falrebereporlj April 10, 1992 glèbe ttepa April 10, 1992 Vol. 21 No. 4 ''.111111111111111111 Great Glebe Garage Sale Sat., May 23rd Register Today! BY JIM FOSTER will hold garage sales and call Jim Foster at 563-3571 Registered donators are Support Ottawa's Food sidewalk sales. They are HELP US WITH OUR PUBLICITY eligible for prizes from Bank and have fun: From asked to contribute 10% of CAMPAIGN! Tomores and Wringers! bathtubs to James Brown, their sales to the Ottawa Note on the registration WANT TO HELP? Call Jim baked goods to bikes! Pull Food Bank. form if your sale will have Foster 563-3571 or Neil your treasures from the CANADA 125 a specific theme or inter- Knudson 234-0906. depths of the basement, We are a Canada 125 event! esting sale items. For CANADA 125 and the Great from the peak of the attic! In keeping with the spirit example, the Glebe Cooper- Glebe Garage Sale Here comes the Seventh of celebrating our commun- ative playgroup will be Celebrating our Community! Annual Great Glebe Garage ity, we are encouraging selling used toys. Sale! street parties after the Tell a friend about the On May 23rd residents sale. For an information Registration Form on P. 2 sale. and businesses in the Glebe pack to get you started, Street tree inventory BY ELAINE MARLIN forest. Do you know what species of Interested? Fill in the trees are growing on your form below and drop if off block? How big and wide to: those trees are? How healthy? The Glebe Community Assoc- Thanks to Councillor Jim iation letter box at the Watson, the G.C.A. has a Glebe Community Centre's copy of the City of Ottawa's main desk or at the May 13 Street Tree Inventory and Annual General Meeting of has been able to present a the G.C.A. at 7:30 in the copy to each of the four Community Centre. schools in our area for ref- I (we), erence use. This survey des- would like to update the cribes all street-side trees tree Census of the Glebe for apples at any address in Capital We brake on Ave Ward. Constables Gary Babstock or Street between Rusterholz was on hand with On May 23 when the Great and Steve Gardner of Ottawa's and his camera to capture the Glebe Garage Sale takes Mounted Police Patrol surpri- streets. moment. place, the G.C.A. Environment sed everyone at Ilse's Pantry Phone number The Mounted Patrol was ins- Committee will be attempt- in the Glebe Community Centre, P.S. Don't forget your tituted about a year ago. The ing to update the census of as they rode by one bright submissions on the theme seven member group's mandate trees on our streets. Strol- March day. Pantry staff Gwen My Favourite Tree (See includes public relations, ling your block with a and Carolyn Best and Cather- GZebe Report pg. I March patrolling downtown areas, printout of the tree count in me Curry rushed out with issue). beaches, bike paths and pro- hand, you will be able to apples to feed the horses, NOTES: A permanent depot viding crowd control. note newly planted trees, followed by several young for Toxic Household Waste trees which have grown customers. such as paints and cleaners and those which have died or Everyone enjoyed the break, has been opened at the Trail have been cut down. A horti- especially the horses. Luck- INSIDE Road Dump in Nepean. The culturist will be on hand to ily, Canterbury student Urs site is open every second help identify species. Letters 5 Saturday from March 28 on- EARTH DAY This project is a very OTTAWA 6 wards between 9 a.m. and 5 GNAG good way to get to know your APRIL 22 p.m. Call 560-6075 for in- Easy neighbourhood and perhaps For information on formation. Don't all drive your neighbours as well. You scheduled activities or Avenue 8, 33, 35 out at once. Collect things may become much more aware to volunteer, please call 13, 16, 23 from a few households and Art of what we have and what we Mary Oaks at 230-2712. make one trip. 17 are losing from our urban Health Books 18 Environmental inventory needs your help Community Centre In order to save the City Courses 19-23 The City of Ottawa will Community Associations, money it depends heavily on initiate an Environmental environmental groups, busin- Focus 24 public interest and parti- Inventory Project as part of ess and other organizations cipation. The City has de- School News 27-31 its Environmental Conserva- are invited to participate. signed a one-page survey tion and Management Strategy. Their representatives will Church News 36, 37 form for easy use, accomp- trained as co-ordinators. One ot its major informa- be anied by a map and instruc- is Environmental tion gathering tools will The Glebe Quote of the Month be an Environmental Survey. tions to pinpoint and def- Survey area 6. A training Data gathered will form the ine any given area. Anyone session will be offered at basis of related environmen- interested can fill out more the Glebe Community Centre, Unselfishness ennob les, tal programs: the Greenway than one form. Forms will in the Basement Hall, April satisfies. Don't put off System project, Protection be available at City commun- 27th from 7:30 to 9:30 P.M. the joy derivable from Conservation & Rehabilita- ity centres (photocopies may For information or to con- doing helpful, kindly tion Program, Municipal be made) in April and May. firm your attendance please things for others. Environmental Evaluation Training sessions begin in call Paul McCann, Environ- B.C.Forbes Process and the State of the April and the survey period mental Management Branch, Environment Report. is the month of May. at 564-7443. NEWS Pathfinder fashion show DAVID BRAULT GENERAL CONTRACTING PATHFINDER FASHION SHOW season? The 52nd Pathfin- Saturday April 11 ders of Lansdowne District LTD. Fifth Avenue Court invite you to join them for 2 shows: 12:00 and 1:15 their Spring Fashion Show at Featuring exciting selec- Fifth Avenue Court. .... tions of clothing and ac- Donations of food and/or cessories of the Glebe money for the Ottawa Food 798-0802 merchants. Bank are welcome. Spring is here! Are you See Spring come to the ready for the change of Glebe and help the Ottawa Food Bank. FOR ALL YOUR HOME IMPROVEMENTS Diabetic camp sweepstakes From Thursday April 23, ranean Cruise for two. until Saturday April 25 at There are 5 other exciting Billings Bridge Shopping prizes. Centre the Canadian Diabe- The Canadian Diabetes tes Association (CDA) Association operates 3 will be educating the camps in Ontario. The clos- public about diabetes, a est to Ottawa is Camp disease that over one mil- Banting. It is a medically COOKIE BLITZ lion Canadians suffer supervised camp for child- SATURDAY from. At the same time ren with diabetes, founded MAY 2nd they will be selling in 1945. Located at the Sweepstake tickets to fund Y Outdoor Centre, 25 km FIFTH AVENUE COURT among other things, camps west of Ottawa it overlooks AND for diabetic children. the Ottawa River and the DOOR-TO-DOOR Tickets cost only $2.00 Gatineau Hills. If you each and the prizes in- would like more information clude a 1992 Plymouth about Camp Banting, call Voyageur SE minivan, a the Ottawa Branch of the 1992 Dodge Shadow conver- CDA at 521-1902. tible and a 14 &ay Mediter- AV 2.nA UNIVERSITY PAINTERS (1) RECIPIENT OF THE MINISTERS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Interior/Exterior Reliable Service Quality Workmanship SENTESY Furniture SOLID Architectural Fully Insured \WOODWORK Millwork Two Year Guarantee Fine Cabinetennking Restorations FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATE CALL: Drumtnond Village, RR 6 Perth, Ontario K7I( 3C8 (613)267-6531 722-3375 REGISTRATION FORM GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE I Azte3rVi, NAME: ADDRESS: Oar\frA it 5 PHONE: (Home) erAl (Business) :GLEBE SALE ITEMS: GLEBE I Drop off registration forms at the Glebe Apothacary or the Glebe Community Centre. Contact James Foster 563-3571 or Neil Knudson 234-0906 for more information. Sponsored by The Glebe Community Association. April 10, 1992, Globe Report - 2 NEWS Indoor composting IC used to be that only or shrubs. people with the backyard Sean Twomey of Arbour space for a composter could Recycled Products has been GLEBE FAMILY take full advantage of com- working in the vermicompost- posting to turn organic ing industry for the past matter into valuable nut- year and seen interest rient-rich soil. Now, with grow rapidly. "It's a great GETS vermicomposting, everybody way for people to contribute can join in the composting to the environment while trend. getting themselves in touch Whether you live in an with the natural processes STRONGER VOICE apartment, townhouse, or a which occur all around us." house, you too, can re- Vermicomposters are also duce curbside waste while very suitable for classrooms getting something back for to educate the kids, and FOR JUST your efforts. in the office to compost Inside the vermicompos ter lunch scraps. They are clean, is a colony of redworms, odorless and require min- otherwise known as nature's imal maintenance. THREE best recyclers. Simply throw Prices range from $49.95 DOUARS. in your kitchen scraps and to $99.95, depending on the let the worms do the "de- size of the vermicomposter, grading" work. plus the cost of worms $19 As a member of the Glebe Com- Being involved in the GCA Our 1992 Membership munity Association (GCA), you means being involved in your Campaign runs from April 25 When you deposit organic to $34).