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IF YOU HAVE NEWS,<br />
Call the Editor at 235-0853<br />
or write to the GLEBE REPORT<br />
P,O. Box 4794, Station E, Ottawa, Ontario<br />
First Avenue Schoo<br />
renovation is now<br />
confirmed<br />
By Liz McNab<br />
During December, the Ottawa<br />
Board of Education decided to<br />
renovate First Avenue School.<br />
This was a reversal of their<br />
previous decision to tear down<br />
the building and build a new<br />
school in its place.<br />
On December 10, the Board<br />
met to discuss the question of<br />
First Avenue School. The architect,<br />
Alistair Ross, who will be<br />
Permit parking<br />
lobe<br />
discussed<br />
If you're a <strong>Glebe</strong> resident<br />
with no place to park your car,<br />
you might be interested in two<br />
upcoming information meetings<br />
where the City will explain its<br />
plans to issue permits for onstreet<br />
parking.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> residents WEST of Bank<br />
St. are invited to attend a meeting<br />
at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre, 690 Lyon Street, at<br />
7:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 26.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> residents EAST of Bank<br />
St. are invited to a meeting<br />
at First Avenue School, 73 First<br />
Ave., at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday,<br />
January 27.<br />
Details of the project can also<br />
be obtained from the City's Physical<br />
environment Department at<br />
523-1990.<br />
in charge of the renovation, was<br />
present and questioned by the<br />
trustees about various aspects<br />
of renovation and rebuilding.<br />
After this discussion most of<br />
the trustees voted in favour of<br />
renovation, although trustee Wilson<br />
opposed it on financial<br />
grounds and trustee Francis<br />
voted against it because he felt<br />
that the whole question of First<br />
Avenue School should be reconsidered,<br />
taking into account its<br />
programme, location, and build-<br />
,ing.<br />
At the same meeting, the Board<br />
also discussed the programme<br />
changes at First Avenue and<br />
Hopewell school s.<br />
At an earlier meeting it had<br />
been decided that both First Avenue<br />
and Hopewell should have<br />
-SK-French Immersion streams<br />
and that the immersion stream at<br />
Hopewell should be phased in<br />
over a number of years. At<br />
this meeting it was decided that<br />
the phasing-in should start with<br />
SK-2 at Hopewell next year, and<br />
that a grade should be added<br />
each following year until 1985.<br />
It was also decided that all<br />
children in the French Immersion<br />
stream Grade 6 should attend<br />
Hopewell next year, and First<br />
Avenue for the following yeaxs<br />
until phasing-in was complete<br />
in 1985.<br />
Both these decisions were confirmed<br />
at a special meeting of<br />
the Ottawa Board of Education<br />
held on December 15,1980.<br />
Work continues<br />
THE NCC SAYS IT WILL TAKE ABOUT A YEAR<br />
PATTERSON'S CREEK.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Tenants' Association<br />
has called on the City and the<br />
Provincial government to take<br />
measures to preserve the stock<br />
of low-rental housing available<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
In a policy brief, the Association<br />
said fewer and fewer rental<br />
units in the <strong>Glebe</strong> can be<br />
afforded by low- and middleincome<br />
families. And it said<br />
there are also fewer homes in<br />
TO COMPLETE REPAIRS TO<br />
Tenants ask for government help<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong>- that can be bought<br />
by low- and middle-income<br />
people.<br />
"The City should commit itself<br />
to replacing the low-rental units<br />
lost in the inner city over the<br />
last several years," the brief<br />
states.<br />
The Tenants' Association advocated<br />
a ban on reconversion<br />
NEWS<br />
STONEWORK AROUND<br />
Photo: Jinny Slyfield<br />
of <strong>Glebe</strong> buildings to singlefamily<br />
homes, and asked the<br />
city to "improve and more effectively<br />
enforce" property<br />
standards by-laws.<br />
It also stated that it wants<br />
the province to continue rent<br />
controls and, in addition, make<br />
more non-profit housing units<br />
eligible for the alreadyexisting<br />
Rent Supplement Programme.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> shoemaker dies: "everybody s friend"<br />
By Alfred Holden<br />
An era has ended.<br />
Bill Moskaluk, the <strong>Glebe</strong> Shoemaker<br />
who quietly repaired the<br />
footware of <strong>Glebe</strong> residents for<br />
more than forty years, died early<br />
this month of a heart attack at<br />
age 65.<br />
In an age when nearly everything<br />
was manufactured to be<br />
thrown away, Moskalukwhose<br />
small Bank St. shop (International<br />
Shoe Repair) was as much a<br />
meeting place for <strong>Glebe</strong> residents<br />
as it was a shoe repair shop--<br />
made a living fixing things people<br />
said couldn't be fixed.<br />
-"He's sure going to be missed<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>, as a shoemaker,<br />
a friend, and a business neighbour,"<br />
said Bill Willis, of the<br />
McKeen-Willis <strong>Glebe</strong> IGA.<br />
"Everybody was his friend".<br />
Dorothea McKenna, a Strathcona<br />
Ave. resident and long-time<br />
friend of the Moskaluks, recalled<br />
how Bill was "the only shoemaker<br />
in town who could fix the<br />
Royal Canadian Mounted Police<br />
riding boots."<br />
"He was a pretty good shoemaker.<br />
He told me once that<br />
it was getting difficult to get<br />
shoemaking help, but he kept<br />
my shoes going long after the<br />
manufacturer would have liked."<br />
Joe Badali, of Badali Brothers,<br />
recalled how Bill's shop "was<br />
always a friendly place where<br />
you could stop by for a chat."<br />
Badali said Bill had been planing<br />
to retire soon , because "he<br />
was getting a bit tired."<br />
Bill's shop was written up<br />
last November in the GLEBE<br />
REPORT's "Grand Old Guard"<br />
series of articles about long-<br />
BILL MOSKALUK, IN HLS BANK ST. SHOP LAST NOVEMBE,R.<br />
established <strong>Glebe</strong> businesses.<br />
He became famous beyond the<br />
borders of the <strong>Glebe</strong> a few years<br />
ago, when, alter his thumb was<br />
cut off in an accident at work,<br />
doctors successfully sewed it<br />
back on.<br />
Bill's triumph was made pub-<br />
lic in THE CITIZEN.<br />
"One thing I couldn't fix myself,"<br />
he told friends afterward.<br />
Bill Moskaluk will be remembered<br />
as a kind, quiet<br />
gentleman, and a master<br />
of his trade.<br />
46 ELGIN ST.<br />
January 24, 1981, GLEBE REPORT -3