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LAURA MUELLER
The mood amongst cycling advocates was one of jubilation as they gathered to hear about the city’s many cycling projects dur-ing a recent meeting.
“There is some serious recognition of cycling in the nation’s capital,” said Hans Moor, president of Citizens for Safe Cy-cling, to kick off the group’s annual general meeting on Nov. 1.
The city’s draft budget, which includes $24 million for cycling initiatives over the next three years, “will give cycling a shot in the arm,” Moor said.
Moor urged the group of about 100 people gathered at Hintonburg’s Tom Brown Are-na to keep the momentum going. The city is picking up the pace on infrastructure in-vestments, but things like outreach, cycling safety initiatives and even a cycling centre at city hall should be next, Moor said.
That type of progress is now possible
because city hall is becoming “much more accessible” to cyclists, Moor said, and the National Capital Commission is next.
Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar echoed those comments in his address to the group.
“These things are happening because we come together,” Dewar said, adding it helps that cyclists have a “strong voice” on city council in Capital Coun. David Chernush-enko.
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City’s cycling strides energize safety advocates
Photo by Kristy Wallace
GRAPPLING WITH HABITS TO BECOME A BETTER PERSONAt left, 16-year-old Lhaila Legendre and 19-year-old Tamla Thaw kicked a bad habit, or took on a good habit, for 21 days. The teens took part in a class assignment at Woodroffe High School that challenged them to improve themselves. For the full story, turn to page 2.
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For the past 21 days, 19-year-old Tamla Thaw cut back on his caffeine intake.
Lhaila Legendre, 16, started to dedicate an hour to homework and studying every evening.
These Woodroffe High School students, along with the rest of Idil Abdulkadir’s Design-ing Your Future class, were challenged to either take up a good habit or quit a bad habit throughout the month of Octo-ber.
Abdulkadir, in addition to many of the school’s staff, also got on board.
“I was supposed to exercise every other day. I was less suc-cessful than my students,” said Abdulkadir.
As part of her course, she said her students are learning about the importance of habits and how they shape who you are.
People can often feel down about their bad habits, and she wanted this exercise to teach students that they can overcome them.
“Our tagline is, ‘You’re stron-ger than your habits,’ ” Abdulka-dir said. “Even if (my students)
weren’t 100 per cent successful, they know they’re working on themselves.”
The exercise taught her stu-dents how to set realistic goals, she said – a lesson even she learned.
“I’m working out two days a week,” she said. “That’s more
realistic and conquerable.”Thaw changed his habit of
drinking too much coffee by drinking a smaller cup every-day as opposed to his usual ex-tra large.
He said he took up the habit when he started his weekend job, which requires him to wake
up at 5:30 a.m.“I only want coffee in the
morning when I feel tired,” Thaw said. “But it doesn’t mean I really need it. I can’t stop drink-ing coffee, but I can drink less.”
He said cutting his caffeine intake actually wasn’t as hard as he thought it would be, and
he learned that he is bigger than his bad habit.
Legendre said she decided to take up a good habit, which was dedicating an hour to homework every night.
“At fi rst it was hard. I couldn’t even do 20 minutes,” she said, adding that even though the challenge is over, she’s still con-tinuing with her good habit. In fact, Legendre has set a personal goal to raise her homework and study time to two hours a night.
“My teachers are saying what-ever you’re doing, keep it up,” she said, adding that she recent-ly achieved an 86 per cent on a biology test. She usually scored in the low 70s.
“I studied, and I still had 20 minutes left so I made a study sheet,” Legendre said. “Now I’m actually doing study sheets for every period.”
The most important lesson Legendre learned was that she was the only person standing in her way of achieving more.
“Before I thought it was too hard, but it was just me,” she said. “I’m just stepping up my game. In the beginning it’s hard because you don’t want to do it, but if you motivate yourself, it pays off in the end.”
Photo by Kristy WallaceWoodroffe High School teacher Idil Abdulkadir challenged her class to kick a bad habit – or, take on a good habit – for 21 days.
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the men and women who served their country during wartime and in the cause
of peace. More than 1,500,000 Canadians served overseas—in the First World
War (1914-18), the Second World War (1939-45), and the Korean War (1950-
53). More than 100,000 died. We honour their sacrifice and the sacrifices of our
soldiers today, who serve so we may live in peace.
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Retired sergeant Eleanor “Jerry” Cow-burn remembers what it was like during the Second World War.
At 18 years of age in Dec. 1942, she en-listed into the Canadian Women’s Army Core, a non-combat branch that helped ex-pand the country’s war effort.
“My girlfriend and I, we joined the mili-tary without our parents’ knowledge,” said Cowburn, now 87 and living in a one-bedroom suite at the Kanata Place Revera retirement residence in Glen Cairn. “(My father) didn’t like it at all but it was too late…I’d been sworn in and signed up.”
An active member of the Westboro Le-gion, Cowburn completed basic training in Kitchener, Ont., with a focus on march-ing, discipline and fi rst aid. She earned her nickname Jerry during a life-saving course.
In the course of her three years of ser-vice, Cowburn was drafted to go overseas three times but her father, a prominent po-lice chief, blocked her, she said.
Instead she travelled the province giv-ing rousing speeches aimed at enlisting men into the military and providing musi-cal entertainment for the offi cers, singing such songs as “Autumn Leaves” and “No Man is an Island.”
“My brother was in the Air Force and I had friends in the military,” said Cowburn, who’s sung in many musicals and choirs. “I wanted to do my duty for Canada.”
Cowburn, a 58-year-member of the Roy-al Canadian Legion, also remembers the day the War came to an end.
“Everybody was celebrating on the streets,” said Cowburn. “My parents were glad that I was home, that my brother was home.
“A lot of my friends did come home; a few of them were killed.”
Remembrance Day is an emotional day for Cowburn, a time when she remembers those who sacrifi ced their lives in the line of duty or who have passed on since retir-ing from active service.
She said it’s important that everyone take a moment to stop and remember the sacrifi ces of those who have fought, and those who are fi ghting, on Remembrance Day.
“(It’s important), to help the boys that were killed overseas and remember them and their families and support the ones that are still living,” she said.
Canada lost its last known First World War veteran last year. John Babcock died at the age of 109.
Cowburn said the list of surviving Sec-ond World War veterans is also getting smaller every year.
“Support the ones that are sill living,” she said. “I know there’s not many of them but I want to make sure they’re looked af-ter.”
Cowburn is twice widowed, a mother of two daughters, and step-mother of four sons.
Photo by Jessica CunhaRetired sergeant Eleanor ‘Jerry’ Cowburn served three years with the Canadian Women’s Army Core during the Second
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When Dr. Paul Kavanagh saw a Second World War veteran who couldn’t pay for soup and coffee at the Canadian War Mu-seum cafeteria in April 2009, he knew he needed to do something.
“There was a long line-up and people were becoming impatient,” said Kava-nagh. “He was in tears. I had to do some-thing. So I paid for his meal.”
That’s when Kavanagh started Op-eration Veteran, which will celebrate its third year on Nov. 11 by hosting 200 students from across Canada for Remem-brance Day ceremonies in Ottawa and a tour of the Canadian War Museum.
Operation Veteran originally ensured that on Nov. 11, no veteran would have to pay for a meal at the museum. But in 2010, thanks to schools’ fundraising ef-
forts and private donors, the program was extended to every day that the mu-seum is open.
All of the visits’ expenses are covered by the participating schools, and the schools also raise funds to support Op-eration Veteran.
To date, more than 2,000 complimen-tary meals have been served to veterans who visit the Canadian War Museum.
Students invited to the museum also experience the annual Remembrance Day wreath-laying ceremony at the Na-tional War Memorial and a special tour of the War Museum where they have the chance to talk to veterans.
This year, students from over 50 public and private schools from Vancouver Is-land to St. John’s, N.L., will participate and report to their schools on their expe-rience.
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As she marches from the War Memorial to the Canadian War Museum on Remembrance Day, Grade 12 student Elizabeth Young will remember her great grandfather who fought at the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Grade 11 student Samantha Arnold will think of her family members who have a military background.
Julian Hall, a high school teacher, will remember his grandfather, William D. Smith, who served with the British army in the Falkland Islands.
“I had the opportunity to travel to the southern tip of South America very close to the Falkland Islands,” said Hall. “I experienced the tough, bleak, rugged landscape. I was able, for a moment, to realize how diffi cult it must have been to be stationed in a place so bleak and being so far from home.”
Hall wanted high school stu-dents from across Ottawa to also experience those sights and feelings fi rst-hand – so he’s headed this year’s Walk
to Vimy event which will take place downtown on Remem-brance Day.
After ceremonies take place at the National War Memorial, Hall and a group of students and teachers from schools across Ot-tawa will walk a distance of 3.6 kilometres from the memorial to Vimy Place where the War Museum is located. Each metre they walk will represent one of the 3,598 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives at the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Money raised from the walk will go towards the cost of a school-run trip to France on April 9, 2012 where students will take part in the 95th an-niversary ceremonies for the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
“I think that being at Vimy ... will create an indelible experi-ence for our students. They will experience the craters and tun-nels at Vimy,” said Hall. “They will have a feeling of pride just being there and that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Most of all, they will real-ize that the soldiers who fought at Vimy were not too much old-er than they are now.”
Michelle Frost, a teacher at Holy Trinity Catholic School in Kanata, is organizing the walk-ing trip and the trip to France for 10 students who applied to go from her school.
Frost, who teaches Grade 10
history, said the trips are im-portant in helping young people understand what veterans have gone through.
“I think we need to give kids the opportunity to be hands-on,” said Frost. “To be part of
a signifi cant occasion is going to be very meaningful for these kids. I hope they walk away with a sense of pride, a sense of respect and understanding. These soldiers were young peo-ple – not much older than they are.”
Young, who’s in Grade 12 at Holy Trinity Catholic High School, thinks young people need something more to con-nect to when it comes to Re-membrance Day.
“Right now, students are be-ing told these were our veterans and the wars we fought in, but they aren’t connecting to it,” she said. “They need something they can understand.”
Arnold agreed that she doesn’t feel young people un-derstand enough about Remem-brance Day.
“They think of (Remem-brance Day) as something that just happens every year,” she said, adding that she feels she still needs a greater understand-ing even though she comes from a military background. “(After going to Vimy Ridge) I’ll have the image of what it was, in-stead of trying to imagine it.”
Photo by Kristy WallaceStudents from across Ottawa will be walking from the War Memorial to the Canada War Museum on Nov. 11 in honour of Remembrance Day, including students from Holy Trinity Catholic School in Kanata. From left to right are Julie Nguyen, Grade 11, Samantha Arnold, Grade 11, and Elizabeth Young, Grade 12.
Teens walk to Vimy to remember fallen soldiers
EDDIE RWEMA
On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, Cana-dians are asked to pause to re-member the thousands of men and women who sacrifi ced their lives in military service for their country.
This Friday, millions of Ca-nadians will be doing just that, remembering and honouring those who have served and those who died in confl ict.
At public gatherings in Ot-tawa and around the country,
Canadians pay tribute with two minutes of silence to the country’s fallen soldiers from the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Afghanistan confl ict and a num-ber of peacekeeping missions.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather at the National War Memorial on Wel-lington Street for Ottawa’s big-gest Remembrance Day.
Prior to the ceremony, a pa-rade of pipers and war veterans will march from Cartier Square Drill Hall towards the War Me-morial.
The ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m., starting with the playing of The Last Post and a moment of silence.
Parades and ceremonies will also be held at Royal Canadian Legion branches across the city, including the Westboro Branch. The parade begins at 1.30 p.m, heading north on Winston Av-enue between the Royal Cana-dian Legion and Madison Av-enue, east on Madison between Winston and Churchill Avenue, south on Churchill between Madison and Richmond Road, and west on Richmond between
Churchill and Broadview Av-enue.
A wreath-laying ceremony and memorial service will then take place at the Westboro Ceno-taph.
Open• The city’s 311 contact centre
will be open for urgent matters requiring the city’s immediate attention
• Garbage, recycling and or-ganics collection is expected to continue as scheduled without any changes
• All pools, arenas and fi tness centres will be open as usual.
• OC Transpo will operate on a regular weekday schedule. Service will be free for veterans wearing their uniform or med-
als, and for their companions.Closed• City hall and all seven cli-
ent service centres, including the government service centres located at 110 Laurier Ave. West and 580 Terry Fox Dr., will be closed.
• The city’s provincial offenc-es court will be closed.
• OC Transpo sales and infor-mation centres will be closed.
• All branches, departments and services of the Ottawa pub-lic library, will be closed.
• City operated child care ser-vices will be closed.
• Most programming at arts centres, archives, galleries, mu-seums and theatres will not be offered.
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Issues ranging from a prop-erty tax increase, transit invest-ment, and cycling infrastruc-ture dominated a two hour long central public consultation ses-sion for the 2012 budget held at the city hall on Nov. 4.
The meeting was the fourth of the fi fteen public consulta-tion meetings planned to seek public inputs, suggestions, com-ments and critique to the pro-posed budget.
Relatively well attended, May-or Jim Watson told participants that through a new initiative called “Ottawa on the Move,” the city was destined to become a far more bike-friendly.
Since amalgamation, the amount of cycling paths has almost doubled, going from ap-proximately 360 kilometres in 2000 to the current 685 kilome-tres of bike lanes, paved shoul-ders and multi-use pathways.
The 2012 budget provides an additional $12.1 million to help build and maintain the exist-ing path network. In total, the proposed budget identifi es more than 70 kilometres of bicycle lanes and paved shoulders that
will result from the roads resur-facing program.
“From the cycling point of view, this is the largest cycling investment over a term of coun-cil in the city’s history,” said Watson. “Something we are proud of.”
Sandy Hill resident Chris Os-ler hoped this cycling money is spent well.
“We have been hoping for more cycling infrastructure and I am happy it is happening,” said Osler.
Diane Cox, from Cycling Vi-sion Ottawa, said cycling was the way to go.
“I commend the city for in-vesting in cycling and I am look-ing forward to seeing the city fostering cycling,” she said.
Capital Coun. David Cher-nushenko who is an avid sup-porter of cycling said that though there is an important set of improvements in cycling, the job isn’t done yet.
“Cycling will help free up lane space and parking spots in the city,” said Chernushenko.
Ottawa on the Move takes bold steps to improve transportation network, while at the same time preparing for construction of Phase 1 of the light-rail-project,
which will begin next year.Through Ottawa on the Move,
Watson said that the city will triple its road investment over the next three years.
“In total we’ll now devote $340
million over three years in re-surfacing, road reconstruction, sidewalk improvements, cycling infrastructure and rehabilita-tion of ageing infrastructure,” he said.
Watson noted that major road-ways in the downtown core will be reconstructed or resurfaced in anticipation of the construc-tion of the city’s light rail.
Dale Harley, from the Nation-al Capital Heavy Construction Association hailed the Ottawa on the Move initiative.
“It is the single largest infl ux of investment that we have seen in renewing our ageing infra-structure,” said Harley.
Watson noted that the city was setting priorities in investing in areas of value to Ottawans such as improving transportation network to respond to the in-crease in OC Tranpo ridership.
The 2012 budget will see tran-sit fares increase held to 2.5 percent. A few residents in the crowd were not happy with the increment.
“While we are pleased to see that there is money in the draft budget to boost OC Transpo ser-vice, we are disappointed to see that the draft budget includes the 2.5 per cent proposed fare in-crease,” said Ecology Ottawa’s Trevor Haché, who was also the New Democratic Party candi-date for Ottawa-Vanier during the federal election back in the spring.
Photo by Eddie RwemaCity manager Kent Kirkpatrick addresses those who attended the public consultation session for the 2012 draft budget held at the city hall on Nov. 4.
Residents pleased with cycling-friendly budgetNews
From CYCLING on page 1Colin Simpson, a senior trans-
portation planner with the city, dazzled CFSC members with a rundown of the projects the city is looking to spend money on next year, and over the last three years of this term of council.
There are many projects on the list, but one of the main goals is to use them to connect the east and west ends of the city with a “bikeway” network of that links existing cycling lanes and pedes-trian bridges.
“I like to call it a Transitway for cyclists,” Simpson said.
The bikeway will start in the area of St. Laurent Boulevard and Hemlock Avenue, with cy-cling lanes on Hemlock (although dedicated bike lanes on Hemlock between St. Laurent and Marier Avenue likely won’t be possible) leading through Beechwood to St. Patrick Street.
The city plans to expand cy-cling lanes on the St. Patrick Bridge, said Zlatko Krstulich, a city transportation planner. Westbound, there are plans to connect the bike lane to Cobourg Street, and eastbound, the city is looking at improvements to make the “fl oating” bike lane be-tween two vehicle lanes safer.
The route will continue through Sandy Hill via Cobourg and Stewart Street to Cumber-land Street, bringing cyclists onto Laurier Avenue, heading to-wards the segregated bike lanes on that street through down-town.
Downtown, there are north-south links to Bay and Lyon streets, and farther north, new connec-tions being c o n s t r u c t e d with the Na-tional Capital C o m m i s s i o n to link Bay to a segregated bike lane on Wellington Av-
enue, connecting to the existing lane on the Portage Bridge.
Another eastern link is planned from the Trainyards and Overbrook neighbourhoods with two pedestrian bridges planned – over the Queensway connect the baseball stadium to Train Transitway station, and over the Rideau River from Donald Street to Somerset Street East.
“So you can start to see how that ‘spine’ network will start to wishbone, connecting you to Laurier and across downtown,” Simpson said.
Other projects Simpson high-lighted include multi-use path-ways: one on the east side of the O-Train from Somerset to Bay-view, to be built next year, and another through Hampton Park, connecting the cycle route along Dovercourt to the bicycle lanes along Island Park Drive.
KRISTY WALLACE
Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs never thought in a mil-lion years she’d extend the com-muting challenge she set for her-self earlier this summer.
“I was allowed to get back in my car on Oct. 1, but I just con-tinued to take the bus and did some cycling,” said Hobbs, who challenged herself to not use her car.
Since the summer, the council-lor has gone to and from work, to community events and meetings only using the bus or her bike – and occasionally, hitch a ride
with a colleague who might be heading her way.
Ottawa has been the only city she’s lived in where she didn’t take advantage of public trans-portation, she said.
“I thought it was impossible here. That was my mindset,” Hobbs said, adding she has learned that she prefers taking public transit over driving her car. “(Driving) is not easier. You have to park ... all those things now I don’t worry about. I just get on that bus and I can go.”
Hobbs also said that when she started the challenge, she often used the commute to check her emails or do some work.
But now, she uses the time to relax – or in the case of cycling, stay in shape.
“I used to work out almost ev-ery day,” said Hobbs, referring to the time before she was elect-ed councillor. “It was a real con-cern. You must force yourself to stay healthy.”
Hobbs admits not taking the car can be challenging at times, especially on her usual days when she starts work at 7:30 a.m. and fi nishes off at around 9 p.m.
She’s not sure if she’s going to set a new fi nish date for her challenge, but she’s getting the winter tires put on her car in preparation.
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‘Transitway for cyclists’BRIDGE PROJECTS ON THE GO
• Over the Queensway from the Ottawa Baseball Stadium in Over-brook to Train Transitway station
• Over the Rideau River, connect-ing Donald Street in Overbook to Somerset Street East in Sandy Hill
• In Hintonburg, connecting Wel-lington Street on the west side of the O-Train tracks to the City Centre Building on the east side and linking into the multi-use pathway set to be built on the other side of the O-Train
• North of Carling, connecting Hickory and Adeline streets
• In Hunt Club, construction will soon wrap up on a footbridge connecting the residential community to the South Keys shopping centre and Transitway on the other side of the Aviation Parkway
• Also in the works is a bridge traversing the Rideau Canal in the Glebe, from Clegg to Fifth avenues near Lansdowne Park
Photo by Kristy WallaceKitchissippi Ward Coun. Katherine Hobbs has extended the commuting challenge she started earlier this summer. Her original end date was supposed to be Oct. 1.
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The city was planning to expand a pi-lot program of serve-serve library check outs, but that’s off the books for 2012.
Instead, the Ottawa Public Library will focus on continuing to add radio fre-quency identifi cation tags on its books and other materials.
Owing to a direction from city coun-cil, all departments must keep proposed tax increases under 2.5 per cent, so the self-serve kiosks were put on hold be-cause there wasn’t enough money to go around. A report indicates the city has to account for a revenue shortfall and the standard increases in salaries and costs due to infl ation.
The pilot project at the Hunt Club-Riverside Community Centre has been successful, but it makes sense to put the kiosk program on hold because there is new technology being developed, said Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, chair-woman of the library board. If the city waits, there could be better, perhaps even cheaper technology available soon.
Using radio frequency identifi cation tracking is a bigger priority for the li-brary because it’s becoming standard practice in all libraries as a way to bet-ter track materials and to handle more borrowing effi ciently.
A radio frequency identifi cation chip is like a bar code, except it doesn’t have to be individually scanned with a laser. Instead the tags send of a frequency that is picked up by equipment in the library,
so it’s easier to keep track of what’s in stock at the branch.
The city is set to spend $1.08 million on the radio frequency identifi cation project in 2012, and another $250,000 each subsequent year until 2015.
The library expects it will cost an ad-ditional $1.74 million to run its services in 2012 – a 4.4 per cent increase.
Part of the pressure comes from a program that sends borrowers emails to remind them to return their books. That has made people more diligent about re-turns, meaning the library makes less money from late fi nes. But the library is on track to introduce online fi ne pay-ments in late 2011/early 2012, which the city expects will increase the amount of money it actually collects for fi nes.
Another issue is the lack of upper-level government contributions in 2011. While the city received $5.42 million to build in the Greely library and reno-vate other branches (Alta Vista, Vanier, Cumberland, Sunnyside, Ruth E. Dick-inson and Vernon) in 2010, no funding came through in 2011, “creating a need” to try to fi nd similar grants in 2012, the report states.
Some of the projects the library expects to spend money on this year include: upgrades to bring the main branch elevator up to code, replacement of the shingles at the Rockcliffe branch, repairs to windows at the Rideau Street branch and fi xes to the Sunnyside branch parking lot. There is also money to renovate the aging Hazeldean branch and to expand the Beaverbrook branch so it can serve more people.
The library board accepted the draft budget on Oct. 26 and it will debate it on Nov. 14. City council is scheduled to vote on the budget on Nov. 30.
Budget crunch puts library kiosk program on holdLate fi nes payable
online in 2012
File photoAutomated library kiosks were installed in March 2010 at the Hunt Club-Riverside com-munity centre as part of a pilot project. Plans to install the kiosks at more locations have been put on hold due to budget constraints.
OTTAWA THIS WEEK STAFF
The City of Ottawa is accepting appli-cations for non-renewable community project funding for 2012, offering grants for programs that address specifi c com-munity needs.
The city’s Community Project Funding Program supports projects that address emerging community needs, focusing on “access to basics.” Projects are funded on a one-year basis.
Non-profi t community organizations inside the city of Ottawa boundaries can submit proposals for projects that increase a neighbourhood’s capacity to
create positive and sustainable change, improve neighbourhood health and safety, or promote healthy children and youth through recreational, cultural and arts activities. Programs that promote literacy, employment, physical activity or participation in cultural programs or promote equality for all races, ethnici-ties, income levels, gender, language and ability are also eligible to apply.
The application deadline for 2012 grants is Thursday, Dec. 1 at 4 p.m. For application guidelines, forms or more information visit www.ottawa.ca under Community Funding or call Kari Keays at 613-580-2424, ext. 13371.
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Somewhere along the way, large organizations begin putting their own interests ahead of the people they serve. It happens every-
where – in private companies, in govern-ment, even in the non-profi t sector.
It’s why everything takes so long and nobody answers the phone.
You see it all the time, although you don’t always recognize it. Organizations begin to do things for their own conve-nience, rather than the convenience of the public.
It is most dramatic in government, because government’s only function is to serve the public. The recent kerfuffl e over public spaces at Library and Ar-chives Canada is a classic example. For years, several ground fl oor rooms and a medium-sized auditorium have been rented out to community groups, large and small, at a modest cost. The Library even renovated its auditorium in 1994, to improve its acoustics and make it more comfortable, an apparent sign of con-tinuing commitment to public programs.
Then the Library’s own public pro-gramming, including some outstanding musical and literary events, virtually disappeared, presumably for the usual budgetary reasons. Nevertheless, LAC continued to make its rooms available to community groups. A recent news story says that 350 events hosted by 45 differ-
ent groups will have been held at the Library by years’ end.
That could change, if the government does not react to public pressure. LAC announced recently that Public Works and Government Services Canada (PW-GSC) would take control of the ground fl oor bookings starting in January. According to the announcement, the government would charge community groups market rental rates (translation: higher) and demand that groups want-ing to use the auditorium and meeting rooms get permission from Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose.
Some vague security concerns were cited, along with a suggestion that the government might need those rooms for itself because of a shortage of meeting spaces in the capital. Both arguments were greeted with skepticism by the affected groups – the government needs more meeting spaces? Why not go to
Bridgehead? Or, better yet, hold fewer meetings.
The government has begun back-tracking and the fi nal outcome of this particular struggle will take a while. Meanwhile it is useful to consider the words of a spokesperson for LAC, a con-tender for bureaucratic confusobabble of the year:
“LAC is not a department that is specialized in property management, so it was logical that it be transferred to PWGSC, the department that has both the responsibility and expertise in this area, of which LAC has always been a tenant.”
Roughly translated, what this means is that the public was becoming an inconvenience – you know, coming through the door, going into the rooms, sitting on the chairs. Serving the public took a certain amount of effort and it would be much easier if the government just served itself.
Serving themselves is what more and more large organizations are doing, both in government and in business. When you go into a big store and can’t fi nd any staff, do you think that was done with you in mind? Do you think someone wanted to serve you better when they replaced human attendants in parking garages with machines?
It certainly didn’t serve the economy
better, at a time of high unemployment. Which brings up another question: Do you think it’s to serve you that big cor-porations continue to lay off staff while governments speak of the need to create jobs?
Is it for you that the voice mail maze has replaced human receptionists? Is it for you that airlines now charge for checked baggage? Is it for you that com-puters telephone you at home?
Do you think gas stations switched to self-serve for you?
And is it really for your convenience, despite what the sign says, that you are being videotaped in stores?
The public has reacted quite strongly to the Library and Archives changes. But there’s lots more work to be done, al-though we might be videotaped doing it.
Our self-serving bureaucraciesCHARLES GORDON
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The real war has just begun
On Remembrance Day, we honour the fallen soldiers who lie in Flanders Fields and near battlefi elds around the globe. We thank those veterans whose presence at the National War
Memorial in Ottawa and at cenotaphs throughout the country reminds us of the sacrifi ces that make our freedom possible.
Gathered near Parliament Hill, amid the pipes and parades, it’s easy to overlook the memorial itself. But take a good look at the bronze fi gures walking through the soaring granite arch. Guided by the winged fi gures of Peace and Freedom, they leave the guns of war behind and wearily make their way to what they hope will be a peaceful future, free of the hell from which they came.
Now look even closer, at their faces. Are these the same boys and girls who left their farms and towns as fresh-faced teens to take on the world? No. They seem to have aged decades in just a few years. The sculptor has captured their utter fatigue, their hollow eyes and spent spirits. And even this powerful rendering is a sympathetic portrayal of the true cost of war.
As Canadians celebrate veterans and honour their
service, we would do well to remember those faces. The soldiers now returning from Afghanistan might not be so dramatically changed in appearance, but inside, many have aged decades in just a few months. Many more do not carry in their hearts the peace and hope for the future the monument symbolizes.
It is well and good to rename highways and make speeches. But society – and government in particular – must be willing to get into the trenches and deal with the less public, much thornier issues of mental health, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and reintegration to “normal” society for veterans who left as innocents and return broken in body and spirit.
The government must match its grand rhetoric with funding to rehabilitate wounded soldiers and edu-cate those who don’t yet understand the demons they grapple with. But Veterans Affairs programs are being cut, and the opposition’s investigation into those cuts has been stifl ed by government MPs.
Adding the dates of the Afghan mission to the war memorial will hardly signal its end. Our soldiers have fought and suffered; the country must in turn fi ght for them now that they are home again.
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A few years ago, I had a manager call me into her offi ce.
“What the hell is the matter with you?” she asked me.
I was shocked. I was only working as a freelancer, and I had a great relationship with this manager.
“You think just because you’ve pushed out a couple of kids that you’re worth-less?” she continued. “I want you to go in there and demand a day rate worthy of someone with your level of education and experience.”
And I did. And it earned me a signifi -cant raise on my daily rate as a consul-tant.
The blogosphere has been lit up with stories over the past few weeks about the ways women stunt their career develop-ment. The main reason women fail to get ahead, according to one group of management experts from the Harvard Business Review, is that they lack self-confi dence.
Analyzing it afterward, I realized that I was setting a low rate because I was wor-ried I wouldn’t get any work otherwise. Having been on maternity leave for a couple of years, I wasn’t sure my previ-ous experience still “counted.” But by setting my rate far lower than the compe-tition, I had inadvertently undervalued my skills and experience and demon-strated a lack of confi dence to clients. Plus, I was setting a bad precedent.
I’ve interviewed a number of women over the past few months that have made it to the top of their companies, and in some cases, their industries. Although they have all faced different challenges and lessons to get to where they are, I
noted some commonalities among them.All of them chose to view their mis-
takes or fumbles as opportunities. Too often, we beat ourselves up over our per-ceived failures. Not these women. Rather than becoming all-consumed in guilt and self-doubt, they were able to say, “OK, I made a mistake this time. What did I do wrong? What did I learn? How can I do things differently next time?”
These same women were not afraid to ask for feedback. If you have low self-con-fi dence, asking for feedback, especially 360-degree feedback, which allows your peers, managers and staff to provide constructive criticism on your perfor-mance, could sound like a devastating exercise. But if you want to get over this hurdle, it’s important to have a clear idea of your strengths and weaknesses – or to put it in more favourable terms, your development areas. Really, the only way to do this is to get a variety of external perspectives.
Learning to seek out and accept feed-back can help you boost your strengths and encourage you to spend time work-ing on your development areas. Plus, you’re less likely to be caught off guard when a client or boss tells you something seemingly negative about your skills.
Perhaps the one thing that didn’t come up in these interviews was the following: Women, especially mothers, have a ten-dency to feel guilty. They feel guilty when they’re at home with the kids and they feel they should be working. They feel guilty when they’re at work, maybe do-ing overtime, and feeling like they should be spending more time with the kids. This contributes to apparent low self-confi dence in a more subtle way. The best way to overcome this is to focus 100 per cent of attention on work when you’re at work. And when you have time with the kids, don’t think or talk about work, but give the kids 100 per cent of your time.
It’s not easy. Depending on the type of work you do, it can be harder to compart-mentalize your life. But it’s essential if you want to give each area of your life your best and be confi dent at the same time.
THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTIONWith so many options in the national capital, how do you observe Remembrance Day?
A) I take a trip down to the National War Memorial to pay my respects.
B) I head to my local legion to remember those who have fallen with those veterans who remain.
C) My school or workplace observes a mo-ment of silence at 11:00 a.m.
D) I don’t do anything formal, but I wear a poppy and observe the day in my own way.
LAST WEEK’S POLL SUMMARYWhat 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.
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Nouria Issa came to Canada about 20 years ago with nothing in her pockets and seven chil-dren under the age of 12.
She had a comfortable life in Somalia with her husband and children in what was consid-ered a middle-class family. But civil war changed everything and in the early 1990s, Issa took her children and traveled to Dji-bouti, where she’s from origi-nally.
With her husband still in Somalia, Issa didn’t have any rights as a woman. She knew she had to provide a better life for herself and her children, and chose to come to Canada. She heard good things about Canada, and even had some friends and relatives here – in-cluding a brother to whom she had donated a kidney.
“It’s smaller than America and there’s less violence,” Issa said during a break from her work at The Caldwell Family Centre. “We loved Canada. (It) was more friendly and conser-vative.”
When she and her family ar-rived in Canada, they lived in a motel, a church-run shelter and
fi nally managed to rent a unit in Michele Heights.
Issa worked hard, and she chose to be a role model for her children. She started volunteer-ing at a community centre in Michele Heights. She went back to school and took English. She got a job at the Nepean Commu-nity Resource Centre, and went to college.
“I wanted to be a role model for my children, and I wanted to contribute to my new country too,” Issa said. “I was young, and eager to learn more – and help my community too.”
Issa’s children have learned from her strength and determi-nation, and now as adults they too have taken up volunteering. Her hard work has also rubbed off on them, including one of her sons who she helps regu-larly at a restaurant he owns in Ottawa.
But Issa also tries to make an impression on her clients at The Caldwell Family Centre, where she works as a family support co-ordinator.
In her role, Issa helps fami-lies, seniors, newcomers and others who need help manage their budgets and teaches them healthy eating on a low income.
She also runs a community
kitchen and workshops to bet-ter the lives of those who live in the Caldwell community.
Connie Higginson-Murray,
manager of resource develop-ment at the centre, said Issa is a comfort to those who visit the centre because clients can re-
late to her and her story.Higginson-Murray met Issa
while the two worked at Nepean Community Resource Centre about 10 years ago.
“If you ever think you’re hav-ing a tough time or have a lot of challenges, you have to listen to her story,” Higginson-Murray said. “What struck me most was I have never to this day heard her complain. I came in this morning and my fi rst words were about the hellish traffi c. But I never in my life heard her complain. Everything is the way it is, and that was remark-able.”
While Issa has worked hard throughout her two de-cades in Canada, she still has dreams she hopes to achieve one day.
“I’d like my own house,” said Issa, who is currently renting an apartment. “I have never owned my own house.”
Issa said if she give newcom-ers to Canada any advice, it would be to try and get to know people and begin to integrate into the community.
“It’s better to work hard than to sit and be depressed at home,” she said. “It’s better to be hope-ful, and nothing can stop you if you try harder and harder.”
Family support worker’s strength inspires those around her
Photo by Kristy WallaceNouria Issa is a family support co-ordinator at The Caldwell Family Centre, and is an inspiration to her clients and colleagues at the centre.
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Hintonburg artist Patrick John Mills has a new artistic side to show off to visi-tors when he opens his gallery doors to the public this month.
His new book, Raw Naked Soul, will be released at his exhibit of the same name.
“I worked on it for about 18 years, and it’s the fi rst time I’ve done a book,” said Mills from his gallery, which also serves as his house. “It’s really autobiographi-cal – some of it is pretty explicit and it’s incredibly raw.”
Raw Naked Soul features poems, Mills’ experiences while painting, as well as in-sights into his thought process while cre-ating art.
While he said some of the material can be negative or explicit, he tried to balance it with beautiful and thought-provoking poems.
He said Raw Naked Soul was the best name for it.
“Raw is like a piece of meat, naked revolves around vulnerability and open-ness, and soul is just the essence of a per-son,” Mills said.
He wrote it, he said, because he wanted to give his audience an insight into the artist’s journey.
Mills also wanted to launch the book while he hosted his exhibit Raw Naked Soul, which is a solo show featuring his
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Mills’ life, since he has amalgamated his living space at the gallery with the regu-lar studio.
Paintings will be displayed in bed-rooms, the living room – even his bath-room.
“It’s to give (visitors) a different point of view. And to just share (my work) with people,” said Mills. “That’s really it. What they get out of it – who knows.”
As an artist, Mills said he’s had to have thick skin when opening himself up to people, whether it’s through the book or through his most recent exhibit.
“It’s diffi cult to have a certain painting that’s so open and honest and revealing,” he said. “You have these paintings that are about your marriage your life, and you kind of grow thick skin. But I’ve al-ways kind of painted that way.”
While opening himself up to his au-dience this month, Mills hopes that a younger generation will learn a few les-sons about pursuing what makes them happy.
“You can do things on your own terms,” he said.
The Raw Naked Soul exhibit is running at the Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in Hintonburg from Nov. 3 to 26. His book will also be available at the opening, and at Collected Works in Wellington West.
Artist delves into poetrywith Raw Naked Soul
Photo by Kristy WallaceHintonburg artist Patrick John Mills is releasing his book, Raw Naked Soul, to go along with his exhibit of the same name taking place Nov. 3 to 26.
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An energetic advocate of sustainable, walkable cities kicked off a series aimed at inspiring Ottawa to change the way it moves.
Three lectures from international ex-perts in urban planning took place last week to kick off an 18-month process that will produce a plan to make Ottawa’s streets more vibrant, inviting and safe for all users, whether they are drivers, cyclists or pedestrians.
But the bottom line is that everyone is a pedestrian, said Gil Penalosa, the Co-lombian/Canadian planner whose talk on Nov.2 launched the Downtown Moves study.
Downtown Moves will look at news ways to transform the way people move around the downtown, capitalizing on opportuni-ties that will be created as construction of the light-rail system gets underway.
Penalosa, a public speaker and the exec-utive director of advocacy group 8-80 Cit-ies, said that when it comes to developing useable streets, “everything begins and ends with walking.”
“(Walking is) the most important mode,” Penalosa said during his enthusiastic and often frenetic speech. “It always needs to be the priority.
“We need to start thinking, ‘Are we build-ing streets for cars, or people?’ Because we are doing one or the other,” he added.
Street space is the city’s largest and most valuable asset, and how Ottawa chooses to distribute that space (to drivers, transit, cyclists and pedestrians) will shape the kind of city it becomes in the future, Pen-alosa said.
He threw out ideas such as reducing the speed of neighbourhood streets to 30 kilo-metres per hour, expanding a network of segregated bicycle lanes on arterial roads with speeds greater than 40 km/hour and encouraging bike-share programs.
Penalosa’s energetic talk was intended to inspire both city staff and members of the public, more than 150 of whom turned out for the fi rst talk at city hall. The next
two lectures on Nov. 3 (Andrew Wiley-Schwartz of the New York City depart-ment of transportation and Ken Green-berg, author and urban design consultant) were just as well attended, said Nelson Ed-wards, the Ottawa staffer in charge of the Downtown Moves project.
“People were already up and running with their thoughts,” Nelson said, with both staff and members of the public sub-mitting ideas for Ottawa after hearing the three lectures.
Penalosa, Wiley-Schwartz and Green-berg threw out a lot of interesting ideas, Nelson said, but the emphasis was always on translating those ideas to create unique solutions for Ottawa.
In trying to come to a unique strategy for Ottawa, Penalosa said the city should ask itself three questions when it builds or rebuilds a street: Would children like it? Would seniors like it? Would someone feel safe sending a child or a senior down the street on a bike to run an errand?
It also needs to be an integrated, holistic approach. Instead of just asking what we want Ottawa’s streets to look like, Penalo-sa said, we should be asking ourselves how we want to live, and what kind of quality of life we want to achieve.
But even within Ottawa, every neigh-bourhood poses unique challenges, Pen-alosa said. The key is not to “copy and paste” whatever we see as the best solu-tion, but instead to “adapt and improve” on ideas that have been used elsewhere.
Change is diffi cult, Penalosa noted, and political will is the essential ingredi-ent needed to make any improvements to mobility in Ottawa. To that end, citizens, businesses and other organizations need to create a sense of urgency and desire for change, he said.
The public will have a chance to give that type of input over the next 18 months slated for the Downtown Moves study.
A lot of the heavy lifting will kick off in the new year, Nelson said. In the end, the hope is that it will produce an integrated urban design and transportation strategy for the future of downtown Ottawa’s street network.
‘Today we talk,tomorrow we walk’
Photo by Laura MuellerGolden Triangle resident Barry Nabatian surveys some of the background information that will help the city study transportation needs in the core as part of Downtown Moves, which kicked off at city hall on Nov. 2.
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Canada’s fi rst cancer survi-vorship centre was opened in Alta Vista on Nov. 3 by the Otta-wa Regional Cancer Foundation, promising to offer cancer pa-tients and survivors a new outlet for support in the Ottawa area.
The Maplesoft Centre, located on Alta Vista Drive, will provide support services that are not covered by standard medical treatment programs designed to help survivors cope with the psychological and physical ef-fects of having cancer.
“Today we are launching new programs that are going to change the cancer experience for people across Eastern Ontario,” said Linda Eagen, president and chief executive of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation.
She described the centre as a place for cancer patients to ask questions about treatments, get psychotherapy and do things like join a yoga group or take a cooking course, all at no cost.
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very personal, it’s customized, and we will be offering services that are unique in Canada,” said Eagen. She added that the cen-tre will be a valuable resource for those living with cancer and hopefully become the fi rst of many similar facilities across the country.
All the centre’s programs are designed to compliment a cancer survivor’s medical care with the goal of further enabling medi-cal teams to focus on treating the clinical aspects of cancer.
It will offer cancer coaching sessions, including pain man-agement, nutrition, relaxation, and fatigue management.
“We have built a very power-ful team of cancer coaches,” Ea-gen said. “These individuals are health care professionals, they have background in oncology and they are here to help each person, one person at a time.”
Nestled beside the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Sur-vivors Park, the centre will be a place of quiet refuge and refl ec-tion, support and empowerment during the cancer journey. So
far, more than 200 people have pre-registered online to receive treatment.
The centre was partially funded by both the federal and provincial government.
“Our government is proud to have contributed $850,000 to-wards the centre through the infrastructure stimulus fund,” said Ottawa West-Nepean MPP
John Baird, who is currently serving as minister of foreign affairs.
“When somebody you love is fi ghting, you want nothing more than to give them a break – even an hour or two when they can focus on anything but the pain,” Baird said.
Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli, the Ontario in-
frastructure minister, called the centre a very good and special initiative.
Mayor Jim Watson, who him-self is a skin cancer survivor, said the centre will give survi-vors and patients hope, inspira-tion and comfort.
“This is a place that is going to be used to bring that sense of peace and tranquility,” he said.
Photo by Eddie RwemaThe Governor General’s Foot Guards were on hand to play the national anthem at the offi cial opening of Canada’s fi rst Cancer Survivorship Centre in Alta Vista on Nov. 3.
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Jean Fulton-Hale, Nepean High School’s vice-principal, believes in the importance of youth helping youth.
That’s why on Nov. 4, the west-end high school held its 22nd annual United Way Break-fast fundraiser for the Dave Smith Foundation.
“The Dave Smith Foundation supports youth struggling with addiction, and we have a com-mitment to our youth helping youth,” Fulton-Hale said.
On Nov. 4, Ottawa Carleton District School Board encour-aged Nepean High School and other schools across the Ot-tawa region to hold United Way events in as part of the board’s ongoing United Way campaign.
The breakfast at Nepean High School is an ongoing tra-dition that’s lasted more than two decades.
“It’s a community event,” said Fulton-Hale. “The break-fast was organized by students, and the students worked re-ally hard to get a response from the community. It was a real pleasure to see all generations there.”
While Fulton-Hale said the school hasn’t fi nished count-ing up how much was raised, half of the money raised at the breakfast will go to the Dave Smith Foundation and the other half will go to the United Way.
For more information on United Way Ottawa or to do-nate, visit their website at www.unitedwayottawa.ca/ .
Nepean High School breakfast helps Dave Smith Foundation
Submitted photoNepean High School held its 22nd annual United Way breakfast fundraiser for the Dave Smith Foundation on Nov. 4.
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Local fi gure skaters won the lion’s share of the medals at the Skate Canada Eastern On-tario Sectionals, hosted by the Gloucester Skating Club this past weekend.
Zoe Gong was one of sev-eral division champions from Minto Skating Club, earning the novice women’s title while skating to James Bond-in-spired music and wearing the hand-made costume her mother put together.
“My jumps weren’t perfect but I did land them,” says Gong, a 14-year-old Earl of March Sec-ondary School student who’s enjoyed the chance to be grace-ful and dynamic with the James Bond theme. “It has more of a storyline than my other pro-grams.”
Gloucester’s Nikki Mattocks, who had a standout free skate, won silver in the category. Min-to’s Lisa Nasu-Yu, who moved to Mississauga this past March to pursue her training there, took third, while Gloucester’s Kelsey MacLean was fourth. Gloucester’s Sonia Tang, a top contender in the category, had to withdraw due to an Achilles tendon injury suffered in training.
The Lancaster Road-based Minto club produced a remark-able sweep of the top eight posi-tions in the pre-novice women’s event, with Sophie Fu, Sheena Hardwick-Kelly, Analisa Love-Tedjoutomo and Morgan Mc-Millan occupying the top four spots.
The Minto ice dancers, led by novice champions Samantha Glavine (who competes under the Rideau Skating Club ban-
ner) and novice men’s singles silver medallist Jeff Hough, oc-cupied their usual top spots at the competition.
“Our expression was the stron-gest (part of the performance),” says Manotick’s Glavine, noting improvements can still be made on their footwork. “We were act-ing in character and just skat-ing to the music.”
The Sectionals doesn’t attract a great number of dance teams,
but it does still provide a forum to practice for later events.
“I really wish we had compe-tition. Maybe with the Ontario Winter Games more will come,” says South Carleton High School student Alex Gunther, part of an enthusiastic young ice dance pair with fellow Gloucester skater Chelsea Sheridan. “We practice three mornings a week. School starts at 8 a.m. and I get there at 8:25, but I love to skate
in the mornings.”Waking up for early-morning
training sessions is not the most glamorous part of ice dancing, but it’s part of the drill, notes Minto skating coordinator Dar-ryl VanLuven.
“Sometimes they get put off to the side since they skate at 6:30 in the mornings,” VanLu-ven adds. “Not many people get to see that, but those teams have been working hard this year.”
Minto’s Ian Gibson picked up a bronze medal in the nov-ice men’s category, while Anna McCorriston of Minto just missed out on junior women’s gold by less than a point be-hind Gloucester’s Elizabeth Comeau, a fi rst-time Section-als champion who leapfrogged teammate and bronze medal-list Jennifer Pettem after the short program.
Gloucester’s Ben Guthrie scored 126.50 points in the se-nior men’s competition, while Nepean’s Alaine Chartrand topped the senior women’s cat-egory and Gloucester’s Sarah and Steven Clarke placed sec-ond in junior dance.
Gloucester’s Hailey Fournier edged Minto Alexis Dion to win the juvenile women’s compe-tition and Rideau’s Andriyko Goyaniuk topped the pre-novice men’s fi eld, ahead of Glouces-ter’s Josh Allen and Minto com-petitors Hugh Brabyn-Jones and Cameron Hines in second through fourth place.
The top four competitors in each category advanced to the Skate Canada Challenge in Re-gina, Sask. from Nov. 30-Dec. 4 – the fi nal qualifi er for the Ca-nadian championships – where VanLuven expects athletes from Eastern Ontario will fare quite well matched up against their counterparts from across the country.
“Eastern Ontario’s come a long way,” he highlights. “Our section is doing a great job pro-moting our sport and bringing in seminars, plus a good mon-etary program this year to help out coaches and skaters.
“Everyone’s kind of working together to produce the best that we can do.”
Ottawa fi gure skaters shine at home sectionals
Photo by Dan PlouffeHélène Letourneau and Kevin Bozcar turned in a good performance in the senior ice dance competition at Skate Canada’s Eastern Ontario Sectionals Nov. 5-6 at the Gloucester Skating Club.
LAURA MUELLER
The city should look at how bus bays impact all road users, not just transit riders, when it’s deciding on whether to include bus-stop offshoots from the main road.
That could mean the city builds fewer bus bays when it re-builds roads in the future.
The city’s transportation com-mittee and transit commission both unanimously endorsed the change to Ottawa’s bus-bay poli-cy, which is used as an example for cities across North America, said Dennis Fletcher, a consul-tant for the city.
It would be better for everyone – transit users, drivers and bus operators – if there were fewer
bus bays, Fletcher’s report states. And contrary to their intent, bus bays have a more negative im-pact on transit passengers and transit operations.
The study found that buses are delayed fi ve or six seconds lon-ger on average at a bus bay than at a curbside stop. But the cumu-lative effects over the course of a route are greater than the effect on drivers, according to Fletch-er’s report.
But for cars, the delay can be much longer at curbside stops. If the cars can get around the bus, they might only be held up by a couple of seconds, but if vehi-cles are trapped behind the bus, the average wait is 14 seconds, but it could be up to 22 seconds per stop. On average, cars are delayed about eight seconds by
buses at curbside stops.Instead of measuring the de-
lay for bus riders, the new pro-cess would calculate how all road users are impacted by using a calculation called “person min-utes of travel” that integrates all modes. “(We will) no longer be fa-vouring transit customers as the old regional strategy does,” said Pat Scrimgeour, OC Tranpo’s top transit planner.
As for an example of a road that could benefi t from a bus bay, Scrimgeour said it could be part of the design of Booth Street downtown, heading north from the future light-rail station. That’s a spot where large num-bers of passengers will be board-ing and disembarking the bus, so it makes sense to take the bus out of the regular traffi c fl ow.
New policy frowns on bus baysKRISTY WALLACE
Nepean High School’s fi eld hockey team had two things to be happy about this past week – the team won the National Capi-tal Secondary School Athletic Association championships and traveled to OFSAA in Markham, Ont., where they placed fi fth overall.
“It was a great, great victory for our team. The girls worked hard all year,” said Nepean High School’s vice-principal Jean Fulton-Hale. “They had pretty strong competition.”
The Nepean Knights beat Ashbury College and the long-standing winner of the NCSSAA championships, John McRae.
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National capital runners earned seven top-10 fi nishes on their home course as nearly 1,500 of the province’s best high school cross-country runners descend-ed on the Hornet’s Nest for the OFSAA championships on Saturday, Nov. 5.
Organizers couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day, and the star attraction of the competition came through to the delight of the hometown fans as Glebe Collegiate Institute’s Yves Sikubwabo blasted his own course record by over one minute and 15 seconds to easily win the senior boys’ event.
“I’m so happy,” says Sikubwabo. “It was my last year for (high school) cross-country, so I’m very proud. Especially my family, they keep on encouraging me and saying, ‘Yves, we believe you can do it.’ ”
The Glebe midget girls captured the region’s only other medals with a very strong debut performance against the province’s best to take antique-bronze for fourth place in the team event.
“I just wanted to run at OFSAA,” says team member Alexa Livingstone, who persevered despite having the fl u to place 51st out of 242 runners.. “The big hill was the hardest for me. My legs were dead.”
At least Livingstone knew what was coming at her from previous races. Sev-
eral out-of-town competitors in the midg-et girls’ event actually cried their way up the big toboggan hill by the Montreal Road exit to Highway 174.
The hill was where midget boys’ com-petitor Arjun Walia started picking off a large number of runners en route to a 17th-place fi nish in the midget boys’ race in a time that was over a minute faster than his silver medal-winning perfor-mance the week before. “I didn’t even re-alize it. When you’re running in a group with people who are pretty much at your level, you push so much harder,” says Walia, who wore Nepean City shorts to thank his former soccer club for giving him his running fi tness.
Franco-Ouest’s Emma Galbraith ran a consistent race to crack the senior girls’ top-10 with a ninth-place showing.
“It was OK,” says Galbraith, who placed higher in the same event last year. “I felt strong through the race, but there was a lot of competition.”
Nepean’s Scott Donald ran a smart, consistently hard race from the start to earn an eight-place fi nish in the senior boys’ event.
“Everyone was asking me how I thought I was going to place, and I didn’t respond to any of them,” Donald explains. “But deep down, I wanted top-10, so I’m really happy about that.”
Area runners make most of home course advantage
DAN PLOUFFE
In the course of the football game, there probably couldn’t have been a much more inconsequential play.
Down 21-0 to the undefeated Myers Orleans Bengals with under a minute to play, there was no way the Nepean Red-skins were going to win the National Capital Amateur Football Association Midget ‘A’ Cup fi nal on Friday, Nov. 4 in Gatineau.
But as their kick returner ran hard, bounced off one tackle, then got his leg caught before lunging ahead with a last-ditch effort to fi ght for every possible yard, there couldn’t have been a more tell-ing play for Redskins coach Steve Viau.
“They never quit,” Viau says of his players. “Thirty seconds left – our guys are ready to go and saying, ‘C’mon boys, we got 30 seconds left.’”
It’s the type of attitude that makes a coach “more proud of these guys than any father could be.”
The Redskins battled through the NCAFA season without a starting quar-terback until the very end of the season, struggling to put points on the board, but providing stalwart defence in giving up an average of six points per game during a 4-4 regular season.
With a 23-13 playoff victory over the Ot-tawa Colts, Nepean was off to its second consecutive Midget title game, although the result wasn’t as kind to the Redskins this time around.
“It doesn’t feel great to lose, but we’ll be back,” says Viau. “We play with dignity and walk out with our heads held high. If we lose, we lose with dignity. We lost (on Friday), but they’re still smiling.”
Defensive leader Ryan Lawther was named the Redskins’ MVP in the contest, a fi tting tribute to a player who always gives maximal effort and also helps out with younger teams, says Viau.
The Bengals were the class of the Midg-et division this season, scoring over three times as many points as they allowed en route to a perfect 10-0 record.
“Every bar that we set, they met,” says Orleans coach Ntare Bainomugisha, whose entire coaching staff is made up of players with at least university experi-ence. “It was awesome. And the kids are such good kids.”
In other NCAFA ‘A’ Cup fi nals, the Cumberland Panthers beat the Bel-Air Copeland Lions 42-28 in the Mosquito championship, the Myers Riders Pee-wees downed the Bell Warriors 28-21 and the Gloucester South Raiders knocked off the Riders 14-7 in Bantam play.
Redskins walk away from NCAFA defeat ‘with our heads held high’
Photo by Dan PlouffeThe Nepean Redskins made it to their second NCAFA Midget fi nal in as many years, but they couldn’t defend their title this time around up against the Orleans Bengals, who completed an undefeated season with a 21-0 victory on Friday, Nov. 4 in Gatineau.
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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.
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WHO ARE WE?Metroland Media, Ottawa Division, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corpora-tion and southern Ontario’s most trusted and respected community media source. Our digital media division, manages a network of leading community, specialty and vertical websites across Ontario reaching over 6 million unique internet users every month.
THE OPPORTUNITYAs we continue to expand our successful digital sales initiatives, we are currently seeking an energetic, talented and self-assured Manager of Digital Media to drive new business sales throughout the Ottawa region. We’re looking for a motivated leader who demonstrates a sense of urgency, without creating unnecessary chaos. The ideal candi-date will have strong management experience and a proven track record for attaining outstanding results through the motivation and development of a sales team. This role requires knowledge of the digital advertising space, the competitive landscape and a solutions oriented approach to selling.
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relationships • Extensive knowledge of the local digital media/advertising landscape• Highly skilled in all Microsoft Offi ce applications, with expert knowledge of Excel
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• We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll get a comprehensive benefi ts package, including 4 weeks vacation and a group RRSP plan
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• NOVEMBER 11Fall Harvest Community Pot Luck and Con-cert, hosted by the Village International Mennonite Church, 206 Montreal Rd., with Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Moyer Suderman. Bryan performs music for all ages. There will be a potluck from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Bryan will be performing from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be a suggested donation of $5 for adults, free for children, and food donations for our local food bank, Partage Vanier. Invite your friends and neighbours, and bring a meal to share.
• NOVEMBER 12Please join Villa Marconi for our 7th Annual craft and bake sale. There will be gift ideas for everyone! Funds raised by Villa Marconi will be donated to our residents’ council. If you would like to rent a table and sell baked goods or crafts, please call Antonietta at 613-727-6201 ext. 6660 for further details.
Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind’s Christ-mas bazaar and bake sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind is located at 4120 Rideau Valley Drive North, Manotick (between Barrhaven and Manotick, off Prince of Wales Drive). For further information about the bazaar and bake sale, or to donate items, please contact 613-692-7777.
Ottawa Valley Rock Garden and Horticultural Society talk will feature speaker Paul Zammit from the Toronto Botanical Gardens. The talk is entitled Gardening for Four Sea-sons - Growing plants in the ground and in containers. Admission is $5 for non-members. The event will take place at the Westboro Ma-sonic Hall, 430 Churchill Ave. at 1:30 p.m. For more information visit: www.ovrghs.ca .
• NOVEMBER 12-13Two-day workshop on nonviolence takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1226 Wel-lington Street West (at Holland). Participants must register in advance. There is a fee of $20 per person, however sliding scale is available. For more information and to register, visit the website: amydillonnv.wordpress.com , email: [email protected] or call 613-761-9997.
Friends of the Farm are hosting a craft and bake sale with an incredible selection of items to choose from, and don’t forget to pick up some delicious baked goods. The sale will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is free. The event will be located at Building 72, C.E.F., east off Prince of Wales round-about. For more information, call 613-230-3276 or visit: www.friendsofthefarm.ca .
• NOVEMBER 14Please join us for the Caldwell Family Centre Seniors Centre Open House from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 1485 Caldwell Avenue. All adults including seniors and caregivers are encour-
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• NOVEMBER 15-16Art Lending of Ottawa will be hosting an exhibition at the First Unitarian Church hall at 30 Cleary Ave. on Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. In addition to our regular members’ exposition, the show will feature a Christmas boutique. Admission and parking are free. For more information, call 613-224-8028 or visit the website at: www.artlendin-gofottawa.ca .
• NOVEMBER 17Voices: Musicians for Mental Illness is an inaugural benefi t concert that will raise funds for the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Men-tal Health and will take place on Thursday, Nov.17 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the NAC’s Fourth Stage. The evening will feature singer-songwriters Amanda Rheaume, Ana Miura, Peter Hammond and Lynne Hanson as they perform in a song-circle and lend their voices and personal stories to a cause that is too often hidden in the shadows.
• NOVEMBER 19Food bazaar takes place at St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, located at 579 Parkdale
Ave. from 9 a.m. to noon. There will be a deli, frozen foods, candy, baking, gift baskets, Ger-man food table and a coffee shop.
Caldwell Family Centre invites everyone to their Christmas bazaar and craft sale (featur-ing crafts, jewelry, garage sale, preserves, tea room and home-baked treats), from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Bonaventure Church, 1359 Chat-elain Avenue (corner of Kirkwood). For more information call Andrée at 613-728-1268.
• NOVEMBER 20Ottawa Authors and Artisans Fair 2011 takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Jack Purcell Centre, 320 Jack Purcell Lane at Elgin Street, room 203. More than 50 local authors and artisans will display and sell their work. Table rental fees for OIW members are $35 for a full table and $20 for a half table. Fees for non-members are $40 for a full table and $25 for a half table. To register, email your confi rmation to Bob Fowler at: [email protected] and mail a cheque payable to Ottawa Independent Writers to: 22 Parkside Cres., Nepean, ON K2G 3B5. For more infor-mation visit: www.oiw.ca .
• DECEMBER 3-4Rent a table at Our Lady of the Visitation Par-ish Hall’s annual bazaar which will take place on Dec. 3 and 4. The cost is $25 for both days and the event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The event will take place at 5338 Bank Street. For set-up time contact Marie Trojan, Banquet Centre Manager, at 613-822-1777.
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PASSING ALONG THE PRESIDENT’S STICKRideau Trails Association president Robert Groves, right, presents the association’s President’s Stick to Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, who is also deputy mayor. The stick was fi rst given to the Rideau Trail Association in 2007 by Mayor Jim Watson, then the minister of Health Promotion in the provincial government. To honour the association’s 40th anniversary this fall, the stick was carried by more than 200 association members along the 300-kilometre trail that stretches between Kingston and Ottawa, ending at the Bytown Museum on Saturday, Nov. 5. The association formed in 1971 in an effort to create a continuous walking trail between Kingston, Smiths Falls, Perth and Ottawa.
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Selling your home without the help of an expensive real estate agent is becoming a popular choice, says SolveProproperties.com founder, Alfonso Cuadra.
More and more people are fi nding that the current real estate agent system is unfair.
“It all comes down to the internet,” says Cuadra. “ It has changed the way we do busi-ness and the real estate agent system is an old model of doing business.”
As housing prices are climbing and more people are increasing the usage of the Inter-net to search for their goods and services, fi nding an independent and more cost eff ec-tive method of doing business is exactly what SolveProproperties.com provides.
Offi cially launching this month, SolvePro-Properties.com will save you the thousands of dollars you would have spent on real estate agents.
With over 15 years of real estate experi-ence, the team at SolveProproperties.com will help home sellers keep those high commission fees in their pockets. Working directly for the people, SolveProproper-ties.com is revolutionizing the real estate industry.
With the help of the knowledgeable, friendly, and helpful staff , the company off ers creative packages that will enable customers
to list their home on the market and provide them with all the tools they need to make a quick and easy real estate transaction.
“We take out the fear and the unknown of selling your home on your own and make you feel at ease,” said Cuadra.
Th rough education, SolveProproperties.com services empower the private home seller.
For the novice home seller, SolveProprop-erties.com gives workshops held once a month as well as on site marketing consul-tations, providing everything you need to know on order to be successful on your own.
Save money with SolveProproperties.com
On average, you can save about $17,000 in commission fees. In Ottawa, where the cost of an average home is around $350-400,000, you’re looking at saving around $20,000 by avoiding paying commission to real estate agents.
Th at is $20,000 that can be saved by selling your home all on your own, which you can now easily do with a little bit of education and support.
By choosing from various fl at-fee options that include services such as web listing, open house support, and private sale consul-
tation, SolveProproperties.com assists home, business, and multi-unit owners with the result of saving them thousands of dollars in real estate commission fees.
As well, when you list with us, you will have the option to have your listing posted on the Ottawa MLS (Multiple Listings Services) that ensures that your listing will be seen by an internet audience in the thousands.
Founder, CEO, and President of SolvePro-properties.com, Alfonso Cuadra, knows that his biggest success in his 11 years of real estate experience was that he never used an agent.
“To me it was just common sense. After speaking with other home owners and investors, I quickly found out that what I was doing was very uncommon at the time.” Cuadra then decided to assist others home owners as well.
He went on to put together a winning team with a mission to put out the best, most helpful “sell by owner” website the world has ever seen.
SolveProproperties.com has yet to be launched and the company already has licensing agreements in 15 diff erent cities. In the Ottawa area alone, SolveProproperties.com has 40 diff erent listings.
We’re looking for partners
Sell your home your way and you can save as much as $17,000
Alfonso Cuadra - President/CEO, with his SolveProproperties.com team Adam Lantos
- COO, Phil Duarte - VP, Brooks Foater - CFO.
With the entrepreneurial spirit in mind, what SolveProproperties.com has created is a franchising model. As a result, they were able to enter 15 different cities before ever launching.
Entrepreneurs who want to come on board are welcome as either franchise owners or sales representatives. There is no experience required as Solve-Proproperties.com has designed a complete training program to help the franchise owners and sales representa-tives learn this new and fresh approach to Real Estate.
Launched in Ontario and Quebec (ImmoSolu.com) this year, SolvePro-properties.com plans to go Canada-wide in the fi rst quarter of 2012.
If you feel this opportunity is right for you, contact SolveProproperties.com directly at: 1-866-336-7229 or email [email protected].
1-866-336-7229 | SolveProproperties.com R0011168255
