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JUNIOR SENS GET TOUGHNathan Livingstone, left, gets a rough ride from Ottawa’s Ryan Legace during a Central Hockey League game against the Smiths Falls Bears on Dec. 17, part of the league’s Holiday Showcase at the Bell Sensplex in Kanata. The Jr. Senators lost 3-2 and are riding a fi ve-game winless streak heading into their game on Dec. 22 game versus Gloucester after losing their second game of the showcase to Carleton Place 5-2. For more on Jr. Senators action, turn to page 12.
COATS FOR KIDSA local businessman is collecting winter wear to help children stay warm. 4
PEACE FLAGCanadian troops stationed in Af-ghanistan signed this fl ag to say thank you to students who have sent soldiers letters. 12
DEPUTY MAYORCoun. Steve Desroches has been named deputy mayor. 7 Deans heads new transit commission
LAURA MUELLER
Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans wants to “set a positive tone for the future” as the head of Ottawa’s new transit com-mission.
The arms-length body was created to oversee OC Transpo, which was a key part of Mayor Jim Watson’s campaign.
It will be a big project for Deans, as the city will enter negotiations for transit work-ers and embark on an ambitious plan to cre-ate a downtown light rail tunnel.
Deans said she is already receiving feed-back that people want more urban represen-tation on the commission, which is mainly composed of suburban ward councillors (Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney is the closest councillor to the downtown area on the commission).
“Well, I consider myself an urban coun-cillor,” Deans said. “Hopefully there is go-ing to be a good balance. We don’t have the four members of the public yet.”
Those members will be chosen in the new year and Deans said it will be important for members to refl ect the entire city.
While Deans was a strong supporter of the city’s scrapped north-south light rail plan, she said she’ll support council’s direc-tion to build a light-rail tunnel downtown – if the costs come in on budget.
“I like to make sure that citizens get a great deal,” Deans said.
Deans added that it’s counter-intuitive to increase fares and it’s not something she supported in the past, but she said it’s essential to strike a balance, particularly when council has passed a 2.5 per cent limit on budget increases.
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DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN
Samira Daoud pleaded guilty Dec. 15 to impaired driving causing death stemming from a hit-and-run collision that killed Greely resident Alex Hayes in September.
The incident occurred when Hayes, 16, was biking home from a night shift at MacKinnon’s Foodland on Sept. 8.
Hayes was struck by the vehi-cle Daoud was driving on Bank Street – just south of Mitch Ow-ens Road – shortly after he left the store at 9 p.m.
Police found Daoud at approx-imately 9:30 p.m., but didn’t fi nd Hayes’s body until almost three hours later.
They declared him dead when he was discovered at 12:10 a.m. on Sept. 9.
Daoud has been in jail since the incident.
She also pleaded guilty to mis-chief – breaking a telephone in
prison – plus charges stemming from a previous incident. Daoud pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to keep the peace and breaking a condition of not drinking.
On Aug. 26, 2006, Daoud was charged with impaired driving and assessed a $600 fi ne.
Daoud’s lawyer Bob Carew said his client has undergone treatment for alcohol use both
prior to the incident and since.Wearing a grey loose turtle-
necked sweater and black pants, Daoud was read the charges by the clerk. The only word she said was, “Guilty.”
As the crown rehashed the de-tails of the incident to the judge, all Daoud could do was bow her head, tent her hands by her face in prayer and rock back-and-forth as she occasionally looked over to the four family members who attended the hearing.
Daoud was originally charged with 14 criminal and traffi c of-fences, including manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving, failing to stop at the scene of an acci-dent causing death, possessing a stolen car, driving with a sus-pended license, and breach of probation.
Daoud will be sentenced on Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. At that time, victim impact statements from Hayes’s family will be read.
“I expect the crown to say (they want) seven years if not eight to 10,” Carew said after-wards.
He said based on previous precedents he hoped his client would receive between three and seven years behind bars.
“We’re realistic too,” Carew said. “I don’t want to guess what the judge will do.”
Impaired driving causing death can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Woman guilty in hit-and-run death of Greely teenDaoud previously treated for alcohol use, lawyer says
Photo by Daniel Nugent-BowmanAlex Hayes, 16, was killed on Sept. 8 while biking home from his job at MacKinnon’s Foodland in Greely. Samira Daoud pleaded guilty to impaired driving caus-ing death as a result of the colli-sion that killed Hayes.
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EMMA JACKSON
As another winter settles in to the Ottawa area, the Coats for Kids program is in full swing at the Goodfellow Cleaners where used coats and snowpants are being collected for children in need at four lo-cations across the city.
Riverside South resident and owner Charles Goodfel-low said he’s happy to help kids keep warm in the nation’s very chilly capital, where the cost of living – and coats – can be staggering for disadvan-taged families.
“My wife and I have two young boys of our own and I know what it’s like to go out and purchase coats. They do outgrow them quickly, and they are expensive. There is a need for this (kind of charity) in Ottawa. There are a lot of people in Ottawa who are less fortunate,” he said.
Standing beside the festive-ly wrapped cardboard box in
the doorway of his 665 Earl Armstrong Dr. location, Good-fellow said the response has been very positive so far.
“As you can see, it’s overflow-ing. There are a lot of coats coming in, and we’re having a great response,” he said, add-ing that since the beginning of December they’ve collected at least 150 coats, 100 of which have already been delivered to the Salvation Army for distri-bution.
He said it helps that his four locations – Riverside South, Billings Bridge, Bells Corners and Barrhaven – are affluent areas, where families have more to give away.
“We’re fortunate that where we’re situated parents do not have to worry about their kids. The program is grow-ing tremendously, I would say this year just compared to last year the response has been un-believable,” he said.
Last winter Goodfellows and Hillary’s, another local dry cleaning company, teamed
up to run the program and collected about 500 coats to-gether.
This year, Goodfellows is go-ing alone and hopes to collect about 400 coats by the end of January, although he said he won’t say no to coats past the deadline.
“We’ll probably run it until the end of January, but we’ll still take them in, there are al-ways people who bring things in after the date so we’ll just take care of it,” he said.
Goodfellow said the experi-ence has been very positive for him.
“For me personally, the lon-ger I have been in business, as I get older, the more I want to become involved in the com-munity and give back,” he said. “This is just a great way to do that.”
Coats can be dropped off at any of the four Goodfel-low locations during business hours. For more information visit www.goodfellowcleaners.com.
Photo by Emma JacksonRiverside South resident and business owner Charles Goodfellow stands with an overfl owing box of donated coats in his Riverside South drycleaning location at 665 Earl Armstrong Dr. The business is collecting used winter coats for disadvantaged kids.
Drycleaner’s Coats for Kids campaign ‘overfl owing’
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
Canadian Blood Services is asking for Ottawans to remember to give the gift of life this holiday season.
While most people are sitting by the fire or enjoying turkey dinner, there are those who will be fighting for their lives and waiting for the precious gift of blood.
Collecting blood during the holiday season is traditionally a challenge as many donors are away or are busy with family activities.
“We simply need more Canadians to book appointments this holiday season to donate blood, particularly the week before and the week after Christmas,” Canadian Blood Services (CBS) direc-tor of donor clinics Anne Campbell said in a statement.
The staff at the Queensway Carleton Hospital is doing their part.
In a mobile donor clinic at the hos-pital on Dec. 7, they rolled up their sleeves to give the gift of life.
Ann Luu, communications specialist for CBS, said that during the hour-and-a-half the mobile donor clinic crew
was at the hospital, they collected 11 units of blood — or 91 per cent of their 12-unit goal.
“That donor clinic was a real suc-cess,” she said. “But the demand is still really high and we need blood.”
Patti Boyd, director of laboratory services at the Queensway Carleton Hospital, said that the regional hos-pitals are working together on their contingency plans to address blood and blood product shortages.
“Through CBS we get daily and bi-weekly inventory status updates and we meet annually with their hospital liaison specialist to review our usage and make projections for the demand,” she said.
Boyd said hospital staff are commit-ted to blood donation. Before the recent clinic the Queensway-Carleton hema-tologist urged staff to donate.
“Blood donation is really impor-tant; each donation can be separated into the red cells, plasma and platelets which can save more than one life,” Boyd added.
The next mobile donor clinic will be held at the Nepean Sportsplex on Dec. 29 from noon to 6 p.m.
In Ottawa alone, CBS needs to col-lect 3,578 units of blood between Dec. 13 and Jan. 2.
“We need to be proactive to ensure hospital patients receive life-saving blood and blood products during these challenging weeks,” Campbell said.
Ottawans urged to givegift of life this Christmas
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BRYNNA LESLIE
The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario kicked off its Christmas celebrations earlier this month with a visit from the Ottawa Senators.
“One young man found out the Senators were coming and hasn’t stopped smiling since,” said Nora Ullyot, one of 10 child life specialists at CHEO.
Ullyot and her colleagues work to replicate things that kids do at home and at school. The weeks lead-ing up to Christmas are spent doing crafts, making presents for family and playing Christmas-themed games.
The job of a life specialist, explains Ullyot, is to create an environment where “kids can still be kids,” something that’s especially important during the holidays.
“We recognize that no time is a good time to be in hospital,” said Ullyot, who has been in her posi-tion for 32 years. “But it is particularly stressful at Christmas.”
The life specialist team works year-round helping the children occupying the 156 beds and outpatients to understand their illnesses or injuries. They may provide age-appropriate explanations, for example, using dolls to show what a surgical procedure will look like. Life specialists also spend much of their time coordinating activities and planning events so kids don’t feel they’re missing out.
“The kids are not going to see Santa at the mall,” said Ullyot, “so we make sure they see him here.”
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Every year, a few days before Christmas, the inpatients gather in the cafeteria for a Christmas party and the fi rst of two visits from Santa Claus.
“Last year, though, we realized that a lot of kids were missing out because, if they had certain medications run-ning and they needed to have a nurse on hand, they weren’t able to come to the cafeteria,” said Ullyot.
This year, the life specialist team decided to change the venue, holding four individual parties, one in each unit.
“Each fl oor has a playroom,” said Ullyot. “Having Santa visit each fl oor means more children can be involved and it will allow the staff to take part.”
Christmas Day is extra special for the children at CHEO. Not many people realize, says Ullyot, that Santa Claus spends
the entire night fl ying around the world, before spending the day at the hospital, going room to room.
“If the children are in isolation and he cannot go into the room, he’ll wave at the window,” explained Ullyot. “Or if someone’s been asleep when we’re in a unit, then Santa’s very accommodating and will come back as soon as they’re awake. He’s here for the whole day.”
Ullyot said families come to see CHEO as a second home, and it’s especially evident at Christmas. CHEO provides a free turkey dinner for family and caregivers that visit the children on Christmas Day.
“Last year we had a whole family stay over. Mom, dad and the patient all had matching pyjamas, and they all had their picture taken with Santa together.”
Donations down at Humane Society
MICHELLE NASH
Donations to the Ottawa Humane Society are down due to an error at the printer, so organiz-ers are making a public appeal for much-needed funds.
The Ottawa Humane Society (OHS) usually sends out a friendly reminder to past donors and new adoptive parents asking for donations at Christmas time. The reminder, which typically goes out on Nov. 3 every year, was sent out a week late. result-ing in a 40 per cent downfall in donations.
“There was a problem getting the reminders back from the printers, which caused the delay of getting it out to our donors,” said Bruce Roney, ex-ecutive director of the OHS.
The reminder is directed at donors who typically donate once a year. The shortfall could directly af-fect the animals, Roney indicated.
“This is important for the care of the animals,” he said.
Over the holidays, volunteers go to the shelter to feed the animals. Meanwhile, dogs that have not been adopted are taken in by foster families over the Christmas break.
“We have all our families lined up,” Roney said. While the OHS does not expect too many uwant-
ed Christmas puppies on their doorstep, an infl ux of animals will arrive with the spring litters.
As the year comes to a close, the OHS urges the community to remember the animals and the OHS over the holiday season.
“I’m hoping because we are trying to get the message out, that people will remember the impor-tance to donate,” Roney said. “I am not too worried though, the community has been there in the past and I believe they will help us out now too.”
The OHS has said they will keep their fi ngers crossed and hope they can raise enough before the year is through.
EMMA JACKSON
“Dear Soldier, how are you? I hope you are not too sad. Thank you for keeping us safe…”
Those were the sentiments of 40 post-cards bearing messages of peace that made their way, along with a signed Canada fl ag and a box of Canada Day goodies, to Afghanistan from St Mary Catholic School’s Grade 2 class last June – and little did the now-Grade 3s know
how much of a difference they could make to a platoon’s spirits.
On Dec. 15 Sgt. Kris Carter visited the school, located at Bank Street and Mitch Owens, to return the fl ag, complete with a certifi cate signifying that the fl ag did indeed go on a mission in the cockpit of a British Tornado airplane as it under-took an unknown assignment.
Before returning the fl ag to the school, Carter asked each of his supply and transport platoon members, part of the National Support Element, to also sign the fl ag alongside the 40 student signa-tures, to say thank you for thinking of them as they work overseas.
Carter lead a short “peace assembly” in the elementary school’s gymnasium,
during which he played a touching slide show that included photos of happy sol-diers drinking Tim Hortons coffee, jux-taposed with photos of coffi ns waiting to return fallen soldiers to their families in Canada.
Carter said the returning of the fl ag was necessary to show how much Ca-nadian soldiers appreciate hearing from home, even if the letters are from strangers.
“Getting mail from home is exciting, but getting a box full of Kraft Dinner packets and postcards is really excit-ing. When this stuff shows up everyone gathers around, everyone takes a letter, everyone wants to know what’s inside the box,” he said. “All the guys love it. There are a lot of different schools and organizations that send stuff over, but the troops always like the stuff from kids. It’s nice.”
The entire project started because Carter’s young friend Emily, a member of the Grade 2 class last year at St Mary’s, was putting together a “Flat Emily” box to send to her soldier friend Kris, so that her cardboard cut-out twin could travel Afghanistan with him. From there, Em-ily’s mom Cathy Deschenes thought it made sense to include letters from the rest of the class when they sent the box.
“There was never any intent for it to go this far, all I wanted was my fl at Emily,” laughed Carter, who was more than happy to keep the small cardboard girl in the cargo pocket of his uniform pants. In the school presentation, many of the photos featured fl at Emily in the forefront, proving that she was indeed taking in the sights and sounds of Af-ghanistan.
Deschenes said the project grew into a fun Canada Day task for the students, who coloured their postcards with im-ages of peace such as fl owers, rainbows and peace signs.
“We took all the letters and the fl ag and then Emily and I went out and bought some Canada Day stuff so the soldiers would have some little mini-fl ags and stickers and Frisbees. The package arrived in time for Canada Day and the soldiers got all their little good-ies and the big fl ag and their postcards,”
she said. The intent was for the soldiers to
each write back to their young pen pals, but the platoon was soon dispersed all over the country, and the return letters couldn’t be organized properly, Carter said. “We were afraid one or two of the kids were going to get missed. So we said we’ll send none, and this fl ag is the one that we’re giving back now, to everyone. This here is sort of a culmination to say thanks to all these kids.”
The fl ag will likely hang near the school’s offi ce, where the signatures of St Mary’s students and some of Cana-da’s soldiers are paired across the red and white panels.
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Ottawa, December 14, 2010
How do we fi rst learn about Emergency Rooms (ER)?
I was 12, visiting a farm in Cantley, Quebec. My brother Stan and I spent hours exploring the barn.
We found hay stacked from ceiling to fl oor. We jumped from bales perched several meters up, to those down below.
The fun lasted until Stan took aim at pile of hay from high above, and landed on a fl oor, hidden under only centimeters of hay. There was a loud “crack!” He got up holding his broken arm. He turned pale. We ran for help.
My mother drove him to the closest ER. The wait took forever. I didn’t see him until next morning.
How much has changed? Long ER wait times are still the norm.
But there’s been signifi cant progress. Dedicated nurses, doctors and other health professionals ensure most emergency patients receive timely care.
Take our hospital, for instance. Critically injured patients and those with life threatening conditions are seen within moments.
Otherwise, an ER nurse aims to see a patient within 15 minutes, assigning them to one of three streams of care.
For those with minor problems, “the walking wounded”, Ontario’s wait time target is less than 4 hours. Thanks to government’s work with
hospitals to divert cases to family doctors or walk-in clinics, and to improve our ability to “fast track” patients through ER when they do visit, the number of such visits declined by 15% since last year. And 75% of patients spend less than 4 hours in ER.
For sicker patients who need more care, but not admission to hospital, the wait-time target is 8 hours or less. This is the largest group of ER patients. Over the past year, visits from these patients grew by 16%. Despite the surge, we cared for 85% of within 8 hours. In fact, we treated 5,800 more patients (33 per day) within 8 hours than we did last year.
We’re getting better.
Yet the system is slowest for those waiting for admission to a hospital bed. The target wait time in this case is 8 hours. Here, we have not improved.
Why?
Hospitals operate most effi ciently at occupancy levels of 88% to 92%. Unfortunately, for several years we’ve operated every day at more than 100% occupancy (with more patients than beds). As a result, we achieve an 8-hour wait less than 20% of the time.
Delays happen not because of ER ineffi ciencies, but because acute care beds are increasingly occupied by patients who would ideally receive their care outside the hospital, but for whom there is a shortage of care in the community.
It’s easy to point fi ngers at each other to “fi x” the system. But no single government, hospital, community or health provider can do it alone.
Improvements in ER happened when we all worked together.
Let’s do the same to build a plan that ensures every patient receives care in the most appropriate setting.
Nicolas Ruszkowski is VP Communications and Outreach at The Ottawa Hospital. Each week, he will share behind-the-scenes insight from the hospital. E-mail him at [email protected]
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Canadian fl ag returns to local school from Afghan mission
Photo by Emma JacksonSgt. Kris Carter shows off the signed fl ag and mission certifi cate that he returned to St. Mary Catholic School in Ottawa South on Dec. 15, after it was signed by last year’s Grade 2 class and sent to Afghanistan for Canada Day.
Soldier brings signed fl ag to students as a thank-you
Photo by Emma JacksonSgt. Kris Carter returns to St.Mary Catholic School with the Canadian fl ag sent over on a mission to Afganistan. The soldier also returned with “Flat Emily,” a card-board cut-out twin of Grade 3 student Emily, on his tour in Afghanistan.
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Desroches nabs deputy-mayor seatEMMA JACKSON
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Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches won’t just be serv-ing his ward this term – he will be representing the entire city as one of two deputy mayors.
Desroches will share the role with West Carleton-March Coun. Eli El-Chantiry. The two deputies will mainly perform ceremonial functions when Mayor Jim Wat-son is not available.
“I’m very excited about it. I think this is the fi rst time in a modern, post-amalgamation city that we’re going to have two per-manent deputy mayors, and I think it will allow for better co-or-dination with the mayor’s offi ce,” Desroches said.
“At the beginning of the term, (I) had said to the mayor that I would be prepared to serve in a leadership role if there was room on the team for me,” he continued. “So I’m excited about it.”
Desroches said his solid working relationship with the mayor dates back to 1988, when he was work-ing as a page in the House of Com-mons while Watson was working for the House Speaker. They also worked together to obtain funding for local projects, including the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge,
while Watson was an MPP.Desroches said the role will give
him a chance to help set the agen-da for the city.
“I think part of the job is being in the community and listening to residents and hearing what their priorities are,” he said. “I think it’s more than just helping our mayor when he’s not around. I know there are a number of initiatives that he wants to get off the ground and I’d be very happy to help him, especially in the area of economic development and tourism for our city.”
Economic development will be important for all of Ottawa, but particularly Ottawa south, Des-roches said.
“We’ve got a new congress cen-tre that will be opening and I think we’ve got some work to do to sup-port our tourism industry as well as promote employment in the city of Ottawa,” he said. “I’ve got in Ottawa south alone some em-ployment lands that I would like to see move forward so that we have employment areas throughout the city, not just in the west end or in the core.”
While the deputy role will add a lot more work onto his plate, Desroches said it won’t impede his ability to serve residents of Gloucester-South Nepean.
“I think it complements it (my role as councillor),” Desroches said. “I don’t see any diffi culties there. Job one, of course, is to serve my constituents and I’m go-ing to continue to do that.”
The issues that Desroches is hearing that will matter to his constituents in the next four years continues to be infrastructure projects, such as the Strandherd-Armstrong bridge, the Strandherd Drive extension and the Earl Arm-strong Road widening.
“We’ve made a lot of progress over the last four years, but we know this community is going to continue to grow, it’s projected to grow signifi cantly over the next decade,” he said. “So we continue to have work to do in the area of infrastructure, in providing the area with services.”
photo by Emma JacksonSteve Desroches prepares to lead not only his ward but the entire city as he earns a deputy mayor position.
EDDIE RWEMA
The 33rd edition of Winterlude will be highlighted by a celebra-tion of Parks Canada centennial, the National Capital Commission revealed during the unveiling of the lineup for this year’s festival.
“Winterlude celebrates Cana-dian achievements, values and traditions and helps to enrich the social and cultural fabric of Can-ada,” said Marie Lemay, the NCC’s chief executive offi cer. “Winter in the capital is synonymous with Winterlude, and with the addition of new partners and collabora-tors, we hope that it will continue to evolve and grow.”
The festivities will kick off at the Canadian Museum of Civili-zation on Feb. 4, and will feature events at four sites, including the Crystal Garden in Confederation Park, the canal skateway, and the Snowfl ake Kingdom at Gatineau’s Jacques-Cartier Park.
The fi rst day of Winterlude co-incides with Parks Canada’s 100th anniversary, and the NCC is plan-ning festivities to celebrate the world’s oldest national parks ser-vice.
The day’s program will feature special lighting effects, an inter-
active fi re experience, amazing sound performances, a DJ dance party and, at 9 p.m., a fi reworks extravaganza to celebrate Parks Canada’s milestone anniversary.
“Parks Canada is pleased to be a part of this extraordinary festi-val in 2011, even more so as we cel-ebrate our 100th anniversary next year,” said Alan Latourelle, Parks Canada’s CEO.
“Perhaps the best way to cel-ebrate Parks Canada’s centennial year is to come out and enjoy the outdoors, in the snow and in the sun, in the true spirit shared by Parks Canada and Winterlude,” he continued.
Several activities, such as the screening of short fi lms and photo exhibits on national parks, the pleasures of winter camping, and artistic performances will be part of the larger celebration.
New this year is a partnership with the Ottawa Chamber Mu-sic Society, the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and the National Gallery of Cana-da, among other organizations, which will all provide program-ming.
This winter also marks the 41st season of skating on the Rideau Canal Skateway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Activities on the Rideau Canal Skateway will include skating les-sons, an interactive hockey zone, Portraits on Ice by Library and Archives Canada, the Winterlude Triathlon, a bed race, and the third annual Great Canadian Bea-ver Cup Pond Hockey Classic
Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, speaking on be-half of Mayor Jim Watson, said Ottawa owes its existence to the historic Rideau Canal.
“The canal continues to enrich the lives of Ottawa’s residence to this day,” Desroches said.
Returning to Confederation Park is the 24th annual ice-carv-ing competition, which features artists from all around the world.
The park will also host a cel-ebration of the Chinese New Year, with a garden of lanterns, dance performances, a photo exhibit and tea ceremonies in an Asian yurt. The celebration will includ the participation of two teams of ice carvers from the Harbin Interna-tional Ice and Snow Sculpture Fes-tival in China.
Through the government of Yukon, talented artisans, singer-songwriters, and sculptors from the territory will share their crafts with visitors during Winterlude’s second weekend.
Winterlude marks Parks Canada centennial
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EDITORIAL
Before the inevitable mellowing out of Christmas Day, there is a lot of irritation that has to be overcome.
The components of that irritation are familiar to you.
People losing their minds in their cars, rushing around on their all-weather tires, engaging in road rage in shopping centre parking lots.
Not being able to get out of jammed shopping centre parking garages.
Icky Christmas muzak, featuring carols sung by Elvis, Mariah Carey and the Chipmunks, from Nov. 1 on.
Media-fuelled frenzy over the toy that everyone is going to feel guilty not buying for their child. This is now accompanied by Internet-fuelled frenzy as canny buyers resell that toy at hyper-infl ated prices.
Newspaper advice columns warning about inappropriate behaviour at offi ce Christmas parties.
Offi ce Christmas parties, where the guests are now so worried about inap-propriate behaviour that they spend all their time looking at their phones.
People who did behave inappropriate-ly driving home from offi ce Christmas parties.
All of this, when not life-endangering, is tough on the spirit, and it should be
a relief to arrive home safely, take off your boots and plunk down in front of the television set.
Except that the only thing on the televi-sion set, aside from poker and wrestling and real housewives from somewhere, is a movie about a man and a woman who want to announce their engagement on Christmas Eve but can’t because Rudolf got lost on 34th Street and has to be res-cued before the Christmas pageant can go on, and the man and the woman quarrel over some misunderstanding, meanwhile the Spirit of Christmas is being held hos-tage by an evil banker and only Hannah Montana can persuade him to let it go, but fi rst she has to sing a Christmas song and her band is stuck in a snowbank in Beverly Hills and none of the usual angels are available, so the call goes out to the neighbour’s collie dog . . .
That’s on every channel and you know
how it turns out — with big fl uffy globs of snow falling slowly and everybody hugging and looking up in the air and saying “Happy Holidays” to each other.
The preponderance of Christmas movies on our airwaves must be partic-ularly annoying to those of us who don’t celebrate Christmas, but it is annoying enough to everybody.
But just as all Christmas music is not icky — think of the traditional carols, the Messiah, even the Charlie Brown music of Vince Guaraldi — not all Christmas entertainment is pointless and insulting. The play Nativity that just concluding its run at the National Arts Centre is an en-joyable combination of spirituality, music and farce. Despite its irreverent treatment of the subject (coyotes in the manger!), it doesn’t seem to have offended anyone, which goes to show that audiences are more resilient and open-minded than they are often given credit for.
And of course there are the classic mov-ies that you can watch again and again — the original Miracle on 34th Street, just about any version of A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life (with its brilliant portrayal of the hellish life of Bedford Falls had there been no George Bailey) and White Christmas (just to hear Rosemary Clooney sing and watch the world’s most
ridiculous plot device: Bing Crosby going on network television to ask people to keep a secret from his old general, Dean Jagger).
A couple of the newer ones aren’t so bad. A Christmas Story (1983) has its mo-ments and there is nothing like watch-ing Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa to comfort the truly grouchy among us.
The problem is that Hollywood has to keep pumping out new holiday movies each year, the majority of which associ-ate the miracles of the season mostly with couples getting engaged.
It all makes you look forward to the New Year, when people can go back to doing what they do best on TV — run-ning through hospitals and shooting at helicopters.
Surviving the Christmas movie
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Dealing with winter drivingIt’s December, in Canada. It’s going to snow.
This isn’t really news to anyone who lives here. And yet, whenever a centimetre or
two of the white stuff hits the ground during the first snowfall of the season, you just have to listen to the morning traffic report on the ra-dio to hear about the increased number of car crashes.
You could make a game of it, really, if it were not so tragic. Making it even more sad is the fact that many of these crashes could have been pre-vented.
CBC News reports that, traditionally, the first snowfall of the year is the day with the high-est number of collisions throughout the year. Insurance company Aviva Canada reports that there are 50 per cent more car insurance claims in the winter months in Canada, and that the company made $37.8 million in collision claim payouts between December 2009 and February 2010.
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation’s web-site says it all – “stay alert, slow down, and stay in control.”
Yes, you may have top-of-the-line, just-installed brakes, but your car can’t stop in a December
snowstorm the way it did during a sunny day in July. Also, after a heavy snow, people are going to slow down. It makes sense if you can’t see the lines on the road.
Yes, getting around in the wintertime is not any-one’s idea of fun, but it has to be done, and it can be done safely. As Red Green so eloquently says, “We’re all in this together.”
It is important to allow more time when travel-ling, and to allow more space between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you.
Gone are the days of, well, just a few days ago, when we could jump into the car, turn the key, put the stick into drive and – having looked both ways of course – head out onto the open road.
Now, it’s warm up the car, scrape off the windshield. Oh, and don’t forget to shovel yourself out from the lovely little Mt. Ever-est the snowplow driver left at the end of your driveway.
It’s not pleasant, but in conditions like these, it drives home the point (pun intended) that we all share the road, and we all have to put up with the same delays, frustrations and weather conditions. But if we all put in a little extra time and caution, we’ll all arrive alive, safely.
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I don’t know how life sudden-ly became so busy. We don’t have kids to ferry around to hockey or soccer; only one remains at home and she is pretty self-suffi -cient. We have less than a 15 min-ute commute to work in Kempt-ville, and we spend the majority of each weekend at home. Still, life goes whizzing by.
Some of our best moments are spent at the dinner table, in the garden, or in the barn. Just living, working, talking together. The best memories are not built in front of the television or computer.
The computer is a necessary evil, keeping us connected to work and friends and news in the rest of the world. But I think we can do without the TV. In 2011, the Farmer and I are going to look at our life to see how we might attempt to slow it down by simplifying things a bit.
I love living in a region with four distinct seasons – but they mark the passage of time in a way that clearly shows you how
fast life is passing. Last win-ter we were praying for a dear friend with brain cancer. This winter we are burying him.
It’s been almost three years since we lost my dad. Three years. But as I watched the mov-ie “The Bucket List” last week, the tears ran down my face. It is very diffi cult to recover from the loss of a permanent fi xture in one’s heart.
I have friends entering meno-pause, fi ghting cancer, burying their husbands. Yesterday we were in high school.
Our lives are a blip on the screen. The best we can do is to surround ourselves with posi-tive people, to keep travelling up hill, and to pause to appreciate the moments.
This morning my mother called to tell me she would not be at Sunday dinner. Instead she would be visiting with her own 95-year-old mother Vicky, who had recently suffered a fall. Vicky was only slightly hurt in the fall, thank goodness, but it put things into perspective. Oc-casionally she falls down and has to remain on the fl oor for several hours until she is dis-covered. She has left the water running in the bathroom for the entire day. She left the milk to
burn on the stove. It is becoming unsafe for Vicky to continue to live on her own.
If I was a stay-at-home mom, we could move our aging par-ents and grandparents into the spare wing of the house. There they would enjoy their golden years, and pass their wisdom on to the younger generation – our children and grandchildren.
But we work outside the home, and we are not able to move our aging family members in with us. It is time to fi nd a new home for Vicky.
Vicky has been through some hard winters, living in a little schoolhouse in Quebec where her husband hunted, she gar-dened and they traded their goods for eggs at the farm down the road. As a single mom of four boys and one girl, Vicky learned to be thrifty, resource-ful, creative and optimistic. When she doesn’t understand or cannot hear what you are saying, she giggles. She doesn’t get frustrated or upset – she just laughs. That’s Vicky.
And this gorgeous woman, who still paints her nails to match her russet-red hair, de-serves the very best for the last few seasons of her long life.
DIANA FISHERAccidental Farmwife
Attempting to slow down life
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Deans said her background in labour relations will serve her well as the city heads into a round of negotiations with OC Transpo amid ongoing tensions.
The union agreement ends on March 31, and the city will be looking to prevent a re-peat of the 53-day strike that started in the winter of 2008.
“I know that we’ve had challenges. The employees aren’t very happy, the union isn’t very happy,” she said. “The public needs some satisfaction to know that we’re not going to get into another protracted la-bour dispute. So there’s lots of work to do.”
MCRAE FOCUSES ON ‘GREEN’ ISSUES
River Ward Coun. Maria McRae got her wish to lead the city’s newly formed envi-ronment committee, which is an offshoot of the former environment and planning committee.
“With the environment committee, I am very passionate about those issues and I think we have to bring a pragmatic face to the environmental issues that we have at the city,” McRae said. “We have not done the best job communicating some of the good environmental initiatives that we have done, so I want to try to do that.”
City council chose councillors to sit on a variety of committees and boards during a council meeting on Dec. 15.
McRae’s educational background in-cludes degrees in both biology and law,
which will be useful for the environment committee, she said.
McRae said he top priorities as the head of that committee will be the Ottawa River cleanup, initiating a dialogue about gar-bage and getting people talking about and supporting green initiatives.
“I believe fundamentally that we have to pick up garbage absolutely every week. Ev-ery single week,” McRae said. “The form we pick it up in, though, is up for debate.”
As an advocate of the green bin program, McRae wants to get residents on board and talking about disposing of their garbage in a green bin, instead of a green garbage bag.
“You’re still throwing garbage out but you’re doing it in a different way,” she said. “So we have to continue talking about how we move people along to start thinking about our impact with the green bin and how it relates to garbage.”
But McRae also said environmental ini-tiatives must be pragmatic.
“It can’t be an idealistic environment committee that is going to put forward ideologies that are going to be rejected by council,” she said. “We need to look at the triple bottom line whenever we’re discuss-ing these issues as well, but we need to move the yardsticks forward.”
McRae’s nominations refl ect a slightly different cross-section of interests than her pervious memberships. In the last term, she was a representative for commu-nity housing, transportation, the library board and the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA). Now, in addition to the
environment committee, she will sit on fi -nance and economic development commit-tee, the Ottawa Board of Health and Hydro Ottawa Holding Company Inc.
“All my past experiences are going to link with what I’m going to do now, so I’m building on that, she said.
“Then there’s a direct link between the environment and Hydro Ottawa, when you look at sustainable energy and that sort of thing,” she said. “So I’m trying to fi nd a way to actually integrate the work that I’m going to do all together.”
She is a lifelong learner, so she wants to take on new challenges, and it was time to let other people have a try on groups like RVCA, McRae added.
McRae was widely touted as a likely can-didate for one of two deputy mayor’s seats, but she declined that opportunity because she was more interested in chairing a com-mittee.
“I think that we need, as members of council, to not be selfi sh in our choices, and I think it would be selfi sh to expect to chair a committee and to serve as deputy mayor and to be doing other things as well,” she said. “My focus is on these environmental issues, and the mayor was very gracious but very generous in giving me my fi rst choice and in 100 per cent standing behind what I wanted to do.”
THOMPSON TO CHAIR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
After serving as the committee’s chair
person since February, Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson is back at the helm of the agriculture and rural affairs committee.
Thompson said it’s an important role because it gives the city’s rural area a rare voice at council.
“It’s rather unique because it may be the only one of such a nature in Canada,” Thompson said.
The committee was established after amalgamation
“I think … it maybe didn’t have as much respect as it should have around the coun-cil table in the fi rst few year,” he said. “It’s developed into a very strong part of the city government.”
The committee has held two rural sum-mits and Thompson hopes to hold another, smaller rural summit in this term.
The committee is also the clearinghouse for development proposals for rural areas; for urban and suburban areas, those issues go to the planning committee.
Thompson served as chair for the fi rst four years of the agriculture and rural af-fairs committee’s existence, and he served six years as vice chair. All four rural coun-cillors must sit on the committee.
Thompson will also sit on the transpor-tation committee, where he will push for the city to look at funding more “surface treated” or tar-and-chip roads to replace gravel roads, because they have lower maintenance costs.
He will also sit on the Ottawa Public Li-brary Board and the fi nance and economic development committee.
Thompson back at helm of agriculture and rural affairs committee
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JESSICA CUNHA
Over 8,000 hockey players will de-scend on Ottawa from Dec. 29 to Jan. 3 for the 12th annual Bell Capital Cup.
The tournament, which runs from Dec. 30 to Jan. 3, will see teams come from as far as Beijing.
“Average-wise, I’d say we are expecting around 8,380 players,” said Matt Bennett, the general manager for the Bell Capital Cup.
Last year’s cup saw 8,500 play-ers take part.
Players from 19 divisions will take to the ice during the fi ve-day competition, with 493 teams vying for a championship spot.
“When everything is all said and done, we’ll have 993 games played,” said Bennett.
Fourteen teams will be attend-ing from various parts of Europe and Asia, and for the fi rst time South Korea will take part in the cup tournament, said Bennett.
The Ottawa-area will be well represented, with 265 teams competing for the top spot, in-cluding the Kanata Blazers, Ne-pean Raiders, Ottawa Sting and Gloucester Rangers.
“Every district in the ODHA (Ottawa District Hockey Asso-ciation) will be represented this
year,” said Bennett. Teams will also be coming
from British Columbia, Nuna-vut, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Twenty-two rinks will play host to the games, from Navan to Aylmer to Kanata, said Bennett, with every championship game being played at Scotiabank Place.
“I think it’s defi nitely going to be one of the most memorable hockey experiences they’re going to have,” said Bennett. “On the ice they’re meeting kids from differ-ent cities, different countries.”
FAN FEST
This year, the fi rst-annual Fan Fest will be held at the Bell Sensplex on Dec. 29.
Ottawa Senators National Hockey League alumni will be present, along with a Hockey Hall of Fame exhibit and a sports memorabilia auction with funds going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern Ontario, said Bennett.
“It’s just to kind of welcome everybody into town and get ev-erybody in the mood for the week ahead,” he said. “We’re hoping to make it an annual event.”
Players also get the added bonus of attending an Ottawa
Senators game.“On Dec. 29 we’re going to
send 6,100 kids to the Sens game against Carolina, and about 500 kids to the Leafs (vs. Sens) game (on Jan. 1),” said Bennett.
He said the Bell Capital Cup is expected to bring in around $15 million for the local economy.
Tournament passes sell for $12 and cover all fi ve days. Adult day passes go for $5 while senior’s day
passes are $3. Children under 12 attend for free. Ticket sales are used to support local minor hock-ey associations and charities.
For more information visit the website at www.bellcapitalcup.ca.
File photo:The Kanata Blazers boys’ peewee house A team competes against the Iqaluit Blizzard during last year’s Bell Capital Cup.
Hundreds of teams vie for Bell Capital Cup
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MATTHEW JAY
Coming off the back of two strong, albeit fruitless, outings against league-leading Pem-broke Lumber Kings, a visit from Kanata offered the Ottawa Junior Senators a chance to get back in the win column.
With the Stallions, who had played in Carleton Place the night before, only two points behind Ottawa in the race for the last Central Hockey League playoff spot, there was an add-ed incentive for the Jr. Sena-tors.
But after some gritty deter-mination for three periods plus overtime, the result was the same for the Jr. Senators, who lost 4-3 after a shootout at the Jim Durrell Complex on Dec. 15.
“It’s a huge bonus when you can take a shootout point,” Jr. Senators coach Mike Ruest said. “But it didn’t happen. We battled hard – it was a hard-fought victory (for Kanata).”
Stallions forward Zach Ro-dier produced a nifty move to fake goaltender Eddie Zdol-shek to score the only goal and
sealing the extra point for the Stallions.
Hedges, House and Petrie all missed their chances for the Jr. Senators. Doug Harvey and Bis-dee failed to score for Kanata.
After the game, Ruest lament-ed the loss, but added his team isn’t really suited for shootout success.
“We just have too many plumbers on our team,” Ruest said. “When it gets to a shoot-out, you look down the bench and try to give who you think has been playing well (an op-portunity). I just thought those three guys had played a strong game and deserved the oppor-tunity.”
Ottawa’s lineup was bol-stered by the return of forward Andrew Hampton, who had missed 12 games with a broken hand. Hampton played a solid game, adding a strong physical presence to the Jr. Sens.
“To see Andrew come back is comforting. His cardio is lack-ing right now, but he’ll be ready in the new year,” Ruest said.
After a Rodier goal put Kanata up 3-2 early in the sec-ond, strong forechecking by the likes of Joey House, Trev-
or Packard and Carl Faucher penned the Stallions in their own end for long stretches, and with less than nine minutes remaining, the effort paid off. Conor Brown slotted home his 14th goal of the year.
Brandon Petrie and Derek Lowry also scored for the Jr. Senators, while Brent Bisdee and Carl-Philippe Ouiment added goals for the Stallions.
The Jr. Senators had hoped to make up for a string of re-cent losses with a pair of wins at the CHL’s holiday showcase at the Bell Sensplex in Kanata, but came a way empty in games against Smiths Falls and Car-leton Place.
The Bears beat Ottawa 3-2 in a penalty-fi lled game, while the Canadians topped the Jr. Sena-tors 5-2 on Dec. 18 to extend Ottawa’s winless streak to fi ve games ahead of a Dec. 22 meet-ing with Hawkesbury.
The CHL All-Star teams were announced on Dec. 21, with Jr. Senators forwards Conor Brown and Ryan Legace se-lected to play for the Yzerman Division team at the Jan. 12 game, which will be played at the Bell Sensplex.
Jr. Senators see solid effort spoiled in shootout loss
Photo by Matthew JayOttawa Jr. Senators forward Drew Anderson (17) carries the puck out of the corner while Derek Lowry (12) battles with Kanata defenceman Tim Kavanaugh on Dec. 15 at the Jim Durrell Complex. The Stallions won the game 4-3 in a shootout.
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RIVERSIDE SOUTH FIREHALL TURNS FESTIVEMembers of the École Élementaire catholique Bernard-Grandmaître choir laugh away their jitters before entertaining fi re hall visitors with festive Christmas carols on Dec. 16.
Above: Nicholas and Andrew Yung visit Santa in front of the brightly lit Christmas tree at Fire Station #37 in Riverside South. The event’s MC said the tree is small this year, but like the Riverside South community, will grow stronger and bigger every year.
Far Left: A young Riverside South resident tests out the driver’s seat of a Station 37 fi re truck with a local fi refi ghter on Dec. 16. during the fi rst annual holiday open house and tree lighting ceremony.
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My dearest customer, As you are aware, I have operated Solly’s Pharmacy in its current location for over 20 years now. During that time, I have gotten to know many of you and your families personally. It has been a privilege to serve you. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to remain at my current premises.
Eff ective December 1st, 2010, Solly’s Pharmacy will be relocating to 2430 Bank Street, Unit 7. The new pharmacy will be at the corner of Bank Street and Hunt Club in the mall with the Harvey’s restaurant. Our new name will be HuntClub Guardian Drugs.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you or your family. I will still be providing you with the service that has been the hallmark of my pharmacy. Our team will now be joined by my partner, Ian McNeil. Ian is a community-pharmacist and embodies the very best of our tradi-tion. We will be opening longer and on weekends to serve you better.
I look forward to meeting you at our new location, and continuing our relationship for many years to come.
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Gloucester Southgate Coun. Di-ane Deans celebrates the season with her favourite family baking. Below is Dean’s family recipe for mouthwatering traditional short-bread – sprinkles optional.
AUNT ISABEL’SSHORTBREAD
4 oz butter1/3 cup icing sugar1/3 cup cornstarch 1 cup fl our
Method:Cream butter, sugar and corn-starch together. Knead in fl our until very soft. Pat into an 8 inch round cake pan or pie
plate. Prick with fork. Bake at 325 degrees for 35 minutes. Re-member to cut immediately af-ter removing from oven.
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EMMA JACKSON
River Ward Coun. Maria McRae has many fond memories of Christmases past, but one act of kindness sticks out in her mind as an excellent example of her constituents’ generosity.
It was December 2002 and the Holy Cross church near Walkley Road and Riverside Drive was busy recruiting volunteers to serve its annual Christmas din-ner to hundreds of seniors, shut-ins and people with disabilities from around the city. But all of a sudden, a week before Christ-mas, the massive dinner was cancelled due to a liability scare.
“I couldn’t imagine all these people going without their din-ners that they were expect-ing,” McRae said. “Because the church thought the dinner was cancelled, they had told all the volunteers not to make dinners. So I had to get on TV and tell people to start cooking.”
For her part, McRae had to phone her family and in-laws in Sudbury and explain that she wouldn’t be home for Christmas because she and her husband would be delivering much-need-ed Christmas dinners instead.
In slightly more than a week, McRae and a team of volunteers – with the church back on board – managed to pull the dinner back together just in time for Christmas morning.
“We actually organized an entire Christmas day dinner, so that hundreds of people ended up having a Christmas day dinner delivered to their house. We had hundreds of people volunteer. It was very touching, it was very moving to see how many people were relying on that,” she said.
McRae added that the special feeling of Christmas morning was different, but present in a new and moving way.
“We were all up really late in the night on Christmas Eve and the next morning we went to the church to start receiving food, and it was so quiet. It was eerie. That would have been a morn-ing when we’d usually be with our family,” she said.
She recalls one particular vol-unteer was unusually touched by the situation.
“That day, I went with a teen-aged kid who was so keen on seeing what happened to fami-lies who didn’t have anything on Christmas day. He spent the day with me and went on deliveries with me and he was just shocked with the whole thing,” she ex-plained. “He went from telling me what the kids got from Santa in the morning to, ‘Whoa, this is bigger than that.’ ”
McRae said she’ll never for-get that Christmas she spent in Ottawa, but she said she’s not surprised so many volunteers
pulled together to help out. “It’s a very giving communi-
ty,” she said. McRae’s holiday plans this
Christmas will include the an-nual drive to Sudbury, where both her family and her husband’s family still live.
She said they will bunk with her husband’s mother on Christ-mas Eve and spend Christmas day visiting siblings and their very excited children.
McRae said she cherishes the family traditions that have sur-vived the years since her child-hood, including the treat of open-ing one gift on Christmas Eve at her parents’ house, and the fact that her mother still puts togeth-er a stocking for her every year.
“My husband and I are with all of our family all at the same time and we’ve tried to espouse differ-ent traditions from our families into what we do,” she said.
McRae said she will be bar-gain hunting during the Boxing Day sales in Sudbury, especially for half-price wrapping paper and trimmings.
“I don’t buy any Christmas wrap at full price, so I’m always on the lookout for Christmas wrap at 50 per cent off or cheaper. So we go to Sudbury, fi nd all this Christ-mas wrap dirt cheap and haul it back to Ottawa,” she laughed. “I’ve been known to get out of bed at fi ve in the morning to fi nd a deal, and I’m not just up, I’m up, showered and ready to go.”
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McRae remembers River Ward generosity
Photo by Emma JacksonRiver Ward Coun. Maria McRae dons a festive cap as she poses with a tiny Christmas tree in her city hall offi ce. She said her family sent her the little tree her fi rst year in offi ce.
Traditional treat
Ontario’s acting fi re marshall is warning residents to keep an eye on what’s cooking.
Acting Fire Marshall Doug Crawford is urging everyone to stay in the kitchen while cooking and to turn off the stove is they have to leave for any reason.
Ten people died in fires in the province last December. This month has already seen 11 fatalities.
“It is absolutely vital that ev-eryone stay in the kitchen when cooking,” Crawford said in a statement. “These deaths and injuries are needless and can easily be prevented. The Fire Service of Ontario doesn’t want anyone else to experience a sim-
ilar tragedy over the holidays.”Important steps to prevent
home fi res include: - Staying in the kitchen while
cooking, particularly when us-ing oil or high temperatures.
- Keeping combustible items such as cooking utensils and pa-per towels a safe distance from the stove as they can easily ig-nite if they are too close.
- Keeping a proper fi tting lid near the stove when cooking. If a pot catches fi re, slide the lid over the pot and turn off the stove.
- Drinking responsibly and keeping an eye on those who do not. Excessive alcohol use is a contributing factor in many residential fi res.
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Cooking fi res dampen holiday spirits
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Gloucester South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches will be home for the holidays this year – exactly where he should be, he says.
“We’re going to be in Ottawa for the holidays, because we have a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old, so that’s a very exciting time,” he said. “It’s always very magical to see Christmas through their eyes.”
The Desroches will have fam-ily visiting from out of town over the holiday, including some from as far away as Stockholm, Sweden, and he said he’s look-ing forward to a white Christ-mas. “But not too white, so the city can save some money,” he laughed.
Desroches has warm memo-ries of Christmases past in his hometown of Midland, Ont. on Georgian Bay, where he grew
up before moving to Ottawa for school.
“I have very fond memories of my grandparents, and of course the turkey and the meat pie,” he said.
He said he’s sad to see his ex-tended family go their separate ways at Christmas now that most of his grandparents have passed away.
“When my grandparents were alive we spent a lot of time with aunts and uncles and cousins over the holidays. And that’s something that’s un-fortunately gone because once the grandparents have passed away everyone goes into their own orbits and new traditions form,” he explained, although there is a happy note to the change. “Now my parents are the grandparents and so there’s a different orbit around the family.”
Desroches said he has main-tained some of his favourite childhood traditions, however, including one that has his two young boys looking forward to Christmas Eve.
“I can always remember that my parents would always let us open one gift on Christmas Eve,
and that was always exciting, so that’s a tradition that we’ve continued in our household,” he said, adding that his young-est son has proven diffi cult to
buy for. “He’s not fi xated on any-thing in particular. But Santa knows everything so I’m sure Santa will bring him something that he’s looking forward to.”
Desroches said one of his fa-vourite new traditions is deco-rating the family Christmas tree, a discount tree he and his wife purchased after Christmas when they were fi rst married. Its nicknamed Mangy, he ex-plained, because it is missing a whole row of branches and “it’s not your Rockefeller Centre tree,” he laughed. But it has sen-timental value, he said, because of the ornaments the kids hang on it every year.
“Our tree has a lot of orna-ments from when we’ve trav-elled, we have ornaments that our grandparents and our par-ents have given us, and orna-ments to mark our children’s births. So they’re quite senti-mental, they each tell a little story.
“The tree, for us, even though it is mangy, is special because a lot of the ornaments on there are kind of a history of our fam-ily and came from some of the people that were important to us when we were younger,” he said. A special favourite, he added, is a felt gingerbread man that Des-roches made when he was a kid, which he dressed as “the Fonz” from the sitcom Happy Days.
Photo by Emma JacksonGloucester South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches stops to smell the poinsettias at Moncion’s Your Independent Grocer store in Riverside South. The councillor will be in Ottawa for the holidays.
Steve Desroches happy to be home this holidayCouncillor shares
Christmas memories and hopes for 2011
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Margaret Dickenson’s
HOLIDAY SURVIVAL TIPS
• Remember, this is the holiday season. Before starting to set the table, turn on some holiday music, pour yourself a glass of wine or a cup of hot tea and enjoy your task.
• If you have established an overall theme when decorating your home for the holiday season, remember to save a portion of those key decorating resources for the dining room table.
• By avoiding the use of fresh fl owers, the table decor will last throughout the holiday season without further attention.
• Table centre pieces should not exceed 12 inches (30 cm) in height so as not to interfere with the sight line of those at the table.
• Place mats and table cloths are equally acceptable.
• Don’t try to save your lovely holiday candles. If candles are on a dining room table, they should be lit during dinner.
• Forks are placed on the left hand side of a place setting, knives and spoons on the right. Th e blades of knives face towards the centre of the place setting.
• Cutlery is used starting from the extreme outside edges of the place setting and working inward (i.e., toward the centre).
• Note: Dessert cutlery (fork, spoon or both) are placed in a horizontal position at the very top of the place setting with the handle of the fork pointing to the left and the handle of the spoon pointing to the right.
• Wine and Champagne glasses are placed on the right hand side of a place setting above the knives and spoons. Th ey are arranged in the order in which they will be used. Th e water glass is always placed to the left of these glasses closer to the centre of the place setting. (Note: In the “Christmas Blue” accompanying photo, we have decided only to serve sparkling wine throughout the meal.)
• Napkins (preferably linen) may be folded in many diff erent ways and placed in a variety of positions (e.g., on chargers, on bread & butter plates, in glasses). However, they should never be placed on the right hand side of a place setting. When folded in the traditional rectangular or “square” manner, place the napkin beyond the forks with the folded edge parallel to the forks and with the open corner at the bottom left . NEVER EVER place the napkins under the forks!
• Th e bread & butter plate is placed on the left hand side of the place setting either directly above the forks or to the left of the forks (and napkin, if your napkin is in that position).
• Th e bread & butter knife is placed in a horizontal position across the bread & butter plate with the handle pointing to the right and the blade facing down.
• Place/name cards are optional. When used, place them in a horizontal central position above the dessert cutlery. It is best to have names written on both sides of the card.
• For an additional touch of elegance, a touch of pizzazz, place chargers at each individual place setting when you set the table. Chargers are simply oversized plates (of metal, glass, porcelain, wood, plastic, etc.). Th ey usually stay on the table for the entire meal. Plates/bowls for each course are placed directly on top of them. Th ey are only removed from the table if plates of a certain size or shape for a particular course cannot be arranged comfortably on the chargers. Sometimes when setting a table, it is fun to put at each place setting a “show plate” which is removed aft er people are seated at the dining room table and before the fi rst course is served. (Note: Frequently, the handsome plates with a big pink bow fi ll that role in our home on special occasions.)
Have fun setting your holiday table.
From our table to yours. Bon Appétit!
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Community CalendarWe welcome your submissions of
upcoming community, non-profi t events. Please email events to
[email protected] by 4:30 p.m. on Friday
• DEC. 24The Knight Enterprises Team, Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Jack Purcell Lane, will be serving a free full-course Christmas eve dinner from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Singles, families and children are welcome. No registration needed. The dinner will be served on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.
Foster Farm Community Centre, 1065 Ramsey Cres., will be serving a free, full-course Christmas eve dinner from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Please call 613-828-2004 to make a reservation.
Albion-Heatherington Recreation Centre, 1560 Heatherington Rd., will be serving a free, full course Christmas eve dinner from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• DEC. 25Shephards of Good Hope, 233 Murray St. will be serving a free Christmas day meal from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It is open to all and no registration is needed. Donations are accepted, any-thing in the way of food or money.
Heart & Crown Irish Pub, 67 Clarence St., will be serving a free Christmas day meal from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. No registration is needed.
The Elvis Sighting Society, Newport Restaurant, 334 Richmond Rd., will be serving a free Christmas day meal from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. No registration needed and it is open to everyone. Donations are accepted: hygiene products, anything in the way of food and money. All are welcome.
St. George’s Church, 152 Metcalfe St., will be partnering with Knox Presbyterian Church at the corner of Elgin and Lisgar to offer an all-day Christmas celebration and dinner. Doors open from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with dinner sittings at noon, 1:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. This is St. George’s annual Christmas day event, but it will be held at Knox Presbyterian this year. Entrance at 227 Elgin St. Volunteers are needed. To volunteer, please call St. George’s parish offi ce at 613-235-1636, Tues-day to Friday 8:30 .m. to 1:30 p.m. and leave your name and phone number.\
The Community of Hintonburg invites you to join them for a free Christmas dinner at the Carleton
Tavern, 223 Armstrong St. The dinner is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A vegetarian meal will also be avail-able. Listen to some great music from musicians in the community organized by Midnight Mike and the Open Stage Revue.
• JAN. 18Ottawa Innercity Ministries, Domin-ion Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper St., will serve a free holiday meal starting at 11 a.m. at the door. Donations of backpack, sleeping bags, water bottles, juice boxes, toiletries, granola bars, gift cards, warm socks, bus tickets andmany other items that can be passed to our less fortunate friends, are always needed and welcomed.
• JAN. 19Heritage Ottawa Free Public Lecture – Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cemetery: A Cemetery of National Impor-tance. At the Ottawa Public Library Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe St., corner of Laurier Ave. West at 7 p.m. Jean Yves Pelletier, a heritage resources consultant and author of a book on the cemetery, will provide an histori-cal overview and give an illustrated presentation of the cemetery. For more information, please call 613-230-8841 or visit us online at www.heritageottawa.org
Photo by Michelle Nash
SIX MAYORS SINGINGMayor Jim Watson and several former mayors from the pre-amalgamation era, Allan Higdon, Claudette Cain, Brian Coburn, Doug Thompson and Marianne Wilkinson got together to sing Christmas carols at the Rockcliffe Retirement Residence on Dec. 19. The group has been performing togeth-er since 2001 and affectionately call themselves “The Old Grey Mayors.” Everyone joined in the Christmas fun, with resident Beatrice Ross playing the piano for the carollers.
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DVD with games, alloys, onlyDVD with games, alloys, only 16,000km! US1614A16,000km! US1614A
$20,888**$20,888**$147* $147* Bi-weeklyBi-weekly
Plus Taxes, 7.09% for 84 MthsPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 84 Mths
STOW N’ GO! PR3368STOW N’ GO! PR3368
$20,888**$20,888**$133* $133* Bi-weeklyBi-weekly
Plus Taxes, 7.09% for 96 MthsPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 96 Mths
4X4, leather with 58,000km4X4, leather with 58,000km P-3511AP-3511A
$27,888**$27,888**$221*$221* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 72 MthsPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 72 Mths
Fwd, V-6, Power Group, Low kms.Fwd, V-6, Power Group, Low kms.4 Available4 Available
1@ $21,888**1@ $21,888**$112* $112* Bi-weeklyBi-weekly
Plus Taxes, 7.09% for 96 MthsPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 96 Mths
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Sunroof and Leather. 3,400 kms.Sunroof and Leather. 3,400 kms.PR 3364PR 3364
$35,888**$227* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 6.29% for 96 Mths
Cruise control, alloy wheels, leather,Cruise control, alloy wheels, leather, with 32,976km! US1600with 32,976km! US1600
$24,888**$158* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 6.99% for 96 Mths
A/C, power windows and doors,A/C, power windows and doors, traction control, ABS breaks. P-3518Atraction control, ABS breaks. P-3518A
$26,888$26,888****$217*$217* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 6.29% for 96 MthsPlus Taxes, 6.29% for 96 Mths
07-10 CTS - 8 TO CHOOSE FROM07-10 CTS - 8 TO CHOOSE FROMP-3473AP-3473A
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4X4, 20” wheels, DVD and NAV with4X4, 20” wheels, DVD and NAV with 20,229km US160420,229km US1604
$41,888**$41,888**$268*$268* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 6.29% for 96 MthsPlus Taxes, 6.29% for 96 Mths
Performance vehicle with heatedPerformance vehicle with heated leather seats US1596leather seats US1596
$32,888**$32,888**$209*$209* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 6.99% for 96 MthsPlus Taxes, 6.99% for 96 Mths
7 Pass, V6, power group, with7 Pass, V6, power group, with 73,000km. 11-5069A73,000km. 11-5069A
$18,888**$18,888**$174*$174* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 60 MthsPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 60 Mths
V6, power group with 57,000km.V6, power group with 57,000km. P-3488AP-3488A
$9,888**$9,888**$98*$98* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 7.35% for 60 MthsPlus Taxes, 7.35% for 60 Mths
Heated leather. Only 21,000 kms.Heated leather. Only 21,000 kms. 5 Available5 Available
1@$35,888**1@$35,888**$227*$227* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 6.99% for 96 MthsPlus Taxes, 6.99% for 96 Mths
16’ cube, A/C, ramp with 26,000km.16’ cube, A/C, ramp with 26,000km. PR3365PR3365
$29,888**$210* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 84 Mths
ABS breaks, remote entry, rear wiper,ABS breaks, remote entry, rear wiper, 54,031km! US1616A54,031km! US1616A
$17,488**$124* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 6.99% for 84 Mths
V8, power windows and locks, stepV8, power windows and locks, step bars, with 18,000km! P-3546Abars, with 18,000km! P-3546A
$22,888**$22,888**$161*$161* Bi-weeklyBi-weeklyPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 84 MthsPlus Taxes, 7.09% for 84 Mths
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4 dr, 5 spd, a/c, only 64,000 kms
$6,995*$6,995*INC FREE winter tires and rims or $65** biweekly + taxes 6.9% for 72 months
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