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EMC news – Guy Beaudoin didn’t pay much attention when he heard the fi rst blast at the fi nish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15.

The 57-year-old Manotick resi-dent had just fi nished his twentieth marathon, and he was tired as he walked back across town to fi nd his bag. He fi gured the sound was from a nearby construction site.

But when the second bomb ex-

ploded 10 seconds later, he mustered up the energy to look behind him.

“I realized there was all kinds of smoke and within seconds there were sirens blazing everywhere,” Beaudoin said.

He continued back to his hotel, because even then it hadn’t even crossed his mind that it could have been a terrorist attack, and that a scene of carnage was unfolding at the fi nish line where three people were killed and more than one hun-dred were injured.

It was a full two hours after the bombs exploded around 3 p.m. on Monday, April 15 when Beaudoin realized the full extent of what had happened at the race he’s now run fi ve times.

“I was shocked. I was concerned about the people behind me,” said Beaudoin, who fi nished the race about half an hour before the explo-

sions. He had travelled to the race with

23 other runners with K2J Fitness in Barrhaven, and one woman from his group was missing.

“There was serious concern about where she was. After a little while we were able to fi nd out where she was and that she was safe,” he said.

Beaudoin was one of several hun-dred runners from the Ottawa area, who all managed to escape any in-jury.

Kanata resident Steve Morin was a block away from the fi nish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs went off, and he never heard a thing – at the time he was receiv-ing a massage in the John Hancock building, along with several other runners who had already completed the 42-kilometre race.

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Speaking outManotick resident Callum Nightingale, third from right, joins members of his social group at Mindware Academy after they wrote a letter expressing what its like to live with a disability. From back left, Josh Wells, Jayden Findlay, Callum Nightingale, Nikita Sautchenko, and front left, Nick Fejes, Christian Devey and Cameron Nielson For the full story see page 10.

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church will be hosting a fundraiser for Haiti on April 27.

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Canadian author uses Watson’s Mill for inspira-tion and setting in her new fantasy novel.

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EMC news - Changes to accessible transit service in rural areas made a year ago aren’t working, say riders who pleaded for the tran-sit commission to reinstate Para Transpo ser-vice.

Instead of running Para Transpo vans to transport disabled people within rural areas, OC Transpo decided to provide funding to community service organizations that pro-vide rides.

While it may have sounded like a good idea at the time, the change has left people stranded and isolated, said Adele Muldoon, a West Carleton resident who spoke to the transit commission on April 17 on behalf of the Council on Aging.

Some of the community-based services only run during business hours during the week and none of them are equipped to trans-port people who are confi ned to wheelchairs or scooters. “Every Ottawa citizen should have the opportunity to participate in com-munity life,” Muldoon said.

Commissioning taxis to pick up the slack is not a viable solution, since the companies usually refuse to send cabs to far-fl ung rural areas, Muldoon said.

The city considers the changes to be a suc-cess.

In the past year, community service agen-cies have been able to provide an additional 4,557 trips at an operating cost of $51 per trip – much lower than the cost of running a Para van, which is $77 per trip.

Through the service agencies, clients are also able to travel beyond city limits and book their trips up to two weeks in advance, whereas Para Transpo bookings must be made on the same day the person wants to travel.

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EMC news - The city will plant more than 100 trees in Manotick this spring to try to salvage the village’s tree cover before the emerald ash borer takes hold.

Emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle that has dev-astated ash tree populations in urban Ottawa since 2008, and is now starting to show up in the city’s outskirts as well.

The city estimates about 25 per cent of the city’s canopy is various species of ash, all of which are susceptible to the Asian beetle’s destructive feasts which destroy the tree’s main vein system.

Currently there are only two options for dealing with the beetle: injecting trees with regular courses of expensive insecticide, or removing the trees altogether.

At an information meeting at the Manotick arena on April 18, the Manotick Culture, Parks and Recreation Associa-tion invited city staff to speak to residents about a tree plant-ing initiative meant to mitigate the loss of tree canopy as ash trees are removed from public property.

“Because the bug is here to stay, the biggest strategy is to diversify the trees we plant in the city,” said city staff Ju-lie Jackson. “The fact is that all ash trees can’t be treated. (Tree removal and replace-ment) has to be part of your strategy.”

At the moment, Manotick’s infestation levels are consid-ered low to moderate.

Last summer the city began injecting the village’s healthi-est and most valuable ash trees with TreeAzin, an insecticide proven to keep the beetle at bay for about two years.

This summer, the city will also plant 1,500 new trees across 14 villages.

Villages in Rideau-Goul-bourn ward – Manotick, Kars, Richmond and North Gower – will receive about 310 new trees beginning in mid-May, Jackson said.

Osgoode ward villages, which such as Osgoode, Met-calfe and Vernon will receive just under 300 trees to replace their ash population. That in-cludes a significant planting along Bank Street south of Vernon.

Trees to replace Greely’s extensive ash population are not included in that number.

The new trees will be well-developed saplings about two centimetres in diameter. Most are native varieties – maple, red oak, service berry – but the city also plants hardy for-eign varieties in urban areas.

“We try to stick to native species but there’s nothing na-tive about a city street,” said Jeff Kaster, a landscape ar-chitect consultant who helped Jackson survey the villages for ash trees and potential tree planting opportunities last fall.

Manotick’s 107 trees will be spread across 10 priority parks and roads where clus-ters of ash trees could leave the local tree cover especially sparse in the future.

Manotick’s priority parks include Centennial, South Riv-er Drive, Walter Upton-Col-lins, Miller’s Point, Bracken Field, Scharf, Goddard Street, Orchard Hollow, and Jeffrey Armstrong Memorial.

Van Vliet Road is also a priority area, as it is lined with ash from South River Drive all the way to Christopher Drive.

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by the ash borer infestation, Kaster said.

“Greely’s going to suffer a lot,” he said.

Greely’s street trees are al-most entirely ash, especially in the village’s estate lot sub-divisions. Because of this,

Kaster said plans for Greely’s extensive street tree planting are tentatively postponed un-til the fall to allow for further consultation with residents, although planting will still go ahead in Greely’s parks this spring.

Richmond also stands to suffer as the beetle sweeps through eastern Ontario.

“I feel badly for Richmond because a lot of their trees, ash or not, are at the end of their life. They’re going to lose a lot.”

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Mill’s magic comes to life in fantasy novelEmma [email protected]

EMC news - Watson’s Mill has always displayed a touch of the paranormal, but a Ca-nadian author has taken the mill’s magic to a new level.

Orillia-based writer Julie Czerneda has used Manotick’s mill as the setting for her new fantasy novel, A Turn of Light - where the pastoral village of Marrowdell is not quite what it seems.

Marrowdell is caught be-tween two realms, and at dusk one can catch a glimpse of the magic that thrives in the isolated valley.

Like Manotick, Mar-rowdell’s mill is the heart of the village, although it is only used once a year and runs on magic. The plot centres around the miller’s daughter Jenn, who yearns for adven-ture but cannot leave because she ties the earthly and magi-cal realms together.

The 1,000-page tome is an epic of whimsy and wonder, Czerneda said, and as part of her world-building she travelled across the province looking for grist mills that could inform her writing.

She found ruins, abandoned

buildings and many pieces of mills, but few that could truly show her how mills operate. So when she discovered Wat-son’s Mill online, she had to get there right away.

“It was off season but (mas-ter miller Cam Trueman) ran the mill for me to hear how the mill sounds and feels,” Czerneda said.

She peppered Trueman with dozens of questions, and later asked him to read parts of her novel that detail mill operations. “Just to be able to step back in time like that, and to see the equipment, feel the size of the room, the way the light came in, it made it feel real,” she said.

Trueman said that’s the only way to really experi-ence the mill. “It’s one thing to explain it, but to use more than that one sense you can smell the fl our, hear the water and feel the rumbling of the building,” Trueman said. “I feel like the building can tell the story much better than I can.”

Czerneda will launch her fourteenth novel at the mill’s open day festivities on May 4 with a book signing and reading event in Dickinson Square.

Beginning at 10 a.m. ven-dors including Czerneda will set up in the square. Along with a pile of books to sell and sign, Czerneda and her husband will set up a photog-raphy exhibit inside the mill featuring his research photos from their two visits. Czerne-da will likely read from her book several times during the afternoon.

Throughout the day, visi-tors can also enjoy heritage games on the lawn, catch some music from Terry Mc-Govern and the Retrosonics and check out a vintage wed-ding dress exhibit at Dickin-son House run by the Rideau Township Historical Society.

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Comic Darren Frost to headline ShroomfestEmma [email protected]

EMC news - Shroomfest organizers are bringing the magic back.

Patrons of Metcalfe’s mush-room-themed fundraiser will once again enjoy a live co-median after dinner, and this year organizers have paid big bucks for controversial Cana-dian comic Darren Frost.

“We’ve gone back to live comedy and we’ve hired a very well-respected comic,”

said organizer Al Graham. “(The audience would) rather have one good comic than three mediocre ones.”

Shroomfest is an annual guys’ night out that raises money for charities and non-profit organizations in rural south Ottawa. For the last few years the event has raised about $40,000 a year through ticket sales and silent and live auctions. Since the event started at the Metcalfe Arena eight years ago it has handed out more than $200,000 to the

south Ottawa community. This year the May 2 event

kicks off at 5:30 p.m. with a performance from local band Diamond Heart.

The beer will be flowing as the more than 500 men head in for a dinner which AJ’s Catering puts on for a song. The event is largely sponsored by Continental Mushrooms and Carleton Mushrooms, although a host of other busi-nesses support the fundraiser as well.

Frost will take the stage af-ter dinner to deliver his partic-ular brand of irreverent com-mentary and x-rated comedy.

Graham said the comedy has been disappointing for the past few years, and last year’s attempt at playing televised comedy instead of hiring live acts was a flop.

The one element that will stay on, however, is the op-portunity for local boys to get up on stage and try their own comedy on the crowd.

“The open mic was fantas-tic last year, and that will con-tinue,” Graham said.

Graham said the live and silent auctions will also be a highlight this year, with a trip to the Daytona 500, hockey jerseys and many more prizes up for grabs.

Graham said many busi-nesses have stepped up to

sponsor the event, and more are welcome. Businesses can donate a prize for the auctions, provide a service or cover the

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EMC news - The Village Voices choir will ring in the spring with a concert dedi-cated to warmer weather and rising spirits.

“it’s very upbeat,” said Cathy Graham, a second alto with the choir since 2004.

The choir, an all-women group that draws singers from across rural south Ottawa, will partner with the Manotick Brass quintet at Barrhaven

united Church on Sunday, April 28.

Beginning at 2:30 p.m., the singers and horn blowers will offer several hours of rousing music that promises some-thing for everyone, Graham said.

“Our director likes to do a variety of things so we tend to touch on all kinds of differ-ent kinds of music,” she said. “Some of them you’ll recog-nize, some of them are clas-sical, some of them different languages.”

From les Miserables’ “Castle on a Cloud” to folk hymns like “The Sun Don’t Set in the Morning,” Graham said the choir will cover many genres in the course of a few hours. The Manotick Brass will also offer a variety of tunes. Their first set will cele-brate the “best of British” with a spritely march from the Sec-

ond World War, an overture by Gilbert and Sullivan and a newly commissioned piece called “Scotland the Brave.”

The second set is even more varied. Director Martin luce said the group will move from “A Walk by the Sea,” full of folk songs about the ocean, to a polka piece, a gospel hymn, Whitney Houston’s “One Mo-ment in Time” and then the ever-popular “Bugler’s Holi-day.”

“it really shows the brass off,” luce said.

The Manotick Brass have partnered with the choir once before, and luce said this per-formance should be a treat for the audience.

“We enjoy playing with a choir because it’s a nice con-trast,” he said, noting that the contrast is especially no-ticeable with an all-women’s choir. “We’re always looking

for an opportunity to play with a choir.”

Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Children 12 and under can come in for free. Refreshments will be avail-able during intermission and after the show, as well as raffle tickets for several gift baskets. For tickets contact Graham at [email protected], Nancy at 613-826-2647 or Judy at 613-826-2261. For more information about Vil-lage Voices visit www.free-webs.com/villagevoices.

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Brenda Brake uses a wheelchair and has been a Para Transpo rider for eight years. She’s from Manotick and the village is home to her friends, family and her doctor, but Brake hasn’t been able to make it to a doctor’s appointment for the past year because she now lives in Bar-rhaven – the urban area.

That is due to a separate but related issue – Para service is overloaded and the process of booking a ride is harried and inconsistent, she said.

But even if she does man-age to get to Manotick, she would have to take Para Transpo back to Barrhaven in order to get a ride to the home of a friend or family member in Manotick.

Instead, Brake has taken to meeting her daughter for lunch at a restaurant in Bar-rhaven.

“The question is why they changed anything in the fi rst place,” Brake said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

Some of the transit com-missioners sympathized. While the commission’s chair-woman, Gloucester-South-gate Coun. Diane Deans,

left the room to speak to the media with OC Transpo gen-eral manager John Manconi, Kanata North Coun. Mari-anne Wilkinson was direct-ing staff to look at consulting disabled transit users in the rural area about their needs. Public consultations on Para Transpo are already slated for this summer, she said, so staff should use that opportunity to get a full picture of the chal-lenges disabled transit users face, especially in the rural areas.

The issue affects just under 100 people who need accessi-ble transit service in the city’s rural areas, Wilkinson said. She wants staff to review their specifi c needs and sugges-tions that could improve their access to transit.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Hard-er said maybe the city needs to think outside the box when it comes to Para Transpo, es-pecially in rural areas.

Ottawa has invested a lot of money into making the city accessible, whether it’s curb cuts in sidewalks or low-fl oor buses, Harder said. The city should focus its efforts on en-couraging and helping people with accessibility challenges take advantage of those in-

vestments, Harder said.Encourging riders to book

shorter trips on Para Transpo is one way, Harder said.

Perhaps Para could serve more people if riders could book a trip from their door to an accessible transit station and take conventional transit for the bulk of their trips, she said.

“Certainly an interesting approach but it’s a very big question,” said Pat Scrim-geour, manager of transit planning and reporting.

Para Transpo has a man-date to provide door-to-door service, and while riders can request a shorter trip, they are not encouraged to do that, he added.

There is a need for Ottawa to look at a large-scale rethink of how it wants to provide transit service for disabled people, said John Manconi, the general manager of OC Transpo.

“We need a large-scale policy discussion with some diffi cult dialogue around eli-gibility and what rules you want to use,” Manconi said.

It would involve signifi cant fi nancial considerations Man-coni wasn’t prepared to ad-dress at the April 17 meeting.

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EMC news - The Black Keys will play the opening night of Ottawa’s biggest mu-sical festival, RBC Bluesfest, on July 4, said festival execu-tive director Mark Monahan at an April 18 announcement.

“In terms of name drop power, it’s a great addition,” he said.

The Black Keys are the duo of vocalist and guitarist

Dan Auerback and drummer-producer Patrick Carney, and have won several Grammy Awards.

Last time the Black Keys played Bluesfest, in 2011, a massive rainstorm soaked concert-goers and delayed the show until 10:20 p.m., send-ing the act past the festival’s 11 p.m. curfew.

“We’re hoping to start the show a little earlier,” Mo-nahan said. “It can only get better.”

He also said ticket sales have been much higher than in past years, with youth passes doubling in sales and the three-and fi ve-day passes selling better than expected.

It’s led the organizers to limit the total number of tick-ets sold per night to 25,000, which Monahan expects to hit on half the nights.

“It’s not a perfect science, because we are a 10 day event,” he said.

Several new acts were also announced on April 18, including R&B artist Nick Waterhouse, gospel band the Relatives, electro/house duo DVBBS, producer Adrian Lux, Canadian band Yukon Blonde, pop-rock Imaginary Cities, rapper Everlast and electronic group the Funk Hunters.

Monahan said 99 per cent of the festival lineup has now been confi rmed.

He said it’s a tricky balance to fi nd what is missing from each year’s lineup and book-ing in new bands who have availability.

Bluesfest also released the stages and times of acts on April 18 on their website at www.ottawabluesfest.ca.

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Manotick resident Guy Beaudoin ran his fi fth Boston marathon on April 15. He fi nished the race about 30 minutes before two bombs exploded at the fi nish line, killing three people and injuring more than a hundred others.

A manager announced an “incident had just occurred” and all runners were asked to proceed away from the fi nish line area.

“We were all asked to leave and went upstairs on the streets,” said Morin.

“The streets were just crazy with people in shock and you could smell the bomb blast,” he said.

It was impossible to walk on the roads, he said, with the streets fl ooded with SWAT teams, ambulance and other emergency workers.

“People were crying,” he said. “They said there were body parts everywhere.”

Morin said he tried not to look at the area of the bomb blast.

He walked fi ve kilometres to meet up with his family, who had accompanied him to watch the marathon.

Along the way, Morin re-ceived texts from concerned friends and family members.

“Everyone was texting me to ask if I was OK,” he said. “I texted them I was fi ne.”

Morin said runners were having trouble making calls on their cellphones, but were able to send out texts.

“We relied on strangers and borrowed their cellphones and got a lot of help from Bos-ton people – they were very friendly.”

Morin said he hopes the tragedy won’t hurt the mara-thon in the future.

“I’m trying to fi gure this out today,” he said, a day after the event. “I don’t think it will stop people from doing it (compet-ing in marathons). I think it will unite people around not letting the terrorists affect how we behave.”

Indeed, Beaudoin said he’s “more determined than ever” to return to Boston for next year’s race.

“We’re not going to let that experience slow us down. We’re not going to be deterred by these events,” he said. “Ev-erybody that was qualifi ed this year should make a point to go back to honour the people who were injured or lost their life.”

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No Canadians were injured at the marathon, according to the Ministry of Foreign of Af-fairs on April 15.

Jane Armstrong, a Kanata Lakes woman who trains run-ners in duathlon, triathlon and

running events, was at home watching the results live via the Internet. She was tracking two of her students as well as some friends from Ottawa’s running community compet-ing in the event.

One of her students Jenny Hopkins had already fi nished the race, but her other student, Terri Bolster, still had more than an hour before she would reach the fi nish line.

“I stopped at one point, went for a run and a bike workout for one hour around the time of the explosion,” said Arm-strong.

When she returned to check the race results on the com-puter, the website listed Bol-ster as having completed 40 kilometres.

“I could tell she was run-ning strong so I was puzzled,” said Armstrong.

Then the emails and phone calls started pouring in.

“What’s going on in Bos-ton, Jane? Do you know?” read one email.

Armstrong then checked for media reports, and learned bombs had gone off near the fi nish line.

“Then I panicked,” she said. “Terri had to be close to the explosion or right in the thick of it.”

Armstrong went to her Facebook home page, where she was connected with hun-dreds of runners and running groups, and left messages for her two students.

Both students eventually responded that they were alive and unhurt.

Bolster, a 62-year-old Or-léans woman and a retired teacher, said she’d been one kilometre away from the fi nish line when the bombs went off.

“All the runners were pan-icked,” Bolster later told Arm-strong.

The streets near the fi n-ish line were shut down and congested with people and the runners were forced to stop.

“They were freezing,” said Armstrong. “They started to shiver, muscles were seizing up. A stranger gave (Bolster) a

sweatshirt to stay warm.”Stewart Campbell, a former

Renfrew resident who now lives in Pembroke, celebrated his 55th birthday by complet-ing the 117th edition of one of the world’s most prestigious road races.

Campbell fi nished his 25th marathon in 3 hours and 11 minutes.

But about an hour later one of his Pembroke running col-leagues, Bob Bobeldijk, 76, was within about 300 metres of the fi nish line where the fi rst bomb exploded.

Bobeldijk kept on running, but 10 seconds later a second bomb went off, closer to him, and security people rushed onto the course and prevented any runners from continuing.

Earlier in the race, Bo-beldijk stopped to use one of the race course portable wash-rooms, which Campbell said may have saved his life.

Most worrisome for Bo-beldijk was that he knew his wife Arpick was waiting for him near the fi nish line.

It was only when they found each other, and embraced, that he was able to relax.

“Everyone (of my friends here) was worried because they knew I would come in about this time,” he said.

“It was emotional to see each other alive,” he said.

Bobeldijk also emailed his daughter in Pembroke and son in Vancouver to let them know he was okay.

“I’m just devastated,” said Campbell.

“It’s changed the whole marathoning scene. I was hop-ing to go to New York for the marathon this fall, but now there’s going to be dog sniff-ers everywhere.”

He was also hoping to run his 10th Boston Marathon next year, but now time will tell what organizers are think-ing about the future of this and many other international events.

Renfrew resident Colleen Berry, who has run four Bos-ton Marathons, was not in Boston this week, but says she had wondered for years if something like this might ac-tually happen.

“Every year I’ve stood at the start of the Boston Mara-thon for the national anthem and wondered if something could happen with thousands of people in the same place,” said Berry.

“I was always praying, ‘Don’t let something like 9/11 happen.’”

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The streets were just crazy with people in shock and you could smell the bomb blast. STEVE MORIN

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Few people realize the connection between economics and science fi ction, but the similarities are dramatic.

Most obvious, is the language com-ponent. The jargon-laden gibberish spoken by economists closely resembles the techno-slang uttered by space warriors.

For one there is incentivization and confront-ing redundancies, for the other there is the anti-gravity fi eld and the leap to hyperspace — both equally intelligible.

But there are other similarities, such as the common belief in vaporization. This is most apparent when attacks on budget defi cits are in season, as they are now. Both corporate and governmental decision-makers are vigorously seeking to better their bottom line.

At tax time, we in Ottawa know what those who are doing the cutting think: they reduce their costs and their bottom line looks better. For a corporation, that means increased value for shareholders; for a government, it means ap-plause from the media and some of the voters.

Thus, you get events like government cuts to the compliance program of the Canada Revenue Agency, which will involve about 300 full-time jobs. You get decisions like the closing of seven Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries across the country, one of them opened only last

year. The move has been deplored in the scien-tifi c community. No fi gures about jobs lost have been released, but you know there will be some.

We can leave to more learned people the as-sessment of the effi ciencies involved. Can more really be done with less, as the job-slashers always insist? There’s always a fi rst time.

More important, and less frequently ex-amined, is the question of what happens to those people whose jobs are lost. Somehow an assumption is made that these cuts have no impact. Those who lose their jobs happily trundle off to other jobs. Or, perhaps, they just vanish, leaving blameless employers happily to contemplate their improved bottom line.

The concept of the vaporized unemployed fi ts nicely with the theory that societal happi-ness is the sum of all the corporate and govern-

mental bottom lines.But what if laid-off people don’t actually

disappear? What if they turn up at some other offi ce looking for work? And what if that offi ce is in the process of confronting redundancies too?

What you have then is a number of people who are out of work, who can’t buy things, who pay less or no taxes. That doesn’t help the economy. The more cuts are made, the more of such people there are. Assuming they are not vaporized.

In addition to the economic cost are the hu-man costs — children who have to do without, parents who can’t afford day care.

There are certainly corporate and govern-ment economists out there who can explain how this benefi ts our society, but their explanations escape me right now.

When governments say they want to crack down on tax evasion, how does that go with laying off some of the people involved in that? When governments say that job creation is their aim, how is that aim advanced by eliminating jobs?

Perhaps in outer space, it works, where the rules may be different. Perhaps in outer space, you can create jobs by cutting jobs. Perhaps in outer space that’s the usual way of doing things.

Not having any knowledge to the contrary, we can imagine that, in outer space, budget defi -cits can be put into a transporter and made to vanish into another galaxy. We can imagine that jobs can be created with a Laser Job Creation Apparatus (patent pending).

It is a bit harder to imagine that down here. If the jobless are vaporized, who are all those folks down at the food bank? Yet it clearly is part of the belief systems of those who are mak-ing the big decisions.

It can’t do any hard harm to cut 300 jobs, they reason. Actually, it will do good. Yeah, that’s the ticket. It works on Mars.

CHARLES GORDON

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One of Boston’s fi nest hours

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Tragedies bring out the best and the worst in people.

In the case of the explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15, the worst is

painfully obvious.Three people dead, including an eight-year-old

boy, and more than 100 others injured.This was an attempt to create terror, to hurt people,

possibly to make a political statement.When the bombs went off, a fl ood of people

rushed onto the streets. At fi rst, it was a knee-jerk reaction to the horror and confusion of the scene.

But almost immediately afterwards, another, larger fl ood of people rushed towards the site of the blasts, nurses, doctors, paramedics and emergency workers helping the victims and sealing off the area.

Runners stranded en route to the fi nish line were surrounded by Boston residents who offered them clothing, water, warm clothing and cellphones to contact their loved ones.

If this was one of Boston’s worst hours, it was also one of its fi nest.

This act of terror did not have the presumably de-sired effect, if the reactions of some of the runners we spoke to following the blast is anything to judge by.

Many runners praised the marathon and said they

hoped to compete in it again.Ottawa will play host to its own prestigious run-

ning event, Ottawa race weekend on May 24 and 25.Following the explosions at the Boston Marathon,

Ottawa race weekend organizers acknowledged that the attack made them more conscious about security surrounding the annual race.

But it certainly won’t stop them from holding the event.

Terrorists have tried in the past to instill a culture of fear surrounding large public gatherings – for instance the backpack bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Games that killed two people and injured 120.

But every Olympics since has simply grown bigger and better.

And the athletes and the fans continue to fl ock to the events.

Acts of terrorism are hard to predict and diffi cult to completely prevent, however they are rare events and have a negligible effect on public opinion, except to make them more security conscious.

The Boston Marathon bombing is no different.The resiliency of the fans and runners in the face

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EMC news – A group of boys di-agnosed with Asperger’s syndrome or autism have written a letter to the public asking people to be open minded and to try and understand what it is like to have a disability.

“I am a 12-year-old boy who has to deal with social challenges every single day that most people do not have to worry about,” Twelve-year-old Nick Fejes wrote.

“I often will get into fi ghts but not really understand what started it in the fi rst place and I also have a hard time perceiving other people’s side of the story. It is hard for me to process my emotions. I wish that most people in the general public, the average Ca-nadian citizen, would view kids on the spectrum as actual people, rather than “something strange.”

Nick is but one voice of the many,

all saying the same thing, simply, they want to be heard and to be treat-ed as normal.

The group of boys attend a private school in the city’s west end called Mindware, which offers children with learning disabilities, a different approach to learning.

The school runs a daytime and af-ter-school social group which helps boys like Nick work on social inter-actions and feelings. It was during this group time that teacher Susan Mancini worked with the boys on expressing their feelings on paper.

“Usually when they fi rst come to the school they are withdrawn, mis-trusting and scared,” Mancini said. “I noticed the kids needed to vent. To get their words out. At fi rst I would transcribe what they were saying, af-ter that, the boys began to write their own words down.”

The group shared their thoughts with each other and then, tentatively, with the rest of the school.

“They were nervous to share, but once they saw how well other stu-dents in the school responded, the group decided to stretch their reach a little farther. They thought what if we could get it out to the general pub-lic?” she said.

The goal is to let the public know how people with a disability feels on a daily basis; what it feels like when they are teased, or mistreated.

“We want the world to under-stand,” Callum Nightingale said.

Some of the feelings in the letter are raw and incredibly open.

Twelve-year-old Nikita Sautch-enko, an avid gamer with Asperger’s syndrome, said he feels just an aver-age kid, but students in his former public school treated him poorly on a daily basis.

“It got to the point where I was turning into a bully just to keep them away from me,” he said.

Creating a hard shell on the sur-face, Nikita admits he was battling depression and thoughts of suicide when he came home.

“I wish that the general public or people who are “normal” would view people on the spectrum as regular people and not weirdos or outcasts,” Nikita wrote.

Now the social group would like to share their message with as many people who care to listen.

For them, the group describes this crusade as not only about teaching the world about treating them bet-ter, it’s about stopping bullying from happening to other children like them.

Each one of the students who

wrote the letter at one time attended public school, before transferring to Mindware.

The bullying, according to the group, starts around Grade 3.

“Right around the time kids start to notice there is something different about you,” Nick said.

It can start out small, either they don’t get picked for a team, or they get ignored in the schoolyard, but each one of the boys says that it esca-lates quickly to name calling, teasing and exclusion.

The purpose of the letter is to fos-ter change.

“I don’t want other kids to have to go through what we did,” Jayden Findlay said. “It needs to change. Everyone needs to change.”

The boys come from different parts of the city and each admit they would like the change to start in their own neighbourhoods, but would be happy if any school, parent or youth would listen to them.

Callum said spreading the word today is important, because he won’t always have his school to make him feel safe.

“Here everyone understands you, but eventually, you have to go out in the real world and it would be nice to know that people out there under-stand you,” Callum said.

The next step for the group will be to spread their message to different school boards and groups who are willing to listen.

Mancini said she will meet with different schools, presenting their letter and hopefully, the boys will have a chance to hold presentations on the issue.

Kids with Asperger’s, autism speak out Letter addresses issues of bullying, autism awareness

Letter from the group:DEAR PUBLIC: We are a group of able people who have decided to write a letter to the public to help others understand us. Below, you can read a testimonial from each member of our classroom team:

I am a 13-year-old kid who is diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum and I struggle everyday because there are lots of parts of my day where I feel stressed or mad. I try to start fresh with a new day but every day for some reason I feel hurt and cry often. A lot of people make fun of me because I am sensitive but deep down I am just a normal person. Many people have thought I am weird in the past or say that I am not smart but I just ask to be treated like a normal person.- Callum Nightingale

I am a 10-year-old boy who has to deal with Asperger’s. Most days I have to hold off my emotions. When I can’t hold off , I start too cry and shut down. All that I wish is that all people would treat me like a normal person. Not many people support me and sometimes I feel all alone in this world. When I am lucky, I get some support.- Josh Wells

I am a 12-year-old boy who has to deal with social challenges every single day that most people do not have to worry about. I often will get into fi ghts but not really understand what started it in the fi rst place and I also have a hard time perceiving other people’s side of the story. It is hard for me to process my emotions. I wish that most people in the general public, the average Canadian citizen, would view kids on the spectrum as actual people, rather than “something strange.”-Nick Fejes

We have come together as a social skills class to write this letter to the public. We want them to know that we are all human beings. So what if we have a disability? We may have challenges in life but we still want to be viewed as normal people. We still have the right to a good education, respect from those around us, to interact with others without exclusion, and we have the right to be treated as a valu-able human being. We wish to simply be understood.SINCERELY, CLASSMATES

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EMC news - This spring, the Isle in the River Review theatre troupe in Osgoode will take a different direc-tion with its rendition of Heroes, Tom Stoppard’s English adaptation of Ger-ald Sibleyras’ play Le Vent des Peupli-ers and winner of the 2006 Lawrence Olivier award for comedy.

The three-man play takes place on the isolated terrace of a French mili-tary hospital in 1959 where World War I veterans Gustave, Philippe, and Henri are spending the twilight of their lives.

The trio passes each day in never-ending rounds of bickering, grousing about the staff (especially tiny Sister Marguerite, whom, rumor has it, har-bours homicidal thoughts toward the patients), fantasizing about comely women and dreaming of escape.

“It’s a funny play, a gentle comedy that has been described as The Odd Couple for three,” says director An-dre Dimitrijevic. “I fi rst saw this play a few years ago at a performance for high school students. I was surprised at how much they understood and enjoyed the play. Their laughter was contagious.”

The play opens May 3 and runs May 4, 5, 9, 10 and 11 at the Osgoode Community Centre.

ITR’s regulars will recognize cast members Len Trembley and Dirk Visbach from a number of previous plays, which are hosted at the com-munity centre in spring and fall.

Although this is Joel Rahn’s fi rst appearance with ITR, he is a long-standing actor in the Ottawa area, having performed with Phoenix Play-ers and Ottawa Little Theatre and most recently with the Greely Players in The Wizard of Oz.

Dimitrijevic has also been involved with community theatre groups in Cumberland, Orleans, New Edin-burgh, Nepean, Osgoode and Gatin-eau and fi rst joined ITR in 2011 as an actor in Ghost of a Chance.

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a number of awards, including four Tonys and an Oscar for his screenplay for the movie Shakespeare in Love,” he said. “But what I particularly like about Stoppard is his rapier-sharp wit, dazzling use of language, and keen observations of human nature.”

No matter what is going on in your world, you will forget it all while en-joying these 90 minutes of comic cur-mudgeonery, camaraderie and nostal-gia, Dimitrijevic said.

“You’ll come to care about the characters and you’ll be happier for having made the journey,” he said.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for seniors and students. Evening shows start at 7:30 p.m. And The matinee Sunday show on May 5 be-gins at 2 p.m.

The dinner theatre performance on May 11 will again feature caterer David Smith beginning at 6 p.m., and tickets for dinner and a show are $48.

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EMC news - Giving resi-dents the ability to search for city services and information by neighbourhood is so important it will be the focus of a new tool that will launch on ottawa.ca in June.

The map-based application called In My Neighbourhood will let people search for things like what types of swimming lessons are offered at pools near where they live, work, or go to school. It will include informa-tion on things like the hours of nearby library branches and in-formation about local road con-struction projects.

“It’s a way for people to fi nd out the service the city has that have value to them,” said Donna Gray, the director of Service Ot-tawa. Many of the requests for information the city receives have a location-specifi c focus, so it only makes sense to pres-ent information in a way that has meaning to people, Gray said. “The city is defi ned by its geography and people relate to it through its geography,” said

Rob Collins, the city’s chief in-formation offi cer.

The tool is part of a larger overhaul of the city’s map-based software. The cumbersome and outdated eMap tool will be re-placed with a slicker format the city has dubbed geoOttawa. One of the most useful features will be that the new map plat-form will contain up-to-date data from all city departments.

“It means all parts of the City of Ottawa are starting to work from the same database,” instead of just looking at “snapshots” of the information, said Laine Wyman, project manager for the city’s geographic informa-tion systems and citizen-centric projects. “I can’t overemphasize how important this is,” he add-ed. That will make data collec-tion and presentation more effi -cient, but it also means the city -- and residents -- can do more with the information and use it in new ways, Wyman said.

GeoOttawa will look like Google Maps and have mobile and light versions, which is not currently the case with eMap.

EMap is part of an internal city staff tool called MAP (Mu-

nicipal Application Partnership) that 2,300 city workers use to ac-cess and store information about things ranging from planning approvals to bylaw enforcement and road inventories. MAP was brought in after amalgamation, but the underlying software it’s based on hasn’t been supported by its manufacturer for eight years. Gaining access to MAP is an ongoing struggle between city councillors and staff. Coun-cillors used to be able to use the system until approximately a year ago, when they were shut out of the system and forced to request city staff to look up the information on their behalf.

Councillors will be getting an update about why they no longer have access to that infor-mation at the next fi nance and economic development com-mittee meeting after Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Peter Clark brought it up during an April 10 council meeting. Mayor Jim Watson said the issue is entan-gled with privacy regulations re-lated to the municipal freedom of information and protection of privacy act and the Municipal Property Assessment Corpora-tion.

“I really fi nd that the rationale given for MFIPPA and MPAC are not intended … to hamper councillors’ access to informa-tion,” Clark said. “It’s not as if the members around this table are not to be trusted.”

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The Steele-Briggs seed catalogue was now mine.

Mother’s order had long since arrived. All over the house, for weeks, Mother had been urging little flat wood boxes of earth to show signs of life.

These boxes emerged ev-ery year, filled with earth by Father, and until it was time to plant the sprouts out in the garden, they sat on benches and chairs, watched and wa-tered by Mother.

When Mother first planted the seeds, I was wild with ex-citement. I checked every day to see if anything had sprung up, but after days and days of constant vigilance, I lost inter-est, and instead concentrated on the seed catalogues, for which I had great plans.

Using one of the rough-lined scribblers Mother had bought from Ritz’s Drug Store in Renfrew on the One-Cent-

Sale, I re-created my very own seed catalogue. When I was finished, it didn’t at all look like the Steele-Briggs one that came in wintertime.

The first thing I did was cut out all the pictures in the catalogue that were in colour. Then I sorted the pictures in two piles ... one for vegetables and one for flowers

When that job was finished, I next arranged the flowers into little piles, with my very favourites on top, and my least favourite ones on the bottom.

I was especially fond of the pictures of the roses. The red ones. And there were pink and yellow ones too, but the blood-red ones, I thought were very special. Mother never ordered roses, which was a big disap-pointment to me, but she said the ground out at Northcote wasn’t good enough for rose bushes.

I was at the stage in my life when I loved to draw. And so

I drew little gardens on each page of the big scribbler with the rough pages and the shiny black cover. I coloured the pages with my crayons, and I thought I had done a good enough job to even take the finished book to show Miss Crosby at the Northcote School.

Again, my sister Audrey advised me to keep it at home, since it may cause bad Mar-guirite to go into a fit of jeal-ousy, and goodness knows what that could mean!

And so I would begin to create my very own catalogue. The roses went onto a page

first. The red ones. Another page of drawings, and then the pink roses, and finally, the yellow ones.

By the time I had worked through all the little piles of cut-out flowers and pasted them into the scribbler, each separated by a crayon-co-loured drawing, the scribbler was so fat, it was impossible to keep it closed.

But if nothing else, those scribblers were a bargain.

There were still plenty of empty pages left for the pic-tures of my favourite vegeta-bles.

I was never that fond of tur-

nips or cabbages, but blood-red tomatoes and green cu-cumbers, yellow beans, and radishes, all had their own pages in my ‘seed catalogue’.

My brother Emerson, who was a far better artist that I was, and never let me forget it, laughed at my attempt at drawing gardens in my scrib-bler. But Mother said my pic-tures reminded her of the big calendar we got from Scott’s Hardware that year which was a country scene taken by a real camera. And that was good enough for me!

When finally, the little wood boxes of earth scattered all over the house started to sprout, and finally grow a few inches, my interest was renewed. I again looked ev-ery day to see their growth, even though my sister Audrey reminded me “a watched pot never boils,” which I finallly realized had nothing to do with a pot on the stove.

I kept my handmade seed catalogue under my bed for the weeks it took for the wood boxes to produce enough growth to move the plants to the garden and the flower beds. Every so often I would take it out, swelled as it was to three times its size, and leaf through it, anxious for the day I could take it out to the garden. Be-cause when you could finally tell which plants would be carrots, and which would be cucumbers, and which flower bed would produce asters or cosmos, I would spend many a happy hour outside with my catalogue, matching my cut-out pictures to what was taking new life in the ground back in those depression years when we were expected to amuse ourselves without benefit.

It was a simple way of spending many happy hours free of costly toys. Like mak-ing rag dolls, whittling, carv-ing sling-shots, boiling weeds to make coloured water, and building sand castles on the banks of the Bonnechere Riv-er, the price was just right.

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Victory for ViennaFrom left, Maura Walsh, Peyton Seymour, Vienna Arbic, Teagan Sey-mour, Naomi Black and bottom, Olivia Wilson, and Skylar Campbell-Hill pose with the Stanley Cup at the A Victory for Vienna Fundraiser at Tail-gator’s on April 13. The fundraiser for Vienna Arbic sold tickets through

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EMC news – Taking advan-tage of lower ridership rates between school years, work begins on the O-Train service expansion project on April 27.

Between that date and Sept. 2, the transit line will be shut down to make way for track, bridge and tunnel mainte-nance, station upgrades, and the construction of passing tracks in two locations - one of them near Gladstone Av-enue, the other by Brookfield Road. The $59 million project was approved by city council in 2011.

During the shutdown, ser-vice to each of the five O-Train stations will be offered by Route 107.

That route will follow the Southeast Transitway from South Key Station to Heron, then connects to Bronson

via Data Centre Avenue. The route then performs a loop of Campus/University Avenue at Carleton University before leaving Bronson to connect to Preston Street via Carling Avenue. It then continues down Preston to Albert Street in order to reach the Lebreton Transitway Station.

Construction of passing tracks will allow for double the amount of trains to run – four instead of two – with service going from every 15 minutes to every eight minutes after the new infrastructure has been tested.

The city will receive deliv-ery of six new diesel Alstom Coradia Lint trains this fall to replace the three Bombardier trains that have been in service since the line opened in 2001.

The city has notified Car-leton University that there will be some traffic congestion in

the area of the River Building once work commences.

As of press time, OC Transpo has not responded to requests for information on the possibility of disruptions in the areas where passing tracks are being constructed.

Kitchissippi Coun. Kath-erine Hobbs, whose eastern ward boundary is the O-Train line, said her office has had “no notification (that) it would be required.”

Upgrades to increase the O-Train’s capacity are being car-ried out this year in advance of the planned shutdown of Hur-dman Station in 2015.

When that major transit hub is closed during the construc-tion of the Confederation LRT line, the O-Train should be able to handle the increased amount of riders expected to use the service as an interim measure.

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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELFGet the whole Ottawa story by visiting our 10 community museums.

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Check out what’s happening:Billings Estate National Historic Site Opening mid-May

Bytown MuseumMay 5: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cumberland Heritage Village MuseumOpening mid-May

Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum Until June 11: Voices of our Past: Top secret stories from the employees of CFS Carp exhibit

Goulbourn MuseumMay 5: Mardi Gras Merriment - Family craft day

Pinhey’s Point Historic SiteOpening mid-May

Nepean Museum.May 11: Marvelous Moms craft program

Osgoode Township Historical Society and MuseumApril 27 to June 29: Adult stained-glass course

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A Win-Win for Canadian InfrastructureLike Canada’s baby boomers, many of our roads and bridges are getting older and will need to retire in the next 20 years.

That means the country has two expensive, simultaneous problems. The number of people in Canada over 65 will double from 4.7 million to 9.3 million within two decades, just as we must pay to replace or reconstruct numerous big-city thoroughfares and bridges that are between four and six decades old.

Is there a way for each to help fund the other? Pension plans have investment capital but need income. Infrastructure needs capital and can provide income. Why not allow the pension funds to profit from investments in building, maintaining and operating roads, bridges and transit?

In fact, this is already happening. Those living in the Greater Toronto Area are familiar with the success of Highway 407, a private highway that runs 108 km between Burlington and Pickering. The electronic billing system allowed 114 million trips in 2010 to be completed with no inconvenient tollgate stops. So successful is this 400-series highway that its owners are now expanding it east to Oshawa, with two new links south to Highway 401.

The highway is not only good for drivers, but also for retirees. Pension plans, mutual funds and others have purchased $4-billion in bonds in Highway 407, and the Canada Pension Plan — with a 40% stake — is one of its largest shareholders. So when Canadians drive this private highway, they are contributing to their retirement. With $174.4-million in net earnings in this year, the highway can offer lucrative interest and dividends that will help fund the golden years of Canadians.

Pension funds are also invested in the transit business. A private-sector consortium designed, built, and partially financed the 19.5 km Canada Line in British Columbia and will operate it for 35 years. The Line links Vancouver to Richmond and the airport. With $720-million from the private sector, it is the biggest capital project in British Columbia’s history, saving the province saved an estimated $92-million. One of the lead shareholders in the project is the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, which invests on behalf of the pension plans of 500,000 people. Another is the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which manages the province’s public sector pensions.

For this model to work, policy makers must do three things. First, before each major project, they must ask: can the private sector build, finance, own and/or operate the asset better and more affordably than government?

If the answer is yes, the second step is an open and fair competition among bidders. Limiting competition to favoured interest groups only drives up project cost, leading to higher taxes, tolls and fares for taxpayers and commuters.

Third, the government should resist any temptation to play matchmaker. While large pools of capital make pension funds a perfect fit, tendering processes should not be biased towards them. Nor should politicians intervene to force public plans like the CPP or the Caisse to invest in particular projects.

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EMC news - OC Transpo has the go-ahead to roll out Presto smart cards for fare payment on July 1.

The cards won’t be compat-ible with the Presto system in the GTA – yet – and transit commis-sioners were concerned about the delay in updating the cards’ cash balance online, but those worries weren’t enough for the commission to put the brakes on the smart card fare system.

Starting May 18, OC Transpo will begin to distribute 184,000 of the remaining 200,000 free Presto cards the city initially planned to give out last year. The launch was plagued with delays and the past year has been “dif-ficult, complex and (a) resource intensive project,” but the system is now ready to go, OC Transpo general manager John Manconi told the transit commission on April 17.

Transit commission chair-woman Coun. Diane Deans called the final decision to OK Presto a “historic day” in Ottawa.

After a year of delays, testing and tracking, the transit commis-sion is more confident in moving forward with Presto now than it was a year ago, Deans added.

As with any large, technical system, there will be glitches, Manconi said. But there are no system-wide issues that would cause concern, he added.

“It certainly seems that we’ve turned the corner from a mood of cynicism to optimism,” said transit commissioner and Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess.

Beyond technical problems there are other nagging issues that bothered transit commis-sioners.

One issue is the 24- to 48-hour delay between when cus-tomers top up the cash balance on their cards and when they have access to use that money on a bus. A delay is undesir-able, commissioners agreed, but if it’s unavoidable for technical reasons, Metrolinx should at least try to ensure the delay is consistent. A range causes con-fusion, said new commissioner Mark Johnson during his first meeting.

“It would be good to have a defined time period so as to avoid customer confusion,” Johnson said.

Manconi said he and OC Transpo will come back at some time in the future with a better solution.

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won’t yet be able to tap their cards on Presto readers in To-ronto or Hamilton. There is no date on when that might hap-pen. The GTA system will be upgraded before the end of the year and then Metrolinx will be making the decision about when to upgrade Ottawa to that same system to ensure all cards work in both regions.

A Presto replacement for pa-per tickets is not being addressed right now. For Para Transpo, the city will be spending $3 million to find an interim technological solution to bridge the gap be-tween OC Transpo passes and the types of fare payments that are accepted on Para Transpo.

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One of the main lessons learned over the past year was to avoid a big release of Presto cards all at once, Manconi said.

“A staged and measured re-lease is key,” he said, but the number 1 objective is still to get the card into people’s hands and get them using it.

Cards will be available in a number of ways. During the test period, demand for cards was highest through the website, www.prestocard.ca, and that’s the first spot most riders will be able to get one on May 18.

Starting May 27, riders will be able to pick up a card at city cli-ent service centres, OC Transpo

sales and information centres, as well as Transitway stations on a rotating schedules.

Select library branches across the city will also begin distribut-ing the cards starting June 3.

OC Transpo will have Presto outreach targeted at park-and-ride pass holders on May 17 and 18. Other selected groups, in-cluding seniors, community pass holders and certain community organizations and health cen-tres will also be the focus of OC Transpo’s efforts to distribute Presto cards over the summer. Ecopass holders will be able to get a Presto card as their annual passes expire between August and October.

COSTS

The overall cost to adopt the Presto system in Ottawa has gone up to $34.2 million, but the city will only pay $31.2 mil-lion – the rest will be covered by Metrolinx.

The provincial agency had al-ready committed to reimbursing the city for around $3 million to cover the cost of delays and lost revenue due to the delays. Metro-linx has now agreed to cover an-other $1.5 million in costs.

It’s important to remember that saving money isn’t the intent of moving to a smart-card pay-ment system, Manconi said. The idea is to provide better service that attracts more riders, he said.

Green card gets the green lightCommission OKs Presto card to launch July 1

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EMC sports - Soccer sea-son is upon us, and Metcalfe’s community program is warm-ing up for an energetic eight weeks of drills, thrills and friendly scrimmage.

The weekly program is a starter league, mostly geared to younger tots who have nev-er played soccer before and want to try it out.

“Its a great way to get the kids out into the fresh air, get them running around even if its just for an hour,” said or-ganizer Pam Furlong, who has taken over the league this year with the help of other parent volunteers.

“It lets them figure out if they want to go into some of the more serious leagues.”

The program is now accept-ing registrations, and the sea-son will start May 9 or 16 de-pending on field conditions at McKendry Park in Metcalfe. The program wraps up at the end of June. Every Thursday,

players and their parents arrive at McKendry Park at 6:30 p.m. for a half hour of skill-build-ing drills and games, followed by about 20 minutes of scrim-mage. The evening ends with a cool treat for everyone.

“For a lot of kids, this is the only bit of sports that they will get,” Furlong said.

On the field, the kids are split into grade levels, and Fur-long said the biggest groups by far are the kindergartens and Grade 1s.

The entire program is run by parent volunteers - and Furlong said every parent be-comes a volunteer at some point in the season.

“When I get a new person, I tell them it is a parent-run association so every parent

is expected to pitch in where needed, whether its being a coach or a team cheerleader,” Furlong said.

The program is “low-tech,” Furlong said. No uniforms are required, just cleats and high socks and an age-appropriate soccer ball. The league pro-vides pinneys for scrimmage.

A special needs program runs simultaneously, and wel-comes kids and their siblings to do skills development drills to their own level of capabil-ity. Parents who have not reg-istered yet can show up on Thursday May 9 or 16 to reg-ister on the spot. Fees are $15 per child or $30 per family. For more information contact Furlong at [email protected].

Soccer has become the most common sport for both boys and girls.

Once seen as a European or South American sport, soccer has caught on among Cana-dian youth, with nearly 20 per cent of young people playing the game.

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For a lot of kids, this is the only bit of sports that they will get. Pam Furlong


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EMC news – A motion by a south Ottawa public trustee to give the Ontario ombudsman extra authority to investigate and intervene in com-plaints that aren’t resolved within the school boards, was voted down on April 2.

Gloucester-Southgate trustee Mark Fisher, brought forward the motion seeking support from his fel-low trustees to write a letter to the premier and leaders of the offi cial opposition, asking them to re-intro-duce and support legislation to mod-ernize the Ombudsman act.

Fisher was the only one that voted in favour of the motion.

“I am disappointed but certainly, that will not stop me as an individual trustee moving forward and trying to advocate for this kind of change,” said Fisher.

The legislation that Fisher is fi ght-ing for would allow the ombudsman to investigate public complaints in-volving school boards as well as the governing bodies of universities, hospitals and municipalities

“The majority of the trustees felt that if the Ombudsman had the re-sponsibility to investigate public complaints that would undermine and take away the responsibility from school boards,” he said.

“I think there is a lot of merit in putting in place another level of re-course for parents.”

According to the 2011-12 annual report of the ombudsman, Ontario has fallen behind in oversight of or-ganizations providing critical public services referred to as the “MUSH” sector – municipalities, universities, school boards, hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities, police, and children’s aid societies.

“There are parents that fi nd them-selves in tough situations and feel they need to seek out another avenue to get another hearing in a more fair and impartial way,” said Fisher.

“Extending these responsibili-ties to the offi ce of the Ombudsman made ultimate sense to me.”

Fisher said he wished trustees had taken more time to understand how the offi ce of the Ombudsman works and how they could relate to that of-fi ce in a meaningful and respectful way.

“At the end of the day the Om-budsman is not going to look at any complaint unless due process has been followed and exhausted at the local level – this includes engaging the teacher, then the principal, school board offi cials and trustees,” he said.

He said the legislation seeks to en-hance the level of transparency and accountability in the education sec-tor.

Rideau-Vanier trustee Rob Camp-bell who chose to abstain said it was unfortunate that the motion was de-feated without seeking to improve it.

“I think it is too bad that the board as a whole wasn’t more supportive and I think there was something of value in his motion,” said Campbell.

Campbell said he suggested a few amendments, which Fisher didn’t want to incorporate in his motion, in-cluding one that sought the motion to just focus on school boards.

“He declined to seek those amend-

ments so I had to abstain, though I support his motion in principle,” said Campbell.

“If his motion had passed that would be one more avenue for re-course for citizens and I am confi -dent the people I represent would be all for it.”

Campbell added that for years now trustees across the province have felt their powers and authority are not re-spected.

Fisher said voting down his mo-tion will not stop him from continu-ing to advocate for it.

“I am going to continue moving forward because I know it is the right thing to do,” Fisher said.

“I have received messages from people across Ontario, commending me on the effort and indicating their disappointment that the board didn’t support it. I am going to talk to local MPPs, write a letter to the premier of Ontario and leaders of the opposition asking them to re-introduce legisla-tion that died because of prolonga-tion.”

In 2011-12, the ombudsman re-ceived a record number of complaints and inquiries about the MUSH sector.During the same period, the ombuds-man received 119complaints and in-quiries about Ontario’s school boards. None of them could be dealt with.Many were from parents concerned

about things like student suspen-sions, lack of adequate special edu-cation supports, the treatment of stu-dents with autism, insuffi cient con-

sultation about school closures, and inadequate responses to bullying. These complaints had to be turned away or referred elsewhere.

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EMC news - Three years since an earthquake shook Haiti, communities are still trying to rebuild, fi nd shelter and have clean drinking water read-ily available.

One Ottawa-Haiti charity is hop-ing a fundraiser in the city’s down-town will make a big difference in helping those communities prosper.

In January 2010, a 7.0 multi-tude earthquake hit near the town of Léogâne, Haiti, leaving nearly 316,000 people dead and 1.6 million people homeless. In an effort to help rebuild the country, the Marco Dep-estre Foundation of Ottawa is host-ing a charity night of fun, music and dance at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on April 27.

“The fundraiser is to help fi nance projects in rural parts of Haiti,” said Yvette Depestre, the president of the Ottawa chapter.

Depestre and her brother, Marco Depestre, a Haitian resident started the Marco Depestre Foundation in both Haiti and Ottawa in 2006, nam-ing the foundation after their father, who they said always worked hard to help people in his country.

The fundraiser is aimed to raise money to help fund current and new projects the foundation supports.

Depestre said the foundation does not simply give handouts, it most importantly offers residents of these rural Haitian communities education so they can help themselves.

“The projects are about the fami-lies learning how to do something for themselves, and then passing on that knowledge to other families in the neighbourhood,” she said.

The communities the foundation focused on from the start were the rural ones, as both Depestre and her

brother said, access to some areas in south-eastern Haiti are next to im-possible to travel to in a car, and the journey can take days on foot or don-key, with amenities for the area few and far between.

The foundation worked at bring-ing the residents of these communi-ties the tools to build and thrive on their own. When it comes to the re-cent earthquake and the devastation it left, Depestre said the needs of these rural communities grew, and in some areas still remain desperate.

“Years ago, here in Ottawa there was an ice storm,” she said. “And after the storm, it took days for resi-dents to recover, and it was hard. People lost a lot, but they were able to rebuild because they had insurance

and in Haiti, after the earthquake, there was nothing and people have still not been able to rebuild.”

In some cases the barriers are as simple as a lack of access to roads and insurance, making picking up the pieces much more diffi cult, she added. “People were forgotten, and we need to help,” she said.

“We are hoping to raise as much as possible so we can continue to help those in need.” Depestre’s brother Marco, a reverend in Port-au-Prince was driving home when the earth-quake hit. “You wonder how 30 sec-onds can completely turn your world around; you wonder if it really hap-pened, or if it was a dream,” Marco said.

Marco was visiting his sister last

week and wanted to encourage as many Ottawa residents as possible to come out to the fundraiser and help make a difference.

“Really it’s the next day, and the days after that, where you see the destruction, it shakes you to your heart,” Marco said. “By coming out to the fundraiser, you are supporting some useful work for many Haitian communities, all while enjoying some great music.” The fundraiser will feature a performance from Rev. Ernie Cox and the London Trio Plus.

Tickets for the concert are $15 for adults. Children 15 years-old and younger are admitted free.

Tickets are available in advance by contacting Depestre at 613-830-4714 or at the door.

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Yvette Depestre and her brother Marco Depestre’s charitable organization will host a fundraiser for Haiti at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on April 27. The money raised will help rural communities in Haiti rebuild homes, schools and farming areas.

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EMC News - Ottawa’s largest en-vironmental organization is continu-ing to work to make Ottawa the green capital of Canada by campaigning to make streets safer and more acces-sible for all users.

Ecology Ottawa, which calls itself a grassroots and volunteer-driven or-ganization, is pushing for a “complete streets” policy to be implemented into the city’s Offi cial Plan, currently un-der review. There is not a checklist to determine whether a street is consid-ered “complete” because it depends on how the street is already being used by cars, pedestrians, cyclists and pub-lic transit. Some examples of making streets more complete would include widening sidewalks, adding bike lanes and making streets more accessible for public transit.

Ecology Ottawa’s goal is to urge the city to adopt the complete streets method and apply it to the whole urban boundary area, meaning everywhere the city of Ottawa provides services.The city has already identifi ed com-pete streets as one of the 14 principles being used to guide the Offi cial Plan review process set to conclude at the end of the year.

Streets should be designed to meet the needs of all users, said Trevor Ha-ché, policy co-ordinator for Ecology Ottawa. Haché listed saving money, reducing environmental destruction and lessening pollution as benefi ts to the proposal. Other cities that have adopted similar policies, Haché said, and they have seen benefi ts to local businesses after people become more open to spending time on the streets.

Haché, who believes the vast ma-jorities of streets in Ottawa are “in-complete,” cited sections of Baseline Road that lack proper accommodation for cyclists and narrow sidewalks as areas that need attention. He pointed to sections of Laurier Avenue that fea-ture segregated bike lanes and wide sidewalks as being friendly to all us-ers of the road. Haché said despite the city’s own policy to prioritize pedestri-ans, the municipal government spends far more money on policies that make roads better for private automobiles.

“It’s quite contradictory,” he said.There are more than 5,000 kilome-

tres of roads in Ottawa and the vast majority serve motorists well, but not walkers and public transit users, said Haché.

Although Kanata South Coun. Al-lan Hubley agrees it makes sense to improve some of the roads, he dis-agrees with changing every road.

“We’ve got to be careful not to adopt reports that are anti-car,” said Hubley, adding that only two per cent of the population can bike year round.

“People driving downtown is a big part of Ottawa’s economy,” Hubley said.

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Pet Adoptions

Please note: The Ottawa Humane Society has many other companion animals available for adoption. Featured animals are adopted quickly! To learn more about adopting an animal from the Ottawa Humane Society please contact us: Website: Email: Telephone:

A combination of approaches — medical control of symptoms, good housecleaning methods and immunotherapy — is most likely to succeed in allowing an allergic person to live with pets.

If you do not currently have a pet and are considering one, and know you, or a family member, are pet-allergic, be sure to consider carefully whether you can live with the allergy before you bring a new pet home. Pet allergies can range from very mild to very serious. Too many allergic people obtain pets without thinking through the challenges of living with them.

Too often, owners end up relinquishing pets — a decision that is difficult and can be traumatic for the pet. If you have allergies and have decided to live with an animal, it is important to find an allergist who understands your commitment to living with your pet. Also, find out just how severe your allergy is. You can begin to determine how allergic you are to animals by spending time with friends who have pets.

Trying to cope with allergies to your pet? You’re not alone. Many people suffering from animal allergies choose to share their lives with a pet.

Don’t assume that because you’re sniffling and sneezing, a pet is the cause. Many household particles, such as dust and mould, can cause allergic reactions. Make sure to see an allergist for testing.

Animal allergies are caused by glands in the animal’s skin secreting tiny allergy-triggering proteins, called allergens. Allergens are present in flakes of dry skin (dander) and the animal’s saliva and urine. The allergens may circulate in the air after saliva dries on the animal’s fur.

For people who are allergic to animals, most animals, and all cats and dogs, are allergenic (or, allergy-causing). Cats and rabbits tend to be more allergenic than dogs for allergic people, although some people are more sensitive to dogs than cats.

Contrary to popular belief, there are no “non-allergenic” breeds of dogs or cats; even hairless breeds may be highly allergenic. There are some breeds of cats and dogs that are considered hypoallergenic, which means they are generally less allergy-causing than other breeds. However, even among breeds, one dog or cat may be more irritating to an individual allergy sufferer than another animal of that same breed.

King is a big boy! This one and a half year old, neuteured male, Mastiff was surrendered to the OHS on is looking for his forever home! King loves to be socialized and would benefit from an owner who is eager to bring him around different people and to different places in order to become more confident! King has good house training skills but will need to be taken out frequently to know what’s expected of him! This big lovable

guy previously lived with a cat, and was very respectful of his feline friend! His new family will need to make sure he gets adequate physical exercise and mental stimulation. A tired dog, is a good dog after all! King is a “Foster-Me-First” adoption because he’s on medication for an ear infection and will need to see the vet again.

Ozzy is a beautiful, one-year-old, neutered male, white domestic shorthair, blue-eyed

cat who loves to show you his moves when playing with string toys or chasing things. He was surrendered to the shelter by his owner on January 8, and is now available for adoption. He has an athletic, runners build, and fast reflexes and will need an owner who can handle a rough player! Ozzy would prefer to live in an adult-only home, and be the only feline as he is known to give love nips. We are unsure, but think that Ozzy may also be deaf, so he should not be let outside without a leash or safe enclosure, despite his strong desire to see what’s on the other side of any door. Looking for a cat with an adventurous, fearless spirit? This trained to walk on-leash cat would love to meet you!To learn more about King or Ozzy, or for more information on all of our animals, contact the Ottawa Humane Society at 613-725-3166 ext 258 or visit us at our new location, 245 West Hunt Club Rd.

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City to post hit list of negligent property ownersLaura [email protected]

EMC news - If owners of derelict properties refuse to comply with the city’s orders to clean them up, they’ll be called out on the city’s web-site.

Along with signs on the properties themselves, pub-lishing a hit list of the city’s unmet orders to maintain crumbling vacant buildings on ottawa.ca is one of the strate-gies the city will use to crack down on landowners who leave structures in disrepair.

That new strategy was re-vealed to the city’s commu-nity and protective services committee during an April 18 meeting along with a rundown of current measures and future ideas to clean up rundown empty buildings. The report was a follow-up to a commit-ment Mayor Jim Watson and some of his council colleagues made at a press conference six weeks ago.

After years of leniency, the crackdown means the city is enforcing its property stan-dards bylaw more strictly. Two city bylaw offi cers have already been tackling a list of

derelict properties – both va-cant and in use – and issuing orders for maintenance.

“Our goal now, as of this day, to look forward and say … .your building might be va-cant, but from the street you won’t notice it,” said Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, who has the highest con-centration of derelict vacant buildings in his ward.

That extends to occupied buildings such as rooming houses. The city has partnered with ACORN, a low-income and tenant advocacy organiza-tion, to proactively deal with negligent landlords.

So far, the partnership has resulted in the discovery of 518 defi ciencies in four build-ings. The city issues a total of 73 orders for issues in those four buildings to be cleaned up. New strategies to crack down on derelict properties will be drafted through con-sultations starting in June and presented to the committee in September. Some of the ideas staff will look at include:

• Limiting tax reductions property owners receive if their buildings are vacant.

• Setting higher mainte-nance standards to improve

the appearance of buildings and prevent them from de-tracting.

• Requiring property own-ers to buy a licence if they want to keep their property vacant.

Watson said he had a ques-tion for property owners who

refuse to comply with the city’s orders to repair their buildings: “Why don’t you take pride in your community and your property?”

A hint of the answer came from a couple delegates who spoke to the committee on behalf of property owner in-

terests.John Dickie of the Eastern

Ontario Landlord Organiza-tion said there are many cir-cumstances, fi nancial or oth-erwise, that could result in a property ending up in a poor state.

Owners sometimes avoid

spending money to maintain their buildings so they have enough resources left to invest in rebuilding or redeveloping it, Dickie said.

“It’s a tradeoff. (A) tradeoff between waste of money and impact on the neighbour,” he said. “It has impacts on neigh-bours, and we admit that.”

Shirley Dolan, president of the Carleton Landowners As-sociation, wondered why the city thought owners would be more willing to pour money into their properties now, when the economy is in a downturn, compared to previous decades when owners likely had more fi nancial resources, but still didn’t maintain their buildings to the city’s standard.

Dolan said “beauty is in the eye of the beholders.

“I really don’t think that bullying property owners into improvements because you don’t like the look of the property is the way to go,” she said.

The city should be more lenient in letting owners tear down buildings they don’t want to maintain, Dickie said.

“What’s wrong with a va-cant lot? I grew up across from a vacant lot,” he said.

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The city, led by Mayor Jim Watson and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, is moving forward with a crackdown on owners of derelict vacant properties. The city’s community and protective services committee received an update on new ideas to strengthen the city’s ability to crack down on negligent property owners.

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When people think of Ottawa, the usual images come to most minds: the Parliament Buildings, the Rideau Canal in winter, the Ottawa River, the Byward Market, etc.

These are important Ottawa institutions but they are all central in a city that is made up of an enormous

of those well-known landmarks. In fact, you can fit the entire landmasses of Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver within Ottawa’s boundaries and still have room to spare!

This makes Ottawa unique in Canada as we are both a large urban city and also the largest rural city in the country. The postcard images many associate with Ottawa mean that the rural areas of Ottawa can sometimes be forgotten. But from Greely, to Osgoode, to Carp, and beyond, Ottawa’s rural areas have an incredibly diverse set of offerings across the agriculture, culinary, and business sectors. These are critically important elements in our city and it is important that we do what we can to promote them to Ottawa’s residents and its visitors.

be interesting and entertaining for visitors of all ages. There will be a variety of booths set up in Jean Pigott

more about the wonderful variety of things Ottawa’s rural communities have to offer.

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EMC news – The Sandy Hill Community Centre will host an evening of food, music and dance on April 27 to help raise money for Ethiopian youth.

“We expect a strong turn out from many people with links to

Ethiopia, as well as those interested in sustainable food and agriculture,” said Sarah Dalle, event organizer for the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada.

The Solomon Dawit Founda-tion, working in conjunction with the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, is hosting Enebla! Let’s Eat! An Ethiopian Feast with Music and Dance, an event to raise money to fund programming for rural youth in Ethiopia.

The evening will welcome Ethio-pian scientist, Melaku Worede, who fi rst visited Ottawa in 1994, at the request of Solomon Dawit, an im-passioned citizen, chef and owner of Addis Café.

Dawit died in 2009 and is re-membered by family and friends as someone who spent most of his time living in Ottawa supporting initia-tives for Ethiopia.

His family and friends who cre-ated the foundation in his name in 2010 and have since continued to raise money and awareness for pro-gramming needs in rural Ethiopia.

Worede is returning to Ottawa at the request of the foundation.

Tickets are $25 and can be pur-chased by contacting either the Sol-omon Dawit Foundation at 613-884-7487 or the Unitarian Service Com-mittee of Canada at 613-234-6827.

The event begins at 6 p.m. at the community centre.

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Ethiopian scientist, Melaku Worede, who fi rst visited Ottawa in 1994, will return to Ottawa on April 27 to speak at a fundraiser for the Solomon Dawit Foundation and the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada’s eff orts to raise money for rural youth in Ethiopia.

Food, fun and informative talk planned for event

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The front of the school building is mostly windows interlaced with a grey siding. When approaching the building you can see childrens’ draw-ings posted on the windows, which run nearly the entire height of from the fl oor to the ceiling.

The $10-million building is state-of-the-art and features a large gym with a staging area, a two-storey li-brary and an elevator.

All the water fountains have the ability to fi ll portable bottles, encour-aging students to drink tap water.

The library, not yet open for busi-ness, has meeting space, modern, lighting and is fi lled with sunshine on a spring afternoon.

Upon entering the foyer there are bilingual, hand-drawn signs welcom-ing visitors to the school.

“They just popped up one day,” principal Roger Lee said. “It shows the spontaneity and leadership of the

teachers.”The students were moved into the

new school after the March break. They started the school year at the former site of Parkwood Hills Public School on Tiverton Drive.

“It was a great home for us, they really painted it up and fi nished it nicely,” Lee said. “But it was a 40-minute bus drive away.”

There are currently 380 children attending the school, now on Leam-ington Way off of Chapman Mills Drive. The school’s theoretical ca-pacity is 650 students.

The school currently offers classes for junior kindergarten to Grade 4.

Next year, Grade fi ve will be added. The school also offers early French immersion.

“We are a dual-track school,” Lee said.

While the school isn’t due to get full-day kindergarten until Septem-ber 2015, Lee said they have an ex-tended day program that is open for the day at 7 a.m. to make a smooth transition from childcare to the class-room.

The student body is made up of kids from neighbouring Farley Mowat and Barrhaven public schools whose exploding populations made the construction of a new school nec-essary.

The history might make it into the Chapman Mills school colours.

Lee, who came to Chapman Mills from Rideau Valley Middle School, said the team name will be the Com-ets, and the school colours will likely be green from Farley Mowat and blue from Barrhaven, with silver to represent a comet.

“That’s still to be decided,” he said, adding the students would have a vote.

The staff and students got along

at the satellite site earlier in the year, Lee said, adding the challenges they faced with the move has only brought everyone closer together.

While the students still have to wait for the sod to be laid down and the asphalt added to the playgrounds, everyone is excited to be in their new

home. Lee said he expects the asphalt to

be put down in May and everything to be ready when they welcome new students in the fall.

“We love our new home and I know everyone is going to be happy here,” he said.

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Roger Lee, the principal at the newly-built Chapman Mills Public School, is pictured at a makeshift sign near the front entrance. The school has been opened for nearly a month and is ready to take regis-tration for next fall.

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April 25: Ottawa Victim Services will host a pancake breakfast at the Manotick Legion on Thursday, April 25 from 8 to 10 a.m. to launch its outreach campaign and focus on crime issues in rural communities. Volunteers and staff will prepare breakfast for members of the com-munity, some of our key partners and some special guests.

April 27: Auction sale and fundraiser for the Community Christian School at the Metcalfe Fire Hall, Saturday April 27 beginning at 10 a.m. Viewing begins at 9:30 a.m. Something for everyone.

The Greely Legion is holding a euchre tournament on Saturday, April 27. Registration at 11:45 a.m. Lunch at noon. Start at 1 p.m. sharp. Admission is $10. Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. 8021 Mitch

Owens Road. Please see www.greelylegion.ca for details.

Isle in the River Review’s 40th Anniversary Bash will take place on Saturday, April 27 at the Os-goode Legion Hall from 7 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $15 each or $25 per couple. There will be food, dancing, drinks, door prizes, and most of all, a trip down memory lane. Mingle with ITR patrons, members, fans, and friends of the theatre, spanning the last four decades. Don’t know much about ITR but want to learn more? This is your chance. Dress is semi-formal. For more info, email [email protected]. To purchase tickets call 613-860-1291 or visit www.itrtheatrecompany.com.

The SafeTALK workshop, on Saturday, April 27 at St. James Anglican Church in Manotick will prepare participants to identify persons with thoughts of suicide

and how to connect them with aid resources. The safeTALK method involves engaging with open talk about suicide, listening to and recognizing their thoughts are seri-ous, and moving quickly to connect them with suicide intervention and first aid resources. This workshop is aimed at anyone over the age of 15. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Cost $10 per person. Contact Donna Rourke 613-825-1913 or Sam Hills 613-692-2082 to register.

May 1:Greely Gardeners Group monthly meeting, Wednesday May 1 at the Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr. at 7 p.m. Amber Payne, an organic vegetable farmer from Greely, who present “Veg-etable Gardens - What To Do In Ottawa.” Membership $10. Visitors cost: $2. For further information contact Lee at 613-574-0214 or www.greelygardeners.ca.

May 4:Fun for Femme Women’s Show in support of Ovarian Cancer Canada at the Greely Legion, 8021 Mitch Owens Road. Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free admission and parking, free gift bag for first 100 guests, free carnation for first 100 women. Gather the women in your life and come out for a fun day of pampering. Shop early for Mother’s Day. Lots of local ven-dors. Call 613-821-4895 for more information.

May 5:Roast beef dinner at Holy Trinity Church hall, 8140 Victoria St. in Metcalfe. Sunday, May 5 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. Contact Marjorie Stanley at 613-233-1556 for further information and tickets.

May 9:Learn about Facebook at the Manotick Library. On May 9, learn why Facebook is popular and go though the steps of creating and us-ing an account. The emphasis will be on creating a profile and using it to find friends/family and share/record information. While this pre-sentation is designed for beginner/non-Facebook users, others might learn tips and tricks to improve their use of the site. Thursday, May 9th, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Registration required at 613-692-3854.

May 11:The 3rd Annual ‘Goode Run, May 11 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in support of the Osogoode Youth Association. 2K, 5K and 10K run/walk events. For more info go to www.o-ya.ca/2013-goode-run or to register www.eventsonline.ca/events/gooderun.

Ongoing: Registration is now underway for Journeymen Football, a commu-nity non-tackle football league in Riverside South that runs from May until the end of July. Most games are Sunday afternoons. Minimum age is 15. Register at journeymen-football.com.

Metcalfe Community Soccer is pleased to announce they are now accepting early bird registrations until Friday, April 19. Fees for the 2013 season are $10/child or $20/family. Payment can be made via credit card or e-transfer. After April 20 the fees will increase to $15/child or $30/family. The 2013

Season should begin May 9 and run until June 27. Practices will be held every Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at McKendry Park, Metcalfe. Please contact Pam at [email protected].

Children’s programs at Manotick Library: Drop in for stories, rhymes and songs for Babytime ages 0 to 18 months from 10 to10:30 a.m.; Toddler Time ages 18 months to 3 years from10:3011 a.m.; Storytime ages 3 to 6 yrs from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m. Session two starts on Thurs-day, March 28 and runs until May 30. For more information contact us at 613-692-3854.

Get Working Café is a support group for the unemployed and underemployed in our community. Meet every Monday morning from 8 to 10 a.m. at St. James Anglican Church in Manotick. Together we support one another in our journey towards employment consistent with our talents. We help one another discover (or rediscover) our talents, share our skills, knowl-edge and experience, share leads and best job-search practices, reduce anxiety and strengthen one another’s sense that we are not alone. While this is a peer-to-peer support group, from time to time other speakers will be brought in to share their insights. For further information call Myles Frosst at 613-897-1601, or e-mail [email protected].

The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St., Leitrim for a full schedule of activities every week including contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, five hundred, shuffleboard and chess. Member-ship is $15 per year. The club is easily accessible by OCTranspo #144 and free parking. Call 613-821-0414 for info.

Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Drive, Greely. Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance. First Friday of every month. 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. $5/person at the door or yearly memberships avail-able. No charge for participating musicians and singers. Join us for a good time.

Mondays: Looking to learn conversational Spanish? Improve your Spanish speaking skills with Los Amigos Toastmasters. The group meets at Tunney’s Pasture Mondays from 4:55 to 6:30 p.m. For more infor-mation, contact Carole at 613-761-6537 or visit www.amigos-tm.ca.

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VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, now is not the time to talk about shared expenses or the division of labor in a relationship. You’ll only be starting an argument, and you do not need that right now, Virgo.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Staying neutral is the best way to go this week, Libra. Avoid any knee-jerk reactions and practice your poker face. There are some opportunities for fun on Thursday.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, demonstrate grace under pressure at work this week, even if you feel tempted to lash out at others. Take the high road and you will be rewarded.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, the perfect opportunity for a night out with friends presents itself this week. This could be the ideal way to unwind, so enjoy your night out with friends.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, although it seems like everyone is tense, you feel free as a bird. That could be because you have worked hard to free up time to get away.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, conversations with others may not flow smoothly, and you may have to come up with a way to reword what you’re trying to get across. Stick with it.

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By Isabelle Mailloux Pulkinghorn

This past Christmas Eve, two year old Jake and his big brother, four year old Gavin, were fi lled with excitement awaiting Santa’s arrival. But before presents were laid under the tree, their mother went into premature labour and Christmas celebrations were thrown off course.

Early Christmas morning, the Friel’s greeted their special surprise gift—a boy they named Lucas. Though he was born eight weeks early, he was healthy for a premature baby and, initially, only required assistance from a ventilator while his lungs matured.

Three days later however, in the middle of the night, the hospital called Stephanie and Kevin. Baby Lucas had kidney failure and needed to be transported to CHEO right away. Lucas’ parents were in shock.

When Little Lucas arrived at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at CHEO, Dr. Jana Feberova, a neonatologist, and her team were ready for him. After numerous tests and treatments, the team observed an unusual pouch of air in the baby’s tummy. Something wasn’t right.

“When a man in blue scrubs walked into our pod, I thought `they must have the wrong baby’, but quickly realized that something serious was happening with Lucas,” explains Stephanie. “The man in blue was a surgeon, Dr. Nasser, who came in to explain that he needed to operate on Lucas to help identify what was wrong. When I asked him when the operation would take place, he replied ‘right now’. We then understood that our son’s life was in danger.”

“I’ve never felt that kind of fear before in my life,” remembers Stephanie. “But the medical team was amazing. Dr. Feberova even held my hand when she explained the urgency of investigating what was wrong with Lucas, and Dr. Nasser promised to take care of our baby as if he were his own during the operation. The team also took the time to walk my husband and I through every step of the

procedure and made sure we fully understood what was happening. It was comforting and helpful to be able to make sense of such an unexpected and frightening situation.”

Once in the operating room, the CHEO team was able to see that baby Lucas had a ruptured bladder. This fi nally explained his ailments: the air in the tummy, the malfunctioning kidneys, and the diffi culty urinating.

A ruptured bladder is very rare, especially at birth, but it can be life-threatening. In baby Lucas’ case it is unknown how he sustained the injury. In fact, Dr. Michael Leonard, the urologist, told the family that in his entire 30 year career he had only seen one similar case in a baby before.

“If it wasn’t for the diligence of the CHEO staff the air in Lucas’ stomach would not have been detected as early as it was,” stresses Stephanie. “Had they not immediately investigated the cause, they wouldn’t have found the bladder rupture and Lucas’ situation would have become much more grave. We are so grateful for CHEO! The treatment that we, and our baby, received was second to none. Now our son is safe and healthy and he can go on to lead a normal life.”

In fact, Lucas is now home safe and sound, and is the picture of health! A sweet ending to an unforeseen surprise.

For her entire life, Amanda Acker had enjoyed idyllic vacations at Booth Lake with her family in Algonquin Park. But one fateful camping trip in spring of 2010 quickly turned into a nightmare when a stove-sized boulder she stepped on gave way, throwing her into the water. The boulder fell on top of her, crushing her leg.

“I looked down and all I saw were bones and blood,” said Acker, a dental hygienist and single mother of two boys. It took about fi ve hours – including shooting a set of rapids in a canoe – to get to a phone, and another four hours to get to an ambulance before she was eventually airlifted to The Ottawa Hospital.

Her leg was completely crushed – “the most severe classifi cation of break,” she said. Acker underwent eight surgeries at The Ottawa Hospital in total, including six in the initial two and half weeks after the accident. Even with three plates and two bone grafts, her leg was non-weight-bearing for almost fi ve months. “If I had stepped on it, my leg would have fallen apart,” she said.

Now 31, Acker had her fi nal surgery in September 2011, at which time she was given a clean bill of health. “I now have zero limitations on my leg,” she said. She shares her story to say thank you to The Ottawa Hospital for saving her leg, and is thrilled she will be able to run again.

The Ottawa Hospital saved my leg

The Ottawa Hospital saved Amanda Acker’s leg, and her life, following an accident in 2010. Here, she poses with her sons, Gabriel and Luca.

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Lysol disinfecting wipes. Kills 99.9% of germs. Apple scent. 53-5378-6. Reg 2.69.

1.47

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Double garment rack. Up to 63˝ of hanging space. Adjustable. Stainless-steel frame. No-tools assembly.68-1645-0. Reg 54.99.

19.97

Tide Original 2X concentrate laundry detergent. 25-use. Sorry, no rainchecks. 99-1531-6

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Tide Original 2X concentrate laundry detergent. 25-use. Sorry, no rainchecks. 99-1531-6

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18L/4-gallon Wet/Dry Shop-Vac. 2 peak HP. Sorry, no rainchecks. 199-1950-0

BONUS: Utility nozzle and crevice tool. A $14.58 value.

Tools sold separately

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General-purpose 10-pc paint kit. 49-0241-2. Reg 14.99.

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Mastercraft 16-oz claw hammer. Drop-forged steel head. 57-4130-2. Reg 12.99.

3.97

Lufkin 16´ and 16´/5m tape measures. High-visibility orange. Metric and SAE. 57-7114X.

Reg 12.99. Ea 3.97

Mastercraft vertical rolling toolbox. Bungee cord hooks, cable holder. 58-0677-4. Reg 64.99.

37.97

Mastercraft custom router table. 120V/15A. 14 x 23˝. Sliding mitre gauge. 54-6841-4. Reg 149.99.

69.97

Mastercraft 14-piece 3/8˝ drive Torx bit set. Includes clip rail. 58-1223-8. Reg 49.99.

8.47

6´ fi breglass steplad-der. Grade 1. Up to 250-lb capacity. 61-1046-0. Reg 129.99.

59.77

Mastercraft Maximum 400-piece socket and tool set. 1⁄4˝, 3⁄8˝ and 1⁄2˝ drives. SAE/Metric. Laser-etched. 58-9295-8.

Reg 699.99. 174.97

1. 41˝ tool chest. 8 drawers. 70-lb ball-bearing slides. 58-1166-4.

Reg 599.99. 299.972. 41˝ tool cabinet with MDF top. 6 drawers. 800-lb heavy-duty casters. 58-1167-2.

Reg 899.99. 449.97SPECIAL BUY

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Hitachi 18V Li-ion ham-mer drill with fl ashlight. 400 in/lbs of torque. 21,000 BPM. 54-1290-4.

Reg 259.99. 184.97

Mastercraft Maximum 51-piece screwdriver set. With carry bag. S2 steel. 4X more durable than CRV. 57-3647-0. Reg 69.99.

Set 19.97

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Mastercraft stud sensor. Detects both wood and metal studs. Live wire indication. Includes battery. 57-4577-0. Reg 19.99.

7.97

Mastercraft 3.6V pivoting screwdriver. Forward or reverse action. Built-in LED light. 54-2502-6. Reg 39.99.

9.97

Bosch 18V Li-Ion compact drill. Includes bonus 5-piece bit set. 54-1304-4. Reg 219.99.

169.97

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Magellan RoadMate 2136T-LM GPS. Free Lifetime Traffi c Alerts and Lifetime Map Updates. Sorry, no rain-checks. 199-6796-8

2A Intelligent Charger/Maintainer Maintains large batteries, charges and maintains small batteries. 3-year warranty. 11-1506-6.

Reg 39.99. 14.97

Coleman 1900-PSI electric pressure washer 38X more powerful than a regular garden hose. Includes 20´ high pressure rubber hose and stainless- steel wand, plus 3 project nozzles. 1.6 GPM, 3040 CU. 39-8585-0.Reg 249.99.

124.97

Gunk Jumbo Puncture Seal. Seals most punctures up to 5mm. 694g. Not a permanent repair solution. 38-0017-4.Reg 12.99.

9.47

Mobile Power Outlet. 300W inverter. Charge and run phones, MP3 players, etc., in your car. 11-1870-6. Reg 54.99.

21.97

Mastercraft Maximum utility gloves. Machine washable. Assorted. 57-0134X.Reg 19.99.

Pair 7.97

Simoniz microfi bre wash mitt 3-pack. Use wet or dry. Machine-washable. 39-7030-6.Reg 19.99.

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45%Summer windshield washer fl uid. Extra-strength formula. Helps remove bugs and road fi lm. 3.78L. 29-4160-8.

Reg 1.89. 97¢

MotoMaster hand cleaner. Perfect for grease, grime, etc. With pumice. 1.89L. 38-1012-8. Reg 11.99.

4.77

Safety 1st Alpha Omega 3-in-1 convertible car seat. Grows with your child. 46-6234-0. Reg 219.99.

142.97

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45%StrapX 14-pc bungee cord kit. Assorted sizes and colours. 40-2692-4.Reg 9.99.

5.47

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70%Michelin program-mable digital tire gauge. 09-5549-8. Reg 32.99.

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60%MotoMaster fuel injector cleaner. Cleans and prevents build-up of deposits in injectors. 350mL. 38-0101-2. Reg 4.99.

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