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Page 2 The OSCAR - OUR 37 th YEAR July 2010 OSCAR The The OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.OldOttawaSouth.ca/oscar Please Note: The OSCAR Has No Fax E-mail: oscar@oldottawasouth.ca Editor: Mary Anne Thompson oscar@oldottawasouth.ca Distribution Manager: Larry Ostler Business Manager: Susanne Ledbetter ledbetter@sympatico.ca Advertising Manager: Gayle Weitzman oscarads@oldottawasouth.ca OSCAR is printed by Winchester Print 613-327-9080 613-730-1058 (not classy ads) NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 The OSCAR is a community association paper paid for entirely by advertising. It is published for the Ottawa South Community Association Inc. (OSCA). Distribution is free to all Old Ottawa South homes and businesses and selected locations in Old Ottawa South, the Glebe and Billings Bridge. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily of The OSCAR or OSCA. The editor retains the right to edit and include articles submitted for publication. FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES, CALL 613-327-9080 or email: larryostler@gmail.com The OSCAR thanks the following people who brought us to your door this month: ZONE A1: Kathy Krywicki (Coordinator), Mary Jo Lynch, Brian Eames and Kim Barclay, Wendy Robbins, Jim and Carrol Robb, Terri-Lee Lefebvre, Becky Sasaki, Kevin and Stephanie Williams. ZONE B1: Ross Imrie (Coordinator), Family Gref- Innes, Gabriela Gref-Innes and Fiona Fagan, the Montgomery family, Laurie Morrison, Susanne Ledbetter. ZONE B2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Pat Eakins, Laine Mow, Hayley Atkinson, Leslie Roster, Kathy Krywicki. ZONE C1: Laura Johnson (Coordinator), the Williams family, Josh Rahaman, Lynne Myers, Jeff Pouw, Curt LaBond, Brendan McCoy, the Woroniuk-Ryan family. ZONE C2: Craig Piche (Coordinator), Alan McCullough, Owain O’Connor, Curt LaBond, Charles and Phillip Kijek, Sam & Avery Piche, Kit Jenkin, Michel and Christina Bridgeman. ZONE D1: Bert Hopkins (Coordinator), Emily Keys, the Lascelles family, Gail Stewart, Gabe Teramura, Oliver Waddington, Sullivan-Greene family, the Sprott family. ZONE D2: Janet Drysdale (Coordinator), The Adriaanse Family, Gaia Chernushenko, The Rand family, Aidan and Willem Ray, the Stewart family. ZONE E1:Brian Tansey(Coordinator) , Wendy Johnston, the Rae Brown- Clarke Family (esp. Katie), Anna Cuylits, Sutherland family (esp. Edwina and John), Sanger-O’Neil family. ZONE E2: Chris Berry (Coordinator), Mary-Ann Kent, Glen Elder and Lorraine Stewart, the Hunter family, Brodkin-Haas family, Allan Paul, Christina Bradley, Caroline Calvert, Larry Ostler. ZONE F1: Carol and Ferg O’Connor (Coordinator), Jenny O’Brien, the Stern family, T. Liston, Ellen Bailie, Dante and Bianca Ruiz, Wendy Kemp, Kelly Haggart and Taiyan Roberts, Walter and Robbie Engert. ZONE F2: Bea Bol (Coordinator), the Tubman family, Paulette Theriault, Ryan Zurakowski, Susan McMaster, Paige Raymond, Pierre Guevremont, Cheryl Hyslop. ZONE G: Bernie Zeisig(Coordinator), Claudia and Estelle Bourlon- Albarracin, David Lum, Cindy MacLoghlin, Hannah and Emily Blackwell, Katya and Mikka Zeisig. Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Bank Street-Ottawa South: Rob Cook, Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler. Ottawa East: Brian Lowley, Dave White. CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions should be in electronic format sent either by e-mail to oscar@oldottawasouth.ca in either plain text or WORD format, or as a printed copy delivered to the Firehall office, 260 Sunnyside Avenue. SUBSCRIPTIONS Moving away from Old Ottawa South? Know someone who would like to receive The OSCAR? We will send The OSCAR for one year for just $40 to Canadian addresses (including foreign service) and $80 outside of Canada. Drop us a letter with your name, address, postal code and country. Please include a check made out to The OSCAR. SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS The OSCAR is sponsored entirely from advertising. Our advertisers are often not aware that you are from Old Ottawa South when you patronize them. Make the effort to let them know that you saw their ad in The OSCAR. They will be glad to know and The OSCAR will benefit from their support. If you know of someone providing a service in the community, tell them about The OSCAR. Our rates are reasonable. FUTURE OSCAR DEADLINES Aug 6 (Sept issue). Sept 10 (Oct issue), Oct 15 (Nov issue), Nov 12 (Dec issue) tHe old FireHall ottawa soutH CommuNity CeNtre osCa@oldottawasoutH.Ca HOURS PHONE 613 247-4946 MONDAY TO THURSDAY 9 AM TO 9 PM FRIDAY 9 AM TO 6 PM SATURDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM* SUNDAY CLOSED *Open only when programs are operating, please call first. WHAT’S THAT NUMBER? Ottawa South Community Centre - The Old Firehall Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA) Ottawa Public Library - South Branch Rob Campbell - Rob.Campbell@OCDSB.ca Kathy Ablett, Catholic Board Trustee Centretown Community Health Centre CARLETON UNIVERSITY CUSA (Carleton U Students Association) Graduate Students Association Community Liaison Mediation Centre Athletics CITY HALL Clive Doucet, City Councillor (clive.doucet@city.ottawa.on.ca) Main Number(24 hrs) for all departments Community Police - non-emergencies Emergencies only Serious Crimes Ottawa Hydro Streetlight Problems (burned out, always on, flickering) Brewer Pool Brewer Arena City of Ottawa web site - www.city.ottawa.on.ca 247-4946 247-4872 730-1082 730-8128 526-9512 233-5430 520-6688 520-6616 520-3660 520-5765 520-4480 580-2487 3-1-1 236-1222 9-1-1 230-6211 738-6400 3-1-1 247-4938 247-4917
July 2010 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Send your comments to oscar@oldottawasouth.ca or drop them off at the Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Avenue. The OSCAR - OUR 37 th YEAR Page 3 The OSCAR welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the community or in response to previous articles. All letters must disclose the name of the writer, as well as the address and phone number. Lettters may be edited for length, clarity, and libelous statements. The opinions of the writers are not necessarily those of the newspaper or its editor. Email your letters to oscar@oldottawasouth.ca or leave in print at the Firehall. An Open Letter To Non-Residents Of The Glebe As someone who grew up in the Glebe and whose parents still live there, I’d like to make certain that non-residents are aware of the impact of their choices to back the redevelopment in its current form. As a child of 13 I remember going to city planning meetings to push for a basketball court that was eventually built at the Park and has been heavily used since. My parents were instrumental in implementing the traffic plan for the Glebe area and stopping a plan to expand Lansdowne up to Fifth Avenue, two things that contributed heavily to the “character” of the area that everyone now enjoys. In short, we’ve been around this issue for a lifetime and are invested in its outcome. Every detail of the plan is important as it can have a radical impact on the future. Speaking of investment, Glebe residents such as my parents pay very high property taxes and don’t get much in terms of city-owned recreational space in return. Apparently paying $500 a month in property taxes doesn’t allow you to take an active interest in the form of development in your area, it makes you a whiner. That is just not fair in my opinion. Make no mistake about it, your fellow tax-payers in the Glebe are against this because they live in the area and being close to the situation they know that this development will radically change the neighbourhood they know and love, and not for the better. Before being party to that you might think for a second about how much you would enjoy being powerless to stop a development of this size in your neighbourhood. Speaking of powerless, it is difficult to live in such close proximity to a corporate theft of such monumental proportions. Before you fully back this plan, you might want to think for a second about what you gave up to get there. Instead of the public managing public resources it has transferred the management to an outside private entity that will derive the benefit from management. OSEG is a separate legal entity formed for the purpose, which means no liabilities for its shareholders but plenty of opportunity for dividends. It has the right to rent-free retail, stadium, hotel and office commercial land for 30 years. It has the right to assign all these rights to a co-developer / co-tenant. What that means is that it can sell its rights to the highest bidder, make money off of the building and refurbishment of the stadium, disburse the profits to the shareholders, run a money-losing franchise for a couple of years for show and then walk away claiming the economics just aren’t there anymore. In short it can plunder public resources, all while running rough shod over the concerns of the local community and leaving them to deal with the headache afterwards. I understand that for some of you, the idea of one more shot at an Ottawa football franchise is appealing. Maybe some additional retail in the downtown core is interesting. And some additional green space you can visit now and then is a draw. But before you back this development understand the real choice you are making. You are backing the arbitrary transfer of city land to private developers selected by non-elected officials behind closed doors. You are supporting the trampling of local community rights in favor of outside interests, ignoring the taxes paid in over generations. You are OK with potentially destroying communities that have been built up over time and with great care with rushed through plans whose impact will last for generations. Knowing all this, if you still back it that is your choice, at least you will have your eyes wide open. Greg Marlin Centretown Resident Congratulations Peter Hecht I would like to congratulate Mr. Peter Hecht on his excellent article titled “ Tsunami of Change “ printed in the last issue of the Oscar. His comments are timely and clearly demonstrate the development pressures that established neighborhoods like ours are under from insensitive developers and “new money “ residents as he so eloquently calls them. The City of Ottawa currently has guidelines concerning such infills but they are being totally ignored by many new projects . Seeking help from the City seems hopeless as a petition of many names (I heard it was 420 , My wife and I being two ) and signatures submitted to the city opposing the monster double on Brighton had no effect and as stated by the next door neighbor “ had as much impact as delivering a roll of toilet paper “ . Good news is that one side is not sold , hope the developer is choking on the credit line ! As a recent victim ourselves of an inordinately tall and large structure adjacent to our property we can easily empathize with those similarly affected and we harbor great fears about the future of the collective architecture heritage of Old Ottawa South . With the shopping mall coming to Landsdowne , sky high taxes , inappropriate, disrespectful infills as discussed in Mr Hecht’s well written submission and a City Hall that just doesn’t seem to care certainly makes me wonder if I’m living in the right place . Thanks again to Mr. Hecht . Fred Woolfrey I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death, your right to say it. ....Voltaire
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