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Page 8 The OSCAR - OUR 40 th YEAR MAY 2012 2011’2012 OSCA Novice Basketball Season The OSCA Novice Basketball team, aka the « Mighty Midgets», had a fun filled season of games, practices, scrimmages, tournaments, and pizza. Some players came to the team with little basketball experience but quickly ramped skill development. Some of the highlights of the year included playing an intra-squad game during the half time at a Carleton Raven›s Men›s basketball game. The Ravens Nest was abuzz with live play by play commentary and cheering fans and the Mighty Midgets were all smiles. One of our practices was enriched by the presence of Paul Armstrong, Technical Director of the Shooting Stars, who provided the players and coaches with excellent guidance. The Mighty Midgets hosted a tournament (Top) WEBL year-end tournament -Coaches (Left from right) : Chris Spiteri, Matthew MacDonald, and Hugh Cheetman Players (Left to Right):Max, Pat, Isabel, Nick, Malachi, Nicholas, Aidan, Malcolm, Liam (Kneeling), Jesper (Horizontal), Angus (missing) (Left) At Hopewell PS (Right) At Carleton’s Raven’s Men’ basketball game in early 2012 that was attended by several WEBL (West End Basketball League) teams and the Shooting Stars. The tournament offered our players the opportunity to sharpen their basketball skills in a friendly and competitive environment. As part of the WEBL, the Mighty Midgets travelled to Stittsville to play against teams from Almonte, Goulbourn, Kanata, and the Ottawa Philippine Basketball Association . We finished the regular season respectably, with 3 wins and 2 losses. The Mighty Midgets saved their best performance for last as we went undefeated (3-0) at the Year End WEBL Tournament. It was remarkable journey witnessing the players progress and develop a love for the game of basketball.
MAY 2012 By Don Cummer It’s that time of year again -- when the natives of Old Ottawa South don their colourful ethnic costumes and gather at Windsor Park for the annual cleanup known as the “pick-a-poo harvest.” From Riverdale to the river bank and from Brighton Beach to Linda Thom park, you can hear them sing their folkloric songs, passed down from generation to generation: “Jump down, turn around Pick a bale of dog poop. Jump down, turn around Pick a bale a day.” The origins of the festival are lost in time, but legend has it that dog-owners first assembled in the Spring to make sure that any doggie deposits left unnoticed in the dark winter months were cleaned up after the snow melted. By Mike Lascelles and Gwen Gall The Old Ottawa South Community Association, OSCA, Board has achieved laudable results in the past few years including its crowning achievement: the renovation and expansion of the Firehall. The Board is about to undergo a sea change as many long-serving members, including much of the Executive, will step down either this May or next year. Also, OSCA is about to lose its stellar Executive Director – Deirdre McQuillan – as well as its incomparable OSCAR Editor – Mary Anne Thompson. Of course, we are currently recruiting people to replace Deirdre and Mary Anne; however, things are going to be different and much savvy will be lost. Did we mention that the 2012-13 OSCA Board must negotiate a new and quite different agreement with the City spelling out how we will operate in the years ahead? Also, we’ll likely experience a spike in proposed developments that will challenge us to be creative, flexible, yet vigilant to preserve the best features, and appropriate scale, in Old Ottawa South. And, we need to get serious The annual pick-a-poo harvest has no set date, but is called at the discretion of the organizing committee from the Windsor Pups dogwalking group. This year, a spate of unseasonably warm weather tempted the organizers to make the call before the hockey boards were even down. Mother Nature has a way of laughing at the foibles of humans and, on the day of the event, had returned the temperatures to late-March chills. “This is the first year that we harvested with the hockey boards up,” Brian Tansey observed. “It’s also the first year we’ve had to work around remaining patches of snow.” Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, other residents of Old Ottawa South used the annual spring cleanup to do battle with the Manitoba maples which, if left unchecked, would choke off other plant life along the riverbank. “We’ve been trying to cut them back for years,” says Gary Lum, “but they’re as resilient as the forever- about greening the community. What all this means is that the times they are a changing big time and so the new OSCA Board has to get crackin’ to get the community leadership job done. So starting this May, we must replenish and rejuvenate the Board to empower a new generation of dynamic community leaders to create and implement their vision of our community in the years ahead. That’s the poetry of it; the prose is that we need a few good women and men to step forward to serve on the OSCA 2012- 13 Board and help lead us into a new era of effective OSCA community service. It will not be a cake walk and it’s possible that the timid might be scared off. We would quickly add, dig deep and tap into your inner strength. And, if you are still hesitant, don’t be shy: we’ll help you. Here’s what the OSCA Board nominating committee (Gwen Gall, Valerie McIntosh, Lisa Drouillard, and Mike Lascelles) has done so far. We’ve identified 6 or 7 people to fill that many vacancies on our 16+ person Board. If it’s business as usual, our work is done. But we’ve got miles to go before we sleep because we’re still lacking one or two key people who will help lead key committees such as Special Events or pitch in on The OSCAR - OUR 40 th YEAR detested rat.” Gary gave special commendation to Brian Burton for risking life and limb, attached to a rope on the slopes of the Pump House site. “Linda Thom and her band of hardy neighbours did an outstanding job of cleaning up the garbage between the Pump House and the Bank Street Bridge. That’s where you see a lot of garbage dropped carelessly by passers-by.” After two hours of work, the volunteers had assembled about 165 BEUs of raked leaves, yard waste and trimmed branches at various stations along the pathways. (The BEU is a “bag equivalent unit” – a measurement we have invented to keep track of how much has been cleaned up. One full paper garden-waste bag counts as a BEU. So does a stack of pruned branches that would otherwise fill a bag.)Between 40 and 50 dog owners turned out again this year for the cleanup. “The weather was chillier that usual, with rain threatening at Finance issues. Oh, and if you’re a born leader who can guide OSCA in the years ahead, do we have room for you! We hope you have the right stuff and are itching to make Old Ottawa South even better by serving, and ideally leading, OSCA. If you are, Page 9 any moment,” said Peter Wells, “but the Windsor Pups are a hearty lot. They’re not going to let inclement weather hold them back, any more than they’re going to balk at cleaning up after their dogs. All in all,” he said, “it was yet another exceptional crappy event…” For many years, Zoscha the Wonder Dog chronicled the annual harvest in her OSCAR column, and served as the Alan Lomax of the folk songs of the harvesters. Among them was the ballad of the legendary poop-picker, John Henry, and his race against the steam-driven pooppicking machine. “When John Henry was a little boy The first words his lips did tell, Was, ‘I’m gonna be a poop-pickin’ man, ‘Cause I got no sense of smell, Lord, Lord, I got no sense of smell.’” Help shape Old Ottawa South: Join the 2012-13 OSCA Board Guide Dogs Need Your Used Stamps Saving stamps from old stamped envelopes for Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind is one way to help them “stamp” their way to a profitable future. • Cut or tear the stamps from the envelope (but not too close) • Either drop them off at the training Centre in Manotick, or put them in an envelope and mail to: Fifteenth Annual Harvest Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind 4120 Rideau Valley Drive North P.O. Box 280 Manotick, Ontario K4M 1A3 (613) 692-7777 CGDB collects all types of used stamps, special issues, regular stamps, Canadian and foreign stamps. please contact us by Monday April 16, 2012. Just email us at nomination@ oldottawasouth.ca, or, if you prefer to discuss things beforehand, call Mike Lascelles at (613) 737-6480. See you all at the OSCA AGM on May 1, 2012 at the Firehall.
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