Glebe Report

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Jan. 15, 1988 Volume 17 No. 1
Glebe postal service update
BY INEZ BERG
There may soon be a fullservice
postal sub-station
in the Glebe to replace the
call-for service which terminated
at Bread and Fruit
January 7th. On that day
Charlie Sohmer stopped receiving
parcels and registered
mail from Canada Post
for Glebe residents.
Rent contract negotiations
are in process between
Minto's commercial division
and a Nepean resident, Mr.
Bassam Najam, who is arranging
to set up a sub-post
office and a smoke-shop
operation on the ground
floor of Fifth Avenue Court.
In the interim Canada Post
to 2 PM.
Mr. Claude Longpré of
Canada Post's City Services,
told the Glebe Report on
January llth that letter
carriers had continued to
leave cards with Bread and
Fruit's address as the
retrieval point, at Glebe
homes where delivery of parcels
or registered mail was
not possible. Those items
were returned to Station E
and held there instead of
returning them to 50 Main St.
According to Postmaster
Lucien Desrosiers, pick-up at
Station E was tot offered on
those items. They will be
transferred to the temporary
second level office at
Fifth Avenue Court.
has rented space in the north "
That way,' says Claude
west corner of the second
Longpré, 'people who come
level at Fifth Avenue Court
to Bread and Fruit can be
to provide a temporary callreferred
upstairs to pick up
for service for parcels and
registered mail. Staffed by
a private contractor it will
be open Monday to Wednesday
from 10 AM to 6PM, Thursday
and Friday from 10 AM to
their mail. Leftover mail
and parcels still unclaimed
from Bread and Fruit will be
transferred upstairs as well.
The call-for will be oper-
8 PM and Saturday from 10 AM ational until the sub-postal
station is set up.
He also confirmed that all
the counter services that
are now offered at Station
E, with the exception of
pick-up of parcels and registered
mail, would continue
to be offered at Station E
as well as the new postal
sub-station, when it is
established.
Sub-Post Office
not yet final
However, when last contacted
by the Glebe Report, Mr.
Najam didn't know what space
he would get. He had been
negotiating with Minto for
the ground floor space occupied
by A Source of Art,
but he was informed by Minto
January llth that they had
received a better offer for
that space from another
business. Though commercial
space is available on the
second level Mr. Najam
claims he cannot operate a
sub-post office or his busi-
ness from such a location.
"Nobody's going to come up
there," he said. "I've got
to be downstairs where people
can see my store and
find it easily. If I can't
work out a deal with Minto
I'm going to look around
for other space in the area."
Mr. Najam, who currently
operates a sub-post office
at L'Esplanade Laurier, had
planned to sell bus tickets
and lottery tickets from his
planned smoke shop operation.
Mr. Tim Johnson of Minto
Commercial says "The only
other ground floor space
available would be a kiosk
in the courtyard. That kind
of space is twice as expensive
as shop space." It is
also subject to city by-laws
which the tenant has to
meet. "We still have about
a week to negotiate," he
said.
In the meantime Glebe residents
won't have to go outside
the community to pick
up their parcels and mail.
Former Glebite carries torch
Lorne Dean, 41. son of
Kenneth Dean of 5 Monk Street,
carried the Olympic Torch
to Ottawa City Hall on
Wednesday, December 16th as
part of the cross-country
tour of the Torch to Calgary
for the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Lorne was a former Little
Leager when a resident of
the Glebe and he now lives
in Orleans.
Quote of the Month:
Neither the past, nor the
future, but the present alone
is the oasis at which one
can drink the water of life.
Louise Wagner
Story and photo by Clem Holden
Winterlude traffic
and parking
For Glebe traffic and
parking restrictions see
City map on page 8.
Dow's Lake information
appears in the Alderman's
column on page 17.
There will be no parking
at Lansdowne Park on
February 5th after 5:00 p.m.
because Winterlude opening
ceremonies will be held
there.
INSIDE
Letters 2, 3
Lansdowne Winterlude.7, 8
Winterlude Traffic Map 8
Angel Square 9
Community Centre
Courses 13, 14, 15
Observation Post 21
Focus 24