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Page 26 The th OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR July 2010 WINDSOR REDUX B PART 13 July, 2001 Dear Boomer, I’m off tomorrow to summer camp. I can tell by the signs. My Alpha is packing his suitcase. She Who Must Be Obeyed doesn’t dress in her business suit and rush off to somewhere in the mornings. The Pup is very excited about things he sees on television and asks how many more sleeps until he gets to visit the whales. All of them talk about something called Niagara Falls. At first, I thought Niagara was a dog I had not yet met at the park. I thought it very worrying that she should be falling so much. (1) But now I conclude they are going away again. There is a hidden agenda, not for a poor dog named Niagara, but for me. It will involve driving me out to the country to see my old friends at the summer camp. How long I’ll be there, I can surmise by the number of t-shirts that Alpha packs in his suitcase. Tonight, it looks like it will be at least a week. (2 I like summer camp. I like the companionship of all those other At its regular monthly meeting on June 14, the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) Board honoured five individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to promoting literacy and love of reading in Ottawa through their work for the Ottawa Public Library. Awesome Authors judges Michel Lavoie, J.C. Sulzenko, Ian Roy and Brenda Chapman were presented awards in recognition of outstanding volunteer assistance. Lori Nash, the past-president of the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association (FOPLA) was honoured for her long-time commitment to advocacy and support of the Ottawa Public Library. Awesome Authors Judges: The Awesome Authors contest has been a cornerstone of children’s Summer Camp dogs, each of us in our own little den, and the dens lined up in rows along the corridor. A couple of times a day, we’re let out into the sunshine to run and play. And with no leashes whatsoever. The corridors are cool with air conditioning, and this might be a welcome break from the summer heat. Alpha keeps me outdoors during the day now. I don’t mind. In fact, if one is going to sleep for most of a hot afternoon, one might as well do it in the little space I’ve dug in the shade under the steps to the back porch. In the winter, I nap in the little house that Alpha places beside the back door. In the summer, he puts the house in the shade by the back fence. It has a good cushion, but for pure comfort and coolness, you can’t beat a hole dug into the dirt below the stairs. The days have been so hot that I’ve been content to sit in the shade and watch the squirrels scramble through the branches of the cherry tree. I know it’s hard for any selfrespecting dog to admit this, but I have no desire to chase them away. Maybe in the first cool of the morning, I can and teens’ services at the Ottawa Public Library since amalgamation. This bilingual program promotes the importance of writing for young people from ages 9 through 17. Each year, Awesome Author judges read and review hundreds of short stories and poems. In the past four years judges have evaluated more than 1400 entries. In addition, these volunteers have taken the time to attend the awards ceremony to personally hand out the prizes and give young authors a special feeling of accomplishment. Judges J.C. Sulzenko and Michel Lavoie have offered their expertise as authors in the publishing of pot pourri, a collection of the winning entries from the Awesome Authors contest. Lori Nash: Ms. Nash began her friend- summon up the energy to terrorize them back beyond the fence, but by mid-afternoon, it hardly seems worthwhile. And they put on quite a show in their efforts to scarf down as many cherries as they can. The starlings are good entertainment too. They inch their way on their little bird feet, down the thin branches in their efforts to reach the ripest cherries. Then as the twigs bend under their weight, they lose their balance, or start to slide too fast as they reach the tips of the branches. They flutter themselves aright, glancing around in hopes that no one saw them looking so ungainly. If they catch me laughing at them from the porch, they huff out their feathers as if to say, “I meant to do that.” By the time I return from summer camp, the entertainment should get even better. Any of the cherries that will be left by then will be a little fermented. No better way to spend a hot afternoon in late summer than to watch a Dionysian revel of squirrels and starlings. You’ll have to keep a watch on all of this and report back to me when I ship with the Ottawa Public Library 14 years ago as one of the founding members of The Friends of the Cumberland Library. When the city of Ottawa was amalgamated, Ms. Nash was president of The Friends of the Cumberland Library, and in 2003, she was instrumental in negotiating a merger of the three existing friends groups (Cumberland, Nepean and Ottawa) to form the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association (FOPLA). Ms. Nash was a member of FO- PLA’s Board of Directors since 2005, becoming Vice-president in June return in a week or ten days. I’ll let you know how the gang is coming along at summer camp. See you when I return, Zoscha (1) Research into advertisements broadcast during the summer of 2001 reveal that the Marineland resort in Niagara Falls, Ontario, frequently placed ads in the morning children’s programming offered by TVO. See, “The Persuaders of Kids and Dogs,” Maureen McCallem, Ryerson Technical Review, Toronto, May 2007, pp. 31-34. (2) This is one of the last references in Zoscha’s works of the entire pack as it was then configured taking a holiday together without her. In light of subsequent events (see Windsor Chronicles 14), it seems that the July, 2001, trip to Niagara Falls was the last of its kind, although Zoscha continued to enjoy summer camp through the years. Ottawa Public Library Board Presents Order of Friendship Awards J.C. Sulzenko with award Photo by Rhéal Doucette, Graphic Designer, Ottawa Public Library 2006. In January 2007, Ms. Nash became President of FOPLA, leading the group to vigorously pursue its three main functions: fundraising and advocating for the Ottawa Public Library, and promoting literacy in Ottawa. Under her leadership FO- PLA has become the leading “friends” fundraising organization in Canada, raising $318,000 in support of OPL in 2008. Ms. Nash has also been an effective advocate for the library before the Library Board, City Council and the provincial and federal governments. She planned and executed campaigns in 2007 and 2008 to protect the Library from branch closures and budget cuts. Following her resignation as president of FOPLA in June 2009, Ms. Nash joined the Ottawa Public Library Foundation (OPLF) and still remains on the FOPLA Board of Directors in the ex-officio position of past-president. Recipients of the Order of Friendship richly deserve these individual honours for their leadership, dedication and unstinting efforts to promote literacy and libraries in Ottawa. For more information on the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library, please visit http://www.ottawapubliclibraryfriends.ca/index_e.html For more information on the Ottawa Public Library, please visit http://BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca/
The th July 2010 OSCAR - OUR 37 YEAR Page 27 By Joe Scanlon The first time Heather Sherrard played soccer she knew so little about the game that the referee had to explain to her how to do a throw-in. He told her, “Plant your feet firmly on the ground. Put your hands with the ball over your head and launch it into the field.” “He said if he didn’t show us what to do the game would never end,” she recalls. One of her team mates, Judy Robertson, explains: “We kept doing it wrong and the ref would award the ball to the other team. Finally he took sympathy on us and showed us how to do it properly.” It was hardly surprising she and her team-mates – most of whom knew as little as she did – lost all but two of the games they played that first season, often by – for soccer – lop-sided scores. Sherrard who was 50 at the time, nevertheless, enjoyed the game and, encouraged by the husband of one of her team-mates, kept playing as did Robertson. Both now play seven-aside indoor soccer under the Dome at Lansdowne Park in the winter and early spring and full 11-a-side soccer outdoors all summer. Two seasons ago their team ,which is affiliated with the Ottawa Internationals Soccer Club, went undefeated; they had a 55-game unbeaten streak and won the league championship two years in a row. Sherrard and Robertson and many of their team-mates started playing for the same reason – their daughters were playing competitive soccer and while they attended their games and cheered them on, they knew little about what was involved. At first they were inept but gradually their skills improved and – for the first time – they knew enough about the game to watch their daughters knowledgeably. By then, Sherrard’s daughter Amy and Robertson’s daughter Carlene had reached university and both were good enough to play for the Carleton Ravens women’s Varsity team. By then as well, both Moms were knowledgeable enough to appreciate their daughters’ skills. Sherrard says she had attended probably thousands of games watching her daughter play but she never really understood the fine points of what was happening. “I’d be yelling ‘Cross the ball,’ without really understanding how difficult that was, especially with your left foot. I had no idea of the strategy involved or why teams used different formations at different times.” Robertson recalls, “As soon as I started I appreciated that the kids made it look easy. I appreciated the way they could trap the ball and pass accurately.” When the Ottawa Internationals Soccer Club made it known it was willing to arrange a soccer program “Code Red” Soccer Fever for Moms – they called the program “So Fit” and it is still going strong – she decided she would take part. What “So Fit” involved was not games but lessons about such things as how to dribble and how to pass. Sherrard and Robertson and some others decided after that summer of instruction that they would like to take things a little further. They and several others decided to form a team. The team they both play for is called “Code Red,” and it is recognized as one of the top Women’s Recreational teams in the Ottawa Carleton Soccer League. The Internationals have since started other Women’s Recreational Soccer teams called, ‘Code White,” and “Code Black”, following the Code Red model. The names were Sherrard’s’ idea. She is an executive with the Ottawa Heart Institute and quite familiar with the various levels of hospital emergencies. “Code Red” is the code for a fire. Sherrard’s interests in soccer did not stop there. She has come to understand the game well enough to enjoy TSN coverage of European football and to talk knowledgeably about players like David Beckham when he was injured in March. “I’ve been lucky,” she says. “I’ve never had a serious injury.” The nearest she came was when she stepped into a gopher hole the first year she played. Robertson has also escaped injury. Robertson, a manager for Bell Canada, says they liked the name Code Red because when they first started playing 45 minute halves there were many jokes about the need for oxygen and defibrillation and because a number of the women on their team were, like her, involved in medicine. They also joked that the letters also stood for “Ridiculous, Elderly and Dim-Witted” - the way the players felt after their first experience with a full length 90-minute game. That first season, they recall, their top scorer scored most of her goals into their own net and not their opponents’ net. The driving force behind the Code Red team is Lorne Abugov an Ottawa South resident and Carleton Journalism grad turned communications lawyer - and a soccer addict. His wife, Lindy – their three children also play soccer – was part of the original Code Red core group. Lorne is both an enthusiastic and supportive coach, and he is a great recruiter. When he is out walking his dog and meets a neighbour, he quickly talks her into playing on one of the Rec soccer teams he organizes for the Internationals. Abugov inspired the players that first season with positive reviews even of their losses. The code Red team developed their own soccer Math which allowed them to turn a 7-1 loss into a 2-0 loss and then explain how a 2-0 loss was better than any other team had done against that opponent. Abugov also gave his “ladies” as he refers to his players some philosophical advice about the strategy of soccer: “As a basic plan in soccer, a team should expand (i.e. spread out) on offence and contract (i.e. collapse) on defence. In other words, in the other team’s zone when we are trying to score…remember to hold your positions, spread right across the field… In our own defensive zone, close to our goal, we collapse into the centre…and bring all of our players into the box if necessary.” Lindy like the others had watched her children play soccer but had never played herself. She is now fiercely competitive and lets her husband know if she feels she is not getting enough playing time. Sherrard‘s daughter doesn’t make it out to all her mother’s games but she does come occasionally. “At first she thought it was funny. We could barely kick the ball.” But when the Sherrard’s took a holiday in her home town of Saskatoon, she and her mother would kick the ball around. “She taught me how to kick the ball properly,” says Sherrard. She won’t get a chance to see Amy play this fall. Her daughter is taking international business at Carleton and will be spending her next term in Madrid. Sherrard plans to take time off from soccer to pay her a visit. Robertson’s daughter has graduated; so she, too, has moved on. Sherrard does not describe herself as an athlete but she did play volleyball and broomball growing up in Sas- katchewan but never soccer. “It was not a sport that was available for girls in Saskatoon at that time.” Robertson had the same experience. She did play sports in high school but soccer was not available. She did however jog but finds soccer provides more interest than doing solitary running. In amateur sport, some teams tend to come and go with continual player turnover. But the Code Red core group that Heather and Judy started with has tended to stay together and has definitely improved. The team has always blended younger players with more mature women athletes, and the philosophy has worked well for all players, as each age group enjoys the others company on and off the soccer field. They have for example organized some pot luck dinners and tied the selection of foods to food appropriate for countries whose teams are playing in the World Cup in South Africa. They will all be watching the World Cup this month when they are not playing themselves and cheering on their team. Code Red is now a mainstay of the Ottawa-Carleton Soccer League, which boasts competitive and recreational teams from the Ottawa area and from nearby communities such as Carleton Place, Almonte and Arnprior.
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