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4 Glebe Report April 16, 2010 Celebrating volunteers and the world around us April and spring rains bring celebrations of poetry month, volunteer week (April 18-24) and Earth Day (April 22).This is a happy confluence of life affirming events. This speaks of the flow of newly released energies and inspires me to take my imagination and all my senses on a slow date with my environment. As I take time to pay attention to the pulse within and without, I am reminded that while we often speak of our lives in prose that is linear, we actually live our multi-layered moments in spirals of poetry. So join me and slow down, breathe, take time to listen and allow the poetry that is in your life to bubble up and find expression. Paying close attention to their human and physical environment is motivation enough for some people to take individual and collective action in order to make things better for those around them and the community at large. They are the volunteers that enrich all our lives. They are all around us, in hospitals, clinics and seniors centres, schools, places of worships, sports arenas, community centres, museums, cultural centres and parks, to name but a few. They walk with us through life giving their time, skills and energy to strengthen the fabric of the social, cultural, economic and political networks that underpin our institutions and community life. Their contribution is enormous and is often taken for granted. We need only look around our own small community to the range of needs that are addressed by the Glebe Community Association, the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group, and the Business Improvement Area, and ask what would the community look like if they did not exist. We need to keep in mind that the hard work of volunteers created these associations and hard work keeps them going. So greet the next volunteer you see with a smile and a helping hand. Julie Houle Cezer, editor Notes from the boardroom by Ian McKercher Julie Houle Cezer appointed editor The Board of Directors of the Glebe Report Association is pleased to announce the appointment of our new editor. Julie came on to the production crew as interim editor in late January. After a year as a volunteer proofreader, she then emerged as the top candidate in the Board’s open search to fill the position. Digitization and missing copies The board has hired the firm of Brechin Imaging Services to digitize all back issues of the Glebe Report. A searchable electronic database of all publications should be available by the fall. We are missing four editions from the archives and we need your help to complete the collection. Please contact the editor if you have any of these copies and can assist us. Missing copies: September, 1982, Volume 10, #8, October, 1982, Volume 10, #9 November, 1982, Volume 10, #10, February 8, 1985, Volume 13, #2 Volume numbering error Volume 1, number 1 of the Glebe Report was published in June, 1973. A new volume began each new calendar year. Unfortunately, a typographical error in the numbering of the November 1985 edition went undetected and was never corrected. All editions in 2010 will be renumbered volume “38*cvn” (corrected volume numbering) so as not to be confused with issues published in 2008 and designated as volume 38. In April 2012, when we catch up to volume 40, number 4, the designation “*cvn” will be discontinued. Ian McKercher is the new chairman of the Board of Directors of the Glebe Report Association. Views expressed in the Glebe Report are those of our contributors. We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Articles selected for publication will be published in both a hard copy monthly version and an electronic version to be included on the Glebe Report’s website - www.glebereport.ca. EDITORIAL PAGE 175 THIRD AVENUE, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, K1S 2K2 AND P. O. BOX 4794, STATION E, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, K1S 5H9 ESTABLISHED 1973 TELEPHONE: 613-236-4955 e-mail: glebe.report@mac.com www.glebereport.ca The Glebe Report is a monthly community newspaper with a circulation of 7,000 copies. We receive no government grants or subsidies. Advertising from Glebe and other merchants pays our bills and printing costs. Copies will be delivered free to Glebe homes, and are available at many Glebe shops, Brewer Pool, and Glebe and Ottawa South Community Centres. For Glebe Report deadlines and advertising rates, call the advertising manager, but please submit articles to glebe.report@mac.com. Call 613-236-4955 EDITOR Julie Houle Cezer, 613-236-4955 ADVERTISING MANAGER Judy Field, 613-231-4938 BUSINESS MANAGER Sheila Pocock, 613-233-3047 CIRCULATION MANAGER Zita Taylor, 613-235-1214 LAYOUT EDITOR Gwendolyn Best COPY EDITOR McE Galbreath STAFF THIS ISSUE: Susan Bell, Micheline Boyle, Valerie Bryce, Teena Hendelman, Jennifer Hein-Islam, Carol MacLeod, Josie Pazdzior, Borgny Pearson, Dorothy Phillips, Jeanette Rive, Wendy Siebrasse, Rita West LEGAL ADVISER: Pierre Crichton COVER: Photos by Wendy Philpott, collage design by Gwendolyn Best SUB-DELIVERERS: Donna Edwards, Judy Field, Gary Greenwood, Ginny Grimshaw, Gill Hunter, Christian Hurlow, Sandra Webster, Zelda Yule Advertising rates are for electronic material supplied in PDF format with fonts embedded in the file. The Glebe Report is printed by Winchester Print. Our next deadline is April 30 for both advertising and article submissions. The next Glebe Report will be out on Friday, May 14, 2010. Welcome to: Ruth Swyers Sub-deliverer needed: 1 hour a month vehicle is required Routes available: 520 Queen Elizabeth Driveway Clemow Avenue, Bank to O’Connor The editor is ? Glebe Avenue, Percy to Lyon Je vous écoute Powell Avenue, Lyon to Percy (even numbers) Findlay Avenue, Torrington to Bronson, and Torrington. OUR VOLUNTEER CARRIERS Nina & Jasmine Acharya, Jennie Aliman, Tyler, Luke & Claire Allan, Charlie & Sydney Allen, Avril Aubry, Lucy & Thomas Baird, Adrian Becklume, Inez Berg, Mary Lou Bienefeld, Daisy & Nettie Bonsall, Robert & Heidi Boraks, the Bowie family, Emilie Bradley, John Francis Brandon, Susan Brant, the Brown family, Valerie Bryce, Tristan & Seywerd Casimir, Mary Chaikowsky, Alex Clarke, Jack & Will Coffey, the Coodin family, Elizabeth Cowan, Scott Cowan, Eleanor Crowder, Sophie Crump, Richard DesRochers, Oscar & Jane Dennis, Tina Dennis, Marilyn Deschamps, the Diekmeyer-Bastianon family, Pat Dillon, Sarah Dingle, the Dingle family, Giuliana, Al, Nina and Olive Di Stefano, Clive Doucet, Nicholas Doucet, Callum Duggan, Trent Duggan, Education for Community Living (GCI), Donna Edwards, Beth Farley, the Faught family, the Ferguson family, Matthew & Esmerelda Fernandes, Judy Field, Hannah & Joseph Fraser, the Good family, Stuart & Andrew Gordon, Gary Greenwood, Ginny Grimshaw, Emma Gunther, the Hamer-Wilson family, Ellis & Callan Hayman, Matthew Hovey, Eric Hollebone, Gill Hunter, Christian Hurlow, Jack & Lily Inskip-Shesnicky, Joan Irwin, the Johnston family, Patrick & Joseph Kelly, Carly & Reilly Kimber, Liam Kirkpatrick, Mary & Imre Kovacs, Bonnie Kruspe, the Kuffner family, the Lambert family, Joanne Lucas, Sam & Dawson Lyon, the Macdonald family, Maria MacIntosh, Emily & Oliver Maddox, the Magner family, Pat Marshall, Madeline & Tara Martin, Gordon McCaffrey, Fiona & Timothy McCarthy-Kennedy, Isaac McGuire, Ellen & John McLeod, Katie Millington, Julie Monaghan, Diane Munier, Sana Nesrallah, Tracy Parish, Tracy, Frank & Spencer Paveck, Alexandra Pipe, the Pritchard family, the Quinn family, Beatrice Raffoul, Mary & Steve Reid, Carley Richmond-Ward, Hannah & Thomas Rogers, Emile & Sebastien Roy-Foster, Emily & Owen Saar, Myma & Alex Okuda-Rayfuse, Carter & Clara Saunders, Ellen Schowalter, Zachary, Anik, Richard & Liam Seaker, the Short family, Kathy Simons, Judith Slater, Sobriety House—Bill Dalton, Kristen Soo, Victoria, Rebecca, Nicholas & Patrick Spiteri, the Stephenson family, Mrs. Stevenson, Alex & Claire Stoney, Joanne Sulek, JC Sulzenko, Alexandra Sunderland, Karen Swinburne, Eric & Steven Swinkels, Ruth Swyers, Emmet & Niamh Taylor, Eleanor Thomas, John & Maggie Thomson, the Trudeau family, Caroline Vanneste, the Veevers family, Sophie Veronneau, Ward Walker, Katja & Tanja Webster, Sandra Webster, the Weider family, Paul Wernick, Chantal West, Gillian & Jake Wright, Sue Ann Wright, Nora Wylie, the Young-Smith family, Zelda Yule. CALL Zita Taylor at 613-235-1214, e-mail: Zita.Taylor@gmail.com, if you are willing to deliver a route for us. oops Lady Herb
LETTERS Glebe Report April 16, 2010 5 Speaking up for our community park ... again Editor, Glebe Report We are in receipt of a letter from Glebe residents Adrian Evans, Robert Campbell and Joseph Duggan informing us that the principles and terms of reference for the Lansdowne urban park design competition call for proposals to integrate the community park part of Sylvia Holden Park with the new urban park (between Lady Aberdeen Pavilion and the Driveway) and the larger civic agenda for Lansdowne Park. Our reaction to this information is that the City of Ottawa is thereby demonstrating a colossal lack of good faith. During the consultation hearings for the OSEG (Lansdowne Live) proposals, no part of the community park (the recreational area bounded by Fifth Avenue, O’Connor, Queen Elizabeth Drive and a line extending roughly eastward from Holmwood Avenue to the canal) was represented as subject to modification. It infuriates us that the name Sylvia Holden Park is likely to engender confusion, since the city has a large conspicuous sign showing Sylvia Holden Park as located at 945 Bank Street and yet, in some city representations, designates 10 Fifth Avenue as the Sylvia Holden Park address. The uninformed are likely to think that our protest relates to the Bank Street address, whereas we are equally concerned about the O’Connor/Driveway/Fifth Avenue area. Having fought alongside many others since the early 1970s to introduce basketball, a wading pool, and other facilities into this recreational space, we are appalled that the city should sneakily turn this into an area once again up for grabs. The case was made at the time, and councillors agreed, that while there is green space in the Glebe, the neighbourhood has little space for sports and other active pursuits. There is no reason to trust any assurances that space can be found elsewhere in the Glebe for these facilities. The community has already lost many sports facilities at Lansdowne. There were once two soccer fields behind the south stands, a T-ball field, tennis courts, a skateboard park and an outdoor hockey rink. But these have been replaced in recent decades by parking spaces. The city should show good faith in keeping the recreational area off limits in the calls for design proposals for this area, as was depicted in the graphics shown at the Lansdowne Live consultations throughout the city. Elaine and Randal Marlin The world is curiouser and curiouser ... Editor, Glebe Report Everyone in the Glebe will be very familiar with the recent tragedy on Monk Street when numbers 5 and 7 caught fire. Less than one week later the city had served an Order to Comply on the poor owner of the property for “demolition of a 2 storey building without benefit of a demolition permit.” I checked the date: it was issued on March 31, not April 1. My questions are: Do we all need to get demolition permits before having a major fire? What is the penalty for not having one? Should there be a concessionary waiver for unpremeditated demolition by a third party? Should the fire department be issued with a blanket demolition permit for such occasions? Frank Johnson The Annual General Meeting of the Glebe Report Board of Directors will take place at the Glebe Community Centre on June 14, 2010 at 8 p.m. All are welcome! Demystifying the zoning around Lansdowne Park Editor, Glebe Report I felt it necessary to write to let you and readers know about the complexity of all the different zoning issues that Lansdowne Park faces. These will create a challenge to anyone considering a proper redesign of the park. 1. Currently, the park is owned by the City of Ottawa and is a public space. Adjacent to the park, the National Capital Commission owns the land along Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Parks Canada has jurisdiction over the Rideau Canal, but the canal is also designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. 2. The Horticulture Building is designated a heritage building under Part 4 3. of the Ontario Heritage Act. The Aberdeen Pavillion is both a provincially designated heritage building and national historic site: a) Under just the provincial designation, the Aberdeen Pavillion has a heritage conservation easement which is a buffer zone that surrounds the building and extends all the way to Bank Street. Any development in this zone (and presumably near it) must first meet the approval of the Ontario Heritage Trust. b) Also, a second Ontario Heritage Trust easement extends from Aberdeen Pavillion to Queen Elizabeth Driveway and protects the sightlines of the building from the canal, now a World Heritage Site. c) Under the national designation, Parks Canada must also be notified if any major changes are made to the building or the area immediately surrounding it. d) Potentially, UNESCO may have to be informed of any changes that might affect the historic cultural nature of the canal. Thus, there are five different organizations that currently lay claim to the site: municipal, provincial, two national and one international. I hope this clarifies the complexity of the current zoning and heritage issues surrounding the park and some of its buildings. Andrew Elliott Losing a Loved Animal: How Animals view Life and Death with professional animal communicator Lauren McCall. Evening seminar: 6–9 pm, Friday, April 30 Church of the Ascension, 253 Echo Drive This workshop is suited to anyone who loves animals and has experienced or is about to experience the loss of a beloved animal companion. Cost: $45.00 Information: 819 790-8670, info@ListeningToWhispers.com Note: Hands-on weekend workshop also offered. 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Page 3: EVENTS 25 th anniversary for the Gr
Page 7 and 8: NEWS Glebe fires: déjà vu by Juli
Page 9 and 10: FOOTBRIDGE UPDATE Midtown footbridg
Page 11 and 12: CITIZENS INITIATIVES Hands off our
Page 13 and 14: BIA Glebe BIA protecting our villag
Page 15 and 16: GLEBE HISTORY Heritage spaces, not
Page 17 and 18: BUSINESS BUZZ Alana leads one of he
Page 19 and 20: NEWS The Glebe: A healthy neighbour
Page 21 and 22: HEALTH Keeping drugs out of our dri
Page 23 and 24: Community parks of the Glebe by Car
Page 25 and 26: MUSIC St. Matthew’s spring concer
Page 27 and 28: FOOD By Karen Wallace-Graner Apple,
Page 29 and 30: ENVIRONMENT Keeping the Glebe green
Page 31 and 32: SCHOOLS Some updates from the board
Page 33 and 34: SCHOOLS Sustainability initiatives
Page 35 and 36: TRAVEL Glebe artist explores South-
Page 37 and 38: COMMUNITY Winners of Awesome Author
Page 39 and 40: BOOKS Egg on Mao, the story of a no
Page 41 and 42: RELIGION Tiptoe through the tulips
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