OSCAR The Community Voice of Old Ottawa South YEAR 26, VOL. 28, No. 2 THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW OCTOBER 1999 THANKS COACH! BY LYNDA RIVINGTON lebe Little League wound up League fielded Minor, Major, Junior * TT another fun-filled season of and Senior teams that competed in the _Z*=i£J spring and summer baseball regular Ottawa District season and and softball. During the May and June District 6 playdowns, together with a house league season, 16 baseball and Senior Girls Softball Team that went seven softball teams took to local to the Provincial Championships diamonds. hosted this year at Brewer Park. They were supported by an army Special thanks go to these of volunteer coaches, assistant dedicated coaches who spent their coaches, practice assistants, managers summer at ball diamonds and and score-keepers, not to mention the somehow managed to get to 6 pm enthusiastic parents on the bleachers. weeknight games in Amprior or The Rookies (7-8yrs) played at Carleton Place, for example, often Brantwood Park while the Minors ferrying a lot of their team at the same (9-10yrs) and Majors (1 l-12yrs) had time. all their games at Lansdowne Park. Minor coaches included Sue The Juniors (13-14yrs), Seniors Patterson, Mary Jane Starr and Neighborhood Noise, a band of residents of Pansy and Carlyle Avenues (and friends), welcomed (15-16yrs) and Girls Softball Graham Long. Terri Semanyk, pedestrians and motorists to the neighborhood during the Porch Sale. LtoR Susan Wellisch on (9-16yrs) played interlocking Marian de Vries and Derek Stevenson drums, Keith Shackleton on bass, Stephanie Wolfert on piano, Eric Butkus and Francois Savard schedules with other leagues in coached the Majors. The Juniors were on trumpet and Ben Stone on trombone. Photo by Sara Bannerman District 6. Girls softball home games led by Scott Valentine, Steve Dillon were at Brantwood Park and away and Steve Lachance, while Jenny games took them as far afield as Nelson, Carl Rading and Rowland FIDDLERS ON THE ROOF Metcalfe and Russell. Riglin took the Senior Girls to the BY SUSAN WELLISCH The Juniors (13-14yrs) and Provincial Tournament. Seniors (15-16yrs) played home Peter Mossop, Paul Jenkins and Ed here's your trombone?" "At Do we want to haul equipment up? Do games at Brewer Park with away Laushway shepherded the Seniors home, where's your we need a permit? The Beatles did it, games taking place anywhere from through their District 6 championship trumpet?" Those words why can't we? Vanier and Gloucester to Hawkesbury win and on to the semi-finals at the launched the band Neighborhood In the end, we found a good ladder Noise at the Pansy Avenue Picnic in and L'Original. The season finale for Ontario Little League Senior and we didn't need a permit. Many June 1998. Francois Savard (trumpet) thanks to Doug Weir and the staff of the Seniors was a final game between provincial championships at Carleton and Ben Stone (trombone) got the Mad Cow for their generosity, the two Glebe teams at JetForm Park. Place, the first District win by Glebe together and with Dave Taillefer on especially Doug who allowed this In the intensive July and August Little League since 1958. summer competitive program, the guitar and Susan Wellisch on piano, crazy idea to take place on his roof. put five songs together on the spot and We play a mix of rock, R&B and played during the talent show part of jazz and as soon as we got up on the the evening. roof, people responded. The folks on Things started happening. Francois the Barley Mow patio were first to was determined to keep the band show appreciation with warm going. We jammed at his house and applause. slowly added new members so the Drivers honked, waved or smiled, "original four" became a solid eight. a police car flashed his lights, people We’ve had personnel changes (a gathered on Euclid Avenue. We did flutist moved to New Brunswick) but three sets and as we were packing up we were having so much fun, we kept The New RO came by. So we set up on going. again and made the six o'clock news. We played the Pansy Fire and Ice Family and friends, the mayor and Festival the following winter, the councillors came to enjoy the music Bellwood Street Hockey Tournament with us. Everyone in the band worked next spring, the Pansy end of school really hard to make it happen. This celebration and of course the 1999 fun celebration of community Pflnm» PJ/?»'!»_/'*_ niitfircf ntintwayartr . n A V*» A VIM AAA UV II >■' T VTlJVW J • ' ~f£ r£S£Sts the - spirit of the Glebe Little League Seniors played spring season finale at JetForm Park in June. Back I to r. Bill Then the idea struck. Could we neighborhood and I am glad I was part Meyer (coach), Angus Bennett, Devon Ford, Dan Saliba, Harry Dunlap, Josh Clipperton, Ian play on the roof of the Mad Cow Pub of it. Mungail. Tom Kurys, Graham Long, Todd Willis, Devon Jenkins, Peter Gillich, Jeff Simpson, frvrAVA tKpW ■ W APnrok VAWU ÜlUViÇalg?.Wac. T ? MM AVit nAcciWp?UVWWAVAV t Cody Starr, Kayla Meyer, Chris Wilson, Doug Disk (umpire), Tom Vradenburg (umpire), Keith Willis (umpire), Murray Wilson (coach); Front Mike Bujold, Jeff Graham, Paul Jenkins (coach), Al Gillich (coach), Jeremy Keeble (bat boy), James Pearson-Robertson, Matthew Mossop, Ed Keeble, Neil Jansen, James Diak, Peter Mossop (coach). Absent Ed Laushway (coach), Robin Laushway, Peter Archer, Rustam Dow, Greg Wagland. INSIDE.. OSCA NOVEMBER ISSUE Ottawa South Community Association The October Garden Rescuing Young Writers fhone 247^48723^810X^^4 Legitimacy & Property Coins for UNICEF DEADLINE E-Mail: OSCA @cyberus.ca Windsor Bark Play Structures Finance, Politics, Schools Coach’s Comer Lebanese Recipe Surf us an the Web: FRIDAY OCT 22 Purple Loosestrife at Brewer And much, much more ! www.OldOtfawaSoufh.com PAGE 2 § THE OSCAR § OCTOBER 1999 YEAR 26 _/The CONTRIBUTIONS OSCAR. 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