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Taking the plege to end bullyingSchool resource o� cer Cst. Kevin McKale gives Greely Elementary School studentGabrielle Marleau a badge and special handshake during an anti-bullying presentation. See story on page 3.

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If you want something done, you’ve got to do it your-self: that’s the attitude a new alliance of community and recreational groups have taken to get Manotick’s arena ex-pansion project off the ground once and for all.

The Manotick Culture, Parks and Recreation Associa-tion is leading the new Man-

otick Arena Expansion group, which aims, with support from several hockey leagues, the Youth of Manotick and Rural Ottawa South Support Ser-vices, to raise $200,000 by the end of the year.

That’s not nearly enough to fi nish the project – early es-timates put the cost between $450,000 and $1.3 million – but it’s enough to convince Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt that there’s a de-

sire to get this done. The 40-year-old facility on

Dr. Leach Drive has changed very little over the years, other than to add a ladies’ change room several years ago in place of the canteen. The orig-inal change rooms are small; a team of teenaged hockey players with their coaches and managers can barely fi t inside before game time. Kids are sometimes even changing in the hallways, according to MCPRA board member Mike O’Neil, who has been spear-heading the campaign. They’re also entirely inaccessible for anyone with a mobility dis-ability; the entryways are nar-row and the showers have lips that would stop someone in a wheelchair from going in.

The community hall above the dressing rooms faces the opposite problem: it’s a large, empty space with no way to divide up the room to make way for multiple meetings at a time, O’Neil said.

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As Cold approaches, homes tend to get sealed-up to protect the inhabitants from the cold. But as with any season, caution should be taken for ensuring the cleanliness of your home in order to safeguard the occupants and even protect the property.Canadians spend an estimated 90 per cent of their time indoors. Having clean air is important for good health – but it goes beyond just the air itself. Before the cold weather sets, there are a number of things that homeowners should tend to in order to ensure their environment is clean. Furnaces: in many ways, the furnace is the heart of your home. With the arrival of winter, it will be required to run continually, but it must do so efficiently. Furnaces must be maintained and cleaned for efficiency as well as for cleanliness. Gas furnaces can produce carbon monoxide. The amounts of carbon monoxide are usually small and are vented out. But, an inefficient furnace can produce toxic and even deadly amounts of this invisible gas. As well, the furnace should be professionally cleaned prior to winter, because every microbe and particle of dust is later fed back into your home’s atmosphere.Air ducts: if the furnace is the “heart” of the home, then air ducts certainly qualify as the home’s respiratory system (overall, the respiratory system is actually your homes HVAC system: heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). Air ducts must be cleaned regularly to get rid of the dust, dust-mite waste, bacteria, and all the impurities that get “breathed” back into your home’s environment. To safeguard your family from the risk of allergies and respiratory problems, it’s essential to have your home’s air ducts professionally cleaned.Dryer vents: clogged dryer vents offer yet one more haven for mould and bacteria. As well, clogged dryer vents can be a fire hazard, and can prevent the proper ventilation of carbon monoxide.

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Two studies that will im-pact people’s ability to park their vehicles will get under-way this year.

A sure-to-be-controversial review of how many parking spaces should be required for new residential developments is on tap for 2015, provided the planning committee ap-proves its work plan this spring.

The study will result in a requirement for fewer park-ing spaces, said Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, the new chairwoman of the planning committee.

“They are going to lower the targets for them,” she said. “I think that’s good.”

Harder said she supports having fewer parking spaces for residential developments because people can walk, cycle or take transit.

“I think that with the amount of money we’re in-vesting in cycling and in walking and all of the things that we’re doing, there are some areas where it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have that amount of land taken up (by parking),” Harder said.

But as a suburban repre-sentative, Harder said she understands the suburbs are home to a different lifestyle that is more car-oriented. Between the parking require-ment study and the ongoing “Building Better Suburbs” study, the city will look for a solution such as a differ-ent way to deal with visitor parking in suburban develop-ments, Harder said.

“I think we have to be re-alistic and remember that we

have a very diverse city with three particular bands (urban, suburban and rural),” she said.

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The second parking study, which is just getting under-way now, will look at the is-sue of overnight street-park-ing bans and street-parking permits in relation to snow removal.

The issue came up last spring, when the former man-ager of roads, traffi c opera-tions and maintenance, Kevin Wylie, told the transportation committee that the parking ban was very problematic.

“It’s not working well,” Wylie said last May.

“It’s not co-ordinated well with the (snow removal) op-erations.”

The overnight ban is auto-matically put in place every time Environment Canada forecasts more than seven centimetres of snow.

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plowing every residential street until a day or two later.

Bylaw offi cers issued 10,848 tickets during on-street parking bans in 2013 and 8,958 tickets in 2014.

Last year, Wylie said it doesn’t make sense for bylaw offi cers to ticket motorists for parking on the street during a ban if the snowplows don’t need to get through during that night.

Luc Gagné, who has taken over Wylie’s role as manager of road services, agreed that it takes a large amount of re-sources for bylaw offi cers to check for vehicles parked all the residential streets.

Both Wylie and Gagne said they understand there are concentrated residential areas where street parking is a necessity.

Gagné said snow removal crews know they have to “be diligent” and keep returning to clear the snow.

“That’s a tough one,” Wy-lie said last spring about the street-parking permit pro-gram.

“In some of the areas of the city, they have parking permits because they have nowhere else to park – they have no parking garages and no driveways.”

At the time, Wylie pre-dicted the study would look at different ways to solve the problem, but would not likely result in changes or reduc-tions to the on-street parking permit program.

An upcoming public con-sultation will be planned to see if residents have any ideas on how to best tackle the issue, Gagné said.

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The city is planning on conducting two parking studies this year: one looking at the overnight parking ban during heavy snowfall and a second study that will likely resultin lowering the minimum parking requirement forresidential developments, said planning committeechairwoman Jan Harder.

City moving ahead with pair of parking studiesReview focused on reducing the amount of parking required for new homesexpected in 2015

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Children have been the vic-tims of bullying for as long as there have been bullies and children.

Youngsters have no choice but to find ways to deal with the bullies around them and find ways to deal with that same bully as an adult.

The Greely Elementary School has introduced a unique and simple anti-bul-lying program that gently teaches youngsters how to assert themselves when con-fronted by a bully without all the stress that kind of confron-tation could bring.

The program was developed from a story about a young walrus who is curious about why a child he met was sad. The idea originally came from police officer Tom Woods. It has grown into a program fea-turing four simple suggestions for children to follow. Called

WITS, (Walk away, Ignore, Talk it out and Seek help) the program was launched at the Greely school on Thursday morning, Jan. 29.

The launch included a few words from Cst. Kevin McK-ale, the school resource officer for the area, as well as other members of the local police force.

Stuart Murray, a retired school teacher who also has fun as a songwriter and mu-sician, engaged the group of school children in song. With-in minutes he was able to have the children singing along as he explained, with his song, the main points of the WITS program.

McKale told the children that he would help them take a special WITS oath and they would also receive a special badge about the program, learn a salute and a WITS handshake.

The oath states, “I promise to use my WITS: walk away, ignore, talk it out and seek help when I’m dealing with teasing and bullying. I prom-ise to also help other kids use their WITS to keep my school and my community a safe and fun place to be and learn.”

Greely Elementary School principal Alexandra Vasilas is

excited about the launch of the program at her school.

“Our message to the students is that they are not alone,” said Vasilas. “We are all in this to-gether.” She explained that ev-ery class at the school has had a chance to hear the story the program is based on. The book is called Walrus’s Gift by H.E. Stewart. It comes with a wal-rus puppet that students will have the chance to name in a contest in the weeks to come.

She said the hope is that the children will adopt the anti-bullying program and it will become a lifetime strategy.

She told the assembly of kin-dergarten to Grade 6 students that she was happy to have noticed that they were already thinking about the four WITS points in their playground. She had overheard children discussing the various options offered by the program as they played outside. “We are start-ing to hear WITS language on the playground,” said Vasilas.

The WITS program was de-veloped by Bonnie Leadbeater, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Victoria. It is supported by the Solid Rock Foundation.

For more information about the WITS program visit www.witsprogram.ca.

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If clapping shows how much you believe, Joan Bruce-Nibogie’s hands must be get-ting sore.

The six-time Greely Play-ers producer has put together a power team she believes is going to make their spring pro-duction of Peter Pan the stuff of dreams.

“My role this year is round up people depending on their

interests and skill sets. I love to tap into their pas-

sion,” she said.The community theatre is

already in the thick of rehears-als, set building and sound and lighting designs at the Greely Community Centre in the lead-up to opening night on March 25.

Bruce-Nibogie, who has co-producers Natalie Curry and Michelle Piironen working with her, said it’s her favourite part

of any production: watching a group of individuals slowly turn into one close-knit family.

“The cast and crew becomes a family throughout the four months of rehearsals and the rewards of many friendships forged by the experiences we’ve shared can’t be mea-sured,” she said.

“I like watching the cast, who have been scared out of their wits when they fi rst come out to audition, and then they de-velop into their characters.”For instance, Bruce-Nibogie con-vinced Carleton Mushroom owner Fernando Medeiros to try out for a role as a pirate (his daughter has participated in the past, so they’re already a part of the Greely Players family).

“For someone like Fernan-do who is so busy to have this as an outlet to take the stress and cares away, it is just sheer fun,” she said.

But it’s not just the actors and actresses who are working on ways to convince the audi-ence they’ve arrived in Never-land.

The artistic director, the

set designer and the choreog-rapher have all been working together to fi gure out a way to make the children fl y, Bruce-Nibogie said.

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props and sound and light,” she said.

The theatre has done it be-fore; in the 2011 production of Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his father seem to “fl y” with the help of choreography and lighting.

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the children really will take to the sky. “We have the harness-es,” Bruce-Nibogie said.

Tickets for the production running March 25 to 29 will go on sale Feb. 15 and can be ordered online at greelyplay-ers.ca. Guests can even choose their seats in advance.

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A new diabetes education initia-tive in Ottawa is hoping to streamline patient referrals, giving those suffer-ing from the malady in the region better access to education about the disease.

Diabetes Central Ottawa launched on Jan. 26 and is now the region’s single point of referrals for patients living with type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes looking for education pro-grams.

Whereas before, doctors would refer patients to particular programs that might not necessarily meet spe-cifi c needs of the individual, all refer-rals will now come through the new program, which will work to send patients to facilities that meet their requirements.

“Diabetes Central Ottawa is a one stop shop for health care providers who are dealing with a patient or client to be able to refer them to dia-betes education,” said Debra Beau-regard, the Program Coordinator for Diabetes Central Ottawa.

“If your family physician is in Or-leans but you happen to live in Kana-ta, your physician might not know

there is a diabetes education loca-tion in Kanata. But when your form comes in, we’ll be able to get you to that location.”

When a referral comes into Diabe-tes Central Ottawa, a registered nurse or dietician, called the patient navi-gator, will take a number of things into consideration when determining which facility would be best for the patient.

This includes whether specifi c lan-guage services are offered at a par-ticular site, as well as the location of the facility and whether the patient has other special needs.

If a patient is already on insulin, the patient navigator will work to get them into a diabetes education pro-gram as quickly as possible.

The patient navigator will also take a look at the patient’s blood tests and what medication they are taking.

The patient navigator will usually call the patient after they receive the form to ask questions if they need more information. Diabetes Central Ottawa is able to usually turn around referrals in two business days, Beau-regard said.

Ottawa has six different diabetes education programs with 18 sites scattered across the city.

In addition to streamlining refer-rals for patients, the system also makes things easier for physicians. After a referral is made, Diabe-tes Central Ottawa will inform the physician of what education pro-

gram the patient has been sent to so that the doctor can follow up with them.

“The changes made, make what was a great service an even better service,” said Dr. T. Gail Cheff, a family physician.

Patients will also be able to send self-referral forms to Diabetes Cen-tral Ottawa, without having to see a doctor.

“As a family physician I appre-ciate the knowledgeable and sup-portive service I receive and I’m delighted that my patients can self-refer; an empowering thing,” Cheff said. “I believe these resources will improve patients’ quality of life and outcomes.”

The free program, which is be-ing funded by the Champlain Local Health Integration Network, sprout-ed out of a 2012 study that showed people were having a hard time fi g-uring out where to go for diabetes education.

“What was happening was cli-ents were getting lots of information from their doctors as to what you need to do,” Beauregard said.

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The program will make it easier to bring together those needing help with the programs that can aid them, Beauregard said.

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Submission requirementsThe City of Ottawa would like to receive any comments concerning this proposal. Please forward comments to the undersigned via mail, telephone, facsimile or e-mail.

If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment, you must make a written request to the undersigned.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the proposed by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Council of the City of Ottawa to the Ontario Municipal Board.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the City of Ottawa before the proposed by-law is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so.

Comments received no later than Friday, February 27, 2015 from residents will be considered in City staff’s recommendation to Planning Committee.

Dated at the City of Ottawa this 29th day of January 2015.

Steve Gauthier, Planner Planning and Growth Management Department City of Ottawa 110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th Floor Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 27889 Fax: 613-580-2459 E-mail: [email protected] Website: ottawa.ca/Infill

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Two lucky hockey fans can get up close and personal with the Sens as they cream the Leafs in March, thanks to an insurance broker in Manotick.

Co-operators broker Bill McDonald has donated his season’s tickets in the 100-lev-el of the Canadian Tire Centre for the next Battle of Ontario matchup between the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs on March 21.

Worth $235 each, the tick-

ets will be raffl ed off at $10 per ticket in support of the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, headquartered in Man-otick.

“The Battle of Ontario is just great, and it’s almost a guaranteed sellout all the time,” McDonald said.

“(Spectators) pay a fortune to be up in the 300 level.”

His tickets, however, are in the 100s, “Just up from the net,” McDonald said. “You’ve got a good view.”

The raffl e prize includes a parking pass, and can be ac-cessed through a convenient back door if the winners have any sort of disability or mobil-ity issues.

McDonald said he has supported the guide dog or-ganization for more than 20 years, sponsoring its annual golf tournament and putting together a team every year.

But he threw in the tickets this year to give staff some ex-tra cash. A limit of 235 tickets will be sold, with the poten-tial to bring in $2,350 for the charity.

Guide Dogs spokesperson Steven Doucette said any ex-

tra funds will help, since the organization operates solely on donations.

Any money raised will be directed to veterinary bills, one of the charity’s biggest expenses.

But Doucette said the raffl e is also a win for hockey fans – and it’s all thanks to Mc-Donald.

“There’s not a lot of donors that would give you Leafs tickets,” Doucette said.

“For a lot of people the price point is astronomical; a lot of people can’t afford to go to a game like that.”

McDonald said he has seen fi rst-hand the good a guide dog can do for someone – even the dogs who don’t pass the charity’s rigorous training period turn out to be the most gentle, helpful companions.

“I had a neighbour who had

a little grandchild with autism and they ended up getting a dog who had not passed the test,” McDonald said.

“It would let the little girl go down the laneway but at the road the dog would just stop her.”

Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind was established as a registered charity in 1984, and has provided more than 750 professionally trained guide dogs to Canadians who are visually impaired across the country.

The organization also has an assistance dogs division, which trains dogs for individ-uals in the Ottawa area with mobility-related disabilities.

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Residents of Boston and Long Island and parts of the Canadian Maritimes might agree that it was an

historic blizzard they lived through last week.

Residents of Ottawa might sit here smugly watching other people battle storms while we bathed in sunshine (although not warm sunshine). But residents of New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia are wondering what all the fuss was about. How come all the roads were closed, the subways shut down, fl ights cancelled in those places and nothing much happened.

Not surprisingly, weather forecast-ers are taking a bit of beating and reacting with humility. The U.S. National Weather Service director said his organization should have

done better at communicating the fact that weather forecasts contain uncertainty. A forecaster apologized in a tweet: “You made a lot of tough decisions expecting us to get it right, and we didn’t.”

There’s really no need for that. Ev-erybody should know that forecasting is an inexact science. We’ve all seen forecasts that turned out to be wrong, as well as ones that turned out to be exactly right. If there is an apology to be given, it should be delivered by

the news media, who raised storm coverage to the level of hysteria.

It’s not a new observation that the best disaster coverage comes in advance of the disaster. The disaster, when it comes, may turn out to be second-rate, but in advance you can say just about anything you want.

Knowing this, it was with some anticipation that I tuned in CNN the morning the storm was supposed to hit. Checking back from time to time, I found that the storm was basically the only story that day. Well, there was the trial of a former National Football League guy, but even that was announced by a news person standing outdoors wearing a CNN parka and tuque.

“HISTORIC STORM,” said the logo on the screen. The sentiment

was repeated by CNN correspon-dents on the scene, each of them standing in what appeared to be normal surroundings. One reporter urged his camera to zoom in on the ground beside his feet, where he kicked at something that might have been a thin coating of slush. Maybe my screen wasn’t big enough, but it horrifi ed him and it was meant to horrify us.

Even more graphic was the guy who announced that he was going to show us what horror awaited us on the roads. With the camera pointed out the window, he drove down a highway. The wipers were on, but aside from that it looked like a nor-mal gloomy February day in Ontario.

Horror was not co-operating but the media folks would not be stopped. It was as if they had planned a trip into Jurassic Park, wound up in a petting zoo by mistake but hadn’t really noticed. On they would go,

pointing out in dramatic tones what should have been a brontosaurus but was really a bunny rabbit, urging.

Unfortunately for Boston, but luckily for CNN, snow did eventually fall, enabling its reporters to get some on their parkas.

Seemingly unbeknownst to many Ottawa resi-dents, a $3.1-billion game-changer has been taking shape below ground.

Construction of the $2.1-billion light-rail line has mostly been mostly invisible thus far, with very little impact on the downtown streets above. Almost 600 metres of tunnel has been excavated in Centretown and Sandy Hill.

Despite being the largest infrastructure project in Ottawa since the Rideau Canal was built in 1832, many residents seem unaware of the mammoth proj-ect or what it will mean for their lives. Candidates for city council said people they met on the campaign trail late last year didn’t seem to have a sense of the overall project, and how it will change the city.

Now, we have a tangible way to connect with what light rail will mean for Ottawa’s future. A replica of one of the 34 Alstom Citadis trains that will run down the 12.5 kilometres of track was unveiled at Lansdowne Park last week. People can view it every day until the end of March from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Aberdeen Pavilion. And while they’re there, they

can get a sense of how Ottawa is about to change.When the trains begin running in 2018, transit

users will be able to board every four minutes to ride the 13 stops between Tunney’s Pasture in Hintonburg and Blair Station in the east. For part of the trip, rid-ers will be able to look out the window and see how proximity to transit prompts cranes to crop up on the skyline, building some of the city’s tallest buildings.

When passengers disembark the trains downtown and emerge from the underground stations, they’ll see vibrant streets that will likely contain more bi-cycles than buses, since all the Transitway buses will be removed, having been replaced by more effi cient underground trains. Wider sidewalks, patios and a host of businesses to serve the hordes should eventu-ally spring up around the stations.

In the meantime, the LRT construction is about to become a lot more real to people as the Transitway outside the downtown is converted to a rail line, forc-ing buses to be detoured. It might be hard to envision now, but take a trip to Lansdowne, step onto the train and take a trip into the future.

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Horse-drawn funLocal residents take part in a horse-drawn sleigh ride outside the Greely Community Centre on Jan. 24,part of the community’s annual winter carnival. Besides sleigh rides, the carnival saw a pancake breakfast courtesy of the Greely � re� ghters, skating and snowshoeing, a magic show, and auditions for Greely Idol.


As the concept of family evolves in our community, so does the definition of a foster parent. Foster parents come from a variety of different backgrounds that reflect the diversity of the children who need our care.

One thing we know from talking to foster parents is that most people become foster parents after hearing first hand of another foster parent's experience. It's a great message, and shows how rewarding fostering can be for parents and children alike.

“Fostering has enriched us and our children in ways we could not imagine it would,” says one couple who have been fostering for 15 years.

“It's the greatest thing we have ever done as a whole family,” adds another family, who have biological children as well. “If you are a person on this earth, you can do it! It's not about us; it's about the children we can help. I wish everyone could foster for one year so that children in need would never have to look for a family.”

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Week In RevIeWSaturday, January 24 – Friday, January 30

My sincere congratulations to the organizers of the Greely Winter Carnival. I had a great time attending the many activities organized by the Greely Community Association for this tremendous event. Some of the highlights for me were dropping the puck at the hockey game featuring the Police vs Firefighters, participating in the Greely Firefighter’s breakfast on Saturday and serving at the Greely Lions breakfast on Sunday. It was a nice opportunity to be involved in the community and I was pleased to be in attendance. Thank you to the GCA and specifically their Chair, Bruce Brayman, for a great dinner and comedy show on Saturday evening.

On Monday morning I had the opportunity to participate in the WORKshift Canada workshop. This summit was jointly hosted by the City of Ottawa and WORKshift Canada. The morning featured speakers and a panel discussion focussing on practices that can be implemented to provide flexible working programs. It was very informative and I enjoyed learning more about this progressive way of conducting business.

My thanks go out to the Metcalfe Agricultural Society for inviting me to their AGM and providing an opportunity to formally introduce myself and bring greetings from the City.

I also attended the first of a series of Open Houses that presented the proposed plans to widen the Airport Parkway. City Staff was on hand with a number of displayed material that provided in-depth details of the plans. They were also available to address any and all questions from residents, business owners, and community leaders who were in attendance.

We also had our first Ottawa City Council meeting of 2015 and we had an opportunity to learn more about the future plans for the City through the Mayor’s address. I am looking forward to working with the Mayor and my Council Colleagues for our residents and great City.

I would also like to remind our residents that the Osgoode Winter Carnival will be starting this weekend and continuing into the following weekend. For details on the events scheduled please visit www.osgoodevillage.com . The Vernon Winter Carnival will take place during the weekend of February 7 and 8.

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When Marlon Oneid’s moth-er was diagnosed with cancer, her fight was not only against the brutal disease, but also in her struggle to understand and be understood.

“She had difficulty in the hos-pital being serviced in her own language,” said Oneid, a gover-nor with the Canadian Lebanese Chamber of Commerce.

His three sisters took turns

staying by their mother’s side 24 hours a day, seven days a week so they wouldn’t miss out on updates from her doctors and nurses.

“And that’s an impact on … the cancer patient, on the families of the cancer patient,” he said. “We’re equal in every-thing else, so why not serve in that language as well?”

For that reason, he and sev-eral of Ottawa’s faith leaders applauded the Jan. 20 official opening of a new multi-faith and meditation suite at the Ot-

tawa Regional Cancer Foun-dation’s Maplesoft Centre on Alta Vista Drive. The room will complement a range of services offered through the centre’s cancer coaching program that has helped more than 2,000 can-cer patients, their caregivers and families since it launched about four years ago.

The suite was made possible thanks to a $135,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

It will also cover the cost of translation services for cancer

coaching clients unable to speak English or French, among other services, which the founda-tion hopes will encourage more people from linguistically and culturally diverse communities to use its free cancer coaching program.

More than half of Ottawa residents are of different reli-gions and ethnic backgrounds, and 165,000 people here speak Arabic – the third most spoken language in the nation’s capital, Oneid said, adding that of those, 45,000 are Lebanese Canadians, many of them seniors who don’t speak English.

“It behooves us to ensure there is an environment that is made available to everybody,” said Oneid, one of several faith lead-ers whose input was sought for the design of the suite where can-cer patients can retreat for prayer, reflection and meditation.

When Rabbi Reuven Bulka was asked for his ideas on the initiative, he wanted the room to be welcoming for people who don’t identify with a religion.

“It is a multi-faith room, but we want to make sure people who have no faith whatsoever come in there too and meditate as they are fighting (their disease),” said Bulka, who represents Con-gregation Machzikei Hadas syn-agogue. “That shouldn’t restrict them from using the space to contemplate and to think about what they want to do with their life, think about where their life is taking them.”

The downstairs room, which features battery operated flick-ering candles and a curtain that can be drawn in front of two chairs, adorned with blankets, will give cancer patients, their relatives and caregivers a space where they can “take a little break from the hurly burly of life and sit down,” Bulka said.

The suite would have been very inviting to Upper Hunt Club resident Behnaz Bahrami after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2008. In 2009, she underwent treatment to shrink her large tu-mour before undergoing a mas-tectomy.

Bahrami, who attended the grand opening, said she is do-ing well now. She credits her Baha’i faith for providing her with strength throughout her ordeal, and says the new suite would have benefitted her in her healing process though the cen-tre didn’t open until 2011.

“It was time for the centre to incorporate spiritual aspects into people’s healing,” she said. “A lot of times, especially in the western world, we dwell on the physical aspects of our healing.”

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The price of food is pro-jected to increase faster than the rate of infl ation for the second year in a row, accord-ing to the Food Price Report 2015, published by the Food Institute at the University of Guelph.

The report states that over-all food prices will increase between 0.3 per cent and 2.4 per cent in 2015, over the rate of infl ation.

The authors of the report include Sylvain Charlebois, Michael von Massow, Francis Tapon, Erna van Duren, Paul Uys, Warren Pinto and Amit Summan.

Von Massow, associate pro-

fessor in the School of Hos-pitality, Food and Tourism Management at the University of Guelph, said that although prices are generally going up faster than infl ation, consum-ers can expect a slightly lower increase in 2015 than they saw in 2014.

Von Massow said there are reasons specifi c products go up in price, while others don’t.

“For pork and beef, there is a biological hangover, so to speak, from the droughts we experienced in the United States and Canada,” he said. “Yields were very low, so feed prices went through the roof. We saw herds shrink in size, especially beef herds. But it happened with pork as well.”

According to the report, overall food prices in 2014 rose 2.8 per cent, with the greatest increases in meat (12.4 per cent) and fi sh (5.9 per cent).

The report states that con-strained supply in the market has caused additional upwards pressures on beef and pork prices.

“Real cattle prices are at its highest since the 1980’s, and hog prices at its highest since the mid-1990’s,”the report states.

According to the report, the trend of soaring meat prices comes as a result of an in-crease in slaughter fees from 2012 and more recent inci-dents of porcine diseases that reduce supply in global hog

markets. “The coronavirus PED

(porcine epidemic diarrhea) spread to vast populations of Canadian piglets, causing short-term hikes in pork prices throughout barbeque season,” states the report.

HERDS REBUILDING

Von Massow said the rea-son food prices increased so much in 2014 was due to a

few bad years in crop produc-tion.

“It takes time to rebuild,” von Massow said. “Demand is high and supply is low, so prices go up.”

Von Massow said the herds are now rebuilding and al-though there are still tight supplies, hopefully it will im-prove going forward.

“Changes in weather and climate are expected to have signifi cant implications for

food markets in the long term,” the report states. “As droughts have been increasing in recent years, the impact of climate conditions and catastrophic weather events increasingly creates upward pressures on food prices.”

He said the price of fruits and vegetables are largely driven by the Canadian dol-lar, which he explained has dropped in value roughly 10 per cent.

“This drop is value makes fruits and vegetables, which are largely imported during the winter months, more ex-pensive to buy,” von Massow said. “Lower fuel costs will lower transportation costs, but the Canadian dollar is still im-pacting the price.”

The report states a signifi -cant proportion of Canadian food is imported and events such as the drought in Cali-fornia affect domestic retail prices of food.

The report also mentions the dropping value of the Ca-nadian dollar, which will have upward pressure on produce prices, as import levels tend to increase during the winter and spring.

See CONSUMERS, page 13

Food Price Report 2015 forecasts overall increases up to 4 per cent

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This graph, published by the Food Institute at the Univer-sity of Guelph, illustrates the change in food prices from 2004 to 2014.


Continued from page 12

The Food Price Report 2015 fore-casts that the price of meat and fish will increase between three and five per cent, while dairy and eggs will remain stable. Grains will increase between by up to two per cent, fruit and nuts will increase between one and three per cent and vegetables will increase between three and five per cent.

“With decreased feed and fuel prices expected in 2015, meat prices will stabilise and will not soar as in years prior,” the report states.

Competition improves priCes

Von Massow said the reason the price of dairy and grains has re-mained relatively stable is due to competition between grocery chains, who sell dairy and grain products as a loss-leader to draw consumers into their stores.

“We have supply management in Canada (regarding dairy), which moderates some of the highs and

lows we see in other commodities,” he said. “It’s profound in highly populated areas, where there is sig-nificant competition, but less in rural communities where there are not as much options available to consum-ers.”

He said it is hard to predict food prices on a year over year basis, but he feels the rate of increase will slow going into 2016.

Von Massow said the Food Insti-tute looks at both retail prices and buying behaviours when determining projected food prices.

“People are thinking differently about food than they used to,” he said. “They respond to price increases in different ways, for example some people will buy less beef or less ex-pensive cuts of beef.”

The report explained that produc-ers package sizes smaller as a way to pass on a price increase to consumers without notable changes in prices.

The report explained that corre-lation between food price inflation and job availability evidences the province-to-province variance in consumer prices, with higher food

prices in places with booming econ-omies.

“A lot of people are buying bet-ter quality food and if you do it in the smart way, then it doesn’t have to cost more, but some things still do,” von Massow said. “As con-sumers, it’s fine for us to make that choice.”

“Consumer attitudes towards meat are changing – with an emergence of ‘flexitarianism’: a plant-based diet with less frequent inclusion of meat, as a less rigid form of vegetarian-ism,” von Massow said.

smaller stores

The report stated that Canadians are yearning for smaller stores.

“Retailers are now responding to those sentiments by moving store models to one of a local grocery store,” the report states.

The report explained Canada’s food manufacturing industry remains a strong economic force despite global pressures, amid increasing multinational firms entering the Ca-nadian market.

“Dollar depreciation on the Ca-nadian food industry will require working with governments to sustain favourable environments for not only affordable food production, but also supporting Canadian consumers to eat local,” the report states.

Consumers favour smaller stores, local produce

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I went to see Donkey and Gracie at their new home last weekend. As soon as he spotted me coming

‘round the bend, Donk came trotting down the path to meet me at the fence. It was nice to see that. He rec-ognized me and he was happy to see me. I pet him for a mo-ment, and his new owner Ter-resa pointed out that he had had his hooves clipped.

“Wow. He’s never had that done before; at least not at our place!” I said.

Our farrier (the third and only successful one to trim the hooves on our big nervous Belgian) told us it couldn’t be done without a stockade. Luckily the glacial moraine that Donkey trots over in our pasture in the summer usu-

ally keeps his hooves trimmed down fairly well.

Terresa said the farrier just offered to take care of the don-key while he was there working with the horses. Donkey gave up the front feet fairly willing-ly but he never trusts anything that is going on where he can’t see, behind him.

So he kicked, and the far-rier hung on to those back legs until Donkey got tired of swinging him back and forth.

Now he has four beautifully trimmed hooves. I told Terresa that Donkey learned that trick from the horse.

Our farrier has to ride her feet like he’s in the rodeo until she gets tired and lets him fi n-ish her pedicure.

While we continued to talk, Donkey lost interest and wandered away, back to the feeder. The sheep then moved in for some attention. Gracie wasn’t quite as anxious to see

me, as she has acquired a new beau, Dodge (get it? He’s a ram). She was probably wor-ried that my presence meant the end of her date. She came over for a quick pet on the nose and then took off down the meandering path with her new bff, who kept sniffi ng her neck and trying to jump up on her hind end.

She would slow down, turn around and wait for him to catch up, then take off again. He’s go-ing to be exhausted by the time this mating season is through.

Big Mama, the matriarch ewe of the Triple B Ranch, was quite curious about the visitor. She is probably the biggest sheep I’ve ever seen. While we fussed over her, Donkey decided he would come back for another visit. As he approached we fi lmed him with my phone. Terresa commented on how handsome he is. I agreed.

I swear that Donkey knows our tone of voice because all that fawning made his head

swell a bit and as he passed the sheep he did a little fl ip kick in their general direction.

“Donkey!” I gasped. “I have not seen him do that

since he’s been here,” Terresa commented.

“Maybe it’s because I’m here,” I said. I think he was trying to assert his dominance over this portion of the farm population. I’m not sure how he would do with the horses on the other side of the fence but on this side, he’s the big-gest of the bunch.

Jack, the little burro, came over for a pat and Donkey tossed his head at him to frighten him away. Jack didn’t stay around to challenge him.

So far Terresa says there has been no physical contact between the two guardians of the sheep.

I hope Donkey minds his manners or he’ll be getting his chain reattached to his halter very soon.

I like that he has his sheep-guarding job back again, be-

cause that will keep him occu-pied. And he has Jack to keep him company. Donkey and Gra-cie have wonderful new owners who are very involved and atten-tive with their animals.

Terresa is full-time farming now so she will be around if Donkey tries anything sneaky, like opening the gate with his big, agile lips and letting all the animals out.

So far Jack has been the one gently removing the wa-ter heater out of the tank, probably because he was try-ing to fi nd a way to pass the time on a quiet afternoon, or because he knew it would get him some attention.

I know it’s only a matter of time before Donk decides the younger and less experienced Jack should learn a thing or two about how to have fun on a sheep farm.

I don’t want to label him a bad infl uence but he does come with a warning label.

It reads, “trouble when bored.”

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Re� ecting on the year that was and memories of others

The beginning of a new year, for most of us, is a time to refl ect on the year that has

just past. As a writer, I look back at

many columns I should have done differently, and there are one or two which would have been better had they never seen the light of day. How-ever, there is little that can be done about either case at this late date.

What I can do, with the gra-cious consent of my long suf-fering editor, is tell my read-ers a few of the things that continue to make my work both challenging and gratify-ing, and certainly interesting.

There were columns, some more than others, which elic-ited questions from readers on those people I write about. Are they real? Did they ever exist? Where are they now? Sometimes, to protect the in-nocent, I create a fi ctitious name, but the people I write about, did indeed exist in my early life, and the episode, did in fact happen. For instance, Marguerite (and I’m not stu-pid enough to call her by her right name) is really a compi-lation of all the bad little girls I went to school with over the years, and the episodes hap-pened at various times and

in various places, but were in fact, actual.

Was there really a Velma, Joyce, Cecil, and a Miss Crosby? What about my rich Uncle Lou? Or my three brothers and my beloved sister Audrey? Was there an Aunt Lizzie who regularly augmented our meager ward-robes with a hand-me-down box from Regina? And what about my mischievous cous-in Ronny? Where are these people now? Every one of the aforementioned were very much a part of my growing up on the farm at Northcote, and very, very real indeed.

But sadly, all have passed on, the most recent being my dear friend Joyce just a few months ago.

Let me highlight just one other. Uncle Lou, my moth-er’s brother, was indeed her rich brother from New York. Long before he married and had children of his own, he gave us much joy and be-stowed on my mother count-less good deeds to make her life easier on that farm in Renfrew County. If you still wonder if he did exist, you can ask his daughter Mary Lou Walker, who lives outside of Perth, and she will attest to

the honesty of the stories, and my depiction of an uncle, her father, who brought so much joy to our lives during those Depression years.

I am forever grateful to those readers who can add another dimension to a story I have written. One reader re-cently referred to the story of my Mother’s belief that only someone of fair hair should be the fi rst person over the thresh hold in the new year. He said, his memory was that of only a person with black hair who could be admitted fi rst. That brought about memories for both of us of a piece of coal which was brought into the house by the fi rst visitor, to ensure good luck for the com-ing year.

And then there are those loyal readers whose mission in life is to keep me on my toes. One such reader sends me letters, which are a joy to read, even though they might

be a reprimand for a breach of good grammar, or a word mis-spelled. He is always a gentle-man and a true scholar, and I want him to know every letter he writes I take very seriously, and try, but don’t always suc-ceed in living up to his very high standards.

It is very gratifying to me to know the column is often re-cycled and sent off to faraway places, which in turn brings me mail from places I have never heard of, and introduces me to people who become friends. Two come to mind: A gentleman from Kitchener writes long, wonderful letters, describing in detail, his life, his home, his activities and his mission in life. His letter is wrapped around packets of imported teas as a token of ap-preciation for the joy he says the column brings him.

One of the most cherished readers the column has elic-ited is a young man, still in

his early teens, who had his father drive him all the way from his home in the Upper Ottawa Valley to meet me. What an honour that was. It is heartwarming indeed to know that my simple stories appeal to people of all ages, and this young man proves to me that memories told, hold no boundaries and appeal to people of all ages.

Just a few days ago I was sent a picture of a very young girl, curled up on a couch, reading a Mary Cook story.

And so I go into another year with gratitude and with hope. I am truly grateful to this paper for giving me the privilege of telling my stories. I am indebted to those loyal readers who take the time to send their feedback.

I appreciate that the fami-lies left, of those who have passed on, have given me per-mission to continue to include their loved ones in my stories.

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Tree Ottawa hoping to plant one million treesAlex [email protected]

Tree Ottawa is asking Ne-pean residents to help reach their goal of planting one mil-lion trees by Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017.

The project, which is part of non-profit Ecology Ottawa, hopes to engage residents across the city to help plant and protect trees.

“We need your help to

plant one million trees,” Velta Tomsons of Tree Ottawa told more than 20 residents at a workshop in Nepean on Jan. 20. “We’re not going to be able to do it by ourselves.”

Tree Ottawa was launched in October to fight emerald ash borer beetles which have ravaged the city’s ash trees since around 2008.

The city is expected to lose 25 per cent of its tree canopy in the next three to five years

from damage the beetles cause. Half of the one mil-lion tree goal will be planted by the city, but Tree Ottawa is hoping to engage local lead-ers to help them hit the rest of their target.

Tree Ottawa has launched a number of workshops, like the one in Nepean, which the group hopes will energize lo-cal groups to get involved in the initiative.

“We really want to find the

leaders in our neighborhoods across the city, and to mobi-lize that leadership to have co-ordinated teams,” Tomsons said.

Margaret Sambol of the General Burns Community Association has been co-or-dinating with Tree Ottawa and the city to get more trees planted in a park in her com-munity. She took a walk through the park with a city forester who made a tree plan that will be presented at a public consultation in Feb-ruary. The plan will then be finalized in the spring and the trees will be planted in the fall.

Ecology Ottawa has been so receptive and encouraging about anyone that’s excited about planting trees,” Sambol said at the workshop.

Sambol’s community as-sociation is also working to encourage people to plant on their private property and is hoping to hold a planting on Nepean Creek.

Tomsons asked others to contact her if they are inter-ested in working in partner-

ship with Tree Ottawa and the city to plant trees in their own neighborhoods.

“We need to do one-by-one plantings, but we also need to do larger scale plant-ings,” she said. “We have the means to connect the dots between the people who have trees and people who have land.”

Planting trees is only half the fight, as they also need to be maintained and watered to make sure they survive, Tom-sons said.

Tree Ottawa is also en-

couraging residents to adopt recently planted trees through a program on their website. Residents can adopt any tree that has been recent-ly planted and take care of it so that it gets the proper care it needs.

“We can’t just plant trees. We have to protect them,” Tomsons said. “Our trees re-ally need to be taken care of so let’s take them into our own hands.” hose looking to get involved can learn more at ecologyottawa.ca/tree-ottawa.

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Not every old man is grumpy, and not all kids are up to no good: that’s the mes-sage the Osgoode Youth Asso-ciation and the Rural Ottawa

South Support Services hope to convey when they bring seniors and teens together for a Family Day celebration this month.

The second annual Gen-erations event at the youth centre on Feb. 17 will offer

a baking workshop, a catered dinner and a dessert social to give participants ample op-portunity to get to know each other.

“It’s about developing in-tergenerational relationships that may not have existed before,” said O-YA’s execu-tive director Nicole McKer-racher. “It’s a chance to get to know another generation in another way, and I think that’s missing these days. There’s this perception of ‘Those crazy kids, always up to no good.’”

There may be an 80-year age gap between some of the guests, but McKerracher said that didn’t stop last year’s group from having a blast.

“It was one of the best ac-tivities we did last year,” she said. “The seniors loved it; we had so many requests to run it again. It was really great.”

Last year’s party was run in the daytime with baking and an art workshop, but this year’s party will take place in the evening, from 5 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17.

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“It was very hands on and very collaborative between the youth and the seniors,” she said.The addition of a dessert social this year will add more informal avenues to foster connections.

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Despite that, it’s not even so large to accommodate im-portant meetings; when the community comes together to discuss major issues, it’s often packed to capacity.

The former Manotick Com-munity Association had a lo-cal architect draw preliminary designs for an upgrade seven years ago, but until now there has been no movement at the city level to go forward with the project, according to a let-ter MCPRA president Noel Norenius sent to Moffatt in the fall.

Moffatt is now on board in principle, but the scope of the project still needs to be ham-mered out before the city se-cures any funding, he said.

“What we have to do right now is get a Class C estimate for what the arena project would be so we have a better idea of what the costs are,” Moffatt said.

“Right now we have a more high level one and it’s not into detail so it’s harder to nail down a budget until we actu-

ally have a better idea.”In the past, the city has put

the project at about $1.3 mil-lion, including the cost of de-commissioning the septic sys-tem and hooking the arena to city services.

The recreation association has also acquired quotes of its own, more in the range of $450,000 to $650,000, but at least in the case of Minto’s $450,000 quote from October, that doesn’t include septic de-commissioning, permits, mu-nicipal fees or design fees.

So far the community has raised $10,000 since the Christ-mas holidays, including two corporate donations of more than $2,000 each from the Os-goode-Rideau Minor Hockey Association and the Manotick Masters 50+ Hockey League. O’Neil said he doesn’t think they’ll have a problem hitting their goal by year’s end.

“There’s enough desire within the community for families, not just corporations. They know what the issues are with the arena and the com-munity hall,” O’Neil said.

“We’re just starting to get

in motion so we’re just putting info out there. Hopefully with-in the next month we’ll have a better idea of how we’re do-ing.”

The expansion group has teamed up with a local stone-mason to track the fundraising with a wall of appreciation in-side the arena.

Donations will be carved into stone plaques depending on how much was given.

The donation categories include Corporate ($2,000 and more), VIP ($1,000 to $1,999), and Individual ($500 to $999).

They’ve also enlisted a team of Algonquin College students in the architecture technology program to create detailed de-signs of the newly expanded arena.

O’Neil said the goal is to have city funding secured in the 2016 budget, with shovels in the ground in the spring of 2017.

For more information or to make a donation, contact Mike O’Neil (613-692-3213), Dave Amtfield (613-692-1864) or Pat O’Leary (613-692-4742).

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Orléans trio Ivanie Blondin, Vincent de Haitre and Rachel Homan were all out of town, travelling to compete. Blon-din and de Haitre, speed skat-ers who won female and male athlete of the year respectively, were both at a world cup event in Europe, and Homan, who leads the Rachel Homan rink, (named female team of the year), was also out of town. All were represented by their par-ents.

“This is a big honour,” said Bob Blondin, Ivanie’s fa-ther, who accepted her award. “She’s very proud and hum-bled.”

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It was a one-two punch in the athlete of the year group, as both Blondin and de Haitre got their start with the Gloucester Concordes, an Orléans speed skating club.

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“I couldn’t be happier than to have him by my side receiving this award.”

Both competed in the Winter Olympics, and Blondin has had an amazing season on the World Cup circuit – she’s currently ranked fi rst in the world in the mass start event.

De Haitre is a double threat, as an interna-tional competitor in both speed skating and cy-cling, competing in the Commonwealth Games as a cyclist following his Olympic debut at only 19.

“It makes it that much more special,” de Haitre said of being honoured alongside Blond-in. “Two local athletes from the same club who both move to Calgary, join the national team, reach our goals by making it to the Olympics, and now we’re looking forward to a long road ahead.”

The Cumberland native has also trained with the Ottawa Bicycle Club. He credited his dual sport success to youthful enthusiasm and ‘igno-rance is bliss.’

Blondin said winning the award named after another Ottawa successful speed skater – Kris-tina Groves – was special for her. Groves was a multi-time winner of the award.

“Seeing that she’s gotten it in the past, to me, it makes it a little bit more meaningful. It’s al-most as if I’m following in her footsteps, and I

guess if I’m female athlete of the year, it means I’m on the right track,” Blondin said. “It’s cool for me to be able to say I’m that much closer to potentially being a world champion and being half as great as Kristina Groves was.”

The Carleton Ravens men’s basketball team won the male team of the year award – an hon-our they’ve taken home nine of the past 12 years.

The Rachel Homan rink also repeated as the female team of the year award winners, which they’ve won four of the past fi ve years.

Male coach of the year was also from men’s basketball, but this time from the University of Ottawa, as James Derouin, the Gee-Gees coach, took home the award. The Ottawa na-tive captained the Gee-Gees as a player years ago.

The female coach of the year was Kanata’s Claudette Faubert. The Special Olympics track and fi eld team coach works with one third of the athletes who were selected for the national team for next year’s Special Olympics World Games. The volunteer coach is also a Special Olympics snowshoeing coach.

While the major award winners were an-nounced, one athlete from every single sport as well as athletes from every team that won a pro-vincial or national title were also honoured.

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Feb. 6Trivia Night at Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm, 2452 Yorks Corners Rd., in support of the Metcalfe Holy Trinity Angli-can Church restoration fund. Doors open at 7 p.m., trivia starts at 7:30 p.m. Teams of

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Feb. 7 - 8 Vernon Winter Carnival, hosted by the Vernon Com-munity Association and the army cadets. Starting at 10 a.m. Saturday there will be outdoor games and at 1:30 p.m. enjoy a hockey game with the cadets. On Sunday, enjoy a brunch between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Adults $7 each, children six to 10 $4 each. Children under six eat free. 11 a.m. church service by the Osgoode Baptist/Vernon United Church Rev. Joyce Trask.

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Feb. 24Estate Planning workshop at the Manotick branch of the Ottawa Public Library, 6:30 to 8 p.m.Learn the planning process and understand the tools used in estate planning offered in partnership with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. Register at BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca/Programs.

Feb. 28.In this acrylic painting workshop, professional artist, Susan Bruner, will lead you through the process of creat-ing magical monochromatic works of art.Cost: $25 per participant.10 a.m. until noon at the Os-goode Township Museum. Spaces are limited – please call 613-821-4062 to register.

March 14 Join the Osgoode Township Museum for Kids Craft Day this month as we create Leprechaun Hats for Saint Patrick’s Day, learn how to dance an Irish jig, search for a pot of gold, and taste some amazing rainbow treats, from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.Cost: $5 per child. Please call 613-821-4062 to save your spot.

Ongoing: Ovarian Cancer Canada offers a free presentation called Ovarian Cancer: Knowledge is Power, about the signs, symptoms and risk factors of the disease. To organize one for your busi-ness, community group or association, please contact Lyne Shackleton at 613-488-3993 or [email protected]

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