The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 1 THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice Year 48, No. 3 March 2020

1050-1060 Bank Street development becomes official See the article on page 3

The 1050-1060 Bank St. development proposal. ILLUSTRATION BY KWC ARCHITECTS COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Wed, March 4, 12:00 OSCA Children’s Program Registration Opens, Online or at The Firehall Wed, March 4, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: Carnyx Trio in Recital, Southminster United Wed, March 4, 18:30 – 19:30 Cooking for One or Two, Sunnyside Library Branch Registration for Children's Programs opens Thurs, March 5, 12:00 OSCA Adult Program Registration March 4 and Registration for Adult Opens, Online or at The Firehall Programs opens March 5. Both start at noon Sat, March 7, 19:30 One World One People Concert with Big Soul Project, Trinity Anglican and will be available Check out our 2020 Sun, March 8, 18:30 OSCA Women’s Day Celebration, Firehall online and in-person. Spring Guide for program listings! Mon, March 9, 19:00-21:00 OOS Garden Club - Native Plants in the Garden, The Firehall 2020-2021 After-Four/Breakfast Club Tues, March 10, 13:30 Introduction to the Brain and the Five registration also starts March 4 at noon Senses, Sunnyside Library Branch Wed, March 11, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: A Heroic Jazz Trio, Southminster United www.oldottawasouth.ca Wed, March 11, 18:30-19:30 Science Café: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions: The Volcanologist Toolkit Thurs, March 12, 18:30-20:30 Basic Photo Editing, Sunnyside Library Sat, March 14 Opening of OSCA’s Spring Art Show and Sale, The Firehall Wed, March 18, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: The Paris Connection, Southminster United Thurs, March 19, 13:30 The Wonderful World of Parrots, Sunnyside Library Branch Fri, March 20, 14:00 Postcards from the Past - Pinhey’s Point Historic Site, Sunnyside Library Branch Wed, March 25, 12:00 Doors Open for Music: The World in 60 Minutes, Southminster United Wed, March 25, 18:30-19:30 Science Café: Polonium – 210, Discovery to Poison, Sunnyside Library Branch Sat, March 28, 16:30 Music at Trinity Presents Duo Sakura, Trinity Anglican Sat, March 28, 10:00-12:00 Beeswax Cloth Workshop, Southminster Sat, March 28, 20:30-21:30 Earth Hour Page 2 The OSCAR l March 2020

BUSINESS BEAT But this sign stayed up. Then, on Happy Goat Valentine’s Day, the Councillor tweeted After several weeks (months?) of Could it a picture of the building and the sign, seemingly little to no activity at the old and confirmed that he has been in Starbuck location, Happy Goat opened be true…? contact with the owners’ group and that up their doors somewhat suddenly they are indeed considering putting the in the second week of February. The And some building on the market! layout of the space looks pretty good It’s tempting to want to celebrate and inviting, and I think it was smart other news this moment, now that it may finally to put the counter where they did, be here, and I am as excited as the optimizing some prime seating space. next person about the fact that the And in the first few days of being open site might finally be on track to be they have been pretty packed already. redeveloped. But let’s not forget that Although I had originally heard from we have had to live with this blight in several sources that the original Happy our neighbourhood for 11 years due Goat location was going to be turned to the greed of an uncaring landlord into a Mexican, cantina style eatery, and his family. Obviously the City is New colour scheme and new name, I learned recently that the space will also not without blame, as they just Chef’s Paradise. be converted into a Cafe Morala. You can’t bring themselves to ever stand might be familiar with Cafe Morala, up to any kind of developer, no matter of the store: Chef’s Paradise. as they currently have a location in the how harmful their practices are to our I love the new colours, and I love Glebe (734 Bank St.). And although The new sign up on the West Coast neighbourhoods. the new logo. And the new name also they do serve coffee with a Latin flair Video building. What’s also clear is that now that the makes a lot of sense, especially since (including some Latin pastries and condos at Southminster are about to be the original name is still right there: desserts, as well as tamales), it’s not By Erik van der Torre built, and that the development at 1050- Paradis du Chef. quite what I had expected, and had 1060 Bank St. seems to be steadily What’s even more exciting than secretly been hoping for. Then again, West Coast Video progressing through the consultations the rebrand of the store, is the more the space does have a fully functioning After 11 years, it seems like there process, we are potentially in for a bit significant change that is about to take professional kitchen, so perhaps the might finally be some movement of a development boom if both the place. Over the past few weeks, Chef’s offerings at the new location will go in the direction towards replacing West Coast Video and the Roy Barber Paradis has been doing a rather major beyond pastries and paninis... the burnt-down West Coast Video lot are going to be developed in the renovation in the store. They are about building. A couple of weeks ago, a next few years. to add a large demonstration kitchen, Subway space few of my Traffic & Safety colleagues right off the entrance. According to the I have no news about the Subway noted that there was a new sign up on Chef’s Paradise newsletter and some of the staff I have space. Other than that I have seen the building: “New Listing. Coming You may have noticed a subtle, but spoken to, the plan is to make this a people come in and out of the space Soon!” But the lack of a realtor’s logo significant change over at the far south- multi-use demonstration kitchen that several times over the last few weeks. or any other kind of branding made it west corner of Bank Street. A few will host cooking demonstrations and So something is possibly afoot, but seem like this might have been a rogue months ago, the whole C.A. Paradis classes (yay!!). In addition, the plan none of my sources seem to know who posting. Then again, the Councillor’s building was repainted in a beautiful is to also host wine tastings, and rent or what might be moving in. So stay office has been calling Bylaw every new colour scheme of dark blue and the space out for private events. All in tuned (or email me if you know what’s time new graffiti or posters went up on black. And with the new paint also all, I think this is a fantastic addition going in). the building, to make sure the landlord came a bit of a quiet rebrand. Gone is to an already fantastic store and I can’t keeps the building according to code. the C.A. Paradis name, and its place wait to take a culinary class right in our Business Beat is a monthly feature has been taken by the former sub-title neighbourhood! that highlights new and existing businesses in Old Ottawa South. Cylie Opinions are my own. If you know It took a little bit longer than of any new businesses opening up they had hoped, but one day before or want to share your thoughts about Valentine’s Day, Cylie was able to open existing businesses, send a note to: their doors to the public! My wife and [email protected]. I popped in briefly on opening day and the space looks beautiful! By the time Erik van der Torre has lived in Old the OSCAR comes out, I am sure the Ottawa South with his wife and three cafe portion of the store will have also sons for over 10 years. He is a member opened up, and I can’t wait to try some of OSCA’s Traffic & Safety Committee of their delicious looking pastries, in and is OSCA’s Communications and addition to their delicious chocolates. Marketing Coordinator.

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NEWS

By 1050-1060Laura Urrechaga Bank Street development becomes official

On Monday, January 27th, 60 or so residents gathered at the Firehall for a community meeting on the proposed mixed-use development at 1050-1060 Bank Street. The development team addressed the changes they made to their design in response to community recommendations made at the first Firehall meeting, which was held last June. At this second meeting, topics including materials, parking, the best entrance/exit street for the garage, height and landscaping were discussed. Additional comments on whether Euclid or Aylmer was the better street for the parking garage’s entrance/exit system were sent to our councillor in The public meeting on January 27th at the Firehall on the proposed building at 1050-1060 Bank Street. the days after the meeting. In response to these comments, PHOTO BY BRENDAN MCCOY Councillor Menard organized a Impact Analysis Report to the city. This that period has been extended to “Send comments to the file lead.” meeting at City Hall with city report will likely be ready in six weeks accommodate comments to the Traffic The City planner for the file is Jean- transportation staff, the city planner or so, at which point it will be reviewed Impact Analysis report now being Charles Renaud, his email is: jean- leading the file, the development team, by city transportation staff. prepared. [email protected] their traffic consultant, OSCA Traffic Additional considerations for street To see the application documents go Please be sure to cc any comments and Safety Committee and OSCA trees, street furniture, site lighting to oldottawasouth.ca/news for links to to our Councillor, Shawn Menard, Planning and Zoning Committee. and potential on-street parking the city’s web site. Or go directly to the at: [email protected], OSCA The development team’s traffic were also discussed with city staff. City of Ottawa’s web site, ottawa.ca Traffic and Safety Committee at: consultant will be submitting a Traffic While comments on the project were and click on “Planning, development [email protected] originally due by February 27, 2020, and construction,” then go to “What’s and to the OSCA Planning and Zoning happening in your neighbourhood” Committee at: oscaplanning@gmail. and use the “Development Application com. Search Tool.” Comments can now be made online on the city’s web site “Development Laura Urrechaga is an OSCA Board Application Search Tool.” Search for Member and Co-Chair of the OSCA 1050-1060 Bank Street and click on Planning and Zoning Committee.

Another view of the 1050-1060 Bank St. development proposal.

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NEWS Moose bring home the Capital Cup By David Wylynko

Redemption. By the wonders of creative accounting, loosey-goosey rules, and blind luck, the Old Ottawa South Moose shinny hockey team recaptured the coveted Capital Ward Cup Feb. 1st, at long last wrestling it from the dynastic and defending champion Old Ottawa East Hosers. This year’s win marked the Moose’s fifth time scoring the trophy that former Councillor Clive Doucet donated in the inaugural year, 2008, and just one win behind the powerhouse Hosers. The Glebe Goal-Getters are a one-time champion. Though it’s the 13th year, the Cup has been awarded only 12 times because 2018 was a lock-out year due to nasty contract negotiations. Many players wanted the Cup moved into the 67s arena at Lansdowne – TD Place? Ottawa Civic Centre? Frank Clair The OOS Moose, who won this year’s Capital Ward Cup in a hard-fought final against the OOE Hosers. Stadium? – in order to accommodate the crush of fans and ensure a more PHOTO BY JOHN DANCE definitive record of the score than a The Moose-Hosers rivalry is Russia men’s hockey bloodbaths The Goal-Getters hosted this year’s referee casually remarking every so threatening to become known as the and Canada-US women’s thrilling event at the newly restored Mutchmor often, “I think that’s a goal … That’s fiercest battle between two sports confrontations. Rink. They came out in full force with not a goal.” franchises ever, rivaling the Canada- Admittedly, the Hosers were missing a roster of over 20 players, even though some top players this year, with many each team can only have four players of their young guns – and stalwart on the ice at once. superstar Andrew Matsukubo (known “That’s a stacked team,” a Moose to dangle his way through a dozen player quipped. “How can we compete INSPIRING GIRLS shinny hackers at will) – disappearing with that?” for actual out-of-town hockey “First we’ll see if any of them can tournaments. skate,” answered a teammate. Their The Moose roster also came together concerns were unfounded, as many of at the last minute, the rule that you the Glebe players, realizing how little must have two females on the ice at all ice time they would get, wandered times causing its usual headaches for off in search of a real shinny game. organizers. “The girls who play hockey Their problems were compounded by always have a league game or are at a the minute size of the warm-up hut, tourney,” a manager complained. likened by some to a modest walk-in But the Moose hit pay dirt when an closet. enthusiastic coach in the Ottawa Girls The Hosers’ astute manager, John Midget League, Andy Moore, agreed Dance, predicted the Goal-Getters’ . o l d t a w s u h c to come play (arriving straight from a exodus, commenting pre-tourney: WE ARE EXPERTS IN HOW GIRLS league game), and along with him the “These guys will get pretty bored and LEARN, LEAD AND SUCCEED. Moose recruited Bridget Moore and cold if they only get on the ice once Afton Wylynko, two of his players. every six shifts.” “I just told them if they didn’t play it The fourth team to round out the w At Elmwood, each girl is encouraged to challenge herself would be all bag skating next practice,” competition, the Heron Park Hackers, to excel in the classroom, develop confi dence and lead with Andy confirmed, who also recruited consisted this year mostly of players strength. Here, girls learn to be the best students, leaders, the phenomenal sister act of Camryn borrowed from other teams and some and global citizens they can be. MacDougall and Drew MacDougall. enthusiastic youths kicking around the The Moose roster was rounded out ice. “We’re from Heron Park,” they Learn more about our innovative approach to girls’ education by renowned Ottawa journalist Randy insisted, eager to play. “Where’s Heron and book a personal tour at elmwood.ca Boswell and veteran returning players Park?” one quietly asked another. Glen Sloan and Mat Pearson, who The Hackers’ brass insisted that managed to cajole his beer-league despite the weak showing, they buddy Dusan Hoferek and his son Zari still intended to host the best post- into playing at the last second. tournament party at the neighbourhood “We played beer league for three pub. “Missing the games, we get hours last night,” said Dusan before the straight to the fun stuff,” was the games. “So I don’t know how much rumoured rationale. good we will be to you.” The relentless end-to-end action that But like most championship NHL has made the Cup famous worldwide • All Girls BOOK YOUR TOUR • Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 teams after a grueling four-round – inspiring a new Canada-US women’s • International Baccalaureate (613) 744-7783 playoff series, it was just good enough World School elmwood.ca/tour for the Moose to bring home the trophy. Continued on pg. 5 The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 5

SENIOR WATCH OLD OTTAWA SOUTH The February 11 Snow Mole Audit By Anna Cuylits

A lot of snow fell the day before, but snow plowing did not appear to be coordinated when it stopped at the Aylmer and Barton intersection next to the Colonel By Retirement Residence, despite this being a designated high priority section. Please complete your Snow Mole audit! Paper audit forms are available at the front desk in the Firehall, or you can complete the online questionnaire at: www.coaottawa.ca/ snowmoles

Anna Cuylits is a longtime resident of OOS, a member of SWOOS and an OSCA Board member. Catherine Read ready to swing herself over a big (snow) windrow! PHOTO BY MARGO MCDIARMED

and turned sideways along the street, retreated to the fire to engage in good to fool Troy. Continued from pg. 4 with the far boards slicing across what cheer, nurse their wounds, and – The Moose players – riding the high should have been centre ice. gazing into the flames – search for a of the win – responded with delusional “Do we drop the puck on top of the Shakespearean apparition that might bravado. “Bring it on,” someone three-on-three competition at the net?” someone quipped sarcastically. foretell another victory next year on proclaimed. “Good luck finding annual NHL all-star game – was “I bet this didn’t cost five mill,” home ice so they could tie the Hosers enough girls. And by the way, our huts particularly fierce this year due to half another chimed in, referring to the for most wins ever. and rinks are full size.” The die is cast. the ice surface missing. temporary shinny rink constructed on Instead, Glebe manager Anthony And that’s shinny. “Who stole half the rink?” some Parliament Hill in 2017 to celebrate Carricato threw down another players wanted to know. 150 years since Confederation. challenge all together, boasting that In fact, the missing half rink was But by the end of the games, all Glebe might bring two full teams over David Wylynko is the Moose lost to a negotiation between a bunch the players, winded and drained, the death-defying Bank Street Bridge manager and an Ottawa writer. Look of official type people from the city, were thankful for the shortened ice next year, hiding in a luxury team bus for his forthcoming hockey novel, the school board, the community, and and feeling complacent. That is, until like the Trojan horse the Greeks used “Puck Luck,” and read an excerpt at probably various retired coffee shop Capital Ward Councillor Shawn puckluck.hockey. hangers-on. Menard, wrestling the trophy from Some years ago, the Mutchmor Bridget and Afton after the Moose Rink (which is actually behind Corpus victory lap, said he would keep it in Christi School across the street from his office rather than hand it over to Mutchmor) was replaced by a parking the winning association, as is tradition. lot for workers who were adding a “You know, so it doesn’t get lost.” glassy addition to Mutchmor Public A near-riot ensued, quelled only School. After the last truck pulled when the Glebe Neighbourhood away, the rink was conveniently never Activities Group (GNAG) arrived with restored. complimentary hot dogs, drinks, a Shinny players kept showing up portable outdoor fire pit and music to and remarking, “Something isn’t launch a celebration of the new rink. right,” as they tried to play in the “At least will he be performing snow, blasting pucks sky-high at the after?” some of the girls wanted to expansive soccer goals. Naturally, the know. litany of broken windows compelled “Menard,” another answered. “Not homeowners to write bales of letters SOLD SO LD . Mendes.” to City Hall, forcing everyone back Becalmed, like Asterix and to the negotiating table. A mere seven Obelix after yet again miraculously years later, half the rink was restored conquering the Romans, the Moose

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SENIOR WATCH OLD OTTAWA SOUTH What is a “Strong Woman” (or even a man) to do … next? By Catherine Read ORGANIZATION F.C. SAMPLE WINTER CLASSES TOTAL HW HOURS When I belonged to a commercial fitness centre, populated mainly by 20-somethings working on their Abbotsford House (Glebe Centre) HW Active Senior Fitness (12 wks) 12 bods, I once imagined their thinking, if they happened to notice me there, Balance/ Core & Stretch (12 wks) 12 “Heavens, do I have to keep this up for the next 50+ years?” GNAG (Glebe CC) HW Total Muscle Conditioning (13wks) 13 The answer, alas, is YES! The motivation for exercising among relatively healthy seniors Low, Strength & Stretch (13 wks) 13 is to stay that way, so that they can carry out their daily chores and OSCA (Firehall) F.C. Stronger for Longer (9 wks) 11+ pleasures, while avoiding serious falls and injuries. The statistics are Vitality Plus for 55+ (8 wks) 8 frightening: RA Centre F.C. Strong Women (W) (12 wks) 24 Falls among seniors • In Canada, 1 in 3 seniors falls Stronger You (W) (12 wks) 24 each year • 90% of broken hips are the result of a fall * F.C. Fitness Centre; HW (Heart Wise Network); (W) for women only • By age 75, falls are the major cause of fatal injuries phone registration; the on-line may be why Ontario’s Ministry structure, a class should help you to • 40% of admissions to nursing procedure is cumbersome. of Tourism, Culture and Sport progress. homes are fall related Fundamentally, good balance, plus the Trillium Foundation have • In Canada costs associated with flexibility and muscular strength are chosen to fund projects which help Fitness classes for seniors falls were $ 713 million at the heart of fall prevention and “adults 55+ stay fit and connected For Old Ottawa South, there are 4 contribute to a better quality of life to their communities.” The Glebe non-profit community-based centres Reasons for falls for seniors. Neighbourhood Activities Group within 1 km of Bank and Sunnyside • Poor balance If you are experiencing serious (GNAG) at the Glebe Community offering courses to help seniors stay • Muscle weakness balance issues, physiotherapists have Centre, and the RA Centre both fit and engaged in their communities. • Dizziness specific tests to assess strength and have been local grant recipients. All 4 centres have front-line staff • Environmental hazards (icy balance. They construct a “mobility Get up and Go is an affordable, trained in CPR who can operate sidewalks, perhaps?) risk profile” to identify areas of targeted program at the Glebe C.C. defibrillators. In the table above, (Source: City of Ottawa Fall concern. Then, they will build an while Strong Woman at the RA is I have tried to select 2 examples prevention Booklet ) exercise program to address your for women any age. Abbotsford has from each centre with group classes, individual weaknesses. a New Horizons grant and money suitable for seniors, which focus Better Strength, Better Health from the Ministry of Seniors and on building strength, flexibility The City itself runs courses Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism, Accessibility for capital projects. and balance with a smattering of focusing on fall prevention funded Culture & Sport +Trillium cardio, too. Only two marked (W) by the Champlain Local Health Foundation Joining a fitness centre or taking a are limited to women. The prices for Integration Network. There is no GMSElemAdGR19G.pdf 2 2019-07-24 10:40Saving AM on the health care budget class? the winter programs varied between In the fall, I completed the $5 and $8 per hour. Membership strength-training program, Strong fees, and discounts, etc. make direct Woman, and I am convinced that comparisons difficult. the course significantly improved my balance, strength and flexibility. I learned to lift weights correctly and safely, to avoid injury while building muscle. So onwards and upwards, but where? In a fitness centre (F.C.) or in a group fitness class?

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M The two nearest fitness centres in OOS are at The Firehall Y (OSCA) and at the RA Centre. CM They offer a very similar range of MY cardio and weight machines, as CY well as free weights, with well-

CMY qualified trainers available to Sample courses in four local help fashion your own program community-based centres K and give tips when required. Both are senior-friendly places Abbotsford House in which membership includes www.glebecentre.ca access to some group fitness 950 Bank Street classes. So, if you feel confident 613-2305 about continuing to gain strength Abbotsford House, part of the at your own pace, then a fitness Glebe Centre, calls itself a “Senior centre can provide the appropriate Active Living Centre,” specifically equipment. However, if you lack motivation to go it alone or benefit from Continued on pg. 7 The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 7

SENIOR WATCH OLD OTTAWA SOUTH Strong Woman is a separate Continued from pg. 6 program offered for just $20 for 24 hours of instruction (because of a for people 55+. It offers a huge range Trillium grant, which has another full of programs for a yearly membership year to run. No RA membership fee ($45), but “drop in” is possible, if is charged.) To repeat the class costs space allows, for an additional fee. $120, if space is available. Several Abbotsford is part of the “Heart women have opted to redo this course Wise Network”; 12 courses have because they enjoy the format and the (HW symbol) meaning that the skills taught. One repeat customer instructors have received training explained that the focus on practising approved by the Ottawa Heart correct form and avoiding injury, in Institute for people with chronic an up-beat, collegial atmosphere, are health conditions. www.heartwise. helping her to regain her previous ottawaheart.ca level of fitness following a serious In the winter, there were 4 level health set-back. I courses and 9 Level II classes for $75 per course (there’s a discount What a panoply of choices in if you take two courses). The Level and around our ‘hood! Of course, I classes are designed to keep you you could always spend the winter active while not aggravating any climbing your stairs. According to physical problems. The Level II the Harvard Alumni Health study, classes require a slightly higher level climbing 10–19 flights a week of fitness but alternative exercises are reduces mortality risk. Other studies offered to those with some physical have shown that consistently opting limitations. for the stairs can improve balance, gait, blood pressure, and cholesterol GNAG-Glebe Community Centre and weight loss. www.gnag.ca This is a very 21st-century 175 Third Ave. problem. My mother at 50+ had 613-233-8713 well-developed arm muscles. I have a The Glebe Community Centre vivid image of her on her hands and is a friendly place with a huge, knees polishing our red-tiled front beautifully decorated main hall in A “Strong Woman” in Firehall Fitness Centre. PHOTO BY CATHERINE READ porch and of her vigorously turning which many theatre, artistic and the handle of a mangle, wringing the musical events are held water from hand-washed clothes and events and fitness classes are held. The Glebe Neighbourhood sheets to hang them on the line to Programs at The Firehall are run RA Centre Activities Group (GNAG), which dry. In her mid-nineties, she still tried by OSCA. In the Program Guide, www.racentre.com runs the programs at the centre, is to fork over the soil of her senior several fitness classes are designated 2451 Riverside Drive part of the Heartwise Network. Of residence’s rose garden. It never “Vitality 4 Life” with a green leaf 613-736-6202 interest to seniors is their Get up and stops! symbol for people who are retired or The RA is much the biggest centre, Go season membership for $72+ HST For my part, I plan to keep doing close to it. (“Stronger for Longer” close to OOS and focused on its which allows you to take as many those deep knee bends and bicep costs $94 or $169+HST for 12 or sports facilities (e.g. hockey, curling, courses as you wish. Nine courses, curls so, come spring, I can enjoy 24 hours respectively.) The section archery, badminton, squash & all- some of which are free, are offered hiking and biking our beautiful NCC entitled “are you 55+?” clusters season soccer). There is a one-time by “Heartwise” trained instructors. paths and keep on playing with my courses together for ease of selection. membership fee that varies by age The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and grandkids. The goal: hurtling down One-day workshops in the Franklin and family status. Sport grant, which helped subsidize slopes with a ski pass for the over Method for balance and coordination The RA LifeFIT Centre has well- this program, has now run out, but 80s. are offered. qualified trainers in attendance for the Director informed me that GNAG Of the free programs for seniors advice, training etc. Membership in plans to continue “Get up and Go” this winter, a Tuesday group walk the LifeFIT Centre gives access to 11 Catherine Read is a long-time courses at a subsidized rate. is offered by the delightful Darcy different fitness classes, from Zumba resident of OOS and a member of Middaugh. The plan is to offer this in to Tai Chi, and, in the summer, SWOOS. Any comments or ideas for OSCA-The Firehall spring as well. outdoor aqua-fit classes. There are future columns are welcome. Contact www.oldottawasouth.ca The Fitness Centre is in the showers, saunas and steam rooms on us at [email protected] 260 Sunnyside Ave. basement, but has windows letting in site. 613-730-4946 natural light. There are no showers OOS’s much-expanded community on site. Trainers are available for centre now has the light, airy Michael consultation. Jenkin Hall, where pickle ball is played, and community meetings, March Break travels? Visit us first. Breezy new cruise and spring fashions are here! Freshen up your beach wardrobe, or preview new styles for warmer days to come.

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CHRISTY’S CORNER Seniors initiatives and programming at the Firehall By Christy Savage, OSCA OSCA’s Katherine Boisvert has also 10:30-11:30 am Executive Director been offering a number of events and • Mindful Yoga – Sundays 9:30- luncheons – even a high tea – to the 10:30 am community. • Franklin Method Balance and OSCA’s AGM Tuesday, May 5th, If you’d like to know more feel free Coordination Workshops – April 27, 2020 to email me at osca@oldottawasouth. May 25 and June 15. On Tuesday, May 5th, at OSCA’s ca, or come to the Firehall for any of • Art with Bhat Boy – Wednesdays AGM, we’re excited to announce that the programs noted below. They are 12:15-3:15 pm our new Nominations and Elections also listed in our program guide, but Committee, chaired by Sue Neill, will here’s a sneak peek. Events for Seniors be creating the agenda and concept for We all need a little more social • Seniors Lunch Bunch – Friday the evening. gem that’s great for seniors and those contact and I can’t think of a better way April 17th and Friday May 8th from wanting a clean, bright quiet space to to meditate, try a yoga class, or simply 12:00-2:00 pm Community Builder Awards work out during the day. relax with friends, than to take one of • OSCA’s Annual Open House Week As part of our AGM we are now When OSCA renovated the Firehall the many courses for seniors, and all – Free programs all week! presenting a new Community Builder in 2011 there was much consideration ages, at the Firehall. • March 30th to April 4th come join Award. For more information please and thought that went into how to use us for a number of new classes: see Sue Neill’s article in this month’s the space to meet needs within the • OSCA’s Vitality for Life Programs Balance and Coordination, Stretch OSCAR. community. (New for the Spring programs) Time, Gentle Hatha Yoga, Learning We know there are many community While we didn’t have Goodlife, or *Call the Firehall at 613-247- to Race Walk, Pickle-Ball, Hatha builders in Old Ottawa South, please the soon to be opened AnytimeFitness, 4946 and ask about the current Yoga, An Introduction to Kundalini. consider nominating one of them. we certainly weren’t hoping to corner Vitality For Life Programs as some • Join us for a Meet and Greet the market in local gyms. But we did programs are taking place right Luncheon – April 2nd, from Seniors initiatives and programming want to provide a bright, affordable, now, or go online to the OSCA 12:000-2:00 pm. All are welcome! at the Firehall welcoming and space, with all your program calendar. Look for the • Strawberry Spring Social – June Last year OSCA was proud to basic gym needs. “vitality for life” leaf logo in our 12th partner with a new and local senior’s Many call our gym a hidden gem, program guide and you’ll easily find group called Senior Watch Old Ottawa and it really is. Some gyms today are programs that are tailor-made for Free Programs South (SWOOS). As one of OSCA’s big, loud and overwhelming spaces. seniors. • Intergenerational Walking Group – own committees, we’re very excited What if you want a quiet space, or a • Pickleball – Wednesdays and Tuesdays 10:00-11:00 am about the initiatives and work that course that is tailored to seniors needs? Fridays from 1:15-3:15 pm • Shutterbugs Photography Club – SWOOS is taking on. From the winter A place that shows you how to use the • Awareness Through Movement – Tuesdays 1:00-3:00 pm walkability audits and work on a winter equipment, and that motivates you to the Feldenkreis method-Tuesdays • Book Club – Tuesdays 1:00- walkability app, to important work do so – with programs like Stronger from 2:00-3:00 pm 3:00 pm *alternating weeks with on affordable housing, we see many For Longer –­ and a trainer experienced • Stronger For Longer – Mondays shutterbugs positive initiatives and progress taking in the very different way seniors, or and Thursdays 12:45-2:00 pm • Card Club – Tuesdays 1:00-3:00 pm place. those simply wanting to maintain a • Learning to Race Walk or Jog – • Musical Jam – Wednesdays 10:00- Don’t forget to fill out the Old level of health and fitness, need to be Tuesdays 12:00-1:00 pm 12:00 pm Ottawa South Housing Needs Survey guided or supported? • Stretch Time – Wednesdays 11:30 • Crafter’s Corner – Thursdays 9:30- online at oldottawasouth.ca. The These are the kinds of questions am-12:30 pm 11:30 am survey results will be used by SWOOS we ask ourselves when we create and • Swans in Sneakers – Ballet for 55+ • Pick Up Painting – Fridays as they move forward with initiatives consider programming for the Firehall - Fridays 10:00 am-11:00 am 11:00am-2:00 pm to advocate for more affordable Fitness Centre each season. • Vitality Plus for 55+ – Fridays housing options for seniors, as well Our personal trainers are here to 11:45 am-12:45 pm Old Ottawa South Garden Club as explore options such as communal help, and many – like Joane Hale • Gentle Hatha – Mondays 6:00-7:00 The Garden Club offers a number living and shared housing. – are also Heart Smart certified. pm of exciting workshops throughout the While SWOOS is very busy, we Give us a call or email me at • Hatha for all levels – Mondays year. Annual membership in the garden have been working hard and picking [email protected] for more 6:00-7:00 pm club is just $25, or to drop in and pay at their brains to increase the variety and information. • Core Challenge and Yoga Stretch the door the fee is $7. affordability of programs for seniors at Or consider a consultation with – Tuesdays 10:45-11:45 am and the Firehall. Joanne and a drop in or short Thursdays 10:30-11:30 am Pottery Studio Since the centre is often free during membership to try out the gym. • Roll Release and Revive - Consider joining the studio or taking the day, our own Program Coordinator, There are a lot of programs at the Thursdays 8:00-9:00 pm a beginners pottery class. Darcy Middaugh, was able to launch Firehall tailored for seniors. • Kundalini – Saturdays 9:00-10:30 some new and free – yes, I said free We look forward to seeing you soon! am Firehall Fitness Centre – programs for all ages that we know • Get Fit Yoga and Yin – Saturdays The Fitness Centre is a hidden seniors would love to participate in.

Ottawa South but must have made an exceptional contribution to this OSCA Initiates a community. Board and committee Do you have experience in Human Community Builder Award members, and staff of OSCA are Resource Management or Financial By Sue Neill Annual General Meeting in May not eligible for this award during Management? and will be publicized in The their time in office but are eligible Put your skills to work in your afterward. Old Ottawa South is a great OSCAR, on the OSCA website community! Deadline for nominations is place to live because of people and on social media. April 5, 2020. – people who have worked hard The first OSCA Community OSCA is looking for individuals willing The Nomination Form for the and selflessly for our community. Builder Award will be presented to stand for the OSCA Board who Community Builder Award can Often these builders go unnoticed on May 5, 2020 at this year’s have skills and experience in Human be found at oldottawasouth.ca/ but the impact of their efforts is AGM and we are seeking Resource Management or Financial awards. felt. nominations from the community Management. If you are interested Nominate someone today! OSCA is proud to announce for this first award. in contributing to your community a Community Builder Award to Nominators and seconders must through membership on the OSCA Sue Neill, Member of the OSCA shine a light on these important live in Old Ottawa South and must Board, please contact the Nominations Board and Chair of the Traffic people who do so much for our not be a relative of the person Committee at: nominations@ and Safety Committee and the community. The Award will be nominated. On the other hand, oldottawasouth.ca Nominations and Elections presented each year at the OSCA nominees need not live in Old Committee. The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 9

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Turning the corner … By Richard Slowikowski, issues. OSCA has come to the big step forward in how OSCA does its OSCA President conclusion that it needs a permanent business. committee to oversee Governance on

an ongoing basis. Topics such as the Nominations Committee March. March is the month where we By-laws, the new Ontario laws for non- OSCA has also expanded the turn the corner. The winter is basically profit corporations, code of conduct, mandate of the Nominations over. The clock springs forward. conflict of interest and fiduciary Committee. It is now called the Spring equinox suddenly appears out responsibility all require ongoing Nominations and Elections Committee of the dark. People start thinking about monitoring. and has responsibilities for the election gardening and opening their cottage. process at OSCA’s AGM, identifying And minds, energized by spring and So, what is the missing magic sauce Human Resources Committee candidates for Community Builder all the potential that it represents, that will bring all of these projects to Similarly, OSCA has decided to Awards and identifying candidates for begin considering new opportunities fruition? create a Human Resources (HR) both Board and Committee positions. for doing something that will make a OSCA needs people from our Committee. A few years ago, OSCA difference. community to step up and volunteer put in effort to build HR policies and Windsor Park Working Group Hmmm… maybe there is something to help. If you have a few hours each processes. The good news is that there Many of you will know that OSCA for you at OSCA? month to volunteer for one of our is a reasonable foundation on which has been working on the potential In addition to all of the regular work committees, please help us out. Make a to build, however, HR requires regular renovation of the Windsor Park facility. OSCA does, over the past six months, difference in your community. attention. We have received positive feedback OSCA has taken on a number of Hmmm… does this sounds from the City and our Councillor, important initiatives. The following interesting to you? Please drop me an Program Committee Shawn Menard, and we have already will give you a sense of some of these email at president@oldottawasouth. OSCA’s Program Committee is held one public consultation session. activities. ca or contact Christy Savage, OSCA’s undergoing a major overhaul. We Based on this feedback, OSCA has Executive Director at are expanding the mandate of the established a Windsor Park Working By-laws [email protected]. Committee to provide needed support Group to take on the job of refining OSCA has done a complete review I hope you have a great day. to our permanent staff and to focus on the design, more consultation and then of its By-laws. That is a big job and it improving OSCA’s business planning. fundraising. is linked to so many other operational This is a lot of work and represents a SENIOR WATCH OLD OTTAWA SOUTH the development of the complex. interested in housing. They were communities. The attendant reduction With these answers, the survey mainly young people, servers and of health care costs and environmental The Old Ottawa developers – Seniors Watch of Old baristas, curious about what would be impacts are squarely within the public Ottawa South (SWOOS) – want to done with the answers. As I pointed sector’s purview. South Housing assist policy makers to meet a growing out – nothing can be done with the So fill it in. To complete this survey need, not only for housing, but to results unless enough people take a on line, go to oldottawasouth.ca/ Survey needs support seniors to age in place, young few minutes to respond! The survey housing. If you prefer to fill in a hard you! families who are isolated and students has been online for approximately copy, surveys are available at the By Carolyn Inch on behalf of who want to be part of a community. one month and there are a total of Firehall community centre front desk. The recent growth of intentional 86 responses to date. We need more! And if you just want to buy or rent the SWOOS Housing Group communities, where housing is not just I know there are a lot of people without additional involvement, tell us. a roof over one’s head, is in response interested in this issue as they talk Either way, we want to know. Last month a housing needs survey to social needs at this junction in our to me about it. Its time to take a few was launched with the goal of history. The benefits have been well minutes now and respond. determining the housing needs and documented and governments in other So what, you ask, can be done by a preferences of local citizens. It is very countries are ahead of the Canadian community association committee that brief and asks respondents whether system in providing support for such won’t be achieved by private enterprise Old Ottawa South they want to buy or rent, the numbers developments. and developers? If we can demonstrate Housing Needs of people in the family and their age, Today, as I was hanging up posters a need for housing that is more than Survey the size of dwelling they would prefer advertising the survey in restaurants housing, we can work with the three oldottawasouth.ca/ and would they need parking. As well and coffee shops on Bank Street levels of government to ensure that the survey asks about shared common in OOS, most of the employees I the existing permitting systems housing space and whether the respondent encountered in the course of asking and grants are geared to encourage Or on paper at the would be interested in being part of a permission to hang the poster were the development of supportive Firehall supportive community or involved in

Artists Wanted for OSCAR/Glebe Report Newspaper Box Murals

The Glebe Report and The OSCAR community newspapers are going to purchase 6 newspaper boxes to be located in the Glebe and in Ottawa South so that copies of both newspapers can be provided for the taking. Local artists will be commissioned to decorate the boxes. We welcome submissions from all artists including Old Ottawa South and Glebe students in high school or university.

Each box is made of metal with a window on the front. The boxes are approximately 75 cm high, 45 cm wide and 35 cm deep. The logos of the Glebe Report and OSCAR need to feature prominently on the front (below the window), sides and top of the boxes. A graphic file of the logos will be provided to the successful candidates. The newspapers expect to see designs that reflect life and the spirit of community in Old Ottawa South and the Glebe. Designs must not contain an advertisement or promotion for any business, product or viewpoint other than for the Glebe Report and OSCAR. Designs may not include any breach of intellectual property, trademarks, brands, or images of illegal activity. Designs depicting or suggesting racism, sexism, or that suggest discrimination on religious, sexual, or gender grounds will not be accepted.

An honorarium of $200 per box will be given on the completion of the project.

As the boxes will be located outside and subject to inclement weather, the murals must utilize oil-based paint suitable for adhering to metal.

To be eligible for consideration, a submission is required. Submissions are maximum two pages and must include a short personal statement, samples of the artists previous work and a design concept sketch. Proposals should be submitted to [email protected] or [email protected] by April 15, 2020. All submissions will be acknowledged. Winning artists will be selected by May 1 and murals are expected to be completed by May 31. Page 10 The OSCAR l March 2020

THE OSCAR

260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MARCH 20 ISSN: 0715-5476 [email protected] The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. Upcoming deadlines: March 20 (April issue); April 17 (May issue); May Editor: Brendan McCoy [email protected] 15 (June issue); June 12 (July/August issue); August 14 (September issue) Layout and Design: Bess Fraser Business Manager: Susanne Ledbetter [email protected] Advertising Manager: Gayle Weitzman [email protected] 613-730-1058 To book an OSCAR ad (not classy ads) call Gayle at 613-730-1058 Volunteer Proofreaders: Maura Giuliani, Mary Low, [email protected] Kathy Krywicki, Scott Valentine, Roger Williams The OSCAR is printed by Winchester Print. The Old Firehall Ottawa South Community Centre The OSCAR is a community paper paid for entirely by advertising. It is published by the Old Ottawa South Community Association Inc. (OSCA). 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 Distribution is free to all Old Ottawa South homes and businesses. It is also e-mail: [email protected] available at selected locations in Old Ottawa South and the Glebe. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA website: www.oldottawasouth.ca OSCA. Contributions should be in electronic format sent by e-mail to: PHONE 613-247-4946 [email protected]. All submissions will be acknowledged by Monday To Thursday 8:00 am - 9:00 pm e-mail. The Editor has the final say about style, format and content. The Friday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm OSCAR Editorial Policy, and Guidelines for Submissions, are available on the OSCA website. The OSCAR is available online at www.oldottawasouth. Saturday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm ca. Some articles will be posted on the OSCA website. Sunday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, E-MAIL: [email protected] Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 613-247-4946 The OSCAR thanks the following people who Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 613-247-4872 Ottawa Public Library 613-580-2940 brought us to your door this month: Lyra Evans, English Public Board Trustee 613-913-1695 ([email protected]) Shelley Lawrence, Catholic Board Trustee 613-978-2644 ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Kim Barclay, Centretown Community Health Centre 613-233-4443 Élie Cantin Nantel, Carrol Robb, Becky Sasaki, Sam & Aila McNeill- CARLETON UNIVERSITY McKinnell, Christy Griffin, Rob Wong. ZONE B1: Ada Brzeski & Dave Drapeau (Coordinator), Zoe Walters, the CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 613-520-6688 Montgomery family, Claire & Alex Gammon, Charlie and Maeve Georgeson, Graduate Students Association 613-520-6616 D. Georgaras, Erika, Maria & Gabriela. Community Liaison 613-520-3660 ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Sandra Garland, Pat Eakins, Athletics 613-520-4480 Steve Mennill, Claire & Alex Gammon, Gillingham-Murray family, Leslie CITY HALL Roster, John Callan & Diana Carr, Esmé & Nora Perry. Shawn Menard, City Councillor 613-580-2487 ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, ([email protected]) Jesper Lindeberg, Darcy McCoy, Bruce Grant, the Woroniuk-Ryan family, Main Number (24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 Bryan & Anneka Dallin O’Grady, David Fisher. Community Police - non-emergencies 613-236-1222 ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Steve Mennill, Alan McCullough, Emergencies only 9-1-1 Charles & Phillip Kijek, Michael Jenkin, Michel & Christina Bridgeman, Serious Crimes 613-230-6211 Melissa Johnson. Ottawa Hydro 613-738-6400 ZONE D1: Mike McKay (Coordinator), Stephen Merriam, Marianne Keys, Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) 3-1-1 Gail Stewart, Gabe Teramura, Oliver & Claire Waddington, Brewer Pool 613-580-2090 the Sprott family, Milo Barnett. Brewer Arena 613-247-4917 ZONE D2: Dan Greco (Coordinator), Caitlin, Anna Chernushenko, City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca the Stewart family, Sloane and Harrison Gilchrist, Will Creaghan. ZONE E1: Brian Tansey (Coordinator), Karen Wolfe & Curt Labond, Norah Hutchinson, Steve Adamson & Nadine Dawson, Robert Trotter. INDEX ZONE E2: Kathy Stewart (Coordinator), Marianne & Jim Kent, the Brodkin-Haas family, Carolyn Inch, Chris Berry & Frida Kolster Berry, John Bell, Julie Stock, Joan Foster-Jones, Allan Paul. BUSINESS BEAT 2 ZONE F1: Carol & Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, OSCA 3,5-9,12 Lyle Stern, Gerald Bailie, Paloma & Liliana Ruiz, Malachi Winter, the Goutte family (Joshua, Leo and Alina), Kai Bramley, Calla Rose & Justin Connolly COUNCILLOR’S REPORT 14 ZONE F2: Pierre Guevremont (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Alaster MUSIC 16-17 Ayson, Judy & Pierre Chamberland, Luc & Sydney Grenier, Mary Johnston, the Walker Family, the Polkinghorne Family, the Kushner Family. FILM REVIEW 24 ZONE G: Shehryar Sarwar (Coordinator), Caroline & Julia Twelves, Luke & Robin Eriksson, Joanne Monaghan, David Janssen, Chris & Andy TRILLIUM 26 Anand-Danek, Allan Paul, Peluso-Pope Family. LIBRARY 32-33 Bank Street-Old Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, Paula Archer, Ross Imrie. AROUND TOWN 33 Bank Street-Glebe: Brendan McCoy MARKETPLACE & CLASSY ADS 35 GARDEN CLUB 38 The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 11

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as their address. Letters may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to [email protected]

Good Will Ambassador at the Quickie Windsor Park Fieldhouse

People who shop at the Quickie on Bank St. have come to know Beshir Seid, the Boyd McBride’ recent letter in the January OSCAR employee who is friendly, engaging, warm and helpful. He gives the place an old- pointing out that a estimate of $880,000-$1,600,000 for fashioned market feeling. Beshir is a real people person. He’s like our community’s a new Windsor Park Fieldhouse, at a recent community Ambassador of Good Will. meeting concerning same, is 2-3x the replacement cost for his house, “struck a nerve.” The same thought, that Tracy Morey the Fieldhouse estimate was extremely excessive, had occurred to me when I was recently given a similar replacement cost for my OOS home by an insurance OOS in the Glebe? appraiser; Boyd’s letter confirmed my suspicions. I also don’t agree with the statement, from said I admire Clive Doucet, but I must take issue with his geographical inclinations. In the meeting, that the Fieldhouse is “dilapidated”. Although January 2020 issue of The Glebe Report he says that the south end of the Glebe is at it might not be appropriate to incorporate the present the Rideau River. It is actually at the Rideau Canal. Fieldhouse, or part of it, into the “new Fieldhouse” the I have noticed that Glebeites occasionally try to incorporate Old Ottawa South building is structurally sound, outside walls, roof and (OOS) into the Glebe, mentioning OOS landmarks such as the Mayfair Theatre and from my days as a rink-flooder sound inside as well the Sunnyside Public Library, among others. And no wonder! These, and shops such with functioning utilities. Before rejecting the utilization as Stella Luna, Life of Pie, Cedars, assorted coffee shops, and regular concerts at of the old building, an expert assessment needs to done Southminster and Trinity Churches are certainly an attraction. The Pergolesi workshop on its “soundness” and if so whether it can or should at Southminster is nicely advertised in this Glebe Report. Also in that issue, Zeus the be incorporated into a structure that satisfactorily meets Guinea Pig, in his article “The Glebe according to Zeus,” mentions M&G’s Poutine our requirements. Once our requirements are established stand on Sunnyside in OOS. It is no wonder that the Glebe looks longingly at the then tenders for design and construction-estimates wonderful vibrant OOS community! should be sought. It is also interesting that the City of Ottawa Application for Rezoning at 1050-1060 Bank Street (Siam Kitchen to Barley Mow, in OOS) identifies this area as ‘in the John Goodall Glebe neighbourhood.’ We are actually two communities, neighbours in a wonderful part of Ottawa.

Irena Bell, previously Glebeite, now OOS-er

“In the Glebe neighbourhood”

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PLANNING AND ZONING in R4 12U What’s proposed in the City’s Residential Fourth The existing permissions for an unlimited number of units on lots 15 m+ (50 ft) in a four-storey building Density (R4) Zoning Review? is carried over in the new R4 UU. By Judy Flavin rental market would increase housing variety and No changes are proposed for building heights, front support intensification. and rear yards, and other requirements of the Mature The City’s R4 Zoning Review is proposing to Subject to lot area and other provisions, three new Neighbourhood Overlay. change R4 zoning to allow more units on smaller lots R4 zones are proposed: Most R4 parcels in Old Ottawa South already are throughout most of Ottawa’s oldest neighbourhoods. • On lots 8 m+ (25 ft) – up to five units in an 11m developed with row houses or apartments. To see a The Review says few low-rise apartments are (three-storey) building in the new R4 UU map of R4 zones and the discussion paper, visit the being built for various reasons. Some R4 subzones • On lots 10 m+ (33 ft) – up to eight units in an city web site ottawa.ca and search for “(R4) Zoning permit low-rise apartments only on wide lots of 15 11 m (three-storey) building in the new R4 UU, Review.” You can also ask to be notified of next m (50 feet) or more. Other subzones allow them on R4 12U and R4 8U steps. narrower lots of 12 m (40 feet) but limit them to four • On lots 15 m+ (50 ft) – up to 12 units near units. More low-rise apartments intended for the transit in an 11 m (three-story) building Judy Flavin is a long-time resident of OOS.

Tim J. Moerman Heritage City of Ottawa Zoning and Interpretations Team New official plan proposals for a Heritage Management Plan may include changes to some Heritage Conservation Districts and Heritage Re: Residential Fourth Density (R4) Zoning Review Overlay areas. These changes may leave existing heritage R4 areas, currently protected, vulnerable to infill developments that are Dear Mr. Moerman: inappropriate to and inconsistent with the existing heritage context.

I am sending the following comments in regard to the Zoning By-law Landscaping vs. parking R4 Zoning Review Discussion Paper #3 on behalf of the Old Ottawa The R4 proposals prohibit surface parking on lots less than 15 m (50 South Community Association. Most R4 parcels in our neighbourhood feet) in width or 450 m2 in area. All areas not required for walkways and are already developed; our comments reflect our interest in the future other specified uses must be landscaped. The parking ban would likely development of multi-unit housing and other, larger planning issues. deter some prospective tenants and increase demand for street parking. The City has indicated that substantial zoning changes are planned to However, it would also potentially support on-site infiltration, urban trees follow approval of a new official plan within the next year. Our view is that and backyards for tenants. any changes to R4 zoning need to happen as part of that process, for While we have not taken a position on parking, we object to the two reasons. First, we are concerned that the R4 zoning changes may proposed exemption from the 30% landscape requirement for smaller become a precedent for future changes to other zones and to Old Ottawa lots with up to 12 units. An increase in the number of units and people on South. Matters in the proposed R4 zoning related to parking and other a small lot suggests a greater need for landscape area, or at minimum, matters may be presented as “tried and true” when other multi-family maintaining the current 30% requirement. zones are later revised. Second, the purpose of zoning is to implement the official plan; it also Building facades works in concert with design guidelines, neighbourhood plans and other OSCA supports several proposals that together create a varied building tools to achieve the plan’s objectives. These too are expected to change façade and avoid a box-like structure. These include a requirement as part of the new official plan, with some neighbourhood plans and that a portion of the front façade be recessed and an allowance for a heritage provisions revised or deleted altogether. It is therefore difficult to bay window projection into the front yard. Several neighbourhoods also assess the merit of the proposed zoning changes now if the new official include Heritage Conservation Districts and Heritage Overlays where plan—especially its vision for the future of mature neighbourhoods—is additional design measures apply. still under development. Our comments and concerns with the proposals are listed below. Rear-yard projections The R4 proposals allow projections of 2.2 m (7 ft.) into the required rear Context yard to accommodate a three-storey exterior stair well. This measure The discussion paper states that “The R4 Phase 2 Zoning review would substantially increase the mass of the building. It would also will help improve housing affordability and choice in neighbourhoods… reduce the rear yard, landscaped areas, and outdoor privacy in adjacent by enabling and encouraging the development of small, affordable and properties. This proposal is not supported by OSCA. context-sensitive infill apartments.…” There is no description of how the proposed zones reflect the context of any given community. The Rooftop terraces discussion paper states that the “only material difference between these The discussion paper proposes prohibiting rooftop terraces in Sandy zones boils down to how many units an apartment is allowed to have and Hill where they are a source of noise and nuisance. They should be how big the lot has to be:” prohibited in all neighbourhoods so all are protected. The dozen or so communities with the largest areas of R4 zoning vary from Carlington to Centretown to Overbrook. Sensitivity to the context Garbage of diverse communities requires a more fine-grained approach, perhaps The discussion paper is unclear regarding the location of garbage and through additional R4 zones or design studies or other measures. recycling materials, stating that Site Plan Control will determine where A more sensitive approach to locations for 8- to 12-unit apartments and how waste is stored. Under the City’s waste management by-law, based on a community plan may be needed instead of an across- buildings up to six units require indoor garbage storage; at seven or the-board increase in density. Residents from all over the City in the more units, garbage must be kept in dumpsters and large rolling bins. community workshops on the official plan highlighted their desire to Real solutions for waste storage at the rear of R4 properties need to be protect the character of their neighbourhoods. The new official plan to developed to make sure they can be implemented through site plan. date is silent on preserving community character and instead refers to policies that are sensitive to the “context” of large areas like the inner Site Plan approval urban area. The discussion paper proposes Site Plan Control as the means to require overall landscaping; the location of air-conditioning units and Affordability other matters. Yet, the R4 study looks at relief from site plan control The discussion paper states that more units on smaller lots will increase as a cost-reduction measure—$107 per month per unit—a theme the supply of affordable housing. This seems unlikely. Rents will be set at also found in official plan discussions and proposes perhaps, in some market rates regardless of costs and likely will be high. According to the cases, eliminating the requirement altogether. OSCA does not support 2018 CMHC Rental Market Report, rents on units built in the last 15 years watering-down the use of Site Plan Approval, a proven, effective control in Ottawa on average are 26% higher than rents for comparable other mechanism. units. This is not “affordable housing” as defined in the Official Plan and We plan to publish this letter in our community newspaper, the OSCAR, elsewhere, as housing for which low-income households—households in to encourage residents to become informed and involved in planning the lowest 30% income group—pay no more than 30% of their income. issues. Thank you for your consideration of our comments.

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FAITH NEWS Of Beeswax and sewing bees: Green Lent at Southminster By Lawrence S. Cumming leave with a useful new skill and one handmade beeswax wrap. “You may Anyone, it goes without saying, be inspired to make more for yourself is welcome at any time to any of or others as gifts. All materials will Southminster’s services and other be provided, but if you have a 100% sponsored events. However, there are cotton fabric with a nice design, please a few unusual events coming up this feel free to bring it. Fabric size should Lent that may interest non-regular be no larger than 12 x 12 inches with a churchgoing neighbours. If so, please tight weave.” To register, please contact mark the dates and times that appear the Church Office in advance (613- below. 730-6874 or [email protected]). The On the inspiration of its Minister, the class size is limited. Participants will Rev. Dr. Steven Moore, Southminster be asked to bring $10.00 each to help has adopted an unusual “giving-up cover the cost of materials. for Lent” project – the huge global The Lenten program will conclude problem of plastic waste. He will work on March 29 with a play during the biblical-theological idea of “the the morning service. Kristina Watt integrity of creation” into several of the founding Director of 100 Watt his Sunday sermons over the period. Productions will bring her troupe of During the week, Church members also youth actors to perform their play On March 29 at Southminster United Church a troupe of youth actors will be engaging in study and reflection, “12”, which she describes as “an will perform their play “12” about climate change and the future that letter writing to governments and retail original theatre creation that gives they have inherited. PHOTO BY BRIGITTE PELLERIN executives as well as some practical voice to youth with regard to climate hands-on initiatives. change and the future they feel they We will be looking at alternatives and have inherited.” According to Citizen Beeswax Cloth Workshop challenging ourselves to replace at least staff writer, Brigitte Pellerin, the Saturday, March 28 play is “starting to create some buzz, one product with a sustainable option. Southminster United Soaps and cleaning products once which thrills me no end.” Ms. Watt came in the form of powders and bars. calls it “a love story of sorts between 10:00-12:00 Somewhere along the line, these came the generations. . . . The fact that it is Cost $10 to be sold mainly in liquid form, thus theatre is also essential . . . it entertains, For Registration requiring vast numbers of plastic bottles it appeals to the heart – and when the (several hundred million every year) hearts of the audience are open, the play call 613-730-6874 which are going to landfills, or ending may have an impact on their thoughts, or email [email protected] up clogging rivers, lakes and oceans. and hopefully, actions.” During February, a group of Full details of all these Southminster Southminster members and their friends activities may be found under have joined sewing bees, learning to the “A Green Lent” heading make re-usable shopping bags. These, on the Church Website (www. along with other environment-friendly southminsterunitedchurch.com). While products, will be on sale during coffee you are there, have a look at our regular hour after Sunday worship over the worship, educational, music, social Lenten period. action and other activities. We are a On Saturday, March 28, between busy group of people seeking to serve 10:00 am and 12:00 noon, our community in many ways! Southminster’s Children’s Program Director, Darla Barrows will be Lawrence Cumming is a longtime holding a Beeswax workshop for the Southminster member and OOS general public. “Perfect for children’s resident. lunchboxes, sweetly-scented beeswax cloths are reusable for up to one year”, she notes. Darla will take you through every step of the process, and you’ll

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COUNCILLOR’S REPORT The Future of Transportation on Bank Street By Shawn Menard, City in the next month. The results of this analysis will Councillor We will be conducting more public be reviewed by staff and should consultations and presenting staff ideas help guide decisions related to the for improving Bank Street (some ideas placement of the entrance to the Back in December, my office hosted include bus/bike only for the outside underground parking. a public forum on Bank Street lanes over the bridge, bus/bike only on New developments bring transportation. With representatives outside lanes during rush hours, pilot opportunities to our neighbourhood, from they city’s Traffic Services projects and more). This should be a but also challenges. We have been Department, OC Transpo, Ottawa healthy discussion about what change pleased to see two community Transit Riders and Bike Ottawa, along is needed, recognizing that what is consultations on this proposal thus with OCDSB Trustee Lyra Evans, we there now isn’t working. far and adjustments to improve had a robust discussion on the ways community benefits. More to come on we could make Bank Street safer and for the bid. This is very questionable 1050-1060 Bank Street Update this. more welcoming for residents, reduce governance by the city. There is a proposal in front of city congestion, while also meeting the Our motion called for the release of planners to re-develop 1050-1060 Lansdowne Park Update needs of small businesses. all Stage 2 LRT Trillium Line Project Bank Street (the property across from In November, we worked with Mobility and safety along Bank Procurement documents, as well as the library, currently home to Siam residents, community associations Street has been a serious issue in our the legal opinion by the law firm Kitchen, Boomerang Kids and the and other City Councillors to pass community and played a big role in Norton Rose Fullbright that justified Barley Mow). The proposal is for a motion at Council seeking robust the last municipal election. We want moving SNC-Lavalin’s bid forward, a six-story building, with retail and public consultations on Lansdowne to see improvements and ensure that even though it missed the minimum commercial units on the ground-floor Park. Included in this was a potential sustainable transportation is properly technical threshold. In addition, the and apartments above. City planners ‘no deal’ option on proposed changes accommodated. motion calls on the city to hire an along with our office are currently to the structure of the partnership The public forum was just the first independent consultant to undertake reviewing the design. between the city and the Ottawa Sports step in this process. We have also a “Lessons Learned” exercise on the Recently we have discussed the and Entertainment Group (OSEG) as it reached out to community associations procurement process, and to review the exterior site plan of the building, the pertains to the operations of the public and we have canvassed the businesses city’s Public-Private Partnership (P3) proposed rental accommodations amenities at Lansdowne. in Old Ottawa South. We are working Policy, our Purchasing By-Law and our (44 units), the height and character, Conversations have been ongoing with city staff to find possible solutions Delegated Authority By-Law. and have directed the developer to with consultations that were getting that will better meet the needs of all These are important steps to undertake a Traffic Impact Analysis. ready to begin in February. However, residents and will be releasing a report restore the public’s trust in the city’s after further discussions with OSEG procurement process and to guard and staff, it appears as though there against mistakes being repeated could be a positive development in when it comes to Stage 3 of LRT. But how we move forward on this process. SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2020 AT 3:00 PM there is more to do. Stage 1 is still There remains strong support for public Church of St. Francis of Assisi not functioning as it should and is a amenities, programs and services significant concern. continuing at Lansdowne and I look If you would like to see an forward to providing more updates on independent office review Stage 2, we this, and the consultation process in would advise contacting the Ontario due course. Ombudsman for review of the Stage 2 procurement process and More Transparency on LRT Stage 2 decision-making. You can access In early February, I worked with an online form, phone number and Councillor Carol Anne Meehan and mailing address at the website: www. Mayor Jim Watson to craft a motion ombudsmand.on.ca/contact-us. that would bring more transparency to the recent procurement process for Shawn Menard is City Councillor Stage 2 of Light Rail. As you probably for Capital Ward. He can be reached know, TransitNEXT (a consortium at [email protected] or made up of SNC-Lavalin) won the www.shawnmenard.ca. contract even though they did not meet the minimum technical scoring

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ENVIRONMENT What can we do? The following teksavvy.com) for the June issue of The tips are based on the Pinecrest Creek OSCAR. We really want to hear about Keeping rain where it belongs project’s educational material. your good work. Registration for the Spring Cleaning the Capital campaign Slow it down begins on March 15th, and the • Redirect your downspout to grass campaign runs from April 15th to May or gardens on your own property 15th. Go to ottawa.ca and search under • Use rain barrels to collect rainfall “Clean Up the Capital 2020” or call for later use – make sure to use 311 to register and get your Cleanup the water before the next rain starter kit. • Plant trees and shrubs – trees slow the volume of rain by 30% Jane’s walk at Brewer Pond • Soak it up We’ll be doing a Jane’s walk at • Build a rain garden to encourage Brewer Pond this year on Saturday, infiltration into the ground May 2nd. Over the last 45-50 years, • Use paving stones or permeable various groups have reclaimed this paving in place of asphalt former “swimming pool,” opened • Depave – replace unused asphalt it back up to the river, and planted with grass or gardens a tiny forest on the dike. The new The Rideau River, destination of much of our local runoff. Too much water environment group hopes to take it from our streets ends up here. Let’s try to keep it clean and keep your Keep it clean further by planting a butterfly meadow precious rainwater at home. PHOTO BY SANDY GARLAND • Never pour anything down a and flowering trees for early bees, storm sewer – they drain to local installing bird boxes, and more. Come waterways look at the pond and talk about the In spring, when snow melted, too By Sandy Garland • Pick up after your pets and flush possibilities. much water flowed into the river and it feces (not bags) down the toilet flooded over its banks. The people had Once upon a time, there was a small • Wash your car at a car wash Please help to build a dike to keep the water from settlement on the banks of a beautiful instead of in your driveway Have you seen an interesting article, coming into their houses. river. It was a lovely site, with many • Use compost instead of chemical video, web site related to environment trees, open meadows of wildflowers fertilizer and pertinent in OOS? Please let us Restoring balance and grasses, and a marsh where water • Use non-toxic alternatives to salt know. You may be wondering why I’m plants grew and many different kinds • Use public ash trays What steps are your family taking writing about rain in winter, but I’ve of insects, birds, butterflies, and to reduce/reuse/recycle? Lower your been thinking a lot about the river as I small animals lived. When it rained, Links carbon footprint? Restore ecosystems? walk my dog at Brewer, or along the the water seeped into the ground • For facts and figures, check out You can inspire your neighbours and dike to Windsor Park. On warm days I where tree roots could reach it, and it the city of Ottawa’s web page multiply the impact! see water streaming down driveways, replenished the marsh. “Stormwater and Drainage” then roads. The river is high, and we’re Soon more people discovered the • “Accidental wilderness” – A great hearing about too much salt flowing settlement, and roads were needed so Nature of Things documentary on Sandy Garland is a longtime resident into it. they could travel to the town to the a wetland wilderness in downtown of OOS. She has been involved The City of Ottawa is working on north. Time went by and cars were Toronto is available online at in naturalizing Brewer Pond and rainwater management and part of that invented; they needed smooth hard www.cbc.ca/natureofthings growing native plants for other is asking us to keep rain on our own surfaces to drive on. People bought • How to sow a wildflower mini- projects in our neighbourhood. land. A web page has information on cars for themselves and made a smooth meadow (British, but adaptable) how to create a rain garden – plants hard place on their own land for their go to: www.discoverwildlife.com that will use the water, while keeping it car. and under the “How To” tab go to away from your foundation (see links Now, when rain fell, some of it slid “Wildlife Gardening” below). off the smooth surfaces and ran down • New book by nature guru, Doug A rain garden project on Sunnyside to the river. As more houses appeared, Tallamy: Nature’s Best Hope: A Ave. is showing us which native plants pipes were installed to direct the water New Approach to Conservation do best in during both heavy rain and Putting theory into away from them. Now the soil was not that Starts in Your Yard dry spells. The city is also monitoring practice so damp. Because it contained a lot of • City of Ottawa’s latest Wildlife water levels in the rain garden plots to Our neighbour, Brian clay, it shrank as it dried, sometimes Speaker event about coyotes see how well they capture, slow down, Tansey, has been conserving causing problems in basement walls. was recorded and is available on and absorb runoff from the road. rainwater for many years. His People thought the tree roots were YouTube. This is an excellent talk A pilot project in the Pinecrest area driveway is made of permeable causing the problems, so they chopped with insights based on a 20-year – The Pinecrest Neighbourhood Rain paving stones so water can pass some down. They didn’t know that the study of coyotes in and around Project – includes information sessions, through it into the soil. Several rain trees were holding water and allowing Chicago. Zip to minute 13, where workshops, signs, demonstration rain barrels catch roof runoff, which is it to evaporate from their leaves, back the presentation begins. Search gardens, and de-paving. directed via agricultural-type plastic up to the sky. for: “Wildlife Speaker Series - In Morgan’s Grant, a huge expanse irrigation hoses to the base of a In summer, when there was very Living with Coyotes” little rain, people had to water their of hydro corridor has been planted with new, but well-developed, maple native wildflowers, grasses, and sedges. tree and garden in his front yard gardens and some of the remaining Clean Up the Capital It’s so successful at holding water and to an old, well-developed trees died because their roots couldn’t Let’s start the season right. Please that the city has incorporated it into oak tree and garden in his reach water, which was very deep in register your street or park cleanup, its stormwater management system backyard. the soil. When rain did fall, most of but mention Old Ottawa South. Take and hopes to replicate this approach in it flowed over the smooth surfaces, photos and send them to us (sgarland@ through the pipes, and into the river. other parts of the region.

Earth Hour Saturday, March 28 from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm Started by the World Wildlife Fund and partners as a symbolic lights-out event in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour is now one of the world’s largest grassroots movements for the environment, engaging millions of people in more than 180 countries and territories. It has become a catalyst for positive environmental impact, driving major legislative changes by harnessing the power of the people. www.oldottawasouth.ca (earthhour.org) Page 16 The OSCAR l March 2020

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Music at Trinityas Mozart,presents Schubert, Brahms, Duo Fauré, Sakura:for piano duet: Claude1 piano Debussy’s 4 handshas been featured in different concert Debussy to name just a few, while Petite Suite and Rachmaninov Op.11. series such as Glebe Saint James United Music at Trinity others used this form of chamber Debussy’s Petite Suite was composed Church and Christ Church Cathedral in presents music to make arrangements of larger between 1886-1889 and was first Ottawa, as well as private venues. symphonic works such as Max Reger’s performed in 1889 by the composer and Sakura, Japanese for cherry blossom, Duo Sakura transcriptions for piano four hands of the publisher Jacques Durand. The suite evokes a particular feeling of early March 28 at 4:30 pm Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti. They is comprised of four movements – En spring, delicate petals of light pink made the music more accessible before bateau, Cortège, Menuet, Ballet – and being the symbol of the transience Trinity we had the luxury of recordings. If one the first two movements are based of life. Music is an art of ephemeral Anglican Church pays close attention to how this music on poems from Les Fêtes Galantes beauty that lives in time and space. The was composed, it becomes apparent by Paul Verlaine. We all know Sergei moment we hear the music is also the Admission by some compositions require a lot of Rachmaninov for his highly virtuosic moment when the music disappears. Its freewill offering hand crossing. Given the proximity of piano concerti and solo pieces for uniqueness lies in the fact that the sound the performers – both pianists usually piano but he composed this lovely suite of the music conveys meanings, ideas, sharing the same bench – it is not in 1894. Not unlike his other piano images, colors, emotions and stories to By Fabien Tousignant, uncommon for their hands to touch in works, these are for advanced pianists the listener. Pianists Ineke Helby and order to play those pieces. One might and require technical maturity at the Chiharu Zeng invite the public to a Artistic Director think that composers did this on purpose keyboard. Barcarolle, Scherzo, Chanson rich experience of the piano four hands because it was a socially acceptable way Russe, Valse, Romance and Slava make repertoire. For the March presentation of Music for young people to touch each other’s this six movement suite. To bring a This concert will be held on at Trinity, we will have the privilege of hands in public. For example Franz humorous touch to the program, the March 28th 2020 at 4:30 pm at Trinity witnessing two pianists perform at the Schubert’s famous Fantasy in f minor duo will perform Claus-Dieter Ludwig Anglican Church (1230 Bank Street @ same time on the same piano. It is not was dedicated to Caroline Esterhazy, variations on the Happy Birthday song. Cameron) with the Duo Sakura: Ineke often that we have the opportunity to who was a student of his. Some claim Duo Sakura specializes in one piano Helby and Chiharu Zeng. Admission is hear music composed for piano four- he was in love with her, and what better four hands performance and offers a by freewill offering. hands and there is a rich repertoire way to show it while playing the piano. unique experience for the audience with worth exploring. Many composers The program offered by Duo Sakura exquisite classical repertoire, passionate wrote music for piano four hands such will feature two important suites written tango, and humorous song. The duo

If you’ve been in the Children’s that the library housed singers. What choir, so no need for stage fright! section of the Sunnyside Library on you heard was the Sunnyside Up Choir Research on senior populations has The Joys of a Thursday afternoon, you will likely holding our weekly session. demonstrated the great benefits of have heard the sounds of joyful singing Since September 2019, an intrepid singing – for improving brain health, Singing and gales of laughter. You might search group of twenty or so singers has combatting isolation, contributing to By Katherine Arnup around to see where the sound was gathered in Room A (and sometimes overall physical, mental, and spiritual coming from and wondered when it was B) to share our love of music. Formed health, and nurturing friendships. Those after our original daytime choir wound are just some of the reasons to come down, we decided to try our luck in a and join us on a Thursday afternoon, no CANADA’S ONLY OATMEAL CAFE new location, with a new director, and matter what the weather! a whole new repertoire. Many of the To pay our director and cover facility original members are still coming every costs at the library, members pay $125 week and we’ve attracted several new every five months. The first session is singers along the way. free – and there’s a drop-in charge of We’re looking for new members to $10 after that if you’re checking us out. join us! Please join us! Come down the Sunnyside Up is a non-audition choir stairs and past the children’s section. – the director will help you determine There’s free parking at the Library or what section you’ll be in (soprano, alto, on neighbourhood streets like Aylmer or bass) and provide you with the sheet and Euclid. Introduce yourself to one of music to get you started. Knowing how the members and they’ll help you get to read music is not required – many oriented. of us learn primarily by ear and use For more information, email: Fashionable recordings of the songs to help us learn [email protected] our parts. Some members have been in Oatmeal many choirs over the years; for others, Katherine Arnup is a writer, singer, this is their first experience. We sing a ukulele player and co-coordinator of the Open 365 days a year 7am-4pm capella (without accompaniment) and Sunnyside Up Choir. She has lived in our repertoire includes popular, folk, Old Ottawa South for nearly 30 years. 1154 BANK STREET @ GLEN traditional and country songs. Because we are a daytime choir (Thursdays from 1:15 to 2:45) many of our members are seniors who enjoy Sunnyside Up the flexibility of Sunnyside Up. At any given time, about a quarter or more of Choir our members are away, travelling to Thursdays from warmer climes, visiting grandchildren in far-flung locations, or attending 1:15 to 2:45 conferences and film festivals. We are a A scotch lounge in your group with many interests and talents! At the Sunnyside And we love to laugh. Library neighbourhood. Neat. Every month or so we have a social – a few members bring sweet and savoury $125 / five months 54 single malts, Scotch Cocktails, treats, tea and cold drinks, and we get to Email: Wine, Beer, Cider & Prosecco and Small plates know one another on a more personal Evenings @ Oat Couture Oatmeal Cafe level. We hosted a standing-room only sunnysideupchoir@ Wednesday - Saturday 5pm - late sing-along of Christmas songs at Patty’s gmail.com Pub in December and there will likely be more events like this in 2020. Apart CANADA’S ONLY SINGLE MALT LOUNGE from that, we are a non-performing

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Annelies: The SOMETHING EXCITING diary of a young girl – a concert IS COMING by the Ottawa TO THE GLEBE Choral Society

Anne Frank in 1940. PHOTO FROM THE ANNE FRANK HOUSE, AMSTERDAM By Anna Lehn out the window up at the peace and beauty of the sky, contrasting with the How do you set a diary to music? lower voices representing the gathering But not just any diary – Anne Frank’s storm of history below. The family goes diary. Most of us probably have read into hiding. a translation of this Jewish teenager’s Confined to the attic, the soloist as work in high school. But did we fully Anne remains cheerful: “As long as this appreciate her insights? It’s easy to exists, the sunshine and this cloudless forget that she was a real person with sky, how can I be sad?” The chorus hopes and dreams. adds hopefully that “One day we will Anne’s full name is Annelies. be people again.” The movement, During World War Two, Anne’s family “Courage,” attempts to comfort us was unable to escape, so they were saying that the winter is over, blossoms forced to hide from the brutal Nazis are everywhere, and my heart is glad. who occupied the Netherlands. They But the terror is not far away. In shared a secret attic in an Amsterdam movement 7, the Nazis almost discover warehouse with several others. In 1942, them. You hear the frantic heartbeats of less than a month before they went into the attic dwellers holding their breath. hiding, Anne received a diary. In it, Then the action freezes – the angelic she expressed her maturing, innermost sounds of Kyrie eleison builds into a thoughts. This diary would become desperate plea, “God have mercy.” 33 MONK STREET a significant historical document and Anne tries to boost her courage: personalize the tragedies of war. “We must be brave and trust in God.” Anne hoped to become a writer, but Reminiscent of a German hymn, the she would not live to see her dreams haunting “Thank you, God, for all that is Located along a vibrant section of Bank Street lined with fulfilled. After two years of hiding, in good and dear and beautiful” contrasts unique specialty shops, cafes and restaurants, residents with the horror of their impending arrest. August 1944, the Nazis broke into their at Amica The Glebe will come home to a historic Ottawa hiding place and transported the family The despair builds as Anne dreams that to various concentration camps. Anne her friend is lost without her. But then neighbourhood admired for its bike and pedestrian died in early 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen – a glimmer of hope with news about pathways, leafy streets, and beautiful century homes. concentration camp. D-day and the advancing liberation British composer James Whitbourn forces. Our residence will feature meals prepared by our Red Seal was authorized by the Anne Frank August 1, 1944 was Anne’s last Foundation to set parts of the diary to diary entry. A few days later they were Chef, personalized care services, and premium amenities music along with additional text. This arrested, the scene presented in a chilling like a salon, fitness centre, and greenhouse. Feel confident chant. choral work has been described as knowing Amica The Glebe will provide you with everything “devastatingly beautiful” and of “such Anne’s words are still relevant for us tender respect it’s almost impossible to today. Her legacy challenges us to end you need today, and in the years to come. hear without tears.” prejudice and embrace diversity. Whitbourn’s score paints The concert is Sunday, March 29th To stay informed about our latest updates heartbreaking images, the likes of from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Church which most of us will never witness. of St. Francis of Assisi, 20 Fairmont and events, call Alison Keller at 613-233-6363 Jewish harmonic-minor melodies weave Ave. Tickets are $25, $35, $50 and or email [email protected] throughout the piece, reminding us of available at www.ottawachoralsociety. Klezmer music. com/box-office. The second movement is a foreshadowing of their doom. You hear Anna Lehn is an Ottawa Choral the higher choral voices as Anne looks Society member.

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ARTS AND CULTURE DIMENSIONS: Vibrational Harmony with Makin’ Moves Children’s Dance Theatre PHOTOS BY COLLEEN ISSA By Aurora Roos-Paul “You Are My Sunshine” by the Pre-Ballet class.

On Sunday, January 26th the dancers incorporated celestial themes, dancer, they grow in confidence and of Makin’ Moves Children’s Dance happiness and light. The pre-ballet ability. For the choreographer, the Theatre performed their first show of dancers made their debut to a lovely, communication and realization of an the season, DIMENSIONS: Vibrational instrumental version of You Are My idea comes to life. For the audience Harmony. This theme allowed the Sunshine. The audience erupted with member, the feelings of joy and choreographers and dancers to explore laughs and variations of, “oh, how pride are experienced. Joy comes their connection to the universe and cute” with each wave, smile and hand from seeing beautiful young children embrace their relationship with nature. in front of their eyes to block the bright moving to beautiful music wearing At Makin’ Moves, we believe that our stage light. Our Aspiring Artist beautiful costumes. Pride comes from inspiration, joy and gratitude is drawn level I dancers wowed the audience watching the child or children you have from the natural world. When we are in harmony with the universe, we exude positive energy, light and happiness. The creation and performance that took place were beautiful reflections of these ideas. The show opened with a dramatic, colourful piece entitled “The Northern Lights.” The dancers leapt across the stage, colorful scarves trailing behind Lauren Bradley dancing in “The them, emulating the Aurora Borealis. Northern Lights.” Each piece in the performance

All the dances on stage for a bow after the finale.

with their unique, contemporary a personal connection with. You have jazz dance choreographed by Sarah watched them grow up, and now you Paquette. The audience loved to are watching a talent in them develop. reminisce to the 80’s sound of Elton It is a recipe that uplifts even the most John’s Rocketman. Another audience curmudgeonly older brother who has favourite was “Emotions,” performed been “forced” to watch his sister’s by the oldest dancers, the Aspiring recital. Artist level II. The contemporary ballet Although we just finished our first piece had a stunning lift that drove the semester and recital of the season, I audience to applaud mid dance! have already started picking songs and The show always finishes to the choreographing for our next show, for happy sound of Better When I’m as we say in show business, “The show Dancin’ with every single dancer in our must go on!” Held at Centerpointe studio on stage, jumping and dancing Theatre in June, the Makin’ Moves along to the song. Finishing with bows dancers will perform once again in and curtsies and deafening applause, their final show of the dance season. the dancers all left smiling and filled with adrenaline. Each recital is a Aurora Roos-Paul is the Assistant milestone for dancer, choreographer Artistic Director at Makin’ Moves and audience member alike. For the Children’s Dance Theatre.

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NEWS Big things are happening at the OTLBC this winter By Janet Uren Pub nights The courts at Cameron may be Heritage Designation covered with snow and deserted, The century-old clubhouse at the but members of OTLBC are still Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling getting together. A recent Pub Night Club (OTLBC) recently received a at the Ottawa Athletic Club was a City of Ottawa heritage designation, big success, with The Cameron (the recognizing it as an important part of club’s restaurant) providing cheese and the community’s historical fabric. charcuteries. Another gathering will Heritage designations are awarded to be planned for April, before the club buildings that are rare or even unique. opens. The Clubhouse fits the bill as one of the very few grand old buildings of Morgan’s adventures its kind in Canada. It opened almost The tennis club on Cameron Avenue a century ago, on July 23, 1922, as is a hive of activity all summer. In February was staff recruitment month at the OTLBC. Claire Brodie, Maria the centrepiece of a tournament that winter, it apparently goes to sleep, but Pierre-Noel and Morgan Johnson-Dugay, the management team at the club, attracted some of the most prominent appearances are deceptive. “We’re attended the Carleton U. Job Fair. tennis players of the day. Designed still there well into November,” says we went apple-picking at Mountain membership going in winter. However, by John A. Ewart – the architect Assistant Manager Morgan Johnson- Orchard. It was a beautiful fall day. her seasonal solitude may soon end. who virtually created civic Ottawa Dugay. “As we close up the club, we They explained all the ‘apple options,’ The OTLBC is raising funds to restore in the early 20th century and also need to be on-site to complete year-end then took us out to the orchards by the old clubhouse. The result will be a designed both Southminster United reports and winterize the building.” tractor. Afterwards, we had hot apple four-season building that will be a hive and the Sunnyside Library Branch – Given that there is no heat or plumbing cider and doughnuts and sat and talked of year-long activity for Morgan and the Clubhouse exhibits the popular in the century-old building, this can be for a while.” other club employees. Be careful what Tudor-revival style of the time; it a pretty challenging experience.” Other adventures have included you wish for, Morgan! also epitomizes in its scale, style and Morgan started at OTLBC seven biking along the parkway and a Adventures with Morgan and Pub materials the vital sporting culture of years ago, watering the tennis courts, bowling night with beer and pizza. The Nights are open to OTLBC members Old Ottawa. and, over the years, has climbed the Christmas skating party at Brewer Park and non-members alike. To register There is a strong cultural aspect to ladder through almost every job at the was a blast, though – strangely enough for the newsletter with information on the designation. Canada is sustained club. In winter, she works remotely – absolutely no one wanted to go upcoming events, visit the website at by a culture of volunteerism, and the with the Executive Director, and they swimming in January. The recent Ping www.otlbc.com. tennis world as represented by OTLBC meet at a local coffee shop for planning Pong and Pool at Tailgaters in Nepean is a prime example of that spirit. sessions. was much more popular. Janet Uren is a professional writer Generations of Ottawa people have “It’s unbelievably busy in the Morgan is doing her best to keep the living in Ottawa. gathered in the OTLBC Clubhouse summer which I love” she says, over the past century to celebrate their “when it’s go, go, go there is constant love of sport, the outdoors and family stimulation.” There’s lots of work life – “The OTLBC Life.” They have to do winter – planning the next made it their headquarters in serving season, programming, hiring but she the club and the tennis community at particularly misses the members and large. the camaraderie. The designation underscores Morgan has come up with a brilliant the importance of preserving this scheme both to keep the club alive in wonderful old Clubhouse in perpetuity winter and to help keep her in contact not only as a monument to the history with members off-season. She calls it of tennis but also as a living part of “OTLBC Adventures with Morgan.” the sport’s future. To that end, the “The idea is to think up activities that OTLBC has been raising funds for will bring members together for some an ambitious restoration and renewal fun over the winter,” she explains. of the building. Visit www.otlbc.com She welcomes non-members as well 461 Cloverdale Rd - $3,500,000 3301-38 Metropole Pvt - $2,990,000 and under “About the Club” click on and tries to think up activities that are Incredible 7 bed Rockcliffe Park estate Luxurious 2700 sq ft penthouse “Clubhouse Restoration Project” for equally fun for children and adults. more information. There’s a strong seasonal flavour to Morgan’s line-up. “In October, SOLD SOLD IN MULTIPLE OFFERS

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SPORTS NEWS Glebe Little Leaguers win big! By Camielle Edwards Lang

Competition is a given when it comes to sports and that’s why Glebe Little League doesn’t focus on it. This little league is all about skill and player development. Glebe Little League (GLL) is the oldest baseball Little League in Canada, operating continuously since it was originally chartered in 1955. The League is dedicated to providing both House and Competitive level baseball and T-ball for young players, boys and girls, ages 4 to 19, as well as coaching, umpiring and other volunteer opportunities for community members Glebe Little League Winter Baseball Academy’s “pitch perfect” clinic with coach David Steffler. of all ages. GLL is a volunteer-run organization with one thing in mind – PHOTO BY CAMIELLE EDWARDS (GLL) kids playing ball. It’s good to know that playing ball (a former Major League Baseball are included with GLL Spring Ball GLL will be calling out to our female doesn’t have to end in the fall with the pitching draft), train co-ed T-Ball to registration, and are highly effective in players and offering new registrants the World Series. GLL’s Winter Baseball Majors’ age divisions with a complete player development. opportunity to take part in the summer Academy is in its second year and has program of skills development in a fun Throughout the year, GLL coaches 2020 All Girls program. been in full swing since January 11 setting. They hone in on hand-eye co- use the complete skills development No one can dispute that winning a (until April 25), hitting the sweet spots ordination, balance, pitching, catching, program to help players learn and build game or tournament is awesome. But it with both players and parents alike. hitting, throwing and running, using abilities that many children need to is a victory that lasts for a day or week At the Winter Baseball Academy, a combination of modern technology, be their best selves – focus, patience, at most. Learning how to make that dedicated, high-energy coaches, experience and updated expert confidence, being ready to play and win happen, improving skills, working under the leadership of David Steffler methodologies. The free sessions ready to not play. An instructional hard, focusing on being the best you curriculum in the 10-week spring can be – that’s the win that lasts a program (developed by Little League lifetime. University) is followed for the T-Ball As they prepare young players for and Rookies division, matching the ump’s first call of “Play Ball!” practice drills with learning objectives. GLL will continue to foster a fun and For outdoor play, GLL offers positive baseball experience and invites baseball programs at various fields in more kids to be part of their winning the Glebe, Centretown, Lowertown, strategy. Spring registration is open Sandy Hill, Ottawa East, Old Ottawa now. South, Overbrook, Vanier, Manor Park and Gloucester. Other than ball gloves, For more information, or to register GLL provides T-shirts and hats for each your child for GLL Spring Ball or player as well as bases, bats, batting other programs, please visit www. helmets baseballs and everything else a GlebeLittleLeague.ca. baseball team uses. In 2019 GLL joined neighbouring leagues in an All Girls baseball Camielle Edwards Lang is a Glebe program. Local Women’s Team Canada Little League parent volunteer. and Team Ontario players took part in the program, leading clinics to kick off the season. A resounding success,

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DESIGN DILEMMAS

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ARTS AND CULTURE Artists thrive in Old Ottawa South By Ada Brzeski The situation in Ottawa is such that artists are finding it more and more Arts organizations are essential to difficult to rent studio space. I found vibrant, livable communities. It’s a myself in that position last year when simple and widely acknowledged a developer announced that he will fact. They are significant vehicles for turn into condos a space where over community vitality and cohesion. They 100 artists are working. A group of enhance local economic development local artists and I started looking for a through direct employment and cultural new space last March. As a result, we tourism, and by helping communities founded a not-for-profit organization offer the quality of life that attracts called Studio Space Ottawa (SSO) in the skilled workers needed in the 21st July 2019. century creative economy. The project was initiated by Unfortunately, the arts have Kathy Bergquist who found a vacant been continually underfunded and warehouse building for rent at 2477 organizations are stretched to the limit. Kaladar Avenue in late March. The Painter John Archer with some of his works.

property managers, Stonewater to work on and also to have room for Properties, were keen to redevelop small workshops and collaborations. the property. They were willing to do You can see her work on her Instagram renovations to create artist studios on the site @missymostly. Please email Missy second level of the building, and to offer at [email protected] for an affordable price per square foot. inquiries. A Grand Opening celebration on October 25th, 2019, featured 20 studios Roman Romanovich occupied by 22 artists working in Roman Romanovich is a painting, photography, fabric art, mixed photographer who specializes in media and new media. Several of the wildlife, sports and concert photography. artists now renting space at SSO are His studio work includes high-speed from Old Ottawa South. photography, macro-photography and historical and artistic series with models. John Archer He is a 25 year resident of Old Ottawa A resident of Old Ottawa South South. for over 40 years, John Archer and Potters Ada Brzeski and Susan Roston. PHOTO BY DAVE DRAPEAU his wife Paula raised two daughters, SSO is looking at expanding the Kate and Elizabeth, in the community. number of studios and have indicated After spending most of his working to the property managers that we could life in architecture and the construction potentially occupy 3,000 to 5,000 industry, John is pleased to be retired additional square footage of space to and focusing now on his love of accommodate 20 or more additional painting and drawing. Although studios. Our current waiting list of 50 currently working on more figurative artists is continually growing. pieces, his recurring interest has been Stonewater Properties had funded landscapes, painted in an expressive the major renovations to create the first Experience The OTLBC Life... style. These landscapes attempt to 22 studios but SSO will have to fund capture an emotion that others can feel the renovations needed to create the Become a Member! when viewing his work – whether the next 20 units. As SSO is a non-profit anticipation of spring in a warm winter organization that is still in its initial Save More and Get day, the quiet and calm of the North growing phase, we are seeking support in the fall, or the mystery of a moonlit from sponsors to build these additional FREE Pre & Post Care field. studios. Our goal is to raise $50,000 for building material and labour costs to SUMMER CAMP Susan Roston and Ada Brzeski erect walls and to upgrade the electrical Susan Roston and I are both potters. outlets needed by the artists. Donations EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION We both worked for many years at the can be made to Studio Space Ottawa Until MARCH 31, 2020 Firehall clay studio, but we first met at and mailed to 19 Pansy Ave. Ottawa ON Gladstone Clayworks and have now K1S 2W5. opened our own studio at 2477 Kaladar. Any artist interested in viewing My work reflects my Polish roots. Using the space can contact Anna Frlan at hand cut paper “Wycinanki” which [email protected] serve as a stencil, I create colorful pieces Member Discounts, Pre & Post Care of functional art. Susan’s sculptural LUNCH INCLUDED work reflects her love of water and Ada Brzeski is a potter at Studio flowing life. Her intricately carved Space Ottawa and lives in OOS. Tennis, Swimming & more! ceramic pieces can be seen at Studio Sixty Six Gallery. REGISTER ONLINE Donations can be www.otlbc.com/summer-camps Missy Fraser Missy Fraser is known for her made to “Studio [email protected] | 613-730-7207 colourful, bright, expressive and joyful work. She uses organic forms Space Ottawa” and figures mixed up with stories and narratives of one kind or another. Missy 19 Pansy Ave. says she loves making and teaching art and she believes everyone can make Ottawa ON something beautiful. Missy moved from her home studio to Kaladar to enjoy K1S 2W5 more surface space and larger walls The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 23

SIPS FROM THE POETRY CAFE Colombia, Haiti and the USA will be among the headliners on other nights VERSeFest during the Festival. Sheree Fitch’s VERSeFest Ottawa Amongst the world-renowned poets turns ten years that have been invited to read on the appearances include: VerseFest stage is Sheree Fitch. Sheree old this March will be this year’s children’s poet at VERSeFest, and kids, we guarantee Writersfest Showcase By Susan J. Atkinson this is one event that you won’t need Friday, March 27 at 7 pm to beg your parents to take you to. In Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar Street VERSeFest, Ottawa’s International fact, they are probably going to be just Poetry Festival, is gearing up to as eager to leave their pyjamas on, and celebrate its tenth anniversary and with have you lead them by the hand for Poetry & Pyjamas an incredible line-up of international an incredible and memorable time of Saturday, March 28 at 10 am poetry performed by the wonderful Ms. and local poets, it promises to be a Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar Street must-see for every poetry lover. Fitch on Saturday, March 28th. The Festival returns for its Tenth This year, the Festival has a special Anniversary from March 24 - March treat as there will not only be one For more info on VERSeFest go to: versefest.ca 29, 2020. The program will showcase children’s poet but two. Barbara a diverse and talented group of more Nichol joins Ms. Fitch in delighting than 80 poets, featuring English and the youngest Festival goers. Barbara, an award-winning writer who published in November 2017. A new entertaining the primary children at French poetry in a week-long event children’s book, Summer Feet will be OCDSB elementary school Charles H. that highlights the best local, Canadian, produces work across many genres, including scripts for TV, play writing published in June 2020. Hulse at a special invitational reading. and international poets performing in Fitch will not only be wooing the The youngsters at Charles Hulse, both spoken and written word genres. for stage, radio recordings and film documentaries, has also written several younger festival-goers at the Poetry many of whom are new immigrants As one of Canada’s largest and most and Pyjamas event, slated to take place and refugees, will have enjoyed a successful poetry festivals, its stages books of verse for children. Sheree Fitch is a multi-award- on Saturday, March 28th at 10 am at private morning of poetry and verse have featured readings by Griffin, the Knox Presbyterian Church, but she in their own school library. This will Governor General, and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, speaker, educator and the author of over 30 books in a variety will also be performing as part of the be a rare and very special treat, which winners. Writersfest Showcase on Friday, March these children will surely treasure and This year, Karen Solie and Jean- of genres. Since the publication of her first book, Toes in My Nose in 1987, 27th at 7 pm. Fitch will read alongside remember for many years to come. Marc Dalpé will be the poets who open poets Monika Rinck, Sara Dignard and the six-day celebration on Tuesday, she’s travelled the globe as a visiting poet and storyteller, writing instructor Robin Richardson. Susan J. Atkinson is a poet, children’s March 24th; later in the evening, It will have been a busy day for this author and educator. She lives in Old spoken word poets will take to the and literacy educator. Her most recent book is for adults, You Won’t Always award-winning poet as she will have Ottawa South. stage under the Urban Legends banner. spent the earlier part of her morning Poets from Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Be This Sad, a book of moments,

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FILM REVIEW Little Women and American Factory Meryl Streep. The film suggests the story is loosely autobiographical since Jo (played by Ronan) is a writer and is portrayed as the book’s author. The story builds on the close, and at times intimate relationship amongst the March sisters, two of whom fall in love with a young man named Laurie (played by Timothy Chalamet). A newcomer, Pugh plays Story. the role of Amy, one of the girls in love Little Women is currently screening with Laurie and also Aunt March’s in Ottawa. The running time is two (Meryl Streep) favourite. hours and fifteen minutes. In earlier versions of the film, the central role of Jo was performed by American Factory notable actresses including Katherine American Factory was the surprise Hepburn in 1933, and Winona Ryder winner of the best feature length in 1993. documentary film award at last month’s Little Women shifts to different 92nd Academy Awards. periods in time, capturing key Saoirse Ronan as Jo, in Little Women. American Factory tells the story of moments in the girls’ lives in both the 2008 closure of the General Motors Europe and America. I found the time assembly plant in Dayton, Ohio and its in the modern era – 1933, 1949, 1994, By Tony Wohlfarth shifts confusing, as Gerwig doesn’t re-opening as a Chinese owned auto 2018 and this version in 2019. Each consistently identify them in the film. glass factory. director has brought current views of Little Women The terrific music for the film was This is essentially a film about the role of women to the classic. Little Women is the latest film composed by Alexandre Desplat, and is the clash between the American and Set during the US civil war, Little directed by Greta Gerwig, an one of the film’s strengths. Chinese work cultures. The Chinese Women tells the story of Marmee, accomplished thirty-six-year-old Ronan’s performance as Jo is superb, owners introduce new methods to who raises four daughters in relative American film director. She is best as is Laura Dern as the matriarch of the speed up productivity, leading to an austerity in Concord, Massachusetts, known for directing Lady Bird in 2017. family. At the 92nd Academy Awards, organizing drive by the United Auto while her husband serves as a volunteer Little Women is based on the book Dern received the award for best Workers (UAW). At the Oscars, the with the Union Army. of the same name written in 1868 by supporting actress in another recent director Julia Reichert summed up her This version of Little Women features Louisa May Alcott. Reading the book film, Marriage Story (reviewed in The view of the conflict with the socialist a star-studded cast – Laura Dern, is considered a rite of passage for many OSCAR last November). Ironically, slogan “workers of the world unite.” Saoirse Ronan, Timothy Chalamet, young women. The book has been Greta Gerwig’s partner is Noah Reichert is best known for directing Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and made into a Hollywood film five times Baumbach, the director of Marriage the documentary Union Maids in 1976, and has since made many more films about work, including this year’s 9 to 5: The Story of a Movement (2020). New What impressed me most about Gluten Free! Riviera Coconut American Factory is there is no Milk Kefir backlash or jingoism directed at the Plain, Vanilla, and Chinese. The workers on the factory Raspberry floor simply live paycheque to paycheque and the major issue in the union drive is health and safety in the Grainfields Gluten Free 59 99 face of speeded up production. Carving Smoked Ham /100g ea American Factory had its world 3 6 premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto last year. The running time is one hour and fifty minutes. American Factory is currently streaming on Netflix.

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CINEMA Twenty years, twenty thousand kilometres – In Sane a documentary by Peter Evanchuck 4 scholarships & Helene Lacelle of $1,000 will be awarded

Under the Bank Street Bridge, Helene Lacelle and Peter Evanchuck wrap day’s shoot on the documentary film In Sane. PHOTOS BY PETER EVANCHUCK

By Peter Evanchuck So after 20 years and 20,000 dollars, out comes In Sane. All 20 minutes of it When Einstein was asked what made ready for the festival circuit. him a genius – his answer was simple, The title In Sane is broken into two “Curiosity.” words to indicate that being crazy is both For creative media artists that same sane and insane – that both are a part of characteristic makes Helene Lacelle and the life of a person with mental illness. I never give up since curiosity keeps us The documentary is inspired by all those making new and innovative pieces of life courageous people who suffer from in our creative dimensions. mental illness, and is dedicated to the All our contributions to understanding brilliant and eccentric inventor Nicola life start with our curiosity to pursue Tesla. knowledge of our lives and our culture. My previous documentaries In Sane, our latest real and raw no- (completed in 2019) also reveal crew documentary, explores the ups Canadian culture and social life as it and downs in the life of volatile bipolar is both real and raw. Searching for a photographer Marko Polakiwsky. Marko Beautiful Bachelor and A Short History has spent most of his life trying to figure of Poverty have achieved remarkable out how to overcome his mental illness success in the festival circuit winning enough to produce a body of work. accolades and invites to festivals in That body of work means he’s on the Fredericton, Los Angeles, Atlanta, road recording all of Canada’s UNESCO Virginia, Florence and Rome. We are world heritage sites. hoping to attend the Florence and Rome With no crew, just Marko and I and festivals this spring if my cancer allows our old vehicle, we went barreling along it. highway after highway, site after site, sleeping in the car, in a tent or hostel to Peter Evanchuck is an OOS based Saturday, March 28, 2020 keep things on the cheap since In Sane filmmaker. For more information was funded by ourselves. on this and other works go to: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. movieshandmade.com “I’m not making any money on this Meet our professors, staff and students, but I’m hoping to make a name for myself as a photographer and at least and find out about our programs: learn how to make one-off books of my photographs to take around to schools to show young people how great Canada • Canon Law • Human Relations is, and how one can overcome adversity • Conflict Studies • Social Communication to make their life liveable.” Marko says • Contemporary • Social Innovation while in his borrowed studio, walls lined Social Issues • Supportive care with thumbnails of his work. • Counselling and The studio belongs to Marko’s mentor, Psychotherapy in Palliation the internationally famous photographer • Ethics, Social Justice • Theology and Bioethics Edward Burtynsky, who tells us that • Transformative photography is an ideal way to help and Public Service someone understand the meaning of Leadership their life through the life around them. “You shoot an image and then later you reflect on that image to go deeper and Register online! really see that life around you. It does ustpaul.ca/openhouse 223 Main St, Ottawa ON | 1-800-637-6859 help put meaning into your life. Marko f t y l i needs meaning in life to help stabilize Photographer Marko Polakiwsky in his bipolar issues.” Grand Pre, N.S. Page 26 The OSCAR l March 2020

TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY Ageism / Simple Kindness By Jocelyn LeRoy Standing Tall (for too long) hopefully wisdom, and stories galore, become what they believe and are There were no available seats when which often no one has the time to afraid of when they are halfway to I have always said that I would I boarded a packed GO train out of hear. their golden years. If you believe someday become a “Raging Toronto. I stood for 1½ hours while My ten grandchildren have heard being old is all negative it will Granny”, and try to help right all the people ⅓ my age were buried in so many stories from me; some become a self-fulfilling prophecy. outrageous wrongs in the world – newspapers and on their cell phones. made up, some real, since they were We all know that ageism is even if only a drop in the bucket. Teenagers were plugged into their infants. Now they are telling me rampant in the workplace. The Once past a certain birthday, I earphones, eyes closed, obviously stories and sprinting to help, with recent polls cited in CARP reports began to notice a decided difference oblivious. I didn’t want to shout at a hug and a smile. Mike’s daughter reveal a clear link between the in the way I am treated, when one selected person to give up their Alicia in Alta Vista Flowers always way people feel about aging and approaching a door for example. seat because I am old. Then I would comes over to the bakery side to say how they actually age. (CARP is a Kind people leaped to open the be “doing ageism” from another “hi,” give a a hug, or say “can I help national not-for-profit, non-partisan door as my arm was reaching to point of view. you take that stuff to your car?” and association committed to advancing do it myself. It never happened After much thought on the topic she is busier than I am. Her parents the quality of life for Canadians as before when I had armloads of small of aging, and the attention I am have taught their kids to respect they age.) children, falling groceries – the can receiving, I have decided there are their elders, by example. The key 70% of respondents in a recent of apple juice rolling away behind always angels walking among us, is, it needs to be taught, gently and CARP survey say it is harder for an me. I began to feel like a princess. of all ages. A cute 8-year-old boy relentlessly. older person to obtain employment Are my strong paddling-my- held the door for me when I left the Many people my age grew up with than for a younger worker. 20% own-canoe arms retiring early? bakery. He had been so excited about an aging, not raging, grandparent say they have experienced some Of course my limping leg gives choosing his cookie, patient while living in their home. I did. After form of ageism in their most recent me away, but after a lifetime of his mom paid for it before he got school every afternoon, “Don’t employment situation. 16% say that dogged independence, it took me to hold it. He saw me coming and forget to visit your Nana.” I grew their employee explicitly told them by surprise. It didn’t creep up. Now leaned against the door with all his to love those visits – a cup of tea, that they had to retire, or took actions I am lazy around doors; I poke might, cookie between his teeth, I good talks – we shared our joys to make them feel like they were no those wheelchair door openers prayed it wouldn’t break and crumble and sorrows. She knew jokes and longer wanted in the workplace. with my walking stick with one to the floor. Perhaps I should rethink wonderful stories. She even told me Ageism at its root is about fear. To shot and stride, er, limp through it “raging.” there was an Italian princess a few the young, “old people” can seem triumphantly. I thought that kid must have a generations back on her side of the almost like a different species – So do we call all the human grandparent in his life. “That’s it.” I family. My Grandma’s eyesight was crotchety and frail and out to lunch. concern that is nice and helpful to thought. Make sure your kids have an poor and my father would rewash Until one day the young are actually older folks the upside of ageism? I elderly person, at least one, to know. the dishes she insisted to wash after old and find themselves undefended think it is simple kindness. It is not all about opening doors of she went to bed. She wanted to help, against the very stereotypes they course. Older people have a wealth of and doing the dishes was all that she so deeply absorbed, and they then living under their belts, experience, could manage. Her “stick in the mud” can sink to a low estimation of husband had been way too much of a themselves. dreamer, a sailor, and a traveler. She What really got me thinking, had done things I never imagined she besides realizing thoughts are would have and had a very colourful malleable and people can indeed life that I never knew. come up with more positive images, And now so have I! Now I can look is a horrifying sentence penned by back over so many years – like my a Prof. Becca Levy, a professor at grandma. Yale. She did intensive research on Facebook groups. “Nearly 40% Bad for your health of the young posters thought older “Young people who hold ageist people should be banned from public attitudes may put themselves at risk activities, like shopping.” of heart disease down the road.” These are the young people who That piqued my interest. may be making themselves sick, A few years ago in Zoomer not only “heart events” long down magazine, reports and analysis of the road, but such things as balance, long term studies were brought to handwriting, memory, even hearing light. Tracking volunteers aged 17-49 loss – things you would not expect to over six decades – it turned out the have a psychological dimension. subjects who bought into the negative Being ageist influences lifespan stereotypes of aging, suffered twice more than gender or socioeconomic as many heart “events” as those status. Or loneliness. Or exercise. who had absorbed more positive Levy’s subjects with the most stereotypes, up to 40 years later. negative views of aging died, on “People under forty don’t think average, 7.6 years sooner than those of themselves as eventually getting with the most positive views. older,” says the Harvard psychologist reporting these findings. I didn’t – I Good for your health distinctly remember feeling that way. Prof. Becca Levy has also That disconnect is more of a problem concluded in her extensive studies today. that our attitudes, conscious or not, drive our behavior. This is a good Ageism at work thing to know. Like thoughts being One of Facebook’s core values, transient – you don’t have to get according to its founder, is to stuck in them. They will move along “promote better understanding of the and free you of your grip, freeing lives of others. us up for better health, outlook, and We need more of that going on hope. between older folks and their younger family members and acquaintances, so that our teenagers won’t buy into Continued on pg. 27 the negative stereotypes and hence The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 27

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has, but maybe next year she will Cont. from pg. 26 achieve that goal. Maybe! Meanwhile, aging grannies unite To ADVERTISE in The OSCAR – we need to start a public health contact Gayle That is becoming my mantra campaign against ageism! And the at [email protected] when my legs ache, I drop my real Raging Grannies out in BC. GMSElemAdGR19BW.pdf 3 2019-10-18 3:52 PM walking stick, or can’t remember a Keep up your political noise and name! good work! We need you too! I don’t have to blame it on my age, or anything else. I shall be the warrior, a slower version of the Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/ A Montessori one I always was, with a kinder manager of Trillium Bakery in Old smile and perhaps an occasional Ottawa South since 1980. classroom example to younger generations; a little loving tap on the wrist even is where from an aging, not Raging Granny. the joy A granny who can’t honestly say she loves her age, as she always of learning

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MAYOR’S REPORT Bestowing Ottawa’s most prestigious award: the Key to the City By Jim Watson, Mayor Churchill, Her Majesty Queen household of our municipal life and Elizabeth the Queen Mother, The that he or she may be expected to Ottawa shares a special connection Right Honourable Pierre Elliot return to Ottawa and be freely, fully with a multitude of accomplished Trudeau, Paul Anka, the Honourable and fondly welcome at all time as a Canadians, who, by their professional Marc Garneau, Alanis Morissette, citizen, loving and loved, of this city. and philanthropic endeavours have Margaret Atwood, Sandra Oh, Daniel And it is not only the tradition of made significant contributions Alfredsson, Alex Trebek and Paul W. presenting a Key to the City that the City to: nationwide and abroad. To honour Dewar. has evolved over the years, but the these distinguished persons and The practice of presenting a key award itself. The present Key to • Accomplished golfer and three- esteemed guests of the City to an individual is traced back to the City award is a gold replica of time Canadian Press female of Ottawa, the City has had a medieval times, when admission the key of the first Court House in athlete of the year, Brooke longstanding tradition of bestowing into a city was hampered by many Bytown where the Bench of the Henderson; the Key to the City, the City’s highest legal restrictions, as well as by Magistrate met in 1826, and framed • Former Governor General, and most prestigious honour, upon walls and locked gates. The key in glass, while previous Keys to accomplished journalist and these individuals. The very first Key symbolized free entry to that city. the City were mounted on a wood worldwide ambassador of La to the City was first presented in 1902 It has since evolved in alignment block affixed with a plaque. For Francophonie, Michaëlle Jean; by His Worship Fred Cook to Lady with Commonwealth parliamentary Ottawa’s Centennial anniversary in • TSN sportscaster and proud Minto, Wife of Governor General Sir tradition and by the middle 1800s, August 1926, Mayor John P. Baharrie Carleton University journalism Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond it became customary to give a Key released a four-foot gold key by graduate, James Duthie; Elliot, 4th Earl of Minto, and founder to the City as a symbol of the City’s balloon over Parliament Hill to • and the Ottawa Citizen, an of the Minto Skating Club, after the intention that the recipient was free to extend the freedom of the City to all. organization that has been opening of the Strathcona Isolation come and go at will. The Key to the This year, I will have the providing news coverage in the Hospital. City of Ottawa is entrusted to those pleasure of recognizing the work of nation’s capital for 175 years – the Past Key to the City recipients whom the city would honour, as a distinguished individuals as well as longest continuing local business include Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir, symbol of our hope that the recipient an organization who have made our in Ottawa today. The Right Honourable Winston is so regarded as being of the very city proud by presenting the Key to

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MPP’S REPORT A love letter for public education By Joel Harden, MPP the consequences of a failure to value happens when their little one leaves for and properly support your work. school. This is a love letter for public I remember speaking with an It doesn’t have to be this way. This education, and to folks who work in educational assistant, one of three is a rich province, one where two our public education system. I see you, in a school of over 900 elementary billionaires have as much wealth and I value you. students, who feels like a first as 11 million people. Despite all of In recent weeks, as I’ve visited your responder for crisis behaviour rather Education Minister Stephen Lecce picket lines in Ottawa, I’m constantly than an educator. Once they walked and Premier Doug Ford’s rhetoric, reminded of the sacrifices you make into an evacuated classroom with a the money is there to invest more to keep our schools afloat. I’m also child in crisis who had just trashed the in classrooms instead of raising reminded about the inequalities that class. They approached the child with class sizes and imposing mandatory walk into classrooms every day, and a mattress to contain the blows as more e-learning. and donuts to the picket lines, and how you see firsthand the ways in help arrived. The money is also there to make heard the honks of support when they which our society falls short. I’ve been told about how many sure that kids with learning or drive by. The attempts by Ford and You see kids who come to school children in crisis with violent developmental disabilities have the in- Lecce to pit parents and education hungry, and help them with breakfast behaviours are kids with disabilities classroom supports they so desperately workers against each other are failing, programs. who either aren’t getting diagnosed at need. Every child, no matter their we will not be divided. You see crumbling infrastructure, all, or who aren’t getting the services ability or their parents’ income, So to all of the teachers and and work hard to keep our kids safe. and one-on-one attention they need. deserves the best possible start. education workers who put their heart You see kids with disabilities And let’s not forget about the parents Parents understand this. I’ve heard and soul into their work every single struggle to learn, grow immensely of these children, who are fearful each from so many parents, including ones day, thank you from the bottom of my frustrated, and act out. and every day their kids go to school. who identify as conservative, telling heart. You’re fighting for our kids, and In story after story I’ve heard on the Will their child be triggered? Will they me that the government must reverse together we will win. picket lines, you’ve reinforced to me be restrained? Imagine the stress on the cuts and get back to the bargaining those parents who are terrified of what table. I’ve seen parents bringing coffee

MP’S REPORT Middle class tax cut By Catherine McKenna, MP When the 43rd Parliament opened in It’s a change that would allow people December, our parliamentary priority to keep more of what they earn and For over four years, our government was a new tax cut that, if adopted, will help make life more affordable. has made investing in people our give relief to 20 million Canadians, When it comes to affordability, we priority. Through government including ensuring 1 million low- know there’s more work to be done – investments and the hard work of income Canadians pay no tax at all. everyone in Canada deserves a chance Canadians, Canada has built an We would do this by raising the Basic at success, a chance to work hard and economy that is strong and growing, Personal Amount – the earnings you get ahead. Our tax cut is a big part adding over 1.1 million new jobs to don’t have to pay federal tax on – to of our work to do just that, giving the economy and reaching the lowest $15,000 by 2023. And we’ll make Canadians more money, tax-free. unemployment rate in 40 years. Wages sure the wealthiest people in Canada – When you have more money in your the second strongest growth across are going up and small business taxes those in the top 1% of income earners pocket, you have less worry about the the G7. This is proof that our plan to are the lowest in the G7. – aren’t the ones benefitting. Our bills. It’s money to help afford new keep making targeted and strategic We introduced programs like approach would make sure tax relief winter gear, help with the costs of kids’ investments in Canadians is working. the Canada Child Benefit to help is going to those who need it: middle summer camps, or for hockey, soccer, We’re focused on growing the Canadians afford the costs of raising a class Canadians and those working or arts classes. It’s money for saving to economy and making life affordable family, made improvement to seniors’ hard to join them. buy a home or investing for retirement for Canadians because, as Liberals, benefits, and helped more students When fully rolled out, in 2023, – or simply being able to afford to we’re committed to ensuring everyone afford their education. In 2015, we individuals would save close to $300 a spend time with loved ones. has a real and fair chance at success. brought in a middle class tax cut year in taxes. For a couple or a family, Since 2015, our economy has grown, that helped more than nine million including single-parent families, the wages have gone up, and, in 2020 Canadians. savings would be close to $600 a year. Canada’s economy is projected to have

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FINANCIAL PLANNING When do you need a financial advisor? By Bob Jamieson, CFP advisor. investment accounts, purchasing desired lifestyle and adequate growth sufficient insurance, naming and potential to help you stay ahead of Are you a “do-it-yourselfer”? If you When you’re saving for important changing of beneficiaries, and so inflation. What’s the correct balance can take care of home repairs, lawn goals on. A financial advisor who truly of investments for your needs? Are work and other types of maintenance Whether you’re saving for understands you and your needs can there investments that can provide by yourself, you’ll save money and a down payment on your first help you make appropriate moves for you with rising income without probably gain satisfaction. But you home, or for your children’s post- all your milestones. exposing you to undue risk? Once will almost certainly need some help secondary education, or for your own you’re retired, you just won’t get a in other areas of your life – one of comfortable retirement, you’ll face When you’re close to retirement lot of “do-overs,” so getting the right which may be investing. many choices. A financial advisor – As you near retirement, you’ll help is important. In fact, you could benefit from the someone with experience in helping have several issues to consider: services of a professional financial people work toward these goals – can About how much income will you If you’re a do-it-yourselfer, advisor at several points in your life. assist you in making the choices need each year? How much can you you may not get it right each and most appropriate for your individual afford to withdraw annually from every time. But you won’t pay When you’re starting out in your situation. your retirement account? A financial much of a price (except, perhaps career advisor has the tools, training and in embarrassment) if that chair When you land your first “career- When you’re experiencing a experience to explore alternatives you built collapses under a stack type” job, you will have some personal “milestone” and suggest suitable moves for you. of newspapers. However, you also financial decisions to make: Should Like everyone, you’ll go through know when it’s time to call in a I participate in my employer’s group many major life events. Some will When you’re retired professional – and that’s whom you retirement plan? (Hint: Yes!) If so, be joyful, such as marriage and the Even after you retire, you’ve got need when it comes to building your how much should I contribute? How arrival of children, while others plenty to think about, in terms of financial future. So, get the assistance can I juggle saving for retirement may be unpleasant or sad, such as financial moves. For one thing, you you need, when you need it, from a with paying off student loans? These divorce or the death of a loved one. need to ensure that your investment financial advisor. Feel free to give me are the types of questions you can But virtually all these events carry portfolio provides you with both a no-obligation call at 613-526-3030. answer with the help of a financial with them some type of financial sufficient income, along with pension component – establishing new and government benefits, for your

NEWS Elementary school strike On Wednesday, February 5th teachers walked a picket line outside Hopewell Public School. The school was closed a number of times in February by rotating strikes as elementary school teachers in Ottawa and across the province took job action as part of negotiations for a new contract.

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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch, Ottawa Public nouvelle activité à chaque semaine! blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! ADULT BOOK CLUBS Library Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. 1049 Bank, Ottawa Fridays, 3:30 pm (1.5 hrs) / Les Wednesday, March 18, 10:00 am / Second Friday Adult Book Club InfoService 613-580-2940 vendredis, 15h30 (1.5h) Mercredi 18 mars, 10h (60 mins) Meet new people and join in stimulating discussions on selected CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS Play Day! / Au jeu! On the move titles in a friendly and relaxed Drop in preschool fun! Play with Transportation around the world: in atmosphere every second Friday of Maker Mondays / Lundi Créatifs puppets, crafts, building blocks, and the air, on the road, on the track and the month. Newcomers are welcome. Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, more! / Un programme porte-ouverte on the water. Drop-in program. draw & so much more with our low- pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! 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Les lundis, 16h00 – 17h00 (1h) of all ages and a parent or caregiver. intelligent and comical birds; you Share the enjoyment of good Drop-in. won’t believe how much you’ll learn. mysteries in a relaxed atmosphere. Homework Help / Aide aux Devoirs Saturdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) Ages 4 – 12 Join us for discussion usually every Come get help with reading, math, March 28 Registration required third Friday of the month. Drop-in science, French, English, etc. Led by Thursday, March 19, 1:30 pm (60 program. Frontier College. / Reçois de l’aide MARCH BREAK/ min.) Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm avec la lecture, les maths, les sciences, CONGÉ DE MARS March 20 le français, l’anglais, etc. Avec des Postcards from the Past with March Title: No rest for the dead bénévoles de Frontier College. Move it Monday / Le lundi on Pinhey’s Point Historic Site April Title: The Marco Effect by Jussi Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes bondit While Hamnett K. Pinhey and his Adler-Olsen Ages 6-10/ 6 -10 ans. Join us in our children’s area for lots family settled along the Ottawa River, Mondays, 4:00 pm (1 hr): January 7 – of fun and self-directed activities! other members of the Pinhey family Sunnyside Adult Book Club May 27 Play with toys, puzzles, building stayed in England and others settled Join in stimulating discussions on Les lundis, 16h (1h): du 7 janvier au blocks, and more!/Joignez-vous à in Australia. Discover the ways Early selected titles in a friendly and relaxed 27 mai nous au département des enfants pour Settlers communicated across great atmosphere on the last Friday of the vous amuser, jouer et socialiser! Des distances, with letters and postcards, month. Drop-in program. Babytime jouets, casse-têtes et jeux seront mis à and try your hand at writing a postcard Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm For babies and their parents or votre disposition. with pen and ink yourself. Presented March 27 caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs Family program / Programme familial by Pinhey’s Point Historic Site. March Title: The Farm by Joanne and games. 0-18 months. Drop-in Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes Ages 7 – 12 Ramos Tuesdays, 2:15 pm (30 min.) Monday, March 16, 10:15 am (60 Registration required April Title: The Day the World Came January 14 – February 25 mins) / Lundi le 16 mars, 10h15 (60 Friday, March 20, 2:00 pm (45 min.) to Town March 31 – May 26 min.) CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUBS European Book Club (EUNIC Family Storytime (Bilingual) / Crafternoon Canada) Contes en Famille (bilingue) Drop in for a guided craft project. Eager Readers Book Club (5-7 Join us for the ultimate armchair travel Stories, rhymes and songs for children Ages 8+ years) around Europe. The European Book of all ages and a parent or caregiver. Drop-in A children’s book club for kids who Club is offered in partnership with / Contes, comptines et chansons pour Monday, March 16, 2:00 pm (45 min.) are beginning to read independently. European Union National Institutes les enfants de tout âge et un parent ou and Join us on the first Saturday of every for Culture (EUNIC) in Ottawa to gardien. Wednesday, March 18, 2:00 pm (45 month to chat about the book, do a promote European authors and their Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. min.) fun activity and share some ideas works. Drop-in program. Tuesdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) / Les about what to read next. Parents and Wednesday, 6:00 – 8:00 pm mardis, 10h15 (30 min.) Amazing Animals/ / or caregivers must accompany their March 18 January 14 – February 25 / du 14 Animaux Amusants child. Ages 5-7. Registration required. March Title: The Keeper of Hands janvier au 25 février Roar! Squeak! Hiss! Eek! Discover Saturdays, 2:30 pm (45 minutes) (a Viennese Mystery Novel) by J. March 31 – May 26 / du 31 mars au different animals that inhabit our March 7: National Geographic Kids Sydney Jones 26 mai globe. / Roâarr! Squiit! Ssss! Bêêê! Level 1 reader (any from the series) Découvre les différents animaux qui Ottawa ComicBook Club Wee Wednesdays! / Mercredi Mini! peuplent notre globe. Bookworms Book Club The Ottawa ComicBook Club Drop in preschool fun! Play with Family program / Programme familial Come share the enjoyment of reading is a small group of ComicBook puppets, crafts, building blocks, and Drop-in / Programme portes ouvertes books with other kids ages 8 & enthusiasts who meet once a month to more! /Un programme porte-ouverte Tuesday, March 17, 10:15 am (45 up. Parents and/or caregivers are discuss a graphic novel. For teens and pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! min.) / Mardi le 17 mars, 10h15 (45 encouraged to accompany their child. adults. Drop-in program. Jouez avec des marionnettes et des min.) Titles for this club are decided by Monday, 7:00 – 8:30pm blocs, bricolez, et plus encore! book battle! Come to a meeting to March 2 Drop-in/ Programme portes ouvertes. Let’s Talk Science participate and to help choose the next March Title: Young Frances by Wednesdays, 10 am (1 hr) / Les Explore the world of Science with title. Registration required. Hartley Lin mercredis, 10h (1h) Let’s Talk Science volunteers from the Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) University of Ottawa March 23: Wonder by R. J. Palacio ADULT PROGRAMS Family Storytime Ages 4-12 Stories, rhymes and songs for children Registration required Mighty Girls Book Club The Writing Workshop of all ages and a parent or caregiver. Tuesday, March 17, 1:30pm (45 min) / A children’s book club focused on An opportunity for writers of fiction, Drop-in. Mardi le 17 mars, 1:30 (45 min.) exploring brave, strong and intelligent non-fiction, poetry, and experimental Thursdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) girls in books. Parents, guardians forms to gather. Our emphasis will January 16 – February 27 Wee Wednesday / Mercredi mini or caregivers are encouraged to be on developing works-in-progress April 2 – May 28 Drop in preschool fun! Play with accompany their child. Ages 8 & up. for publication. The workshop will puppets, crafts, building blocks, and Registration required. provide writers with encouragement Lego Block Party / Ça dé “bloc” more! /Un programme porte-ouverte Mondays, 6:30 pm (60 min.) and constructive criticism from their Drop by and take part in a different pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire! March 30 peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. activity each week! / Prenez part à une Jouez avec des marionnettes et des Stewart: http://michaelfstewart.com The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 33

SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Drop-in program. Conversations about Community ADULT SPECIAL PROGRAMS Family size Family income Monday, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Convened in an extended sense of 1 person $35,000 March 2 community, topics of conversation Cooking for One or Two 2 persons $45,000 range from the local to the global. Do you live solo or with one other 3 persons $47,500 Knit & Knatter Drop-in program. person? Join Emily Fitzgerald, 4 persons $50,000 Have you always wanted to learn to Saturdays, 10:00 – 12:00 pm dietitian, to learn healthy cooking for 5 persons $52,500 knit, crochet or improve your skills? Jan. 4 – June 13 one or two people. more than 5 persons $52,500 plus Come to Sunnyside and bring your Wednesday, March 4, 6:30 – 7:30 pm $2,500 for each additional person knitting needles and yarn to begin or Conversations about Earth and Us share your project. Enjoy conversation Conversations about rethinking our Basic Photo Editing – Learn easy, Simple tax situation: In general, your and a cup of tea while you knit! We situation. stunning techniques (hands-on) tax situation is simple if you have no now meet weekly. Drop-in program. Drop-in program This session will help you discover income or if your income comes from Wednesdays, 11:30 – 2:30 pm Thursdays, 2:00 – 4: 00 pm easy ways to organize and enhance these sources: January 8 – August 16 January 2 – June 18 your photos by adjusting light, colour, • employment and composition so you will be proud • pension Conversations Among Canadians A Word in Arabic to display them. • benefits such as Canada Pension In this program, we will continue to Learn a few words in Arabic. Drop-in Thursday, March 12, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Plan, disability, employment share our experience, knowledge, program. insurance, social assistance reflections and ideas relevant to life Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:30 pm Community Volunteer Income Tax • registered retirement savings plans in Canada, past, present and future, January 8 – June 17 Program (RRSPs) doing so with a sense of community The Ottawa Public Library is • support payments among Canadians and with others in Science Cafés with Carleton partnering with Canada Revenue • scholarships, fellowships, bursaries the world. Drop-In program. University Agency to offer free tax preparation or grants Wednesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Professors from the Faculty of Science through the Community Volunteer • interest (under $1,000) January 8 – June 17 share their discoveries with you. Income Tax Program (CVITP). In Drop-in program. order to have a volunteer file your tax Your tax situation is not simple if you: French Conversation Group Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm for free you need to have a modest • are self-employed or have Améliorez votre français parlé March 11: Predicting Volcanic income AND a simple tax situation. employment expenses et rencontrez des gens dans une Eruptions: The Volcanologist Toolkit **You will need to bring all required • have business or rental income and ambiance décontractée et conviviale. March 25: Polonium – 210: From documents to the appointment. expenses Niveau intermédiaire. Programme Discovery to Poison **Drop-in. (You show up during • have capital gains or losses portes ouvertes / Practice your French advertised hours and a volunteer will • filed for bankruptcy language conversation skills and meet Ingenious Talks with Carleton do your tax return for you on a first- • are completing a tax return for a new friends in a relaxed and friendly University come, first-served basis.) deceased person environment. Intermediate level. Faculty of Engineering & Design Drop-in program. professors will be sharing their Modest income: In general, you have Mondays, Tuesdays, 5-8 pm March 2 Les jeudis, 18h30 / Thursdays, 6:30 – research with you. Drop-in program. a modest income if based on your to April 7 8:00 pm Wednesday, 6:30-7:30 pm family size, your total family income Saturdays, 1-5 pm, March 7 to April January 9 – May 28 April 1 is less than the amount shown in the 11 chart below.

AROUND TOWN Army Cadets Seeking 12-18 Year Olds: Cadets take part in a diverse Friends’ Coffeehouse, Saturday, April 4, 2020. The next Friends’ program including marksmanship, biathlon, orienteering, trekking and Coffeehouse will feature a star cast of performers including Ann Downey, camping, training in survival skills, team sports, first aid, and leadership Christine Graves, Witchwood, Brian Loyer, Jack Pyl, Caroline Parry, Clarissa skills. Come join the Governor General Foot Guards Army Cadet Corps. Fortin and more! Musicians who entertained at past coffee houses are There is no cost for the program. If interested, please check us out any providing this benefit concert for a local Syrian family. Please join us at 91A Wednesday night at 6:15 pm at Cartier Square Drill Hall (2 Queen Fourth Ave., in the Glebe, at the Quaker Meeting House. $12.00 at the door. Elizabeth Dr.), email us at [email protected], or visit our website at Doors open at 6:30 pm, performance starts at 7:00 pm. www.2784ggfg.com. The Glebe Centre Community Programs at Abbotsford is looking for PAND is a non-profit settlement service organization. We strive to provide volunteers to support the new Caregiver program. We need volunteers to settlement, training, support services and programs to bridge the gap between help on Sunday afternoons 1- 4 pm for a drop-in program for caregivers. newcomers and society. We organize ongoing workshop and classes for Volunteers would help with set up, serving coffee, tea, drinks etc. and newcomers to Ottawa. We have free English conversation group sessions help with clean up. Volunteers would also support the program by helping for students and newcomers on Mondays 5:30 pm – 7 pm at the McNabb with crafts, hosting a book club, photo club or history club. If interested Community Centre (180 Percy Street). Since these sessions are free of charge please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 613 238-2727 ext. 353 or email and open to public, we are in need of volunteers who are fluent in English and [email protected]. Mature high school students needing their 40 can have one-on-one, or group conversation, with participants every Monday. hours would be welcome. For more information go to: www.pandsettlement.ca The Jane’s Walk Festival in Ottawa-Gatineau has 50+ free walking tours Consider joining English Language Tutoring for the Ottawa on May 2nd & 3rd 2020. Explore your city! For the full schedule go to: Community (ELTOC) as a volunteer tutor. ELTOC provides in-home www.janeswalkottawa.ca tutoring to immigrants who cannot attend ESL classes due to child- or elder-care responsibilities, or physical challenges. Tutors don’t need La Leche League Canada has a group in OOS. Are you breastfeeding/ teaching experience, just a keen interest in helping someone learn basic chestfeeding your baby? Are you pregnant and planning to breastfeed? A La everyday English and understand Canadian culture. You will be assigned Leche League meeting is a relaxed, supportive and non-judgmental place an experienced ESL Education Counsellor and receive training, teaching where you can meet other parents, learn about nursing your baby and ask materials and ongoing support. ELTOC tutoring involves a commitment of questions. Meetings every second Tuesday of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm about 3 hours per week and you will be matched with an appropriate student at 36 Glen Ave. Next meeting is March 10th. For more information call 613- (gender, location, availability). For more information, and to apply to be a 238-5919 or go to www.lllc.ca volunteer tutor, go to https://eltoc.ca. Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church, at 100 Main St. in Old Ottawa East, Ottawa Quakers hold a largely silent Meeting for Worship, Sunday mornings has Mass at 5:00 pm on Saturdays, 10:00 am on Sundays, and at 11:30 am at 10:30 am, 91A Fourth Avenue in the Glebe. Newcomers welcome! Tuesday to Friday. Page 34 The OSCAR l March 2020

New Syrian family welcomed Another Klondike Derby win for the 17th Southminster Scout Troop

(Left to right) Amal, George, Elias and Ibrahim at the Ottawa Airport. They arrived in February and are the most recent Syrian family sponsored by the Ottawa South Refugee Committee and Trinity Anglican Church.

PHOTO BY ROBERT TAYLOR

By Robert Taylor and the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. Generous support for the Scouts Justin, Adam and Harry with their Klondike Derby Trophy. Syrian refugees George and Amal, sponsorship was also provided by PHOTO BY RAY HALL with their teenage sons Ibrahim and the Ottawa Mennonite Church. This represents the sixth Elias, received an enthusiastic and By Brendan McCoy emotional welcome at the Ottawa sponsorship to arrive since the airport in February as they begin Ottawa South Refugee Committee Seven scouts of the 17th Southminster Scout Troop participated in the annual a new life in Ottawa. They arrived began in 2015. During that same Klondike Derby, this year at Lac Beauchamp in Gatineau, on February 8th. exhausted but elated after a journey period, Trinity Anglican Church The Derby consists of 21 tasks, spaced over a more than 8 km route, which that started more than a day earlier in has been involved with 33 refugees teams of scouts walk pulling a sled loaded with their gear. It is a tough Lebanon. who have arrived. Applications to competition, both mentally and physically demanding, but also a great Members of the Ottawa South sponsor more are in the works. These chance to test skills, endurance and teamwork. The group from the 17th was Refugee Committee, friends already impressive results could not have split into two teams who both performed very well. One team was a close here, and a large group of students, been accomplished without the great second in its division, and the other team won the overall trophy. This is the with signs, led by their teacher and community support from the people eighth year running that a team from the 17th Scouts has won a trophy at this refugee committee member Jennifer of Old Ottawa South. competition. Graham, were present to welcome the family. Robert Taylor is former chair of the Brendan McCoy is a leader with the 17th Southminster Scouts. The family is sponsored by the Ottawa South Refugee Committee. Ottawa South Refugee Committee through Trinity Anglican Church

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Location Times Sunnyside Sunday Worship Wesleyan Church Services at 9:00 58 Grosvenor am and 11:00 am, Avenue Children’s program (at Sunnyside) offered during worship services. Trinity Anglican Holy Eucharist at Church 10:00 am 1230 Bank St with Church School (at Cameron Ave) & Choir.

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FUNDRAISER Calling all runners and walkers By Suzanne Charest Our target is to raise $25,000 this year. Can we do it? There’s only one way to find It’s time to dust off those running shoes out, by joining our team and registering and show your support to newcomers in today. If you’re not available on Race our community. Weekend, you can still donate to our For the fifth year running, the Ottawa fundraiser. Community Immigrant Services For more details please contact Suzanne Organization (OCISO) is launching our Charest at [email protected] or Run for a New Start fundraiser, as part of visit https://ociso.org. the Ottawa Race Weekend’s Scotiabank Suzanne Charest is an Old Ottawa South Charity Challenge, May 23 to 24. resident. Please join our team of runners and walkers in support of a great cause! All funds raised this year will go towards OCISO Run for a OCISO’s mental health support programs New Start for the most vulnerable newcomers, including women and youth. Ottawa Race Weekend There are a variety of races for all May 23 to 24 levels, from 2km all the way up to the full Some of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization Race marathon (42km). https://ociso.org Weekend team from a previous year. PHOTO FROM OCISO Page 36 The OSCAR l March 2020

ARTS AND CULTURE Andrew Wright: FILMTRACK 4 A SOUND: SUITE KURELEK DE FIALA By Maureen Korp What you will see on the three large screens are scanning views of far-off Artist Andrew Wright is the current fields of white. Sometimes hard-edged recipient of the City of Ottawa Yousuf concentric trails of blue appear. At and Malak Karsh Photography Award. other times, a word, or two may be Wright, who lives in Old Ottawa seen. The horizon lines are mostly South, is Associate Professor of Visual high, and mostly far away. Arts and Director of the graduate Read what you wish into the program in visual arts at the University scenarios. They are not specifically of Ottawa. keyed to any landscape or story line. In 2003, City Council established The colours seen on the three screens the Karsh award to recognize the are similar – a multiplicity of whites, importance of the Karsh brothers with a bit of lettering, multiple trailing and their studio practices, both in the lines of blue. The screen imagery is not Andrew Wright’s current exhibition at the Karsh-Masson Gallery history of photography worldwide, and conjoined, although all three screens FILMTRACK 4 A SOUND: SUITE KURELEK DE FIALA. are the same size, abutting one another. the City of Ottawa specifically. The PHOTO FROM THE CITY OF OTTAWA award honours a mid-career Ottawa Together, they are not a panorama. artist working in photography and Each appears to be a separated “view,” It is soon apparent the score is not died in 2017, age 95; Kurelek died lens-based media. Wright is the ninth rather like looking out an airplane tied in any specific way to the video in 1977, age 50. Both were Ukranian Ottawa artist to be so honoured. window. projections. Why then is there music? immigrants to Canada. Each Karsh award honoree is invited If so, where are you flying? Nowhere The subtitle of Andrew Wright’s In the gallery, what we see is an to present an exhibition of current work to be sure. Nothing definite. Could installation provides a clue: SUITE installation drawn from the artist’s at the Karsh-Masson Gallery in City be north. White is the predominant KURELEK DE FIALA. What is the ruminations about what might be and Hall. FILMTRACK 4 A SOUND: colour. The three views are animated, back-story here? is not; what is real, and what is made- SUITE KURELEK DE FIALA is interrelated. They seem to be repeating. up. What is real is the recording itself Andrew Wright’s Karsh exhibition. It is An image seen on one screen becomes The box of records in its pristine album cover, its specific a video and sound installation. in some random way the detail of Ten years ago, Andrew Wright physicality. All else is supposition, another view moments later. Each found an unopened box of records. and recollection, memory, hope, and What are you seeing? view changes slowly enough, almost He did not open the box. Instead, he artifact. Walk into the Karsh-Masson lyrically. Keep looking. It is all there. worked around it. He thought about Gallery. Your presence activates Remember. the unheard recordings within, and Played only once video projections onto three adjacent the concept itself: who made the Andrew Wright played the CBC screens, and orchestral music from Loud lush music recordings, and why? recordings only once, in January 2020. speakers overhead. Take a seat on The orchestral music playing As he worked, the artist began to The artist then resealed the box. In one of the benches. The show begins. overhead is lushly romantic, if loud. compile a visual record of his own the gallery, the CBC boxed recording thoughts – an installation he termed of Fiala’s compositions is displayed “filmtrack 4 a sound.” prominently in a sealed Plexiglas box The recordings were compiled in on a tall plinth. The random imagery 1987 by the CBC, and marketed as we see projected on the gallery’s the “Canadian Anthology,” a series screens are details of the box itself, the of long-play recordings of music “Filmtrack 4 A Sound.” Then, as now, by Canadian composers. The series Canada is a northern land. includes George Fiala’s compositions, among them “Kurelek Suite,” 1982. Fiala composed this work in response Maureen Korp, independent critic, to William Kurelek’s paintings of curator, and historian, has lived long Canadian stories and countryside. Fiala in Ottawa.

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THE CREATIVE CURRENT Building “creative character,” the ingredients to living art By Vanessa Coplan the creation of an incredible squirrel character named “Richard.” I am an artist, a teacher and a What is relevant here is that Jeff’s creative coach. I love my jobs. I help commitment to his subject matter – kids prepare their art portfolios for squirrels – has allowed him to weave Canterbury High School, and then high and wander creative paths that have school students prepare portfolios for led to innovative, whimsical and art college. Aside from loving the one honest art work. It is through the use on one, and getting to know the young of consistent subject matter over time people over time, my favourite part that has facilitated the development of is watching them acquire the artistic his creative character and enhanced his skills, sensitivity and creative practice work and his life as an artist. necessary to achieve their goals. To I cannot take credit for the term, watch their ideas take shape and then “creative character.” I was introduced make them visually manifest on a to it the other day during a conversation surface, or as a 3-dimensional form, a with a friend of mine, who also moving image, what have you. happens to be an OOS resident and a The sense of achievement that is wonderfully creative artist. We were fostered, and the confidence that is built questioning whether all art-making is/ based on their own inner workings and are creative acts? Can one measure translation, is priceless. Sometimes I the amount of creativity that goes get really lucky and I get to cheer on into one type of art practice or piece the sidelines of a student I have worked versus another? (Metallurgy against with for many years. I get to watch the painting for example). Can creativity tentative pencil marks become bolder be formally taught? My friend believes and more sure. I get to see imagination that creativity is taught over a lifetime of soar. I watch problem solving at its experience, and that it’s our expression finest. And I watch time, energy and of this that becomes Art. I concur. It is effort shape a promising young talent these building blocks of life experience, and become an artistic tour-de-force. the processing and visual manifestations And even better, I get a front row seat of lived experience that contribute to Self-portrait by the artist Jeff Adriaanse. to witness the development of “creative one’s creative character. I asked Jeff to weigh in on this character.” Vanessa Coplan is an artist, art teacher, discussion. When I asked him whether creative coach and a resident of OOS. creativity is necessary to make art. He said yes. He continued by explaining that even rendering is creative. By this he means copying, and that they – the artist – are still choosing subject matter. Even if it’s near photo realistic, there are still stylistic choices made by the artist. We also talked about the ingredients to being a creative person. On this Jeff said that practicing creativity can foster Works of art by OOS artist Jeff the building of creative character. And Footsteps Adriaanse. doing creative things could be many different things, such as making art, Jeff Adriaanse dancing, writing. Jeff believes that you I have worked with Jeff Adriaanse a can have creative ideas without actually long time. Jeff grew up in Old Ottawa making or doing anything creative. South and he is currently a Grade 12 And this goes back to the artist student at Canterbury High School in with whom I discussed the idea of the visual arts program. After graduating creative character. We talked about how this spring, he has his sights set on the liberating it feels, like opening up the animation program at Sheridan College. definition and understanding of an artist I started teaching Jeff several years ago and of creativity. That someone leading when he began preparing his portfolio a creative lifestyle, for example, could for Canterbury. Since then he has be called an artist alongside a painter or had a fascination with squirrels. Over a writer. Living your art, creating your the years, Jeff has followed his inner life, applying one’s creative constitution creative compass regarding all things to more than art making. Imagine the squirrel: squirrel self-portraits, squirrel possibilities! paintings, drawings and most recently,

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Clamouring forwere clematis shrubs, but they can be used as they flower on old wood (group 1), ground covers, and with their weaving both old and new wood (group 2), or habit, they are generally considered as only on new wood (group 3). Pruning beautiful, flowering vines. for group 1 should be done after the While there are 11 groups of clematis spring flowering. In Ottawa, Mary and 400 species, the talk focused on suggested that in early spring, group those which can thrive in the Ottawa 2 plants would be trimmed to remove area. dead wood, while stems of group 3 To highlight some of the features plants would be cut back to a height of of clematis, Mary talked about the 50-60 cm (18-24 inches). She offered characteristics, needs and quirks of suggestions for groups of clematis and One of the many Ray Evison series other vines which can be used in nearby plants which have compatible clematis vines. Ottawa gardens. These include some needs and provide stunning displays. PHOTO BY DIANE MCCLYMONT-PEACE varieties of Wisteria, hops, trumpet vines, honeysuckle, Dutchman’s pipe By Marilyn Whitaker and climbing hydrangea. Mary offered many suggestions for The Old Ottawa South Garden Club selecting and growing clematis. For (OOSGC) gathered to hear Mary example, since the stems can be easily Shearman Reid talk about clematis for damaged, it is best to purchase older Ottawa area gardens. Mary grew up in plants with many unbroken stems. a family of gardeners. After working The stems need to weave around as a teacher and a banker, in 1996 supports and so vines should be placed she opened the Green Thumb Garden near slim supports, such as netting, Centre (www.greenthumbgarden. strings, or trellises. Due to die back ca) in Nepean. Mary is a Certified in winter which exposes the supports, Landscape Professional, a volunteer some consideration might be given to The Clematis alpina shrub has purple Master Gardener and a popular and their winter appearance. Clematis are leaves and white or pink flowers in knowledgeable speaker on a variety of heavy feeders with sensitive roots and the spring. PHOTO BY STEVE REID garden-related topics. so the soil should be well prepared Mary explained that the name with added compost or fertilizer and “clematis” comes from the Greek the plants placed with several buds series, for example, are free flowering term for “twig” which is reflected in under the soil and on an angle to vines which can grow in full or partial their hollow stems and relatively long grow towards the support. Clematis sun, with large, bright blooms. A native spaces between leaves. Early forms are grouped according to whether plant is Clematis virginiana which is very vigorous and produces white flowers in full sun or shade. Clematis ‘Multi-Blue’ produces large flowers in sunny locations while Clematis Love is a shrub with blue flowers which can grow in deep shade or sun. People were indeed left clamouring for clematis. Clematis vienetta growing against a wall. PHOTO BY STEVE REID Next meeting The OOSGC will meet on Mary concluded her presentation March 9, 2020 for a presentation on with recommendations for various Native Plants in the Garden by Master clematis shrubs and vines for flowers Gardener Edythe Falconer. Edythe will from spring through to fall, with dainty discuss how to acquire native plants or bold blooms, and for both sunny and and replicate their natural growing shady locations. While the Jackmanii conditions, along with her failures and clematis is much admired for its masses successes with native plants. of deep purple flowers which appear starting in late spring, other shrubs Marilyn Whitaker grew up in Old and vines drew interest and awes of Ottawa South. She now operates admiration. The Ray Evison clematis Oasescapes Inc. The OSCAR l March 2020 Page 39

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Get away to the Gatineaus had at the Chelsea Pub was a crunchy delight brimming with mesclun, goat cheese, pork loin, hazelnuts and strawberries, laced with a maple vinaigrette. The pub always seems to be packed; get here early at meal times if you don’t want to wait. And if salads aren’t your thing, there’s a big menu of sandwiches, burgers and other fare, too. (The matador sandwich – piri piri chicken on Portuguese bread – is a great choice after a cold day outdoors.)

Biscotti & Cie Around the corner from the Chelsea Pub, this somewhat quieter restaurant is known for its baked goods. It also serves up tasty sandwiches, salads and huge “personal” pizzas.

Café Molo At Auberge Tom B&B, one breakfast began with vanilla yogurt and granola We spent an enjoyable hour in this topped by blueberries macerated in maple syrup. boho café on Wakefield’s main street, lingering over lattes, Earl Grey tea and delicious three-course breakfast that By Laura Byrne Paquet Nanaimo bars. Afterward, two of us we didn’t have to cook. (I can highly took a leisurely stroll along chemin recommend flambéed bananas as a fun Because the Gatineau Hills are so Riverside to check out gift shops galore way to start the day.) close to Ottawa, I think we often take and catch a glimpse of Wakefield’s red Our rooms were ideal for a group super-cute towns such as Chelsea and covered bridge. Wakefield for granted. And that’s a of three women. Two of us split the Meech room with its twin beds, while shame, because they both have a lot Travel writer and OOS resident the other took the Kingsmere room, to offer both day-trippers and those Laura Byrne Paquet runs which has a queen-sized bed and a looking for an overnight getaway. OttawaRoadTrips.com, which sweeping view of the river. The two Earlier this winter, I headed to offers tips on day trips and weekend rooms share a bathroom with both a Chelsea with two long-time chums getaways from Ottawa. You can see huge tub and a powerful shower. from southern Ontario, and they rightly The Meech Room at Auberge Tom an expanded version of this article Like all guests, we were welcome to saw Ottawa’s hilly backyard through B&B. PHOTOS BY LAURA BYRNE PAQUET there, with links. fresh and appreciative eyes. use the large main-floor living room, Since one of us was nursing an where we usually ran into Séguin’s injury, we didn’t indulge in any of the adorable, well-trained shih tzus, Kuzko infinite hiking, snowshoeing and skiing and Maïa. We also had full run of a options available in Gatineau Park. cozy downstairs lounge stocked with Instead, we focused our energies on ice, glasses of every description and eating, spa-ing and chatting. home-baked cookies.

Auberge Tom B&B, Chelsea Nordik Spa-Nature Our home base for two days was this Since I wrote about this lovely modern house overlooking the Scandinavian-style spa in the Gatineau River, just north of Chelsea November issue of The OSCAR, I village. Since we were visiting mid- won’t repeat myself here – except to week in January, we were the four- say that it’s a grand place for three guestroom property’s only guests. women to spend the day unwinding. Hostess Barbara Séguin was so unobtrusive that we almost felt we had Chelsea Pub the grand house to ourselves – except It’s unusual for me to rave about salads, when we sat down each morning to a especially in the depths of winter, but A Community of Care the well-named “epic pork salad” I Now offering INK in our Veins? Just Lovin’ Physiotherapy! What We Do For You! • Brochures & Flyers • Newsletters & Postcards We are pleased to add • Business Forms & Stationery • Direct Mail Campaigns Physiotherapy to our range of • Die-cuts, Embossing, • Personalized Printing healthcare services at our Lamination & Varnishes • Signs, Posters & Banner CURAVITA Glebe Location at 108A Third Avenue.

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