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Year 29, Issue 9 March 3, 2011 | 20 Pages yourottawaregion.comPROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITY OF NEPEAN
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
Mayor Jim Watson, city staff and councillors fi elded ques-tions from residents about the future of the city at a multi-ward, public budget consulta-tion at the Nepean Sportsplex on Feb. 22.
Despite meeting the 2.5 per cent tax increase goal, resi-dents had concerns about tran-sit, intensifi cation and future infrastructure spending.
Watson congratulated coun-cil and staff on sticking to his policy of a 2.5 per cent increase and a freeze on recreation fees.
“I am really proud of the way we worked together to make this happen and I think we are moving forward as a city,” he said.
The water bill — to be tabled in a separate budget in April — is likely to go up by 3.9 per cent, or an average of $24 an-nually per household.
The projects in the city’s southwest for 2011 include:
• $25 million for the widen-ing of Greenbank Road from Malvern Drive to Strandherd Road;
• $64 million for the Hunt Club Road extension to High-way 417 and the interchange;
• $9 million for the widening of Jockvale Road from Long-fi elds Drive to Cambrian Road;
• $200,000 for a pedestrian
connection along Strandherd between Fallowfi eld and Jock-vale Road; and,
• $43 million for improve-ments to the West Transitway from Bayshore Drive to Mood-ie Drive.
There will also be $34 million spent on the rehabilitation of the water transmission main on Carling Avenue between Kirkwood Avenue and Meri-vale Road.
Watson and city treasurer Marian Simulik said that spending on light rail, Lansd-owne Park redevelopment and the Ottawa River Action Plan are still priorities.
Despite the decisions already made by the committees, Wat-son outlined the importance of his town hall on city spending to be held on March 1.
“I remember when I was with the Canadian Tourism Commission I was told by one airline employee that he cleaned up the decorative let-tuce that no one ate and what a waste it was. It turns out that not putting it on the plates saved the airline $2.5 million annually. And it was a really simple solution,” Watson said. “We make decisions regarding your money and most of the time they are good, but we are always open to hearing from you about how we can do bet-ter.”
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Photo by LJ MathesonVivian Sumner (left) and Isabel Ferguson are celebrating their 100th and 102nd birthdays respectively in March at the Stillwater Creek Re-tirement Community in Bells Corners.
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tips to help parents. 8 Celebrating 202 years of lifeBells Corners women hit milestone birthdays
LJ MATHESON
Two women of the Stillwater Creek Retirement Community in Bells Corners have reason to celebrate in March.
Vivian Sumner turns 100 years of age on March 8 and her friend, Isabel Ferguson will be 102 on March 12.
Both are still independent and enjoy each other’s company as well as the daily lifestyle in their retirement home.
Ferguson was thoughtful when asked how she spends a
typical day. “I’m enjoying my re-tirement,” she said with a grin. “I don’t do anything. I worked all my life, so now I’m not doing anything but enjoying my retire-ment.”
She and Sumner have been living at Stillwater Creek since it was built 10 years ago. Fergu-son, who is in a wheelchair, is in the assisted living zone, while Sumner is on a separate fl oor for those with more mobility.
Sumner came to the retire-ment community after her hus-band died in 2001.
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Gravelle wins builder award for three decades of volunteerism
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
Elizabeth Gravelle was honoured by Mayor Jim Watson Feb. 23 for her work with the Crystal Beach-Lakeview Com-munity Association.
Gravelle, who had a room named after her in the neighbourhood community building —Maki House — has been work-ing with the community association for 31 years. Gravelle handles the bookings for Maki House.
It has gotten so busy over the years that she has pylons and a barrier at the end of the driveway at her Crystal Beach Drive home to prevent her car from getting hit when people stop by to get the key.
“Now people know where the house with the key is because of the pylons so it works out,” Gravelle said in an interview at her home.
Gravelle says she is the type of person who is always busy.
When she isn’t working with the com-munity association, she is sewing hats
for chemotherapy patients as part of the Sally Ross and Friends group.
“I have gotten way more out of volun-teering than I have given to it,” she said. “I know a lot of young people who think they don’t have the time, but it helps you keep in touch with your community.”
Gravelle and her husband have lived in the community for 45 years, originally coming to the area from Deep River, Ont. for her husband’s work with Nortel.
Gravelle is a retired nurse who now has a host of grandchildren and makes it a point to be at her grandson’s football games.
The honour Gravelle received at city hall is the new civic honour dubbed the Mayor’s City Builder Award.
It was created by Watson to recognize an individual, group or organization that has — through their outstanding volun-teerism or exemplary action — demon-strated an extraordinary commitment to making our city a better place. Individu-als or groups can be nominated by mem-bers of city council or the public.
Birthday girls celebrateFrom ‘Celebrating’, on page 1 She has no children of her own, but is a step-mother to fi ve children and grand-mother to many more. Ferguson never married. She has nieces and nephews throughout the United States.
“I credit my mother and dad,” Fergu-son said as to the secret to her longevity. “I was born in New Brunswick and lived there most of my life. I came to Ottawa for a job. I was a secretary for CMHC (Ca-nadian Mortgage and Housing Corpora-tion) all my life.”
Ferguson said she remembers her childhood with fondness, “and I loved it all, especially time spent at the cottage in Mirimichi.”
She had two brothers and two sisters
and they enjoyed an active lifestyle, swim-ming and skating. “I also love music,” she added.
For Sumner, “I love the same things,” she said. “I did all that too. Swimming, skating and then I liked to ski because my husband did. And I also loved playing with dolls.”
Sumner worked as a “secretary follow-ing the president of T. Eaton’s Company” from Ottawa to Toronto and London. She was one of three siblings (nine in total) who were born in a red brick house by the CN Rail station in Ottawa.
The women will enjoy their day in the spotlight as the retirement community will celebrate their birthdays on March 8.
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Submitted photoElizabeth Gravelle was honoured by Mayor Jim Watson and Bay Ward Coun. Mark Taylor recently with a City Builder Award for her decades of volunteerism in her community.
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Budget concerns include Greenbank Road developmentsContinued from ‘Holding’ on page 1
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Watson said he was also proud of the 2.5 per cent increase on transit fares — signifi cantly lower than the 7.5 per cent in-creases of previous years.
“That’s (7.5 per cent) three times the rate of infl ation,” he said. “We have to make changes to OC Transpo to make it more effi cient or it will continue to gobble up one or two per cent of the budget each year.”
The city will also be expand-ing transit service for seniors. There is already free service on Wednesday and now there will be free service on Monday and Friday afternoons.
Some residents expressed concern over the proposed cuts to 47 bus routes.
“I use the bus daily and I know how important it is,” Loretta Fleming, a community devel-oper with the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Re-source Centre (NROCRC), said, adding that she would like to see the buses be made an essential service to avoid a future labour impasse that would stop buses from running.
Gloucester-Southgate coun-cillor and chair of the city’s transportation committee Di-ane Deans said that the city had tried to get the federal govern-ment to declare OC Transpo an essential service during the 54-day work stoppage two years
ago.“The test they perform is to
ask wether the service repre-sents an immediate health and safety concern if it is stopped. In this case we had other services, such as taxi chits for low-income residents and ParaTranspo, so it was deemed it wasn’t neces-sary,” she said.
Knoxdale-Merivale resident Michael Corber asked what work was being done to prevent another transit strike.
“It seems like everyone went away and worked really hard, spent time establishing good-will and now we are back talk-ing about arbitration again,” Corber said.
Watson said he wasn’t going to negotiate through the media.
“You won’t be able to count on me to poke at the union,” he said. “Certainly no one wants to see another strike.”
INTENSIFICATION
Corber pressed council to talk about a plan for Greenbank Road and the new developments in his neighbourhood.
“I think it’s fi ne to talk about widening, but north of Hunt Club, Greenbank becomes a real mess and we need to recognize that and new developments only make it worse.”
Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli acknowledged that there was a problem with the roadway.
“It’s the road that we all love to hate,” he said. “But you can
be assured that I am working with staff to make sure the de-velopments in the area refl ect the character of the neighbour-hoods.”
Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches said it was all about fi nding a balance.
With the opening of the South-west Transitway extension and the RCMP’s move to the South Merivale Business Park he said he thinks his ward is at the be-ginning of striking a balance.
“We need to create communi-ties where you can live, work and play and take pressure off the roads by reducing the com-muters,” he said.
Ken Shipley, with the Friends of Lansdowne, asked why the city was on the hook for the renovations of the Frank Clair Stadium when the developers will benefi t.
City manager Kent Kirkpat-rick said developers are making their own investments and the city is confi dent that the pro-posal is the best choice for Lans-downe.
“We look forward to our day in court,” Kirkpatrick said.
FUTURE PLANS
Brad Spooner, program man-ager at NROCRC, questioned the city’s plans for future budgets where there was no $25-million cash infusion from the prov-ince’s uploading to dip into.
“I think it’s a great budget and I look forward to the increased funding for housing, but will it
continue?” he said. College Coun. Rick Chiarelli
said while the funds from the province will only be $5 million, the city can continue to move forward because the expenses from the previously download-ed programs is a burden the city will no longer have to bear.
“We now can take those funds and put them back into general use and use them for the benefi t of the city and its residents,” he said.
The next multi-ward, public consultations is March 3 at City Hall (Andrew Haydon Hall) 110 Laurier Avenue West from 7 to 9 p.m.
Photo by Jennifer McIntoshKnoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli discussed the Greenbank Road developments.
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Province announces millions in funding
LJ MATHESON
Ontario is expanding services at four local hospitals to ensure that residents of Ottawa and the valley can get better access to the quality care they need, close to home.
The province is helping the hospital expand services follow-ing several recently-completed redevelopment projects by pro-viding more than $11.3 million in new operating funding.
“This funding will help hospi-tals across the region deliver ser-vices like day surgery and ambu-latory care,” said Bob Chiarelli, MPP for Ottawa West - Nepean.
“We’re committed to working with all partners in the health sector to deliver quality public health care service to Ottawa area individuals, families and seniors.”
These investments will im-prove care and help the hospitals provide more services in the fol-lowing areas:
• $21,200 to the Arnprior and District Memorial Hospital to support the newly expanded Emergency Department;
• $4,755,600 to the Montfort Hospital to support the expan-sion of medical, surgical, inten-sive care, surgical care for preg-nant women and their babies and neonatal inpatient services as well as ambulatory care services
for day surgery, emergency, men-tal health, cardiac care, diabetic education and orthopedics;
• $6,592,500 to the Ottawa Hos-pital to support outpatient can-cer care services and to help the hospital better meet the needs of the community; and,
• $11,000 to the Children’s Hos-pital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) to support the recent East Addi-tion and renovations.
“Today’s announcement en-sures that we will continue to strengthen access to world-class cancer care for our community. We are delighted to continue working in partnership with the LHIN and the Province on behalf of our patients,” said Dr. Jack Kitts, CHEO’s CEO.
The hospitals are receiving funds to expand services follow-ing recent redevelopment proj-ect. Expanding front line health care services is part of the prov-ince’s to provide more access to health care services and im-prove quality and accountability for patients.
“Patients will have improved access to health care as a result of these new operating dollars for hospitals in our region,” said Alex Munter, Champlain LHIN CEO.
“The investments will help hospitals meet a growing de-mand for health services, pro-viding people with care when they need it.”
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MARCH 3Attention mothers, fathers and care-givers of children 0-6 years; NROCRC invites you to attend the Bell’s Corner Playgroup, Thursday, March 3 – June 2, from 9:30 to 11:30 am, at the Westcliffe Community Centre, 681 Seyton Dr. A FREE PLAYGROUP in a warm and welcoming environ-ment where parents / caregivers and their children can participate in a va-riety of early learning activities such as: stories, music and movement, arts and crafts and other activities that develop skills important for school readiness. For more infor-mation, contact: Loretta Fleming Community Developer, NROCRC, at 613-596-5626 ext. 255; lfl [email protected].
MARCH 5The Canadian Centennial Choir and music director Marg Stubington are proud to present “Triumph of the Spirit” at 8 p.m. at St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, 310 St. Patrick Street. Tickets are $22 and $18 in advance, $25 and $20 at the door and are on sale at Leading Note (Elgin), Herb & Spice (Wellington) and Compact Music (Bank). For more information visit the Choir’s website at www.ccc-ccc.ca.
MARCH 8The Ottawa Police Service is holdinga recruitment informati)on session for women only at 19 Fairmont Ave., Ottawa from 6 to 8 p.m. to cel-ebrate International Women’s Day.
MARCH 8Heritage Sugar Shack Outing. Join Friends of the Farm for a one day bus tour to a Heritage Sugar Shack in Rigaud, Quebec. Early-bird bonus before Jan. 15. Includes transpor-tation and heritage lunch. Info: 613-230-3270 and www.friendsoft-hefarm.ca
MARCH 8Thirteen Strings, Bringing the Music to Life! Solace - Three Centuries of English Melody at St Andrew’s Church at 8 p.m. Tickets are avail-able on line at www.thirteenstrings.ca or by calling 613-738-7888. Prices: adults $40, seniors $35, students $10.
MARCH 10Exclusive event with Elvis imperson-ator, Paul Warren, at the Hunt Club Manor Retirement Residence at 2 p.m. Complimentary refreshments, silent auction; tickets $15/$10 for residents with proceeds in support of the Kidney Foundation. Call 613-733-4776 for information.
MARCH 24-27The Ottawa Home & Garden Show is back again from March 24 to 27 at Lansdowne Park. This year’s show will be full of ideas for anyone looking to renovate, decorate or landscape. For more information or to purchase your tickets, please visit www.ottawahomeshow.com)
MARCH 26 CANCELLATIONFriends of the Farm is cancelling the March 26 Book Drop off, due to the tremendous response to the Feb. 5
drop off. Please remember the Book Sale on June 18 and 19 at Build-ing #72, Arboretum of the Central Experimental Farm. Friends of the Central Experimental Farm Building 72, Arboretum, C.E.F. Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6; phone: 613-230-3276
MARCH 31Employees, volunteers, leaders, directors and funders of non-profi t organizations are welcome to listen to David Jones, a motivational speaker and presenter of “Passion Works! Your Guide to Passion in the Modern Workplace” at the Jim Durrell Recreation Complex, 1265 Walkley Road, (near Bank Street) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more in-formation, call 613-868-3569 or visit www.passionworksproducts.ca. The cost for the seminar is $99.
APRIL 9Y’s Owl Maclure Co-operative Cen-tre is hosting a fundraising event at the Hampton Inn. Enjoy an evening of fi ne food, ballroom dancing and demonstrations by local dance instructors. Tickets $75 per person advance sales only. Contact Sue at 613-737-3268 or Hugh at 613-721-1500 for information.
APRIL 10The Pipe Bands of the Ottawa Police Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (National Capital Region) are presenting a joint con-cert at 2 p.m. at Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper Street, in Ottawa. This concert celebrates the 10th anniversary of the formation of the RCMP Pipes, Drums and Dancers, and its partnership with the Ottawa Police Service Pipe Band through the last decade. Members of the public are invited to join as we celebrate the anniversary and partnership between bands, in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa. Tickets are $20 each (chil-dren under 12 free), and available from: Ottawa Police Service Pipe Band, http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/Community/OPSPipeBand/in-dex.aspx; RCMP Pipes, Drums and Dancers (National Capital Region) http://www.rcmppipesanddrums.com/joomla/; Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa http://www.bbbso.ca/en/Home/default.aspx.
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 en-titled to! For the session closest to you, please call 613-721-8075.
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Clean energy initiative hopes to raise awareness
EMMA JACKSON
Ecology Ottawa launched two major clean energy campaigns at its Feb. 24 gala at Ottawa City Hall, which aim to take advan-tage of provincial opportunities to invest in renewable energy projects.
“Thanks to the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, we have an opportunity that we’ve never had before in the prov-ince of Ontario: to invest in the solutions to be part of driving the change that we want to see,” Ecology Ottawa chairman Gra-ham Saul told the audience of about 100 people, including sev-eral city councillors and MPPs.
The fi rst program announced at the gathering is the Commu-nity Eastern Network of East-ern Ontario, which will bring together community groups, organizations, businesses, and governmental bodies from across eastern Ontario to share resources and information about clean energy to develop best practices and strategies for clean energy initiatives.
The second program is called Building Community Power, and focuses on raising awareness
about clean energy as well as helping maximize opportunities to take advantage of Ontario’s green energy act.
Saul said that the Ontario gov-ernment’s green energy legisla-tion is one of the most effective of its kind in North America, and communities should be work-ing together to take advantage of such programs as the feed-in tariff, which offers high energy prices for renewable sources such as solar, wind, geothermal and small hydro.
“Here in Ontario, we are be-ginning to prove that we can solve problems and create jobs at the same time. At its heart, the core of Ontario’s plan is simple: we phase out coal, and we ramp up renewable energy and energy effi ciency,” Saul said, noting that dirty energy is the number one contributor to climate change.
The Building Community Pow-er program was granted $100,000 over two years through the On-tario Trillium Foundation’s community grants program.
“We hope is going to play a vital role in moving the city in the right direction on clean en-ergy.,” said Noxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli.
Students experience kind actsJENNIFER MCINTOSH
What started as an anti-bul-lying campaign four years ago has grown into a city-wide show of kindness.
Kindness Week Ottawa, pre-sented by United Way Ottawa, is a city-wide initiative that en-courages community members to choose to be kind and recog-nizes those who engage in ev-eryday acts of kindness. Kind-ness Week is made possible by an organizing committee of vol-unteers from government, non-profi t, corporate, education, and restaurant and hospital-ity sectors, and is facilitated by United Way Ottawa. The brain-child of Rabbi Reuven Bulka of Congregation Machzikei Hadas, Kindness Week was launched to help make change happen in the community by spreading kindness.
Schools, citizens and social service agencies across the city engage in donation campaigns, food drives and volunteering for a whole week in the capital.
“I really came up with the idea in response to all the talk around bullying,” Bulka said. “We are here because of acts of kindness and I think we need to
highlight that.”Bulka was on hand at Mead-
owlands Public School on Feb. 24 to talk to the school children about kindness.
“If a stranger gave us $5 to go to the coffee shop and have fun we would be really grateful, but when our parents do it, we don’t take the time to thank them,” Bulka said. “And we can thank the teachers for doing their job and teaching us.”
Roland Kuehn, a character education teacher at Meadow-lands, said that he asked Bulka to come to the school to high-light the week for the students and complement the curricu-lum.
“Learning about kindness is not something you can do with a test or a spreadsheet,” he said. “You need to engage the kids and get them thinking about it.”
Kuehn, who has volun-teered with orphans in Kenya and taught character at three schools in Ottawa, said that he was impressed by the willing-ness of the children at Meadow-lands to help out.
“They managed to raise $1,000 with a used toy and bake sale to help fl ood victims in Pakistan and are talking about starting
an anti-bullying club called United,” he said.
At Manordale Public School, Sue Dubois, an educational as-sistant at the school, spearhead-ed a student art show for a se-niors’ conference in April. The kids were making paintings and stories about a senior in their life to benefi t the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Commu-nity Resource Centre’s (NRO-CRC) elderly abuse prevention program.
“We are having a conference to talk about aging and elder abuse in April and the paint-ings will be displayed and then returned to the school,” Brad Spooner, program manager with NROCRC, said.
The students received Sena-tors’ tickets and a visit with the team’s mascot, Spartacat, as well as a visit from Rainbow Bear from Rainbow Cinemas. “It was a really great day,” Du-bois said.
In Bells Corners, BIA execu-tive director Alex Lewis and College Coun. Rick Chiarelli read books in tandem to chil-dren at the Kids Kaf coffee shop on Richmond Road.
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Watching people break out in revolt all over the Middle East, Canadians wonder when it will happen here. The answer is, it won’t, because, relative to other parts of the world, we don’t have that much to revolt about.
On the other hand, we could speak up a bit more than we do now.
Take, for example, seniors. We have been hearing for years about the coming power of the over-65 demographic. And suddenly it is here. The fi rst wave of the baby boomers has turned 65. Those who got there fi rst have been patiently wait-ing for reinforcements. Now they are here and many more are coming.
The power is here. It just hasn’t been used yet. But there are issues where the voice of the over-65s could be raised. A nice test of the power of seniors would be the question of whatever it is that’s happening to buses in Ottawa these days.
The specifi c are a bit hard to follow but the generalities follow a pattern that has been familiar for decades. It goes like this: OC Transpo faces declining rid-ership and revenues so it increases fares and cuts routes. For decades people have been telling OC Transpo that cutting service and raising fares is not the way
to get more people to ride the bus. Some day it will sink in. Maybe the over-65s can help that process along.
Everybody recognizes that having more people ride the buses is a public good. It reduces traffi c, cuts pollution and so on. But more people will only ride the buses if the buses are there. It sounds like the likelihood of them being there is decreasing.
This is where seniors could test their newly arrived political clout. The latest proposal nixes the idea of a half-price fare for seniors. It adds a couple of free days, Monday and Friday, providing seniors travel after noon, an idea that has rightly been criticized as social engi-neering of a most condescending sort.
Is this something to email your coun-cillor about, or stage a protest at city hall, some Monday or Friday after noon?
Maybe not. The cost issue is a good one, but it may not be paramount to many seniors. Not all are impoverished, nor do they want to be treated as if they are.
More crucial is the question of route cuts. The Transpo planners want, as usu-al, to cut some routes, and those would not be the ones zooming from the outer ’burbs along the Transitway to down-town. No, the routes we will lose will be the ones that meander through residen-tial neighbourhoods, the ones that take a while to get downtown but stop close to where you live and, incidentally, take a lot of the neighbourhood kids to school and back.
Those routes are the most vulnerable because they are the least cost-effi cient, and you know what that means. It means effi ciency fi rst, you second.
Another proposed effi ciency is to reduce the number of stops for those routes that survive. The upshot is a lon-ger walk to the bus, maybe a nice bit of exercise in the spring and summer, but not so great in the winter, and not great
at all for those who don’t move as easily as they used to.
All this produces a great occasion for seniors to do some roaring and frighten a few city councillors and bureaucrats. The changes, as they have been outlined, are irrational, as usual, and seniors will feel it more than most.
The idea of public transit is to get people out of their cars. That’s always a good idea. In the case of some seniors, it’s a very good idea. But people need to be given a reason to get out of their cars. So far, Transpo isn’t doing it. But the de-cision-makers should know that seniors, unlike younger folk, always vote. As long as they can get to the polls.
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If the city is going to pledge an ‘Open Ottawa’ plan then they should stick to it.
When Jonathan Rudenberg designed his ap-plication for mobile phones using live GPS data from OC Transpo buses, it was a hit garnering 2,500 uses in the fi rst week.
The application, which tied for the People’s Choice Award in the city’s Apps4Ottawa con-test, is now operating with a huge handicap — the data was pulled.
Rudenberg politely called the problem “in-ternal politics.” Reading between the lines it seems that OC Transpo isn’t able to play nice in the sandbox. What’s the use of having an open data promise to the citizens of Ottawa if they’re going to pull it once someone comes up with a legitimate application using that information?
In a staff response to Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson who questioned the deci-sion to pull the data, OC Transpo responded that they “are currently working on a real-time arrival project that will be fully integrated into the new technology platform as part of the next stop announcement system.”
The system is supposed to be available at the end of the year, but why not use something
that’s already available instead of leaving bus riders out in the cold for the next 10 months?
Anyone who has taken a bus from a suburban area knows that buses don’t always follow the static, printed schedule. Wouldn’t it be better if riders know if the bus is going to be early or late?
OC Transpo said an outside consultant wasn’t needed at this time, and that future ad and sponsorship revenues mean the city should own any such application.
Creativity should be encouraged and the city should be able to work out a deal with Ruden-berg to provide the data to fuel the application and take a piece of any future ad or sponsor-ship revenue.
The whole thing gives the appearance that OC Transpo doesn’t want the public to know just how off-schedule the buses really are.
The creation of ‘Open Ottawa’ was a great idea.
Transparency is always the best possible way of promoting the good things our municipal government does.
Pulling data just looks like we have some-thing to hide.
Return data for bus app
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
CH2M HILL — a multi-discipline en-gineering fi rm with an offi ce in Nepean — announced Feb. 22 that they would be tripling their investment in Canada over the next four years.
John Baird, MP for Ottawa West-Ne-pean and leader of the government in the House of Commons, was on hand to tout the Conservative’s support for keep-ing taxes low and freer trade, which open markets and attract investment.
“The economy remains our Govern-ment’s number one priority,” he said in a press release. “We are keeping taxes low for job creators to grow our economy and create jobs for Canadian workers.”
CH2M HILL has been operating in Ot-tawa since 1928. According the Pauline Graf, their communications manager, their predecessor fi rm Gore and Storrie designed Ottawa’s fi rst drinking water plant — Lemieux Island — which opened in 1932.
They also designed the Sawmill Creek storm water facility, located between the
Airport Parkway and South Keys Mall, which purifi es storm water before it goes into the river.
They also handled the placement on six new fi lters during the Lemieux Island expan-
sion and the improvements to the R.O Packard Environmental Centre.
“The Canadian market is poised to grow and we already have a great relationship here and Ottawa and across the country,” Lou Ric-coboni, CH2M’s director of gov-ernment and corporate affairs said.
The company has 23,000 em-ployees globally with 1,200 in Canada that operate out of 10 of-fi ces.
Baird highlighted the low tax rate on new business investment and eliminating tariffs on manu-facturing inputs and equipments as two of the ways the govern-ment was working to attract business.
“We are ensuring that hard-working Canadian entrepre-neurs have greater opportuni-ties to grow their businesses by reinvesting in them. That’s help-ing businesses create more and
better-paying jobs, which is good news for the economy and good news for Cana-dian families,” said Baird.
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JENNIFER MCINTOSH
Algonquin students are pull-ing out all the stops for a class project to create public aware-ness about priority seating on city buses.
The project, that may include the use of videos on YouTube, worked in partnership with OC Transpo and the students in public relations and television production programs. It mea-sures the students’ success by the number of hits the videos get on YouTube.
“There are more elements, but that is key because the main point is to raise awareness,” Jeremy Atherton, an instructor for the television broadcasting course, said.
The project ends this week, at which time the hits will be tallied and the students in both courses will be graded.
“It was a really good project for the television students be-cause it (taught) them about what it’s like to work for a cli-ent and tailor a project to their needs,” Atherton said. “The television students work on the footage and the video and then the PR kids get it up on YouTube and promote it.”
On Feb. 24 the top three vid-eos were “Put Yourself in Some-one Else’s Shoes,” “Shotgun” and “They Wouldn’t be in Your Place” — with 6,558 hits, 3,196
hits and 882 hits respectively. Each video approaches the
subject matter a little differ-ently.
“Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Shoes,” shows an elderly lady who is jostled around the bus while a perfectly healthy businessman occupies priority seating.
“Shotgun” shows a comical character, played by producer Mitchel Kajiura, as he tries to get into the “shotgun” seat in all his friends’ cars until ultimately he is turned out of the priority seating by those who deserve to have shotgun.
“I am usually the one who is giving everyone the rides so I was really copying what a lot of my friends do,” Kajiura said.
I wanted it to be entertain-ing.”
“They Wouldn’t be in Your Place” shows different people who are qualifi ed for priority seating in totally inappropriate places.
The fi rst scene shows a preg-nant woman in a bar, the second shows an elderly man in a day-care and the third shows a visu-ally- impaired man about to get into the driver’s seat of a car.
The ad reminds us that they would not be in our places, so we shouldn’t take theirs.
“There were a lot of great ideas,” Atherton said, adding that the students are nearing graduation, so he felt that it was a good fi nal project.
Algonquin students pull out all the stops
Baird touts Conservative economic plansEngineering fi rm plans to triple Canadian business investment
Submitted photoThomas G. Searle, CH2M HILL’s Canada President is pictured with Ottawa West-Nepean MP John Baird at the announce-ment of CH2M HILL’s planned growth in the Canadian market at their Nepean of-fi ce on Feb. 22.
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
Dr. Maggie Mamen, psychologist and author was on hand at the Bells Corners United Church on Feb. 23 helping parents to reclaim their pow-er and fi nd ways to meet life’s chal-lenges.
Mamen is part of a multi-disciplin-ary clinic called Centrepointe Profes-sional Services and started working with children after completing her residency at CHEO.
She came to psychology sort of by accident after going to work in admin-istration at Carleton University when she immigrated to Canada from the United Kingdom.
“I found out you could take courses for free, so I took psychology and I re-ally loved it,” she said. “So I went on to complete my degree.”
Mamen has written four books: and plans on releasing her fi rst DVD soon.
She said her talks on parent power come from a common theme she was seeing in her practice — parents just seem to have lost the power to be in charge.
“It started to decline in the ’80s as children were given more legal rights and were able to make medical deci-sions and keep health issues from their parents,” Mamen said.
“And because of past abuses we teach our children to question adults,
something that is not conducive to parent power.”
Over the years, Mamen has devel-oped a 10-step program to help parents gain control.
The fi rst step is to be a parent, not a friend.
“Too many people are concerned with whether or not their kids like them,” she said. The second rule is to be a leader not a servant.
“This is really about language choice,” Mamen said. “We change our thinking from ‘we have to drive them to soccer practice’ to ‘choose to.’ It takes away the feeling that the child is in charge.”
The third step is to change your par-enting approach from reactive to pro-active. The fourth step is teamwork.
“Parents, even if they aren’t togeth-er in the home, need to be on the same page when it comes to child rearing,” Mamen said. “And single parents need to acknowledge that they are a man-agement team of one and that they don’t have to make decisions by com-mittee.”
The fi fth step is going from punish-ment to teaching.
Mamen said instead of placing blame and imposing consequences, bad behaviour can be used as a teach-ing tool.
“Rather than saying ‘who spilled the milk?’ you say ‘whoever spilled the milk can you please clean it up?”
Mamen said. The sixth step is to go from threat-
ening to promising.It is essentially an attitude shift
whereby children are promised a re-ward for fi nishing a task rather than threatened when it is not completed.
The seventh step is going from blame to own.
“You need to show children that ex-ternal blaming isn’t acceptable and show them how to take ownership for their actions,” Mamen said.
Step eight: going from equality to fairness.
“We have become obsessed with treating our children like equals, but we create bean counters,” Mamen said, adding that the practice of giv-ing a sibling a gift at their brother or sister’s birthday party is ridiculous.
“They will get their own party on their birthday.
Step nine: going from a ‘theirs’ to ‘our’ mentality.
“We all have trouble with this idea of a mythical family and we try to emulate them, but we need to have our values and use what works for us,” Mamen said.
The fi nal step is going from tenta-tive to confi dent.
“Children don’t need parents who don’t know what they are doing,” Ma-men said. “Even if you don’t have the answer you have to appear confi dent you will get it.”
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Parent Power: staying in charge ENGINERING CHALLENGEPhotos by
Michelle Nash
The team of students from St. Gregory Catholic School work on their rock-et launcher at the Museum of Science and Technology’s engineering challenge on Feb. 24. The team, who nabbed fi rst prize and their school to qualify for the event, placed second out of 50 entries.
All the winners strut their stuff on stage at the Museum of Science and Technology on Feb. 24. For more photos see www.yourottawaregion.com.
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Sports
Phénix rise from the ground to the topBY DAN PLOUFFE
Two years ago when he took over the Deslauriers Phoenix, coach Alain Cadieux saw the members of the senior boys’ basketball team as underdogs both on and off the court. And now they’re champions.
In 2008-09, the Phénix didn’t win a sin-gle game in the national capital ‘A/AA’ high school league, going 0-11. The tide began to turn the following season with a 5-6 record and then this year was nothing less than perfect – an 11-0 run culminat-ing in a city title thanks to a 69-48 victory over the Ottawa Islamic School United last week at Carleton University.
“It’s been a work in progress, but it’s been the same core group,” Cadieux says. “These kids are wonderful. They give it their all every single game. I’m really im-pressed with these kids.”
And Cadieux isn’t talking only about his players’ athletic achievements – he’s referring to all aspects of life. As a man-ager for the Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, Cadieux has spent a lot of time with the teens over the years, and much of it has been on a basketball court, either with the Somali Youth Basketball League in the winter or the summertime Ottawa Police Athletic League.
“We work with them as a community to develop leadership through this pro-gram,” Cadieux explains, noting that
many of his players now coach younger teams in the leagues. “It’s great to see their development as they become young men and leaders.”
Playing together all year round and having the same coaches for the com-munity leagues as well as at school has proved to be a valuable tool.
“They really got to know each other and develop together,” Cadieux high-lights. “They’re very close.
“It’s good that they fi nally reached their objective. These guys have wanted it so bad for so long.”
While they might have been underdogs in the past, that won’t exactly be the case when the Phénix compete at the March 7 to 9 OFSAA ‘A’ provincial championships in North Bay considering their unblem-ished mark even against larger ‘AA’-sized local schools.
With 2010 all-star Sherif Bah leading the way at point guard, Deslauriers will bring a strong “ground-and-pound” of-fence to North Bay, with many weapons such as John Wilenson (who scored 20 points in the city fi nal), Hassan Maidal (who counted 18) and Jonathan Proulx (14) to throw at opponents.
“I say the season is not over until March 9 – that’s the last day of OFSAA,” smiles Cadieux, who should also get a boost for OFSAA with the return of co-captain Wais Mohamed from injury. “Hopefully that’s when we get our gold medal. We’re
defi nitely going to compete and play as hard as we can.”
The Phénix haven’t got the chance to see many of their provincial rivals ear-lier this season because they didn’t have the money to travel to out-of-town tour-naments. There was even a question mark originally about fi nancing the trip to OFSAA, but sponsors stepped up to cover costs.
“That’s one of the struggles with this school,” says Cadieux, whose senior players have drawn interest from several French colleges. “The kids come from low-income communities, so they’re al-
ways looking for funding to be able to go because their parents can’t afford it.”
While Deslauriers may not have the book on its competition, the unknown isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
“We haven’t been able to see our ri-vals – the same way they haven’t been able to see us,” notes Cadieux, who will be kept busy along with assistant coach Jean-Emmanuel Jean-Marie, a former Carleton Raven, making in-game adjust-ments. “We’re really good at adapting on the fl y.”
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Queen of the poolBarrhaven resident is golden girl of swim meet
BY DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN
As she swings her arms while adjusting her neck, awaiting the start of her fi nal race of the Junior Provincial Swimming Championships on Feb. 27, Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson’s traditional warm-up manoeuvres don’t draw any immediate comparisons to Olympic legend Michael Phelps.
That is, until she dives into the water at the Ne-pean Sportsplex.
The Barrhaven resident and Nepean Kanata Barracudas Swim Club member quickly gains an insurmountable lead in the 15-year-old girls’ 200-metre individual medley fi nal and never looks back. Her time of two minutes 15.47 seconds laps her nearest competitor, Jillian Stoyan of the To-ronto Swim Club, by more than four seconds.
“I was glad with my lead,” Seltenreich-Hodg-son said after her last race. “When I’m ahead, it motivates me to get further ahead. It doesn’t re-ally matter the level of the meet, you want to keep pushing yourself.”
The Grade 10 John McCrae Secondary School student says she is getting used to pushing herself to the top.
The gold medal in the 200-metre was one of fi ve in the event for Seltenreich-Hodgson. She also won the 100-metre breaststroke, 50-metre freestyle, 400-metre individual medley and 200-metre backstroke disciplines at the Feb. 24 to 27 competition.
Winning fi ve gold medals tied her personal best for fi rst-place fi nishes at one event, which was set the previous weekend in London, Ont. at the East-
ern Canadian Swimming Championship. Amazingly, the lanky brunette only competed in
two of the same races, winning in the 50-, 100- and 200-metre breaststroke, 200-metre individual med-ley, and 100-metre freestyle in London.
Her results earned her the Female High Point Award and helped her club to a fi fth-place female ranking and 11th overall.
“I like the rush swimming gives me,” she said. “Going to the meets is better than practising.”
Seltenreich-Hodgson has been practising her skills since she was eight years old while taking swimming lessons at the smaller Nepean Sport-splex pool. A
After a lesson, she would walk onto the deck of the main pool – the same one she competed at on Feb. 27 – and watch a competition.
Within two years, she convinced her parents to sign her up.
“It was just a really exciting atmosphere,” she said.
Now under the guidance of coach Scott Faith-full, Seltenreich-Hodgson, who doubles as her high school’s part-time coach, looks to be breaking out.
After battling a knee injury and some untimely illnesses at the major events last year, Seltenreich-Hodgson has upped her game to the point where she’ll compete at the Junior Pan Pac Trials, a world trials event, in Victoria March 31-April 3.
Other than a lot of in-water training and careful no-junk food, Phelps-esque diet, Seltenreich-Hodg-son felt her will has carried her to junior worlds.
“I really wanted to do it now,” she said. “And I’m doing a lot better this year.”
Photo by Daniel Nugent-BowmanBarrhaven’s Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson won fi ve gold medals at the Junior Provincial Swimming Championiship at the Nepean Sportsplex Jan. 24 to 27. She earned the top spot in the 200-metre, the 100-me-tre breaststroke, 50-metre freestyle, 400-metre individual medley and 200-metre backstroke events. She is a member of the Nepean Kanata Barracudas Swim Club.
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DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN
After a fi rst-round Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL) playoff exit in the at the hands of the Cornwall Colts last season, the Nepean Raiders are hoping they’ve found their missing ingredient for a big run in 2011.
Six-foot-fi ve Buddy Robinson was ac-quired by the team in early January from the Ontario Junior A Hockey League’s Hamilton Red Wings and has since be-come a key cog in the Raiders’ offensive wheel.
Since playing his fi rst game against the Carleton Place Canadians on Jan. 14, Rob-inson has three goals and 18 assists in 15 games after earning a helper against the Kanata Stallions on Feb. 22.
He’s only been held pointless in three games so far.
“He’s been absolutely phenomenal,” Raiders head coach and general manager Peter Goulet said.
Goulet has playing the 19-year-old pre-dominantly on the wing with Brent Nor-ris and Craig Cowie.
The setup has suited Robinson quite well because, despite his large frame – which sees him type the scales at 222 pounds – his best skill sets are his play-making abilities.
“I think I’m a good passer so I like play-ing on this line,” he said. “Norris is a
great goal scorer. He and Cowie can just fi nd the net so I like feeding them and get-ting the assist.”
(Norris has 41 goals and Cowie has 18 this season).
Being an offensive leader in junior hockey is nothing new to Robinson.
The Bellmaur, N.J. native joined the Red Wings in time for the 2009-10 season after a scout discovered him at a pros-pects camp in Chicago.
Feeling a trip north of the border would help him best develop, Robinson headed to Hamilton and, after recording 23 points in 49 games last season, had compiled 38 points in just 32 contests this year.
Robinson admitted he was looking for a change of scenery and when Goulet – who is familiar with the OJHL thanks to time with the Kingston Kimco Voyageurs – got a tip the winger might be available, he jumped at the chance to obtain him.
“I made a phone call right away as soon as I heard,” Goulet said.
Robinson said he’s noticed a difference between the two leagues and believes the CCHL may be a bit more intense, given that there are just 12 teams.
But judging by his play so far, he’s be-coming well acclimatized.
“There are less teams so it means every game is a battle,” Robinson said. “I try to stick to the simple plays and make things happen. Coach Pete’s been great. It’s been really easy to adjust.”
Stallions lock playoff spotfor fi rst time in three years
DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN
The Kanata Stallions are offi cially back in the playoffs.
After missing the post-season for the past two years, the Stallions have locked up either an eighth- or seventh-round spot in the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL) Tier 1 playoffs after a 4-1 road victory over the Hawkesbury Hawks on Feb. 25.
This has earned them the dubious re-ward of playing either the Cornwall Colts or the Pembroke Lumber Kings, ranked third and seventh nationally as of Feb. 21, in the fi rst round of the playoffs.
But Kanata must wait for Smiths Falls to play its fi nal three games before mak-ing any travel plans.
Smiths Falls (26-28-3-3) trails Kanata (28-28-3-2) by three points and has two games left to play on Friday, March 4 and Sunday, March 6.
Kanata ended its regular season at the KRC on Tuesday, March 1 (after the Kou-rier-Standard’s print deadline) against the Hawks.
Last week, the Stallions split two games, with a win in Hawkesbury and a 6-3 loss at home against the Nepean Raid-ers (27-22-6-4) at the KRC on Feb. 22.
RAIDERS GAME
The Raiders took care of business on Feb. 22, handing the Stallions a convinc-ing 6-3 loss.
Five goals in the second period were the difference at the Kanata Recreation Complex, as the Raiders controlled much of the play in the offensive zone through-out the frame. The Raiders received goals from Brent Norris, plus singles from Grant Telfer, Zach Carriveau and Cole Weedmark. Norris capped off his hat-trick in the third period, netting his 41st goal of the season on a penalty shot.
The win pulled the Raiders to within two points of the Canadians and four of the Rangers – who they play next on Feb. 25. It also offi cially clinched a playoff berth for Nepean.
Robinson credited the successive goals by Telfer and Norris less than a minute apart as the game’s touring point. The tallies gave the Raiders a two-goal advan-tage and put the Stallions game on their heels.
The tough result for the Stallions left them in seventh place, fi ve points behind the Raiders, with only a home-and-home series against the last-place Hawkesbury Hawks remaining on their schedule to se-cure a spot in the postseason.
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Team Homan impresses in Scotties tournamentBY DAN PLOUFFE
They went in as the youngest team to ever represent Ontario, and then skip Rachel Homan’s rink of Ottawa South’s Emma Miskew, Nepean’s Alison Krevia-zuk and Westboro’s Lisa Weagle became the youngest team to ever advance to the playoff round at last week’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Charlottetown, PEI.
“(In contention for a national title) was right where we wanted to be,” says Wea-gle, who threw lead rocks for Ontario. “Our goal was to make it to the fi nals and then see what happens from there. Obvi-ously we came up a little short, but I think we have a lot to be proud of this week. We turned some heads and I think surprised ourselves a little at how well we did.”
The Ottawa Curling Club ladies were certainly the stars of the competition as they blasted out to a 5-0 start to sit atop the standings alongside the eventual champions from Saskatchewan.
Team Homan completed the event with a 9-5 overall record, falling one win short of a national podium position. Despite previously knocking off Nova Scotia in the 3-4 page playoff to earn a berth in the semi-fi nals, a new Scotties format called for Homan and co. to play their 14th match in nine days to defend their bronze medal position against the east coasters.
This time, Nova Scotia got the upper hand with a 9-7 victory, leaving the Scot-ties rookies with a fourth-place fi nish that was impressive nonetheless in their fi rst senior nationals appearance.
The additional time on the ice wasn’t the greatest gift for Weagle in particu-lar since she battled a shoulder injury all week and even had to be replaced by fi fth Sherry Middaugh for a game against Nova Scotia midway through the tourna-ment.
“I certainly didn’t feel like I was 100 per cent, which was disappointing – you come this far and this isn’t something you want to happen when you’re at the Scotties,” Weagle laments. “It only bothered me when I was sweeping, but with enough Advil and adrenaline, I wasn’t feeling too bad game during the games.”
Team Homan’s debut performance at the Scotties established once and for all that the youngsters truly are one of Can-ada’s top rinks despite their age, and also offered a positive sign as they chase after the country’s 2014 Olympic berth.
In front of a national audience on TSN, the Ontario representatives showcased the changing face of women’s curling with their big-weight shots and evolu-tionary technique, all the while soaking up as much of the Scotties experience as possible during the Feb. 19-27 event at the Charlottetown Civic Centre.
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