DATES TO REMEMBER Thurs. Dec. 13 - St. Margaret /Mary School Christinas concert. Begins at 7 p.m. at St. Margaret Mary Church. Dec. 12-13 - Hopewell students present Christinas plays at 7 p.m. at the school. OSCAR The Community Voice of Old Ottawa South YEAR 27, VOL.29, No. 15 THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ^.SSOCIAITOH REYIEW DECEMBER 2001 AREA SCHOOL STUDENTS PAY TRIBUTE TO MALAK KARSH BY DAVID BOUSE Just a day after famed by students at a ceremony held in the photographer Malak Karsh died, park near Dow’s Lake at the end of . students at First Avenue Public October. School were planting tulips in his Hopewell Avenue teacher Deb honour. Karsh, an immigrant who Wood brought her entire grade six came to Canada from Armenia, died class to the Dow’s Lake ceremony. Nov. 9. His photographs of Ottawa Some of them were able to meet and Canada appear on many Holland’s Ambassador van postcards, calendars and coffee table Hellenberg and Karsh. Karsh had books. But it was his photos of tulips been named honorary president of that won him fame. He also founded next year’s tulip festival. Organizers the Canadian Tulip Festival. are now hoping his wife will take The 100 tulips planted by the over the role. students at First Avenue were donated As well, St. Margaret Mary by the festival and Capital Ward School was a major distributor of councillor Clive Doucet. Karsh lived tulips under a “paint the town tulip” several houses east of First Avenue campaign, another initiative school. organized in conjunction with 50th About two weeks before his death, anniversary celebrations of the he appeared at a tulip distribution festival next year. Festival organizers ceremony organized by tulip festival called on homeowners, schools and organizers. St. Margaret Mary and others to line the streets with tulips. Hopewell Avenue schools were Under this initiative, Elsa Leleu and Photo by David Bouse among the 100 Ottawa schools that other parents at St. Margaret Mary The ambassador of the Netherlands, right, and Tulip Festival founder Malak Karsh, since received 500 tulips bulbs from sold and purchased over20,000 bulbs deceased, met with some members of Ms. Wood's grade 6 class. organizers. The tulips were planted to raise $2,500 for the school. DICKENSON DISHES UP TIPS FOR IMPROVISING IN THE KITCHEN BY JULIE FLETCHER delicate chive bows (the presentation and ethnic diversity helped to define ou’ve probably been there: properly called Strawberry alone would take another paragraph their lives abroad. you’re happily preparing Peppercorn Duet, and served with - to describe), she could convince even Her economic and creative dinner for guests who are get ready for it - Whisky Peppercorn the most hopeless among us. approach to cooking served her well arriving at any minute. You’re Ice Cream, it makes an exquisite, Dickenson, who grew up on a living in the far-flung reaches of the slicing, say, strawberries for dessert, show-stopping dessert. It might be farm near Thunder Bay, learned early culinary world, places where even and then you’re going to add a little hard to imagine how such an unusual on about the value of food - both for canned vegetables were not always coarsely ground pepper to the sauce combination of ingredients could be sustenance (she milked the cows and easy to come by, never mind fresh. you’ve got simmering on the stove. the result of anything but an accident, tended the vegetable garden) and as a So in From the Ambassador’s Table, And you’re quietly warming your happy or otherwise. But in the way to enrich the quality of everyday you’ll find recipes like Dickenson’s soul with an old-fashioned glass of kitchen of Old Ottawa South resident life. Fast-Track Borshch, which calls for sipping whisky, neat, there on the Margaret Dickenson, it was no As a young woman, her food and canned sliced beets and canned counter beside you. accident. farm savvy won her the title of corned beef. It’s a recipe she put Now, imagine the phone rings. Or Dickenson assures us that there Ontario Dairy Princess and, later, together in Kuwait, when fresh meat the dog barks. The kids start fighting. are really very few irreparable Canadian Dairy Princess. But these was not available, and it is Or the doorbell rings. Suddenly, the mistakes in the kitchen - and as the were not your typical float-riding, wonderful. spell has been broken, and, you’ve author of the award-winning and hand-waving beauty titles, she is Don’t think, though, that put the pepper in your whisky, and best-selling cookbook From the quick to note. Her job was to Dickenson doesn’t know what to do you’ve spilled the whisky in your Ambassador’s Table, she would promote the Canadian dairy industry with the finest ingredients when she strawberries. You’re panicking, and likely know. - and Margaret Dickenson knew her has them. She has a degree in Food you’re ready to spell relief - T-A-K- And after a couple of hours of way around a cow. and Nutrition from the University of E-O-U-T. conversation over coffee served up After university, where she met Guelph, and 30 years abroad But wait. Before you throw it all with delectable nibbles like marzipan husband, Larry, on their very first immersed in some of the world’s away, you should know something. pearls; ginger strawberry soup; and day, she began life abroad as the wife most exotic and diverse cuisines. That strawberry-pepper-whisky tiny crepes with shrimp and of a career diplomat. From the very ...Dickenson, continued accident is no accident at all. 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