this because we can and it inaccurate and therefore deserve site so she could contact us; but she her. Running from people when you helps everyone. correction. did not. Had she done so she would will surely be talking to their friends Finally, there is a link on our site The Project holds classes every have learned facts that surely would and neighbours in the coming days is to the Heart & Stroke Foundation. It month at locations convenient for have made her letter unnecessary. We pointless and our registration officers is one of eight links we’ve posted that those in Ottawa South and the Glebe. would have given her details about do not do that. bring people to sites and articles about Our courses are taught by our instructors so that when calling The writer visited our web site natural health. They are there just paramedics who have instructor the Heart & Stroke Foundation she but does not mention that under the because we think people will enjoy certification issued by the Heart & could have verified they are properly Scheduling tab there are over 100 dates them. Stroke Foundation. We do not claim certified and in good standing. posted for current and past classes. We’re always willing to answer to be the Heart & Stroke Foundation, Had she contacted us requesting We leave a history of class dates on questions about our project; all it to speak for it or be its representative proof that our classes actually take the site so people can see classes takes is a phone call. and the written material people receive place we would have put her in touch have been offered regularly and that when purchasing classes clearly states with managers at the churches and all classes we sell are available every Benoit Tremblay, Volunteer this. community centres that host them. month. Coordinator, Community CPR Approximately once a year we She could have spoken to people Another area of our web site deals Project, www.communitycpr. conduct a registration drive during who can verify that classes are given directly with the final point of her letter net , 104-2706 , which we call families in the area to ask regularly and that our instructors are – that in the past organisations have Ottawa, ON., K1V 7T4, 613- if they would like information about present for every class. In short, her sold CPR classes in a manner similar 700-5164. our classes. Then, people helping as concerns would have been addressed. to ours but closed their doors before registration officers come to them with Her assertion that the person she providing all the training people paid details about class locations, times refers to as ‘Volunteer Dave’ suddenly for .Under the tab CPR Scams we offer Clear Cutting Trees At Sylvia Holden Park Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone ayor Watson was crystal larger picture. Specifically, the many to the side in favour of a single it’s not a park redevelopment at all. clear during his campaign beautiful ‘artist’s renderings’ of what proponent, all of those interested It’s not Millennium Park come to Mand had the courage to tell the renovated park might look like. If in competing left town – except for Ottawa or Granville Island. It will be people literally on the steps of Sylvia you look at these drawings you see one. John Martin insisted on bringing developed exactly the same way as Holden Park at the Lord Lansdowne, pedestrians strolling down a grand forward an alternative. It included any commercial development would at Abbotsford and on Holmwood boulevard. The reality is the Bank everything that the city wanted, cost be developed anywhere, except that Avenue itself that he supported the Street entrance way will be the same less and kept all the land public. The the city will fork over several hundred privatization of Sylvia Holden and width as the service bay at the back proposal was modelled on the New million for an outdoor stadium – then the larger park itself. This position is of the Rideau Centre. The promoters York’s Central Park management. It give it to the promoters. consistent with his first term as Mayor ‘artist renderings’ also include the always made a lot of sense to me, but No doubt, the Conservancy of the old city of Ottawa (1997-2000) neighbourhood park adjacent to the Conservancy was never allowed to proposal really irritates the hell out of when he attempted to condoize the park Lansdowne, the NCC green space compete. The reasons that were given the plutocrats running the various sole with Canaderel Corporaton. Further, along the canal and never show the were always blatantly ridiculous. My source projects at Lansdowne (how as the Mayor has often stated he won service roads and parking criss favourite was ‘there wasn’t time’ to many are there now?) because as every poll in the city including the crossing what little open space is left consider the Conservancy. long as it exists, it is a great big flag to ones directly adjacent to Lansdowne. as anything more than thin lines. If The reality? The reality was the anyone who notices it that the whole As democratic endorsements go, they they did, the public would see the promoters have been through half deal at Lansdowne hasn’t been fair to don’t get much stronger. reality, a condo/retail development a dozen different iterations of what anyone, not the history of the city, the So why fret? Well, there’s with some landscaping– not a public might eventually go there. The future of the city or the people who the question of fairness . The park. reality is it has constantly changed live here now. redevelopment of old Lansdowne The way the Lansdowne because nothing is going to go into Park has never been fair. Pick your Conservancy has been treated by the the park that the developers can’t get Clive Doucet is a writer, poison. You could pick the recent city is another example of the lack of financing from the banks for and that visiting scholar at the College cutting trees of trees at Sylvia Holden fairness. When the competition for means leases signed on commercial of Humanities, Carleton U and without a permit, but I prefer the the Park’s renovation was shunted and condo properties. The reality is former city councillor. In response to Ouroboros Theatre I may not agree with what you Elizabeth Walker, have to say, but I will defend to Belmont Avenue, Presents: the death, your right to say it. letter to the editor ....Voltaire An Ideal Husband OSCAR May 2012 uroboros Theatre is a local, up-and- n response to Elizabeth Walker, Belmont coming theatre company founded by and Avenue, letter to the editor OSCAR May consisting of Ottawa youth. For our debut I2012 performanceO we will be staging a slightly different I completely agree with your comments on rude interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s classic play, An and law-breaking car drivers ... but you forgot Ideal Husband. The production will take place Send your comments to to mention all the rude and law-breaking bike in Fellowship Hall of the Southminister United [email protected] drivers as well! If we all must follow the rules Church from August 22nd to 25th. We urge you of the road, then that includes bikers as well! to come into the Wilde with us and help support They don’t own the road either! community theatre. With great respect ... your neighbour. JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 11 War is Heck! Say Company of Fools enry the Fifth is a Boy meets what are we going to do with all of Girl story with a slight twist. these tennis balls? HPart “Saving Private Ryan” A Company of Fools is Ottawa’s and part “Before Sunrise” this tale original professional summer of patriotism and romance finds Shakespeare troupe. As a family the boy, struggling under the heavy oriented community organization that mantle of recent ascension to the provides a valuable arts and culture throne. Excited to try his leadership experience, the Fools’ productions skills he sets out to invade the girl’s combine physical theatre techniques country, based on a dubious claim to such as clown, mask, and puppetry the throne. He lays siege to a key with classical text. Their aim? To logistical port, marches inland and make Shakespeare accessible and fun against the odds manages to defeat for audiences of all ages. a much larger force by deploying This summer’s Torchlight new military strategies…and then he Shakespeare production of Henry V meets girl. tours parks across the region from Presented by the graduating July 2 - August 18, and will be in class of the Wm. Golding Academy, Windsor Park in the heart of Old Shakespeare’s King Henry the Fifth Ottawa South July 20th and 21st. is a reflection on what it means to be Directed by Geoff McBride and a monarch. This is an overreaching starring Margo MacDonald as Henry, and unflinching production that the production promises blood and tackles all the tough questions: Why battle, bravery and romance, all with do we fight wars? What qualities the Fool-ish twists audiences have make a good leader? Can this cockpit grown to know and love. hold the vasty fields of France? And House of PainT ouse of PainT, the largest and - Photography and visual art Dunbar Bridge () at professionalism of emerging artists, longest-running urban arts exhibits Brewer Park in Ottawa South. House making the art forms accessible to the Hfestival in Canada’s National - Master classes for emerging of PainT is a fully accessible, large broader community, and throwing a Capital, will hold its ninth annual professional artists capacity sheltered outdoor space set great jam to celebrate the positive, edition Thursday, September 13 through - Guerrilla style pop-up dance alongside the and Carleton creative and community based culture Sunday, September 16, 2012 at venues performances University. that is Hip Hop. throughout Ottawa’s urban core. - Film screenings, presentations, The Main EvenT is a free, day-long, In keeping with HoP’s vision of a This multidisciplinary Hip Hop discussions and artist networking events all ages and family-friendly celebration sustainable cultural economy in Ottawa and urban culture event showcases - Professional development presented as an old school block party- for Urban Artists to live and work, the world-class artistic talents from Ottawa, workshops for new arts professionals style jam that showcases Hip Hop’s 4 2012 festival’s artistic program will Canada and abroad. The 2012 House of - HoP LauncH party and festival core artistic disciplines: DJs, MCs, showcase emerging and professional PainT (HoP) will deliver community- line-up announced at Ritual Nightclub, Graffiti Artists and a Bgirl / Bboy dance artists from the National Capital Region focused programming with four days of Friday, July 27 battle (breakdancing). - showcased right alongside nationally events including: THE MaiN EvenT: PROGRAMMING: and internationally recognized - Ottawa’s sickest jam: the House House of PainT’s signature The House of PainT aims to headliners. Read more about House of of PainT 4-disciplines of Hip Hop Main 4-disciplines of Hip Hop Main EvenT strengthen and promote urban culture PainT’s history, mandate and program EvenT will be held rain or shine on Saturday, in Ottawa by presenting world at www.houseofpaint.ca. - Ticketed concerts and nightclub September 15 at the site of Canada’s class talents, elevating the craft and parties largest legal graffiti wall - under the As You Like It Windsor Park, July 11 And 25 utdoor summer theatre relevant today, as ever. Traditionally, in Ottawa is a highly- banished from her uncle’s court, Oanticipated annual delight, Rosalind seeks safety, and her love, and this year’s offerings prove as in the Forest of Arden, however rich as ever. This summer, Ottawa’s Somers’ exciting and inventive new newest professional touring staging transports the classic tale to theatre company, Bear & Co., 1950’s Greenwich Village. proudly presents one of William “Our setting the play in Shakespeare’s most enduring pastoral 1950’s Greenwich Village offers a comedies, As You Like It, directed by contemporary audience a way to Will Somers, with musical direction understand the arguments of class by Rachel Eugster. warfare, right to power, and abuse The As You Like It tour comes of power that Shakespeare makes to Old Ottawa South with 2 stops at throughout the play.”, says Somers. Windsor Park on Wednesday, July 11 “The workers’ movement battles and Wednesday, July 25. Shows start McCarthyism, folksters mingle with at 7pm. Patrons are advised to bring a beatniks, and featuring cool classic blanket or lawn chairs, refreshments folk music, As You Like It offers and bug spray. A hat will be passed audiences a great way to beat the after each show, for a suggested heat.” contribution of $10 per person. As As You Like It features a rich and You Like It tours parks throughout dynamic cast of characters brought to Ottawa and beyond July 3 through life by a diverse and talented cast of August 5. local actors. As You Like It is a timeless More information about Bear & tale which blends romance and Co., including the complete summer comedy, and is told passionately with tour schedule of As You Like It can eloquence and sincerity. In addition, be found by visiting their website, woven throughout As You Like It, www.bearandcompany.ca. are issues and themes which are as Page 12 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 First Ottawa Game Conference Unexpected Success! he first ever Ottawa Game Conference was a drawing from the pool of tech talent in Ottawa to runaway success, gathering an unexpectedly encourage and inspire students looking towards Tlarge crowd to its debut at the Conference science, technology, engineering and mathematics Center downtown. Tickets sold out in days, careers. prompting organizers to expand the conference even Putting the event together was a collaboration before it started. Over four hundred people from the between the growing community of game studios, local game development community gathered for a educational partners, and local financiers. “John marathon of panels and guest lectures. “We knew Criswick (of Magmic) deserves the lion’s share of there was a growing digital media community in the credit.” explains Simpson, “It was John who Ottawa, but we didn’t know exactly how many folks really saw the possibility and committed folks to we could get interested in a show,” Scott Simpson, organizing. Invest Ottawa really came through for co-founder of the conference and CEO of local game us in knowing how to put on an event and special company Playbrains said. “We were pretty sure we The Ottawa Game Conference drew over thanks have to go to the OMDC and early adoptor would get a couple of hundred out, and thought 300 400 attendees to the first conference of its sponsors RBC, KPMG, Labarge Weinstein, Carleton, would be great. We ended up with over 400 attendees, kind in the region - Photo by Jason Cobill EDC, Wacom, RIM and Adobe, who all kicked in so we were really happy with that. We actually sold Evangelist at RIM. sponsorship on an event that had never happened out, we were at capacity at the rooms we booked at On top of the prizes, the students came away before. We couldn’t have afforded to put on a show the Conference Centre.” with a bolstered sense of confidence. Krista without all of those folks.” Ottawa-based game designer and blogger Louis- McCormick from All Saints CHS described the The organizing committee already have their Nicolas Dozois explained how the conference benefits of attending the event. “When we first got to sights set high for next year’s conference. “We think changed his perception of the local video game the AppJam, my friend Melanie Lapointe and I had the biggest change based on this year’s numbers is industry. “I wanted to see what the city had to offer absolutely zero interest in careers that had anything to that we’re moving to a two-day show in order to and what sort of scene revolved around video game do with gaming. After talking to some of the people get more content in. The success we had this year creation in the capital. Working in a studio, I’m very there though, our opinions had completely changed. easily warranted a larger scope for next year and that aware of what we are working on, but rarely get a We had industry professionals telling us a bit more with two days we can attract even more international sense of the bigger picture of what’s going on in the what the real workplace was like compared to our speakers to come to the city to present,” said Simpson. city. Seeing most of the community gathered in one class. I think it’s safe to say that we’re both a lot more Dozois is already planning to attend next year’s space, at the conference, did bring home the fact that, interested in pursuing something like this as a career gathering. “I think this kind of event can go a long though small, there is a community and many people now. I think winning definitely helped increase our way toward legitimizing the local industry in the want to see it grow.” interest because it gave us a lot of confidence. It was minds of people, helping to attract and retain crucial A number of notable speakers were lured to the a huge motivator to try making another game.” talent. My personal wish is for the conference conference to provide their perspectives on building The student’s work made a huge impression on to put more focus on the city’s budding but lively a thriving game community in Ottawa, including the artists and developers in attendance. Tony Hooper independent community.” Jason Della Rocca from Perimiter Partners. “All it of Macadamian later tweeted “Had a great time takes is one smash hit,” he told the community. “I see meeting my future bosses at AppJam today. Great Jason Cobill is a graphic designer and video no reason why we can’t see [a blockbuster game like] young talent in this city.” The TechU.me program game developer in the Ottawa tech industry. Angry Birds come out of Ottawa. We need to foster is continuing to expand its mentorship program, innovation and we will see that level of success.” Simpson celebrated the speaker lineup. “Jason Della Roca did our keynote for a very good reason, he knows what’s going on in the global community. We also targeted Gabe Zichermann (author of the influential book ‘Game Based Marketing’) because games have evolved, and ‘gamification’, making everyday things fun so people are engaged, touches everyone. Ottawa’s notable knowledge-based industry can do very well in adapting these principles to their products, even outside of games.” Seeing an opportunity to show off the tremendous talents of local grade 11 and 12 students, Ottawa Network for Education’s TechU.me program partnered with thre conference to host their AppJam at the event. 15 student finalists were brought to the juried competition to show off their incredible game and mobile development projects. Nine students received $1000 scholarships sponsored by AppJam event partners, while seven students will be going on to summer jobs at local game companies. None of the students left empty-handed, each receiving a RIM PlayBook tablet from Patrick Mollins, Developer Game developers invade the downtown core -- Photo by OttawaGameConference.com JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 13

BOOK REVIEW Beautiful Gardens In The Orchard, The Swallows their subtle tone and the beautiful a modern young woman when she by Peter Hobbs depiction of place and vista. Very returns with her young son to her Publisher: House of Anansi quickly we sense that during the childhood place to stay with her Press (Mar 14 2012) 160 pp. intervening years, between childhood grandmother. And slowly, very slowly ISBN: 978-1770892101 and now - fifteen long years - much she discovers the secrets of the place has happened to the young man, and learns to see and listen to its tunes. The Ten Thousand Things events and encounters that demand all Dermoût combines her talents of by Maria Dermoût his energy to absorb and process so intricate story teller with the eye of a Translator: Hans Koning that he can slowly heal. He is weak, painter. Publisher: NYRB Classics (July bruised in body and soul, and would Her descriptions of places and 31, 2002) 296 pp. have died if he had not been found people are delicate and imaginative. ISBN: 978-1590170137 by the gentle and generous Abbas... At the same time, she weaves into During his confinement in a prison the fabric of her overall portrayal of Reviewed by of sorts he “would crane my neck Felicia and the other people’s Garden Friedrike Knabe upwards, blinking into the light, stories from nearby places. We meet looking for the swallows.” They a Scots professor accompanied by an symbolize for him the freedom he attractive proud Javanese assistant; eter Hobbs was a featured had lost but his yearning for it had not a commissioner with a mysterious author at the Ottawa diminished. “And when I raised my domestic arrangement; Felicia’s son Writersfestival this April 2012 P head and saw them flying free, there and his adventures, and others. and also a guest on several recent CBC was a feeling in my heart of something Their stories are connected in radio programs. He spent some time I had not known for a long time. It was some way, even if, initially, we may in Montreal and has since returned to joy, and it was the most painful thing I not quite see how these fit into the England. His novel is inspired by his have ever felt, because it reminded me broader canvass... but suffice to say time in northern Pakistan. Garden” likes to wander along its of everything we no longer owned.” that they do in the end. The novel’s Maria Dermoût’s novel was paths, or, resting somewhere in the There is another constant thought that structure is similarly subtle and first published in 1955 in Dutch and shade, lets her mind go back in time, keeps him company and the will to initially not totally easy to follow. was translated into English in 1958. remembering those who lived here survive the tortures he is subjected I actually read the first pages twice During her lifetime (she died in 1962), before her and those who passed on. to: the vivid image of his beloved, - once for their imaginary beauty she did not experience the respect and She feels, touches or imagines the Saba, the girl he felt so innocently and once for comprehension of the admiration for this novel and her other many thousand things that have left in love with at the tender age of 14... narrative flow. Once I realized that I work that she achieved later. Hans their mark on this land over many In fact, the novel is an ode to Love, was entering an unknown landscape, Koning’s sensitive translation and generations. a journal addressed to the beloved I also discovered that the understated excellent introduction to this novel In her company we are drawn into in which he recounts not only his narrative structure and impressionistic make the new NYRB edition a delight a world that is real and imagined, that suffering during the years away and impressions eventually condensed to to read. can reveal itself in intricate detail or in his return, but also his memories defined images of a rich portrait of In the Orchard, the Swallows impressionistic apparition. We follow of a happy youth and how Saba’s lives lived in a real, yet magical place. opens with a young man returning her exploring the woods at one end of image kept him focused on life and the garden, or sit with her on the deck now keeps him company as he is on looking out into the bay, watching the the slow road to recovery...Memory gentle surf and the trade boats glide or dream? “Perhaps one day I will by... Does this sound enthralling and come to choose that it was true, so somewhat unreal? Indeed it is both. that it will become a memory, and I Yet, the place is real, with real people will forget that it was just dream.” living on an island (Ambon) in the Hobb’s brief novel is written with Moluccas in a more or less specific gentleness and intensity, haunting historical time. Dutch writer Maria and brutally direct at times, relaxing Dermoût has created an extraordinary at others. It will remain one of the novel in which she paints landscape, most beautiful books I have read in atmosphere and characters so a while. While references are made beautifully that you want to learn to northern Pakistan, the story could more about her, the people and the easily be imagined in other countries island. in the region and beyond. Hobbs’s Drawing on her life experiences, personal story has given insights while living and traveling for many into the human body and psyche years in the then Dutch East Indies, and their ability to survive and heal she is recognized as a prominent that are captivatingly transposed into representative of Dutch literature, his novel. I rarely am taken by book yet is little known elsewhere. covers, but this one attracted me from Felicia, the heroine of the story, takes the first glance at it. to the orchard of his childhood, As over the role as the lady of the Small he reconnects with the colours, the Garden from her grandmother who In The Thousand Things, the scents, the taste of the fruit, and the in turn learned many of the island’s “Small Garden” at the Inner Bay, is view far down into the valley, images stories from her own grandmother. a picturesque place where the sights, from the past return, happy ones of The “small” Garden, which is the smells, sounds and colours, “held his youth, his first, innocent feelings not small at all, dominates the island. her, slowly enveloped her, showed her of love, and sad and painful ones Each object, plant or animal in the things, whispered her its secrets...” It from the long time away from the garden had its own story, from the is a place where time can stand still, orchard and village down the hill. scientific name to the mysteries of the where past and present and future, Peter Hobbs’s novella captures the indigenous beliefs, to the traditional perhaps?, can fuse into one unifying reader from the first sentences with medicines of the islands and the image. The “lady of the Small spirits of those long past. Felicia is

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his title is plagiarized from We’re tired of them building a Progress is not cutting our trees. to $100M (around $1,500 each) when John Kruithof in his Ottawa huge shopping mall with our money Progress is not destroying fine old they can be treated for 2 years for $250 TCitizen letter of June 9 http:// on our land, and giving our money and homes to build homes for the ultra rich. each and a natural predator from the goo.gl/VT6IJ where he writes “LRT land to private interests... Progress is not destroying our USA will be in Ottawa soon and will can take on a different meaning: Let’s We’re tired of the mayor planning Kanata forests, which happen to protect the Ash trees. Replace Them.“ We agree on his point to spend another 2 billion dollars for an have the highest ecological value We’ve picked a few themes that that “It’s about time we stand up and LRT tunnel that we don’t need and that and biodiversity of any area in have been intense over the last few declare what we want, in language the has tons of risks – rumoured to be just the City of Ottawa ( http://www. months, but the list is much larger. mayor and city councillors understand, because some downtown businesses southmarchhighlands.ca/ [image The list has made citizen groups from whether they choose to listen or don’t want to lose street car parking. below]), to build more dull Kanata to Orleans, angry citizens that not.” The language the mayor might And we can see they have no idea what neighbourhoods. are upset at the lack of leadership and understand is to vote him out. He costs will be, the plan changes every Progress is not giving the lack of caring for our city and for certainly is not representing us, and few months but magically the price authorization to developers to build our citizens. from what we gather from talking to remains constant. Sorry, we’ve got on top of these precious forests and We must ask for whom the mayor many many folks he doesn’t represent business and engineering experience to proceed when they have known is working ? we ask simply because we them either, including people who and we know that such magic doesn’t faulty water management assessments. know it’s not for our interests, it’s not voted for him. exist unless artificially forced (ie. Progress is not upsetting thousands of for us. We’re tired of the city being run political and marketing magic). citizens to the point they take you to It seems the city wants to support behind closed curtains when we were We’re tired of continuous court. developers at any cost, and it goes promised transparency. marketing and pretty pictures with no Progress is not giving developers against what we value, and furthermore We’re tired of so-called accounting substance and bad financials. all rights and citizens none. is costing us in taxes. mistakes that somehow line up with We do like progress but don’t Progress is not pretending to have We ask for a mayor that has vision political agendas. measure progress as increasing debt dialogue with us when you don’t and and listens to us and wants to run a We’re tired of being ignored. and having no plan. just try to sell us your private commerce transparent city. We’re tired of the city skirting the We do measure progress as like the Lansdowne big giveaway. It’s time to start planning to oust law and fighting citizens who are just developing the city according to a Progress is not ignoring the existing broken leadership. It’s asking for the city to follow municipal progressive plan and in conjunction environmental assessments in order to time to start organizing. law. with citizens (stakeholders in and co- build more roads. Let’s Replace Them. We’re tired of them cutting our owners of the city). Progress is not cutting 75,000 [email protected] trees without asking us, without need. Progress is not increasing debt. city-owned Ash trees at a cost of up

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Tundra .... cont’d from next page it’s a spy thriller with some movie was something of a mess, embraced it fully so a sequel was ah for the days of “Lethal Weapon” wonderfully violent action sequences apparently the film [according to the inevitable. This time around, and “Beverly Hills Cop”, sigh] that’s [woohoo!]. This is a film that I all-knowing producers] was too however, everything is done right been released in some time! thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to confusing for Americans so they made [especially more Sherlock, less end [even though I came up with a Ritchie [the director] add scenes to Watson - Jude Law sucks, Robert So it’ll be two months [I believe better ending, the one they had is Downey Jr. deserved a better OSCAR publishes 1 issue for the July/ actually okay, just not fantastic, which sidekick...my vote: Michael Caine, August period] before more of my given how much I liked the rest of the how kickass would that have been!!]. rambling, ranting, and whatnot can be film...] and which has an introspective The film flows smoothly through read, and “Thank You” to all of you intelligence not seen in most films [it amusing convolutions, fast-paced who have mentioned enjoying reading was present in the Bourne movies, action sequences and dozens of these reviews. I will be making a although this film reminded me more quippy one-liners thrown down with concerted effort to throw stuff [read: of Body of Lies, also an excellent spy Downey’s ever present bemused reviews] onto the store’s facebook thriller]. The movie is exceptionally irony. And toss in Stephen Fry [he has page [google “Tundra Moving well made with a gritty atmosphere, a wonderful speech on language on Pictures Facebook”] where we an interesting use of dark but vibrant YouTube...search “Stephen Fry currently list our weekly acquisitions filming, and a minimal but often bleak Language”, now that is an individual and post trailers for the more use of music to help create a sense of who can use language!] and you’ve interesting films. In the meantime, the “greyness” in which spies operate. got yourself a shindig. The biggest enjoy your summer vacations, and The only weak spot is Reynolds’ problem with the film is its length don’t forget that every time you ongoing need to learn more facial [another problem starting to occur download a movie...a bunny dies [and expressions, although his trademark with films: more of the good ones every time you watch something on bemused, angry, and sly all serve him actually need to be longer to netflix or iTunes you lose the right to well, against an actor like Washington effectively deal with all the content complain about the deterioration of he is, well, out of his league. Still, the they’ve created]: the movie has a few society at the hands of corporations, film is certainly fun to watch, and sub-plots that it leaves since you’re metaphorically punching what flaws there are aren’t really explain everything and in the process underdeveloped or finishes off far too small local businesses between the worth nit-picking over. the film became confusing to the rest quickly. Nevertheless, this is one of legs]. of the world. It was still fun to watch, the more fun action-mysteries Reviews [and ranting] courtesy “Sherlock Holmes 2” - The first and the brain-dead target demographic [another genre that needs more titles: of Chris Whitehead. JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 15 The Tundra Review

s it just me, or do the endings of [which I actually think was a great the locations - some very nifty soviet Protocol” - As we all know by now, far too many films collapse into film, very stylistic] or The Happening era ruins in Eastern Europe. Tom Cruise is bonkers - stark raving Iblack holes of super dense [which sucked, except for a few mad, a gibbering idiot not fit to lead a stupidity [I mean, really, I can’t be the scenes which were really good...oh, “John Carter” - I wanted to like this pack of inbred plague infested only one thinking “I could write a and it’s a perfect example of a film, I even sat through the entire gibbons. However, his bizarre better ending” and then promptly sickening let down of an ending.] thing hoping that at any moment the religious beliefs aside, Cruise does think up a better ending...and then get Thankfully, Contraband is not one of whole mangled mess would pull have a tendency to be in films that are irritated that some over payed screen- Wahlberg’s iffy films, it’s a solid film together into something pretty good [notice I say he’s in them, writing dumbass didn’t do his or her noir with a couple of good action comprehensible and that the only sci- I do not say they are good because of job and come up with my ending for sequences thrown in, some surprising fi film to come out so far this year him - often they are good despite him: me]. It even happens with movies I plot twists, and an ending that didn’t Minority Report, Last Samurai], of like. It’s such an epidemic that when I completely blow [I won’t spoil what course there are some exceptions [War warn someone “It’s a good movie, but irked me...]. The film is gritty and of the Worlds was just awful] but this the ending’s a little weak” people violent [which I always enjoy] and simply shrug and suggest that it’s does have a few over-the-top never been otherwise. Horror films are moments, but they certainly don’t the worst for this [and I like horror detract from the film in anyway films, in no other genre do annoying [sometimes it’s best just to sit back people get mauled, dismembered, and enjoy]. gored, and beaten with the violence they so deserve. I’m not exactly “Ghost Rider 2” - Really, some cheering for the bad guy, but if I inbred crack-addled idiot thought the rooted for the “good” guys I’d be first Ghost Rider film [which was rooting against humanity] with their awful in so many ways and for so chronic use of the “surprise ending.” many reasons] was so wonderful it The surprise is always that the “bad” guy isn’t really dead and it either eats/ kills the survivors [and given how close they are to being drooling vegetables from the outset, it’s really a miracle they made it to the end wouldn’t suck [I like sci-fi, it’s a anyway] or is lurking around in the broad, versatile and highly under- bushes waiting for its next victim... appreciated genre...and fare like this which is generally the audience who doesn’t help the cause]. I was left in is not one of them. Regardless of end up sitting through an even worse such a dire need of a solid sci-fi fix your personal dislike of Cruise, Ghost quality sequel with another “surprise that I immediately burned through 12 Protocol is a solid, entertaining and ending” [ah, the cycle of capitalist hours of Dead Space [a video game well-made action film with a great film production where quantity is that steals everything good from either cast [except for Cruise, who’s just in more important than quality]. Luckily other games or from movies, and yet it], and a highly entertaining plot for me [and by extension those who was surprisingly fun to play] to try [which I loved...best “evil” villain I’ve want to watch decent movies] this past and push the memory of John Carter seen in forever, talk about demented month served up a couple of surprises, from my mind. To be fair, John Carter but bizarrely understandable logic]. all of which can be rented from is aimed at a much younger audience - The action sequences are good, the Tundra Moving Pictures, located at it’s targeting the same age group that humour is ever-present, and the film 435 Sunnyside @ Seneca. If you read Lucas targeted when he forced had a sense of fun that if often missing these reviews and decide to watch any actually warranted a sequel...was the [snicker] upon the world his ill- in a genre that takes itself too of the films, you are ethically movie executive on hallucinogens begotten Star Wars prequels. The seriously [though it’s not too fluffy, obligated to rent them from us, we’ll when s/he watched the first movie, did movie had a huge budget and the CGI the tense sense remain tense]. This is know if you don’t... they not witness the nredeemable folly is absolutely gorgeous and often very an almost perfect example of what a that I witnessed?? Well, maybe I was creative, but the whole thing was good “Friday night movie” is “Contraband” - I can’t actually too harsh on the first film, maybe this cheesy, from the dialogue [which is supposed to be - brain candy for those remember the last time a good film one won’t be as bad, maybe I missed incredibly uneven, stilted and exhausted after a week of dealing with noir was released [and just to be clear, something - these are the thoughts, the bizarrely formal at some points but idiot slacker co-workers, annoying all the direct to video serial killer self-doubt that led me to sit through a modernized at other] to the romance bosses who don’t understand that they mysteries that Ray Liotta keeps second, worse than the first, Ghost [which was barf inducingly moronic] have to work too, and traffic. churning out do NOT qualify as Rider movie. Okay, I’ll admit it: I to the “politics” at the heart of the watchable, let alone good], and while enjoy watching Nicholas Cage play story [why are they even fighting over “Safe House” - Ah the spy thriller, everyone seems to like Mark the wrong character in every movie an infinitely large barren planet and the genre everyone likes but of which Wahlberg, he has made some...less that he’s in [it’s infinitely amusing, if both seem to have everything they they never make enough. Even better popular films such as Max Payne the role is serious he plays over-the- need...including a moving city...are top, if the movie is fun and has a sense they pirates of some sort...what they of humour he plays it completely hell...] nothing ever fully meshes straight, if he’s supposed to be the together. In fact, that’s the biggest buddy he pretends he’s never met the problem with the film: complete other guy before in his life - gotta love unevenness...there are some brilliant The Cage], and he completely nails scenes immediately followed by filler, his trademark brand of “acting” there’s some good dialogue and here, and that, sadly, is the highlight acting, but the other actor in the scene of the movie. The special effects are will be weak and have really awkward garbage, the script is comprehensibly lines, there will be a serious and idiotic [something about a kid and the potentially thought-provoking scene devil in human form, blah blah blah], ruined by a ham-fisted attempt at and there are some seriously good failed humour. This film feels [and British actors slumming it for this is just a guess] like it was taken paychecks who, after this movie, I’m out of the director’s hands and mauled not sure deserve to ever work again by producers worried about their [Idris Elba, seriously dude, what you massive investment who now blame “always wanted to work with The the director for their failure. Cage”...dream a little bigger buddy]. The only good thing about the film: “Mission Impossible: Ghost Cont’d on previous page Page 16 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 OTTAWA SOUTH HISTORY PROJECT Story’s Story By Jean-Claude Dubé Joseph’s Church which had burnt down in 1930 and they had also he stately house at 698 Echo renovated the L.N. Poulin Department Drive has a very significant Store on , now a heritage history that relates to both the building at the corner of Sparks and T O’Connor where a Zellers store City of Ottawa and the Old Ottawa South neighbourhood. For most of is currently located. Incidentally, the 20th century, it was associated the Doran Construction Co. built a with the owners of the Story Lumber number of structures on Bank Street Company, the Doran Construction in Old Ottawa South including the Company and the Coulter Pharmacies Ottawa South Sunnyside Library. Company. Doris Frances, the fourth In the 19th century, George Hay, daughter to John Arthur Story and his a Sparks Street hardware store owner wife Béatrice, married Ottawa South who eventually became the President pharmacist Leonard Coulter in 1929. of the Bank of Ottawa, owned most of At that time, Len Coulter was living at the triangular-shaped block on Echo 278 Sunnyside and had lived at Apt.1, Drive between Riverdale Avenue and 8 Aylmer Avenue with his widowed Bank Street. Upon his death in 1910, mother before that. Originally from his estate was sub-divided into 23 Almonte, Len Coulter graduated from huge lots by S.E. Farley, Ontario land the Ontario College of Pharmacy surveyor. The first lot to be purchased in 1922 and had just opened his in 1912, the one immediately east of store at Bank and Sunnyside when his home at 700 Echo Drive was by the Great Depression fell upon the John A. Story, a well-known lumber modern world. As with his father- merchant. in-law, John A. Story, Len Coulter’s John Arthur Story was born 698 Echo Drive financial situation was at risk and very in Ottawa and had received his Church in Sandy Hill when he was When his new house at 698 Echo uncertain. education in Ottawa public schools 27 and Béatrice was 21. Béatrice, Drive was built, John A. Story was Doris and Len moved to 30 and graduated from Lisgar Collegiate. daughter of David Richard and Agnes the manager and vice-president of Windsor Avenue for two years, then He had married Béatrice Richard Mulvihill of Old Chelsea, had been the Fraser Bryson Lumber Company, to 6 Galt Avenue for another two from Deux Rivières, Ontario (then baptized as a Catholic in the mostly a stalwart of the lumber industry of years. In 1934, the Coulters were an Algonquin Park lumber town) French lumber town of Mattawa in the time. In 1920, John A. went into living at 136 Fentiman and remained and they had four daughters and a Ontario. Theirs was a mixed religious business for himself as the Story there until 1945 when they moved son when they moved from 304 Bay marriage for which a dispensation had Lumber Company with his brother, into Doris’s former home at 698 Street in Ottawa to their new home at been granted by Ottawa’s Catholic relatives and in-laws on the board of Echo Drive. She had become the 698 Echo Drive. Archbishop J.T. Duhamel. The directors. The business operated as a owner of her father’s house after John A. Story had entered the marriage was celebrated by Rev. M.F. wholesale lumber enterprise with a the death of her mother in 1940 and lumber industry as a young man. He Falloon, an Oblate father, who would branch in Montreal and the office was financial negotiations with her three was described as a lumber clerk at the later become the bishop of London, located at 63 Sparks Street. sisters Helen Story, Lillian Story, and time of his marriage at St. Joseph’s Ontario. The Great Depression of 1929 Marjorie Sharp. At that time, Doris may have created financial difficulties and her husband took a mortgage on because John A. Story had to surrender the house. We do not know the fate his house as collateral for a loan from of Doris’s brother, David. There is no the Bank of Nova Scotia in September mention of him since his childhood. 1932. He would die from a cerebral Marjorie had married John Edward hemorrhage eight months later and, Sharp and Lillian later married consequently, his widow Béatrice, Alexandre Chevrier. along with three daughters, moved out of 698 Echo Drive to take up Len Coulter, pharmacist and residence at 92 Argyle where she lived owner of the Coulter’s Pharmacy until her death from a malignancy in at the southwest corner of Bank 1940 at the age of 60. She was then a and Sunnyside, as well as two other parishioner of St. Matthews Anglican Coulter pharmacies uptown and in Church in the Glebe. The Storys are the Glebe, led a very active social, buried at . political, business and professional The Story Lumber Company, a life. More will be said of Leonard federally chartered company, was Coulter in a subsequent follow-up dissolved in 1934. The bank loan was article on the story of the Story house paid shortly after Mr. Story’s death at 698 Echo Drive. and the house was rented to Hugh Contact the Ottawa South Doran, of the Doran Construction Co. History Project at HistoryProject@ Hugh Doran, who will be the subject OldOttawaSouth.ca or visit us of another article, had just taken over online at www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/ his father’s construction business with HistoryProject. his brother Burke in 1929. The Dorans had rebuilt St.

Story Lumber Cooperator February 1925 JULY/AUG 2012 Page 17 Walking in their Shoes alling all neighbours to Get Active and lot of say in whether women seek care from trained participate in a 5km walk/run for Mother health care providers during their pregnancy, Cand Child survival in Pakur, India while delivering and after they have a baby,” says For most people walking 5 kms is an event, even an FitzGerald. “Even the women themselves often accomplishment. For women in the Pakur, India it’s won’t seek care because they’ve been told that they a daily chore. should use traditional village alternatives.” On Sept 16, Sian FitzGerald and Jennifer For example, in one family a counsellor was Knight are joining families in Ottawa and will have able to convince a pregnant woman to go for check- the chance to ‘walk in the women’s shoes’ by ups and take iron supplements, but her husband participating in a fundraiser to raise money for the disagreed, saying that the future child would be health needs of mothers and their children in Pakur. healthy and survive “if it was God’s will”. “But The event is being organised by Ottawa-based after repeated counselling from a local health care development organization HealthBridge Foundation worker, the man agreed that the woman should go of Canada. In 2011, HealthBridge received a grant for the check-up and even assented to the child from the Canadian International Development being born in a health care centre. “Both the mother Agency (CIDA) to implement a project to improve and child are now healthy,” says FitzGerald. maternal and child health in Pakur. For every dollar Having skilled health-care workers at the village raised by HealthBridge, CIDA will give three. level will help ensure that Pakur’s women will no Jennifer Knight is taking on the task of chairing this longer have to walk an average of 5 kilometres of poverty and poor access to health services. Two- fundraiser and is confident the goal will be reached! simply for a check-up to ensure that their future thirds of Pakur’s population lives below the poverty HealthBridge Executive Director Sian child will be healthy, and will also ensure their line, and fully preventable maternal and child deaths FitzGerald commented, “Our goal is to raise very young children will survive simple childhood are among the highest in the world. $290,000, which is HealthBridge’s contribution to illnesses, like diarrhea or pneumonia, for example, The Pakur project, which is being carried out this project. We are hoping to recruit 100 participants that need only simple treatment but can be fatal if in partnership with a local Indian organization for this worthy cause. This event is ideal for all not treated. EFICOR, focuses on both improving the health members of the family! We think that Canadian To register for the Sept. 16 Walk/Run at Vincent services that are offered to mothers and children families understand their great fortune living in Massey Park in Ottawa go to www.runningroom. in Pakur, and on educating the people to help this country and can relate to an opportunity to help com or www.healthbridge.ca; click on the PAKUR them understand the health care benefits. It has a our less fortunate neighbours in Pakur India. We PROJECT and you will find a link into the 5km special emphasis on working with men, recognizing encourage participants to set fund raising goals event. that they have significant influence on families’ between $500 and $2,000. So, Old Ottawa South neighbours, mark decisions about health-care. For some background information, India has September 16 on your calendar, gather your “We know from EFICOR’s work in a one of the highest levels of maternal and child strollers, kids, parents, grandparents, neighbors neighbouring district that family members, mortality in the world. Remote areas like Pakur are and join Sian and Jennifer to help raise money particularly husbands and mothers-in-law, have a most severely affected having extremely high rates and awareness for this necessary cause in Pakur....

An Intriguing Concert To Which I Was Alerted By A Friend

for any Chopin concerto detractors, I recorded the E minor Concerto with would recommend listening to these the Mazurka String Quartet. Sadly and ‹salon› arrangements as the character again rather surprisingly, there was no is quite different. I own the recording merchandise stand at the concert as of the two concertos by Tamami the enthusiastic audience may well Honma and Vilnius String Quartet have bought a few copies! on the SOMM label; from Zuzana äimurdov·’s website it seems she has

Mikolaj Warszynski and Mazurka String Quartet

By Liz Watford I had expected more people for an Embassy-sponsored event. have heard opinions about over- The two concertos were performed familiarity with the full orchestral by the Mazurka String Quartet with versions of Chopin’s E minor Zuzana äimurdov· (Concerto No. 1 I in E minor) and Mikolaj Warszynski (op. 11) and F minor (Op. 21) Piano Concertos, however it was very (Concerto No. 2 in F minor). Overall, interesting to hear them in the ‘piano both concertos were performed well, with string quartet’ arrangement. although I think the E minor was the The programme notes indicate that better of the two. äimurdov· seemed Chopin himself performed the E to be able to work better with the minor Concerto in this arrangement. Weber piano; Warszynski seemed Certainly a performance in this manner less comfortable on stage. From gives the listener an opportunity to äimurdov·’s first notes, the tone of hear a far more intimate performance the piano was noticeably different than usual. than that of a modern concert grand With that in mind - plus the - slightly less projection, much more enticement of an 1888 Weber 6’ mellow and with a character that 3’’ piano - I and slightly less than glowed, rather than sparkled. I found 100 others went to Southminster that my ear grew used to the sound United Church on June 2. Sadly the throughout the first performance, but concert didn’t seem to have been the difference was again noticeable widely advertised (I saw a very after the interval before becoming small advertisement in the OSCAR familiar again. as well as my friend’s email) and A very enjoyable evening and th Page 18 The OSCAR - OUR 40 YEAR JULY/AUG 2012

AFTER THOUGHTS

The Functional Misfit from Richard Ostrofsky authority in doing so – in setting its to be a happy, contented misfit, if you own ambition. Unless a misfit is very of Second Thoughts Bookstore conventional wisdom and its values as have the courage, energy and luck to lucky and very gifted, he or she will (now closed) the criteria of mental health. It mostly pull it off. probably never earn as much or rise as www.secthoughts.com has the power to do this, but not the The misfit often pays a heavy high as the people who can give all of [email protected] right. price for his or her eccentric themselves to a normal career. To be Accordingly, the misfit needs to personality, and perhaps the first thing functional, the misfit needs “a room of he Gestalt psychotherapist learn prudence, but reject shame. It is to concede is that society is not crazy one’s own” – the space and time for a Fritz Perls remarks in his a virtue to seek one’s own authentic to be fearful of such people (people private life; and there will be a price memoirs that the whole path – certainly in a crazy society, like me) because we are at least for that, that he or she will have to pay T but even in a completely sane one. mildly subversive, and sometimes willingly. mental health system is based on a misguided strategy: “The fits hire the So I would say that the first thing that extremely so. Some misfits have faced In the preface to Major Barbara, semi-fits to look after the misfits.” A functional misfits need is a certain martyrdom for their peculiarities; Bernard Shaw points out that better approach, he says, would be to inner permission to go their own some actively seek it; but suffering exhorting people to “Cease to be help the misfits become autonomous way. A few lucky children get this for one’s eccentricities is the last slaves, in order that you may become and functional on their own terms. As permission from their parents. Others thing I wish to encourage. I’m writing cranks,” is less than inspiring. But he a relatively functional misfit of long might get it from a teacher or from a (in a fairly pleasant and comfortable is exactly right that this is the choice standing, I want to add my mite to book – from Thoreau, for example. old age) for myself and other misfits we face. The ‘slave’ is a conformist. Perls’ idea, addressing not the mental Someone might take it from this short who hope to live long and happy He goes along to get along and health system but its potential clients: column, and I surely hope some reader lives in spite of our peculiarities; and collects society’s rewards for doing so my fellow kooks, cranks, space cadets will. But I hope that all readers will it seems to me that a good first step – for being a model citizen like JS/07 and weirdos. I want to urge that we accept the distinction I want to make in that direction is to recognize that M 378 in Auden’s poem. The ‘crank,’ have the courage of our peculiarities, here, between the functional misfit the normals have good reason to fear for whatever private reason, seeks seeking our version of ‘the good life’ who does his thing and gets away with and hate us, especially if we are not some reward that is not in society’s not by fitting in, but by finding viable it, and the dysfunctional misfit who careful. We need to be aware of this, gift – that has to be sought and taken ways of doing our own, various things doesn’t or can’t. and avoid provoking their anxieties. on one’s own. There is no certainty of in these frantic, confused times. The phrase ‘dysfunctional misfit’ We need to learn the way of the ninja: finding it – indeed, the odds are against Society works hard to impose sounds redundant to many – even the use of camouflage, of invisibility it – but one at least has the reward of its values, its criteria of success and to some misfits I have known – as when needed. We must find ways to the pursuit itself. Crankdom must be its version of normality on young if all misfits were dysfunctional do our own thing, not in the closet, to accepted on its own terms. Whatever children, and when these efforts by definition. But that is a lie that be sure, but quietly enough to avoid comes with it – money and fame (as in miscarry, it tries to leave them with we must see through: Misfits are frightening the straights. Though it Shaw’s case), or great suffering as in feelings of shame and inadequacy persons who dance to some inner tune may be satisfying to shock and scare so many others – is beside the point. because they did not turn out as that we are humming to ourselves. them , it’s self-defeating in the longer The misfit’s pay-off is an authentic expected. But our society, as children Dysfunctionality is a self-confirming run. life. expectation of helplessness and What else can I say? We must encounter it, is not itself so sane or (Editor’s Note: You can find Auden’s unhappiness, on the way to clinical get to know ourselves well: what sustainable as to have earned the right poem at http://www.poets.org/ depression. Many misfits indeed we really need and what we can to judge the sanity of its dissidents. It viewmedia.php/prmMID/15549) can make an oddball’s life difficult, fall into depression, but there is no do without. We must avoid getting even dangerous, but it has no moral necessity for this. It is quite possible trapped by our own pride, or by our Friendship Force at the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club he Friendship Force of Ottawa from Ottawa traveled to Nashik friends by sharing experiences and Friendship Force is a non-profit, welcomed a delegation of in India for a one week home stay life stories at various home gatherings non-political, organization based TIndian friendship ambassadors exchange. This was the return portion and meal events. in Atlanta, Georgia, with over 360 from Nashik, India to our city on May of the visit where the Friendship Force The opportunity to travel to clubs in over 60 countries. It began 28 at the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn of Ottawa was the hosts. Our guests various countries in the world and live in the 70›s with a hosting exchange Bowling Club on Cameron Avenue. visited , canoed on the in the homes of local people allows to foster friendship among different The Indian High commissioner, Mr. Rideau in Merrickville, The Thousand members of the Friendship Force cultures. It has evolved to a 7 day Shashishekhar M. Gavai and his Islands and Omega Park as well as a to experience an aspect of a country exchange with people hosting other wife, Mrs. Rina Gavai attended the number of other cultural sites. The that most travelers would never see or clubs (between 15-25 guests) in their function. most important aspect of the visit experience. Our guests had indicated homes and running a unique program In the fall of 2009, 20 delegates is the opportunities to make new a desire to do outdoor activities and with local highlights and a network wanted to see the flora and fauna of of friends being developed during the this part of Canada. For most this visit. Our Ottawa club of about 175 was the first time they had ever been members has 4 exchanges coming in a canoe. The weather made it a in every year and 4 going out. The most enjoyable experience for people club›s motto is «Changing the Way from a country with a dense city you see the World.» population where outdoor activities would seldom be available. Many of Ottawa website is - www. our guests knew about Niagara Falls friendshipforceottawa.ca but the visit and cruise through The Thousand Islands confirmed that our The International web site is - www. visitors will be positive ambassadors thefriendshipforce.org of this lesser know tourist site. OSCAR Needs Volunteers For Monthly Distribution in Old Ottawa South JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 19 Red Apron Cooks Keep Cooking Simple This Summer t’s summertime, and things just 529933 $15.95) and Beau’s All (on Facebook) and Beau’s Beer, just organic canned. If you prefer to peel seem easier. We need fewer Natural Lug Tread (also available at to name a few. and de-seed them you can, or for a Iclothes in our closet, fewer shoes the LCBO) This month’s recipe is for my more rustic presentation, don’t bother by the door, no shoveling out the • If you are planning a big party, new summer staple - our Roasted 1 large red onion (cut into chunky driveway before heading to work, or consider outsourcing the food to Red Pepper & Tomato Soup. It’s so slices) layering on clothes before braving some of Ottawa’s cool mobile food easy to make and so versatile. Make 2 red peppers (charred under the the elements. vendors. In the last few years we a big batch and freeze it in 1-liter broiler or on the BBQ, peeled and de- Cooking and eating seem easier have seen new, healthy, innovative containers so it’s ready to use when seeded) too. I have already seen my diet shift options for mobile food emerge, you need a healthy and flavourful 4-6 cloves garlic (peeled and sliced) from warm stews and braised meat to and many of them will come to your dinner. Here are some serving Generous drizzle of olive or canola fresh vegetables for breakfast, lunch event. suggestions. oil and dinner, with the occasional bit of My good friend Michael, I use this soup as a pizza sauce Sea salt and black pepper grilled meat or fish on the side. otherwise known as the Grateful for my grilled pizza. Top it with 500ml vegetable stock or water Make summer cooking and Griller (gratefulgriller.com) will anything you like including fresh Fresh herbs, in season (tarragon, basil entertaining fun by keeping things come to your location, and grill up basil, grilled vegetables, mozzarella, and/or oregano work best) simple. If you will be entertaining a the best salmon or pork tenderloin shrimp or chicken. small or large group, here are some you have ever had. He supplies I use it as a sauce for my Heat oil in a sauté pan and sweat tips: all the fixings, including excellent favourite pasta. Our new line of onions until soft and sweet. Add • Assemble platters that include servers who promise to leave your organic Italian pastas makes the garlic and continue to cook until local cheeses, cured meats, roasted kitchen cleaner than it was to begin perfect base (see image). garlic has softened. Be careful not to nuts and local preserves. Our with. This soup can be enjoyed hot, brown or burn the onions or garlic. favourite cheeses this time of year Jacqueline from Stone Soup warm or cold, garnished with a Place all ingredients in a blender are Clarmell’s chèvre, and the Ile aux Foodworks (slowfoodfast.ca) will few green onions, chopped basil or and blend until smooth. If you like Grues raw milk cheddar. bring her green mobile truck to your tarragon, and grated hard-boiled egg. a more rustic presentation you can • The Chelsea Smokehouse, the location and custom tailor the menu I ladle this soup hot over sautéed leave it chunky. If you prefer a more Pelican Fishery and the Whalesbone to suit your event. kale & chorizo sausage and garnish elegant presentation you can puree all produce wonderful smoked fish For a minimum of 100 people, with a dollop of Clarmell Chevre. until very smooth and even add a bit and you can pre-order a platter or Pascale (pascalesicecream.com) will of cream. assemble your own. bring her ice-cream truck to your Red Apron’s Roasted Red For a spicy version add a tbsp • Visit the farmers market for an location so you can enjoy delicious, of Worcestershire sauce and a few assortment of fresh vegetables and cool, refreshing cold treats in Pepper & Tomato Soup dashes of Tabasco. use them to create a crudités platter seasonal flavours. She also will take Re-heat and serve or store for 800g plum tomatoes, in season. with a light vinaigrette or a creamy orders for ice cream cakes custom later use. If not in season use good quality yogurt dressing. made to suite your tastes and dietary • Keep your grill ready meat, restrictions. I recently ordered a fish & tofu in an airtight container, gluten free, dairy free, chocolate- seasoned with a rub or marinade. chocolate bomb for a birthday party Remember to remove them from the and none of my guests could believe fridge for at least an hour before you that it contained neither gluten or put them on the grill. dairy. • Have plenty of crisp Ontario Other companies of note include wines, and cold local brews on hand Relish (relishtheflavour.blogspot. and ready to go for any occasion. We ca), the Flatbread Pizza Company recommend Cave Spring Sauvignon (flatbreadco.ca), Joel’s Coffee Blanc (VQA Ontario LCBO Roasters (joelscoffee.ca), Strata Pizza Area Worship Services

Sunnyside Wesleyan Church Southminster United Church 58 Grosvenor Avenue 15 Aylmer Avenue (at Sunnyside) (at Bank & the Canal) Sunday Worship Services at 9am & 10:00 a.m. Summer Worship held 11am (one service at 10am May 22 jointly - Sept 4) with Glebe-St. James United & St. Children’s program offered during Giles Presbyterian worship services. Glebe-St. James will host: July 1-15 Southminster: July 22-August 12 Trinity Anglican Church St. Giles: August 19-September 2 1230 Bank St (at Cameron Ave) Glebe Minyan Sundays: Holy Eucharist at 8 and Jewish Renewal Community 10am 612 Bank Street at Strathcona, with Church School and Choir 613.867.5505 (9:30 in July and August) Spiritual Leader: Anna Maranta, [email protected] St Margaret Mary’s Parish Shabbat: Fridays May 11, 25 and 7 Fairbairn June 8 (corner of Sunnyside) Tuesday Evening at 7PM Glebe Shul Friday Daytime at 12:15PM Orthodox Jewish Community Saturday Evening at 5PM 302 Fifth Avenue, Sunday Mornings at 9:30AM and www.glebeshul.com 11:30PM Rabbi Michael Goldstein, glebe- [email protected] Page 20 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Other Businesses in Old Ottawa South he businesses in Old Ottawa businesses appeared in the June oscar, June 12, pp. 20-21.) The South-based business and would like South are an important 2012 issue of OSCAR. (This listmap following are some of many other to include it in a forthcoming online Tcomponent of our community. can be seen online at http://www. businesses in Old Ottawa South. directory, please email [email protected] A “listmap” of our street-front oldottawasouth.ca/index.php/the- If you have an Old Ottawa or phone (613) 730-2796.

Living with Wildlife – Timely Gardening Tips By Donna DuBreuil, them back to a more natural setting. Fresh new shoots on ornamental babies under the grill. Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife In the meantime, don’t take any action shrubs attract groundhogs and rabbits. Keep www.wildlifeinfo.ca that you may regret until you check Use plastic garden mesh to protect handy for all your wildlife questions Centre out www.wildlifeinfo.ca for humane plants and discourage wildlife from throughout the summer. When it solutions. the habit of coming to your garden. comes to wildlife decisions, an ounce fter a false start, gardening In the Garden: Before taking There are a number of taste and of prevention is truly worth a pound season is finally underway down a tree or removing branches, smell deterrents to keep wildlife away of cure. Abut it’s important to apply a check to make sure there aren’t leaf from vegetables and flowers. It’s best few easy tips so that you don’t have nests or cavities that would be home to use a number together. For exam- conflicts with wildlife. to babies that would be too young to ple, by sprinkling blood meal fertiliz- First, though, remember that if escape. er on the soil (dig it in lightly) around you see a four-legged wild critter If you find a nest of baby squirrels your plants or by placing dog hair in around your property, it is very when cleaning out a shed or garage, the toe of a nylon stocking that is tied likely a mother with babies stashed put it back intact exactly as you’ve to a stake placed a foot high around nearby. The birthing season is at its found it and give the mother a few the plants, you are letting the animal peak between April and July when days to relocate her young. know there is a predator nearby. adult animals seek out spots closer to A nest of baby rabbits in your gar- If your barbeque hasn’t been used us and away from predators. It is a den should also be left alone as the for a while, check it out thoroughly Groundhog temporary situation, once the babies mother only returns during the night before lighting as red squirrels and are a little bigger, mother will move or at dusk to feed her young. mice will sometimes have a nest of JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 21 A Public Space Worth Fighting For Lansdowne Park Conservancy going to Court of Appeal Lansdowne Park is your public heritage and intended for your benefit.

If Lansdowne Park is privatized it cheques payable to: park would: opportunity. will be lost forever. Lansdowne Park Conservancy a. Remain public Fundamental to the plan is that it Defending your rights for this RE: Legal fees to Paliare Roland b. Have no housing component will have double the public parking public space Barristers in Trust c. Have no large commercial ( 1,250 spaces versus 660 for the The Lansdowne Park Conservancy component developer plan ) but one fifth the was created by civic minded Unanswered issues for the court d. Ensure the development be in density. The Conservancy plan makes individuals who have developed a There remain three unanswered and contextual relationship with the sense. model that meets all policy for the fundamental issues for the court: neighbourhood And with the involvement of a team park and ensures a profitable and I. A requirement for sole source of stadium, heritage and landscape viable opportunity to restore the park procurement is that no alternatives The sole source developer’s plan fails experts, everything will be ready for in a manner true to the trust of this exist. to meet any of the criteria. CFL and FIFA 2015. great public space. In its ruling of April 3, 2012 the The Lansdowne Park Conservancy Now before the Court of Appeal of court made a finding that, in fact, the meets and surpasses all criteria. Working for you Ontario Lansdowne Park Conservancy is an The Purpose and Goal The Lansdowne Park Conservancy In order to demonstrate its value alternative. This was not able to be To keep Lansdowne Park for the will ensure the park will remain to the public and the park, the answered in the citizen application benefit of the public for present and a public asset for the benefit of Lansdowne Park Conservancy will since they were not arguing the same future generations is the purpose of the public and under a non-profit be presenting its case for an open question. If an alternative exists this application before the court. organization. Like the Granville and competitive bidding process then sole sourcing is not allowed This is not stopping development, Island Market in Vancouver, the park for Lansdowne Park at the Court of and a competitive process must be it is ensuring that the public interest will use a public governance board Appeal of Ontario in July. followed. proposal by the Conservancy is to ensure the direction of the park Top legal team II. A requirement for sole source is allowed to compete. is inclusive. The public advisory A top team of counsel has agreed that that the delivery of a service can only It will win in a fair and open board will include representation the case raises issues of great public be provided by one supplier. competition. from the invested parties of the City, importance. The entire basis for why the City is The Reason the community at large, sporting The team is comprised of Andrew providing a sole source exception to At a half a billion dollar advantage community, arts/culture, business, Lokan and Michael Fenrick of the OSEG land developers to over the sole source bid ( confirmed heritage, tourism, agriculture/rural, Canada’s leading litigation law firm privatize the park is due to OSEG’s -$300M loss with the developer’s NCC, and Parks Canada. Day to Paliare Roland Barristers, and Joseph tentative franchise rights for a CFL bid versus an over $200M confirmed day operations will be with existing Eliot Magnet, one of Canada’s most football team. surplus with the Conservancy bid ) experienced and dedicated park staff. respected constitutional lawyers. All Ownership and management of the Lansdowne Park Conservancy Conclusion commenced their careers clerking for the team is not in question, but the works for the best interests of the Public input , as enacted into Supreme Court justices. delivery of the CFL service can come public. How? The Lansdowne Park by-law, must be respected. It is Help us help you. Please donate from any supplier of a City of Ottawa Conservancy is a non-profit proposal therefore reasonable to hold a 90 day now. stadium. that returns all the money for public competition to decide on the future The best team has been brought History and precedent at Lansdowne benefit not private. of this beloved park, a meeting place together. The amount of $25,000 will Park confirms that football franchises The result is a profitable, self- that has been public for 150 years. cover the next phase as we seek to are tenants at a City of Ottawa sustaining public space based on the In so doing we will achieve the best bring about a competitive process. stadium with no development rights. successful Granville Island Market possible outcome for Lansdowne We need your help to make this The Lansdowne Park Conservancy business model in Vancouver, B.C. Park. happen. provides for a world class City of No Delay At stake is whether or not the park Donations can be made online at Ottawa stadium including plans for The Lansdowne Park Conservancy remains part of the public trust or is www.lpc-cpl.ca ( click Donate in the Canada’s first solar stadium. This proposes a less complicated plan privatized. top right corner ) or fact also eliminates the sole source with more space for the public and We need your help to make this mailed in to: option. public use. Under the Conservancy happen. III. Extensive public input on proposal the park will promote local Lansdowne Park Conservancy how Lansdowne Park should be small business and local agriculture The Lansdowne Park 99 Fifth Ave., Suite 417 developed was adopted into By-law ( no shopping centre ) and remain Conservancy Ottawa, ON K1S 5P5 2009-128 by the City of Ottawa on 100% public ( no towers or condos April 22 of 2009 establishing the ), allowing for greater tourism New Rules For Electric Bikes (“e-bikes”) Three Community on the Capital Pathway Network new set of rules for electric bikes are 5. Rules for electric bikes do not apply to Churches to Share now in effect on the National Capital motorized mobility aids such as wheelchairs, Summer Worship ACommission’s (NCC) 236 kilometres three-wheel electric scooters and four-wheel of multi-use recreational pathways within the electric scooters. Capital Pathway Network. The NCC developed the new rules following Services The general rules are: consultations with the public, the City of Ottawa n a spirit of collaboration, three local churches 1. Electric bikes that physically resemble and Ville de , local interest groups, will be holding Summer Worship together conventional bikes are permitted on the NCC’s public sector employees from other Canadian this year. Glebe-St. James United, St. Giles Capital Pathway Network. cities (Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal) as well I Presbyterian and Southminster United Churches 2. All electric bikes, including scooter-type, as specialized cycling agencies. will take turns hosting joint worship services on the are permitted on dedicated NCC bike lanes (as In its Environmental Strategy, the NCC has Sundays July 1 through September 2 at 10:00 am. opposed to the multi-use recreational pathways, committed to promoting alternative, ecological July 1, 8, & 15 services will be held at Glebe-St. the Capital Pathway Network). and sustainable modes of transportation. The James Church (First and Lyon), July 22, 29, August 5 3. Scooter-type power-assisted bikes are NCC encourages active mobility by allowing & 12 services at Southminster Church (Bank and the prohibited on the NCC’s Capital Pathway the presence of electric bikes that require some Canal), and August 19, 26 & September 2 services at Network as well as during Sunday Bikedays and muscular power on its pathways and promotes St. Giles Church (Bank and First). Saturday Short Loops programs. Very often, the sustainable mobility by permitting the use of “Southminster has historically shared electric bike with a non-conventional appearance electric bikes that do not require muscular power worship and peace and justice work with other is much heavier than a conventional-type electric on its bike lanes. congregations,” says minister Meg Illman-White, bicycle and therefore poses greater risks to safety For more information on electric bikes, “and our people are really excited about getting out in the event of a collision. please contact the NCC at 613-239-5000, 1-800- beyond our own building and community to learn 4. In , all electric bikes are 465-1867, 613-239-5090 (TTY) or 1-866-661- and share experiences with our neighbours in these prohibited on the 90 kilometres of natural 3530 (toll-free TTY), or visit the website at two churches.” She adds that, “As always, all are surface trails intended for hiking and mountain www.canadascapital.gc.ca/electric-bicycle. welcome!” biking. Page 22 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Images of Sweden

y name is Sarah Whiteside and I am a student at the University of Ottawa currently on an exchange Min Växjö, Sweden. I have been in Sweden for four months now and absolutely love it. I have done a little bit of travelling throughout the country and these pictures are from three different cities in Sweden.

Stockholm: Stockholm is the capital city of Sweden and is the biggest and most populous city in Sweden. The city consists of multiple islands and waterways, thus much of the city is bordered by water which is a significant attribute of the landscape in Stockholm. Stockholm is the media and cultural center of Sweden containing over 100 museums, a vibrant art scene and multiple different theatres as well as hosting an array of various exhibits throughout the year. Stockholm is a beautiful city and is definitely one of my favourite cities in Europe.

Lake: Växjö has been awarded as Europe’s greenest city as they Windmill: This windmill is located in Öland which is the second have done a tremendous amount to reduce their carbon emissions through largest island in Sweden. Windmills, the symbol of Öland, are dispersed various means as well as clean up their lakes. In this photo is Trummen throughout the island and have become an integral part of the landscape as lake, one of the smaller lakes in Växjö. In the background of the photo is there are more than 400 on the island. The windmills are vastly important to Teleborg Castle, built in 1900 as a wedding gift from count Frederik Bonde the history of Öland as they showed the wealth of the island; it was wealthy to his wife. The castle has been renovated and restored and is now operating farmers who were able to build such windmills for their personal farming as a hotel. Both the castle and lake are part of the campus of Linnaeus needs. All of the windmills in Öland are protected monuments. University and make for a beautiful campus that is also surrounded by forests and other lakes

T.G.I.S. (Thank Goodness It’s Summer)! By Kerry Duffy year is strawberry soup. As you Life of Pie can imagine, I have a sweet tooth, and having a little something that is h Summer! It has fruity, sweet and tart at the beginning always been my of a meal is very appealing. Plus, favourite time of it is so easy, and with the all A season strawberries, it can be made year. Give me a cold beverage and a cool body of water and I am throughout the Summer as part of a there! Summer has a special quality casual BBQ or a special meal. of being both adrenaline packed and laid back at the same time. It Strawberry Soup exudes youthful exuberance and excitement. Summer is both literally 3 Cups of ripe hulled and rinsed and figuratively ‘Salad Days’. With strawberries (this is a good place to all of the fresh local produce there is use the slightly overripe ones) almost too much choice in what to 1/4 Cup of sugar make. One of my favourite things 1/2 Cup of white wine to do is to use fruits in salads and 1/2 Cup of sour cream soups. I love mango salad with 1 1/2 Cups of ice cold water local tomatoes and red oinions, or a sweet peach soup made with Niagara Put all of the ingredients peaches. But my favourite, that I in a blender and blend until look forward to and make year after smooth. Chill before serving. JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 23 BACKYARD NATURALIST Under the Bridges – Part 2

By Linda Burr In addition to swallows, at least Barn Swallows’ nests. of bridges). Their nests are flimsy two other birds frequently make use of The most obvious birds that live structures, but may be used for many ast month (see the June 2012 the undersides of bridges. One is very under the bridges are, of course, the years and gradually build up into a quite issue) I explored the undersides familiar, but the other may be less well pigeons. The Rock Pigeon (formerly large mound over time. Surprisingly, of bridges in the neighbourhood known. Rock Dove) is surely the most ignored pigeons nest very early in the year and L The Eastern Phoebe is named after and under-appreciated of birds. Pigeons far earlier than most other birds, so they to see what birds, if any, were nesting there. Some bridges of Old Ottawa its distinctive song, which sounds like a seem to be part of the fabric of urban can raise up to four broods per year. South were found to provide important two-note “fee-bee”. This little gray bird life – not really “wildlife” at all. In fact, Not all the pigeons we see are nesting, nesting places for swallows. The is a member of the flycatcher family pigeons have a long association with although they seem to prefer living McIlwraith Bridge and Billings Bridge and frequently nests in rural areas. This human habitation, and are always found together in loose colonies. are older bridges with big steel girders spring, I heard that unmistakable song near cities or farms. The pigeons we City pigeons are known to live underneath. These girders provide near both the McIlwraith and Billings see today are really “feral” – that is, the their whole lives very close to one ledges for Barn Swallow nests. The bridges. Although I didn’t see the bird, descendants of domesticated pigeons place, so it is possible that generations more modern Dunbar Bridge (Bronson) its presence near the bridges in breeding gone wild. Pigeons were domesticated of McIlwraith pigeons and Billings is built high over the Rideau River and season was enough to tip me off that it so long ago that it is difficult today to pigeons have grown up here. As a birder, has a smooth concrete undersurface is probably nesting in both locations. determine their wild origins. I have often taken pigeons for granted, so no Barn Swallows can nest there. Eastern Phoebes are fairly common “The pigeon was the first exotic but I am beginning to realize just how However, I did discover a few Rough- throughout southern Ontario, but bird brought to America, on ships interesting they can be. In fact, they winged Swallows making use of holes especially in rural areas where they with European settlers between 1603 probably deserve a closer look. They in the concrete as nest burrows. Bridges typically nest under bridges or on and 1608. Mesopotamian cuneiform are part of the fascinating diversity of over the had no nesting buildings and other structures. It likes tablets and Egyptian hieroglyphics life that can be found under the bridges birds. to build its nest under a roof, similar suggest that pigeons were domesticated of Old Ottawa South. to barn swallows. Almost any country more than 5,000 years ago. Genuinely Linda Burr lives in Old Ottawa bridge or culvert is bound to have wild Rock Pigeons were restricted in South and is a biologist and avid a Phoebe nesting under it, so I was range to western and southern Europe, backyard naturalist. particularly delighted to find them here North Africa, and part of South Asia, in the city. The presence of parkland but feral pigeons, now found virtually and trees around these two bridges, everywhere, genetically swamped out as well as all those ledges created by their wild counterparts over most of the steel girders, make these attractive their natural range.” (excerpt from nest sites for Phoebes. In days before online article by Laura Erickson: European settlers started clearing land www.birds.cornell.edu/Publications/ and building, Phoebes would have Birdscope/Summer2008/bird_paradox. nested in niches in cliffs or under html ) overhanging riverbanks. They build a Pigeons build their nests on Rock Pigeon -- Photo by Alan D. cup-like nest with mud and plant fibres, buildings or any structure with Easter Phoebe -- Photo by John Benson Wilson and have been known to renovate old suitable ledges (such as the undersides Page 24 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Stella Luna Gelato Café A Journey Back in Time by Tammy Giuliani was lurking, ready to swallow me Owner of Stella Luna whole. I learned to call on the magic Gelato Café of FAITH. Fear has a grasp like a bull- 1103 Bank Street dog – once you’re in its grasp, you’ve all but lost your ability to use reason slgelato.com and logic. Faith, on the other hand, requires an enormous leap – you have appy Anniversary Stella to abandon yourself to its embrace. My Luna! It’s been a remarkable “faith” wears the face of Alessandro’s year and feels like only H father, who passed on long before yesterday that I was sprawled on top we embarked upon our Stella Luna of a stack of drywall staring up at journey. When my troubles get too the roof deck, dreaming about what heavy to carry, I extend my arms out would someday become Stella Luna. to Alessandro’s dad and tell him “this The renovations had been delayed by one’s for you Papa” … then I take a over six months. We received the keys nap. He’s been 100% reliable! to the shop back in December 2010 There were many bumps along but weren’t authorized to begin our the road to our opening day, and upgrades until the landlord completed sometimes it took an iron will to keep some major renovations. We had marching onwards. But it’s within expected to be open by Valentine’s those difficult moments that we find Day but it wasn’t until July 1, 2011 the spice of life. Now, after a year, that we were given the green light Renovations to create Stella Luna Alessandro and I feel somewhat more to begin work inside. The fact that projected opening day, we discovered Murphy himself descended upon us at ease. We have begun to feel like our team put this shop together in that we were short eight tiles to to enforce his law … we watched in we might be getting the hang of this less than four weeks, ready for our finish off the floors. With equipment horror as my spanking new $25,000 and - a huge bonus - our family life July 31 opening, is nothing short of arriving, there was no time to spare gelato machine, which had travelled has settled back into a comfortable remarkable! on a courier - I jumped behind the all the way across the Atlantic Ocean routine. The poet Gibran once said, “The wheel and sped down to the Montreal unscathed, catapulted off the delivery We have many to thank for riding deeper that sorrow carves into your warehouse. When our specialized truck and landed on the sidewalk. out the bumps with us – our children being, the more joy you can contain. gelato production equipment arrived, Three days before we opened, and families (one can become quite Is not the cup that holds your wine the I hovered over it like a mother hen … I had exhausted our budget and grumpy on only five hours sleep a very cup that was burned in the potter’s “careful” I called out to the delivery discovered that I didn’t have the night), our loyal and faithful clientele oven?” Well, by July we were feeling men ... “gently” I cooed. Then funds to purchase the milk order that (the best in the city!!), and especially well cooked! Five days before our I required to make the first batch of our AMAZING STAFF, without gelato base. I swallowed that bitter whom Stella Luna wouldn’t be the lump that had formed in my throat warm and inviting space that it is. and picked up the phone to do a little Come and celebrate our First Year outreach. Thanks to the trust and Anniversary with us on Tuesday, July generosity of a few friends and family 31, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, when we members, my once empty fridge was will be offering small cups and cones

Family, friends, staff and all those who worked the trades wrote good luck messages on the back wall before we sealed them with bricks

now filled with creamy, white milk. I for only $1!!! donned my apron and began cooking! “Gratitude can transform common With only a few days remaining days into thanksgivings, turn routine before opening day, we still had much jobs into joy, and change ordinary to do … train our neophyte staff, opportunities into blessings.” — learn how to operate our equipment, William Arthur Ward finalize the last of the renos, stamp out Thank you Old Ottawa South! our menus – it seemed that the closer we got to the Big Day, the more we Editor’s Note: realized we still had to complete. I Tuesday, July 31, 3:00 to 5:00 pm struggled from being overcome with small cups and cones only $1.00! FEAR – behind every corner; FEAR JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 25 Quilts For All Seasons By Patty Deline method, rather than machine quilting, Free parking is available at Corpus Quiltco is most grateful to our of her colourful works of art. Christi School across the street. (We generous sponsor, Tracy Arnett. ark your calendars for the Another OOS quilter who will make a donation to their school fund). triennial Quiltco Show and have work in the show is the highly Admission to the show is $6.00. Sale, September 29 and creative Trish Wallace, whose work is M often seen in art and craft shows, like 30, 2012. Over 200 quilts made by the 32 members of Quiltco, a guild Art in the Park in the Glebe. Some of of 30 women and 2 men, who meet her very creative and original work regularly at Trinity Anglican Church will also be for sale. on Bank Street. Quiltco has been quite busy in Many of the quilts will be for sale. the last 3 years, having outfitted both One of the exhibitors is well- Bruce House and the new Interval known OOS resident, Deirdre House with quilts, as well as making McQuillan, the retiring Executive many preemie quilts for local hospitals Director of OSCA. Quilting has been as part of our charity work. Deirdre’s hobby for the past 16 years The quilt show takes place at the or so. A very prolific quilter, she will Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third have 8 quilts in the show, some for Avenue at Lyon, from 10 am to 4 pm sale. And that is not the total number the last week-end in September. The of quilts she’s made in the last 3 years. Pantry will be open for tea and snacks. She’s given away at least 4. Unlike There will be a members’ boutique as most quilters today, Deirdre still uses well as nine vendors selling fabric Well-known OOS quilter, Deirdre McQuillan, is part of the labour-intensive hand quilting and all manner of quilt-related things. Quiltco Show and Sale Attention Art Lovers And Gardeners locations will be available in Glebe shops and supplies during the weekend. at the community centre. In addition, on the tour Please mark July 7 and 8 on your calendar. Rain or weekend there will be signs at various street corners shine, we look forward to greeting old friends and to indicate the locations of art sites. Information is new in Glebe summer gardens abloom with art. also available on the website www.glebearttour.ca Here’s a sneak preview of the some of the participating artists: Glenda Yates Krusberg and Jaan Krusberg will again decorate their patio fence with bright florals and abstract photos. The Masseys – mother and daughter – invite you into their lovely garden to consider their watercolours and acrylics. Photographs by Guy Dupuis and Louis Helbig illustrate how differently each interprets a subject, while Lori Victor’s abstract paintings intrigue you and spark your imagination. Heather Bale is showing her joyful bird miniatures and larger botanical works; Wilma Pinkus her dramatic watercolour scenes and landscapes. Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau’s exquisite pottery always seems perfectly placed with the plants and flowers spilling over her yard, and Brenda Small’s colourful glassworks enhance any garden or interior wall. Val Roy’s stunning jewelry catches your eye. Dale Taylor’s tropical scenes invite you on a wonderful By Brenda Small vacation. If any of this has piqued your interest, come by for a closer look and a chance to discover his year’s Glebe Art in Our Gardens and the other artists as well. Studio Tour is Saturday and Sunday, July 7 With the upheaval caused by the reconstruction Tand 8, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. of Bank St. last summer behind us, it’s time to Twenty Glebe and guest artists – painters, potters, welcome people back to Glebe to support local sculptors, jewellers, and photographers – will artists and commercial enterprises. We are pleased show and sell their art in garden and studio settings to have several businesses as sponsors of the tour throughout the Glebe. Brochures listing the artists’ and hope visitors will patronize them by buying a names and a map showing the studio and garden coffee, having lunch or purchasing garden or art

To book an OSCAR ad call Gayle 730-1058 [email protected] Page 26 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Wonderful Weeds We Walk By By Paige Raymond Kovach She sees her role as a “wild garden tender,” which means she believes mber Westfall knows her in practicing good stewardship, and weeds. An ethical forager, taking care of wild plants that take she takes groups of like- care of us. A To that end she has rules. Make minded people on walks teaching them about medicinal and culinary sure you’re 100% sure of the plant uses for plants most people rip out of before you take it and eat it. Also do their gardens and throw in their green not over harvest, take only a small bins. amount, leaving enough to ensure She led a group of about twenty the stand will continue to grow and people on a weed walk on a sunny thrive. Know the poisonous plants May afternoon around Windsor Park. – walk with an experienced forager

Dame’s Rocket blossoms make a colourful garnish on summer salads. Photo by Paige Raymond Kovach and check field guides. Be cautious growth, as it can stunt the growth when you eat a plant for the first time, of the tree,” said Amber. “Pick only anyone can have an allergic reaction the bright green tips at the sides of so eat only a small amount at first. Do branches.” She talked about how to not forage near roadways or rail lines, infuse the spruce tips in cider vinegar and avoid contaminated areas. With to make a salad dressing or “poor the pesticide ban in its fourth year in man’s balsamic.” She also gave us a

Lamb’s Quarters nice addition to stir-fries or salad. Photo by Paige Raymond Kovach

Ottawa, many of the plants you can recipe for spruce syrup, and offered find now are organic and free. us a drink of the syrup with mineral She started the walk offering us water after our walk. a nibble of fresh spruce tips. It was Amber warned not all evergreens surprisingly lemony, not at all the are edible. Yew trees, for example, pungent spruce smell that I are toxic. So know your conifers and had expected. be able to tell them apart before you “When harvesting spruce dine on them. “Spruce has needles all tips, do not pick the terminal around the branch, and so you can roll

Poison Ivy vines: “groups of three, let it be.” Photo by Paige Raymond Kovach Cont’d on next page JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 27 Wonderful Weeds ... Cont’d from previous page the branch frond in your hand,” said gathering nettle. She added the old summer, you’ll learn the names of “Leaves of three, let it be,” is the Amber. English phrase “Grasp the nettle” is the weeds in your garden and might phrase she used. The vine has clusters Plantains were next. I’d been true when foraging it, so be bold and not dispose of them after all, but of three-leaves, in a fleur-de-lis shape. walking on them for years and did pull. Besides if you get stung a plantain make dinner instead. Although leaf shapes may vary, the not know they were edible and could or yellow dock poultice might work to Amber Westfall’s walks are top leaf has a longer stem than the soothe a blister or reduce pain from take the sting away and often grows detailed on her Facebook page at opposing two leaves. bug bites. They have oval-shaped nearby. Amber also cautioned not to https://www.facebook.com/ The oil on the leaves will cause a leaves and prominent veins. Plantain pick Stinging Nettle leaves once it events/129504327181873/ rash, so wash with detergent soap and tends to grow where people walk, flowers as the plant develops crystals Saturday July 21, 2-4pm water to get the oil off. Amber also hence the Latin name Plantago major. that will iritate the kidneys. The Herbs of High Summer says you should be careful with your Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, is Those pretty tall pink and white Location TBD clothing after exposure, and wash related to wormwood, a component blossoms that look like tall phlox Saturday August 18, 2-4pm them separately in hot water. in absinthe. Mugwort was originally are called Dame’s Rocket. They are Wild Sun Teas and Sumacade Also if your dog loves the weeds used in beer to give it a bitter taste from the mustard family of plants Location TBD and dipping his nose in the river, he before the introduction of hops. and the flowers make lovely garnish Suggested Resources: can carry poison ivy oils on his fur Amber uses Mugwort in herbal in summer salads. They are sweeter Martha Webber – local edible and pass it on to you when you give vinegars. Mugwort contains small tasting than nasturtiums. Dame’s wilds teacher and botanist, www. him a good scratch. amounts of thujone, which is toxic Rocket or Hesperis matronalis flowers dandelionjam.com New Windsor Pups member Jean when taken in large amounts over have four petals on tall stems. Forager’s Harvest and Nature’s described the location in a recent an extended period of time to the Lamb’s Quarters/pigweed/ Garden by Samuel Thayer e-mail: liver, and should not be consumed by fat hen, or Chenopodium album is Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods “A large patch of poison ivy has pregnant or breastfeeding women, nor another weed we tend walk by. Amber from Dirt to Plate by John Kallas been reported just where the crushed folks who are HIV positive. However, said that when she was making a stir Sidebar stone path from by the river merges when used sparingly, it is generally fry the other day she didn’t have Poison Ivy vines spotted in with the asphalt path by the pump regarded as safe. enough so instead of going to the Linda Thom Park by Pump House house half way down Linda Thom As a child I learned to avoid store, she took a five-minute walk The upside of the pesticide ban Park. The City has been contacted Stinging Nettle as I always would get and gathered some Lamb’s Quarters. in Ottawa is the foraging of organic and they will spray but we don’t stung by it. Amber suggested it makes Both the upper and undersides of the weeds for food. But the downside is know when. The patch is between a great spinach substitute in lasagne, leaves of Lamb’s Quarters have a the reintroduction of poison ivy. the stone path and the river.” so I might rethink this nasty weed. powdery coating. Amber Westfall showed us how Amber suggests wearing gloves when So take a walk with Amber this to identify the vine on the weed walk.

TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH News From Trinity By Sue Cherry rinity Parish activities are starting to wind down for the summer, but not before a busy weekend at the start Tof June. On Saturday, June 2nd, the “Old Fashioned Rummage Sale” raised $500 for future projects, and on the following Sunday, there was the annual Parish Picnic. While the unseasonal weather - cool and wet - brought in shoppers to the rummage sale, it also brought the picnic inside, into the church hall instead of being at Brewer Park.. This didn’t put a damper on picnickers, however. After a brief service, and a tasty pot luck lunch, the usual games were adapted to the indoors - even the tug’o war.

NOTE: There will be only one service on Sundays during the summer, at 9.30 a.m. The usual two services, with choir and Sunday School resume in the fall.

Picnic Fun in the Trinity Church Hall Sudoku Sudoku Solution on page 32

To complete the puzzle: 1. all rows must contain digits 1 to 9 only once 2. all columns must contain the digits 1 to 9 only once. 3. each of the nine boxes must contain the digits 1 to 9 only once th Page 28 The OSCAR - OUR 40 YEAR JULY/AUG 2012

Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books Summer’s Here – Get Outside! chool is a distant memory – province and territory unfolds with a we’re in full summer bloom! combination of narrative, photographs SIt may be sticky, it may be hot, and illustrations. Taking the form of a it may even be cool and rainy; what blog that Alice posts to on her trip, this we know is this: it’s time to GET book provides a wealth of information OUTDOORS before the snow comes about Canada’s cultural and physical back. There are armloads of books landscape in a way that lets kids focus to help your kids explore the natural on their preferred highlights from world – why not drop by and take a each chapter. Historical facts, comics peek? and tweets are all part of the journey In Birds A to Z by Chris G. Alice invites us to travel along with Earley and Robert McCaw, each her as she makes coast to coast to coast discoveries. For kids who like to scribble dock- provides a neat fact or two about each side, we recommend the Canadian See Me Grow by Penelope Arlon fascinating creature. Most letters Wildlife Activity Book by Tom and Tory Gordon-Harris allows kids feature two insects, so kids are getting Hunter. This is great for kids looking to discover for themselves how all double the descriptions of creepy to spend some time doing puzzles and sorts of baby animals grow up, and crawlers. Like a larger encyclopedia, challenges in between swimming, what their lifecycles involve. Kids this book comes with a handy index boating and whatever else keeps them will learn the difference between at the end for quick reference. You busy away from home. True or false mammals, birds, reptile, amphibians, never know when you’ll need to get quizzes, mazes, artistic renderings to fish and insects. Everyone can expand the full scoop on the umbrella wasp! complete are just a few of the activity their knowledge while perusing this A very popular book at all times options for your cottager or camper. resource – for instance, I just learned of year, Hiking Trails of Ottawa: With such life-like illustrations, kids that baby rabbits are actually called the National Capital Region and will learn to identify and appreciate kittens. Who knew? Colour photos Beyond by Michael Haynes is an the wonderful Canadian wildlife that and picture sequences let kids see ideal addition to any stay-cation surrounds us all. exactly how these babies grow. For plans you may have for your troop Master illustrator Steve Jenkins families who remain connected to this summer. All fifty routes listed offers us a pageant of the most richly- page tells the story of a different bird the information superhighway over are within 100 km of our urban coloured animals on the planet in (one for every letter of the alphabet, the summer, you can also download centre, with options for both novice Living Color. This astonishing in fact…). This Canadian book on a free digital companion book (See and experienced hikers. Routes are picture book is not only rich in North American birds features close- Me Grow Fun!) which has lots of grouped geographically (Ottawa up photos and lots of informative text fun activities. That just might come – City and ; Western about each bird’s weight, wingspan, in handy on a rainy day. – Gatineau Park, etc.) and diet, nest location and much more. Bugs A to Z by Caroline Lawton trails are rated on difficulty level, A great book for home or cottage – gives kids an alphabet full of flying, time to complete, permitted uses as perhaps kids can see how many birds crawling and hopping bugs. Each well as dog use and fees. We highly they can find out of the 26 listed… letter features a magnified colour recommend this handy reference Let your inner ornithographer out! photo of the bug in question, and manual – sized appropriately to travel with you in your backpack or camera bag. For those making a cross- country trek this summer, you might

illustrations; it is a wealth of facts on how animals use colour to warn predators, signal friends, attract a mate or hide from enemies. The book ends with a pictorial index that gives a few more details on each of the creatures highlighted – how big they are, what they eat, where they live and more… You might not see all of these animals in your travels this summer, but I guarantee this book will keep want to check out Hey Canada! your patio-reader’s attention while by Vivien Bowers. Nine-year-old you enjoy your own book in the Alice’s camping road trip that starts sunshine. in Newfoundland and crosses every OSCAR Needs Volunteers For Monthly Distribution in OOS JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 29 “Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story” Three Rivers Muses presents the Anthropos Broadway United Solo Theatre Festival in New Glen Williamson, a founding member in production: York. New York City of The Actors’ Ensemble and “Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story” Through drama and masterful storytelling, New Directions Theater, appeared in numerous Performed by Glen Williamson (Member, Williamson transforms Goethe’s entire 24-hour- productions with both companies, as well as with Actors’ Equity Association) long, two-hundred-year-old classic drama into Walking the dog Theater. He currently plays multiple a 90-minute sometimes humorous and always roles in seven productions touring throughout North 29 July 2012 at 7 p.m. exhilarating battle for the soul of a man searching America and in Europe. His production company At the Amphitheatre of St. Paul University for truth, satisfaction . . . and a Goddess. Anthropos (the Greek word for human being) 223 Main Street in Ottawa, Ontario “Faust is the old legend of the guy who sold seeks to uphold and celebrate what is truly human his soul to the Devil. But Goethe gave the bargain through the arts of theater and storytelling. Visit man and a devil will battle it out at St. Paul some surprising twists!” Williamson says. “Beat the AnthroposTheater.com. University Amphitheatre as professional Devil! is astonishingly pertinent to our time and our For more information contact Three Rivers ANew York actor Glen Williamson performs struggle to be human. It’s about a guy who craves Muses at 613-422-3760 or FaustinOttawa2012@ Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story. Three knowledge, beauty and meaning. But,” Williamson gmail.com or visit www.brownpapertickets.com/ Rivers Muses presents the Anthropos production of adds, “when the devil tries to satisfy that craving, he event/252634. Advance sale tickets can be this one-man play about love, sex, murder, myth, finds out that’s not so easy.” purchased online at $25 each. Student tickets will magic, war, waves and a devil out of his depths. A short preview of this production (also known also be available at the door for $15 each. Based on Goethe’s theatrical masterpiece, Beat as The Tragedy of Mephistopheles) can be the Devil! comes to Old Ottawa South for ONE seen on YouTube Beat the Devil! (Faust, NIGHT ONLY. The award-winning adaptation the Whole Story). comes to Ottawa after its recent acclaim at the off Neighbourhood Toolkit s Ottawa’s sunny days draw more community spirit by organizing events like people outside, the warm weather barbecues, block parties and Movies in the Aoften brings a marked increase in Park. They are pitching in to clean up local criminal activity in our communities—from parks, conduct community safety audits and graffiti to partying, dangerous driving, drug run Neighbourhood Watch programs. Our dealing, discarded needles, property crime and Neighbourhood Toolkit offers excellent advice more. Now, residents of the city can access the and checklists to help others follow their lead.” new and improved Neighbourhood Toolkit, The Toolkit also features inspiring stories a valuable online resource to tackle these of Ottawa residents and groups who have made problems and build better communities. a difference in this city through their tireless Created by Crime Prevention Ottawa, efforts to build stronger, safer communities. the Neighbourhood Toolkit is available at Finally, it provides information about crimepreventionottawa.ca/toolkit. It is packed community programs and resources, as well as with ideas, information and resources to who to call in the event of an emergency or help you learn how to stay safe, protect your problem. property, deal with neighbourhood problems, Crime Prevention Ottawa offers and prevent crime and violence at work. Neighbourhood Toolkit presentations to The Neighbourhood Toolkit is also community groups by email request to cpo@ designed as a community-building resource. ottawa.ca. After all, crime prevention starts locally, when neighbours know their neighbours and take For more information: pride in their communities. Nancy Worsfold, Executive Director “There are people across Ottawa doing Crime Prevention Ottawa their part to make their neighbourhoods safe,” Telephone: 613-580-2424, ext. 28518 says Nancy Worsfold, Executive Director of Email: [email protected] Crime Prevention Ottawa. “They’re building

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1. Plant the Right Tree in the Right or compacting soil which can cause root Place. When planting new trees, make sure damage. Ninety per cent of a tree’s roots to match the species of tree you choose to the are located in the top two feet of soil and light, soil and space conditions of your yard. can extend up to three times the width of the Be sure to look up so you don’t plant under canopy. Use organic alternatives to fertilizers hydro wires and always call before you dig! and pesticides. Remove stakes after one year. 2. Water Regularly. Both newly planted and mature trees need regular watering. Each 5. Prune Properly. Educate yourself on week, feel the soil near the base of your tree. proper tree pruning. Hire a certified arborist If dry, give it a long, slow soak. and investigate their reputation by speaking with previous clients. 3. Mulch Regularly. Mulch (woodchips, leaves, compost) holds moisture, provides The Urban Forest Stewardship Network nutrients, prevents soil compaction, and (www.ufsn.ca) is an online resource for creates a protective space around your tree. organizations, community groups and Spread mulch three inches deep around the individuals working on urban forest base of your tree, ensuring it is not touching initiatives across Ontario. It is a platform for the trunk and causing decay. sharing experiences and resources, and for capacity building. Anyone interested in trees 4. Prevent Damage. Avoid digging near trees and urban forest issues is welcome to join! Page 30 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012

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By Yasir Naqui Since 2003, we have invested implement all of the recommendations become a global leader in clean $3.7 billion in the upgrading and highlighted in the review, which energy knowledge and products. I ith summer right around diversification of our energy system, include: • Reducing prices to balance am also pleased to see the success of the corner, many of us bringing over 8,000 new MW online the interests of all Ontarians, while solar microFIT projects right here in will be thinking about the – that is more than 20 per cent of our continuing to encourage investment Ottawa Centre – we see solar panels on W current energy capacity, and is enough – FIT prices will be reduced by homes, church roofs and businesses. energy and electricity that will be used to keep cool when the temperature electricity to power cities the size of more than 20 per cent for solar Building a clean energy system is part starts to rise. I encourage everyone to Ottawa and Toronto for a year. It and approximately 15 per cent for of the our government’s plan to create consider how we can conserve energy also includes 1,400 MW of renewable wind, while prices for water, biogas, and support jobs for Ontario families – small changes, like keeping your energy, enough to power more than biomass and landfill gas will remain while ensuring we have the electricity curtains drawn during the day and 400,000 homes. at current levels: we need to power our homes, schools washing your laundry in cold water, We recently completed the first • Encouraging greater community and hospitals. can make a big difference! bi-annual review of the Feed-In-Tariff and Aboriginal participation through a For more information about green Our government is also committed (FIT) Program, during which we new priority point system, which will energy in Ontario, please visit www. to developing clean, renewable consulted with families, businesses, also prioritize projects with municipal ontario.ca/greenenergy or www. sources of energy that will provide First Nations, municipalities and support; yasirnaqvimpp.ca, or call me at my Ontario with a reliable and sustainable industry. We are now taking immediate • Reserving 10 per cent of Community Office at 613-722-6414. supply of electricity. Ontario is the steps to ensure the long-term remaining capacity for projects with largest province in Canada, with the sustainability of renewable energy significant participation from local or Yasir Naqvi, MPP biggest industrial and manufacturing while creating more jobs, lowering Aboriginal communities. Ottawa Centre base and we need a modern stable and prices and giving communities a I am proud that our province’s clean energy system that supports our greater say in the process. clean energy sector continues to growing economy. We are acting quickly to evolve; we are now positioned to

THE WINDSOR CHRONICLE PART 35 Leash Technology

For nearly eight years, from July 2003 out to the cottage again – the packing technology, Boomer. This could be February 2000 to August 2008, Dear Boomer, of the van with all the paraphenalia the breakthrough we’ve been waiting OSCAR carried a monthly column that humanoids can’t seem to do for. With the knowledge of how to written by Zoscha the Wonder Dog. he days have been so hot, I’ve without. They pack water in a big use this leash, we could make the “The Windsor Chronicles” been content to sit under the blue jug, for example. Why they can’t humanoids obey our commands. made Zoscha a celebrity in the back steps most afternoons. simply lap water up from the lake like neighbourhood. Her observations T I do is beyond me. But then, I’ve We could make the leashes ring. Occasionally I get up the energy to on the passing scene, from a canine inspect the perimeter. Sometimes never seen them lap water up from a The humanoids would pick up the perspective, attracted her share of I patrol to make sure that no cat has puddle after the rain either. Curious leashes. We would order them to take loyal readers as well as critics. trespassed on the property. Sometimes beasts, these humanoids. us to the park. This would be much OSCAR is reprinting some of my intention is to protect the integrity Until I see Alpha packing up more effective control than simply Zoscha’s musings from eight years of the ground level, relegating the the water jug again, I wait patiently. waiting at the front door with a woe- ago. The editors have annotated squirrels to the branches of the cherry We follow our regular routines in begone look in our eyes. where today’s readers may need to tree. But sometimes the sun is so hot Windsor Park and along Bank Street. We’ll have to work on this. First be informed of references that are no I can’t be bothered. Bank Street is dustier than ever,(2) step: use our paws to punch the little longer familiar. We have also noted Alpha has been taking me to but the gravel on the road makes for buttons on the outside of the Alpha where recent scholarship has shed the cottage, which is a much more interesting massages on the paws. We leash. Next step, bark into it. Result: further light on the world Zoscha agreeable place for a summer have lost the routine of taking the Pup walkies! describes. afternoon. There are minnows to to the pup kennel up the hill, but there Don’t let your paws do the For a broader look at Zoscha’s stalk in the shallows, and chipmunks are other walks I prefer in any event. walking; let your paws prompt the world, including her collected works, that give you a running chance along And once again, Alpha has taken walk. visit: the ground before they disappear into to strapping wheels to his feet when www.zoscha.com. holes. he takes me out for a run – you can’t Thinking this through, Alpha, the Pup and the various call this going for a walk. He puts me Zoscha humanoid pups who come to visit on a leash, and he wears his leash too. throw the tennis ball far out into the He holds my leash in one hand, and he (1) No references to this dog occur water. Swimming after it is much straps his leash to his belt. Sometimes elsewhere in the Chronicles. It is easier on my elbows than chasing he wears it on a strap around his wrist. assumed that the cottage guests were a ball across the grass. The breeze (3) not from the neighbourhood. comes up from the lake, bringing My leash is activated by the tug different scents and ruffling the fur – gentle or insistent – that he applies. (2) The previous issue of the Windsor with coolness. I rub my back along His leash is activated by a ringing Chronicles (Part 34) established that the cedar branches. noise that makes him pull out his Bank Street was under construction. I must admit, a few weeks ago leash and put it against his ear. Then when Alpha was packing up the van whoever is holding the leash on the (3) Calista McCaffery, “A Dog’s Eye to return home, I didn’t want to come other end has Alpha’s full attention. View; Zoscha and the world of Old with him. I took shelter under the He begins to talk into his leash. Ottawa South,” Carleton University picnic table, hiding behind the legs of Sometimes those controlling Review, Summer, 2009, has offered Alpha’s humanoid friends. I hoped the leash control his actions. I’ve a compelling argument that the that Alpha would leave me behind known Alpha to respond to his leash humanoid “leash” referred to here is, with them and with my friend Luna. by turning around and heading back in fact, a cell phone. (1) home and going straight upstairs to But we’re back in the city. I wait his computer. for the signs that Alpha will take me We must acquire this leash JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 31

Local Veterinarian - Dr. Emily Black

All Muscled Up And No Place To Go

By Emily Black outstripping their bony scaffolding both bones of the joint to glide more The best is swimming. Here the water and end up putting too much weight smoothly against each other. It’s will support his weight but also force always like to take inspiration for and force when they move on the important to talk to your vet about him to start using that joint to swim. my articles based on something delicate joints. In these animals, the what products to use because the The improvement is drastic and it’s which has happened during the joints become distorted and don’t amounts in dogs and cats differ from a very simple form of physiotherapy. I move as fluidly as they are supposed that of people and also some forms As for people, there are actual week, often times I use questions brought to me by clients who have to. This results in inflammation which of the products work better than veterinary physiotherapists, masseuse found the answers to be helpful. I is the body’s response to things not others for dogs versus humans (in the and chiropractic trained specifically had two such clients come to me this working properly. The body puts out same way “Advil” works better than for animals. They are very useful in week, both with big black dogs, who all sorts of hormones and enzymes iburophen for many people (please this fight and help tired compensating if not crippled with arthritis would trying to fight whatever isn’t working, don’t give ibuprofen to your dog muscles as well as other joints who both have been as imposing as the however, in this case it’s the body or cat by the way)). Fish oils and are having to pick up an increased hounds of Baskerville. That said, the itself which isn’t working. It starts anti-oxidants are recommended as load of work due to the damaged preferred position of both these dogs laying down bone, trying to shore well. These actually move the body’s joints failure. Acupuncture is also a is lying on their backs in anticipation up the malfunctioning joint and in inflammation pathway in another great tool here. It works by treating of a welcome belly rub. doing so transforms itself from a well- direction, physically decreasing muscles and nerves and causing Both these dogs are suffering oiled machine to a rusted out hulk inflammation in those joints. Again, them to release and also decreasing from arthritis which afflicts dogs which hurts every time it moves a speak to your veterinarian about how inflammation. their size and breed, that is elbow millimeter! This in turn creates more much you have to give to be effective, Finally there are surgical options. dysplasia, the overshadowed sibling inflammation and the vicious cycle otherwise you are just wasting your The majority of these involve going of the more prominent and better worsens and worsens such that often money. into the joints, removing the debris known hip dysplasia. Dysplasia is by age 6 many of these animals are The next chink in the armor created by the arthritis, or removing a medical jargon for “Dys” meaning having trouble simply walking. is an injection which can be given the broken off bits which are floating bad and ‘plasis’ meaning formation. So how can this be prevented. to your animal. It works similarly around and obstructing the joints. The actual definition of the word is Basically the most reliable way is to to the above neutraceuticals but Although expensive, often times the enlargement of a tissue through feed these guys a large breed puppy provides a substance which can’t these are necessary and the results proliferation of cells of abnormal type. food. The idea of this food is that survive stomach acid. It works to are amazing. Finally there is a type In this situation it’s the enlargement of it actually has fewer calories per both decrease the inflammation and of surgery called arthrodesis. This a joint through the growth of abnormal unit fed than normal puppy food. It better cushion the joint. Moving on one involves getting rid of the joint bone. Basically, because of poor ensures that the muscles are restricted from here are all sorts of medications altogether and literally, by using conformation, the joint, be it elbow to a growth rate that matches that of which can decrease inflammation. It’s metal plates, gluing the joint shut or hip, become misshapen causing the slower growing large breed bone. important to note here as above that so that it doesn’t bend any more. inflammation and bones respond to This is counter intuitive and many it isn’t safe to give your dog human Although it makes for an animal with inflammation by shoring themselves people get into trouble thinking that drugs. Their livers lack an enzyme say, straight elbows, these animals up with abnormal bone growth. This to make their dog bigger, they should ours have such that even if you give do amazingly well. They weren’t really mucks things up. feed him more, higher calorie stuff… only a small amount their body using the joints anyway because they So, back to the beginning, what is on the one hand they are right, they multiplies that to such an extent that were so badly damaged and now, the the underlying cause of this problem? will end up with a very muscle bound it can damage their liver and kidneys. pain has been removed and they are Well, principally but not exclusively animal however, it won’t be very Your veterinarian has a large variety perfectly equipped to live out a great, it’s the problem of large dogs and cat. impressive as it won’t be able to move. of animal safe drugs they can advise comfortable, all be it, stilted life. YEP, dogs AND cats. For a long time For this reason it’s really important to you on to better effect. It’s a complicated balancing act everyone has known that this is the sort feed a food that is labeled not only The final component of standard and this is where your veterinarian is of thing we see in say, Great Danes, or for large breed but gives feeding treatment is physiotherapy, massage here to help. They will guide you step Retrievers but recently we’ve started amounts per current weight of animal, and acupuncture. The way joint by step as you add on the next tool in seeing it in the big cats, like the Maine not for predicted weight. This shows inflammation works in this situation the arsenal as it’s needed. They can Coons and the Norwegian forest cats. an understanding of feeding to what is perverse. Basically the joint is guide you where to go and when. The reason is this; a normally seized the bone frame is and not promoting inflamed and hurts and swells to With proper management many of dog or cat will reach bone maturation quick growth. support itself. The swelling and the these guys who would have a short 6 at about the one year mark. Puppy and What can be done once this has pain make you use it less. By using it year lifespan, live through to old age, kitten food is designed to provide a happened? This is the predicament less you actually prevent the nutritious comfortable and active. set amount of nourishment to allow ofone the aforementioned dogs who joint fluid from moving around, the this sort of growth. Large breeds was just adopted from the shelter? dried out joint loses its lubrication actually reach bone maturation at Well, effective treatment of these and the condition actually worsens. about 18 months, almost a whole year conditions is a multimodal approach. It’s a vicious cycle and the key to later. The problem is that muscle That is using everything at your managing arthritis is to keep the growth, unlike bone, is not dependent disposal to effectively manage the affected joints moving. One of the on time. You give it the right about arthritis and accompanying pain. This dogs I saw this week, although out of nutrition and it’s gonna grow and includes nutrition right through to chasing balls and running in the each body has a set program for how surgery. Firstly, you can supplement park, did so as a tin soldier would, big it’s will get. The muscles of these the diet with various neutraceuticals not moving either of his elbows to do large breeds know they are going to such as glucosamine, hyaluronic acid this. For this dog no simple exercise be large breed muscles and aim for and chondroitin. The effect of these is will do, we have to gradually and that size. Basically what ends up to thicken up the liquid buffer which gently put him through exercises happening is that the muscles end up exists in all joints thereby allowing that force him to use those front legs.

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“Classical Stretch” PBS TV at Hopewell PS he “Classical Stretch” PBS TV show visited Hopewell Public School June 11, 2012 and got the TGrade 2 kids going. It was on the CBC TV news at 6 last night. (link to video below). The show is apparently run by an OOSer. It is supposed to be on PBS TV sometime soon. Here’s a link to the story on the radio: http://www.cbc.ca/allinaday/2012/06/11/classical-stretch-in- the-classroom/ Here’s the link to the video on the TV news: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/ Ottawa/1305550861/ID=2244778930 Sudoku Solution Sudoku Puzzle is on page 27 JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 33

OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT

Community Use of Hopewell and Other OCDSB Gyms

By Rob Campbell with Firehall expansion, some of the for rental space in the downtown community access to space, but if we pressure was taken off. However, it when they have overflow needs. can at least grow the available pie by here is a long history to this simply is the case that OOS does not I was advised by our own Leo adding a Sunday rental option then issue. Several years ago now, have major activity space (such as the Doyle, an OOS community soccer it might help ease pressure over all. the International Languages Glebe Centre or as the Hopewell gyms club proponent, that they were told And, these are public facilities paid T can offer). Indeed, many downtown by the OCDSB rental office that for by us all. program came to Hopewell, an after school and weekend cost-recovery neighbourhoods find that they are they cannot rent Hopewell (or any As a result, I have put together program which provides heritage short of adequate gym and activity other school) space based on current a motion which will be heard at an language classes. Several OCDSB space. OCDSB Community Use of Space OCDSB Committee mid-June to schools host IL after hours and on Recently, proponents for an area rental rules. I checked in to this and try to address the Sunday access Saturdays and Hopewell was chosen soccer club have sought access to found to my surprise that it not only situation Board-wide. If successful as a modern central and fairly large the Hopewell gym but have found was the case that the OCDSB does at Committee, and we’ll see, then location with two gyms - they like to themselves blocked this time by not allow anyone to rent Sunday use it will go to Board for the end of offer games and gym time as well to pre-existing OSCA reservations of of school space but furthermore that, June presumably and then staff their language students. The IL school this space. Fair is fair and OSCA is notwithstanding this, there were yet implementation if successful there. If reserves and pays for rental space at equally entitled to these time slots and a limited number of groups across we can get this fixed, then there may the school and is fully cost-recovery can reserve them and pay for them Ottawa who indeed are allowed, be some hope to get this space opened for its programming. IL programming as may any other organization (we on a grandfathered basis, to pay a up by at least by Fall, if not over the is a Provincially supported initiative offer somewhat cheaper rates to non- below market rental rate based on summer. I’ll update you in a future and can draw students to a site from profit groups). And, now it seems that arrangements from many years ago. column. across Ottawa. elsewhere in the downtown an Ottawa This is ridiculous. To me, as long At that time, there were important Philippine community soccer club as would-be renters are willing to If you have a suggestion or a OSCA access concerns as, with wants access to downtown school cover the costs (i.e. custodial, wear- concern, or would like to be added the closure of St Margaret Mary’s gym space but cannot find it. It seems and-tear, heat & light, some admin) to my e-newsletter list, then please and prior to the Firehall expansion, clear that there may be a genuine and they should be allowed to rent our contact me via rob@ocdsbzone9. activity space was at a real premium general issue with respect to gaining facilities out on Sundays if they wish, ca or at 323-7803. Meeting and in Old Ottawa South. I talked with access to such space in our downtown and also the rates charged to all should document info available at www. staff and arranged some meetings communities. To add to the problem be transparently set, and be fair and ocdsb.ca and a modus vivendi was struck perhaps, some Kanata and suburban equitable. There is only so much that sharing Hopewell gym access. And, area groups and clubs also compete we can do re helping provide sufficient

Southside Learning to Measure By Paige Raymond Kovach measuring items in their classroom class their results. year of child-centred and interest- using a link toy as a comparison. The Southside Preschool hopes your driven learning. Southside teachers embers of the Southside children explored what was longer or summer measures up too! look forward to hearing about summer Senior Kindergarten Group shorter, and then they charted their Southside Preschool thanks all adventures at the start of the next Mdevelop their math skills by discoveries to show the rest of the children, parents and staff for a great school year on September 4, 2012.

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he insecure entrances to their home would like to remind the including garage doors, as well as Tpublic to be extra vigilant and front and rear windows. secure their residence at all times. Anyone with information in With the summer months now regards to suspicious activities in upon us, the Ottawa Police Service their neighborhood, day or night is has experienced an increase in asked to contact the Ottawa Police reported residential break and enters Service Break and Enter Team at where insecure and/or open windows 613-236-1222, ext.4533 or call and doors were targeted. Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477 The Ottawa Police Service is (TIPS) or 1-800-222-8477. asking residents to be mindful of any Page 34 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 15 Years Since The Passing of England’s Rose By Anna Redman public engagement. She chose the strapless dress because she though it he year 2012 marks the made her look older and more mature. fifteenth anniversary of her She was criticized, however, for death. In the early hours of the dress’s revealing nature and for T wearing the colour black, which the August 31, 1997, the world learned of the fatal car crash in Paris that had Royal Family typically reserves for claimed the life of Diana, Princess of mourning. As she bent to exit the car Wales. upon her arrival at the event, the press Masses swarmed to Kensington went wild. The monarchy did not. Palace, her London residence, in A different collection of Diana’s grief. Flowers were laid outside the dresses will be available later in the south facing golden gates, spreading year and some of Princess Margaret’s wide like an endless sea of colour, and will also be on show. The Palace reaching more than five feet in height. is currently putting together an It was from here that her funeral exhibition, prominently featuring procession began, one week later, on Diana and Margaret, with the intent September 6, 1997. Kensington Palaca of showcasing them as modern The palace, which has stood since princesses. The two women were 1689, had never witnessed anything Since that time, tourists and locals exhibition, examining the life of neighbours during Diana’s time at the like it, but that’s not to say that nothing alike have been able to visit and Queen Victoria. Featuring archived palace. significant has ever occurred within photograph certain rooms within the footage from Victoria’s Diamond A number of monarchs have the palace walls. In actuality many palace. Jubilee in 1897, an exploration of the experienced their own historical important events have taken place Currently these include ‘The engagement and marriage of Victoria events within the walks of Kensington there. Other than Princess Diana, King’s State Apartments,’ formerly and Albert and a collection of jewelry, Palace. Some, such as the incendiary Queen Victoria may be the palace’s used by the courts of George I and II. clothing sculptures and paintings, this bombing that damaged the Queen’s most famous resident. She was born Visitors in this section of the palace can exhibition is interesting, informative apartments in 1940 are more recent, at Kensington Palace, and it was also explore seven rooms and the King’s and not to be missed. while many of the exhibits on show here that she learned when she had staircase. Highlights include a gilded Possibly the biggest draw to are immortalizing the past. Many who become Queen. armchair belonging to Frederick, son Kensington Palace, however, is have resided at this famous London In fact, the palace may not have to George II, a magnificent ceiling the ‘Diana: Glimpses of a Modern palace will never be forgotten, stood for Diana to live in if it had painted by William Kent in 1723, and Princess,’ exhibit. Also opened in Diana included. Despite 15 years not been fro Queen Victoria. It was a collection of court dresses. March of this year, it will be displayed having passed, mourners still return she who saved the palace from its ‘The Queen’s State Apartments’ until October 28. Housed in a small to Kensington Palace’s golden gates probable demolition in 1897. At this feature five rooms and a grand staircase room, this display showcases a small on Diana’s birthday (July 1) and the time the State Apartments had fallen that leads outside to the magnificent collection of some of Diana’s most anniversary of her death (August into disarray, as had the brick and gardens. This area will teach visitors famous dresses. The tiny room can be 31) to lay flowers in her memory. woodwork. Parliament’s plan was to about history as it pertains to Queen found off a long hallway, wallpapered Kensington Palace houses decades dispose of the building, but the Queen Anne and Mary II. in caricatures of the late Princess. of significant historical moments, instead, convinced them to fund the ‘Victoria revealed,’ is a new Inside, visitors can view the famous and now the late Princess of Wales is restoration before opening the State addition to Kensington Palace. Opened black taffeta gown, designed by the counted among them. Apartments to the public in 1899. in March of this year it is a thorough Emanuels and worn for Diana’s first

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n May 25, the Federal Minister funding agencies. The project’s first Sudbury, Ont., in May. SNOLAB has department researched the sites of State for Science and phase lasts until 2016 and focuses 5,000 metres of space for experiments, that cover the 202-kilometre canal. OTechnology, Gary Goodyear, on poverty reduction, violence making it the deepest and cleanest Students in the Sprott School of announced a Social Sciences and against women, community food, underground laboratory in the world. Business marketed the application, Humanities Research (SSHRC) grant security and community environment It is an expansion of the facilities made while the Canada Interactive Fund for a Carleton University Community sustainability. The second phase will for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory of Heritage Canada funded its First: Impacts of Community run from 2016 to 2019 and will deal (SNO) solar neutrino experiment, development on the condition it be Engagement (CFICE) research with policy change. which was conducted from 1999 updated and maintained for five years. proposal. CFICE will receive $2.5 Carleton announced the opening to 2006 and proved the neutrino, a Carleton awarded nine honorary million over seven years beginning in of SNOLAB, a research facility two subatomic particle, has mass. The lab degrees during spring convocation fall 2012 to help strengthen Canadian kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface already houses eight experiments, from June 5 to 8. Astronaut Julie non-profits, colleges, universities and at the Vale Creighton Mine near three of which involve dark matter, Payette was awarded the degree of which is thought to make up a large doctor of engineering, honoris causa. part of the total mass in the universe. Writer Anne Michaels received the Prof. James Opp, co-director of degree of doctor of literature, honoris Carleton’s Centre for Public History, causa. The other seven recipients has unveiled a mobile application received the degree of doctor of laws, that’ll make walks along the Rideau honoris causa, including philosopher Canal a lot more interesting. Users of Ian Hacking, Giller Prize-winning Rideau Timescapes can look at more writer Elizabeth Hay, HIV/AIDS than 700 photos, some up to 150 years advocate Ron Rosenes and Craig old, and read historical descriptions in and Marc Kielburger, who Carleton French and English of 26 lockstations honoured for their work with Free the by tapping red pins of a map of Children and Me to We. the canal, which stretches from Carleton Corner is written by Ottawa to Kingston, Ont. The free Carleton University’s Department of application can be found on Apple’s University Communications. As your App Store and will soon be available community university, Carleton hosts for Android phones. Carleton staff many exciting events of interest to and students led the development of Ottawa South. For more information Rideau Timescapes, as the School of about upcoming events, please go to Information Technology developed it carleton.ca/events. after master’s students in the history JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 35 Dubliners’ Dublin By Don Cummer tries to sponge off Corley, and Corley as he plans to sponge off the housemaids from the Georgian very June 16, James Joyce fans from townhouses of the neighbourhood. around the world gather in Dublin to mark A great way to see a city with new eyes. “Bloomsday” – the day in the life of Leopold In the finale of “Two Gallants,” Lenehan E catches up to Corley on Ely Street, where the big Bloom as chronicled in Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses. man reveals the gold coin that he has wormed out Often they begin at the Martello tower where of his date for the evening. Having followed the Joyce lived during his student years. Sometimes two through the streets of the neighbourhood, I was they dress in Edwardian costumes as they follow looking for some refreshment. Around the corner, the peregrinations of Leopold Bloom through on Baggot Street, was a pub made famous by a the city. A favoured station of the cross is Davy different generation of “Dubliners” – the folk group Byrne’s Pub on Duke Street, where Bloom stopped that took their name from the Joyce stories. for a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of The walls of O’Donoghues are festooned Burgundy. with old photos of Luke Kelly and the others who Dublin has a lot of pubs. In fact, Joyce once performed in the back room and helped launch a posed this riddle: How can you find a way to walk global revival of Irish music in the 1960s. But on across the city of Dublin without passing a single a spring afternoon, the focus of regulars is not on pub? Most Dubliners I asked concede that this music but on the horse races telecast on the screens would be impossible. above the bar. I’ve never been to Dublin for Bloomsday, but Although the tourists at O’Donoghues often during a visit in May, I came across another way outnumber the locals, this place is no shrine to a to explore James Joyce’s city. As a young man, he past golden age of Dublin. It’s a living, breathing had written a series of 15 short stories that showed social centre where, over a pint of Guinness, you the psychological underbelly of his hometown. He Don Cummer with James Joyce can talk to the punters between their trips down the called the collection Dubliners. street to lay their bets at the bookmakers. These are Inspired by the exhibit, I picked up a copy of This year, the National Gallery of Ireland is people that could come straight from the pages of a the book in the museum gift shop and took it down presenting an exhibit of art works either inspired James Joyce story. the street to Merrion Square to read. I opened it at by the locations of these short stories, or painted By the way, there is a solution to Joyce’s riddle: random. The action on the page before me took during the period by contemporaries such as Jack to cross Dublin without ever passing a pub, simply place in this very park. Yeates. ensure that you don’t pass the pub – instead, go So I followed the footsteps of the characters Each image is paired with a passage from the inside each one and have a pint. through the streets, as far as the book, my map, book, and the combination evokes that pre-war era However, making it across the city in this and the GPS in my blackberry would allow. The of gaslights and horse-drawn tram cars, and presents fashion would be even more difficult than trying to locations are all there, much as they were in 1904. a snapshot of the social history of a city that was, at navigate a pub-free route. Dame Street, Grafton Street, Stephen’s Green, that time, down at the heels. the Shelbourne Hotel – following Lenehan as he Understanding Systemic Inflammation, Oral Hygiene, and Cardiovascular Disease By: Dr. Nasrin Saba DDS progress to periodontitis, which is a lead to heart attacks. and just may benefit your heart as more destructive form. 2. Another possibility is that the well! ow do you know if gum 2. Periodontitis. This is a more inflammation caused by periodontal Dr. Nasrin Saba is a dentist and disease may threaten your advanced form of gum disease, when disease increases plaque build up, the owner of Bank Street Dentistry heart health? the infection has gone deeper. The which may contribute to swelling of located at 1189 Bank Street. 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While the mechanism linking to learn about whether, and how, References: Healthy gums are firm, light pink, gum disease with cardiovascular periodontitis and other oral problems American Journal of Medicine and very elastic. So if that description disease has not been established, are linked to heart disease, it still Journal of The Royal Institute of doesn’t fit the gums in your mouth, several theories exist to explain this. makes good sense to take care of your Public Health it’s time for a checkup. Watch for 1. One theory is that oral bacteria can teeth. Brush and floss every day, and PubMed Health American Academy of these symptoms of gum disease: affect the heart when they enter the see your dentist at least twice a year Periodontology • Red, swollen gums blood stream. The billions of bacteria for regular cleanings and oral exams. and other microscopic critters that live This will pay off for your oral health Harvard Health Publications • Bleeding after you floss or brush Science daily • Receding gums or noticing that in the mouth unquestionably influence you seem to see more of a tooth than the health of teeth and gums, but do you used to they also cause problems for the • Pus on the gums heart and blood vessels? Researchers • Pain when you bite or chew found diseased gums released high • Loose teeth levels of bacterial pro-inflammatory components into the bloodstream. The major conditions affecting the These harmful components travel to gums are: other organs in the body, such as the 1. Gingivitis. This early stage of gum heart, and potentially cause harm. disease develops when bacteria build For example, bacteria may attach to up in the gap between the gums and fatty plaques in the coronary arteries a tooth. The most common form is (heart blood vessels) and cause in response to plaque, or a bacterial clot formation or by thickening biofilm adhering to tooth surfaces. of the walls due to the buildup of Symptoms may be mild, but you may fatty proteins. Blood clots and wall notice some redness, swelling, or thickening can obstruct normal bleeding. The only treatment you need blood flow, restricting the amount of is improved brushing and flossing nutrients and oxygen required for the habits. Neglecting this, gingivitis may heart to function properly. This may Page 36 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT OTTAWA CENTRE Proposed Changes to EI Will Hurt Workers

By Paul Dewar the government with job postings in three categories of workers will It could create a cyclical their occupation. New Democrats be created: long-tenured workers, effect where frequent he Budget Implementation are concerned that there are no clear frequent claimants and occasional users will see their wages continually Bill C-38 will be introducing guidelines for what will constitute claimants. driven down by the need to take jobs significant changes to EI that reasonable proof of job search or Long tenured workers who have at 70% of their previous wage. T who will be monitoring EI recipients paid into EI for the past 7 of the past My colleagues and I are against will negatively impact workers. The Conservative government to ensure that they are meeting the 10 years but have collected EI benefits these unfair changes to EI. Even now, has yet to fully reveal all the details criteria for reasonable search. It’s for 35 weeks of less over the past 5 only 4 in 10 unemployed Canadians of these changes; however, we also not evident whether there will years will have 18 weeks to search for receive EI benefits when there are 6 know that Bill C-38 will give the be any consideration of personal a job in the same occupation at 90% Canadians for every job opening in Minister of Human Resources and circumstances, such as a person’s of their previous wage. After that, Canada. The changes will only further Skills Development the power to inability to access the internet. With they will be required to expand their increase the number of people unable create regulations concerning what the shutdown of the Community job search to include positions at 80% to access benefits. constitutes “suitable employment” Access Program, which provided of their previous wage. EI benefits are paid for by workers and “reasonable and customary free public access points for internet Frequent claimants who have and employers and the government efforts” to find employment. and computer use, many Canadians made 3 or more claims and have shouldn’t be interfering in the program The definition of suitable will be prevented from accessing job received more than 60 weeks of and telling workers they won’t get the employment will include factors like postings and conducting job searches. benefits in the past 5 years will have benefits they paid for in good faith. personal circumstances, working My colleagues and I believe to start their job search by looking for conditions, hours of work, commuting that these changes to EI will jobs at 80% of their previous wage. The recent inappropriate time, type of work and wages. What is unduly punish workers. While the After 6 weeks, they will have to take comments from various government not clear is how these factors will be Conservative government keeps any job that they are qualified to ministers on these changes weighted and who will be making the talking about an impending labour perform and to accept jobs at 70% of also illustrate the Conservative decision. shortage, the current measures will do their previous wage. government’s intention to force In terms of reasonable and nothing to increase training and skills Occasional claimants will have 6 workers to accept any kind of job customary efforts to find employment, development, which many workers weeks to look for a job in the same under any conditions rather than focus this will be based on criteria such as desperately need to get ahead. The occupation at 90% of their previous on a genuine job creation strategy. job search activity, intensity of job government’s decision to punish the wage. After 6 weeks, they will have to New Democrats are committed search effort, type of work being unemployed for being unemployed look for jobs at 80% of their previous to continue working to improve sought, and evidence of job search will do nothing to match people’s wage. And after 18 weeks, they will Canada’s employment insurance efforts. EI applicants will need to skills with job openings. need to take any job that they are system to make it fairer and more prove that they’re searching for job The changes to EI will also qualified to perform that pays at least equitable, and developing a real job openings, submitting applications, have the effect of depressing wages 70% of their previous earnings. creation strategy to help Canadians and attending interviews everyday that because workers will be forced to These changes will negatively get back to work. they are receiving benefits. Canadians accept lower waged jobs or lose their impact low waged workers and will will receive emails twice a day from benefits. Under the new measures penalize seasonal and rural Canadians. Tasty Tidbits from Trillium Bakery Homemade TRILLIUM RECIPES By Jocelyn LeRoy do it. Just rip off the box, nuke ‘em, and voila __ dinner. You can eat individual-size dinners standing Down East f you grew up poor in the last two generations, up if you want, and then keep going on the run! you may have had too much tapioca pudding, Ahh… let’s relax a little. Let’s get back to a Molasses Cookies “fish eyes and glue.” My mother hated it. I also slower time when a family took a pause to relax over Beat until soft ½ cup butter or shortening. I a meal. It was a sit-down social gathering at which Add gradually ½ cup sugar. know people who suffered through boiled dinner, and others who ate oatmeal for dinner (“sticks to we shared not only food, but also events of the day Beat in 1 egg and ½ cup molasses. your ribs, son”) – homemade, of course. My father and dreams for the future. I think most of us are ready Have ready ½ cup buttermilk. told of “puddin’ ends,” which he ate in the bowels to make room for this and thereby rediscovering Sift together 2 ½ cups cake flour, 1 tsp. of a steamship. These are not our finest moments of homemade. We can spare the prep time it takes to each of ginger and cinnamon, ¼ tsp. cloves, ¼ “homemade.” use real, local and often organic foods. tsp. salt. Today, homemade is often a rarity because we No matter how simple, meals together should Add these sifted ingredients in 3 parts – think we have no time to prepare food from scratch be a special time, savoured and enjoyed. It’s a time alternating with the buttermilk – to the sugar and regularly assemble meals lovingly, deliciously of connecting to ourselves, our family members and mixture. and healthfully. No time. Too busy. the food we eat (mindful eating). Beat the batter until smooth. Supermarkets, delis and specialty shops provide So put away the gadgets and turn off the Add ½ cup raisins. your dinner, fully ready to go. Even we at Trillium computer! Drop batter from a teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake 8 – 12 minutes at 350º F.

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COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS 05c@r-P@55w0rd byMalcolm and John is to have a bulletproof password for contribution to its strength. www.pcworld.com/ Harding, of Compu-Home that email account. : Be sure that the password relates businesscenter/article/187454/ So the unfortunate fact is that we somehow (but obscurely) to the site. creating_secure_passwords_you_ nthusiastic computer and all must become experts in creating A forgotten password is worse than can_remember.html suggests that Internet users might be and maintaining strong passwords. useless. Bill Gates was off the mark when he shocked if they ever sat We have some suggestions, and then declared the password “dead” in 2004. E some homework for you at the end of A few strategies to help you create Lots more ideas and links here too. down and calculated the number of passwords that they have to use in the the column. stronger passwords: www.microsoft.com/security/ course of a month. Email, banking, : Decide on a plan for creating online-privacy/passwords-create.aspx online purchases, the library, credit Some password pitfalls to avoid: new passwords and upgrading existing and http://news.consumerreports. cards, professional organizations, : Never use a word that will be ones, and be consistent. org/electronics/2011/12/how-to- newspapers and magazines. . . we found in a dictionary – English or : You could use the first letter of create-a-strong-password-and- bet there aren’t many daily users who otherwise. each word of a sentence related to the remember-it.html are articles from have fewer than 50. The trick is to : Including numerals before or site. “This is my password to access Microsoft and Consumer Reports make them easy for you to remember, after a password word adds very little my bank” could become Timptamb. respectively, with valuable thoughts but impossible for the hackers to strength. : Strengthen the above, by about your protection. crack. : Spelling a word backwards is substituting numbers and symbols that Sadly, it often seems like the futile. resemble the corresponding letters. We always enjoy hearing from hackers are winning. We’re getting : Random password generators Timptamb becomes T1mpt@m6. readers and we learn lots from you reports at least once a day from people will almost certainly result in you Similarly, the password for your email when you get in touch. Write or call who have had their email accounts forgetting them. account could be 1w3fm3p – “I won’t us any time. compromised, and a one-line email : Never re-use the same password ever forget my email password.” Malcolm, Frances and John has been sent to everyone in their for more than one site. : Use a “core” password, with Harding are the owners of Compu- address book that said something like, : Don’t list your passwords on variations pertaining to each specific Home, assisting home and business Hey, take a look at this awesome site: paper or in a text file on your computer. site: h@r61n9-r0g3r$ for “Harding- computer users. www.badsite.com. This form of spam Rogers” and h@r61n9-p@yp@1 Be sure to visit our web site for is so common right now that almost Some general rules: for “Harding-PayPal,” etc. an archive of our columns. www. everyone has learned just to delete : When you are assigned a compu-home.com the message and never click on the password the first time you access a Write to info@compu-home. link, but the real problem is in how to site, you will be invited to change it; Further reading: com or phone 613-731-5954 to protect yourself from being hijacked always do that. http://howsecureismypassword. discuss computer issues, or to in the first place, and the fact is that : Generally, the length of a net is a website where you can find out suggest future columns. one of the most effective measures password is the most important how strong a password is.

Tell OSCAR Readers Abbotsford @ The Glebe Centre about interesting people, your travel All Things Royal or your interests. By: Pat Goyeche pin of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee was Send text and photos to worn with pride by one enthusiast and well as a [email protected] he Queen’s Royal Jubilee was suitably silk scarf depicting this event by another. feted at Abbotsford at The Glebe Centre Pat Steenberg shared her maternal this past month! We couldn’t match the grandmothers, Reta Shook’s “Coronation T Shoes” (size 4 ½) which she purchased and flotilla, the crowds nor the spectacular concert but we made quiet a splash with the help of Albert wore for Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation in Benoit and guests at our Royal Commemorative 1953. At the time Steenberg was a five year Tea. Staff and guests alike pulled out the stops old, accompanying her grandparents who had with their garb and memorabilia. traveled from Toronto to visit with Stenberg’s Albert Benoit is a collector with a past! He parents who were ensconced in life in Oxford, has rubbed shoulders with royalty on more than England while her father studied at this famous one occasion (in his professional life) and was University. Her memories of the event are able to share some of his stories and memorable contained to “being excited about my new memorabilia with fellow royal enthusiasts! dress….so excited that I woke and dressed His expertise and collection were elaborately early….a bit too early at 11 pm the night displayed in the historical Abbotsford dining before”. She also recalls being embarrassed by room. This combined with collective memorabilia her fathers cheer “Yeah Lizzy!” as the carriage made for a most enjoyable afternoon. A souvenir passed. The delicate china cups, homemade Queen Elizabeth Cake, Buckingham Palace Tea, personal scrapbooks, china plates, shoes, scarves, books and pins all made for a all things Royal afternoon that the attendees won’t soon forget. Abbotsford at The Glebe Centre is a community centre for adults 55 +. Keep track of events, fitness and art classes by dropping in Monday – Friday 8:30 – 4:30 and picking up our latest Summer Program Guide. (950 Bank Street: the old stone house across from Lansdowne Park) We are always keen to meet both old and new friends….don’t be shy! Photo by Pat Goyeche hoto by Marc Beauchamp

th Page 38 The OSCAR - OUR 40 YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 What’s Your Legacy? by Rick Sutherland, CLU, Without proper planning you end up baby boom generation is in the ideal events that needs to be considered. CFP, FDS, R.F.P with a default legacy. Another type of position and should be ready, willing It goes far beyond a mere recording legacy is the politically correct legacy. and able to assist their aging parents of history for future generations. state planning is something And the type of legacy that is the most and other senior adults with this final It is your personal search for your that is supposed to be done rewarding is the organic legacy. task. Appreciate that our elders are not definition of purpose and meaning. before one dies. The legal The first step toward organic really “losing it”, but rather they are When complete you should have a E legacy planning is to reflect back progressing through a different stage clear understanding of your life events document in the estate planning process is called the will. The will upon your life. We are not talking of life at a different pace. It’s a time and how you want to be remembered. determines how a person’s financial about glorifying the “good old days.” when the older adult is not hurried Then you can finalize your legacy affairs are to be dealt with at death. It You want to gain an understanding of and looking for the next promotion. plan and complete your will. shows how assets are to be transferred what your life has been all about. A Decisions are not necessary on the The foregoing is for general to the desired recipients at the desired journal is quite useful for this purpose. spot. Our older adults move more information purposes and is the times with details of any restrictions. It Remember when and where you slowly, process information more opinion of the writer. This information should suggest the simplest and most made a difference. Identify personal, slowly and make decisions more is not intended to provide personal cost effective way for the transfer to family and career achievements. carefully. The trick is to be patient advice including, without limitation, occur and with the least amount of tax Recall people who made a difference with our elders and never allow them investment, financial, legal, paid. in your life and where you made a to feel that they have lost control. accounting or tax advice. Please call It sounds like a lot of fun, doesn’t difference in someone else’s life. As It takes time and support to sort or write to Rick Sutherland CLU, it? Not really, who likes to think about this process evolves you will develop through one’s life. Invite your family CFP, FDS, R.F.P., to discuss your their own demise. That’s why many an understanding of what you want to or close friends to take part in your particular circumstances or suggest put off and/or never get around to pass along and how you want to be journey. Tell your stories and revisit a topic for future articles at 613- proper estate planning. We are about remembered. the events that shaped your life. There 798-2421 or E-mail rick@invested- to suggest an alternative way to think It is a demanding process that will be good memories as well as bad interest.ca. Mutual Funds provided about it and lead to a more holistic should not be tackled alone. It may ones. Some memories may be painful through FundEX Investments Inc. will. It’s called legacy planning. require teamwork to do an effective while others will be filled with joy. The key word here is planning. job of developing your legacy. The It will be an exhaustive inventory of Boys’ Choir Summer Camp Offered at St. Matthew’s By Neville Nankivell Costing $75 and open to boys aged 8 to 13, the Monday to Thursday or boys in Ottawa who enjoy camp will be held at the church music and would like the (217 First Avenue, just west of opportunity to sing in a choir, Bank Street). No previous singing F experience is needed. St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe will hold a summer camp “Singing in a choir is a team- August 27-30. building experience as well as

Members of the boys choir singing by the piano in St. Matthew’s. Photo credit: Joel Reimer.

being fun,” says Kirkland Adsett, want the experience of singing in an St. Matthew’s music director and all-boys’ choir. organist. “Not every boy who comes Interested parents should phone to the camp will want to commit to the church at 613-234-4024 or email joining our choir, but we are hoping [email protected] some will.” to reserve a space at the camp or to The boys-only program includes request more information. voice exercise warm-ups, learning The Men and Boys’ Choir at St. new repertoire, music theory and sight Matthew’s follows the centuries-old singing in the 9am-12 noon morning English Cathedral tradition and has sessions, and, after a break for lunch, achieved an enviable reputation in sports and out-trips in the 1pm-4pm Canada and abroad. Over the years afternoon sessions. (Boys bring their hundreds of boys have benefitted from own lunch.) musical training at St. Matthew’s. Participants will include present Several have gone on to highly members of the St. Matthew’s Boys’ successful international singing Choir but the camp is open to all who careers.

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Need a new summer challenge? Sips from By Marysol Comeau of grueling yet fun and challenging exercises at Windsor Park in Old Ottawa South. the Poetry Café ired of the old gym routine? Register for What to expect from each session? Mathieu Dore’s Outdoor Boot Camps A full body conditioning workout using body Summertime in Windsor Park weight, free weights, heavy ropes, ladders, kettle T bells and medicine balls and more! Each session By: Susan Atkinson Mathieu Dore, owner and founder of MDTRAINING.CA, personal trainer, is very dynamic, will intensify over time and will ulramarathon runner, and health coach is target both cardio vascular and physical fitness …It’s in the air. It’s there in the sunshine, the passionate about fitness. His goal is to encourage and strength. warmth, the longer days. It’s wonderful! It’s and help others live a healthy and active lifestyle! Why will this work for you? summertime! This weekend I was treated to one of What better way to do that than by developing an Mat will bring the fun back into the the absolute treasures of this season – a firefly show affordable boot camp program that brings groups workout. You will no longer have to deal with and I was thinking about keeping my thoughts very of all ages and fitness levels outdoors for an hour the intimidation of overcrowded gyms. You will simple this month with something nice and short be challenged, you will be pushed, you will be – a poem about one of the most glorious sights of motivated, you will be accountable, you will be summer. sore and you will see RESULTS! Summer’s Dance they began to land. The outdoor bootcamps are held every At my feet Sunday in Windsor Park starting at 9:00 am. The I had a dream a carpet grew drop-in Fee is 10$ and no registration is required. on a summer’s night of yellows and reds MDTRAINING is also offering indoor bootcamps that hundreds of fireflies green and blue. at The Glebe Fitness located on the corner of Bank flickered in flight I tip-toed through Street & Fifth Avenue every Wednesday & Friday butterflies fluttered this glorious sight at 12:15 pm. and joined in the show a ballerina bathed Please visit the MDTRAINING’s website a ballet of wings in firefly light. (http://www.mdtraining.ca) for more information their colours aglow. I had a dream and to learn more about Mathieu Dore. I had a dream I was a whisper of air that they took my hand dancing free and as I danced without a care. 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And it’ll guide you as you make able to provide? crucial decisions about how much life, • How can I get updates on my disability, and health insurance you’ll holdings? need to safeguard your livelihood and • Do you provide sample portfolios your family’s security. and their historical performance? Page 40 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Why I Love Beavers by Annie Bananie weekend reminded me exactly of the importance of parents involvement couts Canada has been serving in children’s lives; not only parents Canadian youth for over 100 and their children but adults from years. My son Owen is a Beaver the community coming together and S supporting, and upholding a space for and this past weekend swam up to Cubs. The ceremony was held around children in the community to feel safe a camp fire at Camp Opemikon near as they discover themselves in this Perth, Ontario. We stayed for two crazy world. Together we can create nights, slept on bunk beds in a cute a good base and hold the space for little green cabin. My daughter, Zoe, them to thrive and grow into healthy being a Girl Guide which is a sister individuals, and as adults be great organization to Scouts, was invited to peers for the young in their lives. be in on the fun and fun it was. Scouts Canada is a volunteer We were new to 17th Ottawa based organization. They depend on Southminster Beaver colony since people like us to give of ourselves scheduling technicalities prevented and share our gifts for a better world. him from continuing with his previous Often we hear about what’s wrong Owen building his bird house group. It was wonderful because we with the world - well I believe that arrived on Friday night with knowing in the woods. We climbed over rocks, Owen were stoked as we bought them there is loads of good that surrounds us practically nobody and left on Sunday climbed steep hills and followed the their very first real water gun. In fact and that Scouts Canada is one of those feeling like part of the gang. I love winding path to the look out which the whole camp awaited the fun battle good things. In fact in September I how children can step right into a overlooked Christie Lake. Parents of getting soaked. I cannot express plan on becoming a Cub leader! group of strangers and within a couple and children walked side by side or how joyous it was. The laughter Read the complete blog and see of hours be playing as though they in single file and our leader educated ringing through the trees, small legs more photos at Annie Bananie’s blog were old friends. us on the ecology of our surroundings running with delight and parents at www.anniebananie.ca I love Scouts Canada. What do I and how to care for it. “Leave no trace getting into the action. For more information on love about it? Well it brings families that we were here”. A message of With hammer and nails we crafted becoming a Beaver, Cub, or Scout and community together. It teaches respect for nature was translated and I our very own bird houses. I helped leader with your local Scout leadership, friendship, caring for enjoyed it as much as the kids. both Zoe and Owen build theirs and Group contact the 17th Ottawa others and a love for the outdoors. On That afternoon was the well it’s interesting how both approached Southminster Scout Group via email: Saturday morning we went for a hike awaited water gun fight. Zoe and the project differently. This past [email protected]

The TFSA: A Flexible Savings Choice By Bob Jamieson, CFP Savings Plan (RRSP) for everything amounts withdrawn are added back to money that he or she can then use else beyond retirement.” Unlike your contribution limit amount in the to contribute to a TFSA without he Tax-Free Savings Account with an RRSP, you can access the following year. affecting your TFSA contribution (TFSA) is frequently called money in your TFSA with no tax Any Canadian resident who room or attracting income attribution. “a Registered Retirement consequences for any need, and the has reached the age of majority can • You are transitioning to retirement. T contribute up to $5,000 annually The TFSA can offer you tax-free to a TFSA (retroactive to 2009). income during retirement, which But when should you consider may help diversify your income this type of savings plan? A stream. You can hold accounts with TFSA may be useful if: differing tax treatments in order to • You are a younger help smooth out your tax liabilities. investor. If you are currently in • You are retired. Unlike with an a low tax bracket and expect RRSP, there is no requirement to close to be in a higher bracket in the your TFSA at age 71. In addition, you future, contributing to a TFSA can continue to contribute to a TFSA may be best for you. RRSPs even though you may no longer be offer tax savings if your income eligible to make RRSP contributions. is in a higher tax bracket when • You are interested in preserving your you contribute to the plan and financial legacy. The TFSA allows in a lower bracket when you you to directly name a beneficiary. withdraw. By contributing Upon your death, your TFSA assets to a TFSA while in a low tax can pass directly to your beneficiary bracket, your investments grow tax free and also avoid probate. tax free. 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In addition, you can give your spouse JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 41 Old Ottawa South’s Word Guardian By William Burr doesn’t live there, who doesn’t know the issues, or doesn’t speak with the voice of somebody who’s t may come as a surprise that the editor of the there.” IOSCAR for the past seven years doesn’t consider That’s one of the things that distinguishes herself a journalist. OSCAR from the dreaded competition, the EMC “It’s not really journalism because I felt my chain, a for-profit line of hyper-local papers owned whole purpose was community-building -- and to by Torstar Corporation. Mary Anne doesn’t mince build community, [you] encourage as many people words about them: “I wanted to create something in the community to contribute to the newspaper - that was very competitive to EMC by providing what to make it theirs,” says Mary Anne Thompson. they claim to deliver -- a community newspaper.” This is the last OSCAR for Mary Anne, who is Besides the different tone of OSCAR, it also has far 60. She’s leaving the paper to spend more time with fewer advertisements then EMC. Mary Anne says her daughters, who live in Seattle and St. Louis. OSCAR is about 30 per cent ads, while EMC is As she steps away from her editor’s desk, she about 67 to 75 per cent ads. During Mary Anne’s can say that she’s achieved her goal. She leaves tenure at OSCAR’s helm, the not-for-profit paper behind a wad of newsprint stuffed with articles by has continued to sell enough ads to remain in the black. as many as 70 different local writers each month. Mary Anne with granddaughter MacKenzie “And that’s really what I feel proud of: the She mentions one of OSCAR’s triumphs during number of voices that there are in the paper,” she forgiving if you need an extension. her time here: “Do you think I ever would know says. “They’re all mini-editorials in a way. And I met her in person for the first time when I that Patty’s and Quinn’s have their own beer? They everybody has their point of view. I make sure needed a reference letter for journalism school. make their own beer! And that was a scoop in nobody is rude or insulting to anybody else. But by I visited her large, old house just OSCAR!” she says. and large I’ve only had a couple where I’ve had to across Billings Bridge. Papers and books were But asked what the highlight of it all has been, say ‘no I can’t put this in.’” everywhere. She jovially signed my letter, cracking Mary Anne says it’s messages of thanks from What is or isn’t journalism is a separate debate. a few jokes. readers, some of whom she’d never even heard But Mary Anne gives an example of why her role from before now. is different. A few years ago she received an angry Mary Anne is not too tall, with gray-tinged hair. One woman who simply wanted to list an ad letter from a man who had taken issue with a local She has the sharp, thought-filled eyes of a journalist, for her house also mentioned, in passing, “I have real estate agent. Mary Anne refused to print his for all she says that she isn’t one - eyes for detail noticed that the paper has become increasingly potentially libelous letter, but she invited the agent and accuracy. When she edits OSCAR submissions, interesting and [am] sorry to hear that the editor is to respond to the man’s concerns in an article of she makes sure all the grammar is correct. leaving.” her own, and put the two of them in touch with one For this article, we meet at the Starbucks in The mayor passed on good words through Joe another by e-mail. They were able to work things the Chapter’s at , and when there’s no Scanlon, a retired Carleton journalism prof and out and the complainant was so satisfied that the seating, she suggests that we sit on the windowsill. OSCAR’s own sports writer. “Just happened to agent even gained a new client in him. She wears a sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers. Her meet the mayor at the marathon yesterday and he “If I were a journalist, I would want to be a little thin-rimmed glasses are a shiny bronze. said he had just been reading the latest OSCAR and sensational, possibly,” Mary Anne says. A journalist If the OSCAR editor job is mainly about remarked what a great job you have done and how is trained “to get something controversial out in the community building, it is also part proofreader OSCAR has prospered under your editorship,” Joe open rather than figuring it out, working it out and and part organizer. Each month, Mary Anne reads wrote to Mary Anne in May. finding a solution,” she continues. between 70 and 90 submissions, which tooks her “I see you’re still looking for an editor ... no one Mary Anne has done the journalism thing. a full two days. Then she converts all the text to is brave enough to step into the large shoes you’ve Immediately before coming to the OSCAR, she Times New Roman size 11 font and get rids of all of left to fill!” wrote Tammy Giuliani, owner of Stella worked at the Prescott Russell News for two years. the paragraphing, in order to reformat it to be able Luna Gelateria. “I was the editor/writer - which meant that I wrote to use it in InDesign software. My neighbour Gail Stuart, a community-builder everything that was in it.” The deadline for submissions is the second or herself with a yearly garden party for her neighbours There too, though, Mary Anne felt the need to third Friday of the month, and Mary Anne had to on Cameron Avenue (and whose husband looks after go a bit further than journalism allowed: she ran for have the whole paper completed by the Sunday 10 the renowned Oak Leaf Gardens in the winter), tells mayor! She says there was a lack of transparency days later. She would invariably get about half of me: “Thanks to [Mary Anne’s] efforts and policies, in the way the 30-year incumbent was running the the submissions on the Monday. This writer was we gain a better sense of our community with every township of Russell, and no one else was running occasionally guilty of that crime. Meanwhile, some issue.” against him. To make matters more complicated, the articles would still arrive in Mary Anne’s inbox on My dad, Robert Burr, OSCAR’s former web owner of the Prescott Russell News was the deputy Wednesday, and even on Thursday and Friday. editor, speaks so highly of Mary Anne that I’m mayor, and very good friends with the mayor. One lady used to send in her submissions by going to break journalistic rules (another joy of “Because I was editor I went to all the [council] hand, and Mary Anne would type them out for her. community papers) and quote him right here: “The meetings and I realized, ‘This has got to go. This In another knock against journalists, one of paper was doing quite well before she arrived, is nepotism,’” she says. She also loves politics. She Mary Anne’s disappointments in her time at the but after she arrived the paper has expanded. It’s worked for many years as a school board trustee in OSCAR has been the number of journalism students become a stronger community newspaper. She’s Pontiac, Québec, where she raised her children. who didn’t follow through after asking to write. “I succeeded in fending off competition from a She lost the mayoral election by 29 votes, and give them the deadlines, they promise and then they business organization that was trying to take over she wasn’t allowed to return to the paper. don’t deliver,” she says. community newspapers. And she’s turned it into a From Russell, she enrolled full-time in massage But she wouldn’t ever turn down any new real success story.” therapy school, but she eventually found OSCAR students. In a way, she longed to be able to have a Other highlights for Mary Anne include editing to be the perfect complement to her home little more editorial power in the paper, to be able to “knowing [that] OSCAR is really well known massage therapy business. “Just doing massage, it’s direct its focus a little more - to assign reporters to throughout the entire city and beyond” – and not the same thing. It’s ‘give give give,’ whereas stories. She would have loved to have featured more learning new layout software – one of her more with computers, it’s interplay, so that’s really cool interviews with people in the community, and more unique passions. for me,” she says. stories about local businesses. “In a community She’s also loved getting to know the mom-and- I first met Mary Anne by e-mail in the fall of paper that’s what people want to know. What are pop print shop that prints the OSCAR, Winchester 2009. I wanted to apply to journalism school but the businesses, who runs them, what are they like, Print & Stationery. “If you phone them any time, I needed a portfolio. I asked her if I could write what are they selling and why do they do it. e-mail them any time, they help you out,” she says. some articles, and she replied right away: why “If I take the Citizen today, say, and the Citizen Her new life will be “kind of” retirement. She’s don’t I write something every month? I felt a little of when I was young and living in Ottawa, it looking forward to traveling with her daughters, honoured to get a small piece of the community had much more to do with each of the different knitting, sewing and writing. She’s moving away paper to call my own. Little did I know that Mary communities, it had pictures of different businesses from screening 90-some OSCAR stories a month to Anne was just as forthcoming with almost anyone that were opening or doing well in the communities, writing some stories of her own. In May she wrote who asked for some of the paper’s print real estate. it had book reviews about books written by local a story every day, part of an online challenge. She Most of my interaction with her over the years people. There’s nothing like that now. You look at wants to write a novel. since then has been by e-mail. I’ve gotten used to the Citizen and it could be any city in some ways.” Even if her job for the past seven years has been her quick responses. She’s the most dependable “OSCAR is very different in that it’s written to print other people’s words, she’s written her own e-mailer I know – not to mention being very by the community, it’s not a hired journalist who mark all over the OSCAR. Page 42 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012 Carleton Sports Carleton Soccer Women Compete In a Very Strong League By Joe Scanlon to those who express interest and Before moving to Ottawa he coached concussion and us working to regain he tests whether they meet certain in Canmore, Alberta and he has kept her fitness. orth Americans call it soccer. standards. Football players need his Alberta connections. Further, in addition to the two Everyone else in the world speed, strength and endurance and Two of his season’s rookies Jenna recruits from Calgary, McNutt has calls it football. McNutt helps them develop all three Anthony and Shalese Baxandall are also successfully recruited Abby N with the help of his strength and coming to Carleton from Calgary. Nicastro from Ottawa and is still after And Alex McNutt who grew up in a hotbed of English football, Liverpool, conditioning coach, George Chiappa, But the reason he is confident three other promising recruits. is trying to turn Carleton’s women’s who used to work with the Ottawa about his prospects for this season is By the time the regular season football team into contenders. Gee Gee team which plays the other that last season he had an excellent starts in September, the team will It’s not an easy task because kind of football. crop of rookies. They now have have acquired even more experience. there’s a “catch 22” involved. As well as seeking out athletes experience at the university level The team has held enough fund raisers To attract top recruits it helps to be who might come to Carleton, McNutt and they have done well in indoor that they are going to be able to travel winner. And if Carleton is to become has to deal with inquiries from those and outdoor games against good to Alex’s home city of Liverpool and a winner, the women football Ravens who would like to come to Carleton. competition this winter. In fact they play some top women’s teams there in have to defeat three excellent teams – “That,” he says, “involves a lost only one game, the semi-final of August. Queen’s, the University of Ottawa and willowing out process determining their own indoor tournament. The rest McNutt says his players now feel the University of Toronto. All three which ones are not going to be they won or tied and that included a they are hard to beat but that he says play in Carleton’s division, Ontario technically or athletically able to 4-4 tie with Ottawa, a game in which is not enough. University Athletics (OUA) East. compete at the interuniversity level or a Carleton player missed an open net “There is a mentality building, Last fall, Queen’s was Canadian are not going to fit Carleton’s needs. in the closing minute. one of those things you can feel within Interuniversity Sport (CIS) champion If you are graduating certain players “Last season my team was the squad Right now it is a ‘hard to and University of Ottawa finished you know what you need to find as essentially a very young team. At beat’ mentality. We want to turn it into third in Canada. replacements.” times I had as many as eight first year a winning mentality.” Toronto has the advantage of For example, his current goal players in the field. I expect to be able Though McNutt grew up in having a breadth of programs which keeper Rachel Bedek has played three to complete with Queen’s, Ottawa and Liverpool and played for University makes it easier to offer student athletes years and expects this fall to be her Toronto this season and be able to do of Liverpool while doing his Ph.D. what they want academically. last with Carleton. She is one of the it right through the season and we his mother is from Prince Edward So how does McNutt recruit? tops in Canada and was selected to could win in Ontario if we can string Island and he has dual Canadian–UK First he assesses whether a player play for Canada last summer at the together two or more wins big wins in citizenship, He qualified as a coach has the technical and athletics ability World University Games in China. the playoffs. in Europe meeting the standards of to play at the university level. Then Since Bedek has one year to go “I expect to be able to compete UEFA, the Union of European Football he checks to see whether she has McNutt with the help of an assistant in one off games and we could beat Associations, and he has coached in the grades to succeed academically. coach, Tania Singfield, has recruited anyone on our day. The challenge will the UK, the US and Canada. Students with better grades also have Ottawa based keeper Elizabeth be to be consistent and then string He now appears to be settled in a chance to get some financial support MacDougall. (Singfield is her keeper together a couple of big wins at the Ottawa. He and his Newfoundland though nothing like the athletics coach and she has been coaching right time in the playoffs.” wife – whom he met in Alberta – have scholarships US programs offer. MacDougall for years.) Returning this fall are his captain, one child. But even as he is doing that he MacDougall can expect to watch Valerie Hamilton, a very good central McNutt’s real success may is checking to see what she wants and learn this season but has every defender as well as Briana DeSouza actually be a couple more years away. to study. Carleton has a wide range hope of taking over from Bedek in another central defender. Also As well as coaching at Carleton he of programs but it does not offer 2013. returning is Adrianna Ruggerio, who works full time in development for medicine or dentistry or forestry or Incidentally, Singfield like was the team’s top scorer in her rookie Ontario football. Through that he has kinestheology. Students wanting McNutt’s other assistant, Sophie season and Nicole Filipow, who was got know young people in Ontario programs like that are unlikely to Lecot Hearn (who played in Maine) an Ontario University Athletics all- with outstanding talent. The oldest choose Carleton. was on the roster of Canada’s national star , as well as Sarah Royer who was ones he has met are now approaching “If a player’s academic interest team. close to being last year’s MVP. university age, and – though he hasn’t does not fit with Carleton’s strengths Although competing for players There is also Veronica Mazella started recruiting them yet he naturally you are wasting your time.” against Queen’s and Ottawa is who had to sit out last season because hopes some will choose to come and McNutt assigns fitness workouts difficult, McNutt has another asset. of a concussion. She is now over the play for him at Carleton. The Emerald Ash Borer Beetle (Eab) Has Arrived By Graeme Douglas percentage in some neighbourhoods, As a first precaution, experts stalk. the EAB could fundamentally change strongly recommend residents avoid The bark of an ash tree is smooth he Emerald Ash Borer beetle our urban landscape transporting firewood out of the city. and light grey when it is young, but (EAB) has arrived in Ottawa, These beetles attack all varieties The spread of the beetle follows the grows rougher with age and develops threatening to alter the face of of ash tree. They lay eggs under the routes of major highways, indicating diamond shaped ridges. T bark of the tree, which then hatch into that humans are their main source of There are a number of signs that our neighbourhoods significantly Originally from northeastern larva that zigzag beneath the bark, transportation. EAB have infested an ash tree. New Asia, authorities first discovered the eating a trail that will kill the tree if Community members concerned growth emerging from low on the EAB in Michigan in 2002. The beetle left untreated. about the trees on their property or trunk is one important signal. These has had a devastating impact in the At present, there is only one in their neighbourhood can inventory ‘sucker’ branches grow below areas decade since, spreading across 14 US treatment to reduce an infestation. the local ash population and look for where the beetle larvae are active states, southern Ontario, and now the The application of the insecticide signs of the EAB. and are not present in healthy trees. and Eastern Townships, TreeAzin will significantly limit the There are three varieties of ash Thinning of the leaves in the upper killing at least 10 million trees. size and health of beetle colonies, tree in the Ottawa area, the white, red reaches of the tree is another sign This beetle “poses a major but costs approximately $250 every and black ash. of the beetle’s presence, as are the economic and environmental threat to two years. The only other option for The leaves of these trees are presence of small D-shaped exit holes urban and forested areas,” according dealing with an already infested tree distinctive due to their groups of made by adult beetles. to the Canadian Food Inspection is its removal, which can be more than leaflets. A typical ash leaf has a Locating EAB infestations is the Agency. $1000. central stock about 10-15 cm long, first step in preventing their spread. It is particularly important for The high costs of dealing with the with five to eleven spade-shaped When found, residents can choose Ottawa due to the high number of ash EAB make it very important for the leaflets radiating out from it in pairs. to treat or remove the tree; if left trees in the city. With varieties of ash city and surrounding communities to Each leaflet and branch is compound, making up 25 percent of the city’s 1.2 find pockets of infestation and stop its with a corresponding leaflet or branch Cont’d on next page million trees, and a dramatically higher spread. growing on the opposite side of the JULY/AUG 2012 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR Page 43

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARY Sunnyside Branch Library

Sunnyside Branch Library mins.) Ages 10+ nerability and courageously explain 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa Mondays, July 7 - August 13 (no their strategies for getting out of their 613-730-1082, Abracadabra! / Comme par magie program August 6), 2:00 p.m. difficult situations. Touching, insight- Adult Services, Ever wanted to pull a rabbit out of a ful and full of hope, Courage is a extension 22 hat or cast spells like Harry Potter? Imagine you’re a... / Et si j’étais... participatory social-issues film that Delve into a world of magic and Stories, rhymes and songs for emphasizes the importance of mutual Children’s Services, illusions at the Library this summer. children of all ages and a parent aid and succeeds in condemning the extension 29 Ages 6-8. Registration. / Rêvez-vous or caregiver. Family program./ taboo of poverty. de faire sortir un lapin d’un chapeau, Histoires, comptines et chansons Thursday, July 19, 6:30 pm (65 Children’s Special Summer ou de lancer des sorts comme Harry pour enfants de tous âges et un parent mins.) Programs Potter? Plongez dans le monde ou gardien. Programme familial. de la magie et des illusions à la Wednesdays, July 11 - August 15, Learn To Camp Summer Reading Club Opening bibliothèque cet été. Pour les 6 à 8 2:00 p.m. (45 mins.) Thinking about going camping, Party/Cérémonie d’ouverture ans. Inscription. but don’t know where to start? Join us and Li’l John the clown for Tuesday, July 31, 2:00 p.m. (45 Imagine that! If you are new to this great the TD Summer Reading Club 2012 mins.) Join our TAG team and craft your kick-off! Family program. Canadian tradition, come out afternoon away. For ages 6-9. and join Ontario Parks for a fun Joignez-vous à nous et Li’l John the Choose your own adventure with Registration. and informative introduction clown pour le lancement du Club de the Billings Estate Wednesdays, lecture d’été TD 2012! Programma The Billings family were the first Wednesdays, July 11 - August 15, to camping. From packing familial. settlers of Gloucester Township- 2:00 p.m. (60 mins.) checklists to hands-on equipment Wednesday, July 4 2:00 p.m. (60 this meant that every day was demonstrations, they will help mins.) an adventure! From building a Teen Programs make camping simple and fun! house, foraging and growing food TAG Teen Advisory Thursday, July 26, 6:30 (90 mins.) Magic Carpet Ride / La grande to raising a family- every day Group (Ongoing Event) envolée magique was a challenge. Join Billings Alternative Medicine Explained Fly through the pages of classic tales Sunnyside Teens--join our new Estate for this “choose your Teen Advisory Group and have a Alternative medicine has never and stories. Ages 6-8. Registration. been more popular, but what own adventure” program where say in which programs, activities / Envolez-vous dans le monde des YOU are in charge and your exactly is it? Join Dr. Chandan and services will be offered to contes traditionnels et des histoires. imagination is the limit! Imagine Brar of the Glebe Chiropractic Pour les 6 à 8 ans. Inscription. you are a pioneer and are trying youth and also help plan and Clinic for honest answers to your Friday, July 6, 2:00 p.m. (60 mins.) to settle new land. Find all of implement them. Ages 14-18. To questions on the different systems of the hidden clues and complete join, stop by the branch. medicine: conventional, alternative, The Tempest a series of activities as your integrative, complementary and An adaptation by Rag and Bone adventure leads you around the Adult Special Summer more. Theatre of Shakespeare’s play about library and outdoors! For ages Programs Thursday, August 9, 6:30 pm (60 a wizard, a monster and a fairy who 9-12. Registration. Babywearing: is wearing your mins.) play tricks on shipwreck survivors. Thursday, August 2, 2:00 p.m. (45 For 6-12. Registration. baby wearing you down? mins.) Being able to wear your baby has NFB Film Documentary: The Hole Tuesday, July 10, 2:00 p.m. (45 Story so many benefits, but there may mins.) Castles, Creatures and Catapults Richard Desjardins and Robert be a few things you may not know Calling all would-be dragon slayers Monderie’s The Hole Story continues Arming a knight and princesses-in-hiding! Medieval about the wide variety of baby in the same provocative vein as Join Maitres D’Armes for a fun and games begin at the library carriers available and how they their earlier film, Forest Alert. The demonstration of how armour works. this summer. Ages 6-8. Registration. affect your posture. Dr. Chandan history of mining in Canada is the For ages 6-12. Registration Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m. (45 Brar of the Glebe Chiropractic story of astronomical profits made Tuesday, July 17, 2:00 p.m. (60 mins.) Clinic will look at solutions for with disregard for the environment mins.) the most common challenges and and human health. The story of Y is for Yoga provide you with information nickel in Sudbury, silver in Cobalt, Hunger Games Local children’s author Betty Large gold in Timmins, and copper in Test your skills. Ages 10+ on how to position your baby is bringing Story Time with a Twist properly. Rouyn. Using striking images, rare Thursday, July 19, 2:00 p.m. (90 archival footage, interviews and to young children in the area. The Thursday, July 12, 6:30 pm (60 mins.) children will get to try some yoga their trademark humorous social mins.) poses as Betty reads her alphabet commentary, the directors make a Ingenious Inventions/Eureka book. Come enjoy some literacy, clear case against the way mining Test your imagination with games fun and fitness. Family program. NFB Film Documentary: has been done in Canada. The Hole and activities that explore how things Registration. Courage (with English subtitles) Story is a wake-up call to a country work. For ages 6-12. Registration. Saturday, August 11, 11:00 a.m. (60 In Toronto, Izabel, Bebeth, Natasha, that does not control its subsoil, July 24, 2:00 p.m. (60 min.) mins.) Benoît, Grace and Jean, members of where mining companies pay next Ontario’s “working poor” directly to no taxes on their activities and NFB Film Friday Weekly Children’s Summer affected by the economic crisis, agree municipalities pay to maintain roads Join us for family movies at the Programs to take part in group sessions orga- used by trucks that cart off the library! National Film Board films Wii Game On nized by filmmaker Geoff Bowie. region’s wealth. such as “Painted Tales” and Big Come out and challenge your friends They talk about having to work Thursday, Aug. 16, 6:30 pm (85 Drive” will be screened. Family to get gaming at the library with multiple jobs to get by, describe the mins.) Program. some of your favourite Wii games. stress that comes with financial vul- Friday, July 27, 2:00 p.m. (45 Emerald Ash Borer Beetle ... Cont’d from previous page undiscovered, the beetle will move of EAB in our city and keep Ottawa by phone 1 800 442-2342 (toll free) parks or forestry department. from tree to tree and potentially wipe green and beautiful for years to come. or online at www.inspection.gc.ca, out a neighbourhood’s entire ash tree Residents can report signs and or contact the Ontario Ministry of Editor’s Note: Please see page 47 population. symptoms of infested trees to the Natural Resources at 1 800 667-1940 for colour photos of the Beetle as well Please help prevent the spread Canadian Food Inspection Agency (toll free) or their local municipal as an ash tree leaf sample. Page 44 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARY Alta Vista Branch Library Programs Offered At The Alta Magic Carpet Ride / La grande envolée Wednesday, July 18 (10:30 am - 11:00 is reading, and want to chat, rant, or rave, come Vista Library magique am) / mercredi, 18 juillet (10h 30 - on down! Ages 13-18. Programmes Offerts A La Fly through the pages of classic tales 11h) Tuesday, August 21 (2:00 pm - 3:00 pm) Bibliotheque Alta Vista and stories. Ages 6-8. Registration. / Wednesday, August 8 (10:30 am - Envolez-vous dans le monde des contes 11:00 am) / mercredi, 8 août (10h 30 Alta Vista Branch traditionnels et des histoires. Pour les - 11h) N.B. Registration for summer programs and 2516 Alta Vista Drive 6 à 8 ans. Inscription. the TD Summer Reading Club starts on June Register: www. Thursday, August 9 (10:30 am - 11:15 20. / L’inscription des programmes d’été et biblioottawalibrary.ca am) / jeudi, 9 août (10h 30 - 11h 15) Nursery Rhyme Time / Chansons et du Club de lecture d’été TD commence le 20 Or call 613-737-2837 x28 rondes pour s’amuser juin. /Registration for all programs requires Un voyage dans le temps Stories, rhymes and songs for babies a valid OPL library card for each registrant./ Summer 2012 Children’s Progams/ Vivez un voyage dans le passé et and a parent or caregiver. Ages 0-18 Toutes les personnes qui souhaitent s’inscrire Programmes D’ete 2012 Pour Enfants dans le futur. Pour les 9 à 12 ans. months. / Histoires, comptines et à des programmes doivent être titulaires d’une Inscription. chansons pour bébés et un parent ou carte valide de la BPO. Martial demonstration mardi, 14 août (14h - 16h 45) gardien. Pour les 0 à 18 mois. A sampling of combat techniques from Wednesday, July 11 (10:30 am - 11:00 The Alta Vista Library is located at 2516 Alta medieval manuscripts, illustrating how am) / mercredi, 11 juillet (10h 30 - 11h) Vista Dr. For more information, please call men at arms fought. Learn the parallels Graphic Fantastic Wednesday, August 01 (10:30 am - 613-737-2837, ext. 26 / La bibliothèque Alta between these and the more well- Step into the pages of your favourite 11:00 am) / mercredi, 1 août (10h 30 Vista est située au 2516, promenade Alta Vista. known Asian martial arts. Presented comic books and watch new worlds - 11h) Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez by Les Maîtres d’Armes. Ages 6-12. come alive. Ages 6-8. Registration. composer le 613-737-2837, poste 26. Registration. Thursday, August 16 (2:00 pm - 2:45 Wednesday, August 1 (2:00 pm - 3:00 pm) Once upon a Storytime / Il était une Alta Vista Library Adult Programs pm) fois… 2516 Alta Vista Drive Imagine: Closing Ceremony / Imagine Stories, rhymes and songs for Register online at: I Aim to Myth-behave / Mythe-o-manie : Cérémonie de clôture preschoolers and a parent or caregiver. www.biblioottawalibrary.ca Ever wanted to know the stories behind Join us for the TD Summer Reading Ages 3-6. / Histoires, comptines or call 613-737-2837 x28 the characters in the Percy Jackson Club wrap-up! Family program. et chansons pour enfants d’âge series? Find out the real story of Zeus Registration. / Joignez-vous à nous préscolaire et un parent ou gardien. Book Clubs will resume in and Poseidon. Ages 9-12. Registration. pour célébrer vos exploits en lecture Pour les 3 à 6 ans. September. / Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé qui en ayant participé au Club de lecture Wednesday, July 25 (10:30 am - 11:00 étaient les dieux mythologiques Zeus d’été TD 2012! Programme familial. am) / mercredi, 25 juillet (10h 30 - 11h) English Conversation Group et Poséidon de la série Percy Jackson? Inscription. Wednesday, August 15 (10:30 am - Improve your English and meet new Venez les découvrir à la biblio. Pour Wednesday, August 22 (2:00 pm - 3:00 11:00 am) / mercredi, 15 août (10h 30 friends. In partnership with les 9 à 12 ans. Inscription. pm) / mercredi, 22 août (14h - 15h) - 11h) Somali Family Services. Thursday, August 2 (2:00 pm - 3:00 Mondays, 6:00-7:30 p.m. pm) / jeudi, 2 août (14h - 15h) Imagine you’re a... / Et si j’étais… SUMMER TEEN PROGRAMS Tuesdays, 12:00-1:45 p.m. Stories, rhymes and songs for children Choose Your Own Adventure of all ages and a parent or caregiver. Mad Hatter’s Movie Party Citizenship Test Preparation Imagine you are a pioneer trying to Family program. / Histoires, comptines Join the Mad Hatter on a whirlwind tour of Get help preparing for the citizenship settle somewhere new. You are in et chansons pour enfants de tous âges fantastical worlds in film. Snacks and crafts test. Program offered in partnership charge and your imagination is the et un parent ou gardien. Programme will be on hand. Ages 13-18. with the Somali Family Services. limit. Choose your own adventure familial. Friday, August 3 (3:30 pm - 5:30 pm) Wednesdays, June 6 – August 29 and find the hidden clues. Complete a Tuesdays, July 3 - August 28 (10:30 am 12:30-2:30 p.m. series of activities as your adventure - 11:00 am) / les mardis, 3 juillet - 28 Teen Cafe Registration: 613-797-4263 leads you around the library and août (10h 30 - 11h) Come perform to a supportive audience! or 613-737-2837 x31 outdoors! 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If you love to read, wonder what everyone else Around Town Strawberry Social July 1,11:30 a.m. Drop by for great buys on hundreds of The bus stops in Rimouski, Rivière Tea $8.00. Friends of the Central - 2:00 p.m.$6.00 Friends of the Farm books (most under $2). du Loup, St. Siméon, La Malbaie, Experimental Farm will host a lovely are hosting an enjoyable Canada Day Baie St. Paul, St. Anne de Beaupré classic Victorian Tea served on the event. Come and savour a delicious Mark the dates on your calendar.: Sat. and Hudson - all on the itinerary. lawns of the Arboretum. Bring a patio strawberry treat while visiting the July 7 & Sun July 8, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 Cost: Members $499, others $525. chair and listen to live music. Enter the Canadian Agriculture Museum. Many p.m. for the Glebe Art in Our Gardens Single supplement add $205. 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A HARD DAY’S PLAY Canada Day Craft

By Mary P. cards! Ta-dah! ack in the dark ages — but Word to the wise: these are still within my lifetime!! equilateral triangles. (Remember — this baby country had your grade ten geometry? Each of B the three angles is 60 degrees.) I its 100th anniversary. I can still recall some things from back then. actually used a protractor, though Fireworks. Our village’s brand new that’s not the only way to get the Centennial library!!! (No more triangles even enough for this craft. every-other-week library bus: we Even with the measuring, they’re had a BUILDING!) The stylized not perfectly identical… but, maple leaf that was the logo for the since you’re going to leave space Centennial celebrations. between them, that doesn’t matter. Oooo, that leaf! Wouldn’t that This is not a persnickety craft. leaf make a cool craft, I thought? You’ll need eleven triangles So EASY! per maple leaf, and I’m sure you It was. I happened to have can figure out the how-to’s from sheets of sparkly foam on my the pictures. After I made this one, craft shelves. Sparkly RED foam I decided I didn’t like the lettering with peel-off backing. Couldn’t on the front. I think the leaf stands get easier than that! (If you don’t best on its own, but of course, have foam stickers, you can use you can do it however you like! construction paper and glue, of course.) Happy Canada Day! I even had a heap of blank

Ash leaf photo by Graeme Douglas.

Emerald Ash Borer photo by the ‘Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources - Forestry Archive.’ Article on pages 42 - 43 Page 48 The OSCAR - OUR 40th YEAR JULY/AUG 2012