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Serving the Glebe community since 1973 www.glebereport.ca ISSN 0702-7796 August 14, 2015 Vol. 43 No. 7 Issue no. 472 FREE PHOTO: julie ho ule cezer PHOTO: Big Soul Project, led by musical director Roxanne Goodman, brought the crowd to its feet to swing and sway to the beat of a lively gospel and R&B performance on July 12 at Lansdowne. Summer evenings in the Glebe Lansdowne has been the scene of mellow summer to the groove. Musical director Roxanne Goodman and dance on July 26, the Boxcar Boys’ original nights, with yoga sessions by the light of the full allowed the evening to build to a natural high from jazz, klezmer, country and folk on August 2 and moon led by instructors from Rama Lotus Yoga the mix of music, movement and golden sun, and the Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG)’s ukulele styl- Centre and the City’s Summer Arts series every Sun- capped it off with encores that caught the moment ings on August 9. day at the supper hour. as storm clouds gathered. To come, Salsa dancing in Aberdeen Square with On July 12, Big Soul Project, the upbeat choir Other free Sunday evening events have included Azúcar! Latin Dance Company on August 16 and with musical roots in R&B, gospel, soul, rock and the Ottawa Asian Festival on July 19, the Baobab the music and dance of Egypt and Lebanon on Motown, brought the crowd to its feet and movin’ Youth Performers’ West African singing, drumming August 23.

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Aug. 23...... Lansdowne Summer Art Series Abbotsford ...... 2 GNAG ...... 11 ...... Lansdowne Park, 6–9 p.m. Art ...... 22–23 Health ...... 4–5 Aug. 29...... Full Moon Yoga Books ...... 25 Lansdowne ...... 16–17 ...... Great Lawn, Lansdowne Park, 8–9:30 p.m. Business ...... 6, 18–19 Letters ...... 9 Sept. 1...... GNAG Fall Program Registration opens Councillor’s Report . . . . 30 Memoir ...... 12 ...... Online, 7 p.m. Sept. 10...... Tea & ‘Tails Party, Abbotsford House, 4–6 p.m. Ecology ...... 14–15 MPP’s Report ...... 31 Sept. 16...... Friends of the Farm AGM Film ...... 27 Opinion ...... 7 ...... Central Experimental Farm, 7 p.m. Gardens ...... 20–21 Profile ...... 24 Sept. 16...... YouthFIT! launch, GCC, 7 p.m. GCA ...... 10 Schools ...... 35–37 Sept. 16–20...... CityFolk Festival 2015, Lansdowne Park Glebe Stories . . . . .28–29 Why I Vote ...... 32–34 Sept. 20...... Glebe House Tour, 1–4 p.m. Sept. 23...... GNAG AGM, GCC, 7 p.m. next issue: Friday, September 11, 2015 Sept. 26–27...... Quiltco Show and Sale, GCC, 10 a.m–4 p.m. EDITORIAL DEADLINE: Monday, August 24, 2015 ADVERTISING DEADLINE: Wednesday, August 26, 2015

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John David Williams and Kelsey McNulty of The Boxcar Boys pull on heartstrings August 2 at Lansdowne with Replacement of the 417 Kent Street overpass, using rapid replace- songs like Hank Williams’s “I’m so Lonesome I Could ment construction techniques. Cry.”

Lansdowne was officially re-opened on June 19 with speeches, balloons, mascots and the Hopewell school choir. About 70 per cent of Lansdowne businesses (more than 30 businesses) have opened in the last months, with more to come.

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Skin cancer is an overlooked subject, but with the sun shining bright and long during the summer months, education and prevention can go a long way to staying healthy. There are three main types of skin cancer: basal cell, squamous cell and melanoma. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer and is responsible for almost eighty percent of cases; fortunately, it rarely spreads to other parts of the body. It can have varied appearances: from looking like a firm, red bump that is smooth and may occasionally bleed, to an ulcer that does not heal, or to a lesion that is flat and scaly. The second most common type of skin cancer is squamous cell carcinoma, which can spread to other parts of the body (about five percent of the time). This type can also have varied appearances including a flat, red patch, to a firm lump that is rough, or an ulcer that does not heal. Finally, melanoma is the rarest of skin cancers, though it accounts for the most deaths due to its greater ability to spread to other parts of the body. It arises from pigment cells in the skin and can cious lesions. Your physician may then decide to take is treated at an early stage has the best survival rate. sometimes present as a changing mole (also known a biopsy or a piece of the skin lesion to see whether Resources as a nevus). Melanoma can also present in internal it is cancerous and if it is confined to just the skin. • Canadian Cancer Society: www.cancer.ca organs, mouth, vagina and even the eyes. If there is evidence that the cancer may have spread, • Mayo Clinic: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/skin- your doctor may recommend additional tests includ- cancer/basics/definition/con-20031606 Causes and risk factors ing imaging studies. References • Joseph MG, Zulueta WP, Kennedy PJ. Squamous cell car- Skin cancer is an abnormal growth of skin cells cinoma of the skin of the trunk and limbs: the incidence of caused by mutated skin cells in the top-most layer of Prevention and management metastases and their outcome. Aust N Z J Surg 1992; 62:697. • Kuflik EG. Cryosurgery updated. J Am Acad Dermatol 1994; your skin called the epidermis. The most common Treating early or pre-cancerous lesions can be 31:925. cause of mutated skin cells is exposure to ultraviolet done by your family physician in the office via dif- • Rhodes AR, Weinstock MA, Fitzpatrick TB, et al. Risk factors for cutaneous melanoma. A practical method of recognizing (UV) radiation, such as that found in sunshine and ferent techniques such as freezing or cutting out the predisposed individuals. JAMA 1987; 258:3146. tanning lamps. This explains the high incidence of affected area of skin. If the cancer cannot be fully • Stern RS, Weinstein MC, Baker SG. Risk reduction for nonmelanoma skin cancer with childhood sunscreen use. Arch skin cancers found on sun-exposed areas like the removed via surgery or has spread to other parts of Dermatol 1986; 122:537. face, ears, scalp, neck, arms and legs. Having a your body, you may be referred for chemotherapy • Vitasa BC, Taylor HR, Strickland PT, et al. Association of nonmelanoma skin cancer and actinic keratosis with cumula- family history of skin cancer, a weak immune sys- and/or radiation therapy. There are simple, effective tive solar ultraviolet exposure in Maryland watermen. Cancer tem, or exposure to certain toxins, can help explain and safe measures you can take to reduce your risk 1990; 65:2811. skin cancers in other regions on the skin. of skin cancer. Reducing exposure to UV radiation by avoiding sunlight or using sunscreen is impera- Dr. Sharin Mithani lives in the Glebe and is a resi- Diagnosis tive. Furthermore, check your skin regularly for any dent in family medicine at the University of Ottawa Diagnosis begins with your family physician new or suspicious looking lesions and report them to and practises at The Ottawa Hospital and Elisabeth doing a visual screen of your skin for any suspi- your family physician immediately. Skin cancer that Bruyère Hospital.

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health Glebe Report August 14, 2015 5 Can your legs use a gentle squeeze? By Zenah Surani deep vein thrombosis (DVT). This is dangerous because the clot can get dis- The green performance calf sleeve lodged from the deep vein and travel in the window of the store has gen- through the veins where it can eventu- erated a lot of questions and interest ally become lodged in the pulmonary in compression stockings. Recently, artery and can block blood flow to a customer who purchased compres- the lungs. This is called a pulmonary sion stockings for running asked me embolism and is usually fatal. Risk to write about compression stockings factors of venous insufficiency include and their benefits – in her words, “they prolonged immobilization (i.e. pot- keep my legs feeling fresh!” entially on long flights and while in Arteries and veins work together recovery from surgery), increased age, to form the circulatory system of the smoking, pregnancy, obesity and dia- body. Arteries pump freshly oxygen- betes. ated blood from the heart to all the Calf-length compression socks tissues of the body. Once the oxygen provide graduated support (a gentle is taken up by the tissues, the de-oxy- squeeze) to the legs, allowing veins and ery. These socks come in both 15-20 ies are also available, such as special genated blood returns to the heart via valves to return to their normal state, mmHg and 20-30 mmHg compression washing solution and instruments to the veins. When oxygenated blood is aiding in the upward flow of blood to and help performance by improving aid in donning the socks for those with delivered to the foot and calf, some- circulate to the lungs and heart. The circulation, improving oxygen deliv- impaired mobility. thing extra is needed to push the blood compression sock should be tightest at ery to muscle tissue and decreasing Compression stockings will feel back to the heart – without which, the the ankle and should decrease in com- lactic acid build up during exercise. tight the first few times one wears blood would simply pool in the lower pression moving upwards. This, in turn, leads to decreased them and it does take time to adjust extremities and not make it back to the Compression stocking options are muscle soreness and faster recovery to them. However, the benefits to the heart and recirculate. This “something based on grade of pressure (measured after intense exercise. Higher com- legs will be felt quickly. Compres- extra” consists of the foot and calf in mmHg) and the reason for use. The pression (30-40 mmHg and higher) sion socks should never cause pain. muscles that help to pump the blood lowest compression socks available is sometimes needed for patients with If they do, the sizing may not be cor- back to the heart and fight against the are 15-20 mmHg and are available more severe venous complications and rect. Some private insurance plans do force of gravity. Veins also contain over the counter without a prescrip- leg ulcerations. cover the cost of medical compression small valves that help the blood flow tion. These stockings are suitable for Compression socks come in a socks, especially those with higher upwards and close to prevent blood those without any risk factors for ven- variety of styles, including casual, compression needing a prescription. from flowing back the other way. ous insufficiency but want relief from comfortable cushioned cotton socks, Medical compression stockings have Sometimes, however, certain fac- tired feet and legs and swollen feet open and closed toe fashion pantyhose been well studied with many clinical tors cause the walls of the veins to after prolonged sitting (e.g. for use (both sheer and opaque) and business trials supporting their use for better become weak, decreasing the effi- during a long flight). 20-30 mmHg casual. Sizing is based on shoe size leg and circulatory health. ciency and tightness of the valves. The socks (prescription only) are suitable and for higher compression, measur- result is venous insufficiency – when for those with more painful, tired and ing is recommended prior to ordering. Sources blood flows both ways through the aching legs and for those with mild Measurements can be taken by a cer- • An Overview of Compression Hosiery. weak valves. This can lead to issues varicose veins during pregnancy, with tified fitter (at the Glebe Apothecary, US Pharm. 2008; 33(4): 22-30 like pain, varicose veins, swelling of little swelling. There’s a growing trend we have certified fitters on staff), to • Sigvaris Certified Fitter Seminar the legs and even leg ulcers and blood towards more athletes using sports determine the correct sizing based on clots. When a blood clot is formed in performance compression socks for measurements of the ankle, calf and Zenah Surani is the owner of the a vein deep within the body, it’s called improved performance and recov- thigh. Compression stocking accessor- Glebe Apothecary.

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Singles, Condos & Towns COMING SOON REGISTER AT Greystonevillage.ca op ed Glebe Report August 14, 2015 7 Why not more canal billboards? By John Dance of the new rules pertaining to the illuminated TD sign in a manner that Imagine if one day the condominium defies standards of good governance board of 300 Queen Elizabeth Drive and accountability. The Lansdowne erected an illuminated billboard-sized signage plan requires that a study be TD Bank logo high up on the canal undertaken to confirm that any pro- side of their building at the corner of posed illuminated sign will not be the Driveway and First Avenue. visually obtrusive when it is within The protests would be loud, furious canal sightlines. Staff claim they and successful: the sign would come did ‘such a study’ yet, as a recent down and the condo owners would response to a freedom of information be deprived of a revenue stream that request stated, “no study document would have offset their monthly fees. was produced.” Who has ever heard But really the condo board would of a legally required study being done never propose such a thing and TD without documentation? Bank would never try to put a bill- Thirdly, local politicians appear to board-size logo on the condo. value the money generated by “nam-

Yet TD Bank – working with the ing rights” expressed through the TD CE J OHN DAN PHOTOS: City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Sports sign as more important than protection The TD sign on Lansdowne’s veil dom- Imagine (thanks to Photoshop!) what a and Entertainment Group (OSEG) – of the viewscapes enjoyed by canal inates the skateway’s viewscape east of Driveway condo building might look like has erected a billboard-sized logo high and parkway users and nearby resi- the Bank Street bridge. with a similar TD sign. up on the veil of the Lansdowne sta- dents. Mayor Jim Watson has yet to dium. The sign on the veil is about the respond fully to several related ques- same distance from the Rideau Canal tions asked in January by the president about the TD sign on the veil, TD has been blemished by the massive, as one would be at 300 Queen Eliza- of the Old Ottawa South Community Bank Vice President Chris Stamper illuminated sign on Lansdowne’s veil. beth and it has the same visual impact Association and councillors simply said the TD sign is “an appropriate Our governments’ failure to protect as it would at 300 QED: it’s dominant, aren’t willing to challenge city staff acknowledgement of our investment the visual commons and this world obtrusive and looming over our world on what they have allowed. in Lansdowne Park.” heritage site may have increased the heritage site. This malaise is perhaps a reflec- Like the proposed monument for value of Lansdowne naming rights So why was the TD sign on the veil tion of a general abandonment of the “victims of communism” on Wel- but at what cost? In war-torn parts allowed? First off, the rules for Lans- value of the “commons,” in this case, lington Street, the location and size of of the world, heritage sites are being downe signage were substantially the visual commons. It is as though the TD sign is seen by a government destroyed. Here we just commercial- altered from the existing signage the populace and their representatives to be its prerogative, with little con- ize and devalue them. bylaw that previously applied. City are indifferent to – or even facilitating sideration for the visual impact and staff failed to explain to City Council – how corporations take over view- the opinion of local residents. John Dance is an Old Ottawa East and neighbouring communities that scapes. As one person commented on The Rideau Canal is a UNESCO- resident and occasional contributor the key deviation from the existing TD Bank’s controversial new signs on designated world heritage site and it to the Glebe Report. bylaw – changing the signage setback Toronto’s TD Centre – an architec- from the Driveway from 500 metres to tural gem, “It’s called naming rights just 50 – would allow staff to approve and companies pay big money to have a 36-square-metre sign near the canal. their logo placed so high.” Indeed, in Secondly, staff implemented one response to local residents’ complaints Only at

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Glebe Kumon Math and Reading Centre is moving from 2 Monk Street to 796 Bank Street. The new location will open in Sep- Glebite tember. Ottawa 67s Hockey Games – For the on the move 2015-16 season, Friday hockey games will start at 7 p.m. and Sunday game start Victoria Watson grew up in the Glebe times have been adjusted to 3 p.m. The and attended Mutchmor School and team’s home opener will be Sunday, Sep- Glebe Collegiate. She left the Glebe tember 27 at 3 p.m. at TD Place.

this summer for a plum summer Lansdowne was officially opened on internship at the Clinton Foundation June 19 with a ceremony attended by in Manhattan, New York. Victoria Jim Watson, David Chernushenko, Mat- met former U. S. President Bill Clin- thieu Fleury, Roger Greenberg, Andrew Peck of the Glebe BIA, TD Senior Vice ton while working at the Foundation President Chris Stamper and students where her work included executing from Hopewell Public School. About 70 the Clinton Global Initiatives’ annual per cent of Lansdowne businesses (more meeting and researching corporate than 30 businesses) have opened in the last months, with more to come. and government policies. She plans to attend McMaster University in Ham- Lansdowne summer arts program every ilton in September to do a master’s Sunday evening (free) and Momentum Fri- days from noon to 1 p.m. on Fridays with degree in global health. She may be creative activities like dance, yoga, boot-

E TAT B RUCE PHOTO: contacted at: [email protected]. camp, acro/partner yoga and zumba, Victoria Watson giving Bill Clinton advice on how to get to the Glebe? outdoors in the park (free).

NEW TO THE GLEBE Canadian Internet Registration Authority “proudly manages the .CA domain from its Road trip! home in the heart of the City of Ottawa. As the first corporate tenant in the new Lans- The black and white photographs and cross five provinces and four U.S. Walking My Baby Back Home with downe Park development, CIRA is locating diary bring to startling life a time states. Construction of the Trans-Can- Donald O’Connor. 80 highly-skilled technology professionals when things still felt possible; life was ada Highway had begun in 1950, and The women camped in fields and in the vibrant Glebe community.” an adventure; Canada was a wild land would only officially open in 1962, bush, often beside a lake or stream. The Rowan, a new 45-seat restaurant ripe for exploration and women were eight years later. The women left from They had what looks like a Coleman operated by brothers Simon and Ross Fra- about to break out of their strictures Fifth Avenue east of Bank, in the Glebe. stove and plastic dishes and made rela- ser with partner Ion Aimers, is now open, and take on the world. Helen took photos along the way, tively elaborate dinners like stew and replacing ZaZaZa Pizza at 915 Bank Street. It features “casual yet quality dining” with On July 31, 1954, four young women and kept a diary; the cache of photos stuffed green peppers. Helen talks of “modern British cuisine.” (freelance photographer Rosemary Gil- has now been released by Library the murderous mosquitoes. liat and her three friends who worked and Archives Canada (LAC). LAC Four young women from the Glebe Goodlife Fitness held its grand opening at the Central Experimental Farm: will continue to release a photo a day remind us of a time of optimism and on June 19, 2015. “Lansdowne Park Co-Ed Club” on Exhibition Way. Anna Brown, Audrey James and Helen on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ adventure, freedom and discovery. Salkeld) loaded up their green Chrysler LibraryArchives until September 6, Their photographic tale refills your Teriyaki Experience is now open on Exhi- Plymouth station wagon with camping the date they returned to Ottawa in depleted cache of hope and excitement bition Way in Lansdowne. gear and left Ottawa on a 12,391 km 1954. The photos give a sense of time for the future. It does your heart good. SEN Asian Cuisine coming soon to Lans- road trip west across Canada to Van- and place: in Hearst, for example, downe. couver. The trip would take 38 days, the theatre marquee lists the musical –Liz McKeen South St. Burger is open at 900 Exhibi- tion Way. Open at 11 a.m. “Now grilling in the nation’s capital.”

CRAFT Beer Market opening soon at the CONTACT US corner of Bank and Exhibition Way. “Over one hundred beer on tap.”

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The Glebe Report, Call 613-236-4955 The Pomeroy House at 749 Bank Street is opening as the Glebe Report goes to press. made available at select locations such as the Glebe Community Centre and the Old Ottawa The former {segue} restaurant was closed South Community Centre and Brewer Pool, is printed by Winchester Print. @glebereport for renovations, but is now taking reserva- tions as of August 15 – www.thepomeroy. EDITOR Liz McKeen [email protected] sitebenefits.com. COPY EDITOR Gillian Campbell DEADLINES Cantina Sur at 665 Bronson (at Renfrew), LAYOUT DESIGNER Jock Smith [email protected] a Mexican restaurant, opened in 2014. 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Deadlines for submissions: Friday, August 24 for articles GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN AREA CAPTAINS Martha Bowers, Donna Edwards, Judy Field, Wednesday, August 26 for advertising Emilio Lindia Enterprises, 770 Bronson McE and Bobby Galbreath, Gary Greenwood, Ginny Grimshaw, at the corner of Bronson and Carling, auto Jono Hamer-Wilson, Martin Harris, Christian Hurlow, Gord Yule. The next issue of the Glebe Report: repair service, has closed up shop. Friday, September 11, 2015 Queen Mother Maternity, 877 Bank Please note that except for July, the paper is published monthly. An electronic version of the print Street, has closed. publication is subsequently uploaded with text, photos, drawings and advertisements as a pdf to COVER photo: Liz mckeen www.glebereport.ca. Selected articles will be highlighted on the website. Shafali Bazaar’s Bank Street location closed in early July. Views expressed in the articles and letters submitted to the Glebe Report are those of our con- FRONT PAGE photo: Julie Houle Cezer tributors. We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Articles selected for publication will be Forno Antico at 683 Bronson has gone published in both a printed version and an online version on the Glebe Report’s website: out of business as of July, after suffering www.glebereport.ca. a fire in October 2014. letters Glebe Report August 14, 2015 9 PHOTO: F R ANK J OHNSON PHOTO: Fifth Avenue Court on Bank Street has several vacancies. PHOTO: F R ANK J OHNSON PHOTO: Lansdowne water feature a danger to PHOTO: SOO H U M PHOTO: the unwary? Vacancies on Bank Street Flora MacDonald, 1926-2015. Lansdowne Editor, Glebe Report The passing of I was struck by the four empty retail slots in the nine that form the Bank Street water feature an frontage of Minto’s Fifth Avenue court. Taken together with the disaster in the Flora MacDonald block just south of the lights it makes this section a blighted spot right now. accident waiting Do we have any good news on this section of our village street? The Glebe Report notes with sadness the passing of prominent Glebe resi- to happen? Frank Johnson dent Flora MacDonald, at the age of 89. She was a trailblazer in the pol- Editor, Glebe Report, itical arena, influenced the course of When brand trumps vision Canadian society and was active even Who was the genius that installed this in recent years, improving life for “artwork” with an unguarded 40 cm Editor, Glebe Report women and others in Afghanistan. For crevasse in a high traffic area of our profiles of her, go to our August 2007 diminutive “green space”? Re: TD sign on stadium veil and September 2014 issues (under the Just one elderly person/young cyclist Archives tab on our website at www. falling into this will be a disaster. Alex Bozikovic, columnist at the Globe and Mail, seems to share our disgust glebereport.ca). with ugly, shamelessly self-promoting signs on what could be attractive struc- Frank Johnson tures. In his article on Monday, July 6 (“New TD Centre signage reflects a time when brands trump architectural vision”), he writes: “The latter-day add-ons at Toronto’s TD Centre are legal and historically defensible ... but the signs are a very public gesture of disrespect that cuts against the good work.” E Ceci Cranston

Glebe Report is seeking a volunteer Web Editor Glebe Report is seeking a volunteer “Business Buzz” writer Responsibilities: who is • Edit and update the Glebe Report website www.glebereport.ca, • A good writer, able to write a 750-word article every month including photo gallery, monthly • Interested in business and the Glebe neighbourhood • Edit and update the online community events calendar twice a week Contact: [email protected] with writing sample. • Maintain the Glebe Report social media presence on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram on an ongoing basis Some knowledge of HTML coding and WordPress is required, as well Attention high school students: delivery of the Glebe Report counts for volunteer hours! as skill with social media and familiarity with the Glebe neighbourhood. Delivery Routes Available Powell Ave. - Lyon to Bank - both sides Modest honorarium. Second Ave. - Bank to O’Connor - North side Contact [email protected] with résumé. Lakeside Ave. Dows Lake Road / Crescent Heights Welcome to Pretoria Ave. - Bank to O’Connor Phrasie Le Sann Clarey St. - Both sides Mary Nicoll Regent St. - Both sides Thanks and Farewell Contributors this issue Heather Norman Kyle Acres Francine Greenspoon William Nuttle Contact: Zita Taylor 613-235-1214 Dan Allan Trevor Greenway Ali A. Ramezani Matt Armstrong Kendra Hoskin Eli Saikaley OUR VOLUNTEER CARRIERS Mary Ahearn, Jennie Aliman, Tyler, Luke & Claire Allan, Melanie and William Alton, Marcia Aronson, Darla Barrows Julie Houle Cezer Aaron Sarna james attwood, the Aubry family, Lucy & Thomas Baird, Adrian Becklumb, Beckman Family, Inez Berg, Mary Lou Bienefeld, Daisy & Nettie Bonsall, Robert & Heidi Boraks, the Bowie family, John Francis Mitchell Beer Soo Hum Siann Sheridan Brandon, Jonah & Benjy Brender, Adélaïde Bridgett, deborah broad, Alice Cardozo, virginia carver, Nathaniel Collins Mayer, the Coodin family, denys cooper, Eleanor Crowder, JJ crowe, georgia da- Deniz Bokesoy Will Jessup Ashwin Shingadia vidson, Richard DesRochers, Oscar & Jane Dennis, Marilyn Deschamps, Tara Dibenedetto, the Diek- meyer-Bastianon family, Pat Dillon, the Dingle family, Education for Community Living (GCI), Donna Bhat Boy Frank Johnson Lois Siegel Edwards, the Faught family, Judy Field, gabriel & octavia francis, Joann Garbig, jonathan & emma garvis, matthew & ryan goetz, matti Goodwin-Sutton, Gary Greenwood, Ginny Grimshaw, the Hamer- Micheline Boyle Nola Juratis Roark Smeathers Wilson family, Henry Hanson, Martin Harris, Louis Helbig, the Hook family, Cheryle Hothersall, Mat- thew Hovey, Christian Hurlow, Niall & Nolan Hymander, the Illing-Stewart family, Jack & Lily Inskip- Sarah Brickell Ruth Kagan Caleb Spassov Shesnicky, jeevan & Amara Isfeld, Janna Justa, Carly & Reilly Kimber, Mr. & Mrs Laing, the Lambert Valerie Burton John Last Nicole Spring family, Phrasie le sann, kim lewis, Justin Leyser, Jaiden and Vinay Lodha, Ben, parker & james love, Annaline Lubbe, Joanne Lucas, jim lumsden, nick stewart lussier, the macdonald family, Jennifer, Cassandra Carson Adriana Loewen Zenah Surani John, Owen & Ian MacNab, william maguire, Pat Marshall, felip matic, Isaac McGuire, doug mckeen, fionn mckercher, natalie mezey, Julie Monaghan, Rebecca Morris, Diane Munier, Sana Nesrallah, David Chernushenko Christine McAllister Bruce Tate mary nicoll, sachiko okuda, Tracy Parrish, Brenda Quinlan, Beatrice Raffoul, Don Ray, Mary & Steve Reid, barbara riley, Jacqueline, Lucy and Adam Reilly-King, ned rogers, Anna Roper, Emile & Sebastien Colleen Clark Jennifer MacNab Chris Thomas Roy-Foster, bruce rayfuse, Lene Rudin-Brown, sidney rudin-brown, Penny & Nelson Riis, Carter & Clara Saunders, Casimir & Tristan Seywerd, Kirk shannon, graham shantz, the Short family, Kathy Ceci Cranston Eric Martin Mary Tsai Simons, Judith Slater, Eamonn sloan, Victoria, Rebecca, Nicholas & Patrick Spiteri, Sebastian and Adrianna Spoerel, grady, ella, audrey kennedy squires, the Stephenson family, Alex & Claire Stoney, John Dance Kate McGregor John Walmsley Joanne Sulek, Emily and Cara Swab, Karen Swinburne, Eric & Steven Swinkels, Ruth Swyers, Emmet & Niamh Taylor, Christa Zeller thomas, Mackenzie Thomas, Spencer Thomas, John & Maggie Thomson, Adelle Farrelly Liz McKeen Nancy Wasserman the thompson family, the Trudeau family, Caroline Vanneste, joshua vannopppen, the Veevers family, Erica Waugh, Katja & Tanja Webster, the Weider family, patrick and ciara westdal, Allison Williams, Pat Goyeche Sharin Mithani Jennifer Wilson Howard & Elizabeth Wong, Ella & Ethan wood, jo wood, Gillian & Jake Wright, Sue Ann Wright, Na- Stan Grabstas Sara Minaeian Batia Winer thaniel & maggie wightman, Nora Wylie, the Young-Smith family, Gord Yule. Paul Green Yasir Naqvi Zeus CALL Zita Taylor at 613-235-1214, e-mail: [email protected], if you are willing to deliver a route for us. 10 Glebe Report August 14, 2015 gca

Introducing the new GCA board

Here it is – the middle of the summer and we still have a few weeks of long: lazy days: hopefully. Activities at the GCA have slowed down along Christine McAllister with summer, but I thought residents www.glebeca.ca might be interested in knowing about their neighbours who were elected to the GCA Board for the coming year at 6B: Patterson Creek North (Patter- our June AGM: son to Linden Terrace, Bank to Canal) President: Christine McAllister – Elizabeth Ballard Vice-President: Sharon Chartier 7. Glebe Annex Community Associ- Vice-President: Janet Sutherland ation – Sylvia Milne, President. Secretary: Sylvie Legros Treasurer: Vaughn Guy New board members Communications: Basia Vanderveen I am pleased to welcome a few new Webmaster: Alex Gillis people to the Board. Sylvie Legros is Education Chair: Tim Hore our new secretary, taking over from Environment Co-Chairs: Carol Martha Bowers. Sarah Viehbeck is MacLeod and Angela Keller-Herzog bringing her background in health- Great Glebe Garage Sale Chair: care to breathe new life into the Health Catherine Waters and Social Services Committee (and Health & Social Services Chair: is looking for committee members if Sarah Viehbeck you are interested in joining). Sam Heritage Chair: Johanna Persohn Harris joins the Parks Committee as Lansdowne Park Chair: Ken Slemko co-chair along Elizabeth Ballard. Dan Membership Chair: Daphne Towers Chook Reid will rejuvenate the Ten- Planning Chair: Carolyn Mackenzie ants Committee as chair (also looking Parks Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Ballard for members). Matt Meagher is under- and Sam Harris taking the leadership of the Traffic Tenants Chair: Dan Chook Reid Committee after a number of years of Traffic Chair: Matt Meagher guidance by Brian Mitchell. Thanks Federation of Citizens Associations to everyone who has stepped forward representatives: Bob Brocklebank and to share their considerable energies! Angela Keller-Herzog Upcoming changes Area Representatives We will have some changes in the 1: Dow’s Lake Residents’ Asso- coming year as well. It will be my last ciation (west of Bronson, Carling to as president, which means the search Canal) – Bhagwant Sandhu, President is on for someone new to take the and Louise Aronoff helm come June 2016. Also, Daphne 2A: Brown’s Inlet West (south of Towers has announced she would like Fifth to Canal, Craig to Bronson) – to pass on the Membership Commit- Martha Bowers and Cindy Delage tee Chair baton. This is an incredibly 2B: Brown’s Inlet East (south of important role for the GCA, with the Fifth to Canal, Bank to Craig) – Cindy primary function of organizing our Kirk membership drive in May – which 3A: High School Zone (Glebe to sees volunteers going door-to-door to Second, Bronson to Bank) – Rochelle renew our 1,400 (or so) members. If Handelman you’re interested, let’s talk. 3B: Church District South (Third I am looking forward to working to Fifth, Bronson to Bank) – Alison with all of our Board members and Perry the many active residents in our neigh- 4A: Central Park West (Chamber- bourhood in the upcoming year. But lain to Renfrew, Bronson to Bank) for now, I wish you a great second half – Peter Leyser of the summer, filled with lots of time 4B: Powmow (Powell to Clemow, to play in the sunshine and enjoy this Bronson to Bank) – vacant great season. 5A: Patterson Creek South (Glebe to Second, Bank to Canal) – Lynn Bar- low 5B: Lansdowne Quadrant (Third to Holmwood, Bank to Canal) – Carol MacLeod 6A: Nor’Easters (Pretoria to Strath- cona, Bank to Canal) – Bradley Twitter: @glebeca Gilbert Email: [email protected] Winter overnight parking From the Glebe Community Associa- dents are invited to provide comments tion: Perhaps the last thing you want on how parking bans are communi- to think about right now is snow. How- cated to the public, enforcement of ever, we invite you to consider the the bylaw, on- and off-street parking information below as it pertains to options during a winter parking ban anyone parking in the Glebe. and criteria for implementing an overnight parking ban. Have your say: City of Ottawa In particular, residents who use on- review of overnight parking ban street parking during the winter are during snow events encouraged to submit comments or The City of Ottawa is seeking questions to: Dean Johnson, Public input on possible changes to the Win- Works Department, City of Ottawa at ter Overnight Parking provisions of [email protected] or 613-580- the Traffic and Parking Bylaw. Resi- 2424, extension 17924. gnag Glebe Report August 14, 2015 11 GNAG spotlights youth Program Registration Fall is just around the corner, which means registration time! Our program guide inserted in this issue of your Glebe Report has details of our fantastic fall line-up of programs for all Mary Tsai ages. Many of your old favourite programs are www.gnag.ca back and we have some brand new courses you are going to love. Online registration begins Tuesday, September 1 at 7 p.m. for all programs and is ongoing until programs begin. Visit us online at www.gnag.ca or call 613-233-8713.

Employment Opportunities GNAG is looking for mature, enthusiastic candidates who possess strong leadership, communication and organizational skills along with the “job specific” qualifications for the Breakfast and Afterschool programs. Please send your resumé to [email protected] by August 21 outlining your experience, education, schedule of availability and a minimum of two references. Details on the job postings are available on our website www.gnag.ca.

GNAG Annual General Meeting Dear Silver Scissors customers, GNAG invites the community to our Annual General Meeting, Wednesday, Sep- tember 23 at 7 p.m. Are you interested in volunteering or taking a place on our board? Please contact our volunteer coordinator at 613-233-8713 or email us at Silver Scissors Salon is [email protected].

GNAG Launches New ‘YouthFIT’ Project now open GNAG is proud to announce that we are the recipients of a provincial grant from the Ontario Sport and Recreation Communities Fund. This grant, offered at our new location at by the Ontario Ministry of Sport, Recreation and Tourism, will help support and sustain a brand new two-year initiative. 877 Bank St. Special thank you to principal France Thibault and vice principal Matt Arm- strong of Glebe Collegiate Institute (GCI). With their help, GNAG was able to initiate a YouthFIT program at GCI over the past year. The YouthFIT program For info and appointments, was initiated when a survey revealed that more than 60 per cent of the student population self-identified as “inactive,” despite the fact that GCI has the largest call 613.236.6408 or number of sport teams and intramural clubs in the city. GNAG initiated a pilot project whereby we offered free fitness classes on site at GCI during the school email [email protected] day – making it as easy as possible for teens to participate. Many studies show that the majority of youth in Ontario do not meet the minimum requirement for daily physical activity recommended by the Public Health we appreciate your Agency of Canada. This deficiency in activity levels has significant ramifications for youth as they transition into adulthood, as physical activity patterns estab- ongoing support. lished during childhood are important in laying the foundation for healthy habits in adulthood. Physical activity is proven to reduce chronic disease and obesity and enhance cognitive function and academic performance. Despite the benefits of youth fitness, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for kids to be active. Thank you, Next year in high school, with “work to rule” strikes in effect and school teams and extracurricular activities potentially pulled, this topic is a particularly timely eli, Bruce and Laila and the team one – and GNAG wants to help. We hope to create a template that can be replicated across the city and province in like-minded schools and community centres. The grant will allow us to See you soon! build onto the YouthFIT program with up to 10 free classes at GCI each week, plus classes at the GCC, and a YouthFIT Sports leadership training program. With outreach as a cornerstone of this project, GNAG is also hoping to bring YouthFIT into all of our neighbourhood schools. If you represent an elementary or middle school in the Glebe or surrounding area – give us a call! We can run sports clinics, fitness classes, intramural and extra-curricular sports leagues – whatever you need.

YouthFIT programs offered at the Glebe Community Centre GNAG will be offering a variety of exciting sport and fitness classes for children and youth. These heavily discounted classes will be offered after school and in the evenings. We’re particularly excited for the brand new YouthFIT volleyball, girls’ pick-up basketball, intramurals and ball hockey for youth ages 12+. GNAG is also introducing Zumba for youth with special needs. Check out our fall brochure for a complete guide to our YouthFIT offerings. GNAG will also be offering a new YouthFIT Sports Leadership program this fall designed to provide youth with the opportunity to develop leadership skills through sport. The basics of coaching, instructing sports and working with kids in a recreational setting will be explored. Participants will gain credit towards their high school community service requirement by volunteering as sports instructors/ coaches throughout the term. Successful graduates of the program will receive a letter of recommendation and a YouthFIT Sports Coaching certification. We are also excited to meet with any community members in the sport, health 877 Bank St. and wellness field who are interested in being part of the project. Never hurts to meet new instructors – pro bono or otherwise. 613.236.6408

YouthFIT Launch Event Join us on Wednesday, September 16 at 7 p.m. at the Glebe Community Cen- www.silverscissors.ca tre for the official launch of YouthFIT! Come meet our incredible instructors and check out our line-up of unbelievable sport, fitness and nutrition programs. Show your support for this exciting new initiative recognized by the Ontario Min- istry of Sport, Recreation and Tourism that is happening right here in the Glebe.

613-233-8713 Email: [email protected] 12 Glebe Report August 14, 2015 memoir The sea of my childhood: A memoir of Australia

Editor’s note: The course in “Writing your Memoirs” offered at Abbotsford House and taught by Anne Le Dressay has brought out some wonderful stories by local residents. We share below another story by John Last.

By John Last

I taught myself to swim when I was six, sliding on my belly in warm, shallow OF J OHN L AST T E SY pools left behind sandbanks when the tide went out. The sea was crystal clear in those days. More than swimming I enjoyed observing the creatures below John Last (left) and his brother Peter in C O UR PHOTOS: the surface, shrimps, cockles, little black a boat on the beach at Brighton, South John Last with a fledgling fairy penguin, Australia, 1938 and yellow striped zebra fish and trans- Australia in 1937 lucent whitebait destined to grow into the beaches were clogged with sea- on Kangaroo Island, which shelters whiting my mother got for our meals. utes on my bike and I was on the beach weed, great heaps of it washed ashore Adelaide’s beaches from the Southern A face mask with a large glass front and striding into a calm clear sea on a from the undersea forest of kelp and Ocean. Occasionally we saw schools of brought everything below the surface sheltered coast. After swimming and seagrass that made the sea a few hun- yellowtail tuna, often accompanied by into sharp focus and transformed my lazily sunbathing all day I’d come home dred yards out appear a deeper blue dolphins that leapt and frolicked among vision of the underwater world. sated, body caked with sand and sea salt than closer inshore. It was safe to swim them in an underwater and aerial game A mile south, the hills came down to that made my sunburnt skin feel pleas- in the shallow sea with a sandy bottom that all seemed to enjoy. the coast and the sand gave way to rocks antly stiff. Late in my teens I studied but it was dangerous beyond the “blue Since leaving Australia I’ve swum that didn’t trouble my almost prehensile anatomy, biochemistry, pathology, with line” where the undersea forest began, at Corfu in the Mediterranean, in the toes. This was more interesting because the distant sound of multitudes enjoy- because one couldn’t see sharks against Atlantic off Cape Cod, in the Persian the rock pools were home to crabs, star- ing the beach as the days got longer and the darker background. Sharks were our Gulf off Kuwait, in the Bay of Bengal fish and sea anenomes. Many pools were hotter in October and November, while deadliest enemy. On the foreshore of my and in the Caribbean at Varadero, Cuba large enough for me to immerse with my I prepared for exams in early Decem- seaside village a granite drinking foun- and Cartagena, Colombia. Most were facemask and study this magical marine ber. As I studied I longed for the sea tain commemorated a girl who had been pleasant but all are polluted and the sea world close up. Beside the rock pools, to cool me. To be a medical student in taken by a shark. But sharks do come off Cape Cod is ice-cold because of the little tunnels in the sand above high tide that climate, one had to be a masochist. into very shallow water with a sandy bot- Labrador Current. No other sea is as wel- level held fairy penguins’ roosts. If you What joy in the week before Christmas tom, so that childhood rule would not coming as the sea of my childhood. put your ear close to the mouth of one to plunge into the sea’s healing embrace have worked if put to the test. of these tunnels you could hear fledg- and wash away the worry of study! In my childhood we could cast a line Dr. John Last is an Australian-born ling penguins calling for their parents Those summers were spent in and on over the side of a boat and haul in tasty doctor who has been a professor of to come home and feed them. the sea. We could swim from October whiting, snapper, flathead, as well as epidemiology and public health at the Throughout my childhood the sea was until April. Hardier folk swam all year. inedible dogfish, stingrays and skates. University of Ottawa since 1969. Dr. five minutes walk from home. Two min- In September after the winter storms The fishing was especially good in bays Last is writing his memoirs.

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Confessions of a newspaper junkie

By Kate McGregor so we would huddle together, rapidly turning pages, me in my business suit, I have a confession to make. I’ve had a he wrapped in his meditation shawl. love affair with newspapers for a long Lest I leave you with the impression time. As a young girl, I recall sprawl- that all newspapers signal bad lovers ing out on the living room floor, the St. for me, let me pause for a moment to Catharines Standard open to the com- talk about my continued love affair ics section. I also recall my mother with community newspapers. When I I A W N ER BAT PHOTO: speaking to me, a hint of urgency in read the Glebe Report, for example, I Kate McGregor feeds her newspaper habit with the Glebe Report. her voice: “Katharine, your father’s feel the heartbeat of the neighborhood pulling into the driveway.” Oh oh. Dad with all of the flavours and voices of was home from work. That was my the residents and businesses at play. cue to kick into high gear, gather all Unlike reading a daily newspaper, I the pages and carefully fold the news- am not pulled to dive in right away. I Post. The man who answered put my replied, “Done.” paper into a semblance of order. tend to dip into the pages more slowly, request through without batting an Oh, Globe and Mail, I feel a rekind- I fed my newspaper addiction well like I might venture into a lake, inch- eyelash. There, I did it. I am free of ling of our love. Our relationship into my teens. Then, when I started to ing slowly into the water, until I am paper … is back on track. Granted, we will work, my habit crept up to two, then gently immersed in stories about the But I feel bereft. I miss the gentle only see each other on Saturdays, not three daily newspapers. My addiction community. thud of newspapers hitting my front throughout the week like before. But forced me to get up early to start read- On the other hand, my long-time door, a sound that speaks of con- I promise to be good to you. I prom- ing. When I got a job in the Media love affair with three daily news- nection to a bigger world outside my ise to be faithful. I promise to give you Relations field, my habit turned from papers recently came to an abrupt end. home. I miss turning the pages slowly, my full attention. Now, maybe I will reading for pleasure to scanning for They were too expensive and I was not coffee in hand, as I scan the headlines. screw up my courage to call my for- articles that could turn into potential spending enough time with them. So, Frankly, firing up the computer first mer flames, the Ottawa Citizen and issues for my employer. I did it. I pulled the plug. thing in the morning to read Google National Post. Maybe this time we One day, a friend came to visit When I called The Globe and Mail News seems wrong. I want to ease can come to an understanding about from India where he lived in an ash- to cancel my subscription, the woman myself into my day gently, not peer our relationship that works for every- ram. Like me, he got up at sunrise. at the other end of the phone sounded into a screen to see what’s happening one. And every morning he would come genuinely hurt. “Oh dear,” she said. around the globe. down the stairs, fresh from his medi- “I am so sorry we will be losing you So I wavered. I called back The Kate McGregor loves working with tation. “Good morning Kate. What are as a long-standing customer. What Globe and Mail. “The other day you people. She is a certified Integral we looking for today?” He appeared if we offered you 25 per cent off to offered me 25 per cent off,” I reminded Master Coach™. To inquire about both amused and fascinated by my stay?” “Not good enough,” I sniffed. the voice at the end of the phone. “Can her services: 613-884-1864; kate@ pursuit of articles bearing bad news. Then I called the subscription line you do better? Can you give me 50 per kmcommunications.ca; www.kmcom- “Let me help,” he would plead. And for the Ottawa Citizen and National cent off?” Without missing a beat, she munications.ca.

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of the divestment movement in Ottawa W ILLI AM N U TT LE PHOTOS: Fahrig described efforts that are now and two speakers knowledgeable about Left to right, Angela Keller-Herzog (GCA Environment Committee co-chair), Janice Ash- underway to convince the City of fossil-free alternative investments now worth (OREC), Walter Traversey (Wood Gundy), and Lenore Fahrig (Carleton University) Ottawa to divest from the fossil fuel available to individuals. industry. The first step is for city coun- The lead speaker was Dr. Lenore that divestment will starve fossil fuel get large enough to pose a serious cil to follow Vancouver’s example and Fahrig, who provided an overview companies for money. Instead, the concern for the fossil fuel industry investigate options for divesting from of the divestment movement and the goal of the divestment campaign is to is effectively undercut by the well- fossil fuels. Worldwide so far, about rationale behind it. Dr. Fahrig is a reduce the “social capital” that allows funded campaigns that the industry 40 cities and towns have committed member of the local chapter of 350. these companies to operate. Choosing has launched against the divestment to divest. Alternatively, as the national org, the international organization to divest from fossil fuels says, “What movement. The industry is concerned. capital of Canada, Ottawa might promoting fossil fuel divestment and you are doing is wrong, and we don’t And, the argument that divesting from choose to take more proactive action, a leader on divestment in Ottawa. The want to be part of it.” Divestment pro- fossil fuels means getting lower finan- like its sister city Beijing, the growth- main argument for pulling invest- ponents hope to repeat the success of cial returns simply is not supported by oriented capital city of China. The ments out of the fossil fuel industry is the anti-apartheid divestment cam- the actual numbers. leaders of Beijing are not dithering with a moral one. If it is wrong to wreck the paign waged in the 1970s and 1980s Many in the audience wanted to fine-tuning its financial investment climate, then it is wrong to profit from that stimulated political change in know, “If I divest from fossil fuels, strategy. Instead, they are reducing fos- that wreckage. Therefore, institutions South Africa. what alternative investments are avail- sil fuel use directly by shutting down that work for the public good, which is Perhaps the strongest argument able that will have a positive impact?” that city’s four coal-fired generating threatened by climate change, should against divestment is that institutions This is a question that the remain- plants and expanding the use of power not also profit by investing in the fos- lose the ability, as shareholders, to ing speakers came ready to answer. from renewable sources. sil fuel industry. work for change from within the fos- Second up was Janice Ashworth, Even though potentially billions of sil fuel industry. The argument that operations manager for the Ottawa William Nuttle is a member of the dollars are at stake, no one believes the divestment movement can never Renewable Energy Co-op (OREC). GCA Environment Committee.

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Glebe residents are at the forefront of an effort to build clean, renewable energy projects across Ottawa. The Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-op (OREC) has already flipped the switch on nine solar energy installa- ER MAN Y WASS tions across the region, after raising $3.5 million in its first three waves of member investment. The K1S postal PHOTO: NAN C PHOTO: area is where OREC finds its largest The November 2014 annual general meeting of the Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-op concentration of members, investors and supporters. And the community is already rallying behind the co-op’s “My OREC investments allow me to my money is being managed, and ing strengthens everyone, rather than most ambitious securities offering yet, avoid the negative things I don’t want that’s really exciting.” diluting anyone else’s investment. It’s a $1.7 million plan to fund a new ser- to invest in. And they actually give me a story of hope, and I want to meet ies of clean energy projects. an opportunity to invest positively in Letting people in on the secret more of my neighbours who care Dollars placed with OREC are an things that excite me, helping to create But why would Snider choose to about these issues.” investment, not a donation – each pro- the future we all want: A clean energy open his home – possibly to perfect Snider has also been impressed by ject will generate at least 20 years of future that helps to address and avoid strangers – to spread the word about the thousands of hours of volunteer revenue from the clean energy it pro- climate change.” OREC? time that engineers, lawyers, account- duces and the co-op offers a rate of Snider, who will be hosting a home “I feel like I’m sitting on a secret I ants and other professionals contribute return on the shares it issues. But for coffee party for OREC in early Sep- want to share with my neighbours,” he to the co-op as active members. “It’s a Glebe resident Josh Snider, manager tember, also points to the democratic explains. “Everybody should be aware unique experience to see highly intel- of youth sustainability leadership at character of a clean energy co-op. “I of this opportunity, and I almost feel ligent people who otherwise make and The Natural Step Canada, the rewards get to be a part of a community of resi- guilty knowing about this diamond in charge a lot of money for their time, that come from participating in OREC dents who share similar values and the rough. The more people who know volunteering their time to make me go far beyond the financial. ideals, who care about being involved about this, the more people can take money,” he says. in a co-operative where everyone has the opportunity to ask themselves two Visit www.orec.ca for information Investments that follow an equal voice,” he says. “That’s great, important questions: whether these about the Ottawa Renewable Energy your principles especially when it’s blended with an values align with theirs and whether Co-op, or www.orec.ca/visitjosh for “OREC gives me the opportunity to investment vehicle. It’s the only place this is a good opportunity to align more about Josh Snider’s coffee party align my investments with my values, you can get a level of say that is dir- their portfolios more closely with their in September. and not have to compromise things I ectly related to the number of people values while making money.” would otherwise make a priority in involved, not the number of dollars And in a co-op, if more people Mitchell Beer is communications my life to get an above-market rate of involved.” take part, everyone gains. “There’s advisor to the Ottawa Renewable return,” Snider says. “It gives me an equal voice in how room for everybody and their join- Energy Co-op.

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Does it have to do Slater, who lives in the neighbourhood and doesn’t with the demographics of Cineplex clients (teenagers own a car, considers parking issues and traffic as R AM EZ AN I and young adults who do not typically own or drive minor inconveniences for her customers and one that a car)? Is it to do with ongoing declining attendance all the Glebe businesses share, as they all rely, in at movie theatres across North America? Or is it part, on customers from outside the neighbourhood. because clients are taking a pass on free parking by She would like to see more non-Glebe customers A. A LI A. PHOTOS: Cineplex Cinema Lansdowne using public transport? Short of conducting a scien- using public transportation and bikes, a situation tific users’ survey we will never know. over which, she understands, individual businesses have little or no control. Slater, too, could not pro- Free parking at Whole Foods Market: vide statistics on the quantity of parking validations Learning to live with big events they issue or the percentage of her customers who Lansdowne – two cases Whole Foods Market at Lansdowne offers “90 do not require parking. minutes of free parking with a minimum purchase By Ali A. Ramezani of $25.” Of all the Whole Foods Market stores in Optimizing use of Ontario, only Lansdowne’s store includes any infor- scarce parking Cineplex Cinemas Lansdowne: mation on parking matters. Staff at Lansdowne’s As the cases Declining demand for Whole Foods Market do not benefit from free park- of both Cineplex free parking ing. and Whole Foods Cineplex is among the most recent commer- Whole Foods Market in Lansdowne is one of Market illustrate, cial additions to Lansdowne, having opened a the six stores the American company operates in it would certainly 50,000-square-foot cinema in late March of this Ontario. Lisa Slater, the store’s General Manager, has help to know more year. Cineplex is one of a select few Lansdowne worked in four of those stores. She asserts that each about the rate of businesses offering free (validated) underground store has its own parking peculiarities. The Ottawa parking usage and parking. The parking situation at Lansdowne Cine- Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) and the peak usage times plex makes it a unique case among more than the 160 City are still trying to improve the traffic and park- for those busi- Cineplex parking validation theatres Cineplex operates in all 10 Canadian prov- ing issues stemming from games and special events, nesses that offer inces. Customers who book online are duly advised according to Slater. Both Slater and Cineplex’s Blum free parking. Those that the ticket purchase entitles them to free parking. agreed that the layout of the underground parking of the newly occupied condo tower residents who Walk-in customers wishing to buy their ticket at is not user-friendly. Fortunately, there seems to be are tenants do not have parking privileges, thereby the box office are advised through sign boards (and a major signage and layout redesign of the under- adding to parking scarcity in the Glebe. We have a the staff at cash registers) of their entitlement, though ground parking underway to address the present problem if the underground parking remains under- for some customers this offer may come too late – confusing layout that makes entering and exiting utilized for much of the time outside of Redblacks unless of course they are already familiar with this taxing for many customers. games. We don’t actually know its utilization rates, cinema. Parking usage for Cineplex initially began Furthermore, Redblacks games and other and parking on the adjacent streets continues to at around 70 per cent, but has since dropped substan- big-crowd events continue to present additional chal- present difficulties. tially, according to Peter Blum, Cineplex Cinemas lenges, resulting in, for example, rerouting Whole Lansdowne’s General Manager. While Blum could Foods Market shoppers to enter via the Queen Ali A. Ramezani is a member of the Glebe Commun- not provide any statistics for recent parking usage, he Elizabeth Driveway parking entrance. This is a ity Association’s Traffic Committee.

Lansdowne game day transportation From the Glebe Community Associ- approximately 90 minutes after ation: It’s football season again, and the end of the event. the Redblacks’ Lansdowne game • For the 2015 Redblacks sea- dates and times can be found at www. son, no Park & Shuttle will be tdplace.ca. Here are the highlights provided from Carleton Univer- from the Ottawa Sports and Enter- sity. As a result, no shuttle buses tainment Group’s transportation will use Lakeside Avenue for plans for this year’s football games the nine CFL games. This will at Lansdowne, where most games are change should Carleton be used expected to be sold out: for major events in the future, • The Park & Shuttle, Take Tran- particularly for inbound service sit, and Bike & Park programs during weekday afternoon peak will continue and will be pro- periods. moted for all major ticketed • Limited off-site parking will events at TD Place. be available at the RA Centre. • Redblacks admission tickets However, no dedicated shuttles will continue to include free use will be provided from this loca- of OC Transpo and STO buses, tion. Connection to TD Place is starting three hours before an provided via OC Transpo from event and up to three hours Billings Bridge Station (a short afterwards. 5 minute walk). This adjustment • The Park & Shuttle program was made based on last year’s will focus on OC Transpo and experience, when a significant STO Park & Ride locations. portion of event attendees who This matches the experience parked at the RA Centre chose and user demand from last year. to walk to TD Place or use OC our office at 60 Main Street • Free nearby Park & Shuttle Transpo from Billings Bridge. service will be provided from • The Bike & Park program will Canada Post. Shuttle service will continue this year. The valet start two hours prior to the event bike parking will be located on start time. The last trip after the the skating court (east of the game will return to Canada Post Aberdeen Pavilion). f f 613 594 8888 www.gordonconstruction.com serving the community @glebereport for over 25 years lansdowne Glebe Report August 14, 2015 17 Lansdowne Farmers’ Market in 2015 By Ali A. Ramezani that may make some produce slightly more expensive than at other markets in the city. The Lansdowne Farmers’ Market opened to instant Secondly, the Farmer’s Market, upon its return, success in July 2006. Soon it became a major player lost its free customer parking privileges, a disadvan- alongside the other big farmers’ markets in Ottawa tage in terms of competition with its two older rivals that have predated it by decades. This rapid rise is that offer some kind of free – though limited in time all the more astounding in light of the fact that there – parking. The situation is by far more difficult for are no resellers allowed in Lansdowne. All vend- the vendors themselves. There are no provisions ors – now approximately 100 – are themselves local for vendors’ trucks and vehicles. Initially, the City farmers or sell exclusively local produce, something offered them free parking at South Keys. This meant that differentiates it from both the Byward and Park- they would have to drive to Lansdowne and, after R AM EZ AN I dale markets. unloading, leave their produce unattended, drive to During Lansdowne’s construction, the Farmers’ South Keys and take the bus back to the Market.

Market moved to Brewer Park in Ottawa South and And repeat this bizarre routine in the afternoon. The A LI A. PHOTO: there too it was an instant success, to the point that City is still working on some kind of solution. One Andy Terauds, proprietor of Acorn Creek Garden Farm some vendors wondered whether they wanted to vendor I talked to said that her husband drives their and a principal founder of the Lansdowne Farmers’ come back to the Glebe. It turns out that was not an truck back to the farm after unloading. But accord- Market. option. The City had permitted the move only during to the new regulations, he cannot come back to ing the construction. join her or pick her up and reload the tables before But the return to the Glebe has been challenging, 6 p.m. An option is to use the underground parking awkward items such as plants and baskets of fruit to say the least. For one thing, the market has lost at $20 per car. Any wonder the prices are higher at that impede their ability to bike or use public trans- many of its old and loyal customers. This partly the Lansdowne market or that sales are in decline? portation. explains a decline in sales in comparison with pre- According to the Ottawa Citizen, the Main Street Farmers’ markets have enjoyed a revival in recent vious years. Andy Terauds, proprietor of Acorn Farmers’ Market too is currently struggling with years that not many foresaw in the mid-nineties Creek Garden Farm and a principal founder of the declining sales, in part blamed on the absence of when I first moved to Ottawa. This new popularity Lansdowne Farmers’ Market, describes with sad- free parking. came about from an increased awareness of foods ness the awkward and difficult situation they faced As for customers, many inevitably park in neigh- (local foods in particular), nutrition and an aversion in maintaining a neutral stance in the dispute that bouring streets in the Glebe. In the meantime, says to the chemicals associated with processed food. We first erupted in 2010 between the developer and Terauds, the vendors do what they can to encourage have come a long way, but there are powerful forces the City on the one hand and those Glebe residents those who come from far away and cannot use public at work. The competition in the food industry is now who opposed the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment transportation to use the Queen Elizabeth Driveway fiercer by far with the arrival of American giants like Group (OSEG) plan on the other. entrance to the underground parking. Doing so, he Walmart and Whole Foods Market, with deep pock- While the new Farmers’ Market at Lansdowne says, brings you as close as possible to the Market at ets and bargaining power. This makes local farmers has been welcomed by a new crowd and a slightly a cost of $1.50 for the half-hour that it takes a typical more vulnerable. It would be a sad day if we lost the different clientele, it would indeed be sad to think customer to stroll around, pick up his or her produce Lansdowne Farmers’ Market because of a lack of that the Farmers’ Market is being punished for the and walk back to the car. action on the part of the City vis-à-vis the new park- bitter feelings Glebe residents have retained from Terauds observes that people in general don’t like ing woes, or because of unresolved feelings from the Lansdowne’s redevelopment experience. Terauds to pay for parking and all things being equal, they opposition of Glebe residents during the Lansdowne considers himself and his co-vendors as local will go where they can park at no cost. People who development saga. farmers who contribute to our local economy by shop at farmers’ markets are different from those employing locally, thus contributing to the liveli- who, for example, attend sports events or shop for Ali A. Ramezani is a member of the Glebe Commun- hoods of many families in our region. It is this fact clothes, in that they often have to carry heavy and ity Association’s Traffic Committee.

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By Trevor Greenway builds loyalty,” adds McKeen. “It may make your grocery store Shopping in the Glebe is like shopping shopping a little bit longer than you in New York City, Montreal or Paris. intended, because you always run into Locals hit the street almost daily, someone you know and you start chat- gathering goods to whip up a home ting. That is the basis of our success cooked meal that night. They buy and we try to instill that in every sin- meat from the local butcher at the gle one of our employees from our Glebe Meat Market, they grab fresh full-time employees, managers to the local tomatoes from McKeen Metro, people who are working four hours a pick up fresh beans at Nicastro’s and week.” top it all off with a fine vinaigrette It’s a similar story just up the street from the Unrefined Olive. at the Unrefined Olive, where owner This isn’t an accident. Elizabeth Kilvert goes the extra mile The Glebe’s healthy buy-local mar- for her customers – even if it doesn’t ket is the result of years of hard work transfer directly into immediate sales. from generations upon generations of Kilvert’s philosophy is “when you shop-owners – everyone from lock- support the community, the commun- View of The Merit from rooftop of The NAC smiths and grocers to record store ity will support you,” when it comes to owners and restauranteurs who have being involved in the neighbourhood. built a brand that rivals any franchise “My products cannot be local, I ONLY 8 LEFT in the world. don’t think we are growing olive trees For Rebecca McKeen, fourth-gen- in Canada, but you can do things with eration owner at McKeen Metro, the locality,” she says. AVAILABLE SUITES store’s success is the result of being in “That includes my furniture – all the neighbourhood for over 100 years, built locally out of ash wood that was 1607 SQ. FT. – 2148 SQ. FT. but just existing isn’t enough. The felled from ash trees that had emer- PRICED FROM $994, 000 store has been actively engaged in the ald ash borer, local potters making community since it opened in 1910 – my dishware instead of buying an speaking to customers on a first-name off-the-shelf solution, local service basis, taking in feedback and actually contractors.” 108 LISGAR doing something with it and donating Kilvert sees the Glebe as a little to local causes. village of its own – a one-stop shop It doesn’t take customers long to where you can get your keys cut by An exquisitely appointed lobby, realize they aren’t in a typical corpor- local independent locksmiths; then rooftop terraces with unrivaled views ate-run Metro store. Just a few feet in head to the Glebe Optical Company the door, you are usually greeted by to get new spectacles; stop by one of and thoughtfully designed, a smiling worker, draped in a green the many salons or barbers and get finely finished living spaces Metro apron, asking if they can help your hair cut and then top it off with a you find anything. That type of experi- cold one at one of the many pubs that are certain to enthrall owners ence happens throughout the entire line Bank Street and beyond. It’s part and guests alike. shop. If you can’t find something, a of what makes the Glebe such a spe- teenager won’t just point it out and cial place to live. It’s a modern, bright The understated elegance make you feel like you are bothering neighbourhood with a European feel of the building defines him. Metro employees will walk you where merchants know each other and to the product and won’t leave your customers know what they are getting The Merit as the epitome side until you have it in your hand. and where it’s coming from. of downtown living. It’s this superb customer service that “The people in the Glebe are really keeps locals coming back every day great at supporting small businesses,” for fresh food to cook an hour later. says Glebe Meat Market owner Stef VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT “That is what our success is built Sauvé, whose family has run the on, having that neighbourhood gro- butcher shop since 1975. CONTACT 613.567. 7800 cery store feel,” says McKeen. “They will buy their meat here, “It really customizes our offering to they will go to Metro for their grocer- who we are serving and that builds on ies, they will go to Nicastros for their IMMEDIATE customer service.” veggies and they will go to the French McKeen says that the majority of Baker for their bread.” her customers are neighbours in the If there was no local support, Sauvé OCCUPANCY Glebe, with others coming from Old says big franchises like McDonald’s Ottawa South and other areas. But it’s and Harvey’s would move into the the locals that make working at the Glebe and it would “change the whole store a pleasure. dynamic of the community.” “We have regulars that come in and we know them all. It really helps Trevor Greenway is communications with the experience and the connec- officer at the Glebe Business Improve- tion with customers and then that ment Area (BIA). business Glebe Report August 14, 2015 19

Silver Scissors reborn in the Glebe

By Eli Saikaley home in the Glebe, where I grew up. We’re excited to be back here. It’s been It’s been a hard three months for the a bit of a haul to get here, but we knew Bank Street businesses that were all along that this was the place we destroyed in a massive blaze, which wanted to be. police investigators ruled as arson, I am optimistic about the business though they still haven’t come much making a full recovery, since traffic closer to an arrest. from Lansdowne Park – the com- Three months later, the Glebe Silver pleted Lansdowne redevelopment Scissors hair salon is back in business. opened in June, while Silver Scissors It’s been said that we made it look easy was on involuntary hiatus – ought to – but it was far from painless. help recoup any customers we may The first few days were rough on all have lost. The better-than-ever Silver Scissors Hair Salon, now located at 877 Bank Street of us. I own the salon along with my Now, it’s on to the next project: cousin Bruce. We’re in a better place the neighbouring Encino Taco Shop, now and we’re excited to be back. It owned by my son Sebastian and me, took hard work and a hint of luck to which had been open for only 36 days reopen Silver Scissors, one of sev- – versus Silver Scissors, which had eral businesses that were gutted in been around for 36 years – before it the early-April fire that engulfed the burned down. We expect to reopen the commercial building at Bank Street taco shop by the fall. and Fifth Avenue. But while Silver Scissors’ reopening The salon managed to find new digs marks a successful rebound, it offers at 877 Bank Street, not more than a little in the way of closure for us and block from our previous location. Sil- for others who are left wondering what ver Scissors took over the new lease in – and who – caused the fire. Police mid-June and, after just a few weeks have said that no arrests have been of construction, reopened on July 21. made regarding the fire and the file Our regulars are happy to see us and remains open. It feels a little empty, a lot of people are coming in just to a little weird. I wish we could close say hello. that chapter. The salon had temporarily moved customers to another hair salon we Eli Saikaley is co-owner of the Silver own on Riverside Drive, but we were Scissors Hair Salon, which recently I KA ELI SA LE Y s : PHOTO determined to find a new permanent reopened after a devastating fire in April. The fire that devastated several Glebe businesses in April, including the Silver Scissors Hair Salon

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By Valerie Burton

A little late summer pre-work will go a long way in ensuring your garden has the curb appeal you and your neighbours can enjoy throughout the year. Giving just a little TLC ahead of time will relieve the guilt you may feel when you step out your door after doing nothing for your garden for many days. Let’s sit down with that tall glass of something cool and review (or intro- duce) some helpful gardening tips!

Tips for a healthy garden iums! Add some more mulch to cover Your garden may look lush and full any bare spots that appeared after the of gorgeous summer flowers right summer rains. now, but weeds could be choking the beds and mildew withering your roses. Fungus facts Don’t give up. Rain is wonderful for your flowers and lawn, but you may have noticed Lawn care some spots on your tomatoes or Cutting the grass is a first step – some whitish powder on the roses but leave the grass as long as possible (another fungus disease; see Fun and give it a good watering, so it will Fact #1). A spray of Bordo (a nat- remain lush and green in the heat of ural copper-based fungicide) will do August. Water twice a week and water wonders for your vegetables. Other really deeply - the soil should feel organic spray fungicides like gar- moist if you sink your finger into it up den sulphur will help your roses to the second knuckle. Alternatively, and flowers to bloom again. Next Lee Valley has a water gauge that will year, remember to spray fungicides tell you that sufficient watering has at regular intervals during the grow- taken place. ing season, as it’s much easier to Bug bugaboos ladybugs and hummingbirds to your prevent fungus infections than cure Insects will depart if you spray with garden, like Echinacea, Bee balm, No baby weeds! them. If you have overhead watering, an insecticidal soap solution to knock Lavender and Aster. Deadhead your If you’ve put down a good layer of (for example, a sprinkler) leaves of them off plants to discourage reinfest- perennials to discourage disease and mulch on the beds in the spring, you plants get wet and do not dry off eas- ation. Just remember that many bugs encourage repeat bloom, especially in shouldn’t have to do much weeding. ily. Water your plants at the base of are beneficial to plants, like bees, and species that have long blooming per- But, there’s always a few springing stems and in the morning, so leaves don’t spray with something nasty that iods, like daylilies and roses. up, and it’s much easier to pull or dig and fruit have a chance to dry off in will dissuade or even kill them. No them while they’re small. Don’t wait the sun. This rapid drying will help pollination, no fruit, anywhere! Nourishment till they’re higher than the delphin- avoid fungus infections. Plant flowers that will attract bees, Hopefully, you gave your peren-

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Quick-hit garden facts (Not So) Fun Fact #1 – When apple and cedar trees are planted near each other, they (could) have a reciprocal fungus relationship. It’s the tree version of a social disease that can go back and forth from cedar to apple and back again ad infinitum. Yikes. When you have limited knowledge and available time to devote to keeping your garden tiptop, knowing beforehand not to put apple and cedar trees near each other is a helpful tip. But can gardening be really that simple?

(Not So) Fun Fact #2 – Regu- lar watering is one of the hardest gardening habits to form; yet lack of water is a formidable foe for Enjoy a vibrant, lush garden view all sum- your precious plants. The garden mer long. was beautiful in the spring when everything was first pruned and planted. They all got their first watering, but perhaps then life with a reminder. Remember to keep got in the way. Summer activ- them well-watered right until you put ities started and summer routines the hose away in November. for your garden were never really established. Try to manage your Enjoy! time to include garden care and There you have it. You’ve had a stop neglecting your lovely (and chance to relax with your “lemonade” expensive) garden offerings. and jot down some reminder notes to Some parched vegetation can be use in your garden throughout the brought back from the brink, but year. The best habits are the ones you regular watering will avoid small start as soon as possible. So, why not deaths altogether. Remember, grab that watering can and weeder and this includes providing for them take a stroll around? Enjoy! (watering systems or neighbours filling in for you) when you’re off Valerie Burton is an avid gardener, to your cottage for two weeks! gardening consultant and photographer. Her website is at www. valburtonphoto.com. Mulch around hydrangeas and other perennials nials and shrubs some fertilizer in the still benefit with a spoon of Epsom spring and mid-summer. Perennials salts dissolved in a watering can of should not be fertilized beyond August water. 1, since that encourages new spurts of Evergreens should be well-watered, Sport Medicine Doctor • Physiotherapy • Massage growth, which will not have time to but never fed at this time of year, for “harden-off” and will be damaged by the same reason as the perennials. Bernie Lalonde M.D. Dip. Sport Medicine the first frosts. However, roses could Remember to fertilize the evergreens Eleanor Cox B.P.T. only in early spring, with a specific fertilizer (like 10-8-6). For over 30 years, the Sports & Spinal Injury Clinic has helped over 45,000 patients deal with their pain. New plants Late summer and early fall are not We provide treatments for... bad times to plant new additions in  sports-related injury recovery your garden. Shrubs, roses and ever- Recover  recurring back and neck pain greens that remain in the garden faster, get  tendonitis, sprains and strains centres, are usually on sale. If you can  accident and post-surgical recovery find what you want, it can be had at a back on  repetitive injury recovery bargain price, especially larger plants. A bonus for you and the garden! pace 602–1335 Carling Avenue. 613.729.8098 Free Parking Put new additions in place, digging www.sportsandspinal.com a very generous hole and using bone meal at the roots. Fall (September and October) will be the best time to divide large, over- developed root clumps and move perennials. Mark your calendar now

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Not intended to solicit properties already for sale. 24 Glebe Report August 14, 2015 profile Glebe resident leads the way in community outreach By Francine Greenspoon life-sustaining programs to those in need. Inspired by the Kickoff chal- When Dr. Stacy Goldstein and her lenge, Goldstein, Fathi and members husband Michael, an orthodox Rabbi, of the BGS came up with an innov- moved from Toronto to Ottawa five ative idea for the Kickoff event, and years ago and settled in the Glebe, she “Fed Talks” was launched. The event hit the ground running. will adopt the well-known TED Talks This engaging mother of two young format, where engaging speakers will children, while fully involved in her share innovative and inspiring ideas chiropractic practice in Westboro, via short powerful talks. also serves on the board of the Jew- The co-chairs wanted to host an ish Federation of Ottawa and together evening where young, dynamic and with her husband started the Glebe philanthropic trailblazers would share Shul, one of Ottawa’s most success- their innovative ideas and approaches

ful Jewish outreach initiatives for based on the theme L’dor v’dor – from F R AN CI N E G REE NSPOON PHOTO: young professionals run through Jew- generation to generation: inspiring and Stacy Goldstein (left) and Tamara Fathi, co-chairs of the Jewish Federation of ish Education Through Torah (JET). empowering future generations. “We Ottawa’s 2016 Annual Campaign Kickoff event taking place on September 9 at Most recently, she took on the role of were thrilled to get renowned social Centrepointe Theatre featuring social entrepreneur Marc Kielburger, New York City co-chairing the Jewish Federation of entrepreneur and co-founder of Free blogger and Jewish outreach maven Allison Joseph and comedian Jon Steinberg Ottawa’s Annual Campaign Kickoff the Children, Marc Kielburger, and event. New York’s Jew in the City blogger to Ottawa could gather, take classes, Goldstein is also active in the Fed- and outreach maven Allison Josephs celebrate holidays, enjoy bi-monthly eration’s philanthropic division called to speak at our event,” says Goldstein. Shabbat dinners, receive rabbinical the Ben Gurion Society (BGS). The “Plus, to add a little levity to the even- counselling and simply connect with BGS, named in honour of David Ben ing, we invited comedian and former others. Gurion, the State of Israel’s first prime Ottawa native Jon Steinberg. Our pro- “Michael and Stacy have been a minister, is a donor recognition program will reflect both a traditional and dynamic duo in the Glebe for the past gram and networking forum for novel approach to community engage- five years, hosting hundreds of young individuals under the age of 45 who ment,” says Goldstein. professionals to their open and wel- make an annual gift of at least $1,000 Since moving to Ottawa, Goldstein coming home,” says Bram Bregman, to the Federation’s Annual Campaign. has been a trailblazer in her own right, vice president of community building When the BGS was recently as evidenced by the incredible suc- for the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. approached to organize and plan the cess of the outreach initiative known “Stacy is known for her warm person-

Kickoff event for the Federation’s as the Glebe Shul. While the term ality and for being an articulate and ON R NA SA annual campaign, Goldstein and her “shul” implies a Synagogue or place passionate advocate for modern Juda- friend Tamara Fathi seized the oppor- of worship – for the Goldsteins, their ism. Federation is incredibly fortunate

tunity to co-chair the event. The Glebe home has become more of a to have her leadership skills benefit- AA R PHOTO: Federation’s annual campaign raises warm and welcoming central meeting ting the broader community.” Stacy Goldstein and husband Michael funds to support its 24 beneficiary place where unaffiliated Jews, young Word-of-mouth and social media agencies providing life-changing and professionals and Jews who are new quickly made the Glebe Shul the “go to” place for many. The Goldsteins Glebe Shul to another young couple managed to fill a niche for young new to Ottawa. Goldstein’s next ven- Jews, with as many as 50 people shar- ture will take her to Machzikei Hadas Are you looking to create a charitable ing a home-cooked Shabbat dinner in Congregation where she will work as their home. In fact, Goldstein happily its family and youth programming dir- legacy but aren’t sure how? reports that a couple that met at their ector, and her husband will serve as home is getting married this week. the Synagogue’s Executive Director. Contact us to obtain information on how to create a legacy solution at a “Starting the Glebe Shul was our Machizikei Hadas can undoubtedly fraction of the cost and upkeep associated with operating a private foundation way of trying to make a ripple in the expect great things. on your own. We can help you support charities that you believe in, while growth of Ottawa’s Jewish commun- The Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s reducing your own tax liabilities and improve your overall estate plan. ity,” says Goldstein. “Its success has 2016 Annual Campaign Kickoff event been overwhelming and humbling.” featuring Marc Kielburger, Allison Whether welcoming newcomers Josephs and Jon Steinberg takes place Garry W. Beckman, First Vice-President, Investment Advisor into her home in the Glebe, working Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 pm, at Jonathan Beckman, Associate Investment Advisor with families, athletes or dancers as a Centrepointe Theatre, 101 Centre- Performance Court, 150 Elgin Street, Suite 2100, Ottawa ON K2P 1L4 chiropractor, or planning the Federa- pointe Drive. Tickets are $20 and are www.garrybeckman.ca • [email protected] tion’s Annual Campaign launch with available at www.centrepointetheatre. 613 783-6877 the BGS, Goldstein’s ability to make com. Everyone is welcome. Providing sound investment advice since 1987. inroads into the Ottawa community is something that people have come to Francine Greenspoon is senior CIBC Wood Gundy is a division of CIBC World Markets Inc., a subsidiary of CIBC and a Member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. If you are currently a CIBC expect from her. director of communications and Wood Gundy client, please contact your Investment Advisor. $25,000 minimum investment. This summer, the Goldsteins will community relations for the Jewish be passing on the torch of running the Federation of Ottawa.

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Glebe Report’s ‘Poetry Quarter’ wants words WANTED: • GlebePoets who live work, study or volunteerReport in the Glebe or in its close neighbouring communities (whether adults, teens 13 to 17 (high school students) or children 9 to 12 (about grades four to eight). • Poems that reflect people in the Glebe, their sensibilities, and their lives. • Original poetry (not previously published in any medium) on any topic (within the bounds Poetryof public discourse) in any form, up Quarterto 30 lines in length.

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Neuhaus’ earlier Morality Play3 Barry Unsworth ning Mankell and Camilla Lackberg books with the same duo, Snow White Madam President4 Nicolle Wallace to new stars like Jussi Alder-Orsen Must Die (Minotaur Books, 2013) and 5 and Lene Kaaberbol, Scandinavian Bad Wolf (Minotaur Books, 2014) also Funny Girl Nick Hornby crime fiction is enjoying a golden era have an atmosphere where nothing is The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly6 Matt McCarthy 7 in English. Stieg Larsson with his Mil- what it seems. 101Open Letters call to a Primefor poetry Minister The Glebe Report monthly qualitiesYann Martelthat reﬂect the people in lenium trilogy has definitely helped Created by Lene Kaaberborga The House I Loved8 community newspaper will begin theTatiana Glebe, theirDe Rosnay sensibilities and publishing a number of poems as their lives –– poetry of any kind, on increase its popularity. Publishers and Agnete Friis, Nina Borg is one The Garden of Evening Mists9 Tan Twan Eng submissions a regular feature, four times a year, any topic (within the bounds of of English books are more than ever unlikely sleuth – a Danish Red Cross TITLE (children and teens) beginning in the fall. The feature, publicAUT discourse).HOR Poems should eager to try new names, hoping to find nurse who just can’t stay out of The Nethergrim10 to be called "Poetry Quarter", will beMatthew original work, Jobin unpublished be curated by JC Sulzenko, Glebe previously in any medium, and not the next Stieg Larsson. trouble. In The Boy in the Suitcase Poets1. Abbotsford in the Book Glebe Club 6. OnLine Non-fiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com The genre’s history goes much fur- (Soho Crime, 2011), Nina’s fighting 2. Can’ Litterers poet, author and educator.7. OPL Non-Fictionexceed Book 30Club lines in length. ther on the other hand: in the 1960’s, for justice and obsession with helping neighbourhood3. 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It’s time to get real; or, more truthfully, to make real. I’m talking about the word “reify,” a funny little word that is used far less often than it should. “Re” is not used here in the same way we would in return, reiterate, renew or any other “doing again” words, but from Latin “res,” meaning “thing.” In addition to reify, we can see “re” in words like real, reality and republic (the public thing – or if you like, the public concern). The -fy ending of reify is one of those delightful suffixes one can add to change a word’s meaning to “to make [word].” It comes from the same Latin verb (facere) as French’s “faire” (to make). For example, -fy + beauty becomes beautify, to make beautiful, -fy + simple becomes sim- plify, to make simple, and -fy + clear becomes clarify, to make clear. To have some fun with it, one can invent words like happify (to make happy) and chair- GLEBE ify (to make something into a chair). Many, if not most, of our -fy words are not WE’VE chiropractic clinic + necessarily as easy to figure out, words like stultify (to make stupid), gentrify (to massage therapy centre make a neighbourhood “middle class”) and rectify (to make right). But what of reify, which is, essentially, “thingify”? Is it not a little odd to have GOT a word meaning “to make into a thing”? It is a beautiful word, and allows for 99 Fifth Ave., Suite 7 such wonderful optimism. We can imagine an ideal and then, rather than say Ottawa — Fifth Avenue Court that it is not real and therefore not worth pursuing, we can take steps to bring YOUR that ideal into reality, to make it a true thing. 613.237.9000

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Gimme Shelter), has captured all of her eccentricities. Iris collects things. Her two-floor apartment on Park Avenue, in New York City, is stuffed with clothes. Her Palm Springs apartment in Florida is stuffed with toys. There’s a bear that flaps its ears and a Christmas train that runs on a track. She and her husband, Carl, are kids at heart. Carl turns 100 in the film. Iris is 93 years young. She is still excited about living. “If you hang around long enough, everything comes back in style,” she explains. We see Iris wearing a blue work shirt with Mickey Mouse decor. Carl and Iris are a lovely couple and complement each other in charming Phoenix impression of a hustler or schemer ways. And they still hold hands. Directed by Christian Petzold who might not have wished to sell (Germany, 2014) out his wife, but wouldn’t have hes- Documentary. 83 minutes. Available itated had it become politic to do from Amazon, August 25, 2015. so. When Nelly, now calling herself Iris By Paul Green Esther, finally catches up with him, he Directed by Albert Maysles Night Crawler It is night time in post-war Ger- is working as a musician-cum-dish- (USA, 2014) Directed by Dan Gilroy many, mid-June 1945, scant weeks washer in a seedy cabaret that, like so after the end of the war in Europe. much else in Germany at this time, has (USA, 2014) Two women in a car are halted at an seen better days. Naturally, the place By Lois Siegel Films about despicable people are American Army checkpoint. In the is called The Phoenix! If you like larger-than-life characters, not always worth seeing, but this film passenger seat, her face wrapped in Her features altered, Johnny then Iris Apfel is someone definitely about a paparazzi photographer is. blood-soaked bandages, sits Nelly, a doesn’t recognize Nelly\Esther. And worth meeting. She wears mammoth What hooks us into watching Louis concentration camp survivor en route why should he when he believes his black, round glasses and is an eccen- Bloom, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, to a hospital where she will undergo wife perished in the camps? But he’s tric, inventive and respected authority is that despite the horrendous scenes reconstructive surgery. At the wheel damned if he doesn’t see a resem- on fashion. What she wears can be he photographs, Louis never flinches. is her friend Lene, who is making blance in her! And thus a scheme is categorized as extraordinary, bizarre He’s obsessive, without an ethical bone plans for both of them to emigrate to hatched in Johnny’s fertile mind: he and perhaps outrageous. in his body. He blackmails people to Palestine. A soldier wants to remove will coach Nelly\Esther to imper- She is the fashionista beyond all get what he wants. The extremes he Nelly’s bandages, but stops short when sonate his “late” wife because, as the fashionistas – the Queen of Acces- goes to are frightening. Gyllenhaal is he grasps that she really is from the sole survivor of a wealthy family, she sories – and designers find her amazing in this role. camps. stands to inherit money – money she imagination fascinating. Her clothes We are first struck by Louis’ haircut. Thus opens Phoenix, the sixth will then share with her loving hus- are improvised like jazz. Some of her It’s a definite runner-up to the film No collaboration between Petzold and band. It’s all so rich in irony – Nelly jewellery looks like it weighs two tons. Country for Old Men where hitman regular Nina Hoss. The use of gar- will impersonate herself! As she does Often, the beads she dons are gigan- Chigurh (Javier Bardem) looks like a ish colours – smoky reds and yellows so, the boundary between Nelly and tic, and she probably gains 10 pounds psychopath with his pageboy, medi- – in the opening scene signals to the Esther starts to blur. “I can’t believe he wearing them. She can’t wear some of eval-looking, straight hair that hangs viewer that we are in hell, or at best betrayed her,” she says at one point to her jewellery for more than a half hour below his ear and turns under. some sort of postwar purgatory. an increasingly distraught Lene. And – it’s too heavy. What becomes even creepier is Nelly Lenz needs surgery because later, “I’m jealous of myself.” The film opens like a fashion show Louis’ extremely irritating voice. It her face has been burned beyond rec- Intrigued by Johnny’s pitch, Nelly as Iris explains what she is wearing. edges on monotone, burrows into ognition. Of course, she would like plays along. As to what motivates her, She shops all over the world, searching our psyche, and doesn’t let go. Louis to have her old face back, but this is we know but two things: firstly, she for exceptional pieces to drape around “lectures” everyone he meets in a con- just not possible. As her doctor sar- is in survivor mode and secondly, she her and others. She insists there’s too tinuous rant. donically points out, many people in still loves her husband. And finally, much sameness in the world. “Every- Once he focuses on a goal, he will Germany today would like to have a who among us could possibly put thing is homogenized,” she says. “I do anything to achieve it: lie, threaten, new face. ourselves in Nelly’s shoes? And what don’t have any rules. I would only be kill. We hate the character, but at the That Nelly’s character is a stand-in actor besides Nina Hoss could supply breaking them.” She relies on gut feel- same time, we can’t stop watching for her country, also needing recon- the subtle shadings required for such ings. him. struction, is a given. (Here, we are a role? Iris says the best part is getting News media today push sensational- in territory delineated by Fassbinder While Phoenix is nominally a film dressed for the party, not the party ism – blood and guts sells. Because we in 1980s The Marriage of Maria about Germany’s rise from the ashes itself – it’s the experience of choosing “buy” it, the bombardment of graphic Braun.) It is but one of many layers after the Second World War, it is what to wear. scenes only gets worse. in this remarkable film. We know more particularly a film about resil- Albert Maysles, the renowned that Nelly is Jewish and that she was ience of the human spirit. Music is a documentary filmmaker of the May- 117 minutes. Available on Netflicks probably betrayed to the Gestapo by key part of the story since we know sles brothers team (Grey Gardens, and Amazon. her husband Johannes, a.k.a. Johnny. that, pre-war, Nelly sang to Johnny’s Although she has learned this from accompaniment. One of the songs her friend Lene, Nelly cannot bring they performed was Kurt Weill’s herself to believe that Johnny turned Speak Low, which figures prominently MARK JAMES HARRISON her in and, still in love, she sets out in the ever-so-subtle dénouement. to find him once she has sufficiently This is an astonishing film from Live at recovered from her surgery. a director who excels at convincing CANtINA SuR Like the director’s previous outing, viewers to suspend their disbelief. The 665 Bronson Ave. in the Glebe Barbara, Phoenix is about identities – cinematography with its use of night- those we are born with and those we marish, noirish hues during the first ORIGINAL AND COVER SONGS construct for ourselves. The title, of half of the film is well suited to the course, is singularly apt, as most of the material at hand. From the novel Le Friday, August 21st, 7:30 pm characters in Phoenix are (re-)emerg- Retour des cendres by Hubert Mon- ing from one set of ashes or another. teilhet. $5 at the door The character of Johnny is intrigu- ing; a charming rogue, he gives the 98 minutes. Rated Parental Guidance. 28 Glebe Report August 14, 2015 glebe stories Glebe stories Before school was out in June, the Glebe Report got in touch with local high schools to see if there were any fledgling writers willing to take their first flight of fancy with us. We asked them to write a short story of any kind, on any theme, as long as it relates in some way to the Glebe – as setting, character, plot, whatever. The following four stories were submitted by Grade 12 students in Debra Palmer’s Writers’ Craft class at Glebe Collegiate Institute.

busy street with shops lining both sides. As we drove down Bank Street, I looked out the window to see what Mom was fussing over. There were people everywhere, from business- men to kids on bikes, and it was only 9 a.m. We turned onto the street where the house was and the whole feeling changed. Fourth Avenue was lined with trees and sidewalks full of people walking and running. I spotted the Moving day moving truck in the driveway just on the corner. At this point, the boys were By Cassandra Carson hanging out of the windows, waving to everyone we passed. Normally I July 16 was the hottest day we could would be embarrassed, but I was too have moved in on. Mom managed to focused on the house. It looked just pack all three kids and the dog into the like all the others, pathway leading up car for the three hour drive to Fourth to the front door, flower beds around Avenue. Being the oldest, I was given the porch. The front door was wide the honour of sitting between my two open and the crew had already started younger brothers, Cole and Finn, but bringing boxes inside. Mom parked yet they still managed to fight over the car on the street and we all got out. top of me the whole way down. Mom Before Mom was able to give her spent most of the drive talking about whole move-in day speech, the boys the neighborhood we’re moving to, were off and running inside to claim since none of us kids had even been their rooms. We were left there stand- to Ottawa. She told us all about the ing together, both of us looking at schools we would be going to, Glebe the house. The rest of the day was a Collegiate for me, and Hopewell for blur of opening boxes and meeting Illustration by Eric Martin the boys. We heard all about how busy some other families that lived on the it can be, into all hours of the night. street. My first day in the Glebe, and I Most importantly, there’s a place for already felt at home. The visitors’ request bagels that’s open 24/7. After what felt like way too long Cassandra Carson is a Grade 12 stu- By Caleb Spassov amongst the stars.” to be on the road, we pulled onto a dent at Glebe Collegiate Institute. The humans ran through the possi- Nobody knows why they picked the bilities. Would the freaks take the oil? Glebe. Was it its population? Its age? The uranium? By God, what about the Its location? Whatever the case, it’s water? Not a sound was made in the where they landed first. Some students Glebe for a long second as even the from GCI were the first to spot their cicadas seemed to hang on the crea- vessel touching down late at night by ture’s words. Brown’s Inlet, at the shallow water’s Finally, the creature spoke: “We edge. The authorities, however, only need bread crusts,” it said. acted upon seeing satellite imagery of Even the reporters on the scene Register all Summer! the visitors’ towering insectoid moth- quieted. Blinking, the diplomat spoke ership, initially cloaked with stealth after a moment: “You need our ... While our elementary schools are closed for the summer, devices light-years beyond our com- what?” you can register at the OCDSB Administration Building. prehension. Suddenly, the alien was at his throat. Before and after school child care is available in all schools. Canada scrambled the military in A claw closed around him and the panic, but officials presented them- thing’s rank breath evoked the deep- Call Admissions to book an appointment selves at the ship to extend an olive est marshes of Ottawa’s greenbelt. branch before they launched the mis- “Bread crusts,” it repeated. “Give at 613-596-8730, or visit: siles. them all to us, lest we cleanse this www.ocdsb.ca/programs/ki/Pages/registration.aspx “Who are you?” asked Ottawa’s insignificant planet with fire and fury,” chief diplomat. “What do you want?” it said with cool menace. “Crust is a A hatch opened in the ship. Sickly dietary essential, our cradle has run green light spilled into Glebe’s night- dry, and your species – especially its www.ocdsb.ca time sky as a ramp hit the ground, younger specimens – heretically dis- bridging Earth and abomination, and a regards it.” The alien turned back. colossal silhouette fearlessly appeared “Our confederation shall establish a 133 Greenbank Road • Ottawa, ON K2H 6L3 in the opening. The visitors knew that trading post in this area: as well as we humans are ants under their boots. its advantageous strategic position, it The figure came into focus and six has ... aesthetic charm.” Before anyone spindly arms came into view. Clad in could protest, it entered its vessel and what appeared to be armour, it stared closed the door. down the human warriors with cold The human delegation had to accept compound eyes. After a long moment the visitors’ statement; it wasn’t a pro- of volatile silence, its mandibles posal. moved: “Who we are matters not to The Glebe’s sky soon became a you disgusting insects,” it thundered. thoroughfare and its clearings became “All that matters is why. There has parking spots. The noise forced it been a famine and our species needs to give up its residential nature, but sustenance.” it swapped it for greater status. It The human diplomat’s face drained. became Earth’s first interstellar trad- “Please, don’t…” he implored. ing post and ushered the planet into a “Your meat is too stringy,” answered new age, where the heavens are high- the thing. “We come here for one thing ways and bread crust runs empires. only, and your miserable species has somehow become its sole custodian Caleb Spassov is a Grade 12 student among the myriad lifeforms scattered at Glebe Collegiate Institute. glebe stories Glebe Report August 14, 2015 29 The umbrella’s Lettuce turnip the beet lament By Roark Smeathers Pass the Parsley in the living room and the game of Hide and Leek was By Adriana Loewen Emily was a very fruitful person. getting out of control. The news of Every day she would try to eat every this amazing party spread quickly It was Sunday when I last saw her. type of fruit. She would even eat the through the grape vine, and soon the I was not her first choice as a com- fruit she didn’t like very much because entire neighbourhood knew about panion for the day; but the sun was she didn’t want them to feel left out. it. As the party rapidly increased in hiding behind lavender clouds and the Emily always wore very bright and size, party guests did not have mush- air smelled so vibrant, I am the friend extravagant colours and her hair was room to move, so the party naturally of the storms that she dreads invit- dyed all the colors of the rain- spilled out into the garden. ing, but, on days like that Sunday, I bow. In her hair, twirled People started picking become her best friend. I get carted into a curl held in place and eating the fruit everywhere, like a security blanket. with an elastic, was and vegetables Emily She took me down to the Farmers’ a cork from a wine had grown. Emily Market at Lansdowne Park. Having bottle. Of course was furious, and bought all her fresh vegetables and Emily made the went completely honey, she brought me to the canal. wine from fresh bananas. As you We sat on a bench, watching the ducks The last I saw of her was her back as grapes found in her might imagine float by. In a few hours, the clouds had she walked away, drawn by the prom- garden. the guests were disappeared from the blue sky, and the ise of a good day. Emily’s garden shocked by her sun beat down. A man sat down beside me. He wore was grand. Some reaction. Usually Although I was happy she was sunglasses dark as the clouds I wished would say it resembled Emily was quiet and enjoying the sunshine, I felt lonely to summon and a black cap covered the Garden of Eden. Her reserved and never beside her. I was closed off, the sun his long brown hair. I watched him garden was the apple of her showed a temper. This new having wiped away my usefulness. lean on his knees, take off his cap eye. Emily was one of the kind- side of Emily was unappealing, so She didn’t even look at me. I had noth- and tussle his hair in the heat. He was est people on the face of the earth. She people soon split. ing to protect her from. In the beauty uncomfortable in the sunshine, just was considered to be one in a melon, There was one person who didn’t of spring, I was secondary to a good like me. but Emily was also very naive. One leave. In fact this person Emily had day. He looked down at me and smiled. I day Emily decided she wanted to seen before but she thought he disliked A group of runners jogged past. She smiled back, but I’m not sure he saw. throw a large party and invited all of her, as he never spoke to her. When recognized one of them from work: He picked me up, undid my bow and her friends at Glebe high school to Emily approached him, he smiled a the tall blond one. He started work- shook out my arms. I laughed as he attend. crooked smile and explained he had ing at the café not too long ago, and let me flop around in the air. Then, On Saturday she spent the entire day always bean green with envy over her she had been anxious to finally talk to with a sharp click, I straightened into preparing for the party. She put out beautiful garden, and was sad to see it him. I could not bring myself to follow a military salute, ready for duty. He fruit punch, and prepared individual ruined. Together they hatched a plan her up to him as they began their chat. raised me above his head and smiled fruit baskets for her guests. Closing to save the garden. A new friendship “Beautiful day, isn’t it?” he said as I protected him from the brightness the garden doors, she made sure her sprouted, “Lettuce start a new gar- brightly. I felt humiliated in their pres- and heat. garden was off limits to her guests. At den,” said the boy. Emily smiled, ence – a reminder of a darker time. He stood and continued his walk as first Emily was worried no one would this day ended on a good note as they Within a few minutes, they decided I stood proudly above his head. We turnip and her party would be a fruit- planned their first date. on a whim to have lunch. He started made a strange pair, the man all in less endeavour, but soon enough her off immediately and she followed him black, and I, the protective soldier. We home was flooded with people. The Roark Smeathers is a Grade 12 stu- away, smiling sweetly at the ground as walked together until the sun set low party was crazy with people playing dent at Glebe Collegiate Institute. she walked. below the skyline. I wanted to call out to her. I wanted Loyal as I am, I defended him until to tell her to stay with me. But I was my last rainfall. frozen in place, I couldn’t make a sound. I had been forgotten on the Adriana Loewen is a Grade 12 stu- bench beside the canal. dent at Glebe Collegiate Institute. fun! 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If current collision trends continue, fatalities from distracted driving may exceed those from drinking and driving by 2016. This is why the legislation GMSElemAdGR14.pdf 1 5/13/14 10:19 PM also puts forward measures to reduce instances of texting and driving. Fines for distracted driving will increase from the current range of $60 – $500 to a range of $300 – $1,000, three demerit points will be assigned upon the conviction of a distracted driving offence, and distracted driving convictions for novice drivers will now result in escalating sanctions. The new fines and measures will come into force over the coming months. The Act improves a municipality’s ability to charge and prosecute individuals from out-of-province who run red lights and fail to stop for school buses. This is of particular importance in our community, and reflects measures I introduced in a Private Member’s Bill in the fall of 2012. After hearing concerns from City Council and our community, I took action to address this serious public safety issue by introducing Bill 131, the Enhancing Red Light Camera System Enforcement Act, 2012. I am pleased that our government has recognized the merit of this Bill by including its measures withinC the Making Ontario’s Roads Safer Act. M

With these new measures in place, we can now look at the role speed limitsY play in keeping our roads safe. On Saturday, May 30, 2015 I held my annual CM Sustainable Community Summit to discuss speed limits and road safety in our province. Community members gathered to hear from four expert speakers whoMY addressed topics such as street design, traffic enforcement, health outcomes andCY community activism. This was followed by a lively group discussion where parCMY- ticipants shared their thoughts and ideas on how best to move forward. It is clear K that this is an important issue for local residents. You can find the presentations, as well as a questionnaire on speed limits, online at www.yasirnaqvimpp.ca. I encourage you to review the information and share your ideas on speed limits and road safety in our province. We will be cre- ating a report based on the feedback received from our community, which will be shared with the Minister of Transportation. Should you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact my Community Office at [email protected] or 613-722-6414. I look forward to hearing from you. 613-722-6414 [email protected] 32 Glebe Report August 14, 2015 why i vote

Everything is political

By Sara Minaeian More often than not, I meet brilliant I walked around campus with a friend youth who are talking about challen- one late winter’s day hauling with me ges we face and how to solve them. a whiteboard, dry-erase markers, and They’re just disengaged with the insti- a camera. We stopped by one of the tutional political process, because it busiest spots on campus and looked very plainly “just doesn’t make sense” around. to them. A student passed us by, looking in Since there is a lack of awareness our direction. I jumped at the chance. about political processes, the vote “Do you vote?” I asked. becomes a daunting task. Where do I A pair of hesitant eyes glazed over start to educate myself? What do the my whiteboard with the words “#iVote party platforms really mean? Am I because” written across the top. With fully informed? shifting stance and avoiding eye con- I think that in saying voting is a lot tact, the student replied, “I’m not of pressure, the student I spoke with voting age yet.” was revealing something very inter- “But would you vote when you are esting. The tension in the statement of age?” reveals that youth don’t want to mess “I don’t know.” up. Youth care, but want to make good “How come?” choices. It’s just daunting to climb the “Voting is a lot of pressure.” tower to get there. This conversation stuck out for me. All that being said, we need to Voting is a lot of pressure. Why? The reify the political. Youth are seeking

vote isolates the individual and has an R A M I NA EI AN OF SA T E SY resources to help establish the con- entitled feel to it. It is something that nection between the everyday and the we both owe and are owed, as opposed greater political institutions. to a democratic performance. It seems Voting is an integral part of an that you either vote or you don’t, and C O UR PHOTOS: election, so the pressure to vote is that determines if you are political. Sara Minaeian votes for the first time. absolutely needed. However, this need Although political activity can take should be met with proactive efforts many shapes, the category of voter to educate young Canadians on the and non-voter quickly turns into pol- ates with many of the youth I work partisanship, in many of my deeper functionality of institutions and more itical and apolitical, further pushing with. In talking to young Canadians I discussions with other young Can- forums on policy that are accessible. away the under-engaged. This reson- have found that the vote is seen exclu- adians, it becomes apparent that there Young Canadians are smart, involved, sively as an obligation. Many youth is a seeming disconnect between and engaged. We just need to make express their frustration that the focus the political and the everyday lived sure we are mentoring the younger on the vote problematizes voter turn- experience of the individual. For generation’s political understanding. out. Instead, they agree that a focus many, it is not clear how talk on the It is clear that many of my peers, on the election itself would be more Hill and pitches by politicians during as well as I, believe that more educa- instrumental in revealing why youth election season result in tangible laws tion is the solution for every citizen on are disengaged. A focus on elections and policy. Much like the ivory tower policy, decision-making, and the role would problematize the quality of pol- of academia, politics is seen by youth of politicians in elections. Promoting itics. as that thing that takes place only on the vote is not only useful but essen- This reminds me that it’s important Parliament Hill. tial. In increasing voter turnout, we not to mistake the effect for the cause. For many young Canadians, if the will be able to test the full functional- Music Youth disengagement (lower voter everyday is the “self,” then the polit- ity of our political processes. turnout) is the effect. The cause is the ical exists in the realm of the “other.” Lessons!!! quality of politics. This is arguably a In this sense, political participa- Sara Minaeian is a third-year Polit- cycle, but there is value in looking at tion requires them to halt the regular ical Science student at the University Just off Main St. the quality of politics as a key area for proceeding of their lives and “do pol- of Ottawa, where she directs the improvement. The focus on improv- itics.” In other words, the political is iVote-jeVote campaign. She is inter- -for- ing the quality of politics would leave abstract, and the very act of voting ested in exploring the dynamics of greater room for civic education, gets lost amid a sea of unspecified pro- identity politics and emerging tech- Guitar, Piano and Bass which is clearly lacking. cesses with unidentifiable outcomes in nologies. She has been nominated for Aside from being turned off by everyday life. Samara Canada’s 2015 Everyday Pol- negative campaign ads and hyper- The irony is that youth are engaged. itical Citizen prize.

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Phil on “Why I vote” 34 Glebe Report August 14, 2015 why i vote Getting out the student vote By Dan Allan is a parallel election for students under the voting age, coinciding with official This October, more than 5,000 schools election periods. Students learn about and 700,000 students from across government and the electoral process, Canada are expected to take part in and research the issues, parties and the largest student parallel election candidates through classroom learn- ever conducted. ing, media consumption and campaign The participation of citizens in the events. The program culminates with electoral process is a central compon- an authentic vote where students cast ent of a healthy democracy. It can be ballots on official election candidates TH KAGAN OF RU T E SY argued that voting is our most basic running in their school’s riding. responsibility as a democratic citizen. “Student Vote uses the election as a Canada, like many western democra- teachable moment to bring the concepts PHOTO: C O UR PHOTO: cies, has seen a steady decline in voter of citizenship and democracy to life. Over a pizza lunch, Glebe students participate in a Student Budget Consultation. turnout in the last two decades. Electoral Instead of studying about democracy participation reached an all-time low of from a textbook, students experience it 59 per cent in the 2008 federal election first-hand with pertinent issues in real- Students at Glebe Collegiate and increased only slightly to 61 per cent time,” says Lindsay Mazzucco, Chief in 2011. Voter turnout in most provinces Operating Officer of CIVIX. get up close with democracy is hovering around 50 per cent. To date, 26 Student Vote parallel elec- Of even more concern is the fact that tions have been conducted across the low voter turnout is disproportionately country and more than 3 million bal- By Ruth Kagan student presented a PowerPoint results concentrated among young Can- lots have been cast by young Canadians. slide. adians. This has serious implications The next Student Vote program is taking This year, four students from Glebe Next, the students met with repre- for the future of Canadian democracy place in conjunction with the 2015 fed- Collegiate Institute (Wiam Akil, sentatives from the Department of as the research suggests that habits eral election scheduled for October 19, Miguel Fernandes, Jack Wadden and Finance and shared the results with of voting and non-voting persist over 2015. The program is free and open to Gabriella Yankowich) accompanied the Honourable Kevin Sorenson, the time and one of the best predictors of all schools across Canada. Registration by their teacher Ruth Kagan, and stu- Minister of State (Finance). individual turnout is whether or not a is open and will close on September 30. dents and teachers from Sandalwood They really enjoyed the day and person voted in the previous election. Interested educators can learn more Heights Secondary School, met in learned a lot. These opportunities CIVIX is a non-partisan, charitable by visiting www.studentvote.ca or call- Ottawa to present the results of the would not have occurred if not for the organization building the capacity ing toll free: 1-866-488-8775. 2015 Student Budget Consultation. CIVIX organization, which is now and commitment of young Canadians They started the day with a private organizing a Student Vote across the to participate in our democracy. We Dan Allan is research and communica- tour of the Centre Block of Parlia- country for the federal election, which envision a healthy and robust democ- tions manager at CIVIX, a non-partisan ment Hill. They then met with a will take place in the fall. racy shaped by the active engagement organization building the capacity and team of analysts from Abacus Data, a I have once again signed up the of our youngest citizens. commitment of young Canadians to national polling company. Alex Monk, 1,550 students at Glebe Collegiate Our flagship program, Student Vote, participate in our democracy. the Director of Research, taught them to participate in this national voting the rudiments of how to present the activity. Glebe Collegiate has partici- key points of the results of the Student pated previously in the Student Vote Budget Consultation. for municipal, provincial and federal and I want the best country for my After a pizza lunch, they had the elections. Why I vote sons. I will vote because I know so incredible opportunity of meeting many people around the world wish with Sean Speer, a special advisor to Ruth Kagan is a teacher at Glebe Col- By Jennifer MacNab they had the freedom to vote that I am Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Each legiate Institute. afforded. I will vote because every I will vote because I am a woman and vote is important, including mine. voting will honour the women before me who sacrificed so much so I could Jennifer MacNab is a thoughtful vote. I will vote because I am a mother Glebe Report reader.

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Jacob MacDonald (left) and Jeremy Mion (right) of Glebe Collegiate receive a win- ning plaque from Derek Murphy of Studica Limited, sponsor of the Canadian Skills competition. Glebe Collegiate wins gold! Jacob MacDonald and Jeremy Mion, both students at Glebe Collegiate Insti- tute, won gold in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)

son and control systems at the Skills Canada National Competition that took place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from May 27 to 30, 2015. They are pictured receiving their plaques from Derek Murphy, Studica Limited, sponsor of the event. PHOTO: je n i f er w il PHOTO: Mutchmor Carnival 36th Ottawa Scouts troop sees the year out with a bang By Stan Grabstas Scouts Canada is one of the country’s leading youth organizations. For more By Siann Sheridan tinued to be inflated … we were off than 100 years, we have brought a world of adventure, outdoor experience and and running. There was a record turn- friendship to 17 million Canadian youth. June is always a busy month for school out this year, so next year two bouncy The 36th Ottawa Scouts troop, operating since 1936, will hold a registration aged children and especially their par- inflatables will be a must given the night on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at the Glebe St. James United Church ents. Busy but also filled with lots of patience-testing line-ups. The waiting hall, 650 Lyon Street, from 7 to 9 p.m. This is an opportunity for parents and end-of-year fun activities. One of the stamina of many four year olds was youth to inquire about the Scouts Canada program, which the 36th Ottawa runs most anticipated events at Mutchmor impressive to say the least! for girls and boys in the downtown core, as well as to complete registration is the annual school Carnival. The Along with the many volunteers, forms. The cost is $190 for the year’s activities. You will also have an opportun- children can play a variety of carnival it takes a lot of community support ity to ask the leaders about the different sections and their major activities, plus style games including old favourites to host a carnival. Every year we meeting schedules. Beavers (5 to 7 years) meet Tuesday evenings; Cubs (8 to 10 like the fishpond, beanbag toss and approach businesses in The Glebe years) meet Thursday evenings; Scouts (11 to 14 years) meet Tuesday evenings; Plinko. There is a huge bouncy castle, and Old Ottawa South, as well as other and Venturers (14 to 17 years) meet Thursday evenings. Meetings take place at face painting, a bake sale, candy shop Ottawa businesses known to be family Corpus Christi School (Scouts) or at Glebe St. James United Church. and a barbecue. The carnival is also friendly and that Mutchmor families In addition, you can register online at www.MyScouts.ca. the largest fundraiser of the year with support, to sponsor the carnival. We The 36th Ottawa troop is always on the lookout for new and experienced lead- ticket sales, a bake sale and a huge were extremely heartened by the over- ers who would like to assist us in the delivery of this highly rewarding program. silent auction. The teachers work with whelming support of the local business The Scouts Canada mission is to contribute to the education of young people, their classes to provide artwork that is community. We had the most sponsors through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law, to help build a put up for sale in a unique art auction. to date with many businesses donating better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a construct- There is a lot of planning and hard items for our silent auction or money ive role in society. You can also check out the Scouts Canada website at www. work by parent volunteers that goes to help offset start-up costs. We believe scouts.ca for more information. into a successful carnival. We were that it is a sign of a strong and vibrant lucky this year to have many dedi- neighbourhood when so many local Scouter Stan Grabstas is a troop leader with the 36th Ottawa Scout Group who cated volunteers working both behind businesses generously support their enjoys working with his scouts in the great outdoors and taking them camping the scenes and at the event itself. Given community schools. in Canada and the U.S. this was our last year at Mutchmor Funds raised at the carnival will before the “Big Switch” we wanted be used to support extra educational to go out with a bang! The bang this programming and materials for arts, year was provided by a huge thunder- science, technology and other innova - storm with torrential rains that started tive teaching modules. exactly at carnival set up time. Luck- We would like to thank our many ily Mutchmor has two gymnasiums generous sponsors – please support so plans were quickly changed to an them by visiting them in person! indoor carnival. Despite a couple of missteps, including the realization Siann Sheridan is a parent represent - that the smaller gym would need a ative on the Mutchmor Public School new ceiling if the bouncy castle con- Council.

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The Element high school moves to Lansdowne

By Kendra Hoskin

“I love how much we feel like a family,” a student wrote when asked to describe The Element, Ottawa’s first Montessori high school. It may seem like a unique way to describe a high school, but it’s a natural response for students at The Element, who all cook, travel, attend meetings and run businesses together. And now, The Element family will move together – from the Alta Vista suburb the school currently calls home to the dynamic Lansdowne Park. In September 2015, The Element will move beside the Horticulture CRE S Building, claiming the entire second floor of 425 Marché Way. There’s no doubt that it’s a unique location for a high school, but Pat KY LE A PHOTO: Gere, the school director, says that’s Students from The Element routinely visit Black’s family farm in Stittsville to help produce food for the Ottawa Food Bank’s Com- the point. “We chose to relocate to munity Harvest Program. Lansdowne to support The Element’s integrated program, which encourages shop for their cooking program, run do what engages them during school schools have been part of the education students to be active, participating micro-businesses, volunteer in the hours. For example, instead of learn- system in the United States for some members of the adult community,” community and participate in public ing about business from a textbook, time (Clark Montessori High School she said. fitness classes while simultaneously students develop and run their own in Cincinnati was one of six national Based on the Montessori pedagogy, completing credits towards their businesses and liaise with successful finalists in the “Race to the Top High The Element supports student devel- Ontario Secondary School Diploma entrepreneurs.” School Commencement Challenge,” a opment and education by encouraging (OSSD). Wheeler said it is amazing to see public school competition). focused engagement within a sup- “Our focus is on student engage- what the students produce when they Interestingly, OMS Montessori, portive, mentoring community and ment,” said Sarah Wheeler, a teacher are given the freedom and tools to be which was established in 1966, was engaging students in the adult world at The Element. “Instead of looking passionate. “Learning becomes fun, the first Montessori school in Ottawa. they are about to enter. forward to after-school extracurricular instead of work,” she said. The school, which now serves students At The Element, students grocery activities, students at The Element can At The Element, students’ schedules from 18 months to high school, will are flexible, with time to work part- celebrate its 50th anniversary next time or to volunteer, but either way year. there’s an expectation of community While students from Montessori involvement. Wheeler said the new, elementary programs such as OMS dynamic location is perfect for this. Montessori and Glebe Montessori “It will allow students to participate in will be welcomed at The Element, meaningful experiences and interac- the school says that other youth are tions. It is a vibrant community, where also welcome. “A previous Montessori our students will have access to real education is not required,” said Gere. businesses and professionals.” “A passion for life is.” The Element grew out of the junior high program that was established Kendra Hoskin is the communications at OMS Montessori in Alta Vista in and marketing coordinator at both the 2003. It is the first Montessori high OMS Montessori in Alta Vista and school in Ottawa, but Montessori high The Element.

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By Sarah Brickell

Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool (GMCAPS) has long been known as the only fine arts preschool in Ottawa, as well as for its quality

after school program. As a non-profit AND P RE S C HOO L TS organization, the school has always focused on making the arts accessible to children. Recently, a friend sent me an article from the book Expanding Minds and Opportunities about why policy makers should be funding after school arts programming to develop civic engagement in youth. The authors use

a case study of an after school pro- A R I V E OF GOOD MO R N I NG CRE AT T E SY PHOTO: N IC O LE SP RI NG PHOTO: gram, which reminded my friend of Kindergarteners love to help, even with washing up. GMCAPS. The article’s conclusion is that arts PHOTO: C O UR PHOTO: programming improves commun- Children can blossom through art Children love homemaking and kitchen craft ity and civic engagement and creates connections between children and be visible to the community. By Darla Barrows involved in her work by having us their neighbourhoods that long out- Finally, effective arts programs cut the soft dough of her homemade last the program itself. In order to forge a sense of community among When I was a child, my sister and I egg noodles into bite sizes. This real- have that positive impact, there are participants that facilitates the risk- didn’t have access to the wonderful ization that my son could join me in four qualities identified in the article taking and self-expression. Given the range of craft kits that children do the work of the day transformed both that GMCAPS has always maintained importance of self-discovery and self- now. But we were never bored! My how I parented and took care of our at the core of its programming. expression in art, it isn’t surprising that parents were raising us on my grand- home. Including my son in our daily Most important is that programming community youth arts programs help parents’ 300-acre homestead in the work translated to fresher, healthier be youth-centered. To be effective, young people develop self-confidence, Midwestern United States. There was meals for everyone and a more beauti- arts programming needs to provide self-efficacy and self-awareness that always work to be done and my sister ful home as I simplified everything. supports to children to express their helps them navigate relationships as and I took great pride in helping out There are so many wonderful ways to own voice through art. At GMCAPS, they grow into adults. Because of the where we could. incorporate children into the purpose- students are given a wide range of collaborative nature of many projects When I became a parent, I loved ful work of the home and finding the materials to work with and are encour- at GMCAPS, students forge connec- watching my son’s creativity bloom art and beauty in each of our tasks can aged to use their own imaginations tions across traditional boundaries. with each passing year but I also make a world of difference in how we and creativity to take a project wher- Students from different elementary sensed a restlessness in his handiwork. relate to our home and to our children. ever it may lead. Even children in the schools, different ages and different Children want to imitate what their This fall I will be offering gentle Two-Year-Old program have free reign backgrounds form unlikely friend- parents are doing and while he met homemaking and kitchen crafting at the art table to use the materials. ships. Mentoring between younger each new paper craft with an initial classes at Stone Soup, located in the The second important quality of and older students takes shape quickly joy, in the end he always preferred to former Southside Preschool in Old a successful arts program is that it too. join me in what I was doing, usually Ottawa South. Our sweet seasonal be knowledge-centred. Students at The article ends with recommen- cooking or baking in the kitchen. For crafting classes focus on nature and GMCAPS learn about different artists dations for policy makers, such as a long time it was a struggle trying to use natural materials such as wool, and different mediums of course, but additional funding for arts programs sneak in quick moments of cleaning or wood and beeswax. Our unique Par- they also learn about themselves, their and additional funding to improve prepping dinner while he was busy, or ent Child program is centered around personal values and how to express spaces where youth-centred arts pro- worse, putting him in front of the tele- homemaking with young children, and these values through art. They also grams are delivered. It outlines how vision to buy some free time. It wasn’t offers gentle ways to create a beauti- learn about their communities, local arts programming could help children until he was two and a half years old ful home rhythm and environment for landmarks and important skills, such growing up in a world of virtual online and I was taking a natural parenting both stay-at-home and working par- as collaboration and persistence. communities to develop connections class that I fully realized what had ents, through baking, gardening and The third quality identified in the with their own neighbourhoods and been so naturally evident to my own the nurturing arts. article is that a successful program cities. As a parent who has seen her mother: children love being involved For more information on our fall should be assessment-based. Assess- children blossom through art, I whole- in the meaningful work of the house. classes, visit www.stonesoupcrafts.com. ment at GMCAPS isn’t about grades. heartedly agree. I reflected upon the many happy It involves cycles of planning, practice summer hours my sister and I sat in Darla Barrows is a teacher at Stone and opportunities to make learning Sarah Brickell is president of the the sun in the front yard snapping Soup Crafts and recently returned visible. Students must evaluate them- GMCAPS Board, mom of two green beans or husking ground cher- from a year in rural Wisconsin where selves whether a project is completed GMCAPS students and one future ries. In the winter, when there were she taught parent-child and bread- and a skill mastered. The school’s big- preschooler, who would love to see fewer garden veggies to be scrubbed making classes at Pleasant Ridge gest event of the year is the vernissage, improved funding for early childhood or berries to be picked, she kept us Waldorf School. an opportunity for all that learning to education and arts programming.

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To register for this class Over 200 quilts on show, some for celebrate what makes Abbotsford place maple holds on our national flag or to find out about the many other sale, a boutique and vendors, a quilt “the place to be!” Everyone is invited and emblems, it is loved for its syrup, activities at Abbotsford, please drop draw. The Pantry will be open. and encouraged to celebrate/loiter shade and splendour in the fall. The by at Reception, pickup a guide or Admission $6. Free parking at Cor- together. 1920/30’s garb encouraged Arboretum hosts a great collection of call 613-230-5730. pus Christi School. Go to www. though not mandatory. Enjoy refresh- maple species and cultivars – from quiltco.ca for more information. ments and entertainment! Please Canada, Europe and Asia. We will MUSICA VIVA SINGERS will hold register in advance at Reception, 950 point out the features and character- open rehearsals at Centretown United VISIT THE MAY COURT CLUB OF Bank St. Tel.: 613-230-5730. istics of the varieties of maple and Church on Bank St. (just north of the OTTAWA at 114A Cameron Ave. from other nearby trees as you enjoy the Queensway) at 7 p.m. on the Mon- 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. on Sept. 12 during BEGINNERS TAI CHI (YANG) leafy views and take in the autumn day evenings of September 14, 21 and the Old Ottawa South Porch Sale. A CLASSES at Abbotsford House, 950 colours. Tour co-sponsored by FCEF 28. Musica Viva Singers is a com- variety of interesting and treasured Bank St., Fridays 2:25–3:15 p.m., and Tree Canada. Tour leaders are munity choir formed in 1997 in the items will be available for sale. The Sept. 18 to Oct. 9 (4 weeks). As you Robert Glendenning and Michael Glebe. Join us in September! If you proceeds from sales will go towards improve your technique through Rosen. Location TBA. Although the have some previous experience sing- The May Court Club’s community repetition and encouragement your tour is free and open to the public, ing or playing an instrument, you will projects. Water and lemonade will health will improve, increasing your please register in advance at info@ find it easy to get up to speed. Who be available. aerobic capacity and enhancing your friendsofthefarm.ca or call 613-230- knows – this could be the start of a brain agility. To register for this class 3276. Donations to the Friends of the brand new, engaging hobby. Email us or to find out about the many other Farm will be kindly accepted during at [email protected] or visit available activities at Abbotsford, please drop the tour. www.musicavivasingers.ca. by at Reception, pick up a guide or PARKING SPACE at corner of Percy call 613-230-5730. FRIENDS OF THE FARM ANNUAL NEW OTTAWA DOLL SHOW Sat., & Renfrew – [email protected] or GENERAL MEETING, Sept. 16, 7 Oct. 24, 10–4, Ernst and Young Cen- (613) 863-4772. Price negotiable. CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNI- p.m. Speaker: Peter Anderson, Ph.D. tre, 4899 Uplands Dr., Admission: VERSITY WOMEN – OTTAWA candidate in geography, Queen’s cash donation to the Ottawa Food SEASON OPENER, Mon., Sept. 21, University, Kingston. Siberian crab Bank (min. $2). Contact: Valerie for sale Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave. apples, Indian wheat, and Can- Hennigar at vhennigar@sympatico. West. 7–8:30 p.m. Women of Ottawa adian wild rice are early examples ca for more information. HEMNES IKEA WARM BROWN HIGH come join us. We offer over 40 study of the Farm’s international exchan- SECRETARY with three shelves. Per- and interest groups, many during the ges. Peter Anderson will talk about OLD OTTAWA SOUTH PORCH SALE fect condition. $100. EQ3 SQUARE day. Membership is not exclusive to such exchanges that lie at the heart 2015, Sat., Sept. 12 (rain or shine). DINING TABLE, charcoal metal. university graduates. For more infor- of the Farm’s ongoing mission to Every year, on the first Saturday in Smoke tempered glass. Perfect con- mation visit www.cfuw-ottawa.org or pursue agricultural research in sup- September, our community holds its dition. $100. Contact call 819-778-3438. port of Canadian farmers. Location: annual “porch” sale. The event enjoys [email protected] for more K. W. Neatby Building, Salons A a high degree of community partici- information. ENCORE FASHIONS – CONSIGN- & B, Carling Ave., near Maple Dr. pation. Over the years, this event has MENT QUALITY ALMOST NEW Free parking in lot off Maple Dr. gained widespread popularity and STUDENTS AND BARGAIN HUNT- APPAREL, 109A Fourth Ave. at Bank at Carling. Free admission. All are garage “salers” from all over the ERS: MOVING SALE! Sat., Aug. St. Open Wed., 10–2, Thurs., 4–6:30, welcome. You do not have to be a region travel to the neighbourhood 29, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., 162 First Ave. Sat., 10–1. Reopens Wed., Sept. 9. member to attend. Call the Friends’ in search of that special treasure. It Household/kitchen items, affordable office at 613-230-3276 or e-mail us is also a popular event with the local furniture and more. For information EVERYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO at [email protected] for more University population, many of whom call 613-234-7404. KNOW ABOUT LEONARD COHEN at information. are furnishing their first apartments. Abbotsford House, 950 Bank St. on Residents are encouraged to donate Thurs., 10–11 a.m., Sept. 17–Nov. 5. FRIENDS OF THE FARM USED BOOK 10 per cent of their sales to OSCA WANTED This one of a kind 8-week course will DROP-OFF, Sat., Oct. 24, 10 a.m.–3 to help with advertising and various highlight various aspects of Cohen’s p.m. Save your books and re-gift community initiatives. DOG WALKER. Penny and Clyde life and career. Instructor Anthony them for a great cause. Please note Sanger are seeking a trustworthy dog- Berman will guide you through 8 ses- that we do not accept magazines, THE OTTAWA BRAHMS CHOIR is walker to take their two Jack Russells sions, packed with fascinating facts textbooks or encyclopaedias. Loca- entering its 35th anniversary year. (Moto and Asante) on mid-day walks and shared experiences. You will tion: Building 72, Arboretum, C.E.F. Rehearsals start for 2015/16 new sea- (between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.) in Glebe hear his poetry read aloud, partake in Take the east exit off the Prince of son on Mon., Sept. 14 from 7–9:30 parks while Penny recuperates from a discussion based on lectures and be Wales roundabout. For information p.m., Parlour Room at Southminster fall. Phone Sangers at 613-233-7133. treated to live renditions of Cohen’s e-mail us at info@friendsofthefarm. United Church, Aylmer and Bank St. signature songs. (Maximum 10 stu- ca or call 613-230-3276. in Old Ottawa South. Welcome back dents). To register for this course or to old and new members – all voices find out about the many other activ- LEARN TO PLAY MAHJONG at welcome! For information view www. ities at Abbotsford, please drop by at Abbotsford House, 950 Bank St., ottawabrahmschoir.ca, also contact

Where to find the glebe report In addition to free home delivery, you can find copies of theGlebe Report at Abbas Grocery, Acorn Nursery, Adishesha Yoga, Arrow & Loon, Bank of Montreal, B.G.G.O., Bloomfields Flowers,B ooster Juice, Brewer Arena, Brewer Pool, Bridgehead, Corner Bar and Grill, Douvris Martial Arts, Ernesto’s Barber Shop, Escape, Farm Team Cookhouse and Bar, Feleena’s, The Flag Shop, Flight Centre Travel, 107 Fourth Avenue Wine Bar, The French Baker, Glebe Apothecary, Glebe Community Centre, Glebe Fashion Cleaners, Glebe Meat Market, Glebe Pet Hospital, Glebe Smoke Shop, Glebe Tailoring, Glebe Trotters, Glebe Video, Hillary Cleaners, Hogan’s Food Store, Il Negozio Nicastro, Irene’s Pub, Isabella Pizza, Jericho Café, Kardish Foods, Kettleman’s Bagel Co., Kunstadt Sports, Marble Slab, Mayfair Theatre, McKeen Metro Glebe, Mister Muffler, Morala’s Café, Naji’s Lebanese Restaurant, Olga’s Deli and Catering, Pints & Quarts, The Palisades, The Pantry, Pet Valu, ReadiSetGo, RBC/Royal Bank, Reflections, Roast’n Brew, 7-Eleven, Scotiabank, Second Avenue Sweets, Spa Royale, Subway, SushiGo, TD Bank, Third Avenue Spa, Von’s Bistro, Watson’s Pharmacy and Wellness Centre, Whole Foods, The Wild Oat, Yarn Forward & Sew-On, The Works. Glebe Report August 14, 2015 39

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