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SOCIAL SUPPERSMembers of the Hintonburg supper club say the monthly tradition helps build community ties and introduces diners to some of the best food in the area.
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THE GANG’S ALL HEREChildren from the Whitehaven community turned out at George C. Brown Park on July 20 with Ottawa West-Nepean MPP and Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli, front left, and Bay Coun. Mark Taylor to launch a project that will see a splash pad constructed at the park. For the full story, please turn to page 11.
LAURA MUELLER
Hintonburg is paving the way for a new strategy on how to create commu-nities in Ottawa, and it’s more than just guidelines for how tall buildings should be or where to put a bicycle lane.
The strategy is a way of looking at how to use the city’s resources to facili-tate the building of a true community, rather than just pieces of infrastructure and buildings packed together in a cer-tain area.
It’s called a neighbourhood planning initiative (NPI) and if Hintonburg’s ex-perience with the pilot project is any indication, it is something other Ottawa residents may very well be seeing in their own neighbourhoods in the near future.
The NPI for Hintonburg and Mechan-icsville kicked off in February of 2010 along with a second NPI in the rural vil-lage of Vars.
This fall, city staff is expected to report back on whether this idea was a success and whether other Ottawa neighbour-hoods should follow suit.
For city planner Lee Ann Snedden, the process has been an education in “break-ing down silos” and creating a way for city departments to work more collab-oratively with each other.
But for community members like Pau-lette Dozois, the NPI goes beyond the acronyms and jargon of city hall. It is about how a hardworking community can actually make a difference and cause the city sit up and take notice about what residents wants to see their neighbour-hood become.
“It has involved the community in de-fi ning what we want within the bound-aries of our area,” said Dozois, who has put in many volunteer hours as the com-munity association’s lead person on the NPI.
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Donna Hedley has no problem sharing rough times with her readers.
Feeling isolated at a very ear-ly age and feeling down about life into her adult years, Hedley knew she had to do something about it. That’s when her book, Strategies for Happiness, was born.
“I knew writing was thera-peutic,” Hedley said. “I thought if I wrote a book on happiness, it will help me. And, I could leave
it to my children.”After working on it for about
eight years, Hedley pushed her-self to fi nally write the book and published it through her own publishing company, Sassy Sunfl ower Books.
“I’m not out to make people happy or tell them how to do it,” she said. “Everybody’s happi-ness is their own journey. This is my journey, but my hope is that people enjoy reading it.”
In a sense, Strategies for Hap-piness is Hedley’s own story, she said, but along with that story, she includes research on happi-ness and her interpretation of those ideas.
“I haven’t always been happy, but I had to do whatever I could to get out that sense of being a victim and feeling sorry for my-self,” she said.
Just last week, the Lincoln Heights-area author said she got a thank-you card from a woman who read the book to help her when she was in a rut, an ac-tion that connects with one of the things she talks about in the book – which is showing grati-
tude to people.“You can’t be happy when
you’re ungrateful,” she said. “Just the act of writing a thank-you note and the joy and results of it lifts your spirits.”
Hedley added that awareness of your own self-happiness is also one of the main things peo-ple need to realize.
Even if people think they’re happy, she said there are always areas of their life that they can improve on. It’s not a matter of talking yourself out of your de-pression or positive thinking, but rather just being aware of your current state of mind.
Hedley said while writing was therapeutic for her, she also learned that it took a lot of dis-cipline to get it fi nished.
“It takes a lot of thinking, re-thinking and re-working to do it,” she said. “But when I get there and see the end result, I’m really pleased with it.”
She said she hopes to expand on the book, revising it and ex-panding on the ideas discussed in it a bit more.
“Since I’ve written it, I’ve had
some new insights and I’d like to re-work the way I’ve worded it,” Hedley said.
She added that she’s also working on hosting a workshop – which she calls “playshops” – on strategies for happiness.
Hedley said she “playshops” will include speakers building on concepts in the book.
She said even know it might sound selfi sh to look after your-self, it will refl ect on other peo-
ple.“You’re the one who has to
take care of yourself,” Hedley said. “You have to fi nd out what you want to do with your life, and if you do that in the healthi-est way, it’s going to mean that it will resonate out to the world and be good for the rest of the world.”
Hedley said Strategies for Happiness is available online at amazon.ca .
Photo by Kristy WallaceDonna Hedley, an author from the Woodroffe-Lincoln Heights are, is a self-publisher who has published her own book, Strategies for Happiness.
West-end author shares her secrets to living a happy life
On page 13 of the June 16, 2011 issue of Ottawa This Week – West Edition, the photo caption of the Kiwan-is Idol competition included an incorrect statement. Of the two people in the photo, only Amanda Nantsios was a 2010 top winner. Ottawa This Week regrets the error.
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Ottawa is helping to provide refuge to more than 275 First Nations residents affected by the forest fi res currently raging in northern Ontario.
The evacuees are from King-fi sher Lake First Nation, which is a fl y-in community about 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay.
The fi rst group made up of the elderly, the sick and children began arriving at the Ottawa In-ternational Airport on the eve-ning of Wednesday, July 20.
“We have so far received two plane loads,” said Dan Brise-bois, chairman of the city’s emergency, reception and lodg-ing committee. “One arrived late Wednesday around 9 p.m. and another early Thursday af-ter 1 a.m.”
The fi rst plane brought about 80 frail and elderly people that needed further medical assess-ment, while the second brought 120 people, consisting of fami-lies with young children.
“On their arrival, we assessed the individuals and facilitated their needs and made them feel comfortable,” Brisebois said.
Jay Tysick, a representative of College Coun. Rick Chiarel-li’s offi ce, was present that eve-ning and said it was amazing to see the city’s emergency work-ers in action.
“It just shows what kind of city Ottawa is,” Tysick said, adding the councillor and the ward are proud to be able to of-fer the support for the displaced people.
From the airport the evacuees were transported to Algonquin College where they are sheltered in the school’s dormitories.
“We provided them with food and water and transported them to the college residence where we have staff ready to receive them and fulfi ll their needs with regards to accommodation, hy-giene and anything else they
might need,” said Brisebois.Though there were moments
of relief and excitement for evacuees after arriving in Ot-tawa, most of them looked very tired, Brisebois said.
“Many of them had never travelled by plane and this was a whole new experience. It was a long day for them and they were obviously very tired.”
Tysick said the people stay-ing at the college were provided with a toiletry kit from the Red Cross and clothing and toys for the children were handed out by the Salvation Army.
“I was told they went to Wal Mart and Giant Tiger and were able to use some of the older stock,” he said.
Tysick said the city and the councillor’s offi ce would do the best they can to make the evacu-ees feel at home while they are in the capital.
Families will be able to eat at the school’s cafeteria or be giv-en a per diem to cover the cost of meals. The city, which will be reimbursed through the federal joint emergency preparedness program, is providing $8.25 for breakfast, $14 for lunches and $25 for dinner for each person during their stay.
The councillors offi ce and the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health also met on July 21 to discuss possible cultural activi-ties for the evacuees while they remain in the capital.
“We know the trip has been hard for them and it will be hard to assimilate in the city right away because of the language barrier and the difference from the small community they are from,” Tysick said. “We want them to enjoy their time here as much as possible.”
Ottawa was one of the larger municipalities to come forward to host the evacuees following a request from the provincial gov-ernment asking for assistance with people fl eeing forest fi res in northwestern Ontario.
“We were among the fi rst ones
to do exactly that and since then other municipalities have fol-lowed suit,” Brisebois said.
Other communities and cit-ies that have taken in or agreed to take in evacuees include Dryden, Wawa, Kapuskasing, Matachewan, Arthur, London, Thunder Bay, Green Stone, Sioux Lookout, Toronto, Smiths Falls and Winnipeg.
As evacuees were fl own in, paramedics were on hand at the airport to assess their health. At fi rst paramedics were worried smoke inhalation would exas-perate any underlying medical conditions the evacuees might be having.
“Every evacuee who got off the plane was assessed by a paramedic for any respiratory
issues,” said Anthony DiMonte, chief of Ottawa Paramedic Ser-vice.
Three patients from the fi rst plane were identifi ed with breathing diffi culties and trans-ported to hospital but have since been released, said DiMonte.
“We had some respiratory is-sues on the second plane involv-ing a seven-month-old baby and a 14-year-old child. They were evaluated at Children’s Hospi-tal of Eastern Ontario and have since been released,” he said.
Ottawa Paramedic Services dispatched about 30 paramedics to assess the evacuees and as-sist in any way possible to have them feel comfortable.
“We were prepared for any eventuality and adapted as things went on and our opera-tion plan worked really well,” DiMonte said.
The city has enlisted different groups including Odawa and Wabano centres, which serve Ottawa’s aboriginal communi-ties, along with the Ottawa Ab-original Coalition to help with translation and other cultural issues.
Paramedics have also been forced to adjust their clinical care to meet evacuees’ cultural norms.
“As clinicians we do assess-ments based on medical prior-ity, but in this culture we are told it is important to deal with the elderly fi rst out of respect to them,” said DiMonte.
The city will reassess the needs of the evacuees in the coming few days and pull back its resources accordingly if the needs are not there, said Brise-bois.
According to a statement from provincial government, all people that are in immediate danger have been evacuated.
Daily evacuations are ongo-ing, with nearly 3,600 people rescued so far. The operations will continue as smoke and fl y-ing conditions allow, until the situation improves.
Photo by Jennifer McIntoshDeandra Anderson, 7, hugs her cousin Elizabeth Winter, 4, during a movie and game night on Monday, July 25 at a cafeteria at Algonquin College. The event was staged by the city, the offi ce of Rick Chiarelli and the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health.
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After the lunch rush, Valen-tine Stoev relaxes with a ciga-rette along with a colleague at about 2:30 p.m.
He just fi nished standing on his feet for four hours prepping and peeling potatoes for their eventual deep-fried end. Now that the rush has disappeared, the chip truck owner sits and takes a breather outside the for-mer Soeurs de la Visitation con-vent.
Even though the lunch rush can get very busy, the recent con-struction on Richmond Road has slowed things down a bit.
“There’s big construction – machineries, trucks going in and out, road closures,” Stoev ex-plained with a Bulgarian accent. “On the other hand, we hope once they build those buildings, people will come by sometimes for supper or lunch or whatev-er.”
The business itself has been there for 35 years, and longtime Westboro residents remember it always being there.
Stoev came with his family to Canada from Bulgaria, and has been operating the truck for the
last fi ve years.“Just like anybody else, I was
looking for a better opportunity
for my family,” he said. “Cana-da’s one of the greatest countries in the world.”
He said his wife and son of-ten help him out, and work long hours in both the frigid cold and
the sweltering heat.“It’s extremely hot,” Stoev
said, referring to when he works in the summer.
“When it’s 38 degrees outside, it’s 55 degrees in here. You just have to drink lots of liquids.”
The truck is also opened in the middle of winter – and he said working at that time of year also has its downsides.
“It’s cold in the winter too. We have a heater, but I prefer being here in the spring time and the fall.”
But like any other job, Stoev said you have to love what you do – and he loves his job.
“I love what I do and I’m glad people like my products,” he said, adding that it makes every-thing worth it.
The truck is usually opened from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., but Stoev said he and his family put long hours into preparing the food for the day and cleaning and stocking up for the next day.
He said he’s not sure how much longer he’ll be operat-ing the truck and enduring the Ottawa’s hot summers and freez-ing winters – but he hopes to be there for a while.
“It’s a tough job, but some-body’s got to do it,” Stoev said.
Photo by Kristy WallaceValentine Stoev has been operating a chip truck in the heart of Westboro for fi ve years – however the truck has been there for about 35 years.
Westboro ‘fry guy’ displays passion for his potatoes
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SHOW OF SOLIDARITYErik Vilstrup Lorenzen, the Danish ambassador, signs a book of condolences at the Nor-wegian Embassy in Centretown on Monday, July 25. As a neighbouring nation of Norway, Lorenzen said his country stands in solidarity with its neighbour following tragic attacks on the government offi ces in Oslo and on the youth summer camp at nearby Utøya on Friday, July 22.
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The city can afford its ambi-tious transit plans for the next 38 years, but the federal and pro-vincial governments will have to keep up their contributions to make it happen.
Paying for light rail and other transit projects will also rely on fares and transit-related taxes increasing by the rate of infl a-tion each year.
But if those two puzzle pieces are in place, the city’s transit fi nancial house is in order, said city treasurer Marian Simulik, who updated city council on the long-range fi nancial plan for transit during a July 14 special city council meeting.
The city’s transportation master plan lists $18.6 billion in repairs and improvements to the transit system by 2031.
The city will spend $9.75 bil-lion of that between now and 2031, which includes the con-struction of the city’s fi rst light-rail system, set to open in 2018. An additiona; $8.87 will be spent
between 2032 and 2048.To make that possible, the
city will need to break its own limit for how much tax-sup-ported debt it takes on. The city estimates it will need to borrow $5.2 billion to make up the dif-ference.
By its peak at 2031, the city
will require 14 per cent of its own source revenues to service its debt (including three per cent for transit investments). That’s double the city’s limit on tax-supported debt servicing, but far below the provincially regulated limit of 25 per cent.
A city report says it is impor-tant to know that the amount of transit debt declines over that time period, meaning the city is “more than capable” of meet-ing its annual debt payments through 2048.
The debt is necessary because the cost of building the system comes before the revenue it will generate, Simulik said.
Much of the cost of repaying that debt will come from devel-opment charges, which can be used to pay for projects neces-sitated by a growth in the city’s population.
Large debt payments will come from the provincial gas tax as well, Simulik said.
The city updates its long-term fi nancial plan for transit at the beginning of each new term of council.
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The president of OC Transpo’s union says an arbitrator’s deci-sion on the group’s outstanding contract is “win-win” for the union and the city.
An arbitration panel decided that draft collective agreement the city put in place last year complies with the panel’s in-structions to create a scheduling system that is consistent with other North American cities.
The decision, delivered over-night on July 22, means the city will have to stick to mandated “spread” times (the amount of time between the start and end of a shift) for scheduling driv-ers.
Members of the Amalgam-ated Transit Union (ATU) Lo-cal 279 were on board with the decision, which applies to the contract covering the period of 2008 to 2011.
“They were pleased,” said
union president Garry Queale, shortly after speaking to union members on Monday.
Mayor Jim Watson echoed Queale’s satisfaction.
“I’m pleased that this fi nal de-cision puts the dispute behind us and concludes a long and dif-fi cult round of negotiations,” Watson said in a press release on July 23.
Now that the last contract is fi nally wrapped up, the city and the ATU can move on to discuss-ing the next collective agree-ment.
“This has to do with the 2008 contract. That is now closed, and we will begin negotiations ASAP – as soon as possible,” Queale said.
“I think they will be diffi cult negotiations, but I think hope-fully we can have a good resolve to it without any labour dis-putes,” Queale said. “I’m very confi dent we can come to a reso-lution.”
Ottawa’s lofty transit plans affordable, treasurer says
City, transit union pleased with arbitration decision
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They’re known as public-private partnerships, or alternate fi nancing arrangements, or by
the acronym P3s.They have become popular
tools in the limited range of op-tions available to governments trying to fi nd money to repair or renew the crumbling roads, public buildings and other in-frastructure that underpin our communities.
Residents of many commu-nities will already be familiar with the concept through the new hospitals, courthouses and other public facilities for which the Crown agency Infrastruc-ture Ontario is responsible. (See fact box.)
A $335-million courthouse in Durham Region that opened in 2009 was the fi rst project to go through Ontario’s new alter-nate fi nancing program.
Infrastructure Ontario’s projects now include hospitals, the eastern extension of High-way 407, the modernization of Ontario Provincial Police facil-ities and highway service cen-tres across the province.
But a move is on to increase access to public-private part-nerships as municipalities try to cope with the enormous bur-den of funding infrastructure, a job that has already put many of them into debt.
York Region, for example, in search of new ways to fund transit, has formally asked Metrolinx (the regional trans-portation authority) to look at alternate funding sources for municipal transit systems.
The province unveiled its long-term, 10-year plan for in-frastructure June 24 and Cabi-net Minister Bob Chiarelli said Infrastructure Ontario will see its role expanded with a broader list of projects – including mu-
nicipal waterworks and transit – that can use its procurement and fi nancing model.
P3s are not uniformly popu-lar, generating criticism from opposition politicians and groups such as the Canadian Union of Public Employees, in part because the Canadian ap-proach to most public facilities and services has been to keep the entire process public, or as much of it as possible.
Critics found fuel in an On-
tario Auditor General’s report that concluded in 2008 that $200 million could have been saved if the province had done the borrowing itself on the new Brampton Civic Hospital.
But Mark Romoff, chief ex-ecutive offi cer of The Canadian Council for Public-Private Part-nerships, disagrees.
“You need to follow the pro-gram from beginning to end and you’ll see the strong, suc-cessful P3 program does deliver value for money,” he said.
Partnerships have evolved from their beginnings in the early 1990s and are now being used in more sectors at more levels of government, Romoff said.
A recent Edmonton break-fast brought out 370 attendees to hear how P3s can help mu-nicipalities, he said, a sign of increased interest at the cash-strapped municipal level.
“When you’re looking to move the infrastructure needle … if there’s an infrastructure gap and a fi scal challenge, the P3 model could be worth look-ing at,” Romoff said, acknowl-edging the partnerships are not a silver bullet for every proj-ect.
John Loxley, a University of Manitoba economics professor who studies and writes about P3s, evaluated prominent proj-ects including Highway 407, the controversial toll highway built in a private-public partnership and now owned privately. He be-lieves the highway was a “poor deal for Ontario taxpayers.”
“You need (infrastructure), but it’s got to be done right,” he said. “You don’t get something for nothing.”
But public-private partner-ships are not the only potential options available to help mu-nicipalities solve the funding puzzle.
Solutions popular in other ju-risdictions are being looked at as well, including new models that would apportion a certain percentage of income tax or a percentage of sales tax such as the HST for infrastructure.
The push for alternative fi -nancing is driven by the real-ization that municipalities sim-ply cannot hold the fort much longer. From 1955 to 2007, the federal share of public infra-structure fell from 27 per cent to 5 per cent while the munici-pal share increased from 27 per cent to 55 per cent, according to a 2008 report.
Earlier this month, the may-ors of Canada’s largest cities agreed at a meeting in Halifax that municipalities must watch the new majority government of Stephen Harper to ensure there is a change.
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, chair of a big-city caucus in the Federation of Ca-nadian Municipalities, said he hopes municipal leaders and
the Tories can develop a far-reaching infrastructure plan that won’t drop in priority as the new government tries to cut costs.
After the federation issued a report on the national infra-structure defi cit in 2007 – when, it calculated, the gap for Cana-dian municipalities alone was $123 billion – Finance Minister Jim Flaherty countered that municipalities should take care of themselves and the federal government was “not in the pothole business.”
The attitude changed as the recession took hold and the federal government took into account the jobs that could be created through infrastruc-ture projects. However, as the infrastructure defi cit grows and the economy resumes, the traditional equation is back in force.
The federation points out that 92 per cent of a Canadian’s tax dollar goes to the two up-per levels of government, but municipalities are responsible for more than half the exist-ing infrastructure — and have to do whatever jobs are passed to them — with the remaining 8 per cent.
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BY DAVID FLEISCHERAND NICOLE VISSCHEDYK
Finding alternative fi nancingThird in a Three-Part Series
The City of Ottawa em-barked on two public-private partnerships for recreation in the east and west ends be-cause, as proponents argued, it was the only way the city could afford new arenas.
But in 2007 those deals took a turn for the worse. That year, the City of Ottawa ter-minated its contract with Serco Facilities Management, which was managing the Ray Friel Recreation Complex in Ottawa’s east end.
A city report presented to councillors had noted Serco underestimated its operating costs by $1.3 million a year while overestimating reve-nues. According to the report, Serco needed an extra $2 mil-lion a year.
In the end, the city took over operation of the centre at an added cost of $1.3 mil-lion a year.
Meanwhile, that same year councillors decided to fork over $1.4 million over three
and a half years to keep op-erations running at the Bell Sensplex. That decision came after a staff report recom-mended the city give Capital Sports Group, operators of the Bell Sensplex, $400,000 a year over three years to put the project on solid fi nancial ground.
At the time these decisions were made, council agreed to keep tabs on public-private partnerships, requiring an annual performance report.
Ray Friel: Ottawa’s failed P3?
Infrastructure Ontario It is an arm’s-length Crown
agency that manages public projects and arranges funding that includes private sources for infrastructure ranging from courthouses to sewer systems.
It also provides municipali-ties and other public bodies with access to affordable loans for new buildings and renew-al.
The agency has not issued an annual report since the 2008-09 fi scal year, so it is diffi cult to track projects and loans on paper.
However, the province says that since 2005, the agency has managed 52 infrastructure projects worth $21 billion, in-cluding 35 hospital projects and approved more than $4 billion in loans for more than 1,000 projects.
Major projects include:Facilities for the Pan Am Games, including Hamilton’s soccer stadiumDurham Consolidated Court-houseMontfort HospitalQuinte Health CareOttawa Hospital Regional Cancer ProgramLakeridge HealthMarkham Stouffville Hospi-talHalton HealthcareNiagara Health SystemRoyal Victoria HospitalWaterloo Region Consoli-dated CourthouseHighway 407 East ExtensionWest Lincoln Memorial Hos-pital
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Leeanne Charlebois’s new home in Hintonburg is still lit-tered with moving boxes, but she already met a couple of new friends for dinner.
After living in the city’s down-town for four years, Charlebois was ready for a change. As she was preparing for her move to Hintonburg, she came across a web page about the Hintonburg Supper Club on the community association’s site, hintonburg.ca.
The next monthly meeting was scheduled for the night after her big move, but that suited Char-lebois just fi ne.
She missed the friendly, neigh-bourly atmosphere of Halifax, her home for 19 years, and the idea of a supper club reminded her of meals spent with a similar group on the east coast.
“So far, I’ve only lived here two days, but I can tell it’s like a small community within a com-munity,” she says.
Charlebois was one of two new faces amongst 21 people in atten-dance at the informal monthly gathering on July 21.
The most recent iteration of the group began three years ago,
when organizer Carol Paschal decided to restart a concept that was popular in the late 1990s.
As an entrepreneur herself, Paschal was interested in en-couraging her neighbours to try out the local establishments within their community.
That’s the only rule, she says: “The restaurant must be in Hin-tonburg.”
And surprisingly, there is no shortage of places to try. July’s outing was the second time Cred-ible Edibles on Hinton Avenue has hosted the group, but Pas-chal says it can go for more than 18 months before the group pays a repeat visit to a restaurant.
Credible Edibles owner Judi Varga-Toth said not only is the supper club an easy group to serve, it is also a great way to introduce people to a restaurant and introduce people to their neighbours.
“It’s a great neighbourhood and it’s really supportive,” says Varga-Toth. “Every neighbour-hood should have something like this.”
There are no agendas, no min-utes, no obligation and no mem-bership fee – just good food and great company, Paschal says.
The price-level of the restau-
rants varies to make it acces-sible to anyone and you don’t even have to live in Hintonburg to participate. People from as far away as Orleans have joined the supper club, including a few who were planning to move to the area, Paschal says.
And unlike many groups, the
supper club isn’t about network-ing.
“You don’t really hear people asking those superfi cial ques-tions about ‘What do you do,’” Paschal said. “They ask if you saw that tomatoes are now in season at the Parkdale Market, or if you saw the latest play at the
GCTC (Great Canadian Theatre Company).”
“The conversation here is re-ally enriched,” says Leigh Ridg-way, a frequent fi xture at the supper club. “It’s like old friends meeting … People want to know what you’re like, where you’re walking your dog – things like that.”
Often, breaking bread togeth-er brings out the connections people already have with their neighbours, says Paschal. She was surprised to realize she had already met one of the supper club members. Both women have addresses numbered 71 on differ-ent streets, and had exchanged misdelivered mail on many occa-sions.
The feedback from supper club participants has been positive, Paschal says. When she hears comments like “I went back to that restaurant a couple weeks later,” or “I have always wanted to go there,” Paschal says she knows the supper club is serving its purpose.
To join in the next Hintonburg Supper Club outing, or to get more information, contact Pas-chal at [email protected] or leave a voice mail message at 613-798-7987.
Photo by Laura MuellerCredible Edibles owner Judi Varga-Toth serves up dessert for Hinton-burg Supper Club organizer Carol Paschal during the group’s July 21 outing.
Hintonburg club serves dinner with side of community
OTTAWA THIS WEEK STAFF
Developer Mastercraft Starwood is gearing up to construct what could become the city’s tallest building, on Preston Street in Little Italy.
Eric Darwin of the Dalhousie Community Asso-ciation confi rmed that he received notice that the re-zoning application for 500 Preston St. was fi led with the city last week.
Details were not available at press time as the ap-plication had not yet been posted to the city’s web-site, but the developer had originally proposed a 35-storey tower.
The city’s tallest building is Tower C of the Place de Ville complex in downtown Ottawa. At 22 sto-reys, Tower C reaches 112 metres in height, which is only one metre taller than the proposed SoHo Ita-lia development.
The site is currently a vacant lot at the corner of Preston and Sidney streets. If the current proposed tower is built, it would contain 220 units.
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EDITORIAL
There’s something about travelling with children that makes you want to turn around and forget the vacation all together.
On route to the fi rst destination of our two-week camping trip, the sun was beating down on us, the birds were sing-ing and we randomly discovered an arts festival at our midway point. I’d made car bingo cards to keep the offspring amused for at least three hours looking for moose crossings, silos and swing benches.
It kept them going for about 10 minutes before ...
“Are we going to Algonquin Park?” asked my eldest son.
“Yes,” I said.“I hate Algonquin Park.”“You’ve never been there.”“Well I hate it.”Sigh! As soon as we arrived, I, in spite
of the car trip, felt unbelievably relaxed: The trees, the loons calling, the sound of Tea Lake below our campsite. But my son wasn’t having any of it.
“Is this Algonquin Park?” he asked.“Yes.” “I hate Algonquin Park.”“Algonquin Park has 2,456 lakes. You’ve
only seen one of them. You can’t possibly hate Algonquin Park.”
Silence. Silence and moping. And then.
“My stomach hurts,” he said. “I think I need a doctor.”
“You don’t need a doctor.”“I miss my bed. I think I need my bed.
I’m sick, or I have an allergy.” And then he turned around and pounded his little brother on the shoulder as he passed by.
Sigh! It reminded me of a Family Circus comic I saw a few years ago. In the single frame, the mom and dad are pulling a wagon carrying a gaggle of fi ghting kids, beach umbrellas and a dog. The father says, “I need a vacation.” To which the mother replies, “This is our vacation.”
The whole day continued like this. The water was too cold. The washrooms were too dirty. The fi re was too smoky. The loons were too noisy. The marshmallows were too sticky. THE MARSHMALLOWS WERE TOO STICKY!
“I’m never going to get through the next
two weeks,” I said to my spouse.“Sleep on it,” he said. “He’s just tired
and excited and out of his routine.”The next morning, I woke up early to
waddle, knock-kneed through the woods, fending off potential bears with a whistle on my way to the vault toilets. When I re-turned with a longer stride and a subdued ache in my bladder after the one kilome-tre trek, my eldest son was waiting for me. He’d peed in a bush.
“The birds woke me,” he grunted.“Wonderful!”I was not going to let him get me down. “Let’s go see what kinds of birds there
are around here.” I said. So off we went, hand-in-hand in our
pyjamas, breaking my fi rst rule of the fortnightly camping trip: Thou shalt not wander about the damp woods in one of two pairs of pyjamas. It wasn’t long before we spotted fungus growing on a tree stump. From there, we found some interesting evergreen trees that were dark green in the middle, with almost trans-lucent needles. We saw moths and birds, and some early morning fi shermen before we settled on a large rock located about two feet from the shore.
We sat on the rock and looked in silence. That’s when we saw the loons. They were swimming toward us. We were
silent. They were bobbing for fi sh. We were silent. All of a sudden, they disap-peared under the water, and that’s when I realized that loons can hold their breath for an indefi nite amount of time.
An hour later, we returned to our camp-site, just as my husband and younger son were emerging from the tent, fully-dressed, according to the rule. My eldest had a huge smile on his face. He pulled out his sketch pad and drew a picture of the things we saw that morning.
“Mom,” he announced, “I used fi ve dif-ferent colours of green in my picture.”
“Perfect,” I said. And that was the beginning of our vacation.
Charles Gordon will return Aug. 18.
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BRYNNA LESLIE
Capital Muse
Even with the scorching temperatures experienced across the province over the past few weeks, Ontarians should be forgiven if they thought Christmas had
come a few months early this year.The gifts, or promise of, have been fl owing
freely this summer as part of the relentless ef-forts by Ontario politicians to win the hearts and minds of voters ahead of the Oct. 6 election.
In one corner, we have Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government falling over itself to spend as much money as possible before the election fall campaign offi cially kicks off. In Ottawa alone last week, there were four separate funding announcements made by the Liberals totalling more than $20 million.
In the other corner are the Progressive Conser-vatives and New Democrats, led by Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath respectively, who have been zipping across the province promising to “put more money in your pocket” and “put you and your family fi rst.” The policies the opposition parties have been endlessly touting since the end of the legislative session range from remov-ing the Harmonized Sales Tax from electricity,
heating and gasoline to killing the mandatory hydro smart meter program to creating a “buy Ontario” law.
With a budget defi cit of slightly less than $19 billion for 2010-2011, Ontario is in no position to take its fi nances lightly. We don’t have the rev-enue available to throw away on the whimsy of a government that is trailing in the polls, nor can we afford to remove sources of public revenue based on the populist impulses of the challeng-ers.
There are a great many challenges facing this province right now. Health care continues to consume a massive proportion of govern-ment resources and the baby boomers have yet to experience the worst frailties of old age. We still have an economy largely oriented towards manufacturing, but has yet to recover from the great recession and is coping with a dollar worth fi ve cents more than the American greenback. We have crumbling infrastructure across the province, but no comprehensive plan to address what ultimately becomes a drain on the economy.
Any man or woman can promise the moon, but it takes a brave leader to face challenges head on.
Policy, not pandering, please
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EMMA JACKSON AND JORDAN WOLFE
The National Capital Com-mission has began a new green partnership with charitable housing group Habitat for Hu-manity to salvage building ma-terials from the NCC’s doomed residential properties in sup-port of Ottawa’s low-income families.
The NCC was created in the late 1950s as a manager of fed-eral lands and buildings in the National Capital Region. It is in the process of demolishing 14 homes across Ottawa and Gatin-eau that were purchased in the 1960s to reserve the land for fu-ture greenbelt rehabilitation, which are now too run down to maintain.
The lands will be re-estab-lished as part of the greenbelt, while the houses’ many doors, windows, structural beams and even the kitchen sink will be do-nated to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore facility selling used building materials to raise mon-ey for housing projects across the city.
“The money that’s raised in the store helps supports all of our operating costs and helps us with the purchase of land. So we were so excited about an opportunity for a partner-ship,” said Donna Hicks, CEO of the National Capital Region branch of Habitat for Humanity. “There is so much usable mate-rial in a house. Rather than see the whole house go to landfi ll – which is very expensive to cart it away, isn’t very good for our environment and certainly isn’t ensuring a future for our chil-dren if our landfi lls are all full – we salvage material, we sell it, we house more low-income families.”
The NCC’s environmental strategy calls on the federal body to recycle and reuse as much as possible from their de-molished buildings. According to the NCC’s chief of asset man-agement and real estate Mary Ann Waterson, the organization already has a landfi ll diversion rate of 94 per cent. This part-nership will help bring those numbers even higher, she said.
“There have been a couple of years I’ve been looking at ways to reuse, recycle and re-duce waste on our sites. With this new partnership we’ll be able to even further increase that. So for us at the NCC that’s very important,” Waterson told a small crowd gathered on July 19 in front of the summer’s fi rst house up for demolition, locat-
ed at 2830 Lester Rd. in Ottawa South.
Out of the 14 homes being de-molished by the NCC this sum-mer, Habitat has already looked at fi ve and found that three have salvageable items. The remain-ing nine homes will be inspect-ed between now and September for reusable goods.
Waterson said some houses don’t yield many reusable items because of their age or upkeep, and the level of NCC investment. The house on Lester Road, for example, features upgraded and relatively new windows that can be used again. Other properties may have original windows that are no longer up to code or in good enough shape to reuse.
As Habitat for Humanity vol-unteers gutted the inside of the
early 1950s house, carrying out kitchen cupboards and other reusable items, Hicks said this house will yield a number of saleable treasures.
“Defi nitely the kitchen and bathrooms, we’ll take some of the wood, we’ll try and rescue the hardwood fl oors,” she said, noting that people love to buy old hardwood. She added that the windows and doors are in good shape, and some of the interior structural materials might be salvageable as well.
The items are sold through the ReStore business because Habitat tries to make their hous-ing projects as new as possible for the families moving in. The money made at the used materi-als store helps cover some of the cost of buying new materials.
It costs $130,000 in cash and $75,000 in materials and servic-es to build a new home for a low-income family, and about $35,000 to renovate an existing building – although most of the trades work and some materials are donated. Purchasing a house for renovation can sometimes be more costly than building new, especially if it’s not donated or can’t be bought cheaply.
Habitat for Humanity is cur-rently working on three projects in the area. The most pressing is for a family with two disabled children, who need a renovated bungalow close to CHEO by Sep-tember. Habitat is fi elding hous-ing donation prospects, and the Delta Hotel has currently donated $75, 000 to help reno-vate. They are also renovating a house in Nepean and building a new house in Carleton Place with the help of Nepean project management company Tiree. A new build typically needs 350 volunteers, while a renovation requires about 75.
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
Ninety-one neighbourhoods across the city are being dis-sected thanks to a University of Ottawa investigation.
The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study, an ongoing project that breaks down each neighbour-hood’s health, socio-economic factors and other characteris-tics, received a $75,000 cash in-fusion from IBM’s Centennial Grant program.
The study, which was devised by researchers at the Univer-sity of Ottawa in 2005, now in-cludes partners from the Unit-ed Way, the Champlain regional health authority, the city, Otta-
wa public health, the Coalition of Community Health and Re-source Centres and others.
Dr. Elizabeth Kristjansson, with the University of Ottawa, said the idea came about in 2005 as a research project, but had always been intended to be used by service providers.
The project received funding and started gathering informa-tion about the city’s 91 neigh-bourhoods using census and Ottawa public health data.
The census data on voting and income is updated each census year, but public health information is done slightly more often – every three to fi ve years.
Kristjansson said better than
the funding is the help from 75 IBM volunteers who will help to update the website.
“We hope to see people able to add data to the study from their mobile phones,” she said.
Michael Allen, president and CEO of United Way Ot-tawa, said that all of the agen-cies looking for funding in the area of early childhood educa-tion this year accessed Ottawa Neighbourhood Study data and used it in their applications.
“There are a lot of things anecdotally we know about the areas we serve,” he said. “But having this data has helped us to develop our community development framework enor-mously,” he said.
Neighbourhood study gets cash infusion
Photo by Emma JacksonNCC real estate chief Mary Ann Waterson, left, and local Habitat for Humanity CEO Donna Hicks announced a partnership on July 19 that will offer used building materials from demolished NCC properties to the charitable housing group.
Partnership turns salvage into treasure
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From PROJECT on page 1The big improvement she saw
was a reduction in the number of redundancies in the work the city was doing in Hintonburg, but the plan also provides a way for city departments to come together to fi nd ways to improve the work they are doing.
“It’s a great, co-operative ap-proach,” Dozois said. “It’s a way of looking at projects within the context of the whole neighbour-hood, rather than just doing something that has to be done be-cause time is up.”
“It’s a neighbourhood’s articu-lation of its own future,” Sned-den added.
Being prepared for the future paid off in Hintonburg. Already, over 90 per cent of the projects identifi ed as high priorities in the NPI have been completed, said Snedden.
“That’s a sign of the amount of action we were able to take,” she said. “That is a huge step for-ward.”
The community managed to get almost $1.2 million in fund-ing from the city, province and federal government for econom-ic stimulus fund projects. The money enabled repairs to the wall around Hintonburg Park, as well as the completion of the basement inside the community centre.
But perhaps most notably, the community was able to put some money towards redesigning Park-dale Park and its adjoining Park-dale Market – a neighbourhood feature that has become even more popular since its makeover.
The “refreshed” site for the market is a great example of the NPI in action, Dozois said.
With fi les from Kristy Wallace
Parkdale Market site is example of NPI in action
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KRISTY WALLACE
It was around the early to mid 1970s, and Doug Carruthers was the district fi re chief in the Hin-tonburg area.
Based out of the old fi re hall on Parkdale Avenue, he remembers the 3 a.m. call to a fi re at Stirling Place – a shut down hotel and bar that was known for its rowdiness – located at 123 Stirling Ave.
“I really don’t know much about it as a hotel, but for years it was a rough old place,” re-members Doug, who is now 88 and lives in a retirement home. “You sat there and minded your Ps and Qs.”
Doug doesn’t remember when Stirling Place was built, but it was long before he was born.
He and his wife of 68 years, Zelda, moved to Hinton Avenue in the 1930s.
Zelda doesn’t remember much of the old bar and hotel, except its reputation in Hintonburg.
“In the 1960s, it was quite a hangout,” she laughed. “That’s where everyone went for a drink, and there was never a dull mo-ment.”
But by the early 1970s or so, the old place had been abandoned and caught fi re late one night.
Doug remembers the scene in front of him as he arrived at blazing building.
“When we pulled up, there was just smoke coming out of ev-ery crack of the building,” Doug said of the two-storey building with tiny windows. “It was just oozing smoke.”
The scene quickly unfolded
into what he said felt like an action movie. Doug had to get crews into one side of the build-ing to make sure nobody was in it.
He got to work inside the smoking interior, put on his mask and climbed up the stair-well. When he made it up the stairwell, he took one or two more steps – and as soon as he knew it, he was in the basement two fl oors down.
“I fell down two fl oors. And a lot of sparks were coming down with me,” Doug said with a laugh. “I went through the fl oor, hit the cement stairs in the basement and bounced off them. I guess it wasn’t funny at the time.”
Doug was taken to the hospital for X-rays, but said he was re-leased later that night.
During his brief stay at the hospital, however, he coinciden-tally shared the same hospital room as the man who set the building on fi re.
Doug didn’t know who the man was, and said he died later that night since. Apparently the arson backfi red and the man blew himself up as he used gaso-line to accelerate the fl ames.
He’s not sure why the man de-cided to set the former hotel and bar on fi re.
“It was arson, and what’s that usually for?” said Doug.
He added that his recovery was remarkable – returning about four or fi ve days later.
While the building remained charred, Doug said he never looked back.
“I never went back to the build-ing after the fi re,” he said.
Former Hintonburg fi refi ghter recalls
Stirling Place arson
EDDIE RWEMA
About 60 aboriginal kids spent the whole day on July 20 pad-dling along Rideau Canal with members of eight different law enforcement agencies to help improve relations and build ca-maraderie among each other as part of the 11th annual Flotilla for Friendship.
“I think the event has become very important to the partici-pating police departments by providing a mechanism to con-nect with a diffi cult-to-reach group of kids,” said Lynda Kit-chikeesic Juden, an activist and one of the organizers of the an-nual event.
The group canoed along the canal from Dows Lake all the way to the locks at Chateau Lau-rier.
The Flotilla for Friendship also provides an opportunity for urban-dwelling aboriginal youth to be immersed in native culture.
Cheyenne MacLeod, 16, said canoeing has been part of her tradition and she was glad to be doing it with the offi cers.
“The experience really shows that they (police offi cers) are regular people who can be friendly,” said Macleod.
The relationship between po-lice and First Nations can be uneasy at times and organizers hope events like this would help build trust between the youth and the offi cers.
“Most Aboriginal people mis-trust police,” said Juden. “This goes way back and are linked to residential school kids being removed from the reserves by police, land claims disputes be-tween governments and bands being enforced by police, and a simple lack of positive expo-sures to each other.”
She said canoes are magical as they force people to synch their body movements for maximum control and speed, and it doesn’t take long for kids and cops to realize this and start working together to paddle.
“Once that happens, friend-ship is not only possible, it be-comes likely,” said Juden.
“You can’t tweet, chat or watch television in a canoe. So they talk. And they paddle along in rhythm.”
While it may be peaceful pad-dling, it can be really hard work portaging a canoe, said Juden.
“They have to encourage each other and consider each other’s physical limitations and needs,” she said. “By the end of the day they have learned more from each other.”
She hopes the program helps remove some of the obstacles that hinder co-existence among police and the aboriginals.
“Neither of us (police nor Ab-original people) are leaving any time soon, so we have to work together,” she said.
She admits that however much they do to improve that relationship; it isn’t always easy because there’s good and bad in all of us.
“I like to channel the good in people and share indigenous traditional knowledge in a meaningful, purposeful way,” said Juden. “We all benefi t from this. Especially kids.” Ottawa Police Const. Adam Gilbert said the experience was a great way for the police to keep in contact with the aboriginal community.
“It bridges the gap and makes us more approachable,” he said.
Aboriginal youth, police partner for paddle
Photo by Eddie RwemaDozens of aboriginal youth and members of Ottawa-area law enforcement agencies took part in the 11th annual Flotilla for Friendship on the Rideau Canal on Wednesday, July 20.
File photoHintonburg looks a lot different now than it did decades ago. Former resident Doug Carruthers remembers the night a former hotel and bar went up in fl ames in the neighbourhood decades ago.
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LAURA MUELLER
On an afternoon that felt like 39 C with the humidity, it wasn’t diffi cult to see why residents of Whitehaven were ex-cited to learn at a July 20 announcement that their park would be getting a splash pad in the near future.
“It’s going to be great for us, because we have a two-year-old and a four-year-old,” said Sarah Marshall, who has lived in Whitehaven for three years. “We actu-
ally go to some of the other splash pads, but it isn’t as convenient because you have to drive there.”
Until now, the closest splash pads for those families were located a drive away in Frank Ryan Park or Centrepointe.
Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli, who is the MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean, said you just need to look at a day like this to see why a splash pad will make a difference to the community.
The splash pad will be constructed next spring and should be open in time
for the 2012 summer heat.The Whitehaven splash pad will likely
be located on the site of the old baseball diamond in Whitehaven’s George C. Brown Park said Chris Dannehl, presi-dent of the Whitehaven Community As-sociation.
The province is pouring $180,000 into the project, which will include a cement-surface pad with a number of water fea-tures such as cannons and motion-sensor sprays.
The city will drop an additional $10,000 on other park upgrades, including acces-sible picnic tables and benches for parents to sit and have a good vantage point to watch kids play on the pad. More trees will be also added
“It’s long past due to upgrade the quality of the facilities in the park,” said John McKay, a parent who has lived in the neighbourhood for 24 years.
Providing some shade over the splash pad would make it even better, he added.
Bay Ward Coun. Mark Tay-lor said he is hoping the city’s $10,000 budget for the project will be enough to get a large shade tree in the park to help protect kids from the sun’s rays while they play.
The announcement marked a success for Dannehl, who has
been lobbying for the project for over a year.
He said the splash pad will be a wel-come addition to the park, which is see-ing a renaissance as more young families make their homes in the area.
“There has been a large turnover in people,” Dannehl said. While White-haven used to be dominated by seniors and baby boomers, younger families are now settling in the area.
“Every day, more and more young families are moving into the neighbour-hood,” he said.
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A group of Ottawa researchers will share a $9.5 million provincial grant to help with the improvement of patient care and development of new therapies.
The funding, announced on July 20 by Research and Innovation Minister Glen Murray, will support more than 200 lead-ing researchers in Ottawa.
“The new technologies that we are funding today will improve health care outcome,” said Murray.
The largest portion of this funding will go to two research teams affi liated with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. The two teams will share a $4.8 million in funding.
One of the teams, led by Dr. Michael
Rudnicki, was awarded $3.1 million to develop biological drugs that stimulate the regeneration and repair of heart, pancreas and muscle tissue. These drugs could dramatically change the way heart disease, diabetes and neuromuscular dis-eases are treated.
The other team, led by Dr. Alan Forster, was awarded $1.7 million to develop the world’s fi rst ‘eTrigger,’ a technology that would improve hospital patient safety.
Forster’s research will involve sophisti-cated software that monitors patient data in real-time and alerts clinicians to high risk situations via mobile information technologies, so that medical errors can be prevented before they occur.
“We are using that money to develop a technology that would detect situations where patients would be doing poorly be-
cause of medical errors or complications with their therapy,” said Forster.
He said the information generated by the eTrigger would be used to develop real time notifi cations to physicians so they can act differently to prevent problems from re-occurring. The preparatory work for this innovation has been going on for the past 10 years.
Other funding recipients in the Ottawa area include a team led by Dr. Halim Ya-nikomeroglu from Carleton University, which is developing super high-speed wireless networks that can support next
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Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi con-gratulated the researchers for their con-tributions in making the world a better place.
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The Toronto Blue Jays held a three-day camp in Ottawa that gave children a major league opportunity to learn skills from several baseball legends.
The Honda Super Camp was held at the Ottawa Baseball Stadium from July 25 to 27 and offered young players from the Ottawa area a chance to learn hit-ting, throwing, catching, base running and pitching techniques from Blue Jays alumni Duane Ward, Devon White, Alex Gonzalez and Denis Boucher. Ward and White were members of the Blue Jays teams that won back-to-back World Se-ries titles in 1992 and 1993.
Parents who brought their children to the camp stayed to meet with the players and watch some of their heroes teach their kids.
“This is really exciting for me be-cause I watched these guys play,” said James Robertson, a father of two boys attending the camp.
Robertson was incredibly impressed with the skills his kids were learning. His sons, Graham and Dawson loved the different lessons.
“My favourite thing to do is catch the ball,” Graham said.
The boys, along with about 100 oth-
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Wendy Stremlaw said she fi gured her husband was more excited about the Blue Jays players than her son was.
Gonzalez said the children he was teaching for the camp were all very good ball players and was happy to be able to work with them.
After their fi rst day of camp on Mon-day, July 25, the Blue Jays announced a donation of $5,000 and baseball equip-ment had been made to the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa.
Program director for the club, Jer-rett Defazio was overwhelmed by the donation and said it will make it pos-sible for the club to start up a baseball program as early as September.
“This donation is amazing and will give us the means to add baseball to our Police Athletic League,” Defazio said. The league gives youth of all ages the chance to play competitive sports in Ottawa.
The Blue Jays players came into town on July 24 to play an all-star game against the Ottawa Fat Cats and al-though Gonzalez’s team lost the slow-pitch game 3-2, he said he had a great time and was happy to come out.
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Thousands of kilometres into a cross continent run to raise money and awareness of children’s health and fi tness issues, a Wakefi eld, Que., family arrived in the nation’s capital a over the weekend about a fi fth of the way through their trek.
The Chicoine family embarked on a 20,000 kilometre run across North America back on May 9 when they started their cross-continent journey in Vancouver. They arrived in Otta-wa on July 24.
“We want to do our part to raise awareness of the critical importance of well care and kids’ fi tness,” Ed Chicoine said.
Dubbed the Marathon of Health, the Chicoines are raising money for KidSport Canada, Right to Play and Get America Fit. The trip will take the family from coast to coast in Can-ada then down the eastern seaboard of the United States before tracking back across to California. They’ll then run back north up the west coast to arrive back at their Vancou-ver starting point about 10 months after they started.
Ed, along with his six children, Tanya, Ben, Dayna, Karina, Jake and Whitney, have been running a relay that sees the group cover be-tween 40 and 90 kilometres each day.Chicoine’s wife, Gaye has the tough job of making sure everyone is eat-ing right.
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Ed Chicoine, a chiropractor in Gatineau, hoped this cause will help raise awareness about the problem of obesity amongst North American children.
“This run was born out of frustra-tion,” he said. “As a doctor, I know we are good at treating diseases, but we are not so good at preventing them.”
To celebrate their accomplish-
ment, a reception was held at city hall where Bay Coun. Mark Taylor declared July 24 Marathon of Health Day on behalf of Mayor Jim Watson.
“A lot of very good people do a lot of good work to fi ght various diseas-es, but there is not a lot of focus on welfare,” Taylor said.
The family has been driving and staying in a recreational vehicle for the duration of the trip. Although they’ve been living in close quarters, Ed Chicoine said the vehicle is a pal-ace compared to their previous trav-eling vehicles.
“We took a three year trip to South America in 1997 in our Ford Econoline Van and stayed in tents,” he said.
The trip, Gaye Chicoine explained, was an an-swer to the family feeling like daily life was get-ting away from them.
“It was an incredible learning experience for all of us,” shee said. “We had a hard time at fi rst, but we all had to learn to respect each other and I think it was defi nitely preparation for this.”
Gaye said it was her children who wanted to tackle the marathon.
“I am so proud of all of them,” Gaye said.
Photo by Michelle NashThe Chicoine family received a warm welcome as they ran their way into Ottawa. The eight members of the family have embarked on a cross North America 20,000 kilometre run to help raise money to promote children’s fi tness.
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Metroland Media currently has an opening for a Regional Human Resources Manager supporting the Ottawa region. Reporting to the Director, Human Resources, the incumbent will be responsible for providing expert Human Resources consultation to the Region ensuring all Human Resources needs are successfully met. Consulting with the regional businesses, the primary responsibility of this role is to provide guidance and consulting to ensure that business practices are promoted and supported by HR practices.
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Ottawa’s Adam Simac and the Canadian men’s volleyball team will continue their quest to emerge as one of the globe’s best volleyball countries when they take on Slovakia in a World League qualifi er July 29-30 at Scotiabank Place.
“From the worlds last year to now, we’re making a lot of im-provements in our game,” says Simac, whose squad upset Ser-bia, the planet’s fi fth-ranked nation, at the 2010 world cham-pionships, but did not advance past the fi rst round on tie-breaker. “But Slovakia is big and they’re skilled. If we don’t bring our best game, it’s going to be tough-going for us.”
Simac, the lone Ottawa na-tive on the national team (al-though a third of the players live in Ottawa while training out of Gatineau’s year-old multi-sports complex), last played for Canada at this past fall’s worlds in Germany. The 27-year-old hasn’t seen much game action since then either, missing a large chunk of the season with his Bled, Slovenia pro club due to an Achilles ten-don injury and then remaining on the shelf with a back ail-ment for the Pan Am Cup in Gatineau last month.
Simac isn’t sure if he’ll be a starting middle for the matches against Slovakia – although that was his role at the worlds – since the national team has a deep group of 20 players who push each other in practice, but there’s no doubt he’s excited for his fi rst game action since early March.
“I feel great. I really, really miss playing. It’s tough sitting off and watching the guys play,” says Simac, who’s salivating at
the thought of playing in his fi rst World League. “To be able to play against the best teams in the world for six or seven weeks, home and away, I think that is the ultimate test of who is the best volleyball team in the world.”
The FIVB (international volleyball federation) World League is a unique concept that doesn’t exist in many oth-er sports. Instead of a league’s teams hailing from different cities, it’s national teams play-ing a 12-match home-and-away schedule to advance to the play-off round.
The last time the Canadians participated in World League in 2007, each travel segment of their road trip took over 30 hours as they went from Can-
ada to Korea, to Finland, to Brazil and then back home for pairs of matches on consecu-tive weekends.
“It’s tiring,” smiles Cana-dian head coach Glenn Hoag. “But it’s matches, so it’s great. We struggle getting matches in June and July, and that would fi ll up that space with lots of good matches.
“The team is reaching a cer-tain level of maturity. Most of them are between 25 and 30 years old, so they need those matches to progress to the next step.”
The 22nd-ranked Canadi-ans will play some exhibition matches in Europe after the contests against the No. 33 Slovaks, and should they win against Slovakia, they’ll re-
turn home two weeks later in advance of the fi nal qualifying stage for the 2012 World League. But Hoag isn’t looking past the current task at hand.
“Europe, being the toughest region in the world for volley-ball, Slovakia may be ranked behind us, but their level is pretty spectacular,” says Hoag, whose team will be without in-jured setter Josh Howatson and left-side/middle Louis-Pierre Mainville, but is otherwise the healthiest it’s been in awhile. “I think they’re probably a lit-tle more game-ready than we are because they just came out of Euro League, but if we get people to come and see us and cheer for us, that will make a difference.”
Hoag’s troops are guaranteed
to have the support of the local volleyball clubs, whose mem-bers have enjoyed volunteering as sweepers and scorekeepers for many national and inter-national events that have come to Ottawa-Gatineau since the men’s team moved from Winni-peg in 2009.
“It’s been a real boon for our club,” says Mavericks Volley-ball club president Kerry Ma-cLean, who is frequently in the announcer’s booth for Canada’s games. “Everything that goes on just gives the young players the chance to see what their dream, and these players, actu-ally look like.”
Turn back the clock to 2000 when Canada played Italy for a World League match in Gatin-eau and Simac was one of those youngsters watching in the stands.
“I remember watching (vet-eran Canadian middle) Steve Brinkman play there and I was just in my early teenage years maybe, so that’s where I saw the legends of Canada and Italy, and that really kind of sparked something in me,” says Simac, who was focused on baseball as a teen and never played club volleyball before accepting an invitation from Queen’s Univer-sity’s coach to join her squad. “It’s really cool to be playing on that same fl oor now.”
Next generation risesSix Ottawa players repre-
sented Ontario in the National Team Challenge Cup – a major step in youth players’ develop-ment – this past week. Bruno Lortie and Brandon Baker played at the men’s competi-tion in Gatineau, while Alix Durivage, Sophie Carpentier, Shainah Joseph and Vicky Sa-vard participated in the Winni-peg women’s event.
Simac up for leading role in World League volleyball tilt
File photoOttawa’s Adam Simac and the Canadian men’s volleyball team will be back in action at Scotiabank Place for World League qualifying matches against Slovakia July 29-30.
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• JULY 31Heritage Ottawa Walking Tour of Lowertown West starting at 10 a.m. Admission is $10 and participants will meet at the Bytown Museum, on the Rideau Canal beneath Parliament Hill. This is the heart of old Bytown where canal workers fi rst settled and some of Ottawa’s earliest residential, commercial, and institutional structures can be found. The walk will take partici-pants around Major’s Hill Park, up to Nepean Point, and then will look at some of the historic buildings in Lowertown and the ByWard Mar-ket.The guide will be Hagit Hadaya, architectural historian. For more information call 613-230-8841 or visit: www.heritageottawa.org.
• AUGUST 7Friends of the Central Experimental Farm will host a lovely classic Victo-rian Tea served on the lawns of the Arboretum. Bring a patio chair and listen to live music. Enter the best hat contest and don period costume, however this is optional. The event will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, and it is $6 for formal tea. The event will take place in building 72 at the Central Experi-mental Farm, east off the Prince of Wales traffi c circle. For more infor-mation call 613-230-3276 or visit: www.friendsofthefarm.ca .
• ONGOINGThe Eastern Ontario Umpires As-sociation (EOUA) is looking for men and women aged 18 and over who are interested in offi ciating fast- and
slo-pitch softball. The EOUA is affi li-ated with Softball Canada, Softball Ontario, Slo-Pitch Ontario and USS-SA. Training and clinics are provided. Please call Stuart at 613-744-3967 or Dave 613-791-6767.
Friends of the Central Experimental Farm are looking for volunteers to record the bloom times of various trees and shrubs in the Arboretum. If you like to walk around the Arbo-retum, this volunteer job is for you. The Friends are also looking for gar-deners for their lilac, iris/daylily, and rose teams. “Green” and “brown” thumbs welcome. Youth a minimum of age 14 are welcome. These teams meet in the mornings, Monday to Friday. For information, please visit www.friendsofthefarm.ca/volunteers or call 613-230-3276.
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