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Just across the Canal, the new Lansdowne Park will begin opening this summer. The housing, mall, arena and especially the stadium will have a profound effect on Old Ottawa South. See pages 8 and 9 for the latest information on the traffic and transportation situation for Lansdowne. There is also a
handy list of large events scheduled this summer.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Fri. July 4, 10:30 - 16:30
Windsor Park Wading Pool Opens
Sun. July 6, 14:00-16:00
Thurs. Sept. 4, 20:00
Open House at Lansdowne Stadium (TD
Place)
Alexandre Da Costa, for Music & Beyond
at Southminster United Church
Thorwald Jorgensen, for Music & Beyond
at Southminster United Church
Lansdowne Park re-opens with a
RedBlacks game
Torchlight Shakespeare: As You Like It at
Windsor Park
Lansdowne Park official opening carnival
and picnic
OSCA Registration starts (preschool, child
and youth-online)
OSCA Registration (adult-online)
Sat. Sept. 6, 8:00-15:00
OOS Community Porch Sale
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OLD OTTAWA EAST
Oblates Lands Sold: Potential “Green” Future
The Oblates property at 175 Main Street has been purchased by the Regional Group of Companies.
By John Dance
The other “Old Ottawa” – the “East”
one - is moving rapidly to considerable growth and, if community proposals get supported, a sustainable
and “complete community” future.
Last month Ottawa’s Regional
Group of Companies announced
its purchase of the lands owned by
the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a
beautiful 10.5 hectare (26 acres) site
which lies between Main Street and
the Rideau River and is bounded on
the north by Springhurst Avenue and
on the south by Clegg.
This announcement followed
Domicile’s acquisition of half of the
Sisters of the Sacred Heart property
at the southeast corner of Main and
PHOTOS BY JOHN DANCE
Springhurst. In addition, the city recently approved the site plan proposal for a four-storey condominium on
the northeast corner of Springhurst
and Main.
These three developments and
other possible Main Street proposals will, over the next 10 years, add
about 3,000 people to the current
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your name, address, and phone number,
along with your suggested name for the
Regional Group’s property and a rationale for
this name (maximum 200 words).
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collaboration with the
Old Ottawa East
Community Association
(OOECA) is reaching out to
the community to assist
with the naming of this
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of land on the Rideau River.
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The Regional Group of Companies will acquire the Oblate Property at 175 Main Street.
of 7,500. And the long-term transitoriented development at OOE’s Lees
LRT station may add another 20,000
residents.
While the various developments
sound a little overwhelming, Regional and Domicile have both committed
to respecting the OOE community
design plan (CDP) and the companion secondary plan approved by city
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Disclaimer: The Regional Group of Companies Inc.
reserves the right to not select any of the names
submitted. If no name is selected the prize
money will be donated Old Ottawa East
Community Association. Should more than one
person suggest the same name, the winners will
split the prize of $2,500 evenly. The Regional
Group has kindly donated an additional $2,500 to
OOECA for running the contest.
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OLD OTTAWA EAST
council in 2011. These documents
establish maximum intensification
and heights and were the result of
five years of consultation by the city,
community members and the institutional landowners, i.e., the Oblates,
the Sisters and Saint Paul University.
Indeed, with the aging population
of the Oblate and Sister residents,
there was the clear understanding
that they would be selling the property but they wanted to ensure their
legacy was preserved through modest
development in comparison to the
highrises across the Rideau River or
in Centretown.
Regional’s initial proposals show
some variations to what was included
in the “demonstration plan” that was
part of the CDP, but the changes are
consistent with what the community
has sought. For instance, Regional
proposes moving the taller buildings
away from the edges of the site with
townhomes and singles around the
perimeter. In terms of access, Regional is supporting limited access to
the site from Clegg Street and they
are proposing to Saint Paul University that Hazel Street’s extension to the
east provide a new access from Main.
The proposed developments have
significance to residents in Old Ottawa South because of their proximity, provision of a variety of new
residence types and connectivity
issues. The CDP makes provision for
a 10-metre corridor along the river
frontage of the Oblate property so
that there will be a continuous route
from Linda Thom Park all the way to
the Russian embassy in Sandy Hill.
In addition, there is to be 30 metres
of open space along the pathway
through the Oblate property so that
there is the potential for a remarkable
linear park running all of the way
from the Transitway bridge over the
Rideau River to the southern end of
Brantwood Park.
Although it is not yet known what
dwelling sizes will be available in
the Regional development, David
Renfroe, lead for Domicile’s “141
Main” says, “The project will be
approximately 144 units in two build-
ings. The first building to sell will
have a total of 72 units, ranging from
about 350 to 1600 square feet. Prices
will range from the $170,000s to the
$600,000s. There will also be just
over 13,000 square feet of commercial space fronting on Main Street.”
Unlike Old Ottawa South and
the Glebe, Old Ottawa East lacks a
number of amenities that make for a
“complete community.” For instance,
OOE has no large full-service food
store and there are few restaurants.
The new commercial space within
new buildings on Main Street will
allow such enterprises.
Another gaping hole in OOE is a
community centre. Both the Glebe
and OOS – through great effort and
community investment – have wellfunctioning community centres. Now
the Old Ottawa East Community
Activities Group is working with
Saint Paul University and others to
seek alternatives to the very small
Old Town Hall facility at the corner
of Main and Hawthorne.
Over the last two years Sustainable Living Ottawa East (SLOE) has
worked with Carleton University
to articulate key sustainability and
community-building options and
“deep green” opportunities for the
institutional lands in four theme
areas: community amenities and connectivity; stormwater management
and shoreline restoration; affordable
and seniors housing; and sustainable
energy.
The related research was presented
at an experts’ forum at Carleton
University in March sponsored by
the Sandy Hill Community Health
Centre, Councillor Chernushenko,
Regional, Domicile and others. Then,
with the experts’ perspectives factored in, the ideas were discussed at a
community meeting held in June.
Josh Kardish, Regional’s representative at the “deep green” discussions
noted by email, “I think the SLOE
team does a great job describing
the four themes and I think there is
great interest in the local and broader
community…I really think that what
you guys are doing by acting as a
bridge between us, the City and your
fellow residents is fantastic.“ After
the community session Mr. Renfroe
wrote, “Working with the local community and the City of Ottawa, we
have strived to respect the community design plan. We are excited about
how the urban design of our project
has evolved and the sustainable measures taken to make this project the
benchmark for the Old Ottawa East
community.” “Regional and other developers
will benefit from the work residents
have done to make OOE an appealing place to live, and it is exciting to
think that we have a developer who
will return benefits to the community,” noted Rebecca Aird, SLOE’s
chair. “To be a bit presumptuous, I
think it is pretty clear there is support in our community for Regional
to make this the development that
boosts them from reliable, conscientious developers to extraordinary
developers. If there ever was a site
for that, this must be it!”
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LOCAL NEWS
A New Green Space for OOS
Participants at the “Design your park” consultation at the Sunnyside Branch of the Public Library on June 7th.
By Wendy Robbins
of a decommissioned Hydro Ottawa
substation. Following equipment
removal and soil testing and remediation, Hydro Ottawa has turned the
land over to the City for a park, much
to the delight of surrounding residents. Just what that park will look
like was the subject of the consultation process, which included the two
sessions at the library on June 7.
Before residents began to share
their ideas for the park, Kathy Krywicki, on behalf of the Old Ottawa
South History Project, offered some
historical context, showing how the
neighborhood began as a rural outpost before the Bank Street Bridge
“How often do we get to create a
new park? Not very often.” With
those words, Capital Ward Councillor
David Chernushenko opened the first
of two “Design Your Park” sessions
at the Sunnyside Library, sessions
that seem to be leading towards a
new public green space that will be
flexible, simple, safe, and welcoming
to everyone.
The future park is on Woodbine
Place at the south end of Carlyle Avenue although its official address is
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provided access to downtown Ottawa. After the lots were laid out and
sold, a house stood on the site of the
future park for about half a century,
and for another fifty years or so after
Hydro took it over in 1957, it was
essentially an industrial site.
Councillor Chernushenko provided
some details to help frame the discussions, including a budget estimate
(approximately $50,000 for improvements), and a description of decisions
already taken: some form of curb to
prevent vehicles from parking on the
site, or snow removal trucks from
pushing snow onto the park, safety
fencing along Sunnyside, conformation with the City’s “No Smoking”
bylaw. Other non-starters include
adding a basketball court, a dog run,
or a community garden. Residents
were asked to consider the proximity
to Brewer Park with all its amenities,
and the small size of the lot nestled in
a residential area.
Participants then got down to
sharing and developing their ideas
for the new park. At each table there
were lively discussions. Residents
sketched out their concepts, using
prepared paper cut-outs to explore
potential installations to scale, and
drafting wish lists of requirements.
Over the course of the two sessions
more than 30 adults and 7 kids participated. (This is in addition to the
12 emails – including 3 drawings –
that the Councillor’s office received
prior to the workshop.)
By the evening of the consultation
day, when the 25th annual Pansy Pic-
PHOTOS BY JOANNA LINSANGAN
nic was in full swing in sight of the
park-to-be, Councillor Chernushenko
was able to share with the crowd
that it looks as though residents are
largely on the same page: the new
park should be a “passive park,” a
landscaped public space, possibly
with benches and a picnic table,
potentially with some kind of public
art, but without any large installations
such as play structures.
Residents in the area immediately
around the lot, known as the “Pansy
village,” have been eagerly awaiting these developments since Hydro
Ottawa began to decommission the
site. The locals, in particular long
time Carlyle resident Carol English,
promoted the concept of developing
the site as a park, and there has been
great interest in the land cleanup and
transfer, and appreciation for the
respect the City and Hydro Ottawa
have shown for the wishes of local
citizens. In the spirit of “build it and
they will come,” Pansy Avenue social
events in recent years have raised
funds to build a nest egg directed
towards assisting with park improvements.
Joanna Linsangan, Ward office
liason for Old Ottawa South and
East, notes that there was not a lot of
feedback on a name for the new park.
Suggestions are still welcome!
Wendy Robbins is a long-time resident of Carlyle Avenue, a few houses
down from the new park.
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CHRISTY’S CORNER
Summer Programs and Changes at the Firehall
By Christy Savage, OSCA
Executive Director
Programs
Summer programs are up and
running. There are still spaces in
some programs (programs that
are full say ‘sold out’). If you are
interested in a course and it has
already begun, it is not too late to
register! Please feel free to come into
the centre, we’d be happy to prorate
the price and register you. Or if this
is not convenient, you may call the
front desk and Lily would be happy
to assist you.
Survey- OSCA Program
Evaluation
It’s that time of year again! We
look forward to hearing about
your experience participating in
OSCA programs. Please take a few
moments to fill out our online survey
(remember that you may fill out only
one survey per program). You can
find the survey on the front page of
our website oldottawasouth.ca.
OSCA is on Facebook (facebook.
com/oldottsouth) and Twitter (@
oldottsouth). Don’t forget to like
our Facebook page or follow us on
Twitter. We’re updating both sites
daily.
Throwback Thursdays
Do you have historical photos of
Old Ottawa South? Interesting trivia
about our neighbourhood’s history?
Photos from your own life here in
years past?
OSCA is looking for photos and
trivia from our community’s history
for our #ThrowbackThursday posts!
If you have something to
share, please email it to osca@
oldottawasouth.ca or post it to our
Facebook page! We’re looking
forward to seeing and posting what
you send us.
We’re open to ideas for
programming
Summer Camp update from
Darcy Middaugh
As the end of school draws nearer,
it’s time to think about keeping the
kids busy for the summer. With a variety of summer camps and specialty
programs, OSCA has your back.
If you aren’t familiar with all that
we offer here at Ottawa South Community Centre, here are just a few of
the specialty programs that we are
offering this summer that still have
spaces available:
• Bike Camp
• Guitar Camp
• Preschool Pottery
• Eco Camp
• Powered Up Lego
• Dance Explorers
For details on these and our many
other camps, check out our complete
line up online at oldottawasouth.ca.
OUR OOS
BUSINESS
AND RESOURCES DIRECTORY IS

OPEN FOR
BUSINESS 
ARRIVALS
Fluid Colour Concept Salon
1171 Bank Street
Jabbany Salon
1067 Bank Street
Top Shelf Preserves
70A Leonard Avenue
url: www.oldottawasouth.ca/businesses
email: [email protected]
If you have an idea or course you
want us to run, please feel free to let
us know. Email me directly at osca@
oldottawasouth.ca
Changes at the Firehall
Saying goodbye to Baalqis
It’s almost been a year since we
introduced Baalqis Hassan to our
team here at the Firehall and its with
sadness that we say goodbye as she
begins a new life in Toronto. Within
a few weeks of being hired as an
executive assistant at OSCA, our
full time City of Ottawa Program
Coordinator was reduced to 50%
(that’s when we lost the wonderful
Dinos Dafniotis). Baalqis quickly
set about, in addition to the job she
had been hired to do, adding all the
administrative tasks required of the
rather lengthy process of putting
together each programming session
as well as the program guide. Her
diligence and keen attention to detail
have been irreplaceable. We wish her
the best in her new life.
New Roles at the Firehall
With the changes that have taken
place over the last year and overall
growth at OSCA in general, we’re
making a few more changes to
staffing here at the Firehall. We’re
happy to announce that both Alex
Tallim and Darcy Middaugh, who
are coordinators in After 4 and
Camps, will now become full time
employees here at OSCA. Alex will
be our Youth Coordinator as well
as coordinating programming, and
Darcy will be our Preschool and
After 4 Coordinator.
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OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Summer Break in “Shangri-La”
By Linda Hancock, OSCA
President
On June 17th the OSCA Board held
our last meeting prior to taking a well
deserved summer break. The Board,
as a whole, will not meet again until
September. However, many of us will
be continuing our work on OSCA
business throughout the summer as
we plan for our preferred future, and
continue to work on issues of importance to Old Ottawa South.
As we plan for the future, we
continue to work on our priorities
in some very important areas. Our
work is done via our hardworking
committees and staff. As a reminder,
OSCA now has 5 “core” committees – Communications, Planning &
Zoning, Program, Special Events and
Traffic & Safety. In addition, we have
an Executive Committee that plans
and facilitates the work of the Board.
We also have two Task Groups – one
to work on OSCA’s Future Financial
Options and another to work on Governance. We are always interested
in having new people join us so if
you have an interest in getting more
involved in OSCA, please feel free to
contact me to discuss your area(s) of
interest at president@oldottawasouth.
ca.
As the OSCAR hits the front
porches of OOS, our summer programs will be in full gear and, in fact,
planning will already have begun
for the fall. OSCA’s Program Committee is always looking for new
programming ideas to expand on
those we already run and to engage
all members of our community. If
you have suggestions or ideas for our
consideration we truly want to hear
about them. Don’t be shy – any idea
is worth considering!
OSCA’s First Studio Tour
Calling All Artists and Artisans
By Brenda Lee
The OSCA Special Events Committee
met recently to plan our calendar for
the upcoming year (more on that exciting roster in the next OSCAR). Inspired by all of the creative energies at
the OSCA Windsor Park Art Show, and
The Shop Your Local Talent Christmas
Sale, we decided to add another art
themed event to our schedule. OOS is
a perfect area for walking… mix art
and walking and you get a studio tour!
OSCA proudly presents the first
OSCA Studio Tour on Sept. 14th
from 10-4. So we’ve named the
event, we’ve picked a date; we have a
poster… we need artists and artisans!
Registration is online at www.oldottawasouth.ca in the program guide or
in person at the Firehall.
of the community centre. Artists will
also be given a PDF of this poster
for their own use and advertisement
purposes. Artists are expected to use
their own social media sites to help to
advertise this event.
Attendees will be given free reign
as to how they wish to map their
walk, and can choose to visit as
many artists as they wish. Artists
must remain open from 10:00-4:00
or advise the organizing committee
before August 15th if they wish to
shorten their hours so that this info
can be given to attendees.
OSCA leaves it up to the artists
to decide how to set up their space
for viewing, if they wish to offer
refreshments, etc. Each artists is
responsible for their own receipts,
cash etc. OSCA does not ask for a
OSCA’s 1st Studio Tour
Sunday Sept 14, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Featuring local artists and artisans. Cost $15
Registration closes August 1st 1st. As this is a walking tour, all artists
and artisans must reside in OOS or
have an art/craft space that must be in
OOS. All art must be hand made by the
artist.
Attendees to the event will be able
to access a map of the event with a bio
of each artist either in person at the
Firehall, online on our website or on
our Facebook page. OSCA will also
advertise using posters for the event
on poles in the neighbourhood, in the
OSCAR, on our website and Facebook
page and in our poster box at the front
percentage of sales.
Artists can reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone they deem unfit
to enter their space. OSCA does not
assume responsibility for any loss or
damages that may be incurred as a
result of participating in this event.
We hope all of the creative geniuses that make OOS their home or
work space will join us in our new
adventure!
Summer is an amazing time in
Old Ottawa South. It seems that we
all come to life – our very own little
“Shangri-La”! We socialize more
and enjoy spending time with our
families, friends and neighbours. In
my own little corner of Old Ottawa
South, we will be missing one such
friend and neighbour this summer.
On June 6th, Jeannot Rodrigue lost
a lengthy and well fought battle with
cancer. Mimsie and Jeannot, along
with their furry kids, Sophie and
Baxter, were among the first to move
into the Charlesfort development at
Willard and Bellwood and have been
friends to many since their arrival.
Jeannot was a strong, compassionate
man full of energy and a sense of fun
– he accomplished a great deal and
remained humble through it all. Our
thoughts are with Mimsie, Sophie
and Baxter as they learn to live without the love of their lives.
My wish for all of you this summer is that you spend time with
those you care about and enjoy all
that Old Ottawa South has to offer.
We are truly blessed to live in one of
the most amazing neighbourhoods
within the best country in the world.
Take time out of your busy lives to
enjoy a stroll through Windsor or
Brewer Park. Enjoy a meal at one of
our many fine restaurants. Do a little
shopping along Bank Street. Cycle,
jog or roll along the bike paths. Dare
I say it – maybe even take in a RedBlack’s game?
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Lansdowne park in late May.
By Winnie
Pietrykowski
On July 9th a special event
for RedBlacks season ticket
holders will be held at Lansdowne and some 10,000-football fans are expected. The
PHOTO BY ANDREW WRIGHT
days later – another 12,000
Fury fans (soccer) will
descend on Lansdowne, or
more accurately TD Stadium.
The bus shuttle for this game
will be Bronson-5th AvenueBank-Sunnyside Avenue.
There are 9 RedBlack games
Here Come
the RedBlacks!
bus shuttle route will be
Bronson-Lakeside-Queen
Elizabeth Drive (QED). On
July 18th the first home game
of the RedBlacks will draw
some 24,000 fans to Lansdowne. The bus shuttle for this
game will also be BronsonLakeside-QED.
On July 20th – yes just 2
Date
scheduled for 2014 and another 9 Fury games.
On Tuesday, June 17th the
Glebe Community Association (GCA) hosted a public
information meeting with
representatives from the
City in traffic operations
and by-law enforcement, the
Event
Wed Jul 9, 7pm -Special Event for RedBlack
Season ticket holders
Fri Jul 18, 7pm
Sun Jul 20, 3pm
Sat Aug 2, 7pm
Sat Aug 9, 7pm
Fri Aug 15, 7:30pm
Sun Aug17, 3pm
Sun Aug 24, 3pm
Sat Aug 30, 7pm
Fri Sep 5, 7:30pm
Ottawa Sports & Entertainment Group (OSEG), OC
Transpo and the National
Capital Commission (NCC).
Presentations covered traffic
management plans for this
summer’s sporting events,
the work to date of the
Lansdowne Transportation
Operations Monitoring
Committee (LTMOC),
the shuttle routes for
satellite parking, additional OC Transpo services, and site plans for
moving some 24,000
people into and out of
Lansdowne quickly
and safely.
As Brian Mitchell,
Chair of the GCA’s
traffic committee,
stated to residents who filled
Scotton Hall, “The community’s biggest concern
with the Lansdowne project
has never been the return of
football.” It’s been about the
lack of high capacity transit
and roadway infrastructure
normally associated with
such venues, the day-to-day
Expected Attendance
10,000
RedBlacks (football)
25,000
Fury (soccer)
8,000
RedBlacks
23,000
Fury
6,000
RedBlacks
23,000
Fury
6,000
RedBlacks
23,000
Fury
RedBlacks
6,000
23,000
impact of additional events,
larger retail operations now
scheduled to open in November, and increased traffic and
parking. To address these
and other concerns, a second
meeting will be hosted by the
GCA this coming fall.
By then, the Glebe, Old Ottawa South, and Old Ottawa
East will have experienced
some 18 games, big and
small, as well as other events
leading up to the opening of
the retail and commercial
operations of Lansdowne.
For the first big RedBlacks
home game there will be no
parking on Bank Street from
Riverside to the Queensway
three hours before and after
the game (3:30 p.m. - 11:00
p.m.). This is identified as
a precautionary measure to
make sure that buses move
smoothly but it is a serious
concern for local businesses
that depend on street parking
for their customers.
This is where LTMOC
chaired by the City’s Phil
Landry comes in to play. This
multi-disciplinary committee
oversees the transportation
and traffic activity in and
around Lansdowne and will
monitor each event making adjustments as it refines
traffic flow. Representatives
on LTMOC include OSEG,
OC Transpo, the NCC, the
City’s events planning, traffic management & control
centres, the Glebe Business
Improvement Area, and the
communities most affected
by Lansdowne.
Another item on LTMOC’s
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agenda is the use of QED
as a shuttle route for CFL
games. At this stage of planning its use is as a “pilot”
formalized by a Letter of
Agreement between the NCC
and the City and signed only
recently. Monitoring and assessment will determine traffic impact and its continued
use (or not) in years to come.
As Brian Mitchell pointed
out, there has been a genuine effort on the part of the
City and OSEG to reduce
the number of cars with fans
destined for Lansdowne, and
one of the more positive aspects to event planning is the
inclusion of a free OC Transpo ride to and from the game
with every ticket. To date,
only 20% of fans, according
to a recent OSEG survey,
plan to use transit to get to
the game. OSEG would like
to see this percentage climb
to over 30% and for this
reason is working very hard
to make bus service to the
stadium a pleasant and efficient experience.
Still, whatever way you
look at it, we are talking
about a huge influx of people
into communities already
pressed with traffic and
parking issues. By now, you
have seen the numbers: an
estimated 2,100 walking;
700 cycling; 4,800 by transit;
8,800 from off-site parking
and shuttle services; 6,200
on-street parking and walking; 1,400 on-site parking.
There are some 17 park
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>
OSEG has invited
local residents to an Open
House on Sun. July 6 from
2pm to 4pm to view the new
Lansdowne Stadium,
TD Place.
The June 17th public information meeting.
PHOTO BY WINNIE PIETRYKOWSKI
OSEG at Carleton University, the
monitoring this aspect of so many
Post Office, Vincent Massey Park
buses travelling through residenContinued from pg. 8
and the RA Centre. Some 90 OSEG
tial areas. Quite simply, there is no
shuttle buses (school buses) will be
monitoring of air quality but it is not
and ride sites in total: 8 in Ottawa
used
on
big
game
nights
in
addition
beyond the scope of the LTMOC
(two each in Kanata and Orleans,
to
50-60
OC
Transpo
buses.
according to Phil Landry, Chair of
three in Barrhaven and at Baseline
An important question from one of the Committee. Beyond representaand one in South Keys), 5 in Gatinthe
residents during question period
tion by the communities at LTMOC
eau and 4 organized privately by
was that of air quality, and who is
there will be surveys to find out what
residents and fans are experiencing, what’s working and what isn’t.
LTMOC represents a unique traffic
control and monitoring experience
that will drive (quite literally) the
success of big game events, and the
positive experience of both fans and
residents alike.
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BUSINESSES OF OLD OTTAWA SOUTH
Black Squirrel Books Begins New Chapter in Old Ottawa South
Neil Gaiman, the English author, on
independent bookstores:
“I look around and go, This is a brilliantly curated place and wow, they
have this, and I didn’t know that was
out, I like their taste, and you walk
out with stuff. As opposed to large
chain bookstores where I normally
walk in, feel very, very depressed,
and just start wishing people stop
writing books.”
By Eric Davidson
The independent bookseller’s market
is a tough nut to crack, but that is
exactly what Black Squirrel Books
has managed to do, and they have
opened a new location at Bank and
Sunnyside.
Defying the stereotype of the old,
musty store housing equally stale
books, Black Squirrel is run by two
young and dynamic guys, Vaughn
MacDonald and Stephen Yong, who
left Carleton University and entered
a market that many people said was
doomed to fail - selling used books.
“I started by selling textbooks
online when I was at Carleton,” Macdonald told me. “Then I started to
grow my collection of used books.”
Eventually, MacDonald and Yong
opened a Black Squirrel location at
Bank and Arlington, and began to
see their business become profitable.
This seems to fly in the face of the
conventional wisdom that, in the age
of Amazon and large, nationwide
booksellers, opening a used bookstore is a fool’s errand.
However, MacDonald told me that
there is still a market for the used
bookstore, as it provides an entirely different experience from large
booksellers and from Amazon, the
purported Goliath to the used bookstore’s David.
“...a market for the
used bookstore, as it
provides an entirely
different experience
from large booksellers
and from Amazon, the
purported Goliath to
the used bookstore’s
David.”
(giving them a huge advantage over
Chapters).
This is one of the reasons for the
new (and larger) store, one employee
told me, to be able to accommodate
more people for their events. The
Bank and Arlington store is smaller
and cluttered with books (I guess
you can have too much of a good
thing.) The new store at Bank and
Sunnyside is much more spacious,
and is furnished with some really
comfy chairs. Though the building is
not very tall, it certainly has a lot of
stories.
As for the selection of books, MacDonald describes it as a “microcosm
of the area”. Most of the books in the
store are traded in by people who live
nearby, and 90 percent are from Old
Ottawa South itself (and from what
I’ve seen there, Old Ottawa South
has pretty good taste in books).
Another interesting way Black
Squirrel’s selection has adapted to
the community is that it prominently
features books about film, which
Macdonald told me is because “We
are right across from the Mayfair”.
Undoubtedly, entering the used
book market has had its ups and
downs for the owners of Black Squirrel Books, but in talking to them it
became clear that the prose outweigh
the cons.
Compared to these larger and
more impersonal vendors, used
bookstores, like Black Squirrel,
offer more “one on one interaction between the customer and the
owner,” as MacDonald puts it, which
also makes it easier for them to stock
more of what people tell them they
want.
Not only have Yong and MacDonald thrived in selling used books, but
they have had success with many
community oriented events, such
as those featuring local writers and
artists, poetry readings, live music,
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MP’S REPORT
Successful Motion on the
Development of a
Pan-Canadian
Palliative and
End-of-life Care Strategy
(M-456)
By Paul Dewar, MP
The House of Commons
near-unanimously passed
Motion 456, calling for the
development of a national
strategy when it comes to
palliative and end-of-life care
in Canada that is regionally,
culturally, and spiritually
sensitive. This motion was
sponsored by my colleague
Charlie Angus, the New
Democrats’ critic for ethics.
The issue of palliative and
end-of-life care is one that is
not only supported by New
Democrats, but is supported
across all political views,
which was shown in May by
all-party support for this motion. I am pleased to see that
this issue is unquestionably
a non-partisan issue – one of
interest and concern for all
Canadians.
The success of this motion is encouraging for a few
reasons. One key reason that
this motion is timely is it
provides the opportunity to
create momentum for further,
more substantial debate and
discussion about healthcare
in Canada, particularly as a
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groups in Canada are now
between the ages of 50 and
65. The debate is also even
more pressing and necessary considering the current
federal government’s attempts to disengage from its
responsibilities regarding the
management and funding of
our health care system.
Any strategy of healthcare
that focusses on the treatment of the terminally ill and
suffering in Canada must
take into special consideration the growth of an aging
population and the increase
in demand for different kinds
of heath care support. For
instance, there is increasing emphasis and desire for
ambulatory care (caring for
people outside of hospital).
How can we better support
the caregivers, often family
members, of the terminally
ill? The New Democrats’
National Strategy on Aging
would have guarantees for
timely, convenient access
to health care for seniors,
affordable access to prescription medications, implement
policies with the provinces
and territories to ensure better home-care services and
establish policies that would
enable friends and family
members to care for loved
ones without financial or
business repercussions.
A second reason that this
motion is welcome is that
it highlights the need for a
standardization of care in
Canada. It should not be
unreasonable to expect
minimum standards of
care whether you are in
Victoria, Iqaluit, or St.
John’s. As it stands, there
are currently far too many
discrepancies from province to province regarding
coverage for medications
and other health services.
This matter is particularly acute for those who are
terminally ill or in an extreme state of suffering. It is
worth recalling at this point
the words of a certain political leader suggesting that the
measure of a society is found
in its treatment of its most
vulnerable. It is incumbent
on us to ensure adequate and
supportive levels of care for
those in the end stages of life.
The third reason that I feel
inspired by Mr. Angus’ motion, and perhaps the most
contentious, is the need for
further debate on this important subject. I believe that
any substantial discussion
must take into consideration
the reality that palliative
care in Canada is currently
very poor. Just last week, the
Quebec National Assembly
took the important step in
passing a bill respecting endof-life care, with the explicit
purpose of protecting the vulnerable and the suffering. It
is my belief that such legislation should exist everywhere
in Canada.
This is a very delicate
issue, and any debate on
end-of-life care that arises
within the House of Commons, I believe, must demand that elected officials
ask themselves as well as
their constituents, what the
correct moral, ethical, and
political decision is for them.
This important subject cannot be ignored or sidelined
forever, and whatever decisions are made, that it should
be the outcome of thoughtful,
intelligent debate by both the
citizens of Canada and their
Members of Parliament.
Although not without its
imperfections, our public
health care system is something which we can be proud
of. I would encourage all
Canadians, with the passing of Motion 456, to ask
themselves about the need
and importance of palliative
and end-of-life care, considering both themselves as well
their friends, families, and
communities. We all deserve
to be properly cared for and
supported, especially when
we are most vulnerable.
LOCAL NEWS
Brewer Park Pond Poised To Join The Rideau River
By Charles Billington
Within weeks, the landlocked Brewer
Park Pond and former artificial swimming hole will start to undergo a
facelift, a transfusion and a rejuvenation to become a naturally-functioning habitat for all kinds of wildlife in
Old Ottawa South and importantly
become, once again, a part of the
Rideau River itself.
Using an ecosystem approach,
the partners in this project intend to
increase overall biodiversity with the
creation of a new, vibrant wetland
and pond with shoreline plantings,
breeding bird habitat, amphibian
habitat, turtle nesting beds and basking logs all connected to the main
channel of the nearby Rideau River.
By the end of construction, the pond
will provide improved spawning,
nursery, rearing and feeding habitat
for the local fish community in the
Rideau all year round.
The project accomplishes two important goals for local residents:
• Rejuvenation of the pond with
increased fish and wildlife habitat
• Maintenance of current park uses
after construction, including complete walking trail around the pond.
We are pleased to confirm that both
objectives will be achieved thanks to
the goodwill and understanding of all
the project partners including MINTO, Richcraft, the City of Ottawa,
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Muskies Canada, the Institute of
Environmental Science at Carleton
University and the Rideau Valley
Conservation Authority. The Ottawa
South Community Association was
vital in bringing the residents and the
partners together to ensure a project
with environmental and social benefits acceptable to the community.
The on-site work will take between
seven and eight weeks starting in
early August. For the safety of park
users, there will be fencing and a
temporary disruption of current use
of the immediate pond and shoreline
area during the construction phase
of the project. All facilities and uses
will again become fully accessible
following construction. There will
also be an opportunity to volunteer
for a shoreline planting day in early
October around the perimeter of the
pond.
Capital Ward Councilor David
Chernushenko said, “Residents of
Capital Ward work very hard to
maintain and improve our local
environment, and like to seize special opportunities such as this. Tree
plantings, river shore protection,
clean up initiatives and promoting
active outdoor life styles by our residents are all close to our hearts and
this project fits us well. Thanks to all
parties for bringing this progressive
project to Brewer Park!”
You can follow the progress of
the Brewer Park Pond Restoration
Project on our website at www.rvca.
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MAYOR’S REPORT
Ottawa’s Rural Community
By Mayor Jim Watson
On Friday June 6th we held the
Mayor’s Rural Expo, along with the
10th annual Food Aid Day, at City
Hall. Over 40 rural businesses and
fairs set up booths in and around City
Hall to showcase rural Ottawa, while
a pancake breakfast and BBQ lunch
kept everyone well-fed.
These events were a huge success,
and managed to raise $134,000 for
the Ottawa Food Bank!
Many residents from across Ottawa, and tourists from abroad,
stopped by over the course of the
day and what I heard repeatedly was
some variation of “This is great and I
didn’t even know any of this existed
in Ottawa.”
That is why last year I, along with
my City Council colleagues from
the rural wards, started the Mayor’s
Rural Expo. Ottawa boasts the largest
rural community in Canada within
its borders and yet too many people
don’t know about the farms, businesses, fairs, and townships both new
and old that comprise the majority of
our city’s landmass.
This summer, many residents will
take a holiday outside of Ottawa but
if you have some time off in Ottawa,
or even just a free day on a weekend,
think about visiting some of our great
rural attractions such as:
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•
The Diefenbunker Museum in
Carp, www.diefenbunker.ca
Farmer’s markets in Metcalfe,
www.metcalfefm.com , North
Gower, www.northgowerfarmersmarket.wordpress.com , and
closer to downtown www.ottawafarmersmarket.ca
The Upper Canada Cranberry
Farm in Greely, www.uc-cranberries.com
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•
Watson’s Mill in Manotick,
www.watsonsmill.com
The Osgoode Medieval Festival,
www.osgoodemedievalfestival.
com
The Jabulani Vineyard and Winery in Richmond, www.jabulani.
ca
Saunders Farm in Munster, www.
saundersfarm.com
The Cumberland Heritage Village Museum, www.ottawa.ca/
museums
These attractions are just a taste
of what Ottawa’s rural communities
have to offer. Ottawa’s geographic
diversity is one of our strengths, and
I encourage you to try and take advantage of it this summer by heading
outside the city core to explore these
amazing features of our city that you
may have never known were there.
Have a great summer.
COUNCILLOR’S REPORT
A Tale of Two Parks
By David Chernushenko,
City Councillor
This term of City Council has been
somewhat dominated by the Lansdowne Park redevelopment project. Though many residents still
understandably resent how it came
about, and how little true community
consultation took place, it is happening. Meanwhile, planning for the new
park in Old Ottawa South is proceeding with actual community consultation.
Lansdowne Park is re-opening in
stages over the coming months, with
a RedBlacks game (CFL) on July 18
and an Ottawa Fury FC game (North
American Soccer League) on July
20. Construction is on schedule for
the urban park opening in August, the
return of the Ottawa 67’s in October,
retail stores and offices opening during fall and winter, and residential
buildings next spring. The Ottawa
Farmers’ Market will also return next
spring.
Here’s some additional information
in question-and-answer form:
What is there to do at Lansdowne
on July 18, besides watch the
game?
The Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) is planning activities for ticketholders. While none
of the on-site retailers or restaurants
will open until late fall, there will,
as always, be lots of activities, food,
drink and shopping in Old Ottawa
South and the Glebe.
What’s being done to improve
cycling and pedestrian connections
to Lansdowne?
A new traffic signal, expected to
be operational by July 18, will allow
people to cross Queen Elizabeth
Driveway at Fifth Avenue more
safely.
The speed limit was reduced from
50 km/h to 40 km/h on Bank St. from
Billings Bridge to the Queensway,
and new bike signage and pavement
markings are being added to the
Bank Street Bridge to make cycling
a bit more comfortable. These minor
improvements are the best we can
do right now, as I have been unable
to convince the City to remove a car
lane in order to add bike lanes to the
bridge.
The City is also continuing consultation on other cycling projects like
the Glebe Bikeway. Tickets for RedBlacks and Ottawa Fury FC games
include secure, on-site bike parking. And, by the time construction
is completed, Lansdowne will have
more than 600 bike parking spaces.
What options are available for
people with disabilities going to
major events?
A limited number of accessible
parking spaces will be available on
a first-come, first-served basis. Para
Transpo — included in ticket prices
— will also make drop-offs and pickups during events. For people who
live further away, OSEG will provide
accessible shuttle service from Park
& Ride and shuttle lots.
How are traffic and transportation
being managed?
The City developed a plan for
monitoring the traffic and parking
during event and non-event days, and
staff are already collecting data as
part of the Traffic Monitoring Plan.
Still, community associations and
many local residents worry that too
great an emphasis has been placed on
monitoring, and not enough on preemptive measures.
Last year, I convened the Lansdowne Transportation Advisory
Committee (LTAC) to examine in
detail all aspects of the transportation
challenges. This group, which includes local residents, businesses and
other stakeholders, has met regularly
to review details of the traffic operation plans and receive community
feedback.
Meanwhile, OSEG hopes to alleviate congestion on game days by
including in the price of RedBlacks
tickets OC Transpo and STO service, secure bike parking, and shuttle
bus service from Park & Rides and
from lots at Carleton, the RA Centre,
Canada Post and Vincent Massey
Park. Tickets to Ottawa Fury FC
games include OC Transpo service
and secure bike parking.
Strong consensus on design, less
interest in name for new park
Perhaps as an antidote to the
Lansdowne saga, I wanted to involve
local residents and City staff in a
true consultation process for the park
planned for the former Hydro Ottawa lot at Woodbine Pl. and Carlyle
Ave. Though I set some parameters
(safety, accessibility, noise, cost),
I invited people to imagine what
would serve community interests
best, and ensured them this was not a
done deal with a sham consultation.
Through online feedback and a
live design workshop, we heard from
residents of all ages. What emerged,
quickly and amazingly, was a clear
consensus. Almost everyone wants
a “passive park”: predominantly
open space, flexible and suitable for
all ages. If I could sum up the wish
list, it would be: a few trees, a few
benches, maybe a picnic or games
table or two, some landscaping, a bit
of art (sculpture, art wall) and, especially, a staircase connecting it all to
Sunnyside Ave.
Now, with people’s ideas in hand,
I am working with City staff to come
up with an initial design and cost
estimate. We will likely touch base
with those who prepared interesting
concept designs in order to hear more
from them. I’d like to give the goahead to put any construction work
out to tender prior to the fall election,
because this important project should
not get bogged down by politics.
Oh, and about the name. There is
no clear frontrunner. Send me your
ideas, please. Today!
Councillor David Chernushenko 613-580-2487 - [email protected] - www.capitalward.ca
(Also see the article by Wendy
Robbins on page 4 about the new
park on the Hydro site. The Editor)
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HOPEWELL HAPPENINGS
Wrapping Up Another Year
By Sue Top
The end of the year is always a busy
time at schools, and Hopewell is no
exception.
Hopewell staff and students said a
big “Thank You” to all volunteers on
May 15th, with a Volunteer Parent
Appreciation Concert, featuring the
Junior Choir, the Recorder Ensemble,
and musical performances from
classes in Grades 2 to 6, all under the
musical direction of Nicola Williams.
Parents of Jim Borren’s Grade 6
class were treated to a presentation
of “The Trial of Goldilocks” on May
23rd.
Hopewell Music Night on May
29th featured the Senior Band, the
Junior Band, the Glee Club and the
Jazz Band, under the musical direction of Marya Woyiwada.
On June 4th, while our Junior
classes participated in a Track and
Field event in Brewer Park, our intermediates students participated in a
Track and Field competition in which
19 students qualified to enter into the
Board Wide Track and Field Championship on June 11th. Our students
are always such good ambassadors.
Thank you to Tara Lynch and Jim
Borrens who organized the event at
Brewer Park and to Lesley Kathnelson and Heather Cotton who accompanied the Intermediates to the event.
A special thank you to parents who
accompanied and volunteered their
time for both these events.
Lesley-Ann Barber’s Senior Kindergarten class invited parents to attend three plays: “Boucle d’or”, “ La
petite poule rouge” and “La princesse
et la grenouille” on June 5th.
The Jazz Band and the Glee Club
performed at Art in the Park, in
Windsor Park, on June 8th. They
sounded great. Thanks to Marya
Woyiwada and her students for making it happen.
On June 10th, Hopewell celebrated
“Mini We Day,” with guest speaker
Paul Dewar, local MP and Official
Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs.
A big thank you to Lesley Kathnelson and Shealyn Visser who took
the lead to organize our very own
Mini We Day. It was a real treat to
hear all that we have done this year
to help others such as collect change
and help build houses. The Me to
We group worked hard to prepare an
inspiring, fun-filled morning for our
school and they did not disappoint
with the variety of guest speakers and
performances. Way to go Hopewell!
The Grade 6 teachers have planned
a day trip to Montreal for all four
classes. Students will visit the Biodome, Botanical Gardens and Insectarium. Meanwhile, all of the Grade
7 and 8 students are going to Quebec
City for three days.
Principal Watson’s Report
I have consulted with staff, and we
have agreed to continue asking for
the voluntary $20 per student at the
beginning of the school year. Staff
has agreed to inform parents of how
the money has been used during the
school year.
The final school organization chart
will of course be dependent upon
changes that occur in September, but
for the time being it is in place for
the 2014-15 year.
taking advantage of the Lunch Lady’s
service, it was decided that we would
continue offering this hot meal option. This year, however, it will only
be offered on Wednesdays. Look for
the brochure in your kid’s backpack
in September!
Sue Top is Chair of Hopewell Avenue
Public School’s School Council. She
has two children attending Hopewell.
HOPEWELL PARENT SPEAK
This year Council was able to set
aside a substantial sum of money for
future yard projects. We have also
allotted funds for the purchase of
new gym equipment, books for the
library, technical equipment, and a
new Special Initiative fund designed
to support teachers’ class projects and
experiments for which there are no
other funds available.
Intermediate Division Resource
Enhancement Proposal
Brought to the table by a group of
dedicated parents, this proposal aims
to address any potential gaps left by
the reduction in the number of our
intermediate teachers and students.
With half the amount of teachers,
we cannot expect to have the same
amount of extra-curricular activities. The proposal aims to provide
extra support to the intermediate
division to address this issue. Money
has been set aside for this purpose.
Full details need to be fleshed out
in the fall, please join us, as you are
invited to share your visions.
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As the end of the school approaches,
the countdown is on. While the
students are focused on finishing the
year and starting summer vacation,
staff and Council at Hopewell are
already busy getting ready for the
next year! School council met for the
last time before the summer vacation
with a full agenda on June 11th.
Safe and Caring
Poets from around Ottawa helped
our students put their thoughts and
feelings to paper in May, resulting
in a fabulous display of poetry in
the front hall. Next year’s Safe and
Caring plans include a speaker series
for both parents and students, including topics such as nutrition, caring
for adolescent’s emotions, bullying,
internet safety, and sports and wellness. Hopewell is lucky to have such
dedicated parents involved in this
area.
Volunteers
We are always looking for volunteers to support special events &
activities. If you have a few hours
a month to spare, please contact
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GLEBE PARENTS’ DAYCARE
Nurturing Our Childrens’ Growth…and Growing!
By Alix Dostal and
Amy Westland
Glebe Parents’ Daycare:
Nurturing Our Childrens’
Growth…and Growing! Big
changes are afoot for the
Glebe Parents’ Daycare, a
daycare that has played an
important and much-valued
role in the care of many of
the children in our community over the years.
Glebe Parents’ Daycare
is a non-profit daycare with
locations in Old Ottawa
South and the Glebe, in addition to family home child
care. Established in 1972, the
Glebe Parents’ Daycare family provides care for children
ranging from infants up to
school age, including care for
Kindergarten and school-age
children at Hopewell Public
School, First Avenue Public
School and Mutchmor Public
School.
Glebe Parents’ Daycare is
pleased to announce that, beginning in September 2014,
the daycare family is expanding with new preschool programs at Hopewell and First
Avenue and a new toddler
program at the Main Centre
on Fifth Avenue. Glebe Parents will also be providing
the Extended Day Program
in Hopewell, Mutchmor, and
First Avenue Public Schools.
“We are so excited about the
opportunity to welcome so
many new children to our
programs” says Laura Robertson, a preschool teacher
at the Main Centre for the
past 25 years, “We are very
proud of the programs at
our daycare and the wonderful cooperative atmosphere
between parents and teachers
that we work hard to foster.
We believe that cooperation
and communication between
parents and teachers are
key to supporting children’s
learning and development.”
The various new programs
will mean that more parents
and children in the community have the chance to
benefit from the rich and
“I am thrilled
that even more
children in our
community will
benefit from this
wonderful care
environment.”
nurturing programs already
offered by the daycare. “One
of the things I appreciate
most about the daycare is the
close collaboration between
teachers and the parents”
says Rebecca Officer, a res-
Building the daycare together.
ident of Old Ottawa South
and the parent of a child in
the Hopewell program. “I am
thrilled that even more children in our community will
benefit from this wonderful
care environment.”
PHOTO BY AMY WESTLAND
The expertise and cooperative attitude of each of Glebe
Parents’ Daycare teachers,
the low rates of turnover
among those teachers, and
the clean, safe, and beautiful environments offered by
all of the daycare family’s
facilities helps parents to rest
assured that their children are
in very good hands. As parents with children in daycare
know, having that confidence
can help to make each day a
million times easier.
There are daycare spaces
at Glebe Parents’ Daycare
available from September
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OSCA Windsor Park Art Show
John Allaire
PHOTOS BY BAALQIS HASSAN
On Sunday, June 8th the sun shone
brightly over 22 artists and artisans
in Windsor Park for the 3rd annual
OSCA Windsor Park Art Show.
The artists really outdid themselves
and there were many creative, bright
and eclectic creations to be seen. See
www.oldottawasouth.ca for more
photos or visit our Facebook site at
the Old Ottawa South Community
Association and see our art show
album. If you just can’t get a certain
piece out of your head, and are having regrets about letting it pass you
by, you can also access the complete list of vendors at these sites or
contact [email protected] for
more information.
As an aside, there were some
questions about why we were not in
our “usual” spot under the trees. The
OOS Art and Music Festival is the
privately run event that people are
referring to with this question. This
is not an OSCA run event. We have a
different location as a result.
“We were very lucky
to have a full music
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We were very lucky to have a full
music roster this year with musicians
who kept everyone entertained and
dancing. Opening the show were the
Hopewell Glee Club and Hopewell
Jazz Band, led by Marya Woyiwada.
They were a great addition to our
roster and we were thrilled to have
such young and upcoming talent
amongst us. Kudos to Marya for putting together such a great group, and
a comprehensive performance.
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The Hopewell Glee Club.
Dafniotis (we claim you forever Dinos, you can never really leave us!)
and their band, Another Round. The
dancing really started when they hit
the stage.
Closing the show with his incredible voice and talent, original songs,
and unending sense of humour was
John Allaire. See more of John at
Blues Fest this year and check out
his other upcoming shows at www.
johnallaire.com. John always supports our efforts and we are very
grateful to him. Thanks also must
go to Ashton Brewing Company for
sponsoring John’s performance at our
show. Thanks to David Chernushenko for providing us with the stage for
our show. Thank you to Rebekka Roy
for designing our poster and to Christopher Heilmann for providing the
art (the pen and ink tree sketch) for
the poster. Lastly thanks to the great
organizing team of Julia Morency,
Nancy Brunet, Darcy Middaugh,
Christy Savage, Baalqis Hassan and
Lily Pepper. You are all a joy to work
with and I am lucky to have such a
supportive and creative team.
“Thanks to all the artists and artisans, and all the attendees for making
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17th Ottawa Scout Group
PHOTOS BY ANDREW WRIGHT
Register TODAY at myscouts.ca!
For boys and girls!
In person: Tuesday September 9th,
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Southminster United Church
(downstairs in the Fellowship Hall)
Beaver Scouts (ages 5-7, start Wed. Sept.
17th 6:30-7:30 p.m.)
Cub Scouts (ages 8-10, start Mon. Sept.
15th 6:30-8:00 p.m.)
Scouts (ages 11-14, start Tues. Sept. 16th
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Glebe Art in Our Gardens and Studio Tour
PHOTOS (AND ART) BY BRENDA SMALL
The Tour is July 5-6,
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
By Brenda Small
www.oldottawasouth.ca
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The popular Art in Our
Gardens and Studio tour will
make its annual appearance at
various Glebe neighbourhood
locations between 10:00 a.m.
and 4:00 p.m. during the first
weekend in July this year.
Twenty-one artists—up
from 15 last year—will be
showing and selling paintings, photographs, fabric art,
glass-art windows and pottery
in studio and garden settings
throughout the Glebe over the
course of the July 5-6 weekend.
The tour provides a summery setting for established
artists in the Glebe (and for
selected guest artists from
outside the neighbourhood) to
exhibit and sell their work. It
also gives visitors a chance to
see work by up-and-coming
artists, several of whom have
been added to this year’s tour.
You can talk with the artists
about their work. This is a
great opportunity to choose a
piece of art for your home or
as a gift. You may even get a
few tips about gardening.
In past years, many have
made a day of it, dropping by Bank St. shops and
eateries after leisurely strolls
through the tree-lined streets
and colourful gardens of the
neighbourhood to consider
the various artistic offerings
on display.
The tour is timed to take
place when Glebe gardens
are in their full summer glory,
and is designed to facilitate
walkers and cyclists making
their way from site to site.
Brochures with the artists’
names, and a map showing
studio and garden locations,
will be available at Glebe
shops, the Glebe Community
Centre, the Sunnyside Library
and Framed! on Sunnyside
Ave. On the tour weekend,
there will be signs at various
street corners to indicate the
locations of art sites.
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is available on the website www.glebearttour.ca
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TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY
Out on the River: The View from My Canoe
By Jocelyn Leroy
PHOTOS BY BRIAN MALTMAN
This is the face
of change.
Finally!
I’m sitting in my canoe on the
Rideau River. First time since the
snow melt. And my canoe sustained
an injury this winter: too much snow
crushed the front seat support, and
the gunwhales went wobbly on one
side, making my beloved canoe
decidedly asymmetrical – the wrong
shape indeed.
Today, I’m a little cautious, choosing to stay near shore to avoid
challenges such as a sudden wind
as I’ve experienced in the middle of
Lac Philippe or Meech Lake. I lower
myself gingerly into the broken seat
after packing my gear underneath for
support in case the seat were to snap.
This morning, the water is like
brown glass. Not yet stinky. It’s the
best time to be on this river – early
morning, late Spring, before the
Summer traffic. Absent are the yahoo
jet skiers and roaring cigar boats
veering off in all directions, often
dangerously close to small craft and
“daredevilishly” face-to-face with the
handsome white yachts whose captains can do little more than yell. And
the intrusive craft make huge waves
that no canoe can handle.
On shore, redwing blackbirds
swoop from branch to branch; their
tweets are the loudest sound I hear.
Silently, a pair of kayaks glide by. I
can hear the water dripping off their
paddles when they get close. “Beautiful morning,” we all agree. Even
this brackish water sparkles in the
sun.
I look at the manicured lawns
belonging to the mansions on both
banks. These days, the large water-
front lots are dotted with geese, some
of which strut about with their fluffy
golden goslings plucking the new
grass. I wonder if these geese might
eliminate the need for lawn mowers.
It is blissfully calm. I have only
distant memories of working extra
hours in the bakery, our long harsh
winter, and the hundreds upon
hundreds of hot cross buns needed
at Easter-time. Nothing disturbs the
tranquility of this morning for me
and the other paddling and winged
creatures. Two iridescent fish surprise
me by leaping out of the water in an
eye-blink.
Rounding the corner by the big
Hydro towers, I come upon the
Dog Patch. Happy dogs fetch sticks
and Frisbees thrown into the water.
The pooches are always here. Bark.
Lunge. Swim intently. Retrieve.
Shake and spray back on shore. Do
it again. The owners stand around
chatting while their pets lunge about,
churning up the muddy water.
Further around the bend, a breeze
begins to whisper, creating tiny ripples. With the morning still so quiet, I
notice small things such as glistening
spider webs suspended between low
branches nearly skimming the water.
A fly lands on my bow. A painted
turtle clambers onto a log with tiny
purple flowers blooming on a patch
of moss growing in a crack in the
wood. As the sun strikes the water,
it creates a momentary rainbow, and
the diamond in my ring flashes as it
catches the sunlight. Such enjoyable
moments!
Soon I’ll paddle in Lac Philippe,
my favourite of the big three in the
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Gatineau, and at my friend’s “Monet
Bay,” near Val-des-Monts. Near this
lake, I’ve discovered crystal-clear water
but also nearby patches of spooky,
slimy, clutching weeds. For years, I’ve
been fighting the terror of the five-foottall weeds and trying to figure out if my
life would be better if I were to conquer
my fear. Yet I imagine my legs becoming entangled, unable to move.
My friend swims right through them
every day. Of course, he is a world-class
swimmer who has swum off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (with sharks).
Lately, he participated in the international rough-water swim off Hawaii,
facing dangerous currents and stinging
creatures; he placed in the top third of
contestants from around the world.
I feel cowardly and silly in light of his
bravery, with many of his epic swims
surely taking him though weeds galore,
on the River Thames, in moats, and, of
course, the Ottawa River with its strong
currents, rapids and widespread nastiness. “Just think of the weeds as long
grasses caressing your legs,” he assures
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day I’ll tackle my deepest fears legs
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But for now, I’ll just stay on top of the
water, safe in my canoe. Safe from the
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½ cup buttermilk
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1 tbsp butter
1 ¼ cups flour
¾ cup ground or chopped
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1 tsp baking soda
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup puréed bananas (or,
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Directions
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Oil an 8” x 4” pan.
In a large bowl, combine
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Whisk until smooth.
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FILM REVIEWS
D-Day Normandy: 1944
Reviewed by Tony Wohlfarth
On the 70th Anniversary of D-Day in
Normandy, France, a new 3-D film is
currently screening at the Canadian
Museum of History in Gatineau.
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces
bravely landed on the beaches of
Normandy, in what is regarded by
some as the defining moment marking the beginning of the end of World
War II. These historic events are
recreated in a new 3-D film (40 min-
utes in duration) now screening at the
Canadian Museum of History.
“D-Day Normandy: 1944” uses
both historical photos and re-creations to tell this dramatic story. The
large 3-dimensional screen absorbs
audiences into the non-stop action.
On that historic day, 130,000 Allied
forces crossed the English Channel,
broke through the German fortifications called the ‘Atlantic Wall’, and
captured five beaches in Normandy.
Some 4,000 soldiers gave their lives
in the landings code named ‘Opera-
tion Overlord’. The film provides a
detailed description of the military
strategy and the tremendous obstacles they overcame. Narrated by
Tom Brokaw, with an original score
performed by the London Symphony
Orchestra, the film is a useful education tool about the sacrifices made by
the Allied forces.
The film is directed by Pascal
Vuong, a French director, with assistance from Peter Herrly, an American
military advisor. Consequently, the
film does not really do justice to the
heroic contribution of the Canadian
armed forces. For example, the intro
suggests that WW II began in 1942,
not 1939. Nor does the film celebrate
the fact that the Canadian troops
marched fifteen miles inland that
day, towards Caen, liberating more
territory than any of the other Allied
forces. This unique Canadian contribution is commemorated at the Juno
Beach Centre in Courseulles-sur-mer,
France (www.junobeach.org).
“D-Day Normandy: 1944” is currently screening at the IMAX Theatre
in the Canadian Museum of History.
For further information and a complete screening schedule, visit www.
historymuseum.ca/imax/. The web
site for the film, www.dday-normandy1944.com, provides an education
guide to the historic events.
Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based
freelance film writer and critic.
Come
Blow Your
Horn
by
Neil Simon
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BETWEEN THE BRIDGES BABY
Steve
By Heather Lynch
I’ve wanted to write about Steve
for a long time. I’ve scribbled down
notes and jumbled thoughts over the
years, but this past weekend, after
he left from a day-long visit, I found
myself needing to commit something
to paper.
I’ve known Steve for more than 10
years, and our relationship has progressed in remarkable and profound
ways in the past decade. Our first
meeting occurred over bad coffee
and stale apple fritters at a Dunkin’
Donuts with sticky tables and poor
lighting in April 2000. He told me I
was fat and should probably focus
my time and energy on finding a
husband. I put down my doughnut
and told him I would take the job.
The job, of course, being a social
facilitator, where my responsibility
would be to integrate Steve in to his
community, in the hopes of helping
him learn to develop healthy and
appropriate relationships with people
who were not paid professionals. It
was the hardest job I’ve ever had.
Until now.
Now I’m a mother and this is
the hardest job I’ve ever had. On
top of the lousy pay and at times
insufferable workload, absolutely
everything breaks my heart. Stories of kidnapped Nigerian school
girls cause me to sob inconsolably,
Keri Russell’s poor parenting on the
Americans makes me want to punch
her in the face (though anyone who
watches knows how that would end).
And Steve makes me want to find a
cure not only for the illness that sent
his life off on a collision course of
depression, alcoholism and social
isolation, but for the stigma that
keeps him securely fastened to the
very margins of our society. Being
with Steve makes me want to wring
the necks of every shopkeeper who
waves him off dismissively, every
passerby who veers unnecessarily off the sidewalk so as to avoid
coming into contact. Spending time
with Steve makes me want to tell my
son, in a way he cannot, and perhaps
never will understand, just how lucky
he is, just how undeniably fortunate
he is, to have been born ‘normal’.
I decided to continue my relation-
ship with Steve long after his family decided to stop writing checks
for my ‘services’ – deeming him a
proverbial lost cause. And so, for
close to fifteen years, Steve has spent
Christmases with my family, come
to my wedding, played with my son.
When I think of all that I have had
the opportunity to do, experience and
learn since I’ve met Steve, it makes
me unbearably sad to reflect on how
stagnant his own life has been; a decade and a half of the same mundane
factory job, the struggle to keep a
roof over his head, the challenges of
navigating a world and a life with
little meaning and even less hope for
anything better.
A few days after Steve left, Logan
and I were in the living room of a
very good friend, surrounded by
moms, babies, scones, coffee and
chatter. Everyone was discussing
the diets of their respective children. “I want to feed him soy, but
not too much soy, you know? Ugh,
my baby just doesn’t seem to digest
hemp hearts very well. Perhaps we
should schedule another visit to the
naturopath? We left the last daycare
because the menu wasn’t vegan.” I
don’t mean to distance myself from
these comments, because, truth be
told, one of them was mine and I’ve
at least thought the other two if I
haven’t said them out loud. But at
that particular moment and in the
context of Steve’s recent visit it was
all I could do to refrain from saying:
‘We are so boring. We are so dull.
Our babies are here – they’re healthy.
And not only that, our babies have
access, opportunity, love, community
and lives ahead of them that will be
full of awesomeness. Because we’re
lucky. And they are lucky.’ Most
days that seems like a really beautiful
thing to me. But on some days, it’s
also really sad.
SOUTHSIDE PRESCHOOL
Thank you Southside Preschool
By Paige Raymond Kovach
Southside Preschool has been part of
our family for six years. Southside
welcomed us into the neighbourhood.
One of our dearest friends introduced
us to Southside, as her son was also
enrolled there.
My middle son started playing on
his first visit. At two and a half, he
was a busy, curious boy, but with a
new baby and an older brother in kindergarten, he needed a place all his
own. I needed a couple of mornings
with only a napping baby, so I could
exhale, and catch up on sleep.
Southside was, and continues to
be, the perfect place for children.
Southside’s teachers were patient and
welcoming with my wiggly toddler.
They provided him with things to
explore both inside – water table, ice
table, play-office – and outside in the
yard, from shovels in the winter, to
the big trikes in the warmer months.
When my eldest went to school, he
was often in tears, but at Southside,
my middle son often forgot to kiss
me goodbye; he was ready to play.
Our daughter has blossomed at
Southside. Before she even started
there, she knew all the teachers, and
had yearned to have the same fun her
big brother had there. She started at
two and a half, a couple of mornings
a week. The children she met that
first year are still close friends. At
six, she still loves going to Southside
two mornings a week, and is often
the first to get ready to go to be there
early.
Sadly, our children are saying
goodbye to Southside at the end of
the school year. Happily, our departure allows other children their turn
to attend Southside. We look forward
to hearing about their time there!
There are only a few spaces left for
the Ready for Kindergarten program
for children aged 2 1/2 to 4. More
information is available at www.
southsidepreschool.ca. Call Sharon
in the office at 613-730-5819 to
book a personal tour, or e-mail
[email protected].
Join the Family Zone! Parents,
A scene from The Trouble with Donuts the play written, produced at starring the
Southside After School Program children. A sweet way to end the school year.
PHOTO BY LISA BOKWA.
do you feel the need to get into the
zone? Southside wants to give back
to our community’s families. In the
fall of 2014, Southside Preschool
will offer free sessions for parents,
grandparents and guardians. For an
hour and a half each week, participants meet to discuss topics relevant
to child development and share
information among themselves and
with experts. September will feature
a series of “meet and greet” sessions
where parents can connect with other
parents in the neighbourhood. In
October, Southside will invite health
professionals to conduct workshops
with participants on topics such
as nutrition, behaviour, and guidelines for screen time. Two weeks
in November will be set aside for
participant-driven topics. Subject to
enrollment. Cost – Free.
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SECOND THOUGHTS
Losing ‘Things’
By Richard Ostrofsky
to the floor when he does so; and he
expects them to stay put on the table
unless someone pushes them around.
Further to last month’s column on
Newtonian physics was a tremendous
“The Weirdness of It All,” I want
intellectual achievement, but left this
to review some ideas from modern
‘common sense’ unchanged. Today,
physics on what is sometimes considhowever, every physics student needs
ered the deepest question of human
to rewire his brain completely: Matter
thought: “Why is there something
is not only rather empty, but turns
rather than nothing?” How did our
out to be equivalent to energy (per
vast, complex universe create itself?
Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc2).
Philosophers and scientists have
Particles do not move through space
rejected supernatural answers to this
and time along a definite path (per
question because these raise more
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle)
(and more intractable) questions than
they claim to answer. Today, cosmolo- but seem to take all possible paths
simultaneously, and with a distribugists and quantum physicists hope to
tion of probabilities. Weirdest of all,
understand how our universe might
perhaps is that causality is no longer
have formed itself out of a featureless
strictly local. Two distant particles can
void without supernatural assistance.
become ‘entangled’ in some way, so
The first point to notice is that the
that they change state instantaneously,
ancient question has shifted becertainly faster than a light signal
cause our concepts of ‘something’
could travel, when a measurement
and ‘nothing’ have evolved greatly
made on the other. So our idea of
in just over a hundred years. We’ve
‘something’ as a solid object, with a
learned that ‘things’ are composed
definite position, following a definite
of atoms, and that atoms themselves
trajectory over time, is clearly not
are composed of subatomic particles,
what it used to be.
and are actually pretty empty: If one
Correspondingly, our idea of ‘nothatom were enlarged to the size of a
whole room (as I’ve read recently), its ing’ has changed as well. In Newtonian physics, space and time were
nucleus would be about the size of a
grain of rice at the centre. The protons absolute – the distances between two
points, and the times between two
and neutrons that make up this tiny
events, had permanent values, which
nucleus have tiny but measurable diwere the same for all observers. Einameters, while the quarks and gluons
stein showed that this is not the case:
which comprise them are point-like
particles with no measurable diameter In fact, space and time are relative
to the observer’s frame of reference,
at all. Thus, the ‘things’ that seem so
solid and factual, in fact are unimagin- and they are somewhat interchangeable: Two events that appear distant
ably empty. When you look at anyand simultaneous to one observer may
thing closely, it disappears.
appear closer but not simultaneous
Real ‘things’ are supposed to be
to another. Also, space and time are
solid and factual. They have definite
warped by mass and energy which
properties, and they respond predictcurve the gravitational field around
ably to observable causes. Every
them much as a trampoline’s surface
infant learns that he can knock things
isPM curved by gymnast who stands
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off the table, and that they will fall
upon it. It turns out that the geometry
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of empty space is not a given, but a
by-product, somehow, of the massive
‘objects’ it was thought to contain –
an outcome of processes down at the
Planck scale (around 10-35 meters) that
we have no way to observe. String
theory, if correct, adds no less than
six dimensions of hidden geometry at
every point of the ordinary four-space
that we perceive and inhabit.
And it turns out that ‘empty space’
is not empty at all. Astronomers
observe that the universe is not just
expanding, but doing so at an accelerating rate that appears greater as we
look farther and farther away. Stars
and galaxies rush away from each
other like spots on a balloon as it gets
inflated. And the source of the energy
driving this acceleration, seems to
come from everywhere, as a slow leak
into our universe from every point in
space. This ‘dark energy’ or ‘vacuum
energy’ is still poorly understood. It is
connected somehow with the ‘virtual
particles’ that spring into and out of
existence in empty space from random quantum fluctuations. Thus, what
astronomy and quantum mechanics
seem to be telling us is that the nothingness is somehow unstable – suggesting that this instability may have
been the source of the Big Bang.
The upshot then is that solid matter and nothingness are not what they
used to be. The current view is that we
do not live in a cosmos of ‘things’ at
all, but in a cosmos of nested processes and relationships which alone
are real. You, dear reader, and I, and
everyone else, are processes made
of smaller sub-processes that came
together – into the relationship called
‘life’ – and that will eventually come
apart. Non-living things are much
the same in this respect. The laptop
that I’m using to write this, the table
on which it rests, the floor beneath
that, the house of which that floor
is part, the Earth, our Solar System,
the galaxy and so forth, are all systems, comprised of smaller systems
and comprising larger ones. At each
level, these function as coherent pro-
cesses for some indefinite time. They
hold themselves together for awhile
and then disintegrate – not into nothingness, but into the dynamic vacuum
that remains.
One conclusion I draw from all this
is that Kant was right, more profoundly right than he could have known, to
draw his distinction between the world
as it appears to us, and the ‘ding an
sich’ (‘thing-in-itself’) of things as
they really are. Of the latter we know
nothing for sure; but what science has
given us by now is a world of appearances quite different from the world
that appears naturally to a human child
with his naked senses and still uneducated mind. What we have now is a
phenomenal world doubly enhanced
from the naive human (and Newtonian) vision: first, by all kinds of
sophisticated technology for observation and measurement; and second, by
the power of brilliant minds and subtle
mathematics to construct self-consistent, imaginary worlds. To the best of
my understanding, the culture wars
of our time stem ultimately from this
collision between the world of current science and the worlds of naive
perception and myth, traditional to the
various human cultures.
Richard Ostrofsky’s Second Thoughts
bookstore was a hub of conversation
and contemplation in Old Ottawa
South for many years. He continues
to contribute to the OSCAR from
afar and would welcome feedback or
conversation about his articles at [email protected]. Further essays
and ruminations can be found at www.
secthoughts.com.
Area Worship Services (summer)
Sunnyside Wesleyan Church
58 Grosvenor Ave. (at Sunnyside)
Sunday Services at 10:00 a.m.
Children’s program offered during
worship services.
St Margaret Mary’s Parish
7 Fairbairn (corner of Sunnyside)
Tuesday Evening at 7:00 p.m.
Friday Daytime at 9:00 a.m.
Sunday Mornings at 10:30 a.m.
Trinity Anglican Church
1230 Bank St (at Cameron Ave)
Sundays: Holy Eucharist
at 9:30 a.m. with Church School &
Choir.
Southminster United Church
15 Aylmer (at Bank & the Canal)
10:00 a.m. Summer Worship at
·Glebe-St. James United – 650 Lyon:
June 29 – July 13
·St. Giles Presbyterian – 174 First Ave:
July 20 – August 10
·Southminster: August 17, 24, 31
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Join Music & Beyond as it Celebrates its 5th Anniversary
Alexandre Da Costa, a Juno-winning and internationally acclaimed violinist. Thorwald Jorgensen, a leading international classical thereminist.
By Melanie Routhier
Considered one of Canada’s major
cultural festivals, Music & Beyond
is celebrating its fifth anniversary.
Music & Beyond is a classical music
and multi-disciplinary arts festival
that has been active on the cultural
scene since it began back in July
2010. It presents music in all formations including orchestras, choirs,
bands, recitals and small ensembles.
It is also known for its ‘beyond’ elements as a music festival, exploring
links between music, art forms, and
cultural disciplines including visual
art, drama, poetry, dance, comedy,
architecture, circus, science, math,
magic, as well as food and wine. The
festival takes place at various locations throughout the National Capital
Region from July 5th to 17th, a full 13
days of world-class artists, astonishing performances, and fascinating
events.
Music & Beyond is pleased to announce two special performances that
will be taking place in Old Ottawa
South July 13th and 15th.
On July 13th at 7:30 p.m. Alexandre Da Costa, a Juno-winning and
internationally acclaimed violinist, will join Music & Beyond at
Southminster United Church for a
ravishing program of fantasies and
instrumental works from operas by
Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Richard
Strauss and more. Da Costa will lead
the Acacia String Ensemble as soloist
and conductor, performing exclusive
adaptations of paraphrases in versions for solo violin and strings. It
is going to be an absolute breathtaking performance. You won’t want to
miss, ‘Stradivarius at the Opera’.
The same week, on July 15th at
12:00 p.m. Thorwald Jorgensen, a
leading international classical ther-
eminist will join Music & Beyond at
Southminster United Church for an
hour of musical delight. The theremin is an extraordinary electronic
instrument that requires extremely
skilled coordination of both hands
and Jorgensen has mastered this art.
The concert will consist of pieces by
Rachmaninoff, Achron, Tchaikovsky,
Schillinger, Besançon, Mehdizadeh,
Popof, and Paul. Jorgensen’s precision and musical creations will have
you talking about his concert for
weeks.
Music & Beyond has an extraordinary line-up this year that consists of
performances by renowned saxophonist Branford Marsalis, Grammy
award-winning ensemble Chanticleer,
jazz legend Oliver Jones, the brilliant
musical comedy duo Igudesman and
Joo, the world’s great Auryn String
Quartet, and much more.
Music & Beyond is also featuring
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a number of family-oriented events
that will take place throughout the
festival. These events will be filled
with musicians, interactive musical
activities, magic and demonstrations. On July 6th, Music & Beyond
will hold its Ottawa Music Expo, a
free day event with over 150 miniconcerts, demonstrations and activities. Youth of all ages are sure to be
engaged and learning something new
about classical music and the arts in
general.
For full festival details and ticket
information, please contact the Music
& Beyond box office at 51 William
Street, 613-241-0777 ext. 505 or visit
our website at http://musicandbeyond.ca/.
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HEALTH AND WELLNESS
New Raynor Massage Practice in OOS
By Niki Niederhauser
Hello Neighbours! Thanks to The
OSCAR, I am happy to have been
given an opportunity to introduce
myself and my services to my community.
My name is Niki Niederhauser
and I am a Certified Raynor Therapeutic Bodywork Practitioner and I
am starting a home-based practice
here in Old Ottawa South. Now,
you might be thinking, “Egads, not
another massage therapist!! Don’t
we have enough of them around here Niki Niederhauser
already?”
I would have to agree but this is
tions. In other words, each session is
what I’m called to do, and here I am. tailored to your specific needs, chalSo, let me tell you about Raynor
lenges and tolerances in the moment.
Bodywork Massage.
There is rarely a session where the
Raynor Massage is a powerful, in- treatment is exactly the same as your
tegrated bodywork technique derived needs change from day to day.
from a variety of massage techniques
The other interesting thing about
such as Shiatsu, Lomi Lomi, and
the Raynor Technique is how it
Ayurvedic massage, incorporating
works on 4 layers within the body to
Yoga Breath work at its core, makgive release and relief from simple
ing it one of the most powerful and
surface tensions to the deeply buried
comprehensive massage techniques
tensions, whether they are physical,
available in the world today. Workemotional or even, on cellular and
ing along the acupressure meridians
synaptic levels.
of the body, while never exceeding
Curious? Let me explain further.
the individuals’ level of tolerance, we
use the philosophy of finding every
Layer 1. Thinking.
bit of tension and getting rid of it.
At this level, massage works
Pretty simple, right?
towards slowing mind chatter and
Now, what is special about this
calming anxious thoughts, when rest
technique is that it has been created
and focus is difficult. Most relaxation
from the best parts of a variety of dis- massages target this state. Most of
ciplines, and combines them to allow us have had this type of massage,
for greater flexibility in treatment op- when on holiday, in a resort or from a
friend. We feel better for the day but
then the tension starts to surface and
build again.
Layer 2. Physical
When working on this level, massage works to resolve simple aches
and pains, posture imbalances, soreness, tight muscles, and to give relief
to sites of chronic injuries. Here we
work on acupressure points to release
the tension, increase circulation to
blocked areas and work on residual
scar tissue.
Layer 3. Emotional.
Now, here is where it gets really interesting and where more permanent
healing begins. Bodywork on this
level addresses the emotional tensions that can manifest into mental
and physical issues (how “dis-ease”
can often develop into “disease”). To
release emotional tension, the level
of pressure is held at between a 7 and
8 out of 10. This very deep tissue
massage releases emotional energy,
allowing for the trapped Chi (life
force energy) to flow.
Layer 4. Traumatic Tension.
Work on this level can ease and
sometimes even heal the effects of
long-term tension held in the cells in
the body. This deep-seated tension is
often the result of a life-threatening
or life-changing situation, such as
a horrific car accident, physical or
sexual assault or the loss of a loved
one. A build-up of this deep tension
can manifest as chronic pain where
the emotional component of the
trauma is trapped in the muscles as
“cellular memory”. As this memory
is actuated, clients often feel a
spontaneous emotional expression
as the blockages are released.
working in Bodywork massage as
well as my own personal experience of the overwhelming benefits
of Bodywork. You see, this is not
just theory for me. I’ve had my share
of personal traumas, both physical
and emotional. I spent over 8 years
popping the pain and anxiety pills the
Doctors prescribed. And towards the
end, I realized that they only treated
my symptoms, and it hit me that this
might be the life I would be stuck
with...For the Rest of my Life!
“There must be a better Way!”
“There is!”
I started my own healing journey
with a combination of Bodywork,
Nutritional changes, Emotional Therapy and Reiki. It took a few years,
and I guess a degree of steadfast
patience with myself and my disabilities, but I finally got my life back.
Now, as an adjunct to my massage work, I also work as an Emotional Life Coach, helping people to
reframe their painful experiences into
a more life affirming perspective;
to deeply connect to their personal
responsibility for their lives today;
to help them to feel empowered to
change what isn’t working.
We have One Body, One Mind,
and One Spirit to take us through
Our Lives. There is no commodity
more important than that. Without a
healthy body, mind and spirit, you
miss out on a lot of what you deserve!
Take good care of you!
For more information or to book an
appointment, email nnieder@rogers.
com or call 613-800-5009. Introductory Offer available to new clients.
I have three years of experience
Join OSCA
visit www.oldottawasouth.ca
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COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS
Updates to Some Topics from Columns in the Past Year
By Malcolm and John
Harding, of Compu-Home
Once in a while it’s helpful to
look back over the past year or so
and think again about what were
interesting and important subjects for
our columns, so that we can apply
a little perspective. We were right
about some things, and maybe notso-right about others.
Dwindling Desktops (September
2013)
Finding a replacement desktop
computer is at least as tricky as it was
when we discussed the subject last
summer. If anything, the selection
has declined even more and the
prices have risen. Many people have
given up trying to find a brand new
Windows 8.1 desktop, and have
opted for a high-quality refurbished
Windows 7 machine instead.
One of the contributing factors in
the neglect of the desktop has been
the emergence of an entirely new
model of computer – the laptop/tablet
hybrid. This snazzy configuration
consists of a laptop with a detachable
display that becomes a tablet when it
is separated from its keyboard, thus
overcoming many of the weaknesses
of both the laptop and the tablet. It
pains us to have to say it (because
John wants one so desperately) but
we have to recommend holding off
on this for a bit. The early models
from even the most reputable
manufacturers have been plagued
with hardware and/or software bugs
that are sometimes quite serious.
Sadly, we have decided we have to
wait for a year.
Crypto Locker (December 2013)
Although this Trojan “ransomeware”
virus is still rampant and potentially
devastating, there seems to be
just a glimmer of more positive
news. Some anti-virus utilities can
sometimes unlock the affected files
and it is beginning to appear that
actual protection from infection is not
far off. In the meantime – backup!
backup! backup!
REPORTERS WANTED
Contact OSCAR Editor,
Brendan McCoy at
[email protected]
A wild turkey has been spotted in the area of Wendover
Ave. for several weeks. PHOTO BY ANDREJS BERZINS
XP Support (February 2014)
Could anyone have missed the
news that Microsoft stopped
support for Windows XP on April
8th? We mentioned it here at least
twice in the late winter. Even so,
a large number of users are still
sticking with XP and report that
they do not plan to upgrade their
OS soon. Some third-party software
publishers are abetting this strategy,
by announcing they will continue
to offer XP-compatible software for
another two years. Although your XP
computer may seem to be operating
as usual, the fact is that even now,
a couple of months later, it is much
more vulnerable to malware. We
recommend a pro-active solution
sooner, rather than later.
“Windows Support” Phone Calls
(Repeatedly, for the past two years)
The crooks are still out there, and
they are still making lots of money,
judging by the distressed calls we
receive. Please continue to pass the
word to all of your friends – with
emphasis on the elderly and the lesstech-savvy: Microsoft will NEVER
call you or send you a personal
email and if anyone ever says that is
where he is calling from – hang up
immediately.
Our Blog has a new address, and
it’s much easier to find! Just go
to compu-home.com/blog for an
archive of our columns (including
this one) and lots more tech-related
articles. There is a space right after
each item for you to make comments
and suggestions, and ask questions.
You can even sign up for automatic
updates. We hope you will have a
look at compu-home.com/blog soon
or call us at 613-731-5954 to share
your opinions and suggest subjects
for future columns. Our email
address is [email protected]
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CARLETON SPORTS
Carleton U Becoming Sports Powerhouse
By Joe Scanlon
Right from the days it opened its
doors as Carleton College in 1942,
Carleton University has struggled
to maintain a successful and broad
Varsity athletics program.
There were two main problems
– the lack of money and the lack of
facilities.
The lack of money stemmed from
the fact Ontario will not finance athletics facilities unless they are needed
for an academic program such as
physical education. That meant that
Carleton’s athletics program depended almost entirely on student fees.
The lack of facilities was, of course,
a result of the first problem – lack of
money.
The lack of facilities inevitably
made Carleton a less attractive destination for skilled athletes.
Despite that, Carleton did achieve
success in two sports – water polo
where the men and women are
always either champions or runnersup – and cross country skiing – many
students from northern Canada have
come to Carleton because the Ottawa
area is a great venue for cross-country skiing.
The last few years, however, have
seen some major changes: The tennis
courts are covered with an inflatable
bubble which allows year-round play.
There is a new field house, which
can accommodate indoor soccer
and field hockey and has an indoor
track. There is a new gymnasium for
basketball. There are two new ice
surfaces and a new stadium to go
with the new turf football and soccer
field.
There are also signs that Carleton’s major Varsity sports teams
are becoming more successful. Over
the past few seasons, four Carleton
Varsity teams – men’s basketball,
men’s soccer, women’s basketball
and men’s hockey – have made it to
the Canadian Interuniversity Sport
(CIS) championship tournaments.
This success stems in part by some
creative management, and by the
support of the alumni association.
The first key – a requirement for attracting top-level athletes – was new
facilities and the three key players
were then president Rick Van Loon,
then academic vice-president Stuart
Adam and then and still vice-president Duncan Watt.
All three had been athletes: Van
Loon played football at Carleton;
Adam played hockey at Carleton and
tennis at Queen’s; Watt had been on
five provincial hockey championship
teams from his home town of Craik,
Saskatchewan.
Together, the trio came up with the
innovative solution to fund athletic
facilities with money obtained from
the profits from other university
operations – money that did not
come from the province. Carleton,
for example, rents space on top of
the Dunton Tower for TV antennae. It also makes a profit from food
services on campus. These revenues
– and profits from more than a dozen
other activities -- were collected in a
capital fund and the money was made
available for an expansion of athletics facilities.
That wasn’t all: Carleton’s alumni
pitched in with a pledge of $2.5
million towards the new gym and
several wealthy alumni contributed
the millions of dollars required to
bring back men’s football and make
it a successful program.
The results are still a work in progress and – as Carleton approaches
its 75th birthday – in only one major
team sport – men’s basketball – has
Carleton ever won a national championship. None of the other major
team sports – women’s basketball,
women’s and men’s hockey and soccer and men’s football – have ever
done so.
But there are signs this is about to
change.
The women’s basketball team,
which for years rarely made the
playoffs, has now been to the CIS
championships twice. Last season,
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despite the fact the team was loaded
with rookies, the women’s basketball
Ravens lost two playoff games in
overtime: a win in either would have
meant a third trip to the Nationals.
Last season, the men’s hockey
team finally finished ahead of its
perennial rival Trois-Rivières and
– after losing one key playoff game
– earned a slot in the four team CIS
championship tournament.
Last season as well, the women’s
soccer team – stuck in a division with
powerhouse teams from Queen’s and
Ottawa U – was one shoot-out goal
away from making its first earned trip
to the women’s soccer nationals. (It
did compete once as host.) Although
the women’s team has a new coach –
Raz El Asmar – he has been assistant
to Alex McNutt (who has joined the
provincial soccer program) and has
been involved in the team’s steady
improvement over the past four
years. Carleton should be a contender
this season.
The men’s soccer team is always
a contender and has made it to the
championships several times. Twice,
the team reached the championship final game only to lose once to
University of British Columbia – in
a shoot-out – and once to Brock in
extra time.
That leaves two major Varsity
sports teams – men’s football and
women’s hockey.
Men’s football returned last season
after a long absence and – despite
some good recruiting – lost every
game in its first season. Despite another good recruiting year, it would
be surprising if the team did much
better this season. Winning football
teams depend on experienced linemen and that means players with
three or four years’ experience. But
the news is not all bad. Carleton
has had a second successful year at
recruiting partly because of its new
facilities and it seems quite likely the
team will start winning by next season at the latest and be a contender
by 2017.
As for women’s hockey, there
are also changes in the wind.
The team is in a very tough
league dominated by McGill –
often the best team in Canada. The
women failed to make the playoffs last season but they enter this
season with a new coach -- Pierre
Alain – who has a superb track
record. Alain has been involved
season after season with Canada’s
national teams including head
coach of the under-19 team that
won the gold medal in 2012. He
also won five gold medals as coach
of Les Cheminots du Cégep de
Saint-Jérôme in Quebec.
Alain has already signed several
experienced players and attracted
more than 40 players to an open
try-out, some of whom, however,
were still a year away from play-
ing university hockey. It would seem
unreasonable to expect too much this
season but – given Alain’s record – it
would appear women’s hockey could
be a contender next season or in
2016-17.
It’s always risky to predict success because so many things can go
wrong in athletics.
But this season, the men’s basketball team appears more than capable
of another winning season, and quite
possibly another Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) title. The male
basketball Ravens have won 10 of the
past 12 CIS championships. While
Tyson Hinz – the player who dominated the CIS final against Ottawa U
– has graduated, the Scrubb brothers are back, as are a string of other
veterans. Philip Scrubb was selected
this past season as the outstanding
Canadian university athlete in any
sport, the third Carleton basketball
player to win that honour.
Men’s soccer should also be a
contender. Virtually the entire men’s
soccer team is due back including the
seven rookies on last season’s roster,
though the team did lose Joey Kewin
who has finished his eligibility.
Women’s soccer could easily make
its first earned trip to the Nationals.
After that, it’s a story of wait and
see.
Women’s basketball has lost its
only senior – Elizabeth Roach – the
unquestionable 2013-14 team leader.
The team did have an excellent crop
of rookies last season but its most experienced players –Lindsay Shotbolt
and Lindsey Suprunchuk – will only
be in their third season. In addition
to experience, the team has struggled
with lack of depth.
Men’s hockey has had a lot of
turnover – among those gone will be
veteran forwards Linden Bahm and
Joe Pleckaitis – so it will take time
to see if new recruits can meld into
perhaps the best Carleton team ever.
Coach Marty Johnston has done an
excellent job of recruiting since he
took over: one newcomer this fall
will be Ryan Van Stralen who had 29
goals and 29 assists with the Ottawa
67’s this past season.
The other two major sports teams –
men’s football and women’s hockey
– would appear to be one or two
seasons away.
In short, for the first time in its
history, Carleton appears to be on
the verge of becoming a consistent
Varsity team sports athletics power.
Perhaps not this year but certainly
one or two years down the road – in
fact just in time for its 75th birthday
– it would seem reasonable to suggest
that Carleton’s men’s basketball team
will not be the only Carleton team
competing for a Canadian university
championship.
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The Whole World is Down the Street at IPDET!
Above: IPDET participants from
South Africa, Jordan and Mexico
IPDET paticipants from Moldova
By Bess Fraser
Up high on the patio on the south
side of Carleton University, above
the Vincent Massey Forest, with the
Rideau River flowing below it, was a
gorgeous backdrop for a special evening. The Carleton Atrium was the
setting for the opening reception of
the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET)
2014.
For 13 years, a partnership has
existed between Carleton University
and the World Bank. The two joined
forces to create a training forum for
professionals in the complex field
of development evaluation. Having worked on the production of the
IPDET catalogue this winter, I was
thrilled to be invited to the opening
PHOTO BY DENIS DREVER
reception.
This past month, there were
more than 170 participants from
approximately 75 countries attending
workshops, seminars as well as
visiting some local Canadian
historical sites. On Monday, I
learned from a Brazilian participant
that he was ready for the soccer
season. The registrant from Georgia
explained exactly where Georgia
was, “it has been on my mind”.
The United Nations official from
Honduras described the inequality
between his country’s citizens.
Evaluation Analyst, Nely Herrera
from Gautemala, described how she
had to keep up with her office work
at home for the next 4 weeks while
she was here in training - working
on her email during the celebratory
Above left: Marcos Carias, National Programme Officer United Nations
Population Fund from Honduras. Above right: Nely Herrera, Monitoring
and Evaluation Analyst, United Nations Development Programme from
Guatemala.
PHOTOS BY BESS FRASER
reception. A women in gorgeous
traditional beads from South Africa
remarked on the beautiful night,
saying it was winter back home and
very cold at 13C, then shuddered as
I explained it can be minus 25 for a
regular winter temperature here in
Ottawa.
Taking in the beauty, watching
people whiz by on bikes on the other
side of the Rideau, and the amazing
temperature, I thought I was being
tricked, as the winter we just had
seemed so long and icy that it was
never going to end. Maybe going to
the party, meeting people from wonderful warm far off places was just a
joke, and the next day it was going
to be back to the snow we had. I can
pinch myself and know that even
though it was a darn long winter, I
am so lucky to live in a land where
the river runs through the evergreens,
and the university can host such a
school. I hope the registrants have a
very good experience and go home
and tell their colleagues how warm
and lovely Canada is.
This year’s recipients included
award-winning journalists Peter
Mansbridge and Giselle Portenier.
Suzanne Fortier and Robert Carnegie
will be recognized for their contributions in the scientific community.
Canadian musicians Bruce Cockburn,
Angela Hewitt, and Mary Louise
Fallis will also be honoured. Other
recipients were Osgoode Hall law
school Professor Ruth Corbin, policy
analyst Sulley Gariba and Maple
Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain.
In mid-July, some of the world’s
most progressive minds in the field
of accessibility gathered in Ottawa
for the The International Summit on
Accessibility, hosted by Carleton
University. This was the first ever
international conference promoting
access and inclusion for all aspects of
life for people with disabilities.
Hosting the summit was a natural fit for Carleton, because of its
existing “culture of accessibility.”
The school has a strategic plan for
accessibility for disabled students, a
round-the-clock Attendant Services
program and its unique initiative—
Research, Education, Accessibility
and Design (READ). The main theme
of the summit, “Making it Happen:
From Intention to Action,” emphasized a solutions-based approach
to accessibility. Summit speakers
included Ontario Lt.-Gov. David
Onley and Rick Hansen of the Rick
Hansen Foundation, which focuses
on improving the lives of those with
spinal cord injuries.
CARLETON CORNER
At the beginning of June, Carleton
University hosted this year’s Startup
Weekend at 1125@Carleton. Startup
Weekend is a business competition
and startup boot camp in one event.
The goal is to build a business in 54
hours. Participants pitched ideas,
received feedback from peers, and
formed teams which then attempted
to create business models, coding,
and market validation for their chosen ideas.
1125@Carleton is a collaborative
workspace that mobilizes knowledge
and information at the local and global levels. It provides entrepreneurs
with the tools necessary to grow their
businesses by connecting Carleton
researchers, faculty, and students
with business, industry, community,
and governments.
Excellence Canada has awarded
Carleton’s Finance and Administration division a bronze level in
Excellence, Innovation and Wellness
(EIW), a first for a Canadian univer-
sity. The bronze level is the first of
four levels in the process to become
certified in the EIW category.
Gary Seveny, chair of Excellence
Canada, was at Carleton on June 4th
to present the certificate. Duncan
Watt, vice-president (Finance and
Administration), accepted the award
on behalf of his group and the university.
Founded in 1992, Excellence
Canada is a non-profit organization
dedicated to helping companies and
institutions create healthy, efficient
and sustainable workplaces. Excellence Canada’s programs offer various levels of certification and guidelines to achieve each of them. Seveny
said that Carleton is a trailblazer in
pursuing certification and he hopes
that other institutions will follow its
example.
Meanwhile, Carleton University
awarded 10 honorary degrees at
spring Convocation which ran from
June 10th to 13th.
Carleton Corner is written by Carleton University’s Department of
University Communications. As your
community university, Carleton has
many exciting events of interest to
Ottawa South. For more information
about upcoming events, please go to
carleton.ca/events
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FINANCIAL PLANNING
Conversation about Finances is Important for Newlyweds
By Bob Jamieson, CFP
June was a popular month for weddings. Planning for the event no
doubt involved many exciting
discussions with your spouse-to-be.
But once back from the honeymoon,
you’ll want to have another discussion - about your finances going forward. It might not sound glamorous,
but couples who quickly “get on the
same page” regarding their financial
situation are taking a step that can
help them immensely as they build
their lives together.
As you start talking about your
finances, be sure to cover these areas:
Separate or joint checking/savings
accounts
Some couples create joint checking
and savings accounts, others keep everything separate and still others find
a middle ground — joint accounts
along with smaller, separate accounts.
There’s really no one “right” way for
everyone, but whichever method you
choose, make sure you’re both aware
of where your money is, how it can
be accessed, and by whom.
Debts
Both you and your spouse may be
bringing in debts, such as student
loans or credit cards, to the marriage.
You don’t necessarily have to do
everything possible to get rid of these
debts immediately, but you should
set up reasonable payment plans that
will allow you to lower your overall
debt load so you can free up money
to invest for the future.
Spending and Saving
Newlyweds are often surprised to
discover how different they are from
each other in the area of spending
versus saving. You don’t have to try
to radically change each other, but
you both need to be aware that your
spending and saving decisions now
have greater consequences than when
you were both single. To illustrate: If
one of you is more of a spender and
is used to running up big credit card
bills, these actions can clearly affect
both of you. To avoid problems of
this type, you will need to communicate clearly with each other.
Goals
It’s important for married couples
to clearly establish their financial
goals. Do you want to purchase a
house? If so, when? If you’re going
to have children, will you want to
help them pay for college? When do
each of you want to retire? And what
sort of retirement lifestyle do you
have in mind? By answering these
and other key questions, you’ll be
formulating a set of goals. And from
there, you can devise a strategy for
attaining these goals.
Investment Styles
Both you and your spouse will
unquestionably need to invest if you
are going to achieve your goals, such
as a comfortable retirement. However, each of you may have a differ-
ent investment style - for example,
one of you might be an aggressive
investor, willing to take more risk
for the possibility of greater returns,
while the other is more conservative, ready to accept lower returns in
exchange for greater preservation of
principal. To pursue your strategy for
reaching your objectives, each of you
may have to compromise somewhat
on your “investment personality.” To
achieve this balance, you may need
to consult with a financial advisor.
Finances are an important part of
any marriage. By communicating
regularly and working together, you
and your spouse can build a solid
financial foundation for your lives
together.
If you would be interested in having some assistance in developing
your financial plans, please give me a
call at 613-526-3030.
LANDSCAPING
The Inside Scoop on Landscaping
shift, move and be washed out. When
the stone dust “base” was washed out
the sinkhole formed.
It’s obvious that untrained, uncertified and unsupervised workers did
this work. The lack of a legal inspection process reminds me of the wild
old west. It allows untrained “cowboy” landscapers to do substandard
work.
A job gone wrong, a sinking brick pathway.
By Jay Ladell
When clients hire me to fix their
landscaping disaster, I feel like I’m
the Mike Holmes of the landscaping
world.
I’m passing on to you the lessons
learned from a landscaping job gone
wrong.
My client, Nancy (not her real
name), bought a new infill house
in Westboro that was built on an
extremely narrow lot. A raised brick
pathway was built for access to the
backyard and was supported by a
retaining wall, built next to the property line.
The landscaping looked great when
Nancy moved in. Yet, only a year later, the work started to sink and shift.
In three years, Nancy was stumbling
on uneven pathway bricks that were
no longer held in place; the whole
wall was failing and the pathway
behind it was sinking. A dangerous
Laying the brick pavers the right way.
sinkhole had even opened up.
I feel badly for Nancy – her sinking landscaping work became a
money pit. She paid three times for
one job. The first time was when
she bought her house. The builder
rolled the landscaping costs into the
sale price. She paid a second time to
have the shoddy work torn down and
carted away. Then, she paid the third
time to have the work rebuilt.
Knowing what went wrong here
can help you make sure your job will
get done right.
What caused the retaining wall
to fail and how did this cause the
sinkhole?
For starters, the retaining wall
blocks were put in backward! These
backward blocks leaned outwards
rather than inwards to support the
path. Also, drainage piping was not
added behind the wall, so water and
frost could put pressure on the wall.
The soil below the base was not
compacted, so the wall could sink
and heave. The base for the wall was
weak: it had not been compacted
properly, was too shallow and was
not enclosed in landscaping fabric.
Finally, the eavestrough downspout
was not moved away from the retaining wall. This caused the downspout
water to run down over and under the
retaining wall, eroding the base and
adding moisture to the soil.
How did the brick pathway fall
apart so easily?
When the wall leaned out, the
pathway base started settling. In addition, the base for the pathway had
not been compacted properly and
was made of stone dust. Stone dust
is finely crushed stone and has no
structural strength.
No woven landscaping fabric was
used in the construction of the pathway base, allowing the material to
Here is how I correctly built the
retaining wall and pathway:
• the whole wall and pathway was
removed and excavated to a level
surface to 14 inches below grade;
• the soil below the wall and path
was amended with 3/4 inch gravel
and compacted to within 98 percent
of maximum achievable compaction that is called Proctor Density;
• A proper 10-inch gravel base was
built for the wall using compacted
gravel enclosed within woven landscaping cloth;
• the first layer of wall block was
laid 4 inches below the soil grade
to make sure the wall is held in
place at the bottom;
• the area in front of the wall was
sloped away from the wall and
lawn was added to prevent soil
erosion;
• a drainage pipe and free draining
gravel was installed behind the
wall to prevent water and frost
build up;
• a free-draining gravel base for
the pathway was built behind the
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SIPS FROM THE POETRY CAFÉ
A Special Treat for Father’s Day (right here in the neighbourhood)
By Susan J. Atkinson
Sometimes it’s hard to think of
something different to do for Father’s
Day, but this year, all we needed to
do was flip the days and the treat was
ready-made! Well that’s not entirely
true – it may have been tailor-made
but there were quite a few obstacles
in the way, and if it weren’t for one
particular Good Samaritan (and a
bunch of amazing staff members) the
treat would never have happened.
Saturday, June 14th was a bigger day in our household than the
following one, which this year was
Father’s Day. Why, you may wonder. Well, it’s simple. England was
slated to play Italy in their opening
match of their 2014 FIFA World Cup
journey and we’re English! Nothing
could be more of a treat for my father
than watching the game live, so we
hatched a plan.
For the past two World Cups, my
family has tried to watch the England
games in the company of other England supporters, and there’s no better
place to do this than ‘The Georgetown’, which is not just Old Ottawa
South’s premier spot to watch the
football but probably the top spot (for
English fans) in the whole of Ottawa.
It couldn’t have been more perfect
that the opening game was on a Saturday afternoon and my family could
all be together, but that also meant
problem #1 - it was also an ideal time
for everyone else interested in the
game, and, rightly so, there was no
way we could make reservations. I
did try and Laine, the lovely hostess,
despite being frantically busy, was
so friendly and helpful, but said all
she could really do was suggest that
we drop everything we were doing
and come to the pub right then. Enter
problem #2 – Saturday is a dialysis
day for my father and his treatment
wouldn’t end until 5 p.m. – one hour
before kick-off.
It didn’t look like we were going
to be able to make it happen and
we started to search for a plan B. It
wouldn’t be as exciting and there
wouldn’t be any fish and chips but
we’d be together and we’d be able
to watch the game. We were still
reluctant to give up and in a last ditch
effort, around 4 p.m., we decided to
try ‘The Georgetown’ again, to see if
there were any tables left.
Enter the Good Samaritan. At this
point, as a family, we had split our
ranks. I was to pick up my mother
and then my father, while another
family member went to gather two
offspring and the remaining two
went to the pub to secure a table.
Miraculously there was a table and
the Good Samaritan, whose name
is actually Desmond, said he would
try to hold all the seats as long as
possible. This was no easy feat – you
have to understand there were a lot,
and I mean A LOT of people wanting
to watch the game that afternoon, but
Desmond was touched by the story
of my father’s operation, of his failed
kidneys and the new lifestyle that
he and my mother are adapting to. It
had also been passed along that my
father loves The Georgetown fish and
chips and mushy peas, and so he and
everyone on staff did what they could
to make this probably one of the most
meaningful Father’s Day treats my
father could have.
So England lost, but you know
what, that’s okay. By the time you
read this, they may still be in the
game and, maybe just that little
closer to winning the Cup! Besides
we felt like winners sitting at The
Georgetown, eating our mushy peas,
drinking our pints and chanting with
the rest of the crowd “we love you
England!”
And, again, there was our Good
Samaritan, relentless in his kindness
and assistance. As we prepared to
leave (okay maybe we were a little
bummed at England’s loss!), Desmond gave my parents a parting gift
– his and hers matching Budweiser
FIFA World Cup commemorative
scarves. I tell you, for my father, it
couldn’t have been a more fitting gift,
for when we were leaving dialysis
he had complained of how cold he
had been and what he really needed
to take to each treatment was a scarf!
Well, now he has a brand new one
and I know my father will wear his
colours proud!
For the rest of the family, it was so
touching to be treated to such heartfelt kindness – thank you to Desmond and Jen, our lovely waitress,
and to Damera George and the rest of
her staff at The Georgetown. We had
a wonderful evening!
pride stretches across an ocean
at home love is firmly planted
the smallest gestures bloom
Continued from page 30
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wall in 4 inch layers to ensure proper
compaction;
• cloth was placed between each different layer of material to add strength to
the pathway base and to keep smaller
gravel and sand at the top from washing down into the lower base;
• on top of the gravel base behind the
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SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS
Sunnyside Branch
Ottawa Public Library
1049 Bank Street, Ottawa
613-730-1082,
Adult Services, ext 22
Children’s Services, ext 29
Sunnyside Library Programs
Opening Ceremony/ Eureka!
Cérémonie d’ouverture
(All ages)
Join us for the TD Summer Reading
Club 2014 kick-off!
Joignez-vous à nous pour le
lancement du Club de lecture d’été
TD 2014!
Thursday, July 3rd,
2:00 p.m. (60 min.)
Let it Grow! (Ages 6-8)
Explore and make with nature.
Thursday, July 10th 10:15 a.m.
Grow it! (Ages 9-12)
Try your hand at eco-crafting.
Thursday, July 10th , 2:00 p.m.
Lots of Blots (Ages 6-8)
Make your mark with pencil, pen or
paint.
Thursday, July 17th, 10:15 a.m.
Hack it (Ages 9-12)
Bring an object from home; we’ll
wreck it and remake it at the library.
Tuesday, July 30th, 10:15 a.m.
Print is in (Ages 9-12)
Write, draw, stamp, ink, paint–
create!
Thursday, July 17th, 2:00 p.m.
On with the show! (Family program)
Put your creativity in the spotlight.
with movies.
Mondays at noon (60 min.) July 7th
to August 11th
(Library closed August 4th)
Block Party / Ça dé “bloc” (Family
program)
Building Boom: show off your
architectural creativity with Lego®.
Archiboum! Architectes en herbe, à
vos Lego®!
Fridays, 2:00 p.m. (60 min.) July 4th
to August 15th
Registration required.
Tinkering with textiles (Ages 9-12)
Alter your wearables.
Thursday, July 24th, 2:00 p.m.
Beyond Blocks (Ages 6-8)
Plan it. Build it.
Thursday, July 31st, 10:15 a.m.
Super Structures (Ages 9-12)
Design and launch your coolest
construction set.
Thursday, July 31st, 2:00 p.m.
Reshape it (Ages 6-8)
Turn trash into treasure.
Thursday, August 7th, 10:15 a.m.
telegraph key.
Monday, July 21st, 10:30 a.m.
Soft Circuits (Ages 6-12)
Put together a felt creation that lights
up (some sewing required).
Children ages 7 and under must be
accompanied by an adult.
Registration required for children
only.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2:00 p.m.
Flip Book Workshop/Atelier
feuilletoscope (Ages 7-12)
Join us and learn how to make your
own animated flip book, and watch
your drawings come to life. |
Viens découvrir comment créer un
feuilletoscope. Tes dessins prendront
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Monday, July 28th, 2:00 p.m.
Morse Code Jewelry (Ages 9-12)
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jewelry! Spell your name or favourite
word in beads, while learning Morse
Code and practicing your skills on a
AROUND TOWN
Actors (LtoR): Katie Ryerson,
Matthew John Lundvall, Kate
McArthur, Catriona Leger,
Geoff McBride. They are in
the Company of Fools romantic comedy As You Like It at
Windsor Park on July 26th.
PHOTO BY JUSTIN VAN
LEEUWEN OF JVLPHOTO
Art on the Farm Aug 16th, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Artists working in various media will display and sell their
original works under the trees at the
Arboretum, free admission, Bldg
72 CEF Arboretum, east of Prince
of Wales roundabout. 613-2303276 friendsofthefarm.ca/events.
htm#events
All The World’s a Stage for a
Company of Fools…especially Ottawa parks! A Company of Fools is
back with the ever-popular Torchlight
Shakespeare – bringing a hysterical combination of Shakespeare and
clown to Ottawa’s parks all summer
long! This season’s production is
the hilarious romantic comedy As
You Like It. Running July 3-August
16, Mondays through Saturdays at 7
p.m. Bring a lawn chair or blanket,
bug spray and a sense of humour.
Pass-the-hat donations are collected
at the end of the performance and can
be submitted in the form of cash or
cheque. The show is Pay What You
Can, with a suggested donation of
$15 per person. We will be at Windsor Park in Old Ottawa South on
July 26th. More information and a
detailed park schedule can be found
at www.fools.ca or by phoning 613863-7529.
Free Qigong Seminar. On July 20,
2014 from 9 a.m. to noon at Best
Western Macies Hotel, 1274 Carling
Ave, Qigong Master Sifu James from
Toronto will give a talk on how to
activate your Qi (universal energy)
using it for self-healing or to help
others. Sifu James was born with
ability to see energy and a scientific
mind. He has helped people get to
the real cause of their challenges,
and professionals to reach their
higher potential. For information and
registration contact Angela Fung at
[email protected] or call 613762-8893.
is an open group with musicians
welcomed from all groups that close
down for the summer. We each take
a turn at choosing a tune. Our standard repertoire is from the collection
of Ottawa Valley fiddle tunes, but
any tune that 3 or more musicians
know well enough to play may be
selected. A number of people come
and round-dance and line-dance to
our music. Come out and join us on
Tuesdays for a fun evening of dancing and playing music in the fresh air.
For further information call George
Armstrong 613-234-9253 or e-mail
[email protected]
Friends of the Central Experimental Farm Victorian Tea. Sunday,
July 13th, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00
p.m. Classic tea will be served under
the trees of the Central Experimental
Farm Arboretum. Bring a patio chair
and listen to the live music. Enter
the best hat contest and don period
costume (optional). Location: Building 72,C.E.F., off the east exit of the
Prince of Wales roundabout. Formal
Tea $8.00. Plenty of free parking. For
information call (613)230-3276 or email us at [email protected]
Odyssey Theatre’s show, The Financier (Turcaret) by Alain-René Lesage.
This comedic fiasco explores Turcaret, a loan shark and a tax collector, whose sly dealings catch up with
him. A menagerie of cash-hungry
swindlers prey on each other, exposing themselves as slaves to passion,
excess, and artifice. Only the most
single-minded, the most cunning, and
the most charming will survive. Once
again, Odyssey Theatre presents a
play that explores physicality, music,
dance and luxurious mask, with each
element contributing to bringing
this spicy play to life in Odyssey’s
unique style. Performances run from
July 24th to August 24th, Tuesdays
Hog’s Back Fiddlers plan to start
their fiddling season at Hog’s Back
on July 8th, from 6:30 till dusk. This
through to Sundays at 8 p.m. Paywhat you- can matinees will be held
Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m. All
performances take place in Strathcona Park. Tickets can be purchased
for $9 - $24 online through OdysseyTheatre.ca, by going to Eventbrite.
ca, phone at 613-232-8407, or email
[email protected]. Tickets will also be available at the door
for $26. Tickets are also on sale for
Odyssey Theatre’s youth matinees
taking place on August 6th and 13th.
This year’s production is Wind in the
Willows by the Rag and Bone Puppet
Theatre.
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CLASSY ADS
CLASSY ADS are free for Old Ottawa South residents (except for businesses or for business activity) and must be submitted by email to [email protected] by
the deadline. Your name and contact information (phone number or email address) must be included. Only your contact info will appear unless you specify otherwise. The
editor retains the right to edit or exclude submissions. The OSCAR takes no responsibility for items, services or accuracy. For business advertising inquiries, call 613-7301058 or email [email protected].
Child Care
Grandma-in-Waiting. While
I wait to become a Grandma,
I can take care of your children. I have worked as a children’s librarian for the past
20 years, so I will come with
a bag of books to be shared!
I have my First Aid. I have
lived in Old Ottawa South
for the past 30 years. I have
my own car so I don’t need
a drive home. I am available
evenings, and weekends.
Give me a call to take care of
your precious children. Margaret 613-237- 8186.
For Sale
For Sale: Carpet, 10.5’ x 8’,
deep red background, gold
pattern, ivory, green and
navy boarder, $150; 7.3’
x 5.4’ carpet, patterned,
wine red background. Also,
a canoe ($300), an electric
motor (for a canoe or fishing
boat), a battery, battery
charger, 3 brand new life
jackets, a one-burner hot
plate, small tent $10, rocking
chair $20. Please call Linda
at 613-730-0034.
For Sale: Two complete
Karate outfits, size 0 and
00. Gi includes red top and
pants. Also 2 sets of vinyl
covered foam pads for knees,
head, hands, and feet. New
condition. $75.00 each set.
613-232-9889
Wanted
Language
Interested in language
research at University of
Ottawa? Participate with
your child (4 months to 6
years). Contact Charlotte at
[email protected] for more
information.
Handmade Baby Quilts.
Premium Cotton pre-washed
and dried. Exta-loft batting.
Variety of sizes, colours, and
prints. Prices range from
$30-$75. One-of-a-kind gift.
Can e-mail pictures. Happy
to show my quilts to groups.
Call 613-730-2411
Wanted: Hybrid or City
bike, for a smaller woman
(5’3”) that is reliable and
comfortable to ride. Not
interested in a heavy or
large “retro/cruser” bike
with limited gearing. Prefer
something with a moderate
gear range that is suitable for
around town, or for a ride to
Meech. Please send a photo
& information to Peter Wells
at 613-565-0001 or peter@
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Please contact Distribution Manager
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[email protected] or
phone 613-327-9080
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COMMUNITY GARDEN
Biodome Garden Receives Certificate of Recognition
The Biodome Garden is scheduled for completion in July.
By Ed Kucerak
Friday the 13th proved to be a lucky
and special day for the Brewer Park
Community Garden, when it received
PHOTO BY ED KUCERAK
a special Certificate of Recognition
for the many hours that garden volunteers have contributed to the development of their Biodome Garden.
The Brewer Garden, along with a
number of other community gardens
and companies, were recognized at
Ottawa’s official Garden Day ceremony which celebrated the city’s
garden culture and heritage and local
horticultural industry on June 13,
2014.
“Ottawa’s Garden Day Volunteer
Recognition Ceremony celebrates
those in our community who have
given of their time to create and
beautify public garden spaces. These
individuals and companies have
made an impact on our community
that is greatly appreciated and a benefit to all residents of Ottawa,” said
Mayor Jim Watson.
Brewer Park Community Garden
President Marcel Belanger accepted
the award along with garden members Michael Oster, Guy Souliere
and Johanne Ranger, and with Martin
Buffam of Future Foods Biodome
Systems.
“The development, planning and
construction of the biodome garden would not be possible without
the hard work, dedication and the
enormous amount of volunteer hours
that Michael, Guy, Johanne and many
garden and community members
have committed to the biodome project,” says Marcel Belanger.
The construction of the biodome
is scheduled to be completed in July
when the grow beds and the aquaponics system, which safely uses
fish wastewater to nourish plants and
increase yield, will be in place and
ready for operation.
Garden Days is a three-day celebration of gardens and gardening
across Canada organized by the Canadian Garden Council. Its objective
is to draw attention to Canada’s garden culture, history and innovations
and to underscore the importance of
public and private gardens, the values
of home gardening and promotion of
environmental stewardship.
Brewer Park Community Garden is a
non-profit community-based organization that operates a community
garden open to all who live, work
or study in Old Ottawa South and in
neighbouring areas.
(L to R). David Chernushenko (Capital Ward Councillor), Guy Souliere (Biodome Co-lead & Garden member), Andrea Flowers (City of Ottawa), Johanne
Ranger (Biodome Liaison & Garden member), Marcel Belanger (Garden
President), Martin Buffam (Future Food Biodome Systems) and Michael Oster
(Biodome Lead and Garden member).
PHOTO BY ED KUCERAK
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LOCAL NEWS
Capital Day Care Family Movie Day Fundraiser at the Mayfair a Success!
By Catherine Horvath
On May 25th, the princesses and
princes of Old Ottawa South lined
up around the block from the Mayfair Theatre, drawn by the promise
of face painting and an opportunity
to sing-along with their favourite
characters from the movie Frozen.
The event, organized by the Board
of Directors of Capital Day Care
Centre Inc. to raise money to support programming and the purchase
of equipment, was an unprecedented
success! We sold out the 320 seats in
the theatre and raised approximately
$3000.
A special thank you is owed to the
local Old Ottawa South businesses
that made donations of gift baskets
and gift certificates to help us make
this event a success:
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Boomerang Kids
Bridgehead
Carmen’s Veranda
Corner Bar & Grill
Georgetown Pub
Hair Republic
Mrs. Tiggy Winkles
Quinn’s
Shoppers Drugmart
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Starbucks
Stella Luna Gelato
Thank You Old Ottawa South for
Supporting Capital Day Care!
Catherine Horvath is the President
of the Board of Directors of Capital
Day Care Centre Inc. where her two
children have been happy recipients
of quality childcare since 2012.
Old Ottawa South Princes & Princesses awaiting Frozen: Sing-along version at the Mayfair
PHOTO BY CATHERINE HORVATH
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