Serving the Glebe community since 1973 www.glebereport.ca TFI@glebereport ISSN 0702-7796 Vol. 46 No. 10 Issue no. 508 FREE November 9, 2018 Y PP A PH A N O: NICOLE FAROUGH, S NICOLE FAROUGH, O: T PHO Reliving Michael Jackson’s Thriller at Emilie Phaneuf’s Family Thriller Dance Workshop Thriller in the Glebe Those taking part in Emilie Phaneuf’s October 21 eographer and teacher with an infectious love of ton) to Dancehall funk (originating in Jamaica) to street Family Thriller Dance Workshop at GNAG got to relive movement and dance. dances like Hip Hop, Vogue and House. Yes, it’s a great the slick dance moves of Michael Jackson’s Thriller this Dance with Emilie Phaneuf at the Glebe Neigh- workout good for the body, but it’s also a lot of fun – Halloween. To a backdrop of bats, ghosts and spiders, bourhood Activities Group (GNAG) at the Glebe good for the soul. Every Saturday there’s a dance party they did (or outdid?) the iconic zombie street dance. Community Centre covers a wide range of dance at 12:30 p.m. where you can try out what you learned Emilie Phaneuf is a street dance performer, chor- styles from Salsaton (a combo on Salsa and Reggae- in dance class – or break free and do your own thing. MARK YOUR CALENDARS WHAT’S INSIDE Nov. 10 ............ Tornado Relief concert, Lansdowne, 5:30 p.m. Nov. 11 ............ filmMercy’s Blessing, Mayfair, 4 p.m. Nov. 14 ............ Caelis Academy concert, Southminster UC, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 ............ play Dispatches Without Borders, (MSF fundraiser), GCC, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16–18 ..... Fall Craft and Artisan Fair, GCC Nov. 17 ............ Help Santa Toy Parade, 11:00 a.m. Nov. 18 ............ Financial Literacy for Youth (8-13), 10:15, GCC Nov. 21 ............ Grow Smart Talk, Glebe St.-James United Church, 7:00 p.m. Nov. 24 ............ Bazaar, Abbotsford House, 10 a.m.-2:30 Nov. 25 ............ GRAND Market, One World Grannies, Hort. Bldg. Remembering those who died in the world Clive Doucet’s reflections of a grandfather, Nov. 24–25 ..... Handel’s Messiah, St. Matthew’s, Sat. 7:30 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. wars, pages 22 and 23 page 20 Nov. 27 ............ GCA monthly meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. NEXT ISSUE: Friday, December 7, 2018 Dec. 1 .............. Mozart/Bernstein concert, Dominion Chalmers, 35 Cooper St., 7:30 p.m. EDITORIAL DEADLINE: Friday, November 16, 2018 Dec. 6 .............. YSB SleepOUT for Youth, TD Place, Lansdowne, 5 p.m. ADVERTISING artworK DEADLINE*: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 Dec. 7–15 ....... It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Show, The Gladstone *Book ads well in advance to ensure space availability. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS PROMOTION IS ON! Assorted holiday lights ON SALE* for $7. 97 REG. $12.99 736 Bank St • 613 234-6353 • CapitalHomeHardware *while supplies last 2 Glebe Report November 9, 2018 BABIES Special colour feature in January 2019 Was your Glebe baby born in 2018? e Glebe Report’s January edition will feature photos of Glebe babies born in 2018. If your Glebe baby was born in 2018, send us a colour photo, along with your baby’s name and date of birth, both parents’ names, address and contact info (email or phone), by January 7, 2019. e photo should be high resolution (300 dpi jpeg). Send by email to [email protected]. Don’t miss out! Deadline to submit your baby’s photo: January 7 1884 Fall in love with your old jewellery,again. 2018 specializing in antique restoration all work done on site 722 BANK ST. 613.230.5333 GOLDART.CA IN A photoshoot happening October beside 27 in the Little laneway Victories. Contact: [email protected]. teaches agroupCompany, of aspiring actors at the Avalon Studio. Chris Ralph, co-founder and director executive of The Acting & ARO U ND PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ACTING CO. good Pull cause, at treating the at Lansdowne Fire Truck epilepsy, on October 28. A Dante pull crew for worth all they’re that to budge 10-tonne fire truck, all for a Lansdowne on October 28. Scary pumpkin to go at ready the Pumpkin Derby at (613) 233-2000 &Glebe Lyon at The Dental Office Glebe Report November 2018 9, PHOTOS: LIZ MCKEEN 3 4 Glebe Report November 9, 2018 EDITORIAL Images of the Glebe Glebe comings and goings NEW TO THE GLEBE Plush Beauty Lounge at 862 Bank Street (formerly Kardish’s) opened on October 26. “Great nails don’t happen by chance – they hap- pen by appointment.” 613-680-3355 www.plushbeautylounge.ca. Appli- cation for liquor license pending. Bowman’s on Bank at 895 Bank Street coming soon: “Rosie’s Southern Kitchen & Raw Bar has been purchased by Peter West and his wife Christina who currently own a successful pub-style res- taurant on Carling Avenue called Bowman’s Bar & Grill. They are N bringing the same delicious food and local craft beer to Bank St. IZ MCKEE L and are looking forward to serv- O: O: T ing you beginning on November PHO 2, 2018.” www.bowmansbarand- Patterson’s Creek, looking west from O’Connor grill.ca. “Familiar food done well. A great selection of burgers, sand- wiches, nachos and mouth-watering Development discomfort entrees.” 613-234-7674. It seems that the recent municipal posal, many in the community are The common thread is the lack of election has allowed some thoughts still unhappy with it, despite some control that neighbourhoods have The Ten Spot beauty bar will be to crystalize around development in amelioration of the original proposal. over the future of their communities. opening in December at 625 Bank the Glebe and elsewhere. The feeling Another development is pending fur- City instruments meant to control and Street (Unit 4). “We open our doors was already there, but it has perhaps ther north on Bank at Clemow. shape development (official plans, sec- for business on the 1st of Decem- solidified and clarified. On Bronson, several properties ondary plans, zoning bylaws) have ber and our grand opening is the The development that we see around south of Fifth are for sale, marked almost no meaning and are routinely 15th of December.” “Nail bar, skin us, either in the works or proposed, is “land assembly” –another opportun- ignored by developers, city planners bar, wax bar. We’re here to make quite often problematic. At the corner ity for an imposing building, possibly and councillors alike. Community you #FeelLikeATen.” www.theten- of Bank and Fifth we see an impos- a high-rise and almost surely higher associations invest thousands of vol- spot.com/locations. 613-565-5005, ing, long building that already makes that nearby residences. Perhaps inevit- unteer hours to develop reasoned and [email protected]. the corner feel crowded and darker – able, given the nature of Bronson, it thoughtful community design plans – and that’s a four-storey building that is but one more nail in the coffin, so to what end? Nosh at 749 Bank Street, former actually meets zoning specs. When to speak. The system needs fixing – before location of The Pomeroy House, is the Beer store/Mr. Muffler site goes Elsewhere in the city, we see it’s too late. We want liveable, human- now open. A casual lunch & din- up, that stretch of Bank Street could the dark, desolate wind tunnels scale communities, where real people ner house featuring fresh scratch become truly monolithic and blank, a of Westboro; the 45-storey high- love to congregate. Communities need comfort foods, a long wood [table] wasteland that bundled-up pedestrians rise overlooking Dow’s Lake; the a sense of control over their destin- with big smiles & bigger drinks, will hurry past, heads down, chins 66-storey building proposed at Bay- ies. Will the newly elected Council and fabulous art and tunes for the tucked in (something that already view. In Orleans, developers are tackle it? ages. Freshly made chef-inspired happens across from Lansdowne). proposing high-rises that are double comfort foods. 613-237-1658. As for the Fifth Avenue Court pro- the allowed height. Liz McKeen CHANGES AFOOT Combined Sewage Storage Tun- nel site 10 (Kent/Chamberlain CONTACT US 175 Third Avenue Streets) was the launch shaft for the Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2K2 north-south tunnelling operation 613-236-4955 for the Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel. Tunnel support equipment Please submit articles to (including the yellow Gantry crane) www.glebereport.ca [email protected]. has been disassembled and moved. Established in 1973, the Glebe Report, published by the Glebe Report Association is a monthly not for-profit community newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. It is delivered free to TFI@glebereport GONE BUT NOT FOROTTEN Glebe homes and businesses. Advertising from merchants in the Glebe and elsewhere pays all Rosie’s Southern Kitchen is now its costs, and the paper receives no government grants or direct subsidies. The Glebe Report, closed. made available at select locations such as the Glebe Community Centre and the Old Ottawa South Community Centre and Brewer Pool, is printed by Winchester Print. INDEX NOV 2018 EDITOR Liz McKeen [email protected] ABBOTSFORD 8 CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE COPY EDITOR Kerry Smith BIA/BUSINESS 15/16 LAYOUT DESIGNER Jock Smith [email protected] Michael Abbey Chris McNaught GRAPEVINE EDITOR Micheline Boyle [email protected] BOOKS 28, 29 Carolyn Best Shawn Menard WEB EDITOR Peter Polgar [email protected] ELECTION 13, 14 Ernest Blais Bill Nuttle Karen Anne Blakely Nicole Paul ADVERTISING MANAGER Judy Field 613-231-4938 [email protected] FOOD 24 Margret Brady Brooke Peloquin BUSINESS MANAGER Sheila Pocock 613-233-3047 LIFE/Grandfathers 6/20 Michelle Brooke Emilie Phaneuf CIRCULATION MANAGER Marnie Wellar 613-408-1300 [email protected] David Chernushenko Kevan Pipe MONEY 34 Clive Doucet John Richardson PROOFREADERS Martha Bowers, Valerie Bryce, Carol MacLeod, Dorothy Phillips, OP-ED 36 Tiffany Douglas Courtney Rock Nicole Farough Lois Siegel Jeanette Rive, David Spies POETRY/MUSIC 18, 30/37, 38 Mary Forster William Smith AREA CAPTAINS Martha Bowers, Bob Brocklebank, Judy Field, Gary Greenwood, REFLECTIONS 31, 32 Marielle Godbout JC Sulzenko Ginny Grimshaw, Jono Hamer-Wilson, Nadia Porcari Paul Green Mary Tsai REMEMBERING 22, 23 Trevor Greenway Andrew Tsang Please note that except for July, the paper is published monthly.