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Page 26 The th OSCAR - OUR 40 YEAR
MAY 2012
By Brenda Lee
OSCA Windsor Park Art Show
Mark your calendars for Sunday, June 17
for the first annual OSCA Windsor Park
Art Show! Our first ever, this event
will be held at Windsor Park, from 10 - 4 and will
feature a community BBQ, live music and over 30
artists and their original creations.
We have our musical line up confirmed and it is an
exciting and eclectic group.
From 11- 12 Spencer Scharf will be playing --
some of you may remember Spencer from the last
Fall Fest. He is a young man with an amazing voice
and stage presence that is definitely at the beginning
of a promising musical career.
Next, from 12-1 we have Social Butterfly,
an acoustic duet from Ottawa. Get a preview
of their sound at http://www.reverbnation.com/
socialbutterfly. A very Joni Mitchell, meet
Fleetwood Mac kind of sound.
From 1-2 we have the Firehall’s own Darcy
Middaugh and Friends. Darcy is well known for the
programs he runs at the Firehall, but he has another
side. His music is always a hit with young and old
alike and we are thrilled that he has agreed to join
us.
From 2-3 we have Charles de Lint and
MaryAnn Harris. Charles and MaryAnn lived
in OOS for years and some of you know Charles
from his fantasy novels, many of which were set in
OOS. MaryAnn is a musician on her own, and has
recently collaborated with Charles on the CD, Old
Blue Truck. It has a folk /rockabilly sound that will
have the crowds on their feet! Check it out at www.
charlesdelint.com.
The BBQ will be held from 11-2, and will
feature hot dogs, sausages, and drinks for sale.
There will also be vendors at the site selling their
food options.
Registration for artists begins on April 20
and a complete list of vendors will be up on the
website (www.oldottawasouth.ca) as of May 15.
We are looking forward to being able to provide
an opportunity for the many amazing artists in our
area to showcase their work and also to give the
community a chance to see what a large variety of
art is available and to be able to see it all in one big
area. I love big art sales for just this reason, it gives
me a chance to really know what is out there and to
buy some things I would never have seen otherwise.
So come on out, enjoy some time with your
friends and neighbours, celebrate Father’s Day,
dance, eat, shop and make merry! Summer will
almost be upon us and what a great way to bring
it in! Family, friends, community….all the good
things that OOS has to offer!
See you there!
For more information
or to volunteer
please call 613 2474946
or check out the website at
www.oldottawasouth.ca
By Michaela Tokarski
Creekside
Communications
Every generation’s parents
try to instil “street smarts”
in their children. Today’s
parents are the first to need to extend
those “street” smarts to cyberspace.
Are you ready?
You don’t have to be a
cybernaut to keep up with the pace
of technological change, not to
mention all the things that can go
sideways online. The best thing
for parents to do is to take a deep
breath, keep their heads and tap into
the following safety tips – and their
own common sense.
Besides sore backs from
slouching and bugged-out eyes
from too much screen time, the risk
to families’ safety and health from
Internet-use fall under two main
categories: technological risks and
behavioural risks.
Technological risks result from
vulnerabilities in your computer’s
programs and hardware from
external threats like viruses and
getting hacked.
Behavioural risks result from
the decisions that we make when
we’re online, whether we’re 7, 47
or 77 years old. Ultimately, it’s up
to parents to protect households
from both kinds of threats – the
good news is this can be done fairly
easily.
Tech threats – Three tips to
stay safe
The starting place for adults
wanting to keep their kids safe
online is by protecting the
technology itself. Here are 3
essential ways to do that:
• Fight viruses! Keep your
virus protection and antimalware
software up-to-date.
• Stay current! Update your Internet
browsing software to help avoid
known security threats. Software
Shop Your Local
On Saturday , April 14th the Firehall was filled
with area artists displaying their unique creations.
Many took advantage of the opportunity to do some
early Mother’s Day /Spring shopping.
Look for the next batch of artists and their
work at our OSCA Windsor Park Art Show on June
17th at Windsor Park.
Keeping our Kids Safe Online
makers often provide updates to
address and repair known problems
that could compromise your
software.
• Halt! Who goes there! What’s the
password? Make sure your wireless
router and wireless network are
secured with passwords using
protocols like WEP, WPA or WPA-
2. If you’re really concerned about
others accessing the Internet over
your wireless network, you can
add an additional layer of security
on many routers that requires you
to personally approve a device
before it can access the Internet
through that network. Looking to
go even further? You can set the
router to hide the network’s SSID
so that when people are looking for
networks in your area, they can’t
see yours (though there are ways
around this).
Peace, Googling, and Good
Conduct – Teaching Smart Online
Skills to Young Kids
We have to think of online
space as fundamentally social
space. And just like we teach our
children to behave in certain ways
when they’re in face-to-face social
settings, we now need to adapt those
teachings when they are online.
Clearly, these teachings will
vary based on age, but here are some
good habits for parents and young
children to cultivate together:
Keep it out in the open. It might
seem obvious, but set up a computer
station in a common area like the
kitchen, family room or living room.
Explore side by side. Stay with
them when they’re surfing the web.
Keep an eye on what they’re doing!
It’s easy for children to click links
that can quickly take them places
they don’t want to go.
Set phasers to “fun”! Turn
parental controls on in your Internet
Browser (Internet Explorer, Safari,
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