Glebe Report - Volume 33 Number 3 - March 14 2003

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March 14, 2003 Vol. 33 No. 3 

Serving the Glebe community since 1973 

Ex stays at Lansdowne 

BY MATTHEVV HARRISON 

Despite confirmed plans to 

relocate to the south end of the 

city, Lansdowne Park may see the 

summer Ex being held in the 

Glebe for a few more years, which 

may be a good thing, according to 

Clive Doucet, city councillor for 

Capital Ward. 

"It is clear that Lansdowne is 

not the place for the Ex," says 

Doucet, "and let me make it clear 

that the Ex will be moving. There 

is a real desire for the Ex to 

move, both by them and by the 

city. They have bought land and 

they have a real commitment to 

relocate, but this cannot 'happen 

until some problems are resolved." 

Doucet is referring to some 

complications regarding the traffic 

and transit problems that the 

new site, located near the airport 

in Ottawa's south end, may cause 

for city residents, including 

those living in the Glebe and Old 

Ottawa South. 

According to Doucet, unless 

light rail is extended out to the 

south end of Ottawa, the two main 

road arteries, Bank and Bronson, 

will be flooded by traffic going 

out to the Ex. The result, says 

Doucet, would cause the traffic to 

spill over into the Glebe and Ottawa 

South areas, creating a worse 

situation for those residents who 

are already seeing an increase in 

traffic and who are seeking ways 

to decrease the amount of traffic 

in their neighbourhoods. 

"No doubt some people will get 

annoyed because the Ex is not 

moving yet, but they don't understand 

the trade-off," says Doucet, 

alluding to the increase in traffic 

if the Ex goes ahead and moves 

without waiting for the proper 

transit connections to the new 

site. Yet the proposed extension 

of light rail may not happen until 

2007. 

The idea that Lansdowne may 

be the host of the Ex for some 

years to come may not be exactly 

what some residents in the Glebe 

and Ottawa South were hoping to 

hear. Instead of moving, the Ex 

will be held once again at 

Lansdowne Park this year, amidst 

massive road repair along much of 

Bank Street in Old Ottawa South 

and the Glebe. This will likely 

complicate an already strained 

relationship between Lansdowne 

and the local community. 

Continued on page 2 

Retiring editor, Susan Jermyn, with Hélène Samson, Bruce Donaldson 

and Teena Hendelman at a recent Glebe Report gathering in The Pantry. 

Susan Jermyn retires 

as Glebe Report editor 

BY ELAINE MARLIN 

In February, Susan Jermyn, 

longtime editor of the Glebe Report, 

retired. She is ill with cancer 

and is currently undergoing 

medical treatment. 

Susan worked at the newspaper 

for almost a decade, beginning as 

a volunteer proofreader, moving 

on to layout, working as editorial 

assistant and, for the past five 

years, ably performing the role of 

editor. Under her editorship the 

paper grew and embarked on the 

transition to the technological 

age. Sue leaves behind a wellorganized 

and smooth-running 

organization and a loyal readership. 

For many years Sue also contributed 

to the work of the Glebe 

Report's board of directors. In a 

recent letter to the board, she 

wrote: "I have really enjoyed 

learning the job from working 

FREE 

with all of you, board members, 

volunteers and staff and all the 

other writers and columnists who 

came into the office. We were 

quite a team." 

Sue grew up in the Glebe, 

studied at Carleton, graduating 

with a combined degree in psychology 

and biology, and lives on 

Fourth Avenue with her husband 

Chris and children Andrew and 

Wendy. 'Through her volunteer 

work and many interests, she has 

built up an extensive network of 

friends and contacts who have 

come forward with expressions of 

support and offers of help. In a 

letter to the Glebe Report, Sue 

writes: "I thank the community 

members, board members, staff, 

contributors and volunteers who 

have sent messages of kind 

thoughts and sympathy. There 

have been far too many for me to 

thank individually." 

Photo: Ottawa Board of Education Collection, 1948 

Ottawa Public School gardens located near Glebe Collegiate Institute 

Were you a Mutchmor gardener? 

BY LYNN ARMSI RONG 

A group of parents, local artists 

and students of the Mutchmot 

Environment Club are planning a 

restoration of the gardens at the 

Fifth Avenue entrance to Mutchmor 

School. As part of our research, 

we are trying to dig up 

early photographs of the 

schoolyard, particularly the Fifth 

Avenue entry area. Did your 

mother take a first-day-at-school 

picture of you in the schoolyard 

or maybe a field trip or team 

picture at the front of the school? 

If you don't have pictures, we 

would also like to have your 

memories of the yard. Was there 

ever a wrought-iron fence or 

other fence enclosing the front 

yard? Do you remember any 

plants or trees? 

We are also interested in any 

memories of pictures related to 

the Public School Gardenslocated 

between First and Second avenuesbetween 

1916 to 1953 (as 

seen in the photo above, ©1948). 

Although these gardens have now 

been redeveloped into houses, we 

would like to include their history 

in the educational component 

of our project. 

The garden planning i s 

ongoing in March and April, 

and we would love to hear 

from you soon. You can 

reach co-ordinator Lynn 

Armstrong at 567-1577. 

Community Building 

Workshop 2 

Improved Accessibility 

Planned for GCC 3 

Kung Fu Patrick 

Gordon 5 

GNAG's Wizard of Oz 

Production 6 & 7 

GCA .8 

Nominations for Spirit of the 

Glebe award 

Councillor Doucet 9 

Business News 10 & 12 

Hockey 15 

Northern exchange 

INSIDE 

Music 16 & 17 

Travel 18 

Margaret Negodaeff 

Gardening 19 

Linda Thorne 

Art 20 

Flowers and Trees 

Dagenais Benefit 

Concert 24 & 25 

Immaculata,s 75th 

Anniversary 29 

Books 31 - 33 

Religion 34 

Lenten exercise 

NEXT DEADLINE: MARCH 24, 2003

NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 2 

Collaborative community-building 

A new way of doing business 

BY BARBARA RILEY 

On a sncwy Saturday in February, 

78 Ottawans spent the day at 

a brainstorming workshop on 

collaborative community-building. 

For five hours we threw ideas 

at each other. It was noisy, creative 

and fun, and we left city staff 

to pick up the pieces and develop 

a report for June. 

So what is collaborative community-building? 

It's a new way 

of doing business, according to 

Lesley Paterson, Co-ordinator of 

Ottawa's Official Plan, that includes 

all of Ottawa's many communities 

working together with 

the city. During the consultations 

for Ottawa 20/20, city staff heard 

that residents want better, more 

open access and communication 

with the city, and that they want 

to be more involved in the planning 

decisions that affect them. 

Collaborative 

community-build- 

ing is the response. 

NOTE: "Community" can mean 

a neighbourhood, business sector, 

cultural group, immigrant community, 

faith community, artistic 

group, environmental body, recreation 

or sports group, etc. 

What's good about collaborative 

community-building and 

what are the pitfalls? Caroline 

Andrew, dean of the Social Sciences 

faculty at the University of 

Ottawa, gave us some answers: 

the positives are that it brings 

different kinds of expertise to 

bear on issues because people 

know how their particular community 

or neighbourhood works; 

it creates a sense of belonging 

and cornmitment to the city 

the challenges are that it needs 

to be proactive and inclusive, or 

the process will favour those who 

are already favoured; to correct 

imbalances and inequalities 

among different communities; to 

acknowledge tensions and deal 

with them; and to recognize limits 

the necessary ingredients for 

success are a clear commitment 

from the city; transparency about 

what is or is not open for discussion; 

an understanding that this 

is a long-term investment of time 

and energy; and some early successes 

for encouragement. 

Those points in mind, we got 

down to work in small groups. 

Now, here's your chance to be 

part of the workshop by brainstorming 

on the same questions 

that we did. 

Step 1. What are the benefits in 

creating a more collaborative 

CREATIVE FLOOR WORX 

IMPORTED CERAMIC TILE * MARBLE * GRANITE 

community in Ottawa? 

Step 2. What are the top five 

things about which community 

groups want to have increased 

communication? 

Step 3. What are the top five 

things that stand in the way of 

effective communication and collaboration 

in Ottawa? 

Step 4. Think widely and wildly: 

brainstorm any and all initiatives 

that would lead to a more collaborative 

relationship between different 

community groups and the 

city. 

Step 5. Pick the three most beneficial 

initiatives and spell out 

these details for each one: what 

are the goals? next steps? ideal 

start date/time frame? who is responsible? 

potential obstacles? 

So what were our top suggestions 

for next steps? We wanted 

more effective communications 

and we wanted more proactive 

community-based decision-making: 

set up a conununity resource or 

office in each community 

create links between different 

communities to increase understanding 

and common action 

organize education/awareness 

programs to help communities 

understand and respond to city 

issues 

share information using Web 

sites and other means 

have each community assess its 

needs and priorities 

set up community-based advisory 

committees 

use a community's quality of life 

as a benchmark for needs and 

services 

develop community-based design 

plans 

The best brainstorming is energizing 

and satisfyingyou work 

hard, have fun, get results. The 

city's workshop was a good beginning. 

But the issue of inclusiveness 

loomed large: very few nonwhite 

faces, no evidence of the 

francophone community or of the 

business sector, no youth, little 

input that reflected Ottawa citizens 

who are outside the mainstream 

(e.g., immigrants or those 

on social assistance). As we begin, 

the process favours the favoured. 

Can we change that? 

For more information, look at 

the Web site at www.ottawa2020. 

com and click on The Collaborative 

Community-Building Event, 

or contact city staff member 

Monique Trotter at 580-2400 or 

Monique.Trotter@ottawa.ca 

HARDWOOD 

Discovering our heritage 

BY JOHN LEANING 

The Glebe Historical Society 

Heritage Week seminar at the 

Glebe Community Centre on Feb. 

15 was well-received by a full 

house of 45. The session lasted 

from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. 

After an introduction by Society's 

co-ordinator Ian McKercher, 

John Leaning presented an historical 

overview of Glebe history. 

This was followed by a detailed 

description of how to research 

your property history by Lynn 

Armstrong. She also demonstrated 

how best to interview neighbours 

In another conflict early this 

year between Lansdowne and local 

residents, the homes of those 

living in Ottawa Southespecially 

along Echo Drivewere flooded 

nightly by the intense illumination 

from a videotron sign, which 

is normally used during Renegade 

football games, but was turned 

around to face the canal during 

the off-season. 

The sign displayed advertisements 

and depicted violent scenes 

from hockey games 24 hours a day 

into their living rooms, sparking 

a series of discussions by corn- 

and long-time residents of the 

area. Steve Reid gave us an insight 

into methods of historical analysis 

and fire insurance maps. Detailed 

area maps were on display. 

Bruce McCallen, who has made 

extensive research into Bank 

Street properties, demonstrated 

how best to analyze the city directories. 

Greg West gave us a 

historic sketch of the former Pin- 

hey House at 237-239 Clemow 

Avenue. We all went away greatly 

informed on how to research our 

houses. This may become an annual 

event. 

Editor's note: John Leaning would like readers to consider his 

comments on Glebe historical sites as "conjectural." He invites readers 

to write in with additional or contradictory information in order to 

increase our understanding of our heritage. 

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The VVhyte House as seen from the North over Brown's Inlet about 1880, 

with pasture and swamp in the foreground around Holmwood Avenue 

(Centre Street). 

Lansdowne - from page 1 

munity associations, Brad Watters, 

owner of the Renegades, and 

the city. Last Wednesday evening, 

discussions with Watters and the 

city resulted in an agreement to 

shut off the sign at 6 p.m. In response 

to Wednesday's decision 

and the fears that this type of 

problem could recur, Doucet says 

reassuringly, "We learned our 

lesson from the sign and it won't 

be happening again." 

Matthew Harrison is a graduate 

of the Carleton School of Journalism 

and is doing freelance 

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BY PATTI McKAY 

Come on a journey with me. It 

is summer 2004, and the Glebe 

Community Centre has been fully 

renovated and is open for business. 

Let's enter through the main 

entranceit is facing Third Avenue 

and, surpriseno stairs! As 

you enter a spacious lobby area, 

your eye will be drawn to the 

grand staircase in front of you 

that goes to a rejuvenated Main 

Hall. But first, look off to your 

right: there is Jane Wilson, City 

of Ottawa employee and Glebe institution, 

ready to greet you and 

answer your questions. A look to 

the left shows a large meeting 

room andis that an elevator? Yes, 

sure isready to take you to all 

three levels of activity! 

Before you go off to the other 

levels, check out the rooms 

through this hallway just beyond 

the grand staircase. Huge, bright 

spaces for the Glebe Co-operative 

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playgroups and many specialized 

courses. Even a spacious kitchen! 

Back to the lobby and let's go 

to the elevator. Just beyond the 

lobby in the corner is the Glebe 

Report office with staff working 

hard on their next paper. Take 

the elevator up to the third level 

and marvel at the large studio 

that is just perfect for fitness, 

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tap dancers, lovers of fitness 

and wellness courses will all find 

a wonderful home base here! 

Waitwe are not done yet; we 

missed the second floor with the 

jewel of our building, the rejuvenated 

Main Hall! Brilliant 

stained-glass windows, new floor 

coverings and artwork, and the 

magnificent entrance from the 

grand staircasean entrance that 

is most fitting for a room such as 

this! Over there is a servery for 

large events, The Pantry, and 

spaces for equipment, storage and 

coats. This level also has a large 

craft room for those specialized 

instructional courses. 

Finally, the best part of our 

tour is that it can all be done 

from a wheelchair or using a 

walker or cane without anyone 

having to assist you! The new 

Glebe Community Centre will 

proudly welcome everyone in the 

community to all activity areas 

and the present accessibility issues 

will be a thing of the past! 

This alone will make the yearlong 

wait before we can make this 

trip truly worth it! 

Patti McKay is the Director of 

the Glebe Community Centre. 

Renovation plans for the Glebe Community Centre 

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Brevity is the soul of wit 

Although I've had a connection with the Glebe Report for many 

years, it is only in stepping into the position of editor recently that 

I really appreciate how many people are involved in putting out 

each issue of the paper. In addition to the staff and volunteers both 

inside and outside the office, the 12-member board of directors, the 

helpful staff at the GCC, the printing companyWinchester Printand, 

of course, the regular columnists, photographers and artists, 

there are also a large number of occasional contributors. Some send 

in an article several times a year; others write a once-in-a-lifetime 

story. 

For those who aren't familiar with the paper and who don't make 

contact before writing an article, there is sometimes a problem with 

length. It is heartbreaking to have to cut or send back for revision a 

beautifully crafted story that is much too long. Sometimes, however, 

reducing the length is like reducing a good sauce when cooking. The 

result is a much stronger sauce. There is an old story about a writer 

inquiring about the required length of an assignment: "If you want 

20 pages, I can 'probably do it in two days; if you want two pages, 

I'll need a week." 

Many community newspapers limit submissions to 250-300 

words. This length can provide a clearly written, focused story. Our 

regular limit is a bit longer, but often 250-350 words will do 

nicely, especially if there is an accompanying photo or illustration. 

The maximum length accepted is 500 words. 

Because there is no charge for the Glebe Report, the cost of production 

must be covered by advertising. If a story fills an entire 

page, someone else's page is going to take more ads, giving that 

writer less space. We are fortunate to have a very talented and energetic 

advertising manager, Judy Field, who, with the help of our 

efficient business manager, Sheila Pocock, keeps us well supplied 

with new advertisers and loyal regulars. This ensures that your 

contributions do get published. 

At an average length of 36 pages per issue, we are much larger 

than most community newspapers and so are able to cover a wide variety 

of news and features. By limiting the length of each article, 

the views and interests of more people can be covered. It is truly a 

great conununity paper when so many people are sending in their 

stories and helping to get the news out. Please keep them coming. 

Elaine Marlin 

Views expressed in the Glebe Report 

are those of our contributors. We 

reserve the right to edit all submissions. 

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BY PATRICK GORDON 

For over four years, I have 

been instructing Chinese martial 

arts at Glebe Fitness (formerly 

Momentum Athletics), 858 Bank 

St. at the corner of Fifth Avenue. 

I grew up in the Glebe and it is 

really great to be back, teaching 

in my old neighbourhood. I could 

not think of a nicer area of Ottawa 

to work. I have several students 

who work, live and go to school 

here and they are grateful to be 

able to attend self-defense 

classes in their own neighbourhood. 

I teach a style of Kung Fu 

called Wing Chun. Of its many 

oral histories, the most popular 

version is that Wing Chun was 

developed by a Shaolin nun in 

China, more than 300 years ago. 

She taught her style to a young 

woman named Yim Wing Chun. The 

style was named after her, due to 

the refinements she made to it, 

and it continued to be passed 

from teacher to student until 

1949, when Yip Man, a talented 

martial artist moved to Hong Kong 

and opened the first commercial 

Wing Chun school. Yip Man had a 

disciple by the name of Ho Kam 

Ming. Mr. Ho started instructing 

his own classes in Macau with his 

teacher's encouragement Of all 

his students, the most talented 

was Augustine Fong, who ended 

up becoming an instructor, under 

his teacher's guidance, and later 

moved to the Southwestern United 

States, where he has become a 

very sought-after Kung Fu instructor. 

Each year I travel to Tucson, 

Arizona, to train under Master 

Fong. With time, practice and patience, 

I became an instructor 

under Master Fong and was encouraged 

to start teaching Wing 

Chun in Canada. From Yip Man to 

Ho Kam Kung to Augustine Fongthis 

is the line on which I trace 

my Wing Chun lineage. Wing Chun 

is an effective means of selfdefense 

which has three hand 

forms, a wooden dummy form (a 

training apparatus) and two 

weapons forms. A form is a series 

of prearranged movements developed 

to introduce movements to 

the student and to encapsulate 

the style for future generations. 

Each form introduces techniques 

and concepts at the appropriate 

level of the student's training. 

Forms may be used for focusing, 

flowing, body-unity, co-ordination, 

strength, relaxation, martial 

techniques of the style, etc. Wing 

Chun uses the hands for defending, 

trapping and striking movements, 

while the feet are used for 

mobility, low kicking and trapping. 

Wing Chun will lead to a balanced 

development of three aspects: 

physical, mental and 

spiritual. Beginners work at the 

physical level, such as technique, 

power, timing, structure, etc. At 

an intermediate to advanced level, 

the student focuses on the mental 

side, such as quieting the mind, 

focusing the mind, learning to 

stay calm, etc. At a higher level, 

you may work on the spiritual 

side of training. This would involve 

meditation, detachment, 

controlled ego, etc. Spiritual 

training is not to be confused 

with religion. 

Besides being founded by two 

women, Wing Chun is well-suited 

to women because its techniques 

and applications are realistic and 

don't rely on strength-oriented 

techniques. Women also tend to 

be able to relax and flow better 

than men. Unfortunately, I see 

very few women attending Kung 

Fu classes. In today's society, I 

highly recommend that women at 

least give martial arts a try; aside 

from it being fun and a good 

workout, it could help them out of 

a dangerous situation one day. 

I have practised several mar-. 

tial arts styles, but am partial to 

Wing Chun because of its efficiency 

and practicality and, most 

importantly, because it is an intelligent 

style which makes you 

think. If you are interested in 

Wing Chun, come by and try a 

free class. If you grew up in the 

Glebe, who knows, we may just 

know one another! Day, evening 

and private classes are offered. 

Kung Fu is not only for fighting, 

it is a perfect way to wind 

down after or before a long day at 

work or school. Practising will 

wake you up, physically and 

mentally. Glebe Fitness also offers 

a variety of other activities. 

For any additional information 

regarding Wing Chun, please feel 

free to e-mail me at p.gordon@ 

cyberus.ca or visit my Web site at 

www.cyberus.ca/-p.gordon/Wing 

ChunOttawa.htm

NEWS 

Glebe Report March 14, 2003 6 

Jennifer Salmon does Mike Tallim's makeup 

BY LAUREN KRONICK 

When you embark on a journey 

with people you don't know, barriers 

that will stand in your way, 

and a final destination that 

eventually will be reached, it is 

the positive attitudes and the 

spirit of those that you work with 

that keep you going. 

During the past two months, 

GNAG's production of The Wizard 

of Oz was my personal quest that 

I was aiming to conquer. With 

minimal theatrical experience, I 

was unsure as to what would meet 

me on the other end. After weeks 

of drama-oriented exercises, 

creative warm-ups, line memorizations, 

and getting to know the 

cast members, I felt my confidence 

build immensely as I realized 

that the barriers that were 

set in my path would be broken 

down. When things were in a 

slump, our fabulous director, 

Eleanor Crowder, was there to 

Photo: Giovanni 

Following the yellow brick road 

guide us along the road to make 

this show work. 

And work, it did! Two months 

of hard, yet extremely fun work 

had flown by and it was time for 

Opening Night. After spending 

late nights at the Glebe Community 

Centre acting (and for some, 

roaring) our hearts out, we finally 

had a polished product to 

perform for an enthusiastic community. 

Ignoring my nerves, I 

pushed myself to do my absolute 

best so that our goal could be met. 

Three sold-out audiences would 

applaud the amazing work that 

everyone had accomplished. 

Now that the show is over, I am 

satisfied in knowing that a group 

of talented individuals came together 

to work as one big team. 

We provided the community with 

quality entertainment and made 

ourselves proud of the journey 

that we finished on such a highly 

successful note. 

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Sixteen Years Experience 

The Wizard of Oz: our first 

community production 

BY CLARA HIRSCH 

Those lucky enough to get a 

ticket experienced a delightful 

bit of entertainment at GNAG's 

first theatrical production, The 

Wizard of Oz. The sold-out audience's 

gasps and laughter indicated 

that the show, which ran 

from Feb. 28 to March 1, was a 

complete success. In every aspect, 

the production uncovered the vast 

array of talent in our community. 

Eleanor Crowder, with the help 

of Pat Goyeche, brilliantly directed 

the cast of Glebites. Given 

the limitations of the space, she 

managed to create a sense of momentum 

and drama. The play i s 

demanding in that it requires the 

action to be transported to very 

different environments. Eleanor 

seemed to get the actors to feel 

comfortable in their roles, and to 

move within the various locations 

of the play and set to create 

striking effects. Given that the 

play requires actors of different 

age groups, the director ably 

managed to meld them into a unified 

corps. 

Eleanor Crowder was recently 

awarded the Victor Togesy Arts 

Award for contributions to cultural 

life. 

This reviewer was surprised at 

the professionalism of the actors. 

Dorothy, a role shared by Ailsa 

Galbreath and Caroline Leslie, 

presented herself as a convincing, 

strong-willed, kind-hearted, determined 

little girl. Her companions 

accompanying her to the Emerald 

City were tragicomic characters 

who warmed our hearts. 

The supporting cast was spirited 

and fully engaged. 

I was surprised to hear live 

music set the mood of the impending 

storm, as well as signal 

changes of time and place. The 

young musicians of the Purple 

Cloud Quartet added a refreshing 

touch to the play. To the delight 

of the children in the audience, 

Abbey Sturrock provided various 

dance numbers by very young 

ballerinas. 

The stage design crew, coached 

by Ross Imrie, created an ingenious 

set of large painted plywood 

cut-outs with imaginative details 

such as oversized mushrooms, 

emerald-coloured diamond shapes 

and folded and draped gauze fabric. 

The platform canopy in the 

centre of the audience was a 

brilliant piece of staging. It allowed 

for movement and dramatic 

effects in an otherwise limited 

space. The lighting by Ross Imrie 

and Scott Windsor provided atmosphere, 

as well as clever effects 

for the Wizard (Ingrid 

Deschenes and Samantha Nash) to 

play his deceptive tricks. 

The costumes were remarkable, 

especially the Scarecrow, played 

by Artem Barry, the Tin Woodman, 

Mike Tallim, the Cowardly 

Lion, Margie Marlin, and Toto, 

Heather Carlson. The papiermaché 

and silver-foiled marionette 

of Melinda, Good Witch of 

the North, was extraordinary. It 

was designed and constructed by 

artist Erin Robertson. Assistant 

Director Pat Goyeche was clever 

in including details such as 

placing a double string of pompoms 

around Toto's neck. 

I was particularly struck by 

the make-up. Dorothy's three 

companions were exceptional. 

Jennifer Salmon did a brilliant 

job transforming human faces into 

that of a lion, a scarecrow, a tin 

woodman, and a dog. 

Jennie Aliman, jack of all 

trades, was a wonderful asset to 

the production. She stage-managed, 

ran lines with the actors, 

and assisted with costumes, props 

and set construction. 

Mary Lovelace did the essential 

work behind the scenes. As 

house manager, Mary ensured that 

a small army of young people 

were there to set up chairs, take 

tickets and distribute essentials 

such as ice cream at intermission. 

The Glebe community owes a 

debt of gratitude to Mary Tsai- 

Davies who conceived the idea of a 

workshop-based theatrical production. 

Mary's concept included 

a group of talented individuals, 

from every generation and from 

different theatrical disciplines, 

coming together to learn and create. 

She drew together these talented 

people from our community 

and brought this remarkable show 

to fruition. I am already looking 

forward to the next one. 

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The Wizard of Oz a community theatre sell-out success! 

BY MARY TSAI-DAVIES 

The Glebe Neighbourhood Activities 

Group has produced its 

first community theatre production, 

an adaptation by Anne 

Coulter Martens of L. Frank 

Baum's beloved classic The Wizard 

of Oz. 

This community initiative began 

last spring. The idea was to 

offer workshops in set design, 

children's dance, children's acting 

classes and adult acting 

classes. The workshops and 

classes would revolve around a 

script that would include a multigenerational 

cast and crew. 

Once the script was selected, 

the production team held a public 

information meeting which was 

attended by many interested and 

enthusiastic people of all ages. 

The production team included 

Eleanor Crowder, Ross Imrie, Pat 

Goyeche, Jennie Aliman, Bob Hunt 

and myself. 

For eight weeks, director 

Eleanor Crowder and assistant 

director Pat Goyeche conducted 

classes for children eight to 11 

years of age, followed by adult 

classes. Ross Imrie led set design 

workshops for adults and children 

from eight years of age. The 

Dancing Poppy scene was choreographed 

and taught by instructor 

Abbey Sturrock. 

On the Monday of the final 

production week, all four groups 

met on the set and rehearsed for 

the first time as a whole group. 

Added to the mix was the Purple 

Cloud Quartet. 

'Thanks to all the cast members, 

the crew, all our volunteers 

and sponsors for their creativity, 

hard work and support in this 

magical experience. 

Production Assistants: 

Eleanor Crowder, Ross Imrie, Jen- 

nie Aliman, Pat Goyeche and Mary 

Lovelace. 

Cast, Dancers and Music: 

Ailsa Galbreath, Caroline Leslie, 

Artem Barry, Mike Tallim, Margie 

Marlin, Mafanway Buttigieg, Katy 

Longair, Stephanie Smith, Deb 

Hogan, Rosemary Curry, Ingrid 

Deschenes, Samantha Nash, Darcy 

Middaugh, Courtney Nicholson, 

Robin Copestake, Lauren Kronick, 

Heather Carlson, Brennan Neve, 

Ben Wilkinson-Zan, Marlow de- 

Paul, Shannon King, Belle Cao, 

Kailey Richards, Abigail Murray, 

Tara Mahoney, Amanda Havey, T. 

MacGowan, Zachary Schantz, Thomas 

Beadle, Cammy Borza, Jennifer 

Eaman, Zoé Hart, M. Johnson- 

Dugay, Fiona King, Epi 

Leibo- 

vitch, Katie Pirani-Watson, Emily 

Quinn, Clara Schultz, Hannah 

Wiens, Lauren Wohlfarth and The 

Purple Cloud Quartet. 

Set Designers, Lighting and 

Builders: 

Julia Aldridge, Jude Fitzgerald, 

Debbie Broad, Cameron Davies, 

Sarah Davies, Dylan dePaul, Kyra 

dePaul, Missy Fraser, Ross Imrie, 

Megan Malloy, Alex Okuda-Rayfuse, 

Sachiko Okuda, Jim Thompson, 

Trevor Thompson and Scott 

Windsor. 

Costumes, Props and Crew: 

Jennie Aliman, Bolf Dance Company, 

Pat Goyeche, Terry Llewelyn-Huntley, 

Christy Oliver, Andrée 

Pouliot, Erin Robertson, 

Jennifer Salmon and Zita Taylor. 

Volunteers: 

Regis Alcorn, Roily Aubrey, 

Melanie Bauman, Ken Bhatt, Yuki 

Bhatt, M. & A. Boomgarandt, Andrew 

Davidson, Little Cameron 

Davies, Don Davies, Jordan Davies, 

André D'Iorio, Marlow de- 

Paul, Alanna Elliot, Missy Fraser, 

Christine Havey, AI Hirsc h- 

Allen, Simon Keeble, Constance 

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Videos of this performance are 

available for $10 at the front 

desk of the Glebe 

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Centre. Put your order in today! 

Videos will be ready for pickup 

at the end of March. 

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AT GLEBE C.C. 

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12, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is 

free! Over 50 artists will be exhibiting 

their beautiful crafts 

during this one-day event. 

Spring Flea MarketSat., 

April 26, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Great Glebe Garage Sale-Sat., 

May 24, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

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(numbers will be handed out at 5 

p.m.). Preschool, children, youth 

and family registration begins on 

Sat., March 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 

p.m. (numbers will be distributed 

at 8 a.m.). 

The City of Ottawa is still accepting 

registration for their 

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GCC offers fun and exciting 

day camps for children two to 

13 years of age for the months of 

July and August. Camps will take 

place at Mutchmor Public School 

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We also offer week-long specialty 

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GCA Glebe Report March 14, 2003 8 

GCA seeks nominations for Spirit of the Glebe award 

BY JUNE CREELMAN 

AND ANNE SCOTTON 

MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN 

SET FOR MAY 

The GCA will be holding its 

annual door-to-door membership 

campaign in May. If you would 

like to volunteer to canvass your 

block, contact Doreen Drolet at 

237-2907 or gca@theglebeonline 

.com. It's a great way to meet your 

neighbours and catch up on street 

news after a long winter. 

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 

SPIRIT OF THE GLEBE 

We all like to complain about 

ugly infill housing and insensitive 

renovations, but let's not forget 

that there are also lots of good 

developments out there. Do you 

know of a construction, renovation 

or restoration project that 

has enhanced the neighbourhood? 

If so, please nominate it for the 

Glebe Community Association's 

Spirit of the Glebe award. 

The criteria are: 

any construction, renovation, 

restoration or development project 

completed between January 

2002 and April 2003 

both residential and commercial 

projects are eligible 

work must be visible from the 

street (no indoor or backyard 

projects) 

project is sensitive to and compatible 

with the surrounding 

streetscape 

project is a model of "good development" 

in keeping with the essential 

qualities that character- 

ize the Glebe 

Nominations should 

include 

the address of the project, the 

owner's name and phone number 

(if you know it), and a line or two 

on why you think this project is 

worthy. You can e-mail nominations 

to gca@theglebeonline.com 

or drop them off to the GCA at the 

Glebe Community Centre. The 

deadline for nominations is Fri., 

April 18. 

ELIMINATING GRAFFITI 

City of Ottawa official Paul 

McCann attended the GCA meeting 

in February to inform us that the 

Glebe has been designated a zerotolerance 

zone for graffiti. A program 

will be put in place to clean 

up existing graffiti and prevent 

more from occurring. One of the 

ideas is to create graffiti boards 

where graffiti artists can legitimately 

express themselves. If you 

would like to report graffiti 

problems or suggest a place for 

graffiti boards, please contact 

Paul McCann, Community Pride 

Program Co-ordinator, e-mail: 

Paul.McCann@ottawa.ca or tel: 

580-2424, ext. 13363. 

CITY OF OTTAWA 

POLICE REPORT 

Steve Carroll of the Ottawa Po- 

lice reported that residential 

crime was down in 2002; however, 

commercial crime did increase. 

About a quarter of police time in 

the Glebe is spent responding to 

alarms, 95% of which turn out to 

be false. This is not the best use 

of police time, so do your best to 

prevent false alarms by making 

sure your system works properly 

and all users know how to use it. 

You can check out monthly crime 

statistics on the GCA page at 

www.theglebeonline.com. 

TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT 

Marc Groulx, one of the city's 

specialized traffic officers, explained 

traffic enforcement procedures. 

The police do investigate 

complaints such as drivers failing 

to stop at stop signs or running 

red lights. If you provide the 

license number and driver's description, 

a complaint will be 

registered on a driver's file. The 

police also use complaints to 

identify problem intersections. 

In fact, neighbours' complaints 

have led to the intersection at 

Fifth and Craig being one of only 

four traffic projects in downtown 

Ottawa where there is a special 

level of enforcement. 

NEIGHBOURHOOD SCHOOLS 

The Ottawa-Carleton District 

School Board's accommodation 

studywith its emphasis on closing 

schools within the Greenbeltthreatens 

all the public schools 

in our area. The GCA has written 

to the board to underline our 

support for community schools. 

We will be watching the issue 

closely and responding as needed 

when the board outlines its plans. 

At the same time as we are 

monitoring school board activities, 

the GCA is also feeding into 

the city's new official plan. We 

agree with the principles of smart 

growth and more people living 

within the Greenbelt. However, it 

will be impossible to implement 

these principles if schools are 

closed in the very areas where the 

city is promoting residential in- 

tens ificatio n. 

Thanks to input from the GCA 

and other community groups, the 

most recent draft of the new official 

plan includes a section on 

retention of school buildings and 

grounds. We will be advocating 

that this section be strengthened 

even further. 

PLANNING ISSUES 

Discussion continues on the 

development of 15 townhouses at 

520 The Driveway. The GCA has 

concerns about the carrying capacity 

of the site and the lack of 

compatibility of the design with 

neighbouring houses. The deadline 

for comments on the site plan 

in March 18. Forward comments 

to Gordon Harrison, City of Ottawa 

Development Services Department, 

2 Constellation Crescent, 

Fifth Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, 

K2G 5J9. E-mail: gordon.harrison 

@ottawa.ca. Tel: 580-2424, ext. 

13868. 

The GCA's next meeting is on 

Tuesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., 

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would like to put something on 

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9 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 REPORT 

City councillor's report 

Dear Glebe Report readers, 

Little 

There is love 

and there is life, 

and where the two divide, 

there is little life. 

Should city councils be talking 

about war? Should they be talking 

about a rent freeze? Or should 

they stick to roads, public trarisit 

and clean wateri.e., the matters 

that fall exclusively within their 

jurisdiction? 

The reality is the city can't 

impose a rent freeze or decide 

whether or not Canada goes to 

war. But the reality is also that 

these things impact our city and 

our residents. 

I know the rural councillors 

and some suburban councillors 

feel very uncomfortable moving 

off their traditional concerns, but 

there is more to life than tag-abag. 

The reality is the world is 

changing. Ottawa is now larger 

than some provinces. Toronto is 

larger than most provinces. Furthermore, 

the changes have come 

at us so hard and fast in recent 

years that, not surprisingly, 

there is some confusion over just 

what city councillors should be 

occupying themselves with. 

RENT FREEZE 

I don't agree with a rent 

freeze, but on the other hand, the 

city's hands have been so constrained 

by the province promising 

to increase the shelter allowance, 

when they withdrew 

from funding affordable housing, 

but then refusing to increase the 

shelter allowance. 

This has been the primary 

cause of homelessness and the 

affordable housing crisis. We 

have stopped building affordable 

housing and, at the same time, 

made it harder for the poor to 

rent. It's been a recipe for home- 

lessness and that is what has 

happened. The threat of a rent 

freeze by the city was a desperation 

move, seen as one of the few 

ways to pressure the province 

into doing something and, I for 

one, wish we had gone forward 

with it as a method of getting the 

province's attention. Nothing else 

has worked. 

IRAQ 

Normally, my response would 

be: city councils have enough on 

their own plates without worrying 

what's falling off the federal table. 

That doesn't mean I'm not 

interested in federal matters. 

There are many occasions when I 

can feel my blood pressure rising 

at federal shenanigans. I was appalled, 

for example, at the federal 

government managing to spend a 

billion dollars on registering 

guns; that's half of Ottawa's city 

budget for an entire year. On the 

other hand, I felt no inclination 

to debate this matter at city council. 

The same can be said of much 

By 

Councillor 

Clive 

Doucet 

of what passes on Parliament Hill. 

But invading Iraq is different. 

This is the great moral question 

of our age and it isn't a question 

with any easy answer. Clearly, 

Saddam Hussein is a thug and 

could be prosecuted in the World 

Court for crimes against humanity, 

but then there are a lot of 

politicians out there who could 

suffer the same fate if the UN was 

prepared to use force to impose a 

prosecution. Clearly, the decision 

to invade Iraq has enormous implications 

for the security of the 

Middle East and, by extension, 

the security of the planet. 

It's not that city councils 

should suddenly become departments 

of foreign affairs. We have 

one and that seems sufficient. But 

this is an exceptional situation 

that does require the broadest 

possible public debate. The debate 

in Canada's parliament can 

only happen in one city. There 

are city council chambers from 

St. John's to Victoria and, by debating 

the question in them from 

coast to coast, the federal parliament 

will have a great civic discourse 

from which to draw for 

their own debates and their own 

decisions. 

In Ottawa's council chambers, 

we did have a town hall meeting 

for the general public over 

whether or not a war with Iraq 

should proceed. Six hundred people 

packed the room and the public 

debate that occurred was central 

to forming my own opinion on 

whether an Iraq invasion was a 

good idea or not. What amazed me 

about this town hall meeting was 

not just its size, but its diversity. 

I left that town hall meeting 

convinced that invading Iraq was 

going to solve nothing and lead to 

nothing except more pain for the 

region. I seconded a motion supporting 

the Canadian government's 

attempts to move forward 

only with a UN-based resolution 

to the conflict. Council passed the 

motion. This is progress, when 

you consider that a week and a 

half earlier, the mayor wouldn't 

even entertain discussion of the 

motion. 

City councils normally spend 

more time on summer hours at the 

wading pool and frankly, I'm happier 

debating them than the possibility 

of a distant war, but both 

count and need our attention. 

Trusting this finds us all with 

warmer weather, 

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Claudio Peloso, Bruce Stewart and Oscar Finizia 

Earthy tones 

at Creative Floor Worx 

BY LAUREN KRONICK 

Bruce 

The day that artist 

Stewart walked into Creative 

Floor Worx for some flooring 

ideas, little did he know that he 

would find an opportunity to 

showcase his work. Bruce noticed 

that the tile-adorned walls of the 

store resembled the backgrounds 

of several of his paintings. Oscar 

Finizia and Claudio Peloso, the 

owners of the Bank Street store, 

were more than welcoming to the 

idea of arranging Bruce's art to be 

shown in the store. They believe 

that the relationship between the 

artist and the store has strengthened 

the friendship between both 

parties. Oscar describes Bruce's 

artwork as "very earthy," and he 

is happy that the paintings are at 

home in the store. 

Bruce Stewart, a graduate from 

the Nova Scotia College of Art and 

Design and a former senior exhibit 

designer with the National 

Museums Corporation, paints in 

the styles of a variety of different 

eras, from the Renaissance to the 

18th century. A recurring theme 

in Bruce's artwork is archery. 

Several of his paintings that were 

on display at Creative Floor Worx 

in February featured the background, 

which coincided with the 

colour and texture of a tile in the 

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store, of a silhouette holding a 

bow and arrow. One of Bruce's 

most successful paintings, which 

he named Selway in Montana is a 

commercial painting with a background 

theme from a neolithic 

rock wall and a traditibnal archer 

in the foreground. Selway in 

Montana was featured on the cover 

of Traditional Bowhunter magazine's 

March 2001 issue and 

portrays the materials that historical 

figures used for hunting. 

Bruce says that his style has 

changed over the years. His earlier 

work was more abstract as 

compared to his current cave 

painting motifs primarily using 

earth tones. Bruce's artistic influences 

include Joseph Boyce, 

who leans towards a theoretical 

direction. and California painter 

Wayne Thiebault. He is currently 

preparing for his next show, 

which will take place in a few 

months. 

Bruce's advice for budding 

artists is to get out there and 

show artwork whenever an opportunity 

arises. His collection of 

artwork can be found on his Web 

site at http://www.bdstewartcom 

which is complete with a biography, 

gallery, and contact information. 

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New coaching business offers 

services for teams and leaders 

Mary Glen is a long-time resident 

of the Glebe and, until recently, 

an executive in the Public 

Service of Canada. She has just 

launched an independent business 

enterprise called Coaching 

Alliances. 

Mary is building on over 25 

years experience in leadership 

positions in policy, operations, 

communications and management 

in the federal government Her 

work has included advancing gender 

equality in the wake of the 

landmark United Nations conference 

on the status of women in 

Beijing in 1995, and developing 

current agendas for action to address 

the needs of people with 

disabilities, children and their 

families, and the voluntary sector. 

Her most recent assignment 

was with the Privy Council Office's 

Task Force on the Voluntary 

Sector. 

Coaching Alliances offers 

three services: 

one-on-one coaching 

team development (team coaching, 

strategies for improved interaction 

and communication 

among team members, assessment 

of individuals for recruitment, 

and succession planning) 

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progress towards key organizational 

goals (design and facilitation 

of planning events, development 

of action plans, facilitation 

of meetings to review and adjust 

plans at key milestones) 

Mary coaches leaders of all 

ages and stages and/or their 

teams through structured conver- 

sations and specific practices 

designed to guide them as they 

come to reflect on their current 

situation. They learn to observe 

Glebe resident, Mary Glen 

themselves, noting what does and 

does not support them, then they 

apply new ways of acting that will 

get them closer to the results 

they seek. 

Mary has drawn inspiration 

and support from the Glebe community 

where she has lived for 

many years along with her husband 

Ian, sons Peter and Thomas, 

and golden retriever Archie. The 

Glebe Parents Play Group, Glebe 

Community Centre, Mutchmor and 

Glashan public schools, Lisgar, 

and Glebe, St. James Tennis Club, 

St. Matthew's ChurchMary feels 

that all these have made incalculable 

contributions to the development 

of her family. She says it 

is a great incentive and a real joy 

to be in closer touch with her 

friends, neighbours, colleagues 

and mentors as Coaching Alliances 

takes shape. 

You can reach Mary Glen and 

Coaching Alliances at coachall@ 

magma.ca . Tel: 230-2886. Fax: 

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Glebe Co-op Nursery School 

will relocate in Mutchmor school 

Registration for the Glebe Cooperative 

Nursery School is now 

over. Any applications received 

after March 15 will be put on a 

waiting list on a first-come, 

first-served basis. Registration 

kits and fact sheets outlining the 

programming, age groups and fees 

are available at the school or online 

at www.theglebeonline.com/ 

schools/gcns/noticeboard. Please 

submit your registration package 

to the nursery school at the Glebe 

Community Centre, 690 Lyon St., 

or call us at 233-9708. 

It's important to note that due 

to the Glebe Community Centre 

renovations, we will be temporarily 

relocated at Mutchmor 

School for the year starting September 

2003. We feel very fortunate 

to have found temporary 

space in the neighbourhood and 

discussions are under way to ensure 

that this space will be suitable 

for our little ones. 

To chase away the wintry 

weather, the children recently 

enjoyed Beach Day at school. Sun 

hats, cool shades and bathing 

suits were the fashion for the 

day. The children also enjoyed a 

visit from Little Ray's Reptiles. 

Some got to ride on a turtle, get 

hugged by a snake and hold a 

In March 1968, Gwen Richards 

invented the symbol for the Dinner 

Wagon, also known as Meals 

on Wheels Ottawa. It was four 

wheels interlocking, one wheel 

each for donors, suppliers, volunteers 

and the King's Daughters, 

the force behind the project. The 

foundersGrace Hartwick, Elda 

Malone, Aileen Matthews, Gwen 

Richards, Hilda Sager, Evelyn 

Sparks, Helen Suggett and Laura 

'Thompsonborrowed space in the 

King's Daughters Apartments in 

the Dow's Lake area. The organization 

stayed there until 1987. 

Gwen Richards recalls that the 

hospitals would release patients 

earlier because staff knew that 

there would be a hot meal and a 

watchful visitor to the home five 

days a week. Volunteers initially 

ran the whole operation and supported 

it through fundraising. 

They also had a good time. Money 

from the Ontario Department of 

Community and Social Services 

scorpion. Jennie Aliman (GNAG's 

music & movement) also joined 

the children on a few occasions to 

lead them in some lively singing, 

story-telling, rhythm and dancing. 

The Co-operative membership 

has its annual potluck dinner and 

general meeting in January. The 

children had a great time running 

around with Bobo the Clown and 

everyone enjoyed the wonderful 

food. 

The nursery school had a very 

successful open house during the 

week of March 3-7. Teachers and 

children enjoyed meeting the new 

families who came to visit. It's 

always so exciting to meet new 

playmates. For those who missed 

this opportunity, please give the 

school a call to set up a mutually 

convenient time for a visit. 

It may be minus 20 degrees 

outside, but the social committee 

is already busy planning and ordering 

flowers for the annual 

Mother's Day plant sale. Mark 

your calendar for Sat., May 10 

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to pick up a 

special hanging basket or a beautiful 

flower container. Bring the 

whole family for fun arts & crafts 

and yummy goodies as well. 

Meals on Wheels celebrates 

35 years of hot stuff 

was granted in 1972-73. 

Today, 35 years later, meals 

are prepared in 14 kitchens. Last 

year, 118,000 hot and frozen 

meals were delivered to 1,349 

clients with the help of 750 volunteers. 

Meals are now delivered 

six days a week and there is also 

a Chinese meals program. Meals 

on Wheels Ottawa has come a long 

way in 35 years. For further information, 

please call 233-2424. 

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BUSINESS NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 1 2 

Business matters in the Glebe 

ERNESTO'S BARBER SHOP 

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Tel: 238-5038 

There are very few times that 

one can walk into Ernesto's Barber 

Shop and not have to wait for 

a haircut. But there are very few 

clients who would leave because 

of the wait since they feel so 

comfortable and satisfied with 

the tonsorial ministrations of 

either Ernesto or his associate 

Guerino. There are two barber 

chairs and seven chairs for waiting 

clientsso, though the shop i s 

small, it is cozy and comfortable. 

While waiting, one has a choice of 

reading the news, going next door 

to Irene's for a coffee or participating 

in the conversation among 

those waiting. Ernesto and his 

associate will switch to Italian if 

they need privacy. 

Ernesto Falbo grew up and 

learned his professional skills in 

the city of Costanza on the western 

border of Calabria in Italy. 

He emigrated to Canada in 1967, 

spent a couple of years with another 

barber in Ottawa and then 

opened his own shop at the current 

location in 1970. He operated 

by himself until 1987 when 

he hired an associate, Guerino 

Turano, also from Costanza. 

Ernesto and a partner share 

the ownership of the property 

which includes the offices upstairs. 

He says he has no interest 

in expanding to include more capacityand 

more headaches. 

The majority of his business i s 

hair-cutting, which has become 

increasingly complex because of 

By 

Bruce 

Donaldson 

Ernesto Falbo at work in his barbersho P 

the changing styles of the 

younger generation. There is also 

a growing number of female clients 

preferring barber services to 

the traditional hair stylists. One 

can note that hairstyle is no 

longer a reliable gender identification. 

Shaving is seldom done now by 

the barber, other than to trim 

around the edges of a "haircut" or 

to create a styled beard. It used 

to be a ritual performed each 

morning for business managers, 

complete with hot towels, facial 

massage, etc., that was so comfortable 

and invigorating. It also 

served as a communication channel 

among the managers for local 

news items before the paper 

found out about them. Ernesto 

tells me that when he started in 

Ottawa, a shave cost 50 cents! 

Ernesto's shop closes on Sunday 

and Wednesday when he and 

his wife Iolanda clean the shop. 

Barbers have always been considered 

musical and we have been 

told that Ernesto plays a "mean 

accordion." Over the years he has 

been involved with Italian musical 

groups in the city. 

His shop is a very comfortable 

link with the past, as well as providing 

a direction for the future. 

Photos: Elaine Marlin 

Russell Fisher, a happy customer, leaving Metro Music 

METRO MUSIC 


Tel: 233-9688 

Metro Music, originally known 

as Professional Guitar Studios, 

was opened in 1960 by Bob 

Sabourin, a widely lcnown and 

highly respected guitar player in 

Ottawa. Bob's plan was to teach 

others how to play guitar using 

the store for his studio. As the 

business grew and expanded he 

changed the name to Metro Music. 

He married Christine, one of 

his students, in 1962 and they 

expanded their teaching studio 

into a full-service operation. 

Danielle, their daughter is the 

current owner and manager. 

Metro Music represents "live 

music" and provides, on a purchase 

or rental basis, the instruments, 

sound systems and equipment 

required by both wellestablished 

and novice groups. 

The firm is particularly famous 

for the quality of its 

teaching on guitar (three instructors) 

and on drums (Lorne 

Kelly, instructor). It also assists 

players in finding good instruction 

on instruments provided by 

Metro Music. 

The sincere interest that Danielle 

and her staff take in solving 

the problems of their clients has 

allowed Metro Music to become a 

significant influence in the development 

of good musical groups 

in Ottawa. 

Incidentally, many people have 

wondered what happened to the 

German shepherd that used to lie 

in the window and observe the 

passing scene on Bank Street. 

Poor Kathrinka died at an early 

age, eight years. Danielle's two 

other shepherds have not yet developed 

an interest in the Bank 

Street people. 

REFLECTIONS 

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Tel: 563-1700 

The ownership of Reflections 

has recently changed hands and 

the new owner is Robert Boutros. 

Pierre Hahn, the previous owner, 

is devoting more time to his other 

shops, particularly in the Market. 

Formerly with Rinaldo's as the 

chief hair designer for 17 years, 

Robert Boutros plans to make 

available to his clients in the 

Glebe the experience and ideas 

that he found successful in his 

previous experience. 

He has made no changes to the 

experienced Reflections staff 

which consists of about 17 hair 

stylists and eight support staff. 

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Agora has a large sandwichboard 

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Dogged and besotted 

When I was only nine, my 

heartless parents sent me away to 

a small boys' boarding school in 

southern England. I soon learnt 

that the school motto was, "It's 

dogged as does it." It was a good 

deal later, when I earned a book 

prize with an illustrated bookplate 

in it, that I realized the 

motto was linked to Aesop's fable 

of the tortoise and the hare, and 

that its Latin equivalent ("Vince 

patientia") exhorted persistence. 

I had believed it meant we should 

behave like dogs, indeed become 

besotted with them. 

Anyway, here I am, several 

decades later, with Auntie Sue in 

Berrys, the Second Avenue store 

devoted to the care and maintenance 

of various kinds of pets, 

from budgerigars to cats. But 

mainly it is devoted to dogs of all 

sizes and creeds. I have brought 

along my Jack Russell puppy, 

Moto (Swahili for 'hot stufP), and 

we are listening to the talk between 

Sue and a parade of besotted 

dog-owners. 

Sue declares that she herself 

is "passionate, truly passionate" 

about dogs, although she was 

frightened of them until she was 

about 18. Sue Breen was born in 

Swindon, the railway centre of 

southern England, and came to 

Canada at five after a brief stop 

in her mother's heartland of Ireland. 

She grew up in the country 

around Carp, with a dog she 

didn't like. What changed her? A 

friend of hers was training a dog 

for the CNIB, and it won her 

heart. 

She has two dogs and a cat. Jacob 

is a husky mix, and Mozart a 

golden retriever and black labrador. 

Why Mozart? A good Irish 

story comes: "When I first got 

him, he howled and shrieked. So I 

got out my guitar, sat on the floor 

and played him cheerful tunes. 

He howled more. Then I played 

him classical stuff, and he just 

rolled over quietly. I had to play 

it to him for months." She is also 

fostering Rocky Bark, a dog she 

accepted from the Bytown Association 

for the Rescue of Kanines. 

She has a collecting box for 

B.A.R.K. on the counter. 

Her customers are piling up. 

First, there is Dominic D'Arcy, 

the "singing policeman," come for 

some pet food. Together Sue and 

he become more Irish. Says 

Dominic: "I was born up the river 

in Quebec but, whenever I go to 

Ireland, they ask 'What county 

are you from?' So I tell them, 

'County Pontiac'." 

On his heels comes Stella, a 

German shepherd and border collie 

mix, who came from B.A.R.K. 

By 

Clyde 

Sanger 

Sue is happy to see Moto and 

Stella tumble around her store for 

the next hour, while Stella's 

owner shops and chats. They start 

licking the enormous beef bones 

that come from Tillsonburg but 

can't bite through the string bags. 

"Not a problem," says Sue. 

Sue's problem has been the recent 

competition that the Berrys 

chain has been facing from the 

Petsmart newcomers, who can sell 

food at prices lower than she can 

buy. Berrys, she says, "is the last 

family-owned Canadian pet-food 

group in Ontario." It (and she) 

came to the Glebe seven years ago. 

"It's hard to make your way in 

here, but once you do, it's a 

friendly place." The Glebe, she 

thinks, is "the most dog-dense 

part of Ottawa." As well as locals, 

she gets customers (or dogfriends) 

from all around the city. 

She earned her title when the 

elderly owners of a dog called 

Berry became friends and told 

her that they intended in their 

will to leave their dog to "Auntie 

Sue." Soon others all over Ottawa 

were calling her that. 

She has made it a family. On 

one wall is "the Berry's family 

tree" with lots of snapshots of 

pets. Then, just before Christmas, 

she put up a board and invited 

owners to sign their pet's name. 

Five weeks later, she counted 203 

names, some hilarious and many 

exotic. The largest is Razzle - 

berry, with Tuesday nearby. Her 

favourite is Zebirdie, and under 

it comes Acosius and Tiberius. 

She seems to know them all. 

"Tiberius is a pug. Sednu comes 

from lqaluit. I like Dublin, a lab 

mix, and here's a dozen together- 

The Belfast Trouble Cats!" Meanwhile, 

I am stuck on "Eszt!"what 

sort of creature is that? 

A muffled-up man walks in. 

"Hey, you can't come in without a 

dog!" I shout. He turns out to be 

Michael Bate of Frank magazine 

who has just bought the Baker 

house. He has a Portuguese waterdog 

at home, and talks to Sue 

about allergies. 

Thenthe crowning moment 

Terri Lobsinger of Allan Place 

brings in a big black dog who, she 

says, is a Doberman mixed with 

black lab and golden retriever. 

"She's called Rafiki," she explains. 

"We got her in Kenya and 

her name means 'Friend' in Swahili." 

"Come on," Moto and I exclaim 

in unison, and we tell her 

about our own much lamented 

Rafiki. And so home, dogged with 

nos talgia. 

Editor's note: Sadly, 

Bark died on Feb. 9. 

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Abbotsford Senior Centre 

131anning for spring 

BY BORGNY PEARSON 

Mid March. With moderating 

weather and days growing 

.:::--brighter, it's time to spring forward 

into a new season of activities 

at Abbotsford Senior Centre. 

Kathy Nichol, program facilitator, 

has just put the finishing 

touches on Abbotsford's spring 

*program guide. The guide describes 

a tempting array of 

classes, clubs, workshops and 

social events, holding the promise 

of pleasure in our leisure for all 

of us who have passed the threshold 

age of 55. 

Since the beginning of January, 

about 400 seniors have renewed 

or taken out membership. 

Maggie O'Brien, vice-president of 

the Abbotsford Council, told me 

that the membership committee i s 

actively pursuing two objectivesto 

welcome new members and to 

encourage them to get involved in 

range of activities. 

In the past some seniors have 

become members, then signed up 

for only one thing (e.g., footcare) 

without exploring other possibilities. 

I admit I did the same 

when I joined many years ago, 

taking only line dancing. 

But the prospects for expanded 

involvement are enticing. Snooker 

anyone? Euchre? Bridge? Scrabble? 

All are part of the fun and 

games to test your skills and 

tickle your brain cells. 

Would you like some basic 

training in computer skills? Or to 

learn about internet security? Or 

join a class in painting? stained- 

, glass? or pottery as described by 

Teena Hendelman in the February 

edition of the Glebe Report 

Do you feel fit or slightly 

flabby at the end of winter? New 

fitness classes at Abbotsford 

range from muscle toning with 

weights, low-impact aerobics and 

a gentle workout, to tai chi and 

yoga and, of course, line dancing. 

Glebe Centre & Abbotsford Senior Centre 

Volunteers needed! 

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BY JENNIFER McSPORRAN 

Have you got one hour to 

spare to help a senior? The 

Glebe Centre invites you to 

spend an enjoyable hour assisting 

our residents who are 

unable to feed themselves. 

Various time slots are available. 

Your help for even one 

meal per week would be much 

appreciated. Students, this is a 

great way to get those community 

service hours! 

Are you a movie buff? Abbotsford 

Senior Centre has an 

opening for a volunteer movie 

-'club leader on Monday or 

Wednesday afternoons. Come 

Kathy Nichol, program facilitator 

These classes fill up quickly, so 

it is best to apply early. 

In the Luncheon Club, seniors 

in the community who have trouble 

getting out are picked up at 

home Tuesdays and Fridays by 

the Abbotsford van and taken to 

the centre for a hot meal and social 

activity. On other occasions, 

van driver Brian Williams takes 

members on out-of-town trips 

shopping and sight-seeing. 

There is more, much more. 

Details are in the new program 

guide available free of charge at 

Abbotsford Senior Centre, 950 

Bank Street. The centre is open 

Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Next month watch for profiles 

on some of the volunteers who 

keep the centre humming. 

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Book Club 

April 11Miracle in Seville by 

James Michener 

Opera Club 

March 21Rigoletto by Giuseppe 

Verdi 

Movie Club 

March 19Defense of the Realm 

Men at Breakfast 

March 31Speaker: Don Yeomans 

on Crime and Punishment 

and share your passion for the 

5 big screen with our likeminded 

members. 

Here's a fun opportunity! 

Abbotsford Senior Centre has 

an opening for a trip program 

leader. This volunteer will 

plan, organize and accompany 

the participants on day trips in 

our van, one Monday per month, 

around Ottawa and the surrounding 

area from May to October. 

If you love to make crafts 

and would like to share your 

experience with others, consider 

the rewarding position of 

volunteer Craft Group leader at 

the Abbotsford Senior Centre. 

We are looking for someone who 

can plan fun, interesting and 

marketable crafts, and teach 

them to our lively group of volunteers 

on Thursdays at 1 p.m. 

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15 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 SPORTS 

Hockey teams from Nunavut play Ottawa Centre 

BY LORNE ABUGOV 

Some games aren't about the 

score. Those that will be played 

by the Ottawa Centre Renegades' 

Peewee House League "B" hockey 

team in early March and April 

will be about an exchange of culture 

between 11- and 12-year-old 

Canadians from far-flung regions 

of our country. 

Between Feb. 27 and Mar. 3, 

the Ottawa Centre Renegades team 

hosted 19 peewee hockey players 

and their coaches and parénts 

from Iqaluit in Nunavut on a 

hockey and cultural exchange in 

Ottawa, and the local team will 

then make the trip north to Nunavut 

between April 10 and 14. 

"It's a lot of legwork to get it 

done, but there were many volunteers," 

said the Renegades 

coach Lorne Abugov. "It will be a 

tremendous experience from both 

an athletic and cultural perspective. 

None of our kids will forget 

this exchange for as long as they 

live!" 

"This will be the best thing in 

the world," said 12-year-old Otto 

Hall, a Glebe resident who plays 

forward and goalie for the Renegades. 

"I can't wait to visit up 

there and play hockey, even if it's 

freezing cold, I don't care!" 

Said another Glebe resident 

and Renegades forward Keenan 

Lindell, 12, "I'm the only kid on 

my team that has been up to Nunavut. 

I can't wait to show the 

rest of them what it's like and 

how different it is from Ottawa." 

The Ottawa Centre players 

tapped family, friends, and local 

and national businesses to help 

finance the event. The money 

raised will defer the costs of exhibition 

games between the 

Iqaluit team, the Ottawa Centre 

team, as well as teams from Sandy 

Hill and Blackburn Hamlet. It 

will also fund other activities, 

such as an NHL hockey game, a 

trip to Parliament Hill, a swimming 

party and a trip to the movie 

theatre. 

"But the real purpose behind 

the Inuit youths' visit isn't all 

fun and games," said one of the 

Renegades' parents. 

"[It's] for our children to create 

an awareness of their culture 

and the culture of others," she 

said. "This is an extraordinary 

chance for them to see the diversity, 

both geographically and 

culturally, of the country in 

which they live." 

The teams' coaches and managers 

began planning this exchange 

two years ago. These plans took 

flight when First Air offered a 

discounted ticket price. This enabled 

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is being held at 

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partner of the federal government's 

Exchanges Canada program, 

to fund airfare for both 

trips. The Renegades' sponsor, the 

Sparks Street Zeller's, generously 

donated prizes and gifts. The 

Senators Foundation donated 

tickets to a game, and much-needed 

financial contributions were 

made by Union Engraving & 

Printing; Osier, Hoskin and Harcourt 

LLB; the Ottawa Citizen; the 

Ottawa Renegades Football Club; 

Glebe Pharmasave; and the St. 

Clair Group. When the final accounting 

is complete, the teams 

will have raised, in discounts, 

goods, services and cash donadons, 

over $40,000. 

"We are very pleased to support 

this exchange," said Claudia 

McKeen of Glebe Pharmasave. 

"This is exactly the kind of local 

and national event that everyone 

can get behind, because there are 

so many great life lessons involved 

for everyone, with hockey 

as the common denominator." 

The Renegades trip to Iqaluit 

will take place during Toonik 

Tyme, a springtime festival with a 

distinctly northern flavour. The 

festival includes a range of activities 

that are a mix of traditional 

Inuit culture and mainstream 

North American culturedrum-dancing 

and throat-singing, 

and a minor hockey tournament. 

The activity that has captured 

the attention of the young players 

is the igloo-building contest. 

Each contestant is assigned a spot 

on which to build and a circumference 

within which to cut 

blocks of snow. The first one to 

build an igloo sturdy enough to 

support the weight of a man is 

declared the winner. The fastest 

build their igloos within about 90 

minutes. 

Situated north of the tree line 

on Baffin Island, the small city of 

Iqaluit forms a rugged landscape 

of moss and rock. It is completely 

different from the downtown of a 

large southern city like Ottawa. 

"For many of the lqaluit Peewees, 

their fast-approaching odyssey to 

Ottawa will mark their first time 

on an airplane and their first 

glimpse at trees or shopping 

centres," says Glen Higgins, president 

of the Iqaluit Minor Hockey 

Association. "The five days our 

kids will spend in Ottawa will 

open their eyes to a world that is 

vastly different from the one the 

have experienced so far." 

Both teams will undoubtedly 

be surprised by what they learn 

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STILLE: 

LIFE 

FR 

On April 5, local musician and 

composer Kurt Walther will be 

debuting his new orchestral project 

Still Life with Frogs at the 

National Arts Centre as part of 

the Juno Awards celebration. The 

17-piece orchestra he will be 

conducting brings together some 

of our city's most talented classical 

and jazz musicians. Kurt describes 

his inspiration for his 

unusual musical composition: 

"I've always loved frogs. When 

I was a teen I used to collect them 

for the museum every spring. I'd 

go out to the swamp in hip-waders 

at night, flashlight in hand, and 

catch the frogs as they were 

breeding, or about to breed. The 

sound of each individual peeper 

was smaller and arrhythmic, but 

altogether they produced a loud 

and cyclical sound. It was an orchestra 

of nature. I stopped collecting 

frogs as I got older, but I 

still go out to listen to them cho- 

The Savoy Society of Ottawa 

presents The Sorcerer 

BY ALLISON WOYIWADA 

The Sorcerer by Gilbert and 

Sullivan is being presented this 

year for the very first time by 

The Savoy Society of Ottawa. This 

production features a great story, 

full of the intrigue, humour and 

mix-ups for which G and S are 

famous. You'll also be treated to 

some mischievous music, superb 

singing, delightful dancing and 

artful acting. It's a feast for the 

senses with a little magic thrown 

in for good measure. 

In a plot a little reminiscent of 

Shakespeare, the hero, Alexis, 

has just become engaged to Aline. 

He is so much in love, he wants 

the whole village to feel what he 

feels, so he engages the services 

of a sorcerer to serve a potion to 

everyone which will make them 

fall in love with the first person 

they see upon awakening. The 

charm is administered, and it 

worlcs, creating a huge messpredictablywith 

the old falling 

rusing in the spring. 

"Years later, writing music for 

guitar, I began to experiment with 

layers of sound. I 

would work 

with the music until the sound 

wasn't simply rhythmic; it became 

like a wave or a cycle. It occurred 

to me that the two things 

were similarthe sound of the 

frogs and this music I was writing. 

Why not put the two things 

together? I started working on 

bigger and bigger ensembles, 

combining sounds and instruments 

from around the world. 

Still Life with Frogs is the culmination 

of this effort. It is a body 

of works written for a 17-piece 

orchestra. The music has a melodic 

statement that is strong, but 

underneath this are the layers of 

music that pulse in a cyclical 

consonance. And running through 

the entire set is the sound of 

frogs chorusing in the spring." 

The orchestra includes many 

of Ottawa's finest musicians: John 

Geggie, Rob Frayne, Sandy Gordon 

and Alan Marsden, to mention a 

few. They will be peiforming at 

the NAC's 4th Stage at 8 p.m. on 

Sat., April 5. No need to wear 

your hip-waders. This event is 

co-sponsored by the NAC, the 

Canada Council, the City of Ottawa, 

the Ottawa Folklore Centre 

and the Junofest. You can buy 

your tickets at the NAC box office 

or through Ticketmaster at 755- 

1111. 

in love with the young and vice 

versa. I won't say any more. You'll 

have to come to the show to hear 

how it is all resolved. 

Evening performances are presented 

on March 28 and 29 

(Friday and Saturday) and April 

2, 3, 4 and 5 (Wednesday through 

Saturday). Ticket prices for these 

shows are $23.50 for adults and 

$13.50 for students. There is a 

matinee performance on Sunday, 

March 30 at 2 p.m. with ticket 

prices for children at $11.50. 

This is a great show for kids; it is 

not too long and the magic will 

appeal to the young. All performances 

are at Centrepointe Theatre. 

For tickets, e-mail me at allison. 

w@sympatico.ca. 

I am pleased to be the music 

director for this fine cast and 

orchestra. If you come to the 

show, be sure to drop by the "pit" 

to say hello. 

Allison Woyiwada is the music 

director at Hopewell SchooL 


Why pianos go out of tune 

BY TOM LLOYD 

A piano is a musical instrument 

which contains over 10,000 

parts and 88 different notes. This 

complex mechanism of wood, 

metal and felt can be made to 

perform pleasurable melodies 

when the strings and parts are 

properly adjusted to work together. 

Concert pitch is the correct 

frequency of the vibrations of the 

88 notes. Middle A (or A4) is defined 

as 440 vibrations per second. 

The other notes will have 

frequencies harmonious in relation 

to the middle A. All records, 

CDs, and musical instruments are 

in concert pitch. These strings 

can and will change their frequencies 

and therefore go "out of 

tune." All acoustic instruments, 

such as guitar, clarinet, violin, 

etc., will go out of tune, except 

that in the case of the piano, a 

piano technician is required to 

tune the instrument. Electronic 

instruments and keyboards do not 

go out of tune, but have little 

feeling or touch. Lacking depth 

and soul, these instruments are 

often quickly abandoned because 

they are not fun to play. 

When a piano goes out of tune, 

it generally goes flat (or down) in 

pitch. The 240 strings go out of 

harmony with themselves. The 

resulting sound is uninviting to 

the player. It sounds dead or 

sour. The instrument needs to 

have the 240 strings adjusted to 

be in concert pitch. Only then is 

the full potential of the instrument 

unlocked and even a simple 

4.,.. 

rI 

piece can bring the player great 

pleasure. 

VVhat makes a piano go out of 

tune then? Many things. A new 

piano has just arrived from the 

factory. It may have been tuned 

several times, but the strings are 

now being stretched to a total of 

40 tons pressure altogether and 

continue to stretch. Humidity affects 

tuning greatly. The dryness 

of winter and the humid air of 

summer affect the wood in the 

sound board and pin block. When 

a piano is moved, the shifting of 

weight within the instrument 

causes it to go out of tune. And of 

course when the piano player 

plays, the tuning is affected. A 

six-year-old child will not have 

the same power as a professional 

musician or student to change the 

tuning in a piano. 

How often should a piano be 

tuned? Pianos used in concerts 

are tuned at least once for every 

performance. New pianos should 

be tuned three or four times in 

the first two years, as the 

stretching of the strings and 

breaking-in process develops. 

The changing of the seasons in 

Canada involves humidity changes 

that require a tuning in the 

spring and a tuning in the fall. A 

piano which has not been tuned 

for a long period sounds dead and 

is unpleasant to play. If your piano 

is not inviting you to play, it 

probably needs tuning. 

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Carleton University Choir in concert March 30 

The Carleton University Choir under the direction of Dr. Lisette 

Canton presents Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and Haydn's 

Missa in Angustiis (the Nelson Mass) with orchestra and soloistssoprano 

Kathleen Radke, countertenor Mark Donnelly, alto Kate 

Young, tenor Michiel Schrey, and baritone Luc Lalonde. 

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14 Music Notes IV On the local music scene 

IRENE'S 

never able to get it out of our 

March 8: Empiricals 

body even if we wanted to. I think 

March 15: The Mighty PoPo 

that for many, the new CD Hard 

March 22: Idle Minds with special guest 

Love by Clear (available to listen April 5: Lucky Ron and the Rhode Island Reds 

to online at www.clearmusic.ca), a Thursdays & Saturdays: open stage 

new local band featuring Christian 

Patterson, Sue Johnson and 

BY ROBERT MILLER 

A reliable source told me this 

past month that Second Cup (Bank 

and Second) had a few musicians 

playing in its bright window. 

Sounds like a good idea. Morala, 

just across the street, has also 

featured live music on a few 

early-morning occasions. Maybe 

other shops will keep the music 

playing and encourage local musicians 

of all rhythms to keep us 

warm and entertained as we push 

on through the cold months of the 

year. Staff at Starbucks 

have 

mentioned a number of times to 

me that they may put on a concerta 

good idea. I know firsthand 

that the acoustics in the back of 

the Bank Street shop are awesome 

for the studious musician. 

The cost of the big shows is a 

good reason to check our local 

talent. 'Personally, I think we 

should support anyone who dares 

to create music, who tries hard to 

breathe life into a musical instrument 

or their voice. 

There are songs that each of us 

associate with our most powerful 

emotionssay, Israel Kanasatake's 

medley of Over the Rainbow/What 

a Wonderful World. After only 

one listen, the music penetrates 

our soul and becomes part of us, 

friends, may do just that on a 

couple of tracks. I am always 

hesitant to listen to new music 

because it's an investment of time 

and energy to learn new music 

and listening to music is a choice. 

When I listened to this soon-tobe-released 

CD, I heard some 

catchy phrasing, moody guitar, 

sultry singing and some superb 

horn work by Brian Magner from 

McCrank's Cycles that makes nie 

listen and feel. I also love CD 

jacket art. The next step is getting 

to know the artists: is this a 

slick production, like Coldplay 

was accused of being in its recent 

Ottawa show, or is this the beginning 

of a musical partnership 

that will continue to get better 

and better with the continued efforts 

of the band members? The 

next big test will be the CD release 

party scheduled for April 

19, Easter weekend, at Irene's. 

Robert Miller opera tes Knut's 

Guitar Training, based in the 

Glebe. 

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March 17: 

Saturdays: 

St. Paddy's Day 

9:30 p.m., live music 

RASPUTIN'S 

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March 15: Nation Valley Bluegrass 

March 17, 24: Celtic Jam 

March 18: Old Timey night 

March 19, 26: Open Stage 

March 21: Sheila Ross & Scot Dunlop 

March 22: Northbrook Nine 

March 25: Kristin Sweetland 

March 27: Back 40 Stage 

March 28: Kat Goldman 

March 29: Peggy White 

Weekend acts: call 230-5102 to confirm 

Thursdays: 

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TRAVEL Glebe Report March 14, 2003 18 

Fleeing the winter cold: Kauai revisited 

BY MARGARET NEGODAEFF 

That's it. I've had it, winter 

old pal. To warm up, let's all revisit 

my favourite islandKauai, 

part of the Hawaiian chain. Don't 

know about your battered soul, 

but as it reaches minus 40 tonight, 

mine is frozen solid. 

Kauai has only 55,000 fulltime 

residents and no high-rise 

hotels. Its majestic green peaks 

protect gentle golden beaches, 

lush valleys, and countless pure, 

crystal waterfalls. Well, / like it 

anyway. 

Accommodations range from 

charming B&Bs to exclusive cli ffside 

clubs. I stayed at the lovely 

beachside Kauai Sands. It's right 

next door to the small, quiet Coconut 

Marketplace. Rates are very 

reasonable compared with large 

chain hotels. Service is lovely 

Aloha-style. The Beach Boy, two 

hotels away, has full cooking fa- 

cilities in each unit, but I 

used 

my fridge and the Sands restaurant 

and pool barand will not 

soon forget gorging on huge succulent 

shrimp at the little pub in 

the marketplace. Try a Hawaiian 

shave-ice! 

There are no buses on Kauai, 

so rent a car or use taxis. I toured 

with an island resident who 

showed me magnificent views and 

nooks and crannies one might 

miss otherwise. Who is to tell you 

that this beach was used in South 

Pacific or that church appeared 

in The Thorn Birds? Who can note 

that thrilling helicopter scenes 

from Magnum, P.I. featured Kauai's 

unique, mountainous terrain? 

While I was there a few years ago, 

so was Stephen Spielberg, filming 

Jurassic Park. 

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Kauai is a farming community, 

with taro, coffee, sugar cane and 

pineapple dominating the sceneI 

fell for huge roasted sugar- or 

coffee-dipped macadamia nuts; 

but plain syrup glaze, straight 

roasted and salted are also superb. 

There are wonderful fashions 

and jewelry and, gee whiz, 

bank machines tactfully situated 

in shopping areas. 

Try flying to Vancouver, staying 

overnight or head straight for 

Honolulu for a short, beautiful 

connecting flight. At Honolulu, 

enquire about an Island Hopper 

pass from either Hawaiian or 

Aloha Airlines. This allows unlimited 

flying among the island 

chain for one price. NOTE: I'm not 

sure if they still do this, but give 

it a try. 

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cultural immersions and real 

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Twenty-five teams will walk, cycle, 

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ox-carts and rickshaws 

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There is usually a private-island 

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and snorkeling. 

Other cruise items are Norwegian 

Cruise Lines' "Fuacata" or 

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food and cocktails. Bravo to Princess 

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Running out of space again. It 

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then, pack your bags. Talk to you 

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BY LINDA THORNE 

ILLUSTRATIONS BY 

GVVENDOLYN BEST 

Cabin fever? Ready for spring? 

Do you really believe that it begins 

on March 21? You must be 

jokingperhaps the latter part of 

April if we're lucky. So what can 

you do to protect your sanity? 

Short of moving to Victoria (which 

I'm seriously considering), try 

creating an indoor spring garden. 

For me that means filling ' my 

home with potted bulbs, fresh-cut 

flowers and forced branches, such 

as pussywillows and forsythia. 

t, 

Together with the warm rays of 

the sun at this time of year, your 

home can be filled with a beautiful 

scent of spring. All this can 

be achieved for very little money. 

Supermarkets offer a variety of 

potted bulbs which are quite inexpensive 

and branches can be 

cut from your own garden or, 

failing that, found at local florists 

for a modest price. 

Gardening all year long 

seffr 

Avid gardeners spend this 

time poring over seed catalogues 

and checking out the latest seed 

offerings at their favourite 

stores. I suspect that many packages 

are purchased more from a 

sense of hope than for eventual 

planting out in the garden. For 

those who start seeds indoors, 

there is a feeling of spring just 

watching the seedlings grow 

(remember to follow the instructions 

on the packages and not 

start too early). Gardening magazines 

and television programs 

provide a source of great inspiration. 

Dreaming of what could be 

is a lot less strenuous than tackling 

the spring chores once you 

can get into the garden. (Have you 

ever found that once the conditions 

are right, you're already 

two weeks behind schedule?) 

Garden shows are well-timed 

to capitalize on our weakened 

state by offering must-have 

plants, tools and garden accessories. 

The largest of these, Canada 

Blooms in Toronto, gives visitors 

an instant hit of spring with a 

strong scent of soil emanating 

from the many built gardenswhat 

a wonderful smell after the long, 

cold winter. I have visited a great 

number of spring shows, both locally 

and in the U.S., and it never 

ceases to amaze me how many 

people leave these shows with 

armloads of garden plants already 

in bloom, oblivious to the fact 

that they require greenhouse 

conditions to survive until they 

can be planted outdoors. Hope 

and a little bit of greed thrown in 

for good measure. 

Calling all garden & plant lovers 

The Friends of the Central Experimental 

Farm is hosting two 

events for plant lovers. 

Bonsai Design and Techniques, 

presented by Barney Shum of the 

Bonsai Society, will take place on 

March 19 from 7-9 p.m., Building 

72, Central Experimental Farm 

Arboretum. Cost for FCEF members 

is $10 and for non-members, 

$12. Seating is limited. 

The Master Gardeners Lecture 

Series will be held on Tuesdays, 

March 25 to May 27, from 7-9 

p.m., also on Building 72. The series 

will cover the secret of success 

from seeds and soil, choosing 

the right spot, and tips and 

maintenance techniques. The cost 

is $60 for members and $80 for 

tir J 

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One of my strategies for dealing 

with long stretches of time i s 

to reduce them into weekends. So 

rather than bemoan the fact that 

it's nearly two months until the 

last frost date in Ottawa, think of 

it as just nine weekends away. In 

the meantime, refuse to take 

phone calls from anyone living in 

Victoria! 

Linda Thorne is the owner of 

'Thorne & Co. at 802 Bank Street, 

which specializes in gardening 

gifts and accessories and freshcut 

flowers. 

friends of the farm 

les amis de la ferme 

non-members. Pre-registration is 

required. 

For information or to register, 

call 230-3276. 

If you would like to actively 

explore gardening opportunities 

at the Central Experimental Farm, 

there are volunteer opportunities 

mornings. Pre-register for a volunteer 

information session: Tuesdays, 

April 15, May 13 or June 

10, 1-3 p.m., Building 72, Arboretum. 

Contact Debra Thornington 

at 230-3276 or e-mail at volcoord@cyberus.ca 

. 

Friends of the Farm is a registered 

charitable organization. 

Its aim is to preserve, maintain, 

protect and enhance the Ornamental 

Gardens and Arboretum of 

the Central Experimental Farm. 

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ARTS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 2 0 

applications available 

at the Glebe Community Centre 

Artist Patty Deline in The Pantry in front of Tulips 

Flowers and trees exhibit: 

just in time for spring 

BY ELAINE MARLIN 

Patty Deline's first solo exhibit 

of watercolours opened 

March 13 in The Pantry at the 

GCC. Her paintings of flowers and 

nature scenes are set off to great 

advantage against the yellow 

walls and homey atmosphere of 

the restaurant. It is a very appropriate 

setting for this artist. She 

led the campaign to save The 

Pantry when it was under threat 

of closing and has been a regular 

there ever since she helped found 

the Glebe Co-operative Playgroup 

at the GCC over 20 years ago. 

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Celebrating the Dandelion 

Patty's artistic training began 

about eight years ago as therapy 

and has become what she describes 

as "a very enjoyable 

hobby." The joy is evident in the 

bright colours leaping out against 

quiet washes. A vivid bunch of 

tulips in red and yellow against a 

Dutch-blue background has real 

verve and warmth. Looking at it 

you can feel winter vanish, at 

least for a few minutes. In a 

smaller painting, a serene mountain 

setting with an ancient tree 

in the foreground beckons the 

viewer into peace and tranquillity. 

The collection of 15 watercolours 

will be on display through 

April. 

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classes in her home studio in the Glebe. Classes are weekdays 

beriveen 4 and 6 pm, tailored to individual interests 

and level of skill, including drawing and painting. 

Classes are limited in size and fees are $25 an hr. For more information 

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2 1 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 

SAIL.ca helps high school 

grads with learning disabilities 

Are you a student with a 

learning disability who is graduating 

from high school this year 

and applying to college and university? 

Are you wondering what 

supports and services will be 

available when you get there? Do 

you wish you could do something 

to help make it easier for you to 

adapt to university or college? If 

so, there is a new four-week 

summer program designed for 

you. 

The Summer Academic Institute 

for Learning (SAIL.ca) will 

take place in the four weeks from 

July 7 to 31. The goal of the summer 

institute is to assist recently 

graduated high school students 

with learning disabilities to make 

a successful transition to postsecondary 

education. 

It is a partnership between the 

Centre for Students with Disabilities 

of Algonquin College 

and the Paul Menton Centre for 

Students with Disabilities of 

Carleton University. The program 

is funded by the Ministry of 

Training, Colleges and Universities 

through the Learning Opportunities 

Task Force. Up to 20 

students at each institution will 

benefit from the program. 

SAIL.ca is designed as an extension 

to the skills acquired in 

high school, with particular emphasis 

on self-advocacy and success 

in the post-secondary setting. 

"In this year of the double 

cohort when students in Ontario 

are feeling extra pressure, the 

summer transitions program will 

be welcomed by students and 

their parents," said Diane Thornhill, 

Manager of the Centre for 

Students with Disabilities at Algonquin 

College. 

Students will be invited to live 

at a Carleton University residence 

and to take advantage of the 

recreational facilities on campus. 

Courses and activities will be 

held at both Carleton and Algonquin. 

There is no cost for the program, 

for residence or for two 

daily meals. 

Larry McCloskey, Director of 

the Paul Menton Centre of Carleton 

University is working with 

the team from Carleton and Algonquin 

to provide an exciting 

and varied summer experience for 

students that will give them an 

edge when they enter postsecondary 

institutions. 

Application forms and informative 

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special education office, or call 

Carleton's Paul Menton Centre 

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for Students with Disabilities 

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NEWS 

Protecting our environment 

The Ottawa Riverkeeper/ Sentinelles 

de la rivière des Outaouais 

is a citizen-based, not-for-profit 

corporation initiated in the 

spring of 2001. By June 2001, it 

had been accepted as the third 

Canadian member of the international 

Waterkeeper Alliance 

headed by noted American conservationist 

Robert Kennedy, Jr. 

A generous two-year grant of 

$115,000 from Ontario's Trillium 

Foundation was obtained in July 

2002, which permitted the Ottawa 

Riverkeeper to initiate the search 

for a full-time, professional riverkeeper. 

It has chosen Lara Van 

Loon, who has a Master's degree 

in Environmental Studies, two 

Bachelor's degrees in biology and 

philosophy, and many years of 

experience working on rivers. She 

is looking forward to the exciting 

challenge of making the Riverkeeper 

an effective, independent 

"eyes and ears" for all citizens in 

Quebec and Ontario living near 

the Ottawa River. Lara and her 

husband James live in the Glebe. 

Dan Brunton, president of the 

board of directors, said, "The 

keeper will lead the effort to ensure 

the ecological protection of 

the Ottawa River through on-theriver 

patrolling and through a 

network of concerned river citizens 

in both Ontario and Quebec. 

The keeper will also work with 

municipal, provincial and federal 

officials, and the eco-tourism 

business and industry to ensure 

that the conditions necessary to 

maintain and enhance the ecological 

integrity of this great waterway 

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REPORT 

Ottawa Carleton District 

School Board trustee report 

REPORT OF THE EDUCATION 

EQUALITY TASK FORCE 

(THE ROZANSKI REPORT) 

In my opinion, the EETF report 

should be front and centre as political 

parties in the province 

outline their education policy 

platforms. This report (December 

2002), Investing in Public Education: 

Advancing the Goal of 

Continuous Improvement in Student 

Learning and Achievement, 

can be found on the Web site 

www.edfundingreview.on.ca. It recommends 

immediate additional 

provincial funding for education 

in Ontario for the current 2002- 

2003 school year, for collective 

agreement negotiations, for special 

education and for transportation. 

Subsequent announcements 

by the province have at 

least partially addressed these 

needs, with $610 million added to 

the provincial education budget 

for 2002-2003. 

More importantly, however, the 

EETF report recommends that approximately 

$2 billion be added 

to the education budget provincially, 

and that these funds be 

phased in over three years, beginning 

in school year 2003- 

2004. This funding would update 

"benchmark" costs so that salaries 

and other components of the 

funding formula reflect current 

costs, not those of 1998. The 

funding would also allow for some 

new initiatives, including increased 

resources for students at' 

risk, English-as-a-second-language 

instruction for five years 

rather than three, and new grants 

for school renewal, i.e., repairs, 

renovations and maintenance. So 

far, the provincial government 

has not made any commitments to 

these recommendations and I'm 

concerned the report will be 

shelved. 

The EETF report has some 

shortcomings. The phase-in of 

new funding should be eliminated, 

with the recommended new 

level of funding guaranteed for 

the school year 2003-2004. Also, 

the report does not sufficiently 

address school accommodation 

issues, such as the unique situation 

in Ottawa with the Greenbelt 

separating older urban areas from 

the growing suburbs. However, 

adoption of the EETF recommendations 

will go a long way towards 

ensuring quality public education 

in Ontario. Will the provincial 

budget this spring address 

the EETF 

recommendations for 

2003-2004 and beyond? What i s 

the position of the other provincial 

parties? 

One final note. The chair of the 

EETF Task Force, University ot 

Guelph president Dr. Mordechai 

Rozanski, will this summer take 

up a new position as president of 

Rider University in New Jersey. I 

am sure he will be missed after 

contributing so much to elemen- 

By 

OCDSB 

Trustee 

Lynn 

Graham 

tary, secondary and post-secondary 

education in Ontario. 

NEGOTIATIONS WITH 

SECONDARY TEACHERS 

On Feb. 25, secondary teachers 

in the OCDSB began a form of 

work-to-rule as the result of the 

breakdown of contract negotiations 

between OSSTF and the 

board. Trustees are not participating 

in these negotiations due 

to the provincial takeover of the 

OCDSB. Certainly I agree with the 

parents who have called me that 

the situation requires an immediate 

resolution between the two 

parties. I think both sides should 

be urged to return to the bargaining 

table. However, there 

must be a real willingness to negotiate, 

as there is now a mediator 

in place and she will only call the 

two sides back to the table when 

she deems that progress can be 

made. 

'There is involvement at the 

provincial level. The OCDSB supervisor 

is provincially appointed 

and it seems that the job 

action by OSSTF is being coordinated 

provincially. Over half 

the school boards in Ontario are 

now involved in similar work-torule 

campaigns with OSSTF locals. 

Important messages will be 

provided on the board's automated 

information line (596- 

l222) and on the board's Web site 

at www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca. 

ON 

THE OCDSB WEB SITE 

meeting dates and agenda information 

(The Board/Board and 

Committee Meeting Agendas) 

trustee motions as advice to the 

supervisor (The Board/Board Minutes/Trustee 

Meetings) 

supervisor's response to trustee 

advice (same as above) 

Student Accommodation: 2004 

and Beyond (on home page) 

-budget information (The Board/ 

Budget Information) 

homework assistance (Student 

Resources/Curriculum Connections) 

system and school profiles, including 

test results (Schools & 

Educational Programs) 

Finally, for information on the 

2003 school board elections, 

check the City of Ottawa Web site 

at www.ottawa.ca. 

CONTACT INFORMATION 

Lynn Graham, Ottawa-Carleton 

District School Board, 133 Greenbank 

Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 

6L3. Tel: 730-3366. Fax: 730- 

3589. E-mail: lynn_graham@ 

ocdsb.edu.on.ca. 

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Call the Glebe Report at 236-4955 if you 

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23 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 REPORT 

Ottawa-Carleton Catholic 

School Board trustee report 

PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST 

My heartfelt thanks and congratulations 

to the students and 

staff of Corpus Christi School who 

participated in the annual visit to 

patients at the Ottawa Heart Institute. 

Thank you for the handmade 

cards and the flowers and 

your SMILES. The energy, enthusiasm 

and interest that your 

children display on this visit 

leave not only a good feeling for 

what they are doing, but also a 

more lasting impression to the 

many out-of-town patients in 

hospital that people do care. 

Truly, a wonderful experience for 

a 11 . 

Congratulations to Corey Centen, 

a graduating student from 

Immaculata High School. Corey 

was recently selected as the recipient 

of the Canadian Merit 

Scholarship Award in the amount 

of $60,000! The overall number of 

applications exceeded 6,000 and 

the short list was 65. Corey is 

involved in many school activities 

and his academic success is balanced 

by participating in Child 

and Youth Friendly Ottawa, as 

well as being an altar server at 

Canadian Martyrs Church. He is 

also a member of the DREAM team 

and will be spending his March 

Break helping to make a difference 

with a village in the Dominican 

Republic. He is involved in 

these initiatives and many more. 

Corey, you are a credit to yourself, 

your family and to the 

broader Catholic community. Best 

By 

OCCSB 

Trustee 

Kathy Ablett 

wishes for continued success! 

If I may be of assistance to 

you, please do not hesitate to call 

me at 526-9512. 

I'd like to close with an Irish 

prayer offered to me recently by 

a principal to sum up a family 

literacy presentation. 

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Take time to work: 

It is the price of success. 

Take time to think: 

It is the source of power. 

Take time to play: 

It is the secret of perpetual youth. 

Take time to read: 

It is the foundation of wisdom. 

Take time to be friendly: 

It is the road to happiness. 

Take time to dream: 

It is hitching your wagon to a star. 

Take time to be loved: 

It is the privilege of God. 

Take time to look around: 

The day is too short to be selfish. 

Take time to laugh: 

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SCHOOL NEWS 


A musical tribute to the lives of Bob and Bonnie Dagenais 

BY JOSFI PATTISON 

Coherence and unity were on 

my mind when I took my seat in 

the auditorium at Glebe Collegiate 

on Friday night for a benefit concert 

in honour of my former principal 

and his wife. It was a familiar 

setting for me and for a lot 

of us who were there. I was a student 

there ten years ago, as were 

many of my colleagues. With few 

exceptions, all of the performers 

at the concert were either students 

or teachers, or both, at 

Glebe at some point in its 81-year 

life. The programme promised 

musical numbers that spanned 

every era and style from that long 

history, and I wondered how these 

apparently disparate acts would 

co-operate to produce a unified 

whole. 

The first act, the National 

Capital Concert Band, played a 

lovely, eclectic mix of music; 

Strauss' overture from his comic 

opera Die Fledermaus provided a 

perfect framework for the night. 

The theme of the evening fluttered 

lightly at the edges of each 

act, and slowly_ I began to understand 

it. Looking into the faces of 

the members of the Lyres Club 

Alumni Choir, I recognized my 

old Chemistry teacher, and a for- 

Steering commit-tee members 

Jeannie Hunter and Emily 

Simkins-Strong 

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Bruce and the Burgers 

mer principal. They still got together, 

year after year, to sing in 

a choir that managed to harmonise 

at least three generations of 

voices, and when they sang the 

school song, and chanted the 

school cheer, more voices joined 

them from out of the darkness of 

the upper balcony, harking back 

to a time when those words were 

hollered out regularly on sports 

pitches. When Bruce and the Burgers, 

a band composed mostly of 

former Glebe teachers, slammed 

into high retro gear with a set of 

rock 'n' roll tunes from the fifties 

and sixties, there was an element 

of nostalgia for simpler timesbut 

the energy of those memories was 

so intense that audience members 

joined together in groups and 

danced in the aisles. 

For the rest of the evening, all 

I could see were connexions. Off- 

beat, the Glebe response to Stomp, 

gains its power of expression 

from exploiting the habit of percussion 

to make rhythms come 

together out of irregular noise. 

Drew Clipperton, currently a student 

at Glebe, sang a song about 

the unifying effects of friendships; 

her father Rob emceed the 

proceedings of the second half, 

taking over from Brian Doyle, 

author and former Head of English 

at Glebe. Victor Nesrallah, 

who teaches guitar there, sang a 

song about remembrance; remem- 

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bering, too, is a kind of comingtogether 

of past and present. Mike 

Lister, whose parents both 

worked at Glebe, and who attended 

the school with me almost 

fifteen years ago, played with his 

brother Stuart to close the evening. 

Making connexions is grouping 

things together, linking them. It 

is a fundamentally human activity; 

it allows us to feel empathy, 

to become educated, even to 

dream. Aristotle tells us that the 

ability to make connexions between 

what is and what could be 

is what separates the human mind 

from those of animals. Bob and 

Bonnie Dagenais spent their lives 

in making connexions, in including 

people, in building relationships 

between them, making 

sure that they could participate 

in their potential as human beings. 

They knew that this didn't 

come without effort; they knew it 

would take patience and good 

teaching. 

It became clear to me by the 

end of the night, as I 

sat talking 

to people whose lives had been 

touched by the Dagenaises, and 

who, paradoxically, had been 

brought closer together by their 

deaths, that it would be impossible 

to summarise the impacts that 

Bob and Bonnie had had on people 

over the yearsthey were, instead, 

themselves the theme that tied 

the evening together, along with 

everyone who showed up and participated. 

It was even possible to 

imagine Bob being present, in 

what had after all been 'his' 

auditorium. We had all, in some 

way, been improved by knowing 

him, and that gave me a deep 

sense of the optimism that was 

inherent in his and Bonnie's 

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Glebe senior boys hockey team 

win third city championship 

The boys' hockey team continued 

their winning tradition by 

capturing the city championship 

for the third year in a row! The 

team was led by captain Drew 

Willis and goalie Jeff Jordan. The 

team had an excellent regular 

season with a 7-1-2 record. 

They continued their inspired 

play into the playoffs, winning 

three straight games, finishing 

off with a 2-0 shutout over Louis 

Riel at the Walkley Arena. There 

were at least 200 Glebites present, 

including a number of staff, 

parents and the school administration. 

Congratulations to the 

team for a great season! 

Dagenais benefit concert raises 

$11,000 for Memorial Award 

BY JEANNIE HUNTER 

The musical tribute to the 

lives of Bob and Bonnie Dagenais, 

which took place on Feb. 21 at 

Glebe Collegiate, successfully 

raised over $11,000. 

Proceeds 

from the event will be split between 

the Bob and Bonnie 

Dagenais Memorial Fund and the 

Bob Dagenais Memorial Award. 

The concert was truly an effort on 

the part of the whole community, 

from the many talented performers, 

the staff and student volunteers, 

right through to the individuals 

and businesses that donated 

to the silent auction and 

reception. The steering committee 

would especially like to thank the 

following businesses for donating 

all of the food and drinks for the 

reception: Loeb Glebe & J i m 

McKeen, Bridgehead, K e t - 

tleman's Bagels and Ventrex 

Vending. In addition, we would 

like to thank Olga's deli and catering 

for providing dinner for 

our volunteers and stage crew, 

and Fleet Audio who provided 

sound for the evening. 

Finally, we would like to thank 

the following individuals and 

businesses for their contributions 

to the silent auction: 

Bridgehead, Councillor Clive 

Doucet, Councillor Gord Hunter, 

La Siembra Fair Trade Co-op, Joan 

Rennie Massey, The National Arts 

Centre, Laval Fournier, the Gregg, 

Seip & Mitchell families, Byblos 

Hair & Body Salon, Fitzgerald's 

Restaurant, Curves, BRIO Bodywear, 

Lufthansa, City of Ottawa 

St. Laurent Complex, SkyExpress 

Travel, Trustee Lynn Graham, Diane 

MacIntyre, Pat Macdonald, 

Anne Remmer Thompson, Baobab 

Tree Drum Dance Community, 

Tivoli Florist, Victor Nesrallah, 

Steve Marriner, Signy Fridriksson 

& Canadian Geographic, Susan 

Wyatt, and the Ottawa-Carleton 

District School Board. 

Clearly, the spirit of community 

co-operation and generosity, 

which made Bob and Bonnie 

Dagenais such successful educators, 

lives on. 

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SCHOOL NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 2 6 

intensive, immersion and francophonedepending 

on the hours of 

French education they have had, 

as well as the language they speak 

at home. The school winners were 

Kelsey Friedlander (intensive 

French), Alexandre Lafortune 

(francophone) and Connor King 

(immersion). These three students 

went on to the city semifinal 

on March 4 at Le Phare 

school in Orleans. The students 

performed extraordinarily well 

and the day ended with a gold 

medal for Alexandre and a bronze 

medal for Connor. Alexandre now 

goes on to the city finals on April 

4. Congratulations to the three on 

their participation and achievement, 

and good luck to Alexandre 

at the next level! 

DATES TO REMEMBER 

March BreakMarch 10-14 

P.A. DayMarch 21 

Annual First Avenue Book Sale- 

April 10-12 

FOR MORE INFORMATION 

Regarding First Avenue public 

school and our great activities, 

please call 239-2261 or visit our 

Web site at www.theglebeonline 

.com/schools/firstave. 

The Grade 2 class of Diane Boucher enjoys one of its skating Fridays 

with its parent volunteers! 

First Avenue School News 

Cold weather a boon to skaters 

BY MARCI MORRIS 

FIRST AVENUE SKATING PARTY 

Although the evening of Feb. 

12 was FRIGID, the First Avenue 

skating party was a fantastic success. 

Thanks to Jeff Froggett who 

took over the co-ordination of the 

party this year. Jeff introduced a 

class float competition, as well as 

relay races, which were a huge 

success with the kids. Jeff also 

moved the treats down to Patterson 

Creek and made the party a 

one-stop affair. The ice was perfectmust 

have been the extreme 

coldand a great time was had by 

all. 

VOLLEYBALL RULES! 

The First Avenue girls volleyball 

team enjoyed a very successful 

tournament, finishing in 

second place with a silver medal! 

Thanks to coach Jenny and community 

volunteer Marie for all 

your help! 

PUBLIC SPEAKING GLORY 

On Feb. 12, the public speaking 

competition was held at First 

Avenue. Representatives from 

each junior class presented their 

speeches in the gym. The topics 

varied greatly, but the efforts 

were all fantastic. Students are 

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27 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 SCHOOL 

Hopewell school survives the great flood of 2003 

BY MIKE HARRISON 

Five years after the Ice Storm, 

another winter calamity affected 

Hopewell when a pipe froze and 

burst on the third floor on Feb. 

12 and water poured into the 

school causing extensive water 

damage. The guilty pipe in question 

was tied to the sprinkler 

system and was run through the 

old chimney but was not insulated, 

which wai a flaw in the 

original construction. Hope.well 

teachers went to school to alert 

parents arriving with their children 

that school was closed for 

two days and then worked hard to 

remove contents from the damaged 

rooms. 

The archives room and the 

teachers' professional resource 

and staff rooms were extensively 

damaged. The floors in the 1 i- 

brary, three or four classrooms 

and the computer room were damaged, 

but the computers and 

books in the library were okay. 

However, both the computer room 

and the library will be out of 

service indefinitely. Drywall in 

many areas of the school was 

damaged. The daycare in the 

building was where the most significant 

damage took place and it 

has been relocated to Mutchmor 

School until repairs have been 

completed, with transportation 

back and forth to Hopewell provided 

by a combination of school 

board and daycare buses. If you 

have questions about the daycare 

program, please call Audrey or 

Gayle at Glebe Parents' Day Care, 

233-9268, ext. 130. 

The school re-opened Monday 

morning, Feb. 17. However, the 

first floor of the school will be 

closed until probably after the 

Spring Break and the Grade 1 EF I 

St_ James 

and Grade 4 EFI will be relocated 

to the fourth floor. Principal 

Bernie Finnerty noted: "I'm told 

that the school is a safe and secure 

place to be for all. You will 

notice an odour of bleach. It 

should be faint. This is to ensure 

that any mould is destroyed." 

Thanks go out to the administration, 

teachers, board staff and 

daycare staff for all their hard 

work to get the school and daycare 

open again! 

SCHOOL COUNCIL UPDATE 

At the Feb. 11 School Council 

meeting, council members ac- 

knowledged the hard work and 

dedication provided by council 

chair Brent Fournier. Brent has 

worked tremendously hard this 

year for the school, chairing all 

council meetings, attending many 

committee and zone meetings and 

even directing traffic on Bank 

Street some days to assist during 

construction! We look forward to 

seeing Brent back at the next 

council meeting. 

Council's newly revitalized 

playground committee continues 

to investigate contractors to carry 

out the work on the redesign of 

the grassyard. Council is now 

looking into identifying one or 

two people who would head up a 

fundraising drive for this work. 

A decision will be made at the 

March meeting on whether or not 

it will be possible to proceed 

with the work this summer. Primary 

considerations for the redesign 

of the yard have been: a) to 

provide a play-yard for the children 

for all seasons, b) to fix the 

problem with mud, c) to ensure 

that the yard is low-maintenance, 

and d) to try to keep the yard as 

"green" as possible, given the 

first three priorities. In May 

NEWS 

2002, School Council approved 

"in principle" a redesign of the 

grassyard; the design involved 

removing the berms and trees, 

leveling and paving the area closest 

to Hopewell Avenue to allow 

an all-weather play space, and 

keeping the trees, grass and 

benches around the edges. 

At the Feb. 11 council meeting, 

principal Bernie Finnerty 

mentioned that Barb Patterson i s 

arranging for council members 

and interested parents to write 

the Grade 3 EQAO test at the 

April 8 council meeting to see 

what the students go through. 

Parents' results will not be published, 

so hopefully everyone will 

pass and learn a lot in the process. 

More information will appear 

on this at the School Council Web 

site and in Hopewell Happenings. 

Mr. Finnerty also reported that 

Sylvia Sheridan will be off indefinitely 

and that we are fortunate 

to have Marcel Lavigne back 

at Hopewell to teach the gifted 

class in her absence. 

Present and future Hopewell 

parents are encouraged to provide 

suggestions on implementing a 

better system for JK and SK registration 

and post them on the 

discussion board at the School 

Council Web site at www.theglebe 

online.ca/hapsc . Over the next 

couple of months, council will 

monitor the feedback and consider 

any new ideas. 

The fundraising committee has 

made recommendations concerning 

two new projectsa milk program 

and a homework cluband 

the enhancement of Iwo existing 

programsthe pizza program and 

the grocery gift certificate program. 

The fundraising committee 

sent a questionnaire to all par- 

Third Ave. (at Lyon) in the Glebe 

ents to gauge interest and will 

report back with findings at the 

March 18 School Council meeting, 

where there will be a vote on the - 

recommendations. 

Hopewell parents are encouraged 

to visit the new school Web 

site at www.theglebeonline.ca/ 

hapsc . Recent things to go up on 

the site have been the latest issues 

of Hopewell Happenings, an 

updated calendar, a new report on 

education in Ontario, a press release 

regarding EQAO testing, an 

Ottawa Citizen article on the recent 

JK registration process at 

the school, a special education 

update from the board, etc. There 

is now a discussion board where 

people can post articles and raise 

issues of interest/concern to the 

parent and student community at 

Hopewell. Remember to sign up 

for updates to the site and the 

latest Hopewell Happenings to be 

sent to your e-mail address. 

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SCHOOL NEWS Glebe Report March 14, 2003 2 8 

Creating a heritage garden 

BY ROGER SMITH 

It may be hard to imagine, with 

the ground still under the blanket 

of March blizzards, but the 

gardens in front of Mutchmor will 

be blooming with a new look when 

spring finally arrives. And the 

new look will, in fact, be oldwith 

the help of a $4,000 grant from 

the city, plans are under way for 

a "heritage" garden to recreate 

how it might have looked 100 

years ago. 

Parent Lynn Armstrong has 

become head gardener. Last year, 

she planted dozens of tulips, with 

the help of her assistants Lauren 

(Grade 4) and Robin (Grade 1). 

This year, she and Delia Barkley 

are working with 10 students 

from the Environment Club. They 

hope to involve students from 

other classes to get the "heritage" 

garden growing and to create a 

special habitat for birds and 

butterflies. 

"It's hands-on stuff they can 

do to improve the school," says 

Armstrong. "It will 

give them 

pride in the school, help them 

appreciate it as a heritage building 

and it provides an outdoor lab 

to study nature, a place where 

kids can go out and see the bugs 

and the birds." 

In the early 1900s, gardens 

were planted at many Ottawa-area 

schools as part of what was known 

as the "student garden movement," 

which aimed to get kids 

more in touch with nature. Armstrong 

is looking for helpsee her 

notice elsewhere in this paperin 

figuring out what exactly was 

planted at Mutchmor, but her re- 

Spirit Week at Corpus Christi 

SPIRIT NIGHT AT THE 67'S 

Over 365 parents and students 

shared the spirit of Corpus 

Christi at a 67's home game on 

Feb. 21. Sections 15, 16, 17 were 

alive with cheers for our home 

team. This event was such a tremendous 

success! 

LUNCHTIME STORIES 

Lunchtime is not the same 

anymore! Corpus Christi has initiated 

a lunchtime reading program. 

Parent volunteers are taking 

their time to come and read 

stories to each class during their 

lunch period. The students love 

the stories and the quiet time 

listening to the volunteers. Books 

are reviewed and made available 

for each class with the support of 

the Ottawa Public Library, Sunnyside 

Branch. Everyone is thoroughly 

enjoying the experience. 

Read on! 

SPIRIT WEEK 

Our third team reaching their 

2,000 spirit points goal was 

search has given her a pretty good 

idea and she hopes to re-create it 

with traditional plants like cosmos, 

lilies, black-eyed Susans 

and daisies. "A lot of the old 

heritage materials, like daisies, 

attract birds and butterflies," 

she says. 

Artist Deborah Margo is 

working on paving stones for 

walkways that will incorporate 

patterns from some of the original 

pressed-tin ceilings inside the 

school. Paul Champion-Demers is 

in charge of a bird bath, and 

there are plans for a wroughtiron 

fence. Donations of appropriate 

plant material would be 

appreciated. 

As Armstrong gets ready for 

spring, her husband, Tony Wohlfarth, 

offered a new way to enjoy 

winter by organizing an outing to 

the Nakkertok Nordic Ski Club in 

Cantley on Feb. 28. About 25 

people tried out the lighted trails 

and joined in a potluck supper 

around a roaring fire in the clubhouse. 

Hopes are that crosscountry 

skiing may become a 

regular activity next winter. 

So, before March turns into 

April, here's a chance to remind 

you again that March is Canadian 

Tire Money Month at Mutchmor. 

Kathy Aldridge, that stalwart 

volunteer who has a hand in so 

much around the school, is asking 

everyone to stick a hand into 

pockets, glove compartments and 

kitchen drawers and turn in all 

the coupons you can find. They'll 

be used to help purchase outdoor 

play equipment for the yards, so 

it's a good cause. 

highlighted this week. Bravo to 

Team 1. The students have been 

working toward this goal for a 

number of weeks and were very 

excited to receive their pizza 

lunch and the coveted Spirit 

2,000 magnet Other events held 

during this week included the 

annual ski day for the junior students, 

outdoor activity day for 

the primary students, music 

presentations, red and white day 

to highlight Flag Day and valentine 

delivery to the Ottawa Heart 

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than Spirit activities to chase 

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2 9 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 SCHOOL 

BY ALEX CAVELL 

Ottawa has many old and wellrespected 

institutions of learning 

which have become an important 

part of our community. This May 

marks the 75th anniversary of 

Immaculata High School which, 

although it has gone through 

many changes, has left a legacy of 

excellence in education since it 

was founded as a convent school 

for girls by the Grey Sisters of 

Mary Immaculate in 1928. 

Driving along Echo Drive or on 

the Queensway, you may have noticed 

a prominent banner announcing 

this 75th anniversary to 

the public. But have you considered 

the importance of these simple 

words? From its humble beginnings 

on Bronson Avenue, Immaculata 

has gone through significant 

changes in location and 

education. Twenty-five years ago 

we began admitting boys and in 

1994 we moved to the old St. 

Pat's/Algonquin College building 

on Echo Drive. During our 75 

years we have grown from a simple 

school teaching the academic 

basics to one with excellent computer, 

math, science and cooperative 

education classes which 

prepare youth for the world of 

post-secondary education or the 

workforce. Duiing this time we 

have maintained a commitment to 

integrating Catholic morals and 

beliefs into our school curriculum 

and school life. 

To celebrate 75 years there are 

many ongoing events within the 

school for the enjoyment of students. 

These include a multi- 

NEWS 

lmmaculata celebrates 75 years of tradition and transition 

Mural by Alexandra Chowaniec and Nicholas Leonard under the direction of Janice Collette 

cultural food festival, a dedica- 

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the younger ones, seem indiffer- $10 per person, cash bar. Saturday, May 3, 6 p.m. to 1 

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who may have gone to Immaculata cafeteria. 

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Rick Salutin's 

THE WOMANIZER, 

A MAN OF HIS TIME 

By Rick Salutin 

Doubleday, 

323 pages, $34.95 (cloth) 

A Man of His Time would have 

been a better title for the allembracing 

Proustian romp that 

novelist Rick Salutin delivers in 

The Womanizer. Similar to A Man 

of Little Faith (which incidentally 

won the 1988 Books in Canada 

Best First Novel Award), The 

Womanizer's main turf is ideas, 

with the added frisson of having 

been inspired by numerous women, 

"one-night stands," and "repeaters," 

who enter and exit the 

life of the protagonist. 

Max, who has no last name 

throughout the novel, is up-front 

and in your face, constantly parading 

his ploys (both real and 

imagined), challenging the status 

quo, and calling to mindguess 

whothe journalist, Rick Salutin, 

in his weekly On the Other Hand 

Globe & Mail columns. 

But Max is also a quixotic 

shadow figure, whose s elfdefinition 

relies in part on the 

women who love him and, to quote 

the Leonard Cohen song, "are 

passing through" his life. 

But 

Max is cruder than that, and the 

tedious graphic indulgences can 

distract readers from the novel's 

wondrously philosophical dialectic. 

(Imagine reading Rick Salutin's 

new novel solely for the 

soft porn!) 

Reflection by his readers is 

what Salutin is after, which 

morphs Max into preacher, 

teacher, thinker, thought-provoker 

and, we mustn't forget, womanizerall 

wrapped into one man 

of his time. 

When reviewing Salutin's first 

novel, A Man of Little Faith, I 

discovered how much he was 

shaped by his early religious 

education. This began at Toronto's 

Holy Blossom Temple and continued 

at Brandeis University where 

he received a B.A., and at Columbia 

where he received an M.A. in 

religion. But the kicker is the 

year he spent at the Jewish 

Theological Seminary in New 

York. Yes, Salutin had hoped to 

become a rabbi before he decided 

to attend The New School of Social 

Research and return to Toronto to 

work as a trade union organizer. I 

reflection through Max, the 

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mention his rabbinic aspirations 

because I find The Womanizer, 

like A Man of Little Faith, to be a 

hybrid novel, a blend between a 

19th-century roman-à-thèse, and 

some very accomplished Biblical 

and Talmudic exegesis, the dialogue 

of ideas taking priority 

over plot, moving the novel along. 

But stuff does happen as Max 

tracks the 50-plus years since 

the early 1950s with astonishing 

clarity. Max likes walkingit's 

the one movement he can count on. 

"There is no such thing as a walk, 

it's always a quest," says Max, 

who tries to understand what's 

happening around him, while 

coming to terms with the biggest 

truth of allaccepting that he is 

not the centre of the universe, 

only a speck of dust "passing 

through." But that does not mean 

that specks of dust do not matter. 

For Max, it is not finishing the 

task that counts, but the initial 

choice to participate and, more 

importantly, to try to make a 

difference. Thus Max chooses to 

become a freelance economist 

specializing in leftist issues both 

globally and within the country 

he loves best, Canada. 

The worst day of young Max's 

life was the day his parents 

moved from their shared halfdouble 

house in downtown Toronto 

to a cramped Forest Hill 

apartment. But for middle-aged 

Max, it is probably the best thing 

that ever happened to him. 

What does he believe to be his 

80-year-old parents' legacy? It's 

Max, their one and only son, of 

whom they are wildly proud, although 

they may not express 

their feelings because they do not 

quite understand how he turned 

out to be the eternal analyzer and 

questioner of every value they 

hold sacrosanct. 

As the apple falls far, or not 

so far, from the tree, Max chooses 

to be a freelance economist rather 

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than a tenured professor. Could 

this have anything to do with the 

fact that his father, who had a 

regular job, was also a reckless 

gambler? But it was poker, and 

the love of one woman that kept 

Max's father engaged with his 

life. To his dying day, his father 

lived by the romantic idea that he 

could control his life and family 

like the hand in a card game. Max 

thinks he knows better, that the 

only thing he can control in his 

life is "passing through" it. 

Not until the final chapter in 

which Max is still walking and 

thinking does he embrace the nuclear 

family with a moderate degree 

of healthy skepticism. He is 

a thinker from the beginning of 

the novel to the end. He thinks, 

therefore he is. 

What is so commendable about 

Max's thoughts is their scope and 

variety, defining Canadian nationalism 

and defending what 

makes us different from our 

neighbour to the south. Following 

his graduate studies at Cambridge, 

Max returns to Canada to 

comb the country on lecture circuits, 

expressing his love for the 

native country. But he is also 

fiercely proud that he is a highly 

womanizer 

individualized product of provincial 

Toronto and the world-class 

city it has become. He has been a 

freelance Keynesian economist 

most of his life, yet he still wonders 

why he didn't become an anarchist 

or a Marxist, especially 

when he remembers what Polanyi, 

"an economist and no slouch, 

wrote in the middle of the Second 

World War: 'Culture is always the 

defining force, not economics." 

Max wonders whether he has 

spent his 50-plus years of life 

being too impressed with the materiality 

of economics, and if he 

is more influenced by the physicality 

of sex than he ought to be. 

Ultimately, he decides that it is 

economics, his work, and his love 

of women that made it possible 

for a guy like himself to take the 

thinker's journey (which incidentally 

ends in the birthing 

room of Max's own son). 

The curious thing about Salutin 

is that the journalist in him 

(he is known as the Globe & 

Mairs lefty-in-residence) enriches 

his novelistic writing. The 

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Poet Richard Sanger 

A delightful variety of 

topics and range of styles 

CALLING HOME, 

THE POETRY OF 

RICHARD SANGER 

By Richard Sanger 

Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 

67 pages, $14 (trade paper) 

BY IAN McKERCHER 

'There are a lot of good reasons to pick up a copy of Richard Sanger's 

latest poetry book, Calling Home This is a short volume with a delightful 

variety of topics treated in a range of styles. It takes a great 

deal of courage to write a book of poetry and this is the best work to 

come out of the Glebe since George Johnston. 

So. Calling Home...? The English teacher in me immediately wants to 

ask: "Well, class, what is the significance of the title?" Sanger plays 

the pun both ways: you can "call home," of course, and retouch your 

roots with memories. And you can travel the world and "home" can be 

anywhere you call it such. 

Sanger grew up on First Avenue in the Glebe and looks back, without 

anger, at those days. He captures the urban quiet in Paper Boyin the 

pre-dawn light, his dark felt lined boots were: 

planted on fresh snow-paved sidewalks,... 

Block after block to each sleeping house, 

Bring the Glebe the Globe. 

The Globe comes to the Glebe, but does the Glebe go to the globe? 

Sanger certainly took his Glebe roots around the globe, setting his poetic 

reflections in Paris, Montreal, the Côte d'Azur, Toronto, Scotland, 

Granada, England and New Brunswick. 

Then he gives us another Glebe tableau in Law of the Local Rink with 

its "dance"hours of exhausting puck play, while boys preen for the 

Glebe girls doing figure-eights on the rink next door. 

Nothing so before, nothing so since, 

Like the lure, the lore of the local rink- 

You went to play shinny, to talk big and swear 

And hork, as you said, over the boards, 

The boards that shook with each shot you'd take- 

To chase the puckwhat else?for hours on end, 

'Then double over, gasping, your life in the air, 

And push off again, thighs aching, blades crunching, 

Till, with a deke and a flick of your wrist, 

(It was all a dance, all a show) 

You tapped in the goal that topped all the rest, 

No sweat...Nothe goal nobody saw, 

Least of all the girls you most wanted to, 

As they unveiled, on the rink next door, 

Annie, Laura and sore-anlded Kate, 

Their figures, and their figure eights. 

Nothing so before, nothing so since, 

Like the lure, the girls of the local rink. 

These remembrances are pure, somehow, and keen, and free of nostalgia. 

Sanger tells us that the days were good, without ever having to 

say "the good old days." He clearly enjoys writing and brings that fun 

to the reader. 

The poet's own parenting experiences draw his thoughts back to his 

own childhood, the walks, the shared pastries, the sound of his journalist 

father typing after dark. There is no curse here of past wrongs or 

sense of baggage borne. Family does not always fare this well in poetry, 

but to Sanger, family is a vital part of who he is and what he passes on 

to his own children. 

Calling Home can be purchased at Octopus Books at 116 Third Avenue. 

Ian McKercher was an English teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute 

for 18 years. Richard Sanger was one of his students.- 

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33 Glebe Report March 14, 2003 BOOKS 

WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE READING 

Here is a list of books discussed at recent book club meetings: 

Natalie Babbitt 

J.M. Coetzee 

Brian Doyle 

Patty Duke 

Patty Duke 

Gustave Flaubert 

Jonathan Franzen 

Elizabeth Hay 

Paulo Maurensig 

Anne Michaels 

Alice Munro 

Carol Shields 

Cynthia Voigt 

*Selections of the new mother-daughter reading groups at Sunnyside 

Branch, OPL. 

"*Selections of the guysread group at Sunnyside Branch. 

Please help us lengthen the list. If you do not see your club's selection 

on this list and would like to contribute to next month's list, 

please leave a message re Book Club List with your name and phone 

number on the Glebe Report's answering machine (236-4955). 

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Do you know someone who has made a 

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Help us say thank you! 

Nominate someone special in any one of the 

following categories: 

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(Youth, Adult and Senior) 

Environment 

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Arts and Culture 

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Recreation 

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You can get a nomination form by: 

Visiting our Web site at ottawa.ca. 

Visiting Ottawa City Hall, your local client 

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Contacting us at 580-2624 ("IIY: 580-2401). 

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Brilliant Madness: Living with 

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1940 

Captured in Stone 

Carvings tell our story 

CAPTURED IN STONE: 

CARVING CANADA'S PAST 

By Milne, Lambert & Moore 

Penumbra Press, 

$25.95 (Hardcover) 

BY K. BARBARA LAMBERT 

Captured in Stone: Carving 

Canada's Past, by R. Eleanor 

Milne, K. Barbara Lambert and 

Eleanor Moore, with an introduction 

by Margaret Wade Labarge 

and photographs by Ewald Richter, 

was published in January 

2003 by Penumbra Press of Manotick, 

Ontario. 

Powerful works of art can be 

appreciated for their impact 

alone, but when they also tell stories 

in symbolic form, only the 

artist can best explain her inner 

meaning. in Captured in Stone: 

Carving Canada's Past, a great Canadian 

sculptor presents her singular 

insight into why and how 

our country developed as it has, 

as expressed in a carving that 

also hopes for a future of justice, 

freedom and love. Her artistic 

goal was "to design and carve a 

theme in poetic form, that form 

based on reality." 

Carved between 1962 and 

1974, the remarkable limestone 

frieze in the House of Commons 

foyer entitled The History of Canada 

Series, was the first major 

work in Eleanor Milne's 32 years 

as Dominion Sculptor. The stories 

begin with the first people to set 

foot on this continent at least 

25,000 years ago, and highlight 

turning points in our country's 

development Tour guides comment 

briefly on the 40 metres of 

history stretching above the 

arches at mezzanine level, but 

with this book, one can pour over 

wonderful photographs of a work 

apparently frozen in time but 

actually filled with the vitality of 

people, events, and the natural 

world. The artistic style builds 

upon mediaeval ideas of illustration. 

For example, Jacques Cartier's 

huge boot rests upon a tiny 

ship, to emphasize his charting of 

the St. 

Lawrence River. Photo- 

graphs of the sculptor and her 

team standing on scaffolds in the 

middle of the night using power 

and hand tools accompany her 

lively account of the conception, 

planning and execution of the 

work. 

The book is rounded out by an 

introduction to the project and 

the artist, a description of the 

setting, the tools used, a list of 

previous carving teams, of aboriginal 

sculptors, definitions of 

relevant architectural and artistic 

styles, and related reading. 

Eleanor Milne and co-author 

sister Barbara Lambert have 

known the Glebe all their lives, 

and Eleanor now lives in the 

house their grandparents bought 

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RELIGION 

Lenten exercises 

BY REV. ERNIE COX 

It's hard to believe, especially 

with all the snow we've received 

this winter, but in just two weeks 

spring will be here. And one of 

the things the church associates 

with coming into spring is the 

observance of Lent. In fact, Lent 

comes from the Anglo-Saxon word 

lencten meaning spring, which 

comes from the Anglo-Saxon long 

indicating that the days of spring 

get longer. Traditionally, Lent i s 

a 40-day period of fasting and 

penitence leading up to Easter. I 

don't know about you, but I'm not 

all that good at fasting and penitence 

and, if truth be told, the 

traditional notion of giving up 

things for Lent, such as coffee or 

chocolate or whatever, doesn't do 

much for me. Rather, I like to 

think of Lent as a time in which 

to look at our livesin other 

words as a time of self-examination. 

Let me tell you about a man 

who arrived at a point in his life 

where he began to feel that everything 

was dull and flat. He had 

no energy, no enthusiasm, he felt 

dead inside. He consulted a doctor 

who couldn't find anything 

wrong with him, at least not 

physically, but said to the man 

that he was going to give him some 

written instructions, along with 

four prescriptions. The doctor 

wrote out the following instructions: 

"Take a day and go to a 

place where you were happiest as 

a child. Take some food, but don't 

talk to anyone. Don't read or 

write or listen to a radio. Open 

the first prescription at nine 

o'clock, the second at twelve noon, 

the third at three o'clock in the 

afternoon, and the fourth prescription 

at six o'clock in the 

evening." The man agreed to do 

what the doctor ordered. 

The next morning, the man 

went to the beach, his favourite 

place as a child. He opened the 

first prescription and read the 

words: "Listen carefully." He 

thought the doctor was crazy. How 

could he just sit there and listen 

for three hours straight? But as 

he did so, he began to think about 

the importance of hearing things 

he had long since forgottenthe 

sound of the sea, the sounds of 

the birds. The sound of laughter. 

"Listen carefully," That's not a 

bad lesson for us to think about 

during the season of Lent. Sometimes 

we find ourselves so busy, 

pulled in so many different directions 

just trying to survive, 

that we forget to listen at all. We 

forget to listen to ourselves and 

slow down, when our bodies are 

telling us to do so, but our minds 

say otherwise. We forget to listen 

to others, sometimes because we 

are simply too busy to hear them. 

I think of a minister who had 

taken on too many commitments. 

He found himself snapping at his 

wife and children, choking down 

his food at mealtimes and feeling 

generally irritated. One night at 

suppertime, his daughter wanted 

to tell him something important 

that had happened to her at 

school that day. But knowing that 

her father .wouldni- have much 

time to hear what she had to say, 

she said: "Daddy, I want to tell 

you something and I'll tell you 

really fast." Feeling guilty, her 

father answered: "It's all right, 

honey, you can tell me and you 

don't have to tell me really fast. 

Say it slowly," he said. And the 

girl replied, "Then listen 

slowly." That's the marvelous 

thing about Jesus as He is pictured 

in the Bible. He knew how 

to listen and, in listening to others, 

He showed that He cared for 

others. 

Then the man opened the second 

prescription at twelve noon. 

It said: "Try reaching back." 

Reaching back to what, he wondered. 

But gradually he began to 

think of happier times, the many 

little moments of joy he had experienced 

with family and friends. 

He thought of all the good things 

in life which had come his way. 

And in the exercise of reaching 

back, a smile came over his face. 

But let me suggest to you that 

when we reach back, there's another 

benefit to be gained. Someone 

once said that his favourite 

words in all the Bible are the 

words, "And it came to pass." You 

see the wisdom in that, don't you? 

That when we reach back and 

think not only of the good memories, 

but also the troubles, the 

disappointments, the difficulties 

and the heartaches, the fact is 

that for most of us, it all comes to 

pass. It was Hawthorne who said: 

"The greatest of all mortal consolations 

is that this, too, shall 

pass." In the season of Lent, we 

sometimes talk about the wilderness, 

the place where Jesus was 

tempted. But the Hebrew word for 

wilderness means, "A place you 

pass through." When we reach 

back, we are reminded that we 

made it through the trials and 

difficulties. 

Then, at three o'clock the man 

opened the third prescription and 

read the words: "Write your worries 

on the sand." The man knelt 

down and, with a broken seashell, 

he wrote some words in the sand. 

Then he turned and walked away. 

He didn't look, back, because he 

knew the tide would come in and 

wash his worries away. 

Finally, when it was six 

o'clock, the man opened the last 

piece of paper and read the 

words: "Examine your motives." 

He thought about all the things he 

wantedsuccess, recognition, security, 

comfortand he j u s ti fied 

them all. But then the thought 

came to him that these motives 

were not enough. There was 

nothing in there that motivated 

him toward the service of others. 

Someone once said that "service is 

the rent we pay for the privilege 

of living on this earth." Lent is a 

good time in which to examine our 

motives. Lent is a good time in 

which to examine our lives. 


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Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group 

Glebe Community Centre 

690 Lyon St. South, Ottawa, ON K1S 379 

Tel: 564-1058 or 233-8713 

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Register March 17 

7:00 p.m. 

Come and register for either of the upcoming 

events. These well attended events are ideal for 

those who are interested in buying or selling 

those long lost treasures at very affordable prices. 

Call G.C.C. for details. 

* SPRING FLEA MARKET 

Saturday, April 26, 2003 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

* GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE (at G.C.C.) 

Saturday, May 24, 203 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

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Website: www.theglebeonline.com 

Spring Program Registration 

Adult Programs & Workshops 

Thursday, March 20 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Numbers will be distributed 

starting at 5:00 p.m. 

Registration continues the following day during regular 

office hours until courses are filled or cancelled. 

Preschool, Children, Youth & Family 

Programs & Workshops 

Saturday, March 22 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Numbers will be 

distributed starting at 8:00 a.m. Registration continues 

Monday, March 24 and ongoing during regular 

office hours until courses are filled or cancelled. 

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Wednesday, Atiril 2nd 7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. 

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Glebe Community Centre 

Late registration for remaining spaces will be accepted 

until Thursday, April 17th at the Community Centre front desk 

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