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JUNE 2015
OOS Tulip
Festival
OSCA Presents
Sunday
July 12
3-5pm
WINDSOR PARK for a tea party
wearing your most fabulous hat!
Join us at
Aliona Musteata and her son John pose in front of the 2000 plus tulips they
planted in their garden this year. To see this phenomenal display in person
follow the bike path from Bank Street to Windsor Park ! Our own OOS
Tulip Festival! PHOTO BY BRENDA LEE
Firehall Closed for Maintenance
June 18th to 24th inclusive
See details at oldottwassouth.ca
or facebook.com/oldottsouth
All Ages welcome
Tea, cups and amazing activities will be
provided. Bring your own
picnic blanket.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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Sat. Sun., June 6-7
Spring Giveaway Weekend
Sun. June 7, 15:30
Master Piano Recital Series - Family
Concert, Southminster United.
Wed. June 10, 12:00
Robert Reynolds & Friends Classic
Folk, Southminster United
Just for Cats Film Festival,
Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park
Seniors Lunch, Colonel By Residence
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Famous Piano Concerti, Southminster
United
Firehall Community Centre closed for
maintenance
Sunnyside Footsteps Grand Opening
celebration
The Main Event, Brantwood Park
Prophecy and Sacrament: Music for
John the Baptist, Southminster United
Community Cup 2015, Brewer Park
Third Annual Belmont Paddlefest,
Windsor Park at the dock
To add events or see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca
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JUNE 2015
LOCALS
CLEANING
UP
GREEN
TEAM
Green Team Volunteers
Clean Up Bank Street
in OOS
Windsor Pups
Park Clean
Up
On May 9th Green Team Volunteers from
Trinity Anglican Church and OOS residents
scoured Bank Street between the Bridges and
amassed oodles of litter. Thanks to Home
Depot, South Keys for donating the wheeled
litter cart. Thanks also to Bridgehead for their
tasty organic coffee and Buttercream Bakery’s
delicious chocolate chip cookies.
PHOTO BY MARY DALIPAJ
WINDSOR
PUPS
PHOTO BY PETER WELLS
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After a long hard winter, our spring
seemed to last about two days, and
now we are into summer. May 9th
was a perfect day for what seemed to
be a bazillion events going on in Old
Ottawa South. At Windsor Park we
nevertheless had a successful event,
and the larger community clean up
and the Brewer Park events also went
well.
There had already been some great
personal and community initiatives
to clean the park, riverbank and play
areas at Windsor. Gary worked with
Astrid Nielsen from the City to manage the riverbank and removed, or
marked, plants for eventual removal.
This year the riverbank cleanup made
due without a canoe but reported that
a “great crew” covered a large area.
Further efforts to clear the other bank
are planned. The access points, field
house and play areas were all cleaned
and the whole park and west riverbank has been cleared from Bank
to Main St. Not bad for a mornings
work. I would guess we bagged
about 30 bags of garbage throughout
the community, and over 50 bags of
leaves and brush in the field house
vicinity.
Thanks so much to all who came
out, and to Wag Pet Shop and Global
Pet foods for the coffee and treats.
The city of Ottawa’s “Spring Clean
the Capital” is a great initiative. The
grounds look great, but our greatest
achievement is the ongoing sense
of community pride and personal
ownership over Windsor Park and the
riverbank.
If you want to be “in the loop” on
Windsor Park news and events send
an email to Brian Tansey at [email protected] or join the “Windsor
Pups”. All members can post to this
page and invite new members.
Finally, Brian wanted to report
some news on the dog waste. Two
of our members are pushing to have
the City sponsor a nationwide study
project that would use Federation
of Canadian Municipalities Green
Funds to find sustainable solutions
to the issue of pathogenic bio-solids
in Canadian cities; at present we are
looking to see whether City Council
will support this initiative; otherwise
we will be looking for another progressive Ontario municipality as the
main sponsor.
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LOCAL NEWS
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JUNE 2015
LOCAL NEWS
Community Basketball Teams Take Provincial Divisional Championships
By Leo B. Doyle
Featuring line-ups of
many boys and girls
who got their start in
OSCA Basketball, and
the annual Paul Armstrong Basketball Camp,
the Ottawa Shooting
Stars Girls U14 and
Boys U14 teams captured gold in their divisional championships of
the 2015 Ontario Cup.
The Ontario Cup is the
season-ending culmination to the club basketball season, for community “rep” and club team
basketball programs.
The Ottawa Shooting Stars’ introductory
basketball programs and
teams play out of community schools, including Hopewell Public
School on Saturdays.
Children interested in a
summer introduction to
basketball are encouraged to take part in the
14th annual OSCA Paul
Armstrong Basketball
Camp, and can register
at the OSCA website.
Ottawa Shooting Stars U14 Boys’ Team.
Ottawa Shooting Stars U14 Girls’ Team.
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Fourteenth Annual Paul Armstrong
Basketball Camp Tips-off in July
By Leo B. Doyle
Former Carleton Ravens Head
Coach and Old Ottawa South
resident, Paul Armstrong, will once
again run his much loved basketball
camp at Hopewell Public School,
August 10th to 14th. The camp, part
of OSCA programming, is in its
14th year and offers a fun, friendly,
neighbourhood introduction to
basketball. For children entering
grades 3 to 7 in September, the camp
is a fun-filled week of basketball.
It covers skill development and the
fundamentals of the game: footwork,
passing, shooting, and ball handling.
Coach Armstrong calls the annual
camp “a summer highlight” and an
“enjoyable chance to meet kids and
families looking for an introduction
to basketball in our own neighbourhood gym.” Children who take part
in the Armstrong camp range from
beginners to young, up-and-coming
competitive players. Many of the
Glebe and Old Ottawa South players
who recently won provincial division
championships in girls and boys under
14, got their start in basketball with
Coach Armstrong at Hopewell.
But regardless of your child’s
ability or aspirations, they will get a
strong and supportive start in basketball attending the OSCA camp,
where they’ll benefit from Coach
Armstrong’s over 30 years of coaching experience and knowledge of
the game and skill development. An
NCCP Level III coach, Armstrong’s
camp is a unique chance for some of
the youngest players to learn and train
under the guidance of one of the city’s
most experienced coaches.
To register, visit the OSCA website under programming and summer
camps.
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OSCAR
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CHRISTY’S CORNER
Steve Winsor
- a lifelong
connection to
OSCA!
Your
Firehall
Staff
Christy Savage
Christy has worked in the field of
recreation and children’s programs,
both in Canada and Europe, for over
25 years. She has built an extensive
experience base in recreation and
enrichment, community outreach and
special events, and fundraising.
Having grown up in Europe and
Canada, Christy spent her high school
years in Ottawa, attending St Pius X
high school before moving to Montreal
for university. After graduating from
Concordia University with a BA
Honours in Political Anthropology,
Christy returned to Ottawa for two
years to pursue graduate studies in
Cultural Anthropology and Mediation at
Carleton University.
Upon her return to Montreal, Christy
quickly got involved with community
programs and began working as a
coordinator for the Westmount YMCA.
Soon after she was approached by a
local parent’s group to plan and launch
a recreational/enrichment program for
elementary school aged children. For
16 years Christy was the Executive
Director of that program, while
continuing her community involvement
by volunteering on local boards. During
that time she also graduated with a
BA specialization in Psychology, and
recently completed a certificate in
non-profit management at Mount Royal
University.
Since June 2012 Christy has been
the Executive Director of OSCA. The
association has seen much change since
Christy began, and she looks forward
to further growth and expansion, the
launch of exciting new programs,
special events and community
initiatives.
Amanda Bednarek
A native of Ottawa, Amanda’s
understanding of the importance
of recreational programs in the
capital began at a young age. A job
volunteering as a teacher’s assistant
later evolved into a job as a Dance
Instructor at a local community
centre, which gave her a deeper
understanding of the true value of a
community centre. Amanda now works
as the Administrative Coordinator of
Programs and Communications for
OSCA.
Amanda recently graduated from
Carleton University with an Honours
Degree in Communication Studies; an
area of study that allows her to work
toward making meaningful connections
and sharing information daily. As a
communications graduate, Amanda
aspires to help OSCA reach their
community in the most effective ways
possible.
Amanda began working at OSCA
mid-Fall, and has grown to recognize
and appreciate just how special the
Firehall is to the community it serves.
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL JENKIN
AND EMILY QUAILE
Steve Winsor (above and above left)
Steve was born and raised in
Old Ottawa South and joined the
Community Centre as a 17 year old
Counsellor in the After 4 program in
2001. Over the past 14 years, Steve
has taken on a wide variety of roles
at the community centre, including
After 4 and Youth Camp coordinator.
This summer, Steve is returning as the
Summer Camp Coordinator and will
oversee the camps we’re running this
summer!
Steve’s passion is to work with kids
- not only has he recently finished his
Bachelor of Education, but he also
tutors math and coaches soccer with the
Ottawa Internationals, Hopewell Public
School, and Glebe High School. In fact,
Steve got his start in soccer as a 6 year
old with OSCA’s community soccer
program - a lifelong connection!
Darcy Middaugh (below left)
Growing up in Ottawa Darcy
originally wanted to work with
buildings and grounds, but in his teens,
he managed to secure a placement at
Greenboro Community Centre in the
After-Four program. Within a short
amount of time he had found his calling
and fell in love with recreation and
children’s programs.
Soon after he was hired for a summer
preschool position and enjoyed it
so much that he enrolled in ECE at
college. Twenty plus years later, he
finds himself running a variety of
preschool programs and working with
children every day.
Darcy notes how easy it is to lose
track of how many years he has been
teaching children in one capacity or
another, but is often reminded when
he sees former preschoolers working
the After-Four program or summer
camp. Darcy absolutely loves working
at the Firehall and finds it a pleasure
to get to know the great people in the
community of Old Ottawa South!
Aletha Phillips
Aletha began volunteering with
OSCA’s summer camps in 2004 and
rapidly developed a love for working
with the neighbourhood’s children.
In 2007, Aletha secured a counsellor
position in summer camp with OSCA
and soon began working in other OSCA
programs such as After 4, Friday Night
Sports and Youth Nights.
This passion for community building
led Aletha to pursue an Honours
Degree in International Development
and Globalization at the University
of Ottawa. During her Undergrad
she continued to work for OSCA in
many areas such as a summer camp
coordinator and preschool program
instructor.
She focused on several special
projects including directing theatrical
productions as part of the After 4
program, and coordinating summer
volunteer and student programs.
To engage the youth girls in Old
Ottawa South, Aletha started the
popular After 4’s Senior Girls Club
and expanded the Girls Only summer
camp; facilitating discussion on issues
that mattered to local girls, organizing
self-esteem and confidence building
activities, inviting members of the
Continued on pg. 7
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OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT
2015 OSCA Annual General Meeting Report
By Linda Hancock
I am pleased to be able to report to you
on the activities of OSCA over the past
year.
Overall, I would like to make the following observations:
•OSCA is in good shape financially;
revenues have been strong and
we generated a healthy surplus in
2014 (when we had budgeted for a
deficit) – however, we are also very
aware that we need to “invest” in our
operating model to achieve our goals
and address our priorities. We have
identified some gaps and we need to
consider how we fill these gaps. The
Executive and Board will be addressing this in the very near future.
•We have expanded how we communicate with OOS – not only do
we have a successful paper in The
OSCAR and a great website, www.
oldottawasouth.ca, but we also have a
social media strategy that continues to
expand and evolve. We’ll be looking
at ways to leverage all of these great
communication channels in future
Continued from pg. 6
community to share their skills with
the girls, and encouraging the girls to
give back to their community through
numerous fundraising efforts.
In 2014, Aletha went on to complete
a Bachelor’s Degree in Education at
the University of Ottawa in order to
combine her love of working with
children and interest in community
development. Aletha has been working
on many projects this year for OSCA,
including her current work as After 4
Program Coordinator. At the end of July
Aletha will be saying goodbye to OSCA
in order to focus on her teaching career.
Alex Tallim
Alex is a resident of Old Ottawa
South who grew up in this part of town
attending local schools, events and
activities. He started volunteering in
local community centres in High School
and has been involved in community
recreation ever since. This experience
has taken Alex from a local volunteer
to a full-time staff. Alex has been an
OSCA employee since September 2011
and has been involved with many of
OSCA’s programs and events either on
the floor, or behind the scenes, most
years.
•We have hosted a wide range of community special events over the past
year with excellent turnout and participation from community members;
and finally;
•We have been engaged in a number of
initiatives to advance the views of our
community on important municipal
development issues from zoning to
infill housing, traffic and safety.
•We have kept our Committee structure in line with our priority areas
– we have recently added a Finance
Committee.
While the year has generally been a
successful one, we face a number of important challenges in the coming year:
implementing programming at the
Firehall;
•We have a strong base of volunteers
but we can always use more - so that
our important community work does
not fall on the shoulders of a few;
•We need to continue to work towards
the priorities set in our long term
strategic plan which I will remind you
of a little later;
•We need to continue to do surveys
and, perhaps, grow our membership
base so that we can truly speak on
behalf of the community on important
issues; and
•We need to press for a Community
Design Plan for OOS so that we can
be involved proactively in the future
of our community.
•We need to address some of the gaps
we have in our operating model and,
very likely, in our staffing structure as
I have already mentioned;
•We need to agree to a Service Level
Agreement with the City of Ottawa
that will outline the respective accountabilities and roles that we each
have in planning, developing and
Your Board has worked hard this year
on your behalf, helping to make Old Ottawa South a better place to live for all
of us and I would like to take this opportunity, on your behalf, to thank them
all. I would like to thank in particular
those who are leaving the Board this
year: Ian Beck MacNeil, Marion Haas,
Isla Jordan and Neil McCormick.
notably After Four, Friday Night Youth
and Summer Camps.
After High School, Alex spent
a couple years pursuing an Early
Childhood Education Diploma at
Algonquin College. Following that,
Alex completed a Bachelor of Arts in
Education degree at Griffith University
before deciding recreation was a better
fit for him than teaching.
Gabriel Gosselin
Gabriel has volunteered or worked
with children since being told he was
too old to play OSCA soccer (so he
coached). He started work with OSCA
in 2004 in the After 4 program. He
worked at the Firehall throughout
his undergraduate degree at Carleton
University. While primarily working
in After 4, Gabriel has also run
preschool programs, drama classes,
and in the interest of better groceries,
any other program that was on offer.
While recreation has been his passion,
Gabriel has also worked for the federal
government, worked as a program
officer at Transport Canada and with
Statistics Canada in Montreal.
While working with OSCA, onand-off again for a decade, Gabriel
discovered that he relished the
opportunity to teach the children under
his care. Dodgeball games became
“Great Battles in History” and crafts fell
to the wayside in favour of TedTalks.
Pleased to find that grade fours were
happy to discuss “Changing Education
Paradigms” Gabriel went back to school
to earn his Bachelors of Education from
the University of Ottawa.
After teaching in England at a private
academy, Gabriel has returned to
Ottawa to pursue his teaching career
A vote of thanks also goes to all our
volunteers and staff who help make
OSCA the great organization it is and
who help ensure that our activities and
programs take place effectively and
efficiently.
I would like to publicly thank our
staff who work hard to make all of
what we do a success. Our “core” staff
- Christy, our Executive Director, who
has gone above and beyond during
some challenging times… and her team
Darcy, Alex, Aletha and Amanda.
I would like to thank the City of
Ottawa staff who work alongside our
OSCA Staff - Janet Conley-Paterson,
Centre Co-ordinator; and our Regis
Alcorn Program Coordinator
We appreciate all that you do.
here. Since January 2015 Gabriel has
been running the Southminster satellite
site for After 4. He is currently working
with the War Museum to mount a oneday event for the Gladiators exhibit in
the summer. By September, Gabriel will
be focusing exclusively on his teaching
career.
Thanks to OSCAR’s
many volunteer writers
and distributors for
helping get the news
to you!
The OSCAR is a self-supporting newspaper,
paid for entirely by advertising, and reliant on
volunteer contributors and distributors.
Thanks to the Dairy Queen for
contributing to our community through
its support of the many
OSCAR volunteers.
Dairy Queen, 1272 Bank Street
738-7146
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as their address. Letters
may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to [email protected]
I honour the family that
lovingly renew and maintain
it. Long may it continue to
remind us of the fragility and
value of human life.
What is life if full of care,
We have no time to stand
and stare.
Rose Cusson
Memorial at Bank and Riverside.
Ghost Bikes
To the Editor,
The article you published
re truck-bicycle safety and
“ghost bikes” was informative and certainly had good
ideas.
I would like to add the
point that not only cyclists
are killed by trucks; many
pedestrians are. It would be
interesting to see documented
evidence about what percentage of people- whether
pedestrians or cyclists- have
been killed by trucks in
Ottawa in which no drivers
were charged with carelessness.
Yours truly,
Jeanne White
----------------------------------Roadside Memorial
To the Editor,
In Emile Therien’s letter to
the editor he asks “What purpose does a roadside memorial serve”. My answer is that
“It is there to remind all of us
that life is precious and cars,
pedestrians and cyclists need
to always be aware of each
other. It also serves to remind
drivers that this is a community you’re currently driving
through and please don’t use
it as a race track.”
After living in Montreal
for over 40 years and moving to Old Ottawa South July
31st, 2013, the day after the
woman was killed who’s
memorial is the topic of discussion. I must say that her
memorial has changed my
life for the better. It demonstrates that I am in a community for the first time that
really works well together.
This I never found or felt
in the Montreal area. The
continued maintenance of
her memorial, by her family,
to reflect the many seasons
and holidays passing, made
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me realize how lucky I was
to have all my family healthy
and alive and has actually
brought me closer to all my
family members. Her memorial has also made me live in
the moment more because of
the reminder that life is not
forever. I even went out and
had some drinks for her on
St-Patrick’s day because her
family put shamrocks on her
white bike memorial. Around
Easter, coming back from the
Bulk Barn, I put an Easter
egg near her bike.
Mr. Therien needs to ask
himself what was his motivation to write a letter that left
out the most important part
of living, the humanity. Cars
slow down when they see
that white bike memorial,
and drivers going through
that intersection see the continued love for a lost family
member, and are reminded to
drive safely.
If Mr. Therien wants to
spend his time efficiently, let
him write about the continued use of cell phones by
drivers. Let him write about
the increasing lack of turn
signal use by drivers. To
criticize a beautiful and well
maintained memorial that
serves an important reminder
for road safety and a strong
Old Ottawa South community, is simply mean spirited
and misplaced energy.
Sincerely,
John Talbot
----------------------------------Billings Cyclist Memorial
Defended
To the Editor,
I find the cyclist memorial
on the corner of Bank Street
and Riverside Drive creative,
dignified and relevant.
As a city that promotes
cycling, it is an appropriate
reminder to pedestrians, cyclists and motorized vehicles,
that even one cyclist’s death
is one too many.
Echo Drive’s Deteriorating
Guard Cable
To the Editor,
I had no idea, until I read
the article in last month’s
OSCAR (“Echo Drive Guard
Cable Repairs Planned” May,
page 10), about Barry Davis
and his effort to convince the
city to repair Echo Drive’s
deteriorating guard cable.
Shortly before reading this
article I had sent a letter to
the Main St. Project Manager at the city, because of
the reference to Echo Drive
in the “notice to resident”
explaining the construction
work on Main St. In the letter
I raised my concerns with
the City’s maintenance and
pointed out that this failing
fence was a safety hazard.
I am glad that there are at
least two concerned residents
working on the city to do
a more thorough and solid
replacement. As I have said
in my previous letters to the
NCC it would be foolhardy
to replace the same type of
uprights, because after a
couple of winters they would
have to be replaced again!
Do the job properly the first
time.
John Mackay
----------------------------------Conversations among
Canadians and 2017
To the Editor
2017, the 150th anniversary of Confederation, is
coming soon. Its celebration
is being promoted by our
governments (including those
of our capital cities) and by
many organizations. You may
already have noticed some
advertising or websites.
The anniversary is also
likely to inspire personal
and community-spirited
initiatives among Canadians
themselves. For example,
some families in our com-
munity may be planning to
host families or friends from
elsewhere who plan to visit
Ottawa in 2017. Other initiatives may be as simple as
hanging out a flag; as durable as projects to build (or
restore) local structures; or as
far-reaching as seeking new
goodwill in our relationships
with each other throughout
Canada or making a contribution from Canada to the
world. As in 1967, when Canadians themselves engaged
in celebrating the Centennial
of Confederation, it is such
initiatives that could determine whether 2017 becomes
a warmly remembered and
significant date in Canadian
history.
My own hope is that 2017
will see thousands of conversations among Canadians,
inclusive, informal and goodwilled: conversations appreciating our past, taking stock
of our present condition, and
looking together to our future
(we need each other). The
world is changing and we in
this land have much to talk
about and perhaps rethink. It
seems to me that conversation is a good way of catching up, keeping up and also
preparing both to conserve
and to innovate.
I know I’m not alone in
hoping we’ll use the 150th
anniversary of Confederation
as an occasion to take time
for conversation in addition
to imagining and working on
other personal and community projects. If anyone reading
this is interested in the idea
of encouraging conversations among us, in community, in 2017, conversations
which taken together could
perhaps become a great and
useful Canadian conversation, I would welcome their
thoughts or perhaps a chance
to chat (email: aa750@ncf.
ca).
Gail Stewart
P.S. Conversations among
Canadians have been hosted
at the Sunnyside library
for several years, and will
resume in the autumn.
----------------------------------Stop the Tower on the
Rideau (Canal)
To the Editor,
Congratulations on your
April first joke, “Stop the
Tower on the Rideau”.
You may not have realized,
however, just how prophetic
this item was. Immediately
to your north in the Glebe,
developers have bought up
a whole block of houses
between Fourth and Fifth Avenues along Queen Elizabeth
Drive, and are requesting a
zoning amendment to build
two four-storey apartment
buildings on the site. This is
a second application: the artist’s concept for the previous
slightly smaller, though still
oversize, project showed a
blockish, modernistic building totally out of keeping
with the heritage surroundings and the UNESCO-listed
canal it will overlook. The
new sign board does not
show what the two buildings
will look like. I hope that
those of your residents who
were opposed to the “Tower
on the Rideau” will make
their displeasure known to
Mayor Watson, your Councillor and City Planning’s
Allison Hamelin (Allison.
[email protected], 613580-2424 ext. 25477). I hate
to think this will be another
battle, like Lansdowne Park,
lost to the developers. Who
knows, in the not-too-distant
future, proposals for a
“Tower on the Rideau” may
be more than just an April
Fool’s Day joke....
Yours sincerely,
Harriet Smith
First version of the proposed development on the Rideau
Canal between 4th and 5th Ave. on Queen Elizabeth Drive.
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LOCAL NEWS
OSCA Volunteer Award Winners 2015
By Brenda Lee
As many of you already know, I am
a huge fan of sappy movies and one
of my favourites is definitely “It’s a
Wonderful Life”. There is a simple
truth in that movie that resonates
with me and many others, giving
back to your community and helping
others is something that matters in
many ways and affects lives in ways
that may not always be obvious.
At this year’s AGM, on May 5th,
OSCA was proud to hand out awards
to four such outstanding citizens
who understand that simple truth
and have chosen to give back to their
community through their volunteer
efforts.
Tracy Arnett has been a fixture
in OOS over the years and has
been involved in many projects.
She donates to OSCA events on
a continuous basis both with hay
rides and sleigh rides, and is also the
sponsor for this year’s Windsor Park
Art Show musicians. She supports
the Hospice at May Court, shows
free movies every year at the Mayfair
and is involved in a variety of other
causes that benefit OOS. Tracy gives
back in a way that is heartwarming
to see. OSCA is proud to award her
with a Lifetime Volunteer Award.
Noel Loemer revealing his alter ego:
“TREE MAN!”
Noel Loemer is known as the
“Johnny Appleseed of OOS” or as he
revealed at the AGM this year…his
alter ego is “TREE MAN!”
He has been instrumental in a
number of tree planting projects
across the city and most recently
in the organization of over 140
volunteers to clean up the former
marsh at Dow’s Lake. He has taught
numerous children how and why we
plant trees, and has ensured that OOS
remains green. One recent coup was
that he was able to persuade the City
of Toronto to donate two historic
maple trees, from the original “Maple
Leaf Forever” tree that inspired
Canada’s other national anthem. He
volunteered his time to collect the
trees and ensure they were planted
along Bronson Avenue. OSCA is
proud to award him with a Lifetime
Volunteer Award.
Quinn Hodgins has been a part of
OOS for as long as he can remember
and is now a proud co-owner of the
Ashton Brewing Company (ABC).
His family runs Patty’s Pub, Quinn’s
Pub plus the Ashton Brewery. He
has been an outstanding example
of volunteerism for over 10 years
in OOS, donating prizes for OSCA
events, supplying beer, supporting
music and donating his time as a
bartender. Quinn’s unfailing good
cheer and oft repeated “Just tell me
what you need and what time you
need me there” is indeed a joy to
behold. OSCA is proud to award
Quinn with a Lifetime Volunteer
Award. As yet another example of
why he was nominated for this award
is that, when hearing about the award
his response was: “Can I bring my
Mom, and can I donate some beer
for the wine and cheese afterwards?”
(Editor’s note: He did and the beer
was great! Another reason to come
out to the OSCA AGM.)
Erik Van der Torre may be
George Bailey reincarnated. The
responses OSCA had supporting his
nomination were overwhelming,
filled with love, gratitude and
respect. The quote “He personifies
why I want to live in OOS” was
used and pretty much sums up what
everyone feels about this nominee.
This year the Hopewell School
Yard was devastated with the loss
of all of its trees and the imminent
loss of its play equipment. The
“Every Leaf Counts” campaign
was formed, led by Erik and within
less than a year almost $200,000
was raised. This was done through
tireless efforts, many fundraisers
and an unbelievable commitment
to make sure that the yard could be
returned to an acceptable space for
the children. Erik was the driving
force behind this and the visionary
with a clear view for the future, even
though his own children would not
be at Hopewell to enjoy the benefits
of a completed yard. Erik did not
know about his nomination and it
was a wonderful thing to see his
face as he suddenly realized that the
person being described was him! In
typical fashion he insisted that it was
team effort and that he could not take
credit for it. I am sorry Erik, but the
letters that OSCA received on your
behalf speak otherwise and OSCA is
proud to award you with Volunteer of
the Year Award for 2015.
Old Ottawa South is a special place
in that there are so many volunteers
in it that do make a difference, that
change lives, that affect change and
(Left to right) Quinn Hodgins, Erik Van der Torr and Noel Loemer with
their awards.
PHOTOS BY DARCY MIDDAUGH
give selflessly of their time and skills.
We all have the ability to do this and
to make sure that “It’s A Wonderful
Life” for ourselves and for those
around us.
Cheers and Congratulations to
our award winners and Cheers to
all of us who call this wonderful
neighbourhood home.
Brenda Lee has called OOS home for
over 18 years, has sat on the OSCA
Board and Special Events Committee
intermittently for 15 years, runs a
home daycare, is moved to tears
by small things like classic movies,
dandelion bouquets, and other
people’s random acts of kindness.
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Old Ottawa South Loses a Local
Legend - T. Joseph (“Joe”)
Scanlon (1933 - 2015)
By Lorne Abugov
Old Ottawa South lost a giant on
May 2nd, 2015 with the passing of T.
Joseph (“Joe”) Scanlon of an apparent
heart attack at the age of 82. The
news came as a huge shock to those,
like myself, who had known Joe in
one or more of the many roles that
together formed the Rubik’s Cube of
his remarkable life. What made the
sad news so shocking to me was that
pairing Joe Scanlon with death seemed
an oxymoron - contradictory concepts
that didn’t belong together in the same
phrase. Joe Scanlon was all about life,
indeed, he was the embodiment of
life, of energy, and of inspiration. He
wouldn’t have been afraid of death nothing seemed to scare him - but to
those who knew him, death seemed
somehow not relevant, extraneous or
altogether beside the point to a man
like Joe.
During his remarkable time as a
friend and neighbour, Joe Scanlon
always walked the path less travelled
and cut a wide swath through life.
In his later years, Joe was a familiar
figure at his home on Aylmer Avenue
and in the pages of the OSCAR, where
he reported on Carleton University
sports, on Ottawa history, on his
international travels and on the joys
of being a senior citizen. One such
personal tale of passing his driving
test at the age of 80 was classic
Joe Scanlon, and it was a personal
favourite of OSCAR editor Brendan
McCoy, and of many readers. Joe’s
obituary in the Ottawa Citizen
refers to him as a veteran journalism
teacher and scholar, and that he was
- as professor emeritus at Carleton’s
School of Journalism for more than
three decades, following his own Gold
Medal upon graduating first in his
class at the school. Over the years, Joe
stockpiled academic achievements and
accolades like cords of firewood.
A cross-section of his working
life included various jobs as a radio,
television and print reporter, including
his days covering Parliament Hill,
Queen’s Park and as Washington
correspondent for the Toronto Star.
He then moved on to CBC Television
as a field producer and editor of The
National. Joe then switched sides of
the media scrums, taking a job with
the federal Liberal Party as Chief
of Staff for another larger than life
character, Judy LaMarsh. In 1966, he
was appointed director of the School
of Journalism, launching him in the
role of educator and scholar that
would define the final 50 years of his
life and leave indelible imprints on
the minds and hearts of generations
of students. Indeed, the last time I
saw him alive, in late April, on his
porch on Aylmer Avenue, Joe was
bidding farewell to a PhD candidate
in Disaster Communications whose
thesis work he was supervising.
Joe spent more than 30 years on
research and writing in his field
of specialization, the sociology of
disasters and the related field of
emergency communications, earning
him the prestigious Charles Fritz
Award in 2002 from the International
Research Committee for Disasters.
I first crossed Joe Scanlon’s path
in September 1973. I was one of
thousands of eager and ambitious
young Carleton University Journalism
students who found themselves over
the decades in Joe’s 1st year Radio
Journalism class. To this day, I find it
hard to explain Joe Scanlon and his
unorthodox teaching style to anyone
who didn’t experience it first-hand.
Think of John Houseman’s brilliant
portrayal of Harvard Law School
Professor, Charles Kingsfield in the
classic Hollywood film, The Paper
Chase, and you begin to get the
picture. James Duthie, the talented
TSN sports broadcaster and one of
Joe’s many students who have gone
on to excellent careers in the media,
tweeted upon learning of Joe’s death
“I arrived there terrified of him...
left loving him. RIP”. Joe had that
effect on students, myself included.
Joe was not universally loved by his
students, and many of my journalism
classmates never got past the crusty,
cantankerous brand of pedagogy that
was his trademark. Joe Scanlon was
journalism school’s equivalent of a
pint of Guinness, not to everyone’s
taste - but those who liked him, liked
him a lot.
Over time, Professor Scanlon - no
one called him that, it was always
“Joe” - had a way of growing on you,
to the point where he took on for many
of us near legendary proportions. In
the classroom, you knew you were
in the presence of genius, and once
you got past the hardnosed exterior,
there was that exciting moment of
realization that here was your chance
to learn at the foot of a master. If you
managed to pull your performance in
class up to his level of expectation,
and once he had sized you up as
sufficiently “smart and worthy”, your
journalism education began in earnest;
it was as if you had fought a war, and
won, or scaled your own personal
Mount Everest. For those who weren’t
intimidated by Professor Joe Scanlon,
the reward to be reaped was sheer,
unbridled learning excellence, and the
chance to work alongside a brilliant
educator and drink from a wellspring
of inspiration.
During his years at Carleton
University, and for many years
thereafter right up to his untimely
death, Joe was a stout supporter of the
Carleton Ravens basketball program.
Joe Scanlon from a 1970s Carleton University yearbook.
He attended all the games and was
proud of the listserv he created to
bring news of all things Ravens
basketball to his loyal and always
growing group of email subscribers.
Joe reported each and every game,
and delighted in summarizing the
successes of the Ravens on the court. I
had the pleasure to join with Joe back
in the early 1970s, at his invitation,
becoming the colour commentator
(Joe of course did the play-by-play)
for the first-ever radio broadcast of
Ravens basketball - a closed circuit
feed distributed by Radio-Carleton to
students in the university residences.
Joe never forgot that first broadcast,
and forevermore introduced me to
anyone and everyone we met as
“Lorne Abugov - Lorne was my
journalism student and we were
the first to ever broadcast a Ravens
basketball game”. I am not 100% sure
why I have always felt proud of that
modest accomplishment, but I suspect
that it was because Joe was himself
so very proud of it, and when Joe was
proud of something, there was enough
pride for everyone to splash around in!
There was no subject upon which
Joe Scanlon was not an expert,
regardless of whether or not he knew
the first thing about the subject. If
indeed he knew the subject - and
few among us had the depth of
knowledge that Joe possessed - he
would propound upon it, often at
length, regaling his friends and
acquaintances with the knowledge,
finding a way to link it to his own
life, at once confirming for you that
you were in the presence of someone
slightly omnipotent, and someone of
great depth, intellect and experience.
If he was learning something for the
first time, something that intrigued
him or linked up to other knowledge
stored in the computer that was his
brain, he would listen intently, thank
the purveyor for bringing the matter
to his attention and convert the idea
into his photographic memory, never
to be forgotten, readily available to be
shared and embellished, as only Joe
could do.
He was a bottomless pool of stories,
facts, memories and anecdotes.
Conversations with Joe were replete
with phrases like “Did you know
that...” or “Have I told you that I
used to...” or “Did I tell you the
story about...”. Joe could leave you
breathless at times with his brilliance,
and more often than not, the endless
stream of stories and factoids could
also leave you speechless, in the
figurative sense, but also in the literal.
Continued on pg. 11
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Adopt-a-Garden Update: Are You Ready For a Greener,
Lovelier Old Ottawa South?
By Winnie Pietrykowski
Volunteers for the proposed Adopt-aGarden initiative want to work with
neighbours and local businesses to
build a greener, lovelier Old Ottawa
South. We hope to accomplish this
goal by revitalizing and nurturing the
public planters and garden beds along
Bank Street between the bridges and
on Sunnyside Avenue west of Bank –
our goal is a more sustainable, livable,
beautiful neighbourhood!
In early April, Councillor David
Chernushenko organized a presentation on the topic of “gardening” and
how residents might help beautify
Old Ottawa South (OOS) by adopting a patch of land along Bank Street
between the two bridges. Several representatives from David’s office and
the City were also on hand to explain
the City’s Adopt-a-Park/Roadway
Program (under which the Adopta-Garden is managed) and the steps
involved if this environmental project
were to be initiated in our community.
Adopt-a-Garden in OOS includes
not only the garden beds along Bank
Street but also the new and much-anticipated rain gardens along Sunnyside
Avenue west of Bank. The rain garden
Continued from pg. 10
Just getting a word in edgewise with
Joe was sometimes a huge challenge.
My son, Zach, sent along his memory
of first meeting Joe in London, when
our family dined with him and his
partner, Kathleen:
“I will always remember meeting
him yin London, having dinner at
Kathleen’s house, and then joining them to watch a group of
octogenarians rock out at their
local pub in St. John’s Wood! I
think that together, Kathleen and
I got about five sentences in the
whole evening. He was a great
character!”
In later life, over the past four years,
my relationship with Joe Scanlon
took on a new twist, as he and I
took the plunge together as minority
owners of a professional soccer team,
Kingston FC in the Canadian Soccer
League. Shortly after signing aboard,
the team’s majority owner stepped
down, and Joe and I inherited the
team. Together, with lots of help from
coaches and players, Joe and I helped
to turn the team around, experiencing
as many downs as ups, and as many
valleys as peaks. We used to call
ourselves the “oldest pair of pro sports
moguls in the world”, and we took
pride in letting it be known that the
average age of our ownership group
was 70. We then took on another
minority owner from Belleville,
a retiree who liked our spirit and
installation begins this summer. The
City is responsible for the installation of the rain gardens but not their
maintenance (as is the case with all
publicly-owned garden beds throughout OOS and the City of Ottawa).
April’s meeting was very well attended and the emails that followed
were inspiring. Dianne Caldbick and
Eric Bays, two OOS gardeners, are
working with Councillor Chernushenko’s office and the City to coordinate the Adopt-a-Garden Program in
OOS. On April 21st, Dianne and Eric
presented a draft work plan to the
OSCA Board and will return May 19th
to expand on progress to date.
How to get involved
So, where are we now and how can
you get involved? At the writing of
this article a proposal to the Adopta-Park/Roadway Program is being
written and a spreadsheet has been
prepared identifying the locations and
general inventory of each of the garden beds along Bank, including maps.
There are 45 garden beds, 24 of
which are publicly owned and 21
privately owned. Considering the large
number of beds it has been recommended that we do a 2-year roll out,
gumption, and who proceeded to up
the average age of our ownership
group to 73!
I truly revelled in my business
partnership with Joe, as we faced a
never-ending stream of challenges.
During times of stress, Joe was as
decisive as he was incisive. He always
had excellent advice to offer, and
things never seemed as hopeless after
discussing them with Joe. Driving
home together from Kingston late one
evening after a Kingston FC game, Joe
confided to me that “our pro soccer
team is adding years to my life”, to
which I responded that it was “taking
years off mine!”. He loved the fact
that after a lifetime of involvement in
sports, as a reporter, as a tennis coach,
as a basketball blogger and as a proud
grandfather of young athletes, he had
finally found his way to owning his
very own pro sports team. In fact,
Joe was an owner of two pro soccer
teams as he never failed to tell me. “I
purchased one share in the Accrington
Stanley football club for one pound,”
he informed me one day. “I’m a coowner along with Sir Alex Ferguson!”
Joe loved a good game of golf, and
I stomped the links with him more
than once in his final years. Like his
reporting style, and like his life, he
had a no nonsense style about him on
the course - no practice swings, no
deviation from his standard swing and
a consistently straight ahead shot of
about 120 yards that I envied for its
consistency. Reviewing my style of
play, he remarked, as only Joe could:
“Lorne, you play what I call ‘military
golf’ - left, right, left, right”. Even
when he infuriated you, you had to
focusing this year on a general spring
clean-up for all gardens and some
“quick wins” (redesign and replanting)
at strategic locations.
A spring clean-up/cut down/compost-spreading “blitz” would benefit
all of the gardens and would go a
long way to rejuvenate beds that have
most of their shrubs still intact. We
are looking for volunteers who not
only love to garden but for individuals
interested in any or all aspects of this
initiative, whether it’s planning, organizing, communicating or just getting
their hands dirty.
And now for the part you have all
been waiting for – your stewardship,
know-how, participation and commitment. We would like to make the way
forward as easy and as flexible as possible. Many of you have expressed an
interest in adopting a garden bed near
to where you live. If several of you
have the same plot in mind, the gardening will be lighter – more hands,
less work.
If you are a business along Bank
Street or a public institution, we
would like to talk to you. Some of you
already have your own hanging plants
and box gardens, some of you would
like a helping hand. We look forward
to discussing what works for you.
The City also provides a variety of
supplies and assistance: the removal of
waste material from the beds, top soil,
garbage and leaf waste bags, gloves,
and will loan cleanup tools, safety
vests, pickers, rakes, shovels, etc.
love him.
It’s hard to isolate a favourite
Joe Scanlon story, but one of my
favourites took place on an Ottawa
golf course, on the 1st green. Joe
and I had invited one our young
Kingston FC interns to play a round
with us. After much hacking down
the first fairway, all three of us landed
eventually on the green and holed out
our putts. Joe always kept score, and
he asked our young intern and me
for our own scores. I took my usual
opening hole “seven”, and the young
fellow volunteered a “six”. Without
batting an eye, Joe looked the intern
squarely in the face and said that he
had the lad down for “eight”, and then
proceeded to chronicle each one of
the intern’s eight shots. A valuable
life lesson was learned that day - you
don’t fudge the truth with the likes of
Joe Scanlon!
Of Joe Scanlon, it can be said that
he was a one in a million personality,
a man of principle and integrity, a
giant in his field, a force of nature,
someone who left a mark on everyone
he met, equal parts curmudgeon and
companion, a brilliant mind always
processing and a heart of gold always
beating beneath a leathery hide, a
friend indeed and a legendary figure.
And such was the pride and
professionalism that Joe instilled in all
of his students that even today, some
42 years after completing his 1st year
radio journalism course, I hesitate to
file this article, wondering whether it
would satisfy Joe, and meet with his
impossibly high standards were he
around to read it. Like so many others
in Ottawa and around the world who
came to know and respect him, I never
stopped learning from the man, and
that may be the biggest compliment an
educator like Joe Scanlon could ever
receive.
Keeping up-to-date
In the days and weeks ahead we will
be working with Kathy Krywicki, the
OSCA Web Editor, to make the web
site our “hub” for communicating with
you. We want to put the spreadsheets
online, plus the maps, develop a roster
of who is in charge of what, keep
you informed in a timely manner and
develop a neighbourhood project that
is sociable and fun.
Watch for Adopt-a-Garden news at
oldottawasouth.ca
Our next meeting will be announced
online and by email. If you would like
to reach us, please address your email
to: [email protected]
We look forward to working with
you this summer to help create a
greener, lovelier Old Ottawa South.
Winnie Pietrykowski is the Chair of
OSCA’s Traffic & Safety Committee.
She also loves to garden. OSCA Job Posting:
Outreach and Communications Coordinator
Position type: Full-time, salaried position
Salary: Range $35,000-$45,000 annually.
Commensurate with experience and education.
Deadline to apply: June 8, 2015
For more information go to
http://www.oldottawasouth.ca
Qualified applicants should send their CV and cover
letter to: Christy Savage,
OSCA Executive Director at:
[email protected].
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OSCA SUMMER CAMPS
Getting to Know Your OSCA Camp Counsellors
By Hanna Stewart and Rebekah Campbell
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JUNE 2015
PHOTOS BY DARCY MIDDAUGH
Summer is just around the corner and that means fantastic OSCA summer camps! Our staff are very excited to be running a variety of fun and adventurous
camps this summer. We will be running some old time favorites such as Everything But the Kitchen Sink, Campquest, Sunquest and Youth. We are also
offering a mix of speciality camps that are sure to be a hit for all kids, including dance, music and pottery. Our counsellors are engaged, energetic, and...
let’s let them introduce themselves!
of snakes there and watching me
squirm, and then almost cry when
they made me touch one. As scary as
it was, kids still come up and tell me
how funny and great that day was. I
have a bunch of fun things planned
for camp this summer and am excited to try out some new activities
and crafts as well as explore new
places.
My name is Rebekah and I am a
counsellor for the Everything But
the Kitchen Sink this summer. This
is my 6th summer as a counsellor or
volunteer here at Firehall. One of my
favorite memories is when another
staff found out about my fear of
snakes, and then asked my campers if
they wanted to accompany his camp
to Little Ray’s Reptiles. When we
went on the out-trip my kids had a
ball taking me around to all the cages
Campquest. My favorite part of last
summer was going to the Osgoode
Medieval Festival Education Day,
which is a day filled with awesome
activities, ranging from trying on
medieval battle armour, to watching
a live jousting match, and we plan to
do again this summer! I am also very
excited to be making some new traditions and memories. In particular, I’m
excited to explore a large variety of
beaches this summer where we will
enjoy fun filled days of exploring,
scavenger hunts, and doing various
beach activities.
My name is Emily and this is
my 2nd summer as coordinator of
My name is Hanna Stewart. I am
the coordinator for Sunquest. This is
my 6th summer as a volunteer, counsellor or coordinator at the Firehall
and I am really happy to be back. I
have done the full cycle here starting as a kid in various programs and
eventually becoming a coordinator of
summer camps. My fondest memory
from summer camp would be 2 years
ago when I learned how to fish at
Petrie Island. I had no idea what I
was getting myself into but with the
help of another counsellor, and the
kids at camp, I was able to pick up
some handy tips. I am really looking
forward to coordinating the Sunquest
camps this summer and particularly
excited to explore Ottawa’s parks and
national institutions.
Each camp offers a wide variety
of activities that will suit your
every need, from dueling it out
to breaking it down. You might
be surprised where you end up
and you will most definitely
discover something new and
exciting about the city of Ottawa.
Hopefully your child will come
out of camp with as many great
and funny memories as the staff
have.
My name is Patrick and I am
one of the counsellors for the Youth
Camps. This is my first summer as
a counsellor for Youth so I’m super
excited for all the fun to come. I am
a total wilderness guy so my favorite
part of youth camp is going to camping camp. I have fond memories of
going to this camp as a camper, and
am excited to go back as a staff for
my second year. It’s a week full of
the great outdoors and great company. This year I’m super excited to
make new memories at Sandbanks,
which is a park we’ve never been to
before, as well as continue traditions
such as late night s’mores by the fire.
My name is John and I am the
coordinator of Specialty Camps. This
is my second summer on staff here
at Firehall. My favorite part of last
summer was all the funny stories and
things that the kids would tell me.
For example one time while cleaning,
a kid broke down into tears. When
I went over to ask him why he was
crying and if everything was ok, he
said “I don’t love cleaning, I just
don’t love it”. I’m excited for a summer full of fun, new activities and
new quotes from kids.
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LOCAL NEWS
Downton on the Rideau: The Ongoing Saga at
The Ottawa Tennis And Lawn Bowling Club
By Kate Jaimet
“It’s so Downton Abbey!” one of my
friends remarked recently, as I told
her about the saga playing out at the
Ottawa Tennis and Lawn bowling
Club.
Two rival factions fight for control
of a historic tennis club!
As the current members seek
modernization, a group of old-guard
shareholders fears dispossession, and
tries to seize control of the club to
turn it into a for-profit corporation.
Will the idyllic club on the banks
of the Rideau River be lost forever?
As the machinations play out
behind the scenes, one can almost
hear Lady Mary sigh: “Must I play
another round of doubles with Edith?
It’s too tiresome!” While in the
kitchen, Mrs. Padmore fusses over
the cucumber sandwiches for the
Wimbledon brunch.
Yes, it’s a drama worthy of the
BBC. And it’s happening right here
in Old Ottawa South.
Recently, the “not-for-profit”
faction scored a critical, last-minute
victory over the “for-profit” faction,
electing its slate of candidates to the
Board of Directors at the February
Annual General Meeting. But the
for-profit faction is regrouping,
as it prepares for its next strategic
manoeuvre. The battle for the tennis
club is far from over!
To recap: Since 1939, the OTLBC
has been operating as a non-profit,
shareholding social club. But changes
to the Ontario law are forcing the
club to modernize its structure,
and choose between becoming a
not-for-profit corporation, without
shareholders; or a for-profit
corporation, with shareholders.
The current Board of Directors,
and many shareholders, wish to
remain a not-for-profit. But this
means that shareholders will have to
give up their shares. That’s given rise
to a dissenting faction of old-guard
shareholders, who are no longer
active members of the club, but who
have formed a “Committee for the
Protection of 1939 Shareholders”
seeking to hold on to their property
rights and turn the club into a forprofit corporation.
Which side will win depends
on which side can more rapidly
gather the support of a 2/3 majority
of shareholders, and call a special
meeting of shareholders to put the
question to the vote.
We know that, at this very moment,
Calling All OOS Artists and
Artisans
By Brenda Lee
OSCA is excited to announce its second annual Old Ottawa South Studio
Tour and is proud to announce its
official sponsor, Stella Luna Gelato
Café.
Held on Sept. 27th from 11:005:00, this is a wonderful opportunity
for local artists and artisans to show
off their creations, their workspace
and to discuss their process with attendees.
Registration information can be
found in the Program Guide or online
at www.oldottawasouth.ca
Last year, my partner, Christopher
Heilmann, and I were a part of the
tour. It was the first time I had ever
been a part of such an event and I
really enjoyed it. I have been a part
of many other art exhibits over the
years, but I loved the nature of a
studio tour. People could drop by and
just browse, or they could get a more
detailed experience by asking questions, seeing the studio space, talking
about process and how to make
paints, what inspired each piece etc.
The intimate nature of it being a
small group each time was lovely
and I highly encourage artists and artisans to join up, but also for those in
the neighbourhood to take advantage
of this unique opportunity to get an
in depth look at our local artists work
and to find out more about how, why
and what they create.
Brenda Lee has lived in OOS for over
17 years, is a member of the Special
Events Committee and after a recent
visit to the National Art Gallery has
changed her feelings about abstract
art and wishes she could have visited
Jack Bush in his studio.
the for-profit faction is exerting its
utmost efforts to gather enough votes
to secure its victory. Where will it
garner these votes? There are two
possible places.
First, there are approximately 300
people who are former members of
the club and hold shares dating from
1939. Some of these shareholders
support the not-for-profit option,
others prefer the for-profit option,
and many others are undecided or
uninformed. We know that the forprofit faction is sending letters to
these shareholders in an effort to gain
their support.
Secondly, there are over 200 shares
that belong to the heirs of deceased
former members. These heirs, who
are not members and have no direct
connection to the club, nevertheless
hold voting power as shareholders
and could potentially be convinced
to vote for a for-profit transformation
in the hopes of then selling their
shares and cashing in. We can be sure
that the for-profit faction is trying to
contact and influence these people.
In the worst-case scenario, a group
of people who hold shares in the
club, but have no interest in playing
tennis or becoming members, would
to take control of the club and turn
it into a for-profit corporation.
How long would it take before they
decided to sell their shares to a
developer, who would see a goldmine in the club’s valuable riverfront
property? My guess is that it would
not take long. The club as we know it
could disappear.
For current club members, the
stakes are incredibly high. But club
members have the power to stave
off the for-profit movement. They
have the power to buy a share and
vote in favour of a not-for-profit
modernization of the club. Many
members have already bought shares,
but unfortunately the numbers do
not yet add up to 2/3 of the votes.
More members must buy shares, and
they must do it soon, before the forprofit faction rallies a 2/3 majority
of existing shareholders and calls a
vote.
As Lord Grantham would surely
say: “In God’s name, people! What
are you waiting for?”
If you are an OTLBC member: Buy
a share. Do it now.
(This article reflects my own views
and was not vetted or endorsed by
the OTLBC Board of Directors.)
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LOCAL NEWS
Lansdowne’s TD Sign: Failed City and Corporate Governance
The huge TD sign on Lansdowne’s veil is again illuminated and will be on until 11:30 every
night.
PHOTO BY JOHN DANCE
By John Dance
The bad news is that OSEG
is again illuminating the
Lansdowne veil’s massive
TD sign at night. The worse
news is that the sign was
approved as a result of city
staff consulting inadequately,
deviating from standard
signage rules, and providing
incomplete information to
Councillors and others.
Last December, to the
relief of many local residents,
OSEG stopped illuminating
the 20-foot-square green
TD sign near the top of the
stadium’s Canal-facing veil.
But now that OSEG has the
ability to program lighting
throughout the stadium, the
veil sign will stay on until
11:30 every night, says
Bernie Ashe, OSEG’s CEO.
As noted in earlier
articles of The OSCAR, the
placement and size of the
sign came as an unpleasant
surprise to many. When
asked about being consulted
on the sign, Councillor David
Chernushenko responded,
“The possibility of there
being a sign at all on the veil,
let alone a very large one,
was never highlighted to the
Lansdowne Design Review
Panel (LDRP).”
“Although it seems
the verbiage is there in
the documents, we were
focusing on so many issues
that something like this
would only have merited
our attention if it stood
out in some way. I have
confirmed that all five
of the LDRP members,
including Peter Hume [then
chair of the city’s planning
committee], were surprised
and disappointed by the size
and location of the sign when
it was erected,” Councillor
Chernushenko concluded.
Indeed, the summary of
the Lansdowne signage
plan provided to planning
committee makes no mention
of a proposed large sign
on the veil. Staff requested
approval to set aside all of
the standard signage bylaw
provisions for the Lansdowne
site because, according to
the plan, “Aesthetics and
design considerations, which
contribute to place-making
and place identity, and more
subjective considerations for
ensuring signage and wayfinding fit with the design
and place-making objectives
for Lansdowne, are not
adequately addressed through
the [city’s existing] two
bylaws.”
The second sentence of the
plan’s preface reads, “When
poorly executed, signage can
detract from the experience
of the site by becoming an
overwhelming eyesore.”
So the TD sign – a huge
“eyesore” for many residents
of OOS, the Glebe and Old
Ottawa East - is hardly what
we could have expected from
the Lansdowne signage plan.
When the Lansdowne
signage plan was discussed
at planning committee, Bob
Brocklebank of the Glebe
Community Association and
Councillor Chernushenko
asked tough questions
of John Smit who was
representing the city.
Mr. Smit’s responses – all
clearly available to anybody
who wants to listen to the
audio recording of the June
12, 2012 meeting – are vague
and repeatedly couched in
soothing phrasing such as
holding Lansdowne signage
to “a higher standard”
and having “a much more
stringent process.”
Mr. Brocklebank
specifically asked if the
proposed blanket exemption
from the standard signage
bylaws was because “the
problem is that you [Mr. Smit
and the city] are intending
to install billboards within
a restrictive zone along the
Queen Elizabeth Driveway.”
To this Mr. Smit responded
only in generalities. He had
the clear opportunity to
say “Yes, we will have the
authority to install a large
billboard-sized sign on the
veil,” but, instead, he did not
address Mr. Brocklebank’s
question.
In fact, the details of the
Lansdowne signage plan
included one provision that
was a significant variation
from the standard signage
bylaw to, it now seems,
“allow” the huge sign on the
veil. This was the provision
that “No billboard sign will
be installed that is within
the urban park or within
50 metres of the Queen
Elizabeth Driveway.”
The significance of this –
which was not highlighted
in the summary to planning
committee nor mentioned
during staff testimony at
planning committee – is
that the standard signage
bylaws require billboards to
be a minimum of 500 metres
from Queen Elizabeth Drive.
So staff recommended a
provision that was a tenth as
onerous as the standard bylaw yet failed to bring this to
councillors’ attention.
Although the report to
planning committee makes
considerable reference to
the Glebe and consultation
with the Glebe BIA, there
is no reference to Old
Ottawa South and there was
never any consultation with
OSCA, GCA or any of the
residents on Echo Drive or
elsewhere. How could city
staff consider it reasonable
to erect and illuminate a
large commercial sign that
dominates the views from
the Canal, Colonel By Drive
and the eastern view from
Bank Street bridge, without
consulting those most likely
to see it?
When recently asked
about this, Mr. Smit, now
the city’s manager of policy
development and urban
design, responded, “The
TD logo is a simple place
identifier that is located on
the upper part of the veil with
internal lighting. It was also
noted [as part of the review
for the logo on the veil]
that extensive landscaping
would be provided at the
base of the veil, and that
there exists extensive mature
planting on the NCC lands
adjacent to Queen Elizabeth
Driveway. This vegetation
provides a significant visual
screen between the canal
corridor and the stadium veil
including the logo sign on
the upper part of the veil.”
Perhaps Mr. Smit and his
colleagues have never skated
on the canal or travelled
along Echo, Bank, Colonel
By or Queen Elizabeth Drive.
If they had, they’d know that
the vegetation does not hide
much of anything, let alone
the TD sign near the top of
the stadium.
When city council
delegated authority for
implementation of the
Lansdowne Signage plan to
staff surely they expected
better judgement that what
was exercised. “The veil logo
reflects simplicity in design
with lighting and does not
overpower the architectural
iconic veil element of the
stadium,” says a July 16,
2014 memo from John
Moser, the senior manager
responsible with “delegated
authority” for Lansdowne
signage decisions.
Many of us disagree with
Mr. Moser. As Old Ottawa
East resident Rebecca Aird
says, “The logo billboard
on an otherwise elegant
structure is aesthetically
wrong and an unwelcome
‘corporatization’ of this
urban landscape.” Theresa
Wallace, another OOE
resident commented, “No
other commercial operator or
institution along the canal is
allowed to put up these kinds
of intrusive signs, so why
does OSEG deserve the right
to do what others cannot?”
In addition to the dubious
conduct of city staff on
Lansdowne signage, OSEG
and TD Bank have not been
paragons of good corporate
governance on this issue.
When, at the instigation of
Old Ottawa South resident
Tim Leah, TD Bank was
challenged on having the
TD logo on the veil, Chris
Stamper, TD’s senior vice
president of corporate
marketing, committed to
reviewing the issue. After
two months, and without
consulting nearby community
associations or residents, Mr.
Stamper concluded that the
TD sign is “an appropriate
acknowledgement of our
investment in Lansdowne
Park.”
It’s as though local
communities simply don’t
matter to these corporations,
nor to the city, and that
they view the commercial
appropriation of the heritage
“commons” of the Canal as
their right.
Up until now, the City of
Ottawa, OSEG and TD Bank
have simply assumed that
public opposition to the TD
sign on the veil would just
melt away and all would
rejoice that TD Bank paid a
lot in naming rights for this
sign, thus subsidizing the
Lansdowne renovations. But
they’re wrong.
Mayor Watson, the NCC,
Parks Canada and all of those
of us who do not want to be
reminded on a daily basis
of corporate and municipal
stupidity should insist on the
removal of the TD sign. And
the city staff who finagled
its approval should be held
accountable for this fiasco.
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Page 15
OCDSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT
OCDSB Update: Budget Process and
Labour Issues
By Shawn Menard,
School Trustee
My focus for this column is on
two overarching topics which are
important to the immediate future
of public education in Ottawa: the
Ottawa Carleton District School
Board’s budget, and the labour
actions we have seen in Ontario.
School Board Budget 2015
In May, staff tabled the first draft
of the 2015-2016 OCDSB Budget.
It contains $855 million in spending
measures, with a modest use of
reserves to balance the budget.
Continuing challenges in Ontario’s
budget situation mean that on
a go-forward basis the Board is
anticipating tighter times. As Chair
of the Budget Committee, my goal
has been to ensure proper process
and limit the effect of reductions on
areas such as special education, and
reductions which would adversely
affect the well-being of students. I
will be operating under that principle
during budget deliberations and
encourage you to take part by
contacting me or going here: http://
www.ocdsb.ca/ab-ocdsb/ob/Pages/
CurrentBudget.aspx
2015 Budget Meetings • 12 May - Presentation of the staff
recommended budget
• 25 May - Delegations and Debate
• 08 June - Debate, if required
• 15 June - Debate, if required
• 22 June - Board Meeting (Budget
approval)
Questions and comments can be sent
by e-mail to [email protected].
Labour Action in Ontario
You have no doubt heard about the
labour action taking place in Ontario.
The situation is a difficult one for
staff, students and parents and the
goal should be to resolve it as soon
as possible. In my view, this will
only happen with movement away
from opening positions tabled, to a
negotiated and fair settlement for all
parties.
As of May 11th Teacher and
Occasional Teacher members of the
Elementary Teachers’ Federation
of Ontario (ETFO) began “phase
1” work-to-rule strike action by
withdrawing from Ministry of
Education initiatives, including
EQAO testing. As of May 21st
Secondary Teachers in Ottawa will
be taking a similar course of action,
withdrawing from administrative
duties.
Thus far, teachers in Ottawa
will remain in schools to carry
out their instructional duties with
students, provide extra help, and
maintain field trips and contact with
parents. The situation is such that it
could deteriorate further however,
and with Catholic Board teachers
also providing a strike mandate,
the Province could find itself in a
much more protracted state. Talks
must resume and hard lines in the
sand should be left behind for a fair
negotiated settlement. For updates
please visit ocdsb.ca
If you have any questions don’t
hesitate to contact me at shawn.
[email protected] or at 613-8680515.
Shawn Menard was raised in
Ottawa. He is a former President
of the NCR Carleton University
Alumni Association and Centretown
Citizens Community Association,
a former Federal Public Servant
and now works on behalf of cities
and communities in Canada
with Federation of Canadian
Municipalities. He lives in Old
Ottawa East and sits as the Zone 9
Public School Board Trustee.
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JUNE 2015
COUNCILLOR’S REPORT
Main Street Renewal: Two Years of Pain
For Long-Term Gain
By Councillor
David Chernushenko
The full-scale reconstruction of Main
Street from end to end is beginning
in earnest, and the appearance of big
shovels means major traffic detours
along with other disruptions for the
next two years.
Most local residents and regular users of Main Street, including
residents in Old Ottawa South, knew
this was coming — there have been
three years of public meetings, a City
Council debate, detailed design work,
preparatory utility work and 20-plus
meetings of a Public Working Group
of residents as well as affected businesses and institutions.
Still, as with any project that will
significantly affect so many people
in Capital Ward, it’s my job to ensure
that good communication is established and maintained between the
City and residents, businesses, educational institutions, churches and all
other affected parties.
This project will be long, noisy and
dusty. It will force undesirable detour
routes and temporarily change traffic
patterns throughout Capital Ward —
for example, by shifting more traffic
to Bank St. and other alternative
routes. I want to ensure that everyone knows what is happening, why
it is happening, how you can stay
informed, and what you should do
if you have special needs or observe
serious problems.
I know from the full reconstruction
of Bank Street in the Glebe a few
years ago that having open lines of
communication is essential. On this
front, I am working with City staff to
minimize the project’s impacts on all
residents.
I have also dedicated a section on
my website to the Main Street Renewal at capitalward.ca/mainstreet.
Here, you will find a comprehensive
description of the why, what, how,
who and when, along with contact information for inquiries and concerns.
At one of the Main Street planning
meetings, a local community association representative raised an important point. To paraphrase: We are all
in this together. We are all going to
suffer the impacts and we have done
our best to share the burden of things
like traffic detours. But when this is
done, we are going to have an entirely renewed street and the key piece of
a complete community renewal that
will benefit all of Capital Ward.
Seniors’ Lunch June 17
Who says there’s no such thing as a
free lunch? Seniors living in Capital
Ward (Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa
East, Heron Park, the Glebe, Glebe
Annex, Dow’s Lake, Riverside) are
invited to a special lunch I am hosting at the Colonel By retirement residence on Wednesday, June 17. Come
to hear our special guest speaker,
learn about seniors’ services provided
by the City of Ottawa, and of course
enjoy a nice, free lunch.
Sherry Nigro, Manager of Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention
at Ottawa Public Health, will give
a talk on foundations for a safe,
healthy, enriching life, including
healthy behaviours that will protect
your independence and improve your
wellbeing. She will also talk about
features of the City that improve livability and contribute to age-friendly
environments.
Seating for this lunch is limited,
so register now by e-mailing info@
capitalward.ca or by calling 613580-2487. Doors open at 11 am. The
Colonel By is located at 43 Aylmer
Ave.
Giveaway Weekend
The City of Ottawa’s Spring Giveaway Weekend on June 6th and 7th
is a great way to find a new home
for items you no longer need but that
someone else may treasure: books,
CDs and DVDs, furniture, small
appliances, kitchen implements and
extra construction materials, such as
drywall, lumber, nails, screws and
other hardware.
The rules are simple: If you are
giving items away, place them at the
curb with stickers or signs that say
“free”. At the end of the day, retrieve
any uncollected items and donate
them to charitable organizations, or
post them to Full Circles Ottawa,
freecycle.org, usedottawa.com, Kijiji
or Craigslist.
If you are “shopping” for treasures,
please respect other people’s property
by not walking on their lawns and
gardens. Take only items marked
“free” at the curb, and please don’t
discard previously picked up treasures on another person’s lawn if you
change your mind.
Please note that the Consumer
Product Safety Bureau of Health
Canada advises that used children’s
items should not be placed at the curb
for Giveaway Weekend.
OC Transpo Service Changes
Starting Sunday, June 28, the frequency of service on Routes 1 and
7 will be improved on weekends to
accommodate the expected increase
in demand due to the continued residential and commercial growth of the
Lansdowne Park development.
Councillor David Chernushenko,
613-580-2487, David.
[email protected],
capitalward.ca.
MP’S REPORT
China and Obama are Doing It, Why Aren’t We?
By Paul Dewar, M.P.
Over the past nine years, Canadians
have become increasingly concerned about the attitude of Stephen
Harper’s Conservative government
regarding climate change. As an MP,
I’ve received hundreds of letters from
Ottawans angry with the government’s utter lack of care or action on
the environment.
For years the Harper government
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for you.
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MeMber of ParliaMent
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has sought to pass the blame for its
own inaction onto the United States
and China, claiming that any action
on Canada’s part would be for naught
if these larger polluters failed to act.
This rhetoric has long become
stale, as the United States under the
leadership of President Obama is
now making a serious effort in tackling climate change. While China is
still a major polluter, it too has made
massive investments in clean energy and reduced coal-fueled power
generation to curtail its emissions. In
both countries, the clearheaded focus
on meeting the real need for environmental action is opening the door to
new green markets. While Canada
sits on the sidelines, other countries
are investing in researching, developing, and manufacturing solar cells,
wind turbines, and other energy
technology of the future.
As a result of these large-scale
investments, the International Energy
Agency (IEA) reported in December 2014 that global emissions had
effectively stalled when compared to
2013, while global economic growth
increased by 3%. This only further
undermines the Conservative’s claim
that fighting climate change is a zerosum game, with the economy des-
tined to suffer if we seek to address
this issue.
Addressing climate change is an
environmental, economic, and moral
imperative. Canada prides itself on
acting as a moral leader on many
global issues; yet with regard to
the environment, we are currently
an international pariah. The Harper
government`s withdrawal from global agreements like the Kyoto Protocol
has led to a huge loss of credibility
and prestige.
Instead of pointing to the failings
of other countries, Canada needs to
take a proactive stance. The NDP has
long lobbied the Harper government
for a serious commitment to the environment. In 2006, Jack Layton tabled
the Climate Change Accountability
Act (Bill C-377) to address this issue.
This bill died in the Senate when the
Harper government called an election in 2008. A new version of this
bill was introduced in February 2009,
and eventually passed the House of
Commons in May 2010. Then, in a
stunning act, the Conservative-led
Senate defeated the bill in November
2010. This was the first time in 75
years that a piece of legislation that
had passed the House was defeated in
the Senate.
In June 2014, the NDP again
reintroduced the Climate Change
Accountability Act (now C-224).
Seconded by Leader of the Opposition Tom Mulcair, C-224 strives to
have Canada reduce its greenhouse
gas emission by 80% below 1990
levels by 2050. The bill would also
establish interim reduction goals
between 2015 and 2045 in order to
ensure sustained compliance.
The Climate Change Accountability Act stands as a real alternative to
years of Conservative stalling on the
environment. Jack Layton started this
effort in 2006; this bill and NDP’s
efforts to pass it are as old as the
Harper government itself. I sincerely
hope that we can soon finish what
Jack started.
Paul was born and raised in Ottawa,
and has been the MP for Ottawa
Centre since 2006.
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MAYOR’S REPORT
The Order of Ottawa
By Mayor Jim Watson
In 2012, I launched the Order of
Ottawa to celebrate the extraordinary
contributions of some of Ottawa’s
most distinguished residents. Each
year, up to 15 worthy recipients are
recognized for making our city a
better place in which to live.
This prestigious civic award
recognized exceptional contributions
in the many areas of city life
including arts and culture,
business, philanthropy, health care,
education, public service, labour,
communications and media, science,
sports, entertainment or other fields
of endeavour that benefit the citizens
of Ottawa.
I believe that it is important that we
take the time to recognize those who
do outstanding work in our City by
showing them that their dedication
and hard work is being noticed, they
are emboldened to continue to push
harder and reach greater heights.
Those selected each year are role
models to those inside and outside
their respective fields, and inspire
others to work towards making
Ottawa a better place in which to
live.
The Order of Ottawa allows
us to celebrate the incredible
achievements of Ottawa’s residents,
across a vibrant and diverse range
of endeavours. From Pinchas
Zuckerman of the National Arts
Centre Orchestra, to Moe Atallah of
the Newport Restaurant, to Diane
Morrison of the Ottawa Mission,
and many more, we have people
achieving great heights in every
field and the Order of Ottawa lets us
recognize these people for it.
I encourage you to put forward
a nomination for somebody who
you think would be a deserving
inductee. After September 12,
when the nomination process
closes, nominations are reviewed
by a selection panel. (Note that
nominations by immediate family
members, self-nominations, and
posthumous nominations will not be
accepted. Municipal, provincial and
federal officials are not eligible to be
considered for this award while they
are in office.) For more information
on the Order of Ottawa please see the
flyers available at your local library
branch, community centre, or any
Client Service Centre. Or you can
find out more online at Ottawa.ca.
MPP’S REPORT
2015 Budget Builds Ontario Up
and Delivers for Ottawa
By Yasir Naqvi, M.P.P.
Ontario’s 2015 Budget – Building
Ontario Up – outlines the plan to
make smart investments in people
and our communities, build modern
infrastructure, and create opportunity
and security for Ottawa families.
Here’s a snapshot of what’s in the
Budget for Ottawa:
Funding Public Transit and
Infrastructure
Ottawa can now benefit from
$15 billion in dedicated transit,
transportation, and infrastructure
funding for communities outside the
Greater Toronto and Hamilton Areas
to help fund local transit priorities
like Phase 2 of the LRT and Highway
417 improvements.
Better Health Care
The government is investing $2
million for a new PET-MRI at the
Brain Imaging Centre at the Royal
Hospital’s Institute of Mental Health
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Ottawa Centre
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Research to foster the next generation
of research in Ottawa. A new fivefloor expansion of the University
of Ottawa Heart Institute is part of
the $11 billion the government is
investing in health care infrastructure
over the next decade to better serve
Ottawa residents. In addition, a
new $20 million Health Technology
Innovation Evaluation Fund will
support homegrown, innovative
health technologies, such as those
created in the Ottawa technology
sector.
Quality Education
More than $11 billion over 10
years is being provided to school
boards to build new schools, such
as in Ottawa to accommodate 412
full-day kindergarten students.
This funding will help build more
schools in areas of high growth, and
improve conditions of existing school
facilities.
Increasing Access to PostSecondary Education
OSAP reforms will support Ottawa
students and ensure greater access
at our post-secondary institutions
by indexing the maximum student
aid levels available and the amount
of loan forgiveness annually.
Investments are also being made
in business accelerators that will
encourage entrepreneurship in our
universities and colleges.
Supporting Youth Employment
The government is helping
150,000 more youth find a good
job through the renewed Ontario
Youth Jobs Strategy, by adding $250
million in funding over the next
two years. Ontario is also investing
$20 million to launch Experience
Ontario, a program to provide
guidance to graduating high school
students.
More Money for Local Tourism
Ottawa will benefit from $5.9
million to promote and celebrate the
400th anniversary of Francophone
presence in Ontario and from the
government’s commitment to
“make Canada’s 150th birthday an
occasion for pride and celebration.”
In addition, we are investing $2.9
million this year in 29 festivals
and events – such as Chamberfest,
Jazzfest and Bluesfest – to celebrate
our region’s diversity, heritage and
culture.
Creating Jobs
The government added an
additional $200 million to its $2.5
billion Jobs and Prosperity Fund,
allowing Ottawa businesses to access
additional supports to encourage
innovation and create more jobs. Our
Eastern Ontario Development Fund
will continue to provide support for
small and medium-sized businesses.
Support for Seniors
Ontario is doubling the Seniors
Community Grant Program to $2
million per year, which will help
seniors stay active in our local
communities. Expanding this
program will build on the success
of local organizations, such as the
Somali Centre for Family Services
and Connecting Miles of Smiles in
Ottawa, currently benefiting from this
program.
Affordable Housing
The City of Ottawa will benefit
from the extension of the Investments
in Affordable Housing program for
an additional five years, building on
the $4 billion in affordable housing
investments since 2003, the largest
investment in the province’s history,
and raising social assistance rates.
More Child Care
Ottawa child care providers will
benefit from the additional $44.5
million being invested annually to
stabilize fees, improve the reliability
of child care, and better meet the
needs of child care operators and
parents.
Reducing Poverty
Ottawa community groups will be
able to access a new $50 million fund
to combat poverty in new, innovative,
evidence-based ways – specifically at
the local level.
Our government will continue
to make investments in Ottawa to
improve our quality of life, prosperity
and well-being. As your MPP for
Ottawa Centre, my goal is to make
sure that Ottawa remains the best
place to work, live and raise a family.
Through investments in healthcare,
education, transit infrastructure and
culture, the Government of Ontario
is supporting our community towards
that goal.
To learn more about the Budget,
please visit: www.ontario.ca/budget.
Should you have any questions or
feedback, please do not hesitate to
contact me at my Community Office
at [email protected]
or 613-722-6414. I look forward to
hearing from you.
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Renovation at Capital Home Hardware:
More Products, Better Service,
Realisation of a Dream
By Ashwin Shingadia
Walking into the Capital Home
Hardware store at 736 Bank Street,
one can hardly avoid noticing that
shelves have been moved around, the
items are not in their “usual” place, so
one has to ask a sales person where to
find them. The neighbourhood shop
is undergoing a huge renovation,
probably the first one since it moved
to its present site in 1985 from Bank
and Fifth. Prior to that the building
was occupied by a Volkswagen
dealership, which the Hillock family
turned into a hardware store. Both
the OSCAR (November, 1985) and
The Glebe Report mention the move
with an article and advertisements.
“A new and larger home for Home
Hardware in the heart of Glebe at
Bank and Second” advertised the
OSCAR (11/1985, p. 22). However,
the store serves both the communities
and more. “Just as many of the
current 155,000 customers come from
the Glebe as Ottawa South and the
rest of Ottawa” said Marc and Isabel
Clement, the present owners.
“It was always my dream to
own a business” said Marc “My
grandfather owned a general store
and on my day off I would help him
in his store”. Isabel’s father also
owned Home Hardware stores in
Alexandria, Alfred and Casselman.
She worked for him for many
years. In 2008, they bought a Home
Hardware store on Beechwood
Avenue in New Edinburgh. Three
years later, on March 15, 2011, a
fire destroyed the shop. Marc and
Isabel were heartbroken. But, Marc
said, “we were looking even before
the fire to expand. A year later, we
bought the Capital shop from Chuck
Hillock, moved into our own house
in the Glebe and had another baby!”
They now walk to work. As a Home
Hardware Young Leader, Marc visited
the Disney Institute and attended
a conference in Las Vegas where
dealers exchange ideas.
Home Hardware Cooperative
Model
Home Hardware stores are 100%
Canadian-owned, with beginnings in
1964, when 127 independent Ontario
hardware stores together purchased
Hollinger Hardware of St Jacobs
which became their manufacturing
and warehousing hub. Marc
emphasized that a cooperative is a
partnership, unlike a franchise, and
he is free to order items from other
suppliers and to place them on the
shelves to suit his customers.
The current model originated with
Walter Hachborn, who received
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the Order of Canada in 2000 for
outstanding community service and
business achievement. This model
provides shared buying power,
expanded advertising, comprehensive
inventory and delivery. In Hachborn’s
words, “Our dealers – and everyone
who works for them – are driven
by more than just the bottom line.
They care about building friendships,
helping people, and serving their
community. That spirit is what defines
Home Hardware on the Canadian
retail landscape” (History of Home
Hardware, March 2001).
2014 was the 50th anniversary of
the dealer-owned hardware, lumber
building material and furniture
cooperative. Some 1,100 independent
small businesses operate under four
banners – Home Hardware, Home
Hardware Building Centre, Home
Building Centre and Home Furniture.
Capital Home Hardware is one such
small business located in the Glebe.
The Renovation
Upward expansion was not
possible, there are other tenants above
the store, nor sideways – no room.
Marc decided to re-do the floor and
achieve expansion without closing the
store. Shelves were moved around,
and much work was undertaken at
night.
While tearing up the floor, he found
old decorated wood floors going back
nearly forty years. Marc said, “Except
for the paint section, everything else
has been moved” and he wants to
thank all his customers for continuing
to bring their patronage amidst these
changes. The floor has been redone
and the walls are nearly complete.
This major renovation improves the
store layout design and provides
10% more shelving space. A new
paint desk and a new automatic paint
dispenser will also be installed. The
City is also undertaking renovations
to the parking area across the road,
behind McKeen’s Metro. Marc said
the new parking structure will have
150 spots. Most of them will be for
the public (and Home customers) but
the numbers reserved for “private
parties” is still under discussion. The
angle parking area on Second Street
will likely remain the same.
Services and Products
The range of services and products
(100,000 items) are listed on the
website (homehardware.ca) and the
store locator in Ottawa is Capital
Home Hardware. Weekly and
seasonal special offers and items on
sale are found in flyers, which are
available in paper format in store or
online. Shopping hours are 8:30 am to
6:00 pm Monday to Wednesday and
Saturday (but in summer until 8:00
pm on Wednesday). Thursday and
Friday the shop is open to 9:00 pm
and the shop is open on Sunday 10:00
am to 5:00 pm. Orders by phone and
online shopping are also welcome,
said Marc, and home delivery is
available.
After the renovation is complete
(at the end of May), twenty friendly
employees will be eager to serve
customers with some 20,000 products
from its inventory and more from the
warehouse at St. Jacobs. They include
building supplies, hardware, heating,
ventilation, cooling and home
comfort; outdoor living, paint and
decoration, plumbing and electrical
and tools. General services include
colour matching, glass cutting, knife
and skate sharpening, key cutting,
screen and window repairs. Custom
programs include project services and
advice, and supplies for organizations
such as hotels, schools and
restaurants. Marc said expertise on
interior design and condo decoration
will be available as well as a gift
section.
Home Hardware is involved with
the local community and participates
in programs such as Communities in
Bloom, Special Olympics Canada,
Tree Canada Foundation, Sick Kids
Foundation, Food Banks and the
United Way.
To thank the customers, free
popcorn is provided every Friday and
Saturday. To celebrate the new look
a renovation sale will be held from
June 4 to 7, with price reductions for
items from 20% to 60%.
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BETWEEN THE BRIDGES BABY
And Then There Were Two
By Heather Lynch
“You don`t ever really lose the baby
weight”, my friend Stephanie said,
somberly. I found this strange, coming from such a healthy, fit mother of
two, until she added, “you give birth
to a seven or eight pound baby, but
it immediately gets replaced by a ten
pound ball of guilt that you will carry
around in the pit of your stomach for
the rest of your life.”
It is 4:30 am on April 30 and I am
lying in bed, with a two-day old,
seven-pound infant latched onto my
chest for dear life, and this conversation comes flooding back to me as
Logan lets out a terrified cry from
his room next door. I want to fly out
of bed and run to him, to smooth
down his damp curls, to cuddle away
his nightmare, except, I am literally
trapped under the weight of my newest child, my newest love, the newest
extension of my life. For the first
of what will be many, many times,
I wish I could split myself in two,
be the mother I want to be to two
children, to two beings who depend
on my strength, my consistency, my
resilience.
For all of the parenting books I
have read (not many), for all of the
mommy blogger posts I have pored
over (too many), there is surprisingly
little advice geared to the new mother
of two. I was horribly unprepared for
the sudden and sweeping onslaught
of guilt that slammed into me like a
brick wall the moment I came home
from the hospital with my new son,
Redmond, and held open my tired,
bruised arms to Logan. He ran at
me with what felt like the force of a
Mac truck and I steeled my aching
body against the blow. “Mama!” he
shrieked. “Mama! Mama! Mama!”
as if to reinforce my title, my role in
his life. “Yes, my love,” I replied “I
am your mama! And mama loves you
very much.” That seemed to satisfy
him for a brief moment. He toddled
off to find a toy, and the shelter of
his grandma`s arms, which weren`t
limp with exhaustion or filled with an
infant.
There is also surprisingly little
advice on the physicality of how to
manage two kids under the age of
two. For instance, I would warmly
welcome guidance on how to, say,
prevent your toddler from launching
himself into the Rideau River while
you are desperately trying to figure
out how the brake works on your
wildly expensive new double stroller,
while on a joint venture to the park.
Or, say, how to nurse your infant
son and simultaneously prevent your
toddler from attempting to force-
fully remove your other nipple from
your body. Even more helpful would
be some shared wisdom on how to
keep your house from looking like it
has just been ransacked by burglars
who hastily made off with your set
of Sesame Street dishes and tubes of
Play Dough. I could legitimately use
some help in these departments.
So much of early motherhood I
now realize, I had blocked from my
memory. Of course I hadn`t forgotten
the night time feedings, the endless
loads of laundry, the forlorn looking dog in the hallway who has just
been told to wait another five minutes
for her walk. What I seemingly had
forgotten was just how much of a
juggling act even the smallest tasks
become, or how much Jeff and I had
to negotiate to accomplish even the
most basic of personal needs. “You
shower while I get Logan his breakfast, then I`ll bring Redmond upstairs
to his bassinet while I take my shower, but I won`t dry my hair until you
and Logan are back from walking
Bella, because Redmond will need to
nurse by then.” Or, how, as a nursing mother, living your life in 90 to
180 minute increments becomes the
new normal for six months. I found
myself feeling very anxious the
other day when my poor, 85 year-old
grandmother phoned to congratulate
me on the birth of my new son, and
it had already been 75 minutes since
Redmond had last eaten and I really
wanted to vacuum the main floor of
my house and Windex my front door
before I had to nurse again and a 15
minute phone call ate into that window of time. Mostly, I had forgotten
just how hard it can be to live every
minute of your life for someone else.
Now, for two someones.
Thankfully, I had also forgotten
how incredibly blissful some minutes, hours, or days can be, and the
sense of calm and serenity that can
wash over you at the most unexpected moments. The other day, Jeff and I
decided to take both Logan and Redmond for a drive and when everyone
was safely strapped into the car and
I peered over my shoulder and saw
not one, but two car seats in the back,
that sense of bliss washed over, as it
hit me, for the first time, that we are
now a family of four. For better, for
worse, for the really awful and the
really great, and for always.
GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION
Sunnyside Footsteps Parent Centre
All are welcome! Neighbours, parents past & present, and community business owners.
Businesses bring your banners and business cards to announce your presence.
SATURDAY
Family BBQ
JUNE
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AFTERNOON
HOSTED BY
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A Heartfelt Thank you to Old Ottawa South!
their neighbours) resonate strongly
with many of the people I talk to in
Old Ottawa South. In Southminster’s
case - despite the prominence of its
building - the priority of this small
but energetic congregation is truly
on building community. It has been
wonderful to work with a congregation that is genuinely interested in
having conversations with and in
understanding differing perspectives
be they Aboriginal, Jewish, Muslim,
atheist, immigrant, or people living
in poverty. It’s been inspiring to see
the rainbow Southminster banner
as sign of an open hearted welcome
to the LGBT community, some of
whom have joined our journey, and
been such a blessing to our faith
community.
Students line up to enjoy free food during stressful exam period. Behind the table is Amira Elghawaby (foreground),
Anne Whitehurst, Dawne Smith and Rabbi Scott Goldstein.
PHOTO BY MUNA OSMAN
By The Reverend
Dr. Meg Illman-White
Every year during exam period,
Carleton Students find tables set
up in the Atrium of the University
Centre. Those tables are loaded with
food and staffed by friendly volunteers. The purpose? To make sure
that the students who most need a
healthy snack, a free lunch or a taste
of home baking, are able to find one.
We all remember the stress of exams
and running out of money and time
to make decent meals. I cannot say
enough to thank all of our long term
partners (too many to name but who
come from as far as Richmond and
Orleans), and all of the local businesses who continue to support this
work. You have been so generous
and the students are so grateful. Then
there were new helpers this year:
Journey Church, Buttercream Bakery,
Nate’s deli, Elizabeth McNeil, David
Armstrong, Sana Ibrahimi, Rabbi
Scott Goldstein, Rabbi Anna Maranta, and Glebe St. James United.
My love for this work comes from
realizing that all these partners give
so wholeheartedly of themselves
with no expectation in return. What
a wonderful way to inspire young
adults to work for a gentler, kinder
and more generous society. Imagine a
world in which they in turn engage in
generous and random act of kindness
to those who have need.
On Sunday June 14th, Southminster’s Muslim Friends will be joining us for Worship, lemonade on
the lawn and a Potluck picnic after
church. Drop in and visit for a few
minutes over lemonade or longer
over lunch! You are truly welcome.
Friendship is indeed the strength and
core of community.
Spring is a time for change and this
spring holds change for me and for
Southminster United Church. After
six years with the congregation, I
will be bidding Southminster a fond
farewell, and striking out for a return
to rural life. I cannot say enough
about the care and commitment that
Southminster folk have for the community, country and world. This has
been an inspiring group of people
to work among. The values that the
congregation holds dear (conversation, collaboration, justice, compassion, generosity and abiding care for
I want to extend my
sincere thanks to all
the amazing people of
Old Ottawa South and
Southminster United
Church.
In July I will be heading to my
new home at Knox United in Kenora, Ontario to begin a new call as
Minister of Youth, Young Families
and Outreach with particular focus on
environmental issues and on seeking
ways to live in right relationship with
Canada’s Aboriginal peoples following the formal end of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission this June.
I want to extend my sincere thanks
to all the amazing people of Old Ottawa South and Southminster United
Church. I will be watching and listening with great interest to the future as
it unfolds for you.
Volunteers including Rabbi Scott, Anne Whitehurst, Amira Elghawaby,
Muna Osman, Elizabeth Hillier, Meg Illman-White, Adam O’Neil and
Bernie Ducker. PHOTO COURTESY THE OTTAWA MUSLIM ASSOCIATION
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Moving Stories: Creative Writing and Sport Camp
Inspire your kids this summer with Creative Writing Camps, where kids exercise both their
bodies and minds. They’ll engage their imaginations in activities that explore poetry, fiction,
comics and Aboriginal storytelling to discover the joy of writing, the intrigue of language
and the confidence of authorship.
What happens each day?
✔ Half of the day will be devoted to
creative writing programming in
Carleton Library’s state-of-the-art
Discovery Centre.
✔ Half of the day is spent playing
games and in the Carleton Athletic
Centre including a daily swim. Most
importantly, we emphasize being
active and having fun!
Camps run Monday – Friday
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $284.50, which includes a daily
cafeteria lunch and daily recreational swim.
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DATES
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Brewer Park Pond Planting Day a Success!
By Jennifer Lamoureux,
Rideau Valley Conservation
Authority
Over 120 volunteers lent a helping hand at the Brewer Park Pond
Planting Day on Saturday, May
9th. Decked out in rubber boots,
work gloves and smiles, volunteers
helped put the finishing touches on
the Brewer Park Pond revitalization
project.
Construction work began last fall
to transform the Pond and reconnect
the former artificial swimming hole
back into a functioning habitat that is
connected to the Rideau River. This
project looks to improve the pond’s
features and provide a new, vibrant
wetland with shoreline plantings,
breeding bird habitat, amphibian
habitat, and prime areas for spawning, nursery, rearing and feeding
habitat for local fish species found in
the Rideau all year round.
In this last step, volunteers gathered to green the shoreline and
upland areas — planting both terrestrial and aquatic plants including
various willows, elderberry, nannyberry, speckled alder, buttonbush,
winterberry, red osier dogwood, grey
dogwood, cardinal flower, marsh
marigold, various sedges and meadowsweet.
“People were excited to roll up
their sleeves and get involved,” says
RVCA Project Manager and Biologist Jennifer Lamoureux who commented that participants were already
noticing changes. Many species have
already moved in and are using the
new habitat. Participants at the weekend event noted barn swallows, wood
ducks, mallards, Baltimore orioles,
PHOTOS BY JENNIFER LAMOUREUX
northern water snakes, snapping
and painted turtles along with many
frogs, toads and schools of fish.
“A heart-felt thank you to everyone
who helped plant,” says Lamoureux.
“The community support and involvement has been overwhelming.
We are grateful and look forward
to watching this space become a
productive, enjoyable natural feature
in the heart of the City on the Rideau
River.”
This project is made possible
thanks to a partnership between
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. Thank you to the Ottawa South
Community Association for bringing
the residents and partners together to
ensure a project that supported community and environmental interests.
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Thanks For Coming Out to
Support Lemonade Sales!
From left to right: Oliver and Claire Waddington, Vani and Vasu Grover (Vasu
is hiding behind the flag), Zari Hoferek, Owen Drew and Joshua Rahaman.
By Claire Waddington
We would like to thank the
community for coming out to support
lemonade sales on Saturday, May
9th. My brother Oliver and I, Vasu
and Vani Grover, Owen Drew, Josh
Rahaman and Zari Hoferek set up a
lemonade sale on Hopewell Ave. to
raise money for Nepal’s earthquake
relief.
Oliver was inspired to raise some
money after reading about the
devastation in Nepal and hearing
about the effect the earthquake had on
some family friends living in Nepal.
Vasu also wanted to do something, so
they joined forces.
Later that day, George and Eva
Kovach, and their family friend
Kegan Fletcher, did another lemonade
sale on Echo Ave. also raising money
for Nepal.
“People were very generous,
helpful, and kind,” said George. “Lots
of people gave tips to us and that is
how we raised so much.”
We combined all the proceeds from
both sales to make a $325 donation to
UNICEF’s earthquake relief fund. We
sold lemonade for 50 cents for a small
cup, $1 for a big cup and cookies for
$1 each.
“Lots of neighbours came to buy
lemonade, and when they heard what
our sale was for they gave us a little
more money as a donation, that was
really nice,” said Oliver.
On Sunday May 10th Tessa QuinnCrook and Kiara Scherer also ran
a lemonade sale, raising $111 for
UNICEF’s fund to battle child labour.
R.I.P. Oscar the Traffic Cat
A memorial for Oscar the “traffic cat” on Grosvenor Ave.
PHOTO BY TRACY MOREY
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LOCAL NEWS
Bridge to Bridge Community Reforestation Group
Bridge to Bridge Community Reforestation Group volunteers.
By Kelly Quinn
On May 5th, Noel Lomer was
honoured with an OSCA lifetime
achievement volunteer award for
his work with the Bridge to Bridge
Community Reforestation Group,
which he leads in partnership with
Declan Hill. The group has planted
many trees along Bronson between
Sunnyside and the Colonel By turnoff, and eventually, this strip of land
will form a small forest buffering our
community from the noise and pollution of Bronson.
In the meantime, Noel and Declan
regularly lead teams of volunteers in
planting and maintenance activities,
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and the main spring event took place
on May 2nd. A group of dedicated
community members took part in
four main activities:
1. Planting a birch tree to commemorate Farkhunda, an Afghan woman beaten to death in
the streets of Kabul in March.
As part of this commemoration, Vajmeh Tabibi read aloud
a poem written by her mother,
Amjad Rezaei, a Persian (Farsi)
poet who was born and raised in
Afghanistan and was an instructor at Kabul’s teachers’ college
before fleeing Afghanistan in
1979.
2. Planting wildflowers to attract
butterflies and bees. While this
will eventually be a shady grove,
for now, while the trees are
small, it’s an open sunny space,
ideal for growing native wildflowers to support butterfly and
bee populations.
3. Spring clean-up. Cars parking along Bronson Place leave
behind a fair bit of litter, which
is particularly a concern in the
marshy area, a popular nesting
spot for birds.
4. Moving some of the trees planted
in previous years.
Preparation is already underway
for future work. The group will
be applying for funds for a small
memorial sign to mark the historic
maple trees planted by veterans last
fall. Also, the group has applied for
funds to help continue planting red
and white blossoming trees up to the
corner of the Colonel By turn-off.
This will ensure that there will be a
flowering avenue of trees greeting
visitors arriving to Ottawa from the
airport in time for the 150th anniversary celebrations of Confederation in
2017.
To receive news of future events,
to donate to the group, or to participate in summer maintenance and/or
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BUSINESS NEWS
A Fab First Year for the Fluid Team
The Fluid crew (from left): Ana, Kevin, Lucy and Lindsey.
PHOTO BY TRACY MOREY
By Tracy Morey
Business looks good to the trio that
re-located a hair salon to OOS last
year.
“It’s been 98.75% positive,” says
Kevin Crawley, a co-owner with
Ana Ferreira of the Fluid Colour
Concept Salon. The staff likes the
neighbourhood and the scenery. They
are pleased by how many clients are
coming from the surrounding area.
A nice touch: when Fluid started
up last year, Alta Vista Flowers sent
a bouquet to welcome them to the
community.
The Move
Ana and Kevin opened the Fluid
Colour Concept Salon when it
was located on Bronson Ave, and
previously owned by Lucy Campo.
The three stuck together, having been
colleagues for some time. Between
them they speak English, French,
Spanish and Portuguese.
There were several reasons for relocating. But where to?
“First, we wanted an area with
parking,” says Ana. Kevin was
hesitant to lose the easy Queensway
access on Bronson. He has since
changed his mind: “This area is
fantastic, the sense of community,
we were welcomed with open arms.
And traffic accessibility is not an
issue. Riverside and Bronson to
Sunnyside – it works.”
What about opening a new salon
within four blocks of four other
salons? It doesn’t seem to be an
issue. “Competitive business will
keep all of us competitive, which
will benefit all our clients.”
Vibrant Visuals
The black-grey-white glass tile
decor of the spacious location is
accentuated with chandelier lighting.
At the back of the salon is the
“colour bar” with more than 100 cans
of different colours.
Fluid provides make-up, haircuts,
straightening and blow dries. But
the specialty is colour. Colour
specialist means “being able to
effectively create beautiful colour
and understanding how to fix colour
problems” says Kevin.
The Team
Lucy has worked in many Ottawa
salons and owned a couple of them.
Ana has 25 years’ experience in the
field, does fashion shows and TV
work. She also loves competitions.
Montreal-trained Kevin works often
on TV and movie sets. Some famous
heads he has styled include Buffy Ste
Marie, Paul Gross, Tori Spelling and
Jason Priestley.
“We’re like a family,” says Ana,
who has worked 18 years with Kevin
and 12 years with Lucy. Majority
rules in decision-making.
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Another plus for Fluid is easy
access for their clients to local
bakeries, florists and pet stores.
Kevin would like to see businesses
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LOCAL NEWS
Southside Preschool to Close, Says Goodbye to Old Ottawa South
Joanne and Sharon have worked together at
Southside for 12 years. PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI
By Paige Raymond Kovach
Southside Preschool’s Board of Directors had to make the difficult decision this spring to close the school at
the end of this school year. Changing
demographics and declining enrolments in key programs due to fullday kindergarten were central factors
in the difficult decision.
“It’s the end of an era,” said Board
President, Sheryl Hamilton, “Southside has been an amazing part of
this community for more than two
decades. We are very sad that it
is coming to an end, but so happy
and proud of the impact that Southside’s amazing teachers have had on
Pratheeba and Cindy are the after-school teachers at
Southside. PHOTO BY TOM ALFÖLDI
generations of young people in Old
Ottawa South.”
Southside Preschool has been a
wonderful part of many families in
Old Ottawa South since 1968, and for
the last 21 years, Joanne has been its
heart and soul.
“I have had an amazing journey
over the past 21 years with Southside Preschool. I was able to watch
Southside grow to include a Nursery
School program, Kinders program
and an After School Program,” said
Joanne. “It has been delightful to
watch the shy 2 1/2 years olds blossom into confident eight-year-olds.”
“Over the years, I have had the
pleasure of working with many creative, dedicated educators and board
Two generations of the Bouse family had fun at
Southside. PHOTO BY PAIGE KOVACH
members. Together, we made Southside Preschool a program to be proud
of. I feel blessed to say that I worked
at one of the finest child care facilities in the city of Ottawa.”
“Southside has always worked hard
to be a home away from home for all
the children in the neighbourhood.
The experts in Early Childhood Education say that the first five years are
important in a child’s life. I believe
that skills the children learn during
this time will stay with them for a
lifetime. Skills that Southside has always included in their curriculum are
self-regulation, imagination, problem
solving, empathy and manners, to
name a few.”
“At Southside, we haven’t just met
a child, we connected with families.
Years of seeing parents and children,
that’s been the joy in it,” said Joanne.
We invite present and past Southside families to celebrate the long
and rich history of Southside, toast
our amazing teachers and staff, and
share stories and experiences of your
children’s time there at the annual
barbeque planned for June 23rd at
Brewer Park at 5 p.m.
Be sure to mention the party to any
former students, parents, volunteers
or teachers you may know. Joanne
promises good weather. Please bring
food to share with others, and something for your family to drink. See
you there.
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GLEBE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
SEVEC Brings Community Schools Together (Part 2)
The GCI-Cadotte Lake School exchange group at Cadotte Lake School, with members of the Band Office.
By Sara Dubé
In the March issue, I wrote about
the first of two segments of Glebe
Collegiate Institute’s educational
exchange with Cadotte Lake School
in the Woodland Cree community
of Cadotte Lake, Alberta. The goal
of the twinning was to learn more
about each other’s cultures as well
as to facilitate reconciliation of First
Nations and non-First Nations people
in Canada, and the goal was achieved
with enthusiasm. Furthermore, as
Jordan Sneyd-Dewar from the Glebe
group noted, “you learn more about
your own culture when you’re exposed to someone else’s.”
During the first segment of the
exchange, in February, the group of
students and teachers from Cadotte
Lake School was billeted with the
group from Glebe C.I. as we began
our friendships and explored Ottawa’s culture with educational and
team building activities such as
museum visits, Winterlude activities,
and time spent in our Glebe classes.
The exchange was reciprocated in
May, when our group from Glebe
C.I. immersed itself in Woodland
Cree culture, renewing ties with
our twins and meeting other com-
munity members. We were hosted
at their school in Cadotte Lake, at
Northern Lakes College educational
culture camp on Marten Lake, and
we experienced Jasper together. We
felt like sponges throughout the trip,
absorbing information from students,
teachers, elders, and Band members.
We were encouraged to ask questions
by everyone, and were thankful for
that.
This portion of the exchange has
been a meaningful variety of educational workshops and informal
learning. It was mixed with just
enough adventure to satisfy our
yearning to travel in order to discover
another aspect of Canada and to learn
about ourselves away from home
while building positive relationships
between the two groups. We are
grateful to SEVEC (The Society for
Educational Visits and Exchanges
Canada) for their funding of all travel
expenses, as well as to our teachers and parents who supported the
exchange, and we highly recommend
this SEVEC program. Before leaving Alberta, I asked Mrs. Farlam
(one of the supervising teachers from
Cadotte Lake School) if she would
share a thought about the exchange
for this article. She shared that “being
​ he GCI-Cadotte Lake School exchange group sharing a traditional
T
Woodland Cree hand game.
bridges between young Canadione of the teachers on this exchange,
ans and provide them with the
[she has] witnessed a great change
opportunity to learn about their
in all of the students; such growth,
country by seeing and experienca willingness to try new things, and
ing its history, geography, and
wonderful new friendships”. As a
cultural diversity. The travel
student participant, I am grateful for
costs for each participant are
that opportunity to grow my view of
covered by SEVEC through the
the world, and I encourage others to
support of the Department of
be open to doing the same.
Canadian Heritage.” (SEVEC
website)
“SEVEC is a not-for-profit organization that facilitates educaSara Dubé is a grade 12 student at
tional exchanges within Canada
Glebe Collegiate Institute who has
through [their] Youth Exchanges
immersed herself in this SEVEC exCanada program. [They] build
change with Cadotte Lake School.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
OOS Couple Tackle The Fringe Festival
By Lorne Williams
I am a cheerfully retired high
school drama teacher and
a long time resident of Old
Ottawa South. I spent my last
four years of teaching just
over the bridge at Ridgemont
High School. I was delighted
to have a real theatre to work
in at Ridgemont, since I had
spent twenty years producing plays in a cafetorium
at South Carleton High in
Richmond. Over the years,
my supportive wife, Vicki
Williams, wrote plays for my
students, and built, bought,
begged, borrowed and stole
more set pieces, props, and
costumes for high school
shows than she can remember.
After I retired, we thought
it would be fun to run a theatre company, so we formed
Fractual Theatre. We took a
play I wrote called Einstein’s
Bicycle to the 2011 Fringe.
It was a learning experience,
to say the least! But we had
good reviews and sold out a
couple of times, so, having
recovered from that great adventure, we decided to return
to the 2015 Ottawa Fringe
Festival with another of my
plays.
The first step to participate
in the Ottawa Fringe was
to win the entrance lottery,
which was held at the end
of November 2014. Only
twenty spaces were available
for the sixty local companies who applied. Fractual
Theatre was the twentieth
company to be selected! It’s
one of the few lotteries that
when you win – you give
them money.
The next steps were to
finish writing the play, to get
Vicki (who had previously
directed Aphrodite’s Turn for
the Fringe) thinking about
how to stage the play, to ask
Rick Cousins to arrange the
music, and, finally, to find
a couple of talented actors.
Fortunately, I completed the
script, Take The B Train, by
the end of January, Vicki and
Rick were quickly making
creative decisions, and two
experienced actors, Allan MacDonald and Wendi
Smith, were soon on board.
Allan MacDonald is also
a retired high school drama
teacher. He taught for many
years at St Matthew’s High
School in Orleans, where he
directed over thirty plays. He
has performed with Theatre
on the Tay, Lakeland Players, Ottawa Little Theatre
and is presently directing The
Pirates of Penzance for the
Savoy Society. His claim
to fame is acting with Dan
Ackroyd when they were
both students at St Pat’s
High.
For many years, Wendi
Smith ran her own consultant firm, and recently, she
retired to follow her three
blisses: music, comedy,
and theatre. Wendi has
performed with the Savoy
Society, GOYA, Ottawa
Little Theatre, and Lakeside
Players.
Now – a major challenge
for a small production with
a small budget – actually, no Lorne and Vicki Williams direct the play from their dining room.
PHOTO BY KEVIN WILLIAMS
budget at all – is to pay for
Kuper. Manni is not coping
for six performances between
rehearsal space. So, instead
well
with
his
recent
retireJune 17th and June 28th at
of even looking for some,
the Ottawa Fringe Festival.
we decided to hold all of our ment. He scans the obituaries daily; he dreads a carbon
With more than 50 shows
rehearsals in the front room
monoxide
attack;
he
eats
and over 350 performances
of our Grove Avenue home.
Every Tuesday and Friday af- muppets for breakfast. Tori is in downtown Ottawa, the
ternoon since mid-March, we worried about him and thinks Fringe is the only theatre fest
a Highland holiday is the
where 100% of ticket sales
have moved all the furniture
go directly to the artists.
out of our front room into the answer to all their problems.
The play explores life, love
Unlike any arts festival in
dining room. Then moved
– and lust in a car wash. If
the city, the Ottawa Fringe
the set in. Then rehearsed
you’re
young,
it’ll
remind
is neither juried, curated,
for three hours. Then moved
the set out and moved all the you of your parents. If you’re nor censored. Admission is
old, it’ll remind you of your
$12.00 plus a Fringe Pin.
furniture back in. Sigh...
parents,
too.
Hope to see you there!
So what is Take The B
We plan a preview at the
Train about? Well, I wrote
Lorne Williams is a retired
Palisades Retirement Resithe play to get inside the
drama teacher who has lived
dence before moving on to
minds of a long married
in Old Ottawa South for the
the ODD Box at Arts Court
couple, Manni and Tori
past 36 years.
Music and Beyond
By Sylvia Hughes
Music and Beyond is a classical
music and multi-disciplinary
arts festival that started in 2010.
Now in its sixth year, the range of
international artists and various
disciplines has grown to fill 21
venues across the National Capital
Region with 75 concerts and over
200 short performances from July 4th
to July 17th.
In the Old Ottawa South area,
the Southminster United Church
(15 Aylmer Ave) will be hosting
Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis
Giunta on July 9th at 7:30 pm with
a performance of arias from both
the male and female point of view.
On July 11th at 2:00 pm, Canadian
soprano Donna Brown will perform
with pianist Stefan Mendl a selection
of pieces from Schubert and Brahms.
Music and Literature come together
in the program on July 14th at 7:30
pm with author Sean Michaels and
Thorwald Jørgensen, a theremin
player from the Netherlands!
Michaels won the 2014 Scotiabank
Giller Prize and the 2014 Paragraphe
Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
for his book, Us Conductors, which
purchased online at musicandbeyond.
is centred around the inventor of the
instruments, listen to performances,
ca and at our participating outlets,
enjoy a puppet show, try a wide
theremin, Léon Theremin.
range of musical instruments assisted including Compact Music and
Down in the Glebe at St.
by talented music students from the
the Folklore Centre. Tickets for
Matthew’s Anglican Church (127
First Ave), Germany’s Auryn Quartet University of Ottawa, along with a
individual events are available online
or at the Festival office in the Byward
will be performing string quartets
range of other art activities.
Market (51 William St.).
Festival passes are available at
by Haydn, Ravel, and Mendelssohn
early-bird prices for adults ($150),
on July 5th at 2:00 pm. Sensational
Sylvia Hughes is the marketing intern
students ($70), and youth aged
British a capella group VOCES8
for Music and Beyond and grew up in
will be performing on July 10th
15 and younger ($40) that allow
Ottawa where she has relocated after
for access to all events except the
at 7:30 pm as part of their debut
living in Kingston while attending St.
Festival Plus events which require
tour in Canada. The program will
Lawrence College.
an extra ticket. Early-bird pricing
include the music of Tallis, Byrd,
Praetorius, Monteverdi, Purcell,
ends July 4th with prices increasing
David Blackwell, Rachmaninov, John to $175, $80, and $50. Passes can be
Tavener, Giovanni Gabrieli
and others.
The festival has many
family-oriented events
including a pizza concert
series and the annual free
Morning & Lunch Preschool Program
day-long Ottawa Family
ages 2.5 to 4 years
Music Expo at the University
of Ottawa on July 5th. This
Afterschool Program
event will run from 10:00 am
to 3:00 pm and have over 100
children 4 to 9 years
musicians, dancers, and artists
…children learning through active investigation.
performing both indoors
and throughout the campus.
63 Evelyn Ave. (off Main St. near Pretoria Bridge)
Along with face painting,
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Tel: 613-235-2255
kids will have opportunities
to make their own musical
A bridge of opportunity
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CARLETON CORNER
The month of May marked a whirlwind of success for students, graduates and faculty at Carleton University—from awards to research, to
fundraising and entrepreneurship,
their skills and creativity stole the
spotlight.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative for
Canada, Carleton will offer a fiveday intensive course on the ethics
of engaging in Aboriginal research.
From June 8-12, researchers, government representatives and non-governmental organizations, as well as First
Nations, Inuit and Métis community
members will gather to learn ethical practices for working with and
conducting research in Aboriginal
communities. The Government of
Canada’s Secretariat for Responsible
Research and the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council has
also given its support for the course.
Donors from across the community invested more than $25 million
in Carleton in 2014-15, making it
the university’s best single year of
fundraising. The money will support
innovative research, new programs,
student resources and real-world initiatives that tackle major community
challenges. Donors are investing in
the future, and those who will lead it.
Nine Carleton grads who are now
leaders in the business community
have been listed in the 2015 Top
Forty Under 40 Awards by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. They
are: Obaid Ahmed, Roberto Campagna, Michael Crichton, Andrew
Emmans, Joelle Parenteau, Brittany
Forsyth, Andrew Reeves, Jenna
Sudds and Amy E. Yee. The award
recognizes business professionals
under the age of 40 who epitomize
business success, professional exper-
tise, entrepreneurship and community
building.
One of Carleton’s entrepreneurs-inresidence, Giovanna Mingarelli, has
been selected as one of 15 women
executives across Canada – and
the only entrepreneur – to join the
Women in Communications and
Technology’s pilot Protégé Project.
As CEO and co-founder of mobile
startup PlayMC2, Mingarelli shares
her expertise with Carleton students
through our living lab program. In
a world where the majority of CEO
positions at top companies are held
by men, her works sets an important
example for young women entrepreneurs.
Fifty Ottawa high school girls
aspiring to become entrepreneurs had
a chance to pitch their own app ideas
during Ottawa’s first Technovation
Challenge, held at Carleton in May.
The competition encourages young
women to get involved in technology
entrepreneurship and close the gender
gap. Students from Carleton’s Master of Technology Innovation Management program helped the girls
develop business plans and prototype
apps.
Carleton’s annual spring Convocation will take place from June 9-12.
More information about Convocation
is available at: https://carleton.ca/
convocation/
and was substantially responsible for
the survival of this organization and
its journal, The Canadian Field-Naturalist, which he founded.
Percy lived at 45 Leonard, which
is very close to the new park site.
Besides being an ornithologist, he
was a conservationist well before
most people were concerned with the
environment. His conservation work
was instrumental in the creation of
Point Pelee National Park. He wrote
what was then the seminal work in
Canadian ornithology, The Birds of
Canada.
Before becoming a naturalist,
Percy studied architecture and designed several houses on Rosedale
and Leonard avenues.
Carleton Corner is written by
Carleton University’s Department
of University Communications. As
your community university, Carleton
has many exciting events of interest to Old Ottawa South. For more
information about upcoming events,
please go to carleton.ca/events.
LOCAL NEWS
Percy Taverner Park
In recognition of Percy Taverner’s
demonstrated excellence and exceptional service, the City of Ottawa has
been asked to name a new park at
130 Woodbine Place “Percy Taverner
Park”.
This is a summary of the proposal,
submitted by Ted Sypniewski and
Fenja Brodo:
Percy A. Taverner (1875-1947) was
a distinguished and internationally
honoured biologist, a pillar of the
Ottawa naturalist community and in
1911, he became the first ornithologist for the Natural History branch
of the National Museum of Canada
(now the Canadian Museum of Nature). He was President of the Ottawa
Field Naturalists’ Club in the 1930s
Park Update: New Friends and Revised Design
By Joanna Linsangan
Here’s the latest news on Percy Taverner Park at Woodbine and Carlyle.
New Friends for the Park
A group of engaged residents living near the park have come together
to formally adopt the newest park
in Old Ottawa South. That means
they’ll be the “eyes and ears” of the
park and will work together to keep it
clean once construction is completed
at the end of September. If you’re
interested in joining this group email
us at [email protected] and we
can put you in touch.
Design Modification Required
We recently found out that our
design for the park would not meet
Ontario’s accessibility requirements,
specifically, the proposed steps at
Sunnyside.
If the stairs were built, another
fully accessible entrance would have
to be created. Staff tried to design an
accessible path stretching the length
of the lot, but given the slope of the
park, the size of the path would have
rendered the park little more than a
new cut-through path.
As a result, the plan is to replace
the stairs with decorative fencing
along Sunnyside, but maintain all the
original design features proposed for
the park. The park will include trees
and plants, three 3-armed benches, a
litter receptacle, three bike racks, and
a stone dust path. The rest of the park
will be preserved as a grassy, open
play space.
If you attended our last community
meeting on April 8, 2015, a few questions arose from the event. You’ll
find the answers below:
When will the park be completed?
We’re aiming to have the park
completed by the end of September
2015.
Will we have to book the park
for private events like the Pansy
picnic?
Yes, now that this is part of the City’s
inventory of parks, you will have to
purchase a park permit. Permits can
be purchased for full day ($54) and
half day use ($27). More information can be found here: ottawa.ca/
en/residents/parks-and-recreation/
recreation-facilities/rental-city-ottawa-park.
What will happen to any extra
funds leftover from the construction?
The councillor initially allocated
$99,000 for the project, but added an
additional $40,000 when additions
were made to the design as a result
of community feedback. The revised
(fully-accessible) design has not been
completed, so we don’t know the total
of the revised budget. If that is the
case, the funds will be returned to
the ward’s Cash-In-Lieu of Parkland
account to be used for other parks
initiatives around Old Ottawa South.
What will the bike racks look like?
In honour of the park’s namesake, we
found cardinal-shaped bike racks!
There will be three of these red racks
lining Woodbine. Some of you may
know that cardinals can be found
around Old Ottawa South.
What will the benches look like?
The park benches are made out of
plastic resin and have three armrests.
Can we dedicate a bench in honour
of someone?
Yes, you may. The cost to dedicate a
bench is $3000. Please contact us if
you’re interested. The City also has a
tree dedication program.
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TH&B, Core Sample, 2014. Photo: Frank Piccolo.
THE OSCAR
Fourteen Ontario artists look at the state of the
natural world and our impact on it.
27 April – 23 August 2015
Curated by Corinna Ghaznavi
St. Patrick’s Building, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
cuag.carleton.ca
Admission is free and everyone is welcome!
Mary Anne Barkhouse, Panya Clark Espinal,
John Dickson, Soheila Esfahani, FASTWÜRMS,
Martin Golland, Sherri Hay, Kelly Jazvac,
Gareth Lichty, Gavin Lynch, Lisa Myers,
David Ruben Piqtoukun, Su Rynard, TH&B
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In My Backyard: To Addition or Not To Addition?
Old Ottawa South
residents often muse
about having a bit
more space. And a
bird’s eye view of
the neighbourhood
reveals the
prevalence of
add-ons. (Fig.
1 Aerial View
Showing backyard
additions on a row
of houses.) Typical
neighbourhood lot
depths of 100 (and up
to 135) feet certainly
provide sufficient
room for additions
onto existing houses.
But are they always
a good idea? (Fig.
2 “Stretching an
old house into the
backyard”.)
Arthur Erickson’s
notion of adjusting
a building’s inner
requirements with
the surrounding context to satisfy
“locational needs” is a helpful one
to ponder here. Before embarking
on an addition project, it’s useful to
understand what, exactly, an addition
will provide, and to ask: what
consequences will it have on the “old
part” of the house? Are there other
ways to improve a house without
extending it into the backyard?
During architectural consultations
for people wanting to modify
their home, I have on occasion
recommended against spending
funds on an addition, and instead,
argued for steering some of a
renovation budget toward reworking
the existing house. The reason for
this is that additions alter the way
the original house functions, and
one negative consequence is that
the front and back of the house are
farther apart than before. (Fig. 3 Side
Elevation and Site Plan of House
with Addition.) The new “middle”
Continued on pg. 33
Fig. 1 Aerial View Showing backyard additions on a row of houses.
sketches by Janine Debanné
By Janine Debanné
The greatly talented B.C. born
architect, Arthur Erickson (19242009) understood the notion of
belongingness of buildings to the
world around them. Erickson’s clarity
of vision on this point gives potency
to his architecture. Never detached
entities onto themselves but always
“relational” constructions, Erickson
buildings are some of the most
significant works of architecture in
Canada. He wrote these excellent
words in 1988: “I confirmed that
architecture finds its language at the
point where the inner requirements
of a building meet the conditions
external to it. This ‘dialogue’ between
a building and its setting – rural or
urban – became for me the source
of meaning in architecture…If
architecture is, as I believe it to
be, not a statement but a response,
the response is not only to those
human needs for shelter but to
strong locational needs as well…”
Erickson envisioned works
of architecture in conversation
with landscapes, and, often, in
a dialogue with a garden of his
own design (and I won’t get into,
here, the recent and tragic loss
for architectural heritage of the
tropical garden inside the Bank
of Canada, Erickson’s only work
in Ottawa). This takes me to
the topic of backyard additions.
Fig. 2 “Stretching an old house into the backyard”.
SUNNYSIDE FOOTSTEPS HAPPENINGS
By Neil Priel
We’ve really been enjoying the summerlike weather here at Sunnyside
Footsteps Parent Centre.
The beautification of our curbside
is in motion. We have a plan for a lot
of flowers to extend the beautification
that is taking place on Bank Street.
As announced in our last publication, we are looking forward to our
community summer barbeque on
June 20th, at noon. There will be
free hot dogs and refreshments, face
painting for children and great music
(reggae). Please join us for this fun
event.
Beginning in July, we will be hosting free parenting seminars. Several
topics will be on the agenda, ranging
from children and eating, to behaviour management for 1 year to 18
years old. Please let us know if you
are interested.
Our partner, Makin’ Moves Dance
Studio, is having its quarterly dance
recital “Fantasy Flight to New York”
Sunday, May 31st at 2:30pm at
Southminster United Church in the
lower hall. The community is invited.
Tickets can be purchased at makinmoves.ca. Proceeds will be going
towards an exciting trip to New York
City for a ballet tour.
We are pleased to announce that
new parking signs have been installed at the Sunnyside and Willard
corner and it has already started to
make a difference. We would like
to thank the City of Ottawa Parking
Signs and Permits Department and
OSCA Traffic Committee, in particular Winnie Pietrykowski, for providing us with community feedback and
working with us to find solutions.
There is still some work to be done
on the clarity of the signs, in terms of
who can park and for how long, but
we hope to get this resolved soon.
Pedestrians walking past our
Sunnyside entrance will find things
easier with the repositioning of our
gate onto our own lane way (versus
directly onto Sunnyside). This improvement stems from another great
suggestion from the community’s
traffic committee and we think it
makes a lot of sense.
We have a few items that we are
giving away; children’s wooden
chairs, a washing machine and an
easel. Please contact us if you are
interested.
See you soon.
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Cont. from pg. 32
– what used to be the rear of
the house – often becomes a
mere passage to the addition,
the latter usually containing
a new kitchen with an island
and a gathering area. This
middle suffers from being far
from natural light sources.
Setback requirements also
mean that the addition is not
usually allowed to be as wide
as the old house or to have
windows facing side yards;
this compounds the darkness
problem for the middle of the
house. (Fig. 4 House Plan
Before Addition. & Fig. 5
House Plan with Addition.)
After an addition, people
often remark: “We live here
now.” In the bright and
generously windowed new
addition, that is. I always feel
a bit sad for the old house,
with its reduced role and all.
Yet in some cases, it would
simply have been a matter of
cutting a large opening into
the garden wall of the old
house. This, in combination
with some strategic
modifications to the inside,
would achieve the increased
openness, brightness and
connection to the outdoors
that the renovation was after.
Many times, people consider
doing an addition before
fully exploiting their existing
house. Bringing light into
the middle of the house with
a “cut-out” of some kind,
relocating a staircase or wall,
or redistributing uses within
the older home, can have a
dramatic effect on a house.
The other issue is that the
backyard addition comes
at the cost of the backyard.
And in child-oriented
neighbourhoods such as this
one, the yard is arguably the
most precious room of the
house. The yard can be a
place of creativity, ephemeral
constructions, gardens, meals,
and repose. It seems a pity
to encroach upon it when
other solutions can be found.
And even if we don’t “use”
this outdoor room all the
time, its presence completes
the home. Furthermore,
the accumulation of many
yards side by side results in
a beautiful “swath of green”
in the middle of each of this
historic streetcar suburb’s
blocks. Large trees grow
there, away from hydro wires.
Because pleasure of our
homes is greatly increased by
these swaths, it’s not a bad
idea to leave them un-built.
Finally, the vernacular
houses of mature
neighbourhoods like Old
Ottawa South possess
architectural integrity. Their
layouts are compact but
“they work.” And there is
something so lovely about a
pure vernacular form like a
brick box with pitched roof
when it is unencumbered
by accretions. But yes, we
live differently than in the
past, and adjustments are
sometimes due. The house I
live in, for example, presented
an un-fenestrated brick wall to
its garden. How strange that
for eighty years it had never
been possible to see the yard
from inside the house. And
what joy it was to finally cut
that brick wall open. A “bench
window” now protrudes
into the garden. My family
and I can watch cardinals
and chickadee feed, and
appreciate the environment
around us. Our “locational
needs,” to use Erickson’s
words, have been satisfied. All
is good.
The backyard addition is a
Fig. 3 Side Elevation and Site Plan of House with Addition.
doorway to think about the
very meaning of architecture.
What do we wish our houses
to be, for ourselves, our
families and the people we
welcome into them? We
desire to live comfortably
and find refuge in them,
produce meals, wash, read,
get projects done, care for
others, have celebrations,
and store things within their
walls. But we also want to do
these things in a setting that
“flows,” and one that sets up
enjoyable transitions between
rooms and activities over the
course of the day and night.
We want our house to elevate
our mundane and everyday
tasks just a little bit, and to
orient us in the world.
Fig. 4 (above) House Plan Before Addition. & Fig. 5 (below) House Plan with
Architecture’s calling
Addition.
is to turn square feet into
wonderful spaces and places.
With careful attention to
overall form and dimensions
(height and width of walls
and windows, for example),
a thoughtful architect can
make an existing house work
better, without necessarily
enlarging its footprint. And
if we say with Erickson,
that architecture is better
conceived as a response than
as a statement, what matters
most is how it all connects.
Janine Debanné teaches
at the Azrieli School of
Architecture and Urbanism,
Carleton University, and lives
in Old Ottawa South.
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ABBOTSFORD AT THE GLEBE CENTRE
Sprucing up Abbotsford
The Games Room after the renovation.
By Pat Goyeche
The Glebe Centre’s Community
Programs at Abbotsford had a “make
over” these past few months. It
began with the generosity of members, volunteers and families who
contributed to the Caring Tree over
the Holiday Season. The Members’
PHOTO BY PATRICIA GOYECHE
Council helped to create this direct
fundraiser which made possible the
purchase of brand new Shuffle Board
and Air Hockey tables as well as the
re-felting of our snooker/pool table.
This means that both the general
membership, and clients, of the Day
Away Program have new and fun
ways to participate in recreation.
The games room looked inviting
for members and clients with the
new game boards and upgraded felt
on the pool table, but that made the
worn out carpet look even worse.
The old carpet had seen better days,
many boots and shoes. A fair amount
of ‘duct tape’ held it together! So
we got to work. We replaced the
carpeting in the common areas of the
second floor so the games room truly
is inviting in many ways.
One good thing led to another
when we were selected to receive
funding from The Government of
Canada through the New Horizons
for Seniors Program 2014. This
program provides funding to organizations such as ours that help seniors
actualize their wish to engage with
their communities through active living and social activities.
The New Horizons funding allowed us to purchase new refrigerators in the community kitchen as
well as new appliances (dishwasher,
stove and refrigerator) in the Day
Away kitchen, which serves clients
in the early stages of Alzheimer’s or
dementia. We are now able to replace
the activity/lunch tables as well as
new counter tops and cupboards in
the Day Away kitchen. The 1980s
are remembered fondly by many, but
2015 has proven a good year for a
much needed and appreciated makeover and revamp!
Over the years, The Glebe Centre
Community Programs at Abbotsford
have managed to obtain grants and
extra monies through Federal and
Provincial programs targeting the
improvement of services and facilities for seniors in our community. We
are very appreciative of these programs and for the tenacious staff and
volunteers who work to improve the
facility. The Glebe Centre Inc. fosters
a “we can do it” attitude and actively
works to ensure the needs of community programs are met.
Come and see for yourself the
many enhancements at Abbotsford
and know that we are working hard
to find the monies to complete some
major projects that to date have not
been completed such as new windows for our heritage home, much
needed floor replacement on the main
level and refurbishing of the front
porch.
LOCAL NEWS
Celebrate the Year of Sport with Ottawa’s Community Cup!
By Emilia de Somma
The 11th annual Community Cup
offers OOS residents a chance to
show their “Year of Sport” colours.
Because 2015 has been proclaimed
the “Year of Sport” in Canada, cities across the country are hosting a
variety of sporting events, and all
Canadians are being encouraged to
celebrate sport in their neighbourhoods. Ottawa’s Community Cup, being held on June 28th at Brewer Park,
is a great way to get in on the action.
The Community Cup is a free, family-friendly event that helps newcomers from around the world connect to
their new Ottawa home, through the
international language of sport. The
Community Cup will satisfy all your
soccer cravings: playing, learning
skills, and cheering on teams.
The Community Cup is especially
proud to be partnering with the Ottawa Fury FC, in order to feature a
women’s sport zone. This zone will
be a comfortable, friendly, and fun
place to learn a new sport and make
connections. It’s a great addition to
the Community Cup, which seeks to
provide welcoming communities and
networking opportunities for newcomers of all backgrounds.
Still in the spirit of celebrating
sport, the Community Cup will also
YOGA CLASSES
FOR THE WEEKEND TO END WOMEN’S CANCER
june 5
june 19
june 24
(all welcome 10am)
(all welcome 10am)
(babywearing 11am)
drop in welcome
Minimum $10 donation
sidewalk barbecue
june 27th 11am-3pm
featuring facepainting and balloon animals
1080 bank st. at sunnyside ave.
feature a family sports zone with a
Pan Am Games theme. Many Ottawa
sports clubs will be in attendance, offering kids and the young at heart the
chance to try out all kinds of sports,
including baseball with the Ottawa
Champions Baseball Club. There will
also be prizes and medals for those
who participate!
Hosted by the Catholic Centre for
Immigrants, the Community Cup
started small, but with the support
of community partners such as TD
Canada Trust, CBC, CKCU-FM, the
Ottawa Police, the Conseil des écoles
catholiques du Centre-Est, and a
dedicated team of volunteers, it has
since grown to become a day-long
party in the park, with something
for everyone. The ever popular Kids
Zone, with games, crafts, and entertainment, will be back. Plus, there
will be great local food on hand courtesy of some of Ottawa’s best food
vendors. Another highlight of the day
will be an official Citizenship Ceremony, where new immigrants will
become new Canadians. Everyone is
welcome to come witness this special
event at 9:30am
The Community Cup is Sunday,
June 28th at Brewer Park, from 9:00
am to 5:00 pm For more information,
go to www.communitycup.ca.
Doors Open Ottawa Comes to
OOS June 6 & 7
By Kathy Krywicki
Sites all over the City of Ottawa
will open their doors to the public in
this free two-day event. Doors Open
offers a behind-the-scenes look at
some of Ottawa’s most significant
buildings – learn about the history,
architecture, and uses of these significant local spaces. There are a few
spots of interest to choose from in
Old Ottawa South such as the Mayfair Theatre, the Ottawa Tennis and
Lawn Bowling Club, Southminster
United Church, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The weekend is a chance to discover places you’ve never been to
or learn more about those you know.
Check out the City of Ottawa’s website (www.ottawa.ca) for a schedule
and the full list of participating buildings, then take to road and explore!
A free shuttle bus service will be
available and admission to all buildings is free.
Kathy Krywicki is a long-time
resident of the neighbourhood and
enjoys exploring extraordinary
places, especially within walking
distance of OOS.
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DESIGN DILEMMAS
Showcasing Kids’ Art
By Vanessa Riddell,
Owner of Sachi Staging and
Creative Home Interiors
Dear Design Dilemma, I want to
frame artwork from my kids in a
way that shows off their art work
but I would like to be able to update
the artwork from time to time. Is
there any way I can showcase their
artwork that I can switch up easily?
Is there a frame that can be used and
reused frequently?
It’s coming to that time, when
families receive mountains of
children’s artwork and projects from
school. And depending on how many
children there are, or how prolific
your little Picassos are, it can quickly
add up!
Here are a few ideas for what can
be done with all that artwork (or
poems or stories).
the art to the wire. This can be done
vertically or horizontally. And it is
easy to clip and unclip the art with
the curtain clips.
4. Mounting ledges and narrow
shelves along walls can create a
convenient spot to display artwork. It
also makes it easy to get the frames
down and switch out the art.
5. A fun option could be to
photograph the art, poems, stories,
etc. and create a poster that can
be hung with or without a frame.
Black’s at Billings Bridge has many
options for creating posters, magnets,
and art from photographs.
6. How about old fashioned clip
boards? An easy dollar store item,
they can be mounted on the wall and
artwork clipped in and out.
7. Mod podge is another idea,
especially for a tween or teen room.
Artwork mixed in with posters,
magazine pictures and photos can be
applied directly to the wall to create
a very unique and personal art wall
collage. Just brush Matte gel Medium
onto the art and paste it to the wall
like wallpaper.
8. How about frame decals or
frame wallpaper? How about creating
your own frames with washi tape?
These can be placed on a wall and
artwork can be positioned inside the
frames. It’s also easy to remove the
tape and decals when you change
your mind.
9. Black board with magnetizing
paint makes it easy to create a kids
art wall.
10. Finally, Lil Da Vinci frames are
the best frames to open and replace
artwork easily. They can be found
on Amazon or at any Michael’s craft
store.
a device and launch the app, you are
taken to the page where you left off
on the other one, the last time. The
most popular e-reader apps, Kindle,
Nook, Kobo, Sony and Next Issue, as
well as the Ottawa Public Library’s
Overdrive and Zinio, are available
for most platforms.
you are studying and comparing them
back home, to help make your buying
decision. In a pinch, your Camera
app can even be a quick scanner,
allowing you to grab a shot of a page
of a book, magazine or newspaper
that can be a reminder later for further research.
dropped. This app is available for all
phones or tablets.
YouTube
For people who think of YouTube
as nothing but videos of cute kittens frightening big dogs, this might
seem like an odd choice in a list of
useful apps. To those people, we
suggest a closer look. For example:
The next time you buy a new camera, or decide that now is the time to
really learn how to use it, set aside
that indecipherable manual that came
with it, and look it up on YouTube.
There will almost certainly be several
videos (in varying degrees of professionalism) that demonstrate very
clearly all of your camera’s popular
functions. Another example: Last
week, our household saved more than
$200 by referring to several clear and
explicit instructional YouTube videos
showing how to install the specific
model of dishwasher that was coming
to our kitchen. YouTube is available
for all mobile Operating Systems.
Flashlight
This is more likely to be handy on
your phone than a tablet, but having
a flashlight always in your pocket or
purse is very often an incredible convenience or safety item. Flashlight
apps on modern devices are very
bright, compared to their ancestors.
Make sure that the icon is on the
first screen, so that you don’t have to
fumble for it in the dark when you
are trying to find that key you just
1. How about picking up some
thrift store and garage sale frames
and positioning only the frames
(removing the backs and glass) on a
wall and creating an “art wall”. Then
artwork can be easily placed inside
the frames and just attached to the
wall. Or, put corkboard inside the
frames to easily pin up the artwork.
2. Purchasing half a dozen Ikea
frames in the same colour but in
different sizes is always a fairly
inexpensive and easy option. And
at Ikea Hackers www.ikeahackers.
net/2011/04/frame-holder-for-kidsdrawings.html you’ll find a solution
to amending your frames so that
swapping out art becomes fast and
easy.
3. Another Ikea option would be
to hang curtain wire and clipping
Please send your design dilemmas or
inquiries to [email protected].
COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS
The Most Useful Mobile Device Apps
By Malcolm and John
Harding, of Compu-Home
This column is for our grownup readers; there will not be any discussion
of Angry Birds. Games are the most
popular mobile apps by a considerable margin, but we intend to concentrate here on what we think are the
most useful ones.
Skype
One might ask why it would be
necessary to have an app for voice
communication on a mobile phone,
but there are times when Skype or
one of the competing Voice-OverInternet services can be very handy.
To begin, you might occasionally find
yourself where Internet is available,
but cellular service is iffy. Perhaps
you would like to make a call from a
tablet that is not a cell phone. Another time that Skype becomes very
helpful is when you are roaming, and
want to avoid horrific long distance
charges. Of course, traditional Skype
calling is free but many people don’t
realize that you can also buy small
increments of credit to use with
“Skypeout,” for calling landlines
very inexpensively. You can sit in
a restaurant in France and use their
wifi to call a telephone in Canada for
less than 2 cents per minute. Skype
is available for all mobile Operating
Systems.
E-Reader Apps
If you have an e-reader app on
your mobile phone, then you always
have your current book or magazine
in your pocket, for times when your
doctor is running behind schedule,
or your friend is late to meet you for
lunch. If you have the same app on
both a cell phone and a tablet, you
can sync them so that if you pick up
Camera
Learn to use the Camera app for
much more than just scenery and
selfies and dinner plates. In fact, it
can be a very efficient notebook.
Take a shot of the nearest post when
you are leaving your car in the
parking garage at the National Arts
Centre, and save yourself 30 minutes
of forlorn wandering to look for it
when the performance is over. Take
pictures of several items and sales
tickets when you are shopping, so
that you can refer back to them when
As an added bonus, we are pleased
to point out that all of the above apps
are free!
Have a great summer!
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FILM REVIEW
Phoenix
Reviewed by Tony Wohlfarth
Phoenix is set in bombed-out,
occupied Berlin in 1945. Directed
by Christian Petzold, it is the World
War II story of Nelly Lenz (played by
Nina Hoss), a survivor of Auschwitz.
In the opening, jarring scene,
Lenz travels in a truck which is
stopped by American soldiers as it
enters Berlin. Her face is concealed,
indeed disfigured, by blood-soaked
bandages. Nelly, a singer, is traveling
to Berlin for facial reconstruction
surgery with her friend Lena (Nina
Kunzendorf).
Lena has arranged passage for
them to Palestine, but Nelly has
other plans. She wants to pursue a
former romance with Johnny (Ronald
Kunzendorf). After undergoing facial
surgery, she escapes from Nelly’s
apartment and searches the streets
of Berlin for her former lover. She
finds Johnny in a seedy nightclub
(called the “Phoenix”). But he does
not recognize her. A convenient
plot twist, since Johnny may have
betrayed her to the Nazis – which is
how she ended up in the death camp.
Johnny sees that this enchanting
woman bears a striking resemblance
to his late wife. He suggests she pose
as Nelly, so the two of them can split
her family fortune.
Phoenix is an alluring drama
which is all about deception, disguise
and re-invention, and features the
DEVELOPMENT
The Infill Development Bylaw
By Anna Cuylits, OSCA
Planning and Development
Committee Co-Chair
The Infill II Zoning Bylaw
Amendment will be presented to
the City’s Planning Committee in
early June, and if passed, it will be
presented to City Council later in
June.
The Infill II ZBL Amendment was
made public on May 15, 2015. It
applies to residential zones R1, R2,
R2 and R4. Old Ottawa South most
prevalent zones are R2 and R3. Some
of the recommended changes are
intended to achieve the following:
• Ensure that rear yards are at least
equivalent to the building height
• Proper access to rear yards by
securing sufficient width on one
side of a lot
• Prohibit certain types of
fitting music of Kurt Weill. Filmed
on location in Poland, Phoenix is a
compelling story told in the tradition
of film noir.
Petzold is one of Germany’s most
famous film directors. His prior
works include Barbara in 2012,
which won a Best Director Award at
the 2012 Berlin International Film
Festival. Phoenix won the FIPRESCI
Prize for best film at the 2014 San
Sebastián International Film Festival.
The film was also won a special
mention at the 2015 Hong Kong
International Film Festival.
Phoenix had its world premiere at
the 2014 Toronto International Film
Festival. It has numerous screenings
at the By-Towne Cinema from
projections into yards to minimize
intrusion of privacy situations and
massing effect
• Ensure a building height that
maintains existing permitted
storeys, e.g. four storeys in R4,
three storeys in R3
• Limit the projection of roof top
terraces above the maximum
height
• Limit the size of roof top patios to
minimize privacy issues
Average grade
Existing average grade will now
have to be calculated prior to any
site alteration. This new method of
measurement will help to mitigate the
height impact of new developments.
What does this mean for Old
Ottawa South?
In the R2 subzones the maximum
building height has been reduced
from 9.5m or 11m to 8.5m and for
duplexes from 9.5m or 11m to 8.5m
or 9.5m. In the R3 subzones the
maximum building height is reduced
from 11m to 10m. For triplexes
the maximum building height is
maintained at 11m. The maximum
height of 10m represents a height that
can accommodate a three-storey flat
roof building.
Two and three-storey flat roof
June 12 – 18. For schedules and
times, readers may wish to consult:
http://www.bytowne.ca/
Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based
freelance film writer and critic. He
originally reviewed “The Phoenix”
at the 2014 TIFF on behalf of Outlook Magazine.
buildings qualify for 3m roof top
projections and terraces above the
maximum height. The roof top
projection needs to be setback 3m
from exterior front/ rear walls and
1.5m from exterior side walls.
Monitoring period
Staff will be monitoring
development under the new
regulations for a period of two years.
Conclusion
The direction of Infill II can be
supported when considering rearyard setbacks. Unfortunately the
10m maximum height in our R3
subzones will continue to allow
three-storey flat roof buildings, that
are not characteristic of most of our
neighbourhood and that come across
as massive. This massiveness is
exacerbated by the above maximum
height rooftop projections and
patios. Therefore the Centretown
Community Association is requesting
that rooftop projections should be
considered as part of the maximum
building height, and not be allowed
above the maximum building height.
Old Ottawa South can request the
same.
The Infill II Zoning By-law
Amendment is available on the City’s
website.
Minimum Parking Requirements Review
original, one-of-a-kind art & fine craft in a beautiful park setting
Saturday & Sunday June 20 & 21, 2015 10 am to 5 pm
Central Park, The Glebe (Bank Street at Clemow Ave.)
Free admission
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The City of Ottawa is undertaking a review of the minimum parking requirements under the Zoning By-law. These are the rules that specify how much
on-site parking must be provided as part of any new development.
View the project website which includes the pros, cons and consequences
of the City’s parking requirements, as well as some of the possible changes
under consideration.
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Minimum Parking Review
City Hall
110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th Floor
Mail Code 01-14
K1P 1J1
Website: ottawa.ca/minimumparking.
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SECOND THOUGHTS
A Contemplation of History
By Richard Ostrofsky
Contemplation, the highest stage of
meditation, literally means “spending
time with.” You concentrate to focus
the mind on something and place it
(for the time of that practice) at the
centre of your consciousness. You
meditate (from a root meaning “to
measure”) either to “measure” your
own mind against the emptiness
of pure consciousness, or against a
“seed” that has been chosen for the
practice: a flower, a candle flame, a
mantra, a grain of sand. Meditation
is the source of all perfections in the
teaching of the influential Japanese
Zen Monk Hakuin, and it is basically
just a practice of solitude – of
spending time with oneself without
the distractions of normal existence,
the body’s appetites, or a soundtrack
on the iPod. Contemplation means
abiding in the pattern that is found.
Meditation builds a mandala – an
icon of the cosmos – around the seed
originally chosen. To “contemplate”
is to dwell in this pattern, thrive in it,
once it is built.
The pattern that interests me here
is not that of the cosmos, or of planet
Earth, or even of homo sapiens,
the human species. Valid as such
perspectives would be, the “centre”
I choose is the project of civilization
which had its earliest beginnings only
about ten thousand years ago when a
few people abandoned the foraging
life style and settled down at one
location where food and drinking
water were available (or could be
made so) all year round. The whole
program of civilization has been to
adapt and harness Nature for human
purposes; and that program is worth
some serious contemplation as it is
now in crisis.
History fascinated me already
when I was a boy; a lot of my reading
over the years has centred on the
history of civilization. My problem
today is to live with what I have
learned, and to understand what that
learning process was really about, as
its opportunity cost was pretty steep.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about
the past which might (I only say
might) have been better spent on the
present or future. As an old geezer
these days, I find myself with two
questions: First, why would anyone
contemplate the past as I have done,
not as a professional historian but
rather more than casually? What
have I gotten from this pursuit that
someone else might wish for? And
second, how should one read history
to receive what it has to offer? The
detailed history of a single country,
a single ethnic group or religion,
a single anything is endless, when
you get really into it. Culling some
worthwhile knowledge, a worthwhile
pattern, out of all this detail is no
trivial matter.
The first question I can answer
quickly: History, the whole roiling
miserable, still unfinished story of
documentaries to get a sense of the
past glories and grievances, is the
whole story. David Christian’s TED
context from which the headlines
talk on Big History and Andrew
of today’s news originate, and the
Marr’s BBC series on The History of
only context from which they can be
the World (available on YouTube) are
understood. Only history (applied
especially recommended.
to what we know of human nature)
Second, as a defensible (if
can explain how it is possible for all
somewhat Eurocentric) framework
those vehement, violent fanatics, on
for the whole story, memorize the
every side of every issue, to feel sure dates of just eight milestone events,
that they are right and that their cause and read enough about the context
is worth killing and dying for. Every
of each to know why they are worth
belief and conflict you can think
remembering: the fall Uruk to
of has its roots in history. Without
Sargon of Akkad around 2200 BC;
awareness of the past, we remain
the conquest of the Persian Empire
ignorant fanatics – whichever side we by Alexander in 331 BC; Octavian’s
happen to be on.
defeat of Antony and Cleopatra in 31
The second question is much more BC; the fall of the Western Roman
difficult. In this short column, I can
Empire to the Hunnic or Germanic
only take a stab at some kind of
leader Odoacer in 476; the fall of
answer.
Mecca to Muhammad in 630; the
In any serious effort to get one’s
fall of Beijing to Genghis Khan
head around human history, I see
in 1215; the fall of Constantinope
at least three problems: First, there
to the Ottoman Turks in 1453; the
is too much of it, with too much
publication of Newton’s Principia
confusing detail that is at first sight
in 1678. Of course, this is not to say
meaningless. Strategic ignorance
that no other events and dates are
is needed, a conscious decision to
worth remembering. Only that these
ignore all the tiny “brush strokes” to
are enough to stand for and give
get a glimpse of the whole painting.
some structure to the whole timeline.
Second, the panorama of history can
Next, pick one period that interests
be seen from many perspectives,
you and go into it intensively, using
some of which are mutually
YouTube documentaries, Wikipedia
antagonistic. The way history is
(and other Web resources) and the
taught in school is either mythical
public library for detail. Elizabethan
or boring, if it is taught at all; but no
England, the American Civil War,
one can read or write about history
and the last years of the Roman
except from his or her own angle.
Republic have attracted me over
To approach a balanced view of
the years, and I am now working
the whole picture you must stand
up to a binge on Meiji and imperial
way back and make allowance for
Japan – fascinating as the story of a
your own priorities and prejudices.
traditional culture’s encounter and
Finally, reading history takes a strong adaptation to the modern world.
stomach, because so much of what
Biographies of key individuals are
happened (and is still happening) is
especially informative, because they
either disgusting or just horrible. We
give a sense of what it was like to
do not find a glorious or an inspiring
encounter history (that period of it) in
story but one of greed and cruelty
one creatively personal way.
and terror. What remains is a sad
Finally, do not disdain historical
wonder that the same creatures who
novels if they seem serious and
could commit those atrocities could
well-researched, as these have a real
also compose and love Leonardo’s
place – especially for the amateur.
paintings or Mozart’s music – that the A good novel of this kind goes
same Germans who listened to Bach
beyond what the academic historian
and Schubert
could also elect a
Hitler and follow
him into the abyss
(to give just one
iconic example).
The right
conclusion is that
what happened
there is not a story
about them (those
evil Nazis). It
is a story about
us humans, and
what we come to
under the wrong
conditions.
On how
to proceed,
here are a few
suggestions: First,
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read one book
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and watch some
can do to recreate the period in
imagination. This, after all, is what
you are trying to do – and really, all
that you can do. Even the academic
historiographer can only tell his story
by supplementing scholarship with
imagination. There are many such
novels – many available at the public
library, as they have always been
popular. Mary Renault’s series on the
history of ancient Greece, and Gore
Vidal’s on the history of the United
States are books that I’d especially
recommend. The two novels about
Cicero by Robert Harris are also very
good.
From that point, if you are hooked
on history as I have been, just
follow your nose and read about
what interests you. But also, while,
following current events in the
current media, it is suggested that
you go back about 150 years to the
beginnings of our post-modern world
in the last decades of the 19th century
and the beginnings of the 20th. In
this recent epoch you will find a
wealth of history that our journalists
have conveniently forgotten, because
our politicians and their corporate
sponsors prefer it so.
Richard Ostrofsky’s Second Thoughts
bookstore was a hub of conversation
and contemplation in Old Ottawa
South for many years. He continues
to write for the OSCAR from
Montreal on whatever catches his
interest. He would welcome feedback
or conversation about his articles
at [email protected]. Further
essays and ruminations can be found
at www.secthoughts.com.
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LANDSCAPING
Get Lost in Nature with a Sensory Garden
Flowers like Echinacea are visually stunning and attract butterflies and
movement into the garden
By Jay Ladell
Summer is finally here and it is time
to get out outside and experience
nature! Nature helps us to relax,
restore and re-energize. You can
bring nature to your backyard with a
sensory garden that appeals to all five
of our senses. The colour, fragrances,
texture, sounds, and taste awaken the
mind.
Imagine being in your backyard
and listening to blades of ornamental
grass rustling against each other in
the breeze. Or smelling the soothing
scent of English lavender (Lavandula
angustifolia), feeling the velvety
touch of a Jackman clematis (Clematis x Jackmanii) and tasting freshly
picked blueberries (Vaccinium).
These sensory experiences will trigger the delight you felt in childhood
when you first discovered nature.
Sensory gardens are healing gardens. They improve mood, clear out
the mind and increase both memory
and attention spans. Children are
healthier and more active when they
reduce screen time and go out in natural settings and play. The simple act
of handling fresh, rich soil releases
serotonin, the so-called feel-good
chemical in our brain. Feel different textures: run your fingers along
a blade of ornamental grass, touch
the velvety-fine hairs of lamb’s-ears
(Stachys byzantina), or dip your
hand in the fountain. Go barefoot and
experience sponge-like moss or sink
your toes into pea-sized river stones.
Two of my favourite activities are
sitting on soft, smooth flame-treated
limestone steps and soaking up the
sun, or curling up in a hammock and
reading a good book.
Sound advice for the restorative
garden: When street noise or the constant drone of a neighbour’s air conditioner interferes with your wish for
peace and quiet, you can help mute
these undesirable sounds with soundabsorbing shrubs and bushes. Water
features lull us into a deep relaxation
state. A fountain with a bubbling rock
and a waterfall mimics the sounds of
a gurgling brook. Or try a fountain
with slow-moving water that cascades in channels and reminds you of
a slower-moving winding stream.
Sounds in a sensory garden often go hand-in-hand with motion.
Moving water attracts thirsty birds
looking for fresh water. Their tweets
and chirps are delightful. Consider
adding tinkling wind chimes or taller
plants such as the downy and smooth
serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea
and A. laevis) that whisper in the
wind. Movement can continue into
the evening with an outdoor fire.
Propane, natural gas and alcoholbased fire features conform to City of
Ottawa by-laws for urban properties
in Old Ottawa South. The radiating
heat together with the flickering and
glowing flames make us instinctively
huddle around in a circle on a cool
night.
Fragrant plants improve cognitive
abilities, mood and sense of wellbeing. Try pinching a bit of Russian
sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia) or
lavender between your fingers. Your
fingers will be left with an evocative,
relaxing scent. Mint plants and ever-
greens produce a sharp, clean fresh
smell, while moss produces a spicy
one: both of these smells stimulate
the brain. To promote relaxation, consider a Dwarf Korean Tree (Syringa
meyeri ‘Palibin’ std.), the Mock Orange Shrub (Philadelphus coronarius)
along with the European Snowball
(Viburnum opulus ‹Roseum›). These
scented flowering plants will entice
children to smell and touch and with
encouragement, to make indoor
bouquets.
Last on the sensory garden list
are edible ornamental plants. Enjoy
edible rhubarb in spring and blueberries in summer. Grow sweet peas up
a garden trellis or consider a herb
garden. A herb garden allows you
the luxury of going straight from the
garden to the plate. If you have a
youngster, ask them to pick the herbs
so they get to know the differences
between thyme, basil, rosemary, and
the others.
Sensory gardens allow us to get
lost in nature. When we notice the
sights, sounds and tastes we can’t
help but be drawn from our hurried
lives into the tranquility of the present moment.
Send your topic ideas to oscar@
landscapeottawa.com or visit: www.
landscapeottawa.com
Jay Ladell is an award-winning
landscape designer, industry certified-installer, member of Landscape
Ontario and owner of Ladell Landscaping & Gardens.
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FINANCIAL PLANNING
Give Your Portfolio a “Spring Cleaning”
By Bob Jamieson, CFP,
Edward Jones - Financial
Advisor
Springtime has arrived. If you’re like
many people, the arrival of spring
means it’s time to spruce up your
home and property. But why stop
there? This year, consider applying
some of those same spring-cleaning
techniques to your investment
portfolio.
Here are some ideas you may want
to put to work:
Get rid of clutter. You probably
don’t have to look too far around your
home to find things that are broken
or simply no longer useful to you.
If you poke around your portfolio,
you might make similar discoveries:
an investment that has chronically
underperformed, duplicates another
investment, or met your needs in
the past but is less relevant to your
current situation and goals. Once you
identify these types of investments,
you may decide to sell them and use
the proceeds to take advantage of
opportunities that may prove more
valuable to you.
Consolidate. Over the years, you
may have accumulated multiple
versions of common household items
— brooms, mops, hammers — which
pop up mysteriously in various parts
of your home. You might find it more
efficient, and even less expensive,
if you consolidated all these things
in one centralized location. As an
investor, you also might find that
consolidation can offer you some
benefits. Do you have one Registered
Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with
one financial services provider and
a second RRSP with another? Have
you scattered investments here, there
and everywhere? By consolidating
all these accounts in one place, you
can cut down on paperwork, reduce
fees and, most importantly, unite your
investment dollars so that it’s easier
for you to see what you have and then
follow a single, coherent investment
strategy.
Prepare for turbulent weather.
As you know, springtime can bring
heavy rains, hail, strong winds and
other threats to your home. As part
of your overall spring cleaning, you
may want to check the condition of
your roof, clear branches away from
your house, clean your gutters and
downspouts, and take other steps
to protect your property from the
ravages of Mother Nature. And just
as you need to safeguard your home,
you’ll want to protect the lifestyles
of those who live in that home —
namely, your family. You can help
accomplish this by reviewing your
life and disability insurance to make
sure it’s still sufficient for your needs.
Get professional help. You may
find that you can’t do all your spring
Pensioners Fight Government Plans to Change Pensions
By Randy Ervin
On May 4, the Ottawa Branch of
the National Association of Federal
Retirees (FSNA) held its annual
general meeting at the RA Centre
on Riverside Drive. The Ottawa
Branch has more than 34,000
members in the National Capital
Region. The National Association
of Federal Retirees is a nonpartisan organization promoting the
interests and protecting the benefits
of retired federal employees. The
keynote speaker at the meeting was
Rosemary Pitfield, National Director
of Communications, who described
the organization’s response to recent
changes to the pension landscape
by various levels of government in
Canada and what the Association is
doing in response to this. Since 2013,
Provincial Governments in New
Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec have
introduced legislation to reduce the
earned benefits of their employees
and pensioners and there are
indications, depending on the result
of a recent civil suit brought against
the New Brunswick government
by their retirees that the Federal
Government may not be far behind.
The National Association
has joined with other pensioner
organizations to form the Canadian
Coalition for Retirement Security to
ensure the protection of public and
private sector employees accrued
and retirees’ pensions and benefits.
The Coalition is composed of 23
organizations representing close
to 6 million working and retired
Canadians. In the coming months,
the Association, as part of the
Coalition, will mount a non-partisan
campaign to leverage public support
for federal and provincial legislation
to protect benefits that have already
been earned by public and private
sector employees and retirees. The
results from recent focus groups
organized by the Association make
it clear that Canadians want the
Federal government to live up to the
commitments they have made to their
pensioners and employees and see
not honouring these commitments as
“despicable” and “shameful”.
The Association has met with
the leaders of the Federal Political
Parties including the Opposition
Leader, Thomas Mulcair, who has
promised to support legislation to
protect accrued benefits and Liberal
Leader, Justin Trudeau, who has
been sympathetic toward the idea.
The Association has not yet been
able to meet with anyone from the
Government.
In the months leading up to the
Federal election, the Association will
launch the “Honour Your Promise”
campaign on the web to mobilize
members to get involved in the
election and to highlight these issues
in every riding across Canada. As
well, all-candidate meetings will be
organized in key ridings across the
cleaning by yourself. For example,
if your carpets and rugs are heavily
soiled, you may need to call in a
professional cleaner. Or if your tree
branches have grown out of control,
you might need to bring in a tree
trimmer. Similarly, when you decide
to “tidy up” your portfolio, you’ll
need some assistance from a financial
professional — someone who can
study your current mix of investments
and recommend changes, as needed,
to help ensure your holdings are
suitable for your risk tolerance, time
horizon and short- and long-term
goals.
Spring cleaning can reinvigorate
your home and your overall outlook.
And by tidying up your investment
portfolio, you can help gain some
of that same optimism — for your
future. If you would like another
perspective, please give me a call
at 526-3030 to talk, or to set up a
complimentary meeting.
country to discuss these issues.
Finally, a tool kit will be sent to
members as part of the fall issue of
Sage, the Association magazine. For
more information go to the FSNA
website at www.fsna.com/.
Randy is a long time resident of
Ottawa South and a retired public
servant. He is currently a volunteer member of the communication
committee of the Ottawa Branch of
FSNA.
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TRILLIUM RECIPES
Generations
By Jocelyn LeRoy
treats; healthier options in cookies,
breads and pies; cakes with nothing normal in them; and traditional
Christmas home-made baking. I
have met these requests largely
with recipes based on my childhood
baking adventures. I use the word
“adventure” to cover both baking
and cooking, because experimentation and discovery are at the heart of
preparing foods for a wide range of
tastes and sensitivities.
Flashbacks
Just yesterday a 30-something
woman stepped into Trillium and
exclaimed, “Everything smells the
same. I was one of the Hopewell
kids. I used to come every day. Oh!
The rocking horse is still here.”
Many of this bakery’s customers
come back after long absences, and
they recall riding the low-slung rocking horse when young. In fact, some
of our patrons first came to Trillium
as seven- or eight-pound infants
strapped to their moms. A bit later,
these youngsters, looking pleased
with themselves, entered the bakery
in the poshest of strollers. (Whatever
happened to the old-fashioned baby
carriage, formerly the pram?) Trillium finally got a ramp for easier access by carriage, stroller, wheelchair
or even a five-seat baby train.
When older (seven to twelve), the
young customers loved to come in to
buy a cookie, either by themselves
or with their friends. My teen-age
customers are good with their money
– they have their budgets down pat.
No helicopter-parenting here!
The Importance of Mothers
Mother’s Day has come and gone
once again. I serve new moms, fresh
out of university or newly back from
far-flung travel. I greet moms from
the past, coming back to see if their
rocking horse is still there or to check
whether Trillium still makes their favourite cookies, usually gingerbread
or raisin-oatmeal or “Big Jean.”
My admiration remains boundless
for my mom. Starting life as a bigcity person, she eventually migrated
to wilder places where she became a
pioneer, cutting paths through thick
forest with the scythe, and sawing
large pine logs for a fine cabin. She
made it beautiful and comfortable, all
without electricity. She learned ingenious ways to solve problems. After
reading “Labrador Woman,” my
mother was resolved to create a more
refined, safe and nature-friendly life
in the woods: she didn’t have to give
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birth to eight children in a screen-less
cabin.
My mother always summed up
the miracle of human birth with one
word, “ugh” and the phrase “babies
don’t come with a manual.” That may
be true to some extent, but at least
today childbirth is far less risky than
it was in decades and centuries past.
My mom created memories that
feature rising bread dough sticking to
the living-room drapes. I once leaned
back on the sofa into the curtains. My
fuzzy curly hair instantly became entangled in sticky, gluey dough. “Patience is a virtue,” said mom as she
spent hours untangling her squirming
daughter, and she did it in her usual
state of grace. More than once, she
explained to me how a thing should
not just be done, but be executed with
aplomb. This word became a touchstone for me when tackling chores,
housework, art or establishing and
managing a bakery.
Meanwhile, one of mom’s friends
tamed her rambunctious sons with
threats of oatmeal-porridge sandwiches in their school lunch-pails or
surprise visits to the schoolyard to
kiss her boys in front of their friends.
These were not empty threats: all
these strategies worked.
I hear mom’s voice whispering
through the pine boughs and in the
sparkling water droplets running off
my canoe paddle on golden, misty
mornings on flat water. Kudos to
my husband’s mom who liked small
sports cars. They were seldom available for her son to drive. The spare
seat usually had one of her goats
tethered to it. Now that was aplomb.
Say It with Flowers
At Alta Vista Flowers, which adjoins Trillium, the evidence is in. On
Mother’s Day weekend, hundreds of
bouquets were whisked out the door.
There were lilies, roses of every
colour, orchids bursting into bloom,
and weirdly wonderful plants. All
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One of Trillium’s favourite customers is an-almost-hundred-year-old
walker who travels with “Hyram,”
her aid-on-wheels for long outings.
In her 70s she bicycled the Cabot
Trail and, in Ottawa, clocked five
hundred miles a year on foot (without
Hyram until last year). I can’t imagine myself walking that far. Actually,
I can, but my tricky hip objects.
Yet I feel inspired by her attitude
of gratitude. It gets her through aging
with much enjoyment because she
has deep appreciation for her good
health, mobility and Hyram. And for
the treats she rewards herself with,
usually Eccles Cakes.
There is also Elizabeth, my
97-year-old friend who still walks the
woods behind my home. She’s blind,
but yet she sings with her friend who
now accompanies her.
Now that’s aplomb.
Thanks, mom!
Jocelyn Leroy has been the owner/
manager of Trillium Bakery in Old
Ottawa South since 1980.
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Maple Shortbread
A luxury treat for all generations
Leaders you can trust.
Excitement guaranteed!
tributes to mom, whether older or
brand-new. Or in the middle, faced
with juggling jobs, homemaking,
kids’ activities, volunteering, sports
and much, much more.
Since our two shops (“flours and
flowers”) have joined in our new
space, we have enjoyed brisk sales of
Mother’s Day cakes, flowers, meals
to go and more fun this year at the
“Kids Flower Shop in the Yellow
School Bus,” the family’s 1970s VW
van (still roadworthy). Another feature this year was beautiful sidewalk
art in honour of moms. If you happen
to be a florist mom, a foot massage
and time-off meal preparations were
probably more appreciated than flowers.
Ingredients
½ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
¼ cup sugar
¼ tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup maple syrup
1 ½ cups flour (all-purpose is best)
¼ tsp salt
1 tbsp turbinado sugar
Directions
Preheat oven to 325ºF.
Butter a tart pan with a removable
bottom.
Cream butter and sugar together with
mixer for 5 min. or until light and
fluffy.
Beat in vanilla and maple syrup.
Gradually stir in flour and salt to
make a soft dough.
Pat dough evenly into pan.
Prick with fork.
Sprinkle with turbinado sugar.
Bake for 25 – 30 min until golden.
Let cool in pan for 10 min. Then cool
on wire rack.
Cut into wedges.
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RED APRON COOKS
Early Summer Treats
By Jennifer Heagle
Summer has finally arrived, and
after the long cold winter we have
endured, we deserve a few months
of sunshine and warm weather. Our
warm May weather has given our
gardeners and farmers a jump start
on the growing season, which means
some things are ready to be harvested
a little sooner than usual.
In mid-May my business partner
and friend Jo-Ann and I went foraging for ramps in the forest belonging
to my mother, just outside Osgoode.
Ramps are a bulb-forming perennial with light green leaves. Ramps
grow in the forest, in strongly rooted
groups just beneath the surface of
the soil. They are a rare seasonal
RED APRON RECIPES
Spaghetti alla Carbonara
with Wild Ramps
Serves 4 to 6
1 package dry spaghetti (I used gluten free pasta)
4 large eggs
1 large bunch of ramps
250 grams bacon (I used Seed to Sausage’s Garlic & Juniper) sliced thinly
1 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
or Pecorino (Canreg Station
makes a nice one)
Freshly cracked black pepper, sea
salt
Clean and trim the ramps. Separate the white bulbs from the green
leaves. Slice the bulbs thinly and
slice the greens into 1 inch pieces.
Bring a large pot of generously
salted water to a boil. Add the spaghetti and cook as per instructions on
the box, or until al dente.
Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over
medium heat. Add the bacon and
sauté for about 3 minutes, or until
the meat is crispy and golden and has
rendered its fat. Remove the bacon
and add the white parts of the ramps
and a little butter or olive oil if necessary. When softened and brown, turn
off the heat.
In a small bowl, whisk the eggs and
half the cheese until well-combined.
Return the pan to medium-high
heat and add the ramp greens and the
bacon. Add ½ cup of the hot pasta
water and toss in the drained spaghetti while it is still hot. Remove
the pan from the heat and add the
egg mixture, stirring quickly until
the eggs thicken. The residual heat
will cook the eggs but work quickly
to prevent the eggs from scrambling.
If the sauce seems too thick, thin it
out with a little bit more of the pasta
water.
Season liberally with freshly
cracked black pepper and remaining
cheese. Taste for seasoning; depend-
delicacy and are a protected species
in many places, including Quebec. I
am fortunate that our ramps grow in
abundance on private property where
we are able to strictly manage the
amount and frequency of harvesting.
When we returned to the shop at
the end of a muddy, wet day, we proceeded to pickle the bulbs for sale in
our retail store, and sauté the greens
for inclusion in our Thursday fresh
meal. Sautéed in butter, ramps are
sweet, mild and extremely delicious.
If you are lucky, you may still be able
to pick up fresh ramps at the farmers’
markets and the Byward market in
early June.
I brought home a handful to enjoy
for dinner and have included the
recipe, below.
Other early summer vegetables
that you should be able to source at
the local farmers’ markets include
asparagus, fresh herbs, baby greens
and mushrooms (possibly morels).
Meat & poultry farmers are able to
sell throughout the year, and many of
them make delicious bacon, sausages, and cured meats. Chickens lay
all year round and eggs are always
available at the markets. All of these
ingredients make for a great quiche
or frittata (recipe below).
June is also berry season and I
couldn’t be more excited. There is
no way that a store bought, commercially grown, California berry
compares to a fresh picked locally
grown option. The season is short,
but oh so sweet.
There are so many ways to enjoy
berries on a daily basis. Start your
day with a bowl of yogurt, topped
with berries and Justine’s Granola
(available in our retail store), sweetened with honey or maple syrup. Add
fresh blueberries or strawberries to
summer greens, toss with a sweet
vinaigrette, and garnish with some
poppy or sesame seeds. Blend fresh
berries, your favourite rum, some
triple sec, and a bit of ice together for
a wonderful summer blender drink.
Fresh mint adds a bit of zing! Or
you can whip up some scones and
top with fresh berries and whipping
cream for a tasty dessert! (Recipe
included).
ing on the kind of bacon used, it may
not need any salt. Serve immediately.
is in a food processor. Place all dry
ingredients in a food processor and
pulse to blend. Add cubed butter and
pulse until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. In a separate bowl mix the
cream and eggs.
Put dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and add wet ingredients.
Mix until combined, but do not overmix.
I find that it’s easiest to scoop the
scones out using a ½ cup ice-cream
scoop and place these onto a baking sheet. Alternately they could be
rolled and cut, or formed by hand.
Brush the tops with remaining
cream and dust with a sprinkle of
sugar. Bake in a 375-degree preheated oven for 15 minutes, or until
golden brown.
Serve with whipped cream & sliced
fresh local berries.
Farmers’ Market Quiche
1 9.5″ piecrust – uncooked
We make our own piecrust using butter and lard but you could purchase
one or even make a crustless quiche.
2 tablespoons fresh pesto or chopped
fresh herb (This time of year we like
to make ramp or garlic scape pesto)
½ cup crumbled or shredded cheese
– (Les Folies Bergères feta is a great
choice)
¼ cup chopped green onions or
ramps
½ cup of chopped cooked bacon or
sausage (a variety of market vendors
smoke bacon, or cure sausage)
1 cup of sautéed seasonal vegetables
(asparagus, ramps, greenhouse
tomatoes)
3 eggs (Bekings is what we use!)
½ cup milk
salt & pepper to taste
Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
Spread cheese, pesto, green onions,
sautéed vegetables & bacon or sausage on the bottom of the unbaked
pie shell. Whisk eggs & milk and
season with salt and pepper. Pour
into pie shell. Place in the oven and
bake for 30-35 minutes, or until
eggs are set and crust is golden
brown. Let sit for 15 minutes before
serving.
Scones with Summer Berries &
Whipped Cream
5 c flour (or gluten free flour blend)
½ cup sugar, plus a few tablespoons
for dusting
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 ¼ cup butter, cold and cubed
5 eggs
1 cup cream, plus a few tablespoons
for brushing
I find the best way to make scones
Jennifer Heagle is a Chef, foodie &
co-owner of the Red Apron. Jennifer
is a longtime resident of Old Ottawa
South & East.
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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
Children’s Special
Programs
PD Day: Block Party / Ça
dé “bloc”
Building Boom: show off
your architectural creativity
with Lego®. / Archiboum!
Architectes en herbe, à vos
Lego®!
Friday, June 5, 2:00 pm
(180 min.)
Summer Reading Club
Opening Ceremony/
Cérémonie d’ouverture
pour le lancement du Club
de lecture d’été
Join us for the TD Summer
Reading Club 2015 kick-off!/
Joignez-vous à nous pour le
lancement du Club de lecture
d’été TD 2015. Drop in.
Monday, July 6, 10:00 am
(240 min.)
Teen Programs
TAG (Teen Advisory
Group) (Ongoing Event)
Sunnyside Teens--join our
new Teen Advisory Group
and have a say in which
programs, activities and
services will be offered to
youth and also help plan and
implement them. Ages 14-18.
To join, stop by the branch.
Look for Teen Programs
presented by Teens: such as
Peer Tutoring plus Drop in
Board Game & Card Game
nights. Meet once a month on
Fridays at 4:00 p.m.
How to Survive Your First
Day at High School
In this friendly info sharing
session, you will hear about
useful strategies for your first
day in Grade 9 from other
teens that have already been
there.
Saturday, May 30, 2:00 pm
(120 min.)
Exam Cram / Études
intensives
Need a spot to cram for
exams? Come to the library
and get your studying done.
We provide a quiet study
space in our Meeting
Room (downstairs, past the
Children’s Area), complete
with WiFi access.
Study hard and good luck on
your exams!
June 10-25
Adult Programs
The Writing Workshop
An opportunity for writers of
fiction, non-fiction, poetry,
and experimental forms to
gather. Our emphasis will
be on developing worksin-progress for publication.
The workshop will provide
writers with encouragement
and constructive criticism
from their peers. Author/
Facilitator: Michael
F. Stewart: http://
michaelfstewart.com
Registration.
Mondays, 6:00 p.m. (120
min.): June 8
Ukrainian Conversation
Join our group led by a
fluent Ukrainian speaker.
Start off with a review of the
Ukrainian alphabet. All are
welcome. Registration.
Mondays, 7:00 pm (60
min.): June 1, 15
Conversations Among
Canadians
We will, as usual in
this program, share our
experience, knowledge,
reflections and ideas on
a wide range of topics
relevant to life in Canada,
past, present and future.
Exploring our own attitudes,
we will be alert for a growing
sense of community and
goodwill among Canadians
at home and with others in
the world, including living
in community with the
land. Making an informal
appreciation of the Canadian
situation, we will continue to
challenge our imaginations
and find our voices, hoping
to offer helpful contributions
around the celebrations
of the 150th anniversary
of Confederation in 2017.
Registration.
Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00
pm (120 min.): Until June 24
Knit & Knatter: Learn to
Knit
Have you always wanted
to learn to knit or improve
your skills? Now is the time
to come to Sunnyside and
bring your knitting needles
and yarn to begin knitting
that first scarf for winter, or
share your project if you are
an experienced knitter and
enjoy conversation and a cup
of tea! Drop-in.
Wednesdays, 1:00 pm (60
min.): June 10, 24
Adult Special Programs
Discovering Canadian
Antiques and Folk Art with
Shaun Markey
This presentation by Shaun
Markey will delve into his
30 years as an antique and
folk art collector and dealer.
Shaun will draw upon his
book, Folk Art in the Attic,
for visuals, background
information and anecdotes on
the subject. From definitions
of folk art, to various forms
and media used by artists, to
examples of iconic Canadian
folk art, this session should
appeal to anyone who has
an interest or wants to learn
more about Canadian folk
art and antiques, and will be
relevant to the beginning,
intermediate and advanced
collector. Registration.
Thursday, June 4, 6:30 pm
(90 min.)
How to Manage Stress
and Trigger Relaxation
Response
This program starts by
teaching you how to identify
your sources of stress.
Strategies to help manage
your stress will be discussed
such as nutrition, relaxation
techniques, botanical
medicine and Reiki.
Incorporating these practical
strategies into your life will
trigger the body’s relaxation
response so you can
successfully protect yourself
from the negative effects
of stress on your mental,
emotional and physical
health. Registration.
Saturday, June 6, 2:00 pm
(120 min.)
Travelogue to Nepal—
Kathmandu and rural
areas
Come and enjoy a
presentation that highlights
some of the “must sees”
of Kathmandu and then
ventures outside to the
villages that make up
this country that is 75%
mountainous. Presented
by Anna Van Adrichem Rochon from the Friendship
Force. The Friendship
Force International provides
opportunities to explore new
countries and cultures from
the inside by bringing people
together at the personal
level. Through the signature
program of home hospitality,
local hosts welcome
international visitors into
their culture, sharing with
them meals, conversation,
and the best sights and
experiences of their region.
Registration.
Thursday, June 11, 6:30 pm
(105 min.)
Citoyenneté Canadienne
Étapes à suivre pour
demander la citoyenneté
canadienne: déterminer
l’admissibilité, remplir la
demande, savoir calculer
la période de résidence,
payer les frais et le Guide
D’Étude . Programme
offert en collaboration avec
ALASS /LASSA. Inscription
recommandée.
Thursday, June 18, 1:00 pm
(210 min.)
Vienna – Amsterdam River
Cruise
Al Sangster hosts this
exciting adventure!
Beginning in Vienna and
traveling up the Danube
River to Kelheim, Germany,
this cruise crosses the 170
Km Rhine Danube Canal to
Bamburg, down the Main
River to Rudesheim, and on
to Amsterdam on the Rhine.
Daily stops are made, and
include a vinyard and wine
tasting in the Wachau Valley,
the Melk Abby, and tours of
Passau, Bamberg Cathedral,
Nuremburg Castle, the
castles of the Rhine, Cologne
Cathedral and many others.
Highlights include Sigfreid’s
Mechanical Music Museum
in Rudesheim. Registration.
Thursday, June 18, 6:30 pm
(60 min.)
Adult Book Clubs
European Book Club
The European Book Club is a
cooperation of the European
Union National Institutes for
Culture (EUNIC) in Ottawa:
the Austrian Cultural Forum,
the Goethe Institute, the
Romanian Cultural Institute,
the Instituto Camoes of
Portugal and the Embassy
of the Republic of Poland.
The EBC aims to promote
European authors and their
works. A book title from
an EU country is selected
for discussion each month.
Registration.
June title (France): Réparer
les Vivants by Mailys de
Kerangal (2014)
Wednesdays, 6:00 pm (120
min.): June 17
Non-Fiction Adult Book
Club
Join in stimulating
discussions on selected titles
of non-fiction in a friendly
and relaxed atmosphere.
A variety of topics will be
discussed depending on
the interests of the group.
Bring your suggestions.
Registration.
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JUNE 2015
June title: Blue Future:
Protecting Water for People
and the Planet Forever by
Maude Barlow (2013)
Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.):
June 5
Second Friday Adult Book
Club
Meet new people and join in
stimulating discussions on
selected titles in a friendly
and relaxed atmosphere
every second Friday of the
month. Newcomers are
welcome. Registration.
June: Book selection for
2015-2016
Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.):
June 12
Mystery Book Club
Do you enjoy reading
mysteries? Share the
enjoyment of good mysteries
in a relaxed atmosphere.
Join us for discussion every
third Friday of the month.
Registration.
June: Book selection for
2015-2016
Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.):
June 19
Sunnyside Adult Book Club
Join in stimulating
discussions on selected titles
in a friendly and relaxed
atmosphere on the last Friday
of the month. Registration.
June: Book selection for
2015-2016
Fridays, 2:00 pm (60 min.):
June 19
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The Cat (Videos) Came Back – To Ottawa!
By Kim Elmslie
Attention, cat enthusiasts! If you love cats
and cat videos, you’ll want to mark your
calendars for the city’s favourite cat-centric event. You’re invited to celebrate all
things feline at the Just For Cats Festival.
The Just For Cats Festival is back with a
meow on Saturday, June 13th at the Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park in the
Glebe from 10 am – 6 pm.
The festival features a cat-centric
exhibitor hall, therapy cats, cat lectures, a
cat-inspired dance performance, bouncy
castles, face-painting and more! There is
also an exclusive reel of the best cat videos on the internet programmed by Will
Braden creator of the Henri Le Chat Noir
and created by the Walker Art Center!
Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the
door. There’s also a VIP experience for
$25 where you’ll be able to enjoy a glass
of wine, a cupcake, goody bag and more!
The Just for Cats Festival just played
to a sold out audience in Toronto at the
TIFF Bell Lightbox with special guest
deadmau5. Now the festival is coming
to Ottawa!
The Just For Cats Festival supports a
national initiative to increase the welfare
of cats across the country and enhance
the human cat bond. It is the only series
of national festivals exclusively dedicated to cats and improving their welfare.
All proceeds support the Canadian
Federation of Humane Societies and the
Ottawa Humane Society.
June is Just for Cats month so put on
your cat ears and celebrate your love of
cats with us!
Visit www.justforcats.ca for more
information.
Kim Elmslie is the Communication and
Advocacy Manager for the Canadian
Federation of Humane Societies and
also a resident of Old Ottawa South.
AROUND TOWN
The Third Annual Belmont Paddlefest is Sunday June 28.
The Third Annual Belmont
Paddlefest is Sunday June 28
between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm. Join
family, friends and neighbours in
Windsor Park at the dock to celebrate
the Rideau River and paddling. Let’s
all paddle together on the Rideau
River. Bring whatever watercraft you
have and then try something new like
SUP (stand up paddleboards), surf
skis, outriggers, rowing, etc. Hope to
see you there, and remember to bring
your lifejacket or certified pfd and
your sense of adventure!
Enjoy the parkways: Every Sunday
morning until the Labour Day
weekend, all can take advantage of
over 50 kilometres of scenic parkways
in the heart of the Capital Region.
Parkways in Ottawa–Gatineau are carfree and open exclusively to cyclists,
in-line skaters, runners, walkers and
people with mobility aids. Both lanes
of Colonel By Drive (8 kilometres): 9
am to 1 pm, from the Laurier Bridge
to the Hog’s Back Bridge. Once again
this year, representatives from the
Alcatel-Lucent Switchbacks will be on
hand to offer free bike checks. Colonel
By Drive (near Clegg Street). Most
Sundays to August 30, 9 am to 1 pm.
The NCC is still looking for
volunteers who are available at least
two or three Sundays to help out
with traffic intersection monitoring
and bike patrolling. Please contact
the NCC Volunteer Centre at 613-
239-5373 or volunteer_benevoles@
ncc-ccn.ca.
Free QI-Gong Workshop taught by
Master James Foo, July 11, 9:30 am
to 12 noon and Group Healing 1-3 pm
at 630 Island Park Drive, Kitchissippi
United Church. Space limited. Tel:
613-762-8893 or e-mail afung46@
hotmail.com; and view www.
jamesfoo.ca.
Friends of the Central Experimental
Farm Events in June:
“Books for Blooms” Used Book
Sale June 20 and 21 from 10 am to
4pm. Literally thousands of the best
used books in Ottawa are for sale at
the Friends annual Books for Blooms
Used Book Sale. Enjoy browsing
outstanding selections culled from the
home libraries of friends and families
from around the region. It’s a 2-day
sale for a reason!
“Three Gardens in Three Days”
Bus Tour June 23 to 25. Visit 3
magnificent gardens in three days
– Sonnenburg Estate in upstate
NY, Royal Botanical Gardens in
Burlington, and Parkwood Estate in
Oshawa, first come first served, $450/
pp double occupancy. First bus has
sold out!
Call 613-230-3276 or go to
www.friendsofthefarm.ca for more
information on all these events.
Opera Lyra 20th Annual Garden
Party. Tuesday, July 7th - 6:00 pm.
Residence of the Ambassador of
Italy (1475 Chemin d’Aylmer Road,
Gatineau). For our 20th Annual
Garden Party, enjoy a magical summer
evening of enchanting arias, gourmet
Italian hors-d’oeuvres and wines, set
in the lovely gardens of the residence
of the Ambassador of Italy. Guests
will also have the opportunity to enjoy
a dazzling fashion show by Earlene’s
House of Fashion. (In the event of
inclement weather, the Garden Party
will be held the following evening on
July 8th.) Regular Pricing: (until July
6): $95, Door Price (July 7): $100.
Ticket includes ballot for exciting
doors prizes. A partial tax receipt will
be provided.
On Saturday June 6th the Orleans
Young Players theatre school, housed
at the Shenkman Art Centre will
celebrate the end of their 25th year.
Events have taken place all year
culminating with the “Silver Screen
Costume Party” on June 6th from
7-10 pm. Come in costume as your
favourite Marilyn, James Dean or
Audrey and dance the night away.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased
on line at www.oypts.ca or call 613
580 2764 limited tickets
Parking Lot Sale and BBQ at
St. Thomas the Apostle Church.
Saturday, June 13. 2345 Alta Vista
Drive (by the firehall) 8:00 a.m. to
1:00 p.m. Spaces available in advance
for $20 includes table. Call Jim at
613-523-2487 or Don at 613-7336218.
Bytown OperAntics present Songs
for a New World. Music and Lyrics
by Jason Robert Brown Originally
Produced by the WPA Theatre, New
York City, 1995. Friday, June 12,
7:30 pm. Kailash Mital Theatre D
283 - Loeb - Carleton University.
Tickets are available from performers,
at Leading Note, at Granata Music,
at both Compact Music locations, at
Books on Beechwood and via www.
eventbrite.ca
The Spring Giveaway Weekend
will take place on Saturday, June 6
and Sunday, June 7. Don’t put your
unwanted stuff in the garbage. Set
them out at the curb on Giveaway
Weekend. Tour your neighbourhood,
community and city to find hidden
treasures. Giveaway items could
include: Books, CDs and DVDs,
old furniture and small appliances,
construction materials - including
drywall and hardware such as nails,
bolts and screws, kitchen gadgets,
dishes, cutlery, pots and pans,
unwanted gifts Please consider safety
when deciding which items to set
out to the curb. Rules for setting out
items:
•Place items at the curb
•Place signs on items with the word
“FREE”
•Ensure any items that you want to
keep are away from your giveaway
treasures
•At the end of the day, bring any
uncollected items back to your
home
•Giveaway Weekend etiquette
•Respect other people’s property,
don’t walk on people’s lawns and
gardens
•Take only the treasures marked free
at the curb
•Don’t discard previously picked-up
treasures on another person’s lawn
Remember leftover items can be
donated to charitable organizations.
Visit usedottawa.com to buy, sell,
and give away used items. Check out
FullCirclesOttawa who encourage the
re-use of items that are already out in
society and are no longer needed in
their original homes. Other websites
to help get rid of unwanted items
include Ottawa Freecycle, Craigslist
and Kijiji. Use our Waste Explorer to
determine how to get rid of items that
are not allowed to be placed curbside
for garbage collection
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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].
Wanted
Wanted: Old ladders and step-ups,
even wobbly ones, to prop garden
plants. Fran [email protected]
--------------------------------------------For Rent
For Rent: 2 bedroom apartment
in Paris in July. Beautiful and
completely renovated. Located in
the posh 16th arrondissement. Very
bright. With a large terrace onto
a very quiet and beautiful garden.
All amenities. Metro: Jasmin.
If interested, please email asap:
[email protected]
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For Sale
For sale:
•Black and Decker electrical
finishing sander, 7 ½” (L) x 3 ¾”
(W) $19.
•White Bauer figure skates, ladies
size 8, with guards. Vinyl molded
outer boot, removable soft inner
boot. Gently used. $22.
•Mastercraft 10” Bench Saw, plus
manual. Used only once on a test
piece of wood. $69.
•WW11 British Army rucksack.
$15.
Call 613-730-3423 and speak to
Chris or Glenda or leave a message.
--------------------------------------------For Sale: Solid wood armoire,
excellent condition. Excellent for
anyone who needs more closet space
- we moved and don’t need it now!
72 inches high by 31 inches wide by
20 inches deep. $200 (paid $450 a
few years ago)
Round solid wood kitchen table, pine
top and white pedestal stand. Good
condition. 37 inches across. $50 or
obo.
--------------------------------------------For Sale: Child’s bed from Ikea.
Excellent condition. $25 or obo.
Please contact nielsen29@hotmail.
com or 613-513-9508.
--------------------------------------------For Sale: Beautiful lakefront
furnished property, Lake Hughes,
Quebec. Swiss-style chalet, 4
bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fireplaces.
Skiing.11/2 hours from Ottawa.
Lyndsay 514-774-8019.
--------------------------------------------For Sale: Toyota Corolla 2003.
LE Grey. A/C, power doors/locks.
150,000 km. Excellent condition.
$3000.­­ TEL: 613-421-3644.
--------------------------------------------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, an electric trolling
motor, battery and charger, a new
toaster oven, one burner hot plate,
one life jacket, rocking chair. Call
613-730-0034.
Available
Semi-retired local woman is seeking
people needing help with annoying
tasks such as housework, clean-ups
between tenancies, basement cleanouts, errands, etc. Reasonable rates.
Please call and leave message stating
what work you require and when
you would wish to have it done. 613
730-2796.
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No Left Turn at Bank Street, Please!
High School
is moving to Lansdowne
for September 2015!
Right Turn Only to Bank Street at Colonel By Drive exit.
PHOTO BY SUE NEILL
By Sue Neill
In response to a complaint from the
OSCA Traffic and Safety Committee
about ongoing illegal left turns at
Echo Drive north on to Bank Street,
a new temporary sign has been
installed on Echo Drive. As well, a
police car has been stationed at the
intersection during targeted peak
periods. Thanks to City officials and
the Ottawa Police for their assistance
in discouraging this dangerous
practice of illegal left turns.
OOS Resident Gets Community
Commitment Award
The Element, a non-traditional
High School (Grades 7 to 12),
where relevant life experiences
enhance academic and
personal achievement.
Now welcoming students for
Grades 7 to 10 in September 2015.
Although based on Montessori pedagogy, previous
Montessori education is not required; a passion for life is.
Local resident Cheryl Kardish-Levitan received the CIBC Run for the
Cure Community Commitment Award from the Canadian Breast Cancer
Foundation in Toronto at a ceremony at the Royal York during the volunteer
celebration gala. She participated in the Run for the Cure for 14 years and
has raised over $175,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
15 years ago, while she was undergoing radiation for cancer, she
participated in her first Run for the Cure in Oct of 2000. That is what
inspired her to give back to this worthy cause. She said that many neighbors
and residents of Old Ottawa South have sponsored her in her fundraising
efforts over the years, and she wanted to thank them for their generosity.
PHOTO BY BRIAN LEVITAN
[email protected]
613-862-8578
elementhighschool.com
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NOTES FROM THE GARDEN CLUB
The Contained Garden
Container with 360 degrees of interest. Thriller a miniature cypress; also a
large-leaved begonia and trailing lobelia and chartreuse potato vine.
By Carole Love
A local horticulturist specializing
in small urban gardens, Christine
Libon (christine.libon@outlook.
com), shared her expertise in
container gardening. She talked
about creative choices for plant
F
material, the selection of containers
and planting media, and general
maintenance. Many of her clients
have smaller gardens and, with
containers, they can enjoy a sudden
burst of colour that, with care, will
last until the frost. Containers are a
great way to decorate a front step,
Containers with Japanese maple and Hakonechloa grass create a garden.
PHOTOs BY CHRISTINE LIBON
grow vegetables on a sunny balcony,
or create a privacy screen. Delightful
pictures of containers accompanied
the presentation.
Christine begins her creations
with a container, planting medium,
and compatible plants. A first key
step is to ensure the container is
ind Comfort in PLANNING AHEAD at
clean. She suggested using a water/
vinegar mixture, a water/bleach
solution, or soap and water. Porous
containers should be soaked well
before planting. Drainage is crucial:
Continued on pg. 47
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eechwood
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that all funds are used for the maintenance, enhancement and preservation
of this National Historic Site. That’s a beautiful thing to be a part of and
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FIND COMFORT IN THE BEAUTY OF BEECHWOOD.
In addition to being a place for quiet reflection, explore the beauty of our
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Containers decorating a front step. Topiaries in upper planters are Eugenia; pink
flowers are large leaf begonias. There is also Swedish ivy and asparagus fern.
Continued from pg. 46
plants in containers can get swamped
if it rains; roots need to breathe. If a
ceramic pot has no hole, Christine
starts by drilling a very small hole
– and then gradually and carefully
enlarging it until she has a goodsized hole to allow good drainage.
To keep soil from escaping as plants
are watered, she covers the hole
with mesh, or a bit of cheese cloth.
Her secret weapon is Styrofoam.
Packaging Styrofoam is light; it
builds up volume, can be crumbled,
and promotes root growth. Other
times she includes a brick or rocks
to weight a pot so it doesn’t tip over
easily. Different kinds of sterilized
planting media are available; some
include slow release fertilizer. If
the mix feels a little dry, Christine
moistens it before putting in plants.
Gardeners who keep soil over the
winter risk soil-borne diseases; for
really large planters, one might
remove half the soil and refill the
planter with planting mix. However
the second year all soil should
be replaced to reduce the risks of
disease. (Old mix can be spread over
a flower bed where it will work its
way in.)
The choice of plants is determined
by the light conditions; the amount of
water can be adjusted, e.g. watering
sparingly for succulents. The larger
the pot, the less watering is needed.
Mr. Steve Silk introduced the terms
thrillers, fillers and spillers. The
thriller is the main, tallest plant and
Christine sometimes uses topiary
or bonsai given their interesting
shapes. The filler is the surround, and
petunias and begonias can be used.
Spillers hang down and Christine has
had good luck with Gold Swedish
ivy, asparagus fern, and sweet potato
vine.
Christine gently teases plant roots
apart to avoid root-bound plants. She
may position her plants to check the
overall appearance before filling with
mix—normally to about a half-inch
below the container surface to allow
room for water that will drain. For
larger pots, she uses at least 9-10
inches of soil mix as that is what is
feeding the plants. After planting she
waters well. Fertilizing is critical.
If no fertilizer is added or included
in the mix, an initial lush display
may fizzle out around the end of
July. Routine maintenance includes
watering (if the soil is dry one-inch
down, plants need water), pruning,
and deadheading as necessary.
Christine fertilizes regularly, perhaps
every two weeks, and waters first to
prevent burning. One can sprinkle
granules amongst the plants; with
watering the fertilizer will leach
down. For great foliage, one wants
fertilizer with high nitrogen say 2010-10; if one seeks more flowers, one
wants a high middle number.
Different types of containers are
available. Terra cotta is porous; water
does evaporate and plant roots are
kept cool in hot weather; however,
they can be heavy, may break and
may not overwinter successfully.
Christine suggested storage over
winter in a garage, and standing
on the side for drainage. Wooden
planters are another porous format
that doesn’t crack from the frost.
There are many styles of plastic pots
and one can put them into wicker
containers. Concrete containers are
available as well as resin planters
which resemble concrete but are
lightweight, come in traditional
shapes, and can last about 20 years.
With metal containers Christine
ensures wet soil is not in contact with
the metal.
Christine often includes begonias
in her planters: Dragon Wing
begonias can tolerate sun and shade;
Rex begonias have large leaves but
no flowers, tuberous begonias offer
eye-catching flowers and large-leaved
begonias offer showy flowers. Sunloving licorice plant will continue to
grow until frost with no problems.
One can include indoor plants, maybe
a spider plant or croton. A townhouse
garden was created with a planter of
Hakonechloa (Japanese forest grass)
and a paperbark maple. (This latter
plant needs to be buried in soil to
overwinter—other perennials may be
Tibouchina, a large plant with blue/purple flowers. Display lasted all
season; photo taken in early November.
overwintered in the garage.)
Christine likes 360 degrees of
interest and plants that perform
even after a light frost. Tibouchina
(glory bush) blooms more as the
season progresses and really kicks in
towards the end of September. As the
season is drawing to a close, she may
revitalize a container with a colourful
flowering kale!
Greater Ottawa Water Garden
Horticultural Society Water
Garden Tour
The Greater Ottawa Water Garden
Horticultural Society will hold its
7th annual Water Garden Tour of 11
gardens on Saturday, June 20th. Visit
ottawawatergardens.com for more
details and ticket information. All
proceeds go towards community
projects such as the water feature
in the new Healing Garden at the
Queensway Carleton Hospital.
The next meeting of the Old Ottawa
South Garden Club will be in
September 2015 at the Old Ottawa
South Community Centre (The
Firehall), 260 Sunnyside Avenue,
likely the second Monday of the
month: 7:00-9:00 pm. Watch for an
announcement in late summer. Happy
gardening!
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