April 16, 2010 - Glebe Report

April 16, 2010 Vol. 38 rvn No. 4 

Serving the Glebe community since 1973 

Honouring the legacy of Sylvia Holden 

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Sylvia Holden, centre, with her son Alfred, left, and her husband, Clem, right, on opening day of the park, June 1, 1995. 

Photo: Ilse Kyssa 

Why a park for Sylvia Holden? 

BY ELAINE MARLIN 

Sylvia and Clem Holden, a dynamic duo (still wonderfully active at ages 

80 and 86), were local residents who were very involved in community activism 

and local politics in the Glebe from the 1970s to the 1990s. One of 

Sylvia’s passions was improving and expanding recreation facilities in the 

Glebe. Together with the late Frances Bryce, she did a survey of all the recreational 

facilities in the community, cataloguing possible new spaces for development. 

As a very active chairperson of the Glebe Community Association’s 

Recreation Committee, Sylvia kept the goal of expanding recreation facilities 

in the public eye, no matter what other crises were going on. 

Working mostly with groups of young parents, she helped to upgrade several 

of our neighbourhood parks. The establishment of the Tot Lot at Fifth and 

O’Connor avenues (later named Lionel Britton Park after another great supporter 

of recreation) was the hard-fought victory of one of those local groups. 

Sylvia almost succeeded in having a children’s playground built on the part of 

Clemow Avenue that is currently blocked off to traffic, this time working with 

a different team of residents. An adventure playground, where older children 

April 15-18 

April 17 

April 22-25 

April 25 

Mark your calendars 

Originals Spring Craft Sale, Lansdowne Park 

www.originalsshow.ca (see page 24) 

Spring clean Bank Street, 9:30 a.m. 

Meet outside Fifth Avenue Court. 

First Avenue School Book Sale 

Thurs., 4-9 p.m., Fri., 10 a.m.-9 p.m., 

Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 

My Kids Funky Closet Kids Consignment Sale 

10 a.m.-3 p.m., GCC 

www.mykidsfunkycloset.com 

April 30 Rockin Benefit, 6:30 p.m., GCC (see page 8) 

May 7-24 

May 7-8 

May 9 

Canadian Tulip Festival, www.tulipfestival.ca 

Glamour in the Glebe, jewelry show, GCC 

(see page 6) 

Ottawa Farmers’ Market opening day 

Lansdowne Park, www.ottawafarmersmarket.ca 

May 27 GNAG’s Lobster Kitchen Party (see page 6) 

May 29 

Great Glebe Garage Sale 

could build – under supervision – using scrap materials, also came close to 

realization in the northeast section of Lansdowne Park, now being referred to 

as Sylvia Holden Community Park. Eventually the wading pool was built at 

the spot planned for the playground – a different result than intended; however, 

by then, the spot had been clearly earmarked for recreational use. 

In contrast to the hustle and bustle of recreational activities at this community 

park, the park at Bank Street and Holmwood Avenue, is a passive park for 

all ages that provides a respite from the noise of Bank Street. Sylvia patiently 

and doggedly pursued her goal of establishing a park on this site, a process 

which took years of negotiations. It was officially opened on June 1, 1995 by 

councilor Jim Watson and was named in honour of Sylvia Holden. Although 

the Holdens eventually moved away, Sylvia would make a point on return 

visits of weeding the flower beds with her friend Ilse Kyssa. Last month, in a 

telephone conversation, she confirmed that the original Sylvia Holden Park included 

only the piece of land at Bank Street and Holmwood Avenue. Jim Watson 

described it as a three-acre park in the Glebe Report issue of June, 9, 1995. 

Why the boundaries recently appear to have moved is still a bit of a mystery. 

continued on page 22 

Abbotsford ..........2 

Art ................24 

BIA ................13 

Books. .......... 38-39 

Business ........ 16-17 

Councillor’s Report ..10 

Editorial .............4 

Entertainment .......26 

GCA ................8 

WHAT’S INSIDE 

GNAG. ..............6 

Glebe History .... 14-15 

Grapevine ....... 38-39 

Letters ..............5 

MP’s Report. ........18 

MPP’s Report .......12 

Music ..............25 

Religion ......... 40-41 

Schools ......... 30-34 

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2 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 EVENTS 

Join us early to fight against 

HIV/AIDS in Africa 

by Carol MacLeod 

Grammas to Ambuyas (grandmother in Shona) are pleased to be organizing 

their third annual fundraiser for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, once again with 

the generous collaboration of Bob Russell, proprietor of Stoneface Dolly’s. On 

May 31, Grammas to Ambuyas is sponsoring a Reach for the Top celebration 

to give our community the opportunity to be updated on the Stephen Lewis 

Foundation Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign. 

Since its March 2006 launch, more than 220 groups of Canadian grandmothers 

have taken the challenge. The campaign has raised over $7 million. 

The Stephen Lewis Foundation directs these funds to community-level 

organizations in 15 sub-Saharan African countries to provide grandmothers 

with much needed food, housing grants, school fees for their grandchildren 

and grief counselling. There is more information at the Foundation website: 

www.grandmotherscampaign.org/ or www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/ 

grandmothers.htm. 

Grammas to Ambuyas guest speaker this year is Gisele Mansfield. She and 

five other Kilimanjaro grannies hiked to the summit of Kilimanjaro. The adventure-of-a-lifetime 

was planned to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic that is 

destroying Africa’s social and economic fabric. AIDS has killed a generation 

of sub-Saharan wage earners, leaving grandparents and orphaned children to 

fend for each other with limited economic resources. The family unit has been 

redefined by AIDS so that vulnerable children are raising their siblings. Grandparents 

are the primary caregivers to millions of orphans and communities are 

ostracizing the HIV+ sufferers. 

The Kilimanjaro Grannies group produced a glorious book about their trek 

to the summit of this iconic African destination, Kilimanjaro, A Purposeful 

Journey: A story of six ordinary women making a difference in AIDS-stricken 

Africa. Profits from book sales support the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers 

to Grandmothers Campaign, the Snowy Owl AIDS Foundation and 

Camp Wendeke, a camp being built in eastern Ontario for people living with 

HIV and AIDS and their caregivers, loved ones and traditional/non-traditional 

families. The book will be on sale after Gisele’s talk at Stoneface Dolly’s. 

The event takes place on Monday, May 31 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Stoneface 

Dolly’s at 416 Preston at Beech. Delicious flavours of Africa treats will be 

served. Tickets are $40 and proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. If 

you have other commitments, you can make a cheque payable to the Stephen 

Lewis Foundation and we will make sure it reaches its destination! Donations 

over $20 are tax receipted. Tickets are limited for this always popular event. 

For tickets, call Barb Coyle, 613-233-2500, Sheila Jenkins, 613-235-3107 or 

Carol MacLeod, 613-234-9572. Please join us! 

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Abbotsford’s GST Auction: 

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By Julie Ireton 

Sneezy Waters will entertain. CBC Radio host, Alan Neal, will be MC. Art, 

jewelry, crafts and even a night-on-the-town will be up for auction. There’s 

something for everyone at the Glebe Centre’s Fifth Annual Goods, Services 

and Talents Auction to be held Thursday, April 22 , at the Glebe Community 

Centre. 

The event gets underway at 7 pm sharp with Sneezy Waters. His trio includes 

Ann Downey and Vince Halfhide. They’ll play for only the first half hour or so, 

so get there early to hear Sneezy. While you listen to the trio, you can wander 

around, checking out what’s up for auction. “This year we have three unique 

craft items on offer, thanks to the generosity of our talented volunteers,” says 

Pat Goyeche, program facilitator at Abbotsford’s Community Centre for adults 

55 plus. 

“The one-of-a-kinds are just that, so you have to see them to believe them!” 

Among the items up for auction will be 26 pieces of original art and 30 pieces 

of jewelry, all precious stones in either sterling silver or white gold. There 

are bracelets, earrings and necklaces with pendants. “We do have a couple 

of pieces of antique jewelry which I know some collectors are interested in,” 

explains Sandy Taylor, outreach co-coordinator for Abbotsford. Taylor is involved 

in organizing the art and jewelry for the auction. 

“We have everything appraised, and we start everything at one third market 

value. For the art, there’s a combination of oil or watercolours and most of it is 

signed by the artist,” explains Taylor. 

There are also some rare forms of art. “We have four lovely Japanese wood 

cuts. It’s a type of Japanese art done with small pieces of wood. It’s very attractive.” 

Also up for auction will be English porcelain, hand-cut glass vases 

and some Middle-Eastern rugs. But there are more than goods up for grabs. 

There are also some interesting services…including meals out and a “sleepover.” 

For the second year in a row, Alice Hinther, a neighbourhood foodie, will 

offer her services for a dinner for eight. Hinther’s dinner was very popular last 

year and raised a lot of money. “I’ll deliver it hot, on platters,” she explains. 

“There’ll be no Styrofoam!” Hinther is well known to the Glebe community 

and is a frequent helper for Abbotsford fundraisers. “The dinner for eight will 

include a starter, salad, a meal with dessert…there will be a menu to chose 

from,” says Hinther. 

On auction night, while you wander around the auditorium and place your 

bids, you can sip wine or beer and have some nibbles. The auction will be in 

the main hall of the Glebe Community Centre on April 22. It is free and open 

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EVENTS 

25 th anniversary for the 

Great Glebe Garage Sale 

By Janet Sutherland 

On Saturday, May 29 the Great Glebe Garage Sale (GGGS) will once again 

turn our neighbourhood into a festive marketplace. First launched by the Glebe 

Community Association (GCA) in 1986, the 2010 event will mark our 25 th 

year! The benefits are many: recycling no-longer-needed possessions, finding 

some great bargains, meeting neighbours, and pocketing a little money – at 

the same time as supporting an important cause in our community. Since its 

inception, the GCA has encouraged a voluntary contribution of 10 per cent of 

vendor proceeds to the Ottawa Food Bank, resulting in a much-needed annual 

boost to their budget. Last year, residents and businesses of the Glebe collectively 

donated over $12,000 to the Food Bank. Over the past few years, the total 

donated has varied as outlined below. 

$14,000 

$12,000 

$10,000 

$8,000 

$6,000 

$4,000 

$2,000 

Great Glebe Garage Sale Results 

2004-2009 

$0 

2004 1 2005 2 2006 3 2007 4 2008 5 2009 6 

Total $12,000 $8,700 $8,200 $13,600 $8,200 $12,767 

Set a new record for donations 

It would be great to set a new record to honour this 25-year milestone! Beyond 

holding sales, some people put their artistic talents to work in support 

of the cause: The Swampwater Jazzband has been playing Dixieland jazz and 

collecting donations for the Food Bank for many years. We hope you too will 

donate some of your garage sale proceeds and/or shopping savings! The easiest 

way to make a donation is to visit the Ottawa Food Bank website at www. 

theottawafoodbank.ca. Charitable tax receipts are issued for donations of $10 

or more. The Ottawa Food Bank will also have volunteers in the neighbourhood 

on the day of the sale and there will be a booth at the Glebe Community 

Centre where you can drop off your proceeds and donations. 

Volunteers 

In celebration of the 25 th anniversary, the GCA has updated the GGGS logo 

(see the new ad in this issue) and will try out a new income-generation idea this 

year. We’ll be looking for volunteers to help with selling GGGS souvenirs. 

Information 

Be sure to visit the GCA website (http://www.glebeca.ca/events/garage_sale. 

html) for garage sale tips and updates on where to rent tables, parking and 

where to drop off your donation on the day of the sale. For information, call 

613-236-0025 (voice mail). If you have questions, or if you would like to help 

promote the Great Glebe Garage Sale, or work with the Ottawa Food Bank 

volunteers on the day of the sale, please contact Janet Sutherland at GGGS@ 

glebeca.ca. Good luck with your preparations for this great Glebe tradition! 

Glebe Report April 16, 2010 3 

Tulip Festival in living colour 

May 7- 24 

by Julie Houle Cezer 

I have to confess that I love tulips from the instant they push their tight little 

green caps through the soil to each moment they drop petals, one by one, and 

finally stand all naked without their tinted bonnets. Through every stage of 

their bloom cycle, these flowers change their shape and hue. From distinct, 

defined curves of brilliant colour to yawning circles and ovals in deepening 

tones, these ephemeral beauties offer us a visual feast. Along the Rideau Canal 

and Commissioner’s Park near Dow’s Lake, wide ribbons of tulips invite us to 

revel in a kaleidoscopic world of floral shape shifting. A gift with a long and 

complex history that connects us with the past, tulips will hopefully inspire 

us in the present and future to sustain greenspaces and nurture the peace and 

friendship they have come to symbolize. 

Needless to say, I welcome the Tulip Festival with enthusiasm, good walking 

shoes and my camera. However, in the unlikely eventuality that I may tire of 

walking amid all this splendour, I can participate in many other events at the 

Canadian Tulip Festival. 

If not already booked for the 2010 Watercan Ball and Embassy Dinner 

(Aberdeen Pavillion) to raise money for clean water projects in Africa, I can, 

on May 7, join the Liberation Street Party with free entertainment on Sparks 

Street from 4:30-10 pm. 

At Confederation Square on Saturday, May 8, I can bear witness to a more 

somber 11 a.m. ceremony honouring war veterans who played an important 

role in liberating the Netherlands during World War II. 

The following weekend I may wander over to Major’s Hill Park and the 

Belgian Mirror tent to listen to period jazz and swing music, quaff my thirst in 

the Beer Garden, satisfy my interest in culture at the International Bazaar, my 

hunger at the Food Emporium and attend one of the many lectures presented 

by Célebridée between May 2-19. And then back to enjoy the main show – the 

tulips. 

For Festival info: www.tulipfestival.ca; tel: 613-567-5757 or hotline: 

1-800-66 TULIP; e-mail: info@tulipfestival 

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4 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 

Celebrating volunteers 

and the world around us 

April and spring rains bring celebrations of poetry month, volunteer week 

(April 18-24) and Earth Day (April 22).This is a happy confluence of life 

affirming events. This speaks of the flow of newly released energies and inspires 

me to take my imagination and all my senses on a slow date with my 

environment. As I take time to pay attention to the pulse within and without, I 

am reminded that while we often speak of our lives in prose that is linear, we 

actually live our multi-layered moments in spirals of poetry. So join me and 

slow down, breathe, take time to listen and allow the poetry that is in your life 

to bubble up and find expression. 

Paying close attention to their human and physical environment is motivation 

enough for some people to take individual and collective action in order 

to make things better for those around them and the community at large. They 

are the volunteers that enrich all our lives. They are all around us, in hospitals, 

clinics and seniors centres, schools, places of worships, sports arenas, community 

centres, museums, cultural centres and parks, to name but a few. They 

walk with us through life giving their time, skills and energy to strengthen the 

fabric of the social, cultural, economic and political networks that underpin 

our institutions and community life. Their contribution is enormous and is 

often taken for granted. We need only look around our own small community 

to the range of needs that are addressed by the Glebe Community Association, 

the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group, and the Business Improvement 

Area, and ask what would the community look like if they did not exist. We 

need to keep in mind that the hard work of volunteers created these associations 

and hard work keeps them going. So greet the next volunteer you see 

with a smile and a helping hand. 

Julie Houle Cezer, editor 

Notes from the boardroom 

by Ian McKercher 

Julie Houle Cezer appointed editor 

The Board of Directors of the Glebe Report Association is pleased to 

announce the appointment of our new editor. Julie came on to the production 

crew as interim editor in late January. After a year as a volunteer proofreader, 

she then emerged as the top candidate in the Board’s open search to fill the 

position. 

Digitization and missing copies 

The board has hired the firm of Brechin Imaging Services to digitize all back 

issues of the Glebe Report. A searchable electronic database of all publications 

should be available by the fall. We are missing four editions from the archives 

and we need your help to complete the collection. Please contact the editor if 

you have any of these copies and can assist us. 

Missing copies: 

September, 1982, Volume 10, #8, October, 1982, Volume 10, #9 

November, 1982, Volume 10, #10, February 8, 1985, Volume 13, #2 

Volume numbering error 

Volume 1, number 1 of the Glebe Report was published in June, 1973. A new 

volume began each new calendar year. Unfortunately, a typographical error in 

the numbering of the November 1985 edition went undetected and was never 

corrected. All editions in 2010 will be renumbered volume “38*cvn” (corrected 

volume numbering) so as not to be confused with issues published in 

2008 and designated as volume 38. In April 2012, when we catch up to volume 

40, number 4, the designation “*cvn” will be discontinued. 

Ian McKercher is the new chairman of the Board of Directors of the Glebe 

Report Association. 

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LETTERS Glebe Report April 16, 2010 5 

Speaking up for our 

community park ... again 

Editor, Glebe Report 

We are in receipt of a letter from Glebe residents Adrian Evans, Robert 

Campbell and Joseph Duggan informing us that the principles and terms of 

reference for the Lansdowne urban park design competition call for proposals 

to integrate the community park part of Sylvia Holden Park with the new urban 

park (between Lady Aberdeen Pavilion and the Driveway) and the larger civic 

agenda for Lansdowne Park. 

Our reaction to this information is that the City of Ottawa is thereby demonstrating 

a colossal lack of good faith. During the consultation hearings for 

the OSEG (Lansdowne Live) proposals, no part of the community park (the 

recreational area bounded by Fifth Avenue, O’Connor, Queen Elizabeth Drive 

and a line extending roughly eastward from Holmwood Avenue to the canal) 

was represented as subject to modification. 

It infuriates us that the name Sylvia Holden Park is likely to engender confusion, 

since the city has a large conspicuous sign showing Sylvia Holden Park 

as located at 945 Bank Street and yet, in some city representations, designates 

10 Fifth Avenue as the Sylvia Holden Park address. The uninformed are likely 

to think that our protest relates to the Bank Street address, whereas we are 

equally concerned about the O’Connor/Driveway/Fifth Avenue area. 

Having fought alongside many others since the early 1970s to introduce 

basketball, a wading pool, and other facilities into this recreational space, we 

are appalled that the city should sneakily turn this into an area once again up 

for grabs. The case was made at the time, and councillors agreed, that while 

there is green space in the Glebe, the neighbourhood has little space for sports 

and other active pursuits. 

There is no reason to trust any assurances that space can be found elsewhere 

in the Glebe for these facilities. The community has already lost many sports 

facilities at Lansdowne. There were once two soccer fields behind the south 

stands, a T-ball field, tennis courts, a skateboard park and an outdoor hockey 

rink. But these have been replaced in recent decades by parking spaces. 

The city should show good faith in keeping the recreational area off limits 

in the calls for design proposals for this area, as was depicted in the graphics 

shown at the Lansdowne Live consultations throughout the city. 

Elaine and Randal Marlin 

The world is curiouser and 

curiouser ... 


Everyone in the Glebe will be very familiar with the recent tragedy on Monk 

Street when numbers 5 and 7 caught fire. 

Less than one week later the city had served an Order to Comply on the poor 

owner of the property for “demolition of a 2 storey building without benefit 

of a demolition permit.” I checked the date: it was issued on March 31, 

not April 1. 

My questions are: Do we all need to get demolition permits before having a 

major fire? What is the penalty for not having one? Should there be a concessionary 

waiver for unpremeditated demolition by a third party? Should the fire 

department be issued with a blanket demolition permit for such occasions? 

Frank Johnson 

The Annual General Meeting 

of the Glebe Report Board of Directors 

will take place 

at the Glebe Community Centre 

on June 14, 2010 at 8 p.m. 

All are welcome! 

Demystifying the zoning 

around Lansdowne Park 


I felt it necessary to write to let you and readers know about the complexity 

of all the different zoning issues that Lansdowne Park faces. These will create 

a challenge to anyone considering a proper redesign of the park. 

1. Currently, the park is owned by the City of Ottawa and is a public space. 

Adjacent to the park, the National Capital Commission owns the land 

along Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Parks Canada has jurisdiction over 

the Rideau Canal, but the canal is also designated by UNESCO as a 

World Heritage Site. 

2. The Horticulture Building is designated a heritage building under Part 4 

3. 

of the Ontario Heritage Act. 

The Aberdeen Pavillion is both a provincially designated heritage building 

and national historic site: 

a) Under just the provincial designation, the Aberdeen Pavillion 

has a heritage conservation easement which is a buffer zone that surrounds 

the building and extends all the way to Bank Street. Any development 

in this zone (and presumably near it) must first meet the 

approval of the Ontario Heritage Trust. 

b) Also, a second Ontario Heritage Trust easement extends from 

Aberdeen Pavillion to Queen Elizabeth Driveway and protects the 

sightlines of the building from the canal, now a World Heritage Site. 

c) Under the national designation, Parks Canada must also be notified 

if any major changes are made to the building or the area immediately 

surrounding it. 

d) Potentially, UNESCO may have to be informed of any changes 

that might affect the historic cultural nature of the canal. 

Thus, there are five different organizations that currently lay claim to the 

site: municipal, provincial, two national and one international. 

I hope this clarifies the complexity of the current zoning and heritage issues 

surrounding the park and some of its buildings. 

Andrew Elliott 

Losing a Loved Animal: How Animals view Life 

and Death with professional animal communicator Lauren McCall. 

Evening seminar: 6–9 pm, Friday, April 30 

Church of the Ascension, 253 Echo Drive 

This workshop is suited to anyone who loves animals and has 

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lobster this spring at GNAG 

‘Be In The Band’ 

rocks the Glebe CC! 

On Friday, March 26, GNAG, in partnership 

with Cisco’s Ottawa Bluesfest 

and the Ottawa Folkore Centre featured 

five bands made up of young teenagers. 

One band returned from last year’s program 

for a repeat performance. This 

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in the popular ‘Be In The Band’ program. 

Drawing an audience of 200, the 

evening was a blow-out success! 

In January, 25 youth from 11-16 years old, answered a general call to ‘Be In 

The Band.’ This program is designed for youth who want to learn how to play 

in an ensemble and perform before a live audience. Although most band members 

barely knew each other, they were immediately sorted into four bands 

after the first night of rehearsal. The program was led by well-known Ottawa 

musicians Todd Snelgrove (guitar), Kurt Walther (bass) and Simon Keeble 

(bass player with Another Round). Glebe St. James Tennis clubhouse became 

the “school of rock.” 

I spoke with a couple of parents and this is what they thought of Be In The 

Band: “The youth of this community are so fortunate to have this opportunity 

right here in their own neighbourhood.” “It is marvellous how the Glebe Community 

Centre always manages to find something new and innovative for this 

community. I am also so impressed with the professional mentoring.” 

Mark Monahan, executive/artistic director of Cisco’s Bluesfest, has invited 

‘Full Tipped Sleeve,’ ‘Guitar Sticks and Drum Picks,’ ‘Contrast’ and ‘The 

Corner’ to perform at this year’s Bluesfest on July 18. Congratulations to all 

for another incredible season! 

On behalf of GNAG and the teens from ‘Be In The Band,’ I would like to 

extend a big thank you to Tom Evans from the Glebe St. James Tennis Club, 

Alan Marsden and his wonderful instructors from the Ottawa Folklore Center 

and AJ Sauvé, director of Communications, Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest. Our 

heartfelt gratitude goes to Mark Monahan – without his ingenuity and support, 

this vision would not have come to fruition. 

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NEWS 

Glebe fires: déjà vu 

by Julie 

Houle Cezer 

As the girl in the 

black jacket approached 

the corner of Monk and 

Fifth, she continued to 

pick up the pace until… 

she rounded the corner. 

Suddenly, as if hit by 

a physical blow to her 

core, her knees buckled 

and her body folded 

into a Z; instinctively, 

her arms reached for the 

ground as the vision of 

loss registered: all the 

memories and the refuge 

that were her home 

lay in rubble. Fortunately, 

her descent was 

broken by the strong 

arms of neighbours and 

friends who were there 

to console her as the 

tears flowed. Needless 

to say, I stopped taking 

photographs. The 

shock and devastation 

moved from person to person, and continuing to document the intimacy of 

these moments seemed like a violation. 

Though the weather was chilly but clear that day, acrid 

smoke had been filling the skies since early that Saturday 

morning when the seemingly controllable fire had begun 

on one of the upper decks. By 2 p.m. on March 27, the 

sixplex at 5 and 7 Monk St. was nothing but a large snack 

for the jaws of the monster excavator that munched and 

crunched on bricks and hot spots. Although the building 

came down much faster and the number of apartments 

If you see Morris, and people involved were fewer, the scene was a déjà 

call Meaghan at vu of the January fire on Glebe Avenue. Happily, as in 

613-299-9357 the previous incident, there was no loss of human life, 

although a family cat named Morris is still missing in action 

(see picture). However, the material loss to both tenants and the owner of 

the building has been almost total. In addition, there has also been considerable 

collateral damage (flooding) to nearby businesses such as Glebe Fitness 

and Dance with Alana and the neighbouring sixplex. 

Then last Friday night, April 9, the fire trucks were out again in force at 

11 p.m. for a triplex fire at 242 Fifth Avenue that left six people homeless. 

In between March 27 and 

April 9, the Glebe Community 

Association had 

already made arrangements 

to keep the fire account 

#00116-1012954 

at the Royal Bank at First 

Avenue open for donations. 

Further, they are 

looking to host some 

public education meetings 

on fire safety, smoke 

detectors, fire exit plans 

and insurance. Simultaneously, 

with the impetus 

and organizational efforts 

coming from Glebe resident Tina Dennis and strategic supports from GNAG, 

a Rockin’ Benefit fundraiser for the survivors of the neighbourhood fires 

is being planned for Friday, April 30 at the Glebe Community Centre at 

6:30 p.m. It will feature local bands that have recently won a spot at CISCO 

Bluesfest this summer: Full Tipped Sleeve, T42, Bird on a Wire, Contrast, 

Guitar Pics & Drum Sticks and Another Round. Call 613-233-8713 or 613- 

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Spring has sprung and so have public 

meetings. This month alone, we’ve 

already had meetings about the new 

play structures being installed in Capital 

Park (bordered by Craig, Newton, 

Gordon, and Ella Streets) and about 

the inclusion of Sylvia Holden Park 

(adjacent to Lansdowne Park at the 

Queen Elizabeth Driveway) in the 

design competition for a new urban 

park. 

Next is an upcoming meeting about 

installing bicycle lanes on Pretoria 

Bridge and closing the right turn lane 

adjacent to the TD Bank. We’ve organized this public consultation with the 

Ottawa East Community Association and the meeting will be held at the Old 

Town Hall on Main Street on Tuesday, April 20 at 7 p.m. Last but not least, 

we’ll be hosting a public information session on the recently released neighbourhood 

study on Thursday, April 29 at the Glebe Community Centre. The 

authors of the study will provide an overview of the results for the Glebe 

and Dow’s Lake and answer any questions you may have. Councillor Clive 

Doucet, MPP Yasir Naqvi and MP Paul Dewar will all be attending to provide 

information on municipal, provincial and federal initiatives that address some 

of the study’s findings. This is one meeting not to be missed. You can read up 

on the study at www.neighbourhoodstudy.ca. 

Sadly, we’ve also met with a few residents of 5 and 7 Monk Street, who 

have been left homeless by the second major fire in two months. Ten residents 

in six units lost everything in the blaze, which spread rapidly and consumed 

the beautiful old building. To assist the residents, we are once again raising 

funds. We had planned to close our special account (opened after the fire on 

Glebe Avenue), but we have decided to leave it open indefinitely. It’s at the 

Royal Bank branch at Bank Street and First Avenue and the account number 

is 00116-1012954. The GCA board of directors is now considering setting up 

a charitable foundation to assist community members in need. This would allow 

us to provide tax receipts to donors and respond more quickly in a crisis 

situation. We’ll be discussing this at our board meeting on April 27 and would 

appreciate hearing your views on the subject. If you can’t attend the meeting, 

send us an e-mail about it at gca@glebeca.ca. 

Members of our community have stepped forward to organize a fundraising 

rock benefit with local bands, dancing, a cash bar and prizes on Friday, April 

30 at the Glebe Community Centre. We’ll be lending a hand with that too. 

Lastly, we are consulting with Ottawa Fire Services and other organizations 

about hosting a public meeting on fire safety issues such as smoke detectors 

and escape plans as well as insurance. Many of us live in older homes similar 

to the buildings on Glebe and Monk Street and more recently, Fifth Avenue. 

If “balloon construction” has also been used to build our homes, is there anything 

we can do to make these houses safer? We will likely wait to have this 

meeting in September so that we can also reach our significant student population. 

Stay tuned for more information on this in the coming months. 

You’ll see a lot of us in May too. May is membership month. A block representative 

will be knocking on your door, asking you to join the GCA. The 

fee is $5 per household again this year and it’s our only source of funding. For 

that low, low price, you get hundreds of volunteer hours devoted to everything 

from education to heritage to everyone’s favourite event, the Great Glebe Garage 

Sale! This year, our canvassers will be making an extra effort to collect 

e-mail addresses. There is a lot happening in our neighbourhood and it often 

happens at a rapid pace. Having your e-mail address will allow us to send you 

regular monthly updates and notify you quickly in urgent situations. Our list 

is used for GCA business only and is never shared with other parties. You can 

also sign up for our mailing list on our (new and improved!) website at www. 

glebeca.ca. We hope this meets the needs of the 88.51 per cent of respondents 

of a recent survey, who said they would be interested in being on a mailing list 

in order to be updated on Glebe related issues. 

That’s right. We have received the results of the survey conducted by the 

Carleton University change management students and mentioned previously 

in this column, on our website and on our Facebook page. The full report can 

be found on our website. It’s been very interesting – and occasionally difficult 

– reading for our board. Generally, it seems we are doing a pretty good job, 

but could improve in some areas. The report provides five key recommendations: 

• Reach more people by ‘going electronic’ 

• Encourage more people to join the board 

• Better represent the needs of students and renters 

• Implement secondary research findings 

• Increase public awareness of the GCA. 

As the head of the organization, I am up for the challenge. Are you? The 

board of directors can’t do this work alone. We need your help. Our membership 

campaign is our best opportunity to greet you personally and to start 

making these changes. Please welcome your canvasser with a smile. Sign up, 

and get in touch! 

Caroline Vanneste 

gca@glebeca.ca 

www.glebeca.ca 

Facebook group: 

Glebe Community Association 

GCA 

Join us for the neighbourhood 

fire fundraiser April 30 

Caroline 

Vanneste

FOOTBRIDGE UPDATE 

Midtown footbridge study going ahead 

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By John Dance 

The City’s Transportation Committee 

unanimously approved the 

initiation of an environmental assessment 

study for the proposed midtown 

footbridge at its April meeting. The 

approval allows city staff to request 

bids. Once a contractor is selected, 

the study is expected to be completed 

in approximately 24 months. 

The study’s scope includes satisfying 

environmental assessment 

requirements, recommending a preferred 

location, preparing functional 

design drawings of the preferred 

crossing, creating a project implementation/staging 

plan, estimating 

project capital and maintenance 

costs and securing approvals in principle 

as required by regulatory agencies. 

Capital Ward Councillor Clive 

Doucet, who has been a long-time 

advocate of a new “green” link across 

the canal in the vicinity of Fifth Avenue 

and Clegg Street, called the approval 

a major step forward to building 

a sustainable and safe pedestrian 

and cycling infrastructure that will 

benefit not just those in the Glebe, 

Old Ottawa East and Old Ottawa 

South but also many other Ottawans 

who live beyond the “three sisters” 

and seek a safer and more convenient 

“midtown” crossing of the canal. 

As noted in the approved statement 

of work, the origins of a Rideau Canal 

crossing near Clegg Street and Fifth 

Avenue date back to the Holt Plan 

(1915); the Greber Plan (1950); and 

National Capital Commission plans 

(1968). A ferry operated for several 

decades in this vicinity until circa 

1950. Through the 1950s and 1960s, 

the National Capital Commission 

(NCC) annually constructed a wooden 

footbridge in the winter months 

between Herridge Street and Second 

Avenue. With the loss of these seasonal 

crossings, pedestrians and cyclists 

have had to detour to either the 

Pretoria Bridge (850 metres north) 

or the Bank Street Bridge (1.25 kilometres 

south). 

Extensive Consultation 

The study will involve stakeholders, 

including local community/interest 

groups, property owners, businesses, 

area schools and approval 

agencies. Early in the study process, 

community stakeholders will be 

identified through liaison with Councillor 

Doucet. 

A public consultation group and an 

“agency” consultation group will be 

formed to enable meaningful consultation 

with stakeholders at key stages 

in the study. A minimum of three 

public meetings/open houses with 

the general public will augment the 

consultation group meetings. Presentations 

to the NCC’s Advisory 

Committee on Planning, Design and 

Realty will also be required. 

The public consultation committee 

is expected to include representatives 

from the three neighbouring community 

associations (OECA, GCA 

and OSCA) and the Midtown Footbridge 

Group has also requested to 

be a part of the committee. One other 

opportunity for public input will be 

to comment on the specific environmental 

study report, which will address 

the provisions of relevant 

provincial and federal environmental 

legislation. 

Lansdowne Relationship 

According to the statement of 

work, the contractor will develop 

different designs for the preferred 

crossing locations options and will 

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develop criteria for assessing these 

designs. In this context, the contractor 

will assess any pedestrian bridge 

crossing proposals/designs that may 

be submitted by the winning design 

team for the Lansdowne urban park 

design competition to determine how 

the proposal could respond to the requirements 

determined through the 

environmental assessment. 

The Midtown Footbridge Group, 

which has been researching the proposition 

for several years, recently 

wrote to Kent Kirkpatrick, city manager 

and the chair of Lansdowne Park 

Steering Committee, to stress that the 

location and design of the footbridge 

should be decided in a process that, 

while taking into consideration the 

Lansdowne Design Competition, is 

independent from the competition. 

The letter to Mr. Kirkpatrick 

notes: “The determination of the 

footbridge’s location should involve 

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careful assessment against key criteria 

and full public consultation. 

Although the footbridge will provide 

a critical access to Lansdowne Park 

from the east, there are many other 

factors that must also be considered 

in determining the footbridge’s best 

location. These factors include the 

relative proximity to the Bank and 

Pretoria bridges; linkage to existing 

cycling and walking routes; contribution 

to an east-west cycling/pedestrian 

corridor; and safety concerns 

such as crossing the parkways and 

ensuring children can better get to 

schools on the opposite side of the 

canal from which they live.” 

At the same time as the Midtown 

Footbridge Study was approved, the 

Transportation Committee also gave 

its blessing of a comparable study for 

a pedestrian crossing of the Rideau 

River, linking Somerset East with 

Donald Street (near the tennis club). 

Proposed Construction on Fourth Avenue (Bronson to Percy) 

and Chrysler Avenue (First Avenue to Fifth Avenue) 

Watermain, Sewer and Road Reconstruction 

You are invited by the City of Ottawa to attend a Public Information Session 

regarding the subject construction project that is scheduled to commence in the 

summer of 2010 and expected to last for 2 construction seasons. 

The work involves replacing the existing combined sewers with new larger combined 

sewers and replacing the watermain on Fourth Avenue with a new larger 

watermain, all within the road allowance. Sewer laterals and water services within 

the road allowance to the property line will also be replaced. Water lead services on 

private property can be replaced as part of the project and a representative from the 

Lead Pipe Replacement Program will be on hand to answer residents’ questions. 

The session will include: 

• Review of design drawings showing the planned work. 

• Discuss impact of construction work on adjacent properties, local traffic, etc. 

• Discussion of concerns. 

• Comments and suggestions. 

The City and its consultant, along with Councillor Doucet, will be on hand to 

present the project and respond to questions. 

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 — 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue 

City contact: 

Jeffrey Waara, P. Eng., Senior Project Manager 

City of Ottawa, Infrastructure Services Department 

100 Constellation Cres., 6th Floor West, Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8 

Tel: 613-580-2424 x27805; Fax: 613-560-6064 

E-mail: Jeffrey.Waara@ottawa.ca 

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More lipstick 

on the Lansdowne pig 

Group about farmers selling off the 

back of pickup trucks revealed they 

had no concept of how the current 

market is run let alone what its real 

potential is. Mr. Williams had never 

been to the market or asked anybody 

who had. The Farmers’ Market is one 

Councillor 

Clive 

Doucet 

When it comes to Lansdowne, 

some people think we are making 

progress and I would acknowledge 

the window dressing is getting better 

but it remains a taxpayer subsidized 

shopping mall with a $129 million 

stadium fully funded by the city. The 

quality of the lipstick on the pig has 

been improved but it’s the same pig. 

Witness the “front lawn” competition 

intended to cover the portion of 

the park next to the Canal left over 

after the shopping mall gets built and 

the stadium is refurbished. The “front 

lawn” competition will cost the City 

of Ottawa $375,000, and $3 million 

has already been committed to this 

sole-sourced deal. The original design 

competition for the entire park 

would have cost $350,000 and would 

have been completed by now. Not 

only is the new competition more 

expensive, it is for less than half of 

Lansdowne Park. 

The lipstick on the pig gets a little 

brighter with each passing week. Last 

fall city staff confirmed that Sylvia 

Holden Community Park, which is 

adjacent to Lansdowne Park, would 

not be included in the Lansdowne 

Partnership Plan. Now, we discover 

that Sylvia Holden Community Park 

has been inserted into the “front 

lawn” competition. 

Sylvia Holden is a community park, 

with baseball diamonds, a childcare 

facility, children’s playgrounds and a 

summer pool. It’s located in a neighbourhood 

which already has less than 

one quarter of the recreation space 

required by city policies. Now we 

are told it may need to be landscaped 

so that it can be integrated for events 

that produce “overflow.” 

How are residents supposed to have 

faith in a redevelopment process for 

Lansdowne when who gets what is 

constantly changing? Why aren’t 

council motions being respected? An 

oversight? 

Another oversight surfaced from a 

consultant at the city’s presentation 

on retail prospects for the park. Offhand 

comments from J.C Williams 

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of the most valuable assets currently 

at Lansdowne Park and if consultants 

aren’t even aware of the current 

situation, they can’t be paying much 

attention. 

What are consultants paying attention 

to? The Trinity Development 

Group’s website revealed a more 

detailed drawing of the commercial 

space for the shopping mall, including 

the “overlap” area of the “front 

lawn” where the Farmers’ Market is 

now located. Those detailed drawings 

were removed from the website 

shortly after I issued a media release 

pointing out the extent of commercial 

development planned. Yet another 

oversight or are we witnessing 

a pattern? 

We are born old and young 

at the same time. 

We are born with great loves 

and great pains 

that we grow into like an acorn 

grows into an oak tree; 

like God grows into the universe. 

Here’s another example that fits 

the pattern. The consultant hired to 

report on the heritage of Lansdowne 

Park pointed out in great detail the diverse 

uses of the park over the years 

and that none of them were permanent, 

commercial or retail. In spite 

of the complete lack of precedent as 

outlined in the report, the consultant 

concluded that it is appropriate to 

try to maximize the amount of retail 

space at the park. This is not surprising 

given that the report was paid for 

by the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment 

Group and the city partners. He 

who pays the piper calls the tune. 

And the tune here is very clear. 

Only 14.4 per cent of the revenue 

for Lansdowne Live will come from 

sports revenue even with a $129 million 

subsidy – the rest will come 

from the mall. 

Coffee with Clive 

Coffee with Clive takes place on 

the third Thursday of the month at 

the Wild Oat on Bank at Fourth from 

9-10 a.m. It is a good opportunity to 

discuss neighbourhood and citywide 

issues in an informal setting.

CITIZENS INITIATIVES 

Hands off our park 

In early March, many Glebe families first learned that the principles and 

terms of reference for the Lansdowne Park urban design competition were calling 

for proposals that would include the recreational, multi-use park located 

on a parcel of land east of O’Connor St. and just south of Fifth Avenue. In the 

true spirit of citizens’ initiatives, several concerned individuals stepped forward 

to organize a response at the grassroots level to the many questions and 

concerns articulated by residents in the area. As their numbers have grown, 

their campaign to raise awareness about the community park has made use 

of traditional means of communication such as flyers, posters, informal and 

formal meetings with neighbours, as well as e-mail and social media which 

have allowed them to post pictures of the park in use and announce upcoming 

events to a wider audience. On April 15, the public meeting at the Glebe Community 

Centre included dialogue about their concerns. 

by Adrian Evans 

The city chose to include Sylvia Holden Community Park in the Lansdowne 

Park design process. This has raised concerns for the following reasons: 

1. Poor consultation 

The city passed a motion indicating that the community park was excluded 

from the Lansdowne re-development. We now find out that it is included and 

there has been no consultation with residents. It is incumbent upon the city to 

sit down with residents to explain. 

2. Unknown layout 

As part of the Lansdowne Park redesign, the elements of the community 

park may be moved to integrate them into a larger urban park. Does this mean 

that parking garages or staging areas will be located along Holmwood Avenue 

and O’Connor Street? 

3. Universal access 

The community park is to be integrated into the urban park. Parts of the 

urban park will be closed for large events. Will the wading pool and playing 

fields be closed whenever there’s a concert, football game or festival (e.g., during 

Bluesfest)? 

4. Governance 

The re-developed Lansdowne Park site may be managed by a municipal services 

corporation (MSC). Apparently, the community park will be operated by 

the city. How is this possible? What prevents the MSC from controlling access 

or imposing fees? 

5. Incorrect inventory (no dog park!!) 

The RFP for the Lansdowne Park design competition indicates that, “Sylvia 

Holden Park includes two baseball diamonds, a basketball court, a splash pad, 

a play structure, outdoor rinks, an informal sports field and a small wadding 

[sic] pool and a park support building.” The dog park, two sets of swings and 

all of the trees are omitted. There is no splash pad nor outdoor rinks. Would the 

new park only have a splash pad? 

6. Will the new Lansdowne Park be safe for children? 

The re-developed Lansdowne site is going to include a large shopping mall 

and will host large sporting events, concerts and festivals with huge crowds. 

Will the community park attached to it be a safe place for children? 

7. The community park is part of our neighbourhood 

The existing community park is a central part of our neighbourhood. It has 

come to be associated with the park established in honour of Sylvia Holden 

and it includes commemorative trees and many mature trees. How do we preserve 

this history? 

8. Can the city deliver? 

The outcome of the design competition will be an ambitious park project. 

Does the city have the budget to deliver this project? Or will we only see 

the commercial aspects (e.g., shopping mall, hotel) built? The City of Ottawa 

has a track record of promising ambitious re-development and not following 

through (e.g., Orleans town centre, Lebreton Flats, Westboro Loblaws). 

Many aspects of the Lansdowne site can be improved; however, the community 

park works well as it is. Please write to council and the program manager, 

Development Review, John Smit (John.Smit@ottawa.ca) to share your 

concerns. Consult our blog (http://savesylviaholdenpark.blogspot.com/) or 

email save.sylvia.holden.park@gmail.com to get more information. 

Photo: Julie Riemersma 


City manager’s update on 

Lansdowne Park greenspace 

As you can see from other articles in this issue, a growing number of questions 

have arisen about the impact that re-designing Lansdowne Park may have 

on the boundaries, safe access to and future use of the community park east 

of O’Connor and south of Fifth Avenue in the Glebe. Answers provided to 

concerned citizens have often been contradictory and confusing, making it difficult 

to have a productive dialogue about the essential issues. In that context, 

the following clarification of the city’s terms of reference, which differentiate 

between Sylvia Holden Park and the multi-use recreational community park, 

comes as an invitation to take a breath and a welcome pause in the conversation. 

Delivered to council by Kent Kirkpatrick, this update does provide a 

more coherent summary of the information on record at the city and can be 

quite useful in trying to identify the parcel of land in question and to appreciate 

the importance of its past and current use. Editor 

Excerpt from March 31, 2010 Memo to Council: Update on Lansdowne 

Redevelopment “Sylvia Holden Park – Request for Information and 

Clarification” 

Further to Councillor Peter Hume’s 

letter dated March 15, 2010, sent to 

you in his capacity as a member of 

the Lansdowne Strategic Design 

Review and Advisory Panel, certain 

members of the community and the 

media have approached the City with 

questions regarding the future of Sylvia 

Holden Park in the context of the 

Lansdowne revitalization. By way of 

this memo, I would like to provide 

you with information that will be 

made public shortly in response to a 

number of inquiries received to date 

by staff. 

Sylvia Holden Park is often referred 

to as the greenspace which includes 

the corner of Holmwood Avenue and 

Bank Street, the grass corridor that 

runs along Holmwood and the park 

adjacent to the Ottawa Fire station 

and the Queen Elizabeth Driveway. 

In fact Sylvia Holden Park (0.46 hectares) 

is limited to the greenspace at 

the corner of Holmwood and Bank 

that runs along Holmwood to the west 

side of the Horticulture Building. 

As a result of further investigation 

on the history of the parks in and 

around Lansdowne, I would like to 

clarify that we have confirmed that 

the park adjacent to the Ottawa Fire 

Station and the Queen Elizabeth 

Driveway (which includes baseball 

diamonds, wading pool, basketball 

court, play structure, day care, service 

building etc.) is undedicated 

parkland, referred to as Lansdowne 

Community Park (2.56 hectares) and 

is not part of what is commonly referred 

to as Sylvia Holden Park. 

The Parks, Recreation and Cultural 

Services department programs 

the wading pool and the two baseball 

diamonds at Lansdowne Community 

Park. It is fully intended that the 

Lansdowne Community Park remain 

a City asset and continue to be fully 

accessible to the community whether 

the revitalization of Lansdowne Park 

proceeds or not. The Lansdowne 

Community Park is and will remain 

directly under the control of the City 

of Ottawa and programmed by the 

Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services 

department. 

It is important to note that Lansdowne 

Community Park has been 

included for consideration in the 

master plan development through 

the Urban Park Design Competition. 

This was done at the request of the 

Lansdowne Strategic Design Review 

and Advisory Panel in accordance 

with the “Guiding Principles for 

the Lansdowne Transformation”. In 

order to safeguard this area within 

the Urban Park Design Competition, 

specific provisions were included in 

the Request for Proposals (RFP), to 

ensure that the existing park amenities 

are retained and to emphasize 

the local and community importance 

of this park. It states, in part, the following: 

“The facilities in the existing park 

are important to the local community. 

Design solutions may propose 

to redesign the existing community 

park; however, must also ensure 

that the park amenities are not lost. 

Therefore if redesigned, the primary 

community facilities must be integrated 

into the new urban park and 

must remain fully community accessible 

at all times…If any of the current 

facilities are relocated to a new area, 

the new facilities must be in place 

before the existing ones are decommissioned.” 

According to the Schedule of 

Events in the RFP, the deadline for 

urban park design submissions is 

May 11, 2010. Immediately thereafter, 

between May 12 and 28, 2010, 

the submissions will be on public display 

in keeping with the design competition 

process. The Technical Panel 

and Jury for the urban park design 

competition will review the submitted 

designs in early June. 

Ultimately, City Council will consider 

the matter on June 23, 2010 

when it will be asked to endorse the 

selected design proposal and approve 

the conditions upon which 

the City would negotiate a business 

arrangement with the selected firm 

for the refurbished urban park. Any 

changes to the existing programming 

for this site, including Lansdowne 

Community Park, Sylvia Holden 

Park and for Lansdowne Park itself 

will be the decision of Council. 

These important assets will remain 

City-owned.


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realistic and responsible plan to cut the 

deficit in half in five years and eliminate 

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budget builds on the progress we have 

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services to protect their families. 

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Ontario’s colleges and universities play a critical role in equipping people for 

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ensure future prosperity and economic growth. 

Although at 62 per cent, Ontario has achieved one of the highest rates of 

post-secondary education in the world, one must realize that as the economy 

changes, 70 per cent of all new jobs will require post-secondary education or 

training. Consequently, that is our government’s goal for Ontario. This is the 

reason that we are adding 20,000 new student spaces to colleges and universities 

this September, through an annual investment of $310 million. This is great 

news for Ottawa’s colleges and universities who will now have the funding to 

attract more students. More students means more people will have the tools 

and skills they need to succeed. In addition to supporting our post-secondary 

institutions, we have also pledged to boost Employment Ontario spending to 

$1.6 billion in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 to help retrain an additional 30,000 

unemployed workers through the Second Career Strategy. 

Child Care Investments and Full-Day Learning 

Children are our most precious resource and one of our most important investments. 

We cannot afford to let our children suffer. That is why we are 

pledging to make up for the federal funding that is ending this year by investing 

an additional $63.5 million a year. As a result of this commitment, an estimated 

302 child-care spaces in Ottawa will be preserved. 

We are also moving forward with full-day learning. This fall, 39 Ottawa 

schools will be offering full-day programs for four- and five-year-olds. By 

2015, full-day learning will be available to every four- and five-year-old across 

the province. Moving to full-day learning is a big step. We are working with 

our education and child-care partners to take a measured approach and are 

taking five years to transition to the new model, so we can make sure we get it 

right. To help facilitate this transition, we are investing $245 million over the 

next two years in capital grants and subsides to help some child-care centres 

convert existing space to serve other age cohorts. We will also review the Day 

Nurseries Act to support child-care centre viability. 

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We have made a permanent commitment to break the cycle of poverty. In 

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its full potential while supporting the vulnerable and helping everyone succeed. 

We are moving forward with our poverty reduction plan with the increase 

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To ensure that vulnerable Ontarians are protected, we have increased adult 

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The 2010 Ontario Budget reflects the values of Ontarians. We are prudent 

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BIA 

Glebe BIA protecting our village atmosphere 

By Catherine Lindquist 

There’s been lots of activity within 

the Glebe Business Improvement 

Area (BIA) in recent months, with 

some long-time businesses relocating 

within the BIA (Glebe Fashion 

Cleaners, Joe Mamma, Brio Bodywear) 

or to new locations elsewhere 

in the city (World Mosaic, Byblos, 

Planet Botanix, The Body Shop, 

Slick ‘n Sassy, Senes consulting, The 

Conference Publishers); one winding 

down to pursue other life pursuits 

(Prime Crime Books); others 

refreshing under new ownership or 

management (Glebe Fashion Cleaners, 

The UPS Store, The Glebe Spa, 

Sushi Go, Glebe Fitness, Arrow & 

Loon); and new businesses setting up 

shop here (The MVP Lounge, Snap 

Fitness, Tea & Ginseng, Confident 

Smiles, Anna Bélanger RMT, Interiors 

by Cefaloni, Robertson Martin 

Architects, Harnn and Thann). To all 

and to any I’ve overlooked we wish 

you great success in your new directions! 

Our newest BIA members, Fadi 

and Marjolaine Ghaby, co-owners of 

Harnn and Thann, hosted three great 

opening events to accommodate all 

who wanted to come and celebrate 

the launch of their new Glebe location 

(they have another location in 

Westboro). I had the privilege of encouraging 

invitees at one of the events 

to gather round a fountain sink and 

enjoy hand treatments with a selection 

of aromatic scrubs and luscious 

body butter. This included former 

Glebite Jim Watson, who welcomed 

the treatment for hands that are pressing 

flesh on the campaign trail. 

Opening celebation at Harnn and Thann. Owners Marjolaine and Fadi Ghaby 

on either side of Catherine Lindquist and Clive Doucet 

In talking with many of these new 

business owners and managers, it’s 

been wonderful to hear a common 

theme: the Glebe business and residential 

community have been so 

friendly and so welcoming. It truly is 

a village within the city, where folks 

stop to chat and say hello or a word 

of goodbye or welcome. 

On another front, the Glebe BIA is 

working hard to ensure that we protect 

and enhance our village character 

and ‘traditional main street’ designation 

under the city’s Official Plan. 

Whenever we are afforded the opportunity 

to do so, we provide input 

to the many studies being undertaken 

with respect to the proposed redevelopment 

of Lansdowne Park. City 

council directed that an independent 

consultant be retained to develop 

a retail strategy that would ensure 

that retail activity on the site would 

be more unique and destination-oriented 

than what had been proposed 

by the Ottawa Sport and Entertainment 

Group (OSEG). The J.C. Williams 

Group from Toronto was hired 

to develop this strategy. 

John Williams presented his findings 

just before the March break. 

Like the many media representatives 

who were in attendance at the presentation, 

we were very disappointed 

in the $70,000 strategy. The themes 

were varied and vague and, surprisingly, 

he recommended locating a 

grocery store and cineplex at Lansdowne 

Park as previously promoted 

by OSEG and uses like a drug store 

and “ample national chains.” He suggested 

that such uses are required 

Photo: Daniel mackinnon 


in order to include such unique and 

much more desirable uses as a dance 

school, micro brewery or specialty 

food boutique. He also did not address 

the transportation and parking 

impacts of proposed retail concepts 

on Lansdowne Park and on Bank 

Street businesses in the Glebe and 

Old Ottawa South. 

We remain very concerned that an 

appropriate vision and direction for 

retail development at Lansdowne 

Park is still lacking. The city is hiring 

an independent peer review consultant 

to review the market studies 

previously undertaken for the Glebe 

BIA and OSEG and is expanding the 

mandate to determine whether the 

J.C. Williams Group study fulfilled 

council’s direction (city staff have 

not stated whether they feel the strategy 

did). Further to our representations 

at council’s Corporate Services 

and Economic Development Committee, 

we have been assured that the 

peer review study will address the 

question of transportation and parking 

impacts. 

On a more positive note, the Glebe 

BIA is working with the Glebe Community 

Association’s Environment 

Committee, the City of Ottawa and 

landscape architect and Glebite John 

Wright to pursue funding through 

Tree Canada’s TD Green Streets 

Program to help ‘green’ the Queensway 

corridor along Chamberlain 

and Isabella with some tree, shrub 

and flower planting. We hope that 

our application will be approved and 

that we can round up some green 

thumb volunteers to help with the 

planting.

14 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 GLEBE HISTORY 

Thirty Years Ago in the Glebe Report 

Vol. 8 No. 4, April 8, 1980 (24 pages) 

Ian 

McKercher 

The headline of the lead front-page 

article in April, 1980 read “ODAWA 

Friendship Centre - Indian Showcase.” 

The former Central Alliance 

Church at 600 Bank Street had been 

sold, and the new occupants hoped 

to turn the building into the Odawa 

Native Friendship Centre (ONFC), 

a showcase for native Canadian 

culture. The former location of the 

ONFC on Waller Street lacked the 

necessary facilities for exhibitions or 

recreational activities. Fundraising 

chairman Ernie McEwen said “Although 

overlooked for a long time, 

native peoples have a rich cultural 

heritage to share with Canada and 

the world.” 

Noel Starblanket, National Indian 

Brotherhood president, added that 

he knew of no Indian art on display 

in the National Gallery of Canada. 

“Indian art in Canada is relegated to 

the museums as artifacts or curios – 

in a city as vibrant as Ottawa this is 

not enough.” 

Mayor Marion Dewar presented 

a cheque for $3,000 to the National 

Native Centre fundraising campaign 

on behalf of the city. 

An article by B.J.R. Silberman 

drew attention to rapid changes in 

the Bank Street business community. 

At least five stores had closed recently, 

including McElroy’s Shoes, after 

70 years of service to Glebe patrons 

at 795 Bank (currently J.D. Adam). 

Also gone were Roche Bobois after 

5 years at 724 Bank (currently The 

Great Glebe Emporium), The Big 

Cheese after 5 years at 732 Bank 

(currently PomPom), Glebe Drug 

Store, after 19 years at 781 Bank, 

(now part of the Royal Oak), Glebe 

Barber Shop after 46 years at 798 

Bank (currently Melz Kids’ Village) 

and Southpaw Cycles after 5 years 

at 857 Bank (currently Francesca’s 

Coffee Company). 

New businesses included Mammoth 

Burger at 683 Bank (currently 

the MVP Lounge), the House 

of Cheese at 793 Bank (currently 

Glebe Side Kids), and Custom Muffler 

at 890 Bank (currently Mister 

Muffler). 

Glebe Historical Society Archives 

Recent acquisitions by the Glebe Historical Society courtesy of 

Councillor Clive Doucet’s office: copy of the recently released 40-page 

background paper by Commonwealth Historic Resource Management 

Limited (chrml.com) on the history of Lansdowne Park 

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, surveys, news 

articles, posters, programs, memorabilia, etc.). You can contact Ian at 613- 

235-4863 or ian.mckercher@opera.ncf.ca. 

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GLEBE HISTORY 

Heritage spaces, not endangered spaces 

BY Joan Bard Miller 

The current process to turn nearly 25 per cent of Lansdowne Park into commercial 

development is inappropriate and inconsistent with its nearly 150-year 

history as a public space. The park is historically associated with sports, recreation 

and exhibitions, but may soon be associated with large-scale retail. For 

these reasons, the Glebe Community Association has nominated Lansdowne 

Park for Heritage Canada Foundation’s Top Ten Most Endangered Places List. 

The annual list identifies significant heritage sites at risk due to neglect, lack of 

funding, weak legislation or inappropriate development. Lansdowne Park has 

suffered from all of the above threats for many years. 

The grounds and the buildings, including the municipally designated Horticulture 

Building, have been underutilized while maintenance to the sports facilities 

has been underfunded. The city threatens its own heritage designation 

by entertaining options to relocate a masonry building that is approximately 

200 feet in length. Rather than finding a lucrative, adaptive reuse, the city is 

considering a plan that is logistically and financially unfeasible. 

Initial threats to the fabric of the Aberdeen Pavilion National Historic Site 

have been mitigated, but plans for the building remain unclear. City-wide concerns 

about the proposed development have led to additional reports and studies, 

but they have not led to a fundamental change in what is being promised 

for the site – large-scale retail. Lansdowne Park’s history and proximity to the 

Rideau Canal World Heritage Site in the heart of the Nation’s capital should be 

worthy of continued use as a public space of world-class caliber, not endangerment. 

Heritage Canada Foundation will release its list in May 2010. 

Aerial photo of Lansdowne Park circa 1930 


Photo courtesy of NCC 

Heritage update 

Clemow Estate East Heritage Conservation District Study 

By Joan Bard Miller 

In other heritage news, on Wednesday, March 24, city heritage planners Sally 

Coutts and Lesley Collins hosted a meeting for residents living in the proposed 

Heritage Conservation District. The study area, which encompasses the houses 

delineating Patterson Creek and the eastern portion of Central Park, was first 

studied and proposed as a heritage district in 2004 with a public meeting held 

in December 2004. The draft of the study and plan was completed this winter. 

Approximately 40 local residents attended the March meeting and many of 

them asked questions of the presenters. The presentation included a history of 

the area’s development, an explanation of the evaluation process, objectives 

and guidelines for the district. A second public meeting will be held in June 

and city staff hope the proposed designation will go before the Ottawa Built 

Heritage Advisory Committee (OBHAC), Planning and Environment Committee 

(PEC) and city council this fall. 

The draft Clemow Estate East Heritage Conservation District Study is available 

online at www.glebeca.ca/committees/heritage. 

Joan Bard Miller is chair of the GCA Heritage Committee.

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Alana has over 20 years experience 

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1144 Carling Avenue • 613-722-7272 

“Your Family’s Smile is our Family Business” 

Copyright © April 2010 

Dr. John Oueis Dentistry Professional Corporation

BUSINESS BUZZ 

Alana leads one of her many classes in dance 

Alana has also recently introduced 

a burlesque dance class for women 

who want to celebrate their femininity. 

The studio is also happy to offer 

a Sunday social once a month, where 

dancers can show up for a free introduction 

to salsa and swing dancing 

followed by a couple of hours of 

open dance to practice your moves. 

You can register for any of these 

programs by calling the studio or referring 

to the website. The studio offers 

three very flexible ways of enrolling. 

Register for a full progressive 

8-week series in the dance class of 

your choice. Participants can register 

for an annual membership. This 

membership allows you to attend any 

classes that are at your level for one 

price. Lastly, there is a 10-pack class 

option. This is an ideal category if 

you have a busy unpredictable schedule. 

This is the most flexible option 

allowing users to drop in for any 10 

classes space permitting. Please call 

or see the website for prices and details 

on registration. 

Dance with Alana is very much 

based in the Glebe and she is a big 

fan of the community. She says that 

about 70 per cent of the members of 

the dance studio are Glebe residents. 

Moreover, Alana and the studio have 

been involved with many community 

events throughout the years along 

the lines of “Dancing in the Streets” 

and more recently, the ‘dancetacular’ 

fundraiser for the survivors of 

the Glebe Avenue fire. Dance with 

Alana offers a newsletter to subscribers 

which outlines the various 

programs, events and activities they 

are offering. To become a subscriber, 

simply visit the website or you can 

give them a call. 

Dance With Alana 

call 613-233-3456 

www.dancewithalana.com 

Urban Assistant 

Are you a small business or household 

with a messy stack of unpaid 

bills hanging over your head? Are 

you simply paying too much because 

your paperwork is a mess? Rest easy. 

Help is here. A new concept in smallscale 

freelance financial management 

is being pioneered by an entrepreneur 

in Ottawa. 

The force behind Urban Assistant 

promises to have the answers for 

anyone with a paper skeleton in their 

closet. “Most people don’t realize just 

how much money and time they lose 

because they aren’t organized,” says 

Donna Zimonjic, founder of Urban 

Assistant. “Straightening out your 

bills, organizing your files and keeping 

things in order can save people 

more money than they realize.” 

Although she launched her business 

only in January, she has already 

snagged some clients through simple 

word of mouth. She tells the story of a 

businesswoman, who came to Donna 

with two years of bills and invoices in 

a box and the taxman breathing down 

her neck. “If she handed that box to 

her accountant and told him to sort it 

out, she would have paid through the 

nose,” Zimonjic says. “But within a 

few hours I had sorted that out and 

developed a basic system for keeping 

her bills in order. It’s simple, but 

it’s not something everyone has time 

for.” 

Zimonjic also offers an array of 

services that include costing out 

your household or business budget 

by looking at what you pay for 

everything from utilities to insurance 

and renegotiating those bills 

or switching companies if she can 

save you money. “Often people stick 

with the same phone or Internet provider 

because its too much hassle to 

change. In some cases, they can be 

Photo: Andrew Balfour 

paying two to three times what they 

need to,” says Zimonjic. “I take the 

hassle away and leave them the savings.” 

Particularly vulnerable are seniors 

who may still be paying long-distance 

rates that were being charged 

a decade ago. Snowbirds, Zimonjic 

says, are also unaware that they can 

put their phone and other services 

on hold when they are enjoying the 

Florida sun. 

Money is precious and so is time. 

Urban Assistant offers a virtual assistant 

service to help with a wide range 

of business tasks and even offers a 

moving package for people who simply 

don’t have the time to do all the 

administration involved in moving a 

house or business. “At Urban Assistant, 

we can do everything: hire your 

movers, redirect your mail, switch 

your bills over to a new address and 

shop around for an improved home 

insurance package,” she says. “We 

even send change-of-address cards 

Seeking the visible hand of organization 

Stretch 

… your body 

… your mind 

… your spirit 

When you make 

a promise to 

practice yoga, 

you open yourself to 

the gifts that yoga offers, 

gifts that benefit every 

aspect of your life, 

including health, 

well-being, and joy! 


to people you know and have your 

fridge filled with food for your first 

night in the new place.” Zimonjic 

will also project manage everything 

from a renovation to small-scale conferences. 

By now you may be asking why 

someone would want to do the jobs 

no one else does, but for Donna that 

is simple; she’s good at it. Zimonjic 

comes from a business background, 

having studied finance at Southampton 

University in England before 

working at investment banks in Australia, 

England and Canada. It was 

in that high-pressure environment, 

where a missing piece of paper could 

mean missing a deal, that she learned 

to stay on top of everything 

We would like to welcome this new 

virtual business to the Glebe. 

Urban Assistant Inc 

613 620 9333 

www.urbanassistant.ca 

donna@urbanassistant.ca 

Photo: Donna Zan 

Affordable Elegance 

Group or Private 

Classes 

Beginners 

Welcome! 

Ear Curl 

Introducing the 

Mini Cuff 

Hair Wrap 

“It’s a little 

over the top” 

Southminster 

United Church 

15 Aylmer Avenue 

613-730-6649 

maureen.fallis@sympatico.ca 

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MP’S REPORT 

Housing crisis continues 

MP 

Paul 

Dewar 

Affordable housing has long been 

a major issue in Ottawa. The report 

by the Alliance to End Homelessness 

offers a sobering picture of the 

housing crisis that exists in Ottawa. 

Last year 7,445 individuals stayed 

in emergency shelters and more than 

1,300 of them were children under 

the age of 16. The average length 

of stay in Ottawa shelters has risen 

to 57 days, with families staying an 

average of 67 days. 

The report also highlights the shortage 

of affordable housing (only 88 

new affordable units were built last 

year, yet the housing waiting list has 

increased to more than 10,000) and 

that those apartments that are available 

for rent in Ottawa have seen 

average costs increase. But, the crisis 

in housing is more than just people 

needing emergency shelter. Across 

the country, Canadians are having a 

harder time affording their homes. 

A recent Conference Board of Canada 

report revealed that 20 percent of 

Canadians are struggling to keep up 

with the costs of owning a home. As 

a result “about one-fifth of Canadian 

households do not have the resources 

to afford both good-quality homes 

and other health-enhancing expenditures, 

such as nutritious food or access 

to recreational activities.” 

A key social determinant of health, 

affordable housing can have an impact 

and benefits beyond the well-being 

of the individual person. People 

who have access to affordable housing, 

especially seniors and those on 

a fixed income, won’t need to decide 

between paying rent and paying 

their bills or purchasing medicines. 

Families will be able to ensure that 

their children have nutritious food 

and a safe environment to live. And 

national productivity increases when 

people are able to meet their basic 

needs (shelter, clean water, food, 

etc). Furthermore, research shows 

that neighbourhoods that are home to 

supportive housing, such as Cornerstone 

or the Shepherds of Good 

Hope, often see an increase in property 

value and a decrease in criminal 

activity. 

Canada is the only major industrialized 

country that does not have 

a national housing policy, but we are 

hoping to change that. My NDP colleague 

Libby Davis has introduced a 

bill that will ensure secure, adequate, 

accessible and affordable housing 

for all Canadians. Libby has my full 

support, and the support of all New 

Democrats. We call on the Harper 

government to throw their support 

behind a plan that will benefit Canadians 

from coast to coast to coast. 

Ending homelessness will take the 

combined efforts of federal, provincial 

and municipal governments. 

I challenge all elected officials to 

make affordable housing a priority in 

Ottawa and across Canada.

NEWS 

The Glebe: A healthy 

neighbourhood for most 

BY JOHN JULIAN 

The Glebe is one of Ottawa’s most 

desirable neighbourhoods. It is distinctly 

hip and urban, yet it is also a 

family friendly place, full of beautiful, 

single family homes. No doubt, 

most residents also see it as a healthy 

place to live. But is it? A representative 

of the Centretown Community 

Health Centre will come to our 

neighbourhood to give a presentation 

on Thursday, April 29. 

Researchers from the Institute of 

Population Health at the University 

of Ottawa have recently completed a 

study which does a lot to answer that 

question. The Ottawa Neighbourhood 

Study is a multi-disciplinary project 

funded by the Canadian Institutes of 

Health Research in partnership with 

the City of Ottawa and community 

groups, including Centretown Community 

Health Centre (CCHC) which 

serves the Glebe. The researchers 

looked at a wide range of factors 

that can affect our health – income, 

social cohesion, housing, food, and 

access to health care – in more than 

90 neighbourhoods. The results are 

fascinating. 

For the most part, the findings for 

the Glebe are encouraging. On average, 

the 10,600 people who live in 

the Glebe are a well educated, affluent 

lot. In 2006, the average household 

income was nearly $115,000, 

almost $35,000 more than the city 

average, and 68 per cent of adults 

have a university education, compared 

to just 37 per cent for the city 

as a whole. Based on these and other 

factors, the Glebe falls into the most 

advantaged category of five used in 

the study. The neighbourhood has 

a good balance of age groups, with 

young adults and middle aged people 

in the majority. It is not a particularly 

diverse neighbourhood – only 8 per 

cent of the residents self-identify as 

visible minorities compared to 20 per 

cent for the city as a whole. 

Where health is concerned, the news 

is mostly good. More than 78 per cent 

of the people surveyed rated their 

health as good or excellent. That is not 

the best in the city, but certainly well 

above the Ottawa average of just 64.5 

per cent. Location plays a role in that. 

More than 30 per cent of the population 

walks or bikes to work, although 

the neighbourhood is slightly below 

average when it comes to available 

recreational facilities. People from the 

neighbourhood are significantly less 

likely to be hospitalized for conditions 

such as asthma, diabetes and angina 

than the average person in the city, 

and the frequency with which Glebe 

residents visit emergency rooms is 

also significantly lower. For neighbourhood 

babies, there are fewer low 

birth-weights or preterm births than 

the average for the city. 

In spite of the number of people 

walking and biking, residents are no 

more or less likely to be physically 

active than the average Ottawa citizen. 

And while 34 per cent of residents 

18 and older consider themselves 

to be overweight or obese, this 

compares favourably with the city 

average of 48 per cent. 

There are a few less positive facts 

lurking in this mound of statistics. 

Not everyone in the neighbourhood 

is affluent. In fact, the percentage 

of people that fall below the low income 

cut off, a measurement that at 

one time might have been called the 

poverty line, is very close to the city 

average at 13 per cent and has been 

increasing in recent years. For those 

people, high rents and expensive real 

estate create serious challenges. In 

fact, 23 per cent of Glebe residents 

pay more than 30 per cent of their 

income for shelter, about average for 

Ottawa. That represents a significant 

number of people whose housing 

costs make it difficult to pay for other 

necessities. As well, 10 per cent of 

the housing is in need of major repair, 

which is above the city average. 

That may not be a huge surprise in an 

area where the majority of the homes 

are more than 70 years old, but housing 

issues – mould, poor ventilation, 

badly tuned furnaces – can have 

subtle health effects without people 

being aware. 

Food is probably the most important 

of the other necessities, and Glebe 

residents are quite well served in that 

respect with easy access to healthy, 

reasonably priced food. There are 

two grocery stores and eight specialty 

food stores in the neighbourhood. 

On average people can walk to 

a grocery store in just seven minutes. 

In comparison, in some other neighbourhoods, 

residents are much more 

dependent on convenience stores for 

food. 

There are two pharmacies in the 

Glebe, about average for the city, and 

87 per cent of Glebe residents have 

a regular family doctor – again, very 

close to the city average. 

Simone Thibault, Centretown 

Community Health Centre’s executive 

director and a member of the 

study steering committee, says the 

study points to a healthy neighbourhood 

with all of the conditions necessary 

for people to live healthy 

lives. At the same time, she says, 

there is poverty hidden below the 

affluent surface of the neighbourhood. 

Affluence and poverty are key 

determinants of health, and people 

living below the low income cut 

off have much greater challenges in 

maintaining good health. The Glebe 

is part of CCHC’s catchment area, 

and residents are welcome to access 

the services of physicians and nurse 

practitioners at the centre. However, 

she cautions that there is an unmet 

demand for physicians throughout 

the catchment area, and people can 

expect to spend some time on a waiting 

list before they are assigned to a 

doctor or nurse practitioner. 

Glebe Neighbourhood Profile Presentation 

Thursday, April 29, 7:15-9:30 p.m. 

Multi-Purpose Room 

Glebe Community Centre 

175 Third Avenue 


Minimum wage changed 

March 31 

Minimum wage is the lowest wage rate an employer can pay an employee. 

Most employees are eligible for minimum wage, whether they are full-time, 

part-time, casual employees, or are paid an hourly rate, commission, piece 

rate, flat rate or salary. Some employees have jobs that are exempt from the 

minimum wage provisions of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA). 

(See “Industries and Jobs with ESA Exemptions and/or Special Rules” for 

information on these job categories.) 

Minimum Wage Rates 

MINIMUM WAGE RATE MARCH 31, 2009 MARCH 31, 2010 

General minimum wage $9.50/hr $10.25/hr 

Students minimum wage $8.90/hr $9.60/hr 

Liquor servers 

minimum wage 

Homeworkers wage 

(110% of general minimum wage) 

$8.25/hr 

$10.45/hr 

$8.90/hr 

$11.28/hr 

General minimum wage: This rate applies to most employees. 

Students: This rate applies to students under the age of 18 who work 28 hours 

a week or less when school is in session or work during a school break or summer 

holidays. 

Liquor servers: This hourly rate applies to employees who serve liquor directly 

to customers or guests in licensed premises as a regular part of their 

work. “Licensed premises” are businesses for which a license or permit has 

been issued under the Liquor Licence Act. 

Homeworkers: Homeworkers are employees who do paid work in their own 

homes. For example, they may sew clothes for a clothing manufacturer, answer 

telephone calls for a call centre, or write software for a high-tech company. 

Note that students of any age (including students under the age of 18 years) 

who are employed as homeworkers must be paid the homeworker’s minimum 

wage. 

Example for calculating general minimum wage: One week in April of 2010, 

Julia works 37.5 hours. She is paid on a weekly basis. The minimum wage applicable 

to Julia is $10.25 per hour. Since compliance with the minimum wage 

requirements is based on pay periods, Julia must earn at least $384.38 (37.5 

hours × $10.25 per hour = $384.38) in this work week (prior to deductions). 

(Note that eating periods are not included when counting how many hours an 

employee works in a week). 

three-hour rule 

When an employee is required to report to work for a shift of 3 hours or 

longer but works less than three hours, he or she must be paid whichever of 

the following amounts is higher: three hours at the minimum wage,  or the 

employee’s regular wage for the time worked. 

Example: If an employee who is a liquor server is paid $10.00 an hour and 

works only two hours, he or she is entitled to three hours at minimum wage 

(e.g., $8.90, the liquor servers minimum wage as of March 31, 2010 x 3 = 

$26.70) instead of two hours at his or her regular wage ($10.00 x 2 = $20.00). 

The rule does not apply to: 

1. students (including students over 18 years of age); 

2. employees whose regular shift is three hours or less; 

3. where the cause of the employee not being able to work at least three 

hours was beyond the employer’s control. 

Sourced from the Ontario Ministry of Labour, the information does not 

included rates for hunting and fishing guides who are admittedly few and 

far between in downtown Ottawa. For more details, go to www.ontario.ca/ 

minimum wage, www.labour.on.ca/english/es or telephone Employment Standards 

Inquiries at 1-800-531-5551. 

Arum Food Market (Korean and Japanese Grocery) 

Home-made Kimchi, Sushi Grade Fish, Seaweed, Organic Tofu, 

Dumplings, Giftwares, Asian Tea Pots, Dishes 

For your party: custom order 

marinated Beef and Ribs (Bulgogi & Kalbi) 

512 Bank Street, (613) 233-1658 Arumfood@gmail.com 

Dolsot Cafe COUPON, 10% OFF 

Authentic Korean Dishs, No MSGs 

(Bibimpap; Bulgogi; Hot Tofu soup; Dumpling soup; 

Pork Bone-Potato soup, etc.--Table barbecue available) 

512 Bank Street, (613) 230-8488, Dolsotcafe@gmail.com 

Expiry Date: May 30, 2010

20 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 HOMES 

Combining a beautiful aesthetic with 

eco-friendly gardening practices. Offering 

general garden design and maintenance 

services from May to August. 

n a t u r a l g a r d e n c r e a t i o n s @ g m a i l . c o m - 6 1 3 . 2 0 4 . 3 2 3 3 

w e b s i t e : w w w . r e n t a b i k e . c a / n a t u r a l c r e a t i o n s . h t m l 

33 Morris St 

Listed at 

$1,295,000 

4 Bed, 4 Bath 

SOLD! 

Dr. K.E. Hashem 

Glebe Dental Office 

738-a Bank st. [at Second Ave.] 

For Appts: 613-232-2222 

Welcoming students to the Glebe. 

Direct billing to your provider. 

• Implants 

• Bridges 

• Braces 

• Dentures 

• Cosmetic dentistry 

• Gum surgery 

• Teeth whitening 

• Crowns 

• Wisdom teeth 

extraction 

• Root canal 

treatment 

7 Day Emergency: 613-232-2610 

SOLD! 

127 Fourth Ave 

4 Bed, 4 Bath 

Listed at 

$645,000 

Glebe household moves 

off the grid 

By Anik Lacroix 

Intrigued by the recent Ontario MicroFIT program launched last October by 

the Ontario government, we took the opportunity to be green (and make money 

doing so), by having 12 solar PV panels installed on our roof for a total of 2.5 kW. 

Our house in the Glebe is one of the first two houses in Ottawa to move off 

the grid. 

The Ontario Power Authority MicroFIT program is designed for homeowners, 

farmers or small business owners. It provides the opportunity to develop 

a small renewable electricity generation project (10 kilowatts or less 

in size) on your property. Ottawa Hydro commits to buy all the power you 

produce and gives you a guaranteed price over 20 years. 

MicroFIT is all part of the Ontario government’s attempts to wean the province’s 

power supply away from polluting coal-fired power stations and towards 

renewable energy such as solar or wind power. Solar power is particularly 

good because it provides the most power to the grid on hot, sunny days, just 

when the province’s grid is under the most pressure. 

Having no expertise in this field, we hired a firm that specializes in renewable 

energy installations to take care of the key steps: registration with Micro- 

FIT, obtaining the building permit, installing the panels and taking care of the 

whole connection process with Ottawa Hydro. This system is now installed 

and hooked up to the grid. With all the sun we’ve been having recently, the 

panels have been soaking up a fair amount of sunshine! Please feel free to walk 

by 229 Third Avenue and take a look. 

Anik Lacroix is a proud green enthusiast, living at 229 Third Avenue. 

Inspect your foundation: 

Due diligence in home maintenance 

by Patrick LeCours 

Proper care of your foundation is very important to preserving the integrity 

of the structure. Soils have the ability to expand (when wet) at alarming rates. 

This requires that an even and relatively constant level of moisture be maintained 

in the soil supporting the foundation. 

Defects in foundations occur when the supporting soil is either too wet or too 

dry, or when one area around the foundation is overly wet, while other areas 

remain dry. Improper foundation maintenance can result in severe movement 

in just a few days. This is true regardless of the type or age of the foundation. 

To avoid additional problems, you must avoid non-uniform moisture content 

in the soil supporting the foundation. 

Non-uniform moisture content can be caused by any of the following: 

• improper drainage 

• allowing the soil to become dry 

• excess watering near the foundation 

• plumbing leaks 

• an improper watering program 

• neglect 

• runoff water not properly diverted away from the foundation/ 

• inadequate eavestroughing 

• improper grading of soil away from the foundation 

• trees and large bushes growing too close to the foundation 

• improper interior sealing of the foundation 

The Glebe area typically has two types of foundations: cut limestone and 

poured rubble foundations. With proper care and maintenance, cut limestone 

foundations will last a long time as long as there is no water leakage or penetration. 

Poured rubble foundations are made of a very inconsistent mixture of 

concrete and rubble. If left unprotected, this type of foundation will deteriorate 

and become very unstable. 

Patrick LeCours is the president of Mr. Foundation Inc. 

Matt McQuillan 

Master Electrician 

McQuillan Electric 

Electrical Contractor License No. 7005472 

Specializing in: 

• Knob & Tube Re-wire 

• Service Upgrades 

• Additions and Renovations 

• New Construction 

• Satisfying Insurance Companies 

We take pride in our work & make sure your home is safe 

ESA Registered, Insured & Qualified 

613-850-8274

HEALTH 

Keeping drugs out of our 

drinking water 

by Dr. Dianne Saxe and Jackie Campbell 

Two years ago, we told you about the growing problem of pharmaceuticals 

in our drinking water. Since then, has government done anything about it? 

Ontario Ministry of the Environment survey 

In January, the Ministry of the Environment quietly posted new data. Some 

258 samples were collected from 17 municipal drinking water systems (half 

from source water, and half from treated drinking water). The samples were 

analyzed for 46 pharmaceuticals plus Bisphenol A and 27 of them were detected. 

(They did not check for the presence of illegal drugs, like cocaine or 

marijuana.) 

In untreated source waters (rivers, lakes ): the most frequently detected 

categories of drugs were: anticonvulsants; lipid-lowering agents; analgesics; 

antimicrobials; veterinary-only anti-infectives: and other drugs, such as Bisphenol 

A (a plasticizer now banned in baby bottles). 

In treated drinking water: the most frequently detected drugs were Carbamazepine 

(an anticonvulsant), Gemfibrozil (a lipid-lowering agent), Ibuprofen 

(a commonly used fever/pain medication) and Bisphenol A (a notorious plasticizer). 

Unfortunately, there are no regulatory standards for safe levels of drugs in 

drinking water, and no one knows the effects of lifelong exposure to mixtures 

of different drugs. Nor is there any evidence that bottled water is any better; 

bottled water is usually made from tap water, or from the same types of source 

water that municipalities use. 

The good news? 

1. Drug levels in drinking water are tiny. 

2. Current water treatment plants may not be designed to treat pharmaceuticals, 

but they do help. Drug concentrations in finished (treated) drinking water 

were usually lower than those in untreated source water. 

3. Regulators in both Canada and Australia conclude that one would have to 

drink thousands of glasses of water a day to exceed “acceptable” daily intakes 

of individual drugs. 

Australia has been thinking about how to set safe limits for pharmaceuticals 

in drinking water, and has proposed public guidelines. For example, regulators 

could divide the lowest daily therapeutic dose by a reasonable safety factor, 

which has to protect toddlers and pregnant women. After much discussion, 

they propose a safety factor from 1,000 to 10,000. As an example, Australian 

guidelines consider the antibiotic Norfloxacin (lowest daily dose 800 mg/ 

day): applying a safety factor of 1,000 would mean that 0.8 mg (i.e., 800 mcg) 

could be ingested each day via (the average) 2 litres of water individuals consume 

each day. That translates to a maximum acceptable concentration of 400 

mcg/L, well above concentrations that have actually been measured. 

I admit, however, that this apparently scientific calculation doesn’t make me 

feel much better for the following reasons: 

• Drug safety tests never endure for an entire lifetime, and the “lowest 

daily therapeutic dose” isn’t calculated with lifetime exposure in mind. 

• What if the right safety factor for Norfloxacin ought to be 10,000 or 

100,000? 

• What if I am from an ethnic group that is particularly sensitive to a particular 

drug or group of drugs? 

• Lots of drugs have additive or synergistic effects, meaning that exposure 

to one can amplify the effect of another. Even grapefruit or various 

herbal remedies are known to have this effect. 

• Many people are exposed to more than 2 L of water a day, in drinking 

and cooking. 

• What if the drugs can be absorbed through the skin, i.e. from swimming, 

laundry or bathing? 

• What if the drugs are also present in consumer products that are made 

with water, like shampoo or hand cream? Or in food that has been irrigated 

with water containing drugs? 

• Some drugs have hormonal effects and can affect the human body at 

incredibly tiny concentrations. 

• What about fish, and other plants and animals? What are the drugs doing 

to them? 

I think we need to do something about these drugs in our water supply. 

What can we do? 

Post-consumer pharmaceutical waste will be regulated as of July 1 in Ontario. 

Fortunately, there is one easy thing that can help. Leftover drugs should 

never be flushed down toilets or discarded with regular garbage. Consumers 

should return unused drugs to their pharmacies for incineration. So far, 

returning drugs to pharmacies is voluntary in most of the country; only BC 

requires it. Vancouver bans consumers from throwing unused medications into 

curbside garbage, which has prompted a huge increase in consumer awareness. 

As of July 1, Ontario will also regulate consumers’ unused drugs, and hopes to 

collect about 659 tons a year, all at the expense of the drug manufacturers. 

Believe it or not, 90 per cent of Ontario pharmacies already accept unused 

drugs, and the rest will have to this summer. Every pill bottle returned to a 

pharmacy may help to keep something important out of our drinking water. It 

is an easy thing to do right. 

Dr. Dianne Saxe is an environmental law specialist and Jackie Campbell is 

a lawyer and practising pharmacist who can be reached at admin@envirolaw. 

com or 416-962-5009. Details and reference material for this article can be 

sourced at http:// envirolaw.com. This piece was excerpted from the full-length 

article which is available on envirolaw.com. 

Paul Dewar, MP/Député Ottawa Centre 

Working for you! 

Au travail pour vous! 

I am pleased to: 

• provide assistance with federal agencies 

• arrange letters of greetings for special occasions 

• answer questions about federal legislation 

• listen to your feedback 

Je suis heureux de: 

• vous aider à traiter avec les organismes fédéraux 

• vous écrire des lettres de félicitations pour des 

occasions spéciales 

• répondre à vos questions sur les lois fédérales 

• vous écouter 

304-1306 rue Wellington St. 

613.946.8682 / dewarp@parl.gc.ca 

www.pauldewar.ca 

Glebe Report April 16, 2010 21


Honouring the legacy of Sylvia Holden 

Continued from page 1 

The original Sylvia Holden Park 

In addition to her devotion to generating recreational space in the community, 

Sylvia Holden was also involved in many causes including recycling (before 

there was any city program), the peace movement, local election campaigns 

and distribution of the Glebe Report: Sylvia was circulation manager 

from 1973 until 1989. Inez Berg, then editor of the Glebe Report, spoke about 

Sylvia’s work at the park dedication in 1995: 

“In addition to the many visible results of her 20 plus years of volunteer work 

in the Glebe, Sylvia has left a lasting 

personal legacy. Countless men and 

women of all ages are contributing 

positively to the community today 

because Sylvia Holden drew them 

into community life and supported 

them when they got involved.” 

Sylvia had a particular modus operandi 

for getting new recruits for 

her many crusades. Cheerfully and 

casually, she would begin lending 

the soon-to-be volunteer written materials 

relevant to the cause at hand. 

Soon notices of meetings, position 

papers, diagrams and illustrations 

would appear in the mailbox of the 

targeted recruit. Resistance was futile. 

Most of us gave in and signed 

up. Allison Dingle, no slouch as a 

community organizer and recruiter 

for good causes herself, remembers 

Sylvia offering to lend her books on quality play structures the first time they 

met. Before long, Allison was a playground advocate, working to find outdoor 

recreation space for the playgroup at the Glebe Community Centre. 

After living on Renfrew Avenue for over 20 years, the Holdens moved back 

to Burlington, Vermont in 1995 for family reasons. Although busily and happily 

immersed in their lives in Vermont, Sylvia looks back fondly on the years 

spent raising two sons in the Glebe: “The quality of life in Ottawa was wonderful 

– people looking out for one another. We worked together at parenting, not 

just our own children but each other’s.” Of course, Sylvia Holden contributed 

a lot to creating strong community ties and spaces where people could come 

together. This is a good reason for having a park named after her. Now, if we 

could just manage to save it, all of it, for future generations of residents! 

Photo: Elaine Marlin 

Standing Up for the Community Park 

The history of standing up for community access and use of the northeast 

corner of Lansdowne Park is several decades old and community recreation 

facilities there have been threatened several times in the past. Negotiations 

with city staff to preserve or improve the area have been taking place on and 

off since the early 1970s. The last big crisis occurred during 1989 and 1990 

when there was a development 

proposal being considered by 

the city to build a trade show and 

exhibit complex, complete with 

a high-rise hotel. Over many 

months, community organizations 

and individuals were involved 

in public consultations to 

save the community park. Then, 

as now, this parcel of land was 

being considered in a “while 

we are at it” manner. The plan 

the community was opposing 

at the time called for replacing 

the wading pool with a splash 

pad, eliminating or reducing the 

space for baseball diamonds and 

surrendering the T-ball/soccer 

field to the Ottawa Roughriders 

team (remember them?) for its 

exclusive use as a practice field. 

Part of the proposal also envisaged 

cutting a road through this 

area. 

In a concerted effort, GNAG, 

Sylvia Holden 

the GCA, other community associations as well as the Glebe Little League and 

many outraged residents acted to avert the worst. The T-ball/soccer field was 

lost but the wading pool, play structure and baseball diamonds were replaced 

by new, upgraded facilities in slightly different locations. The road was located 

south of the play area. Other notable gains were an attractive field house, extensive 

landscaping, a basketball court used for pick-up games by teens and 

young adults, and eventually the much-used dog run. The adjacent Glebe Parents’ 

Daycare Centre was also built at this time. 

Unfortunately, several other sports facilities had already been lost in the previous 

two decades, including an outdoor hockey rink located near the present 

Fire Hall and the double soccer field which had been behind the south stands 

of the stadium. The tennis courts near the canal, south of the current dog run, 

had become dilapidated through neglect and were finally torn down. 

Several buildings were also demolished in 1990: the Century Building, a 

large white building close to the canal as well as the Pure Food Building at 

O’Connor and Holmwood avenues. The estimated cost of razing these buildings 

was lumped in with the cost of improving the neighbourhood park, bringing 

it up to $1.1 million. This kind of accounting is something to remember 

when assessing the upcoming Lansdowne urban park redesign presentations. 

In short, it seems clear that residents will have to be vigilant if we wish to 

keep these vital community resources. 

Photo: Ilse Kyssa 

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Community parks of the Glebe 

by Carol MacLeod 

The 2.56 hectare park at 10 Fifth Avenue and bounded by Fifth, O’Connor, 

Lansdowne Park and the Driveway, is the major recreation space in the Glebe. 

Variously called the community or recreation park by residents, it has been 

identified as Sylvia Holden Park on city maps and in documents as Lansdowne 

Community Park. Many of us were dismayed to see this land (whatever its 

name) included in the scope of the overall “front lawn” design for Lansdowne 

Park, despite resolutions to the contrary from city council. 

Where is the real Sylvia Holden Park? How does this community park fit 

into our park system? In order to address some of these concerns, I turned to 

city officials. Questions about Glebe parks, and Sylvia Holden Park in particular, 

were referred to city staff responsible for the Lansdowne Park project. 

I also relied on the city’s website, the Parks and Recreation Master Plan (in 

process) and particularly, the Greenspace Master Plan: Strategies for Ottawa’s 

Urban Greenspaces. 

The Parks, Recreation and Culture Department lists parks by sector, 

east and west, along a divide formed by the Rideau Canal and the Rideau 

River. Glebe parks are the following: 

• Brown’s Inlet (65 Craig, 2.7 ha) 

• Capital (10 Ella, 0.4 ha) 

• Central, aka Patterson’s Creek (19 Clemow, 0.8 ha) 

• Chamberlain (80 Chamberlain, 0.88 ha) 

• Glebe Community Centre and St. James Tennis (690 Lyon, 0.42 ha) 

• Glebe Memorial (75 Glendale, 0.71 ha) 

• Lansdowne (945 Bank, 15.6 ha) 

• Lionel Britton (19 Fifth, 0.09 ha) 

• Senator Eugene Forsey (964 Bronson, 0.2 ha) and, 

• finally Sylvia Holden (10 Fifth, 2.56 ha). 

Interestingly enough, Lansdowne Community Park is not listed. The City of 

Ottawa Park Inventory Report was revised some time between March 9 and 

March 29, 2010; the description for Sylvia Holden Park (945 Bank Street, 

0.46 ha) was changed and Central (no address given, 2.97 Ha) and Lansdowne 

Community Park (10 Fifth, 2.56 ha) were added. 

A Brief History 

Dan Chenier, Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture, explained by 

email that the old City of Ottawa officially approved Sylvia Holden Park as a 

park in 1994, based on a document entitled: “Excerpt from the Glebe Report- 

Multi-purpose Park planned for Holmwood/Bank.” That document, apparently 

prepared in 1975 and submitted to the then-Board of Control of the old city, 

was not approved at that time for reasons unknown. The part of the park with 

baseball diamonds, wading pools, swings and day care building “is undedicated 

parkland, commonly referred to as Lansdowne Community Park and not 

part of Sylvia Holden Park.” Sylvia Holden at the corner of Bank and Holmwood 

is a passive park. 

One recommendation of the Lansdowne Park Development Strategy, approved 

by Council in 1984, was to develop a community play area in the 

northeast section of Lansdowne. Work was completed in 1990-1991. In “Lansdowne 

Community Park”, the city operates a wading pool program, which 

includes supervised water play, arts and craft activities by the pool and special 

events from late June to late August. In 2009, the “Lansdowne Community 

Park” wading pool recorded 20,493 users over the summer, the busiest in the 

City. The two baseball diamonds in this park are booked seven days a week 

from May to July, and five days a week for August and September. The Glebe 

Little League is the main user group. The park includes a fenced dog park, one 

of only two the city operates. 

Do we have enough greenspace? 

The City of Ottawa Official Plan sets a target of 4.0 hectares of total greenspace 

per 1,000 population. This includes natural land, open space and leisure 

land, including “federal land recognized by the NCC as a park.” (The Greenbelt 

is excluded.) Two hectares of this is to be park and leisure land. According 

to the Greenspace Master Plan, the “Inner Area” of which we are part has less 

than 2 hectares of greenspace per 1,000 in total, with half of that being park. 

This is the lowest in the city. The western boundary of the Glebe for the purpose 

of figuring total parkland is the O Train line, Carling and Bronson. 

To calculate total greenspace in a community, the Greenspace Master Plan 

includes both “primary” lands and “active and passive open space in public 

ownership identified in the 2005 Land Use Survey.” 

Photo: Elaine Marlin 


Distribution of parks and greenspace sub-areas of urbam Ottawa 

Primary lands are defined as including “the natural landscapes and major 

rivers that are recognized as having high environmental quality or rarity” 

and specifically include “public parks, sports fields, river access points, major 

pathway corridors, children’s play areas and civic squares owned by municipal, 

provincial and federal agencies”. For the Glebe, most designated city 

parks and NCC lands bordering the Rideau Canal, including all land around 

Dow’s Lake as far as the O Train track are included in this definition. 

Supporting lands are “intended for uses other than the provision of open 

space and leisure, but allow for public access and contribute to the overall 

greenspace experience….” These include municipal forests, school grounds, 

grounds of public facilities and institutions, some utility infrastructure and 

transit and abandoned rail corridors. Examples are Lansdowne Park (included 

in the city’s lists of its parks), and parcels of NCC land west of the Driveway, 

the cutoff from Bank to the Driveway at Wilton, and surrounding the westbound 

lane of the Driveway from Bank Street to Bronson. Elsewhere in the 

Greenspace Master Plan, they are said to include “tributaries to rivers, isolated 

natural features, and habitats that link the primary areas … public lands that 

potentially contribute to leisure opportunities because they permit public access.” 

The map of Open Space and Leisure Land in the Greenspace Master 

Plan appears to suggest that, in the Glebe, this includes the community centre, 

all our school lands, Central Park, Lansdowne and parts of the Dow’s Lake 

lands occupied by the Pavilion and Department of National Defence. 

The current population of the Glebe approaches 11,000. Thus, according 

to the Official Plan, we should have 44 hectares of greenspace, of which 22 

should be park and leisure land. Excluding the Lansdowne Park Complex, not 

to be confused with the Lansdowne Community Park, and including the tot lot 

and St. James tennis courts at the community centre, the Glebe has, in total, 

12.19 hectares of city-owned parks in our neighbourhood or a ratio of 1.1082 

hectares per 1,000 population. 

Recreational facilities 

As for recreational facilities in our community of 11,000, we have rooms 

at the community centre. We use our schools. We have six tennis courts, two 

baseball diamonds, two basketball courts, one soccer field, a spray pad, a splash 

pad and wading pool, half a dozen banks of swings, a community-maintained 

outdoor rink in winter (a second is maintained in the Mutchmor play yard) and 

a dog park. We have no indoor recreation centres, fitness centres, pools (standard: 

1:35,000 residents) or indoor skating (standard: 1:22,000). Our nearest 

recreational facilities, Brewer Pool and the Plant Bath, Brewer Rink and Tom 

Brown Arena, serve a total population well over 70,000. 

Despite the relative lack of recreational facilities, we are expected to absorb 

increased population as a result of a policy of densification. And council 

wonders why we react with concern when faced with the potential loss of our 

largest recreational park? 

Our parks are part of the legacy passed on from active community volunteers 

such as Sylvia Holden; we can best honour that legacy by remaining vigilant 

stewards of those lands so that the next generation may enjoy them. 

Both Elaine Marlin and Carol MacLeod have been active for many years 

in creating and sustaining volunteer organizations in the Glebe, to the great 

benefit of all those living in the area. We thank them for their ongoing contributions 

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Glaswegians, Londoners 

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May 10-June 6 

For the month of May, Irene’s Pub will be exhibiting a series of paintings 

by Kevin Farley. They depict the colourful characters of the artist’s English 

and Scottish family. Kevin’s two principal artistic interests are painting people 

and abstract painting. He loves capturing a personality within a face, and the 

connection he makes with the subject. Abstract painting offers a different challenge, 

that of creating something exciting and beautiful out of infinite possibilities. 

In this, his first public show, he attempts to bring together these two 

styles. The result is bright, colourful and rich with personality. 

Kevin’s paintings come from a deep well of emotion, but don’t take themselves 

too seriously. He finds inspiration in the people close to him. “Throughout 

my life I have been surrounded by family and friends that have shown 

incredible strength and optimism in the face of serious illness. I hope that 

some of this positive spirit comes out in my paintings. I want to create art that 

is uplifting”, he says. 

Kevin grew up in Bishop’s Stortford, England and studied physics at the 

University of Bath in the UK, and Penn State University in the US. Kevin 

began painting in 1999, after immigrating to Ottawa. Previously a student of 

Bhat Boy, and having studied at the Ottawa School of Art, he works predominantly 

in acrylic on canvas, but likes to experiment with other media. 

Come and meet the artist at the vernissage on Tuesday, May 11 at 7 p.m. 

For further information you can contact the artist at 613-565-1176, or 

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March 28-May 2 

Donna Randall immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe with her Polish 

parents and has carried the culture and colour of two continents throughout 

her life. She has been involved in creating art since her youth. She discovered 

figurative sculpture in Ottawa in 1977, using wood and clay and then moved 

into painting with acrylic and mixed media. In 1997, Donna became a fulltime 

working artist. She has studied at the Ottawa School of Art, Algonquin 

College and with various Canadian and British artists. 

Donna has exhibited and sold her art work in and around Ottawa since 1998 

and her paintings reside in collections around the world. She maintains a studio 

in Bates Hall in Sandy Hill where her work can be viewed by appointment. 

“I love to paint in vibrant colours that expresss the joy and freedom of the 

open spaces. My work comes primarily from my imagination and I often start 

with no set image in mind. I let the paint and colours inspire me and I work 

with my instinct. I have been told that my colour combinations are “happy.” 

The abstract nature of my paintings, whether land or waterscapes or florals, 

is what feeds my soul and hopefully brings some joy to the viewer as well. I 

often paint with both brush and palette knife as this provides the texture and 

looseness that I feel is so important to the feelings in my work.” 

For further information you can contact the artist at 613-241-9236, or 

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“Heartland” by Donna Randall 

“Horizon” by Donna Randall 

The Glebe Community Centre 

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18. Designers and artisans from across the country come to Ottawa to exhibit 

their amazing, unique pieces, including fashion, jewelry, accessories, home 

and garden décor, unique pieces of art and delicious tasty treats. 

This year the show is encouraging junior artisans to participate by offering 

a fully supervised, hands-on crafting activity for children ages four and up. 

Throughout the four-day show “Mrs. Create” (Miriam Kilby) of Kids Create, 

assisted by Algonquin College Early Childhood Education graduates, will 

lead 30-minute interactive crafting sessions, where children can create using 

recycled items. Parents can drop their children off at the crafting centre and 

enjoy a half hour of worry-free shopping while their little Picasso is introduced 

to the world of eco-crafting. 

Kids Create classes are limited to eight children per session. Although dropins 

are welcome, space permitting, parents should pre-register online at www. 

originalsshow.ca to guarantee a spot. The $5 per child registration fee (payable 

on site) will be donated to The Children’s Wish Foundation. Representatives 

from The Children’s Wish Foundation will be on site throughout the weekend 

with gorgeous spring floral bouquets available for sale. 

Kids Create will be set up in the Market Bistro section of Aberdeen Pavilion, 

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Originals – The Spring Craft Sale runs from Thursday, April 15 to Sunday, 

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MUSIC 

St. Matthew’s spring concert 

by Frances Berkman 

Saturday, May 15, at 7:30 pm, the 

combined choirs of St. Matthew’s 

Anglican Church in the Glebe, under 

the direction of Stephen Candow, 

will present their spring concert of 

music by J.S. Bach and G. F. Handel. 

Featured soloists will be sopranos 

Martha Coulthart and Clare Jackson, 

countertenor Kevin Hassell, tenor 

Michael Ruddy and bass Philip 

Holmes.The choir will be accompanied 

by a string orchestra, continuo 

and oboes. The concert will open with 

Bach’s Cantata No. 179, Siehe zu, 

Das Deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei 

sei, followed by Bach’s Missa 

Brevis in G major. The second half 

of the concert will feature Handel’s 

Chandos anthem No. 9, O Praise the 

Lord with One Consent. 

Cantata 179 was originally written 

for the 11 th Sunday after Trinity 

in 1723, shortly after Bach moved 

to Leipzig to assume the post of director 

of choir and music. That year, 

along with his duties of teaching and 

organizing and rehearsing the music 

for services at the four main churches 

of Leipzig, Bach undertook the task 

of composing a new cantata for every 

Sunday and feast day of the year. 

The cantata would be integral to the 

church service with the text based on 

the set readings for the day. 

For Bach or other Lutheran composers 

of his time, a missa brevis or 

short mass consisted of the Kyrie 

and Gloria. Bach wrote four missae 

breves, all of which are known 

as parody works, that is works based 

on pre-existing music. While it was 

not uncommon to compose music 

based on well-known folk or popular 

songs, Bach used music from his 

own earlier works for each of his 

short masses. In his Missa Brevis in 

G major composed in 1735, Bach reworked 

some of the musical themes 

from Cantata no. 179 into the mass 

setting. In this concert, the earlier 

work and the “parody mass” have 

been paired – see if you can recognize 

the “recycled” material 

The final piece, Handel’s O Praise 

the Lord with One Consent is based 

on texts from Psalms 135, 117 and 

148. This is one of 12 anthems 

composed from 1717-1718 for the 

Duke of Chandos, while Handel was 

composer-in-residence at his estate 

outside of London. These anthems, 

which combine choral and solo 

movements, were quite distinct from 

earlier English church music and in 

fact are similar in style to Bach’s 

church cantatas. 

St. Matthew’s, the Anglican Church 

in the Glebe, has two active choirs 

which take part in sung services. 

The Men and Boys’ Choir, founded 

in 1956, practises twice a week and 

sings 3-6 services a month. The 

Women and Girls’ Choir, founded 

in 1990, practises once a week and 

sings 1-2 services each month. The 

choirs will combine forces for major 

feast services and for our two 

annual concerts. 

The choirs provide an opportunity 

for children from the Glebe, Old 

Ottawa South and beyond to receive 

musical training and to learn to sing 

a wide variety of liturgical music 

throughout the year, as well as the 

chance to sing with a full voice 

choir and orchestra in concert. For 

a number of choir members, singing 

with St. Matthew’s is a family affair, 

with children singing with siblings, 

parents and even grandparents. 

Tickets are $20 for general admission 

and $15 for students; they are 

available at St. Matthew’s Anglican 

Church office (217 First Avenue, 

613-234-4024), CD Warehouse and 

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The Men, Women, Boys’ and Girls’ 

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Baroque music. 

Photo: Sim-Canetty-Clarke 

Celtic North 

Gerald Finley 

nominated for a Juno 


Lois Siegel, Dan Perkins 

and Marie Deziel who make 

up Celtic North all started 

playing together at the Glebe 

Community Centre in 1999 as 

part of the Celtic Slow Jam. 

Recently, they performed 

on “Daytime” at Rogers TV 

with future dates to be confirmed. 

In their group as on 

this CD, Lois Siegel plays 

fiddle, spoons and bodhran; 

Dan Perkins sings the vocals 

and plays guitar, Irish bouzouki 

and bodhran and Marie 

Deziel plays the accordion 

and fiddle. 

Canadian baritone Gerald Finley 

began singing as a chorister at St. 

Matthew’s Anglican Church in the 

Glebe before completing his musical 

studies in the UK at the Royal 

College of Music, King’s College, 

Cambridge and the National Opera 

Studio. 

This month he was nominated 

again for a Juno in the category of 

“Classical Album of the Year: Vocal 

or Choral Performance” for his 

Songs By Ravel, on the Hyperion 

label. Three years ago, he returned to Ottawa from the United Kingdom to 

perform at St. Matthew’s 50 th anniversary concert, a highlight of the Men & 

Boys’ Choirs’ reunion weekend. 

After his initial appearances at Glyndebourne in the Mozart baritone repertoire, 

he now appears in a variety of leading roles at the world’s opera houses 

including London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Salzburg, New York, Chicago 

and San Francisco. His Don Giovanni has been seen in Vienna, Prague, Rome, 

New York, Paris, Tel Aviv and London. He has created the lead roles in major 

premieres: J. Robert Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic), Harry Heegan (The Silver 

Tassie), Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Jaufre Rudel (L’amour de loin). He 

played Owen Wingrave in the Channel 4 film. His most recent engagements 

include playing Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and 

Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic) at the Lyric Opera Chicago. 

The Juno Awards will be presented at the St. John’s Convention Centre on 

Saturday, April 17 and can be watched on CTV the following day. 

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26 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 ENTERTAINMENT 

At the flicks with Lois and PaulBY PAUL GREEN 

BY LOIS SIEGEL 

Sharks 

Directed by Jean-Jacques Mantello 

IMAX – 3D 

The Museum of Civilization was recently renovated 

to allow for 3D projections. If you’ve never experienced 

3D, you should certainly check this out. Sharks is made 

for a general audience with a turtle as “narrator” but 

minus the gory images of Jaws. Another fish film, it’s 

amazing to see schools of sardines swimming a few 

inches in front of your eyes. You can reach out to touch 

them. And the sharks are enormous, with the Great 

White Shark measuring 22 feet long and 5,000 pounds. 

You wouldn’t want to indulge it with a bear hug. Many 

of the sharks in the film are listed on the “endangered 

species” list. 

The IMAX is located at the Museum of Civilization, Gatineau. 

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens 

Directed by Barbara Leibovitz (Annie’s younger sister) 

PBS Documentary 

Annie Leibovitz is one of the best known contemporary photographers. 

From her Rolling Stone Magazine days, hanging out with and photographing 

the rock ‘n’ rollers of the 70s, to her entry into the fashion world at Vanity Fair 

and Vogue, her images have been strikingly unique, as well as elaborate and 

elegant. 

The film is a panorama of stars: Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Hillary 

Rodham Clinton, George Clooney, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 

Demi Moore….. But there are also home movies, pictures of Leibovitz’s 

family. The film follows Annie from early days at the San Francisco Art 

Institute, where as a painting major, she aspired to be an art teacher. Then, she 

took a photo workshop ... and the rest is history. 

Working with large teams of technicians and set designers, Barbara Leibovitz 

directs with authority. With a reputation for being difficult, she’s identified 

in the film as “Barbra Streisand with a camera.” 

Note: Annie Leibovitz was recently in the news after borrowing $15.5 million, 

due to financial problems. As collateral, she put up several houses and the 

rights to all of her photographs. 

Available at the Ottawa Public Library. 

The Most Dangerous Man in America: 

Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 

Directed by Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith 

This documentary is a fascinating story, filled with the drama surrounding 

the release of the Pentagon Papers. Daniel Ellsberg, a top policy analyst at The 

Rand Corporation and consultant to the Department of Defense and the White 

House, became a dangerous man. Having supported the government for many 

years, he realized, after discovering the Pentagon Papers, that the war in Vietnam 

had to be stopped. The 47 volumes, and 7,000 pages of a top-secret study 

revealed a war strategy full of lies; Ellsberg xeroxed the papers and leaked 

them to the New York Times. He knew he could go to jail for this. 

The documentary is told with interesting juxtapositions of images, quotes, 

and startling revelations. It’s a brilliant history of the times that led to the end 

of the war in Vietnam, during which 2 million Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans 

died. 

Nominated for an Oscar 2010, it is showing in local theatres. 

The Battle of Chile 

Directed by Patricio Guzman 

Released 1978, 2009 

Unrated, available on DVD 

Film buffs bear a sort of cross in that one may 

hear or read about legendary films without getting 

to see them because they are simply not 

available. Such a film is Patricio Guzman’s 

remarkable 1978 documentary The Battle of 

Chile, which chronicles the tumultuous final 

year of the Popular Unity government of democratically-elected 

Socialist President Salvador 

Allende. Make no mistake, this film is a polemic. 

It is a highly-charged political statement in 

which Guzman invokes an unabashedly Marxist 

analysis of the class struggle that marked Chilean political life during the 

first eight months of 1973. 

Running at just over three hours, the 1978 release was divided into two parts: 

“The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie” and “The coup d’état.” For the recent 

DVD release, a third chapter, “The Power of the People,” has brought the 

total running time to four and one half hours and expanded on earlier themes, 

namely the struggle by mass organizations to defend the gains of the previous 

two years. Surprisingly, the film’s length matters little as the viewer is pulled 

into a maelstrom of political and economic events that, at times, threatens to 

overwhelm. Guzman and crew roam the countryside, giving voice to countless 

members of unions, factory defense committees and the like, as they debate 

tactics and strategy, and struggle to keep things going. Listening to these 

voices, one is struck by their sophistication and political awareness. Ample 

voice is given to the opposition; business leaders and company bosses (‘los 

gremios’ in Chilean political parlance) expound on the need to clean up the 

country, restore order and oust the president. Middle class housewives rally 

against Allende and neo-fascist youths (or ‘los momios’ which in Chilean political 

parlance means ‘mummies’ or reactionaries) march in the streets or shoot 

at workers from rooftops. At times, the street scenes resemble political theatre; 

Guzman’s ability to direct his cameraman is so unerring, it appeared to one 

critic that he was actually directing these scenes. Watching footage of the abortive 

June 28 army putsch, the cinéma-vérité style evokes a Costa-Gavras film. 

In July and August, the cracks are widening and the workers sense that Allende 

will not violate the Constitution in order to save himself. Meanwhile, the 

army is raiding factories looking for weapons they do not find. (Sound familiar?) 

In a chilling sequence, Guzman’s camera attends the funeral of Allende’s 

murdered naval aide-de-camp and pans row upon row of hard-faced army men 

in full dress uniform, assembled as though for some ghastly reunion shot. 

(A similar scene is reprised in Bille August’s The House of the Spirits.) 

While narrative and outcome are well-known, (the final depressing images 

of Part Two show air force jets bombing the presidential palace), The Battle of 

Chile remains an astonishing political thriller and cautionary tale of the first 

order. 

Available on DVD, at Invisible Cinema and Glebe Video. 

Paul Green is originally from British Columbia where, in a misspent youth, 

he watched movies and attended UVIC. He later worked as a translator at the 

former Secretary of State Department and is now happily ensconced at Glebe 

Video. 

The 8th Annual Hike for Hospice in support of The Hospice at May Court is scheduled for Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 114 Cameron Avenue. As the Platinum sponsor of 

the Hike, Tracy Arnett Realty Ltd. will be joining this national fundraising and awareness event which includes a 5km walk, a great backyard picnic, t-shirts, 

the red apron, Little Ray’s Reptiles, entertainment for all and lots of prizes to be won! 

This event is a wonderful way to stay in touch with The Hospice, say hello to friends, raise pledges and walk in memory or in honour of someone special. 

Help us raise $ 100,000 for The Hospice at May Court. If you are interested in joining us at this event or would like to sponsor our 

team please contact Tracy Arnett Realty Ltd. at 613 -233-4488 or The Hospice at May Court at www.hospicemaycourt.com or by telephone at 613-260-2906. 

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FOOD 

By Karen 

Wallace-Graner 

Apple, peach, raisin, pumpkin, 

lemon, pecan, coconut …what do all 

of these things have in common? For 

those who enjoy the sweet side of 

food, a pie may have come to mind. 

For those of us who enjoy sweets, 

but are also raw foodists, a RAW pie 

may have come to mind! A raw pie? 

That’s right – pies prepared without 

cooking the ingredients. Really? Is 

that possible? Yes, read on and be 

inspired! 

There are no rules when it comes 

to a raw pie. You can apply your own 

ingenuity to create your own masterpiece, 

or you can mimic the format 

of a traditional cooked pie – crust 

and filling. 

Experimentation is part of the fun 

of raw food, but if you want to ensure 

a yummy success, you may want to 

use some of these suggestions for 

making a “traditional format pie.” 

Start with the filling. What will it be 

– puréed or sliced apple; mixed berries; 

coconut pudding? Depending 

on the ingredients chosen, it may be 

best to make the filling first, so flavours 

have time to blend with each 

other. If the ingredients are delicate, 

wait until the crust has been completed. 

Once the filling decisions are made, 

create a crust that will compliment 

the filling. To make a crust, nuts can 

be used as the flour substitute; dates 

or raisins could be used as the binder 

and sweetener; plus, add any spices 

that will enhance the nuts and filling. 

Blend the crust ingredients in a food 

processor until you reach the desired 

consistency and then mold the mixture 

into your serving container. And 

wait yet again. Allow the flavour of 

the ingredients to meld together. To 

help the crust harden and support the 

filling, place the crust in the refrigerator 

or freezer. 

The next step is to add the filling. 

Once assembled and depending on 

the ingredients, the pie may be more 

delicious if it rests for a bit. Again, 

this allows the flavours to meld and 

create even more mouth-watering 

magic. Presentation is key. Before 

serving, make sure that you garnish 

your pie with something decorative. 

This could be one of the ingredients 

(like apple slices) or a dusting 

of spices or edible flowers. Now that 

you have done all of this work and 

your pie is complete, why not make 

another and enter your fabulous pie 

in the Raw Vegan Pie contest on June 

19 for a chance to win one of the 

fantastic prizes including a Vitamix 

blender! 

Not quite ready to enter your creation? 

Looking for a chance to experience 

the flavour explosion of a 

raw pie? By all means, attend the 4th 

SimplyRaw Healthy Lifestyles Festival 

and Raw Pie Contest sponsored 

by the Table Vegetarian Restaurant, 

on June 19. It’s hosted by the Glebe’s 


The Simply Raw Pie Contest – June 19, 10-9, Central Park in the Glebe 

own Natasha and Mark. As in past 

years, there will be many demonstrations, 

exhibits and lectures by 

knowledgeable authorities in healthy 

lifestyles and the field of raw food. 

Feel free to sample their delicious 

creations. 

This year, special emphasis is being 

placed on sports and community 

involvement. In addition, several raffles 

will be held throughout the day 

as well as yoga sessions and other activities 

for the whole family to enjoy. 

A new feature will be music into the 

evening. 

A highlight of the festival is the 

Raw Vegan Pie contest and aftercontest 

sampling. After the judging 

by local community leaders and celebrities, 

you will have the chance 

to sample one of the raw pie entries. 

The Raw Vegan Pie contest is open to 

anyone and the prizes are substantial 

and much sought-after. 

Registration is limited, so if you 

are interested in participating, submit 

your entry now. To enter the Raw 

Vegan Pie contest, please visit: http:// 

www.simplyraw.ca/community/festival-2010/pie-contest-registration/ 

More information on the 4th 

Healthy Lifestyles Festival and 

Raw Vegan Pie Contest, visit Simply 

Raw’s website: http://www.simplyraw.ca/community/festival-2010/. 

You can also access information on 

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Mark your calenders and don’t 

miss this delicious event! 

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A spread of Rawsome pies 

Simply Rawsome Apple Pie 

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Crust 

2 ½ cups walnuts 

1 cup dates 

1 tsp vanilla extract 

Place ingredients in a food processor, and process until the mixture 

holds together. Remove and press dough into a 9-inch pie pan, using your 

fingers to form a crust. 

Filling 

4 apples, peeled and sliced thinly 

2 apples, peeled and chopped 

2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 

1 cup raisins 

1 tsp cinnamon 

¼ tsp nutmeg 

Toss the sliced apples in a large bowl with lemon juice. Set aside. 

In a food processor, process raisins, chopped apples and spices until 

smooth. Remove from food processor and fold into the sliced apples. 

Spoon filling into pie crust and sprinkle with cinnamon. Refrigerate 2 

hours. Top with vanilla cream (optional). 

Vanilla Cream 

1 cup raw cashews, soaked 2-4 hours in purified water and rinsed 

¼ cup raw agave 

½ cup purified water 

2 Tbsp vanilla extract 

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28 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 ENVIRONMENT 

Ottawa Eco-Stewardship Fair 

inspiring and practical 

By Jill Sturdy 

Saturday, April 24, there is no better 

place to celebrate the earth and 

Earth Week than at the 7th annual 

Ottawa Eco-Stewardship Fair at the 

RA Centre. Sample some wonderful 

local food and taste some of the 

best in local wine and beer. See some 

unique and creative pieces by area 

eco-artists and check out dozens of 

practical innovations for green living 

that will save you money and help 

the planet. 

There is something for everyone. 

There are exhibits in health, beauty 

and fashion, energy, home and garden, 

nature, moms and babies, eco- 

Tourism and recreation. New this 

year is a Bike Festival. Ride your 

bike to the EcoFair and reduce your 

ecological footprint! After you lock 

up, you can stop by the tents set up 

outside the north entrance and check 

out the variety of bikes on display 

and stay for a bike repair and safety 

demonstrations. 

The 2010 Ottawa Eco-Stewardship 

Fair is the region’s longest running 

environmental event. Each year, it 

has grown in popularity. Last year’s 

event was a major success with over 

100 exhibitors and activities that attracted 

close to 5,000 visitors. Yet, it 

has a laid back and friendly atmosphere. 

Before and After Care 

in a Home Environment 

When it comes to the environment 

and the health of our families, we 

can’t do everything, but each of us 

can do something. Finding out how 

has become an annual tradition at 

the Ottawa EcoFair. This grassroots 

community event continues to build 

on those traditions. It will feature 

food demonstrations by local chef 

Jacqueline Jolliffe of the Red Apron, 

a popular fresh meal service that offers 

sophisticated comfort food. A 

Taste of Ottawa’s Countryside will 

offer sweet and savoury treats from 

the Valley. Back by popular demand 

is the 100 mile lunch, created by talented 

RA Centre Chef, Darcy Ryman. 

This free event is made possible by 

community volunteers and the generous 

sponsorship support of the TD 

Friends of the Environment Foundation, 

the Ottawa Citizen, Enbridge 

Gas Distribution Inc., the City of Ottawa 

and Rogers TV. 

Mark it in your calendar now. 

The Ottawa EcoFair will take place 

on Saturday, April 24 from 10 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. at the RA Centre, 2451 

Riverside Drive. Free admission and 

parking. For more information, visit 

www.ottawaecofair.ca. 

Jill Sturdy is co-ordinator of the 

Eco-Stewardship Fair. 

Fun activities, nutritious snacks, homework help. 

Experienced caregiver in the Glebe for over 10 years. 

Available for school breaks (PD days, 

March Break, and throughout the summer). 

Call Misse at 613-569-9521. 

Save the beaver 

A beaver finds a home in the Experimental Farm 

by Gerard Kenney 

Last fall, the Experimental Farm had the good fortune of becoming host to 

a permanent and very welcome, visitor – a beaver. Canada’s national animal 

set up home in a small pond, formed by an equally small stream that runs 

right next to Fletcher’s Wildflower Garden. My lady, Claire, and I were among 

the many people who feared the beaver might not make it safely through the 

winter because of the small size of the pond that it now calls home. Survive it 

did, and quite well indeed, if we judge from the superb condition of its dam 

this spring. 

Now beavers can be a bit pushy when it comes to humans invading their living 

spaces – after all, they were here before us. However, if we humans strive 

to match their ingenuity, there are ways for beavers and people to live happily 

in peace. Imagine the benefits for city kids, to say nothing of their parents, to 

experience closeness to Canadian beavers in the wild, right here in the city. 

In the past, we humans have had a tendency to solve beaver-people problems 

in a very brutal way – getting rid of them. I would presume that we 

are past using such simplistic methods and that we can find more humanistic 

solutions to not only live in peace with beavers, but at the same time 

to reach a beneficial rapprochement between the beavers and ourselves. Yes, 

such solutions probably come with a price, but here, a made-to-measure opportunity 

has been served up to us on a silver platter for getting our children 

and grandchildren closer to nature. And that is priceless. Hopefully, we will 

be up to the challenge. 

Gerard Kenney is a retired professional engineer with experience in hydraulics 

who has not yet given up hope about the possibility of accommodating 

a resident beaver. He is studying the situation and would like to hear from 

anyone interested in having something to say about this challenge. Please 

contact him at gikenney@hotmail.com. 

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ENVIRONMENT 

Keeping the Glebe green 

and clean 

by Virginia Carver and Carol MacLeod 

Do you like your neighbourhood green and clean? The Glebe Community 

Association Environment and Anti-Litter Committee is working hard on your 

behalf and we are looking for volunteers to expand our efforts and our results. 

Cleaning 

Spring cleaning on Bank Street Saturday, April 17: in the spring and fall of 

each year, volunteers clean Bank Street as a part of the City of Ottawa Cleaning 

the Capital campaign. We meet outside Fifth Avenue Court at 9:30 am for 

the clean-up. The City of Ottawa supplies gloves and bags. 

Graffiti project 

Do you live near a Canada Post mail box or a utility box that is regularly vandalized 

with graffiti? The city provides materials with which to clean Canada 

Post boxes or you can report graffiti on the grey or red Canada Post boxes to 

Canada Post, toll free: 1-800-267-1177. 

For safety reasons, Bell, Enbridge, Rogers and Ottawa Hydro prefer to clean 

their own boxes. You can report graffiti on utility boxes to the City of Ottawa 

at 311 or email 311@ottawa.ca. We track our experience with having utilities 

remove graffiti on their property, and work on intercepting vandals in collaboration 

with local schools and the Ottawa police. If you would like to ‘adopt’ 

an offending box, call Virginia at 613-233-2875. She will provide cleaning 

supplies. 

Eliminating litter 

The Environment Committee lobbies the City of Ottawa about litter concerns 

in the Glebe. Some members have adopted local parks under the city’s 

Adopt-a-Park environmental program. This means they regularly pick up litter 

and report graffiti which they remove, where possible. Starbucks is the adoptive 

parent of Third Avenue from the Canal to Bronson, and we encourage local 

businesses to join the program. 

Street care 

We collaborate with the Glebe Business Improvement Area (BIA) to consider 

street furnishings for Bank Street. At our request, the city maintains the 

same number of garbage containers along Bank Street summer and winter and 

we work with a coalition of core community associations to develop strategies 

for more efficient garbage collection on our main streets. In collaboration with 

the BIA, we are also lobbying for garbage containers to be placed adjacent 

to benches along Bank Street and for recycling boxes to be located at regular 

intervals. We want to reduce the number of newspaper boxes along Bank Street 

by replacing them with multi-unit boxes. Finally, through a donation from the 

Glebe Report Association, the committee financed a pilot project to install 

cigarette butt boxes at Second and Third avenues. We are encouraging smokers 

to make use of them just as we urge Bank Street businesses to provide butt 

containers for their customers. 

Greening 

Our Garden Angels maintain those flower boxes you see at entrances to the 

Glebe and along Bank Street. Our lead Angel masterfully finds us plant donations, 

but the boxes need to be planted, weeded and watered throughout the 

season. Consequently, we are always looking for aspiring Green Thumbs to 

adopt planter boxes. 

Re-TREE our Glebe is an ongoing project to update the city’s inventory 

of trees on its right-of-ways in the Glebe. We completed one quadrant of the 

community manually last year, but technological glitches mean that we need to 

enter those data on the city’s GPS system. At the same time, we are educating 

homeowners about the emerald ash borer, which will sooner or later destroy 

the ash trees across the city. We encourage people who have ash trees around 

their homes to contact the city to proactively obtain free replacement trees 

through the city’s Trees for Tomorrow program. Our enthusiastic Tree Team 

will advance the project over the upcoming season, as city equipment becomes 

available. 

We keep an eye on the health of trees in the community, particularly emerald 

ash borer. We are involved in Mutchmor School’s project to replant the playing 

field it shares with Corpus Christi and the Glebe Community Centre. About 

half the trees in that field are green ash, so the parent council has embarked 

on this ambitious project to replace the trees before they die and refresh the 

field’s landscaping. We are working with the Glebe BIA to green Pretoria and 

its intersection with the Driveway. 

“Black knot of plums” is a disease that is becoming a problem requiring 

attention in our community. It affects several varieties of plums and has been 

known to affect hawthorns and crabs. A first response is to trim off and dispose 

of affected branches in your regular garbage. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture 

has information on control of the disease: Black Knot of Plums, http://www. 

omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/05-017.htm. 

EnviroFair 

Every couple of years, in conjunction with local businesses, we mount a fair 

focussed on environmental issues of importance to the Glebe. Our first fair 

promoted non-chemical, pesticide-free gardening. Last fall, our second fair 

promoted sustainable technologies for older homes such as those in the Glebe. 

A third EnviroFair is tentatively scheduled for 2011. 

Virginia Carver and Carol MacLeod are members of the GCA Environment 

and Anti-Litter Committee which meets at 7 p.m. the first Monday of every 

month at the Glebe Community Centre. We welcome ideas for projects that will 

make the Glebe a greener and healthier community in which to live AND the 

helping hands to implement those projects. 


Imagine spring 

April 25 at St. Matthew’s Church 

Master gardener and St. Matthew’s parishioner, 

Mary Shearman Reid, is presenting 

a slide show and gardening talk at St. Matthew’s 

Anglican Church in the Glebe on 

Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m. She is often a 

guest speaker for garden clubs, horticultural 

societies and businesses. 

Mary made an unusual transition from 

banking to horticulture in 1996 when she 

took over the Green Thumb Garden Centre, 

a community-oriented business that specializes 

in the service and sales of outdoor plant 

matter. 

Green Thumb’s services include consultations, 

diagnostic visits, landscaping and garden 

maintenance. 

She grew up in a family of gardeners, 

worked as a gardener during her summers 

at university and continues to garden at 

home. As a certified landscape professional 

and a master gardener, she teaches for various 

school boards and at Algonquin College 

where she studied horticulture. 

“We never know how spring will look at the 

end of April, so I will tailor the talk to suit the 

weather,” says Mary. She intends to include 

snippets on perennials, shrubs, containers, 

trees and fertilizing. The talk will include tea 

and delicious refreshments and an opportunity 

to ask Mary about your garden. Join us on 

Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m. in the Parish Hall, 

First Ave. entrance. Tickets are $20, available at 

Master Gardener Mary Reid at 

Green Thumbs Garden Centre 

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Putting students first 

Trustee 

Kathy 

Ablett 

OCSB 

Corpus Christi School 

Leading the Way 

Superintendent of Special Education 

and Student Services Simone Oliver, 

introduced a delegation from Corpus 

Christi School who shared their social 

justice initiatives. Coordinated by the 

Grade 6 students, these programs centered 

around helping their twin school, 

Kathehong Primary School in Lesotho, 

Africa. Activities included sales 

of Christmas cards and baked goods 

in order to purchase a much-needed 

water barrel for the school. Delegation 

members included Monica Kerwin, principal; Jane O’Regan, teacher; Barb 

Westwick, teacher; and two students, Kate Reeve and Dawson Lyon. 

Left to right: Barb Westwick, teacher; Monica Kerwin, principal; Jane 

O’Regan, teacher; Dawson Lyon, student; Kathy Ablett, Trustee; Kate Reeve, 

student; Simone Oliver, Superintendent; Gordon Butler, Chairperson of the 

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Youth and Workplace Safety 

A parent information night on April 28, 2010 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Immaculata 

High School, 140 Main Street will focus on the topic of youth and 

workplace safety. Guest speaker will be Mr. Rob Ellis, father of David Ellis 

who lost his life his second day at work. Rob has dedicated his life to make 

Ontario a safer place to work since that day. Come out and meet Rob and hear 

this very important message to parents. 

Parenting Now 

The Ottawa Catholic School Board Parents’ Association (CSPA) invited parents 

of students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 to a FREE workshop. Saturday, 

April 10, 2010 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The keynote speaker Barbara Coloroso 

presented “Just Because It’s Not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right – Teaching 

kids to act ethically. Barbara Coloroso is an internationally recognized speaker, 

author and consultant. 

School Year Calendar 

2010-2011 

The Board approved the 2010-2011 school year calendar. Input on the proposed 

calendar was received from the Catholic School Parents’ Association 

and affiliated organizations representing all employee groups. In addition, local 

area school boards were consulted. 

The first day of school for academic year 2010-2011 is Tuesday, September 

7, 2010. The high school examination schedule (semestered schools): January 

27-February 2, 2011 and June 22-28, 2011 

School holidays in the first half of the academic year include Labour Day: 

September 6, 2010, Thanksgiving Day: October 11, and Christmas Break: December 

20-31, 2010. The first day of school after the Christmas break will be 

January 3, 2011. 

In the second semester in 2011, holidays will include Family Day: February 

21, March Break: March 14-18, Good Friday: April 22, Easter Monday: April 

25, Victoria Day: May 23, last day of school (Intermediate/Secondary): June 

28, last day of school (elementary): June 29, 2011. 

Professional Development Days 

(all schools unless otherwise noted) 

Thursday, September 2, 2010 

Friday, October 8, 2010 

Friday, November 26, 2010 (elementary only) 

(excludes grades 7 & 8 except St. Michael, Fitzroy) 

Friday, January 14, 2011 

Friday, June 3, 2011 

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 (intermediate/secondary only) 

(includes grades 7 & 8 except St. Michael, Fitzroy) 

Thursday, June 30, 2011 

2010 Trustee Election 

In preparation for the 2010 City of Ottawa election, the Board of Trustees 

approved a motion that retains the distribution and determination calculation, 

which indicates that the Ottawa Catholic School Board will have ten trustees. 

Further, the board approved the trustee distribution for 2010, maintaining 

ten zones in the 23 city wards. Information and maps at: http://www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/media.php?mid=49438 

Key dates in 2010 for the trustee election: 

January 1: Beginning of nomination and campaign period 

September 10: End date for declaration of candidacy 

October 25: Voting day 

Families that have moved since the last municipal election in 2006 should 

ensure they are still Catholic school supporters and therefore can vote for Catholic 

trustees. Families that move are automatically designated as public school 

supporters unless they indicate that they wish to be Catholic school supporters. 

Information on how to determine “Direction of School Support” is at: http:// 

www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/content.php?doc=723 

It is my hope that you and your family enjoyed the peace and joy of Easter. 

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Some updates 

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Trustee 

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OCDSB 

Alernative Education 

Readers will recall that the future 

of the alternative education program 

has been in question. The board 

‘effectively decided’ to adopt the 

status quo, minus Manor Park Public 

School, which will be transformed 

into a community school. ‘Effectively 

decided’ equates to the elimination 

of the program over time; others preferred 

that it be ‘mutated’ into a form 

that guarantees the continuation of 

the program. This decision doesn’t 

mean particular sites such as Lady Evelyn or Churchill are guaranteed. And, 

given the imprecise will of the board on this issue, the general question about 

the program itself is likely to be revisited. 

One fundamentally destabilizing problem is the lack of access for students 

to alternative education who live outside the Greenbelt Glebe where Report it is Ad not offered. 

It’s not realistic to offer it in that area at this time. size: I believe 4.75” we x need 2.25” to pay to 

bus those students willing to travel for alternative education. While this is an 

awkward fix, it does address the equity issue. This issue will be raised before 

the school year is out. 

Budget 

The Ottawa Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) has a virtual $14 million 

budget problem at the time of writing. We won’t know the grant impacts 

for next year until a month from now and may find our problem is less severe. 

Because of the requirements of the legacy collective agreement, we need to 

decide teaching staff numbers before the grant impacts are known. Other options 

for cuts will be looked at in the spring. 

The board recently decided to cut various specialist teachers (special education, 

English as a second language, curriculum coach, safe schools, and teachers 

buffering school reorganization as well as intermediate arts and music 

needs). I personally believe the ESL and special education cuts are strategically 

unwise for a district wishing to improve achievement rates and to lower 

drop out rates. Consequently, I did not support this decision. The effects of all 

cuts will be spread out but will be felt everywhere to some degree. Even more 

confusing is that enrolment gains mean regular classroom teacher numbers go 

up, but the reduction in service per capita is unmistakable. 

I also believe it unwise to have insisted on teacher cut decisions for the year 

after next when we know the funding formula is to be reviewed by the government 

in a year, a provincial election is looming and one must realize that 

grants can be quite variable from year to year. Multi-year budgeting is a virtue, 

but only if one accepts the premises of a certain trend. 

Consolidation of Secondary Gifted Centres 

Glebe Collegiate may soon see its gifted French immersion centre amalgamated 

with other high schools and Lisgar receive the gifted extended French 

program in the shuffle. This is fundamentally about trying to ensure viable 

student numbers at a reduced number of high school sites for the purpose of 

maintaining program quality. 

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32 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 SCHOOLS 

Glebe Cooperative 

Nursery School 

by Megan Tinmouth 

Spring is finally here and we love 

being outside again. 

With the sudden, albeit celebrated, 

arrival of spring, our students have 

eagerly embraced the outdoors once 

more. The quick melting of the snow 

and drying of the watery, mucky sand 

has meant that our keen students have 

been able to take to the outside yard 

and play structure very early this 

year. This has been met with many 

smiles on the faces of our parents and 

teachers who are equally keen to be 

outside for some “playtime.” With all 

of our classes spending much more 

time outside, we must begin even 

earlier to remind parents of the need 

for hats, sunscreen and lots of layers 

in dressing. Dare I even mention 

this: please remember that on those 

rainy days... sigh... remember to send 

along splash pants and rubber boots 

with the children’s coats because 

classes do go out after the rain. 

Spring’s arrival signals the start of 

our annual spring events. Some will 

take place just as we have had them 

each year, and others will take in a 

new format. For a change of pace, 

our spring fundraiser this year will 

be a bake and coffee sale at the Great 

Glebe Garage Sale. Just in case your 

garden is waiting longingly, we will 

not be doing a plant sale this year. 

Instead, look for our table of baked 

delicacies where you can satisfy your 

hunger during your bargain hunting 

at the garage sale, refresh yourself 

with a coffee, and even pick up good- 

ies packaged to go for the rest of the 

day. Many thanks go out in advance 

to all our cooperative nursery school 

parents who will bake these tasty, irresistible 

treats. 

Other spring institutions around the 

cooperative nursery school remain 

in their traditional form: we all look 

forward to the annual Mother’s Day 

tea parties. These will take place on 

Thursday, May 6: in the morning for 

the toddler class, in the afternoon for 

the senior class and on Friday, May 7 

for the junior class. Also, we welcome 

back Marilyn Mikkelson on Wednesday, 

April 7 and Thursday, April 8 to 

take candid black and white photos of 

our young students in action. Somehow 

Marilyn manages to get captivating 

shots of our little ones, without 

distracting the tots from their activities. 

Parents will be provided with 

proofs and they may purchase these 

photos, if they wish. 

Our school is fortunate to be hosting 

a student teacher starting on 

April 27. Bethia will be undertaking 

her final placement with our school, 

so be sure to say hello and introduce 

yourself to her as you drop off your 

child. 

Finally, we must be getting to the 

end of the year, for it is time for 

teacher evaluation forms again. The 

forms are filled out anonymously and 

your comments help us a great deal. 

Your feedback helps us learn what is 

going well and assists in determining 

if any changes in programming are 

needed. 

Where I met friends for life 

Lauren enjoying fond memories 

By Karen Kelly 

There are memories from childhood 

that we all cherish. Perhaps we 

remember a favourite toy, a special 

corner of a classroom, or a game 

played outside. For 15-year-old Lauren 

Kniewasser, many of those memories 

were from the Rainbow Kidschool, 

a preschool and after-school 

program located at Lady Evelyn Alternative 

School. 

She spent five years there and when 

she began to think about her community 

volunteer hours required for 

graduation, she knew immediately 

where she wanted to go. “I’d been 

wanting to come back to Rainbow 

since the day I left; they were like my 

second family,” recalls Kniewasser, 

who’s now a student at Canterbury 

High School. “As a volunteer, I was 

excited to have a reason to visit.” 

When Kniewasser returned, she 

says she was immediately transported 

back to her preschool days. 

“It looked almost exactly the same 

– familiar toys, the same songs.... 

The first thing I did was start playing 

with the toys again,” she says with a 

laugh. She had lots of company, of 

course. The school’s preschool group 

was excited to have a “big kid” there 

to join in their playtime, and the 

after-school students, aged 5-10, 

tapped into her artistic and creative 

knowledge to pursue art and sewing 

projects. 

Kniewasser says the structure and 

consistency of the Rainbow program 

was important for her, and she sees 

it helping the children who are there 

today, as well. 

“There are some kids who barely 

talk at first,” says Kniewasser. “But 

as they get to know the routine, they 

really become comfortable and open 

up.” And there may be benefits down 

the road, too. Kniewasser pulls out 

an old yearbook and points to three 

close friends she met at Rainbow 

a decade ago. “This is where I met 

friends for life.” 

Rainbow Kidschool offers a morning 

preschool program for children 

2½-4 years of age, as well as an 

afternoon program for 4 and 5 year 

old Kindergarten-age children. At 

the end of the school day, school-age 

children, 6-9 years, join the Kindergarten-age 

group for the afterschool 

program. Please call Nancy, the director, 

at 613-235-2255 for more information. 

Rainbow Kidschool is a nonprofit 

childcare centre operated by a volunteer 

parent board of directors. 

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SCHOOLS 

Sustainability initiatives at 

Mutchmor Public School 

Mutchmor’s Earth Hour 

By Audrey and Sandy 

On March 27, many people turned off the lights and other electronics for 

International Earth Hour between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Mutchmor Public School 

participated in its own Earth Hour on Friday, March 26 from 1-2 p.m. We 

turned off all lights and shut down our computers. The Ottawa-Carlton District 

School Board counted how many watts we saved. 

Some power free activities you can participate in are reading, drawing, cards 

and board games. You can use candles for lights. Since 2007, when the Earth 

Hour was started, millions of people have participated. Today, over 3,000 cities 

participate in Earth Hour. So hopefully you did your part by turning off your 

lights, television, computers and other electronics for Earth Hour. 


General Auditions 

for students currently in grades 3 through 7 

Saturday, April 24, 2010 & Saturday, May 29, 2010 

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

McNabb Community Centre, 160 Percy Street, Ottawa 

Bronson @ Gladstone 

To arrange an audition contact Andi at 233-4440 

For more information on the Ottawa Children’s Choir, please visit: www.ottawachildrenschoir.ca 

Grade 1 students in Mutchmor’s EnviroCubs check out the progress of their 

acts of green. The club aims to achieve 10 acts of green. So far students have 

finished six acts, including making bird feeders, tracking monarch butterfly 

migration, and folding origami bin liners. 

Mutchmor Greening Update 

By Cindy Kirk 

Great news. The plan to plant 18 trees in the Mutchmor field and primary 

yard is moving forward. The City of Ottawa Community Retree Program has 

awarded Mutchmor $9,000 towards tree costs and Metro’s Green Apple School 

Program granted us $1,000 towards tree protection. Thank you. Additional 

monies donated by our community partners GNAG ($1,000) and the GCA 

($1,000) will be pooled with money raised by Mutchmor’s Kicking Horse coffee 

fundraiser to purchase topsoil, tree protection and watering equipment. 

Outdoor Classroom Fundraiser – Earth Day Jump-athon 

Mutchmor children will be raising money for the outdoor classroom portion 

of Mutchmor’s greening plan by holding a jump-a-thon on Earth Day (Thursday, 

April 22) hoping to raise the $12,000 needed. The outdoor classroom 

feature will incorporate natural stones for seating during curriculum-based 

learning activities, as well as for play. Mutchmor students will be looking for 

sponsorships from friends and neighbours, so please help support their efforts. 

Corporate and community donations are also welcome. All donations over $10 

will receive a charitable tax receipt. Let’s make this a great space for the entire 

community. 

Mutchmor Council Fundraiser 

Samko & Miko Toy Sale: April 29-May 2 

Mutchmor School Council has registered at the Samko & Miko Toy Sale 

to be held at Lansdowne Park in the Aberdeen Pavilion on April 29-May 2. 

Please indicate to the cashier when shopping that Mutchmor is your fundraising 

group. Then submit your original receipt to the school council (via the 

school office). We will submit them to the company in order to receive 10 per 

cent of the total sales. Funds raised from this event will be used towards the 

greening of Mutchmor’s play yards. Please share this information with your 

neighbours who can also specify Mutchmor as their designated charity fundraiser 

at the sale. 

GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE 

Reserve your spot now for the Great Glebe Garage Sale. The sale is set 

for Saturday, May 29 and Mutchmor School Council is renting out tables in 

the Mutchmor yard for $45 per table for the entire day. Please contact Barb 

Massey or Hetty Mannethu at barbarajmassey@gmail.com or hmannethu@ 

rogers.com for more information. 

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34 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 SCHOOLS 

A flurry of learning 

at Glashan 

Students enjoy a day of spring skiing. 

by Sean Oussoren 

Spring has arrived in Ottawa and at 

Glashan Public School as well, with 

a flurry of learning activities and 

extra-curricular adventures keeping 

students and staff engaged and busy. 

In academics, the Grade 8s are 

starting their Glashan Goes Global 

unit in which students learn about different 

issues affecting our planet and 

its people: poverty, AIDS, drought 

and global warming. Then, they propose 

feasible solutions to these problems 

such as fundraising, increasing 

others’ awareness of these issues and 

writing letters. Students also get a 

chance to talk with groups directly 

involved in finding solutions, such as 

various non-governmental agencies 

in Ottawa. 

The Grade 7s will be capping off 

their study of New France with a visit 

to Quebec City in May. For three 

days, students will have a chance to 

live history, visiting places where the 

early settlers lived and treading on 

the sites of famous battles such as the 

Plains of Abraham. With almost 120 

students and over a dozen staff members, 

this fabulous trip will be one to 

remember for a long time. 

On the extracurricular front, 

Glashan students successfully learned 

how to navigate the slopes at Vorlage 

during our annual downhill ski 

trip in March. On a warm and sunny 

day, students were given lessons and 

then had a chance to try some runs 

on their own. Basketball finished for 

another year with the annual Glashan 

invitational tournaments held at the 

beginning of April. Glashan students 

did extremely well and the 

tournaments were enjoyed by all 

participants. Soccer, track and field 

and relays are all around the corner 

as is the annual multicultural dinner 

next month. Stay tuned to next 

month’s Glebe Report for more of 

the ongoing activities and learning at 

Glashan Public School. 

For more details, check out the 

Glashan website at www.glashanps. 

ocdsb.ca 

Sean Oussoren is Grade 7/8 teacher 

at Glashan Public School. 

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Photo: Sean Oussoren 

First Avenue raises $15,000 

at annual dance-a-thon 

by Isabelle Flannigan 

First Avenue School is busy getting ready for its annual book sale which will 

take place from April 22-25. For more information, see our ad in this edition 

of the Glebe Report. 

After the book sale, our next big project will be finalizing our plans for the 

renovations in the junior yard. We will be installing a new play structure and 

improving some of the landscaping over the summer. We hope the yard will be 

all set up for our return in September. 

We held our annual dance-a-thon on Thursday, February 11. We are extremely 

proud of our students (and parents) who were able to raise $15,000 this year 

and we thank our community for their generosity. A good part of the funds will 

go towards the yard renovations and to our twin school in Mali. We had a DJ 

for the day and guest hip hop dancer and dance teacher Kailena Van De Nes 

visited for one of the VIP dance periods. There was excitement and happiness 

all day. It was so much fun! 

Two grade six students took advantage of this event to host a bake sale. They 

made arrangements for other junior students to bake and take shifts selling 

goodies just outside the dance-a-thon. What leadership! These funds will go 

towards aid relief in Haiti. 

Blues in the Schools artists were with us last month. We saw four different 

concerts: Shawn Tavenier and Peter Voith, The Mighty Popo with Michael J. 

Browne, the Journeymen and finally Rick Fines. What a treat it was to have 

such wonderful shows! Rick Fines and Shane Simpson stayed on with one of 

our classes offering an extra week of one-hour workshops. They worked with 

Mme Pilon’s grade 5/6 class, helping them create their own songs and perform 

a concert for the school on March 12. 

Practising pays off 

Our girls volleyball team participated in a tournament this winter and brought 

back silver medals. Our boys also participated in a tournament in which they 

played hard and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship. Although they did not 

win a medal, we are proud of them as they played really well as a team. Our 

basketball teams are now practising for their upcoming tournaments. Coach 

McMann anticipates a great season. Go First Avenue! 

Isabelle Flannigan is vice-principal of First Avenue School. 

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Glebe artist explores South-East Asia 

by Ashwin Shingadia 

Jaya Krishnan, a familiar figure 

in the Glebe, has been travelling in 

South-East Asia during the winter 

and spring. He has been painting 

landscapes, helping local orphans in 

Cambodia and raising money to rehabilitate 

elephants. He was joined 

by his wife, Martha, at the beginning 

of March and their intention was to 

travel for a month in Vietnam. Having 

spent a year working in Australia, 

their elder son, Nathan, a Queen’s 

graduate, is already in the region and 

found time to accompany them on 

this trip. 

Some Glebe residents may be acquainted 

with Jaya through his paintings 

that have hung at local businesses 

such as Morala coffee shop, 

and Von’s restaurant on Bank Street. 

Martha in South-East Asia 

You may have seen images of one of 

his favourite subjects, Brown’s Inlet 

with its weeping willows, shimmering 

waters and skyscapes. Jaya certainly 

brings together many cultural 

influences in his painting. 

After studying at Kuala Lumpur 

College of Art, Jaya worked in Malaysia 

in publishing and then in Canada 

in graphic arts before launching 

himself as a full-time professional 

artist. At Trinity Galleries of St. 

John’s, N.B., his artistic development 

was described as “experiment[ing] 

with various artistic forms: surrealism, 

abstract expression, cubism 

and realism.” Now, he “paints in the 

landscape tradition of the French 

Barbizon School, creates luminous 

and striking landscapes focusing on 

the play of colour, light and atmosphere.” 

The gallery curator mentions 

three other paintings in its holdings 

– “Winter Delight,” “First Snow” and 

“Gatineau– all acrylics on board, noting 

that two of them have since been 

sold. The Oakville exhibit “Alcazaba 

Gardens” was inspired by Moorish 

influences in Spain as exemplified by 

the Alhambra complex in the City of 

Photo: Jaya Krishnan 

Jaya and Martha in South-East Asia 

Granada in Andalucía. The Ottawa 

Art Gallery also sold the painting 

“Splash” in 2007. His paintings can 

also be seen in galleries in Toronto, 

Oakville, Kleinburg and Calgary and 

other works of his are found in private 

collections in Malaysia, Europe, 

United States and Mexico. 

Jaya likes both travelling and teaching 

as these two experiences give 

him new ideas and inspiration for his 

work. According to his wife Martha, 

“Almost every year we travel.” Martha 

recounts that after graduation in 

1974, he travelled for five years and 

she met him during the third year, in 

Malaysia. “We fell in love,” she said, 

“but my visa had expired, so I left 

for Thailand and kept up correspondence 

with him for a year.” In those 

days, it was letter writing. There was 

no e-mail. “We just collected letters 

from a Poste Restante at a post 

office.” In more recent years, the 

family spent one year in Mexico at 

San Cristobol (see Bowers, Glebe 

Report, 13/11/1992) and they have 

been to Cuba many times. There Jaya 

photographed and painted many of 

the well preserved old American cars 

such as the ’56 Chevy. These were 

of much interest to automobile museums 

in the United States. 

One of Jaya’s pleasures is to share 

his talents with others. He teaches at 

Abbotsford House in the winter; in 

the summer, he organizes outdoor 

classes in a park or a site where he 

can find a suitable landscape. His 

philosophy of teaching, according 

to Glebite Robert Cameron, who attended 

Jaya’s class with ten others, 

is “teaching by example, the way he 

produced his own work, acrylic, applying 

quickly, and done in a certain 

way to bring out colour and design.” 

His teaching method is not to criticize 

or lecture, but to encourage students, 

showing them techniques and 

his own way of capturing a moment 

in time. 

While abroad, Jaya is spending 

much of his time in Phnom Penh, 

helping to raise money for an orphanage 

run by Cambodians. Every 

day he teaches art to the children in a 

little building in need of a roof. After 

school, the children do art which is 

then sold to tourists. Half the proceeds 

go to the orphanage, and the 

other half to the children. It is safer 

to send children to paint than let them 

run around town. Jaya has taken art 

supplies with him as not much art 

material is available in Cambodia. 

Many of his own paintings – rolled 

up to save space – accompany him 

and are to be sold to raise money for 

his projects. 

Jaya has also taken up the cause 

of the elephants in this part of the 

world. The plight of elephants in 

South-East Asia is lamentable. Elephants 

working in the logging industry 

have been replaced by machinery 

and the elephant habitat 


destroyed by the encroachment of 

human habitation, poaching and illegal 

trade in elephant parts. To reeducate 

the mahouts (elephant trainers) 

and to provide medical care, 

elephant rehabilitation centres are 

being developed. For example, a 

baby elephant named Chook whose 

front leg was caught in a trap was 

recently rescued from Mondulkin 

in north-east Cambodia. He was 

sedated, transported, his wounded 

foot cleaned and re-bandaged, and 

he was brought to a rehabilitation 

centre. Initially, he refused to eat 

because of the trauma and sense of 

missing his herd. In another case, 

an older female (ten years old) was 

found wandering alone in the forest 

of Koh Kong. Under the tutelage 

of her mahout, she has developed a 

distinctive technique of “painting” 

with her trunk and delights visitors. 

Jaya teamed up with some German 

tourists who stayed in a tent in the 

camp, sold his painting of a family 

of elephants and gave the profits to 

the centre. 

On March 2, the Krishnan family 

met in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 

with the intention of traveling along 

the Mekong delta to spend time with 

the “River People,” see the tunnels 

that the Vietcong built during the 

Vietnam War, and then head north to 

see the ruins from the Chan Dynasty. 

Martha said “We are interested in 

culture, history and heritage.” Their 

itinerary is flexible; they like to meet 

people, rent bicycles and stay in local 

hotels to keep within a “budget.” And 

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Oval and stopped in my tracks. In case you were a rookie spectator, 

attending your first live speed 

It’s stunning and deserves being 

called the “Jewel of the Olympics,” skating event, a contingency of 

with its soaring roof built of BC pine Dutch fans remained at the ready to 

that had been salvaged from forests lead the crowd in correct protocol 

destroyed by the invasive pine beetle. and behavior: lots of singing during 

It’s also massive. 

warm-up, led by a Dutch band which 

I was selected by VANOC (Vancouver 

Organizing Committee) to be cheering at athlete introductions; and 

travels the world with its athletes; 

a part of the athlete medical team at sudden, complete silence at the start 

the oval, fondly known as the ROO. of each race. Once the start is clean, 

As a physiotherapist, I joined other during the race, there is lots of vocal 

volunteer therapists, medical doctors, support, that ebbs and flows with 

surgeons and paramedics to provide the split times and the length of the 

on-site services to the athletes for the course. Christine Nesbitt reported 

Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. This after her gold medal race that she 

included readiness for on-ice trauma knew from the reaction of the crowd 

as well as a full clinic set up downstairs. 

As a volunteer, I covered my first place finish. 

that she needed to push harder for a 

own expenses, including airfare during 

my 15-day assignment. 

her 1000 metre race, I cheered as 

As well as watching Christine win 

Most of my time was spent on the Kristina Groves won her silver in the 

“field of play.” Most hours spent at 1500 metres. I sure was proud of her! 

the ROO were for training rather One of my last shifts at the oval 

than competition. During training, took place on the day of the men’s 

the oval is quiet and almost serene. 10,000 metre race. I saw Sven 

Often countries skate together, but Kramer, the Dutch superstar, skate 

quite frequently, different nationalities 

join together. To an outsider, new Olympic record, before being 

a spectacular race, even setting a 

the atmosphere does not reflect the disqualified for a lane error directed 

intensity of the skating or the importance 

of the event. The athletes are so sad. I was glad to read later that he 

by his coach. I felt quite stunned and 

efficient in their technique that they will stick with his coach and that he 

make it look effortless. Speed skating 

generates the fastest human-pow- 

through together. 

acknowledged what they have been 

ered speeds, and skaters reach up to I found the city and people of Vancouver 

to be wonderful, gracious 

60 km/hour. The ROO, being at sea 

level, is not considered as fast a track hosts. Transit was busy but ran very 

as the ovals in Calgary or Salt Lake smoothly and, of course, the mild 

City. 

weather was great if you were out 

During competition, we have a different 

viewpoint than those watching happy to have participated in this 

and about downtown! I came home 

on TV. On the field, with the athletes, great celebration of athleticism and 

we don’t experience the drama and of our made-in-Canada games. They 

anticipation built up by the media. were almost picture perfect in my 

We don’t see the close-ups of the view. 

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Winners of Awesome Authors 

youth writing contest 

by Jane Venus 

The winners of this year’s Awesome Authors youth writing contest, which 

ran from October 2009 to January 2010, were announced amid much fanfare in 

the Chamber at Ben Franklin Place. Prizes were handed out to honour Ottawaarea 

youth between the ages of 9 and 17 years, who submitted poems and/or 

short stories in French and/or English. 

Local authors Brenda Chapman, Michel Lavoie and JC Sulzenko judged the 

submissions. The winners’ works will be included this fall in pot-pourri, an 

anthology of short stories and poems published by the Friends of the Ottawa 

Public Library (FOPLA). To pre-order a copy of pot-pourri, call 613-580- 

2424, ext. 14383. 

The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) holds the contest annually, with sponsorship 

from FOPLA. 

Congratulations to the following awesome authors from central Ottawa: 

Nature’s Mirror by James Colwell, Second prize, Poetry 9-11 years, 

Mutchmor Public School 

The Magic Pencil by Eileen O’Brien, Honourable Mention, Poetry 9-11 

years, Mutchmor Public School 

Drowning by Miranda Rhamey-Smith, Honourable Mention, Poetry 9-11 


Joel: a short story by Sacha Kingston-Wayne, First prize, Short Story 9-11 


Mission Accomplished by Benjamin MacLean-Max, Second prize, Short 

Story 9-11 years, Hopewell Public School 

Play Like a Girl by Lia Codrington, Second prize, Short Story 12-14 years, 

Glashan Intermediate School 

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Scout trucks 

and spring camping 

by Nicholas G. 

Scouts in the 36 th Ottawa troop are 

going to have a busy time this spring. 

On April 17, we’re going to be racing 

‘Scout Trucks’ at Hilson Public 

School. Scout trucks are wooden 

vehicles we build and race against 

scouts across the Heritage area. 

Trucks are to be a maximum of 750 

grams and they must have 18 wheels 

in contact with the racing track surface. 

There is also a ‘best in show’ 

category and a demolition race. 

After that, we’re going spring 

camping from April 30-May 2. 

Scouts are challenged to bring their 

own food and cook their own meals. 

Senior scouts will be working on 

their Exploring or Advance Tripping 

badges; junior scouts will be 

working on their Forestry or Pioneering 

badges. 

Next up will be the Great Glebe 

Garage Sale on May 29 where scouts 

from the 36 th troop will be demonstrating 

our cooking skills by selling 

our famous hot dogs! Come out and 

support us (preferably with money 

in hand). We’ll be near the Glebe St. 

James Church at 650 Lyon Street. 

After that, it’s summer camp. Undoubtedly, 

this will be the best camp 

of the year. We’ll canoe several kilometres 

to get to our camp site, an island 

in Lac Vert. We’ll be swimming 

and paddling throughout the lake. 

It’s lots of fun, so no scout should 

miss it. 

The 36 th Ottawa Scouts meet every 

Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the 

Corpus Christi School gym. 

Nicholas G. is a member of the 36 th 

Ottawa troop. For their Chief Scout 

Award, Daniella S. and Nicholas G. 

are researching the history of the 36 th 

Ottawa Scout Troop and would welcome 

any feedback from past scouts, 

articles, clippings, examples of old 

uniforms or other paraphernalia 

that may be available. Any and all 

assistance would be appreciated so 

that Daniella and Nicholas can accomplish 

this task in May 2010. They 

can be contacted via Scouter Stan 

at 613-234-0668 or stangrabstas@ 

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Tuesday, April 20, 6:30-9:00 p.m. 

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 427 Booth Street 

The City of Ottawa is studying traffic concerns from Rochester 

Street to Bronson Avenue and Carling Avenue to Highway 417. Proposed 

changes include intersection/mid-block narrowings, medians, 

speed humps, turning restrictions and changes in parking regulations.


WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE READING 

Here is a list of some titles read and discussed in various local book clubs: 

TITLE (for adults) 

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 1 

The Book of Negroes 2 

Happiness 3 

Prisionnière à Téhéran 4 

Honeymoon in Tehran 5 

Supreme Courtship 6 

The Cart before the Corpse 7 

Look Me in the Eye 8 

The Samurai’s Garden! 9 

A Recipe for Bees 10 

The Elegance of the Hedgehog 11 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato 

Peel Society 12 

TITLE (for children & teens) 

I How I Live Now 13 

On Beale Street 14 

You Are Here 

Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates 15 

Eye of the Crow 16 

AUTHOR 

Jean-Dominique Bauby 

Lawrence Hill 

Will Ferguson 

Marina Nemat 

Azadeh Moaveni 

Christopher Buckley 

Carolyn McSparren 

John Elder Robison 

Gail Tsukiyama 

Gail Anderson-Dalgatz 

Muriel Barbery 

Mary Ann Shaffer 

AUTHOR 

Meg Rosoff 

Ronald Kidd 

Jennifer E. Smith 

Seán Cullen 

Shane Peacock 

1 Abbotsford Book Club 

2 Broadway Book Club 

3 Can’ Litterers 

4 Cercle de lecture de l’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa 

5 OnLine Audio Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

6 OnLine Fiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

7 OnLine Mystery Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

8 OnLine Nonfiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

9 Seriously No-Name Book Club 

10 OPL Sunnyside Branch Sunny Reads 

11 The Book Club 

12 Anonymous 

13 Kaleidoscope Book Club for Adults who Like Kids Books 

14 OnLine Teen Book Club: www.DearReader.com 

15 OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club (7-9 years) 

16 OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club (10-12 years) 

If your book club would like to share its reading list, 

please e-mail Micheline Boyle at glebe.report@mac.com. 

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BOOKS 

Desperately seeking Fido 

By Andrea Ross 

Almost every child dreams of having a dog. Today, we look at three books 

that treat us to the thrill of making that dream come true any time we like. 

Our first child was a dog – a spunky border collie/black lab named Pepper 

– and we loved her. A child and a half later, though, and me eight months 

pregnant, Mark suddenly found himself “between jobs,” major home renovations 

underway and an energetic twenty month old to chase – something had 

to give and that something, unfortunately, was Pepper. There were tears all 

around when we said good-bye to our beloved pooch, but our twenty-monthold 

daughter rebounded beautifully. And that, we thought, was the end of that. 

We thought wrong. 

Somewhere around the age of four, this daughter, deprived of a pet she 

couldn’t remember enjoying, caught a severe and unshakable case of I-Want- 

A-Dog. The pining and whining, wheeling and dealing became relentless. 

Since we couldn’t grant her wish in reality, we chose to grant her wish in 

books. Luckily, there are many books that deal with the wishing for, pining 

for, sublimating the desire for and, sometimes even getting, a dog. Today we 

look at three books that treat us to the thrill of making that dream come true 

any time we like. 

I Want a Dog (Dayal Kaur Khalsa; 

1994 Tundra Books) describes the 

24/7 yearning of young May who eats, 

breathes and sleeps her longing for a 

dog. All that stands between May and 

the dog she desires is time, but May 

finds the waiting unbearable and devises 

a steady stream of elaborate schemes 

to eliminate the wait. What I love about 

this version of the dog-longing story is 

that it presents, in generous and humorous 

detail, both sides of the dog debate 

and leaves readers, young and old, feeling understood and with the refreshing 

taste of a win-win solution. 

Amigo (Byrd Baylor Illustrated by Garth Williams; 

1989 Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing) 

presents an original, distracting and 

wholly satisfying approach to the I-Want-A-Dog 

debate. What stands between Francisco and the 

dog he desires is the reality of financial hardship. 

Francisco eventually chooses to sublimate 

his dog longing by working to tame a wild (and 

extremely adorable) prairie dog. The charm of 

this tale is that — unbeknownst to Francisco 

— the prairie dog is also working to tame him! 

This magical, if unrealistic, story treats us to the 

giddy thrill of success while momentarily opening 

up the possibility of “dog-free” joy. 

The Outside Dog 

(Charlotte Pomerantz Illustrated by Jennifer Plecas; 

1995 Harper Collins) recounts the gentle give and 

take between the hopeful Marisol and her resistant 

abuelito (grandfather) as a skinny, brown mutt inches 

his way into their lives. The loving and gradual erosion 

of the grandfather’s resistance is a reminder that 

we adults do want our children to be happy. Meanwhile, 

Marisol’s willingness to meet her grandfather 

halfway reminds us that there may be more than one 

way to solve to the dog-longing debate. This deceptively 

simple story is hugely satisfying. 

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BOOKS 

Egg on Mao, the story 

of a not-so-ordinary man 

By JC Sulzenko 

Where were you when tanks 

moved on Tiananmen Square? I have 

to admit that June 4, 1989, was not 

as large a defining moment in my 

personal history as the assassination 

of JFK or 9/11. After reading Glebe 

author Denise Chong’s Egg on Mao, 

I think it should be. 

I admire Chong’s choice to mark 

the 20th anniversary of that time 

of extraordinary hope and then of 

repression by focusing on the defiance 

of three young men, who threw 

paint-filled eggs at Mao’s portrait at 

an entrance to the Square on May 23. 

She tells the story from the point of 

view of Lu Decheng, the ‘ordinary 

man’ in the subtitle. Decheng, a bus 

mechanic from Mao’s own Hunan 

province, leaped on a train to Beijing 

with his friends, not only to show 

solidarity with protesters occupying 

the Square but, more importantly, 

because he believed China and its 

power elite had to change. How he 

came to this point, committed the act 

of vandalism and survived its aftermath 

provides the arc of the story. 

At the core of the narrative is 

Decheng’s own transformation. We 

see him growing up, abused by his 

father and living in the cast-iron 

shadow of a government that insinuates 

itself into even the most intimate 

aspects of its citizens’ lives. 

We watch his emotional and sexual 

awakening, and root for him and his 

underage, first love, Qiuping, as they 

cope with an ‘illegal’ pregnancy and 

the birth and death of their infant son. 

We cheer him on as commitment to a 

better future develops and leads him 

to Tiananmen Square. We fear for 

him through his betrayal by student 

leaders, his trial and imprisonment 

and ultimately, his flight to freedom 

in the West. 

What surprises the reader is how 

Decheng evolves inside the fortress 

walls. A prisoner, certainly in the 

physical sense, he reads to educate 

himself, becomes a teacher and gains 

strength while defining his own philosophy. 

That he overcomes and almost 

thrives in a set of circumstances 

that deprived another member of the 

original trio of his sanity shows that 

Lu Decheng is no ordinary man. 

What he suffers and how he survives 

earn him the preeminent place in the 

slice of history served by this book. 

As explained in the “Author’s 

Note” at the end of Egg on Mao, 

Decheng escaped from China and 

entered Canada as a refugee in 2006, 

where he “took on the life of a democracy 

activist in exile.” Now more 

or less ‘local,’ Chong was able to 

interview him for days-on-end over 

an 18-month period. He embraced 

her project wholeheartedly. 

Before I bought a copy, I listened 

to Denise Chong and her editor, 

Craig Pyette, discuss how she wrote 

the book. This provided an exciting 

exposé: the ‘cloak and dagger’ nature 

of Chong’s travels in China; the 

complexity of finding out what really 

happened and safeguarding sources 

of intelligence, both human and written; 

and the barriers caused by language 

and dialect. I suggested to her 

that a book about writing Egg on Mao 

could be a huge hit in its own right, 

much as Kate Grenville‘s Searching 

for the Secret River revealed the story 

behind her award-winning novel. 

In spite of its strengths, Egg on 

Mao was disappointing in one particular 

respect for this reader: its 

structure. The book begins and ends 

with the defacement of Mao’s portrait. 

In between, however, it ricochets 

in time and place between Beijing 

and Decheng’s childhood, from 

life in prison to the loss of his first 

child and often back to the Square. 

Even when the book captures an exquisite 

moment, such as when Qiuping 

professes her love and refuses 

to divorce inmate Decheng, the very 

next chapter deprives the reader of 

any chance to savour this as it jumps 

back in time. This pattern of going 

back-and-forth felt frustrating and 

interfered with my enjoyment of and 

investment in both the characters and 

the ‘plot.’ 

Is this book worth reading? Yes, 

of course! Lu Decheng’s story as 

portrayed in Egg on Mao is an eloquent 

paean to individual courage 

in the face of repression. We would 

each do well to remember what happened 

more than 20 years ago in the 

“largest public space in the world,” 

as The Cutting Edge series so aptly 

labeled Tiananmen Square. 


Popcorn and beer, 

the Writers Festival in the hood! 

Coming to a cinema near you 

BY neil wilson 

The Ottawa International Writers 

Festival prides itself as one of the 

most innovative literary celebrations 

on the planet. Over its fourteen year 

history, it has hosted more than its 

fair share of literary luminaries and 

prize winners, including two Nobel 

laureates. More importantly, the festival 

prides itself as a truly community 

based initiative with deep roots 

in the fertile soil of our great city, 

where it continues to be blessed with 

dedicated volunteers and world class 

writing. So, when the invitation came 

from our friends at the Mayfair to set 

up shop in one of the oldest surviving 

independent movie houses in all 

of Canada, ‘‘home of stuff you won’t 

see anywhere else,’’ well it was like 

Vampire Girl meets Douglas Coupland! 

As well as fifty of the finest writers, 

the Mayfair will feature a ‘Page 

to Screen’ series of movies adapted 

from novels by some of the most 

adventurous screenwriters including 

Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation, 

David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch 

and Wes Craven’s Serpent and the 

Rainbow. 

The Writers Festival is really an 

extended five course meal over six 

days, featuring mostly organic delicacies 

of big ideas, global perspectives, 

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The menus for the weekend and 

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Father André Drouin 

to speak April 25 at St. Giles 

Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (CCSAC) invites you to its 

annual ecumenical service. This year’s service will be held at St Giles, and 

the homilist will be Father André Drouin. Father Drouin is the recently retired 

parish priest of St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Ottawa’s Lower Town. A native 

of Ottawa, he was educated at the University of Ottawa, from which he has 

graduate degrees in both geography and family counselling. He has taught at 

the Minor Seminary and at Notre Dame de Lourdes High School, and has been 

chaplain to the Hull regiment of the Royal Canadian Army Reserve Force for 

more than 42 years. 

For over twenty years, Father Drouin has been tending to the spiritual needs 

of persons living with AIDS. His book, It All Begins with Tenderness, (Penumbra 

Press) is an account of that ministry. It won the acclaimed God Uses 

Ink Award. 

Father Drouin takes his inspiration from the parable of the Prodigal Son. 

More than once he reminds the reader of the gesture of the father in that tale: 

“When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, 

and ran, and fell upon his neck, and kissed him.” 

We all need to be reminded of this truth. Join us April 25 at 2:30 p.m. at St. 

Giles Presbyterian Church, 174 First Avenue at Bank St. For more information, 

contact CEFC@bellnet.ca. 

CCSAC is a coalition of 25 downtown churches whose mission is “To unite 

the faithful of all denominations through joint participation in social projects 

and prayers.” CCSAC’s philosophy is based on Christian principles including 

service to others, respect and tolerance for those we serve, humility about our 

service and stewardship of the resources provided to us. 

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RELIGION 

CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic) 

Fourth Avenue at Percy Street, 613-232-4891 

www.blessedsacrament.ca 

Pastor: Father Joe Le Clair 

Masses: Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. 

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 9:30 a.m. 

Saturdays, 4:30 p.m. 

Sundays, 8:15 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 8 p.m. 

(elevator available, loop system for people 

with impaired hearing also available) 

ECCLESIAX 

2 Monk Street, 613-565-4343 

www.ecclesiax.com 

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

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. Clarke Dixon 

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 a.m., English service) 

GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH 

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

www.glebestjames.ca 

Minister: Rev. Christine Johnson 

Music Director: Robert Palmai 

Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m. 

Sunday school, 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 

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

Sundays: Worship, 11 a.m. 

(English with Mandarin translation) 

Sunday school: 1:30 a.m. (for all ages) 

THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (Quaker) 

91A Fourth Avenue, 613-232-9923 

http://ottawa.quaker.ca 

Clerk: Bob Clarke, clerk.ottawafriends@gmail.com 

Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., silent Quaker worship 

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: Sundays, 10:30 a.m. 

Church school and nursery care available 

(Wheelchair access at First Avenue 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 

Open doors! Please come in and visit, Mon.-Fri., 11:30-1:30 p.m. 

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

Thursdays, 10 a.m., Eucharist & coffee 

Thursdays, 10 a.m., drop-in nannies/stay-at-home 

parents group 

Sundays: Eucharist, 8 a.m., Choral Eucharist, 10 a.m. 

Choral Evensong, 4 p.m., April 18, May 2, 16

RELIGION 

Tiptoe through the tulips 

BEST 

By Reverend Clarke Dixon 

“Tiptoe Through the Tulips” is the 

title of a song that I used to sing at 

full blast in falsetto while working 

as a student at Pizza Hut. It was 

loud, horrible, but good fun for my 

co-workers who would end up joining 

in. I’d sing it in church, but after 

my rendition of Kool & the Gang’s 

“Celebration” recently, I think we’ll 

leave the tiptoeing to my Pizza Hut 

days! 

We will soon be seeing the tulips, 

and no better place to see them than 

right here in Ottawa with a walk during 

the annual tulip festival. It takes 

considerable willpower for me to tiptoe 

through the tulips without singing, 

but for the sake of my family and 

the neighbourhood, I’ll endeavour to 

do so. 

Go for a walk in the spring, and 

besides the tulips, you will see all 

manner of signs of life: geese flying 

overhead, robins on the lawn, 

motorcycles on the road, buds on 

trees. The signs are all there, we just 

need to look around! At Fourth Avenue 

Baptist, we are encouraged by 

the signs of life in our church. Take 

a walk and you will hear the sounds 

of the Sunday school, hear rumours 

of youth initiatives being undertaken, 

stumble across a pastoral care team 

gaining steam for a new season, find 

a small but passionate group praying 

in our new prayer room, or the Bible 

study group studying and praying in 

the youth room. You might even hear 

a baby or two in the new nursery, and 

soon you will hear the splash from 

baptisms. And of course, you will 

hear music! The signs of life are 

there, we just need to look around! 

But as great as spring is with all 

its signs of life, and as great as it is 

to see the signs of life in our church, 

we long to see the signs of life that 

God brings to people’s lives in our 

nation. Look around, and we see 

people struggling with relationships, 

or struggling with addictions, poverty 

or tragedy. We see marriages 

falling apart. We see innocent people 

suffering from the evil committed by 

others. Read the headlines and it may 

seem that life is no springtime walk 

in the park. 

Jesus is risen, and because He is 

risen, new possibilities emerge. Marriages 

are on the rocks across our city. 

But He is risen – strong and fulfilling 

family life is possible. Relationships 

are strained. But He is risen – unity is 

possible. People are addicted. But He 

is risen – freedom is possible. People 

are hateful and hated. But He is risen 

– the experience of love is possible. 

People are pessimistic. But He is 

risen – confidence is possible. People 

are far from God. But He is risen – 

reconciliation is possible. People are 

dying. But He is risen – and the impossible 

has become possible: “the 

dead shall be raised incorruptible” 1 

Cor 15:52. 

Life may be no walk in the park, no 

happy “tiptoeing through the tulips,” 

but walk with Jesus and new possibilities 

emerge. 

Reverend Clarke Dixon can be 

reached at the Fourth Avenue Baptist 

Church at 613-236-1804 or revdee@ 

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your GRAPEVINE message or COMMUNITY NOTICE at the Glebe Report office, 

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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS 

CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC- 

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21 and Thurs., 22, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 

L’Esplanade Laurier, Main Foyer, 

300 Laurier Ave. West and Thurs., 

April 29, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., RA Centre, 

Canada Room, 2451 Riverside 

Dr., Call 1-888-236-6283 to book an 

appointment. 

CRAFT & BAKE SALE, Apr. 24 & 

25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Friends of 

the Farm invite you to an incredible 

selection of craft items and delicious 

baked goods in building 72 in the Arboretum 

of the Central Experimental 

Farm. Take the east exit off the Prince 

of Wales traffic circle. Admission and 

parking are free. Info: 613-230-3276 

or info@friendsofthefarm.ca 

THE GREATEST EARTH DAY 

BASH EVER. Food, Entertainment, 

Games and Workshops and Bike 

Tune-Ups by Phat Moose Cycles! 

Sat., April 24 from noon to 4 p.m., 

Lady Evelyn Alternative School, 63 

Evelyn Ave. Free entrance but donations 

of non perishable items accepted 

for the Ottawa Food Bank. Info: 

health@ladyevelyn.ca. 

THE GREATEST NEIGHBOUR- 

HOOD CLEAN UP EVER. Lady 

Evelyn Alternative School and surrounding 

neighbourhood. Fri., April 

23. Time to be announced. Everyone 

is welcome! Info: health@lady 

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HERITAGE OTTAWA FREE 

PUBLIC LECTURE, Wed., April 

21, 7 p.m. Ottawa Public Library 

Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe St. Landmarks 

Not Landfills: News Ideas 

for Old Buildings. Heritage Canada 

Foundation’s executive director, 

Natalie Bull will outline the Foundation’s 

campaign to establish federal 

financial incentives for the retention 

and restoration of old buildings as 

Canadian assets and not liabilities. 

SPORTS &SPINAL INJURY CLINIC 

Info: 613-230-8841 or www.heritageottawa.org. 

HISTORICAL WALK OF THE 

CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL 

FARM. May 11, from 7 to 9 p.m., 

the Friends of the Farm invite you to 

join Bob McClelland who will lead 

a walking tour which will showcase 

the picturesque landscape design, architectural 

history, and stories of Ottawa’s 

beloved Central Experimental 

Farm. Cost is $12 for FCEF members 

and $15 for non members. Info: 613- 

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April 20 - Monarch Waystations 

Lecture with Master Gardener Julianne 

Labreche. April 27 - Home 

Grown Produce Lecture with 

Master Gardener David Hinks. The 

cost for individual lectures is $12 

for FCEF members and $15 for non 

members and for the series the cost is 

$40 for FCEF members and $50 for 

non members. The lectures are held 

in building 72 in the Arboretum of 

the Central Experimental Farm, east 

exit off the Prince of Wales traffic 

circle. To register or for more information 

call 613-230-3276 or email 

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LOSING A LOVED ANIMAL: 

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AND DEATH. Seminar, 6 to 9 p.m., 

Fri., April 30, Church of the Ascension, 

253 Echo Drive. Info 819 790- 

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Sat. May 15 at 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

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Friends of the Central Experimental 

Farm and speciality growers 

and nurseries. May 9, 9 a.m. to 1 

p.m. in the parking lot of the Neatby 

Building, Carling & Maple Drive, 

Central Experimental Farm. Admission 

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SPRING RUMMAGE SALE. 

Fourth Ave. Baptist Church, Bank 

St. at Fourth Ave., Sat., April 24, 9 

a.m. to 12 noon. Baking, Clothing 

Boutique, Household items, Books, 

Toys, China, Jewelry. 

THE ENVIRONMENTAL TOX- 

INS AND HEALTH COMMIT- 

TEE OF THE CANADIAN FED- 

ERATION OF UNIVERSITY 

WOMEN-OTTAWA in co-operation 

with Glebe St. James United Church 

will present the film “Toxic Trespass” 

at the Glebe St. James United 

Church on Wed., April 21, 7:30 p.m. 

The film, about children’s health and 

the environment, launches an investigation 

into the effects of the chemicals 

around us and the links between 

environmental pollution and health 

problems. Pay-What-You-Can: all 

welcome. Info: 613-235-7819. 

MUSIC 

BYTOWN VOICES presents ‘Here’s 

to Song’, Sun., May 2, 3 p.m., at St. 

Basil’s Church (Maitland, north of 

the Queensway). The 40-voice choir 

will do a medley of musical tunes 

by Andrew Lloyd Webber and spiritual, 

classical and folk tunes. Tickets 

at the door: $15 adults, $6 students, 

free for 12 and under. Info: www.bytownvoices.com 

or: 613-234-1030. 

AVAILABLE 

FULL-TIME, LIVE OUT NANNY 

available September 2010. Energetic, 

enthusiastic and extremely dedicated. 

Twelve years working in the Glebe. 

Please contact Claudia Joseph at 613- 

797-5035. For a reference and more 

info., contact Claudia’s current family, 

Lisa and Neil at 613-232-0591 or 

by e-mail at lisa@manworks.ca 

FOR RENT 

ONE-BEDROOM SEMI-FUR- 

NISHED BASEMENT APART- 

MENT IN OLD OTTAWA SOUTH 

for a non-smoking, quiet female 

graduate student or professional. 

Monthly rent $900, includes heat, 

hydro, water, basic cable (separate 

lines for telephone and internet). No 

pets. Available immediately. Please 

call Caroline at 613-237-7894 for 

more info. or to arrange a viewing. 

FOR SALE 

GARAGE SALE, Sat., May 1. 9:30 

a.m. to 1 p.m. Rain or shine. All 

kinds of household items. Books, 

CDs, videos etc. Toys, adults’ & 

children’s clothing. Collectibles and 

more. Trinity Church, 1230 Bank St., 

613-733-7536. 

MAHOGANY DINING ROOM 

TABLE AND EIGHT CHAIRS. 

Table is 80” extended x 38” wide x 

30 1/2” high. Table top is in excellent 

condition and legs are in the Duncan 

Phyfe style. Chairs are very comfortable 

for long evening dinners. $999. 

Call 613-233-1673. 

WANTED 

PURCHASE HOME IN GLEBE 

/OLD OTTAWA SOUTH. Young 

couple currently renting in the Glebe 

looking for a home to purchase (does 

not have to be in move-in condition). 

If you are planning to sell, let’s split 

the commission! All suggestions are 

welcome and appreciated. Call Derek 

at 613-894-5318. 

LOOKING FOR ALUMNI/STAFF 

OF CARLETON and Glebe residents 

that remember when Carleton 

College (University) was in the Glebe 

(1948-1959) for help with history 

project. Contact Neil @ 613-233- 

7011 or bytownhouse@gmail.com 

Glebe Spring Clean up of Bank Street 

April 17, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. 

Meet outside Fifth Avenue Court 

(Fifth and Bank) 

Volunteers needed 

Cleaning supplies provided


BEST 

For rates on boxed ads appearing on this page, 

please contact Judy Field at 613-231-4938 or by e-mail at 

judyfield@rogers.com. 

GRAPEVINE 

TuToring 

Experienced teacher to work 

with students in any subject 

area: mathematics (K-12), 

all other subjects (language 

arts, science, study skills, 

etc.) up to grade 8. 

Please call 613-234-6828. 

LUNENBURG 

RENTAL 

Large 5 bedroom house 

on Lunenburg harbour 

in Nova Scotia. Flexible 

weekly/monthly rentals. 

Call 613-232-4921 or email 

headoftheloch@hotmail.com 

residential 

renovation 

“Including” 

Plaster Repairs and 

Texture Ceiling Finishing 

Doug Corrigan 613-224-8063 

house for rent 

Glebe, beautifully renovated, 

detached, 3-4 bedrooms, 

2 bath. Available May 1st. 

http://mesozoic.earthsci. 

carleton.ca/~espencer 

613-230-0598 

TuToring 

Math and other subjects. 

Individual or small groups. 

All ages, certified for gr 7-12. 

B.Math. (UWaterloo), 

B.Education (QueensU). 

Greg 613-656-5498 

www.EquitableEducation.ca 

from experienced teacher 

Cello Lessons 

Jan Jarvlepp 

613-729-7766 

jarvlepp@magma.ca 

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. 

Rent 

A 

Wife Household Organizers 

“Every working woman needs a wife!” 

Regular & Occasional cleaning 

Pre & Post move cleaning and packing 

Pre & Post renovation cleaning 

Blitz & Spring cleaning 

Organizing cupboards, basements... 

Perhaps a waitress ??? 

rent-a-wife-ottawa.com 

TuTor 

High School Math 

and Physics 

Zach 613-796-9230 

References 

COTTAGES FOR SALE 

& FOR RENT ON 

MAJESTIC LAC HENEY 

819-463-3335 

GATINEAULAKES.COM 

Caregiving: experienced and loving child-care worker 

available part or full time through the spring and summer. 

Home help such as light cleaning or yummy cooking 

also possible. references. Please call 613-730-8098. 

Laurel 749-2249 

686 Bronson Avenue 

613-238-3776 

Over 60 years of experience 

Choose from a complete selection of new or rebuilt vacuum cleaners! 

Bags ~ Hoses ~ Parts and service for most makes & models. 

Complete central vacuum sales & service ! 

Hoover ~ Kenmore ~ Miele ~ Samsung ~ Eureka ~ Kirby ~ Beam 

Dyson ~ Oreck ~ Royal ~ Sanyo ~ Tri-Star ~ Filter Queen 

Nutone ~ Broan ~ Dirt Devil ~ Can-a-Vac ~ Riccar, etc... 

www.vacshack.ca 

Since 

1971 

Painting Services 

• Interior/ Exterior 

• Residential/ Commercial/ Industrial 

• Fully Insured 

• 2 Year Written Guarantee 

For Your Free Estimation 

Call Award Winning Franchise Owner 

Shane Lanigan 

613-882-1221 

CATHERINE ST. 

MINI STORAGE 

SECURE CLIMATE CONTROLLED SELF STORAGE 

MONTHLY RATES *** 

MAX. SECURITY *** 

HEATED & AIR-CONDITIONED *** 

399 CATHERINE ST. 613 

BETWEEN BAY AND PERCY 

FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED 

WE SELL 

BOXES 

AND 

PACKING SUPPLIES 

234-6888 

Russell Adams 

Plumber 

613-226-5685 

John Adams 

Master Plumber

April 16, 2010 

Photos; Wendy Philpott 

www.gnag.ca 

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group 

Glebe Community Centre 

175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 

(613) 233-8713 or (613) 564-1058 info@gnag.ca 

www.ottawa.ca 

Glamour in the Glebe 

Premier Viewing : 

Friday, May 7 at 6:30 PM 

Admission: $5.00 

Jewellery fashion show 

Refreshments and cash-bar 

Summer is 

GNAG’s Specialty 

GNAG offers a wide variety of 

fantastic specialized camps for all 

ages and interests. 

Whether you are artistic, 

athletic, creative or adventurous, 

we have something for you. 

Celebrate 

Women 

at our Annual 

Jewellery Show 

Over 30 Jewellers 

You will find something 

for every woman in your 

life including you! 

Saturday, May 8 

10:00 AM – 4:00 pm 

Free Admission 

Rockin’ Benefit 

to benefit victims of the 

recent Glebe fires 

Friday, 

April 30 6:30 pm 

GNAG 

Lobster 

Kitchen Party 

Live Entertainment 

Adults: $10 

Students: $ 5 

Under 12: Free 

Local bands featured at 

Bluesfest 

Dancing 

50/50 draw 

Cash bar 

Cash Bar 

Thursday, 

May 27, 2010 

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm 

Tickets: $50.00 

includes: lobster 

lobster poutine 

strawberry 

shortcake

April 16, 2010 - Glebe Report

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