Summer deadlines The summer issue of OSCAR will be pub- lished during the middle of July. There will be no August issue. The deadline for OSCAR the September issue will be August 10. Please send material for inclusion in the Ottawa South Community Association Review September issue to The Old Fireball, 260 Sunny side Avenue, Ottawa, K1S 0R7. Volume 16 Number 9 June 1989 Soviet-Canadian Peace Train concert a great success by Rosemary Fitzpatrick spends much time interpreting tradi- tional Russian folk music which he Last month I had the pleasure of performs on guitar. He has three al- going to one of the most entertaining bums to date, the most recent featur- benefits I’ve ever attended. It was ing folk songs and ballads. hosted by the Peach Train Founda- Podbolotov wooed the crowd of tion on May 3 and featured Ottawa’s about 700 at the Ottawa Civic own singing policeman, Dominic Centre. The audience appeared mes- D’Arcy, and Soviet folk singer merized as his voice echoed through Alexander Podbolotov. The concert the salons. was the first joint venture of its type. Dominic D’Arcy says the evening The Peace Train Foundation is a proved that music is an international Canadian charitable organization language. Appearing with D’Arcy dedicated to changing East-West was Rosario Ruane who came from relations from confrontation to co- Galway, Ireland seven months ago. operation through collaborative In Ireland she was well known singer projects and exchanges in areas of in the castles and top Irish dancer for mutual interest such as health care, seven years. Also performing that the environment, Third World evening was Sneezy Waters, familiar Some of the brownies from the 5th Ottawa Pack try on the development, education and many to many Ottawans. The backup band firefighters’ helmets on their recent visit to Fire Station No. 10 others. Proceeds from this particular that provided support to all per- to deliver food for the Food Bank. event will go towards the Peace formers. Called “Off Duty” by D’Arcy, Train’s fellowship programme which it consisted of well known musicians. each year sends four students to They included Ted Gerow from the study in Moscow and Leningrad. Five Man Electrical Bank, Brian Perley Hospital Foundation formed D’Arcy, who sees himself as a Lewicki from the Old Esquires, peace officer who also promotes co- Lindsay Lyon from Vancouver and The Perley Hospital has announced In March, 1988, the federal and operation rather than confrontation, James McCreavy. the incorporation of The Perley provincial governments agreed to says it was a pleasure working with The highlight of the evening was Hospital Foundation. negotiate the transfer of the manage- the Peach Train. He had visited the when all performers together sang a The co-ordination and expansion ment of the Rideau Veterans’ Home Soviet Union in 1988, a trip partly Russian song, “Kalinka” with Pod- of all fundraising needs of both the to The Perley Hospital and to finance sponsored by the Foundation, and bolotov, and he then joined them in current facility and the future re- jointly the construction of a new long- participated in the International performing “When the Saints Come quirements of the new health care term rehabilitation facility. The Folk Arts Festival Camp in Moscow. Marching In” and “He’s Got The complex to be constructed on Smyth Foundation plans to raise the neces- Benefit organizers were pleased Whole World in His Hands”. Road in the early 1990s is a necessity sary additional revenue from the to learn that one of their four choice Holly Beamish of the Peach Train for the re-development programmes community. performers, Podbolotov was able to said the foundation was most pleased of The Perley Hospital. Through the generosity of severa' rearrange his schedule for the ap- with the performance. To date it is The newly formed Foundation donors, the Foundation office is pearances. one of their most successful will organize and manage a com- equipped with a computer and a FA> , Alexander Podbolotov has been fundraisers for the organizations. prehensive resource development machine which provide the necessarj described by many as a cross between She also added Podbolotov was a real program which seeks supplementary tools to operate an organized and ef Pavarotti and Bruce Springsteen. He pleasure to have perform for their revenue for capital expansion, equip- fective fundraising programme. trained in opera at the Moscow group and noted he has written and ment needs, expanded patient The Perley Hospital Foundatior University and sang as a soloist with recorded song for the Peace Train programs, education and research, office is located in Room 210 of th( the Stanislavskii Opera Theatre at which they hope to have recorded and an endowment fund for the Residence Building of The Perle} the Moscow Conservatory. He now professionally in the Soviet Union. Perley Hospital. Hospital, 43 Aylmer Avenue. Peter Rabbit and friends on stage at Lady Evelyn Peter Rabbit, Flopsy, Mopsy and volved in writing the programme McGregor’s garden, found math more for siblings, and students from Car Cottontail took over Lady Evelyn synopsis, planning and preparing the fun when they were adding and sub- leton Preschool, and Mutchmo. Primary Alternative School during programme design, estimating the tracting carrots, onions and radishes. School, and then two evenings show: April as the children prepared for the number of tickets, measuring and The seven and eight year olds followed for parents, grandparent: Peter Rabbit Operetta. Right up to making scenery, and assisting each wrote their own screenplays and and assorted aunts, uncles am opening night on May 3, and for a other during rehearsal. The younger filled their journals with rehearsal friends. week after, the halls were filled with ones helped in. costume design and notes. And of course reading time was Parents are a notoriously uncriti songs, dances and bustling furry making scenery. spent discovering and rediscovering cal audience, but even the friend creatures. Peter Rabbit was not restricted to Beatrix Potter’s stories. who came out of kindness foum The students threw themselves the stage, but found his way into The peak of the excitement was, themselves enchanted with the sh; into every aspect of theatre produc- every class. The kindergarten of course, during the three perfor- vegetables, stem Mr. McGregor, am tion. The older children were in- children, who play vegetables in Mr. mances. The first matinee was put on mischievous Peter Rabbit. OSCAR June 1989 O SCA notes Getting around in style by David Webber program including a planned mini by Mary Morrow twice-a-week Luncheon Club soccer tournament for the early sum- (referred to as Wheels to Meals). SPORTS AND RECREATION. mer. Thank you Peter. Glebe Centre, the local multi-service Potential diners who are unable to Spring was a long time coming this A big thank you to all the other centre for seniors, has recently ac- use public transportation are called year. Winter seemed unwilling to let coaches and assistants and other quired a brand new van with a num- for. The timing of the return trip is go of its icy grasp. And then it was volunteers involved. And a big thank ber of state of the art features. flexible so that guests may take ad- here. T ball starting up in the grass you to some of the wives for their One of the most important fea- vantage of social activities. Usually yard at Hopewell, and soccer down in patience and forebearing. Thank you ture is a hydraulic lift which will ex- the van is ready to take the diners Brewer Park. There seem to be more Penny and Maggie ! tend use to people with walkers or home again at about 2:30 children around this year than last. We are very pleased to have a wheelchairs. Also included are large The van also serves the residents All of the OSCAR outside sports sponsor for the soccer program. The tinted windows and air conditioning. of Glebe Centre and the members of programs are bursting and bustling. Halifax Group has given a very Expanded seating will permit twelve Abbotsford House for recreational On Tuesdays and Thursdays there generous contribution to help soccer passengers and two in wheelchairs, purposes, such as day-trips into the are usually six soccer games going on in Ottawa South. or, with the removal of seats, ten pas- countryside or shorter trips to points down at Brewer Park. This is the first sengers and four in wheelchairs. of interest in the city. year that we have had the use of one DEVELOPMENT Abbotsford House uses this The Abbotsford House com- of the real soccer pitches by the rink. Many people were very surprised to vehicle in a number of programs. It munity owes a great debt to the It is a little less bumpy than the patch read in the Citizen a couple of weeks is used for a bi-monthly shopping ex- anonymous donor who made the pur- of green next to the children’s ago that the City of Ottawa have cursion, which involves picking up chase of this vehicle possible. She has playground. Saturday morning soc- spent $3,000,000 to purchase an seniors in their homes in the com- served the Glebe Centre and Abbots- cer with the 5 and 6 year olds is apartment block in Ottawa South in munity and driving them to ford House community for many refreshingly different. I often lose the order to turn it into affordable hous- McKeen’s I.G.A. on Bank Street. years. The community is deeply complete defensive line when they go ing.