Glebe Report - Volume 34 Number 8 - September 17 2004

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Vol. 34 No. 8 

Serving the Glebe community since 1973 

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Fundraising book sale for the 

Sunnyside branch of the OPL 

BY JENNY HAYSOM 

After the rallies in March to 

protest the proposed closures of 

three community libraries, the 

Ottawa Public Library's plan for 

service delivery remains a concern 

for many. As the Sunnyside Library 

is a cherished institution and a focal 

point in our neighbourhood, we 

should now look to improve it, both 

to fortify it against the forces of 

amalgamation and big-box city 

services, and to make it a better 

place for its many users. The facility, 

in fact, has never been busier: 

figures in July show that circulation 

at our branch is up 34.5 per cent 

over last year. 

The basement at 

Sunnyside, 

which has recently lost its Visiting 

Services department, will likely 

transfer the Bookmobile and its 

holdings to the new South Central 

Library that is currently under construction. 

This vacated basement 

space, if renovated, could solve the 

facility's most frequently cited problemits 

lack of programming 

space. Branch management feels 

that the construction of a multipurpose 

room would be the most versatile 

addition to the facility. Such a 

space could enable expanded services, 

a new community venue, and 

a much-needed room for staff functions. 

With this goal in mind, the Old 

Ottawa South Community Association 

plans to host a fundraising 

book sale in support of the Sunnyside 

Library on Sun., Oct. 24, from 

noon to 4 p.m. at the Old Fire Hall. 

Donations of books and audiovisual 

materials (CDs, DVDs, videos, etc.) 

can be dropped off at the Fire Hall 

on the Friday prior to the sale from 

9 am. to 9 p.m. (Oct. 22). If you are 

unable to make your donation at this 

time, please leave your books at interim 

drop-off locations in the community. 

In the Glebe, donations may 

be left at 26 Morris Street, and in 

Old Ottawa South, at 139 Hopewell 

Avenue (evenings, 6-9 p.m.). Provision 

will also be made for those who 

may need to have books collected 

from their homes. Please contact 

Jane Spiteri at 237-5625. 

We need your help! If you would 

like to volunteer your time and abilities, 

please contact Sheryl Hamilton, 

preferably by e-mail at sheryl_ 

hamilton@carleton.ca, or by phone 

at 730-6609. 

GCC reopening October 2 

Program 

1 to 4 p.m. 

ONGOING ACTIVITIES 

informal tours of the community centre 

displays by community organizations 

Pumpkinfest 

yoga demonstrations in the fitness/dance studio 

giant inflatable slide 

AFTERNOON EVENTS 

1-1:30 and 2-3: children's playtime in the multipurpose playrOOM 

1-2: craft activities for younger children; plus a cooking 

demonstration by Ken Harper in the teaching kitchen 

1-2 and 3-4: pottery demonstrations in the pottery studio; 

also, refreshments at The Pantry 

1:30-2: a performance by the Hopewell School Band; plus a 

poetry reading by JC Sulzenko for children four to eight years 

old 

2-2:30: the official opening ceremonies and the naming of the 

main hall 

.2:30: cake and beverages in the main hall 

2:45: join the historic photo on the Second Avenue steps 

.3-4: create a stepping stone to be used in the centre's landscaping 

or enjoy a fitness mini-class; also, a plasma car test-drive 

for children. Cookie decorating with Clare Berrans 

3-3:45: the Lyon Street Celtic Band 

3:45: the tree dedication ceremony 

PLEASE NOTE: Lyon Street South will be closed between Second 

and Third avenues. Please leave your car at home to provide 

parking spaces for people who have difficulty walking or 

who need to transport equipment. 

Community Traffic Meeting 

sponsored by the GCA 

and Dow's Lake Residents' Association, 

Tues., Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m., 

at the Glebe Community Centre. See page 6. 

FREE 

Photo: Robert Fong-Jean 

Alexandra Howard and Annie Feiningen helped raise funds at the 2003 

Dow's Lake garage sale. 

Dow's Lake 

Community Garage Sale 

The Dow's Lake Residents' Association will hold its third annual community 

garage sale on Sat., Sept. 25, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

The Dow's Lake neighbourhood is the geographical triangle formed by 

Carling and Bronson avenues and the Queen Elizabeth Driveway. 

We hope that many residents will participate in the Dow's Lake community 

garage sale this year. 

A voluntary contribution of 10 per cent of proceeds to The Food Bank will 

be appreciated. For further information, contact Heather at 594-9356. 

Church Tour 2 

Celia Franca 3 

Editorial 4 

Memorial Fund 5 

GCA 6-7 

History Quiz 8 

Photo Quiz 9 

Glebe Primer 10 

Councillor Doucet 11 

David Farr 13 

Business News 14-15 

Palisades 16 

Sports, Walks & Runs 16-17 

Mr. Duong, 

Harija Conrad 18 

Up close & personal . . . 19 

INSIDE 

Abbotsford & Glebe 

Centre 20 

Music 21 

GCC History 22-23 

Two Sisters 24 

The Traditional Ottawa 

Ex 25 

Art 26-28 

Heritage 29 

Light, privacy & views . 31 

Guides 32 

Schools 33-37 

Words 38 

George & Jeanne 

Johnston 39 

Books 40 

Religion 41-42 

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(Orthodox Church in America) 

55 Clarey Avenue 

9. Religious Society of Friends 

(Quakers) 

91 A Fourth Avenue 

Tickets ($10) can be obtained by calling the following churches: 

Ecclesiax: 565-4343 

Fourth Avenue Baptist Church: 236-1804 

Glebe-St. James United Church: 236-0617 

McLeod-Stewarton United Church: 232-9854 

St. Giles Presbyterian Church: 235-2551 

St. Matthew's Anglican Church: 234-4024 

Please call the church offices in advance, since a number of the offices 

have limited hours. Tickets will also be available at the opening of the 

Glebe Community Centre on Oct. 2, 1-4 p.m. Proceeds from ticket 

sales will go to the Emergency Food Centre. For more information, go to 

www.centre townchurches.org or call Nancy Jonah at 236-2299. 

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3 Glebe Report Srptember 17, 2004 NEWS 

Glebe Conversations: 

A Singular Woman of Dance 

Photo: Courtesy of Waddell Solomon 

Prima Ballerina Celia Franca 

BY JC SULZENKO 

Celia Franca, prima ballerina, cofounder 

of the National Ballet 

School (NB S) and long-time Glebe 

resident opens the door. Her bearing 

regal, her beauty austere and her 

diction precise, she expresses some 

surprise at seeing me. No wonder. 

Still on New Brunswick time, I 

arrive at the wrong time for our 

interview, well after photographer 

Hélène Anne Fortin, who is already 

positioning parachute-like lights and 

moving objets d'art around Miss 

Franca's apartment. I have no doubt 

the portrait she will take will be 

worth easily the proverbial 1,000 

words (plus or minus) of mine. So 

there's a rival for Miss Franca's 

attention, not to speak of my own. 

After my apologies, our brief conversation 

easily turns to the National 

Ballet School's $90-million capital 

expansion, Project Grand Jeté. In 

July, a gift of $15 millionthe 

largest single donation from an individual 

to a performing arts organization 

in Canadawas made specifically 

to the school's new training 

facility, with the request that it be 

called the Celia Franca Centre. 

- "I received an unexpected telephone 

call from Toronto asking me 

whether I would accept having the 

centre named after me. I said yes, of 

course! It's a tremendous honour, 

because the National Ballet School 

is famous around the world. The trip 

to Toronto for the announcement 

was bliss! It was the utmost of luxury. 

This is new for me, in my dotage, 

to be treated like the Queen. I had 

the first day all to myself, which was 

splendid. Then Veronica Tennant 

and her husband took me to an intimate, 

lovely dinner with a few of my 

old cohorts, including Karen Kain." 

The day of the announcement 

began with a performance in the 

Betty Oliphant Theatre and some 

speeches. "Until then, no one in the 

audience knew what would be 

revealed. When Mavis Staines, my 

friend and the director of the school, 

announced that the new training 

facility would be named after me, I 

received a standing ovation." Miss 

Staines had indicated that visionaries 

are few and that Canada's NBS 

can truly say it stands on the shoulders 

of giants. 

And then? "Well, I 

made a 

speech, too. I always try to make 

them funny. I spoke about how the 

National Ballet School almost didn't 

come to be after a member of the 

board made me weep. But it went 

ahead, didn't it? And became very 

important to the life of ballet in 

Canada. It gave the rest of the country 

the courage to do its own thing." 

Towards the end of the ceremony, 

NBS Administrative Director Robert 

Sirman symbolically took a hammer 

to a false wall between the Theatre 

and the new Celia Franca Centre. 

"Robert escorted me through the 

hole in the wall to where construction 

is under way. It was wonderful. 

I hope to be there for the opening," 

she adds. 

By April 2005, Project Grand Jeté 

will triple the size of the school's 

world-class ballet training, academic 

education and residential care 

facilities, and change the face of the 

Jarvis Street area where the school 

has operated since 1959. "The better 

the facility, the better the productthe 

studentwho can then go on to 

dance or teach professionally," Miss 

Franca emphasizes. 

As our eyes wander towards the 

photographer's rigging, I end the 

interview by aslcing what is most 

important to Miss Franca now. "I am 

so grateful to be on good terms with 

the National Ballet company and the 

National Ballet School. And, of 

course, here in Ottawa, there's The 

School of Dance. It means everything 

to me." 

I cannot resist one last question: 

Is there anything in her life she 

would have done differently? "No. I 

have no complaints. I've been very 

fortunate, even though I've had very 

hard times. When I first visited 

Canada, I came only to have a look. 

I took it and said 'you need me 

here.' So I stayed." How fortunate 

for our country and for the dance 

that Miss Franca did. 

Glebe writer JC Sulzenko has 

served as Poet-in-Residence at The 

School of Dance this year during its 

25th Anniversary season. 

Photo: Hélène Anne Fortin 

Celia Franca, founder of the National Ballet of Canada and its director until 

1974, co-founder of the National Ballet School, and co-artistic director of 

the School of Dance in Ottawa. She was appointed a Companion of the 

Order of Canada in 1985. 

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EDITORIAL PAGE 

Views expressed in the Glebe Report 

are those of our contributors. We 

reserve the right to edit all submissions. 

September 17, 2004 4 

October 2 and 3 Don't leave 

town that weekend! 

The long-awaited official opening of the Glebe Community Centre 

promises to be a spectacular and historic event. 

On Saturday, October 2, from 1 to 4 p.m., there will be a great 

coming together of all the diverse groups and individuals who 

make up this community and/or have been involved with the renovation 

of the centre. 

Those of us who have had a peek at this work in progress have 

been struck by how unified the new building is compared to the 

old. Gone is the confusing labyrinth of backstairs and hidden-away 

rooms. The whole building is now accessible, by elevator and a 

gently sloping ramp, to those formerly excluded or discouraged 

from entering many parts of the building because of stairs. Being 

able to look up through the dome from the front lobby truly gives 

a central focus. It is also a big improvement to have the reception 

desk situated at the Third Avenue entrance, where staff can greet 

you as soon as you arrive. Come out, have a look around and meet 

and greet your neighbours. (See page 1 for program of events.) 

The next day, Sunday, October 3, is the first annual Glebe 

Church Tour. Instead of coming together, we will be going out to 

see the various places of worship which have been so important to 

community life in the Glebe. It will help us to understand and, ideally, 

accept each other's differences, not only in terms of our religious 

beliefs and practices, but also respective of the history and 

cultural life of each parish. 

Those who worship in other communities or who are not religious 

will have the opportunity to see inside buildings which they 

might have been very hesitant or even embarrassed to enter. Opening 

up the doors promotes a flow of information that takes down 

the barriers between neighbours. It allows us to appreciate the liturgies, 

beautiful buildings and some of the accomplishments of these 

revered institutions. Many of the churches have often been community 

centres of their own at various stages in their unique histories. 

Some still have a full program of activities, clubs (religious 

and otherwise), musical events and support groups. Churches continue 

to be the most popular gathering place for commemorating 

the milestone celebrations of birth, marriage and death. They 

shouldn't remain mysterious or forbidden territory in our midst. 

The money raised from tickets to this event will be donated to 

The Emergency Food Centre, a venture supported by many Centretown 

and Glebe congregations. See page 2 for the clip-out map 

of church locations. 

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Report at Sunnyside Library & Brewer Pool; at the three Glebe CC locations 

(Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, The Palisades and Mutchmor 

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local shops: Arbour, Basilisk Dreams, Boomerang Kids, Bridgehead, 

Fresh Fruit Co., GamePower, Glebe Fashion Cleaners, Glebe 

Pharmasave Apothecary, Glebe Photo, Glebe Trotters, Glebe Smoke 

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Spa, Timothy's, Von's, West Coast Video & the Wild Oat. 

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Thanks and farewell to: 

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Fredrik Abrahamson, Jennie Aliman, Avril Aubry, Adam & Timothy Austen-, Michael & Daniel Baggaley, Barrens family, Inez Berg, Robert & Heidi Boraks, 

Tess & Cory & Lindsay & Monica Bousada, Bowie family, John Francis Brandon, Brewer Pool, Simon Button, James Cano, Mary Chaikowsky, little Davey 

Chiswell, Kai & Jade Chong-Smith, Christina Chowaniec, Spencer & David Clarabut, Robert & Marian Conrad, Coodin family, Amy & Ryan Coughlan, 

Coutts/Bays-Coutts family, Elizabeth Cowan, Scott Cowan, Cross-Nicol family, Tina Dennis, Marilyn Deschamps, Moz & P.J. Diegel, Christie Diekeyer, Pat 

Dillon, Kathryn Dingle, Clive Doucet, Callum Duggan, Trent Duggan, Education for Community Living (Gd), Liam Faught, Ferguson family, Matthew Fernandes, 

Judy Field, Brigid & Keavin Finnerty, David & Christian & Sean & Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Hannah Fraser, Emma & Keltie & Lauchlan & Duncan Gale, 

Gabrielle Giguère, Elizabeth Gordon, Stuart & Andrew Gordon, Thomas & Louisa Grace, Ariel & Gideon & Jonah Greenbaum-Shinder, Gary Greenwood, 

Marjolein Groenvelt, Susan Haag, Rebecca & Madeline & Bridget Hall, Lois Hardy, Hawkins family, Ellis & Callan Hayman, Sebastien Hoffman-Monker, 

Hooper family, Gil Hunter, Christian Hurlow, Joan Irwin, Johnston family, Amelia Keene, Patrick & Joseph Kelly, Heather King-Andrews, Liam Kirkpatrick, 

Matthew & Brendan Koop, Mary & Imre Kovacs, Lauren & Jamie Kronick, Bonnie Kruspe, Magdalena Kucinska, Kuffner family, Lambert family, Danielle 

Lithwick, Gary Lucas, Maria MacIntosh, Nancy & Debbie Makila, Eva Margo-Dermer, Madeline & Tara Martin, Fiona & Philip Mason, Heather May, Gordon 

McCaffrey, Lindsay & Lauren McKercher, Ellen & John McLeod, Julie Monaghan, Claude-Mathieu Munson, Murdock-Thompson family, Sana Nesrallah, 

Pagliarello family, Mary Pal, Paul Poirier, Pritchard family, Proudfoot family, Quinn family, Beatrice Raffoul, Zac Rankin, Mary & Steve Reid, Alex 

Richards, Roger Roberge, Rogers family, Emile & Sebastien Roy-Foster, Owen & Emily Saar, Ruth Sawyers, Faith & Gerd Schneider, Ellen Schowalter, Scott 

family, Zachary & Anik & Richard & Liam Seaker, Beth Sharp, Ken Sharp, Short family, Tim Siebrasse, Kris Sims, Harriet Smith, Bill Dalton/Sobriety House, 

Kristen Soo, Michael & Mariah Stassen, Stephenson family, Isaac Stethem, Stunden-Bourgaize family, JoAnne C Sulzenko, Karen Swinburne, Emmet Taylor, 

Eleanor Thomas, John Thomson, Trudeau family, Claire Van Koughnett, Caroline Vanneste, Sara & Michael-James Viinalass-Smith, Ward Walker, Sarah Ward, 

Michael & Matthew & Neil & Jan Webb, Weider family, Hannah Weins, Paul Wernick, Chantal West, Heather White, Leigh & Eric Widdowson, Matt Williams, 

Gillian & Jake Wright, Zelda Yule, Eric & Vanessa Zayed.

5 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 NEWS 

"With an outstretched arm and a light tread upon the earth." 

The Glebe Report extends condolences 

to Teena Hendelman, president 

of our board of directors, and to 

her husband Walter on the death of 

their daughter Devra in Kelowna, 

B.C. on August 25 at the age of 34. 

Devra is the sister of Lisanne Hendelman 

of Ottawa and wife of Grant 

Rice of Kelowna. She was an 

accomplished woman who championed 

many causes, especially the 

protection of animals and the environment. 

Devra attended First Avenue and 

Hopewell Schools and Lisgar Collegiate. 

She was an exceptional student, 

an ardent athlete and orchestra 

member, and a contributor to the life 

and spirit of all three schools. 

Neighbours in the Glebe remember 

her smile, her laughter, her enthusiasm, 

her curiosity and her energy. 

Friends remember her loyalty, her 

generosity and her willingness to 

listen and help. 

Devra Hendelman 

It's simple. 

She attended McGill University, 

then the University of Massachusetts 

at Amherst for graduate studies 

in exercise physiology. After 

meeting her husband in Vancouver, 

they moved to Kelowna where they 

became active with organizations 

devoted to the environment and animal 

welfare. Devra was a formidable 

candidate for the Green Party in 

the BC 2001 election and an ardent 

proponent of proportional representation 

in support of which she spoke 

at the June hearings in Kelowna. 

A Memorial Tribute was held in 

Kelowna on September 1. Donations 

may be sent to The Devra 

Hendelman Memorial Fund at the 

Community Foundation or 

Ottawa, 301-75 Albert St., 

Ottawa, ON KIP 5E7, 236-1616. 

Annual proceeds of the fund will be 

directed to environmental and animal 

welfare causes that were dear to 

Devra's heart. 

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RIVERSIDE 

Is this your bunny? 

For the past few weeks, we have 

had a small bunny living in our garden 

at 219 Glebe Avenue, happily 

munching on my vegetable garden. 

As much as we have enjoyed having 

him, I am sure he is someone's pet, 

as he does not look like a wild 

bunny and is quite tame and lets us 

pick him up. 

He is mostly black with white 

markings on his face and ears. He 

also had a piece of green mesh 

around his neck which makes me 

think he squeezed through his cage 

and escaped. I have clipped the 

mesh off as it was getting very tight 

around his neck. 

If you have lost this bunny, or if 

you would like him as a pet, please 

call Alice Hinther at 233-3758. 

BY DONNA KLIMOSKA 

They slid in front and centre onto 

my tin-roof runway and, with one 

alarming thrust, broke the entire bottom 

of my huge kitchen window. I 

was standing three feet away, doing 

7 a.m. baking. The closed window 

provided light and protection until 

the ferocious battle broke out right 

in front of it. The fight left a gaping 

hole and large shards of glass pointing 

inwards were loosened at the 

frame. The floor was covered with 

the glass which had splintered and 

smashed. 

The two struggled and scuffled at 

the open hole. I screamed out in fear. 

One comment kept running through 

my mind: "That's not two pigeons!" 

I live on the second floor of an old 

house in the Glebe. The pigeons coo 

and murmur from morning to night. 

I take an active role in preventing 

their nesting on my back balcony, 

which is full of open beams and 

walls and nesting cubbies. I have 

seen them coming and going from 

little openings in my neighbour's 

attic roof, and watched a parent 

pigeon giving lessons in flight back 

and forth from the neighbour's second-floor 

cornice to the secondfloor 

balcony, trial and error, again 

and again. 

I tried to identify the larger bird, 

the aggressor. He was yellow-brown 

and reminded me of a barnyard 

chicken, but sharper and keener. His 

Illustration: Gwendolyn Best 

Unusual Sightings (Very!) 

feathers had larger brown markings, 

his beak was yellow-brown and protruded 

sharply in a down-slanting 

curve. The two birds had been interrupted 

in their struggle by smashing 

glass, screaming and the craggy window 

opening. The pigeon broke free 

and flew off, the aggressor following 

in close pursuit. 

About a minute later, the marauder, 

identified later as a red-tailed 

hawk, flew back, having missed his 

breakfast. He strutted, brazen and 

ruffled, stepped up to the gaping 

hole in my window and glared 

fiercely at me. I screamed again. My 

hair was standing on end. And then 

he flew away. 

Raptors such as hawks and peregrine 

falcons have been spotted in 

the city more frequently in recent 

years. The peregrine falcon was 

introduced to the inner city about 

five years ago, as the natural predator 

of our increasing number of 

pigeons. One famous family of falcons, 

nesting at the top of a downtown 

highrise building, are being 

filmed by concealed cameras. Little 

booths at street level show' the interested 

passerby what the camera has 

photographed. 

I was fascinated by the articles in 

the newspapers about the peregrine 

falcon family's daily life, and sent 

one such article on to my mother, 

Electa, who turned 90 this year. Now 

I have my own story to tell her.

GCA Glebe 

BY JUNE CREELMAN, 

President of the Glebe 

Community Association, and 

BRIAN M. CARROLL, 

President of the Dow's Lake 

Residents' Association 

Eighteen months after the community 

approved the Glebe Traffic 

Plan, the city is now poised to make 

decisions on its implementation. 

City staff have prepared a report 

which recommends that some, but 

not all, of the community plan be 

implemented. To consider how best 

to react to this report and what position 

to take when the report rises to 

the city's Transportation Committee, 

the boards of the Glebe Community 

Association and the Dow's 

Lake Residents' Association are 

holding a special joint meeting, 

open to all, on Tues., Sept. 28, 7:30 

p.m., at the Glebe Community Centre. 

BACKGROUND 

During the 1990s, particularly 

with the impact of the Hunt Club 

ramps on the Airport Parkway, traffic 

volumes and speeds in the Glebe 

and Dow's Lake areas increased significantly. 

For example, morning 

traffic on Bronson increased by 22 

per cent, Torrington by 27 per cent, 

and Glebe by 65 per cent. The traffic 

could no longer be accommodated 

by the framework of the original 

Glebe Traffic Plan of the early 

1970s. 

Staff Report on the Glebe Traffic Plan 

Brian Carroll, Guy Giguère, Brad Christakos, Bhat Boy, Stuart Lister 

from councillor Doucet's office, and Sheila Purdy--members of 

the traffic committee who continued to nieet over the summer. 

Starting in 1997, the Traffic Committee 

of the Glebe Community 

Association initiated a traffic study 

with funding and resources from the 

Region of Ottawa-Carleton. It included 

a workshop, data-gathering 

involving over 100 community volunteers, 

data analysis by consultants, 

and an extensive public consultation 

process with hundreds of 

members of the community. The 

committee drafted a new Glebe 

Traffic Plan, which was published in 

the Glebe Report and on the website: 

www.theglebeonline. 

On Nov. 20, 2001, most of the 

Plan was approved jointly by the 

Dow's Lake Residents' Association 

and the GCA. With amendments, 

final approval by the GCA was 

achieved on Feb. 26, 2002. 

EVALUATION 

OF THE DRAFT REPORT 

The plan was then submitted' to 

the City of Ottawa. The city department 

of Mobility & Area Traffic 

Management has been studying the 

plan and has drafted a report of recommendations 

for the city's Transportation 

Committee. A few measures 

from the plan have already been 

implemented: for instance, the 40- 

Km/h speed limit in the Glebe, with 

posted signs on some high-volume 

Report September 17, 2004 6 

streets. The Glebe Traffic Committee 

is discussing the draft report 

with staff and will report to the joint 

public meeting of the boards of the 

GCA and DLRA. This will give the 

two boards time to consider fully 

this issue which is of such importance 

to our communities. They will 

then be prepared for the Oct.20 

meeting of the City of Ottawa Transportation 

Committee when staff 

presents its report. 

You can see the Glebe Traffic 

Plan 

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and the city's draft report at 

www.theglebeonline.com/gca under 

Traffic Committee. 

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GCA begins 

another active year 

UPCOMING MEETINGS 

AND EVENTS 

The GCA will be starting up with 

a bang this fall. The first regular 

meeting of the 2004-05 yearon 

Tues., Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m.will be 

a joint meeting with the board of the 

Dow's Lake Residents' Association 

to discuss city recommendations on 

implementing the Glebe Traffic 

Plan. We must decide on any response 

quickly, as the City Transportation 

Committee hearing is less 

than a week later. The GCA will 

also be on hand at the grand reopening 

of the Glebe Community 

Centre on Sat., Oct. 2. This is an 

occasion to get your membership, if 

you haven't been canvassed, or to 

sign up for one of our committees: 

traffic, planning, heritage or environment. 

We're also supporting the 

Sunnyside Library fundraiser on 

Sun., Oct. 24. 

TRAFFIC AROUND SCHOOLS 

Even though we live in a walkable 

neighbourhood, go by any Glebe 

school at morning drop-off time and 

you'll see a dangerous traffic situation. 

Cars stop illegally, double 

park, park in no parking zones, pull 

up on sidewalks, and do dangerous 

u-turns. It's not commuters who are 

causing these problems, it's busy 

parents dropping off their kids at 

school. It's only a matter of time 

before a serious accident occurs. 

Please make our neighbourhood safer 

by driving carefully and respecting 

parking and traffic regulations. 

Better still, encourage your children 

to walk, or drop them off a few 

blocks away so school zones are not 

so congested. 

PLANNING 

Over the summer, the community 

association has been active in several 

local planning issues. We publicized 

a meeting on expansion of The 

Palisades retirement home; we 

appeared as witness at a hearing of 

the Ontario Municipal Board 

regarding a project on Pretoria 

Avenue; and we expressed concerns 

before the Committee of Adjustment 

about a project on Second Avenue. 

In the spring, our planning chair 

attended two workshops on downtown 

design review organized by the 

city. As a result, the city is considering 

a pilot project in which a panel 

of design experts would review all 

site-plan applications. The pilot 

project does not apply to the Glebe 

(but does include much of Centretown). 

Depending on the result of 

the pilot project, this concept could 

be applied more widely in the city. 

Through the Federation of Citizens' 

Associations (a city-wide 

grouping of community associations 

to which GCA belongs), we have 

expressed concerns about development 

charges (levies paid by 

builders to reflect the expanded 

demands for urban infrastructure). 

Our concern is that if builders of 

new projects do not pay the full cost, 

the present taxpayers in the city will 

need to foot the bill in their property 

taxes. 

BACK IN THE GLEBE 

COMMUNITY CENTRE 

After a year enjoying the kind 

hospitality of Ecclesiax at The 

Glebe House, the GCA is happy to 

return to our base at the Glebe Community 

Centre, 175 Third Avenue. 

We meet at 7:30 p.m. on the fourth 

Tuesday of every month from September 

to June. All our meetings are 

open to the public. Please join us. 

Next meeting: Tues., September 

28, 7:30 p.m., at the Glebe Community 

Centre. - 

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E-mail: gca@theglebeonline.com 

Website: www.theglebeonline.com/ 

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Eileen Scotton, left, reciving the Whitton Award with daughter Anne. 

By 

June 

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It's Official: 

The Great Glebe Name Search is 

over. The new name of the main hall 

of the Glebe Community Centre will 

be Scotton Hall, in honour of the 

late Eileen Scotton. 

If you've been following the 

Great Glebe Name Search, you will 

recall that 33 nominations were 

received and eight names were 

short-listed for public consultation. 

During the consultation process, 64 

comments/votes were received. The 

three-person jury (Councillor Clive 

Doucet, GNAG President Karen 

Reynolds and GCA Heritage Committee 

Chair John Leaning) considered 

all the comments and concluded 

the following: 

"Eileen was a Glebe resident and 

model community leader. She 

worked for the excellent quality of 

life for the Glebe population and 

beyond, in the areas of education, 

community, social issues and 

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Activities Group member, 

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Women's Council, in addition to 

various other activities and organizationsbest 

represented community 

spirit through an ordinary person 

who accomplished extraordinary 

things. As a winner of the 

Charlotte Whitton community 

activism award, Eileen exemplified 

community spirit and the love of 

people and children. 

In closing, it was clear from the 

above-noted accomplishments, and 

the community consultation results, 

that Scotton Hall was the community's 

preferred choice. Eileen's work 

and dedication to her community 

deserves the honour of having the 

Glebe Community Centre main hall 

named "Scotton Hall." 

Thank you to everyone who participated 

in this name search. It was 

the first time that a naming contest 

was held for a city facility under the 

new commemorative naming program. 

The official naming ceremony 

will take place on Oct. 2 as part of 

the grand opening of the Glebe 

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THE GLEBE QUIZ 

How well do you know 

your community? 

1.Bank Street was originally named 8.Glebe Collegiate Institute stands 

on the site of what former entertainment 

facility? 

2.The Ottawa Electric Railway ran 

streetcars along Bank Street from 9.The man who first surveyed the 

19 to 19 . Glebe area died here in 1971. How 

3.Before the 1930s, the Queen Eliz- did he die? 

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10.The building at the northeast cor- 

4.Fifth Avenue was previously ner of the intersection of Glebe Aveknown 

as 

nue and Bank Street was built in the 

1920s for what purpose? 

5.Before the Bronson Bridge was 

built in 1960, what type of bridge 

existed at this location? 

6.The portion of the Queensway 

which forms the northern border of 

the Glebe was formerly a 

eb 

G7.1Whea?t 

was the first church in the 

Stumped? Look for the answers 

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A Glebe Primer 

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11 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 REPORT 

Change Islands 

I sit in my boat 

balanced on the ocean 

happy to be a human 

fishing in the sea 

The mackerel swims in the round 

sea, 

flying back and forth 

happy to be a mackerel 

sailing in the sea 

Sea, mackerel, human 

at home 

in the stonehouse of earth 

Dear Glebe Report readers, 

GLEBE TRAFFIC PLANFROM 

STUDY TO IMPLEMENTATION 

The Glebe Traffic Plan represents 

five years of work by the community 

to protect the quality of life in the 

neighbourhood. I wholeheartedly 

support the plan's comprehensive 

volume- and speed-reduction principles. 

We have now almost reached 

the implementation stage, with the 

much-awaited staff response rising 

to Transportation Committee on 

Oct. 20. The one remaining step is 

the GCA/DLRA combined executive 

meeting on Sept. 28 at the 

Glebe Community Centre, at which 

residents can learn about the details 

of the staff response, as well as help 

articulate a common community 

response. I look forward to attending 

the GCA/DLRA meeting on 

Sept. 28. In the meantime, you can 

access the staff report on line at my 

website. 

A better budget process begins next month 

By 

Councillor 

Clive 

Doucet 

OTTAWA'S 

PARTICIPATIVE BUDGET 

Capital Ward 2005 Budget Guidelines 

Meeting, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., in the 

Glebe Community Centre's Multi- 

Purpose Room 

Out of the dysfunction of last 

year's "zero-percent budget increase" 

consultation, the city has 

adopted a longer, more participative 

budget that will allow city budget 

discussions to take place within the 

context of the goals and priorities of 

the Official Plan. No more eightweek 

heart-attack sprints. 

Ottawa's new participative budget 

will, by 2006, involve nine months 

of consultation. A priority-setting 

phase will begin in April, followed 

by a guidelines-setting phase during 

May and June, concluding with a 

draft-budget phase throughout November 

and December. The final 

budget will then be debated and 

approved by council before Christmas. 

Each consultation phase will 

involve roundtable sessions linking 

community leaders and key stakeholders 

with staff. Consultation re- 

Seize 

Every Moment 

ports will also be produced by staff 

at the conclusion of each of the three 

stages. 

Due to time constraints, the 2005 

budget consultation will involve only 

the guidelines-setting phase and the 

draft-budget phase. Even so, this 

year we will still begin budget discussions 

much earlier than in a traditional 

budget cycle, during which 

consultation took place after the 

draft budget was presented, and 

committee and council deadlines 

loomed ahead. 

This is a first but important step 

towards being able to connect spending 

priorities with Official Plan priorities. 

Now the context of budget 

discussions will be: "How do we create 

a cleaner, greener city where 

neighbourhood quality of life is protected 

and enhanced?"as opposed 

to: "What do we need to cut so that 

we don't raise taxes?" It will also 

identify new revenue streams, and 

have the capital-budget side of the 

equation on the table from the beginning. 

This wasn't the case in the past. 

This year's new budget process 

gets under way in September with 

the release of the Budget Directions 

report and subsequent ward consultations. 

Although we are not facing a 

budget shortfall as large as last 

year's $100 million, we still face the 

same tax-to-service disconnect that 

sees eight cents of every tax dollar 

generated in the city staying in the 

city, while 42 cents goes to the province 

and 50 cents goes to the federal 

government. In other words, 

growth creates surpluses for the 

upper levels of government, while 

cities starve under the associated infrastructure 

and services costs. The 

full GST rebate from the federal 

government and a portion of the 

provincial gas tax do not make up for 

the shortfall. An additional pressure 

this year is the fact that the cost of 

externally .purchased services and 

supplies, what they call the Municipal 

Price Index, is rising faster than 

the Consumer Price Index. Meanwhile, 

revenue sources for the cityproperty 

taxes and user feesremain 

static. 

I invite you to take part in the first 

phase of the 2005 budget consultation 

process on Oct. 6, 7 p.m., at the 

Glebe Community Centre's Multi- 

Purpose Room. 

GLEBE COMMUNITY CENTRE 

REOPENING 

I hope to see many of you at the 

Glebe Community Centre on the afternoon 

of Oct. 2 to celebrate the reopening 

of the wonderful community 

facility. A lot of credit goes to the 

numerous GNAG and GCA executive 

members who have worked so 

hard over the past decade to move 

this restoration project slowly forward. 

I think the results will be well 

worth the wait. 

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13 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 

GLEBE QUESTIONS 

Talking of Farr-gone days 

By 

Clyde 

Sanger 

Most people in the Glebe have 

seenand many have read through 

John Leaning's handsomely produced 

1999 publication The Story of 

the Glebe. John, being an architect 

and planner (and no mean artist), 

tackled the story elegantly from 

those aspects, while making it more 

human with photographs of groups 

of people at the Great Glebe Garage 

Sale and with a poem, The Lily 

Pond, by his one-time neighbour 

George Johnston, who sadly died 

this past month. 

There is an earlier book about the 

Glebe which perfectly complements 

Leaning's book and will be of particular 

interest in October when the 

tour of Glebe churches is under way. 

(See page 2.) David Farr, Professor 

Emeritus of History at Carleton University, 

wrote it in time for the 90th 

anniversary in 1988 of the founding 

of St. Matthew's Anglican Church. 

It is rather misleadingly titled A 

Church in the Glebe, because it is 

much more than that. Within its 

rather stubby, pocket-book-sized 

pages is a great deal of information 

that David dug up about Glebe community 

life from the turn of the 20th 

century, about wages and house 

prices and schools and transportation. 

A little gem of a book. 

Surprisingly, he has never lived in 

the Glebe in all the 57 years he and 

his wife Joan have had a home in 

Ottawa, and despite being one of the 

original staff of the university during 

its first 12 years of existence at 

First and Lyon, in what became the 

OBE building and is now a fancy 

condominium. As young marrieds 

(they are both from British Columbia 

and met as students at UBC), 

they lived in "a comfortable garret" 

on Echo Drive, in the days when you 

could watch football games for free 

across the canal, and then on Hawthorne 

Avenue. 

As we sat last month in the lovely 

garden of their house on Colonel By 

Drive, which they bought back in 

1962, I asked an obvious question: 

"Why have you never lived in the 

Glebe, but only on its outskirts? You 

worked there and your church was 

there." Joan put her answer in one 

word: "Money." Even then, apparently, 

the Glebe was expensive living. 

And they soon had three sons to 

bring up. 

If you look it up in the Canadian 

Who's Who, you will find that David 

Farr's career and publications fill 

almost half a column of that large 

volume: dean of arts, director of the 

Paterson School, chair of the External 

Affairs official history supervisory 

board, and much more. It 

amused me to find we had shared 

two years at Oxford without knowing 

each other. I was doing a humble 

BA in a sporty college, while David 

(with four years as a professor already 

behind him) was busy getting 

a doctorate with a thesis about Canada's 

fairly minimal role on the 

world stage in the 20 years after 

1867. (That's the smart choice to 

make for a thesis: a narrow subject 

nobody has yet explored.) 

We talked a little about St. Matthew's, 

and I suggested that his 

favourite rector must have been Canon 

Jefferson. After all, he wrote that 

he "deeply loved his fellow men. He 

was continually cheerful, his smile 

had warmth and he enjoyed the inestimable 

advantage (for a clergyman) 

of being able unfalteringly to connect 

names with faces." He also initiated 

the building of the new church 

in 1930. But David pointed out he 

never knew Canon Jefferson, and 

mentioned instead Eric Osborne, 

rector for 21 years and the man who 

brought a musical tradition to St. 

Matthew's. He was (writes David) "a 

handsome man, with frank open features, 

a good sense of humour, a 

hearty laugh and a cheerful disposi- 

David Farr, Professor Emeritus of 

History at Carleton University, 

received an honourary doctorate 

from Carleton in 2002. 

tion." You begin to suspect David 

never met a rector he didn't like. 

So we went on to talk about the 

infant Carleton College on First 

Avenue and of the 77-year-old Dr 

Henry Tory, who did everything 

(president, bursar, registrar, teacher) 

and shifted it on from its wartime 

days as a "sundown" college [specializing 

in evening courses] at the 

Joan and David Farr 

High School of Commerce. And 

about Wilfrid Kesterton who started 

the journalism courses. He had been 

chief censor in wartime and knew all 

of Ottawa's important people. That 

was crucial, says David, because 

there wasn't great enthusiasm for 

the collegeEnglish-speaking citizens 

of Ottawa had, mostly, gone to 

McGill or Queen'sand, when the 

surge of war veterans had subsided, 

it took time to build support and 

enrolment in the community. 

But in that first 1947-8 year, there 

were 535 full-time students (twothirds 

of them veterans) and 733 

part-timeand only 14 full-time 

faculty members. The building was 

crowded; soon the college spilled 

across the street into two houses: for 

social sciences and the students' 

union. David recalls those exciting 

years: 

"We were creating something 

untried. We stayed beyond teaching 

hourswell, we didn't have much 

room to work at home! But there 

was a real interplay between us, a 

collegial feeling. Not like the university 

today, where people don't 

meet beyond their own departments." 

And those were the only negative 

words this very gentlemanly professor 

spoke in an hour or more of reminiscence. 

editor's note: This year there are over 4,650 first year students at Carleton 

compared to the 535 full-time students for the whole of Carleton College in 

its founding year as mentioned above. 

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KARDISH FOODS 

99 Fifth Avenue Court 

Tel: 234-6795 

With over 25 years in Ottawa and 

several years in the Glebe, Kardish 

Foods is no stranger on the block! 

Many Glebites stroll into this popular 

shop on a regular basis for natural 

and bulk foods, health products 

and supplements. Owner and pharmacist 

Hisham Shakshuki took over 

the store last year when Sheila Ferguson 

left to concentrate on her 

studies. Dr. Shakshulci tells me many 

of the customers are regulars 

who've been coming for years! His 

staff enjoys getting to know everyone 

and often provides advice on 

products. On Oct. 3, customers can 

learn even more about Kardish's 

products at their Vitamin Fair to be 

held in the Fifth Avenue Court, just 

outside the store. Representatives of 

several recognized health products 

will be on site to offer advice, information 

and samples of their products. 

Also, a personal trainer and 

Chinese herbalist are slated to be on 

hand for those wanting to find out 

more about fitness, health and alter- 

native health treatments. So come 

check out the fair to learn more 

about health products and to try samples. 

There will be several product 

discounts, so if you'd like to try out 

new vitamins and/or natural foods 

(or find out more about a specific 

one), this will be a good opportunity 

at a lower cost! 

Kardish Vitamin Fair: Sun., Oct. 3, 

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 99 Fifth Avenue 

Court. 

MOOZI CLOTHING 

Bronson at Clemow 

Tel:567-6997 

There's a new clothing store in the 

neighbourhood! Moozi has a fine 

collection of trendy women's clothing 

in all sorts of styles. Located at 

the corner of Bronson and Clemow, 

this consignment store is fairly 

small, but is worth checking out for 

its variety of interesting fashions. 

Their hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 

12-8 pm., closed on Mondays. 

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15 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 BUSINESS 

Photos: Randal Marlin 

Owner Iona Sloan, right, with employee Angela Pratt. 

Mexicali Rosa's celebrates 

its 25th anniversary 

BY RANDAL MARLIN 

A taste for Mexican food, and 

recognition of its absence in Ottawa 

restaurants as recently as the midseventies, 

is what led a group of four 

school teachers to gamble on starting 

up their own operation. What 

began as Rosa's Cantina, in 1977, 

quickly became a trendy spot in 

Sandy Hill, but, as co-owner Iona 

Sloan recalls, they noticed that a lot 

of their customers came from the 

Glebe. When the space formerly 

occupied by Frank's Volkswagenbecame 

available, the restaurant 

moved to its current Clarey Street 

location and Mexicali Rosa's was 

born. It is now celebrating its 25th 

anniversary. 

The operation was so successful 

that they opened up another restaurant 

on Richmond Road and a third 

in Toronto called Hernando's Hideaway 

in 1980, followed by a second 

Glebe establishment, Feleena's, on 

Bank Street at Second Avenue in 

1990. They once owned Mexicali 

Rosa's of Dow's Lake, but are no 

longer connected to it. 

Current partners along with Iona 

are Glebe residents Clyde Ross and 

Grace Mulvey. Clyde's older brother 

Anne Caza P.I.R, M.Ed. C. 

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Joe Ross was also one of the original 

partners. How it all began has something 

to do with Clyde's coming 

from Southern California and he and 

Iona spending summers there. She 

liked the food so much, she "gained 

15 pounds each summer," and lamented 

its absence in Ottawa. Iona 

learned how to do Mexican cooking 

herself and entertained various 

teaching faculty, developing proficiency 

in line with responses. She 

became the chef when they opened 

their commercial operation. 

Getting started was not easy. 

"Banks hate restaurants," Iona recalls, 

with respect to their riskiness. 

But with their steady teaching jobs 

and $5,000 each, they managed to 

present enough credibility to secure 

the necessary loan. Interviewed at 

the restaurant in early August, Iona, 

who lives in Wakefield, said she 

"loves the Glebe," and Mexico 

where she also has a house. Iona, at 

61, is a grandmother of four, with a 

fifth on its way. One of her staff, 

Angela Pratt , with black hair and a 

ready smile, was on hand for the 

interview. She has been there at 

Mexi's for close to 10 years. 

For those who don't know, the 

name Mexicali Rosa's comes from a 

Gene Autrey son g: 

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day... 

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Optical Excellence 

BY BRUCE DONALDSON 

OPTICAL EXCELLENCE 


Tel: 232-8586 

The departure of good business 

friends from the Glebe always contains 

elements of sadness, because 

they are leaving, as well as joy, that 

they are leaving to take up a new 

role in life. 

Monique and Michel Poirier have 

spent the past 34 years serving the 

optical needs of their clients. Michel 

told me that he and Monique worked 

for Derouin for 22 years, managing 

branch stores, before operating on 

their own for the last 12 years in the 

Glebe at their present location. 

It has been said that some 80 per 

cent of Glebites who wear glasses 

are clients of Optical Excellence. 

The reasons appear to be that OE is 

conveniently located in the business 

district, that the quality and ongoing 

service support are excellent and, 

while they do not grind glass blanks 

on their premises, that there are a 

Michel and Monique Poirier 

number of locations in the city that 

do it expeditiously. In addition, 

Monique and Michel are friendly 

people to deal with. 

The Poiriers also assisted local 

artists in a selected manner by hanging 

their paintings in the store and 

always one in the window. One of 

the favourites was Sylvio Gagnon, 

who started focusing on painting 

when he retired from the government. 

In the 12 years since, his work 

has become increasingly attractive. 

The Poiriers have carefully provided 

the new owners, Wendy and 

Bruce Tobin, with as much information 

as they can to make the 

changeover as smooth as possible. 

The new opticians took over the 

shop on Sept. 1. Business hours are: 

9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday to 

Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; 

closed on Sunday. 

On a closing note, when I asked 

Michel why they were leaving the 

business, he said so they could 

spend more time together. True 

love? You better believe it!! 

THORNE & CO. 

a garden and gift store 

SPRING BULBS 

Our bulb order has just 

arrived from Holland 

with more varieties than 

ever before. Come in early 

for the best selection. 

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NEVVS Glebe Report September 17, 2004 16 

Illustration courtesy of Retirement Life Communities 

The Palisades Club to be located on Isabella Avenue, west of The 

Palisades retirement residence. 

88 new units for seniors 

Palisades Club 88 new units for seniors 

On Tuesday, September 7 Retirement Life Communities held a ribbon-cutting 

ceremony for The Palisades Club. The group plans to build a sevenstorey 

building, which will include a mix of 34 condominiums and 54 rental 

units, on the land purchased at 88 to 112 Isabella Avenue. 

Prices for condominium units would start at $247,009 and residents of the 

one, two and two-plus-den suites would have full access to the amenities at 

The Palisades retirement residence adjacent at Isabella and Metcalfe. 

Robert Brocklebank, chair of the GCA Planning Committee, reports that 

the city's Committee of Adjustment will hear applications for a number of 

variances related to the project on September 22. The proposed building conforms 

to the restrictions requested for a building previously proposed for the 

site. No objections were raised by neighbours attending the public consultation 

meeting held on July 5. 

Heritage walking tours 

Heritage Ottawa offers hour-anda-half-long 

walking tours of city 

neighbourhoods . Tour prices: $5 for 

members; $10 for non-members. No 

reservations, meet at the departure 

point at 2 p.m. on your chosen Sunday. 

For details, call 230-8841, 

e-mail at info@heritageottawa.org, 

website at www.heritageottawa.org. 

TOURS 

Village of Hintonburg: 

Date: Sept. 19 

Guide: Linda Hoad, Heritage Committee, 

Hintonburg Community 

Association 

Departure Point: Saint-Françoisd'Assise 

Parish Church, Wellington 

Street at Fairmont Avenue 

Rockcliffe Park: 

Date: Sept. 26 

Guide: Martha Edmond, Historian & 

Author 

Departure Point: corner of Sandridge 

and Hillsdale 

Village of Westboro: 

Date: Oct. 3 

Guide: Bruce S. Elliott, Professor of 

History, Carleton University 

Departure Point: Loblaws Westboro 

Store, 190 Richmond Road 

Beaux Arts Ottawa: 

Date: Oct. 10 

Guide: David Jeanes, Railway & 

Amateur Historian 

Departure Point: Conference Centre 

(formerly Union Station), Confederation 

Square entrance 

New Edinburgh: 

Date: Oct. 17 

Guide: Jennifer Rosebrugh, Former 

Heritage Ottawa President 

Departure Point: 62 John Street, 

near Sussex Drive 

Help Nicole qualify for 

Team Diabetes Canada 

Nicole Verdon, owner of Oh 

Mode!, has taken on an ambitious 

project. To raise funds for diabetes 

research, she has set her sights on 

running in the 42 k Honolulu 

Marathon taking place on December 

12. To qualify, each participant is 

required to raise $6,000 in advance 

of the run for the Canadian Diabetes 

Association. 

Nicole was motivated to train for 

this event "because of the huge 

increase in type 2 diabetes that I 

have encountered in my family, relatives 

friends and acquaintances." 

To help reach her qualifying goal, 

Nicole is hosting a fundraising dinner 

at Infusion Bistro at 825 Bank 

Street. The dinner, which includes a 

full course meal and a glass of wine, 

will take place on October 19 starting 

at 6:30 p.m. It will be followed 

by a silent auction. Price is-$65. Tax 

receipts will be issued for the portion 

of the ticket price which will go 

to the charity. For information call 

565-1212. 

Donations to help her qualify can 

be made online at: cornerstonewebmedia.com/CDA-Donations. 

Click 

on the Team Diabetes logo, enter 

Nicole Verdon then Honolulu 

Marathon and your information. Be 

sure to include Nicole Verdon's 

name under participant. A tax 

receipt will issued. 

Nicole Verdon is running for diabetes 

research. 

Cheques or money orders should 

be made out to Canadian Diabetes 

Association and can be dropped of 

at Oh Mode! at 775 Bank St. Nicole 

would like to stress that "It can be a 

corporate or personal donation, 

keeping in mind that every little bit 

counts." 

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SPORTS 

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At 34 years 

old, Sandra, a 

non-smoker who 

watched what 

she ate and exercised 

regularly, 

thought she was 

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realized she could no longer 

hear anything. She collapsed and the 

class immediately stopped. One of 

her friends asked her, "Sandra, can 

you hear me?" She could, but was 

unable to answer because she couldn't 

speak. 

Paramedics were called and she 

was rushed to the hospital. A CAT 

scan revealed that there was a blood 

clot in her brain. Sandra had had a 

stroke. 

Fortunately, there's a happy ending 

to this story. Within 24 hours 

after receiving a clot-busting drug 

called tPA, Sandra could feel her 

limbs and was able to talk. Within 

48 hours of taking the drug, she was 

up and walking. Today, she exercises 

five times a week, frequently taking 

two-hour bike rides with her 

husband. 

She's alive today and leading a 

wonderful life because of amazing 

research advances like those funded 

by the Heart and Stroke Foundation. 

The ninth annual Mother-Daughter 

Walk for Heart & Stroke will 

take place on Sun., Sept. 26, with 

registration starting at Ottawa City 

Hall at 8:15 a.m. Participants can 

choose from a 5-km fun run at 9:30 

a.m., a 5-km walk at 9:35 a.m., and 

a 3-km walk at 9:50 a.m.all taking 

place along the Queen Elizabeth 

Driveway (road closures will be in 

effect). A fun-filled morning will 

include refreshments, entertainment, 

and a health and wellness fair. 

The pledges collected at this 

year's walk are slated to raise funds 

for women's research and public 

awareness of heart disease and 

stroke. 

Register on line at: www.heartand 

stroke.ca/walk or call 737-0651. 

Let's take one small step forward 

and many larger steps for the discoveries 

ahead. 

L-R: Coaches Erin and Patrick Bickerton practise with players Danielle 

Hirsh, Sebastian Dragnea and Aidan Robert.' at Brewer Pool. 

Water Polo at Brewer Pool 

BY GRAYDON PAULIN 

Water polo, an Olympic sport 

since 1900, is alive and well in our 

part of Ottawa. For the past two 

years, the Ottawa Titans Water Polo 

club has operated an introductory I 

Love Water Polo program at Brewer 

Pool (near Bronson and Sunnyside 

avenues). This is part of a larger 

program which involves recreational 

teams at eight pools across the 

city. Aimed at boys and girls, ages 

eight to 12, this program builds 

team skills and swimming confidence 

and raises overall fitness. 

Each team in the recreational league 

practises once a week at its home 

pool. Every Sunday evening, all 

eight teams come together at the 

Nepean Sportsplex to play games. 

Although no score is recorded, each 

game is refereed. 

For those players looking for a 

greater challenge, the Ottawa Titans 

operate competitive programs at all 

levels. Head coach David Hart has 

over 30 years of international water 

polo experience. Last year, the 

club's Cadet boys team won the 

Canadian Championship gold 

medal. 

Children interested in trying out 

for water polo are welcome to come 

to one of the free introductory clinics 

at the Carleton University pool 

(Sun., Sept. 19, 9:30-10:30 a.m.) or 

to Brewer Pool for the Polar Bears' 

first practice this fall on Sat., Sept. 

25, 3-4:30 p.m. No experience is 

necessary, but participants should be 

comfortable swimming in the deep 

end. 

For further information and registration 

forms, visit the Ottawa Titans 

website at www.titanswaterpolo.ca 

or call team manager Graydon 

Paulin (730-4322) or Titans director 

Deanna Barry (741-1224 or INFO@ 

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The Shooting Stars' Atom boys team with their gold medals from the 

Cornwall tournament. 

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BY KIM LAMBERT 

The Ottawa Shooting Stars Basketball 

Club achieved another milestone 

last year by putting its first 

boys team on the floor; it went so 

well, the club is putting two out 

there this year. 

The Atom boys team of 10- and 

11-year-olds was a huge success 

under the coaching eye of Dan 

McCarthy, winning a tournament in 

Cornwall and landing silver in the 

Eastern Ontario play-offs. Many 

players will go on to play Bantam 

basketball this year, while the Atom 

team attempts to improve on its 

impressive record. 

Paul Armstrong, a parent of the 

one of the players and a well-known 

coach in Ottawa's basketball community, 

has signed on to become the 

club's technical director of coaching 

for the upcoming season. Paul is a 

former head coach of the Carleton 

University Ravens men's (1983-99) 

and women's (1981-83) basketball 

teams, as well as a former great 

Raven player. 

Paul was a two-time OUA East 

men's coach-of-the-year and his 

team won the men's OUA East title 

in 1988. Paul is a Level III NCCP 

certified coach and was a NCCP 

Level I and II basketball technical 

course conductor for 10 years. As 

well, he is currently the program coordinator 

for the Ottawa South 

Community Association youth basketball 

league and will assist the 

club's coaches. 

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Whatever your level of play, the 

club has a place for you. If you are 

interested in playing top-level competition, 

try competitive ball. As 

well as the boys teams, the club will 

have girls teams from bantam to 

juvenile levels. Last year's major 

Bantam girls captured gold medals 

at the Ontario provincials in London, 

while Coach Jeremy Sims' 

Midget team took the Eastern 

Ontario division three title. 

If you do not have the time needed 

for the big commitment of competitive 

basketball, then house 

league is a great choice. Perhaps you 

need to work on some slcills and get 

more practice playing in a team 

environment. The Ottawa Shooting 

Stars house leagues are a fantastic 

way to get good coaching, work on 

and improve your skills, make some 

friends, and of course have a blast 

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A courageous journey 

from Vietnam 

BY JANET E. HARRIS 

As he talks with customers in the 

Glebe business where he works with 

his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. 

Duong wears his customer-service 

and entrepreneurial skills like a second 

skin. 

This is only to be expected, since 

Mr. Duong (who prefers to be 

known by his surname only) was 

once a partner in a small importexport 

business in his native Vietnam. 

After the communist government 

came to power in 1975, the 

business was shut down, and he 

went to work in a government-run 

factory making textiles. 

A few years into the new regime, 

Mr. Duong felt it was time to leave 

Vietnam. Not wanting to subject his 

wife and children to the risks of such 

a perilous journey, he travelled alone 

from his home in Saigon to the west 

coast of Vietnam and set sail in a 

crowded sampan. The boat, flat-bottomed 

and open to the elements, was 

built to hold 20 people, but was 

crammed with 60, mostly adults. 

Among the few children aboard 

were his young nephews, seven and 

ten years old (now living in the 

United States), who were entrusted 

to his care by their parents. There 

wasn't much room for food, but they 

were able to take a few dried provisions 

and, of course, a large container 

of water. 

The voyagers left in April 1981, 

not knowing for sure where they 

would end up, hoping to reach Thailand. 

During the five days they spent 

at sea, they endured three storms. 

The boat's motor failed after a day 

and they had to rely on a water 

pump to keep moving. They were 

attacked by pirates, who stole the 

gold jewellery they intended to sell 

for food and other necessities once 

they reached their destination. The 

pirates also wanted to pry out the 

passengers' gold tooth-fillings, but 

fortunately were dissuaded from 

doing so. A much greater loss was 

the theft of the passengers' binoculars 

and compass. Compass! How 

did they know where they were 

going? "The sun and the stars were 

our guide," Mr. Duong says with a 

smile. 

The boat and its weary passengers 

eventually landed on a small Thai 

island. From there they were taken 

by government officials to the 

Songkhla refugee camp, which 

housed 2,000 people in open-sided 

shelters. Mr. Duong worked with 

YWM (Youth with a Mission), an 

organization of international- volun- 

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teer teachers, teaching English to 

fellow refugees. After about four 

months at Songkhla, Mr. Duong and 

others who were accepted as emigrants 

were transferred to a "transit 

camp," where the necessary paperwork 

and medical checkups were 

done. 

At this time, Canada had both a 

government and a privately-organized 

program to assist Vietnamese 

refugees to emigrate. Mr. Duong 

applied to come to Canada (as he 

already spoke French), and Quebec 

specifically, as its acceptance requirements 

were not as complicated 

compared to other provinces. 

Mr. Duong's arrival in Quebec 

City on Oct. 30 was "a big surprise" 

in more ways than one. The following 

day, he was mystified to see children 

in strange attire going from 

house to house. "There's no similar 

festivity in Vietnam," he laughs. To 

introduce him to Canadian customs, 

the family with which he was staying 

took him to a Hallowe'en Party. 

The next six months was a frustrating 

period for Mr. Duong, as he 

searched, without success, for work. 

He knew someone in Ottawa and, 

through that contact, quickly found 

a job as a dishwasher. His employer 

soon realized his potential and 

offered to train him as a cook. He 

worked for 19 years as a cook, on 

weekends at the Skyline Hotel (now 

the Crowne Plaza), and at another 

large Ottawa hotel during the week. 

Although formally retired, he still 

works at the Crowne Plaza on weekends, 

after his work week in the 

Glebe is finished. 

Given his relatively quick acceptance 

into Canada as an immigrant, 

Mr. Duong finds it hard to understand 

why it took four years for his 

wife and children, whom he sponsored, 

to join him. 

What he appreciates about Canada 

is the freedom to work wherever 

he wants, and the freedom to 

express himself. Were there any 

things he didn't like? The weather, 

of course. The first few years, surprisingly, 

were not that difficult, but 

he has been bothered by the cold for 

several years now. 

Mr. Duong is one of the courageous 

and resilient people from 

many different backgrounds who 

live or work in the Glebe. Despite 

his long and difficult journey from 

Vietnam to Canada, he is an optimist, 

continuing to work on vvhat he 

sees as the important task of "building 

a better future for the next generation." 

Coming to terms with the 

past a journey from Sarajevo 

BY HARIJA CONRAD 

A recent visit from my long-lost 

friend had more impact on my life 

than I ever anticipated. My husband 

bought a plane ticket for my friend, 

who now lives in Paris, as my 30th 

birthday present. At first I was very 

excited, then some sort of panic 

kicked in. I began to wonder about 

where to take her, what to see, but 

most of all, I wondered if the bond 

we had before was still there, and 

my excitement turned into fear. 

I must go back in time now and 

try to explain why this visit turned 

out to be life-changing. We both 

grew up in a city called Sarajevo, a 

city that was once vibrant and beautiful, 

but today is trying to recover 

from years of suffering and pain. 

When the war started in 1992, my 

friend's parents decided that it 

would be best for her to leavefor 

how long, no one knew then. She 

was 17 and I was 18 at the time. She 

was sent to the coastal part of Croatia 

to live with her grandmother. We 

did not have a chance to say goodbye, 

because the city was already 

under siege and any "escape" was 

done secretly. I lived with my mother 

and, being the only child, we 

decided it was best to stay together 

(even though she objected strongly). 

The phones stopped working; the 

power was out for good; the grenades 

and snipers were the only 

sounds left to be heard. I was 18 

and, despite it all, I felt so alive, but 

all I saw around me was death. I sat 

and wondered where my friend was. 

It was a hot summer day and everything 

seemed so quiet. I left the 

house and, seconds later, two grenades 

fell. I was injured, but felt 

lucky to see all my body parts still in 

place. A week later, I was all 

patched up, but everything had 

changed. I was scared. I began to 

hate, to feel helpless. 

Years went by and some kind of 

peace agreement was established, so 

my friend came for a brief visit to 

her family and me. By this time, I 

was 22 years old, going on 60. My 

friend told me that she lived in Paris 


Harija Conrad 

with her boyfriend. She showed me 

pictures of amusement parts, of their 

happy faces on the streets of the 

"city of light." I tried to be all giggly 

and friendlyhappy for her and 

"normal." But I knew life was never 

going to have the same meaning for 

us. 

I had been "infected" with the bug 

of war and it had effectively killed 

my sense of joy. After she left, I 

tried not to feel sorry for myself. I 

was in my fourth year of journalism 

studies; I had rebuilt my relationship 

with my mother (suffering brings 

people together); I had not become a 

refugee; and some days I could even 

hear the birds sing. But the city I 

grew up in and loved so deeply had 

become a strange cold place. 

Then I met a wonderful Canadian 

man, with whom I now have two 

children. We moved from Sarajevo, 

living all over the world while following 

his exciting career. In the 

meantime, my mother passed away 

and, after years of feeling empty 

mourning for her and what used to 

be "home," the visit of my "longlost 

friend" set me free. 

After days of talking, I realized 

that everything was finally behind 

me. After she left, I felt that I had 

found myselfit is here in Canada, 

in a place of tolerance and peace. I 

dedicate this story to my family, to 

my friend and to Canada! 

EDITOR'S NOTE: 

We have often featured the stories of residents with deep roots in the 

Glebe. There are also many people who have come to the neighbourhood 

from somewhere elsenot only from other cities and provinces, but from 

other countries and cultures. We will be sharing more of these personal histories 

in future issues. 

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an interview with 

Photos: Giovanni 

Frank Allan is the principal at Glebe Collegiate 

Institute and also a GCI graduate. 

Editor's note:This is the fourth of a series of 

interviews with well-known members of the 

community using this questionnaire format. 

Birthplace & date? Parents' background? 

I was born in Ottawa on March 14, 1946. My 

mother was raised in the Glebe on Fifth Avenue. 

My father was raised in the centre of Ottawa; he 

was the first general manager of Tippet Richardson 

in Ottawa, starting in 1954. 

Brothers and sisters: how many and their 

names? 

I have three brothers and one sister. Stanley went 

to GCI and lives in Nova Scotia; he's a retired 

school teacher. Louise, a nurse, went to the High 

School of Commerce, which was then part of the 

current GCI building; she now lives in Toronto. 

Philip went to Glebe, lives in Ottawa and is a 

librarian for the Department of National Defence. 

Howard went to Woodroffe High and is a 

chartered accountant living in Perth. 

, AhLIP) Lby Giovanni 

Principal Frank Allan 

Wife and children? 

My wife Jean and I have five children: Juanita 

Allan-Beselt, and Kristina, Ryan, Rodney and 

Byron Allan. 

You are both a graduate and the principal of 

Gd. Comparing your student days to the 

present, how different are the students and 

the school itself? 

When I was a student here, there was very little 

diversity in the student population. Now, with 36 

per cent whose first language is not English, we 

have a very diverse student body. It contributes 

to the wonderful place GCI is. 

Where else did you teach before becoming 

principal of Glebe? 

I worked at Laurentian High as a physics teacher 

and Head of the physics department for 18 years, 

was Head of Science at Brookfield High, and 

spent six years as a science consultant and science-mathematics 

co-ordinator for the Ottawa 

Board of Education. I spent many years as a 

vice-principal: one year at Highland Park High, 

three years at Woodroffe High, and two years at 

Hillcrest High, as well as four years as principal 

at Hillcrest High. This will be my fourth year as 

principal at Glebe. 

Besides your demanding job, what other 

activities or organizations are you involved 

in? 

aco-ordinator for the Ontario Principals Council's 

courses which qualify teachers to become 

vice-principals and principals 

*member of school hpard committees: Facilities,- 

Strategic Planning, Teacher Performance Assessment, 

Leadership Planning 

'motivational speaker on educational leadership 

and on Brain-Compatible Learning, one of my 

specialties 

board member for Cedarview Alliance Church 

What is the ultimate concert you have ever 

attended? 

I'm not into concerts. 

What is your favourite music group and type 

of music? 

Classical and easy listening. 

What's your favourite TV show? 

I don't watch much TV, except at the time of the 

Olympics. 

Do you like to cook? 

On occasion. I always cook Sunday dinner for 

the family. 

What about shopping? 

Canadian Tire and Rona. 

FEATURE 

Favourite clothes? 

Casual. 

Book or type of book? 

I'm always readingbooks on learning and philosophy, 

inspirational books, fiction. 

Fondest memory? 

The times spent travelling with my wife and five 

children, all over North America. We've been to 

most of the national parks in Canada and the 

U.S. 

If you could travel anywhere in the world, 

where would it be? 

I enjoy camping in the Banff area. 

How do you spend a typical day? 

I'm up at 6:15 a.m., to work by 7:15.1 work quietly 

until staff and students arrive at 8 a.m., after 

which I interact with staff and students until 4 

p.m. Then I do desk work until 5:30 and I'm 

home by 6:30. We have dinner at 7:15, then 'I 

read and work on school or other projects until 

10 p.m.then to bed, where I watch part of the 

CBC National News. 

What recent fad would you admit to trying? 

A long time ago, I dressed up as Elvis. 

What is your greatest achievement? 

Touching many of my students' lives over the 

years. 

Greatest regret or embarrassment? 

Things I've said that have hurt others. 

Best quality? 

I'm compassionate and hard-working. 

Worst quality? 

I'm sometimes impetuous. 

What lessons have you learned in y oui job? 

I work in the best profession in the world-36 

years of a happy professional lifeand have met 

many wonderful and admirable people. Student 

learning is my first priority in decision-making. 

Your strength of character will take you through 

the tough times. 

What advice would you give to a young person 

thinking of becoming a teacher? 

If you love young people and you have the 

required skills, go for it. It is the best profession 

in the world. I still look forward to going to work 

every day! 

Is teaching a more demanding job now than it 

used to be when you started out? 

Definitely yes. A lot of the supports have been 

removed. 

If you could go back in time, what would you 

change? 

Nothing. I have had a fantastic career. 

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Abbotsford Senior Centre: 

Check our new fall programs 

BY BORGNY PEARSON 

Fitness programs for the fall season 

have started at Abbotsford 

Senior Centre and continue into 

December. Experienced leaders 

make each one-hour session a 

healthy workout. Known side-effects: 

fun and friendship in every group. 

Nancy Novitsky teaches three 

classes in muscle-toning with 

weights. She worked full-time with 

the Workers Compensation Board in 

Halifax before moving to Ottawa 15 

years ago. Then as a young mother, 

she began her certification and 

teaching as a fitness instructor. She 

has taught high school and senior 

groups, but said she prefers older 

adults for their persistence, positive 

attitudes and socialization. 

Jackie Diguer, who moved here 

from Hamilton, teaches two groups. 

Her low-impact aerobics developed 

for seniors (catchy music, lively 

exercise) incorporates cardiovascular 

training, muscle-strengthening 

and flexibility. Her line-dancing 

group includes over 50 dances with 

a mix of country-and-western, ballroom 

music and dancing routines. 

Chris Rogers is well-known for 

her community work, particularly in 

fitness and dance. With a bachelor 

of education degree in England, she 

taught in secondary schools there 

before coming to Canada. Her 

knowledge of anatomy is evident in 

her running commentary on the 

"why" of each movement and the 

muscles being exercised. 

Violet Busey has been teaching 

Tai Chi at Abbotsford for the last 

three or four years. This ancient 

Chinese system of exercises requires 

concentration and continuity. Benefits 

include an increase in blood circulation 

and glandular activity, 

improvement in joint action and 

stimulation of the nervous system. 

Your investment team... 

Thora Macklem worked in the 

Glebe Centre office for 14 years and 

started a short exercise class for residents 

on her coffee break. She has 

since volunteered as an exercise 

leader for 15 years in an expanded 

hour-long class. This is a gentle 

workout, incorporating chair and 

standing exercises, to an accompaniment 

of lively Golden Oldie tapes. 

NEW PROGRAM 

"As the crisp fall breezes sharpen 

our senses and energize our bodies, 

we feel a need for new beginnings. 

At Abbotsford Senior Centre we 

provide dynamic programs in a cozy 

atmosphere guaranteed to help you 

become active and involved." 

That's a direct quote from the 

centre's Fall 2004 Program Guide. 

Couldn't have said it better myself. 

ABBOTSFORD NOTES 

Men at BreakfastSept. 27, Eric 

Spicer, chairman of the club 

High Tea at AbbotsfordSept. 29 

in the Victoria Dining Room 

Ladies at LunchOct. 6, Doris 

Jelly, speaker: Adventures in 

Antarctica 

Movie ClubSept. 22, Keeping 

the Faith; Sept. 29, The Insider; Oct. 

13, Rare Birds; Joseph Moreau, 

facilitator 

*Opera ClubSept. 24, The Beggar's 

Opera, John Gay; Oct. 8, L'Incoronazione 

Di Poppea, Montever- 

di; Thomas Monti, facilitator 

'Book ClubOct. 8, Jeannine 

Dwyer, Book Club Chair: The Wife 

Tree by Ottawa author Dorothy 

Speak 

Day TripsSept. 27, to Pembroke: 

lunch at Victoria Rose Tea Room; 

Oct. 18, to Merrickville: craft stores, 

antique shops, lunch 

Abbotsford BoutiqueMonday to 

Friday: selection of fashionable, 

previously-owned clothing 

For information, phone 230-5730. 

Beatrice Raffoul, chair of A Community of Caring Campaign 

bottom left, and Mr Frank Ling, centre. 

Chinese community tours 

new Glebe Centre Residence 

BY MARY PAL 

Members of the Ottawa Chinese community had a snealc peak at the new 

Glebe Centre seniors' home on Thurs. Sept. 9. Working with the Ministry of 

Health & Long Term Care and with members of the Chinese community, the 

sixth floor of the new facility is designated for people in the Asian community. 

In addition to special kitchen facilities to prepare culturally appropriate 

food, more Chinese language programs and services will also be provided. 

The home-like environment, with familiar food and the ability to communicate 

in their own language, will allow Ottawa-area Chinese seniors to be able 

to truly enjoy their golden years. 

The new residence is expected to open in early October with an open 

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21 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 MUSIC 

Music Notices 

Seventeen Voyces 

(Kevin Reeves, Director)Program: Purcell's Royal Welcome Songs, 

Andrew Ager's Unknown Soldier (world premiere, string quartet & harp), 

Fri., Nov. 26, 7:30 p.m., St, Matthew's Church, Glebe Avenue west of Bank 

Street. Tickets: adults $20, students/seniors $15. Info: website: www.seventeenvoyces.ca. 

Ottawa Symphony Orchestra 

Program: Prokofiev's March and Scherzo from The Love of Three Oranges, 

Stravinsky's Symphony in C, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, Mon., Oct. 4, 

8 p.m., NAC's Southam Hall. Theme: St. Petersburg"a city transformed by 

revolution. Prokofiev speaks with sparkling, sardonic wit; Stravinsky melds 

the old world with the new in his neoclassical 'cubist portrait'; Shostakovich 

evokes despair and triumph for a homeland oppressed by tyranny." Info: tel: 

231-2561, website: www.ottawasymphony.com. 

Ottawa Choral Society 

The Society will be auditioning for all voice parts (tenors in particular) during 

September. Info: tel: 725-2560, e-mail Paula Helmer: phelmer@ 

rogers.com, website: www.ottchoral soc.icomm.ca. 

Rehearsals take place Wednesdays from 7:15 to 9:45 p.m. at Blessed Sacrament 

Church at Percy and Fourth avenues, with occasional weekend 

rehearsals. Concerts are: Oct. 30, Nov. 28 and Feb. 26 and 27. 

New Tenor Bursary Program 

Five tenor bursaries of $1200 each are available for the 2004-05 season. A 

contract will be developed and signed with each successful candidate. 

Auditions for new choristers 

at St. Matthew's Church 

The St. Matthew's Boys Choir is auditioning new choristers. If you love to 

singand love to have fun!St. Matthew's Choir of Men and Boys is looking 

for you! The choir will be auditioning for new choristers between the ages 

of eight and 12 over the next few weeks. You will be required to attend practices 

every Wednesday and Friday, as well as to sing in Sunday Church Services 

and at extra functions throughout the year. For information, contact 

Choir Director Kevin Reeves at 234-5482. 

September Courses 

Beginner Guitar for Adults Beginner Guitar for Kids 

Intro to Bodhran Intro to Mandolin Intro to 

Hand Drumming Int. and Adv. Hand Drumming 

Munchkin Music (3 - 5 yrs. old) Vocal Harmony Cape 

Breton Fiddle Clawhammer Banjo Songwriting 

Eclectic Folk Ensemble Jazz Harmony for Guitarists 

Practical History of Blues Guitar 

as well as our regular private instruction in guitar,. 

fiddle, mandolin, piano, flute, recorder, voice, bass, 

bodhran and more 

Where Ottawa learns to play music. 

The Oai-Wa Folklore Centre School of Music 

111.I Rank St. at Sunnyside Phone 730-2887 

www.ottawafolklore.com 

Vince Halfhide, David Eaton and Rob Frayne at the wine bar 

More hot music nights in the Glebe 

107 Fourth Avenue Wine Bar and Café 

236-0040, www.107fourthavenue.com 

Jazz Wednesdays have become a regular feature at the wine bar. Owner 

David Eaton, a professional drummer in his student days, joins Vince 

Halfhide, who has played with so many groups it would be hard to count 

them, and Rob Frayne every other Jazz night. Saxophonist Frayne has performed 

at many jazz festivals and on many Canadian recordings. He teaches 

jazz theory and history at Carleton University. Alternate Wednesdays Randy 

Demmon is at the piano. Jazz sessions are 9 p.m. to midnight. No cover. 

Rasputin's Folk Café 

696 Bronson Ave., 230-5102, www.Rasputin's.ca 

Monday eveningsCeltic Session. An evening dedicated to Irish, Scottish 

and Cape Breton tunes. 

Most Tuesday eveningsthe Jam-a-long. This is a song circle with people 

playing and singing together, led by Peter Conroy. The Third Tuesday 

evening of the month is the Old Time Session. Led by Mary Gick, the focus 

is on old American tunes. 

Wednesday eveningsOpen Stage. People sign up to play on stage in front 

of a listening audience. 

Thursdays are eclectic, with The Back 40 Stage, an evening of Old Country 

and Bluegrass hosted by Ron Moores on the last Thursday of the month. The 

third Thursday of the month is El Dorado, an evening of Spanish Poetry and 

music. 

Special performances on weekends. This is Rasputin's 24th year. 

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GCC HISTORY Glebe 

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Three decades 

City to purchase St. James Church 

The Ottawa Journal, Nov. 21, 1972 

City Council has agreed to purchase St. 

James United Church at Lyon and 2nd 

Avenue for a community centre at a cost of 

$300,000. 

The site is ideal for a community centre, 

but Controller Lorry Greenberg felt 

$300,000 was a trifle high. He felt the land 

was worth in the neighbourhood of 

$250,000 or less. 

The site includes four lighted tennis 

courts, clubhouse facilities, recently renovated 

office space on the second floor, a 

renovated basement with a large kitchen 

area, a parking lot and an auditorium 

which will hold over 1,000 people. 

However, the church has not yet agreed 

to sell the building to the city and apparently 

the congregation is split on the issue. 

It is believed another church has offered 

to purchase the building at a lower price 

than the city has offered. A number of people 

in the St. James congregation are of the 

opinion that another church should have 

the first option to buy. 

Mike Cooper, president of the Glebe 

Community Association said, "We want a 

community centre, but if it's going to be a 

city wide centre, forget it, we don't want 

it." 

A meeting will be held at St. James 

United Church, December 18, of the Community 

Association to discuss the Glebe 

traffic plan and community needs relating 

to a community centre. 

This article is from The Glebe News, Fall 

1972. 

BY KAREN REYNOLDS 

When the Glebe Community Centre opens its 

doors on October 2, 2004, it will be almost thirty 

years since the first official opening of the 

Centre was held on November 28, 1974. It has 

been thirty years of dedication, cooperation, 

compromise and at times controversy. The result 

has been the transformation of a stately heritage 

building into a vibrant community centre 

designed for the needs of our community in 

the heart of our community. 

Current GNAG chair Karen Reynolds 

Plans for a community centre in the Glebe 

began in 1972 when the Glebe Community 

Association (GCA) formed a Community Centre 

Committee, chaired by Elaine Marlin. The Committee 

enlisted the help of Carleton University 

architecture student, Michael Lundholm, who 

took on the project as a thesis topic. Lundholm 

created a survey to be distributed to every home 

City urged to spend up to 

$100,000 to level church floor 

The Ottawa Journal, Feb. 14, 1973 

in the Glebe asking neighbours what they wanted 

in a community centre. 

In the midst of the process, the GCA became 

aware that the city was considering the purchase 

of St. James United Church as a site for a community 

centre. Though the GCA had considered 

St. James as a location for community office and 

meeting space, the GCA questioned its adaptability 

for recreation programming. With no 

other existing facilities available and a lack of 

vacant building space for new construction, the 

GCA endorsed the purchase of the church. It was 

hoped that recreation facilities might be provided 

at Lansdowne Park 

or, after hours, in 

community schools. 

The city purchased 

the ch urch for 

$300,000 and took 

possession of the 

building on April 1, 

1973. 

From the beginning, 

the community 

made it clear they 

wanted a say in both 

alterations to the 

building and the programs 

and activities 

Sandra Elwood 

to be offered. To that (now Dr. Sandra Wieland) 

end, the Glebe Community 

Centre Council (GCCC) was formed, 

with Sandra Elwood elected as the first chair. 

The GCCC invited representatives from all interested 

Glebe groups to join its membership. 

The GCCC reviewed the results from Lundholm's 

survey, which indicated a preference for 

a diversified community centre fostering a sense 

of community through activities of community 

interest and concern. A daycare centre was listed 

as the top priority for services in the new facility, 

and the Glebe Parent's Daycare was established 

in the basement of the centre on May 1, 

1973. 

The survey results also h'ighlighted the need to 

renovate the church to make it usable as a community 

centre. Discussions began over how best 

to deal with the floor in the main hall which had 

originally been built to slope towards the front of

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GCC HISTORY 

of volunteer work give birth to new GCC 

the church. The GCCC favoured a split-level 

design to create an amphitheatre effect while 

maintaining a large level area in the centre for 

dancing and active play. The design was 

approved and forrned part of the first renovation 

of the Centre in 1974, along with upgrades to the 

lcitchen, washrooms and fire alarm system. 

With the focus shifting from renovation to 

programming, the GCCC changed its name to 

the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Council and 

soon after, the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities 

Group (or GNAG). George Post was elected 

chair and the group was incorporated as a notfor-profit 

organization on April, 1975. 

CENTRE THREATENED 

WITH CLOSURE 

Without warning, plans for the renovation 

came to a halt when the city revealed a recommendation 

to close both the Glebe and Ottawa 

South community centres, and build a complex 

at Brewer to serve both neighbourhoods. Over 

1,200 residents from both communities marched 

to Lansdowne Park to participate in a public 

meeting over the proposal. The crowd boisterously 

voiced their opposition to the Brewer plan 

favouring distinct centres in the heart of their 

own communities. By the end of the meeting, 

city officials withdrew the proposal. 

George Post 

Under the leadership of GNAG, in partnership 

with the City's Recreation and Parks Department, 

the Centre became a hub of activity offering 

special events and a full slate of cultural 

and recreational programs for all ages. In addition, 

The Pantry restaurant opened in September 

1975. 

As the activities and programs diversified, 

GNAG's chair, Rick Sheffer, proposed further 

alterations to the building. In 1979, the centre 

was renovated to add a darkroom, children's 

craft room, a pottery studio and an expanded 

Pantry. Thereafter, the building was maintained 

adequately to allow for safe programming, but it 

became apparent that a major renovation would 

be required to restore and preserve the building. 

The Glebe Community Centre Renovation 

Working Committee (GCCRWC), chaired by 

Jennie Aliman, was formed in 1994, made up of 

representatives from the city, GNAG, the GCA 

and the community at large. For two years, the 

committee worked to develop three options for 

the renovation of the centre with estimated costs 

ranging from $1.5-$4.5 million. 

Jim Watson, Rick Patten and Brian McGarry 

After the victory at Lansdowne, City Council 

approved funds to complete working drawings 

for the centre. Throughout 1997, the GCCRWC 

worked with City Project Manager Grant Peart 

and a Barry Hobin architect, Gord Lorimer, to 

complete the design development phase of the 

project. 

Jane Wilson and Mary Lovelace 

FUNDRAISING EFFORTS 

To demonstrate community support for the 

project, a Renovation Fund was established to 

pay for upgrades and enhancements to the proposed 

facility. 

Jennie Aliman 

T-shirts were sold at the 1996 Snowflake Special 

and a fundraising kick-off was combined 

with the celebration of the centre's Heritage Designation 

in March 1997. The Renovation Fund's 

most successful initiative, the popular Taste of 

the Glebe, wai established by then Mayor Jim 

Watson in 1999. 

IT WAS A LONG STRUGGLE 

For six years, the renovation plans hung in 

limbo as budget roadblocks and the amalgamation 

of the City of Ottawa in 2000 delayed final 

approval. Throughout this period. GNAG, the 

GCA and members of the GCCRWC kept the 

renovation at the forefront, appearing before 

City Council at every opportunity. 

Over a decade of community activism was 

rewarded in January 2003 when approval for the 

renovation was finalized and construction began 

the following September. 

On October 2, 2004, the community will gather 

to celebrate the reopening of the Glebe Community 

Centre. It will be a day of fun and festivities, 

and an opportunity to reflect back with 

pride and gratitude on 30 years of a community's 

commitment to its beloved community centre. 

Photo: Janet E. Harris 

In 1996, over 1,200 residents from the Glebe and Old Ottawa South 

marched to Lansdowne Park to participate in a public meeting over the 

proposal to close the community centre.

GARDENING Glebe 

Photo: Bernard Auger 

Marcelle and Huguette Jubinville in their beautiful garden. 

Glebe sisters share it all! 

BY MAGGIE NEGODAEFF 

A favourite pastime of mine is 

taking a serene amble around the 

Glebe's "roads less travelled." One 

of these quiet streets is Holmwood 

Avenue, which starts at O'Connor 

and ends at Bronson. A number of 

residents have charming front gardens, 

and one sometimes longs to 

see what they've done with the back. 

Eureka! Dreams do come true! 

Recently, I was asked to interview 

two residents whose garden is a riot 

of colour, variety and scent. Marcelle 

and Huguette Jubinville, who 

live at 218 Holmwood, have, over 

more than 30 years, terraced their 

sloping property right down to the 

quiet waters of Brown's Inlet. Here 

you'll find waves of pink cosmos, 

hostas, papyrus, pansies, astilbe, 

poppies, peonies, hollyhocks and 

more. They've also refurbished their 

house to include a winding staircase 

that leads to a large bright winter 

garden, just underneath a wide airy 

deck where hibiscus, impatiens, 

geraniums, oleander, citronella (or 

"mosquito plant"), fuchsia and a 

variety of herbs welcome visitors. 

Huguette and Marcelle have 

offered space to their young neigh- 

bour to grow tomatoes, eggplant, 

cucumber, zucchini, peas, potatoes 

and lettucetheir own vegetables 

flourish on the other side of the garden. 

"Of course, at this time of year, 

the garden's not at its best," says 

Marcelle. "You really should come 

in spring and summer!" 

Laughing at themselves as the 

"odd couple," the sisters relate that 

they have "always" lived together. 

When they left home in Sarsfield, 

Ontario, now within Ottawa's city 

limits, they went to the same boarding 

school, then attended the University 

of Ottawa's Teachers' College. 

"We were given an independence 

of spirit and lots of encouragement," 

they agree. Marcelle later 

became a translator for the House of 

Commons, then Director of Professional 

Development for experienced 

translators. Huguette also worked 

for the government as an Administrative 

Agent for the Department of 

Transportation and Communications. 

Huguette and Marcelle have travelled 

extensivelyto Eastern and 

Western Europe, Central and South 

America, Mexico, China, Southeast 

Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 

Before moving to the Glebe, they 

had spent 17 years in a house in 

Sandy Hill and, before that, rented 

apartments in other houses. 

The sisters share a love of beauty 

that goes far beyond gardening. 

When they moved into the Holmwood 

house, they opened up the 

back area, creating a bright, airy 

feeling. The front and back rooms 

are divided by a huge fireplace 

topped by a rustic mantel of old pine 

from a farm in Eastern Ontario. 

Marcelle notes that she became a 

teacher "because of the times," but 

would far rather have been an architect. 

They find more beauty in music 

and art, volunteering for both the 

National Arts Centre and the 

National Gallery of Canada. "We 

started out as replacement ushers for 

groupsmostly young people who 

were graduating or attending a performance," 

says Huguette. Lately 

they've been working behind the 

scenes as hosts at the Donor's 

Loungethat area where generous 

supporters of the NAC Foundation 

relax before performances and during 

intermission. Marcelle says they 

love opera, and they've travelled to 

New York and Europe just to see 

famous conductors and singers. 

When it comes to the fine arts, the 

sisters, with six other people, founded 

the "Vive les Arts" program, 

where reproductions of paintings 

from the National Gallery are taken 

into schools and discussed in class. 

They've just retired from this program 

after 18 or 19 years because, 

among other things, "it interferes 

with our muscle-toning classes at 

Abbotsford House!" 

They also help the Gallery with 

special events, such as this summer's 

The Artist as Clown." They 

also used to aSSist with the Festival 

of the Strings. 

What prompted Huguette and 

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Marcelle Jubinville to spend all their 

lives together? "Well," muses Marcelle, 

"our family wanted us to be 

educated, rather than just leaving 

home to get married. Of course, we 

had boyfriends, but we found we got 

along quite happily by ourselvesone 

of us does one task, the other 

does something else. We've arranged 

things so that we do chores that suit 

usfor instance, I'm physically bigger 

than Huguette, but I don't like 

talking on the telephone, so she does 

that and some lighter work. We've 

had to stick together because we 

came from a family of seven, and we 

were the only girls!" The sisfers 

don't fight, she adds, "but we can 

certainly disagree!" 

Marcelle and Huguette participate 

happily in the Great Glebe Garage 

Salepotting up hostas, astilbe and 

other garden plants. "It's more of a 

plant than a garage sale," they laugh. 

"We put out a table with a colourful 

umbrella to help make the exhibit 

attractive to passers-by. We also hold 

an 'open garden' instead of an open 

house, so that people can go to the 

back to see what we've done over the 

years." 

They have entertained a lot in their 

life together, but have made a transition 

from giving dinner parties to 

having small teas and get-togethers. 

Three times a month, they meet with 

friends, in groups of five or six, 

sometimes even 12, to sample the 

restaurants in and around Ottawa and 

Gatineau. 

And in spite of their age, the sisters 

do most of the yardwork themselves 

(including shovelling snow!). 

"We're on the list for Abbotsford's 

Outreach Program, which provides 

people to help with seniors' properties, 

but we seldom use it. We're 

strong enough from climbing all the 

stairs in our four-storey house every 

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A country fair at SuperEx 

A horse and its handler wait to give a visitor a chance to try some bareback 

riding. 

BY STEVE REID 

The SuperEx might be big, brash 

and noisy, but elements still survive 

from the Central Canada Exhibition's 

agricultural fair. You'll find a 

country fair atmosphere in the Pure 

Country (i.e., Aberdeen) Pavilion, a 

(relatively) quiet place. Instead of 

the noise of the rides, you hear the 

sounds of animals. Instead of garish 

stalls for games of chance, you can 

look at farm machinery, handicrafts 

and flowers. This year, there was a 

special display honouring the 

Campbell Soup Kids. 

The most popular part of the 

pavilion is the petting zoo. Children 

love to feed and pet the animals, and 

some of the animals are so eager, 

they almost climb out of their pens. 

The zoo includes farmyard favourites, 

such as piglets, chicks, goats 

and geese, as well as some unusual 

animals, such as camels, alpacas and 

cavies. Around the edges of the 

pavilion, there are stalls for more 

farm animals, some of which were 

raised by members of the 4H Club. 

These girls and boys were happy to 

answer any questions visitors had 

about the animals. I watched as one 

visitor, a very young girl, ran up to a 

stall to pat a cow, and it occurred to 

me that some children never see farm 

animals except in a petting zoo. I 

also watched as a Percheron workhorse 

stuck its enormous head over 

the wall of its stall and a boy in a 

wheelchair reached to pat its nose. 

The Pure Country pavilion also 

houses the Homecraft display. Anyone 

can enter the competitionit 

only costs $1 per entry. There are 

many categories: quilting, sewing, 

knitting, photography, miniatures, 

needlework, baking and more. There 

are also competitions for flowers, 

flower arrangements and vegetables. 

The prize money is modest, but imagine 

the thrill of seeing your work on 

display for thousands of people 

and of taking home a big, red ribbon! 

A friendly horse. 

Photos: Steve Reid 

A small part of the handicrafts display (a miniature at the 

top is by Steve Reid). 

A prize-winning entry in the "Creatures" category of 

the Floriculture and Vegetable competition. 

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SuperEx 2004

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25 PAINTINGS AND 20 DRAWINGS 

Artist Alexandra Chowaniec with Amala, oil on canvas. 

A young talent to watch 

Self portrait 

BY ELAINE MARLIN 

Alexandra Chowaniec will not be 

twenty-one until Decemberastonishing 

in light of the one-evening 

show on September 8 which displayed 

30 of her diverse artworks. I 

was particularly impressed by the 

clean lines and mastery of anatomical 

detail in her work. The light on 

several figures wai quite beautiful, 

especially in the oil on canvas portrait, 

Amala. But the painting I kept 

returning to as I toured the show was 

Mapping Recollection 111. This 

mixed media on canvas is a portrait 

of her grandmother and herself making 

a very intense connection with 

the backdrop of scenes from the 

Second World War, which had a 

tragic impact on the family. Artist 

Gwendolyn Best was interested in 

the rich development of the backgrounds 

for some of the paintingsbright 

red for the nude Claudia, for 

example. Ian Glen was taken by a 

small graphite on paper called 

well. In this case relatives Inez Kettles 

and Johannes Hill cleared the 

walls in their home at 185 Glebe 

Avenue, providing an elegant setting 

for this collection which was appropriately 

titled Start From The Beginning. 

The art was created during the last 

three years. During that time 

Alexandra has been a student in 

Queen's University's Fine Art program 

and has completed a semester 

at the Lorenzo de'Medici Fine Art 

Institute in Florence, Italy. She is a 

graduate of Immaculata High 

School, where she left a lasting contribution 

as co-creator of the history 

of Immaculata mural. She has also 

attended fine arts education classes 

at The Ottawa School of Art, Sir 

Sanford College and Algonquin 

College. 

During the summer she is an art 

instructor and interpreter at the 

National Gallery of Canada and the 

Canadian Museum of Contemporary 

Photography. Alexandra Chowaniec 

is already the veteran of five group 

art exhibitions. Be on the lookout 

for the next one. 

Victor Henry 

25 paintings and 20 drawings 

This raw and edgy exhibit is an exploration of urban minimalism. 

Sept. 10-29 

Kristi Ropelski 

New figurative works in oil 

Oct. 1 to Nov. 3 

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and genre she will choose for her 

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Exhibitions in private homes in 

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This competitive festival, founded 

in 1976, has grown into the largest 

animation event in North America 

and one of the most respected in the 

world. It showcases all forms of animation 

from features to TV series, 

from new media to independent 

shorts. In addition, this year's lineup 

offers first-class retrospectives on 

animation icon Hayao Miyazaki 

(Spirited Away) and other ani-celebrities 

like Fred Crippen (Roger 

Ramjet), and the father of abstract 

experimental animation, Robert 

Breer. 

The festival will pay tribute to the 

75th anniversary of the world's most 

loved spinach-eater, Popeye the 

Sailorman, and present an overview 

of French animation, among other 

special screenings. 

This year, the festival receiv.ed an 

incredible 1,978 entries from 61 

countries; 111 films have been chosen 

for competition, with another 59 

Tracey Pitman, winner of the 

Glebe Report photo contest in the 

animals category, has several photo 

exhibits taking place in the Glebe. 

Her work is on display throughout 

September at Starbuck's (Bank 

Street and Third Avenue), and until 

December at InFusion Bistro (825 

Bank Street). Tracey is also looking 

forward to showing her work at 

Olga's Delights (588 Bank Street) in 

December. The main subject will be 

animals, and a percentage of the 

profits from sales will go to the 

Canadian Wildlife Federation. - - 

to be screened as part of the Best of 

the Rest Showcase. Other categories 

include: Animated Feature Film?' 

New Media Competition, Commissioned 

Films Competition, and the 

Independent Short Films Competition. 

The opening night of the festival 

will be held at Ottawa's most popular 

independent cinema, the 700-seat 

Bytowne Cinema. On the evening of 

Fri., Sept. 24, the festival will move 

to the National Arts Centre's 2,300- 

seat Southam Hall. Other venues for 

this year's festival include The 

National Gallery of Canada and Arts 

Court. 

Organizers estimate that this 

year's festival will attract 2,000 industry 

delegates, including production 

executives, artists, students and 

animation fans. Full festival passes 

and program details are available 

online at www.awn.conilottawa or 

by calling 232-8769. 

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Sept. 16-19. The show will include the work of diverse artists and, unlike the 

spring festival which took place partly outdoors along Fifth Avenue, will be 

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Featuring quilting, glasswork, 

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After 

Outdoor art attracts a lot of attention. The mural beside Starbucks' 

patio at Third Avenue and Bank Street is a case in point. 

Local artist Bhat Boy was commissioned by Doug Casey of 

Charlesfort Development, the owner of the building, to create 

a large mural for this space. The resulting mural depicting 

neighbourhood scenes has weathered over the years, so Casey 

commissioned Bhat Boy to restore the first painting. He also 

asked him to produce a new work, due to be installed this 

month. At the end of August, passersby noticed that a large 

brightly-coloured mural, created by a former employee of Starbucks, 

had replaced the first work. Watch this space. 

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Light, privacy and views 

Article 4: Proceeding with your case 

BY FRANK OAKES, B.A., LLB. 

Light, privacy and view, qualities 

of life cherished by residents of the 

Glebe, are sometimes little valued 

and seriously threatened by real estate 

developers, aided by the intensification 

policies of Ottawa's new 

Official Plan. These articles are 

written for home-owners who may 

wish to object to the proposed development 

of a neighbouring property. 

One hopes this is not of immediate 

concern to the "gentle reader"; however, 

be aware that no street or area 

of the Glebe is sacrosanct, as the 

experience of the Glebe Community 

Neighbourhood Planning Committee 

has proven. 

If, as has been previously stated, 

the developer is proceeding as of 

righti.e., in conformance with existing 

zoning requirementslittle 

can be done. Fortunately, this is seldom 

the case. Most often some form 

of municipal approval or consent is 

required, providing an opportunity 

to express objections to the Committee 

of Adjustment or to the Ontario 

Municipal Board (OMB) or 

both. In articles 2 and 3, we described 

these tribunals and how they 

functioned. In this article, we deal 

with the approach and preparation 

of your case. As Committee of Adjustment 

decisions may be appealed 

to the OMB, and the law and planning 

principles relating to these tribunals 

are essentially the same 

(unless specifically identified), the 

following comments will apply to 

both. Whether you proceed on your 

own or seek legal representation, 

these articles will provide an understanding 

of what is involved. 

PUBLICATIONS AND 

INFORMATION REQUIRED 

You will require certain materials 

in order to proceed. First, you 

should obtain a copy of the relevant 

zoning bylaw and study its requirements. 

You will also wish to familiarize 

yourself with the appropriate 

provisions of the Ontario Planning 

Act (through Access Ontario or your 

local public library). When obtaining 

a copy of the zoning bylaw at 

city hall, you should also ask to see 

a copy of the Official Plan and peruse 

it to see how its policy statements 

may support your case. Although 

these statements are nonbinding 

generalizations, they nevertheless 

express the city's policy and 

intentions, and can be persuasive 

and add weight to your case. You 

should also inquire as to the existence 

of any Provincial Policy Statements 

respecting land use which 

may have a bearing on your case. If 

proceeding to the OMB, you must 

obtain, from its offices in Toronto, 

copies of the board's Rules of Practice 

and Procedure and its Regulations. 

Related material will be en-!' 

closed for a fee of $5. Before attending 

any Committee of Adjustment 

hearings, you must go to the committee's 

offices in Ottawa and examine 

the file related to your case. 

Much background information will 

Illustration: Gwendolyn Best 

be disclosed, including reports from 

the city planning department and 

other public agencies, as well as the 

developer's filings. If the OMB is 

involved, you may obtain copies of 

all materials filed by calling its tollfree 

number: 1-866-887-8820 (follow 

the instructions or press "0"). 

When the issues respecting your 

case have been defined, you may access 

similar fact cases on the OMB 

website to see how they have been 

dealt with: www.omb.gov.on.ca. 

FOUR PROCEDURAL STEPS 

There are four steps that must be 

taken in addressing the case: 

Determine the extent of the 

relief requested: Establish precisely 

the amount by which the proposed 

development contravenes the 

bylaw. Attempt here also to understand 

the applicant's case as completely 

as possible. Do this by studying 

the application closely. Also, 

collect any press releases and reports 

in news publications for statements 

the developer has made. You 

must understand the application in 

order to decide whether to accept or 

oppose. 

Determine the impact: What 

consequence will the development 

have on your property if it is approved? 

This will involve qualityof-life 

issues such as shadowing, 

loss of privacy, openness or views, 

increased noise and traffic. Much 

work and often considerable expense 

will-be involved at this stage if 

expert studies and reports are required. 

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issues(s). 

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opposition: If the extent of the variance 

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appropriateness of the applicant's 

development as a whole. Owners 

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expected to show consideration and 

sensitivity to the impacts of such 

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Much anxiety, expense and time 

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On behalf of the Girl Guides, I 

would like to welcome and extend 

my friendship to all those who have 

moved into the neighbourhood over 

the summer. As the commissioner 

for the Lansdowne District Girl 

Guides, I have been in contact with 

a few parents and a couple of other 

adults who would like to learn how 

to get involved in Guiding this fall. I 

hope to hear from many more. Registration 

has taken place. Check 

www.theglebeonline.com for contact 

information, if you would still 

like to register. 

So what do the Girl Guides have 

to offer that can match or compare 

to anything else? My answer is: the 

chance to experience and explore a 

little bit of everything. I have been a 

member of Guiding since 1981, I'm 

proud to say, and I've accomplished 

11 years as an adult member. 'What 

are my rewards? Friends, new experiences, 

travel, confidence, organization, 

a sense of accomplishment, 

and a great sense of wonder. That's 

just the tidy version of what I feel 

towards Guiding. I like to tell stories. 

Sit me down for an hour and I ' 1 1 

tell you about sharing songs with a 

Pathfinder leader who was from 

Nova Scotia while I was visiting 

Radium Springs in British Columbia. 

I was chosen to represent Ontario 

at an International Girl Guide Camp 

just outside of Calgary, Alberta, in 

July 2003. With another leader in 

London, and our unit scattered 

across the province from Thunder 

Bay to Orleans, we left Toronto airport 

for Calgary. We spent the week 

meeting other Girl Guides from 

Australia, Britain, Miami and even 

Nunavut. We swapped badges, 

games, songs and crafts, and experienced 

lots of fellowship with other 

Guiders and girls. Many of the girls 

attending had grown up in Guiding 

and had the skills to erect great rain 

shelters, as well as gadgets to support 

their wash basins. The girls 

from Igaluit learned how to use the 

water pump in the kiddy pool to 

shampoo each other's hair. The 

British girls shared their tradition of 

tea-drinking with Red Rose tea bags 

and two spoonfuls of sugar. The 

girls from Miami staged a beautiful 

and moving dance tribute to the 9/11 

disaster. It was very special for me 

to share what I had and to learn from 

others. 

At each level of Guiding, you get 

different challenges that prepare you 

for the next level. There is the Spark 

who learns that, when you dig the 

dirt in the garden to put in these 

onion-shaped things, pretty tulips 

will emerge in that same spot. There 

is the Brownie who shows the dance 

routine, learned in Hip Hop, to other 

Brownies, then they all perform it at 

a Talent Show. There is the Girl 

Guide who has learned and played 

lots of games and finally asks if she 

can lead the first-year girls in a 

game of Beaver Slap. There is the 

Pathfinder who cuts up construction 

paper and helps a Spark paste 

sparkles and pompoms onto her 

fancy slippers. 

I love to hear stories from adults 

who participated in Guiding or 

Scouting when they were young. 

There always seem to be positive 

memories. Come and join us at any 

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33 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 SCHOOL 

Come and see 

the Co-op Nursery School's new facilities 

NEWS 

BY MICHELINE LAFLAMME 

A fabulously renovated community 

centre awaits our little ones as 

the Glebe Co-op Nursery School 

begins the 2004-05 year. This is a 

moment that children, parents and 

teachers have been working and 

waiting for with breathless anticipation. 

The specially-designed class 

will be large, airy and filled with 

light streaming in from large new 

windows, along with child-size, inroom 

washroom facilities and cubbies 

for storing belongings. There 

will be a wonderful area for our 

children to play outside, as well as 

access to an indoor play area big 

enough to allow them to run, play, 

cycle and practise other gross motor 

skills indoors during inclement 

weather. An access ramp into our 

new home will also facilitate the 

arrival and departure of our little 

ones. A mural, created by Christine 

Féraud and dedicated to the boundless 

energy and love of Judy Smith 

will adorn a special place on one of 

the walls of the new area. 

We are also very pleased to 

announce that teachers Vicky Hadd 

and Sharon Green will be joined by 

Cindy Le Breton, who returns to us 

as one of our full-time teachers. 

Everyone knows that Cindy has outstanding 

qualifications for this job: 

she's experienced, fun and has 

great imagination. We are very 

pleased to have Cindy back! 

Mark your calendars! The nursery 

school will hold its annual Pumpkinfest 

during the community cen- 

tre's grand reopening celebration on 

Sat., Oct. 2. There will be plump 

pumpkins and tasty apples for sale, a 

delicious baked goods table, astonishing 

surprises, and no end of arts 

and crafts for the children. The celebration 

also offers the perfect opportunity 

to have a look at the renovated 

class space and enjoy some of the 

work the children will have already 

accomplished by then. We count on 

seeing a good crowd there! 

Classes for the 2004-05 school 

year are currently full, but anyone 

looking for a space should remember 

that summer brings unexpected 

family moves, so there is always a 

chance that one may become available. 

The Glebe Co-operative Nursery 

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programs: a Tuesday/Thursday 

morning program for toddlers 

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to come by for a visit is welcome to 

do so. Please try to pop in after our 

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New funding and resources 

CONGRATULATIONS TO 

CANTERBURY, GLEBE & LISGAR 

The August 23, 2004, edition of 

MacLean's magazine cited these 

three schools as among "Canada's 

Best Schools." Canterbury was chosen 

for its arts program, Glebe for its 

extracurricular activitiesin particular, 

its music programand Lisgar 

for its academics. What a wonderful 

tribute to the students, staff and parents 

of these three institutions. Well 

done! 

2004-05 SCHOOL YEAR BUDGET 

On July 14, trustees approved a 

"good news" budget of $577 million 

for the 2004-05 school year. It provides 

for a total of 4,300 teachers to 

serve a projected average daily 

enrolment of 69,000 students. This 

enrolment represents a decline of 

just over one per cent from 2003-04. 

The budget maintains and enhances 

programs and services for this new 

school year. Here are some of the 

improvements: 

the Jack Donohue Public School in 

the Morgan's Grant area of north 

Kanata opened this month; Jack 

Donohue was a Kanata resident and 

coach of the Canadian national basketball 

team from 1972 until 1988; 

Grade 7 and 8 students living more 

than three kilometers from their designated 

school are being provided 

with transportation for the full 

school year, rather than for only five 

months; 

special education students are 

receiving enhanced services, including 

teachers for small congregated 

By 

OCDSB 

Trustee 

Lynn 

Graham 

classes; additional educational assistants, 

psychologists, speech-language 

pathologists and social workers 

will provide support to special education 

students and assess those still 

on waiting lists; 

the outdoor education centres, Mac- 

Skimming and Bill Mason, remain 

open; 

*41 elementary teachers have been 

hired to begin the phase-in of the 

Ministry's commitment to cap class 

size at 20 in the primary grades 

(kindergarten to Grade 3); as a result 

of an analysis of class size, Mutchmor 

has one of these teachers; 

an E-Learning plan will develop 

online credit courses for secondary 

students; and 

a centrally-located resource centre 

will have videos, novel kits and other 

curriculum materials and professional 

resources available for teachers. 

For additional information, see 

www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca. On the home 

page, check "System Leaders-Director's 

Address" and "2004-2005 Budget 

Approved." 

PRINCIPALS AT 

CAPITAL WARD SCHOOLS 

I look forward to continuing to 

liaise with Frank Allan at Glebe, 

Gayle Singer at First Avenue, and 

Valerie McKay at Lady Evelyn. A 

welcome to Ken Blogg at Hopewell 

and to Lynn Watson-Senecal at 

Mutchmor. They are familiar faces at 

their schools, as Ken is a former 

Hopewell teacher and Lynn has been 

promoted from vice-principal to 

principal. I should have the names of 

the school council chairs in next 

month's column, following elections 

to be held at school council meetings 

in September. 

COMMUNITY USE 

OF SCHOOLSNEW MINISTRY 

FUNDING INITIATIVE 

In July, the Ministry of Education, 

together with the Ministry of Tourism, 

announced $20 million of funding, 

effective this school year, to 

help make schools and school playgrounds 

accessible to non-profit 

Glebe Report September 17, 2004 34 

groups, especially those serving 

children and youth. The OCDSB 

will receive $769,000. School boards 

are to use the funds to reduce user 

fees and make more hours available 

for community use for groups such 

as the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, 

childcare operators, and sport and 

recreation service providers. User 

groups are to pass savings along to 

participants. The board is currently 

working on a plan, and community 

groups should have the details very 

soon. Where possible, rate changes 

will be retroactive to Sept. 1. 

CONTACT INFORMATION 

Please get in touch with me at any 

time: 

Lynn Graham, Ottawa-Carleton District 

School Board, 133 Greenbank 

Road, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 6L3. 

Tel: 730-3366 

Fax: 730-3589 

E-mail: lynn_graham@ocdsb.edu. 

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35 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 SCHOOL 

Canterbury grads Tristan Boucher (left) and Gareth Thomas (right), with 

Greely Players' vice-president Margaret Van Dusen. 

Local student wins arts bursary 

Glebe resident Gareth Thomas is one of the recipients of an annual $500 

arts bursary offered by The Greely Players, a community musical theatre 

company based in Ottawa's Osgoode Ward. "Every year, when funds permit, 

The Greely Players likes to offer this small encouragement to students entering 

a performing arts program," said President Sophie Hall. 

Gareth Thomas will be taking a Performance Music degree at the Glenn 

Gould School in Toronto, while the other recipient, Tristan Boucher, will be 

attending Concordia University for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz Percussion. 

Both are graduates of the Canterbury Arts Music program, and worked 

under the direction of John Pohran in several Greely Players' productions. 

GC! rowing 

Glebe Collegiate's junior men and women's crews grab silver, bronze and 

sixth-place finishes in Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association 

Championships. 

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SCHOOL NEWS Glebe 

Un quart de siècle pour Francojeunesse 

PAR L'ÉQUIPE DU 25e 

ANNIVERSAIRE 

L'école Francojeunesse célèbre 

ses 25 ans en 2004, un événement 

mémorable dans l'histoire de l'éducation 

de langue française en Ontario 

puisqu'il marque l'anniversaire 

de naissance de sa première école 

élémentaire publique. En effet, 

avant 1979, l'instruction des francophones 

en Ontario était liée à la religion; 

les écoles de langue française 

dépendaient du Conseil scolaire catholique. 

Au début des années 1970, le 

Conseil scolaire public d'Ottawa a 

ouvert des écoles secondaires francophones. 

A la fin de la décennie, de 

plus en plus de familles francophones 

exprimaient le désir d'exercer 

ce choix non confessionnel 

pour les plus jeunes enfants aussi. 

C'est ainsi qu'A l'initiative d'un 

groupe de parents, en étroite collaboration 

avec le Conseil scolaire 

public d'Ottawa, la Ville d'Ottawa et 

divers organismes du quartier Côtede-Sable, 

a commencé l'histoire florissante 

de l'école Francojeunesse. 

C'est exactement le 4 septembre 

1979 que la nouvelle école ouvre ses 

portes à 111 élèves, du jardin à la 

huitième année, venant de tous les 

secteurs d'Ottawa. Aujourd'hui la 

zone de fréquentation de Francojeunesse 

se limite aux quartiers de la 

Basse-Ville, Ottawa-Sud, le Glebe, 

le Centre-Ville et la Côte-de-Sable 

et les classes vont de la maternelle 

la sixième année. Plus de 400 élèves 

sont présentement inscrits à Franco- 

jeunesse. Ils ont des origines socioculturelles 

très variées et tous choisissent 

de poursuivre leurs études en 

français, dans un environnement 

enrichi par sa diversité. 

Au cours des cinq dernières 

années, l'école a reçu le Prix du 

Réseau des écoles innovatrices pour 

l'utilisation des technologies de fine 

pointe. En 2003-04, elle s'est vue 

remettre une bannière soulignant la 

qualité de son programme d'éducation 

physique ainsi qu'une première 

place au classement de l'Institut 

Fraser pour le rendement supérieur 

des élèves en français et en math& 

matqiues lors de l'évaluation de la 

province. 

Les célébrations du 25ième anniversaire 

de Francojeunesse se dérouleront 

tout au long de l'année 

scolaire 2004-05, à commencer par 


le lancement officiel des festivités, 

le 25 septembre prochain. En novembre, 

l'école sera l'hôtesse d'un 

petit déjeuner festif avant les vacances 

de Noël. Janvier sera marqué 

par la fabrication d'une murale pour 

souligner l'événement avant de 

laisser place aux activités du carnaval 

en février. Enfin, en juin, un 

pique-nique champêtre sera organisé. 

Il réunira les écoliers, les parents 

et le personnelanciens et présents. 

Pour en savoir plus sur l'école et les 

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régulièrement le site Internet: 

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Calling all walkers 

and runners 

Every step, every dollar helps put 

an end to breast cancer. As part of 

our ongoing commitment in the 

fight against breast cancer, Immaculata 

High School's staff and students 

have once again entered a 

team in the "School Team Challenge" 

for the CIBC Run for the 

Cure. This fundraiser for breast cancer 

research, diagnosis, treatment 

and education starts at 9 am. on Parlia'ment 

Hill on Sun., Oct. 3. 

Although the deadline for all 

school, community and corporate 

team registrations (and teanri T- 

shirts) is Sept. 17, people in the 

community who wish to sign up as 

individuals are encouraged to register 

on line at www.cbcf.org. Additional 

information about the Ottawa- 

Gatineau Run can also be obtained 

at this website or by calling 738- 

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Please note that registration fees 

for adults will be $35 after Sept. 17. 

However, registration fees are 

waived if one raises $125 in donations. 

Immaculata news 

Immaculata Interniediate and High School 

Used book sale 

Come to the used book sale on Oct. 22 (5-9 p.m.) and Oct. 23 (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) at 

Immaculata High School, 140 Main Street, in support of Immaculata High School 

and Canadian Martyrs Parish. Call 232-5347 or 237-2001 for information or to 

donate books. 

SCHOOL NEWS 

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music, theatre and dance events at 

the NAC. For less than the price of 

a movie ticket, you can see great 

theatre, cutting-edge dance and 

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ances by world-renowned artists, 

the National Arts Centre Orchestra 

and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. 

Students with a valid Live 1 

Rush Tm membership card may buy 

up to two tickets per performance 

at the discount price of only $9.50 

per ticket. Tickets may be purchased 

on line or in person at the 

NAC's Live RushTM Centre. On the 

day of the performance, all unsold 

tickets for performances eligible 

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Here is a list of books read and discussed at the Ottawa Public Library 

OnLine Book Clubs (www.chapteraday.com/library/ottawa/index): 

Acceleration **** 

America's Women ** 

Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z * 

The Big Year *** 

Francie **** 

A Heart Full of Lies *** 

The Intelligencer *** 

One Day The Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead * 

Over the Edge of the World ** 

Peninsula of Lies ** 

Say Yes **** 

Something Rising * 

An Unpardonable Crime * 

Waiting for Snow in Havana ** 

*Selection of the Fiction Book Club 

**Selection of the NonFiction Books Club 

***Selection of the AudioBooks Club 

****Selection of the TeenBooks Club 

by Graham McNamee 

by Gail Collins 

by Debra Weinstein 

by Mark Obmascik 

by Karen English 

by Ann Rule 

by Leslie Silbert 

by Clare Dudman 

by Laurence Bergreen 

by Edward Ball 

by Audrey Couloumbis 

by Haven Kimmel 

by Andrew Taylor 

by Carlos Eire 

If your book club would like to share its reading list for this 

year, starting with the September title choice, please contact 

Micheline Boyle at 233-9971. 

Imagine the World 

The Eighth Annual Ottawa 

International Writers Festival 

The festival will take place from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6 at the Library and 

Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington Street (presented by the Ottawa Citizen), 

and will feature the best in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film and drama. This 

event is Ottawa's festival of ideas. For membership passes, individual tickets 

or information before Sept. 24, call 562-3844. Membership passes are also 

available at Nicholas Hoare, 419 Sussex Drive. After 24, passes and individual 

tickets will be available only at the Library and Archives of Canada prior 

to each event. See the festival's year-round schedule and archives at 

www.writersfest.com. 

Poetry prize supports local 

writers 

September 30 is the deadline for the third annual Diana Brebner Poetry 

Prize. The prize, worth $500, is given out annually by Arc: Canada's National 

Poetry Magazine, to an Ottawa-based poet who has not yet had work published 

in book form. Named after the late Diana Brebner, the award aims to 

continue Diana's tireless efforts to foster literary talent among new local 

writers. 

One winner and one honourable mention will be published in the winter 

issue of Arc. They will be invited to read at the launch of Diana Brebner's 

Collected Works in December. 

All entries should be sent to: Diana Brebner Prize, Arc, P.O. Box 81060, 

Ottawa, ON KlP 1AO, and should include a $12 entrance fee. For more info, 

please visit Arc's website at www.arcpoetry.ca.or call 728-7925. 

Centretown Community 

Health Centre 

Centre de santé 

communautaire du Centre-ville 

420 rue Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2N6 

Tel: 233-4443; Fax: 233-3987; TTY: 233-0651 

www.centretownchc.org; info@centretownchc.org 

An Event Not To Be Missed: 

CCHC 2nd Annual Multicultural Fair 

Author Denise Chong 

will open Creative Women 

Speakers' Series 

Acclaimed author and journalist, 

Denise Chong, will kick off the 

annual Creative Women Speakers' 

Series at Carleton University on 

Wed., Sept. 29, 12:30-1:30 p.m., at 

C164 Loeb. The hour-long event .is 

free and open to the public. Chong is 

the author of the perennially bestselling 

book, The Concubine's Children, 

which she recently adapted as 

a play that premiered to sold-out 

houses in Nanaimo, B.C. She will 

talk about her work as author and 

dramatist. Thé Creative Women 

Speakers' Series is sponsored by the 

Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's 

Studies (PJIWS) at Carleton University. 

The next event in the PJIWS 

series will be a reading on Tues., 

Nov. 23, 7 p.m., at 329 Paterson 

Hall, by writer Merilyn Simonds, 

best-selling author of The Convict 

Lover. Simonds' first novel, The 

Holding, has just been published to 

excellent reviews. Author Charlotte 

Gray will appear in the PJIWS 

series next term. 

The 2004 inaugural Canadian 

spoken Wordlympics 

From Oct. 7 to 10, the best of the 

best Canadian and international 

(US, UK, France) spoken-word 

artists will compete to take home 

five Flaming Mike trophies with 

their names on them. There will be 

groundbreaking team and individual 

(Canadian, international and Francophone) 

competitions, showcases 

and open mikes, guerrilla readings, 

jams and after-parties over the four 

full days of this unprecedented celebration 

of performance poetry. 

The festival is supported by all 

major Canadian performance poetry 

organizers and artists, the Ottawa 

International Writers Festival, the 

National Library and Archives 

Canada, the CBC, the National 

Campus and Community Radio 

Association, the Ottawa Fringe Festival, 

Amnesty International Canada 

and the Canadian Commission for 

UNESCO. It receives generous 

funding from the Canada Council 

for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council 

and the City of Ottawa's Arts 

Funding Program. 

The event will take place at the 

National Archives at 395 Wellington 

Street. For details, please visit www. 

wordlympics.com or call 247-9285. 

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39 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 WORDS 

A lifetime together George and Jeanne Johnston 

BY ELAINE MARLIN 

"..nothing makes me feel so nearly 

at home on Earth 

as just to be with you and say nothing." 

from Us Together by George 

Johnston. 

On August 9, poet George Johnston 

died at the age of 90. Eleven 

days later Jeanne, his wife of sixty 

years also died. They were a remarkable 

couple who raised six children 

Bob, Peggy, Andrew, Cathleen, 

Nora and Markin their Third 

Avenue home. The family describes 

George as: "poet, translator, teacher 

and beekeeper, WWII pilot-navigator." 

In addition to teaching English 

Literature and Old Norse and producing 

half a dozen volumes of 

poetry, he was renowned as a translator 

of Icelandic sagas. Gary Nicol 

remembers listening to George and 

Photo: David Duchow 

Jeanne Johnston (McRae) 

another professor speaking in Old 

English for half an hour "because 

they could." 

A tribute from colleagues and former 

students, The Old Enchanter, A 

Portrait of George Johnston, was 

published in honour of his 85th 

birthday. In the forward, John Flood 

describes the book as "a testament to 

the quiet charisma and quick charm 

of the man." He was " a significant 

presence in the department of English 

at Carleton U since its heyday in 

the Glebe." Jeanne and George 

moved to the Quebec countryside 

when the children were grown and 

George retired from Carleton. 

FOND REMEMBRANCE 

Jeanne Johnston (née McRae) was 

born in China of missionary parents 

and spoke Chinese before learning 

English. She spent many years in 

boarding schools as a child, seeing 

her parents sometimes only once a 

year. Her son Bob, speaking at the 

joint memorial service on August 27 

in Huntingdon, Quebec, reflected 

that perhaps that is why Jeanne 

devoted herself so wholeheartedly to 

nurturing her family. Daughter 

Peggy recalls: "Jeanne was scrupulously 

honest but ambivalent about 

institutions, perhaps the result of a 

difficult childhood in a missionary 

boarding school in China. On one 

occasion she discovered me attempting 

to forge notes with her signature 

to excuse my many absences from 

Glebe Collegiate. She scolded me 

for my dishonesty. Incredibly her 

remedy for my fraudulent conduct 

was to have George write and sign 

the notes. We never doubted her 

HANDMADE 

CZ'oice 

unwavering support for us." 

The Johnston's house was often 

filled with an eclectic mix of visitors, 

from famous academics and 

poets to the fun-loving friends of the 

children. No television, telephone 

off the hook at mealtimes, but lots of 

music and laughter. 

Daughter Cathleen recalls that the 

household was viewed as somewhat 

eccentric by the neighbours. 

"In the summer of 1970, a young 

poet and his wife were staying in our 

house. One day the young woman 

stopped to talk to an elderly couple 

sitting out on their veranda nearby. 

They asked what her husband did. 

'He's a poet' she replied. 'Oh,' they 

said 'They're all poets in that house 

you know." 

Rev. Neil Wallace, who conducted 

the memorial service, recounted 

going to a church youth meeting in 

the 60s. The poet who had been 

invited to spealc "had long white 

hair, a beard, striking blue eyes and 

was wearing jeans. He also wore a 

gold earring. He was groovy!" 

Afterwards he described George's 

appearance to his father, a military 

man. "I won't say what his response 

was," he said "because we're in 

Church." 

George's experiences as a pilot in 

the Second World War left a mark. 

Off the coast of west Africa, he rescued 

Peyton Lyon and his companions 

from the sea when their plane 

went down. They became life-long 

friends. After the war, George 

became a peace activist. Although 

an Anglican, he often attended the 

Quaker Meeting house on Fourth 

Avenue. 

Bob Johnston has some amusing 

recollections: 

"The editor/publisher of the 

South End News, Elmer Fairfield 

put out a local paper in the 60s that 

was mostly advertising. There was 

some editorial content, often about 

the 'red' (communist) menace. 

Photo courtesy of Carleton University 

Poet George Johnston 

Somehow he got wind that Dad was 

demonstrating or leafleting for the 

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 

and started to refer to him in his editorials 

as the 'pink professor', much 

to the amusement of everyone in our 

household, including Dad." 

"In 1958, Dad decided to buy a 

canoe for summers at a cottage in 

the Gatineau and for use on the 

Rideau Canal. He mailed the money 

order to the Huron Village near Quebec 

City where cedar/canvas canoes 

were made. Three months later he 

received a phone call from CN 

Express that there was a canoe for 

him at the train station (then located 

across from the Chateau Laurier). 

Paddle in hand, Dad walked downtown, 

picked up the canoe and paddled 

it back to Third Avenue on the 

canal. The canoe is still in the family." 

George was a great walker, making 

his way to Carleton and back in 

all kinds of weather. He composed 

his poetry as he walked, often taking 

inspiration from what he encountered. 

THE POETRY 

Endeared By Dark, The ollected Poems was published by The 

Porcupine's Quill in 1990. Admirers of his poetry all have 

favourite poems that make them smile or marvel. 

The sonnet Cathleen Sweeping is a favourite of many. 

Cathleen Sweeping 

The wind blows, and with a little broom 

She sweeps against the cold-clumsy sky. 

She's three years old. What an enormous room 

The world is that she sweeps, making fly 

A little bit of dust! And here am I 

Watching her through the window in the gloom 

Of this disconsolate spring morning, my 

Thoughts as small and busy as her broom. 

Do I believe in her? I cannot quite. 

Beauty is more than my belief can bear, 

I've had to borrow what I think is true: 

Nothing stays put until you think it through. 

Yet, watching her with her broom in the dark air, 

I give it up. Why should I doubt delight? 


(et Third) In the Glebe 

2344136 

From the volume Happy Enough, this short poem seems an 

appropriate last reflection: 

The Street In Fall 

Apocalypse of leaves, 

Emerald, gold, blood colour; 

The town all around me 

And in my head; 

I am stilled by the let-go 

The stems give.

' 

BOOKS 

Moldova 

By 

Sharon 

Abron 

Drache 

LOST PROVINCE: 

ADVENTURES IN A 

MOLDO VAN FAMILY 

By Stephen Henighan 

Beach Holme Publishing, 

176 pages, $22.95 (paper) 

Histrionic nationalism is a term 

that Stephen Henighan uses to sum 

up his experiences teaching English 

in Moldova in the summer of 1994. 

Stephen lodged with a Moldovan 

family, the Lencutas, who spoke Romanian 

rather than Russian in the 

lost province which belonged to Romania 

prior to World War II. It was 

then and still is adrift as the 

Republic of Moldova in the former 

Soviet Union's strip of territory 

known as Bessarabia. The Lencutas 

lived in Chisinau (pronounced keeshe-now), 

the capital. 

Stephen's encounters were a rude 

awakening to the media's glossedover 

version of the independent 

province. "I was looking forward to 

discovering in Moldova a plucky 

little republic, wedged between Ukraine 

and Romania, valiantly 

recovering its cultural specificity 

after more than fifty years of Soviet 

occupation." But the devastation of 

the Soviet victory over Bessarabia in 

1944 was so enormous that recovery 

is still in progress to this date. Soviet 

troops burned all Romanian books 

printed in the Latin alphabet. At 

Balti, the Red Army staged mass executions 

of captured Romanian 

soldiers-50,000 slain, exceeding 

the notorious slaughter of Polish 

soldiers at Katyn a year earlier. Yet 

for some reason Balti, unlike Katyn, 

has never entered the world's 

historic consciousness. 

What happens when you bear a 

dark terrible secret that the world 

does not know about? You try to find 

ways out of your suffering, but you 

are trapped. The so-called 

adventures with the Moldovan 

family with whom Henighan 

boarded (and I am assuming that he 

used their real name) read like a 

tragic soap opera. 

Yet the Lencutas are amazingly 

resourcefulthey cling to Stephen 

as if he is their saviour. And although 

Stephen is relying on them 

for room and board, he ironically 

learns that the Lencutas have pinned 

hopes on him for deliverance from 

the rest of their lives. 

The language laws that the 

Soviets imposed were intended to 

make the Moldovans believe that 

their Romanian language was no 

longer Romanian, but a distantlyrelated 

dialect. The new Moldovan 

language is printed in the Cyrillic 

alphabet, while Romanian is printed 

in the Latin alphabet. Stephen, who 

had learned Romanian while he 

lived in England, describes the 

Lencutas as a family "that did not 

know it spoke Romanian." 

lost to the world's consciousness 

Mr. Lencuta, a lawyer, earned a 

good salary, but life had not been 

easy for him. He was born in a small 

town near Balti, and he harboured 

resentments about his historic past 

that the world did not care to know 

about. He drank himself into 

oblivion as often as he could to help 

himself forget. Mrs. Lencuta, who 

had been married previously, had 

one son from her first marriage and 

another with Mr. Lencuta. Stephen is 

up front with the Lencutas about his 

own Canadian blended family. "I 

understand. For us this is normal. 

My brother and I have different mothers." 

This disclosure breaks the ice 

between the older boy, Andrei, and 

Stephen. 

While the Lencutas as a family 

have high hopes for what Stephen 

might accomplish on their behalf, 

Andrei is the most unrealistic. It is 

very sad to see how little this young 

man who tries so hard has going for 

him. He idolizes Stephen, and 

constantly pitches his dreams for 

making pots of money by including 

Stephen as his offshore Canadian 

partner. 

Stephen manages to distance 

himself from the family's cries for 

help by carving out his own space, 

creating a daily routine which gets 

him out of the house, not just for 

teaching but to allow him a private 

life as a tourist. 

Mostly he walks, reads and thinks 

about the former glory of Moldova 

when it was still part of greater Romania, 

and how all is lost: women 

and men who are educated and have 

professions still do not have enough 

to live decently. Globalization has 

brought money into the country, but 

it is controlled by the Russian mafia. 

To share in mafia enterprises usually 

means succumbing to criminality. 

Writer Stephen Henighan 

Henighan's memoir of Moldova is 

gut-wrenching, especially when he 

returns in 2001 to offer a summation 

of his adventures. Meeting with Mrs. 

Lencuta confirms that the family's 

1994 dreams of escape were mere 

illusions. Their economic situation 

has deteriorated, and a divorce is 

pending. Mr. Lencuta has 

succumbed to drink and depression. 

Mrs. Lencuta sews for a pittance for 

a Belgian company who came to 

Moldova to find cheap labour; she 

also takes in boarders to help make 

ends meet. Andrei, married and divorced 

with two children, has become 

a minor mafioso. The other son 

is a thief. Mrs. Lencuta does not 

want to talk about her sons. Instead, 

to make life bearable, she dotes on 

her lodgers, currently a young woman 

named Daniella who works in a 

nearby Swiss-owned textile factory. 

Daniella's 50-hour work week earns 

her just enoughmoney to rent a 

room from Mrs. Lencuta, who once 

again looks to Stephen for help. 

Stephen's conclusions are grim. 

Moldova is still saddled with 

histrionic nationalism, calling out to 

the world to realize its 50-year-old 

lost status and please to do 

something that will deliver it from 

further exploitation. But at least the 

Lencutas, thanks to Stephen 

Henighan, have had their story told. 

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Stephen Henighan is the author of 

five books of fiction, and he recently 

published the controversial When 

Words Deny the World: The Reshaping 

of Canadian Writing. Stephen 

teaches Spanish-American 

literature and culture at the 

University of Guelph. He is the son 

of Ottawa author and retired 

Carleton University English 

literature professor, Tom Henighan. 

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41 Glebe Report September 17, 2004 RELIGION 

Ottawa Lay School 

of Theology Fall term 

Explore theology at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Monday 

evenings, 7:30-9:30 p.m. (refreshment break included), starting Sept. 20. The 

courses, given by recognized scholars, are $50 per term; there are no exams. 

COURSES 

Eight Journeys: Exploring Ways to HolinessTed Penton and Becci Hayes 

The Gospel of LukeRev. D. Ian Victor 

Music of the Mass: A Comparative HistoryMathew Larkin 

Who Are the Sikhs?Kiran Kaur Binder, World Sikh Organization 

-The Canon of Scripture: How the Bible Took ShapeRev. Dr. Jillions, 

Annunciation-St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral and lecturer at St. Paul's University 

For details and registration, check the website at www.olst.ca or call 738- 

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BY SYBIL GRACE 

Nonviolent Peaceforce Canada is 

organizing a public meeting, on 

Mon., Sept 20, at 7:30 p.m., and a 

daytime session on Tues., Sept 21, 

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Quaker 

Meeting House, 91A Fourth Avenue. 

The public meeting will be free, 

with a suggested fee of $50 for the 

Tuesday workshop. 

Liz Law, who is a very experienced 

trainer in conflict resolution, 

will be leading the workshop. She 

attended the founding of the Nonviolent 

Peaceforce in New Delhi in 

2002 and is a member of the Scottish 

Centre for Nonviolence. 

Conflict resolution meeting 

and workshop 

The Nonviolent Peaceforce, 

endorsed by seven Nobel Peace 

Laureates and covering 50 countries 

and 90 member organizations, currently 

has an international peace 

team in Sri Lanka. Skills in resolving 

conflict are of value to everyone, 

whether the dispute concerns family, 

a neighbour', or international work. 

Anyone interested in registering 

for the Tuesday workshop or in finding 

out about the weekend retreat 

taking place on Georgian Bay the 

preceeding weekend, please contact 

Sybil Grace at 235-2725, e-mail: 

sybilgrace@ncf.ca. 

Upcoming Events at St. Giles 

Presbyterian Church 

CHRISTIAN BASICS COURSE 

Six Tuesday evenings from Oct. 5 to Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m., intended for seekers, 

newcomers and people with questions. Free classes will be held in the 

lounge at 174 First Avenue. All reading materials are provided. 

SATURDAY NIGHT ALIVE! 

Sept. 25, Alive to Prayer,Oct. 30, Saints Alive,Nov. 27, Alive & Kicking 

People of all ages and any or no church background are invited to these 

informal times (all at 4:30 p.m.) of worship and learning, prayer and music. 

There is no charge and no collection. A potluck meal will followa food contribution 

would be welcome. (Bank Street at First Avenue) 

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ran for 40 years at the Ex until 1997? The church invites the wider Glebe 

community to join in an early, sit-down Thanksgiving dinner in the banquet 

hall on Fri., Oct. 1,4:30-7 p.m., for the very reasonable price of $12 for adults 

and $6 for children 12 years old and under. Mail your order for tickets with a 

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RELIGION Glebe 

Carleton Chaplaincy begins 

its 40th year of service 

BY REV. DR. TOM SHERWOOD, 

CARLETON UNIVERSITY 

ECUMENICAL CHAPLAIN 

Forty years ago, the Carleton University 

Ecumenical Chaplaincy was 

being established by leaders in the 

university, the Glebe and Old 

Ottawa South. It was 1964. Carleton 

was moving from its various buildings 

on First Avenue to the new 

"suburban campus" at Bronson and 

Sunnyside avenues. Fr. Michael 

Peers (who has just retired as the 

Primate of the Anglican Church in 

Canada) was the young incumbent 

at Trinity Church on Bank Street at 

Cameron. As he watched the university 

buildings go up in his parish, he 

began visiting with students, faculty 

and staff on campus. 

The value of a trained professional, 

skilled in spiritual counselling 

and available as a religious resource 

person, was quickly recognized; but 

the university was constitutionally 

prevented from employing a chaplain. 

Community leaders in both the 

church and the university established 

a not-for-profit corporation to 

hire a chaplain, and signed a letter of 

agreement with the university to 

provide religious advisory services 

in exchange for appropriate accommodation. 

And so the Chaplaincy 

was launched on July 1, 1965. It is 

now in its 40th year. 

Forty is a big, round number. People 

see it as a milestone or a crisis. 

In the Bible, 40 symbolizes a significant 

experience, a period in which 

God intervenes, or an especially 

blessed time. Saul, David and 

Solomon each reigned for 40 years. 

Isaac married at 40, so did Esau. In 

biblical times, a man was considered 

full-grown at 40. The Qu'ran says 

that 40 is the age when a man 

receives his full strength. Mohammed 

was 40 when he received his 

call. Moses was 40 when he fled 

from Egypt; it was 40 years later that 

he had the Burning Bush encounter 

and returned. And, of Course, the 

journey to the Promised Land took 

40 years. 

In Scripture, when we see the 

number 40, it says, "Something 

important is happening" or "Something 

important is about to happen." 

The story of Noah and the Flood is 

full of 40s. So is the story of the Ten 

Commandments. Jesus spent 40 days 

in the wilderness before beginning 

his ministry. 

Sometimes in life we mourn a 

40th birthday and moan. The Bible 

celebrates 40 and anticipates. Something 

is about to happen. The future 

holds promise. 

In music, "forte" means loud and 

strong. In life, 40 can mean that too. 

As the Carleton Ecumenical Chaplaincy 

begins its 40th year, the future 

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CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic) 

Fourth Avenue at Percy Street, 232-4891 

Pastor: Father Joe Le Clair 

Masses: 

Tuesdays: 6:30 p.m. 

Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays: 9:30 a.m. 

Saturdays: 4:30 p.m. 

Sundays: 8:15 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 8 p.m. 

(Elevator access for the handicapped, loop system for the 

hearing impaired.) 

FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH 

Fourth Avenue at Bank Street, 236-1804 

Minister: Rev. E.J. Cox 

Services: Sundays: 11 a.m 

Parent/Tot room available at the back of the church. 

GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH 

650 Lyon Street, 236-0617 

Minister: Rev. Dr. Jack Nield 

Worship: Sundays: 9 a.m., informal; 10:30 a.m., regular 

Baby Nursery, Sunday School (ages 3-11), and 

Youth Alternative Worship (ages 12 & up) 

(Wheelchair accessible, FM system for the hearing impaired.) 

ST. MATTHEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 

Glebe Avenue near Bank Street, 234-4024 

Rector: Archdeacon Désirée Stedman 

Sundays: Said Eucharist: 8 a.m. 

Choral Eucharist, Church School & nursery: 10 a.m. 

Choral Evensong: 5 p.m. (first & third Sundays) 

Mon. to Fri.: Morning prayer: 9 a.m. 

Wednesdays: Eucharist & breakfast: 7:15 a.m. 

Thursdays: Said Eucharist: 10 a.m. 

Counselling by appointment: 234-4024 

(Handicapped accessible from parking lot. Loop system.) 

THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) 

91 A Fourth Avenue, 232-9923 

Co-clerks: Steve Fick & Signy Fridriksson at 233-8438 

Sundays: 10:30 a.m. 

OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH 

600 Bank Street, 594-4571 

Senior Pastor: Rod Bennett 

Sunday Service: Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. 

Cantonese/Mandarin & English, 11 a.m. 

ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 

Bank Street at First Avenue, 235-2551 

Minister: The Reverend Ian Victor 

Sunday Service Worship: 11 a.m. 

Nursery & Sunday School available. 

(Wheelchair accessible) 


ANNUNCIATION TO THE THEOTOKOS/ST. NICHOLAS 

ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL (ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA) 

55 Clarey Avenue, 230-2687 

Dean: Rev. Fr. John Jillions 

Hours: Sundays: 9:40 a.m. 

Divine Liturgy: Sundays: 10 a.m. 

Vigil: Saturdays: 5 p.m. 

Vespers: Wednesdays: 7 p.m. 

Please check our website for other services: www.ottawacathedral.org. 

EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH (Hispanic Ministry) 

Bank St. at Fourth (Fourth Avenue Baptist), 799-9661 

Pastor: 

Rev. Pedro Morataya 

Sunday Service: 4 p.m. 

Sunday School: 3 p.m. 

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*MODERN CHROME ROCKING 

chair, beige linen upholstery, $80; 

antique wicker side chair. Call 238- 

8112. 

*MOVING SALESat., Sept. 18, 

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (rain date: Sept. 

19) shelves, chairs, tables, futon, 

carpets, books, plants, household 

items, 47 Second at O'Connor. 

*ORME UPRIGHT PIANO, beautiful 

carved warm brown cabinet 

w/bench, $750,o.b.o. Call 234-7977. 

FOR RENT 

*ST. GILES CHURCH has a 264- 

sq.ft. office space to rent to a nonprofit 

group. The Glebe Report used 

this room during the renovations at 

the GCC. Call 235-2552. 

DOW'S LAKE 

CHILD CARE 

At my house, taking care 

of children, ages 2 - 5. 

Warm, friendly, familyoriented 

environment. 

Additional services 

available. Call: 231-2918 

CARPENTRY 

RENOVATIONS/ 

REPAIRS 

Peter D. Clarey 

422-3714 237-2651 

ECO-FRIENDLY 

INDOOR PEST CONTROL 

748-3388 

info@evergreenpestcontrol.com 

www.evergreenpestcontrol.com 

Rent- c-Wife Ottawa 

/16)ve/xy cooduing cooln,cm neech 

*BASEMENT BACHELOR apt., 

everything included, separate entrance, 

private bathroom, $500/ 

month. Call 594-4829 after 6 p.m. 

WANTED 

*ACCOMMODATION NEEDED 

for Grade 5 Waldorf School teacher 

school year. Ideally, she would like 

to house-sit from Oct. 1 to June 

2005. Call 226-8906 or e-mail to 

pearcegillian@hotmail.com. 

*TUTOR Experienced in using different 

learning strategies to motivate 

student in Grade 12 math, sciences 

& English. Call 594-4829. 

*AFTER-SCHOOL CARE for nineyear-old 

boy attending Mutchmor 

School. Call 565-4265. 

AVAILABLE 

*SHARE A NANNY with usour 

wonderful caregiver spends weekday 

afternoons with our three-yearold 

and we are seeking another child 

or children for her to care for. Timing 

and location are flexibleweekday 

mornings and/or afternoons, 

your home or ours. Call 233-1698. 

*LATIN TUTOR for high school 

and university level classes. Call 

799-9366. 

PIANO LESSONS 

in English or French 

for beginners 

and intermediate. 

Children and 

adults welcome. 

Daytime lessons preferred. 

Masters in music from 

McGill University. 

523-3797 mbjc@cyberus.ca 

THE HELPER 

Organizing and assistant services. 

Knowledgeable, resourceful, 

reliable. One-time projects or 

ongoing support. Serving in the 

Glebe since 1992. 

Call 728-2310 

* Regular Sc. Occasional cleaning 

* Pre Sc Post move cleaning and packing 

* PreScPost renovation cleaning 

* Blitz Sc Spring cleaning 

* Organizing cupboards, basements... 

* Perhaps a waitress??? 

Yourei 74,9-224.9 

NOTICES 

*GOOD MORNING PRESCHOOL 

offers creative art & drama programs 

for ages three to Grade 3. Call 

276-7974 for info about afternoon 

and after-school programs; pick up 

at First Avenue School is available. 

*RUMMAGE SALE, St. Giles 

Church, Bank at First, Fri., Sept. 24, 

9 a.m. to 6 p.m., coffee & muffins. 

*ARTHRITIS SOCIETY Second 

Annual Dixieland Jazz Dance, Fri., 

Sept 24, 7 p.m., RA Centre. Tickets: 

$10/person, $15/couple. Call 723- 

1083 or 1-800-410-4033. 

*CENTRETOWN COMMUNITY 

Health Centre Second Annual Multicultural 

Fair, Fri., Sept. 24, 2-7 

p.m. at CCHC, 420 Cooper Street, 

free admission. Call 233-4443, ext. 

2220. 

*FAMILY HISTORY Conference, 

Sept. 17-19, Library & Archives 

Canada, 395 Wellington, free parking. 

For ticket prices, call 234-2520 

or go to www.bifhsgo.ca/conference 

@bifhsgo.ca. 

*CYCLE FOR AUTISMninth 

annual cycle, Sept. 26 at Ron Kolbus 

Centre, Lakeside Gardens, Brittania 

Park; 100-km ride begins at 8 a.m.; 

60-km ride at 8:30 a.m.; Family Fun 

ride at 9 a.m. For info, call 233-2048 

or e-mail to mbuist@sympatico.ca. 

OFFICE SPACE 

FOR RENT 

408 square ft. office space for 

rent at Fourth Avenue Baptist 

Church. Suitable for two or three 

professionals, consultants or 

other clean and quiet business. 

Contact office administrator at 

613-236-1804. 

FLUTE LESSONS 

Experienced flute teacher 

accepting beginner to 

intermediate students of 

all ages. Ottawa South 

Riverdale/Belmont Avenue 

area. 

Please call Anna - 730-2107. 

1/2 SIZE CELLO 

FOR SALE 

Excellent condition, 

purchased from Lorius. 

Includes case, new bow, 

stand, stool, accessories, 

Suzuki books, tapes/ 

CD's 1-4. $1,100.00. 

Phone: 827-4722 

GRAPEVINE 

*PROSTATE CANCER Awareness 

Week, Sept. 20-26. Call 828-0762 or 

go to www.ncf.ca/pca. 

*GEM, MINERAL & JEWELRY 

show & sale, Sat., Sept. 25, 10 a.m. 

to 6 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 26, 10 a.m. to 

5 p.m., Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 

Woodroffe. Tickets: adults, $5; seniors, 

$3; children 13-17, $1; children 

under 12: free. 

*WALK TO REMEMBER organized 

by Bereaved Families of Ontario-Ottawa 

Region, Sept. 25, 10 

a.m., Arboretum, Central Experimental 

Farm. Call 567-4278. 

*CANADIAN MUSEUM OF 

NATURE (CMN) lecture series 

starts Oct. 6 with talk by writer/journalist 

Holly Dressel: How to Save a 

Planet: Making Honey Without 

Hurting the Flowers. Tickets: $10; 

$8 for seniors, students and members. 

Call 566-4791. Lectures start 

at 7:30 p.m. 

Tutor 

High School Math 

and Physics 

Zach 796-9230 

References 

PIANO LESSONS 

at your home 

Professional musician 

Music teacher 

All ages 

Alicia Borisonik 

777-7041 

329-4850 (Cell) 

DRUM LESSONS 

by experienced professional 

player and teacher. Current drum 

instructor for Algonquin College 

Music and Audio program. 

Lorne Kelly 

(Metro Music) 

233-9688 or 

725-1119 

FLUTE LESSONS 

By experienced and 

professional 

teacher/performer. 

All levels and ages. 

Fun atmosphere with 

professional results. 

Milena Krassi 

265.9999 

CATHERINE ST. MINI STORAGE 

MONTHLY RATES*MAX.SECURITY*HEATED*AIR-COND 

FOR ALL YOUR 

STORAGE AND 

PACKING NEEDS 

PAP' 

399 CATHERINE ST. 

(BETWEEN B.AY AND PERCY) 

L 

U+IAUL 

AUTHORIZED DEALER 

FOR SALE 

HEINTZMAN UPRIGHT PIANO (made about 1930) 

IN GOOD CONDITION. $2000. 

Telephone: 232-2062

(e6ttawa 

Official Opening of the Glebe Community Centre 

Mayor Bob Chiarelli and Councillor Clive Doucet, 

in association with the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group and the Glebe Community Association, 

cordially invite you to attend the official opening of the 

Glebe.Community Centre. 

GNAG 

Satu , October 2, 2004 

1 to 4' .rn. Festivfties for all ages 

2 p.m. Official Opening Ceremony and Main Hall Dedication 

175 Third Avenue Information: 564-1058, www.ottawa.ca 

4 

42t 

GCA 

Official unveiling of three permanent installations by Glebe artists Marie-Christine Feraud, Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau and Mary Pal,_ 

commissioned by the Public Art Program for the Glebe Commiihity Centre.

Glebe Report - Volume 34 Number 8 - September 17 2004

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