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Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale gift to Food Bank<br />
BY COLIN CHALK<br />
Each May since 1985 the Great<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale has drawn<br />
crowds of bargain hunters onto<br />
the streets of the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Last<br />
year more than 300 <strong>Glebe</strong> residents<br />
held sales which transformed<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> into one big<br />
bargain-hunting carnival. This<br />
year's event will take place Saturday<br />
May 23 (with a rain date<br />
set for the 24th.)<br />
Apart from becoming one of the<br />
most popular spring events in the<br />
city, the sale also has a major influence<br />
on the less fortunate in<br />
our region.<br />
From the very first Great <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Garage Sale in 1985 the event has<br />
been associated with The Food<br />
Bank. Each year the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Association suggests each<br />
vendor donate a percentage of the<br />
day's takings to The Food Bank<br />
(usually about 10%) and each<br />
year a considerable amount of<br />
money is raised for this worthy<br />
cause.<br />
DONATIONS SERVE THE<br />
NEEDY<br />
As the event has grown over the<br />
years so have the contributions.<br />
Last year <strong>Glebe</strong> residents donated<br />
a record $8,500. The money<br />
raised on this event is used to<br />
help The Food Bank supply the 70<br />
different agencies that serve the<br />
needy in our region.<br />
These agencies, which include<br />
school breakfast programs, women's<br />
shelters, rehab programs,<br />
drop-in centres, soup kitchens<br />
and hamper programs (such as the<br />
Shepherds of Good Hope and the<br />
Gloucester Food Cupboard) help<br />
South Branch Library<br />
The Ottawa Public Library<br />
opened its fourth Electronic Resource<br />
and Access Centre (ERAC)<br />
April 17. Capital Ward Councillor<br />
Inez Berg and Mayor Jim Watson<br />
were special guests at the official<br />
opening of the new hightech<br />
centre in the library's south<br />
branch at 1049 Bank Street.<br />
The new ERAC, made possible<br />
by an in-memorium gift of<br />
$12,500 from an anonymous<br />
donor, features four multimedia<br />
personal computers, including<br />
one workstation in the children's<br />
section, plus two laser printers.<br />
Each computer gives library<br />
users free access to the Internet,<br />
World Wide Web and a wide range<br />
of educational and recreational<br />
products on CD-ROM.<br />
"Here is a wonderful example of<br />
the difference individuals can<br />
make in their community," said<br />
David Daubney, chair of the OPL<br />
board. "This anonymous gift ensures<br />
that everyone children,<br />
students, seniors, business people,<br />
and staff will have access to<br />
the tools necessary to keep pace<br />
with the information age. The<br />
library board is most grateful to<br />
be given the opportunity of<br />
moving one step closer to its goal<br />
feed more than 30,000 people<br />
each month in the National Capital<br />
Region.<br />
The involvement of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
has great significance to The Food<br />
Bank not only because of the<br />
amount of money it generates but<br />
because it comes at a time of the<br />
year when donations are traditionally<br />
slower. Feeding the hungry<br />
is a year-round concern and<br />
events like The Great <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Garage Sale help ensure that this<br />
food supply is maintained.<br />
BARGAINS FOR ALL<br />
Every year the Great <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Garage Sale proves to be an exciting<br />
day of fun and great deals and<br />
every year those in need in our<br />
region are very grateful that it is.<br />
Bargain hunters everywhere<br />
should set aside May 23 as the<br />
day to be in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Whether<br />
you are looking for a car or a<br />
cardigan, dumbbells or doorknobs,<br />
chances are you'll find<br />
Going high-tech with ERAC<br />
Photo: Ottawa Public Library<br />
Annette Bateman with daughter Kelly<br />
of creating a library without<br />
walls." A family foundation<br />
designated its generous donation<br />
for electronic access in honour of<br />
fatnily members who were active<br />
users of the branch.<br />
"The South Branch has a very<br />
sophisticated and knowledgeable<br />
clientele," noted chief librarian<br />
Barbara Clubb, "and the addition<br />
of an electronic resource centre<br />
adds a new dimension to the services<br />
we can offer them."<br />
them.<br />
Anyone with questions about<br />
the event should contact this<br />
year's coordinator, George Ho!-<br />
land, at 235-4732.<br />
Thank you, <strong>Glebe</strong> residents, for<br />
putting on this event each year,<br />
for making it such a success and<br />
for including The Food Bank in<br />
the festivities.<br />
PLEASE REGISTER<br />
We are asking all who participate<br />
to please register! A registration<br />
slip can be found in this<br />
issue of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, and can<br />
be dropped off at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre, or at Loeb <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
You can participate in the Garage<br />
Sale for free. All you need to do<br />
is register by May 15th. Registration<br />
will allow you to be included<br />
in the map advertising the<br />
registered sale sites, and it will<br />
help us to organize for the collection<br />
of your donation to the<br />
Ottawa Food Bank.<br />
New GNAG<br />
Board members<br />
The annual general meeting of<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood<br />
Activities Group was held April<br />
29 in the basement hall of the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre. There<br />
were approximately 25 members<br />
of the public present. Outgoing<br />
Treasurer, Mary Lovelace presented<br />
the financial report. An<br />
audit, prepared by McIntyre &<br />
McLarty was presented. Several<br />
amendments to the GNAG consti-<br />
tution were presented and passed.<br />
The new slate of GNAG board<br />
members was elected.<br />
The new board is as follows:<br />
Chairperson - Louise Carota, Vice<br />
Chairperson - Vicky Schindel,<br />
Treasurer - Megan Malloy,<br />
Secretary - Christie Oliver,<br />
Communications Rep - Alice<br />
Hinther, Preschool Rep - Laurie<br />
Boussada, Children's Rep - Terry<br />
L. Huntley, Q4 Rep - Christine<br />
Hollander, Youth Rep - Emma<br />
Doucet, Adult Rep - Andrew<br />
Davidson, Seniors Rep - Eileen<br />
Scotton.<br />
For those unable to attend, the<br />
Annual <strong>Report</strong> and the Financial<br />
Statement are public documents<br />
and are available at the front<br />
desk of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre.<br />
THE 1998 WHITTON AWARDS<br />
Wednesday May 27, 7 p.m.<br />
Assembly Hall,<br />
Lansdowne Park<br />
The Whitton Awards are an<br />
annual tradition for <strong>Glebe</strong>, Old<br />
Ottawa South, Ottawa East, and<br />
Heron Park North residents.<br />
Started by Mayor Jim Watson<br />
during his tenure as city<br />
councillor, the awards formally<br />
recognize outstanding community<br />
achievement in Ottawa's<br />
Capital Ward. Councillor Inez<br />
Berg is proud to carry on the<br />
tradition of honouring the volunteerism<br />
that makes our<br />
neighbourhoods such special<br />
places to live.<br />
ADMISSION FREE<br />
This year's ceremony will<br />
take place at 7 p.m. on May 27<br />
at Lansdowne Park's Assembly<br />
Hall. Admission is free and<br />
light refreshments will be provided.<br />
Join family, friends and<br />
neighbours in celebrating the<br />
spirit of Capital Ward!<br />
Central Park<br />
Cleanup<br />
Saturday, May 9, 9:30- noon<br />
Drop by, even if you only have an<br />
hour to spare. Bring garden gloves,<br />
clippers and loppers if you have<br />
them.<br />
Organised by Central Park Renewal<br />
Committee. For info call 237-9767.<br />
Next Deadline<br />
June 1, 1998<br />
INSIDE<br />
Garage Sale<br />
Registration 2<br />
Letters 5<br />
Taxes, youth and dogs<br />
GCA 6<br />
Focus 9<br />
Livable corrimunities need<br />
local services<br />
Councillor's Column.10<br />
Feature 20, 21<br />
Everything for gardeners-<br />
stretches, books & plants<br />
Arts 22,23<br />
Art in the Park June 6;<br />
Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau<br />
Sports 27<br />
Bouse League hockey<br />
OCD school trustee<br />
report 28<br />
Books 36<br />
Letters of Jack McLelland<br />
`--V44t<br />
Quote of the Month<br />
[ To plant is to love others<br />
besides oneself.<br />
Old English Prover&
NEWS<br />
Rock-a-thon '98<br />
Abbotsford Senior Centre will<br />
be rocking Saturday, June 13 but<br />
not with punk, funk or hardrock.<br />
As many as 60 teams from the<br />
community are expected to keep<br />
rocking chairs rocking 1:30 -<br />
4:30 p.m. in Rock-a-thon '98, a<br />
major fund-raising event for the<br />
Senior Centre which is located at<br />
Abbotsford House on Bank Street<br />
across from Lansdowne Park.<br />
Teams drawn from all parts of<br />
the community, including politicians<br />
and media personalities,<br />
will collect pledges to support<br />
the centre's programs and to be<br />
part of the afternoon event<br />
There'll be a raffle, prizes,<br />
music and refreshments to revive<br />
flagging spirits and lagging<br />
stamina.<br />
For more information on Rocka-thon<br />
'98 and how to enter a<br />
team, call: Dianne Breton at 567-<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Centre open house May 26<br />
BY CHERYL LEDGERWOOD Pick up an information package<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre is holding an and watch videos describing all<br />
Open House on Tuesday, May 26 the recreational activities. Fill<br />
between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. for out an application to volunteer<br />
anyone interested in learning and schedule an interview with<br />
about the variety of volunteer op- the Volunteer Services Departportunities<br />
available at this long ment. Tours are offered at 4 p.m.<br />
term care facility (across from and again at 6:30 p.m.<br />
Lansdowne Park). The Open<br />
House will be of particular inter- Access to the <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre is by<br />
est to youth who are looking for Bank Street and Monk Street and<br />
summer volunteer positions, as parking is available. F o r<br />
well as for university, college and information call Cheryl<br />
high school students for place- Ledgerwood in Volunteer Services<br />
ments for the coining year. at 238-2727 ext 323.<br />
Green thumbs needed<br />
Got a green thumb.? The <strong>Glebe</strong> Environment committee is looking<br />
for volunteer gardeners to maintain the planter boxes that grace our<br />
neighbourhood each summer.<br />
The choice of plant material is yours, the work is easy and the<br />
rewards are great<br />
Volunteers have included gardeners looking for a little space to<br />
express themselves, environmentalists, business owners interested<br />
in enhancing their community and families with a sense of pride in<br />
our neighbourhood.<br />
We're also looking for a coordinator. Please call Joanna Dean, GCA<br />
Environment Rep. at 237-9767.<br />
Remind Mom of<br />
How Sweet She's<br />
Always Been<br />
Send her a<br />
Candy Bouquet<br />
6558 or Janice Bridgewater at<br />
Abbotsford Senior Centre at 230-<br />
5730.<br />
Gordon Hauser encourages the<br />
public to register before May 29.<br />
"There's no age limit but children's<br />
legs must touch the floor<br />
to be able to rock effectively.<br />
Grandpa knows how to do it already.<br />
Let's make a party of this<br />
event"<br />
ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE<br />
WHO LIKE TO MEET PEOPLE<br />
Card games like euchre and<br />
bridge are ongoing at Abbotsford.<br />
There is snooker for $1 a day,<br />
Scrabble to challenge your knowledge<br />
of words every Thursday and<br />
indoor gardening so much going<br />
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3 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 NEWS<br />
Preschool 'graduates' drop in<br />
BY JENNIFER WILSON<br />
It is 8:30 in the morning.<br />
Preparing the sunny playroom of<br />
the Good Morning Preschool I pick<br />
up a golden cape and hang it in<br />
the dress-up area. I smile as I<br />
remember Lianna, who gave this<br />
same cape to a friend a few years<br />
ago, saying, "Wear this; it will<br />
make your heart sparkle." Sometimes<br />
Lianna peers through the<br />
window on her way to school and<br />
waves. I'm always delighted to<br />
see her.<br />
Replenishing some paint at the<br />
easels, I am distracted by taps at<br />
the window.<br />
Looking up, I see<br />
three beautiful little girls:<br />
Keltie, Deirdre and Kelly, graduates<br />
of five years ago. The big<br />
front door is heard opening and<br />
there's a clattering down the<br />
steps. The pretty trio is visiting.<br />
We hug and they explore the<br />
room, faces wreathed in smiles.<br />
"It's still the same," smiles<br />
Keltie.<br />
"Exactly," chorus the others.<br />
Well, I will not correct them,<br />
but a generous grant from the<br />
provincial government has added<br />
greatly to our equipment . . .<br />
along with much appreciated help<br />
from talented parents who have<br />
given us more shelves and storage<br />
space.<br />
After they leave, the water<br />
table must be filled and toys put<br />
out. 'Space' was our theme last<br />
week and a massive rocket, a<br />
group project, fills the back wall.<br />
On the window wall, three large<br />
paintings of people cavort. A re-<br />
markable figure created b y<br />
Nathan seems to be walking off<br />
the page.<br />
This place is joyful. I remember<br />
the unbridled delight o f<br />
Philip and Felix a few days ago as<br />
they whizzed little cars through<br />
tunnels of unoccupied chairs.<br />
Their laughter was infectious.<br />
Philip, retrieving a car, handed it<br />
to Felix.<br />
"Here, Felix, it's your turn<br />
now" he said, sharing in an exemplary<br />
fashion.<br />
This is a sharing kind of place.<br />
Friendships are made here not<br />
just between children, but<br />
amongst the parents too, working<br />
together to make this brief<br />
chapter of their lives as magical<br />
and meaningful as possible.<br />
Spring is coming. New parents<br />
will be visiting our school. I like<br />
to think that their- hearts will<br />
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Jennifer Wilson is a teacher at<br />
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First Ave. For registration information<br />
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Community fair celebrates<br />
St. Matthew's 100th anniversary<br />
On Saturday, June 13, the people<br />
of St. Matthew's Anglican<br />
Church would like to invite the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> community to a "Fair in<br />
Central Park." The fair is held in<br />
celebration of the century of fellowship<br />
between St. Matthew's<br />
and the <strong>Glebe</strong> community.<br />
1998 marks the 100th anniversary<br />
of the founding of St.<br />
Matthew's Church in the <strong>Glebe</strong>,<br />
and the fair will mark the mid<br />
point in our celebration. We hope<br />
that all <strong>Glebe</strong> residents will join<br />
us at the fair from 11:00 a.m. to<br />
4:00 p.m. on the east side of Central<br />
Park.<br />
Events at the fair will include<br />
entertainment and attractions for<br />
all ages. Entertainment will include<br />
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community. Attractions such as<br />
pony rides, games, crafts and a<br />
bake sale will, of course, also be<br />
included.<br />
Delicious food and drinks will<br />
be available at modest prices and<br />
will be prepared under the direction<br />
of one of Ottawa's bestknown<br />
caterers. Later in the afternoon<br />
the children of St.<br />
Matthew's will serve lemonade<br />
and anniversary cake for all.<br />
We look forward to seeing you<br />
all at the Fair in Central Park.<br />
Watch the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> for<br />
further details on other coming<br />
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5 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 LETTERS<br />
Holding the tax line may hurt the poor<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
After reading Mayor Jim Watson's<br />
letter in the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> I<br />
saw that it is clear Mr. Watson is<br />
reinforcing his political career<br />
by what he thinks is the popular<br />
"Hold The Tax Line and Reduce<br />
Social Services Platform." This<br />
platform could cause long term<br />
damage to the city of Ottawa..<br />
Canada's wonderful society has<br />
been built with the strong, intelligent<br />
assistance of social programs<br />
designed not only to relieve<br />
the suffering of the poor and<br />
disadvantaged but to offer them<br />
opportunities for advancement.<br />
For most today on social assistance,<br />
there is not the slightest<br />
hope for improvement in their<br />
lives. Most cannot hope to make a<br />
good presentation of themselves<br />
during a job interview because of<br />
malnourishment, poor clothing,<br />
illness caused by lack of dental<br />
care and simple severe depression<br />
about their situation. This<br />
is not common sense and yet Jim<br />
Watson seems to want to add even<br />
more misery to the hopelessness<br />
by removing even more social<br />
programsland that appears to include<br />
the once per month assistance<br />
provided by the Ottawa<br />
Food Bank. Once per month is the<br />
reality of the food bank for persons<br />
using that assistance.<br />
I think politicians are very<br />
wrong if they think Canadians<br />
support poor health of their fellow<br />
citizens. Mr. Watson himself<br />
Time to take back the right<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
A situation arose recently when<br />
I was at a neighbourhood cinema.<br />
Five boys, between the ages of 10<br />
and 14 took seats two rows behind<br />
me. I was not aware of them at<br />
first but half an hour into the<br />
movie, I certainly noticed that at<br />
least one of them had a lighter<br />
which he flicked several times.<br />
Twice I warned these children<br />
to stop playing with fire. When I<br />
had to confront them a third time<br />
for rough-housing and causing a<br />
disturbance and they ignored me,<br />
this told me that it was time for<br />
the theatre management to step<br />
in.<br />
Even after they had been<br />
escorted to the lobby, they were<br />
mouthy and defiant. No o ne<br />
owned up to having a lighter and<br />
they dared the staff to frisk them.<br />
However, one of them was seen<br />
trying to cadge a cigarette earlier<br />
in the evening thus it was a moot<br />
point. Apparently, there had<br />
been problems with these<br />
children before and as a<br />
consequence of their ongoing bad<br />
behaviour, they were expelled<br />
from the theatre.<br />
The questions I am left with are<br />
numerous. What were children<br />
doing unsupervised at an event<br />
that wasn't going to end until<br />
11:00 p.m.? What were they<br />
doing with lighters? What made<br />
Crime rate lower where people wa<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
It was a dark and stormy night<br />
about 10:30, but our dog needed a<br />
walk, so my intrepid husband<br />
braved the elements to walk our<br />
dog. As they were walking on<br />
Morris Street, they came upon two<br />
people on the ground just under<br />
someone's window. As they approached,<br />
a man got up from the<br />
ground and ran off, leaving a very<br />
shaken woman on the ground. The<br />
man was attempting to rape the<br />
woman, and only my husband's<br />
arrival with the dog prevented the<br />
rape. She was struggling, but he<br />
was stronger than she was. They<br />
were under someone's window,<br />
but she was unable to scream,<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
My dog, a seven-year-old female<br />
collie named Samantha, is apparently<br />
Public Enemy No. 1 in the<br />
eyes of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association<br />
and the City of Ottawa.<br />
That is the only conclusion I can<br />
come to after learning that a new<br />
by-law will be voted on by our<br />
city council that will restrict<br />
dogs to 'leashes only' in Central<br />
Park east.<br />
This proposal comes, without<br />
public consultations, at the sole<br />
behest of one, and only one, individual<br />
who complains at any<br />
hour when he hears dogs frolicking<br />
in that park.<br />
Indeed, the proposed restriction<br />
to be placed on our canine<br />
neighbours in Central Park go<br />
further than those that are to be<br />
enforced at Brown's Inlet. To date<br />
there has been no public discus-<br />
using all her energies to fight the<br />
man. We reported it to the police.<br />
Had the dog not needed a walk, my<br />
husband certainly wouldn't have<br />
been out walking on that cold<br />
night in March.<br />
I mentioned this to a young<br />
woman, another dog owner, who<br />
said she has been out walking her<br />
dog very late at night on two occasions<br />
this past winter, and saw<br />
incidents which were very suspicious,<br />
and phoned the police to<br />
report it. On one occasion, a man<br />
was looking in someone's window<br />
and ran off when he saw her approach<br />
with her large dog.<br />
Jane Jacobs, the well-known<br />
sociologist writing on the life and<br />
sion on any of this as it relates to<br />
Central Park.<br />
Central Park, on both sides of<br />
Bank Street, is one of the unnoticed<br />
jewels of our city. With an<br />
LCBO outlet very close, these<br />
parks are frequented by the more<br />
unfortunate elements of our coinmunity.<br />
They, in the absence of<br />
public washrooms, use these two<br />
parks as their very public toilets.<br />
This is in addition to the beer<br />
and liquor bottles that also turn<br />
up.<br />
These two parks are made much<br />
safer by the presence of dog-owners<br />
and their dogs.<br />
It is the presence of dogs, and<br />
their owners, that keep these<br />
parks as public institutions to be<br />
enjoyed by all. This point cannot<br />
be understated - especially given<br />
the all-too-visible absence of any<br />
police patrols in our neighbour-<br />
in his letter admits people have<br />
asked him what is wrong with<br />
property tax increases of 1 or 3<br />
or even 5 percent? What is wrong<br />
is that Mr. Watson thinks his<br />
political career will benefit in<br />
the next election if he can say<br />
"See, I promised 0 per cent tax<br />
increases and I kept my promise."<br />
He might add "even at the cost of<br />
economic recovery for a large<br />
percentage of poor Canadians."<br />
Unless Mr. Watson gains a great<br />
deal more insight into the responsibilities<br />
of his office as<br />
mayor, he should be replaced at<br />
the earliest opportunity, which,<br />
unfortunately, seems to be the<br />
next election.<br />
Robert Mosurinjohn<br />
them think that they could<br />
endanger the lives of other people<br />
in the theatre? Why did they<br />
refuse to respect an adult making<br />
a direct request and then<br />
continue to defy the adults in<br />
charge?<br />
I think something T.S. Eliot said<br />
sums up the situation: "It's not<br />
wise to violate rules until you<br />
know how to observe them." In<br />
the case of children running<br />
roughshod, creating mayhem<br />
wherever and whenever they want,<br />
I believe that it is time for adults<br />
everywhere to take back the right,<br />
the right to be listened to by<br />
those who do not know better.<br />
Shannon Lee Mannion<br />
lk their dogs<br />
death of cities, noted in the '60s<br />
that in neighbourhoods where<br />
people know one another, and are<br />
out and about, there is a lower<br />
crime rate. Dog owners are certainly<br />
out and about, and get to<br />
know one another and their<br />
neighbourhoods as they walk<br />
their dogs and chat in the park.<br />
I remember so well other dog<br />
owners who offered me friendship<br />
as well as lots of helpful advice<br />
when I first began coming to the<br />
park when my dog was a puppy. I<br />
would hope we can all continue to<br />
meet to offer advice and friendship<br />
to one another and others as<br />
we all share our park.<br />
Janet Desroches<br />
Reconsider policy on dogs in parks<br />
hood since "Skate's" departure.<br />
The dog owners are also responsible<br />
individuals who do<br />
clean up after their animals,<br />
share doggie bags with those who<br />
have miscalculated or forgotten<br />
their plastic bags at home and<br />
supply the majority of volunteers<br />
who turn up each spring and fall<br />
in 'clean-up' campaigns in these<br />
two parks.<br />
This proposed by-law of restricting<br />
dogs to 'leashes only'<br />
can be reversed but your help is<br />
needed. Please write to and call<br />
Jim Watson (Mayor of Ottawa) at<br />
244-5380 and Inez Berg (City<br />
Councillor for Ward 9) at 244-<br />
5367. There will also be a petition<br />
available for signing that<br />
will be posted in this park and at<br />
Berry's Pet Food on Second<br />
Avenue next to Home Hardware.<br />
Robert Sims<br />
Clarification on<br />
monarch butterfly<br />
article<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
I write to you regarding your<br />
feature article "<strong>Glebe</strong> teen follows<br />
monarchs to Mexico" written<br />
by Emma Peacocke (April 3,<br />
1998), on topics related to the<br />
monarch butterflies in Mexico<br />
and the Mexico-Canada student<br />
exchange program supported by<br />
the Canadian Museum of Nature.<br />
Ms. Peacocke presented altogether<br />
a well written and interesting<br />
article, as expected from<br />
the high quality learning experience<br />
resulting from the above<br />
mentioned exchange program.<br />
Nonetheless, I was very surprised<br />
when she mentioned that "the<br />
deforestation in Mexico is ordered<br />
by drug barons, who coerce<br />
the indigenous people to burn the<br />
butterfly's coniferous forest<br />
habitat to make room for marijuana<br />
crops" (p.3).<br />
I deeply regret her visit to the<br />
monarch's area in Mexico did not<br />
allow her to see and understand<br />
the main reasons for deforestation<br />
(e.g. poverty, disenfranchisement<br />
and lack of alternatives),<br />
and preferred to irresponsibly<br />
focus on an issue that<br />
is certainly not a significant<br />
cause of deforestation in that region.<br />
Furthermore, it seems that<br />
unfortunately she was not capable<br />
to identify either the formidable<br />
challenges for development and<br />
conservation in the region, or to<br />
appreciate efforts currently undertaken<br />
jointly by the Mexican<br />
government, NGOs<br />
and local<br />
communities to address them -<br />
like no other country in North<br />
America.<br />
My credentials for saying the<br />
above are over 15 years working<br />
as a biologist in the region on<br />
conservation and development issues,<br />
through NG0s, such as<br />
Monarca A.C. and the World<br />
Wildlife Fund-Mexico; doing research<br />
through the University of<br />
Guelph; and now as environmental<br />
affairs counsellor at the Mexican<br />
Embassy. My work is reflected in<br />
several articles; in the design and<br />
production of the ex h i b it<br />
"Monarca... butterfly beyond borders,"<br />
carried out by the Canadian<br />
Museum of Nature; and the<br />
production of the film, with the<br />
same title, recently featured by<br />
the Discovery Channel across<br />
Canada.<br />
Jiirgen Hoth,<br />
Counsellor for Environmental and<br />
Scientific Affairs, Mexican Embassy<br />
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GCA <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 6<br />
GCA's AGM on May 13<br />
GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE<br />
The Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale is<br />
scheduled for May 23rd, raindate<br />
May 24th. As usual, volunteers<br />
will be required. If you want to<br />
get involved or want more information<br />
on the GGGS, call George<br />
Holland at 235-4732. See the ad<br />
and registration form in this issue<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Remember, registered locations<br />
will be donating ten percent of<br />
their proceeds to the Ottawa Food<br />
Bank<br />
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING<br />
The GCA holds its annual<br />
meeting May 13 starting at 7:30<br />
in the main hall of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre. If you want to<br />
get involved in your local community<br />
association now is the<br />
time. See notice and details in<br />
this month's issue of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong>.<br />
DOGS IN PARKS<br />
The GCA has established a<br />
small committee to attempt to<br />
work out some of the difficulties<br />
associated with the new Dogs -<br />
Parks Designation Policy proposal<br />
introduced by the city in<br />
late March. Of particular concern<br />
to many residents around Brown's<br />
Inlet is the time restrictions for<br />
dogs on leash. The current proposal<br />
has leash only from 9 a.m.<br />
to 6 p.m. seven days a week<br />
starting June 1 through<br />
September 30. The committee will<br />
review options and will present<br />
their findings at the annual general<br />
meeting on May 13.<br />
Once again here is a list of<br />
those city parks where dogs will<br />
be permitted and a brief summary<br />
of the proposed restrictions:<br />
Brown's Inlet - Dogs on leash<br />
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; June 1 to Sept.<br />
30. Dogs allowed during all other<br />
park hours.<br />
Central Park - Dogs allowed<br />
between Lyon and Bank Dogs on<br />
leash between Bank and Clemow.<br />
Patterson's Creek - Dogs o n<br />
leash between <strong>Glebe</strong> and Clemow.<br />
Chamberlain - Dogs allowed<br />
between Lyon and Glendale.<br />
Lansdowne Park - No dogs on<br />
ball diamonds. Dogs on leash<br />
most of park. Dogs allowed free<br />
within dog run.<br />
In our other neighbourhood city<br />
parks, no dogs are allowed at any<br />
time.<br />
TRAFFIC<br />
The GCA Traffic Committee is<br />
working towards a locally designed<br />
traffic plan. It is clear<br />
that most, if not all, the leg work<br />
will have to be done by local volunteers.<br />
Both the city and the<br />
region have little money for such<br />
work. As a result of both the<br />
city's and the region's cash<br />
crunch, any recommendations<br />
will be based first on what can be<br />
done immediately for minimal<br />
cost To the credit of city and<br />
regional staff, they are willing to<br />
help as much as they can.<br />
Committee members have put in<br />
countless hours on this issue and<br />
many more can be expected. More<br />
volunteers are needed. If there<br />
are sufficient volunteers, the area<br />
of study could widen. Currently<br />
the study is concentrating on the<br />
south-west section of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
including parts of the Dows Lake<br />
By<br />
G. C. A.<br />
President<br />
John Kane<br />
area.<br />
GLEBE COMMUNITY CENTRE<br />
As Councillor Berg mentioned<br />
in her column last month, the city<br />
has indicated that they could not<br />
proceed with our renovation proposal<br />
and purchase of service request<br />
As a result, renovation of<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre will<br />
not proceed until 2004. First on<br />
the list of community type capital<br />
projects is Plant Bath, currently<br />
closed.<br />
The GCA governance committee<br />
presented its findings to the GCA<br />
board at the April meeting. A<br />
presentation will also be made at<br />
the annual meeting. It is important<br />
not to let this project slip<br />
into Never Never Land. There is<br />
always a chance that the renovation<br />
project will be pushed forward<br />
and the community must be<br />
prepared to take a leading role in<br />
the process.<br />
PLANNING<br />
ISSUES<br />
OBE BUILDING: Development<br />
plans for the old Ottawa Board of<br />
Education building on Lyon St.<br />
are finally moving along. At the<br />
April 6th special meeting of the<br />
GCA, Routeburn Urban<br />
Developments presented some<br />
modifications to their original<br />
proposal. The revised plans appeared<br />
to address the concerns of<br />
the majority of local residents<br />
who attended the third in a series<br />
of meetings on this issue. As a<br />
result the city was advised of the<br />
compromise. The next stage of the<br />
process involves a detailed site<br />
plan.<br />
520 THE DRIVEWAY: A development<br />
proposal for 520 Queen<br />
Elizabeth Driveway is being circulated<br />
by Charlesfort<br />
Development Corporation's Doug<br />
Casey. Mr. Casey will provide an<br />
overview of the proposal at the<br />
next GCA board meeting May 26.<br />
LOCAL GOVERNMENT<br />
RESTRUCTURING<br />
Since the untimely demise of<br />
the Citizen's Panel both Mayor<br />
Watson and Chair Chiarelli have<br />
recently introduced their own<br />
proposals for restructuring. The<br />
province has established a deadline<br />
of November 12 for a local<br />
solution. If a homegrown proposal<br />
is not accepted by the various local<br />
governments, a Toronto solution<br />
may be imposed.<br />
With the possibility of a major<br />
change in local government, the<br />
outcome of issues such as the<br />
community centre, Lansdowne<br />
Park and local traffic are truly<br />
up in the air. Until the structure<br />
of local government is finalized,<br />
real planning beyond next year is<br />
impossible. Combine this with<br />
provincial downloading and you<br />
have both a planning and a funding<br />
crunch.<br />
It is essential that this issue be<br />
resolved as soon as possible and<br />
locally. It is a particularly im-<br />
portant issue, for the centretown<br />
communities. Funding for community<br />
centre renovations, local<br />
traffic issues and dog in parks<br />
policy are difficult enough now.<br />
How reactive to local concerns<br />
will a truly regional council be<br />
and just who will make these decisions<br />
- council or staff?<br />
NEXT<br />
MEETING<br />
The next meeting of the GCA<br />
Board will be May 26 at 7:30 p.m.<br />
at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre.<br />
The GCA annual meeting will be<br />
held May 13 at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre at 7:30.<br />
I would like to remind everyone<br />
that the GCA board meetings are<br />
open to the public. Ail residents<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> are always welcome.<br />
If you have ideas, concerns or<br />
problems regarding our neighbourhood,<br />
contact the GCA. Also<br />
watch the notice boards in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre and at<br />
the McKeen Loeb store for information<br />
on the GCA. I can be<br />
reached at: 235-1782 between 6-<br />
9:30 pm (residence). E-mail<br />
anytime: homelcane@sympatico.ca<br />
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Get together with your neighbours by seliing your treasures or<br />
wander through the <strong>Glebe</strong> in search of bargains.<br />
To help support the Ottawa Food Bank, the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Association asks that you donate 10% of your sales.<br />
Register by May 18 to have your address and sale items<br />
entered on the Garage Sale Map<br />
For further information contact:<br />
George Holland 235-4732<br />
Saturday, May 23rd, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
7 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 NEWS<br />
Rasputin's Folk Cafe<br />
696 Bronson Ave 230-5102<br />
Ottawa's non-smoking concert room presents on<br />
May, 22, d 23 singer d songwriter Joe Hall.. Poignant<br />
ballads, satirical looks at the movie ino'ustry, all in a<br />
enjoyably skewed way.<br />
The Ottawa 6ems Series presents some of the best<br />
songwriters and singers each Sunday evening, hosted by Lee<br />
Hayes of Malaika<br />
885, 887, 889 and 891 Bank St. 1974 Photo: Parks Canada<br />
Local colour in grey brick building<br />
BY BRUCE MCCALLAN<br />
Constructed in 1909, this<br />
building is located between Regent<br />
and Clarey, towards the<br />
south end of the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Compare<br />
this photo to the building today<br />
and note the tremendous improvement<br />
in its appearance, the<br />
result of an extensive exterior<br />
renovation in 1993.<br />
vending machines (juke boxes?),<br />
opened. It remained until 1956<br />
when a new entertainment<br />
medium, television, was becoming<br />
popular and Excel T.V. Sales<br />
moved into this location.<br />
RED AND WHITE STRIPES<br />
NEXT TO COLOUR TV<br />
In this 1974 photo Dave and<br />
Lee's Country Store is located at<br />
885; Ernesto's Barber Shop at 887<br />
since 1970; apartments on the<br />
second floor at 889; Excel T.V.<br />
Sales at 891 and Excel Radiator<br />
Service at the rear of the building.<br />
WHO'S THERE TODAY?<br />
Today you will find Irene's<br />
Pub-Restaurant at 885. It is now<br />
in its eleventh year. Ernesto's<br />
Barbershop is always busy (at<br />
887). McCrank's Cycles fixes<br />
bikes at the rear and Cymbiont<br />
Inc. and Gameday Custom Tattoo<br />
Co. are on the second floor at 889.<br />
Prime Crime Books at 891 has<br />
been selling mysteries since<br />
1984.<br />
AVALON THEATRE<br />
Ottawa resident, Alain<br />
Miguelez, is writing a book on the<br />
theatres of Ottawa and he needs<br />
photos of the old Avalon Theatre<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. He has searched the<br />
archives, but no public photos<br />
exist. If you have any photos,<br />
please call Alain at 230-9601.<br />
Bruce McCallan will share his<br />
research on the history of Bank<br />
Street businesses in the months<br />
to come, as the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> ap-<br />
MR. GREEN WAS A PAINTER,<br />
MR. BOSLOY A GREEN GROCER<br />
The first business at 885 was<br />
that of painter George T. Green in<br />
1910, who, after moving to several<br />
other locations on Bank St. settled<br />
in his own building at 750 Bank<br />
St. in 1923 where he operated a<br />
very successful painting and decorating<br />
business until 1980.<br />
From 1922 to 1997 Louis Bosloy<br />
had a grocery and fruit store here<br />
while living with his family in an<br />
apartment above the store.<br />
A TRADITION OF BARBER-<br />
SHOPS<br />
In the early years 887 was often<br />
connected to 885. With the<br />
opening of Ruby E. Graham's<br />
Beauty Parlour and Ira L. Perrault's<br />
Barber Shop in 1935 a<br />
business tradition at this location<br />
began. Although the last<br />
beauty parlour, Crown Beauty<br />
Shoppe, closed in 1949 a series of<br />
barbershops have operated here<br />
to this day.<br />
At what is now 891 Samuel<br />
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BY ALICE HINTHER<br />
The warm, summer-like weather<br />
we have enjoyed over the past few<br />
weeks has no doubt started many<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> residents thinking of gardening.<br />
Once again GNAG is<br />
sponsoring the annual perennial<br />
exchange on May 14. This event<br />
has been held for several years,<br />
and each year the number of participants<br />
grows bringing novice<br />
and experienced gardeners together<br />
to share plants and gardening<br />
tips. The exchange is held<br />
outside at the main entrance to<br />
the Community Centre on Lyon<br />
Street. Gardeners are asked to<br />
bring along their extra perennial<br />
plants, seeds, or even bags of<br />
compost or other gardening related<br />
items to trade with fellow<br />
gardeners. It is helpful if you<br />
can identify your plant and offer<br />
a bit of information about it But<br />
don't worry if you can't identify<br />
it there is sure to be someone<br />
there who will! The exchange<br />
begins at 6:30 p.m. and usually<br />
runs for about an hour so arrive<br />
early for the best choices.<br />
If you are still wondering what<br />
to do with the kids this summer,<br />
be sure to check out the summer<br />
camps being offered at the community<br />
centre. We have programmes<br />
for everyone from preschool<br />
to teens with activities<br />
ranging from sports, adventure<br />
games, art, pottery, carpentry and<br />
camping. We are accepting registration<br />
on an on-going basis.<br />
Spaces are limited and all regis-<br />
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690 Lyon Street South<br />
Ottawa, ON, K1S 3Z9 Tel: 564-1058<br />
May in the <strong>Glebe</strong> means the<br />
Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale and this<br />
year the sale will be held on May<br />
23. Plan for a fun day of selling,<br />
shopping and socializing! It's a<br />
great excuse to clean out the<br />
garage or basement and to support<br />
the Ottawa Food Bank. To be included<br />
in the directory please<br />
fill out the application provided<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> and drop it<br />
off at the community centre.<br />
Please mark the following GNAG<br />
events on your May calendar:<br />
May 1 - Classic Movie Night, $1<br />
drop in, 7:30 p.m.<br />
May 6 - Bike Maintenance<br />
Workshop, 7-9 p.m. Free. Call to<br />
register<br />
May 8 - GNAG Youth Dance, 11 -<br />
14 years, $3 at the door, 7 - 10<br />
p.m.<br />
May 14 - Perennial Exchange,<br />
6:30 p m. - 7:30 p.m. Free. Call<br />
to register<br />
May 15 - Classic Movie Night,<br />
$1 drop in, 7:30 p.m.<br />
May 23 - Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage<br />
Sale<br />
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GLEBE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION<br />
L'ASSOCIATION COMMUNAUTAIRE DU GLEBE<br />
Nominations for Board of Directors<br />
and<br />
Annual General Meeting<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association will hold its annual general meeting on Wednesday, May 13, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. in the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre (main hall) at 690 Lyon Street. One of the items on the agenda is the annual election of the Board of Directors.<br />
All members of the Association, including incumbents, are eligible to serve on the Board in the positions listed below:<br />
President<br />
Committee Chairpersons or representatives for:<br />
Vice-President (2)<br />
Business<br />
Recording Secretary<br />
Education<br />
Treasurer<br />
Environment<br />
Past President (ex officio, and by<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Activities Group Liaison<br />
succession)<br />
Heritage<br />
Membership Co-ordinator<br />
Lansdowne Park<br />
Assistant Membership Co-ordinator<br />
Neighbourhood Planning<br />
Publicity Co-ordinator<br />
Recreation<br />
Area Directors: (12)<br />
Seniors<br />
2 for each of 6 Zones Social Planning<br />
Tenants<br />
Traffic<br />
(From this Board 2 members will represent the community at the F.C.A.)<br />
If you would like to participate in the direction of your neighbourhood association, or if you wish to forward a nomination, the Nominating<br />
Committee would welcome your call and provide further information. The closing date for nominations is May 11. Please call or contact:<br />
John Kane<br />
235-1782<br />
Wednesday, May 13, 1998
9 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998<br />
Towards a complete neighbourhood<br />
BY CHRIS BRADSHAW<br />
The last nine months Glebites<br />
have felt, as much as at any time,<br />
the jeopardy of living in an inner-city<br />
neighbourhood. The new<br />
official plan of the region, despite<br />
its basic strategy to cut<br />
back on sprawl, includes a series<br />
of road "improvements" that focus<br />
ever more traffic on Bronson Avenue.<br />
Even though the plan did<br />
not specifically propose any<br />
widening of Bronson north of the<br />
canal, it set the stage for monumental<br />
delays for drivers in that<br />
section, a sure bet that those<br />
drivers would create a political<br />
wedge of demand for relief by<br />
widening Bronson or a costly new<br />
tunnel under Dow's Lake to run<br />
along the route of the proposed<br />
light-rail pilot project west of<br />
Preston Street (the "Champagne<br />
Arterial" which was in a previous<br />
version of the plan).<br />
The conflict within the plan has<br />
been partly beaten back, thanks<br />
to a change in leadership at regional<br />
council. But what else will<br />
it take to curb the car-profligacy<br />
of suburban and exurban development<br />
that creates hardening of<br />
the arteries on streets that once<br />
were lively and convivial?<br />
The new official plan calls for<br />
no additional new urban lands to<br />
get the region from its previous<br />
threshold of 900,000 (by 2011) to<br />
1,000,000 (in 2021). It will do<br />
this by distributing the future<br />
development more judiciously to<br />
previously passed-over lands and<br />
by reducing the rate of growth of<br />
car traffic on major roads.<br />
DEVELOP COMMUNITY CORES<br />
B y<br />
How will it do this?<br />
spurring the development of<br />
"community cores," which will<br />
bring many more services closer<br />
to where people live, and by enhancing<br />
the alternatives to travelling<br />
alone in a car. The community<br />
cores are essentially<br />
clusters of local stores and services<br />
in the heart of each neighbourhood,<br />
like Bank and Lyon<br />
streets in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Where development<br />
is less dense, it would<br />
be perhaps more like the Elmvale<br />
and Beacon Hill shopping centres.<br />
This loss of propinquity in residential<br />
areas is more consequen-<br />
tial today, as most work areas as<br />
opposed to the central are almost<br />
void of these kinds of personal-service<br />
outlets. When such<br />
services are absent at both ends<br />
of a commute, it is highly likely<br />
that the conunuting will be made<br />
by car, alone. And each person<br />
who abandons walking, transit,<br />
and cycling makes those choices<br />
less palatable for those trying to<br />
stick with them.<br />
GIVE<br />
COMMUNITIES<br />
LOCAL SERVICES<br />
The ideal of the complete<br />
neighbourhood will not be easy to<br />
achieve. I have been working the<br />
last two years on devising ways to<br />
make it happen. Not only must<br />
new communities have services<br />
from their inception a n d<br />
established ones without them<br />
must develop them, but we must<br />
also find ways that the<br />
traditional neighbourhoods can<br />
reverse the trend of their<br />
business areas, becoming either<br />
more car-oriented or more<br />
tourist-oriented. The <strong>Glebe</strong> has<br />
seen increased car ownership at<br />
the same time as the merchants<br />
have increased street parking.<br />
The official plan calls for infilling<br />
vacant or underused sites,<br />
which we are doing witness<br />
Jefferson House, the conversion of<br />
the former OBE offices on First,<br />
the proposed replacement of the<br />
former car-rental property on<br />
Bank at Patterson with a threestorey<br />
office, not to mention the<br />
massive redevelopment of Lansdowne<br />
Park. It also calls for reexamining<br />
parking requirements<br />
and perhaps setting maximums,<br />
on the growing realization that<br />
each parking space, by accommodating<br />
car travel, induces it<br />
I would like to explore some of<br />
the ways that Glebites can reduce<br />
our own use of cars and thus not<br />
only reduce traffic on our streets,<br />
but set an example to other<br />
neighbourhoods. I will also explore<br />
some principles on which<br />
this transformation will be based<br />
as well as local programs that can<br />
be used to break the cycle of increased<br />
car use and our dependency<br />
on distant stores and services.<br />
Chris Bradshaw is organizer of<br />
Initiatives for Neighbourhood Integrity.<br />
He worked in the planning<br />
department of RMOC for 22<br />
years.<br />
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with<br />
performs<br />
t_ofrie<br />
IC.Ithster<br />
o chamber choir<br />
aod guest artist Sally Robinson<br />
(Mae sprioe with a Mad bebop bled of (hod music<br />
Saturday, May 23rd, 1998<br />
8:00 p.m.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door<br />
available from<br />
mother tongue books femmes de parole<br />
and chorus members<br />
Take part in a Silent Auction for Vox Femina<br />
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N EWS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 1 0<br />
City Councillor's report<br />
SPRING CLEANING THE<br />
CAPITAL<br />
Spring has definitely arrived,<br />
and along with the city workers<br />
cleaning our streets and parks,<br />
comes Ottawa's annual Spring<br />
Cleaning the Capital Week, May 4<br />
to 10. The city invites everyone<br />
to help keep Ottawa clean and<br />
green and to show their community<br />
pride by cleaning up their<br />
property and their neighbourhood.<br />
For information on how to<br />
get involved, or to register your<br />
project and get a brochure please<br />
call 244-5444 or fax: 244-5430.<br />
You may also call my office at<br />
244-5367. In this year of the ice<br />
storm I hope we can keep this<br />
community pride initiative alive<br />
all year long!<br />
EARTH DAY<br />
On Sunday, April 26, Brewer<br />
Park was the site of an incredibly<br />
successful Earth Day celebration,<br />
thanks largely to the involvement<br />
and hard work of the Ottawa South<br />
ECOS committee and a host of<br />
community volunteers of all ages.<br />
It was a beautiful day, and I<br />
joined hundreds of others who<br />
took part in tree planting and<br />
many other educational and entertaining<br />
activities. My thanks<br />
to all the sponsors, organizers,<br />
educators, entertainers, and volunteers<br />
for their hard work and<br />
commitment to Earth Day and the<br />
future health of our planet<br />
WARD BUDGET MEETING<br />
On April 16, I was pleased to<br />
host Capital Ward's Budget<br />
Meeting at the Old Firehall in<br />
Ottawa South. Over 40 people<br />
came out for a presentation on<br />
Budget '98 by City Treasurer,<br />
Mona Monkman. Mso attending<br />
were Community Services<br />
Commissioner Janette Foo and<br />
Catherine Junop from our new<br />
Urban Planning and Public Works<br />
Department<br />
Several concerns were raised<br />
about the city's interpretation of<br />
the responses to the Ekos Survey,<br />
the research tool used in developing<br />
the budget. Many objected to<br />
the inclusion of The Old Town<br />
Hall Community Centre, outdoor<br />
rink grant funding, wading pools,<br />
and <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre's Outreach support<br />
services for seniors on an<br />
options list for potential cuts or<br />
elimination if staff's recommended<br />
budget cuts were not accepted<br />
by council. Though staff<br />
assured those in attendance that<br />
these, and other programs for the<br />
less fortunate which were also on<br />
the list, were not remotely likely<br />
to be considered for cuts by<br />
council, many were not reassured.<br />
I certainly do not support these<br />
cuts and will do all that I can to<br />
see that they are not considered.<br />
WHITTON AWARDS MAY 27<br />
I am looking forward to seeing a<br />
great many Capital Ward residents<br />
at the Whitton Awards<br />
Ceremony on Wednesday, May 27<br />
at Assembly Hall at Lansdowne<br />
Park at 7:00 p.m. Initiated by<br />
Mayor Jim Watson when he was<br />
the ward councillor, and named<br />
after Ottawa's first femaie mayor,<br />
Charlotte Whitton, the ceremony<br />
honours Capital Ward's many<br />
community volunteers. I attended<br />
the first ceremony in 1992 as a<br />
By<br />
Councillor<br />
Inez Berg<br />
nervous recipient, and have grown<br />
to love the event for the opportunity<br />
it provides for all o ur<br />
ward's residents to meet one another<br />
and celebrate the many<br />
ways in which volunteers build<br />
our communities and improve our<br />
quality of life. As usual, many<br />
area businesses, organizations<br />
and volunteers are sponsoring<br />
and helping with the Whitton<br />
Awards ceremony. Don't miss the<br />
fun. Come on out and meet your<br />
neighbours.<br />
PARKS DESIGNATION<br />
POLICY<br />
I am including some information<br />
edited from my column last<br />
month on the city's draft policy<br />
report on dogs in parks. Its main<br />
recommendation is to replace the<br />
edsting policy with a more flexible<br />
policy intended to ensure<br />
objectivity in the designation of<br />
parks for use by dogs.<br />
Recommendations for <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
parks are: Dogs Allowed Off<br />
Leash: Chamberlain Park, Central<br />
Park between Lyon and Bank,<br />
Brown's Inlet Park all year except<br />
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 1 to<br />
September 30, Lansdowne Park<br />
dog run, and Sylvia Holden Park.<br />
Dogs on Leash: Brown's Inlet Park<br />
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 1 to<br />
September 30, Central Park east<br />
of Bank and most of Lansdowne<br />
Park. No Dogs Allowed: Lionel<br />
Britton, Capital, Eugene Forsey,<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Memorial parks a n d<br />
Lansdowne Park baseball diamonds.<br />
The report was discussed at the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association<br />
meeting of April 28, and a variety<br />
of issues were raised. That and<br />
general dissatisfaction on all<br />
sides with the recommendation<br />
for Brown's Inlet Park led to the<br />
formation of a committee of residents<br />
who will work together to<br />
identify issues of concern in the<br />
report and to bring forward a recommendation<br />
for Brown's Inlet<br />
Park which may be found more<br />
equitable.<br />
At the GCA Annual General<br />
Meeting May 13, I hope to have<br />
city staff on hand to explain the<br />
report and its recommendations,<br />
and to answer questions. My hope<br />
is that, as a community, we will<br />
all come to a better understanding<br />
of each other and our needs<br />
by working together on this issue.<br />
As the city continues to have reduced<br />
staff and resources for<br />
parks, it becomes more important<br />
for communities to be positively<br />
involved. For information or a<br />
copy of the report call my office<br />
at 244-5367 or Jules Bouvier,<br />
244-5300 ext 3383.<br />
LANSDOWNE PARK<br />
Recently PCL Constructors, one<br />
of three proponents selected to<br />
take part in the Lansdowne Park<br />
Revitalization's Stage 3 Request<br />
for Proposal, informed the city<br />
that they are withdrawing from<br />
the process. The city has decided<br />
to continue with the two remaining<br />
proponents, Canderel and<br />
Canadian Gateway. Completed<br />
plans must be submitted by June<br />
8 and several public consultation<br />
open houses will follow in the<br />
third week of June.<br />
TULIP FESTIVAL 1998<br />
The tulips are out in fine form<br />
for the Tulip Festival which will<br />
be held from May 9 to May 17. No<br />
Parking Anytime restrictions<br />
will apply in the Dow's Lake area<br />
during weekends on one side of<br />
the following streets: Cambridge<br />
St. South, Kippewa Drive,<br />
Madawaska Drive and Crescent<br />
Heights. Please watch for ads and<br />
announcements about events and<br />
associated traffic controls in the<br />
area, and on Queen Elizabeth<br />
Drive.<br />
A.C.T. SPORTS AWARDS<br />
Congratulations to local athletes<br />
Monica Dingle and Karl<br />
Saidla who were honoured April 8<br />
at the associated Canadian<br />
Travellers 45th sports awards<br />
dinner. Among 57 sports and<br />
several teams, they were selected<br />
for their outstanding performances<br />
in sailing, and cross<br />
country skiing respectively.<br />
Monica Dingle will compete later<br />
this year in the world senior<br />
championships in t h e<br />
Netherlands.<br />
CAREER STATION<br />
I recently visited Career:<br />
Station, an exciting new career<br />
advisory service in the Coliseum<br />
Building at Lansdowne Park, 1015<br />
Bank St. Its director, Barb Booth,<br />
and her staff offer a variety of<br />
services to help employees and<br />
employers. For information call<br />
Barb at 569-4661 or e-mail:<br />
bbooth@cyberus.ca<br />
TRIAGE FOR TREES<br />
Congratulations to owners and<br />
staff at the Arrow and the Loon,<br />
99 Fifth Ave., who have partnered<br />
with Friends of the Earth in their<br />
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April 19 the pub held<br />
Loonapalooza, a musical kick-off<br />
to raise money and enlist the help<br />
of local volunteers to repair damaged<br />
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call 241-0085. You can also sign<br />
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1 1 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 NEWS<br />
Neighbourhood watch<br />
Neighbourhood Watch<br />
meeting Tuesday, May 12<br />
at 7:15 pm<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
multipurpose room<br />
BY BRIAN LYNCH<br />
The Neighbourhood Watch for<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> north covers 250 homes on<br />
Rosebery, Glendale, Renfrew, Im-<br />
Home security tips<br />
Summary of a presentation to<br />
Ottawa Neighbourhood Watch Coordinators<br />
Association by Sr. Cst.<br />
Mike McMurchy.<br />
Home security is an important<br />
consideration. Is the house fully<br />
visible from the street? Is the<br />
house number easily visible to<br />
police responding to a call? Are<br />
doors or windows, even basement<br />
windows obscured by shrubbery?<br />
A privacy fence may look good<br />
but remember that it also reduces<br />
opportunities for "neighbourhood<br />
watching." Fencing higher than<br />
forty inches is not recommended.<br />
CHECK NIGHT-TIME LIGHTING<br />
Does your home have night-time<br />
lighting sufficient for neighbours<br />
to observe a prowler front, back<br />
or side? A night light controlled<br />
by a motion detector is even<br />
better than a constant light,<br />
because it's more noticeable when<br />
activated. External security<br />
alarms can be effective, but only<br />
if properly installed and<br />
carefully managed you don't<br />
want an alarm that starts blaring<br />
whenever the neighbour's cat<br />
slinks by.<br />
LOCK YOUR DOORS<br />
How about doors? Many doors<br />
can be opened with one good kick,<br />
or maybe even with a credit card.<br />
The cheapest solution is to buy a<br />
deadbolt lock, and install it with<br />
an extended or wrap around<br />
strike plate attached with screws<br />
long enough (3 1/2 to 4 inches) to<br />
perial, Powell and associated<br />
sections of Lyon, Bronson & Bank<br />
streets.<br />
The police report for this area<br />
in March included: four reports<br />
on Renfrew and Powell avenues of<br />
mischief to property under<br />
$5,000; break and enter t o<br />
apartments on Rosebery Ave. and<br />
the theft of a $900 mountain bike<br />
from Renfrew Ave.<br />
extend into the two-by-four<br />
frame. A sidelight window<br />
(beside the door) should be made<br />
of tempered glass, and you might<br />
also consider using a double<br />
deadbolt, which must be unlocked<br />
with a key from the inside as well<br />
as outside.<br />
Patio doors present a different<br />
problem. Many homeowners make<br />
them safer with a charley bar, or<br />
a piece of wood cut to fit snugly<br />
into the opening but are not aware<br />
that the entire door can be easily<br />
pried upwards and pulled off its<br />
track.<br />
(The frame has a spring-<br />
loaded upper track for ease of<br />
installation.) A cheap and effective<br />
solution is to drill and drive<br />
several screws into the upper<br />
track just deep enough to clear<br />
the upper edge of the sliding<br />
door.<br />
Then there's the garage door.<br />
Youths have been known to cruise<br />
residential streets trying different<br />
combinations to automatic<br />
garage doors, so before you go on<br />
vacation, unplug the door opener.<br />
Another cheap fix is to block the<br />
track that the door rolls on, with<br />
a removable pin or padlock, so<br />
that the door can't be raised (for<br />
a double door, pin both tracks).<br />
Finally, what should you do if<br />
you arrive home and notice signs<br />
of intrusion? Whatever you do,<br />
don't go ina burglar will be<br />
pumped to a high adrenaline level<br />
and may react violently. G o<br />
immediately to a neighbour's<br />
house and call the police.<br />
Selected police statistics for March,<br />
1998 provided by Cst. Claude Cayer<br />
area 1 area 2 area 3 area 4<br />
alarrn 19 18 19 9<br />
theft 4 6 4 2<br />
res. B&E 2 1 5 1<br />
MVA<br />
property 1 10 6 4<br />
traffic compl. 4 11 3 1<br />
Total 65 109 78 26<br />
total police calls to the <strong>Glebe</strong> in March: 278<br />
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NEWS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 12<br />
Distress Centre<br />
Volunteers are great listeners<br />
BY ROY MATTHEWS<br />
Do you feel like devoting a little<br />
bit of your time to help people<br />
In trouble? How about volunteering<br />
as a telephone counsellor at<br />
the Distress Centre of Ottawa and<br />
Region7<br />
The Centre, founded 30 years<br />
ago, provides a 24-hour confidential<br />
listening service for residents<br />
of our area who need understanding<br />
and support. Callers<br />
may be recently bereaved, in a<br />
difficult relationship, having job<br />
problems, dealing with alcohol or<br />
drug addiction or simply lonely<br />
and depressed. Occasionally<br />
there is someone in a really desperate<br />
situation who is becoming<br />
suicidal.<br />
Volunteers are given a 56-hour<br />
training course (held in the<br />
evenings) to prepare them to<br />
handle all these kinds of calls.<br />
There are well-established pro-<br />
Annual bedding plant sale<br />
Spring is here and your garden<br />
needs colour! Once again, the<br />
garden plant sale will be held on<br />
May 9 and 10, from 8:30 a.m. -<br />
2:00 p.m., in support of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Cooperative Nursery School. A<br />
wide variety of annual bedding<br />
plants, hanging baskets, and<br />
herbs will be sold at great prices<br />
in the parking lot of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre. Gardeners<br />
will be on staff to provide Mother's<br />
Day gift suggestions and<br />
other planting information. In<br />
cedures to guide them plus a<br />
round-the-clock backup system<br />
to assist in emergencies. The new<br />
volunteer is required to serve for<br />
a minimum of one year, putting in<br />
three four-hour shifts (including<br />
one overnight stint) each month.<br />
There are about 150 volunteers on<br />
the centre's rota, so days and<br />
times can be fitted in with individual<br />
preferences.<br />
The Distress Centre is located<br />
downtown near bus routes and<br />
with parking available. The small<br />
and friendly staff works in close<br />
liaison with volunteers, and refresher<br />
courses and special weekend<br />
"in-service" sessions are offered<br />
from time to time to pass on<br />
information and encourage a cooperative<br />
spirit among participants.<br />
This is a very worthwhile<br />
activity. The next training<br />
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1 3 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 NEWS<br />
Our natural spaces<br />
Do you have a favourite woodland,<br />
waterfront area or open<br />
space in your neighbourhood?<br />
Are you curious to see how it was<br />
valued relative to other similar<br />
areas in the city? The draft of<br />
Ottawa's Natural and Open Spaces<br />
Study (NOSS) is ready for public<br />
discussion. The study identifies<br />
and evaluates the city's remaining<br />
natural areas and open spaces<br />
including woodlands, wetlands,<br />
watercourses, and vegetated open<br />
spaces. Management recommendations<br />
and turgets and standards<br />
for greenspace were also developed.<br />
The Arboretum, Patterson's<br />
Creek and Brewer Park: pond were<br />
part of the study.<br />
The areas studied represented<br />
both public and privately owned<br />
land. City parks and schoolyards<br />
were not evaluated due to their<br />
intrinsic social value.<br />
Targets, i.e. realistic goals,<br />
were set to retain greenspace and<br />
natural features. For example,<br />
there should be no further loss of<br />
woodlands ranked high or<br />
moderate. Targets for wetlands<br />
recommended no further loss of<br />
wetlands ranked high for wetland<br />
features. Targets for open space<br />
areas are recommended as no loss<br />
of function for areas ranked high<br />
for social values and/ or<br />
recreational linkage values. The<br />
arboretum, for example, scored<br />
the highest for social values.<br />
INFORMATION SESSION MAY 12<br />
The NOSS Overview <strong>Report</strong> will<br />
be available at branch libraries<br />
and community centres May 1 for<br />
a formal one-month public<br />
review.<br />
Also, an information<br />
session will be held Tuesday, May<br />
12 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the<br />
Fuller Room at Ottawa City Hall,<br />
111 Sussex Drive. The session<br />
will provide a summary of study<br />
findings, and "kitchen table" discussion,<br />
where city staff will<br />
provide a summary of study<br />
findings, and will answer any<br />
questions. All NOSS deliverables<br />
will be available at the session<br />
for review, including the data<br />
used to evaluate individual areas<br />
(i.e. the 64 data binders.)<br />
For more information on the<br />
Natural and Open Spaces Study,<br />
please contact Deborah Irwin,<br />
Environmental Management<br />
Branch at 244-5300 ext. 3000, or<br />
Susan Costello, ext. 3365 or by e-<br />
mail at irwind@city.ottawa.on.ca<br />
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A step in the right direction<br />
BY KIM COPELAND<br />
(PEACE & ENVIRONMENT RE-<br />
SOURCE CENTRE VOLUNTEER)<br />
After another long Canadian<br />
winter, spring has once again arrived,<br />
showering us with hope and<br />
new energy. What better way to<br />
celebrate this spirit than to participate<br />
in Ottawa's 13th Annual<br />
Social Action Walk? Organized<br />
by the Peace and Environment Resource<br />
Centre, this year's walk<br />
takes place Saturday June 6.<br />
This event is an important (and<br />
fun) one for Ottawa's social action<br />
community. Not only does it<br />
raise much-needed funds for local<br />
organizations, but it gives<br />
these groups a chance to get together<br />
and exchange ideas, information,<br />
etc. The issues addressed<br />
by this community include everything<br />
from childhood poverty to<br />
Burmese human rights. That's<br />
why this year's theme is Growing<br />
a Strong Community.<br />
If you don't (yet) belong to a<br />
social action group, don't be shy<br />
the walk is a great event for you<br />
too. Before and after the walk, an<br />
Info-Fair will be set up providing<br />
plenty of opportunity to find out<br />
what's happening on Ottawa's social<br />
action scene. As an added<br />
incentive, the individual who<br />
raises the most pledges will receive<br />
a generous prize.<br />
The walk will once again begin<br />
at Central Park (Bank and Patterson)<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. We will share<br />
the park with the Art in the Park<br />
event. Registration for the walk<br />
will begin at 10 a.m., and the<br />
walk will begin at 11 a.m. The 8<br />
km route will leave the park and<br />
loop its way along the Canal,<br />
around Dow's Lake and through<br />
the Arboretum. After the walk,<br />
there will be free snacks and an<br />
awards ceremony in the park.<br />
If you would like more information<br />
or a pledge form, or would<br />
like to make a pledge (donation),<br />
please contact the Peace and Environment<br />
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to drop by the centre at 174 First<br />
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come celebrate Ottawa's social<br />
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15 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 BUSINESS NEWS<br />
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Mon-Thurs 10 am - 6 pm<br />
Friday 10 am - 10 pm<br />
Sat 10 am - 6 pm<br />
A passion for literature and the<br />
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Previously located in N e w<br />
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Books (BDB) recently moved to the<br />
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Ave.). The Basilisk is a creature<br />
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BY BRUCE DONALDSON<br />
GLEBE BUSINESS GROUP<br />
Many merchants in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Business Community Group<br />
are making plans to meet the expected<br />
increase in business from<br />
tourists. Store fronts are being<br />
painted in attractive colours and<br />
flowers are sprouting in shops to<br />
remind us of the approaching<br />
tulip festival. Overall this<br />
activity has made the shopping<br />
' area more upscale so that it will<br />
continue to attract the growing<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> population.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> people decided<br />
to increase the focus on<br />
business issues. I have<br />
been asked to do this and accepted<br />
with pleasure. I hope you<br />
will find it informative.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong>'s population is<br />
estimated at over 2 5,0 0 0,<br />
according to real estate sources.<br />
Much of the population is within<br />
walking distance of the business<br />
section and when complemented<br />
by reasonable parking<br />
guidelines, the total <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
population has convenient access<br />
to the shops.<br />
However, we do not have reasonable<br />
parking guidelines! Because<br />
of the upscale shopping area,<br />
pedestrian traffic on Bank Street<br />
between <strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue and Fifth<br />
Avenue is higher than i n<br />
any :-.ther part of the city according<br />
to the best information we<br />
could obtain from City Hall. As<br />
a result when a business moves<br />
out, there is usually another<br />
wanting to move in that is prepared<br />
to add new investment.<br />
When I asked about the direction<br />
future development should<br />
take, most merchants and local<br />
shoppers replied that the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
has the atmosphere of a<br />
small town and they would prefer<br />
to keep it that way. They like<br />
the new businesses that are<br />
opening up providing more<br />
competition and improved<br />
shopping.<br />
However, Camelot has its problems,<br />
chief among which are 1)<br />
inadequate police protection, 2)<br />
unnecessary parking limitations,<br />
and 3) heavy pass through traffic<br />
fantasy is certainly a genre that<br />
does this, but the manner in<br />
which I first came into reading sf<br />
and fantasy is a story all on its<br />
own," explains John Kahane. At<br />
age 8, John's father encouraged<br />
him to read The Hobbit by J.R.R.<br />
Tolkien (this was an experience<br />
unto itself, and propelled John<br />
into a realm of imaginative fiction<br />
that he hadn't known about before).<br />
After completing Lord of<br />
the Rings, it was recommended<br />
that John read Isaac Asimov's<br />
Foundation. This book directed<br />
John to a totally different genre<br />
of writing than the Tolkien, but<br />
one that had an oddly similar appeal...thus,<br />
John's passion for sf<br />
and fantasy began.<br />
Basilisk Dreams Books offers an<br />
inviting approach to their new location;<br />
upon entering the store,<br />
there is a reading area with a<br />
comfortable couch and a coffee<br />
table that holds some of the latest<br />
advance copies of books. As well,<br />
ers<br />
in rush hour. I will address the<br />
first problem.<br />
POLICE PROTECTION<br />
Where are the police in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>? Until a year ago Skate was<br />
the beat policeman assigned in<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong>. He made a point of getting<br />
to know the shop keepers in<br />
the community and what they<br />
wanted to do. He attended meetings<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Association<br />
(GCA) and wrote a column<br />
in this paper indicating<br />
trends and problems as they developed.<br />
In particular, he was<br />
able to control the verbally<br />
aggressive or inebriated pan<br />
handlers who can be a problem in<br />
the summer. He ensured as best<br />
he could that there was a rapid<br />
response to calls for assistance.<br />
Suddenly, he was transferred.<br />
The concern is that a replacement<br />
was not made to carry on<br />
the established community police<br />
work. Why not? We do not<br />
have answers. (Cst. Claude<br />
Cayer's pager is 566-1996. Ed.)<br />
Please let us know if you have<br />
any concerns arising from the<br />
business community and we will<br />
try to follow them up.<br />
Write to Bruce Donaldson c/o<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre.<br />
What a dilemma<br />
Cathy, the saleslady extraordinaire<br />
and sometimes manager of<br />
Dilemme is leaving. For many<br />
years, this hard working, knowledgeable,<br />
reliable lady who lives<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong> has gained many<br />
friends with her pleasant outgoing<br />
nature. She is returning to<br />
her native Saskatchewan and I'm<br />
sure you will join Dilemme in<br />
wishing her well and every good<br />
fortune.<br />
Filling her shoes will be a<br />
challenge. Résumés may b e<br />
dropped off to Bob at Dilemme at<br />
785 Bank Street (233-0445).<br />
Good-bye to Humpback<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> says good-bye to<br />
Humpback Nature Shoppe and<br />
wish Lee and Paula-Lyn Cleveland<br />
all the best in their future<br />
endeavours.<br />
explore the universe of science fiction<br />
you'll meet the resident dragon,<br />
Leopold. Knowledgeable staff are<br />
on hand to introduce you to the<br />
world of sf and fantasy if you're a<br />
newcomer; or to chat with you<br />
about new and upcoming releases.<br />
What's unique about Basilisk<br />
Dreams Books in our area?<br />
There's the BDB Readers' Circle<br />
that gets together at the store the<br />
last Wednesday night of each<br />
month to discuss a book that<br />
they've agreed to read before the<br />
meeting. Locus, the magazine of<br />
the field, is available by subscription<br />
at the store; and the<br />
BDB Frequent Buyer's Card has<br />
special discounts. To sum it up,<br />
BDB offers a wide selection in<br />
science fiction, fantasy, horror<br />
and children's literature, while<br />
at the same time, offering the<br />
possibility for children and<br />
younger readers to expand their<br />
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Regional Councillor's report<br />
During the campaign, Doug Mc-<br />
Keen asked me "where is all the<br />
money going?" He wanted to know<br />
where exactly his tax money was<br />
being spent -- suspecting, I<br />
think, there was a black hole that<br />
his hard-earned tax dollars were<br />
being poured down. Well, there<br />
are black holes around: City Hall<br />
is one of them. That renovation<br />
costs more than 6 million dollars<br />
every year. We could decorate<br />
every neighbourhood in the Region<br />
with a Plant Pool until the<br />
middle of the next century with<br />
that project. At the Region, I<br />
haven't been able to discover<br />
anything that is comparable to<br />
the city's renovation. Mostly, the<br />
story is a happy one. The region<br />
provides 85 percent of your municipal<br />
services, and takes 6 2<br />
percent of your taxes. These<br />
taxes are spent in the following<br />
way, per month:<br />
WHERE THE MONEY GOES:<br />
- $0.42 per month goes toward<br />
administration costs (cheaper<br />
than one issue of the Ottawa<br />
Citizen)<br />
$2.37 per month for daycare<br />
- $4.31 per month for garbage<br />
pickup (four cheap coffees, or two<br />
expensive coffees)<br />
$2.41 per month for Public<br />
Health<br />
$9.98 per month for clean<br />
water (less than the basic cable<br />
TV charge of $15.64 per month)<br />
- $1.41 per child per inoculation<br />
- $8.25 per month for sewers<br />
(the price for Cable Plus is approx.<br />
$27 per month)<br />
$2.58 per month for fire hydrants<br />
(14,000 fire hydrants<br />
checked every two weeks in winter)<br />
The big costs are police at $17<br />
per month; capital financing at<br />
$31.67 (that's for new roads--all<br />
in the suburbs, and road maintenance);<br />
$10.33 for transit; and<br />
$10.95 per month for community<br />
and social services (dental clinics<br />
for low-income seniors, old<br />
age homes, community health<br />
clinics, and social assistance<br />
programmes).<br />
These average monthly costs for<br />
regional services are calculated<br />
for a City of Ottawa resident who<br />
owns a $150,000 home.<br />
Since 1993, the region has reduced<br />
staff by 300 positions, absorbed<br />
73 million dollars in<br />
funding reductions from senior<br />
levels of government, cut 191<br />
million dollars from annual operating<br />
budget expenditures, and<br />
reduced debt by 66 million dollars.<br />
This year, virtually all the<br />
capital expenditures for the region<br />
will go towards maintaining<br />
our infrastructure. The only exceptions<br />
for 1998, at the moment,<br />
are the Hawthorne and Conroy<br />
Road widenings.<br />
So, Doug, I can't tell you<br />
whether or not there is a Santa<br />
Claus at 111 Lisgar, but there are<br />
a lot of hard-working elves. As<br />
I've toured my way through community<br />
health centres, which<br />
serve Centretown and Capital<br />
Ward, the employment resource<br />
centres, which help those on social<br />
assistance find work, walked<br />
laneways behind garbage trucks,<br />
By<br />
Councillor<br />
Clive<br />
Doucet<br />
stood in soup kitchens, talked<br />
with cops, bus drivers and Children's<br />
Aid workers, the thing<br />
that has impressed me over and<br />
over again is what a wonderful<br />
city we live in and how hard<br />
_people work to make it so. Taxes<br />
are never good news, but how they<br />
get spent, can be.<br />
REGIONAL BUDGET - 1998:<br />
In the upcoming budget deliberations,<br />
I will be doing the best<br />
that 1 can to ensure that we do not<br />
have a tax increase--but I will<br />
not do this on the back of those<br />
who can least afford it. If it<br />
comes down to a choice between a<br />
small tax increase and cutting<br />
away at bus tickets for those on<br />
social assistance who need these<br />
tickets to get to job training<br />
courses or job interviews--then I<br />
will vote for the small tax increase.<br />
This is not easy as I lcnow<br />
many of my constituents have<br />
seen their incomes decrease in<br />
the last few years.<br />
Right now, the choice that we<br />
are facing is a patchwork of on&<br />
time transition funding and borrowing<br />
from reserves to get us<br />
through internally to the next<br />
budget cyclewith the hope that<br />
the provincial government will<br />
change its mind and give us some<br />
relief for next year.<br />
SHARE THE SERVICES,<br />
SHARE THE TAXES:<br />
When the federal government<br />
downloaded responsibilities on<br />
the provinces, it also downloaded<br />
income tax points. It's time the<br />
province did the same thing for<br />
regional municipalities. The<br />
province collects many taxes from<br />
Ottawa-Carleton residents: gasoline,<br />
alcohol, house transfers, income<br />
taxtaxes that should help<br />
us carry civil society costs like<br />
health, welfare, and public<br />
transit.<br />
Let's reduce the property burden,<br />
reduce the tangle of shared<br />
costs and simply receive the appropriate<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> Questions<br />
Leaning's gleanings<br />
After my plea in the last issue<br />
to be asked more questions about<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong>, I had three questions<br />
thrown at me well no, delicately<br />
proffered and each of them was<br />
historical. Fortunately, there<br />
was a meeting on April 22 of the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Historical Society (which is<br />
open to anyone who finds the way<br />
to Ian McKercher's house on<br />
Fourth Avenue on the appointed<br />
evening.) Even more fortunate,<br />
John Leaning was there because<br />
he has a long memory and as a<br />
veteran architect probably knows<br />
more than anyone else about the<br />
buildings of the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
The first question came from<br />
Robert D. (Bob) Irvine, of Cobalt<br />
Avenue, who is part of the team<br />
planning for the centenary<br />
celebrations of First Avenue<br />
School. Another involved is<br />
neighbour Mary Kovacs. Strictly<br />
speaking, the centenary doesn't<br />
start until January 1999, because<br />
the first students came in a longago<br />
January. But from September<br />
a curriculum starts for presentday<br />
students to imagine, even<br />
relive, the 1890s.<br />
So, Bob Irvine asks, what was<br />
the world of First Avenue like in<br />
1898? How much settlement was<br />
there along Bank Street, or Esther<br />
as it had been called? Were there<br />
farmers' fields around?<br />
broad questions, because he is<br />
writing a paper for the students.<br />
He is doing more than that.<br />
Presumably as a form o f<br />
relaxation from his director's job<br />
at Natural Resources, he is<br />
remodelling his basement in the<br />
Lots of<br />
style of a general store of you've<br />
guessed it the 1890 period. He<br />
added, a little unnecessarily, that<br />
he is "fascinated with the 1890s."<br />
What could I say? I simply<br />
passed on to him the names of Ian<br />
McKercher and John Leaning.<br />
The next question came from<br />
Gordon Cullingham, of Clemow<br />
Avenue, who claimed he didn't<br />
know the answer. (He edits the<br />
Ottawa Historical Society<br />
newsletter, and is steeped in<br />
heritage knowledge, so I thought<br />
he was just testing me.) He asks<br />
whether, around the year 1912,<br />
before the automobile became a<br />
familiar monster, the houses on<br />
Clemow and elsewhere all had<br />
stables and coach-houses.<br />
Well, this one was literally up<br />
John Leaning's street, at the canal<br />
end of Third Avenue. Some of<br />
those houses were built in 1894-<br />
5, and he says parts of the<br />
foundations of old stables are<br />
still to be found in backyards, to<br />
the annoyance of gardeners. Most<br />
of such houses are east of Bank,<br />
but Jane Cape11 Stalker says there<br />
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Clyde<br />
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were stables behind her house at<br />
185 Fourth, and indeed our house<br />
(299 First, built in 1912) used to<br />
share what must have been a large<br />
coach-house.<br />
John Leaning can go one better<br />
than horses in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. He says<br />
that there was a cowshed in what<br />
was then a large garden alongside<br />
and behind 15 Third Avenue.<br />
(The extra lot is now taken up<br />
with an architect's dream<br />
numbered 13 1/2.) VVhen Blenda<br />
and John came to live opposite in<br />
the 1950s, number 15 was owned<br />
by an old man with a pronounced<br />
limp called Mr. Dowd, who had<br />
been mayor of Quyon. His<br />
parents had kept cows there, and<br />
grazed them along the canal bank,<br />
because the Driveway was not<br />
built until 1902.<br />
PRIZE FOR UNUSUAL ANIMAL<br />
My research assistant, Rafiki,<br />
has shown particular interest in<br />
this story about cows, and<br />
wonders what really unusual<br />
animals (unusual, that is, other<br />
than his own Jack Russell clan)<br />
have inhabited the <strong>Glebe</strong> in the<br />
past, or even today. So Rafiki and<br />
I have decided to offer the Dowd<br />
Memorial Prize for the Most<br />
Unusual Animal Known to have<br />
Inhabited the <strong>Glebe</strong>. Pet birds<br />
and insects will qualify, but not<br />
transient skunks. Entries (with a<br />
fairly full description) should be<br />
in to us before June 1, and the<br />
prize will be appropriate to the<br />
animal.<br />
Lastly, Mamie Levitt of Fourth<br />
Avenue has asked who were the<br />
early architects and builders of<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> homes, and would like to<br />
know something about the most<br />
prominent or prolific of them. To<br />
answer that fully, Mamie, will<br />
take another column which it will<br />
be fun to research. In the<br />
meantime, Katharine Fletcher's<br />
excellent book Capital Walks:<br />
Walking Tours of Ottawa<br />
mentions several: Moses Edey,<br />
Francis Sullivan, E. L Norwood,<br />
W. H. Watts, J. Albert Ewart (who<br />
designed First Avenue School)<br />
and of course the famous W. E.<br />
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LETTER FROM THE<br />
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EVERY DAY, ALMOST EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY, residents of<br />
Ottawa-Carleton benefit from regional government services. These<br />
services include everything from the water you drink to the Main<br />
roads on which you travel. They include your garbage and blue<br />
BOB CHIARELLI<br />
box collection, social assistance available to those in need, public<br />
transit and police services. They include the public health inspection of your favourite<br />
restaurants and the traffic signals that allow children to cross roads safely.<br />
These services are mostly paid for through your property taxes, with some funding<br />
from the provincial government. Your members of Regional Council are currently making<br />
important budget choices that reflect our changing responsibilities, but continue to meet<br />
the needs of Ottawa-Carleton residents and businesses. Our goal is to protect the services<br />
you value while keeping them affordable.<br />
The Region of Ottawa-Carleton is facing significant budget pressures due, in part,<br />
to increased costs for services such as land ambulances and social housing. With the<br />
addition of the new responsibilities, regional government now provides about 80%<br />
of all locally-delivered services in Ottawa-Carleton.<br />
The following articles are designed to help you better understand exactly what<br />
is provided by the Region of Ottawa-Carleton. Next month, watch for information<br />
about other regional services as well as highlights of Regional Council's final budget<br />
deliberations.<br />
Education<br />
REGIONAL SERVICES<br />
Existing Regional Services"<br />
(garbage and bluebox collection,<br />
public health, social services, longterm<br />
care, major roads, planning)<br />
OC Transpo<br />
(public transit, Para Transpo)<br />
I SPRING 1998 I<br />
Ottawa-Carleton Police<br />
(community policing, traffic control,<br />
victim services)<br />
AS DONNA LEWIS KNOWS<br />
ONLY TOO WELL, caring for an<br />
elderly parent especially one<br />
that requires 24-hour care and<br />
supervision is very hard work.<br />
And like any demanding job, you<br />
sometimes need a break.<br />
Donna found a way to take<br />
a break through a day program<br />
offered by the Senior's Day Centre<br />
at Carleton Lodge, one of three<br />
Homes for the Aged operated by<br />
the Region of Ottawa-Carleton.<br />
"The program is such a relief.<br />
It gives me time to do the things<br />
I need to do," says Donna. "I left<br />
my job to care for my mother<br />
full-time during the day. My sister<br />
cares for her at night. Before the<br />
day program, I had a hard time<br />
Lynn Han cock a member of Regional Staff<br />
getting things done."<br />
and Audrey Acton, a Carleton Club member<br />
While it helps Donna maintain<br />
at the Carleton Lodge.<br />
some balance in her life, the<br />
program also provides a positive<br />
environment for her mother. "It's<br />
not just good for me, it's good for HOMES FOR THE AGED<br />
my mother too. She absolutely<br />
The Region's three Homes for<br />
loves it. In fact, it's the only place<br />
the Aged provide<br />
institutionalized long-term care. The services<br />
she likes to go to right now.<br />
include: medicine, nursing, dietetics, therapeutic,<br />
Everyone knows her there; they social work, housekeeping, financial and spiritual<br />
make her feel special."<br />
support. Services are cost shared by the Province<br />
Lynn Hancock, the Centre's<br />
of Ontario and the Region of Ottawa-Carleton.<br />
program coordinator says that for To find out more about respite care services call:<br />
many caregivers of the elderly in<br />
Carleton Lodge, 825-3763, Highway 16 at<br />
Ottawa-Carleton, the Senior's Day<br />
Woodroffe Avenue, offers day programs.<br />
Centre at Carleton Lodge provides<br />
Island Lodge, 789-5100, Porter 's Island, offers<br />
a very good alternative to full-time<br />
alzheimers short stay respite programs.<br />
placement in a senior's home.<br />
Although a fee applies, it is<br />
Centre d'Accueil Champlain, 746-3543.<br />
in Vanier, offers day programs in French.<br />
minimal and affordable.<br />
"It would be very expensive<br />
to hire a caregiver to come to my<br />
home a few days a week to care for my mother while I went out," says Donna. "This day<br />
program is affordable."<br />
The Centre helps frail elderly and cognitively impaired seniors stay in the community.<br />
It provides respite for the caregiver, and enhances the physical, social and mental well<br />
being of the senior. It also assists in the transition from independent living to institutional<br />
care when necessary.<br />
Open five days a week, from 9:30 to 3:00, the program varies throughout the week<br />
to accommodate the needs of the seniors. Services offered include grooming, hygiene,<br />
health promotion, music, religious services, outings and special events.<br />
New Regional Services<br />
(social housing, ambulances, child<br />
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Local Municipality<br />
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for through the water bill<br />
Services paid for by your property tax bill.<br />
YOUR REGIONAL COUNCILLOR<br />
Clive Doucet<br />
Ward R17<br />
Capital<br />
Tel: 560-1224<br />
E-mail: doucetcl@rmoc.on.ca<br />
The Special Ice Storm Clean-up<br />
continues t Ottawa-Carleton.<br />
Regular bi-weekly leaf throug & hou yard collection resumes<br />
in early June. In the meantirne, depots have been set up to<br />
accept branches and leaf & yard waste.<br />
The following depots are open for your convenience:<br />
Bayview Snow Disposal Facility (Bayview St. North at Transitway)<br />
Clyde Avenue Snow DIsposat Facility (951 Clyde Ave)<br />
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REGION OF OTTAWA-CARLETON<br />
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IN MIKE MISKELL'S HOME IN<br />
CARLSBAD SPRINGS, a discussion<br />
about clean drinking water still brings<br />
out anecdotes and enthusiastic<br />
responses. Their sentiments are shared<br />
by many residents of Carlsbad Springs,<br />
where poor water quality and oftenlimited<br />
quantity had plagued the<br />
community for decades.<br />
Before the Region brought water<br />
to Carlsbad Springs last year,'<br />
immediately solving the community's<br />
long-standing water problems,<br />
wells frequently ran dry in the<br />
summer, and the water had a heavy<br />
sulphur taste.<br />
DRINKING WATER<br />
The Region provides drinking water to<br />
approximately 700,000 residents.<br />
Over 170,000 water tests are performed<br />
each year that confirm the high quality of<br />
our drinking water.<br />
Unlike many others in Canada, Ottawa-<br />
Carleton's system is entirely self-financed.<br />
Revenue, collected through the water bill,<br />
covers the cost of providing water today, and<br />
helps ensure adequate water quality and<br />
quantity for the future.<br />
"Regional water is a Godsend," says Miskell. Our standard of living has improved<br />
by an immeasurable amount. I've been living here since the 1960s, and we've always<br />
had variable (quality and quantity) water."<br />
Miskell says that a survey completed a decade ago found that only 26.5 per cent of<br />
the water in Carlsbad Springs was safe for drinking. According to the survey, 58.1 per<br />
cent was unsafe; the rest was drinkable but of a poor taste and quality.<br />
"It was a huge inconvenience. And it cost a lot of money. I used to spend as much<br />
on salt for my water conditioner as I do now for Regional water. Add to that the cost of<br />
constantly replacing fixtures that seized up because of mineral build-up."<br />
The Region solved the problem by engineering a feasible alternative, called the trickle<br />
feed system, designed to carry water over long distances. Residents have water storage<br />
reservoirs in their basement to ensure a constant supply of water. With regular household<br />
water use, the storage reservoir refills once or twice a day.<br />
IN THE WORLD OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT where time is money the<br />
Region of Ottawa-Carleton has an ace up its sleeve. It's called the one-stop planning<br />
approach to development.<br />
The Region recognizes that a streamlined process benefits economic development.<br />
This new business approach reflects the Region's desire to help companies develop in<br />
Ottawa-Carleton.<br />
"1 have never been on a project that has run as expeditiously and smoothly as this,"<br />
says Jeff Doll, project manager responsible for Nortel's 1.3 million square foot expansion<br />
project in the west-end.<br />
While all land development<br />
projects require approvals from several<br />
Regional departments and sometimes<br />
other levels of government<br />
projects of the magnitude and<br />
.complexity of Nortel's often involve<br />
more stages and, inevitably, more time.<br />
When Nortel announced the<br />
expansion project, the Region set up a<br />
Technical Advisory Committee which<br />
included approvals departments at<br />
different levels of government<br />
municipal, provincial, federal, NCC...<br />
"We were very favorable to this<br />
teaming approach," says Mr. Doll.<br />
"Site plan agreements got completed<br />
quicker, engineering plans were<br />
approved fast, and we always knew<br />
PLANNING AND<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
APPROVALS<br />
The Region's new Official Plan is a blueprint<br />
for development within Ottawa-Carleton to<br />
the year 2021. It includes provisions for<br />
the extensive infrastructure system which<br />
supports development:<br />
a transportation system that offers<br />
safe and efficient movement of people<br />
and goods<br />
major trunk sewers and treatment facilities<br />
the central water supply system including<br />
treatment, pumping, piping and storage<br />
faci I ities<br />
who to communicate with. yroblems were resolved before they became issues."<br />
The Region's one-stop approach makes approvals for development easier and faster<br />
for customers, says Regional Planning Commissioner, Nick Tunnacliffe. "Instead of going<br />
to one department for planning approvals, then to another for sewers and roads, every<br />
customer goes to one place only," he says.<br />
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Mike Miskell shows off his new drinking water system.<br />
EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD CHARLES BUTLER and his handicapped son Roy live in North<br />
Gower. During the ice stortn, the Butlers lost power but decided to stay at home;<br />
they could not find a suitable place to go that would accommodate their dog.<br />
In an effort to help Mr. Butler and his son, Regional staff telephoned their home<br />
frequently every two hours at times to ensure -they were doing well. They provided<br />
names of places that might be able to accommodate the Butlers, and their dog one<br />
eventually was found and requested help from the Red Cross, who shovelled out the<br />
driveway so they could leave when a suitable place was found.<br />
The Butlers were one of the<br />
many families in Ottawa-Carleton<br />
who received information and<br />
assistance from the 24-hour<br />
information centre. Most people<br />
calling were directed to emergency<br />
shelters, and assisted with transportation<br />
if required. Staff also<br />
ordered food from grocery stores<br />
in rural areas, ordered fuel for<br />
generators, and continually<br />
compiled lists to "call back" of sick<br />
and elderly people who wanted<br />
to stay in their homes.<br />
24 HOUR INFORMATION<br />
& SERVICE<br />
At the height of the January state of emergency,<br />
Regional staff handled 10,000 calls in a single<br />
day - up from 1,500 calls on a "normal" day.<br />
The Region of Ottawa-Carleton provides<br />
information & service to residents 24 hours per<br />
day, 365 days per year.<br />
If you know who to call, call them. If you don't,<br />
560-1335 operators can transfer calls directly to<br />
most local service providers.<br />
111 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, ON. K2P 2L7 www.rmoc.on.ca<br />
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FEATURE<br />
Guidelines for healthy gardeners<br />
BY DR. KEN BROUGH<br />
May flowers are on every gardener's<br />
mind. We will soon be<br />
diving our hands into warm earth<br />
and admiring our spring tulips<br />
basking in the sun.<br />
This year presents the great<br />
task of cleaning and repairing our<br />
trees and bushes left in the wake<br />
of the ice storm. This means that<br />
there will be extra heavy labour<br />
to be done. Therefore it is very<br />
important to take care of yourself<br />
and avoid any injury that may<br />
interfere with future gardening.<br />
The most common injury you<br />
may experience is lower back<br />
pain. Certain activities can cause<br />
or exacerbate this problem: improper<br />
lifting of heavy objects,<br />
such as bundled branches,<br />
twisting your torso without moving<br />
your legs and feet in the same<br />
direction, bending over for extended<br />
periods of time, pulling<br />
out roots without bending your<br />
knees, raking or hoeing for a<br />
prolonged period of time.<br />
The lower back may not be the<br />
only area affected by over-aggressive<br />
gardening. The upper<br />
back and neck can be strained as<br />
well. These injuries could be<br />
caused by over-extending yourself<br />
by stretching for a dead<br />
branch while working on an ice<br />
damaged tree. Neck injuries can<br />
arise from holding your neck or<br />
head in awkward positions for too<br />
long.<br />
START WITH STRETCHES<br />
There are easy ways to prevent<br />
these possible injuries. For those<br />
of us who remained dormant this<br />
winter it would be wise to begin<br />
gardening at a slower pace. Begin<br />
each gardening day with a series<br />
of stretches. Before you spring<br />
into action, make sure that your<br />
body is warmed up prior to your<br />
full day of lifting, digging,<br />
pulling and planting. Set small<br />
goals and a realistic time frame to<br />
get certain tasks done. You may<br />
want to organize a few neighbours<br />
and help each other with the<br />
heavier gardening duties.<br />
PLANT YOURSELF SQUARELY<br />
You must lift heavy objects<br />
properly to avoid back injuries.<br />
You must keep your back straight<br />
and upright. Bend your knees<br />
and use your leg muscles for<br />
lifting, not your back. You can<br />
use the same position for pulling<br />
out stubborn roots and weeds.<br />
Plant yourself squarely over the<br />
offending vegetation and pull<br />
with a straight back and bent<br />
knees.<br />
Both gardeners and plants need<br />
water to flourish. When you take<br />
frequent breaks from bending<br />
over and kneeling down combine<br />
it with a drink of water. This<br />
will hydrate your body and help<br />
you avoid sore and tired muscles<br />
at the end of the day. To ensure<br />
that you take frequent breaks,<br />
vary the work to be done during<br />
the day. This will ensure that<br />
you do not keep your body in the<br />
same position for extended periods<br />
of time.<br />
Three basic guidelines will<br />
help you be a healthier gardener.<br />
1. Take it easy. 2. Be consistent<br />
with your stretches. 3. Take<br />
breaks. Most of all enjoy yourself.<br />
Happy gardening!<br />
If you would like more information<br />
on gardening stretches<br />
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21 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 FEATURE<br />
Truly, madly,<br />
BY KAREN CARRIERE<br />
In the flower garden, gardeners<br />
have always favoured blue, especially<br />
true blue and deeper cobalt<br />
blue. These colours are valued<br />
because they are so rare. For<br />
pollination to occur, most flowers<br />
must contrast with the sky colour<br />
in order for insects to find them.<br />
Most so-called blue flowers of the<br />
plant kingdom are therefore<br />
tinted with red, resulting in<br />
purple-blues.<br />
True blues may clash in colour<br />
with the more common purpleblues.<br />
They do look great with<br />
orange, which is their complementary<br />
colour. Warm salmonpink,<br />
yellow, cream and white are<br />
attractive colour partners too.<br />
True blue appears in the exotic<br />
Himalayan blue poppy<br />
(Meconopsis betonicifolia).<br />
Cobalt blue is the colour of a<br />
February morning just before<br />
dawn, deep and cold. It is a very<br />
intense blue found in delphiniums<br />
and the alpine plant called<br />
gentian. Both true blue an d<br />
cobalt blue also appear in some<br />
bearded iris cultivars. If you can<br />
live with the short bloom period<br />
and disease-prone foliage of<br />
bearded iris, some award winning<br />
blue cultivars include Breakers,<br />
Victoria Falls, and<br />
Hills.<br />
Sapphire<br />
TRY BLUE PERENNIALS<br />
Beginner gardeners can ignore<br />
all the fussy or disease prone<br />
plants above and try a blue flowered<br />
perennial that is easier to<br />
grow. The following are relatively<br />
free of pests or disease and<br />
all bloom for at least a month.<br />
some are very new to this country.<br />
Drought tolerant Siberian bugloss<br />
(Brunnera macrophylla) is<br />
one of the first perennials to<br />
bloom in the spring. It has small<br />
true blue forget-me-not flowers.<br />
Large heart-shaped leaves emerge<br />
after the flowers. Good partners<br />
for Siberian bugloss in a partly<br />
shady spot include yellow narcissus<br />
or soft orange or yellow<br />
globeflowers (Trollius) and ferns.<br />
deeply blue<br />
Also for part shade, and<br />
blooming intermittently from<br />
spring to fall, is blue corydalis<br />
(Corydalis tlexuosa Blue Panda).<br />
Originating in the Panda Reserve<br />
of China's Sechuan Province, it<br />
was introduced to Canada only recently.<br />
This long-blooming plant<br />
is now being produced by tissue<br />
culture. It carries many tubular<br />
flowers of an unforgettably bril-<br />
liant blue on a small plant with<br />
fern-like leaves. It could be<br />
combined with blue-leaved hostas<br />
and white deadnettle (Lamium<br />
maculatum White Nancy).<br />
Veronica Peduncularis Georgia<br />
Blue, is a plant recently brought<br />
over from Soviet Georgia. It is<br />
also so new it doesn't even have a<br />
common name here yet. At about<br />
six inches high, it is smothered<br />
in tiny sky blue flowers in<br />
spring. It also prefers part<br />
shade.<br />
In full sun, the dainty sapphire<br />
flowers of blue flax (Linum<br />
perenne) will bloom all summer.<br />
The length of bloom, attractive<br />
foliage and drought tolerance<br />
make flax a worthy rock garden<br />
subject. Best grouped in clumps<br />
of at least three, flax can be contrasted<br />
boldly with salmon pink<br />
or orange poppies. or harmonized<br />
with sundrops (Oenothera missourensis).<br />
Perennial flax is<br />
easy to start from seed. Cutting<br />
flax back half-way in late summer<br />
will generate new growth at<br />
the base that should over-winter<br />
dependably.<br />
A few other good perennial<br />
blues to consider are houndstongue<br />
(Cynoglossum nervosum),<br />
perennial bachelor button<br />
(Centaurea montana), cowslip<br />
lungwort (Pulmonaria augustifolia),<br />
Hungarian speedwell Crater<br />
Lake Blue (Veronica teucrim),<br />
veronica Sunny Border Blue, spiderwort<br />
(Tradescantia x Blue<br />
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Breaking new ground<br />
BY MEREDITH OLSON<br />
What's a gardener to do with a<br />
spring like this - hot one day,<br />
freezing the next?<br />
Well, it's probably best to keep<br />
out of the back yard a little<br />
longer until it really warms up.<br />
In the meantime, a bit of planning<br />
- and displacement activity<br />
- will fill the bill.<br />
My sister, Patricia Mercer, and<br />
I recently did just that. We went<br />
around to shops in the <strong>Glebe</strong> -<br />
and were we inspired!<br />
Thorne & Co.: Here we were<br />
quickly drawn to the latest book<br />
by Patrick Lina - The Art of<br />
Perennial Gardening (Creative<br />
Ways with Hardy Flowers),<br />
$24.95. We both have his earlier<br />
book, The Harrowsmith Perennial<br />
Garden (Flowers for Three Sea-<br />
sons), $19.95. Both books are<br />
lavishly illustrated and a source<br />
of inspiration.<br />
Another book with good ideas is<br />
Water Features for Small Gardens<br />
by Francesca Greenoak ($22.95).<br />
We could almost hear the soothing<br />
sounds of splashing water.<br />
We also saw my sister's current<br />
favourite - Creative Containers<br />
(Inventive Ideas for Pots, Windowboxes<br />
and Hanging Baskets),<br />
$22.95. It has some super ideas<br />
in it that fit right in with gardening<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>'s small spaces.<br />
Linda Thorne recommended The<br />
Gardener's Encyclopedia of Plants<br />
and Flowers (A Comprehensive<br />
Guide to More than 8,000 Trees,<br />
Shrubs, Vines, Flowers, Foliage<br />
and Water Plants, and Cacti and<br />
Succulents), $59.95. If this book<br />
doesn't answer a lot of your<br />
questions, I don't know what will.<br />
Far East Shop:<br />
Here we found<br />
books on Bonsai and Japanese<br />
gardens. Enhance Your Garden<br />
with Japanese Plants (A Practical<br />
Sourcebook) by Judy Glattstein<br />
($38.95) has lots of text and<br />
hones in on individual pictures<br />
that are favourites to create the<br />
Japanese effect<br />
For pure enjoyment, try The<br />
Japanese Garden (Islands of<br />
Serenity), photographs by Haruzo<br />
Ohasi ($45.95). This is a<br />
breathtaking look at mature<br />
Japanese gardens.<br />
Book Bazaar: Here we found<br />
seven shelves of gardening books,<br />
ranging from old standbys to<br />
nearly new books. One I liked<br />
was Great Gardens of Britain by<br />
Graham Stuart Thomas ($30). The<br />
book features original drawings<br />
and plans and present day photos<br />
of some renowned gardens. A<br />
perfect companion to a garden<br />
tour of England.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Book Shop: Here we<br />
found a small, but choice, selection.<br />
Trie Sunroom Gardener (A<br />
Practical Guide to Growing Plants<br />
in Sunrooms, Atriums and Conservatories),<br />
Anne Swithinbank<br />
($34.94), looked like a most useful<br />
book for those lucky people<br />
with sunrooms.<br />
A small, beautiful book also<br />
caught my eye - A Painter's Garden<br />
(Cultivating the Creative<br />
Life), Christine Walker ($22.95).<br />
It features the author's musings<br />
on life and some of her paintings<br />
are reproduced. It seemed like a<br />
wonderful gift for a gardener/artist.<br />
J. Patrick McGahern Books:<br />
Here, I was attracted to The New<br />
York Botanical Garden (An Illustrated<br />
Chronicle of Plants and<br />
People), Ogden Tanner and Adele<br />
Auchincloss ($22.95). It shows<br />
just what you can do when you<br />
have friends like Vanderbilt,<br />
Carnegie and Morgan. The New<br />
York Botanical Garden is a centre<br />
of horticultural wonders, a living<br />
laboratory and a school. Look at<br />
this book before a trip to New<br />
York.<br />
Puggwash: In this children's<br />
bookstore, I found Gardening with<br />
Pooh (Poems, Planting Pointers<br />
and Flower Seeds For Planting<br />
With Your Little Ones). This<br />
book is just what you need for<br />
hands-in-the-dirt grubbing about<br />
with your little ones.<br />
Book Room: Next to the Post<br />
Office, this new shop has a small<br />
gardening section. Martha Stewart's<br />
Gardening (Month by<br />
Month), $20, caught my eye. If<br />
you can resist being too envious<br />
of her six acre "place in the<br />
country," then you would find<br />
this an inspiration.<br />
Prime Crime Mystery<br />
Bookstore: For those for whom<br />
gardening is a bit of a mystery,<br />
there is still hope - Brother Cadfael's<br />
Herb Garden (An Illustrated<br />
Companion to Medieval<br />
Plants and Their Uses) by Rob<br />
Talbot and Robin Whitman<br />
($39.95). This book explores<br />
early monastic gardens and their<br />
importance in healing - a beautiful<br />
book.<br />
Great inspiration for <strong>Glebe</strong> gardeners.<br />
Yours might be different,<br />
but I'm sure it would be just as<br />
much fun.
ARTS<br />
Art in the Park - now we are six<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 22<br />
BY ELLEN SCHOWALTER<br />
Originated six years ago by<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> artist Bhat Boy with the aim<br />
of building a cohesive local arts<br />
community, Art in the Park has<br />
grown each year to become a notto-be-missed<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> event. Art in<br />
the Park provides a cooperative,<br />
non-profit, accessible venue for<br />
emerging and established artists<br />
and craftspeople to exhibit and<br />
sell their work.<br />
Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m.<br />
to 4 p.m. (rain date June 7) approximately<br />
100 painters,<br />
sculptors, potters, jewellers and<br />
musicians will gather in Central<br />
Park (off Bank St. between Clemow<br />
and Patterson.) This year we are<br />
especially pleased to be sharing<br />
the park with the Peace and Environment<br />
Resource Centre's 13th<br />
annual Social Action Walk and<br />
information fair, "Growing a<br />
Strong Community." Registration<br />
for the walk begins at 10 a.m.<br />
Registration forms for Art in<br />
the Park are available at the main<br />
desk of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre. Deadline for registration<br />
is June 1, and an information<br />
meeting for participants is<br />
scheduled on Wednesday, May 6,<br />
at 7 p.m. in the Centre. For further<br />
information, please call 230-<br />
9990.<br />
Come celebrate the arts, peace<br />
and the environment in beautiful<br />
Central Park. Admission is free.<br />
Musical salute to spring - May 30<br />
Do you know that Ottawa's<br />
newest community choir, MUSICA<br />
VIVA SINGERS, is based in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> and Old Ottawa South?<br />
Founded only a year ago, Musica<br />
Viva Singers will present its first<br />
spring concert on Saturday, May<br />
30th at 8 p.m. at <strong>Glebe</strong>-St. James<br />
United Church, First Avenue and<br />
Lyon Street. Music director of<br />
the group is Brian Cameron.<br />
The 45-member choir has been<br />
working hard since January<br />
preparing a rich blend of music.<br />
Entitled Another Bloomin' Concert!<br />
a Musical Salute to Spring,<br />
the program promises to be<br />
eclectic, united by three themes.<br />
Of course, love songs will figure<br />
prominently Stand by Me, Sing<br />
Me to Heaven, Out There (from<br />
The Hunchback of Notre Dame)<br />
and Connie Kaldor's Wood River.<br />
Folksong favourites will also appear<br />
on the program: Danny Boy,<br />
The Ash Grove and The Dark-Eyed<br />
Sailor. A third theme weaving the<br />
evening together will be the wonder<br />
of the world around us:<br />
Samuel Barber's Sure on this<br />
Seventeen Voyces choral concert<br />
BY KEVIN REEVES<br />
Ottawa's chamber choir, Seventeen<br />
Voyces, gives its last performance<br />
of the season at St.<br />
Matthew's Church this month.<br />
Excerpts from Restoration<br />
Opera of the late 17th century by<br />
Henry Purcell and his contemporaries<br />
will feature many of the<br />
soloists which comprise Seventeen<br />
Voyces. Familiar songs such<br />
as Dido's Lament and I Attempt<br />
from Love's Sickness to Fly will<br />
be heard alongside tunes not so<br />
familiar but equally as beautiful.<br />
The theme of this concert is<br />
based on Love<br />
including all of<br />
its various and sundry conditions<br />
which are conducive to spring;<br />
(there are at least four Cupids<br />
and one Bacchus taking part).<br />
Seventeen Voyces will be accompanied<br />
by a string quartet, made<br />
up of such Ottawa luminaries as<br />
cellist Julian Armour, as well as<br />
harpsichordist Tom Annand. The<br />
guest narrator is Reverend<br />
Désirée Stedman, Rector of St.<br />
Matthew's Church, and the director<br />
is Kevin Reeves.<br />
Shining Night, as well as two<br />
contemporary compositions written<br />
by young Vermont composers<br />
in the Sacred Harp style Big Sky<br />
and Endless Light.<br />
Musica Viva is pleased to have<br />
as guest artists jazz saxophonist<br />
Rob Frayne and pianist Jane<br />
Perry. Rob is an instructor at<br />
Carleton University, and is a<br />
member of the popular group<br />
Chelsea Bridge. Jane is a recent<br />
graduate of the Master of Music<br />
program at the University of Ottawa.<br />
She is developing a reputation<br />
as both a sensitive accompanist<br />
and piano soloist.<br />
Tickets for Another Bloomin'<br />
Concert are $8 for adults, $5 for<br />
students and children. Advance<br />
tickets are available from choir<br />
members and from Compact Music<br />
(Bank Street). Tickets will also<br />
be available at the door on May<br />
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first spring concert. We hope you<br />
will come and enjoy an evening of<br />
fine music.<br />
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on Sunday, May 24 at St.<br />
Matthew's Church (<strong>Glebe</strong> Ave. just<br />
west of Bank). Tickets, $15 for<br />
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23 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 ARTS<br />
Tiles to withstand the test of weather and time<br />
BY JUDY PEACOCKE<br />
Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau, past<br />
president of the Ottawa Guild of<br />
Potters and teacher at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre, has recently<br />
completed a tour de force of more<br />
than one thousand tiles that will<br />
decorate the exterior of the new<br />
Iranian Ambassador's residence<br />
in Rockliffe. Like a jewelled<br />
necklace, a frieze of 13-inch<br />
square tiles will be set high on<br />
each outside wall.<br />
In addition there are four murals.<br />
Three of these will be on<br />
the outside walls of an exterior,<br />
hexagonal stairwell where dramatic<br />
2 1/2-metre high tiled<br />
panels with a central diamondshaped<br />
area banded in goldcoloured<br />
metal, will alternate<br />
with walls of windows.<br />
The colours and designs are<br />
traditionally Persian. The<br />
colours are those of the crayon<br />
box: black, white, red, green,<br />
blue, yellow, turquoise and<br />
brown. The shine of the glazes<br />
captures and reflects the light.<br />
The designs are of intricate knotwork<br />
for mandalas, french curves<br />
and swirls derived from arabic<br />
writing that have evolved over the<br />
centuries, into paisley-like<br />
designs on the murals, and<br />
repeating geometric forms<br />
derived from traditional symbols<br />
for the frieze. The design<br />
elements are outlined in deep<br />
black.<br />
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much for the eye to take in on the<br />
first viewing of this historical<br />
method of architectural embellishment<br />
Looking at the finished product<br />
it is not hard to imagine that<br />
much labour went into it but the<br />
true story is a labour of Hercules,<br />
requiring herculean strength to<br />
lift boxes of tiles weighing 50<br />
pounds.<br />
Architect Gord Lorimer of<br />
Barry J. Hobin and Associates<br />
and World Mosaic owner Elaine<br />
Nikiforuk planned t h e<br />
installation.<br />
While Carolynne was fine-tuning<br />
the design, her husband,<br />
Hugh, tested what conditions the<br />
final product could withstand.<br />
Going to the country - paintings by Gary Nichol<br />
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Photo: Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau<br />
Carolynne used ready-made tiles<br />
that would withstand freezing,<br />
thawing and the perils of the<br />
Ottawa climate.<br />
The large tiles only just fitted<br />
into the kiln with a quarter of an<br />
inch to spare. With two kilns in<br />
her studio, Carolynne thought<br />
that she could swing into fullscale<br />
production, but, like Hercules,<br />
the fates conspired against<br />
her. One older kiln cooled down<br />
unevenly after firing, causing the<br />
tiles to crack. She lost 30 tiles.<br />
Disaster! Only one kiln could be<br />
used. "But it let me get on with<br />
my Christmas orders and other<br />
commitments in the older kiln,"<br />
she said, philosophically.<br />
But how to hand paint intricate<br />
designs in many colours on over a<br />
BY THOMAS MANN<br />
He said he was going to the<br />
country and he said he'd be back.<br />
He kept his word. Gary Nichol's<br />
second exhibition of paintings<br />
are on view at Irene's Pub to May<br />
16.<br />
Irene Corey, owner of Irene's<br />
Restaurant and Pub, near Bank<br />
and Fifth, is no stranger to the<br />
arts community in her neighbourhood.<br />
Poetry nights, play<br />
readings, blues and new age sessions,<br />
you name it, she's part of<br />
the action. She often provides her<br />
pub at no charge for visual artists<br />
to showcase their work. The ambience<br />
carries a nonchalance that<br />
makes the viewing not only pleasant<br />
but just plain fun.<br />
Gary Nichol, who started<br />
painting three years ago after a<br />
satisfying career as an independent<br />
film producer, lives in<br />
Combermere. He has drawn on his<br />
Polish heritage to paint this rural<br />
community with enthusiasm. His<br />
colours are delicious, his subjects<br />
plain.<br />
TVO's Studio Two is doing a<br />
thousand tiles? The design was<br />
silk-screened on to the tiles that<br />
had a repeating design using a<br />
rich black ink.<br />
Carolynne, aided by local<br />
artists Maureen O'Neill (her sister-in-law),<br />
Alice Hinther and<br />
Joan Massey, gave life to the tiles<br />
by drizzling on the heavy glazes,<br />
like honey from a honey dibber.<br />
"In the beginning, I resented<br />
the project - it was so difficult,"<br />
said Carolynne. "But once the<br />
bugs were ironed out I loved it -<br />
it was such a calm thing to do in<br />
the winter on the diningroom<br />
table - looking out the window<br />
and listening to books on tape."<br />
As to how the project affected<br />
her future artistic direction,<br />
Carolynne said, "I liked the intense<br />
colours, the jewel-like<br />
shades of earthenware colours<br />
(low temperature firing glazes).<br />
The light bounces around in them.<br />
I felt really let down when the<br />
men came to take away the finished<br />
tiles. It was such an intense<br />
focus. I had no desire to<br />
make pots."<br />
I remembered that Carolynne<br />
had told me that, when she was a<br />
child, her grandfather had predicted<br />
that she would be an<br />
artist Did she feel that this was<br />
one of her artistically creative<br />
high points? She replied humbly<br />
that it was not The artistry was<br />
thousands of years old from Iran;<br />
she was just the applicator.<br />
Would she undertake such a<br />
project again? She replied, "I can<br />
hardly wait"<br />
Photo: Thomas Mann<br />
Artist Gary Nichol<br />
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Nichol's works to an even larger<br />
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don't forget to take in an art show<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 24<br />
Dealing with allergies<br />
BY CLAUDIA MCKEEN, B. SC. PHM.<br />
Seasonal allergies are the most<br />
common type of allergic reaction.<br />
An allergy is a specific reaction<br />
of the immune system to a usually<br />
harmless substance, one that does<br />
not bother most people.<br />
People with allergies are<br />
usually sensitive to more than<br />
one substance. Food, dust particles<br />
and dust mites, medicines,<br />
insect venom, mold spores or<br />
pollen may cause allergic reactions.<br />
The immune system is the<br />
body's defence against harmful<br />
microorganisms such as bacteria<br />
and viruses. However, in case of<br />
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to a false alarm. When an<br />
allergic person first comes into<br />
contact with an allergen, his (her)<br />
immune system mistakes the<br />
substance for an hostile attacker<br />
and mobilizes for defence. It produces<br />
special proteins that recognize<br />
the allergen and attach to<br />
it, as an indicator. The immune<br />
system then signals release of the<br />
powerful chemical agents to destroy<br />
the attacker, however the<br />
target of this attack is the body<br />
itself. This attack produces an<br />
allergic reaction with symptoms<br />
that include sneezing, runny or<br />
clogged nose, coughing, itching<br />
eyes, itching nose and throat,<br />
watering eyes and conjunctivitis.<br />
Three main strategies to deal<br />
with allergies are: avoidance of<br />
the allergen, taking medication to<br />
relieve symptoms, and allergy<br />
shots. Although no cure for allergies<br />
has yet been found, one of<br />
these strategies or a combination<br />
Will you or someone you know<br />
have a preterm baby this year?<br />
Can preterm birth be prevented?<br />
If you don't know the answers to<br />
these questions, you are not<br />
alone. A new regional Preterm<br />
Birth Prevention Program called<br />
REACH, REACT, RESPOND started<br />
in April aimed at all pregnant<br />
women, their partners, their<br />
families, their employers, their<br />
health care providers and the<br />
general community.<br />
"We think about 30-50% of prematurity<br />
is preventable," says<br />
Dr. Paula Stewart, a community<br />
health consultant and chair of the<br />
community-based Preterm Birth<br />
Prevention Program. "Unfortunately,<br />
so much of the work and<br />
resources in the past years have<br />
been directed only at women who<br />
were thought to be at risk, that we<br />
missed a large group of women<br />
who have preterm babies. This<br />
new community program is aimed<br />
at every person in the<br />
community."<br />
The focus of the program is to<br />
make our community aware that<br />
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is more common than most people<br />
realize. Early recognition of<br />
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We still have the early<br />
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Preventing preterm birth<br />
nity we know that some women<br />
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- are having their first baby<br />
have had a premature baby<br />
before<br />
- are carrying more than one<br />
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are smokers<br />
are underweight<br />
- are not getting enough healthy<br />
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have a lot of stress in their<br />
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- have a vaginal or bladder infection<br />
have had a previous abortion<br />
Ask your health care provider<br />
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LABOUR?<br />
Signs are: a sudden gush or a<br />
constant slow leak of fluid from<br />
the vagina, bleeding from the<br />
vagina, contractions of the uterus,<br />
or a change in what you normally<br />
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25 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 HEALTH<br />
Save yourself from the sun<br />
From the Registered Nurses<br />
Association of Ontario<br />
For thousands of years, human<br />
beings have been protected from<br />
much of the sun's harmful ultraviolet<br />
radiation (UV) by a layer of<br />
ozone which surrounds the Earth.<br />
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Consider your skin type. If you<br />
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27 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 SPORTS<br />
Ottawa Centre Minor Hockey Association -1997-98 in review<br />
BY LYNDA RIVINGTON<br />
The Ottawa Centre Minor<br />
Hockey Association (OCMHA) just<br />
finished one of its most successful<br />
seasons.<br />
Headquartered at Brewer Arena<br />
and run entirely by volunteers,<br />
District 6 of the OCMHA provides<br />
children age 5-17 living in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>, Old Ottawa South and Centretown<br />
with house league hockey<br />
from September to April. Registration<br />
this year remained about<br />
the same as last year with 264<br />
players compared to 269 last<br />
year.<br />
The fall Rink Rat Newsletter<br />
headline Watch Out District 6<br />
Here They Come! proved to be<br />
right on the mark. Ten OC teams<br />
made the playoffs, five reached<br />
the finals and three were District<br />
6 champions. In the City of<br />
Ottawa Tournament the grand<br />
finale where 171 teams in seven<br />
divisions played all across<br />
Ottawa over two weekends again,<br />
five OC teams reached the finals<br />
with one bringing a championship<br />
home.<br />
Here is an overview of how the<br />
teams fared.<br />
MIDGETS (16-17)<br />
Described as the "awesome<br />
Midgets," the two OC teams<br />
played in a 16-team city-wide<br />
league where they finished first<br />
and third in the standings.<br />
Rumours abounded that OC's two<br />
teams were stacked but how do<br />
you stack both teams?<br />
The first place team, coached by<br />
Terry Dunlap and John Loop,<br />
reached the final playoff game<br />
only to be forced to forfeit because<br />
they had the time wrong by<br />
an hour. However, the OCMHA<br />
still considers the Dunlap/Loop<br />
team the "real" midget champions.<br />
Coached by Geoff Davidson and<br />
Bob Monaghan, the second midget<br />
team finished third in the city,<br />
lost the first game of the playoffs<br />
in a shoot-out, but then went on<br />
to the finals in the City of Ottawa<br />
tournament<br />
Good news for 17-year-olds<br />
moving out of this division a juvenile<br />
team for next year is under<br />
consideration. Stay tuned!<br />
BANTAMS (14-15)<br />
The Voyageurs, coached by veterans<br />
Peter Mossop and Murray<br />
Wilson, not only captured the<br />
district bantam championship in<br />
a shoot-out but went on to five<br />
straight wins to become the City<br />
of Ottawa tournament A champions.<br />
Two championships in a week<br />
a team and a year to remember<br />
for those players and coaches!<br />
Coached by Hugh Trudeau, Sam<br />
Hargadon and Ken Gardner, the<br />
0C2 team made it to the semi-finals<br />
in the playoffs only to lose<br />
in a shoot-out. Out of all the<br />
bantams teams in the District,<br />
they finished in fourth place in<br />
playoff position.<br />
PEEWEES (12-13)<br />
Guided by coaches David Prime,<br />
Bruce Little, Ian MacMillan and<br />
Steve Layton, the Hammerheads<br />
finished first in the league and<br />
reached both the semi-finals in<br />
the district championships and<br />
the finals in the City of Ottawa<br />
tournament<br />
City and District Bantam Champions 1997-98 Front Owen Boums, Matt Webb, Graham Long, Chris Wilson,<br />
Neil Jansen, Josh Clipperton, Michael Domanski, Ned Hollinworth, Karen Dickey, James Diak, Davidson<br />
Wright. Back: Peter Mossop (coach), Matthew Mossop, Michael Bujold, Ross Dance, Daniel Saliba, Murray<br />
Wilson (coach), Nick MacNutt.<br />
The 0C2 team, coached by John<br />
Keogh, Lorne Abugov and Peter<br />
Fowler, ended the season on a<br />
very positive note by making the<br />
semi-finals on the A side of the<br />
City of Ottawa tournament<br />
The Lasers, under the tutelage<br />
of John Couse, Rob Marriner, Rob<br />
Paterson and Bill McCauley,<br />
ended up fifth in the league<br />
standings, just missing the<br />
playoffs by one point. They won<br />
the Cumberland A tournament<br />
and the B side of the Brewer tournament<br />
ATOMS (10-11)<br />
The district atom playoff final<br />
was a nail-biter with two OC<br />
teams vying for the championship<br />
trophy.<br />
The Snipers, coached by Chris<br />
Brown, Bob Erwin, Jim Molnar and<br />
Ken Johnson, won the championship<br />
in a shoot-out over the Red<br />
Army, guided by Mordy Bubis,<br />
Jan Ahuja, Glenn Barr, Don<br />
Cameron and Simon McInnes. The<br />
playoff results reversed the<br />
league standings where the Red<br />
Army finished first and the<br />
Snipers second.<br />
The Gunners, trained by<br />
Richard Lamothe, David Moir, Bob<br />
Smith, Liz Wilson and Leslie<br />
Glover, came on strong in the second<br />
half of the season winning<br />
seven of their last nine games to<br />
finish fifth in the district, just<br />
missing the playoffs by one point.<br />
Coached by Brian and Owen<br />
Boums, Bart St. John-Smith and<br />
Doug Breithaupt, the Strikers<br />
reached the A finals in the<br />
Brewer tournament. They also<br />
lucked into playing another OC<br />
team at the Corel Centre where<br />
they came from behind to tie the<br />
game.<br />
NOVICES (8-9)<br />
Paul Bourque, Alan Rottenberg,<br />
Gary Caitlin, Craig White and<br />
Steve Culley took the Novice B<br />
Power Play team to a win in the<br />
Brewer tournament, second place<br />
in the league standings and on to<br />
the district semi-finals and the<br />
City of Ottawa tournament finals.<br />
This team also won an exciting<br />
exhibition game at the Corel<br />
Centre against Leitrim.<br />
Coached by Cal MacWilliam,<br />
Peter Dubois, Howard Mann and<br />
David Knox, the Novice C2 team<br />
placed first in the league, won the<br />
Novice C district championship<br />
and made the finals in the City of<br />
Ottawa Tournament only to lose in<br />
overtime.<br />
Under the watchful eye of John<br />
Harris, Kevin Figley and Sam<br />
Lentini, the Novice C Hurricanes<br />
made the playoff semi-finals with<br />
a third place finish in the overall<br />
standings and won the Russell<br />
Novice C tournament<br />
The Novice C Panthers, coached<br />
by Nick Polychronopoulos, Tim<br />
Bolger, Carman Baggaley, Glenn<br />
Boustead, Gerry Gaetz and Jules<br />
Audet, began the season with no<br />
previous team experience but developed<br />
their skills well and were<br />
very enthusiastic. They ended the<br />
season by almost winning their<br />
second City of Ottawa Tournament<br />
game and almost making it to the<br />
next level! Watch for these players<br />
next year!<br />
INITIATION (5-7)<br />
The highlight for the 36 eager<br />
young initiation players was the<br />
first annual Timbits Jamboree<br />
hosted by Tim Hortons in March<br />
at the Corel Centre. The ice was<br />
divided in three parts and six<br />
teams played mini-games all at<br />
the same time. Imagine the Corel<br />
Centre ice filled with hundreds of<br />
little Timbits hockey players!<br />
This group was instructed by<br />
John Harris, Chris Brown, Benoit<br />
Lahaie, Joe Jeffrey, Jacques<br />
Benoit, Jeff Nankivell, Kevin<br />
Figley, Steve Priddle, David Rabinovitch,<br />
Jeff Crepin and Jim<br />
Thompson.<br />
SPONSORS<br />
The OCMHA would not be a success<br />
without the generosity of the<br />
following sponsors:<br />
Artech Studios, Bell Canada,<br />
Monica Dingle wins<br />
A.C.T. Sports<br />
Award for sailing<br />
Monica place seventh at<br />
the world youth sailing<br />
championships and second<br />
at the Canadian youth<br />
championships.<br />
Photo: Roger Lalonde, City<br />
of Ottawa. Monica Dingle<br />
(1.) with Councillor Berg.<br />
Photo: John Dance<br />
Benjamin Books, Bestcan Home<br />
Renovations, Boomerang Kids,<br />
Capital Parking, Cognos, Deloitte<br />
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REFEREES<br />
This season, to ease the load of<br />
Keith Willis, referee-in-chief,<br />
our refs are now scheduled by the<br />
district, while Keith continues to<br />
mentor our own home-grown refs.<br />
OCMHA referees and linesmen<br />
included: Keith Willis, Sean<br />
Blake, James Diak, Sean Dunlap,<br />
Graham Longair, Todd Willis,<br />
Chris Wilson, Nick Wilson, Graham<br />
Long, Ross Dance, Tim Clark,<br />
Robin Edwards and Dan Metcalfe.<br />
LOOKING AHEAD<br />
The OCMHA is dedicated to<br />
teaching children hockey skills,<br />
good sportsmanship and how to<br />
play as part of a team. Children<br />
can start playing house league<br />
hockey at any age. Usually they<br />
start at the younger end. However,<br />
two Bantam-age players only<br />
started hockey this year and another<br />
began just last year one of<br />
the nicer aspects of house league<br />
hockey.<br />
For players and parents who<br />
want a more intensive and competitive<br />
environment, the OCMHA<br />
feeds into the East Ottawa Vanier<br />
Voyageurs competitive program.<br />
The OCMHA is already planning<br />
next year's season! Anyone interested<br />
in volunteering please<br />
call Tony Clark, president, at<br />
233-6731. In addition, there are<br />
still a couple of positions on the<br />
executive open for next year.
I<br />
NEWS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 28<br />
Ottawa-Carleton District<br />
school trustee report<br />
JUNIOR<br />
KINDERGARTEN<br />
I am pleased to report that on<br />
April 27 the board voted to reinstate<br />
the Junior Kindergarten<br />
program throughout its jurisdiction.<br />
This decision will not be<br />
affected by current budget deliberations.<br />
Registration is underway.<br />
Parents should contact<br />
schools directly or phone the<br />
OCDSB planning office at 596-<br />
8780 or 596-8258.<br />
THE 1998-1999 BUDGET<br />
The province now controls<br />
education spending and local<br />
school boards have lost the right<br />
to raise taxes locally. The OCDSB<br />
is facing significant reductions<br />
over the next four years. The<br />
impact for the 1998-1999 school<br />
year is a reduction of $39 million<br />
i.e. 7% of the budget.<br />
The staff-recommended budget<br />
for 1998-1999 allows all our<br />
regular day schools to remain<br />
open. It maintains regular day<br />
school programs, including special<br />
education, alternative and<br />
immersion programs, for students<br />
aged 4 to 21. However, staff have<br />
recommended cuts in many other<br />
categories. Over 600 non-teaching<br />
staff positions will be lost There<br />
are proposed reductions in adult<br />
education, continuing education,<br />
custodial and maintenance services,<br />
and central and school<br />
administration, among other areas.<br />
Staff are also recommending<br />
the elimination of funding for the<br />
MacSkimming and Bill Mason<br />
Outdoor Education centres, the<br />
extracurricular creative arts program<br />
and the Central Choir. There<br />
are no funds for major school renovations.<br />
It is important to note that, under<br />
the new provincial funding<br />
formula, another $40 million will<br />
be taken out of Ottawa-Carleton's<br />
public education system over the<br />
next four years. These cuts will<br />
'definitely mean the closing of<br />
schools and the elimination or<br />
downsizing of many regular dayschool<br />
programs and services,<br />
including those for students with<br />
special needs. I am very concerned<br />
about the impact of government<br />
downsizing on our public<br />
education system and I support<br />
initiatives which advocate on behalf<br />
of our students. In this regard,<br />
I appreciate the efforts of<br />
Regional Councillor Clive Doucet<br />
in promoting a dialogue between<br />
trustees and regional councillors<br />
to address common issues.<br />
Trustees have until May 25 to<br />
debate and approve the 1998-<br />
1999 budget, before it is submitted<br />
to the province. Copies of the<br />
staff-recommended budget can be<br />
obtained from our headquarters<br />
at 133 Greenbank Road or from<br />
the former Ottawa Board of<br />
Education headquarters at 330<br />
Gilmour Street. Check the OCDSB<br />
web site at www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca<br />
for an overview of the budget and<br />
information on public meetings.<br />
You can also call the 24-hour automated<br />
information line at 239-<br />
2462.<br />
PRINCIPALS AND VICE-<br />
PRINCIPALS<br />
The province's Bill 160 required<br />
principals and vice-prin-<br />
By<br />
Lynn<br />
Graham<br />
cipals to decide, by March 31,<br />
between continuing in their positions<br />
but ceasing to be members<br />
of the teaching federation or giving<br />
up their positions and remaining<br />
as members of the federation<br />
by returning to the classroom<br />
as teachers. Almost all<br />
principals and most secondary<br />
vice-principals decided to continue<br />
in their current roles. Many<br />
elementary vice-principals<br />
elected to return to teaching for<br />
job security reasons; however,<br />
most of this group indicated a<br />
willingness to return to the role<br />
of vice-principal as positions are<br />
assured. This is good news as the<br />
OCDSB will continue to benefit<br />
from the experience and<br />
knowledge of these individuals.<br />
STUDENT REPRESENTATION<br />
The voice of students is heard<br />
at all standing committee and<br />
board meetings. For instance,<br />
Hilary Clark, a student at <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Collegiate, is a member of the<br />
human resources committee. Paul<br />
Hankes-Drielsma, Lisgar student<br />
and Capital Ward resident, is a<br />
member of the business services<br />
and budget committees and Karen<br />
McVie, from South Carleton High<br />
School, is the student "trustee"<br />
on the board. While they cannot<br />
present motions or vote, they<br />
fully participate in all<br />
discussions. Congratulations!<br />
1998 - 1999 SCHOOL YEAR<br />
Tuesday, September 1 will be<br />
the first day of school and June<br />
25, 1999 will be the last day.<br />
The Winter and March breaks will<br />
be December 21, '98 through<br />
January 1, '99 and March 15<br />
through 19 respectively.<br />
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Please let me have your comments<br />
and questions. Lynn<br />
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Mutchmor School News<br />
Basketball tounament reports<br />
By Jessica Vickery & Karen<br />
Jung, Gr. 4<br />
The nets are high<br />
but we can fly<br />
like Michael Jordan in the sky.<br />
The Mutchmor Girls Basketball<br />
Team competed at the board<br />
tournament on April 9. We<br />
played four teams. The third and<br />
fourth games were special. For<br />
the third game we had to play<br />
really fast. We played really<br />
hard and did well. The fourth<br />
game was very close, 4-3 for us.<br />
The players were: Sarah<br />
Abraham, Emily Bertrand, Zoe<br />
Bourgard, Julia Doering, Meaghan<br />
Fulford, Madeleine Goldsmith,<br />
Victoria Metz, Susan Oda, Morgan<br />
Rowe, Kate Taylor, Allison White,<br />
and Kate Wright. The managers<br />
were Karen Jung and Jessica<br />
Vickery. Thangs to our coaches<br />
Mr. Larry Stonebridge, Ms. Jane<br />
Blackmore and Mr. B.<br />
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By Thomas Glen & Gareth<br />
Thomas, Gr. 6<br />
On Wednesday, April 15 ,<br />
Mutchmor School took part in<br />
another board-wide event. The<br />
teachers carefully selected the<br />
twelve boys in the school who<br />
were best-suited to the<br />
basketball team, and those<br />
players travelled to the Albert<br />
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other teams from schools across<br />
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With the practices leading up to<br />
the tournament, every player was<br />
very serious and dedicated to<br />
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were held at lunch and after<br />
school. Fortunately, April 8, our<br />
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The Mutchmor team had fun<br />
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Volunteers play an important<br />
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Several of these sharing and<br />
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helping out at the school for many<br />
years. Some are grandparents and<br />
parents whose children attend or<br />
used to attend Mutchmor, while<br />
others are community people who<br />
like to work with children in the<br />
classroom and have time to share.<br />
Several Grade 5 st uden ts<br />
interviewed some of these volunteers.<br />
"GRANDMA WENDY" LAST<br />
By Lizzy Eaton & Rachel Steinberg,<br />
Gr. 5<br />
Grandma Wendy is a kind<br />
woman with a good sense of humour,<br />
and a hard-working person<br />
who works with Ms. Turner's<br />
Grade 3 class. She is very helpful<br />
with art, correcting things that<br />
she is comfortable correcting, and<br />
cleaning up after the students.<br />
Grandma Wendy has worked<br />
with children in a museum and<br />
has three grandchildren of her<br />
own. The students say that when<br />
the teacher gets mad, she sticks<br />
up for them.<br />
Grandma Wendy started working<br />
in Mutchmor three years ago.<br />
She likes this job because it is<br />
near her home, she loves working<br />
with kids, and she loves the children<br />
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this job because it's a great opportunity<br />
to meet new people.<br />
She says, "It's never gotten boring<br />
yet!"<br />
HELEN "NANA" OUELLETTE<br />
by Graham Barr, Gr. 5<br />
This is Nana's seventh year<br />
here at Mutchmor. She is a volunteer<br />
in Mrs. Rainboth's senior<br />
kindergarten class. She first<br />
started when her grandson was in<br />
junior kindergarten. Nana does<br />
many different things around the<br />
class to help Mrs. Rainboth, like<br />
filing papers, helping the kids<br />
with their work, cutting paper,<br />
photocopying papers, cleaning up<br />
the paint station, helping out at<br />
parties, and cleaning up the sand<br />
box.<br />
Nana loves doing the work. She<br />
says the kids are very polite and<br />
she loves them. She used to come<br />
in three times a week, but now<br />
she can only come in once a week.<br />
She says that doing this keeps her<br />
young.<br />
Mrs. Rainboth says that the<br />
kids really appreciate Nana and<br />
they really like her a lot. Mrs.<br />
Rainboth really likes the work<br />
that she does, and she finds her<br />
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SCHOOL NEWS<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate students<br />
successful at science fairs<br />
BY GEORGE HOLLAND<br />
GLEBE C. I. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT<br />
The Science Fair held at <strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate Institute on March 5 was a<br />
great success. About 120 <strong>Glebe</strong> students entered the fair, exhibiting<br />
70 projects. The projects were .evaluated by 55 external judges, who<br />
came from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Nortel, Mite!,<br />
Natural Resources Canada and other agencies. The judging process was<br />
an excellent opportunity for the students to discuss their projects with<br />
professionals in that field, and the judges also had the pleasure of<br />
meeting and interacting with our students. At the free pizza and coke<br />
dinner we presented ribbons to the top exhibits in each category. The<br />
first place finishers will also receive an engraved plaque at<br />
commencement.<br />
AWARD WINNERS<br />
Intermediate Division (Grades 9 and 10): Life Sciences 1st:<br />
Megan ApSimon and Nissa Critoph; 2nd: Christine Saunders and Kristy<br />
Shen.<br />
Physical Sciences: 1st: Genevieve Latreille and Lindsay McShane;<br />
2nd: Meryl Warren and Katherine Sears.<br />
Engineering 1st John Turriff and Owen Hickey; 2nd: Patrick Snider<br />
and Ben Toupin-Piper.<br />
Computer Science 1st Chris Kiff and Ian Wright; 2nd: Jonathan St.<br />
Jean and Will Enns.<br />
Senior Division (Grades 11 to OAC). Life Sciences 1st:<br />
Melissa Pagliaro; 2nd: Marianne Manning and Jacquie Poitras.<br />
Physical Sciences 1st: Jennifer Young; 2nd: David Valentiate.<br />
Engineering 1st Andrew Chad and Steven Paul; 2nd: Meghan Kelly<br />
and Areta Lok.<br />
Computer Science lst: Keith Davies; 2nd: Saied Nourian and Mehdi<br />
Ebramimi.<br />
OTTAWA REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR<br />
Our best exhibits were then sent on to the Ottawa Regional Science<br />
Fair, held at the Canadian Museum of Nature on April 3 to 5. Our<br />
students won the following awards:<br />
Christine Saunders and Kristy Shen Third Place Intermediate<br />
Life Sciences for How Reliable Is Your Sense Of Taste?<br />
Marianne Manning and Jacquie Poitras Third Place Senior Life<br />
Sciences for How to Make a Million Dollars.<br />
Megan ApSimon and Nissa Critoph Honourable Mention Intermediate<br />
Physical Sciences for Essential Oils.<br />
Jennifer Young a) Second Place Senior Physical Sciences, b)<br />
Special Award from the Ottawa Regional Science Fair Committee, c)<br />
First Alternate Choice for the Canada Wide Science Fair for Hot or Cold<br />
- A Study of Water Taps.<br />
Chris Kiff and Ian Wright a) First Place Intermediate Computers, b)<br />
Special Award from the Armed Forces Communications Association<br />
(AFCEA) for A Wireless Network.<br />
Jonathan St. Jean and William Enns a) Second Place<br />
Intermediate Computers, b) Special Award from Microsoft Canada for<br />
The Chaos Continuum.<br />
Keith Davies Second Place Computers for Tree Structures in<br />
Java.<br />
Saeid Nourian and Mandi Ebrahimi Third Place Senior Computers for<br />
Algebra and Geometry.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 3 0<br />
Students and staff successfully created a week-long event to promote<br />
A Spirit of Inclusion at <strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate.<br />
Thanks to our business community<br />
BY WANDA LEHMAN<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate students are<br />
grateful to the local business<br />
community for the strong endorsement<br />
of their Creating a<br />
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31 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 SCHOOL<br />
Lady Evelyn School news<br />
BY MARTHA BOWERS<br />
Although this is a time of great<br />
uncertainty in the Ontario education<br />
system, the Lady Evelyn<br />
Alternative School community<br />
continues to work together to<br />
make the best of a difficult period.<br />
With so many programs and<br />
resources threatened, the School<br />
Council, working with o u r<br />
trustee, has developed some important<br />
points for consideration<br />
by the board. These include the<br />
continuity and security of<br />
staffing which respects school<br />
needs, a flexible focus on children's<br />
needs, abilities and interests,<br />
and maintenance of Core<br />
French and Special Education,<br />
among others.<br />
CANADIAN HISTORY<br />
COMES ALIVE<br />
Despite the stress of these bureaucratic<br />
and administrative<br />
problems, staff and students at<br />
Lady Evelyn are involved in many<br />
exciting activities. Mr. Ridgeway's<br />
primary class has been<br />
doing a unit on Canada. Who says<br />
Canadian history is dead? The<br />
children have brought it to life<br />
with their colourful maps and<br />
pictures. An excursion to the<br />
Bytown Museum, walking along<br />
the canal, will help to make the<br />
history of our National Capital<br />
even more real.<br />
Other classes have been involved<br />
in learning about everything<br />
from knitting to underwater<br />
exploration to musical instruments.<br />
Some children made their<br />
own knitting needles, sanding<br />
them to a smooth finish. Many<br />
groups learned about life under<br />
the sea and the urgent need for<br />
environmental awareness. Still<br />
others wrote and illustrated<br />
creative stories that are worthy of<br />
publication.<br />
L'ÉCOLE FRANCOJEUNESSE<br />
We made a big splash at the<br />
swimming party held at the Clifford<br />
Bowey pool on April 18. Everyone<br />
was having such a good<br />
time that the lifeguards threatened<br />
to drain the pool to get some<br />
of the fun-loving swimmers out!<br />
Thanlcs to the parents who organized<br />
this lively event.<br />
Flying Phil and his travelling<br />
trampoline visited the school for<br />
a week of gymnastics and acrobatics.<br />
Each class had the opportunity<br />
to try their hands and feet<br />
at the jumping, somersaults, flips<br />
and flops.<br />
GLASHAN BAND PERFORMS<br />
The Glashan school band recently<br />
came to perform at our<br />
school. It was a great chance for<br />
Lady Evelyn students who will go<br />
on to Glashan to find out about<br />
the musical options available.<br />
Keeping with music, our own Junior<br />
Choir with the help o f<br />
Martha Milne and Denise<br />
Hawkins, helped to lighten the<br />
mood at the April School Council/<br />
staff meeting with a super performance<br />
of songs. Well done!<br />
There is a sense of excitement<br />
and anticipation building for the<br />
Lady Evelyn talent show April<br />
29. Children have been preparing<br />
their acts for weeks. Talent<br />
scouts be on alert for the future<br />
Alannis Morrissette, Céline Dion<br />
or Dan Ackroyd! You never know<br />
who will appear out of the woodwork<br />
as the next entertainment<br />
sensation.<br />
Some events to look forward to<br />
are a school community picnic<br />
and a multicultural week. This<br />
will culminate in "A World of<br />
Stories," when a group of storytellers<br />
will come to weave a magical<br />
web of enchanting and mesmerizing<br />
tales for us.<br />
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L'école élémentaire publique<br />
Francojeunesse, située au 119,<br />
rue Osgoode, dans le quartier<br />
Côte-de-sable, est l'école de<br />
langue française fréquentée par<br />
de nombreux enfants qui habitent<br />
le quartier <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
En janvier 1996, deux parents<br />
bénévoles, Mesdames Ann-Renée<br />
Larouche et Susan L'Heureux ont<br />
décidé de consulter tous les<br />
élèves et le personnel enseignant<br />
afin de connaître les<br />
améliorations pouvant être<br />
apportées à la cour de récréation.<br />
La tête remplie d'idées et avec<br />
l'aide d'une multitude d'autres<br />
bénévoles, elles ont entrepris<br />
d'apporter des changements à la<br />
cour d'école.<br />
Deux érables de Norvège ont été<br />
plantés dans des bacs en cèdre<br />
près de la structure de jeux pour<br />
apporter un peu d'ombrage à cet<br />
endroit très ensoleillé. Des<br />
marelles ont été peintes sur le<br />
pavé de même qu'un magnifique<br />
soleil à la porte d'entrée.<br />
Grâce à de nombreuses levées de<br />
fonds entreprises avec l'aide de<br />
Madame Clo Bérubé et au soutien<br />
financier de la Fondation Friends<br />
of the Environment des tables<br />
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et l'ont remplacé par u n<br />
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SCHOOL NEWS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 3 2<br />
Glashan Band<br />
We love the music we play<br />
BY TAMSIN JOHNSTON<br />
It's noon, Glashan Intermediate,<br />
outside the music room. Students<br />
wait eagerly, pushing and shoving<br />
to get closest to the door. Finally<br />
Ms. Cairnie, band director, arrives<br />
with the key. She literally<br />
gets trampled underfoot as over<br />
70 eighth graders force their way<br />
towards the shelf where all the<br />
instruments are stored. The<br />
disinfecting line appears and<br />
disappears as the kids clean off<br />
their mouth pieces and race for<br />
chairs.<br />
After ten minutes of horrible<br />
noise, the worst possible sounds<br />
one could get from flutes, clarinets,<br />
saxophones, trumpets,<br />
French horns and one oboe, an<br />
exasperated conductor wildly<br />
gesticulates for what seems like<br />
eternity to get the band's attention.<br />
Despite the hard work and long<br />
tiring rehearsal hours, we love<br />
band. Why else would approximately<br />
35 to 45 percent of Grade<br />
8 population participate? Anyone<br />
has the option to quit. Perhaps<br />
what keeps us in is our love<br />
of making music. Or perhaps it's<br />
the opportunity to play with<br />
other students of our grade, a<br />
first for many. More than likely<br />
we stay in the band for our trip to<br />
Wonderland in May and June. We<br />
will compete in a festival, visit<br />
the Ontario Science Centre and<br />
have fun in the park itself. We<br />
had to raise an enormous amount<br />
of money by selling chocolates<br />
and walking seven kilometres, but<br />
everyone feels it's really worth<br />
it.<br />
Virtually every day there is<br />
some kind of organized rehearsal<br />
in the music room, before school,<br />
lunch and after school. Yes, we<br />
will give up our lunch hour and<br />
drag ourselves out of bed at ungodly<br />
hours of the morning to<br />
come to rehearsal. We have an<br />
extensive repertoire including<br />
more difficult pieces intended for<br />
high school music students,<br />
played by small ensembles. The<br />
music we play is by no means all<br />
work and no fun. Quite frankly<br />
we love the music we play because<br />
it's familiar. The band's current<br />
pieces include the theme to Mission:<br />
Impossible by Lalo<br />
Schiffrin, Somewhere Over the<br />
Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz,<br />
Baby Elephant Walk from Hatari<br />
by Henry Mancini and the theme<br />
to Pink Panther also by Henry<br />
Mancini.<br />
This is only the Grade 8 band.<br />
The Grade 7 band is quite skilled<br />
too, though many of them had<br />
never touched an instrument before<br />
September. Although they<br />
only have the option to play flute,<br />
clarinet or trumpet, they love it<br />
and even helped us fundraise.<br />
Hopefully it will be their turn for<br />
Toronto next year.<br />
Although Glashan may seem<br />
like an all-sports school, with all<br />
the athletics everyone does, our<br />
music program is blossoming into<br />
something very worth having.<br />
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33 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998<br />
First Avenue School<br />
Good-bye Mr. Loucks<br />
BY J. C. SULZENKO<br />
After 33 years at the Ottawa<br />
Board of Education as elementary<br />
school teacher and administrator<br />
par excellence, John Loucks,<br />
principal of First Avenue Public<br />
School, retires at the end of June.<br />
Students, teachers and parents<br />
received the news with real regret.<br />
"John Loucks has been a delight<br />
to work with," stated Jennie Aliman,<br />
Chair of the School Council.<br />
"He has strengthened our council<br />
immeasurably with his knowledge,<br />
dedication, professionalism<br />
and unflagging good humour."<br />
Parent Mary Kovacs says that<br />
John's stay at First Avenue embodies<br />
the notion of leaving a<br />
place better than you found it.<br />
Another parent, David Bennett,<br />
reflected that John has "instilled<br />
very commendable values in the<br />
students, giving them a good<br />
sense of self and community."<br />
Merle Haltrecht-Matte, Grade 6<br />
teacher, said "John knows every<br />
student's name . . . that's incredible!<br />
He is always in the school.<br />
The teachers know it, the students<br />
know it He walks the yard,<br />
he walks the halls, he visits<br />
classrooms. He has been a role<br />
model for both staff and students."<br />
And what do the kids think?<br />
Some comments from ldndergarten<br />
children include: "he's the daddy<br />
of the school:" "he is nice- he<br />
helps Idds;" "he likes to talk to<br />
my mom!" From Grade 6s came<br />
these thoughts: "he's a really<br />
good principal, very involved<br />
clued in to the students:" "he let<br />
us sew in the office:" "I've heard<br />
him yell, but never at me!"<br />
What does the man himself say?<br />
Although John first thought he<br />
would end up farming and trained<br />
to be an electrician, teaching is<br />
in his blood. He hails from a long<br />
line of educators his grandfather<br />
was principal of a school in<br />
Morewood, his father became a<br />
school superintendent, and his<br />
mother taught Latin and French<br />
in Renfrew and Peterborough.<br />
John even married a teacher!<br />
Doris Loucks' retirement in June<br />
after 36 years in the classroom,<br />
most recently as a special education<br />
teacher, directly influenced<br />
John's decision to take his leave<br />
this year.<br />
"It's a good time to stand back<br />
and assess what else I could do,"<br />
John notes. "I loved teaching. In<br />
fact, I thought I was likely one of<br />
the best teachers of English,<br />
History and Geography at the<br />
Grade 8 level," he added with uncharacteristic<br />
immodesty! John<br />
did graduate work at the University<br />
of Ottawa that focussed on<br />
integrating special kids within<br />
the classroom. The birth and life<br />
of his son, Johnny, who had<br />
Down's Syndrome and died in<br />
1996, was at the root of this.<br />
SATISFACTION FROM<br />
HELPING KIDS<br />
"What sustained me throughout<br />
my time as a school administrator<br />
was the belief that I could help<br />
the kids whether it was to ensure<br />
they had shoes or to broker the<br />
John Loucks, principal<br />
range of programs the board offered<br />
those with special needs.<br />
My satisfaction came from<br />
bringing the best resources to<br />
bear on assisting students, particularly<br />
the exceptional ones,<br />
such as those with developmental<br />
disabilities. I enjoyed seeing<br />
these kids do well. Watching<br />
kids, who had trouble learning in<br />
Grades 6, 7 and 8, graduate that<br />
was rewarding," John explained.<br />
FIRST AVENUE A HIGHLIGHT<br />
Finally, his views on First Avenue.<br />
His doubts about coming to<br />
a French immersion primary<br />
school when he was not bilingual<br />
and had specialized in the intermediate<br />
level have long been dispelled<br />
and replaced by pride in<br />
the school and its accomplishments.<br />
John cited the motivation.<br />
of the students who are eager to<br />
learn and contribute. "Every<br />
child wanted to be involved<br />
from painting a mural to creating<br />
a school flag and taking part in<br />
lunch time activities in areas as<br />
diverse as the Internet and knitting,"<br />
he recounted.<br />
He then pointed out the value in<br />
partnerships with a strong staff<br />
and a highly supportive community<br />
of parents genuinely<br />
committed to quality education<br />
for their children.<br />
John gave<br />
three examples of where such<br />
partnerships have had tangible<br />
results during his stay at the<br />
school: improvements in the<br />
school climate, significant<br />
progress in the school's<br />
information technology capacity<br />
and in-school curriculum<br />
development, particularly in<br />
science.<br />
And of the future? At 53, what<br />
would he like to do next? He may<br />
teach at the college level or do<br />
some consulting. "I feel very<br />
positive about the opportunities<br />
out there. I want to continue to<br />
play a role in education," he<br />
concluded.<br />
For those of us with children in<br />
the system, we hope John Loucks,<br />
with his wisdom, fairness and experience,<br />
keeps his hand in. We<br />
need him there.<br />
SCHOOL NEWS<br />
First Avenue Book Sale a huge success<br />
BY J. C. SULZENKO<br />
Students contributed over<br />
27,000 books to the 15th annual<br />
book sale, April 23-25, guaranteeing<br />
record-breaking results!<br />
C. Parent's Grade 5 and S. Gaudreault's<br />
Grade 6 students tied<br />
for the top prize of a pizza lunch<br />
after bringing in the most books<br />
per child.<br />
Parent volunteers saw brisk<br />
trade. People bought books by<br />
the box-load! Raffle tickets also<br />
sold well, with prizes donated by<br />
The Cash Traders Co.<br />
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Organizers expressed<br />
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to the members of the<br />
community and parents of students<br />
no longer at First Avenue<br />
who helped.<br />
This event serves as the main<br />
fund-raiser each year for the<br />
school. Left over books went to<br />
other schools or charitable<br />
organizations.<br />
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Happenings at Corpus Christi School<br />
BY LUCILLE B. PUMMER<br />
The students have been very<br />
busy over the last two months.<br />
The following is a brief synopsis<br />
of the activities and some of the<br />
people involved to make it happen.<br />
MILLENNIUM TASK FORCE<br />
On March 12, the Grade 6 class<br />
took part in a ceremony at the<br />
Museum of Civilization to launch<br />
the federal government's Millennium<br />
Task Force. The ceremony<br />
featured a live satellite hookup<br />
with schools in Cape Spear, NF<br />
and the Queen Charlotte Islands,<br />
BC, the first and last parts of<br />
Canada to welcome the year 2000.<br />
The celebration also included<br />
footage from a video of our Grade<br />
6 class expressing their hopes<br />
and dreams for the year 2000.<br />
Congratulations students and Ms.<br />
Patricia Murphy, teacher of Grade<br />
6.<br />
HANDS-ON, MINDS-ON<br />
SCIENCE<br />
On April 14, eight Grade 6 and<br />
Grade 5 students made a special<br />
presentation to the Ottawa-Carleton<br />
Roman Catholic School Board<br />
on a pilot program called SNOOPS<br />
from the series Galaxy TVO.<br />
SNOOPS is the Grade 4 to 6<br />
hands-on, minds-on science program<br />
supported by 15 video programs.<br />
Students gain a deeper<br />
understanding of the natural<br />
world around them by solving<br />
mysteries and doing science along<br />
with other SNOOPS students in<br />
Canada. SNOOPS encourages<br />
teachers and students to be real<br />
scientists by: asking questions,<br />
conducting<br />
hands-on<br />
investigations, and developing<br />
ideas through themes and<br />
activities. The students, Eric<br />
Berrigan, Jeffrey Giacomelli, Joy<br />
Gurr, Stephen Rebeiro and Harrison<br />
Westwick talked about their<br />
experiment with building bridges<br />
and applying all the scientific<br />
and mathematical as well as tech-<br />
nological principles while<br />
Paulina Chahine, Siobhan<br />
Gibbens, Hanna Randazzo demonstrated<br />
how to carry out an<br />
archeological dig and highlighted<br />
what they learnt from it. They<br />
also shared their enthusiasm for<br />
this terrific science, mathematics,<br />
design and technology program.<br />
Congratulations go to their<br />
teacher Madame Véronique<br />
Lafleur and to the students.<br />
SACRAMENT OF THE<br />
EUCHARIST<br />
Many thanks to Father Joe<br />
Leclair, parish priest of Blessed<br />
Sacrament Church, who came to<br />
share his stories of God's Love<br />
with the Grade 2 students. His<br />
visit focused on final preparations<br />
for the Sacrament of the Eucharist.<br />
The children appreciated<br />
his spiritual giving as well<br />
as his tasty Hershey treats. The<br />
Grade 2s have been preparing all<br />
year for the reception of the Holy<br />
Eucharist. As a school community<br />
we wish these students a<br />
very meaningful celebration.<br />
We wish to thank Mr. Troy<br />
Tebbenham for donating a Macintosh<br />
computer and printer to the<br />
Grade 3 students. We are very<br />
grateful for such donations since<br />
it gives students additional opportunities<br />
to access other software.<br />
PEACE CONFERENCE<br />
Congratulations to our Conflict<br />
Resolution Managers who represented<br />
the school at the Peace<br />
Conference at Parliament Hill:<br />
Corey Bourgnion, Jeffery Giacomelli,<br />
David Nadeau, Stephen<br />
Rebeiro, Harrison Westwick.<br />
Harrison Westwick was the outstanding<br />
member from our school.<br />
STAY SAFE!<br />
April is Stay Alert! Stay Safe!<br />
month. The student council members<br />
are helping other classmates<br />
develop safety awareness in two<br />
ways. First, every morning a<br />
different class representative announces<br />
a safety tip over the intercom,<br />
for example, "Look both<br />
ways before you cross the street."<br />
Secondly, they have organized a<br />
colouring contest for students<br />
from Grade 1 to 3 and a poster<br />
contest for students in Grades 4<br />
to 6. It is great to see our students<br />
develop leadership qualities.<br />
Various students from Grades 1<br />
to 6 have submitted art work to<br />
the second annual NAC art contest.<br />
This year's theme is<br />
"Human Rights through the eyes<br />
of our youth." All submissions<br />
will be on display at the NAC<br />
from May through August in the<br />
main lobby. Good luck to all the<br />
budding artists!<br />
EARTH DAY<br />
Congratulations to the students<br />
in the Enviro Club for making<br />
such meaningful posters for Earth<br />
Day and to the two teachers, Mme<br />
Burns and Mrs. Bourassa, who<br />
keep our awareness of enviro issues<br />
uppermost in mind. Please<br />
check out the students' poster at<br />
Arbour on Bank Street.<br />
On April 22, Earth Day, the<br />
Grade 4 class organized a litterless<br />
lunch. Each class collected<br />
their lunchtime waste in a white<br />
garbage bag and the contents were<br />
weighed by the Grade 4 class.<br />
The most earth friendly class was<br />
Grade 1B.<br />
GRADE 6 PLAYS MACBETH<br />
Congratulations to the Grade 6<br />
students and Ms. Patricia Murphy<br />
and Mrs. Colleen Loubser on their<br />
terrific play, a modification of<br />
Macbeth which had five performances.<br />
The Shakespearean costumes<br />
plus the unique lighting,<br />
period music, special effects and<br />
outstanding acting left the audi-<br />
ences spellbound. "Awesome"<br />
was the word. The best play the<br />
students have ever seen at school.<br />
The cast list: Shakespeare - Jeffrey<br />
Giacomelli; Duncan - Giselle<br />
Geha; Malcolm - Milkan Berhe;<br />
Donalbain - Johan Faire; Macbeth<br />
- Stephen Rebeiro; Lady Macbeth<br />
- Joy Gun; Banquo - Brigid<br />
Standford-Finnerty; Fleance -<br />
Jennifer Hanson; Macduff - Eric<br />
Berrigan; Lady Macduff - Dovile<br />
Zitikis; Macduff children -<br />
Joseph Truong, Tan Banh; Ross -<br />
Corey Bourguingnon; Lennox -<br />
Tina Choules; Angus - Brandon<br />
Colwell; Witch # 1 - Shelly-Dean<br />
Sawyers; witch # 2 - Maria<br />
Pataunia; Witch # 3 - Jennifer<br />
Castro; Bloody Sergeant - Argentina<br />
Rivas; Two Ragged Men -<br />
Jared Laginski, Tawfiq Bajjali,<br />
Lady Macbeth's Servant - Shelly-<br />
Dean Sawyers; Macbeth's Guard -<br />
Melissa Cunningham; Doctor -<br />
Argentina Rivas; Siward's Son -<br />
Josuah Cuison; stage manager -<br />
Harrison Westwick; scenery design<br />
- Tan Banh, Joseph Truong,<br />
Lidia Buccieri, Caroline Nguyen,<br />
Cielo de Castro; props team &<br />
backstage - Leslie Castillo, Andrew<br />
Deruga, Elias Khoury. We<br />
also wish to thank all the people<br />
who helped to make this event<br />
happen - Margaret Giacomelli, Carole<br />
Laginski, Loc Nguyen, Karen<br />
Stidwell, Mike Berrigan, Sean<br />
Donohue Julian Hall, David<br />
Llewellyn Huntley, John Loubser<br />
and Will Westwick. Congratulations<br />
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BOOKS<br />
A letter to Jack<br />
IMAGINING CANADIAN<br />
LITERATURE,<br />
The Selected Letters of<br />
Jack McLelland,<br />
Edited by Sam Solecki,<br />
Key Porter Books, 300 pages,<br />
$26.95 (paper)<br />
Dear Jack,<br />
What a magnificent way to begin<br />
this review for <strong>Glebe</strong>-ites (as opposed<br />
Globe-ites), who have had<br />
the opportunity to read or avoid<br />
reading my monthly books column<br />
in this downtown Ottawa community<br />
newspaper, the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
since 1981. That's a long<br />
time, Jack, but not as long as the<br />
more than three decades' accumulated<br />
correspondence related to<br />
the publishing company stored in<br />
the McMaster University<br />
Archives which your masterful<br />
editor, Sam Solecki, was required<br />
to sift through.<br />
In your own words, Jack: "My<br />
father (John A. McClelland) and I<br />
presided over the affairs of the<br />
first 87 years of McClelland and<br />
Stewart for almost an equal<br />
amount of time, with the advantage<br />
slightly in his favour. We<br />
also presided over the financial<br />
calamities to which Canadian<br />
publishing is prone, in somewhat<br />
equal measure, but the advantage<br />
here is clearly mine."<br />
My congratulations to Solecki (a<br />
professor of English at the University<br />
of Toronto) who accomplished<br />
a monumental task of selection<br />
to tell so vividly the<br />
miraculous story of your visionary<br />
labour of love why you<br />
stuck for approximately forty<br />
years with a business inherited<br />
from your father which had an<br />
unreasonable expectation of<br />
monetary profit because you believed<br />
more in the buying of authors<br />
than the publics' buying of<br />
books. In the words of Pierre<br />
Berton: "Jack listened to his<br />
writers, not his accountants or<br />
marketing<br />
people."<br />
And look at what you accomplished,<br />
the creation of a canon<br />
entitled Canadian Literature including<br />
such flagship names as<br />
Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney,<br />
Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Fraser,<br />
By<br />
Sharon<br />
Abron<br />
Drache<br />
Irving Layton, Margaret Laurence,<br />
Farley Mowat, Mordecai Richier<br />
and Gabrielle Roy. I also mention<br />
Anna Porter and Linda McKnight,<br />
originally employed by McClelland<br />
and Stewart, who work diligently<br />
to continue your good<br />
work: Porter as publisher of Key<br />
Porter Books and McKnight as a<br />
literary agent, a job you yourself<br />
picked up inadvertently after<br />
stepping down as CEO of McClelland<br />
and Stewart in December of<br />
1985.<br />
If there is one thing I kn o w<br />
about you Jack, it is that you are<br />
no quitter. From my own personal<br />
association with you (Jack<br />
McClelland was my literary agent<br />
from 1988-1992) after you sold<br />
your financially-challenged company<br />
to Toronto real estate developer,<br />
Avie Bennett, I can say that<br />
your summing up of your publisher's<br />
career is only partially<br />
valid. And here I digress to that<br />
miserable aspect of the book biz,<br />
which you so courageously confronted.<br />
You fought harder than<br />
was humanly possible to change<br />
the phrase unreasonable expectation<br />
of profit from the sale of<br />
Canadian books to reasonable.<br />
Jack I think you were so successful<br />
at what you did as a publisher<br />
that Revenue Canada created interpretation<br />
bulletins on the<br />
Status of the Artist based on the<br />
profits which your star authors<br />
were finally to earn, coining the<br />
long-yearned-for term, reasonable<br />
expectation of profit, for<br />
some authors you developed both<br />
for the present and posterity.<br />
In the days of downsizing and<br />
corporate takeovers I am relieved<br />
that your work is done. You are<br />
one of the most creative individuals<br />
I have ever had the pleasure<br />
of knowing. And the letters in<br />
this current volume attest to this<br />
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unique creativity. I laughed<br />
aloud when Solecki wrote that he<br />
tried not to alter your style with<br />
his editorial pen, because I know<br />
that your loyal secretary Marge<br />
Hodgeman typed the letters you<br />
always dictated. Often your<br />
missives to yours truly would say<br />
at the end: "mitten but not read."<br />
In short, your massive correspondence<br />
rolled off your tongue into<br />
your tape recorder and that was it<br />
. . . And you wrote twenty t o<br />
thirty such letters daily for over<br />
forty years, often very late at<br />
night, Solecki tells us.<br />
Here's to the real Jack who<br />
poured out his literary heart to<br />
the authors admired and they in<br />
turn poured out their hearts to<br />
him. By literary I refer to a love<br />
and respect for professional writers<br />
for whom the work produced,<br />
even in this volume of selected<br />
letters from the '50s, '60s, '70s<br />
and '80s, was a polished, per-<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998 36<br />
Photo: Mordecai Drache<br />
Jack McClelland joined Sharon Abron Drache to launch her novel<br />
Ritual Slaughter in 1989.<br />
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For Your Free Estimate<br />
fected kind of prose, while your<br />
responses were ironically their<br />
equal.<br />
Your letters to your stable of<br />
authors, especially your favoured<br />
fiction writers like Margaret Laurence<br />
and Gabrielle Roy to name<br />
only two have an outstanding authenticity<br />
that cries out for one<br />
thing only a constant craving<br />
and seeking for that elusive pinning<br />
down of a lasting canon<br />
called Canadian literature.<br />
You did it, Jack. Without you,<br />
Canadian literature would not<br />
have happened. You were in the<br />
right place at the right time. And<br />
writers and readers throughout<br />
Canada and abroad thank you for<br />
what you accomplished on their<br />
behalf.<br />
Cheers!<br />
Sharon<br />
Imagining Canadian Literature<br />
is available at <strong>Glebe</strong> bookstores.
37 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> May 8, 1998<br />
Summer - a time for re-creation<br />
BY REV. DR. JACK NIELD<br />
Spring in Canada is a miracle.<br />
Just when we have forgotten what<br />
green is like and life is at its<br />
dreariest, suddenly spring happens.<br />
New life! Green! Everything<br />
changes!<br />
Christians see this change as a<br />
parable of life. Most everyone<br />
lives through a time of winter in<br />
the soul when life is chilled and<br />
hardly seems worth living. Our<br />
experience and our faith tells us<br />
that spring can be just around the<br />
corner. Life can be full and<br />
worthwhile once again. God is a<br />
God of re-creation.<br />
It is no coincidence that all of<br />
On Sunday, June 14 at 9:30 and<br />
11 o'clock, Elijah Harper will<br />
lead us in worship at <strong>Glebe</strong>-St.<br />
James. Mr. Harper is now ambassador<br />
at large for the First Nations<br />
national reconciliation initiative.<br />
In December of 1995 he<br />
called for a sacred assembly for<br />
the purpose of promoting Aboriginal<br />
justice through spiritual<br />
reconciliation and healing between<br />
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal<br />
peoples. The sacred assembly<br />
was successful in bringing<br />
together many people from<br />
across Canada representing the<br />
elders, women, youth, political<br />
leaders, spiritual leaders, and<br />
leaders of all faiths. Rev. Jack<br />
Nield, minister at <strong>Glebe</strong>-St. James<br />
was at the assembly.<br />
Mr. Harper is honorary chief<br />
for life of the Red Sucker Lake<br />
the world's great religions had<br />
their birth in a desert. T h e<br />
metaphor is the same. It is only<br />
when you have known brown and<br />
parched and dry that you know<br />
what a miracle green is. It is<br />
only when you have experienced<br />
the desert that you can appreciate<br />
the oasis. Church is a place to<br />
put life into perspective a community<br />
that can support us as we<br />
live through the winter of the<br />
soul with the sure and certain<br />
hope that spring will come again.<br />
God is a God of re-creation.<br />
Rev. Dr. Jack Nield is minister<br />
at <strong>Glebe</strong>-St. James United Church.<br />
Elijah Harper to speak at<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>-St. James United Church<br />
First Nation. For eleven years he<br />
was a member of the Legislative<br />
Assembly of Manitoba and was<br />
appointed to the cabinet. He has<br />
received the commemorative<br />
medal of Canada from the Governor<br />
General and the Stanley<br />
Knowles Humanitarian Award. In<br />
1993 he was elected Member of<br />
Parliament for Churchill.<br />
His message is that all people<br />
worship one God and that reconciliation<br />
between people must<br />
include a spiritual component.<br />
Public education, promoting<br />
healing among individuals and<br />
groups participating in community<br />
healing initiatives and promoting<br />
discussion are aspects of<br />
Harper's plan. We look forward<br />
to his presentation at <strong>Glebe</strong>-St.-<br />
James. All are welcome.<br />
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CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic)<br />
Fourth Avenue at Percy Street 232-4891<br />
Father Joe Le Clair, Pastor<br />
Rev. Anthony O'Sullivan in Residence<br />
Masses: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 9:30 AM<br />
Saturday: 9:00 AM 4:30 PM<br />
Sunday: 8:00 AM 9:30 AM 11:00 AM 8:00 PM<br />
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FIFTH AVENUE FREE METHODIST CHURCH<br />
2 Monk Street (1 block west of Bank & Fifth) 233-1870<br />
Minister: Rev. Stanley J.T. Hanna<br />
Sunday: Youth Sunday School at 9:45 AM<br />
Morning Service at 11:00 AM<br />
Adult Ministries Bible Study at 6:30 PM<br />
Friday: 12 Noon Eucharist<br />
Saturday: Youth Group 5:13 PM<br />
FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
Fourth Avenue at Bank Street 236-1804<br />
Minister: E.J. Cox<br />
Sunday Services: Morning Worship 11:00 AM<br />
GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH<br />
650 Lyon Street 236-0617<br />
Minister: Rev. Dr. Jack Nield<br />
New Ventures in Celebration 9:30 AM (Family Service)<br />
Worship 11:00 AM plus<br />
Christian Development Program (ages 3-13)<br />
ST. MATTHEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue near Bank Street 234-4024<br />
Rector: The Rev. Désirée Stedman<br />
Holy Communion: 8:00 AM<br />
Choral Eucharist & Church School: 10:00 AM<br />
Choral Evensong: 5:00 PM (second & fourth Sundays)<br />
Weekday Eucharist Thursday 10:00 AM<br />
Counselling by appointment 234-4024<br />
(Handicapped accessible from parking lot. Loop System)<br />
THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)<br />
91 A Fourth Avenue 232-9923<br />
Clerk: Anne Thomas 489-3341<br />
Sunday Service: 10:30 AM<br />
OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH<br />
600 Bank Street 594-4571<br />
Senior Pastor: Rod Bennett<br />
Sunday Services: Sunday School<br />
Cantonese/Mandarin & English<br />
OTTAWA DEAF FELLOWSHIP (Total Communication)<br />
at Fifth Avenue Free Methodist Church<br />
2 Monk Street (1 block west of Bank & Fifth)<br />
Minister: Pastor Dick Foster<br />
Sunday Service: 11:00 AM<br />
9:30 AM<br />
11:00 AM<br />
ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Wheelchair Access)<br />
Bank Street at First Avenue 235-2551<br />
Minister: Rev. Duncan Kennedy<br />
Youth Coordinator: Colleen Smith<br />
Sunday Service: Worship 11:00 AM Church School 11:15 AM<br />
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF 'THE ANNUNCIATION AND ST. NICHOLAS<br />
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Clergy: The Rev'd Fr Andrew Morbey 523-1928<br />
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South branch library news<br />
BY FELINE MERRITT<br />
Missy Hillman and I will be taking turns at writing articles for <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong>, adding our voices to others in the neighbourhood to keep you up<br />
to date on library events.<br />
We were happy to welcome Mayor Jim Watson, Councillor Inez Berg as<br />
well as many of our regular visitors to the official opening of our Electronic<br />
Resource Access Center. These ERACs are being well used both<br />
in the adult and the children's sections of Ottawa South Branch.<br />
The added information retrieval offered by ERACS will, we hope<br />
continue to be used responsibly by any registered client and increase<br />
our helpfulness to the community.<br />
Comments about our boolcsale are always welcome. We will be making<br />
more children's books available in the coming months and hope you will<br />
find some treasure.s of your own tucked away on our book table.<br />
Children's Programs<br />
Our children's programs continue to be a success. Judy Aranoff, Marina<br />
O'Grady and I thank you for your continued and enthusiastic support<br />
of our combined efforts. The program line-up for May is as<br />
follows:<br />
Storytimes for 3- to 5- year olds. Monday and Thursday at 10:15<br />
a.m., Wednesday at 2:15 a.m..<br />
Saturday stories and films for 4- to 7- year olds. Saturdays at<br />
10:30 a.m.<br />
Babes in the Library. Music, rhymes and books for babies from<br />
birth to 18 months, Fridays, at 1:15 p.m. Pre-registration.<br />
Time for Twos. Stories, fingerplays and films for two- year- olds,<br />
starting Wednesdays at 10:15. Pre-registration.<br />
Bebes en la biblioteca. Music, rhymes and stories in Spanish for<br />
babies. A community based program offered by Spanish-speaking caregivers,<br />
Mondays at 9:15.<br />
Adult Programs<br />
We are pleased to welcome Ian<br />
J. Campbell for the last reading of<br />
the season on May 14th at 7:30<br />
p.m. Mr. Campbell will read from<br />
Murder at the Abbaye: The Story<br />
of Twenty Canadian Soldiers<br />
Murdered at the Abbaye<br />
d'Ardenne. A visit to the Abbaye<br />
d'Ardenne in Normandy kindled<br />
Ian Campbell's interest in the<br />
human aspects of this tragic story<br />
of 20 Canadian soldiers murdered<br />
in June 1944. Colonel Campbell<br />
served overseas with the United<br />
Nations Forces in Cyprus and<br />
Egypt and with NATO forces in<br />
Germany. He was made Officer of<br />
Brown-Bag Seminar<br />
Wednesday, May 20 in the Main Library meeting room at noon the<br />
speaker will be Peter McGrath, Independent Living Centre, speaking on<br />
Positive Attitudes for People with Disabilities.<br />
Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Gumshoe Game -<br />
Whodunnit?<br />
BY LINDA VVIKEN the killer begins. By 2:30 p.m.,<br />
The game's afoot in the <strong>Glebe</strong>. entries must be in, the police will<br />
Or rather, it will be on Saturday, reveal the murderer, and lucky<br />
May 30 when Prime Crime Mys- winners will be drawn for some<br />
tery Books presents the second terrific prizes.<br />
annual Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Gumshoe Cost of playing the game is $5<br />
Game.<br />
for adults, a loonie for children.<br />
The sleuthing starts at 10:30 All proceeds go to People, Words<br />
a.m. when detecting devotees and Change, a local literacy<br />
gather in Irene's Pub at 889 Bank group.<br />
to witness a crime in progress.<br />
Someone will be murdered, that's The theme this year is literary<br />
guaranteed. But who will it be and and there'll be lots of local talent<br />
even more important, whodunnit? taking part. Only 50 will be able<br />
Of course, the Ottawa-Carleton to test their detecting skills. So<br />
Regional Police will be called in call Prime Crime Mystery Books<br />
to set the investigation in motion. at 238-2583 to reserve a spot or<br />
Sleuths and suspects will then stop in at 891 Bank Street. And<br />
move along to Fifth Avenue Court start reading those Agatha<br />
where the hard work of deducing Christie's to sharpen your skills.<br />
,r4D<br />
If you have news call the editor at 236-4955<br />
or write to the Globe <strong>Report</strong>, P.O Box 4794,<br />
Station E, Ottawa, K1S 5H9<br />
Ian J. Campbell<br />
the Order of Military Merit in<br />
1983, and was Commanding Officer<br />
1 Service Battalion in Calgary<br />
from 1983 - 1985. Now retired,<br />
he and his wife Clara live in<br />
Orleans, Ontario.<br />
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This space acts as a free community bulletin board for <strong>Glebe</strong> residents.<br />
Drop off your GRAPEVINE message at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre, including<br />
name, address and phone no. FOR SALE items more than $1,000 not accepted.<br />
FOR RENT<br />
*FURNISHED, 3-bedroom house,<br />
July & August Quiet street near<br />
canal, deck overlooking attractive<br />
back garden. Home 235-1721,<br />
work 751-3414.<br />
" TWO BEDROOM, July 1. Old<br />
Ottawa South on Riverdale near<br />
Belmont Upper unit in duplex.<br />
Hardwood, dining, living, sun<br />
porch. Washer, dryer, fridge,<br />
stove. Parking & heating incl.<br />
Sorry no smokers or pets.<br />
$940/mth & hydro. 730-0047.<br />
FOR SALE<br />
RADIAL ARM SAW, 10-inch,<br />
complete with stand and<br />
backguard. Call 749-2258.<br />
QUEEN SIZE FUTON, 8-inch<br />
thick, with pine frame. Good<br />
condition. $180. 234-0806.<br />
* TODDLER'S BED with mattress.<br />
$30. 235-8115.<br />
DOUBLE BRASS BED (head &<br />
foot) with/or mattress. $100 or<br />
best offer. 730-0047.<br />
NIKE ZOOM cross country &<br />
track spikes. Worn twice.<br />
Best<br />
offer. 234-3538.<br />
* ANTIQUE mahogany open-arm<br />
chair. Original excellent<br />
condition. 238-8112.<br />
CARSEAT: Evenflo "ultra<br />
premier" $45. Kid carrier<br />
"Tough Traveller" $65.<br />
Removable bed side: Fisher Price<br />
$10. Bed frame: oak, queen<br />
$450. Dehumidifier: Mastercraft<br />
D15 $45. 235-7807.<br />
NORCO 24" boys bike, like<br />
new $75. GAP denim jacket, boys<br />
large $30. Northern Getaway<br />
sweatshirts like new. Boys med.<br />
& large $8 each. Other various<br />
clothes - very reasonable. Queen<br />
size air mattress with carrying<br />
case $20. 238-2830.<br />
*VISUALLY IMPAIRED - Portable<br />
Handi Cassette Player II, carry<br />
bag, variable speed. Bought<br />
recently $340, asking $180.<br />
233-8374.<br />
WANTED<br />
HOUSE to buy for late summer<br />
in <strong>Glebe</strong>, Centretown east of Elgin<br />
or Ottawa South. 3 bedrooms, no<br />
trendy updates needed. 236-<br />
3275. No Agents.<br />
WANTED<br />
OUTDOORSY babysitter<br />
needed for 3 or 4 weekends of car<br />
camping/ babysitting this<br />
summer. Camping equipment<br />
supplied. Mature, responsible<br />
teenaged female. Call Jenifer at<br />
234-2830.<br />
* MATURE SALES PERSON<br />
WANTED Norma Peterson<br />
Fashions, Sparks St. location, for<br />
Saturdays. 230-8455.<br />
RESPONSIBLE professional<br />
lady is looking for a two-bedroom<br />
apt (or 1 bdr & dr/den) July or<br />
August. Parking and no smoking<br />
on premises. 234-1495.<br />
PING PONG TABLE. Call Ilse,<br />
235-8115.<br />
CHILDREN'S PLAYSTRUCTURE.<br />
House and/or slide. Toy box with<br />
safety lid and ideally wooden.<br />
730-0047.<br />
RELIABLE HOUSE CLEANER,<br />
4-5 hrs every Friday, $15/hr.<br />
References requested. 237-3033.<br />
RELIABLE HELP for occasional<br />
yard work & odd jobs. $10/hr.<br />
237-3033.<br />
" TO BORROW, "Lanny Budd" by<br />
Upton Sinclair. 563-1541.<br />
2 OR 3 BEDROOM APT. with<br />
dining area. June 1. 232-3365.<br />
* TO BUY: Perego double stroller,<br />
computer table; back yard play or<br />
climbing equipment Call Edith<br />
or David at 231-6262.<br />
" DONATIONS OF PERENNIAL<br />
PLANTS for a new flower bed in<br />
Central Park. Please drop off<br />
donations at 39 Rosebery.<br />
For info call 236-2151.<br />
EMPLOYMENT WANTED<br />
FRENCH TEACHER, native of<br />
France, patient, experienced.<br />
Will teach any age, level, 1-3<br />
persons. 238-2677.<br />
TRADE FAIR<br />
Sun. May 31<br />
Over 50 vendors offering you<br />
their quality serv./prod.<br />
Free admission<br />
Free Door Prizes<br />
Vendor info: J.P. 521-5880<br />
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Regular & Occasional cleaning<br />
Pre & Post move cleaning and packing<br />
Pre & Post renovation cleaning<br />
Blitz & Spring cleaning<br />
Organizing cupboards, basements<br />
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All types of related repairs performed<br />
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NOT ALL PAINTERS ARE CREATED EQUAL<br />
EMPLOYMENT WANTED<br />
EXPERIENCED child care<br />
provider. Mother of two kids,<br />
residing on <strong>Glebe</strong> Ave. I would<br />
like to take care of your child in<br />
my home for full days during the<br />
week. 237-9119.<br />
EXPERIENCED caregiver is<br />
looking for children to babysit<br />
full-time or part-time. Close to<br />
Mutchmor School. Can pick up<br />
and drop the Idds to school. Lots<br />
of fun. Ready to start anytime.<br />
References. Call 230-3757 or<br />
234-8581 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.<br />
FULL TIME Nanny, avail.<br />
immediately, non smoker,<br />
references. Carol 726-9239.<br />
LAWN, garden care; indoor<br />
painting; vacation home care;<br />
private lessons MS Word.<br />
Excellent references, 237-5827.<br />
NOTICES<br />
HUMANE SOCIETY OF<br />
OTTAWA-CARLETON 49 t h<br />
Auxiliary Spring Tea & Money<br />
Shower, St. Mark's Church, 1606<br />
Fisher Ave., Nepean, May 27, 2-4<br />
p.m. Info. 728-5493.<br />
AM ETHYST WOMEN'S<br />
ADDICTION CENTRE needs<br />
donations of articles for<br />
fundraiser garage sale, Sat May<br />
23. Call 749-7246 or dropoff at<br />
30 Broadway Ave.<br />
GARDEN PLANT SALE,<br />
annuals, May 9 & 10, 8:30-2 p.m.,<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre, in<br />
support of <strong>Glebe</strong> Cooperative<br />
Nursery School.<br />
IN HARMONY proudly presents<br />
"Calling The Fire Within," our<br />
3rd annual concert at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre, June 8 at 8<br />
p.m. Tickets: $10 in advance at<br />
Mother Tongue Books or $12 at<br />
the door. Call Lise Chiasson at<br />
562-9332.<br />
IRISH SINGERS of Ottawa in<br />
Spring Concert. May 23, 7:30<br />
p.m. St. Patrick's Hall, 280<br />
Gloucester Street. Ticket info:<br />
729-3338.<br />
FUNDRAISING AUCTION FOR<br />
SPECIAL OLYMPICS, Friday, May<br />
22 at <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre. 7<br />
p.m. viewing & silent auction. 8<br />
p.m. live auction. $5 at door<br />
(includes a complimentary glass<br />
of wine).<br />
CI-<br />
GRAPEVINE<br />
NOTICES<br />
* SISTERS OF CHARITY of Ottawa<br />
Health Service seeks volunteers<br />
for day program with Alzheimer<br />
patients & persons with loss of<br />
physical autonomy and to<br />
accompany the van chauffeur.<br />
Orientation & training provided.<br />
Call 824-1720.<br />
* CHAIRY TALES, art exhibit by<br />
28 local artists at Karsh-Masson<br />
Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, until<br />
May 31.<br />
CBC TELEVISION<br />
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER<br />
seeking people who have explored<br />
values and meaning without<br />
religion. Call Stephanie 230-<br />
0388 evenings & weekends or e-<br />
mail smatteis@gapc.com<br />
GOOD MORNING PRESCHOOL<br />
has morning classes for 2 & 3<br />
year olds and new enrichment<br />
programmes for 4 & 5 year olds.<br />
Excellent ratios, warm<br />
environment, parent duty days<br />
not required. Call Dawn 5 67-<br />
4922, or yisii website:<br />
members.tripod.com/-goodmorning<br />
HEEL'N'WHEEL-A-THON for<br />
Ottawa Chapter of Crohn's &<br />
Colitis Foundation of Canada,<br />
June 7, Pledge forms & volunteer<br />
info. at 733-2870.<br />
PEACE & ENVIRONMENT<br />
CENTRE Garage & Plant Sale, May<br />
23. Contributions needed. Call<br />
230-4590.<br />
FEMINIST F LAV 0 U R S:<br />
RECIPES FOR CHANGE - recipes,<br />
poetry, wit & wisdom - a<br />
fundraiser for the Ottawa Rape<br />
$17 (includes<br />
Crisis Centre.<br />
postage). Send cheques to Ottawa<br />
Rape Crisis Centre, Box 20206,<br />
Ottawa, ON, K7C 2B7<br />
399 CATHERINE ST<br />
FOUND<br />
* 2 DIFFERENT SETS OF KEYS in<br />
Brown's Inlet in March. Pick up<br />
at <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre.<br />
B-B-C1 Fundraiser for<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Cooperative Nursery<br />
School on Saturday, May 23, the<br />
day of the<br />
Great <strong>Glebe</strong> Garage Sale.<br />
We open for business at the<br />
corner of Lyon and Third at 8 am.<br />
We fire up the B-B-Q at 10 a.m.<br />
For more info call Janet O'Connor<br />
at 798-8189.<br />
11/41,<br />
MINI STORAGE<br />
234-6888<br />
PARKER CLEAN<br />
WITH FULL TAILORING SERVICE<br />
Same Day Cleaning<br />
Save Up to 30% Everyday<br />
Environmentally Friendly<br />
Conveniently Located<br />
Alterations With Min. $10.00 Dry Cleaning (<strong>Glebe</strong> Only)<br />
Expires May 30, 1998<br />
Enna Green<br />
856 Bank St. (at 5th Ave) - Phone: 236-2662<br />
Open Mon-Fri 7 am to 7 pm<br />
Sat 9 am to 5 pm<br />
SECURE<br />
CLIMATE CON'TROLLED<br />
SELF-STORAGE
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233-8713<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Activities Group<br />
690 Lyon Street South<br />
Ottawa, Ontario<br />
K15 3Z9<br />
M'Ottawa<br />
Department of Community Services 0<br />
Services communautaires<br />
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A Note From The Executive Director<br />
Thank you to the 1997 1998 GNAG Board of Directors for providing<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> community with another year of successful programmes and<br />
events.<br />
GNAG maintains a high quality team of dedicated community volunteers<br />
ti who make what we do possible. It has been a pleasure for me to work<br />
0 with an organization that continués to grow, strives for excellence in<br />
costumer service, is client driven, and is a model recognized by the<br />
'community-at-large and the Corporation of the City of Ottawa.<br />
Congratulations and welcome to the 1998-1999 GNAG Board of<br />
ff Directors. Together, we will continue to enrich the quality of life of <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
residents and the city-at-large.<br />
Fad Craft Fair Registration<br />
We will fie accepting registration for aft<br />
remaining tables on<br />
Saturday, Yune 13 at 9:00 a.m.<br />
Artuat Craft Fair dates:<br />
November 14 de 15, 1998<br />
Fee : $90.00 per table.<br />
For fitrther information, ',tease calf 564-1058.<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> C.C. is proud to present the best 0<br />
SUMMER DAY CAMP PROGRAMMES S<br />
ever offered by the City of Ottawa<br />
We offer 8 camps for children<br />
ages 1 - 14 years<br />
We are presently accepting registration on an on-going basis.<br />
Better hurry! Spaces are limited and all registration is on a<br />
first-come, first-served basis. Come in today and sign-up! For<br />
further details, please call 564-1058.<br />
Perennial Exchange<br />
Bring your plants (or some good manure)<br />
and exchange ideas, questions and plants with your neighbours.<br />
Cocated on the front steps at G.C.C.<br />
Thursday, May 14<br />
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.<br />
Tree!<br />
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