THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The South Community Association Review l The Community Voice YEAR 43, No.4 APRIL 2015

Hopewell P.S. Music Lives On

The Hopewell Senior Concert Band. PHOTO BY DIANE GLOUSER OSCA presents 19+ Hopewell Music Story on page 2

COMMUNITY CALENDAR Dance Party April 7 Start casting your daily online vote for Hopewell’s outdoor classroom online at Saturday www.majestatreesofknowledge.ca April 18 April 12, 18:00 Open Table Carleton,Trinity Anglican Church 8pm - 11:30pm April 13, 19:00 Old Ottawa South Garden Club “The Contained Old Ottawa South - The Firehall Garden”, Firehall Ashton Brewing Co. April 15, 19:00 - 20:30 Councillor’s Adopt a Garden Meeting. Firehall $25 tickets April 16, 18:00 - 20:30 Glebe Collegiate “Blue and Gold Auction” Tickets & Info at oldottawasouth.ca April 17, 18:30 Eric Ayalik Pelly Memorial Game, Peplinski Arena April 18, 20:00-23:30 OSCA Igos and Icons Dance Party, Firehall April 25, 18:00 A Centre 7 Experience (Fundraiser for the Out of the Cold Suppers), Southminster United OSCA May 3, 8:30-12:00 Hike for Hospice, May Court Hospice May 5, 18:30 – 19:30 Infill II Development By-law Public Information WINDSOR PARK Session, Firehall May 5, 19:30 - 21:30 OSCA Annual General Meeting, Firehall ART SHOW May 7, 19:00 Open House Information Night on Lansdowne SUNDAY MAY 31 10AM-4PM Traffic Issues, Glebe Community Centre May 9, 9:00 Green Team Cleans OOS A CALL TO ARTISTS AND ARTISANS REGISTRATION ENDS APRIL 30 To add events or see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca

FEATURING OVER 30 ARTISTS & ARTISANS Official Notice Of The OSCA Annual General Meeting COMPLETE LIST POSTED MAY 15TH LIVE MUSIC FREE ADMISSION Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue Artwork by Christopher Heilmann WWW.OLDOTTAWASOUTH.CA OSCA Page 2 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

HOPEWELL PUBLIC SCHOOL Hopewell Music Lives On By Marya Woyiwada all-inclusive. Their five pieces were The Band Program at Hopewell In addition to the bands, in order followed by this year’s Junior Band’s has been running successfully for to take advantage of the skills and On February 25th, the Hopewell big debut! This band is made up decades, but was really raised to its knowledge I gained from my un- Avenue Public School bands had mainly of grade 7 students, who at current level by my mother, Allison dergraduate degrees (Bachelor of the honour of performing at one of the time had only been playing their Woyiwada, who taught music at Music in Vocal Performance and the famous noon-hour concerts at instruments for four months. The fact Hopewell for almost 30 years. Al- Bachelor of Education) I have also Southminster United Church. Con- that they were already performance- lison directed 5 bands, and 3 musi- added an a capella group to the mix. sidering the consistent quality of the ready is astounding, and is clear evi- cals per year, which she wrote and The Hopewell Glee Club has been performances in this concert series, dence of their dedication and motiva- composed herself. Being a former busy in the community this season. we were thrilled to be invited to be tion! This group presented their two Hopewell student myself, this is all They sang “O Canada” at Ottawa 67s a part of it. The Hopewell students festival pieces. Closing the concert very close to home for me. Grow- games, and entertained at the May- worked extremely hard in anticipa- was the 12-piece jazz band, present- ing up, I often played lead roles in fair theatre as part of OSCA’s annual tion of their presentation, rehearsing ing the work they have done on some my mother’s musicals. I was also the presentation of “White Christmas”. twice weekly since the fall, and they standard jazz pieces. Entrance to lead trumpet player in the Jazz Band, All three bands are also entered in certainly rose to the occasion. this group is by audition only. They so it is very special for me to be able the Ottawa chapter of the Kiwanis The concert opened with the play very difficult music, featur- to return to Hopewell after so many Music Festival. We will finish the Hopewell Senior Concert Band, ing challenging solos on all instru- years and make the music program year by providing entertainment at highlighting songs learned for Re- ments, that they are expected to learn my own. Although it is a lot of work, “OSCA’s Art in the Park” this spring. membrance Day and music festivals. quickly. This group is always a treat and the learning curve is steep, it is a We hope to see you there, on May The Senior Concert Band is made up to hear. Following an old Hopewell real pleasure to be able to pass on my 31st from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. primarily of grade 8 students, and is tradition, they finished with “Louie, love for music to the next generation at Windsor Park. Louie”. of Hopewell students.

Should a Massive Infill Development Be Built Next Door? Now Is The Time To Express Your Concerns! By Anna Cuylits, Co-chair make the size of new housing and result in as much as a total height of hear about from the residents of OSCA Planning Committee renovations more compatible with the 13 meters, or 2 meters higher than is Old Ottawa South: character of our neighbourhoods. presently allowed! For example, most of our com- Zoning regulations of Rear Yard 1. The height limits in our R3P and If you look at the new houses on munity is zoned R3P or R3Q. This Setbacks also determine “massing”. R3Q subzones need to be compat- our streets, there are ones that fit in zoning specifies that you can build up If a development sticks out too far ible with the existing neighbourhood and ones that stand out because their to 11m high. This height is allowed into the backyard, it diminishes the character of two storeys for flat roofs massiveness dwarfs the surrounding for flat roof developments, or 12.5m privacy and sunlight of the neigh- and two-and-half storeys for sloped houses. But these houses often meet for sloped roof developments. This bours. roofs. This requires the following the current zoning by-laws (ZBL). height translates into developments The current City’s proposal is: height limits: Many residents have spoken out with three storeys, with high ceilings, - Lot depth up to 16m: Required - flat roofs to 8.5m about this, objecting to the height, on top of a basement. Rear Yard Setback is 4m - sloped roofs to 10m rear-yard setbacks, mass, invasion Examples of this can be found - Lot depth between 16 - 30m: of privacy and diminished sunlight. across the community. I live in one of Required Rear Yard Setback is the 2. The Rear Yard Setbacks in the When developers were exceeding these types of infills and even though greater of: March 24th, Infill II Proposal is the City’s Zoning By-laws, residents they are comfortable, and some even a. the vertical height of the build- needed to prevent development mass- have presented their objections at look nice, I think they are too mas- ing (new) ing in the Rear Yard. the Committee of Adjustment and at sive for the typical two-and-a-half b. 25% of the lot depth the Municipal Board. Some storey house streetscape in Old Ot- If you want to maintain reasonable residents have even hired expensive tawa South. The Infill Industry is proposing a heights and setbacks for homes in professional expertise to guide them The new Infill II Zoning Amend- formula that would allow develop- Old Ottawa South, we ask you to take or represent their case. ment proposal, which is presently ments to “stick out” further into the just a few minutes to provide your Despite all these objections, un- under discussion, has lowered the backyard than the city is proposing, feedback to OSCA’s Planning Com- characteristic developments were, height limit in the R3 subzones but the city is not receptive to this, so mittee. We’ll collect your comments and are, still allowed. from 11m to 10m , which is a good far. and present them to the City’s Plan- The Infill II By-law, which is thing, but it also allows for a 3 meter ning Committee. presently amended, is intended to “above height projection”. This could It is very important that residents Please send an e-mail to express their concerns directly to [email protected] (613) 824-0441 the City planner, Steve Gauthier, with the following comments before at [email protected] right April 24th. now, and also to their community association (see below) as soon as 1. I/We support the following possible. height limits in Old Ottawa South’s Tailored insurance solutions for: The finalized Infill II By-law pro- R3 subzones: posal is scheduled to be available for - up to 8.5 for homes with flat roofs • Older or heritage homes the public on May 4th. On May 5th, a - up to 10m (midway point) for • Custom built homes public information session is sched- homes sloped roofs • High value homes uled in the Firehall between 6:30 • Cottage or rural properties - 7:30 p.m., just before the OSCA 2. I/We support the Rear Yard AGM. The public can also provide Setbacks proposed in the March 24, feedback to Steve Gauthier, the City’s 2015, Infill II Zoning Amendment Home, Tenants, Cottage Marine Planner, at that time. Proposal to prevent development Condominium More formal concerns are best massing in the rear yard. GREG STRAHL, CIP expressed at the Planning Committee [email protected] meeting on May 12th at 10 a.m. Remember: The opinions of an en- Auto Life Travel Proud life-long resident of Old Ottawa South gaged community cannot be ignored There are two main requests that by City Hall! Let us earn your trust PalladiumInsurance.ca the Planning Department needs to THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 3

Green Team Cleans OOS on Saturday May 9th

By Georgina Hunter to fellow volunteers. The clean up is users come out in droves. sunscreen and work gloves are fun, and after our five-month winter, Because Bank Street and Brewer advised. The OOS Green Team invites you it will be great to be outdoors in the Park are newer ventures these two Questions? Ask a team leader: to join them for a cup of coffee spring air working with old or new areas are most in need of volunteers. on Saturday May 9th starting at friends. Bring your dogs and children to the Brewer Park - Vanessa Gallant, 9:00 a.m. to help tidy Windsor How long you stay is up to you. parks; however, teens and adults are [email protected] Park, Brewer Park and Bank Street Half an hour would be great, an hour, best suited for Bank Street, due to the between the Bridges. wonderful, and two hours would be high volume of traffic. Bank Street - Georgina Hunter, The coffee will be ready at 9:00 stellar. Afterwards, we’ll pose for a When you give, you always get [email protected] a.m. Just show up at one of the group photo that will be featured in more back. Besides a coffee and Windsor Park - Peter Wells, parks or for Bank Street, in front of the June edition of OSCAR. maybe a snack, you’ll feel good, get [email protected]; or Brian Bridgehead on Bank Street at Grove. Windsor Park clean up has been a little outdoor exercise and the hood Tansey, [email protected] Start your morning off with a going strong for the past 16 years and will look great. coffee and chat with neighbours or thanks to the Windsor Pups Facebook Please mark Saturday, May 9th at page, many dog owners and park 9:00 a.m. on your calendar. Sunhat,

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“Super Sharrows” Give Bicycles a Priority Lane on the Bank Street Bridge The Bank Street Bridge is one cycling were always key ways cyclists], where they should be of the City’s most attractive. of getting around. Anyone who and what they should be doing When viewed at night, the il- has nervously cycled over the when passing over the nar- luminated 1912 bridge and Bank Street Bridge, or pushed a row lanes of the Bank Street its arches are a thing of child along in a stroller, knows Bridge.” The treatment will be beauty. The bridge that it’s a tight squeeze as cars installed about every 30 meters was built during an zip by. on both sides of the bridge’s era of national As an avid cyclist and cham- roadway to indicate that the in- capital im- pion of green transportation, side lane is shared. In this lane, provement Ward Councillor David Cher- cars and bikes are to proceed in that brought nushenko has taken a leadership single file, with bicycle priority. streetcars into role in working with the City A video to help communicate Old Ottawa South and the community to come and to educate the public on and the development up with practical solutions to how “super sharrows” work of bucolic parkways improve cycling safety. Finding will be posted on the City of along the Canal. solutions for the Bank Street Ottawa’s website this spring. But today, when we seek Bridge, which make it safer and According to one account, to balance the transportation more comfortable for all users, “super sharrows” are meant to modes of cycling, pedestrians, has been a particular challenge. give the feel of a bike lane, even transit and cars, the Bank Street Councillor Chernushenko says: when the space for one is lack- Bridge’s narrow right-of-way “there is no easy fix.” But in the ing. This special signage will be makes it difficult to reconcile early spring, the City will begin installed. these competing demands. In to install a new street treatment Councillor Chernushenko the 1990s, the Bridge was ex- on the bridge called “super shar- says “we’ll know that we’ve ac- tensively restored, but it wasn’t rows.” (Pictured to the left) complished something when we By Leo B. Doyle widened to accommodate the Chernushenko describes the no longer have cyclists who feel changing transportation de- “super sharrows” as “shared they have to ride over the Bank mands of Old Ottawa South and lane markings intended to make Street Bridge on the sidewalk.” the Glebe, where walking and it clear to everybody [cars and

Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club Debates Its Future By Eric Davidson

A recently passed law in Ontario has Lawn Bowling Club. The law will tion, and has caused a division among Directors for the club, with a slate of caused a stir at the Ottawa Tennis and affect the club’s status as a corpora- some of the club’s shareholders over candidates representing both visions the future direction of the club. for the club. The law, known as Ontario’s Not- The board that was elected is in For-Profit-Corporations Act, will favour of a non-shareholder (non- Full Service Real Estate bring changes to the way not-for- profit) solution. “The current board profit corporations can be structured. of directors takes the view that… The Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowl- the non-profit corporation is the best ing Club currently operates as a share one,” says the new President of the Barry capital social club, or a social club board, Bill Floch. “It really reflects with shareholders, and is not fully the reality of the club,” he continues. Humphrey for-profit or non-profit. “We’re community-based, volunteer- Sales Representative According to the Government driven, and we don’t issue dividends of Ontario website, many existing to shareholders.” PROFESSIONAL SERVICE not-for-profit corporations will not Not everyone shares this view, DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE! be affected by the new law. “There however. Another group of sharehold- are some exceptions,” according to ers is unhappy with the proposed the site, “including companies with change. social purposes, like share capital They fear that if the club no longer Listing Selling social clubs (golf, tennis or country has shareholders, the property itself clubs for example)”. The site goes on would be more likely to be sold. to state that “These companies will “The preservation of the Club’s continue to be governed by the [cur- valuable heritage property has been % % rent Corporations Act] for a transition possible only through constant share- 1 2 period.” holder vigilance, which, if removed After that, the club must choose through cancellation of your shares, one of two paths: a share capital would have virtually guaranteed the corporation under the Ontario Busi- acquisition of the land by ness Corporation Act (for-profit), or developers.” Writes Ian Macdonald a non-share capital corporation under in a letter for the 1939 Shareholders’ the Ontario Not-For-Profit Corpora- Protective Committee. tions Act (non-profit). This group would prefer the club to The new law is slated to come into continue under the Business Cor- 613.230.8888 effect in 2016. porations Act, which would protect This impending decision has caused shareholders. 613.296.6060 Direct the club’s shareholders to split into While the new Board is in place, no two groups, those who want to follow final decision has been made on the [email protected] the non-profit route, and those who issue as any changes to the status of want to follow the for-profit route. the club as a corporation will have to www.BarryHumphrey.ca The issue was brought to the fore at be put before the club’s shareholders. the recent shareholders’ Annual Gen- eral Meeting, which took place on (See also the letter by Tennis Club 30 Years of Experience and Knowledge February 26th. At the meeting, there Member Kate Jaimet on page 8. was an election for the new Board of The Editor) THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 5

THE OSCAR 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 10 ISSN: 0715-5476 The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. Upcoming deadlines: [email protected] April 10 (May issue); May 15 (June issue); June 12 (July/August issue); August 7 (September issue). Editor: Brendan McCoy [email protected] Layout and Design Editor: Bess Fraser Copy Editor: Michael Thibault To book an OSCAR ad Distribution Manager: Larry Ostler 613-327-9080 [email protected] call Gayle 730-1058 Business Manager: Susanne Ledbetter [email protected] [email protected] Advertising Manager: Gayle Weitzman 613-730-1058 [email protected] (not classy ads) The Old Firehall The OSCAR is printed by Winchester Print. 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The OSCAR Editorial Policy, and Guidelines for Submissions, are available on the OSCA Website. OSCA 2, 6-9, 12 Some articles may be posted on the OSCA Website. The OSCAR is available online at www.oldottawasouth.ca. POLITICAL 13-15 FILM 23 FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, CARLETON SPORTS 30 call: 613-327-9080 or e-mail: [email protected] The OSCAR thanks the following people who LIBRARY 34-35 brought us to your door this month: AROUND TOWN 16-17 MARKETPLACE 39 ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Kim Barclay, Élie CLASSY ADS 39 Cantin Nantel, Wendy Robbins, Jim and Carrol Robb, Becky Sasaki, Kevin and Stephanie Williams, Christy Griffin. ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), the Gref- Innes family, the Fegan family, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, Susanne Ledbetter, Torin and Konstantine Assal. Official Notice of the OSCA ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Hayley Atkinson, Leslie Roston, Patrick Hinton, Lydia Oak, Sandra Garland, John Callan, Diana Carr. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, Annual General Meeting Jesper Lindeberg, Declan and Darcy McCoy, Bruce Grant, and the Woroniuk- Ryan family, Bryan and Anneka Dallin O’Grady, David Fisher. Tuesday, May 5, 2015 ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Charles and Phillip Kijek, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Christina Bridgeman, Anne Coyle, Melissa 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Johnson. Michael Jenkin Hall ZONE D1: Mary Hill (Coordinator), Emily Keys, Ekin Kiziltan, Gail Stewart, The Old Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue Gabe Teramura, Oliver and Claire Waddington, Adam Coplan, the Sprott family. This is an opportunity for you to turn out and hear what is going on in ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), the Adriaanse family, Gaia your community, and elect the new OSCA Board for 2015-16. A wine and Chernushenko, Jacqueline Littlewood, the Rand family, Aidan and Willem cheese reception will be held after the meeting to provide an opportunity Ray, the Stewart family, and Mary Hill. for you to meet your neighbours and board members. ZONE E1: Brian Tansey (Coordinator), Karen Wolfe and Curt Labond, Norah Hutchinson, Steve Adamson, the Sanger/O’Neil family, Robert Trotter. ZONE E2: Mary-Ann and Jim Kent, Glen Elder and Lorraine Stewart, the Note: Hunter family, the Brodkin-Haas family, Allan Paul, Christina Bradley, • If you wish to vote for the OSCA Board you must be an OSCA Caroline Calvert, Larry Ostler, Chris Berry and Frida Kolster Berry. member. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, the Stern • If you want to stand for election to become a Board Member you family, Ellen Bailie, Paloma and Liliana Ruiz, Peter Kemp, Malachi Winter, must also have signed up as a member at least three months before the Goutte family (Joshua, Leo and Alina), Walter and Robbie Engert. the AGM. ZONE F2: Pierre Guevremont (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Torin and • To become a member visit www.oldottawasouth.ca Konstantine Assal, Judy and Pierre Chamberland, Valerie Dancause, Mary • Memberships are created via OSCA’s online registration system. If Johnston, the Walker Family, the Polkinghorne Family. you have never used the registration system, you first need to create ZONE G: Larry Ostler (Coordinator), Cindy MacLoghlin, Bernard and a “Family Profile”. Once you have a profile: Log in to your profile. Simon, Luke and Robin Eriksson, Gillian Hurd, Joanne Monaghan. Click the “Register” icon to access registration. This will bring up Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. a list of programs available for registration. Select “OSCA Special Bank Street-Ottawa South: Joan-Foster Jones, Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. Events and Membership” Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler. Other: Maya. Page 6 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

CHRISTY’S CORNER Spring and Summer Program Update By Christy Savage, OSCA new Bicycle Safety program. Cardio, muscle tone segments and Executive Director And of course, in addition to our stretching will be featured using a always popular and comprehensive variety of techniques to strengthen Dance programs, we also offer youth and balance your body. Summer Camps speciality programs such as: Knights Summer will be upon us soon and of the Dinner Table, Babysitting and Hatha for Hips and Back there are still spaces in some of our Home Alone certification, Exploring This gentle course focuses on hips camps. Go to oldottawasouth.ca to Drama, Lego, Magic the Gather- to relive tension and back pain. Using see the online program guide for in- ing and our ever popular Youthon deep release can assist with strength- formation on our various camps and programs. ening the hips and back, as well as props are used to facilitate release their schedules. hamstrings for overall better health. deep within the connective tissue of Adult Programs, Yoga and Pilates the body. Spring Programs We successfully launched our Cool Gentle Hatha Yoga The Firehall is well known for a Down Coffee Club in the Winter. This gentle class will move through Better Balance variety of exciting programs, from Hang out at the Firehall after classes poses that help increase flexibility This unique class is great for all; preschool and child programs, youth and enjoy a cup of coffee and cookies and strength while reducing stress. athletes and seniors alike. Feel more sports and Youth Nights, to adult and meet friends old and new! Benefits of individual poses, physical centered in unstable conditions for fitness, yoga and special interest. We alignment and proper use of breath activities of daily living and sport. have something everyone in the fam- Stronger for Longer will be discussed. ily can enjoy. This is a class for older adults with Fit Yoga and Yin Stretch Here are just a few of our Spring a focus on strength, stability training, Yoga for Athletes A blended yoga approach to programs. For more, please refer to and fun. For the athlete in everyone, this achieving your wellness goals. In- our Spring Program guide online at course will help improve flexibility, crease your fitness levels, play with oldottawasouth.ca Cardio Weight Training Circuit stamina, strength and help improve body-weight-bearing poses, get your This class combines challenging performance and recovery heart pumping, while using your Preschool Programs cardio bursts with resistance training breath as a training tool. In addition to our regular drop in in circuit format. Training in this way Yoga Flow and Pilates Core preschool programs, we also offer a brings about results in both overall Experience the mesh of Eastern Gentle Yoga Tune Up ™ for Every- number of specialized classes: strength and endurance in a shorter and Western fitness regimes - Yoga body amount of time. and Pilates. You will move at a A gentle introduction to yoga/fit- Tots of Fun decent tempo from pose to pose and ness therapy designed to improve This busy program is a real pleaser Fit Fast Bootcamp from exercise to exercise. posture, heal damaged muscle, and for energetic preschoolers. The di- Boot Camp-style fitness programs enhance strength. verse, fun-filled program offers such for anyone at any fitness level. Core Challenge and Yoga Stretch activities as free play, art, songs and Sports-specific drills are introduced This class is designed to strengthen And of course don’t forget about more. in a unique way, outside of the actual and stabilize the muscles of the our Adult special interest programs sport environment. abdominals, back and buttocks, while like Cognition and Brain Training, Eco Artists! *NEW* challenging your balance. Cycling workshops, art with Bhat Giving old items a new life is what Women and Weights Boy and more. this new program is all about. Each This ‘women-only’ workout fo- Power Yoga *NEW* week children use a variety of dif- cuses on proper technique for resis- Power yoga is a vigorous fitnes *Reminders* ferent recycled items to create new tance training and teaches you how to oriented vinyasa style yoga, empha- masterpieces. spice up your workout and get results sizing strength, endurance and flex- Call for Candidates for OSCA’s in less time. ibility. This class is ideal for all levels Annual Volunteer Recognition Spring into Action *NEW* and abilities so don’t be intimidated OSCA has an annual volunteer rec- Spring has sprung and the park is Tabata with Tyler by the word “power”! ognition award and we’re calling on calling! Each week, we will play and Want to get a great sweat to start you for submissions. If you know of learn with a variety of fun outdoor off your day? Tabata training is a Ashtanga Yoga Flow someone who makes an exceptional activities from outdoor group games, high intensity interval style of train- The Ashtanga yoga practice is an contribution to the community, please picnics, stories under a tree, and art ing that can improve both cardiovas- athletic and challenging one, de- consider nominating them for our in the park. cular endurance & muscular strength. signed to increase strength, endur- annual award. All awards will be pre- ance and flexibility, while at the same sented in May at our AGM. For more Triple Play Early Morning Yin/Yang Yoga time promoting a calm inner state information please go to oldottawa- This program designed for three- *NEW* of well-being, by focussing on the south.ca/osca/volunteer-recognition. year-olds, covers all bases. Each A morning yoga class suitable for breath. Nominations can be sent directly week children partake in a trifecta of all levels! Begin with postures and to me at [email protected]. activities (artwork, musical activities, breathing techniques of Hatha yoga Pilates Level 1 Please write a brief description of the and stories) based on weekly themes. to gain energy, strength and flex- An entry level class designed for person, full name and contact infor- The perfect program for children to ibility and end with Yin restorative beginners and newcomers to Pilates. mation for yourself and your nomi- learn social skills with others their poses designed for relaxation, deep You will learn the basic principles nee, and a brief couple of paragraphs own age in a fun environment. stretching of the connective tissues, and exercises fundamental to the outlining why you have chosen to and total rest and healing, leaving Pilates workout. nominate the candidate. Kidz in Sports participants feeling ready for the day Our dynamic sport program intro- ahead. Movement & Meditation Egos and Icons Party April 18th duces sports in a fun, non-competi- This is a relaxation and stretching Tickets are selling very quickly for tive environment. Train Like an Athlete class to unwind and de-stress your our Spring ‘Egos and Icons’ party. Challenging you to your limits, body. We will start every class with a Elvis? Prince? Meatloaf? Bjork? Preschool Pottery ‘Train Like an Athlete’ is perfor- seated meditation followed by slow MJ? Or Slash? Pick your favourite Be introduced to the magic of clay mance-based, involving the essential Flow Yoga movements with stretches icon from the beginning of time to through various hand building proj- movements necessary in everyday and a meditation to finish off the today and join us at the Firehall on ects using the basics of coil, pinching life as well as in sport by incorpo- class. Saturday, April 18th from 8:00 p.m.- and slab techniques. rating a variety of training styles 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. For more to increase stability, coordination, Yin Yoga information go to oldottawasouth.ca Youth Programs strength, and agility. Known for its ability to release or check us out on Facebook: face- We’re also offering a number of tension within the mind and the book.com/oldottsouth. programs for youth such as: Nerf Saturday Fitness with Zina body, poses are held for three to five Mania, our new Jiu Jitsu program, *NEW* minutes. Breathing techniques and Sports Night, Indoor Soccer, and a THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 7

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Pay It Forward! By Linda Hancock, OSCA utes, two lovely women (thank you!) course, I have now forgotten. On the President were able to help me up and into one way to the hospital, we picked up my of their cars. They were able to help daughter with a lovely new haircut. me get home and settled comfortably Again, these two paramedics were As I write this month’s column, it is a so I could think through what would wonderful with Sarah and helped her lovely spring day here in Ottawa. On come next. My husband was working deal with her own emotions and fears a similar day two weeks ago, and in in Malone, NY that day and I knew in the uncertainty of the situation. a split second, the course of my next he wouldn’t be able to get home for 2 A special thank you to stylist Lucy few months changed. As I headed out or 3 hours. My other worry was that who finished up Sarah’s new hair for a nice powerwalk along the canal, my daughter was getting a haircut at style a little early that day and would I slipped on some nasty black ice just spread, I have truly been touched by Colour Concepts and was expecting not accept payment until she gets to behind Southminster Church. As I lay all the cards, messages, visits and me to pick her up within the hour. complete the haircut. on the ground, I knew immediately emails I have received from many My husband reassured me that I re- Despite the challenges our health that I had done some serious damage in OOS and beyond. Upon publish- ally did need to call an ambulance care system faces, I have had excep- to my left leg. What has happened ing of this issue of The OSCAR, I and that is what I did. Again, within tional care at the Ottawa Hospital. I since has me counting my blessings will still have another 4 to 6 weeks a few minutes, a couple of lovely was taken to the General and admit- in so many ways. before I get a walking cast and life paramedics arrived to help me. As ted immediately to the Urgent Care When my leg has recovered and resumes. Of course, life will resume we were leaving my home, one of department. Soon after, I was sent for I’m, once again, enjoying my walks and this, too, will pass. Again, when them decided they would brush my x-rays and CT scans. When the extent around OOS, I will be looking for I am walking through OOS later this hair as I likely wasn’t expecting to of the damage became known, I was opportunities to “pay it forward”. We spring, I’ll be counting my blessings be “going out” so soon! I also felt kept quite comfortable until my sur- truly live in one of the most wonder- and looking for ways to help others guilty about travelling by ambulance gery could be scheduled. I was very ful communities in Ottawa – and, as others have helped me. So – to when there were truly sick people pleased that my surgery happened likely, one of the most caring too. those who helped me get to the hos- who needed the help. They reassured that same day. By 9:30 p.m. that day, Within a minute of my fall, I was pital, the wonderful staff at the Gen- me that I, too, needed a little help on I was in the recovery room and ready able to wave down a woman heading eral Hospital and all the thoughts and that day. I know these two wonderful to begin the healing process. for her 10 a.m. yoga class at Sur- wishes since – a very big THANK women told me their names…but, of As word of my injury began to round Circle. Within a few more min- YOU!

Sunnyside “rain gardens” planting plans are available for viewing online at: OSCA PROGRAM REGISTRATION http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/transportation-and-parking/completed-studies is ongoing at The “rain gardens” will be completed this spring. If you have any questions about the rain gardens or the planting plans, contact www.oldottawasouth.ca. the City Project Manager Darlene Conway. Email [email protected] 613.580.2424 ext. 27611

Thanks to OSCAR’s Thank many volunteer writers You! and distributors for Windsor Rink Volunteers helping get the news OSCA would like to recognize the volunteers who to you! are critical to the success of the Windsor Rink! The OSCAR is a self-supporting newspaper, We had a great 2014/2015 season, and it wouldn’t paid for entirely by advertising, and reliant on have been possible without all our wonderful and volunteer contributors and distributors. dedicated volunteers. Thanks to the Dairy Queen for THANK YOU! contributing to our community through Rick Howard, Michael O’Hare, Richard Bernst, Richard Botham, Mike Bourque, Mark Conley, its support of the many Don Cummer, Alex Cunningham, Blair Dowden, OSCAR volunteers. Andrew Frank, Dave Giannini, Doug Grove, Julian Hall, Derek Hardy, Tim Healy, Dusan Hoferek, Mike Keenan, Jeff Kelly, Eddie Keyes, Dave Kidd, Jean Lanca, Nick Leswick, Gary Lum, Colin McAlpin, Boyd McBride, James Melanson, Dave Millar, Jerome Moisan, Nick Nauheimer, Mark Newman, Chris Rupar, Mike Taylor, Randy Thurm, Alan Zurakowski and Reg Charette. We apologize for any omissions. We are grateful to all who volunteered this season. Dairy Queen, 1272 Bank Street 738-7146 Page 8 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

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 their address. Letters 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] on postwar Eng- regulations are intended to deal with lish immigrants in Canada. I spent memorials that constitute a hazard to four happy and productive spells Roadside Memorial pedestrians and /or motorists and me- renting property on Windsor Avenue morials that are an issue for adjacent while conducting the research. CC: The OSCAR Editor property owners or to the general We had an excellent response from public. OSCAR readers and their contribu- Dear Councillor, The time has now arrived for the tions, along with others from all City of Ottawa to act on these memo- over Canada, have helped us tell a Last July 30 marked the first anniver- rials, either to develop regulations on largely untold story about the scale sary of the tragic death of a 56-year- erection and dismantling or banning and significance of Canada’s largest old cyclist at the intersection of Bank them outright. immigrant group, the English. Street and Riverside Drive in Ottawa. As you represent the ward where Engaging life story oral histories This is one of the city’s busiest inter- this memorial still stands, I call upon reveal the aspirations, adventures, actions. No charges, criminal or oth- you to initiate discussion with your occasional naiveté, and challenges erwise, were laid against the driver of fellow councillors and city staff for of these hidden immigrants. Postwar the cement truck involved in that in- the purpose of coming up with regu- English immigrants believed they cident. Shortly after that tragic death, lations that are reasonable, and not were moving to a familiar British a roadside memorial was erected at contentious. An outright ban should Invisible Immigrants: The English country. Instead, like other immi- the site in memory of the victim. Al- also be considered. in Canada since 1945 grants, they found they had to deal most 20 months later that memorial I look forward to hearing your with separation from home and fam- still stands. Why? What purpose does response. To the Editor, ily while adapting to a new country, it serve ? A roadside memorial has a new landscape, and a new culture. been described as an on-site marker Emile Therien, I thought your readers might be inter- Although English immigrants did that commemorates the passing of an Public Health & Safety Advocate ested to learn that an appeal launched not appear visibly different from individual or individuals as a result through the pages of the December their new neighbours, as soon as they of a collision. 2007 edition of The OSCAR has spoke they were immediately identi- Until such time that these memori- borne fruit in the publication, this fied as “foreign.” Even today, English als are subject to stringent provincial Tennis Club Shareholders Defeat month, of a new book called Invisible accents can be heard from shoppers regulations and guidelines, the City For-Profit Movement Immigrants: The English in Canada on Bank Street and dog-walkers in of Ottawa, as an intermediate step, since 1945. The original OSCAR Windsor Park. should place a 90-day moratorium To the Editor, article, “Prof Seeks Ex-pat English,” I will be back in Ottawa in May on the erection and dismantling of identified a number of English-born and the early part of June and look roadside memorials, whether they Shareholders of the Ottawa Ten- landed immigrants who lived in Old forward to visiting old friends and are erected in the core of the city or nis and Lawn Bowling Club turned Ottawa South, and their stories are giving a number of talks, some with on the outskirts. Roadside memori- out en masse at the annual general told in the new book. Marilyn Barber, in Ontario and Nova als, which initially consist of a few meeting last night, where they voted I was that professor visiting Car- Scotia. flowers or a wreath, and more often to defeat a slate of candidates who leton University from the University than not, often followed by a more favoured moving the club toward a of Dundee in Scotland. I was looking Yours sincerely permanent symbol such as a cross, for-profit model. for volunteers for oral history inter- indeed, create a number of concerns On the Monday and Tuesday views for GMSSummerJan15.pdfa collaborative research 1 15-01-30 Dr 3:53 Murray PM Watson, and issues ranging from traffic safety before the meeting, more than 100 project with Marilyn Barber from Hawick, Scotland (driver distractions), to highway tennis club members bought shares in and road maintenance, a last-minute rally to defeat the slate to environmental deg- of candidates put forward by Mr. Ian radation including the Macdonald. Mr. Macdonald, who proliferation of signs, holds shares in the club dating back symbols, etc. Roadside to 1939, had formed a “1939 Share- memorials are also a holders Protective Committee” and very contentious issue had been engaged in his own concert- for those citizens who ed effort to gather proxies in support oppose religious symbols of his favoured candidates. on publicly owned and Current club members are entitled maintained highways and to buy one 1989-issue share per roads. member. The “1989” shares are in a Government regula- different category from the “founding C tions and guidelines, shares” issued in 1939.

M often ignored, relating to According to reliable sources, these roadside memorials due to the number of proxies held Y are vague, lacking clear by Mr. Macdonald, the vote would CM direction and vision. have been “too close to call,” if 103

MY When one considers the members had not stepped forward to hazards and concerns buy “1989” shares earlier this week, CY associated with these and if existing “1989” shareholders CMY memorials, the time has had not made the effort to attend the

K now arrived for govern- meeting or assign their proxies to ments to question their those who could attend the meeting. use. There are less con- It’s also worth noting that several tentious and safer ways “1939” shareholders made a special to mourn the loss of a effort to deliver their proxies to the loved one. Share Secretary and vote against Mr. The City of MacDonald’s slate. has adopted regulations The club has operated for many regarding these memori- decades as a ‘not-for-profit’ organi- als; in my opinion, they zation, with share capital. However, are very reasonable and due to changes in the Ontario law a good guide for other jurisdictions. Winnipeg’s Continued on pg. 9 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 9

17th Ottawa Southminster Scout Group’s 20th Annual Natural Garden Supply Sale

Cont. from pg. 8 which are expected to come The scene last year as garden supplies are unloaded and delivered. This annual fundraiser helps to support the 17th into force in 2016, this struc- Southminster Scout Troop, and provided a convenient way for local gardeners to get their supplies delivered to the door ture will no longer be permit- just in time for spring! The order deadline is April 16. PHOTO BY LORI POPE ted, and the club will have to choose between becoming a for-profit corporation with shareholders, or a not-for-prof- th it entity, without sharehold- 17 Ottawa Southminster Scouts 2015 ers. Mr. Macdonald and his supporters feel that the “1939” th shareholders should not have 20 Annual Natural Garden Supplies Sale to give up their shares, and therefore that the club should Dear Old Ottawa South and Glebe Neighbours, choose the for-profit route. By Think Spring! The 17th Ottawa Southminster Scout Group's 20th Annual Natural Garden Supply Sale is now on. 90 youth, both contrast, the slate of candi- girls and boys, from the Old Ottawa South community participate in Scouting, supported by 25 adult volunteers. By ordering dates endorsed by the outgo- from us you make it possible for us to deliver youth programs and go on adventures! ing Board of Directors, and Our product selection includes all natural grass seed, black earth, manure, decorative bark and many other garden inputs elected last night to form the supplied by Ritchie's Feed & Seed. We provide very competitive prices, known products and free delivery to downtown new Board, leans toward the Ottawa. Please support Scouting in our local community. not-for-profit model. We have two ordering options available this year. You may either complete and detach the below order form and deliver it to It is unfortunate that the the Garden Supply coordinator or use our new web order form at http://southminsterscouts.myshopify.com change to the Ontario law means the club is forced to Completed order forms with payment can be dropped off or e-mailed to the Scout Garden Supply Coordinator face this divisive issue. Speak- Ada Brzeski ORDER DEADLINE FREE DELIVERY ing personally, I hope that 19 Pansy Ave. is to your driveway will be on Sat. some of the “1939” sharehold- 613-730-4559 Thursday, April 16, 2015 April 25th (downtown Ottawa only) ers can be brought into this process and that an outcome If you have any questions please contact Ada Brzeski at OR email [email protected] [email protected] will be achieved that ensures the club will continue as a CUT HERE th not-for-profit, member-run, 17 Ottawa Scouts - 2015 Natural Garden Supply – CUSTOMER ORDER FORM (PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY) community-based club for many, many years to come. Client's Name: ______Phone: ______E-mail: ______

The members elected to the Delivery Address: ______Postal Code: ______new OTLBC Board of Direc- tors are: • Bill Lawson PRODUCT SIZE PRICE QTY TOTAL • Andree Mongeon (All products supplied by Ritchie's Seeds) (TAX INCL) REQ'D $

• Imran Syed 1 Black Earth 30 lt $4.00 • Jenny Mitchell 2 Sheep Manure 20 kg $5.00 • Enzo di Chiara • William/Bill Floch 3 Cedar Mulch - natural 3 cu. ft. $8.00 • Kristina Pompura 4 Western Bark - Large 3 cu. ft. $16.00 • Bob Reichert • Martin Aadelar 5 "Greenland" lawn seed (uneven lawns) 1 kg $6.00

6 Shady Lawn Seed (shady lawns) 1 kg $6.00 Members who missed the opportunity to buy a share 7 Ritchie "Quick Grass" lawn seed (low maintenance) 2 kg $10.00 before the board meeting 8 Bone Meal $9.00 will have the chance to buy a share when the club opens this 9 Blood meal $11.00 summer. Ratification by 2/3 of 10 "Bag-To-Earth" (leaf bags) 5/pack $5.00 shareholders will eventually be necessary to approve the restructuring of the club. ORDER TOTAL ******** ******** ******* $

Yours, Payment must accompany order. Cheques payable to “17th Ottawa Scout Group” Kate Jaimet Page 10 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

HOPEWELL PUBLIC SCHOOL Official End of the Every Leaf Counts Fundraising Campaign By Katie Breen This is a phenomenal achievement Counts Committee (Andrea Mueller, sure the project goes ahead. Given for a short and intensive fundraising Caroline Coady, Daphne Dumbrill, the very tight timelines and the chal- The Hopewell Every Leaf Counts campaign—most of these funds were Ilia Fabbri, Julia Albert, Katie Breen, lenges that our yard present we will campaign is pleased to report that it raised in only 3 months, beginning Kristy Hannah, Maggie Fawcett, be working hard to facilitate a 2015 has raised roughly $184,000 toward December 1, 2014. We could not Marnie Drover, Mike Waddington, construction. rebuilding the Hopewell School have achieved this level of success Ryan Davies, Sue Dallin O’Grady, Our online donation page is still ac- primary yard! without the support of our remark- Vanessa Riddell) and especially to tive for anyone wishing to contribute March 1st marked the official end able OOS community. the chair of the committee, Erik Van additional pledges. Please continue of our fundraising drive, and while We are incredibly grateful to all of der Torre (aka Chief Leaf), for his ex- to follow the progress of the yard our total falls just short of our ambi- the parents, students, Hopewell staff, traordinary leadership and contribu- through the following channels and tious $200,000 goal, we are hopeful community members and businesses tions to the success of the campaign. keep your eyes peeled this summer that the numbers will continue to near and far, big and small, for the We also extend our gratitude to for the hopeful start of construction climb thanks to ongoing donations roles they played in this campaign. Principal Lynn Watson for her guid- on the yard! and anticipated grants this spring. We are grateful for every gift of ance and support in promoting the • bit.ly/hopewellyard (our online With this continued momentum, we time, energy and funds—from large campaign and our cause in so many donation page) are hopeful we will reach our goal corporate, personal, and community different ways. • facebook.com/hopewellyard. (You before the summer construction association cheques to emptied piggy Now that the funds are in the bank, don’t need to be a member of Face- season and begin the work to build banks—every leaf and every dollar we have been working with the book to view this page.) a beautiful new green space in our truly counted. A special thank you to School Board, the Yard Committee, • twitter@hopewellyard community. all of the members of the Every Leaf the Fundraising Committee, the Prin- • HopewellFundraising2015@gmail. cipal, and the school board trustee to com. do everything in our power to make

Vote to Help Hopewell Win an Outdoor Classroom!

By Katie Breen to May 4, please cast your daily online vote for Hopewell in this We have great news to share about nationwide competition (You must one of the Every Leaf Counts be 18 years or older to qualify to campaign’s grant submissions! vote). The school with the most Hopewell has been selected as one votes at the end of the competition of 10 Canadian finalists in the an- period wins $20,000 to construct nual Majesta Trees of Knowledge an outdoor classroom. Competition for the chance to win Voting will take place online at a $20,000 outdoor classroom. This www.majestatreesofknowledge.ca. grant is one of many the school is Every click counts! Please vote seeking to help fund the rejuvena- for Hopewell once a day during tion of its beleaguered primary the voting period, and help us yard. turn mouse clicks into a beauti- Hopewell’s outdoor classroom ful new outdoor learning space plan features a diversity of trees, for students, staff and the wider log benches, stump seats, and a community. Spread the word too! chalkboard – a beautiful shaded Ask your friends, neighbours, col- area where students and teachers leagues and social media followers can gather for outdoor learning (facebook, twitter, etc.) for their and play. support —not just for Hopewell, We need your votes! Once again but for our entire community and we are asking for the support of the chance to make a lasting im- Hopewell parents, staff, and the pact on the variety of outdoor play wider community, this time to win and learning spaces in our neigh- the Majesta grant. From April 7 bourhood.

Registration for on now! year chool 2015/2016 s Ages 1.5 to 4, classes starting from 8:30a.m. Visit us at the Glebe Community Centre Come Play, Laugh and Learn with Us! www.ottawapreschool.com THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 11 Page 12 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

LOCAL NEWS Open Table at Trinity Anglican Offers Free Monthly Meals to Students and Young Adults By Kiersten Jensen Table is an ecumenical ministry that immediately volunteered to take the tions when I tell them about Open Ta- is denominationally, a partnership first month. Donna explains that her ble. Those who are familiar with the A new monthly free meal for students of the Lutherans, Anglicans, Pres- group’s enthusiasm is because many Pause Table at Carleton during exam and young adults has started in Old byterians, and United Church, and of these teens will soon be looking time get it, but others say ‘what’s Ottawa South. Open Table Carleton is congregationally, a partnership for programs like Open Table. “This the catch?’ and are surprised to hear had its first meal March 8th, and will of local neighbourhood churches year five of our F.A.I.T.H. Team will that the agenda is simply hospitality. have one more on April 12th before who take turns providing the home- be graduating from high school and To the churches involved this is a taking a break for the summer. The cooked meals. transitioning to university in Sep- no-brainer. We are here to serve the meals are hosted by Trinity Anglican In March, the F.A.I.T.H. Team tember. This kind of program is of community, and an easy way to do Church, on the corner of Bank St. from St. James Anglican Church huge value to these youth and dem- that is to offer a space to students and and Cameron Ave. The meals are the provided the main meal and Trin- onstrates to them one of the many young adults to de-stress and have a 2nd Sunday of the month during the ity provided the dessert. On April programs that will be available to good meal with friends. school year. Doors open at 5:30 and 12th, Fourth Avenue Baptist has them as they journey through to the If your church or community orga- the meal is served at 6 p.m. volunteered to provide the meal. St. next stage in their life.” nization would like to get involved in This same initiative has existed in James youth decided to get involved As well as working at Trinity, I Open Table, or if you would just like Sandy Hill since 2009. Students and after their leader, Donna Rourke, coordinate Open Table Carleton more information, send me an email young adults in Sandy Hill know it took them to visit Open Table Sandy and have been working on getting at [email protected] For more quite well, and they know that if you Hill. The youth left determined to the word out to students and young information about Open Table and want leftovers, the event is #BYOT – get involved. When they heard that adults in the neighbourhood. It has our meal times, see www.theopent- Bring Your Own Tupperware. Open Open Table Carleton had started, they been interesting getting their reac- able.ca.

Calling All Artists and Artisans By Brenda Lee with other artists and members of the details of their work. A list of artist’s in the neighbourhood and at the main community. Entries include paint- details will be on the OSCA website entrances to the park on the day of Calling all artists and artisans! Reg- ings, wood work, fabric work, food, and Facebook page after May 15th. the event. Artists are provided with istration is now open for OSCA’s an- carvings, jewelry and more. Each $50 space is 10’x10’ and a PDF and jpeg of the poster and are nual OSCA Windsor Park Art Show To register visit www.oldottawa- artists must provide their own tables, encouraged to use their own social on May 31st from 10:00 – 4:00. south.ca and click on the “Register tents etc. There is no electricity sup- media sites to promote the event. OSCA proudly presents the an- Now” button. You must make a pro- plied to this site and each artist is Please note that this OSCA run nual art show in lovely Windsor file in order to register. You can also responsible for his or her own cash event is not to be confused with the Park, overlooking the Rideau River. call the Firehall at 613-247-4946 or and receipts. privately run Old Ottawa South Art Featuring over 30 artists and arti- register in person at the front desk. OSCA advertises using the OS- and Music Festival that is held each sans, this is a great opportunity for All art must be made by the artist CAR, Glebe Report, the OSCA web- September in Windsor Park. new and established artists/artisans registered for the event. Artists will site and OSCA Facebook page, Kijiji, Registration closes on April 30th. be contacted after registration for Apt. 613 and through posters put up to show theirGMSElemAdGeoGR15.pdf work and to connect 1 15-02-04 1:12 PM

Area Worship Services Location Times Sunnyside Wesleyan Sunday Worship Church Services at 9:00 58 Grosvenor Avenue a.m. and 11:00 (at Sunnyside) a.m., Children’s program offered during worship

C services.

M St Margaret Mary Mass Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and Y Catholic Church Tuesday at 7:00 CM 7 Fairbairn (corner of p.m. MY Sunnyside)

CY Trinity Anglican Church Holy Eucharist at CMY 1230 Bank St 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 K (at Cameron Ave) a.m. with Church School & Choir

Southminster United Sunday Worship Church & Kids Church at 15 Aylmer Avenue 10:30 a.m. (at Bank & the Canal) THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 13

OCSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT Putting Students First By Kathy Ablett, Catholic school which could pos- Lockdown – highest level re- OCSB Trustee sibly threaten the safety of our staff sponse. Students remain silent behind and students. To protect everyone locked classroom doors, with the involved, we have developed specific lights off, until 911 arrives. Spring Break is now a happy memory emergency procedures to deal with Please check the following link to and the celebration of Easter is upon potential threats. expand on this important informa- us. After a long, cold winter there We invite you to become familiar tion. seems to be a sense of anticipation with these procedures. It is impor- http://www.ocsb.ca/schools/tools/ as the final term of this school year tant that all members of our school emergency-procedures begins. Take a moment to reflect on community feel safe when they are the past year, the importance of this all the positives around you and that in our schools. Learn more about the Immaculata Students Participate initiative. At this time I would like should help in all of you having a reasons for an emergency response, in Torch for Life to recognize two outstanding physi- successful completion to your school what happens in the classroom, and On Tuesday, March 10th, Immacu- cians; both of whom are neighbours year. how we communicate these situa- lata High School’s student council in your community. Dr. Pierre An- Below are some information items tions to parents. joined organizers on Parliament Hill toine Brown and Dr. Todd Fairhead from the Board. Stay tuned for Shelter in Place – low level re- for the Torch for Life Event in sup- were instrumental in the successful important budget information in my sponse to threat. Students stay inside port of organ donations. Each student outcome of my transplant surgery. upcoming articles. the building due to a potential threat had an opportunity to hold the torch Both are physicians who believe in outside. and share their thoughts on this great miracles! Emergency Procedures for Crisis Secure School – moderate level cause. If, at any time, I can be of assis- Situations response. Students stay in their I was also in attendance to sup- tance to you please do not hesitate to Our priority is your child’s safety. classrooms and all building doors are port the students as I know firsthand, call me at 613-526-9512. Sometimes, a crisis situation can locked. being an organ recipient myself in unfold inside or near an Ottawa

OCDSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT Public School Board Update By Shawn Menard, http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/cur- OCDSB Budget OCDSB Trustee riculum/elementary/health.html We are now heading in to a full budget process that is expected to see School to Remain Open reductions in overall spending. I un- The Ottawa Public School Board has I’m happy to say that Munster El- derstand the mandatory need to bal- been busy since January. ementary school will remain open in ance our budget at the school board From debates around a new Health the near future. You may ask yourself and the realities facing the province. and Physical Education Curriculum why I took this position for a school I also recognize that if efficiencies to school closures, there has been far outside of our zone. I feel strong- are to be gained it should be done in much to discuss. ly about utilizing the 150 schools/ a way that minimizes student disrup- effect on our student outcomes. That community assets that the school tion and access to essential services. is why I was happy to see Report 15- Provincial Health and Physical th board currently maintains to the best As Chair of the Budget Committee, I 041 on our Agenda for March 24 . Education Curriculum of our ability, ensuring principles of will be operating under that principle The report details the achievement After reviewing the new Provincial equity and choice for parents. In a and will look to solicit extensive gaps for students from lower socio- Health and Physical Education Cur- growing City such as Ottawa, and community feedback in the near economic backgrounds. I will be fol- riculum, I am confident that it meets with the important concept of build- future. lowing up with staff to ensure we use the mark for a modern, effective ing community through our schools, this to inform our discussions around guide which will be implemented in I’d like to see our Board examine Student Achievement and SES necessary supports and services to September of 2015. I am particularly use and programming to best meet A final note on student achieve- reduce achievement gaps for students supportive of the elements which the needs of students across the City ment: Education is a great equalizer from lower SES backgrounds. speak to the well-being of our stu- while maintaining the valuable public but there are elements of our system Thanks for reading through this. If dents and the integration of financial assets we possess. which are not equal for all. Socio- you have any questions don’t hesitate literacy to overall health. To read economic demographics have an to contact me at shawn.menard@ the documents yourself please visit: ocdsb.ca.

Yasir Naqvi, MPP

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MP’S REPORT Conservatives Undermine Security and Liberty with Bill C-51 Paul Dewar, M.P. terrorism at home and abroad. As cut off debate on the bill at second , we must address these reading, the NDP kept pushing for The Conservative government’s Bill threats with responsible and effective real study and debate at committee. C-51 is a flawed piece of legislation measures that prevent violent acts Our pressure forced the government – one that over-reaches and erodes and promote peaceful communities, to more than double the number of civil liberties, while failing to protect while protecting and preserving the committee hearings on this bill from public safety. As a New Democrat, I rights and freedoms that make us so three to eight. am proud to be a member of the only proud to be Canadian. New Democrats will continue to lent extremism domestically, Canada official party opposing this dangerous In its current form, Bill C-51 do our jobs and demand that this does not. Bill C-51 does absolutely bill. restricts and reduces civil liberties, bill gets the study and scrutiny that nothing to support anti-radicalization Canada faces real threats from while giving increased powers to it needs. We’re calling on the gov- efforts in Canadian communities. national security and intelligence ernment to allow a full range of New Democrats have always firmly agencies without proper and effec- experts and stakeholders to testify at believed that we cannot sacrifice tive civilian oversight or additional committee, and to accept practical the fundamental freedoms that are resources. Such a dramatic overhaul amendments to strengthen oversight central to Canadian society in the of our security legislation deserves and protect Canadians’ freedoms. In name of bolstering public safety. We serious study and scrutiny. Unfortu- particular, we are urging the govern- believe we can and must protect both, nately, Conservatives seem intent on ment to include stronger, indepen- and that Canadians should never be ramming C-51 through Parliament as dent civilian oversight of security forced to choose between their secu- quickly as possible, without proper and intelligence agencies, as well as rity and their rights. consultation or full debate – and restoring resources for those agencies In the days after the Ottawa shoot- without answering straightforward that were cut by Conservatives. ing, Parliament was at its best. We all questions about the scope and effects In addition to traditional security recommitted to working together, as of the bill. operations, public safety agencies Canadians. Unlike some others in Parliament, should also be working with at-risk Unfortunately, Stephen Harper the NDP refused to be intimidated communities on counter-radicaliza- seems to have lost that moment. His into supporting the government’s tion programs. Unfortunately, the new law is sweeping, dangerously bill. Instead, we carefully examined RCMP’s planned program to counter vague, and ineffective. It puts politics Bill C-51 and consulted extensively violent extremism has sat on the ahead of protecting Canadians. Cana- with stakeholders and our constitu- drawing board since 2013. And while dians deserve better. ents – including many of you here in the United States has a comprehen- Ottawa Centre. After the government sive national strategy to prevent vio-

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MAYOR’S REPORT Sports Tourism in Ottawa By Mayor Jim Watson contributor to our local economy, host more” program will further behind the high-tech and government foster economic and social prosper- As the days grow longer and the sectors. ity within our city. We have made snow starts to melt, it’s always excit- With all eyes on Ottawa as the cen- great strides already, securing several ing to see how eager people are to ter of festivities for Canada’s 150th major events for 2015-2016: get outside and enjoy our city. While birthday in 2017, strengthening our • FIFA Women’s World Cup residents put away their skates and tourism industry by attracting major • National Cham- lace up their runners, it becomes ap- sporting events becomes even more pionships parent how active our city really is. important. • Canadian Sprint Canoe/Kayak 2016 Brier Curling Championships Whether you are an amateur ath- That’s why I recently asked city National Championships for the first time since 2001. A major lete, sports fan or just like to enjoy council to appoint Innes Ward • Canadian Little League Cham- Canadian championship, the Brier is the outdoors, Ottawa has something Councillor Jodi Mitic as Ottawa’s pionships projected to bring more than 10,000 for you this season. first Sports Commissioner. With a • Capital Karting Grand Prix room nights to hotels and over $4.5 With the Ottawa Champions keen interest and passion for sports, million to the local economy. bringing pro- back to our Councillor Mitic will act as an am- The City’s reputation as a premiere As significant as these economic city in May and another season to bassador to pitch Ottawa as a host destination for major sporting events contributions are to Ottawa, sporting look forward to from the Ottawa for high-profile sporting events of all continues to grow with the announce- events make an even larger contribu- Redblacks and Fury FC, Ottawa is types. With his experience and team ment that Ottawa will host the 2017 tion to our city. Each event brings quickly emerging as a sporting hub in mentality, I am excited to see the op- Roar of the Rings curling champion- with it, its own community who have Canada. portunities Councillor Mitic, working ship. In addition to its major econom- the opportunity to experience and Not only is this exciting for fans with partners like Ottawa Tourism, is ic contributions, this will determine contribute to our city’s culture of but sporting events can be a major able to bring to the city. which teams will represent Canada diversity and inclusiveness. boost to our local economy, filling Continuing our collaborative ef- at the 2018 Winter Olympics in If you would like to know more restaurants, shops and hotel rooms. forts, the City of Ottawa and Tour- Pyeongchang, South Korea. Ottawa about these exciting events and many In fact, tourism is the third largest ism Ottawa’s “bid more, win more, was also recently named host of the more, visit www.ottawatourism.ca/.

COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Access To Greenspace Is Not Optional By Councillor David level of education, or stage of life. sight and sound of traffic. Chernushenko Considering the many positive ef- Further north along Bronson, a fects, it’s unfortunate that parks and determined group of residents led by natural areas are thought of by many Noel Lormer, Declan Hill and various With all the attention paid to road as good, but not essential; nice, but neighbours has, over the past decade, maintenance, waste management perhaps less important than filling removed dead trees and undesirable and other municipal priorities, it’s potholes — especially if that pothole scrub. They have worked with the easy to overlook the importance of is on your street and you already City to plant appropriate species, to urban parks and greenspace. And yet have a spacious backyard in which to keep grass-cutting equipment from they are crucial to maintaining our putter around. harming the new growth, and to and not just potholes. But if you do mental and physical wellbeing, and We are lucky here in Capital Ward protect the young trees with a snow have potholes to report (and I know to strengthening the social fabric of a to enjoy parks and greenspaces ac- fence in winter. A permanent solution you do) please tell the City where thriving city. cessible to many residents, such as that would keep cars from parking on they are so they can be filled. Email Studies have shown that encounters the landscaped and natural areas this space remains elusive, but I hope [email protected], visit ottawa.ca/servi- with the natural world are beneficial, along the Rideau River and Rideau to get this one solved soon. ceottawa or call 3-1-1. whether it’s a walk in the woods, a Canal, the expanded park on Spring- The neighbourhood’s newest park few moments sitting in the shade of a hurst Ave., Hurdman Wood, Brewer will start taking shape this summer Adopt a garden large tree, or taking your children to Pond, Sawmill Creek, and the Arbo- just east of there, on a former Hydro Are you interested in gardening? watch ducks dabble in the river. retum and Experimental Farm. Ottawa site bordered by Sunnyside, I’m looking for volunteers to be a Time spent enjoying the outdoors Yet a frank assessment shows that Woodbine Lane and Carlyle Ave. The part of a team to care for the plant- leads to measurable decreases in we have the National Capital Com- park’s design arose out of a series of ers on Bank Street as well as the depression and stress among people mission, rather than the City of Ot- neighbourhood consultations. Percy gardens along Sunnyside. Join me on of all ages. Educators believe it tawa, to thank for much of that, and Taverner Park, as it is tentatively Wednesday, April 15 from 7 to 8:30 promotes children’s intellectual that existing greenspaces continue named while the City goes through p.m. at the Old Firehall (260 Sun- and emotional development, fosters to disappear due to development, the final stages of the naming pro- nyside) to learn more about how you imagination and creativity, and helps including the Alta Vista Corridor cess, will be a valuable addition to can get involved in your community. them build social relationships. It has “Hospital Link” and on the Oblate local, informal greenspaces. It also also been shown to reduce symptoms Councillor , Lands. Meanwhile, the City has in includes a proper staircase from Sun- of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity 613-580-2487, David.Chernushen- recent years diverted some of the nyside into the park, so that residents Disorder. [email protected], capitalward.ca. forestry budget to replacing tens of and visitors In dementia patients, spending thousands of mature trees lost to the can enjoy time in a garden improves cognitive Emerald Ash Borer. walking function and reduces agitation and In Old Ottawa South, however, the through the aggressive behaviour. Speaking of past few years have brought some park as well gardens, community plots provide modest gains. The hard work of local as coming not only nutritious produce, but also residents like John Bond and Mike to sit, play opportunities for social interaction — Lascelles is reflected in the urban for- or read. two health benefits in one! est now growing where Brewer Park I am In short, parks and other open pub- meets the Rideau River. My 22-year- glad to be lic spaces offer opportunities to rest, old son was too small to grip a able to talk relax, play, get some exercise and spade when we first took part in tree about and make friends, all of which deliver planting sessions in the early 1990s. give good physical and psychological benefits. Now, the thick, tall grove of trees in news about That’s good for everyone, regardless this area and along Bronson Avenue parks and of your economic or social status, provides a modest buffer from the greenspace Page 16 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

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5th Annual Westend Pottery Sale dertake environmental stewardship - Free Admission and daily draws! projects in the areas of improving Saturday, April 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. stormwater management, enhanc- and Sunday, April 12 10 a.m.-4:30 ing and protecting natural systems, p.m. Churchill Seniors’ Centre, 345 or reducing our environmental Richmond Road (at Churchill). Meet impact. The application deadline over 20 local and regional artists. is Monday, June 1. For details on This show and sale is designed to funding eligibility criteria, the promote excellence in ceramic art application process, profiles of available in our community. All work past projects, and an online ap- is original; handcrafted by the maker. plication, please visit the City of Catered by the Black Walnut Bak- Ottawa website at ottawa.ca/cepgp. ery, offering fairtrade coffee, tea and or contact Jennifer Brown, CEPGP snacks. More information at www. Co-ordinator, at 613-580-2424 x westendpotterysale.com 27914 or at [email protected].

Child Haven International hosts Under the baton of Antonio its 30’th annual fundraising dinner Llaca, Coro Vivo Ottawa pres- in Ottawa, April 17 at 6:00 p.m. at ents Lux Aeterna: Songs of Light the Tudor Hall, 3750 Bowesville Rd. and is delighted to perform this Child Haven operates Homes for uplifting piece with orchestra for over 1300 children and assists 130 our Ottawa audience. Lauridsen women in India, Nepal, Bangladesh has described this composition as and Tibet in China. For tickets and an intimate work of quiet serenity info. contact Pat Dunphy at 613-745- centred on a universal symbol of 1743 and [email protected] hope, reassurance, goodness and or go to childhaven.ca to pay on line illumination. In addition to Lux with Pay Pal. Aeterna, this concert will feature celebrated a cappella and accompa- Community Environmental Proj- nied choral works. Friday April 24 ects Grant Program. The City of at 8:00 p.m, St. Joseph’s Church, Ottawa is now accepting applications 174 Wilbrod St. Tickets: $ 25, chil- for the 2015 Community Environ- dren 14 and under free, available mental Projects Grant Program at: the door, Leading Note, Com- (CEPGP).CEPGP has funding avail- pact Music or call 613-841-3902 Eric Ayalik Pelly. He will be remembered at a Memorial Game on able to community groups and non- www.corovivoottawa.ca Friday, April 17th @ Peplinski Arena 6:30-8:00 p.m. profit organizations who want to un- We would love to see everyone at • April 18 Spring Craft & Bake the Eric Ayalik Pelly Memorial Sale from 10am to 3pm, Free. An Ringette Game. Friday, April incredible selection of local hand- Win a 17th @ Peplinski Arena 6:30-8:00 crafted items and gourmet baked for a OC Juvenile Hockey Team goods. NEW LOCATION in the FREE Spring into vs Open A Ringette Team. Eric Cereal Barn at Canada Agriculture Week of Camp was an amazing young man and a and Food Museum, 901 Prince of wonderful hockey player from the Wales Drive. Free admission at gate Register before June 1 50 Winners! Action! Ottawa Centre Juvenile Team who if attending the craft sale. passed away this December. Eric’s • April 21 Master Gardener Lec- teammates are having a fundraiser in ture from 7 to 9pm. “Earthly Register Now! his memory. (There will be a short Delights or Do-It-Yourself Dirt ER ceremony before the game starts with Edythe Falconer” ; “Keep- T EN GIZ E ED G when we will observe a minute of ing the Garden Going Strong with New classes and silence to honour and remember Josie Pazdzior” ; “Trees and shrubs

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B s e i vegetables in your urban space. friendsofthefarm.ca for more infor- a n c n h e FCEF members $12, non-members mation on all these events. V T o • lle ll $15, Bldg 72 CEF Arboretum, east a 201501-205 PRCS yb tb all of exit off Prince of Wales roundabout. Glebe Collegiate Institute’s Athletic • Soccer • S • April 11 Volunteer Recruitment Council will be hosting the second Orientation from 10am to 12pm. annual “Blue and Gold Auction” Come and meet garden team leaders April 16 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Volunteer Recruitment Orien- in the school gym. Proceeds from tation on Saturday April 11, from 10 the auction will go towards a bursary a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Bldg. 72 CEF fund recognizing student athletic Arboretum, east exit off Prince of leadership and volunteerism within ottawa.ca/recreation Wales roundabout. Glebe athletics, help enhance the school’s sports programs and support THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 17

AROUND TOWN students travelling to the Special The Ottawa Brahms Choir under in pediatric cancer. One of our most ested please contact: Lonelle Butler Olympics being held in Oshawa this direction of Christopher Askwith and significant efforts is an event called Coordinator of Volunteer Services at spring. Former Glebe Graduate, CFL accompanist Ioulia Blinova, presents “Shave For A Cure” where vol- [email protected] or call 613 player and TSN analyst Jock Climie “Springtime Melodies” on Sunday, unteers shave their heads to raise 238-2727 ext. 353. will be the guest speaker at the event. April 19, at 3 p.m., at St. Thomas money and awareness for Childhood More information is available at the Apostle Church, 2345 Alta Vista Cancer Canada. This year, we will be Canadian Blood Services Blood http://sites.google.com/a/ocdsb.ca/ Drive. Tickets from St. Thomas the holding our 11th annual fundraising Donor Clinic. Tuesday, April 28 glebeblue-gold/. Apostle Anglican Church Secretariat, event on Wednesday April 9th, from at the RA Center 2451 Riverside Leading Note on Elgin, and Compact 4:30 – 8:30 p.m. in the Atrium of Drive10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Book A Career Day will be hosted by Music stores on Bank St.. For info: Roger Guindon Hall located at 451 your appointment online www.blood. the Immaculata Parent Council Tel. 613-749-2391; 819-568-8169; Smyth Road. ca or call 1-888-236-6283. on Wednesday, May 6th from 2:30 www.OttawaBrahmsChoir.ca p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Career Day brings Volunteer at the 2015 Canadian 3rd Annual Hockey for Heart both students and professionals Tulip Festival from May 8-18! Are Tournament April 24-25. The Hock- from many walks of life together to you a social butterfly? Do you love ey for Heart Tournament in Memory discuss job paths and opportunities. interacting with the public? The of Bill Kitchen is a recreational-level Volunteers will be required for the Canadian Tulip Festival is looking hockey tournament raising critical event. If you are willing to spend for volunteers in the following areas: life-saving funds for the Heart and a couple hours with our students Leadership/Supervisors, Pageantry, Stroke Foundation. For registration discussing career paths, please email, Gleam Team, Logistics, Restaurant and more information visit: www. [email protected]. Servers, Programmed Activity Sup- hockeyforheartottawa.com port, Festival Boutique and more. Dr. Steven Hughes presents “Build- Call Suzanne Landis at 613-567- “Ottawa’s Frontier Modernism” a ing Better Brains: How School and 5757 for more information. Heritage Ottawa Free Public Lec- Home Life Can Build Higher-Order ture. Wednesday, April 15, 7:00 p.m. Cognitive Ability in Children (but Volunteer Drivers – Abbotsford@ at the Ottawa Public Library Audito- generally don’t!)” Steven J. Hughes, The Glebe Centre. Our community rium, 120 Metcalfe Street (corner of PhD, ABPdN is a pediatric neuropsy- support program urgently needs vol- Laurier Ave. West). Beginning as a chologist and director of The Center unteers to drive local seniors to medi- settlement built on the forest frontier, for Research on Developmental Edu- cal appointments. Volunteers pick up Ottawa has largely been shaped by cation, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Ottawa Orchid Society Is the clients at their home, drive them Modern ideas over the past two cen- He speaks about education and brain Pleased To Present “ORCHIDO- to their medical appointments and turies. Speaker: Andrew Waldron is development at conferences, univer- PHILIA” the 34th Annual Orchid back home. Mileage will be reim- the manager of the Federal Heritage sities, schools, and training centers Show on April 18 & 19, with orchid bursed. We serve clients in the fol- Buildings Review Office, and the all over the world. At the Ottawa displays, art gallery, and orchid ven- lowing areas: Glebe, Ottawa South, Canadian Registrar, at Parks Canada. Montessori School, 335 Lindsay dors, on Saturday: noon to 5:00 p.m. Ottawa East, Hunt Club, Riverside Info: 613-230-8841 or info@heri- Street. May 12, 7 p.m. Tickets are and Sunday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Park, Billings and Carleton Heights. tageottawa.org www.heritageottawa. $15 at the door. To reserve a spot or With general admission: $12, se- Police Check is required. If inter- org for more information, email Kendra niors (60+) and children (8-12) $10. atcommunications@omsmontessori. Photographers with tripods welcome com. Sunday 9-11 a.m. At the Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue. Expert Natalia McPhedran presents For more information visit our web- Raising Resilient Children in a site www.ottawaorchidsociety.com. Digital Age at the Ottawa Montes- sori School, 335 Lindsay Street, Ottawa Quilt Show to Showcase Canton’s Tuesday, April 14, 7 p.m. Tickets are Hundreds of Quilts on Mother’s Day $10 at the door. To reserve a spot or Weekend. The Ottawa Valley Quil- for more information, email Kendra ters Guild (OVQG) proudly presents at communications@omsmontessori. its “Festival of Quilts 2015”, with a com. brand new category this year- touch Mindful Gardens quilts. This biannual show is held Musica Viva Singers present Find on Mother’s Day weekend, May 8th the Cost of Freedom. Monday, May to 10th, at the RA Centre in Ottawa. 4th at 7:30 p.m. At the The show runs from 10 a.m.- 7 p.m. To plant a United Church, 507 Bank Street. on Friday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Satur- “garden is to Through the ages, people around the day, and 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. on Sunday. world have raised their voices in pro- General Admission is $10, but there believe in test against oppression. Musica Viva is also a Friday Evening Special of tomorrow. Singers, under the direction of Scott only $6 between 5-7 p.m. Weekend Audrey Hepburn Richardson, celebrate the power of passes are also available for $15, ” freedom songs to change the course and children under the age of 12 of history. The wide-ranging pro- are free if accompanied by an adult. gram includes choral music from Advanced tickets are available on the American Civil War to the Civil Eventbrite.ca, and tickets will also Rights Movement and South Africa’s be available at the door. For more liberation struggle; from spirituals information go to www.ottawaval- and folksongs to opera arranged by leyquiltersguild.org, on Facebook at well-loved composers from Oscar www.facebook.com/ottawaquilts and Peterson and Harry Belafonte to on Twitter @ottawaquilts. spring openings Steven Stills and Guiseppe Verdi. •garden design•garden installation Special guest, Stephen Richer and Shave For A Cure is coming! Smil- •garden maintenance•lawn maintenance Tom Sear on piano. Tickets: adults ing Over Sickness is a non-profit, •project management $20; seniors and students $15 avail- student-run organization that directs Call: (613) 222 2562 or email: able at the door and on-line at http:// community volunteerism and student [email protected] musicavivafreedomsongs.eventbrite. energy with the goal of contributing ca. For more information see www. to the lives of sick children fighting Canton Horticulture Industries musicavivaottawa.ca. cancer by raising money for research Page 18 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

Local Potter at Westend Pottery Sale

Jocelyn Jenkins, Old Ottawa South pottery instructor and potter, is getting ready for the Westend Pottery Sale in April, with this tea pot (left) and, inspired by the arrival of spring, this hand carved plate (right). PHOTOS BY PUCK JANES By Puck Janes her training as a mechanical engineer I like to add some whimsy to my • Churchill Seniors’ Centre, 345 to challenge gravity on the potter’s quirky, and my hand-built sculptural Richmond Road (at Churchill) Jocelyn Jenkins, talented local potter, wheel. Jocelyn has won awards for work will be a welcome addition to has been invited to participate in the her carved ceramic work and often the Ottawa push to buy local, make it Meet over 20 local and regional 5th Annual Westend Pottery Sale adds a lively element to her pieces local. I have also signed on to teach artists. This show and sale promotes April 11th and 12th. Many members with the addition of sculpted leaves, pottery camp this summer at The Old excellence in ceramic art available in of the Old Ottawa South Community snails and birds. Jocelyn will be Firehall Pottery Studio. our community. All work is original; Centre know Jocelyn as the chil- establishing her own pottery studio designed and handcrafted by the dren’s pottery teacher at The Firehall this summer. • 5th Annual Westend Pottery Sale - maker. Catered by the Black Walnut Pottery Studio. However, this fun, Joining Jocelyn at the Westend Pot- Free Admission and daily draws! Bakery, offering fairtrade coffee, tea quirky, dynamo is also a production tery Sale is myself, Puck Janes, a pot- • Saturday, April 11 10am- and snacks. potter of exceptional skill who uses ter new to Old Ottawa South, having 5pm and Sunday, April 12 10 a.m.- More information at www.westend- recently moved from Saskatchewan. 4:30 p.m. potterysale.com

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Quilting with an Impact: Touch Quilts in Ottawa

Twenty Five Blues by Grace MacNab. PHOTO BY GRACE MACNAB Touch Quilt made by Grace MacNab. PHOTO BY CAROL GAUDET

By Janice Henderson from them. Grace has continued this touch co-residents or wheelchairs. More information about OVQG and tradition in both making touch quilts Residents who may be lower func- the “Festival of Quilts 2015” can be What is a touch quilt, and why do and when giving workshops herself. tioning will respond to the touch found on the web at www.ottawaval- they matter? Touch Quilts are tex- Later she realized how useful they quilt, moving and feeling the various leyquiltersguild.org, on Facebook at tured lap quilts designed for those might be while volunteering at the textiles. By keeping residents busy www.facebook.com/ottawaquilts and who need sensory stimulation, es- Civic Hospital. Patients who have and occupied, touch quilts can even on Twitter @ottawaquilts. pecially those with Alzheimer’s and Alzheimer’s and come into the ER offset unwanted behaviours. “We are Janice Henderson started quilting other forms of dementia. Straight- for other reasons are often confused always in need [of more touch quilts] in grade 11 when she grew too big forward to make, these charity quilts and distressed. They do not know and very grateful”, says Susan Zorz for her childhood quilt, and is now have an incredible impact on quality that they are in hospital, they may of the Glebe Centre. the co-president of the Ottawa Valley of life. According to the Alzheimer think they have been kidnapped, they This year, to raise awareness and Quilters Guild. She wishes that she Society of Manitoba, “sensory cannot imagine why someone would encourage quilters to make more had known about touch quilts dur- stimulation can increase happiness, stick a needle into their arm. Grace touch quilts, OVQG is showcasing ing the twenty years that her grand- enjoyment and relaxation as well as asked the nurses if the quilts would touch quilts as a new category dur- mother lived with Alzheimer’s, but is lessen sadness and fear”. Touch quilts help and started donating a few and ing their “Festival of Quilts 2015” eager to raise awareness about them can provide dementia patients with then asking Guild members to make over Mother’s Day weekend at the at the upcoming “Festival of Quilts sensory stimulation, reducing un- them. The OVQG quilts are in huge RA Center. More information about 2015” on Mother’s Day weekend at wanted behaviours without requiring demand as staff find they help calm how to make a touch quilt, includ- the RA. sedatives or physical restraints. patients, decreasing the need for ing instructions and guidelines can Alzheimer’s and other forms of sedatives and keeping them from be found at www.quirkyquilt.com. dementia are an especially relevant pulling at catheters and monitoring issue to the Ottawa Valley Quilters wires. They have also been requested Guild (OVQG). Two of its three for geriatric and transitional care H I N T founding members are living with a units as well. Grace and other Guild diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, and many members have also provided quilts other members are either currently to local nursing homes, including the caring for a loved one with dementia, Glebe Centre. “They really do help,” or have friends or family with the she says, “both to calm and, para- O N B U R G disease. doxically, to stimulate”. One of the OVQG members pas- According to program facilita- Wellington West sionate about touch quilts is Grace tor Kirsten O’Brien at the Glebe MacNab. She first encountered touch Centre, touch quilts are success- From the O-Train line to quilts in 2006 when she took an ful because it means that residents Island Park, delight in the OVQG workshop given by Shirley can sit in a group activity because offerings of Wellington West, Monkhouse. Shirley gave the work- the quilts allow them to keep their Where we SHOP! hands occupied. For residents with a

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LANDSCAPING Landscape Design: Big Opportunities for Your Small Space

This well proportioned cozy patio fits perfectly into a small back yard. PHOTO BY JAY LADELL

By Jay Ladell shed.To transform an under-utilized seating. In this private-public space, posts. For an artistic look, add wall or an unattractive outdoor space into you can comfortably read, chat with art and mirrors that will reflect your Old Ottawa South, like other urban a beautiful, multi-purpose outdoor neighbours or greet passersby.If personality and make your space ap- communities, is graced with mature retreat, allow plenty of time for the you prefer privacy, add a textured pear larger.The patio is a great place homes on small parcels of land. planning stage. Begin by looking at bamboo blind or vibrant patterned for multiple purposes. The secret When outdoor space is at a premium, all four sides of your property for outdoor curtain. Give yourself a is to purchase light, foldable patio homeowners often struggle to find possible living, storage and garden pleasant view to gaze at by replac- furniture that you can move easily. more than one use for it. Other times, space before creating a detailed land- ing grass with a colourful garden for Without the furniture, your patio these small yards lack beauty. An scape design plan. vistas that you will appreciate not becomes a blank canvas. Now you outdoor patio, for example, is hardly The front yard can easily be only from the porch but also from the have a temporary space to change a an outdoor oasis when facing a wall reclaimed for living space. Many interior and the curb.Side yards are flat bicycle tire, let the children play, of garbage, green and recycling bins homes have beautiful front porches often overlooked - yet they are valu- or pull out your yoga mat to exercise. plopped next to an unsightly storage that often have room for shaded able spaces for storage, a transitional Parking spaces can even be beautified garden and even seating. A garden to do double duty; providing extra pathway with vertical plants will link living space when the car is away. your front and back yards together Pergolas built on the patio add and require scant space. If your side greenery, privacy and shade. The four yard allows, add a bench with built-in posts can hold outdoor fabric curtains storage space that can house your that you can tie back during the day garden tools. and pull open at at night. Colourful When designing your backyard, pillows and seat covers provide you create separate, distinct places for with an outdoor space that has the each function or activity. Since most comfort and luxury of the interior of of the pre-World War II homes in your home. OOS were built without garages, No backyard is complete without storage sheds tend to be placed in a water feature. The gurgling sound the backyard. A privacy screen is an of water moving evokes a country excellent solution to hide unsightly stream, and helps block out urban items from view.Vertical gardens that noise. use tall, upright plants are a perfect A small property can have it all: a solution for small yards. Place them place to relax, entertain and garden. next to your property line as they By following these tips, you will cre- take up little square footage and ate an extension of your home. You draw interest to the end of your yard, and your family will want to spend making it appear larger. Start by every available minute in your new adding visual interest to your fence. outdoor living space. Add a colour stain or even invest in custom fence panels for a “Wow” ef- Send your topic ideas to oscar@ fect. Does your yard lack a property landscapeottawa.com or visit: www. fence? If yes, a lattice screen will landscapeottawa.com achieve the same effect. Plant flowering vines to climb Jay Ladell is an award-winning land- fence-mounted trellises behind beds scape designer, industry certified- of upright perennials and mix in installer, and member of Landscape spring and summer blooming bulbs Ontario and owner of Ladell Land- for seasonal interest. For added co- scaping & Gardens. lour, place hanging baskets of annual flowers on hooks along the fence THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 21

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MEMORIES OF OUR CANAL

The Church of the Ascension on Echo Drive in 1922. By Joe Scanlon one still at Hog’s Back. Bronson was streets. The company was known as skating rinks available. We usually then a two-lane road. It edged onto the Ottawa Electric Railway. decided one go at shovelling was As a boy I recall walking over to the open fields which – in the mid-fifties There used to be a wooden bridge enough. Canal with a fishing rod and worms – finally carried a sign proclaiming it, that allowed pedestrians – in win- We also – on one occasion – got to for bait and trying to catch fish. I did “The Future Site of Carleton Col- ter – to cross the Canal from Ottawa skate on what is now the Driveway. catch a few mud-pout and sun fish lege”. East into the Glebe. Just before the There was an ice storm after the but nothing of any substance. Years I also recall a set of stone steps sled dog races it would be cut out in Driveway was paved but before it later, however, I wrote a feature for which led from the Driveway up to the middle so the dogs could pass. In was opened and the result was a long the Saturday section of the Ottawa Bank Street Bridge reaching the top summer someone usually had a row and attractive skating rink. Journal about the regulars who could across from where the library is now. boat that would – for five or 10 cents Once the Driveway opened it be seen every summer evening fish- In my time, the Canal was not – take you across from Ottawa East was policed by the Royal Canadian ing in the Canal. ploughed and turned into a skating to the Exhibition or to a Rough Rider Mounted Police (RCMP) not in cars I also earned money not from fish- rink. Instead some winter mornings football game. – the way things are now – but on ing but going out after a rain to catch we would see sled dogs heading It wasn’t true, however, that we motorcycles. The motorbikes were worms and sell them for bait. It was from somewhere downtown along never used the Canal for skating. nice enough in the summer but cold good money and all it took was a the Canal to – I assume – the Experi- Every few years the ice would in winter, so they used to swaddle flashlight to spot the worms and a can mental Farm and beyond. We would freeze before the snow covered it themselves in Buffalo robes. to put them in. The well-kept grassy see them returning as we came home up and it would be thick enough for I have gotten to know the Canal areas along the Driveway were a from school in the late afternoon. hundreds of us to go skating. But much better over the years, even great source of worms. I also remember – I must have been that was a one day wonder, none of travelled from one end to the other I can recall long line-ups of cars very young at the time – funny little us dreamed that someday the Canal several times by boat. along Bronson, some waiting for the trucks hauling snow from the streets would become such a magnificent But no one I know made better use ice cream stand at the bridge, others where street cars ran and dumping it skating surface. of it than my niece, Sarah Buskard, waiting for the bridge to open. Bron- into the Canal. My memory is, that Of course friends and I would clear who managed to rent a room from son was then a swing bridge like the the forerunner of OC Transpo cleared some snow off a section of the ice, the lock master at Hartwell’s Lock so the snow from many of the main but that was a lot of work and then she was only minutes away from her – as now – there were many public classes at Carleton. . c o m Spring colours... . c o h r a n e p t w

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FILM REVIEW Two Human Interest Stories Of Struggle and Survival Screen in Ottawa in April

Glen Gould”, “The Red Violin” and “Silk”. Stet (Garrett Wareing) is a troubled, 12-year old boy, living a marginal existence in Texas. When his mom dies accidentally, Stet is orphaned and his anger stands in the way of achieving his true potential as an emerging tenor with an excep- tional voice. Unexpectedly, the father he never knew (from back East) anonymously steps up and Stet audi- tions for the boys’ choir at an exclu- sive private school. Stet faces a steep and frustrating learning curve at the exclusive school - yet he perseveres By Tony Wohlfarth against all odds. Master Carvelle (Dustin Hoffman) directs the boys’ Leviathan choir while Kathy Bates plays the Koyla (played by Alexey Sere- role of the Headmistress at the pri- bryakov) lives a stark existence in a vate school. Debra Winger rounds distant, coastal Russian fishing com- munity, far from Moscow. As the sto- ry unfolds, Kolya and his family face eviction when their meagre abode is set for demolition to make way for a large scale development. He decides to fight the eviction, going head to head with a corrupt, drunken mayor Vadim (Roman Madyanov). Kolya calls upon a lawyer friend Dima (Vladimir Vdovitchenkov) from Moscow to help him save his family home. The ensuing “David vs. Goliath” battle plays out in a barren landscape, punctuated by whale car- casses, human misery and violence. The musical score (by Phillip Glass) complements this endearing story where human instinct of fight, not flight, prevails. The story line for “Leviathan” par- allels recent events in Russia, where citizens were displaced by cronies out a stellar cast, as Mrs. Steel, prin- and allies of Vladmir Putin to accom- cipal of the Texas high school. modate large-scale developments for “Boychoir” has been favourably the Sochi Olympics. What is remark- compared to the Academy Award able is that “Leviathan” was selected winning “Whiplash” but this film has by the Russian state as its official a more optimistic ending. Filmed on entry in the Best Foreign Language location at Yale University in New Film competition at the 2015 Oscars Haven, Connecticut, “Boychoir” is (the winning entry was “Ida” from modelled on the real-life American Poland). The cinematography is stun- Boychoir School located in Princ- ning, capturing the stark imagery of eton, NJ. “Boychoir” opened in the Barents Sea in a barren hinterland Canada on March 16. where the rule of law is non-existent, and human instincts and alcohol- “Leviathan” and “Boychoir” fuelled violence dominate daily lives. both premiered at the 2014 Toronto “Leviathan” is the directorial debut International Film Festival (TIFF) for Andrey Zvyabintsev, and won the last September. “Leviathan” screens Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 at the By-Towne Cinema, beginning Cannes Film Festival. April 11. The running time is 141 minutes. “Boychoir” is also screen- Boychoir ing at the By-Towne, starting April The legendary Dustin Hoffman 24. The running time is 103 minutes. stars in the latest film directed by ac- claimed Canadian director Francois Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based RAVENS @CARLETON.CA | ATHLETICS.CARLETON.CA | 613-520-4480 Girard. Previously, Girard directed freelance film writer and critic. He “Thirty Two Short Films about covered the 2014 TIFF Film Festival on behalf of The OSCAR. Page 24 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

TRAVEL Whitehorse in the Winter By Anant Nagpur package deal included round trip, hotel and a shuttle to and Every now and then I do a from the airport. There is a weekend trip and on Janu- three-hour time difference so ary 13th, 2015 I decided to when I landed in Whitehorse go to Whitehorse (Yukon). it was 5 p.m. (Ottawa time 8 I left on January 16th and p.m.). There is very little to came back on January 18. do at that time except take a Air North has been promot- little walk from my hotel – ing such trips and there is a the Best Western Gold Rush direct flight with one stop- – which is very centrally lo- over in Yellowknife (North cated right in heart of down- West Territories). When you town. I just explored a little, go back to work you are saving whatever I could for asked “How was your week- the next day. end?” and their reaction is Mind you sunrise is not always amusing. Some have before 10 a.m. and that poses a puzzled look on their face a different kind scenario if with a smile and with many you are an early riser like questions. me, since I was up at 6 a.m. “Why Whitehorse now and waiting for sunlight. I am at this time of year?” “You sure it is the opposite during From 37,000 feet the view from my window flying to Yellowknife. must be crazy”, “What a a different season. However strange, adventurer” and “I I managed till sunlight and and Dawson City. would rather explore and see If I were to get a second don’t know you anymore”. It then I was out wherever I For me the best part was what facility there is for tour- chance to go I would, and I is such a conversation starter could explore on foot. One seeing the great Yukon River ists like myself. I was very would take a day train-trip and the story only gets better thing for sure, Whitehorse and, as the movie title goes, happy that the Whitehorse from Whitehorse to Skag- when they hear what I say has lots of history and “The River runs through it”. public library provided com- way (Alaska) and also visit and once again it is always wherever you walk you see The Yukon River does run puter access, however small Dawson City with a stopover amusing. a statue, a bust and a plaque through Whitehorse and it it is. They have a balcony in Yellowknife. Whitehorse was warmer explaining the meaning of it. has a magical spell when you right by the river and I can I would recommend this than Ottawa when I was there I saw a bust of author Jack see the sun shining off the only imagine what it would trip to anyone. with temperature hovering London and I understand that river. The river goes by the be like during different around minus 4 to minus 7 he was inspired during the Whitehorse public library season with a book or your with wind, and hardly any gold rush in Yukon for his fa- and I decided to visit and I camera, at peace with your- snow. I was very surprised mous books White Fang and got a guest account to check self and letting your thinking and all I could say was The Call of the Wild while my email. I do not carry all process flow by just like the “Wow” this is unreal. The passing through Whitehorse these modern gadgets and I river. Just imagine that.

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DESIGN DILEMMAS How Can I Refresh My Home For Spring? And most definitely 6. Paint! Refresh walls, spring for down cush- baseboards, windows, ions. doors and even furni- ture with a fresh coat 4. Organize! Good de- of paint. sign requires a plan. De-clutter and find a 7. Buy a new piece of place for everything. art. Any room can be revamped by new 5. Put away all the little art. It doesn’t have to knick-knacks hanging break the bank either. around on surfaces Art posters in good and pull out other frames are fun and items you may have colourful. hiding away in draw- ers or cabinets. By 8. New towels, bath rotating all your keep- mats and shower cur- sakes and mementos tains are inexpensive, and pieces of art, it quick and easy ways becomes not so much to uplift a bathroom. clutter but more an opportunity to really 9. New bedding will appreciate the things also refresh a bed- you love. But it is room nicely. Even a also an opportunity to new throw in a great get rid of things that colour that pulls Tulips in a simple vase are an easy way to refresh your home for spring. PHOTO BY VANESSA RIDDELL do not appeal to you everything together any longer! One of can help. By Vanessa months ahead. Here rug in the entry will ple white sheers that the items to pull out Riddell are 10 easy decorating bring in some colour let in more light. This from hiding could be 10. Nothing beats fresh ideas to refresh your and grab people’s is also a great time a beautiful serving flowers. Simple tulips home for spring and attention as soon as to have your regular Easter weekend is a dish or tray. Some- in a nice vase are a summer. they enter your home. drapery dry cleaned. great time to focus on thing you do not use clear indication of refreshing the interior often could be a catch spring! 1. Start with the entry. A 2. Drapery can be 3. Sofa pillows can of your home to get all dish for mail in an new colourful striped switched out to sim- be switched. Either ready for the warmer entry or office, or in a Contact info@sachi. move pillows from bathroom or bedroom ca for questions and different rooms or get for jewelery. answers to your design new covers to change dilemmas! GLAMOUR the colour palette. IN THE GLEBE Jewellery Show Motherʼs Day Weekend at the Glebe CC 175 Third Avenue gnag.ca Opening Night: Saturday, May 9

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A Slackers Guide to... Trifle

By Michael Thibault clear to brown. You have about one minute from this point. As soon as I made trifle a while ago for a potluck it is a darkish brown take it off the and a number of people insisted that heat. There is a video on the Globe I share my recipe. It isn’t difficult or and Mail’s website explaining how require special knowledge or skill (ex- to do this. It is complete bunk. They cept the caramel, which requires more recommend that you use a moist pas- perseverance than skill in my opinion) try brush to wipe down the sides so but it is a bit time consuming so wher- you don’t get crystals splattering up ever possible I have cheated. Items the sides, burning and dropping back listed as optional are things that I into the caramel. Of all the mistakes I think would be really nice, but I never made trying to get my first good batch actually used when I made it. I guess of caramel, this was never an issue. that makes them more hypothetical And there’s more clean up so, no. than optional, but you get the idea. Do not make this in advance be- cause it hardens almost right away so Ingredients you have to be ready to pour it on ei- Cake – Your favorite white cake ther the fruit layer or the second cake recipe, or one package of white or layer. If you wait too long you will (preferably) vanilla cake mix. have a pot of hard candy, very similar Custard – 1 1/2 cups milk (2%), a to Humbugs. If that happens let it cool cap-full of vanilla or 1 vanilla bean, for about 10 minutes then hit it with 6 egg yolks, 1/3 cup sugar, 2 1/2 tbsp something hard to break it up. For a all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup chilled cool effect in winter, place the hot pot whipping cream. in a snowbank and the hard candy will Fruit – use one small package of crack dramatically. Then break it up. frozen berries or whatever fruit you Put it in a bowl for the kids and start like. Take it out of the freezer the over. Sundays morning that you assemble this beast. Anything left in the pot will be 10 am - 3 pm Caramel – 1 cup white sugar, 1/3 hard, soak it in hot water and it will cup water. (You can start with more dissolve within an hour. Don’t scrub it Aberdeen Pavilion water, it will just take a bit longer to first. Life’s too short. boil it down. Do not start with less I have heard rumours that adding a Lansdowne Park water.) spoonful of lemon juice to the mix at Mousse – Your favorite mousse the beginning will keep it from hard- recipe, or one package of chocolate ening. Let me know how this works mousse mix. See below for my varia- for you. tion. Assorted odds and ends: Raspberry Custard – Bring your milk and or strawberry jam, powdered sugar vanilla to a boil. If you are using a (optional to sprinkle on top), shaved whole bean, split it and scrape in the @ottawafarmmkt chocolate (optional to sprinkle on seeds then drop in the rest of the bean. top), three shots of dark rum (op- In a medium bowl whisk yolks, sugar ottawafarmersmarket.ca tional, two shots to mix with the jam and flour until smoooooth. Gradu- and one to make the prep-time more ally whisk in the hot milk. Put it all enjoyable.) back in the hot milk-pot. Whisk over medium heat until it thickens and just Cooking Bits starts to boil. It will look sort of eggy Note that most of my instructions and thick and you will doubt that it are designed to minimize stress. If will flow down between the pieces you love cooking (or stress, I sup- of cake the way it should. No wor- pose) don’t let me hold you back. To ries, it’s fine. We’ve talked about this be honest, I’m surprised that you’ve already, you worry too much. made it this far. Take the metal bowl that you hid in the freezer last night and whip up at Cake – Make two small cakes with least 250ml of whipping cream. I just your mix (I used 9” round pans) rather use the whole 500ml carton. You can than one deep one. Make them the never have enough whipped cream. night before. When you are putting Fold about half of the whipped them in the fridge, place a medium- cream into the custard. You can make large metal bowl in the freezer. Trust this the night before and put it all in me. the fridge. If it is all chilled then it Caramel – Okay, this requires a won’t flow right away, but by the time bit of technique. Don’t panic. Use a desert rolls around it will have settled medium pot or saucepan and pour in nicely. in the sugar, then the water. Turn the element up to medium-high. Don’t Mousse – I used a milk-chocolate We mean local. stir it! It won’t kill it if you do, but it mousse, you could use dark chocolate will cook more evenly if you don’t but I’m not sure that the bitterness Grown and made within and clean up (see below) is a pain so won’t dominate the other flavors. the fewer utensils you use the better. I folded in a few large dollops of 100km of Ottawa Gently swish everything around in whipped cream to increase the quan- the pot over the heat to keep it from tity so it would cover the top to about burning. Do this a lot. When it comes to a boil keep going. It will hit a point Continued on pg. 27 where it starts to change colour from THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 27

edges. If you don’t think that you you need to construct this fiend in a Nice presentation. Skip this layer if Continued from pg. 26 will have enough, you can bail on glass bowl! Presentation is all about you got hungry earlier. the second layer of cake. No one will maximizing the compliments. Layer 4: Thawed fruit. If it isn’t an inch thickness and also to tone miss it. Layer 2: Pour custard evenly over completely thawed it will be shortly down the chocolate flavor even more. When you are placing the cake layer one. Use a spatula to even it after Layer 5 hits it. I find that chocolate can overpower pieces in the bowl make sure that out, but the middle will be hidden, Layer 5: Start making your cara- a lot of other flavors. If you whip the jam-edges are facing outwards. so just make sure it is evenly thick mel. When you pour the caramel onto up 500ml of whipping cream for the You are using a glass bowl, right? around the edges. Again, presentation the fruit it will bubble and steam very custard, you will have enough left You want your guests to see that you is key to a healthy self-esteem. dramatically. Make sure the kids are over to do this. Put the rest in serving really put a lot of work into this, so Layer 3: More cake, not as much. close enough to see, but not so close bowls and sprinkle your caramel mis- they will be blinded by hot splatter- takes over top, cover in plastic and ing caramel. Give it a few minutes to save for dessert the next night. You cool and harden. This is probably a can make this the night before. If you good time for that shot of rum. can’t make it the night before, pop it Layer 6: Slather on mousse. Try in the freezer for about half an hour to make those cute peaks that say before spreading it on the trifle. “I know what I’m doing!” but don’t stress about it. Large dollops of Assembly creamy chocolate tend to impress on Layers, from bottom to top: Cake, their own merits. custard, cake, fruit, caramel, mousse. If you have a smaller bowl or just To be honest, it probably takes want to make less, skip the second about as long to read the recipe as to cake layer. make it. If you are the sort of person Build up the layers in a nine-inch to follow my recipes, you probably bowl. The bowl can be hemispherical have a high tolerance for things or cylindrical or anything in between not going exactly to plan, so you’ll as long as it is clean. be fine. Have fun impressing your Layer 1: Make a cake sandwich friends and neighbours at the next from the two cakes you baked last pot-luck. You don’t have to give me night. Spread jam mixed with rum credit, I’ve got your back on this one. on the flat side of one and set the When not cooking elaborate desserts other flat-side down on top. Cut into Michael Thibault is the copy editor 3/4” strips. Or whatever size you find for the OSCAR. appealing, not too big though. If you “Trifle”, an illustration from “Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household wreck a few, eat them. You will have Management”, 1861. lots even if you don’t use the round

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SECOND THOUGHTS On the Merger of Identities By Richard Ostrofsky couple derive from their traits and At this point, she probably doesn’t predilections before they got to- invite him in. Mark 10:8 says of a married couple gether? What follows is a game of desire, that “the two shall become one To explore that question, let’s respect and ‘cool.’ On both sides, flesh...” Well, in my experience, imagine two young people in our the trick is to send signals of interest not quite. But something similar is modern Western version of the hu- and controlled desire – with con- true of any close relationship: When man mating dance. For definiteness, trol, if things go well, progressively two separate identities are strongly I’ll write about a guy and girl, though weakening. After a few more such engaged with one another – as in a they could just as well be gay or les- dates, the lucky boy does find himself bian. However they meet, they agree invited in – after which the affair gets marriage, for example – the dyadic Although still two, they have routines to go out on a date: coffee, beer, more exciting. What follows is better system they jointly form becomes and responsibilities which make cocktails, dinner, a drive-in movie or depicted in music than in words, and itself a single entity, albeit of a dif- them one. If they have children, the a walk in the park. It doesn’t matter I refer you to the love-death song ferent type, but with an identity of its context of ‘family’ transforms their what they do, though what is pro- (liebestod) at the end of Tristan and own. The same could be said how- identities quite radically: It makes posed and agreed already sends some Isolde if you’ve forgotten how it ever of many components are in the them parents. important messages. What matters is feels. new system but, for simplicity and The crucial point here is that their their mutually understood purpose: to After that first melting the two familiarity, let us stay with just a pair. distinct identities still evolve and get to know each other, and explore continue their separate lives, but now The relationship of lovers, of close maintain themselves as separate their respective levels of interest in they meet and have sex on a regular friends, of employer and employee, minding systems, even as they merge ‘getting it on.’ Be warned, then, that basis. They meet each other’s friends, of adversaries in a game or conflict into a new such system with a joint what follows has ‘adult’ content. perhaps their families. They explore of some kind – these are situations identity of its own, which they main- But our present purpose is theoreti- their mutual interests, their enjoyable that all of us have known. In each tain together. Even as they create and cal, not pornographic. Sex is surely ways of spending time together. They case, we can remember how our own maintain this new system, its joint one prime way that human identities ask and answer questions about their identities were slightly warped, for identity reshapes them for its require- get blurred and blended. The pro- backgrounds. They have a fight or better and for worse, in adaptation to ments. What we are saying, then, is pensity for ‘turn-on’ just from words two, but make up afterwards. They the relationship as a whole. that our habit of speaking of groups – from symbolic tokens – is one key negotiate some important differ- It is a matter of experience that this as if they were persons – as believ- feature of our subject: the merger of ences and discover that they can do new system is always something less ing, wanting and intending outcomes human identities in a sex act which so. Partly for the convenience of it, or (hopefully) more, and, in any case, just as we do as individuals – is liter- leads, perhaps, to an enduring rela- partly because it’s the done thing, something different from the sum of ally correct. Groups do indeed have tionship. perhaps because they want children its members’ separate individualities. minds of their own which get their After their date, he takes her home. right away, for whatever reasons – What do we know and what might individual members to do all sorts The evening went well for him and they decide to get married – or just we conjecture about the specifics of of outlandish things that they would he tries to kiss her goodnight; It went ‘shack up.’ He moves into her apart- this difference? How, for example, never think of on their own. It’s not well for her and she accepts the kiss. ment, or she into his, or they rent a does the lifestyle and other mutual that we are puppets jerked around Then it’s goodbye until the next time. bigger one that suits them both. If adjustments of a happily married by promptings from the groups that they have some money they might we belong to. We have and keep the buy a house. In working out such a autonomy of separate minding organ- common arrangement, their identi- isms. But the group that we belong to ties merge further. Everyone thinks is also such a system, and its mindset of them as ‘a couple’ and by now, is inevitably suggested to our own, they think of themselves that way. Only at just as our own suggestions get taken They are still separate organisms – up and merged in it. It really is a two- not “one flesh.” But their lives are way process. now thoroughly entangled, taken This, I think, may be the core of over by their relationship to an ex- the human condition – more central tent that varies case by case. even than our virtuosity with symbols This story could play out in sev- and our awareness of mortality. An eral ways, not mutually exclusive: isolated human isn’t fully human: They could have some children and We really are social animals. Infants raise them. They could get involved Natura Eggshell Paint and children are terribly stunted if in some joint project like running deprived of human interaction. But, a business, or raising some kids, or at the same time, the groups we form 3.64 L writing a book. 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BETWEEN THE BRIDGES BABY The Lucky Ones By Heather Lynch Thursday because our daycare a similar vein when I stopped myself. provider was ill, launching Jeff and I Because, of course, being a stay-at- An old friend and colleague is into momentary panic trying to decide home mum isn’t easy, either. I was pregnant with her third child. who was going to stay home from blessed with a first child who never, Without any personal context, this work that day) had projectile vomited ever napped until he was nearly a year is unremarkable, I realize, though all over the pastry display case, and old, and there were days and nights if I point out that this is the same then again all over the backseat of that seemed to bleed into one another woman who refused to own even a my car in their rush to get home. In in an endless string of numbing house plant as she couldn’t fathom a ‘P.S.’ at the bottom of Jeff’s email exhaustion. And while I do, more being responsible for something that was a reminder that I needed to be days than not, stumble into my office desperation to get him to sleep by couldn’t get up and get itself a glass of home by 5:45 because he would have with the remnants of Logan’s uneaten mounting an Ipad in his crib playing water, it’s a bit more surprising. Even to go to his own office as soon as I got breakfast on my shoulder, a thermos of hypnotizing Baby Einstein videos, more noteworthy is her decision not home and could I pick up milk and he lukewarm coffee and a hazy, insomnia- somewhat bearable. It was the sense to return to work after the birth of her would try to walk the dog but if Logan induced headache, I do thrive on the of community and compassion I felt first son six years ago, and to instead wasn’t well enough for a stroller ride, ability to connect with colleagues and constantly surrounded by that allowed buy and renovate a huge farmhouse that he would do it when he finally friends on a level that has absolutely me to think that maybe, just maybe in the middle of nowhere with her got home from work, which shouldn’t nothing to do with Sesame Street, I could muddle through and make a husband, and home school that very be much later than 9 p.m., hopefully. sippy-cups or story time. While go of this whole being-a-mom thing. same son. As I hit reply to this email, a briefing staying at home with children has And it was the realization that my Despite our very different note landed on my desk and my office many advantages I envy considerably, friend, more than she needed to be experiences of motherhood, we have phone started to ring. the ability to work outside of the home informed of what a working-mother’s remained what I hope she too would I fumed all afternoon about my also has its indisputable perks. life really looks like, needed the same consider supportive of one another’s friend’s remark about my ‘easy life.’ I also realized that more than a support and validation that I seek out choices. So I was surprised to receive Easy? What is easy about starting good night’s sleep, a sympathetic and so regularly. And so, when I got home, a text message from her a week ago every morning at 5 a.m. and putting in helpful husband, and a mom who was at 5:50, exhausted, and was handed a asking how we were doing, and what feels like a full day before you’ve always willing to make the drive from toddler in desperate need of a bath, and informing me how lucky I am to be even set foot in the office? What is Montreal to give me a hand, what got was greeted by a hyped up dog in need at work because my life clearly must easy about doing laundry at midnight me through some of my darkest days of a walk, after I had sung countless be so much easier that hers, as I am on a Tuesday and tossing a coin with of early motherhood, was the support lullabies, filled sippy-cups full of not spending my second pregnancy your husband for the lucky chore of and understanding of other women watered-down juice, and administered chasing after kids all day. doing groceries on a Friday evening? and mothers. It was the complete and Tylenol, after I’d changed sheets and As the text message came in, so There are no nap times at work, no utter lack of judgement about any wiped foreheads and swept floors and too did an email from my husband, blissful moments where your child of my decisions and the open arms Lysoled bathroom sinks, I picked up informing me that during their immerses him or herself in some new and hearts that made the times when my phone and began to type. “I am morning visit to Bridgehead, Logan activity and you can sip a cup of tea my son would refuse to eat anything lucky,” I wrote. “We both are.” And, as (they were together on that particular while looking affectionately on. I was apart from goldfish crackers for a I hit send, I knew that it was true. tempted to respond to her message in solid week, or the nights I tried in Page 30 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

CARLETON SPORTS Ravens Win Again By Joe Scanlon impact. He was selected as rookie ing time for future stars like Mitchell which means they are 19 or 20 when of the year and Carleton – which Wood and Sheldon McIntosh – who they start their university careers. But It’s almost like a rite of spring – Car- had lost in the semi-finals two out of have got some playing time this sea- women – outside of Quebec – come leton’s men’s team win- three previous seasons – won the CIS son – and Mitch Jackson – who has directly from high school, making ning a national championship. championship. Tom was part of that been impressive in practice but – not them usually around 17. In Quebec The male Ravens did it again this team but did not play a great deal. surprisingly – was not good enough however students attend a Collège season and for the second season in Phil continued to star in his second in his first year to displace veterans d’enseignement général et profes- a row they did it by defeating the and third seasons – he was player like the Scrubb brothers and Victor sionnel (CGEP) after high school and University of Ottawa in the Canadian of the year both seasons – and Tom Raso. then move to university. That means Interuniversity Sport (CIS) champi- started earning more playing time. Basketball was not the only sport they arrive at university two years onship final. By their fourth season together, Carleton won in March. older than women hockey players It was their fifth straight title and they were a powerful pair. Phil was In the Nordic (cross country) ski from other parts of Canada. It was their 11th in the past 13 seasons. It player of the year. Tom was defensive championships at Laurentian Univer- not surprising that McGill won the was also the second time they had player of the year. Carleton won its sity, Carleton women – Kyla Vander- CIS championship this season or that won five consecutive times – but fifth straight title. Phil and Tom were zwet and Kendra Murray – won gold. Montreal won the bronze. Carleton though they have won more titles selected first for the Canadian team Carleton men – Steffan Lloyd and – until recently – has recruited from than any other team, they are still that played in the World Universiade Colin Abbott – matched that, also Ontario – but plays in the Réseau du short matching Victoria’s seven and – a year later – for the Canadian winning gold. sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ). So straight championships. senior men’s team. However, three other teams bowed Carleton has had difficulty competing Last season the final was a fairly This season Phil was not selected out in the playoffs. with McGill, Montreal and Concor- tense affair. It was played just a week as player of the year. That honour The men’s hockey team made it to dia, three of the teams in its league. after Carleton had lost to Ryerson went to Ottawa’s Berhanemeskel. the semi-finals against their peren- The Varsity sports are finished for in the Ontario University Athletics But Tom was chosen – for the second nial rivals L’Université du Québec the season so what’s ahead for 2015- (OUA) championship game. straight season – as defensive player à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and lost 16? This time ‘round the champion- of the year. In the final, Phil scored back-to-back games 2-1 and 4-3. The In football, Carleton is in the third ship final was more like a clinic – as a team-high 28 points. Tom scored hockey Ravens had finished second season since it was re-instated. Virtu- Carleton not only won the game, they 20 and pulled down a team-high 12 ahead of UQTR and had home ice ally every player is back. Carleton more than doubled Ottawa 93-46 and rebounds, confirming why he was advantage but after losing at home finished 4-4 and out of the playoffs they held Ottawa’s player of the year, selected back-to-back as defensive they lost in Trois-Rivières so they last fall. This season expect the Ra- Johnny Berhanemeskel to one basket player of the year. Now both will never got to play the third game. vens to make the playoffs. and four foul shots. look at the possibility of playing pro- UQTR got to the CIS semi-final In soccer, it’s too soon to tell. During the regular season, Ottawa fessional basketball, following in the but lost 5-1 to Alberta the eventual In basketball, the men will be averaged 94.5 points per game. Berh- foot-steps of a dozen or so previous champions. UQTR then lost 3-2 to strong enough to go after another anemeskel averaged 23.2. Carleton in Carleton players, Guelph in overtime in the bronze title. The women should be good short held Ottawa to nearly 50 points After losing such out-standing medal game. enough for a top 10 ranking. Wind- less than its norm and Berhanemeskel players most coaches would be in a Despite the loss to UQTR, Marty sor women, who like Carleton have to six, slightly more than a quarter of rebuilding mode. Johnston was named coach of the won five straight championships, are his usual point production. Not so for Dave Smart, the men’s year in Ontario University Athlet- losing Korissa Williams, the third of The domination went much further: coach at Carleton. ics (OUA) east, Joe Pleckaitis was the three stars who have been respon- during the regular season Ottawa out- He is already putting the finishing named a first-team all-star and sible for that success. The other two rebounded its opponents 38 to 31. touches on the starting line-up for Patrick Killeen was named OUA goal – Miah-Marie Langlois and Jessica In the championship final, Carleton next season. tender of the year. Clémençon – finished a year ago. out-rebounded Ottawa 44 to 29. The 2015-16 Ravens starting line- The women’s basketball team made Women’s basketball should be more The game was the final one for two up will again include three fifth sea- the playoffs but – before the season competitive this coming season. brothers – Philip and Thomas Scrubb son players – Guillaume Boucard and ended – was without two start- In men’s hockey it’s too soon to – who have carved out remarkable Gavin Resch – who have been with ers, Lindsey Shotbolt and Lindsey tell. The team’s success depends on careers at Carleton. the team for the past four seasons Suprunchuk. In the first round of the its ability to attract overage Junior A Tom arrived first a year earlier – and Ryan Ejim – a transfer from playoffs they lost 74-58 to the Uni- players. than Phil but because he wanted to York University who had practiced versity of Ottawa. The team should In women’s hockey, the team play with his brother Tom chose to with the men this season – plus two do better next season: all the players should be significantly improved over red shirt for a season. That means he fourth season players – Connor Wood are expected back. the past two seasons – a playoff spot practiced with the team but did not and Jean Emmanuel Pierre-Charles – The women’s hockey team – just seems a reasonable goal but a playoff play. both of whom started this season. beginning rebuilding under a new victory – against McGill or Montreal When Phil did arrive the follow- The departure of three fifth-season coach – finished last in its five team or even Concordia – is probably at ing season, he made an immediate veterans will also mean more play- league and missed the playoffs. least one more season away. Most men’s hockey players come YOGA CLASSES to university after a career in Junior A FOR THE WEEKEND TO END WOMEN’S CANCER NEW PATIENTS WELCOME April 10 April 15 (all welcome 10am) (mommy & me 11am) Dr Pierre Isabelle April 24 april 29 DrDr M Saileshathieu TPershadremblay (all welcome 10am) (babywearing 11am) more dates to be announced! 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CARLETON CORNER New Carleton University Summer Creative Writing and Sports Camp By Martha Attridge Bufton

“Well really, I liked it all,” says nine- year-old Aiden Wilson about par- ticipating in the Carleton University creative writing camp last summer. “The games day was fun of course … but it was great to have all the writers there.” While the 2014 camp was focused on writing, this year campers will be on the move as they combine the joys of storytelling and writing with the fun of playing games as well as trying out new sports at Carleton Universi- ty’s new Creative Writing And Sports Camp. Six camps are planned for camp- ers ages 8 to 15, beginning on August 10 and running until August 28. The campers will spend half a day in Carleton’s state-of-the-art Discovery Centre, located in the MacOdrum Library, working with guest speakers from Ottawa’s writing community, who will introduce them to various genres. They will also spend half a day playing games and trying new sports in the Carleton Athletic Centre. The camp includes a daily lunch and swim. The creative writing component Andrew Connolly (left), Laura Gagnon and Aiden Wilson (right) in Carleton University’s state-of-the art Discovery builds on the inaugural camp held on Centre. The Carleton creative writing and sports camp will be held in this centre as well as the university’s athletic campus last year. Andrew Connolly, complex this August. a Carleton Pd.D. student, coordinated that project and describes the experi- PHOTO BY CHRIS ROUSSAKIS ence as inspirational—for campers and counsellors alike. “We wanted to the MacOdrum Library, the English give campers the chance to experi- Department, the Discovery Centre, ment with genres, but what we didn’t the Centre for Aboriginal Culture and anticipate was the kind of creative Education, and the Department of communities that would develop in Athletics, as well as the Ottawa Inter- the camps,” he says. “Guest speakers, national Writers Festival. instructors, and campers all inspired Chris Surgeonor, Carleton’s camp each other and shared their work in a and intramural coordinator, is excited way that was empowering for every- about offering a camp that brings one involved.” together these different partners. Laura Gagnon, a second-year Car- “I always want the campers to leave leton arts student, led the session on with a new experience,” he explains. Aboriginal storytelling last year. She “This camp represents a wonderful agrees it was a positive and memo- opportunity to access the unique ex- rable experience. pertise and facilities we have else- “I would open up my lesson for where on campus.” the day with a traditional hand drum For more information about the song before the guest speaker shared camps and to register, visit the web- their stories with the kids. Having the site at http://athletics.carleton.ca/ opportunity to share my culture and camps/summer/creative-writing-sport- traditional knowledge with young, camp/. aspiring writers meant that my heri- Martha Attridge Bufton works at the tage could be kept alive through oral Carleton University Library and is the stories.” coordinator of the annual Carleton This year’s camp is sponsored by University Writing Competition. various Carleton groups, including

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TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Trillium’s Unforgettables By Jocelyn LeRoy supplement enterprises. all the dryer vents were stuffed shut fashioned bakery, we were fascinated As I glanced at Mikmik on my way with insulation, presumably to warm by all of Frank’s acquisitions. A Sticky Situation back to the kitchen for my last box the laundromat for free. Then it was Then out shot a roll of dough. Frank Can you imagine what a 25-kg pail of bread, I jumped. What in the name explained to me. The laundromat next yelled and gesticulated wildly. Some- of honey looks like, when cascading of Heaven had my dog done? There door had created negative air pressure how he trained us to catch the rolled down a steep flight of stone steps? he sat, dignified as always, staring in the bakery. That clicked: I remem- lump of dough in one hand, pass it And the sharp crack after I dropped straight ahead with a large glass jar bered that the top of my oven had behind our backs and catch it with the bucket on the top step when the lid over his head. With the rim of the bowed downward slightly before all our other hand. Oops – some lumps split open? jar settled snugly around his neck, hell broke loose. fell onto the floor. “Yella! Yella!” A shimmering amber ribbon, heav- he remained decidedly unperturbed. So my mammoth oven was indeed (“Hurry up!”) I felt like I’d dropped enly scented, descended into a dark Where had he found the jar? How had blameless. the football at a playoff game. Out of pool at the bottom of the enclosed it ended up over his head as if he were Nearly $4000 later and after the big our hands, the dough whipped along a stairwell. No drain. to embark on a space journey? clean-up, Trillium’s kitchen sported an belt, in and out of mysterious moving The bees – hundreds of them – ar- I tried to pull it off. No luck. I accurately engineered fan that would parts, and plopped into our lined-up rived in seconds; their buzzing blend- slathered oil around his ruff to lubri- automatically stabilize the air pres- breadpans, looking smartly uniform. ed into a low tonal harmony, remind- cate matters and prepare for an easy sure and prevent too many BTUs from The loaves weren’t as high as when ing me of Tibetan monks chanting. removal of the jar. No dice. Mikmik being sucked up by the oven. No more we made them by hand. I worried that Horrified yet fascinated, I watched the stayed calm. I found a straw and implosions. Never again. they wouldn’t rise enough, having honey flow faster and faster, blocking squeezed it into the jar. The straw been bumped around by the machin- my only access to Trillium’s kitchen. broke. A Dark and Stormy Night ery. They didn’t, because our dough I held my breath. I leapt over the Then I called the fire department I’ll never forget the night when Tril- was pure and simple, lacking the buzzing, sticky mess. I opened the around the corner, and I begged them lium had three bakers deep into bread conditioners that ensure consistency, door only part way, rushed into the to come and help – they were just dough. Outside, the wind whistled, no matter the desired size or produc- kitchen and slammed the door shut. sitting down for lunch. Maybe they and then it began to snow – it seemed tion method. Feeling the tickles and hearing the would arrive afterward. like an avalanche – and the streets be- But our hosts were so kind as to buzzes under my shirt, I peeled off my The jar was beginning to steam up; came impassible. The power went off offer the service of their bakery in our clothes in record time. Sweet! Only a Mikmik started to squirm. I greased and stayed off, all over Ottawa South, time of need. I wrote them up in the few bees – a minor miracle. I felt the the rim once more and pulled hard. Central and the Byward Market. No Ottawa Citizen, leaving out the fact sudden rush of adrenalin. Still no way. I produced a piece of lights anywhere. that our bread turned out un-Trillium- One of my employees had left a pile cheese and showed it to him: a reward We had $800 worth of rising bread like. of aprons on a nearby chair. I fash- for helping to struggle free. I pulled dough in 12 large buckets. But we also It was an unforgettable adventure. ioned a top, skirt and headgear out of once more, irritating Mikmik, but the had big flashlights, a lantern and a few them. Then I stood, afraid to sit on a jar finally came off, and my astronaut candles, along with matches galore for Do I Get the Girl? bee, and tried to figure out what to do dog grabbed the cheese as if nothing our temperamental pilot light in one of That would be me. next. First on the list was dealing with had ever happened. our ovens. On my first-ever trip to the Ottawa the bees. Hauling buckets of water Just like my father used to say: We called our friends at l’Ami Des Mission on Waller Street, I pulled around the building to avoid opening whatever goes in, comes out; whatever Gourmets, a Lebanese bakery in the up alongside of what I thought to be the basement door again, I began a se- goes up, comes down. Market. They invited us over to finish the loading door with several boxes quence of heave-ho, run-like-heck, fill our baking. They had power for some of bread to donate. Right away, a up the bucket again. It quelled much The Big Bang reason, so everyone wanted to go swarm of smoking men ran up to the of the bees’ activity and filled the It wasn’t really my mammoth bread there. Frank, the owner, was famous rear, each man trying to reach the van stairwell with four feet of honey-wa- oven’s fault, the day it blew up. There for his love of “automated everything” doors first. I scrambled out. I ordered ter, on top of which floated hundreds was a huge bang and the ear-splitting to bake his goods. For example, he my Husky Micmic to sit still in the of drowsy but still buzzing bees. sound of shattering glass. The bread- had a unique pita-making machine driver’s seat. He did. What next? Would the more active filled tins shot out like missiles, leav- that sent dough from one end, through Meanwhile, the men started a game bees eat up the honey? Would it be ing a trail of soot behind them and up a series of components, and out the of “toss the bread” as a zig-zag line safe to open the door? How would the wall. other end popped finished perfect formed from the back of my van to I remove all that water and all those Right away I dialled 9-1-1 and circles of pita bread ready for his ov- the door of the Mission’s kitchen. The bees? After retrieving my clothes switched off every switch in sight. I ens. The machine was strapped to the poor bread! and shoes, I descended to the bottom grabbed my baker by the wrists and ceiling; all the action happened eight Then I suddenly realized that the of the stairs and emptied the water, dragged her out the door – all this took feet up! men had removed the entire contents bucket by bucket, scrubbed away the what seemed like a nanosecond. The So, in the pitch dark we loaded our of my van: not only the bread, but also stickiness with the aprons, scooped reason why I had to force my baker to 12 buckets into our preheated van and my shovels, my canoe paddles – they up the dead bees into the water-filled move was due to her memory of years headed out, slowly skidding, slip- took everything but my dog, who sat buckets and hauled them back up the before, when an entire building ex- ping sideways, even getting stuck in behind the steering wheel, watching stairs. ploded right beside her as she walked the now-deep drifts. No other cars, the commotion out the front window. It didn’t seem like a fire-department down the street in her home town. no people. Just darkness. When we Did the men think I was Mrs. Santa job. How would they have liked their This moment at Trillium, I saw her needed a push out of a drift, our bak- Claus? “Give me back my shovels and vacuum hoses clogged with honey and heading for the closed window, pre- ers jumped out and shoved those big paddles,” I whimpered. One of the bees? Unforgettable! paring to dive through it. So I pushed old, dangerous tire irons under the not-so-gentle men, cigarette dangling her in a different direction, safely out back wheels. “Yahoo!” we shouted out of a toothless broad grin, leered at Astronaut Dog the door in a flash. into the howling winds as I inched the me. His eyes twinkled. “OK, then, do Picture this: Mikmik, my Husky, Was it the gas line? The furnace? van off the tire-irons. I get the girl?” sitting in the driver’s seat of the huge An electrical problem? An earth- When we finally arrived at l’Ami “Nope.” To my surprise, he bowed Trillium delivery van. It was his fa- quake? Something evil in the sewers Des Gourmets, it was comforting to deeply, opened the door for me with a vourite place to be while I loaded the of Belmont Street? Nope. The fire- see they had lights and hot ovens. By flourish, and my shovels and paddles cavernous rear of the truck with boxes men arrived. No gas leaks, no flaws, this time, our dough had risen per- were returned right away. Our eyes of bread for all the health-food stores no worn caps, no bombs. Then I had fectly. Frank, who spoke little English, met. around Ottawa. This was in the late a hunch: it must be something in the lined us up to stuff handfuls of dough “Madam, you have made my day.” 1980s, well before these stores closed laundromat adjacent to Trillium. The into the first part of his bread-making or morphed into protein-powder-and- firemen rushed over. They found that machinery. Coming from our old-

1 cup maple syrup Directions You don’t have to be gluten-free Trillium Recipe 1 cup oil Mix oil and syrup. to enjoy these cookies – the maple 2 cups rice flour Mix in remaining ingredients. flavour will shine through. Maple Syrup Gluten-free Cookies ½ tbsp baking powder Scoop or spoon onto parchment- ½ tsp baking soda lined baking sheet. ½ tsp cinnamon Bake 12 – 15 min. at 350ºF. 1 or 2 eggs (optional) THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 33

RED APRON COOKS - Spring Brunch By Jennifer Heagle and a simple way to enjoy eggs be- sunny days with temperatures above our retail shop. cause you can toss in any ingredients zero (but not too warm). This alternate The 2015 Hike for Hospice takes It’s Spring! After a long, record- that you enjoy. Quiche is a great way freezing and thawing temperature place on Sunday May 3rd (rain or breaking cold winter, it’s nice to see to use up leftovers and you can bake causes pressure changes inside the tree shine) in the beautiful backyard the light at the end of the tunnel. If all it like a frittata (without the crust). that allows the sap to flow. garden of the Hospice at Maycourt goes well, soon we should start to see The recipe, below, is for a quiche that The Red Apron will be celebrating on Cameron Avenue in Old Ottawa some early local fruits and vegetables, we will be selling in our retail shop maple season with in our series of South. This year the Red Apron will like rhubarb, asparagus, greenhouse over the Easter Weekend, along with a ‘Hop on the Bus’ tours. On Sunday, be serving up a brunch inspired meal greens & lettuces at the local Farmer’s number of other seasonal goodies! April 12 we take a trip to Stanley’s to all hikers which will include: Local Markets. Scones are another simple item to Olde Maple Lane Farm and Domin- Bekings Eggs, Gluten Free Oatmeal Easter comes early this year. What bake for your brunch table, and this ion City Brewing Company. The cost Banana Muffin, Sweet Potato Spin- better way to celebrate than a visit to month’s second recipe pays tribute to for the event is $22.50 for adults, ach Cheddar Scones, Yogurt with the Experimental Farm where they our Canadian maple producers. The and $12.50 for children 12 and under Fresh Fruit & Honey and Gluten Free will have all kinds of activities sched- world’s production of maple syrup and covers the cost of a full pancake Almond Coconut Granola Bars. The uled for the 3rd of April, including occurs in the hardwood forest that breakfast, as well as the brewery tour volunteers at the Hospice will be an Easter Egg Hunt! For details visit stretches from the Midwestern US and beer sample. For details visit the serving coffee, tea, juice & water. For http://cafmuseum.techno-science.ca through Ontario, Québec, New Eng- calendar on our website. full details, and to register for this April always puts us in the mood for land and into the Maritimes. Weather Our final recipe this month is one I event, visit the website: http://www. weekend brunch and easy entertain- is a crucial factor for a good harvest am certain that the Easter Bunny will hospicecareottawa.ca/2015-hike-for- ing. This month’s recipes start with a of maple syrup. Good weather for enjoy. Our famous nut free carrot cake hospice.html quiche, the perfect Easter brunch dish, sap production is night temperatures contains a couple of surprise ingredi- below zero (but not too cold) and ents, and is a long time favourite in

resembles small peas. mon Lightly brush some oil in a 9x13 Red Apron recipes ¼ tsp ground allspice cake pan, sprinkle with flour. In a Tip: we often do this step in a food ¼ tsp ground nutmeg bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, Red Pepper, Spinach & Goat Cheese processor on the pulse setting but be ¼ tsp ground cloves allspice, nutmeg, cloves, baking Quiche careful not to over mix. 2 tsp baking soda soda and salt. In another bowl, whisk 1 10 inch pie shell Whisk the eggs with the cream and ½ teaspoon salt together eggs, sugar, oil, brown sugar 2 tablespoons olive oil maple syrup & vinegar. Make a well 3 large eggs and soured milk. With a rubber spatu- 2 medium shallots, thinly sliced in the flour mixture and pour in the 1½ cups granulated organic cane la, stir in carrots and pineapple. Mix in 1 large red pepper, seeded and sliced liquid. Add the chocolate & cherries. sugar dry ingredients until well combined. thinly Fold gently until combined. Do not ½ cup brown sugar Pour mixture into prepared pan and 2 handfulls of baby spinach leaves, over-mix. 1 cup canola oil bake for 45 minutes or until a tooth- wilted Scoop out the dough onto a baking ½ cup soured milk (whole milk with pick inserted into the centre of the Sea salt and freshly ground pepper sheet lined with parchment paper us- 1 tsp lemon juice or vinegar) cake comes out clean. Cool complete- ½ cup milk ing a ½ cup scoop. 2 cups grated carrots ly before frosting the cake. ½ cup heavy cream Bake at 325 degrees for 30 to 35 1½ cups crushed pineapple, well Frosting: in the bowl of an electric 3 large eggs minutes or until golden brown. Test drained stand mixer combine ingredients and 150 to 200 grams of goat chèvre or centre for doneness using a toothpick. Frosting: beat until smooth and thick enough to goat feta, crumbled * While scones are still warm, you 3 cups icing sugar spread on the cake. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet can drizzle with a little bit of maple 8 ounces cream cheese at room Tip: We often bake this recipe into over medium high heat. Add shal- syrup or sprinkle with maple sugar. temperature cupcakes and garnish the top of the GMSToddlerRoomMay14.pdf 1 5/13/14 10:25 PM lots, and cook, stirring, until translu- *Maple Syrup & Red Fife Wheat ½ cup unsalted butter, softened cupcake with a little sugared carrot. cent. Add red pepper. Cook, stirring At the Red Apron, we incorporate 1 tsp pure vanilla extract frequently, until the red pepper is just locally grown Red Fife cooked. Pre-heat oven to 375°F. Place Wheat and Organic tart pan on a baking sheet to catch any Spelt into most of our overflow. Spread red pepper, shallots baking. We get these and wilted spinach on the bottom of organic flours from Pa- the crust. Crumble the cheese evenly tricia Hastings at CIPM over the vegetables. In a medium in Madoc. Her products bowl, whisk together milk, cream, are available at Ottawa and eggs. Season with salt and fresh Organics, and the Natu- ground pepper. Pour over cheese. ral Food Pantry Stores. Transfer to oven, and bake until just Red Fife is a Canadian set in the center, 35 to 40 minutes. bred, heirloom vari- Cool on a wire rack for about 10 min- ety of wheat that has utes before slicing. a nutty flavour and isC * we like to use Glengarry Chèvre dense with nutrients. or Fromagerie les Folies Bergeres Feta Canada is the mapleM

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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch Saturdays, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 Ukrainian Conversation Wednesdays, 6:30 pm (60 conduct your own inspection Ottawa Public Library p.m.: January 10 – May 30 Join our group led by a min.): April 1, May 6 and how to get the most 1049 Bank Street, Les samedis, 13 h – 16h : fluent Ukrainian speaker. out of a home inspector. Ottawa Janvier 10 – 30 mai Start off with a review of the Knit & Knatter: Learn to Registration. 613-730-1082, Ukrainian alphabet. All are Knit Thursday, April 16, 6:30 Adult Services, ext 22 Children’s Book Clubs welcome. Registration. Have you always wanted pm (90 min.) Children’s Services, Mother-Daughter Book Mondays, 7:00 pm (60 to learn to knit or improve Club min.): April 20, 27, May 4, your skills? 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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS - Continued from page 34 Making a Hard Copy Photo European Book Club Madden (2009) Second Friday Adult Book third Friday of the month. Album from Digital Photos The European Book Club is a Wednesdays, 6:00 pm (120 Club Registration. We all take lots of digital cooperation of the European min.): April 15, May 20 Meet new people and join in April title: The Dark Winter photos. But most just sit on Union National Institutes for stimulating discussions on by David John Mark a computer and, at best, are Culture (EUNIC) in Ottawa: Non-Fiction Adult Book selected titles in a friendly May title: Her Fearful seen on-screen. Why not the Austrian Cultural Forum, Club and relaxed atmosphere Symmetry by Audrey do more with your photos? the Goethe Institute, the Join in stimulating every second Friday of the Niffenegger Chris Taylor, President of the Romanian Cultural Institute, discussions on selected titles month. Newcomers are Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.): Ottawa PC Users’ Group will the Instituto Camoes of of non-fiction in a friendly welcome. Registration. April 17, May 15 show you how easy it is to Portugal and the Embassy and relaxed atmosphere. April title: Life After Life by use an on-line service to cre- of the Republic of Poland. A variety of topics will be Kate Atkinson Sunnyside Adult Book Club ate beautiful hard-copy books The EBC aims to promote discussed depending on May title: The Rosie Project Join in stimulating of your photos, completely European authors and their the interests of the group. by Graeme C. Simsion discussions on selected titles customized, with embellish- works. A book title from Bring your suggestions. Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.): in a friendly and relaxed ments, backgrounds, frames, an EU country is selected Registration. April 10, May 8 atmosphere on the last Friday text and more. Registration. for discussion each month. June title: Blue Future: of the month. Registration. Thursday, May 28, 6:30 pm Registration. Protecting Water for People Mystery Book Club April title: Road Ends by (120 min.) April title (Austria): Winter and the Planet Forever by Do you enjoy reading Mary Lawson Quarters by Evelyn Grill Maude Barlow (2013) mysteries? Share the May title: The Dinner by (2004) enjoyment of good mysteries Book Clubs Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.): Herman Koch May title (Ireland): Molly June 5 in a relaxed atmosphere. Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.): Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Join us for discussion every April 24, May 29 CARLETON CORNER Solar House on Campus Allows Researchers to Test Passive Energy Systems By Susan Hickman ficiency and maximizing solar energy insulated underground sand box, summer, expects the housing sys- use in single family detached housing. through which piping can carry tems to be fully functional by the end A specially-designed solar-powered ​Urbandale Construction, a leader in water heated by the solar collectors of the summer. house at the sunny north end of environmentally conscious construc- on the roof. Beausoleil-Morrison “We probably have at least 10 Carleton’s campus could eventually tion, contributed nearly $200,000 expects up to 90 per cent of winter years’ worth of ideas to pursue,” he contribute significantly to the hous- towards the $1.5 million two-storey heating requirements can be provided says. “We have multiple ways of heat- ing industry’s efforts to reduce energy house. The family-run local company, through this system. ing the house and although we can- consumption and greenhouse gas whose philosophy is to use superior Beausoleil-Morrison, who said not be sure, based on our modelling, emissions. technologies and designs for energy additional research equipment and we think our radiant floor and sandbox Under construction since last efficient homes, has been working instrumentation will be installed this systems are going to work.” fall and scheduled to be complete by with fourth-year engineering the end of the summer, the Urbandale students since 2009. Urbandale has Centre for Home Energy Research already incorporated many of the (CHEeR) project is led by Ian Beauso- students’ cost-effective energy effi- leil-Morrison, Canada Research Chair cient options in their home designs. in Innovative Energy Systems for ​While Beausoleil-Morrison Residential Buildings and a profes- has been studying solar energy sor in the Faculty of Engineering and concepts for years, most of the Design. research has been conducted in the “The building industry is extremely laboratory and through computer conservative,” Beausoleil-Morrison simulations. says, “but our research is a low-risk “We can only go so far with way for it to learn. We have to change those models,” he explains. “We the way we build houses and the way need to learn from doing full-scale we heat and cool them. We hope some testing, and to gather knowledge so of our concepts will be commercial- we can improve the way we do the ized, but I don’t expect it to happen in computer modelling.” the short term.” The house’s passive solar Funded by Ottawa homebuilder design will use solar collectors Urbandale Construction, the Canada on the south face of the steeply Foundation for Innovation, the On- pitched roof, an unusually large tario Research Fund and other industry number of windows on the south- partners, the state-of-the-art research facing walls (and none on the facility is supporting a multifaceted north side), a radiant floor heating research program whose goal is to system, a heat pump and innovative discover and to critically evaluate new heat storage systems. concepts for increasing energy ef- One project involves a giant, PHOTO PHOTO ALFÖLDI BY TOM Page 36 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

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FINANCIAL PLANNING RRSP Strategies for Your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s & 60s By Bob Jamieson, CFP untaxed, at a steady pace. begun saving will realize the error of help you determine whether you are their ways. Don’t worry, it’s not too contributing enough to your RRSP Financial strategies change as you Consider doing the following: late. and TFSA to meet future goals. You advance through life. 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You should begin thinking Your 60s a pension, the flexibility of having matching employer contributions of longer-term goals and objectives, Whether you are ready to fully re- non-pension assets to draw upon as if there is a group RRSP such as envisioning your retirement tire, or just considering another chap- required is also an excellent goal. • Try hard to develop good savings objectives and choosing a path to get ter in your life, this is when these The Registered Retirement Savings habits, and don’t just save for there. projections become reality. 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HOME RENOVATIONS Give Your 1920’s Brick Fireplace a Facelift By Peter McKercher and sitting areas, millwork from a the house, rather than to make it dis- from the traditional to something time long past, history and character appear or worse, removing it. more contemporary, you may unify I love old houses, which explains galore. However, I have to admit The options for improvement are the look and feel of your fireplace why I have been renovating in Old that there is one thing that can often limitless, with one exception. The with its surroundings. Rather than Ottawa South and the Glebe for my- detract from them and that is the hearth and the immediate firebox sur- focusing on it as a single element, self and others for over twenty-five fireplace. Of course I have been in a round must be fireproof. That means the whole wall can become a feature years. It’s hard to explain why, but number of Ottawa South and Glebe leaving a margin of the original brick by extending millwork to the ceiling even as a child moving around the homes that have splendid examples, exposed or selecting an overlay from and finishing it in the same style and country with my parents, I far pre- but by and large, the majority of a wide range of superb fireproof color. This makes a great backdrop ferred the idiosyncrasies of a vintage these homes built in the 1920’s have finishes, such as ceramic, porcelain, for artwork or other cherished items. house to the pristine character of a the original rough faced brick wood glass, granite, cultured stone, marble Or expand laterally to incorporate tract home. There just seemed to be burning fireplaces, unbefitting the or metal. It’s all a matter of your wall to wall built-ins, allowing you to so many more interesting nooks and character of their surroundings. taste, budget and how the end result be drawn into it rather than towards crannies to explore and such a won- One simple solution is to “paint will fit with the surrounding house it. derful sensory patina to savour. it out”. This is sometimes effective, style and decor. No matter what approach you Our old homes have this in spades but my preference has always been For the surround and mantel, the choose, incorporating these ideas or course – three floors of living to emphasize the fireplace as a focal sky is the limit. For a period look, can significantly impact your living space to get lost in, formal dining point and an outstanding feature of materials should blend with exist- experience as well as the value of ing millwork and may incorporate your home by enhancing both design traditional pilasters, plinths, coves and function. and corbels in natural or painted finishes, as much a piece of heirloom Peter McKercher is an Ottawa furniture as a part of the house. This resident and President of McKercher look might also incorporate shelving Renovations – a General Contractor or cabinetry flanking either side of serving Old Ottawa South and the the fireplace. Glebe. www.mckercher-renovations. Join our team and If your design sense leans away ca keep the city clean. April 15 to May 15

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…children learning through active investigation. Drop by the Sunnyside Library Saturday mornings from 10 to ______12 o’clock, from now until the end of May, to talk about your 63 Evelyn Ave. (off Main St. near Pretoria Bridge) idea with others or to work on your project with your group. www.rainbowkidschool.ca Tel: 613-235-2255 Or drop by to list your project in a register of 2017 projects that will be open for viewing in the library. THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 39

CLASSY CLASSY ADS are free ADSfor Old Ottawa South residents (except for businesses or for business activity) and must be submitted by email to [email protected] by the deadline. Your name and contact information (phone number or email address) must be included. Only your contact info will appear unless you specify otherwise. The editor retains the right to edit or exclude submissions. The OSCAR takes no responsibility for items, services or accuracy. For business advertising inquiries, call 613-730- 1058 or email [email protected]. bathrooms. Hardwood throughout, this year. I would love to stay in research session. Parking is free and For Sale mudroom, sun room, 3-car driveway the neighbourhood. I am a mature, participants are compensated $$ for and 1-car garage. Modern basement quiet, non-smoking, trustworthy and expenses. For information, please For Sale: 2006 Toyota Corolla renovated with guest room, ensuite clean tenant. I have an older indoor contact Clémence Joubert 613-562- CE, Grey. Auto, A/C, power door and playroom. Recent renovations cat, and I would also need a place 5800 ex. 8757 or cjoub024@uottawa. locks, 148000 kms. Very reliable including gas fireplace, luxury to store a canoe in the backyard or ca. and in excellent condition. Drives kitchen with all stainless appliances, in a garage. If you are elderly and ------like a dream. $5700. Email: enns. granite island. Kid-friendly back would like to have someone around [email protected] or call 613- yard, with tree house and grass play to keep an eye on things, I will gladly Wanted: Nanny-share for 2 days/ 552-4992. area. Low maintenance front yard offer my services. Contact Carole week in July and August. Our two (gardens with no grass). $2400/mth + at [email protected] or by girls are aged 3 (entering JK at For Rent utilities. 613-730-8202 / hopejulie@ telephone at 613-730-7667. Hopewell in Sept) and 5 (entering hotmail.com ------SK) and enjoy playing outside and For Rent. Nicely updated 2 bedroom with friends. Please contact me if basement apartment with own Wanted Seeking seniors for research on you are interested in sharing your entrance in Old Ottawa South. aging, memory, and emotion! care-giver (your home and/or ours), Available 1st July. Please call 613- Looking for a one or two bedroom Professor Patrick Davidson’s or if you’re a care-giver available 797-4732. apartment starting anytime in the Neuropsychology Lab in the for part-time children. First Aid and ------next 6 months. I have been a resident University of Ottawa’s School of references required. Sorry, no high Home for rent in OOS - Aug 1st/ of Old Ottawa South for 10 years Psychology is recruiting participants school students. Call or text 613-293- end of July. 4 Bedrooms, 2 full and will have to move sometime over age 65 to take part in a 2-hour 4046.

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Come Sing with Us

High School is moving to Lansdowne for September 2015!

PHOTO BY PATRICIA GOYECHE By Julie Ireton stain glass classes and yoga. For others looking for a A gang at Abbotsford House little more action, Abbotsford at the Glebe Centre is reviving is introducing a Games Day the much-loved tradition of in its Games Room every the sing-song around the piano Monday this spring. Partici- – the singing of old songs ev- pants can play snooker, pool, erybody knows –and even the shuffle board and air hockey. off-key voices are invited. The Glebe Centre’s director of This spring, Abbotsford community programs at Ab- member, Glebe resident and botsford, Karen-Anne Blakely piano player Bill Robertson says the house’s old board will help organize the “Come room has been transformed Sing with Us” group every into a games room. second Friday afternoon be- “We’re restyling it. It’ll be tween 1:30 and 2:30. a new and improved area and “It’s fun. It’s not all singing, we’re quite excited about it. in fact sometimes it’s a bit of The pool table has been re- a gong show, but it’s an op- felted and there will even be a portunity to get together,” said new carpet,” said Blakely. Robertson. The games room will be He says retirees from the open to members all day, community often drop in to every Monday or by appoint- sing from a well-worn book of ment on Thursday and Friday war-time songs, or oldies from mornings. Membership costs the 50s and 60s. It’s not a $40 and it will cost a loonie to The Element, Ottawa’s first choir, but a casual session that play pool. anyone can join. “We are a charity and we’re Robertson says sometimes always happy to receive gifts,” Montessori High School people from Abbotsford’s said Blakely. “The room has Day-Away program also come been revamped because of (Grades 7 to 12), is for down to take part. the generosity of grants and “Those are people with early donations. We’re just thrilled students who want to be dementia and the music does because it adds new life to this wonders for them. It brings room.” challenged and engaged. back all kinds of memories. For more information on We all get joy out of it.” this spring’s program pick up “Come Sing with Us” is just the guide at Abbotsford, it is Now welcoming students for one of the many features on also available at the Sunnyside this spring’s program at Ab- branch of the Public Library. in September 2015. botsford, a community support Grades 7 to 10 centre for those 55+, located Abbotsford is your commu- right across from Lansdowne nity support centre for Adults Previous Montessori education is not required; Park, on Bank St. 55+. We are the community a passion for life is. programs of The Glebe Centre For something a bit quieter, Contact us for more information. seniors can take part in the Inc., a charitable, not-for-prof- Mindfulness Class on Friday it, organization which includes mornings. a 254 bed long term care This class teaches tech- home. Find out more about [email protected] niques to help reduce stress, our services by dropping by sleep better and deal with 950 Bank Street (the old stone chronic pain. house) Mon- Fri 9-4 pm, tele- 613-862-8578 On Friday afternoons, medi- phoning 613-230-5730 or by tation classes will help quiet checking out all of The Glebe the mind and focus attention Centre facilities and commu- on “the now”. Also on this nity programs on our website spring’s schedule is Tai Chi, www.glebecentre.ca. elementhighschool.com folk dancing, Latin dancing, THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015 Page 41

SOS Children’s Villages Expands in Haiti

Boyd McBride in Haiti. PHOTOS BY GRAEME BURK

By Samantha Halyk Prince and in Les Cayes, to locally to meet the spe- shelter the children until the cific needs of children In a country with over new Village was completed. living in that country, and 430,000 orphans, SOS Chil- “Our hope and focus at the are trained extensively to dren’s Villages has opened time, was to reunite as many ensure they are capable a new Village in Haiti to children with their biological of raising an SOS family provide loving homes to chil- families, which is a major long-term. dren affected by the devastat- area of our work after major Cloreine is one of the ing earthquake that struck disaster,” explained McBride. SOS mothers who has educational system, with the for teachers, and the result five years ago. Whenever possible, dedicated her life to raise construction or renovation of is over 7,000 children are SOS Children’s Villages children were reunited with orphaned and abandoned eight schools. receiving the education that is an international charity to their families of origin, children. She and her SOS “Our efforts are supporting Canadians would be proud that provides orphaned and although unfortunately, family will be moving into as many children as we can,” to know that they are provid- abandoned children with lov- some would never see their the Village in Les Cayes. said McBride. “We are build- ing.” ing homes, medical care and parents again. Of the 700 “It makes me so happy ing and running schools, we access to education. The new children who arrived at SOS to see this new village and are supporting community Village in Les Cayes, Haiti, Children’s Villages in Santo, school in Haiti, where there owned schools with training will support 105 children. It there were 106 children who are so many problems. SOS opened on January 10, 2015, were truly orphaned and provides the children two days before the fifth an- without parental care. a joy of life, and that’s niversary of the earthquake. Following the earthquake something valuable and MODERN HAIRSTYLING Old Ottawa South resi- SOS Children’s Villages re- good for Haiti.” 1148 BANK ST OTTAWA, ON 613.730.0105 dent and president of SOS doubled our efforts. Nowhere In addition to the three SPRING IS Children’s Villages Canada, is a child better placed than Villages, SOS Children’s FINALLY HERE! Boyd McBride, was in Haiti with their biological family, Villages has undertaken for the Village opening. He but in the absence of that series of construction, SHORT ON TIME? each child needs “a family, a reconstruction and reno- explained that the new Vil- ASK US ABOUT AN lage means SOS Children’s family home,” said McBride. vation projects in Haiti. Villages has capacity to reach The SOS model is focused The organization has EVENING APPOINTMENT more families at risk, and on family-based care. In each made significant invest- DURING THE WEEK. perhaps help prevent child Village, women are recruited ment in the country’s modernhairstyling.ca abandonment in Haiti. “SOS Children’s Villages has been in Haiti for over 35 years now, and we are play- ing a major part in the recon- struction by focusing on its The Company Your Friends & Family Recommend best asset: its children. Our Villages take in children who Stop into our showroom today to see our large selection of replacement windows and doors for your home. At have truly lost everything, Lambden you will find everything from classic wood, and the opening of Les Cayes maintenance free aluminum clad to hybrid PVC windows means more children affected as well as a wide selection of wood, fiberglass and steel by the earthquake will have entry doors. All of which are installed by our expert their childhood back,” said installation crews. McBride. Following the earthquake, SOS Children’s Villages looked after more than 700 - Experts in maintaining the look of traditional children, and served more homes both inside and out while installing new than 20,000 hot meals a day windows & doors to the community. At the -Capable of installing in a specialized manner without removing or damaging classic interior trim time, there were only two -Free in-home consultation SOS Villages in Haiti, which -Accredited BBB Member with an A+ rating were too small to accommo- date the surplus of children. 22 Pretoria Ave (613) 366-­‐1803 SOS rented and constructed www.lambden.com temporary homes in Port-au- Page 42 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB The Rock Garden By Carole Love down a mature tree which has left her with full sun exposure. As a com- At out last meeting Judy Wall, of promise Judy uses propped up rocks Rock Wall Gardens, (www.rockwall- slightly canted to offer shade so that gardens.com), talked about elements sensitive plants won’t bake in full of rock gardening and plantings that sun. Being in the countryside, weed we can grow locally. Judy trained seeds blow in so Judy has edged her in horticulture at the University of gardens with sand; every few years Guelph and is a member of two rock she cuts back the nasty grasses which gardening societies. attempt to creep into her garden beds. Judy started Rock Wall Gardens in Judy overwinters her plants outside 2000 and is now her 16th season. Her and the former dairy barn is used for garden, atop a small hill, started as workshops in inclement weather and open farmland and offers a harsh en- not as a greenhouse. vironment: the soil is poor, being san- Judy introduced us to some of her dy and rocky; it is also in a drought many plant treasures. Androsace area with rains often just missing her salicifola is a self-seeding, tiny but Wooden bridge over the pond at sunset. PHOTO BY JUDY WALL land. When she discovered it, there tough, annual which has a mass of was an old fallen down barn with an tiny white blooms for weeks in the As the roots of grasses can run deep, ing with the green; its foliage adds ugly foundation. Over time Judy has spring. The plants favour regular ver- Judy strategically keeps grasses out interest even when the purple-blue transformed the property. She put in a sus really lean soil. Arenaria tetraque- of the rockery so that it is easier blooms are gone. Jovibarba come pond that is starting to naturalize and tra forms compact 6” high mounds when dividing. Also, Judy avoids in interesting colours, tolerate part there is now a lovely wooden bridge with white flowers in early spring. walking on her soil. but not heavy shade, and resemble over it created by her husband. Judy Generally rock garden plants don’t Gardeners are drawn to Gentiana sempervivums (commonly called began with small rocks and small like fertilizer and Judy uses stone acaulis for its trumpet-shaped true- hens and chicks). Jovibarba rollers gardens; later big rocks were placed mulch to conserve moisture. Judy blue flowers. As it likes acidic soil, don’t stay attached to the parent but with a backhoe and in 2006 she put finds she sometimes needs to move Judy mulches it with coffee grounds. roll away to root and grow and that is in true rock gardens. Many plants are plants to find where they are happy. Globularia meridionalis is a com- how the colony grows. Shasta daisy in raised beds that warm up nicely She mixes different foliage and forms pact ground cover which does not Leucanthemum x superbum Razzle- and drain well. Being in the country and grows Bergenia cordifolia, a spread very fast and offers a softer Dazzle blooms and blooms (from and using a well, water is a crucial drought-tolerant evergreen, for its at- look around rocks; it can help with perhaps June until a heavy frost) on factor and this no doubt explains Ju- tractive, leathery leaves. For contrast- an erosion or water run-off problem. dy’s fascination with succulents and ing texture, Judy mixes grasses and Judy enjoys the variegated leaves Continued on pg. 43 sedums. A 2008 thunderstorm took green plant mounds along walkways. of Iris pallida, the cream contrast- You’re Invited! Family Open House & Showcase

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Left photo: Leucanthemum x superbum Razzle-dazzle blooms and blooms! Right photo: Tiny treasures contrasting in colour, size and foliage in the rockery.

PHOTO BY JUDY WALL red and green foliage of sedums. on May 1; hours are on the website. Community Centre (The Firehall), Continued from pg. 42 Plant trimmings from small varieties There are gardens to see and plants to 260 Sunnyside Avenue. Chris- of sempervivums (hens and chicks) buy. Judy enjoys sharing her passion tine Libon, a local horticulturist can be put into containers and will for growing hardy perennials and 12-18” plants; not many perennials ([email protected]), will share last on a table all summer. (Judy also offers a variety of workshops do that! While hardy cactus may be her expertise in container garden- displayed a charming container with such as creating stained glass win- slow in the spring and don’t flower ing. Christine will cover creative a tiny tree-like plant, small spiky dows and Hypertufa containers. (Hy- long, varieties can be gorgeous and choices for plant material, selec- plants, plastic figurines, and a tiny pertufa is a man-made material that add interest. Orostachys erubescens, tion of appropriate containers and yellow parasol.). Judy noted the latest resembles stone but is very light.) a succulent with bronzy colour, planting medium, and general fad was crevice gardens. One can put has rosettes that rise from the flat maintenance. Her presentation plants between vertical rocks; water The next meeting of the Old Ot- nodule and look like a long spiny will include pictures of numerous can drain off easily and the plants tawa South Garden Club, entitled stalk—rather bizarre. One can see the containers she has designed. may be more stable. the “The Contained Garden”, magenta mounds of Phlox douglasii In 2015 Rock Wall Gardens, will be on Monday 13 April at ‘Crackerjack’ across the yard! located just east of Perth, will open 7:00 p.m. at the Old Ottawa South Judy enjoys the contrast of vibrant Page 44 THE OSCAR l APRIL 2015

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