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ROAD OPEN AT LAST TO DRIVERS Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, left, and Mayor Jim Watson offi cially opened the newly fi nished Limebank Road on Mon-day, Oct. 17. The road was open to drivers by the end of September.
EMMA JACKSON
Home owners, concerned residents and students packed the small Greenboro Pavil-ion in South Keys on Thursday, Oct. 13 to talk with community leaders and authori-ties about noise and bylaw issues in the neighbourhood.
The meeting was tense, party because many residents arrived angry about the amount of partying that happens regularly on their streets, and partly because stu-dents who received the community associ-
ation’s advertisement in their mailboxes took offense to the fl yer’s “adversarial” and anti-student tone.
The fl yer urged residents to come out in large numbers to solve the “student housing issue” in the community, although South Keys Greenboro Community Association president Marnie McKinstry apologized for the wording and stressed the association’s intent is to foster an inclusive community, not kick students out.
Although some residents heckled that they “don’t want another Sandy Hill,” a neighbourhood near Ottawa University
that has experienced these problems on a much larger scale, McKinstry said the neighbourhood has to embrace the future.
“As Ottawa grows this area of the city is just going to become more and more urban, more and more central. Along with that comes issues related to safety and security, but one of the great things that comes with it too is diversity. So I think it’s time for people to accept the new reality and start fi guring out ways to work together,” she said.
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The city’s bylaw department plans to ask for another “tool in the toolkit” next spring, with a proposal to charge landlords when their tenants are caught shouting.
Bylaw enforcement manager Craig Calder said nuisance shouting usually happens late at night within a group of people, so it’s hard to pinpoint exactly who is making the noise.
“It’s a technicality that both the police and bylaw have lost in court, so we’re try-ing to get the particular section amended for shouting. We’re trying to get the word-ing changed so we can charge the owner for the actions of their tenants,” he said. Bylaw can already charge landlords for a tenants’ loud music, but Calder said the bylaw department gets more complaints for shouting than for music.
Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans said the amendment, which if passed would likely come into effect next summer, would be a warning to landlords to keep a closer eye on their properties.
“The warning to the landlord is that if you have existing problems then you need to address them,” she said.
Neighbourhoods like Sandy Hill, Hogs Back, College Square and South Keys have dealt with rising noise and bylaw is-sues in the past decade as Carleton Univer-sity and the University of Ottawa expand, bringing more students into surrounding neighbourhoods.
Deans said that most students are very quiet and respectful, but bylaw offi cers need the power to charge the few “bad ap-ples” and have the charge actually stick.
“I think many, many, many students rent and have no problem at all...but it puts the responsibility back on the landlord and we need that tool in the toolkit to be able to effectively address some of these issues,” Deans said.
She said the change wouldn’t affect landlords’ willingness to rent to students across the city.
“By no means do I think this would be a blanket element that would cause students not to be able to rent units...I don’t think that’s the case at all,” she said.
Photo by Emma JacksonCraig Calder addresses a packed room in South Keys during a town hall meeting to discuss rising noise and bylaw issues in the neighbourhood.
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Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches and Mayor Jim Watson offi cial-ly opened the new section of Limebank Road between Spratt and Earl Armstrong Roads on Monday, Oct. 17, celebrating the road’s transformation “from worst to fi rst.”
“This is one of the fastest growing communities in all of Ottawa, and it was served by basically a two-lane country road. As the result of a $48 million invest-ment, which is signifi cant, we’ve gone from one of the worst roads in Ontario to one of the best,” Watson told media, who gathered near the brand new culvert which played a major role in fl attening and improving the road.
The road before its reconstruction was dark with only a single lane in each direc-
tion, with ditches on either side. The road also dipped steeply where a creek runs under the road, a section that was icy and dangerous in the winter. Accidents were common, especially in bad weather, and residents complained often, Desroches said.
“Those days are the days of the past thanks to the city’s investment,” he an-nounced, explaining the road now has two lanes from Earl Armstrong all the way to Hunt Club Road, as well as light-ing and bike lanes throughout.
“This is important for the community of Riverside South as an arterial into the city not only for motorists but also for our growing transit system in the south end.”
He added that many residents have ex-pressed interest in cycling into the city, which they dared not do when the road was essentially a narrow rural road.
Photo by Emma JacksonGloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, left, and Mayor Jim Watson offi cially opened the newly fi nished Limebank Road on Monday, Oct. 17. The road was open to drivers by the end of September.
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Alex Munter, a former city councillor and current head of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network, will re-place Michel Bilodeau as the head of the Children’s Hospi-tal of Eastern Ontario.
Munter will take over as chief executive offi cer on Nov. 7, replacing Bilodeau, who is retiring.
“When you recruit a new CEO for an organization like CHEO, you feel a huge respon-sibility – a responsibility to both the families of this com-munity and the hospital em-ployees who work so hard to support them,” said Johanne Levesque, chairwoman of the CHEO board of trustees, in a media release.
Bilodeau announced his re-tirement plans in April, and will remain in an advisory role until the end of November.
When Munter was reached on Oct. 12, the day of the an-nouncement, he said he was
excited to hear of the appoint-ment.
“CHEO has earned a very unique and special place in the hearts of people in our re-gion,” he said. “And for me per-sonally, it’s just a tremendous honour.”
He will leave his role as CEO of the Champlain LHIN, a posi-
tion he said he “wasn’t looking to leave.”
“The LHIN is in very good hands,” Munter said, adding that Dr. Wilbert Keon, chair-man of the LHIN’s board of directors, has demonstrated strong leadership along with the staff team.
Keon, who worked with Munter, said he feels “bitter-sweet” about his colleague’s
appointment.“He’ll bring tremendous,
tremendous experience, youth, compassion, and know-how,”
said Keon. “He’ll be a great CEO.”
Keon said when someone like Munter leaves the team, fi lling
the gap can be worrisome.However, he said the LHIN
is lucky to have its excellent staff and interim CEO Chan-tale LeClerc.
Munter left a legacy of being an outstanding CEO who was a master of community engage-ment, said Keon.
“He was a superb communi-cator, and he worked tireless-ly.” In his previous roles with the LHIN, City of Ottawa, Uni-versity of Ottawa and Youth Services Bureau, Munter has gotten to know many members of the CHEO team, but he said his fi rst order of business is to get better integrated with the hospital team.
He also wants to advance the vision of CHEO, which is being true to teaching and research, and to provide care closer to home.
My objective will be to strengthen those services and help CHEO move forward,” said Munter.
Bilodeau is stepping down after a fi ve-year term. Accord-ing to the hospital’s board of trustees, Bilodeau has been instrumental in transforming the hospital which continues to be a provincial model in terms of reducing waiting times.
Photo by Jennifer McIntoshAlex Munter, currently CEO of the Champlain LHIN, leaves the new galley kitchen near the physical therapy wing at the Queensway Car-leton Hospital during a program launch in August 2011.
Alex Munter named head of CHEO
LAURA MUELLER
A plan to expand Ottawa’s urban boundary by 850 hectares sailed through council on Oct. 12 with little fanfare.
The matter, which has been ongo-ing since 2009 and had cost the city upwards of $400,000 in legal battles at the Ontario Municipal Board, got council’s approval without any dis-cussion.
However, Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess and Stittsville Coun. Shad Qa-dri did dissent on the motion, which passed on consent without a record-ed vote.
Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Peter Clark led the charge against the ex-pansion during a planning commit-tee meeting on Sept. 27, arguing that the location of parcels of land to be included within the city’s urban lim-its shouldn’t be changed from staff ’s original 2009 recommendation.
“If we’re doing things as ad hoc as we’re doing here, we’re not being responsible members of council,” Clark said at the time.
But Clark wasn’t in his seat when the item came up at council last week, so he couldn’t pause the vote for a renewed discussion, and the rest of council swiftly passed the matter.
The move was necessary after the OMB ruled that city council should
have sided with its staff, who sug-gested the 850 hectares in 2009. In-stead, city council tried to limit the amount of developable land over a shorter time period to 230 hectares
in a bid to rein in sprawl.The city anticipates more appeals
to the OMB from developers whose land wasn’t included in the expan-sion.
Courtesy of the City of OttawaA parcel of land along March Road in Kanata North was the only sticking point during planning committee meetings on the urban boundary expansion, but that didn’t hold up the matter for city council, which passed the 850-hectare expansion with no discussion on Oct. 12.
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For several years, the Ottawa South neighbourhood has seen an increase in student renters who are attracted by low rent, ac-cess to the O-Train and proximity to the South Keys plaza.
With students came an in-crease in loud parties, ill-main-tained rental houses and parking problems, although Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans maintained that the problems do not rest solely on the shoulders of students.
“I don’t want this to be charac-terized as a student issue. It’s not us and them, it’s really a problem of absentee homeowners, absen-tee landlords,” she said, noting that many student houses aren’t even noticed in the community because the tenants are quiet, re-sponsible residents.
Bylaw enforcement manager Craig Calder and community police offi cer Constable Gary Mc-Coy joined Deans and members of the community association, which hosted the meeting.
A similar meeting was held last fall to address residents’ concerns, and several initiatives were put in place to solve some of the ongoing noise and nuisance problems.
Beginning late last fall, McCoy and Calder spearheaded “proac-tive walkabouts” to student resi-dences to welcome new tenants and remind them of their respon-sibilities as respectful citizens.
Several “problem addresses” were dealt with more strenuously. McCoy and Calder sat down with the tenants and landlord from a Southgate Road house which received eight of 17 area noise
complaints last year. The prob-lems stopped after the landlord decided not to rent to students anymore.
However McCoy said even the rowdiest houses on the block can be receptive to change.
“I was at (a problem) address on Clearwater Crescent yester-day, and I was speaking to the three young men who live there. I was inside the house and I was expecting something like Animal House. But this house was clean, the students were professional, they were polite, they were co-operative, and they were con-cerned,” he said.
One resident countered that
the students “weren’t concerned at 4 a.m.” on Sept. 25 when the house hosted a large, noisy party, but McCoy said confronting a group of rowdy young people at 4 a.m. is not productive.
“Trying to reason with them at 4 a.m. is probably not the time to do it. To go back a day or two lat-er in a non-threatening way and try and develop a rapport with them is probably the best way. If the students see the community against them, they won’t open the door for us,” he said.
Residents were also concerned about slow response times from bylaw and police, who often can’t get to a complaint for several
hours. The problem was exagger-ated last year because bylaw of-fi cers weren’t allowed to respond to parties involving alcohol, drugs or large groups of people. Offi cers would have to follow up the next day to lay a charge.
That policy has since changed.“Offi cers now have vests and
batons, they’re trained by the Ottawa Police so they can go to the party so they can deal with problem that night,” explained Calder.
However there are still re-sponse limitations. In the fall and winter months, bylaw offi cers are only on duty until midnight from Sunday to Wednesday, and until 2
a.m. Thursday to Saturday. After-wards noise and nuisance com-plaints default to the police, who must prioritize them after more urgent calls.
Students at the meeting said they resented being called an “is-sue” and stressed that they, too, are members of the community.
“There are trigger words. Call-ing us an issue, that was my trig-ger. I’m not an issue, I’m a hu-man being just like everybody else,” said Alexandra Lamarre, a fourth year Carleton student who has lived in South Keys for three years. She has a good relation-ship with her neighbours, which she credits to taking time to know each other.
“We really get a long with our neighbours, and part of the rea-son is since we moved in we’ve had that open correspondence with them,” she said.
Deans said she was very pleased with the meeting, which ended with a spontaneous round of applause for the students in an unexpected show of goodwill.
“The positives that I take from it is that everybody came. The landlords, the young people, the students, the people concerned about their neighbourhood. I thought it fostered an excellent dialogue, and it set the founda-tion upon which we can start to build a stronger community,” she said after the meeting.
The community association said it hopes to work more close-ly with representatives from Car-leton University, Action Sandy Hill (a local group that has posi-tively broached the student hous-ing problems in that neighbour-hood), and the authorities to fi nd effective solutions.
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Photo by Emma JacksonGloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans addresses a packed town hall meeting in South Keys, where resi-dents met with authorities to talk about noise and bylaw issues in the community.
EMMA JACKSON
Harvest House rehabilitation centre is picking up the pieces after a fi re broke out its wood-working shop and skills devel-opment centre on Stevenage Drive at about 10 a.m. on Thurs-day, Oct. 13.
The Ramsayville-based live-in centre for men with drug and alcohol addictions oper-ates the woodworking shop as part of its skills development program, which aims to give residents a sense of purpose and work ethic.
The fi re started in a paint booth located on the second-fl oor mezzanine of the shop.
Three people were in the unit at the time. Two evacuated immediately and a third was treated by paramedics for mi-nor smoke inhalation on site.
About 25 fi refi ghters worked to put out the fi re, which was under control by about 10:30 a.m. Firefi ghters had to cut a hole in the roof to make sure the fi re hadn’t spread, fi re ser-vices spokesperson Marc Mess-ier said.
Messier estimated the dam-age was about $75,000, although Harvest House staffer Bill Main said he’s not sure where that number came from.
“The main damage was to the roof because the fi re de-partment has to make sure the fi re had been put out, so they broke the roof. But even that’s not exactly $75,000,” Main said. He said that depending on the level of damage to equipment inside the shop, the program may have to make do without certain items until they can be replaced.
Main said the Christian-
based centre hasn’t had a chance to fi gure out what to do from here, although staff hope to have residents back in the shop by the end of this week. Currently residents are mak-ing calendar holders as part of the organization’s annual fund-raising calendar campaign. Throughout the year men also make picnic tables, clocks and other furniture to sell.
Main said it’s therapeutic for the recovering addicts they try to help.
“Living with 25 other guys, it’s a good break for some of the guys, and it’s therapeutic. It’s not hard work, it’s really just wood working on a hobby basis,” Main said.
The units on either side of the woodshop were affected by minor smoke damage.
The cause of the fi re is cur-rently under investigation.
EMMA JACKSON
A male driver suffered non-life threatening injuries after his ve-hicle collided with a dump truck on Albion Road just south of Leitrim Road on Monday morn-ing.
At about 8:50 a.m. on Oct. 17, fi refi ghters were called to the scene between Leitrim and Del Zotto Avenue, where they used the Jaws of Life to remove the driver’s door and then immobi-lize the lone occupant of the car.
Ottawa Fire Service spokes-
person Marc Messier said the driver suffered minor head inju-ries and a possible leg fracture, although paramedics were re-sponsible for patient care. The paramedic service could not be reached for comment.
The dump truck driver did not appear injured, according to fi re services.
The stretch of Albion Road where the accident occurred is currently under construction as a new intersection is installed at Findlay Creek Drive.
Ottawa police are investigat-ing.
Man injured after dump truck collision
Harvest House workshop damaged by fi re
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An Ottawa family’s dreams attracted national attention on Friday, Oct. 14 when the Gover-nor General stopped by to make his mark on their new home, which is currently under reno-vation by Habitat for Humanity.
Gov. Gen. David Johnston joined the many volunteers cur-rently transforming a bungalow off Walkley Road into a state-of-the-art accessible home for its new family, who hope to move in by mid-December.
The Mohamed Ali family in-cludes fi ve children. The young-est child, Abdulaziz, suffers from disabilities that confi ne him to a wheelchair, and anoth-er child suffers from irritable bowel syndrome. The family currently lives in a two-storey home off Hunt Club Road which has no wheelchair accessibility and only one bathroom.
The family said they were ex-cited to meet the Governor Gen-eral in person.
“It’s nice to meet other people, especially ones that are quite fa-mous,” said Maryam Mohamed Ali, one of two older daughters who will be getting their own bedrooms in the basement of the new home.
The family’s new Habitat for Humanity home at 1902 Hamp-stead Pl. near Bank Street and Walkley Road is a small, white bungalow just across the street from the Jim Durrell Recreation Complex. It was purchased off the market this summer for $270,000 and is currently being renovated for about $35,000 to make it accessible for young Ab-dulaziz to move around.
“We’re making doorways wid-er, we’re installing accessible bathrooms, we’re putting in tile fl ooring for ease of wheelchair movement and we’ll refi nish the hardwood fl oor that’s there,” explained Donna Hicks, chief executive of Habitat’s national capital region branch.
The renovations will also en-large Abdulaziz’s bedroom in anticipation of a hydraulic lift he’ll need to help him out of bed once he gets too heavy to lift.
Maryam said the house will benefi t the entire family.
“This house will be very im-portant to us, because for my brother it will be wheelchair accessible and it’s going to be easier for the other children as well because we’ll have room to study, play and have people over,” she said. “It’s close by to most things such as CHEO, where my brother usually goes, and close to buses for everyone else.”
Habitat for Humanity usually builds their charitable houses from scratch, but in this case
the non-profi t organization was limited by the family’s need to be close to the children’s hospi-tal on Smyth Road.
After an eight month search, Habitat fi nally found what they were looking for, with an added act of charity.
“There were actually multiple bids on this house and the (sell-ing) family chose to take our bid even though it was slightly less, because they liked the idea that we were helping a family,” explained Johannes Ziebarth, president of the NCR Habitat branch.
Ottawa Delta Hotels offered a gift of $75,000 to help them with the down payment, and many donations have kept renova-tions to only $35,000. However the organization still needs to fundraise $140,000 to pay off the mortgage.
Hicks said she’s excited to help such a worthy family.
“They’re a great family, we have loved working with them. The little guy and I have become such good friends,” she said.
Photo by Emma JacksonThe Mohamed Ali family gathers around their youngest member Abdulaziz, who is confi ned to a wheelchair, outside their new home on Hamp-stead Place off Walkley Road. The house is currently under renovation by Habitat for Humanity to make it wheelchair accessible. The family hopes to move in by mid-December.
Photo by Emma JacksonGovernor General David Johnston joined the national capital region’s Habitat for Humanity CEO Donna Hicks, right, and Delta Hotels general manager Peter Gillis at a home currently under renovation for an Ottawa family. The house, which was chosen for its proximity to CHEO is being made entirely wheelchair accessible for the family’s youngest son Abdulaziz.
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In a couple of weeks, the CBC will be full of celebrations of itself, and we should celebrate too. Seventy-fi ve years ago, the Canadian Broadcast-
ing Corporation was formed and it has enriched our lives immeasurably.
It has done this mainly by providing intelligent content not available else-where. While private radio and television stations chased ratings by pandering to the lowest common denominator, the CBC has provided a steady diet of news, cur-rent affairs, arts coverage and smart talk. For the longest time, the CBC has been one the things Canadians talked about when distinguishing ourselves from citizens of other countries. It was right up their medicare and hockey.
While some have criticized CBC as elit-ist, many of its greatest triumphs have been far from that — think of Wojeck, Wayne and Shuster, Country Hoedown, The Friendly Giant, The Beachcombers, The Royal Canadian Air Farce. It’s quite a history.
So how come so few of us feel like celebrating?
The main reason is a feeling that CBC is no longer interested in doing the things that made it great. There is basically no arts programming on television. The CBC used to pride itself on supporting Cana-dian artists — discovering them, paying
them, giving them a chance to perform and bringing them to an audience.
There is considerably less drama on television, a strength in the past. Original drama has been replaced by a series of reality TV shows. On radio, specialized music programming — classical and jazz programs that delighted their audi-ences — has mostly given way to a bland potpourri, designed to offend no one and thrill no one either.
This comes from trying to attract a wide audience and CBC people will say that’s necessary because government funding is inadequate and more advertis-ing revenue is needed. For the advertising revenue to come there need to be large audiences. The large audiences, the CBC has decided, will not show up to watch and listen to the things CBC has always done best.
Is the new approach working? As far as
anyone knows, there has been no surge in CBC ratings, with one somewhat ironic exception: the CBC radio morning and afternoon drive shows, which do things the way the CBC always did them, with extended interviews, reviews and panels. In Ottawa, CBC information shows do deservedly well.
In other areas, particularly TV, pro-grammers are scuffl ing, too quick to make some decisions — redesigning the national news — too indecisive to make some others — which explains the sur-vival of the embarrassing Don Cherry.
News, long a CBC strength, has become glib, overpackaged, superfi cial and inad-equate. On Manitoba election night, view-ers in other provinces searched CBC in vain for detailed results and found them, in full detail, on the much-maligned Sun News Network. CBC put its results online, as if that were enough for a network with national responsibilities. On Ontario elec-tion night, CBC was quick to cover what was on Twitter, causing at least one CBC loyalist to check out TV Ontario, fi nding results-based, no-nonsense coverage with experienced commentators and never go-ing back to CBC.
These are all small examples, but they show something. So does the local CBC’s recent decision to drop theatre reviews from its morning information show.
“People listen to radio now in very short chunks,” explained a CBC producer. “They’re expecting shorter items and they’re expecting things that set up their day.”
What’s a review last — three minutes? When programmers make decisions like that, they are saying implicitly that their audience is not very smart. They might phrase it differently; they might say that their listeners lead busy lives and don’t have time for detailed commentaries or reviews. But it amounts to the same thing.
Here’s breaking news: We are never too busy for something interesting, even if it lasts as long as fi ve minutes. Also, we are smarter than CBC programmers think. After 75 years, they should know that.
Not quite three cheers for the CBC
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How many more lives need be lost?
The city is mourning the loss of a 15-year-old Glen Cairn boy who took his own life last weekend.
Jamie Hubley, son of Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley, was a much-loved son and brother, a talented performer and a member of the A.Y. Jackson Secondary School Glee Club with his whole life in front of him. His death has sparked an outpouring of grief from classmates, horrifi ed and saddened the boy felt there was no other escape from his pain other than suicide.
This week, thousands of people across the city are asking the same question – why?
In his own words, Jamie said he felt alone in his high school, after coming out this year as being gay. The teen wrote in his online blog that he was struggling with a deepening depression. He was taking antidepressants, but said they just weren’t working.
His parents obviously loved their son very much and helped him as much as possible, taking him for treatment of his depression.
But was there something else that we as a com-munity could have done collectively to help Jamie and other youth like him dealing with suicidal
thoughts?Jeremy Dias, the founder of Jer’s Vision, an
organization that works to address bullying, homophobia and discrimination in schools and youth communities, wants to introduce programs that make our schools more inclusive for queer youth. Canada needs a national suicide preven-tion strategy, one that includes a strategy for helping lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer youth, he said.
We agree. Canada is the only G8 country with-out a national suicide prevention strategy.
In September, our newspaper ran a series of articles about the issue of youth suicide (which can be found on our website at yourottawaregion.com). We learned suicide is the second leading cause of death for people age 10 to 24, according to Statistics Canada. On a grassroots level we need to teach the issue in schools and provide sui-cide prevention training for any adult who works with children.
This is a national problem in need of a national solution, from the ground up. It takes a village to raise a child – it might need a nation to save them.
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“We’ve gotta thing that’s called...radar love” ~ Golden Earring
We always get people inquir-ing about lamb—maybe because of that sign at the end of the driveway that
says “Fresh Ontario Lamb Sold Here”. Our appearance at the Kemptville Kins-men Farmers’ Market really bumped up the interest this year. We have a list of names waiting for the Farmer to process some of my fat fl uffi es so they can roast and spread mint jelly all over them.
I am well aware that it is market sea-son. Autumn is the time of year when we cart all of our male lambs off to the auction in Greely to be sold. They cer-tainly are big enough; I just witnessed a pair of male twins lifting their mama right off her feet while they nursed. She will be glad to see them go, to be sure.
On sorting night, we herd all of the sheep into the barn and fl ip them over one by one to check their sex. The males go into a holding pen and everyone else is set free. I really don’t like this part (cue Pussycat Dolls’ song: ‘I hate this part right here’). The male lambs always seem to be the friendliest. I can guess who is who without checking their gender, most of the time. They remem-ber me from their bottle-feeding days in many cases.
It’s worse when we have a specifi c order for a number of lambs. Then we
have to go in and select just a few lucky individuals to go off on that eternal holiday. And we have to bring them to the processor in Smiths Falls ourselves. I went once. I don’t know if I can do it again. I may just have too much writ-ing to do next week. I think I feel the fl u coming on. In any case, I don’t think I’ll be going along for the ride.
Have you seen the episode of M*A*S*H where Radar rescues the lamb from being the main course at a Greek celebration? I know how Radar feels. I too have radar love.
Don’t get me wrong—the lambs are perfectly happy to be getting in the back of the truck and going on a road trip, as long as there is more than one of them in there at a time (they hate to be alone). Once the trip is underway, they peek out the windows and comment calmly on the passing scenery. They are quite content.
I know the people who run the pro-cessing operation as well. They are very nice people and I’m confi dent they treat
the animals humanely and with great care. But it still sucks.
Many times I am asked if I can eat lamb. The answer is yes, I love lamb, in a Greek restaurant or at someone else’s house. But I can’t stand the smell of it cooking because it reminds me of our lambs under a heat lamp in the barn or in the basement of our house. So the Farmer is not allowed to cook it when I’m around. He may try to sneak some into the bbq this year and I may be able to handle that, as the smell will be out-side. We’ll see.
I try not to think about it too much. I know the lambs are born and raised with the intent of becoming meat. I try not to name them or to get too attached, as a result. When it’s time to say good-bye I thank them, give them a hug and send them off.
I’m in big trouble when it’s time to sell our beef cows. I don’t get too at-tached to the males in the short time that they are around but when it comes time to say goodbye to Betty, Ginger, Mocha, Julie or Q-tip, I’m done for. But I fi gure we can just keep building up the herd with the females for years to come, so I don’t have to say goodbye. No one wants to eat an old cow anyway, so the girls should be safe.
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A Greely senior will wear his art on his sleeve this weekend as he exhibits his collected works in Ottawa South for the fi rst time in his life.
At 86, retired graphic designer Wil-liam Buchanan said it’s about time he introduced his decades of paintings to the world at large, despite deep hesita-tion on his part.
“I’m very apprehensive and I don’t want to do it but I feel I should. I won’t be around for a long time,” he said, not-
ing part of unveiling his artistic legacy means letting go of particularly senti-mental pieces. “I don’t think I’ll hang on to any, I’ll let it all hang out there. It’s about time, I guess. The time has come to reveal all.”
And reveal he will, with more than 100 pieces on sale at the banquet hall at-tached to the Our Lady of the Visitation Church on Bank Street from Friday, Oct. 21 to Sunday, Oct. 23.
Buchanan started painting in the 1960s while working as a drafter and graphic designer for various govern-ment organizations and private compa-
nies. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the Greely resident is a Second World War veteran and an alumnus of the Depart-ment of National Defense and National Research Councils.
He’s a former employee of the scrapped Avro Arrow project, having lost his drafting job when then-prime minister Diefenbaker cancelled the program in the 1960s. He sold paintings here and there on his lunch breaks and through one-off sales as far away as England, but he never held a formal exhibition of his work.
The benefi t of waiting 50 years to fi nally exhibit Buchanan’s career is the sheer variety of styles, genres and themes that have emerged as he grew as a person. Some he calls “troubled times” paintings which are personal and intro-spective works made after his service in the Second World War, which give way to more socially-minded paintings ranging in topic from the environment to animal rights to mortality. In later years, Buchanan transitioned to paint-
ing landscapes and the past decade has been dominated by colourful abstracts.
His basement is packed with count-less canvasses leaning up against one another, and his bright red living room walls are barely visible beneath the many framed pieces hung on them. He said he has never stopped painting, fi n-ishing his last abstract for the show on Wednesday, Oct. 12.
Ten per cent of any sales will go to the Royal Canadian Legion’s fund for veter-ans with disabilities, which Buchanan said felt like “the appropriate thing to do.” He noted that “you don’t have to be a millionaire to come in, anyone can come in to enjoy the show.”
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The Canadian Hearing Society hon-oured Fire Prevention Week on Wed. Oct. 15 when they met with Ottawa fi re offi -cials at the Riverside South fi re station to advocate the inclusion of visual fi re alarms in the provincial fi re code.
The society has been pressuring the provincial government to amend the fi re code, which currently only mandates building owners to install auditory fi re alarms.
Visual alarms, which are hardwired into a building’s electrical system and fl ash strobes on every fl oor when there’s a fi re anywhere in the building, are im-portant for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, because people with hear-ing diffi culties often cannot hear regu-lar auditory alarms at all, putting them in danger in the event of a fi re. Society president Chris Kenopic spoke through a signing interpreter at the small meeting, sharing horror stories about people who have died from fi res or carbon monoxide poisoning because they couldn’t hear their alarms.
He said he’s hoping support from fi re services around the province will con-vince newly elected politicians at Queen’s Park to spearhead a legislative change.
“It’s really unfortunate that many poli-ticians deny the importance of visual fi re
alarms. Steps are needed to change the legislation,” he said. “How many people need to perish to see change? Personally I think one is enough.”
The group has also lobbied for fi nancial assistance for people with hearing loss to install the life-saving alarms, because they are more expensive than generic alarms and since they must be hardwired into the system, can cost up to $500 per storey to hire an electrician.
Furthermore, many landlords renting to deaf tenants refuse to foot the bill for a visual alarm because the fi re code only requires them to provide an auditory alarm.
The consequences of ignoring the need for a visual alarm can be deadly. One woman’s house was damaged by fi re and the family moved to a hotel without visu-al alarms for 10 months.
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Ottawa’s education and training fi re chief Kim Ayotte urged Ottawa residents to be pro-active.
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WHO ARE WE?Metroland Media, Ottawa Division, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corpora-tion and southern Ontario’s most trusted and respected community media source. Our digital media division, manages a network of leading community, specialty and vertical websites across Ontario reaching over 6 million unique internet users every month.
THE OPPORTUNITYAs we continue to expand our successful digital sales initiatives, we are currently seeking an energetic, talented and self-assured Manager of Digital Media to drive new business sales throughout the Ottawa region. We’re looking for a motivated leader who demonstrates a sense of urgency, without creating unnecessary chaos. The ideal candi-date will have strong management experience and a proven track record for attaining outstanding results through the motivation and development of a sales team. This role requires knowledge of the digital advertising space, the competitive landscape and a solutions oriented approach to selling.
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Cancer beware! There’s a ghostly gathering
in the works, and it means to stamp out cancer once and for all.
Stanley’s Old Maple Lane Farm in Edwards will host its fi rst annual Ghostly Gather-ing in support of the Canadian Cancer Society and the Ottawa South Relay for Life fundraiser this October.
Beginning at 8 p.m. on Fri-day, Oct. 28 guests can pay $20 for a night of devilish delights, including a costume contest, a Jack-o-Lantern auction, pounds of free candy and, of course, a Halloween dance.
The 18-plus event will include a cash bar and is expected to last until 1 a.m. with the help of Renfrew’s Riley New Band and Russell’s 2J’s Music Machine DJ service.
Stanley’s Farm is no strang-er to hosting big events, hav-ing become a popular wedding destination for couples across the Ottawa Valley. But the farm lends itself especially to the haunting season. Vast empty fi elds, old buildings and a dark-ness only the light of the moon can penetrate will all add to the spooky spirit of the evening.
Organizer Susan Faith-Lecoupe said the Halloween party is an excuse to get people together for the scariest holiday of the season while fundraising
for a good cause. “Unfortunately cancer is
something that hits everybody close to home, and we decided to take something we love and something that is unfortunate and put them together to make the best out of bad situation,” Faith-Lecoupe said, noting that Halloween is her favourite holi-day.
A number of local celebrities have signed up for a charity pumpkin carving contest, in-cluding Mayor Jim Watson, Os-goode Coun. Doug Thompson, Live 88.5 radio hosts Jen Trap-lin, Chelsea Miller, Andrew El-liot and John Moran, Majic 100 radio host Stuntman Stu and his wife Connie Benardi, Doc from Chez 106.9, and barbeque
guru Stef the Grilling Gour-met.
The celebrities will carve their pumpkins in advance to be auctioned off throughout the evening.
Faith-Lecoupe said any mon-ey made off the pumpkins will be an added bonus for their Re-lay For Life fundraising.
“Ideally between $20 and $30 a pumpkin would be a nice gesture and would be a decent amount to help us toward our goal,” she said.
Guests can also purchase tickets for a “treasure chest raffl e,” where several winners will be given keys and they’ll have to scramble to see who can actually open the chest to win the prize.
All the money raised will go towards the Ottawa South Relay for Life event, which has been held at Stanley’s Farm for the past two years. The Stanley’s Farm team will put the money toward their fundraising goal, and will share with any other teams if they help sell tickets.
“The main goal is to send the money to the Canadian Cancer Society,” Faith-Lecoupe said.
Tickets can be purchased in person at the Town and Coun-try video store in Russell, and the G’s and R’s gas bar in Ed-wards. They can also be or-dered by phone at 613-857-7630 and online at http://ghostly-gathering.eventbrite.com. For more information visit www.stanleysfarm.com.
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Riverside Park is looking a bit more colourful these days thanks to some young artists and a forward-thinking commu-nity association.
To discourage graffi ti and help at-risk youth develop positive life skills, the Riverside Park Com-munity Recreation Association (RPCRA) invited campers from Christie Lake Kids, a Perth-area camp for urban youth living at or below the poverty line, to dec-orate seven Bell utility boxes in their Mooney’s Bay neighbour-hood.
Christie Lake Kids art direc-tor Shannel Watt-Charley asked her campers, aged nine to 13, to paint their favourite part of camp. The children drew camp fi res, archery, fi shing, and frogs on lily pads, cheerful scenes that now greet pedestrians and motorists throughout the neigh-bourhood.
“It’s just such a positive pro-gram and we wanted to be a part of it,” said RPCRA project coor-dinator Jeanette Caron at the art project launch and volunteer ap-preciation barbecue at the Riv-erside Churches on Riverside Drive last Saturday, Oct. 15.
The association applied for a grant from Crime Prevention Ottawa’s Paint it up! program, funded by the City of Ottawa. The grant money covered mate-rials and stipends for the youth leaders, along with an upcoming trip for the young artists to the National Gallery of Canada.
Greg Killough from Coun. Maria McRae’s offi ce connected the association with Christie Lake Kids, an 89-year-old camp that draws children “from every postal code in the city,” said ex-ecutive director Carole Gagne-
Ince, who thinks this project was good for the campers on many levels.
“We believe that kids need to feel competent at something, which increases their self es-teem and confi dence,” she said. “For (the campers) to focus on something that’s going to be a part of a community, for them was very exciting.”
The art project has the two-fold effect of guiding at-risk youth away from destructive be-havior like drug abuse while dis-
couraging graffi ti on the utility boxes themselves, Gagne-Ince explained. Urban youth enjoy the camp experience while con-tributing positively to society through community art.
“It’s that sense of pride” the youth feel that makes the project special, Caron said.
“The idea behind putting art in our neighbourhood is it’s not a blank canvas for graffi ti art-ists to use,” she said. “And in the long run, it’ll beautify our com-munity.”
The utility boxes were wrapped early last week with help from Optima Communi-cations and the University of Ottawa’s Centre for e-Learning, and already Caron has heard a “very positive response” from residents, she said.
When Watt-Charley was a camper at Christie Lake, a coun-selor recognized her artistic tal-ent and arranged for her to take free lessons at the Ottawa School of Art. Today, the 19-year-old is a second-year graphic design stu-
dent at Algonquin College.“I always go back (to camp)
every year because I feel I do my part for the kids,” said the art director, who can’t wait for the young artists to see their work on display. The camp is arrang-ing a bus trip through the neigh-bourhood for the youth and their families.
“Once they actually see it, they’ll realize, ‘People are listen-ing to me.’ They’ll know they’re part of the community,” she said.
Art project repels crime and beautifi es Riverside Park
Photo by J.P. Antonacci (Left to right) Christie Lake Kids art director Shannel Watt-Charley, counselor Joe Ferracuti, executive director Carole Gagne-Ince, and program coordinator Jeanette Caron from the Riverside Park Community Recreation Association admire some of the newly decorated utility boxes in the Riverside Park neighbourhood. These boxes are at Flannery Drive and Springland Drive.
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EMMA JACKSON
City staff are reviewing a request from a group of all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts to add select road allowances and shoulders to their trail network throughout Ottawa South.
Kris Gough, who is affi liated with the National Valley ATV Club, spoke at the city’s Agri-cultural and Rural Affairs Com-mittee meeting on Sept. 29 to outline a plan that would allow ATV users in the city of Ottawa to use some road shoulders as well as unopened road allow-ances (land set aside for future roads) in the Osgoode, Greely and Manotick areas to connect one ATV trail to another.
Gough presented the propos-al during the open mic portion of the ARAC meeting, which meant the committee’s mem-bers could not take action on his request. They did, however, ask city staff to review the pro-posal.
ARAC chairman and Os-goode Coun. Doug Thompson said he met with the group sev-
eral times before Gough pre-sented at ARAC, and said it’s important to consider their re-quest as ATV use increases in the area.
“ATV ownership is growing quite rapidly, so I think it’s im-portant to take a look at it,” he said, although he hesitated to give his full support without a staff recommendation. He said each road allowance and shoulder in question would have to be considered individ-ually in terms of traffi c load and impact on nearby residen-tial areas.
He added that other munici-palities in the Ottawa Valley allow ATVs to use road shoul-ders, and city staff will have to research the issues that rose from such policies before mak-ing a recommendation.
ATV use has been controver-sial in the Ottawa South area, particularly in regards to the multiuse pathway that was installed along an old rail bed starting in Osgoode. Local ATV groups actively lobbied to use the pathway, but the city de-cided to only allow access for
snowmobiles on the grounds that the path would have too many pedestrians in the sum-mer months to share with all-season vehicles.
Gough declined to comment on the details of the proposal, explaining that the idea is still in its early stages.
Thompson estimated staff would likely have a recommen-dation prepared in time for the spring.
ATV group looking to use shoulders, road allowances
File photoARAC chairman and Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson.
MICHELLE NASH
Three Ottawa special Olympi-ans were honoured at a recent city council meeting.
Special Olympians Christina Judd-Campbell, Meagan Michie and Marianne Scharf were pre-sented the Shield of Athletes Medallion on Oct. 12 for their individual achievements at the 2011 Special Olympics Summer World Games in Athens by the mayor Jim Watson.
Judd-Campbell started her training as a rhythmic gymnast ten years ago through the Spe-cial Olympics Gym in Ottawa. Her love and commitment for the sport left her wanting much more training than the three times a month opportunity the Special Olympic classes offered and one of the coaches Xinhang Jin offered her a rare oppor-tunity to come to the Ottawa Rhythmic Gymnastics Club in Rockcliffe Park to continue her training to three times a week.
“I have loved it since I fi rst tried it,” Judd-Campbell said.
The Olympian has repre-sented Canada in the Special Olympics in Athens, China and Canada.
In July, at the Special Olym-
pics World Summer Games in Athens, she won four gold med-als and one silver, as well as all-around Gold Medal in Rhythmic Gymnastics Level 4 – which is the highest level in her sport.
Jin said Judd-Campbell’s de-termination and confi dence is what has made her so strong in competitions.
“She has grown a lot since she fi st came here,” Jin said. “We are all so proud of Christina.”
Photo by Michelle NashChristina Judd-Campbell has been practicing rhythmic gymnastics at the Rockcliffe Park based club for the past eight years.
Ottawa Olympians honoured
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