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THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW

OUR 21ST YEAR! JANUARY 1996 VOL. 28 No. 5 OSCAR CONTEST ‘95 WINNER S !

BY PETER HECHT SCAR’S first writing contest So, who are the winners??? You’ve was a great success! been waiting long enough, so we’ll Numerous writings and open the envelopes: poems were received in spite the rather BEST open rules. It just goes to prove that Eksl Old Ottawa South is a hotbed of Blizzard creativity. Every entry was of excellent - Jo-An Munday quality and the judges had a hard time deciding how to classify and rate each Second Mrs. Hudson’s Holmeswork submission. They also kept in mind - Patrick Fitzgerald that precedents were being set for Third future competitions. The Tranquilizer In the end, after a long discussion, - Eleanor McSheffrey the judges decided on the overall ratings and then decided to create a JUDGES’ CHOICE Judges’ Choice category in four areas: Humor/Tragedv Humor/Tragedy, Short Story, Article Summertime on Aylmer Street (appropriate for OSCAR) and Poetry. - Liz McKeen Prizes will be awarded to the First Short Story Second and Third place winners and to Dead Meat each of the judges’ Choices. We were - Pamela Lee MacRae extremely fortunate in receiving prizes Article for the winners from General Store Our Christmas Tradition Publishing House of Bumstown - Dale Pearson courtesy of the Publisher, Tim Gordon. Poetry Prizes consist of recent books of It’s Just Not Fair Canadian interest. As well, each - Jaime Bowen entrant will receive a handsome SPECIAL MENTIONS certificate of thanks from OSCAR. Due to the excellence of the entries, During the next few months, the Judges decided to make two Photos by P. Hecht OSCAR will publish all submissions Special Mentions. so you will get a chance to appreciate Hungover them as well as the judges. Look for - Janet M. Last them and when our next contest rolls An Author’s Complaint THERE’S STILL TIME! ! ! around you’ll be all set to get your - Drew Williamson winning entries ready in time. OSCA PROGRAM NEWS FITNESS CLUB FINE FOOD WORKSHOPS umout at registration for In response to previous demand for Winter Programs was lighter her recipes, Susan Connolly will be OSCAR CONTEST ‘95 than usual so we want to back with three workshops to help remind you about some upcoming spice up your cooking: FIRST CHOICE workshops and let you know that - Oriental Fingerfoods - Thurs Feb 1 BUZZARD there's still time to register for the - Salsas, Chutneys and Relishes for Fitness Club which runs until the end all Seasons - Thurs Feb 22 BY JO-AN MUNDAY of March. And some great workshops - Rice Paper Wrappers - Thurs r | l he piercing gaze of the headlights caught the glistening are being offered in February and Mar 28 snowflakes unaware. Some paused, startled, then descended March. These workshops will take place A with haste; tumbling over each other in a rush to touch down. RUSTIC FURNITURE from 7 to 9 pm. The members' cost for Others, serenely continued their gentle drift downward; softly touching WORKSHOPS each is $21. the roadway with a caress, unperturbed by the intrusion of the HEALTH & WELLNESS harsh light. Most intriguing though were the fairy-spirits that You’ve seen them in the latest A free workshop on Health and danced, twirling in the gusting wind showing off their sparkling homes magazines. You too can learn Wellness entitled Life without Fear finery as they flitted and flirted and teased the light. Up with how to make them. You can learn how will take place on Thursday February a flourish! Spiralling down, down, down! Almost landing. Then, to make a handcrafted rustic end table 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. swooping regally upward. One last pirouette then twinkling as if or side chair at Saturday workshops on For further information on any of in joyous laughter, the final descent ending in glorious splendor February 10 and 17. the above, contact Dinos Dafiiiotis at cloaking the outstretched arms of the loving evergreen. the Firehall at 247-4946.

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a OSCAR. CONTRIBUTIONS NEEDED The OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY We receive contributions each month, but we are always in need of articles, ASSOCIATION REVIEW stories, poems, reviews, drawings and photos for the future issues. We are looking for oldtimers stories, interviews, stories, articles, poems, sketches and restaurant 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 0R7 reviews which would be of interest to residents of Old Ottawa South. Bring them The Old Firehall.

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ZONE Al: Mary Jo Lynch (Coordinator), Eric and Brian Lynch, Tim O'Lett, Brian Eames, Kim Barclay, G^W^^^OUTI^^COMMUNITY^rCBNTRE Marvel Sampson, Wendy Robbins, Charles Halliburton, Ron Barton, Lindsay Whillans, The Boutin Family, Robin Scobie WRITER HOURS PHONE 247-4946 ZONE A2:Chloe Hanes (co-ordinator) MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9:00AM TO 9:00PM ZONE Bl: David Farr (Coordinator), David Farr, Sharon Plumb, Andrea and Cedric Innés, Ross Imrie FRIDAY 9:00AM TO 6:00PM ZONE B2: Linda Young (Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Patty Leonard, Joan & Rick Potter, Karen and Dolf SATURDAY 9:00AM TO 1:30PM* Landheer, The Woyiwada Family, Anna and Dan Calvert, The Webber Family, The Young Family SUNDAY CLOSED ZONE Cl: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), The Neale Family, The Harrison Family, The Gilmore Family, *open while programs are operating The James-Guevremont Family, The Jarmuski Family, The Williams Family

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ZONE D1 : Mary Hill(Coordinator), Patti Angus, The Small Family, Jessie Neufeld, Mary Hill, Mary Ann Keys, Gilbert Jamieson, Elenor Quesnel

ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Co-ordinator), Jessica & Colin Drysdale, Andi Gray, Martha Robinson, Tony WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? Hauser IMPORTANT TELEPHONE NUMBERS ZONE El: Mary Hill (Coordinator), The Hutchinson Family, Brooke van Mossel-Forrester, The Leighton Family, Doug Stickley The Old Firehall Community Centre 247-4946 OSCA new 247-4872 ZONE E2: Rufina Basu (Coordinator), Kristen Rading, The Tillman Family, Eleanor Berry, Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder & Lorraine Stewart, Julie Vergara, The Fraser Family, Mary Hill Ottawa South Public Library 598-4017 CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 788-6688 ZONE FI: Carol O'Connor (Coordinator), Karen Fee & Family, The Bol Family, The Tubman Family, The Regional Government - 24 hr line Dalziel Family, The Chandler Family, John & Lee Zamparo, Jim St John & Loretta Gannon, Alexandra 560-1335 MacDonald Brian McGarry, Regional Councillor 560-1224 Lynn Graham, OBE Trustee 730-3366 ZONE F2: Janet L. Jancar (Coordinator), Sonya Jancar, The Moir Family, The Stem Family, The Liston Family, The von Baeyer Family, Marie Dubrule, Paul Jancar, Alexis Given New City Hall Numbers Jim Watson, City Councillor 244-5367 ZONE G: Angela Graves (Coordinator), Chris Kinsley, The Cihlar Family, The Graves Family, The Grier Family, Julie de Bellefeuille, Tom Kurys, Roger Ehrhardt Ottawa City Hall Main Number 244-5300 24 hour Operations (snow, trees, etc.) 244-5444 Toronto & Bullock: The Rowleys Property Standards 244-5400 Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, The Cook Family Info Centre 244-5464 Bank Street-Glebe: Rufina Basu Recreation & Culture 244-5678 Carleton University: Jim Watson JANUARY 1996 § ™ OSCAR § PAGE 3

OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ; :i; OLD OTTAWA SOUTH GARDEN CLUB ■ j995-96PROGRAM PRESIDENT’S REPORT

BY GREG WRIGHT m PROGRAM FOR 1995*96, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF SPEAKERS n behalf of the OSCA Board from the Brewer Park entrance to WHERE.The Old Firehall of Directors, may I take this Sunnyside, in recognition of the unsafe WHEN: 4th Tuesday of each month, 7 pm. opportunity to wish you and situation that will otherwise prevail your family the very best in 1996. when the completed Dunbar Bridge Needless to say, the new year promises ’ Jan:23 _= Starting Your Garden Indoors opens. We have brought to the to be challenging for all of us in the Region's attention that the recent Old HiniH Feb 27 ; ' Àll Season Garden : 1;#li National Capital Region, as budgetary iPiPinil; Mar 26 iPii.ii: Pruning Shrubs and Hedges Ottawa South Traffic Study compressions at the federal, provincial, Apr 23 Shack; Gardens recommends the elimination of the regional and municipal levels (not to May 28 Ground Covers current "free-flow" right turn lane onto mention school boards) take hold Jun25 ; Chib Members GardenTour Sunnyside, in order to minimize the simultaneously. This may well mark implied invitation to through-traffic to the first time ever that our many levels favour a right-turn onto Sunnyside f por furthef information on joining call "- '• Pat Johnston 730*6885 or Ann May 73 1*2880 of government have moved in the same rather than merging onto northbound direction on anything! Of course, the Bronson. The Region has been flip side of adversity is opportunity, specifically requested to incorporate and the entrepreneurial spirit which this design feature into its plans. MÊÊÊÊ seems to be alive throughout Old On a somewhat brighter note, many Ottawa South augurs well for the residents will be pleased to hear that WHO’S TEACHING OUR future. the Harris Government has taken quick You have no doubt been following action to repeal the Resident's Rights CHILDREN? the budget process at City Hall. Act (Bill 120) which had allowed a Depending on one's point-of-view, second unit to be added in detached, BY HELEN CUNNINGHAM there is mixed news in the Green Island semi-detached and row houses. Those Today, society is clamped in the the protection of children have gone battle to contain the budget in the face concerned about the negative impact jaws of a monster of its own too far. The witch hunt in the name of of provincial reductions. Popular this Act would have had on the making. People are asking rooting out child abuse must be neighbourhood programs, such as the population density of Old Ottawa why violence and crime committed by stopped. crossing guards, have been axed, while South will be relieved by this change. young people is growing. So-called It is time to open our eyes and look the Swans program received a reprieve Along with this amendment are other experts blame schools, parents, to ourselves for the cause and answer of sorts. I am pleased to report that helpful modifications aimed at television or lack of community to this dilemma. When I speak to OSCA made successful representations simplifying rules and processes, and activity for children, as some of the parents about the need to discipline against the proposed introduction of returning greater authority for local main causes of this problem. children such as when children will hourly Firehall activity charges, which planning decisions to municipalities. When children reach school age, absolutely not do as they are told, they could have cost the community several Thanks to all who came out to the they quickly learn about their “rights” say they are terrified of being accused thousand dollars per year. Special Firehall on January 4th either to in society and the home. They soon of abusing their children and having to thanks to Russ Barton and Catherine register for one of our Winter learn to use these “rights” as a tool to go through all kinds of indignities or Montgomery for their work on this, Programs or to help out. The work of avoid discipline and to get what they even their children. Teachers are and to Jim Watson for supporting the OSCA's Program Committee, chaired want from their parents, teachers or unable to control children within the motion to abandon this proposal. by Catherine Montgomeiy, has been anyone else who crosses their path. schools since they can no longer get It appears that the spring of 1996 excellent, both in overseeing the Telling the truth is something that parental support. could bring some major transportation evolution of existing programs and must be taught, but children are We must give back parents and disruptions to Old Ottawa South. As offering new, innovative programs - quickly learning that by lying and teachers their rights and previously reported, Bank Street will such as "Theatre Games", "Closet deceiving, they will get their own way. responsibilities for the upbringing and be completely resurfaced—an essential Artist" and "C.L.A.F." (You'll have to They don’t understand the cost to education of children. The only way we but very inconvenient undertaking sign up to find out what that one is family, teachers and society from these can have responsible adults is by likely to take at least two weeks to about!) If you have any interesting lies. Once children get to their teen teaching our children that they can not complete. To the west, the Region is ideas along these lines, please let us years, they can move home, accusing have everything their own way. If planning to extend the third know. their parents of unjust treatment. Our children are taught at a young age that northbound lane of Bronson Avenue taxes pay for the support of these they must respect the rights of others, children and reinforce this behaviour in they will quickly learn to interact with young people. people without using violence and No longer can we blame parents deceit to attain their goals. and teachers for the lack of discipline Sometimes you have to be mean to of our children. I am the first to agree be nice. We have to quit copping out. SOUTHMINSTER UNITED CHURCH that abuse of children at home and A start must be made to again teach Bank St. - Rideau Canal school must be stopped. We are all our children to respect their elders and 730 - 6874 aware that child abuse cannot be each other, so they can enter society tolerated. But agencies responsible for and interact in a positive manner. Minister: Rev. S.A. Hewlett | Organist/Choir Director: Sandra Dean We extend a warm invitation to all 10:30am Worship new and long-time residents of Old • Sunday School for All Ages Ottawa South to make Southminster • Nursery Care during Worship your church home. A special • Audio Loop System for Hearing DALTON McGUINTY welcome is extended to new and M.P.P. / député Impaired • Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary returning students. OTTAWA SOUTH • Coffee Hour following Worship

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i JANUARY 1996 § THE OSCAR § PAGE 4 REGIONAL REPORT BY BRIAN MCGARRY, REGIONAL COUNCILLOR HERITAGE® KEEPING COMMUNITIES MOC user fees for public transportation, only laOTTAVA® P u d g e t 54% of total costs are recovered from r-ii in HEALTHY -—-^decisions the fare-box. The proposed budget will to be concluded brings fare recovery to 56% (Toronto SAVING OUR ARCHITECTURAL in early January. users pay 65%, most urban areas in Difficult choices Canada are higher than Ottawa- HERITAGE must be made. Carleton except Vancouver). Priorities I have There has been no fare increase for ave you ever walked through comes from a variety of professions all chosen in social services focus on food two years and ridership went down so the Byward Market and sharing the same mandate - to preserve and shelter as opposed to funding it’s not entirely fares affecting use. If stopped to admire a building, and recycle the built heritage advocacy groups. One cannot claim fares aren’t increased, service may or strolled through Sandy Hill and environment. there is no role for advisory alliances, have to be cut even more and this will thought about how lucky you were to The activities of Heritage Ottawa but when cuts of $66.4 million have to affect usage. Our proposal gets 56% of live in a city with such beautiful old are varied and effect a two-fold goal: be made to social services, emergency costs from users; 26% from regional architecture? If you have, then you will preserving buildings and educating the situations come first. taxes and 18% from the province (to understand the urgent need to prevent public. Our aim is to provide I have agreed with Councillors who decline over the next 2 years). One the demolition of these buildings. As information for local citizens, to act as added back 1.4% to regional mill rates change to promote family use is landmarks, they reflect so much of our a watchdog on behalf of threatened (average $6 per household) for children up to 5 years ride free and 6- culture and history. buildings, and to create a better initiatives such as Centre 454 11 years will be $ 1 compared to $ 1.85 Less than one per cent of Canada's economic and legal climate for (counselling, food for the homeless), for adults. historic buildings are still standing Ottawa's historic architecture. the Rape Crisis Centre and the School Finally, an area of intense today. Demolished structures fill a Heritage Ottawa works to increase Breakfast Program. There is no way we discussion; the reorganization of area quarter of our landfill sites and are public awareness of the value of the can ever make up provincial cuts but hospitals. Regional Council has no replaced by skyscrapers that are built and landscape heritage to the hopefully we can show some direct responsibility in this area commercially viable but do little to living city. We do this through our compassion for the less fortunate. We (perhaps we should?). But I feel retain a city's heart and soul. regular newsletter, public lectures, also remain committed to food banks. compelled to comment. Time limits set Heritage Ottawa is a registered slide shows, displays and the small I am sorry to report the poverty-rate by the Province for public input are non-profit organization dedicated to archive collection that we maintain. in Ottawa-Carleton has reached 14% extremely short, only 4 days following the retention, repair and renovation of For example, Heritage Ottawa held a of population and is touching families the initial report with 3 complicated historic buildings in the National Lecture Series in January and February who never imagined finding scenarios. By February 15, the District Capital Region. Founded in 1967 1995 entitled “Books, Bones and themselves at a food bank. Health Council will make a under the name “A Capital for Bombers”. This activity not only We cut about $300,000 from the recommendation to the Minister of Canadians” (and incorporated as provided the public with very useful Corporate Services and Economic Health. By March 11, implementation Heritage Ottawa in 1975), the group heritage education but also raised much Development budget including a 9.3% will begin, the Minister making a final has lobbied successfully for the needed money for Heritage Ottawa to reduction ($58,125) to the Regional decision. If you are interested in the preservation of structures such as the carry on its work. Chair's expenditures. A $2,000 cut to public meeting on January 18, location East Block of the Parliament We are currently looking for new individual Councillor budgets did not and time yet unconfirmed, please let Buildings, the Billings Estate, the members and volunteers. If you pass but has been set for review in mid me know. Aberdeen Pavilion and Wallis House. appreciate the beauty of Ottawa's built 1996 of Councillor salaries and office Hospital costs must be reduced by hi 1972, the demolition of Ottawa's heritage and would like to help protect accounts. I would have preferred cuts 18% giving job losses of 1,800-2,000 most significant landmarks became a it, then give us a call! (230-8841). Our now to show our contribution toward over 2 years. Remember, it was the focal point for the group. The razing of office hours are Mondays from 9am to reductions. previous government which started this the Rideau Street Convent was 4pm. Heritage Ottawa relies on the It may be of interest to learn the by aiming for a 25% reduction. For a adamantly opposed by heritage support of Ottawa residents. Please Province has cut $90 million from copy of the paper and options, call my activists. Thanks in part to the efforts help us to ensure that the few business subsidies within total office at 560-1224. of Heritage Ottawa, the chapel portion remaining heritage buildings in Ottawa reductions of $200 million by No doubt there can be combined of the Convent was salvaged and continue on into the 21st century — provincial fiscal year end. savings among our hospitals, certainly stands in the National Gallery as a and don't become parking lots! ~ Currently, regional tax-payers face between the General Hospital and the testament to early religious architecture Remember! Heritage properties are an average tax increase of $6 per Civic, perhaps with a region-wide in Canada. not a thing of the past... Preserving the household, mainly for emergency administrative body. Heritage Ottawa is run exclusively past is an investment in a community's social services. This is balanced by an To end on a lighter note, City by volunteers. Our board of directors future! average $18 rebate from reduced water Councillor Jim Watson, OBE Trustee charges, giving a net decrease of $12. Lynn Graham and I offered a draw of Nonetheless, we must be careful Ottawa Senator box seats for a game in THE BIG MIJG is IN with such equations. Water charges are the new Palladium. The winner is BY ALLEN MAYER not region-wide (they don't apply to Brook Simpson from Third Avenue ine bone china mugs. What a now and see the actors indulging in rural communities) and rebates will not who signed and deposited his ticket at delicate, proper way in which ■their cuppa from a big mug or bowl. go to all citizens. Furthermore, is it fair one of our booths during community to enjoy a good cup or tea or Traditionally used for cafe au lait to tax water, later to say we didn't events last fall. Congratulations to coffee. Bone china is lightweight and (or latte), the big cup makes a really need to tax so high and then have Brook. We will make the same offer in fine and extremely durable. Dunoon, statement about the drinker. A brightly water rates subsidize other programs? the fall of'96. the Scottish company, is synonomous colored, hand-painted cup could be just Far better, in my opinion, to be up Councillor Brian McGarry with excellent quality and artwork on what you need to brighten up your front about needs and tax accordingly. 111 Lisgar Street these mugs. Popular designs now morning and get you on your way. A This brings me to OCTranspo. Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2L7 include famous artists’ reproductions, more rustic, solid stoneware mug may Although it is unrealistic to have 100% 560-1224 or fax 560-1268 Michaelangelo’s, Pre-Raphaelites, be just the thing to cosy up with on a French tapesties and renaissance. cold winter’s day. The feeling and These mugs are truly exquisite and colors of warmth - only bigger, IT’S SAFE. retail for $21. Some Dunoon designs warmer. IT’S SIMPLE. are available in stoneware, a slightly Not only in trend-setting California IT MAY SAVE* heavier material for $15. are big mugs the things In Quebec, YOUR LIFE! Although these mugs continue to many people have cupboards full of outsell many other types, many people big mugs and bowls, all different, one BREAST SCREENING. are now purchasing big mugs for those for any given mood or occasion. For the centre nearest you call: 1 -800-668*9304 serious volume occasions. And I mean Your choice may be big or smalls The Ontario Breast Screening Program BIG! Huge. Oversize! but whatever your choice, the variety is is a program of The Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation With the coffee revolution in now endless and getting BIGGER. Seattle and California in the late 80's Allen Mayer is the connoisseur came big bowls and big cups and proprietor of The Tea Party and can saucers. Turn on any US TV sitcom be reached at 238-5031. JANUARY 1996 § THE OSCAR § PAGE 5

CITY COUNCILLOR'S COLUMN vK Ottawa BY JIM WATSON, CITY COUNCILLOR, CAPITAL WARD J hope everyone dollars. had a peaceful Swans: a beautiful addition to the and relaxing Rideau but $30,000 per year is not holiday. I wish you justifiable when people are being laid 2020 Zoning By-Law Review and your family the off and the Food Bank grant is Draft Zoning Bv-Law Released Open Houses very best for a reduced. I supported a motion to allow Happy New Year. private sector funding and it appears The City of Ottawa has just released a A series of open houses to discuss Draft Zoning By-Law for public the draft zoning by-law will be held We are four years there is interest from at least three review. on a ward by ward basis in January away from a new century - hard to corporations. In the end, we may have Zoning is a system of land use that and February, 1996. In the central believe! the best of both worlds - swans at no divides the city into geographic part of Ottawa open houses will take SURVEY ’96 cost to the taxpayers. zones. A zoning by-law precisely place on: Heritage Planning Branch: I voted to states what land uses are allowed in Next month I will include my Tuesday January 23 at McNabb save this valuable section of the a given area (zone). It provides . Community Centre (Ward 6) annual survey. Since election City details on where buildings may be Planning Department. Two staff are Monday, January 29 Councillor in 1991,1 have published it located, types of uses and dwellings our guardians of heritage buildings and at Old Town Hall (Ward 9) to find out your views on a wide permitted, standards for lot size, it would be wrong to cut this. Monday, February 5 at Sandy Hill variety of issues. If you questions or parking requirements, building Arts & Culture: A number of local arts height and yard dimensions. Health Centre (Ward 5) topics to include, please call my office groups receive funding (GCTC, Opera All open houses run from at 244-5367 or fax it to 244-5651. The new by-law will effect all Lyra, OSO, etc.). Three options were properties within Ottawa with the 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2020/Z OPEN HOUSE to cut 5, 10 or 20%. I supported the exception of the "Central Area" of the For more information, please call John Cuthbert The City has released a new draft smallest (5%) and the majority city (an area generally bounded by zoning by-law, 2020/Z. Tthere will be the Ottawa River, King Edward at 244-5300, ext 3126, or approved this. Arts funding is 1% of Avenue, Gloucester Street and Anne Ernesaks at 244 -5300, an open house Mon Jan 29, 6:30-9pm, the City budget and I believe we Bayview Road). ext 3867. Old Town Hall, 61 Main Street. Staff receive tremendous value for money as 95-1236F.CDR will answer your questions. well as hundreds of jobs. BUDGET '96 Admission Fees: Fees leg. skating, Patient Communications Centre. Bankruptcies may be worse in early Just before Christmas, City Council swimming) for children were frozen Others received reductions such as the 1996 and increased taxes would simply approved a 1996 Budget with taxes and fees for adults increased slightly. Peace & Environment Resource hurt job creators even more. frozen at 1995 levels. It was a very Community Centre Fees: Many Centre, Women's Place and the Budgets are really an exercise in difficult one, with cuts from both community groups (GNAG, OSCA Centretown Churches Social Action balancing but some on Council suggest federal and provincial governments. Of and OECAG) were upset with a Committee (all 20%). we hack and slash everything in sight. the $6.7 million to be cut, about $5 proposal for hourly fees for community Sidewalk Plowing: Thankfully, a I believe we must look at each item in million came from senior level centres. I didn't support this because proposal to cut $200,000 was defeated. perspective and not simply governments. these groups are all volunteer and it We don't spend enough on sidewalks ideologically. Some highlights: would be inappropriate and as it is, so I didn't support this cut. Some say we have no role in the Spay and Neuter Clinic: operations inconsiderate to charge voluntary Tree Planting: I didn’t support cutting arts or environmental management or reduced to four days from five groups, in essence, a tax for providing the 1996 tree planting budget or 25% anything but roads and sewers. My Comprehensive Cycling Plan: my courses, seminars, etc. My motion for of the Environmental Management definition of a basic service goes motion to fund the plan with $150,000 rejection was accepted and hourly fees program. These are too important to beyond snow plowing. Paries, from vehicle budget was approved will not be charged. sacrifice. community centres, adequate fire Design Committee: eliminated, saving protection, proper zoning, libraries, Winterlude: City funding reduced by Wading Pools/Rinks: None affected in cultural and festival funding all add up $7,000. Winterlude generates $31 this budget, but the City will examine at least $126,000 a year. Councillors' Offices: $20,000 removed to what we know as “quality of life”. million for our economy. criteria for friture cuts based on from Councillors office budgets. Adult Crossing Guards: Only use/upkeep of outdoor rinks and pools. BUDGET UPDATE Library: Provincial cuts forced an Councillor Kolbus and I voted for this Staff: Almost 50 positions were Last Fall, the Province told us to initial cut of $250,000 from a $14.2 program (included Hopewell) which eliminated. This is one of the least expect a 20% cut and we budgetted million budget. Council asked for an staff judged had the most dangerous enjoyable aspects of the job. Some accordingly. Since I wrote the above, additional cut of $124,500. This will intersections. The program will positions were vacant, but 26 the City has been informed that the reduce hours and other inconvenience. continue until the end of June 1996. individuals were laid off. It is province is cutting an additional $3 I don’t believe in user fees for libraries Travel / Junkets: Council approved my regrettable this received little attention, million. After we passed our budget we and hope that never comes to pass. motion to eliminate over $50,000 from while the swans grabbed headlines. get a letter in the mail telling us to cut staff travel & conventions and $8,000 Purchase of Service: some very BUDGET SUMMARY another $3 million. This means we to said the Mayor and staff to the Grey worthwhile organizations had funding It was a difficult exercise, but we must re-open our budget again at a Cup, not an appropriate use of tax cut, including the excellent Family and had to go through it to control special meeting on January 17. spending and taxes. A few people I’ll keep you posted and I welcome called to say they didn't mind a small your feedback. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★A tax increase, but the vast majority let CANIHELP? ★ me know loud and clear that taxes are ★ Jim Watson ★ already too high, we’re still reeling ★ 111 Sussex Drive Ottawa Boat & from Market Value Assessment and ★ Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 5A1 ★ don't raise taxes! 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ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE natural environment. Such the Healthy Sustainable Communities transformation requires knowledge, movement, EnviroSense and the Green COMMUNITIES ( A SO courage, experimentation, respect for Communities initiative. the inherent good in all human beings, In view of the current economic and BY KEHH SHACKLETON skill in the art of consultation and political climate, which will create wo years ago, in January 1994, on two modem myths - the government moral support for each other. hardship for the most vulnerable a small group of people met will take care of us and technology and Over the past year and a half, ASC members of society as well as publicly on a Saturday morning in an production will provide a better life for has conducted training workshops on defame and humiliate them as a class, old building in Hull. They were all. We realized that, as a society, we Community Development, Group and since the UN declared 1996 the concerned about the future of our have been living beyond our means - Facilitation and Facilitated Planning in Year for the Elimination of Poverty, society and, particularly, about the lack environmentally, economically and collaboration with established training ASC decided to make our primary of real support that people have in day- socially. organizations. focus for 1996 "Sustainable to-day life. At that time, there were What can be done to improve the At our Annual Forum in April, a Communities as an Antidote to rumblings about the possible collapse situation, especially by individuals panel including Marion Dewar, Simon Poverty". of the "Social Safety Net". We couldn’t with no apparent access to political Brascoupé, Elizabeth May and Michael We hope to work directly with low- have imagined how rapid and drastic power or large amounts of money? Miner addressed the topic "Sustainable income groups to help them find their that collapse would be in Ontario. The problems we face may appear Communities: Back to the Future?" own solutions, through cooperation Some of us had memories of when insurmountable. If we continue to try At our first Annual Meeting in and collective action and to at least, there was little government support - to provide high levels of social and October, Dick Stewart, Regional ease the difficulties they now face. no OHIP, no unemployment insurance, health services and a guaranteed Commissioner for Social Services, Our next Brown Bag Salon will little in the way of government- income for all, where will the money shared his views on the "Collapse of feature Nathalie Lemoyer of Centre financed social assistance. We could come from to pay? If we cut back the Social Safety Net". 454 (an Ottawa organization serving remember extended families severely on government social ASC holds free "Brown Bag street people) at noon Jan. 21, 1996, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc. - spending, will that not take away the Salons" the third Thursday of each 116 Promenade du Portage, Hull. being there to give support when buying power of people and worsen the month at 116 Promenade du Portage, For further information, or to share needed. Single parent families were economic situation? If we continue to Hull. These are intimate discussions your ideas, contact ASC at 116a relatively rare. produce and consume as in the past, with persons of insight related to Promenade du Portage, Hull Québec, In those days, we knew all our will we not soon run out of materials or community and environmental matters. Canada J8X2K1. Tel. 777-1042. Fax: neighbours and people were ready to drown in our own waste? Since August, we’ve had a number of 777-0917 or 99 Seneca Street, Ottawa give and trust in a way that seems We decided to look for answers not excellent and stimulating discussions Ontario K1S 4X8. Tel. 730-9614. Fax: foolhardy today. During the great on a macro level, but on a micro level. on topics related to the concept of 730-3484. depression, men roamed the country The longest journey, we reminded sustainability, families as our future, looking for work. It was common for ourselves, starts with a single step. We one of them to knock on the door, ask decided to build a networking if he could do any work or if we could organization to focus on community To A PUNNERY GO spare something to eat. Often, the and to find ways to build up those BY BILL DUDLEY family would invite the stranger in for elements leading to mutual support, as a hearty meal. well as living within our means WITH APOLOGIES TO W. SHAKESPEARE We also reminded ourselves of environmentally and economically. n the last article, we explored the punnyest signage occur in the narrow-mindedness, intolerance to In July, 1995, Action for pundamental structures of puns. restuarant business, as follows :- people of different religion, skin colour Sustainable Communities (ASC) was Now let's venture out into the 1. "Buy Now, Pay Waiter" or who happened to live "on the wrong incorporated as a non-profit universe of punnery where examples 2. "Protect Your Bagels. Put Lox On side of the tracks"; of the family feuds organization dedicated to research, abound in practically every area of Them" that lasted for generations and other interchange of ideas, training and human endeavour. 3. "Don't Stand Outside And Be stifling elements of those self-focused promotion of the art and science of Because communication is such an Miserable. Come Inside And Be communities. With the coming of sustainable community development. integral part of our lives, we'll start Fed Up" World War D, people in our part of the We do not believe there are simple with the art of signage. Signs are all Finally, here are some general signs world were exposed to a larger, more or fixed solutions; nor do we have a around us and some border on the noted around the country :- exciting world and, increasingly, they specific definition of community or genius in combining the required 1. At a Planetarium sought freedom and anonymity in function. We do have shared beliefs, advertisement with hilarious punnery. "Cast Of Thousands. Every One A cities, leaving behind small-town values and principles. We believe the Here are some samples :- Star" traditions. heart of societal change is 1. In a Catholic Church 2. Front of a church Comparing these views of the past transformation of the relationships that "Litany Candles" "Come In And Get Your Faith with today's, we realized that society connect individuals with their own 2. A music store window Lifted" has become more and more dependent selves, with one another and with the "Gone Chopin. Bach in a Minuet" 3. Watch Repair Shop 3. Amusement Park "If It Does'nt Tick, Tock To Us" "Children Under 14 Must Be 4. Dentist's Office KELLY FUNERAL HOMES Accompanied By Money and "Be True To Your Teeth Or They Daddy" Will Be False To You" 'e/Zu/ - Owner 4. Clothing Store, Bra Section 5. Body Shop "We Fix Flats" "May We Have The Next Dints?" 5. Divorce Lawyer All the above could be called a "Satisfaction Guaranteed Or Your Time of the Signs. Happy punning Honey Back" until next time. For some reason, some of the

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To obtain copies of the draft by-law, please call: Alta Vista Billings Bridge Blossom Park City of Ottawa, Information and Customer Service, 244-5444 Elmvale Acres Hunt Club Riverside Park or Greely Osgoode Manotick Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton, By-laws Administration Unit, 560-6001, ext. 1253 Gloucester Kars Nepean Comments should be received no later than January 31,1996. 235-6712 Canadian-Independent Ottawa-Carleton JANUARY 1996 § ™E OSCAR § PAGE 8 COMPOUNDING MAGIC OSCAR CONTEST ‘95 BY GERRY LEDUC Unless you’ve been living in a leave retirement saving “until later”. JUDGES’ CHOICE - POETRY cave for the last few years, The earlier you put money aside for you’ll know the Government future financial security, the better off IT’S. JUST NOT FAIR doesn’t have any more money to you’ll be when you take “normal” (eg. BY JAIME BOWEN (AGE 12) improve your future quality of life. The 65) retirement. Alternatively, you’ll be , , ,, you know better” clear message is you must take more in a better position for early retirement ou re the oldest, Y without risking financial security. matters into your own hands if you That's what my mom always says hope to not starve once you retire. Many individuals worry more about “You're bigger, stronger and tougher” Yet, many people consider getting money into an RRSP by the Is what my Dad repeats retirement financial security as one of deadline than about plan performance. It's always the same their least worries, something to But even a 1% rate can make a world As I try to explain “worry about later”. But a delay of difference in your retirement plans. That this time it Really wasn't me reduces the number of years you’ll Let’s go back to Bill and Mike. She bites me With a 10% rate, Mike increased his She kicks me have for your investments to grow. Let’s look at two individuals. Bill, retirement pool by 31% over what he She pinches really hard 19, decides to make regular RRSP would have had at 9%. But Bill’s And just like anyone else would do investments. For 8 years in a row he retirement funds are 49% larger than I simply defend myself they would have been at 9%. 8y giving her a little push invests $1,000 in an RRSP until he is 26. For whatever reason, he doesn’t The second lesson is: Be wary of Sometimes a little kick retirement fund performance over time. She stops and drops investment after that. His friend, Mike, Even a 1% improvement can make a And starts to cry also 19, decides not to worry about substantial difference when you retire. And what do my parents do? RRSPs so early in life. However, at 26, And it doesn’t cost any more to have They hug her, caress her Mike decides to make regular $1,000 contributions to an RRSP and does so your money work harder. And they give me that dirty look for 39 years. They both retire at 65. If you are not satisfied with your That tells me right away Bill invested $8,000 and Mike put return over the last few years, be pro- I'm grounded for a week away $39,000. If both earn an average active. Compare your investments All of a sudden she feels so much better annual compound rate of 10%, who do relative to similar investments over the And manages to laugh same period. If you conclude your As I sit there on the couch you think will have more money investment will likely not do as well as Doing absolutely nothing accumulated at 65? similar investments in the future, make Having a little sister or brother means Mike invested almost 5 times as Never Ever winning fights much as Bill, so you might well think a change before much more time elapses. Revenue Canada allows tax- And let me tell you this much he would be ahead of Bill. The fact is, It’s Just Not Fair!!! Bill got an early start and had the free transfers of RRSP funds from one benefit of more years compounding investment firm to another. magic working for him. Getting a better rate of return need By 65, Mike has almost $442,000 not entail taking more risk. Sometimes in his retirement fund. That’s an 11- you will get a better overall rate of fold increase on initial investment and return aid your money will be more will make a substantial difference to secure. his retirement life. However, Bill has Investors with a reasonable pool of For Your Information nearly $518,000. That’s close to a 65- RRSP funds should consider a Self- fold increase on his initial deposits! Directed RRSP which can offer a The lesson is: Prepare for a better greater range of investments and often retirement life. Get your money into an better overall rates of return in more RRSP early and leave it there. 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BY BILL TWATIO Ffulse, Playfair ÔC McGarry ROBERTSON DAVIES 1913-1995 Ptl of tjour (Community Since 1923 Novelist, playwright, sensitive child.” newspaper editor, critic, Decidedly unbroken, coping with I Master of Massey College, family would become a persistent Robertson Davies, like many of his theme in Davies' writing. It was a characters, had his roots in small-town family in which literature and language Ontario. What Duns tan Ramsay said of were treasured. Witty talk, superior Deptford in “Fifth Business”, applied gossip, favorite phrases from books, Sharon McGarry Brian McGarry President to Davies himself. “Though I left plays and songs graced his life. “All C.E.O. /Chair Deptford in the flesh, I recognize that I my life long,” he would recall, “reading Unique to the funeral profession in the Ottawa area is the husband and wife never wholly left it in the spirit.” He has been my great refuge and solace.” team of Brian and Sharon. Their partnership embraces the ownership and would make it a magical place, a That refuge and solace would be much management of what has become one of Canada’s foremost funeral firms, lasting part of Canadian mythology. needed when the family moved to Hulse, Playfair & McGarry. Fifty-eight full and part-time staff members He was bom on August 28, 1913, Renfrew after his father bought the are employed in the four funeral homes and chapels. the third son of Rupert and Florence weekly Renfrew Mercury. MacKay Davies, in Thamesville, a An outsider, bookish and The Firm’s Family Resource and Reception Centre, located at 328 McLeod Street, directly across from the Central Chapel offers "After Funeral Care" village in southwestern Ontario. Years unathletic, he was terrorized by his along with a bereavement resource base for schools, churches, community later, in the voice of Samuel classmates. This would lead to a organizations, palliative care teams and self-help groups. Marchbanks, he would recall the place: sensitivity to victims and a lifelong “There it all was: the house in distain for the lout. “I know the For further information regarding The Resource Centre, or to arrange a which I was bom, the church in which common man and he is not what speaker for your group, please telephone Tom Flood, Vice-President at I sucked ghostly wisdom from the people think,” he would write. “He is a 233-1143. knees of several Sunday School mean-spirited, low-minded, perverse teachers, the Tecumseth House Hotel, being who tortures animals and little Central Chapel West Chapel St. Laurent Memorial/ and - best of all - the Ferguson Opera boys.” A move to Kingston where his 315 McLeod St. 150 Woodroffe Ave. Chapel Simplicity Plan House in which, at the age of three, I father founded the Whig-Standard was at O’Connor at Byron 1200 Ogilvie Rd. 584 Somerset W. made my first appearance upon the a release. stage as an Isrealite child in an opera Although he would satirize father's papers and in 1942 was atonement set in a small Ontario town. about Queen Esther ... I saw two Kingston as Salterton, he felt a deep appointed editor of the Peterborough The New York Times described it as “a houses which, as a child, I believed to affection for the city, haunting the Examiner. Here he would launch his marvelously enigmatic novel ... be inhabited by witches, and the Pit - a Public Library and local amateur career as playwright and novelist and elegantly written and driven by an dreadful place on the edge of town, theaters. A passion for the theater cultivate the Davies persona, a irresistible narrative force”. Alexander believed in my youth to be a favorite would lead him to Oxford and the Old ritual-loving, bearded, eccentric Ross,writing in the Toronto Star, said haunt of German spies, who doubtless Vic where he would work with John Edwardian dandy. It was a persona he the book was “probably the finest wanted to blow up the local canning Gielgud, Vivien Leigh and Jack would perfect as Master of Massey 18th-century novel written in the factory. I found this Sentimental Hawkins, publish his thesis, College. Samuel Marchbanks, “roving 20th”. Davies was delighted by the Journey quite exhausting and returned “Shakespeare's Boy Actors” and marry reporter, book reviewer, art, music and remark. Anthony Burgess, who would to London in the shaky condition of a Brenda Matthews, an Australian stage drama critic, trained snoop and funny champion him for a Nobel Prize, wrote man who has had a good long look at manager. “I have never done any other man”, described his creator in The that “with Robertson Davies, the his past.” single thing that was so fateful for my Double Life of Robertson Davies. Canadian novel may at last claim to be Both parents were formidable happiness and well-being,” he noted. Davies, he claimed, was a mild, taken very seriously indeed”. The individuals. Rupert Davies, a Welsh “We have all of our life together been featureless, simple fellow. Manticore which won the immigrant, would become one of the enthusiastic advocates of marriage for “He is fawningly corteous; I am Governor-General's award, followed in most influential newspaper publishers people who deserve to be happy, and forthright He is mangled by self-doubt 1972 and World of Wonders in 1975. in Canada, a Liberal Senator and a man this is a much more numerous breed and criticism; I am untouched by these The trilogy is an intricate study of of considerable wealth. His mother was than pessimists suppose.” Marriage ridiculous ailments. He has a the lives of a handful of Deptford's pragmatic, tough-minded, and serious. based on friendship and respect would conscience as big as a grand piano; I residents as they grow from childhood Tyrone Guthrie would note in his also become one of his enduring have no more sense of obligation than to middle age becoming more and more introduction to Davies' first book of themes. a tomcat. He makes excuses for mysterious. Davies enlisted Jungian plays that “I have met his parents and When the Old Vic disbanded with everybody and tries to be charitable; I psychology as a device to move the testify, with sincere admiration, that the coming of war, Davies returned to know a boob or a phony when I see one plot and tossed in a mix of mysticism, both made an instantaneous impression Canada. After being turned down for and I see a great many. He is inclined magic, mythology and conventional of quite extraordinary force - forces military service, he began contributing to be moderate in pretty near religion. The Cornish trilogy - The that must either make or break a to Saturday Night magazine and his everything; I regard moderation as a Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone sign of physical or intellectual and The Lyre of Orpheus was weakness. He is just about everything completed in in 1986. which I detest; I am everything which In 1991, Robertson Davies he fears and seeks to avoid.” published Murther and Walking P.W.DE N Y rpm Davies was close to 60 when Fifth Spirits. He said it would be his last RES IDENTIAL Art for Business, the first novel in the book, but three years later The

BUILDING AND CONTRACTING Deptford trilogy, was published in Cunning Man appeared and promptly 1970. Until then, his few novels had became a bestseller. It is a magificent Personal Service By A Adults Qualified, Experienced, Insured sold well, but were dismissed as light farewell tour, a revisiting of the places Contractor / Lie Carpenter & Teens satires and the critics seldom had kind and themes we have come to know so A Warranty & References things to say about his plays. Now, he well. The work of a wise and good man lywii ’linn I 11 1 ^ swept into the first rank of Canadian who enriched our lives with a world of authors with his tale of guilt and wonders.

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BY CHRISTINA LASCELLES THOUGHTS BOOKSTORE The Rideau River brings Mary and her two grand- RICHARD OSTROFSKY pleasure to many of the daughters visited the island for five The fields of economics and • Inadvertent Climate Modifica- inhabitants of Old Ottawa consecutive summers. The group ecology need not oppose tion presents the results of the |South. Being in the middle crossed a small stretch of the river each other. For example, in Study of Man's Impact on of the city, the river has a surprising to reach the island. They waded |the used book business (an Climate, sponsored by the amount of wildlife. Herons, ducks, through the water wearing tennis enterprise of recycling), their Massachusetts Institute of beavers, and muskrats are shoes. interests coincide. Buying second- Technology. It is technical and commonly sighted along the water. hand books whenever possible One memorable incident cautious, and its major (self- makes good sense from both occurred when the three were serving) recommendation is the viewpoints, saving money and trekking across the island. Mary’s need for further study. forests at the same time. older granddaughter, Hope, was in • Charles A. Reich's The Greening the lead, and Mary was behind with of America was a manifesto that the younger girl, Alice. Suddenly, gave its name to a movement Hope stopped. Not far ahead stood a and era. It retains considerable Mary Brodie has been a resident huge blue heron. Without making a historic interest as a document of of Old Ottawa South since 1981. “the 60's”. sound, the magnificent bird lifted On the shelves of Second She lives within sight of the Rideau • Three Essays on Population, off the ground and flew away. Mary Thoughts Bookstore, economics River and has been enjoying it for a respectively by Thomas and the two girls watched in and ecology coexist in harmony. long time. Malthus, Julian Huxley and amazement as the heron soared We have a good selection of books overhead. Frederick Osborn, and Philip Sketching in both fields, and a few that Appleman's The Silent Explosion Mary, who is a trained artist, attempt to reconcile their counsel in provide useful overviews of the used to sketch from the river bank the areas where they clash. Of underlying problem - unlimited with her two granddaughters. The course, books in both fields are population growth. The latter Rideau River is a great source of always coming in and out of stock. book focuses on the politics of inspiration and offers many models But here is a partial list of the ones population control and on the of wildlife for artists. on our shelves at this writing. interests and ideologies that A short time later, when Mary oppose it. and her granddaughters were Ecology and Natural History Fishing • The Environmental Handbook, rounding a turn, they heard a loud • David Attenborough's Life on Fishing is a peaceful sport that edited by Garrett De Bell, is an hissing. A large male swan stood Earth (based on a BBC the Rideau River supports. Mary anthology of essays on issues with his long neck stretched out television series available on and her family can vouch for the and possible public responses towards them. He was protecting his video cassette) is a history of abundance of fish in the river. Her prepared for the first national family. Behind him was his mate, evolution, beautifully written grandson once caught thirty fish in a and illustrated, from one-celled environmental “teach-in” in single day. who was bathing in the water. An April 1970. enormous nest containing numerous energy-binding plants to “the large eggs was perched on a small compulsive communicators”- Ecologically Sound Industry and mound. Mary, Alice, and Hope anthropoid apes like ourselves. Renewable Resources backed away cautiously, not • Published in 1953, John H. • Our Common Future, the name wanting to anger the swans. Storer's The Web of Life is of the Brundtland World Nature Walks perhaps the classic “primer” of Commission's report on There is an island not far off the The Future the ecology movement. No book environment and development, north shore. It mainly consists of If we recycle and take care of I know of provides a clearer is the key policy document on bushes and weeds. The island is our environment, hopefully the picture of the mutual “sustainable development” that wild and hasn’t been touched by Rideau River will continue to dependence and fundamental is influencing governments at civilization. During early spring, a provide the residents of Old Ottawa unity of living organisms. the present time. lot of it is covered by water. But South with wonderful memories. • The Ecological Context by John • Soft Energy Paths by Amory B. when the water recedes in summer, More importantly, the river and its McHale, The Arena of Life by Lovins is the classic work on the a beautiful habitat appears for the banks will remain home to wild Lorus and Margery Milne, and possibility and advantages of numerous animals of the river. animals of this area. Principles of Ecology by Putnam reliance on “soft” and renewable and Wratten are introductory energy sources as opposed to textbooks in ecology. “hard” sources like oil and nuclear power. Planet Abuse • Approaching the Benign • The Closing Circle by Barry Environment by Buckminster Commoner, another classic of Fuller et al. is a collection of the movement, focuses on the three pollyanna-ish essays whose ecological limits of a general theme seems to be that technological society. we can save the world if we all • The Limits to Growth, the title of put our minds to it. the first report of the Club of • Wilson Clark's Energy For Rome, is a somewhat more authoritative treatment of the Survival is a valuable reference work on alternative energy same theme. sources. • Not So Rich As You Think by George R. Stewart and America • Approaching Free Energy by the editors of Rodale's New Shelter the Raped by Gene Marine are more polemical works on the gives an introduction to the technology of energy-efficient same topic. building. • The Fate of the Earth by We have a number of books in Jonathan Schell is a vivid related areas as well, and they account of the probable keep changing all the time. A consequences in the event of a good used bookstore is a major thermonuclear war. renewable resource. Rideau River west of Bank Street Bridge Photo by Judy Lascelles JANUARY 1996 § m OSCAR § PAGE 11

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ENVIRONMENT NEWS (Research by C.L. and M. L.) ECOS UPDATE nvironmental bibliophiles take note. Here are several recently BY JOHN BOND discovered treasures in Old A Happy New Year to everyone Future Direction Ottawa South’s Mother Tongue in Old Ottawa South (and In terms of direction for the Books store at 1067 Bank Street. beyond). future of the project, the major Now that our whitest of white issues were Christmases is slipping into the • limiting the number of cars that warm glow of memory, it is time to Displays manage to lay tire tracks across start thinking about spring and how Displays were mounted by a newly planted areas we can move forward with making number of groups, including the • making the area more friendly • Toxic Struggles: The Theory and our neighbourhood the model of 4-H Club, the City of Ottawa, the for canoeists (and, conversely, less Practice of Environmental “green” we all know it can be. Rideau Valley Conservation friendly to trailer-hitched, backed- Justice, edited by Richard I’m hoping that everyone who Authority, the Fletcher Gardens, into-the-water-with-the-help-of-a- Hofrichter, has a topical array of reads this made a resolution on ECOS, Muskies Canada, and the car motor boats) essays addressing issues such as January 1st to take the small steps Landowners Resource Centre. On a • erecting some interpretive signs environmental racism, eco- that will get us there over the next stroll around the Firehall that night, providing information on the plants feminism, occupational health year-small steps like planting a tree you could pick up information on and animals that inhabit the Pond and safety, and justice for Third on your property, taking a bike or everything from the Rideau River area World peoples. The book walking when you don’t really need watershed to how to build a bird Good ideas came up in all these presents a persuasive case to the car, or just stopping to notice feeder or identity a spawning regards and, hopefully, we will start consider alliances among how lucky we already are around Muskie. to see movement in all these disadvantaged groups to offset here with our trees and river and Brewer Pond Passion directions come spring. the predatory and polluting parks and how close Old Ottawa The passion of people for the As for ECOS, we intend to use behaviour of some unethical South already is to being a model Brewer Pond project was possibly the information and ideas presented corporations. environmental community. the strongest message to come out at the meeting to start developing • What is Nature? by Kate Soper of the meeting. It was expressed in educational material on Brewer explores different ways of BANK STREET these scheduled speeches: Pond and the area surrounding it. looking at nature and the place BEAUTIFICATION • Hedrik Wachelka talked about Hopefully, this will culminate in of the non-human in the world Maybe some of you have the Rideau River as a way to travel • an information poster on the order. This book is enhanced by noticed that there are a few through time and the seasons. project its effective treatment of the areas of our neighbourhood • Craig Murray-Hill looked at the • a valid inventory of the species politics of nature. that could use some work to get patterns of growing things. that inhabit the area • Healing the Wounds, edited by there. Bank Street for instance. • John Wright led us through the • material that will be useful to the Judith Plant, contains essays, The Region is planning to do potential the Brewer Pond area science programs at our local stories and poetry by various some work on Bank over the next holds and the care it deserves as we schools and our Scout, Guide, and authors who examine the several years, and this would be a plan the next steps. 4-H groups struggle for change and the need great opportunity to pick up on the • Mike Rosen of the Landowners All in all, we had a strikingly to build a sustaining community. groundwork laid at Chesley and Resource Centre skipped from slide successful meeting that provided This work demonstrates the Bank where planters have been put to slide of his presentation offering some real energy to the Brewer combined vision and energy of in place for spring tree planting. any help his office could provide to Pond project and some focus to our ecological and feminist this project. efforts. Thanks to everyone who perspectives. took part. We are planning a follow- The passion was probably • Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and up Open House sometime in the clearest though in the discussion Vandna Shiva vividly shows spring and will keep you posted as and comments of the people who how ecological destruction plans firm up. attended the meeting. If there was victimizes women - particularly Again, Happy new year to all. one group that was best represented, women in developing countries. Don’t forget those resolutions, it was the people in this The book illustrates how the especially the ones that relate to neighbourhood who spend the most making Old Ottawa South the ecofeminist movement mitigates A concerted “Bank Street time in the Pond area-the social against some of these problems. Beautification” project would make “greenest” community in the whole society of dog walkers, who have dang city ....province ....country • Animals and Women is edited by an A1 ECOS undertaking for the long been the eyes and ears of this ....world! Carol J. Adams and Josephine next couple of years, and several naturalization project. These are the Donovan and contains a people have already indicated an people who are there every day- fascinating collection of essays interest in the idea. If you would sometimes two or three times-and that clearly demonstrate the like to pitch in, please call either who immediately notice when a 4 similarities of attitudes towards Mike Lascelles (737-6480) or by 4 has been driving around the A SOURCE OF animals and women in our myself (730-1754), and we can start area or when the snapping turtles culture. These works make the dreaming in technicolour. laid their eggs. case that the social oppression of Art women reflects the way we view BREWER POND OPEN and abuse other species. HOUSE Bio RIBBON EXHIBITION n terms of ECOS’ biggest up- • Post-modernism and the I A JURIED EXHIBITION OPEN TO and-running project-the Brewer Environmental Crisis by Aaron ALL ARTISTS E. Gare lays out an interesting Pond Natural ization-we now argument that faults mainstream have lots of direction and at the gallery analyses - from conventional momentum to work with over the Carleton University Thurs Feb 1st to Sat Feb 17th thinking to Marxism - for failing next few years. The Public Meeting A number of Carleton University to recognize the causal link and Open house we hosted at the Environment students were also Entry Fee $5 per piece between globalized capitalism, Firehall in early December was a very present at the meeting, offering Delivery Date Jan 27, 1996 the fragmentation and dis- booming success with over 50 to help in any way they could. I For Details call 238-5908 integration of modem culture, participants and ideas and suspect Craig Murray-Hill will find information flowing as fast as and the ecological crisis that lots for them to do as the inventory A SOURCE OF ART GALLERY spring run-off in the Rideau River. of species gets underway. plagues us all. 99 Fifth Avenue Court Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5K4 JANUARJJ99^^H^SCAR^^AG^2 TAXES. TAXES. TAXES BY RICK SUTHERLAND here were many calls following your LSIF as an RRSP provides the November article on additional savings. 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If JANUARY 1996 § THE OSCAR § PAGE 13 OSCAR CONTEST ‘95 JUDGES’ CHOICE - SHORT STORY was easy to learn, I never saw what dreadful caricature, like the memory of DEAD MEAT happened afterwards. They came and a nightmare come back. Suddenly he they went, and Sol and I got fat. looked up and saw the sniggerers and BY PAMELA LEE MACRAE I never saw until I left the Club that he tried to straighten his cap, tried to ead meat”. That's what he'll some of the faces. And the yelling kids D night and waited for Sol to get the car. keep upright, tried to steady his hands. say when he comes through standing up in their seats, like as if It was snowing. The flakes bit at my Heroic, proud, useless gestures. He the door. And the diamond time'd stood still - but they were the face, and I pressed back against the weaved his way to the door, tugged, on his little finger will catch the light kids of the kids I'd known. I could pick window of a cafe. stood for a second as the windblown as he waves his hand ... his hand ... them out. That'd be Lil's, and that one The glass was steamy, but I could snow hit his face, then staggered out. short, stubby fingers, nicotine stains, Jack's, and ... no, nothing changed, a look through. No one was eating or He brushed past me unseeingly... and pappy palms. And the cigar smoke will different generation, but the same drinking. Three men with grubby Sol was tooting the hom. make a blue spiral up to the ceiling. blood... and the same Sol. aprons sat at the back playing cards. Slowly, painfully, I got in the car. I He'll stand there, feet apart, sure of He'd been twenty then, a street Two girls stood sniggering at the felt as if a dozen broken faces were himself. God. That's the way I want smart kid with blue suits and hand counter. I followed their eyes. And I pressing in on me, all I could hear was him, sure of himself. He'll take off his painted ties and always a girl hanging saw him. He wore a grey woollen hat the thud of gloves on flesh. This was clothes, slowly, then pull the pajamas around. Different girls, different and a cheap thin overcoat, and his blue my hell, and as I flinched I knew that over the fat ball of his stomach, and names, but always the same fat breasts trousers were tom. He didn't stop Sol should share it. roll in beside me. and big buttocks. Sol liked 'em that moving, not even to blow his nose. And so now I'm waiting. Waiting For four weeks I've planned and way. And me? I was skinny. And why While one hand fumbled with a dirty for Johnny to go. Waiting for Sol to schemed. I know what those muffled not? The Old Man in his room with a handkerchief, the other made come in. And if I should hesitate, if I voices mean. Johnny Carter's there, Sol bottle. But that didn't stop me. Or ineffectual passes at the air, and then should draw back ... I'll remember. let him in. Johnny's big, with dark, Charlie. Charlie was my brother. He backwards, forwards lightly ... lightly Remember the figure feinting and scarred eyes and a battered nose. was good to me. When he first started on the balls of his feet. A bom box ducking through the night before the Johnny Carter, Billy Turner, Sammy out in bum dives he always had fighter. Feinting with his left, jabbing snow closed in and hid him, hid my Rattigan. It doesn't matter, not to Sol. something, never mind how small the with his right, weaving, ducking. Just brother Charlie. Dead Meat Sol they call him. He purse. He'd talk about the great dresses an old punch drunk. Laugh... laugh... There are two. Two bullets. One for knows when a boy's through. And he'd buy, the condominium we'd have why didn't I laugh. It was like a Sol...and one for me. Dead meat. Johnny's through- From now on he in the centre of town. He was easy, was fights for the bookies. Sol's asking him Charlie. Ambitious ... but too kind ... to throw his next bout. He'll use him... they said he was dumb ... with the wide VIA RAIL OR BUSSED like a punch bag ... to train the other smile that started in his eyes, but BY EVAN WEBBER, GRADE 7 Johnny Carters. I know his tribe. Charlie wasn't dumb, he just couldn't often tavel to Toronto to visit my regular trip, sitting next to them is a Tough, hard bodies, broken faces, and go in for the kill. relatives and though I used to bad idea however. (I once sat next to a underneath soft, bewildered, a bunch of Ring craft, Sol had it, and he gave enjoy the refinements of the train, man who spoke to insects, suffice to sports page clippings in a drawer, a Charlie the in he needed. Sure, he'd I'm now forced to endure the dreaded say, I got no rest and was thoroughly bunch of dreams about the things their manage Charlie, a dead cert to pay off. bus. Inevitably the buses are packed unsettled by the time I stepped down fists will buy them. But I learned not to Big talk. Sol came round to the house with gaunt university types and on the platform.) care. Sure, one of them might come out and when he did he looked my way, screaming hordes of unaccompanied People who think they are things on top, that was cool - for Sol and me even if my buttocks were tiny and minors, all ruthlessly employing every are a definite no-no. 1 once offered a - the kid's purse'd be carved up good round and hard. Sol said he liked 'em trick in the book to get their own row man a potato chip only to have him and plenty. that way. So, I was wrong. Charlie of seats. Here are some helpful hints run, hissing to the bathroom. As it I forgot ... so much, soft living didn't like me moving in with Sol, but for the unseasoned traveler: turned out, he thought he was an makes it easy. That was until four who was he to say, I'd waited too long Always count the lineups. People undead zombie, who as we all know weeks ago. I took a run down East with for the only kind of liberation that I will stare at you but pay them no heed. "die" on conact with salt. Sol, to a boys' club - a boxing bout - knew, the kind that money buys. No bus can hold more than fifty The buses themselves are Sol often found a likely there. Case Sol taught me. Taught me to use people, and it's worth going to the end important. Stay away from sixties hardened kids, battering each other everyone, even my own brother. of the line to get your own seat. relics; whoever thought that orange and round the ring - no bloody, puckered Taught me to value the dollar above (They'll bring a new bus for the next brown were contrasting colors? Some faces now - all regulation helmets, but everything. And I learnt fast. Learnt to horde.) of the newer buses have TV sets on the same little apes out of the same city be tough, learnt to stand and watch The aisle seat is always better than which they show movies. Headsets cost jungle. Charlie, Charlie dumb, honest, fighting the window. Not only do you get to go three dollas a-piece so it's worth Directly I got in I remembered. on his knees, reeling, falling, but going to the bathroom when you want but lugging along the old walkman. They'd changed the name, but the place on because that was his way. Learnt you can chose who you sit next to. Well, those are the words of a was the same. I looked around at the not to ask what became of him, if he Crazy people; they actually add seasoned bus traveler. See you on the men and the few odd women. I knew had money, if he was making out. It excitement to the monotony of a train... SUNNYSIDE F R FFHOT n TOWNHOMF.S FROM 1 4 Q Q00 JANUARY 1996 § ™E OSCAR § PAGE 14 STATE OF THE ARTS How to Please your Business Customers... Decorating with Flair on a Tight Budget by Rhoda Walker (Art Lending of Ottawa)

You are sitting in a waiting room - make a choice of any size work waiting for your turn or for your from large lobby-size pieces to offspring to finish a lesson. The small , intimate pieces for tight NightHowl magazines all look like they are spaces. Oils, watercolours, acrylics, years old and you've read them on pastels, coloured pencils, pen and your last visit. Your eyes begin to inks, original monoprints, collages Weird, off-beat and unconventional new theatre works rove around the walls. Surprise — and sculptures provide a wide the paintings have changed since selection choice. All NightHowl shows follow regularly scheduled GCTC productions on Friday your last visit. These new works and Saturday evenings. seem very interesting. A closer look The works of art you choose may reveals they are all original works even have been produced by an Passive of art. There is an assortment of artist who lives and works in you watercolours, oils, acrylics and neighbourhood. Renters and pastels. The long wait now turns business people from Ottawa South, Cut, Resistance into real enjoyment for the eyes and the Glebe and central Ottawa will soul. This office management has find works by Susan Gillmor, Anne April 12, 13 ,19, 20, 26, 27, 1996 February 16, 17, 23, 24, March 1 & been visiting Art Lending of Remmer Thompson, Suzette 2, 1996. Ottawa. MacSkimming, Joyce Neale, David Follow one man as he searches for his MacLeod, Rosemary Scragg and true purpose in life... and he doesn't Ever wonder what happens to those Do you business people who have Bill Salter to name a few. Quite and give a damn who he annoys along the extraneous characters which have waiting rooms realise you can eclectic group of artists to suit way! been axed from the classics? They've change the paintings on your walls anyone's taste. been Cut, but have managed to regularly? Art Lending of Ottawa (a survive in a literary sort of way. non-profit organization that has Art Lending's rental day takes place Shakespeare's been in business for 25 years) offers on the third Tuesday of every month Tickets are $8 general admission and a monthly rental service to all (except July, August and $4 for NightHowl members. For more citizens and businesses from Ottawa December), in the Unitarian Church Interactive specific NightHowl information call and the valley. The works, all Hall, 30 Cleary Ave. (off Richmond Barry Caplan at 236-5196 Monday to originals, created by professional Rd.) in the West end of Ottawa, Fridays from 12-6pm. Circus (3) Ottawa and area artists, are Drop in next Tuesday, January 16 available for rent by the month or between 10:00am and 9:00pm to May 17, 18, 24, 25, 31 & June 1, for sale if you and your customers pick out some new art work at 1996. cannot live without the pieces of art. reasonable rental rates for your office walls. Your customers will The Fools are back performing their When you visit art lending, you can Thank you. unique brand of Shakespeare in an interactive setting. Catch them while you can, they may be too big for NightHowl next year!

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Oiviuq: a Legend in Art Good Books Help Pass the Time in the Dead of Winter Qiviuq is an Inuit hero whose exploits Maree Brooks, received by the have long been recounted by Gallery over the last three years.; The long month of January has our monthly meetings. Books storytellers in the North. He is a arrived. We have two months of that everyone agrees on which are wanderer - a powerful shaman able to Gibson sorted through these donated snowy cold weather ahead of us and few and far between, provide for transform himself and escape works, researching and cataloguing apart from a few pleasant ski trips, deadly dull meetings. unscathed from life-threatening the two- and three-dimensional or a skate on the canal, there is situations. pieces. She then grouped the Qiviuq nothing better I can think of to do Choosing books for the upcoming images together with written text than to curl up in front of the book club year is an easy task and it Unlike their story telling counterparts, from the stories, both to re-create the fireplace with a good book. I gets easier because as our children Inuit artists have only recently begun legend cycle and to give the viewer a already have my short list of grow older, we have time to read visually interpreting the Qiviuq deeper undertstanding of the visual authors to choose from. more than just book club selections. legends. material at hand. Most of the books chosen have been It is with this in mind that Jennifer Qiviuq: a Legend in Art will be on Choosing a good book is not always read and enjoyed by one or more of Gibson, a masters student in the display at the Carleton University Art easy because, when you walk into the twelve members. We limit our university's art history program, put Gallery until January 21, 1996. The the library or a book store, there is number to twelve because that together this exhibition of prints and Gallery is open to the public 12pm to so much to choose from it is often seems to be a comfortable number sculpture, entitled Qiviuq: A Legend 7pm, Tuesday through Friday, and confusing. What you really need is for our living rooms. We take turn in Art. The works come from a large 12pm to 5pm on weekends. an author's name to get you started. hosting the meetings and presenting donation of Inuit art from the Admission is free. I often ask friends who and what the books. collection of Dr. Priscilla Tyler and they have read lately. The best sellers lists in the newspapers are Four of my favorite books over the another good source. past year, the kind you hate to see come to an end, are "The Shipping One of my best sources is my book News" by E. Annie Proulx, "Animal club which meets monthly during Dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver, the school term. I often read books "The Bridges of Madison County" for my book club which I would not by Robert Waller and "Cold Sassy otherwise have chosen but some of Tree" by Olive Anne Bums. These them have been the most interesting were all a good read. I look stories I have ever read. Often the forward to reading more books from books we read don't suit everyone these authors over the rest of the but it is these books that provide the winter. most interesting discussions at HAVliii Lenny Graf ==E=THUTKt ■: Sunday, January 21 at 2pm Centrepointe Theatre DOUBLE BILL-2 FILMS fori PRICE ® 730-3403 ADMISSION MEMBERSHIPS^ 7.00 Singer/songwriter and impressionist VAUD roR 12 24 HOUR INFO LINE $5.00 Members MONTHS Lenny Graf makes his Centrepointe a nn MEMBERS PAY ONLY SS.OO S/2Ü "°JVnemberS CARD=$7. + TTCKET=$5. Family Fair debut along with his $3.50 children & seniors 13tm 65SOVK hilarious Noise & Gadgets Machine. Graf is the only Canadian to ever BUCK OFF. Members $1.00 Off TUI I have. three 'top ten' singles on SUN MON TUESDAYS WEDNESDAY only I HU FRI SAT American children's radio. Since 10:38 11:10 10 26 10 10:55 10:51 JBN. 14 JAN. 15 JAN. 16 1 JAN. 17 10:26 JAN. 18 :50 JAN. 19 JAN. 20 Lenny likes sports, our post-show 7:00 7100 Leonardo DiCaprio 7:00 feWfe-ad 7:00 EH Both nights at :7:20 NICOLE KIDMAN activities will centre around fitness. I FOR LOVE FOR FREEDOM TO DIE FOR Call 727-6650 for tickets. Att thm wontmd wat a ttfU attention. BET SHORTY (js« btl ties I MEL ’GIBSON <3!!I»9:10 >9:05 gaSSa 9:05 Bill IUIUI ma Judy and BRAVEHEART THE MYSTERY 0< THE USUAL One show per night gjgia SUSPECTS David 10:51 JAN. 21 JAN. 22 10:44 JAN. 23 10:40 JAN. 24 10:29 JAN. 25 10:40 JAN. 26 11:30 JAN. 27 L— J»— HETIOOCIS 7: 7:00 Holly Hunter . NEESON LANGE 0 Sigourney Wearer Sunday, February 18 at 2pm Centrepointe Theatre 422b 9:35 fegsJ

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Our 25) with Robertson Davies, a much Bank as the "price of admission". basement area is set up as a member's beloved Canadian writer, recently lounge and reading room, but also as a deceased. Other names, suggested by facility for public discussions, casual the participants, will be scheduled for presentations and fun. Depending on discussion on subsequent evenings. What's On at the nature of the event, it will Several of our female members accomodate up to about 14 people. have expressed interest in a Women's Now that the store itself is starting to Night. Accordingly, beginning January BOOKSTORE function, it's time to get that basement 23, Carol invites women interested in off the ground. discussing matters of interest from Tuesdays: Women’s Night - coffee and talk The space needs a name, and rights to recipes to join her for coffee (Starting Jan. 23) several possibilities have been and talk on Tuesday evenings. If the Wednesdays: Post-Modern Government - Open Discussion suggested. One neighbour proposed interest exists, I would gladly host a (Starting Jan. 24) up “Foundation” because of the stone similar evening for men. Thursday: Favourite Authors Night - Robertson Davies ’ (Jan. 25 — Favourite Authors discussion on last Thursday of each month) walls, then decided he preferred Finally, starting January 24, we are “Afterthoughts”~as a second aspect of inviting people who share our interest All events start at 8 pm and end about 10; Refreshments Available Second Thoughts. While both these in public affairs to a serious bull- $2 admission charge for non-members (No charge on women’s night) names are good possibilities, neither session each Wednesday evening. Watch our Bulletin Board for Other Events! hits the spot. 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