THE OSCAR www.BankDentistry.com 613.241.1010 The Ottawa South Community Association Review l The Community Voice YEAR 43, No.5 MAY 2015 Volunteers Wanted for Brewer Pond Story on pg 11 Community Tree Planting COMMUNITY CALENDAR April 25 – May 9 Latin American Film Festival (LAFF), River Building Theatre, Carleton U. Sat. May 2, 9:30 Bridge-to-Bridge Reforestation, Spring OSCA Clean Up & Planting, Bronson Place Sun. May 3, 8:30 – 12:00 Hike for Hospice, May Court Hospice WINDSOR PARK Tues. May 5, 18:30 – 19:30 Infill II Development By-law Public Information Session, Firehall ART SHOW Tues. May 5, 19:30 – 21:30 OSCA Annual General Meeting, Firehall LIVE MUSIC FREE ADMISSION Thurs. May 7 18:00 – 20:00 Teen Advisory Group Coffeehouse, SUNDAY Sunnyside Library Thurs. May 7, 19:00 Open House Info Night on Lansdowne MUSIC SPONSORED BY TRACY ARNETT REALITY Traffic Issues, Glebe Community Center Artwork by Christopher Heilmann MAY 31 Sat. May 9, 9:00 Green Team Cleans OOS, Windsor Park, 10AM-4PM Brewer Park and Bank Street Sat. May 9, 9:00 Brewer Park Pond Community Tree Plant FEATURING OVER 30 ARTISTS & ARTISANS Sat. May 9, 9:30 Perennial Plant Exchange, Brewer Park COMPLETE LIST POSTED MAY 15TH (near the children’s playground) Mon. May 11, 19:00 OOS Garden Club meeting - “The Tormented Gardener” Thurs. May 14, 17:00 – 21:00 Glebe CI CHEO Drive, Students canvass FREE ADMISSION door-to-door raising money for CHEO Sat. May 23, 13:00 Perennial Plant Sale For Charity, LIVE MUSIC 126 Fentiman Ave. HOPEWELL GLEE CLUB Sun. May 24, 10:00 – 14:30 Douvris Karate Open House and Showcase DARCY&DINOS Fri. May 29, 19:30 Seventeen Voyces Choir Presents Don TYPE Quixote, Southminster JOHN ALLAIRE Sun. May 31, 10:00 – 16:00 OSCA Windsor Park Art Show MUSIC SPONSORED BY To add events or see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca TRACY ARNETT REALITY WWW.OLDOTTAWASOUTH.CA The OSCA Annual General Meeting is Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Artwork by Christopher Heilmann Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue Page 2 THE OSCAR l MAY 2015 LOCAL NEWS Bust a Move for Breast Health 2015 Team Old Ottawa South Ladies who participated in the 4th annual Bust a Move fundraiser and fitness extravaganza. (L-R bottom ow)r Karen Stevens- Guille, Kristann Rose, Karin Fuller and Trish Moss. (Back row) Susan MacDonald, Kate Charland, Dawn Collings. (Missing: Pam Dakers) PHOTO BY OTTAWA-GATINEAU PHOTOBOTH By Kate Martin Charland public, Kaleidoscope Kid’s Books, Life of Pie, Patty’s Pub, Quinn’s, TD 3 trees Look, Third Avenue Spa, Younique, On Saturday, March 28th, Team Old and Yummy Cookies. silver jewellery Ottawa South Ladies participated in In addition to our event at Patty’s exotic gifts the 4th annual Bust a Move fund- Pub, we also had a very successful fabulous fashion raiser and fitness extravaganza at the Stella and Dot jewellery fundraiser Ottawa Athletic Club in support of 202 main st. as well as an event at The Clothes the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foun- Secret with the support of owner dation. In order to be able to par- Valerie MacIntosh. The Clothes ticipate and earn a spot on the floor, Secret donated 15% of 1 day’s sales each person registered for Bust a to our team as well as 15% of any Move commits to raising a minimum items donated in our team’s name. of $1000. Team Old Ottawa South Team member Susan MacDonald, Ladies raised an amazing $9804.77 owner of Fitmom, held extra fitness with the support of friends, family, classes over the March break and her and our local community. clients generously donated approxi- Over 250 people took part in the 22nd anniversary June sale mately $600 to our team’s fundrais- event this year, decked out in all ing efforts. bargain basement open things pink and glittery. Together, Bust a Move started in Halifax and we lunged, leapt, and laughed has grown in popularity, spreading through a variety of fitness classes across Canada and to a number of from Zumba to kick boxing and other countries. It is a unique, uplift- raised a total of $236,672.78, bring- ing, and fun filled event that brings ing the 4 year total to $1.25 million. together men and women of all ages All of the money raised for Bust a and abilities who want to make a dif- Move goes directly towards cancer ference by supporting and improving care in our region as well as to sup- cancer care in our communities. On port the cancer coaching programs at behalf of myself and my teammates: the Maplesoft Centre in Ottawa. Dawn Collings, Pam Dakers, Karin Our neighbourhood team would From our families to yours, Fuller, Susan MacDonald, Trish not have been as successful with- Moss, Kristann Rose, and Karen out the incredible support of local Stevens Guille, we want to thank businesses in Old Ottawa South. you for your amazing support! Quinn Hodgins and the Patty’s Pub team hosted a pub night fundraiser for over 80 of our friends where Kate Martin Charland has been a we raised $1560 in beer sales and resident of Old Ottawa South for a raffle. Amazing raffle prizes were over 10 years, is an OSCA Board 1171 Bank St. fluidsalon.com generously donated by: The Ashton member, Event Planner, and Teacher. 613-237-1109 Brew Company, Belmont Liquor and Snacks, The Clothes Secret, Framed, Green Tree Eco Fashion, Hair Re- fluid-mday-ad_rev2.2.indd 1 2015-04-09 4:47 PM THE OSCAR l MAY 2015 Page 3 HOPEWELL PUBLIC SCHOOL Hopewell Designs “Canada 150” Logos! Stella’s winning design from the Middle French Immersion Grade 5/6 class. Yusuf’s winning logo design. He is in Middle French Immersion Grade 4/5. By Padme, Lene, Vasu and able to students in post-secondary day. This project was for part of our got some adults at the school (prin- Zari school. However, we used the real media literacy mark. We chose the cipal, custodian, etc.) to vote on the contest rules which will be described finalist by voting on the certain proj- one project they liked the most. We Edited by Mrs. Thiessen later in the article. ect we liked the most, we did this not also needed to write an artist note to There were two parts to this proj- looking at the names so it would be describe our projects’ symbols and This year students from Hopewell ect. One was to make a unique logo fair. How we voted was each student colours. The artist note had to pro- Avenue Public School in Mrs. Thies- and the other was to write an artist’s went one at a time into the hallway vide an explanation of the symbols, sen’s grade 4/5 and 5/6 English note for your logo. Your logo could and decided which project we liked designs and colours in our logo. classes participated in a class contest only have the text “Canada 150” and the most. 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