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WEST EDITION: Serving Britannia, Carlingwood, Westboro, Island Park and surrounding communities
ELECTION FEVERThe entire country is gearing up for an election, but the City of Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson said he won’t be taking sides as Elec-tion Day draws near on May 2. 5
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SIGNIFICANT CHANGES COMING FOR OC TRANSPO ROUTESOC Transpo has released its proposed route changes as of Sept. 4. While the changes aren’t fi nalized yet, they could affect services in Carling-wood, Bayshore and those who use Westboro Station – one of the other hubs that could be affected. See the full story on page 6.
KRISTY WALLACE
Britannia residents will now work to-gether to lay out objectives and address concerns in a new anti-fl ooding project ex-pected to go up near houses that lie along Britannia Bay.
“In the past unfortunately, there was a signifi cant portion of the community who were for the fl ood-proofi ng project, and those were against the fl ood-proofi ng proj-ect,” said Bay Ward Coun. Mark Taylor, who met last week with two groups from the community as well as the Rideau Con-servation Authority which is overseeing the project. “But we have fl eshed out what the community’s key concerns are.”
Taylor brought together about nine mem-bers of the community who are for and against the project. This group will repre-sent the residents, he said, and they came up with a set of key concerns to address be-fore the fl ood-proofi ng barrier is built.
Some of the key concerns brought up at the meeting were community safety, the im-pact the barrier will have on property val-ues and cost of the project.
Taylor said it’s the fi rst time that resi-dents have been able to work together and share their common concerns about the project.
“What we got today was a consensus,” he said on the day of the meeting. “This work-ing group is made up of a good cast of peo-ple formerly on both sides. We’ve all agreed
not to be on two different sides.”Matilde Hahn from the Britannia Vil-
lage Community Association has long been an advocate for the fl ood-proofi ng barrier. She’s part of the team that helped create the common objectives for the new barrier.
She said she’s happy the conservation au-thority can now start designing the barrier while using comments from the group and from surrounding homeowners.
“I’m feeling very hopeful that with that mandate – that clear mandate – that they’ll be able to come up with something for the village and protect the homes from fl ood-ing,” Hahn said.
She added that homeowners have very valid concerns and it will be possible to
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The family of Yazdan Ghiasvand Ghi-asi, a Notre Dame High School student who was shot in the heart in December, arrived in the courtroom on March 25 to hear the fate of a young man who pleaded guilty for his role in the 16-year-old’s kill-ing.
But the family will now have to wait until April 21 to hear the sentence to be given to Zakaria Dourhnou, 18, who pleaded guilty to attempting to obstruct justice and a breach of probation.
Before making a decision, Ontario Court Justice Celynne Dorval wanted to know more about Dourhnou’s back-ground.
The Ghiasi family sat solemnly in the courtroom, one family member wearing sunglasses and dabbed her face before taking them off once the hearing began.
Dourhnou made brief eye contact with the family when he entered the prisoner’s box, but kept his eyes on Crown attorney Julie Scott and his lawyer, Mark Ertel, as they spoke for the rest of the hearing.
Scott argued that Dourhnou should re-ceive two years in jail – citing previous cases where those convicted of obstruct-ing justice had received anywhere be-tween three months to fi ve years in jail.
According to information entered in the case, police saw Dourhnou cleaning out the car in which Ghiasi was shot with rags, paper towels and cleaning products at around 2 a.m. on Dec. 7, only hours af-ter Ghiasi was shot at around 10 a.m. on Dec. 6.
“What was seen and known ... was that something terrible happened in that car,” she said. “That makes this obstruction a serious offence.”
Scott argued that Dourhnou’s attempts to clean out the car were “rather sophis-ticated” – an argument that his lawyer, Mark Ertel, opposed.
She said that Dourhnou deserves more than the minimum sentence of three months – but less than the maximum of fi ve years.
Although he’s young, she said, Dourh-nou was on probation at the time and was supposed to live with his mother in Gatineau. Because he had keys to an apartment on Fisher Avenue, the same location where police saw the car being
cleaned out, the crown said it was clear he was not compliant with the court or-der to live with his mother.
“When someone chooses to act so contemptuously and has some history of having done so, you’ll go to jail,” she said. “Dourhnou might be youthful, but it was a mature and sophisticated plan with people who committed a serious of-fence.”
Ertel told the court his client should receive seven months, opening his ar-gument by painting a picture of what Dourhnou’s life was like as a child.
Born in Morocco in 1992, he was the son of an arranged marriage that ended in 1993. He stayed in Morocco while his mother moved to Canada until he was seven years old.
That’s when she brought him to Can-ada to live with her and his step-father, whom he didn’t get along with and was the reason he moved out of his mother’s Gatineau home to live in the Fisher Av-enue apartment complex, Ertel said.
Abdulhamid Wehbe and Mohamed We-hbe are charged with second-degree mur-der in the shooting death of Ghiasi, while Khaled Wehbe is still facing a charge of accessory to murder.
There is a Canada-wide arrest warrant out for Mohamed Wehbe, who has fl ed the country.
Photo by Kristy WallaceYazdan Ghiasi was shot dead on Dec. 6, 2010 and his body was dumped on Booth Street in broad daylight. One of the people accused in the case, Zakaria Dourhnou, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to a charge of obstructing justice.
Sentencing postponed in teen’s shooting death
KRISTY WALLACE
An apartment unit located at 1069 Gladstone Ave. was damaged by a fi re on March 26.
The unit was in a three-storey multi-unit building and three basement apart-ments were affected by the fi re.
Fire offi cials said the fi re started in one unit and the two others had smoke dam-age.
Nobody was injured in the blaze except one resident, who was assessed for smoke inhalation.
Firefi ghters were quick to respond and were able to contain the fi re to one unit – preventing the building and surrounded buildings to be damaged.
Damage to the building is estimated at $100,000 and about $50,000 worth of con-tents was damaged.
The cause of the fi re remains under in-vestigation.
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ing without impacting their en-joyment of the waterfront.
Taylor said while it’s great to see neighbours pulling together in the same direction, he said it won’t be repaired overnight.
However, he said the meetings and ones to follow will take sig-nifi cant steps to put the commu-nity on the road to repair.
“The project is one thing,” said Taylor. “But the deeper is-sue here from my perspective is the divisiveness in the commu-nity.”
He added that community en-gagement has been vital to get people on the same page when it comes to the fl ood proofi ng is-sue.
“By restoring that sense of im-partiality, we can start to return to the issue and prevent any fu-ture issues from getting out of hand,” Taylor said.
Britannia resident John Mc-Whinnie, who has opposed the barrier in the past, is also a mem-ber of the community consulta-tion committee. He said he’s hap-py with how Taylor has handled the issue and the meeting week was a great step forward.
“It was a hell of a long morn-ing,” McWhinnie laughed. “It’s
something that’s been brewing for many years. But things are happening in a positive way.”
Taylor said the next steps now are the Rideau Valley Conser-vation Authority will begin the preliminary plans of the barrier and will come back to the work-ing group.
“In the not too distant future, we’ll unveil it to the wider com-
munity,” Taylor said. “While the folks around the table are rep-resentative of (the community), we would be foolish to think that it represents everyone’s con-cerns.”
The Rideau Valley Conserva-tion Authority will also create a website to keep the public up-dated on information as it goes forward.
‘Consensus’ reached on fl ood barrier
File photoThis is the shoreline where a possible fl ood barrier will be constructed in the Britannia Village area.
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“Any time Parliament Hill sneezes, Ottawa catches a cold.”
With that, Mayor Jim Watson described the impact to the City of Ottawa of changes at the fed-eral level.
With the country now in the midst of a federal election, the mayor said he will sit back and not take sides in local cam-paigns.
Watson, who has served as a Liberal MPP and cabinet minis-ter at the provincial level, said the federal election won’t have much of an impact on the city’s business, but a government town like Ottawa will be abuzz with election talk until Canadi-ans head to the polls on May 2.
The city will still receive all of the funding the Conservative government committed as its share of Ottawa’s infrastruc-ture projects, including the city’s light-rail transit plan.
Despite his previous involve-ment in party politics, Watson said that as mayor, it is not his place to take sides in a federal election.
“My role is to do my best to stay neutral, but to make sure
that the citizens know what is-sues are important from our perspective,” Watson said.
While he won’t be coming out in support of any specifi c candi-dates, Watson said he will make his views on the different party platforms known in terms of how they could impact the city.
“I think the public expects some insight from our munici-pal leaders to ensure that our interests are taken care of,” Watson said.
The Conservative government fell last Friday after Members of Parliament voted 156 to 145 in favour of a motion that found the government in contempt of Parliament and had lost the con-fi dence of the House of Com-mons. It was the fi rst time in Canadian – and Commonwealth – history that a government has fallen because it was found to be in contempt.
Opposition parties accused the government of fl outing the rules of Parliament by refusing to fully disclose the cost of its tough-on-crime agenda, corpo-rate tax cuts and plans to pur-chase stealth fi ghter jets. The contempt issue also stemmed from accusations that Interna-tional Co-operation Minister
Bev Oda misled Parliament on the issue of funding for KAI-ROS, a religious organization that promotes social change.
The election wasn’t offi cially called until Saturday, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper
asked Gov. Gen. David Johnston to dissolve Parliament, making the May 2 election offi cial.
It will be Canada’s fourth elec-tion in seven years thanks to a series of minority governments.
As Conservative, Liberal,
NDP and Green party leaders hit the election trail, Ottawans wait to hear from the candidates in their local ridings.
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On March 23, OC Transpo revealed a hefty list of changes to the transit map that are aimed at saving the city $22 million by next year while still maintaining close to the current level of service.
While the city says around 93 per cent of tips (that’s about 11,000 rides) won’t change, it might mean you need to walk farther or transfer buses.
There are also changes to service lev-els proposed, which means some routes may only operate at peak hours, occa-sionally with only one late-evening run.
Read on for information about the proposed changes in your area, and log onto www.octranspo.com to see
them for yourself.
MAITLAND/CHURCHILL/KIRKWOOD
Since Route 156 is being shortened and re-routed, riders would instead take the 150 on Woodward Drive and Maitland Avenue. The 150 would change to operate every weekday until 8 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturdays, with no service on Sundays.
Buses on the 150 route would oper-ate from Lincoln Fields Station along the Transitway, Iris Street, Navaho Drive, Erindale Drive, Baseline Road, Clyde Avenue, Maitland, Woodward, Carling Avenue, and Churchill Avenue to Westboro Station.
During the morning peak period, buses towards Westboro Station would
turn directly from Erindale onto Mai-tland, and during the afternoon peak period, buses towards Lincoln Fields Station would turn directly from Mai-tland onto Erindale, bypassing Base-line.
These changes would mean around 300 customers would have a shorter walk to all-day service, a city report says.
The 150 would also replace the 187, a short peak-hour weekday route that connected Iris to Westboro.
The reduction in hours of service on Kirkwood Avenue would affect 15 rid-ers on weekdays (including two people who would have to walk more than 800 metres to a bus stop), 11 people on Sat-urdays and 60 people on Sundays.
Service on Route 155 would also in-crease to include Sundays and a late-
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evening trip each night. Buses would operate from Merivale Road and Clyde along Baseline, Merivale, Central Park Drive, Merivale, Caldwell Avenue, Edgecliffe Avenue, Cavan Street, Raven Avenue, McBride Street, Laperrière Avenue, Kirkwood, Richmond Road, and McRae Avenue to Westboro Station.
A section of the 155 would replace part of Route 151 that is being cut. The revised 151 would be short-ened to run from Tunney’s Pasture to Westboro Sta-tion via Scott Street, Clearview Avenue and Lanark Avenue during peak periods and midday.
A handful of people will be negatively affected by the changes, according to the city report. On weekdays, three people – including one person who would have to walk more than 800 metres – would be affected by the reduction of service hours on Iris, Navaho and Erindale. The same area would have 30 people affected by reduced service on Sundays (including fi ve people who would have to walk more than 800 metres).
These changes should save the city $1.5 million each year.
CARLINGWOOD
Route 87 would be extended at most times of the day from Carlingwood along Woodroofe to Base-line Station. It would also run more frequently to replace a section of the former Route 174.
Some special trips would run on Route 2 from Lincoln Fields Station, through Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre, along Richmond Road, McE-wen Avenue, and Ambleside Drive, then along Richmond Road and Woodroffe to Carlingwood.
There would also be special trips on routes 2 and 151 from Tunney’s Pasture Station to Carlingwood.Those special Route 2 trips would replace a sec-tion of Route 18 west of Preston on Carlingwood. They would also replace a section of Route 156 via Ambleside.
The section of Route 156 on Lockhart Avenue would be eliminated. People who use the 156 to get to Carlingwood from areas near Meadowlands Drive could use the revised Route 4 or Route 86 instead and transfer to the 87 at Baseline.
These changes will mean more transfers for some riders, but 100 people each day would ben-efi t from increased service on the 87.
Savings in this area would amount to about $281,000 each year.
QUEENSWAY TERRACE/DUMAURIER
Route 154 would be axed and the section west of Pinecrest Road along Dumaurier Avenue would be replaced by routes 172 and 173.
A section of the 154 east of Pinecrest through Queensway Terrace North would be eliminated. That would mean a longer walk to 95 people every day, but 170 people would actually benefi t from the new connections, a city report says.
The moves would save the city $583,000 annually.
BAYSHORE
Other big changes would happen in Bell’s Cor-ners, where the city says it would improve service by extending Transitway Route 97 from Bayshore to Bell’s Corners.
A loop of the 97 that serves Woodridge north of Bayshore Station would be removed (the 85 of-fers the same route). That would mean a longer walk or additional transfer for approximately 310 people who currently use that route each day.
The 166 would still operate, but as a pared-down route.
It would only run from Bayshore to the former Nortel site and Grandview Road, with the 97 replac-ing the service it used to offer to Bell’s Corners.
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The city says these changes would make for a faster and more convenient trip for most riders, with fewer transfers. But around 215 riders who use the 166 on might have a longer walk, and 55 people who use the 166 on Moodie would also face a longer walk or an extra transfer.
These savings will amount to $460,000 for the city each year.
OTHER CHANGES
One of the biggest changes in Nepean would be the elimination of Route 3, which currently runs from the downtown through the Central Experimental Farm to Viewmount Drive, Merivale and even-tually Colonnade Road.
With the cancellation of Route 3, there would be no service on a section of Prince of Wales Drive north of Baseline.
A new route, 107, would run in a loop through Tunney’s Pasture and a section of Parkdale Avenue north of Scott Street. It would replace a section of routes 176 and 6 that used to run there; the 6 would end at Carling Station instead.
The routes students usually take through Meadowlands would be chang-ing. Routes 111 and 117 would be re-placed by a revised Route 4, which will run from Baseline Station at Algonquin College to Viewmount and Chesterton and onto Meadowlands, Prince of Wales and Heron Road before making a stop at Heron Station.
It will continue to Carleton Univer-sity via Data Centre Road and Riverside Drive and head downtown from there.
Route 82 would be renumbered to 41 and shortened to end at LeBreton Station instead of Tunney’s Pasture.
WEIGH IN ON THE CHANGES
The public meeting for the Central area took place at city hall on March 29, but there are still upcoming meetings in other areas of the city at which residents can address transit planning staff and councillors.
People can also fi ll out comment forms at www.octranspo.com.
The revised changes will go to the tran-sit commission for approval on April 20. Changes would take effect on Sept. 4.
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• Tuesday, April 57 to 9 p.m. (presentation at 8 p.m.)Shenkman Arts Centre, Music Rehearsal Hall, 245 Centrum Blvd.
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Ottawa will be spending more on tech-nology this year, but the city is stream-lining the number of projects it takes on.
Instead of spreading its $41-million budget too thinly, the city’s information technology department will focus on 61 projects this year, down from the 131 it originally planned to tackle.
In a year when departments were told to keep budget increases below 2.5 per
cent to avoid a large property tax hike, the IT department received an addition-al $1 million this year.
Much of the $15 million that is sup-posed to go towards new technologies will be spent on the Service Ottawa ini-tiative – a fi ve-year plan that will make many of the city’s services, from arena bookings to purchasing parking passes, available online.
Another large undertaking is the city’s fi ve-year technology roadmap, which will modernize aging technology and free up the IT department’s resources to focus
on new initiatives, instead of maintain-ing the crumbling, labour-intensive tech-nologies that are being used today.
Right now, a great deal of the IT de-partment’s resources are spent main-taining the city’s aging technology, said Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney, chairman of the city’s IT subcommittee.
“Service Ottawa is receiving a very large capital investment, and that is go-ing to allow us to build a foundation that this enormous infrastructure will be built on,” said Fraser Hirsch, manager of information security and project ser-
vices for the city. “We have an infrastruc-ture just like the roads people have an infrastructure. Ours just happens to be a superhighway, and we need to invest in that.”
Other priorities include ensuring the city’s credit- and debit-card payment practices comply with data security in-dustry standards, and investing in the city’s “open data” initiative.
The city’s IT subcommittee heard about the changes on March 21, but a full list describing all 61 projects was not yet available at the time of the meeting.
City’s IT department sharpens focus to boost results
$3M surplus saves ESL, special-ed positions
EMMA JACKSON
The Ottawa Carleton District School Board has reversed cuts of 12 full-time academic positions and hopes to add another 12 educational assistant posi-tions after reporting a $3 million surplus from the 2009-2010 school year.
A total of $12 million combined from the last school year and those realized in previous school years will ensure that three full time English as a Second Language teaching positions and fi ve spe-cial education learning consultant positions will not be cut in 2011-2012 school year, as well as several other academic positions, as was originally planned in the board’s 2010-2011 budget.
“The board reversed decisions on approximately 12 academic positions, plus another six reductions that have already gone ahead are now using that money to increase educational assistance (posi-tions) by 12,” said the school board’s chief fi nancial offi cer Michael Clarke.
After cutting close to 200 positions in the past fi ve years, board of trustees chairwoman Jennifer McK-enzie said this is good news.
“We’ve been making reductions to our staffi ng for several years, so this is a pleasant situation to be in,” McKenzie said. “It was cuts that the previous board had planned to make but now we don’t have to make.”
Although $3 million is just a drop in the school board’s massive budget – less than half of one per cent – McKenzie said the reversal of these cuts will have a major impact.
“It’s huge. As frontline workers they’re providing support to students who have signifi cant needs and we’re very glad that we did not have to go down that road,” she said.
The surplus came from a combination of factors throughout the 2009-2010 school year ending August 31, 2010, including unexpected extra funding from the province and circumstantial savings.
Despite the increasing controversy concerning overcrowded schools across the city, particularly in Kanata and the Glebe, Clarke said there’s virtually no way to use the money for capital projects such as building new elementary schools because the prov-ince would have to approve it, and “they are loathe to do that.”
“They’re concerned you lock yourself into on-going expenditures that you can’t sustain,” he ex-plained. “Do we need new capital facilities? Yes we do. But the other thing is improving programming for the students we have in our schools.”
The school board will be given its general funding information for the year on March 31, which will help staff decide if the optional reversals are still feasible. By early May Clarke hopes to put forward a 2011-2012 budget proposal for trustees to approve.
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Where Ottawans always stand out is when the pollster asks if they would like an election, if one hasn’t been called, or
if they are interested in the election, if one has. This is like asking people at a hockey game if they are interested in the hockey game.
People elsewhere might profess a lack of interest, but politics is Ottawa’s major sport. Hockey might sometimes be considered a rival, but certainly not this year. Why would you not want another game?
While people in less enlightened parts of the country bemoan politick-ing, condemn partisanship and gener-ally dismiss the political struggles as ritual, we who live in the shadow of the Peace Tower have quite a different view. Politics gives shape to our community, meaning to our lives. – as politicians, as strategists, as volunteers, as political reporters – and we know that they are real people too. Even the reporters. They go to the church or the pub, they belong to the book club, they have kids who play hockey, they mow their lawns and shovel their snow. So even if we don’t vote the way they do, we can suffer along with them, or take some pleasure from their
triumphs. To us, politics is not some exotic activ-
ity that other people do, like polo or wine-tasting. It is central to our life.
And central to our jobs as well. We don’t have to work in the party back-rooms for political events to shape our lives. The public service changes sig-nifi cantly after elections. The change is not so great as in the U.S., where more top jobs are fi lled in and after elections. But top jobs do change here and the oc-cupants make their appointments and before you know it, you’ve got a new posi-tion, maybe a better one, maybe not.
And your neighbour, who works for a company that supplies widgets to a gov-ernment department, is all of a sudden selling less widgets or more, depending on the political decisions somebody made
somewhere up the line. The neighbour on the other side, who
works for a non-government organiza-tion, is delighted or depressed by some-thing the new folks have done.
Even if jobs don’t change, priorities do. More will be spent, or less. The environ-ment is a priority, or not. Foreign aid goes up, or doesn’t. With every decision, somebody’s job description changes.
You know that, and even if you haven’t experienced it yourself, you’ve heard the muttering from your relatives, or the people next door.
The government doesn’t have to change for any of this to happen. Minis-ters change and new ministers have new ideas, or no ideas at all. Even if a govern-ment wins re-election, it learns things from the campaign.
Uh-oh, the government discovers, the people want more of this and less of that. Better make it happen. In the attempt to make it happen, the woman around the corner suddenly becomes more impor-tant at work. Or the family suddenly has to sell the second car.
All of this means that politics is a spec-tator sport all year ’round in our town. People have to keep an eye on what’s go-ing on. Even the most routine exchange
of rants in Question Period is going to affect someone.
But it’s at election time that the game really heats up. The election is March Madness, the Stanley Cup playoffs, the World Series. (If the analogy holds, this would make Budget Day the equivalent of the All-Star Game, except that people actually get hurt on Budget Day.)
There is real excitement. People are biting their fi ngernails. Sometimes they would bite other people, if the law al-lowed it.
We should never let anyone tell us that it’s not interesting. It is more than inter-esting. It is life or death, if life and death can be fun.
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CHARLES GORDON
Funny Town
Every election is a privilege
Politics boring? Not here
The 41st general election is upon us follow-ing a historic vote of non-confi dence in the House of Commons last Friday that found the government in contempt of
Parliament.Amid the fi nger-pointing by rival politicians
who want to lay blame for who exactly triggered the election and groans from voters over whether a fourth trip to the polls in seven years is even necessary at all, we should stop to remember how lucky we are to be living in Canada.
Over the past few months, while our leaders have been feuding over who was responsible for writing the word “not” on a government memo and whether members of the House have the right to view cabinet documents on the cost of signifi -cant military and justice programs, on the other side of the world millions can only look on in envy that Canadians will be able to decide for them-selves whether these things are important to us.
For the sea of people who gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to the rebels fi ghting across Libya to the thousands of protesters marching in the streets of Iran, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, we are the lucky ones.
On the fi rst Monday in May, every Canadian voter will be able to exercise, through a small mark on their ballot, a right that remains only a dream to the people struggling for democracy in these countries. While most Canadians will never know the hardships faced by people in places like Libya, it does the people there an incredible disservice to treat an election with contempt.
Far from being contemptible, elections provide citizens of democracies with their most meaning-ful opportunity to infl uence the course of govern-ment, at least until the next election. In contrast, the people of Egypt have waited decades to even win that right, let alone exercise it.
While the issues at hand in this election may be tiring to the ears of the average Canadian, this is our opportunity to decide for ourselves whether the government was in contempt, whether new fi ghter jets are worth their multi-billion-dol-lar price tag or whether the impact of an aging population on our health care system is being adequately addressed.
Here in Canada, we should feel lucky to be able do something others will live a lifetime without experiencing.
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A recent article in a national newspaper got the Facebook moms all riled up. Written by Vancouver family physician
Gabor Mate, the article, “Why I no longer believe babies should cry themselves to sleep,” provoked a lively debate about the pros and cons of sleep training infants.
Mate argues explicitly against the Fer-ber method, which advocates allowing babies of a certain age to cry themselves to sleep. He cites neurological studies and shares anecdotal evidence to back his argument.
“When the infant falls asleep after a period of wailing and frustrated cries for help, it is not that she has learned the ‘skill’ of falling asleep,” writes Mate in the Globe and Mail. “What has happened is that her brain, to escape the over-whelming pain of abandonment, shuts down. It’s an automatic neurological mechanism. In effect, the baby gives up.”
All moms in favour of co-sleeping and wearing their babies viewed the article as evidence of rallying support for their choices. All of us who favoured a good night’s sleep and putting babies in a playpen on the other hand saw it as further evidence of the professional-ization of motherhood that does more harm than good for parents who are just trying to do the best they can.
“I really think that if more people put their kids fi rst and realized that this ‘infant’ stage is so short in the grand scheme of things, fewer mothers would
be upset and fewer babies traumatized,” wrote one Ottawa mother.
On the contrary, say some, it really should be an individual choice.
“Most parents, throughout their par-enting lives are on some kind of con-tinuum or swinging pendulum,” wrote another Ottawa mother. “We swing back and forth between putting baby’s needs fi rst or our own. These needs depend on the demands of our lives, our energy levels, if there are other siblings. And the paradox is that babies are so fragile and so resilient at the same time.”
Both women make good arguments, but of course that’s not the point. The point is that women are pitted against each other as they try to navigate moth-erhood for the fi rst time. With so much access to information, mothers have become a blaming, judgmental bunch: Breast-feeders versus bottle-feeders; co-sleepers versus independent sleepers. But really, it’s time to stop the insanity.
I have a friend who’s potty-training a baby. I have another friend whose son
wore diapers until his third birthday and then magically began using the toilet. Myself, I fell somewhere in between, in-tensely controlling the toileting process from the moment my sons turned two-years-old because I couldn’t handle being on double-diaper duty. I have friends who didn’t breast feed, those who did the minimum six-months and those who car-ried on until the child was almost school-age. And of course, there are all those in between, the ones who shake things up by sometimes breast-feeding and some-times using formula, or the ones that nap with their babies, but put them to bed on their own at night.
The way we parent is a refl ection of our values. If I choose to have my boys sleep in their own beds in a separate room – which I have done since they were six-months-old – and if I choose a stroller over a sling – which I did because I “abnormally” found simple slings to be overly complicated – it’s because I have a need for space. Does it mean I love my children less than my neighbour who is a dedicated breast-feeder, co-sleeper, baby-wearer? No. Does it mean I’m less dedicated to my children or that I’m self-ish? No, it doesn’t? And do I think she’s giving up too much of herself for her kids at her peril? No, I think she’s a lov-ing mother, just doing the best she can, according to her values and the informa-tion at her disposal. And at the end of the day, her kids seem pretty normal. In fact, they seem a lot like my own.
BRYNNA LESLIE
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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTIONWhat do you think the result of the May 2 federal election will be?
A) A Conservative minority
B) A Conservative majority.
C) A Liberal minority.
D) A Liberal majority.
E) There’s an election coming up?
LAST WEEK’S POLL SUMMARYIs the city doing enough to fi x pot holes after the winter melt?
A) Not at all. I’m spending more time trying to dodge potholes – and oncoming traffi c – every time I get behind the wheel.
B) Absolutely – the roads are in great condition and the ride has been smooth.
C) With the terrible winter we’ve had and the amount of pot holes, the city is doing its best.
D) What pot holes? I don’t drive.
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A luxury cottage, $1 million in cash, a new Chevrolet Ca-maro and $5,000 in free gas is what awaits the winner of the 2011 Ottawa Hospital and CHEO lottery, which was launched on
March 21.The lottery, now in its fourth
year, will raise much-needed funds to help both hospitals. Prior to this year, both the Chil-dren’s Hospital of Eastern On-tario and the Ottawa Hospital held their own lotteries.
A model cottage has been
placed at the corner of Innes and Cyrville roads in Gloucester for the public to visit between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. during the week or from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
The house is 1500 square feet with a screened porch and tim-ber frame accents.
“The traffi c coming through the house has been fantastic and people are commenting on the layout, color scheme, and like the upgrades in the house which include a walk-in pantry in the kitchen, walk-in closet in the master bedroom, lovely hickory hardwood fl oor-
ing, maple shaker cabinets in the kitchen, granite counter-tops in the kitchen to name a few features people really like,” said CHEO spokeswoman Connie Lebrun.
The money raised will go to-wards the purchase of a robotic da Vinci Surgical System for the Ottawa Hospital, to help pa-tients with multiple sclerosis.
CHEO’s portion of the fund-raising will be used for a num-ber of small machines or one large project yet to be deter-mined.
“We live in a great commu-nity where people wish to give back to the hospitals and being involved with this project it gives them that opportunity to do so,” said Lebrun. “It’s been great working with all of them again this year.”
The fi nal deadline is June 17 with the draw being held on July 6 and 7.
Tickets — $100 each or three for $250 — are on sale at the mod-el cottage, online at weallwin.ca or by calling 613-730-4946.
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Fire crews were on scene of a hazardous materials call on March 23 when a foul odour and possible smoke was seen com-ing from a building at 50 Colum-bine Driveway near Tunney’s Pasture.
Ottawa Fire Services found there were no hazardous mate-rials present and no cause was determined.
“Crews went in and did the testing,” said Marc Messier of Ottawa Fire Services. “They tested all the areas and got no results whatsoever.”
No one was injured except one security staff member who reported nausea and was trans-ported to hospital.
Messier said the building houses organic chemistry labs.
He added that fi re crews will not be monitoring the area.
“As far as our responsibility, we take care of the immediate danger,” he said. “We didn’t fi nd anything so there was no need for us to stay there.
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Communication is priceless. With it, we connect with our world on a daily basis. Unfortunately, even the slightest hearing loss can be a signifi cant obstacle resulting in social isolation. Interactions are hindered as speech becomes diffi cult to understand, loved ones become mumblers, punch lines are missed and repeating becomes a nuisance. Untreated hearing loss can also lead to diminished cognitive abilities. Indeed, untreated hearing loss has a great impact on one’s quality of life. Selecting the right hearing healthcare provider is crucial.
Rosanne McNamee, Doctor of Audiology, Registered Audiologist, is the owner of Hearing Solutions Clinic. After a year away for a maternity leave, Rosanne is back to celebrate the 10th year of her practice! This 10 year success undoubtedly stems from the fact that Hearing Solutions Clinic offers a kind of hearing healthcare that is lacking elsewhere in Ottawa. At Hearing Solutions Clinic you won’t hear an offi ce jingle, fi nd crowded waiting rooms, be lured by marketing schemes or feel the pressure of sales tactics. Instead, you will fi nd a clinic with old fashion roots where hearing healthcare is the priority, not hearing aid sales. It is large enough to offer amazing service yet small enough to allow for more personal professional relationships. With such a strong focus on patient care, Rosanne strives to offer every patient nothing but the best. ‘’I believe in treating others the way I would want to be treated, so I care for my patients as I would family. I give everyone 100 percent of myself as we work together to reach their hearing goals.’’ explains Rosanne.
This personalized hearing healthcare approach differs from the larger hearing clinics and hearing chains. Unfortunately, patients there may be shuffl ed between staff, rushed through consultations and offered a limited choice of hearing aid models. At Hearing Solutions Clinic, the same Audiologist always takes her time to really listen to and understand your concerns. This is followed by the luxury of being able to choose from an unlimited range of the most up-to-date products thereby guaranteeing a hearing solution that is unique to you, your lifestyle and your hearing needs. “It would not be in my patient’s best interest for the clinic to carry only one line of products or even just a few favored manufacturers. It is important to consider all the options across all of the manufacturers because products vary greatly -from a variety of noise reduction systems to different remote options, from rechargeable hearing aids to open ear products and Bluetooth capabilities.’’ explains Rosanne, ‘’Furthermore, hearing aids may not always be the best or only solution. We therefore also carry a wide variety of assistive listening devices.’’ By remaining independent, private, as well as locally owned and operated, Hearing Solutions Clinic has no manufacturer limitations
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Despite Hearing Solutions Clinic’s ongoing growth, Rosanne protects the special quality of her clinic by hiring professionals that honor her traditional caring views. The Hearing Solutions Clinic team currently consists of two Doctors of Audiology, Rosanne as well as Maria Perez. Both are very diligent at keeping Hearing Solutions Clinic up to date in technology and practice. Consequently, you receive the service of professionals who are not only top in their fi eld, but who pride themselves on offering quality products and the highest standard of care. Dorothy Johnson, the receptionist, completes the team. Her forte is her accommodating and pleasant manner. Like Rosanne and Maria, Dorothy always has your best interest at heart. Together, the members of this team enable Hearing Solutions Clinic to be more effi cient than ever without straying from the core values, beliefs and principles that created Hearing Solutions Clinic a decade ago.
For unparalleled personalized hearing healthcare, book your consultation with one of our Doctors of Audiology at Hearing Solutions Clinic,conveniently located at 1915 Baseline Rd, suite 202 (across from Home Depot) where parking is free! You are also welcome to come meet our team during one of our upcoming hearing aid demonstration days which will be held Wednesday, April 13th as well as Thursday, April 14th.
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Carlington residents were able to take advantage of a range of health services on offer at the Carlington Health and Resource Fair on March 26.
“It provides some essential services for the community,” said David Darwin, head of the Carlington Community Associa-tion. “In terms of health servic-es and services for seniors and some of the immigrant popula-
tion, it’s close at hand.”The Carlington Health and
Resource Fair gave residents the opportunity to see differ-ent health agencies – including free dental screenings, diabetes screenings and sexual health in-formation.
Helen Stathopoulos of the Carlington Community Health Centre said the initiative was part of the city’s Community Development Framework.
The framework is a new way the city is co-ordinating munici-
pal and community services. It brings together resources and information to help address needs in certain neighbour-hoods.
Stathopoulos said there was a series of health access needs identifi ed in the Carlington area.
“Through the CDF we’re able to put on events to do things,” she said. “Like have accessible services and awareness.”
She said the fair isn’t the fi rst of its kind in the community,
but the last one held was a cou-ple years ago.
The day featured booths set up by organizations like the Ca-nadian Cancer Society, Ottawa Community Housing and the Ottawa Public Library.There were also prizes available to participants.
Darwin said the day was a great opportunity for the com-munity – both from a health and a community standpoint.
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More than 30 volunteers from across the city turned out to paint the halls of a six-storey Ottawa Community Housing complex.
The hallways in all six storeys in a building at 320 Wiggins Pvt. got new paint thanks to the help of the volunteers.
Jo-Anne Poirier, chief execu-tive offi cer of Ottawa Communi-ty Housing, said she was heart-ened by the good will given by the people who came out on a Saturday.
“I would just like to publicly thank Christine (Taylor) for all of her work, it’s a great proj-ect,” she said.
The project was the second one put together by Christine Taylor, who is the wife of Bay Ward Coun. Mark Taylor.
Her year-long volunteer proj-ect Year2Give, looks at the im-pact a single person can make volunteering about 15 to 20 hours per month. Her efforts have been chronicled in a blog of the same name.
The fi rst project was at the Caldwell Family Centre — an-other community housing com-plex in the west end — where
volunteers cleaned up a space that was secured by the centre’s executive director Jim Devoe. They also painted it and added donated DVDs, books and a TV.
It was then that the partner-ship between Taylor and Ottawa Community Housing was born.
“Volunteering and commu-nity work really breeds more
involvement,” Devoe said. “It’s a great project.”
Poirier said the organization pays for the paint. She and Tay-lor work together to decide on
which projects are most need-ed.
“This will be a real boost for the tenants, one of them already took the building manager aside and said the volunteers worked better than contractors we have had,” she said.
It ran with almost military precision, with fl oor captains and a team of volunteers on each fl oor, who got the job done quickly.
“It was really amazing,” Tay-lor said. “And we had people in the community bring out food for the volunteers. Everyone just really pitched in.”
Taylor’s 10-year-old daughter, Emily Audet, was right in the fray painting the hallways and plans to ask her friends to do-nate to the Ottawa Food Bank for her next birthday.
“She asked her friends to do-nate to the Food Bank for the fi rst time when she was six,” Taylor said. “I think she al-ready has more volunteer hours banked than most high school students.”
While Taylor’s project is an experiment, she hopes to in-spire people in the community to take up where she left off and make a difference in their com-munity.
Social housing complex repaint just latest for Year2Give project
Photo by Jennifer McIntoshThe 21st Pathfi nders troop in Kanata joined troop leader Jean Audet, fourth from left, and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, right, to paint the halls in a six-storey social housing complex at 320 Wiggins Pvt.
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Photo by Kristy WallaceDr. Dan Hwang, a Westboro dentist, said a healthy mouth can contribute to an overall healthier life.
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Whether you’re chewing, speaking or kissing, a healthy mouth plays a role in everyone’s day-to-day lives.
April is Oral Health Awareness Month, and the annual campaign is dedicated to promoting healthier mouths in Canada.
“A healthy mouth is good for one’s health, but also one’s self esteem,” said Dr. Euan Swan from the Cana-dian Dental Association. “One needs to have a healthy mouth to contribute to one’s overall health for a number of reasons.”
Swan said most recently, there’s been discussion in the dental profession of the connection between oral health and a person’s general overall health.
“If one has chronic infl ammation in the mouth, this can contribute to in-fl ammation in other parts of the body,” Swan explained. “The message is one needs to maintain a healthy mouth to
avoid the risk of bacteria entering the bloodstreams.”
He added that oral health aware-ness is becoming mixed in with North American ideas of teeth whitening and braces, which help make teeth straight.
Dr. Dan Hwang, who’s a Westboro dentist, said he’s noticed more and more people are looking to have their teeth whitened.While it’s not bad for your teeth, Hwang said whitening cause sensitivity as well as irritation on the gums from whitening strips.
Swan said the “trendiness” of hav-ing straight white teeth can’t be con-fused with young Canadians receiving enough education in proper oral care. In addition, he said one of the other concerns in Canada is the public’s ac-cess to dental care. While some Cana-dians are insured by work or family, there is still a signifi cant portion of the population that has diffi culty pay-ing for dental care.
“The Canadian Dental Association is aware of that and has been working and advocating for oral health, and trying to fi nd remedies for access to care,” Swan said.
He added that the asso-ciation is trying to promote the idea to parents to have children visit the dentist as young as one year-old.
“We also had a thrust in the area in access to care for children, early child-hood tooth decay and the importance of seeing your dentist just to make sure everything’s in order and baby teeth coming in are healthy,” Swan said.
Hwang added that it’s important for people to get a night guard if they are grinding their teeth at night – which he fi nds is be-coming more common.
“As a society, maybe we’re becoming more stressed out – that leads to more grinding,” he said. “We see it all the time.”
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When he tried chewing tobacco for the fi rst time at age 13, Gruen Von Beh-rens would change the course of his entire life.
In the space of four short years, the Illinois teenager would develop cancer of the mouth and undergo a series of painful surgeries and radiation treat-ments Now a 33-year-old father of three and a motivational speaker, Von Behrens made an appearance at Ridge-mont High School on March 24 as part of a speaking tour to highlight the dan-gerous reality of tobacco.
“I want the students to see how se-riously tobacco has affected my life,” Von Behrens said.
At age 13, Von Behrens tried chew-ing tobacco for the fi rst time and quick-ly got addicted. By the time he was 17, he was diagnosed with oral cancer. His battle with cancer forced him to give up his dream of becoming a major league baseball player and to endure 40 painful surgeries, leaving him severely disfi gured.
“I have had a rough road in my life, but you get to learn from your mistakes and make the best out of it,” he said.
He has lost half of his tongue, all of his teeth and his entire jawbone.
“I have lost my entire face because of tobacco,” Van Behrens told the packed gymnasium. “Every time I look out in the mirror, I ask God, ‘Why did you do this to me, I wasn’t a bad kid.’ ”
During his time in high school, Van Behrens was a popular student and a local baseball star. Three years after he started using chewing tobacco, Van Behrens started noticing white spots on the inside of his mouth. He said knew immediately it was cancer.
In the beginning, the spots were about the size of a pencil tip. Less than a year later, the cancer had spread to cover his entire tongue, making it al-most impossible to speak or eat.
Then one day, his mother picked him up for a shopping trip, but when they drove right past the mall, Von Behrens realized they were actually going to see his doctor.
“As soon as the doctor looked inside my mouth, he knew I was sick with cancer,” said Von Behrens.
Von Behrens said the subsequent ra-diation treatment was one of the most awful things he’s ever gone through, causing his teeth and jawbone to rot.
At 19, he had all of his teeth pulled out. Doctors removed Von Behrens’ fi bula, broke it into pieces, and recon-structed his jaw bone. They also graft-ed some skin from his thigh onto his face.
“I hope what you heard and saw will help you make good choices about to-bacco,” Von Behrens told the attentive-ly listening crowd of students.
He now travels North America, tell-ing his story to show children and teens how tobacco can ruin their health and their future.
“I moved from a person people used to look up to, to someone they can’t look at,” he said.
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BY DAN PLOUFFE
The Ottawa Nationals showed they’re unquestionably the best girls’ basketball team in the province during the Ontario Junior Elite League’s inaugural season, and now they want the title to prove it.
The Nationals completed the JUEL campaign with just a single loss in 20 outings thanks to three victories in the fi nal games of the regular season last weekend in Ottawa prior to the under-19 league championship tournament May 6 to 8 in Kitch-ener-Waterloo.
“A JUEL trophy at the end – that’s defi nitely the goal,” smiles six-foot-one-inch tall Nationals star Rashida Timbilla, who’s never before won a provincial club championship. “I’m hop-ing this is the year I break that streak. In your last year, you defi nitely want to go out with a bang.”
That was essentially the feel-ing for the Barrie Royals, the league’s second-place squad, when they matched up against Ottawa on March 26 at Ashbury College.
The Royals were totally domi-nated by the Nationals’ starting
lineup of Kim Pierre-Louis, a St. Paul Catholic High School stu-dent, John McCrae’s Timbilla, Hillcrest’s Abeer Farhat and Catherine Traer and Kellie Ring, both from Louis-Riel.
Before they knew what hit them, the game was totally in the Nationals’ control, the bench was in and the onslaught contin-ued before Barrie pulled back a little closer in the late stages to make it a 54-39 fi nal.
“To work hard and beat a team like that is really good. I’m glad we ended the season as No. 1,” adds Timbilla, attributing her squad’s success to a combination of depth and coaching. “We have so many people that can come out and score that it doesn’t have to be one or two people. And our coaches push us game-in and game-out, and in practice.”
Ten or more graduating play-ers from the Nationals and the other Ottawa-based JUEL en-try, the Capitals, could wind up in U.S. or Canadian university basketball programs next sea-son. University of Massachu-setts-bound Timbilla tops that list along with fellow Canadian junior national teammate Kellie Ring, who will stay in town and play for the University of Ottawa
Gee-Gees.“The group of 13 kids we have
out here are really special,” says Nationals coach Dave Malowski. “They’re very focused and a high-level, elite group that really want to get better. As a coach, you don’t get many opportuni-ties to coach kids like that. It’s been a treat.”
Just how good are the Nation-als? Besides their stellar JUEL
record, they knocked off both fi nalists of the Canadian Col-leges Athletic Association wom-en’s basketball championship – Algonquin College and Laval, Que.’s Montmorency – in exhibi-tion play earlier this season.
“Nobody else has that level of starting talent,” notes Capitals coach Murray Shoup, whose group held their own against the Nationals for the fi rst half
before falling 60-40. “They’ve got two national-level players. Well, there’s only 12 of those in the country – maybe fi ve others in total from Ontario, and none on the same team. They should be the best.”
With a 2-12 start to their cam-paign, the Capitals haven’t quite sailed along as smoothly as the Nationals, but they did pull to-gether more wins than losses after that low point to fi nish the season strongly.
“We’re actually doing very well. The kids are learning and getting much better,” explains Shoup, whose squad will attend a qualifying tournament for the league fi nals where they’ll try to earn one of four berths available to the bottom eight teams.
For their part, the Nationals pledge not to rest on their lau-rels, promising more hard work in the month leading up to the championship weekend in early May.
“Finishing fi rst in the league is nice, and there’s no question it’s a nice feather in the hat for the kids because they’ve worked hard and deserve it,” says Malowski, a teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute.
“We’re right on course now, but in a month’s time, we’re go-ing to have probably three or four really tough games. There’s still a lot of work to do come playoff time.”
Nationals look to cap stellar season with title
Photo by Dan PlouffeLindsay Kavanagh, left, of the Ottawa Capitals battles for a loose ball with Abeer Farhat, the Ottawa Nationals during Ontario Junior Elite League basketball play last weekend at Ashbury College.
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Community CalendarWe welcome your submissions of
upcoming community, non-profi t events. Please email events to OTWevents@
metroland.com by 4:30 p.m. Friday
• APRIL 2West Ottawa Rotary Club and University of Ottawa Music Students presents Music for Humanity to eradi-cate polio takes place at 1st Unitarian Church, 30 Cleary Ave, Ottawa. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds go to the Rotary Polio Eradication Initiative. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated over $400 million to polio eradication and chal-lenged Rotary International to match the contribution. Attendance at this concert will help Rotary respond. There will be music by Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Casterede and Mendez, Turina, Paganini, Ibert and Bartok for solo and combined in-struments and by Rossini, Saint-Saens and Bizet (fm Carmen) for voice and piano Join us for refreshments after the concert. Tickets are $20 and stu-dents are $10. For information visit: www.rotaryclubwestottawa.ca or call 613-746-8037
The Eastern Ontario Umpires Associa-tion (EOUA) is looking for individuals, males and females over 18 interested
in offi ciating fast pitch and slo pitch softball. The EOUA is affi liated with Softball Canada, Softball Ontario, Slo-Pitch Ontario and USSSA. Ontario is proud to boast one of the best umpire programs in the country. If you are interested in learning a new avenue of the game of softball, we are always looking for individuals like you. Training and clinics are provided. Please call Stuart 613-744-3967 or Dave 613-791-6767 now.
• APRIL 6A unique dining experience with zero greenhouse gas emissions held at the Fairmont Château Laurier from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The event will take place in the Laurier Room With Honourary Chair: David Chernush-enko, City of Ottawa Councillor and Emcee, Olympian MJ McCann. Evening highlights include candle-lit ambience where you and your guests will savour an organic, local gour-met, six course meal introduced by the Château Laurier’s Executive Chef Alain Gobeil and Sous Chef Shane Colton. Each course will be paired with complementary wine from Cono Sur Vineyards & Winery, the fi rst certifi ed Carbon Neutral winery in the world. Mingle and dine with Clean Air Champions – Olympians, Paralympians and National Team
athletes. There will also be a Live and Silent Auction – one of a kind items from Champions like a sport training day with an Olympian, and much more. Individual tickets are $150 and for a table of six is $810. Tickets can be purchased at www.zeroenergydin-ners.co or call j/m/a Event Planning at 613.271.2713 Proceeds will go to Clean Air Champions’ school programs.
The Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association (RPCRA) will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday, April, 6. The meeting is open to all RPCRA members and to the public at large. The meeting is held every fi rst Wednesday of the month and takes place at the 19:00 at the Riverside Churches, 3191 Riverside Dr., Room 5. Be active in your community and come and join us. For more informa-tion, please go to www.riverside-park.ca
• APRIL 9Become a Softball Ontario Certifi ed Fast Pitch or Slo-Pitch Umpire. The Level-I clinic will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the RA Centre on Riverside Drive. To register contact George Findley at 613-722-2620. Knowing the proper mechanics and
rules of the game prior to stepping on the fi eld will make for a more respected offi cial. The Level 1 um-pire clinic would also be benefi cial to coaches and players, giving them a better understanding of softball, while providing insight into the role offi cials play in the game. Topics cov-ered at this clinic include: Rules and Defi nitions, Plate and Base Umpire Mechanics for Fast Pitch and/or Slo-Pitch, the Role of the Umpire, Umpire Signals and more.
• APRIL 7-10First Avenue Public School Book Sale, 73 First Ave. (at O’Connor in the Glebe). More than 35,000 gently-used books, DVDs and CDs priced to sell. Books are organized by author and category, and include fi ction, children’s, mysteries, cook-ing, gardening, political and social sciences, religion, French language, biographies, and more. The sale will take place Thursday, April 7 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, April 8 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information, contact fi [email protected]. Find out more at www.fi rstavebooksale.com.
“What’s your Story” Workshop with
Ottawa author Nichole McGill. This half-day workshop follows a presen-tation McGill delivered at a recent meeting of Ottawa Independent Writers. It takes place on April 9, in Room 156 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St. 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Riverside Churches 3191 Riverside Dr. invite you to an interactive “Messy Church” event, celebrating Easter, “Beyond the Bunny.” Crafts, music, worship and celebration for the whole family, followed by supper from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Call 613-731-1646 for more information.
• APRIL 9 AND 10The Friends of the Farm invite you to come see the many crafts created by area artisans. Items available include jewelry, porcelain, weaving, wood crafts, photography, cloth-ing, soap, pottery, clay, tapestry and much more. The sale takes place in Building 72, Arboretum, Central Experimental Farm, just off the Prince of Wales traffi c circle on from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission & parking. For information please call 613-230-3276 or visit our website at [email protected] The farm will also host its Gardening Lecture Series on April 5, 12, 19 and 26.
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