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<strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> Vol. 38 rvn No. 4<br />
Serving the <strong>Glebe</strong> community since 1973<br />
Honouring the legacy of Sylvia Holden<br />
FREE<br />
Sylvia Holden, centre, with her son Alfred, left, and her husband, Clem, right, on opening day of the park, June 1, 1995.<br />
Photo: Ilse Kyssa<br />
Why a park for Sylvia Holden?<br />
BY ELAINE MARLIN<br />
Sylvia and Clem Holden, a dynamic duo (still wonderfully active at ages<br />
80 and 86), were local residents who were very involved in community activism<br />
and local politics in the <strong>Glebe</strong> from the 1970s to the 1990s. One of<br />
Sylvia’s passions was improving and expanding recreation facilities in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>. Together with the late Frances Bryce, she did a survey of all the recreational<br />
facilities in the community, cataloguing possible new spaces for development.<br />
As a very active chairperson of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association’s<br />
Recreation Committee, Sylvia kept the goal of expanding recreation facilities<br />
in the public eye, no matter what other crises were going on.<br />
Working mostly with groups of young parents, she helped to upgrade several<br />
of our neighbourhood parks. The establishment of the Tot Lot at Fifth and<br />
O’Connor avenues (later named Lionel Britton Park after another great supporter<br />
of recreation) was the hard-fought victory of one of those local groups.<br />
Sylvia almost succeeded in having a children’s playground built on the part of<br />
Clemow Avenue that is currently blocked off to traffic, this time working with<br />
a different team of residents. An adventure playground, where older children<br />
<strong>April</strong> 15-18<br />
<strong>April</strong> 17<br />
<strong>April</strong> 22-25<br />
<strong>April</strong> 25<br />
Mark your calendars<br />
Originals Spring Craft Sale, Lansdowne Park<br />
www.originalsshow.ca (see page 24)<br />
Spring clean Bank Street, 9:30 a.m.<br />
Meet outside Fifth Avenue Court.<br />
First Avenue School Book Sale<br />
Thurs., 4-9 p.m., Fri., 10 a.m.-9 p.m.,<br />
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun., 10 a.m.-3 p.m.<br />
My Kids Funky Closet Kids Consignment Sale<br />
10 a.m.-3 p.m., GCC<br />
www.mykidsfunkycloset.com<br />
<strong>April</strong> 30 Rockin Benefit, 6:30 p.m., GCC (see page 8)<br />
May 7-24<br />
May 7-8<br />
May 9<br />
Canadian Tulip Festival, www.tulipfestival.ca<br />
Glamour in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, jewelry show, GCC<br />
(see page 6)<br />
Ottawa Farmers’ Market opening day<br />
Lansdowne Park, www.ottawafarmersmarket.ca<br />
May 27 GNAG’s Lobster Kitchen Party (see page 6)<br />
May 29<br />
Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale<br />
could build – under supervision – using scrap materials, also came close to<br />
realization in the northeast section of Lansdowne Park, now being referred to<br />
as Sylvia Holden Community Park. Eventually the wading pool was built at<br />
the spot planned for the playground – a different result than intended; however,<br />
by then, the spot had been clearly earmarked for recreational use.<br />
In contrast to the hustle and bustle of recreational activities at this community<br />
park, the park at Bank Street and Holmwood Avenue, is a passive park for<br />
all ages that provides a respite from the noise of Bank Street. Sylvia patiently<br />
and doggedly pursued her goal of establishing a park on this site, a process<br />
which took years of negotiations. It was officially opened on June 1, 1995 by<br />
councilor Jim Watson and was named in honour of Sylvia Holden. Although<br />
the Holdens eventually moved away, Sylvia would make a point on return<br />
visits of weeding the flower beds with her friend Ilse Kyssa. Last month, in a<br />
telephone conversation, she confirmed that the original Sylvia Holden Park included<br />
only the piece of land at Bank Street and Holmwood Avenue. Jim Watson<br />
described it as a three-acre park in the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> issue of June, 9, 1995.<br />
Why the boundaries recently appear to have moved is still a bit of a mystery.<br />
continued on page 22<br />
Abbotsford ..........2<br />
Art ................24<br />
BIA ................13<br />
Books. .......... 38-39<br />
Business ........ <strong>16</strong>-17<br />
Councillor’s <strong>Report</strong> ..10<br />
Editorial .............4<br />
Entertainment .......26<br />
GCA ................8<br />
WHAT’S INSIDE<br />
GNAG. ..............6<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> History .... 14-15<br />
Grapevine ....... 38-39<br />
Letters ..............5<br />
MP’s <strong>Report</strong>. ........18<br />
MPP’s <strong>Report</strong> .......12<br />
Music ..............25<br />
Religion ......... 40-41<br />
Schools ......... 30-34<br />
NEXT DEADLINE: FOR THE MAY 14 ISSUE<br />
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, <strong>2010</strong>
2 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> EVENTS<br />
Join us early to fight against<br />
HIV/AIDS in Africa<br />
by Carol MacLeod<br />
Grammas to Ambuyas (grandmother in Shona) are pleased to be organizing<br />
their third annual fundraiser for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, once again with<br />
the generous collaboration of Bob Russell, proprietor of Stoneface Dolly’s. On<br />
May 31, Grammas to Ambuyas is sponsoring a Reach for the Top celebration<br />
to give our community the opportunity to be updated on the Stephen Lewis<br />
Foundation Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign.<br />
Since its March 2006 launch, more than 220 groups of Canadian grandmothers<br />
have taken the challenge. The campaign has raised over $7 million.<br />
The Stephen Lewis Foundation directs these funds to community-level<br />
organizations in 15 sub-Saharan African countries to provide grandmothers<br />
with much needed food, housing grants, school fees for their grandchildren<br />
and grief counselling. There is more information at the Foundation website:<br />
www.grandmotherscampaign.org/ or www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/<br />
grandmothers.htm.<br />
Grammas to Ambuyas guest speaker this year is Gisele Mansfield. She and<br />
five other Kilimanjaro grannies hiked to the summit of Kilimanjaro. The adventure-of-a-lifetime<br />
was planned to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic that is<br />
destroying Africa’s social and economic fabric. AIDS has killed a generation<br />
of sub-Saharan wage earners, leaving grandparents and orphaned children to<br />
fend for each other with limited economic resources. The family unit has been<br />
redefined by AIDS so that vulnerable children are raising their siblings. Grandparents<br />
are the primary caregivers to millions of orphans and communities are<br />
ostracizing the HIV+ sufferers.<br />
The Kilimanjaro Grannies group produced a glorious book about their trek<br />
to the summit of this iconic African destination, Kilimanjaro, A Purposeful<br />
Journey: A story of six ordinary women making a difference in AIDS-stricken<br />
Africa. Profits from book sales support the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers<br />
to Grandmothers Campaign, the Snowy Owl AIDS Foundation and<br />
Camp Wendeke, a camp being built in eastern Ontario for people living with<br />
HIV and AIDS and their caregivers, loved ones and traditional/non-traditional<br />
families. The book will be on sale after Gisele’s talk at Stoneface Dolly’s.<br />
The event takes place on Monday, May 31 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Stoneface<br />
Dolly’s at 4<strong>16</strong> Preston at Beech. Delicious flavours of Africa treats will be<br />
served. Tickets are $40 and proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. If<br />
you have other commitments, you can make a cheque payable to the Stephen<br />
Lewis Foundation and we will make sure it reaches its destination! Donations<br />
over $20 are tax receipted. Tickets are limited for this always popular event.<br />
For tickets, call Barb Coyle, 613-233-2500, Sheila Jenkins, 613-235-3107 or<br />
Carol MacLeod, 613-234-9572. Please join us!<br />
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goods, services and talents<br />
By Julie Ireton<br />
Sneezy Waters will entertain. CBC Radio host, Alan Neal, will be MC. Art,<br />
jewelry, crafts and even a night-on-the-town will be up for auction. There’s<br />
something for everyone at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre’s Fifth Annual Goods, Services<br />
and Talents Auction to be held Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 22 , at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre.<br />
The event gets underway at 7 pm sharp with Sneezy Waters. His trio includes<br />
Ann Downey and Vince Halfhide. They’ll play for only the first half hour or so,<br />
so get there early to hear Sneezy. While you listen to the trio, you can wander<br />
around, checking out what’s up for auction. “This year we have three unique<br />
craft items on offer, thanks to the generosity of our talented volunteers,” says<br />
Pat Goyeche, program facilitator at Abbotsford’s Community Centre for adults<br />
55 plus.<br />
“The one-of-a-kinds are just that, so you have to see them to believe them!”<br />
Among the items up for auction will be 26 pieces of original art and 30 pieces<br />
of jewelry, all precious stones in either sterling silver or white gold. There<br />
are bracelets, earrings and necklaces with pendants. “We do have a couple<br />
of pieces of antique jewelry which I know some collectors are interested in,”<br />
explains Sandy Taylor, outreach co-coordinator for Abbotsford. Taylor is involved<br />
in organizing the art and jewelry for the auction.<br />
“We have everything appraised, and we start everything at one third market<br />
value. For the art, there’s a combination of oil or watercolours and most of it is<br />
signed by the artist,” explains Taylor.<br />
There are also some rare forms of art. “We have four lovely Japanese wood<br />
cuts. It’s a type of Japanese art done with small pieces of wood. It’s very attractive.”<br />
Also up for auction will be English porcelain, hand-cut glass vases<br />
and some Middle-Eastern rugs. But there are more than goods up for grabs.<br />
There are also some interesting services…including meals out and a “sleepover.”<br />
For the second year in a row, Alice Hinther, a neighbourhood foodie, will<br />
offer her services for a dinner for eight. Hinther’s dinner was very popular last<br />
year and raised a lot of money. “I’ll deliver it hot, on platters,” she explains.<br />
“There’ll be no Styrofoam!” Hinther is well known to the <strong>Glebe</strong> community<br />
and is a frequent helper for Abbotsford fundraisers. “The dinner for eight will<br />
include a starter, salad, a meal with dessert…there will be a menu to chose<br />
from,” says Hinther.<br />
On auction night, while you wander around the auditorium and place your<br />
bids, you can sip wine or beer and have some nibbles. The auction will be in<br />
the main hall of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre on <strong>April</strong> 22. It is free and open<br />
to the general public from 7-9 p.m.<br />
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EVENTS<br />
25 th anniversary for the<br />
Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale<br />
By Janet Sutherland<br />
On Saturday, May 29 the Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale (GGGS) will once again<br />
turn our neighbourhood into a festive marketplace. First launched by the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Association (GCA) in 1986, the <strong>2010</strong> event will mark our 25 th<br />
year! The benefits are many: recycling no-longer-needed possessions, finding<br />
some great bargains, meeting neighbours, and pocketing a little money – at<br />
the same time as supporting an important cause in our community. Since its<br />
inception, the GCA has encouraged a voluntary contribution of 10 per cent of<br />
vendor proceeds to the Ottawa Food Bank, resulting in a much-needed annual<br />
boost to their budget. Last year, residents and businesses of the <strong>Glebe</strong> collectively<br />
donated over $12,000 to the Food Bank. Over the past few years, the total<br />
donated has varied as outlined below.<br />
$14,000<br />
$12,000<br />
$10,000<br />
$8,000<br />
$6,000<br />
$4,000<br />
$2,000<br />
Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale Results<br />
2004-2009<br />
$0<br />
2004 1 2005 2 2006 3 2007 4 2008 5 2009 6<br />
Total $12,000 $8,700 $8,200 $13,600 $8,200 $12,767<br />
Set a new record for donations<br />
It would be great to set a new record to honour this 25-year milestone! Beyond<br />
holding sales, some people put their artistic talents to work in support<br />
of the cause: The Swampwater Jazzband has been playing Dixieland jazz and<br />
collecting donations for the Food Bank for many years. We hope you too will<br />
donate some of your garage sale proceeds and/or shopping savings! The easiest<br />
way to make a donation is to visit the Ottawa Food Bank website at www.<br />
theottawafoodbank.ca. Charitable tax receipts are issued for donations of $10<br />
or more. The Ottawa Food Bank will also have volunteers in the neighbourhood<br />
on the day of the sale and there will be a booth at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre where you can drop off your proceeds and donations.<br />
Volunteers<br />
In celebration of the 25 th anniversary, the GCA has updated the GGGS logo<br />
(see the new ad in this issue) and will try out a new income-generation idea this<br />
year. We’ll be looking for volunteers to help with selling GGGS souvenirs.<br />
Information<br />
Be sure to visit the GCA website (http://www.glebeca.ca/events/garage_sale.<br />
html) for garage sale tips and updates on where to rent tables, parking and<br />
where to drop off your donation on the day of the sale. For information, call<br />
613-236-0025 (voice mail). If you have questions, or if you would like to help<br />
promote the Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale, or work with the Ottawa Food Bank<br />
volunteers on the day of the sale, please contact Janet Sutherland at GGGS@<br />
glebeca.ca. Good luck with your preparations for this great <strong>Glebe</strong> tradition!<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> 3<br />
Tulip Festival in living colour<br />
May 7- 24<br />
by Julie Houle Cezer<br />
I have to confess that I love tulips from the instant they push their tight little<br />
green caps through the soil to each moment they drop petals, one by one, and<br />
finally stand all naked without their tinted bonnets. Through every stage of<br />
their bloom cycle, these flowers change their shape and hue. From distinct,<br />
defined curves of brilliant colour to yawning circles and ovals in deepening<br />
tones, these ephemeral beauties offer us a visual feast. Along the Rideau Canal<br />
and Commissioner’s Park near Dow’s Lake, wide ribbons of tulips invite us to<br />
revel in a kaleidoscopic world of floral shape shifting. A gift with a long and<br />
complex history that connects us with the past, tulips will hopefully inspire<br />
us in the present and future to sustain greenspaces and nurture the peace and<br />
friendship they have come to symbolize.<br />
Needless to say, I welcome the Tulip Festival with enthusiasm, good walking<br />
shoes and my camera. However, in the unlikely eventuality that I may tire of<br />
walking amid all this splendour, I can participate in many other events at the<br />
Canadian Tulip Festival.<br />
If not already booked for the <strong>2010</strong> Watercan Ball and Embassy Dinner<br />
(Aberdeen Pavillion) to raise money for clean water projects in Africa, I can,<br />
on May 7, join the Liberation Street Party with free entertainment on Sparks<br />
Street from 4:30-10 pm.<br />
At Confederation Square on Saturday, May 8, I can bear witness to a more<br />
somber 11 a.m. ceremony honouring war veterans who played an important<br />
role in liberating the Netherlands during World War II.<br />
The following weekend I may wander over to Major’s Hill Park and the<br />
Belgian Mirror tent to listen to period jazz and swing music, quaff my thirst in<br />
the Beer Garden, satisfy my interest in culture at the International Bazaar, my<br />
hunger at the Food Emporium and attend one of the many lectures presented<br />
by Célebridée between May 2-19. And then back to enjoy the main show – the<br />
tulips.<br />
For Festival info: www.tulipfestival.ca; tel: 613-567-5757 or hotline:<br />
1-800-66 TULIP; e-mail: info@tulipfestival<br />
Photo: Wendy Philpott<br />
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4 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Celebrating volunteers<br />
and the world around us<br />
<strong>April</strong> and spring rains bring celebrations of poetry month, volunteer week<br />
(<strong>April</strong> 18-24) and Earth Day (<strong>April</strong> 22).This is a happy confluence of life<br />
affirming events. This speaks of the flow of newly released energies and inspires<br />
me to take my imagination and all my senses on a slow date with my<br />
environment. As I take time to pay attention to the pulse within and without, I<br />
am reminded that while we often speak of our lives in prose that is linear, we<br />
actually live our multi-layered moments in spirals of poetry. So join me and<br />
slow down, breathe, take time to listen and allow the poetry that is in your life<br />
to bubble up and find expression.<br />
Paying close attention to their human and physical environment is motivation<br />
enough for some people to take individual and collective action in order<br />
to make things better for those around them and the community at large. They<br />
are the volunteers that enrich all our lives. They are all around us, in hospitals,<br />
clinics and seniors centres, schools, places of worships, sports arenas, community<br />
centres, museums, cultural centres and parks, to name but a few. They<br />
walk with us through life giving their time, skills and energy to strengthen the<br />
fabric of the social, cultural, economic and political networks that underpin<br />
our institutions and community life. Their contribution is enormous and is<br />
often taken for granted. We need only look around our own small community<br />
to the range of needs that are addressed by the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association,<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Activities Group, and the Business Improvement<br />
Area, and ask what would the community look like if they did not exist. We<br />
need to keep in mind that the hard work of volunteers created these associations<br />
and hard work keeps them going. So greet the next volunteer you see<br />
with a smile and a helping hand.<br />
Julie Houle Cezer, editor<br />
Notes from the boardroom<br />
by Ian McKercher<br />
Julie Houle Cezer appointed editor<br />
The Board of Directors of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Association is pleased to<br />
announce the appointment of our new editor. Julie came on to the production<br />
crew as interim editor in late January. After a year as a volunteer proofreader,<br />
she then emerged as the top candidate in the Board’s open search to fill the<br />
position.<br />
Digitization and missing copies<br />
The board has hired the firm of Brechin Imaging Services to digitize all back<br />
issues of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>. A searchable electronic database of all publications<br />
should be available by the fall. We are missing four editions from the archives<br />
and we need your help to complete the collection. Please contact the editor if<br />
you have any of these copies and can assist us.<br />
Missing copies:<br />
September, 1982, Volume 10, #8, October, 1982, Volume 10, #9<br />
November, 1982, Volume 10, #10, February 8, 1985, Volume 13, #2<br />
Volume numbering error<br />
Volume 1, number 1 of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> was published in June, 1973. A new<br />
volume began each new calendar year. Unfortunately, a typographical error in<br />
the numbering of the November 1985 edition went undetected and was never<br />
corrected. All editions in <strong>2010</strong> will be renumbered volume “38*cvn” (corrected<br />
volume numbering) so as not to be confused with issues published in<br />
2008 and designated as volume 38. In <strong>April</strong> 2012, when we catch up to volume<br />
40, number 4, the designation “*cvn” will be discontinued.<br />
Ian McKercher is the new chairman of the Board of Directors of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong> Association.<br />
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be published in both a hard copy monthly version and an electronic version<br />
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& Joseph Kelly, Carly & Reilly Kimber, Liam Kirkpatrick, Mary & Imre Kovacs, Bonnie Kruspe, the Kuffner family, the Lambert family, Joanne Lucas,<br />
Sam & Dawson Lyon, the Macdonald family, Maria MacIntosh, Emily & Oliver Maddox, the Magner family, Pat Marshall, Madeline & Tara Martin,<br />
Gordon McCaffrey, Fiona & Timothy McCarthy-Kennedy, Isaac McGuire, Ellen & John McLeod, Katie Millington, Julie Monaghan, Diane Munier, Sana<br />
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LETTERS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> 5<br />
Speaking up for our<br />
community park ... again<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
We are in receipt of a letter from <strong>Glebe</strong> residents Adrian Evans, Robert<br />
Campbell and Joseph Duggan informing us that the principles and terms of<br />
reference for the Lansdowne urban park design competition call for proposals<br />
to integrate the community park part of Sylvia Holden Park with the new urban<br />
park (between Lady Aberdeen Pavilion and the Driveway) and the larger civic<br />
agenda for Lansdowne Park.<br />
Our reaction to this information is that the City of Ottawa is thereby demonstrating<br />
a colossal lack of good faith. During the consultation hearings for<br />
the OSEG (Lansdowne Live) proposals, no part of the community park (the<br />
recreational area bounded by Fifth Avenue, O’Connor, Queen Elizabeth Drive<br />
and a line extending roughly eastward from Holmwood Avenue to the canal)<br />
was represented as subject to modification.<br />
It infuriates us that the name Sylvia Holden Park is likely to engender confusion,<br />
since the city has a large conspicuous sign showing Sylvia Holden Park<br />
as located at 945 Bank Street and yet, in some city representations, designates<br />
10 Fifth Avenue as the Sylvia Holden Park address. The uninformed are likely<br />
to think that our protest relates to the Bank Street address, whereas we are<br />
equally concerned about the O’Connor/Driveway/Fifth Avenue area.<br />
Having fought alongside many others since the early 1970s to introduce<br />
basketball, a wading pool, and other facilities into this recreational space, we<br />
are appalled that the city should sneakily turn this into an area once again up<br />
for grabs. The case was made at the time, and councillors agreed, that while<br />
there is green space in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, the neighbourhood has little space for sports<br />
and other active pursuits.<br />
There is no reason to trust any assurances that space can be found elsewhere<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong> for these facilities. The community has already lost many sports<br />
facilities at Lansdowne. There were once two soccer fields behind the south<br />
stands, a T-ball field, tennis courts, a skateboard park and an outdoor hockey<br />
rink. But these have been replaced in recent decades by parking spaces.<br />
The city should show good faith in keeping the recreational area off limits<br />
in the calls for design proposals for this area, as was depicted in the graphics<br />
shown at the Lansdowne Live consultations throughout the city.<br />
Elaine and Randal Marlin<br />
The world is curiouser and<br />
curiouser ...<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Everyone in the <strong>Glebe</strong> will be very familiar with the recent tragedy on Monk<br />
Street when numbers 5 and 7 caught fire.<br />
Less than one week later the city had served an Order to Comply on the poor<br />
owner of the property for “demolition of a 2 storey building without benefit<br />
of a demolition permit.” I checked the date: it was issued on March 31,<br />
not <strong>April</strong> 1.<br />
My questions are: Do we all need to get demolition permits before having a<br />
major fire? What is the penalty for not having one? Should there be a concessionary<br />
waiver for unpremeditated demolition by a third party? Should the fire<br />
department be issued with a blanket demolition permit for such occasions?<br />
Frank Johnson<br />
The Annual General Meeting<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Board of Directors<br />
will take place<br />
at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
on June 14, <strong>2010</strong> at 8 p.m.<br />
All are welcome!<br />
Demystifying the zoning<br />
around Lansdowne Park<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
I felt it necessary to write to let you and readers know about the complexity<br />
of all the different zoning issues that Lansdowne Park faces. These will create<br />
a challenge to anyone considering a proper redesign of the park.<br />
1. Currently, the park is owned by the City of Ottawa and is a public space.<br />
Adjacent to the park, the National Capital Commission owns the land<br />
along Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Parks Canada has jurisdiction over<br />
the Rideau Canal, but the canal is also designated by UNESCO as a<br />
World Heritage Site.<br />
2. The Horticulture Building is designated a heritage building under Part 4<br />
3.<br />
of the Ontario Heritage Act.<br />
The Aberdeen Pavillion is both a provincially designated heritage building<br />
and national historic site:<br />
a) Under just the provincial designation, the Aberdeen Pavillion<br />
has a heritage conservation easement which is a buffer zone that surrounds<br />
the building and extends all the way to Bank Street. Any development<br />
in this zone (and presumably near it) must first meet the<br />
approval of the Ontario Heritage Trust.<br />
b) Also, a second Ontario Heritage Trust easement extends from<br />
Aberdeen Pavillion to Queen Elizabeth Driveway and protects the<br />
sightlines of the building from the canal, now a World Heritage Site.<br />
c) Under the national designation, Parks Canada must also be notified<br />
if any major changes are made to the building or the area immediately<br />
surrounding it.<br />
d) Potentially, UNESCO may have to be informed of any changes<br />
that might affect the historic cultural nature of the canal.<br />
Thus, there are five different organizations that currently lay claim to the<br />
site: municipal, provincial, two national and one international.<br />
I hope this clarifies the complexity of the current zoning and heritage issues<br />
surrounding the park and some of its buildings.<br />
Andrew Elliott<br />
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On Friday, March 26, GNAG, in partnership<br />
with Cisco’s Ottawa Bluesfest<br />
and the Ottawa Folkore Centre featured<br />
five bands made up of young teenagers.<br />
One band returned from last year’s program<br />
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In January, 25 youth from 11-<strong>16</strong> years old, answered a general call to ‘Be In<br />
The Band.’ This program is designed for youth who want to learn how to play<br />
in an ensemble and perform before a live audience. Although most band members<br />
barely knew each other, they were immediately sorted into four bands<br />
after the first night of rehearsal. The program was led by well-known Ottawa<br />
musicians Todd Snelgrove (guitar), Kurt Walther (bass) and Simon Keeble<br />
(bass player with Another Round). <strong>Glebe</strong> St. James Tennis clubhouse became<br />
the “school of rock.”<br />
I spoke with a couple of parents and this is what they thought of Be In The<br />
Band: “The youth of this community are so fortunate to have this opportunity<br />
right here in their own neighbourhood.” “It is marvellous how the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre always manages to find something new and innovative for this<br />
community. I am also so impressed with the professional mentoring.”<br />
Mark Monahan, executive/artistic director of Cisco’s Bluesfest, has invited<br />
‘Full Tipped Sleeve,’ ‘Guitar Sticks and Drum Picks,’ ‘Contrast’ and ‘The<br />
Corner’ to perform at this year’s Bluesfest on July 18. Congratulations to all<br />
for another incredible season!<br />
On behalf of GNAG and the teens from ‘Be In The Band,’ I would like to<br />
extend a big thank you to Tom Evans from the <strong>Glebe</strong> St. James Tennis Club,<br />
Alan Marsden and his wonderful instructors from the Ottawa Folklore Center<br />
and AJ Sauvé, director of Communications, Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest. Our<br />
heartfelt gratitude goes to Mark Monahan – without his ingenuity and support,<br />
this vision would not have come to fruition.<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> fires: déjà vu<br />
by Julie<br />
Houle Cezer<br />
As the girl in the<br />
black jacket approached<br />
the corner of Monk and<br />
Fifth, she continued to<br />
pick up the pace until…<br />
she rounded the corner.<br />
Suddenly, as if hit by<br />
a physical blow to her<br />
core, her knees buckled<br />
and her body folded<br />
into a Z; instinctively,<br />
her arms reached for the<br />
ground as the vision of<br />
loss registered: all the<br />
memories and the refuge<br />
that were her home<br />
lay in rubble. Fortunately,<br />
her descent was<br />
broken by the strong<br />
arms of neighbours and<br />
friends who were there<br />
to console her as the<br />
tears flowed. Needless<br />
to say, I stopped taking<br />
photographs. The<br />
shock and devastation<br />
moved from person to person, and continuing to document the intimacy of<br />
these moments seemed like a violation.<br />
Though the weather was chilly but clear that day, acrid<br />
smoke had been filling the skies since early that Saturday<br />
morning when the seemingly controllable fire had begun<br />
on one of the upper decks. By 2 p.m. on March 27, the<br />
sixplex at 5 and 7 Monk St. was nothing but a large snack<br />
for the jaws of the monster excavator that munched and<br />
crunched on bricks and hot spots. Although the building<br />
came down much faster and the number of apartments<br />
If you see Morris, and people involved were fewer, the scene was a déjà<br />
call Meaghan at vu of the January fire on <strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue. Happily, as in<br />
613-299-9357 the previous incident, there was no loss of human life,<br />
although a family cat named Morris is still missing in action<br />
(see picture). However, the material loss to both tenants and the owner of<br />
the building has been almost total. In addition, there has also been considerable<br />
collateral damage (flooding) to nearby businesses such as <strong>Glebe</strong> Fitness<br />
and Dance with Alana and the neighbouring sixplex.<br />
Then last Friday night, <strong>April</strong> 9, the fire trucks were out again in force at<br />
11 p.m. for a triplex fire at 242 Fifth Avenue that left six people homeless.<br />
In between March 27 and<br />
<strong>April</strong> 9, the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Association had<br />
already made arrangements<br />
to keep the fire account<br />
#001<strong>16</strong>-1012954<br />
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Further, they are<br />
looking to host some<br />
public education meetings<br />
on fire safety, smoke<br />
detectors, fire exit plans<br />
and insurance. Simultaneously,<br />
with the impetus<br />
and organizational efforts<br />
coming from <strong>Glebe</strong> resident Tina Dennis and strategic supports from GNAG,<br />
a Rockin’ Benefit fundraiser for the survivors of the neighbourhood fires<br />
is being planned for Friday, <strong>April</strong> 30 at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre at<br />
6:30 p.m. It will feature local bands that have recently won a spot at CISCO<br />
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8 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Spring has sprung and so have public<br />
meetings. This month alone, we’ve<br />
already had meetings about the new<br />
play structures being installed in Capital<br />
Park (bordered by Craig, Newton,<br />
Gordon, and Ella Streets) and about<br />
the inclusion of Sylvia Holden Park<br />
(adjacent to Lansdowne Park at the<br />
Queen Elizabeth Driveway) in the<br />
design competition for a new urban<br />
park.<br />
Next is an upcoming meeting about<br />
installing bicycle lanes on Pretoria<br />
Bridge and closing the right turn lane<br />
adjacent to the TD Bank. We’ve organized this public consultation with the<br />
Ottawa East Community Association and the meeting will be held at the Old<br />
Town Hall on Main Street on Tuesday, <strong>April</strong> 20 at 7 p.m. Last but not least,<br />
we’ll be hosting a public information session on the recently released neighbourhood<br />
study on Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 29 at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre. The<br />
authors of the study will provide an overview of the results for the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
and Dow’s Lake and answer any questions you may have. Councillor Clive<br />
Doucet, MPP Yasir Naqvi and MP Paul Dewar will all be attending to provide<br />
information on municipal, provincial and federal initiatives that address some<br />
of the study’s findings. This is one meeting not to be missed. You can read up<br />
on the study at www.neighbourhoodstudy.ca.<br />
Sadly, we’ve also met with a few residents of 5 and 7 Monk Street, who<br />
have been left homeless by the second major fire in two months. Ten residents<br />
in six units lost everything in the blaze, which spread rapidly and consumed<br />
the beautiful old building. To assist the residents, we are once again raising<br />
funds. We had planned to close our special account (opened after the fire on<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue), but we have decided to leave it open indefinitely. It’s at the<br />
Royal Bank branch at Bank Street and First Avenue and the account number<br />
is 001<strong>16</strong>-1012954. The GCA board of directors is now considering setting up<br />
a charitable foundation to assist community members in need. This would allow<br />
us to provide tax receipts to donors and respond more quickly in a crisis<br />
situation. We’ll be discussing this at our board meeting on <strong>April</strong> 27 and would<br />
appreciate hearing your views on the subject. If you can’t attend the meeting,<br />
send us an e-mail about it at gca@glebeca.ca.<br />
Members of our community have stepped forward to organize a fundraising<br />
rock benefit with local bands, dancing, a cash bar and prizes on Friday, <strong>April</strong><br />
30 at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre. We’ll be lending a hand with that too.<br />
Lastly, we are consulting with Ottawa Fire Services and other organizations<br />
about hosting a public meeting on fire safety issues such as smoke detectors<br />
and escape plans as well as insurance. Many of us live in older homes similar<br />
to the buildings on <strong>Glebe</strong> and Monk Street and more recently, Fifth Avenue.<br />
If “balloon construction” has also been used to build our homes, is there anything<br />
we can do to make these houses safer? We will likely wait to have this<br />
meeting in September so that we can also reach our significant student population.<br />
Stay tuned for more information on this in the coming months.<br />
You’ll see a lot of us in May too. May is membership month. A block representative<br />
will be knocking on your door, asking you to join the GCA. The<br />
fee is $5 per household again this year and it’s our only source of funding. For<br />
that low, low price, you get hundreds of volunteer hours devoted to everything<br />
from education to heritage to everyone’s favourite event, the Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage<br />
Sale! This year, our canvassers will be making an extra effort to collect<br />
e-mail addresses. There is a lot happening in our neighbourhood and it often<br />
happens at a rapid pace. Having your e-mail address will allow us to send you<br />
regular monthly updates and notify you quickly in urgent situations. Our list<br />
is used for GCA business only and is never shared with other parties. You can<br />
also sign up for our mailing list on our (new and improved!) website at www.<br />
glebeca.ca. We hope this meets the needs of the 88.51 per cent of respondents<br />
of a recent survey, who said they would be interested in being on a mailing list<br />
in order to be updated on <strong>Glebe</strong> related issues.<br />
That’s right. We have received the results of the survey conducted by the<br />
Carleton University change management students and mentioned previously<br />
in this column, on our website and on our Facebook page. The full report can<br />
be found on our website. It’s been very interesting – and occasionally difficult<br />
– reading for our board. Generally, it seems we are doing a pretty good job,<br />
but could improve in some areas. The report provides five key recommendations:<br />
• Reach more people by ‘going electronic’<br />
• Encourage more people to join the board<br />
• Better represent the needs of students and renters<br />
• Implement secondary research findings<br />
• Increase public awareness of the GCA.<br />
As the head of the organization, I am up for the challenge. Are you? The<br />
board of directors can’t do this work alone. We need your help. Our membership<br />
campaign is our best opportunity to greet you personally and to start<br />
making these changes. Please welcome your canvasser with a smile. Sign up,<br />
and get in touch!<br />
Caroline Vanneste<br />
gca@glebeca.ca<br />
www.glebeca.ca<br />
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Vanneste
FOOTBRIDGE UPDATE<br />
Midtown footbridge study going ahead<br />
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The City’s Transportation Committee<br />
unanimously approved the<br />
initiation of an environmental assessment<br />
study for the proposed midtown<br />
footbridge at its <strong>April</strong> meeting. The<br />
approval allows city staff to request<br />
bids. Once a contractor is selected,<br />
the study is expected to be completed<br />
in approximately 24 months.<br />
The study’s scope includes satisfying<br />
environmental assessment<br />
requirements, recommending a preferred<br />
location, preparing functional<br />
design drawings of the preferred<br />
crossing, creating a project implementation/staging<br />
plan, estimating<br />
project capital and maintenance<br />
costs and securing approvals in principle<br />
as required by regulatory agencies.<br />
Capital Ward Councillor Clive<br />
Doucet, who has been a long-time<br />
advocate of a new “green” link across<br />
the canal in the vicinity of Fifth Avenue<br />
and Clegg Street, called the approval<br />
a major step forward to building<br />
a sustainable and safe pedestrian<br />
and cycling infrastructure that will<br />
benefit not just those in the <strong>Glebe</strong>,<br />
Old Ottawa East and Old Ottawa<br />
South but also many other Ottawans<br />
who live beyond the “three sisters”<br />
and seek a safer and more convenient<br />
“midtown” crossing of the canal.<br />
As noted in the approved statement<br />
of work, the origins of a Rideau Canal<br />
crossing near Clegg Street and Fifth<br />
Avenue date back to the Holt Plan<br />
(1915); the Greber Plan (1950); and<br />
National Capital Commission plans<br />
(1968). A ferry operated for several<br />
decades in this vicinity until circa<br />
1950. Through the 1950s and 1960s,<br />
the National Capital Commission<br />
(NCC) annually constructed a wooden<br />
footbridge in the winter months<br />
between Herridge Street and Second<br />
Avenue. With the loss of these seasonal<br />
crossings, pedestrians and cyclists<br />
have had to detour to either the<br />
Pretoria Bridge (850 metres north)<br />
or the Bank Street Bridge (1.25 kilometres<br />
south).<br />
Extensive Consultation<br />
The study will involve stakeholders,<br />
including local community/interest<br />
groups, property owners, businesses,<br />
area schools and approval<br />
agencies. Early in the study process,<br />
community stakeholders will be<br />
identified through liaison with Councillor<br />
Doucet.<br />
A public consultation group and an<br />
“agency” consultation group will be<br />
formed to enable meaningful consultation<br />
with stakeholders at key stages<br />
in the study. A minimum of three<br />
public meetings/open houses with<br />
the general public will augment the<br />
consultation group meetings. Presentations<br />
to the NCC’s Advisory<br />
Committee on Planning, Design and<br />
Realty will also be required.<br />
The public consultation committee<br />
is expected to include representatives<br />
from the three neighbouring community<br />
associations (OECA, GCA<br />
and OSCA) and the Midtown Footbridge<br />
Group has also requested to<br />
be a part of the committee. One other<br />
opportunity for public input will be<br />
to comment on the specific environmental<br />
study report, which will address<br />
the provisions of relevant<br />
provincial and federal environmental<br />
legislation.<br />
Lansdowne Relationship<br />
According to the statement of<br />
work, the contractor will develop<br />
different designs for the preferred<br />
crossing locations options and will<br />
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develop criteria for assessing these<br />
designs. In this context, the contractor<br />
will assess any pedestrian bridge<br />
crossing proposals/designs that may<br />
be submitted by the winning design<br />
team for the Lansdowne urban park<br />
design competition to determine how<br />
the proposal could respond to the requirements<br />
determined through the<br />
environmental assessment.<br />
The Midtown Footbridge Group,<br />
which has been researching the proposition<br />
for several years, recently<br />
wrote to Kent Kirkpatrick, city manager<br />
and the chair of Lansdowne Park<br />
Steering Committee, to stress that the<br />
location and design of the footbridge<br />
should be decided in a process that,<br />
while taking into consideration the<br />
Lansdowne Design Competition, is<br />
independent from the competition.<br />
The letter to Mr. Kirkpatrick<br />
notes: “The determination of the<br />
footbridge’s location should involve<br />
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careful assessment against key criteria<br />
and full public consultation.<br />
Although the footbridge will provide<br />
a critical access to Lansdowne Park<br />
from the east, there are many other<br />
factors that must also be considered<br />
in determining the footbridge’s best<br />
location. These factors include the<br />
relative proximity to the Bank and<br />
Pretoria bridges; linkage to existing<br />
cycling and walking routes; contribution<br />
to an east-west cycling/pedestrian<br />
corridor; and safety concerns<br />
such as crossing the parkways and<br />
ensuring children can better get to<br />
schools on the opposite side of the<br />
canal from which they live.”<br />
At the same time as the Midtown<br />
Footbridge Study was approved, the<br />
Transportation Committee also gave<br />
its blessing of a comparable study for<br />
a pedestrian crossing of the Rideau<br />
River, linking Somerset East with<br />
Donald Street (near the tennis club).<br />
Proposed Construction on Fourth Avenue (Bronson to Percy)<br />
and Chrysler Avenue (First Avenue to Fifth Avenue)<br />
Watermain, Sewer and Road Reconstruction<br />
You are invited by the City of Ottawa to attend a Public Information Session<br />
regarding the subject construction project that is scheduled to commence in the<br />
summer of <strong>2010</strong> and expected to last for 2 construction seasons.<br />
The work involves replacing the existing combined sewers with new larger combined<br />
sewers and replacing the watermain on Fourth Avenue with a new larger<br />
watermain, all within the road allowance. Sewer laterals and water services within<br />
the road allowance to the property line will also be replaced. Water lead services on<br />
private property can be replaced as part of the project and a representative from the<br />
Lead Pipe Replacement Program will be on hand to answer residents’ questions.<br />
The session will include:<br />
• Review of design drawings showing the planned work.<br />
• Discuss impact of construction work on adjacent properties, local traffic, etc.<br />
• Discussion of concerns.<br />
• Comments and suggestions.<br />
The City and its consultant, along with Councillor Doucet, will be on hand to<br />
present the project and respond to questions.<br />
Wednesday, <strong>April</strong> 21, <strong>2010</strong> — 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue<br />
City contact:<br />
Jeffrey Waara, P. Eng., Senior Project Manager<br />
City of Ottawa, Infrastructure Services Department<br />
100 Constellation Cres., 6th Floor West, Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8<br />
Tel: 613-580-2424 x27805; Fax: 613-560-6064<br />
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More lipstick<br />
on the Lansdowne pig<br />
Group about farmers selling off the<br />
back of pickup trucks revealed they<br />
had no concept of how the current<br />
market is run let alone what its real<br />
potential is. Mr. Williams had never<br />
been to the market or asked anybody<br />
who had. The Farmers’ Market is one<br />
Councillor<br />
Clive<br />
Doucet<br />
When it comes to Lansdowne,<br />
some people think we are making<br />
progress and I would acknowledge<br />
the window dressing is getting better<br />
but it remains a taxpayer subsidized<br />
shopping mall with a $129 million<br />
stadium fully funded by the city. The<br />
quality of the lipstick on the pig has<br />
been improved but it’s the same pig.<br />
Witness the “front lawn” competition<br />
intended to cover the portion of<br />
the park next to the Canal left over<br />
after the shopping mall gets built and<br />
the stadium is refurbished. The “front<br />
lawn” competition will cost the City<br />
of Ottawa $375,000, and $3 million<br />
has already been committed to this<br />
sole-sourced deal. The original design<br />
competition for the entire park<br />
would have cost $350,000 and would<br />
have been completed by now. Not<br />
only is the new competition more<br />
expensive, it is for less than half of<br />
Lansdowne Park.<br />
The lipstick on the pig gets a little<br />
brighter with each passing week. Last<br />
fall city staff confirmed that Sylvia<br />
Holden Community Park, which is<br />
adjacent to Lansdowne Park, would<br />
not be included in the Lansdowne<br />
Partnership Plan. Now, we discover<br />
that Sylvia Holden Community Park<br />
has been inserted into the “front<br />
lawn” competition.<br />
Sylvia Holden is a community park,<br />
with baseball diamonds, a childcare<br />
facility, children’s playgrounds and a<br />
summer pool. It’s located in a neighbourhood<br />
which already has less than<br />
one quarter of the recreation space<br />
required by city policies. Now we<br />
are told it may need to be landscaped<br />
so that it can be integrated for events<br />
that produce “overflow.”<br />
How are residents supposed to have<br />
faith in a redevelopment process for<br />
Lansdowne when who gets what is<br />
constantly changing? Why aren’t<br />
council motions being respected? An<br />
oversight?<br />
Another oversight surfaced from a<br />
consultant at the city’s presentation<br />
on retail prospects for the park. Offhand<br />
comments from J.C Williams<br />
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of the most valuable assets currently<br />
at Lansdowne Park and if consultants<br />
aren’t even aware of the current<br />
situation, they can’t be paying much<br />
attention.<br />
What are consultants paying attention<br />
to? The Trinity Development<br />
Group’s website revealed a more<br />
detailed drawing of the commercial<br />
space for the shopping mall, including<br />
the “overlap” area of the “front<br />
lawn” where the Farmers’ Market is<br />
now located. Those detailed drawings<br />
were removed from the website<br />
shortly after I issued a media release<br />
pointing out the extent of commercial<br />
development planned. Yet another<br />
oversight or are we witnessing<br />
a pattern?<br />
We are born old and young<br />
at the same time.<br />
We are born with great loves<br />
and great pains<br />
that we grow into like an acorn<br />
grows into an oak tree;<br />
like God grows into the universe.<br />
Here’s another example that fits<br />
the pattern. The consultant hired to<br />
report on the heritage of Lansdowne<br />
Park pointed out in great detail the diverse<br />
uses of the park over the years<br />
and that none of them were permanent,<br />
commercial or retail. In spite<br />
of the complete lack of precedent as<br />
outlined in the report, the consultant<br />
concluded that it is appropriate to<br />
try to maximize the amount of retail<br />
space at the park. This is not surprising<br />
given that the report was paid for<br />
by the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment<br />
Group and the city partners. He<br />
who pays the piper calls the tune.<br />
And the tune here is very clear.<br />
Only 14.4 per cent of the revenue<br />
for Lansdowne Live will come from<br />
sports revenue even with a $129 million<br />
subsidy – the rest will come<br />
from the mall.<br />
Coffee with Clive<br />
Coffee with Clive takes place on<br />
the third Thursday of the month at<br />
the Wild Oat on Bank at Fourth from<br />
9-10 a.m. It is a good opportunity to<br />
discuss neighbourhood and citywide<br />
issues in an informal setting.
CITIZENS INITIATIVES<br />
Hands off our park<br />
In early March, many <strong>Glebe</strong> families first learned that the principles and<br />
terms of reference for the Lansdowne Park urban design competition were calling<br />
for proposals that would include the recreational, multi-use park located<br />
on a parcel of land east of O’Connor St. and just south of Fifth Avenue. In the<br />
true spirit of citizens’ initiatives, several concerned individuals stepped forward<br />
to organize a response at the grassroots level to the many questions and<br />
concerns articulated by residents in the area. As their numbers have grown,<br />
their campaign to raise awareness about the community park has made use<br />
of traditional means of communication such as flyers, posters, informal and<br />
formal meetings with neighbours, as well as e-mail and social media which<br />
have allowed them to post pictures of the park in use and announce upcoming<br />
events to a wider audience. On <strong>April</strong> 15, the public meeting at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre included dialogue about their concerns.<br />
by Adrian Evans<br />
The city chose to include Sylvia Holden Community Park in the Lansdowne<br />
Park design process. This has raised concerns for the following reasons:<br />
1. Poor consultation<br />
The city passed a motion indicating that the community park was excluded<br />
from the Lansdowne re-development. We now find out that it is included and<br />
there has been no consultation with residents. It is incumbent upon the city to<br />
sit down with residents to explain.<br />
2. Unknown layout<br />
As part of the Lansdowne Park redesign, the elements of the community<br />
park may be moved to integrate them into a larger urban park. Does this mean<br />
that parking garages or staging areas will be located along Holmwood Avenue<br />
and O’Connor Street?<br />
3. Universal access<br />
The community park is to be integrated into the urban park. Parts of the<br />
urban park will be closed for large events. Will the wading pool and playing<br />
fields be closed whenever there’s a concert, football game or festival (e.g., during<br />
Bluesfest)?<br />
4. Governance<br />
The re-developed Lansdowne Park site may be managed by a municipal services<br />
corporation (MSC). Apparently, the community park will be operated by<br />
the city. How is this possible? What prevents the MSC from controlling access<br />
or imposing fees?<br />
5. Incorrect inventory (no dog park!!)<br />
The RFP for the Lansdowne Park design competition indicates that, “Sylvia<br />
Holden Park includes two baseball diamonds, a basketball court, a splash pad,<br />
a play structure, outdoor rinks, an informal sports field and a small wadding<br />
[sic] pool and a park support building.” The dog park, two sets of swings and<br />
all of the trees are omitted. There is no splash pad nor outdoor rinks. Would the<br />
new park only have a splash pad?<br />
6. Will the new Lansdowne Park be safe for children?<br />
The re-developed Lansdowne site is going to include a large shopping mall<br />
and will host large sporting events, concerts and festivals with huge crowds.<br />
Will the community park attached to it be a safe place for children?<br />
7. The community park is part of our neighbourhood<br />
The existing community park is a central part of our neighbourhood. It has<br />
come to be associated with the park established in honour of Sylvia Holden<br />
and it includes commemorative trees and many mature trees. How do we preserve<br />
this history?<br />
8. Can the city deliver?<br />
The outcome of the design competition will be an ambitious park project.<br />
Does the city have the budget to deliver this project? Or will we only see<br />
the commercial aspects (e.g., shopping mall, hotel) built? The City of Ottawa<br />
has a track record of promising ambitious re-development and not following<br />
through (e.g., Orleans town centre, Lebreton Flats, Westboro Loblaws).<br />
Many aspects of the Lansdowne site can be improved; however, the community<br />
park works well as it is. Please write to council and the program manager,<br />
Development Review, John Smit (John.Smit@ottawa.ca) to share your<br />
concerns. Consult our blog (http://savesylviaholdenpark.blogspot.com/) or<br />
email save.sylvia.holden.park@gmail.com to get more information.<br />
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City manager’s update on<br />
Lansdowne Park greenspace<br />
As you can see from other articles in this issue, a growing number of questions<br />
have arisen about the impact that re-designing Lansdowne Park may have<br />
on the boundaries, safe access to and future use of the community park east<br />
of O’Connor and south of Fifth Avenue in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Answers provided to<br />
concerned citizens have often been contradictory and confusing, making it difficult<br />
to have a productive dialogue about the essential issues. In that context,<br />
the following clarification of the city’s terms of reference, which differentiate<br />
between Sylvia Holden Park and the multi-use recreational community park,<br />
comes as an invitation to take a breath and a welcome pause in the conversation.<br />
Delivered to council by Kent Kirkpatrick, this update does provide a<br />
more coherent summary of the information on record at the city and can be<br />
quite useful in trying to identify the parcel of land in question and to appreciate<br />
the importance of its past and current use. Editor<br />
Excerpt from March 31, <strong>2010</strong> Memo to Council: Update on Lansdowne<br />
Redevelopment “Sylvia Holden Park – Request for Information and<br />
Clarification”<br />
Further to Councillor Peter Hume’s<br />
letter dated March 15, <strong>2010</strong>, sent to<br />
you in his capacity as a member of<br />
the Lansdowne Strategic Design<br />
Review and Advisory Panel, certain<br />
members of the community and the<br />
media have approached the City with<br />
questions regarding the future of Sylvia<br />
Holden Park in the context of the<br />
Lansdowne revitalization. By way of<br />
this memo, I would like to provide<br />
you with information that will be<br />
made public shortly in response to a<br />
number of inquiries received to date<br />
by staff.<br />
Sylvia Holden Park is often referred<br />
to as the greenspace which includes<br />
the corner of Holmwood Avenue and<br />
Bank Street, the grass corridor that<br />
runs along Holmwood and the park<br />
adjacent to the Ottawa Fire station<br />
and the Queen Elizabeth Driveway.<br />
In fact Sylvia Holden Park (0.46 hectares)<br />
is limited to the greenspace at<br />
the corner of Holmwood and Bank<br />
that runs along Holmwood to the west<br />
side of the Horticulture Building.<br />
As a result of further investigation<br />
on the history of the parks in and<br />
around Lansdowne, I would like to<br />
clarify that we have confirmed that<br />
the park adjacent to the Ottawa Fire<br />
Station and the Queen Elizabeth<br />
Driveway (which includes baseball<br />
diamonds, wading pool, basketball<br />
court, play structure, day care, service<br />
building etc.) is undedicated<br />
parkland, referred to as Lansdowne<br />
Community Park (2.56 hectares) and<br />
is not part of what is commonly referred<br />
to as Sylvia Holden Park.<br />
The Parks, Recreation and Cultural<br />
Services department programs<br />
the wading pool and the two baseball<br />
diamonds at Lansdowne Community<br />
Park. It is fully intended that the<br />
Lansdowne Community Park remain<br />
a City asset and continue to be fully<br />
accessible to the community whether<br />
the revitalization of Lansdowne Park<br />
proceeds or not. The Lansdowne<br />
Community Park is and will remain<br />
directly under the control of the City<br />
of Ottawa and programmed by the<br />
Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services<br />
department.<br />
It is important to note that Lansdowne<br />
Community Park has been<br />
included for consideration in the<br />
master plan development through<br />
the Urban Park Design Competition.<br />
This was done at the request of the<br />
Lansdowne Strategic Design Review<br />
and Advisory Panel in accordance<br />
with the “Guiding Principles for<br />
the Lansdowne Transformation”. In<br />
order to safeguard this area within<br />
the Urban Park Design Competition,<br />
specific provisions were included in<br />
the Request for Proposals (RFP), to<br />
ensure that the existing park amenities<br />
are retained and to emphasize<br />
the local and community importance<br />
of this park. It states, in part, the following:<br />
“The facilities in the existing park<br />
are important to the local community.<br />
Design solutions may propose<br />
to redesign the existing community<br />
park; however, must also ensure<br />
that the park amenities are not lost.<br />
Therefore if redesigned, the primary<br />
community facilities must be integrated<br />
into the new urban park and<br />
must remain fully community accessible<br />
at all times…If any of the current<br />
facilities are relocated to a new area,<br />
the new facilities must be in place<br />
before the existing ones are decommissioned.”<br />
According to the Schedule of<br />
Events in the RFP, the deadline for<br />
urban park design submissions is<br />
May 11, <strong>2010</strong>. Immediately thereafter,<br />
between May 12 and 28, <strong>2010</strong>,<br />
the submissions will be on public display<br />
in keeping with the design competition<br />
process. The Technical Panel<br />
and Jury for the urban park design<br />
competition will review the submitted<br />
designs in early June.<br />
Ultimately, City Council will consider<br />
the matter on June 23, <strong>2010</strong><br />
when it will be asked to endorse the<br />
selected design proposal and approve<br />
the conditions upon which<br />
the City would negotiate a business<br />
arrangement with the selected firm<br />
for the refurbished urban park. Any<br />
changes to the existing programming<br />
for this site, including Lansdowne<br />
Community Park, Sylvia Holden<br />
Park and for Lansdowne Park itself<br />
will be the decision of Council.<br />
These important assets will remain<br />
City-owned.
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ensure future prosperity and economic growth.<br />
Although at 62 per cent, Ontario has achieved one of the highest rates of<br />
post-secondary education in the world, one must realize that as the economy<br />
changes, 70 per cent of all new jobs will require post-secondary education or<br />
training. Consequently, that is our government’s goal for Ontario. This is the<br />
reason that we are adding 20,000 new student spaces to colleges and universities<br />
this September, through an annual investment of $310 million. This is great<br />
news for Ottawa’s colleges and universities who will now have the funding to<br />
attract more students. More students means more people will have the tools<br />
and skills they need to succeed. In addition to supporting our post-secondary<br />
institutions, we have also pledged to boost Employment Ontario spending to<br />
$1.6 billion in 2009-<strong>2010</strong> and <strong>2010</strong>-2011 to help retrain an additional 30,000<br />
unemployed workers through the Second Career Strategy.<br />
Child Care Investments and Full-Day Learning<br />
Children are our most precious resource and one of our most important investments.<br />
We cannot afford to let our children suffer. That is why we are<br />
pledging to make up for the federal funding that is ending this year by investing<br />
an additional $63.5 million a year. As a result of this commitment, an estimated<br />
302 child-care spaces in Ottawa will be preserved.<br />
We are also moving forward with full-day learning. This fall, 39 Ottawa<br />
schools will be offering full-day programs for four- and five-year-olds. By<br />
2015, full-day learning will be available to every four- and five-year-old across<br />
the province. Moving to full-day learning is a big step. We are working with<br />
our education and child-care partners to take a measured approach and are<br />
taking five years to transition to the new model, so we can make sure we get it<br />
right. To help facilitate this transition, we are investing $245 million over the<br />
next two years in capital grants and subsides to help some child-care centres<br />
convert existing space to serve other age cohorts. We will also review the Day<br />
Nurseries Act to support child-care centre viability.<br />
Supporting Families and Reducing Poverty<br />
We have made a permanent commitment to break the cycle of poverty. In<br />
2008, we announced a long-term poverty reduction plan that will give people<br />
the tools they need to succeed. The Open Ontario Plan will help Ontario reach<br />
its full potential while supporting the vulnerable and helping everyone succeed.<br />
We are moving forward with our poverty reduction plan with the increase<br />
of the minimum wage to $10.25 an hour on March 31. This is the seventh<br />
consecutive year that the minimum wage has increased, following a nine-year<br />
freeze at $6.85. To help low-income Ontarians, a new permanent refundable<br />
sales tax credit of up to $260 per person is available in <strong>2010</strong>. We have also enhanced<br />
the property tax relief, providing more support particularly for seniors.<br />
To ensure that vulnerable Ontarians are protected, we have increased adult<br />
basic-needs allowances and maximum shelter allowances by one per cent for<br />
people on the Ontario Disability Support Program and Ontario Works.<br />
In addition, we are protecting our core public services with an increase of<br />
1.5 per cent in base hospital funding and 3.6 per cent in school board funding.<br />
The Road Forward<br />
The <strong>2010</strong> Ontario Budget reflects the values of Ontarians. We are prudent<br />
and responsible and believe in the return to balanced budgets. However, we<br />
also believe in the core public services like health care and education that<br />
make Ontario the best place to live and work and in which to raise a family.<br />
With this plan, we will move back to balanced budgets, create jobs and return<br />
to prosperity.<br />
For more information on the <strong>2010</strong> Budget, please do not hesitate to contact<br />
my community office.<br />
Yasir Naqvi<br />
613-722-6414<br />
ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org.<br />
Bank Street at Second Avenue 613-234-6353<br />
Thank a volunteer<br />
for enriching your life.
BIA<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> BIA protecting our village atmosphere<br />
By Catherine Lindquist<br />
There’s been lots of activity within<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Business Improvement<br />
Area (BIA) in recent months, with<br />
some long-time businesses relocating<br />
within the BIA (<strong>Glebe</strong> Fashion<br />
Cleaners, Joe Mamma, Brio Bodywear)<br />
or to new locations elsewhere<br />
in the city (World Mosaic, Byblos,<br />
Planet Botanix, The Body Shop,<br />
Slick ‘n Sassy, Senes consulting, The<br />
Conference Publishers); one winding<br />
down to pursue other life pursuits<br />
(Prime Crime Books); others<br />
refreshing under new ownership or<br />
management (<strong>Glebe</strong> Fashion Cleaners,<br />
The UPS Store, The <strong>Glebe</strong> Spa,<br />
Sushi Go, <strong>Glebe</strong> Fitness, Arrow &<br />
Loon); and new businesses setting up<br />
shop here (The MVP Lounge, Snap<br />
Fitness, Tea & Ginseng, Confident<br />
Smiles, Anna Bélanger RMT, Interiors<br />
by Cefaloni, Robertson Martin<br />
Architects, Harnn and Thann). To all<br />
and to any I’ve overlooked we wish<br />
you great success in your new directions!<br />
Our newest BIA members, Fadi<br />
and Marjolaine Ghaby, co-owners of<br />
Harnn and Thann, hosted three great<br />
opening events to accommodate all<br />
who wanted to come and celebrate<br />
the launch of their new <strong>Glebe</strong> location<br />
(they have another location in<br />
Westboro). I had the privilege of encouraging<br />
invitees at one of the events<br />
to gather round a fountain sink and<br />
enjoy hand treatments with a selection<br />
of aromatic scrubs and luscious<br />
body butter. This included former<br />
Glebite Jim Watson, who welcomed<br />
the treatment for hands that are pressing<br />
flesh on the campaign trail.<br />
Opening celebation at Harnn and Thann. Owners Marjolaine and Fadi Ghaby<br />
on either side of Catherine Lindquist and Clive Doucet<br />
In talking with many of these new<br />
business owners and managers, it’s<br />
been wonderful to hear a common<br />
theme: the <strong>Glebe</strong> business and residential<br />
community have been so<br />
friendly and so welcoming. It truly is<br />
a village within the city, where folks<br />
stop to chat and say hello or a word<br />
of goodbye or welcome.<br />
On another front, the <strong>Glebe</strong> BIA is<br />
working hard to ensure that we protect<br />
and enhance our village character<br />
and ‘traditional main street’ designation<br />
under the city’s Official Plan.<br />
Whenever we are afforded the opportunity<br />
to do so, we provide input<br />
to the many studies being undertaken<br />
with respect to the proposed redevelopment<br />
of Lansdowne Park. City<br />
council directed that an independent<br />
consultant be retained to develop<br />
a retail strategy that would ensure<br />
that retail activity on the site would<br />
be more unique and destination-oriented<br />
than what had been proposed<br />
by the Ottawa Sport and Entertainment<br />
Group (OSEG). The J.C. Williams<br />
Group from Toronto was hired<br />
to develop this strategy.<br />
John Williams presented his findings<br />
just before the March break.<br />
Like the many media representatives<br />
who were in attendance at the presentation,<br />
we were very disappointed<br />
in the $70,000 strategy. The themes<br />
were varied and vague and, surprisingly,<br />
he recommended locating a<br />
grocery store and cineplex at Lansdowne<br />
Park as previously promoted<br />
by OSEG and uses like a drug store<br />
and “ample national chains.” He suggested<br />
that such uses are required<br />
Photo: Daniel mackinnon<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> 13<br />
in order to include such unique and<br />
much more desirable uses as a dance<br />
school, micro brewery or specialty<br />
food boutique. He also did not address<br />
the transportation and parking<br />
impacts of proposed retail concepts<br />
on Lansdowne Park and on Bank<br />
Street businesses in the <strong>Glebe</strong> and<br />
Old Ottawa South.<br />
We remain very concerned that an<br />
appropriate vision and direction for<br />
retail development at Lansdowne<br />
Park is still lacking. The city is hiring<br />
an independent peer review consultant<br />
to review the market studies<br />
previously undertaken for the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
BIA and OSEG and is expanding the<br />
mandate to determine whether the<br />
J.C. Williams Group study fulfilled<br />
council’s direction (city staff have<br />
not stated whether they feel the strategy<br />
did). Further to our representations<br />
at council’s Corporate Services<br />
and Economic Development Committee,<br />
we have been assured that the<br />
peer review study will address the<br />
question of transportation and parking<br />
impacts.<br />
On a more positive note, the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
BIA is working with the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Association’s Environment<br />
Committee, the City of Ottawa and<br />
landscape architect and Glebite John<br />
Wright to pursue funding through<br />
Tree Canada’s TD Green Streets<br />
Program to help ‘green’ the Queensway<br />
corridor along Chamberlain<br />
and Isabella with some tree, shrub<br />
and flower planting. We hope that<br />
our application will be approved and<br />
that we can round up some green<br />
thumb volunteers to help with the<br />
planting.
14 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> GLEBE HISTORY<br />
Thirty Years Ago in the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Vol. 8 No. 4, <strong>April</strong> 8, 1980 (24 pages)<br />
Ian<br />
McKercher<br />
The headline of the lead front-page<br />
article in <strong>April</strong>, 1980 read “ODAWA<br />
Friendship Centre - Indian Showcase.”<br />
The former Central Alliance<br />
Church at 600 Bank Street had been<br />
sold, and the new occupants hoped<br />
to turn the building into the Odawa<br />
Native Friendship Centre (ONFC),<br />
a showcase for native Canadian<br />
culture. The former location of the<br />
ONFC on Waller Street lacked the<br />
necessary facilities for exhibitions or<br />
recreational activities. Fundraising<br />
chairman Ernie McEwen said “Although<br />
overlooked for a long time,<br />
native peoples have a rich cultural<br />
heritage to share with Canada and<br />
the world.”<br />
Noel Starblanket, National Indian<br />
Brotherhood president, added that<br />
he knew of no Indian art on display<br />
in the National Gallery of Canada.<br />
“Indian art in Canada is relegated to<br />
the museums as artifacts or curios –<br />
in a city as vibrant as Ottawa this is<br />
not enough.”<br />
Mayor Marion Dewar presented<br />
a cheque for $3,000 to the National<br />
Native Centre fundraising campaign<br />
on behalf of the city.<br />
An article by B.J.R. Silberman<br />
drew attention to rapid changes in<br />
the Bank Street business community.<br />
At least five stores had closed recently,<br />
including McElroy’s Shoes, after<br />
70 years of service to <strong>Glebe</strong> patrons<br />
at 795 Bank (currently J.D. Adam).<br />
Also gone were Roche Bobois after<br />
5 years at 724 Bank (currently The<br />
Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Emporium), The Big<br />
Cheese after 5 years at 732 Bank<br />
(currently PomPom), <strong>Glebe</strong> Drug<br />
Store, after 19 years at 781 Bank,<br />
(now part of the Royal Oak), <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Barber Shop after 46 years at 798<br />
Bank (currently Melz Kids’ Village)<br />
and Southpaw Cycles after 5 years<br />
at 857 Bank (currently Francesca’s<br />
Coffee Company).<br />
New businesses included Mammoth<br />
Burger at 683 Bank (currently<br />
the MVP Lounge), the House<br />
of Cheese at 793 Bank (currently<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Side Kids), and Custom Muffler<br />
at 890 Bank (currently Mister<br />
Muffler).<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Historical Society Archives<br />
Recent acquisitions by the <strong>Glebe</strong> Historical Society courtesy of<br />
Councillor Clive Doucet’s office: copy of the recently released 40-page<br />
background paper by Commonwealth Historic Resource Management<br />
Limited (chrml.com) on the history of Lansdowne Park<br />
This retrospective is filed monthly by Ian McKercher of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Historical<br />
Society (GHS). The GHS welcomes the donation or loan (for copying) of any<br />
item that documents the past in the <strong>Glebe</strong> (photographs, maps, surveys, news<br />
articles, posters, programs, memorabilia, etc.). You can contact Ian at 613-<br />
235-4863 or ian.mckercher@opera.ncf.ca.<br />
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GLEBE HISTORY<br />
Heritage spaces, not endangered spaces<br />
BY Joan Bard Miller<br />
The current process to turn nearly 25 per cent of Lansdowne Park into commercial<br />
development is inappropriate and inconsistent with its nearly 150-year<br />
history as a public space. The park is historically associated with sports, recreation<br />
and exhibitions, but may soon be associated with large-scale retail. For<br />
these reasons, the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association has nominated Lansdowne<br />
Park for Heritage Canada Foundation’s Top Ten Most Endangered Places List.<br />
The annual list identifies significant heritage sites at risk due to neglect, lack of<br />
funding, weak legislation or inappropriate development. Lansdowne Park has<br />
suffered from all of the above threats for many years.<br />
The grounds and the buildings, including the municipally designated Horticulture<br />
Building, have been underutilized while maintenance to the sports facilities<br />
has been underfunded. The city threatens its own heritage designation<br />
by entertaining options to relocate a masonry building that is approximately<br />
200 feet in length. Rather than finding a lucrative, adaptive reuse, the city is<br />
considering a plan that is logistically and financially unfeasible.<br />
Initial threats to the fabric of the Aberdeen Pavilion National Historic Site<br />
have been mitigated, but plans for the building remain unclear. City-wide concerns<br />
about the proposed development have led to additional reports and studies,<br />
but they have not led to a fundamental change in what is being promised<br />
for the site – large-scale retail. Lansdowne Park’s history and proximity to the<br />
Rideau Canal World Heritage Site in the heart of the Nation’s capital should be<br />
worthy of continued use as a public space of world-class caliber, not endangerment.<br />
Heritage Canada Foundation will release its list in May <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Aerial photo of Lansdowne Park circa 1930<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> 15<br />
Photo courtesy of NCC<br />
Heritage update<br />
Clemow Estate East Heritage Conservation District Study<br />
By Joan Bard Miller<br />
In other heritage news, on Wednesday, March 24, city heritage planners Sally<br />
Coutts and Lesley Collins hosted a meeting for residents living in the proposed<br />
Heritage Conservation District. The study area, which encompasses the houses<br />
delineating Patterson Creek and the eastern portion of Central Park, was first<br />
studied and proposed as a heritage district in 2004 with a public meeting held<br />
in December 2004. The draft of the study and plan was completed this winter.<br />
Approximately 40 local residents attended the March meeting and many of<br />
them asked questions of the presenters. The presentation included a history of<br />
the area’s development, an explanation of the evaluation process, objectives<br />
and guidelines for the district. A second public meeting will be held in June<br />
and city staff hope the proposed designation will go before the Ottawa Built<br />
Heritage Advisory Committee (OBHAC), Planning and Environment Committee<br />
(PEC) and city council this fall.<br />
The draft Clemow Estate East Heritage Conservation District Study is available<br />
online at www.glebeca.ca/committees/heritage.<br />
Joan Bard Miller is chair of the GCA Heritage Committee.
<strong>16</strong> <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> BUSINESS BUZZ<br />
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Dance with Alana<br />
Alana Hock has been operating the<br />
dance studio, Dance with Alana, out<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> since May 2007. This<br />
charming warm-hearted dance instructor<br />
has many years of experience<br />
with the <strong>Glebe</strong> as both a resident<br />
and business owner. When talking to<br />
Alana you quickly find out about her<br />
main motivation for teaching dance.<br />
“My goal is to make dance easy, fun<br />
and accessible to people of all ages<br />
and abilities. I get great satisfaction<br />
out of giving people the confidence<br />
to dance,” says Alana.<br />
Alana has over 20 years experience<br />
teaching dance. She has studied jazz,<br />
tap and swing in New York, Sweden,<br />
Mexico and Tokyo with some of the<br />
world’s finest. Alana’s career highlights<br />
include choreographing the<br />
hit Disney television show “Jojo’s<br />
Circus” and having the honour of<br />
assisting numerous times the 94<br />
-year-old Ambassador of Lindy Hop,<br />
Frankie Manning. As a teacher, she<br />
has taught in Vancouver, Guelph,<br />
Toronto and New Hampshire. As a<br />
performer, she has been featured at<br />
the CNE, Toronto’s Harbour Front,<br />
as well as on CBC, YTV, CityTV and<br />
Treehouse’s “This is Daniel Cook.”<br />
Dance with Alana offers a wide array<br />
of dance classes to clients and her<br />
instructors represent a diverse range<br />
of styles and talents. One of the new<br />
programs which was introduced recently<br />
is the lunch time Zumba class.<br />
These classes will start Thursday,<br />
May 6. The Zumba class is a cardio<br />
dance class and is a nice way to get<br />
some cardio and have a lot of fun at<br />
the same time. The class is for adults<br />
and anyone can join. The studio is<br />
offering a mother and baby cardio<br />
class starting on Tuesday, May 4.<br />
The Dental Office at Lyon and <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
www.lyonglebedental.ca<br />
Always welcoming new families<br />
and new patients!<br />
Keep your family’s smile looking young!<br />
Book your appointment with us today!<br />
The Dental Office<br />
at Lyon & <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
645 Lyon Street South<br />
613-233-2000<br />
Ottawa West: Carling Dental<br />
1144 Carling Avenue • 613-722-7272<br />
“Your Family’s Smile is our Family Business”<br />
Copyright © <strong>April</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />
Dr. John Oueis Dentistry Professional Corporation
BUSINESS BUZZ<br />
Alana leads one of her many classes in dance<br />
Alana has also recently introduced<br />
a burlesque dance class for women<br />
who want to celebrate their femininity.<br />
The studio is also happy to offer<br />
a Sunday social once a month, where<br />
dancers can show up for a free introduction<br />
to salsa and swing dancing<br />
followed by a couple of hours of<br />
open dance to practice your moves.<br />
You can register for any of these<br />
programs by calling the studio or referring<br />
to the website. The studio offers<br />
three very flexible ways of enrolling.<br />
Register for a full progressive<br />
8-week series in the dance class of<br />
your choice. Participants can register<br />
for an annual membership. This<br />
membership allows you to attend any<br />
classes that are at your level for one<br />
price. Lastly, there is a 10-pack class<br />
option. This is an ideal category if<br />
you have a busy unpredictable schedule.<br />
This is the most flexible option<br />
allowing users to drop in for any 10<br />
classes space permitting. Please call<br />
or see the website for prices and details<br />
on registration.<br />
Dance with Alana is very much<br />
based in the <strong>Glebe</strong> and she is a big<br />
fan of the community. She says that<br />
about 70 per cent of the members of<br />
the dance studio are <strong>Glebe</strong> residents.<br />
Moreover, Alana and the studio have<br />
been involved with many community<br />
events throughout the years along<br />
the lines of “Dancing in the Streets”<br />
and more recently, the ‘dancetacular’<br />
fundraiser for the survivors of<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue fire. Dance with<br />
Alana offers a newsletter to subscribers<br />
which outlines the various<br />
programs, events and activities they<br />
are offering. To become a subscriber,<br />
simply visit the website or you can<br />
give them a call.<br />
Dance With Alana<br />
call 613-233-3456<br />
www.dancewithalana.com<br />
Urban Assistant<br />
Are you a small business or household<br />
with a messy stack of unpaid<br />
bills hanging over your head? Are<br />
you simply paying too much because<br />
your paperwork is a mess? Rest easy.<br />
Help is here. A new concept in smallscale<br />
freelance financial management<br />
is being pioneered by an entrepreneur<br />
in Ottawa.<br />
The force behind Urban Assistant<br />
promises to have the answers for<br />
anyone with a paper skeleton in their<br />
closet. “Most people don’t realize just<br />
how much money and time they lose<br />
because they aren’t organized,” says<br />
Donna Zimonjic, founder of Urban<br />
Assistant. “Straightening out your<br />
bills, organizing your files and keeping<br />
things in order can save people<br />
more money than they realize.”<br />
Although she launched her business<br />
only in January, she has already<br />
snagged some clients through simple<br />
word of mouth. She tells the story of a<br />
businesswoman, who came to Donna<br />
with two years of bills and invoices in<br />
a box and the taxman breathing down<br />
her neck. “If she handed that box to<br />
her accountant and told him to sort it<br />
out, she would have paid through the<br />
nose,” Zimonjic says. “But within a<br />
few hours I had sorted that out and<br />
developed a basic system for keeping<br />
her bills in order. It’s simple, but<br />
it’s not something everyone has time<br />
for.”<br />
Zimonjic also offers an array of<br />
services that include costing out<br />
your household or business budget<br />
by looking at what you pay for<br />
everything from utilities to insurance<br />
and renegotiating those bills<br />
or switching companies if she can<br />
save you money. “Often people stick<br />
with the same phone or Internet provider<br />
because its too much hassle to<br />
change. In some cases, they can be<br />
Photo: Andrew Balfour<br />
paying two to three times what they<br />
need to,” says Zimonjic. “I take the<br />
hassle away and leave them the savings.”<br />
Particularly vulnerable are seniors<br />
who may still be paying long-distance<br />
rates that were being charged<br />
a decade ago. Snowbirds, Zimonjic<br />
says, are also unaware that they can<br />
put their phone and other services<br />
on hold when they are enjoying the<br />
Florida sun.<br />
Money is precious and so is time.<br />
Urban Assistant offers a virtual assistant<br />
service to help with a wide range<br />
of business tasks and even offers a<br />
moving package for people who simply<br />
don’t have the time to do all the<br />
administration involved in moving a<br />
house or business. “At Urban Assistant,<br />
we can do everything: hire your<br />
movers, redirect your mail, switch<br />
your bills over to a new address and<br />
shop around for an improved home<br />
insurance package,” she says. “We<br />
even send change-of-address cards<br />
Seeking the visible hand of organization<br />
Stretch<br />
… your body<br />
… your mind<br />
… your spirit<br />
When you make<br />
a promise to<br />
practice yoga,<br />
you open yourself to<br />
the gifts that yoga offers,<br />
gifts that benefit every<br />
aspect of your life,<br />
including health,<br />
well-being, and joy!<br />
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to people you know and have your<br />
fridge filled with food for your first<br />
night in the new place.” Zimonjic<br />
will also project manage everything<br />
from a renovation to small-scale conferences.<br />
By now you may be asking why<br />
someone would want to do the jobs<br />
no one else does, but for Donna that<br />
is simple; she’s good at it. Zimonjic<br />
comes from a business background,<br />
having studied finance at Southampton<br />
University in England before<br />
working at investment banks in Australia,<br />
England and Canada. It was<br />
in that high-pressure environment,<br />
where a missing piece of paper could<br />
mean missing a deal, that she learned<br />
to stay on top of everything<br />
We would like to welcome this new<br />
virtual business to the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Urban Assistant Inc<br />
613 620 9333<br />
www.urbanassistant.ca<br />
donna@urbanassistant.ca<br />
Photo: Donna Zan<br />
Affordable Elegance<br />
Group or Private<br />
Classes<br />
Beginners<br />
Welcome!<br />
Ear Curl<br />
Introducing the<br />
Mini Cuff<br />
Hair Wrap<br />
“It’s a little<br />
over the top”<br />
Southminster<br />
United Church<br />
15 Aylmer Avenue<br />
613-730-6649<br />
maureen.fallis@sympatico.ca<br />
See us at booth 406 Originals Spring Craft Sale <strong>April</strong> 15—18<br />
www.earcurls.com www.earcurls.com<br />
www.surroundcircleyoga.com
18 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
MP’S REPORT<br />
Housing crisis continues<br />
MP<br />
Paul<br />
Dewar<br />
Affordable housing has long been<br />
a major issue in Ottawa. The report<br />
by the Alliance to End Homelessness<br />
offers a sobering picture of the<br />
housing crisis that exists in Ottawa.<br />
Last year 7,445 individuals stayed<br />
in emergency shelters and more than<br />
1,300 of them were children under<br />
the age of <strong>16</strong>. The average length<br />
of stay in Ottawa shelters has risen<br />
to 57 days, with families staying an<br />
average of 67 days.<br />
The report also highlights the shortage<br />
of affordable housing (only 88<br />
new affordable units were built last<br />
year, yet the housing waiting list has<br />
increased to more than 10,000) and<br />
that those apartments that are available<br />
for rent in Ottawa have seen<br />
average costs increase. But, the crisis<br />
in housing is more than just people<br />
needing emergency shelter. Across<br />
the country, Canadians are having a<br />
harder time affording their homes.<br />
A recent Conference Board of Canada<br />
report revealed that 20 percent of<br />
Canadians are struggling to keep up<br />
with the costs of owning a home. As<br />
a result “about one-fifth of Canadian<br />
households do not have the resources<br />
to afford both good-quality homes<br />
and other health-enhancing expenditures,<br />
such as nutritious food or access<br />
to recreational activities.”<br />
A key social determinant of health,<br />
affordable housing can have an impact<br />
and benefits beyond the well-being<br />
of the individual person. People<br />
who have access to affordable housing,<br />
especially seniors and those on<br />
a fixed income, won’t need to decide<br />
between paying rent and paying<br />
their bills or purchasing medicines.<br />
Families will be able to ensure that<br />
their children have nutritious food<br />
and a safe environment to live. And<br />
national productivity increases when<br />
people are able to meet their basic<br />
needs (shelter, clean water, food,<br />
etc). Furthermore, research shows<br />
that neighbourhoods that are home to<br />
supportive housing, such as Cornerstone<br />
or the Shepherds of Good<br />
Hope, often see an increase in property<br />
value and a decrease in criminal<br />
activity.<br />
Canada is the only major industrialized<br />
country that does not have<br />
a national housing policy, but we are<br />
hoping to change that. My NDP colleague<br />
Libby Davis has introduced a<br />
bill that will ensure secure, adequate,<br />
accessible and affordable housing<br />
for all Canadians. Libby has my full<br />
support, and the support of all New<br />
Democrats. We call on the Harper<br />
government to throw their support<br />
behind a plan that will benefit Canadians<br />
from coast to coast to coast.<br />
Ending homelessness will take the<br />
combined efforts of federal, provincial<br />
and municipal governments.<br />
I challenge all elected officials to<br />
make affordable housing a priority in<br />
Ottawa and across Canada.
NEWS<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong>: A healthy<br />
neighbourhood for most<br />
BY JOHN JULIAN<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> is one of Ottawa’s most<br />
desirable neighbourhoods. It is distinctly<br />
hip and urban, yet it is also a<br />
family friendly place, full of beautiful,<br />
single family homes. No doubt,<br />
most residents also see it as a healthy<br />
place to live. But is it? A representative<br />
of the Centretown Community<br />
Health Centre will come to our<br />
neighbourhood to give a presentation<br />
on Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 29.<br />
Researchers from the Institute of<br />
Population Health at the University<br />
of Ottawa have recently completed a<br />
study which does a lot to answer that<br />
question. The Ottawa Neighbourhood<br />
Study is a multi-disciplinary project<br />
funded by the Canadian Institutes of<br />
Health Research in partnership with<br />
the City of Ottawa and community<br />
groups, including Centretown Community<br />
Health Centre (CCHC) which<br />
serves the <strong>Glebe</strong>. The researchers<br />
looked at a wide range of factors<br />
that can affect our health – income,<br />
social cohesion, housing, food, and<br />
access to health care – in more than<br />
90 neighbourhoods. The results are<br />
fascinating.<br />
For the most part, the findings for<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> are encouraging. On average,<br />
the 10,600 people who live in<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> are a well educated, affluent<br />
lot. In 2006, the average household<br />
income was nearly $115,000,<br />
almost $35,000 more than the city<br />
average, and 68 per cent of adults<br />
have a university education, compared<br />
to just 37 per cent for the city<br />
as a whole. Based on these and other<br />
factors, the <strong>Glebe</strong> falls into the most<br />
advantaged category of five used in<br />
the study. The neighbourhood has<br />
a good balance of age groups, with<br />
young adults and middle aged people<br />
in the majority. It is not a particularly<br />
diverse neighbourhood – only 8 per<br />
cent of the residents self-identify as<br />
visible minorities compared to 20 per<br />
cent for the city as a whole.<br />
Where health is concerned, the news<br />
is mostly good. More than 78 per cent<br />
of the people surveyed rated their<br />
health as good or excellent. That is not<br />
the best in the city, but certainly well<br />
above the Ottawa average of just 64.5<br />
per cent. Location plays a role in that.<br />
More than 30 per cent of the population<br />
walks or bikes to work, although<br />
the neighbourhood is slightly below<br />
average when it comes to available<br />
recreational facilities. People from the<br />
neighbourhood are significantly less<br />
likely to be hospitalized for conditions<br />
such as asthma, diabetes and angina<br />
than the average person in the city,<br />
and the frequency with which <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
residents visit emergency rooms is<br />
also significantly lower. For neighbourhood<br />
babies, there are fewer low<br />
birth-weights or preterm births than<br />
the average for the city.<br />
In spite of the number of people<br />
walking and biking, residents are no<br />
more or less likely to be physically<br />
active than the average Ottawa citizen.<br />
And while 34 per cent of residents<br />
18 and older consider themselves<br />
to be overweight or obese, this<br />
compares favourably with the city<br />
average of 48 per cent.<br />
There are a few less positive facts<br />
lurking in this mound of statistics.<br />
Not everyone in the neighbourhood<br />
is affluent. In fact, the percentage<br />
of people that fall below the low income<br />
cut off, a measurement that at<br />
one time might have been called the<br />
poverty line, is very close to the city<br />
average at 13 per cent and has been<br />
increasing in recent years. For those<br />
people, high rents and expensive real<br />
estate create serious challenges. In<br />
fact, 23 per cent of <strong>Glebe</strong> residents<br />
pay more than 30 per cent of their<br />
income for shelter, about average for<br />
Ottawa. That represents a significant<br />
number of people whose housing<br />
costs make it difficult to pay for other<br />
necessities. As well, 10 per cent of<br />
the housing is in need of major repair,<br />
which is above the city average.<br />
That may not be a huge surprise in an<br />
area where the majority of the homes<br />
are more than 70 years old, but housing<br />
issues – mould, poor ventilation,<br />
badly tuned furnaces – can have<br />
subtle health effects without people<br />
being aware.<br />
Food is probably the most important<br />
of the other necessities, and <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
residents are quite well served in that<br />
respect with easy access to healthy,<br />
reasonably priced food. There are<br />
two grocery stores and eight specialty<br />
food stores in the neighbourhood.<br />
On average people can walk to<br />
a grocery store in just seven minutes.<br />
In comparison, in some other neighbourhoods,<br />
residents are much more<br />
dependent on convenience stores for<br />
food.<br />
There are two pharmacies in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>, about average for the city, and<br />
87 per cent of <strong>Glebe</strong> residents have<br />
a regular family doctor – again, very<br />
close to the city average.<br />
Simone Thibault, Centretown<br />
Community Health Centre’s executive<br />
director and a member of the<br />
study steering committee, says the<br />
study points to a healthy neighbourhood<br />
with all of the conditions necessary<br />
for people to live healthy<br />
lives. At the same time, she says,<br />
there is poverty hidden below the<br />
affluent surface of the neighbourhood.<br />
Affluence and poverty are key<br />
determinants of health, and people<br />
living below the low income cut<br />
off have much greater challenges in<br />
maintaining good health. The <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
is part of CCHC’s catchment area,<br />
and residents are welcome to access<br />
the services of physicians and nurse<br />
practitioners at the centre. However,<br />
she cautions that there is an unmet<br />
demand for physicians throughout<br />
the catchment area, and people can<br />
expect to spend some time on a waiting<br />
list before they are assigned to a<br />
doctor or nurse practitioner.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Profile Presentation<br />
Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 29, 7:15-9:30 p.m.<br />
Multi-Purpose Room<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
175 Third Avenue<br />
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Minimum wage changed<br />
March 31<br />
Minimum wage is the lowest wage rate an employer can pay an employee.<br />
Most employees are eligible for minimum wage, whether they are full-time,<br />
part-time, casual employees, or are paid an hourly rate, commission, piece<br />
rate, flat rate or salary. Some employees have jobs that are exempt from the<br />
minimum wage provisions of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA).<br />
(See “Industries and Jobs with ESA Exemptions and/or Special Rules” for<br />
information on these job categories.)<br />
Minimum Wage Rates<br />
MINIMUM WAGE RATE MARCH 31, 2009 MARCH 31, <strong>2010</strong><br />
General minimum wage $9.50/hr $10.25/hr<br />
Students minimum wage $8.90/hr $9.60/hr<br />
Liquor servers<br />
minimum wage<br />
Homeworkers wage<br />
(110% of general minimum wage)<br />
$8.25/hr<br />
$10.45/hr<br />
$8.90/hr<br />
$11.28/hr<br />
General minimum wage: This rate applies to most employees.<br />
Students: This rate applies to students under the age of 18 who work 28 hours<br />
a week or less when school is in session or work during a school break or summer<br />
holidays.<br />
Liquor servers: This hourly rate applies to employees who serve liquor directly<br />
to customers or guests in licensed premises as a regular part of their<br />
work. “Licensed premises” are businesses for which a license or permit has<br />
been issued under the Liquor Licence Act.<br />
Homeworkers: Homeworkers are employees who do paid work in their own<br />
homes. For example, they may sew clothes for a clothing manufacturer, answer<br />
telephone calls for a call centre, or write software for a high-tech company.<br />
Note that students of any age (including students under the age of 18 years)<br />
who are employed as homeworkers must be paid the homeworker’s minimum<br />
wage.<br />
Example for calculating general minimum wage: One week in <strong>April</strong> of <strong>2010</strong>,<br />
Julia works 37.5 hours. She is paid on a weekly basis. The minimum wage applicable<br />
to Julia is $10.25 per hour. Since compliance with the minimum wage<br />
requirements is based on pay periods, Julia must earn at least $384.38 (37.5<br />
hours × $10.25 per hour = $384.38) in this work week (prior to deductions).<br />
(Note that eating periods are not included when counting how many hours an<br />
employee works in a week).<br />
three-hour rule<br />
When an employee is required to report to work for a shift of 3 hours or<br />
longer but works less than three hours, he or she must be paid whichever of<br />
the following amounts is higher: three hours at the minimum wage, or the<br />
employee’s regular wage for the time worked.<br />
Example: If an employee who is a liquor server is paid $10.00 an hour and<br />
works only two hours, he or she is entitled to three hours at minimum wage<br />
(e.g., $8.90, the liquor servers minimum wage as of March 31, <strong>2010</strong> x 3 =<br />
$26.70) instead of two hours at his or her regular wage ($10.00 x 2 = $20.00).<br />
The rule does not apply to:<br />
1. students (including students over 18 years of age);<br />
2. employees whose regular shift is three hours or less;<br />
3. where the cause of the employee not being able to work at least three<br />
hours was beyond the employer’s control.<br />
Sourced from the Ontario Ministry of Labour, the information does not<br />
included rates for hunting and fishing guides who are admittedly few and<br />
far between in downtown Ottawa. For more details, go to www.ontario.ca/<br />
minimum wage, www.labour.on.ca/english/es or telephone Employment Standards<br />
Inquiries at 1-800-531-5551.<br />
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Dumplings, Giftwares, Asian Tea Pots, Dishes<br />
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Expiry Date: May 30, <strong>2010</strong>
20 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> HOMES<br />
Combining a beautiful aesthetic with<br />
eco-friendly gardening practices. Offering<br />
general garden design and maintenance<br />
services from May to August.<br />
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<br />
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33 Morris St<br />
Listed at<br />
$1,295,000<br />
4 Bed, 4 Bath<br />
SOLD!<br />
Dr. K.E. Hashem<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Dental Office<br />
738-a Bank st. [at Second Ave.]<br />
For Appts: 613-232-2222<br />
Welcoming students to the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Direct billing to your provider.<br />
• Implants<br />
• Bridges<br />
• Braces<br />
• Dentures<br />
• Cosmetic dentistry<br />
• Gum surgery<br />
• Teeth whitening<br />
• Crowns<br />
• Wisdom teeth<br />
extraction<br />
• Root canal<br />
treatment<br />
7 Day Emergency: 613-232-2610<br />
SOLD!<br />
127 Fourth Ave<br />
4 Bed, 4 Bath<br />
Listed at<br />
$645,000<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> household moves<br />
off the grid<br />
By Anik Lacroix<br />
Intrigued by the recent Ontario MicroFIT program launched last October by<br />
the Ontario government, we took the opportunity to be green (and make money<br />
doing so), by having 12 solar PV panels installed on our roof for a total of 2.5 kW.<br />
Our house in the <strong>Glebe</strong> is one of the first two houses in Ottawa to move off<br />
the grid.<br />
The Ontario Power Authority MicroFIT program is designed for homeowners,<br />
farmers or small business owners. It provides the opportunity to develop<br />
a small renewable electricity generation project (10 kilowatts or less<br />
in size) on your property. Ottawa Hydro commits to buy all the power you<br />
produce and gives you a guaranteed price over 20 years.<br />
MicroFIT is all part of the Ontario government’s attempts to wean the province’s<br />
power supply away from polluting coal-fired power stations and towards<br />
renewable energy such as solar or wind power. Solar power is particularly<br />
good because it provides the most power to the grid on hot, sunny days, just<br />
when the province’s grid is under the most pressure.<br />
Having no expertise in this field, we hired a firm that specializes in renewable<br />
energy installations to take care of the key steps: registration with Micro-<br />
FIT, obtaining the building permit, installing the panels and taking care of the<br />
whole connection process with Ottawa Hydro. This system is now installed<br />
and hooked up to the grid. With all the sun we’ve been having recently, the<br />
panels have been soaking up a fair amount of sunshine! Please feel free to walk<br />
by 229 Third Avenue and take a look.<br />
Anik Lacroix is a proud green enthusiast, living at 229 Third Avenue.<br />
Inspect your foundation:<br />
Due diligence in home maintenance<br />
by Patrick LeCours<br />
Proper care of your foundation is very important to preserving the integrity<br />
of the structure. Soils have the ability to expand (when wet) at alarming rates.<br />
This requires that an even and relatively constant level of moisture be maintained<br />
in the soil supporting the foundation.<br />
Defects in foundations occur when the supporting soil is either too wet or too<br />
dry, or when one area around the foundation is overly wet, while other areas<br />
remain dry. Improper foundation maintenance can result in severe movement<br />
in just a few days. This is true regardless of the type or age of the foundation.<br />
To avoid additional problems, you must avoid non-uniform moisture content<br />
in the soil supporting the foundation.<br />
Non-uniform moisture content can be caused by any of the following:<br />
• improper drainage<br />
• allowing the soil to become dry<br />
• excess watering near the foundation<br />
• plumbing leaks<br />
• an improper watering program<br />
• neglect<br />
• runoff water not properly diverted away from the foundation/<br />
• inadequate eavestroughing<br />
• improper grading of soil away from the foundation<br />
• trees and large bushes growing too close to the foundation<br />
• improper interior sealing of the foundation<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> area typically has two types of foundations: cut limestone and<br />
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Keeping drugs out of our<br />
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by Dr. Dianne Saxe and Jackie Campbell<br />
Two years ago, we told you about the growing problem of pharmaceuticals<br />
in our drinking water. Since then, has government done anything about it?<br />
Ontario Ministry of the Environment survey<br />
In January, the Ministry of the Environment quietly posted new data. Some<br />
258 samples were collected from 17 municipal drinking water systems (half<br />
from source water, and half from treated drinking water). The samples were<br />
analyzed for 46 pharmaceuticals plus Bisphenol A and 27 of them were detected.<br />
(They did not check for the presence of illegal drugs, like cocaine or<br />
marijuana.)<br />
In untreated source waters (rivers, lakes ): the most frequently detected<br />
categories of drugs were: anticonvulsants; lipid-lowering agents; analgesics;<br />
antimicrobials; veterinary-only anti-infectives: and other drugs, such as Bisphenol<br />
A (a plasticizer now banned in baby bottles).<br />
In treated drinking water: the most frequently detected drugs were Carbamazepine<br />
(an anticonvulsant), Gemfibrozil (a lipid-lowering agent), Ibuprofen<br />
(a commonly used fever/pain medication) and Bisphenol A (a notorious plasticizer).<br />
Unfortunately, there are no regulatory standards for safe levels of drugs in<br />
drinking water, and no one knows the effects of lifelong exposure to mixtures<br />
of different drugs. Nor is there any evidence that bottled water is any better;<br />
bottled water is usually made from tap water, or from the same types of source<br />
water that municipalities use.<br />
The good news?<br />
1. Drug levels in drinking water are tiny.<br />
2. Current water treatment plants may not be designed to treat pharmaceuticals,<br />
but they do help. Drug concentrations in finished (treated) drinking water<br />
were usually lower than those in untreated source water.<br />
3. Regulators in both Canada and Australia conclude that one would have to<br />
drink thousands of glasses of water a day to exceed “acceptable” daily intakes<br />
of individual drugs.<br />
Australia has been thinking about how to set safe limits for pharmaceuticals<br />
in drinking water, and has proposed public guidelines. For example, regulators<br />
could divide the lowest daily therapeutic dose by a reasonable safety factor,<br />
which has to protect toddlers and pregnant women. After much discussion,<br />
they propose a safety factor from 1,000 to 10,000. As an example, Australian<br />
guidelines consider the antibiotic Norfloxacin (lowest daily dose 800 mg/<br />
day): applying a safety factor of 1,000 would mean that 0.8 mg (i.e., 800 mcg)<br />
could be ingested each day via (the average) 2 litres of water individuals consume<br />
each day. That translates to a maximum acceptable concentration of 400<br />
mcg/L, well above concentrations that have actually been measured.<br />
I admit, however, that this apparently scientific calculation doesn’t make me<br />
feel much better for the following reasons:<br />
• Drug safety tests never endure for an entire lifetime, and the “lowest<br />
daily therapeutic dose” isn’t calculated with lifetime exposure in mind.<br />
• What if the right safety factor for Norfloxacin ought to be 10,000 or<br />
100,000?<br />
• What if I am from an ethnic group that is particularly sensitive to a particular<br />
drug or group of drugs?<br />
• Lots of drugs have additive or synergistic effects, meaning that exposure<br />
to one can amplify the effect of another. Even grapefruit or various<br />
herbal remedies are known to have this effect.<br />
• Many people are exposed to more than 2 L of water a day, in drinking<br />
and cooking.<br />
• What if the drugs can be absorbed through the skin, i.e. from swimming,<br />
laundry or bathing?<br />
• What if the drugs are also present in consumer products that are made<br />
with water, like shampoo or hand cream? Or in food that has been irrigated<br />
with water containing drugs?<br />
• Some drugs have hormonal effects and can affect the human body at<br />
incredibly tiny concentrations.<br />
• What about fish, and other plants and animals? What are the drugs doing<br />
to them?<br />
I think we need to do something about these drugs in our water supply.<br />
What can we do?<br />
Post-consumer pharmaceutical waste will be regulated as of July 1 in Ontario.<br />
Fortunately, there is one easy thing that can help. Leftover drugs should<br />
never be flushed down toilets or discarded with regular garbage. Consumers<br />
should return unused drugs to their pharmacies for incineration. So far,<br />
returning drugs to pharmacies is voluntary in most of the country; only BC<br />
requires it. Vancouver bans consumers from throwing unused medications into<br />
curbside garbage, which has prompted a huge increase in consumer awareness.<br />
As of July 1, Ontario will also regulate consumers’ unused drugs, and hopes to<br />
collect about 659 tons a year, all at the expense of the drug manufacturers.<br />
Believe it or not, 90 per cent of Ontario pharmacies already accept unused<br />
drugs, and the rest will have to this summer. Every pill bottle returned to a<br />
pharmacy may help to keep something important out of our drinking water. It<br />
is an easy thing to do right.<br />
Dr. Dianne Saxe is an environmental law specialist and Jackie Campbell is<br />
a lawyer and practising pharmacist who can be reached at admin@envirolaw.<br />
com or 4<strong>16</strong>-962-5009. Details and reference material for this article can be<br />
sourced at http:// envirolaw.com. This piece was excerpted from the full-length<br />
article which is available on envirolaw.com.<br />
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22 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Honouring the legacy of Sylvia Holden<br />
Continued from page 1<br />
The original Sylvia Holden Park<br />
In addition to her devotion to generating recreational space in the community,<br />
Sylvia Holden was also involved in many causes including recycling (before<br />
there was any city program), the peace movement, local election campaigns<br />
and distribution of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>: Sylvia was circulation manager<br />
from 1973 until 1989. Inez Berg, then editor of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, spoke about<br />
Sylvia’s work at the park dedication in 1995:<br />
“In addition to the many visible results of her 20 plus years of volunteer work<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, Sylvia has left a lasting<br />
personal legacy. Countless men and<br />
women of all ages are contributing<br />
positively to the community today<br />
because Sylvia Holden drew them<br />
into community life and supported<br />
them when they got involved.”<br />
Sylvia had a particular modus operandi<br />
for getting new recruits for<br />
her many crusades. Cheerfully and<br />
casually, she would begin lending<br />
the soon-to-be volunteer written materials<br />
relevant to the cause at hand.<br />
Soon notices of meetings, position<br />
papers, diagrams and illustrations<br />
would appear in the mailbox of the<br />
targeted recruit. Resistance was futile.<br />
Most of us gave in and signed<br />
up. Allison Dingle, no slouch as a<br />
community organizer and recruiter<br />
for good causes herself, remembers<br />
Sylvia offering to lend her books on quality play structures the first time they<br />
met. Before long, Allison was a playground advocate, working to find outdoor<br />
recreation space for the playgroup at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre.<br />
After living on Renfrew Avenue for over 20 years, the Holdens moved back<br />
to Burlington, Vermont in 1995 for family reasons. Although busily and happily<br />
immersed in their lives in Vermont, Sylvia looks back fondly on the years<br />
spent raising two sons in the <strong>Glebe</strong>: “The quality of life in Ottawa was wonderful<br />
– people looking out for one another. We worked together at parenting, not<br />
just our own children but each other’s.” Of course, Sylvia Holden contributed<br />
a lot to creating strong community ties and spaces where people could come<br />
together. This is a good reason for having a park named after her. Now, if we<br />
could just manage to save it, all of it, for future generations of residents!<br />
Photo: Elaine Marlin<br />
Standing Up for the Community Park<br />
The history of standing up for community access and use of the northeast<br />
corner of Lansdowne Park is several decades old and community recreation<br />
facilities there have been threatened several times in the past. Negotiations<br />
with city staff to preserve or improve the area have been taking place on and<br />
off since the early 1970s. The last big crisis occurred during 1989 and 1990<br />
when there was a development<br />
proposal being considered by<br />
the city to build a trade show and<br />
exhibit complex, complete with<br />
a high-rise hotel. Over many<br />
months, community organizations<br />
and individuals were involved<br />
in public consultations to<br />
save the community park. Then,<br />
as now, this parcel of land was<br />
being considered in a “while<br />
we are at it” manner. The plan<br />
the community was opposing<br />
at the time called for replacing<br />
the wading pool with a splash<br />
pad, eliminating or reducing the<br />
space for baseball diamonds and<br />
surrendering the T-ball/soccer<br />
field to the Ottawa Roughriders<br />
team (remember them?) for its<br />
exclusive use as a practice field.<br />
Part of the proposal also envisaged<br />
cutting a road through this<br />
area.<br />
In a concerted effort, GNAG,<br />
Sylvia Holden<br />
the GCA, other community associations as well as the <strong>Glebe</strong> Little League and<br />
many outraged residents acted to avert the worst. The T-ball/soccer field was<br />
lost but the wading pool, play structure and baseball diamonds were replaced<br />
by new, upgraded facilities in slightly different locations. The road was located<br />
south of the play area. Other notable gains were an attractive field house, extensive<br />
landscaping, a basketball court used for pick-up games by teens and<br />
young adults, and eventually the much-used dog run. The adjacent <strong>Glebe</strong> Parents’<br />
Daycare Centre was also built at this time.<br />
Unfortunately, several other sports facilities had already been lost in the previous<br />
two decades, including an outdoor hockey rink located near the present<br />
Fire Hall and the double soccer field which had been behind the south stands<br />
of the stadium. The tennis courts near the canal, south of the current dog run,<br />
had become dilapidated through neglect and were finally torn down.<br />
Several buildings were also demolished in 1990: the Century Building, a<br />
large white building close to the canal as well as the Pure Food Building at<br />
O’Connor and Holmwood avenues. The estimated cost of razing these buildings<br />
was lumped in with the cost of improving the neighbourhood park, bringing<br />
it up to $1.1 million. This kind of accounting is something to remember<br />
when assessing the upcoming Lansdowne urban park redesign presentations.<br />
In short, it seems clear that residents will have to be vigilant if we wish to<br />
keep these vital community resources.<br />
Photo: Ilse Kyssa<br />
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Community parks of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
by Carol MacLeod<br />
The 2.56 hectare park at 10 Fifth Avenue and bounded by Fifth, O’Connor,<br />
Lansdowne Park and the Driveway, is the major recreation space in the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Variously called the community or recreation park by residents, it has been<br />
identified as Sylvia Holden Park on city maps and in documents as Lansdowne<br />
Community Park. Many of us were dismayed to see this land (whatever its<br />
name) included in the scope of the overall “front lawn” design for Lansdowne<br />
Park, despite resolutions to the contrary from city council.<br />
Where is the real Sylvia Holden Park? How does this community park fit<br />
into our park system? In order to address some of these concerns, I turned to<br />
city officials. Questions about <strong>Glebe</strong> parks, and Sylvia Holden Park in particular,<br />
were referred to city staff responsible for the Lansdowne Park project.<br />
I also relied on the city’s website, the Parks and Recreation Master Plan (in<br />
process) and particularly, the Greenspace Master Plan: Strategies for Ottawa’s<br />
Urban Greenspaces.<br />
The Parks, Recreation and Culture Department lists parks by sector,<br />
east and west, along a divide formed by the Rideau Canal and the Rideau<br />
River. <strong>Glebe</strong> parks are the following:<br />
• Brown’s Inlet (65 Craig, 2.7 ha)<br />
• Capital (10 Ella, 0.4 ha)<br />
• Central, aka Patterson’s Creek (19 Clemow, 0.8 ha)<br />
• Chamberlain (80 Chamberlain, 0.88 ha)<br />
• <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre and St. James Tennis (690 Lyon, 0.42 ha)<br />
• <strong>Glebe</strong> Memorial (75 Glendale, 0.71 ha)<br />
• Lansdowne (945 Bank, 15.6 ha)<br />
• Lionel Britton (19 Fifth, 0.09 ha)<br />
• Senator Eugene Forsey (964 Bronson, 0.2 ha) and,<br />
• finally Sylvia Holden (10 Fifth, 2.56 ha).<br />
Interestingly enough, Lansdowne Community Park is not listed. The City of<br />
Ottawa Park Inventory <strong>Report</strong> was revised some time between March 9 and<br />
March 29, <strong>2010</strong>; the description for Sylvia Holden Park (945 Bank Street,<br />
0.46 ha) was changed and Central (no address given, 2.97 Ha) and Lansdowne<br />
Community Park (10 Fifth, 2.56 ha) were added.<br />
A Brief History<br />
Dan Chenier, Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture, explained by<br />
email that the old City of Ottawa officially approved Sylvia Holden Park as a<br />
park in 1994, based on a document entitled: “Excerpt from the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>-<br />
Multi-purpose Park planned for Holmwood/Bank.” That document, apparently<br />
prepared in 1975 and submitted to the then-Board of Control of the old city,<br />
was not approved at that time for reasons unknown. The part of the park with<br />
baseball diamonds, wading pools, swings and day care building “is undedicated<br />
parkland, commonly referred to as Lansdowne Community Park and not<br />
part of Sylvia Holden Park.” Sylvia Holden at the corner of Bank and Holmwood<br />
is a passive park.<br />
One recommendation of the Lansdowne Park Development Strategy, approved<br />
by Council in 1984, was to develop a community play area in the<br />
northeast section of Lansdowne. Work was completed in 1990-1991. In “Lansdowne<br />
Community Park”, the city operates a wading pool program, which<br />
includes supervised water play, arts and craft activities by the pool and special<br />
events from late June to late August. In 2009, the “Lansdowne Community<br />
Park” wading pool recorded 20,493 users over the summer, the busiest in the<br />
City. The two baseball diamonds in this park are booked seven days a week<br />
from May to July, and five days a week for August and September. The <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Little League is the main user group. The park includes a fenced dog park, one<br />
of only two the city operates.<br />
Do we have enough greenspace?<br />
The City of Ottawa Official Plan sets a target of 4.0 hectares of total greenspace<br />
per 1,000 population. This includes natural land, open space and leisure<br />
land, including “federal land recognized by the NCC as a park.” (The Greenbelt<br />
is excluded.) Two hectares of this is to be park and leisure land. According<br />
to the Greenspace Master Plan, the “Inner Area” of which we are part has less<br />
than 2 hectares of greenspace per 1,000 in total, with half of that being park.<br />
This is the lowest in the city. The western boundary of the <strong>Glebe</strong> for the purpose<br />
of figuring total parkland is the O Train line, Carling and Bronson.<br />
To calculate total greenspace in a community, the Greenspace Master Plan<br />
includes both “primary” lands and “active and passive open space in public<br />
ownership identified in the 2005 Land Use Survey.”<br />
Photo: Elaine Marlin<br />
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Distribution of parks and greenspace sub-areas of urbam Ottawa<br />
Primary lands are defined as including “the natural landscapes and major<br />
rivers that are recognized as having high environmental quality or rarity”<br />
and specifically include “public parks, sports fields, river access points, major<br />
pathway corridors, children’s play areas and civic squares owned by municipal,<br />
provincial and federal agencies”. For the <strong>Glebe</strong>, most designated city<br />
parks and NCC lands bordering the Rideau Canal, including all land around<br />
Dow’s Lake as far as the O Train track are included in this definition.<br />
Supporting lands are “intended for uses other than the provision of open<br />
space and leisure, but allow for public access and contribute to the overall<br />
greenspace experience….” These include municipal forests, school grounds,<br />
grounds of public facilities and institutions, some utility infrastructure and<br />
transit and abandoned rail corridors. Examples are Lansdowne Park (included<br />
in the city’s lists of its parks), and parcels of NCC land west of the Driveway,<br />
the cutoff from Bank to the Driveway at Wilton, and surrounding the westbound<br />
lane of the Driveway from Bank Street to Bronson. Elsewhere in the<br />
Greenspace Master Plan, they are said to include “tributaries to rivers, isolated<br />
natural features, and habitats that link the primary areas … public lands that<br />
potentially contribute to leisure opportunities because they permit public access.”<br />
The map of Open Space and Leisure Land in the Greenspace Master<br />
Plan appears to suggest that, in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, this includes the community centre,<br />
all our school lands, Central Park, Lansdowne and parts of the Dow’s Lake<br />
lands occupied by the Pavilion and Department of National Defence.<br />
The current population of the <strong>Glebe</strong> approaches 11,000. Thus, according<br />
to the Official Plan, we should have 44 hectares of greenspace, of which 22<br />
should be park and leisure land. Excluding the Lansdowne Park Complex, not<br />
to be confused with the Lansdowne Community Park, and including the tot lot<br />
and St. James tennis courts at the community centre, the <strong>Glebe</strong> has, in total,<br />
12.19 hectares of city-owned parks in our neighbourhood or a ratio of 1.1082<br />
hectares per 1,000 population.<br />
Recreational facilities<br />
As for recreational facilities in our community of 11,000, we have rooms<br />
at the community centre. We use our schools. We have six tennis courts, two<br />
baseball diamonds, two basketball courts, one soccer field, a spray pad, a splash<br />
pad and wading pool, half a dozen banks of swings, a community-maintained<br />
outdoor rink in winter (a second is maintained in the Mutchmor play yard) and<br />
a dog park. We have no indoor recreation centres, fitness centres, pools (standard:<br />
1:35,000 residents) or indoor skating (standard: 1:22,000). Our nearest<br />
recreational facilities, Brewer Pool and the Plant Bath, Brewer Rink and Tom<br />
Brown Arena, serve a total population well over 70,000.<br />
Despite the relative lack of recreational facilities, we are expected to absorb<br />
increased population as a result of a policy of densification. And council<br />
wonders why we react with concern when faced with the potential loss of our<br />
largest recreational park?<br />
Our parks are part of the legacy passed on from active community volunteers<br />
such as Sylvia Holden; we can best honour that legacy by remaining vigilant<br />
stewards of those lands so that the next generation may enjoy them.<br />
Both Elaine Marlin and Carol MacLeod have been active for many years<br />
in creating and sustaining volunteer organizations in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, to the great<br />
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In this, his first public show, he attempts to bring together these two<br />
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Kevin’s paintings come from a deep well of emotion, but don’t take themselves<br />
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Kevin grew up in Bishop’s Stortford, England and studied physics at the<br />
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March 28-May 2<br />
Donna Randall immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe with her Polish<br />
parents and has carried the culture and colour of two continents throughout<br />
her life. She has been involved in creating art since her youth. She discovered<br />
figurative sculpture in Ottawa in 1977, using wood and clay and then moved<br />
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Donna has exhibited and sold her art work in and around Ottawa since 1998<br />
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“I love to paint in vibrant colours that expresss the joy and freedom of the<br />
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Kids create original artworks<br />
at ORIGINALS<br />
ORIGINALS, the spring craft sale is coming to Lansdowne Park, <strong>April</strong> 15-<br />
18. Designers and artisans from across the country come to Ottawa to exhibit<br />
their amazing, unique pieces, including fashion, jewelry, accessories, home<br />
and garden décor, unique pieces of art and delicious tasty treats.<br />
This year the show is encouraging junior artisans to participate by offering<br />
a fully supervised, hands-on crafting activity for children ages four and up.<br />
Throughout the four-day show “Mrs. Create” (Miriam Kilby) of Kids Create,<br />
assisted by Algonquin College Early Childhood Education graduates, will<br />
lead 30-minute interactive crafting sessions, where children can create using<br />
recycled items. Parents can drop their children off at the crafting centre and<br />
enjoy a half hour of worry-free shopping while their little Picasso is introduced<br />
to the world of eco-crafting.<br />
Kids Create classes are limited to eight children per session. Although dropins<br />
are welcome, space permitting, parents should pre-register online at www.<br />
originalsshow.ca to guarantee a spot. The $5 per child registration fee (payable<br />
on site) will be donated to The Children’s Wish Foundation. Representatives<br />
from The Children’s Wish Foundation will be on site throughout the weekend<br />
with gorgeous spring floral bouquets available for sale.<br />
Kids Create will be set up in the Market Bistro section of Aberdeen Pavilion,<br />
Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Friday, 4-7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10:30<br />
a.m.-2:30 p.m.<br />
Originals – The Spring Craft Sale runs from Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 15 to Sunday,<br />
<strong>April</strong> 18 at Lansdowne Park. Admission is $7 for adults, $4 for seniors (65+)<br />
and students (13-17) and free for children 12 and under. For more information,<br />
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MUSIC<br />
St. Matthew’s spring concert<br />
by Frances Berkman<br />
Saturday, May 15, at 7:30 pm, the<br />
combined choirs of St. Matthew’s<br />
Anglican Church in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, under<br />
the direction of Stephen Candow,<br />
will present their spring concert of<br />
music by J.S. Bach and G. F. Handel.<br />
Featured soloists will be sopranos<br />
Martha Coulthart and Clare Jackson,<br />
countertenor Kevin Hassell, tenor<br />
Michael Ruddy and bass Philip<br />
Holmes.The choir will be accompanied<br />
by a string orchestra, continuo<br />
and oboes. The concert will open with<br />
Bach’s Cantata No. 179, Siehe zu,<br />
Das Deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei<br />
sei, followed by Bach’s Missa<br />
Brevis in G major. The second half<br />
of the concert will feature Handel’s<br />
Chandos anthem No. 9, O Praise the<br />
Lord with One Consent.<br />
Cantata 179 was originally written<br />
for the 11 th Sunday after Trinity<br />
in 1723, shortly after Bach moved<br />
to Leipzig to assume the post of director<br />
of choir and music. That year,<br />
along with his duties of teaching and<br />
organizing and rehearsing the music<br />
for services at the four main churches<br />
of Leipzig, Bach undertook the task<br />
of composing a new cantata for every<br />
Sunday and feast day of the year.<br />
The cantata would be integral to the<br />
church service with the text based on<br />
the set readings for the day.<br />
For Bach or other Lutheran composers<br />
of his time, a missa brevis or<br />
short mass consisted of the Kyrie<br />
and Gloria. Bach wrote four missae<br />
breves, all of which are known<br />
as parody works, that is works based<br />
on pre-existing music. While it was<br />
not uncommon to compose music<br />
based on well-known folk or popular<br />
songs, Bach used music from his<br />
own earlier works for each of his<br />
short masses. In his Missa Brevis in<br />
G major composed in 1735, Bach reworked<br />
some of the musical themes<br />
from Cantata no. 179 into the mass<br />
setting. In this concert, the earlier<br />
work and the “parody mass” have<br />
been paired – see if you can recognize<br />
the “recycled” material<br />
The final piece, Handel’s O Praise<br />
the Lord with One Consent is based<br />
on texts from Psalms 135, 117 and<br />
148. This is one of 12 anthems<br />
composed from 1717-1718 for the<br />
Duke of Chandos, while Handel was<br />
composer-in-residence at his estate<br />
outside of London. These anthems,<br />
which combine choral and solo<br />
movements, were quite distinct from<br />
earlier English church music and in<br />
fact are similar in style to Bach’s<br />
church cantatas.<br />
St. Matthew’s, the Anglican Church<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, has two active choirs<br />
which take part in sung services.<br />
The Men and Boys’ Choir, founded<br />
in 1956, practises twice a week and<br />
sings 3-6 services a month. The<br />
Women and Girls’ Choir, founded<br />
in 1990, practises once a week and<br />
sings 1-2 services each month. The<br />
choirs will combine forces for major<br />
feast services and for our two<br />
annual concerts.<br />
The choirs provide an opportunity<br />
for children from the <strong>Glebe</strong>, Old<br />
Ottawa South and beyond to receive<br />
musical training and to learn to sing<br />
a wide variety of liturgical music<br />
throughout the year, as well as the<br />
chance to sing with a full voice<br />
choir and orchestra in concert. For<br />
a number of choir members, singing<br />
with St. Matthew’s is a family affair,<br />
with children singing with siblings,<br />
parents and even grandparents.<br />
Tickets are $20 for general admission<br />
and $15 for students; they are<br />
available at St. Matthew’s Anglican<br />
Church office (217 First Avenue,<br />
613-234-4024), CD Warehouse and<br />
Compact Music.<br />
The Men, Women, Boys’ and Girls’<br />
choirs hope you will join us May 15<br />
for an evening of beautiful and uplifting<br />
Baroque music.<br />
Photo: Sim-Canetty-Clarke<br />
Celtic North<br />
Gerald Finley<br />
nominated for a Juno<br />
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Lois Siegel, Dan Perkins<br />
and Marie Deziel who make<br />
up Celtic North all started<br />
playing together at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre in 1999 as<br />
part of the Celtic Slow Jam.<br />
Recently, they performed<br />
on “Daytime” at Rogers TV<br />
with future dates to be confirmed.<br />
In their group as on<br />
this CD, Lois Siegel plays<br />
fiddle, spoons and bodhran;<br />
Dan Perkins sings the vocals<br />
and plays guitar, Irish bouzouki<br />
and bodhran and Marie<br />
Deziel plays the accordion<br />
and fiddle.<br />
Canadian baritone Gerald Finley<br />
began singing as a chorister at St.<br />
Matthew’s Anglican Church in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> before completing his musical<br />
studies in the UK at the Royal<br />
College of Music, King’s College,<br />
Cambridge and the National Opera<br />
Studio.<br />
This month he was nominated<br />
again for a Juno in the category of<br />
“Classical Album of the Year: Vocal<br />
or Choral Performance” for his<br />
Songs By Ravel, on the Hyperion<br />
label. Three years ago, he returned to Ottawa from the United Kingdom to<br />
perform at St. Matthew’s 50 th anniversary concert, a highlight of the Men &<br />
Boys’ Choirs’ reunion weekend.<br />
After his initial appearances at Glyndebourne in the Mozart baritone repertoire,<br />
he now appears in a variety of leading roles at the world’s opera houses<br />
including London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Salzburg, New York, Chicago<br />
and San Francisco. His Don Giovanni has been seen in Vienna, Prague, Rome,<br />
New York, Paris, Tel Aviv and London. He has created the lead roles in major<br />
premieres: J. Robert Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic), Harry Heegan (The Silver<br />
Tassie), Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Jaufre Rudel (L’amour de loin). He<br />
played Owen Wingrave in the Channel 4 film. His most recent engagements<br />
include playing Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and<br />
Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic) at the Lyric Opera Chicago.<br />
The Juno Awards will be presented at the St. John’s Convention Centre on<br />
Saturday, <strong>April</strong> 17 and can be watched on CTV the following day.<br />
Recordings of St. Matthew’s 50 th anniversary concert are still available.<br />
Photo: Gordon Metcalfe<br />
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26 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> ENTERTAINMENT<br />
At the flicks with Lois and PaulBY PAUL GREEN<br />
BY LOIS SIEGEL<br />
Sharks<br />
Directed by Jean-Jacques Mantello<br />
IMAX – 3D<br />
The Museum of Civilization was recently renovated<br />
to allow for 3D projections. If you’ve never experienced<br />
3D, you should certainly check this out. Sharks is made<br />
for a general audience with a turtle as “narrator” but<br />
minus the gory images of Jaws. Another fish film, it’s<br />
amazing to see schools of sardines swimming a few<br />
inches in front of your eyes. You can reach out to touch<br />
them. And the sharks are enormous, with the Great<br />
White Shark measuring 22 feet long and 5,000 pounds.<br />
You wouldn’t want to indulge it with a bear hug. Many<br />
of the sharks in the film are listed on the “endangered<br />
species” list.<br />
The IMAX is located at the Museum of Civilization, Gatineau.<br />
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens<br />
Directed by Barbara Leibovitz (Annie’s younger sister)<br />
PBS Documentary<br />
Annie Leibovitz is one of the best known contemporary photographers.<br />
From her Rolling Stone Magazine days, hanging out with and photographing<br />
the rock ‘n’ rollers of the 70s, to her entry into the fashion world at Vanity Fair<br />
and Vogue, her images have been strikingly unique, as well as elaborate and<br />
elegant.<br />
The film is a panorama of stars: Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Hillary<br />
Rodham Clinton, George Clooney, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arnold Schwarzenegger,<br />
Demi Moore….. But there are also home movies, pictures of Leibovitz’s<br />
family. The film follows Annie from early days at the San Francisco Art<br />
Institute, where as a painting major, she aspired to be an art teacher. Then, she<br />
took a photo workshop ... and the rest is history.<br />
Working with large teams of technicians and set designers, Barbara Leibovitz<br />
directs with authority. With a reputation for being difficult, she’s identified<br />
in the film as “Barbra Streisand with a camera.”<br />
Note: Annie Leibovitz was recently in the news after borrowing $15.5 million,<br />
due to financial problems. As collateral, she put up several houses and the<br />
rights to all of her photographs.<br />
Available at the Ottawa Public Library.<br />
The Most Dangerous Man in America:<br />
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers<br />
Directed by Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith<br />
This documentary is a fascinating story, filled with the drama surrounding<br />
the release of the Pentagon Papers. Daniel Ellsberg, a top policy analyst at The<br />
Rand Corporation and consultant to the Department of Defense and the White<br />
House, became a dangerous man. Having supported the government for many<br />
years, he realized, after discovering the Pentagon Papers, that the war in Vietnam<br />
had to be stopped. The 47 volumes, and 7,000 pages of a top-secret study<br />
revealed a war strategy full of lies; Ellsberg xeroxed the papers and leaked<br />
them to the New York Times. He knew he could go to jail for this.<br />
The documentary is told with interesting juxtapositions of images, quotes,<br />
and startling revelations. It’s a brilliant history of the times that led to the end<br />
of the war in Vietnam, during which 2 million Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans<br />
died.<br />
Nominated for an Oscar <strong>2010</strong>, it is showing in local theatres.<br />
The Battle of Chile<br />
Directed by Patricio Guzman<br />
Released 1978, 2009<br />
Unrated, available on DVD<br />
Film buffs bear a sort of cross in that one may<br />
hear or read about legendary films without getting<br />
to see them because they are simply not<br />
available. Such a film is Patricio Guzman’s<br />
remarkable 1978 documentary The Battle of<br />
Chile, which chronicles the tumultuous final<br />
year of the Popular Unity government of democratically-elected<br />
Socialist President Salvador<br />
Allende. Make no mistake, this film is a polemic.<br />
It is a highly-charged political statement in<br />
which Guzman invokes an unabashedly Marxist<br />
analysis of the class struggle that marked Chilean political life during the<br />
first eight months of 1973.<br />
Running at just over three hours, the 1978 release was divided into two parts:<br />
“The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie” and “The coup d’état.” For the recent<br />
DVD release, a third chapter, “The Power of the People,” has brought the<br />
total running time to four and one half hours and expanded on earlier themes,<br />
namely the struggle by mass organizations to defend the gains of the previous<br />
two years. Surprisingly, the film’s length matters little as the viewer is pulled<br />
into a maelstrom of political and economic events that, at times, threatens to<br />
overwhelm. Guzman and crew roam the countryside, giving voice to countless<br />
members of unions, factory defense committees and the like, as they debate<br />
tactics and strategy, and struggle to keep things going. Listening to these<br />
voices, one is struck by their sophistication and political awareness. Ample<br />
voice is given to the opposition; business leaders and company bosses (‘los<br />
gremios’ in Chilean political parlance) expound on the need to clean up the<br />
country, restore order and oust the president. Middle class housewives rally<br />
against Allende and neo-fascist youths (or ‘los momios’ which in Chilean political<br />
parlance means ‘mummies’ or reactionaries) march in the streets or shoot<br />
at workers from rooftops. At times, the street scenes resemble political theatre;<br />
Guzman’s ability to direct his cameraman is so unerring, it appeared to one<br />
critic that he was actually directing these scenes. Watching footage of the abortive<br />
June 28 army putsch, the cinéma-vérité style evokes a Costa-Gavras film.<br />
In July and August, the cracks are widening and the workers sense that Allende<br />
will not violate the Constitution in order to save himself. Meanwhile, the<br />
army is raiding factories looking for weapons they do not find. (Sound familiar?)<br />
In a chilling sequence, Guzman’s camera attends the funeral of Allende’s<br />
murdered naval aide-de-camp and pans row upon row of hard-faced army men<br />
in full dress uniform, assembled as though for some ghastly reunion shot.<br />
(A similar scene is reprised in Bille August’s The House of the Spirits.)<br />
While narrative and outcome are well-known, (the final depressing images<br />
of Part Two show air force jets bombing the presidential palace), The Battle of<br />
Chile remains an astonishing political thriller and cautionary tale of the first<br />
order.<br />
Available on DVD, at Invisible Cinema and <strong>Glebe</strong> Video.<br />
Paul Green is originally from British Columbia where, in a misspent youth,<br />
he watched movies and attended UVIC. He later worked as a translator at the<br />
former Secretary of State Department and is now happily ensconced at <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Video.<br />
The 8th Annual Hike for Hospice in support of The Hospice at May Court is scheduled for Sunday, May 2, <strong>2010</strong> at 114 Cameron Avenue. As the Platinum sponsor of<br />
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,<br />
the red apron, Little Ray’s Reptiles, entertainment for all and lots of prizes to be won!<br />
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.<br />
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<br />
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.<br />
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FOOD<br />
By Karen<br />
Wallace-Graner<br />
Apple, peach, raisin, pumpkin,<br />
lemon, pecan, coconut …what do all<br />
of these things have in common? For<br />
those who enjoy the sweet side of<br />
food, a pie may have come to mind.<br />
For those of us who enjoy sweets,<br />
but are also raw foodists, a RAW pie<br />
may have come to mind! A raw pie?<br />
That’s right – pies prepared without<br />
cooking the ingredients. Really? Is<br />
that possible? Yes, read on and be<br />
inspired!<br />
There are no rules when it comes<br />
to a raw pie. You can apply your own<br />
ingenuity to create your own masterpiece,<br />
or you can mimic the format<br />
of a traditional cooked pie – crust<br />
and filling.<br />
Experimentation is part of the fun<br />
of raw food, but if you want to ensure<br />
a yummy success, you may want to<br />
use some of these suggestions for<br />
making a “traditional format pie.”<br />
Start with the filling. What will it be<br />
– puréed or sliced apple; mixed berries;<br />
coconut pudding? Depending<br />
on the ingredients chosen, it may be<br />
best to make the filling first, so flavours<br />
have time to blend with each<br />
other. If the ingredients are delicate,<br />
wait until the crust has been completed.<br />
Once the filling decisions are made,<br />
create a crust that will compliment<br />
the filling. To make a crust, nuts can<br />
be used as the flour substitute; dates<br />
or raisins could be used as the binder<br />
and sweetener; plus, add any spices<br />
that will enhance the nuts and filling.<br />
Blend the crust ingredients in a food<br />
processor until you reach the desired<br />
consistency and then mold the mixture<br />
into your serving container. And<br />
wait yet again. Allow the flavour of<br />
the ingredients to meld together. To<br />
help the crust harden and support the<br />
filling, place the crust in the refrigerator<br />
or freezer.<br />
The next step is to add the filling.<br />
Once assembled and depending on<br />
the ingredients, the pie may be more<br />
delicious if it rests for a bit. Again,<br />
this allows the flavours to meld and<br />
create even more mouth-watering<br />
magic. Presentation is key. Before<br />
serving, make sure that you garnish<br />
your pie with something decorative.<br />
This could be one of the ingredients<br />
(like apple slices) or a dusting<br />
of spices or edible flowers. Now that<br />
you have done all of this work and<br />
your pie is complete, why not make<br />
another and enter your fabulous pie<br />
in the Raw Vegan Pie contest on June<br />
19 for a chance to win one of the<br />
fantastic prizes including a Vitamix<br />
blender!<br />
Not quite ready to enter your creation?<br />
Looking for a chance to experience<br />
the flavour explosion of a<br />
raw pie? By all means, attend the 4th<br />
SimplyRaw Healthy Lifestyles Festival<br />
and Raw Pie Contest sponsored<br />
by the Table Vegetarian Restaurant,<br />
on June 19. It’s hosted by the <strong>Glebe</strong>’s<br />
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The Simply Raw Pie Contest – June 19, 10-9, Central Park in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
own Natasha and Mark. As in past<br />
years, there will be many demonstrations,<br />
exhibits and lectures by<br />
knowledgeable authorities in healthy<br />
lifestyles and the field of raw food.<br />
Feel free to sample their delicious<br />
creations.<br />
This year, special emphasis is being<br />
placed on sports and community<br />
involvement. In addition, several raffles<br />
will be held throughout the day<br />
as well as yoga sessions and other activities<br />
for the whole family to enjoy.<br />
A new feature will be music into the<br />
evening.<br />
A highlight of the festival is the<br />
Raw Vegan Pie contest and aftercontest<br />
sampling. After the judging<br />
by local community leaders and celebrities,<br />
you will have the chance<br />
to sample one of the raw pie entries.<br />
The Raw Vegan Pie contest is open to<br />
anyone and the prizes are substantial<br />
and much sought-after.<br />
Registration is limited, so if you<br />
are interested in participating, submit<br />
your entry now. To enter the Raw<br />
Vegan Pie contest, please visit: http://<br />
www.simplyraw.ca/community/festival-<strong>2010</strong>/pie-contest-registration/<br />
More information on the 4th<br />
Healthy Lifestyles Festival and<br />
Raw Vegan Pie Contest, visit Simply<br />
Raw’s website: http://www.simplyraw.ca/community/festival-<strong>2010</strong>/.<br />
You can also access information on<br />
Facebook at: http://tinyurl.com/ygfqooh<br />
Mark your calenders and don’t<br />
miss this delicious event!<br />
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A spread of Rawsome pies<br />
Simply Rawsome Apple Pie<br />
(serves 6- 8)<br />
Crust<br />
2 ½ cups walnuts<br />
1 cup dates<br />
1 tsp vanilla extract<br />
Place ingredients in a food processor, and process until the mixture<br />
holds together. Remove and press dough into a 9-inch pie pan, using your<br />
fingers to form a crust.<br />
Filling<br />
4 apples, peeled and sliced thinly<br />
2 apples, peeled and chopped<br />
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice<br />
1 cup raisins<br />
1 tsp cinnamon<br />
¼ tsp nutmeg<br />
Toss the sliced apples in a large bowl with lemon juice. Set aside.<br />
In a food processor, process raisins, chopped apples and spices until<br />
smooth. Remove from food processor and fold into the sliced apples.<br />
Spoon filling into pie crust and sprinkle with cinnamon. Refrigerate 2<br />
hours. Top with vanilla cream (optional).<br />
Vanilla Cream<br />
1 cup raw cashews, soaked 2-4 hours in purified water and rinsed<br />
¼ cup raw agave<br />
½ cup purified water<br />
2 Tbsp vanilla extract<br />
In blender, blend ingredients until smooth, adding more water to thin<br />
if necessary. Chill at least 1 hour before serving. Enjoy!<br />
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28 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> ENVIRONMENT<br />
Ottawa Eco-Stewardship Fair<br />
inspiring and practical<br />
By Jill Sturdy<br />
Saturday, <strong>April</strong> 24, there is no better<br />
place to celebrate the earth and<br />
Earth Week than at the 7th annual<br />
Ottawa Eco-Stewardship Fair at the<br />
RA Centre. Sample some wonderful<br />
local food and taste some of the<br />
best in local wine and beer. See some<br />
unique and creative pieces by area<br />
eco-artists and check out dozens of<br />
practical innovations for green living<br />
that will save you money and help<br />
the planet.<br />
There is something for everyone.<br />
There are exhibits in health, beauty<br />
and fashion, energy, home and garden,<br />
nature, moms and babies, eco-<br />
Tourism and recreation. New this<br />
year is a Bike Festival. Ride your<br />
bike to the EcoFair and reduce your<br />
ecological footprint! After you lock<br />
up, you can stop by the tents set up<br />
outside the north entrance and check<br />
out the variety of bikes on display<br />
and stay for a bike repair and safety<br />
demonstrations.<br />
The <strong>2010</strong> Ottawa Eco-Stewardship<br />
Fair is the region’s longest running<br />
environmental event. Each year, it<br />
has grown in popularity. Last year’s<br />
event was a major success with over<br />
100 exhibitors and activities that attracted<br />
close to 5,000 visitors. Yet, it<br />
has a laid back and friendly atmosphere.<br />
Before and After Care<br />
in a Home Environment<br />
When it comes to the environment<br />
and the health of our families, we<br />
can’t do everything, but each of us<br />
can do something. Finding out how<br />
has become an annual tradition at<br />
the Ottawa EcoFair. This grassroots<br />
community event continues to build<br />
on those traditions. It will feature<br />
food demonstrations by local chef<br />
Jacqueline Jolliffe of the Red Apron,<br />
a popular fresh meal service that offers<br />
sophisticated comfort food. A<br />
Taste of Ottawa’s Countryside will<br />
offer sweet and savoury treats from<br />
the Valley. Back by popular demand<br />
is the 100 mile lunch, created by talented<br />
RA Centre Chef, Darcy Ryman.<br />
This free event is made possible by<br />
community volunteers and the generous<br />
sponsorship support of the TD<br />
Friends of the Environment Foundation,<br />
the Ottawa Citizen, Enbridge<br />
Gas Distribution Inc., the City of Ottawa<br />
and Rogers TV.<br />
Mark it in your calendar now.<br />
The Ottawa EcoFair will take place<br />
on Saturday, <strong>April</strong> 24 from 10 a.m.<br />
to 5 p.m. at the RA Centre, 2451<br />
Riverside Drive. Free admission and<br />
parking. For more information, visit<br />
www.ottawaecofair.ca.<br />
Jill Sturdy is co-ordinator of the<br />
Eco-Stewardship Fair.<br />
Fun activities, nutritious snacks, homework help.<br />
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Save the beaver<br />
A beaver finds a home in the Experimental Farm<br />
by Gerard Kenney<br />
Last fall, the Experimental Farm had the good fortune of becoming host to<br />
a permanent and very welcome, visitor – a beaver. Canada’s national animal<br />
set up home in a small pond, formed by an equally small stream that runs<br />
right next to Fletcher’s Wildflower Garden. My lady, Claire, and I were among<br />
the many people who feared the beaver might not make it safely through the<br />
winter because of the small size of the pond that it now calls home. Survive it<br />
did, and quite well indeed, if we judge from the superb condition of its dam<br />
this spring.<br />
Now beavers can be a bit pushy when it comes to humans invading their living<br />
spaces – after all, they were here before us. However, if we humans strive<br />
to match their ingenuity, there are ways for beavers and people to live happily<br />
in peace. Imagine the benefits for city kids, to say nothing of their parents, to<br />
experience closeness to Canadian beavers in the wild, right here in the city.<br />
In the past, we humans have had a tendency to solve beaver-people problems<br />
in a very brutal way – getting rid of them. I would presume that we<br />
are past using such simplistic methods and that we can find more humanistic<br />
solutions to not only live in peace with beavers, but at the same time<br />
to reach a beneficial rapprochement between the beavers and ourselves. Yes,<br />
such solutions probably come with a price, but here, a made-to-measure opportunity<br />
has been served up to us on a silver platter for getting our children<br />
and grandchildren closer to nature. And that is priceless. Hopefully, we will<br />
be up to the challenge.<br />
Gerard Kenney is a retired professional engineer with experience in hydraulics<br />
who has not yet given up hope about the possibility of accommodating<br />
a resident beaver. He is studying the situation and would like to hear from<br />
anyone interested in having something to say about this challenge. Please<br />
contact him at gikenney@hotmail.com.<br />
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ENVIRONMENT<br />
Keeping the <strong>Glebe</strong> green<br />
and clean<br />
by Virginia Carver and Carol MacLeod<br />
Do you like your neighbourhood green and clean? The <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Association Environment and Anti-Litter Committee is working hard on your<br />
behalf and we are looking for volunteers to expand our efforts and our results.<br />
Cleaning<br />
Spring cleaning on Bank Street Saturday, <strong>April</strong> 17: in the spring and fall of<br />
each year, volunteers clean Bank Street as a part of the City of Ottawa Cleaning<br />
the Capital campaign. We meet outside Fifth Avenue Court at 9:30 am for<br />
the clean-up. The City of Ottawa supplies gloves and bags.<br />
Graffiti project<br />
Do you live near a Canada Post mail box or a utility box that is regularly vandalized<br />
with graffiti? The city provides materials with which to clean Canada<br />
Post boxes or you can report graffiti on the grey or red Canada Post boxes to<br />
Canada Post, toll free: 1-800-267-1177.<br />
For safety reasons, Bell, Enbridge, Rogers and Ottawa Hydro prefer to clean<br />
their own boxes. You can report graffiti on utility boxes to the City of Ottawa<br />
at 311 or email 311@ottawa.ca. We track our experience with having utilities<br />
remove graffiti on their property, and work on intercepting vandals in collaboration<br />
with local schools and the Ottawa police. If you would like to ‘adopt’<br />
an offending box, call Virginia at 613-233-2875. She will provide cleaning<br />
supplies.<br />
Eliminating litter<br />
The Environment Committee lobbies the City of Ottawa about litter concerns<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Some members have adopted local parks under the city’s<br />
Adopt-a-Park environmental program. This means they regularly pick up litter<br />
and report graffiti which they remove, where possible. Starbucks is the adoptive<br />
parent of Third Avenue from the Canal to Bronson, and we encourage local<br />
businesses to join the program.<br />
Street care<br />
We collaborate with the <strong>Glebe</strong> Business Improvement Area (BIA) to consider<br />
street furnishings for Bank Street. At our request, the city maintains the<br />
same number of garbage containers along Bank Street summer and winter and<br />
we work with a coalition of core community associations to develop strategies<br />
for more efficient garbage collection on our main streets. In collaboration with<br />
the BIA, we are also lobbying for garbage containers to be placed adjacent<br />
to benches along Bank Street and for recycling boxes to be located at regular<br />
intervals. We want to reduce the number of newspaper boxes along Bank Street<br />
by replacing them with multi-unit boxes. Finally, through a donation from the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Association, the committee financed a pilot project to install<br />
cigarette butt boxes at Second and Third avenues. We are encouraging smokers<br />
to make use of them just as we urge Bank Street businesses to provide butt<br />
containers for their customers.<br />
Greening<br />
Our Garden Angels maintain those flower boxes you see at entrances to the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> and along Bank Street. Our lead Angel masterfully finds us plant donations,<br />
but the boxes need to be planted, weeded and watered throughout the<br />
season. Consequently, we are always looking for aspiring Green Thumbs to<br />
adopt planter boxes.<br />
Re-TREE our <strong>Glebe</strong> is an ongoing project to update the city’s inventory<br />
of trees on its right-of-ways in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. We completed one quadrant of the<br />
community manually last year, but technological glitches mean that we need to<br />
enter those data on the city’s GPS system. At the same time, we are educating<br />
homeowners about the emerald ash borer, which will sooner or later destroy<br />
the ash trees across the city. We encourage people who have ash trees around<br />
their homes to contact the city to proactively obtain free replacement trees<br />
through the city’s Trees for Tomorrow program. Our enthusiastic Tree Team<br />
will advance the project over the upcoming season, as city equipment becomes<br />
available.<br />
We keep an eye on the health of trees in the community, particularly emerald<br />
ash borer. We are involved in Mutchmor School’s project to replant the playing<br />
field it shares with Corpus Christi and the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre. About<br />
half the trees in that field are green ash, so the parent council has embarked<br />
on this ambitious project to replace the trees before they die and refresh the<br />
field’s landscaping. We are working with the <strong>Glebe</strong> BIA to green Pretoria and<br />
its intersection with the Driveway.<br />
“Black knot of plums” is a disease that is becoming a problem requiring<br />
attention in our community. It affects several varieties of plums and has been<br />
known to affect hawthorns and crabs. A first response is to trim off and dispose<br />
of affected branches in your regular garbage. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture<br />
has information on control of the disease: Black Knot of Plums, http://www.<br />
omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/05-017.htm.<br />
EnviroFair<br />
Every couple of years, in conjunction with local businesses, we mount a fair<br />
focussed on environmental issues of importance to the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Our first fair<br />
promoted non-chemical, pesticide-free gardening. Last fall, our second fair<br />
promoted sustainable technologies for older homes such as those in the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
A third EnviroFair is tentatively scheduled for 2011.<br />
Virginia Carver and Carol MacLeod are members of the GCA Environment<br />
and Anti-Litter Committee which meets at 7 p.m. the first Monday of every<br />
month at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre. We welcome ideas for projects that will<br />
make the <strong>Glebe</strong> a greener and healthier community in which to live AND the<br />
helping hands to implement those projects.<br />
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Imagine spring<br />
<strong>April</strong> 25 at St. Matthew’s Church<br />
Master gardener and St. Matthew’s parishioner,<br />
Mary Shearman Reid, is presenting<br />
a slide show and gardening talk at St. Matthew’s<br />
Anglican Church in the <strong>Glebe</strong> on<br />
Sunday, <strong>April</strong> 25 at 2 p.m. She is often a<br />
guest speaker for garden clubs, horticultural<br />
societies and businesses.<br />
Mary made an unusual transition from<br />
banking to horticulture in 1996 when she<br />
took over the Green Thumb Garden Centre,<br />
a community-oriented business that specializes<br />
in the service and sales of outdoor plant<br />
matter.<br />
Green Thumb’s services include consultations,<br />
diagnostic visits, landscaping and garden<br />
maintenance.<br />
She grew up in a family of gardeners,<br />
worked as a gardener during her summers<br />
at university and continues to garden at<br />
home. As a certified landscape professional<br />
and a master gardener, she teaches for various<br />
school boards and at Algonquin College<br />
where she studied horticulture.<br />
“We never know how spring will look at the<br />
end of <strong>April</strong>, so I will tailor the talk to suit the<br />
weather,” says Mary. She intends to include<br />
snippets on perennials, shrubs, containers,<br />
trees and fertilizing. The talk will include tea<br />
and delicious refreshments and an opportunity<br />
to ask Mary about your garden. Join us on<br />
Sunday, <strong>April</strong> 25 at 2 p.m. in the Parish Hall,<br />
First Ave. entrance. Tickets are $20, available at<br />
Master Gardener Mary Reid at<br />
Green Thumbs Garden Centre<br />
St. Matthew’s office, 117 <strong>Glebe</strong> Ave., near Bank St. For more information, call<br />
613-234-4024.<br />
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30 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Putting students first<br />
Trustee<br />
Kathy<br />
Ablett<br />
OCSB<br />
Corpus Christi School<br />
Leading the Way<br />
Superintendent of Special Education<br />
and Student Services Simone Oliver,<br />
introduced a delegation from Corpus<br />
Christi School who shared their social<br />
justice initiatives. Coordinated by the<br />
Grade 6 students, these programs centered<br />
around helping their twin school,<br />
Kathehong Primary School in Lesotho,<br />
Africa. Activities included sales<br />
of Christmas cards and baked goods<br />
in order to purchase a much-needed<br />
water barrel for the school. Delegation<br />
members included Monica Kerwin, principal; Jane O’Regan, teacher; Barb<br />
Westwick, teacher; and two students, Kate Reeve and Dawson Lyon.<br />
Left to right: Barb Westwick, teacher; Monica Kerwin, principal; Jane<br />
O’Regan, teacher; Dawson Lyon, student; Kathy Ablett, Trustee; Kate Reeve,<br />
student; Simone Oliver, Superintendent; Gordon Butler, Chairperson of the<br />
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Youth and Workplace Safety<br />
A parent information night on <strong>April</strong> 28, <strong>2010</strong> from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Immaculata<br />
High School, 140 Main Street will focus on the topic of youth and<br />
workplace safety. Guest speaker will be Mr. Rob Ellis, father of David Ellis<br />
who lost his life his second day at work. Rob has dedicated his life to make<br />
Ontario a safer place to work since that day. Come out and meet Rob and hear<br />
this very important message to parents.<br />
Parenting Now<br />
The Ottawa Catholic School Board Parents’ Association (CSPA) invited parents<br />
of students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 to a FREE workshop. Saturday,<br />
<strong>April</strong> 10, <strong>2010</strong> from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The keynote speaker Barbara Coloroso<br />
presented “Just Because It’s Not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right – Teaching<br />
kids to act ethically. Barbara Coloroso is an internationally recognized speaker,<br />
author and consultant.<br />
School Year Calendar<br />
<strong>2010</strong>-2011<br />
The Board approved the <strong>2010</strong>-2011 school year calendar. Input on the proposed<br />
calendar was received from the Catholic School Parents’ Association<br />
and affiliated organizations representing all employee groups. In addition, local<br />
area school boards were consulted.<br />
The first day of school for academic year <strong>2010</strong>-2011 is Tuesday, September<br />
7, <strong>2010</strong>. The high school examination schedule (semestered schools): January<br />
27-February 2, 2011 and June 22-28, 2011<br />
School holidays in the first half of the academic year include Labour Day:<br />
September 6, <strong>2010</strong>, Thanksgiving Day: October 11, and Christmas Break: December<br />
20-31, <strong>2010</strong>. The first day of school after the Christmas break will be<br />
January 3, 2011.<br />
In the second semester in 2011, holidays will include Family Day: February<br />
21, March Break: March 14-18, Good Friday: <strong>April</strong> 22, Easter Monday: <strong>April</strong><br />
25, Victoria Day: May 23, last day of school (Intermediate/Secondary): June<br />
28, last day of school (elementary): June 29, 2011.<br />
Professional Development Days<br />
(all schools unless otherwise noted)<br />
Thursday, September 2, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Friday, October 8, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Friday, November 26, <strong>2010</strong> (elementary only)<br />
(excludes grades 7 & 8 except St. Michael, Fitzroy)<br />
Friday, January 14, 2011<br />
Friday, June 3, 2011<br />
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 (intermediate/secondary only)<br />
(includes grades 7 & 8 except St. Michael, Fitzroy)<br />
Thursday, June 30, 2011<br />
<strong>2010</strong> Trustee Election<br />
In preparation for the <strong>2010</strong> City of Ottawa election, the Board of Trustees<br />
approved a motion that retains the distribution and determination calculation,<br />
which indicates that the Ottawa Catholic School Board will have ten trustees.<br />
Further, the board approved the trustee distribution for <strong>2010</strong>, maintaining<br />
ten zones in the 23 city wards. Information and maps at: http://www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/media.php?mid=49438<br />
Key dates in <strong>2010</strong> for the trustee election:<br />
January 1: Beginning of nomination and campaign period<br />
September 10: End date for declaration of candidacy<br />
October 25: Voting day<br />
Families that have moved since the last municipal election in 2006 should<br />
ensure they are still Catholic school supporters and therefore can vote for Catholic<br />
trustees. Families that move are automatically designated as public school<br />
supporters unless they indicate that they wish to be Catholic school supporters.<br />
Information on how to determine “Direction of School Support” is at: http://<br />
www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/content.php?doc=723<br />
It is my hope that you and your family enjoyed the peace and joy of Easter.<br />
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Some updates<br />
from the board table<br />
Trustee<br />
Rob<br />
Campbell<br />
OCDSB<br />
Alernative Education<br />
Readers will recall that the future<br />
of the alternative education program<br />
has been in question. The board<br />
‘effectively decided’ to adopt the<br />
status quo, minus Manor Park Public<br />
School, which will be transformed<br />
into a community school. ‘Effectively<br />
decided’ equates to the elimination<br />
of the program over time; others preferred<br />
that it be ‘mutated’ into a form<br />
that guarantees the continuation of<br />
the program. This decision doesn’t<br />
mean particular sites such as Lady Evelyn or Churchill are guaranteed. And,<br />
given the imprecise will of the board on this issue, the general question about<br />
the program itself is likely to be revisited.<br />
One fundamentally destabilizing problem is the lack of access for students<br />
to alternative education who live outside the Greenbelt <strong>Glebe</strong> where <strong>Report</strong> it is Ad not offered.<br />
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<br />
bus those students willing to travel for alternative education. While this is an<br />
awkward fix, it does address the equity issue. This issue will be raised before<br />
the school year is out.<br />
Budget<br />
The Ottawa Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) has a virtual $14 million<br />
budget problem at the time of writing. We won’t know the grant impacts<br />
for next year until a month from now and may find our problem is less severe.<br />
Because of the requirements of the legacy collective agreement, we need to<br />
decide teaching staff numbers before the grant impacts are known. Other options<br />
for cuts will be looked at in the spring.<br />
The board recently decided to cut various specialist teachers (special education,<br />
English as a second language, curriculum coach, safe schools, and teachers<br />
buffering school reorganization as well as intermediate arts and music<br />
needs). I personally believe the ESL and special education cuts are strategically<br />
unwise for a district wishing to improve achievement rates and to lower<br />
drop out rates. Consequently, I did not support this decision. The effects of all<br />
cuts will be spread out but will be felt everywhere to some degree. Even more<br />
confusing is that enrolment gains mean regular classroom teacher numbers go<br />
up, but the reduction in service per capita is unmistakable.<br />
I also believe it unwise to have insisted on teacher cut decisions for the year<br />
after next when we know the funding formula is to be reviewed by the government<br />
in a year, a provincial election is looming and one must realize that<br />
grants can be quite variable from year to year. Multi-year budgeting is a virtue,<br />
but only if one accepts the premises of a certain trend.<br />
Consolidation of Secondary Gifted Centres<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate may soon see its gifted French immersion centre amalgamated<br />
with other high schools and Lisgar receive the gifted extended French<br />
program in the shuffle. This is fundamentally about trying to ensure viable<br />
student numbers at a reduced number of high school sites for the purpose of<br />
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32 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> SCHOOLS<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Cooperative<br />
Nursery School<br />
by Megan Tinmouth<br />
Spring is finally here and we love<br />
being outside again.<br />
With the sudden, albeit celebrated,<br />
arrival of spring, our students have<br />
eagerly embraced the outdoors once<br />
more. The quick melting of the snow<br />
and drying of the watery, mucky sand<br />
has meant that our keen students have<br />
been able to take to the outside yard<br />
and play structure very early this<br />
year. This has been met with many<br />
smiles on the faces of our parents and<br />
teachers who are equally keen to be<br />
outside for some “playtime.” With all<br />
of our classes spending much more<br />
time outside, we must begin even<br />
earlier to remind parents of the need<br />
for hats, sunscreen and lots of layers<br />
in dressing. Dare I even mention<br />
this: please remember that on those<br />
rainy days... sigh... remember to send<br />
along splash pants and rubber boots<br />
with the children’s coats because<br />
classes do go out after the rain.<br />
Spring’s arrival signals the start of<br />
our annual spring events. Some will<br />
take place just as we have had them<br />
each year, and others will take in a<br />
new format. For a change of pace,<br />
our spring fundraiser this year will<br />
be a bake and coffee sale at the Great<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale. Just in case your<br />
garden is waiting longingly, we will<br />
not be doing a plant sale this year.<br />
Instead, look for our table of baked<br />
delicacies where you can satisfy your<br />
hunger during your bargain hunting<br />
at the garage sale, refresh yourself<br />
with a coffee, and even pick up good-<br />
ies packaged to go for the rest of the<br />
day. Many thanks go out in advance<br />
to all our cooperative nursery school<br />
parents who will bake these tasty, irresistible<br />
treats.<br />
Other spring institutions around the<br />
cooperative nursery school remain<br />
in their traditional form: we all look<br />
forward to the annual Mother’s Day<br />
tea parties. These will take place on<br />
Thursday, May 6: in the morning for<br />
the toddler class, in the afternoon for<br />
the senior class and on Friday, May 7<br />
for the junior class. Also, we welcome<br />
back Marilyn Mikkelson on Wednesday,<br />
<strong>April</strong> 7 and Thursday, <strong>April</strong> 8 to<br />
take candid black and white photos of<br />
our young students in action. Somehow<br />
Marilyn manages to get captivating<br />
shots of our little ones, without<br />
distracting the tots from their activities.<br />
Parents will be provided with<br />
proofs and they may purchase these<br />
photos, if they wish.<br />
Our school is fortunate to be hosting<br />
a student teacher starting on<br />
<strong>April</strong> 27. Bethia will be undertaking<br />
her final placement with our school,<br />
so be sure to say hello and introduce<br />
yourself to her as you drop off your<br />
child.<br />
Finally, we must be getting to the<br />
end of the year, for it is time for<br />
teacher evaluation forms again. The<br />
forms are filled out anonymously and<br />
your comments help us a great deal.<br />
Your feedback helps us learn what is<br />
going well and assists in determining<br />
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Where I met friends for life<br />
Lauren enjoying fond memories<br />
By Karen Kelly<br />
There are memories from childhood<br />
that we all cherish. Perhaps we<br />
remember a favourite toy, a special<br />
corner of a classroom, or a game<br />
played outside. For 15-year-old Lauren<br />
Kniewasser, many of those memories<br />
were from the Rainbow Kidschool,<br />
a preschool and after-school<br />
program located at Lady Evelyn Alternative<br />
School.<br />
She spent five years there and when<br />
she began to think about her community<br />
volunteer hours required for<br />
graduation, she knew immediately<br />
where she wanted to go. “I’d been<br />
wanting to come back to Rainbow<br />
since the day I left; they were like my<br />
second family,” recalls Kniewasser,<br />
who’s now a student at Canterbury<br />
High School. “As a volunteer, I was<br />
excited to have a reason to visit.”<br />
When Kniewasser returned, she<br />
says she was immediately transported<br />
back to her preschool days.<br />
“It looked almost exactly the same<br />
– familiar toys, the same songs....<br />
The first thing I did was start playing<br />
with the toys again,” she says with a<br />
laugh. She had lots of company, of<br />
course. The school’s preschool group<br />
was excited to have a “big kid” there<br />
to join in their playtime, and the<br />
after-school students, aged 5-10,<br />
tapped into her artistic and creative<br />
knowledge to pursue art and sewing<br />
projects.<br />
Kniewasser says the structure and<br />
consistency of the Rainbow program<br />
was important for her, and she sees<br />
it helping the children who are there<br />
today, as well.<br />
“There are some kids who barely<br />
talk at first,” says Kniewasser. “But<br />
as they get to know the routine, they<br />
really become comfortable and open<br />
up.” And there may be benefits down<br />
the road, too. Kniewasser pulls out<br />
an old yearbook and points to three<br />
close friends she met at Rainbow<br />
a decade ago. “This is where I met<br />
friends for life.”<br />
Rainbow Kidschool offers a morning<br />
preschool program for children<br />
2½-4 years of age, as well as an<br />
afternoon program for 4 and 5 year<br />
old Kindergarten-age children. At<br />
the end of the school day, school-age<br />
children, 6-9 years, join the Kindergarten-age<br />
group for the afterschool<br />
program. Please call Nancy, the director,<br />
at 613-235-2255 for more information.<br />
Rainbow Kidschool is a nonprofit<br />
childcare centre operated by a volunteer<br />
parent board of directors.<br />
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SCHOOLS<br />
Sustainability initiatives at<br />
Mutchmor Public School<br />
Mutchmor’s Earth Hour<br />
By Audrey and Sandy<br />
On March 27, many people turned off the lights and other electronics for<br />
International Earth Hour between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Mutchmor Public School<br />
participated in its own Earth Hour on Friday, March 26 from 1-2 p.m. We<br />
turned off all lights and shut down our computers. The Ottawa-Carlton District<br />
School Board counted how many watts we saved.<br />
Some power free activities you can participate in are reading, drawing, cards<br />
and board games. You can use candles for lights. Since 2007, when the Earth<br />
Hour was started, millions of people have participated. Today, over 3,000 cities<br />
participate in Earth Hour. So hopefully you did your part by turning off your<br />
lights, television, computers and other electronics for Earth Hour.<br />
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General Auditions<br />
for students currently in grades 3 through 7<br />
Saturday, <strong>April</strong> 24, <strong>2010</strong> & Saturday, May 29, <strong>2010</strong><br />
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.<br />
McNabb Community Centre, <strong>16</strong>0 Percy Street, Ottawa<br />
Bronson @ Gladstone<br />
To arrange an audition contact Andi at 233-4440<br />
For more information on the Ottawa Children’s Choir, please visit: www.ottawachildrenschoir.ca<br />
Grade 1 students in Mutchmor’s EnviroCubs check out the progress of their<br />
acts of green. The club aims to achieve 10 acts of green. So far students have<br />
finished six acts, including making bird feeders, tracking monarch butterfly<br />
migration, and folding origami bin liners.<br />
Mutchmor Greening Update<br />
By Cindy Kirk<br />
Great news. The plan to plant 18 trees in the Mutchmor field and primary<br />
yard is moving forward. The City of Ottawa Community Retree Program has<br />
awarded Mutchmor $9,000 towards tree costs and Metro’s Green Apple School<br />
Program granted us $1,000 towards tree protection. Thank you. Additional<br />
monies donated by our community partners GNAG ($1,000) and the GCA<br />
($1,000) will be pooled with money raised by Mutchmor’s Kicking Horse coffee<br />
fundraiser to purchase topsoil, tree protection and watering equipment.<br />
Outdoor Classroom Fundraiser – Earth Day Jump-athon<br />
Mutchmor children will be raising money for the outdoor classroom portion<br />
of Mutchmor’s greening plan by holding a jump-a-thon on Earth Day (Thursday,<br />
<strong>April</strong> 22) hoping to raise the $12,000 needed. The outdoor classroom<br />
feature will incorporate natural stones for seating during curriculum-based<br />
learning activities, as well as for play. Mutchmor students will be looking for<br />
sponsorships from friends and neighbours, so please help support their efforts.<br />
Corporate and community donations are also welcome. All donations over $10<br />
will receive a charitable tax receipt. Let’s make this a great space for the entire<br />
community.<br />
Mutchmor Council Fundraiser<br />
Samko & Miko Toy Sale: <strong>April</strong> 29-May 2<br />
Mutchmor School Council has registered at the Samko & Miko Toy Sale<br />
to be held at Lansdowne Park in the Aberdeen Pavilion on <strong>April</strong> 29-May 2.<br />
Please indicate to the cashier when shopping that Mutchmor is your fundraising<br />
group. Then submit your original receipt to the school council (via the<br />
school office). We will submit them to the company in order to receive 10 per<br />
cent of the total sales. Funds raised from this event will be used towards the<br />
greening of Mutchmor’s play yards. Please share this information with your<br />
neighbours who can also specify Mutchmor as their designated charity fundraiser<br />
at the sale.<br />
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Reserve your spot now for the Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale. The sale is set<br />
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the Mutchmor yard for $45 per table for the entire day. Please contact Barb<br />
Massey or Hetty Mannethu at barbarajmassey@gmail.com or hmannethu@<br />
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34 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> SCHOOLS<br />
A flurry of learning<br />
at Glashan<br />
Students enjoy a day of spring skiing.<br />
by Sean Oussoren<br />
Spring has arrived in Ottawa and at<br />
Glashan Public School as well, with<br />
a flurry of learning activities and<br />
extra-curricular adventures keeping<br />
students and staff engaged and busy.<br />
In academics, the Grade 8s are<br />
starting their Glashan Goes Global<br />
unit in which students learn about different<br />
issues affecting our planet and<br />
its people: poverty, AIDS, drought<br />
and global warming. Then, they propose<br />
feasible solutions to these problems<br />
such as fundraising, increasing<br />
others’ awareness of these issues and<br />
writing letters. Students also get a<br />
chance to talk with groups directly<br />
involved in finding solutions, such as<br />
various non-governmental agencies<br />
in Ottawa.<br />
The Grade 7s will be capping off<br />
their study of New France with a visit<br />
to Quebec City in May. For three<br />
days, students will have a chance to<br />
live history, visiting places where the<br />
early settlers lived and treading on<br />
the sites of famous battles such as the<br />
Plains of Abraham. With almost 120<br />
students and over a dozen staff members,<br />
this fabulous trip will be one to<br />
remember for a long time.<br />
On the extracurricular front,<br />
Glashan students successfully learned<br />
how to navigate the slopes at Vorlage<br />
during our annual downhill ski<br />
trip in March. On a warm and sunny<br />
day, students were given lessons and<br />
then had a chance to try some runs<br />
on their own. Basketball finished for<br />
another year with the annual Glashan<br />
invitational tournaments held at the<br />
beginning of <strong>April</strong>. Glashan students<br />
did extremely well and the<br />
tournaments were enjoyed by all<br />
participants. Soccer, track and field<br />
and relays are all around the corner<br />
as is the annual multicultural dinner<br />
next month. Stay tuned to next<br />
month’s <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> for more of<br />
the ongoing activities and learning at<br />
Glashan Public School.<br />
For more details, check out the<br />
Glashan website at www.glashanps.<br />
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Sean Oussoren is Grade 7/8 teacher<br />
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First Avenue raises $15,000<br />
at annual dance-a-thon<br />
by Isabelle Flannigan<br />
First Avenue School is busy getting ready for its annual book sale which will<br />
take place from <strong>April</strong> 22-25. For more information, see our ad in this edition<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
After the book sale, our next big project will be finalizing our plans for the<br />
renovations in the junior yard. We will be installing a new play structure and<br />
improving some of the landscaping over the summer. We hope the yard will be<br />
all set up for our return in September.<br />
We held our annual dance-a-thon on Thursday, February 11. We are extremely<br />
proud of our students (and parents) who were able to raise $15,000 this year<br />
and we thank our community for their generosity. A good part of the funds will<br />
go towards the yard renovations and to our twin school in Mali. We had a DJ<br />
for the day and guest hip hop dancer and dance teacher Kailena Van De Nes<br />
visited for one of the VIP dance periods. There was excitement and happiness<br />
all day. It was so much fun!<br />
Two grade six students took advantage of this event to host a bake sale. They<br />
made arrangements for other junior students to bake and take shifts selling<br />
goodies just outside the dance-a-thon. What leadership! These funds will go<br />
towards aid relief in Haiti.<br />
Blues in the Schools artists were with us last month. We saw four different<br />
concerts: Shawn Tavenier and Peter Voith, The Mighty Popo with Michael J.<br />
Browne, the Journeymen and finally Rick Fines. What a treat it was to have<br />
such wonderful shows! Rick Fines and Shane Simpson stayed on with one of<br />
our classes offering an extra week of one-hour workshops. They worked with<br />
Mme Pilon’s grade 5/6 class, helping them create their own songs and perform<br />
a concert for the school on March 12.<br />
Practising pays off<br />
Our girls volleyball team participated in a tournament this winter and brought<br />
back silver medals. Our boys also participated in a tournament in which they<br />
played hard and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship. Although they did not<br />
win a medal, we are proud of them as they played really well as a team. Our<br />
basketball teams are now practising for their upcoming tournaments. Coach<br />
McMann anticipates a great season. Go First Avenue!<br />
Isabelle Flannigan is vice-principal of First Avenue School.<br />
Photo: Carolyn Johnson-Grall.<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> artist explores South-East Asia<br />
by Ashwin Shingadia<br />
Jaya Krishnan, a familiar figure<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, has been travelling in<br />
South-East Asia during the winter<br />
and spring. He has been painting<br />
landscapes, helping local orphans in<br />
Cambodia and raising money to rehabilitate<br />
elephants. He was joined<br />
by his wife, Martha, at the beginning<br />
of March and their intention was to<br />
travel for a month in Vietnam. Having<br />
spent a year working in Australia,<br />
their elder son, Nathan, a Queen’s<br />
graduate, is already in the region and<br />
found time to accompany them on<br />
this trip.<br />
Some <strong>Glebe</strong> residents may be acquainted<br />
with Jaya through his paintings<br />
that have hung at local businesses<br />
such as Morala coffee shop,<br />
and Von’s restaurant on Bank Street.<br />
Martha in South-East Asia<br />
You may have seen images of one of<br />
his favourite subjects, Brown’s Inlet<br />
with its weeping willows, shimmering<br />
waters and skyscapes. Jaya certainly<br />
brings together many cultural<br />
influences in his painting.<br />
After studying at Kuala Lumpur<br />
College of Art, Jaya worked in Malaysia<br />
in publishing and then in Canada<br />
in graphic arts before launching<br />
himself as a full-time professional<br />
artist. At Trinity Galleries of St.<br />
John’s, N.B., his artistic development<br />
was described as “experiment[ing]<br />
with various artistic forms: surrealism,<br />
abstract expression, cubism<br />
and realism.” Now, he “paints in the<br />
landscape tradition of the French<br />
Barbizon School, creates luminous<br />
and striking landscapes focusing on<br />
the play of colour, light and atmosphere.”<br />
The gallery curator mentions<br />
three other paintings in its holdings<br />
– “Winter Delight,” “First Snow” and<br />
“Gatineau– all acrylics on board, noting<br />
that two of them have since been<br />
sold. The Oakville exhibit “Alcazaba<br />
Gardens” was inspired by Moorish<br />
influences in Spain as exemplified by<br />
the Alhambra complex in the City of<br />
Photo: Jaya Krishnan<br />
Jaya and Martha in South-East Asia<br />
Granada in Andalucía. The Ottawa<br />
Art Gallery also sold the painting<br />
“Splash” in 2007. His paintings can<br />
also be seen in galleries in Toronto,<br />
Oakville, Kleinburg and Calgary and<br />
other works of his are found in private<br />
collections in Malaysia, Europe,<br />
United States and Mexico.<br />
Jaya likes both travelling and teaching<br />
as these two experiences give<br />
him new ideas and inspiration for his<br />
work. According to his wife Martha,<br />
“Almost every year we travel.” Martha<br />
recounts that after graduation in<br />
1974, he travelled for five years and<br />
she met him during the third year, in<br />
Malaysia. “We fell in love,” she said,<br />
“but my visa had expired, so I left<br />
for Thailand and kept up correspondence<br />
with him for a year.” In those<br />
days, it was letter writing. There was<br />
no e-mail. “We just collected letters<br />
from a Poste Restante at a post<br />
office.” In more recent years, the<br />
family spent one year in Mexico at<br />
San Cristobol (see Bowers, <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong>, 13/11/1992) and they have<br />
been to Cuba many times. There Jaya<br />
photographed and painted many of<br />
the well preserved old American cars<br />
such as the ’56 Chevy. These were<br />
of much interest to automobile museums<br />
in the United States.<br />
One of Jaya’s pleasures is to share<br />
his talents with others. He teaches at<br />
Abbotsford House in the winter; in<br />
the summer, he organizes outdoor<br />
classes in a park or a site where he<br />
can find a suitable landscape. His<br />
philosophy of teaching, according<br />
to Glebite Robert Cameron, who attended<br />
Jaya’s class with ten others,<br />
is “teaching by example, the way he<br />
produced his own work, acrylic, applying<br />
quickly, and done in a certain<br />
way to bring out colour and design.”<br />
His teaching method is not to criticize<br />
or lecture, but to encourage students,<br />
showing them techniques and<br />
his own way of capturing a moment<br />
in time.<br />
While abroad, Jaya is spending<br />
much of his time in Phnom Penh,<br />
helping to raise money for an orphanage<br />
run by Cambodians. Every<br />
day he teaches art to the children in a<br />
little building in need of a roof. After<br />
school, the children do art which is<br />
then sold to tourists. Half the proceeds<br />
go to the orphanage, and the<br />
other half to the children. It is safer<br />
to send children to paint than let them<br />
run around town. Jaya has taken art<br />
supplies with him as not much art<br />
material is available in Cambodia.<br />
Many of his own paintings – rolled<br />
up to save space – accompany him<br />
and are to be sold to raise money for<br />
his projects.<br />
Jaya has also taken up the cause<br />
of the elephants in this part of the<br />
world. The plight of elephants in<br />
South-East Asia is lamentable. Elephants<br />
working in the logging industry<br />
have been replaced by machinery<br />
and the elephant habitat<br />
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destroyed by the encroachment of<br />
human habitation, poaching and illegal<br />
trade in elephant parts. To reeducate<br />
the mahouts (elephant trainers)<br />
and to provide medical care,<br />
elephant rehabilitation centres are<br />
being developed. For example, a<br />
baby elephant named Chook whose<br />
front leg was caught in a trap was<br />
recently rescued from Mondulkin<br />
in north-east Cambodia. He was<br />
sedated, transported, his wounded<br />
foot cleaned and re-bandaged, and<br />
he was brought to a rehabilitation<br />
centre. Initially, he refused to eat<br />
because of the trauma and sense of<br />
missing his herd. In another case,<br />
an older female (ten years old) was<br />
found wandering alone in the forest<br />
of Koh Kong. Under the tutelage<br />
of her mahout, she has developed a<br />
distinctive technique of “painting”<br />
with her trunk and delights visitors.<br />
Jaya teamed up with some German<br />
tourists who stayed in a tent in the<br />
camp, sold his painting of a family<br />
of elephants and gave the profits to<br />
the centre.<br />
On March 2, the Krishnan family<br />
met in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)<br />
with the intention of traveling along<br />
the Mekong delta to spend time with<br />
the “River People,” see the tunnels<br />
that the Vietcong built during the<br />
Vietnam War, and then head north to<br />
see the ruins from the Chan Dynasty.<br />
Martha said “We are interested in<br />
culture, history and heritage.” Their<br />
itinerary is flexible; they like to meet<br />
people, rent bicycles and stay in local<br />
hotels to keep within a “budget.” And<br />
while Martha is returning to Ottawa<br />
in <strong>April</strong>, Jaya will take a bit more<br />
time to explore Vietnam.<br />
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It’s stunning and deserves being<br />
called the “Jewel of the Olympics,” skating event, a contingency of<br />
with its soaring roof built of BC pine Dutch fans remained at the ready to<br />
that had been salvaged from forests lead the crowd in correct protocol<br />
destroyed by the invasive pine beetle. and behavior: lots of singing during<br />
It’s also massive.<br />
warm-up, led by a Dutch band which<br />
I was selected by VANOC (Vancouver<br />
Organizing Committee) to be cheering at athlete introductions; and<br />
travels the world with its athletes;<br />
a part of the athlete medical team at sudden, complete silence at the start<br />
the oval, fondly known as the ROO. of each race. Once the start is clean,<br />
As a physiotherapist, I joined other during the race, there is lots of vocal<br />
volunteer therapists, medical doctors, support, that ebbs and flows with<br />
surgeons and paramedics to provide the split times and the length of the<br />
on-site services to the athletes for the course. Christine Nesbitt reported<br />
Vancouver <strong>2010</strong> Winter Games. This after her gold medal race that she<br />
included readiness for on-ice trauma knew from the reaction of the crowd<br />
as well as a full clinic set up downstairs.<br />
As a volunteer, I covered my first place finish.<br />
that she needed to push harder for a<br />
own expenses, including airfare during<br />
my 15-day assignment.<br />
her 1000 metre race, I cheered as<br />
As well as watching Christine win<br />
Most of my time was spent on the Kristina Groves won her silver in the<br />
“field of play.” Most hours spent at 1500 metres. I sure was proud of her!<br />
the ROO were for training rather One of my last shifts at the oval<br />
than competition. During training, took place on the day of the men’s<br />
the oval is quiet and almost serene. 10,000 metre race. I saw Sven<br />
Often countries skate together, but Kramer, the Dutch superstar, skate<br />
quite frequently, different nationalities<br />
join together. To an outsider, new Olympic record, before being<br />
a spectacular race, even setting a<br />
the atmosphere does not reflect the disqualified for a lane error directed<br />
intensity of the skating or the importance<br />
of the event. The athletes are so sad. I was glad to read later that he<br />
by his coach. I felt quite stunned and<br />
efficient in their technique that they will stick with his coach and that he<br />
make it look effortless. Speed skating<br />
generates the fastest human-pow-<br />
through together.<br />
acknowledged what they have been<br />
ered speeds, and skaters reach up to I found the city and people of Vancouver<br />
to be wonderful, gracious<br />
60 km/hour. The ROO, being at sea<br />
level, is not considered as fast a track hosts. Transit was busy but ran very<br />
as the ovals in Calgary or Salt Lake smoothly and, of course, the mild<br />
City.<br />
weather was great if you were out<br />
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viewpoint than those watching happy to have participated in this<br />
and about downtown! I came home<br />
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Winners of Awesome Authors<br />
youth writing contest<br />
by Jane Venus<br />
The winners of this year’s Awesome Authors youth writing contest, which<br />
ran from October 2009 to January <strong>2010</strong>, were announced amid much fanfare in<br />
the Chamber at Ben Franklin Place. Prizes were handed out to honour Ottawaarea<br />
youth between the ages of 9 and 17 years, who submitted poems and/or<br />
short stories in French and/or English.<br />
Local authors Brenda Chapman, Michel Lavoie and JC Sulzenko judged the<br />
submissions. The winners’ works will be included this fall in pot-pourri, an<br />
anthology of short stories and poems published by the Friends of the Ottawa<br />
Public Library (FOPLA). To pre-order a copy of pot-pourri, call 613-580-<br />
2424, ext. 14383.<br />
The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) holds the contest annually, with sponsorship<br />
from FOPLA.<br />
Congratulations to the following awesome authors from central Ottawa:<br />
Nature’s Mirror by James Colwell, Second prize, Poetry 9-11 years,<br />
Mutchmor Public School<br />
The Magic Pencil by Eileen O’Brien, Honourable Mention, Poetry 9-11<br />
years, Mutchmor Public School<br />
Drowning by Miranda Rhamey-Smith, Honourable Mention, Poetry 9-11<br />
years, Mutchmor Public School<br />
Joel: a short story by Sacha Kingston-Wayne, First prize, Short Story 9-11<br />
years, Mutchmor Public School<br />
Mission Accomplished by Benjamin MacLean-Max, Second prize, Short<br />
Story 9-11 years, Hopewell Public School<br />
Play Like a Girl by Lia Codrington, Second prize, Short Story 12-14 years,<br />
Glashan Intermediate School<br />
Jane Venus works for Children and Teen Services of the Ottawa Public<br />
Library.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> 37<br />
Scout trucks<br />
and spring camping<br />
by Nicholas G.<br />
Scouts in the 36 th Ottawa troop are<br />
going to have a busy time this spring.<br />
On <strong>April</strong> 17, we’re going to be racing<br />
‘Scout Trucks’ at Hilson Public<br />
School. Scout trucks are wooden<br />
vehicles we build and race against<br />
scouts across the Heritage area.<br />
Trucks are to be a maximum of 750<br />
grams and they must have 18 wheels<br />
in contact with the racing track surface.<br />
There is also a ‘best in show’<br />
category and a demolition race.<br />
After that, we’re going spring<br />
camping from <strong>April</strong> 30-May 2.<br />
Scouts are challenged to bring their<br />
own food and cook their own meals.<br />
Senior scouts will be working on<br />
their Exploring or Advance Tripping<br />
badges; junior scouts will be<br />
working on their Forestry or Pioneering<br />
badges.<br />
Next up will be the Great <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Garage Sale on May 29 where scouts<br />
from the 36 th troop will be demonstrating<br />
our cooking skills by selling<br />
our famous hot dogs! Come out and<br />
support us (preferably with money<br />
in hand). We’ll be near the <strong>Glebe</strong> St.<br />
James Church at 650 Lyon Street.<br />
After that, it’s summer camp. Undoubtedly,<br />
this will be the best camp<br />
of the year. We’ll canoe several kilometres<br />
to get to our camp site, an island<br />
in Lac Vert. We’ll be swimming<br />
and paddling throughout the lake.<br />
It’s lots of fun, so no scout should<br />
miss it.<br />
The 36 th Ottawa Scouts meet every<br />
Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the<br />
Corpus Christi School gym.<br />
Nicholas G. is a member of the 36 th<br />
Ottawa troop. For their Chief Scout<br />
Award, Daniella S. and Nicholas G.<br />
are researching the history of the 36 th<br />
Ottawa Scout Troop and would welcome<br />
any feedback from past scouts,<br />
articles, clippings, examples of old<br />
uniforms or other paraphernalia<br />
that may be available. Any and all<br />
assistance would be appreciated so<br />
that Daniella and Nicholas can accomplish<br />
this task in May <strong>2010</strong>. They<br />
can be contacted via Scouter Stan<br />
at 613-234-0668 or stangrabstas@<br />
sympatico.ca.<br />
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Tuesday, <strong>April</strong> 20, 6:30-9:00 p.m.<br />
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The City of Ottawa is studying traffic concerns from Rochester<br />
Street to Bronson Avenue and Carling Avenue to Highway 417. Proposed<br />
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speed humps, turning restrictions and changes in parking regulations.
38 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE READING<br />
Here is a list of some titles read and discussed in various local book clubs:<br />
TITLE (for adults)<br />
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 1<br />
The Book of Negroes 2<br />
Happiness 3<br />
Prisionnière à Téhéran 4<br />
Honeymoon in Tehran 5<br />
Supreme Courtship 6<br />
The Cart before the Corpse 7<br />
Look Me in the Eye 8<br />
The Samurai’s Garden! 9<br />
A Recipe for Bees 10<br />
The Elegance of the Hedgehog 11<br />
The Guernsey Literary and Potato<br />
Peel Society 12<br />
TITLE (for children & teens)<br />
I How I Live Now 13<br />
On Beale Street 14<br />
You Are Here<br />
Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates 15<br />
Eye of the Crow <strong>16</strong><br />
AUTHOR<br />
Jean-Dominique Bauby<br />
Lawrence Hill<br />
Will Ferguson<br />
Marina Nemat<br />
Azadeh Moaveni<br />
Christopher Buckley<br />
Carolyn McSparren<br />
John Elder Robison<br />
Gail Tsukiyama<br />
Gail Anderson-Dalgatz<br />
Muriel Barbery<br />
Mary Ann Shaffer<br />
AUTHOR<br />
Meg Rosoff<br />
Ronald Kidd<br />
Jennifer E. Smith<br />
Seán Cullen<br />
Shane Peacock<br />
1 Abbotsford Book Club<br />
2 Broadway Book Club<br />
3 Can’ Litterers<br />
4 Cercle de lecture de l’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa<br />
5 OnLine Audio Book Club: www.DearReader.com<br />
6 OnLine Fiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com<br />
7 OnLine Mystery Book Club: www.DearReader.com<br />
8 OnLine Nonfiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com<br />
9 Seriously No-Name Book Club<br />
10 OPL Sunnyside Branch Sunny Reads<br />
11 The Book Club<br />
12 Anonymous<br />
13 Kaleidoscope Book Club for Adults who Like Kids Books<br />
14 OnLine Teen Book Club: www.DearReader.com<br />
15 OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club (7-9 years)<br />
<strong>16</strong> OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club (10-12 years)<br />
If your book club would like to share its reading list,<br />
please e-mail Micheline Boyle at glebe.report@mac.com.<br />
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BOOKS<br />
Desperately seeking Fido<br />
By Andrea Ross<br />
Almost every child dreams of having a dog. Today, we look at three books<br />
that treat us to the thrill of making that dream come true any time we like.<br />
Our first child was a dog – a spunky border collie/black lab named Pepper<br />
– and we loved her. A child and a half later, though, and me eight months<br />
pregnant, Mark suddenly found himself “between jobs,” major home renovations<br />
underway and an energetic twenty month old to chase – something had<br />
to give and that something, unfortunately, was Pepper. There were tears all<br />
around when we said good-bye to our beloved pooch, but our twenty-monthold<br />
daughter rebounded beautifully. And that, we thought, was the end of that.<br />
We thought wrong.<br />
Somewhere around the age of four, this daughter, deprived of a pet she<br />
couldn’t remember enjoying, caught a severe and unshakable case of I-Want-<br />
A-Dog. The pining and whining, wheeling and dealing became relentless.<br />
Since we couldn’t grant her wish in reality, we chose to grant her wish in<br />
books. Luckily, there are many books that deal with the wishing for, pining<br />
for, sublimating the desire for and, sometimes even getting, a dog. Today we<br />
look at three books that treat us to the thrill of making that dream come true<br />
any time we like.<br />
I Want a Dog (Dayal Kaur Khalsa;<br />
1994 Tundra Books) describes the<br />
24/7 yearning of young May who eats,<br />
breathes and sleeps her longing for a<br />
dog. All that stands between May and<br />
the dog she desires is time, but May<br />
finds the waiting unbearable and devises<br />
a steady stream of elaborate schemes<br />
to eliminate the wait. What I love about<br />
this version of the dog-longing story is<br />
that it presents, in generous and humorous<br />
detail, both sides of the dog debate<br />
and leaves readers, young and old, feeling understood and with the refreshing<br />
taste of a win-win solution.<br />
Amigo (Byrd Baylor Illustrated by Garth Williams;<br />
1989 Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)<br />
presents an original, distracting and<br />
wholly satisfying approach to the I-Want-A-Dog<br />
debate. What stands between Francisco and the<br />
dog he desires is the reality of financial hardship.<br />
Francisco eventually chooses to sublimate<br />
his dog longing by working to tame a wild (and<br />
extremely adorable) prairie dog. The charm of<br />
this tale is that — unbeknownst to Francisco<br />
— the prairie dog is also working to tame him!<br />
This magical, if unrealistic, story treats us to the<br />
giddy thrill of success while momentarily opening<br />
up the possibility of “dog-free” joy.<br />
The Outside Dog<br />
(Charlotte Pomerantz Illustrated by Jennifer Plecas;<br />
1995 Harper Collins) recounts the gentle give and<br />
take between the hopeful Marisol and her resistant<br />
abuelito (grandfather) as a skinny, brown mutt inches<br />
his way into their lives. The loving and gradual erosion<br />
of the grandfather’s resistance is a reminder that<br />
we adults do want our children to be happy. Meanwhile,<br />
Marisol’s willingness to meet her grandfather<br />
halfway reminds us that there may be more than one<br />
way to solve to the dog-longing debate. This deceptively<br />
simple story is hugely satisfying.<br />
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JustOneMoreBook.com She lives in the <strong>Glebe</strong> with her husband, two<br />
daughters and a ridiculously large number of children’s books. You can read<br />
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BOOKS<br />
Egg on Mao, the story<br />
of a not-so-ordinary man<br />
By JC Sulzenko<br />
Where were you when tanks<br />
moved on Tiananmen Square? I have<br />
to admit that June 4, 1989, was not<br />
as large a defining moment in my<br />
personal history as the assassination<br />
of JFK or 9/11. After reading <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
author Denise Chong’s Egg on Mao,<br />
I think it should be.<br />
I admire Chong’s choice to mark<br />
the 20th anniversary of that time<br />
of extraordinary hope and then of<br />
repression by focusing on the defiance<br />
of three young men, who threw<br />
paint-filled eggs at Mao’s portrait at<br />
an entrance to the Square on May 23.<br />
She tells the story from the point of<br />
view of Lu Decheng, the ‘ordinary<br />
man’ in the subtitle. Decheng, a bus<br />
mechanic from Mao’s own Hunan<br />
province, leaped on a train to Beijing<br />
with his friends, not only to show<br />
solidarity with protesters occupying<br />
the Square but, more importantly,<br />
because he believed China and its<br />
power elite had to change. How he<br />
came to this point, committed the act<br />
of vandalism and survived its aftermath<br />
provides the arc of the story.<br />
At the core of the narrative is<br />
Decheng’s own transformation. We<br />
see him growing up, abused by his<br />
father and living in the cast-iron<br />
shadow of a government that insinuates<br />
itself into even the most intimate<br />
aspects of its citizens’ lives.<br />
We watch his emotional and sexual<br />
awakening, and root for him and his<br />
underage, first love, Qiuping, as they<br />
cope with an ‘illegal’ pregnancy and<br />
the birth and death of their infant son.<br />
We cheer him on as commitment to a<br />
better future develops and leads him<br />
to Tiananmen Square. We fear for<br />
him through his betrayal by student<br />
leaders, his trial and imprisonment<br />
and ultimately, his flight to freedom<br />
in the West.<br />
What surprises the reader is how<br />
Decheng evolves inside the fortress<br />
walls. A prisoner, certainly in the<br />
physical sense, he reads to educate<br />
himself, becomes a teacher and gains<br />
strength while defining his own philosophy.<br />
That he overcomes and almost<br />
thrives in a set of circumstances<br />
that deprived another member of the<br />
original trio of his sanity shows that<br />
Lu Decheng is no ordinary man.<br />
What he suffers and how he survives<br />
earn him the preeminent place in the<br />
slice of history served by this book.<br />
As explained in the “Author’s<br />
Note” at the end of Egg on Mao,<br />
Decheng escaped from China and<br />
entered Canada as a refugee in 2006,<br />
where he “took on the life of a democracy<br />
activist in exile.” Now more<br />
or less ‘local,’ Chong was able to<br />
interview him for days-on-end over<br />
an 18-month period. He embraced<br />
her project wholeheartedly.<br />
Before I bought a copy, I listened<br />
to Denise Chong and her editor,<br />
Craig Pyette, discuss how she wrote<br />
the book. This provided an exciting<br />
exposé: the ‘cloak and dagger’ nature<br />
of Chong’s travels in China; the<br />
complexity of finding out what really<br />
happened and safeguarding sources<br />
of intelligence, both human and written;<br />
and the barriers caused by language<br />
and dialect. I suggested to her<br />
that a book about writing Egg on Mao<br />
could be a huge hit in its own right,<br />
much as Kate Grenville‘s Searching<br />
for the Secret River revealed the story<br />
behind her award-winning novel.<br />
In spite of its strengths, Egg on<br />
Mao was disappointing in one particular<br />
respect for this reader: its<br />
structure. The book begins and ends<br />
with the defacement of Mao’s portrait.<br />
In between, however, it ricochets<br />
in time and place between Beijing<br />
and Decheng’s childhood, from<br />
life in prison to the loss of his first<br />
child and often back to the Square.<br />
Even when the book captures an exquisite<br />
moment, such as when Qiuping<br />
professes her love and refuses<br />
to divorce inmate Decheng, the very<br />
next chapter deprives the reader of<br />
any chance to savour this as it jumps<br />
back in time. This pattern of going<br />
back-and-forth felt frustrating and<br />
interfered with my enjoyment of and<br />
investment in both the characters and<br />
the ‘plot.’<br />
Is this book worth reading? Yes,<br />
of course! Lu Decheng’s story as<br />
portrayed in Egg on Mao is an eloquent<br />
paean to individual courage<br />
in the face of repression. We would<br />
each do well to remember what happened<br />
more than 20 years ago in the<br />
“largest public space in the world,”<br />
as The Cutting Edge series so aptly<br />
labeled Tiananmen Square.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong> 39<br />
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BY neil wilson<br />
The Ottawa International Writers<br />
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in the fertile soil of our great city,<br />
where it continues to be blessed with<br />
dedicated volunteers and world class<br />
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40 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Father André Drouin<br />
to speak <strong>April</strong> 25 at St. Giles<br />
Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (CCSAC) invites you to its<br />
annual ecumenical service. This year’s service will be held at St Giles, and<br />
the homilist will be Father André Drouin. Father Drouin is the recently retired<br />
parish priest of St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Ottawa’s Lower Town. A native<br />
of Ottawa, he was educated at the University of Ottawa, from which he has<br />
graduate degrees in both geography and family counselling. He has taught at<br />
the Minor Seminary and at Notre Dame de Lourdes High School, and has been<br />
chaplain to the Hull regiment of the Royal Canadian Army Reserve Force for<br />
more than 42 years.<br />
For over twenty years, Father Drouin has been tending to the spiritual needs<br />
of persons living with AIDS. His book, It All Begins with Tenderness, (Penumbra<br />
Press) is an account of that ministry. It won the acclaimed God Uses<br />
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Father Drouin takes his inspiration from the parable of the Prodigal Son.<br />
More than once he reminds the reader of the gesture of the father in that tale:<br />
“When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion,<br />
and ran, and fell upon his neck, and kissed him.”<br />
We all need to be reminded of this truth. Join us <strong>April</strong> 25 at 2:30 p.m. at St.<br />
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Masses: Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.<br />
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View community art gallery by appointment.<br />
*NOTE: Sunday service time of 11:07 a.m. is the right time!<br />
FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
Fourth Avenue at Bank Street, 613-236-1804<br />
www.fourthavenuebaptist.ca<br />
Minister: Rev. Clarke Dixon<br />
Services: Sundays, 11 a.m.<br />
Junior church and nursery available<br />
(parent/tot room available at the back of the church)<br />
GERMAN MARTIN LUTHER CHURCH<br />
499 Preston Street at Carling Avenue, 613-233-<strong>16</strong>71<br />
Pastor: Christoph Ernst<br />
Service: Sundays, 10 a.m., with Sunday school<br />
(first Sunday of month, 11:15 a.m., English service)<br />
GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH<br />
650 Lyon Street at First Avenue, 613-236-0617<br />
www.glebestjames.ca<br />
Minister: Rev. Christine Johnson<br />
Music Director: Robert Palmai<br />
Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m.<br />
Sunday school, 10:30 a.m.<br />
(wheelchair access, FM system for people with impaired hearing)<br />
OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH<br />
600 Bank Street, 613-594-4571<br />
www.ottawa-ocuc.org<br />
Fridays: Prayer meeting at church, 8 p.m.<br />
Sundays: Worship, 11 a.m.<br />
(English with Mandarin translation)<br />
Sunday school: 1:30 a.m. (for all ages)<br />
THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (Quaker)<br />
91A Fourth Avenue, 613-232-9923<br />
http://ottawa.quaker.ca<br />
Clerk: Bob Clarke, clerk.ottawafriends@gmail.com<br />
Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., silent Quaker worship<br />
ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH<br />
Reflect, Focus, Delight – Make church a part of your life.<br />
Bank Street at First Avenue, 613-235-2551<br />
www.stgilesottawa.org<br />
Minister: Rev. Ruth Houtby<br />
Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m.<br />
Church school and nursery care available<br />
(Wheelchair access at First Avenue door)<br />
ST. MATTHEW’S, THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN THE GLEBE<br />
130 <strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue near Bank Street, 613-234-4024<br />
(office/weekday access 217 First Avenue)<br />
www.stmatthewsottawa.on.ca<br />
Rector: The Rev. Canon Pat Johnston<br />
Open doors! Please come in and visit, Mon.-Fri., 11:30-1:30 p.m.<br />
Weekly service: Wednesdays, 7:15 a.m., Eucharist & fellowship<br />
Thursdays, 10 a.m., Eucharist & coffee<br />
Thursdays, 10 a.m., drop-in nannies/stay-at-home<br />
parents group<br />
Sundays: Eucharist, 8 a.m., Choral Eucharist, 10 a.m.<br />
Choral Evensong, 4 p.m., <strong>April</strong> 18, May 2, <strong>16</strong>
RELIGION<br />
Tiptoe through the tulips<br />
BEST<br />
By Reverend Clarke Dixon<br />
“Tiptoe Through the Tulips” is the<br />
title of a song that I used to sing at<br />
full blast in falsetto while working<br />
as a student at Pizza Hut. It was<br />
loud, horrible, but good fun for my<br />
co-workers who would end up joining<br />
in. I’d sing it in church, but after<br />
my rendition of Kool & the Gang’s<br />
“Celebration” recently, I think we’ll<br />
leave the tiptoeing to my Pizza Hut<br />
days!<br />
We will soon be seeing the tulips,<br />
and no better place to see them than<br />
right here in Ottawa with a walk during<br />
the annual tulip festival. It takes<br />
considerable willpower for me to tiptoe<br />
through the tulips without singing,<br />
but for the sake of my family and<br />
the neighbourhood, I’ll endeavour to<br />
do so.<br />
Go for a walk in the spring, and<br />
besides the tulips, you will see all<br />
manner of signs of life: geese flying<br />
overhead, robins on the lawn,<br />
motorcycles on the road, buds on<br />
trees. The signs are all there, we just<br />
need to look around! At Fourth Avenue<br />
Baptist, we are encouraged by<br />
the signs of life in our church. Take<br />
a walk and you will hear the sounds<br />
of the Sunday school, hear rumours<br />
of youth initiatives being undertaken,<br />
stumble across a pastoral care team<br />
gaining steam for a new season, find<br />
a small but passionate group praying<br />
in our new prayer room, or the Bible<br />
study group studying and praying in<br />
the youth room. You might even hear<br />
a baby or two in the new nursery, and<br />
soon you will hear the splash from<br />
baptisms. And of course, you will<br />
hear music! The signs of life are<br />
there, we just need to look around!<br />
But as great as spring is with all<br />
its signs of life, and as great as it is<br />
to see the signs of life in our church,<br />
we long to see the signs of life that<br />
God brings to people’s lives in our<br />
nation. Look around, and we see<br />
people struggling with relationships,<br />
or struggling with addictions, poverty<br />
or tragedy. We see marriages<br />
falling apart. We see innocent people<br />
suffering from the evil committed by<br />
others. Read the headlines and it may<br />
seem that life is no springtime walk<br />
in the park.<br />
Jesus is risen, and because He is<br />
risen, new possibilities emerge. Marriages<br />
are on the rocks across our city.<br />
But He is risen – strong and fulfilling<br />
family life is possible. Relationships<br />
are strained. But He is risen – unity is<br />
possible. People are addicted. But He<br />
is risen – freedom is possible. People<br />
are hateful and hated. But He is risen<br />
– the experience of love is possible.<br />
People are pessimistic. But He is<br />
risen – confidence is possible. People<br />
are far from God. But He is risen –<br />
reconciliation is possible. People are<br />
dying. But He is risen – and the impossible<br />
has become possible: “the<br />
dead shall be raised incorruptible” 1<br />
Cor 15:52.<br />
Life may be no walk in the park, no<br />
happy “tiptoeing through the tulips,”<br />
but walk with Jesus and new possibilities<br />
emerge.<br />
Reverend Clarke Dixon can be<br />
reached at the Fourth Avenue Baptist<br />
Church at 613-236-1804 or revdee@<br />
sympatico.ca.<br />
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GRAPEVINE<br />
This space acts as a free community bulletin board for <strong>Glebe</strong> residents. Drop off<br />
your GRAPEVINE message or COMMUNITY NOTICE at the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> office,<br />
175 Third Avenue, including your name, address and phone number or e-mail<br />
glebe.grapevine@mac.com. FOR SALE items must be less than $1,000.<br />
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS<br />
CANADIAN BLOOD SERVIC-<br />
ES DONOR CLINIC. Wed., <strong>April</strong><br />
21 and Thurs., 22, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.,<br />
L’Esplanade Laurier, Main Foyer,<br />
300 Laurier Ave. West and Thurs.,<br />
<strong>April</strong> 29, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., RA Centre,<br />
Canada Room, 2451 Riverside<br />
Dr., Call 1-888-236-6283 to book an<br />
appointment.<br />
CRAFT & BAKE SALE, Apr. 24 &<br />
25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Friends of<br />
the Farm invite you to an incredible<br />
selection of craft items and delicious<br />
baked goods in building 72 in the Arboretum<br />
of the Central Experimental<br />
Farm. Take the east exit off the Prince<br />
of Wales traffic circle. Admission and<br />
parking are free. Info: 613-230-3276<br />
or info@friendsofthefarm.ca<br />
THE GREATEST EARTH DAY<br />
BASH EVER. Food, Entertainment,<br />
Games and Workshops and Bike<br />
Tune-Ups by Phat Moose Cycles!<br />
Sat., <strong>April</strong> 24 from noon to 4 p.m.,<br />
Lady Evelyn Alternative School, 63<br />
Evelyn Ave. Free entrance but donations<br />
of non perishable items accepted<br />
for the Ottawa Food Bank. Info:<br />
health@ladyevelyn.ca.<br />
THE GREATEST NEIGHBOUR-<br />
HOOD CLEAN UP EVER. Lady<br />
Evelyn Alternative School and surrounding<br />
neighbourhood. Fri., <strong>April</strong><br />
23. Time to be announced. Everyone<br />
is welcome! Info: health@lady<br />
evelyn.ca.<br />
HERITAGE OTTAWA FREE<br />
PUBLIC LECTURE, Wed., <strong>April</strong><br />
21, 7 p.m. Ottawa Public Library<br />
Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe St. Landmarks<br />
Not Landfills: News Ideas<br />
for Old Buildings. Heritage Canada<br />
Foundation’s executive director,<br />
Natalie Bull will outline the Foundation’s<br />
campaign to establish federal<br />
financial incentives for the retention<br />
and restoration of old buildings as<br />
Canadian assets and not liabilities.<br />
SPORTS &SPINAL INJURY CLINIC<br />
Info: 613-230-8841 or www.heritageottawa.org.<br />
HISTORICAL WALK OF THE<br />
CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL<br />
FARM. May 11, from 7 to 9 p.m.,<br />
the Friends of the Farm invite you to<br />
join Bob McClelland who will lead<br />
a walking tour which will showcase<br />
the picturesque landscape design, architectural<br />
history, and stories of Ottawa’s<br />
beloved Central Experimental<br />
Farm. Cost is $12 for FCEF members<br />
and $15 for non members. Info: 613-<br />
230-3276, info@friendsofthefarm.<br />
ca, www.friendsofthefarm.ca.<br />
FRIENDS OF THE FARM APRIL<br />
SPRING LECTURE SERIES.<br />
<strong>April</strong> 20 - Monarch Waystations<br />
Lecture with Master Gardener Julianne<br />
Labreche. <strong>April</strong> 27 - Home<br />
Grown Produce Lecture with<br />
Master Gardener David Hinks. The<br />
cost for individual lectures is $12<br />
for FCEF members and $15 for non<br />
members and for the series the cost is<br />
$40 for FCEF members and $50 for<br />
non members. The lectures are held<br />
in building 72 in the Arboretum of<br />
the Central Experimental Farm, east<br />
exit off the Prince of Wales traffic<br />
circle. To register or for more information<br />
call 613-230-3276 or email<br />
info@friendsofthefarm.ca.<br />
LOSING A LOVED ANIMAL:<br />
HOW ANIMALS VIEW LIFE<br />
AND DEATH. Seminar, 6 to 9 p.m.,<br />
Fri., <strong>April</strong> 30, Church of the Ascension,<br />
253 Echo Drive. Info 819 790-<br />
8670.<br />
TAKE A STEP TO CONQUER<br />
LUPUS. Join Lupus Ottawa for our<br />
fundraising and awareness ‘Walk a<br />
Block’ and family fun event for Lupus.<br />
Sat. May 15 at 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.<br />
at Ottawa City Hall (Festival Plaza).<br />
www.walkablock.ca or lisanewton09@hotmail.com<br />
to register or<br />
for more information.<br />
SPORTS MEDICINE PHYSICIANS AND PHYSIOTHERAPISTS WORKING TOGETHER<br />
Bernie Lalonde, M.D.<br />
Eleanor Cox, B.P.T.<br />
A private clinic specializing in the<br />
care of:<br />
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RARE AND UNUSUAL PLANT<br />
SALE. Fabulous ideas for your garden.<br />
Friends of the Central Experimental<br />
Farm and speciality growers<br />
and nurseries. May 9, 9 a.m. to 1<br />
p.m. in the parking lot of the Neatby<br />
Building, Carling & Maple Drive,<br />
Central Experimental Farm. Admission<br />
is $5 or donation to the Food<br />
Bank. Info: 613-230-3276, info@<br />
friendsofthefarm.ca, www.friendsof<br />
thefarm.ca.<br />
SPRING RUMMAGE SALE.<br />
Fourth Ave. Baptist Church, Bank<br />
St. at Fourth Ave., Sat., <strong>April</strong> 24, 9<br />
a.m. to 12 noon. Baking, Clothing<br />
Boutique, Household items, Books,<br />
Toys, China, Jewelry.<br />
THE ENVIRONMENTAL TOX-<br />
INS AND HEALTH COMMIT-<br />
TEE OF THE CANADIAN FED-<br />
ERATION OF UNIVERSITY<br />
WOMEN-OTTAWA in co-operation<br />
with <strong>Glebe</strong> St. James United Church<br />
will present the film “Toxic Trespass”<br />
at the <strong>Glebe</strong> St. James United<br />
Church on Wed., <strong>April</strong> 21, 7:30 p.m.<br />
The film, about children’s health and<br />
the environment, launches an investigation<br />
into the effects of the chemicals<br />
around us and the links between<br />
environmental pollution and health<br />
problems. Pay-What-You-Can: all<br />
welcome. Info: 613-235-7819.<br />
MUSIC<br />
BYTOWN VOICES presents ‘Here’s<br />
to Song’, Sun., May 2, 3 p.m., at St.<br />
Basil’s Church (Maitland, north of<br />
the Queensway). The 40-voice choir<br />
will do a medley of musical tunes<br />
by Andrew Lloyd Webber and spiritual,<br />
classical and folk tunes. Tickets<br />
at the door: $15 adults, $6 students,<br />
free for 12 and under. Info: www.bytownvoices.com<br />
or: 613-234-1030.<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
FULL-TIME, LIVE OUT NANNY<br />
available September <strong>2010</strong>. Energetic,<br />
enthusiastic and extremely dedicated.<br />
Twelve years working in the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Please contact Claudia Joseph at 613-<br />
797-5035. For a reference and more<br />
info., contact Claudia’s current family,<br />
Lisa and Neil at 613-232-0591 or<br />
by e-mail at lisa@manworks.ca<br />
FOR RENT<br />
ONE-BEDROOM SEMI-FUR-<br />
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for a non-smoking, quiet female<br />
graduate student or professional.<br />
Monthly rent $900, includes heat,<br />
hydro, water, basic cable (separate<br />
lines for telephone and internet). No<br />
pets. Available immediately. Please<br />
call Caroline at 613-237-7894 for<br />
more info. or to arrange a viewing.<br />
FOR SALE<br />
GARAGE SALE, Sat., May 1. 9:30<br />
a.m. to 1 p.m. Rain or shine. All<br />
kinds of household items. Books,<br />
CDs, videos etc. Toys, adults’ &<br />
children’s clothing. Collectibles and<br />
more. Trinity Church, 1230 Bank St.,<br />
613-733-7536.<br />
MAHOGANY DINING ROOM<br />
TABLE AND EIGHT CHAIRS.<br />
Table is 80” extended x 38” wide x<br />
30 1/2” high. Table top is in excellent<br />
condition and legs are in the Duncan<br />
Phyfe style. Chairs are very comfortable<br />
for long evening dinners. $999.<br />
Call 613-233-<strong>16</strong>73.<br />
WANTED<br />
PURCHASE HOME IN GLEBE<br />
/OLD OTTAWA SOUTH. Young<br />
couple currently renting in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
looking for a home to purchase (does<br />
not have to be in move-in condition).<br />
If you are planning to sell, let’s split<br />
the commission! All suggestions are<br />
welcome and appreciated. Call Derek<br />
at 613-894-5318.<br />
LOOKING FOR ALUMNI/STAFF<br />
OF CARLETON and <strong>Glebe</strong> residents<br />
that remember when Carleton<br />
College (University) was in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
(1948-1959) for help with history<br />
project. Contact Neil @ 613-233-<br />
7011 or bytownhouse@gmail.com<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Spring Clean up of Bank Street<br />
<strong>April</strong> 17, <strong>2010</strong> at 9:30 a.m.<br />
Meet outside Fifth Avenue Court<br />
(Fifth and Bank)<br />
Volunteers needed<br />
Cleaning supplies provided
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BEST<br />
For rates on boxed ads appearing on this page,<br />
please contact Judy Field at 613-231-4938 or by e-mail at<br />
judyfield@rogers.com.<br />
GRAPEVINE<br />
TuToring<br />
Experienced teacher to work<br />
with students in any subject<br />
area: mathematics (K-12),<br />
all other subjects (language<br />
arts, science, study skills,<br />
etc.) up to grade 8.<br />
Please call 613-234-6828.<br />
LUNENBURG<br />
RENTAL<br />
Large 5 bedroom house<br />
on Lunenburg harbour<br />
in Nova Scotia. Flexible<br />
weekly/monthly rentals.<br />
Call 613-232-4921 or email<br />
headoftheloch@hotmail.com<br />
residential<br />
renovation<br />
“Including”<br />
Plaster Repairs and<br />
Texture Ceiling Finishing<br />
Doug Corrigan 613-224-8063<br />
house for rent<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>, beautifully renovated,<br />
detached, 3-4 bedrooms,<br />
2 bath. Available May 1st.<br />
http://mesozoic.earthsci.<br />
carleton.ca/~espencer<br />
613-230-0598<br />
TuToring<br />
Math and other subjects.<br />
Individual or small groups.<br />
All ages, certified for gr 7-12.<br />
B.Math. (UWaterloo),<br />
B.Education (QueensU).<br />
Greg 613-656-5498<br />
www.EquitableEducation.ca<br />
from experienced teacher<br />
Cello Lessons<br />
Jan Jarvlepp<br />
613-729-7766<br />
jarvlepp@magma.ca<br />
HOME RENOS AND<br />
REPAIR - interior/exterior<br />
painting; all types of flooring;<br />
drywall repair and installation;<br />
plumbing repairs and<br />
much more.<br />
Please call Jamie Nininger<br />
@ 613-852-8511.<br />
Rent<br />
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“Every working woman needs a wife!”<br />
Regular & Occasional cleaning<br />
Pre & Post move cleaning and packing<br />
Pre & Post renovation cleaning<br />
Blitz & Spring cleaning<br />
Organizing cupboards, basements...<br />
Perhaps a waitress ???<br />
rent-a-wife-ottawa.com<br />
TuTor<br />
High School Math<br />
and Physics<br />
Zach 613-796-9230<br />
References<br />
COTTAGES FOR SALE<br />
& FOR RENT ON<br />
MAJESTIC LAC HENEY<br />
819-463-3335<br />
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Caregiving: experienced and loving child-care worker<br />
available part or full time through the spring and summer.<br />
Home help such as light cleaning or yummy cooking<br />
also possible. references. Please call 613-730-8098.<br />
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613-238-3776<br />
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613-226-5685<br />
John Adams<br />
Master Plumber
<strong>April</strong> <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2010</strong><br />
Photos; Wendy Philpott<br />
www.gnag.ca<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Activities Group<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2<br />
(613) 233-8713 or (613) 564-1058 info@gnag.ca<br />
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Glamour in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Premier Viewing :<br />
Friday, May 7 at 6:30 PM<br />
Admission: $5.00<br />
Jewellery fashion show<br />
Refreshments and cash-bar<br />
Summer is<br />
GNAG’s Specialty<br />
GNAG offers a wide variety of<br />
fantastic specialized camps for all<br />
ages and interests.<br />
Whether you are artistic,<br />
athletic, creative or adventurous,<br />
we have something for you.<br />
Celebrate<br />
Women<br />
at our Annual<br />
Jewellery Show<br />
Over 30 Jewellers<br />
You will find something<br />
for every woman in your<br />
life including you!<br />
Saturday, May 8<br />
10:00 AM – 4:00 pm<br />
Free Admission<br />
Rockin’ Benefit<br />
to benefit victims of the<br />
recent <strong>Glebe</strong> fires<br />
Friday,<br />
<strong>April</strong> 30 6:30 pm<br />
GNAG<br />
Lobster<br />
Kitchen Party<br />
Live Entertainment<br />
Adults: $10<br />
Students: $ 5<br />
Under 12: Free<br />
Local bands featured at<br />
Bluesfest<br />
Dancing<br />
50/50 draw<br />
Cash bar<br />
Cash Bar<br />
Thursday,<br />
May 27, <strong>2010</strong><br />
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm<br />
Tickets: $50.00<br />
includes: lobster<br />
lobster poutine<br />
strawberry<br />
shortcake