April - May 2019 IMAGE avril - mai 2019 1 S A N D Y CCÔTE-DE-ÔTE-DE- H I L L SSABLEABLE APRIL - MAY 2019I M A G EAVRIL - MAI 2019 NEIGHBOURHOOD GREEN BULLETIN BOARD Park clean-up As part of the city-wide Cleaning the Capital effort, Action Sandy Hill and Molly and Claude Team Realtors will be leading a litter pick-up in Strathcona park on Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ASH will lead a second pick-up day the following Saturday, May 4. On both days volunteers are to meet at the corner of Osgoode St. and Range Rd.. Garbage bags and plastic gloves will be provided. High school students can earn volunteer hours by participating. Got E-waste cluttering up your house? Don’t throw it in the trash—recycle it! Photo Kathleen Kelly From April 26-28, you can drop off your used electronics (computers, cell phones, TVs, monitors, cameras, small appliances, stereos, anything with a Spring returns at cord), used batteries and used metals at Lady Evelyn Alternative School, 63 Evelyn Ave. in Old Ottawa East. Collec- tion hours: April 26 from 4 p.m.-7 p.m.; last to Sandy Hill April 27 and 28 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. On April 27 bring the whole family for fun Photo Christine Aubry Earth Day activities! Photo Eric Schiller Photo Kathleen Kelly Recycling help from Bettye Hyde Bettye Hyde Co-op Early Learning Cen- tre, 43 Blackburn Ave., will help you re- cycle all plastic marking pens and Bingo markers www.crayola.com/colorcycle/ frequently-asked-questions.aspx as well as Brita filters www.terracycle.com/en- CA/brigades/brita-recycling-program Please drop them off any day Monday to Friday and we will save them from the landfill and ship them back to be re- cycled June 8-9 is Give Away Weekend Do you have gently used items you no longer need? Someone else may want them. Set them out at the curb on Give Away Weekend. Then take a tour your- self to find hidden treasures. Examples of acceptable items: Books, CDs and DVDs, furniture, small appliances and Kitchen gadgets/dishes. Construction materials including dry- wall and hardware such as nails and bolts. Please consider safety. Used children’s items such as baby walkers, cribs, car seats, strollers, playpens, toys etc. should not be included. Discover hidden gems on Jane’s Walk May 4-5 How to: Place items at the curb with “FREE” how to promote street-life vitality and by IMAGE contributor François Bregha, sign; keep personal items out of sight Laura Mueller how to design attractive, uplifting places will travel back in time to what Laurier At the end of the day, bring uncollected where people feel safe. Jane’s Walk is a Ave. East used to look like in 1904; a third items back to your home pedestrian-focused event that improves (this one by bicycle rather than on foot) ave you ever wondered where urban literacy by offering insights into will highlight the houses built by archi- Ecology Ottawa has 12,000 trees that to find wild food growing in the planning, design, local history, and civic tect JWH Watts, two of which (Australia need to find their forever homes city? Have you discovered Ot- engagement through the simple acts of House and the Fleck-Paterson House, For the past two years, Ecology Ottawa Htawa’s rare urban sand dune or wondered both on Wilbrod) are in Sandy Hill. has been giving local native tree saplings walking, observing, and discussing. about one of the Capital region’s many This year, Jane’s Walk Ottawa-Gatineau A typical Jane’s Walk tour is given once to area residents. 2019 will be the larg- monuments? Have you hoped to explore expects to offer more than 60 free walks during the weekend, takes about an hour, est giveaway yet. This year, in addition the revitalization of Sparks Street? Or is to choose from as the local event cel- and covers around one to two kilometres. to nine different kinds of coniferous and there something in your own backyard ebrates its eleventh edition. Jane Jacobs Jane’s Walk also relies on help from vol- deciduous trees, look for a variety of that you want to share with others? considered citizens to be the experts on unteer marshals who attend the walks, fruit- and nut-bearing trees and shrubs. If you like to get outside and you’re their own communities and our walks carry a flag, and assist the walk leader. Interested in getting a tree? See https:// enthusiastic about learning about your are all led by volunteer leaders who have If you’re planning to attend walks this ecologyottawa.ca/2019/04/09/tree-give- community, its history and its future, join something to share—you could be one of year, consider carrying the flag and help- away-events/ for a list of events where Jane’s Walk to explore Ottawa-Gatineau them! Visit our website, janeswalkottawa. ing as a marshal. There is more info on trees will be given out. (Such as June 15, through free walking tours on May 4 and ca, to find out how we can help turn your the marshal’s role and how to sign up at Main Farmers’ Market.) 5. advocacy efforts into action as part of janeswalkottawa.ca The urban tree canopy is under threat Last year, 3,000 people joined us for this Jane’s Walk. As a highlight of the May 4-5 weekend, from pests, disease, development and “sidewalk ballet,” a community-driven At least three walks involve Sandy Hill: we are planning a celebration marking climate change. One of the best ways to festival of more than 60 free walking one, led by our Councillor Mathieu Fleu- what would have been Jane’s 103rd birth- enhance the canopy is to replant a diver- tours celebrating the work of late urban ry, will focus on Phase 1 of the LRT and day—stay tuned for details. To get updates sity of native tree seedlings. The group thinker Jane Jacobs. Jane was a writer take a look at the two stations in our ward, on the festival, be sure to watch our web- is targeting private property, where the and activist who studied how cities work, Campus and Rideau; a second walk, led site, janeswalkottawa.ca, and follow us on large-scale planting efforts of the City how they grow and change. Her work Facebook, Twitter (@JanesWalkOtt) and and other actors aren’t as effective. helped define what makes cities livable, Instagram (@JanesWalkOttawa). 2 April - May 2019 IMAGE avril - mai 2019 From Ken Clavette’s Album of Bygone Sandy Hill IMAGE PA-2886d Founded in 1972 under the 22, av. Russell Ave. Fondé en 1972 sous la direction of Diane Wood Ottawa K1N 7W8 direction de Diane Wood IMAGE, a non-profit community news- IMAGE est un journal communautaire à paper, is supported by its advertis- but non lucratif dont les seuls revenus ers. Opinions expressed are those of viennent des annonceurs. 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Name and telephone Tous les articles, lettres, illustrations, number of contributor must be included. photos et autre documentation pouvant ideau has always been the main shopping and business street for Sandy Hill, it also intéresser les lecteurs de la Côte- seems to always be under construction. This road crew hard at work at Dalhousie If you’d like to write articles, draw de-Sable sont les bienvenus. Leurs R cartoons or other illustrations for stories, auteurs doivent indiquer leur nom et got me thinking about the state of our Sandy Hill roads after another hard Ottawa winter. or take photographs on assignment, leur numéro de téléphone. The photo is undated but that billboard on the corner at ground level, under the Ovido please call and leave your name and Havana Cigars and the Stag Tobacco looks to be a1920 Oldsmobile Model 37-A, 6-cyl. number at 613-237-8889. No age Les personnes intéressées à colla- This would jibe with the fact that they were still in the age of pick and shovel work. Now restrictions. borer à IMAGE sont invitées à télé- I wonder how fast this crew could repair our streets, or maybe build the OTrain? phoner au 613-237-8889, en indiquant The building on the corner at 155-159 is known as the Clegg-Feller building built circa IMAGE reserves the right to edit in leur nom et leur numéro de téléphone. 1864 and still standing, as is the building to the west at 151. The dormer windows are whole or in part all such contributions.