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15 Glebe Report February 6,1998 SPORTS Aaron Jeff Bean Fransen: From the Mutchmor rink to the OHL Glebites who were students at First Avenue, Hopewell and Glebe Collegiate in the '80s and '90s will be interested to know that former fellow student, Jeff Bean, will compete in the Nagano Olympics. BY DAVE FRANSEN It's a long way from the outdoor rink in Mutchmor field to the Ontario Hockey League. And for Aaron Fransen, who plays defence for the Kingston Frontenacs in the OHL, there are many times when he would like nothing better than to head out "to where it all began," just a block away from where he grew up on Fifth Avenue. Unfortunately, there are not too many opportunities these days. The grueling OHL schedule - and grumpy, old OHL coaches - don't allow much free time for shinny on local rinks. Building on the skills learned at Mutchmor, Aaron began the minor hockey tour familiar to so many Glebe families, playing first as a tyke at Brewer Arena, then graduating to Ottawa East Voyageurs (who played out of Vanier Arena), and then finally moving up to the Ottawa West AA teams which used the Barbara Ann Scott Arena. Olympic hopeful Jeff, 20, is a member of Team Canada's freestyle skiing team, competing in aerials. Aerial competitors use ramps to do a variety of somersaults and are judged on air, form and landing. Watch for him! Never able to get enough hockey, Aaron also played during the spring and summer for the Ottawa Capitals. In addition to honing skills, summer hockey provided the opportunity to travel and make friends beyond the reaches of Ottawa West. In April 1993, for example, the Capitals team travelled to Russia, playing four games in Moscow and six games in Tomsk, Siberia (almost exaCtly half way around the world). Aaron and his teammates then hosted a team from Russia for two weeks at the end of June. The travel bug bit Aaron. Or maybe it was just that he didn't like living at hbme. Whatever the reason, in September 1994 he became a student at Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. A school well-known in the U.S. for its academic excellence, Exeter was particularly attractive because it seemed to hold out the prospect of obtaining a hockey scholarship at a n American university. But plans changed. During his two years at Exeter, Aaron was spotted by a scout who suggested 'that, rather than playing prep ,school hockey in the States, he should be playing major junior hockey back home in Ontario. The scout made contact with the general manager of the Kingston Frontenacs and, in September 1996, after negotiating a contract that included a Queen's University education, Aaron joined the Frontenacs. It has been, and continues to be, an interesting and intense ride. This past September Aaron spent one week at the training camp of the Washington Capitals. Playing alongside such NHL stars as Adam Oates, Peter Bondra, Chris Simon and Dale Hunter, he came to realize that the dream he had quietly been nurturing for as long as he could remember might just be within reach. He returned to Kingston with increased enthusiasm, determination - and purpose. The passion - first experienced at Mutchmor - continues to burn. ST. JAMES TENNIS CLUB A TRADITION IN THE GLEBE SINCE 1920 Offering casual and competitive play, tournaments, lessons, social events, day camps and more! FEES: Adults $75 / Juniors $45 / Families $170 / Couples $135 Call to encourage Olympic athletes People across Ontario will be able to leave messages of encouragement for Canadian Olympic athletes through a special 1-888 number created by Bell Canada. The Olympic Connections Line, 1-888-439-TEAM ( 83 2 6 ), prompts callers to leave a message for their favourite athlete on Canada's Olympic Team. Messages will be transcribed and sent via the Internet to special e- mail addresses created by athletes and accessed at the Olympic Village in Nagano. Bell Canada is an official sponsor of the Canadian Olympic Team for the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. The company actively supports amateur and professional sport, from local teams and tournaments to its title sponsorship of the Bell Canadian Open. REGISTER BEFORE APRIL 15 & SAVE 10% ON CLUB MEMBERSHIP FEES! Mail your cheque to: St. James Tennis Club P.O. Box 4701, Station "E", Ottawa K1S 5H8 Call 237-5469 for details BE A PART OF IT! TSKI MARCH BREAK CAMP with a MEDIEVAL THEME at THE MUSEUM of NATURE. Come create and participate in a fun and varied program including visual art, crafts, drama improvisation, swimming & games. Includes visiting the Museum. 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Hospital NEWS Glebe Report February 6,1998 1 6 Glebe Questions A safety net for pets Some time back - indeed, before the ice-storm - the Ottawa Citizen carried an arresting story for dog-lovers. The story was about "a rash of disappearing purebred dogs in Lanark County" and the reporter Tom Spears made clear his opinion that someone was stealing the purebred bitches for breeding purposes. For instance, a farmer near Almonte, Trevor Tiffany, had twin St. Bernards, Bonnie and Clyde, who wandered away in early December (as they had done before). Clyde turned up at a neighbour's farm but his sister Bonnie completely vanished. Some 10 other bitches had disappeared lately and, the previous winter, people around Renfrew counted 25 dogs that vanished, mostly in daylight. It was a pretty dispiriting story, all round. But the paragraph that caught the attention of my reseach assistant, Rafiki, was the following: "Only a handful of the (Almonte area) dogs have been found; and all the dogs that turned up have microchips embedded in their ears." Microchips in their ears. In the 11-year life of my Jack Russell friend, this was an entirely novel idea. He is not into the computerized world, and wondered if they were merely for decoration. So he and I went to interview our local veterinarian, Richard Seccombe at the Glebe Pet Service on Bank Street. On the way, we came upon a purebred Springer spaniel at the Credit Union called Winny (for Winsome Lass). We discussed microchips with her companion, who made Winny roll over to show the tattoo on her stomach. Her owner's daughter had some country kennels, and said thefts were common - hence the tattoo. For Richard Seccombe microchips were nothing new. He has been inserting them in cats and dogs - not in the ears, but behind the shoulders - for about a dozen years. He does this for owners at the rate of two or three a week. He showed us the tiny capsule, the size of a grain of rice and containing an ID number, which is injected just beneath the skin, and also the scanner he keeps that can read the number. Then we learnt about the PetNet procedure. A brochure informs us that more than 150,000 Canadian pets are microchipped and registered with PetNet, and last year (the brochure is undated) more than 5,000 lost pets were returned to their owners because they were identified this way. Apparently, too, the Humane Society has for a decade insisted that anyone taking an animal for By Clyde Sanger adoption should pay for it to be microchipped and neutered. So adoption costs up to $150, of which $40 is for the microchipping. It's for the dog's or cat's protection, to guard against the new owner simply dumping an animal later. "Tattooing, we were told by Seccombe's assistant, Nicole, is not as effective. She said she used to ride an 'off-track racehorse," whose previous owner had gone bankrupt. In order to keep his horse from being repossessed (or whatever the bailiffs do), he had apparently burnt off the tattoo identification that was on the horse's inside lip. He got away with it, but the poor horse's mouth was a mess. As we walked back deep in thought across Central Park, we came on a cheery mongrel and his owner, who lives on Glebe Avenue and who calls her d o g `Scumbucket' (his politer name is Sparky). Nosing around each other, as dog-owners do, we asked if Scumbucket had been microchipped. No, though he came from the Humane Society, as he predated their present system. But his owner's brother was the Almonte neighbour at whose farm Clyde the St. Bernard surfaced. Finally, we phoned up Trevor Tiffany to hear the latest on Bonnie. Still missing, said his son. lcinHeink*irkkkidr***** Months ago, I wrote that a member of the Glebe Historical Society was researching the origin of street names and had no line on why Craig Street was so called. There was also a Craig House that sat, acCording to John Leaning, "on a spit of land opposite Pig Island" when Lansdowne Park was still a marsh (before 1868). Mrs. Thompson, of adjacent Findlay Street, has come up with an answer. It was named for a William Craig, a developer, who built some houses there before dying in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. He had children, but no relatives who survived around Ottawa, she says. Could he also be the person who built the Craig House, now long gone? Or was that someone of a previous generation? Questions remain. GIVE SOMEONE A SECOND CHANCE. Discuss organ donation with your family. 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