Glebe Report - Volume 32 Number 8 - September 13 2002
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278 First Ave. Photo: S. Jermyn<br />
Sept. 21 <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
house tour<br />
"<strong>Glebe</strong> houses come in all<br />
shapes and sizes," says Christy<br />
Oliver, organizer of GNAG's <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
house tour.<br />
The tour this year showcases<br />
six lovely <strong>Glebe</strong> homes Sat., Sept.<br />
21, from 1 to 4 p.m. Visitors can<br />
take a shuttle bus around the<br />
neighbourhod to travel from the<br />
classic <strong>Glebe</strong> homes on the ave-<br />
nues, to the "street car house" on<br />
Holmwood, to the empty-nester on<br />
Newton and the Lakeview Terrace<br />
house with its view of Dow's Lake.<br />
Sixty volunteers run the tour,<br />
acting as guides in each home.<br />
"In fact, our only expense is<br />
the shuttle buses," says Christy.<br />
"The home owners have been in-<br />
credibly generous. They really<br />
take pride in displaying their<br />
homes."<br />
Thanks to their generosity, the<br />
proceeds from the day will help<br />
subsidize GNAG's programs for<br />
children and youth at the commu-<br />
nity centre activities such as<br />
the monthly youth dances.<br />
Last year's <strong>Glebe</strong> house tour<br />
was a sellout, and this one is ex-<br />
pected to draw a crowd as well. In<br />
fact, organizers made a last-<br />
minute switch in the date to avoid<br />
a conflict with a Renegades foot-<br />
ball game. It rnight have created<br />
just too much traffic.<br />
Tickets, $15, are available at<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre.<br />
HOUSE HIGHLIGHTS<br />
Both original and renovated<br />
homes are featured. In some<br />
homes, the architectural high-<br />
lights are the attraction, in oth-<br />
ers it is the imaginative decor.<br />
Imagine a room for kids, deco-<br />
rated in a castle theme.<br />
Crafters will enjoy the col-<br />
lectibles and needlepoint crafts<br />
that bedeck a traditional home.<br />
The "streetcar house" com-<br />
bines unique design with very<br />
con temporary furnishings.<br />
Feast your eyes on the fabu-<br />
lous eat-in kitchen with granite<br />
counters and cherry cupboards in<br />
a freshly renovated house.<br />
You will find beautiful bath-<br />
room ideas in a smaller house<br />
tile work in an Aztec theme.<br />
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Serving the <strong>Glebe</strong> community since 1973 FREE<br />
Public schools feel cuts to education<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> area public schools are<br />
feeling the effects of changes en-<br />
acted by new supervisor Merv<br />
Beckstead. The Minster of Educa-<br />
tion took over the Ottawa Carleton<br />
District School Board this sum-<br />
mer, appointed Mr. Beckstead and<br />
directed him to work toward a<br />
balanced budget.<br />
The OCDSB had submitted a<br />
budget with a $23.3 million defi-<br />
cit. One of Mr. Beckstead's first<br />
steps was to cut 11 principals.<br />
This year, Dagmar Stonehouse, the<br />
principal at First Avenue, will<br />
also be responsible for Mutchmor,<br />
working half time at each. There<br />
are 360 pupils at First Avenue<br />
and 358 at Mutchmor.<br />
Four new teachers have been<br />
hired at Mutchmor and three more<br />
at First Avenue.<br />
At <strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate Institute,<br />
principal Frank Allan and vice-<br />
principals Clay Plumadore and<br />
Patricia Kulka will be responsi-<br />
ble for 1,460 secondary students.<br />
GCI's students needing reme-<br />
dial assistance will get very lim-<br />
ited support as a result of Mr.<br />
Beckstead's cuts to special edu-<br />
cation 20 learning strategies<br />
classes have been cut to four.<br />
This round of decisions by Mr.<br />
Beckstead will cut the deficit by<br />
$4.7 million.<br />
At Hopewell School, Bernie<br />
Finnerty continues as principal.<br />
Susan Nouvet is Glashan's princi-<br />
pal and Valerie McKay is princi-<br />
Back row: Sergio Guerra, Ken Bhatt, Mike Tallim, Alex Tallim. Front:<br />
Henry Besser-Rosenberg, Ben Bowles and Kit Clancy worked or<br />
volunteered at the community centre day camps this summer.<br />
Wonderful kids at day camps<br />
"The children will always re-<br />
member their favourite counsel-<br />
lor," says Sharon Plumb, summer<br />
camp director at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Com-<br />
munity Centre.<br />
Each day, for nine weeks this<br />
summer, the camps welcomed as<br />
many as 162 kids between two-<br />
and <strong>13</strong>-years-old. They came to<br />
the preschool, school-age or spe-<br />
cialty day camps with the car-<br />
pentry, tennis, mad science and<br />
pottery being particular hits.<br />
"We doubled the carpentry and<br />
tennis registrations by adding<br />
afternoon programs, which were<br />
most often full," adds Sharon,<br />
More pupils, fewer principals in our schools<br />
noting that kids from beyond the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> also attended. "We have de-<br />
veloped a city-wide reputation<br />
for great staff," she says.<br />
Mike Tallim, 20, co-ordinator<br />
of the SunQuest camp, agrees.<br />
"Some kids returned week after<br />
week. It was one of the fullest<br />
years ever. It says a lot about the<br />
counsellors. Kids and counsellors<br />
working together make it a fun<br />
time that's more important than<br />
the actual activities." He says<br />
working at the day camp i s<br />
"crazy. The kids are wonderful; I<br />
get paid to hang out with won-<br />
derful kids."<br />
pal at Lady Evelyn School.<br />
Corpus Christi Catholic School<br />
has 415 students this year, ac-<br />
cording to principal Jim Rogers.<br />
This is about 100 more than last<br />
year, due mainly to the closure of<br />
St. Margaret Mary's.<br />
INSIDE<br />
Letters 5<br />
Beefs or bouquets for Witmer?<br />
GNAG 7<br />
Register Sept. 14<br />
Coun. Clive Doucet 9<br />
Capital Ward's "to-do" list<br />
Sports 11<br />
Tense tennis final at St. James<br />
Business 14, 15<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong>'s corner stores<br />
Travel 18<br />
Remember the Alamo!<br />
Feature 19<br />
Our 'quirky' book reviewer,<br />
Sharon Drache<br />
School News 25-27<br />
First day of school brings<br />
changeS. to Mutchmor and<br />
First Avenue schools<br />
Books 28, 29, 31<br />
Anthony Westell's memoir<br />
Words 34<br />
Join the library reading group<br />
NEXT DEADLINE<br />
Photo: S. Jermyn<br />
Monday, <strong>September</strong> 23
NEWS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 2<br />
Good Morning Preschool<br />
Welcoming the new year<br />
BY KATE FAUGHN This is in addition to our<br />
The Good Morning Preschool is creative arts plus program for<br />
off to a great start again this four and five-year-olds where<br />
year. Liane Gallop, our director, children can participate on Mon-<br />
has enjoyed meeting all the new day, Wednesday and Friday af-<br />
children and welcoming back ternoons. This program offers a<br />
many familiar faces. balance of learning new concepts,<br />
Liane and teachers Melanie experimenting with materials and<br />
Bauman and Dawn McArthur are tools through art and drama, and<br />
pleased to welcome Karen Cam- a fun afternoon socializing with<br />
eron, as a new member of the Good friends.<br />
Morning Preschool teaching team. Good Morning Preschool is lo-<br />
Karen brings with her many years cated at 174 First Ave., corner of<br />
of experience worldng in our Bank Street. We offer separate<br />
community with children. core morning programs for two-<br />
Over the last few years we have and three-year-olds, afternoon<br />
expanded our afternoon creative creative arts programs for three-<br />
arts programs and due to its suc- to five-year-olds. Registration is<br />
cess are once again offering a ongoing and waiting lists are<br />
creative arts junior for three- maintained for all programs up<br />
year olds on Tuesday and Thurs- until the 2004/2005 school year.<br />
day afternoons. This fun-filled Some spaces are currently avail-<br />
program makes use of children's able in our afternoon programs<br />
literature as a basis for art and for one or more afternoons per<br />
drama activities. A new book ad- week. Call Liane Gallop at 276-<br />
venture is discovered each week! 7974 for more information.<br />
Dow's Lake Residents Association<br />
Dow's Lake Community<br />
Garage Sale<br />
Carling to the Canal Bronson to the Driveway<br />
Saturday, <strong>September</strong> 28<br />
9 am. - 1 p.m. Rain or shine<br />
Voluntary 10 per cent of sales to Food Bank<br />
Fall at Abbotsford House<br />
It is the most wonderful time<br />
of the year<br />
BY JULIE E. STEPHENS sented weekly followed by a<br />
As the stationery store adver- lively discussion. Take a look at<br />
tisement suggests, it really is the the Fall <strong>2002</strong> Program Guide for a<br />
most wonderful time of the year. complete list of the exciting<br />
Summer isn't officially over as a movies that will be shown.<br />
season, but the day after Labour<br />
Day when the kids go back to<br />
school, and traffic patterns re-<br />
sume, we all seem to start getting<br />
our schedules back on track and<br />
routines in order. Like New<br />
Year's only better, it's a fresh<br />
start without all the guilt of not<br />
sticking to that long list of reso-<br />
lutions!<br />
MEN'S BOOK CLUB<br />
By popular demand a new ad-<br />
dition for the fall session that<br />
hopefully will be ongoing is a<br />
men'4 book club. If you are interested<br />
in joining this group, please<br />
attend the first meeting on Sept.<br />
23 at 10 a.m. in the Abbotsford<br />
board room and bring along some<br />
ideas and book suggestions you<br />
If you are 55 or older, you are might have.<br />
lucky enough to be able to par-<br />
ticipate in any number of the ter- - BAZAAR NOV. 30<br />
rific programs offered at Ab- This might seem a bit early to<br />
botsford House located in the mention, but mark your calendars<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> at 950 Bank St. There is now for the Abbotsford House<br />
quite an array of programs avail- Christmas bazaar that will take<br />
able covering a wide spectrum of place Sat Nov. 30 from 10:30 a.m.<br />
interests. Express your creativity to 2:30 p.m. This is an event not<br />
in the pottery and stained glass to be missed. Donations of a large<br />
classes, or try your hand at variety of items are needed as<br />
euchre or bridge. Fitness is made well as donation of your valuable<br />
lively and fun with line dancing time. Come volunteer at this very<br />
and aerobics; or with'the serenity busy fund-raising event and get<br />
and calm of Kripalu yoga or tai into the holiday spirit!<br />
chi. If you are interested in more There are so many activities<br />
cerebral pursuits, there are pro- including bus trips and special<br />
grams like play reading, the op- events going on at Abbotsford<br />
era club, and a variety of com- that there just isn't enough space<br />
puter courses. One of the newer to list them all. Drop by or give<br />
programs that is quickly gaining them a call at 230-5730 and find<br />
in popularity is the movie club, out how you too can participate,<br />
where an eclectic mix including have a lot of fun and meet some<br />
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3 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> N EWS<br />
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Eleanor, left, with her trademark wide brimmed hat, tree<br />
planting with friends on Bank Street.<br />
Eleanor Stanfield, a true friend<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
BY PHILIP MASON<br />
For those of us who live in and<br />
around the Central Park area of<br />
the north end of the <strong>Glebe</strong>, we are<br />
saddened by the untimely loss to<br />
cancer of Eleanor Stanfield. She<br />
had been a resident of Rosebery<br />
Avenue for more than three dec-<br />
ades, supporting both her hus-<br />
band Trevor Lyons with his den-<br />
tal practice and the <strong>Glebe</strong> gener-<br />
ally with her involvement in<br />
many outdoor and environmental<br />
activities.<br />
In fact it would be true to say<br />
that Eleanor was committed to the<br />
cont_inued greening and beautifi-<br />
cation of the <strong>Glebe</strong>. She, along<br />
with other members of <strong>Glebe</strong>-<br />
Community Association, the<br />
Rosebery Avenue Residents Com-<br />
mittee and the Central Park Re-<br />
newal Committee, spent countless<br />
hours working towards the revi-<br />
talization, renewal, planting, and<br />
caring of flowers, shrubs and<br />
trees in the public and private<br />
gardens throughout the area.<br />
Each spring and fall, clean-up<br />
and work parties are organized to<br />
maintain Central Park, particu-<br />
larly that portion between Bank<br />
and Lyon streets. Eleanor would<br />
ensure that all park users were<br />
informed as to these dates, even<br />
stopping dog walkers and de-<br />
manding their support, would<br />
work tirelessly on the day weed-<br />
ing, pruning and cutting back,<br />
then hound the city until the<br />
massive loads of debris were<br />
carted away.<br />
She also helped yearly in the<br />
now annual City of Ottawa pro-<br />
gram of planting of new trees.<br />
Eleanor was especially nur-<br />
turing and protective of the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
trees and would take a personal<br />
interest in the various saplings<br />
growing, especially those in Cen-<br />
tral Park and on Isabella Street<br />
and Bank Street, pruning them<br />
and making sure they had enough<br />
water to flourish, as she felt it<br />
was an important legacy to pass<br />
on to all who lived and visited the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>. We also remember her for<br />
the floral boxes and plots along<br />
Bank Street that she initiated and<br />
then inveigled local merchants to<br />
water and maintain.<br />
Eleanor was a co-recipient of<br />
both the Whitton and the Conunu-<br />
nity Pride Achievement Awards<br />
for her long standing support to<br />
this community.<br />
She will be missed.<br />
A memorial service is planned<br />
for 10 a.m., Sun., Sept. 15 at the<br />
Hulse, Playfair and McGarry fu-<br />
neral chapel at 315 McLeod St.,<br />
and a tree dedication in Eleanor's<br />
name is being organized for Octo-<br />
ber.<br />
Philip Mason was a friend and<br />
neighbour.<br />
Eleanor in Central Park<br />
PLEASE RECYCLE gi
EDITORIAL PAGE<br />
Drache serves <strong>Glebe</strong> readers<br />
This month a feature story by Beverley Rix marks the<br />
contribution made by Sharon Drache to the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
Sharon has been reviewing books for the <strong>Glebe</strong> Re-<br />
port since 1981. Her first review, May 15, 1981, of Donn<br />
Kushner's The Witnesses and Other Stories, congratulates<br />
the author for his fabulous command of language. Sharon<br />
encouraged Donn Kushner, a <strong>Glebe</strong> resident who taught<br />
biology at Ottawa U, to aim for the heights with his writing.<br />
Writing a book review almost every month for 21<br />
years, Sharon has been an enthusiastic supporter of the<br />
local literary scene. She has been a constant while <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong> editors have come and gone. She has also contrib-<br />
uted the occasional poem on the <strong>Glebe</strong> scene; the May 1981<br />
issue includes a seven-line nugget about the Book Bazaar.<br />
The Book Bazaar, selling used and rare books, was one<br />
of eight <strong>Glebe</strong> booksellers that advertised in 1981, on the<br />
page right below Sharon's book review. The half-page ad<br />
claimed that the <strong>Glebe</strong> book stores offered over 101,000<br />
books. Their group, the <strong>Glebe</strong> Booksellers Association, in-<br />
cluded Arkum Books, Patrick McGahern Books (used and<br />
rare), Architecture Book Store, Christopher Hinchliffe<br />
Books (antiquarian), Octopus Books, Avenue Bookshop<br />
(used and rare) and the House of Speculative Fiction as well<br />
as the Book Bazaar.<br />
Today, <strong>Glebe</strong> readers (and we do pride ourselves on<br />
being a reading neighbourhood) can find some book<br />
shops, but there is no <strong>Glebe</strong> booksellers association. Two of<br />
the four second-hand-book stores continue to flourish-<br />
Book Bazaar and Patrick McGahern Books. Shops selling<br />
new books focus on niche markets: Basilisk specializes in<br />
fantasy and sci fi, Prime Crime in mysteries and Octopus,<br />
now located on Third Avenue in the former Architecture<br />
Book Store, stocks left wing literature. You can buy books<br />
for children at toy shops and books for gardeners at<br />
Thorne and Company and East Wind.<br />
Book lovers will find of interest Clyde Sanger's re-<br />
view of Anthony Westell's memoir on pages 28, 29 and<br />
Janet Desroches's introduction to the reading group at the<br />
Sunnyside library on the Words page.<br />
Book lovers from the <strong>Glebe</strong> and beyond can look for-<br />
ward to the Ottawa International Writers' Festival later this<br />
<strong>September</strong>; Tom Thomson's Last Paddle, a mystery for<br />
young adults by former <strong>Glebe</strong> resident Larry McCloskey,<br />
will be launched there Sept. 28.<br />
Views expressed in the Globe <strong>Report</strong><br />
are those of our contributors. We<br />
reserve the right to edit all submissions. <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 4<br />
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THANKS AND FAREWELL:<br />
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5 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong><br />
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If you have news call the editor at 236-<br />
4955 or write to the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre, 690 Lyon St., K1S 3Z9.<br />
Editor <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
<strong>September</strong>... children are back<br />
at school and all's well with the<br />
education system, or so Elizabeth<br />
Witmer assured us. According to<br />
her, Ottawa has welcomed the new<br />
regime with open arms. But is she<br />
right? How do YOU feel about the<br />
Ottawa Board takeover? School<br />
closures? Tax relief for private<br />
Editor, <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>,<br />
As a member of the board of'<br />
directors of the <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre and<br />
honourary chair of its "Reaching<br />
for the Future" campaign, I would<br />
like to invite <strong>Glebe</strong> residents to<br />
participate in The <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre's<br />
coming campaign.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre, across from<br />
Lansdowne Park, has been part of<br />
our community for 117 years,<br />
providing seniors with a variety<br />
of services and residential care.<br />
Because the current facility is<br />
outdated and no longer able to<br />
meet the needs of seniors, a rede-<br />
velopment project has been initi-<br />
ated. Our capital campaign i s<br />
necessary to raise funds to renew<br />
and expand our services.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> has a wealth of tal-<br />
ent and residents are well known<br />
for their commitments to their<br />
neighbours and the community at<br />
large. We are calling upon indi-<br />
LETTERS<br />
Beefs or bouquets for<br />
Elizabeth Witmer?<br />
schooling? Cuts to special ed and<br />
educational funding generally?<br />
Send your beef or bouquets to<br />
Elizabeth Witmer at eliza-<br />
beth_witmer@ontla.ola.org. Tel.<br />
(416) <strong>32</strong>5-2600 and copy to Pre-<br />
mier Ernie Eves at<br />
webprem@gov.on.ca, Tel.<br />
(416)<strong>32</strong>5-1941.<br />
Harriet Smith<br />
Join the <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre's<br />
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campaign<br />
viduals with experience in mar-<br />
keting, public relations, media<br />
relations, graphic arts, or fund<br />
raising to assist with our cam-<br />
paign.<br />
I've been involved with the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Centre for many years and<br />
have derived much satisfaction<br />
from my work here. I hope you<br />
will join me in this opportunity<br />
to help ensure that the services,<br />
such as the ones the <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre<br />
provides, continue to be available<br />
to seniors, the often forgotten<br />
members of our community.<br />
If you can contribute a few<br />
hours of your time to this worth-<br />
while project, please call the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Centre at 238-2727 and<br />
speak to Monique Archambault<br />
(ext. 333) or Mary Pal (ext.<br />
<strong>32</strong>3)in the campaign office.<br />
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7 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong><br />
BY MARY 'FSAI-DAVIES<br />
GREAT FALL LINE-UP<br />
It's time to sign up for that<br />
program you have always wanted<br />
to take. Pick up your copy of the<br />
Fall Program Guide at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre or visit us on<br />
line at www.theglebeonline.com.<br />
Preschool, children, youth and<br />
family registration begins Sat.,<br />
Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,<br />
(numbers will be distributed at 8<br />
a.m.).<br />
FLEA MARKET AND ANTIQUE &<br />
COLLECTIBLE FAIR<br />
Come and register for either of<br />
these upcoming events on Mon.,<br />
Sept. 19, 7 p.m. These well-<br />
attended weekend sales are ideal<br />
for those who are interested in<br />
buying or selling long-lost treas-<br />
ures at very affordable prices.<br />
Free admission. Call GCC at 233-<br />
87<strong>13</strong> for details.<br />
* FALL FLEA MARKET<br />
Sat., Oct. 12, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.<br />
Fee: $30 per table or $55 per<br />
corner booth<br />
" ANTIQUE & COLLECTIBLE<br />
FAIR<br />
Sat., Nov. 23, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.<br />
Fee: $40 per table or $75 per<br />
booth<br />
HOMEWORK CLUB PLUS<br />
Are your children having a<br />
tough time doing homework?<br />
Could they benefit from some tips<br />
and strategies to help boost their<br />
academic performance and sel f-<br />
esteem? If so, sign them up for<br />
Homework Club.. .Plus!<br />
Starting on Oct. 1 students<br />
from grades 1 to 6 can do their<br />
homework twice a week under the<br />
supervision of provincially cer-<br />
tified teachers. There will also<br />
be extra activities including edu-<br />
cational games, to help build<br />
their academic and social skills<br />
in the classroom. The program<br />
will run Tuesdays and Thursdays,<br />
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. in the quiet<br />
Steiner Room at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Cotnmu-<br />
nity Centre. Note: A 10 per cent<br />
discount will be given to children<br />
registered full-time in Q4.<br />
MATH AND SCIENCE TUTORING<br />
OFFERED TO STUDENTS<br />
GRADE 9-12<br />
Having trouble with math or<br />
science? You can now get help at<br />
lunchtime or after school in small<br />
groups or private sessions at very<br />
affordable rates. Sessions will be<br />
held two days a week to give stu-<br />
dents extra help in the grade 9-<br />
12 math and science programs of<br />
the new curriculum. Please<br />
specify your request for private<br />
or semi-private, subject, grade<br />
and if desired in French or Eng-<br />
lish. Sessions will be formed ac-<br />
cording to demand. Call GCC for<br />
details at 233-87<strong>13</strong> or come to<br />
our registration on Sat., Sept. 14<br />
at 10 a.m. A school council mem-<br />
ber from <strong>Glebe</strong> Collegiate will be<br />
there to answer your questions.<br />
FENG SHUI WORKSHOP<br />
SAT. SEPT. 21<br />
Join Maggie Huang from East<br />
Wind (794 Bank Street) and learn<br />
about Taoist Feng Shui.<br />
This workshop will give par-<br />
ticipants an overview of Feng<br />
Shui, including its history and<br />
the fundamentals of Feng Shui<br />
(landforms, celestial animals,<br />
five elements, yin & yang, in-<br />
cluding the constant change and<br />
interplay of energy in the envi-<br />
ronment, as well as the use of the<br />
basic Ba Gua compass).<br />
We will also discuss the appli-<br />
cation of personalized "Kua Num-<br />
ber" to tap into your auspicious<br />
directions and locations to im-<br />
prove and enhance your love life,<br />
health, career, luck, fame, chil-<br />
dren and wealth.<br />
Sat. Sept. 21, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.<br />
Cost $60. For further details,<br />
call 233-87<strong>13</strong> or 567-0382.<br />
GLEBE HOUSE TOUR<br />
The third annual <strong>Glebe</strong> house<br />
tour will take place Sat., Sept. 21<br />
from 1 - 4 p.m. (The date was<br />
changed due to a conflict with the<br />
Ottawa Renegades Football game<br />
which would limit the parking<br />
available in the neighbourhood.)<br />
Tickets cost $15 and are avail-<br />
able at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community<br />
Centre, 690 Lyon Street South<br />
open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 9<br />
p.m. and Saturday 9 to noon.<br />
(564-1058). You can reserve the<br />
tickets by phone using VISA.<br />
Visit six lovely homes in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>. We have attempted to in-<br />
clude a variety of sizes, styles,<br />
furnishing and decor on the tour<br />
to show the range of homes in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>. A shuttle bus will be pro-<br />
vided during the tour. Proceeds<br />
from the tour will be used to sub-<br />
sidize youth and children's pro-<br />
gramming at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Conurtunity<br />
Centre. Thanks to the generous<br />
owners for opening their homes.<br />
COSTUME AND UNIFORM SALE<br />
SEPT. 14<br />
Brownies, Scouts, Taekwon-Do,<br />
dance wear, Hallowe'en cos-<br />
tumes...<br />
Come buy or sell second-hand<br />
costumes and /or uniforms here<br />
at <strong>Glebe</strong> CC, Sat., Sept. 14, 9 a.m. -<br />
noon, 564-1058 or 233-87<strong>13</strong><br />
GLEBE 'NEIGHBOURHOOD<br />
ACTIVITIES GROUP<br />
690 Lyon Street South<br />
Ottawa, ON, K1S 3Z9 Tel: 564-1056<br />
Registration for fall programs begins <strong>September</strong> 14<br />
If you would like to sell your<br />
second-hand costumes, uniforms<br />
or dance wear, please bring items<br />
marked with your name, phone<br />
number, the size, and expected<br />
price to the main hall at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre on Fri., Sept.<br />
<strong>13</strong>, between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. All<br />
unsold items and money must be<br />
picked up by 2 p.m. on the day of<br />
the sale. For further details<br />
please call 233-87<strong>13</strong>.<br />
GNAG PRESENTS NEW STAG-<br />
ING OF THE WIZARD OF OZ<br />
Directed by Eleanor Crowder<br />
Show times:<br />
Fri., Feb. 28/ 03 at 7:30 p.m.<br />
Sat., March 1/03 at 4: p.m.<br />
Sat., March 1/03 at 7:30 p.m.<br />
Tickets are available at the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre begin-<br />
ning Dec. 14 & ongoing, $8 per<br />
person.<br />
HAVE EXPERIENCE?<br />
NEED EXPERIENCE?<br />
WANT EXPERIENCE?<br />
Be part of this community<br />
theatrical production of<br />
The Wizard of Oz!<br />
General calling for those who<br />
wish to be part of the Oz experi-<br />
ence (8 - 80 years): We need ac-<br />
tors, a musical director, musi-<br />
cians, wardrobe, back stage as-<br />
sistants, ushers, administrators<br />
and other theatre enthusiasts.<br />
If you wish to be part of this<br />
production, come to our informa-<br />
tion session on: 'Thurs., Sept. 26<br />
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. or contact<br />
Mary TD at 233-87<strong>13</strong> or e-mail<br />
to gnag@theglebeonline.com<br />
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KELLER WILLIAMS OTTAWA REALTY<br />
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AUDITIONS FOR THE<br />
MAIN CAST:<br />
Call 233-87<strong>13</strong> and book your<br />
audition by Fri., Nov. 1.<br />
Grade 9 - Grade 12: Thurs., Nov.<br />
7, 4 - 6 p.m.<br />
Adult: Thurs., Nov. 14, 6- 10 p.m.<br />
OTHER WAYS TO GET<br />
INVOLVED IN THIS PRODUC-<br />
TION:<br />
You can register in one of<br />
these January workshops:<br />
*Adult/Youth Theatre workshop<br />
(14 years - adult): be part of the<br />
main cast (Dorothy, the tin man,<br />
the lion, etc.)<br />
" Children's theatre workshop<br />
(ages 8 - 12 years): you will be-<br />
come cats or munchkins in eight<br />
short weelcs<br />
* Set design & building workshop<br />
(youth & adult): Design a set;<br />
build a production!<br />
* Dance workshop (ages 8 - 12<br />
years): Newly choreographed<br />
dance numbers<br />
Are you interested or have any<br />
inquiries? Call us at 233-87<strong>13</strong><br />
GNAG ANNUAL GENERAL<br />
MEETING SEPT. 25<br />
Wed., Sept. 25, <strong>2002</strong> at 7 p.m.<br />
at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre.<br />
If you would like to volunteer or<br />
are interested in becoming a<br />
board member, the nominating<br />
committee welcomes your call and<br />
can provide you with further in-<br />
formation.<br />
Please call Christy at 233-<br />
87<strong>13</strong>. Closing date for nomina-<br />
tions is <strong>September</strong> 18, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
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Come explore six beautiful homes<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Saturday, <strong>September</strong> 21, <strong>2002</strong><br />
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.<br />
564-1058<br />
$15.00 per person<br />
Shuttle bus service is available<br />
OTTAWA REALTY
GCA <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 8<br />
EXISTING BUILDING<br />
BY JUNE CREELMAN<br />
CHANGES PROPOSED AT THE<br />
RUNNING ROOM<br />
The Running Room plans to<br />
build a two-storey addition next<br />
to its store at the corner of Bank<br />
and Clarey. This addition would<br />
-eliminate much of the current<br />
parking lot, leaving only three<br />
spots. Since this is seven parking<br />
spaces short of what a building of<br />
this size would normally require,<br />
the Running Room has applied for<br />
a cash-in-lieu of parking permit.<br />
Some neighbours, however, have<br />
expressed concern about the pro-<br />
posal, given the already congested<br />
nature of that area and existing<br />
problems with illegal parkers.<br />
The GCA will discuss this project<br />
and its position on the cash-in-<br />
lieu at its Sept. 24 meeting.<br />
Please come out if you are inter-<br />
ested in contributing to the dis-<br />
cussion.<br />
NOISE AT LANSDOWNE<br />
The GCA has received com-<br />
plaints about noise at Lansdowne<br />
during and after the Renegade<br />
games. One particular annoyance<br />
has been the helicopter that flies<br />
over the stadium at every game.<br />
GCA reps have been in touch with<br />
the councillor's office and Trans-<br />
port Canada to try to resolve<br />
ADDMON<br />
BANK STREET ELEVATION<br />
Drawing courtesy of the Running Room<br />
Proposed changes to the Running Room at 901 Bank Street.<br />
Zoning and noise are ongoing<br />
issues in the neighbourhood<br />
these issues and we are hopeful<br />
that some resolution will be<br />
forthcoming.<br />
222 STRATHCONA<br />
You may recall GCA's request<br />
that the committee of adjustment<br />
defer its hearing on this property<br />
to permit community consulta-<br />
tion. The 222 Strathcona project<br />
involves the conversion of the<br />
former Ontario Upholstery<br />
building into a residence with<br />
retail/commercial on the ground<br />
floor. The controversial part of<br />
the proposal was a small fourth<br />
storey addition and roof garden.<br />
In the end, the hearing was de-<br />
ferred and a community meeting<br />
was held. The project has now<br />
been approved with some revi-<br />
sions suggested as a result of<br />
community input.<br />
MONTHLY MEETINGS<br />
The GCA meets on the fourth<br />
Tuesday of every month at 7:30 in<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre. If<br />
you would like to put something<br />
on the agenda, please call the<br />
president, Anne Scotton, at 231-<br />
2778 or contact us electronically<br />
at gca@theglebeonline.com.<br />
Next meeting: Tues. Sept.<br />
24. School trustee Lynn Graham<br />
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9 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong><br />
City councillor's report<br />
'There is no sea wind in Upper Canada<br />
No westerlies<br />
that scrape<br />
across the land<br />
REAL ESTATE LTD.<br />
curling interminably<br />
against the shore.<br />
No westerlies<br />
that wrap the sky<br />
and the ground<br />
in a single bound;<br />
that declare the seasons<br />
before the sun.<br />
Dear <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> readers,<br />
Carol Shields says summer in<br />
Canada is a dispensation. I think<br />
it's a dispensation because we get<br />
a different to-do list, most of it<br />
much more enjoyable-gardening,<br />
fixing the porch, playing summer<br />
sports. Unfortunately, the sum-<br />
mer's over and our real to-do list<br />
is back in force.<br />
My to-do list for Capital Ward<br />
includes ensuring the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Community Centre has funding<br />
for the renovation, that's the first<br />
priority, but there is a whole raft<br />
of community facilities that are<br />
in need of renovations.<br />
There's the Heron Park field-<br />
house that needs to be retro-<br />
fitted and outfitted with a bocce<br />
facility for the retired commu-<br />
nity there so that they can get out<br />
in the wintertime and maintain<br />
their activity level. There's the<br />
desperately needed renovations to<br />
the Old Firehall in Ottawa South<br />
and Old Town Hall in Ottawa East.<br />
There's the upgrading of the Lees<br />
Avenue soccer field, the greening<br />
of Landsdowne Park, moving for-<br />
ward on the recommendations of<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> traffic plan, and then<br />
there's 88 Bellwood hanging in<br />
the wings (formerly St. Margaret<br />
Mary's School).<br />
All these projects are related<br />
to the funding crisis that we have<br />
in the people services department<br />
at the city. You often hear me talk<br />
about roads and the cost of infra-<br />
structure, usually in contrast to<br />
public transit, but think about<br />
this-the Laurier Bridge needed<br />
$20 million for its repair (and it<br />
was needed) and we are spending<br />
$150 million in Kanata on wid-<br />
ening the 417 and Terry Fox<br />
Drive. Meanwhile, in the entire<br />
people services budget, out of<br />
which would come all of the com-<br />
munity projects listed above,<br />
there is only $20 million budg-<br />
eted annually for the entire city.<br />
And it will decrease under the<br />
budget directions by another five<br />
per cent in 2003.<br />
The problem is that just as<br />
bridges need to be renewed and<br />
rebuilt, so does community infra-<br />
structure. And this isn't hap-<br />
pening. Our people services<br />
budget hasn't kept pace with in-<br />
flation or growth, that's the rea-<br />
son you've seen very little change<br />
except for decay in all of the<br />
corrununity buildings in Capital<br />
Ward in the last decade. Again<br />
this year budget directions call<br />
for a decrease in conununity<br />
spending. There's an old saw<br />
which makes sense to me - "you<br />
pay for what you get."<br />
Quality of life is clearly re-<br />
lated to how much money we<br />
By<br />
Councillor<br />
Clive<br />
Doucet<br />
spend on our schools and com-<br />
munity services; to how much<br />
money we spend on our arts and<br />
heritage sector; to how much<br />
money we spend on transit.<br />
Ontario is now out-ranked by<br />
48 American states in per capita<br />
spending on education. In arts<br />
and heritage, the city spends $3.7<br />
million. The city of Calgary,<br />
smaller than Ottawa, spends $5.7<br />
million, Vancouver $6.5 million,<br />
Montreal $11.6 million. We are at<br />
the bottom of the big city barrel.<br />
In public transit, we do not have a<br />
single environmental assessment<br />
under way for expanding our<br />
transit network. We have 10 for<br />
roads.<br />
Sooner or later we will have to<br />
start keeping our budget in line<br />
with population and inflation<br />
growth. It's just a question of<br />
when. If not, we will have to con-<br />
tinue to accept a steady erosion of<br />
many of the community facilities<br />
and services which create a qual-<br />
ity of life for all.<br />
Cities need to develop patterns<br />
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contribute to local and national<br />
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they need to make different deci-<br />
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It comes down to priorities and<br />
what we think is important. Kyoto<br />
starts at home. Sustainable com-<br />
munities need sustainable budg-<br />
ets. We create sustainable envi-<br />
ronments, not because they're<br />
prettier, but because in the long<br />
term they make economic sense.<br />
Communities that work cost less<br />
and deliver more.<br />
COFFEE WITH CLIVE OCT. 4<br />
We are in the process of devel-<br />
oping a Capital Ward Business<br />
Group to support sustainable city<br />
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volved, please call my office. You<br />
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place the first Friday of every<br />
month from 10 to 11 a.m. at<br />
Timothy's in the <strong>Glebe</strong> (Bank and<br />
Fifth Ave.).<br />
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1 1 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong><br />
St. James Tennis Club<br />
Matt Scoppa prevails at<br />
tense tennis finals<br />
BY JOHN WINS-PURDY AND<br />
FRANCISCO ALVAREZ<br />
It is that time of the year<br />
again. The St. James Tennis Club<br />
championships are finally upon<br />
us. For all players this tourna-<br />
ment is a display of their abili-<br />
ties that have progressed<br />
throughout the tennis season. Al 1<br />
categories are represented: men's<br />
doubles, mixed doubles, ladies<br />
doubles and ladies singles, but<br />
the main category that sent a buzz<br />
through the club was the men's<br />
singles.<br />
The main draw included 24<br />
competitors eager to play fun yet<br />
competitive matches. This year<br />
also marked the first tournament<br />
appearance of Matthew Scoppa,<br />
the Australian head pro and man-<br />
ager at the St. James Tennis Club.<br />
After two long weeks of hard,<br />
competitive tennis, the tourna-<br />
ment boiled down to the champi-<br />
onship game which found Matt<br />
Scoppa pitted against the de-<br />
fending champion, Marinus Wins.<br />
As the match unfolded in front<br />
of about 40 spectators, the audi-<br />
ence was exposed to an array of<br />
shot selection, ball control and<br />
technical wizardry.<br />
The first set went to a tie-<br />
breaker which developed into a 3-<br />
3 tie. Matt then took control, ex-<br />
hibiting his youthful strength<br />
and specialty shots to win the<br />
tie-breaker 7-4.<br />
This seemed to give Matt a<br />
boost of confidence as he took an<br />
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St. James pro Matt Scoppa<br />
early 3-0 lead in the second set.<br />
However, the wily veteran,<br />
Marinus Wins, valiantly fought<br />
back to even the score at 3-3.<br />
Tension grew and nerves were felt<br />
as the match went on. The come-<br />
back by Marinus, however, would<br />
not discourage Matt. He regained<br />
control, claiming the set 6-3 and<br />
won the close and highly enter-<br />
taining match 7-6, (7-4), 6-3. The<br />
vast experience and age-old<br />
tricks of Marinus were not enough<br />
to push the prevailing Matt<br />
Scoppa under.<br />
It ended with a friendly hand-<br />
shake and a sharing of compli-<br />
ments from both participants.<br />
Congratulations to Man Scoppa<br />
and Marinus Wins on a hard-<br />
fought battle.<br />
Francisco Alvarez<br />
Fostering a love of tennis<br />
Francisco Alvarez, the court<br />
manager at St. James Tennis Club,<br />
is combining his love of tennis<br />
with a bit of international devel-<br />
opment<br />
He is collecting new and used<br />
tennis equipment to be sent to<br />
children in Zimbabwe.<br />
The project is his independent<br />
study component of the OA gym<br />
class Francisco is taking at <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Collegiate.<br />
Through a contact at the Com-<br />
monwealth Games Association,<br />
Francisco, 18, has corresponded<br />
with Patrick, a 19-year-old in<br />
Zimbabwe.<br />
"It struck a note with me,"<br />
says Francisco. "Patrick is sort of<br />
the same as me he's in a teach-<br />
ing course and wants to start his<br />
Shooting Stars girls basketball<br />
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ball season on 'Thurs. Sept. 19<br />
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Glashan<br />
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(Glashan Public School is located<br />
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The Stars are a competitive<br />
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"I love tennis too," says Fran-<br />
cisco. "This year I've been giving<br />
lessons and been a trainer at the<br />
club."<br />
He explains his hopes for the<br />
project. He is asking people who<br />
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him and arrange to drop it at a<br />
collection point.<br />
The Commonwealth Games As -<br />
sociation will take it from there.<br />
The young coach from the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> is obviously pleased to be<br />
reaching out to the young coach in<br />
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To donate equipment, call<br />
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The Stars also have a minor<br />
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There is also a bantam competi-<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> Questions<br />
Kwaheri, Rafiki!<br />
Unless some good-hearted dog<br />
lover arranges it, there will not<br />
be a birthday party for Jack Rus-<br />
sell terriers in Brown's Inlet this<br />
November. Rafiki did not quite<br />
make it to his 16th birthday. Dr.<br />
Hussein Fattah, the most humane<br />
of veterinarians, came to our<br />
house on August 16, while Rafi<br />
was resting on his cushion; and i t<br />
was all over within a minute.<br />
The next day, I cycled over to<br />
the Arboretum, where a Russian<br />
black mountain ash was planted<br />
for Rafiki in 1998, and I hung his<br />
collar and his medals (tags, if you<br />
like) high up on the little tree. It<br />
was my modern equivalent of<br />
placing a sword and shield upon a<br />
knight's tomb.<br />
We all get quite weepy about<br />
our dogs, don't we? But, as read-<br />
ers of this column must know,<br />
Rafiki was a pretty special com-<br />
panion. He may not have started<br />
that way, the offspring of Ringo<br />
and Jane down in Oxford Mills,<br />
and given at birth the name of<br />
Bandit. His mother was appar-<br />
ently a champion steeplechaser,<br />
but he soon turned his back on<br />
that nonsense when he got his<br />
proper name, which is the Swahili<br />
for "friend." He set out to be just<br />
that, many times over.<br />
He didn't waste time learning<br />
tricks, like catching Frisbees,<br />
and he scorned the thought of<br />
running after tennis balls; which<br />
is why Speedo, trained to retrieve<br />
them usually won the races at the<br />
birthday party. He ran after<br />
By<br />
Clyde<br />
Sanger<br />
squirrels, but only with the idea<br />
of giving the stouter, nut-filled<br />
creatures some exercise.<br />
He saved his courage for the<br />
hazards of cottage life in the<br />
Georgian Bay. Courage? Sometimes<br />
recklessness, as when he kept at<br />
bay a black bear that had come<br />
scavenging, and when he bur-<br />
rowed under a dock after a rattle-<br />
snake.<br />
Swimming was his delight. As<br />
we plunged in for the morning<br />
skinny, he would bark a warning<br />
from the end of the dock and then<br />
fling himself in and catch us up,<br />
to see we came to no harm on the<br />
farther shore. He was once left<br />
behind as the family headed for a<br />
picnic on the reefs a mile away<br />
beyond several islands. An hour<br />
later, he had found his way to the<br />
campfire, swimming all the way.<br />
He took command on canoe<br />
trips, standing four-square in the<br />
bows, and he enjoyed sailboats,<br />
too. Once, though, he leapt from<br />
our Laser to join a nearby<br />
kayaker and all but drowned.<br />
There was a happy outcome, as<br />
our son Daniel depicted in a<br />
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Rafiki drying off after a swim<br />
cheerful painting that hangs in<br />
the kitchen.<br />
The Arboretum was his other<br />
joy: lots of good companions of all<br />
sizes to meet and sniff around,<br />
and that wonderful slope down to<br />
the Carleton Locks to stretch the<br />
thighs. In his last months that<br />
slope was the place where the<br />
spark of his spirit shone, and a<br />
dutiful plod became a gallop.<br />
With Rafiki gone, we are free<br />
to leave the front door open to the<br />
street, the garden gate unlatched.<br />
We are free of those evening<br />
wallcs, which slowed with age. We<br />
are free of those puddles, discov-<br />
ered in the passageway on recent<br />
mornings.<br />
But these are empty freedoms.<br />
He is missed in many ways and<br />
many places. At first, he was with<br />
us in memory everywhere - the<br />
toast and marmalade no longer<br />
shared at breakfast; the cracked<br />
porridge bowl out of which he<br />
slurped water in the bathroom;<br />
the sheets on our bed he used to<br />
Photo: Penny Sanger<br />
slip between on winter nights; his<br />
cushion in the centre of the sit-<br />
ting room - for he was a pivot<br />
around which the household so<br />
often revolved.<br />
Memories are bound to fade,<br />
and the verses written by poets<br />
like Byron and Robert Southey to<br />
their faithful but short-lived<br />
companions are mostly maudlin<br />
in their sentimentality. Only<br />
Kipling avoided the overblown<br />
eulogy. He wrote the simple<br />
warning: " Brothers and sisters, I<br />
bid you beware/ Of giving your<br />
heart to a dog to tear."<br />
But Rafiki, having swum his<br />
way across the River Styx (no<br />
need of Charon and his ferry<br />
boat!) and standing there barking<br />
back at us from the other shore,<br />
does deserve his special verse. So<br />
let me borrow a line from Virgil:<br />
"Tendebantque manus, ripae ulte-<br />
rioris amore." Or, to put it more<br />
directly in his own Swahili: Kwa-<br />
heri, Rafiki.<br />
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BUSINESS NEWS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 1 4<br />
Business matters in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
BY BRUCE DONALDSON<br />
2 BUSINESSES ON BANK ST.<br />
CLOSE<br />
There were many days when<br />
this old scribbler looked up and<br />
down Bank Street to see relatively<br />
few people out shopping compared<br />
to other years. If true, it would<br />
follow that business would be di-<br />
minished accordingly. However<br />
such has not been the case. Most<br />
of the <strong>Glebe</strong> stores along Bank<br />
Street report that they have had a<br />
very successful first six months<br />
and are looking forward to good<br />
returns for the balance of the<br />
year!<br />
This good news is tempered by<br />
sadness that two businesses of<br />
long standing have decided to<br />
terminate their operations in the<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Kamal has operated a restau-<br />
rant in the <strong>Glebe</strong> for many years.<br />
He has set a high standard of<br />
service and was always friendly,<br />
helpful and generous. Despite<br />
his problems, he always went the<br />
extra mile to please his clients.<br />
Eleven years ago a fire destroyed<br />
his restaurant at Bank and Third<br />
that he subsequently replaced on<br />
the second floor of a new building<br />
located on the same site as his<br />
original restaurant. He tells nr<br />
that this has not been profitable.<br />
Kamal is operating from his<br />
other location on Elgin Street<br />
next to Dunn's to provide the very<br />
popular falafels considered by<br />
some to be the best in the world.<br />
It is worth a visit to his current<br />
premises to have one of his tasty<br />
falafels.<br />
The other business to be ter-<br />
minated by its owner is True<br />
South. Bernice- Borden and her<br />
husband Enrique have operated a<br />
very attractive gift shop for <strong>13</strong><br />
years selling clothes and other<br />
products from Asia and South<br />
America. It was always inter-<br />
esting to talk to them after their<br />
return from some exotic location<br />
on a buying trip. It was even<br />
more interesting to see the imagi-<br />
native way that Bernice would<br />
display the new products in her<br />
store window.<br />
I understand that they will be<br />
keeping their living accommoda-<br />
tion in Ottawa for the foreseeable<br />
future and we hope that circum-<br />
stances will permit them to come<br />
back to the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
THORNE & COMPANY<br />
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ber, it is time to think about<br />
planting bulbs to welcome the<br />
spring. Because of their popu-<br />
larity and their beauty Linda<br />
'Thorne of Thorne & Co. has in-<br />
creased the size of her long-<br />
stemmed bulb order this year and<br />
is expecting them soon. All her<br />
tulips will be the long-sternmed<br />
ones so that they can be planted<br />
at a depth that is out of the reach<br />
of the pesky squirrels. It worked<br />
for me and the squirrels were<br />
crying. The long-stemmed tulips<br />
have a depth of colour that their<br />
shorter cousins can't match and<br />
they may even last longer.<br />
GLEBE BUSINESS GROUP<br />
At the end of June the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Business Group (GBG) met in the<br />
attractive Kamal restaurant. The<br />
meeting was chaired by Liam<br />
McGahern, who won the job about<br />
a year ago.<br />
A prime concern is our limited<br />
Custom Designed Additions and<br />
Major Renovations that respect the<br />
Craftsmanship and Architectural<br />
style of your home.<br />
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representation at City Hall<br />
pared to what we had before<br />
gamation. Our councillor, Clive<br />
Doucet, is doing an excellent job<br />
on the council, but he has such a<br />
large area to cover and so many<br />
issues to put forward to the city,<br />
it is unreasonable to expect him<br />
to provide us with the same attention<br />
as before.<br />
Therefore it is up to the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Business Group to find ways of<br />
helping our councillor represent<br />
us. To this end representatives<br />
corn- were<br />
amal- area<br />
named to cover the business<br />
geographically and identify<br />
problems that require attention.<br />
While establishing a Business<br />
Improvement Area could be one<br />
approach, the feeling of the<br />
meeting was that we are not quite<br />
ready for that.<br />
A continuing issue is parking.<br />
The city has not yet recognized<br />
our parking problem sufficiently<br />
to take any action. Thus the GBG<br />
is prepared to consider a plan<br />
(should one be presented) to de-<br />
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velop a parking building behind<br />
Loeb's.<br />
Other meetings are expected to<br />
follow.<br />
YAGHI'S<br />
It is expected that sometime in<br />
<strong>September</strong> the current owner of<br />
Yaghi's, Liu Yixian, will be re-<br />
placed by Mr. Ling Qin. The store<br />
has not changed much in the last<br />
25 years other than it is much<br />
cleaner and tidier than when the<br />
original owner was there.<br />
The store has a heritage in that<br />
it unintentionally has been part<br />
of the education process of chil-<br />
dren in the nearby schools. In<br />
the late 1960s and '70s, Mr. Yaghi<br />
had to put up with a lot from<br />
children who considered it a<br />
challenge to try to get something<br />
for free. He, on the other hand,<br />
provided a barrier, so to speak,<br />
that the students could either try<br />
to leap over or negotiate around.<br />
Though the former was almost im-<br />
possible, many tried unsuccess-<br />
fully. They learned in the proc-<br />
ess (at least many of them did)<br />
that negotiation took longer, but<br />
could be successful if emotions<br />
were kept in check.<br />
Mr. Yaghi was an interesting<br />
experience for the <strong>Glebe</strong> kids who<br />
tried to optimize their allowance.<br />
I know because my children all<br />
went through the process.<br />
FIFTH AVENUE GROCERY<br />
On Fifth Avenue, near Bron-<br />
son, is the Fifth Ave. Grocery that<br />
has been serving the neighbour-<br />
hood for 26 years continues to<br />
flourish. Mr. and Mrs. Monsour,<br />
the owners, live in the same<br />
building as the store and provide<br />
a warm and friendly welcome for<br />
customers that makes one want to<br />
come back. They are mentioned<br />
here because this convenience<br />
store seems to have a stable client<br />
base that will maintain the op-<br />
eration unlike so many others<br />
that have had to fold.<br />
There are only a few small<br />
corner stores left in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
two on Fifth, and one at O'Connor<br />
and Third.<br />
RUNNING ROOM 901 BANK<br />
The Running Room has an ap-<br />
plication to the city to allow a<br />
282.5 square metre two-storey<br />
building extension on their prop-<br />
erty where the parking lot is now.<br />
It is interesting to note that a<br />
little more than a year ago this<br />
column described their operation<br />
coincidental with their purchase<br />
of and move into the Boko build-<br />
ing.<br />
Since then, the company has<br />
grown from 40 stores across Can-<br />
ada to 52, of which two are in the<br />
U.S. Mr. John Stanton owns the<br />
company and has no plans at the<br />
present to go public. The head-<br />
quarters are in Edmonton. Not<br />
only is the company a remarkable<br />
example of an integrated growth<br />
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Nancy and David Van Leeuwen<br />
are hustling to open their new<br />
store, Personal Concepts, before<br />
the middle of <strong>September</strong>. They<br />
have completely remodeled the<br />
space previously occupied by<br />
Teruko to make it a very attrac-<br />
tive gift display area.<br />
Their business is to provide<br />
gifts for special occasions that<br />
are unique in that they fit the<br />
occasion or the person who will<br />
be receiving the gift. As it was<br />
explained to me, a gift may be<br />
purchased in the store, for exam-<br />
ple, and a message or drawing<br />
added by engraving to make it<br />
personal and a perfect fit for the<br />
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The business that they propose<br />
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tary fit with the existing busi-<br />
nesses in our area.<br />
David is related to the Van<br />
Leeuwen family who owned a<br />
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17 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> NEWS<br />
Alexander Way awarded Pearson College scholarship<br />
BY LYNDA RIVINGTON<br />
For 17-year-old Alexander<br />
Way, going back to school this<br />
fall meant embarking on a totally<br />
new learning experience.<br />
Normally, he would be in<br />
Grade 12 at Lisgar. However, Al-<br />
exander was recently awarded a<br />
full two-year scholarship valued<br />
at $55,000 to the Lester B. Pear-<br />
son College of the Pacific on Van-<br />
couver Island where he is now<br />
studying for his International<br />
Baccalaureate (LB) Diploma.<br />
One of 10 United World Col-<br />
leges located on five continents,<br />
Pearson College offers a unique<br />
program for students at the Grade<br />
12 and first year university lev-<br />
els. These colleges share an edu-<br />
cational program, whi,ch promotes<br />
the values of respect, under-<br />
standing and peace.<br />
Established in 1974 in honour<br />
of former Prime Minister and No-<br />
bel Peace Prize winner Lester B.<br />
Pearson, Pearson College is lo-<br />
cated on Pedder Bay west of Vic-<br />
toria in an old growth rainforest.<br />
It honours Pearson's vision of<br />
uniting people in friendship and<br />
service in order to build peace<br />
through human understanding<br />
and strives to build a world that<br />
celebrates diversity.<br />
Each year, 200 students from<br />
every Canadian province and ter-<br />
ritory as well as 80 countries at-<br />
tend the college. One hundred<br />
new students are competitively<br />
selected annually for full schol-<br />
arship, 25 from Canada and 75<br />
from other countries. Alexander<br />
was one of only three Ontario<br />
students out of 70 who initially<br />
applied from the province who<br />
made the final cut.<br />
Stiff selection criteria focuses<br />
on academic excellence, leader-<br />
ship qualities and skills, commu-<br />
nity service and a well-rounded<br />
nature. A demonstrated interest<br />
in global and community issues is<br />
a "must."<br />
Alexander was initially at-<br />
tracted to Pearson College be-<br />
cause it offered learning on two<br />
levels - academic and community<br />
involvement. The college's goals<br />
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Alexander Way is studying at Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific.<br />
also cater to his own personal<br />
interests in learning about other<br />
cultures. He discovered that<br />
Pearson shares similar goals with<br />
the Children International Sum-<br />
mer Villages (CISV) program with<br />
which he been actively involved<br />
for several years.<br />
Through CISV, Alexander has<br />
experienced living in different<br />
countries and learning about<br />
other cultures. He spent three<br />
summers living with families in<br />
France and Austria and last year<br />
worked as a junior CISV counsel-<br />
lor for 11-year-olds overseeing a<br />
variety of community involvement<br />
and charity activities. He en-<br />
joyed this experience because "we<br />
educated ourselves while helping<br />
communities with their issues."<br />
"I feel that CISV prepared me<br />
for the courses offered at Pear-<br />
son. I expect to be very comfort-<br />
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able with Pearson because of my<br />
experience with CISV. In addi-<br />
tion, Pearson will help prepare<br />
me for university. The college's<br />
focus on international develop-<br />
ment particularly appeals to me.<br />
Some of the kids going to Pearson<br />
really amaze me!"<br />
Alexander's other interests<br />
have also contributed to making<br />
him a well-rounded person. Fol-<br />
lowing pre-school playgroup at<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre, A I-<br />
exander was in French immersion<br />
at First Avenue and Hopewell and<br />
attended Lisgar for high school.<br />
He played trumpet in the Hopew-<br />
ell and Lisgar bands and cello in<br />
the Lisgar orchestra.<br />
Athletics have always been a<br />
big part of his life. He played<br />
hockey with the Ottawa Centre<br />
Minor Hockey Association, base-<br />
ball for <strong>Glebe</strong> Little League and<br />
competitive soccer with the Ot-<br />
tawa Internationals and Ottawa<br />
United associations. In addition,<br />
he was on Lisgar's junior boys<br />
cross-country ski team, which<br />
won the 2000-01 provincial high<br />
school championship. He was also<br />
a hockey and soccer referee and<br />
worked part time as a fishmonger<br />
at the Pelican Fishery.<br />
Alexander's academic studies<br />
at Pearson will include languages,<br />
individuals and societies, inter-<br />
national affairs, experimental<br />
sciences, mathematics, fine arts<br />
and a required theory of knowl-<br />
edge course. In addition, he will<br />
participate in a challenging pro-<br />
gram of creativity, action and<br />
service, all of which will prepare<br />
him for university.<br />
It is worth noting that Pearson<br />
graduates receive three univer-<br />
sity credits and many gain ad-<br />
vanced placement in North<br />
American universities.<br />
In today's major business and<br />
diplomatic centres, there is a de-<br />
mand for international educa-<br />
tional institutions, which will<br />
help people adjust to unusual en-<br />
vironments and prepare them for<br />
further education at home. Alex-<br />
ander's two years at Pearson Col-<br />
lege will certainly prepare him<br />
for this world.<br />
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a student who may be interested,<br />
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Alexander's Fourth Avenue<br />
home is somewhat quiet these<br />
days. He's in B.C., older sister<br />
Erin is at Queen's, leaving<br />
younger _brother and Canterbury<br />
student, Kielan, at home with<br />
parents Dan Way and Rosemary<br />
Cairns Way. However, Alexander<br />
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TRAVEL <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 1 8<br />
San Antonio the Alamo and much, much more<br />
BY MARGARET NEGODAEFF<br />
"Remember the Alamo!" These<br />
words are imprinted on the minds<br />
of all American students and eve-<br />
ryone who has seen John Wayne<br />
play Davy Crockett in the Holly-<br />
wood flick about the most famous<br />
battle in Texas.<br />
The silver screen version<br />
shows the Alamo as a single mis-<br />
sion building in the middle of<br />
some sort of Texas desert. In fact,<br />
the Alamo was a community-cum-<br />
fort surrounding Mission San<br />
Antonio de Valero, which spread<br />
"civilization" to the surrounding<br />
Indian population. The historic<br />
battle took place in 1836, when<br />
189 defenders, including Crock-<br />
ett, Bowie (of Bowie knife fame)<br />
and Col. Travis fought Mexican<br />
General Santa Anna for the right<br />
to self-rule. All 189 died, but the,<br />
battle sparked a major push that<br />
ended in victory for Texas.<br />
The mission chapel and the<br />
long barrack are all that remain,<br />
but the city has created a fasci-<br />
nating museum and great gift,<br />
shop. No admission required, but<br />
donations are gratefully accepted.<br />
STROLLIN' DOWN THE RIVER<br />
San Antonio is best known for<br />
its delightful Riverwalk, a unique<br />
blend of serene gardens, hotels,<br />
shops and eateries galore. The<br />
Riverwalk will delight the most<br />
jaded traveler with quiet spots to<br />
dream, restaurant and tour boats<br />
that ply the river day and night,<br />
and great music clubs where you<br />
can suck on a yummy prickly<br />
pear margarita or a Lone Star<br />
beer. Riverwalk food runs the<br />
gamut from authentic Mexican to<br />
Good 01' Texan barbecued ribs.<br />
Many of the hotels border or<br />
overlook the Riverwalk. We stayed<br />
at the Marriott Riverview. I've<br />
been in a lot of hotels on my trav-<br />
els, and all I can say is this one<br />
was simply flawless.<br />
The Riverwalk and neighbour-<br />
ing Market Square - the largest<br />
outdoor Medcan market outside<br />
Mexico - host fiestas throughout<br />
the year, so be prepared to kick<br />
up your heels and join the fun!<br />
ART, ART EVERYWHERE<br />
San Antonio prides itself on<br />
being the cultural showcase of<br />
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neighbourhood of boutiques, gal-<br />
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as the meticulously preserved<br />
homes of 19th century German<br />
families. Fans of contemporary<br />
art may enjoy the Blue Star Arts<br />
Complex and Art Pace, a founda-<br />
tion that offers emerging artists<br />
from around the world a resi-<br />
dence program to create and ex-<br />
hibit their work.<br />
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts<br />
Center has been designed to pre-<br />
serve and cultivate the region's<br />
Chicano, Latino and Native<br />
American heritage through dance,<br />
literature, media, theatre and<br />
visual arts, and Chicano music.<br />
GARDENS OLD AND NEW<br />
The San Antonio Botanical<br />
Garden was my hands-down win-<br />
ner for pure sensory pleasure.<br />
Apart from formal and display<br />
areas, including a Garden for the<br />
Blind and the Kumamoto En Japa-<br />
nese garden, you can literally<br />
take a walk across Texas by ex-<br />
ploring the Native Areas. Exten-<br />
sive collections, including origi-<br />
nal settlers' homes, represent the<br />
three distinct areas of Texas - the<br />
Hill Country, with stately live<br />
oaks, mountain laurel, the famed<br />
bluebonnets and red salvia, East<br />
Texas, with magnolia, sassafras<br />
and sweetgum, and Southwest<br />
Texas featuring mesquite, cenizo,<br />
ebony and the sabal palm.<br />
An interesting feature is a<br />
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so they may gain both an appre-<br />
ciation of nature, and supplement<br />
their families' food stores with<br />
their very own produce. The gar-<br />
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open daily, year round.<br />
Alas, no more room for beau-<br />
tiful San Antonio in this column,<br />
but for much more info., call toll<br />
free at 1-800-447-3372 or look<br />
them up on the Web at<br />
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ACROSS THE SEA<br />
Two tidbits here - first,<br />
Northern Ireland's National Trust<br />
has launched a new Web site<br />
where you can hire a room at a<br />
historic mansion, book a cottage,<br />
organize a day at a country fair or<br />
research little-known facts about<br />
famous visitor attractions. Find<br />
them at www.ntni.org.uk.<br />
Second, a new walking trail<br />
from the medieval quarter of Lim-<br />
erick City covers more than 1,000<br />
years of history. The walking<br />
guide is available free from<br />
tourist information offices and<br />
other outlets.<br />
Across another ocean, Quest<br />
Nature Tours is offering all-<br />
inclusive cruise expeditions to<br />
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tinent's summer months. Tours<br />
run November 19-December 2 and<br />
January 15-28. Call organizers at<br />
1-800-387-1483 or<br />
travel@worldwidequest.com and<br />
say hi to the penguins for me.<br />
In warmer climes, Hawaii's Big<br />
Island presents Puuhonua o Ha-<br />
naunau (no, I can't pronounce it)<br />
National Park, which preserves<br />
the area where kapu (tabu)-<br />
breakers could seek refuge. The<br />
park spans 180 acres of idyllic<br />
oceanfront land and is the last<br />
remaining example of an ancient<br />
sanctuary in the Hawaiian Is-<br />
lands. A place to go if Waikiki<br />
proves too much for your gentle<br />
Canadian soul.<br />
CLOSER TO HOME<br />
The Shaw Festival in Niagara-<br />
on-the-Lake is presenting<br />
Chaplin (The Trial of Charles<br />
Spencer Chaplin Esq.) from Aug.<br />
17 to Oct. 6. First presented as an<br />
Academy workshop in 2000, the<br />
play astounded the audience by<br />
delving into Chaplin's private life<br />
as he struggled with the psycho-<br />
logical tension between his two<br />
characters - the Jewish barber vs.<br />
the German dictator - during pro-<br />
duction of his first "talkie."<br />
Might well be worth a trip.<br />
That's it for now. Hope you had<br />
a wonderful summer!<br />
Margaret Negodaeff is a local<br />
business and travel writer.<br />
860 BANK ST.<br />
(Just south of Fifth Ave)<br />
231-6331
19 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> FEATURE<br />
D BY BEVERLEY RIX<br />
o you like crêpes?"<br />
Sharon Drache asks as<br />
she tries to persuade<br />
me to stay to dinner. "Look at<br />
this," she says, flourishing what<br />
looks like half of a small castiron<br />
wrecking ball set on stubby<br />
legs. "This is how I make crêpes.<br />
You pour the batter on the top of<br />
the pan, and set it on its legs on<br />
the heat. The crêpe cooks in no<br />
time. Then you peel it off and do<br />
it again. It's easy really fast. I<br />
made 500 of them for my parents'<br />
60th wedding anniversary over<br />
two days, of course."<br />
This is her definition of<br />
easy? Five hundred crêpes in two<br />
days? This woman could teach<br />
Martha Stewart a thing or two.<br />
The crêpe pan is important<br />
in Sharon's life, because it was<br />
her grandmother's. It ties the<br />
nurture, hospitality and generosity<br />
of her domesticity inseparably<br />
to her Judaic faith, with its<br />
stress on tradition, on being an<br />
individual within a larger accepting<br />
group. Ironically, however,<br />
it was her religion that took<br />
her away from a strictly domestic<br />
role into a writing life.<br />
Sharon explains: "I had a degree<br />
in psychology, but wanted<br />
something more than to be a stayat-home<br />
mom. I was very involved<br />
in my orthodox faith, so I went to<br />
Carleton and completed all the<br />
course work for a masters in religion.<br />
One of my advisers told me<br />
that my essays were very good,<br />
but they all sounded like fiction.<br />
And that's what got me started<br />
thinking about writing fiction."<br />
She started with children's<br />
stories. Her goal was to write<br />
contemporary Jewish stories that<br />
would appeal to her children, stories<br />
set in Ottawa, not in New<br />
York or Israel. The result was a<br />
first story in which a group of<br />
Hasidim come to Ottawa.<br />
Since that time, Sharon's accomplishments<br />
have been many.<br />
She has published a novel, Ritual<br />
Slaughter, and two books of short<br />
stories, The Mikveh Man and<br />
Other Stories, and The Golden<br />
Ghetto. Her stories, both for children<br />
and adults, have appeared in<br />
several anthologies. She has<br />
written countless book reviews<br />
for many publications, including<br />
The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa<br />
Citizen, The Jerusalem Post, The<br />
Toronto Star, Books in Canada as<br />
well as .the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>. She is a<br />
member of PEN and has been a<br />
writer in residence at the Port<br />
Hope Public Library. She has<br />
served on the national executive<br />
of The Writers Union of Canada,<br />
Sharon Drache: a quirky and passionate life<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Online<br />
A Carurtecte.d/Cowverukvtity<br />
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and, in 1998, won the Charlotte<br />
Whitton Award for Arts and<br />
Culture.<br />
Now Sharon has finished a<br />
new collection of short stories<br />
and a new novel, A Guest in My<br />
House, which has both a Canadian<br />
backdrop and the legendary fig-<br />
ure of the wandering Jew. Like<br />
countless other authors, she is<br />
worried about her chances in the<br />
present mess that is Canadian<br />
publishing.<br />
Her difficulties are all the<br />
more paradmdcal, since she has<br />
had support from very influential<br />
figures in the publishing world,<br />
including Jack McClelland, who<br />
was her agent after he retired<br />
from McClelland and Stewart.<br />
"Having Jack McClelland as my<br />
agent was the high point of my<br />
writing life. It was so exciting to<br />
have that support. He gave me en-<br />
couragement at a time when I<br />
needed it, and if it had been a few<br />
years earlier, I would have been<br />
published by McClelland and<br />
Stewart, without doubt"<br />
Although the state of pub-<br />
lishing in Canada is cause for<br />
discouragement, Sharon has de-<br />
cided that she will never s el f-<br />
publish her adult fiction. How-<br />
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ever, the children's stories are<br />
another matter. She and Ellen<br />
Schowalter are now collaborating<br />
to publish The Magic Pot as a<br />
children's book. "We published it<br />
originally in the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> and<br />
we always thought it had a fabu-<br />
lous potential. I have re-written<br />
it, and Ellen will do the illustra-<br />
tions." They hope to sell the book<br />
at a competitive price in their two<br />
niche markets, the Jewish com-<br />
munity and the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Although The Magic Pot is<br />
not a <strong>Glebe</strong> story, it is a story for<br />
our time. As Sharon says, "It's<br />
about accepting age, grandmoth-<br />
ers who are older, who are ugly<br />
and sick. It's about surviving and<br />
transforming. It's about what's on<br />
the inside, not on the outside. It's<br />
about being generous and giving.<br />
The girl in the story just happens<br />
to be Jewish. After someone criti-<br />
cized the story, I tried turning<br />
the text around so that you don't<br />
know that the grandmother is<br />
ugly until the third page. But that<br />
misses the point. I realized that<br />
this is the charm of the story -<br />
there's this ghoul right from the<br />
beginning."<br />
When she is asked to de-<br />
scribe her own writing, she says,<br />
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"My forte is magic realism. I like<br />
to think there is magic in every-<br />
thing. Life is magical.<br />
"My writing is quirky none<br />
of it is normal, even the chil-<br />
dren's stories. And I think that is<br />
quite Jewish, because it's idio-<br />
syncratic. The old story is that if<br />
you get 12 Jews in a room to-<br />
gether and they're all supposed to<br />
agree, you get 12 different opin-<br />
ions. I see this in my synagogue<br />
now."<br />
Sharon belongs to two alter-<br />
native synagogues, neither of<br />
which has its own building or<br />
clergy. "I like both groups very<br />
much, she says. "But I really like<br />
liturgy, so the conservative<br />
egalitarian one is very satisfying,<br />
especially since it appeals to my<br />
feminism, which is stronger than<br />
even I realized.<br />
"My forte is magic realism"<br />
"We always read from the<br />
Old Testament, and then someone<br />
gives a sermon. Everybody has an<br />
opinion about what the person<br />
said, and how he or she said it.<br />
They're not being critical, just<br />
lively, I love it. It's never boring<br />
and you never know what you're<br />
going to get. Everyone's on their<br />
own little planet, and yet there's<br />
this cohesiveness that comes in<br />
recognizing differences. And<br />
that's the great strength for Jews.<br />
"I like that kind of tension. I<br />
can use that in my stories, and I<br />
think Jewish writers work in this<br />
way. The writers I admire, like<br />
Richler, Roth, Singer and the<br />
wonderful Grace Paley all do this.<br />
Writers like them want to be<br />
heard in their own way, yet they<br />
appeal to everybody.<br />
"In any case, I have to say<br />
that what has saved my life in<br />
hard times is my Judaic faith. I<br />
have a whole new family. It's a<br />
structure, something I can be a<br />
part of, but apart from."<br />
Our time together comes full<br />
circle. Of course I stay for din-<br />
ner. The crêpes are delicious -<br />
stuffed with spinach and ricotta,<br />
sprinkled with cheese bubbling<br />
in the pan. There is fresh salad<br />
and fruit, ironed table linen and,<br />
as always, conversation that<br />
qualifies: "It's never boring and<br />
you never know what you're going<br />
to get." Except enlightenment.<br />
And friendship, of course.<br />
Beverley Rix is a former<br />
editor of the <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong>. She<br />
and Sharon Drache were neigh-<br />
bours on Second Avenue where<br />
their children grew up together<br />
and have been friends for many<br />
years.<br />
We are pleased to announce<br />
Dr. Tracey Roehrig<br />
has joined our practice I<br />
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HEALTH<br />
Lace up your shoes for the<br />
Cheerios Mother Daughter Walk<br />
We can all<br />
say that each<br />
and every one<br />
of us has been<br />
touched in<br />
some way by<br />
heart disease<br />
and stro ke.<br />
All of us know<br />
a family mem-<br />
tf,/<br />
HEART<br />
AND STROKE<br />
FOUNDATION<br />
ber, friend or co-worker who has<br />
experienced or been affected by<br />
some form of heart disease.<br />
Did you know that heart dis-<br />
ease is not just a disease that im-<br />
pacts men, but is rather common<br />
for women? Did you know that<br />
"eight times more women die from<br />
heart disease and stroke each<br />
year, than from breast cancer"?<br />
(Heart & Stroke: Heart Smart<br />
Women: A Guide to Heart Disease;<br />
1999 University Health Network).<br />
Both Suzanne Pinel and her<br />
daughter Anne-Marie understand<br />
the importance of a healthy and<br />
balanced lifestyle. Suzanne, this<br />
year's honourary chair, and<br />
BY ANNELIES VAN OERS<br />
Aromatherapy is the ancient<br />
holistic practice of using essen-<br />
tial oils to aid the body, mind and<br />
spirit in its healing journey.<br />
Through the controlled applica-<br />
tion and use of essential oils<br />
through such practices as mas-<br />
sage, steam inhalations, diffus-<br />
ers, spritzers, skin care products<br />
and compresses, the body absorbs<br />
essential oils. Once the oils enter<br />
our body and blood stream they<br />
can be of far-reaching benefit.<br />
The massage I use in my practice<br />
is a full body massage where the<br />
client is always covered with tow-<br />
els for modesty and warmth. The<br />
massage is very gentle and<br />
rhythmic, incorporating both<br />
acupressure points and lymphatic<br />
drainage techniques and lasts<br />
approximately one hour.<br />
WHAT ARE ESSENTIAL OILS?<br />
Essential oils are highly con-<br />
centrated, naturally dis ti 11 ed<br />
botanical extracts. They contain<br />
the life force of the plant and<br />
therefore these dynamic liquids<br />
are powerful and energetic in<br />
nature. Essential oils smell deli-<br />
cious, and when used with care<br />
and knowledge, can provide<br />
healing and restore balance. The<br />
scents as well as the chemical<br />
Anne-Marie will be participating<br />
in this year's Cheerios Mother<br />
Daughter Walk for Heart &<br />
Stroke. All funds raised at this<br />
year's walk are used for women's<br />
research for heart disease and<br />
awareness education.<br />
SUN., SEPT. 22<br />
Whatever your reason, please<br />
take the time to join Suzanne and<br />
her daughter Anne-Marie for the<br />
Cheerios Mother Daughter Walk<br />
for Heart & Stroke on Sun. Sept.<br />
22 at CFRB Dow's Lake at 9:45<br />
a.m. Registration takes place<br />
from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. with<br />
lots of entertainment and a Health<br />
and Wellness Fair as well. Make<br />
it a family outing! Anyone can<br />
participate: family, friends, and<br />
co-workers, young and old, men<br />
or women; all are welcome. Join<br />
in a 2.5 km scenic walk along the<br />
canal or a 5 km fun run through<br />
the Arboretum.<br />
Register on line at<br />
www.heartandstroke.ca or by<br />
phone: 737-0651. Lace up!<br />
What is Aromatherapy?<br />
constitution of the oils make a<br />
vital contribution to its natural<br />
healing properties.<br />
PURITY ISSUES AND TIPS<br />
The sale of essential oils is not<br />
regulated in Canada. I have seen<br />
many oils on the market that are<br />
adulterated with perfume or sim-<br />
ply diluted with a carrier oil.<br />
This allows the company to gain a<br />
bigger profit, as pure essential<br />
oils are expensive and therefore<br />
the profit margin is small. As a<br />
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country (such as England or<br />
Australia) where tight regula-<br />
tions are enforced, or buy from a<br />
company that tests their oils for<br />
purity. Make sure that the testing<br />
is done by organizations that are<br />
not affiliated with the company.<br />
Annelles van Oers RAHP is a<br />
registered aromatherapist<br />
Annelles has been serving Ot-<br />
tawa and the <strong>Glebe</strong> area as a reg-<br />
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HEALTH<br />
How my family came to know<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre<br />
BY RAE MCCARTHY<br />
Most of you know the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Centre by sight the group of<br />
buildings on Bank Street across<br />
from Lansdowne Park. Many peo-<br />
ple confuse it with the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Conununity Centre on Lyon Street,<br />
which serves the community at<br />
large. The <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre also<br />
serves the community, by pro-<br />
viding services and care for our<br />
seniors.<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre is made up of<br />
three buildings; a 12-storey<br />
brick tower; a grey stone heritage<br />
building, Abbotsford House; and<br />
a two-storey extension, Bronson<br />
Place. These three share a com-<br />
mon entrance that opens on Monk<br />
Street.<br />
Part of Bronson Place is dedi-<br />
cated to people with various<br />
stages of dementia. The tower<br />
accommodates residents who re-<br />
quire varying degrees of care.<br />
Both are long-term care facilities.<br />
Abbotsford House is a seniors<br />
community centre that offers i n-<br />
house programs and outreach<br />
services.<br />
In March, just before her 83rd<br />
birthday, my mom moved to the<br />
seventh floor of the tower. For 10<br />
years following the death of my<br />
father, she had been living alone<br />
in her home though she had been<br />
diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She<br />
was supported by a familiar rou-<br />
tine, very good neighbours and<br />
two watchful daughters. However,<br />
as time passed, we were buying<br />
all her food and preparing it our-<br />
selves or asking homecare work-<br />
ers to do it. Nonetheless, mom was<br />
losing weight because she<br />
couldn't stay seated long enough<br />
to finish a meal. Her clothes<br />
needed organizing, her garbage<br />
needed collecting, and we worried<br />
about her wandering outside her<br />
familiar two-block area. We were<br />
running a long-term care facility<br />
for one person and were in a con-<br />
stant state of alert. As anyone<br />
who has dealt with a similar<br />
situation knows, it wears you out.<br />
About a year ago, my sister<br />
Lee and I placed my mom's name<br />
on the CCAC's (Community Care<br />
Access Centre) waiting list for<br />
placement in a long-term care<br />
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mospheres and, ultimately, make<br />
our choice. What we liked about<br />
the <strong>Glebe</strong> Centre was its friendly,<br />
low-key bustle, its feeling of<br />
"aliveness." Nonetheless, this<br />
spring, when the call came that<br />
mom had a room, we were faced<br />
with the usual gamut of emotions<br />
that surrounds uprooting a senior<br />
from her home. When we left her<br />
on that first day, despite the<br />
great kindness of staff, I felt both<br />
wonderful relief and heavy guilt.<br />
And we weren't home yet.<br />
My mom is a small woman,<br />
spry as a cricket (a gift which<br />
had contributed to our fears of<br />
her wandering). So, physically,<br />
she suited the seventh floor, but<br />
it soon became clear that men-<br />
tally it was beyond her. People<br />
with mild Alzheimer's can be in-<br />
tegrated successfully into the<br />
Tower, but my mom's condition<br />
had advanced to moderate. We<br />
were impressed by how quicldy<br />
staff reacted to her problems.<br />
Within a month, she had made the<br />
move to the first floor of Bronson<br />
Place. We were told that research<br />
suggests that people with Alz-<br />
heimer's are often anxious when<br />
they have to interact on a level<br />
that challenges them beyond their<br />
capabilities. This idea is cer-<br />
tainly borne out in our experi-<br />
ence. Bronson Place is a friendly,<br />
compassionate home that allows<br />
residents to wander from room to<br />
room, talk or not talk, engage in<br />
small tasks or not, and where no<br />
one gets upset if my mom takes a<br />
nap on another resident's bed.<br />
Each time I visit my mom, I leave<br />
knowing she is in the best place<br />
for her.<br />
I hope this brief account helps<br />
to explain a bit about The <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Centre and my connection to it.<br />
As more and more of us find our-<br />
selves in the position of caring<br />
for our aging parents and rela-<br />
tives, we need to be aware of both<br />
the challenges and resources<br />
available. In the months to follow,<br />
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1980 $62,748 +1.37<br />
1981 $64,896 +3.42<br />
1982 $71,080 +9.54<br />
1983 $ 86,245 +21.35<br />
1984 $102,084 +18.37<br />
1985 $107,306 +5.11<br />
1986 $111,643 +4.0<br />
1987 $119,612 +6.7<br />
1988 $128,434 +7.4<br />
1989 $<strong>13</strong>7,455 +7.0<br />
1990 $141,438 +2.9<br />
1991 $143,868 +1.4<br />
1992 $143,361 +0.4<br />
1993 $148.129 +3.0<br />
1994 $147,543 -0.4<br />
1995 $143,193 -2.9<br />
1996 $140,5<strong>13</strong> -1.9<br />
1997 $143,873 +2.4<br />
1998 $143,953 +0.1<br />
1999 $149,650 +4.0<br />
2000 $159,511 +6.6<br />
2001 $175,971 +10.3<br />
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REPORT<br />
Ottawa Carleton District<br />
School Board trustee report<br />
WHY HAS THE PROVINCE<br />
TAKEN CONTROL OF THE<br />
OCDSB?<br />
On Aug. 17, the provincial<br />
government announced the ap-<br />
pointment of a supervisor for the<br />
OCDSB i.e. the province took con-<br />
trol of our English language pub-<br />
lic education system here in Ot-<br />
tawa. The takeover was triggered<br />
by a series of events. The OCDSB,<br />
on June 5, submitted to the<br />
province a deficit budget for the<br />
<strong>2002</strong>-2003 school year, with<br />
revenues of $521.1 million and<br />
expenditures of $544.4 million.<br />
While this budget already had<br />
$9.2 million in cuts for <strong>2002</strong>-<br />
2003, the Education Act states<br />
that school boards must submit<br />
balanced budgets. Consequently,<br />
Minister of Education Elizabeth<br />
Witmer announced on July 2 the<br />
appointment of an investigator,<br />
Mr. Al Rosen, "to review the fi-<br />
nances of the OCDSB and deter-<br />
mine whether the recommenda-<br />
tions from board staff would re-<br />
sult in a balanced budget." Re-<br />
leased Aug. 6, Mr. Rosen's report<br />
(available on the Ministry's Web<br />
site at www.edu.gov.on.ca) was<br />
highly critical of trustees, call-<br />
ing the financial crisis "self-<br />
inflicted" and reconunending that<br />
the Ministry take control of the<br />
OCDSB.<br />
My opinion, and that of the<br />
strong majority of trustees, is<br />
that the province has brought on<br />
the crisis. Mr. Rosen focused on<br />
the bottom line, assessing<br />
whether cuts were legally and<br />
logistically possible, rather than<br />
their impact on quality educa-<br />
tion.<br />
The province controls educa-<br />
tion funding and school boards<br />
across Ontario are facing finan-<br />
cial difficulty. The government's<br />
claim that there is more funding<br />
for education across the province<br />
is valid only if enrolment growth<br />
and cost increases are ignored.<br />
The province would have to aug-<br />
ment education dollars by at least<br />
$2.2 billion to match the funding<br />
level of 1994, the year before the<br />
Harris government took office. In<br />
February <strong>2002</strong>, all 72 directors<br />
of education across Ontario<br />
(public, Catholic, English and<br />
French) wrote to the Minister ad-<br />
vising her that the funding prob-<br />
lem was reaching the "crisis"<br />
stage. A month earlier, Liz San-<br />
dals, president of the Ontario<br />
Public School Boards' Associa-<br />
tion, spoke about the legal re-<br />
sponsibility of school boards to<br />
develop balanced budgets. How-<br />
ever, she also noted the legal re-<br />
sponsibility of school boards to<br />
conform to special education leg-<br />
islation, the Occupational Health<br />
and Safety Act, and the Labour<br />
Relations Act, amdng others.<br />
Speaking for school boards, she<br />
asked the province: "Which law<br />
would you like us to break?"<br />
Finally, many boards that have<br />
submitted balanced budgets for<br />
<strong>2002</strong>-2003 have done so using<br />
"creative accounting." Reserves<br />
have been depleted, there are no<br />
funds for salary increases and<br />
capital funds are being redi-<br />
By<br />
OCDSB<br />
Trustee<br />
Lynn<br />
Graham<br />
rected to cover operating ex-<br />
penses. As far as I'm concerned<br />
the province should be held di-<br />
rectly accountable for forcing<br />
boards to adopt such extreme<br />
measures.<br />
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE<br />
SUPERVISOR, OF TRUSTEES?<br />
The supervisor of the OCDSB i s<br />
Mr. Merv Beckstead, former chief<br />
administrative officer for the<br />
City of Nepean and the Regional<br />
Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton.<br />
Acting on behalf of the Minister,<br />
he is responsible for "preparing<br />
and implementing a plan by No-<br />
vember 25, <strong>2002</strong> to return the<br />
OCDSB to a balanced financial<br />
positon taking into account the<br />
investigator's recommendations<br />
and findings." He is fully in<br />
charge of the administrative and<br />
financial affairs of the OCDSB<br />
and, as the Minister's appointee,<br />
responsible for all decisions at<br />
the board. I understand his term<br />
of office is approximately one<br />
year.<br />
Mr. Beckstead has made it<br />
clear that he welcomes advicq<br />
from trustees as he makes deci-<br />
sions. The advisory role for<br />
trustees and other stakeholders<br />
will be possible through the con-<br />
tinuation of board, standing com-<br />
mittee and advisory committee<br />
meetings. As your democratically<br />
elected representative, I intend to<br />
be as involved as ever in our<br />
public school system, even if<br />
control is with the Minister and<br />
the supervisor. I will advocate for<br />
the needs of our students and I<br />
will continue to network with<br />
trustees across Ontario. The<br />
board took a principled stand in<br />
defense of public education. I<br />
don't believe we had any other<br />
option.<br />
WHAT CUTS ARE BEING MADE<br />
BY THE SUPERVISOR?<br />
On Aug. 17, Mr. Beckstead an-<br />
nounced the first round of cuts,<br />
reducing the $23.3 million defi-<br />
cit by $4.7 million. Eleven pairs<br />
of elementary schools are now<br />
"twinned" meaning there are 11<br />
principals for 22 schools. First<br />
Avenue and Mutchmor are sharing<br />
Dagmar Stonehouse, up until now<br />
principal at First Avenue, and<br />
Barbara Campbell, principal at<br />
Mutchmor for the past three<br />
years, is now principal at Castor<br />
Valley Elementary School. I ex-<br />
tend a heartfelt thanks to Barbara<br />
who provided wonderful leader-<br />
ship at Mutchmor. I wish Dagmar,<br />
highly respected by our commu-<br />
nity, all the best as she takes on<br />
"double duty." There will be a<br />
half-time vice-principal at one of<br />
the schools to assist Dagmar.<br />
The rest of the cuts were in<br />
special education, with the elimi-<br />
nation of 52 teaching positions<br />
and eight educational assistant<br />
positions. Students at both the<br />
elementary and secondary levels<br />
now have less opportunity for re-<br />
medial support during regular<br />
school hours in withdrawal set-<br />
tings and in the regular class-<br />
room.<br />
The supervisor did not consult<br />
trustees and community repre-<br />
sentatives, although he had staff<br />
input and access to board reports<br />
and minutes. The twinning of<br />
schools and a reduction of service<br />
in special education were among<br />
the proposals recommended<br />
(reluctantly) by staff during<br />
budget discussions and repeated<br />
in the Rosen <strong>Report</strong>. Indeed, pro-<br />
gram and service reductions are<br />
now inevitable as there is nothing<br />
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Trustees refused to make the<br />
changes currently being imple-<br />
mented because of the negative<br />
impact they will have on stu-<br />
dents. To balance the budget, the<br />
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ductions in excess of $18 million<br />
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CONTACT INFORMATION<br />
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25 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> SCHOOL NEWS<br />
Another great year begins at Corpus Christi School!<br />
BY JIM ROGERS<br />
The <strong>2002</strong>-2003 school year has<br />
had a great beginning. Our school<br />
population, as of the end of the<br />
first week of school is 415 stu-<br />
dents and continues to grow. We<br />
look forward to receiving the<br />
children who are still moving into<br />
our community. Corpus Christi is<br />
pleased to welcome Triona White<br />
as our Grade 4/5 teacher, Shauna<br />
O'Farrell as our physical educa-<br />
tion specialist, Elise Lalonde for<br />
the Grade 2 French immersion .;<br />
class, and Rebecca Harrison and<br />
Marion Mindorff as our special<br />
education resource staff.<br />
BUILDING THE SPIRIT<br />
TOGETHER!<br />
A welcome assembly for the<br />
student body was held the first<br />
day to welcome returning stu-<br />
dents and staff and extend a warm<br />
welcome to our new students and<br />
staff members. Following a short<br />
liturgy, a school year survival kit<br />
was shared with the students.<br />
Items chosen from the kit by<br />
class representatives, will re-<br />
mind the students throughout the<br />
school year of our school goal to<br />
continue to build a strong spir-<br />
ited school community. Survival<br />
kit items included: a heart -<br />
reminding all of us to follow the<br />
Gospel message to love one an-<br />
other; a star challenging all of<br />
us to shine brightly and always<br />
do our best; a chocolate kiss - to<br />
remind us that someone cares;<br />
confetti - to help celebrate the<br />
good times; a toothpick -<br />
encouraging us to pick the best<br />
qualities in our classmates; an<br />
eraser - reminding us that mis-<br />
takes can be corrected; and a<br />
penny - telling us that we are all<br />
special and valuable.<br />
The students have developed a<br />
wonderful welcoming spirit and<br />
each student will continue to be<br />
an ambassador of Corpus Christi's<br />
spirit.<br />
Students are actively engaged<br />
in the bilingual program (50 per<br />
cent English and 50 per cent<br />
French). They are s'etting up their<br />
clubs and activities for the year,<br />
such as environment club, patrol<br />
group, intramural sports teams,<br />
peer mediation, chess club, choir,<br />
piano and recorder lessons, par-<br />
ish visits and school liturgies.<br />
Practices for soccer and cross-<br />
country school teams will soon be<br />
under way.<br />
^<br />
SCHOOL COUNCIL<br />
School council executive have<br />
met and arranged for the first<br />
school council meeting to be held<br />
on Sept. 17 at the school. All par-<br />
ents of children in the school are<br />
encouraged to participate in the<br />
association. We are fortunate to<br />
have a very involved and suppor-<br />
tive school council. The council<br />
team works very closely with the<br />
school to support programs and<br />
extracurricular activities.<br />
The staff and students wish to<br />
extend a sincere thank you to Ella<br />
Forbes-Chilibeck for her organi-<br />
zation of the Exhibition parking<br />
committee. This has been a very<br />
successful fund-raising activity.<br />
This endeavour consumed a great<br />
deal of time on the part of many<br />
parents and staff members. Thank<br />
you for giving your time and for<br />
shaiing your enthusiasm. A spe-<br />
cial thank you from the students!<br />
We also wish to thank all the<br />
parents who have assisted in any<br />
way to get our school year off to a<br />
great start.<br />
We believe that the community<br />
enriches the educational under-<br />
taking at Corpus Christi as we<br />
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SCHOOL NEWS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 2 6<br />
First Avenue School News<br />
Looking back & moving forward<br />
BY MARCI MORRIS<br />
LOOKING BACK AND<br />
MOVING FORWARD<br />
It has been a summer of tur-<br />
moil and change for the Ottawa<br />
Carleton District School Board.<br />
The sleepy, relaxing days of July<br />
were replaced by the auditor's<br />
report, the installation of a<br />
provincially selected supervisor<br />
and major school changes in<br />
August. As with many schools in<br />
the board, these changes have<br />
meant that First Avenue Public<br />
School has been twinned with<br />
Mutchmor and Dagmar Stone-<br />
house, our capable principal, will<br />
be half time at each school. With<br />
over 700 students in the two<br />
schools, and no vice-principal at<br />
First Avenue, this will certainly<br />
create a busy, challenging year<br />
for Dagmar.<br />
Fortunately, this is Dagmar's<br />
third year at First Avenue and as<br />
she reduces her role to part-time<br />
principal, she leaves the leader-<br />
ship responsibilities in the very<br />
capable hands of the remaining<br />
staff. Under Dagmar's leader-<br />
ship, First Avenue teachers have<br />
taken on many more responsi-<br />
bilities than that of a classroom<br />
teacher alone. Each staff member<br />
offers leadership capabilities in<br />
one or more fields including aca-<br />
demics, athletics, arts, conflict<br />
resolution and special needs. In<br />
addition, the classrooms have<br />
been divided into "support class-<br />
rooms" so that teachers will have<br />
a teacher partner to help them out<br />
with teaching or discipline issues<br />
when there is no one available at<br />
the office.<br />
Although this is not an ideal<br />
situation for Dagmar, or the staff<br />
and parents of First Avenue and<br />
Mutchmor, all parties are very<br />
interested in making the best of<br />
the situation and finding a posi-<br />
tive way forward. Only time will<br />
tell how issues progress and how<br />
other changes mandated by the<br />
supervisor are implemented.<br />
NEW FACES<br />
First Avenue Public School be-<br />
gan its <strong>2002</strong>-2003 school year<br />
with three new staff members.<br />
The new Grade 3 teacher is Kath-<br />
erine Lapner. Katherine grew up<br />
in Ottawa and graduated from<br />
Lisgar. She received her master<br />
of science degree from Ottawa U<br />
and her bachelor of education<br />
from Queen's. She was nominated<br />
for the Student Teacher Award<br />
and came to First Avenue very<br />
highly recommended. In addition<br />
to her academic qualifications,<br />
the school is looking forward to<br />
benefiting from Katherine's tal-<br />
ents in both music and athletics.<br />
When the board hiring freeze<br />
was lifted the last week in<br />
August, First Avenue was very<br />
fortunate to be able to offer a<br />
full-time position to Sylvie<br />
Lurette. Sylvie was a longtime<br />
occasional teacher last year in<br />
Grade 1 and has now permanently<br />
joined the First Avenue team.<br />
Sylvie's love of teaching and chil-<br />
dren and her knowledge of im-<br />
mersion programming is an ex-<br />
cellent addition to the school.<br />
Our last new staff member is<br />
Beth Merkley. Beth teaches 3/4<br />
time at Hopewell and then dashes<br />
over to First Avenue each after-<br />
noon to teach the gifted Grade 5<br />
math program. With her four<br />
years of teaching experience, and<br />
her MA in clinical psychology<br />
and bachelor of education, Beth is<br />
a welcome addition to the First<br />
Avenue team.<br />
CROSSING IN SAFETY<br />
This year, the student crossing<br />
guard duty will be fulfilled by<br />
Grade 5 students, and co-<br />
ordinated by Grade 5 teacher,<br />
Denis Arsenault. In addition,<br />
First Avenue has applied for, and<br />
been granted an adult crossing<br />
guard by the City of Ottawa at the<br />
corner of First Avenue and<br />
O'Connor. This will be a welcome<br />
addition to this busy corner. A<br />
special thank you to all the driv-<br />
ers who slow down at this corner.<br />
We are hoping that with the ad-<br />
dition of the adult guard there<br />
will be fewer safety issues.<br />
DATES TO REMEMBER<br />
Sept. 19 Meet the Teacher<br />
Evening Grade 1 to 6<br />
Mon. Oct. 14 - Thanksgiving<br />
Holiday<br />
Thurs. Oct. 17 - Picture Day<br />
Dec. 3 <strong>Report</strong> Cards<br />
Dec. 6 PA day for interviews<br />
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27 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Mutchmor School News<br />
Major changes happening<br />
BY ROGER SMITH<br />
The excitement of the first day<br />
of school was dampened by un-<br />
certainty and confusion, after<br />
Mutchmor's principal was moved<br />
out and the school was ordered to<br />
share a principal under a so-<br />
called "twinning" program to cut<br />
costs.<br />
Barbara Campbell was re-<br />
assigned to Castor Valley in<br />
Greely, while Dagmar Stonehouse,<br />
the principal at First Avenue,<br />
will now oversee Mutchmor as<br />
well. Louise de March, a special<br />
education resource teacher, will<br />
help out as acting vice-principal.<br />
But as students and parents<br />
crowded the schoolyard on the<br />
first day, trying to find new<br />
teachers and classes, ihere was<br />
widespread concern about how<br />
one principal could handle two<br />
schools and what it means in the<br />
ongoing fight to keep Mutchmor<br />
open.<br />
"You have to wonder about the<br />
future of this school," said one<br />
teacher, who preferred to remain<br />
anonymous.<br />
"It's an indication of the con-<br />
fusion and alarm it's created in<br />
this community," said school<br />
council president Ben Anthony.<br />
"It may just be the first tremor of<br />
the earthquake to come."<br />
`...the first hard task<br />
was saying good-bye<br />
and thanks to<br />
Barbara Campbell'<br />
Mutchmor parent Mitchell Beer<br />
announced that his group Our<br />
School, Our Community is<br />
launching a lawsuit to try to re-<br />
move Merv Beckstead, the super-<br />
visor appointed by the govern-<br />
ment to run the Ottawa school<br />
board. But for now, the priority<br />
seems to be making the best of a<br />
bad situation. And for many, the<br />
first hard task was saying good-<br />
bye and thanks to Barbara Camp-<br />
bell,<br />
"It's really hard," said Camp-<br />
bell, whose link with Mutchmor<br />
goes back to the days her parents<br />
moved into the <strong>Glebe</strong> and she<br />
walked her brother to school. "I<br />
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mourn the fact I wo,n't be able to<br />
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While Campbell tried to mask<br />
her sadness with enthusiasm for<br />
her new job at a rural school, her<br />
successor was swallowing hard at<br />
the prospect of running two<br />
schools, Dagmar Stonehouse says<br />
she put in 12-hour days at First<br />
Avenue and worries now there<br />
aren't enough hours in the day to<br />
spend as much time as she likes<br />
to, "hands-on" with the students.<br />
"That's going to be the cost,"<br />
she said. "I won't be able to spend<br />
as much time with the kids at ei-<br />
ther school. I just don't know yet<br />
how this can be done, but I guess<br />
I'm going to find out. It's not an<br />
ideal situation, but my position<br />
is I'll just have to do the best I<br />
can."<br />
Stonehouse wants to reassure<br />
the Mutchmor crowd that she<br />
won't show any favouritism to<br />
First Avenue, where she started<br />
two years ago. So who will she be<br />
rooting for when the two schools<br />
clash on the sports field? The<br />
principal with two hats had a<br />
diplomatic answer for that one<br />
she'll wear two shirts and cheer<br />
for both.<br />
"Maybe I can cut my First Ave.<br />
jersey in half," she joked, "and<br />
sew it up with half a one from<br />
Mutchmor."<br />
It's not just Stonehouse who's<br />
being thrown into the deep end.<br />
With a hiring freeze lifted only<br />
the Thursday before school began,<br />
four new teachers were hired at<br />
the last minute. Mutchmor wel-<br />
comes Tracy Smith, junior kin-<br />
dergarten; Rhonda Birenbaum,<br />
Grade 2-3 enriched; Sean Aston,<br />
Grade 4-5; and Angela Ward<br />
Grade 5-6.<br />
And in an era when every<br />
penny counts, good news on the<br />
money front. Mutchmor took in<br />
$5,080 for parking on school<br />
grounds during the Ex. And<br />
though the Ex is moving, football<br />
is back. The first Renegades game<br />
brought $874 and the target for<br />
the entire season is $6,500, with<br />
all proceeds going to the school<br />
council. Thanks to all the volun-<br />
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BOOKS <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 2 8<br />
Political arguments and pleasant journalistic tales<br />
THE INSIDE STORY: A<br />
LIFE IN JOURNALISM<br />
By Anthony Westell<br />
Toronto: Dundurn Press,<br />
253 pages, $29.99<br />
REVIEVVED BY CLYDE SANGER<br />
Tony Westell, with his wife<br />
Jeanie and two children, bought a<br />
five bedroom house on Powell in<br />
1964 for $24,000 "and worried<br />
about how we would ever repay<br />
such an enormous mortgage." He<br />
writes: "We survived the brutal<br />
winters to enjoy life in a small<br />
capital. In fact, the next 14 years<br />
were the best in my life so far."<br />
He enjoyed the <strong>Glebe</strong>, "a pleasant,<br />
old residential area," so much<br />
that he turned down an offer from<br />
his managing editor to move to<br />
Washington for The Globe and<br />
Mail. Well now, there's a pat on<br />
our back.<br />
Westell has had a remarkable,<br />
in fact unique, career in British<br />
and Canadian journalism. It is not<br />
unusual for someone to move from<br />
a decent position in Fleet Street<br />
to a reporter's job on The Globe<br />
and Mail; but Tony had been that<br />
prestigious creature, a lobby cor-<br />
respondent in the British House<br />
of Corrunons, as well as writing<br />
the "Crossbencher" political col-<br />
umn for Lord Beaverbrook's Sun-<br />
day Express, and he managed the<br />
transition to Toronto in 1956<br />
with an introduction from Roy<br />
Thomson. A lordly progress, for<br />
sure.<br />
At The Globe he was soon on<br />
the editorial board and, within<br />
eight years of landing in this<br />
country, he moved to Ottawa into<br />
the top job as bureau chief. Five<br />
years later, he moved on to the<br />
Toronto Star as national affairs<br />
columnist. Soon after that, he be-<br />
gan a connection with Carleton<br />
University, and eventually be-<br />
came director of the school of<br />
journalism and a full professor<br />
which amused him, since he had<br />
himself left school in Exeter at<br />
15. Along the way, he collected<br />
Pre-school (Ages 3-6)<br />
Elementary (Grades 1-6)<br />
After-school Programs<br />
three National Newspaper<br />
Awards, each in a different cate-<br />
gory: for reporting, editorial<br />
writing and staff corresponding.<br />
Altogether, an unbeatable record.<br />
Does that admirable career<br />
make for a good autobiography?<br />
Not by itself, it wouldn't. We have<br />
had scads of books about Cana-<br />
dian journalism. They have come<br />
from publishers, editors, foreign<br />
correspondents and reporters<br />
chock-full of amusing anecdotes.<br />
And there's the acerbic denun-<br />
ciation of herd journalism,<br />
Gotcha! How the Media Distort the<br />
News, that was flung out in 1994<br />
by George Bain whose career ran<br />
on parallel tracks to Tony's at<br />
The Globe and J-school (George<br />
ran journalism at King's College<br />
in Halifax).<br />
But Westell did more. At the<br />
age of 41 he decided he was tiring<br />
of daily news journalism, and he<br />
headed by stages for a more re-<br />
flective life through Carleton<br />
and through the Carnegie Foun-<br />
dation and the Americas Society.<br />
Out of this came several books<br />
and his uninhibited advocacy of<br />
free trade (and more) with the<br />
United States. He has believed in<br />
a benign convergence of the two<br />
neighbours from the 1970s ("the<br />
evidence was plain to see") and<br />
today he cheerfully predicts a<br />
federal union between the United<br />
States and Canada, probably<br />
vvithin 30 years. He has argued<br />
publicly about this with Mitchell<br />
Sharp, who was promoting his<br />
Third Option, and plenty of Cana-<br />
dian nationalists including the<br />
two Mels (Hurtig and Watkins).<br />
It is these argumentative<br />
passages in the last third of the<br />
book, as well as a pleasant<br />
sprinkling of journalistic tales<br />
throughout the memoir, that make<br />
The Inside Story: A Life In<br />
Journalism a worthwhile read.<br />
Working in London for the<br />
Northcliffe provincial chain of<br />
papers, he had occasional excite-<br />
ments, like covering the trial of<br />
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Anthony Westell describes his<br />
the scientist-spy Klaus Fuchs. He<br />
claims that Clement Attlee as<br />
prime minister only allowed a<br />
news ticker-tape machine into 10<br />
Downing Street because he was<br />
told it would give him up-to-the-<br />
minute cricket scores, and was<br />
perplexed to find it also carried<br />
what journalists thought the<br />
cabinet was discussing. "Why,"<br />
he asked his press officer, "are<br />
the cabinet minutes on my cricket<br />
machine?"<br />
But Westell considered the job<br />
too easy, requiring only facile<br />
reporting skills, and cast around<br />
for another challenge. His editor<br />
wanted to send him to New York<br />
as correspondent for the Evening<br />
Standard, but this involved an<br />
life in journalism<br />
interview with Beaverbrook in his<br />
Mayfair penthouse, to which Tony<br />
went shod in heavy brogues. He<br />
apparently didn't fit his lord-<br />
ship's specifications, as the edi-<br />
tor later recorded Beaverbrook's<br />
verdict: "Small head, big feet.<br />
Won't do." Which is how Tony<br />
Westell came instead to apply for<br />
and get a job in Canada in 1956.<br />
While following John Diefen-<br />
baker as he electioneered in rural<br />
Saskatchewan, Westell wrote a<br />
sympathetic piece picturing the<br />
misty-eyed old warrior ankle-<br />
deep in dusty ploughland. He<br />
writes it was "in my new jour-<br />
nalism style," taking steps away<br />
from hard news reporting. This<br />
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sis, has become common and of-<br />
ten debased since. One reason<br />
for going years later to Carleton,<br />
he writes, was "my concern about<br />
the way journalism was develop-<br />
ing. The new more interpretative<br />
and analytical reporting I had<br />
helped to introduce in the 1960s<br />
seemed to me in the 1970s to be<br />
degenerating into adversarial<br />
comment"<br />
Dief, mischievous as ever, did<br />
not return the kindness in the<br />
article. In the Commons he asked<br />
about a story Westell had written<br />
and referred to "Mr. Weasel I<br />
beg his pardon, Mr. Westell."<br />
On his long-held opinion about<br />
the relationship of Canada with<br />
the United States, the unarguable<br />
point he makes is that the, two<br />
countries have steadily increased<br />
their volume of trade and invest-<br />
ment with each other; this, de-<br />
spite many measures such as the<br />
Foreign Investment Review<br />
Agency and the National Energy<br />
Program. He strengthens his eco-<br />
nomic argument with mention of<br />
all the top Liberals Herb Gray,<br />
Mitchell Sharp, Donald S.<br />
Macdonald who came to accept<br />
the inevitable growth of this link<br />
and of American economic influ-<br />
ence. He put his argument best in<br />
his 1983 attack on Sharp's Third<br />
Option strategy:<br />
"Canadians, both as individu-<br />
ais and as a political nation, are<br />
more likely to prosper and fulfill<br />
themselves in free association<br />
with Americans than they are by<br />
seeking to protect themselves<br />
from U.S. competition and influ-<br />
ence. The desire to escape from<br />
U.S. influence, the desire to put<br />
distance between Canada and the<br />
United States, arises in large<br />
measure from fear of absorption<br />
by the United States and from<br />
jealousy of U.S. wealth, power and<br />
vitality. But fear and jealousy are<br />
corrosive in national as in per-<br />
sonal life; they feed the Canadian<br />
sense of inferiority, encourage<br />
parochial attitudes, and give rise<br />
in politics to nationalist policies<br />
that are bound to fail because<br />
they are against the tide of events<br />
and against the aspirations of<br />
most Canadians who wish to enjoy<br />
the maximum freedom to trade,<br />
invest, travel and exchange<br />
ideas."<br />
Anti-Americanism is...<br />
no longer a popular<br />
cause'<br />
For good measure he adds in<br />
this memoir: "Anti-Americanism<br />
flares from time to time, but it is<br />
no longer a popular cause. In fact,<br />
it is now possible to discuss the<br />
possibility that Canada's future<br />
may lie in some sort of union with<br />
the United States without being<br />
tarred and feathered in the me-<br />
dia." He compares this possible<br />
union with the present relation-<br />
ship Scotland has with the rest of<br />
the United Kingdom. Pursuing his<br />
views on closer union, in 1991 he<br />
helped organize a conference in<br />
Boston on the proposal to bring<br />
Mexico into NAFTA, and thé pa-<br />
per he wrote was translated into<br />
Spanish and "became part of the<br />
debate in Mexico where it was<br />
widely distributed. Now South<br />
American countries are moving<br />
toward free trade, with NAFTA as<br />
a model, so the ball I helped to<br />
set in motion is still rolling, and<br />
I hope will continue and gather<br />
speed."<br />
He may well consider that this<br />
activity is the most lasting and<br />
influential action that he has<br />
taken in his whole career. What<br />
surprises me is how narrow is the<br />
base on which he constructs his<br />
argument. Yes, our economies<br />
have become ever more closely<br />
entwined; but think of all the<br />
other issues in which we differ<br />
and indeed want to distance our-<br />
selves from the Americans and<br />
their government.<br />
He has himself touched on one<br />
or two areas of American life he<br />
deplores: the politicization of the<br />
courts, the inherently adversarial<br />
role of the media. My own fears<br />
are of losing some of the finer<br />
qualities of Canadian life and I<br />
am not jealous of anything Ameri-<br />
can! The maintenance in Canada of<br />
universal health care and of pub-<br />
lic medicine really is important<br />
has he ever asked how many mil-<br />
lion Americans cannot begin to<br />
afford health insurance, and how<br />
much even those who are insured<br />
have still to pay for a short hos-<br />
pital stay?<br />
We are not a nuclear weapon<br />
power, and many of us came to<br />
Canada at least partly for that<br />
reason. The American talk since<br />
Sept. 11 of a single military com-<br />
mand going beyond NORAD<br />
(whose usefulness is anyway<br />
surely past) to cover land and sea<br />
forces has been received with<br />
some embarrassment in Ottawa,<br />
for its implications are frankly<br />
frightening. The dilemma of water<br />
exports will grow as California<br />
gets more populous and more<br />
thirsty, and arguments over the<br />
application of NAFTA rules on<br />
water as a resource will crowd out<br />
valid arguments about restraint.<br />
Does Westell think that, with a<br />
closer union, we can turn the tap<br />
half-on, providing water while<br />
convincing them to conserve?<br />
These are not small matters.<br />
While we in Canada respect the<br />
multilateral approach in inter-<br />
national affairs, the latest exam-<br />
ple of the American approach of<br />
putting their own short-term in-<br />
terests first is their adamant op-<br />
position to the International<br />
Criminal Court and threat to<br />
withdraw peacekeepers. One can<br />
admire and enjoy the vitality and<br />
intellectual brilliance of sections<br />
of American society, never more<br />
visible than in Manhattan and<br />
Boston where Tony Westell has<br />
lived and worked. But I don't<br />
think he has traveled very far<br />
beyond New York, for instance to<br />
Arizona where privately run<br />
prisons scar the landscape.<br />
There is a hint that he hopes,<br />
if not believes, that the rest of<br />
the Americas will help balance<br />
the present preponderance of the<br />
United States as these other na-<br />
tions enter a hemispheric free<br />
trade area. The latest summary of<br />
attitudes (especially Brazilian)<br />
about the proposed Free Trade<br />
Area of the Americas, a project on<br />
the stocks long before the Quebec<br />
City meeting, is hardly encour-<br />
aging in this respect.<br />
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Somerset Ward Youth Forum<br />
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Thursday, <strong>September</strong> 26, <strong>2002</strong> - 6:30 - 9 p.m.<br />
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3 1 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Author Cynthia Flood embraces the 'truly wacky' in new novel<br />
MAKING A STONE<br />
OF THE HEART<br />
By Cynthia Flood<br />
Key Porter Books,<br />
342 pages, $24.95 (paper)<br />
What is it about the West<br />
Coast that inspires magical fic-<br />
tion? Where the impossible is<br />
deliberately taken on to prove<br />
that real facts can be snatched<br />
from time and place, wildly<br />
shaping the lives of those touched<br />
most deeply by them.<br />
A few columns ago, Joan<br />
Givner's delicious saga of im-<br />
pregnating a man to prove a femi-<br />
nist point was written from<br />
Givner's new home on the B. C.<br />
gulf islands. Jack Hodgins with<br />
his trilogy, Spit Delaney's Island<br />
(1976), The Invention of the<br />
World (1977) and The Resurrec-<br />
tion of Joseph Boume (1979), and<br />
his student, Edna Alford, with A<br />
Sleep Full of Dreams (1981) and<br />
The Garden of Eloise Loon (1986)<br />
took readers to unexpected fic-<br />
tional realms whimsically linked<br />
to reality. I call Givner, Hodgins<br />
and Alford magicians, and now I<br />
add Cynthia Flood to the roster.<br />
But especially like Givner,<br />
Flood embraces the truly wacky.<br />
Did two terrible secrets that four<br />
people tried desperately to hide,<br />
.each in his or her own way<br />
Ahroughout their entire lives,<br />
-ever really happen, or were they<br />
invented? And the astonishing<br />
embellishment is what causes the<br />
_reader to reel an abortion that<br />
never aborted! Medical malprac-<br />
tice, or a mistake that could not<br />
be undone because the patient, of<br />
her own free will, chose to disap-<br />
pear.<br />
Dora Dow, née Cowan, who<br />
also calls herself Gladys Smith,<br />
was a grandmother unlike any<br />
other, and when she died the<br />
'autopsy on March 7, 1996, proved<br />
it. The troubled geriatric social<br />
worker who had to tell Dora's son,<br />
John, about the dead fetus stored<br />
By<br />
Sharon<br />
Abron<br />
Drache<br />
inside his mother since 1935, ex-<br />
cused herself immediately fol-<br />
lowing the interview and vomited<br />
in the woman's washroom. Dora's<br />
grown-up granddaughter, Tessa,<br />
perhaps put it best: "Grandma<br />
was never like anyone else!"<br />
Flood tracks Dora's life back<br />
to the beginning. Her lasting un-<br />
requited love (call it fascination<br />
with the devil) was rewarded, al-<br />
though she never knew it. When<br />
Owen Jones dies on Canada Day in<br />
1997, his own story of unrequited<br />
love replays, and parallels<br />
Dora's, beginning with their first<br />
encounter (when they first fell in<br />
love?) following two terrible<br />
public whippings which Owen<br />
receives in the school gymnasium<br />
for truancy, theft and rudeness to<br />
his teachers. "He lands face down<br />
at Dora's feet His legs and the<br />
polished floors are streaked with<br />
blood. The weals are purple,<br />
plum, maroon. Biting his lip so as<br />
not to cry, Owen pulls himself up.<br />
He stands absolutely straight. His<br />
eyes and Dora's meet. He limps to<br />
the gym door and slams it hard<br />
behind him, so hard the wall<br />
quivers."<br />
When Dora goes to sleep that<br />
night she tells her doll, Flora,<br />
what happened. He bled. He didn't<br />
ay. The principal couldn't malce<br />
him ay. Silently the doll listens<br />
to the whole story, every word. I<br />
wanted to help him off the floor.<br />
Oh how his legs looked, where he<br />
was whipped!<br />
The school whipping takes<br />
place in 1918, but Dora is not im-<br />
pregnated by Owen until 1935,<br />
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mother, or at least Owen chooses<br />
to believe that he impregnates<br />
Dora.<br />
If I have the sequencing<br />
straight, Owen meets Dora by<br />
chance when she is returning<br />
from her visit to Dr. Smythe, who<br />
is determined to remove the fetus<br />
from her, which has only recently<br />
died, but he cannot, because Dora,<br />
whom Dr. Smythe knows as Gladys<br />
Smith, has made up her mind to<br />
keep the fetus within her "as long<br />
as she lives."<br />
Every year subsequent to<br />
Owen and Dora's 1935 timely en-<br />
counter, Owen celebrates his<br />
imaginary son's birthday, a son<br />
whom he even names: Jerry. And<br />
oddly enough, the imagined son,<br />
Jerry, remains a sublime secret<br />
hidden inside the mother that<br />
Owen wanted so desperately for<br />
his beloved son. The years of<br />
celebrated, imaginary birthdays<br />
are so enchantingly bittersweet,<br />
they left this reader weeping.<br />
To say that Owen and Dora<br />
are control freaks is a limited<br />
assessment of their superbly ec-<br />
centric personalities. What is so<br />
wondrously intriguing is their<br />
will to shape their own lives as<br />
they wish their human birth-<br />
right, which they exploit to the<br />
fullest.<br />
The novel begins with a niece<br />
of Owen Jones reading to him and<br />
the other residents at the Bella<br />
Coola Nursing Home -- a fitting<br />
place for the novel to unfold.<br />
What stands out gloriously is<br />
Cheryl Preston's awareness of the<br />
rich lives these elderly seniors<br />
have led. Owen is but one exam-<br />
ple: "He's sticking it out, but not<br />
here with us. In his head. Of<br />
course he can't tell." That simple<br />
sentence says it all -- what sepa-<br />
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which has been lived, as opposed<br />
BOOKS<br />
Author Cynthia Flood<br />
to the life in progress.<br />
Which is richer, which de-<br />
fies time's ticker -- both, natu-<br />
rally, but in different ways. What<br />
is so amazing about Flood's novel,<br />
is the tandem lives of Dora and<br />
Owen. The stone fetus, which has<br />
served as a symbol for a powerful<br />
unrequited love becomes a bi-<br />
zarre medical fact after the<br />
autopsy on Dora's corpse.<br />
Flood has researched dili-<br />
gently. Her Vancouver landscapes<br />
are close enough to touch, the<br />
historical data riveting.<br />
Cynthia Flood's transition<br />
from the short story genre to<br />
novel is not as seamless as it<br />
could be. Still, the novel works on<br />
many levels and the fragmenta-<br />
tion is well worth putting up<br />
with.<br />
Her previous two short story<br />
collections are: The Animals in<br />
their Elements (1987) and My<br />
Father took a Cake to France<br />
(1992).<br />
Born in Toronto, Cynthia<br />
Flood received a bachelor's de-<br />
gree from University of Toronto,<br />
and a master's degree from Ber-<br />
keley. She has lived in Vancouver<br />
since 1969, and considers herself<br />
a longtime political activist in<br />
innumerable anti-war, women's<br />
and neighbourhood organizations.<br />
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Britten's War Requiem<br />
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The boys choir from St. Mat-<br />
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conductor David Currie and the<br />
Ottawa Symphony Orchestra in a<br />
concert Mon., Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. at<br />
the National Arts Centre.<br />
The evening will feature Brit-<br />
ten's profoundly moving choral<br />
masterpiece, the War Requiem.<br />
For his text, Britten, a life-long<br />
pacifist, intertwined the heart-<br />
rending anti-war poems of Wil-<br />
fred Owen with the ancient Latin<br />
requiem liturgy.<br />
The result is a work crafted on<br />
three separate planes. The full<br />
Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, the<br />
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gosman, will perform the tradi-<br />
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wards and baritone Mark Pedrotti<br />
sing the Owen poems, accompa-<br />
nied by a small separate chamber<br />
orchestra. The St. Matthew's boys<br />
choir will create a third, "other-<br />
worldly" space as they pray for<br />
the souls of the departed. At the<br />
end of the work all these separate<br />
voices join to symbolize life<br />
passing through death to the hope<br />
of an eternal paradise.<br />
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<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 3 2<br />
SOMA presents Rev. Arreak<br />
of Pond Inlet, Nunavut<br />
BY LAURIE-ANN COPPLE<br />
Rev. Joshua Arreak and team<br />
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church in Pond Inlet, Nunavut,<br />
are coming to the <strong>Glebe</strong> to share<br />
their story of radical change and<br />
revival that has occurred in their<br />
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The team will appear at a<br />
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tions 2 that was released in June.<br />
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of John Turner who founded a<br />
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OCCSA fund-raiser banquet<br />
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3 3 <strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> RELIGION<br />
Carleton University chaplaincy's<br />
response to 9/11<br />
BY TOM SHERWOOD<br />
CARLETON UNIVERSITY<br />
ECUMENICAL CHAPLAIN<br />
At 9:30 a.m. on Tues., Sept. 11,<br />
2001, a young student came into<br />
my office in tears. Her sister's<br />
husband had an appointment in<br />
the World Trade Center at 10 a.m.<br />
that day. They didn't know where<br />
he was. Students streamed into<br />
the chaplaincy over the next few<br />
hours to find a place to pray, to<br />
seek hope in the midst of fear, to<br />
struggle with others to find<br />
meaning in the crisis and suf-<br />
fering. During the course of the<br />
day, we learned that the young<br />
woman's brother-in-law was<br />
alive-he was at her wedding this<br />
summer, and I officiated. But an-<br />
other Carleton -student lost two<br />
friends in the tragedy. Many fac-<br />
ulty members lost friends, rela-<br />
tives and colleagues. One of the<br />
victims was a Carleton graduate.<br />
Universities are international<br />
communities today. They are also<br />
multifaith communities.<br />
The next day, I led a memorial<br />
service for the university a two-<br />
hour, come-and-go series of<br />
ceremonies and silences. I was<br />
assisted by Christian students,<br />
the Rev. Ian Victor of St. Giles<br />
Presbyterian Church, the Jewish<br />
Students Association staff per-<br />
son, the president of the Muslim<br />
StUdents Association and various<br />
professionals from counselling<br />
and health services. On the<br />
Thursday, Fr. Chris Dunn of<br />
Trinity Anglican Church came in<br />
to the chaplaincy centre for a few<br />
hours while I saw more students<br />
in my office. That Sunday evening<br />
in our worship service, we con-<br />
tinued to address the crisis. The<br />
date was particularly important<br />
for university students. It was<br />
the first week of classes. Resi-<br />
dence students had just moved in,<br />
barely knew their room-mates. On<br />
Sept. 11, students were just<br />
starting to find their new friends<br />
and communities of support for<br />
the coming year. Every student I<br />
talked to phoned family and<br />
friends on Sept. 11.<br />
In addition to Sunday worship<br />
and weekday groups in the chap-<br />
laincy, we organized several spe-<br />
cial events: a panel of speakers<br />
Centretown Conununity<br />
Health Centre<br />
Centre de santé<br />
communautaire du Centre-ville<br />
420 rue Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2N6<br />
from four different religions<br />
speaking against racism; a retreat<br />
on Living as Faithful Christians<br />
in a Multifaith World; a presen-<br />
tation on God and Evil by a Holo-<br />
caust survivor; a workshop by<br />
Murray Thomson on Building a<br />
Culture of Peace and a multifaith<br />
prayer service involving people<br />
from 11 world religions.<br />
Sept. 11 was a spiritual crisis<br />
for many young adults a year ago,<br />
shaking their faith, challenging<br />
their understanding of God,<br />
changing their relationship with<br />
life. It had the effect of exagger-<br />
ating other grief responses in the<br />
next few months, deepening other<br />
depressions that would have been<br />
more manageable in a normal<br />
school year. A few days later,<br />
when Mr. Dress-Up died, a num-<br />
ber of students came back into<br />
the chaplaincy with fresh grief<br />
and anxiety. Later in the year,<br />
student reactions were unusually<br />
extreme when anything bad hap-<br />
pened: a relationship ending, a<br />
grandparent dying, a student<br />
failing an exam or a course.<br />
This year at Carleton, we<br />
marked the first anniversary of<br />
9/11 with a multifaith ceremony<br />
of readings, prayers and silence<br />
on the 20th floor of the Dunton<br />
Tower, Lament for a Wounded<br />
World Words of Hope and Heal-<br />
ing. In memory of the victims and<br />
as a solemn, spiritual discipline,<br />
the ceremony concluded with a<br />
silent walk down 40 flights of<br />
stairs.<br />
There is always lots going on<br />
in the Carleton campus ministry:<br />
Sunday evening worship (7:30<br />
p.m. in the Humanities Theatre-<br />
Paterson 303), guest speakers,<br />
discussion groups, retreats. This<br />
fall, we have already scheduled<br />
three guest speakers: Hart Wiens<br />
on translating the Bible into Ca-<br />
nadian aboriginal languages, Ken<br />
McVay who monitors Holocaust<br />
denial Web sites for the Nizkor<br />
Project, and Vera Gara of Ottawa<br />
on her experience in a Nazi con-<br />
centration camp.<br />
Call the chaplaincy at 520-<br />
4449 or e-mail<br />
to m_s herwoo d@carleton.c a for<br />
more information.<br />
Centretown Community Health Centre presents an<br />
information session on <strong>September</strong> 24, from 1:00 p.m. to<br />
3:30 p.m., about "The Senior-Friendly Guide to Ottawa's<br />
Retirement Homes, <strong>2002</strong>".<br />
Learn more about the retirement homes: where to find them,<br />
what they offer, how to compare, what to watch for, what<br />
they cost and much more.<br />
For further information, please contact Jayne Blair, RN, at<br />
233-4443.<br />
Copies of the book will be available for sale.<br />
Building healthier communities... together<br />
Ensemble... pour bâtir des communautés en meilleure santé<br />
THE GLEBE CHURCHES WELCOME YOU<br />
CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic)<br />
Fourth Avenue at Percy Street, 2<strong>32</strong>-4891<br />
Pastor: Father Joe Le Clair<br />
Masses: Tuesday 6:30 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 9:30 a.m.<br />
Saturday 4:30 p.m.<br />
Sunday 8:15 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 8 p.m.<br />
(Elevator access for the handicapped. Loop system for the<br />
hearing impaired.)<br />
FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
Fourth Avenue at Bank Street, 236-1804<br />
Minister: Rev. E.J. Cox<br />
Sunday Service: 11 a.m.<br />
Nursery and Sunday school provided<br />
GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH<br />
650 Lyon Street, 236-0617<br />
Minister: Rev. Dr. Jack Nield<br />
New Ventures in Celebration: 9:30 a.m. (informal worship)<br />
Worship (in Sanctuary): 11 a.m. with:<br />
Baby Nursery, Sunday school (ages 3-11), and<br />
Youth Alternative Worship (12 & up)<br />
(Wheelchair accessible, FM system for hearing impaired.)<br />
ST. MATTHEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Avenue near Bank Street, 234-4024<br />
Rector: Archdeacon Désirée Stedman<br />
Sunday: Said Eucharist: 8 a.m.<br />
Choral Eucharist, Church School & nursery: 10 a.m.<br />
Choral Evensong: 5:00 p.m. (first & third Sundays)<br />
Mon. to Fri.: Morning prayer, 9 a.m.<br />
Wednesday: Eucharist & breakfast, 7:15 a.m.<br />
Thursday: Said Eucharist, 10 a.m.<br />
Counselling by appointrnent: 234-4024<br />
(Handicapped accessible from parking lot. Loop system.)<br />
THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)<br />
91 A Fourth Avenue, 2<strong>32</strong>-9923<br />
Clerk: Peter Harkness, 231-3442<br />
Sunday Service: 10:30 a.m.<br />
OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH<br />
600 Bank Street, 594-4571<br />
Senior Pastor: Rod Bennett<br />
Sunday Services: Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.<br />
Cantonese/Mandarin & English: 11 a.m.<br />
ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH<br />
Bank Street at First Avenue, 235-2551<br />
Minister: The Reverend Ian Victor<br />
Sunday Service Worship: 11 a.m.<br />
Church School: 11:15 a.m.<br />
(Wheelchair accessible)<br />
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION AND ST. NICHOLAS<br />
(ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA)<br />
55 Clarey Avenue, 236-5596<br />
Dean: The Archpriest Andrew Morbey<br />
Vigil: 5 p.m., Saturday<br />
Hours: 9:30 Divine Liturgy, 10 a.m. Sunday<br />
Vespers: 7 p.m., Wednesday<br />
* Services are mostly in English.<br />
EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH (Hispanic Ministry)<br />
Bank St. at Fourth (Fourth Avenue Baptist), 852-4981<br />
Pastor: Rev. Pedro Morataya<br />
Sunday Service: 4 p.m.<br />
Sunday School: 3 p.m.<br />
to<br />
St. Matthew's Anglican Church<br />
* Find out what Christianity is all about*
WORDS<br />
Sunnyside branch library<br />
We're back with a full season of programming activities at the<br />
Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa public library.<br />
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS<br />
Time for Twos Mondays 10:15<br />
Storytime for three- to five-year-olds Mondays, 2:15<br />
Toddlertime Tuesdays 10:15<br />
Babes in the Library Tuesdays 2:15 (currently full)<br />
Storytime for three- to five-year-olds Wednesdays, 10:15<br />
MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK GROUP<br />
For girls eight, nine and ten Mon., Sept. 23, 7:30<br />
For girls 10, 11, 12 Tues., Sept. 24, 7:30<br />
GUYSREAD<br />
Guysread for boys eight- to 12-years-old Tues., Sept. 17, 7:30<br />
ADULT READING GROUP<br />
This month's book A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.<br />
Fri., Sept. 20 at 2 p.m.<br />
OTTAWA SOUTH PORCH SALE SEPT. 14<br />
Don't forget to stop by and look for bargain books at the Old Ottawa<br />
South Porch Sale on Sept. 14.<br />
New members welcome at the<br />
Sunnyside book discussion club<br />
BY JANET DESROCHES<br />
The Sunnyside book club meets<br />
monthly on the fourth Friday of<br />
the month, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the<br />
Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa<br />
Public Library. It is open to eve-<br />
ryone and new members are al-<br />
ways welcome. The group has been<br />
meeting for several years now,<br />
and has found the group discus-<br />
sions add another level to the un-<br />
derstanding of the chosen books,<br />
as well as expanding the appre-<br />
ciation of the books discussed.<br />
Members do not have to live in<br />
the Sunnyside area- to join the<br />
group, nor is there a requirement<br />
to commit to the whole year in<br />
order to join. Some people come to<br />
discuss a favourite book or a book<br />
they find particularly intriguing.<br />
Some people manage to come to<br />
every meeting; some only manage<br />
to come on occasion. Of course<br />
there is more of a sense of conti-<br />
nuity for those who make it to<br />
meetings most times. The only<br />
things necessary to join the group<br />
ire a love of good books and a de-<br />
sire to share that love of books<br />
with others.<br />
Titles for discussion are cho-<br />
sen based on participants' sug-<br />
gestions, Web sites devoted to<br />
book clubs and several books de-<br />
voted to discussions of good books<br />
or book discussion groups, such<br />
as Books of the Century and Book<br />
Discussions for Adults. Books are<br />
also selected on the basis of their<br />
being readily available through<br />
the library system. As one mem-<br />
ber noted, "I have a whole house<br />
full of books, I don't want to have<br />
to buy any more books."<br />
The group meets in the cozy<br />
atmosphere of the boys and girls<br />
department of the Sunnyside<br />
branch of the Ottawa Public Li-<br />
brary. Librarian Hélène Merritt<br />
and her able assistant Sue pro-<br />
vide the space, the publicity,<br />
help the group to find the books<br />
within the system, maintain the<br />
list of members, answer inquir-<br />
ies, and generally provide won-<br />
derful encouragement and sup-<br />
port. Janet Desroches generally<br />
leads the discussion, prepares<br />
lists of questions to encourage<br />
discussion. She also provides<br />
some literary criticism gathered<br />
from the Internet or other book<br />
review resources as well as<br />
authors' biographies.<br />
The group has also gone to<br />
lunch together and viewed films<br />
as part of their activities. This<br />
kind of informal get-together<br />
helps members to get to know one<br />
another better and build a spe-<br />
cial camaraderie which in turn<br />
adds to the enjoyment of discus-<br />
sion of books.<br />
Members' different back-<br />
grounds provide material that<br />
expands and adds breadth to an<br />
understanding and appreciation<br />
of the books. When reading My<br />
Antonia for example, the author's<br />
treatment of the isolation and<br />
deprivation of a young immigrant<br />
woman on the American frontier<br />
took on a deeper significance as<br />
several members compared and<br />
contrasted their experience of<br />
life on the Canadian Prairies sev-<br />
eral generations later.<br />
This year the group will be<br />
discussing A Fine Balance by Ro-<br />
hinton Mistry in <strong>September</strong>, and<br />
Where Nests the Water Hen, by<br />
Gabrielle Roy in October. Decem-<br />
ber will feature a work by Dick-<br />
ens, Bleak House, a change from<br />
the usual Dickens Christmas fare.<br />
Other titles for the remainder of<br />
the year will be selected at the<br />
<strong>September</strong> meeting.<br />
Peter McKercher<br />
Interior/Exterior Residential<br />
Renovation and Restoration<br />
370 First Avenue, Ottawa ON K1S 2H1<br />
Telephone (6<strong>13</strong>) 237-0128<br />
FOR SALE<br />
"MUSICAL IWIRUMENTS: record-<br />
ers, altos & musical books for the<br />
instruments. Call 236-8758 6-10<br />
p.m.; 798-5555 ext. 12923 days.<br />
CUSTOM MADE QUEEN ANNE<br />
CAMEL back love seat, tuxedo<br />
style side chair, ottoman & extra<br />
cushions all in neutral pearl grey<br />
upholstery, exc. to mint condition<br />
$575 obo. 230-8685.<br />
BRIO DOUBLE STROLLER 3 yrs<br />
old ex. cond. Navy blue plaid, in-<br />
cludes rain cover & third child<br />
stand $470. 237-7125.<br />
WINDOWS - 44 original wood<br />
windows & screens. Sizes from<br />
14"x21" to 22"x46". Call 231-<br />
4938.<br />
2 ARM CHAIRS $50 ea; kitchen<br />
table $40; bridge table $30, an-<br />
tique dresser $300; electric<br />
typewriter $20; bookcase $20.<br />
2<strong>32</strong>-8904.<br />
AQUARIUM - 20 gal. on wood<br />
cabinet stand w. cover, fluores-<br />
cent light, biowheel filter, heater,<br />
and thermometer; clean, good<br />
cond. $150 230-4201.<br />
ARTISANA WALL HANGING,<br />
100% wool, burgundy & red<br />
stripes, w. pockets for storing<br />
mail or magazines. Best offer.<br />
236-0955.<br />
THE HELPER<br />
Providing organizational and<br />
administrative services to small<br />
business and individuals since<br />
1992. "Lighten your load<br />
...brighten your day"<br />
Call 728-2310<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2002</strong> 34<br />
Lansdowne<br />
Animal<br />
Hospital<br />
T. Zarkeciroari D.V.M., M.S.<br />
281 Stumyside Ave.<br />
(corner of Bank & Sunnyside)<br />
730-2460<br />
THORNE e3 CO.<br />
a garden and gift store<br />
The BULBS have arrived!<br />
Our selection of quality bulbs<br />
includes many varieties<br />
only found in catalogues,<br />
and we import directly from<br />
the grower in Holland.<br />
802 Bank Street 2<strong>32</strong>-6565<br />
GRAF'EVINE<br />
LOST<br />
*CAT, half Siamese, female, at<br />
Central Park around Aug. 5,<br />
longtime family pet brought from<br />
France, missed by her sister<br />
Tweety, 233-1785.<br />
FOUND<br />
*SCOOTER, red, child-size, in<br />
Patterson Creek Park, Aug. 20,<br />
235-6435.<br />
WANTED<br />
OLD USED OR NEW TENNIS<br />
BALLS or rackets to be used for<br />
children in Zimbabwe. Any old or<br />
new tennis equipment would be<br />
appreciated. Thanks. Call 230-<br />
0381.<br />
HELP WANTED<br />
OCCASIONAL HELP, a few hours<br />
weekly, with vacuuming, ironing,<br />
leaf clean-up and other garden<br />
chores. Pay negotiable. 233-7894<br />
or josiepaz@rogers.com<br />
FULL TIME<br />
HELP WANTED<br />
Position available as video<br />
store clerk. Monday to<br />
Friday, noon to 5:00 pm.<br />
Call Diane at 236-2682.<br />
CARPENTRY<br />
RENOVATIONS/<br />
REPAIRS<br />
Peter D. Clarey<br />
422-3714 237-2651
This space acts as a free community bulletin board for <strong>Glebe</strong> residents. Drop<br />
off your GRAPEVINE megsage at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community. Centre, including your<br />
name, address and phone no. FOR SALE items must be less than $1,000.<br />
ACCOMMODATION WANTED<br />
*2 BEDROOM apt. wanted for re-<br />
tired person, must be quiet,<br />
clean, balcony or yard, no pets,<br />
low rent, 233-7392.<br />
CHILDCARE WANTED<br />
*OLD Ottawa South part-time<br />
caregiver wanted for two children<br />
3 and 5, 2-3 days/week. Duties:<br />
accompanying children to & from<br />
local school, outings & lunch<br />
preparation. Experience and / or<br />
ECE & references req. 730-0170.<br />
CHILDCARE AVAILABLE<br />
*WELL-KNOWN experienced<br />
childcare provider in the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
has space available for <strong>September</strong><br />
and beyond. Looking for a 20-<br />
month or older child to join our<br />
happy group. Ref. available, 567-<br />
1594. TUTOR AVAILABLE<br />
* WATERLOO PHYSICS student<br />
available to help with math,<br />
physics or chemistry classes,<br />
reasonable rates, 2<strong>32</strong>-9230.<br />
Guitar Lessons<br />
Experienced teacher offers<br />
beginner to advanced<br />
(Rock, Blues, Jazz, Folk, Country)<br />
Emphasis on Technique,<br />
Ear Training, Improvisation<br />
& Creativity.<br />
Home Studio<br />
in the <strong>Glebe</strong>.<br />
Call: 234-8656<br />
. Tuning,<br />
Rebuilding and<br />
Refinishing<br />
Sales and Rentals<br />
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VOLUNTEERS<br />
* PALLIATIVE CARE information<br />
session will be held at the <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
Centre Tues. Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. for<br />
those interested in becoming<br />
palliative care volunteers. Fol-<br />
lowing this, a 6-week training<br />
session will be offered to those<br />
volunteers, starting Tues. Oct. 1,<br />
at 7 p.m. Contact Jennifer 238-<br />
2727 ext. 353 .<br />
* THE GLEBE CENTRE invites you<br />
to spend an enjoyable hour as-<br />
sisting our residents who are un-<br />
able to feed themselves. You<br />
choose your schedule. The need<br />
is for 8 a.m. breakfast, noon<br />
lunch and 5 p.m. supper 7 days a<br />
week. Students, this is a great<br />
way to fill your community serv-<br />
ice commitment! Please contact<br />
Jennifer in Volunteer Services<br />
238-2727 ext. 353.<br />
*ENGLISH Language Tutoring for<br />
the Ottawa community is a chari-<br />
table organization which needs<br />
volunteers to teach English to<br />
adult immigrants in their homes,<br />
2<strong>32</strong>-8566.<br />
"CANADIAN Museum of Nature<br />
needs volunteers to commit a<br />
half-day per week to the School<br />
Program from October to May.<br />
Training provided. Attend the<br />
Open House session Sept. 25,<br />
1:30-3:00 p.m. at the Museum,<br />
240 McLeod St., 566-4261.<br />
"CITIZEN Advocacy needs a vol-<br />
unteer to be matched with a <strong>Glebe</strong><br />
resident who needs practical as-<br />
sistance and friendship. Partici-<br />
pate 2 or 3 times a month in ac-<br />
tivities you both enjoy, make your<br />
own schedule, 761-9522 or visit<br />
www.citizenadvocacy.org<br />
DRUM LESSONS<br />
by experienced professional<br />
player and teacher. Current<br />
drum instructor for Carleton<br />
University.<br />
Lorne Kelly<br />
(Metro Music)<br />
233-9688 or<br />
725-1119<br />
PIANO LESSONS<br />
Improved method gets<br />
results. 18 years experience.<br />
Royal Conservatory &<br />
others. Creative/innovative<br />
study & practise techniques.<br />
Accepting new students.<br />
Susan 233-4008.<br />
CATHERINE ST. MINI STORAGE<br />
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399 CATHERINE ST.<br />
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U-HAU<br />
AUTHORIZED DEALER<br />
234-6888<br />
NOTICES<br />
*GOOD MORNING Preschool, 174<br />
First Ave. at Bank offers separate<br />
morning programs for 2- and 3-<br />
year-olds & afternoon creative<br />
arts programs for 3- to 5-year-<br />
olds. Places still available in our<br />
afternoon programs, 276-7974.<br />
*DIVORCED or separated? Find<br />
help from the pain at Divorce<br />
Care. Support groups & seminars<br />
commence Thurs., Oct. 3 at Do-<br />
minion Chalmers Church, 355<br />
Cooper St., 235-5143.<br />
"REV. Joshua Arreak from Pond<br />
Inlet will speak at St. Matthew's<br />
Anglican Church (217 First Ave.<br />
near Bank) on Sun., Oct. <strong>13</strong>, 7<br />
p.m., 225-4999.<br />
* ROAST JIM WATSON, Wed. Oct.<br />
16 at Hellenic Community Centre<br />
to support Easter Seals. Tickets<br />
$75. Call 226-3051.<br />
*ALZHEIMER Society workshops<br />
for family members and caregiv-<br />
ers: Legal and Financial Issues,<br />
Wed. Oct. 2, Defensive Behav-<br />
iours: Agitation & Wandering,<br />
Wed. Nov. 6, Advance Care Plan-<br />
ning, Wed. Dec. 4, The Brain &<br />
Behaviour, Wed. Jan. 15, all ses-<br />
sions between 1 p.m.-3 p.m. at the<br />
Perley & Rideau Veterans Health<br />
Centre, 1750 Russell Road, 2nd<br />
Floor Boardroom, $10/session<br />
incl. parking, 523-4004 or e-<br />
mail:ppoirier@alzheimerott.org<br />
WANTED<br />
HOT WHEELS<br />
Late 60's early 70's and/or<br />
accessories, any condition.<br />
Leave message:<br />
(6<strong>13</strong>) 746-4837<br />
APARTMENT<br />
FOR RENT<br />
Beautiful <strong>Glebe</strong> 2 bedroom,<br />
fireplaces, library, dining<br />
room, 1 1/2 bathrooms,<br />
hardwood, $1,376. plus<br />
hydro, 2<strong>32</strong>-7295.<br />
Peter Dawson Violins<br />
231-2282<br />
600 Bronson (@ the Queensway)<br />
GRAPEVINE<br />
NOTICES<br />
*SAM CLAM & Diver Dan, a musi-<br />
cal show for children aged 4-11<br />
years performed by Wendy DeMos<br />
at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Conununity Centre,<br />
Sat Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets $7<br />
per person or $20 per family.<br />
*HIKE for CHEO, Sept. 22 at the<br />
Hellenic Community Centre, 10<br />
km begins at 10:30 a.m., register<br />
between 9 and 10, 736-1776.<br />
*CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Lot-<br />
tery <strong>2002</strong> launches Sept. 24, 783-<br />
9540.<br />
*BYTOWN Voices Choir fall term<br />
starts Wed. Sept. 11 at 7:30 at<br />
Trinity United Church at 1099<br />
Maitland Ave. New voices are wel-<br />
come in all sections, 521-4997.<br />
*GROUP Exhibition of emerging<br />
artists from Ottawa U's Visual<br />
Arts Department, 2 Daly Ave.,<br />
opens Oct. 3, 5-9 p.m., 233-8865.<br />
* ONE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL,<br />
over 25 films on global issues<br />
presented by World Inter-Action<br />
Mondiale at the National Archives<br />
Auditorium and the Ottawa Pub-<br />
lic Library, 238-4659 or<br />
wia@web.net.<br />
*FRIENDS of the Farm present<br />
Bedtime for Gardens Lecture by<br />
Gillian Boyd, Oct. 16, 7-9 p.m.,<br />
building 72 Arboretum, pre-<br />
registration; Craft & Tea Bake<br />
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1\. <strong>Glebe</strong> Neighbourhood Activities Group<br />
<strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre<br />
690 Lyon St. South, Ottawa,'ON K1S 3Z9<br />
Tel: 564-1058 or 233-87<strong>13</strong><br />
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Featuring six captivating <strong>Glebe</strong> homes beginning October 1, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Saturday,-<strong>September</strong> 21, <strong>2002</strong><br />
1:00-4:00 p.m.<br />
564-1058<br />
Tickets are $15.00 per person and are available<br />
,<br />
$30.00<br />
The <strong>Glebe</strong> community is invited to attend<br />
GNAG's Annual General Meeting<br />
Wednesday, <strong>September</strong> 25, <strong>2002</strong><br />
at the <strong>Glebe</strong> Community Centre 7:30 p.m.<br />
Fall <strong>2002</strong> Program Registration<br />
If you would like to become a volunteer or if you wish to<br />
forward a nomination, the Nominating Committee<br />
welcomes your call and can provide you with further<br />
GNAG offers a wide variety of exciting information. Please call Christy Oliver at 233-87<strong>13</strong>.<br />
programs for all ages.<br />
Closing date for nominations is <strong>September</strong> 18, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Don't be disappointed; register todayWhiré-spabes last!