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Fun, fitness and friends … Ski and Snowboard with Snowhawks! • Kids and Teens (6-18) by age and ability: Christmas, Saturday, Sunday or Spring Break The • Adults: Wednesday Getaways and Destination Trips 19th • Instruction, variety of hills, coach travel Year (613) 730-0701 • www.snowhawks.com O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old Ottawa South Year 32 , No. 1 The Ottawa South Community Association Review JANUARY 2006 All Candidates Meeting OSCA Maritime Kitchen What: All Candidates Meeting When: Wedensday, January 11th, 7:30 p.m. Party Invitation Where: Glebe Community Centre (175 Third Avenue at Lyon) Sponsored by: Dows Lake Residents Association, Glebe Com- munity Association, Ottawa East Community Association, Ottawa South Community Association The Business Case for a “Green” Community Centre By Robin Hutcheson building layout. The companion Arborus Consulting exercise identified strategies to create a green building in the process. he term “Green Building” Beyond the heritage value of this has been adopted by building building, there are inherent features industry as the loose term for that contribute to green initiatives. T Firstly, the location is pedestrian a building that responds to social & oriented and well accessed by public environmental goals in addition to the Firehall Redevelopment Committee members met to discuss the May 2006 Kitchen basic functions of the facility. While transportation. Secondly, reusing Party. The lobsters were in attendance courtesy of the Pelican Fishery and Grill. specific components differ between the existing structure capitalizes on From left: Jackie Stickley, Jennifer Chandler, Peggi McNeil, Jane Allain, John green buildings, the ultimate goal of the embodied energy & eliminates Graham, Marcia McAlpin and Jennifer Knight. Absent: Deirdre McQuillan. enhanced indoor environment and additional resource extraction. Photo by Doug Stickley. reduction of the building’s ecological The following outlines the Dear Santa, front. It doesn’t look like much right footprint are consistent. recommended greening initiatives now, but our community association There are two overriding facts from this effort. h, I know I am too old to be (OSCA) has BIG plans to spruce in the case for green buildings. (1) Owriting to you. And that I am a it up. OSCA even got some pretty Canadians spend an average of 90% Greening of Site: bit late. After all, all the Christmas architectural drawings to show (I of their time indoors; (2) buildings The small parcel of green space presents have already been unwrapped, could ask Deirdre to send them to you consume a significant portion of on the west side will be replaced all the lights and decorations put if you would like). Canada’s energy production (aprox. with building & courtyard. The site away for another year, with all the Now I know your elves are really 1/3). The sustainability of the built redevelopment has an opportunity to fir and spruce trees abandoned by the handy and they could probably pitch environment requires that the indoor replace and enhance the usefulness curb, sadly waiting to be picked up in to fix the place up. They would environment be considered healthy and environmental benefits of the lost for composting. Like most adults, I probably do a really nice job too. and the energy consumption minimal. turf area. am usually only groaning about my But this is Ottawa, after all, and I Green buildings are inherently more The courtyard can use light coloured expanding waistline and VISA bill am pretty sure there must be some efficient and effective as an indoor materials, pervious paving and new this time of year. municipal by-law that prohibits environment. trees to nullify the heat island effect But I still have a few things left exploiting elves, especially so soon OSCA recently embarked on a (HIE) and absorb some of the storm on my wish list. I thought you would after Christmas. And your elves are concept design exercise to map out the water run-off. be the best person to ask. And it is not probably not properly licensed, and programming requirements in potential The parking spaces have been about me, really. It is for the entire all that stuff. community of Old Ottawa South. No, my wish is much simpler. cont’d on page 3 Maybe when you flew over I wish that you could come to our Sunnyside on December 24th, you annual OSCA Maritime Kitchen saw the Firehall. It is that red brick Party at the end of May. It is a party building, with the flaky paint on the OSCA has hosted for the past few cont’d on page 3 What the Candidates Have to Say Canada Action Party Liberal Party Robert Cooper...............31 Richard Mahoney.......28 Communist Party Marijuana Party Stuart Ryan .................29 John Akpata.............14 Conservative Party Marxist-Leninist Keith Fountain............22 Christian Legeais......27 Green Party New Democratic Party OSCA President Michael Jenkin shows plans for Firehall to an interested au- David Chernushenko..17 Paul Dewar..............24 dience at Dec 15 Open House Page 2 The OSCAR - OUR 31st YEAR JANUARY 2006 The OSCAR CONTRIBUTIONS The OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY Contributions should be in electronic format sent either by e-mail to ASSOCIATION REVIEW [email protected] in either plain text or WORD format, or as a printed copy delivered to the Firehall office, 260 Sunnyside Avenue. 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/oscar SUBSCRIPTIONS PLEASE NOTE: THE OSCAR HAS NO FAX Moving away from Old Ottawa South? 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FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, CALL 730-5838 AND LEAVE A MESSAGE THE OLD FIREHALL OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY CENTRE The OSCAR thanks the following people who brought us to your door this month: HOURS PHONE 247-4946 ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames, MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM Kim Barclay, Marvel Sampson, Wendy Robbins, Ron Barton, Jim and Carrol Robb, Kevin and Stephanie Williams. FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Andrea and Cedric Innes, the Mont- SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* gomery family, Laurie Morrison, Norma Reveler, Stephanie and Kulani de SUNDAY CLOSED Larrinaga. *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. ZONE B2: Lorie Magee Mills (Coordinator), Leslie Roster, Hayley Atkin- son, Karen Landheer, Caroline and Ian Calvert, Matthew and Graeme Gaetz, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the James-Guevremont family, the WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? Williams family, Sylvie Turner, Lynne Myers, Bob Knights, Jeff Pouw, the Franks family. ZONE C2: Grant Malinsky (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Arthur Taylor, Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall 247-4946 Charles and Phillip Kijek, the Brown family, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Chris- Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) 247-4872 tina Bridgeman. Ottawa Public Library - South Branch 730-1082 ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), the Crighton family, Emily Keys, Lynn Graham, Public School Trustee 730-3366 the Lascelles family, Gail Stewart, Bert Hopkins, Mary Jane Jones, the Sprott Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee 526-9512 family. Centretown Community Health Centre 233-5430 ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), Ian Godfrey, Jackie and Michael CARLETON UNIVERSITY Heinemann, Eric Chernushenko, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) 520-6688 ZONE E1: Mark Fryars (Coordinator), Brian Tansey, Doug Stickley, Wendy Graduate Students Association 520-6616 Johnson, Anna Cuylits, Ryan Lum, Mary O’Neill. Community Liaison 520-3660 ZONE E2: Nicola Katz (Coordinator), Frida Kolsster-Berry, Mary-Ann Mediation Centre 520-5765 Kent, Glen Elder and Lorraine Stewart, Julie Vergara, the Rowleys, Dave Athletics 520-4480 White, the Hunter family, Brodkin-Haas family, Christina Bradley. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, Janet CITY HALL Jancar, the Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Niki Devito, Dante and Bi- Bob Chiarelli, Mayor of Ottawa ([email protected]) 580-2496 anca Ruiz, Walter and Robbie Engert. Clive Doucet, City Councillor ([email protected]) 580-2487 ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), the Tubman family, Karen Fee, Shaugh- Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments 3-1-1 nessy and Kyle Dow, Paulette Theriault, Mark McDonald, Bea Bol, Jill Community Police - non-emergencies 236-1222 Moine, Paris Dutton.