The O•S•C•A•R© The Community Voice of Old Ottawa South Year 39 , No. 1 The Ottawa South Community Association Review JAN 2011 Hopewell Students Raise $10,000 for Kenyan Classrooms By William Burr he droves of shoppers who crammed the hallways of THopewell Public School could rationalize their spending with the good cause they were supporting: the building of classrooms in Solio, Kenya. The school’s Blizzard Bazaar raised over $10,000 in a single evening on December 16th -- blasting through the $7000 goal the school had set for the entire year. Students sold a variety of homemade items, from hand-sewn dog bandannas to comic books they had written themselves. Some charged for games like bean toss or musical chairs or offered face painting. Local businesses also donated gifts for a silent auction. All funds went toward the Moving Mountains Trust, the Irish charity building the classrooms in Solio. The charity targeted that Kenyan town primarily because of the particular hardships it has faced. About 20 years Filip Bosnjak (Santa) and classmates Samuel Adam-Johnston and Mikka Zeisig ago, the Kenyan government forced the community off of its land because of fears about overpopulation, says Finding Life organization, and the Recently, the Kenyan government Elia Saikaly, head of the nonprofit man who connected Hopewell with relented and offered each Solio family Cont’d on page 8 the Moving Mountains charity. 4 1/2 acres of land, Saikaly says. Firehall After School Dance Class Street Jazz You’ve Invited to a January 15, 2011 Community Chat on Environmental and Related Mackenzie Anderson and her students performing for parents. Old Ottawa South Firehall Popular dance Instructor teaches all Saturday morning Dance classes as well Topics as the Street Jazz on Tuesdays For more details see page 4. 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Email your letters to [email protected] or leave in print at the Firehall. Why Not a Skating Rink? Mr. Chernushenko Mr Jenkin (OSCAR President) lans for the Lansdowne urban park call for an outdoor curling rink, a proposition that is clearly inferior to having a skating rink, something am writing this letter out of frus- ing out of their way to make a bad situ- that would be more economical and enjoyed by many more. Indeed, tration due to the parking situation ation worse. I was also given a ticket havingP an outdoor rink with a refrigeration plant would be a great comple- I on Fairbairn St. since the develop- this year for parking 1.5 meters of the ment to the canal skateway and would greatly lengthen the shinny season. ment of The Fire Hall. When the Fire laneway which is next to my house. If Toronto can have lots of outdoor refrigerated rinks why can’t Ottawa have Hall was extended they took away the (even though my property line extends one in what’s supposed to be our major park. parking spaces at the back. Although over a meter into the lane way!!!) The proposed outdoor curling rink is the product of an arbitrary, non- there is space at the front for park- This means that 21 meters of consultative process. So many of the aspects of the Lansdowne plans are ing, this space was used for landscap- the street is not available for park- utterly egregious, but if there is going to be an urban park it should have ing and benches. This combined with ing. This will become even less in features - like a refrigerated outdoor rink – that would be used healthily by church on the other side of the road the winter as The Fire hall snow re- many Ottawans. creates a problem of no parking on moval contractors continue to dump Fairbairn St. for residents. snow from the fire hall onto the street. I recently drove my wife home When a business seeks to build a John Dance after she had surgery (with general business in OOS one of the first con- anaesthesia).