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11 Glebe Report May 13, 2005 COUNCILLOR'S How should the city grow? Dear Glebe Report readers, CHARLOTTE WHITTON AWARDS AND DANCE, FRI., MAY 20, GCC Don't forgetanother edition of the Charlotte Whitton Awards honouring community contributions in Capital Ward is upon us. The event will be on the evening of Fri., May 20 at the Glebe Community Centre. Reception at 6:30 p.m.; awards presentation at 7:30 p.m.; and dance, 9 p.m. to midnight featuring the band WAG. If you'd like to attend, please RSVP my office. (See below.) Photo: City of Ottawa Archives Mayor Charlotte Whitton at the ballot box in the 1952 municipal election. The late Charlotte Whitton was Ottawa 's (and Canada 's) first female full-time mayor, an alderman for Capital Ward and a resident of Renfrew Avenue. COFFEE WITH CLIVE HAS MOVED As I've mentioned in previous columns, in the interest of supporting another of the ward's many coffee shops, my monthly drop-in chat session has moved from its former home at the Wild Oat to the Second Cup in Old Ottawa South (corner of Sunnyside and Bank). Coffee with Clive happens the first Friday of every month from 10-11 a.m. It's a great chance to chat about city issues in an informal, neighbourhood setting. The spring and summer sessions at the Second Cup will be particularly pleasant on the outdoor patio they've built. Hope to see you there. BANK STREET RECONSTRUCTION CONSULTATION The city's consultation is moving along well, with the second of three open houses set for mid- to late June. One of the issues I'm working to resolve is how to find room in the budget to include the burial of hydro wires in the project. This has come up as a consensus priority from the community association and from the business community. THE ALTA VISTA CORRIDOR A TALE OF TWO CITIES Things are hopping at city hall these days and the focus is on how we are going to grow. On one side, you have the Mayor and four innercity councillors calling for an end to the long-held planning view that we need a four-lane car and truck route from Conroy to Nicholas through the Alta Vista corridor as part of our medium- to long-term transportation By Councillor Clive Doucet REPORT planning network. On the other side, you have some councillors from the high-growth areas of the south end, supported by city staff and consultants, saying that we need to preserve the theoretical road capacity of a four-lane roadway from Conroy to Nicholas in our Official Plan as a means of servicing the city's growth over the next 20 years. On Mon., April 11, I joined the Mayor and Councillors Holmes, Bedard and Legendre to put forward an alternative proposal for the Alta Vista corridor that would provide a simplified, less-costly car and rapidtransit connection from Riverside Drive to the hospitals. Our alternative proposal also included: *a new parking lot for the hospitals with a 20-year lease *a request for proposals for two community/sports activity areas in the corridor, extending boundary to boundary a cycling, commuter and recreational path along the entire corridor use of the corridor lands beside Springhurst Park in Ottawa East for recreational purposes, consistent with other parts of the corridor an Official Plan Review in 2006 to consider the removal from the Official Plan of the Alta Vista Transportation Corridor as a car and truck route We want to improve access to the hospitals, but at a $15-million dollar cost, not hundreds of millions. There are thousands of employees at the hospitals complex, and right now, there is no direct, rapid-transit link for public transit or ambulances. My proposal and the Mayor's will give people from the entire region that rapid-transit link, which will then free up road space for folks who wish to drive from the south end. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT We add roughly 100 kilometres of new road every year to our road system. Meanwhile, we can't even afford to clean and repair what we have now. Just the northern section of the Alta Vista car and truck road would cost somewhere around $200 million. Realigning Riverside Drive through an old city dump, for example, doesn't come cheap. If growth is dependent on more expressways, bridges, collectors, interchanges, etc., then we need to think about slowing it down until we can figure out how to grow in a way we can afford. This is exactly what many cities are doing. Councillor Capital Ward, 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa,ON KlP 1J1 Tel: 580-2481 Fax: 580-2527 e-mail: clive.doucet@ottawa.ca website: www.clivedoucet.com A proposal for the Alta Vista corridor 6), SNAPDRAGON GALLERY Snapdragon Gallery shows work in clay, glass, wood, metal and paper. )L7 Madure co-operative centre Y's Owl Maclure Cooperative Centre is owned by its members and provides meaningful paid employment and day supports for over 250 adults with developmental disabilities serving the community since 1980. Contract services include shrinkwrapping, assembly and packaging, and bulk mailings. If you are interested in donating your time or money to support us, please contact the Executive Director Hugh Nelson at 721-1500 Address - Suite 100 - 1140 Morrison Drive Ottawa K2H 8S9 www.ysowlmaclure.org Charitable registration 10822 8628 RR0001 LOOKING FOR HOST FAMILIES Would you like to experience a different culture without leaving home? Host a student from Spain for a few weeks. Canada Linc* English is sponsoring a group of young students, 14 to 18 years of age, who are travelling to Ottawa to take part in a 4 week program, from June 29 to July 26. The program is designed to encourage language fluency and teach the students about Canadian culture. Students will participate in a structured program that includes daily classes and activities as well as full day trips. The group is accompanied by a teacher from Spain. All students receive transit passes to travel to school and all have full medical insurance. The benefits and rewards of hosting are numerous. Not only do host families learn about another culture and share Canadian hospitality with their guests, but new and lasting friendships are often developed. Canadian teens studying Spanish may also get a chance to practice their language skills with the visiting students. And many hosts have travelled abroad to visit their new friends. 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FEATURE Glebe BY MAGGIE NEGODAEFF Glebe families come and go over the years, and some come home again. One of the most communityminded is that of the late Irving Greenberg (of Minto fame)his still-active philanthropist wife Shirley, their son Dan, who still lives here, and daughters Phoebe and Martha. Lately, the Greenberg name has cropped up again in the news, for a generous financial gift that will help build a new Great Canadian Theatre Company (now named the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre). This spring, I contacted Shirley Greenberg in Mexico and Barbados, where she resides during the winter, then in Lake Simcoe. We chatted on line about her husband's career and her own. Back in 1956, she says, while working as a secretary at a law office, she met Irving, whose company, Minto, was a client. After a three-year courtship they married Irving Greenberg in 1959, the marriage lasting until Irving died in 1991. "In the early days of my marriage and throughout our time together, I traipsed around after my husband when he inspected homes and buildings," she remembers. And, for a couple of years, Shirley took over furnishing model homes, but family demands and law school finally precluded such in- Good neighbours good people volvement, "except for ceremonial occasions." Her nephews now run Minto and daughter Phoebe is the only immediate family member who is still an owner. "I did not go to law school until 1973, when I was forty and my youngest child was nine," says Shirley. "I opened my own law firm, practising in association with Catherine Aitken, who is now a judge." "I couldn't pass up the opportunity to help create a centre that would benefit women in the community" Irving Greenberg had begun in construction "in a small way" in the early 1950s. Minto was incorporated in 1955, so this year is its fiftieth anniversary. Irving was, in fact, the first person in Ottawa to set up a condominium, in Parkwood Hills, where the family lived for a while. "The impetus to move from Parkwood Hills to the Glebe came as a result of Irving's involvement in politics (he ran for the NDP) in the 1960s," says Shirley. "We bought the Clemow property, but didn't move right awayit seemed rather large and imposing." But the couple warmed to the house and then Occupied it for 20 years. Now, son Dan and his wife Barbara Crook live there. "I loved living in the Glebe," says Shirley Greenberg. "I was able to get to law school quickly and later walked to my downtown office. Yet our house was on this quiet street facing Patterson Creek and lovely parks, and there was no through traffic. Shops and restaurants were just a block or two away and schools were also close. When I was too tired to cook, I could send the children to the Kentucky Fried Chicken!" Shirley Greenberg has always been active in the women's movement. With a few friends, she founded the Ottawa Women's Centre on Lewis Street near Elgin. To pay the rent, they passed the hat at weekly meetings. "It was as a result of my involvement that I decided to go to law school in 1973." volved in many philanthropic endeavours, Shirley's first "big" donation was to help create the Women's Health Centre at Riverside Hospital (now Campus). "I couldn't pass up the opportunity to help create a centre that would benefit women in the community," she says. This was a unique project of which she is very proud. "My children have supported me and helped make this centre a reality." Again, in consultation with her family, Shirley has donated a substantial sum to the University of Ottawa Law School, Shirley Greenberg Photo: Virgil Broodhagen which is honouring her this year on June 1. "I At the University of Ottawa, wanted to create some- Shirley Greenberg continued to be thing of lasting benefit to women. very active, helping form the Although half the law students, or National Association of Women and even more, are women these days, the Law. "How did my husband like they still don't show up in leadership my involvement with the women's positions to the extent that I think movement? My husband had mixed their talents should take them. Being feelings. Always for the underdog, more aware of their history will help he was happy to advance women's motivate them." She was also "very status and later on to support my grateful" for the opportunity to learn decision to go to law school, but the and practise law. early groups were very fluid with no Finally, what does Shirley history, so...many husbands were Greenberg like best about the Glebe? wary ...some marriages broke up "The lively atmosphere and neighover this. 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