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MICHELLE NASH
Overbrook residents are ex-pressing concerns that a devel-oper and the city failed to listen to the community’s input con-cerning the design plan for a 307 unit apartment building on Presland Road.
An information session was held on Feb. 17 at St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Overbrook. Group Lepine’s urban planner, Nancy Meloshe, presented the new changes to the building, but residents did not like what they saw. The building, which in the original plans was 12
storeys (10 storeys in the low-er section) and contained 335 units, has been modifi ed down to eight storeys (four storeys in the lower section) with 307 units. The building will also be brought up right to the edge of Presland Road.
“We wanted less, not more,” nearby resident Nadia McDon-ald said, referring to the struc-ture being moved to the edge of the street.
The property currently has a convent which houses a Roman Catholic order of the Francis-can Missionary Sisters of Mary. Group Lepine is going through the application process to con-
vert the building into two eight-storey towers with a lower four and six-storey section, a height residents do not want.
McDonald lives on Prince Al-bert Street, which the building will back on to, and is concerned she will have no privacy.
Meloshe indicated the chang-es from the previous design are generous and will now allow for 10 metres around the building. Bringing the structure closer to the street, Meloshe said, refl ect-ed the look of the neighbour-hood; however residents at the meeting were not happy with the changes and didn’t agree with Meloshe’s assessment.
McDonald indicated she wasn’t impressed with the building moving so close to the street.
Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward Coun. Peter Clark told his con-stituents that to fi ght the devel-opers may not be the best way, instead encouraging them to try and work to make the build-ing refl ect the neighbourhood.
“It is going to happen, the building is coming,” Clark said.
Clark added he will be sit-ting down with city planners to discuss the other main issue residents had: the new plans
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LIFE IS SWEETDonald Goneau drills the fi rst hole of the season for the collection of sap. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. About 800 trees will be tapped in preparation for the Maple Sugar Festival in Vanier. For more on the story, turn to page 4.
Overbrook opposes development despite changes
FORCED SALEA heritage building at 200 Crich-ton St. could be up for grabs as early as this spring after a judge ordered the sale of the old school after a partnership turned sour.
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TRANSIT CHANGESCity Hall offered the public its fi rst glimpse of changes to OC Transpo routes set to be fi nalized after the budget process is complete.
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OLYMPIC DREAMSRockcliffe’s Quincy Korte-King is tackling the halfpipe at the Canada Winter Games in Nova Scotia in what she sees as a mini-Olympics.
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EMMA JACKSON
Ottawa residents enjoyed their fi rst warm spell of the season last week, but there’s a hidden danger accompanying the otherwise cheerful sounds of melting icicles and loosening mud.
The Rideau Valley Conservation Au-thority (RVCA) is warning Ottawa resi-dents that last week’s rainy thaw could create dangerous conditions along water-ways such as the Rideau River and small-er creeks across the city.
Temperatures reached a high of 10 de-grees on Friday, accompanied by as much as 40 millimetres of rain, creating danger-ous conditions on ice-covered waterways and swollen rapids in open water.
Patrick Larson at the RVCA said that any open water is dangerous, particu-larly areas with rapids such as the Black Rapids north of Hog’s Back Falls near Carleton University. But he said frozen waterways are misleading, and can be the most dangerous areas for residents.
“More important are those areas that are now ice covered. There will be some run-off from the rain, the ice will lift and the ice will become unstable,” he said, explaining that icy edges near shorelines will have broken away. “Basically, just stay off the ice.” Larson said snowbanks and shorelines would be especially slip-pery from the rain.
In late December, nine-year-old Olisa-dike Okoye drowned when he fell into the north end of the Rideau River near Sandy Hill.
Gillian Baker, a spokesperson for the Ottawa Drowning Prevention Coalition which includes members such as the Red Cross, the Ottawa Paramedics and Otta-wa Public Health, said parents must fi rst and foremost make sure they know where their children are at all times when they are near water.
“Keep an eye of your children, keep them in arm’s reach,” she said, adding that parents should make sure they know what they’re up against when they’re near a water source. “Know the conditions. Whether its ice or it’s in the summer, it’s about knowing where you’re going. Are there rapids? Is it an unsupervised area? Know before you go,” she explained.
Baker said that despite what a person might think, residents should not go out on the ice to rescue someone in distress.
“Call for help and get assistance. We don’t recommend going out and rescu-ing them yourself, because then we have two people through the ice,” she said. If a drowning person is within reach, Baker said any rescuer should still stay off the ice and use a reaching tool instead, such as a scarf or a belt to help the victim.
She said the Ottawa Fire Services re-sponded to 49 water-related calls last win-ter.
Recent thaw leaves Ottawa waterways unsafe
Photo by Emma JacksonLast weekend’s warm temperatures means residents should be extra cautious around Ottawa’s waterways, including the Rideau River, where city employees are already work-ing to break the ice as spring approaches. Experts are warning residents to stay off the ice, and be careful around snowbanks and shorelines, which are slippery.
LAURA MUELLER
The Friends of Lansdowne and the City of Ottawa are locked in a war of words over who can claim victory in a re-cent court ruling over the redevelopment of the park.
The ruling orders the city to release some fi nancial details of the Lansdowne Partner-ship Plan – the city’s agreement with the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) to redevelop Lansdowne Park.
The Friends of Lansdowne sent out a press release claiming a “hat trick” of victo-ries in the court decision, hailing the court master’s decision to fi nally release the “se-cret” documents the Friends of Lansdowne has been requesting for months.
“We’re very pleased,” said Friends’ lawyer Steven Shrybman. “We prevailed on all fronts.”
In additional to the release of fi nan-cial documents, the other two victories included the court master’s decision to consider as evidence the Friends’ reports by professor Harry Kitchen and investi-gative accountants Rosen and Associates which conclude that the city “grossly mis-
represented” the fi nancial consequences of the partnership plan.
The ruling also reconfi rms the Friends’ standing in the court proceedings follow-ing the withdrawal of two individuals from the case.
But in a rare release of information on the case by the City of Ottawa, city solici-tor Rick O’Connor refutes the Friends’ claims of absolute victory.
The city will only have to release a portion of the documents the Friends’ requested.
Releasing the whole package requested would have cost the city $500,000 to pro-duce and taken months, O’Connor wrote in a memo to councillors after the ruling. Instead, the ruling forces the city to release only the key documents, which can be done in a “reasonable timeframe for relatively little cost to the city,” O’Connor wrote.
That means the legal proceedings, which will now be pushed to May, won’t hold up construction on the project, which is set to begin this summer.
The Friends’ reports that the court has allowed to be admitted as evidence will have to be revised with the additional fi -nancial information before the court will
allow them to be submitted, O’Connor wrote.
After the memo became public, Shryb-man fi red back with another press release calling O’Connor’s views “slanted.”
Shrybman wrote that staff in the city
solicitor’s offi ce admitted they hadn’t ac-tually looked into how diffi cult or costly it would be to dig into the documents, and that O’Connor had still objected to re-leasing the documents after the Friends scaled back their request.
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LAURA MUELLER
Riders should prepare for sweeping changes as OC Transpo looks at over-hauling almost 200 bus routes across the city.
But unlike in the past, the city isn’t just taking a transit map and slashing routes, said OC Transpo general manager Alain Mercier. The company is building a bet-ter system that everyone has reasonable access to, he said.
For some residents, particularly those in the suburbs, that will likely mean more walking.
Mayor Jim Watson pledged to save $22 million by next year on transit by cut-ting out “milk runs,” and the business plan OC Transpo revealed to the city’s transit commission on Feb. 16 proposed just that.
The preliminary plan proposes 47 routes that will either be eliminated or consolidated.
Merging routes 63 and 64 in Kanata, for example, could save the city $175,000 a year.
Ineffi cient neighbourhood loops could be cut from 10 suggested routes. Making route 18 in Overbrook take a more direct route could save $184,000 each year, for instance.
That will also help alleviate the costly problem of empty buses driving around the city, said Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans, chairwoman of the transit commission.
The city could also reduce the off-peak hours for certain routes.
In all, only 60 of OC Transpo’s routes will remain untouched or could be en-hanced.
But those 60 routes represent about 90 per cent of transit trips that will remain the same as they are now after the transit map changes.
For the routes that will change, Mer-cier indicated it would likely mean some riders will have to walk longer distances to get to their bus stops.
Right now, 98 per cent of Ottawa resi-dents live within 400 metres, or a fi ve-minute walk, from their stop. The chang-es could push that to 800 m, or 10 minutes, for many users.
A recent summary of an American Public Transit Association review found that the city is over-serviced by transit, and if the city doesn’t cut back on fund-ing the system’s operations, it will show up on tax bills.
“It’s all about living within our means,” Deans said.
The proposed changes would save $145 million over six years.
Mercier confi rmed that Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli was on the right track when he commented that it seemed transit users in suburban wards would end up having the longest walks to a bus stop.
For seniors, and particularly in the winter, that’s not acceptable, said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson.
“It’s a fairly lengthy way for some peo-ple to handle, but we do have to optimize our system because costs are getting out of control,” she said.
Controversial routes being examined
include the 5 in the city’s east end and the 65 Express route from Kanata.
“The 65 Express route would cause a lot of concern to a lot of people, because the express routes are the ones people de-pend on to get to work,” Wilkinson said.
There will likely be less impact on rid-ers in the city’s core, said the only urban ward councillor on the transit commis-sion, Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney.
“I’ve looked at my ward and there doesn’t seem to be too much of an impact in that area,” he said. “The same can’t be said for Orleans or Cumberland.
The city will also be upgrading its bus fl eet over time, including adding 75 dou-ble-decker buses by 2016, which will save around $10 million.
More detail on potential route cut-backs and changes will be presented to the transit commission on March 23, and the public will have a chance to comment at a series of public meetings between that date and April 7.
Suburban bus users, get ready to walkOverhaul of OC Transpo routes will mean
fewer stops and more walkingElimination of duplication and consolidation of routesRoutes 3, 4, 5, 6, 16, 23, 32, 34, 39, 40, 43, 57, 62, 63, 64, 65, 85, 88, 101, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 125, 130, 131, 133, 141, 142, 143, 144, 150, 151, 154, 155, 156, 158, 160, 165, 166, 168, 182, 188, 190, 191, and 316
Removal of ineffi cient local loopsRoutes 5, 18, 31, 37, 101, 102, 179, 221, 231, and 283
Reduce service for low-ridership routes or parts of routesRoutes 103, 116, 127, 136, 137, 140, 143, 145, 147, 149, 152, 153, 161, 163, 165, 167, 171, 174, 175, 178, and 306, and certain sections of Routes 5, 6, 9, 12, 16, 18, 40, 82, 97, 105, 106, 115, 120, 121, 125, 129, 131, 151, 154, 156, 166, 169, 190, 191, 192, 197, and 232
Unchanged or improved routesThe O-Train and routes 1, 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 33, 35, 38, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 76, 77, 86, 87, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 114, 118, 122, 123, 124, 126, 128, 135, 146, 148, 157, 164, 170, 172, 173, 176, 177, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 194, 199, 245, 261, 262, and 263
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MICHELLE NASH
While the maple sugar festi-val at Richelieu Park is still al-most a month a way, organizers tapped the maple trees as tem-peratures rose last week.
One of the only urban maple sugar shacks in Canada, the Sugar Shack at Richelieu Park taps about 800 trees in the park. The annual sugar festival runs at the end of March. The recent rise in temperatures, which led to the cancellation of some Win-terlude, made for the perfect fl ow of sap, so organizers at the Sugar Shack decided to collect the watery substance and make maple sugar in preparation for the festival.
The festival has been running a little or 20 years with 1,200 kids and families and schools coming to the event. New co-or-dinator, Serge Richer hopes that this year’s new plans will allow for more activities, more maple
sugar tasting and more fun. “This festival is getting more
popular every year, we are hop-ing to have weeklong activities and lots of sugar,” Richer said.
With two tree-tapping men on
hand, Richer walked up the trail towards the sugar bush and ex-plained that mid-February is the best time to start collecting sap because of the low tempera-tures at night and the rise in
temperature during the day. A differentiation of plus and mi-nus fi ve degrees is optimal, he said.
“This is where the festival begins and ends, with the trees and what Mother Nature deter-mines,” Richer said, pointing at the trees.
Richer is no stranger to orga-nizing festivals, with experience working with the Tulip Festi-val and Winterlude. He said he jumped at the chance to work for the tastiest festival in town.
“There is no other urban sugar shack in Canada, maybe in the world. This is a unique festival in the heart of Vanier,” Richer said.
As a past participant and visi-tor to the festival, Richer looks forward to preparing activities kids and parents will enjoy. He said he looks forward to offer-
ing more than just maple syrup tasting and toffee.
With seven days of activities, Richer hopes to spread out the number of students, families and visitors who attend the fes-tival.
“If we spread out the activi-ties, the kids will have more time to try everything and do everything,” Richer said.
The festival takes three months of preparation, a lot of organization and creativity.
With 15 years of service to the festival, sap connoisseur Don-ald Goneau has remembered the long days and nights he spent working on getting the festival running smoothly.
“I have slept here a few times. Once we all slept in old city hall,” Goneau said.
The festival runs from March 21 - 27 with Richer hoping about 50 kids coming through each day.
For Richer, the biggest reward will not be the sweet taste of syr-up, although he looks forward to having one of the fi rst tastes, it will be the looks on the chil-dren’s faces and the reaction of the crowds as they have fun. For him, it is the smiles that make all the hard work worth it.
Photo by Michelle NashDonald Goneau drills the fi rst hole of the season for the collection of sap. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. About 800 trees will be tapped in preparation for the Maple Sugar Festival in Vanier.
Warm days get sap fl owing for tapping seasonOrganizers ready for Vanier’s maple
sugar festival
“This festival is getting more popular every year, we are hoping to have weeklong activi-ties and lots of sugar”
Serge Richer
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MICHELLE NASH
Two local authors hope to write a book about the urban village of New Edinburgh.
Janet Uren and Martha Ed-mond have been commissioned by the New Edinburgh Commu-nity Association to write a book documenting New Edinburgh’s past.
The process, still in the early stages of proposal and grant writing, will hopefully bring this history to pass as early as 2013.
“This book will be for the community. It could be used as a tool for the village when it comes to heritage conserva-tion. The more the community knows about the strong heri-tage connections the more this village can be protected,” said Uren.
Uren lives in a small heritage home in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood with a plaque on the door stating the signifi -cance of the history behind the home and the surrounding area in general. Founded in 1830, New Edinburgh was the home of Thomas McKay. The book will tell the story from McKay’s time to today.
Edmond, a historian who wrote Rockcliffe Park: A history of a village, will do most of the fact fi nding, while Uren, a writ-er with magazines and commu-nication expertise, will be the distiller of information.
“Janet (Uren) takes all the information and gets it to the page,” Edmond said.
Approached by the associa-tion because of her recent suc-cess with the Rockcliffe history book, Edmond had recently made friends with Uren over their work at Billings Estate. Edmond asked for Uren’s help bringing the New Edinburgh book to life.
“This book is going to be a challenge, because there are so many facets to the history,” Ed-mond said.
The two women see the book as an integrated heritage proj-ect. The two want to create more than just a book, incorporating plays and tours that will pro-mote the area in a new and ex-citing way.
“We hope this will show people what an asset New Ed-inburgh is to this city and to Canada,” Uren said.
Home of the Governor Gener-al and the Prime Minister, New Edinburgh has had some strong
ties to Canada’s history. Uren and Edmond both feel it is time the rest of the country knows how powerful is the history of this small heritage district.
Interesting facts Edmond and Uren have already compiled in-
clude the tidbit that New Edin-burgh’s village layout has not changed since the 1830s.
“This community has been preserved because of strong vo-cal support of the community,” Uren said.
The small village has been documented in both the city’s archives as well as the national archives, but nothing such as the book they propose has ever been written.
The community association members acknowledged this importance and know how in-tegral having this book will be for the community, noting it is a great way to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of being a her-itage district.
“This will give us a proper history of New Edinburgh,” said Joan Mason, president of the New Edinburgh Community Association. “It is very impor-tant because if we do not start writing down our village’s his-tory we could become a thing of the past.”
As the two apply for grants, Edmond explained the cost to publish the book is where most of the money will go.
“Support is so key for a proj-ect such as this one to get off the ground,” she said.
Having the support of the as-sociation, both ladies feel, will help with their grant applica-tions.
Their ambition is to produce a high quality book. They have set a timeline they hope to be able to follow through, as 2013 will be the 175th anniversary of the area. If that doesn’t work, 2014 is also the anniversary of the founding of the village.
History book focuses on Ottawa’s urban villageNew Edinburgh residents are taking
a journey into the past
Photo by Michelle NashMartha Edmond and Janet Uren are in the beginning stages of writing New Edinburgh’s history. The book, which is supported by the commu-nity association, will tell over 100 years of history in a number of ways and have the potential to build Canada’s understanding of the small heritage district just east of the Parliament buildings.
EDDIE RWEMA
Organizers of a 100-kilometre bike tour from Ottawa to Mer-rickville-Wolford to raise money for cancer research have set their fundraising goal this year at $1.8 million.
Ride the Rideau, to be held on Sept.10, helps raise funds for can-cer research efforts at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
Several event organizers and participants gathered at the Cyclepathic Indoor Studio at the Ottawa Sport Performance Cen-tre on Lancaster Road on Feb.23 to launch the campaign.
“We offi cially launched the training for Ride the Rideau and we also announced the fundrais-ing goal for 2011 events which is $1.8 million,” said Tracey Tong, spokeswoman for the Ottawa Hospital Foundation.
Ride the Rideau is a one-day road cycling adventure for peo-ple who are passionate about their active lifestyle and the quality of life of their loved ones, friends, colleagues, and neighbours.
Event organizers are expect-ing close to 600 riders to pedal their way to help fi nd a cure for cancer this year. Each par-ticipant is being asked to raise $1,500.
Tong said this year’s am-bitious target is well within reach.
“We have more than 100 rid-ers registered so far. They have from now to September to raise $1,500,” said Tong.
An Ottawa-based health sci-ence company, Nordion Inc., is sponsoring the event and is con-fi dent the campaign will reach its lofty goal.
“The Ottawa community has demonstrated over the years its commitment to health care and cancer research,” Steve West, CEO of Nordion said in a state-ment.
“It’s an ambitious goal, but with the support of our partici-pants and the many who have been touched by cancer, we be-lieve it is achievable to double the size, the funds raised, and ultimately the impact Ride the Rideau will have in 2011.”
Last year, more than 315 riders
cycled the 100-kilometre jour-ney and their fundraising effort helped purchase a CyberKnife Radiosurgery System for the Ottawa Hospital in addition to providing vital funds needed to open the centre for innovative cancer research at the hospital’s general campus. The 2010 event raised $940,000.
Cyclists Ride the Rideau to raise funds
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MICHELLE NASH
A heritage building at 200 Crichton St., which once housed the public school for New Ed-inburgh, could be back on the auction block as early as this spring.
It has been two years since the court ordered the sale of the building. The ruling on March 2009 stemmed from a fi ve year court battle between The School of Dance (Ottawa) Pre-Professional Programme Inc. (The School of Dance) and the Crichton Cultural Community Centre (CCCC). The sale of the building, however, has been de-layed over appeals regarding appraisal price, date of sale and duration of the sale.
A hearing held on Feb. 11 saw the two parties going through the terms of sale.
“I don’t think we can agree that the Four Cs (Crichton Cul-tural Community Centre) have control over this sale,” Paull Leamen, lawyer for The School of Dance, told Superior Court Justice Calum MacLeod.
The previous court ruling or-dered the sale of 200 Crichton by the titled owner, The School of Dance. A portion of the proceeds (16.5 per cent) is earmarked for the Four Cs, while $250,000, which was given to The School of Dance as a grant to purchase the building in 2000, is to be re-turned to the City of Ottawa. The School of Dance can keep the remainder of the proceeds. The Four Cs have been granted fi rst right of refusal on any bid offered for the building.
The building has been ap-praised by Nathan Smith, a real estate broker and part owner of Cushman and Wakefi eld Ot-tawa, at about $2.8 million.
On Dec. 30, The School of Dance provided the Four Cs with terms of the sale, but the Four Cs don’t agree with the ap-praisal.
“The property has to be ex-posed to the market before a proper appraisal can be done,” Four Cs lawyer Marcia A. Green told the court.
Meanwhile, both parties have indicated they intend to bid on the property, which will be list-ed with Colliers International.
Because the matter is cur-rently before the courts, neither the Four Cs nor the owners of the School of Dance, Merrilee Hodgins and Joyce Shietze, would comment on their inten-tions moving forward or the is-sue in general.
A ruling on the date of sale, the length of sale and closing date could be decided as early as next week, with the building going up for sale in mid-April at the latest.
LONG FOUGHT BATTLE
The school was closed in the late ’90s and the building and its surrounding property was put up for sale by the Ottawa public school board in 1999. The community wanted to save the building and made a deal with the school board and the de-veloper Charlesforte Develop-ment Corporation, who devel-oped cottage-style townhomes around the school, to save the century old heritage designat-ed school building. The Four Cs, then known as the Friends of Crichton, wanted to keep the building as a community space but could not afford the build-ing, plus they did not need the entire space at that time.
The Four Cs decided to look for a partner to help buy the building and share the space. They found such a partner in The School of Dance. They en-tered into a tri-partite agree-ment between The School of Dance, Four Cs and the City of Ottawa to take ownership of the building. Then city coun-cillor Jacques Legendre helped facilitate the deal.
“At the time, it was an abso-lutely unique partnership in Ottawa to save an old building and to share the space. It should have been a model for other partnerships to be based on,” Legendre said.
Legendre explained the part-ners agreed to have just one owner to administer mainte-nance of the building. The other owner would pay their share of the upkeep to keep costs of the building at a minimum. It was decided The School of Dance would be the legal owner, he in-dicated.
“The agreement should have been more exact but we did not know that diffi culties would fol-low,” Legendre said.
Diffi culties between the par-ties did follow and the partner-ship turned sour. In 2004, the Four Cs fi led for a legally rec-ognized portion of 200 Crich-ton St. after they had been served with an eviction notice from the School of Dance. The Four Cs were granted use of the Avon Lane entrance to the school and the entire second fl oor.
In the March 20, 2009 court
ruling, Justice Giovanna To-scano Roccamo found in favour of the Four Cs because of mis-representation of The School of Dance’s intentions when they entered into an agreement with the Four Cs. Legal rights were given to the Four Cs in terms of 16.5 per cent of benefi cial inter-est in the building.
COMMUNITY SPACE NEEDED
The Four Cs hope to purchase the school at 200 Crichton St. so they can create a proper com-munity centre in the heart of New Edinburgh.
The community of New Edin-burgh currently houses commu-nity programs and meetings on the second fl oor of the building. Joan Mason, president of the New Edinburgh Community Association, explained the area is a small, but heritage driven community, where, like many other urban areas in the city, little space is left to build new centres. She indicated the old school would serve the commu-nity by being centrally located. The space could also be used to teach visitors, residents and the
surrounding community about the history of New Edinburgh. The current agreement offers little space for the community, which has no other place to go, Mason indicated.
“It is the only large building in New Edinburgh and we des-perately lack public space,” she said.
New Edinburgh Community Association is presently hold-ing their meetings in St. Bar-tholomew’s hall. The Crichton Community Council is meeting out of the fi eld house.
“We do our best but we have been desperately seeking anoth-er option,” Mason said.
The best option, as far as the association is concerned, is to buy the building at 200 Crich-ton.
If they buy the building from the School of Dance, Mason in-dicated she believes there would be no limits to what the commu-nity could do with the space.
“For over 100 years it was the heart of New Edinburgh’s com-munity and we want to buy the building and fi nd out what the community’s desires are and fi ll that need,” Mason said.
Photo by Michelle NashOnce the public school for New Edinburgh community, the building at 200 Crichton St. was sold to the School of Dance in 2000. Since then, the community and the dance school have been battling in court over the building.
New Edinburgh landmark up for sale this spring
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EDDIE RWEMA
An Ottawa women’s organi-zation that provides support to abused immigrant women and their families will benefi t from proceedings of a comedy night organized to celebrate Interna-tional Women’s Day.
JH5, a promotions and con-sulting fi rm based in Kanata, is organizing the event to be held at the Mayfair Theatre on March 8. The evening will cel-ebrate women through comedy, dance, song, and spoken word.
“International Women’s day has always been something spe-cial to me,” said Jennifer Hay-ward, owner of JH5. “We always wanted to showcase everything we can about women.
“The point of it is to raise funds for immigrant women ser-vices Ottawa. They do a wonder-ful work and we are very proud to associate with them.”
The evening will be hosted by Ottawa comic Martha Chaves, a 20-year veteran of the Canadian comedy scene and most recently the winner of Ottawa’s Great Canadian Laugh-Off in 2010.
The headliner for the evening will be Kate Davis. A Toronto
based speaker, writer, comedian, actress and mother of three, she is a fi ve-time Canadian Comedy Awards nominee.
A quarter of the proceeds from the event will go to help
Immigrant Women Services Ot-tawa.
“We are very excited about the JH5 generosity. We are urging the Ottawa community to come out and support the event, be-
cause technically, they would be supporting the women that we serve here,” said Lucya Spencer, executive director of Immigrant Women Services Ottawa.
“While it is true that we re-
ceive funds from various sourc-es, we do know that funding is never enough, there other addi-tional services that are not sup-ported by any of the funding.”
International Women’s Day is March 8, and it is a celebration of the achievements women have made and highlights the work still to be done.
“When we refl ect on the past and look at where women are now today, that is a reason enough to celebrate the Interna-tional women’s day,” said Spen-cer.
“Women have struggled over centuries and have fought to have their voices heard.
“Though it is true we have achieved something, we still have to celebrate every achieve-ment that has been made to pave the road for all of us to follow.”
Immigrant Women Services Ottawa helps abused immigrant women to achieve their full potential, become productive members of society and par-ticipate in the elimination of all forms of abuse against women.
Tickets for this event are available at Singing Pebble Books, Mother Tongue Books, Yuk-Yuk’s comedy club, or by calling 613-600-7462.
Celebrating women through comedy
Photo by Eddie RwemaLucya Spencer, executive director, Immigrant Women Services Ottawa.
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As kids develop awareness of the world outside the house and the school, they are looking to understand some of the things
that go on. And you, in turn, are looking for life lessons you can pass on with the day’s headlines.
This is almost always diffi cult. What are you going to tell the subteen in your house when she fi nds out that Miley Cyrus’s father told a magazine that the hit TV show Hannah Montana destroyed his marriage? How will you explain what her father means when he says “I’m scared for her.”
You understand well enough. Fame and big money do strange things to people and not all of them react well. But the girl and her doting father live this enchanted life on TV and the worst prob-lem is that they run out of Diet Coke or the dog barks. Marriages don’t break up on the Disney Channel and 18-year-olds don’t have birthday parties in bars.
So good luck to you explaining that. “TV is just make believe,” you can say, which will be a good start. But do you really want to add that real life is not as nice as TV?
For many people it’s nicer.Closer to home, and far more conse-
quential, what kind of discussion can
you have with the young hockey fanatic in your house when he or she asks you why Mike Fisher and Chris Kelly won’t be playing for the Ottawa Senators any more?
– Why did Mike want to leave Ottawa? the little guy asks.
– Well, he didn’t really want to leave, you say. He wanted to stay.
– Then why didn’t he stay?– Because the Senators didn’t want
him to stay.– I thought the Senators liked Mike,
says the young hockey fanatic. Didn’t the Senators like him?
– Yes, they liked him, you say, but they … but they …
And this is where you can only talk about salary caps and fi rst round draft picks and conditional draft picks and Ottawa not making the playoffs and other
teams needing Mike and Chris enough to give up something for them – a discus-sion of the realities of professional sports, in other words.
The realities of professional sports can be as unpleasant as life in the Cyrus fam-ily and do you really want your young hockey fanatic to carry that knowledge around with her?
Mind you, from quite an early age that young hockey fanatic has suspected that real life is not all it’s cracked up to be. She gets a preview of life’s unfairness when she is told that she has to go to sleep while she still feels like practicing her slapshot in the living room. Finding out that there can be no candy without fi rst eating the vegetables only confi rms the existence of a dark side.
– People in Ottawa are sad to see Chris Kelly go, a little hockey player will say.
– Yes, you answer, but … but that’s just the way it is.
– Why?– Because the Senators want to win?– Why?– Because winning is better than los-
ing.– But don’t you always say that having
fun playing the game is more important than winning? Remember, you said that when I was crying after losing that game.
– Yes, I remember saying that. And I believed it.
– Don’t the Senators believe that?There you are, stuck with the necessity
of explaining why professional sport is not really like sport the way you’ve been teaching it. And you haven’t even come to the part about head shots and cheating and taking funny pills and all the things grown-ups do to win games even though winning isn’t supposed to be as impor-tant as having fun.
After that you get to explain why they should keep cheering for the Senators anyway even though Mike and Chris are gone. This is just a business, you’ll say. Eventually they will understand, which is sad in a way.
CHARLES GORDON
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If you thought the entire world revolved around money, it doesn’t. The world revolves around something much more basic, even though getting enough of it can be more dif-
fi cult than amassing money or fi nding an oil well.The world revolves around food ... and water.You cannot move very far without an adequate
food supply. You cannot fi ght an effective war without it. In North America, food has never been considered an outrageously priced commodity and we all assume that it will remain affordable, for as long as we need it.
A cautionary comment from the Ontario Fed-eration of Agriculture (OFA) suggests that food, once spared the indignity of competition on the open market, may fi nally have run smack into the real world.
Just about everything else that we consider a necessity has gone up in price.
Gasoline prices have continued to rise, some-times at an alarming rate, and that has affected the cost of getting inexpensive food from the farmer to the market place. Add to that the increasing cost of seed, fertilizer, processing and distribution, and the stage is set for an increase in food prices. The negative effect of global warming
and weather is another factor that is affecting the harvests in places like Russia and India. Includ-ing commodity price fl uctuations, export controls and the reality of unstable governments in Third World countries, suggests that global food produc-tion may be at risk.
Locally, farmers appear to be like the rest of us — trying to stay ahead of the next curve that world prices may throw at them.
The cost of food in Canada has increased over the past 30 years. Despite the increases, Canadian food is still the best food around and the most af-fordable. According to the OFA, a generation ago, the cost of breaking daily bread took 20 per cent of an average income. These days that is down to 11 per cent. This past Feb. 12 has been pegged as Food Freedom Day. This is the day the average Canadian has made enough income to cover their grocery bills for entire year.
The OFA is calling for a National Food Strategy to stay ahead of increasing costs to our food pro-ducing system and eventually higher food costs for Canadians.
The idea sounds like a good one given what we have seen with just about every other commodity being shaped by a global perspective.
The world revolves around food
It’s just a game, except when it isn’t
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For the fi rst time since I started this column, you, the reader, have inserted yourself into the introduction. This week, the hospital’s new dress code made local and national headlines: on Canada AM, CTV News Net, CTV Ottawa and the Ottawa Citizen. Many of you responded – whether in support or against the policy, with the question: why?
Why a dress policy at all? Why now? Why among frontline clinical staff. The questions are all legitimate, particularly since they show some that we have more work to do to clarify exactly what our dress code is intended to do.
Over the past year, consultation and feedback from patients, staff, and professional practice groups throughout the hospital – as well as a review of existing research – confi rmed that a key to ensuring patients’ comfort and safety is the ability to easily recognize members of their care teams. In other words, everything we’ve heard from people like you, as well as employees, is that our appearance has an
impact on a patient’s experience of the hospital.
That is why, all professionals at The Ottawa Hospital – whether they are nurses, physicians, other health professionals or support staff – are being asked to dress in a manner that clearly identifi es them to patients. Anyone can read see the dress code on-line at www.ottawahospital.on.ca
Until readers do get a chance to read it, I should address one aspect of the policy, the dress code for nurses, has proven particularly contentious.
Contrary to some reports, Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses still have control over what scrubs they wear. If they wish to wear graphic prints on their scrubs, they can do so. That said, nurses are being asked to wear lab coats, so patients and families can easily recognize them.
This idea came directly from the hospital’s nursing professional practice group.
Likewise, other health professionals will dress in accordance with the guidelines for their professional group. Support services staff, including transportation and housekeeping staff, will also wear hospital employer-issued uniforms at all times.
In addition to strengthening the quality of patients’ experience of the hospital and staff, we know that these changes will improve infection control, while ensuring that all members of The Ottawa Hospital Family will continue to portray a professional image.
Decision-making is something we do constantly, often without thinking about it, like breathing. But on the fl ip side, if you’ve
ever faced one of those signifi cant life-changing decisions, you’ve probably expe-rienced the insomnia, loss of appetite and ill-focused behaviour that can go with it.
My friend did. After days of agonizing over something big – I’m not sure if it was a holiday destination or a new career path – she fi nally posted a Facebook sta-tus line expressing relief.
“Better to make a decision, even if it’s the wrong one,” she wrote. “I can work with a wrong decision, but I cannot func-tion with indecision.”
Why does decision-making cause such stress?
“Decide has the same Latin roots as sui-cide and homicide,” says Peter Levesque, owner of Knowledge Mobilization Works in Ottawa. “It literally means to kill off other possibilities.”
“When you’re faced with a decision, the whole world is open before you and you can marvel at the possibilities for a while,” he explains, “but eventually you become lost and overwhelmed by all the possibilities and there’s an anticipation of loss as you are forced to choose one direction over another.”
Surprisingly, when we fi nally make a decision, our sense of relief is often greater than the loss we had anticipated.
So we feel good for a while, but then what? Levesque points out that you’ll eventually have to make other big deci-sions. Like anything else, decision-mak-ing is much less agonizing for people who understand how decisions are made.
The problem, says Levesque, is that we’re never really taught how to make decisions.
“A lot of the stress is not about the deci-sion itself, but about not understanding the process of how to make a decision.”
Levesque runs a decision-making workshop – the next one is March 14 in Ottawa – helping people to identify their prominent decision-making style, one of four: spontaneous internal, spontaneous external, systematic internal, or system-atic external. Spontaneous or systematic refers to the structural style, or how you seek, organize and weigh information. Spontaneous people tend to be “treasure hunters,” following their gut to follow ideas and adventures that capture their interest. Systematic people tend to be detectives, seeking out facts and details to back their decisions. External or internal refers to processing style, whether you consult others in the process or retreat into isolation.
“By going through the explicit process of testing and learning how to make decisions, the process gets easier,” says Levesque.
Career coach Melissa Creede reminds people also cast logic aside and spend some time contemplating how a decision will fi t in their life.
“People do a list of pros and cons, look-ing at the benefi ts and disadvantages,” says Creede, owner of Sapis Insight. “Some people do it in their heads and some go as far as creating spreadsheets. But what they miss – and coaching can deepen this – is to try to imagine what that decision will look like, will feel like in terms of matching their energy and passions.”
Creede encourages clients to think about how their decision will connect with their values and priorities and to spend time meditating on how your life will look if a particular decision is imple-mented.
“When you’re faced with big decisions, imagining your future life once or twice will help you get closer to the answer,” says Creede. “It eliminates the noise.”
Decisions, decisionsBRYNNA LESLIE
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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTION
What does the SuperEx’s 2011 hiatus mean to you?
A) Nothing. I never went to it anyway.
B) I’m worried when it does come back, it won’t be the same.
C) I’m looking forward to it coming back better than ever in 2012.
D) I’ll really miss it. The fair was an annual family tradition
LAST WEEK’S POLL SUMMARY
What do you think about the city’s $1.3-mil-lion segregated bicycle-lane pilot project for Laurier Avenue?
A) It will make cycling safer
B) I’m not sold on it, but I think it’s worth trying for the two-year pilot project
C) Cyclists would be safer if drivers and cyclists learned the rules of the road
D) It’s a waste of money and a hassle to remove parking on Laurier
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The standard for people entering their golden years has long been to fi b about their ages. Growing older hasn’t always been seen as a positive. But increasing perks for seniors have made it more advanta-geous for older adults to be proud of their age.
It used to be that a senior discount meant a reduced fare on the bus or a couple of cents saved on that morn-ing cup of coffee. However, as more of the Baby Boomer generation en-ters retirement years, businesses are catering to Boomers’ active lifestyles with discounts and perks in a variety of ways.
“It pays to do a little research, espe-cially at stores where you shop fre-quently,” says Albert, a retail store manager in New York. “They don’t often advertise their discounts, but many stores do have a policy for se-nior savings if you simply ask.”
Discounts may vary by franchise or retailer, so it’s important to in-quire with customer service or the manager about age requirements and the percentages off purchases. Stores like Kohl’s offer discounts on a certain day of the week. Other businesses may have a standard percentage that they take off re-gardless of the day or time the purchases are being made. Dunkin Donuts, KB Toys, Banana Republic, and many other retailers offer any-where from 10 to 15 percent off on purchases. That can add up to con-siderable savings, especially for old-er adults living on fi xed incomes.
And individuals need not be re-tirement age to reap store perks. Some businesses offer discounts for customers over the age of 62. Many others start the cutoff at 50 to 55. The ear-lier Boomers fi nd out about discounts, the sooner they can start saving.
Stores aren’t the only ones offering perks to seniors, either. Dis-counts may be avail-able on airline fl ights and other modes of transportation. Re-duced rates on ho-tel rooms, car rent-
als and other travel industry items are also available.
Community services may be made possible for seniors as well, includ-ing low- or no-cost fi nancial coun-seling. Health companies also may have discounted programs for se-niors, including fi tness clubs, pre-scription programs and therapy. Anyone age 50 and up is eligible for enrollment in AARP, which boasts its own collection of discounts and recommended businesses.
Let’s not forget senior housing, which has evolved way beyond the retirement communities of the past. Today’s senior living facilities often boast state-of-the-art fi tness cen-ters, theaters, pools, transportation for shopping, recreational activities, and much more in addition to the steeply reduced purchase price for a home. Retirement homes are often several thousand dollars cheaper than an on-par house of similar size sold to a younger buyer.
Before anyone 50 years or older pays full price when shopping, dining out or traveling, he or she should investigate whether there are dis-counts in place that can quickly add up to savings.
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City councillors showed off their bud-get acumen in the city’s environment budget on Feb. 15 after Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley and Rideau-Goul-bourn Coun. Scott Moffatt introduced motions to re-jig the budgets to accomo-date a pair of waste-collection programs, saving $700,000.
That amount represents the money needed to fund the pilot project to get green bins into apartment buildings, as well as a long-term planning project for solid waste collection. Hubley and Moffatt said they worked with city staff to fi nd areas in the budget with unspent money that could be reallocated to those projects instead of tacking it onto tax bills.
The budget debated by the environment committee also contains $834,000 in “man-agement effi ciencies,” a lofty goal that left Hubley wondering if the city could realis-tically deliver those savings to stay within its proposed 2.5 per cent tax increase.
Much of those savings will come from a program to “green” city buildings, said public works manager John Marconi. The Smart Energy program will begin retrofi ts on the city’s 800 buildings to cut down on energy costs.
That will result in about half a million dollars in savings this year, with 55 build-ings on the list for upgrades. By 2015, there should be a $2.5-million reduction
in the energy bill, Manconi said.In 2011 the city will spend $200,000 to start
a pilot project to collect organic waste from approximately 10 apartment buildings.
Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli wondered whether that pilot could be ex-tended to include community buildings and commercial businesses.
“Our focus is on the residential sector … with regards to the IC&I (industrial, commercial and institutional) sector, our role is more to move towards encouraging as opposed to providing the service,” said Dixon Weir, the city’s general manager of environmental services.
Some councillors, including Somerset Ward Coun. Diane Holmes, wondered about ways to protect the city’s trees. The city has stopped a program offering sap-lings for residents to plant, instead turn-ing its focus to replacing the thousands of ash trees that will succumb to the em-erald ash borer in the next 10 to 15 years.
Holmes said the city needs to protect the trees it plants to reduce the number of trees killed by public works crews.
“It’s a game we play. One department plants them, another department kills them,” Holmes said. “Until we solve that problem, we’re not getting anywhere with our canopy needs for tree cover, es-pecially in the downtown.”
The environment budget will be debat-ed again as part of the overall city budget, expected to be passed at the beginning of March.
Greening city buildings to save thousands
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Voters from the Ottawa area have been invited to participate in an innovative two-day event that will be looking to in-spire discussion about the upcoming pro-vincial election.
The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO’s current affairs program, will be coming to Ottawa to launch The Agenda on the Road: Your Vote 2011 tour, and talk directly with Ottawa voters about what they feel should shape the forthcoming election.
According to a TVO statement, the event will be an opportunity for Ottawa-ns to speak about the issues they want raised in the October election and also propose solutions.
The two-day stop in Ottawa begins Sun-day Feb. 27 with the daylong, participant-led AgendaCamp workshop at city hall.
AgendaCamp will offer a forum for members of the public, community and business leaders to connect with each other, share their views and learn more about issues of concern to their fellow citizens.
The discussions and ideas of the day
will inform the live, on-location broad-cast of The Agenda with Steve Paikin from the National Gallery of Canada on Monday, Feb. 28 at 8 pm.
Liberal Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naq-vi and Lisa Macleod, Progressive Conser-vative MPP for Nepean-Carleton, have both been confi rmed as participants for the forum.
Ottawa marks the fi rst of fi ve stops for “The Agenda on the Road: Your Vote 2011” tour, which will also make stops in Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Sudbury and Toronto.
“A lot has changed in Ontario since the 2007 election,” Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor said in a statement.
“The shocks to the economy have af-fected Ontario’s key industries, commu-nities and citizens from all walks of life. What’s top-of-mind for voters in Ottawa and Ottawa region? Is it the defi cit? Ris-ing energy costs? Access to healthcare?”
Members of the public interested in participating in the AgendaCamp or ob-taining free tickets for the live broadcast may register on the Your Vote 2011 mi-crosite at yourvote2011.ca. AgendaCamp takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:40 p.m.
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Six new members have joined the board of the Rockcliffe Park Residents Associa-tion, bringing younger blood to the table.
The new members were elected at the annual general meeting on Feb. 16.
“There have been some demographic changes in Rockcliffe Park and I think we need to refl ect that in our board mem-bers,” said Brian Dickson, president of the association.
One of the new members, Lori Asshe-ton-Smith, wanted to join to become more aware of the community she moved into last spring.
“It was important for me to get involved in my community,” Assheton-Smith said.
The mother of two young boys plans on bringing her expertise as a communica-tions lawyer to the association, as well as helping out in any way possible.
At the meeting, Dickson recognized it was time for new blood and time to fi ll out their board to the full extent. These new faces are needed to keep up with
the change of empty nesters to families, he indicated. It creates a stronger board when it comes time to stand up for issues in their neighbourhood at city hall, Dick-son noted.
“We are gaining a more youthful com-munity and it is time to acknowledge that,” Dickson said.
The other fi ve members include Lucie Bohac, Graeme McCallum, Leigh Fraser-Roberts, John Murphy and David Waiser. Each brings their own specialty to the board with the professions ranging from a pediatrician, retired psychologist to an investment advisor.
The nominees waited as Dickson read off their names and the other board members approved of the new recruits without challenge.
A re-election of the 2010 board mem-bers was also approved, with Dickson staying on as president.
With the additional members, Dick-son pointed out that the association has the ability to work hard at resolving and standing up for what they believe in for the residents of Rockcliffe Park.
Community
Photo by Michelle NashRockcliffe Park Residents Association brings in new blood for 2011. President Brian Dick-son hopes these new members will liven up the memberships, website and create a strong association.
Association brings in new blood
now offer street access to apartment dwellers on Presland Street. Homeowner Melissa Grant, who lives in the last town-house on Presland across from the pro-posed development, was not happy with this new development.
“Right now we already have an issue with traffi c. You told us it wouldn’t hap-pen and here it is,” Grant said.
Regardless of any traffi c study or neighbourhood study, Grant said she feels that cars will park on the street because it offers the residents of the proposed apartments direct access to their homes. Grant’s husband Adrian calls himself the parking police and has forever been bat-tling the issue of parking on the street. This new design plan makes him worry the situation will get worse.
“I shuttle family members back and forth from the Canadian Tire parking lot to avoid breaking the bylaw when they come over, but I doubt others will do the same,” Adrian Grant said.
Traffi c is a huge concern for the com-munity. The proposed development will only have access to the Vanier Parkway, which is already inundated with fast moving cars. Meloshe confi rmed no add-
ed traffi c would come through Presland Road because it will remain a dead-end street. A new left turning lane will be built for those going south onto the park-way, while a right turning lane will be put in place for those going north.
According to a traffi c study, the build-ing will add no more than 125 vehicles be-tween the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.
“Right now we already have an issue with traffi c, this building will just be add-ing to the problem,” said Joanne Lockyer, vice-president of the Overbrook Commu-nity Council.
President of the Overbrook Communi-ty Council, Sheila Perry urged residents to submit their concerns in writing be-fore the deadline of Thursday, Feb. 24.
“We need to fi ght this together, as a community council, we can’t do it alone. We need you,” Perry said.
Once the application for re-zoning is complete, the application will go before the planning committee on March 29. Perry in-formed residents that she did confi rm from Meloshe that the sale of 127 Presland is still a conditional sale. For residents, this offered a little hope, as most of the concerned hom-eowners in the area hope the convent will be used for other needs in the community.
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A fundraising event sponsored by Ashbury College raised $9,500 for women’s cancer research.
This is the second time the event has been held at the college. Headmaster Tam Michaels wel-comed the guests and thanked the Ashbury guild, a parent volunteer group that helped the show run smoothly. Ashley MacCormack, the fundraising coordinator for the Canadian Cancer Society, said the night was amazing.
“We doubled what we raised last year and everyone who worked hard did an amazing job,” Mac-Cormack said.
A volunteer-turned-employee for the Canadian Cancer Society, MacCormack has long understood the effort it takes to get an event such as this one off the ground.
“It takes an amazing volunteer committee to make this event suc-cessful. They are the eyes and ears on the night and they make it hap-pen,” MacCormack said.
The Ashbury guild helped Mac-Cormack with a lot of the details big and small and made sure ev-erything went as planned.
“We have a great group of par-ents who volunteer a lot of time to the school,” said Karen Keskinen,
Ashbury College’s spokeswoman. “For this event, they worked re-ally hard.”
The event raised $5,000 last year, with net proceeds at $2,800. The theme was desserts, specifi cally wine and chocolate – both cancer fi ghting foods that taste great.
Twenty-fi ve local bakeries and farmer markets donated the tasty treats.
MacCormack said it was an easy decision of dessert fl avours, as both chocolate and red wine can be considered widely famous indulgences for women.
Laureen Harper, Olympic med-allist Elizabeth Manley, Senator Lucie Pepin, and South Africa’s Ambassador to Canada Mohau Pheko were some of the attend-ees for the evening. The Canadian Cancer Society holds this event in February to do raise funds for women’s cancer separate from their other drives, like the one in October that is widely known for raising money for breast cancer research.
This year, the event introduced new elements to the effort by of-fering a silent auction with prizes of Yoga classes, bed and breakfast getaways and spa gift certifi cates. MacCormack has said in the past they wanted to offer various op-portunities for guests to donate
money. The silent auction prizes mostly centered on gifts for wom-en but there were some options for men to enjoy as well.
Photo submittedLaureen Harper and Elizabeth Manely attended Ashbury’s third an-nual Canadian Cancer Fundraiser to help promote cancer research. The event raised money for women’s cancer research and women’s health awareness through sweet treats and a silent auction.
Fundraising never tasted so sweetMICHELLE NASH
The Ottawa Public Library wants people everywhere to fi nd a book, take a moment and read to anyone who will listen.
Libraries across Ottawa are encouraging residents to Stop, Drop and Read as part of their participation in Kindness Week, a week where Rabbi Reuven Bulka, the week’s creator, hopes kindness will prevail and people all over will stop and help someone.
Jane Venus, manager of children and teen services for the Ottawa Public Li-brary, said that the event the library is holding is just one way for individuals to be kind.
“As a librarian, I think the best thing to do for someone is to read to someone,” Ve-nus said.
The idea is to take a mo-ment, anywhere, whether in a library or on the street or in a school and read to either an individual or a group of people.
Organizers at the Ottawa Public Library hope the
event promotes reading lon-ger than just the week of kindness asks of them.
“It would be great to see kids sitting and reading to each other all the time, but it is up to you when you read,” Venus said.
The event is something that anyone can participate in, because it only takes a good book and interested lis-teners, Venus said.
Bulka came to the Main branch of the library to help promote the event by reading to a group of preschoolers.
Reading a book about a crocodile who lost his smile, Bulka interacted with the children and afterwards asked them what the croco-dile learned about loosing his smile. The children were eager to answer.
“It is important to be nice to your friends and neigh-bours,” Bulka told the kids.
As Stop, Drop and Read is just one of the many events of-fered during Kindness Week, Venus’ optimism as a librar-ian is that parents and broth-ers and sisters and grandpar-ents will all be inspired to continue to be kind and read to anyone anywhere.
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DAN PLOUFFE
Nova Scotia may not offer the most ex-citing mountains in the world for a snow-boarder to go, but for Rockcliffe’s Quincy Korte-King, the latest stop in a young ca-reer that is poised to take her big places is a special one nonetheless.
That’s because the 15-year-old former Ashbury College student will be partici-pating in a competition that is a little dif-ferent than the rest when she tackles the halfpipe at the Canada Winter Games on Thursday, Feb. 24 in Windsor, NS.
“From my point of view, it’s like a mini national Olympics,” says Korte-King, who was expecting it would be “really cool” to be part of Team Ontario in a multi-sport environment. “Obviously I want to ride as well as I can and I would love to land on top of the podium. I’ve been having trouble with consistency in competition this season, but I guess that’s my goal.”
The daughter of a national develop-ment team alpine skier, Korte-King was on skis since age two until her prized snowboard arrived under the Christmas tree three years later. As she got older, Korte-King started going to bigger hills in the area, starting at Camp Fortune, then moving to Mont Ste. Marie, followed by Mont Tremblant.
Korte-King fared well in regional con-tests, but an eye-opening experience set her on a new course when she attended a U.S. Open competition.
“It was just so crazy,” Korte-King re-counts. “They all had personal coaches there.”
So she started visiting a coach in Ver-mont every couple weekends who also worked at Stratton Mountain School – a specialized ski and snowboard academy that has produced over 30 Olympic snow sport athletes.
Occasionally, Korte-King would beat riders from Stratton, but often she wouldn’t.
“They had such an advantage,” the former swimmer, volleyball player and gymnast recalls. “They’re riding every day and the coaching there is so great.”
So, this past fall, Korte-King enrolled at Stratton Mountain School, where she’s on the slopes from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and then in class after lunch until past 5 p.m.
“I’ve been having such a good time,” notes Korte-King, who believes moving away from Ottawa was a necessity to con-tinue progressing in snowboarding. “In Ottawa, there aren’t that many girls com-peting. Having gone down there, there’s a whole group of us that push each other every day.”
Team Ontario snowboard cross coach Cassandra Smith of Ottawa acknowledg-es a forced move is the reality for most elite area snowboarders, although the Merivale High School grad who recently returned from Alberta is trying to put to-gether a viable program for young local snowboarders through her new Akad-emy team.
Still building in its fi rst year, Akademy wouldn’t be a major help to Korte-King at the moment – especially without a half-pipe in the region – but it’s Smith’s hope that down the road snowboarders will have the possibility to seriously develop their talents locally.
“There are some athletes to have come out of here in snowboarding in the past, but it really hits that point where they leave high school and have to go west to pursue that passion,” explains Smith, who was impressed to hear that Korte-King recently competed in her fi rst World Cup competition at Stoneham, Que. “It defi nitely shows that she’s quite talented because they’re not just going to let any-body go.”
NERVES OF STEEL
Whether it’s a World Cup or a Canada Winter Games, Korte-King says she nev-er feels nervous.
“I always just tell myself, ‘I have noth-ing to prove at this competition,’” ex-plains Korte-King, who’s almost always one of the youngest entrants. “I want to put pressure on myself so that I ride better, but I try not to worry about it that much and I tell myself that I have all the time in the world.
“I don’t need to be worrying about this, I just want people to notice me, and do what I came here to do, which is snow-board my best.”
Down the road, Korte-King would like to get invited to an X Games, or make an Olympics team, but she feels thankful
for the chances she’s already received through snowboarding.
“I’m really lucky to have parents that support me so I can actually get this far in my sport, and to have coaches and people to ride with that push me this much,”
Korte-King says. “A lot of the people I know have talent, but they might not have the resources, or their parents don’t want to send them to school for sports.
“I’m really lucky to have had all these opportunities.”
Submitted photoWithin the space of a week, snowboarder Quincy Korte-King will have competed in her fi rst World Cup and fi rst Canada Winter Games.
Teen rides high to snowboard Canada Winter Games
The Ontario ringette team, featuring fi ve players from Ot-tawa, celebrated a gold medal with an 8-7 overtime victory in the Friday, Feb. 18 Canada Win-ter Games championship game against Alberta.
Alex Bateman scored two goals in the deciding game, while Kali MacAdam added a goal and an assist, as did Kelsey Youldon to bring her six-game tournament total to 11 points. Sarah Gross and Natalie Crouch were also gold medallists.
A total of six Ottawa athletes won short-track speedskating relay medals as members of Team Ontario, with Julien Col-lin-Demers, Vincent De Haitre
and Oliver Gervais taking silver on the men’s side and Keri Mor-rison, Hannah Morrison and Gabrielle St-Germain earning women’s bronze.
Daxxon Gill was a silver medallist with Team Ontario in wheelchair basketball, while Jessica Armstrong, Cassandra Lewin, Andrea Sinclair and Lauren Horton won curling bronze.
CAVALIERS POISED FOR HOME OFSAA VOLLEYBALL
The De La Salle Cavaliers clawed their way into the na-tional capital ‘AA’ girls’ volley-ball championship fi nal last
week with a fi ve-set semi-fi nal victory over the Samuel-Genest Laser.
The Cavaliers fi nished the regular season with a 9-1 record while Samuel-Genest was 7-3.
De La Salle and Gisèle-Lalonde will face each other in the city championship on Thursday, Feb. 24 in advance of the OFSAA championships March 8-9 in Ottawa.
SENATORS TAKE FOURTH
The Ottawa Senators’ run at the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association Midget ‘AA’ cham-pionships ended one win short of a medal Feb. 18-20 in Bramp-
ton. The Senators were perfect through the round robin and quarter-fi nals, scoring victories over Sault Ste. Marie, Durham West, Barrie and Sarnia before running into tournament-cham-pion Toronto in the semis and then falling to Stoney Creek in the bronze medal match.
PANTHERS PULL THROUGH IN POST-SEASON HOOPS
The Lester B. Pearson Pan-thers began writing a Cinderel-la post-season story in the high school senior boys’ basketball ranks last week to get back to the city championship game they won last season. Following
a 1-5 start to their regular sea-son, the Panthers reeled off six consecutive victories, including two- and four-point playoff up-sets over St. Paul and Cairine Wilson.
LBP was set to take on the Louis-Riel Rebelles in the ‘AA’ city fi nal on Tuesday, Feb. 22 after the Rebelles knocked off Ashbury 34-32 in the semi-fi -nals.
The Panthers junior boys’ team also put together an im-pressive season, earning a per-fect record heading into the east conference fi nals on Tuesday, Feb. 22 against Louis-Riel, with the national capital champion-ship set for Thursday, Feb. 24.
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Please email events to [email protected] by 4:30 p.m. Friday
• FEB. 24The Youth Services Bureau is host-ing a “green” job fair for youth at the Walter Baker sports centre from 10 a.m. to noon on Feb. 24. The fair will feature more than 20 employ-ers who are involved in the green sector or have made conscious changes to become more sustain-able. Youth can apply for green summer jobs and fi nd out more about possible futures in a green career. For more information call 613-729-0577.
• FEB. 25 AND 26The School of Dance presents Essays, an annual presentation of new cho-reographies created and performed by contemporary dance students. Performances are at the Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD), Studio A at Arts Court (2 Daly Ave.) on Friday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 26 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 or $15 for students and seniors. For tickets and informa-tion, call 613-238-7838.
Come out to the Eastview Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, 294 Cyr
Avenue. Weekend entertainment in-cludes The New Legends playing on Friday, February 25 from 7 to 11 PM, on Saturday, February 26 from 7 to 11 PM and on Sunday, February 27 from 4 to 8 PM. Free Admission – all are welcome. For more information, contact the Branch at 613-741-9539. www.rcl462.ca
• FEB. 26Irish social dance at 8 p.m. at St. Margaret Mary Church (7 Fairbairn Ave.). Singles or couples of all ages welcome. All dances are easy to do and are taught and called through-out. Live Celtic music by the Ottawa Ceili Band. Entertainment by guest performers. free dance lessons, free munchies/desserts, tea. Cost: dona-tion ($7 suggested). For information, contact [email protected] or 613-523-9702.
Dr. Liz Anderson-Peacock will deliver a research-based children’s health and wellness information session looking at current trends in children’s health, the aspect of social media, nutritional components and healthy lifestyle choices for our children’s wellbeing. All proceeds will be donated to children’s chari-ties. The session will run from 9:45 to 11:30 a.m. at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier. Tickets are $10 each or $15
for a family of four. For tickets, contact Dr. James Emmett at 613-830-4080.
A concert of music for oboe and piano with Ottawa’s renowned storytelling oboist Angela Casa-grande, and one of Ottawa’s best-known collaborative pianists, Amélie Langlois. This is a benefi t concert for the Leukemia and Lym-phoma Society of Canada (LLSC), supporting blood cancer research. The concert will take place at 7:30 in Freiman Hall at the University of Ottawa, (610 Cumberland St.). Tickets are $20, or $10 for students and seniors, available at the The Leading Note (370 Elgin St.) or by calling 613-723-2881. Admission by donation is also welcome. For more information, contact Bill Cowley at 613 723 2881.
Come for a half-day retreat with Dr. Mishka Lysack exploring the resources that inspire us to protect the environment, and how to apply our spirituality in effective action in the public sphere. Dr. Lysack teaches ecosocial work, and environmental issues in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is the founder and a co-chair of the series on environmental decline & climate change as moral issues. 9 a.m. to
noon. Suggested Donation: $20 Cen-tretown United Church, 507 Bank St. at Argyle.
• FEB. 27“A Bit of Nonsense:” a choral con-cert with the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir and the Chamber Choir of the Ottawa Children’s Choir will be held at 7 p.m. at St. James United Church, 650 Lyon St. S. in the Glebe. Tickets are $20 for an adult or $10 for a student.
• MARCH 6 The Jazz Vespers Concert featuring Mike Tremblay and Mark Ferguson. A performance that’s sure to please! Join us at All Saints/First United church for an inspirational, spirit-fi lled performance with readings, refl ections and uplifting music. All are welcome. Doors open at 4:00, service starts at 4:30. Free will offer-ing at the door. 347 Richmond Rd., Westboro 613-725-9487.
• FEBRUARY AND MARCHMPP Bob Chiarelli will be hosting “How to Get Your Money Back” information sessions for seniors throughout Ottawa West-Nepean. Make sure that you receive all of the rebates and credits you’re entitled to! For the session closest to you, please call 613-721-8075.
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Community Calendar Airport tops in customer
serviceEMMA JACKSON
The Ottawa International Airport in Ottawa South has been ranked number one in the world for customer service, at airports serving between two and fi ve million fl yers.
A customer survey conducted by the Airports Council Inter-national scored the airport top points in nearly all of the 36 cat-egories, including ‘overall satis-faction.’
The survey covered every-thing from friendliness of the check-in staff to the effi ciency of security screening to the overall cleanliness and ambi-ance of the facility, the airport’s media release said.
“Our fi rst place in the world award, as well as the other awards received in 2010 are a celebration of the efforts of the entire campus community and testament to the commitment to customer service that we all share,” said airport spokes-woman Krista Kealey.
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