Glebe Report

Great Glebe Garage Sale gift to Food Bank 

BY COLIN CHALK 

Each May since 1985 the Great 

Glebe Garage Sale has drawn 

crowds of bargain hunters onto 

the streets of the Glebe. Last 

year more than 300 Glebe residents 

held sales which transformed 

the Glebe into one big 

bargain-hunting carnival. This 

year's event will take place Saturday 

May 23 (with a rain date 

set for the 24th.) 

Apart from becoming one of the 

most popular spring events in the 

city, the sale also has a major influence 

on the less fortunate in 

our region. 

From the very first Great Glebe 

Garage Sale in 1985 the event has 

been associated with The Food 

Bank. Each year the Glebe Community 

Association suggests each 

vendor donate a percentage of the 

day's takings to The Food Bank 

(usually about 10%) and each 

year a considerable amount of 

money is raised for this worthy 

cause. 

DONATIONS SERVE THE 

NEEDY 

As the event has grown over the 

years so have the contributions. 

Last year Glebe residents donated 

a record $8,500. The money 

raised on this event is used to 

help The Food Bank supply the 70 

different agencies that serve the 

needy in our region. 

These agencies, which include 

school breakfast programs, women's 

shelters, rehab programs, 

drop-in centres, soup kitchens 

and hamper programs (such as the 

Shepherds of Good Hope and the 

Gloucester Food Cupboard) help 

South Branch Library 

The Ottawa Public Library 

opened its fourth Electronic Resource 

and Access Centre (ERAC) 

April 17. Capital Ward Councillor 

Inez Berg and Mayor Jim Watson 

were special guests at the official 

opening of the new hightech 

centre in the library's south 

branch at 1049 Bank Street. 

The new ERAC, made possible 

by an in-memorium gift of 

$12,500 from an anonymous 

donor, features four multimedia 

personal computers, including 

one workstation in the children's 

section, plus two laser printers. 

Each computer gives library 

users free access to the Internet, 

World Wide Web and a wide range 

of educational and recreational 

products on CD-ROM. 

"Here is a wonderful example of 

the difference individuals can 

make in their community," said 

David Daubney, chair of the OPL 

board. "This anonymous gift ensures 

that everyone children, 

students, seniors, business people, 

and staff will have access to 

the tools necessary to keep pace 

with the information age. The 

library board is most grateful to 

be given the opportunity of 

moving one step closer to its goal 

feed more than 30,000 people 

each month in the National Capital 

Region. 

The involvement of the Glebe 

has great significance to The Food 

Bank not only because of the 

amount of money it generates but 

because it comes at a time of the 

year when donations are traditionally 

slower. Feeding the hungry 

is a year-round concern and 

events like The Great Glebe 

Garage Sale help ensure that this 

food supply is maintained. 

BARGAINS FOR ALL 

Every year the Great Glebe 

Garage Sale proves to be an exciting 

day of fun and great deals and 

every year those in need in our 

region are very grateful that it is. 

Bargain hunters everywhere 

should set aside May 23 as the 

day to be in the Glebe. Whether 

you are looking for a car or a 

cardigan, dumbbells or doorknobs, 

chances are you'll find 

Going high-tech with ERAC 

Photo: Ottawa Public Library 

Annette Bateman with daughter Kelly 

of creating a library without 

walls." A family foundation 

designated its generous donation 

for electronic access in honour of 

fatnily members who were active 

users of the branch. 

"The South Branch has a very 

sophisticated and knowledgeable 

clientele," noted chief librarian 

Barbara Clubb, "and the addition 

of an electronic resource centre 

adds a new dimension to the services 

we can offer them." 

them. 

Anyone with questions about 

the event should contact this 

year's coordinator, George Ho!- 

land, at 235-4732. 

Thank you, Glebe residents, for 

putting on this event each year, 

for making it such a success and 

for including The Food Bank in 

the festivities. 

PLEASE REGISTER 

We are asking all who participate 

to please register! A registration 

slip can be found in this 

issue of the Glebe Report, and can 

be dropped off at the Glebe Community 

Centre, or at Loeb Glebe. 

You can participate in the Garage 

Sale for free. All you need to do 

is register by May 15th. Registration 

will allow you to be included 

in the map advertising the 

registered sale sites, and it will 

help us to organize for the collection 

of your donation to the 

Ottawa Food Bank. 

New GNAG 

Board members 

The annual general meeting of 

the Glebe Neighbourhood 

Activities Group was held April 

29 in the basement hall of the 

Glebe Community Centre. There 

were approximately 25 members 

of the public present. Outgoing 

Treasurer, Mary Lovelace presented 

the financial report. An 

audit, prepared by McIntyre & 

McLarty was presented. Several 

amendments to the GNAG consti- 

tution were presented and passed. 

The new slate of GNAG board 

members was elected. 

The new board is as follows: 

Chairperson - Louise Carota, Vice 

Chairperson - Vicky Schindel, 

Treasurer - Megan Malloy, 

Secretary - Christie Oliver, 

Communications Rep - Alice 

Hinther, Preschool Rep - Laurie 

Boussada, Children's Rep - Terry 

L. Huntley, Q4 Rep - Christine 

Hollander, Youth Rep - Emma 

Doucet, Adult Rep - Andrew 

Davidson, Seniors Rep - Eileen 

Scotton. 

For those unable to attend, the 

Annual Report and the Financial 

Statement are public documents 

and are available at the front 

desk of the Glebe Community 

Centre. 

THE 1998 WHITTON AWARDS 

Wednesday May 27, 7 p.m. 

Assembly Hall, 

Lansdowne Park 

The Whitton Awards are an 

annual tradition for Glebe, Old 

Ottawa South, Ottawa East, and 

Heron Park North residents. 

Started by Mayor Jim Watson 

during his tenure as city 

councillor, the awards formally 

recognize outstanding community 

achievement in Ottawa's 

Capital Ward. Councillor Inez 

Berg is proud to carry on the 

tradition of honouring the volunteerism 

that makes our 

neighbourhoods such special 

places to live. 

ADMISSION FREE 

This year's ceremony will 

take place at 7 p.m. on May 27 

at Lansdowne Park's Assembly 

Hall. Admission is free and 

light refreshments will be provided. 

Join family, friends and 

neighbours in celebrating the 

spirit of Capital Ward! 

Central Park 

Cleanup 

Saturday, May 9, 9:30- noon 

Drop by, even if you only have an 

hour to spare. Bring garden gloves, 

clippers and loppers if you have 

them. 

Organised by Central Park Renewal 

Committee. For info call 237-9767. 

Next Deadline 

June 1, 1998 

INSIDE 

Garage Sale 

Registration 2 

Letters 5 

Taxes, youth and dogs 

GCA 6 

Focus 9 

Livable corrimunities need 

local services 

Councillor's Column.10 

Feature 20, 21 

Everything for gardeners- 

stretches, books & plants 

Arts 22,23 

Art in the Park June 6; 

Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau 

Sports 27 

Bouse League hockey 

OCD school trustee 

report 28 

Books 36 

Letters of Jack McLelland 

`--V44t 

Quote of the Month 

[ To plant is to love others 

besides oneself. 

Old English Prover&

NEWS 

Rock-a-thon '98 

Abbotsford Senior Centre will 

be rocking Saturday, June 13 but 

not with punk, funk or hardrock. 

As many as 60 teams from the 

community are expected to keep 

rocking chairs rocking 1:30 - 

4:30 p.m. in Rock-a-thon '98, a 

major fund-raising event for the 

Senior Centre which is located at 

Abbotsford House on Bank Street 

across from Lansdowne Park. 

Teams drawn from all parts of 

the community, including politicians 

and media personalities, 

will collect pledges to support 

the centre's programs and to be 

part of the afternoon event 

There'll be a raffle, prizes, 

music and refreshments to revive 

flagging spirits and lagging 

stamina. 

For more information on Rocka-thon 

'98 and how to enter a 

team, call: Dianne Breton at 567- 

Glebe Centre open house May 26 

BY CHERYL LEDGERWOOD Pick up an information package 

The Glebe Centre is holding an and watch videos describing all 

Open House on Tuesday, May 26 the recreational activities. Fill 

between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. for out an application to volunteer 

anyone interested in learning and schedule an interview with 

about the variety of volunteer op- the Volunteer Services Departportunities 

available at this long ment. Tours are offered at 4 p.m. 

term care facility (across from and again at 6:30 p.m. 

Lansdowne Park). The Open 

House will be of particular inter- Access to the Glebe Centre is by 

est to youth who are looking for Bank Street and Monk Street and 

summer volunteer positions, as parking is available. F o r 

well as for university, college and information call Cheryl 

high school students for place- Ledgerwood in Volunteer Services 

ments for the coining year. at 238-2727 ext 323. 

Green thumbs needed 

Got a green thumb.? The Glebe Environment committee is looking 

for volunteer gardeners to maintain the planter boxes that grace our 

neighbourhood each summer. 

The choice of plant material is yours, the work is easy and the 

rewards are great 

Volunteers have included gardeners looking for a little space to 

express themselves, environmentalists, business owners interested 

in enhancing their community and families with a sense of pride in 

our neighbourhood. 

We're also looking for a coordinator. Please call Joanna Dean, GCA 

Environment Rep. at 237-9767. 

Remind Mom of 

How Sweet She's 

Always Been 

Send her a 

Candy Bouquet 

6558 or Janice Bridgewater at 

Abbotsford Senior Centre at 230- 

5730. 

Gordon Hauser encourages the 

public to register before May 29. 

"There's no age limit but children's 

legs must touch the floor 

to be able to rock effectively. 

Grandpa knows how to do it already. 

Let's make a party of this 

event" 

ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE 

WHO LIKE TO MEET PEOPLE 

Card games like euchre and 

bridge are ongoing at Abbotsford. 

There is snooker for $1 a day, 

Scrabble to challenge your knowledge 

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3 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 NEWS 

Preschool 'graduates' drop in 

BY JENNIFER WILSON 

It is 8:30 in the morning. 

Preparing the sunny playroom of 

the Good Morning Preschool I pick 

up a golden cape and hang it in 

the dress-up area. I smile as I 

remember Lianna, who gave this 

same cape to a friend a few years 

ago, saying, "Wear this; it will 

make your heart sparkle." Sometimes 

Lianna peers through the 

window on her way to school and 

waves. I'm always delighted to 

see her. 

Replenishing some paint at the 

easels, I am distracted by taps at 

the window. 

Looking up, I see 

three beautiful little girls: 

Keltie, Deirdre and Kelly, graduates 

of five years ago. The big 

front door is heard opening and 

there's a clattering down the 

steps. The pretty trio is visiting. 

We hug and they explore the 

room, faces wreathed in smiles. 

"It's still the same," smiles 

Keltie. 

"Exactly," chorus the others. 

Well, I will not correct them, 

but a generous grant from the 

provincial government has added 

greatly to our equipment . . . 

along with much appreciated help 

from talented parents who have 

given us more shelves and storage 

space. 

After they leave, the water 

table must be filled and toys put 

out. 'Space' was our theme last 

week and a massive rocket, a 

group project, fills the back wall. 

On the window wall, three large 

paintings of people cavort. A re- 

markable figure created b y 

Nathan seems to be walking off 

the page. 

This place is joyful. I remember 

the unbridled delight o f 

Philip and Felix a few days ago as 

they whizzed little cars through 

tunnels of unoccupied chairs. 

Their laughter was infectious. 

Philip, retrieving a car, handed it 

to Felix. 

"Here, Felix, it's your turn 

now" he said, sharing in an exemplary 

fashion. 

This is a sharing kind of place. 

Friendships are made here not 

just between children, but 

amongst the parents too, working 

together to make this brief 

chapter of their lives as magical 

and meaningful as possible. 

Spring is coming. New parents 

will be visiting our school. I like 

to think that their- hearts will 

sparkle too. 

Jennifer Wilson is a teacher at 

Good Morning Preschool, 174 

First Ave. For registration information 

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Central Park." The fair is held in 

celebration of the century of fellowship 

between St. Matthew's 

and the Glebe community. 

1998 marks the 100th anniversary 

of the founding of St. 

Matthew's Church in the Glebe, 

and the fair will mark the mid 

point in our celebration. We hope 

that all Glebe residents will join 

us at the fair from 11:00 a.m. to 

4:00 p.m. on the east side of Central 

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Events at the fair will include 

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be available at modest prices and 

will be prepared under the direction 

of one of Ottawa's bestknown 

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the children of St. 

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and anniversary cake for all. 

We look forward to seeing you 

all at the Fair in Central Park. 

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5 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 LETTERS 

Holding the tax line may hurt the poor 

Editor, Glebe Report, 

After reading Mayor Jim Watson's 

letter in the Glebe Report I 

saw that it is clear Mr. Watson is 

reinforcing his political career 

by what he thinks is the popular 

"Hold The Tax Line and Reduce 

Social Services Platform." This 

platform could cause long term 

damage to the city of Ottawa.. 

Canada's wonderful society has 

been built with the strong, intelligent 

assistance of social programs 

designed not only to relieve 

the suffering of the poor and 

disadvantaged but to offer them 

opportunities for advancement. 

For most today on social assistance, 

there is not the slightest 

hope for improvement in their 

lives. Most cannot hope to make a 

good presentation of themselves 

during a job interview because of 

malnourishment, poor clothing, 

illness caused by lack of dental 

care and simple severe depression 

about their situation. This 

is not common sense and yet Jim 

Watson seems to want to add even 

more misery to the hopelessness 

by removing even more social 

programsland that appears to include 

the once per month assistance 

provided by the Ottawa 

Food Bank. Once per month is the 

reality of the food bank for persons 

using that assistance. 

I think politicians are very 

wrong if they think Canadians 

support poor health of their fellow 

citizens. Mr. Watson himself 

Time to take back the right 


A situation arose recently when 

I was at a neighbourhood cinema. 

Five boys, between the ages of 10 

and 14 took seats two rows behind 

me. I was not aware of them at 

first but half an hour into the 

movie, I certainly noticed that at 

least one of them had a lighter 

which he flicked several times. 

Twice I warned these children 

to stop playing with fire. When I 

had to confront them a third time 

for rough-housing and causing a 

disturbance and they ignored me, 

this told me that it was time for 

the theatre management to step 

in. 

Even after they had been 

escorted to the lobby, they were 

mouthy and defiant. No o ne 

owned up to having a lighter and 

they dared the staff to frisk them. 

However, one of them was seen 

trying to cadge a cigarette earlier 

in the evening thus it was a moot 

point. Apparently, there had 

been problems with these 

children before and as a 

consequence of their ongoing bad 

behaviour, they were expelled 

from the theatre. 

The questions I am left with are 

numerous. What were children 

doing unsupervised at an event 

that wasn't going to end until 

11:00 p.m.? What were they 

doing with lighters? What made 

Crime rate lower where people wa 


It was a dark and stormy night 

about 10:30, but our dog needed a 

walk, so my intrepid husband 

braved the elements to walk our 

dog. As they were walking on 

Morris Street, they came upon two 

people on the ground just under 

someone's window. As they approached, 

a man got up from the 

ground and ran off, leaving a very 

shaken woman on the ground. The 

man was attempting to rape the 

woman, and only my husband's 

arrival with the dog prevented the 

rape. She was struggling, but he 

was stronger than she was. They 

were under someone's window, 

but she was unable to scream, 


My dog, a seven-year-old female 

collie named Samantha, is apparently 

Public Enemy No. 1 in the 

eyes of the Glebe Community Association 

and the City of Ottawa. 

That is the only conclusion I can 

come to after learning that a new 

by-law will be voted on by our 

city council that will restrict 

dogs to 'leashes only' in Central 

Park east. 

This proposal comes, without 

public consultations, at the sole 

behest of one, and only one, individual 

who complains at any 

hour when he hears dogs frolicking 

in that park. 

Indeed, the proposed restriction 

to be placed on our canine 

neighbours in Central Park go 

further than those that are to be 

enforced at Brown's Inlet. To date 

there has been no public discus- 

using all her energies to fight the 

man. We reported it to the police. 

Had the dog not needed a walk, my 

husband certainly wouldn't have 

been out walking on that cold 

night in March. 

I mentioned this to a young 

woman, another dog owner, who 

said she has been out walking her 

dog very late at night on two occasions 

this past winter, and saw 

incidents which were very suspicious, 

and phoned the police to 

report it. On one occasion, a man 

was looking in someone's window 

and ran off when he saw her approach 

with her large dog. 

Jane Jacobs, the well-known 

sociologist writing on the life and 

sion on any of this as it relates to 

Central Park. 

Central Park, on both sides of 

Bank Street, is one of the unnoticed 

jewels of our city. With an 

LCBO outlet very close, these 

parks are frequented by the more 

unfortunate elements of our coinmunity. 

They, in the absence of 

public washrooms, use these two 

parks as their very public toilets. 

This is in addition to the beer 

and liquor bottles that also turn 

up. 

These two parks are made much 

safer by the presence of dog-owners 

and their dogs. 

It is the presence of dogs, and 

their owners, that keep these 

parks as public institutions to be 

enjoyed by all. This point cannot 

be understated - especially given 

the all-too-visible absence of any 

police patrols in our neighbour- 

in his letter admits people have 

asked him what is wrong with 

property tax increases of 1 or 3 

or even 5 percent? What is wrong 

is that Mr. Watson thinks his 

political career will benefit in 

the next election if he can say 

"See, I promised 0 per cent tax 

increases and I kept my promise." 

He might add "even at the cost of 

economic recovery for a large 

percentage of poor Canadians." 

Unless Mr. Watson gains a great 

deal more insight into the responsibilities 

of his office as 

mayor, he should be replaced at 

the earliest opportunity, which, 

unfortunately, seems to be the 

next election. 

Robert Mosurinjohn 

them think that they could 

endanger the lives of other people 

in the theatre? Why did they 

refuse to respect an adult making 

a direct request and then 

continue to defy the adults in 

charge? 

I think something T.S. Eliot said 

sums up the situation: "It's not 

wise to violate rules until you 

know how to observe them." In 

the case of children running 

roughshod, creating mayhem 

wherever and whenever they want, 

I believe that it is time for adults 

everywhere to take back the right, 

the right to be listened to by 

those who do not know better. 

Shannon Lee Mannion 

lk their dogs 

death of cities, noted in the '60s 

that in neighbourhoods where 

people know one another, and are 

out and about, there is a lower 

crime rate. Dog owners are certainly 

out and about, and get to 

know one another and their 

neighbourhoods as they walk 

their dogs and chat in the park. 

I remember so well other dog 

owners who offered me friendship 

as well as lots of helpful advice 

when I first began coming to the 

park when my dog was a puppy. I 

would hope we can all continue to 

meet to offer advice and friendship 

to one another and others as 

we all share our park. 

Janet Desroches 

Reconsider policy on dogs in parks 

hood since "Skate's" departure. 

The dog owners are also responsible 

individuals who do 

clean up after their animals, 

share doggie bags with those who 

have miscalculated or forgotten 

their plastic bags at home and 

supply the majority of volunteers 

who turn up each spring and fall 

in 'clean-up' campaigns in these 

two parks. 

This proposed by-law of restricting 

dogs to 'leashes only' 

can be reversed but your help is 

needed. Please write to and call 

Jim Watson (Mayor of Ottawa) at 

244-5380 and Inez Berg (City 

Councillor for Ward 9) at 244- 

5367. There will also be a petition 

available for signing that 

will be posted in this park and at 

Berry's Pet Food on Second 

Avenue next to Home Hardware. 

Robert Sims 

Clarification on 

monarch butterfly 

article 


I write to you regarding your 

feature article "Glebe teen follows 

monarchs to Mexico" written 

by Emma Peacocke (April 3, 

1998), on topics related to the 

monarch butterflies in Mexico 

and the Mexico-Canada student 

exchange program supported by 

the Canadian Museum of Nature. 

Ms. Peacocke presented altogether 

a well written and interesting 

article, as expected from 

the high quality learning experience 

resulting from the above 

mentioned exchange program. 

Nonetheless, I was very surprised 

when she mentioned that "the 

deforestation in Mexico is ordered 

by drug barons, who coerce 

the indigenous people to burn the 

butterfly's coniferous forest 

habitat to make room for marijuana 

crops" (p.3). 

I deeply regret her visit to the 

monarch's area in Mexico did not 

allow her to see and understand 

the main reasons for deforestation 

(e.g. poverty, disenfranchisement 

and lack of alternatives), 

and preferred to irresponsibly 

focus on an issue that 

is certainly not a significant 

cause of deforestation in that region. 

Furthermore, it seems that 

unfortunately she was not capable 

to identify either the formidable 

challenges for development and 

conservation in the region, or to 

appreciate efforts currently undertaken 

jointly by the Mexican 

government, NGOs 

and local 

communities to address them - 

like no other country in North 

America. 

My credentials for saying the 

above are over 15 years working 

as a biologist in the region on 

conservation and development issues, 

through NG0s, such as 

Monarca A.C. and the World 

Wildlife Fund-Mexico; doing research 

through the University of 

Guelph; and now as environmental 

affairs counsellor at the Mexican 

Embassy. My work is reflected in 

several articles; in the design and 

production of the ex h i b it 

"Monarca... butterfly beyond borders," 

carried out by the Canadian 

Museum of Nature; and the 

production of the film, with the 

same title, recently featured by 

the Discovery Channel across 

Canada. 

Jiirgen Hoth, 

Counsellor for Environmental and 

Scientific Affairs, Mexican Embassy 

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GCA Glebe Report May 8, 1998 6 

GCA's AGM on May 13 

GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE 

The Great Glebe Garage Sale is 

scheduled for May 23rd, raindate 

May 24th. As usual, volunteers 

will be required. If you want to 

get involved or want more information 

on the GGGS, call George 

Holland at 235-4732. See the ad 

and registration form in this issue 

of the Glebe Report 

Remember, registered locations 

will be donating ten percent of 

their proceeds to the Ottawa Food 

Bank 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 

The GCA holds its annual 

meeting May 13 starting at 7:30 

in the main hall of the Glebe 

Community Centre. If you want to 

get involved in your local community 

association now is the 

time. See notice and details in 

this month's issue of the Glebe 

Report. 

DOGS IN PARKS 

The GCA has established a 

small committee to attempt to 

work out some of the difficulties 

associated with the new Dogs - 

Parks Designation Policy proposal 

introduced by the city in 

late March. Of particular concern 

to many residents around Brown's 

Inlet is the time restrictions for 

dogs on leash. The current proposal 

has leash only from 9 a.m. 

to 6 p.m. seven days a week 

starting June 1 through 

September 30. The committee will 

review options and will present 

their findings at the annual general 

meeting on May 13. 

Once again here is a list of 

those city parks where dogs will 

be permitted and a brief summary 

of the proposed restrictions: 

Brown's Inlet - Dogs on leash 

9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; June 1 to Sept. 

30. Dogs allowed during all other 

park hours. 

Central Park - Dogs allowed 

between Lyon and Bank Dogs on 

leash between Bank and Clemow. 

Patterson's Creek - Dogs o n 

leash between Glebe and Clemow. 

Chamberlain - Dogs allowed 

between Lyon and Glendale. 

Lansdowne Park - No dogs on 

ball diamonds. Dogs on leash 

most of park. Dogs allowed free 

within dog run. 

In our other neighbourhood city 

parks, no dogs are allowed at any 

time. 

TRAFFIC 

The GCA Traffic Committee is 

working towards a locally designed 

traffic plan. It is clear 

that most, if not all, the leg work 

will have to be done by local volunteers. 

Both the city and the 

region have little money for such 

work. As a result of both the 

city's and the region's cash 

crunch, any recommendations 

will be based first on what can be 

done immediately for minimal 

cost To the credit of city and 

regional staff, they are willing to 

help as much as they can. 

Committee members have put in 

countless hours on this issue and 

many more can be expected. More 

volunteers are needed. If there 

are sufficient volunteers, the area 

of study could widen. Currently 

the study is concentrating on the 

south-west section of the Glebe 

including parts of the Dows Lake 

By 

G. C. A. 

President 

John Kane 

area. 

GLEBE COMMUNITY CENTRE 

As Councillor Berg mentioned 

in her column last month, the city 

has indicated that they could not 

proceed with our renovation proposal 

and purchase of service request 

As a result, renovation of 

the Glebe Community Centre will 

not proceed until 2004. First on 

the list of community type capital 

projects is Plant Bath, currently 

closed. 

The GCA governance committee 

presented its findings to the GCA 

board at the April meeting. A 

presentation will also be made at 

the annual meeting. It is important 

not to let this project slip 

into Never Never Land. There is 

always a chance that the renovation 

project will be pushed forward 

and the community must be 

prepared to take a leading role in 

the process. 

PLANNING 

ISSUES 

OBE BUILDING: Development 

plans for the old Ottawa Board of 

Education building on Lyon St. 

are finally moving along. At the 

April 6th special meeting of the 

GCA, Routeburn Urban 

Developments presented some 

modifications to their original 

proposal. The revised plans appeared 

to address the concerns of 

the majority of local residents 

who attended the third in a series 

of meetings on this issue. As a 

result the city was advised of the 

compromise. The next stage of the 

process involves a detailed site 

plan. 

520 THE DRIVEWAY: A development 

proposal for 520 Queen 

Elizabeth Driveway is being circulated 

by Charlesfort 

Development Corporation's Doug 

Casey. Mr. Casey will provide an 

overview of the proposal at the 

next GCA board meeting May 26. 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT 

RESTRUCTURING 

Since the untimely demise of 

the Citizen's Panel both Mayor 

Watson and Chair Chiarelli have 

recently introduced their own 

proposals for restructuring. The 

province has established a deadline 

of November 12 for a local 

solution. If a homegrown proposal 

is not accepted by the various local 

governments, a Toronto solution 

may be imposed. 

With the possibility of a major 

change in local government, the 

outcome of issues such as the 

community centre, Lansdowne 

Park and local traffic are truly 

up in the air. Until the structure 

of local government is finalized, 

real planning beyond next year is 

impossible. Combine this with 

provincial downloading and you 

have both a planning and a funding 

crunch. 

It is essential that this issue be 

resolved as soon as possible and 

locally. It is a particularly im- 

portant issue, for the centretown 

communities. Funding for community 

centre renovations, local 

traffic issues and dog in parks 

policy are difficult enough now. 

How reactive to local concerns 

will a truly regional council be 

and just who will make these decisions 

- council or staff? 

NEXT 

MEETING 

The next meeting of the GCA 

Board will be May 26 at 7:30 p.m. 

at the Glebe Community Centre. 

The GCA annual meeting will be 

held May 13 at the Glebe 

Community Centre at 7:30. 

I would like to remind everyone 

that the GCA board meetings are 

open to the public. Ail residents 

of the Glebe are always welcome. 

If you have ideas, concerns or 

problems regarding our neighbourhood, 

contact the GCA. Also 

watch the notice boards in the 

Glebe Community Centre and at 

the McKeen Loeb store for information 

on the GCA. I can be 

reached at: 235-1782 between 6- 

9:30 pm (residence). E-mail 

anytime: homelcane@sympatico.ca 

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Get together with your neighbours by seliing your treasures or 

wander through the Glebe in search of bargains. 

To help support the Ottawa Food Bank, the Glebe Community 

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Register by May 18 to have your address and sale items 

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May, 22, d 23 singer d songwriter Joe Hall.. Poignant 

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The Ottawa 6ems Series presents some of the best 

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885, 887, 889 and 891 Bank St. 1974 Photo: Parks Canada 

Local colour in grey brick building 

BY BRUCE MCCALLAN 

Constructed in 1909, this 

building is located between Regent 

and Clarey, towards the 

south end of the Glebe. Compare 

this photo to the building today 

and note the tremendous improvement 

in its appearance, the 

result of an extensive exterior 

renovation in 1993. 

vending machines (juke boxes?), 

opened. It remained until 1956 

when a new entertainment 

medium, television, was becoming 

popular and Excel T.V. Sales 

moved into this location. 

RED AND WHITE STRIPES 

NEXT TO COLOUR TV 

In this 1974 photo Dave and 

Lee's Country Store is located at 

885; Ernesto's Barber Shop at 887 

since 1970; apartments on the 

second floor at 889; Excel T.V. 

Sales at 891 and Excel Radiator 

Service at the rear of the building. 

WHO'S THERE TODAY? 

Today you will find Irene's 

Pub-Restaurant at 885. It is now 

in its eleventh year. Ernesto's 

Barbershop is always busy (at 

887). McCrank's Cycles fixes 

bikes at the rear and Cymbiont 

Inc. and Gameday Custom Tattoo 

Co. are on the second floor at 889. 

Prime Crime Books at 891 has 

been selling mysteries since 

1984. 

AVALON THEATRE 

Ottawa resident, Alain 

Miguelez, is writing a book on the 

theatres of Ottawa and he needs 

photos of the old Avalon Theatre 

in the Glebe. He has searched the 

archives, but no public photos 

exist. If you have any photos, 

please call Alain at 230-9601. 

Bruce McCallan will share his 

research on the history of Bank 

Street businesses in the months 

to come, as the Glebe Report ap- 

MR. GREEN WAS A PAINTER, 

MR. BOSLOY A GREEN GROCER 

The first business at 885 was 

that of painter George T. Green in 

1910, who, after moving to several 

other locations on Bank St. settled 

in his own building at 750 Bank 

St. in 1923 where he operated a 

very successful painting and decorating 

business until 1980. 

From 1922 to 1997 Louis Bosloy 

had a grocery and fruit store here 

while living with his family in an 

apartment above the store. 

A TRADITION OF BARBER- 

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In the early years 887 was often 

connected to 885. With the 

opening of Ruby E. Graham's 

Beauty Parlour and Ira L. Perrault's 

Barber Shop in 1935 a 

business tradition at this location 

began. Although the last 

beauty parlour, Crown Beauty 

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barbershops have operated here 

to this day. 

At what is now 891 Samuel 

Levin, the tailor, had a shop in 

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BY ALICE HINTHER 

The warm, summer-like weather 

we have enjoyed over the past few 

weeks has no doubt started many 

Glebe residents thinking of gardening. 

Once again GNAG is 

sponsoring the annual perennial 

exchange on May 14. This event 

has been held for several years, 

and each year the number of participants 

grows bringing novice 

and experienced gardeners together 

to share plants and gardening 

tips. The exchange is held 

outside at the main entrance to 

the Community Centre on Lyon 

Street. Gardeners are asked to 

bring along their extra perennial 

plants, seeds, or even bags of 

compost or other gardening related 

items to trade with fellow 

gardeners. It is helpful if you 

can identify your plant and offer 

a bit of information about it But 

don't worry if you can't identify 

it there is sure to be someone 

there who will! The exchange 

begins at 6:30 p.m. and usually 

runs for about an hour so arrive 

early for the best choices. 

If you are still wondering what 

to do with the kids this summer, 

be sure to check out the summer 

camps being offered at the community 

centre. We have programmes 

for everyone from preschool 

to teens with activities 

ranging from sports, adventure 

games, art, pottery, carpentry and 

camping. We are accepting registration 

on an on-going basis. 

Spaces are limited and all regis- 

tration is first-come, 

served. 

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ACTIVITIES GROUP 

690 Lyon Street South 

Ottawa, ON, K1S 3Z9 Tel: 564-1058 

May in the Glebe means the 

Great Glebe Garage Sale and this 

year the sale will be held on May 

23. Plan for a fun day of selling, 

shopping and socializing! It's a 

great excuse to clean out the 

garage or basement and to support 

the Ottawa Food Bank. To be included 

in the directory please 

fill out the application provided 

in the Glebe Report and drop it 

off at the community centre. 

Please mark the following GNAG 

events on your May calendar: 

May 1 - Classic Movie Night, $1 

drop in, 7:30 p.m. 

May 6 - Bike Maintenance 

Workshop, 7-9 p.m. Free. Call to 

register 

May 8 - GNAG Youth Dance, 11 - 

14 years, $3 at the door, 7 - 10 

p.m. 

May 14 - Perennial Exchange, 

6:30 p m. - 7:30 p.m. Free. Call 

to register 

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$1 drop in, 7:30 p.m. 

May 23 - Great Glebe Garage 

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GLEBE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 

L'ASSOCIATION COMMUNAUTAIRE DU GLEBE 

Nominations for Board of Directors 

and 

Annual General Meeting 

The Glebe Community Association will hold its annual general meeting on Wednesday, May 13, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. in the Glebe Community 

Centre (main hall) at 690 Lyon Street. One of the items on the agenda is the annual election of the Board of Directors. 

All members of the Association, including incumbents, are eligible to serve on the Board in the positions listed below: 

President 

Committee Chairpersons or representatives for: 

Vice-President (2) 

Business 

Recording Secretary 

Education 

Treasurer 

Environment 

Past President (ex officio, and by 

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group Liaison 

succession) 

Heritage 

Membership Co-ordinator 

Lansdowne Park 

Assistant Membership Co-ordinator 

Neighbourhood Planning 

Publicity Co-ordinator 

Recreation 

Area Directors: (12) 

Seniors 

2 for each of 6 Zones Social Planning 

Tenants 

Traffic 

(From this Board 2 members will represent the community at the F.C.A.) 

If you would like to participate in the direction of your neighbourhood association, or if you wish to forward a nomination, the Nominating 

Committee would welcome your call and provide further information. The closing date for nominations is May 11. Please call or contact: 

John Kane 

235-1782 

Wednesday, May 13, 1998

9 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 

Towards a complete neighbourhood 

BY CHRIS BRADSHAW 

The last nine months Glebites 

have felt, as much as at any time, 

the jeopardy of living in an inner-city 

neighbourhood. The new 

official plan of the region, despite 

its basic strategy to cut 

back on sprawl, includes a series 

of road "improvements" that focus 

ever more traffic on Bronson Avenue. 

Even though the plan did 

not specifically propose any 

widening of Bronson north of the 

canal, it set the stage for monumental 

delays for drivers in that 

section, a sure bet that those 

drivers would create a political 

wedge of demand for relief by 

widening Bronson or a costly new 

tunnel under Dow's Lake to run 

along the route of the proposed 

light-rail pilot project west of 

Preston Street (the "Champagne 

Arterial" which was in a previous 

version of the plan). 

The conflict within the plan has 

been partly beaten back, thanks 

to a change in leadership at regional 

council. But what else will 

it take to curb the car-profligacy 

of suburban and exurban development 

that creates hardening of 

the arteries on streets that once 

were lively and convivial? 

The new official plan calls for 

no additional new urban lands to 

get the region from its previous 

threshold of 900,000 (by 2011) to 

1,000,000 (in 2021). It will do 

this by distributing the future 

development more judiciously to 

previously passed-over lands and 

by reducing the rate of growth of 

car traffic on major roads. 

DEVELOP COMMUNITY CORES 

B y 

How will it do this? 

spurring the development of 

"community cores," which will 

bring many more services closer 

to where people live, and by enhancing 

the alternatives to travelling 

alone in a car. The community 

cores are essentially 

clusters of local stores and services 

in the heart of each neighbourhood, 

like Bank and Lyon 

streets in the Glebe. Where development 

is less dense, it would 

be perhaps more like the Elmvale 

and Beacon Hill shopping centres. 

This loss of propinquity in residential 

areas is more consequen- 

tial today, as most work areas as 

opposed to the central are almost 

void of these kinds of personal-service 

outlets. When such 

services are absent at both ends 

of a commute, it is highly likely 

that the conunuting will be made 

by car, alone. And each person 

who abandons walking, transit, 

and cycling makes those choices 

less palatable for those trying to 

stick with them. 

GIVE 

COMMUNITIES 

LOCAL SERVICES 

The ideal of the complete 

neighbourhood will not be easy to 

achieve. I have been working the 

last two years on devising ways to 

make it happen. Not only must 

new communities have services 

from their inception a n d 

established ones without them 

must develop them, but we must 

also find ways that the 

traditional neighbourhoods can 

reverse the trend of their 

business areas, becoming either 

more car-oriented or more 

tourist-oriented. The Glebe has 

seen increased car ownership at 

the same time as the merchants 

have increased street parking. 

The official plan calls for infilling 

vacant or underused sites, 

which we are doing witness 

Jefferson House, the conversion of 

the former OBE offices on First, 

the proposed replacement of the 

former car-rental property on 

Bank at Patterson with a threestorey 

office, not to mention the 

massive redevelopment of Lansdowne 

Park. It also calls for reexamining 

parking requirements 

and perhaps setting maximums, 

on the growing realization that 

each parking space, by accommodating 

car travel, induces it 

I would like to explore some of 

the ways that Glebites can reduce 

our own use of cars and thus not 

only reduce traffic on our streets, 

but set an example to other 

neighbourhoods. I will also explore 

some principles on which 

this transformation will be based 

as well as local programs that can 

be used to break the cycle of increased 

car use and our dependency 

on distant stores and services. 

Chris Bradshaw is organizer of 

Initiatives for Neighbourhood Integrity. 

He worked in the planning 

department of RMOC for 22 

years. 

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City Councillor's report 

SPRING CLEANING THE 

CAPITAL 

Spring has definitely arrived, 

and along with the city workers 

cleaning our streets and parks, 

comes Ottawa's annual Spring 

Cleaning the Capital Week, May 4 

to 10. The city invites everyone 

to help keep Ottawa clean and 

green and to show their community 

pride by cleaning up their 

property and their neighbourhood. 

For information on how to 

get involved, or to register your 

project and get a brochure please 

call 244-5444 or fax: 244-5430. 

You may also call my office at 

244-5367. In this year of the ice 

storm I hope we can keep this 

community pride initiative alive 

all year long! 

EARTH DAY 

On Sunday, April 26, Brewer 

Park was the site of an incredibly 

successful Earth Day celebration, 

thanks largely to the involvement 

and hard work of the Ottawa South 

ECOS committee and a host of 

community volunteers of all ages. 

It was a beautiful day, and I 

joined hundreds of others who 

took part in tree planting and 

many other educational and entertaining 

activities. My thanks 

to all the sponsors, organizers, 

educators, entertainers, and volunteers 

for their hard work and 

commitment to Earth Day and the 

future health of our planet 

WARD BUDGET MEETING 

On April 16, I was pleased to 

host Capital Ward's Budget 

Meeting at the Old Firehall in 

Ottawa South. Over 40 people 

came out for a presentation on 

Budget '98 by City Treasurer, 

Mona Monkman. Mso attending 

were Community Services 

Commissioner Janette Foo and 

Catherine Junop from our new 

Urban Planning and Public Works 

Department 

Several concerns were raised 

about the city's interpretation of 

the responses to the Ekos Survey, 

the research tool used in developing 

the budget. Many objected to 

the inclusion of The Old Town 

Hall Community Centre, outdoor 

rink grant funding, wading pools, 

and Glebe Centre's Outreach support 

services for seniors on an 

options list for potential cuts or 

elimination if staff's recommended 

budget cuts were not accepted 

by council. Though staff 

assured those in attendance that 

these, and other programs for the 

less fortunate which were also on 

the list, were not remotely likely 

to be considered for cuts by 

council, many were not reassured. 

I certainly do not support these 

cuts and will do all that I can to 

see that they are not considered. 

WHITTON AWARDS MAY 27 

I am looking forward to seeing a 

great many Capital Ward residents 

at the Whitton Awards 

Ceremony on Wednesday, May 27 

at Assembly Hall at Lansdowne 

Park at 7:00 p.m. Initiated by 

Mayor Jim Watson when he was 

the ward councillor, and named 

after Ottawa's first femaie mayor, 

Charlotte Whitton, the ceremony 

honours Capital Ward's many 

community volunteers. I attended 

the first ceremony in 1992 as a 

By 

Councillor 

Inez Berg 

nervous recipient, and have grown 

to love the event for the opportunity 

it provides for all o ur 

ward's residents to meet one another 

and celebrate the many 

ways in which volunteers build 

our communities and improve our 

quality of life. As usual, many 

area businesses, organizations 

and volunteers are sponsoring 

and helping with the Whitton 

Awards ceremony. Don't miss the 

fun. Come on out and meet your 

neighbours. 

PARKS DESIGNATION 

POLICY 

I am including some information 

edited from my column last 

month on the city's draft policy 

report on dogs in parks. Its main 

recommendation is to replace the 

edsting policy with a more flexible 

policy intended to ensure 

objectivity in the designation of 

parks for use by dogs. 

Recommendations for Glebe 

parks are: Dogs Allowed Off 

Leash: Chamberlain Park, Central 

Park between Lyon and Bank, 

Brown's Inlet Park all year except 

from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 1 to 

September 30, Lansdowne Park 

dog run, and Sylvia Holden Park. 

Dogs on Leash: Brown's Inlet Park 

9 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 1 to 

September 30, Central Park east 

of Bank and most of Lansdowne 

Park. No Dogs Allowed: Lionel 

Britton, Capital, Eugene Forsey, 

Glebe Memorial parks a n d 

Lansdowne Park baseball diamonds. 

The report was discussed at the 

Glebe Community Association 

meeting of April 28, and a variety 

of issues were raised. That and 

general dissatisfaction on all 

sides with the recommendation 

for Brown's Inlet Park led to the 

formation of a committee of residents 

who will work together to 

identify issues of concern in the 

report and to bring forward a recommendation 

for Brown's Inlet 

Park which may be found more 

equitable. 

At the GCA Annual General 

Meeting May 13, I hope to have 

city staff on hand to explain the 

report and its recommendations, 

and to answer questions. My hope 

is that, as a community, we will 

all come to a better understanding 

of each other and our needs 

by working together on this issue. 

As the city continues to have reduced 

staff and resources for 

parks, it becomes more important 

for communities to be positively 

involved. For information or a 

copy of the report call my office 

at 244-5367 or Jules Bouvier, 

244-5300 ext 3383. 

LANSDOWNE PARK 

Recently PCL Constructors, one 

of three proponents selected to 

take part in the Lansdowne Park 

Revitalization's Stage 3 Request 

for Proposal, informed the city 

that they are withdrawing from 

the process. The city has decided 

to continue with the two remaining 

proponents, Canderel and 

Canadian Gateway. Completed 

plans must be submitted by June 

8 and several public consultation 

open houses will follow in the 

third week of June. 

TULIP FESTIVAL 1998 

The tulips are out in fine form 

for the Tulip Festival which will 

be held from May 9 to May 17. No 

Parking Anytime restrictions 

will apply in the Dow's Lake area 

during weekends on one side of 

the following streets: Cambridge 

St. South, Kippewa Drive, 

Madawaska Drive and Crescent 

Heights. Please watch for ads and 

announcements about events and 

associated traffic controls in the 

area, and on Queen Elizabeth 

Drive. 

A.C.T. SPORTS AWARDS 

Congratulations to local athletes 

Monica Dingle and Karl 

Saidla who were honoured April 8 

at the associated Canadian 

Travellers 45th sports awards 

dinner. Among 57 sports and 

several teams, they were selected 

for their outstanding performances 

in sailing, and cross 

country skiing respectively. 

Monica Dingle will compete later 

this year in the world senior 

championships in t h e 

Netherlands. 

CAREER STATION 

I recently visited Career: 

Station, an exciting new career 

advisory service in the Coliseum 

Building at Lansdowne Park, 1015 

Bank St. Its director, Barb Booth, 

and her staff offer a variety of 

services to help employees and 

employers. For information call 

Barb at 569-4661 or e-mail: 

bbooth@cyberus.ca 

TRIAGE FOR TREES 

Congratulations to owners and 

staff at the Arrow and the Loon, 

99 Fifth Ave., who have partnered 

with Friends of the Earth in their 

Triage for Trees campaign. On 

April 19 the pub held 

Loonapalooza, a musical kick-off 

to raise money and enlist the help 

of local volunteers to repair damaged 

trees in the Glebe. For information 

or to get involved visit 

the website: wwwfoecanada.org or 

call 241-0085. You can also sign 

up by the big map of the Glebe at 

the Arrow and Loon. Thanks to 

Up All Night, the Hennessy Trio, 

nuginduc and Mindy and Chris 

for their benefit performances. 

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1 1 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 NEWS 

Neighbourhood watch 

Neighbourhood Watch 

meeting Tuesday, May 12 

at 7:15 pm 

Glebe Community Centre 

multipurpose room 

BY BRIAN LYNCH 

The Neighbourhood Watch for 

Glebe north covers 250 homes on 

Rosebery, Glendale, Renfrew, Im- 

Home security tips 

Summary of a presentation to 

Ottawa Neighbourhood Watch Coordinators 

Association by Sr. Cst. 

Mike McMurchy. 

Home security is an important 

consideration. Is the house fully 

visible from the street? Is the 

house number easily visible to 

police responding to a call? Are 

doors or windows, even basement 

windows obscured by shrubbery? 

A privacy fence may look good 

but remember that it also reduces 

opportunities for "neighbourhood 

watching." Fencing higher than 

forty inches is not recommended. 

CHECK NIGHT-TIME LIGHTING 

Does your home have night-time 

lighting sufficient for neighbours 

to observe a prowler front, back 

or side? A night light controlled 

by a motion detector is even 

better than a constant light, 

because it's more noticeable when 

activated. External security 

alarms can be effective, but only 

if properly installed and 

carefully managed you don't 

want an alarm that starts blaring 

whenever the neighbour's cat 

slinks by. 

LOCK YOUR DOORS 

How about doors? Many doors 

can be opened with one good kick, 

or maybe even with a credit card. 

The cheapest solution is to buy a 

deadbolt lock, and install it with 

an extended or wrap around 

strike plate attached with screws 

long enough (3 1/2 to 4 inches) to 

perial, Powell and associated 

sections of Lyon, Bronson & Bank 

streets. 

The police report for this area 

in March included: four reports 

on Renfrew and Powell avenues of 

mischief to property under 

$5,000; break and enter t o 

apartments on Rosebery Ave. and 

the theft of a $900 mountain bike 

from Renfrew Ave. 

extend into the two-by-four 

frame. A sidelight window 

(beside the door) should be made 

of tempered glass, and you might 

also consider using a double 

deadbolt, which must be unlocked 

with a key from the inside as well 

as outside. 

Patio doors present a different 

problem. Many homeowners make 

them safer with a charley bar, or 

a piece of wood cut to fit snugly 

into the opening but are not aware 

that the entire door can be easily 

pried upwards and pulled off its 

track. 

(The frame has a spring- 

loaded upper track for ease of 

installation.) A cheap and effective 

solution is to drill and drive 

several screws into the upper 

track just deep enough to clear 

the upper edge of the sliding 

door. 

Then there's the garage door. 

Youths have been known to cruise 

residential streets trying different 

combinations to automatic 

garage doors, so before you go on 

vacation, unplug the door opener. 

Another cheap fix is to block the 

track that the door rolls on, with 

a removable pin or padlock, so 

that the door can't be raised (for 

a double door, pin both tracks). 

Finally, what should you do if 

you arrive home and notice signs 

of intrusion? Whatever you do, 

don't go ina burglar will be 

pumped to a high adrenaline level 

and may react violently. G o 

immediately to a neighbour's 

house and call the police. 

Selected police statistics for March, 

1998 provided by Cst. Claude Cayer 

area 1 area 2 area 3 area 4 

alarrn 19 18 19 9 

theft 4 6 4 2 

res. B&E 2 1 5 1 

MVA 

property 1 10 6 4 

traffic compl. 4 11 3 1 

Total 65 109 78 26 

total police calls to the Glebe in March: 278 

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NEWS Glebe Report May 8, 1998 12 

Distress Centre 

Volunteers are great listeners 

BY ROY MATTHEWS 

Do you feel like devoting a little 

bit of your time to help people 

In trouble? How about volunteering 

as a telephone counsellor at 

the Distress Centre of Ottawa and 

Region7 

The Centre, founded 30 years 

ago, provides a 24-hour confidential 

listening service for residents 

of our area who need understanding 

and support. Callers 

may be recently bereaved, in a 

difficult relationship, having job 

problems, dealing with alcohol or 

drug addiction or simply lonely 

and depressed. Occasionally 

there is someone in a really desperate 

situation who is becoming 

suicidal. 

Volunteers are given a 56-hour 

training course (held in the 

evenings) to prepare them to 

handle all these kinds of calls. 

There are well-established pro- 

Annual bedding plant sale 

Spring is here and your garden 

needs colour! Once again, the 

garden plant sale will be held on 

May 9 and 10, from 8:30 a.m. - 

2:00 p.m., in support of the Glebe 

Cooperative Nursery School. A 

wide variety of annual bedding 

plants, hanging baskets, and 

herbs will be sold at great prices 

in the parking lot of the Glebe 

Community Centre. Gardeners 

will be on staff to provide Mother's 

Day gift suggestions and 

other planting information. In 

cedures to guide them plus a 

round-the-clock backup system 

to assist in emergencies. The new 

volunteer is required to serve for 

a minimum of one year, putting in 

three four-hour shifts (including 

one overnight stint) each month. 

There are about 150 volunteers on 

the centre's rota, so days and 

times can be fitted in with individual 

preferences. 

The Distress Centre is located 

downtown near bus routes and 

with parking available. The small 

and friendly staff works in close 

liaison with volunteers, and refresher 

courses and special weekend 

"in-service" sessions are offered 

from time to time to pass on 

information and encourage a cooperative 

spirit among participants. 

This is a very worthwhile 

activity. The next training 

course starts in mid-June. Interested? 

Call 238-1089. 

the past years, plants have sold 

fast, so come early! For more information 

please contact Jenifer 

Cepella, 234-2830. 

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1 3 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 NEWS 

Our natural spaces 

Do you have a favourite woodland, 

waterfront area or open 

space in your neighbourhood? 

Are you curious to see how it was 

valued relative to other similar 

areas in the city? The draft of 

Ottawa's Natural and Open Spaces 

Study (NOSS) is ready for public 

discussion. The study identifies 

and evaluates the city's remaining 

natural areas and open spaces 

including woodlands, wetlands, 

watercourses, and vegetated open 

spaces. Management recommendations 

and turgets and standards 

for greenspace were also developed. 

The Arboretum, Patterson's 

Creek and Brewer Park: pond were 

part of the study. 

The areas studied represented 

both public and privately owned 

land. City parks and schoolyards 

were not evaluated due to their 

intrinsic social value. 

Targets, i.e. realistic goals, 

were set to retain greenspace and 

natural features. For example, 

there should be no further loss of 

woodlands ranked high or 

moderate. Targets for wetlands 

recommended no further loss of 

wetlands ranked high for wetland 

features. Targets for open space 

areas are recommended as no loss 

of function for areas ranked high 

for social values and/ or 

recreational linkage values. The 

arboretum, for example, scored 

the highest for social values. 

INFORMATION SESSION MAY 12 

The NOSS Overview Report will 

be available at branch libraries 

and community centres May 1 for 

a formal one-month public 

review. 

Also, an information 

session will be held Tuesday, May 

12 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the 

Fuller Room at Ottawa City Hall, 

111 Sussex Drive. The session 

will provide a summary of study 

findings, and "kitchen table" discussion, 

where city staff will 

provide a summary of study 

findings, and will answer any 

questions. All NOSS deliverables 

will be available at the session 

for review, including the data 

used to evaluate individual areas 

(i.e. the 64 data binders.) 

For more information on the 

Natural and Open Spaces Study, 

please contact Deborah Irwin, 

Environmental Management 

Branch at 244-5300 ext. 3000, or 

Susan Costello, ext. 3365 or by e- 

mail at irwind@city.ottawa.on.ca 

or costellos@city.ottawa.on.ca 

We hope to see you on May 12. 

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A step in the right direction 

BY KIM COPELAND 

(PEACE & ENVIRONMENT RE- 

SOURCE CENTRE VOLUNTEER) 

After another long Canadian 

winter, spring has once again arrived, 

showering us with hope and 

new energy. What better way to 

celebrate this spirit than to participate 

in Ottawa's 13th Annual 

Social Action Walk? Organized 

by the Peace and Environment Resource 

Centre, this year's walk 

takes place Saturday June 6. 

This event is an important (and 

fun) one for Ottawa's social action 

community. Not only does it 

raise much-needed funds for local 

organizations, but it gives 

these groups a chance to get together 

and exchange ideas, information, 

etc. The issues addressed 

by this community include everything 

from childhood poverty to 

Burmese human rights. That's 

why this year's theme is Growing 

a Strong Community. 

If you don't (yet) belong to a 

social action group, don't be shy 

the walk is a great event for you 

too. Before and after the walk, an 

Info-Fair will be set up providing 

plenty of opportunity to find out 

what's happening on Ottawa's social 

action scene. As an added 

incentive, the individual who 

raises the most pledges will receive 

a generous prize. 

The walk will once again begin 

at Central Park (Bank and Patterson) 

in the Glebe. We will share 

the park with the Art in the Park 

event. Registration for the walk 

will begin at 10 a.m., and the 

walk will begin at 11 a.m. The 8 

km route will leave the park and 

loop its way along the Canal, 

around Dow's Lake and through 

the Arboretum. After the walk, 

there will be free snacks and an 

awards ceremony in the park. 

If you would like more information 

or a pledge form, or would 

like to make a pledge (donation), 

please contact the Peace and Environment 

Resource Centre at 

230-4590. You are also welcome 

to drop by the centre at 174 First 

Ave., 2nd floor. 

So come on Glebe residents 

put on your walking shoes and 

come celebrate Ottawa's social 

action network. We'll see you at 

the walk! 

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15 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 BUSINESS NEWS 

Basilisk Dreams Books 

857 B Bank Street 

230-2474 

www.basilislton.ca 

Mon-Thurs 10 am - 6 pm 

Friday 10 am - 10 pm 

Sat 10 am - 6 pm 

A passion for literature and the 

dream to open a science fiction 

and fantasy book store turned 

into reality for John Kahane. 

Previously located in N e w 

Edinburgh, Basilisk Dreams 

Books (BDB) recently moved to the 

Glebe (on Bank St. near Fifth 

Ave.). The Basilisk is a creature 

from Greek mythology (it's half 

rooster/half snake, with the 

ability to turn you to stone). 

However, for the complete story 

on how John chose the BDB name, 

well, best to ask him. 

"One of the things I've always 

enjoyed about books, regardless 

of the type of book, is that they 

stretch the imagination in some 

fashion and give one a sense of 

pleasure. Science fiction (sf) and 

Business matt 

BY BRUCE DONALDSON 

GLEBE BUSINESS GROUP 

Many merchants in the 

Glebe Business Community Group 

are making plans to meet the expected 

increase in business from 

tourists. Store fronts are being 

painted in attractive colours and 

flowers are sprouting in shops to 

remind us of the approaching 

tulip festival. Overall this 

activity has made the shopping 

' area more upscale so that it will 

continue to attract the growing 

Glebe population. 

The Glebe Report people decided 

to increase the focus on 

business issues. I have 

been asked to do this and accepted 

with pleasure. I hope you 

will find it informative. 

The Glebe's population is 

estimated at over 2 5,0 0 0, 

according to real estate sources. 

Much of the population is within 

walking distance of the business 

section and when complemented 

by reasonable parking 

guidelines, the total Glebe 

population has convenient access 

to the shops. 

However, we do not have reasonable 

parking guidelines! Because 

of the upscale shopping area, 

pedestrian traffic on Bank Street 

between Glebe Avenue and Fifth 

Avenue is higher than i n 

any :-.ther part of the city according 

to the best information we 

could obtain from City Hall. As 

a result when a business moves 

out, there is usually another 

wanting to move in that is prepared 

to add new investment. 

When I asked about the direction 

future development should 

take, most merchants and local 

shoppers replied that the Glebe 

has the atmosphere of a 

small town and they would prefer 

to keep it that way. They like 

the new businesses that are 

opening up providing more 

competition and improved 

shopping. 

However, Camelot has its problems, 

chief among which are 1) 

inadequate police protection, 2) 

unnecessary parking limitations, 

and 3) heavy pass through traffic 

fantasy is certainly a genre that 

does this, but the manner in 

which I first came into reading sf 

and fantasy is a story all on its 

own," explains John Kahane. At 

age 8, John's father encouraged 

him to read The Hobbit by J.R.R. 

Tolkien (this was an experience 

unto itself, and propelled John 

into a realm of imaginative fiction 

that he hadn't known about before). 

After completing Lord of 

the Rings, it was recommended 

that John read Isaac Asimov's 

Foundation. This book directed 

John to a totally different genre 

of writing than the Tolkien, but 

one that had an oddly similar appeal...thus, 

John's passion for sf 

and fantasy began. 

Basilisk Dreams Books offers an 

inviting approach to their new location; 

upon entering the store, 

there is a reading area with a 

comfortable couch and a coffee 

table that holds some of the latest 

advance copies of books. As well, 

ers 

in rush hour. I will address the 

first problem. 

POLICE PROTECTION 

Where are the police in the 

Glebe? Until a year ago Skate was 

the beat policeman assigned in 

the Glebe. He made a point of getting 

to know the shop keepers in 

the community and what they 

wanted to do. He attended meetings 

of the Glebe Community Association 

(GCA) and wrote a column 

in this paper indicating 

trends and problems as they developed. 

In particular, he was 

able to control the verbally 

aggressive or inebriated pan 

handlers who can be a problem in 

the summer. He ensured as best 

he could that there was a rapid 

response to calls for assistance. 

Suddenly, he was transferred. 

The concern is that a replacement 

was not made to carry on 

the established community police 

work. Why not? We do not 

have answers. (Cst. Claude 

Cayer's pager is 566-1996. Ed.) 

Please let us know if you have 

any concerns arising from the 

business community and we will 

try to follow them up. 

Write to Bruce Donaldson c/o 

the Glebe Report at the Glebe 

Community Centre. 

What a dilemma 

Cathy, the saleslady extraordinaire 

and sometimes manager of 

Dilemme is leaving. For many 

years, this hard working, knowledgeable, 

reliable lady who lives 

in the Glebe has gained many 

friends with her pleasant outgoing 

nature. She is returning to 

her native Saskatchewan and I'm 

sure you will join Dilemme in 

wishing her well and every good 

fortune. 

Filling her shoes will be a 

challenge. Résumés may b e 

dropped off to Bob at Dilemme at 

785 Bank Street (233-0445). 

Good-bye to Humpback 

The Glebe says good-bye to 

Humpback Nature Shoppe and 

wish Lee and Paula-Lyn Cleveland 

all the best in their future 

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Regional Councillor's report 

During the campaign, Doug Mc- 

Keen asked me "where is all the 

money going?" He wanted to know 

where exactly his tax money was 

being spent -- suspecting, I 

think, there was a black hole that 

his hard-earned tax dollars were 

being poured down. Well, there 

are black holes around: City Hall 

is one of them. That renovation 

costs more than 6 million dollars 

every year. We could decorate 

every neighbourhood in the Region 

with a Plant Pool until the 

middle of the next century with 

that project. At the Region, I 

haven't been able to discover 

anything that is comparable to 

the city's renovation. Mostly, the 

story is a happy one. The region 

provides 85 percent of your municipal 

services, and takes 6 2 

percent of your taxes. These 

taxes are spent in the following 

way, per month: 

WHERE THE MONEY GOES: 

- $0.42 per month goes toward 

administration costs (cheaper 

than one issue of the Ottawa 

Citizen) 

$2.37 per month for daycare 

- $4.31 per month for garbage 

pickup (four cheap coffees, or two 

expensive coffees) 

$2.41 per month for Public 

Health 

$9.98 per month for clean 

water (less than the basic cable 

TV charge of $15.64 per month) 

- $1.41 per child per inoculation 

- $8.25 per month for sewers 

(the price for Cable Plus is approx. 

$27 per month) 

$2.58 per month for fire hydrants 

(14,000 fire hydrants 

checked every two weeks in winter) 

The big costs are police at $17 

per month; capital financing at 

$31.67 (that's for new roads--all 

in the suburbs, and road maintenance); 

$10.33 for transit; and 

$10.95 per month for community 

and social services (dental clinics 

for low-income seniors, old 

age homes, community health 

clinics, and social assistance 

programmes). 

These average monthly costs for 

regional services are calculated 

for a City of Ottawa resident who 

owns a $150,000 home. 

Since 1993, the region has reduced 

staff by 300 positions, absorbed 

73 million dollars in 

funding reductions from senior 

levels of government, cut 191 

million dollars from annual operating 

budget expenditures, and 

reduced debt by 66 million dollars. 

This year, virtually all the 

capital expenditures for the region 

will go towards maintaining 

our infrastructure. The only exceptions 

for 1998, at the moment, 

are the Hawthorne and Conroy 

Road widenings. 

So, Doug, I can't tell you 

whether or not there is a Santa 

Claus at 111 Lisgar, but there are 

a lot of hard-working elves. As 

I've toured my way through community 

health centres, which 

serve Centretown and Capital 

Ward, the employment resource 

centres, which help those on social 

assistance find work, walked 

laneways behind garbage trucks, 

By 

Councillor 

Clive 

Doucet 

stood in soup kitchens, talked 

with cops, bus drivers and Children's 

Aid workers, the thing 

that has impressed me over and 

over again is what a wonderful 

city we live in and how hard 

_people work to make it so. Taxes 

are never good news, but how they 

get spent, can be. 

REGIONAL BUDGET - 1998: 

In the upcoming budget deliberations, 

I will be doing the best 

that 1 can to ensure that we do not 

have a tax increase--but I will 

not do this on the back of those 

who can least afford it. If it 

comes down to a choice between a 

small tax increase and cutting 

away at bus tickets for those on 

social assistance who need these 

tickets to get to job training 

courses or job interviews--then I 

will vote for the small tax increase. 

This is not easy as I lcnow 

many of my constituents have 

seen their incomes decrease in 

the last few years. 

Right now, the choice that we 

are facing is a patchwork of on& 

time transition funding and borrowing 

from reserves to get us 

through internally to the next 

budget cyclewith the hope that 

the provincial government will 

change its mind and give us some 

relief for next year. 

SHARE THE SERVICES, 

SHARE THE TAXES: 

When the federal government 

downloaded responsibilities on 

the provinces, it also downloaded 

income tax points. It's time the 

province did the same thing for 

regional municipalities. The 

province collects many taxes from 

Ottawa-Carleton residents: gasoline, 

alcohol, house transfers, income 

taxtaxes that should help 

us carry civil society costs like 

health, welfare, and public 

transit. 

Let's reduce the property burden, 

reduce the tangle of shared 

costs and simply receive the appropriate 

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Glebe Questions 

Leaning's gleanings 

After my plea in the last issue 

to be asked more questions about 

the Glebe, I had three questions 

thrown at me well no, delicately 

proffered and each of them was 

historical. Fortunately, there 

was a meeting on April 22 of the 

Glebe Historical Society (which is 

open to anyone who finds the way 

to Ian McKercher's house on 

Fourth Avenue on the appointed 

evening.) Even more fortunate, 

John Leaning was there because 

he has a long memory and as a 

veteran architect probably knows 

more than anyone else about the 

buildings of the Glebe. 

The first question came from 

Robert D. (Bob) Irvine, of Cobalt 

Avenue, who is part of the team 

planning for the centenary 

celebrations of First Avenue 

School. Another involved is 

neighbour Mary Kovacs. Strictly 

speaking, the centenary doesn't 

start until January 1999, because 

the first students came in a longago 

January. But from September 

a curriculum starts for presentday 

students to imagine, even 

relive, the 1890s. 

So, Bob Irvine asks, what was 

the world of First Avenue like in 

1898? How much settlement was 

there along Bank Street, or Esther 

as it had been called? Were there 

farmers' fields around? 

broad questions, because he is 

writing a paper for the students. 

He is doing more than that. 

Presumably as a form o f 

relaxation from his director's job 

at Natural Resources, he is 

remodelling his basement in the 

Lots of 

style of a general store of you've 

guessed it the 1890 period. He 

added, a little unnecessarily, that 

he is "fascinated with the 1890s." 

What could I say? I simply 

passed on to him the names of Ian 

McKercher and John Leaning. 

The next question came from 

Gordon Cullingham, of Clemow 

Avenue, who claimed he didn't 

know the answer. (He edits the 

Ottawa Historical Society 

newsletter, and is steeped in 

heritage knowledge, so I thought 

he was just testing me.) He asks 

whether, around the year 1912, 

before the automobile became a 

familiar monster, the houses on 

Clemow and elsewhere all had 

stables and coach-houses. 

Well, this one was literally up 

John Leaning's street, at the canal 

end of Third Avenue. Some of 

those houses were built in 1894- 

5, and he says parts of the 

foundations of old stables are 

still to be found in backyards, to 

the annoyance of gardeners. Most 

of such houses are east of Bank, 

but Jane Cape11 Stalker says there 

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were stables behind her house at 

185 Fourth, and indeed our house 

(299 First, built in 1912) used to 

share what must have been a large 

coach-house. 

John Leaning can go one better 

than horses in the Glebe. He says 

that there was a cowshed in what 

was then a large garden alongside 

and behind 15 Third Avenue. 

(The extra lot is now taken up 

with an architect's dream 

numbered 13 1/2.) VVhen Blenda 

and John came to live opposite in 

the 1950s, number 15 was owned 

by an old man with a pronounced 

limp called Mr. Dowd, who had 

been mayor of Quyon. His 

parents had kept cows there, and 

grazed them along the canal bank, 

because the Driveway was not 

built until 1902. 

PRIZE FOR UNUSUAL ANIMAL 

My research assistant, Rafiki, 

has shown particular interest in 

this story about cows, and 

wonders what really unusual 

animals (unusual, that is, other 

than his own Jack Russell clan) 

have inhabited the Glebe in the 

past, or even today. So Rafiki and 

I have decided to offer the Dowd 

Memorial Prize for the Most 

Unusual Animal Known to have 

Inhabited the Glebe. Pet birds 

and insects will qualify, but not 

transient skunks. Entries (with a 

fairly full description) should be 

in to us before June 1, and the 

prize will be appropriate to the 

animal. 

Lastly, Mamie Levitt of Fourth 

Avenue has asked who were the 

early architects and builders of 

Glebe homes, and would like to 

know something about the most 

prominent or prolific of them. To 

answer that fully, Mamie, will 

take another column which it will 

be fun to research. In the 

meantime, Katharine Fletcher's 

excellent book Capital Walks: 

Walking Tours of Ottawa 

mentions several: Moses Edey, 

Francis Sullivan, E. L Norwood, 

W. H. Watts, J. Albert Ewart (who 

designed First Avenue School) 

and of course the famous W. E. 

Noffke and (somewhat later) the 

prolific David Younghusband. 

We'll expand on this another 

time, and we'll seek John 

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REGION OF OTTAWA-CARLETON 

O92.1-1 

Bob Chiarelli 

WINDOW ON YOUR REGION is published by the Region of Ottawa-Carleton 

LETTER FROM THE 

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611 a 

EVERY DAY, ALMOST EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY, residents of 

Ottawa-Carleton benefit from regional government services. These 

services include everything from the water you drink to the Main 

roads on which you travel. They include your garbage and blue 

BOB CHIARELLI 

box collection, social assistance available to those in need, public 

transit and police services. They include the public health inspection of your favourite 

restaurants and the traffic signals that allow children to cross roads safely. 

These services are mostly paid for through your property taxes, with some funding 

from the provincial government. Your members of Regional Council are currently making 

important budget choices that reflect our changing responsibilities, but continue to meet 

the needs of Ottawa-Carleton residents and businesses. Our goal is to protect the services 

you value while keeping them affordable. 

The Region of Ottawa-Carleton is facing significant budget pressures due, in part, 

to increased costs for services such as land ambulances and social housing. With the 

addition of the new responsibilities, regional government now provides about 80% 

of all locally-delivered services in Ottawa-Carleton. 

The following articles are designed to help you better understand exactly what 

is provided by the Region of Ottawa-Carleton. Next month, watch for information 

about other regional services as well as highlights of Regional Council's final budget 

deliberations. 

Education 

REGIONAL SERVICES 

Existing Regional Services" 

(garbage and bluebox collection, 

public health, social services, longterm 

care, major roads, planning) 

OC Transpo 

(public transit, Para Transpo) 

I SPRING 1998 I 

Ottawa-Carleton Police 

(community policing, traffic control, 

victim services) 

AS DONNA LEWIS KNOWS 

ONLY TOO WELL, caring for an 

elderly parent especially one 

that requires 24-hour care and 

supervision is very hard work. 

And like any demanding job, you 

sometimes need a break. 

Donna found a way to take 

a break through a day program 

offered by the Senior's Day Centre 

at Carleton Lodge, one of three 

Homes for the Aged operated by 

the Region of Ottawa-Carleton. 

"The program is such a relief. 

It gives me time to do the things 

I need to do," says Donna. "I left 

my job to care for my mother 

full-time during the day. My sister 

cares for her at night. Before the 

day program, I had a hard time 

Lynn Han cock a member of Regional Staff 

getting things done." 

and Audrey Acton, a Carleton Club member 

While it helps Donna maintain 

at the Carleton Lodge. 

some balance in her life, the 

program also provides a positive 

environment for her mother. "It's 

not just good for me, it's good for HOMES FOR THE AGED 

my mother too. She absolutely 

The Region's three Homes for 

loves it. In fact, it's the only place 

the Aged provide 

institutionalized long-term care. The services 

she likes to go to right now. 

include: medicine, nursing, dietetics, therapeutic, 

Everyone knows her there; they social work, housekeeping, financial and spiritual 

make her feel special." 

support. Services are cost shared by the Province 

Lynn Hancock, the Centre's 

of Ontario and the Region of Ottawa-Carleton. 

program coordinator says that for To find out more about respite care services call: 

many caregivers of the elderly in 

Carleton Lodge, 825-3763, Highway 16 at 

Ottawa-Carleton, the Senior's Day 

Woodroffe Avenue, offers day programs. 

Centre at Carleton Lodge provides 

Island Lodge, 789-5100, Porter 's Island, offers 

a very good alternative to full-time 

alzheimers short stay respite programs. 

placement in a senior's home. 

Although a fee applies, it is 

Centre d'Accueil Champlain, 746-3543. 

in Vanier, offers day programs in French. 

minimal and affordable. 

"It would be very expensive 

to hire a caregiver to come to my 

home a few days a week to care for my mother while I went out," says Donna. "This day 

program is affordable." 

The Centre helps frail elderly and cognitively impaired seniors stay in the community. 

It provides respite for the caregiver, and enhances the physical, social and mental well 

being of the senior. It also assists in the transition from independent living to institutional 

care when necessary. 

Open five days a week, from 9:30 to 3:00, the program varies throughout the week 

to accommodate the needs of the seniors. Services offered include grooming, hygiene, 

health promotion, music, religious services, outings and special events. 

New Regional Services 

(social housing, ambulances, child 

care licensing, and highways) 

Local Municipality 

*Water and sewer services are paid 

for through the water bill 

Services paid for by your property tax bill. 

YOUR REGIONAL COUNCILLOR 

Clive Doucet 

Ward R17 

Capital 

Tel: 560-1224 

E-mail: doucetcl@rmoc.on.ca 

The Special Ice Storm Clean-up 

continues t Ottawa-Carleton. 

Regular bi-weekly leaf throug & hou yard collection resumes 

in early June. In the meantirne, depots have been set up to 

accept branches and leaf & yard waste. 

The following depots are open for your convenience: 

Bayview Snow Disposal Facility (Bayview St. North at Transitway) 

Clyde Avenue Snow DIsposat Facility (951 Clyde Ave) 

560-1335

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REGION OF OTTAWA-CARLETON 

A'ofctet berte",(,40,1tJ(vt 

IN MIKE MISKELL'S HOME IN 

CARLSBAD SPRINGS, a discussion 

about clean drinking water still brings 

out anecdotes and enthusiastic 

responses. Their sentiments are shared 

by many residents of Carlsbad Springs, 

where poor water quality and oftenlimited 

quantity had plagued the 

community for decades. 

Before the Region brought water 

to Carlsbad Springs last year,' 

immediately solving the community's 

long-standing water problems, 

wells frequently ran dry in the 

summer, and the water had a heavy 

sulphur taste. 

DRINKING WATER 

The Region provides drinking water to 

approximately 700,000 residents. 

Over 170,000 water tests are performed 

each year that confirm the high quality of 

our drinking water. 

Unlike many others in Canada, Ottawa- 

Carleton's system is entirely self-financed. 

Revenue, collected through the water bill, 

covers the cost of providing water today, and 

helps ensure adequate water quality and 

quantity for the future. 

"Regional water is a Godsend," says Miskell. Our standard of living has improved 

by an immeasurable amount. I've been living here since the 1960s, and we've always 

had variable (quality and quantity) water." 

Miskell says that a survey completed a decade ago found that only 26.5 per cent of 

the water in Carlsbad Springs was safe for drinking. According to the survey, 58.1 per 

cent was unsafe; the rest was drinkable but of a poor taste and quality. 

"It was a huge inconvenience. And it cost a lot of money. I used to spend as much 

on salt for my water conditioner as I do now for Regional water. Add to that the cost of 

constantly replacing fixtures that seized up because of mineral build-up." 

The Region solved the problem by engineering a feasible alternative, called the trickle 

feed system, designed to carry water over long distances. Residents have water storage 

reservoirs in their basement to ensure a constant supply of water. With regular household 

water use, the storage reservoir refills once or twice a day. 

IN THE WORLD OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT where time is money the 

Region of Ottawa-Carleton has an ace up its sleeve. It's called the one-stop planning 

approach to development. 

The Region recognizes that a streamlined process benefits economic development. 

This new business approach reflects the Region's desire to help companies develop in 

Ottawa-Carleton. 

"1 have never been on a project that has run as expeditiously and smoothly as this," 

says Jeff Doll, project manager responsible for Nortel's 1.3 million square foot expansion 

project in the west-end. 

While all land development 

projects require approvals from several 

Regional departments and sometimes 

other levels of government 

projects of the magnitude and 

.complexity of Nortel's often involve 

more stages and, inevitably, more time. 

When Nortel announced the 

expansion project, the Region set up a 

Technical Advisory Committee which 

included approvals departments at 

different levels of government 

municipal, provincial, federal, NCC... 

"We were very favorable to this 

teaming approach," says Mr. Doll. 

"Site plan agreements got completed 

quicker, engineering plans were 

approved fast, and we always knew 

PLANNING AND 

DEVELOPMENT 

APPROVALS 

The Region's new Official Plan is a blueprint 

for development within Ottawa-Carleton to 

the year 2021. It includes provisions for 

the extensive infrastructure system which 

supports development: 

a transportation system that offers 

safe and efficient movement of people 

and goods 

major trunk sewers and treatment facilities 

the central water supply system including 

treatment, pumping, piping and storage 

faci I ities 

who to communicate with. yroblems were resolved before they became issues." 

The Region's one-stop approach makes approvals for development easier and faster 

for customers, says Regional Planning Commissioner, Nick Tunnacliffe. "Instead of going 

to one department for planning approvals, then to another for sewers and roads, every 

customer goes to one place only," he says. 

ort-cail 24 howsv 

citff 

Mike Miskell shows off his new drinking water system. 

EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD CHARLES BUTLER and his handicapped son Roy live in North 

Gower. During the ice stortn, the Butlers lost power but decided to stay at home; 

they could not find a suitable place to go that would accommodate their dog. 

In an effort to help Mr. Butler and his son, Regional staff telephoned their home 

frequently every two hours at times to ensure -they were doing well. They provided 

names of places that might be able to accommodate the Butlers, and their dog one 

eventually was found and requested help from the Red Cross, who shovelled out the 

driveway so they could leave when a suitable place was found. 

The Butlers were one of the 

many families in Ottawa-Carleton 

who received information and 

assistance from the 24-hour 

information centre. Most people 

calling were directed to emergency 

shelters, and assisted with transportation 

if required. Staff also 

ordered food from grocery stores 

in rural areas, ordered fuel for 

generators, and continually 

compiled lists to "call back" of sick 

and elderly people who wanted 

to stay in their homes. 

24 HOUR INFORMATION 

& SERVICE 

At the height of the January state of emergency, 

Regional staff handled 10,000 calls in a single 

day - up from 1,500 calls on a "normal" day. 

The Region of Ottawa-Carleton provides 

information & service to residents 24 hours per 

day, 365 days per year. 

If you know who to call, call them. If you don't, 

560-1335 operators can transfer calls directly to 

most local service providers. 

111 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, ON. K2P 2L7 www.rmoc.on.ca 

560-1335

FEATURE 

Guidelines for healthy gardeners 

BY DR. KEN BROUGH 

May flowers are on every gardener's 

mind. We will soon be 

diving our hands into warm earth 

and admiring our spring tulips 

basking in the sun. 

This year presents the great 

task of cleaning and repairing our 

trees and bushes left in the wake 

of the ice storm. This means that 

there will be extra heavy labour 

to be done. Therefore it is very 

important to take care of yourself 

and avoid any injury that may 

interfere with future gardening. 

The most common injury you 

may experience is lower back 

pain. Certain activities can cause 

or exacerbate this problem: improper 

lifting of heavy objects, 

such as bundled branches, 

twisting your torso without moving 

your legs and feet in the same 

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periods of time, pulling 

out roots without bending your 

knees, raking or hoeing for a 

prolonged period of time. 

The lower back may not be the 

only area affected by over-aggressive 

gardening. The upper 

back and neck can be strained as 

well. These injuries could be 

caused by over-extending yourself 

by stretching for a dead 

branch while working on an ice 

damaged tree. Neck injuries can 

arise from holding your neck or 

head in awkward positions for too 

long. 

START WITH STRETCHES 

There are easy ways to prevent 

these possible injuries. For those 

of us who remained dormant this 

winter it would be wise to begin 

gardening at a slower pace. Begin 

each gardening day with a series 

of stretches. Before you spring 

into action, make sure that your 

body is warmed up prior to your 

full day of lifting, digging, 

pulling and planting. Set small 

goals and a realistic time frame to 

get certain tasks done. You may 

want to organize a few neighbours 

and help each other with the 

heavier gardening duties. 

PLANT YOURSELF SQUARELY 

You must lift heavy objects 

properly to avoid back injuries. 

You must keep your back straight 

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and use your leg muscles for 

lifting, not your back. You can 

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Plant yourself squarely over the 

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Both gardeners and plants need 

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you do not keep your body in the 

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Three basic guidelines will 

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1. Take it easy. 2. Be consistent 

with your stretches. 3. Take 

breaks. Most of all enjoy yourself. 

Happy gardening! 

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21 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 FEATURE 

Truly, madly, 

BY KAREN CARRIERE 

In the flower garden, gardeners 

have always favoured blue, especially 

true blue and deeper cobalt 

blue. These colours are valued 

because they are so rare. For 

pollination to occur, most flowers 

must contrast with the sky colour 

in order for insects to find them. 

Most so-called blue flowers of the 

plant kingdom are therefore 

tinted with red, resulting in 

purple-blues. 

True blues may clash in colour 

with the more common purpleblues. 

They do look great with 

orange, which is their complementary 

colour. Warm salmonpink, 

yellow, cream and white are 

attractive colour partners too. 

True blue appears in the exotic 

Himalayan blue poppy 

(Meconopsis betonicifolia). 

Cobalt blue is the colour of a 

February morning just before 

dawn, deep and cold. It is a very 

intense blue found in delphiniums 

and the alpine plant called 

gentian. Both true blue an d 

cobalt blue also appear in some 

bearded iris cultivars. If you can 

live with the short bloom period 

and disease-prone foliage of 

bearded iris, some award winning 

blue cultivars include Breakers, 

Victoria Falls, and 

Hills. 

Sapphire 

TRY BLUE PERENNIALS 

Beginner gardeners can ignore 

all the fussy or disease prone 

plants above and try a blue flowered 

perennial that is easier to 

grow. The following are relatively 

free of pests or disease and 

all bloom for at least a month. 

some are very new to this country. 

Drought tolerant Siberian bugloss 

(Brunnera macrophylla) is 

one of the first perennials to 

bloom in the spring. It has small 

true blue forget-me-not flowers. 

Large heart-shaped leaves emerge 

after the flowers. Good partners 

for Siberian bugloss in a partly 

shady spot include yellow narcissus 

or soft orange or yellow 

globeflowers (Trollius) and ferns. 

deeply blue 

Also for part shade, and 

blooming intermittently from 

spring to fall, is blue corydalis 

(Corydalis tlexuosa Blue Panda). 

Originating in the Panda Reserve 

of China's Sechuan Province, it 

was introduced to Canada only recently. 

This long-blooming plant 

is now being produced by tissue 

culture. It carries many tubular 

flowers of an unforgettably bril- 

liant blue on a small plant with 

fern-like leaves. It could be 

combined with blue-leaved hostas 

and white deadnettle (Lamium 

maculatum White Nancy). 

Veronica Peduncularis Georgia 

Blue, is a plant recently brought 

over from Soviet Georgia. It is 

also so new it doesn't even have a 

common name here yet. At about 

six inches high, it is smothered 

in tiny sky blue flowers in 

spring. It also prefers part 

shade. 

In full sun, the dainty sapphire 

flowers of blue flax (Linum 

perenne) will bloom all summer. 

The length of bloom, attractive 

foliage and drought tolerance 

make flax a worthy rock garden 

subject. Best grouped in clumps 

of at least three, flax can be contrasted 

boldly with salmon pink 

or orange poppies. or harmonized 

with sundrops (Oenothera missourensis). 

Perennial flax is 

easy to start from seed. Cutting 

flax back half-way in late summer 

will generate new growth at 

the base that should over-winter 

dependably. 

A few other good perennial 

blues to consider are houndstongue 

(Cynoglossum nervosum), 

perennial bachelor button 

(Centaurea montana), cowslip 

lungwort (Pulmonaria augustifolia), 

Hungarian speedwell Crater 

Lake Blue (Veronica teucrim), 

veronica Sunny Border Blue, spiderwort 

(Tradescantia x Blue 

Stone) and the perennial forgetme-not 

(Myosotis scorpoides). 

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BY MEREDITH OLSON 

What's a gardener to do with a 

spring like this - hot one day, 

freezing the next? 

Well, it's probably best to keep 

out of the back yard a little 

longer until it really warms up. 

In the meantime, a bit of planning 

- and displacement activity 

- will fill the bill. 

My sister, Patricia Mercer, and 

I recently did just that. We went 

around to shops in the Glebe - 

and were we inspired! 

Thorne & Co.: Here we were 

quickly drawn to the latest book 

by Patrick Lina - The Art of 

Perennial Gardening (Creative 

Ways with Hardy Flowers), 

$24.95. We both have his earlier 

book, The Harrowsmith Perennial 

Garden (Flowers for Three Sea- 

sons), $19.95. Both books are 

lavishly illustrated and a source 

of inspiration. 

Another book with good ideas is 

Water Features for Small Gardens 

by Francesca Greenoak ($22.95). 

We could almost hear the soothing 

sounds of splashing water. 

We also saw my sister's current 

favourite - Creative Containers 

(Inventive Ideas for Pots, Windowboxes 

and Hanging Baskets), 

$22.95. It has some super ideas 

in it that fit right in with gardening 

in the Glebe's small spaces. 

Linda Thorne recommended The 

Gardener's Encyclopedia of Plants 

and Flowers (A Comprehensive 

Guide to More than 8,000 Trees, 

Shrubs, Vines, Flowers, Foliage 

and Water Plants, and Cacti and 

Succulents), $59.95. If this book 

doesn't answer a lot of your 

questions, I don't know what will. 

Far East Shop: 

Here we found 

books on Bonsai and Japanese 

gardens. Enhance Your Garden 

with Japanese Plants (A Practical 

Sourcebook) by Judy Glattstein 

($38.95) has lots of text and 

hones in on individual pictures 

that are favourites to create the 

Japanese effect 

For pure enjoyment, try The 

Japanese Garden (Islands of 

Serenity), photographs by Haruzo 

Ohasi ($45.95). This is a 

breathtaking look at mature 

Japanese gardens. 

Book Bazaar: Here we found 

seven shelves of gardening books, 

ranging from old standbys to 

nearly new books. One I liked 

was Great Gardens of Britain by 

Graham Stuart Thomas ($30). The 

book features original drawings 

and plans and present day photos 

of some renowned gardens. A 

perfect companion to a garden 

tour of England. 

Glebe Book Shop: Here we 

found a small, but choice, selection. 

Trie Sunroom Gardener (A 

Practical Guide to Growing Plants 

in Sunrooms, Atriums and Conservatories), 

Anne Swithinbank 

($34.94), looked like a most useful 

book for those lucky people 

with sunrooms. 

A small, beautiful book also 

caught my eye - A Painter's Garden 

(Cultivating the Creative 

Life), Christine Walker ($22.95). 

It features the author's musings 

on life and some of her paintings 

are reproduced. It seemed like a 

wonderful gift for a gardener/artist. 

J. Patrick McGahern Books: 

Here, I was attracted to The New 

York Botanical Garden (An Illustrated 

Chronicle of Plants and 

People), Ogden Tanner and Adele 

Auchincloss ($22.95). It shows 

just what you can do when you 

have friends like Vanderbilt, 

Carnegie and Morgan. The New 

York Botanical Garden is a centre 

of horticultural wonders, a living 

laboratory and a school. Look at 

this book before a trip to New 

York. 

Puggwash: In this children's 

bookstore, I found Gardening with 

Pooh (Poems, Planting Pointers 

and Flower Seeds For Planting 

With Your Little Ones). This 

book is just what you need for 

hands-in-the-dirt grubbing about 

with your little ones. 

Book Room: Next to the Post 

Office, this new shop has a small 

gardening section. Martha Stewart's 

Gardening (Month by 

Month), $20, caught my eye. If 

you can resist being too envious 

of her six acre "place in the 

country," then you would find 

this an inspiration. 

Prime Crime Mystery 

Bookstore: For those for whom 

gardening is a bit of a mystery, 

there is still hope - Brother Cadfael's 

Herb Garden (An Illustrated 

Companion to Medieval 

Plants and Their Uses) by Rob 

Talbot and Robin Whitman 

($39.95). This book explores 

early monastic gardens and their 

importance in healing - a beautiful 

book. 

Great inspiration for Glebe gardeners. 

Yours might be different, 

but I'm sure it would be just as 

much fun.

ARTS 

Art in the Park - now we are six 


BY ELLEN SCHOWALTER 

Originated six years ago by 

Glebe artist Bhat Boy with the aim 

of building a cohesive local arts 

community, Art in the Park has 

grown each year to become a notto-be-missed 

Glebe event. Art in 

the Park provides a cooperative, 

non-profit, accessible venue for 

emerging and established artists 

and craftspeople to exhibit and 

sell their work. 

Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. 

to 4 p.m. (rain date June 7) approximately 

100 painters, 

sculptors, potters, jewellers and 

musicians will gather in Central 

Park (off Bank St. between Clemow 

and Patterson.) This year we are 

especially pleased to be sharing 

the park with the Peace and Environment 

Resource Centre's 13th 

annual Social Action Walk and 

information fair, "Growing a 

Strong Community." Registration 

for the walk begins at 10 a.m. 

Registration forms for Art in 

the Park are available at the main 

desk of the Glebe Community 

Centre. Deadline for registration 

is June 1, and an information 

meeting for participants is 

scheduled on Wednesday, May 6, 

at 7 p.m. in the Centre. For further 

information, please call 230- 

9990. 

Come celebrate the arts, peace 

and the environment in beautiful 

Central Park. Admission is free. 

Musical salute to spring - May 30 

Do you know that Ottawa's 

newest community choir, MUSICA 

VIVA SINGERS, is based in the 

Glebe and Old Ottawa South? 

Founded only a year ago, Musica 

Viva Singers will present its first 

spring concert on Saturday, May 

30th at 8 p.m. at Glebe-St. James 

United Church, First Avenue and 

Lyon Street. Music director of 

the group is Brian Cameron. 

The 45-member choir has been 

working hard since January 

preparing a rich blend of music. 

Entitled Another Bloomin' Concert! 

a Musical Salute to Spring, 

the program promises to be 

eclectic, united by three themes. 

Of course, love songs will figure 

prominently Stand by Me, Sing 

Me to Heaven, Out There (from 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame) 

and Connie Kaldor's Wood River. 

Folksong favourites will also appear 

on the program: Danny Boy, 

The Ash Grove and The Dark-Eyed 

Sailor. A third theme weaving the 

evening together will be the wonder 

of the world around us: 

Samuel Barber's Sure on this 

Seventeen Voyces choral concert 

BY KEVIN REEVES 

Ottawa's chamber choir, Seventeen 

Voyces, gives its last performance 

of the season at St. 

Matthew's Church this month. 

Excerpts from Restoration 

Opera of the late 17th century by 

Henry Purcell and his contemporaries 

will feature many of the 

soloists which comprise Seventeen 

Voyces. Familiar songs such 

as Dido's Lament and I Attempt 

from Love's Sickness to Fly will 

be heard alongside tunes not so 

familiar but equally as beautiful. 

The theme of this concert is 

based on Love 

including all of 

its various and sundry conditions 

which are conducive to spring; 

(there are at least four Cupids 

and one Bacchus taking part). 

Seventeen Voyces will be accompanied 

by a string quartet, made 

up of such Ottawa luminaries as 

cellist Julian Armour, as well as 

harpsichordist Tom Annand. The 

guest narrator is Reverend 

Désirée Stedman, Rector of St. 

Matthew's Church, and the director 

is Kevin Reeves. 

Shining Night, as well as two 

contemporary compositions written 

by young Vermont composers 

in the Sacred Harp style Big Sky 

and Endless Light. 

Musica Viva is pleased to have 

as guest artists jazz saxophonist 

Rob Frayne and pianist Jane 

Perry. Rob is an instructor at 

Carleton University, and is a 

member of the popular group 

Chelsea Bridge. Jane is a recent 

graduate of the Master of Music 

program at the University of Ottawa. 

She is developing a reputation 

as both a sensitive accompanist 

and piano soloist. 

Tickets for Another Bloomin' 

Concert are $8 for adults, $5 for 

students and children. Advance 

tickets are available from choir 

members and from Compact Music 

(Bank Street). Tickets will also 

be available at the door on May 

30. Members of Musica Viva 

Singers are excited about their 

first spring concert. We hope you 

will come and enjoy an evening of 

fine music. 

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. 

on Sunday, May 24 at St. 

Matthew's Church (Glebe Ave. just 

west of Bank). Tickets, $15 for 

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23 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 ARTS 

Tiles to withstand the test of weather and time 

BY JUDY PEACOCKE 

Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau, past 

president of the Ottawa Guild of 

Potters and teacher at the Glebe 

Community Centre, has recently 

completed a tour de force of more 

than one thousand tiles that will 

decorate the exterior of the new 

Iranian Ambassador's residence 

in Rockliffe. Like a jewelled 

necklace, a frieze of 13-inch 

square tiles will be set high on 

each outside wall. 

In addition there are four murals. 

Three of these will be on 

the outside walls of an exterior, 

hexagonal stairwell where dramatic 

2 1/2-metre high tiled 

panels with a central diamondshaped 

area banded in goldcoloured 

metal, will alternate 

with walls of windows. 

The colours and designs are 

traditionally Persian. The 

colours are those of the crayon 

box: black, white, red, green, 

blue, yellow, turquoise and 

brown. The shine of the glazes 

captures and reflects the light. 

The designs are of intricate knotwork 

for mandalas, french curves 

and swirls derived from arabic 

writing that have evolved over the 

centuries, into paisley-like 

designs on the murals, and 

repeating geometric forms 

derived from traditional symbols 

for the frieze. The design 

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much for the eye to take in on the 

first viewing of this historical 

method of architectural embellishment 

Looking at the finished product 

it is not hard to imagine that 

much labour went into it but the 

true story is a labour of Hercules, 

requiring herculean strength to 

lift boxes of tiles weighing 50 

pounds. 

Architect Gord Lorimer of 

Barry J. Hobin and Associates 

and World Mosaic owner Elaine 

Nikiforuk planned t h e 

installation. 

While Carolynne was fine-tuning 

the design, her husband, 

Hugh, tested what conditions the 

final product could withstand. 

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Photo: Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau 

Carolynne used ready-made tiles 

that would withstand freezing, 

thawing and the perils of the 

Ottawa climate. 

The large tiles only just fitted 

into the kiln with a quarter of an 

inch to spare. With two kilns in 

her studio, Carolynne thought 

that she could swing into fullscale 

production, but, like Hercules, 

the fates conspired against 

her. One older kiln cooled down 

unevenly after firing, causing the 

tiles to crack. She lost 30 tiles. 

Disaster! Only one kiln could be 

used. "But it let me get on with 

my Christmas orders and other 

commitments in the older kiln," 

she said, philosophically. 

But how to hand paint intricate 

designs in many colours on over a 

BY THOMAS MANN 

He said he was going to the 

country and he said he'd be back. 

He kept his word. Gary Nichol's 

second exhibition of paintings 

are on view at Irene's Pub to May 

16. 

Irene Corey, owner of Irene's 

Restaurant and Pub, near Bank 

and Fifth, is no stranger to the 

arts community in her neighbourhood. 

Poetry nights, play 

readings, blues and new age sessions, 

you name it, she's part of 

the action. She often provides her 

pub at no charge for visual artists 

to showcase their work. The ambience 

carries a nonchalance that 

makes the viewing not only pleasant 

but just plain fun. 

Gary Nichol, who started 

painting three years ago after a 

satisfying career as an independent 

film producer, lives in 

Combermere. He has drawn on his 

Polish heritage to paint this rural 

community with enthusiasm. His 

colours are delicious, his subjects 

plain. 

TVO's Studio Two is doing a 

thousand tiles? The design was 

silk-screened on to the tiles that 

had a repeating design using a 

rich black ink. 

Carolynne, aided by local 

artists Maureen O'Neill (her sister-in-law), 

Alice Hinther and 

Joan Massey, gave life to the tiles 

by drizzling on the heavy glazes, 

like honey from a honey dibber. 

"In the beginning, I resented 

the project - it was so difficult," 

said Carolynne. "But once the 

bugs were ironed out I loved it - 

it was such a calm thing to do in 

the winter on the diningroom 

table - looking out the window 

and listening to books on tape." 

As to how the project affected 

her future artistic direction, 

Carolynne said, "I liked the intense 

colours, the jewel-like 

shades of earthenware colours 

(low temperature firing glazes). 

The light bounces around in them. 

I felt really let down when the 

men came to take away the finished 

tiles. It was such an intense 

focus. I had no desire to 

make pots." 

I remembered that Carolynne 

had told me that, when she was a 

child, her grandfather had predicted 

that she would be an 

artist Did she feel that this was 

one of her artistically creative 

high points? She replied humbly 

that it was not The artistry was 

thousands of years old from Iran; 

she was just the applicator. 

Would she undertake such a 

project again? She replied, "I can 

hardly wait" 

Photo: Thomas Mann 

Artist Gary Nichol 

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Nichol's works to an even larger 

audience. So . .. if you're in the 

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don't forget to take in an art show 

while you're at it. They say it's 

good for the soul. Irene's Pub 

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BY CLAUDIA MCKEEN, B. SC. PHM. 

Seasonal allergies are the most 

common type of allergic reaction. 

An allergy is a specific reaction 

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harmless substance, one that does 

not bother most people. 

People with allergies are 

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pollen may cause allergic reactions. 

The immune system is the 

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microorganisms such as bacteria 

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allergies, the immune system responds 

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special proteins that recognize 

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Will you or someone you know 

have a preterm baby this year? 

Can preterm birth be prevented? 

If you don't know the answers to 

these questions, you are not 

alone. A new regional Preterm 

Birth Prevention Program called 

REACH, REACT, RESPOND started 

in April aimed at all pregnant 

women, their partners, their 

families, their employers, their 

health care providers and the 

general community. 

"We think about 30-50% of prematurity 

is preventable," says 

Dr. Paula Stewart, a community 

health consultant and chair of the 

community-based Preterm Birth 

Prevention Program. "Unfortunately, 

so much of the work and 

resources in the past years have 

been directed only at women who 

were thought to be at risk, that we 

missed a large group of women 

who have preterm babies. This 

new community program is aimed 

at every person in the 

community." 

The focus of the program is to 

make our community aware that 

the incidence of preterm labour 

is more common than most people 

realize. Early recognition of 

rislcs, signs and symptoms as well 

as immediate action can result in 

improved outcomes for many babies. 

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From research in this commu- 

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symptoms. Now that all but one 

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there is a large selection of products 

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We still have the early 

antihistamines that have sedating 

or "night time" side effects such 

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These include Claritin, Reactine 

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mild sedation) and the new 

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replacement for the old Seldane 

which is no longer a drug o f 

choice since it could cause too 

many drug interactions and 

dangerous cardiac toxicities. 

Eye symptoms can now be relieved 

by cromolyn drops, .now 

available over-the -counter. 

If you would like to learn more 

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Glebe Apothecary is a full 

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addition to traditional dispensing 

they offer special compounding 

services to better serve your 

medication needs. 

Preventing preterm birth 

nity we know that some women 

may be more likely than others to 

have a preterm birth. In Ottawa- 

Carleton these are women who: 

- are having their first baby 

have had a premature baby 

before 

- are carrying more than one 

baby, for example twins 

are smokers 

are underweight 

- are not getting enough healthy 

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have a lot of stress in their 

lives 

- have a vaginal or bladder infection 

have had a previous abortion 

Ask your health care provider 

for information on preventing 

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DO YOU KNOW THE SIGNS/ 

SYMPTOMS OF PRETERM 

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Signs are: a sudden gush or a 

constant slow leak of fluid from 

the vagina, bleeding from the 

vagina, contractions of the uterus, 

or a change in what you normally 

feel in: low dull backache, pelvic 

pressure, discharge from the 

vagina. Some women may just feel 

that "something is not right." 

Development of this community-wide 

health program would 

not have been possible without 

the support of Health Canada, the 

Ministry of Health of Ontario and 

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tools to talk with youth in your 

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depression, etc. 

Taking Care of Your Men- 

tal Health .. . A Grab Bag o f 

Tricks & Tips - Wednesday 

May 20 Join Meredith who will 

share tips and tricks you can use 

to take care of yourself, including: 

stretching, breathing, meditation, 

balancing yoga postures 

and visualization techniques. 

Homelessness and Mental 

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Join Nancy Chapman, of the 

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homelessness and mental health, 

the relationship between the two 

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25 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 HEALTH 

Save yourself from the sun 

From the Registered Nurses 

Association of Ontario 

For thousands of years, human 

beings have been protected from 

much of the sun's harmful ultraviolet 

radiation (UV) by a layer of 

ozone which surrounds the Earth. 

However, recent studies have indicated 

that chemical pollution 

threatens this protective layer. 

Scientists are still debating how 

much ozone has already been destroyed, 

but there is no debate 

about our need to take extra precautions 

against the sun. 

Registered nurses urge you to 

shorten the time you spend in direct 

sunlight especially be- 

tween 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. 

and to 

protect your skin with sunscreens, 

sunglasses and light 

clothing when you are exposed. 

UV exposure will be higher if 

you're at the beach or out on the 

water where up to 85 per cent of 

the available light is reflected 

back at you. And don't be fooled 

by the weather. Up to 80 per cent 

of UV can still reach us through 

the atmosphere on days with light 

fog, haze or light clouds. 

Consider your skin type. If you 

are fair-skinned with light 

coloured eyes and have blonde or 

red hair, you are at greater risk 

of developing skin problems. 

Cover up more, take advantage of 

shady spots and use extrastrength 

sunscreens. 

No matter what your skin type, 

though, registered nurses advise 

you to choose a sunscreen that is 

effective and appropriate for your 

skin type and activities. Physical 

sunscreens, such as zinc oxide, 

provide an opaque barrier 

that prevents sunlight from penetrating 

to the skin. Apply to 

sensitive areas such as the lips, 

nose and ears. Less sensitive areas 

of the body can be protected 

by chemical sunscreens which 

filter out UV rather than physically 

blocking it Chemical sunscreens 

are rated by SPF, or sun 

protection factor. It's a comparison 

of how much longer a sunscreen 

can protect you from 

harmful exposure to UV compared 

to unprotected exposure. For example, 

if you normally start to 

burn in ten minutes, a sunscreen 

with an SPF of 15 will allow you 

to remain exposed to sunlight for 

150 minutes before burning. 

To be effective, apply sunscreen 

generously at least 30 to 4 5 

minutes before going out. This 

allows time for it to penetrate the 

skin. If you are going to swim or 

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or a waterproof screen (good 

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Don't try to protect a baby with 

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enough, no matter what the rating. 

Children under one year of age 

should simply be kept out of direct 

sunlight as much as possible. 

When toddlers and young children 

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light clothes, a hat and a sunscreen 

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27 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 SPORTS 

Ottawa Centre Minor Hockey Association -1997-98 in review 

BY LYNDA RIVINGTON 

The Ottawa Centre Minor 

Hockey Association (OCMHA) just 

finished one of its most successful 

seasons. 

Headquartered at Brewer Arena 

and run entirely by volunteers, 

District 6 of the OCMHA provides 

children age 5-17 living in the 

Glebe, Old Ottawa South and Centretown 

with house league hockey 

from September to April. Registration 

this year remained about 

the same as last year with 264 

players compared to 269 last 

year. 

The fall Rink Rat Newsletter 

headline Watch Out District 6 

Here They Come! proved to be 

right on the mark. Ten OC teams 

made the playoffs, five reached 

the finals and three were District 

6 champions. In the City of 

Ottawa Tournament the grand 

finale where 171 teams in seven 

divisions played all across 

Ottawa over two weekends again, 

five OC teams reached the finals 

with one bringing a championship 

home. 

Here is an overview of how the 

teams fared. 

MIDGETS (16-17) 

Described as the "awesome 

Midgets," the two OC teams 

played in a 16-team city-wide 

league where they finished first 

and third in the standings. 

Rumours abounded that OC's two 

teams were stacked but how do 

you stack both teams? 

The first place team, coached by 

Terry Dunlap and John Loop, 

reached the final playoff game 

only to be forced to forfeit because 

they had the time wrong by 

an hour. However, the OCMHA 

still considers the Dunlap/Loop 

team the "real" midget champions. 

Coached by Geoff Davidson and 

Bob Monaghan, the second midget 

team finished third in the city, 

lost the first game of the playoffs 

in a shoot-out, but then went on 

to the finals in the City of Ottawa 

tournament 

Good news for 17-year-olds 

moving out of this division a juvenile 

team for next year is under 

consideration. Stay tuned! 

BANTAMS (14-15) 

The Voyageurs, coached by veterans 

Peter Mossop and Murray 

Wilson, not only captured the 

district bantam championship in 

a shoot-out but went on to five 

straight wins to become the City 

of Ottawa tournament A champions. 

Two championships in a week 

a team and a year to remember 

for those players and coaches! 

Coached by Hugh Trudeau, Sam 

Hargadon and Ken Gardner, the 

0C2 team made it to the semi-finals 

in the playoffs only to lose 

in a shoot-out. Out of all the 

bantams teams in the District, 

they finished in fourth place in 

playoff position. 

PEEWEES (12-13) 

Guided by coaches David Prime, 

Bruce Little, Ian MacMillan and 

Steve Layton, the Hammerheads 

finished first in the league and 

reached both the semi-finals in 

the district championships and 

the finals in the City of Ottawa 

tournament 

City and District Bantam Champions 1997-98 Front Owen Boums, Matt Webb, Graham Long, Chris Wilson, 

Neil Jansen, Josh Clipperton, Michael Domanski, Ned Hollinworth, Karen Dickey, James Diak, Davidson 

Wright. Back: Peter Mossop (coach), Matthew Mossop, Michael Bujold, Ross Dance, Daniel Saliba, Murray 

Wilson (coach), Nick MacNutt. 

The 0C2 team, coached by John 

Keogh, Lorne Abugov and Peter 

Fowler, ended the season on a 

very positive note by making the 

semi-finals on the A side of the 

City of Ottawa tournament 

The Lasers, under the tutelage 

of John Couse, Rob Marriner, Rob 

Paterson and Bill McCauley, 

ended up fifth in the league 

standings, just missing the 

playoffs by one point. They won 

the Cumberland A tournament 

and the B side of the Brewer tournament 

ATOMS (10-11) 

The district atom playoff final 

was a nail-biter with two OC 

teams vying for the championship 

trophy. 

The Snipers, coached by Chris 

Brown, Bob Erwin, Jim Molnar and 

Ken Johnson, won the championship 

in a shoot-out over the Red 

Army, guided by Mordy Bubis, 

Jan Ahuja, Glenn Barr, Don 

Cameron and Simon McInnes. The 

playoff results reversed the 

league standings where the Red 

Army finished first and the 

Snipers second. 

The Gunners, trained by 

Richard Lamothe, David Moir, Bob 

Smith, Liz Wilson and Leslie 

Glover, came on strong in the second 

half of the season winning 

seven of their last nine games to 

finish fifth in the district, just 

missing the playoffs by one point. 

Coached by Brian and Owen 

Boums, Bart St. John-Smith and 

Doug Breithaupt, the Strikers 

reached the A finals in the 

Brewer tournament. They also 

lucked into playing another OC 

team at the Corel Centre where 

they came from behind to tie the 

game. 

NOVICES (8-9) 

Paul Bourque, Alan Rottenberg, 

Gary Caitlin, Craig White and 

Steve Culley took the Novice B 

Power Play team to a win in the 

Brewer tournament, second place 

in the league standings and on to 

the district semi-finals and the 

City of Ottawa tournament finals. 

This team also won an exciting 

exhibition game at the Corel 

Centre against Leitrim. 

Coached by Cal MacWilliam, 

Peter Dubois, Howard Mann and 

David Knox, the Novice C2 team 

placed first in the league, won the 

Novice C district championship 

and made the finals in the City of 

Ottawa Tournament only to lose in 

overtime. 

Under the watchful eye of John 

Harris, Kevin Figley and Sam 

Lentini, the Novice C Hurricanes 

made the playoff semi-finals with 

a third place finish in the overall 

standings and won the Russell 

Novice C tournament 

The Novice C Panthers, coached 

by Nick Polychronopoulos, Tim 

Bolger, Carman Baggaley, Glenn 

Boustead, Gerry Gaetz and Jules 

Audet, began the season with no 

previous team experience but developed 

their skills well and were 

very enthusiastic. They ended the 

season by almost winning their 

second City of Ottawa Tournament 

game and almost making it to the 

next level! Watch for these players 

next year! 

INITIATION (5-7) 

The highlight for the 36 eager 

young initiation players was the 

first annual Timbits Jamboree 

hosted by Tim Hortons in March 

at the Corel Centre. The ice was 

divided in three parts and six 

teams played mini-games all at 

the same time. Imagine the Corel 

Centre ice filled with hundreds of 

little Timbits hockey players! 

This group was instructed by 

John Harris, Chris Brown, Benoit 

Lahaie, Joe Jeffrey, Jacques 

Benoit, Jeff Nankivell, Kevin 

Figley, Steve Priddle, David Rabinovitch, 

Jeff Crepin and Jim 

Thompson. 

SPONSORS 

The OCMHA would not be a success 

without the generosity of the 

following sponsors: 

Artech Studios, Bell Canada, 

Monica Dingle wins 

A.C.T. Sports 

Award for sailing 

Monica place seventh at 

the world youth sailing 

championships and second 

at the Canadian youth 

championships. 

Photo: Roger Lalonde, City 

of Ottawa. Monica Dingle 

(1.) with Councillor Berg. 

Photo: John Dance 

Benjamin Books, Bestcan Home 

Renovations, Boomerang Kids, 

Capital Parking, Cognos, Deloitte 

& Touche, Game Power, Lacroix 

Sports, Lieutenant's Pump, 

McKale's Garage, Modern Mechanical, 

ObjecTime, Overburden 

Drilling Management Ltd., Tim 

Hortons, Victory Design, Zellers, 

Billings Bridge, and Zinn-Hoffley 

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REFEREES 

This season, to ease the load of 

Keith Willis, referee-in-chief, 

our refs are now scheduled by the 

district, while Keith continues to 

mentor our own home-grown refs. 

OCMHA referees and linesmen 

included: Keith Willis, Sean 

Blake, James Diak, Sean Dunlap, 

Graham Longair, Todd Willis, 

Chris Wilson, Nick Wilson, Graham 

Long, Ross Dance, Tim Clark, 

Robin Edwards and Dan Metcalfe. 

LOOKING AHEAD 

The OCMHA is dedicated to 

teaching children hockey skills, 

good sportsmanship and how to 

play as part of a team. Children 

can start playing house league 

hockey at any age. Usually they 

start at the younger end. However, 

two Bantam-age players only 

started hockey this year and another 

began just last year one of 

the nicer aspects of house league 

hockey. 

For players and parents who 

want a more intensive and competitive 

environment, the OCMHA 

feeds into the East Ottawa Vanier 

Voyageurs competitive program. 

The OCMHA is already planning 

next year's season! Anyone interested 

in volunteering please 

call Tony Clark, president, at 

233-6731. In addition, there are 

still a couple of positions on the 

executive open for next year.

I 

NEWS Glebe Report May 8, 1998 28 

Ottawa-Carleton District 

school trustee report 

JUNIOR 

KINDERGARTEN 

I am pleased to report that on 

April 27 the board voted to reinstate 

the Junior Kindergarten 

program throughout its jurisdiction. 

This decision will not be 

affected by current budget deliberations. 

Registration is underway. 

Parents should contact 

schools directly or phone the 

OCDSB planning office at 596- 

8780 or 596-8258. 

THE 1998-1999 BUDGET 

The province now controls 

education spending and local 

school boards have lost the right 

to raise taxes locally. The OCDSB 

is facing significant reductions 

over the next four years. The 

impact for the 1998-1999 school 

year is a reduction of $39 million 

i.e. 7% of the budget. 

The staff-recommended budget 

for 1998-1999 allows all our 

regular day schools to remain 

open. It maintains regular day 

school programs, including special 

education, alternative and 

immersion programs, for students 

aged 4 to 21. However, staff have 

recommended cuts in many other 

categories. Over 600 non-teaching 

staff positions will be lost There 

are proposed reductions in adult 

education, continuing education, 

custodial and maintenance services, 

and central and school 

administration, among other areas. 

Staff are also recommending 

the elimination of funding for the 

MacSkimming and Bill Mason 

Outdoor Education centres, the 

extracurricular creative arts program 

and the Central Choir. There 

are no funds for major school renovations. 

It is important to note that, under 

the new provincial funding 

formula, another $40 million will 

be taken out of Ottawa-Carleton's 

public education system over the 

next four years. These cuts will 

'definitely mean the closing of 

schools and the elimination or 

downsizing of many regular dayschool 

programs and services, 

including those for students with 

special needs. I am very concerned 

about the impact of government 

downsizing on our public 

education system and I support 

initiatives which advocate on behalf 

of our students. In this regard, 

I appreciate the efforts of 

Regional Councillor Clive Doucet 

in promoting a dialogue between 

trustees and regional councillors 

to address common issues. 

Trustees have until May 25 to 

debate and approve the 1998- 

1999 budget, before it is submitted 

to the province. Copies of the 

staff-recommended budget can be 

obtained from our headquarters 

at 133 Greenbank Road or from 

the former Ottawa Board of 

Education headquarters at 330 

Gilmour Street. Check the OCDSB 

web site at www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca 

for an overview of the budget and 

information on public meetings. 

You can also call the 24-hour automated 

information line at 239- 

2462. 

PRINCIPALS AND VICE- 

PRINCIPALS 

The province's Bill 160 required 

principals and vice-prin- 

By 

Lynn 

Graham 

cipals to decide, by March 31, 

between continuing in their positions 

but ceasing to be members 

of the teaching federation or giving 

up their positions and remaining 

as members of the federation 

by returning to the classroom 

as teachers. Almost all 

principals and most secondary 

vice-principals decided to continue 

in their current roles. Many 

elementary vice-principals 

elected to return to teaching for 

job security reasons; however, 

most of this group indicated a 

willingness to return to the role 

of vice-principal as positions are 

assured. This is good news as the 

OCDSB will continue to benefit 

from the experience and 

knowledge of these individuals. 

STUDENT REPRESENTATION 

The voice of students is heard 

at all standing committee and 

board meetings. For instance, 

Hilary Clark, a student at Glebe 

Collegiate, is a member of the 

human resources committee. Paul 

Hankes-Drielsma, Lisgar student 

and Capital Ward resident, is a 

member of the business services 

and budget committees and Karen 

McVie, from South Carleton High 

School, is the student "trustee" 

on the board. While they cannot 

present motions or vote, they 

fully participate in all 

discussions. Congratulations! 

1998 - 1999 SCHOOL YEAR 

Tuesday, September 1 will be 

the first day of school and June 

25, 1999 will be the last day. 

The Winter and March breaks will 

be December 21, '98 through 

January 1, '99 and March 15 

through 19 respectively. 

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Mutchmor School News 

Basketball tounament reports 

By Jessica Vickery & Karen 

Jung, Gr. 4 

The nets are high 

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The Mutchmor Girls Basketball 

Team competed at the board 

tournament on April 9. We 

played four teams. The third and 

fourth games were special. For 

the third game we had to play 

really fast. We played really 

hard and did well. The fourth 

game was very close, 4-3 for us. 

The players were: Sarah 

Abraham, Emily Bertrand, Zoe 

Bourgard, Julia Doering, Meaghan 

Fulford, Madeleine Goldsmith, 

Victoria Metz, Susan Oda, Morgan 

Rowe, Kate Taylor, Allison White, 

and Kate Wright. The managers 

were Karen Jung and Jessica 

Vickery. Thangs to our coaches 

Mr. Larry Stonebridge, Ms. Jane 

Blackmore and Mr. B. 

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By Thomas Glen & Gareth 

Thomas, Gr. 6 

On Wednesday, April 15 , 

Mutchmor School took part in 

another board-wide event. The 

teachers carefully selected the 

twelve boys in the school who 

were best-suited to the 

basketball team, and those 

players travelled to the Albert 

Street Complex to compete against 

other teams from schools across 

Ottawa. 

With the practices leading up to 

the tournament, every player was 

very serious and dedicated to 

playing as a contending team in 

the tournament. Our practices 

were held at lunch and after 

school. Fortunately, April 8, our 

team had the opportunity to play 

a game against Hopewell. The 

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shooting on 10-foot nets. 

The Mutchmor team had fun 

playing tight games, and showed 

great sportsmanship. The 

tournament was a great 

experience. We mastered our 

zone defence and our power 

offence was phenomenal. The 

team played games against W.E. 

Gowling, D. Roy Kennedy, 

Agincourt, and Elmdale. The 

team consisted of: Jason 

Atkinson-Wiles, Thomas Bittner, 

Michael Black, Tom Cameron, 

Stefano Colaiacovo, Tom Glen, 

Tyler Golding, Tom Hill, Devin 

Pihlainen, Tim Stiles, Gareth 

Thomas and Sebastian Whyte. A 

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Several of these sharing and 

thoughtful people have been 

helping out at the school for many 

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parents whose children attend or 

used to attend Mutchmor, while 

others are community people who 

like to work with children in the 

classroom and have time to share. 

Several Grade 5 st uden ts 

interviewed some of these volunteers. 

"GRANDMA WENDY" LAST 

By Lizzy Eaton & Rachel Steinberg, 

Gr. 5 

Grandma Wendy is a kind 

woman with a good sense of humour, 

and a hard-working person 

who works with Ms. Turner's 

Grade 3 class. She is very helpful 

with art, correcting things that 

she is comfortable correcting, and 

cleaning up after the students. 

Grandma Wendy has worked 

with children in a museum and 

has three grandchildren of her 

own. The students say that when 

the teacher gets mad, she sticks 

up for them. 

Grandma Wendy started working 

in Mutchmor three years ago. 

She likes this job because it is 

near her home, she loves working 

with kids, and she loves the children 

themselves. She also enjoys 

this job because it's a great opportunity 

to meet new people. 

She says, "It's never gotten boring 

yet!" 

HELEN "NANA" OUELLETTE 

by Graham Barr, Gr. 5 

This is Nana's seventh year 

here at Mutchmor. She is a volunteer 

in Mrs. Rainboth's senior 

kindergarten class. She first 

started when her grandson was in 

junior kindergarten. Nana does 

many different things around the 

class to help Mrs. Rainboth, like 

filing papers, helping the kids 

with their work, cutting paper, 

photocopying papers, cleaning up 

the paint station, helping out at 

parties, and cleaning up the sand 

box. 

Nana loves doing the work. She 

says the kids are very polite and 

she loves them. She used to come 

in three times a week, but now 

she can only come in once a week. 

She says that doing this keeps her 

young. 

Mrs. Rainboth says that the 

kids really appreciate Nana and 

they really like her a lot. Mrs. 

Rainboth really likes the work 

that she does, and she finds her 

very helpful. Nana does a lot of 

things that Mrs. Rainboth cannot 

do. "She's very reliable," says 

Mrs. Rainboth. 

Nana comes in every week and 

brings special things on special 

occasions. Nana cares a lot about 

the children and makes the day a 

lot smoother. The three words 

describing Nana are reliable, 

caring and efficient!

SCHOOL NEWS 

Glebe Collegiate students 

successful at science fairs 

BY GEORGE HOLLAND 

GLEBE C. I. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT 

The Science Fair held at Glebe Collegiate Institute on March 5 was a 

great success. About 120 Glebe students entered the fair, exhibiting 

70 projects. The projects were .evaluated by 55 external judges, who 

came from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Nortel, Mite!, 

Natural Resources Canada and other agencies. The judging process was 

an excellent opportunity for the students to discuss their projects with 

professionals in that field, and the judges also had the pleasure of 

meeting and interacting with our students. At the free pizza and coke 

dinner we presented ribbons to the top exhibits in each category. The 

first place finishers will also receive an engraved plaque at 

commencement. 

AWARD WINNERS 

Intermediate Division (Grades 9 and 10): Life Sciences 1st: 

Megan ApSimon and Nissa Critoph; 2nd: Christine Saunders and Kristy 

Shen. 

Physical Sciences: 1st: Genevieve Latreille and Lindsay McShane; 

2nd: Meryl Warren and Katherine Sears. 

Engineering 1st John Turriff and Owen Hickey; 2nd: Patrick Snider 

and Ben Toupin-Piper. 

Computer Science 1st Chris Kiff and Ian Wright; 2nd: Jonathan St. 

Jean and Will Enns. 

Senior Division (Grades 11 to OAC). Life Sciences 1st: 

Melissa Pagliaro; 2nd: Marianne Manning and Jacquie Poitras. 

Physical Sciences 1st: Jennifer Young; 2nd: David Valentiate. 

Engineering 1st Andrew Chad and Steven Paul; 2nd: Meghan Kelly 

and Areta Lok. 

Computer Science lst: Keith Davies; 2nd: Saied Nourian and Mehdi 

Ebramimi. 

OTTAWA REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR 

Our best exhibits were then sent on to the Ottawa Regional Science 

Fair, held at the Canadian Museum of Nature on April 3 to 5. Our 

students won the following awards: 

Christine Saunders and Kristy Shen Third Place Intermediate 

Life Sciences for How Reliable Is Your Sense Of Taste? 

Marianne Manning and Jacquie Poitras Third Place Senior Life 

Sciences for How to Make a Million Dollars. 

Megan ApSimon and Nissa Critoph Honourable Mention Intermediate 

Physical Sciences for Essential Oils. 

Jennifer Young a) Second Place Senior Physical Sciences, b) 

Special Award from the Ottawa Regional Science Fair Committee, c) 

First Alternate Choice for the Canada Wide Science Fair for Hot or Cold 

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Chris Kiff and Ian Wright a) First Place Intermediate Computers, b) 

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Jonathan St. Jean and William Enns a) Second Place 

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Keith Davies Second Place Computers for Tree Structures in 

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Glebe Report May 8, 1998 3 0 

Students and staff successfully created a week-long event to promote 

A Spirit of Inclusion at Glebe Collegiate. 

Thanks to our business community 

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Glebe Collegiate students are 

grateful to the local business 

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31 Glebe Report May 8, 1998 SCHOOL 

Lady Evelyn School news 

BY MARTHA BOWERS 

Although this is a time of great 

uncertainty in the Ontario education 

system, the Lady Evelyn 

Alternative School community 

continues to work together to 

make the best of a difficult period. 

With so many programs and 

resources threatened, the School 

Council, working with o u r 

trustee, has developed some important 

points for consideration 

by the board. These include the 

continuity and security of 

staffing which respects school 

needs, a flexible focus on children's 

needs, abilities and interests, 

and maintenance of Core 

French and Special Education, 

among others. 

CANADIAN HISTORY 

COMES ALIVE 

Despite the stress of these bureaucratic 

and administrative 

problems, staff and students at 

Lady Evelyn are involved in many 

exciting activities. Mr. Ridgeway's 

primary class has been 

doing a unit on Canada. Who says 

Canadian history is dead? The 

children have brought it to life 

with their colourful maps and 

pictures. An excursion to the 

Bytown Museum, walking along 

the canal, will help to make the 

history of our National Capital 

even more real. 

Other classes have been involved 

in learning about everything 

from knitting to underwater 

exploration to musical instruments. 

Some children made their 

own knitting needles, sanding 

them to a smooth finish. Many 

groups learned about life under 

the sea and the urgent need for 

environmental awareness. Still 

others wrote and illustrated 

creative stories that are worthy of 

publication. 

L'ÉCOLE FRANCOJEUNESSE 

We made a big splash at the 

swimming party held at the Clifford 

Bowey pool on April 18. Everyone 

was having such a good 

time that the lifeguards threatened 

to drain the pool to get some 

of the fun-loving swimmers out! 

Thanlcs to the parents who organized 

this lively event. 

Flying Phil and his travelling 

trampoline visited the school for 

a week of gymnastics and acrobatics. 

Each class had the opportunity 

to try their hands and feet 

at the jumping, somersaults, flips 

and flops. 

GLASHAN BAND PERFORMS 

The Glashan school band recently 

came to perform at our 

school. It was a great chance for 

Lady Evelyn students who will go 

on to Glashan to find out about 

the musical options available. 

Keeping with music, our own Junior 

Choir with the help o f 

Martha Milne and Denise 

Hawkins, helped to lighten the 

mood at the April School Council/ 

staff meeting with a super performance 

of songs. Well done! 

There is a sense of excitement 

and anticipation building for the 

Lady Evelyn talent show April 

29. Children have been preparing 

their acts for weeks. Talent 

scouts be on alert for the future 

Alannis Morrissette, Céline Dion 

or Dan Ackroyd! You never know 

who will appear out of the woodwork 

as the next entertainment 

sensation. 

Some events to look forward to 

are a school community picnic 

and a multicultural week. This 

will culminate in "A World of 

Stories," when a group of storytellers 

will come to weave a magical 

web of enchanting and mesmerizing 

tales for us. 

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le quartier Glebe. 

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SCHOOL NEWS Glebe Report May 8, 1998 3 2 

Glashan Band 

We love the music we play 

BY TAMSIN JOHNSTON 

It's noon, Glashan Intermediate, 

outside the music room. Students 

wait eagerly, pushing and shoving 

to get closest to the door. Finally 

Ms. Cairnie, band director, arrives 

with the key. She literally 

gets trampled underfoot as over 

70 eighth graders force their way 

towards the shelf where all the 

instruments are stored. The 

disinfecting line appears and 

disappears as the kids clean off 

their mouth pieces and race for 

chairs. 

After ten minutes of horrible 

noise, the worst possible sounds 

one could get from flutes, clarinets, 

saxophones, trumpets, 

French horns and one oboe, an 

exasperated conductor wildly 

gesticulates for what seems like 

eternity to get the band's attention. 

Despite the hard work and long 

tiring rehearsal hours, we love 

band. Why else would approximately 

35 to 45 percent of Grade 

8 population participate? Anyone 

has the option to quit. Perhaps 

what keeps us in is our love 

of making music. Or perhaps it's 

the opportunity to play with 

other students of our grade, a 

first for many. More than likely 

we stay in the band for our trip to 

Wonderland in May and June. We 

will compete in a festival, visit 

the Ontario Science Centre and 

have fun in the park itself. We 

had to raise an enormous amount 

of money by selling chocolates 

and walking seven kilometres, but 

everyone feels it's really worth 

it. 

Virtually every day there is 

some kind of organized rehearsal 

in the music room, before school, 

lunch and after school. Yes, we 

will give up our lunch hour and 

drag ourselves out of bed at ungodly 

hours of the morning to 

come to rehearsal. We have an 

extensive repertoire including 

more difficult pieces intended for 

high school music students, 

played by small ensembles. The 

music we play is by no means all 

work and no fun. Quite frankly 

we love the music we play because 

it's familiar. The band's current 

pieces include the theme to Mission: 

Impossible by Lalo 

Schiffrin, Somewhere Over the 

Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz, 

Baby Elephant Walk from Hatari 

by Henry Mancini and the theme 

to Pink Panther also by Henry 

Mancini. 

This is only the Grade 8 band. 

The Grade 7 band is quite skilled 

too, though many of them had 

never touched an instrument before 

September. Although they 

only have the option to play flute, 

clarinet or trumpet, they love it 

and even helped us fundraise. 

Hopefully it will be their turn for 

Toronto next year. 

Although Glashan may seem 

like an all-sports school, with all 

the athletics everyone does, our 

music program is blossoming into 

something very worth having. 

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First Avenue School 

Good-bye Mr. Loucks 

BY J. C. SULZENKO 

After 33 years at the Ottawa 

Board of Education as elementary 

school teacher and administrator 

par excellence, John Loucks, 

principal of First Avenue Public 

School, retires at the end of June. 

Students, teachers and parents 

received the news with real regret. 

"John Loucks has been a delight 

to work with," stated Jennie Aliman, 

Chair of the School Council. 

"He has strengthened our council 

immeasurably with his knowledge, 

dedication, professionalism 

and unflagging good humour." 

Parent Mary Kovacs says that 

John's stay at First Avenue embodies 

the notion of leaving a 

place better than you found it. 

Another parent, David Bennett, 

reflected that John has "instilled 

very commendable values in the 

students, giving them a good 

sense of self and community." 

Merle Haltrecht-Matte, Grade 6 

teacher, said "John knows every 

student's name . . . that's incredible! 

He is always in the school. 

The teachers know it, the students 

know it He walks the yard, 

he walks the halls, he visits 

classrooms. He has been a role 

model for both staff and students." 

And what do the kids think? 

Some comments from ldndergarten 

children include: "he's the daddy 

of the school:" "he is nice- he 

helps Idds;" "he likes to talk to 

my mom!" From Grade 6s came 

these thoughts: "he's a really 

good principal, very involved 

clued in to the students:" "he let 

us sew in the office:" "I've heard 

him yell, but never at me!" 

What does the man himself say? 

Although John first thought he 

would end up farming and trained 

to be an electrician, teaching is 

in his blood. He hails from a long 

line of educators his grandfather 

was principal of a school in 

Morewood, his father became a 

school superintendent, and his 

mother taught Latin and French 

in Renfrew and Peterborough. 

John even married a teacher! 

Doris Loucks' retirement in June 

after 36 years in the classroom, 

most recently as a special education 

teacher, directly influenced 

John's decision to take his leave 

this year. 

"It's a good time to stand back 

and assess what else I could do," 

John notes. "I loved teaching. In 

fact, I thought I was likely one of 

the best teachers of English, 

History and Geography at the 

Grade 8 level," he added with uncharacteristic 

immodesty! John 

did graduate work at the University 

of Ottawa that focussed on 

integrating special kids within 

the classroom. The birth and life 

of his son, Johnny, who had 

Down's Syndrome and died in 

1996, was at the root of this. 

SATISFACTION FROM 

HELPING KIDS 

"What sustained me throughout 

my time as a school administrator 

was the belief that I could help 

the kids whether it was to ensure 

they had shoes or to broker the 

John Loucks, principal 

range of programs the board offered 

those with special needs. 

My satisfaction came from 

bringing the best resources to 

bear on assisting students, particularly 

the exceptional ones, 

such as those with developmental 

disabilities. I enjoyed seeing 

these kids do well. Watching 

kids, who had trouble learning in 

Grades 6, 7 and 8, graduate that 

was rewarding," John explained. 

FIRST AVENUE A HIGHLIGHT 

Finally, his views on First Avenue. 

His doubts about coming to 

a French immersion primary 

school when he was not bilingual 

and had specialized in the intermediate 

level have long been dispelled 

and replaced by pride in 

the school and its accomplishments. 

John cited the motivation. 

of the students who are eager to 

learn and contribute. "Every 

child wanted to be involved 

from painting a mural to creating 

a school flag and taking part in 

lunch time activities in areas as 

diverse as the Internet and knitting," 

he recounted. 

He then pointed out the value in 

partnerships with a strong staff 

and a highly supportive community 

of parents genuinely 

committed to quality education 

for their children. 

John gave 

three examples of where such 

partnerships have had tangible 

results during his stay at the 

school: improvements in the 

school climate, significant 

progress in the school's 

information technology capacity 

and in-school curriculum 

development, particularly in 

science. 

And of the future? At 53, what 

would he like to do next? He may 

teach at the college level or do 

some consulting. "I feel very 

positive about the opportunities 

out there. I want to continue to 

play a role in education," he 

concluded. 

For those of us with children in 

the system, we hope John Loucks, 

with his wisdom, fairness and experience, 

keeps his hand in. We 

need him there. 

SCHOOL NEWS 

First Avenue Book Sale a huge success 

BY J. C. SULZENKO 

Students contributed over 

27,000 books to the 15th annual 

book sale, April 23-25, guaranteeing 

record-breaking results! 

C. Parent's Grade 5 and S. Gaudreault's 

Grade 6 students tied 

for the top prize of a pizza lunch 

after bringing in the most books 

per child. 

Parent volunteers saw brisk 

trade. People bought books by 

the box-load! Raffle tickets also 

sold well, with prizes donated by 

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Organizers expressed 

their thanks for the generosity of 

the prize-givers, as well appreciation 

to the members of the 

community and parents of students 

no longer at First Avenue 

who helped. 

This event serves as the main 

fund-raiser each year for the 

school. Left over books went to 

other schools or charitable 

organizations. 

Opera Et CeteraW 

George Valettas, Tenor 

Sonia Sasseville, Mezzo-Soprano 

GaEtan Fleuriau-Chateau, Baritone 

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SCHOOL NEWS Glebe Report May 8, 1998 34 

Happenings at Corpus Christi School 

BY LUCILLE B. PUMMER 

The students have been very 

busy over the last two months. 

The following is a brief synopsis 

of the activities and some of the 

people involved to make it happen. 

MILLENNIUM TASK FORCE 

On March 12, the Grade 6 class 

took part in a ceremony at the 

Museum of Civilization to launch 

the federal government's Millennium 

Task Force. The ceremony 

featured a live satellite hookup 

with schools in Cape Spear, NF 

and the Queen Charlotte Islands, 

BC, the first and last parts of 

Canada to welcome the year 2000. 

The celebration also included 

footage from a video of our Grade 

6 class expressing their hopes 

and dreams for the year 2000. 

Congratulations students and Ms. 

Patricia Murphy, teacher of Grade 

6. 

HANDS-ON, MINDS-ON 

SCIENCE 

On April 14, eight Grade 6 and 

Grade 5 students made a special 

presentation to the Ottawa-Carleton 

Roman Catholic School Board 

on a pilot program called SNOOPS 

from the series Galaxy TVO. 

SNOOPS is the Grade 4 to 6 

hands-on, minds-on science program 

supported by 15 video programs. 

Students gain a deeper 

understanding of the natural 

world around them by solving 

mysteries and doing science along 

with other SNOOPS students in 

Canada. SNOOPS encourages 

teachers and students to be real 

scientists by: asking questions, 

conducting 

hands-on 

investigations, and developing 

ideas through themes and 

activities. The students, Eric 

Berrigan, Jeffrey Giacomelli, Joy 

Gurr, Stephen Rebeiro and Harrison 

Westwick talked about their 

experiment with building bridges 

and applying all the scientific 

and mathematical as well as tech- 

nological principles while 

Paulina Chahine, Siobhan 

Gibbens, Hanna Randazzo demonstrated 

how to carry out an 

archeological dig and highlighted 

what they learnt from it. They 

also shared their enthusiasm for 

this terrific science, mathematics, 

design and technology program. 

Congratulations go to their 

teacher Madame Véronique 

Lafleur and to the students. 

SACRAMENT OF THE 

EUCHARIST 

Many thanks to Father Joe 

Leclair, parish priest of Blessed 

Sacrament Church, who came to 

share his stories of God's Love 

with the Grade 2 students. His 

visit focused on final preparations 

for the Sacrament of the Eucharist. 

The children appreciated 

his spiritual giving as well 

as his tasty Hershey treats. The 

Grade 2s have been preparing all 

year for the reception of the Holy 

Eucharist. As a school community 

we wish these students a 

very meaningful celebration. 

We wish to thank Mr. Troy 

Tebbenham for donating a Macintosh 

computer and printer to the 

Grade 3 students. We are very 

grateful for such donations since 

it gives students additional opportunities 

to access other software. 

PEACE CONFERENCE 

Congratulations to our Conflict 

Resolution Managers who represented 

the school at the Peace 

Conference at Parliament Hill: 

Corey Bourgnion, Jeffery Giacomelli, 

David Nadeau, Stephen 

Rebeiro, Harrison Westwick. 

Harrison Westwick was the outstanding 

member from our school. 

STAY SAFE! 

April is Stay Alert! Stay Safe! 

month. The student council members 

are helping other classmates 

develop safety awareness in two 

ways. First, every morning a 

different class representative announces 

a safety tip over the intercom, 

for example, "Look both 

ways before you cross the street." 

Secondly, they have organized a 

colouring contest for students 

from Grade 1 to 3 and a poster 

contest for students in Grades 4 

to 6. It is great to see our students 

develop leadership qualities. 

Various students from Grades 1 

to 6 have submitted art work to 

the second annual NAC art contest. 

This year's theme is 

"Human Rights through the eyes 

of our youth." All submissions 

will be on display at the NAC 

from May through August in the 

main lobby. Good luck to all the 

budding artists! 

EARTH DAY 

Congratulations to the students 

in the Enviro Club for making 

such meaningful posters for Earth 

Day and to the two teachers, Mme 

Burns and Mrs. Bourassa, who 

keep our awareness of enviro issues 

uppermost in mind. Please 

check out the students' poster at 

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A letter to Jack 

IMAGINING CANADIAN 

LITERATURE, 

The Selected Letters of 

Jack McLelland, 

Edited by Sam Solecki, 

Key Porter Books, 300 pages, 

$26.95 (paper) 

Dear Jack, 

What a magnificent way to begin 

this review for Glebe-ites (as opposed 

Globe-ites), who have had 

the opportunity to read or avoid 

reading my monthly books column 

in this downtown Ottawa community 

newspaper, the Glebe Report, 

since 1981. That's a long 

time, Jack, but not as long as the 

more than three decades' accumulated 

correspondence related to 

the publishing company stored in 

the McMaster University 

Archives which your masterful 

editor, Sam Solecki, was required 

to sift through. 

In your own words, Jack: "My 

father (John A. McClelland) and I 

presided over the affairs of the 

first 87 years of McClelland and 

Stewart for almost an equal 

amount of time, with the advantage 

slightly in his favour. We 

also presided over the financial 

calamities to which Canadian 

publishing is prone, in somewhat 

equal measure, but the advantage 

here is clearly mine." 

My congratulations to Solecki (a 

professor of English at the University 

of Toronto) who accomplished 

a monumental task of selection 

to tell so vividly the 

miraculous story of your visionary 

labour of love why you 

stuck for approximately forty 

years with a business inherited 

from your father which had an 

unreasonable expectation of 

monetary profit because you believed 

more in the buying of authors 

than the publics' buying of 

books. In the words of Pierre 

Berton: "Jack listened to his 

writers, not his accountants or 

marketing 

people." 

And look at what you accomplished, 

the creation of a canon 

entitled Canadian Literature including 

such flagship names as 

Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, 

Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Fraser, 

By 

Sharon 

Abron 

Drache 

Irving Layton, Margaret Laurence, 

Farley Mowat, Mordecai Richier 

and Gabrielle Roy. I also mention 

Anna Porter and Linda McKnight, 

originally employed by McClelland 

and Stewart, who work diligently 

to continue your good 

work: Porter as publisher of Key 

Porter Books and McKnight as a 

literary agent, a job you yourself 

picked up inadvertently after 

stepping down as CEO of McClelland 

and Stewart in December of 

1985. 

If there is one thing I kn o w 

about you Jack, it is that you are 

no quitter. From my own personal 

association with you (Jack 

McClelland was my literary agent 

from 1988-1992) after you sold 

your financially-challenged company 

to Toronto real estate developer, 

Avie Bennett, I can say that 

your summing up of your publisher's 

career is only partially 

valid. And here I digress to that 

miserable aspect of the book biz, 

which you so courageously confronted. 

You fought harder than 

was humanly possible to change 

the phrase unreasonable expectation 

of profit from the sale of 

Canadian books to reasonable. 

Jack I think you were so successful 

at what you did as a publisher 

that Revenue Canada created interpretation 

bulletins on the 

Status of the Artist based on the 

profits which your star authors 

were finally to earn, coining the 

long-yearned-for term, reasonable 

expectation of profit, for 

some authors you developed both 

for the present and posterity. 

In the days of downsizing and 

corporate takeovers I am relieved 

that your work is done. You are 

one of the most creative individuals 

I have ever had the pleasure 

of knowing. And the letters in 

this current volume attest to this 

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unique creativity. I laughed 

aloud when Solecki wrote that he 

tried not to alter your style with 

his editorial pen, because I know 

that your loyal secretary Marge 

Hodgeman typed the letters you 

always dictated. Often your 

missives to yours truly would say 

at the end: "mitten but not read." 

In short, your massive correspondence 

rolled off your tongue into 

your tape recorder and that was it 

. . . And you wrote twenty t o 

thirty such letters daily for over 

forty years, often very late at 

night, Solecki tells us. 

Here's to the real Jack who 

poured out his literary heart to 

the authors admired and they in 

turn poured out their hearts to 

him. By literary I refer to a love 

and respect for professional writers 

for whom the work produced, 

even in this volume of selected 

letters from the '50s, '60s, '70s 

and '80s, was a polished, per- 


Photo: Mordecai Drache 

Jack McClelland joined Sharon Abron Drache to launch her novel 

Ritual Slaughter in 1989. 

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fected kind of prose, while your 

responses were ironically their 

equal. 

Your letters to your stable of 

authors, especially your favoured 

fiction writers like Margaret Laurence 

and Gabrielle Roy to name 

only two have an outstanding authenticity 

that cries out for one 

thing only a constant craving 

and seeking for that elusive pinning 

down of a lasting canon 

called Canadian literature. 

You did it, Jack. Without you, 

Canadian literature would not 

have happened. You were in the 

right place at the right time. And 

writers and readers throughout 

Canada and abroad thank you for 

what you accomplished on their 

behalf. 

Cheers! 

Sharon 

Imagining Canadian Literature 

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Summer - a time for re-creation 

BY REV. DR. JACK NIELD 

Spring in Canada is a miracle. 

Just when we have forgotten what 

green is like and life is at its 

dreariest, suddenly spring happens. 

New life! Green! Everything 

changes! 

Christians see this change as a 

parable of life. Most everyone 

lives through a time of winter in 

the soul when life is chilled and 

hardly seems worth living. Our 

experience and our faith tells us 

that spring can be just around the 

corner. Life can be full and 

worthwhile once again. God is a 

God of re-creation. 

It is no coincidence that all of 

On Sunday, June 14 at 9:30 and 

11 o'clock, Elijah Harper will 

lead us in worship at Glebe-St. 

James. Mr. Harper is now ambassador 

at large for the First Nations 

national reconciliation initiative. 

In December of 1995 he 

called for a sacred assembly for 

the purpose of promoting Aboriginal 

justice through spiritual 

reconciliation and healing between 

Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal 

peoples. The sacred assembly 

was successful in bringing 

together many people from 

across Canada representing the 

elders, women, youth, political 

leaders, spiritual leaders, and 

leaders of all faiths. Rev. Jack 

Nield, minister at Glebe-St. James 

was at the assembly. 

Mr. Harper is honorary chief 

for life of the Red Sucker Lake 

the world's great religions had 

their birth in a desert. T h e 

metaphor is the same. It is only 

when you have known brown and 

parched and dry that you know 

what a miracle green is. It is 

only when you have experienced 

the desert that you can appreciate 

the oasis. Church is a place to 

put life into perspective a community 

that can support us as we 

live through the winter of the 

soul with the sure and certain 

hope that spring will come again. 

God is a God of re-creation. 

Rev. Dr. Jack Nield is minister 

at Glebe-St. James United Church. 

Elijah Harper to speak at 

Glebe-St. James United Church 

First Nation. For eleven years he 

was a member of the Legislative 

Assembly of Manitoba and was 

appointed to the cabinet. He has 

received the commemorative 

medal of Canada from the Governor 

General and the Stanley 

Knowles Humanitarian Award. In 

1993 he was elected Member of 

Parliament for Churchill. 

His message is that all people 

worship one God and that reconciliation 

between people must 

include a spiritual component. 

Public education, promoting 

healing among individuals and 

groups participating in community 

healing initiatives and promoting 

discussion are aspects of 

Harper's plan. We look forward 

to his presentation at Glebe-St.- 

James. All are welcome. 

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Saturday: 9:00 AM 4:30 PM 

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Minister: Rev. Stanley J.T. Hanna 

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Morning Service at 11:00 AM 

Adult Ministries Bible Study at 6:30 PM 

Friday: 12 Noon Eucharist 

Saturday: Youth Group 5:13 PM 

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New Ventures in Celebration 9:30 AM (Family Service) 

Worship 11:00 AM plus 

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ST. MATTHEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 

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Holy Communion: 8:00 AM 

Choral Eucharist & Church School: 10:00 AM 

Choral Evensong: 5:00 PM (second & fourth Sundays) 

Weekday Eucharist Thursday 10:00 AM 

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Youth Coordinator: Colleen Smith 

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South branch library news 

BY FELINE MERRITT 

Missy Hillman and I will be taking turns at writing articles for Glebe 

Report, adding our voices to others in the neighbourhood to keep you up 

to date on library events. 

We were happy to welcome Mayor Jim Watson, Councillor Inez Berg as 

well as many of our regular visitors to the official opening of our Electronic 

Resource Access Center. These ERACs are being well used both 

in the adult and the children's sections of Ottawa South Branch. 

The added information retrieval offered by ERACS will, we hope 

continue to be used responsibly by any registered client and increase 

our helpfulness to the community. 

Comments about our boolcsale are always welcome. We will be making 

more children's books available in the coming months and hope you will 

find some treasure.s of your own tucked away on our book table. 

Children's Programs 

Our children's programs continue to be a success. Judy Aranoff, Marina 

O'Grady and I thank you for your continued and enthusiastic support 

of our combined efforts. The program line-up for May is as 

follows: 

Storytimes for 3- to 5- year olds. Monday and Thursday at 10:15 

a.m., Wednesday at 2:15 a.m.. 

Saturday stories and films for 4- to 7- year olds. Saturdays at 

10:30 a.m. 

Babes in the Library. Music, rhymes and books for babies from 

birth to 18 months, Fridays, at 1:15 p.m. Pre-registration. 

Time for Twos. Stories, fingerplays and films for two- year- olds, 

starting Wednesdays at 10:15. Pre-registration. 

Bebes en la biblioteca. Music, rhymes and stories in Spanish for 

babies. A community based program offered by Spanish-speaking caregivers, 

Mondays at 9:15. 

Adult Programs 

We are pleased to welcome Ian 

J. Campbell for the last reading of 

the season on May 14th at 7:30 

p.m. Mr. Campbell will read from 

Murder at the Abbaye: The Story 

of Twenty Canadian Soldiers 

Murdered at the Abbaye 

d'Ardenne. A visit to the Abbaye 

d'Ardenne in Normandy kindled 

Ian Campbell's interest in the 

human aspects of this tragic story 

of 20 Canadian soldiers murdered 

in June 1944. Colonel Campbell 

served overseas with the United 

Nations Forces in Cyprus and 

Egypt and with NATO forces in 

Germany. He was made Officer of 

Brown-Bag Seminar 

Wednesday, May 20 in the Main Library meeting room at noon the 

speaker will be Peter McGrath, Independent Living Centre, speaking on 

Positive Attitudes for People with Disabilities. 

Great Glebe Gumshoe Game - 

Whodunnit? 

BY LINDA VVIKEN the killer begins. By 2:30 p.m., 

The game's afoot in the Glebe. entries must be in, the police will 

Or rather, it will be on Saturday, reveal the murderer, and lucky 

May 30 when Prime Crime Mys- winners will be drawn for some 

tery Books presents the second terrific prizes. 

annual Great Glebe Gumshoe Cost of playing the game is $5 

Game. 

for adults, a loonie for children. 

The sleuthing starts at 10:30 All proceeds go to People, Words 

a.m. when detecting devotees and Change, a local literacy 

gather in Irene's Pub at 889 Bank group. 

to witness a crime in progress. 

Someone will be murdered, that's The theme this year is literary 

guaranteed. But who will it be and and there'll be lots of local talent 

even more important, whodunnit? taking part. Only 50 will be able 

Of course, the Ottawa-Carleton to test their detecting skills. So 

Regional Police will be called in call Prime Crime Mystery Books 

to set the investigation in motion. at 238-2583 to reserve a spot or 

Sleuths and suspects will then stop in at 891 Bank Street. And 

move along to Fifth Avenue Court start reading those Agatha 

where the hard work of deducing Christie's to sharpen your skills. 

,r4D 

If you have news call the editor at 236-4955 

or write to the Globe Report, P.O Box 4794, 

Station E, Ottawa, K1S 5H9 

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1983, and was Commanding Officer 

1 Service Battalion in Calgary 

from 1983 - 1985. Now retired, 

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RELIABLE HELP for occasional 

yard work & odd jobs. $10/hr. 

237-3033. 

" TO BORROW, "Lanny Budd" by 

Upton Sinclair. 563-1541. 

2 OR 3 BEDROOM APT. with 

dining area. June 1. 232-3365. 

* TO BUY: Perego double stroller, 

computer table; back yard play or 

climbing equipment Call Edith 

or David at 231-6262. 

" DONATIONS OF PERENNIAL 

PLANTS for a new flower bed in 

Central Park. Please drop off 

donations at 39 Rosebery. 

For info call 236-2151. 

EMPLOYMENT WANTED 

FRENCH TEACHER, native of 

France, patient, experienced. 

Will teach any age, level, 1-3 

persons. 238-2677. 

TRADE FAIR 

Sun. May 31 

Over 50 vendors offering you 

their quality serv./prod. 

Free admission 

Free Door Prizes 

Vendor info: J.P. 521-5880 

- Rent- -Wife Household Organizers 

%ea, wadzinf woman, needs, 

wild" 

Regular & Occasional cleaning 

Pre & Post move cleaning and packing 

Pre & Post renovation cleaning 

Blitz & Spring cleaning 

Organizing cupboards, basements 

Perhaps a waitress??? 

.X.rei 749-2249 

Certa ProPainters" 

11111121211M111- 

Full Service Interior & Exterior Painting 

All types of related repairs performed 

For a Free Estimate Call 728-0087 

NOT ALL PAINTERS ARE CREATED EQUAL 

EMPLOYMENT WANTED 

EXPERIENCED child care 

provider. Mother of two kids, 

residing on Glebe Ave. I would 

like to take care of your child in 

my home for full days during the 

week. 237-9119. 

EXPERIENCED caregiver is 

looking for children to babysit 

full-time or part-time. Close to 

Mutchmor School. Can pick up 

and drop the Idds to school. Lots 

of fun. Ready to start anytime. 

References. Call 230-3757 or 

234-8581 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. 

FULL TIME Nanny, avail. 

immediately, non smoker, 

references. Carol 726-9239. 

LAWN, garden care; indoor 

painting; vacation home care; 

private lessons MS Word. 

Excellent references, 237-5827. 

NOTICES 

HUMANE SOCIETY OF 

OTTAWA-CARLETON 49 t h 

Auxiliary Spring Tea & Money 

Shower, St. Mark's Church, 1606 

Fisher Ave., Nepean, May 27, 2-4 

p.m. Info. 728-5493. 

AM ETHYST WOMEN'S 

ADDICTION CENTRE needs 

donations of articles for 

fundraiser garage sale, Sat May 

23. Call 749-7246 or dropoff at 

30 Broadway Ave. 

GARDEN PLANT SALE, 

annuals, May 9 & 10, 8:30-2 p.m., 

Glebe Community Centre, in 

support of Glebe Cooperative 

Nursery School. 

IN HARMONY proudly presents 

"Calling The Fire Within," our 

3rd annual concert at the Glebe 

Community Centre, June 8 at 8 

p.m. Tickets: $10 in advance at 

Mother Tongue Books or $12 at 

the door. Call Lise Chiasson at 

562-9332. 

IRISH SINGERS of Ottawa in 

Spring Concert. May 23, 7:30 

p.m. St. Patrick's Hall, 280 

Gloucester Street. Ticket info: 

729-3338. 

FUNDRAISING AUCTION FOR 

SPECIAL OLYMPICS, Friday, May 

22 at Glebe Community Centre. 7 

p.m. viewing & silent auction. 8 

p.m. live auction. $5 at door 

(includes a complimentary glass 

of wine). 

CI- 

GRAPEVINE 

NOTICES 

* SISTERS OF CHARITY of Ottawa 

Health Service seeks volunteers 

for day program with Alzheimer 

patients & persons with loss of 

physical autonomy and to 

accompany the van chauffeur. 

Orientation & training provided. 

Call 824-1720. 

* CHAIRY TALES, art exhibit by 

28 local artists at Karsh-Masson 

Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, until 

May 31. 

CBC TELEVISION 

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER 

seeking people who have explored 

values and meaning without 

religion. Call Stephanie 230- 

0388 evenings & weekends or e- 

mail smatteis@gapc.com 

GOOD MORNING PRESCHOOL 

has morning classes for 2 & 3 

year olds and new enrichment 

programmes for 4 & 5 year olds. 

Excellent ratios, warm 

environment, parent duty days 

not required. Call Dawn 5 67- 

4922, or yisii website: 

members.tripod.com/-goodmorning 

HEEL'N'WHEEL-A-THON for 

Ottawa Chapter of Crohn's & 

Colitis Foundation of Canada, 

June 7, Pledge forms & volunteer 

info. at 733-2870. 

PEACE & ENVIRONMENT 

CENTRE Garage & Plant Sale, May 

23. Contributions needed. Call 

230-4590. 

FEMINIST F LAV 0 U R S: 

RECIPES FOR CHANGE - recipes, 

poetry, wit & wisdom - a 

fundraiser for the Ottawa Rape 

$17 (includes 

Crisis Centre. 

postage). Send cheques to Ottawa 

Rape Crisis Centre, Box 20206, 

Ottawa, ON, K7C 2B7 

399 CATHERINE ST 

FOUND 

* 2 DIFFERENT SETS OF KEYS in 

Brown's Inlet in March. Pick up 

at Glebe Community Centre. 

B-B-C1 Fundraiser for 

The Glebe Cooperative Nursery 

School on Saturday, May 23, the 

day of the 

Great Glebe Garage Sale. 

We open for business at the 

corner of Lyon and Third at 8 am. 

We fire up the B-B-Q at 10 a.m. 

For more info call Janet O'Connor 

at 798-8189. 

11/41, 

MINI STORAGE 

234-6888 

PARKER CLEAN 

WITH FULL TAILORING SERVICE 

Same Day Cleaning 

Save Up to 30% Everyday 

Environmentally Friendly 

Conveniently Located 

Alterations With Min. $10.00 Dry Cleaning (Glebe Only) 

Expires May 30, 1998 

Enna Green 

856 Bank St. (at 5th Ave) - Phone: 236-2662 

Open Mon-Fri 7 am to 7 pm 

Sat 9 am to 5 pm 

SECURE 

CLIMATE CON'TROLLED 

SELF-STORAGE

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233-8713 

Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group 

690 Lyon Street South 


K15 3Z9 

M'Ottawa 

Department of Community Services 0 

Services communautaires 

564-1058 0 

A Note From The Executive Director 

Thank you to the 1997 1998 GNAG Board of Directors for providing 

the Glebe community with another year of successful programmes and 

events. 

GNAG maintains a high quality team of dedicated community volunteers 

ti who make what we do possible. It has been a pleasure for me to work 

0 with an organization that continués to grow, strives for excellence in 

costumer service, is client driven, and is a model recognized by the 

'community-at-large and the Corporation of the City of Ottawa. 

Congratulations and welcome to the 1998-1999 GNAG Board of 

ff Directors. Together, we will continue to enrich the quality of life of Glebe 

residents and the city-at-large. 

Fad Craft Fair Registration 

We will fie accepting registration for aft 

remaining tables on 

Saturday, Yune 13 at 9:00 a.m. 

Artuat Craft Fair dates: 

November 14 de 15, 1998 

Fee : $90.00 per table. 

For fitrther information, ',tease calf 564-1058. 

Glebe C.C. is proud to present the best 0 

SUMMER DAY CAMP PROGRAMMES S 

ever offered by the City of Ottawa 

We offer 8 camps for children 

ages 1 - 14 years 

We are presently accepting registration on an on-going basis. 

Better hurry! Spaces are limited and all registration is on a 

first-come, first-served basis. Come in today and sign-up! For 

further details, please call 564-1058. 

Perennial Exchange 

Bring your plants (or some good manure) 

and exchange ideas, questions and plants with your neighbours. 

Cocated on the front steps at G.C.C. 

Thursday, May 14 

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 

Tree! 

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