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Article rank 22 Mar 2012 Ottawa Citizen DAVID REEVELY [email protected] ottawacitizen.com/ greaterottawa One case of salmonella reported at Merivale High

Ottawa’s public health department has recorded a case of salmonella in a high school not served by the caterer believed to have been the source of the recent outbreak, it reported in a midday update Wednesday. The case at Merivale High School may be an instance where an older student caught salmonella from a younger sibling, said Eric Leclair, a spokesman for the health department. The tally of people who’ve contracted the food-borne illness since the department declared an outbreak remains at 50, though only 44 of them are believed to be connected via contaminated food delivered by a franchise of The Lunch Lady, a service that delivers hot food for children’s lunches. The health department is still waiting for the results of lab tests on Lunch Lady food — meat used in lasagna and tacos, plus sour cream, cottage cheese and some spices — that would confirm the connection. Those are now expected by Friday, Leclair said. Infections seem to be tapering off, Leclair said, but the Merivale case is a sign of the “echo” that usually comes after an initial outbreak. Victims with lab-confirmed cases of salmonella connected to the outbreak include 40 children and four adults. The department has a general information line at 613580-6744 for anyone with questions. Besides a Kanata daycare called Tiny Hoppers, the schools where children have become sick with confirmed salmonella cases are: ❚ Bayview Public School ❚ Castlefrank Elementary School ❚ Ecole élémentaire publique Des Sentiers ❚ Ecole élémentaire catholique Jean-paul II ❚ Merivale High School ❚ St. Andrew Catholic Elementary School ❚ St. Gregory Catholic Elementary School ❚ St. James Catholic Elementary School ❚ St. Jerome Catholic Elementary School ❚ Steve Maclean Public School ❚ Stittsville Public School ❚ Turnbull Academy ❚ W.O. Mitchell Elementary School

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Classement de l'article 22 mars 2012 L'Express Ottawa Georges Tamba Bourses d’excellence à quatre congolais de La Cité collégiale

L’éducation et l’avenir de la jeunesse préoccupent les dirigeants de la Communauté congolaise d’ottawa-gatineau. Le président de cette organisation, André Ntela, l’a affirmé vendredi 16 mars, au 435, Boulevard SaintLaurent, à l’occasion de la cérémonie de remise de premières bourses d’excellence à quatre membres de sa communauté. Les lauréats, Grace Ngwaka, Aridia Bipendu Ngolo, Jean-jacques Misongi Mwanga et leur doyen Jean Hubert Lupaya sont tous étudiants à La Cité collégiale dans divers programmes notamment en Soins dentaires, Informatique et autres. Ils ont reçu chacun un chèque de 500 $ en guise d’encouragement. «Nous avions mis en place, en 2011, un Fonds de bourses qui sera permanent et dont le but est d’aider nos jeunes à aller de l’avant, accompagner leurs efforts aux études pour qu’ils soient compétitifs demain sur le marché du travail», a expliqué M. Ntela. Cette initiative, qui commence avec La Cité collégiale, devra s’étendre aux étudiants congolais d’autres institutions collégiales et universitaires de la région, a-t-il poursuivi. Témoins de l’événement, le député d’ottawaVanier, Mauril Bélanger, le président de la Fondation de La Cité collégiale, Luc Lapensé et Ngina Matondo, gestionnaire à Revenu Canada et une des notabilités de cette communauté francophone ont tous salué ce geste. Ils ont demandé aux bénéficiaires d’être des porteparoles du Fonds de bourses afin de motiver les autres étudiants à obtenir de bonnes notes. La communauté congolaise se fixe comme objectif, à court terme, de «donner dix bourses de 1 000 $» d’ici trois ans aux jeunes de différentes institutions. Le fonds ainsi créé est financé à 50% par la communauté congolaise elle-même, au travers de son Gala annuel. La différence, vient du gouvernement de l’ontario. «Nous vous rappelons que le fond de bourse de la communauté congolaise a actuellement un montant de 11 400 $», a dit M. Ntela. Au courant de l’année 2012, la communauté congolaise offrira cinq autres bourses de 500 $ aux meilleurs étudiants congolais de La Cité collégiale.

Elle s’apprête à organiser son deuxième gala de l’année, prévu samedi 2 juin, au Centre National des arts.

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Classement de l'article 22 mars 2012 L'Express Ottawa Benjamin Vachet [email protected] L’abbé Gérald Lafrenière s’éteint à 83 ans Église St-joseph d’orléans

L’assistant curé des paroisses St-joseph d’orléans et Notre-dame-des-champs de Navan, Gérald Lafrenière, est décédé samedi 10 mars, à l’âge de 83 ans.

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Photo : Courtoisie Archidiocèse d’ottawa L’abbé Gérald Lafrenière de l’église St-joseph d’orléans est décédé le samedi 10 mars dernier.

Les funérailles de l’abbé Lafrenière se sont déroulées dans son église à Orléans, mercredi 14 mars, où les fidèles ont été nombreux à venir lui rendre un dernier hommage. Parmi eux, l’abbé Daniel Berniquez, vicaire épiscopal de l’archidiocèse d’ottawa a bien connu M. Lafrenière. «C’était un homme bon et très préoccupé par les autres. Il trouvait toujours du temps pour aider et rendre service, un peu comme dans son métier, assureur, où il était déjà associé au souci des autres».

L’abbé Lafrenière a connu un parcours atypique au sein de l’archidiocèse d’ottawa. Bien qu’ayant trouvé sa vocation dès son plus jeune âge, la maladie l’a empêché de poursuivre ses études au petit séminaire. Marié à Gisèle Viau et père d’un fils, il a donc fait carrière dans le domaine des assurances, mais ne s’est jamais détourné de l’église, devenant diacre permanent en 1978. «L’abbé Lafrenière a connu un parcours exceptionnel en ce sens qu’il a toujours officié à l’église St- joseph, que ce soit comme diacre ou ensuite comme prêtre, ce qui est très rare aujourd’hui. Il suffit de voir le monde qui est venu à ses funérailles. Il a marqué la communauté à travers toutes les générations, notamment grâce à son engagement auprès des scouts. Les gens voulaient lui dire «Merci!» et je pense que lui-même les remercierait car il s’est toujours dit très reconnaissant du soutien de ses paroissiens». Ordonné prêtre à 80 ans

M. Lafrenière a repensé à son rêve après le décès de son épouse, le 26 août 2007. Encouragé par cette dernière avant qu’elle ne s’éteigne et par les prêtres qui le connaissaient, il a formulé une demande auprès de l’archidiocèse d’ottawa qui a entendu sa requête.

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22 mars 2012 Le Droit CHARLES THÉRIAULT [email protected] [email protected] L’UPA veut faire fuir les bernaches pour protéger les cultures

Les agriculteurs de la région de l’outaouais auront droit à une meilleure protection contre les ravages faits par les bernaches lors de leur migration printanière. L’union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) de l’outaouais et des Laurentides a annoncé le début prochain d’une opération d’effarouchement des bernaches (aussi appelées outardes) dans la Petite- nation, dans la Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) des Collines et dans le Pontiac. Durant cinq semaines, des « chasseurs » munis de fusils de départ (sans munitions) se promèneront dans les champs cultivés où s’arrêtent les bernaches et tireront des salves pour les effrayer. Selon l’upa- outaouais-laurentides, ces grands oiseaux mangent des grains de maïs et de luzerne et de jeunes pousses fraîches, ce qui peut causer des dommages importants aux cultures. Chaque année, en avril et mai, on compte quelque 50 000 bernaches qui s’arrêtent quotidiennement dans les champs de la région de l’outaouais, notamment à Plaisance, en route vers le nord du Canada, où elles passent l’été. Elles s’arrêtent aussi au retour, à l’automne, mais causent moins de dommages aux cultures à ce moment-là. Selon Vincent Robillard, de l’upa-outaouais-laurendides, six personnes ont été formées pour effaroucher les bernaches. Bernaches résidentes Le porte-parole de la CCN, Jean Wolff, a indiqué qu’il n’est pas question d’utiliser la méthode de L’UPA dans le cas des bernaches résidentes. En laissant pousser l’herbe dans certains parcs riverains, en installant de petites clôtures le long des cours d’eau et en plaçant des installations sonores pour les effaroucher sur les plages, la CCN espère créer des conditions moins favorables à la croissance des troupeaux de bernaches.

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Article rank 22 Mar 2012 Ottawa Citizen Mariana Ionova, The Ottawa Citizen Public Health to inspect Broadview School

Ottawa Public Health will inspect Broadview Public School after a report suggested the building may be plagued by hazardous materials like asbestos, mercury and lead-based paint. Earlier this month, the Ottawa Carleton District School Board presented the school’s parent council with a report that called for $7.5 million in repairs to the building. The report outlined issues like asbestos, exposed wires, deteriorating walls in the gym, plumbing problems, and heating and ventilation issues. The board identified $1.35 million of these repairs as urgent. The report and numerous complaints from parents prompted Kitchissippi Councillor Katherine Hobbs, who sits on the city’s health board, to request the inspection. “I wanted to make sure that any children that are going to school here in Ottawa are in a safe situation,” Hobbs said. “If there is a health concern, children should not be going to school in that building.” Public health has yet to set a date for the inspection but it has been in touch with the board to schedule a time. Inspectors will check for substances like mould, asbestos and mercury, according to Sherry Beadle, program manager for Ottawa Public Health. Meanwhile, parents think the school is past the point of repair and want to see it totally rebuilt, according to Liz Burgess, co-chair of the school’s parent council. “We don’t believe it’s a wise spending of scarce capital funding trying to fix up a building that really needs to be torn down. It’s not meeting the needs of the students and it’s not an easy building to fix.” The school has been flooded seven times in six years and also had to be closed for repairs after a minor fire last fall. Burgess said teaching is interrupted in these situations because the children have to be relocated for weeks while the school struggled with repairs and disturbed asbestos. “It makes any repair quite lengthy and very, very expensive, working within this old, failing building,” she said. “A lot of these issues are actually impacting our kids through the loss of teaching time.” Implementing the $7.5 million in repairs suggested by the board would cost approximately half of the total price tag of rebuilding the school. Last year, the OCDSB received $16 million for repairs from the provincial government, which was prioritized and divided among 147 schools.

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Article rank 22 Mar 2012 Ottawa Citizen MATTHEW PEARSON Board urged to work together School funding issues pits neighbourhoods against each other, trustee say

Trustees should work together and with provincial MPPS to address the challenging capital needs facing Ottawa’s largest school board, urged a Kanata school representative Wednesday, as trustees began the tricky task of prioritizing where to spend limited capital dollars. “Dividing among ourselves is not going to work and we need to stop doing that immediately,” said trustee Cathy Curry. Her sentiments were shared by several other Lynn Scott. The west-end trustee said the Ottawa-carleton District School Board must find a way to advocate for its capital needs city-wide without pitting neighbourhoods against each other. She said it’s discouraging for school communities previously named as a priority to be pushed aside in favour of another project, particularly if it’s because of lobbying efforts from specific groups. Scott echoed south Ottawa trustee trustees, including Mark Fisher’s call for the board to adopt a multi-year plan for addressing capital needs, but added the provincial education ministry needs its own multi-year plan. Several trustees also spoke in favour of creating separate lists that identify the different types of needs, separating requests for brand new schools from those in need of major repairs. Earlier in the night, dozens of parents packed the sweltering board room for the business services committee meeting, where trustees discussed a staff report about the OCDSB’S capital priorities. Many in attendance wore “Build a Better Broadview” buttons and came out to support the school council’s demand for a complete re-build, instead of a major renovation, which OCDSB staff are recommending. The Westboro school requires about $7.5 million in repairs, roughly half the cost of a building a new school, the parents say.

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Article rank 22 Mar 2012 Ottawa Citizen Money: 2,000 spaces needed

But Mike Carson, the board’s superintendent of facilities and planning, said totally replacing Broadview “is probably not in the cards.” Liz Burgess, co-chair of the Broadview school council, said afterward her group’s campaign for a new school will stay the course. “That is our plan,” she said, adding parents will also “put the heat on the province.” Others in the audience raised questions about the board’s capital priorities in Kanata, Barrhaven, Carleton Heights and Sandy Hill, where OCDSB staff are recommending that Viscount Alexander Public School be removed from the current priorities list. The Mann Avenue elementary school was approved in January 2011 for a permanent addition, but OCDSB staff now say portables could solve the problem in the shortterm. But, in a presentation to trustees, the school council urged trustees to preserve Viscount Alexander’s place on the priorities list. “We know there are other schools that need a lot more money, but we’d like to stay on the list,” said Cristine Elrick, the council’s chair. Parents from Carleton Heights Public School asked what steps the OCDSB has taken to address the necessary upgrades at the school since it was placed on the capital priorities list last year. Carson replied that the OCDSB learned in December that the Education Ministry did not approve funding for the work and said the board would instead have to use its own reserves in order to complete it. The OCDSB projects a shortage of more than 2,000 elementary school student spaces by 2015 in at least one part of the city and highlights the tricky balance Ottawa’s public school board must strike when building new schools and renovating older ones with the limited cash provided by the province. The problem is compounded by the board’s $380-million infrastructure backlog and the concerns of staff and trustees alike not to pit one part of the city against another in a grudge match for better schools. The provincial Education Ministry requires school boards provincewide to provide business cases for capital projects, which include building new schools or additions in fast-growing suburbs and rebuilding or renovating schools in older parts of the city. Of the 15 projects on the January 2011 capital priorities list, the province has provided funding to build a new school in the Chapman Mills area of Barrhaven. Trustees must make final decisions about the capital priorities next month.

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Article rank 22 Mar 2012 Ottawa Citizen Teaching critical thinking

Re: Science class should make students think, March 18. There is no doubt that the teaching of science could be considerably improved, as could many other cognitive skills which should be taught to students, including how to think. But that does not seem to be the goal of the majority of schools. Most teaching seems to be centred on knowledge accumulation, rather than knowledge manipulation. This seems to start early on in elementary schools, speeds up in high school, and hits its peak in post-secondary education. The ability to manipulate knowledge, assess it, measure it, criticize it, is a difficult ability to acquire, and so it is not generally taught. Teaching critical thinking is tremendously difficult, hence it is generally ignored. In his column, Tom Spears reflects on the teaching of science, but he could include all teaching as being very difficult, hence very important for students. If one were to look for examples of critical thinking by students, one should not look at those cities which have been witness to young people demonstrating an inability to be critical thinkers. RICHARD R. BÉLEC, PHD, Ottawa

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Article rank 22 Mar 2012 Ottawa Citizen Creative school solutions

Re: Fight’s on for scarce school funds, March 21. Citizen articles on this topic have highlighted the competition for funding in Ottawa to build, renovate and rebuild proper schools. Looking at population data provides a guide to school board trustees and provincial bureaucrats who must decide between these conflicting priorities. Neighbourhoods like Glebe, Bay, Kitchissippi and Merivale are in demographic equilibrium. They had a burst of young families to establish their neighbourhoods decades ago, and now families in all stages of their life live side by side. We have our newest communities at the perimeter of the city with an influx of new families, two decades away from any sort of demographic equilibrium. This includes Kanata, Stittsville and Barrhaven. School boards are overbuilding there, based on population data. In allocating scarce taxpayer dollars, our decision-makers need creative solutions to provide suitable spaces for all students. In particular, it’s easy to get caught up in overbuilding in our newest neighbourhoods. Looking at the long term, the first priority should be to properly maintain, renovate and rebuild established schools. TREVOR JONES, Ottawa

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