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HAUNTED BLOSSOM PARKGrade 8 undead bride Asma Ahmed and her evil groom have been indulging in killing sprees for over 100 years from the library of Blossom Park Public School on Sixth Street off Bank Street in Ottawa South. The school’s intermediate classes, along with lots of help from teachers and school board representatives, spent a week turning the school’s large library into a labyrinth of horror for the entire school to enjoy on Halloween day. For more Halloween photos, please turn to page 12.
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The Airport Parkway’s pedestrian bridge is going nowhere fast, with construction several months behind because of poor weather and demanding designs.
By the end of October, the multiuse-path-way bridge should have already spanned the Airport Parkway between Cahill Drive West and the South Keys plaza, allowing pedestrians and cyclists safe passage to the plaza, O-Train and Sawmill Creek board-walk throughout the winter before fi nal touches were applied in the spring.
Instead, the unfi nished A-frame sup-port for the innovative cable-stayed bridge stands at the side of the road, and no bridge deck has been put in place.
City of Ottawa project manager Jeffrey Waara said the delays came from prolonged design discussions with the rebar manufac-turers, who supply the all-important support structures that keep the bridge upright.
“This is a very complicated structure. The manufacturing of the rebar has taken longer than anticipated. There have been a lot of technical solutions to look at,” he said.
Weeks of back and forth between manu-facturers and the city ate up time as they tried to decide which type of rebar would best suit the unique design. “Ultimately the rebar manufacturers are the experts. It’s more just discussion to best execute the de-sign,” Waara said.
Wet weather was also a factor, according to River Ward Coun. Maria McRae, who has championed this project for several years after a pedestrian was killed attempting to cross the busy road.
“The rain (in September and October) had prevented the contractor from install-ing the special rebar, the green stuff, which is epoxy coated. They couldn’t be up there working on it when it was raining, and also the crews are restricted when they’re work-ing on that,” McRae said.
The special green rebar must also be shaped and bent into formation before it can be coated, which means that if designs have to be re-jigged even slightly the rebar must be redone offsite.
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LAURA MUELLER
Scrapping annual and se-mester passes and hiking the U-pass rate for university and college students are part of a plan to restructure OC Transpo fares in 2012.
Overall, transit fares would go up by 2.5 per cent next year, if the transit commission OKs the draft budget presented on Oct. 26.
Transit boss Alain Mercier said the new Presto passes ex-pected in the spring will do away with the need for annual passes, which were discounted as an incentive for people to front the cost of a year’s worth of passes to keep them out of the lengthy lines to top up monthly passes.
Annual passes only make up four per cent of the passes OC Transpo sells, Mercier said.
The new fare structure also scraps semester passes and makes the annual U-pass per-manent – along with a far hike. Those passes will cost univer-sity students $180 per semester ($360 per year), up from $290 for the year in 2011-12.
After a year of testing out
the U-pass, OC Transpo decid-ed the increased rate will cover the cost of providing that pass, Mercier said.
The U-pass is incorporated into tuition for all university students – whether they use it
or not.The suggested fare for
the new, fl at-rate rural Para Transpo service is $8.25 in the draft budget.
The draft budget also con-tains an extra $5.5 million to
add 66,000 annual hours of ser-vice to keep pace with demand on the system.
Diane Deans, transit com-mission chair and councillor for Gloucester-Southgate, said that money is needed to keep
up with ridership growth – not to make up for cuts made this September to help save $20 mil-lion a year.
The number of buses in Ot-tawa will go down next year – from 1,023 to 990 – but that’s because OC Transpo will have more large, high-capacity bus-es.
Some of those buses will be double deckers, but the city will have to wait a bit longer before those arrive. There were three spots where overpasses were going to have to be altered so the taller buses could fi t through, but the bus supplier designed a new, “low-profi le” double decker that will fi t.
But the process of designing a new type of bus is delaying production, so the double deck-ers won’t begin to arrive until later in 2012.
Next year will also mark the start of a project to add pass-ing tracks to the O-Train to in-crease service. Trains will run every eight minutes instead of every 15.
By the end of 2012, the city will also have 480 new park-and-ride spaces – 100 at the new Scotiabank Place park-and-ride and 380 at Trim Road.
File photoOC Transpo plans to re-jig its fare structure – including elminating annual passes – in 2012 as it prepares to introduce Presto smart cards to replaces passes.
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GOOD LUCK FUNDRAISEROsgoode teen Megan Swift watches as friend and partner Kait Moore writes out the latest fundraising installment for the Women’s Breast Health Centre at the Ottawa Hos-pital. the two girls have raised about $10,600 for the centre by making and selling good luck spiders, small beaded spiders that can bring different kinds of luck and good for-tune. The girls sell their spiders as well as handmade earrings, angel pendants and other unique items at the Metcalfe Fair throughout the summer, and take custom orders on-line. The latest cheque presented on Friday, Oct. 28 was for $4, 438.34.
CLOCKS GO BACK THIS SUNDAY MORNING
This weekend marks the end of day-light time and Ottawa residents are re-minded to turn their clocks back before they go to bed on Saturday, Nov. 5.
The time offi cially gets turned back by one hour to standard time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6.
Daylight time begins on the second Sunday in March and lasts until the fi rst Sunday in November. The start of daylight time was moved back by three weeks while the end was moved for-ward by one week starting in 2006 when legislation was passed to that effect by Parliament to keep Canada’s time pat-tern consistent with that in the United States.
LAURA MUELLER
Ottawa’s planning process is broken, and 2012 is the year to fi x it.
That was the message Mayor Jim Wat-son delivered in his speech launching the city’s draft budget for the upcoming year.
Between his positive messages about the city’s investments, Watson struck a serious tone when speaking about growth and development.
“Our planning process is not work-ing the way we need it to work,” he said. “Nobody is happy with the situation. Communities are frustrated. Industry is frustrated. Staff are frustrated.”
Watson said there needs to be “a re-newed focus and energy to create a ser-vice culture in planning.”
Developments are one of the most common issues residents and politi-cians spar over at city hall, but Watson said the days of developers and builders treating zoning and community design plans as “mere suggestions” are over.
The mayor put developers on notice that the urban design review panel, a group of independent experts that
makes suggestions on major urban projects, is here to stay. The city plans to fi nalize updated guidelines for infi ll homes next year – a process that started last fall.
Hosting a planning summit in 2012 will also set the stage to kick off the review for the 2014 offi cial plan update, as well as a refresh of two of the city’s major foundational documents: the transportation master plan and the in-frastructure master plan.
The city also plans to create a “green express lane” for developers whose building plans strive for greater envi-ronmental sustainability.
Developers that include “better build” techniques, such as solar water heaters, solar panels, rainwater re-use, recycled materials and reduced waste, will get their proposals fast-tracked.
Other environmental initiatives in the 2012 draft budget include: $2.4 million toward to pay for retrofi ts to city build-ings to reduce energy costs; $450,000 for the city’s operational sustainability program and create a neighbourhood sustainability program; and $750,000 to-wards the ongoing task of developing a fi ve-year environmental strategy.
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From BRIDGE on page 1Furthermore, the fussy design
demands utmost accuracy. “It is a very thin structure, so
we do have very specifi c sized steel and it has to be placed with almost surgical accuracy, very precise. It’s not a standard over-pass,” Waara said.
The design features a city of Ottawa logo-inspired “O” in the tower, which is also diffi cult to construct.
Waara said construction will stop over the winter because they don’t want to pour concrete in the cold weather, which will push the project back several more months.
The bridge should be complete in June 2012, a full eight months after it was pegged to be open to
pedestrians. McRae said she supports
stopping the construction for the winter, especially since the bridge is meant to improve safe-ty for residents in the area.
“Nobody’s in a rush to get this done the wrong way. Anything that has to do with safety and the longevity of the project of course I’m going to support,” she said. “I’m defi nitely disappointed that this delay seems forced on us, but on the other hand I’m not go-ing to second guess engineers.”
She noted that she was dis-appointed in the lack of com-munication between city staff, project leaders and politicians, but she’s pleased that at least the delay will not cost the city extra money. The construction com-
pany will absorb the cost of the delays.
When fi nished, the approxi-mately $5 million pedestrian bridge will be a state-of-the-art piece of architecture, designed in part to provide a ‘wow fac-tor’ for visitors entering the city from the Ottawa International Airport.
John Sankey, president of the Hunt Club Community Organi-zation and a retired engineer, said he understands the neces-sity of the delays.
“Fundamentally this is a very leading-edge design in just about every aspect. And when you push things some things get pushed back,” he said. Despite the de-lays, Sankey said the bridge will be worth it in the end.
“It is going to be a stand out structure to any engineer that sees it. They’re going to say,
‘How the hell did they do that?’ It will look remarkable, because it is remarkable,” he said.
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LAURA MUELLER
Ottawa will be overhauling many more of its roads in 2012 in preparation for traffi c snarls that are expected during the construction of the city’s light rail system.
The city revealed its draft budget for next year on Oct. 26, and with it Mayor Jim Wat-son announced a new initiative called “Ottawa on the Move”: a $340-million program that will rebuild and resurface a lengthy list of roads across the city.
Much of that money is com-ing from new debt in order to keep the residential tax-rate increase to 2.39 per cent – below the 2.5 per cent limit council im-posed last year.
That translates to about an
extra $75 per year for the aver-age urban homeowner.
City treasurer Marian Simu-lik said the additional projects are needed to ensure Ottawa’s roads can handle traffi c disrup-tions during the construction of the central LRT system start-ing in 2013, and to stimulate the economy.
Ottawa on the Move includes resurfacing more than 200 kilo-metres of roads between 2012 and 2014.
That includes more than 70 kilometres of bicycle lanes and paved shoulders – part of a large investment in cycling in-frastructure. The city plans to spend $24 million on cycling in-frastructure alone over the next three years – including a plan to connect Vanier through the downtown core to Westboro with
an east-west “bikeway,” by “fi ll-ing in critical missing links” in the bike-pathway network and using existing cycling facilities such as the Corktown Bridge and new lanes and bridges.
A pedestrian bridge over the Rideau River at Somerset and Donald streets in Overbrook is part of that, and there is money in the 2012 budget for the design.
The Champagne/O-Train cor-ridor pathway connecting Car-ling Avenue to the Ottawa River Parkway is also on the list (a key portion of that trail – a pathway under Somerset Street West – was constructed this year).
Cycling lanes will also be add-ed to the McIlraith Bridge con-necting Main Street and Smyth Road over Riverside Drive and the Rideau River, along with ex-tensive repairs. Billings Bridge will be fi xed and Heron Road Bridge rehabilitation will also be fi nished.
Pedestrians weren’t forgotten in the 2012 budget. After several
years of only improving side-walks when roads are rebuilt, the city will spend $4 million over the next three years on sidewalks alone.
Again, the central area will see the bulk of that benefi t with a smattering of sidewalks to be fi xed, including: Bruyere Street (Sussex to Dalhousie), Cathcart Street (Sussex to Dalhousie), Range Road (Laurier to Somer-set), Waller Street (Besserer to Daly), Cooper Street (Cartier to Queen Elizabeth Drive), Drum-mond Street (form the dead end to Clegg) and several more.
Traffi c cameras are planned to be added around the city, includ-ing intersections at Bronson and Sunnyside avenues at Carleton University and at O’Connor and Catherine streets.
As for roadways, Bronson Av-enue is back on the list for re-building.
Other road projects in the central area:
• St. Patrick Street from Mur-
ray Street to west of Beausoleil Drive
• Mackenzie Avenue from Murray to north of Rideau Street
• Albert Street from Bay Street to Bronson
• O’Connor from Isabella to Somerset
• Slater Street from Bronson to Elgin Street
• Walkley from Russell to the CNR overpass
• Dauphin Road from Haig Drive to Smyth
• Haig from Dauphin to Cork Street
• Baycrest Drive from Heron Road to Sandalwood Drive
• Kilborn Avenue from Bank to Kilborn Place
The draft budget includes money for design work for the Sawmill Creek/LRT Corridor Pathway that will run from Walkley to Brookfi eld Pathway, creating a multi-use pathway linking Hunt Club Drive to Hog’s Back and Mooney’s Bay.
$12-million for cycling in city’s draft budgetBike lanes part of $240-million
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LAURA MUELLER
The Manotick community policing centre – and other Ottawa CPCs – could be on the move.
Mayor Jim Watson has asked the Otta-wa police service to keep an eye open for a new location for the Manotick CPC in particular, due to a steep increase in the rent for the current space at 1131 Clapp Ln.
Meanwhile, in other areas of the city, some landlords are providing free space for community police centres.
A new lease for the Manotick CPC, which the police services board approved on Oct. 24, would see the rent increase by six per cent each year, rising from $49,239
in the fi rst year to $62,163 in the fi fth year of the contract.
The Manotick offi ce has been in that lo-cation for 15 years and it’s the only space that’s really appropriate for a communi-ty policing centre in that area, said Ian Fisher, the director of police facilities.
But that seems to have made the build-ing’s landlord overconfi dent, Watson said, because the latest lease renewal includes a steep six per cent hike in the rent for each year of the fi ve-year lease renewal.
“Sometimes when people see the gov-ernment coming, they think ‘bottomless pit,’” Watson said.
But in other areas of the city, includ-ing the Ottawa south CPC at 2870 Ce-darwood Dr., landlords provide space at
no cost. That’s an agreement the city has had with Minto Group for about a dozen years for three buildings it owned. TransGlobe Realty is continuing the same tradition for the Cedarview building it recently took over from Minto.
The mayor asked police Chief Vern White to check out some other options, including city-owned buildings that aren’t in use, such as some of the spaces at Watson’s Mill, and even places such as Legion halls.
The lease can be broken with 90 days notice, so if the police fi nd a better deal, the Manotick CPC could move.
Community police centre rent hike irks mayor
LAURA MUELLER
The Ottawa Police Service had no trou-ble staying within the budget increase limit imposed on it by city council.
The police service introduced a draft budget for 2012 on Oct. 26 that would see an increase of $9.3 million over 2011. But with tax assessment expected to grow by $4.1 million, the police will only need an addition $5.2 million, or 2.5 per cent, to meet their budget goal.
“It’s always a challenge to meet a target,” said police board chair Eli El-Chantiry. “This is something we can work with.”
The increase amounts to about $13 per year for an average household, accord-
ing to a police press release.The police expect to spend $270.3 mil-
lion on the gross operating budget and $10.7 million on capital projects.
The process was much smoother than last year, when the police service was forced to cut $6 million from the draft budget it planned to present after coun-cil decided to impose the 2.5 per cent in-crease limit.
That meant the planned Ottawa South police station near the Strandherd-Arm-strong Bridge was delayed indefi nitely. It won’t be looked at again until after 2014.
The cutbacks also meant the police service will curb growth by only hiring offi cers to replace those who are retiring – not to grow the size of the service.
Ottawa police budget stays on target
File photoThe draft 2012 budget for the Ottawa Police Service is on track to stay within the limit of 2.5 per cent city council set.
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Osgoode Public School is asking area residents to take a load off by donating their abandoned e-junk, in an effort to fundraise for the school, de-clutter base-ments and save the environment.
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, residents from across the region can bring their broken, outdated or obsolete elec-tronics to the parking lot of the Osgoode Foodland on Osgoode Main Street.
For every tonne of electronic waste col-lected the school will earn $185 toward fi eld trips, books, classroom supplies, new technology and even a new information sign outside.
Just about any piece of broken or un-wanted electronic item can be dropped off except for microwaves and other kitchen appliances. The school’s parent council, which organized the event, will even orga-nize a pick-up around 10 a.m. on Saturday morning for those who can’t make it to the
event or can’t lift their items. Anne Duquette is on the parent council
executive and said the event promises to be a win-win situation.
“The service is to the residents, and we’re not asking them for money. Environ-mentally it’s a great thing, and it brings awareness so next time people won’t just put (electronic waste) in their garbage can,” she said. It also gives the school a leg up with extra funds to buy additional school supplies.
Recycle Your Electronics is the e-waste diverter run by the Ontario Electronic Stewardship, which is responsible for col-lecting and processing e-waste from fund-raisers as well as businesses that collect year-round.
Recyclers break each item down into glass, metal and plastic to be recycled or reused, and toxic chemicals like mercury are disposed of properly.
For more information call Duquette at 613-826-1018 or visit www.recycleyourelec-tronics.ca.
E-waste collection day for Osgoode
EMMA JACKSON
Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod will fi ll the senior position of education critic in the Progressive Conservative shadow cabinet at Queen’s Park during the coming minority parliament.
MacLeod previously served as the PC critic for government accountability.
“I’m not just an MPP, I’m a mother to a child in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. Education is very im-portant to me and to all parents across the province,” McLeod said. “Children spend a large part of their early life in the classroom, so we want to make sure that experience is positive. We want to be sure it’s a safe experience with pro-ductive outcomes.”
MacLeod said she has requested a briefi ng from the ministry of educa-tion, and said she is getting familiar with the issues.
She said her new role will give her more opportunity to fi ght for schools in her home riding of Nepean-Carleton, where Findlay Creek, Riverside South and Barrhaven are all lacking adequate school infrastructure for their growing communities.
“One way I’ll be able to help is dealing
with the fact that we are a high growth board and community, and we need to make sure growth school boards are receiving adequate funding to keep up with the growth,” she said.
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee for the area Mark Fisher said MacLeod will be an asset to the riding’s cause to bring more school funding into the area.
“I’m certainly looking forward to working with her, she’s certainly aware of the issues in Findlay Creek, Riv-erside South and Barrhaven. I think the awareness she has around those issues can only help as we work with the Ontario government to get funding secured in the short term rather than the long term,” Fisher said.
MacLeod has also met with school board trustees, area MPPs and the mi-nority Liberal government on an anti-bullying initiative. She’s working with Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley, who just lost his son to suicide, on another anti-bullying project and has been in talks with mixed martial arts fi ghter Daniel Puder to see if his California-based anti-bullying program could work in Ontario.
“What we need to do is fi nd out what’s working and help our schools and our principals, make sure kids can cope with this issue, and also make it socially unacceptable to watch bul-lying happen and not reporting it,” McLeod said.
MacLeod was fi rst elected in a 2006 byelection and subsequently re-elected in 2007 and 2011. She is a mother of a six-year-old Ottawa-Carleton District School Board student.
MacLeod named education critic
File photoNepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod has been named the education critic.
The repaving of Parkway Road has be-gun, but the project has been upgraded to a two-phase project stretching into 2012 because of unforeseen complications.
According to Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson, the repaving of Parkway Road between Bank Street and 8th Line Road was to cost $2.5 million and be completed in one phase by the end of 2011.
However the road base was in unexpect-edly poor condition, meaning that entire sections of the road will have to be re-
moved and rebuilt. This has increased the project’s cost to $4 million and has divided the work into two phases.
The fi rst phase will be fi nished by the end of 2011, and will cost $1.5 million. The second phase in 2012 will include the re-construction from John Quinn Road to 8th Line Road at a cost of $2.5 million.
Parkway Road from Sale Barn Road to John Quinn Road will be closed until Nov. 25 to facilitate a quicker completion of the section.
Parkway Road repaving delayed
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Photo by Geoff DaviesGovernor General Award winner Kim Pate talks to students about misconceptions surrounding Canada’s prison system.
GEOFF DAVIES
Standing before a crowd of students on the morn-ing of Oct. 19, passing around the medal Gov. Gen. David Johnston had given her the day before, Kim Pate was struck by the signifi cance of the date.
Her Governor General’s Award was one of six given to commemorate Persons Day, Oct. 18, the day a Supreme Court victory made women legal “persons” and opened to them the doors of public offi ce.
But, for Pate, Oct. 19 held a more solemn mean-ing.
That day marked the fourth anniversary of the death of Ashley Smith, she told students at Bar-rhaven’s John McCrae Secondary School.
The troubled 19-year-old choked herself to death in a federal prison in Kitchener, Ont., while being held in isolation.
The Moncton, N.B., teenager had a six-year sen-tence and more than 180 charges to her name, many of them stemming from repeated strip searches which she was accused of resisting, Pate told the students.
But it was a breach of probation that fi rst landed her in prison, she said: for throwing crab apples at a postal worker.
“Part of the reason we do what we do is because we don’t think young people should end up in pris-on,” Pate said.
For nearly 20 years, the Ottawa resident has served as the executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies.
The Governor General’s award celebrated her work as an “internationally-recognized advocate for marginalized, victimized and criminalized women.”
Pate used her podium Wednesday morning to ed-ucate students on some misconceptions surround-ing the Canadian prison system.
Women, she noted to some surprise, are the fast-est growing prison population in Canada.
The federal government’s omnibus crime bill, she said, will worsen the problems facing the pris-on system, without making the streets any safer.
With overcrowding is already a signifi cant issue, the bill fl ies in the face of evidence that more would be achieved giving inmates better support, rather than longer sentences, she said.
“Imagine being in a space the size of most peo-ple’s bathroom with three other people,” Pate chal-lenged the teens. “Canada has had a history of some of the best conditions, but now we’re using gymnasiums.”
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EMMA JACKSON
An Ottawa construction crew had a scarier Halloween than they bar-gained for on Monday, Oct. 31 when they discovered human remains in the backyard of a townhouse unit on Heatherington Road.
Ottawa police are investigating the remains and why they would be bur-ied in a residential backyard.
The human remains have “most likely been there for a number of years” according to the city coroner, but police don’t have an estimate as to how long.
“It’s going to have to be analyzed before we can know that,” said police spokesperson Marc Soucy.
An archeological team has been called in to help exhume the remains, which Soucy said would be complete by the end of Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Ottawa Police Service Ma-jor Crime Section at 613-236-1222 ext 5493 or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477 (TIPS) or toll free at 1-800-222-8477.
Human remains found in Heatherington Road backyard
Photo by Emma JacksonPolice were called to a townhouse on Heatherington Road after human remains were found in the backyard on Monday, Oct. 31.
A man in his 50s was taken to hos-pital with hypothermia on Saturday, Oct. 29 after his aluminium boat cap-sized at the Greely Sand and Gravel Pit.
The man spent about 20 minutes in the water after his boat capsized about 50 feet from shore while he was retrieving buoys from the private pond around 1 p.m.
He was able to hang on to the side of the boat while his friend called 911. He was not wearing a lifejacket.
Ottawa fi re services rescued the man using an infl atable water rescue boat and returned him to shore, where paramedics treated him for hypother-mia and took him to hospital.
Man rescued from capsized boat
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When someone gives us a new toy, it’s only natural to thank him. When someone gives millions of people new toys,
it’s only natural that the world thanks him. And that’s why you’re still read-ing, weeks after his death, tributes to the late Steve Jobs.
And who can say they’re not de-served? Although he didn’t accomplish it single-handedly, Jobs made comput-ing accessible to the average person. Be-fore the MacIntosh computer, you had to be a bit of a geek to function easily in the computer world. The Mac made that world more friendly, which is an impor-tant contribution, given the fact that the computer world is now the world.
Whether we like it or not. Many peo-ple don’t, but they’re stuck with it and having easy-to-use computers makes their lives more bearable.
However, it’s not the several genera-tions of Apple desktops and laptops that earned Steve Jobs the gratitude of mil-lions. Those weren’t the toys he gave us. No, the inspiration for all those heart-felt tributes was the creation of the iPod and the iPhone.
Those two small devices were, predictably, snapped up by early adopt-ers and, less predictably, by just about
everyone else. You can measure how signifi cant that was by thinking back to the year before the invention of the iPod and what you were doing then.
That was the year 2000. Your music was probably on CDs. If you wanted to listen to music while you went for your morning run, you had to carry a bulky portable disc player or, if you were a bit behind, laboriously transfer those discs to tape cassettes to be played on your Walkman.
Or, if you were one of those perhaps fortunate people untouched by technol-ogy, you listened to your CDs (or phono-graph records) at home and listened to the birds when you went outside.
If someone had told you, in the year 2000, that you would, within the year, be loading your CDs into the computer and then transferring songs onto a device
the size of a deck of playing cards, you wouldn’t have believed it. Now millions do it.
What a toy!It’s not all good. The advent of the
iPod and digitized music generally has caused a crisis in the music industry and made it more diffi cult for many musicians to earn a living. Fixated on their shiny toys, most people don’t seem to notice.
The impact of the iPhone is more visible. You see it in people on the street who never look up, people in restaurants who never speak to their partners, people who seemingly talk to themselves in shopping centres. You hear it in electronic noises that echo in theatres.
The upside is that people are connect-ed at all times. They need never be out of touch. They can talk to their friends from a forest. They can settle every argument by Googling the answer from the tavern. The offi ce can contact them at the church. From anywhere, they can get directions to the nearest phone store, in case there’s something newer.
The benefi t to humanity is diffi cult to measure, but no one who has the toy is going to give it up, or stop looking for the next one.
When you think about it, both these devices, the iPod and the iPhone, are things the world could quite easily get along without. That could be said of most toys. But what can’t be said about most toys is that the world economy now seems to consist of more and more companies trying to invent and market similar gadgets.
This, in a world that should really be spending its resources bringing fresh water to billions who need it, eradi-cating diseases such as malaria and creating affordable housing in every country of the world. The world has many pressing needs and builds better phones. Toys are us. That’s probably not what Steve had in mind.
Just what the world needs – more toys
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Budget a win for pedal power
Roads, transit, taxes, police: the intro-duction of a city budget is a deluge of information about the way our represen-tatives plan to spend our money this year.
But some things shine through brighter than others.
Amongst the splashy additions of road projects and congratulatory back-patting over keeping the tax increase under 2.5 per cent, Mayor Jim Wat-son boasted about a pretty hefty infl ux of cash for cycling.
Compared to the $2.8 million per year for cycling included in this council’s fi rst budget for 2011, the city is now set to invest $24 million in cycling over the next three years – including $12.2 million in 2012.
“We will be working hard to fi ll the gaps in our cycling network to improve interconnections and safety so you can get where you are going by bike,” Watson said in his speech top council when the draft budget was tabled on Oct. 26.
From paving shoulders to fi nishing the Cham-pagne pathway and constructing a pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Rideau River, the draft budget boasts a laundry list of projects to make
getting around the city easier on two wheels.It’s something cycling advocates say they are
heartened to hear on the lips of politicians.And unlike his predecessor, Larry O’Brien,
Watson isn’t reticent to hop on a bike himself.When it comes to city staff, politicians and
the National Capital Commission, there was no outspoken supporter for cycling until a trip to Copenhagen a couple of years ago, said Alex deVries, vice president of local advocacy group Citizens for Safe Cycling.
After that, “we could see very quickly a trans-formation on the part of politicians,” deVries said.
While the NCC and the city are often seen as being at loggerheads with each other, cycling is the one thing that appears to have brought them together.
City and NCC staff are working together on projects like the Wellington Street segregated bike lane, and there is a working group that in-cludes community members and meets quarterly.
And if the budget is a refl ection of what people – especially politicians – are thinking about, it’s going to be a good year for cyclists.
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My eldest son was playing Lego in the basement the other day. He was putting an addition on his solid
brick home.“Is that built to new energy-effi -
ciency code standards?” I asked. He looked at me, blankly.
If you’re thinking about undertak-ing a major renovation or building a new home this year, this is a ques-tion you’ll want to ask yourself and your contractor: Will your renovation meet the stringent new energy-effi -ciency standards outlined in the pro-vincial and federal building codes?
In Ontario, the Energuide 80 stan-dard, a complex energy-effi ciency ranking developed by National Re-sources Canada (NRCan) comes into effect on Dec. 31.
Once the upper echelon, “star” ranking of building, is now set to become the new baseline for building and renovating. It will force contrac-
tors to build to a 17 per cent higher energy-effi ciency rating than they are now.
Any province or territory that has not already addressed energy ef-fi ciency in its code is also expected to adopt the Energuide 80 standard into law by this time next year. That’s because the federal code – which acts as a national guideline for binding provincial legislation – is undergoing some mega-changes, which account for energy-effi ciency for the fi rst time.
“It’s the single biggest change we have ever introduced as an interim change in the national building code,” says Frank Lohmann, senior technical advisor on housing and small buildings at the National Re-search Council of Canada (NRC).
The good news is that you don’t have to install solar panels on the roof or compostable toilets to meet the new standards. But you’ll have to be willing to fork out some extra cash for better insulation in basements, attics and walls, along with high-effi -ciency heat recovery systems (HRVs), furnaces, windows and doors. In the long run, however, it’s expected you’ll see some hefty cost savings in your energy bill.
Raising the minimum standard bodes well for the future. In Ottawa, Corvinelli Homes just took home the
grand prize for the second year in a row at the Housing Design Awards held by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association on Oct. 22. Cornivelli’s 1,388-foot-square bunga-low, called the Napoli, built far above Energuide 80 standard, is expected to cost less than $150 per month in monthly energy costs.
Company president John Corniv-elli insists the added cost of build-ing materials to bring the Napoli up to such a high level of effi ciency is about three per cent over current standards, proving “you don’t have to be a tree-hugger to use less energy.”
If you’re renovating this year or next, now’s the time to get your head around green building. As an added incentive, the federal government recently reintroduced its popular EcoEnergy Retrofi t program. Until March 31, 2012, homeowners can have their houses inspected by an NRCan-certifi ed energy auditor and then undertake renovations to improve the energy-effi ciency of their homes. Grant-matching at the provincial level could help you save thousands of dollars toward window, furnace and insulation upgrades.
Kermit the Frog once said “it’s not easy being green,” but with today’s new building standards and incen-tives, it’s about to get a whole lot easier.
Going greenTHIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTIONWhat part of the 2012 draft budget has you most excited or outraged?
A) Plans to resurface more than 200 kilometres worth of roads by 2014.
B) Expanding the city’s system of cycling lanes and paved shoulders by 70 kilometres.
C) A commitment to fi x the planning system.
D) I’m angry that taxes are going up again.
LAST WEEK’S POLL SUMMARYOne year after being elected, what do you think is the most signifi cant achievement of the current city council?
A) Approving the construction of Ontario’s fi rst centrally-located segregated bike lane.
B) Reaching the fi rst negotiated contract with the city’s transit union since 2005.
C) Limiting the tax hike to 2.5 per cent.
D) Approving the city hall Rink of Dreams.
E) I think city council has yet to achieve anything worthy of praise.
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er pointed out the window and said to me (his eyes when his glasses aren’t handy), “What’s that in the middle of the fi eld? What’s that? Is that a coyote?” My eyes searched the view for what he was point-ing at. Suddenly it moved and came into focus. Camoufl aged perfectly against the sandy grass and rocky ground, a young coyote ambled across the fi eld.
Just two days earlier, a bold and bra-zen coyote came right into the barnyard and stole a fat lamb. The Farmer had been out hunting in the middle of the night but could not fi nd the thief. Now here it was, at cocktail hour. And the Farmer couldn’t fi nd his bullets.
The entire dinner party gathered at the porch window and yelled out the coyote’s movements as the Farmer ran upstairs and down, searching frantically for his bullets. I couldn’t help but think this wasn’t a recommended pre-dinner activity in any Martha Stewart or Good Housekeeping party guidebook.
Finally, the Farmer found his bullets, loaded his gun, located the coyote (who had waited patiently at the corner of the fi eld) and let ‘er rip. His shot was true. Moments later we had dinner guests pulling on boots to go and inspect the mangy mutt.
My husband the multi-tasker came in, washed his hands, served the veggies into the chafi ng dish on the buffet table and began carving the meat. And what was I doing all this time? Playing host-ess with the mostest, of course.
Earlier in the week I had done my share
of farming, I fi gure. I came home from a client meeting in Ottawa to a message on the phone from the neighbour: “Your sheep are on the road again. They have been in and out of the pasture all day.” Great. I took a shortcut through the fi eld and opened the big swing-gate to the pasture before heading out through the bush to the road. There were my sheep, in two different groups. One was head-ing up the hill to the neighbour’s house. The other was heading toward County Road 20. I emerged from the forest in the middle of them. I decided to get the ones headed for the highway fi rst.
I cut through the cornfi eld, headed them off on the road and managed to turn them back the way they came, waving my arms and making menacing growling sounds. I’m sure this activ-ity is most confusing to Gracie and the other sheep who know me as the bearer of good things such as sweet corn and apples. But they willingly headed off into the bush. Next, I ran down the road to get the other bunch. Just as I reached them, the neighbour’s dogs came off the porch, barking. My sheep turned tail and ran towards me, bleating in fear. I jumped into the ditch and let them pass, hot on the trail of the fi rst bunch of sheep. Now I had 100 sheep wander-ing through thorns and brambles in the forest. I could hear them complaining. I picked my way back through the bush into the fi eld and lured them through the gate very slowly, with a bucket of sweet corn. The last sheep came through just as Mocha the cow noticed the sweet corn in my hand and came bounding over, tossing her head and hips like a bull in the ring.
The sheep broke out three days in a row last week. They can see meadows and corn fi elds through weak fences and leafl ess trees now. I guess this kind of bad behaviour is to be expected until snow covers the ground and sweet hay fi lls the feeders.
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The Farmer had been cooking for more than two hours. A farm-raised chicken and roast
of beef sat side-by-side in the oven. My husband ran upstairs, took a shower and emerged well-dressed and refreshed as our fi rst dinner guests arrived. He poured them each a glass of wine and we all retired to the porch to watch the sheep come in from the pasture on their di-agonal, well-beaten path.
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Findlay Creek residents are invited to the community association’s annual gen-eral meeting on Monday, Nov. 7 to discuss issues in the growing Ottawa South com-munity.
Guest speakers at the evening event will include Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, Ottawa police chief Vern White, South Nation Conservation Authority representative Katherine Wat-son, Taggart spokesperson Jeff Parkes and local school trustee Mark Fisher.
Issues to discuss include roads and
transportation, bringing an elementary school to the neighbourhood, and new de-velopments. The association will also of-fer updates on the central park currently under construction as well as issues of safety and security in the community.
The meeting is open to all community association members, and those who are not members can purchase one between 6:30 and 7 p.m. before the event begins at 7 p.m. in the Lions Hall of the Fred Barrett Arena on Leitrim Road.
For more information visit www.fi nd-laycreek.ca or email president@fi ndlay-creek.org.
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Tudor Hall in Ottawa South will live up to its royal name this weekend when Queen Elizabeth II’s executive chef, Mi-chael Dunn, takes the stage as guest speaker at the ninth annual Bone China Tea for osteoporosis.
This Sunday, Nov. 6 guests can enjoy high tea with a twist: the event will in-clude a traditional tea service but also a catered luncheon, a live auction and a chance to hear an insider’s stories about the royal family.
“For 16 years he was executive chef to the royal family, to Queen Elizabeth and the other folks. He now lives in Canada and has won many awards,” explained Jack Fraser, who volunteers with the Ot-tawa chapter of Osteoporosis Canada and helped promote the event.
High-profi le defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon will serve as the event’s live auctioneer for the second year in a row, offering up exciting prizes like golf pack-ages, Ottawa Senators box seat tickets, a week at a Whistler, British Columbia chalet and brunch with celebrity sisters Grete Hale and Gay Cook at their 183-year-old home in Hintonburg.
Tickets are $50 and money will be given to the charity’s Ottawa chapter, which provides support groups for those living with the disease and spreads awareness about preventing and mitigating symp-toms.
November is Osteoporosis Month in Canada. Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time, which can lead to painful fractures and breaks during a minor fall or even ev-eryday activities. The disease affects one
in four women and at least one in 10 men over the age of 50 in Canada.
Although treatable, there is no cure for osteoporosis. Evidence shows that com-plications from this disease are some of the main reasons many Canadians are forced to reside in nursing homes and long term care facilities.
“More and more people who have osteo-porosis have a fall, and when they have a fall often over half have to be confi ned to a nursing home or full care at home. So that’s what worries all of us and why it’s important to hold onto our bone health,” Fraser said.
Fraser’s wife Merle, who was diagnosed with osteoporosis in her spine when she was in her 40s, said Canadians are getting the disease at younger ages because young people aren’t consuming enough calcium to build up good bone while they can.
“The concern now with young people is the girls have built their bone mass by 16 or 18, and the boys by age 20. If they haven’t been practicing good nutrition and exercising, they’re not off to a good start,” she said.
She noted that osteoporosis is highly genetic, which means that good nutrition and exercise can’t prevent or mitigate the disease completely. However they are im-portant to keeping those with the disease strong so that they have a better chance of withstanding a fall.
The Bone China Tea with a Twist Buf-fet Luncheon will be held on Sunday, Nov. 6 from noon to 3 p.m. at Tudor Hall, 3750 North Bowesville Rd. off Uplands Drive.
A partial tax receipt will be provided for the price of the ticket. Reservations are required and can be made by phone at 613-829-8819 or by email at [email protected].
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STEVE AND GERRI:Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches offi cially opened the Rideauview Com-munity Centre’s new Well Baby drop-in clinic for infants aged zero to three months on Friday, Oct. 28. Gerri the Giraffe, new parents and kids from the nearby Global Child Care facility stopped in to ring in the new program, which will make public health nurses avail-able for new parents who have questions about their infant. The drop-in clinic is the 10th of its kind in the city, and will run from 9:30 to 11 a.m. every Friday at the centre on Spratt Road in Riverside South. For more information visit ottawa.ca/health
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Photo by Eddie RwemaMayor Jim Watson greets young trick-or-treaters at the mayor’s fi fth-annual Halloween party in support of the Baby Food Cupboard, held Saturday, Oct. 29.
HALLOWEEN HAUNTLittle kids weren’t the only Ottawa resi-dents getting into the spirit of Halloween last week. Politicians were dressed up for the occasion, and schools across the city hosted haunted houses, led costume pa-rades and celebrated with festive treats. Many parents donned masks, funny hats and capes as they accompanied their chil-dren through the streets of Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 31 to collect pillowcases full of candy. The weather was perfect for trick or treating: clear skies and a balmy eight degrees was a vast improvement over 2010’s record snowfall on Halloween day.
Photo by Eddie RwemaGhouls, ghosts and zombies greeted guests at the mayor’s Halloween party.
Photo by Emma JacksonDead zombie Joshua Davis didn’t quite make it into the haunted house beyond, which was organized by Steve Maclean Public School’s Grade 5 class the week before Halloween.
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Osgoode’s community theatre group will treat villagers to a sordid romp through matters of the heart this November, as it presents My Darling Judith for one weekend only.
The Isle in the River Review’s newest production has only four cast members who play a group of interconnected and romanti-cally involved adults embroiled in a complicated love square for the ages.
My Darling Judith tells the story of a philandering, ly-ing, cheating husband who has grown tired of his eccentric wife. He contrives to unload her onto one of his employees so he can start a new life with his sexy young mistress, Anna. A mature comedy ensues that director John Orton said is uni-versal.
“What I like about (playwright Norm) Foster is his wit and hu-mour,” said Orton. “He makes people think but also laugh. It’s not slapstick, it’s true to life hu-mour that everybody can iden-tify with.”
Orton said the relationships that form and fl ounder on stage are familiar to the audience no matter what stage of life they’re in.
“No matter where you are in life, you’ll get it. The audience gets both the man’s point of view and the woman’s and it’s a laugh a minute. It’s not vulgar at all, but there’s a bedroom con-versation, for instance, that ev-
eryone would identify with and maybe learn from.”
Due to a last minute casting change, ITR will only run its annual fall production on one weekend this year, starting Thursday, Nov. 3 and ending
Sunday, Nov. 6, with the ever-popular dinner theatre on Sat-urday night.
The group’s Sunday matinee has also undergone changes, with an afternoon of compli-mentary sandwiches and tea for
the group’s large patronage of senior citizens.
“The afternoon shows tend to draw out our senior citizens and we’re hoping to appeal to them by offering the dainties as a spe-cial treat for their patronage,” Orton said.
On top of changes to the schedule, patrons can now re-serve tickets online by phone.
ITR will be collecting dona-tions for the Break a Leg Bur-sary, which ITR offers to gradu-ating students from St. Mark’s High School and Osgoode Town-ship High School who are going on to study theatrical arts at a Canadian post-secondary insti-tution. The bursaries are award-ed in the spring to one qualifi ed applicant per school. Students may apply online.
My Darling Judith runs Nov. 3 and 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults or $13 for students or seniors. The dinner theatre performance is Saturday, Nov. 5, with the bar opening at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30. Tickets for dinner theatre are $45 in ad-vance only. To reserve tickets, call 613-860-1291 or reserve on-line at www.itrtheatercompany.com.
Photo by Gord HawkeCast members Davis Jermacans, left, Andrea McCleary, Bill Steele and Judy Beltzner make up the sordid love square on stage this weekend as Isle in the River Review presents My Darling Judith.
Osgoode theatre presents My Darling Judith
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By Jason DelongSTAFF WRITERClean out your attics, closets and lock boxes, because the Treasu re Hun te r s Roadshow i s coming to Kemptville. Roadshow specialists are in town examin-ing gold and silver jewellery, old coins and more. While the Roadshow will accept anything that’s old and valuable, they will be focusing on: gold and silver coins made before 1968, U.S. coins made before l970, military items, fine art, musical instruments, pocket and wrist watches. Scrap gold is expected to be a popular category this week due to soaring gold prices. Buyers for the Roadshow have noticed a tremendous increase in the amount of gold coming to the shows, and for good reason. Record gold prices have Roadshow guests cashing in on broken or outdated jewellery with our fair and honest purchase offers. The Roadshow encourages anyone planning a visit to take a minute and examine their jewellery box or their lock box at the bank and gather anything that is gold. If a guest is not sure if something is gold, bring it anyway and the Roadshow staff will test it for free. Other gold items of interest include gold coins, gold ounces, gold proof sets and dental gold.
Other types of items Roadshow specialists hope to see include vintage guitars. Ryan Krushas, one of the Roadshow’s instrument specialists, spoke about some of the top guitars getting great offers. “Old Gibsons and Fenders are in big demand right now,” said Krushas, “vintage amps too. We also buy violins, mandolins, woodwinds – if it plays it pays!” Timepiece specialist Jeff
Ford adds, “Watches are hot! We recently paid over $2,500 for an old Hamilton pocket watch. And we are buying all types of high-end wrist watches too. Brands like Rolex, Tiffany and Chopard are very desirable to collectors. And the finest Swiss timepiece in the world, Patek Philippe, just earned a happy seller $42,000.” When specialist Tom Fuller was asked what he en-joyed most about working at the Roadshow, he was quick to answer, “Old coins and paper currency — for as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with
collecting coins. I would go through the change in my parents’ grocery store, looking for rare dates and errors. Once, I found a silver quarter that I sold for $300. Not bad for an 8 year old.” Fuller went on to explain that coins made before 1968 are the most sought after by collectors. U.S. coins made before 1965 are 90% silver. Coins can be valu-able because of either the silver content or even more valuable if one happens to be a rare date. Fuller ex-plained, “We help people sort through their coins for unique dates. We buy all types of coins at the Roadshow — from wheat pennies to buffalo nickels, and from single coins to entire truckloads. See you at the Roadshow.”
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Carleton University’s quidditch team sailed through to the fi nals of the Canadian Quidditch Cup unbeaten, but failed to avoid a defeat against Ca-nadian champions McGill University.
McGill maintained its title as Can-ada’s top-ranked quidditch team after dominating Canada’s fi rst-ever offi -cial quidditch tournament. Carleton played host to the fi rst Canadian Quidditch Cup on Saturday, Oct. 29, with teams from seven Canadian uni-versities as well as one from the U.S., St. Lawrence University.
Originally a fi ctional sport from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, quidditch was modifi ed into “ground quidditch” or “muggle quidditch” for
play in the real world. The sport is a fast-paced combina-
tion of rugby, soccer and volleyball, and involves the prominent use of broomsticks.
Matches are played between two teams of seven players riding broom-sticks, using four balls and six elevat-ed ring-shaped goals, three at each end of the quidditch fi eld.
“Three chasers on each team throw a volleyball back and forth between themselves as they attempt to score on one of three goal hoops on the oth-er side of the fi eld,” said Andrea Hill, founder and captain of Carleton’s team.
Each goal is worth 10 points. The hoops are guarded by a keeper who acts as a goalie.
McGill defeated host Carleton in the
fi nal by a score of 160-80 after what or-ganizers called a hard-fought game.
“Our team is quite strong, we are doing quite well,” said Hill.
The University of Ottawa placed third after falling 100-10 to Carleton University in the semifi nals.
St. Lawrence University walked away with the tournament’s sports-manship award.
The game, which is relatively new in Canada, is slowly taking universi-ties across the country by storm.
Carleton’s quidditch team was founded last year and more than 60 students are now involved with the team.
“In general people are enjoying the game,” Hill said.
The real-life version of quidditch was created by students at Middle-
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A little mid-game line juggling by the Ottawa Jr. Senators was enough to shake up the team’s fortunes to the tune of a 3-1 win over the Kemptville 73’s at the Jim Durrell Complex on Oct. 26.
Down 1-0 after a fi rst period that saw the 73’s play a physical, pressing game that limited the Jr. Sens scoring oppor-tunities, head coach Rick Dorval split up his top line of Conor Brown, Drew An-derson and Devon Rice, who had notched a combined 80 points heading into the game. The move helped energize the home team, who went on to score two goals in the fi rst 10 minutes of the sec-ond period.
Dorval said he’d been mulling break-ing up the top line for a few games and it had been just the tonic to get past a stub-born Kemptville squad.
“It’s been a few games now (and in) the games I expect them (Brown, Anderson and Rice) to step up in and be leaders they haven’t,” he said. “I’ve given them a couple warnings and it was time for me to send them a message that ‘You know what? If you’re not going to play as a unit and be dominant as you should be, then
we’ll split you up.’”Brown was shifted to a line alongside
winger Ben Robillard and centre Joey House, while Anderson and Rice played with Matt Rosebrook.
The effect was almost immediate, with House scoring from Brown and Robil-lard just before the fi ve-minute mark and Rice and Anderson combining to set up defenceman Paul Landry for the game-winning goal at 8:42 in the second.
Robillard, who added an empty-net goal with only a fraction of a second on the clock in the third period, said Dorval’s move was a much needed change.
“I think him mixing up the lines made everyone try that much harder,” he said. “Things just weren’t working. We lost the last game to Smiths Falls and things weren’t going our way. And then in the fi rst period (tonight) it was the same thing. And then everyone started getting into gear, everyone was playing their roles.”
For Dorval, he was happy with the way the team responded in the second and third periods.
“Some of the kids saw that as an op-portunity and they picked up their game playing around those guys,” he said. “It really worked out. Would it work out al-
ways? Who knows, but in this situation tonight, it did.”
Eddie Zdolshek stopped 16 shots in net for the Jr. Senators, while Ryan Mulder turned aside 31 shots for the 73’s. De-fenceman Ross Scherma scored the lone goal for Kemptville.
Ottawa’s fortunes took another hit the following night on Oct. 27 in Cornwall however, when the Colts defeated the Jr. Sens 5-2. The defeat was Ottawa’s fourth in six games following a seven-game win-ning streak that started as Dorval was hired at the end of September.
The coach said the up and down nature of the Jr. Sens season so far was an indi-cation the team wasn’t always sticking to the game plan.
“Not much has changed. I think the ef-fort hasn’t been there in certain games,” Dorval said. “I’ve told some of the boys when things aren’t going well we’re try-ing to extend our shifts and do things out of the ordinary. I’ve told them we’ve got to forget about those (games).
“The games that we have to win, those are the games we have to step up and get it done, so when you go to the Cornwalls and the Pembrokes and the Brockvilles, if you happen to lose at least you aren’t losing as much ground. But these are the
games – the ones that we did lose (against Kanata, Cumberland and Smiths Falls), those are six points that we need to keep ground in the top end of the league.”
The Jr. Sens will have a chance to get back to winning ways against the Pem-broke Lumber Kings on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Jim Durrell Complex.
Jr. Sens change-up stymies 73’s
Photo by Matthew JayOttawa forward Ben Robillard drives past Kemptville’s Jesse Lussier towards the net during the Jr. Senators’ 3-1 win over the 73’s at the Jim Durrell Complex on Oct. 26.
Carleton loses to McGill in Quidditch Cupbury College in Vermont in 2005. At the time it was played by a group of friends on Sunday afternoons as an alternative to bocce ball.
Third-year Carleton student Kelly McKenzie said her team was using the tournament to prepare for the world championships later this month.
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Capital City FC’s fi rst season in the Ca-nadian Soccer League stopped one goal short of the ultimate dream as the Otta-wa club fell 1-0 to Toronto Croatia on the road this past weekend in the champion-ship fi nal.
“The players worked very hard,” said Capital City coach Shaun Harris, who be-lieved his team was the better side overall in the deciding game. “The ball just didn’t go in the back of the net for us – every-thing but.”
Hayden Fitzwilliams scored the match’s lone goal before the 20-minute mark for Toronto Croatia, who withstood City’s second-half attack that included a prime opportunity by Andre Manders in the late stages.
Missing from the Ottawa lineup was Mahir Hadziresic, who’d turned into a major offensive weapon after joining the club from overseas near the start of its 10-game unbeaten streak leading up to the fi nal.
“Something came up in training this week and he wasn’t available to the team,” said Harris, acknowledging that the forward who scored two goals in Cap-ital City’s 5-0 semifi nal victory over the Serbian White Eagles could have made an impact in the fi nal. “We just didn’t feel he was fi t to play.”
The defeat in the championship game put the wraps on Capital City’s remark-able fi rst year in the 14-team CSL, where
they went 15-4-7 to fi nish third in the regu-lar season standings before knocking off the Montreal Impact Academy and the Serbian White Eagles in the playoffs.
“I don’t think anyone but maybe our-selves internally within the organization felt that we were going to be as good as we were,” said Harris, who thanked club president Neil Malholtra, the club’s staff and the City of Ottawa for their help.
“We worked very hard to get where we were. It is unfortunate we came up a goal short, but our players worked very hard and the organization supported us very well.”
Harris also commended the local fans who made the trip down to the provincial capital for the fi nal.
“We probably had more supporters than the team from Toronto, so I thought that was absolutely terrifi c,” Harris said. “It showed an awful lot for our organiza-tion for how far we’ve come in just seven months.”
Although “no one wants to lose a cup fi nal,” it wasn’t too diffi cult for the club to fi nd the silver lining in the loss, know-ing that if they were able to come within a goal of a title in year one that fi ve or 10 years down the road, the possibilities are immense.
“We’ve defi nitely set the bar very, very high in our fi rst season,” Harris added. “We’ll build off this going forward and we’ll be a contender next year and hope-fully bring a championship back to the city.”
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WHO ARE WE?Metroland Media, Ottawa Division, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and 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 OPPORTUNITYWe are looking for New Business Acquisition Sales Representatives to sell the com-pany’s fastest growing product - Deals4U.ca This innovative program promotes local businesses to local consumers through a special “daily deal.” You’ll use your knowledge of what’s great about our city to develop and grow the local market by securing com-mitments from the most desirable local households, businesses, and services including restaurants, spas, nightclubs, retailers, theaters, tourism venues, and more. This position off ers salary (commensurate with experience) and generous commissions based on revenue, sales targets and company goals
WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO• Develop and cultivate leads using multiple sources including cold calling and door-to-
door prospecting• Continuously set up face-to-face meetings with qualifi ed prospects (15-20 appts. per
week) to present our marketing solutions• Generate compelling proposals for potential advertisers, demonstrating how our pro-
grams will meet their business needs • Explore and exhaust all possible leads to ensure that we don’t miss out on any oppor-
tunities• Maximize advertising revenues by acquiring prospect commitment• Address customer requests/concerns in a timely and appropriate manner, ensuring
superior client satisfaction at all times• Consistently meet and/or exceed monthly, quarterly and annual targets
ABOUT YOU• Proven track record as a hunter, exclusively focused on acquiring new clients and con-
verting new business leads• Previous sales experience, with preference given to those with digital advertising sales
experience• Top notch presentation/communication skills, with a natural ability to build positive
relationships with potential clients• Extensive knowledge of the local digital media/advertising landscape• Sound knowledge of sales and marketing practices• Highly skilled in all Microsoft Offi ce applications
STUFF THAT’S NOT ON A RESUME• Type-A personality, highly competitive, self-motivated and driven by results• A hunter mentality, with the confi dence and drive to excel at generating and closing
new business• Highly motivated by monetary incentives• Extremely ambitious with an outstanding work ethic and unprecedented drive for im-
mediate results• Energized by deadlines/pressure with a passion for exceeding targets• A believer in digital media, where it is today and where it’s going
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?• The opportunity to be part of a company at the cutting edge of the digital media industry• Ongoing development and opportunities for advancement• We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll get a comprehensive benefi ts package, including
3 weeks vacation and a group RRSP plan• The sky’s the limit; our uncapped commission plan provides unlimited earning potential• The opportunity to work with other talented and awesome people
Looking for your next career challenge? If so, Metroland Media Group is the place to be!
Interested candidates are requested to forward their resume, cover letter and salary expectations to [email protected].
Please reference “New Business Acquisition Representative” in the subject line.
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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.
WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO• Manage and develop a team of “hunters” who are exclusively focused on generating
new business/clients• Utilize your expertise to maximize revenue and develop strategies to ensure superior
execution from your team • Consistently monitor team performance relative to targets and adjust plans
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improve as a result of your expert leadership • Work through obstacles/objections with your team members, while ensuring superior
customer satisfaction at all times• Ongoing reporting, tracking and forecasting
ABOUT YOU• A track record of successfully driving revenue, with a focus on acquiring new business• Previous experience in a sales leadership role, with preference given to with digital
advertising sales experience• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop successful “hunters” • Top notch presentation/communication skills, with a natural ability to build positive
relationships • Extensive knowledge of the local digital media/advertising landscape• Highly skilled in all Microsoft Offi ce applications, with expert knowledge of Excel
STUFF THAT’S NOT ON A RESUME• Type-A personality, highly competitive, self-motivated and driven by results• A confi dent and infl uential leader with the ability to motivate and inspire• Proactive and optimistic, with a “can do” attitude• Can be decisive and demonstrate timely decision making, often under complex and
demanding circumstances • Energized by deadlines/pressure with a passion for exceeding targets• A believer in digital media, where it is today and where it’s going
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?• The opportunity to be part of a company at the cutting edge of the digital media
industry; you’ll never get bored in our fast-paced, constantly evolving and challenging environment.
• We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll get a comprehensive benefi ts package, including 4 weeks vacation and a group RRSP plan
• The sky’s the limit; our uncapped commission plan provides unlimited earning poten-tial
• The opportunity to work with other talented and awesome people
Looking for your next career challenge? If so, Metroland Media Group is the place to be!
Interested candidates are requested to forward their resume, cover letter and salary expectations to [email protected]
Please reference “Manager, Digital Media” in the subject line.
Metroland is an equal opportunity employer.We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. 3082
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It was a happy homecoming for Ottawa natives Allan Brett and Joanna Brown, who swept into town on Saturday, Oct. 29 with their powerful Guelph Gryphons to capture both the men’s and women’s team titles at the Ontario University Ath-letics cross country championships.
Hosted by the Ottawa Lions and Uni-versity of Ottawa Gee-Gees at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility, it was Brown’s fi rst competition back in town after moving to Guelph.
“I love being back in Ottawa,” says Brown. “There were so many people cheering me on. It’s great.”
For Brett, a fi fth-year senior who’s been an All-Canadian in all four of his seasons with the Gryphons, the wait was a bit longer for a return to the Mooney’s Bay site where he hadn’t competing since graduating from Hillcrest High School in 2005.
“It’s always great to come back to the hometown crowd and my old stomping grounds,” says Brett, who had a couple fl ashbacks to his training with the Lions while racing at the OUAs. “We used to go up and down that hill about 10 times af-ter pretty much every workout, so I was defi nitely used to it.”
It was a familiar sight for the local cross-country community to see Brown and Brett accepting champion medals. Brown earned OUA rookie-of-the-year honours in fi nishing 15th in the women’s
fi ve-kilometre race, while Brett helped complete Guelph’s seventh consecutive sweep of the women’s and men’s crowns with his seventh-place showing in the men’s 10-kilometre event.
“It doesn’t get old, that’s for sure,” says Brett, who will fi nish his master’s degree in bioengineering after his fi nal season of university eligibility. “Every year the team is just as hungry as ever.”
Brown knew the quality of the Guelph program when she decided to move to the location of the triathlon high-perfor-mance training centre, but just how good the other athletes were still caught the former OFSAA cross-country champ a little off-guard.
“In high school, I was just more fi t (than others),” says Brown, who’s loved getting back into cross-country although the surges and constant hills and corners contrast with her recent triathlon train-ing. “It’s so humbling to train with these girls. They’re so driven, but at the same time, they know how to have so much fun.
REBOUND FROM INJURY
Life in Guelph has been kinder to the Carp native than her last summer in the nation’s capital. The former Bytown Storm triathlete didn’t have an uninter-rupted two-week stretch in 2011 where she was able to do her regular amount of run training due to “freak injuries” that continued to strike, such as stepping on
a crabapple and dislocating a bone in her foot.
The fi nal blow came at the world ju-nior triathlon championships in Bei-jing where Brown crashed twice during the bike portion of the race and wound up placing sixth after winning a bronze medal the previous year.
But it’s been smooth sailing so far in Guelph since the All Saints Catholic High School grad got back into running a week after arriving at school with a cast on her wrist.
“It’s been awesome training again,” says Brown, who switched from studying biomedical sciences to marketing and
management in order to have a schedule that allows her to take part in Olympic preparation camps with the likes of Pau-la Findlay and Simon Whitfi eld. “School is obviously important to me, but right now the priority is athletics. And I want an Olympic gold medal, so that’s my fo-cus.”
GEE-GEES FINISH MIDDLE OF PACK
The host Gee-Gees wound up 11th in the women’s event and 10th in the men’s competition with teams made up almost exclusively of Ottawa-raised athletes.
Although Clara Moore and Isabelle Kanz – who was the top Gee-Gees female in 43rd of 111 – were rookies, the Nepe-an and Garneau high school grads have trained in the same Lions group as third-year runner Julia Britton for around four years.
That’s helped create a strong bond between the athletes that got together for a team dinner – and the prerequisite watching of the Say Yes to the Dress TV program – the night before the race even though they weren’t on the road.
“That’s one of the best parts of being on the team,” says Britton, a Sir Robert Borden grad. “Everyone in our group is so positive and motivating and friendly.”
Justin Jakeman and Matt Vierula were the top male Gee-Gees in 44th and 57th place, while Guelph’s Andrew Nixon and Toronto’s Tamara Jewett were the men’s and women’s champions.
Ottawa natives return home and earn familiar wins
Photo by Dan PlouffeHillcrest High School grad Allan Brett helped his Guelph Gryphons to the team title with his seventh-place fi nish.
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•NOVEMBER 3-6:Isle in the River Review presents My Darling Judith, a comedy by Norm Foster. Perfor-mances are November 3 and 4 at 7:30 p.m. and November 6 at 2:00 p.m. at the Osgoode Community Centre. Tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for students and seniors. Dinner Theatre is Saturday, Nov 5. Bar opens at 6 p.m., dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. Dinner Theatre tickets are $45. To reserve tickets, call (613) 860-1291 or visit www.itrtheatercompany.com
•NOVEMBER 5:Mom-2-Mom Sale at St. Paul’s Church: From 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 5 come to St. Paul’s in Osgoode to fi nd great deals on baked goods, plant sale, gently used toys and clothing, children’s books, snowsuits, winter boots, maternity clothes, baby equipment, and games! No booster seats, car seats or helmets. Great bargains for everyone! Please tell any young parents and grandparents about our sale. Tables are $20 or share for $10. For table rental, please contact Phillipa at (613) 826-1246 or Liz at (613) 826-3389.
Adults are invited to the Osgoode Township museum on Saturday, Nov. 5 from 1 to 4 p.m. to learn the Art of Crochet. Try your hand at some basic crochet stitches, and make your very own winter hat or scarf...or both! Cost is $25 per participant. Call (613) 821-4062 to register.
Fall Luncheon and Bake Sale at Metcalfe’s St. Andrew’s United Church, 2677 8th Line Rd. from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch includes soup, sandwiches and squares. Cost $8.00. Further info call 613-821-2075.
•NOVEMBER 6:The Greely hills are alive! The Greely Players’ 2012 production will be ‘The Sound of Music’ from March 28 to April 1. An information meeting about auditions and other ways to get involved will take place Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. Auditions will take place November 12 and 13 or by appointment. Detailed audition information can be found at www.greelyplay-ers.ca.
NOVEMBER 12:The Gloucester South Seniors present their Christmas Bazaar & Bake Sale on Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 4550 Bank St. at Leitrim. Home baked goods, plants, books, nearly new items, jewelry, attic treasures etc. Refreshments available. For info call (613) 821-0414.
Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind will host their Christmas bazaar and bake sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Purchase some homemade baked treats and other unique items. Other items include Christmas cards, beanie babies, doggy bone Christmas wreathes, 2012 calendars, and exclusive Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind apparel. Check it out at the national train-ing centre, 4120 Rideau Valley Drive North, Manotick. For further information about the Bazaar & Bake Sale, or to donate items, please contact (613) 692-7777.
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