October, 2007 - Glebe Report

October 12, 2007 

Vol. 37 No. 9 

Serving the Glebe community since 1973 

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Future of Lansdowne belongs to the public 

BY LESLIE FULTON 

Any discussion concerning the development of Lansdowne Park should be 

conducted in an open and transparent public forum and not behind closed 

doors, according to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations (FCA), an 

umbrella group that represents the interests of more than 80 community associations 

across the City of Ottawa. The FCA unanimously restated this position 

at a meeting held on Sept. 27. 

“It is imperative that the City of Ottawa consults the public about the future of 

this important piece of public land before it makes any decision to go ahead and 

develop it,” said Archie Campbell, FCA president and president of the Dalhousie 

Community Association. “When dealing with public lands, there must be an 

appropriate public process that involves all stakeholders, not just a select few.” 

Bob Brocklebank, president of the Glebe Community Association (GCA), 

said that he was disappointed the GCA was not approached by the consortium 

or by the City for input on the latest plan to redevelop Lansdowne Park. 

“I found out about it through the media just like everybody else,” said 

Brocklebank. “There was no consultation at all with the community that will 

be most affected by any development. I was also surprised to see that the pro- 

PHOTO: SUZANNE LANDIS 

posed plans don’t even reflect the current reality of Bank Street or the upcoming 

reconstruction that has been so carefully documented. This development 

plan was obviously done in isolation without taking into account any other 

stakeholders’ interests.” 

Agnes Warda, president of the Glens Community Association, says it is 

essential that, from now on, a public process be adopted to discuss the fate of 

Lansdowne. “Lansdowne has belonged to the people of Ottawa for more than 

100 years and any development should include their input,” she said. “It’s a 

legacy property that deserves thoughtful time and public attention.” 

If you are concerned about the future of Lansdowne Park, e-mail Mayor 

Larry O’Brien at Larry.OBrien@ottawa.ca and Councillor Clive Doucet at 

Clive.Doucet@ottawa.ca to share your opinions on the importance of a fair, 

transparent and public consultation process. Any development at Lansdowne 

Park directly affects our neighbourhood. Make sure your voice is heard! 

The Glebe Community Association (GCA) is running a survey concerning 

Lansdowne Park at www.glebeca.ca. The GCA wants to hear your opinions on 

this key issue. You can either submit your answers online or drop them off at 

the Glebe Community Centre. 

For history of Lansdowne Park by John Leaning see page 2 

Mark your calendars 

October 18 





Underground Sound concert series, 

featuring the SoulJazz Orchestra, 7 p.m., GCC. 

Tickets are still available. See page 29 for details. 

Treasures-for-the-Tower Auction, 

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, noon - 5 p.m. 

My Kids Funky Closet children’s consignment 

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

www.mykidsfunkycloset.com 

GCA board meeting. GCC, 7:30 p.m. 

All are welcome. 

Great Glebe Pumpkin Patch celebrations 

GCC, 4:30 - 7 p.m. 

WHAT’S INSIDE 

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

History of Lansdowne Park .2 

Swimming with polar bears .3 

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

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

Noffke’s Glebe . . . . . . . . .22-23 

Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24-27 

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28-29 

GNAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Ted and Lois at the Movies 30 

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

Good Old Days . . . . . . . . . . .10 

Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31-35 

Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36-38 

November 2-4 

November 9-11 

November 19 

Ottawa Valley Weavers and Spinners Guild 

show and sale at GCC. See page 27 for details. 

260 Fingers Potters show and sale 

See page 25 for details. 

Community consultation about Lansdowne Park. 

GCC, 7 p.m. See page 8 for details. 

Glebe Questions . . . . . . . . . .11 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39-41 

Councillor’s Report . . . . . . .12 Grapevine . . . . . . . . . . . .42-43 

NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2007 

FOR THE NOVEMBER 9 ISSUE

2 Glebe Report October 12, 2007 

Moving trucks 

roll into Lord Lansdowne 

BY JULIE IRETON 

For Phillip and Ruth Monroe their move to the Lord Lansdowne Retirement 

Residence has been a series of firsts. They were the first to sign up, the first to 

move in and, on Sept. 1, they started unpacking their boxes in the penthouse. 

“They did a magnificent job.” 

Dymon Healthcare gutted the whole building and started right from 

scratch,” Phillip Monroe says of his new home. “It’s very comfortable and 

nicely laid out.” 

The Lord Lansdowne is situated in the tower formerly owned by the Glebe 

Centre Long Term Care facility at Bank Street and Holmwood Avenue. The 

building has had a complete make-over from the inside out. The grounds have 

been landscaped and there’s underground parking. The residence is geared 

towards independent seniors who want access to a variety of services ranging 

from entertainment to home-care. 

The Munroes are both in their 80s. They’ve been waiting for over a year to 

move into Lord Lansdowne. They decided to settle there before the units were 

even built. 

“We lived in the Hunt Club area. The reason we came here was to downsize. 

We saw the layout and the plans and decided to come,” explains Monroe. 

Phillip is a volunteer at Abbotsford House Senior Citizen’s Centre, which is 

connected by a breezeway to the Lord Lansdowne. He helps conduct the silent 

auction at Abbotsford’s annual bazaar. 

Pat Sousa is the manager at Lord Lansdowne. She says the Monroes are typical 

residents at the Lord Lansdowne, where the average age tends to be about 

80. Sousa stated, “We have many things you wouldn’t find in a regular retirement 

residence.” 

The first floor has a number of unique services, including a movie theatre, 

exercise room, library, spa, beauty salon, chapel, and a lounge with a baby 

grand piano. The residence offers studios and one and two bedroom units. So 

far, it has 50 per cent occupancy. 

“Usually it takes 18 months to two years to get up to 95 per cent occupancy, 

but we’ll get there within a year,” predicts Sousa. There’s just so much 

interest.” 

She says, so far a number of the new residents are from the Glebe or have 

lived in the neighbourhood in the past. Sousa says many like the idea of being 

able to walk out the door and head to the shops on Bank Street. Others have 

family nearby. 

Phillip Monroe says he and his wife have met a few of their neighbours and 

have found some meal companions. 

The residents eat all their meals in a dining room where they’re served by 

waiters and waitresses. The units aren’t equipped with full kitchens; rather 

they have kitchenettes with a mini-fridge, freezer and microwave. 

Pat Sousa says the building still needs a few finishing touches here and 

there, but the transformation is almost complete. 

Abbotsford House will be hosting a Welcome Tea for the new residents of the 

Lord Lansdowne on Nov. 9, between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. The Hopewell school 

band will be entertaining and there will also be a fashion show. 

PHOTO: PAT GOYECHE 

Lansdowne Park history 

NEWS 

BY JOHN LEANING 

The recent news that the south stadium at Lansdowne Park, built in 1962, 

may be demolished, gives cause to examine the history and future of the socalled 

park. It has been many things since 1868, when the canal ordinance 

land east of Bank Street was offered to the Ottawa Agriculture Society for the 

purpose of a fairground. Since then, it has been used for exhibitions, spectator 

sports and participatory sports, and an amusement midway, but never actually 

as a park. 

The canal shoreline and eastern and southern boundary of Lansdowne Park 

were originally different; the “park” consisted of a peninsula on which sat the 

home of a Mr. Craig, just opposite Pig Island. The inlet behind extended from 

the present lily pond north of Fifth Avenue to just in front of the Aberdeen 

Pavilion built in 1898. The fairground cum exhibition first consisted of a motley 

collection of wooden buildings which burned down in 1907, fortunately 

leaving the Aberdeen Pavilion, the largest freespan building of its kind in North 

America. It was Colonel By who determined the east and south boundaries of 

the fairground and the Glebe in 1826. The canal was moved there because of 

the actions of a Captain LeBreton who had acquired the LeBreton Flats lands 

across which the canal was originally intended to pass. 

When the park was first created, it was outside the city. By the 1930s, the 

Glebe residential area had encompassed it. But even though the Driveway 

had been built along its eastern side in 1926, traffic access to the park by the 

1950s was limited and started to cause problems of congestion and pollution 

in the surrounding areas. 

Lansdowne Park was not originally intended as a spectator sports ground as 

it is now. The Rough Riders football team did not appear until 1896. They lasted 

100 years, until their demise due to mismanagement in 1996. The use of 

the park as a commercially operated midway by Amusements of America did 

not appear until 1964. It is the primary reason why we now have a vast asphalt 

parking lot where playing fields used to be – even though the midway only 

lasts for ten days each year. 

In 1970, there was a serious proposal to extend Lansdowne Park northwards 

to Fifth Avenue and Bank Street, which would have required the removal of 

150 homes. Fortunately, that idea was quashed by city council under considerable 

pressure from the Glebe Community Association. However, the GCA 

was unable to prevent the expansion of the south stadium in 1975, the portion 

of the stands now in a state of collapse. 

Since 1972, there have been about eight different design proposals for the 

park, including the removal of the midway to outside of Ottawa. Some very 

positive moves were made in the 1990s. The Aberdeen Pavilion was restored, 

a children’s playground was created in the northeast corner and much of the 

canal ordnance lands adjacent to the Driveway were made into attractive parkland. 

Some ideas being contemplated are the removal of the stadium, removal 

of the midway and replacement of the vast asphalt parking lot with ornamental 

gardens and playing fields. 

Lansdowne Park (circa 1950) from the air looking east, showing the 1909 

grandstand.

NEWS Glebe Report October 12, 2007 3 

Swimming where the polar bears swim 

PHOTOS: ROSALIND CRUMP 

BY ROSALIND CRUMP 

I feel as though I am one of the only people waiting for our fall weather to 

arrive. This summer I spent almost two weeks in the Arctic, taking part in an 

expedition with the organization Students on Ice, and I am aching for cool 

temperatures. Students on Ice takes youth from all over the world to both polar 

regions on educational expeditions that help them experience and foster a 

deeper respect for our environment. 

It is hard to describe the atmosphere and emotions that were shared on our 

voyage. There were 70 youth from all over the world – Germany, Russia, 

USA, India, England, China and all over Canada, as well as 30 educators (scientists, 

polar experts, artists and environmentalists). It felt like everyone 

became friends within days and, by the end of the expedition, it hurt to think 

of leaving our expedition family and the ship that had become our home. 

The expedition itself really kicked off in Churchill, Manitoba. We flew from 

Ottawa to Churchill, and then boarded the Lyubov Orlova, a Russian ship 

(which we fondly referred to as the Polar Ambassador). From Churchill we 

sailed up Hudson Bay, along Hudson Strait to Kimmirut, up the Cumberland 

Sound to Pangnirtung, out into the Davis Strait to climb the coast of Baffin 

Island a-ways, then doubled back to Frobisher Bay, to Iqaluit. 

On our first day we coasted around Walrus Island in Zodiacs and saw a 

mother polar bear and her little cub, feasting (on a walrus!) on the beach. It 

took my breath away to see such a powerful animal in its natural habitat, to 

meet the intelligent black eyes of the mother and cub. Just around the corner 

from them were thousands of walruses sprawled across the rocks, calling out 

to each other in a loud, booming bark. 

We saw so much wildlife in the Arctic – hundreds of beluga whales swimming 

along the coast of Churchill, a pod of orcas out in Hudson Bay – which 

we followed in our large ship, dashing from side to side of the deck, utterly 

enthralled by their speed and playfulness – thousands of thick-billed murre 

(small black and white birds which could be mistaken for penguins, but they 

fly and live in the Arctic), an Arctic fox kit, a full grown and a chick peregrine 

falcon, and many different kinds of seabirds – the Northern Fulmar, Snow 

Buntings, etc. 

Then one day we found sea ice. We had sailed up the east coast of Baffin 

Island in search of ice – we were, after all, Students On Ice – and had finally 

found it. We spent an amazing morning out in the Zodiacs, sailing in amongst 

small icebergs and right up to a floor of pieces of ice all fitted together like a 

huge jigsaw puzzle that rose and fell with the swells. In the dining hall at 

lunch, everyone was still bright-eyed and beginning to thaw when our intrepid 

expedition leader Geoff made an announcement – those who were interested 

could go and get their swimsuits on, and get ready for their Arctic dip! 

And we did. I was amazed that so many people were packed into the lobby 

in their bathing suits – and that I was one of them! I was shivering more in 

anticipation inside than I was as I walked down the steel gangplank and 

plunged into the Davis Strait – I didn’t have time to shiver before the actual 

deed. I just jumped in. Never have I been so cold in my entire life. It was as 

though everything just shut off inside of me as I came in contact with the 

water, only two degrees above the freezing point. The open air felt so warm 

as I was hauled out of the water, fighting to regain my breath. I know it 

sounds like a crazy thing to do. It was, but I have never felt so alive in my 

entire life. For at that moment, I was in the same water that the polar bears 

swim in. 

This expedition really opened my eyes. It showed me what climate change 

really is. Talking and listening to the Inuit in the communities we visited, I saw 

the North through their eyes. After a hike through Auyuittuq National Park, I 

felt I had really seen how climate change is affecting our planet. Our guide 

from Pangnirtung told me Auyuittuq means ‘land that doesn’t melt’ in Inuktitut, 

and how the glaciers I gazed up at in awe, draped across the peaks of the 

mountain, used to come a lot further down only 40 years ago. 

How can material things matter so much to us, when the resources we are 

constantly chewing up will affect not only us, the polluters, but everyone in 

the world? What gives us the right to destroy the habitat of so many animals 

and force them to adapt? Why can’t we be the ones who adapt instead? 

Rosalind Crump is a grade 11 student at Glebe Collegiate. She was born in 

Whitehorse and has lived in Ottawa and Copenhagen. 

Calling all 

Glebe poets 

over 18 

Glebe Report 

Poetry Contest 

Theme: 

"Life in the Glebe" 

Deadline: 

Dec. 14, 2007 

See page 38 

for details 

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 

12PM - 5PM 

Live and silent Auctions 

Art, antiques, 

"Silver Vaults", Experiences 

Photo Credit: Gordon Metcalfe 

Featuring "Diplomatic Delicacies" 

Renowned Ottawa artist Philip Craig 

will paint Stephen Candow as he plays 

jazz on the piano 

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church (in the Glebe) 

130 Glebe Avenue, Ottawa 

. 

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Tickets $15, including wine & nibblies. 

On sale at the church office, 217 First Avenue, tel: (613)234-4024. 

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Park Plan Perturbs Populace 

Much to our surprise, a group of developers has drafted a plan to redevelop 

Lansdowne Park – a prime spot – and possibly turn it into a trés chic downtown 

residence and sports entertainment complex. So here’s the proposed 

deal: a new football team and stadium, seven eight-storey apartment towers, a 

row of townhouses on Holmwood Avenue, a possible movie theatre and hotel, 

restaurants, and a large American retailer to occupy Aberdeen Pavillion. Oh 

and let’s not forget – oodles and oodles of above and underground parking. Is 

this what Ottawa wants? Is this what our community wants? Did anyone ask? 

The past few weeks I’ve witnessed residents and visitors to the Glebe, 

young and old gathering together, huddling at street corners, cafés and schoolyards 

discussing the proposed changes to Lansdowne Park. There are many 

different opinions on this matter and the Glebe Report would like your feedback. 

The Glebe Community Association (GCA) has set a date of Nov. 19 for a 

community consultation to discuss a variety of thoughts and ideas about the 

future of Lansdowne Park. What kind of development would you like to see? 

Tell us your thoughts by sending a letter to the editor to 

glebe.report@mac.com. In the November issue, we will publish some of your 

ideas. Others will be forwarded to the GCA to be brought up for possible discussion 

at the community meeting. 

In this issue, Halloween celebrations, art shows, music events and, of 

course, the issue of what will happen to Lansdowne Park are in the forefront. 

Stories and photos of our younger generation doing incredible things as well 

as a history lesson about our community will likely peak your interest. 

Also, this month, we announce on page 38 the launch of our poetry contest 

for adults 18 and over. 

The theme is “Life in the Glebe.” Our panel of three judges will each 

choose a poem which best addresses the theme and selected poems will be 

published in the “Winners Triangle” in the February issue 

of the Glebe Report. So put your pens to paper – the 

deadline for entries is Dec. 14, 2007. 

Remember to bookmark the Glebe Report’s new 

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LETTERS Glebe Report October 12, 2007 5 

Glebe ballerina graduates 

from National Ballet School 

Community WebLinks 

City of Ottawa 

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Glebe Community Association (GCA) www.glebeca.ca 

Glebe History 

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Immaculata Catholic High School www.occdsb.on.ca/ima 

Mutchmor Public School 

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In the October 12, 2001 issue 

of the Glebe Report, we congratulated 

Rayna Brayshaw, 

then 11 years old, on her acceptance 

to the National Ballet 

School of Canada in Toronto. 

This was the chance of a lifetime! 

And this past June, just 

six years later, Rayna graduated. 

Rayna is now 17 years old and a graduate 

of the National Ballet School of Canada. 

Rayna was a former student of First Avenue and Mutchmor schools. She is 

now attending George Brown College in Toronto, where she is continuing her 

training in dance. Congratulations again, Rayna!! 

Mutchmor student 

plays chef for a day 

A noisy summer 

Editor, Glebe Report, 

Even without CFL football at Lansdowne these past two summers, it seems 

to me the Glebe is still too often bombarded by noise pollution in large and 

small doses. The GCA meeting on Sept. 25 heard a presentation on the noise 

pollution being caused by the heating and cooling systems at the Lord Lansdowne 

building at Bank and Holmwood. Some residents around Clemow and 

Bank think they have heard too much live music from the patio at the 

Humphrey’s pub on Bank Street. I am dealing (along with my neighbours) 

with some student neighbours at two addresses on Fifth Avenue who are staging 

weekend house parties involving live bands and paid admissions. On a 

much larger and more objectionable scale, Bluesfest used their sound system 

in July to boom its concerts all over central Ottawa. In August, Dancing in the 

Streets used far more sound than was needed to entertain those attending the 

event. I think noise pollution is rising in the Glebe and it’s time a case was 

made to central authorities asking that sound from these and similar sources 

be more strictly regulated so that we can have the quiet summer nights we 

deserve. 

John Smart 

Challenged by stress, 

limited mobility, 

recovering from 

injury? 

Alex Clarke 

BY LOIS SIEGEL 

On Sun., Sept. 16, Feast of Fields, an annual culinary event organized by 

the Canadian Organic Growers, Ottawa chapter, was celebrated at Vincent 

Massey Park. 

This year, 27 local organic farmers were paired with 27 local chefs to produce 

delicious treats. 

Alex Clarke is a 9 year old Mutchmor student involved with the “Growing 

Up Organic” project, initiated by the Canadian Organic Growers. He spent the 

day practicing his baking. 

“I love to eat, and I love to cook,” Alex says. “It’s great that I’m learning 

to grow my own food as our local organic farmers do, in a healthy way.” 

Was your baby born in 2007? 

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BABIES 

OF THE 

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Dec. 5, 2006 

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The Great Glebe Pumpkin Patch 

BY ROSHENE LAWSON 

“On Hallowe’en night, the Great 

Pumpkin rises from his pumpkin 

patch and flies through the air to 

deliver toys to all the children.” 

—Linus van Pelt, “It’s the Great 

Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” 

On Sat., Oct. 27 the Great Pumpkin 

will rise over our neighbourhood 

once again. The Great Glebe Pumpkin 

Patch festival was created by 

Caren Von Merveldt and is sponsored 

by the Glebe Business Group. 

Now in its third year, the pumpkin 

festival is really taking root. Years 

one and two began with jack-o’- 

lanterns lighting the windows of 

local businesses. Artists and volunteers 

handed out balloons, decorated 

pumpkins and painted faces outside 

the community centre. Inside, there 

was a Hallowe’en party with games, 

face painting, pumpkin cookies, and 

beautifully decorated jack-o’- 

lanterns. This year promises even 

more excitement! Children of all 

ages can visit a haunted house, take a 

haunted hay ride, play games, get 

their faces painted, decorate pumpkins 

and, of course, view the beautiful 

pumpkin creations made by people 

in our community. 

This year we held a contest and 

asked neighbourhood children to 

draw pictures of what the Great 

Glebe Pumpkin Patch meant to 

them. There were approximately 50 

entries and choosing a winner was 

challenging. There are so many tal- 

ented young people in the Glebe! 

The lucky contestant was Lauren 

Aubrey. Lauren’s drawing has been 

printed on the children’s sizes of this 

year’s Pumpkin Patch t-shirts. The 

contest’s three honourable mentions 

are Yifeng Wang, Joshua Franchuk 

and Kyra L. All entries will be on 

display at Starbucks, Kaleidoscope 

Books and Mrs. Tiggywinkle’s 

throughout the month of October. 

Many thanks to these generous local 

businesses for their support with the 

t-shirt contest. Thanks especially to 

the young people who submitted 

their artwork! 

Join us Oct. 27 for the Great 

Glebe Pumpkin Patch festival. The 

fun starts at 10 a.m. with local businesses 

and ends with a great party 

from 4:30 – 7 p.m. at the Glebe 

Community Centre. 

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Winning entry by Lauren Aubrey Honourable mention Yifeng W. 

Honourable mention Joshua F. 

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The Rogers Pumpkin Patrol in the Glebe 

this Halloween 

On Halloween night, Oct. 31, 

trick-or-treaters will notice the 

Rogers bright red vans out patrolling 

Glebe neighbourhood streets, keeping 

a watchful eye for trick-ortreaters 

in need of assistance. 

The Rogers Pumpkin Patrol was 

formed 23 years ago when employees, 

many of them parents themselves, 

rallied together to help keep 

Halloween safe by volunteering their 

time to patrol in company vehicles on 

neighbourhood streets. This Halloween, 

the Pumpkin Patrol will be 

staffed by over 200 trained employees 

driving in 65 vans across the city. 

Five vans will be deployed into the 

Glebe area after vandalism was 

noticed after last year’s Halloween 

night. “We have a number of employees 

at Rogers who have been out on 

patrol since its inception and believe 

wholeheartedly that the program 

makes a difference,” said Robin 

McIntyre, Rogers regional president 

and Glebe resident. “In fact, every 

year the program gets bigger and better, 

because it is our employees who 

invest their personal time to make 

Pumpkin Patrol a success.” 

In addition to the patrol on Halloween 

night, Rogers employees 

work with local police in the weeks 

prior to Oct. 31 educating students in 

9 safety tips for Halloween 

Halloween is a fun and exciting time, but safety is number one! 

1. Wear a properly fitted costume that is bright and non-flammable. 

2. Use reflective tape on your costume so you can be seen in the dark. 

3. Use face make-up or enlarge the eyes on your mask so you can see 

well. 

4. When wearing a mask, push it up on your head while walking. 

5. Visit the front door of well lit homes and never go inside. 

6. Plan a route and a time to be home, and stay close to home. 

7. Have an adult (at home) check your treats before you eat them. 

8. Younger children should go with an adult. Older children should trickor-treat 

in groups. 

9. If you need assistance or are scared, speak to a police officer or go to a 

Rogers van. 

grades 2 and 3 about Halloween 

safety. The Rogers Pumpkin Patrol 

distributes over 25,000 safety loot 

packs to local schools. They contain 

a safety tips card, a reflective armband 

and other reflective items. For 

safety, children are encouraged to 

wear the reflective armband over 

their costumes on Halloween night. 

“It’s amazing how many children 

forget about road safety on Halloween 

night because they’re having 

too much fun trick-or-treating,” said 

Officer Kent from the Central 

Ottawa Police Station. “With the 

help of the Rogers Pumpkin Patrol 

and the safety loot packs they distribute 

in the Glebe area schools, 

more and more children are being 

reminded to be extra careful on Halloween, 

while at the same time 

enjoying themselves.” 

It is recommended that parents 

review the safety tips with their children 

before they head out on Halloween. 

As well, parents should 

remind their children that they can 

approach a police officer or a 

patrolling red Rogers van, with the 

pumpkin on top, should they run into 

trouble or see vandalism while trickor-treating. 

The Rogers Pumpkin 

Patrol will be patrolling the Glebe 

area starting at 5 p.m. on Halloween 

night. Halloween is a fun and exciting 

time, but safety is number one.

GNAG Glebe Report October 12, 2007 7 

GNAG to celebrate 10 years 

of “Taste in the Glebe” 

On Wed., Sept. 26, the Glebe Neighbourhood 

Activities Group hosted 

their annual general meeting. I would 

like to congratulate the 2006-2007 

board of directors for a successful and 

rewarding year. On behalf of the staff 

of GNAG, I would like to extend my 

By 

sincerest thanks for their ongoing support, 

dedication and hard work. Our 

Mary 

Tsai- 

staff also looks forward to working 

Davies 

with the 2007- 2008 board as we continue 

to strive for excellence and meet 

our goals. 

2007 – 2008 GNAG board of directors 

Ian Nicol, chairperson 

Mary Ormerod, vice-chairperson 

Megan Malloy, treasurer 

Inez Kettles, secretary 

GCA Representative (tbd) 

Board members: Debbie Caddigan, Sally Coutts, Matthew Bonsall, Ruth 

Swyers, Tahera Mufti, Christy Oliver, John Richardson 

Ex-officio board members: Hannah Reid, past-chairperson; Clive Doucet, 

City of Ottawa councillor; Patti McKay, Glebe Community Centre director; 

Michelle Campbell, Glebe Co-operative Nursery School representative; 

Suzanne McCarthy, Good Morning Pre-School representative 

Fall Craft and Artisan Fair 

Once again GNAG is hosting their beautiful craft and artisan show on Fri., 

Nov. 16, 6 - 9 p.m., Sat., Nov. 17, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 18, 10 a.m. 

- 4 p.m. 

Over 50 artisans will be exhibiting and selling their works of art during this 

wonderful show – featuring beautiful handcrafted stained glass, fine jewelry, 

apparel, beauty products, fine foods, and much more. Stop by and shop or 

simply browse. 

GNAG hosts is 10th anniversary “Taste in the Glebe” 

Looking for the perfect stocking stuffer? Why not buy Taste in the Glebe 

tickets. Now available at the Glebe Community Centre. Start 2008 with the 

most amazing cocktail party in the Glebe. This event will take place on 

Thurs., Jan. 17, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. 

Are you a restauranteur and wish to participate in this year’s event? Contact 

us! We are featuring tastes from all over Ottawa and inviting you to celebrate 

with us in the Glebe. We can be reached at 613-233-8713 

Glebe House Tour raises over $9,000 

In September, GNAG hosted its 8th annual Glebe House Tour. This year we 

featured six captivating homes in the Glebe area. This years’ fundraiser raised 

over $9,000.00 and was orchestrated by a committee of 12 people and 

involved many months of detailed planning. In addition, over 60 volunteers 

gave their time on the day of the tour to ensure security in the homes. 

“Tourists” were thrilled to see such a variety of architectural and decorative 

styles. Tea and cookies at the community centre proved a fun way to end the 

tour. Special thanks go to Chair Helen Buday for her hard work in making this 

year’s tour a huge success. 

Proceeds from this sold out event will be used for Children’s and Youth 

Programs offered by GNAG. 

Great Glebe Pumpkin Patch and Halloween Party 

GNAG is excited to announce that they are hosting this year’s Halloween 

party during the famous Annual Great Glebe Pumpkin Patch. Come to the 

haunted halls of the Glebe Community Centre on Sat., Oct. 27 from 4:30 – 

7:00 p.m. as the GCC staff become monsters and zombies for the annual Halloween 

party. There will be many thrills and chills. Haunted hay ride, spooky 

haunted house, wacky games and prizes galore, cool face painting, chilling 

fish pond, freeky fortune telling and much, much more! 

This event is perfect for children 5 -14 years of age. Admission is $5 per 

child. Adults are free! Buy your tickets early if you dare!!!!! 

GNAG’s Theatre production presents 

Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, the musical 

Book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick 

Music by Michel LeGrand 

Directed by Eleanor Crowder 

Music Direction by Rachel Eugster 

Charles Dickens’ beloved classic is as much a part of Christmas as the pudding! 

Ebenezer Scrooge humbugs goodwill until the ghosts conjured by his 

partner, Jacob Marley, shows him the spirit of Christmas. Tiny Tim and the 

Cratchit family, Fezziwig’s office party and Cousin Fred’s dinner guests help 

to effect the transformation. 

Join us for a big family show as an actor, a singer, a maker of props or a 

seamstress of costumes. This is a show which relies on all the trimmings – be 

part of our celebration! 

Show dates and times: 

Fri., Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. 

Sat., Dec. 1 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. 

Sun. Dec. 2 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. 

Tickets are now on sale at the Glebe Community Centre: 

$18 (advance) 

$20 (at the door) 

The 2007 Taste in the Glebe event sold out quickly. 

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Have your say! Community discussions on 

the future of Lansdowne Park, November 19 

September was an active month 

for public discussion about Lansdowne 

Park. Three unexpected 

developments stimulated interest in 

Lansdowne. First was a proposal that 

an international design competition 

be conducted to come up with a plan 

for the park. Then we learned that 

the southside stands are no longer 

safe for use. Finally, news leaked out 

that a consortium was preparing a 

plan for Lansdowne which includes 

the return of professional football 

and sale of much of the land for residential 

development. 

A decision about the future of 

Lansdowne Park should involve citywide 

public debate. While the park is 

in our community, it belongs to 

everyone in Ottawa and they all 

should have a voice in decisions 

about Lansdowne. 

Nevertheless, the GCA has been 

asked to comment on our 

community’s wishes for the future of 

Lansdowne. To date, we have tried to 

emphasize that for public land some 

appropriate public process is 

required. When pressed further by 

journalists, we have hesitated to suggest 

that there is a unified viewpoint 

in the Glebe. Instead we have called 

for an open process in which all can 

voice their opinions. 

In order to determine the views of 

our community, and to serve as a 

beginning for a wider discussion 

possibly organized by the city 

administration, we are beginning to 

plan for a community consultation 

on Lansdowne to take place on 

By 

Bob 

Brocklebank 

Mon., Nov. 19. Our idea is to present 

several approaches to the issue in the 

November edition of the Glebe 

Report and use that material as a 

basis on which to stimulate community 

discussion. 

It is quite likely that the Nov. 19 

event will be only the start of a series 

of discussions on Lansdowne. As 

always, volunteers to work on 

arrangements for the November 

meeting and possibly to act as the 

core of an ongoing committee on 

Lansdowne are invited to step forward 

by sending an e-mail to 

gca@glebeca.ca. See the November 

issue of the Glebe Report for more 

information about the Nov. 19 

meeting. 

Bank Street 

The reconstruction of Bank Street 

is relevant to any discussion about 

change in our neighbourhood. We 

hope to have some discussion about 

progress on the Bank Street project 

at our next board meeting on Oct. 23. 

Noise 

In last month’s column I referred 

to a noise issue in the south end of 

the community. To be more specific, 

the air conditioning equipment 

installed as part of the renovation of 

the Lord Lansdowne building has 

disturbed some neighbours on streets 

such as Holmwood and Melgund, 

City by-law services have come to 

various homes to measure sound 

levels and we understand that the 

owners of the building are working 

on measures to mitigate the noise. 

I find this case especially interesting 

because the GCA has worked 

with other community associations 

in the city-wide federation (FCA) on 

the issue of stationary noise. When 

the city’s Official Plan was adopted 

in 2003, the FCA appealed various 

sections. On noise, the FCA 

observed that the plan dealt extensively 

with transportation noise but 

failed to adequately address stationary 

sources, such as air conditioning 

and ventilation apparatus. As a result 

of the FCA appeal and detailed talks 

led by the Woodroofe North Community 

Association, in 2006 the city 

made amendments to the Official 

Plan and adopted a detailed set of 

guidelines on noise issues. 

GCA 

I believe that complaints about 

noise from the Lord Lansdowne renovated 

ventilation systems constitute 

the first case in our community to be 

addressed under the new guidelines. 

Glebe Community Centre 

The grand stairs on the north side 

of the community centre have been 

under reconstruction for much of the 

summer. Many residents have wondered 

what is happening because the 

project seems to have stopped. 

Apparently, the contract was terminated 

because of a dispute and the 

City is establishing a new contract to 

have the project completed. City 

officials hope the stairs will be finished 

this autumn, leaving some 

ancilliary work such as landscaping 

for the spring. 

Around the Glebe 

Additional volunteers would be 

welcome to work with the Garden 

Angels on maintaining the planters 

in the neighbourhood. Send us a 

message at gca@glebeca.ca. 

Please join us on Oct. 18 for the 

Souljazz Orchestra at the kickoff 

Underground Sound concert of the 

season . 

Next GCA board meeting will be 

Tues., Oct. 23. All are welcome. 

Community consultation 

on Lansdowne Park 

Mon., Nov. 19 

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Glebe residents. 

The new website features updated information about what is happening in 

the neighbourhood, minutes of GCA meetings and handy links to events and 

organizations that affect our community. 

It also provides up to date information about GCA committees, including 

working groups on the environment, Bank Street reconstruction, traffic, heritage 

and neighbourhood planning and events, such as Underground Sound 

and the Great Glebe Garage Sale. 

Make sure you add www.glebeca.ca to your favourite bookmarked sites 

today. It’s the only official website for your community association. 

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St. James goes blue, 

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BY KEN MORROW 

Anyone passing by the St. James 

Tennis Club (Third Avenue at Lyon 

next to the Glebe Community Centre) 

will have noticed a dramatic change 

there this fall. The court colours have 

changed from green with red borders 

to blue with green borders. The new 

blue courts will make it easier to see 

the ball, especially when playing at 

night. 

Fixing the playing surface has 

been a primary concern for St. James 

members for the past few years. In 

many places portions of the court 

surface were peeling off. When it 

rained, large areas of the courts 

would bubble up with air pockets 

between the asphalt and paint. The 

St. James executive decided after the 

2006 season that the courts were 

becoming unsightly and slightly 

unsafe and needed to be resurfaced 

as soon as possible. The work was 

originally planned for the last few 

weeks in June but was rescheduled 

for September because of a timing 

conflict with the work to replace the 

window wells at the Glebe Community 

Centre. 

Chris Smith and his team at 

Canada Courts Supply did a fabulous 

job restoring the playing surfaces 

and painting them blue, but all did 

not go as smoothly as hoped. Once 

work began it was noticed that the 

previous red/green surface was in 

much worse shape than anyone had 

thought. Applying the new surface 

overtop of the old would just have 

led to more problems in a few years. 

It was decided to completely remove 

the old paint and start fresh. It took a 

week of high-pressure water stripping 

to remove all the old red and green, 

leaving the original asphalt surface 

exposed, complete with the faint 

traces of the original white lines. 

Cracks were now seen to be deeper, 

wider and longer than before and 

needed to be filled, as well as areas 

that had been pitted by the highpressure 

cleaning. 

Resurfacing courts like St. James 

is a very labour intensive process. 

All the cracks, gouges and pitted 

areas needed to be filled until even 

with the rest of the playing surface. 

Then a bonding agent/sealer was put 

down over the entire courts area 

before three coats of paint were 

applied. After each coat of paint, the 

playing surface was re-inspected and 

more surface filler applied where 

necessary. Lastly, the white lines 

were carefully hand painted and finishing 

touch-ups done. 

The new blue surface has a much 

more textured surface. Players are 

warned that shoes will grip the surface 

much better and players will 

stop faster. Balls will play slightly 

slower on the new surface until the 

texture wears down. We ask that anyone 

playing on the new courts not 

wear dark-soled shoes as they will 

leave a noticeable scuff mark. 

All tennis players in the Glebe are 

welcome to come out and play on the 

new St. James courts this fall. The 

courts will remain open and the nets 

up until the snow falls. 

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Many dedicated staff, volunteers and leaders in training provided fun for all. 

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10 Glebe Report October 12, 2007 GOOD OLD DAYS 

Thirty Years Ago 

in the Glebe Report: 

Vol. 1 No. 14, Oct. 7, 1973 

By 

Ian 

McKercher 

Volume 5, Number 10, October, 

1977 is missing from the Glebe 

Report archives. In some Glebe attic 

or closet corner, a copy is out there. 

Have a look. The Glebe Report staff 

would be delighted to round out their 

collection. 

In lieu, we go back 34 years to 

Volume 1, Number 14, October 7, 

1973. 

The Glebe Community Centre is 

to double its programming space by 

early 1974. The $110,000 cost of 

levelling the floor of the main hall – 

the nave of the former St. James 

United Church– will be made 

available through the federal/ 

provincial winter works program. 

Drama, public meetings and dances 

will all be possible once the floor 

(which measures roughly 85 feet by 

85 feet and has a three-foot drop 

from the back of the hall to the altar) 

is level. Plans for the hall are not 

final, but a main feature is a ‘bear 

pit’ approximately the same size as 

the dome and 18 inches lower than 

the perimeter of the hall. 

The Glebe’s trial traffic-calming 

plan went into effect on schedule 

October 1, 1973. It will remain in 

effect until February 1974. Street 

closures, rumble strips and curb 

bulb-outs are all part of the plan. 

Unfortunately, flashing warning 

beacons were removed from new 

curbing on First Avenue at Lyon. 

Three accidents, two of them on 

First Avenue, occurred the day after 

street narrowings were installed. 

Two cars hit the cement bulb-outs in 

the dark and one had to be towed 

away after bursting its tires. 

The Glebe Parents’ Day Care Centre 

had only been in existence for five 

months, but already had a full complement 

of 40 pre-schoolers as well as 

a long waiting list. A plan to extensively 

expand day care services 

throughout the Ottawa/Carleton 

region had narrowly passed Regional 

Council executive by a 4-3 vote the 

week before. Under the plan, the 

Glebe Parents’ Day Care Centre would 

qualify for help with operating costs. 

The Glebe response to the Murray 

and Murray plan for enlarging 

Lansdowne Park calls for a new 

study of the park. The preamble to 

the brief describes the relationship 

between Lansdowne and the neighbouring 

residential communities as 

“an unhappy, conflicting, struggle 

for survival.” 

This retrospective is filed monthly by Ian McKercher of the Glebe Historical 

Society (GHS). The GHS welcomes the donation or loan (for copying) of 

any item that documents the past in the Glebe (photographs, maps, deeds, 

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

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GLEBE QUESTIONS Glebe Report October 12, 2007 11 

My Canada has three seas 

By 

Clyde 

Sanger 

All Canadian columnists worth 

their salt have recently (if metaphorically) 

dipped their pens and even 

their toes in the Arctic Ocean. This 

followed the discovery of Canada’s 

third sea by our intrepid prime minister, 

who has told us that we must 

“use it or lose it.” 

Some have gone further than toedipping. 

In late August, Jess, the 30 

year-old daughter of former Glebite 

Margaret Atwood, plunged in from 

an ice floe north of Baffin Island and 

swam around to the applause of her 

parents watching from a cruise ship. 

Others of us, more southbound, 

still have Arctic connections. Admiral 

Sir George Nares, after a vain 

hunt for survivors from the Franklin 

expedition, explored in 1875 as far 

north (83 degrees north, if you want 

to check), to where Prime Minister 

Harper visited Canada’s northernmost 

outpost at Alert on Ellesmere 

Island. Besides Nares Strait up there, 

and a lake and mountain named after 

him in the Yukon, he gave his name 

to the inlet on Georgian Bay where 

Penny’s family have spent summers 

for five generations. 

Actually, Harper was hardly the 

first to throw out the warning – “use 

it or lose it” – about the Arctic waters 

Need Renovations? 

and the Northwest Passage over 

which we claim sovereignty as 

“internal waters.” In a book Arctic 

Imperative: Is Canada Losing the 

North?, which was published 20 

years ago (yes, in 1987), Toronto 

professor Franklyn Griffiths is quoted: 

“We’ve got to put up or shut up 

about Arctic sovereignty. We’ve got 

to get up there. To put it simply: use 

it or lose it for those waters.” 

The author, John Honderich (who 

went on to be publisher of the Toronto 

Star) wrote an excellent and prescient 

book, which Harper would do 

well to read before even finishing 

Yann Martel’s list. It describes five 

routes for the Northwest Passage as 

the ice melts, calls Canada’s Arctic 

“the new military frontier” and, in a 

chapter titled “Arctic gushers,” spells 

out the oil and gas exploration then 

Gerry Kenney points out the Eastern 

Arctic on the map. 

PHOTO: CLYDE SANGER 

under way in the Beaufort Sea. I had 

a glimpse of that venture, flying up 

for a day with Marc Lalonde to see 

“Smiling Jack” Gallagher’s drilling 

ship at work. But the Albertan politicians 

knocked down Lalonde’s 

national energy plan for the frontiers 

and exploration lapsed. 

Now we are interested again. Useful 

books are being published to 

recall our Arctic history and arouse 

our concern about the future. Among 

them, a Glebe author, Gerard Kenney, 

has written two very readable 

books, Ships of Wood and Men of 

Iron and, more pungently, Dangerous 

Passage: Issues in the Arctic. 

Ted Britton, the godfather of Glebe 

authors, has been stocking them. 

Gerard (“or Gerry as everyone 

calls me”) has had an adventurous 

life himself. He was born in 1931, in 

the country inn of his grandfather, 

Isaie Thomas dit Tranchemontagne, 

near Mont Tremblant in Quebec, 

because his French-Canadian mother 

did not want him born in New York 

City, where his father worked. He is 

proud of his mother’s ancestors: one 

of them, five generations back, came 

with Joseph Papineau in 1803 “to 

brush out what eventually came to be 

known as Papineauville, near Montebello.” 

As a teenager he left New York for 

Canada and started the first of three 

careers: 20 years with Bell as a 

telecommunications engineer working 

all over the Eastern Arctic. Then 

came a hippy decade, building a log 

cabin on 100 acres at Ripon near 

Buckingham, working a sugar bush 

and keeping bees, while his wife ran 

a local handicrafts store. When their 

daughters were born, they moved 

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into Ottawa and he took a staff job 

with CIDA, traveling the developing 

world to advise on telecommunications. 

He retired from that in 2002 

after 18 years, and took to writing 

books. 

He wrote books about the North 

that had fascinated him. In Dangerous 

Passage, he tells of the pioneering 

journey in 1903-06 of Roald 

Amundsen in his tiny 47-ton sloop, 

Gjoa, and brings out his collegial 

style of leadership in mapping the 

North Magnetic Pole and making 

that first transit of the Northwest 

Passage. He also draws on journals 

to retell the voyages of Henry Asbjorn 

Larsen, the Mountie who captained 

the 645-ton schooner, St 

Roch, on its wartime patrols to assert 

Canadian sovereignty over the Arctic. 

His earlier book benefits from 

the more detailed diaries of Otto 

Sverdrup, who explored the waters 

of the Eastern Arctic a few years 

before his fellow Norwegian, 

Amundsen. 

What makes Dangerous Passage 

such a timely book is a final section 

on Canadian sovereignty and the 

importance of the UN Convention 

on the Law of the Sea. He follows 

in the footsteps of Griffiths and 

Honderich in his warnings of Canadian 

inaction, but goes further in 

listing 15 issues to be addressed in a 

master plan by the Canadian Northwest 

Passage Commission he proposes 

should be created – everything 

from procuring surveillance 

aircraft, submarines and icebreakers 

to preparing an ironclad legal case 

for the International Court of Justice. 

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12 Glebe Report October 12, 2007 COUNCILLOR’S REPORT 

Coping with climate change 

By 

Councillor 

Clive 

Doucet 

Cicadas singing 

in the evening 

carry us into autumn 

consoling with the thought 

the caress of soft nights 

will come again 

Glebe Business 

Improvement Area 

Glebe business owners are busy 

working on the incorporation of a 

business improvement area (BIA). 

This is a local organization that is 

present in most other vibrant business 

areas of the city–Westboro, the 

Byward Market, Centretown. They 

have proved to be an important tool 

for improving the attractiveness of 

shopping areas through festivals 

like WestFest, street redesign, street 

decoration and making sure development 

occurs to the advantage of 

all. BIA directors carry weight at 

City Hall because it’s clear who they 

represent and they tend to come with 

well researched positions. Bank 

Street in the Glebe is one of the last 

shopping areas of the old city to be 

incorporated in this way. I certainly 

support a BIA for the Glebe and my 

office is busy assisting the organizers 

to prepare their proposal for city 

council’s consideration. 

Ward council budget priorities 

and current city spending 

As the 2008 city budget process is 

about to begin, I convened representatives 

from different parts of the 

ward to get a sense of the sorts of 

things that would be most valued in 

the upcoming budget. Some common 

themes emerged from most neighbourhoods: 

community centres or 

field houses in need of upgrades or 

renovation, missing park amenities, 

inadequate sidewalks in high traffic 

areas, lack of funding for traffic 

safety studies, and so on. For the 

Glebe, the list of requests included 

restoring funding for traffic safety 

studies, graffiti management, adequate 

staffing for by-law enforcement, 

the Farmers’ Market, and a 

program to ensure planters are 

watered. All these suggestions are 

very reasonable and in the scale of 

the overall city budget relatively 

inexpensive. They represent good 

value for the money. These are the 

things I will push for in the 2008 

budget for the community. 

However reasonable these requests 

are, it will be tough. In order to limit 

tax increases and sustain Ottawa’s 

disproportionately high spending on 

new roads, smaller items like the 

requests coming from communities 

will be regarded by some as 

‘enhancements’ instead of ‘needs.’ 

Alliance for Resilient Cities 

I attended the first meeting of the 

Alliance for Resilient Cities. On the 

success side of the ledger, I learned a 

lot. The idea behind the Resilient 

Cities organization, which was 

organized by Toronto’s Clean Air 

Partnership, is to share lessons 

learned about adaptive strategies to 

cope with climate change driven 

events. The mayors of Peterborough 

and Port Moody as well as the 

deputy mayor of Halifax were 

among the speakers. Peterborough 

recently suffered a crippling flood. 

You could canoe down the main 

street. Port Moody had three winter 

storms in less than a month that shut 

down local power. Halifax has had so 

many weather-driven crises that it is 

no longer possible to sue the city for 

fallen trees, storm water damage, etc. 

Halifax has set up command 

centres for all principal community 

stakeholders, with back-up power. 

They made solar radios available to 

people. Redundancy is the key to a 

robust response in an emergency. 

You can’t assume anything will 

work, so there have to be alternative 

response possibilities. In Halifax, 

they are now burying all wires as 

they rebuild the city’s streets. This I 

found sensible and welcome news, 

given our own interest in burying the 

wires on Bank Street. 

Halifax was clearly at the head of 

the class in terms of emergency 

response, but King County, which 

surrounds Seattle, led the pack on 

carbon reduction. They have capped 

airport construction. All future transportation 

expansion will be surface 

light rail and since 80 per cent of 

their air travel is 300 miles or less, 

this shouldn’t be a problem. They’ve 

signed on to Kyoto. Their buses run 

on locally produced biodiesel, for 

which they provide free biosolid fertilizer 

to the farmers who grow it. 

Thirty per cent of all new housing 

construction is green and they’re 

working with builders to make it 100 

per cent. Their city planning is 

inspiring while being very practical 

and down-to-earth. 

I came away from the meeting 

convinced of three things: 

1) Cities have to start growing and 

governing themselves, not for today, 

but for the world that climate change 

is quickly bringing our way; 

2) The battle to stop the carbon 

loading of the atmosphere is local. If 

we win the local battle, where 80 per 

cent of the greenhouse gases are produced, 

we will win the war; 

3) There are many, many successful 

carbon reduction and adaptive 

strategies we can implement to create 

a sustainable and more secure local 

landscape. 

Coffee with Clive 

Coffee with Clive continues at the 

Wild Oat on Bank in the Glebe on 

the third Thursday of the month from 

9 to 10 a.m. 

My apologies for missing the last 

Coffee with Clive at the Wild Oat on 

Sept. 20. I was in Toronto at the 

Alliance for Resilient Cities. Normally, 

one of my constituency assistants 

would have attended in my absence 

but we had some miscommunication 

in the office. 

Clive Doucet 

City of Ottawa 

110 Laurier Avenue West, 

Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 

tel.: (613) 580-2487 

fax: (613) 580-2527 

Clive.Doucet@ottawa.ca 

www.clivedoucet.com


Graffiti 

Adopt a box? 

BY COLLEEN LEIGHTON 

The issue of graffiti in the Glebe 

has continued to be of concern to 

many residents throughout the spring 

and summer. Fortunately, many businesses 

have had the opportunity to 

spruce up their properties with fresh 

paint covering any evidence of graffiti. 

The Glebe Community Association 

wants to share some longer-term 

issues and some short-term strategies 

where you can make a difference. 

In the longer-term 

Contact has continued with the 

City of Ottawa, particularly related 

to their new by-law which creates a 

higher profile for graffiti management 

activities, plus new funding in 

2008. We have also been in touch 

with city representatives to liaise 

with corporations such as Canada 

Post, utility and cable companies 

whose boxes are often the site of 

graffiti. 

Our hope is that these companies 

will make graffiti removal a proactive 

part of their business planning to 

enhance their image in the 

community. For example, we have 

been told that Canada Post has ongoing 

contracts with graffiti removal 

companies in many cities, but not yet 

in Ottawa. Hopefully, this will appear 

in their plans shortly. Similarly, for 

the utility and cable companies, we 

are looking for a concerted and 

proactive effort on their part to keep 

their boxes clean. Each of these corporations 

currently relies on citizens 

to report graffiti on the boxes to the 

City, which then forwards the information 

to the individual corporations, 

who are required to arrange for 

its removal. 

Many volunteers have been diligent 

in reporting graffiti to the City 

3-1-1 line so the city can then forward 

this information to Canada Post or to 

the utilities concerned. We continue 

to encourage you to call the 3-1-1 

line to report any graffiti on public 

spaces. Keep in mind that graffiti in 

progress is a crime of vandalism 

which should be reported directly to 

the police. 

In the short-term 

Do you want to make a difference 

in your corner of the neighbourhood? 

While work continues on the longerterm 

fronts, including interesting 

offers such as one day of free work 

from a graffiti removal company for 

local businesses and potential funding 

for graffiti removal from the 

City, why not clean up your corner? 

“Adopt-A-Box” is being encouraged 

for anyone in the Glebe who 

thinks they can keep an eye on and 

clean up a box near their home. We 

can provide the cleaning material if 

you can adopt a box nearby. 

The advice is that the faster graffiti 

is cleaned up, the less likely it is to 

reappear. So…while the longer-term 

work continues, if you notice, and 

are bothered by, graffiti on a Canada 

Post box or utility box near you, why 

not do something about it and adopt 

a box! 

We have it on good authority that 

once you start removing the graffiti 

it’s hard to stop at just one box – 

watch for your neighbours (note the 

team of Bob Brocklebank and 

Virginia Carver, among others), at all 

hours, in all weather, steadfastly 

cleaning one box after another. 

For further information, or to 

adopt a box, please e-mail us at 

gca@glebeca.ca and tell us which 

box you will adopt (location, type of 

box), and we can arrange to get you 

the clean-up material. Your individual 

efforts can help get us to our longerterm 

objectives. 

Register now for 

your spring tree 

Ottawa residents are invited to 

register for a tree to plant on 

their property through the Trees, 

Reforestation and Environmental 

Enhancement (TREE) program. One 

potted tree per household is available 

by registering online at www.ottawa. 

ca/TREE or by calling 3-1-1. Registration 

for the fall 2007 tree distribution 

is complete, however residents 

may register now to receive a tree 

that will be available in the spring. 

Registration is year-round and 

trees will be available on a firstcome, 

first-served basis, while quantities 

last. A selection of species and 

tree sizes will be provided, depending 

on availability. Trees will be 

available for pickup during tree distributions 

each spring and fall over 

the next four years. 

The TREE program is a four-year 

initiative that aims to enhance the 

City of Ottawa’s urban and rural 

forests through the planting of 

100,000 trees. The TREE program 

empowers residents, businesses, 

community groups and schools to 

participate in planting trees to 

increase and maintain the city’s forest 

cover and combat climate 

change. 

Residents who have registered to 

receive a tree for the fall are reminded 

that the distribution will take 

place during the weekend of Oct. 13- 

14 at the City of Ottawa Tree Nursery, 

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Arnold Zageris explains his triptych to one of the guests at the opening reception of his photo exhibit. 

BY LAURA SUTIN 

The wildness and raw beauty of 

Labrador is now showing at the 

Canadian Museum of Nature. A photography 

exhibition by Arnold 

Zageris, entitled “On the Labrador,” 

opened at the museum on July 17. 

Zageris, who lives in the northern 

Quebec town of Rouyn-Noranda, 

specializes in large format photography 

with an emphasis on arctic and 

subarctic regions. His exhibition at 

the Museum of Nature will be his 

first solo show in a national museum 

or gallery. He has been photographing 

scenery in Labrador for the past 

20 years, having visited the region 

14 times. This fall, he’s planning to 

return again. 

“I find anything above the treeline 

absolutely fascinating,” he 

declares. “It is the combination of 

the unique light and stark contrast 

that stimulates me.” 

His show at the Museum of 

Nature will display 29.37 in. x 47 in. 

pictures as well as a 12 ft. wide triptych 

(three panels hinged together) 

of a panoramic view. He uses a traditional 

4 in. x 5 in. view camera 

(unsurpassed for landscape photography 

in this digital age) which 

allows him to capture fine detail and 

the subtle nuances of form and texture. 

He’s not after speed; the slow, 

methodical approach suits him well, 

giving him ample time to create a 

beautiful picture. There is no use of 

colour filters for enhancement but 

instead a reliance on nature itself to 

provide the stunning image. “If I 

come back with five good pictures a 

year, I’m thrilled,” says the highly 

patient photographer. 

Zageris, a former biology teacher, 

retired from his 30 year career a few 

years ago in order to devote more 

time to photography. He began taking 

pictures of nature 25 years ago 

because “you can’t take things like 

light home with you” and he knew 

that words couldn’t fully convey 

what he saw. Winning the grand 

prize in a 1977 Nikon photography 

contest provided him with the equipment 

to better pursue his hobby. It 

was American photographer, Eliot 

Porter, whom he met in Rockport, 

Maine in 1983, who advised Zageris 

to switch to large format photography. 

The two men spent many hours 

together and even planned a trip to 

Baffin Island, which was called off 

when, sadly, Porter was diagnosed 

with Lou Gehrig’s disease. 

His fascination with Labrador 

sprang up decades ago when he 

received a set of TimeLife books and 

NEWS 

Timeless Labrador to grace the Canadian Museum of Nature 

one of them interestingly featured 

this lesser-travelled region north of 

Newfoundland. Zageris yearned to 

visit the exquisite, often mountainous 

places depicted in the photos, 

and in 1985, a grant from the Royal 

Canadian Geographical Society 

made it possible. His expectations 

were not failed; he was captivated 

with what he saw. “You’d think it 

was a place that doesn’t exist in 

Canada,” says Zageris, who 

describes the pictures he’s taken of 

that unchanged, austere area as “pure 

and timeless” with no hint that they 

represent the present day. 

Presented by the Canadian Museum 

of Nature and The Rooms, Newfoundland 

and Labrador, “On the 

Labrador: Photographs by Arnold 

Zageris” will be on view in Ottawa 

until Jan. 6, 2008. It will then head to 

the east coast for display at The 

Rooms in St. John’s, Newfoundland. 

The Museum of Nature is located 

at 240 McLeod Street (at Metcalfe) 

in Ottawa. The museum is open daily 

from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., open 

until 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday and 

Thursday evenings, and closed on 

Mondays until May 1, 2008. 

For more information about the 

museum’s exhibitions and programs, 

visit www.nature.ca or call 

613-566-4700. 

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The Glebe Centre Celebrates 

This month marks the 3rd Anniversary of our new building and the 

recent opening of our new neighbour, Lord Lansdowne Retirement 

Residence. We would like to take this opportunity to thank members of 

the community, staff, volunteers, residents, clients and local businesses 

for their patience and understanding throughout construction, 

reorganization and stabilization. We look forward to many more years 

of providing the highest quality of life for seniors in our community and 

to working with you to make our Organization the best it can be. 

Upcoming Events 

Nov 9th: An Evening at the Races 

Nov 24th: Abbotsford Christmas Bazaar 

Dec 13th: Abbotsford Dinner & Dance

NEWS 

First-of-its-kind virtual exhibition 

explores Billings family history 

Glebe Report October 12, 2007 15 

Learn about the haunted 

history of Billings Estate 

BY KRISTEN SHANE 

The air is getting cooler and the days are becoming shorter. But just because 

it’s autumn doesn’t mean your local museum has closed up shop. 

Billings Estate National Historic Site is open until Oct. 31. Visitors can tour 

the former homestead of the Billings family Wed. to Sun. from noon until 5 

p.m. Located at 2100 Cabot St., near the intersection of Riverside Drive South 

and Pleasant Park Road, Billings Estate is a natural and historical oasis in the 

heart of Ottawa South. 

The spirits of the Billings family will be haunting the museum throughout 

October. From Thurs., Oct. 25 to Sat., Oct. 27, visitors are invited to learn all 

about the family’s eerie past. Tour the estate by lamplight from 7-9 p.m. during 

this annual Halloween treat. The cost is $15. For more details, or to register, 

call the museum at 613-247-4830. 

Bring the kids to the Pumpkin Patch program on Sun., Oct. 28 from noon 

to 4 p.m. Interpreters will thrill them with ghostly tales. And they can make 

their own Halloween craft to take home. 

Visit www.ottawa.ca/museums for more details on the Halloween happenings 

at Billings Estate. 

City of Ottawa archives staff Jodi-Ann Westlake, project co-ordinator, (right) 

and Leah Batisse (left) prepare the archival materials needed as exhibition 

content. 

 

BY KRISTEN SHANE 

The City of Ottawa archives has 

launched its first online exhibition. 

The Billings family virtual exhibition 

focuses on the city’s development 

from the perspective of one of 

Ottawa’s founding families. 

The Billings were the first European 

settlers in Gloucester Township. 

They were known for their 

involvement in the local lumber and 

agricultural industries, and the construction 

of the first bridge across the 

Rideau River leading to Bytown. 

Using text, images and audio 

clips, the website explores how five 

generations of family members 

made their mark on the community 

by participating in everything from 

education, church life and farming, 

to local politics. 

This project was made possible 

through the Canadian Culture Online 

program, a collaborative project of 

the federal government and the 

Canadian Council of Archives. It is 

accessible through the city’s museums 

portal (ottawa.ca/museums). 

The project co-ordinator Jodi-Ann 

Westlake said, “The intention of the 

exhibit is to be a useful resource to 

teachers and educators to help develop 

the grade 7 through 10 curricula.” 

Information from the site is not only 

meant to meet standards for history 

courses, but geography and civics 

classes as well. 

The exhibition also has a broader 

appeal to the general public, Westlake 

said. “It’s part of the larger story of 

Canadian identity.” The Billings family 

lived through the rural to urban 

landscape transformation to which 

people all over Canada can relate. 

She explained the Billings collection 

was chosen as the subject of the 

online exhibition because the family 

grew in tandem with Ottawa, from 

the pioneer days of the early 1800s 

to now. 

The collection is comprised of 

three sets of memorabilia, much of 

which surviving family members 

donated to the city when it bought the 

family’s estate in 1976 to turn into a 

museum. The involvement of the 

Billings clan in many record-keeping 

institutions, like the church, meant 

there was an abundance of available 

resources for the exhibition. 

Westlake and two other city staff 

began digitizing the collection in 

Nov. last year, in preparation for the 

virtual exhibition, which launched 

this summer. Using a digital camera 

and commercial scanning equipment, 

they captured over 400 photos, 

letters and artifacts, many of which 

are featured in the exhibition’s 

image gallery. 

It was both challenging and 

rewarding to work with the new 

medium, according to Paul Henry, 

the project manager. “In a fixed 

exhibit, you are limited by the four 

walls and the amount of floor space,” 

said Henry. “But in a virtual exhibit 

you are not limited. We had to keep 

in mind time constraints, budgetary 

constraints, as well as information 

overload (not to overwhelm website 

visitors).” 

Despite the potential pitfalls of 

mounting an Internet exhibition, 

Henry said it was needed. “Since 

eighty per cent of Ottawa is rural, 

not every citizen can come to an 

installed exhibit at City Hall that’s 

open for two and a half months. A 

virtual exhibit is open 24/7.” It will 

be available online for at least five 

years. 

With more and more Ottawans 

going to the Internet to find information, 

the virtual exhibition is a logical 

way for the city to connect to residents, 

said Westlake. And, she 

added, it suits students who are visual 

learners. “We’re just beginning. 

But it’s an impressive product,” said 

Henry. 

This month, City of Ottawa 

archives staff will start work on 

another virtual exhibition. To mark 

the 150th anniversary of the selection 

of Ottawa as Canada’s capital, it 

will explore what this decision 

meant for residents. 

Follow the links at ottawa.ca/ 

museums to visit the Billings family 

virtual exhibition. For more information 

on the Billings family, take a 

tour of Billings Estate National Historic 

Site, open Wed. to Sun., noon 

to 5 p.m. until Oct. 31. 

Kristen Shane is the communications 

and marketing co-ordinator for 

the City of Ottawa, Heritage Development 

Unit.


The Buzz 

By 

Lesley 

Caldicott 

Languages of Life Inc. 

Now in its 28th year of business, 

Languages of Life (in Fifth Avenue 

Court) continues to win awards as 

one of Ottawa’s most distinguished 

charitable services. A non-profit, 

charitable organization, Languages 

of Life offers language translation 

services to those in need through 

Ottawa law enforcement organizations 

and social service institutions. 

Founded in 1979 by Executive Director/President 

Bryna Monson, Languages 

of Life offers interpretation 

and translation in over 150 languages 

– a number that keeps growing year 

after year. 

Working as a social worker at 

local hospitals in the 1970s, Bryna 

saw the need for reliable and nonbiased 

translation for patients who 

didn’t speak English or French. Time 

and again she had asked friends who 

spoke foreign languages to translate 

for her patients. Knowing there were 

many patients she couldn’t help on 

her own, Bryna started a charitable 

foundation that would bring people 

together to offer translation services, 

at no cost, for the not so fortunate. 

Almost 30 years later, Languages of 

Life is still going strong, offering 

services 24 hours a day, 365 days a 

year. The recipient of numerous accolades 

and distinguished humanitarian 

awards, Bryna recently received a 

Proclamation from Mayor Larry 

O’Brien recognizing Language of 

Life’s dedication to multiculturalism 

in Ottawa. 

Funded mostly through donations 

and fundraising, Languages of Life 

has two fundraising events in the 

year, one of them here in the Glebe. 

On Oct. 18 at 7 p.m., the Arrow and 

Bryna Monson, executive director/ 

president, Languages of Life Inc. 

PHOTO: LESLEY CALDICOTT 

Loon will host the annual Languages 

of Life Beer Tasting Event, offering 

eight beers for $20 and a special on 

ribs and chicken wings. “It’s a fun 

event,” says Bryna. “The community 

has always been very supportive and 

I look forward to seeing everyone 

again this year”. On Apr. 12, 2008, 

Languages of Life will host the 28th 

Annual Art Sale & Exhibit at Ben 

Franklin Place in Nepean. Bryna 

invites everyone in our community 

to come out and enjoy the evening in 

support of this wonderful charity. 

For more information, contact: 

Bryna Monson 

99 Fifth Avenue Court, Suite 14 

613-232-9770 

BUSINESS NEWS 

Pathwords 

Glebite Bob Acton was visiting 

Russia when he had the experience 

of having a privately guided tour of a 

museum. He was impressed with 

how the guide created a fascinating 

story that incorporated the artwork, 

artifacts and history instead of just 

reciting standard data and information. 

The impression stuck with him 

and he soon found himself thinking 

of how this might work in Ottawa. 

Looking to create something a little 

different from the typical museum 

audio guide, Bob launched Pathwords 

which offers unique audio tours in 

Ottawa. 

In 2004, Pathwords released its 

first audio tour with the Bytown 

Museum. An instant success, the tour 

incorporated the rich history of 

Ottawa’s first century with the story 

of the Rideau Canal and the building 

in which the museum sits today. 

Building on the theme of history in 

Ottawa, the next project was a walking 

tour of the Byward Market. 

Having done the exhausting amount 

of research plus the audio for the 

Bytown Museum tour himself, Bob 

realized the Bytown Market project 

would need additional contributors. 

He was thrilled when local author 

Phil Jenkins signed on to write the 

script and to be the voice of the tour, 

and in 2006 released the very popular 

walking tour entitled Market Day: 

Ottawa’s Historic Lowertown. The 

most recent tour release is Thinking 

About War and Peace: Inside the 

Canadian War Museum. The tour not 

only explores the history of war, it 

poses questions that make one think 

of what can be gained from the 

exhibit and how peace can be 

achieved through what we’ve 

learned. 

Pathwords audio tours are educational, 

enlightening and entertaining, 

with each tour presenting a 

story that engages the listener. 

“Instead of just dealing with events 

of the past,” says Bob, “the tours 

ask what does this mean to us today 

and, we hope, leave you wanting to 

learn more about what we presented.” 

The tours run 80 to 110 minutes 

long and are available for rent on 

small, portable audio devices at a 

cost of $10 each. They are available 

at Haunted Walks Ottawa (73 

Clarence Street 613-232-0344) or by 

advance reservation by calling Pathwords 

at 613-567-2484. You can listen 

to a sample audio of each tour on 

the web site. For more information 

or an audio sample please contact: 

Pathwords Audio Publications 

613-567-2484 

www.pathwords.com


The Buzz 

By 

Lesley 

Caldicott 

Languages of Life Inc. 

Now in its 28th year of business, 

Languages of Life (in Fifth Avenue 

Court) continues to win awards as 

one of Ottawa’s most distinguished 

charitable services. A non-profit, 

charitable organization, Languages 

of Life offers language translation 

services to those in need through 

Ottawa law enforcement organizations 

and social service institutions. 

Founded in 1979 by Executive Director/President 

Bryna Monson, Languages 

of Life offers interpretation 

and translation in over 150 languages 

– a number that keeps growing year 

after year. 

Working as a social worker at 

local hospitals in the 1970s, Bryna 

saw the need for reliable and nonbiased 

translation for patients who 

didn’t speak English or French. Time 

and again she had asked friends who 

spoke foreign languages to translate 

for her patients. Knowing there were 

many patients she couldn’t help on 

her own, Bryna started a charitable 

foundation that would bring people 

together to offer translation services, 

at no cost, for the not so fortunate. 

Almost 30 years later, Languages of 

Life is still going strong, offering 

services 24 hours a day, 365 days a 

year. The recipient of numerous accolades 

and distinguished humanitarian 

awards, Bryna recently received a 

Proclamation from Mayor Larry 

O’Brien recognizing Language of 

Life’s dedication to multiculturalism 

in Ottawa. 

Funded mostly through donations 

and fundraising, Languages of Life 

has two fundraising events in the 

year, one of them here in the Glebe. 

On Oct. 18 at 7 p.m., the Arrow and 

Bryna Monson, executive director/ 

president, Languages of Life Inc. 

PHOTO: LESLEY CALDICOTT 

Loon will host the annual Languages 

of Life Beer Tasting Event, offering 

eight beers for $20 and a special on 

ribs and chicken wings. “It’s a fun 

event,” says Bryna. “The community 

has always been very supportive and 

I look forward to seeing everyone 

again this year”. On Apr. 12, 2008, 

Languages of Life will host the 28th 

Annual Art Sale & Exhibit at Ben 

Franklin Place in Nepean. Bryna 

invites everyone in our community 

to come out and enjoy the evening in 

support of this wonderful charity. 

For more information, contact: 

Bryna Monson 

99 Fifth Avenue Court, Suite 14 

613-232-9770 

BUSINESS NEWS 

Pathwords 

Glebite Bob Acton was visiting 

Russia when he had the experience 

of having a privately guided tour of a 

museum. He was impressed with 

how the guide created a fascinating 

story that incorporated the artwork, 

artifacts and history instead of just 

reciting standard data and information. 

The impression stuck with him 

and he soon found himself thinking 

of how this might work in Ottawa. 

Looking to create something a little 

different from the typical museum 

audio guide, Bob launched Pathwords 

which offers unique audio tours in 

Ottawa. 

In 2004, Pathwords released its 

first audio tour with the Bytown 

Museum. An instant success, the tour 

incorporated the rich history of 

Ottawa’s first century with the story 

of the Rideau Canal and the building 

in which the museum sits today. 

Building on the theme of history in 

Ottawa, the next project was a walking 

tour of the Byward Market. 

Having done the exhausting amount 

of research plus the audio for the 

Bytown Museum tour himself, Bob 

realized the Bytown Market project 

would need additional contributors. 

He was thrilled when local author 

Phil Jenkins signed on to write the 

script and to be the voice of the tour, 

and in 2006 released the very popular 

walking tour entitled Market Day: 

Ottawa’s Historic Lowertown. The 

most recent tour release is Thinking 

About War and Peace: Inside the 

Canadian War Museum. The tour not 

only explores the history of war, it 

poses questions that make one think 

of what can be gained from the 

exhibit and how peace can be 

achieved through what we’ve 

learned. 

Pathwords audio tours are educational, 

enlightening and entertaining, 

with each tour presenting a 

story that engages the listener. 

“Instead of just dealing with events 

of the past,” says Bob, “the tours 

ask what does this mean to us today 

and, we hope, leave you wanting to 

learn more about what we presented.” 

The tours run 80 to 110 minutes 

long and are available for rent on 

small, portable audio devices at a 

cost of $10 each. They are available 

at Haunted Walks Ottawa (73 

Clarence Street 613-232-0344) or by 

advance reservation by calling Pathwords 

at 613-567-2484. You can listen 

to a sample audio of each tour on 

the web site. For more information 

or an audio sample please contact: 

Pathwords Audio Publications 

613-567-2484 

www.pathwords.com


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We offer a variety of 

upscale one bedroom 

suite designs as well as 

studios, deluxe studios 

and exclusive 2 bedroom 

penthouse suites. 

Lord Lansdowne, in the 

heart of the Glebe, is 

conveniently located at 920 Bank Street, at the corner of 

Holmwood, across from Lansdowne Park and only steps 

away from the Rideau Canal and Brown’s Inlet. 

For a personal appointment, 

please call 

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Amicalement vôtre : 

la chronique de l’Amicale 

francophone d’Ottawa 

ALEXANDRA SERRE 

Chers amis francophones et francophiles, 

Vous aimez la langue française, 

avez un bon sens de l’humour, un 

brin de patience, et un peu de temps 

libre? Alors l’Amicale aimerait vous 

compter parmi son conseil 

d’administration (CA). Nous 

sommes à la recherche de bénévoles 

pour pourvoir plusieurs postes au 

sein du CA car certains membres 

nous quittent après plus de deux ans 

de service, à cause de déménagements 

et de retours au travail. Vous 

pourriez participer à la direction 

(présidence, vice-présidence, trésorerie, 

et secrétariat) ou bien à titre 

de membre sans porte-feuille. Le CA 

se réunit mensuellement, sauf durant 

la période estivale, et veille à 

l’organisation des activités de 

l’Amicale. Pour en savoir plus, 

écrivez à : monique_senechal 

@sympatico.ca 

Assemblée générale 

L’assemblée générale de 

l’Amicale se tiendra le mardi 16 

octobre 2007 à 19 h dans les locaux 

du Centre communautaire du Glebe, 

situé au 175, avenue Third. Nous y 

ferons le bilan des activités de 

l’année et discuterons de l’avenir de 

l’Amicale. Les membres de 

l’Amicale procéderont aussi à 

l’élection du nouveau conseil 

d’administration. Nous espérons 

vous y voir en grand nombre. 

Cercle de lecture 

Le cercle de lecture de l’Amicale 

entamera bientôt sa 3e saison. Le 

cercle est ouvert à tous ceux désireux 

de lire en français et de partager 

leurs impressions et coups de foudre 

littéraires. Le livre de la rentrée est le 

dernier prix Goncourt, soit Les Bienveillantes, 

de Jonathan Littell. Les 

dates et le lieu des rencontres seront 

déterminés d’ici la mi-octobre. Afin 

d’en être informé, veuillez écrire à : 

amicale05@sympatico.ca 

Activités initiées 

par nos membres 

L’Amicale favorise les échanges 

et les activités visant les francophones 

et francophiles, et permet de 

mettre en oeuvre des initiatives prises 

par les membres eux-mêmes. Si 

Free parking 

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vous avez des idées d’activités en 

tête et un peu de temps pour nous 

aider à les concrétiser, faites-nous 

signe à : amicale05@sympatico.ca 

Activités et loisirs en français 

dans votre quartier 

Grâce au travail de Doreen Drolet, 

l’Amicale a contribué cette année 

encore à l’organisation d’activités en 

français dans les quartiers du Glebe 

et du Vieil Ottawa-Sud. Celles-ci 

sont décrites dans Mon guide francophone 

des loisirs d’Ottawa, édition 

automne-hiver 2007/2008 

(disponible en ligne dans le site Web 

de la Ville d’Ottawa : 

www.ottawa.ca). En voici un bref 

résumé : 

Centre communautaire du Glebe 

Inscriptions : www.gnag.ca ou en 

personne au Centre communautaire 

du Glebe, 175 avenue Third. Renseignements 

: 613-233-8713 ou 613- 

564-1058 

Cours de chant (8 ans-adulte) 

Grabrielle Giguère, gagnante du 

concours Ottawa Kiwanis Idol 2005, 

offre des cours privés ou semi-privés 

en technique vocale et en expression 

scénique. 

Devoirs + 

Des moniteurs expérimentés et 

bilingues aident les enfants de la première 

à la sixième année à faire leurs 

devoirs, du lundi au jeudi, de 16 h 15 

à 17 h 30. 

S.O.S. Études 

Ces cours privés ou semi-privés, 

donnés en anglais ou en français, 

s’adressent aux étudiants de la 1ère à 

la 11e année qui souhaitent améliorer 

leur rendement en mathématiques 

et en sciences. 

Centre communautaire 

du vieil Ottawa-Sud 

Inscriptions : www.oldottawa 

south.ca ou en personne au Centre 

communautaire du vieil Ottawa-Sud, 

260 avenue Sunnyside. Renseignements 

: 613-247-4946 

Les copains et copines de jeu 

Ce groupe de jeu francophone, 

dont les rencontres ont lieu les jeudis 

matins, est une merveilleuse 

occasion de faire la connaissance 

d’autres parents et gardiennes francophones 

tandis que vos enfants (de 

0 à 5 ans) jouent en français. 

Glebe Pet Hospital 

Serving the Glebe area since 1976... 

233-8326 


(just south of the Queensway) 

IN POSITION 

Weekdays 8-7, Saturday 9-2:30 

Housecalls available 

Students & seniors welcome. 

We care for dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, reptiles, birds & other pets 

Dr. Hussein Fattah 

DANJO CREATIONS (613)526-4424


Centretown Community 

Health Centre: your 

community resource 

BY JEFF MORRISON 

Many people in Centretown, Glebe and Ottawa South are unaware of the 

valuable services offered by the Centretown Community Health Centre 

(CCHC), located at 420 Cooper Street in downtown Ottawa. CCHC provides 

a wide array of high demand services to the residents of Central Ottawa, and 

advocates for a number of key health and social policy objectives with every 

order of government. 

Over the coming year, we will be profiling a number of the key services and 

issues of interest to the residents of the Centretown, Glebe and Ottawa South. 

However, to give people a sample of the many services offered by the CCHC, 

we have included a list below of just some of the programs that CCHC has to 

offer. 

• Diabetes education program: With over 7 nurse-dietitian teams, CCHC 

offers group education and individual follow-up in many languages to individuals 

with type 2 and pre-diabetes. A new service begins clients on insulin 

upon referral by their physicians. 

• Primary care: There is a full primary care centre within CCHC staffed by 

physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses. There are a range of appointment 

types and walk-in services available to our clients, as well as obstetrical care. 

Additional services include physiotherapy, foot care, addictions counseling, 

nutrition counseling, needle exchange and weekly health clinics in two high 

schools in the catchment area. Home visits are provided to seniors who are 

housebound. 

• Counseling services: Individual counseling and groups, as well as a daily 

walk-in service are offered by a group of highly trained counseling professionals. 

• Pre and postnatal care and children’s programs: CCHC offers both pre 

and postnatal care, including home visits, parenting and wellness programs. A 

parent-child drop-in is available to families with children 0-6 years of age. 

Other programs include school readiness programs (such as kindergarten 

expectations), reading programs and a homework club for older children. 

• Community health promotion: CHP offers programming and support to 

increase the health of individuals, groups and communities. There are a number 

of programs available to residents aimed at encouraging an overall healthy 

lifestyle. For instance, the Fun with Food and Fitness program encourages participants 

to become more physically active while improving eating habits. The 

Good Food Box program allows anyone to buy fresh fruits and vegetables collectively 

at a greatly reduced cost. Other available programs include smoking 

cessation, seniors exercise and stress reduction. Community initiatives include 

support to community gardens, development of a laundry coop, work with 

local groups to ensure safer communities, and community mobilization for 

increased involvement in civic affairs. 

• Seniors programs: CCHC offers assistance and one on one counseling 

for a number of seniors’ related issues. For instance, CCHC, through the 

LESA program, offers services dedicated to assist adults 55+ with gambling, 

alcohol or drug problems. In collaboration with the Canadian Mental Health 

Association, LESA also offers help to homeless seniors with concurrent disorders. 

Therapeutic recreation activities are other important components. 

This is just a partial list of the services offered by CCHC. For more information, 

call 613-233-4443 or visit www.centretownchc.org. In the months 

ahead, we will provide more information on specific programs and issues 

being pursued by CCHC and its community partners. 

Discover hidden treasures on 

Give Away Day, Sat., Oct. 13 

Ottawa – get ready to be on the look out for more hidden treasures this fall 

because Give Away Day returns on Sat., Oct. 13 (rain date: Sun., Oct. 14). 

Don’t put your unwanted household goods in the garbage. Set them out at 

the curb on Give Away Day with a sign or label indicating that they are free. 

For you treasure hunters, tour your neighbourhood, community and city to 

find those hidden gems. Remember to reuse – one person’s trash is another 

person’s treasure. 

Treasures could include 

• books, CDs and DVDs 

• old furniture and small appliances 

• construction materials - including drywall and hardware such as nails, 

bolts and screws 

• kitchen gadgets, dishes, cutlery, pots and pans 

• unwanted gifts 

Rules for Give Away Day 

• Place items at the curb. 

• Place stickers or signs on items with the word “FREE.” 

• Ensure any items that you want to keep don’t get mixed up with your 

“give away” items at the curb. 

• At the end of the day, bring any uncollected items back into your home. 

Remember, items not picked up can be donated to charitable organizations, 

or placed on used-item web sites, such as the Ottawa Freecycle Network. 

Give Away Day etiquette 

• Respect other people’s property, don’t walk on lawns and gardens. 

• Take only the items marked free. 

• Don’t discard previously picked-up treasures on another person’s lawn. 

We wish you best of luck in finding treasures. It’s another way to help the 

city RETHINK GARBAGE and maximize landfill space, protecting our most 

precious treasure – our environment. 


Jeff Morrison is a board member and chair, Advocacy and Communications 

Action Team, CCHC. 

Rain or Shine, Celebrate 

JC Sulzenko’s rhyming story for kids 

Wear your rubber boots to the party 

Saturday, October 20 at 11:00 a.m. 

Mother Tongue Books, 1067 Bank St. 

INFORMATION: 613 730 2346 

Refreshments 

Also available from: 

Nicholas Hoare Bookstore, Kaleidoscope Kids Books, Leishman Books 

www.bluepoodlebooks.ca


Become a Locavore 

Eating local food never tasted so good! 

The Ottawa Buy Local Food Guide (third edition) is on the shelves today 

at your local public library, at community health centres, and at the Mountain 

Equipment Co-op store. The guide is also featured on the Just Food website 

at www.justfood.ca. 

Just Food produces this bilingual, handy tool so that consumers can easily 

locate farm gates, pick-your-own farms, farmers’ markets and community 

shared agriculture (CSA) projects that exist in and around the city. This will 

help transform more people into “locavores.” 

Eating locally or becoming a “locavore” is a rewarding culinary adventure. 

It means that you pay special attention to where food is produced and 

aim to buy food that is produced as close to your home as possible, especially 

during peak growing seasons. 

Making local food choices: 

• helps connect eaters to the farmers who grow the food; 

• is a great way to learn the seasonal flavours of our region; 

• ensures that you get exceptional taste and freshness; 

• builds relationships with your local farmers; and 

• strengthens your local economy. 

In this year’s Ottawa Buy Local Food Guide, you will see lots of quick and 

helpful tips about how to integrate local foods into your diet all season long! 

It means eating meals that feature crispy heads of lettuce, spicy arugula, 

mouth-watering garlic, juicy tomatoes, delicious local meats and more! 

Although the value of each guide is $2, Just Food is making guides available 

free of charge to the public, with the hope that people will make a donation 

to support Just Food and the work that we are doing to build a just and 

sustainable food system in Ottawa. 

Only 16,000 print copies of this third edition are available. Get yours while 

they last! 

Just Food also offers guides for special events and can do presentations on 

how to become a locavore. 

For more information, contact Just Food at 613-236-9300, ext. 301 or by e- 

mail at info@justfood.ca. 


Fresh for fall 

BY SARAH TRANT 

It’s fall – and an unusual one. With 

temperatures hovering at summerdigit 

levels farmers like Gerry 

Rochon, who has about 140 acres 

near Metcalfe, are frankly gleeful. 

“This year’s crop of fall vegetables 

has been incredible,” says 

Rochon. “Seven different varieties of 

squash, three varieties of cauliflower, 

broccoli, fantastic leeks, all kinds of 

potatoes —Yukon Gold, Ruby Gold, 

Superior whites, Red Pontiac — and 

there are still field tomatoes. Providing 

the frost holds off, we’ll still be 

harvesting green and wax beans, 

cherry tomatoes and Spanish onions, 

crops that are usually associated 

with late summer. All thanks to the 

late fall we’re enjoying this year – a 

year which has been great for us 

farmers.” 

So great in fact that Rochon, who 

already has nine greenhouses, is putting 

up another and may, if business 

holds up, add yet another next year. 

He’s thinking of growing early 

spring vegetables. “Radishes, scallions, 

maybe cucumbers. By end of 

winter people are looking for the 

sights and tastes of spring,” says 

Rochon. 

However, there does seem to be a 

major fly in the ointment as far as 

local farmers are concerned. The 

latest news from the city for 

Lansdowne Park’s future direction 

makes no mention of any plan for the 

market’s continuation. 

“I don’t understand it,” says 

Rochon. “Our market’s been going 

for two years. You only have to look 

at the crowds that come on Sundays 

to see that we’re providing something 

that people living here really want.” 

Other cities— Toronto, Montréal, 

Fredericton and Moncton —all have 

permanent farmers’ markets featuring 

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seasonal produce year round. No such 

facility exists in Ottawa. With the 

market’s sales volumes doing nothing 

but climb, resulting in a positive spinoff 

in the marked revitalization of the 

city’s horticultural/agricultural sector, 

farmers could be forgiven for 

considering such a facility not only 

viable and a net plus to the nation’s 

capital, but also something meriting 

some consideration in any future city 

core development. 

However, if plans as reported in 

the Sept. 28 edition of the Ottawa 

Citizen come to fruition, any such 

expansion for the market would 

seem to be out of the question. 

“I’d like to see the Mayor down 

here,” said Rochon. “Maybe he’d get 

an idea of the possibilities of this 

venture if he had a look around. 

Everybody’s talking about the 

importance of eating local. Everybody 

knows the importance of good 

nutrition, eating fresh where possible, 

cutting down on gas guzzling, environmentally 

unfriendly transportation 

and storage costs.” 

Other markets do exist in Ottawa 

but although the percentage of locally 

grown produce is increasing at the 

Parkdale and Byward markets, vendors 

still feature resale produce, 

brought in from Montréal and Toronto 

brokers. 

“Hardly local, hardly fresh,” comments 

Rochon. “I tell my customers, 

always ask where it’s grown. If they 

can’t tell you, then you know it’s not 

as fresh as it might be!” 

Meanwhile, despite the last baskets 

of glowing strawberries, crisp beans 

and cherry tomatoes – the reminders 

of a summer that seems to be lingering 

on past its due date – it’s fall’s 

bounty that is the Ottawa Farmers’ 

Market’s signature from now until 

the end of October. 

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A great summer at St. James Tennis Club 

BY KEN MORROW AND 

FRANCISCO ALVAREZ 

St. James Tennis Club was definitely 

a busy place this summer. A 

really big thanks has to go out to first 

time club manager Francisco Alvarez 

and all the rest of the staff for making 

sure that the tennis aspect of the club 

was in its best shape, regardless of 

the other inconveniences. He successfully 

implemented some new ideas 

for the upkeep of the club and was 

helped by his excellent team of 

supervisors, Lisa Teitelbaum, Kelly 

Bateman, Thomas Grace, Alex 

Bateman, Meghan Mckinley, Peter 

Black and tennis coaches, Matt 

Scoppa, Mike Sutcliffe, and Conor 

Peterson. Off the court, the players 

had to suffer through more periods 

of construction on the Glebe Community 

Centre and the resurfacing of 

the courts in the fall. 

John Wins-Purdy and Sebastian 

Goodfellow perform for the crowd. 

The annual Family Fun Day on 

Jun. 2, saw tennis briefly give way 

to Beatles music for a few hours. 

John Wins-Purdy and Sebastian 

Goodfellow wowed the assembled 

crowd and many passers-by with two 

40-minute sets of classic Beatles 

tunes. Tennis games for the kids, 

BBQ hamburgers and hotdogs, and 

some heavenly light cake made the 

event a memorable one that will be 

hard to top in 2008. At the annual 

general meeting on Sept. 9, the club 

again expressed its many thanks to 

Marinus Wins for 14 years of service 

on the executive, many of them as 

the club’s treasurer. Two glass beer 

mugs, engraved, were presented to 

Marinus at the meeting. 

St. James Tennis Club AGM 

With 602 members, the St. James 

Tennis Club membership was down 

from the 692 members in 2006 but 

up slightly from the 577 members in 

2005. The club remains one of the 

healthier tennis clubs in the Ottawa 

region with a strong component of 

youth members, who make up 

almost 40 per cent of the membership. 

Once again, in 2007 over 25 

per cent of St. James members travel 

in from outside the Glebe to play at 

the club. 

A pet project of club president 

Tom Evans saw the Second Avenue 

fence moved back four and a half 

feet. This created more room for 

players to play deeper balls in. After 

consultations with the City it was 

determined that in order to protect 

the nearby trees the reclaimed area 

could not be paved. With some 

elbow grease the staff and Tom one 

evening were able to take the uneven 

dirt and level it off, adding some 

bags of soil to the mix. Sod was later 

purchased and laid over the 400 

square feet of space. 

The purchase of the bike rack was 

another great addition to the club 

this year. The six-ring bike rack provided 

extra space for members to 

lock their bikes to when playing at 

the club. This provided a safer playing 

area and extra space for members 

to sit on the patio and take in some 

matches. 

The on-court aspect of the club 

was just as busy as the off-court 

events, with 12 tournaments being 

held this year even with the premature 

ending of the season due to the 

courts being resurfaced. All but the 

finals of the last two tournaments 

have been played. 

Round robins were again a great 

hit at the club this summer. There 

was also great interest in the 

N.C.T.A division leagues again this 

year. The club was able to field three 

teams, from all levels, that competed 

throughout the three sessions that the 

league instituted. 

Junior lessons were again a great 

hit this year. It was a great chance for 

children of all skill levels to improve 

on their tennis skills after school. A 

new program that was started up this 

year was the teen lessons. This was 

an attempt to inspire some young 

people to get off the couch and play 

tennis for a few hours a week. The 

program was found to be quite suc- 

PHOTOS: KEN MORROW 

cessful as around six or seven kids 

regularly made it out. 

The club is managed and run during 

the summer by paid staff made 

up of local young people. The club 

executive board is a volunteer group 

that oversees the staff, plans events 

and maintains the club. St. James is 

always looking for fresh faces to help 

out. The board meets about six times 

a year to plan the coming season and 

many board members often look after 

one small project or task. The board 

hopes to renovate the interior of the 

clubhouse in the coming years as well 

as numerous other smaller projects 

that will continue to make St. James 

a fun and excellent club. If you are a 

student and hope to work at St. 

James next summer or a community 

member who would like to lend a 

hand we could certainly use your 

help. Please visit our web site at 

www.stjamestennis.ca to learn more. 

Aileen Comerton (left) and Gwen 

Meireles (right) award each other 

medals. 

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HISTORY 

Noffke’s Glebe – A scenic splendour 

517 O’Connor Street (above and lower opposite page.) 

Noffke’s own home was at 20 Clemow Avenue 

BY DAVID CASEY 

The first red and orange leaves 

have begun their dance along the 

avenues of the Glebe. A brisk 

autumn gust of wind, and your 

cheeks and nose begin to show a 

ruddy glow with the anticipation of 

colder days. Have you ever stopped 

to think about the countless seasons 

that have been witnessed by the 

houses around you? The Glebe is a 

neighbourhood with an extraordinary 

past, full of ambitious park 

projects, beautiful boulevards and of 

course, bounded and defined by the 

Rideau Canal. 

Many architects have left their 

impression on our neighbourhood, 

but none has had as much impact as 

one man who created dozens of 

houses and apartments in some of 

the most scenic locales. He 

embraced countless architectural 

styles and philosophies in the 

process. His name is Werner Ernest 

Noffke (1878-1965). He was by 

trade an architect, but through 

decades of patient practice and 

determination, Noffke became far 

more than that; he became a sculptor 

on a grand scale – carving and 

moulding the character of the 

Glebe. 

Ever ambitious, at the tender age 

of fourteen Noffke realized that 

architecture was to be his lifelong 

passion; he purchased a suit and 

began an apprenticeship with a 

local architect, Adam Harvey, in 

1892. The young student, ever 

eager to learn and grow, embarked 

on a five year term with another 

architect, Moses C. Edey, whose 

best known work was the Daly 

Building on Sussex at Rideau 

which has since been demolished. 

By the beginning of the 20th century, 

Noffke had amassed a wealth of 

knowledge and skill. Having 

apprenticed for nearly a decade, he 

launched his own practice and he 

never looked back. His career and 

reputation grew rapidly as each 

building was carefully and lovingly 

crafted and well received by the 

public. Contributing to his success 

was his untameable energy and 

outgoing nature which drew him 

into countless organizations and 

groups: he was a devout churchman; 

he was the president of the 

Ottawa chapter of the Ontario 

Association of Architects in 1910- 

11; he was a proud member of the 

Governor General’s Foot Guards 

and attained the rank of major; he 

commanded the armed guard of 

honour for the first Dominion of 

Parliament in 1914. Through these 

opportunities, he was able to meet 

and befriend some of the most 

important politicians, industrialists 

and developers in Ottawa and 

thereby attract their business. With 

such a powerful clientele, Noffke 

was able to select the most appealing 

and prestigious sites for his 

buildings. Thus, his role in the 

founding of the Glebe, as we know 

it, was cemented! 

Noffke was a gifted architect 

with a strong sense of proportion 

and scale; during the spring of his 

career he was a master of historically 

traditional architecture. He 

drew on established styles of 

Ottawa architecture while integrating 

his own flair in order to please 

his patrons. As his career advanced 

and his name became increasingly 

known to the public, he heeded the 

echoes of change in innovative 

architecture from Europe and the 

US. By 1914, his buildings began 

showing the influences of the more 

modern and horizontal “Prairie 

School,” made famous by legendary 

architect, Frank Lloyd 

Wright. It was during this time that 

the Ottawa Improvement Commission 

(the predecessor of the National 

Capital Commission) had built 

and landscaped Queen Elizabeth 

Driveway along the south and eastern 

border of the Glebe. Additionally, 

they drained and landscaped 

Central Park as an extension of Patterson's 

Creek. Ottawa’s elite 

flocked to these supremely desirable 

locations to have custom houses 

built and Noffke was more than 

willing to oblige. These were the 

areas of the Glebe most intensively 

developed by Noffke. These opportunities 

arose from his relations 

with the firm of Clemow-Powell 

(later to be known as Clemora 

Realty Ltd.), who developed many 

of these lots. In fact, Noffke built 

William F. Powell’s magnificent 

home on the south side of Central 

Park, with a Glebe Avenue address. 

In the same year, Ernest C. Powell 

built his home on Allen Place overlooking 

the park and Noffke built 

his own home on Clemow Avenue, 

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while brick magnate C. Frederick 

Hodgins had his house built overlooking 

Patterson’s Creek on 

O’Connor at Linden Terrace. 

Hungry to experience and experiment 

with as much architecture as 

possible, Noffke was also aware of 

the development of the “Chicago 

School” of architecture and used 

this as inspiration for some of his 

commercial buildings. Despite his 

eye for modern architectural development, 

he was always eager to 

revisit more traditional styles as a 

challenge and an exercise. In order 

to fully appreciate these hugely 

varying interests, he embarked on a 

pilgrimage that ended in the south 

western US. During his six months 

abroad, he managed to obtain a 

licence to practice architecture, open 

an office in Los Angeles and study 

with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. 

His return to Ottawa heralded the 

summer of his lengthy career: business 

was booming, the commissions 

were rolling in and his creativity 

was boundless. He bounced from 

Spanish Colonial Revivalism to 

Tudor and Gothic, among other 

styles. During the 1920s after his 

return from the southwest and 

before the onset of the Great 

Depression, Noffke was the preeminent 

architect of the affluent and 

influential, who desired historically 

dignified homes in the best and most 

scenic locations. When the depression 

finally struck Ottawa, the 

demand for expansive (and expensive) 

houses dried up. Noffke then 

turned to doing larger buildings for 

churches and government institutions; 

his adaptability allowed him 

to embrace more modern and cost 

efficient architectural styles and his 

business continued. However, for 

the most part, the result of the 

depression was that his business was 

forced to continue outside the 

boundaries of the Glebe. 

During the seminal years of the 

growth of our neighbourhood, a man 

walked along the raw and developing 

landscape and imagined perfectly 

proportioned and fastidiously 

detailed homes. He foresaw couples 

and families enjoying pleasant 

strolls along boulevards and 

avenues, and children playing in the 

parks. By drawing on years of experience 

and an uncanny ability to picture 

the manicured park landscape 

complemented by an array of traditional 

homes, Noffke nimbly moulded 

a neighbourhood of eclectic and 

scenic splendour. 

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Richard Hinchcliff 

For the Love of the Farm 

annual art exhibit 

October 12-14, 2007 

The beautiful photography of Richard Hinchcliff will be featured at this 

year’s “For the Love of the Farm” art exhibit. Richard has been a long-time 

member of the Friends and is co-author of a book entitled For the Love of 

Trees – A Guide to Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm Arboretum. Scheduled 

to coincide with the publication of the book, this exhibit will include 

numbered, limited photographs from the book, all depicting Richard’s 

unique vision of this precious historical landscape. Admission and parking 

are free. 

Arboretum, Central Experimental Farm, 

Located in building 72, 

For information, 

call 613-230-3276 

www.friendsofthefarm.ca 

ART 

Paintings by Gary Nichol 

on now till October 31 

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I was raised by my grandparents Frank and Annie Coulas on their farm in 

the Madawaska River Valley until I was six. My family was part of the oldest 

continuous North American Polish community, centered around Wilno, 

Ontario. As a child, I became steeped in the values and traditions of my Polish-Canadian 

heritage. Drawing on my roots, the folklore and myths of my 

ancestors, the pageantry of the church, the abandon of our festivals and the 

exuberance of our social gatherings, my work resonates under their spell. The 

vitality of those influences are found in the colours, textures and mood I convey. 

To me, the colours are my emotions. The textures are my moods. 

The hand-painted Easter eggs, the intricate embroidery of women’s shawls 

as well as the dazzling hand-made quilts, rich folk music and lively dance 

washed over my senses as I gathered it all in as a boy. To this day, I strive to 

capture the essence of those influences in all my media, be they pencil, crayon, 

charcoal, ink, watercolours or oils. You see it in the elaborate detail I often 

bring to my pieces. The integrity of my work – folk or contemporary, modern 

or caricature – can be appreciated as a firm commitment to my roots growing 

up in such a rich and stimulating heritage. www.garynicholart.com. 

Cork Tree at the Farm by Richard Hinchcliff 

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ART Glebe Report October 12, 2007 25 

260 Fingers returns! 

260 fingers 

For the third year, Scotton Hall at the Glebe Community Centre will be 

filled with the ceramic art of our area’s finest potters and clay sculptors on 

Remembrance Day weekend. The name of the exhibition refers to the 26 

artists who have been invited to participate. This invitational show is different 

from other craft shows in that every artist has been selected by virtue of their 

reputation of excellence in the field of ceramic art. The exhibition is also 

unique in that each of the artists – all excellent designers and technicians – has 

created a wonderfully distinctive body of work. 

The response to the last two shows has been overwhelming. The look of 

delight on people’s faces as they reach the top of the stairs and see what awaits 

them in the hall is worth it all for the artists who are on hand to talk to the visitors. 

If you have never had the opportunity to see clay work of this calibre you 

are in for a treat. 

An added feature this year is a panel discussion on Saturday evening in partnership 

with the Ontario Crafts Council right after the show closes for the 

evening. 

Collecting contemporary Canadian ceramics 

Sat., Nov. 10, 5:30-7 p.m. 

Moderator: Emma Quin, General Manager, Ontario Crafts Council 

Panel: Susan Jefferies, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Ceramics, 

Curator-in-Charge of the Ancient Collections, Gardiner 

Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto 

Lisa Pai and Megan Lafrenière, Lafrenière & Pai Gallery 

Paula Murray, RCA, ceramic artist 

The organizers of 260 Fingers have added this educational component after 

the great response to the mini-tours of the show last year where the artists 

talked to groups of visitors about the process and inspiration for their work. 

Great pottery and clay sculpture require a huge amount of technical expertise 

and years of focused attention to the myriad of skills needed to make such 

superior work. From the basic understanding of how mud becomes ceramic in 

a kiln and the infinite ways clay can be treated to make the finest translucent 

porcelain cup or a raw, rugged wood-fired jar is a long, hard journey. Many 

great ceramic artists move their work into the field of sculpture. 

We are lucky in this show to be able to include several of the most highly 

regarded ceramic sculptors in Canada. 260 Fingers is proud to show the work 

of brilliant emerging artists as well as those who are icons within this timehonoured 

craft. 260 Fingers is a testament to our luck in the Ottawa area to 

have this wealth of talent in ceramic art. 

The show opens Fri., Nov. 9, 6-9 p.m. and continues Sat., Nov. 10 and Sun., 

Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. There is no admission fee. 

Have your say! 

New art for Bank Street in the Glebe 

You are invited to meet the artists who are competing for a public art commission 

as part of the Bank Street Rehabilitation project in the Glebe. Six 

artists or artist teams have been short-listed to create detailed designs of their 

creative concepts for the Glebe’s main street. 

The best public art creates a unique sense of place, a destination, focal 

points for activity, or meeting places. They can be a landmark or a surprising 

lyrical discovery. Public art is found all around the city in municipal buildings, 

open spaces, pedestrian corridors, roadways and transit ways. 

The City of Ottawa commissions local artists’ works for display in public 

spaces. A percentage of funds for municipal development projects is set aside 

for public art in order to beautify the space and make art accessible to everyone. 

The city’s Public Art program initiated a competition for a site-specific 

work of art that will be integrated into the soon to be rehabilitated Bank Street 

in the Glebe, from Central Park to Lansdowne Park. Twenty-six local artists 

responded enthusiastically to this opportunity with their submissions for the 

September deadline. They were asked to submit their ideas for works of art to 

be incorporated along Bank Street. The project’s selection criteria include 

such things as artistic excellence, experience, reflection of the community, and 

character of the site durability. 

Six finalists were chosen to develop scale models or maquettes, preliminary 

sketches of the proposed artwork, and detailed work plans including budgets. 

The finalist artists are: 

• Stephen Brathwaite 

• Elaine DeCoursey, Don McVeigh and Cairn Cunnane 

• Tim desClouds 

• Maskull Lasserre 

• Jennifer Macklem and Kip Jones 

• Chandler Swain and Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau 

The public is invited to meet the artists, view the proposals and record their 

comments. The Art Selection committee will take the public’s comments into 

consideration when they meet again to jury the artworks and choose the winning 

design. 

The maquettes and sketches will be on display for public viewing on Mon., 

Nov. 12 from 6-8 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre at 175 Third Avenue, 

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Felicity Taylor 

Contemporary Art for Children 

October 9-November 3 

Felicity is an established British artist living in Ottawa. Her style has been 

influenced by her work as a play therapist, her work within the field of autism 

and with medically fragile children. 

Her mixture of simple shapes, bright colours, varied textures and multiple 

canvases will appeal to both children and adults. Canvases are painted all around 

the canvas edge so a child can see the image from any angle. Figures are painted 

across multiple canvases like a puzzle so the child processes the image 

piece by piece and as a whole. This gives them a unique aesthetic experience 

with art. 

Her choice of medium is acrylic for the vibrant colours that can be applied 

and handled in varied ways to give a rich surface texture. 

Felicity is happy to do commissions. She can work together with you to create 

a personal piece of art, perfect your space. Call 613-884-5720 or e-mailflictaylor@hotmail.com. 

This exhibit can be found at: 

The Glebe Community Centre 

175 Third Ave. 

If you are interested in showing your work at the Glebe Community Centre, 

please e-mail GCCArtShows@gmail.com. 

“Jewelled parts, 

Portraits and Parabolas” 

Oil on canvas by 

Sherry Tompalski 

October 4-28 

What happens when the sitting 

“subject” starts talking and is no 

longer the “object?” As a practising 

psychiatrist, Sherry Tompalski is 

interested in the subconscious interaction 

between people – in a sense 

our silent dialogues. In one of the six 

series featured in this show, Tompalski 

collaborates with Graham 

Thompson to capture on film the 

voice of the subject and the reply in 

paint by Sherry, an interplay of 

audio and visual. 

Also showing are paintings of 

jewelled body parts, female boxers, 

abstracts and collages of re-assembled 

selves. This show will intrigue, 

delight and surprise you. 

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“Silent Friends” 

An exhibition of new paintings by 

Glenda (Yates) Krusberg 

October 1-31 

Octopus Books and Knopf Canada are proud to present 

Naomi Klein 

reading from her new book 

THE SHOCK 

DOCTRINE 

MONDAY, 

NOVEMBER 12 

7:00 P.M. 

The Bronson Centre 

211 Bronson Avenue 

Plus, enjoy a special screening of The Shock Doctrine short film 

created by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuarón and directed by 

Jonás Cuarón. 

Tickets are available at Octopus Books, 116 Third Avenue 

tel: 613-233-2589 or at these other locations: 

After Stonewall, 370 Bank Street • Books on Beechwood, 

35 Beechwood Avenue • Collected Works, 1242 

Wellington Street West • Leishman Books, 1309 Carling 

Avenue (Westgate Mall) • Mother Tongue Books, 1067 

Bank Street • Perfect Books, 258A Elgin Street 

Knopf Canada 

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The Bronson Centre is 

wheel-chair accessible. 

A sign language 

interpreter 

will be 

present. 

Arboretum King 

A long time resident of the Glebe, Glenda Krusberg has had a number of 

successful careers. First with the National Museum of Canada, with Parks 

Canada, and as chief designer of the Canada Science and Technology Museum. 

Over the past ten years, she has returned to her roots and her true career 

as a fine artist working in acrylic paint and pastels. 

This exhibition focuses on her study of trees, particularly around Brown’s 

Inlet and the Arboretum, highlighting our silent and strong friends. 

Recently she has exhibited at Framed in Ottawa South, the Ottawa Art 

Association at the Ottawa Little Theatre, the Pastel Artists of Canada 2006 

juried show at the Hamilton Art Gallery and the Ottawa Fine Arts festivals in 

2005, 2006 and 2007. 

Glenda’s work is recognized by awards from the Pastel Artists of Canada 

and the Ottawa Art Association. She exhibits regularly in Ontario and British 

Columbia. See more on her website at www.yateskrusberg.ca. This exhibit 

can be found at: 

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Tel: 613 231-7788

ART Glebe Report October 12, 2007 27 

Ottawa Valley Weavers and Spinners Guild 

celebrates 27 years at the GCC 

Ann Middleton 

BY SHIRLEY BROWSKY 

Beech trees? Bamboo? Stainless 

steel? Soy protein? Plastic? Paper? 

Milk weed silk? Chitin (made from 

shrimp and crab shells!) Tofu? Corn 

fibre? Not what you would think of 

when you are getting dressed in the 

morning? Ramie, linen, cotton, 

hemp, wool, mohair, silk – now 

that’s more like it. 

Technology has come a long way 

in the fibre pool in the past ten years 

and members of the Ottawa Valley 

Weavers and Spinners Guild have 

been experimenting with the results. 

We will be sharing these exciting 

items at our upcoming exhibition 

and sale – No Animal Fibres Please 

– to be held Nov. 2-4 at the Glebe 

Community Centre (GCC). Once 

PHOTOS: JUDY KAVANAGH 

again, we will wow you with our creativity 

in using traditional and nontraditional 

methods for non-traditional 

fibres. There will be demonstrations 

using some of the wackiest 

fibres, an exhibition of some of these 

creations as well. If we can spin it, 

we can weave it. 

Members of the Ottawa Valley 

Weavers and Spinners Guild have a 

deep commitment to their community. 

Last year, we held a spinning/weaving 

marathon to weave 

silk scarves to raffle for the Canadian 

Cancer Society for Breast Cancer. 

In 2007, we will be creating and 

donating fibre articles to be sold to 

raise funds for our own resource 

centre and for the silk weavers in 

Kabul, Afghanistan through the 

ArteZan Designs Project (www.artez 

andesigns.com). Feel free to visit us 

and “throw” a shuttle or two to aid 

this worthy cause. 

Chances are you have seen members 

of the Ottawa Valley Weavers 

and Spinners Guild with our spinning 

wheels and looms, sheep and 

knitting needles demonstrating our 

craft at various venues such as City 

Hall, the Civic Centre, Nepean 

Sportsplex, Ottawa Public Library, 

National Arts Centre, The Bytown 

Museum, Billings Estate, the Agricultural 

Museum and many country 

fairs. We love to share our craft and 

show the public that this is not a 

dying art but one that is alive and 

thriving. 

Cindy O’Gorman 

We have been holding this exhibition 

and sale at the GCC since 1980. 

This year, our 27th, finds us with a 

permanent home in Heartwood 

House on Chapel Street thanks to the 

City of Ottawa. This new studio 

space houses our Guild library, our 

spinning and weaving equipment 

and our meeting and workshop 

rooms. We meet the first Monday of 

the month between Sept. and June at 

7:30 p.m. in the Gallery of Heartwood 

House and visitors are always 

welcome. We offer many courses 

throughout the year to our members. 

Our Guild library has a collection 

of more than 1,400 books, magazines 

and periodicals collected over 

a 50 year period which is a great aid 

in research and inspiration to our 

members. 

As in previous years, we are 

showcasing a local area fibre artist. 

This year, we are pleased to have 

Patricia Dolan, a weaver and fibre 

artist living in Pakenham, join us. 

Patricia has returned to Canada after 

living for seven years in the Middle 

East. Utilizing paper, fibre and cloth, 

the works employ many textile techniques 

using varied materials: handspun 

silk woven into panels; woven 

paper and raffia constructed into garments; 

silk, wool, cashmere, mohair, 

angora felted and sewn into huge 

coats; hand-beaten paper collages, 

all influenced by the Middle Eastern 

experience, with additions of clay 

shards from the desert and silk remnants 

from Afghanistan, tapestries 

woven with torn silks in fabulous 

colours, boxes big and small in 

string, twine, spun silk, and so much 

more. Patricia is a member of The 

Mill Street Gallery Co-op in 

Almonte. 

We invite you to join us on Nov., 

2-4: Fri., 4-8 p.m; Sat. and Sun., 10 

a.m. - 4 p.m. at the GCC, 175 Third 

Avenue, Ottawa and see what we are 

up to. Admission is free. 

Whether you are looking for wall 

hangings, clothing, shawls, placemats, 

or afghans, you will find a 

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Seventeen Voyces presents 

Phantom of the Opera 

Lon Chaney as the phantom 

BY KEVIN REEVES 

Seventeen Voyces, Ottawa’s 

chamber choir, is presenting the classic 

1925 silent film, Phantom of the 

Opera, starring Lon Chaney. 

This is the only way to see it! The 

original movie will be projected on a 

giant screen at St. Matthew’s Church, 

and accompanied by live pipe organ 

music by the incomparable Matthew 

Larkin. The choir will perform works 

by Gounod, Schubert, Beethoven, 

Kodaly, Ravel and Langlais. 

Phantom of the Opera is listed 

by most historians as one of 

the ten greatest films of all 

time, and the unmasking of 

Lon Chaney is one of the most 

famous moments in silent film. 

It delivered quite a jolt in 1925; 

several press reports told of 

patrons fainting in the theatres 

during this ground-breaking 

scene. 

Chaney’s make-up so distorts 

his features that he is 

almost unrecognizable. “The 

man of a thousand faces” 

took the secret of his makeup 

to the grave, although 

many latter-day make-up 

artists have speculated how it 

was done. 

The sets are enormous and 

frequently bizarre, the costumes 

are outrageous, and the 

entire cast plays in a very 

grand manner. Chandeliers 

crash, ballerinas twirl in terror, 

mirrors open, lakes drain, 

audiences panic, horses run 

away with carriages, and peasants 

riot in the street. 

Don’t miss this exciting Halloween 

event, which takes place on 

two nights: Fri., Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m. 

and Sat., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. at St. 

Matthew’s Church, 130 Glebe Ave. 

Tickets are $15-$25 and can be 

obtained at Leading Note, Compact 

Music, Book Bazaar, Herb & Spice 

(1310 Wellington Street West), or at 

the door. 

An evening of images 

and songs at Irene’s Pub 

BY SHARON DAWN JOHNSON 

With songs and music from his 

newly launched CD, renowned 

Canadian artist and icon Ian 

Tamblyn entertained an appreciative 

audience at Irene’s Pub on Sept. 5. 

Entitled Superior: Spirit and Light, 

this CD is the first of a 4-part series 

called the Four Coast project (other 

coasts being Northwest British 

Columbia, the Arctic, and Labrador 

and Newfoundland). The overall 

project represents “the summing up 

of a compelling, 30-year journey 

exploring the question of what North 

is, what Canada is,” explains Ian. As 

most of the songs are already written, 

we can look forward to the completion 

of this ambitiously creative 

process soon. 

Derived from his many canoe trips 

and explorations over the years, Ian 

experiences the Lake Superior area 

as a “haunted, powerful, spirited 

place.” Using his wooden flute, for 

example, he artfully evokes vast 

spaces filled with long stretches of 

trees and water, with unmoving 

granite faces, with wolves and loons. 

The flute’s eerie sound conjures the 

feel of that rugged landscape. 

Sharing the evening of “Images 

and Songs” was Albert Prisner, the 

visual artist who created the linernote 

images that grace each of Ian’s 

songs. Albert’s lively series of 17 

drawings, hung as black and white 

laminated prints in a modest 5 x 7 

format, do indeed capture the sense 

of spirit and light in the CD’s title. 

Developing “visual metaphors” plays 

an important part in Albert’s own 

“questioning process” as he listens 

MUSIC 

to and works with Ian’s material. 

The emerging images strive to 

express the small space that contains 

the bigger story. The “Boxcar” 

image, for instance, shows 

the deceptively simple vehicle 

used for the northern painting 

journeys undertaken by Arthur 

Lismer, A.Y Jackson and others 

from the Group of Seven. Taken 

together, the image and song create 

a certain subtle melancholy evoked, 

tangentially, by the unstated reason 

for Tom Thomson’s absence. 

The Superior CD is Albert’s third 

collaboration with Ian. “Working 

with Ian takes me out of my usual 

projects,” notes Albert, who normally 

works as a freelance illustrator 

and cartoonist. In this project, 

Albert’s technique was greatly influenced 

by Ian’s interest in woodcut 

prints. Using his pen like a chisel, 

Albert seeks to impersonate light. 

“Knowing when to start and stop” is 

the trick. This series admirably 

demonstrates the sensitive mastery 

which Albert has developed using 

this technique. It’s a delight to see 

his images and listen to the music. 

In Superior and, indeed, the 

whole Four Coast project, Ian’s 

motivation is “to write something 

honourably Canadian.” Both Ian 

and Albert use their individual skills 

with specific stories and concrete 

moments to honour that intention. 

Albert’s images can be seen in 

Irene’s Pub & Restaurant along with 

the new show of wax paintings by 

Jenn Farr, entitled the Purple Menace. 

Ian’s CD is available at Compact 

Music. 

Albert Prisner (left) and Ian Tamblyn (right) in full song 

PHOTO: FRANK JOHNSON 

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MUSIC Glebe Report October 12, 2007 29 

Underground Sound and 

SoulJazz Orchestra 

will rock your world 

Divertimento Orchestra 

Fall concerts 

conducted by Gordon Slater 

Fruhauf 

Grand Rondo on “Simple Gifts” and 

“Bourbon” (world première) 

Beethoven 

Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 

Dvoràk 

Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88 

Fri., Nov. 16, 8 p.m. 

Arlington Woods 

Free Methodist Church 

225 McClellan St., Nepean 

Sat., Nov. 17, 8 p.m. 

L’Église St-Thomas-d’Aquin 

1244 Kilborn Avenue, Ottawa 

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In the mood for dusty retro keyboards, 

fierce earthquaking rhythms 

and blaring majestic horns? 

Then you’re ready for the potent 

new afro-funk stylings of the Soul- 

Jazz Orchestra, a mesmerizing band 

that meshes funk and afrobeat with 

boogaloo, soul and jazz. 

SoulJazz Orchestra kicks off the 

third season of Underground Sound 

on Thurs., Oct. 18. Tickets for the 

concert are $20 each ($25 at the 

door) and are available at Compact 

Music, the Glebe Community Centre 

(GCC) and the Ottawa Folklore Centre. 

Tickets for the Souljazz Orchestra 

go on sale on Sept. 15. Doors 

open at 7 p.m., with a concert start of 

7:30. The GCC is located at 175 

Third Avenue at Lyon. 

This group has an impeccable 

pedigree, having shared the stage 

with such luminaries as Femi Kuti, 

Dele Sosimi (of the Egypt 80), 

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Etta 

James, Alpha YaYa Diallo, John Lee 

Hooker Jr., and more. Their music is 

raw and dirty with incisive lyrics that 

run the gamut from politics to spirituality. 

You never know what you’re 

going to get when you attend their 

gigs but you always know it will be 

something special. 

Want to check out their music? 

Go to http://www.souljazzorchestra. 

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then hurry and buy a ticket. It’ll be a 

hot, sultry night at the GCC on Oct. 

18! 

The Glebe Community Association 

and the Glebe Business Group 

host Underground Sound, a series of 

concerts to raise money to bury the 

hydro wires when Bank Street 

undergoes reconstruction. If the City 

of Ottawa decides not to bury the 

lines, the money will be spent on 

other improvement projects to make 

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BY ZIA LANDIS 

TED AND LOIS AT THE MOVIES 

Thrillers 

BY LOIS SIEGEL 

Slither, 2006 

Directed by James Gunn 

Rated R 

Slither is a classic B-level horror 

film—an isolated backwoods town, 

swarms of creepy crawlies, and the heartwarming 

if not predictable romantic subplot. 

To top it all off there is even a zombie 

element that should delight any 

diehard horror fan. 

Although hardly a family movie, with a 

severe cursing streak barely two minutes 

in, Slither still manages to maintain a 

dark comedic appeal. It does so with several 

well placed lines delivered by 

Nathan Fillion as the town sheriff Bill 

Pardy. Elizabeth Banks plays opposite 

Fillion as Starla Grant, the town’s doeeyed 

beauty who is forced at a tender age 

to marry the crude yet wealthy Grant 

Grant (Michael Rooker). 

As is often the case in comedy-sci-fi-feel-good-horror movies, all of the 

main characters’ problems are inadvertently solved by an alien menace: the 

wrongs are somehow righted, the good are rewarded, the evil are punished and 

everyone is either together and happy or dead in the end. 

The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993 

Directed by Henry Selick 

Rated PG 

The Nightmare Before Christmas has established something of a cult following. 

Directed by Henry Selick and written by the delightfully odd Tim 

Burton, one can barely make it through a Hallowe’en season without seeing at 

least a few shop windows decorated with Jack Skellington or his doll creation 

love, Sally, in this skeleton who stole Christmas story. 

Edward Scissorhands, 1990 

Directed by Tim Burton 

Rated PG-13 

Edward Scissorhands is widely recognized to be one of Tim Burton’s most 

touching and powerful films. The story tells of a young man named Edward 

(played by Johnny Depp) who is created, then abandoned by his “father” (Vincent 

Price), an inventor who dies before his completion, leaving him with only 

an array of knives and scissors for hands. Edward is adopted after years of isolation 

by his friendly and ever compassionate local Avon lady (Dianne Wiest). 

Life in a garish pastel suburb proves to be both a rewarding and terrible experience 

for Edward as he tries to understand the world around him. The childlike 

man falls in love with Wiest’s teenaged daughter (Winona Ryder) and his 

first real chance at a life seems likely to crumble around him before it’s really 

begun. 

One Hour Photo, 2002 

Written and Directed by Mark 

Romanek 

Rated 14A 

Robin Williams is outstanding as Sy 

Parrish, who we quickly realize is very 

creepy when compared to normal people 

who go about their days with a variety of 

activities. He’s a loner, lives in a sterile, 

dull apartment and doesn’t have much of 

a life. Sy has this thing about being part 

of a family. To ‘brighten’ his days, he 

makes copies of other people’s photos for 

himself. He can do this because he’s the 

photo guy at the neighbourhood big box 

store. His obsession becomes obvious 

when we see his wall of photos... those he 

has collected over the years from the rolls 

of film of one family. An eerie feeling 

hovers over this film when Sy begins to stalk this family, watching what they 

read, what they do, and finally their marital problems. To say that Williams is 

a genius is an understatement. His acting is superb. 

The director of photography is Jeff Cronenweth. Jeff’s shooting style is 

strong. The way Williams is captured on the screen leads to a vision reflecting 

the world of a very disturbed man. The strength of the film is the realization 

that any of us could be stalked at any time. We are all vulnerable. 

Repulsion, 1965 

Directed by Roman Polanski 

Unrated 

Roman Polanski certainly ranks high in the echelons of psychological 

thriller directors. “Repulsion” stars Catherine Deneuve, only 20 at the time. 

Deneuve creates a disturbed character suffering from paranoia who shuts herself 

off in what becomes a nightmarish apartment, with a rabbit rotting amidst 

maggots and flies in a dark corner ... 

Targets, 1968 

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich 

Rated R 

Boris Karloff appears in “Targets” as an aging horror-film star. Intercutting 

two stories, the film focuses on the re-telling of a 1966 incident with 

ex-marine Charles Whitman, who, after murdering his mother and wife, 

armed himself with rifles and handguns and went on a rampage, shooting 

from a tower above a University of Texas campus, killing or wounding over 

45 people. 

Zia Landis, 17, daughter of our regular reviewer, Ted Landis, is visiting from California where she recently graduated from high school. 

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SCHOOLS Glebe Report October 12, 2007 31 

Late French immersion 

could be phased out 

By 

OCDSB 

Trustee 

Rob 

Campbell 

There are a number of interesting 

initiatives and issues at your school 

board these days. 

First and foremost at the time of 

writing is the consultation on the recommendation 

of the ad hoc French 

as a second language committee that 

we phase out late French immersion 

(LFI). Sub-recommendations include 

beefing up core French and other 

French immersion with innovative 

practices including greater service of 

special needs students in French 

immersion and less streaming into 

core French. This alone has the 

potential to transform French as a 

second language instruction at the 

OCDSB for the good of special 

needs students and non-special 

needs students in both programs. To 

provide your views on the LFI 

phase-out, other options, or related 

matters please visit the board web 

site at www.ocdsb.ca under FSL 

consultation. 

Close on the heels of this initiative 

in terms of possible transformative 

import are the anticipated recommendations 

on gifted programming 

delivery. At the time of writing, it is 

assumed that the eventual staff 

report on this will recommend fewer 

specialized classes for the gifted 

exceptionality in favour of other sorts 

of interventions for these students. 

Last year, staff recommended fewer 

specialized classes for non-gifted 

exceptionalities and it is expected 

that the gifted review to be delivered 

to the board this year will be similar. 

There were actually very few 

bumps in implementing the government’s 

primary class size cap this 

September compared to the size of 

the challenge, although this implementation 

clearly garnered some 

attention. The cap means that no 

primary class (grades 1-3) can have 

over 23 students and no more than 

ten per cent of these grades can have 

over 20 students district-wide. All 

school boards in Ontario are to comply 

with this standard for 2007-08 

and our board will do so. This did 

mean about 25 more schools had 

September reorganizations of one or 

more classes but it all went as 

smoothly as could be reasonably 

expected. 

There is a question as to whether 

the board will ‘green light’ selling 

names of parts of schools for money 

from individuals and corporations. 

My e-newsletter readers have been 

invited to express their views on this. 

I am hopeful that the board will have 

resolved against proceeding with this 

idea by the time this article hits the 

streets. You can stay abreast of board 

issues by visiting the OCDSB web 

site at www.ocdsb.ca and checking 

out our board and committee agenda 

items. We pride ourselves on openness, 

transparency, community 

involvement and access. 

If you have suggestions, concerns 

or views on how we might continue 

to improve student learning at the 

OCDSB, please make sure to drop 

me a line or send me a letter. I can be 

reached at 613-730-8128 or 

rob@ocdsbzone9.ca. Please also 

contact me if you would like to 

receive my Zone e-newsletter. 

Corpus Christi School 

playground to receive blessing 

Watch for the results of the Run for 

the Cure (to support the Canadian 

Breast Cancer Foundation), which took 

place Sun., Sept. 30. Immaculata High 

School had a team of 45 teacher and 

student participants. Congratulations 

to all who took part in or donated to 

this most worthy cause. Working 

together, we can continue to make 

progress toward our shared goal of a 

future without breast cancer. 

Keep watch for the blessing date for the new playground at Corpus Christi 

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Ablett 

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WORLDSOCCER 

ACADEMY 

Third Annual GCNS Frank’n Walk 

SCHOOLS 

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MUTCHMOR SCHOOL 

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SOCCER FOR MOMS 

Starting January 2008 

BY DIANA FEIK AND 

KARRI MUNN-VENN 

On Sat., Oct. 27, the Glebe Cooperative 

Nursery School will hold 

its Third Annual Halloween 

Frank’n Walk. Fifty preschoolers, 

ages 18 months to 5 years, will 

delve into their imaginations, don 

their most exquisite fairy wings, 

their most powerful superhero 

cape, or sweetest, cuddliest little 

duck suit, and go for a big walk 

together through the neighbourhood. 

The walk-a-thon – complete 

with official walkers’ numbers and 

water stations along the course – 

begins at 10 a.m. in front of the 

Glebe Community Centre. JoJo, the 

children’s entertainer, will join us 

to encourage the children and their 

little legs along with his balloon 

creations. And what athletic event 

would be complete without a medal 

ceremony? Ours will be held 

around noon outside the GCC. 

The efforts of our miniature 

marathoners are to raise funds for 

future programming initiatives at 

GCNS. Twenty-five per cent of all 

funds raised will be donated to the 

Queensway Preschool in Hintonburg 

to help support the Headstart program. 

The Queensway Preschool is 

one of 11 Headstart programs in the 

Ottawa area and is the oldest continuous 

running Headstart in this city. 

The Headstart program tries to 

remove or lessen as many barriers to 

success as possible for families facing 

social, economic and language challenges. 

The Queensway Preschool 

strives to create an opportunity for 

each child to achieve cognitive goals 

that will help them enter elementary 


school on par with their peers, while 

at the same time creating an environment 

where learning is fun. The 

school also seeks to provide Headstart 

parents with the resources to 

help themselves and their families. 

GCNS’s very own Sharon Green has 

been involved in the Queensway 

Preschool’s Headstart program for 

many years. 

For more information about the 

Frank’n Walk, or if you wish to 

make a contribution, please contact 

the Glebe Cooperative Nursery 

School at 613-233-9708 or visit us at 

175 Third Avenue, inside the GCC. 

If you would like to learn more about 

the Queensway Preschool or the 

Headstart program, you can contact 

them directly at 613-728-8053. 

Thank you for your support. 

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Here at Loeb Glebe we are committed to providing you the customer 

with the highest quality and freshest products we can find. 

This is why we have gone to a local approach. 

What is meant by local? Local means within 

a Hundred kilometer radius to Ottawa. 

There are many benefits to buying local that impact not only the quality of product but 

that of the environment as well. For one the products don’t have to travel as far to get 

to the store so the peak of freshness is on your plate rather than in the back of a truck. 

Secondly the fuel and carbon emissions that are spent as a result of traveling thousands 

of kilometers in a truck is no longer present when you buy local. And lastly but the 

most important is the fact that you are supporting local businesses to thrive and 

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SCHOOLS Glebe Report October 12, 2007 33 

Mutchmor cross country 2007 

Mutchmor’s cross country team 2007 

BY BLYTHE BEYNON AND 

DAVID PAGUREK VAN MOSSEL 

Hurray! Cross country started 

last Monday in the field at Mutchmor 

Public School. Every morning 

of the week, except for Fridays, we 

get out there and run. Students in 

grade 6 (like us) started at three 

laps around the field, then, as we 

built endurance, we went up to five 

laps a day. We also have a few other 

practices such as training for the 

“last-hundred-metre sprint,” for 

staying at the front of the pack, and 

more. 

Starting on the third day of training 

we went around the corner to Brown’s 

Inlet. This creek, somewhat larger 

after the canal was built, gives us 

something nice to focus on and inspire 

us along our long runs. We would veer 

off the path as it turned into a sidewalk, 

then off the sidewalk as it blended into 

the road. We would then go back on 

the start of the path, and go around and 

around the number of times assigned 

by the one who sets the pace. Usually, 

the grade 5s and 6s would run three 

laps around our home-made course. 

The grade 4s do two laps. 

For the meet last year, we went to 

the Terry Fox Centre at Mooney’s 

Bay. It rained the day before, leaving 

puddles all over the course. We 

are all hoping for great weather this 

year! 

For the grade 5s last year, we 

had to run off the 400-metre track 

and through the trees. Everyone 

was so focused, we splashed 

through puddles up to our ankles 

and didn’t notice the wetness of 

our shoes or that our white socks 

were getting a brownish tint from 

the mud. 

PHOTO: LARRY STONEBRIDGE 

“This guy next to me slipped on 

the wet grass, then slipped down a 

hill and landed in a puddle!” Luka 

Lawford of Mutchmor exclaims. He 

has participated in cross country 

since the first year he was allowed 

to, in grade 3. “Other people would 

sprint at the beginning, then be out 

of breath for the rest of the way.” 

The course led us up a hill, and 

down again. To keep our hopes up, 

they put up a friendly sign with The 

Little Engine That Could on it, saying, 

“You can do it! You can do it!” 

After the hill, we went through a 

field behind the track, then onto the 

track itself. We raced down the last 

200 metres, to have our friends greet 

us at the finish line before we 

dunked our sweaty heads in the 

bathroom sink. 

Overall, everyone we talked to 

said the experiences in the past have 

been great, and we’re definitely 

looking forward to our upcoming 

meet. We’ve enjoyed sharing some 

of the great news about cross country 

here at Mutchmor! 

A big thank-you to the fabulous 

Mutchmor parent volunteers who 

have come out in support of the 

team practices at Brown’s Inlet and 

to assistant coach Ian Austen. A very 

special thanks to our Mutchmor’s 

cross country school coaches, Mrs. 

Pamela Paciocco and Mr. Sean 

Aston, for their time and dedication 

to the team. 

Worms, Terry Fox, hot air and more at First Avenue 

Grade 6 students discover elements of flight while making hot air balloons 

in science class. 

BY LYNN MAINLAND 

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, 

“I think we consider too much the 

good luck of the early bird and not 

enough the bad luck of the early 

worm.” But some worms are very 

lucky indeed, particularly those in 

Deena Shankman’s grade 3 class, 

who apparently get a steady diet of 

egg shells and other goodies. They 

are the star players in a vermicomposting 

experiment, happily turning 

lunchtime leftovers into lush fertilizer, 

without any of the unpleasant 

odours that accompany regular composting. 

The worms, which can eat 

more than their own body weight in 

leftover food everyday, make quick 

work of the kids’ apple cores and 

bread crusts. And the kids learn how 

to participate in nature’s cycle, and 

cut down on garbage going into burgeoning 

landfills. 

Another opportunity for the kids 

to make a difference this month was 

the Terry Fox National School Run 

day, which took place on Sept. 28. 

As they ran, jogged or walked their 

way around Patterson Creek, they 

knew that thousands of other school 

kids all across Canada were similarly 

marking the incredible achievements 

of one man. While learning a powerful 

lesson about what can be 

achieved with courage and determination, 

they also raised money to 

support cancer research. Asked what 

her inspiration was for running many 

laps, one grade 3 student said, “Terry 

Fox was brave and he didn’t want to 

fail, and that made us want to run further 

even when it was hurting.” 

While September wrapped up 

with a charity run, Oct. 1 kicks off 

First Avenue’s third annual charity 

read-a-thon. Last year’s event raised 

PHOTO: SUSAN DUBOIS 

$7,000 for a twin school in Africa, 

the Kagoua School in Mali. The 

money was used to buy school supplies, 

sports and school equipment, 

as well as hiring more teachers: 

while Ontario is trying to reduce 

class size to fewer than 23 children, 

the pupil-teacher ratio in Kagoua 

was a mind-boggling 67:1! More 

broadly, the money is also used to 

promote literacy and numeracy, provide 

basic health care and food for 

children unable to attend school 

because of illness or malnutrition, 

and to encourage girls to attend 

school instead of working as servants 

to help support their families. 

The read-a-thon is the first of three 

fundraising events this school year. 

It has often been said that when it 

comes to changing the world, the 

pen is mightier than the sword. The 

33 students who have signed up for 

the journalism club will get a chance 

to sharpen their skills and wield 

them to keep the First Ave community 

in the know. A contest will be 

held to find a name for the newspaper, 

and Dalya Goldberger is working 

with her band of scribes to determine 

what will go into it. Other students 

looking to get a head start on a 

Pulitzer Prize may want to sign up 

for the club, which will be meeting 

every Thursday after school. 

Finally, Susan Dubois’s grade 6 

class has found a use for hot air – 

balloons! With political rhetoric 

taking flight as we experience an 

Ontario – and perhaps federal – 

election, this is arguably a very 

timely project! 

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What makes Glashan Public School, Glashan? 

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Stephanie Cartwright 

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563-1155 office 

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Celebrating the first week at Glashan 

BY MARTA CALITOIU 

All schools have their advantages 

and disadvantages. In the three 

weeks that I have been at Glashan, 

the discovery of the special things 

that make this school unique has just 

begun. Every day I go to school, new 

positive aspects fuel my excitement. 

So far, it looks like I have two years 

of advantages ahead. 

One of the major advantages is 

that Glashan specializes only in 

grades 7 and 8. Having such a narrow 

age group, we are all more or 

less at the same level of maturity and 

face the same issues of growing up. 

It comforts me to be around the kids 

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Expereince in every type of Market. 

The Resale Housing Experts 

like me. Moreover, the teachers are 

qualified, knowing very well the 

aches and pains of grades 7 and 8, 

and help us deal with them by trying 

to engage us in academics, arts, athletics 

and many extra curricular 

activities. 

Another benefit of being at 

Glashan is the multi-cultural diversity. 

Glashan has children from many 

different countries and places of the 

world. There are children from 

Romania, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, 

China, and many other countries. 

Having a friend from a different culture 

has taught me many things. It 

has taught me about food, the people, 

the clothing and the culture. 

Glashan has a renowned music 

program. Ms. Bianchini, our music 

teacher, has been running the music 

program for many years. Children 

can either rent or borrow a school 

instrument of their choice. The students 

who feel comfortable with 

playing an instrument can join the 

Glashan band. 

I would like to add two examples 

of how Glashan intends to create a 

New kid at Glashan 

BY NOAHM ELLIS 

Coming to a new school can be 

both exciting and challenging – like 

on the first day of school, when 

everything seemed unfamiliar as I 

walked into the school yard. The 

kids were different and the yard was 

new to me. It was paved and had a 

volleyball net. All the kids seemed to 

be older yet I still couldn’t know if 

they were in my grade or not. 

Glashan is a one-of-a-kind school. 

It has a big multicultural variety of 

people. Meeting new people can 

sometimes mean making new friends 

or maybe new rivals and can be both 

exciting and challenging. 

Coming to a new school usually 

means different transportation. This 

time, I take the city bus, not the common 

yellow school bus or my bike. 

This makes me feel more independent 

and responsible for my life. Another 

thing that makes me feel more mature 

and independent is having the privilege 

and trust of going off school 

property for my lunch break. 

team-building bond between the students. 

The first example is the barbeque, 

which took place at the beginning of 

the school year. There, the parents 

got to know the teachers, the principal, 

and most of all the school itself. 

It was a great experience because 

most of the parents didn’t know the 

teachers or the school. They saw the 

science labs, the D & T (design and 

technology) shop, and all of the 

other classes. Many children had the 

joy of showing their recently organized 

lockers. 

The second example is the orientation 

week to start the year off. Students 

were given tips and workshops 

on how to be organized, how to be 

respectful to their peers and how to 

build relationships with others in the 

school. Each morning was dedicated 

to a different theme while the afternoon 

focused on academic subjects. 

It was a great way to get introduced 

to Glashan and to the school’s expectations 

for the year. 

Marta Calitoiu is in grade 7 at 

Glashan School. 

Being in a new school doesn’t 

mean only fun and games. You 

meet new teachers, which means 

new teaching styles. Most are 

being consistent about doing and 

bringing your homework in on 

time, as well as expecting you to 

work independently. But on the 

bright side, you don’t have one 

teacher for all subjects; you have a 

different teacher for most classes. 

Another thing I found interesting 

was that we have wood shop classes. 

This allows us to express our 

feelings in a positive and physical 

way that I enjoy. 

I enjoy coming to a new school, 

meeting new people, learning new 

subjects, and having more choices. If 

you would like to know more about 

Glashan and you are a student in 

middle school, I suggest that you just 

simply ask someone who goes to the 

school! 

Noahm Ellis is a grade 7 student 

at Glashan School. 

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BOOKS Glebe Report October 12, 2007 37 

A hearty harvest soup 

By 

Sharon 

Abron 

Drache 

Cobalt Blue 

By Mary Borsky 

Thomas Allen Publishers, 

209 pages, $24.95 (paper) 

Reading Mary Borsky’s nine stories 

calls to mind peeling and chopping 

onions for a hearty harvest 

soup. Stripping away the skins and 

chopping the onions into bits, you 

have to turn away or you’ll cry. You 

retreat by closing your eyes to protect 

them from the intense aromatic 

awakening. Gradually, regaining 

your composure, you continue with 

your task. Ah, that’s better, you 

wince reassuringly. 

I could not read more than one 

Borsky story at a sitting. Too much 

to think about. Borsky’s fiction has 

to settle before you can absorb its 

highly personal, yet universal message. 

Borsky writes about unconditional 

love between parents and children 

and the demands of love in romantic 

relationships. Never neutral, Borsky 

portrays love as a complex emotion 

based on highly idiosyncratic experiences 

gleaned from early childhood 

and adolescence. The resulting 

imprint on the human psyche is a 

touchstone whose key characteristic 

is survival. 

And it is usually the survival of 

middle-aged and older Prairie 

women, whose prime years were 

before or on the cusp of feminism. 

Sadly, most of these women never 

reaped true equality with men in 

their vocational pursuits. Born 

between the 20th century’s two 

world wars, and raised during the 

Depression of the early 1930s, these 

women, who raised their own children 

in the 1940s and 1950s, conformed 

dutifully to the popular television 

image of the l950s post-war 

stay-at-home wife and mother. 

Framed by the first and last fictions, 

“The Ukrainian Shirt” and 

“Parcel for the Ukraine,” there’s a 

distinct ethnic grounding to this col- 

lection. While both stories are set in 

the small town of Salt Prairie in 

northern Alberta, they are told by the 

same female protagonist some 20 

years apart. In the first story, a young 

woman returns home with her 

anthropologist husband. “Norman 

had never met my family all at once 

and on their own territory before. He 

was from New Zealand, and had 

only recently arrived in Canada to 

study anthropology at UBC and to 

embark on his life as a world adventurer.” 

“Norman’s moving into my apartment 

in Vancouver, where I had a job 

teaching school, had been mostly his 

idea, our subsequent marriage mostly 

mine.” That’s a typical Borsky 

whammy – the kind that jars the 

reader and stirs up memories regarding 

his or her own marital commitments. 

Mary Borsky 

For the entire Salt Prairie visit, 

Norman reads his book, Headhunters 

of Central Borneo, while the 

unnamed narrator’s family, her 

brother Amel and his wife Bonnie, 

Uncle Walter and Mother, all busy 

themselves with household tasks. 

The women prepare meals and the 

men, except for Norman who is 

totally immersed in his reading, are 

clearing clogged eavestroughs. In 

the narrator’s mind, the domestic 

cauldron boils as she suspects that 

Norman is continuously observing 

the habits of her family, which for 

him are not only quaint and immigrant, 

but totally predictable. Sensing 

her husband’s judgment of her 

family’s lifestyle, the narrator views 

his current study of anthropological 

alternatives as “insubstantial and 

cobwebby.” 

“I didn’t think I could bear to 

examine Norman’s dreams just then, 

not in the unforgiving fluorescent 

light of my mother’s kitchen.” 

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In the final story the same narrator, 

(no longer married and now the 

single mother of a 14-year old 

daughter) returns to Salt Prairie from 

Montreal. As she walks home from 

the highway bus stop at the Kentucky 

Fried Chicken outlet, she wonders 

why she “panicked at the frail, 

disconnected sound of her mother’s 

voice on the phone.” 

Her entire visit revolves around 

the preparation of a parcel to send to 

a cousin’s son in the Ukraine. The 

parcel’s contents cost less than the 

postage, yet the narrator’s mother 

will not think of sending money. The 

daughter spends her days doing 

things exactly as her mother wishes, 

fetching a cardboard box that is the 

appropriate size from the Super-A 

store, fussing with her mother over 

the packing of the requested parcel. 

But she also decides to cut short her 

visit when she realises that what she 

really came to Salt Prairie for was 

“to check on my mother. My mother, 

who is obviously fine. My mother 

who, from what I can make out, is in 

top form.” 

Borsky’s remaining seven stories 

are about the choices we make following 

our formative years and how 

they mark us. “Cobalt Blue,” the title 

story, is about a woman striving to 

achieve a comfort level with the 

demand for independence that her 

vocation as a visual artist requires. 

The story ends with her desperate 

cry, “I am myself. I am myself.” But 

leading to this conclusion is a story 

of betrayal by the artist’s lover, as if 

the woman’s steadfast devotion to 

her artistic ambitions were not 

enough, as if she were in need of 

some sort of justification for her declaration 

of moving on alone, without 

a man. 

The cover of the book is enchanting 

– a dusty powder blue pair of 

women’s pumps. Why not cobalt 

blue, I wondered, as I closed the 

book. And then, I realised that the 

soft blue was so much more indicative 

of the nature of Borsky’s fiction, 

the hazy complexity of female survivors 

and their uphill climb as they 

endeavour to discover their own self 

clarity of a true and brilliant “Cobalt 

Blue.” 

Mary Borsky has published a previous 

short story collection, Influence 

of the Moon, and the Benny 

Bensky children’s books. She lives 

and works as a full-time writer in 

Ottawa. This fall she will teach creative 

writing at The Collected Works 

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Wanted! 

Authors and book lovers for 

5th annual Ottawa authors book fair 

The Ottawa Authors Book Fair, which will feature a number of 

Ottawa South and Glebe authors, takes place at a new location this year – 

Clark Hall at the RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr. 

“It’s a great spot for this year’s fair because it is easy to get to and offers 

plenty of free parking,” says George Laidlaw of Carp, president of Ottawa 

Independent Writers, one of the organizers of the event. 

The book fair, which offers authors an opportunity to display their books 

for two days before a large audience, takes place on Sat., Nov. 10 and Sun., 

Nov. 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. 

“The book fair is the ideal opportunity for established authors and up and 

coming authors to introduce the public to their books,” says Randy Ray, 

author of eight books about Canada. “It also gives the public the chance to 

meet authors and discuss the business of writing and publishing books.” 

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contact George Laidlaw at 613 831-2505 or laidlaw@iosphere.net. 

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Octopus Books presents 

Naomi Klein 

Naomi Klein 

BY JACKIE WALLACE 

Naomi Klein takes the image of 

weak patients, seized and strapped to 

gurneys as part of CIA-funded electroshock 

experiments of the 1950s, 

through the latter half of the 20th century 

and around the world as a 

metaphor in her new book The Shock 

Doctrine. Klein compares this concept 

of control to the predatory power 

of governments and corporations that 

use the public’s collective shock following 

a disaster to reform and engineer 

economic and social policy. 

PHOTO: DEBRA FRIEDMAN 

BOOKS 

By propping examples of coups, 

massacres, wars and natural disasters 

in Russia, Chile, China, Iraq 

and the United States against 

famed economist Milton Friedman’s 

idea that only a crisis – actual 

or perceived – produces real 

change, Klein attempts to debunk 

the myth that the global free market 

is a triumph of democracy. She 

claims that the public’s temporary 

disorientation in the face of violence 

or disaster creates a window 

of opportunity for otherwise 

unpopular policies to be passed, 

which go on to shape the direction 

of the global economy. 

As a journalist, author, filmmaker 

and activist, Klein is an important 

voice on issues of globalization, war 

and labour. Octopus Books is proud 

to bring Klein to Ottawa to discuss 

her new book at the Bronson Centre 

(211 Bronson Avenue) on Nov. 12 at 

7 p.m. The event will open with a 

screening of the short film based on 

the book, created by Naomi Klein 

and Alfonso Cuarón (Children of 

Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry 

Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), 

directed by Jonás Cuarón. Tickets 

are $5 in advance and available at 

Octopus Books. 

Calling all emerging Glebe poets 

over 18 

Glebe Report Poetry Contest 

Theme: “Life in the Glebe” 

Deadline: Dec. 14, 2007 

How to enter 

Guidelines 

•The contest is open to all Glebe residents 18 and older who have 

never been published. 

•All entries must be original and the poet must not be published in any 

form. 

•Poems must be in English and may be in any style. 

•Poems should not exceed 25 lines or 250 words 

•One entry per person. 

•Do give your poem a title, but not “Life in the Glebe” please 

•Entries should be typed on 8.5” x 11” white paper. The entrant's name 

must not appear on the manuscript. 

•Please include a separate sheet with your name, address, phone 

number, e-mail address (if applicable), word or line count and title. 

•The final deadline for entries is Fri., Dec. 14, 2007. 

•The Glebe Report accepts no responsibility for lost, delayed or 

incomplete entries. 

Prizes 

•Prizes will be announced in the Nov. 9, 2007 issue. 

•A shortlist will be published in the Jan. 18 issue of the Glebe Report. 

•Each of our three judges (Judy Peacocke, David Rampton and JC 

Sulzenko) will select the best quality poem that addresses the theme 

“Life in the Glebe.” Winners will be notified by phone or e-mail by 

Feb. 1, 2008. The selected entries will be included in the “Winners 

Triangle” published in the Feb. 15 issue. In event of a tie, a coin toss 

will determine which of the two judges voting for the same poem can 

select another one 

By e-mail 

Send your entry as text (.txt), formatted text (.rtf), Word (.doc) or Pages 

(.pages) attachment to: glebe.report@mac.com with the subject line 

“Poetry Contest Entry”. 

Regular mail or drop off 

Send or drop off three copies of your entry to: Glebe Report, 175 Third 

Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2K2. Poems must be typewritten on 

8.5”x11” white paper. Entries will not be returned.

RELIGION Glebe Report October 12, 2007 39 

GLEBE CHURCHES 

CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic) 

Fourth Avenue at Percy Street, 613-232-4891 

www.blessedsacrament.ca 

Pastor: 

Masses: 

Father Joe Le Clair 

Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. 

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 9:30 a.m. 

Saturdays, 4:30 p.m. 

Sundays, 8:15 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 8 p.m. 

(elevator access for the handicapped, loop system for the 

hearing impaired) 

ECCLESIAX 

2 Monk Street, 613-565-4343 

www.ecclesiax.com 

Dream Specialist: Rev. Joseph Moreau 

Sundays: 

11:07 a.m.,* 

Art & worship service, followed 

by community meal – all welcome. 

View community art gallery by appointment. 

*NOTE: Sunday service time of 11:07 a.m. is the right time! 

FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH 

Fourth Avenue at Bank Street, 613-236-1804 

www.fourthavenuebaptist.ca 

Minister: Rev. Neil Hunter (interim) 

Services: Sundays, 11 a.m. 

Junior church and nursery available 

(parent/tot room available at the back of the church) 

Is there hope amidst the chaos? 

There are huge issues in the world 

today: extremism, universal human 

rights, the gap between the rich and 

the poor, global warming and even 

the wholesale destruction of the 

planet. It seems that the issues can be 

so overwhelming that we want to ask 

the question, “Is there hope amidst 

this chaos?” 

Bill Phipps, a former moderator of 

the United Church of Canada, thinks 

there is hope. And the hope lies in our 

society becoming conscious and 

aware that these problems are NOT 

inevitable. We don’t have to buy into 

the “governing story” that has shaped 

and defined Western culture and society. 

A new story is possible. And Bill 

Phipps, in his new book, Cause for 

Hope, has taken on the task. He has 

written a book that, in the words of 

Roy Romanow, former premier of 

Saskatchewan, “is an inspirational 

vision for social progress.” This 

provocative book from one of the 

most provocative leaders in the 

church is part warning cry, part 

visionary exploration, part encouragement 

for the journey, as he shows 

us the spiritual nature of the issues 

and the choices that confront us. 

Bill Phipps will be speaking about 

his vision for change at a conference 

entitled “Making Peace in a World 

that Raises Hell,” presented by the 

Ottawa Presbytery of the United 

Church of Canada. This conference 

will be held at City View United 

Church on Fri. and Sat., Oct. 19 and 

20. 

Also presenting at the conference 

is well-known writer and activist, 

Carolyn Pogue, who will be giving a 

workshop on her new book, A World 

of Faith: Introducing Spiritual Traditions 

to Teens. Carolyn Pogue, who 

always has something thought-provoking 

to say about current issues, is 

well-known to readers of the United 

Church Observer. 

At the conference, both Bill 

Phipps and Carolyn Pogue will be 

speaking at the Friday evening plenary 

session, and presenting workshops 

on their new books on Saturday. 

Information about the conference, 

which is open to all, can be found at 

the Ottawa Presbytery website 

www.uccanottawa.org, or by calling 

Janet Nield at Glebe-St. James United 

Church: 613-236-0617. 

GERMAN MARTIN LUTHER CHURCH 

499 Preston Street at Carling Avenue, 613-233-1671 

Pastor: Christoph Ernst 

Service: Sundays, 10 a.m. 

(first Sunday of month, 11:15 a.m., English service) 

Sunday school: 10 a.m. 

GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH 

650 Lyon Street at First Avenue, 613-236-0617 

www.glebestjames.ca 

Minister: Dr. Christine Johnson 

Music Director: Robert Palmai 

Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m. 

Sunday school: 10:30 a.m. 

(wheelchair accessible, FM system for the hearing impaired) 

OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH 

600 Bank Street, 613-594-4571 

www.ottawa-ocuc.org 

Minister: Rev. Wilson Chan (cell: 613-889-0838) 

Fridays: 

Sundays: 

Prayer meeting at church, 8 p.m. 

Worship, 11 a.m. (English with Mandarin 

translation) 

Sunday school: 9:30 a.m., (for all ages) 

THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (Quaker) 

91A Fourth Avenue, 613-232-9923 

Co-clerks: Steve Fick & Signy Fridriksson, 613-233-8438 

ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 

Reflect, Focus Delight 

Make church a part of your life. 

Bank Street at First Avenue, 613-235-2551 

www.stgilesottawa.org 

Minister: Rev. Ruth Houtby 

Worship: Sundays, 11:00 a.m. 

Church school & nursery: Sundays, 11:00 a.m. 

(wheelchair accessible) 

ST. MATTHEW’S, THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN THE GLEBE 

130 Glebe Avenue near Bank Street, 613-234-4024 

(office/weekday access 217 First Avenue) 

www.stmatthewsottawa.on.ca 

Rector: The Rev. Canon Pat Johnston 

Weekly service: Wednesdays, 7:15 a.m., Eucharist & fellowship 

Thursdays, 10 a.m., Eucharist & coffee 

Thursdays, 10 a.m., drop-in nannies/stay-athome 

parents group 

Sundays: 8 a.m., Eucharist 

10 a.m., Choral Eucharist 

4 p.m., Choral Evensong, Oct. 21, Nov. 4 

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Glebe-St. James sanctuary renewal 

Renovated sanctuary 

BY TOM TANNER 

A bright, flexible worship space 

has emerged from two summers’ 

construction at Glebe-St. James 

United Church. The skylight has 

been re-opened, lighting upgraded, 

and century-old wiring replaced. A 

broad chancel area, with direct 

access to the choir loft, now provides 

excellent sight-lines and ample 

space for dramatic and musical productions. 

A third summer of work 

will be necessary to renew the floor 

and seating, but all the fundamental 

changes have been completed. 

Worship styles have changed 

since 1905 when Glebe Presbyterian 

Church began worshipping in the 

grey stone building at First and 

Lyon. The renewed chancel allows a 

variety of liturgical expressions and 

is more adaptable for secular events 

as well. Musical groups and choirs, 

who have always appreciated the 

warm acoustics of the sanctuary, will 

find the new space and improved 

lighting enhances their performance. 

PHOTO: BRAD MUNRO 

RELIGION 

J.W.H. Watts, a prominent Ottawa 

architect, designed the Glebe-St. 

James building more than 100 years 

ago. Watts was the first curator of the 

National Gallery of Canada and the 

architect of several notable city mansions. 

He also designed the original 

St. Matthew’s Church on First Avenue 

– torn down in 1930 when the present 

stone structure was completed. For 

Glebe Presbyterian Church, Watts created 

a unique sanctuary with soaring 

arches, large windows and warm 

wood. It featured a large central pulpit 

and a raised choir loft reached by a 

narrow stairway hidden at the back. 

This arrangement emphasized the 

ministry of the word and cut off the 

choir loft from the main body of the 

church. In addition, the woodwork in 

the sanctuary, originally a natural hue, 

had been stained brown in the 1930s 

and during one of the energy crises of 

the 1970s, the skylight had been covered 

with insulation. Stained glass 

windows, masterpieces of colour and 

meaning, also cut the light in the sanctuary. 

A brighter, more contemporary 

and flexible space was needed for the 

21st century. 

Julian Smith, one of Canada’s 

foremost restoration architects, 

agreed to take on the challenge of 

restoring and renewing the sanctuary. 

Already familiar with other 

buildings conceived by J.W.H. 

Watts, Julian had an appreciation for 

the vision which guided the original 

design. In addition, Julian had been 

involved in the restoration of Notre 

Dame Basilica, Christ Church 

Cathedral and Dominion Chalmers 

United Church. He also recently 

completed the renewal of the Canadian 

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Glebe-St. James sanctuary renewal 

Renovated sanctuary 

BY TOM TANNER 

A bright, flexible worship space 

has emerged from two summers’ 

construction at Glebe-St. James 

United Church. The skylight has 

been re-opened, lighting upgraded, 

and century-old wiring replaced. A 

broad chancel area, with direct 

access to the choir loft, now provides 

excellent sight-lines and ample 

space for dramatic and musical productions. 

A third summer of work 

will be necessary to renew the floor 

and seating, but all the fundamental 

changes have been completed. 

Worship styles have changed 

since 1905 when Glebe Presbyterian 

Church began worshipping in the 

grey stone building at First and 

Lyon. The renewed chancel allows a 

variety of liturgical expressions and 

is more adaptable for secular events 

as well. Musical groups and choirs, 

who have always appreciated the 

warm acoustics of the sanctuary, will 

find the new space and improved 

lighting enhances their performance. 

PHOTO: BRAD MUNRO 

RELIGION 

J.W.H. Watts, a prominent Ottawa 

architect, designed the Glebe-St. 

James building more than 100 years 

ago. Watts was the first curator of the 

National Gallery of Canada and the 

architect of several notable city mansions. 

He also designed the original 

St. Matthew’s Church on First Avenue 

– torn down in 1930 when the present 

stone structure was completed. For 

Glebe Presbyterian Church, Watts created 

a unique sanctuary with soaring 

arches, large windows and warm 

wood. It featured a large central pulpit 

and a raised choir loft reached by a 

narrow stairway hidden at the back. 

This arrangement emphasized the 

ministry of the word and cut off the 

choir loft from the main body of the 

church. In addition, the woodwork in 

the sanctuary, originally a natural hue, 

had been stained brown in the 1930s 

and during one of the energy crises of 

the 1970s, the skylight had been covered 

with insulation. Stained glass 

windows, masterpieces of colour and 

meaning, also cut the light in the sanctuary. 

A brighter, more contemporary 

and flexible space was needed for the 

21st century. 

Julian Smith, one of Canada’s 

foremost restoration architects, 

agreed to take on the challenge of 

restoring and renewing the sanctuary. 

Already familiar with other 

buildings conceived by J.W.H. 

Watts, Julian had an appreciation for 

the vision which guided the original 

design. In addition, Julian had been 

involved in the restoration of Notre 

Dame Basilica, Christ Church 

Cathedral and Dominion Chalmers 

United Church. He also recently 

completed the renewal of the Canadian 

Memorial at Vimy Ridge. 

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GRAPEVINE 

Events at Sunnyside Library 

For Children 

Babytime 

For babies and their parent or caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs 

and games. Ages 0-18 months. Weekly. 

Tuesdays, 2:15 p.m. (30 mins.), Oct. 16, Oct. 23, Nov. 6 - Dec. 11 

Toddlertime 

For toddlers and a parent or caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs 

and games. Ages 18-35 months.Weekly. 

Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 mins.), Oct. 16, Oct. 23, Nov. 6 - Dec. 11 or 

Thursdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 mins.) Oct. 18, Oct. 25, Nov. 8 - Dec. 13 

Storytime 

Stories and rhymes for young children – parents and caregivers 

are welcome to join. Ages 3-6 years. Weekly. 

Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m. (30 mins.), Oct. 17, Oct. 24, Nov. 7 - Dec. 12 

Mother Daughter Book Group 

A place for girls and the special women in their lives to share 

excellent books. Ages 10-12 years. Monthly. 

Mondays, 7 p.m. (1 hr.), Oct. 22, Nov. 19 

Ooooooh! 

Spooky stories and a craft to celebrate Halloween. Ages 5-9 years. 

Pre-registration required. 

Sat., Oct. 27, 2:15 p.m. 

Let's hibernate! 

Winter is on its way. Cuddle up for some stories and a craft. 

Ages 5-9 years. Pre-registration required. 

Sat., Nov. 24, 2:15 p.m. 

For Teens 

girlzone 

For fun with a variety of themes, come join our monthly book chat 

group for girls in grades 7 and 8 at the Sunnyside Library. 

Registration required. 

Fri., Oct.19 and Fri., Nov. 16, 12:05 p.m. (45 mins.) 

For Adults 

15 minute computer tutorials 

Having problems with the library catalogue? Accessing the Web? 

E-mail issues? Register for your own 15 minute computer tutorial. 

Introduction to Web-based E-mail 

Participants register for their own Web-based e-mail account and 

practice sending messages and creating folders. Students must be able 

to use a mouse, and open and close programs in order to take this 

workshop. Registration required. Limit of 12 participants. 

Friday, Nov. 2, 10:30 (1.5 hrs.) 

Flu, colds and homeopathic medicine 

Tailoring a treatment to your unique defense mechanism helps you 

heal and prevents relapses. Join us for a free lecture with Julek 

Meissner ND. With over 20 years experience in holistic health care, 

Meissner has a wealth of insights into the fascinating world of natural 

healing. Visit his website at www.homeopathyrocks.com. 

Registration required. 

Wed., Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. (1 hr.) 

Sunnyside Book Club 

Drop by, meet new people and join in stimulating discussions on 

selected titles in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Monthly. 

Fri., Oct. 26, 2 p.m. (1 hr.) – Zorro by Isabel Allende 

Fri., Nov. 30, 2 p.m. (1 hr.) – Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee 

For a complete list of Library events, 

visit www.BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca. 

Community Connections 

ALGONQUIN COLLEGE’S 40th 

ANNIVERSARY HOMECOM- 

ING WEEKEND will take place 

Nov. 2 and 3 on the College’s 

Woodroffe Campus. Info: 

www.algonquincollege.com/40. 

ANGELS WITH BACKPACKS 

The Outreach Committee of St. 

Matthew's Anglican Church is looking 

for individuals and groups willing 

to help with this project for 

homeless youths in downtown 

Ottawa. Info: 613-234-4024. 

DIDI BAHINI SALE of fairly traded 

high quality Nepalese handicrafts. 

Sat., Oct. 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at St. 

Matthew's Anglican Church, 217 

First Avenue in the Glebe. 

EVENING OF BELLY DANC- 

ING, Glebe Community Centre, 

Sat., Oct. 20 to benefit four charities: 

Kids Help Phone, Harmony House, 

Distress Centre and Bereaved Families. 

Cost: $25 general admission, 

includes buffet dinner afterward. 

Info: 613-231-4040. 

FALL RUMMAGE SALE Glebe-St. 

James United Church, 650 Lyon St. 

South, Sat., Oct. 20, 9 a.m. to noon. 

FIND YOUR VOICE. The Parliament 

Hill Toastmasters club meets 

every Thurs. night from 7-9 p.m., at 

340 Laurier Ave. W. Info: parliamenthilltoastmasters.org 

or call 

613-862-9902. 

FROSTY’ FAIR. Trinity Church, 

1230 Bank St., Nov. 3., 9:30 a.m.- 

2:00 p.m. Info: 613-733-7536. 

HARVEST HOME DINNER. St. 

Giles Church, Bank St. at First Ave., 

Fri., Oct. 26 from 4:30-7 p.m. $15 

adults, $6 children and students. 

Tickets, call 613-235-2551. 

MY KIDS FUNKY CLOSET. 

Children’s consignment sale, Glebe 

Community Center, Sun., Oct. 21, 

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Info: www.mykids 

funkycloset.com. 

OTTAWA AUTHORS BOOK 

FAIR 2007 sponsored by Ottawa 

Independent Writers. Sat., Nov. 10 

and Sun., Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

each day, Clark Hall at The RA Centre, 

2451 Riverside Dr. Info: laidlaw@iosphere.net, 

or call 613-831- 

2505. 

OTTAWA VALLEY ROCK GAR- 

DEN SOCIETY presents guest 

speaker Harvey Wrightman from 

Wrightman Alpines in Kerwood, 

Ont., on Dry Land Rock Garden 

Plants, Sat, Oct. 13, 1:30 p.m. in 

room T117, Algonquin College, 

Woodroffe Avenue. $5 fee. 

Info: www.ovrghs.ca www.ovrghs.ca 

PRESENTATION ON WEST 

AFRICA. St. Giles Church, Bank 

St. at First Ave. Our minister Rev. 

Ruth Houtby will give a presentation 

with pictures on her recent visit to 

Ghana and Liberia. Wed., Oct. 17, 

7:30 p.m. Info: 613-235-2551. 

REACHING OUT TO ISOLAT- 

ED SENIORS We are looking for 

volunteers. Info: 613-562-6381. 

RUMMAGE AND BAKE SALE. 

Fourth Avenue Baptist Church (corner 

of Fourth & Bank), Sat., Oct. 20, 

9 a.m.-noon. 

SCIENCE FUNFEST in celebration 

of National Science and Technology 

Week, Oct. 14, 11 a.m.-4 

p.m., Natural Resources Canada's 

Booth Street Complex (at Carling 

Avenue). Info: www.nrcan.gc.ca/ 

nstw-snst 

SISTER BAZAAR, 205 Florence 

(near Percy St) on Sat., Oct 13, 2-6 

p.m. Info: http://ca.geocities.com/ 

sisterbazaar/ 

TAKING THE HEAT African 

farmers coping with climate change. 

An evening of dialogue with guests 

from Mali, Kenya and Malawi. 

Bronson Center, Tues., Dec. 4, 7 

p.m. Info: 613-234-6827 ext. 223 or 

fahmed@usc-canada.org. 

WISHMAKER PARADE. Walk 

For Wishes, Sat., Oct. 13. Info: Lynn 

at 613-841-0004. 

YULETIDE BAZAAR. St. Aidan's 

Anglican Church. Sat., Nov. 3, 10 

a.m.-2 p.m., 955 Wingate Dr. (parking 

on Hamlet), Elmvale Acres. Info: 

613-733-0102. 

Art 

THE PURPLE MENACE, new 

works by Jenn Farr. Oct. 15 - Nov. 

18. Vernissage: Tues., Oct. 16, 7-9 p m. 

Irene's Pub, 885 Bank St. Info: 613- 

230-4474 or www.irenespub.ca. 

Music 

CHORAL MUSIC CLASSES 

OPEN HOUSE EVENINGS. 

Dominican University College, 96 

Empress Ave., room 201, Wed., Oct. 

17 and Mon., Oct. 22, 8 p.m. 

Info: 613-567-7729. 

GAELIC SOCIETY OF OTTAWA 

presents a Celtic evening the 4th 

Wed. of each month at 41 Rosemount 

Ave., 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. 

Cost $2. 

HANDEL’S MESSIAH. The combined 

choirs of St. Matthew’s Anglican 

Church in the Glebe will perform 

Handel’s Messiah on Sun.,Nov. 

18 and Mon., Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m. 

Tickets $15 - $30. Available through 

the church office, 217 First Ave., and 

Compact Music stores. 

Info: 613-234-4024. 

Available 

SINGING LESSONS AND 

CHOIRS with singing teacher 

Maura Volante. Call 613-277-9208 

or email maura@mauravolante.ca. 

Info: www.mauravolante.ca

This space acts as a free community bulletin board for Glebe residents. Drop off 

your GRAPEVINE message or COMMUNITY NOTICE at the Glebe Report office, 

175 Third Avenue, including your name, address and phone number or e-mail 

glebe.grapevine@mac.com. FOR SALE items must be less than $1,000. 

BEST 

GRAPEVINE 

For Sale 

CLARINET, Yamaha, in good condition. 

Nearly new Vandoren mouthpiece, 

valued at $125. $200 for both. 

Call 613-233-5442. 

DUNCAN PHYFE MAHOGANY 

DINING TABLE, 38” x 84” (with 2 

extensions), 38” x 54” (without), 

double pedestals. Seats 8 people 

comfortably. $900. Call 613-787- 

6000. 

LASER PRINTER, Xante AW1200 

Black and White - 256MB. Tabloid 

and Letter size. Used by Glebe 

Report. (Printer toner, approx. 

$400). Large volume. Ideal for small 

publishing co. or office. Panasonic 

fax and copier, KX-FP6381, as is. 

E-mail best offer to: glebe.report@ 

mac.com. 

TUTOR 

High School Math 

and Physics 

Zach 613-796-9230 

References 

DOUG 

CORRIGAN 

613-327-3901 

or 

dougcorrigan@hotmail.com 

FOUR HONDA CIVIC STEEL 

RIMS (4 bolts), $35. each. 

Call 613-233-0568. 

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE 

VIDEOS AND DVD’S. $3 (video), 

$5 (dvd). Call 613-232-2800. 

CHALET RENTAL WANTED 

Family wishes to rent 

comfortable and relatively 

spacious chalet for 

December 23-30/07 period 

(approximate). Eastern 

Townships preferred or 

Laurentians (e.g. Mont Blanc). 

Phone 613-233-3841. 

GET ORGANIZED! 

Are you tired of searching 

through your paper jungle and 

 

looking for? Simplify your 

life. Take control of clutter. 

Call 613-728-2310 

DRUM LESSONS 

by experienced professional 

player and teacher. Current drum 

instructor for Algonquin College 

Music and Audio program. 

Lorne Kelly 

(Metro Music) 

233-9688 or 

725-1119 

Wanted 

BABY SITTER FOR PLANTS. 

Looking for a shelter for two hibiscus 

plants for winter. One is three 

feet tall, the other smaller. My house 

is too small. Would a good soul living 

in a sunny house be willing to 

take them for the cold months? Contact: 

Claire at 613-230-5690 or 

Clairetre@sympatico.ca. 

NANNY SHARING with a family 

with a toddler or older, Mon. - Fri. 

8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Our experienced 

nanny currently cares for our 

14 month old boy. Reference available. 

If interested, please contact 

Alice at 613-249-1282 or in the 

evenings at 613-237- 4418. 

PIANO TEACHER for 2 children, 

8 and 9 years old. At your home until 

January, then option of ours or yours. 

Call Sarah at 613-795-9900. 

CARPENTRY 

RENOVATIONS/ 

REPAIRS 

Peter D. Clarey 

819-422-3714 

Spray Texture Ceilings 

Redone, Repair or 

Brand New 

Plaster Moulding Repairs 

613-327-3901 

REGISTERED NURSE to care for 

our special needs daughter at home 

on occasional weekends and 

evenings. Our 11-year-old daughter 

has a trach and is ventilated for most 

of the day. However she is quite 

active and very social. Care would 

include suctioning, administering 

gtube feedings and meds as well as 

personal care such as toileting. Ideal 

candidates should enjoy participating 

in ‘play therapy’ and activities 

that help in Sydney’s overall development. 

Training would be provided. 

Nursing students and RPN’s are 

welcomed to apply. Please call Ruth 

at 613-237-3965. 

WOODEN ALTO RECORDER 

with good tone for ensemble playing. 

Call Lynne at 613-235-1702 or 

e-mail at lygreen@sympatico.ca. 

THE MOPPETS 

Housecleaning Service 

• bonded and insured 

• environmental focus 

• many Glebe connections 

Free estimates: 613-834-1531 


Poetry Contest 

See page 38 

for details 

Rent 

A 

Wife Household Organizers 

“Every working woman needs a wife!” 

Regular & Occasional cleaning 

Pre & Post move cleaning and packing 

Pre & Post renovation cleaning 

Blitz & Spring cleaning 

Organizing cupboards, basements... 

Perhaps a waitress ??? 

rent-a-wife-ottawa.com 

Laurel 749-2249 

HOME RENOS AND 

REPAIR - interior/exterior 

painting; all types of flooring; 

drywall repair and installation; 

plumbing repairs and 

much more. 

Please call Jamie Nininger 

@ 613-852-8511. 

THE GLEBE COMMUNITY CENTRE 

MONDAY - FRIDAY 

11:30 TIL 3:00 

TRY BEFORE YOU BUY 

Thinking of moving to Costa Rica? Always wanted to run a coffee farm? 

Consider trying the lifestyle before you commit to buying. A Canadian 

owned and operated farm is available to rent in southern Costa Rica, near 

San Isidro del General. At our altitude of 850 m, the climate is moderate, 

and we grow several crops of vegetables a year, as well as plentiful fruit. 

Coffee growing is labour intensive at picking time in November, but maintenance 

is easy during the rest of the year. The farm is certified organic and 

fair trade, and is part of a local collective of family-owned organic farms. 

The house is open-concept and well equipped. 

FOR MORE INFO email frankjthompson@yahoo.ca or phone in Ottawa 

613 730 4751. 

CATHERINE ST. 

MINI STORAGE 

SECURE CLIMATE CONTROLLED SELF STORAGE 

MONTHLY RATES *** 

MAX. SECURITY *** 

HEATED & AIR-CONDITIONED *** 

399 CATHERINE ST. 613 

BETWEEN BAY AND PERCY 

FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED 

WE SELL 

BOXES 

AND 

PACKING SUPPLIES 

234-6888

JOY OVER THE GLEBE BY BHAT BOY 

October 12, 2007 

GNAG, Committed to the Community 

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group 


175 Third Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2K2 

tel: (613) 564-1058 or (613) 233-8713 

e-mail: info@gnag.ca website: www.gnag.ca 

A Christmas Carol 

the musical 

book & lyrics by Sheldon Harnick music by Michel LeGrand 

director Eleanor Crowder 

music director Rachel Eugster 

Great Glebe Pumpkin Patch 

& 

Halloween Party 

Charles Dickens’ beloved classic is as much a part of Christmas as the pudding! 

Ebenezer Scrooge humbugs goodwill until the ghosts conjured by his partner Jacob 

Marley show him the spirit of Christmas. Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family, Fezziwig’s 

office party and Cousin Fred’s dinner guests help to effect the transformation. 

Tickets: $18.00 in advance & $20.00 at the door 

Show times: Friday, November 30 7:30 p.m. 

Saturday, December 1 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 

Saturday, December 2 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 

Tickets available at the reception desk of the 

Glebe Community Centre or call: 

(613) 564-1058 or (613) 233-8713 

Saturday, October 27 


Fun for all ages! 

4:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 

We are continuing the great tradition of 

Halloween in the Glebe and putting a whole 

new spin on it! You won’t want to miss out, so 

buy your tickets today! ...if you dare! 

Tickets are now available . 

$5.00 per child 

Haunted Hay Ride 

Spooky Haunted 

House 

Madame Zola 

Face Painting 

Pumpkin Gallery 

Tasty Treats 

Monstrous Carnival 

& much much more! 

Glebe Craft / Artisan Fair 

Thinking about gifts for the upcoming holiday season? 

Over 50 artisans will be displaying and selling their 

beautiful work for three days. 

Stop by and shop or simply browse! 

Dates : Friday, November 16 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. 

Saturday, November 17 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 

Sunday, November 18 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

FREE ADMISSION

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