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Horsing around at the Metcalfe FairJunior and senior kindergarten students from Metcalfe Public School were excited to meet a large Clydesdale workhorse inside the educational exhibit at the Metcalfe Fair on Friday, Oct. 4. Hundreds of students from across the region descended on the annual agricultural fair to learn about farm life and meet some furry friends. Cows, chickens, rabbits and ducks were also on display inside the childrens’ barn. The fair ran at the Metcalfe Fairgrounds from Oct. 3 to Oct. 6.

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News - The city is driving ahead with a plan to upgrade three key intersections for drivers coming in and out of Manotick.

Residents got their fi rst look at four possible solutions for improving intersections at Prince of Wales Drive and Greenbank Road, Prince of Wales and Bankfi eld Road, and Bankfi eld and First Line Roads at a public open house on Thursday, Oct. 3.

The improvements come as part of the larger plan to realign Greenbank Road from north of the Jock River to a spot further west on Cambri-an Road. It would also extend Greenbank and the southwest Transitway to Barnsdale Road. “It made sense to think of (the intersections) in our study because they do feed into the Prince of Wales/Greenbank study area,” said Peter Steacy, a senior project manager with MMM Group, which is lead-ing the project.

In all four options, old Greenbank Road would be curved eastward to meet Prince of Wales north of Viewbank Road, with im-proved sightlines and stop-ping distances. This would create a safer intersection, Steacy said, but would also discourage drivers from tak-ing Viewbank as a shortcut into Barrhaven South.

FOUR OPTIONS

In Option 1, Prince of Wales would be widened to four lanes from old Green-bank down to Bankfi eld. That intersection would be “beefed

up” to accommodate double eastbound left turn lanes and one through eastbound lane toward Manotick village. First Line Road would be upgraded to a signalized intersection at Bankfi eld.

“We’re aware of concerns from traffi c trying to come out of First Line onto Bankfi eld,” Steacy said. The intersection currently warrants a light, he added, but the city has de-ferred the installation until the Greenbank realignment study is completed.

Option 2 takes a different approach to First Line. This plan would also install a light at First Line and Bankfi eld, but would extend First Line northward and connect it to old Greenbank at Prince of Wales. This would accom-modate northbound traffi c coming from Manotick. The enlarged Bankfi eld/Prince of Wales intersection from Op-tion 1 is also included.

Options 3 and 4 are more controversial because they make use of roundabouts, an increasingly popular traffi c solution that rural residents have rejected in the past.

In Option 3, residents would contend with a four-legged roundabout at Bankfi eld and Prince of Wales, which would be widened to four lanes from Greenbank southward. Two existing properties nearby would have to be removed to accommodate the new infra-structure.

Depending on traffi c fl ow, First Line may still get a light in Option 3, but Steacy said the roundabout may create suffi cient gaps to allow traffi c to get through.

Residents ponder Bankfi eld, First Line improvements

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Intersection plans divide Manotick residentsOption 4 affects even more

local residents with a fi ve-legged roundabout that pulls in a realigned First Line Road. Three existing properties would have to be removed, and Prince of Wales would re-quire a major shift to the west in order to create enough room for the roundabout.

Residents were divided over which option would work best for the community.

Noel Norenius said he much prefers option two, which fa-vours signalized intersections over roundabouts.

“It means less confusion,” he said, noting that a round-about would have to be incred-ibly large to accommodate the type of traffi c using the Bank-fi eld intersection. “Heavy trucks cannot navigate them without driving across.”

But Marty Smith, who could potentially lose his property if either of the roundabout op-tions go ahead, said he prefers the fi ve-leg roundabout.

He said he’s not too con-cerned about losing his home – depending on how much money the city’s willing to give him – and he said moving First Line further west to join the roundabout make sense.

He wants to keep traf-fi c moving smoothly along Bankfi eld, and he said a traffi c light at First Line would cause backups.

However many residents along the stretch would wel-come the slowdown; the Manotick Village and Com-munity Association has been pushing to bring the speed limit down to 60 km/h instead of 80.

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The meeting at Stonebridge Golf and Country Club in Barrhaven was a joint meeting that dealt with the Greenbank realignment study as well as improvements to Cambrian Road in anticipation of the

coming recreation facility. Previous open houses have

addresses one project or the other, but city planners found

that most residents were inter-ested in updates on both, so they joined forces.

The Greenbank realign-

ment group has narrowed down some of its options since the last public meeting. Con-sultants have decided that it makes the most sense to build one corridor that accommo-dates both a Transitway and normal traffi c instead of build-ing two separate roadways.

It’s more cost effective, Steacy said, and has less im-pact on existing properties.

“Separating arterial road and transit corridors results in minimal service improve-

ments at signifi cant cost and property impacts,” the fi nd-ings read.

Planners have also nar-rowed down their realignment options to extend Greenbank to the urban boundary at Barn-sdale Road.

The new Greenbank Road will likely curve southeast through farmland to connect with Barnsdale Road at the old Greenbank Road with ei-ther a light or a roundabout.

All three options carried

forward for further analysis place a Transitway down the middle of a 41.5-metre-wide roadway, with southbound and northbound traffi c travel-ling on either side.

The plan also accommo-dates cyclists and pedestrians.

Consultants will hold an-other open house in December to reveal their preferred op-tions and get feedback from residents.

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Lynette and Dave Rooney own a family home, car repair business and investment property near the Bankfi eld/Prince of Wales intersection. They are anxious to see how the city decides to upgrade the intersection because the work could potentially aff ect their properties.

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Pumpkin inferno invades Greely Public SchoolEmma [email protected]

Community - Cats, bats and dan-gerous pumpkins of doom came to life on Oct. 1 as fi fty-six Grade 5 and 6 Greely Public School students dug into their pumpkins for an afternoon of creative carving.

The school was selected to to take part in the Pumpkinferno exhibit at Upper Canada Village this October.

The students will join 300 other children supplying pumpkins for the heritage village, along with thousands of professional creations solicited for the project. More than 6,000 pump-kins will be on display starting Friday, Oct. 4.

“Marvel at this eclectic display of scenes from exotic places and historic ages, meet up with forest animals and sea-born creatures, see story book heroes, mythical characters, cultural icons and more - all carved from pumpkins,” the website says.

At Greely Public School, students were simply concerned with getting their ideas down on pumpkin. Some were happy, others were creepy and still others were downright scary.

Designs ranged from very original - one student carved an intricate truck into his squash - to the classic toothy smiles that welcome trick-or-treaters every year.

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Greely Public School student Kate Kyte picks through a pile of pumpkin guts for seeds to roast during a pumpkin carving session in her Grade 5/6 class.

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News - Anne Currier’s ghost will be the least of visitors’ worries as zom-bies, witches, ghouls and goblins take over the historic Watson’s Mill in Manotick this Halloween season.

For three frightful nights in October, a laby-rinth of dark deeds and evil scenes will thrill even the bravest souls who walk into the mill to face their uncertain future.

Bubbling cauldrons watched by the wartiest of witches will give way to a pantry of pickled body parts, creatures and other unidentified pre-serves.

Guests should watch out for hungry zombies as they make their way

to the torture chambers in the basement.

The ghoulish gathering begins Thursday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. and continues each night until Saturday, Oct. 26 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $5 and can be pur-chased at the door.

Haunt Nights was cre-ated in partnership with the Manotick Village and Community Association, and Watson’s Mill educa-tion officer Cam Trueman hopes the new event will make the mill accessible to people who otherwise might not visit.

“I’d like to see about one person a minute, so about 200 or 300 people a night,” he said. “In time it will gain momentum and bring more people to the village.”

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Creatures of the night will appear at Watson’s Mill this October as part of a haunted house program Oct. 24 to 26. Evil witch Katie Sutherland and zombies Tyler Whitteker, Sonia Desrosiers and Maya Desrosiers are just a few of the more than 45 scary creatures that will take over the mill that weekend.



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That could raise as much as $5,000 to sup-port regular programming at the mill.

Trueman said he has wanted to create a haunted house like this since he started work-ing at the mill.

“It’s fun,” he said. “It’s an excellent way to get youth involved at a place they normally might not visit.”

About 45 youth volunteers from area schools will bring the spooky scenes to life, something organizer Janice Domaratzki said is exactly what the MVCA hopes to encourage among lo-cal teens.

“It’s all about engaging youth,” she said. Maya Desrosiers, a Grade 11 student at St.

Mark Catholic High School, said she volun-teered because it sounded like a fun way to get involved.

“I don’t like to be scared, but to scare others is awesome,” she laughed.

Grade 10 student Tyler Whitteker said he is especially excited to spook people who aren’t paying attention. His strategy will be “sneaking up to people in the darkness,” he said.

The MVCA will sell Halloween treats at the door and families are welcome to attend, al-though the haunted house is not recommended for children under 10.

For more information call 613-692-6455. To volunteer in the haunted house email [email protected].

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Zombies played by students like Maya Desrosiers will rise again in front of Watson’s Mill. The historic mill will be overrun by creatures of the night Oct. 24 to 26.

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Something went beep beep beep at 5:30 in the morning. Just loud enough to wake me up, not loud enough to wake up the whole neigh-

bourhood.It kept going beep beep beep for it seemed

like 10 minutes. Could have been a truck backing up, but what truck backs up continu-ously for 10 minutes?

The fi rst thought was that it was the sound of an electronic device wanting something. Electronic devices are very needy. If their batteries sink below a certain level, they start going beep, no matter what time it is. Then you have to remember whether the phone or the camera or whatever is in somebody’s purse or somebody’s jacket pocket or under a seat cushion somewhere.

But it was none of those things. It was something outside. Or maybe in the garage. There was equipment left in the back yard for some work going on. Maybe a piece of that equipment needed something. But there was no beeping in the garage and nothing in the backyard. It was somewhere in the neigh-bourhood, but no idea where.

By the time I got back to bed, it had stopped. I’ll never know what it was. Don’t think it was a car alarm. Remember when

those used to go off all the time? Now you never hear them. Maybe they’re made bet-ter. Maybe no one turns them on any more. Maybe they just make little beeps like the ones I was hearing.

Trying then to get back to sleep, I pondered not only the neediness but the stupidity, and perhaps even perversity of our electronic devices.

Long before the fi rst cellphone was in-vented, Woody Allen had a stand-up routine about his war with the machines he owned. The toaster burned the toast. The clock ran counter-clockwise. The sun lamp rained on him. So he gathered all the appliances togeth-er and spoke to them reasonably, asked them to co-operate.

A few days later, the TV set began to act

up and he attacked it in a rage. Two days later, he was in an elevator, which asked him for his fl oor. He said 16. The elevator said: “Are you the guy that hit the television set?” Then the elevator took him up and down fast between fl oors and let him off in the base-ment.

Most of our machines are not that mean. Although I have a printer that demands to be realigned when it doesn’t need it.

If I were Woody Allen I would have a little talk with it and tell it that it’s printing just fi ne the way it is. But I know there’s no reasoning with it, so I go through the whole realigning drill, which is time-consuming and inconvenient.

The thing is, the printer is too stupid to know it doesn’t need realigning. The manufacturers probably thought the printer is really smart, because it can send me mes-sages. But if the messages are wrong, what’s so smart about that?

The same with those things that go beep beep beep. Children make noises when they need something but, except for the very young ones, they know it’s more effective to make noise when their parents are awake. Not so for cellphones, cameras and whatever that other beeping thing was. If machines

were really so smart, they’d know when people are sleeping.

The fault is ours, of course. We, the tech-nology-obsessed people of the world, taught machines to make noises, to send error mes-sages, to demand upgrades. And if we don’t obey, they make our lives miserable. Which forces us to buy newer machines.

The only possible solution is to turn them off whenever possible. You know they don’t like that because they’re always asking us to confi rm that we want to do it. And there may well be a punishment down the road. But at least it stops the beeping for awhile.

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Things that go beep in the night

Let’s talk about death

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Judging by the sad state of our province’s pallia-tive care system, it’s time to have a conversa-tion about death.

The statistics are frightening. According to the Canadian Palliative Care Association, most Cana-dians would prefer to die in a home-based setting, yet nearly 75 per cent of all deaths occur in a hospital.

Only 16 to 36 per cent of Canadians have access to hospice palliative care depending on where they live.

The situation will only become worse over time, with the seniors’ population expected to double by 2036. Meanwhile, people are living longer, giving them time to develop more chronic diseases.

Unfortunately, Ontario’s residential hospices are struggling to stay afl oat, with a funding model that relies primarily on charitable donations.

The Ontario government only started providing fi nancial support for hospices during the past decade, leaving the rsponsibility of keeping them running to volunteers and community groups.

After sustained lobbying from palliative care agencies, the federal government fi nally took action, providing $3 million in one-time funding for the Ca-nadian Palliative Care Association to develop a plan to deliver quality end-of-life care across the country.

The 2012-15 initiative advises provincial govern-

ments to have a clear policy on palliative care that promotes access and integrated delivery of services together with the necessary funding.

But based on a recent interview with Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews, we’re not confi dent that approach is even on her radar.The minister was recently in town for the opening of the Ottawa Birth and Wellness Centre, promoting it as a way to provide less-costly and sometimes more appropriate options for expectant mothers.

But when asked if she saw a parallel with using a similar cost-effi cient model to offer non-medical care at a hospice, Matthews said she’d “have to think about that a little bit,” adding hospices will always be partially funded by communities, because it’s the communities who want them there.

But the minister is not the only one guilty of avoiding a serious conversation about death.

We all need to start talking about the state of our province’s palliative care system and the options available for quality palliative care.

Individually, everyone should prepare an advance care plan, directing their care in the event of a life-threatening illness. Collectively, we must force this on the legislative agenda at Queen’s Park.

As it stands, today is not a good day to die.

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News - A “unilateral” con-tract the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation deliv-ered to the city gives the OLG freedom to defi ne the number of slot machines and gaming tables in Ottawa.

The city’s fi nance and eco-nomic development commit-tee narrowly supported the agreement on Oct. 1.

Despite the clause under-mining city council’s recent decision to only allow 1,250 slot machines and 21 gaming tables at the Rideau Carleton Raceway, the city’s fi nance committee signed off on the contract last week.

But committee members did so on the understanding that the OLG would put in writing that it would respect the city’s decision on the number of slots and tables before city council was asked to give fi nal approval to the agreement on Oct. 9.

City manager Kent Kirk-patrick said the OLG advised him it was prepared to put that in writing in time for the council decision.

Mayor Jim Watson, who heads the fi nance committee, also put forward a motion to the committee reinforcing support for council’s decision about the number of slots and tables.

G louces t e r -Sou thga t e Coun. Diane Deans was the only committee member to dissent on that amendment.

City solicitor Rick O’Connor said the tone and format of the “agreement” was a departure from similar contracts with the OLG.

“If I were to tell you this was an agreement negotiated in the normal course, I would be being disingenuous,” he said.

“This is not a routine ne-gotiation, so there is no back and forth.”

The agreement doesn’t change much for the fi nan-cial relationship between the OLG and the city.

It adds a contribution to the city of four per cent of the profi ts from table games, which doesn’t apply now be-cause there are not yet any gaming tables at the raceway. In the last fi ve years, the city received between $4.3 and $4.4 million annually from raceway slots revenue.

The new agreement also adds the creation of a com-

munity recognition program, which the city will be obligat-ed to partner with the OLG to design and implement.

The agreement requires at least one community promo-tional event to be held annu-ally.

It is anticipated the city would be required to pay for its own costs for at least the one event reach year, accord-ing to a city staff report.

The city manager will be discussing the details with OLG.

Some committee members, including Orléans Coun. Bob Monette, expressed concern

that the program would ob-ligate the city to become a “cheerleader” for the OLG.

Bruce Jutzi, the only mem-ber of the public who signed up to speak to the commit-tee about the issue, said that clause is only one part of the new agreement that’s prob-lematic.

“The OLG wants 2,000 slots and 84 tables,” Jutzi

said, adding that the provi-sions in the agreement are de-signed to “neuter” the city.

Other councillors, particu-larly Bay Coun. Mark Taylor, were also concerned about a clause that absolves the OLG of any liability.

“I’m not sure why we would sign this,” he said.

Taylor, along with College Coun. Rick Chiarelli, Rideau-

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Committee members who voted yes included: Allan Hubley (Kanata South), Pe-ter Hume (Alta Vista), Ma-ria McRae (River), Monette, Doug Thompson (Osgoode) and Ottawa Mayor Jim Wat-son.

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Voting is now open for this year’s contest, which will split $1 million between a handful of fi nalists across the country.

The contest relies on com-munity-led voting to choose 90 semi-fi nalists from three rounds of voting between now and November. Those semi-fi nalists will then compete for one of 30 spots in the judges’ round, which will wrap up in January with an announce-ment of the winners.

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Making sauerkraut was a family traditionThe big wood barrel

had been scrubbed with hot soapy water and a brush and put

outside on the back stoop to dry in the sun.

It would take days for it to be as dry as a bone and if the sky looked like a drop of rain might come down, the barrel was rolled into the summer kitchen until the threat was over.

Dozens of big, fat cab-bages were already in the summer kitchen on a table Father had put together by putting three wide planks on two saw-horses. A new bag of coarse salt had been bought at Briscoe’s General Store. We were ready.

This would be a Saturday night when there would be no going off to a house party or having neighbours in for a game of cards. This night

would be reserved for making sauerkraut and the whole family would be doing the job.

I had mixed feelings about the night we made the sau-erkraut. Certainly the whole family was working together brought me special joy, but being the youngest of the fi ve children my job was menial at best. All I was allowed to do was bring in more cabbages from the summer kitchen as they were needed.

The old pine table had been stripped of its well-worn

red and white oilcloth and the wood scrubbed clean by my sister Audrey.

All the chairs and benches had been moved back to the wall – there would be no sit-ting that night.

Hands had been scrubbed with a brush and hot soapy water and both Father and Mother wore long white aprons for the job.

When the work-night start-ed, on the table close to one end was the cabbage slicer. Father said it had been made by his great-great grandfather

when he settled in Northcote generations ago. It looked like a long narrow wood box with no lid. In the bottom of the box was a sharp blade that Father said could be deadly if you accidentally ran your hand over it.

The well-scrubbed bar-rel had been rolled into the kitchen right after supper and it sat close to the table at one end. Straddling the barrel was the wood box with the deadly blade which also, of course, had been scrubbed within an inch of its life.

Now it was time to bring in the cabbages from the sum-mer kitchen. Not all at once – they were kept out as long as possible, so that when they were fi nally shredded they would still be well chilled from being outside of the steaming hot kitchen.

And that’s when I fi gured

into the picture. It was my job to bring in the cabbages when Father said he was ready for another one. This meant I was constantly running back and forth – inside, outside. It also meant I missed seeing most of the actual job of shredding the big pale green heads, which didn’t please me in the least.

But back in those days, a young daughter did exactly what she was told. There was no negotiating with a brother or sister to change jobs.

It was Emerson and Ever-ett’s job to peel off the very top leaves of each head of cabbage. Not one leaf more than the very top ones, either – that would be sheer waste.

Beside the table were two huge baskets into which went the outer leafs.

They wouldn’t be tossed out in the back yard, where

garbage was kept. No, these baskets of leaves would go to feed the pigs.

This is where my youngest brother Earl came into the picture.

It was his job to tear down the discarded cabbage into smaller pieces.

That way, Father said, it was easier to make the feed go farther when it was fi nally tossed out to the pigs, mixed with other slop.

Audrey sliced off the very end of the cabbage with a sharp butcher knife, and that too was tossed into the bas-kets by the table.

Then that head was passed on to Father.

With spotlessly clean hands Father fed the head of cabbage into the wood box straddling the barrel.

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MARY COOK

Mary Cook’s Memories


Metroland East Special Report

Ontario’s palliative care agencies offer a chilling prognosis for the decades to come.

With a seniors’ population pre-dicted to double in size by 2036, and a funding model for residential hospice care that relies primarily on charitable donations, the system just isn’t sus-tainable, say palliative care experts.

Canadians are living longer, giving them more time to develop chronic ill-nesses.

The health-care system can also expect to encounter a growing num-ber of patients with unpredictable life spans as a result of an increase in cas-es of dementias such as Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

“Unless something is done in the next few years, we’re going to be in a crisis situation on a number of fronts including palliative care and Alzheimer’s and other dementias and just physical space for treatment of the Baby Boom generation,” said Christine Elliott, Ontario Progressive Conservative health critic.

“We need to start planning seri-ously now, because this is happening in the next three to fi ve years,” she added. “We’re going to have to start to deal with it as boomers hit 65 and start having more complicated health problems.”

Meanwhile, only 16 to 36 per cent of Canadians have access to hospice palliative care and end-of-life servic-es, according to the Canadian Pallia-tive Care Association, depending on where they live. Three-quarters of all deaths occur in hospital, even though most Canadians would prefer to die at home.

The provincial government has failed to properly fund residential hos-pices, said France Gélinas, the Ontario NDP health critic. Many are forced to come up with more than half of their operating costs through charitable do-nations and fundraising drives.

“Except for hands-on care, the Ministry of Health has not paid for hospices, so the hospices are on the hook for everything,” she said. “Fun-damentally something is wrong – we don’t ask any other part of the health-care system to fundraise their opera-tions. Why do we ask hospices to do that?”

Hospice palliative care is a prior-ity for the Ontario government, said provincial Health Minister Deb Mat-thews.

But she was vague concerning the ministry’s current and future plans, adding that it wasn’t long ago that hospices received no funding at all.

“When George Smitherman was minister he announced some funding. I recently announced we would cover the nursing care in hospices,” she said. “So we have come from zero to 50 per cent, or whatever the number is, in a very short period of time.”

The provincial government started providing funding for hospices in 2006.

TIGHT BUDGET

The Ontario government’s action plan on palliative care must recognize both the growing seniors’ demograph-ic and the province’s tight fi scal situa-tion, Matthews said.

“We know we’re not going to have a whole lot more money,” she said. “Our government is committed to keep in-creasing the health-care budget, but at

nothing like the past years.”In 2011, the ministry asked the lo-

cal health networks to agree to a part-nership to increase access to hospice and palliative care by:• Improving the co-ordination of ser-vices• Monitoring care to ensure effective use of resources• Providing fair access to hospices across the province• Improving palliative care at long-term care homes and hospitals• Providing care using an inter-disci-plinary team and setting standards for end-of-life care

The partnership agreement also recommends the provincial govern-ment draft a policy statement support-

ing consistent palliative care planning across every region.

“So, within basically the same en-velope, we have to transform how we deliver care,” said Matthews. “One of those things ... is improving options for palliative care.”

One option is reallocating money from hospitals to residential hospice care.

Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs, who founded and chairs the Canadian Virtual Hospice, said receiving pal-liative care at a hospital or long-term care facility is the most expensive form of delivery.

“You want to avoid sending some-one to a hospital setting if you pos-sibly can. But at the same time you

need a hospital setting,” she said. “It’s turf war. It’s about moving the dollars out of the hospital system and into the community.”

By funding more hospice beds, the province can reduce the burden on hospitals’ emergency rooms and acute care beds, according to a report published in 2009 by the Hospice Association of Ontario’s Residential Hospice Working Group.

An acute care bed in an Ontario city costs an average of $850 per day, nearly twice the amount charged by a hospice for a residential bed: $439 per day.

Using a 10-bed hospice model, this would free up $1.5 million annually in health care spending, according to the hospice working group.

But this money does not represent dollar-for-dollar savings, said Rick Firth, director of Hospice Palliative Care Ontario.

“We’re decreasing the cost of care for the individual and we’re freeing up beds in the hospital for them to use for other priorities,” he said, adding it’s about providing appropriate care for the patient.

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Experts in palliative and end-of-life care are looking ahead to a time when all Canadians can access quality care in their fi nal days, and have the opportunity to choose where they die.

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Moving forward, the province needs to set a funding target of 80 per cent for residential hospices, he said, as well as improve access to hospice in rural communities.

Célestin Abedi, executive director of the Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program, an advisory group for the Champlain Local Health Integra-tion Network, is hoping to convince the LHIN to change the funding for-mula for hospices.

“If we would like hospice to play a bigger role in the health-care system, it is not correct to ask them to fund-raise for 60 per cent of the budget to do that,” he said.

“In the rural regions, where you almost don’t have any capacity for fundraising, you cannot give them a bed and say, ‘fundraise for 50 or 60 per cent of that money,’ knowing that they don’t have that capacity.”

Hospices already supplement their operations with an army of volun-teers. More than 600 people donate their time to Hospice Care Ottawa to keep its services afl oat.

The Champlain LHIN is now look-ing at how much money goes into palliative care in hospices and in the region. Its strategic plan identifi es palliative care as one of the health network’s priorities for 2013-16.

MOVING FORWARD

A big part of the solution to Ontar-io’s palliative puzzle lies in the inte-gration of services, say palliative care experts.

“Integration is key,” said Firth. “It’s a trend in most of the western world in order to contain health-care costs.”

After years of advocating for im-proved access to hospice by the Qual-ity End of Life Care Coalition of Canada, the message fi nally resonated with the federal government.

In 2012, the Canadian Palliative

Care Association received $3 million to conduct a three-year national study looking to develop a plan to deliver quality end-of-life care across the country.

The 2012-15 initiative, titled The Way Forward National Framework: A Roadmap for the Integrated Pal-liative Approach to Care, is looking to provide a best practices guide for government, care providers and pal-liative care agencies for the decades to come.

Halfway through preparing The Way Forward report, project manager Leanne Kitchen Clarke said the group has found access to palliative care is a key part of the solution.

A draft version of the study, re-leased in the spring, calls on federal and provincial governments to:

• Establish palliative care policies for all care settings and providers

• Create laws and regulations to en-sure all palliative and end-of-life care agencies follow those policies

• Create guidelines and standards of care that refl ect the needs of spe-cifi c populations, for example, rural versus urban patients

• Compensate doctors for the time required to provide integrated care

• Create seamless care transitions for people when they move to a differ-ent health care setting, for example by providing electronic medical records

• Teach the integrated approach to all health care providers

• Monitor the palliative care system to make sure it’s working

The Way Forward also recom-mends creating strong links between hospitals, long-term care homes, fam-ily doctors, hospices and other pallia-tive care providers.

It also offers guidelines for fam-ily doctors, long-term care homes, as well as acute and home care.

For more information read the full report online at hpcintegration.ca.

The report recommends regional program planners develop special-ized inter-professional palliative-care teams – groups composed of, for ex-ample, a community nurse, a special-ized nurse, a program co-ordinator and a psycho-social support worker. It also suggests the creation of a central phone number to allow virtual access to palliative care services.

“Right now we have small little hospitals that will say, ‘We have a palliative care consult team,’ and it’s a nurse that’s done one hour of train-ing,” said Lynn Kachuik, a nurse specializing in palliative care at the Ottawa Hospital. “Well, that’s not a consult team.”

AHEAD OF THE GAME

The push for the integration of pal-liative care services is already being felt in communities across Canada, including the nation’s capital.

The Champlain LHIN’s regional

program aims to help patients and caregivers create a palliative care plan that starts long before the patient is in the fi nal days of life.

“The one thing about the Ottawa program is that the community has come together and (is) talking togeth-er about integration of services,” said Kitchen Clarke.

Other examples of cities offering innovative and integrated programs include Edmonton, which has a re-gional palliative care program that offers 57 hospice beds located in three different areas in the city, as well as an intensive palliative care hospital unit.

Staff at Victoria Hospice, located in the capital of British Columbia, con-sult with hospitals and health facili-ties throughout the region, and help family doctors and home care teams provide care for patients dying in their homes.

“There are pockets across the coun-try,” said Kitchen Clarke. “But that’s just it. It’s happening in pockets.”

The Way Forward aims to connect all the dots.

“That’s where Ottawa can help show others the good steps in the right direction,” she said.

Meanwhile, individuals can take steps towards dying with dignity through advance care planning.

“These are not conversations peo-ple want to have, but they are also conversations people should have all along the way,” said Kitchen Clarke, adding that they don’t have to wait until someone is nearing the end of their life.

“It’s a tough conversation to have, but it needs to happen.”

Kitchen Clarke said The Way For-ward project is trying to change how health care agencies treat life-limiting illnesses and encourage Canadians to think more about hospice palliative care and advance care planning.

“More people need to know about it, more people need to be thinking about it, more people need to be talk-ing about good quality hospice pal-liative care,” she said. “We can only move forward together if we under-stand what’s happening.”

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There’s a lesson for palliative care professionals in the way Roger’s House helps dying children.

“Truly, the model we have for pe-diatrics would be the gold standard for adults,” said nurse Marion Rat-tray, manager of Roger’s House.

One of only four hospices of its kind in Canada, Roger’s House pro-vides eight beds and a home-like environment for families whose chil-dren are terminally ill.

Respite care, pain-management consultations and other types of on-going interventions are more neces-sary for young patients at the end of life, Rattray said.

Caring for palliative children is

usually a more complex challenge than providing the same care for dy-ing adults. Children receiving pallia-tive-care are more often stricken by multiple, complex genetic conditions that leave the child with very high care needs.

“We need to be connected to a tertiary care hospital,” said Lloyd Cowin, executive director of Roger’s House. “That’s critical.”

That need reinforces the link be-tween the hospital’s palliative care team and the hospice – something that differentiates it from hospices that serve adults.

Those lessons could be translated into adult care settings by having medical teams extend palliative care

outside hospitals, she said.“You’d have a palliative care team

in hospital, but that team would also outreach into the community, into the hospices,” Rattray said.

Many hospices are affi liated with hospitals and palliative-care experts who work in a medical setting, said Cowin, but that interdependency is more vital in pediatric palliative care.

One of the big secrets of its suc-cess is co-location – the house sits on what was a small sliver of spare land at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Being located on the same site means doctors and nurses from the hospital’s palliative care team help oversee care at Roger’s House.

“It’s very unique,” said Cowin. “It’s a big reason for our success.”

The labour-intensive youth hos-pice model works simply because it serves a smaller proportion of pal-liative patients, Rattray said, making it possible for Roger’s House and CHEO to invest the resources needed to provide that high level of care.

Creating a connection with fami-lies and the children themselves helps ensure the patient receives the type of care that’s best for them dur-ing the entire course of their illness, Rattray said.

“The beauty of it is if we are con-sulted early in the illness trajectory we are able to help them all the way through,” she said.

That’s the type of foresight – re-ferred to in the medical community as “advanced care planning” – that palliative-care professionals say would help ensure patients get the care they need – and not treatment they don’t want. It would also re-duce the burden of dying adults on hospitals.

The key is to let the patient and his or her symptoms dictate what time of treatment or care is needed, Rattray said.

“In medical schools and in nurs-ing school, basically you’re taught to fi x. And we are such a death-de-nying society that we have to fi x. We just have to fi x this. And some things we can’t.”

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Mother used a block of wood attached to a short pole (Father’s creation) and every so often Father stopped shed-ding as she gently packed down the cabbage.

Everything would come to a halt and with a measuring cup dipped into the bag of coarse salt, Mother would spread in a good amount.

For some reason I was nev-er able to fathom, the number of shredded cabbages was al-ways enough to exactly fi ll the barrel.

Not right to the top, of course, but with about 25 cen-

timetres of what Father called “breathing room.”

The very top of the shred-ded cabbage got the fi nal toss of coarse salt, then a well-scrubbed stone – the same one we used every year – was the last addition to the barrel. The stone would make sure the cabbage was well packed-down.

It took Father and three brothers to roll the barrel out to the summer kitchen.

Of course the sauerkraut would not be ready to eat un-til it had been well fermented and was always best when the blasts of winter froze it solid.

By then, which is some-

thing else I had trouble fi gur-ing out, the cabbage turned to sauerkraut and had settled down into the barrel.

The amount was consider-ably less, I thought, than what had been put in that night in our kitchen.

For days afterwards, I would sneak a peek into the barrel and would be met with the sharp tang of the ferment-ing cabbage.

I would have a feeling of contentment come over me, because now I knew, deep in that awful Depression, it didn’t matter how bad things got, we would at least have sauerkraut to put on the supper table.

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In December 2011, under the leadership of former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney, our government launched an aggressive initiative to target these fraudsters and send a message that Canadians citizenship is not for sale. At the time, it was revealed that nearly 6,500 people from over 100 countries were being investigated for lying about their presence in Canada in order to maintain status as a permanent resident, or in order to become a citizen. In September 2012, the number of investigations rose to nearly 11,000.

In the past year, there has been an increase of approximately another 1800 investigations and our government has revoked citizenship from 27 people who obtained it illegally. This is a huge increase when you look at history. From 1976 until 2011, only 60 citizenships were revoked.

In May of this year, former CIC Minister Kenney announced that a former citizenship judge, an immigration consultant and an employee of the accused consultant had all been arrested by the RCMP and charged as part of a citizenship fraud investigation.

More recently, the new CIC Minister, Chris Alexander, congratulated the RCMP on charging Basem Farid Awaad of Nova Scotia. Awaad was charged with two counts of Counseling Misrepresentation and two counts of False Representation. Awaad will appear in court on December 5, 2013.

These fraudsters hurt everyone. By illegally obtaining permanent residence or citizenship, these people have access to taxpayer-funded social benefits including health care and education. This means that honest Canadians have to pay more out of their own pockets to subsidize these scammers.

Our government is committed to maintaining a system of immigration which attracts the world’s best and brightest. By also cracking down on those who try to abuse our generosity, we can ensure the long-term prosperity of our great nation.

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Equal distance between Toronto, Ottawa and Mon-treal, with Syra-cuse, N.Y. an hour-and-a-half to the south, Loyalist Country Club Community is Kaitlin’s signature golf course development in the picturesque town of Bath, 15 minutes from Kingston. Every home is either a detached bungalow, bungalow with loft or bungalow townhome, ideally suited to empty nesters or zoomers approaching retirement and interested in main floor living.

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News - A committee of adjust-ment application has been adjourned and will be heard again at the end of November to provide more time for study.

Rideau Forest resident John Brulé owns the building at 1120 Mill St. which is nestled between Watson’s Mill and Knox Presbyterian Church

in Manotick’s Dickinson Square. He applied to the city for a minor

variance to allow him to maintain the irregular setbacks currently in place on the property when he rebuilds a new, more modern home.

His application asks for a setback of 19.77 metres from the Rideau River, while the by-law calls for 30 metres.

The current building already has a setback of about 19 metres, since the property is only about 35 metres deep to begin with, but the zoning by-laws have changed since it was built. In order to secure his building permit, Brulé needs to jump through the administrative hoops of having those setbacks maintained.

At a committee of adjustment hearing on Oct. 2, staff in the city’s planning department said that Brulé must provide a cultural heritage im-pact statement and contact Parks Canada and the National Capital Commission for approval before the application can be assessed.

The hearing was moved to Nov. 20.

Brulé’s application asks for a reduced high water mark setback of 19.77 metres for the proposed dwelling and a 20 m setback for an in-ground pool, instead of the mini-mum 30 m.

It also seeks a reduced interior side yard setback on the church side of 1.52 m instead of the required 3 m, and a reduced rear yard setback of 1.52 m for the proposed single de-tached dwelling instead of the mini-mum 7.5 m.

At a community association meet-ing on Sept. 25, residents expressed concern with the development’s modern design, but little was said about the setback applications.

Coun. Scott Moffatt has been vo-cally opposed to the development. He said he has been fi ghting to protect the character of the historic square and would like to see archi-tectural guidelines applied to all new developments in the area.

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News - When Denis Trottier started to feel sick, he said there were days when he couldn’t fi nd the energy to get out of his car and go into the of-fi ce.

“I would sit in my car and literally cry for hours, telling myself that to-day I was going to make it,” Trottier said.

The partner at KPMG, a tax audit and advisory company, said he felt if he told his fellow business partners, he would lose his job -- but that was not the case.

“They wouldn’t let me go, they supported me,” he said.

Trottier sought help, and with the support of his family and staff, doc-tors and councillors at the Royal, he said he got better, but life remains a battle.

And because of this battle, Trottier said he hopes that one day people will feel free to talk about mental health illnesses as easily as they can talk about having cancer. He added that ultimately, he would like every work-place to have a designated mental health care worker, much like a des-ignated fi rst aid certifi ed employee.

“Think about it: when is the last time we just handed out a Band-Aid?” Trottier asked.

On Oct. 1, hundreds gathered at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre to hear Trottier’s story and to discuss mental health illnesses in the work-place at the Royal Ottawa Founda-tion for Mental Health’s sixth annual Leaders for Mental Health Breakfast.

“In my 27 year career, by far the toughest thing I have ever done is to

do this today,” Trottier said. Over the course of the last fi ve

years, the Royal’s foundation has raised $2 million for the cause, help-ing increase research and support for mental ill individuals.

The breakfast featured other emo-tional stories from people living with a mental health illness, including CTV anchor Graham Richardson’s recount of living with a family mem-ber battling the illness.

“What if there was no fear, no fear of stigma, no fear of institution, what if there were no voices in her head,” Richardson said.

“It’s been nearly 40 years, my brother and I don’t think its possible, but what if?”

Trottier and Richardson asked those in attendance to help support the Royal’s initiative to raise money for research and patient care.

The breakfast aimed to raise thou-sands of dollars, asking people to make multi-year donations.

According to the foundation, do-nations have already helped:

• Established a professional devel-opment endowment fund for nurses;

• Supported world-class research-ers in fi nding causes and treatment for some of the most prevalent mental illnesses today including Alzheimer’s disease, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia;

• Purchased special beds for pa-tients in the geriatric psychiatry pro-gram that help to reduce the number of patients who fall out of bed and ensure a higher level of comfort for our frailest patients;

• Funded an occupational therapy program that teaches patients how to develop a website. This provides not only an opportunity for self ex-pression, but also the development of technology skills that are transfer-rable to the working world;

• Funded a family resource centre in Brockville to provide families and patients with learning tools to help them manage life with mental ill-ness.

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Denis Trottier recounts his battle with mental illness to a crowd of at the Royal’s sixth annual Leaders for Mental Health Breakfast.

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Hundreds of ‘pongsters’ come out to support local charitiesMichelle [email protected]

News - A fundraiser that saw hun-dreds of ping pong players fl ock to a downtown tournament raised thou-sands of dollars for four local chari-ties.

Ottawa’s only ping pong bar, the Spin Bin, was bursting at the seams when more than 300 people attended the fourth annual Ottawa Charity Ping Pong Tournament on Sept. 27. The event supports four charities: Do it for Daron, the Youth Services Bureau, Operation Come Home and Christie Lake Kids.

Organizer and treasurer for the event Michael Kirkpatrick an-nounced last week that the event raised $26,000.

“We are really happy that we can raise that in one day,” Kirkpatrick

said. “We couldn’t have done it with-out the community support. Every-one really came together.”

The event offered skilled and new ping pong enthusiasts alike a chance to compete for prizes, but the real goal, Kirkpatrick said, was to have fun.

There were prizes, a silent auction and everyone was sporting their best ping pong outfi ts for the fun-fi lled event.

Over the past four years, the fund-raiser has had continued success, which Kirkpatrick said he hopes con-tinues to grow.

“A lot of people who came out forgot how fun how ping pong is but got right into it,” he said. “It’s a testa-ment that the ping pong revolution is taking place. (It’s) good momentum for the sport.”

Of those who were picking up

the paddle for the fi rst time was lo-cal professional tennis star Gabriella Dabrowski. Ranked 216 in the world, Dabrowski participated in the com-petition and won the ladies singles.

The four charities helped with or-ganizing the event leading up to the

day and offered volunteers during the event too.

“We couldn’t have done it without them,” Kirkpatrick said. “Each one of them came to the table and helped out in their own way.”

From putting posters up all over

the city, running the online pledge pages and running the silent auction -- Kirkpatrick said the help is what made the event a success.

After covering some overhead costs, Kirkpatrick said each charity will receive about $5,000.

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News - People living in the Ot-tawa now have an affordable funeral

option thanks to the region’s fi rst fu-neral co-operative.

The doors offi cially opened for the Funeral Co-operative of Ottawa on Oct. 2. The co-op, located across

from Beechwood Cemetery, on St. Laurent Boulevard is offering its members and the public the opportu-nity to hold a funeral at low cost.

“It’s not geared to make a profi t,

but to pass savings along to mem-bers,” said the co-op’s president, Mark Goldblatt.

He said the idea has been in the making for the past four years and he is happy that this day has fi nally come.

“We hope the community will respond, members are ultimately in charge,” Goldblatt said.

The co-op already has 550 mem-bers -- people who signed on before there was a viable business plan, which the president said, was not an easy task.

“They signed on basically because they felt, like us, it was a good idea,” Goldblatt said. “They believed in what we were doing.”

Membership costs a one-time fee of $20 and offers a 10 per cent dis-count on any of the services.

The co-operative is also open to the public, offering funeral services at cost, meaning people looking for an affordable funeral could get something like a casket for as little as $50.

That’s a far cry from the $6,000 board member Beverlee McIntosh said she paid when her husband died last year.

“I wish there was this service for me. I felt alienated by the whole pro-cess when my husband passed,” she said. “I felt more like if they could sell more to me, the better.”

McIntosh said she is happy to know that other grieving families now have another option.

“It’s a time when you are just say-ing to yourself, ‘let’s get through this,’” McIntosh said. “At other fu-neral homes, they are trying to make a profi t. Here you have a compassion-

ate funeral director and you know it’s not based on profi t. The family has control.”

McIntosh said she feels this co-op-erative is bringing the funeral service back to a community level. Making it about a celebration of the family, not about feeling guilty for what the price of an urn is.

“For my husband, I picked what I thought was the most beautiful urn and I was told it was the cheap-est one,” she said. “It made me feel guilty, like I wasn’t doing what’s best for my husband. I am happy here that is not the case.”

The funeral director, McIntosh explained, will be paid by salary, not commission and the co-operative will offer a full range of services, from reduced costs of cremation, memorial gatherings at the Unitarian church, obituaries and online tributes as well as tools for estate settlement.

Services will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in both English and French.

Funding to start up this co-opera-tive cost the organization $455,000 and was acquired through various funding arenas, including other Ca-nadian co-operatives and private do-nations and grants.

According to the co-operative, such organizations have been in op-eration in Canada since the 1950s, with the fi rst one being founded in Sudbury, Ont., in 1952. In Quebec and Prince Edward Island, the con-cept of a funeral cooperative is well established, with La Cooperative fu-neraire de l’Outaouais having 12,500 members and handles about 70 per cent of all funerals in the Outaouais region.

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Mark Goldblatt, president of the Funeral Co-operative of Ottawa and board member Beverlee McIntosh open the funeral co-op’s doors on Oct. 2. The new co-operative off ers members and the public at-cost funeral services.

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To the editor,United Way Ottawa set an

objective this year to change the lives of more than 76,000 people in our community by raising the $21 million needed to achieve this. Yes, it is true that $21 million is less than $30 million. However, comparing these two fund-raising goals is like compar-ing apples and oranges.

In the past, United Way set a fundraising goal based on how much we thought we could raise.

This goal included the donations we hoped to attract to the work of United Way and the donations we collect on behalf of other registered charities. This year’s goal is much different.

Last year, donors con-tributed $16.8 million to United Way to advance our community’s priority goals. This year, we aim to raise $21 million, a goal for which we can be transparent, ac-countable and demonstrate

measurable results.Three years ago, through

research and consultations, United Way defi ned the needs in our community and established priority goals for our work with others. These goals included helping more children and youth to succeed in school, ensuring more seniors can continue to live in their own homes and helping more of our neighbours facing a crisis in their lives to access the support they need.

Since then, United Way has invested donor dollars in programs and initiatives that are linked to these goals. Today, based on the reports of our partners and our own ongoing research, we can show our donors that their donations produce results.

We are proud of these results.

Here’s one result. Re-search shows that one in fi ve children in Ottawa live in poverty and many don’t have access to after-school

homework support, recre-ation and social programs that help keep them off the streets, in school and safe. Last year, we invested almost $1.8 million in 23 front-line programs that directly helped more than 9,100 children and their families. Reports about the children and youth in one homework club supported through donations to United Way show that two-thirds are doing better in school and more than 80 percent say they want to go to college or university.

We want our donors to know that their gifts to Unit-ed Way are making our com-munity measurably better. We also want them to know that with more donations, we can help more people to the benefi t of everyone in our community. That’s why we introduced a different kind of goal this year.

It’s often challenging and complex to explain change and our intention this year is to tell a much simpler story. Join us. Together we can help to change the lives of 76,000 people in our community.

Michael AllenPresident and CEO of United Way Ottawa

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Also selling on October 19th starting at 10 am: Antiques: Drop front desk; Findlay oval cook stove (still in use); Pine bonnet chest; 7 drawer pine chest of drawers w/ornately carved handles; 4 oak and ash washstands; 4 oak dressers and chest of drawers w/beveled mirrors, some being bow front; 2 wooden beds; Wegman upright piano (Auburn, NY); several parlor tables; 2 buffets; wood-en dining table w/4 chairs; bakers agate table; child’s wooden rocker; child’s table and chair set; 4 excellent pine blanket boxes; magazine stand; wooden rocker; small medicine cabinet; trunk; 2 leather arm chairs; wooden arm chairs; 2 wooden stools; wash set pieces; glass and china cream pitchers; platters; cups and sau-cers; cut glass; other assorted china and glass pieces; cutlery; meat grinder; other kitchen utensils; assortment of quilting material, frames, blankets, doilies; old buttons; old records and tapes; glass roll-ing pin; cheese boxes; barn and buggy lanterns; cream separator; 2 dairy scales; 2 factory cans; milk cans; milk pails; cant hook; sythe; cross cut sawHousehold Items: electric power bed; Moffat fridge; Whirlpool 30” stove; Inglis dryer; matching sofa, loveseat and chair; White sewing machine; vacuum cleaner; assortment of senior mobility aids such as wheelchair and walker; assortment of tools and garden equipment; 2 chain saws; skill saws; small table saw; router; hand saws; forks; shovels; jackal; White lawn sweeper; MTD roto tiller.Terms- Cash or Cheque with Proper ID

AuctioneersJames and Hill Auction Service Ltd.

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Brockville General Hospital is a fully accredited multi-site facility serving a regional population of up to 96,000 and providing Acute Care, Complex Continuing Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care and Acute Mental Health Care services. We are situated on the beautiful St. Lawrence River in the heart of the famous Thousand Islands. Presently we are recruiting for the following opportunities:

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To obtain a detailed job description of any of the above opportunities please send your request to the above email address

We thank all applicants for their expressed interest; however, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Winchester District Memorial Hospital (WDMH) is a rural community teaching hospital located 40 minutes south of Ottawa. Our clinical and academic mission is rooted in our philosophy of personalized service that brings care closer to home for the 90,000 residents we serve. WDMH is a full-service hospital that responds to the needs of our community, from childbirth to complex care and geriatrics. We are a hub site for cancer care, dialysis and cataract surgery and offer specialty clinics with visiting specialists from Ottawa hospitals.We are actively seeking candidates for the position of:

For further details on this position, please visit our website at www.wdmh.on.ca

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Sunday Service 10.30am – 12.30pmBible study / Night Vigil: Friday 10.00pm – 1.00am

Website: heavensgateottawa.orgE-mail: [email protected]

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St. Aidan’s Anglican ChurchHoly Eucharist

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St Catherine of Siena Catholic Churchin Metcalfe on 8th Line - only 17 mins from HWY 417

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Bethany United Church3150 Ramsayville Road

Join us for worship, fellowship & music Nursery, children and youth ministries

Sunday Service at 10:30 am Rev. Kathryn Peate

off 417 exit Walkey Rd. or Anderson Rd.

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3191 Riverside Dr (at Walkley)

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BARRHAVEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHWorship - Sundays @ 6:00 p.m.

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We welcome you to the traditional Latin Mass - Everyone Welcome

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The West Ottawa Church of Christmeets every Sunday at

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Dominion-Chalmers United ChurchSunday Services 10:30am

Prayer Circle Tuesday at 11:30Rev. James Murray

355 Cooper Street at O’Connor613-235-5143

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Worship Service Sundays10:30 a.m.

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Gloucester South Seniors Centre4550 Bank Street (at Leitrim Rd.) (613) 277-8621

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St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church2400 Alta Vista Drive (613) 733 0131

Sunday Worship at 10:00 a.m. Sunday School; Ample parking;

OC Transpo route 8Minister: Alex Mitchell

[email protected] www.sttimsottawa.com

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE ANGLICANSSt. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church

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Rector: Rev. Dr. Linda Privitera

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– Everyone welcome – Come as you are –

You are welcome to join us!Sunday 11:00 a.m.Worship & Sunday School1350 Walkley Road (Just east of Bank Street)Ottawa, ON K1V 6P6Tel: 613-731-0165Email: [email protected]: www.ottawacitadel.ca

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“An Attitude of Gratitude” Sunday October 13th.

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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:

Did you know October is Adopt a Shelter Dog month? At the Ottawa Humane Society, there are many dogs to choose from: from Chihuahuas to German shepherds, beagles to bull dogs, the Adoption Centre has dogs of all shapes, sizes, ages and breeds.

There are a few canine residents at the OHS who could use a second look from potential adopters. Senior dogs, for example, are eager to find new families to love. Did you know these dogs are often house- trained and have a

good grasp on basic obedience? Another set of long-term

residents at the OHS are dogs with high energy levels, such as border collies, huskies, and boxers. These dogs make wonderful companions but need ample exercise and stimulation from their humans. Like being outdoors? These dogs make the perfect pal for the adventurous! Sign up for agility or tracking with you local dog obedience schools; these are great bonding and stimulating activities – sure to wear out your

high-energy pup!Every day, adoption counsellors

at the OHS work hard to find the perfect match. Dogs at the OHS are all temperament-tested and have had their needs assessed by a dog behaviour specialist. In addition, they come spayed or neutered, microchipped, have been vet checked and come with six week of Petsecure insurance.

You can find information on all the dogs available for adoption ottawahumane.ca, or by visiting the shelter at 245 West Hunt Club Rd.

Hoju (A159296) is a lovable, seven-year-old, neutered male dog who was surrendered to the Ottawa Humane Society by his owner and is now available for adoption.

He is a beautiful Siberian husky and border collie mix who isn’t looking to slow down any time soon and would love to find an active family with older children or teens to bring him on their outdoor adventures!

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Visit the OHS website at www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of all of the animals available for adoption. Stop by the Adoption Centre, weekdays 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Committee decides Can-Am League is best baseball option

Laura [email protected]

Sports - After dreaming of an AA baseball team, Ottawa will instead be settling for the return of a Cam-Am league franchise in 2015.

City council balked at the proposed $40-million price tag of bringing a AA minor league, professional team to the Ottawa Baseball Sta-dium in Overbrook and asked staff to go back to the draw-ing board. The only option that made fi nancial sense is a $4.75-million contract with the low-level Can-Am league, which fi elded a team called the Ottawa Rapidz that lasted one unsuccessful year in 2008.

Mayor Jim Watson called the Can-Am proposal “a real-istic and affordable plan” that is good for baseball fans and taxpayers.

“There is an opportunity to put this facility to the use that was intended … and also open it up as a community space,” he said.

The main savings are in the cost to the city to fi x up its Coventry Road stadium. While the minor league team would have needed to see $40 million in taxpayer-funded repairs and upgrades to the 20-year-old facility, the Can-Am league is comparatively a bargain, requiring about $750,000 in fi xes and upgrades up front.

The annual net cost for the city to operate the stadium will be $400,000, said city manager Kent Kirkpatrick, but that will rise to $650,000 by 2018.

Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley was the only member of the fi nance and economic development committee to vote against the deal during an Oct. 1 meeting. He questioned why the city is in the baseball business when it’s getting out of things like operating a mu-nicipal golf course and discon-tinuing the Nepean equestrian

park.During the meeting, coun-

cillors wanted to know what the $40 million would have included, but that information is secret because it’s part of Mandalay Baseball’s confi -dential bid the city rejected.

The city and many of its baseball fans had set their hopes on a team affi liated with the Blue Jays. Instead, Ottawa will get a franchise in a six-team league that is not affi li-ated with the major leagues.

The team will play 50 home games a season, leaving time for community events at the stadium, according to a city staff report.

Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans was critical of the plan and questioned why the city would tie its hands with a baseball contract just as the construction of light-rail near the stadium site could boost the property’s value for sale and redevelopment.

Watson said light rail pro-vides an opportunity to give the stadium and baseball games an attendance a boost.

David Gourlay of Champi-ons for Ottawa Baseball said the process of stirring up fan support and lobbying for a

pro team has shown him that there are not enough fi nancial resources or partnership op-portunities right now to make a AA team viable here.

“Yes, baseball belongs here and an affi liated team would be a good choice,” he said. “Clearly, we are not there now.”

Supporting baseball in Ot-tawa would have required city council to recognize its benefi t and invest in it over the long term, which hasn’t happened, Gourlay said.

If the Can-Am experience goes well, it could pave the way for a higher-level team in the future, said College Coun. Rick Chiarelli, who has long promoted baseball in the city.

Council’s other baseball champion, Orléans Coun. Bob Monette, said the contract guarantees there will be less loss to taxpayers and creates a foundation the city can build on.

The proposed contract with the league, which still needs council’s fi nal approval, would give Can-Am a 10-year lease and two fi ve-year options to renew.

It also recommends the city seek additional tenants, likely

sports-related, to rent offi ce space in the stadium.

Some councillors wondered whether that was enough of an out for the city in case a better team came along or it became obvious that selling and rede-veloping the land would be more benefi cial to the city.

Peter Bachelor, a well-known local high-school base-ball coach and member of Friends of the Blue Jays Fan Association, advised the city to partner with a company that has “deep pockets” and possi-bly sell the stadium.

That option isn’t on the table now because there is “no appetite” to see the facility torn down, the mayor said.

It would cost $367,000 in utility and minor maintenance costs to keep the stadium sit-ting empty, city staff said.

The Can-Am League was originally established in On-tario and Upstate New York in 1936 and folded a number of times before restarting in 2005. Nearby teams include Trois-Rivieres and Quebec City.

Can-Am teams play an in-terleague schedule with the American Association, anoth-er independent league.

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Oct. 10: Metcalfe and District Lions Club’s Thursday night com-munity euchre season begins Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. weekly. Lion’s Den, 2803 8th Line Rd., Metcalfe. Contact 613-821-2075.

Oct. 11:Enjoy a delicious Thanksgiv-ing dinner with the Osgoode Youth Association this year! For just $2, youth ages 11 to 18 can enjoy turkey with all the traditional trimmings on Friday, Oct. 11 beginning at 6 p.m. Reservations are required by Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. Seats are limited.

The Osgoode Township Museum will host a Mexican Fiesta PD Day program for the kids in the Ottawa Catholic and Ottawa-Carleton District school boards. The program runs from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and costs $25 per child. This will be a fun day of learning all about the colourful culture of Mexico. Call 613-821-4062 to register.

Kids’ Halloween craft day will be held at the Osgoode Township Museum on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. Kids ages six to 12 are invited to join us to make

colourful candy buckets and spooky witches and witch shoes. Cost is $5 per child, and children under six are welcome if accompanied by an adult. Please call 613-821-4062 to register.

Oct. 16: Boost your immune sys-tem naturally in time for winter. Join naturopathic doctor Ellen Simone at the Manotick library for this information session on how to boost your immune system using naturopathic medicine. Wednesday, Oct. 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. Register at www.biblioottawalibrary.ca.

Four-hand euchre beginning at 7:30 p.m. in St. Philip’s Parish Hall, 127 Burke Street, Richmond. Admission, which includes a light lunch, is $5 per person. For more infor-mation phone 613-489-3996.

Oct. 18-19:Metcalfe Cooperative Nurs-ery School’s annual fall giant garage sale takes placeFriday, Oct. 18 from 4 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 19 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Metcalfe Fairgrounds Agri-view building. Toys, clothes, equipment and household goods available. Call 613-821-2899 or visit www.ruralfamilyconnections.ca for more information.

Oct. 19: Greely Family Harvest and Pet Show, Saturday, Oct. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Greely Legion, 8021 Mitch Owens Rd. Free admission; fun for the whole family. Check out the zoo crew and the moon bounce for the kids. In support of the Osgoode Ward Food Cupboard.

The sons of Scotland and Be-nevolent Association present a Scottish concert featur-ing the Brigadoons and the MacLeod Fiddlers, in support of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County.Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at Centrepointe Theatre. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at the Centrepointe Theatre box offi ce, by calling 613-580-2700 or at www.centrepointetheatre.com. Free parking.

Nov. 11: Annual general meeting for Rural Family Connections, Monday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. Open to all members and the general public. Volunteers urgently needed for the board of directors. No experience needed. 8243 Victoria St., Metcalfe. For more informa-tion call 613 821-2899 or email [email protected].

Christmas craft bazaar hosted by the Catholic Women’s

League of Our Lady of Visita-tion parish, 5388 Bank Street, Ottawa will offer gift ideas, a bake table, white elephant table, and canteen. Saturday, Nov.16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 17 from 10a.m. to 1 p.m.

Ongoing: Do you need to know how to send emails with attachments, how to forward emails, blind copy to a list, organize your desktop or create documents? We can help. Volunteers at the Osgoode legion can help seniors better understand their computers. We will help them in their own homes. Call Gail Burgess at 613-821-4409 to arrange for an appointment.

Ovarian Cancer Canada of-fers a free presentation about the signs, symptoms and risk factors of the disease. To organize one for your busi-ness, community group or as-sociation, please contact Lyne Shackleton at 613-488-3993 or [email protected].

Come to the Osgoode legion for darts on Tuesday, Wednes-day and Friday evenings start-ing at 7:30 p.m. Experience not required. The bar is open Tuesdays through Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. unless otherwise posted.

The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St., Leitrim for a full schedule of activities every week includ-ing contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, fi ve hundred, shuffl eboard and chess. Membership is $15 per year. The club is easily acces-sible by OCTranspo #144 and free parking. Call 613-821-0414 for info.

Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance, fi rst Friday of every month at the Greely Com-munity Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr. 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. $5 per person at the door or yearly memberships available. No charge for participating musi-cians and singers. Join us for a good time.

Mondays and Thursdays:

The Gloucester South Seniors Chess Club, 4550 Bank St. (at Leitrim Road) meets every Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m. Immediate openings available for more chess afi -cionados. Please contact Rob-ert MacDougal at 613-821-1930 for more information.

Mondays: Looking to learn conversa-tional 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 information, contact Carole at 613-761-6537 or visit www.amigos-tm.ca.

Tuesdays: Computer Tutorials at the Manotick library. Thirty min-ute one-on-one sessions to improve your basic computer skills. Sessions on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m, Sept 17 to Oct 29. Register in person or call 613-692-3854.

Enjoy Scottish country danc-ing for fun, friendship and fi tness. Share the music and joy of dance. You do not have to be Scottish. You do not have to wear a kilt – but you certainly can. No experi-ence or partner is required. Meet Tuesday evenings at Manotick United Church from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Con-tact Marie at 613-826-1221 or email [email protected].

Want to meet new friends? Have a great workout? Come to The MET (Metropolitan Bible Church) every Wednes-day from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. for a free women’s fi tness Church offi ce 613-238-8182.

Thursdays:Every Thursday starting at 6:30 p.m. enjoy bingo at the Osgoode Legion, 3284 Sunstrum St. in Osgoode. All money raised at these weekly events goes back to the com-munity. Bring your ‘dabbers’ and come out to support your local legion bingo.R0012298134


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