April 08, 1980 - Glebe Report
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Vol. 8 No. 4 <strong>April</strong>, <strong>1980</strong>
Mayor Marion Dewar presenting a cheque for ,1',3,000 to Ernie McEwen,<br />
chairman, National Native Centre fund-raising champaign.<br />
ODAWA Friendship Centre Indian Showcase<br />
By Laird Greenshields<br />
The former Central Alliance Church, 600 St., has new occupants<br />
with plans to turn the building into a showcase for native culture.<br />
The Odawa Native Friendship Centre held a kick-off banquet and dance at<br />
the National Arts Centre on March 20 and hopes to raise $1 million to<br />
finance the project.<br />
The aim of the project is to provide an embassy for native people<br />
coming to Ottawa and facilities for presenting exhibitions of native arts<br />
The Friendship Centre located at 180 Waller St. does not provide the<br />
necessary facilities for exhibitions or recreational activities. With<br />
this in mind, the organization set out in search of a better location and<br />
decided on the Bank Street building.<br />
We want the new centre to be a showcase for native culture," says<br />
fund-raising chairman Ernie McEwen, former director of the Indian and<br />
Eskimo Association. McEwen has a 19-year history of involvement with<br />
native groups.<br />
McEwen feels the purchase of the Bank Street centre will provide<br />
native people the opportunity to expose their arts to a greater extent.<br />
He sa4, "Although overlooked for a long time, the native peoples<br />
have a rich cultural heritage to share with Canada and the world. This<br />
centre will make that possible."<br />
Bill Caves, President of the Odawa Native Friendship Centre said,<br />
"The new centre is envisaged as a focal point for Indian, Metis and<br />
Inuit culture in Canada."<br />
Support from across the country and many areas has reached the project's<br />
organizers. The Honourable Ralph Steinhauer, former Lieutenant-<br />
Governor of Alberta said the centre "will provide linkage at the national<br />
level among all of our native peoples and the ethnic groups making up<br />
the Canadian mosaic."<br />
A special Benefit headlining musician Dominic D'Arcy will be held<br />
Lt the Centre 1 pm to 4 pm this Sunday. He will be joined by native<br />
and non-native country singers. A special invitation is out to all<br />
Glebites to attend this and other coming events.<br />
At the National Arts Centre fundraiser, Mayor Marion Dewar said, "As<br />
the national capital, Ottawa should endeavour to develop a positive<br />
Image of Canada's native people."<br />
Noel Starblanket, National Indian Brotherhood<br />
President, said he knew of no Indian art on<br />
display in the National Gallery of Canada."It<br />
seems that Indian art in Canada is relegated to<br />
the museums as artifacts or curios - in a city<br />
as vibrant as Ottawa this is not enough."<br />
Still in the initial growing stages, the<br />
Native Centre hopes to be open to an extent by<br />
the summer. Call Odawa Centre at 232-1778 for<br />
further information. The organization wants to<br />
fit into the fabric of the community and let<br />
ciphe people know they're here.<br />
First Avenue School<br />
Money Problems<br />
By B.J.R. Silberman<br />
Merchants in the <strong>Glebe</strong> are doing the "barnyard<br />
shuffle".<br />
In the past few weeks more changes have taken<br />
place in the ownership and location of businesses<br />
along Bank Street than usually occur in an<br />
entire year in other areas.<br />
At least five stores have closed including<br />
McElroy's Shoes which has held its doors open to<br />
shoppers for almost 70 years.<br />
Five shops have changed locations within the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>. The shortest move was made by The Book<br />
Bazaar which moved north one block from Second<br />
and Third to its new domain between First and<br />
Second.<br />
Other stores in the <strong>Glebe</strong> have beglin plans<br />
for expansion and several new businesses like a<br />
florist and a pub are expected to sprout up in<br />
the new Spring season.<br />
Doug McKeen, Chairman of the Business Association<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong> says "it's the times right<br />
now."<br />
He explains that high interest rates, which<br />
affect businesses trying to finance their own<br />
inventory and accounts receivable, have forced<br />
some shops to relocate to dodge hiph rents or<br />
to close down altogether.<br />
In the case of older <strong>Glebe</strong> establishments,<br />
ncKeen says the elderly people<br />
running them want to retire and<br />
the "kids don't want to take<br />
them over."<br />
Alderman Michèle MacKinnon<br />
says there has "always been a lot<br />
of turnaround in the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
The area has been "one of the<br />
most fashionable places to live"<br />
in the last ten years and "as<br />
the residential area becomes<br />
more desirable, the commercial<br />
expansion follows."<br />
New Odawa Friendship Centre, 600 Bank St. Changes p. 3<br />
Photo by Jinny Slyfield<br />
In the flurry of recent decisions and activities<br />
and the various media interpretations<br />
of these, it may not now be clear that the<br />
question of upgrading this building has not<br />
been dropped.<br />
The $300,000 initially ear-marked for the<br />
first stage of this project is still available.<br />
However, the amount of $964,650 to<br />
establish a reserve fund, which was to have<br />
been raised in this year's tax levy (but<br />
spent in 1981) has been deleted.<br />
Thus, the time-line for the decisions of<br />
the Users' Committee and the Ottawa Board of<br />
Education trustees, and any ensuing activity,<br />
has not necessarily been changed since, 1)<br />
The project would not likely have been completed<br />
in 1981 in any case and 2) money required<br />
for this project could still be<br />
found in the 1981 or 1981 and 1982 budgets.<br />
The Users' Committee will soon submit its<br />
recommendation to the Board and it will be<br />
evaluated and in the light of the various area<br />
studies recommendations, acted upon.<br />
T:e,-.:.rinted from First Avenue School newsletter<br />
published <strong>April</strong> 1, <strong>1980</strong>.<br />
Rapid Changes on Bank
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 2<br />
The GLEBE REPORT is a monthly newspaper.. an<br />
adventure in community journalism..we receive<br />
no government grants or subsidies of any kind.<br />
Advertising from <strong>Glebe</strong> merchants pays our bills<br />
and printing costs. 6,000 copies are delivered<br />
free to <strong>Glebe</strong> homes. Copies available at many<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> stores.<br />
Printed by the Runge Press<br />
Mailing Address; P.O. Box 4794, Station E,<br />
Ottawa, KIS 5H9<br />
Office in <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre 236-4955<br />
We can be reached in the office the first two<br />
weeks of the month; at home otherwise.<br />
EDITOR: Mamie Johnstone<br />
286 Holmwood Avenue 237-3443<br />
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Liz Pritchard<br />
(Advertising) 94 <strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue 236-1258<br />
BUSINESS MANAGER: Sally Cleary 235-7814<br />
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Jinny Slyfield<br />
Cover photo: Fifth at Craig - Jinny Slyfield<br />
STAFF THIS ISSUE:<br />
Sylvia Holden, Sonja Goodale, Jess Isenegger,<br />
Sally Cleary, Catherine Seaborn, Ann Hawkins,<br />
Pat Thomson, B.J.R. Silberman, Ron Campbell.<br />
Graphics:Jinny Slyfield<br />
DELIVERY CAPTAIN:<br />
West of Bank: Sylvia Holden 235-2139<br />
Southeast of Bank:Maree Sigurdson 232-0351<br />
Northeast of Bank:Margaret Lang 238-6857<br />
Elizabeth Lee 232-2062<br />
Sub-delivery West:Fran Clarke,Pat Thomson<br />
Bundlers: Fran Kearns and Marjorie Lynch<br />
Dow's Lake subdelivery: The Paterson family<br />
1Crime Prevention<br />
By Michèle Macinnon<br />
There has been a rash of break-ins in the <strong>Glebe</strong> area in the past<br />
few months. Several businesses and many private homes were hit. Within<br />
the Ottawa Police Department, Constable Michel Tessier, of the Crime<br />
Prevention and Community Relations Section, is responsible for the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> area. He can be reached at 236-0311, extension 272. Upon request,<br />
Constable Tessier will visit your home and inspect it for security.<br />
He will point out vulnerable spots, such as wobbly screen windows, and<br />
faulty locks, some of which are easily opened with a credit card. He will<br />
offer advice to help make your home safer .<br />
A few years ago, the Police Department, as a guest of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Association, explained the advantages of Operation Identification,<br />
and urged all residents to take advantage of this system. The Police<br />
Officer also stressed the importance of keeping houses well-lit,<br />
both outside and inside. I know that most <strong>Glebe</strong> residents are energyconscious<br />
and thus, around 10 p.m., many streets are pitched into total<br />
darkness, with all porch lights and house lights turned off. This is<br />
unfortunate because the energy consumed by a 40-watt bulb on the porch<br />
and a few more inside is minimal and the safety benefits of a well-lit<br />
home are considerable.<br />
If you wish to have your home visited, please contact Constable<br />
Tessier and take advantage of this useful service offered by your<br />
Police Department.<br />
A few notes on bicycles: expensive models, locked to porches, have<br />
been stolen in broad daylight with the owner in the home, and taken from<br />
unlocked garages. If you do not have a garage, do not leave the bicycle<br />
on the porch, bring it inside, no matter how large your lock. If<br />
you leave it in a garage, make sure the door is locked at all times.<br />
Shake up a Sheik.<br />
Next issue: MAY 16<br />
DEADLINE: May 5<br />
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Not to cut corners or sacrifice quality.<br />
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Changes from page 1<br />
But MacKinnon says <strong>Glebe</strong> residents do not<br />
patronize businesses in their own area. Many<br />
Glebites try and shop at supermarket chains out<br />
of the area where prices are cheaper.<br />
This "makes it very hard for them (<strong>Glebe</strong><br />
businesses) to survive."<br />
MacKinnon says most people who shop in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> are from the "outside". Many come from<br />
as far away as Hull because they are attracted<br />
to places like the <strong>Glebe</strong> Meat Market, the Lightening<br />
Bakery and Loretta's Bakery, all well<br />
known for high quality goods.<br />
She says this poses problems for access to<br />
parking and free movement in traffic and "<strong>Glebe</strong><br />
residents don't like it."<br />
The Business Association in the <strong>Glebe</strong> has<br />
recently begun to take steps which could see a<br />
reduction in future turnover rates.<br />
McKeen says the organization received approval<br />
four months ago from City Hall of a Business<br />
Improvement Application.<br />
If <strong>Glebe</strong> merchant response favours the going<br />
ahead of Business Improvement budgets and schemes,<br />
this could result in various promotional activities<br />
like sidewalk sales and carnivals.<br />
This would attract more shoppers to the area<br />
and increase business activity.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate Trips<br />
Forty Senior history students are off to<br />
Boston <strong>April</strong> 23 to 26. The trip will enrich<br />
their study of American history.<br />
Eighty band members are shuffling off to<br />
Buffalo <strong>April</strong> 24 - 27. They are scheduled to<br />
play several concerts there. Later in the year<br />
a Buffalo band will visit <strong>Glebe</strong> in exchange or<br />
perhaps to get even.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Advisory Committee meets Thurs. <strong>April</strong><br />
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Fifth Avenue Court Saga<br />
Photo by Toni Venturi<br />
By Doug Gloin<br />
The unfinished renovation of the <strong>Glebe</strong>'s Fifth Avenue Court has been<br />
stalled since late December, and merchants in the complex are anxious to<br />
learn when, if ever, construction will resume on the site.<br />
Calling the lack of progress "disheartening" and a "colossal mess,"<br />
shopkeeper Wayne Duford said businessmen in the building are suffering<br />
from the confusion, which is due largely to financial difficulties<br />
encountered by the site's developer, Phil Waserman.<br />
The Fifth Avenue Court has been the focus of some controversy since<br />
its inception. Its first planned completion date was November, 1979,<br />
later amended to May of this year. However, the structure stands only<br />
half-completed at this time.<br />
Early this year, the proposed complex met with stiff opposition from<br />
area residents over the addition of a roof over the entire site, something<br />
which had not been included when the project was first approved by City<br />
Hall. The Court, complete with its roof, received only reluctant approval<br />
from Council in January.<br />
The storekeepers have been faced with the loss of their storefront<br />
signs because of the renovations, in addition to about 80 parking spaces,<br />
which would be replaced by underground parking in the finished building.<br />
They say the confusion and disarray around the court make it unattractive<br />
to shoppers.<br />
The incredible "hulk"<br />
Duford said he and his partner in their <strong>Glebe</strong> Fish Market had planned<br />
to open a restaurant upstairs in the court in addition to their first<br />
floor operation. Because of the delays in construction most of the<br />
second floor remains unfinished, and Duford says they are paying mortgage<br />
money for a restaurant they cannot open.<br />
Peter Thompson, owner of Earfull Records Store, said the delays have<br />
hurt his business too. He said he had "counted on moving into a mall,<br />
with mall traffic" when he leased his second floor store in November. In<br />
addition to construction delays, city hall building inspectors have told<br />
him he must have fire exit signs and other renovations done to the unfinished<br />
areas surrounding the store or face possible closure.<br />
Waserman said last week "I dont think anyone is more disappointed in<br />
this (the delays) than I am." He cited financial difficulties as the<br />
reason. Much of this confusion stems from the Court's long battle for<br />
approval in its present form from City Hall, he said. Because his<br />
financiers granted him only a short-term mortgage, the terms of which<br />
expired with the delay, he was left without financial support.<br />
Waserman also said recent hikes in interest rates caused much of the<br />
financial difficulty. He said that this confusion has now been "cleared<br />
up" and that construction will resume within the next two weeks.<br />
However, some merchants expressed misgivings at the news. One shopkeeper,<br />
who refused to be identified, said she would believe it when<br />
workmen started to work on the building again.<br />
Some <strong>Glebe</strong> residents are concerned the unfinished building may be left<br />
as an eyesore. Howard Smith, President of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association<br />
said he was disappointed in the halt of construction. "I wouldn't want<br />
to have the hulk left standing there."<br />
Most of the store owners said that more than anything else they would<br />
like to see the confusion surrounding the affair cleared up so they<br />
can carry on business. "The whole thing has been up in the air for months,<br />
and that's what is so disturbing," one shopkeeper said.
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 4<br />
Bank Street Changes<br />
By Liz Pritchard and B. J. R. Silberman<br />
Bank Street has seen alot of changes in the past<br />
but none so abundant as in the last few weeks.<br />
Jamie Hurlow of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Drugstore has closed<br />
up shop and rerouted his prescription business<br />
to a West End location<br />
Jimmy Saikley, owner of Avenue Locksmith, has<br />
moved his business into the Handa Travel space<br />
and his Cicero's Pizza has amalgamated with<br />
Mammouth Burger at Bank and Clemow<br />
Haircuts will soon be in short supply because<br />
the Barber Shop, between Third and Fourth, is<br />
closing down and the family is moving to<br />
Washington, D.C.<br />
The Big Chesse, now back in the hands of<br />
former owner, Doreen Young, still has a sign<br />
"Closed for Renovations" sprawled in the<br />
window<br />
410 Roche Bobois made a ghostly disappearance<br />
last month and rumour has it that it has consolidated<br />
back to Montreal<br />
41, The <strong>Glebe</strong> Meat Market has not skipped town: it<br />
has moved to Regent and Bank<br />
The Book Bazaar has migrated north to Bank and<br />
Second to dodge higher rents<br />
II McElroy's Shoes has closed down this month<br />
after having served <strong>Glebe</strong> shoppers for 70 years<br />
Haggar the Horrible has gone and rumour has it<br />
that a florist shop will soon be opened in its<br />
Horrible stead<br />
The Camera Clinic is planning an enlargement<br />
into the former Barber Shop space on May 1st<br />
A roaring <strong>Glebe</strong> pub, two stories high, will<br />
be opened up within the next six months in the<br />
old Book Bazaar space<br />
The laundromat: next door plans to meet pub<br />
competition by expanding to a second level as<br />
well<br />
The front of the former <strong>Glebe</strong> Drugstore will<br />
become a foyer for offices to be located upstairs<br />
There is a rumour that Camel Humps has<br />
been bought by Daphne and Victor's and while<br />
the well known Ottawa restaurant chain would<br />
not confirm the rumour, Daphne and Victor's,<br />
Lisa Sampson, added substance to the tale by<br />
admitting "we do not know if we will develop<br />
it (Camel Humps) or not:'<br />
111 Alpha TV will be moving its business network<br />
from Second and Bank into a new slot across<br />
the street in the former Southpaw Cycles<br />
space at the end of May.<br />
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BROTHERS THREE (480 Bank St.)<br />
Imagine this scene: you have just finished painting the dining-room<br />
when good friends from out-of-town unexpectedly appear on your doorstep.<br />
How many of us could be gracious hosts, prepare an appetizing meal, and<br />
serve it with flair after a day of painting?<br />
Well, the Brothers Three pulled it off without a hitch recently in<br />
the midst of redecorating their dining lounge. Although they had plan-<br />
ned to stay closed for the day, some regular customers showed up and so<br />
it was business as usual. As a result we were able to enjoy a pleasant<br />
meal and excellent service on a rainy, unpleasant evening.<br />
Veal Marsala, warm rolls, Italian salad<br />
The Brothers Three offers variations on three themes - steak, seafood,<br />
and Italian dishes - and over a very reasonable price range, from<br />
spaghetti at $3.75 to lobster tails for $10.95. Other main dishes for<br />
example, include lasagna ($3.95), filet of sole ($4.95). stuffed trout<br />
($5.75), shish kebab ($7.95), and filet mignon ($8.95).<br />
We ordered veal marsala ($5.95), spaghetti and the Italian salad<br />
2.90). Dinner started well when glasses of ice water were brought<br />
automatically to the table together with a basket of rolls which were<br />
crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, and hot all the way through -<br />
an ubeatable but rare combination. We divided the Italian salad of<br />
lettuce cheese, ham egg, radishes, and olives. It was generous for two,<br />
would serve three comfortably, and probably be adequate for four.<br />
The veal marsala was served in a tasty sauce, with cauliflower, and,<br />
in true Italian fashion, a helping of spaghetti. The veal was good and<br />
the cauliflower though bland, a pleasant change from the tried but true<br />
veggies offered in many restaurants. My friend's plate of spaghetti and<br />
meat sauce was hot and hearty and just missed being extra good because<br />
the pasta was a bit overcooked.<br />
Good value for money<br />
a short walk away<br />
The Brothers deliberately offer a limited choice of desserts - basically<br />
some standard pies and ice-cream. As one of the owners explained<br />
many customers do not order sweets and the restaurant has often been<br />
left with unwanted desserts. Having a congenital sweet tooth, I tried<br />
the raisin pie ($1.25) anyway. It was a cut above the usual cardboard<br />
box variety but otherwise reflected the owners' desire to concentrate<br />
on main dishes. This they do quite successfully, giving good value for<br />
money. Diners are also offered a good range of drinks and a modest<br />
choice of wines.<br />
The Brothers Three promises to be even more attractive once the redecorating<br />
is complete. I hope that in the process they will disconnect<br />
the speaker playing AM radio - the one Impediment to an otherwise enjoyable<br />
evening. I recommend a short walk north of the Queensway for<br />
all Glebites looking for good food at reasonable prices - Brothers<br />
Three fits the bill.<br />
Bank Changes<br />
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Odawa Friendship Centre<br />
Mammoth Burger and Ciceros<br />
Roche Bobois<br />
The Big Cheese<br />
Avenue Locksmith<br />
Book Bazaar<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Drugstore<br />
Barber Shop<br />
House of Cheese<br />
McElroy's Shoes<br />
Haggar the Horrible<br />
Fifth Avenue Court<br />
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from PARLIAMENT HILL<br />
On <strong>April</strong> 14 the Governor General delivered the Speech from the Throne<br />
to open the 32nd Parliament of Canada. Parliament will face great<br />
challenges not only in this year but in the <strong>1980</strong>'s as a whole. We face<br />
the effects of international turM'oil in Iran and Afghanistan along with<br />
economic and social problems at home. I look forward to these challenges<br />
and to serving and representing the people of Ottawa Centre on<br />
local and national issues. I also look forward to my new responsibilities<br />
as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, the<br />
Honourable Allan MacEachen.<br />
The clear priority of the Liberal Government is national development.<br />
This is based on Canadians realistically living within their means. As<br />
it should be, the Government intends to help. The Liberal Government is<br />
committed to reducing unacceptably high interest rates, helping homeowners<br />
who must renegotiate their mortgages, increasing available funds<br />
to small businessmen under the Small Business Loans Act, raising the<br />
Guaranteed Income Supplement for pensioners by $35 per month per household<br />
by July 1, <strong>1980</strong>, creating new jobs, and promoting Canadian exports<br />
through a national trade corporation.<br />
Because of this heavy workload the House of Commons will work into<br />
late summer. As always, Iwill do my best to represent your interests.<br />
I hope you will not hesitate to contact me with your ideas and advice.<br />
The Constituency Office has been closed temporarily. You may still<br />
reach me at 238-6295.<br />
By Madelaine Cross<br />
Do you remember the little old iron hemming<br />
birds? Depress the tail to open the beak, catch<br />
the fabric to be hemmed and you were ready<br />
stitch up a storm!<br />
Well this Hemming Bird does much more. It is<br />
a delightful children's boutique, a visual treat<br />
of creative, individual and simply lovely<br />
children's wear, all custom made, ready-towear.<br />
The owner/manager, Joyce Lillico, is a 25.<br />
year-old dynamo of endless energy, ideas and<br />
enthusiasm. For a number of years she was entrapped<br />
in a dead end, frustrating civil service<br />
job. It is hard to leave a good paying, secure<br />
job. However, Joyce feels that there is more<br />
to life. One has to have a feeling of accomplishment<br />
and fulfillment.<br />
While participating in an Ottawa Craft Fair,<br />
Joyce was asked to consider going into businesswould<br />
she'like to open up a shop at the Yellow<br />
Brick Road? The time was right and the Hemming<br />
Bird opened last November.<br />
Joyce enjoys working with people, knowing the<br />
faces and names of her clients and their children<br />
and seeing the pleasure on their faces when<br />
they find the right addition to their wardrobe.<br />
"It's all very gratifying", she said.<br />
Joyce is as charming as the garments she<br />
creates. As a mother she understands the needs<br />
of both parent and child and her designs combine<br />
beautifully,both superb constuction and the<br />
artistry of a gifted designer. Her natural flair<br />
and talents are inherited from her mother, Terry<br />
Drupsteen who assists in production.<br />
At the Hemmingbird one is provided with personal<br />
service and good quality clothing at reasonable<br />
prices. Other services include made- toorder<br />
garments and a consultation in your home<br />
to colour co-ordinate special order patchwork<br />
pillows to complement your decor.<br />
A sampling of items available in sizes infants<br />
to 8 are: dresses and pinafores with delicate<br />
hand-embroidered detail $11-$16; reversible<br />
patchwork vests $9; toddlers smocks and bloomers<br />
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The Hemming Bird is located at The Yellow<br />
Brick Road, 103 Fourth Avenue, 2nd Floor (next<br />
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Former Hopewell Principal honoured Recapture youth at<br />
Hopewell's 70th Reunion<br />
W. G. Strong shows present Hopewell Principal Doug Beaman scrapbooks<br />
By Mary Ahearn<br />
William George Strong is now 86 years old, living in <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre<br />
Home for Senior Citizens, surrounded by reminders of a life well spent.<br />
He was born on a farm in Huron County,attended the University of Toronto,<br />
and taught a number of years in rural schools before travelling to Ottawa<br />
in 1923, where he has remained for 57 years.<br />
His five and a half decades in Ottawa started with a teaching position<br />
at Kent St. School (now the Journal Building), then to York St.School in<br />
Lowertown, where he met his wife, the former Georgina De Long: she had<br />
attended Rideauvale (now Hopewell) as a youngster. Bill Strong also<br />
taught at Mutchmor, Glashan and Elmdale (where Doug Beaman, the current<br />
Principal at Hopewell, was one of his pupils). Finally in 1944, he went<br />
to Hopewell as principal. In the intervening years, Strong took summer<br />
and extension courses, and he received the first Masters of Education<br />
conferred by Bishop's University in 1945. His Masters' thesis concerned<br />
"the nature and nurture of gifted children"; it was at Hopewell in 1958<br />
that the Board placed the first classes for gifted children, under the<br />
supervision of Strong.<br />
Bill Strong's interests over the years took him outside the sphere of<br />
education. For 20 years, he taught Christian Education at Dominion<br />
Chalmers Church; he was ordained an Elder there, and served as Clerk of<br />
Session for 10 years. He was also Chairman of the Cubs and Scouts<br />
Committee. Other Boards he served on include the Children's Aid Society,<br />
Neighbourhood Services, Men's Teaching Association, Athletic Organizations<br />
and the Protestant Home for the Aged. He has also been active with the<br />
Masonic Temple, and is a Life member of the Rose Croix.<br />
After the death of his wife, Georgina two years ago, Mr. Strong sold<br />
his Fentiman Avenue home complete with snowblowers, lawn mower and car,<br />
to a former pupil, and moved into the G':ebe Centre. There he has remained<br />
active with the residents and is Associate Editor of the Newsletter.<br />
Last year, he was elected Citizen of the Year by the <strong>Glebe</strong> Residents<br />
and was presented with a plaque by the South Ottawa Rotary Club. Despite<br />
his advanced years, this octogenarian remains active and brings the same<br />
enthusiasm to his interests as he always has - Strong keeps going strong!<br />
by Mary Ahearn<br />
Do you ever get the urge to return to your<br />
past? To sit again among the Lilliputian<br />
chairs of your kindergarten class? To gaze in<br />
wonder at the high bars in your old school<br />
gymnasium? To see if the principal's office<br />
was really so terrifying? For many Ottawans,<br />
this opportunity is theirs, as Hopewell School<br />
beckons its former students and members of the<br />
community back for the celebration of its 70th<br />
birthday. The week of May 5th to May 10th will<br />
include a Vocal Music Concert on Monday, May 5th<br />
and an Open House on Wednesday and Thursday.<br />
Saturday, May 10th, will mark a really big day,<br />
with Hopewell's annual garage sale from 9 to<br />
1.30 in the gym; an Open House and Reunion Tea<br />
from 2:30 to 5:00, and from 6.30 on, the agenda<br />
includes a reunion banquet with speakers and<br />
seven decades of song. For those interested in<br />
these activities, or who wish to purchase tickets<br />
for the reunion banquet, contact Jean Montgomery<br />
235-8927.<br />
Child Testing Program<br />
In <strong>April</strong>, May and June of this year,-the<br />
Public Health Nurses of the Ottawa-Carleton Regional<br />
Health Unit will be screening children<br />
who will be entering school for the first time<br />
in September, <strong>1980</strong>. The Screening will consist<br />
of vision and hearing testing and speech assessment.<br />
If you are interested in having your<br />
child tested, please Lelephone the school where<br />
you will be registering your child and ask that<br />
your name and telephone number be given to the<br />
Public Health Nurse. She will contact you for<br />
an appointment.<br />
These screening programmes are<br />
carried out in the elementary schools of the<br />
Region.<br />
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The seminar will be held on Wed., <strong>April</strong><br />
23, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., at the Ottawa<br />
Public Library, on the corner of Laurier and<br />
Metcalfe.<br />
The seminar is free but you do need a<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> Reip-<strong>April</strong>'pagdji"'<br />
A free performance of SHANTYMEN OF CACHE LAKE produced<br />
by the Great Canadian Theatre Company will take place<br />
on Sat. <strong>April</strong> 26 at the Ottawa Public Library, Laurier<br />
Avenue at 2 p.m. It is one of 107 engagements booked in<br />
the area. Mutchmor children enjoyed the production last<br />
month in the school.<br />
Mutchmor<br />
UPCOMING EVENTS. Education Week (May 4 - 8)<br />
will feature a musical review and Science Fair.<br />
Saturday, May 24th - May Madness auction, bake sale, white<br />
elephant table.<br />
Glashan News<br />
GLASHAN ON ITS WAY TO ALASKA. In preparation for the track<br />
and field season, Glashan Houses are competing in a race to<br />
Alaska. Each student clocks in his jogging for the day.<br />
Families are encouraged to jog along too as their mileage<br />
counts as well. Daily progress is recordrekl on a map. Last<br />
year the kids raced to South America.<br />
School Band travels to<br />
Kitchener<br />
By Ron Campbell<br />
The Glashan Senior Public School Band recently completed<br />
an exchange program with a Kitchener area counterpart.<br />
The 42-member Glashan band travelled to Kitchener's<br />
Stanley Park Senior Public School March 31 for four days<br />
of music and learning. Mr. Morgan, Glashan's music teacher<br />
said his band went to Kitchener not only to exhibit its<br />
musical talent (which is considerable) but also to see<br />
how school life differs in an area outside Ottawa.<br />
The Glashan band members certainly found differences<br />
between their school's systems. Besides changing classes<br />
more often the Kitchener kids seemed to take "hardly<br />
any French."<br />
The musical highlights of the trip were a night concert<br />
at Stanley Park on Tuesday and a jazz clinic at Grand<br />
River Collegiate Wednesday. Mr. Morgan found his group<br />
had slightly higher skills compared to the Stanley Park<br />
band mainly because Glashan practises harder. The band<br />
members spend one to two hours daily playing their instruments<br />
during and after school. The Glashan kids put<br />
it another way:"Mr. Morgan pushes us hard therefore<br />
we're more advanced."<br />
One of the interesting sights around Kitchener is the<br />
Old Order Mennonite areanear Elmira. "Different" is the<br />
way one student described the spartan life of the Mennonites<br />
The Glashan band returned <strong>April</strong> 3, after thanking<br />
their billets for an enjoyable stay. To complete the<br />
exchange, the Stanley Park Band came up to Ottawa <strong>April</strong> 8<br />
and stayed with the members they had hosted the previous<br />
week. They also went to classes and had a concert on Wed.<br />
night. They toured the Parliament Buildings, the Mint<br />
and the Art Gallery before leaving <strong>April</strong> 11.<br />
As a group the Glashan band thought the exchange was<br />
very worthwhile. Since they raised the money for the trip<br />
through an orange selling drive the Band would like to<br />
thank the community for all its support.<br />
70 Years Old Happy Birthday<br />
Hopewell<br />
By Mary Ahearn<br />
Bill Strong was principal of Hopewell Avenue Public<br />
School for 15 years, from 1944 to 1959, and during these<br />
years he kept a scrapbook of events pertaining to the<br />
school, to record its place in the history of this community<br />
and city.<br />
Hopewell School had its humble beginnings in the pre-<br />
Confederation days when a log school was built to accommodate<br />
the 36 school age children who lived south of the<br />
Rideau Canal. In those days, the area was part of Nepean<br />
Township, and the teacher earned $120 per year. Rideauvale<br />
as it was called, became a 2-storey brick school in 1872,<br />
and when the area was incorporated with the City of Ottawa<br />
in 1909, the school became Hopewell. Mr. T.N. Lewis of<br />
Howick Place in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, became the first principal of<br />
the eight room school facing Hopewell Avenue.<br />
In 1914, 12 additional classrooms were added to the<br />
North through the expropriation of houses on Sunnyside Ave.<br />
One of these rooms served as the Ottawa South Library, and<br />
others were leased to the Collegiate Board to serve as<br />
Grades 9 and 10, since Lisgar was the closest High School.<br />
Many changes took place in the school system in the<br />
ensuing years. <strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate was built in 1922, and<br />
Mutchmor on Fifth Avenue served the Grade 7 and 8 pupils<br />
from Hopewell. But in 1931, a 3-storey addition was added<br />
to Hopewell, and Mutchmor reverted to an elementary school.<br />
At the same time the Canada Packers Plant on Sunnyside<br />
was expropriated to make room for a gymnasium.<br />
In 1944, with the school enrolment a staggering 1200<br />
pupils, W.B. Strong took over as principal of Hopewell.<br />
The scrapbook that he kept during these years is full of<br />
, memorabilia and nostalgia: Charlotte Whitten as Mayor,<br />
school uniforms, the choir and guiding and scouts, the<br />
Highland dancing and school plays. The newspaper clippings<br />
over the years evoke memories of academic achievement, of<br />
head boys and girls, tales of heroism and tragedy, of<br />
school inspections and desk burnings, of citizenship training<br />
and yes, even of Howdy Doody!<br />
In a sense, Bill Strong has been the keeper of the<br />
history of Hopewell, and looks forward to enlightening those<br />
who attend the May reunion.<br />
The scrapbooks may be viewed in the school library.<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 8<br />
Quarter Century of Little League<br />
Baseball<br />
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LE-13E<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Little League Baseball Association is 25<br />
years young this year. Since its inception in 1955, the<br />
League has provided the youth of the <strong>Glebe</strong> community<br />
with the opportunity to take part in Little League<br />
Baseball. Thousands of boys and girls have participated;<br />
many of them are today's parents, coaches and umpires.<br />
This year, some 200 boys and girls will play. Their<br />
ages range from six through 18. The League will comprise<br />
four divisions - Minor (Ages 6-12), Major (Ages<br />
11-12), Senior (Ages 13-15) and Big League (Ages 16-18).<br />
A Silver Anniversary Party will be held at the South<br />
Ottawa Community Centre Sat. May 10, <strong>1980</strong> from 8 p.m.<br />
to midnight. Admission is $1.00 per person. Music will<br />
be provided and refreshments available. All <strong>Glebe</strong> Little<br />
League parents, coaches, umpires and sponsors are invited<br />
to attend.<br />
Tickets are available at Britton's Smoke Shop.<br />
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We suggest 250<br />
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We love to get<br />
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Stoop and scoop please<br />
The letter in the January 19 issue of "<strong>Glebe</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong>" is an unnecessarily emotional response<br />
to the question of dogs. In replying thus, I<br />
think the point of the objection was missed.<br />
Nobody is denying the ownership of dogs.<br />
All one asks is that the owners be sufficiently<br />
responsible to clean up after their dogs, keep<br />
them under control and prevent them from being<br />
a general nuisance. That much is asked of<br />
parents regarding their children.<br />
I find it disgusting to step in excrement<br />
whether it comes from dogs, cats, horses or<br />
people. The problem in the parks here, is in<br />
fact from dogs, to my knowledge. I would<br />
support a "stoop and scoop" law that is enforced,<br />
Whether one is walking one's dog, horse,<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 9<br />
South Ottawa Soccer news<br />
By Jack McRae<br />
Registration for the <strong>1980</strong> season has provided many candidates for cornpetitive<br />
team tryouts. The best of these players are now being selected<br />
and placed on "A" and "B" level teams so it appears that South<br />
Ottawa will be well represented from Atoms to Juniors when league play<br />
begins in May. Incidentally half of these players are from the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Some figures from the Canadian Youth Soccer Handbook show the<br />
growth of mfnor soccer from 1973 to 1978.<br />
1973 1976 1978<br />
Canada 68,668 105,000 150,000<br />
Ontario 33,952 41,292 60,067<br />
Similar statistics from 1972 the year our Ottawa-Carleton youth<br />
league was formed:<br />
1972 1976 1978<br />
Ottawa 806 2707 4527<br />
This tremendous growth during the 70's has left soccer in the Ottawa<br />
area with three problems: 1) a shortage of fields to practice and play<br />
on. 2) a shortage of coaches and managers to run the many teams.<br />
3) a shortage of referees to officiate the games.<br />
The field problem can only be solved by soccer rlayers and supporters<br />
informing the city about the need for more facilities.<br />
The coaching problem is being worked on by the league and its<br />
member clubs which are holding Technical Coaching clinics to go along<br />
with the Coaching Theory Courses offered by the Ontario Govt. at<br />
Ottawa University. A Level I technical Clinic is being held Sat.<br />
May 24 and Sat. May 31 at Lisgar Collegiate. This is a Canadian<br />
Soccer Association course which introduced the aspirant coach to the<br />
basics of the game and coaching methods.<br />
The Ottawa branch of the Ontario Referees Association is offering<br />
a Referees Clinic on two Saturdays in mid <strong>April</strong>. This is an introduction<br />
to the Laws of the game and is open to anyone 14 years of age<br />
or over who is interested in becoming a referee. Cost $5. Hopefully<br />
many new officials will graduate from this course and be out in force<br />
this summer.<br />
Bill Thomson, Canadian Soccer Association director of coaching is<br />
giving a presentation on coaching - Mini Soccer - and the many related<br />
materials available at the CSA. This is for the benefit of all the<br />
present South Ottawa coaches plus anyone interested in coaching soccer<br />
this summer. The date is Wed. <strong>April</strong> 23 at the Riverside United Church<br />
at 7:15 p.m.<br />
Tennis Everyone!<br />
By Barry Kiefl<br />
The St. James Tennis Club in the <strong>Glebe</strong> (Third<br />
Avenue, west of Lyon) opens its <strong>1980</strong> season on<br />
Sat. May 3. The publicly-owned club welcomes<br />
everyone interested in tennis. Season fees<br />
range from $15 for Juniors to $30 for Seniors,<br />
with special Married and Family rates. Free<br />
lessons are available from qualified instructors.<br />
This season will be the first full season in<br />
the newly-renovated club house, offering showers<br />
and lockers.<br />
Membership forms can be completed at the club<br />
on Sat., <strong>April</strong> 19 (10 am-noon) and opening day<br />
May 28 (7 pm-9pm). Round robin tournaments<br />
where players get to know one another will be<br />
held May 3 and June 7.<br />
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NCTA League commences<br />
May 27<br />
Both Boy's and Girl's<br />
leagues<br />
Two divisions this year<br />
Division I - experienced<br />
Division II - younger<br />
less experienced<br />
Sign up during club -<br />
Registration<br />
Sat. <strong>April</strong> 19<br />
10 - 12 noon<br />
Sat. May 3<br />
10 - 12 noon<br />
Let's have a girl's<br />
eam this year<br />
Soccer Camp<br />
Carleton University is offering a C.S.A.<br />
sanctioned soccer camp this summer. The camp<br />
runs for four one week sessions from 9:30 a.m.-<br />
4:30 p.m. daily from July 2 - July 27. This<br />
program is open to players between the ages of<br />
8 and 16 years. Players receive a cafeteria<br />
lunch daily as well as a recreation swim. At<br />
the conclusion of each session a games day and<br />
barbeaue will end the camp. Each participant<br />
will receive a specialized Soccer Camp T-shirt.<br />
Cost: $60 per session.<br />
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Soccer is a demanding all-round sport which<br />
provides fitness, stamina, strength, endurance<br />
and flexibility. This was proven by the good<br />
showing of Lenarduzzi of the Whitecaps and<br />
Brian Budd of the Blizzard in the Canadian Superstars.<br />
In fact, Budd won the Canadian Competit-<br />
ion and then went on to win the World Superstars<br />
for the third straight time March 14th in the<br />
Bahamas.<br />
The NASL season is now underway and Global<br />
T.V. Netwrok is broadcasting many Blizzard<br />
games so be on the look out for them.<br />
Swimming Kingfish Busy<br />
By Ron Campbell<br />
It was another busy month for Ottawa Kingfish<br />
swimmers as they recently concluded their short<br />
course season. Five members of the team<br />
travelled to Toronto for the Canadian Championships<br />
a few weeks ago. Breaststroker Anne<br />
Merklinger and butterflyer Nancy Horne both<br />
finished fourth in their respective events.<br />
Their placing in this meet is especially promising<br />
considering the top three finishers in<br />
each event at the Olympic trials will be taken<br />
to Moscow (that is, providing Canadian athletes<br />
go to the Olympics).<br />
At the Canadian Junior Nationals in Brantford<br />
Chris Pilon won the men's 100 metre breaststroke<br />
and Ruth Horne captured the 100 metre butterfly.<br />
Back home at Brewer pool the Kingfish con-<br />
:lacted the Swim-a-thon swim last week. Most of<br />
the swimmers completed the 200 metre lengths in<br />
under 2 hours; some even did the whole thing<br />
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The Kingfish will be travelling to Montreal<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 10<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community<br />
Association<br />
by Howard Smith<br />
Executive Nominations Sought<br />
The GCA's Annual General Meeting will be held on Mon. tçay 26 at the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre, and in addition to a special program, there will<br />
be an election of a new Executive for <strong>1980</strong>-81. If you would be interested<br />
in serving on this Executive, please contact a member of the Nominating<br />
Committee (Leslie Scheffer at 232-41<strong>08</strong>, Joyce McCaffrey at<br />
233-6582, or John McLeod at 234-4<strong>08</strong>3) or myself at 235-7400. Next year's<br />
Executive will face just as many interesting challenges and opportunities<br />
for innovative community action as over the last several years.<br />
Cartier Square for Canadians<br />
Another development project on Cartier Square is receiving the attention<br />
of community groups in Centretown and other parts of the city. The<br />
following represents the GCA's views on the matter.<br />
Dear Mr. Cosgrove: (Minister of Public Works)<br />
Cartier Square<br />
March 31, <strong>1980</strong>.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association would like to express its concerns<br />
with respect to the future use of Cartier Square.<br />
We have followed with great interest this discussion on how one of<br />
the few available parcels of federally owned land in downtown Ottawa<br />
will be developed. The GCA would not want to recall all of the<br />
arguments which have been used in this discussion but would rather<br />
address the fundamental issues involved. Since this land is publicly<br />
owned and is located in-the core of the country's capital city, it is<br />
essential that it be developed for the benefit of the public. In this<br />
context, the public can be defined as the citizens of Ottawa as well as<br />
the citizens of the country as a whole. Moreover, we are surely at a<br />
stage of the country's evolution when those directly affected should<br />
have an active role in determining the final use of this historical and<br />
valuable site. We strongly urge that most careful consideration and full<br />
weight be given to the views and options put forward by community<br />
representatives. Community representatives should be consulted and actively<br />
involved not only at this juncture but at the various other stages<br />
through which the plan for Cartier Square will be developed, matured<br />
and finally implemented.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association would be most interested in learning<br />
tour viewo on these matters.<br />
H.G. Smith<br />
Fifth Avenue Court Stands Idle President<br />
There seems to be very little construction on Fifth Avenue Court<br />
these days. We understand there may be some difficulties in the financing<br />
or operation of the development. It is hoped the project will be<br />
completed so as not to raise the possibility of a half-finished building<br />
standing empty or there being a negative impact on the shops we all<br />
patronize along the Bank Street side of the project.<br />
LILLIPUT<br />
C-WAI TOYS<br />
HEMMING BIRD<br />
HAND CRAFTED<br />
CLOTHING, TOYS<br />
PLAY FURNITURE<br />
103 Fourth Ave<br />
232-3945<br />
Pastel Portraits by Cheryl Gelman<br />
from sittings or photographs AMONMI6.<br />
Social Action Committee<br />
Health Clinic forthe <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Entrance needed for handicapped<br />
As you follow the neighbourhood study, it<br />
has gone through the stages: Existing Conditions<br />
'78, The Development Plan (accepted<br />
by council Jan. '80), and now we are at stage<br />
3: Implementation.<br />
This is an invitation to <strong>Glebe</strong> residents,<br />
Capital Ward Residents and city residents to<br />
give your support, advice ,and presence to the<br />
Social Action Committee with regard to a<br />
Health Clinic for Capital Ward, and also concerning<br />
entrance for the handicapped into<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre.<br />
The Social Action Committee (S.A.C.) is<br />
a new committee set up as a subcomittee to<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association. The GCA is<br />
responsible for monitoring the implementation<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Plan. As a subcommittee<br />
the Social Action Committee deals<br />
with the monitoring of the implementation of<br />
the plan's social aspects. The first task of<br />
the S.A.C. will be The Health Clinic and<br />
the entrance for handicapped into the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre. The first meeting will be<br />
at 7:30 p.m. Thurs. <strong>April</strong> 24 at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre 690 Lyon St.<br />
The committee consists of Betty Maione-<br />
238-1589, Howard Smith-235-7400, Sheila<br />
Johnston-234-0953. Membership is open. For<br />
information contact us. Any written comments<br />
may be sent to the Social Action Committee<br />
25 Craig St., Ottawa K1S4B6, or Social Action<br />
Committee, 187 Third Ave., K1S2K2.<br />
Any handicapped person wishing to attend<br />
the meeting please call Betty (238-1589) and<br />
come to 690 Lyon St. at 7:30 p.m. Thurs.<br />
<strong>April</strong> 24. This plan can only work if we all<br />
work together.<br />
By Sheila Johnston<br />
oc.<br />
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No.2904 with<br />
Reg. 1.79 pr.<br />
Sale<br />
Price<br />
CONTROL TOP<br />
REINFORCED PANTY and TOE.<br />
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No. 125 with REINFORCED TOE, No. 127 SANDALFOOT<br />
and No. 227 SANDALFOOT ANKLETS.<br />
Reg. 99(1: pr.<br />
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Mutchmor Hobby Fair<br />
a popular event<br />
by<br />
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NEIGHBOURHOOD ACTIVITIES GROUP<br />
41%G'1.EIBE<br />
Annual<br />
Meeting<br />
Wednesday <strong>April</strong> 23, <strong>1980</strong><br />
at<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
8:00 p.m.<br />
A review of the past year's activities<br />
Financial <strong>Report</strong><br />
Election of New Officers<br />
Followed by Wine and Cheese<br />
Everyone is encouraged to come<br />
out and celebrate the end of<br />
a successful year and the start<br />
of a new year. We look forward<br />
to seeing you there.<br />
Photos by Jinny Slyfield<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> kids are obviously pack rats in the making. One hundred and eighty Mutchmor students signed up for the annual,<br />
very popular Hobby Fair held just before the March Break. Two completely different shows crammed the gym ; one was presented<br />
in the morning, ore in the afternoon. The variety was amazing - buttons, bottlecaps, Smerfs, Micronauts, stuffed<br />
animals, Kub Kars, as well as the more traditional stamps, dolls, coins, rocks, hockey cards and comic books.<br />
Pictured above: Top-Michael Daly 9, displays Tyranasaurus rex bones, Jaws looks on; Middle left -Michael Guilbault,11, an<br />
origami expert talks to Alex Weller, 10 about his stamp collection, Harold Seaborn, 9, is proud of his rock collection.<br />
Bottom:left: Erin Smith, 8, collects shells; Right; Lyra Magloughlin, 9, specializes in cartoons.<br />
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SPRING PROGRAMME<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
690 LYON ST. 563-3116<br />
ADULT EVENING CLASSES<br />
N.B. All courses will begin the week of <strong>April</strong> 28 and will<br />
continue until the week of June 16 unless otherwise noted.<br />
No classes May 19.<br />
Pottery (Level 1 and 2)<br />
Some supplies included<br />
Recreational Badminton<br />
Fitness (Level 1) $12.00 l/wk Mon & Wed.<br />
6:15 - 7:00<br />
Modern Dance<br />
Fitness (Level 2) $20.00 2/wk Mon & Wed. May 3 - May 31<br />
7:00 - 8:00<br />
Fitness (Level 1) $12.00 l/wk Tues. & Thurs. ADULT WORKSHOPS<br />
6:15 - 7:00<br />
Fitness (Level 2) $20.00 2/wk Tues. & Thurs. Medicinal Use of Common $50.00<br />
7:00 - 8:00 Local Plants<br />
28 - June 22<br />
Jazz Ballet (Level 1) $16.00 Monday<br />
8:00 - 9:30<br />
Recreational Games FREE<br />
Couple's Workshop $50.00 Wednesday<br />
Monday Couple May 7,14,21,<br />
7:00 - 9:00 28, June 4.<br />
Aerobics Fitness Club $15.00<br />
Friday May 9<br />
Monday 7:30 - 10:00<br />
8:00 - 9:00 Sat. May 10<br />
Jazz Ballet (Level 3) $16.00 Tuesday<br />
9:00 - 4:00<br />
8:00 - 9.30 Massage Workshop $9.00<br />
The Planets $16.00 Tuesday<br />
<strong>April</strong> 29 - May 20 7:30 - 9:00<br />
Yoga (Level 1) $25.00 Tuesday<br />
8:15 - 9:45 Gardening in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Supplies included<br />
Drawing (Level 1) $26.00 Tuesday<br />
Supplies included 7:00 - 9:30<br />
Photography Workshop<br />
Children's Literature $25.00 Wednesday<br />
<strong>April</strong> 30 - June 4 7:30 - 9:30<br />
$40.00 Thursday<br />
7:00 - 10:00<br />
Monday<br />
7:30 - 9:30<br />
Sunday (field<br />
trip)<br />
Thursday,May 8<br />
7:00 - 10:00<br />
Thursday,May 22<br />
7:00 - 10:00<br />
Handbuilding Coloured Clay $35.00 Tuesday Quickie Quilting $10.00 Wednesday<br />
<strong>April</strong> 29 - June 3 7:00 - 10:00 <strong>April</strong> 30 and<br />
Some supplies included May 7,<br />
9:00 - 11:30<br />
$9.00 session Saturday, May<br />
10 and 31<br />
9:30 - 12:30<br />
Home Bartending and Wine Picnics and Love Feasts $12.00 Saturday, May<br />
Appreciation. Supplies incl. $50.00 Wednesday Supplies included 3.<br />
7:30 - 9:30 9:30 - 1:00<br />
FREE<br />
Thursday<br />
7:00 - 10:00<br />
$15.00 Saturday<br />
$12 session Saturday ,May<br />
$35 All 3, 10, 31<br />
9:30 - 12:30<br />
Margaret Morris Movement $15.00 Wednesday Boat Safety Workshop $3.00 All Saturday<br />
<strong>April</strong> 30 - May 28 7:00 - 8:30 May 3 and 10<br />
Yoga (Level 2)<br />
$25.00<br />
Wednesday<br />
9:30 - 12:30<br />
8:15 - 9:45<br />
Astrology (Level 1)<br />
T'ai Chi<br />
$24.00<br />
$35.00<br />
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Thursday<br />
7:30 - 9:30<br />
ADULT DAY CLASSES<br />
N.B.<br />
met.<br />
Babysitting is available if minimum registration is<br />
Children must be preregistered.<br />
Bellydancing<br />
$25.00<br />
Thursday<br />
8:15 - 10:00<br />
Fit Less<br />
Begins May 12.<br />
$30.00<br />
Mon,Wed, Fri.<br />
7:30 - 8:15<br />
Intermediate Conversational $32.00<br />
French (Maximum 6 people)<br />
Thursday<br />
7:30 - 9:00<br />
Fit and Trim Living<br />
$20.00<br />
Mon,Wed, Fri.<br />
10:00 - 10:45
Metres for Millions '80<br />
17t.,<br />
The family around the world<br />
Walk May 3
Page 2<br />
METRES FOR MILLIONS<br />
CANSAVE<br />
A small calf-loan program, to which Ottawa Metres<br />
for Millions contributed in 1968, was the starting point<br />
-for an extensive rural community development program<br />
in Korea, organized by the Canadian Save the Children<br />
Fund. Its success and subsequent expansion illustrate the<br />
basic philosophy behind all Save the Children work:<br />
helping children, families and communities in the<br />
developing world to help themselves.<br />
CANS AVE Children provided calves to needy families<br />
in rural Korea. These animals were not only a source of<br />
dairy products, but also served as working animals on<br />
small family plots of land. The progeny were returned to<br />
CANSAVE and provided an ongoing and selfreplenishing<br />
service to other villagers.<br />
This calf-loan project has since evolved into a full rural<br />
development program, which operates alongside the<br />
Korean Government's "Saemaul Undong)) (New<br />
Community Movement), launched in 1971.<br />
The CANSAVE-Korea administrator maintains<br />
contact with village committee and supervises projects.<br />
His field workers act as advisers and catalysts for<br />
development. Fifty per cent of the funds needed are<br />
provided by the villagers themselves.<br />
Results have brought many benefits to the<br />
communities involved. In 1975, for instance, 245<br />
different types of projects were completed in 15 villages.<br />
They included the introduction of greenhouse<br />
cultivation, cattle breeding, road building, roof<br />
improvements, installation of water and electricity,<br />
establishment of credit unions, and the building of<br />
community centres.<br />
CANSAVE's present priority is clustered village<br />
development, which brings together several villages in cooperative<br />
efforts. Emphasis is upon income-generating<br />
projects and the use of available resources in three<br />
specific communities.<br />
In all its programs, the Canadian Save the Children<br />
Fund works toward the day when its assistance will he no<br />
longer necessary.<br />
WUSC<br />
World University Service of Canada (WUSC) uses its<br />
portion of the funds raised by Metres for Millions to fund<br />
the Bandaragama Development Education Training<br />
Centre for the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri<br />
Lanka.<br />
The primary objective of the movement, according to<br />
founder and president A.T. Ariyaratne, is "the fulfilment<br />
of man. The Sarvodaya appeal is directed towards the<br />
transformation of the individual and through the<br />
individual the family, the village, the nation and the<br />
world." The world Sarvodaya means "the awakening of<br />
all by the mutual sharing of one's thoughts, wealth and<br />
energy."<br />
The Sarvodaya movement is active in over 3,000<br />
villages and towns in Sri Lanka, an island republic of 15<br />
million off the southern tip of India. It promotes<br />
community development in rural areas by linking small<br />
villages with service and training centres that organize the<br />
construction of pre-schools, community kitchens, and<br />
communication systems to aid in self-reliance in<br />
surrounding villages.<br />
Ttaining centres such as the one at Bandaragama<br />
provide three-to six-month courses in carpentry,<br />
handicrafts, sewing, pre-school teaching, leadership<br />
skills, and other locally relevant means of constructive<br />
village development.<br />
Road construction, land-clearing, agricultural<br />
programs and housing development are undertaken<br />
through cooperative efforts that focus on the youth of the<br />
area. Work-camps, or Shramadanas, are organized for<br />
projects that last from two days to one month, and often<br />
bring together 2,000 young people to participate in a<br />
regional project.<br />
CCI<br />
Canadian Crossroads International fosters world-wide<br />
understanding by sending selected volunteers to live and<br />
work with local people in developing countries.<br />
Crossroaders serve for four months, beginning in May<br />
or September, on self-help projects in education, health<br />
care, agriculture, community development, and<br />
construction.<br />
In each participating country, CCI has volunteer<br />
committees composed of indigenous people who select,<br />
monotor and co-ordinate overseas projects, ensuring<br />
their compatibility to the goals and objectives of the<br />
organization.<br />
In turn, Canadian families host volunteers from<br />
developing nations who live and work for four months in<br />
communities across Canada. The progr-m makes up<br />
about 20 per cent of CC1's operation. -<br />
Established in 1968, CCI is unique in that it relies<br />
almost entirely on community-based volunteers to<br />
implement Crossroads' national and overseas<br />
programs, and provides the financial foundation from<br />
which it operates.<br />
CHF<br />
In the early autumn of 1979, hurricanes David and<br />
Frederick smashed into the Dominion Republic,<br />
destroying the year's harvest, levelling homes, washing<br />
away bridges, and cutting off communications.<br />
In their wake the storms left many dead and well over<br />
100,000 homeless.Flood waters brought the danger of<br />
tropical diseases, and devastated farmlands left many<br />
people facing starvation.<br />
As the flow of international relief abated, the Canadian<br />
Hunger Foundation mobilized its forces for more longterm<br />
aid to the stricken island in the Antilles.<br />
As an organization devoted to helping people help<br />
themselves toward self-sufficiency through agricultural<br />
development, CHF has supported many projects in the<br />
Dominican Republic over the last 15 years. Joining with<br />
Dominican agencies and the government, CHF stressed<br />
the need for long-term agricultural planning and<br />
reconstruction, and for preventive measures to help limit<br />
damage that might be caused by future hurricanes.<br />
Twelve projects have already been defined and<br />
sponsored by local non-government agencies, ranging<br />
from installation of low-cost water pumps and<br />
development of seed varieties to training in the care of<br />
small animals and processing of infant foods.<br />
These and other projects will be co-ordinated in a<br />
general program of agricultural reconstruction which<br />
will provide jobs, seed, farm implements and foodprocessing<br />
equipment, fund the construction of homes<br />
and small-scale hydroelectric power generators, and<br />
develop marketing strategies.<br />
All these projects will include training and research so<br />
that they become the basis of a long-term development<br />
toward self-sufficiency in the production of foods<br />
essential to adequate nutrition.<br />
Funds from the <strong>1980</strong> Metres for Millions walk will help<br />
the Canadian Hunger Foundation to carry on this vital<br />
work in the Dominican Republic and other Third World<br />
countries.<br />
PPFC<br />
CUSO PHOTO<br />
Supporting programs that promote responsible<br />
parenthood and happy family life in Third World<br />
countries is an objective of the Planned Parenthood<br />
Federation of Canada.<br />
As a member of the International Planned Parenthood<br />
Federation (IPPF), the Canadian organization is<br />
dedicated to the concept that a balance between the<br />
population of the world and its natural resources and<br />
productivity is a necessary condition of human<br />
happiness, prosperity and peace.<br />
The PPFC also subscribes to the idea that family<br />
planning is an integral part of the development process,<br />
part of the wider struggle to eliminate poverty and social<br />
injustice.<br />
Funds from the Metres for Millions Walk help the<br />
federation to support community based projects by<br />
Family Planning Associations (FPA) in developing<br />
countries around the world. A current project is to<br />
provide family life education to low-income communities<br />
in Bangkok, Thailand.<br />
In Indonesia, the government has asked the FPA to<br />
work in the outer province where great distances and<br />
poor communications make it difficult to deliver family<br />
planning information.<br />
MATCH<br />
MATCH International Centre will use the funds raised<br />
by Metres for Millions <strong>1980</strong> to support small women's .<br />
projects, such as the leadership and community<br />
development training program in Ecuador led by the<br />
Union of Peasant Women.<br />
This locally-based organization of about 150 peasant<br />
women from seven communities, under president Aida<br />
Cordova, have requested $9,500 in assistance from<br />
MATCH for a project that involves training two<br />
community leaders in each area, buying a Gestetner<br />
machine, producing educational materials (monthly<br />
bulletins and education sheets) to be used by the leaders<br />
in their workshops, and launching other related<br />
activities.<br />
Well-established women's groups have been<br />
functioning independently in these communities for some<br />
time, and it is the objective of the Union of Peasant<br />
Women to work with them, expand their activities, and<br />
include other women's organizations presently operating<br />
in isolation in other parts of the country.<br />
Although rural women in Ecuador have not in the past<br />
been included in the decision-making in their<br />
communities, they are beginning to realize the<br />
importance of their participation in society, not only as<br />
wives and mothers, but also as individuals with<br />
leadership potential, creative ideas, and an equal capacity<br />
for contribution to their communities.<br />
The women themselves, from their very limited<br />
resources, will be contributing nearly $10,000 in funds<br />
and assistance, such as meals, lodging, and help with<br />
travel, as well as their time in the production of<br />
educational materials and attendance at workshops.<br />
MATCH International Centre was established to<br />
provide a means of communication and participation<br />
between women in Canada and women in developing<br />
countries a "switchboard" matching their needs and<br />
resources.<br />
MATCH believes that development, through women<br />
and by women, can have a considerable impact not only<br />
on the wellbeing of the family, but also on the standard of<br />
living of the entire community.<br />
Inter Pares<br />
Inter Pares is a non-profit voluntary agency working<br />
overseas and in Canada to support self-help development<br />
groups, and promote understanding about the causes,<br />
effects, and alleviation of underdevelopment and<br />
poverty.<br />
In the Savar district of Bangladesh Inter Pares is<br />
supporting a project for rural women called Narikendra,<br />
or "woman's place." Education for employment is the<br />
cornerstone of the program, which this year will provide<br />
both much-needed employment skills and a sense of hope<br />
for more than 1,200 Bangladeshi women. These excerpts<br />
from a report by Narikendra staff describe the program<br />
and how it helped changed the life of one young woman.<br />
"Sometime back Amena approached us asking what<br />
could be done for a number of women in her village who<br />
were seeking the same training that she had been given. It<br />
was agreed that if she could organize them and give them<br />
instructions, we would provide the assistance needed.<br />
She now has a core group of 25, plus 50 more women who<br />
are involved on a less regular basis.<br />
"In 1972 Narikendra offered only training in jute<br />
handicraft and sewing. Today its services include<br />
instruction in the manufacture of bamboo and cane<br />
items, woodworking, plumbing, and painting. There is<br />
also a metal shop training women and men, and a shoe<br />
factory with a connected outlet offering training in both<br />
shoemaking and sales.<br />
"As our educational area expands we plan to introduce<br />
more skills that will meet the needs of the local market.<br />
Among them, a blacksmith section where agricultural<br />
tools will be made; a bakery (once a male-dominated<br />
profession); house building; cycle repairs and auto<br />
mechanics; repair and maintenance of machinery in the<br />
pharmaceutical plant; and for some, training in the local<br />
print shop.<br />
"Our efforts have proved that the time is right in the<br />
village for a women's program. With the expansion in<br />
education and the extension of our vocational training<br />
program, we must, if we are to increase our effectiveness,<br />
also increase the number of those reached by our<br />
program. We must reach out to more and more village<br />
women."<br />
Our Cover<br />
Canada's first family, the Schreyers (top<br />
right) join with Archbishop Plourde and<br />
his protegé Tea Huot (lower right) and<br />
the Davey family (page 3) as official<br />
families in this year's Metres for<br />
Millions Walk, May 3, to support<br />
projects helping families in the Third<br />
World.
This is the Davey family. They are walking this year<br />
for Metres for Millions, just as they have in the past,<br />
because they believe in what it stands for. Metres for<br />
Millions is an opportunity for all families in Ottawa to<br />
work alongside families in other parts of the world.<br />
Families everywhere want the same thing: enough<br />
food, a roof over their heads, education for their<br />
children, a chance to participate in life and build a<br />
better future.<br />
Some families are working hard to achieve these<br />
things, but find obstacles in their way, such as lack of<br />
Learner Centre<br />
Unemployed teenagers lounge in the baking sunlight<br />
on the dusty street of a Caribbean town, their restless<br />
frustration concealed under their "cool." An African<br />
woman, a baby wrapped to her back, returns from her<br />
six-mile walk to the well, balancing on her head an<br />
earthen pot, heavy with water for the day's cooking.<br />
Thousands of homeless people, fleeing natural or man-<br />
made disaster, crowd into hastily-established refugee<br />
camps in country after country with pitifully few<br />
resources, less hope, and usually no alternatives.<br />
What do we have in common with these people? How<br />
can a Canadian high school student, housewife, or office<br />
worker understand, let alone support, the daily struggle<br />
for survival and dignity of people thousands of miles<br />
away? Even if we know, even if we care, what can we do<br />
about their pain?<br />
The Ottawa-Hull Learner Centre is an attempt by<br />
people in this area to develop answers to these questions.<br />
Established in 1972, the Centre began as a place where the<br />
public could go for resources and information on<br />
international development. This Resource Centre<br />
continues to operate today with an expanding collection<br />
of printed materials, audio-visuals and simulation games<br />
for use by local groups and individuals interested in<br />
development in the Third World and in Canada.<br />
The Learner Centre has always worked closely with the<br />
school system, providing ways for students and teachers<br />
to deepen their understanding of development issues<br />
thiough a variety of conferences and seminars, as well as<br />
through the use of Centre resources. Community<br />
programming, at first mainly with the English-speaking<br />
population of the area but now increasingly in French as<br />
well, has evolved into broader involvement with various<br />
other sectors of the community.<br />
A common concern with the food we eat led to Learner<br />
Centre participation in the Peoples' Food Commission, a<br />
nationwide inquiry into the system of food production,<br />
processing and distribution whose national report will<br />
become a focus for action when it is published in May.<br />
The Centre's work on food also includes a link with foodrelated<br />
co-operatives in the area, and work with high<br />
school geography teachers looking at food as a global<br />
issue.<br />
education, inappropriate tools, poor health care.<br />
These obstacles may be left over from when the<br />
country was a colony. They may be problems related<br />
to the work of multi-national companies, or to<br />
international trade problems.<br />
We can try to make sure these families do not have<br />
to work alone, first of all by gathering pledges and<br />
walking, or sponsoring someone else. We can also<br />
learn about the work of the agencies involved in this<br />
year's walk the Metres for Millions family by<br />
reading about them on these pages.<br />
Women hold up half the sky, as a Chinese proverb puts<br />
it, and in working with women's groups in a -<br />
developmental context, the Learner Centre is recognizing<br />
this fact. The immense and vital work women do, and the<br />
subordinate roles assigned to them, are in many ways<br />
amazingly similar in Canada and in the Third World, and<br />
the Centre's awareness of these commonalities, as well as<br />
of the differences, is a step towards solidarity and<br />
support.<br />
This is in fact the purpose of all our learning, to work<br />
towards a better, freer world where all human beings may<br />
live free from injustice, want and fear.<br />
METRES FOR MILLIONS Page 3<br />
YM-YWCA<br />
Uganda is a fertile land-locked country in Africa,<br />
dominant in world news reports until 1979 when the<br />
government was overthrown. Since then world attention<br />
has shifted, but Uganda's problems of reconstruction are<br />
still very real. A tremendous amount of organizational<br />
and financial support is required until Uganda's major<br />
sources of income from the export of coffee, cotton and<br />
copper are renewed.<br />
The development plan of the Uganda YMCA was<br />
based on financial self-sufficiency. One of the vocational<br />
training programs involved agriculturattraining schemes<br />
for young people on two farms. One inasaka, the other<br />
in Buwambo, these farm programs ndt only provided a<br />
training centre for young people, but the crops that were<br />
harvested became part of the food chain and provided<br />
income for the Uganda YMCA's other development<br />
programs.<br />
The YMCA in Ugunda has survived the difficult times,<br />
but not without its toll. The local people's ability to<br />
support these programs financially was reduced to zero<br />
as the economy ground to a halt. Buildings in the urban<br />
areas where vocational training programs were operating<br />
suffered bomb damage during the war, and were looted<br />
of equipment.<br />
In order for the Uganda YMCA to continue its<br />
development program the farms must be revitalized, the<br />
staff and young people given a new opportunity to assist<br />
in the country's reconstruction.<br />
In Buwambo village a clean water supply system is in<br />
the planning stage. The crops, in the growing and<br />
collecting stage now, are sweet potatoes, maize and<br />
beans. Some form of transportation will be required to<br />
market the produce effectively.<br />
In Masaka, the farm scheme is further delayed because<br />
the land is occupied by the army. The YMCA must be<br />
ready to rework the land into a productive unit as soon as<br />
the army vacates the area. This will require equipment,<br />
seeds, and staff training.<br />
It is encouraging to note that the staff of the Uganda<br />
YMCA, all nationals, have the expertise to carry out this<br />
program.<br />
ORT<br />
The Organization for Rehabilitation Through<br />
Training (ORT) is the largest non-government network<br />
for vocational training in the world.<br />
The organization operates some 900 schools in 23<br />
countries. ORT teaches skills, liberates people from<br />
dependence on charity, and thus transforms human<br />
liabilities into human assets. It gives people the skills that<br />
will enable them to be self-supporting and lead lives of<br />
dignity. In each country the occupations taught are in line<br />
with current economic developments to ensure real job<br />
possibilities and a future career for trainees.<br />
The ORT technical assistance programs in developing<br />
nations have been successful in developing human<br />
resources as the basis for a technologically-based<br />
economic sector. This is accomplished through<br />
'conducting preliminary studies and evaluations, setting<br />
goals and action plans, and training people to carry on<br />
the work. Projects cover such fields as transportation,<br />
mining, rural development, urban development,<br />
banking, and public health.<br />
The funds ORT receives through Metres for Millions<br />
support a comprehensive rural development program in<br />
the Gondar Province of Ethiopia. This program aims to<br />
foster self-reliance in the areas of agriculture, education,<br />
water supply and sanitation, and health. We have tried to<br />
achieve these objectives through the introduction of more<br />
efficient farming, the establishment and operation of a<br />
widespread network of primary and some secondary<br />
schools, the introduction of pre-vocational, vocational<br />
and handicraft training, and the building and operation<br />
of health centres.<br />
A revolving credit fund has been established to provide<br />
loans for the purchase of animals, tools, and seed. This<br />
loan activity has been extended to the fight against<br />
erosion by encouraging farmers to take loans to start<br />
terrace cultivation and plant trees.<br />
The education sector covers 22 schools with a total of<br />
62 classrooms and an enrolment of 1,700 students.<br />
Health care programs include curative as well as<br />
preventive treatment, and guidance in public hygiene. We<br />
also succeeded in supplying drinking water to the<br />
schools, which may help to eliminate disease epidemics.<br />
Although we have made good progress in Gondar<br />
Province over the last few years, our program is far from<br />
being completed. Plans for the future include the<br />
construction of more schools and health clinics, and<br />
increased activities in the farming sector.<br />
The program in Ethiopia reflects what the people of<br />
that country are asking for. It is leading towards<br />
improved education, greater economic opportunity,<br />
better health and clinical services to cure and prevent<br />
disease, and higher agricultural productivity. It is a coordinated<br />
effort to bring a measure of social justice to a<br />
population that lacks the technical and financial<br />
resources to improve itself.<br />
Through Metres for Millions, Ottawa is able to help<br />
ensure that the Canadian ORT can continue to support<br />
this important program in Ethiopia.
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METRES FOR MILLIONS<br />
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Legend<br />
Short Walk<br />
Long Walk<br />
Check Points<br />
Kenya - 0 km<br />
2 Ecuador -4.8 km<br />
3 South Korea-11.2 k<br />
4 Sri Lanka-15.1km<br />
5 Bangladesh-10.4km<br />
6 Haiti- 2 3.7km<br />
Légende<br />
Mini -marche<br />
La marche<br />
Points de verification<br />
7 Canada- 28 7km<br />
8 Guyana- 31.7 km<br />
9 Thailand- 39.7km<br />
10 Peru-43.4km<br />
II Nicaragua- 46.3 Km<br />
12 India /<br />
Ethiopia- 50.0 Km<br />
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OBC<br />
It is estimated that half the children under five years<br />
old in Latin America today are suffering from<br />
malnutrition. One factor contributing to this is the<br />
increased use of artificial milk formula for infants by<br />
mothers who are unaware of the requirements for safe<br />
bottle-feeding.<br />
The Overseas Book Centre (OBC) will use part of its<br />
grant from this year's Metres for Millions walk to<br />
support a project to educate Latin American women<br />
about the effects of feeding artificial milk formulas to<br />
their babies. Through a women's group in Costa Rica, the<br />
OBC will fund the rewriting, translation and production<br />
in Spanish of the book Bottle Babies, orignally produced<br />
to counter the same problem in Africa several years ago.<br />
This is the first project to be undertaken by the<br />
Organization of Costa Rican Women, a recently-formed<br />
voluntary group which aims to promote the education of<br />
Costa Rican women and encourage their participation in<br />
issues affecting their lives. Members include women<br />
working in unions, hospital workers, university teachers,<br />
other professionals, housewives and students.<br />
Preliminary studies conducted by the group indicate<br />
that there has been an increase in the use of artificial milk<br />
formula for feeding infants in Latin America, and that<br />
there is little awareness of the motive behind the<br />
promotional activities of the multi-national corporations<br />
manufacturing the formula.<br />
The advertising is aimed at convincing the women the<br />
formula is the only "good" food for their babies under<br />
any conditions. There is little material in Spanish to<br />
counteract this message, and there is also a severe<br />
shortage of nutritionists in Central America.<br />
When completed, Bebes de Biberon will be distributed<br />
regionally to women's organizations, hospital and health<br />
workers, community centres, health centres, trade unions<br />
and church groups. It is hoped that it will be a first step in<br />
solving the appalling problem of malnutrition in Latin<br />
America through encouraging seminars and the<br />
production of more material as well as stimulating<br />
further research on the extent of the problem.<br />
In July, 1979 the dictatorship of Nicaraguan President<br />
Somoza was overthrown. The Somoza family fled with<br />
their millions, leaving the war-torn country in a<br />
shambles.<br />
In the final 10 months of fighting 25,000 Nicaraguans<br />
died, while one-tenth of the population fled the country.<br />
Within Nicaragua 500,000 people are dependent on the<br />
Red Cross for food, and it is predicted that thousands of<br />
young people will die from sickness aggravated by<br />
malnutrition. The economy's agricultural base has been<br />
devastated, and the industrial base has also been hardhit.<br />
Damage to plants and machinery is estimated at $200<br />
million.<br />
Help is now flooding into Nicaragua from agencies<br />
around the world. CUSO's first project there is in one of<br />
the poorer sections of the capital, Managua. Historically,<br />
girls in Managua have had to leave school at age seven or<br />
eight to help in the home while their mothers take jobs to<br />
earn extra money. The aim of CUSO's project is to help<br />
break this cycle of illiteracy by setting up education<br />
centres to provide literacy courses for 120 women. These<br />
women will then train other groups of 20 women each,<br />
ultimately benefitting 2,400 women in the area.<br />
The centres, which will provide immediate<br />
employment for six people, will serve as models to be<br />
followed by other women's groups and will give poor<br />
women a chance to help in the reconstruction of their<br />
country. The Association of Nicaraguan Women,<br />
founded in 1977 to ensure a larger role for women in<br />
solving the social, economic and political problems of<br />
Nicaragua, will organize the centres, and CUSO is<br />
providing $10,000 for the initial six-month period.<br />
Metres For Millions<br />
Launched in 1967 as a Centennial reminder to<br />
Canadians of their country's role in international<br />
development, the Ottawa-Hull Metres for Millions walk<br />
remains the world's oldest, longest and most successful<br />
walk, raising more money per walker than any other<br />
march of its kind.<br />
In the last 13 years the people of the Ottawa-Hull<br />
region have collected over $3 million for the funding of<br />
about 250 development projects around the world.<br />
Priority is given to projects that encourage people to<br />
solve their own problems through local initiative and<br />
financing, so that they have the potential of becoming<br />
self-sufficient and independent of foreign aid.<br />
Closely linked to overseas efforts is the Metres for<br />
Millions public education program, designed to provide<br />
a glimpse at Third World development problems and<br />
encourage efforts to solve them. The program includes a<br />
slide-tape show, a telethon, a poster competition and<br />
other public events.<br />
The theme for this year's walk is "The Family Around<br />
the World," an effort to promote the idea of universal<br />
family values common to people in Canada and the Third<br />
World.<br />
Take your family for a sponsored walk on May 3. It's<br />
your chance to give another family a chance.<br />
Something New -<br />
Walkers with five filled sponsor sheets who finish the<br />
walk will be eligible for prizes.<br />
Walkers who get a high number of sponsors will be<br />
eligible for prizes. Further details will be forthcoming.<br />
Also Walkers who finish the route will receive a<br />
certificate for a free game of bowling at Kent, Capital,<br />
Queensway or Walkley Bowling Lanes.<br />
THANKS<br />
The organizers of Metres for Millions wish to thank<br />
the following for their contributions to the Walk:<br />
Towers; M. Loeb Ltd.; Canadian Tire; Ottawa Hoop;<br />
The Place Next Door; The Mill; Fat Albert's;<br />
Costain Ltd.; Steve Weiner; Charles Ogilvy Ltd.;<br />
Billy's Restaurant; CFRA; CFGO; Skyline Cablevision;<br />
Sylvia Beers; Dick Shieman; Gershon Rother, and many<br />
thanks to countless other individuals and organizations<br />
for their donations of goods and services to help make the<br />
Metres for Millions Walk a success this year.<br />
f WALK FORMg"<br />
The Metres for Millions walk forms are<br />
available at the following places:<br />
Pinto Stores<br />
Treble Clef<br />
Fat Albert's<br />
Community Centres<br />
Police and Fire Stations<br />
Libraries<br />
Mac's Milk<br />
Nepean Sportsplex<br />
YM-YWCA's<br />
This year, sponsors will be able to designate<br />
their donations when they honour their<br />
pledges. You can pledge per kilometre or<br />
donate a fixed amount.<br />
Your Pledge Long Family<br />
Per Kilometre Walk (50k) Walk (16k)<br />
$ .10 $ 5.00 $1.60<br />
.25 12.50 4.00<br />
.50 25.00 8.00<br />
1.00 50.00 16.00<br />
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ADULT DAY COURSES Continued<br />
KIDS EVENING COURSES<br />
N.B. All classes will begin the week of <strong>April</strong> 28 and<br />
Fitness $25.00 Tues. & Thurs. continue until the week of June 16 unless otherwise noted.<br />
10:00 - 10:45 No classes Monday, May 19.<br />
Noon Fit Break $30:00 Mon,Wed. Fri. Scottish Highland Dancing $17.00 Monday<br />
12:00 - 12:45 7 - 10 yrs. Level 1. 6:00 - 7:00<br />
Conversational French $30.00 Monday Scottish Highland Dancing $17.00 Monday<br />
9:30 - 11:00 6 - 9 yrs. Level 2 7:00 - 8:00<br />
Ceramics $15.00 Monday Magic $18.00 Monday<br />
1:00 - 3:00 7 - 12 yrs. Level 1 4:30 - 6:00<br />
Modern Dance $15,00 Monday<br />
5 Weeks 1:00 - 2:30 Magic $18.00 Monday<br />
7 - 12 yrs. Level 2 6:00 - 7:30<br />
Beginner's Guitar $25.00 Tuesday<br />
9:30 - 11:00 Baton Twirling $12.00 Tuesday<br />
6 - 8 yrs. Level 1 6:00 - 7:00<br />
Darkroom techniques $35.00 Wednesday Batons not included<br />
Some supplies included 1:00 - 3:00<br />
Baton Twirling $12.00 Tuesday<br />
Biking for Fun $25.00 Wednesday 7 - 10 yrs. Level 2 7:00 - 8:00<br />
1:00 - 3:00 Batons not included<br />
Women's Discussion Group $10.00 Friday Yoga $15.00 Tuesday<br />
6 Weeks 10:00 - 11:00 6 - 8 yrs. Level 1 5:30 - 6:30<br />
Combination Pottery Lev.2 & 3 '''3(2. Wednesday Gymnastics $12.00 Wednesday<br />
10:00 - 12:00 6 - 9 yrs. Level 1 6:00 - 7:00<br />
Combination Pottery Level 1 $35 Wednesday Gymnastics $12.00 Wednesday<br />
12:30 - 3:30 6 - 9 yn-4. Level 2 7:00 - 8:00<br />
Kids Saturday Workshops<br />
Music c.ne, :,:r_w.71ment Education $10.00<br />
8 - 12 yrs.<br />
Wednesday<br />
6:00 - 7:00<br />
N.B. All courses will begin May 3 and continue until Margaret Morris Movement $10.00 Wednesday<br />
June 21 unless otherwise noted. 6 - 12 yrs. 6:00 - 7:00<br />
Tumbling<br />
5 - 8 yrs<br />
Pottery, Level 1 & 2<br />
9 - 12 yrs. (Supplies incl.)<br />
Pottery, Level 1 & 2<br />
5 - 8 yrs. (Supplies incl.)<br />
Soft Toy Making<br />
(Supplies incl.)<br />
Drawing & Painting, Level 1<br />
7 - 11 yrs. (Supplies incl.)<br />
Drawing & Painting, Level 2<br />
7 - 11 yrs. (Supplies incl.)<br />
Textile Arts<br />
8 - 12 yrs. (Supplies incl.)<br />
Bike Tours<br />
8 - 13 yrs.<br />
Judo, Level 2.<br />
8 - 13 yrs.<br />
PRESCHOOL<br />
Gymnastics and Music<br />
6 Weeks<br />
Music and Movement<br />
6 Weeks<br />
Multi Media<br />
$15.00 9:30 - 10.30<br />
$23.00 9:00 - 10:30<br />
$23.00 10:30 - 12:00<br />
$20.00 10:30 - 12:00<br />
$25.00 10:30 - 12:00<br />
$25.00 1:00 - 2:30<br />
$25.00 1:00 - 2:30<br />
$25.00 1:00 - 3:30<br />
$15.00<br />
Scottish Highland Dancing $17.00 Thursday<br />
6 - 7 yrs. Level 1 6:00 - 7:00<br />
Tumbling $15 00 Thursday<br />
5 - 8 yrs. 6:00 - 7:00<br />
Pottery $23.00 Thursday<br />
5 - 9 yrs. Level 1 4:00 - 5:30<br />
Supplies included<br />
Guitar (must bring guitar) $15.00 Tuesday<br />
7 - 12 yrs. Level 1 3:45 - 4:30<br />
Guitar (must bring guitar) $15.00 Tuesday<br />
7 - 12 yrs. Level 2 4:30 - 5.15<br />
ADDITION TO SATURDAY WORKSHOPS<br />
Creative Various Crafts $20.00 9:00 - 10:3(<br />
6 - 12 yrs. Ends June 7.<br />
YOUTH<br />
$12.00 Mon. or Wed. For Girls only $13.00 Monday<br />
1:30 - 2:30 6:30 - 7:30<br />
$14.00 Tuesday Fitness $12:00 Tuesday<br />
1:00 - 2:00 Starts May 6 6:00 - 7:00<br />
$10:00 Friday Guitar $25.00 Tuesday<br />
1:30 - 2:30 7:00 - 8:30<br />
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GLEBE NEIGHBOURHOOD ACTIVITIES GROUP<br />
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Open Gym 25c Night Tuesday<br />
7:00 - 9:30<br />
Darkroom Techniques $35.00 Wednesday<br />
Some supplies included 7:30 - 9:30<br />
Drop-in and Games Night FREE Wednesday<br />
7:00 - 9:00<br />
40 DEit,<br />
How to Work with Kids $7.00 Thursday go<br />
7:00 - 8:30 a.<br />
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'RP_ ria 9 11 years and up 7:30 - 11:30<br />
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NATURAL FOODS<br />
GRAND REOPENING<br />
APRIL 21<br />
OUTSIDE<br />
FRUIT VEGETABLE<br />
AND<br />
MARKET<br />
OPENING WEEK SPECIALS<br />
MONDAY, APRIL 21<br />
TUESDAY<br />
BANANAS .19 lb. CELERY .39 ea.<br />
LETTUCE .39 ea. RED DELICIOUS .49 lb.<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
MUSHROOMS<br />
GRANNY SMITH'S<br />
.99 lb.<br />
.49 lb.<br />
THURSDAY<br />
FRIDAY<br />
GREEN PEPPERS .49 lb.<br />
TOMATOES .39 lb.<br />
LARGE ORANGES 5/1.00 <strong>April</strong> 21-25 PINK GRAPEFRUIT 5/1.00<br />
OUR MONTHLY SPECIAL<br />
Balderson Farmers Cheese<br />
Santos Coffee Beans<br />
Whole Brown Almonds<br />
1.79 lb.<br />
2.99 lb.<br />
3.59 lb.<br />
WE RECEIVE FRESH CUT FLOWERS EVERY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.<br />
740 Bank at Second Ave.<br />
2 3 5 - 7 7 00<br />
free parking on Second Ave.<br />
Monthly specials effective<br />
unt<br />
the end of <strong>April</strong>.
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THE<br />
ART PAGE<br />
Showman<br />
Some of her best friends are houses<br />
Maryse Maynard is a portrait artist. House portraits, that is. And<br />
she talks about houses the way some people do of people. "I have to delve<br />
inside . . . to experience the soul of a house in order to describe its<br />
external appearance."<br />
She exhibited several pen and ink houses at The <strong>Glebe</strong> Artists Show,<br />
Spring 1979. "I overheard someone say- I'd like my house done,too- so I<br />
put a hand on her shoulder and said: I'm the one. That was the beginnine<br />
But not her beginning in art. "After high school and various job<br />
changes, I asked myself -what really excites me . . .brings me happiness?<br />
My answer was drawing."<br />
She returned to the High School of Commerce for a degree in art.<br />
Wilma Pinkus was one of her mentors. "It was a really intense course. To<br />
my surprise I was voted the most progressive student." With the encouragement<br />
of her teachers, she applied to Ottawa U.as a mature student. In 1971<br />
she received a B.A., concentration in Fine Arts.<br />
Many of her house commissions come from people she meets at parties.<br />
Such as the owner of the former Fine house. He wanted a portrait which<br />
portrayed his magnolia trees in bloom. "My work is somewhat seasonal.<br />
Many people want landscape pictured in its prime. Which means I need advance<br />
notice."<br />
"It takes a week of sittings to capture the<br />
house personality- its idiosyncrasies. I start<br />
off with large sketches until I get to know the<br />
house and its proportions. I concentrate first<br />
on architectural details." Each pen and ink<br />
requires 25 to 40 hours to complete.<br />
By occasionally exaggerating some distinctive<br />
feature of a house, Maryse imbues each<br />
with a sense of uniqueness. Her penwork is<br />
energetic so that the portraits are by no<br />
means 'still'; the eye is encouraged to encompass<br />
the total environment. She is adept<br />
at rendering texture and pattern- which contributes<br />
to the 'aliwness' of her works.<br />
Maryse is married to Robert Cram, flautist<br />
with the NAC Orchestra, and has two young<br />
daughters. Their spacious, older home on<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Ave. is rejuvenated by her multiple artistic<br />
endeavors- oil paintings, murals, monoprints<br />
and stained glass works ("a new medium").<br />
She personalized a wall of the master<br />
bedroom with a large mural. "I would like to<br />
do mord environmental art in homes- it's less<br />
expensive and more original than wallpaper."<br />
A marvelous over-sized cat portrait<br />
dominates the sitting room. "I prefer to<br />
paint in oils. . .I like the sheen and to<br />
rework. . .I'm a purist- maybe that's what<br />
comes of being married to a flute player."<br />
She always returns to pen and ink, however:<br />
"I love the beautiful simplicity of it all."<br />
Self-assured and vivacious, Maryse enjoys<br />
describing her work- past, present and future.<br />
"My goal is to get into sculpture when the<br />
children are in school. I feel I have<br />
centuries and centuries to go in art- the<br />
challenge is always there."<br />
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GLEN LOATES<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Art Class Show<br />
at the Metropolitan Arcade, 99 Bank St.<br />
May 3 through May 17<br />
SUMMER ASSISTANT<br />
EDITOR WANTED<br />
Assistant Editor (summer months) needed; also<br />
volunteer photographer, graphics, typists, and<br />
anyone interested in learning layout. Call<br />
narnie Johnstone 217-3443. GLEBE REPORI<br />
Ic fs IDENAlkir CAIILILIEW<br />
ORIGINALS<br />
Glen Loates is considered by many to be the foremost<br />
Nature artist living today. He has devoted his lifetime to<br />
the study of wildlife in its natural habitat. With many<br />
television specials and much press publicity behind him,<br />
and with his acceptance in to the Royal Canadian Academy<br />
of the Arts, Glen Loates originals have become items of<br />
prestige, quality and sensitivity.<br />
783 Bank St.<br />
233-3730
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FLORIDA $239.<br />
from Toronto<br />
includes hotel and airfare<br />
Regent Street Shortcut short-circui ted<br />
Last fall, residents of Regent Street and Howick Place met to discuss<br />
ways of reducing traffic on their streets. For cars proceeding North on<br />
Bank Street, a right-hand turn onto Regent and another on Fifth provides<br />
fa short-cut to the Driveway and a route to avoid the often congested<br />
Bank and Fifth intersection. Narrowings and additional signs have been<br />
proposed. The Physical Environment Committee will deal with this item on<br />
Wed. May 14. The meeting takes place at City Hall, in the Aldermen's<br />
Lounge, 2nd floor, at 9:30 a.m.<br />
Residents are invited to attend and to make their views known to the<br />
members of the committee I urge them to do so. For details or copies<br />
of the report, please call Ms. Claire Clément, Secretary of the PEC at<br />
563-3333.<br />
Lyon and Third stop sign needs support<br />
During the <strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Study, the Transportation Committee recommended<br />
a stop sign at the intersection of Lyon Street and Third Avenue.<br />
It was approved by Planning Board and referred to the Physical Environment<br />
Branch, whose recommendation is that no action be taken. This item will<br />
be on PEC agenda of Wed. May 14. (See preceeding item).<br />
Parents want longer light at Bronson and Fifth<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Plan recommends that the green signal for pedestrians crossing<br />
Bronson Avenue at the corner of Fifth be extended by 30 seconds.<br />
Since Bronson Avenue is a Regional road and not under City of Ottawa<br />
jurisdiction, the proposal was referred to the Transportation Department<br />
of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carelton, whose comment is that<br />
"no action should be taken." Many parents in the Dow's Lake area have<br />
expressed serious concern for the safety of their children who must cross<br />
at that corner to get to school.<br />
If you wish to appear before the Trans-<br />
portation Committee when this item is considered, please phone Mrs. Mary<br />
Jo Woollam at 563-2810.<br />
Children's Medical Centre on Monkland nonconforming<br />
Since the mid-50's, a paediatric centre has been operating at the corner<br />
of O'Connor Street and Monkland Avenue, in a residential zone. Because<br />
the doctors' offices were opened before the passing of AZ-64, Ottawa's<br />
comprehensive zoning by-law, they enjoy legal non-conforming rignts to<br />
operate within the residential zone. There is no limit to the number<br />
of doctors allowed to practice from the building, and, at one time, as<br />
many as seven occupied the offices. This created serious parking and<br />
traffic problems for neighbouring streets. The nnn-conforming rights<br />
enjoyed by the occupants specify that there can be only ONE residential<br />
unit above the doctors' offices. During the course of an inspection, it<br />
was found that there are two dwelling units instead of one. The owners<br />
have applied to have the zoning changed in order to legalize the existing<br />
siptation.<br />
For details about this application, please ca]l Jack Ferguson, Planning<br />
Branch at 563-3193. The Planning Branch will make a recommendation<br />
to the Ottawa Planning Board, at which time, any interested residents<br />
are invited to appear and comment on the application.<br />
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The French Connection<br />
The youngest student exchange in Canada<br />
enlivened Hopewell classes earlier this<br />
Thirty French students, 13 and 14 yr.<br />
olds, from Coulommiers, outside of Paris,<br />
enjoyed a fortnight of Canadian living<br />
with their Ottawa hosts who visited France<br />
last year.<br />
Any Hopewell student who joins the<br />
extra-curricular club Espoire is eligible<br />
to participate in the Exchange. The students<br />
raise the money for the trip through their<br />
own efforts. Teachers involved in the successful<br />
exchange say they expect the proc'ram<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 18<br />
You may think that church is fine for weddings<br />
and funerals. But what about all the Sundays in.<br />
between? Why would anyone want to go to<br />
church every week?<br />
Well, quite frankly because there's a lot more to<br />
life than getting married and buried. Like everyday<br />
problems, for example. We all have them.<br />
But it's a lot easier when we don't have to face<br />
them alone. Especially when you're in touch with<br />
a personal God who really cares about you.<br />
Why not visit us this Sunday and find out for<br />
yourself.<br />
THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH<br />
Fifth Ave. & Monk St.<br />
BURTON W. HAMILTON, Pastor<br />
R. CHARLES BRYANT, Christian Education<br />
Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.<br />
Christian Educ. Hour 9:30 a.m.<br />
Church Phone: 233-1870<br />
we all deliver AM011alcolm Binns,<br />
Tom Follett,<br />
Philip Oaks,<br />
Ron Cloutier, Paul and Christiane Lemieux, Jodi Arron, Peter Loveridge,<br />
Susan Hartley, Margaret Keay, Leona Wetherall, Rob Thomson, the Clarence-<br />
Smith family, Martin Keyserlingk, the Robert Smith family, Peter Jaques,<br />
Patrick Hart, the Glovers, Michael Pickersgill, Natalie Dolan, John Showman,<br />
Fred Torrington family, Anne Logan, Paterson family, Don Halley,<br />
McCracken family, Kay Loesing, Agnes Perkins, Erica Lee, Andre Kyssa,<br />
MacPhail House, Cathy Thomson, Alex and Peter Zarkadas, Carson Wetherall,<br />
Keith Tanner, the Hawkins family, Bonnie and Colin Crook, Barbara and<br />
Jennifer Hicks, the Lyons family, Camay Coghlan, the McKay family, Terry<br />
and Bruce Rigby, Meredith Macrae, Alexander Graser, Christopher Graser,<br />
Gail Graser, George and Roger Wright, John MacDonald, the Jaimet family,<br />
the R. Wilson family, the Schowalter family, Fran Clarke, the B. Hopkins<br />
family, Beth and Jeremy Mercer, the Coupland family, the Bitz family,<br />
Danny Bennett, Beverley McLean, Jonathan Strickland, Tim Davis and family,<br />
Michael Back, Ted Beaton, the Mackenzie family, Andrew and Lila Connidis,<br />
Gillian Pritchard, Marika Weaver, Tanya Durr, Anita MacIntyre,The Johnstor<br />
family the Clermont family, the Couture family, Vivian Hostetler, Pat<br />
Benoit, Jacques Neatby, Ian Mackenzie, Nicholas Gooderham, Pat Thomson,<br />
Bonnie and John Kruspe, Nathalie Kovacs, Dorothea McKenna, the Rothwell<br />
family, Elizabeth Mountfort, Roger Short, the Kubasiewicz family, Nancy<br />
Savignac, Steven and Karen Pfaff, Maureen Collingham, Nancy McNaughton,<br />
the McCaffrey family, Dorothy Flower, the Marchand family, Chris and<br />
Audrey Bonyun, the Barber family, the Knox family, the John McLeod family,<br />
Coleen Davies, Barry Thompson, John Macnab, Tammy and Laird Close, the<br />
Ken Scott family, Stacey Nininger, Sue Robertson, Russell Loveridge,<br />
Elizabeth Lee, Chris Powers, the Reilly-Roe family, Mathew Boswell, the<br />
Fischler family, Christian Burgsthaler, Ron Kuelz, Michael Duffy, Danielle<br />
MacKinnon, the Julian Smith family, John MacNab. Pavid Morgan-Kirby<br />
SPECIALS APRIL 21-24<br />
John Leaning's study of the <strong>Glebe</strong> sought.<br />
S. Holden 235-2139.<br />
Bookbinder required tor book (1894) 235-2139.<br />
Be assured of delivery: Be a GLEBE REPORT<br />
captain in the northeast area - Pretoria to<br />
First Avenue - takes 11 hrs. per month.(to<br />
deliver 20 bundles - car helpful. Thursdays.<br />
235-2139 for details.<br />
Girl Guide Cookie Sale<br />
<strong>April</strong> 19 to May 10, <strong>1980</strong><br />
Price: $1.25 per box<br />
(Mixed boxes of chocolate and vanilla sandwich<br />
cookies made by Christies)<br />
Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders with cookies<br />
for sale will be calling on homes in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
on Saturday <strong>April</strong> 19. Your support is appreciated<br />
- this is our major fund raising project<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 19<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Tenants<br />
Association<br />
Filing a complaint<br />
By Debby Edwards<br />
Having trouble getting your landlord to<br />
make repairs? Telephone your complaint to<br />
the Property Standards Division at the City<br />
of Ottawa. The number is 563-3232. Ask to<br />
speak to the Property Standards Officer responsible<br />
for your area. At present, complaints<br />
from the <strong>Glebe</strong> are handled by Mr. F.<br />
MacMillan. Explain the problem to the Officer<br />
and ask for an inspection of the dwelling.<br />
Try to set a definite date and time for this<br />
inspection during the conversation. Follow<br />
up the telephone call with a letter to the<br />
Property Standards Officer and seffd a copy<br />
to Mr. J. Mooreman, Chief of the Property<br />
Standards Division.<br />
From this point onwards current legislation<br />
limits the tenant's role to following-up on<br />
the complaint and ensuring that the City is<br />
investigating the violation. At several stages<br />
in the procedure the City may decide that the<br />
landlord need not make any repairs. When your<br />
complaint is repealed, the City is not<br />
obliged to let you know. It's important to<br />
keep checking up.<br />
After a complaint is filed:<br />
Property Standards Officer inspects the<br />
premise.<br />
If the premise does not conform to City<br />
by-laws, the Officer issues a Notice of<br />
Violation to the property owner. This<br />
Notice of Violation sets a date for the<br />
owner to meet with the Property Standards<br />
Officer.<br />
At the hearing the property owner states<br />
his case, attempting to justify the alleged<br />
violation.<br />
4A.The Property Standards Officer may accept<br />
the arguments of the owner and the complaint<br />
is dropped OR<br />
4B.The Officer may conclude Chat repairs are<br />
necessary and issue an order requiring the<br />
owner to conform to the by-laws within 90<br />
days,.<br />
5A.Upon receipt of the Order the owner may<br />
carry out the repairs OR<br />
5B.The owner may appeal the Order to the<br />
Property Standards Committee. This appeal<br />
must be made within 14 days after service<br />
of the order.<br />
6. The Property Standards Committee sets a<br />
hearing date. The date cannot be more<br />
than 30 days from the date of receipt of<br />
the owners notice to appeal. The Property<br />
Standards Committee is a group of three<br />
rate-payers who receive "payment of<br />
honoraria at the rate of $50.00 for each<br />
meeting attended".<br />
7A.The Committee may quash the order and the<br />
complaint is dropped OR<br />
7B.The Committee may confirm the order.<br />
8. From receipt of the Committee's order, the<br />
owner has 90 days to carry out the repairs.<br />
If you're not successful in your dealings<br />
with the City, try not paying your rent.<br />
Under the Landlord and Tenant Act you can<br />
withhold rent if you have notified the landlord<br />
(in writing) of necessary repairs and<br />
they are not made.<br />
For more information on Property Standards<br />
call the <strong>Glebe</strong> Tenant Association at 234-2425<br />
or come to the next meeting to be held Thurs.<br />
<strong>April</strong> 24, 7:30 p.m., at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre.<br />
Local Scouting groups to plant trees<br />
Three million trees will be planted in Canada this year by Scouts<br />
participating in the "Trees for Canada" project; 50,000 in the<br />
National Capital Region alone.<br />
Jim Coode, popular member of the Ottawa Rough Riders and Chairman<br />
of the Trees for Canada project for the National Capital Region Scout<br />
Council, announced today that 4,000 Scouts will participate in the<br />
"Trees for Canada" project on Saturday, May 10.<br />
Mr. Coode, a former Scout himself, stated that the "Trees for<br />
Canada" project is designed to give all members of Scouting the<br />
opportunity to demonstrate, through action, their concern for<br />
Canada.<br />
Mr. Coode pointed out that "Trees for Canada" is also a fundraising<br />
project for the Council. The funds raised will be used to<br />
help further Scouting in the groups within the community, to develop<br />
local camps and meet other local needs. A small portion of the money<br />
raised will be used to support Operation Amigo - an international program<br />
of Canadian Scouting designed to help Third World countries adapt<br />
Scouting to meet their needs.<br />
Local Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will be canvassing the neighbourhood<br />
soon. Each boy participating will be expected to plant 15 trees. The<br />
boys will plant the trees May 10 at a NCC location near Black Creek off<br />
Merivale Road.<br />
"We're hoping for good weather," said <strong>Glebe</strong> St. James pack Akela<br />
Dominic Charles.<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 20<br />
Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish<br />
This guide is available free <strong>April</strong> 23<br />
and lists over 80 Ontario angling waters<br />
from which fish have been tested for contaminants.<br />
Over 58,000- fish have been tested<br />
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Time for Liberal action<br />
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Thinking globally, acting locally<br />
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one of the most imnortant internationally organized events of the <strong>1980</strong>'s<br />
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treas, to try to ensure thafattention is paid to all major aspects of the and planned federal activities relating to the<br />
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extremely active phase, with new sessiors and presenters being and other energy forms. In concert with the<br />
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private and academic sectors, it will emphasize<br />
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Your future the main topic in Toronto<br />
It is possible to register for a variety of levels of<br />
participation in this conference - particular sessions, educational<br />
workshops, evening lectures etc. The main events will be located in the<br />
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For more information on the conference phone Bill Trotter at<br />
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For the variety of alternate energy activities<br />
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Lectures, films', a design workbook and fact sheets on each<br />
greenhouse toured included in a one-day excursion fee of<br />
$17.50. A light lunch will also be served.<br />
If you are HOUSEBOUND<br />
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recycled tin and glass<br />
to the <strong>Glebe</strong> IGA Recycling<br />
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Volunteers are also<br />
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In the Churches<br />
St. Matthews<br />
The adult discussion group will meet at the<br />
Towne Cinema Wed. <strong>April</strong> 23 to view "Torema" at<br />
7:30 p.m.<br />
Spring Rummage SALE takes place Sat. <strong>April</strong> 26<br />
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.<br />
Sunday <strong>April</strong> 27 - Daylight Savings Time -<br />
Easter Four please note.<br />
Episcopal pastoral visit by Bishop Robinson<br />
May 4 - 7.<br />
May 25 Whitsunday Pentecost parish celebration.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate Senior Band will be in attendance<br />
at 10 ;.m. service. Parish picnic follows<br />
service. Bring a lunch and join us for the fun<br />
(on the side lawn).<br />
Fifth Avenue Free Methodist<br />
Children's musical production SIR OLIVER'S<br />
SONG will be presented Fri. and Sat. May 9-10<br />
at 7:30 p.m. Forty children and teens will<br />
perform and the productions features special<br />
lighting, international costumes, props, sound<br />
track, accompaniment and dialogue. The public<br />
is invited - a free will offering will be taken.<br />
Jogging into Spring<br />
Prevacation Bible School for the <strong>Glebe</strong> community<br />
May 26-30 for children ages 3 - 14. Time: 6:30-<br />
:30 p.m.Pre-registration on Sat. May 24 and<br />
Sun. May 25 at the Church. Crafts, recreation,<br />
stories, music and fun for all. Call 233-1870<br />
for information.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> - St. James<br />
SPRING RUMMAGE SALE - 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. <strong>April</strong> 19<br />
"Quebec - Canada - a Family in Crisis" - seminar<br />
and workshop takes place Sat. <strong>April</strong> 19 - 2 p.m.-<br />
9 p.m. Special speakers. Call 236-0617 for inf.<br />
Dessert and card party on Sat. May 1 p.m. -<br />
4:30 p.m.(Church Hall) Tickets $2.00 at Church<br />
office.<br />
Fourth Avenue Baptist<br />
RUMMAGE SALE Sat. <strong>April</strong> 19 - 9 a.m. - 12 noon.<br />
Spring Luncheon with ;,ake table etc. Tickets -<br />
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life was in danger, so she and the child left and are now living on<br />
their own.<br />
Mary is 38; she has six children ranging in age from 3 to 14 years<br />
of age. She has devoted the majority of her adult years to homemaking<br />
and child-rearing in the suburbs. Over the years, her husband has become<br />
more and more abusive. She finally decided that the situation<br />
was intolerable and now she and the children live alone.<br />
Despite their former financial position, these women are now<br />
single parents and are forced, at least for now, to live on welfare.<br />
They are like thousands of other women across Canada, who must somehow<br />
manage to live below the poverty line.<br />
Forty-four per cent of mother-led families live below the poverty<br />
line. If a single-parent mother must rely on a former husband or<br />
welfare, she will almost certainly be destitute. If she works, she is<br />
bound to be underpaid and discriminated against.<br />
In Ontario, there are two Welfare Programs:<br />
Short term emergency welfare, which is administered by local<br />
municipality. Payments vary from region to region.<br />
Long term "Family Benefit Assistance" (FBA) which is provincially<br />
administered. This is often called Mother's Allowance.<br />
In order to receive Welfare or Mother's Allowance, you must apply<br />
and prove that you are destitute. Yop_must sign a waiver which allows<br />
the government to check bank accounts, credit ratings, etc. to make<br />
sure that you are telling the truth.<br />
Once you find yourself in the situation of being on Welfare, it is<br />
hard to change your lot, especially now that the job market is<br />
shrinking.<br />
You find yourself living in isolation. You are expected to raise<br />
your children with not enough money and virtually no support or help.<br />
You are made to feel guilty because you re forced to live on<br />
Welfare.<br />
This is not an unusual situation. Any woman can easily find herself<br />
in this position; often all of us are only One Man Away from Welfare.<br />
An advocacy article presented by Interval House-234-5181
McElroy's Shoes<br />
Farewell to personal service<br />
By B. J. R. Silberman<br />
McElroy's Shoes closed its doors to <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
footwear seekers for the last time Mar. 20 after<br />
70 years of business.<br />
The store first opened in 1917 by J.W. McElroy<br />
rapidly became a popular local shopping place.<br />
As the store grew up with the decades, shoes of<br />
every fad and whim appeared in its large, bright<br />
windows.<br />
Claude Kealey, son of former owner, Carroll<br />
Kealey, says his father bought McElroy's Shoes<br />
in 1943 when McElroy passed away. Kealey says<br />
his father first began working in the shop in<br />
1918 as a clerk. In the forties, after his father<br />
had taken over the business, Kealey, then 11, be-<br />
gan delivering parcels for the store after school.sink.(It won't.)They worry about pollution and about their young who move<br />
In those days round-toed shoeswere the vogue away to look tor jobs.But when the church bells ring at mezzogiorno<br />
and <strong>Glebe</strong> shoppers who depended on local stores (Mid-day) it's time to shelve all problems and to think about where and<br />
Lebanese food<br />
Bank at Third<br />
APRIL SUPER SAVE<br />
SALE<br />
<strong>April</strong> 21 - May 3<br />
Watch daily papers for ad<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 22<br />
WITH JEAN McKAY<br />
Noontime in Venice<br />
Venetians worry about floods and about the danger that their city might<br />
for their purchases (no Billings Bridge Plaza what to eat.The Venetian menus would be lost without risi e bisi, that dethen)<br />
delighted in McElroy's quality and styles.Licious mixture of rice and tiny peas cooked in broth.At the table the dish<br />
Kealey eventually took over the store from gets a grating of fresh Parmesan cheese, which Venetians will sniff<br />
his father and appreciates the business the <strong>Glebe</strong> without inhibitions: if it isn't pure Parmesan, and the best, it can ruin<br />
community gave him over many years. He is also perfect risotto.<br />
grateful to a "loyal and faithful" employee,<br />
Wilda Johnson, who came to work in 1943 and stay-<br />
Risie Bisi (Risotto with Green Peas)<br />
ed till the doors closed last month.<br />
Kealey closed the business because of illness.<br />
In a saucepan bring 3 cups brown stock or beef broth just to a simmer.<br />
In another saucepan sauté 3/4 cup diced bacon in 3 Tbls butter for 3<br />
minutes. Add 1 cup of green peas to the bacon and cook the mixture until<br />
the bacon is slightly browned. Add 1 cup short-grain Italian rice and sti<br />
it until it is completely coated with the fat. Stir in 1 cup of the<br />
simmering stock or broth and cook the rice until the stock is absorbed.<br />
Continue to add the remaining stock by cupfuls, letting each addition be<br />
absorbed before adding more, until the rice is tender. With a fork fluff<br />
the rice and toss it with 2 tablespoons butter, softened and cut into<br />
bits, and 11 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese.<br />
Venice is a city with a rich and inventive cuisine, including an<br />
infinite variety of fish dishes. And of course there is polenta, made<br />
from yellow or white cornmeal which can be prepared in dozens of ways<br />
and frequently replaces bread in Ventian homes. Other traditional Ven-<br />
-etiandishes include fegato alla veneziana (calf's liver with onion)<br />
and scampi all'olio e limone (shrimp with oil and lemon dressing)<br />
Scampi all' Olio e Limone<br />
In a saucepan combine 1 pound shrimp, rinsed, and cold salted water<br />
to cover and bring the water to a boil over moderately high heat. Drain<br />
the shrimp and let them cool for 5 minutes. Shell the shrimp and put<br />
them in a bowl. In a small bowl whisk together the juice of A lemon<br />
and 1/3 to 1/2 cup olive oil, or to taste, season the dressing with<br />
salt, pepper and pour it over the shrimp while they are warm. Serves<br />
4 as a first course.<br />
Fagato a la Veneziana (Liver with Onions)<br />
In a skillet sweat 2 onions, thinly sliced, in 1 cup olive oil and<br />
2 tablespoons butter, covered with a buttered round of wax paper and the<br />
lid, over low heat for 5 minutes, or until they are soft but not coloured.<br />
Increase the heat to high and add 1 pound calf's liver, cut into thin<br />
strips, and 3 tablespoons each of chicken broth or beef broth and redwine<br />
vinegar. Cook the mixture, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes, or<br />
until the liver is browned on the outside but still pink within. Add<br />
1 teaspoon minced parsley and salt and pepper to taste. Serve the liver<br />
with polenta. Serves 4<br />
Next month watch for French Canadian recipes.<br />
FORHAN'S...Way/mac?, LTD.<br />
NEW HOURS<br />
Monday - Thursday Friday<br />
8:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.<br />
Tuesday - Wednesday 8:30 - 6 p.m.<br />
Saturday 9:30 - 5:30 p.m.<br />
769 Bank St. 235-4377<br />
Mrs. Ttggy Wtnkle's<br />
UPSTAIRS<br />
Unusual gifts and cards<br />
for<br />
Mother's Day<br />
234-3836 835 Bank Street
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>April</strong> page 23<br />
MARRIED COUPLE, budgie<br />
and piano all <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
residents would like<br />
to rent a ground floor<br />
apartment or small<br />
house from June 1/80.<br />
Willing to help in redecorating<br />
and upkeep.<br />
Phone 235-1656 office.<br />
WANTED:<br />
MATURE loving<br />
older woman for light<br />
housekeeping and as a<br />
nanny for two children<br />
ages 3 &<br />
10. Non<br />
smoker. Prefer five day<br />
week, but part time<br />
possible. 233-5943 eve<br />
WANTED: 2 bedroom,equipped<br />
apt to rent in<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> area. Prefer with<br />
parking and yard, call<br />
chests and other items<br />
welcome. 236-2238<br />
FOR SALE: kai<br />
A 360D<br />
reel & reel tape deck.<br />
238-2741<br />
$375 evenings,235-0186<br />
GOING ON VACATION? FOR SALE: cedar chest,<br />
Gardening and general aromatic, with drawer<br />
house maintenance done.$100. Nest of tables<br />
Reasonable rates. $150. 235-1378 daytime.<br />
Call Ed, 234-0388. BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE BRASS<br />
bed. $600 or best offer.<br />
WANTED: DUPLEX or SEMI- 232-9366<br />
DETACHED 3 bedroom WANTED: A discarded<br />
housing for July,Aug or flat door. please<br />
Sept. Call Julie call 233-4927.<br />
Hall ,238-3584.<br />
FOR RENT:<br />
Three bed-<br />
DO YOU HAVE KINDERGARTEN room hillside farm home<br />
aged children interin<br />
rolling wooded<br />
ested in taking care<br />
hundred<br />
of<br />
acres, running<br />
41 yr old boy as<br />
water, stone<br />
well.<br />
fireplace,<br />
Hours and salary<br />
starting<br />
large kitchen,<br />
date to be<br />
private lake, swimming,<br />
discussed. 236-0270<br />
fishing, 65<br />
after<br />
miles from<br />
6.<br />
Ottawa, Lanark Co.<br />
May 15-Oct 1/80<br />
Work Wanted: Will baby- $1,500.00. 234-1205<br />
sit or do housekeeping<br />
TAICHI Classes for health<br />
nights only. André<br />
236-2577 and relaxation. Monday<br />
6:30 p.m., 911 Fourth Ave.<br />
Information 563-0578<br />
NEW!<br />
Maternity<br />
Clothes on<br />
Consignment<br />
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR a<br />
quiet tenant for your 2-3<br />
bedroom house or duplex<br />
2) some additional mortgage<br />
money at reasonable cost?<br />
I may be able to provide<br />
both. Please call Ted<br />
Ketchum 996-7771 days or<br />
235-9635 evenings<br />
FOR SALE: Girls one speed<br />
CCM bike Ph: 233-2<strong>08</strong>0<br />
L-;eral Party membership<br />
drive begins <strong>April</strong> 14.<br />
Members will be canvassing<br />
for $2 memberships.<br />
Anyone interested in buying<br />
or canvassing, please<br />
contact Area Chairperson<br />
Mario Cuconato 722-9390.<br />
SPRING SALE: RM100,/77<br />
excellent condition<br />
Fourth Avenue Post<br />
$600., 235-7814 ,also<br />
Office now has a PHOTO-<br />
IT175 /78, hardly used,<br />
COPYING machine.<br />
$700., 235-7814<br />
FOR SALE: White Colonial<br />
Style baby crib, matress<br />
INTERFAITH NURSERY School SPIRITUAL HEALING:<br />
For children 21-4 yrs Phone Patrick for ap-<br />
TAOIST TAICHI: Society and 6 piece bumper pad<br />
OCCASIONAL RECIPROCAL Mon. Wed. & Fri pointment,234-2932.No offers classes Monday set $50. Child's busy box<br />
DAYTIME BABYSITTING...<br />
9am - 1130 a.m. South- charge. When all else through Thursday at 384 for crib, $4.00. Child's<br />
Are you interested? minster Church, Aylmer fails turn to God for<br />
Bank St. Beginners wel- 81" tricycle $8.00<br />
Fifth Ave Tot Lot area. Ave. at Galt St. We are help.<br />
come, 233-2318 234-6385 before 11 or<br />
after 5:30 p.m.<br />
EXPER-<br />
TWO RELIABLE &<br />
This space acts as a free<br />
IENCED TEENAGERS<br />
community bulletin board.<br />
available<br />
for babysitting<br />
To get your<br />
evenings<br />
message on the<br />
weekends and summer<br />
Grapevine, call<br />
months.<br />
Myrne<br />
Ph: 235-9105<br />
Davis at 237-1404<br />
<strong>April</strong> is CANCER MONTH -<br />
WANTED TO BUY: large a canvasser will call. WANTED: furniture for<br />
folding playpen with<br />
Laotian refugee family<br />
Anyone who has an<br />
small hole mesh in good evening or two to<br />
sponsored by <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
help<br />
condition,232-6306 with the<br />
Neighborhood Group.<br />
campaign,<br />
Double and<br />
please call<br />
single bed<br />
234-6707<br />
couch, kitchen table,<br />
MR. LAIRD<br />
Specializing in Black & White<br />
Hairstyles<br />
Spring Perms start at $25<br />
Pat, Anna-Maria, Darlene, Ann<br />
782 BANK STREET<br />
Between 2nd and 3rd Ave.<br />
Ottawa, Ontario<br />
Ottawa Chapter of the<br />
Children's,<br />
OVING<br />
International<br />
SALE: Furniture<br />
Suiiiiiier<br />
books,<br />
Villages at West<br />
household items, Ottawa<br />
rugs, Community<br />
etc. Saturday,<br />
Centre,<br />
1064<br />
<strong>April</strong> 26th<br />
Wellington, Sat. Apr<br />
9 am till<br />
19, 10 - 2,<br />
4pm, 202 Second ave.<br />
refreshments<br />
Apt. 1<br />
SUMMER WORK for high<br />
school student to look<br />
ANTIQUE PINE FURNITURE,<br />
corner cupboard,armoire, after a<br />
cupboard, small tables,<br />
PART-TIME CLEANING LADY<br />
available..excellent references,<br />
a.m. or p.m.<br />
or full days. for information,<br />
call 232-0351<br />
HELP SUPPORT GLEBE'S<br />
Indonesian Foster-child.<br />
Save your used Canadian<br />
and foreign postage<br />
stamps and drop them<br />
off anytime at 381 2nd<br />
Ave. c/o Helen Mackenzie.<br />
A special thanks to<br />
past donors - keep them<br />
coming<br />
FOR SALE: Dining room<br />
table and chairs, bookcases,<br />
rug, rocking<br />
chair, hope chest,other<br />
assorted furniture items,<br />
some clothing and 2<br />
bicycles (10 speed and<br />
5speed) Saturday, Apr.<br />
26th. 400 Second Ave.<br />
Apt.#4. 10a.m - 2 p.m.<br />
60 GALLON ELECTRIC HOT<br />
water tank, like new.<br />
$105 232-9366.<br />
ANNUAL GARAGE<br />
SALE by<br />
five year old boy<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Access to<br />
shelves. 232-9366. beautiful swimming pool.<br />
Call 235-6132 after 6.<br />
DOG SITTER: Will you<br />
babysit my dog for<br />
short periods either<br />
for payment or for the<br />
sanie service for your<br />
dog? Ph: 235-7400.<br />
NANNY WANTED: starting<br />
in May. Loving reliable<br />
mature person to care<br />
for 4 month old infant<br />
plus light housekeeping<br />
Live out, 41 day week,<br />
references please.<br />
234-4313 after 6.<br />
Interval House's ANNUAL<br />
MEETING, <strong>April</strong> 23,<br />
Le Patro d'Ottawa, 40<br />
Patro, Vanier, 7:30pm<br />
Information, 235-7482<br />
WANTED:<br />
3 bedroom acco-<br />
modation in <strong>Glebe</strong>. Reasonable.<br />
Best references.<br />
For June 1st.<br />
232-2049<br />
please call 232-0351 now accepting regis-<br />
BRIDGE & DESSERT PARTY RUMMAGE SALE: Fourth Ave<br />
tration for <strong>1980</strong>-81. St. Matthew's Church, Baptist Church, <strong>April</strong> 18 FOR SALE: Girls blue CCM<br />
PINE FOR SALE: $120, For more information,<br />
hanging three small contact<br />
Jefferson<br />
Jackie<br />
Hall, Wed. 5.00 p.m. - 9 p.m., Scamp bike, 20" wheel<br />
Morris<br />
May 14,7:30 p.m. $2.00 <strong>April</strong> 19 9am - 12 noon. base, training wheels,<br />
drawer,three shelf unit 232-7775. per person. Tickets Also a spring lunch. May chrome fenders and 'chain<br />
recently purchased Open House May 5,7,9 available in advance 6th, Home baking & guard' $45.00. 238-1017<br />
232-0351 Education week.<br />
from Mrs. Bushe 232-2290novelty table.<br />
evenings & weekends.
410 le<br />