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Left to right: Rebecca Gray (violin), Carmen Bruno (cello), Olivia Johnston (cello), Lindsay Bryden (flute) 

Local musicians to 

BY FIONA MACLEOD 

Four teenaged musicians from the Glebe will perform this month in Europe 

as part of the Ottawa Youth Orchestra (0Y0). Flautist Lindsay Bryden, violinist 

Rebecca Gray, cellists Olivia Johnston and Carmen Bruno left Ottawa on 

Mar. 6 bound for Hungary, where the orchestra will present two full-length 

concerts. Lindsay, Rebecca and Olivia attend Canterbury high school and Carmen 

attends Immaculata high school. 

Rebecca Gray, who is looking forward to the trip said, "I'm excited to travel 

with my friends and enter a completely different culture. I like all the freedoms 

we're going to be given on this trip. It's always fun to play with different 

musicians and meet new people. I'm firi'ally going somewhere my parents 

haven't been. Of course, as a girl, I'rri also incredibly excited to shop!" 

perform in Europe 

The OYO was supposed to begin its tour in Serbia, with performances in 

Belgrade and Novi Sad, before moving on to Budapest and Vienna. However, 

the recent unrest in the Serbian capital necessitated a last minute change in 

plans. Fortunately it was possible to adjust flight and hotel reservations to 

extend the Hungarian leg of the tour. The orchestra's first performance will be 

in the ancient city of Székesfehérvár, the seat of the first kings of Hungary. In 

Budapest, the OYO will present a concert with the Youth Wind Orchestra of 

the Lajtha Laszlo Music School, followed by a reception hosted by the mayor 

and district council. Our musical ambassadors will wind up their tour with a 

stopover in Vienna, where they will learn about that city's rich cultural her-- 

itage and attend a Vienna VolksOpera performance of Puccini's Turandot. 

continued on page 3 

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April 10 

April 17-20 

April 19 

May 9-10 

May 24 

Mark your calendars 

GNAG soccer online registration, 11 p.m. 

www.gnag.ca 

Ottawa Home and Garden Show 

Lansdowne Park (see page 6) 

GCA Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., GCC 

All are welcome 

Ottawa Spring Antiques Sale 

Lansdowne Park (see page 6) 

Earth Hour Lights out from 8-9 p.m. 

(see page 13) 

The Sound of Music (see pages 7 and 28) 

The Glebe Centre's 3rd annual GST auction 

GCC, 7-9 p.m., (see page 2) 

Originals Spring Craft sale, Lansdowne Park 

(see page 6) 

Ottawa Eco-Stewardship Fair (see page 13) 

RA Centre (www.ottawaecofairca) 

Glamour in the Glebe Jewellery Show, GCC 

Great Glebe Garage Sale 

WHAT'S INSIDE 

Abbotsford 2 Business 15-17 

Editorial 4 Celebrity Quiz 20, 21 

Letters 5 Art 24, 25 

GNAG 7 Music 26,27 

GCA 8,9 Schools 30-35 

Good Old Days 10 Books 36-38 

Glebe Questions 11 Religion 39-41 

Councillor's Report 12 Grapevine 42,43 

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008

2 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 N EWS 

3rd annual GST auction 

Bigger and better for 2008 

Best buttonhole birdhouse 

Garden fairy's house 

by Gwendolyn Best 

by Donna Edwards 

BY SUE WALKER 

The Glebe Centre's 3rd annual GST (Goods, Services & Talent) auction 

will be held on Thurs., Apr. 10, 7-9 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre at 

175 Third Ave. This year the event has been expanded to include a new and 

exciting section entitled "Affordable Housing in the Glebe." This section will 

be hosted by a local real estate professional, April Weedon with Sutton Group, 

who will walk you through the wonderful array of houses up for bidding. 

These wonderful "bird houses" have been painted by none other than local 

Glebe artists. These artists include: Gwendolyn Best, John Stewart, Roy 

McGregor, Heather Gulyas, Pat Doyle, Jennie Aliman, Ellen Schowalter, 

Joseph Cull, Donna Edwards, Alice Hinther, Diane McIntyre, Inez Berg and 

Shirley VanDusen. Each house is a work of art and completely unique. We 

wanted to truly make the GST auction a Glebe event and what better way to 

do that than to showcase local talent? 

All proceeds from the auction go 

directly to supporting The Glebe Centre's 

Abbotsford House, providing outreach 

services to local area seniors, 

recreation and social programming and 

a Day Away Program for seniors living 

with Alzheimer's. 

Admission is free to the auction and 

refreshments will be served. Huff 

Estates winery will be on site for complimentary 

-wine tasting for all attendees. 

The auction is a combination of 

both live and silent venues and our 

media sponsor and guest 

emcee/auctioneer is A Channel's own 

Kurt Stoodley. The premier event sponsor 

is Lord Lansdowne Retirement Res- 

idence and they will be on hand to discuss 

their beautiful new facility 

Other items up for bidding include: 

First class Via 1 tickets to Toronto 

Artistic Landscaping 2 hour in home consult 

Kettleman's bagels for 1 year 

Robert Bateman signed print 

Lord Elgin Hotel weekend stay for 2 with breakfast 

2 tickets for an NAC English theatre season performance 

Glebe Spa package 

Antique jewellery 

4 hours of Pick Custom personal driving 

Paul's Boat Line sightseeing cruise for 4 

...and so much more. 

Aspirations in the Glebe 

by Diane McIntyre 

Come out and support your local senidrs and have an evening of fun and 

excitement. 

For more information, contact Sue Walker at 613-238-2727, ext. 323. 

Toning it down 

at Abbotsford House 

BY JULIE IRETON 

"Let's finish with the roll down...exhale, arms dangling, stack the vertebrae..." 

Joanne,Pearson leads ten seniors, nine women and one man, through 

a pilates class at Abbotsford House. 

This core-toning exercise regime isn't just for spandex-clad yuppies. It's the 

kind of exercise anyone can do, and these seniors are enjoying every minute 

of it, while improving their strength and posture. "Three of the ladies are in 

their 80s. They're quite impressive. I'm amazed by all of them," says Pearson. 

She teaches at Abbotsford House every Wednesday from 10-1 1 a.m. Pearson 

also teaches classes around the neighbourhood at the Glebe Community Centre, 

Carleton University and the R.A. Centre. 

"They're very enthusiastic," says Pearson, who molded the program specifically 

for these seniors. "They're surprisingly strong and do a lot of things I 

didn't think they'd be able to do at first." 

"You have gotten a bit tougher with us," laughs Margaret Redding. It's obvious 

Redding doesn't mind the pace. She hardly misses a class. In fact, she's a 

model participant at Abbotsford, attending two aerobics classes, pilates and 

muscle toning classes every week. Exercise is on the schedule every morning 

at Abbotsford. 

"We do weight lifting and the cardio is very hard in the aerobics class, but 

we all manage to keep up," says Redding. "I really enjoy it, especially in winter. 

It gets me out of the house and keeps me very fit. Frankly, I wish more elderly 

people would come out. It gives us a better quality of life." Redding has 

been taking part in the pilates classes since September. "I have arthritis iirmy 

knee. It's better since I started coming to the class. I'm sure it's the exercise." 

Huguette Jubinville was one of the Abbotsford members who asked for 

pilates classes in the first place. "We love it. My sister comes too. We have an 

excellent instructor," says Jubinville. "It makes us more flexible." 

Abbotsford member, Michele Pronovost says at the weekly classes, she's 

met people she didn't know before. "I come every week. I started a couple 

years ago and went to semi-private lessons," explains Michele. "It's very good 

for the body. It's excellent build up for muscles. At first there were about seven 

of us. Now, there's often ten," she says. "We often have a little visit afterwards. 

We gather to chat and have a coffee." 

Abbotsford Pilates class is every Wednesday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Aerobics 

class is Monday 11 a.m.-12 noon and Thursday 10-11 a.m., and Yoga is 

held on Monday mornings 9:45-10:45 a.m. Spring session begins the week of 

April 14. 

Joanne Pearson leads senior Pila tes classes 

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NEWS 

Local musicians in Europe 

continued from page 1 

The OYO is a full symphony orchestra comprising 60 of the finest young 

musicians from the National Capital Region. Under the leadership of music 

director John Gomez, the OYO has become recognized as being in the top echelon 

of youth orchestras in Canada. 0Y0 alumni are members of major 

orchestras including the Montreal, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Vancouver 

symphony orchestras, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the City of 

Granada Orchestra of Spain, and the Royal Danish Orchestra. 

The orchestra's concert program for the tour includes two Canadian works: 

Fall Fair by Godfrey Ridout and The Canadian Shield by John Burge. 

Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp (K.299), featuring two award-winning 

OYO members as soloists, is sure to be a highlight. Bizet's Arlésienne Suite 

No. 2 and excerpts from Smetana's Bartered Bride will round out the program. 

"I'm really excited to be visiting countries where music is such an important 

part of their life and history. We'll have the chance to meet and play with 

other kids our own age, our common language being the music we play," 

enthused flautist Lindsay Bryden. 

The OYO will reprise its tour concert program in a special free performance 

on Mar. 30 in Southam Hall of the National Arts Centre, sponsored by PlascoEnergy 

Group, which is also a principal sponsor of the toûr. A highlight of 

the European tour was to be a joint concert with the Belgrade Youth Philharmonic 

(BYP), organized by the Canadian Embassy, to.raise funds for children's 

charities in Serbia. Although the two orchestras will not be able to perform 

together in person, the BYP will join the OYO in its NAC concert by live 

simulcast from Belgrade, and attendees will have an opportunity to support 

this worthy cause. 

For more information, see the website at www.oyoa-aojo.ca. 

Fiona MacLeod is a Glebe resident and vice-president of the OYOA board. 

On-street 

parking meter rate change 

The City of Ottawa would like to advise residents that, beginning on 

Mar. 1, 2008, the on-street parking meter rate has increased to $3 per hour 

from the 'current $2.50 per hour citywide. The new rate is the first increase 

since 2004 and will bring Ottawa's parking rates in line with other large Canadian 

municipalities. 

A decision on other potential changes to on-street parking, including weekend 

and evening charges, has been delayed pending consultation with the business 

community as per council direction. City staff will report back to council 

with alternative funding opportunities on Wed., Mar. 26., 

To ensure you have the right information about parking, whether it be at 

meters, in lots, or on-street, visit ottawa.ca/parking. 

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The American immigration regulations for Canadians travelling to and 

through the U.S. have changed recently. Since Jan. 31, 2008, Canadian citizens 

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If you travel to the U.S. by car or boat, a U.S. law requires you to present: 

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certificate or a citizenship card; or 

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4 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 EDITORIAL PAGE 

Shortage of doctors hits home 

After my family moved to Ottawa in 2001, it took about two and a half 

years years to find a family physician. What I am hearing now on the 

streets, schoolyards and in playgroups in the Glebe is that some families 

are having to wait even longer, or that they are lucky to find one at all. 

Most families must use walk-in clinics, where they have a chance to see 

any one of several doctors on call. But some people feel that since it is a 

walk-in clinic atmosphere, they do not get the personalized service that 

one physician, following their medical history closely, can provide. 

I remember the days when a family had one doctor who took care of 

everyone, keeping track of illnesses, taking care to record all details and 

complaints in each individual's history. 

Did you know? 

Between 4 and 5 million Canadians do not have a family physician.* 

Population growth is going to result in an extra 1.3 million people by 

2012.* 

13.4 per cent of Canada's population is 65 or older. Within the next year, 

300,000 people in Canada will turn 65 the highest Annual level on 

record.* 

If we want 95 per cent of the population to be covered by a health care 

system, we need to provide family physicians for an additional 3.3 million 

Canadians.* 

Patients have increasingly complex and chronic conditions that can be 

expected in an aging population. This means each patient requires more 

time/services to address his or her health needs.* 

These are just some of the hard facts. If you are concerned that members 

of your community do not have access to a family doctor, then voice your 

concerns by writing a letter to our local member of Parliament, Paul Dewar 

at www.dewarp@parl.gc.ca 

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LETTERS 

Last chance for business 

owners to object to Glebe BIA 

Editor, Glebe Report 

A warning to businesses that the proposed BIA and its mandatory levy to 

all business tenants becomes law March 25, 2008 if there is no objection. The 

following are some points to consider for those not aware of the proposed BIA 

in the Glebe. 

The proposed BIA in the Glebe, or Business Improvement Area is a creation 

founded under the provincial legislature and governed by the Municipal 

Act. 

This gives powers of taxation, in the form of a levy to all businesses in the 

area. 

You cannot opt out, once this is approved you will have to pay, that is the 

law. 

Your landlord gets the bill in the form of taxes from the city, and this is 

passed on to all tenants. 

Projected annual target is just under $300,000 per year. 

Your costs will be anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars 

whether you like it or not. 

Projected annual office and printing costs $160,000 per year. 

There has been a BIA in the market for the past 20 years. In the last 10 

years, over $2.5 million dollars has been raised. Ask yourself a question - do 

you notice $2.5 million of improvement to the area? Have they cleaned it up 

or has it not changed? 

Can a BIA "mitigate" effects of construction on Bank Street? How do you 

"mitigate" a hole in the ground? 

Can a BIA be at the table on Lansdowne Park? The talk is over and it was 

for discussions on public use, business is not involved. 

Can a BIA bring beautification such as flowers and benches to the Glebe? 

As we have seen on the corner of Fifth and Bank, those benches, sidewalk 

redesign and benches were compliments of our councillor Clive Doucet with 

existing tax dollars. No BIA required. 

Does a BIA carry a vote at city hall? Well no, the BIA gathers information 

and presents it to Clive all for the tidy sum of $300,000 a year. I can and have 

called Clive on the phone. Cost? Zero. 

Is the process of forming a BIA demperatic? No. It is pre-approved. The 

only way to prevent it is to object in writing, essentially a vote not to have it. 

One third of the affected tenants need to object or this is a done deal. 

How do I object? 

Write a letter to the city clerk Pierre Page before the March 25, 2008 deadline. 

Pierre G. Page 

City Clerk, City of Ottawa 

110 Laurier Avenue West 

Ottawa, ON KW 1J1 

You must include your name, business name and address, your landlord's 

information and that you object to the formation of the BIA in the Glebe. 

Remember this is now a vote not to have it. If not enough votes are received, 

all business tenants will be -forced to pay this recurring debt, you cannot opt 

out, this becomes law March 25, 2008 unless you object in writing to the city 

clerk Pierre Page before that date. 

To see your objection listed and to see who else objects to this, send a short 

email to me at jemartin@glebeonsite.ca and I will post it to 

www.objectglebebia.ca for all to see. 

By the time you read this you will also have received from me, as a community 

service, a preaddressed envelope and form letter for your objection. 

If you do nothing it passes, if you object and are not in favour then get your 

vote of objection in no later than the mailing deadline of March 20, 2008 for 

the end date of March 25, 2008. 

Does a united group of businesses get heard better than solitary voices? Of 

course, but it does not take a third of a million dollars on a recun-ing basis, 

without the ability to opt out to find out what the business community wants. 

I will happily be your contact point at no charge and we can all connect with 

an email list and a simple website that I will be happy to arrange! 

This is the way we get heard by our one and only vote at city council that 

matters, our elected representative Clive Doucet. Make your existing tax dollars 

work for you. 

We make a living here, lets give back to our community, no charge! 

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Roar into the 13th annual Spring dreaming 

Ottawa Spring Antiques Sale! for home and garden 

The "wild one" Marion Brando Architectural artist Penny Gorman 

roars into The Spring Ottawa of "Balleycanoe" creates fish (and 

Antiques Sale, full of attitude, sitting virtually any other object) from vinastride 

his motorcycle. Silvano tage bits and pieces of architectural 

"Nano" Campeggi created illustra- salvage. "It's really quite incredible to 

tions for over sixty Academy Award watch" says show manager Catherine 

winning movies with many of the Knoll. "Penny can take some barn 

images rising to the exalted status of board, old wire and some weathered 

"cultural icons." When recently in hardware and create a thing of beauty. 

Italy, participating art dealer Equally important is the raw materi- 

"Artophile" scored a major coup by als that might have been destined for 

acquiring the exclusive North Amer- the landfill are now an amazing work 

ican rights to sell the original works of art." Penny's art will be featured in 

directly from Campeggi himself. the "Balleycanoe" booth. 

The Brando image is one of two Amazing art is just one of the 

original illustrations that will be things that former Parisian auctionoffered 

for sale; the second is eers Anne-Yvonne Jouan and 

Audrey Hepburn from 'Breakfast at Philippe Pallafray sell. For them, the 

Tiffany's." 

frantic excitement of the Parisian 

Many frustrated anglers feel that auction houses created a love for 

some fish have an attitude as big as antiques. It may be a long way from 

Brando's. So it may be that the "big Paris to Ottawa (via their new home 

prize" for these anglers is not actu- in Quebec City), but the Pallafrays 

ally in the water but in the tackle travel back to Paris on a regular basis 

box. Vintage fishing lures can sell to buy. Meet Anne and Philippe and 

for tens of thousands of dollars. discover their passion. 

Lure expert Patrick Daradick will The Spring Ottawa Antiques Sale 

help anglers fish through their tack- is also Ottawa's largest sale of 

le boxes and offer free identifica- antique and period to present-day 

tion and appraisals of vintage tack- diamond and gemstone-set pieces, 

le. Patrick will be appraising from 1 designer and costume jewellery. The 

to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. 40,000 square foot show features 

Patrick's collection of Ontario scores of professional dealers from 

made vintage tackle (one of the Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa and 

best in the world) will also be on features one-of-a-kind designer 

display. 

pieces, vintage finds and antiques. 

Ottawa Spring Antiques Sale! 

Mar. 28-30, 2008 

The Fieldhouse at Carleton U (Bronson and Sunnyside Ayes.) 

Fri., 5 9 p.m., 

Sat., 10 a.m. 5 p.m., 

Sun., 10 a.m. 4 p.m. 

Admission $7; free parking 

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Visit this year's Ottawa Home & 

Garden show at Lansdowne Park for 

trade secrets from experts in home 

décor, renovations and landscaping. 

Experts will offer presentations on 

all things home related. 

New this year, see Lori Mitchell 

from Tomboy Tools, a company that 

manufactures and sells high quality 

hand and power tools designed for 

the ergonomic needs of women. 

Lori will help demystify the world 

of home improvement, maintenance 

and renovation, empowering women 

to. be confident and competent 

homeowners and DIHs (do-it-herselfers!) 

Janette Ewing and Virginie Martocq, 

from Chatelaine Magazine predict 

what's hot for 2008 covering 

current trends in colour choices and 

fabrics and popular styles ranging 

from luxurious décor with gilt to 

hotel chic to eco-friendly "green" 

interiors. Learn from the experts how 

to incorporate these current trends 

into your home without blowing 

your bank account. 

Local company, Vert Design, 

explains how home renovation or 

new construction projects can help 

ensure sustainability. Vert Design 

employs green design that can save 

homeowners money, make life more 

comfortable, create a healthier environment 

in which to live, work and 

play and improve our lifestyles and 

the lives of future generations. 

Noura Baala shares her expertise 

and experience in home staging and 

professional organization. Learn 

how to receive top dollar from the 

sale of your home by creating a look 

and feel that buyers want to own. 

Join gardening expert Peter Knippel 

of Knippel Nursery with advice 

and ideas for creating the perfect 

garden for a multitude of different 

Update your wardrobe with pieces 

from over 30 fabulous Canadian 

designers. Accent your look with 

jewellery and accessories from over 

40 exhibitors offering, shoes, bags, 

belts, coats, hats, scarves and more. 

Our daily fashion shows will show 

you how to pull your new designer 

look together. 

Feel radiant this spring with bodycare 

products made from all natural 

ingredients. 

For your home, you will find 

objets d'art to accent your 

rooms, tableware and serving pieces, 

tastes and designs for the expert 

gardener or the novice. 

Back by popular demand, the 

Master Gardeners provide daily 

informative presentations on all 

things garden related from growing 

your own vegetables to planning 

perennials. Visit the Master Gardeners 

in their booth for free one-on-one 

consultations! 

Award winning landscape architect, 

Welwyn Wong, demonstrates 

how to turn the neighbours green with 

envy by creating a backyard oasis that 

looks professionally designed. 

Interior decorators from CDECA 

(Canadian Decorators Association) 

address popular home decorating 

issues. Bring your paint, fabric 

swatches, pictures and other information 

about your home decorating 

project to the CDECA booth for 

the decorating expert! Each visitor 

will receive a free 10-minute consultation. 

Put the Ottawa Home & Garden 

show on your family agenda this 

Easter weekend! For four days, from 

Good Friday, Mar. 21 to Easter Monday, 

Mar. 24, the Ottawa Home & 

Garden show is full of opportunities 

for visitors to win thousands of dollars 

worth of prizes, including two 

$5,000 shopping sprees from The 

Brick and Prestige Furniture and a 

$15,000 BackYard prize package, 

including patio furniture and a 

Napolean gourmet grill. 

Admission is $10.00 for adults, 

$8.00 for seniors, $8.00 for children 

13-17 and children under 12 are free 

(prices include GST). Buy your tickets 

online at www.ottawahome 

shows.com and receive $2 off regu.- 

lar admission. 

For more information, visit 

www.ottawahomeshows.com 

Ottawa Home & Garden Show 

Mar. 21-24, 2008 

Ottawa Civic Centre, Lansdowne Park 

Fri., 10 am 9 p.m. 

Sat., 10 a.m. 9 p.m. 

Sun., 10 a.m. 5 p.m. 

Mon., 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 

Originals spring craft sale 

focuses on fashion 

linens, furniture, lamps and of 

course, those tantalizing tastes from 

our food exhibitors. 

Don't forget the outdoors! Fabulous 

fountains, garden art and outdoor 

accessories will add one of a 

kind touches to your backyard oasis. 

Discover these unique items and 

more by visiting the 170 exhibitors 

at the 2008 Originals spring craft 

sale. 

Tickets: Adults $6, seniors and 

youth (ages 13-17) $4, children 12 

and under FREE! Unlimited readmission 

allowed for all 4 days. 

ORIGINALS, the spring craft sale 

Apr. 17-20, 2008 

Ottawa Civic Centre, Lansdowne Park 

Show hours: 

Thurs., 11 a.m. 9 p.m. 

Fri., 11 a.m. 9 p.m. 

Sat., 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 

Sun., 10 a.m. 6 p.m.

GNAG 

Spring into summer 

Registration has begun 

With all the snow on the ground, it is. 

hard to believe that it is now time to 

think about spring and summer program 

registration. 

Well over 100 programs and activi- 

By 

ties are offered at the Glebe Community 

Centre. Spring into summer with 

Mary 

GNAG by signing up for something 

Tsai- 

new or return to what was a great expe- 

Davies 

rience last session. We have a fantastic 

line-up for all ages and interests. Go to 

our website at www.gnag.ca. Click on the "Spring into Summer" icon and follow 

the prompts...it's that easy! 

Summer camps our specialty! 

Although it may seem early, you don't want to miss out. We have brought 

back the best of the best, including Glebe leadership, theatre, dance, pottery, 

art, circus, extreme girls, extreme guys and GL camping adventure. We are 

introducing new camps such as: Kinder artists and youth farm apprenticeship 

camp. 

If your child has ever attended GCC's camps, then you know how wonderful 

they are and how fast they fill up. Don't sit in front of your calendar on the 

last day of school wondering what you are going to be doing with your kids 

for the next two months. Register now! Your kids will thank you for it. For 

more details, call 613-233-8713 or 613-564-1058. 

Spring soccer registration 

(3 years to grade 6) 

GNAG spring soccer is back and we will be taking registration online 

(www.gnag.ca) beginning Tues., Mar. 18 starting at 11 p.m. Telephone and inperson 

registration continues at the Glebe Community Centre on the following 

day and will remain open until Fri., April 18 or until spaces are filled 

don't wait until it is too late. 

GNAG soccer is a fun league open to boys and girls 3 years of age to grade 

6. Over 400 children participate each year. Games are played only against 

other GNAG soccer teams. Every player receives equal attention and playing 

time. We emphasize fun, encourage a winning effort and fair play. We keep 

score during games, but not over the season. This is the best way to kick off 

your soccer season. 

The Sound of Music! 

Tickets are now on sale! 

Come and enjoy this wonderful musical 

performed by actors and artists you 

may know. GNAG's community production 

of The Sound of Music will take 

place from Fri., April 4 th Sun., April 6. 

Tickets are now available at the front 

desk of the Glebe Community Centre at 

$18 for advance tickets or $20 at the 

door. Limited seats for our special discount 

shows are also available. Relive a 

childhood favourite and fall in love with 

The Sound of Music all over again! 

Glamour in the Glebe 

Celebrate women at our second annual jewellery show. This event features 

fun, glamorous and sophisticated jewellery designed and made by local and 

area artisans. Join us on Mother's Day weekend. You will find something for 

every woman in your life, including you! 

Come to our premier viewing on Fri., May 9 at 6:30 p.m. For $5.00, enjoy 

an elegant jewellery fashion show over a glass of wine, some savoury snacks 

and good company. Bring a girlfriend and make it a girls' night out you 

deserve it! Sat., May 10, 10 a.m. 4 p.m., the fun continues. Admission is 

free. This is a perfect opportunity to have that wish list completed by someone 

who loves you. 

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with international baroque orchestra on period instruments 

Agnes Zsigovics Daniel Taylor Benjamin Butterfield Daniel Lich 

Friday, Apnl 18, 2008, 8:00 p.m. 

St. Mafthew's Anglican Church, 130 Glebe Ave. 

Tickets available at: 

The Leading Note, Compact Music, CD Warehouse 

Reserved $50, Adults $40, Seniors $35, Students $15 

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Special Easter Weekend Services 

Good Friday Service March 21 1 1:00 a.m. 

Rev. Dr. Mervin Stoddart 

Easter Service Sunday, March 23 11:00 a.m. 

Rev. Neil Hunter (interim) 

Sunday school, Nursery care 

Parent/tot room availabk during the service. 

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TIT t)REATs -LEBE UARAck Stg- 

This banner, designed by Fiona Mason, hung across Bank Street for the 

first Great Glebe Garage Sale in 1986. 

Mark your calendars May 24 

Great Glebe Garage Sale! 

The Great Glebe Garage Sale is 

just around the corner. The Glebe 

Community Association (GCA) is 

interested in highlighting the original 

purpose of this now famous 'special 

event' to increase our collective' 

support to the Food Bank. Since the 

inception of the sale in 1986, the 

GCA has endorsed donations to the 

Ottawa Food Bank as part of this 

incredibly festive event. After all, it 

is about building community! We 

have encouraged household vendors 

to donate 10 per cent of their proceeds, 

and bargain shoppers to 

donate some of their savings on purchases. 

In turn, the Ottawa Food 

Bank issues receipts for donations of 

$10.00 or more and is better able to 

serve the 40,000 people that need 

and use their services each month. 

Are you interested in helping out 

this important cause? A number of 

exciting volunteer opportunities 

available. Interested in ,media? We 

need someone who can write a press 

release, update the website, handle 

inquiries from local community 

radio and print media outlets and 

find suitable interview candidates. A 

great experience for a budding (or 

retired) journalist! 

Interested in public/community 

relations? Serve as liaison with the 

Glebe Business Group, City Hall, 

the Glebe Community Centre and 

local schools. If you'd rather work 

alone from home and on computer, 

you can respond to e-mail inquiries 

and provide information about our 

neighbourhood and city to visitors 

and vendors. 

Interested in the issue of hunger in 

our community? Work with the 

Ottawa Food Bank volunteers to distribute 

information in advance of the 

sale to promote awareness about the 

work of the Food Bank, or canvass 

vendors and collect donations on the 

day of the sale. 

All are encouraged to join in to 

make this year's sale the best ever! 

High school and university students 

can get valuable experience through 

volunteering and can develop skills 

which are transferable to the workplace 

(and will look great on your 

resumé for summer job hunting!) 

The Great Glebe Garage Sale is 

one of the many things that make 

living in this vibrant community so 

wonderful. Let's work together to 

ensure that people in need in our 

wider community also benefit from 

the fun of buying and selling on 

May 24. 

For more information or to offer 

help, contact Janet Sutherland at 

613-236-0025 or by e-mail at 

GGGS@glebeca.ca. 

s 

Challenges 

spring up for Glebe 

By 

Bob 

Brocklebank 

Writing in the midst of a snowstorm, 

it is hard not to think of 

spring. For the GCA, spring means 

our annual membership campaign, 

the Great Glebe Garage Sale and 

the relaunch of our tree inventory 

project. 

Clean-up 

Since your association and the 

local business group have taken on 

responsibility for Bank Street, it will 

also mean participation in the spring 

Clean-Up the Capital campaign. We 

welcome your help in cleaning up 

the trash along the street. Work in 

eliminating graffiti can start once 

more with warmer weather and the 

enforcement of the the city's new 

graffiti management initiatives. The 

policy provides for new penalties for 

graffiti perpetrators, among other 

measures. 

Rebuild 

For people living along Third and 

Second avenues west of Bank and 

the associated part of Percy, the 

arrival of spring will see the begin- 

ning of construction to replace the 

water and sewer mains and install 

new sidewalks and street pavement. 

At our last GCA meeting, I was so 

irreverent some would say insensi- 

tive 

to refer to those streets as our 

Great Lakes district. It is hoped that 

the reconstruction will finally 

resolve the street flooding in that part 

of the community. 

We hope to use the GCA website 

as a means of conveying updated city 

information about this construction 

project to residents and property 

owners in the affected area. 

As the new sidewalks are installed 

with street upgrading, sidewalk 

design continues to be a topic of discussion. 

At the February GCA meeting, 

there were diverse opinions 

'expressed about the merits of the 

various approaches to sidewalk 

design. Issues that seem to divide 

neighbours include how the different 

designs work in the winter and how 

well they work for wider or narrower 

sidewalks. 

Lansdowne Park 

We have now had two consultation 

sessions on redevelopment of 

Lansdowne Park, and everyone in 

the city has been invited to comment 

in an electronic discussion forum. In' 

March or April, the city will issue a 

design brief which is to guide the 

competition leading to redevelopment 

of Lansdowne. 

Your association has been encour- 

aging everyone, not just Glebe residents 

but everyone in the city, to 


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Our community's local food bank 

needs your help. On Saturday, 

March 29, volunteers from the 

Food Centre will be in the store 

from 9:00am to 4:00pm to 

collect donations of much 

needed non-perishable food 

items, such as canned soup, 

tuna, canned fruit and pasta 

sauce, and money. 

Food Drive 

for the 

Centretown Emergency 

Food Centre 

Saturday, March 29108 

9:00am to 4:00pm 

The Food Centre at 507 Bank Street serves people living in the Centretown 

area four days a week, year:round. Last year over 7,900 people received a 

3-4 day supply of food from the Food Centre. 

Your donation will make a difference for many people, including families, in 

need. The Food Centre is a project of the Centretown Churches Social 

Action Committee and is generously supported by CCSAC, its members 

and the City of Ottawa. Info: 613.232.3059 www.centretownchurches.org 

Ileb Glebe 

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Tel: (613) 232.9466 Fax: (613) 232.6502 

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GCA Glebe Report March 14, 2008 9 

participate in discussions about 

Lansdowne Park. We have tried to 

make the point that this is not a local 

Glebe issue but involves a valuable 

asset of the city as a whole a place 

that has for over a century been a 

welcoming site for citizens from 

across Ottawa. 

have been pleased with the way 

the city has conducted the consultation 

process on Lansdowne to date. 1 

worry about the process of the competition 

to follow. My concern is that 

we seem to moving toward a "winner 

takes all" competition process in 

which one consortium gets to implement 

its plan for the entire site. That 

approach might exclude small firms 

with good ideas and it might mean 

that we cannot benefit from all the 

good concepts the various bidders 

present. Both politicians and city 

staff have given assurances that the 

public will have an opportunity to 

comment fully on the process. I 

would urge everyone to watch for 

news and to make constructive comments 

as the competition procedures 

are revealed. 

Traffic 

A year ago, GCA wrote to the 

Ontario minister of the environment 

regarding concerns about the environmental 

assessment prepared for 

the redevelopment of the Queensway. 

This led to a chilly walk-about 

on Feb. 13 of members of the GCA 

traffic committee plus representatives 

and consultants from the 

Ontario ministry of transport. 

The reconstruction of the 417 

interchange at Bronson and its 

impact on traffic on Chamberlain 

were discussed at length. Ministry 

plans propose to lengthen the 417 

ramp for eastbound traffic exiting at 

Bronson in order to avoid traffic 

backing up onto Highway 417. They 

also intend to rearrange the street 

pattern so that the traffic can proceed 

directly into Chamberlain without a 

need to divert to Imperial to access 

Chamberlain as at present. 

One GCA concern is for safety of 

southbound traffic on Bronson turning 

into Chamberlain (now a dangerous 

left turn without traffic lights 

across two lanes of northbound 

Bronson traffic). The other worry is 

the prospect of speeding traffic along 

Chamberlain. Speed may be encouraged 

by the reorientation of Chamberlain 

at Bronson which may make 

Chamberlain resemble a service road 

for Highway 417. Because Chamberlain 

is a city street crossed regularly 

by students at Glashan and 

Glebe Collegiate, pedestrian safety 

is a priority for the traffic committee. 

Further discussion with city traffic 

officials will be needed as plans proceed 

for the 417 redevelopment. 

It goes without saying that the 

traffic committee used the opportunity 

of the walk-about to press for 

prompt installation of additional 

sound barriers along the Queensway. 

High level city planning 

The city is initiating consultations 

on revision of the official plan and 

the transportation master plan. While 

these may seem rather abstract and 

distant from day-to-day concerns in 

the Glebe, these discussions are relevant 

to us and should be followed 

yvith attention. 

In the case of the official plan, the 

city is obliged by the provincial policy 

statement to develop targets for 

intensification. At present, mainstreets 

such as Bank and Bronson are 

identified as areas suitable for intensification. 

We need to participate if 

intensification targets are to be set 

for those parts of the neighbourhood. 

As for the transportation master 

plan, details of significant transit 

investments have been proposed, 

including an extensive light rail transit 

network featuring a tunnel under 

downtown. Reconfiguring transit 

downtown is bound to have an 

impact on transit service in our 

neighbourhood. Whatever happens, 

our favourite bus routes of 1, 4, 6, 

and 7 will not stay unchanged. 

No big transit investments in the 

Glebe are planned but our needs for 

service are likely to increase. We 

need to remain alert to ensure that 

service to our neighbourhood does 

not deteriorate as service across the 

city is improved. Already there are 

stories that it is faster for friends to 

get home to Kanata from downtown 

by express bus than it is for us to 

reach the Glebe along the congested 

Bank Street corridor. 

Taxes 

One sign of spring that has already 

arrived is the demand from the city 

to pay the first instalment of property 

taxes. This will be followed by a 

final tax bill in summer and new 

property assessments in the autumn. 

In the budget debate several 

months ago, the .GCA asked council 

to make no unrealistic assumptions 

about savings that can be wrung 

from the administrative budget of the 

city. Press reports indicate that the 

investigation launched by council to 

try to find easy savings has produced 

little. This would suggest that a higher 

tax burden is inescapable. 

The GCA is considering forming 

a committee to look at property tax 

issues. One initiative would be to 

provide information on the process 

for challenging assessments. Another 

possibility is to work on ideas 

about other more appropriate taxation 

systems to fund responsibilities 

assigned to municipalities. The 

provincial government has indicated 

that it is willing to resume 

responsibility for some functions 

which were "downloaded" to cities 

in the past decade. This could indicate 

a willingness to look deeper 

into the problem of funding municipal 

government. 

Next meeting 

The GCA will hold its 

next board meeting on 

Tues., Mar 25. 

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10 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 GOOD OLD DAYS 

Thirty Years Ago 

in the Glebe Report: 

Vol. 6 No. 3, March, 1978 

By 

Ian 

McKercher 

The City housing and planning 

department was recorpmending that 

14 units of "special needs homes" be 

built on the site of a small park at 

Lakeview Terrace and Bronson 

Avenue (current site of Senator 

Eugene Forsey Park). At the time, 

the park contained a multi-purpose 

court, a rope climber and a bench. 

The Dow's Lake committee of the 

neighbourhood plan study wished to 

upgrade the park facilities to include 

a tennicourt, garden plots for seniors, 

wooden climbers and a sand 

box. They felt a strong need to protect 

a safe area for children to play. 

The Glebe Study Area working 

committee made up of parents in the 

Glebe and officials of the Ottawa 

board of education had recently 

come out with the following pro- 

Gram accommodation recommendation 

for September, 1978. First 

Avenue school should become the 

home of the senior kindergarten to 

grade 6 early French immersion program 

and Mutchmor school should 

become the home of the junior 

kindergarten to grade 6 English program. 

A JK English program was to 

be left at First Avenue. 

Inveterate pollution awareness 

advocate Hazel Mackenzie reported 

that the City of Ottawa recycled 242 

tons of glass in 1977, and 59 tons of 

tin. Volunteers at the Glebe Recycling 

Depot behind the McKeen- 

Willis IGA cleaned and stripped bottles 

and cans to significantly increase 

their market value. The recycling 

program was still running at a loss, 

mainly due to high transportation 

costs, and market prices of only $20 

to $30 a ton. Hazel emphasized, 

however, that we were still paying 

$20 for each ton of household 

garbage picked up and trucked to a 

landfill, with no return on investment 

except possible pollution problems 

later. 

Getting a head start on spring, the 

NCC had already planted a number' 

of young elm trees on Clemow 

Avenue, even though the ice on the 

canal was still over a foot thick. 

March, 1978 

YOUR 

TIME HAS COME. 

(SEE CENTREFOLD) 

Vol. 6 No. 3 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 

This retrospective is filed monthly by Ian McKercher of the Glebe Historical 

Society (GHS). The GHS welcomes the donation or loan (for copying) of 

any item that documents the past in the Glebe (photographs, maps, deeds, 

news articles, posters, programs, memorabilia, etc.). You can contact Ian at 

613-235-4863 or ian.mckercher@opera.ncfca. 

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Free Programs for all Ages and Abilities! 

St. James offers a wide range of free programs to our members, especially our younger 

ones acquiring a passion for the game for the first time. Our numerous club tournaments, 

social events and round robins are always free. 

Tennis Lessons 

Sign-up for lessons begins on opening day. Our coaches are friend1), "- 

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Social Events 

Round Robins - Family Day - Movie and a Hit Nights 

Wimbledon Strawberries and Cream Event 

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GLEBE QUESTIONS 

"Figuring" it out with David and Blake 

By 

Clyde 

Sanger 

David Burns is much more than a 

financial adviser in my life and, I 

am sure, much more in other people's 

lives too. One British Chancellor 

of the Exchequer (was it Stafford 

Cripps?) was derided by an opponent 

as "a desiccated, calculating 

machine." David is the opposite. 

After some 25 years of friendship, I 

have never known him down at the 

mouth. 

You sit dcAivn in his comfy office 

on Fourth Avenue,. a photo of him 

with Wayne Gretzky on a side-wall, 

and you talk about everything but 

bank balances... about his enthusiasms, 

like heritage power boats and 

the cottage he inherited on the 

Rideau Lakes where he keeps his 

treasured craft. You talk about the 

places (China, Vietnam) his partner 

Joanne Warren goes to as a highoctane 

consultant, and some of the 

odd places they visit as tourists. 

"David, you can't have gone to 

Burma, under that terrible junta!" "I 

know," he replies, "but the pagodas 

were beautiful." 

The conversation turns (you turn 

it) eventually to finances, and you 

point out the worrying trend of your 

investments (at my age, RRSPs 

turned into RRIFs) after the subprime 

fright. "Why are you worried?" 

he says. "You can always sell 

your nice house on First Avenue." 

"But then we'd be homeless." He 

just smiles. Maybe he thinks we'll 

go off to gaze at those pagodas. 

About three months ago our conversation 

took a different turn. We 

talked about fitness. Approaching his 

60th birthday, he still resembles a 

cherub in a mediaeval painting with 

his rosy cheeks. Apparently he's 

been going twice a week for nearly 

three years, to the Glebe Fitness 

Centre at 858 Bank Street. A few 

sentences later, and he is phoning up 

its owner, Blake Dewan. Suddenly I 

am in their hands, physically as well 

as fiscally. 

Blake used to train football players, 

but now he wants to attract the 

baby boomers and even older. He 

bought the extensive centre with 

three big exercise rooms (cardio, 

weight and dance) from John Harvey 

last year. You marvel at all those 

expensive machines, and ask the 

price. "About the same as a house in 

Barrhaven," he says. He knows, as 

he lives there. 

Armed with a letter from my doctor, 

Daniel Maher, whose office is 

two floors above Blake's basement 

establishment, I sign up for six 

months at the senior's rate: I estimate 

that if I go twice a week, it will work 

out to about $5 a time. Not bad. And 

Blake reads the doctor's note and 

learns about my hip replacements 

and other infirmities, and figures out 

a routine of nine exercises to do in 

three groups of 15. For the first 

month he watches closely over me. 

He seems to think I can no longer 

count to 15. 

The treadmills in the cardio room 

are clattering with young runners; 

but Carol Shepard, an old CUSO 

friend turned author, is happier on 

the elliptical machine and warns 

against the steppers. I take the easy 

path with two 15-minute turns on the 

bicycle, adjusting the silent television 

to Newsworld. The typos in the 

subtitles of the commercials are 

comic: a Weight Watcher is interpreted 

saying "now I can france 

around in my bikini." 

Left to right: David Burns, Blake Dewan and Joanne Warren 

The leg-press is my big test, 

recumbent and vulnerable. But in a 

few weeks, I was proud of pushing 

115 lbs., until one early morning I 

went to photograph Joanne and 

David, who claimed he did 270 lbs. 

"and that's not what I weigh," he 

added. Then on to machines that are 

labeled Chest-press, Lat-row and 

Biceps-pushdown. They are a breeze 

at 60 or 70 lbS., but the push-down 

weights go up to 170 lbs, which a 

nearby athlete tells me he has raised. 

"Go as far as you feel comfortable," 

is his kind advice. 

Then bar-bells, while gazing into 

huge mirrors, and finally the "abs." I 

ask a trim Laree in a Puma t-shirt 

working with bar-bells why she 

feels she needs to come. Because 


she has a three-year-old and wants 

to keep fit to pick up his toys. Would 

she bring young Desmond? "God, 

no. He'd destroy the place." The 

same question to grizzle-bearded 

Bob. He's a cancer survivor, and has 

come regularly for three years after 

his wife gave him a month's pass. 

His mother Rebecca used to say, 

"Old age ain't for sissies." She lived 

to 96. 

Blake,,still hovering and counting 

up to 15, has made the centre with its 

400 to 500 members into one big 

family. Lots of smiles and tallcing. A 

little family, too: one morning he 

was cuddling his two-month-old son 

Jack, while his wife Jenny leapt onto 

a treadmill. Nothing sub-prime 

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12 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 COUNCILLOR'S REPORT 

Hockey tournament brings cup to our friends 

in Old Ottawa South 

By 

Councillor 

Clive 

Doucet 

Spring Scent 

Ottawans stoop towards spring 

like starving hawks 

towards slow, soft bellied prey. 

from Canal Seasons 

Capital Ward Cup 

Capital Ward has more than 15 

outdoor rinks and all are very well 

used. Every evening and weekend, 

the rinks are animated by one long, 

game of shinny. The players change 

but the game goes on, sometimes 

teenagers, sometimes older men and 

women. The games can be fast and 

furious or slower and more graceful, 

with just the soft sound of the puck 

passing from stick to stick. It has 

long been my ambition to have a 

winter shinny tournament to celebrate 

this informal and very happy 

Canadian activity. This winter, Tara 

Pearman in my office pulled it 

together for the community. 

We recruited teams from each of 

the Ward's principal communities 

The Heron Park Hackers teed off 

against the Old Ottawa South Moose 

and the Glebe Goal Getters against 

the Old Ottawa East Hosers. Playing 

for the Glebe Goal Getters were Don 

Davies, Roger Smith, Randy Freda, 

Jonathan Angel and Mike 

McCloskey. It was a perfect Saturday 

afternoon in Heron Park, sunshine 

and just a few degrees below 

zero. True to the shinny traditions, 

there was no goalie, no raisihg the 

puck and no checking. The result was 

a fast-paced, pure skills game of skating, 

stick handling and passing. 

Tara found the team shirts and I 

commissioned a sculpture from an 

artist, Jean H. Guilmette, whose 

work I have admired. He created the 

Capital Ward Cup sculpting two 

players in bronze, one with a pen and 

one with hockey stick and set them 

Capital Ward Cup 

on a wooden plinth to symbolize the 

struggles that we see around the 

council table and on the hockey rink. 

The games were all close and terrific 

fun to watch. The players from 

Old Ottawa South can-ied the day in 

a fast and furious final game against 

Old Ottawa East. For its first year, the 

trophy will reside in the Old Ottawa 

South Firehall until next winter when 

the teams will go at it again. 

Metered parking 

During the budget, council passed 

a motion extending metered parking 

in the old city of Ottawa to Saturdays, 

Sundays and evenings, and to 

Old Ottawa South, Richmond Road 

(Westboro) and New Edinburgh. The 

city centre councillors voted against 

it. We saw it as destructive and 

exploitative for many reasons. Street 

parking is supposed to be a service to 

business to ensure turnover on high 

demand streets where there is little 

off-street parking. This was clearly 

not a service to business but a new 

and expensive tax imposed without 

any public consultation. Further it is 

an inefficient tax. It is costly to 

administer somewhere between 26 

per cent and 62 per cent of the revenue 

collected goes into collecting it. 

So we're taxing people so they can 

be taxed. It is also unfair 25 city 

streets already pay $27 million into 

the city treasury that other streets 

and mall parking lots are exempt 

from, $16 million of that $27 million 

is paid in fines. So when business 

people talk about the 'fine chill,' 

they're not kidding. 

The good news is I was successful 

in convincing the chair of the Transportation 

Committee to hold a special 

meeting of that committee to 

hear public delegations on the imposition 

of this new tax. The community 

response was unprecedented. We 

received thousands of petitions. 

Members of churches came out to 

protest, as did every BIA in the old 

city of Ottawa, as did all of our community 

associations; there never has 

been such a universal, coherent and 

vigorous outcry. It didn't carry the 

day at Transportation Committee: 

only the Sunday and evening charges 

were lifted. The good news is at 

council we were successful in getting 

everything but the increased fees 

from $2.50 to $3.00 deferred until 

March 26, with instructions to staff 

to see if it is possible to find the $2 

million required from some other 

line item. 

One of the many strange twists in 

this long and difficult debate is that a 

0.2 per cent increase in our property 

taxes, the equivalent of $5 per household 

did not carry. Yet, council was 

prepared to carry such a targeted, 

destructive, inefficient parking tax. 

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City council officially endorsed 

the initiative of Mayor Larry 

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in the world wide campaign called 

"Earth hour." 

Since this announcement was 

made at the Chamber of Commerce 

in January of this year, other major 

cities such as Montreal, Vancouver, 

Dublin (IRE) and Bangkok have also 

responded to the call to turn off their 

lights for one hour from 8-9 p.m. on 

Sat., Mar. 29. 

"This one hour event is a simple 

action that demonstrates Ottawa is 

serious about taking action against a 

major threat to our planet, global 

warming," says Mayor Larry 

O'Brien. "Sustainable business is 

good business and Ottawa is all 

about good business." 

The City of Ottawa, led by World 

Wildlife Fund Canada is partnering 

with Hydro Ottawa and media sponsor, 

The Ottawa Sun, as well as many 

other worthwhile partners, in shutting 

off all non-essential lighting and 

encouraging bu-sinesses, other levels 

of government and all residents to do 

the same. 

"Global warming and climate 

change are some of the biggest 

threats facing our planet," says 

Councillor Peter Hume, chair of the 

Planning and Environment Committee. 

"And Earth hour is about more 

than just one hour, one night. It's 

about inspiring people everyday to 

make changes that will lower greenhouse 

gas emissions." 

Throughout the year, the 'city's 

lighting policy shuts off the administrative 

building- lights in the nighttime 

hours, seven days a week. 

For more information, visit 

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BY CAROL MACLEOD 

Yes, spring will soon be here and with it the Glebe Community Association's 

tree survey teams swing into action. The survey is part of the ReTREE 

Our Glebe project of the GCA's Environment Committee. We hope to document 

all trees on public and private property in our community. The survey 

will document the state of our trees, noting suitable sites where young trees 

can be planted. It will be conducted by your neighbours throughout the spring 

and summer. Our ultimate purpose is to make sure the Glebe has a healthy 

urban forest. 

Dr. Andy Kenney of the University of Toronto's Forestry Department, who 

had adapted the survey instrument that we use, will offer us a refresher course 

in mid-April. The training involves a two hour indoor session on a Friday 

evening learning about types of trees and the data collection instrument and a 

Saturday out-of-doors session, looking at those trees. 

Check the Glebe Community Association's website, www.Glebeca.ca for 

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A sweet goodbye 

One of Tatiana's original 

masterpieces 

In a pastry kitchen, the term "mise 

en place" means to have things 

ready, to be prepared. Stepping out 

of my kitchen and into the next 

phase of my career, I am keenly 

aware that I have no ability to prepare 

myself for my separation from 

the best clientele a business owner 

could ever wish for. 

Little vignettes from the past 20 

years presently come to mind; slices 

of my many days spent behind the 

spatula but at the forefront of a 

movement to bring better desserts to 

Ottawa. To the lady that seemed 

utterly disappointed that we use only 

real butter and real cream (and that 

the cream is not spelt with a "K"), I 

take solace in the knowledge that 

you at least seemed encouraged by 

the quality of our chocolate. In 

response to the thousandth time that 

someone has said my "Chocolate 

Champagne corks" are better than 

(rhymes with "Tex"), I would 

like to suggest you put down the 

remote; stop watching so much of 

"The Food Network" and get out a 

bit more. Seriously, if someone had 

told me 20 years ago that straight 

faced I'd have to inform a customer 

that there is no elegant way to 

"plate" a "fancy rice krispie square" 

using squeezable chocolate sauce, 

I'd have thought them crazed and 

under the influence of low grade 

chocolate. I truly saw my whole 

career flash before me as I kept looking 

for the hidden cameras. 

Once, under my employ I had an 

apprentice with a minimal grasp of 

the English language (let alone the 

kitchen vernacular) but a maximum 

positive attitude to please; one who 

answered all my queries with a "yes 

chef' and a broad, unknowing smile. 

On this particular morning when the 

400th "Baked Alaska" refused to cooperate 

and I had yet again boiled 

over 10 litres of whipping cream 

(cream and I have been at odds ever 

since my apprenticeship days), I 

barked out the order to "chop the 5 

kg of nuts" to my beaming, oblivious 

apprentice. What ensued was a crash 

and rapid dispersal of round hazelnuts 

to the -four corners of the 

kitchen floor. I guess "chop the nuts" 

and "drop the nuts" do sound 

remarkably alike! 

Where do I go from here? It is my 

intent to teach, train and tackle many 

new pastry challenges and generally 

elevate the level of my craft/trade in 

the process. I will always continue to 

make wedding and special occasion 

cakes as if you would let me do 

otherwise! Please use my website to 

follow me along on the journey and 

I look forward to seeing you at my 

classes. I also look forward to hopefully 

teaching your kids! As many of 

you are aware, I am presently chair 

of the Ontario Ministry of Training, 

Colleges and Universities "Baker/ 

Patissier" committee. My trips to 

Toronto have greatly enlightened me 

to the need to have more accessible 

technological studies in school. 

Close to my heart would be a secondary 

school "baker/patissier" program, 

one of which I would hopefully 

teach. I will surely always be baking, 

heck I plan to be buried with my 

spatula, a fair sized chunk of Belgian 

chocolate and my favourite pastry 

book! 

Yes, as for books, I am only too 

willing to finally make time to write 

my masterpiece. Unless Harry Potter 

takes a sudden interest in candied 

violets and sugar roses, I hopefully 

shall not have too much competition 

on the shelves. Now, I must find a 

publisher. Keep me posted if you 

hear of one. I have kept the same 

name and same e-mail address: 

cakesbytatiana@sympatico.ca. 

Thank you so much for your patronage 

over the years. 

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NEWS 

Glebe hair guru celebrates 

silver anniversary 

BY YASMEEN MOHIUDDIN 

It seems running a bustling salon 

hasn't interfered with Eli Saikaley's 

fashion sense. The owner of Silver 

Scissors Hair on Bank and Fifth has 

spent 25 years snipping and styling 

other people's locks, yet looks every 

bit the celebrity hairstylist in his all 

black attire and carefully groomed 

salt-and-pepper hair. 

But rewind to his days as a Carleton 

University student and you'll 

find that Saikaley couldn't care less 

about being a hairdresser, planning 

instead to follow his family's footsteps 

into business or real estate. "I 

had no desire," he says. "I was just a 

student." 

The award-winning stylist can 

thank his brother-in-law for getting 

him hooked on hair. He owned the 

salon where Saikaley started working 

one summer in between his 

accounting studies. "I fell in love 

with it," says Saikaley. "I realized, 

this is for me." 

The two were partners until Saikaley 

eventually took over the business. 

He revamped the salon to give it a 

more upscale, trendy look, which 

includes chandeliers near the reception 

desk and a plasma TV in the back. 

But it remains very much a familyoriented 

business. Saikaley's cousin 

Bruce is his business partner, and 

four of the salon's 20 employees are 

relatives, including Eli's stunning 

wife Laila. She has been involved in 

the behind the scenes management 

from day one, and says the past two 

decades have seen the salon transformed 

not just physically, but also 

in terms of its reputation. "From 

where he started to where he is now, 

I just see how his clientele has totally 

evolved," says Laila. 

Today, some of Silver Scissors' 

regular clients come from Toronto 

and New York, but Saikaley says 

most of his clients are locals: "just 

people who love their hair." 

He stays in touch with his Ottawa 

roots by giving back to the community, 

donating time and staff to local 

fashion shows, as well as to fundraisers 

for CHEO and AIDS awareness. 

Eli Saikaley, owner 

Silver Scissors Hair 

This approach appears to have 

paid off. "Salons have come and 

gone in the Glebe. We've stayed 

solid," he says. Part of that Loyalty 

comes from the pedigree of Saikaley's 

training, which includes studies 

in Toronto, New York, Barcelona and 

with Vidal Sassoon in Los Angeles. 

Despite having worked as a stylist 

for a quarter of a century, he still 

attends training seminars regularly, 

and encourages his employees to do 

the same. "I'm very pro-education," 

he says. "We stay motivated through 

education and we're customer service 

oriented. That's what's kept us 

around for 30 years." 

Although Saikaley's customers 

include some of Ottawa's most highprofile 

residents, he says if given the 

chance, he would choose to work on 

Cindy Crawford's impeccably 

coiffed mane. "She's been around. 

She's a nice model, and a mother." 

Saikaley himself is a hands-on 

parent of three boys, aged 8 to 17. 

He says none have shown an interest 

in hairstyling but if they do, he will 

encourage their decision. "It's been 

good to me. I have a family, I travel, 

I live well it's been good." 

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Naturopathic medicine (also called 

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The great Escape 

Open since 1989, Escape (703 

Bank Street at Glebe Avenue) has 

been a staple of classic casual 

women's apparel in the Glebe for 19 

years. Still owned today by original 

founder Barbara Kozbial, the store 

has that special small town feel. 

"When you've been in business this 

long at the same location, you really 

get to know people in the community," 

says Barbara. "We focus 

on friendly customer service and 

making the store a comfortable 

place to shop." 

Knowing the clients so well could 

explain why the clothing seems to be 

a perfect fit for the typical Glebe 

lifestyle. Focusing on active, casual, 

and stylish clothing, Escape offers 

such names as Woolrich, French 

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Apparel. Made for travel or 

extended sun exposure, the variety of 

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easy to wash, quick dry, and are 

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Many of the clothing lines at 

Escape are familiar. However Barbara 

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designers that complement the store 

and keep current with changing 

trends. This spring, Escape will 

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includes whimsical dresses and a 

variety of separates that are feminine 

and stylish. Also new is the Pure Living 

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It's the great selection of existing 

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and a long-standing commitment 

to customer service that makes 

Escape such a success. Not to mention 

the customer appreciation program 

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Who dunnit? 

Walking down Bank Street last 

week I was shaken from my thoughts 

by the discovery of a human skeleton. 

There were no signs indicating 

how'it got to be in the window of this 

bookstore. I found myself wondering, 

"What happened? How did the 

skeleton end up in the Glebe?" 

Guardedly, I opened the door to the 

store and entered what' appeared to 

be the library of a grand house. 

Looking around, I noticed a woman 

sitting behind a large desk, her back 

to me as she talked quietly into the 

phone. The floors creaked as I slowly 

made my way into the room, causing 

the woman to turn toward me, a 

look of concern on her face as she 

glanced at her watch. After a brief 

hesitation she smiled, covered the 

mouthpiece and with a smile said, 

"Welcome to Prime Crime Mystery 

Bookstore, I'll be with you in a 

moment." 

Prime Crime Mystery Bookstore, 

located at 891 Bank Street, is a wonderful 

little shop tucked away 

between Irene's Pub and Mexicali 

Rosa's restaurant. The interior is 

decorated to feel like an estatehouse 

library with worn Persian 

rugs and comfortable wing back 

chairs, the bookcases packed with 

the latest in mystery and crime fiction, 

hard to find backlist titles, and 

a wide selection of previously 

enjoyed novels. Open since 1984 

and owned by mystery enthusiast 

and writer Linda Wiken since 1994, 

the store itself hasn't really changed 

much in 24 years. That's what 

makes it so special. 

Prime Crime has an excellent 

selection of titles from writers 

Linda Wiken, owner, Prime Crime Mystery Bookstore 

around the world, including popular 

American authors alongside lesserknown 

but equally thrilling works 

from many countries, translated 

from many languages. But it is the 

British and Canadian writers who 

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suspense themes with a focus on the 

characters and setting. The selection 

of Canadian authors is extensive, 

including William Deverell, Maureen 

Jennings, Lynn Hamilton, Vicki 

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The number of local authors on 

the shelves is particularly impressive. 

There are many mysteries that 

take place in our own hometown, 

written by the likes of Barbara Fradkin, 

RJ Harlick, Rick Mofina, Marwan 

Hassan and Tom Rendell Curran. 

One of the best selling local 

authors at Prime Crime is two-time 

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Mary Jane Maffini (a coowner 

of Prime Crime in the earlier 

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mystery series, including the popular 

Camilla MacPhee mysteries. The 

MacPhee novels are set in Ottawa 

during festival time (Winterlude, 

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providing a background we are 

all familiar with and a mystery that 

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In addition to owning and running 

Prime Crime, Linda is one of the 

founding members and current contributors 

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Looking for a way to publish 

their stories, Linda and five other 

mystery writers joined together to 

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In 1995, The Ladies' Killing 

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May 10: book signing Vicki 

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May 12: book launch Mary Jane 

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Choosing a new pet 

BY DR. EMILY BLACK 

My favorite aspect of my job is 

participating in that great relationship 

that forms between a well suited 

owner and their pet. 

The secret of proper pet selection 

is to know yourself, your family and 

your options. The importance of this 

decision can not be understated. The 

number one reason healthy animals 

are surrendered to the Humane Society 

or euthanized by_ veterinarians is 

behavioural issues, and the vast 

majority of these result from an 

incompatibility between owner and 

pet right from the beginning. Starting 

off on the right foot has never 

been more important. 

During my pet selection consults, 

I ask my clients to consider a number 

of questions. To answer them, they 

really have to do their research and 

sit down with everyone who is going 

to be involved with the pet. There is 

a lot of information available online, 

not all of it reliable, so I've 

included a list of websites I recommend. 

The key to making the right 

decision is to really focus on the 

drawbacks of any pet, multiply these 

by 10 and then think about whether 

you and your family can handle it. 

It's a long term commitment and not 

to be taken likely. 

From the list of questions you can 

see that breed selection for choosing 

a dog is the most important aspect. 

Breeding isn't just about appearance 

the look of the breed is determined 

by its function and that function is 

not something you will be able to 

train out of your pet. After the rerelease 

of 101 Dalmatians, the breed 

was in high demand and thousands 

were brought into families with kids 

to be the great family pet they saw in 

the film. Well, Dalmatians are from a 

region of Eastern Europe where they 

were bred to run all day in front of 

gypsy caravans and nip people out of 

the way. Their distinctive colouring 

was to increase their visibility. So as 

a dog, they are spotty, need tons of 

exercise and they nip a lot. Not a 

great family pet after all. 

So how best to avoid this? Obviously 

you can talk to your veterinarian 

but another great resource is the 

Ottawa Humane Society. They are 

committed to ensuring the best pet 

for the person and this doesn't just 

apply to cats and dogs, but also to 

rabbits, ferrets and hamsters. Also 

all animals adopted by the Humane 

Society have been desexed and have 

their initial set of vaccines as well as 

extensive behavioural testing, pure 

bred or not! What a bargain! 

The last thing I'd like to mention 

is the cost of owning a pet. The purchase 

price is not the costly bit. It's 

important to really look at how you 

are going to afford this new family 

member. These are the estimated 

costs of owning a medium-sized dog 

that lives to be 12 years old. 

Animal life stages $ per year 

1st year* $4,323 

Adult years (2-7) $2,095 

Senior years (7-12) $2,478- 

Total $29,283 

That fi.rst year is very expensive 

and includes the cost of 

spay/neutering (almost twice as 

expensive for females), obedience 

training and other non-veterinary 

products and services. As the pets 

age, the likelihood of expensive 

medical treatment starts to creep in. 

Also remember that the larger the 

dog, the higher the vet bills because 

their drug costs are higher. Cats cost 

less annually than dogs, but live 

longer usually to about 15 to 20 

years. A pet can be a great addition 

to any household. But unlike other 

members of your family, you can 

pick a pet that's right for you! 

Dr Emily Black is a small animal 

veterinarian who grew up in Old 

Ottawa South, trained at the 

Atlantic Veterinary College and now 

lives in the Glebe. She is owned by a 

13 year old dog and two cats. 

Questionnaire for perspective pet owners 

What experience do you have with pet ownership and pet care? 

Why do you want a pet? What function do you want it to serve? 

How much are you able and willing to spend on your pet? 

What changes will your family need to make to support your pet? 

What government regulations pertain to your pet? 

What are your neighbourhood concerns? 

Who is going to be your gecondary caretaker when you are away? 

Look at pet lifestyle considerations (indoor/outdoor, people food 

or no people food, on the furniture or not, etc.) 

What are the ages and health status of your family members? 

How much time do you have to spend with your pet? 

How much grooming and training are you prepared to do with your pet? 

What gender pet do you want? 

How are you going to manage the total cost of your new pet? 

Do you want a pure bred or mixed breed pet? 

What breed is suitable for you? 

What are the known behavioural predispositions of your chosen breed? 

What are the known medical predispositions of your chosen breed? 

What is the activity level of your breed? 

Websites for pet research 

www.petplace.com buying a puppy 

www.akc.org look at the kids corner 

www.animalbehavior.net pet selection 

www.avma.org/careforanimals/animatedjourneys/petselection/considerasp 

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Take your life in your own 

hands on Glebe sidewalks 

BY BRIGITTE GALL 

I grew up in Saskatchewan, the 

land of the wide windswept sidewalks. 

Later, I moved to Toronto, 

New York and Minden, Ontario. In 

all four cities, I became accustomed, 

and (gasp), came to expect that 

while walking on a sidewalk, there 

would not only be enough room for 

myself, but also for my packages, 

my dog and a friend (also holding 

packages). 

So it is with much chagrin, huffing, 

and mumbled òops,"scuse 

me's, and sorry, you first's, that I 

find myself clumsily navigating the 

sidewalks on Bank Street in the 

Glebe. To be fair, this is true of many 

of the sidewalks on all of the major 

streets in Ottawa. Maybe it's because 

I've become a gloat queen. I moved 

to the Glebe about a year ago, and 

whenever anyone asks where I live, 

withoutaneaning to, I answer-wffh 

the self-assured knowledge that this 

is the best part of Ottawa to live in. 

It's true. You know it, and I know it, 

and anyone who asks knows it, and 

so maybe that's why I find it irksome 

that something so obvious as a sidewalk 

wide enough to walk on on 

one of the busiest stretches of shopping 

real estate in the city should 

be so narrow, dangerous, and difficult 

to navigate. 

Here's what I know. If you are 

foolish enough to walk along Bank 

Street between Catherine and Holmwood 

between the hours of 4-6:30 

on a weekday evening you take 

your life in your own hands. 

During the evening rush hour, that 

stretch of Bank Street becomes an 

open thoroughfare. Earlier in the 

day, parking is allowed, and the stationary 

cars at least give the illusion 

of safety. After 3:30, when parked 

cars are towed with mysterious 

capriciousness, that physical barrier 

is removed and anyone unfortunate 

enough to be caught on the sidewalks 

soon comes to know the hidden 

pulse of rage that sits behind the 

wheels of the downtown commuter 

trying to get home. - 

You can see the building tension 

in their jaw as they grind their teeth 

at the light. If it weren't for the pesky 

parking meters on the sidewalk, you 

would surely become intimately 

acquainted with the front grill of 

their Pontiac Sunfire. The pitiful one 

inch rise of the sidewalk from the 

road is not enough to deter a runaway 

tricycle never mind a speeding 

minivan with a raging soccer mom 

trying to get a carload of sugardeprived 

over-achievers to their 

game on time. 

I understand that there is an effort 

underway to beautify Bronson. Good 

for that. 1 think Bronson Street truly 

needs a lick of paint. But when it 

comes to this city of outdoor enthusiasts 

hell bent on exercising and 

enjoying the great outdoors like no 

other city I have ever lived in, it 

seems that sidewalks that run 

through busy shopping areas, where 

people actually walk with bags and 

bundles and packages these are an 

afterthought. The gloat queen in me 

can't bear this. 

There are a number of solutions 

to this conundrum that would ease 

the fear in the older woman walking 

with her buggy, or the young 

mom with her children just trying 

to get to Mrs. Tiggywinkles without 

getting mowed down by a speeding 

car. ---- 

Traffic cal 

-g-zones. Wide speed 

bts.with white checked markings 

at the intersections to help calm the 

'pedal to the metal' mentality of the 

late afternoon race home. On the 

outside end of options, widening the 

sidewalks would be the most civilized. 

However, I'm pretty sure that 

the outcry from shop owners may 

not be worth the stink. So, how about 

simply getting rid of the many single 

parking meters along the sidewalks, 

and replacing them with one or two 

of the green money eating meters? 

The city has a debt to repay, and 

since nothing you or I do will change 

the mind of Mr. O'Brien that parking 

in Ottawa shouldn't be as expensiVe 

as Toronto or New York, at the very 

least, shouldn't we be safe from the 

very real possibility that some day, 

soon, someone will get hurt? 

As someone who is used to living 

in large urban cities, I have seen the 

light. I have seen how cars and people 

can live and work together. I have 

known the joy of walking down The 

Danforth, Queen West, Soho, Delancy, 

Water and Broad. With enough 

room for my packages, and without 

the fear that the last thing I see on 

this earth would be the word 'Firestone' 

I know that it's possible. 

And this is why the gloat queen in 

me can't bear that this isn't the case 

in the best shopping and living 

neighbourhood in this city. 

Glebe resident and award-winning 

actor/writer Brigitte Gall has 

completed shooting 52 episodes of 

her own unique renovation/design 

show entitled "Me, My House & I," 

and is currently in development for 

two new series titled "The Citiot" 

and "Circling The Drain." A Gemini 

nomination for MMHI as well as a 

nomination for her dramatic role in 

the award-winning series "Blue 

Murder" rounded out an amazing 

year for Brigitte. 

BY LEONORE EVANS 

Late January, I received an invitation to a family dance at the Crichton Cultural 

Community Centre. I went with my six year old daughter, Maya. At first 

she was shy and only wanted to dance with me, but by the second dance, she 

had made two new friends and for the rest of the evening I only saw her across 

the circle. 

Matira Volante directs the dances. She is an experienced dance caller and 

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dances, and consist primarily of simple formations. The youngest people at 

the dance I attended were about three years old, the oldest were over 70. 

And so, it is under much pressure from Maya, and excellent support from 

GNAG that I have decided to organize another family dance this time in our 

own neighbourhood. If successful, I hope this will become a bi-annual event. 

If you and your children love to dance, please come out and support this 

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20 Glebe Report March 14, 2008. 

One day fundraising blitz 

for cancer in the Glebe 

BY ALLISON DINGLE 

Wed., April 16, the Canadian 

Cancer Society (CCS) will hold a 

one-night fundraising blitz in the 

Glebe area east of Bank. The local 

area captains Jackie Byrne, Susan 

Caplan Firestone, Allison Dingle, 

and Ginny Haysom are organizing 

their volunteer teams to go out, rain 

or shine, from 6-8 p.m. 

For the fourth consecutive year, 

the one-night blitz will replace the 

traditional month-long door-to-door 

residential campaign. It has proved 

to be an effective fundraiser as well 

as popular with volunteers. A week 

or so before April 16, volunteers 

will distribute a flyer about the blitz 

to households on their route. If no 

one is at home on April 16, canvassers 

will leave a return envelope 

so people can still contribute conveniently. 

The CCS is very pleased that students 

from Glebe Collegiate Institute 

(GCI) have volunteered for the third 

consecutive year to do the blitz in,the 

area west of Bank. The GCI blitz, 

coordinated by Katherine Caldwell, 

will be on Thurs., April 24. 

GCI is also having a silent auction 

and concert for the Canadian Cancer 

Society at the school on Thurs., 

April 10. For tickets and information 

on the silent auction, people can 

call GCI at 613-239-2424. 

Money raised by Glebe residents 

will help the society fund leadingedge 

cancer research and offer support 

services to people living with 

cancer in our community. For more 

information, you can contact the 

Canadian Cancer Society in Ottawa 

by calling 613-723-1744. 

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Colorectal cancer is the second 

leading cause of cancer deaths in 

men and women combined. Since it 

can exist undetected in your body for 

many years before symptoms develop, 

it is important to be proactive in 

screening for this disease. Despite its 

high incidence rate, colorectal cancer 

can be easily detected and, if 

found early enough, it is one of the 

most treatable forms of cancer. 

As in many other cancers, lifestyle 

factors can play one part in the 

development of this cancer - smoking, 

diet, obesity, exercise - but they 

are only a part of the story. Genetic 

predisposition may play a part, but 

over 75 per cent of colorectal cancer 

cases have no known family history 

of the disease. Environmental exposures 

can never be ruled out but 

causal links are difficult to prove. In 

short, even those with healthy life 

styles and no family history of colorectal 

cancer cannot consider themselves 

free of risk. 

Screening remains the most 

important tool in detecting and in 

halting the progression of this cancer, 

before it has a chance to metastasize 

(spread) to the liver and lungs; 

these are the life limiting places for 

cancer to invade. 

. The fecal occult blood stool test is 

a non-invasive test to determine if 

there is bleeding in the colon. 

Although there may be other reasons 

for bleeding, if the bleeding comes 

from a polyp (small growth) growing 

on the colon wall, then the polyp is 

already cancerous. Polyps don't 

bleed; cancers do, so it is already late 

in the detection of disease. So, while 

it's better than nothing and may prevent 

the cancer going undetected 

even longer, the fecal occult blood 

stool test is a bit like "closing the 

barn door after the horse has bolted." 

The other important tool for 

detection of colorectal cancer is the 

colonoscopy, which can also remove 

polyps before they have a chance to 

become cancerous. Although there is 

some very small risk attached to this 

procedure, I believe the risk of colorectal 

cancer spreading in your 

body is far greater. As well, the cost 

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chemotherapy and radiation 

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is a lot of moisture and moss growing. It would appear 

that I have a drainage problem and a basement moisture 

seal problem. How would you suggest that I proceed 

on getting both moss and the mold addressed? Can 

an expert determine what the problem is without 

having to dig up the entire area? 

up and waterproofing is the only 

ADigging permanent solution. This entails excavation, 

vvaterproofing membrane, drain tile, and backfilling 

with a positive grade away from the house. This will 

solve the moisture and mold problems. 

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It's a toxic world out there 

BY HEATHER GARROD 

Would you buy cocoamide DEA, 

diethanolamine, TEA, triethanolamine, 

MEA, propylene glycol, 

propylene oxide, polyethylene 

glycol, sodium lauryl sulphate, sodium 

fluoride, mineral oil, petrolatum 

or coal tar? Have you ever wondered 

why you shouldn't swallow toothpaste? 

In an increasingly toxic world, it 

is important to take a look at the 

products we put in and on our bodies 

and into our environment. Petrolatum 

is an easy one: would you put 

a byproduct of petroleum on your 

body? It clogs the pores and that is 

not good. What about aluminum 

and the potential link to 

Alzheimer's Disease? One should 

probably consider the changeover 

from anti-perspirant to deodorant. 

They both fight odour with the 

major difference, that deodorants do 

not clog pores. - 

Why jR Mis important? Toxins "in 

the body that cannot be released 

through the pores become trapped in 

the body. Not a pretty thought longterm. 

My twelve-going-on-twentyyear-old 

daughter started coming 

home with nail polish on her twenty 

digits. Sign of the times? Maybe, but 

most nail polishes (and nail polish 

removers) contain harmful solvents 

like toluene and acetone. Acetone 

has known health hazards and 

should always be used with ventilation. 

Not only that, it defats the skin 

and can cause peeling and splitting 

of nails, skin rashes and nail brittleness. 

Yuck! Fortunately, there are 

companies that now supply water 

based polishes and vegetable based 

removers! 

Phthalates have been getting a lot 

of press the last year or so. They are 

a group of chemical plasticizers 

added as thickeners to lotions and 

lipsticks and to toys so that plastic 

skin on dolls, for example, is more 

pliable and realistic. They are also in 

hair spray, shampoo and yes, nail 

polish. They are also used in a myriad 

of ways in the home. Dibutylphthalate 

(DBP) is a suspected 

endocrine disrupter, an ingredient 

that mimics or blocks hormones 

when absorbed. The result is a disruption 

of the body's natural functioning. 

Parabens are also endocrine 

disruptors and are found as preservatives 

in many products. They are 

currently being studied for links to 

increased breast cancer. Sodium lauryl 

sulphate is a cheap foaming and 

emulsifying agent used in everything 

from shampoos to body 

lotions, engine degreasers and car 

wash soap. Coal tar is an additive in 

dandruff shampoos, psoriasis treatments, 

hair dye and eyeliner, and 

paint thinner and moth balls. I think 

you see my point! 

This is only a brief overview of 

some of the harmful chemicals 

around us. So what can we do to 

healthy up ourselves and our 

homes? Along with reading ingredients 

and being well-educated consumers, 

we can seek out healthy 

alternattvg. In body care, choose 

products that do not contain any 

phthalates or parabens (aka methyl 

paraben, butyl parabens, propyl 

parabens and parahydroxybenzoate). 

Or better yet: make your 

own! 

There are lots of books and workshops 

out there to help you along the 

way. Choose basic ingredients like 

organic olive oil to moisturize the 

skin. Try natural absorbers like 

cornstarch and arrowroot powder 

instead of antiperspirants. There are 

now many fluoride-free toothpastes 

on the market. (Apparently, we get 

enough of this chemical in our 

drinking water to keep our teeth 

healthy, and accidental ingestion 

leads to upset stomachs at the very 

least). 

Here are some websites to get 

more facts: 

http://www.safecosmetics.org 

http://lists.dep.statell.us/pipermail/phar 

mwaste/2007-May/001155.htrn1 

Heather Garrod is a certified aromatherapist 

and owner of Planet 

Botanix at 911 Bank St in the Glebe. 

For reference books, do-it-yourself 

supplies and natural solutions for 

home and body care, please visit her 

store; or online at www.planet 

botatzix.com. 


Our Whole Lives course 

now for grown-ups 

Sexuality. What a touchy subject. 

Even among the spiritual, it's a difficult 

subject to speak about. 

Braving their souls, the First Unitarian 

Congregation, for a few years 

now, has been presenting a sexuality 

education course called Our Whole 

Lives (OWL) to students from 6 

years old to senior high school age. 

OWL features age-appropriate and 

fun material, bridging the gap 

between the fact that we are all sexual 

beings and the religious context. 

After all, since everybody learns the 

basics eventually anyway, what better 

place to gain a healthy, balanced 

perspective about sexuality than in a 

church? 

Now, however, the grown-ups 

want to be in on the fun. So, the Religious 

Society of Friends (the Quakers) 

and the First Unitarian Congregation 

are co-sponsoring Our Whole 

Lives for adults in the Glebe. With 

the same light but informative touch, 

topics such as sexuality and commu- 

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discovering the sexual self, sexual 

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sexual health will be addressed in a 

six-week course, running from early 

April to mid-May. 

The facilitators are competent and 

knowledgeable, certified OWL 

workshop leaders and some are 

Langevin-trained. The course will 

take place at the Quaker Meeting 

House, in the Glebe, which is wheelchair 

accessible. The cost is $60 per 

person, negotiable for couples or the 

economically disadvantaged. Introductory 

sessions will be held on Mar. 

18 at the meeting house, (91A 

Fourth Avenue) and Mar. 30 at First 

Unitarian (30 Cleary). 

Think of it as a refresher course. 

When was the last time you got to 

talk openly, sincerely and with great 

good humour, about sex? 

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Match the celebrities with 

Lorraine Monk 

John A. Fraser 

Bill McWhinney 

Founding executive director of Canadian Museum 

of Photography and for 20 years executive director 

of the Still Photography division of the National 

Film Board. Born in Montreal and educated at 

McGill University. Among her publications the 

much-praised Between Friends/Entre Amis celerelations 

(1976). Now 

brates Canadian-American 

lives in Toronto where her latest project is Photographers 

for Peace. Officer of Order of Canada and of 

Ontario, and holds honorary doctorates fn6rri Yoik 

and Carleton universities. 

Paul Puritt 

John was a lawyer and Progressive 

Conservative politician, born in Japan in 

1931. Elected MP for Vancouver South 

in 1972 and re-elected four times. Postmaster-General 

and Environment minister 

from 1979-80, and Fisheries and 

Oceans minister in 1082R5. Elected 

Speaker of House of Commons in 1986 

and retired in 1994. Canadian Ambassador 

for the Environment from 1994-98. 

Hon. Colonel Seaforth Highlanders 

from 1997. Now chair of the BC Pacific 

Salmon Forum. 

Eileen Scotton 

Bill and his wife Mary Marsh, who met as students 

at Trinity College, U of T. In Sri Lanka in 

1961-2 as a CUSO adviser to Bank of Colombo, 

Bill was recalled to become CUSO executive director. 

There followed stints' heading Company of 

Young Canadians, senior posts in Treasury Board, 

Finally, Bill 

then as CIDA's senior vice-president. 

was Canadian representative on the board of the 

Development 

Bank. 

InterAmerican 

Pegi Nichol MacLeod 

Paul is,an Atncanist scholar and senior 

labotiii- Officer. Lived and worked in 

ATiica' from 1964, and wrote his Ph.D. 

thesis on Meru people of northeast Tan- 

zania. In 20-year career with Canadian 

Labour Congress, became program coordepartment, 

and 

dinator' of international 

launched, with Dutch and Danish unions, 

a fi*i-year project to help eliminate child 

labour in four statéi'...i.n. India, as well as 

starting simili prograrris in Middle Eastern 

countries. Another dog Lover. 

Ramsay Cook 

Eileen with her daughter Anne. Born 1930 in England, and a 

lifelong activist. Successively chair of Ottawa Board of Education, 

president of Glebe Community Association from 1973, NDP 

candidate in 1975 Ontario election. Challenged some common 

views of Glebites about allowing through traffic and building 

high-rises on the Driveway. Terrified Jim Watson as city councillor 

and impressed Inez Berg for combination of "ferocity and graciousness." 

Died 2004. 

Mark MacGuigan 

Pegi is "a uniquely gifted painter... 

for many people a beacon of Canadian 

bohemianism," according to her recent 

biographer Laura Brandon. Born 1904 

in Listowel, Ontario, she was schoolmate 

of Eugene Forsey at Lisgar, 

taught art at Elmwood and painted 

from her parents' attic in Glebe. Won 

Willingdon Prize 1931 (over Fred Varley) 

for "Log Run" on Gatineau river 

and painted a dozen self-portraits. 

Moved to New York and died of cancer 

in 1949. 

Ingrid Bolf 

-41041 

Ramsay is an histonan and general editor of 

the Dictionary of .Canadian Biography. Well 

respected author on Canadian history, particu- 

larly English-French relations. Born in 

Alameda, Saskatchewan in 1931. Professor 

emeritus at York University, where he taught 

for 25 years. Speechwriter and longtime 

friend of Pierre Trudeau. His latest book, The 

Teeth of Time, recounts their friendship. 

Advised Margaret Atwood on background for 

her novel, Alias Grace. Keen birdwatcher. 

Markwas a law professor and 

Liberal politician. Born in Charlottetown, 

PEI, in 1931. He taught 

law at Osgoode Hall and U of T 

(his two almae matres) and was 

'dean of law at University of Windsor. 

Elected MP for Windsor in 

1968 and re-elected five times. 

Became External Affairs minister 

in 1980, and Justice minister in 

1982. Retired from politics in 

1984 after placing fifth in Liberal 

leadership convention, and became 

judge in federal Court of Appeal. 

Died 1998. 

Ingrid was born in Austria and came to Canada with 

pianist mother as teenage refugee in 1952. Parents 

were ballroom dancers, and Ingrid first taught dancing 

from home in Sudbury, before establishing Bolf Dance 

Academy in Glebe in 1960s. Now lives in Kingston 

and estimates she taught more than 23,000 students. 

Mother of five children. Daughter Rosemary Radisch 

continued the Academy on Argyle Street until 2007. 

Her son, Christian Radisch, painted her portrait.

24 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 ART 

The Ridgeway Windows 

by Ted Goodden 


CNR Bridge (detail) 

From London, Ontario, Ted Goodden's varied background includes working 

as a dustman in Wales, training to be a clinical psychologist, a three year 

apprenticeship in stained glass restoration with Theo Lubbers in Montreal 

and a further year long apprenticeship with Patrick Reyntiens in England. 

Gooddens has shown his work in Canada since 1980. 

This show, which has been touring Southern Ontario, is concerned with 

home, place and region. "I feel that the elaboration of place-bound identities 

has become more, rather than less, important in a world of diminishing spatial 

boundaries." 

Snapdragon Gallery 


Ottawa ON K1S 3V7 

613-233-1296 

info@snapdragongallery.com 

www.snapdragongallery.com 

Pottery Classes with 

Debra Ducharme 

Established in 1979 

Birds of a feather flock together at the Glebe Community Centre this month. 

Four local artists paint spring's hopeful messengers. 

Introducing Heather Bale to the Community Centre gallery Heather has 

exhibited widely throughout Europe and Canada. She states, "Over the years, 

birds have been a constant source of joy and inspiration to me their joyful 

songs, resplendent colours, their curious habits and ingenuity. In my paintings, 

I try to capture these qualities so the viewer can also marvel at their splendour." 

Gwendolyn Best, a noted artist and teacher, has lately been working on several 

important series of paintings of different animals. She paints their subtle 

individual characters in acrylic. Her delightful drawings often enliven the 

pages of the Glebe Report. 

Bhat Boy needs no introduction this well-known Glebe artist and founder 

of Art in the Park is noted for his wonderful cityscapes and public art commissions. 

His work is found in numerous public and private collections all 

over the world. He will be spending two months painting in Italy. 

Ellen Schowalter, a longtime Glebe artist and art reviewer seeks to capture 

the energy of nature in her colourful oil and acrylic paintings. She is best 

known for her expressive, vivid paintings of flowers. 

The Glebe Community Centre 

175 Third Avenue 

If you are interested in showing your work at the Glebe Community Centre, 

please e-mail GCCArtShows@gmail.com. 

The Scolding by Heather Bale 

First Kiss by Bhat Boy 

Birds of a Feather 


Territory 

Beatnik Bird 

by Ellen Schowalter by Gwendolyn Best 

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Goodness gracious, 

great bowls of fire! 

BY GRANT BEARDALL 

The consistent success of charity 

events in Ottawa proves the spirit 

and willingness of a community 

always ready to give back. This year, 

Great Bowls of Fire, a thoroughly 

enjoyable and unique evening, 

organized and run by the Ottawa 

Guild of Potters, was no exception. It 

was apparent the crowd of 400 were 

enjoying themselves at the event, 

hosted by the Glebe Community 

Center. With all proceeds going to 

the Ottawa Food Bank, Great Bowls 

of Fire created a win-win situation 

for all taking part. 

For a $25 ticket, guests first made. 

their way to a room bursting with 

beautiful hand-crafted bowls donated 

by Guild members. After picking 

out a bowl for themselves, guests 

continued to the main hall, where a 

wide assortment of soups, donated 

with remarkable generosity by 

restaurants from around Ottawa, lay 

in wait to delight the taste buds. 

"You're not having your basic 

chicken noodle soup," quipped MC 

Derick Fage, host of Rogers Daytime 

on Rogers Cable Television, as 

he gazed out at the satisfied crowd. 

A silent auction took place for a 

variety of stunning works of art, 

again donated by Guild members. 

This was followed by a high-energy 

live auction, bringing in yet more 

money for the food bank. 

"You can just see everyone enjoying 

themselves. It's social, people 

are having fun, and it's a great 

venue. It's just a nice evening," 

observed TL Rader, co-host of 

Rogers Daytime and co-announcer 

for the riight. 

"A lot of people want to take part 

in charity events. But they want to 

make it simple, somewhere they can 

wear jeans and a t-shirt, and they 

want to make sure where their 

money is going. That's why this 

event is such a success," added Derick, 

in an apt summary of the night. 

As people sat and enjoyed their 

meal, they were treated to the catchy 

music of Verona Katz, an Ottawabased 

jazz band, that played with 

refreshing energy to the delight of 

the crowd. Smiles shone on the faces 

of everyone participating, both 

young and old. 

"In a world where so much value 

is put on the extraneous, it's important 

to do what you can to help those 

in need," said Joel Allen, guitarist for 

Verona Katz. 

All in all, the event raised over 

$11,600 thanks to the commitment 

of the Ottawa Guild of Potters, all 

the restaurants involved, and the 

generosity of everyone who attended. 

"Every dollar raised makes a difference," 

said Peter Tilley, head of 

the Ottawa Food Bank. "And for 

events like these, $1 allows us to distribute 

$5 worth of food." 

The third annual Great Bowls of 

Fire was a complete success. As 

more and more people take notice, 

the event continues to grow each 

year. People left happy and satisfied, 

a feeling the organizers hope to provide 

to those going hungry in 

Ottawa. By taking part in events 

such as these, we are offering aid to 

those who desperately need it. As 

Craig Pedersen, owner of participating 

restaurants El Primo and Canvas 

observed, "Start with the soup, and 

everything goes from there." 

Grant Beard('ll is a grade 12 student 

at Osgoode Township high 

- school in Metcalfe. He aspires to be 

a journalist and hopes to attend Carleton 

'University next semester. His 

mother is Colette Beardall, who, 

along with Sarah Hand, (ire Ottawa 

Guild of Potters members and the 

organizers of Great Bowls of Fire. 

BY CHRISTINE JOHNSON 

Artists throughout the millennia 

have expressed their spirituality 

through the production of objects 

which reflect their idea of beauty 

and truth. Paintings, sculpture, 

stained glass windows, iconography, 

textiles these are but a few of the 

ways in which artists make real and 

tangible products of their interior 

worlds. 

This has happened in all the world 

religions. In Buddhism, architecture 

is an important way of expressing 

faith. In Islam, clothing expresses 

deeply held belief. In Judaism, 

music is part of the liturgy in which 

the cantor reminds the listeners of 

the deep tradition of which they are a 

part. In Christianity, all the arts, 

including music, drama and dance, 

found their way into the practices of 

the faith. 

In the Reformed tradition of 

Christianity, movements after the 

reformation became suspect of anything 

that had to do with ornamentation. 

It was considered "idolatry," 

and unbiblical. The Puritan had a 

great deal to do with stripping down 

the elaborate nature of physical 

churches and returning mainly to the 

source of their faith, the Bible. 

Currently, all faiths are rediscovering 

the power of art within their 

communities. In particular, Christian 

mainline churches throughout North 

America have been opening themselves 

back up to the artists. One 

church in Nashville, Tennessee gave 

over an entire wing of its physical 

structure for artist studios. Some 

ministers are experimenting with the 

teaching of art as a form of spiritual 

growth. 

At Glebe-St. James United 

Church (GSJ), its Celebration Guild 

has been producing gorgeous banners 

and other sanctuary decorations 

for years. Each season is marked by 

the appropriate liturgical colour. 

Right now in the season of Lent, the 

colour of purple is prominent. 

For the past number of years, a 

design committee has been working 

on making the sanctuary more functional 

and flexible. 

As well, our Arts Under One Roof 

program, has welcomed many children, 

youth and adults to its art 

courses. In fact, GSJ has a wonderful 

art studio full of all kinds of supplies, 

colours and huge windows 

which allow the light to stream in. 

So, it's no surprise, that for one of 

our major fundraisers of the year, we 

will be hosting an art exhibition with 

a twist. Everyone who buys a $100 

ticket to this event will walk away 

with one piece of art. This is how it 

works. Each participant will be given 

a number. During the draw, whoever's 

number is chosen first, gets first 

choice of all the pieces of art. And so 

it goes until the last piece of art goes 

to the last ticket holder. The fun and 

suspense of the evening rests in the 

fact that participants will have to 

constantly change their priorities as 

the night goes on. 

Would you like to donate art? 

We already have forty pieces of art donated, and we're looking for 60 

more donations. We have examples of rug hooking, quilting, fine china, 

photography, printmaking, oil painting, watercolour, needlepoint, doll 

making, ceramics, etc. We're looking for works of an approximate value 

of no less than $100. 

- Are you an artist living and working in the Glebe? Your contribution 

would be greatly appreciated. Although you might not see yourself as an 

active part of the GSJ congreiation, perhaps you value the contribution 

that is made to the community through our many art programs throughout 

the year. Our heritage building, which is now over 100 years old, 

needs a great deal of care and maintenance. 

This event on Sat., Apr. 5 is just one effort aMong many to highlight 

our work and raise funds. If you have anything to ,donate or you would 

like to purchase tickets, please phone Christine Johnson at 613-236-0617. 

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Two hundred and eighty-four 

years ago at this very moment, 

Johann Sebastian Bach would have 

been rehearsing his new oratorio, 

Johannes-Passion or St. John Passion. 

Originally destined to be 'premiered' 

at St. Thomas' Church, 

Leipzig, where he was employed as 

'cantor, it eventually made its debut 

at St. Nicholas' Church in the same 

town on Good Friday, April 7, 1724. 

Bach revised it considerably in subsequent 

years, but the performance 

he gave in Leipzig that day is the 

version which has survived and 

which is to be performed for us on 

Palm Sunday. 

Matthew Larkin will be directing 

the Christ Church Cathedral Choir 

of Men and Boys in this magnificent 

oratorio at 3 p.m. on March 16 at 

Christ Church Cathedral, 420 

Sparks Street, Ottawa, accompanied 

by soloists and the new Ottawa 

Music Company Orchestra. This 

will be the premiere performance 

for this ensemble which is composed 

of many of Ottawa's finest 

instrumentalists. 

The St. John Passion pre-dated 

the St. Matthew Passion by up to 

five years and was significantly 

overshadowed and engulfed by the 

more substantial work. But what the 

St. John lacked in size it made up for 

in substance and meaning. The four 

gospels deliver the account of 

Christ's last days in ways that differ 

in tone, emphasis and detail but 

those of Matthew, Mark and Luke 

are generally grouped together and 

called the "synoptic gospels" from 

the Greek "seeing with the same 

eyes." The Gospel of John stands 

apart and much of what gives Bach's 

St. John Passion its special character 

those qualities that make it a work 

even more deeply cherished by 

many who know it well can be 

traced to the character of the fourth 

gospel itself, in particular, chapters 

18 and 19. 

Medieval theologians and mystics 

drew special inspiration from 

this evangelist known as "John the 

Divine..." The Gospel of John 

was the one preferred by Dr. Martin 

Luther and it was his translation 

into German from the Greek 

which Bach chose to use for his 

libretto with very little modification. 

Matthew Larkin, the Christ 

Church Cathedral Choir of Men and 

Boys and the music of J. S Bach are 

a convincing and powerful combination. 

The choir most recently performed 

at the National Arts Centre 

with the National Arts Centre 

Orchestra during the annual Young 

People's Concert series in a program 

devoted entirely to the works of 

Bach. The choir's performance of 

Handel's Messiah in 2006 was 

widely recognized as an accomplished 

and moving rendition of this 

well-known oratorio. "Chorus 

impressive with Handel's Messiah" 

wrote Richard Todd in the Ottawa 

Citizen. He went on to say "The boy 

sopranos...showed a remarkable 

flexibility...They were able alsô to 

deliver the power needed for such 

big numbers as Hallelujah! and 

Amen. Tenor Michael Carty was 

outstanding..." 

This coming performance of the 

St John Passion here in Ottawa will 

no doubt closely resemble the one 

heard nearly three hundred years 

ago by that congregation in Leipzig, 

whose personal meditations during 

Holy Week would have been greatly 

facilitated by J. S. Bach's genius and 

vision. 

Tickets are available from Compact 

Music: 190 Bank Street, 613- 

233-7626 or 785 Bank Street, 613- 

233-8922; The Leading Note, 370 

Elgin Street, 613-569-7888; at the 

cathedral at 613-236-9149, ext. 12; 

and at the door. For more information, 

visit the website at www.christ 

churchcathedralottawa.ca.

MUSIC Glebe Report March 14, 2008 27 

The splendour 

The Ottawa Bach Choir (OBC) 

invites Glebe music., lovers to St. 

Matthew's Anglican Church on Fri., 

Apr. 18, 8:00 p.m., for a splendid 

concert of choral music by the 

choir's namesake, J.S. Bach. Two of 

Bach's exciting cantatas, Christ lag 

in Todes Banden (BWV 4) and Jesu, 

der du meine Seele (BWV 78) are 

the central works in this concert 

along with Bach's five-part motet. 

Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227). 

For this concert, which closes the 

choir's 2007/2008 subscription 

,series, the Ottawa Bach Choir and 

director Dr. Lisette Canton will be 

joined by the choir's patron, countertenor 

Daniel Taylor, one of the 

Glebe's (and St. Matthew's) most 

well-known sons. The three other 

soloists are also prominent Canadian 

musicians: soprano Agnes Zsigovics, 

tenor Benjamin Butterfield and bass 

Daniel Lichti. Choir and soloists will 

be accompanied by baroque specialists 

from Montreal, Toronto and New 

York, playing on period instruments. 

During the weekend immediately 

following the concert, the musicians 

will record the same music for the 

choir's fourth CD. "This is such an 

exciting project for the choir and one 

which we've been looking forward 

to for a long time. To be able to perform 

and record some of Bach's 

most beloved repertoire with such a 

roster of prominent soloists and 

instrumentalists, most of whom hail 

from Canada, is this season's highlight. 

It is not only Bach's technical 

mastery of Baroque counterpoint 

that inspires us in this beloved 

music, but his ability to transform us 

on the emotional, intellectual and 

spiritual levels. We emerge differently 

after experiencing this music, and 

that is the power and splendour of 

Bach," says founder and artistic 

director Dr. Lisette Canton. 

The Ottawa Bach Choir, founded 

in 2002 and acclaimed as Ottawa's 

best choral ensemble, has already 

achieved national and international 

recognition. Consisting of some of 

of Bach 

the top choristers from the National 

Capital Region and beyond, the choir 

performs music from all historical 

periods while keeping Bach's choral 

uvre as the focus of its repertoire. 

Now completing its sixth season, 

the OBC has brought choral music to 

an even higher level in Ottawa's 

flourishing classical ,music scene. In 

addition to its concert series, the 

choir has completed two successful 

European tours, both of which 

included three-day engagements in 

Bach's own church, the 

Thomaskirche, in Leipzig. The choir 

also performed in Bayreuth, Vienna, 

Salzburg, Stuttgart and Prague. The 

choir is already planning its next 

European tour in June 2009, with 

invitations to return to Leipzig and 

perform in Paris, London, Cambridge 

and Oxford. Here in North 

America, the OBC has performed by 

invitation in the Montreal Bach Festival, 

the choir and organ series at 

Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, the 

Musique Saint-Bernard concert 

series in Nova Scotia, and in Mexico 

City. The choir has been invited to 

perform this May 2008 at Podium 

2008, the biannual conference of the 

Association of Canadian Choral 

Conductors at Mount Allison University 

in New Brunswick. In addition 

to its public performances, the 

choir has an extensive educational 

outreach programme, which has 

taken choral music in both concert 

and workshop presentations into 

many Ottawa elementary and high 

schools. 

Tickets for the April concert are 

available at Compact Music (785 

and 190 Bank St.), The Leading 

Note (370 Elgin Street), and all locations 

of CD Warehouse. Tickets may 

also be ordered online at 

www.ottawabachchoir.ca. Tickets 

are $50 for reserved seating, $40 for 

adults, $35 for seniors and $15 for 

students. 

For more information, call 613- 

270-1015 or check out the website 

www.ottawabachchoir.ca. 

Seventeen Voyces choir 

receives grant 

Left to right: Levit Koloka of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Kevin Reeves, 

Seventeen Voyces, Yazir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa Centre 

BY MARGRET BRADY 

NANKIVELL 

Seventeen Voyces chamber choir 

of Ottawa announced a $30,000 grant 

from the Ontario Trillium Foundation 

(OTF). Yazir Naqvi, MPP for 

Ottawa Centre, joined OTF representative 

Levit Koloko in congratulating 

choir members and its music director 

and founder Kevin Reeves prior to 

the choir's "Music & Mythology" 

concert at St. Matthew's Anglican 

Church in the Glebe on Fri., Feb. 22. 

"I am honoured to be here today 

to congratulate Seventeen Voyces 

for receiving this OTF grant," said 

MPP Naqvi. "The money they are 

receiving will go a long way towards 

helping this group continue to provide 

high quality cultural entertainment 

for our community." 

The three-year funding will be 

used to strengthen the capacity of 

the choir to deliver high quality and 

innovative concerts in Ottawa. It 

will also enable the organization to 

reach more youth and seniors and 

increase its fundraising activities. 

Founded by conductor/composer 

Kevin Reeves, Seventeen Voyces is 

dedicated to achieving the highest 

level of choral excellence. The choir 

is known for interpreting works 

from the Baroque period but has 

journeyed through all areas of music 

and has premiered several Canadian 

compositions. 

The Ontario Trillium Foundation 

is an agency of the government of 

Ontario. For more than 25 years, the 

Foundation has supported the 

growth and vitality of communities 

across the province. It continues to 

strengthen the capacity of the volunteer 

sector through investments in 

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28 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 THEATRE 

Sound of Music is a family affair 

BY DAN SMYTHE 

On a blustery February evening, 

warm strains of sacred music are 

echoing off the walls of the Glebe 

Community Centre's main hall. The 

music is provided by a group of 

"nuns," who are really actors 

rehearsing the opening scene of The 

Sound of Music, the latest production 

of the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities 

Group (GNAG). 

The musical by Rodgers and 

Hammerstein will hit the stage April 

4-6, but the steps to get to showtime 

have been playing out each week 

since January. The cast of about 70 

adults and children some with 

experience, others new to the stage 

has been learning the stagecraft 

required to put on this ambitious production, 

all under the guidance of 

director Eleanor Crowder and musical 

director Rachel Eugster. 

On this night, the actors are running 

through the first act and it's a 

chance for Crowder and Eugster to 

see how the many songs and scenes 

flow together. The large number of 

performers provides its own challenge. 

There are two distinct casts, 

with many of the key roles being 

played by two actors (or three in the 

case of Maria). It's one way to 

involve as many people as possible 

in this community event, but to keep 

track of the two casts, Crowder and 

her team have whimsically taken to 

referring to one as the "oranges" and 

the other as the "apples." 

And just as The Sound of Music 

relates the story of the singing Von 

Trapp family, this production by the 

Emma Schultz, Ann Flindall, Michal Leckie and Shira Gertznian rehearse 

their songs. 

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities 

Group is a family affair in its own 

right. The show includes numerous 

siblings as well as some parents with 

their children. "It's a wonderful 

thing for our family to do together," 

explains Elizabeth Alexander-Cook, 

who is one of two playing the role of 

the Mother Superior. She is delighted 

to be joining her young sons 

Julian and Isaac, who had their 

GNAG debuts with the fall 2007 production 

of A Christmas Carol. 

The sentiment is echoed by Maureen 

Monsebraaten, also playing the 

Mother Superior. She joins her husband 

John Saar as well as children 

Owen and Emily. "We're having a 

great time as we learn our- lines 

together," she notes during a break in 

rehearsal. The parents are relatively 

new to acting, but they are taking 

some cues from Owen, who starred 

as Oliver in last spring's GNAG production. 

The family connections go on 

behind the scenes as well. Karen 

Hurd, whose daughters Jennifer and 

Janet are among the singing nuns, is 

in charge of making or finding about 

50 costumes for the children in the 

show, including those for the Von 

Trapp kids as well as a troupe of boy 

scouts and folk dancers. 

Some of the less experienced 

actors appreciate the chance to try 

something new. "It's a group that 

really inspires you to work hard," 

says Nina Burnett, who thought it 

would be fun to audition after seeing 

the enthusiasm of her son 

James, who played an orphan in 

Oliver. Her effort is paying off, as 

she takes on the role of Elsa, the 

baroness whose marriage to Captain 

Von Trapp gets derailed when Maria 

enters the picture. "I didn't know I 

could do it, but they've showed confidence 

in me," she says, referring 

to the guidance provided by Crowder 

and Eugster. 

The idea of learning by doing is an 

important part of the whole process. 

"This is one of the few spaces where 

kids and adults can learn together," 

remarks Joel Westheimer, who got 

his GNAG acting legs in the fall 

2006 production of Dracula. He's 

excited to be sharing the family spot: 

light with daughter Michal, who 

plays Gretl, the youngest of the Von 

Trapp kids. 

As the evening unfolds, it's clear 

there are still areas to polish and 

work on, but the elements are in 

place. Crowder ends by providing 

some valuable advice as well as a 

pep talk to inspire the 'apples' and 

'oranges' as they take their next 

steps towards the April show dates. 

Come and see the fruits of their 

efforts. Tickets for The Sound of 

Music can be reserved by calling the 

Glebe Community Centre at 613- 

564-1058 or 613-233-8713. The 

show is recommended for ages 6 

and up. 

Showtimes are Fri., April 4 at 7:30 

p.m., Sat., April 5 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 

p.m., and Sun., April 6 at 2 p.m. and 

7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance, 

or $20 at the door, but don't wait too 

long! Sellouts are expected. The Saturday 

matinee is a special family 

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TED AND LOIS AT THE MOVIES Glebe Report March 14, 2008 29 

BY TED LANDIS 

The Last King of Scotland 

Directed by Kevin Macdonald 

Rated 18A 

Forest Whitaker won an Oscar for his portrayal 

of Ugandan dictator ldi Amin Dada in this fascinating 

study into the seductive power of evil. 

James McAvoy plays a young Scottish doctor 

recruited by Amin to be his personal physician and 

"closest advisor-. While based on actual events, 

the story takes a few liberties for dramatic effect, 

but you'll never notice as you will be mesmerized 

by Mr. Whitaker's amazing performance. 

Apocalypto 

Directed by Mel Gibson 

Rated: 18A 

Mel Gibson plays fast and loose with historical facts in this morality tale of 

the dangers of civilization, but you won't have much time to think at all during 

this whirlwind ride. On the other hand, Mel goes out of his way to be historically 

accurate by using Mayan dialogue with subtitles. What makes this a great 

movie is that, even with all this baggage, it still keeps you on the edge of your 

seat until the very end. 

For those cold spring nights... 

BY LOIS SIEGEL 

Absolut Warhola 

Directed by Stanislaw Mucha 

Unrated 

With humour and an affinity for people, Polish 

born Stanislaw Mucha traces American pop artist 

Andy Warhol's family roots back to two small villages 

in Eastern Europe. Warhol sent some of his 

art work to his relatives, who didn't really know 

what to do with it. His eccentric relatives are 

proud of their connection to him, and he has 

become a legend. "Absolut Warhola" takes us on a 

journey to the grass roots of the infamous Warhol. 

Lantana 

Directed by Ray Lawrence (II) 

Rated AA 

Starring Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey, this murder 

mystery has good acting, twists and turns, and passion. It works on many 

levels simultaneously, with each new person somehow being connected to 

another in the film. 

Zodiac 

Directed by David Fincher 

Rated 14A 

If you like mysteries and crime stories you will love this film about the serial 

killer who terrorized California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Jake Gyllenhaal, 

Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. do a great job, and by the end of 

the movie we finally discover the identity of the vicious killer.., or do we? 

The Wind That Shakes the Barley 

Directed by Ken Loach 

Rated 14A 

Like Neil Jordan's Michael Collins (1996) this film tells the story of Sinn 

Féin and the establishment of the Irish Free State. If you thought Jordan's film 

was hard on the British then you won't want to see this admittedly one-sided 

portrayal of a very emotional conflict. Regardless it is a very moving film. 

The Pursuit of Happyness 

Directed by Gabriele Muccino 

Rated PG 

Based on a true story, Will Smith plays a struggling single father trying to get 

by in San Francisco in the late 1960s. The acting is good and there are plenty 

of edgy scenes. But as the credits roll and they describe what happened to the 

person the film is based on, we learn the true message which is hidden by the 

slick production. It's really a story of a guy who loses all his money on a get 

rich quick scheme, then gets rich as a stock broker. The problem is that he continually 

puts money ahead of the needs of his family. Rich people are seen as 

always happy and poor people seen as sad and struggling. This is what makes 

it a bad movie. 

Cool and Crazy 

Directed by Knut Erik Jensen 

Unrated 

The documentary film "Cool and Crazy" focuses on a men's choir, most of 

whom are in their 70s. We hear them sing, we investigate their lives, and we 

watch as they travel to Russia to perform for the locals. 

El Sol del membrillo (The Quince Tree, aka The Dream of Light) 

Directed by Victor Erice 

Unrated 

This is a slow, contemplative study of a painter at work, combining documentary 

and fiction. The Spanish artist, Antonio Lopez Garcia, plays himself. 

My Life Without Me 

Directed by Isabel Coixet 

Rated R 

What would you do if you were told you were going to die? Would you 

make a list of the things you want to do? Would they include making a 

stranger fall in love with you, èven though you are married and have two children? 

Ann (Sarah Polley) does all of this and more. The cast is excellent: Laurie 

(Amanda Plummer), Lee (Mark Ruffalo), Dr. Thompson (Julian Richings), 

and Ann's mother (Deborah Harry). 

The film deals with real issues, but it's very quirky. How many men do you 

know who don't bother. to buy food or furniture for their apartments? The 

writing is outstanding and unpredictable. Pedro Almodovar is one of the executive 

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30 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 

Healthy foods in schools 

will cost more 

By 

OCDSB 

Trustee 

Rob 

Campbell 

2008-09 budget 

Grant announcements are expected 

in March and our staff will recommend 

a budget a month after that. 

The board has been trying to set 

budget directions in advance so 

declared priorities get first call on 

whatever loose change may be available. 

If you have views on what our 

budget priorities should be, please 

send your comments to board staff, 

at budgetinput@ocdsb.ca, and to me, 

using the contact information at the 

end of this article. 

Healthy foods 

The province is passing new legislation 

on healthy foods in schools, 

targeting trans fats and other poor 

nutritional ingredients. This is very 

welcome, but a real question looms 

as to whether cash will follow to 

compensate schools for the higher 

cost of such food and for the 

decreased vending machine sales. 

Better quality food in schools is an 

extremely attractive idea, however it 

is a brute fact that school budgets 

have been cut repeatedly and vending 

machine sales at high schools 

provide important money to principals. 

Cafeteria operators in trailblazing 

British schools are no longer 

making profits and many students 

there have opted out of food programs. 

The new legislation is welcome, 

but it will need more than a 

magic wand to implement. 

Programming changes 

A perennial topic of course is 

school accommodation, catchment 

and programming questions. Change 

may lie most pressingly in zone 9's 

Sandy Hill area as Viscount Alexander's 

enrolment is now the lowest in 

the board, at 90 students. If a middle 

French immersion (MFI) program is 

sited there, there may be knock-on 

effects elsewhere. If Viscount gets 

early French immersion (EFI), that 

too will have knock-on effects. If a 

general accommodation study is 

launched, a number of area schools 

may be involved. Potential pressure 

lies in changes to special education 

services, especially gifted specialized 

class provision. A meta-analysis 

of gifted programming will be 

released soon. Staff believe we need 

fewer gifted specialized classes and 

also, for all exceptionalities, that 

service needs to be spread more from 

the downtown across the district (not 

necessarily using specialized classes). 

Also enrolment is decreasing at 

most alternative schools and there 

may be a review next year of our 

alternative education strategy. We 

have some schools downtown bursting 

at the seams while others have 

few students. Altogether, there is 

mounting pressure for change, or at 

least for one or more reviews. We 

won't see it for September, but some 

debate will be unavoidable next year. 

Not unrelated, staff soon will propose 

criteria for choosing MFI, and 

perhaps by extension, EFI program 

locations. This is prompted by the 

phase-out of the late French immersion. 

Make sure you make your 

views known during the consultations. 

If you have a suggestion or a concern, 

or would like to be added to my 

electronic newsletter list, then please 

don't hesitate to contact me. I can be 

reached via any of 613-730-8128, 

rob@ocdsbzone9.ca or Rob Campbell, 

133 Greenbank Road, Ottawa 

ON, K2H 6L3. Board meetings, 

budget documents and delegations, 

and other info is available at 

www.ocdsb.ca. 

SCHOOLS 

New instructional approach 

now in the schools 

By 

OCCSB 

Trustee 

Kathy 

Ablett 

Corpus Christi 

Since November 2007, the school 

effectiveness framework has been in 

effect in all board schools. 

Superintendent of Student Success 

(Elementary), Diane Jackson, 

and Sonja Karsh, school effectiveness 

framework leader, updated the 

board on the implementation of this 

new instructional approach as a 

means to improving strategies to 

increase learning, independent of 

each child'S educational needs. 

Over the past months, the framework 

has been introduced and communicated 

to schools, and comprehensive 

training and implementation 

plans have been developed. This new 

framework builds on past and present 

teaching methods, resulting in a 

continuation of student and staff success. 

Corpus Christi school has been 

chosen as one of the 15 schools to be 

involved in a district review. 

Grade 5 students will pay a visit to 

Robodome at Convent Glen school 

at the end of February. Robodome is 

a fun-filled classroom that offers elementary 

students a chance to benefit 

from being immersed in a hands-on 

learning environment, where they 

will design, build and program 

robots. In this particular instance, the 

students will focus on construction 

of robots using LEGO. This environment 

will promote learning, curiosity, 

excitement and growth by integrating 

cross-curriculum skills from 

many subjects, such as science, technology 

and mathematics. They will 

be encouraged to read about robots 

in the real world, write and speak 

about their experiences and findings, 

draw designs and solve problems. 

The workshop will help students 

develop skills that will prepare them 

for future careers in the workplace of 

today and tomorrow. 

"Music to My Ears" is a partnership 

through the ARTS Smart program 

that will see all grades have 

visiting musicians in their classes 

throughout March, April and May, 

2008. 

The next parent council meeting 

for Corpus Christi is Mar. 3. 

Immaculata high school 

Exams are over whew! The new 

semester is well underway with 

many events happening. The Environmental 

Club members are busy 

working on the school's indoor gardens; 

the Jump Rope for Heart activity 

was held on Feb. 14; and on 

Shrove Tuesday, the students of 

Immaculata flipped 500 pancakes! 

This was done in partnership with 

McDonald's Restaurants. 

Congratulations to student Christine 

Donnelly who was a winner of 

the City Downhill Skiing Championship 

and now heads to Toronto to 

the OFSAA provincial championships. 

Best of luck, Christine! 

Transition planning presentations 

have recently been held for students 

and families of grade 6 students who 

will enter grade 7, and grade 8 students 

who will enter grade 9. The 

presentations have been posted on 

the school website. 

Miss Gleeson, a science teacher at 

Immaculata high school has been 

chosen to travel to Costa Rica to 

"Earth University" in partnership 

with Algonquin College. EARTH is 

a private, non-profit, international 

university contributing to sustainable 

development in the humid tropics 

through education in agricultural sciences 

and natural resources. 

The next Immaculata parent council 

meeting will be held on Mar. 3 at 

7:00 p.m. in the school library. Parents 

are asked for their input on the 

new code of conduct and progressive 

discipline. 

If, at any time, I can be of assistance 

to you, please do not hesitate 

to call me at 613-526-9512. 

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BY KARRI MUNN-VENN 

The other day, Oscar and I arrived 

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Imagine being able to climb into a 

picture frame to become part of the 

action in a famous painting. Children 

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The children at Good Morning 

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When asked "What would happen 

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Jan Andrews presenting a story to Mutchmor students 

On Feb. 21, Mutchmor held a storytelling event in conjunction with Kaleidoscope 

Books. The storytelling event took place in Fifth Avenue Court. 

Mutchmor students from grades 1 to 6 told stories to their peers and teachers. 

The entire school participated in the event with the primary students attending 

in the morning and the junior students in the afternoon. Well known local 

author and storyteller Jan Andrews attended the event and captivated the audience 

with some of her own stories. The event was organized by teachers Larry 

Stonebridge, Kim Hodges and librarian Connie Bruce. 

Mutchmor's storytelling event was captured through the eyes of two 6 year 

olds. They are Stephanie and Kevin from Ms. Eacrett's grade 1/2 class. This 

is what they had to say: 

Comments from Kevin 

"Well, on the day there was this storytelling event. I was very excited when 

we got there. We heard eight stories and then Jan Andrews came and told us 

some more stories that were from a book she wrote named "Stories at the 

Door." Then we got dressed because the storytelling event was over and Jan 

Andrews was signing her book for the students. At the door, lots of people 

were buying her book. Half of my class bought "Stories at the Door." Then we 

went back to school. It was so exciting." 

Reflection from Stephanie 

"What I experienced in storytelling was I enjoyed the stories, especially the 

Atory called "The Dark." I also noticed that some of the storytellers got a little 

stuck at times, but they finished perfectly at the end. Some of the students 

were a little nervous for going up in front of everyone. I liked the stories that 

the Mutchmor storytellers told." 

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Mardi Gras, cha, cha, cha! 

Corpus Christi was the place to be 

on Feb. 28, when the school once 

again hosted the annual Mardi Gras 

celebration and fundraiser. Parents, 

teachers and students gathered 

together to enjoy a host of games, 

activities and a silent auction 

fundraiser. 

Kids and parents played games 

like a hockey shoot out, toilet paper 

toss, mini obstacle course and a 

roulette wheel. There was also a bottle 

raffle, face painting, bake sale and 

the popular crafts table. 

This year, nearly $6,000 was 

raised through the silent auction and 

ticket sales. The money will be used 

to support various parent council 

activities throughout the year. Thanks 

to the many, many parent volunteers, 

led by Reine Monahan and the Mardi 

Gras committee who helped make 

the night a great success. 

Corpus Christi school council 

would like to thank the following 

community sponsors who generously 

donated prizes for the very successful 

silent auction: Anja Liddy; 

Arrow and Loon Pub; Bloomfields 

Flowers; Bridgehead; Capital Home 

Hardware; Chris Spiteri; Cisco 

Ottawa Bluesfest; Compact Music; 

Corpus Christi staff; Feleena's Mexiéan 

Restaurant; Fratelli; Glebe Meat 

Market; GNAG; Heather Duggan; 

Hillary's Cleaners; Hy's Steakhouse; 

Il Negozio Nicastro; Jaqui Cadieux; 

Julia Martin; Kailena Van de Nes; 

Kaleidoscope Kids' Books; Kettleman's 

Bagels; Mrs. Tiggy Winkle's; 

National Capital Region YMCA- 

YWCA; Ottawa International Children's 

Festival; Ottawa Jazz Festival; 

Pineview Golf Course; PomPom; 

Sassy Bead Company; Shoppers 

Drug Mart; Silver Scissors Hair Studio; 

Stuart Arnett Fine Art; Tamarack 

Homes; Tracy Arnett Realty and 

Whalebone Oyster House. 

Lenten season 

This year's Lenten focus is help 

your neighbour, and our school com- 

munity will support the Shepherds of 

Good Hope through donations of 

non-perishable food, adult socks and 

toiletries for the less fortunate. Corpus 

Christi will celebrate our Easter 

Mass on Mar. 27. 

Kindergarten registration 

You can still register your child 

for kindergarten! You can pick up a 

registration package at the school 

office or find information on the Corpus 

Christi website www.ottawa 

cathol icshools.ca. 

Introducing junior journalists 

Hello everyone! Did you ever 

wonder about all the exciting things 

that are happening at Corpus Christi 

school and what it might be like to 

be a student here? Well, you'll soon 

find out. Over the next few months, a 

group of us (we like to call ourselves 

the new junior journalists), will be 

writing in the Glebe Report to give 

you an idea of what life is like at our 

school from a student's perspective. 

We'd like to take a minute to introduce 

ourselves to you: 

"Hi, my name is Deena. I'm a 

grade 6 leader and I love to draw." 

"My name is Chloe and I love to 

sing and perform." 

"My name is Autumn and I love 

poetry. Did you know that we have a 

number of wonderful poets and performers 

at our school?" 

"Hi, we're Eoghan and Mitchell. 

We love computers and computer 

games. Stay tuned for some pointers 

and hints that you can use when 

playing your favourite video games." 

"Hi, I'm Quincy. I'm s000 excited 

to be writing in the paper. You 

might be reading one of my original 

and wacky comics. I hope that you 

enjoy them." 

"My name is Madeleine. I love all 

sorts of sports and I'll be covering 

sports at Corpus Christi." 

As you can tell, we're anxious to 

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It has been such a cold and snowy 

winter, many First Avenue students 

hoped for an early opening of the 

Ottawa canal maybe even before 

the Christmas break. While not that 

early, it has nonetheless been one of 

the best skating seasons in many 

years and First Avenue students are 

taking full advantage. There's nothing 

like being right next to the canal 

to foster weekly skating sojourns. 

As the cold winds blow, First 

Avenue hearts were aglow as the students 

kicked off the 20th year of participation 

in Project Love, an initiative 

that provides school supplies to 

African and Caribbean countries. We 

welcomed dignitaries from Canada, 

Mali, Senegal and Tanzania. The 

Canadian Organization for Development 

through Education (CODE) 

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a visit from Spartacat of the 

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representatives from the challenge, 

entertained the class. The party also 

included pizza courtesy of Pizza 

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from Mrs. Tiggy Winkle's, prizes 

courtesy of the Ottawa Senators 

hockey club, and a pair of tickets to 

use as a fundraiser for the class. 

Now if only the Sens would start 

winning again! 

But it's not just fun and games in 

winter. On Fri., Feb. 22, representatives 

from each junior class participated 

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34 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 SCHOOLS 

Glebe's musicians head to a gig in Chicago 

BY S. MASSEY AND K. LISTON 

As we head into March break, the 

students and staff at Glebe Collegiate 

Institute are looking forward to 

a well deserved break. The last few 

months have been extremely busy 

and the building has been bustling 

with activity. Not a day goes by 

without great things happening at 

our school. 

In February, Glebe paid tribute to 

Black History month with two backto-back 

assemblies. Key student 

organizers, Craig Matasva and 

Kendal Brouet, introduced the program 

with a unifying thread of freedom. 

Through a musical history prepared 

and performed by Hayley 

Max-Lino, monologues by 'Harriet 

Tubman' and 'Rosa Parks,' a meeting 

with 'Abraham Lincoln' and 

'John F. Kennedy,' a debate between 

'Malcolm X' and 'Martin Luther 

King,' and a performance by Glebe's 

own Luigi Fidelia, students were 

educated, enlightened and entertained. 

Thank you to all who planned 

and performed", with special thanks 

to Glebe's stage crew, who went 

above and beyond the normal call to 

make this year's assemblies a huge 

success. 

Turning to sports, our girls volleyball 

team is enjoying great success. 

In defeating Beatrice 

Desloges three games to two, our 

girls won a fifth consecutive 

NCSSAA ÀAAA' championship. 

The team will next compete at 

OFSAA when they vie for a provincial 

championship. Keep in mind 

that our boys team won this honour 

back in the fall. In past games, 

Emily Kyte was unstoppable, 

Becky Billings was awesome and 

Alex Bateman made great mental 

choices at the net. Other key players 

included Emma Landry, Cynthia 

Bowles, Emilie Halle, Maddie 

Martin, Stephanie Marrocco and 

Nathalie Chou. An honourable 

mention for our most improved 

player this year, Alex Massey. Special 

thanks go to Wes Chen, Rex 

Fenton and Mr. Dillabaugh for their 

excellent coaching. 

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department is gearing up for several 

events this semester. They travel to 

Chicago in April to participate in the 

Chicago Music Festival. Three of 

our eight ensembles will be performing, 

namely the choir, junior/intermediate 

band and Offbeat. 

Our students will be selling chocolate 

bars to help offset the cost of 

their trip. In early May, our stomplike 

percussion group, Offbeat, will 

be touring local schools treating 

audiences to an outstanding show. 

Our students have also started 

preparing for the spring music night. 

Senior students have been elected to 

the positions of stage manager, secretary, 

PR, advertising, corporate 

funding, playbill, refreshments and 

technical support. Our theme this 

year is "Heroes and Villains." Once 

again we will be projecting clips and 

stills on a huge video screen located 

above the band. Concert night is 

scheduled for Thurs., May 29 at 

7:30 p.m. in Glebe's Auditorium. 

Tickets will be sold in advance, and 

they sell out fast, so keep your eyes 

and ears open for announcements 

and flyers. 

Did you know that in the past fifty 

years three times the number of people 

killed in all the wars of the twentieth 

century have died from hunger 

and poor sanitation? Upon hearing 

this fact, a group of 60 students from 

Glebe Collegiate are now hungry for 

change. Consequently, these students 

will be collecting pledges and 

fasting for 30 hours on April 4 and 5 

in an effort to raise money for World 

Vision. Each Friday until the 30- 

hour famine, students will be able to 

try different foods from various 

developing countries. The proceeds 

from these sales will be used to fund 

activities during the famine and the 

remainder will go to World Vision. 

As a member of the organizing 

committee for the famine, Glebe's 

very own Katherine Liston attended 

a youth empowered program held at 

the Embassy West Hotel. The event 

featured workshops about children 

in conflict, girls in poverty, 

HIV/A1DS in the developing world 

and the development of third world 

countries. Students from across 

Ottawa heard from Fatmire Feka, an 

eighteen year-old Nobel Peace Prize 

nominee from Kosovo. At just 

twelve years old, Fatmire founded 

the organization Kids for Peace. On 

her way home Katherine reflected, 

"After hearing about the 29,000 children 

who died of malnutrition while 

I was attending the youth empowered 

pnigram, I wasn't about to complain 

about my dinner!" 

Finally, mark your calendars for 

the annual OCDSB EarthCARE 

Expo, Thurs., May 8, 2008 from 11 

a.m. to 1 p.m. at Confederation Education 

Centre, 1645 Woodroffe 

Avenue. At the event, Glebe students 

will be focused on keynote speaker 

Simon Jackson, founder and chairman 

of Spirit Bear Youth Cbalition, 

one of the world's largest youth-run 

environmental organizations. He 

states, "One person, no matter their 

age, no matter where they live, can 

make a difference for all life." 

Sounds like a great motto, and one 

that many of our students embrace. 

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After a successful fall sports season, 

our Immaculata Saints have 

started the new year on a high led 

by our junior and senior boys basketball 

teams. The junior team finished 

the regular season with 9 wins and l 

loss. After beating Beatrice- 

Desloges in their opening playoff 

game 66-64, they lost a tight twopoint 

game to Colonel By in the Tier 

1 quarterfinals. The senior team finished 

the regular season with a 7-3 

record, good enough for top spot in 

the eastern division. In their quarterfinal 

game, they defeated St. Paul's 

high school 78-44. They followed 

this up with a win over Ridgemont, 

to whom they lost in the regular season 

by a score of 73-61. The team 

lost in the AA National Capital final 

against A.Y. Jackson. 

Other team sports that had a great 

winter season include our downhill 

and cross-country ski teams. The 

grades 7 and 8 handball teams also 

experienced success at the intermediate 

tournament, the boys finishing 

in first place and the girls in second 

place. 

There are many opportunities 

beyond varsity sports for students to 

get physically active at Immaculata. 

The recreation leadership program is 

a grade 12 physical education class 

that takes place during the high 

school lunch period. Students in this 

class are responsible for organizing 

and leading a variety of school activities, 

including the intramural program. 

So far this year, the class has 

organized ultimate frisbee, dodgeball, 

indoor soccer, a ping-pong tournament 

and ball hockey activities. 

These intramural activities continue 

to be a highlight of school life and it 

is no wonder that Immaculata is a 

five-time winner of the Outstanding 

Intramural award presented by 

CAPHER to unique intramural 

programs in schools throughout 

Ontario. Immaculata has received 

the CAPHER platinum award for its 

grade 7 and 8 intramural program, 

the secondary school award and the 

CIRA outstanding intramural program 

award. 

Immaculata put its heart into the 

Hoops for Heart and Jump for Heart 

event on February 14, Valentine's 

Day, in support of the Heart and 

Stroke Foundation. The event, 

organized by the recreation leadership 

program, athletic council and 

Live it Up, saw grades 7-12 students 

participating in a variety of basketball 

and jump rope activities 

throughout the day. Thanks to all 

the organizers, participants and 

fundraisers who came out and 

showed that Imma.culata has heart! 

Over $300 in donations was raised 

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Here is a list of some titles read and discussed 

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Jewell 

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La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte', 

Mean Boy4 

Firefly Cloak5 

99 Reasons for Being6 

James Tiptree, Jr7 

The Bone People8 

Any book by or about one of Canada's 

prime ministers9 

The Ornament of the Worldm 

Small Island 

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self 

TITLE (for children & teens) 

Mrs. Goat and Her Seven Little Kids11 

Lady Lupin's Book of Etiquette 

Uglies1 2 

The Alchemyst13 

Teen Ido114 

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist 

They Wear What Under Their Kilts? 

Mates, Dates, and Great Escapes 

My Saucy Stuffed Ravioli: the Life 

of Angelica Cookson Potts 

Tom Thomson's Last Paddle: 

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Bret Lott 

Kazuo Ishiguro 

Michel Tremblay 

Lynn Coady 

Sheri Reynolds 

Claire Dudman 

Julie Phillips 

Ken i Hulme 

Various Authors 

Maria Rosa Menocal 

Andrea Levy 

Claire Tomalin 

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Tony Ross 

Babette Cole 

Scott Westerfeld 

Michael Scott 

Meg Cabot 

Rachel Cohn and 

David Levithan 

Katie Maxwell 

Cathy Hopkins 

Cherry Whytock 

Larry McCloskey 

Abbotsford Book Club 

2 Broadway Book Club 

3 Cercle de lecture de l'Amicale francophone 

4 Can' Litterers 

OnLine Audio Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

6 OnLine Fiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

7 OnLine Nonfiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

8 OPL Sunnyside Book Chats 

9 Seriously No-Name Book Club 

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12 Kaleidoscope Book Club for Adults Who Like Kids Books 

ii OnLine Teen Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

14 OPL Sunnyside Branch Girlzone Book Chat 

I 5 OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club 

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with Alberta raw honey and being 

awed by the sight of the encased bee 

body parts allied to wax honeycombs 

continually dripping with viscous 

gold, and discerning touches of dainty 

Naples-Yellow-coloured pollen 

lighter than fairy dust." At that 

moment in 1958, Rosenblatt writes: 

"I became hooked, mentally destabilized 

by hauntingly alien voices that 

would suddenly erupt from within 

and there was no turning back from 

that incurable disease called poetry." 

Joe Rosenblatt 

Rosenblatt's his first and greatest 

influence was the American poet 

Emily Dickinson. Her poems written 

in the 1860s haunted the younger 

Rosenblatt. "Have I not the same tics 

and obsessions about exotic flora, 

birds, bees, and snakes, and visions 

and views of a despoiled world that 

should be beautified in Emily's 

way?" . 

Mr. Rosenblatt began to write his 

famous bee poems (his wife Faye set 

them to music), considered by Canadian 

and Italian scholars as Rosenblatt's 

unique mystical contribution 

to Canadian and world poetry. 

His muse works best in a fantastical 

zoo of his own creation, a personalized 

asylum, where the poet 

drinks in the world's largesse and 

spews forth new life, a deliberately 

obscure form of fleeting purity, i.e., 

the poem. 

Rosenblatt was also a close colleague 

of the deceased poet Al 

Purdy. "Very early on, we agreed to 

disagree.... His muse inspirationally 

worked the societal zoo, and did it 

globally: whether it was Cuba, Easter 

Island or the Canadian Far North, 

there was a zoo of humanity, just as 

I had a preserve, or poetic zoo selectively 

populated by real and imaginary 

beasts, winged, quadrupeds, or 

limbless reptiles, who behaved oddly 

like people. Despite our differences, 

he tolerated me..." 

Two English poets whom Rosenblatt 

also celebrates in this quasi 

Memoir are Christopher Smart and 

John Clare. Smart, in a mental asylum 

from 1758 to 1763 worked on a 

Each Office is Independently 

Owned and Operated 


free-verse manuscript of Nkhich only 

32 pages survive. John Clare's 

Poems Descriptive of Rural Life 

(1820) and The Shepherd's Calendar 

(1827) outsold Keats' poetry, yet 

Clare was diagnosed as suffering 

from dementia due to his longtime 

addiction to poetry. 

As Rosenblatt sums up Clare's 

life, he appears to identify strongly 

with the dead so-called "mad" poet. 

"It can be speculated that every time 

a poet embarks on a new poem, he or 

she is subject to toxicity absorptions 

in the crevasse of a runaway imagination, 

and the fantasies that enter 

the poet's brain as spirochetes of 

delusion. The tectonic plates start to 

shift..." 

Bless Joe Rosenblatt's wild and 

wondrous pen and paint brush he is 

profoundly adept at celebrating the 

uniqueness of being human. Here is 

a Canadian poet and painter whose 

majestic inner world is as rich and 

peopled with imagery as the poems 

and visuals created by the late 

William Blake. 

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RELIGION 

It's a baby shower 

BY KYLIE TAGGART 

On St. Patrick's Day morning, 

Mar. 17, the doors of Glebe-St. 

James United Church will be open 

for a baby shower! Neighbourhood 

babies, toddlers, preschoolers and 

their parents, grandparents or caregivers 

are invited to drop in for playtime, 

games, treats, and a sing-along. 

Everyone is invited to bring a 

baby gift. 

So for whose baby is this shower 

given? It is actually for a number of 

babies. It is for babies who rely on 

the help of the Carlington Community 

Health Services' baby cupboard. 

Located at the Caldwell Avenue 

offices of the Carlington Community 

Chaplaincy, the baby cupboard helps 

low-income families in the Carlington 

area of Ottawa. More than 1000 

items from the baby cupboard are 

given out to low-income families 

every year. Families can drop in 

when the baby cupboard is open on 

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 

but are asked to only use the 

baby cupboard once a month. 

The baby cupboard program also 

serves to provide parenting help and 

link families to other social services. 

"Families come in for diapers but 

it allows us to identify other issues 

they might have as well," said 

Wendy O'Connell-Smith, a family 

support worker who runs the program. 

O'Connell-Smith said she 

then refers families to appropriate 

services where they can find help. 

The cupboard is currently missing 

some important items, namely zinc 

okide diaper cream, toddler food for 

eight to 12-month-olds, baby sharnpoo 

and soap, children's sunscreen, 

diaper wipes, size five and six diapers, 

pull-up diapers and Aveeno oatmeal 

bath sachets for children with 

rashes. 

While the cupboard receives 

funding through the city of Ottawa 

and the food bank, donations are 

necessary to get by. And that's where 

the shower comes in. It will be a 

morning of fun for little people and 

some conversation for adult people, 

all while helping stock the baby cupboard. 

Everyone is encouraged to 

bring an item on the baby cupboard's 

wish list. Cash donations for the 

baby cupboard are welcome as well. 

The baby shower will get started 

on Mar. 17 at 9:30 am and go until 

11:30 am. Glebe-St. James United 

Church is located at 650 Lyon Street 

South. There is a parking lot off First 

Avenue. More information about the 

shower is available at 613-236-0617 

or www.glebestjames.ca. 

Glebe-St. James 

concert series 

The Entertaining Oboe is back by popular demand at the Glebe-St. James 

Sunday concert series. Angela Casagrande, accompanied by pianist Amelid 

Langlois, will entertain with her storytelling and the warmth and mellowness 

of her oboe. 

The concert takes place on Sun., Mar. 30 at 4:00 p.m. at Glebe-St. James 

United Church, 650 Lyon St. at the corner of First Ave. Tickets are $12 for 

adults, $6 for students with a pay-what-you can option. Tickets will be available 

at the door. 

For more information, call 613-236-0617. 

Open doors at St. Matthew's 

St. Matthew's. Anglican Church in the Glebe is open to the public Mon. 

to Fri. from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Visitors are invited to view the inside 

of this beautiful Gothic-style building and enjoy a quiet moment of reflection 

and rest. On some days, you might even hear the organist practicing. 

The church is an integral part of the Glebe's history and has long been 

considered one of its architectural and cultural cornerstones. It recently 

completed major restoration work on the classic stone building. Volunteer 

parishioners will be on hand to welcome you and answer questions. Enter 

at the front doors, 130 Glebe Avenue, just west of Shopper's Drug Mart on 

Bank Street. 

Recycling treasures! 

Fourth Avenue Baptist Church is holding its rumage sale on Sat., Apr. 19 

from 9:00 a.m, to noon. Clothing, household items, books and toys will be 

available. 

How can you help? 

We need your help in order to be successful. 

Bring to the church the spring and summer clothing that you no longer 

wear. All items must be clean and in good repair. Please keep winter items at 

home as we have no storage space for them. 

Donate any household items that you no longer need. These can include 

jewellery, antiques, kitchen wares, dishes, linens, decorative items, lamps, art 

work, toys and books. Computer-related items and small appliances do not 

sell. Please dispose of them elsewhere. 

Bake. Many contributions are needed for the bake sale and will be appreciated! 

Volunteer. Help is needed to sort and organize on Friday, and to sell on 

Saturday. A team to help with clean-up from 12:00-1:00 p.m. on Saturday is 

also required. 

If you wish to offer your help or have any questions please call the church 

office at 613-236-1804. 

Draft Comprehensive Zoning By-law 


Public Hearings 

The Planning and Environment Committee (PEC) and the Agricultural 

and Rural Affairs Committee (ARAC) will be conducting final Public 

Hearings on the Draft Comprehensive Zoning By-law on: 

April 8, 2008 - Planning and Environment Committee 

April 10, 2008 - Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee 

City Hall - Champlain Room 


City services 

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613-580-2401 

The revised draft Comprehensive Zoning By-law was released on the 

City's website March 7, 2008 which reflects the changes directed to date 

by City Council. Additional changes proposed by staff will be identified 

in the committee reports which will be released on the City's Web site, 

ottawa.ca, the week before the Committee meeting. 

If you wish to speak to Planning and Environment Committee regarding 

lands in the urban area, please call Robert Tremblay, Committee 

Co-ordinator at 613-580-2424 ext. 28828 to arrange a scheduled time. 

If you wish to speak to Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee 

regarding lands in the rural area or greenbelt, please call Marc Desjardins, 

Committee Co-ordinator at 613-580-2424 ext. 28821 to arrange a 

scheduled time. 

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any written submissions in respect to this matter if provided to the 

Committee Co-ordinator at 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, K113 IJ1 

or by fax at 613-580-9609 or by e-mail at rob.tremblay@ottawa.ca or 

marc.desjardins@ottawa.ca. 

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public 

meeting or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the 

by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the 

decision of the City of Ottawa to the Ontario Municipal Board. 

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public 

meeting, or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the 

by-law is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party 

to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, 

in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so. 

For further information on this document, please contact Françoise Jessop, 

Program Manager, Zoning Studies and Area Planning Central at 

613-580-2424, ext. 13862 or by e-mail at francoisejessop@ottawa.ca.

40 Glebe Report March 14, 2008 RELIGION 

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Meet the Gr. 7/8 teachers: 

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. 

Open House 

1:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. 

Meet the Gr. 7/8 teachers: 

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. 

Portes Ouvertes 

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9h30 -11h15 

Rencontre avec les profs 

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Portes Ouvertes 

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Rencontre avec les profs 

de 7e et 8e :14h30 - 15h15 

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GLEBE CHURCHES 

CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic) 

F'ourth Avenue at Percy Street, 613-232-4891 

www.blessedsacrament.ca 

Pastor: Father Joe Le Clair 

Easter masses: 

March 17, Reconciliation Service, 7:00 p.m. 

March 19, daily mass, 9:30_ a.m. 

March 20, Holy Thursday, 7:00 p.m. 

March 21, Good Friday: 3:00 p.m., Passion of Our Lord, 

Jesus Christ; 7:00 p.m., the Crucifixion of Jesus (a play) 

March 22, Holy Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Easter vigil 

March 23, Easter Sunday 

6:00 am., Sunrise Mass 

8:15 a.m., Solemn Mass 

9:30 am., Children's Mass 

11:00 a.m., Solemn Mass 

8:00 p.m., Youth Mass 

ECCLESIAX 

2 Monk Street, 613-565-4343 

www.ecclesiax.com 

Dream Specialist: Rev. Joseph Moreau 

Sundays: 11:07 a.m.,* Art & worship service, followed 

by community meal all welcome. 

View community art gallery by appointment. 

*NOTE: Sunday service time of 11:07 a.m. is the right time! 

FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH 

Fourth Avenue at Bank Street, 613-236-1804 

www.fourthavenuebaptist.ca 

Minister: Rev. Neil Hunter (interim) 

Services: Sundays, 11 a.m. 

Junior church and nursery available 

(parent/tot room available at the back of the church) 

GERMAN MARTIN LUTHER CHURCH 

499 Preston Street at Carling Avenue, 613-233-1671 

Pastor: Christoph Ernst 

Service: Sundays, 10 a.m., with Sunday school 

(first Sunday of month, 11:15 am., English service) 

GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH 

650 Lyon Street at First Avenue, 613-236-0617 

www.glebestjames.ca 

Minister: Dr. Christine Johnson 

Music Director: Robert Palmai 

Worship: 

March 20, Maundy Thursday, 7:30 p.m. (at St. Giles) 

March 21, Good Friday, 12:00 noon (at St. Matthew's) 

March 23, Easter Sunday, 10:30 a.m. 

(wheelchair access, FM system for people with impaired hearing) 

OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH 

600 Bank Street, 613-594-4571 

www.ottawa-ocuc.org 

Minister: Rev. Wilson Chan (cell: 613-889-0838) 

Fridays: Prayer meeting at church, 8 p.m. 

Sundays: Worship, 11 a.m. (English with Mandarin translation) 

Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. (for all ages) 

THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (Quaker). 

91A Fourth Avenue, 613-232-9923 

Co-clerks: Steve Fick & Signy Fridriksson, 613-233-8438 

ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 

Reflect, Focus, Delight Make church a part of your life. 

Bank Street at First Avenue, 613-235-2551 

www.stgilesottawa.org 

Minister: Rev. Ruth Houtby 

Worship: 

March 16, Palm Sunday, 10:30 a.m., with Rutter's Requiem 

March 20, Maundy Thursday, 7:30 p.m. 

March 21, Good Friday, 12:00 noon (at St. Matthew's) 

March 23, Easter Sunday: 9:00 a.m., pancake breakfast, 

10:30 a.m., Easter worship service 

(Wheelchair access at First Ave. door.) 

ST. MATTHEW'S, THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN THE GLEBE 

130 Glebe Avenue near Bank Street, 613-234-4024 

(office/weekday access 217 First Avenue) 

www.stmatthewsottawa.on.ca 

Rector: The Rev. Canon Pat Johnston 

Weekly service: Wednesdays, 7:15 a.m., Eucharist & fellowship 

Thursdays, 10 a.m., Eucharist & coffee 

Thursdays, 10 am., drop-in narmies/stay-at-home 

parents group 

Easter services: 

March 16, Palm Sunday, Choral Evensong, 4:00 p.m. 

March 20, Maundy Thursday, Parish supper, 5:30 p.m., 

Choral Eucharist, 7:30 p.m. 

March 21, Good Friday, 10:00 a.m., Stations of the Cross 

12:00 noon, Good Friday Liturgy 

March 22, Easter Vigil Service, 7:30 p.m. 

March 23, Easter Sunday, 8:00 a.m., 10:00 am. 

April 6, Choral Evensong, 4:00 p.m.

RELIGION 

St. Matthew's restoration 

gurus receive recognition 

Left to right: Clive Doucet, councillor; James Maddigan, Robertson Martin 

Architects; Jonathan Morin & Joshua Johnston, Atwill-Morin; Chris Borgal, 

Goldsmith, Borgal & Co. Architects; Doug Robar & Beric Graham-Smith, 

St. Matthew's parishioners; Khaled Ibrahim, KIB Consultants Inc. 


NANKIVELL 

On a blustery evening in February, 

St. Matthew's Anglican Church 

received an Ottawa Architectural 

Conservation certificate of merit for 

restoration in a ceremony at City 

Hall. The church was in good company. 

Awards of excellence for 

restoration (2007/2008) were presented 

for work completed on the- 

Governor General's residence as 

well as the Sparks Street Conservation 

District. 

Presented by Councillor Clive 

Doucet, the certificate for St. 

Matthew's restoration project recognized 

Robert Martin and James 

Maddigan of Robertson Martin 

Architects, architect Chris Borgal, 

Khaled Ibrahim of KIB Consultants 

Inc. and Jonathan Morin, Marc Côté, 

and Joshua Johnston of Atwill- 

Morin (Ontario) Inc. Most of them 

attended the ceremony introduced by 

Mayor Larry O'Brien. 

Architect Robert Martin was also 

recognized for his work on the 

restoration of the Rideau. Hall 

façade. 

Parishioners Beric Graham-Smith 

and Douglas Robar received the certificate 

on behalf of St. Matthew's. 

Former parishioner, Bob Breithaupt, 

who moved to Nova Scotia a couple 

of years ago, played a key role in the 

project as did Tom Martin, chair of 

the finance committee. 

"I'd just like to say what an agreeable 

project this was to work on," 

said Mr. Graham-Smith, who was 

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congratulate the architects and contractors 

and the co-operative way in 

which they worked on the project." 

Jonathan Morin, president of 

Atwill-Morin (Ontario) Inc., said he 

was thrilled by the recognition and 

the results of the project. 

St. Matthew's was constructed 

between 1929 and 1931 during the 

Depression. Designed by architect 

Cecil Burgess, the neo-Gothic building 

sustained serious damage to its 

exterior masonry, caused by the 

application of a protective leadbased 

coating on the mortar that 

trapped moisture behind the stone. 

During the restoration, stone roof 

parapets were dismantled, the Bell 

Tower was restored and sections of 

the original slate roof were restored 

in a process that began in 2005. 

First presented in 1981, the 

awards recognize the commitment of 

individuals, especially volunteers, to 

conservation, said Mayor O'Brien in 

his opening remarks.. The annual 

Ottawa Architectural Conservation 

awards recognize excellence in the 

preservation of the city's grchitectural 

heritage in the categories of 

restoration, adaptive use and infill, 

which means an addition to a historic 

building or new construction 

within a historic context. 

"Let's continue to make landmarks 

not landfills," said Carolyn 

Quinn, director of communications 

for the Heritage Canada Foundation 

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NANKIVELL 

The importance of parish stewardship 

to the vitality and spirituality of 

church communities will be laid out 

in a special presentation at St. 

Matthew's Anglican Church in the 

Glebe on Fri., April II at 7:00 p.m. 

The Rev. David Ponting, a noted 

authority on the topic, will explain 

how stewardship is a fundamental 

part of the fabric of discipleship. The 

public is invited to attend. 

"Stewardship refers to how we 

manage the gifts of God," says Rev. 

Ponting, rector of Grace Anglican 

Church in Brantford, Ontario, and 

author of From Scarcity to Abundance: 

A Complete Guide to Parish 

Stewardship. "We are all on a journey 

to understand the abundance of 

God and tend to view our lives as living 

amongst scarcity that we don't 

have enough and need more." 

Fundamental to stewardship is the 

understanding that everything comes 

from God, Rev. Ponting says. Stewards 

can be considered as managers 

or trustees of God's gifts with a 

"fiduciary responsibility" to manage 

these gifts well, 

"The Genesis story [in the Bible] 

teaches us that everything comes 

from God and everything belongs to 

God," he writes in his book. "We are 

offered a role in God's creation to be 

managers or stewards of that creation." 

Taking care of God's creation 

includes care for others and the environment, 

he adds. 

Rev. Ponting, raised in the Anglican 

Church of Canada, taught Sunday 

school in his teenage years. He 

considered a career in the church but 

instead went into business, becoming 

national marketing manager of 

Crayola Crayons and a senior manager 

of a large multi-national advertising 

agency. 

"I had champagne tastes," he says.. 

"I loved the work and the mental 

stimulation of the business world but 

I discovered that it wasn't spiritually 

satisfying." In his thirties, he decided 

to return to the church. His business 

Rev. David Ponting 

experience proved an asset. In his 

first position as a parish priest, he 

was asked to run an $8 million capital 

campaign. 

Members of the Anglican Church 

of Canada donate about 1.5 to 2 per 

cent of their incomes to their parishes, 

significantly less than most other 

Christian denominations, he notes. 

"Asking for money in the Anglican 

Church is counter-cultural," he says. 

"I have tried to instill a culture (within 

the Anglican Church) where talk 

of money is normal and not taboo." 

Rev. Ponting's stewardship handbook 

uses a theological framework 

to explain stewardship. He discusses 

personal money management, the 

culture of stewardship, coping with 

limited volunteer availability and the 

use of effective communication 

tools, such as narrative budgets. 

After the Friday evening presentation, 

a compline service (a sung 

evening prayer service) will feature 

St. Matthew's men's choir. Rev. 

Ponting also will preach on Sun., 

April 13 at St. Matthew's 8:00 a.m. 

and 10:00 am. services. 

St. Matthew's Anglican Church is 

located at 130 Glebe Ave. For further 

information call the church office at 

613-234-4024. 

Recipient of the Ministers Award 

for Outstanding Achievement 

Prau4 serving tneneighis-awito-oci rince 1984 

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Quality Workmanship 

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722-3375 

Does your company, group or organization require fleece wear, sweatshirts, golf 

shirts, T-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, stuffed animals, fridge magnets, cloth bags, 

aprons, etc. for tournaments, conventions, meetings, giveaways, or other 

occasions? Logos can be embroidered or screen printed on these products. If 

we don't have what you are looking for, we will try to locate it! Call for information. 

Phone No. 233-7993 Fax No. 231-7831

GRAPEVINE 

This space acts as a free community bulletin board for Glebe residents. Drop off 

your GRAPEVINE message or COMMUNITY NOTICE at the G/ebe Report office, 

175 Third Avenue, including your name, address and phone number or e-mail 

glebe.grapevine@mac.com. FOR SALE items must be less than $1,000. 

Events at Sunnyside Library 

For children 

Babytime 

For babies and their parent or caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs 

and games. Ages 0-18 months. Weekly. 

Tuesdays, 2:15 p.m. (30 mins.), Apr. 8 May 20 

Toddlertime 

For toddlers and a parent or caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs 

and games. Ages 18-35 months.Weekly. 

Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 mins.), Apr. 8 May 20 

Thursdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 mins.), Apr. 10 May 22 

Storytime 

Stories and rhymes for young children parents and caregivers 

are welcome to join. Ages 3-6 years. Weekly. 

Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 mins.), Apr. 9 May 21 

Mother Daughter Book Group 

A place for girls and the special women in their lives to share 

excellent books. Ages 10-12 years. Monthly. Registration required. 

Mondays, Mar. 17 and Apr. 21, 7 p.m. (1 hr.) 

Chess club 

After school chess club for all levels. Ages 8-12 years. 

Registration required. 

Wednesdays, Apr. 9 May 21, 4 p.m. (1 hr.) 

For teens 

girlzone 

For fun with a variety of themes, come join our monthly book chat 

group for girls in grades 7 and 8 at the Sunnyside Library. 

Registration required. 

Fridays, Apr. 18 and Jun. 13, 12:05 p.m. (45 mins.) 

For adults 

15 minute computer tutorials 

Having problems with the library catalogue? Accessing the Web? 

E-mail issue?. Register for your own 15-minute computer tutorial. 

Mondays, 10-11:30 a.m., Apr. 7 May 12 

Introduction to our Assistive Technology Programs 

Come have an intro to our enhanced services: Kurzweil 3000, JAWS 

- and Dragon Naturally speaking on our Zoomtext PC. 

Fri., Apr. 11, 10:30 a.m. (1.5 hrs.) 

Stress Management with Homeopathic Medicine 

Stress is aggravated by how we perceive and react to challenging 

experiences. Homeopathy can help you learn how. 

Wed., Apr. 23, 7:00 p.m. (1 hr.) 

Wildlife Festival 

Roy John, "The Bering Sea" 

Wed., Apr. 9, 6:30 p.m. (1 hr.) 

Canal Mug Poetry Series 

In celebration of poetry month (April), come hear local poets recite. 

Thurs., 7:00 p.m. (1 hr.) 

Apr. 3 Claudia Coutu Radmore and Ian Roy 

Apr. 10 Susan McMaster and Paul Tyler 

Apr. 17 Andrew Steinmetz and Betty Warrington-Kearsley 

Adult Book Club 

Drop by, meet new people and join in stimulating discussions on 

selected titles in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Monthly. 

Fridays, 2 p.m. (1 hr.) 

Mar. 28 

Apr. 25 

Nights Below Station Street by David Adams Richards 

Clara Callan by Richard Wright 

For a complete list of Library events, 

visit www.BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca. 

Celebrity Quiz answers 

Ingrid Bolf 

Ramsay Cook 

John A. Fraser 

Pegi Nichol MacLeod 

Mark MacGuigan 

Bill McWhinney 

Lorraine Monk 

Paul Puritt 

Eileen Scotton 

See pages 22 & 23 

309 First Avenue 

92 Powell Avenue 

147 Glebe Avenue 

356 Second Avenue 

23 Linden Terrace 

290 Broadway Avenue 

33 Powell Avenue 

43 B Howick Place 

126 Broadway Avenue 

Community 

Connections 

THE ABRACADABRA CARD 

MAGIC SHOW with magician Peter 

Duchemin. Wed., Mar. 26, 8 p.m. at 

Irene's Pub, 885 Bank St., 613-230- 

4474, www.irenespub.ca 

BENEFICIAL INSECTS Tues., Apr. 

8, 7 to 9 p.m., in bldg 72, Arboretum, 

Central Experimental Farm, Master Gardener 

Fran Dennett will spealc on the 

why and how to attract helpfuLinsects to 

your garden. This is the first in a series 

of four gardening lectures. Cost for individual 

lecture is $12 for FCEF member 

or $15 for non. Series cost is $40 for 

FCEF members or $50 for non. To 

register call 613-230-3276. 

BIRDHOUSE WORKSHOP The 

Friends of the Farm invites you to learn 

by doing. Join us on Mar. 25, 7 to 9 

p.m. in bldg 72, Arboretum, Central 

Experimental Farm and construct your 

own birdhouse out of birch bark, alder. 

Space is limited. Cost is $20 for FCEF 

members and $25 for non members. To 

register call 613-230-3276. 

KIDNEY FOUNDATION March is 

Kidney Health Month. Join the movement 

to fight kidney disease. Call 613- 

724-9953 or visit www.kidney.on.ca. 

MEDICAL LECTURE ON SPIRITU- 

AL HEALING Dr. Katja Bueker, MD 

will speak on spiritual healing according 

to the teachings of German healer Bruno 

Grôning. Date and location: Apr. 13, 3 

p.m., RA-Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr., 

Outaouais Room. Info: www.brunogroening.org/english, 

or 613-238-6892. 

MY KIDS FUNKY CLOSET CON- 

SIGNMENT-SALE, Glebe Community 

Center, Sun., Apr. 20, 10 am. to 3 p.m. 

Info: www.mykidsfunkycloset.com. 

OPEN HOUSE at Glebe Collegiate, 

Mar. 26, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Find out about 

the Ottawa-Carleton District School 

Board's General Interest Program. 

Info: 613-239-2507 or www.ocdsb.ca/ 

contiuweb. 

OTTAWA NEWCOMERS CLUB 

Women new to Ottawa are invited to the 

next monthly social event, a luncheon or 

dinner and speaker, on the first Wednesday 

of each month. Info: 613-860-0548. 

RUMMAGE SALE, Fourth Avenue 

Baptist Church, Sat. Apr. 19, 9 to 12 

noon. 

Art 

SKY WRITINGS: paintings and limited 

reproductions by Nicole Beaumont. 

Mar. I 1 Apr. 13. Vernissage: Tues. 

Mar. 11, 6 to 8 p.m. Irene's Pub & 

Restaurant, 885 Bank St., 613-230- 

4474, www.irenespub.ca 

Poetry 

TREE POEMS, STORIES WANTED 

for a book titled, A Tree Is My Friend. 

Include your bio & pic. Mail or drop at 

Skyrock Forest Arts inc. 388 1/2 Kent 

St., Ottawa, K2P 2A9 or call 613-23 1- 

2922. 

Music 

THE CARLETON UNIVERSITY 

CHOIR SPRING CONCERT, presents 

Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vesperae 

solennes de confessore Sat., Apr.. 

5, 8 p.m. at St. Andrew's Presbyterian 

Church, 82 Kent St.(at Wellington). 

Tickets -$25 adults, $15 seniors and students 

- available at The Leading Note 

(370 Elgin), Compact Music (785-A 

Bank), CD Warehouse or at the door. 

Information: 613-520-5770. 

CONCERT OF MUSIC FOR THE 

LITURGIES OF HOLY WEEK sung 

by Chorus Ecclesiae. Sun., Mar. 16 at 3 

p.m. and at 8p.m. in the Cloister of the 

Dominican Convent, 96 Empress Ave. 

Tickets at the door: $15 adults; stildents 

half price. Info: 613-567-7729. 

GREGORIAN CHANTS FOR MED- 

ITATION sung by Chorus Ecclesiae 

and the Symposium Choir, Good Friday 

night, Mar. 21, 7 p.m. until midnight. 

Saint Paul Seminary Info: 613-567- 

7729. 

For Sale 

APARTMENT-SIZE PIANO. 

Mahogany low-back Sherlock-Manning 

piano. Excellent shape (needs to be 

tuned). No bench. $725. 613-236-3888 

or pharmxc@yahoo.ca. 

BASSETT WALL UNIT / ENTER- 

TAINMENT CENTRE, excellent quality 

and condition, rosewood finish on 

solid hardwood and rosewood veneers, 

solid wood moldings. Three units with 

lots of storage space and shelves, TV 

niche and desk/bar. Removable tempered 

glass doors and shelves. $250 or 

best offer. Call 613-231-3429. 

Childcare 

Available 

GLEBE HOME CHILDCARE. Fulltime 

spaces available starting March or 

April in a wonderful Glebe home. I love 

working with children and have years of 

experience. I provide age appropriate 

developmental programs and lots of outdoor 

time. I am ECE trained, CPR certified 

and police checked. Please contact 

Joanne at 613-794-2406. 

NANNYSHARE AVAILABLE FOR 

SUMMER MONTHS. We are looking 

for another family to nannyshare with 

during July and August. Our children are 

a 7 year old girl and a 4 year old boy.- 

Full time would be best but three days a 

week is fine. Our fianny is experienced 

and excellent. Care can take place at 

ourhouse (Holmwood Ave) or yours. 

Call Leonore for more info: 613-237- 

6074. 

Wanted 

RADIATORS. Looking for smaller cast 

iron radiators for our home heating system. 

Please call 613-237-7893, or e-mail 

us at shmarple@sympatico.ca. 

Place your notice 

or community event 

listing here 

e-mail info to 

glebe.grapevine@mac.com

The "Walk for Heart" 

L 

Sunday, April 27, 2008 

Ottawa City Hall 

9:00 a.m. 

To register: 

www.FitForHeart.ca 

'The Pantr9 

VEGETARIAN 

613 727-5060 

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STROKE 

FOUNDATION 

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DES MALADIES 

DU COEUR 

Finding answers. For 

A la conquete de solutions. 

THE HELPER: 

organizing, consulting 

and assistance for 

individuals and small 

business since 1992. 

613-728-2310 

TEA ROOM 

THE GLEBE COMMUNITY CENTRE 

MONDAY - FRIDAY 

11:30 -rit. 3:00 

DRUM LESSONS 

by experienced professional 

player and teacher. Current drum 

instructor for Algonquin College 

Music and Audio program. 

Lorne Kelly 

(Metro Music) 

233-9688 or 

725-1119 

CARPENTRY 

RENOVATIONS/ 

REPAIRS 

Peter D. Gorey 

819-422-3714 

NOTARY PUBLIC 

and 

COMMISSIONER FOR OATHS 

services in the Glebe 

By appointment. 

613-233-0110 

HOME RENOS AND 

REPAIR - interior/exterior 

painting; all types of flooring; 

drywall repair and installation; 

plumbing repairs and 

much more. 

Please call Jamie Nininger 

@ 613-852-8511. 

GRAPE VINE 

Fl[N][5]H[][NG 

CARPENTRY 

DOUG 

CORRIGAN 

613-327-3901 

dougcorrigan@hotmail.com 

nk 

ACCOUNTING BOOKKEEPING 

PERSONAL TAX PREPARATION 

Barbara Van Doorn 

Cell: 613-325-9240 Phone: 613-230-5493 

barb@fifthandbank.ca 

www.fifthandbank.ca 

Gibbon's Painting and Decorating 

Local House Painter - Bonded with 18 years experience 

interior/exterior painting stucco stipple ceilings 

Customer Satisfaction ALWAYS GUARANTEED 

For a free estimate please call Rory 

Business: 613-731-8079 

Cell: 613-322-0109 

Check out my website: www.gibbonspainting.ca 

ASK ABOUT MY $25 REFERRAL REBATE 

TUTOR 

High School Math 

and Physics 

Zach 613-796-9230 

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e-mail: info@gnag.ca 

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group 

Glebe Community Centre 

175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 

Tel: (613) 233-8713 or (613) 564-1058 

website:Egzunagm 

ONAG Spring Soccer 

online registration begins Tuesday March 1 8 at 11:00 p.m. 

go to WWW_Pagn and follow the prompts 

ongoing registration for remaining spaces will be accepted until 

Friday, April 1 8 at the Glebe Community Centre. 

MAO- soccer is a fun league for girls and boys together 

all coaching refereeing is done by MAO. parents / students 

please volunteer at registration to help your child's teani 

Eleanor' 

_ector: Rach 

WAMILY ULTIMATE FRISBEE 

(8 years - adull) 

GNAG in partnership with OCUA 

Join your friends and neighbours for 

Sunday afternoon ultimate frisbee 

(and the occasional BBQ) 

in Glendale Park. 

All are welcome - register as a 

family or as an individual! 

Sundays 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. 

May 18 - June 22 (6 weeks) 

$20.00 per family or 

$10.00 individual registration 

Dress r earsal: ursda 113 7:30 p.m. $5 

Glebe Community Cen

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