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EMC news - The Overbrook Community Association has named Kettle Island as the best possible choice for an east-end interprovincial bridge.

The association has stayed mum on this issue until now, but a week before its 2012 an-nual general meeting, president Sheila Perry released the asso-ciation’s stance on the need for an interprovincial bridge.

“It is our belief that a new bridge must be built to serve the current and future needs of eastern Ottawa and Gatin-eau, and that the three options currently under review as part of the National Capital Com-mission interprovincial envi-ronment assessment process deserve full consideration,” Perry wrote.

“Of the three route options, it is our view that the Kettle Island option offers the most direct and shortest connec-tion between Ontario Hwy. 417 and Quebec Hwy. 50 and would be the most effective option in serving the cross-river needs for the largest number of persons.”

The letter was addressed to Mayor Jim Watson and NCC interim chief executive Jean-Francois Trepanier, and copied to Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Peter Clark, MPP Mad-eleine Meilleur and MP Mau-ril Bélanger.

The decision comes one year after the association’s board committed to drafting a formal opinion on the inter-provincial issue at its 2011 an-nual general meeting.

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Overbrook chooses Kettle Island for bridgeCommunity calls for relief of congested Vanier Parkway

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EMC news - New guide-lines meant to standardize garbage and recycling bin re-quirements for multi-residen-tial buildings left councillors with a slew of questions at a recent planning committee meeting.

The design guidelines are aimed at preventing problems before they happen, said Mela-nie Knight, a planning staffer who worked on the guidelines.

The document says proper-ty owners are responsible for constructing “proper and safe

waste handling systems” for their buildings, and that the facilities must include room for garbage bins as well as recycling for blue-, black- and green-bin materials.

Currently, there are no guidelines and the city doesn’t offer organics recycling for all multi-residential buildings. While a handful of apartments are part of a pilot project for green bin collection, many buildings don’t have the ca-pacity to include another type of recycling bin. The guide-lines aim to fi x that.

“Residents must have con-venient access to facilitate

their participation in the recy-cling and organics programs,” the document states.

But councillors on the city’s planning committee were concerned that putting guide-lines in place might make it diffi cult for seniors to take out their trash.

Cumberland Coun. Ste-phen Blais started off the debate on Nov. 13 by saying the guidelines seemed to have been “looked at in isolation,” without considering the city’s other plans, such as the Older Adult Plan.

He and other councillors, including Bay Coun. Mark

Taylor, were worried that a rule that waste bins must be no more than 100 metres from the dwelling might make it diffi cult for people with mo-bility challenges to get their garbage and recycling out.

“It’s 100 metres there and 100 metres back,” Blais said. “For me, that’s OK, but for someone who has mobility is-sues or someone who is per-haps approaching retirement or (is a) senior, a 200-metre walk to bring the garbage to the garbage can, that can put a strain on your lifestyle.”

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EMC news - More children than ever before are getting the chance to get their hands dirty at the Canadian Muse-um of Nature thanks to a new program.

TD Friends of the Environ-ment has awarded a $100,000 grant for the museum’s Na-ture Express program, which will cover the admission and transportation costs for schools identifi ed as fi nan-cially disadvantaged or high-need.

The Nature Express is a science workshop linked to school boards’ curriculum that allows children to see live specimens and handle equipment under the supervi-sion of scientists.

“This workshop offers the children amazing learning opportunities,” said Maggie Kilian, head of the museum’s education program.

“It would not have been possible otherwise.”

Kilian said she had pro-posed the outreach program to disadvantaged schools based on a similar program she ran at a botanical garden

in Vancouver.The museum estimates

close to 1,200 students from seven school boards in the National Capital Region will benefi t from the free visits.

The program is for kinder-garten to Grade 7 students and offers a value of $8 per student, plus the cost of bus transportation, which ranges from $200 to $500 a trip de-pending on where the partici-pating school is located.

Giles Proulx, project leader for the program, said the mu-seum has always wanted to of-fer programming like this for free, but to absorb the cost of transportation was too much for the museum to bear.

“The biggest barrier has always been the busing,” he said.

The educator added that thanks to the grant, the chil-dren will get the chance to re-ally experience the museum.

“They get to visit all the galleries. I hope it will ig-nite the passions of differ-ent things that may like and increase their interest of sci-ence or environmental sci-ence or art.”

Teachers expressed their appreciation for the program,

too.Shortly after attending a

workshop with his students, teacher Mario D’eer wrote a letter expressing gratitude to the museum.

“This experience contrib-utes greatly to the develop-ment of academic skills, not only in science, but also in oral communication,” D’eer said.

D’eer’s students, he added, gave presentations of the visit and what they learned.

“I fi nd that this type of ex-perience was of a great value and importance,” D’eer said.

Kilian said her staff is also having a great time.

“They love working with the kids and have told me it is getting the chance to cre-ate that spark of interest that

is the most rewarding,” she said.

The museum received 24 requests for the fi rst round of free programming, and 12 teachers were accepted. Ap-proximately 560 students (24 classes) have benefi ted from this program so far. The next deadline for teachers to re-quest funding for the program is Feb. 1, 2013.

Proulx will be holding an information session on Nov. 29 for teachers at the mu-seum, allowing them to meet the educators, discover for themselves what the labs and workshops are like and learn about the gallery’s new fea-tures.

The event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Admission and parking will be free.

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Maggie Kilian, head of the education program at the the Canadian Museum of Nature and Giles Proulx, project leader, show off some of the best features of one of the Nature Express labs at the museum. The new program has been made available for schools identifi ed as high needs or disadvantaged.

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EMC news - Reducing and understanding homelessness concerns in the ByWard Mar-ket is the Lowertown Com-munity Association’s newest priority, the group announced at its Nov. 12 annual general meeting.

The association said the priority will be addressed in a new committee, which presi-dent Marc Aubin said will be dedicated to educating the as-sociation on the issue.

“We are not well educated on homelessness in our neigh-bourhood,” Aubin said. “One of the fi rst things the group will do is to educate them-selves on the issue and share that with the rest of us.”

The issue was fi rst ad-dressed in an online survey for residents conducted dur-ing the late summer.

The new committee has been added to the growing roster of committees at the association, which created a planning committee, an aban-doned houses committee and a heritage committee at the start of its session for the 2011-2012 year.

The annual general meet-ing also addressed some of this year’s successes for the association, which include

the Byward Market visioning exercise, the survey, a funding grant from Caisse Populaire Desjardins to help revitalize one of the neighbourhood’s parks and the successful fi ght to stop the National Capital Commission from demolish-ing three heritage homes in the market area.

Aubin said he received word that former governor general Adrienne Clarkson, who once lived in one of the homes, had written to Mayor Jim Watson thanking the city for stopping the demolition of her childhood home.

More than 30 residents fi lled the small boardroom at the Ruthier Community Cen-tre for the meeting, which also welcomed guests such as Ot-tawa-Vanier MPP Madeleine Meilleur, community police offi cer Const. Ryan Pierce and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury, who presented resi-dents an update on projects in the community.

LOOKING FOR SUPPORT

During the question-and-answer period with their councillor, residents ques-tioned Fleury’s support for the community, saying he has not been there for them when they needed him.

“We need you to give up

more help,” said resident Donna Kearns, who criticized Fleury’s commitment to help-ing the residents with the Sus-sex homes issue.

Fleury countered, saying he did help by facilitating a meeting with planning com-mittee chairman Peter Hume and committee member Jan Harder.

Kearns was not satisfi ed. “We needed your help be-

fore,” she said.Adding Hume suggested

that if they wanted to save the homes, they needed to change their focus.

For Kearns, she said this was something Fleury could have helped with weeks or months before this fi nal meet-ing.

Fleury admited he was wrong.

“It was way too late and

last minute,” he said. “It was a mistake and we will learn from it.”

The association’s heritage committee chairwoman, Nan-cy Miller-Chenier, said mov-ing forward she would like to see Fleury’s offi ce work with the committee to ensure heritage guidelines are set for Lowertown East.

“This is the oldest part of Ottawa and we are suffering greatly with losing it, we rely on you to help us,” Miller-Chenier said.

The councillor confi rmed he would help in any way he could.

“Yes, it is something we can do for you,” Fleury said.

Other concerns raised dur-ing the evening were the need for more garbage cans and the concerns about abandoned buildings.


Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury fi elds questions from area residents at the Lowertown Community Association annual general meeting on Nov. 12.

Association critical of councillor’swork on issues in community

Lowertown asks more of Fleury


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EMC news - The diverse community of Old Ottawa East is evolving quickly, but not without growing pains, its community association heard during an annual general meeting on Nov. 13.

Three major projects will infl uence the growth of the neighbourhood over the next couple of years, Old Ottawa East Community Association president John Dance told more than 50 people gathered at St. Paul University for the meeting.

The fi rst project – Main Street’s reconstruction – is just getting underway and rebuilding the community’s main thoroughfare will set the stage for the type of commu-nity Old Ottawa East becomes over the next 50 and 100 years, Dance said.

Construction will begin in 2014, and Capital Coun. Da-vid Chernushenko said he is already hearing that residents have a strong appetite to take space away from vehicle lanes for pedestrians and bicycles when the street is rebuilt.

“This is our one and only opportunity to build it the new way, not the old way …

to build a complete street, the kind of street you want to be on,” Chernushenko said.

Two residents were not happy to hear their councillor voice support for reducing the number of car lanes.

“It will be a collector road whether you like it or not,” one man said.

“We have to take back our city,” Chernushenko replied. “In North America we have built failed cities … I intend to succeed,” he said, which al-most everyone at the meeting greeted with a round of cheers and applause.

The community might want to have a discussion about the possibility of a levy to pay for the burial of hydro wires on the west side of Main Street, north of Clegg, said Stephen Pope, the association’s plan-ning committee chairman.

Along with the rebuilt street, a possible new foot-bridge connecting Old Ottawa East to the Glebe would be an-other transformative change in the community, Dance said.

Final design work for the bridge is in the city’s draft 2013 budget, and Chernush-enko said he is working hard to see it built before Lans-downe’s makeover is com-pleted in 2015. Alternately it

could be fi nished in 2017 as a project marking Canada’s 150th birthday, when grants might be available for special projects to mark the occasion.

Enforcing the vision and standards set out in the com-munity design plan that was approved last year is the third big issue facing the commu-nity, Dance said.

The monastery and convent property is still for sale and it’s unclear when the 30-hect-are site might be sold or de-veloped. There are currently 39 businesses and around 500 households in Old Ottawa East, but 1,500 new residents could arrive as redevelopment

of the Oblate lands adjacent to St. Paul University is com-pleted.

The meeting also saw the association’s membership ap-prove a new, cleaned-up con-stitution that removed men-tion of the community news-paper, the Mainstreeter, and that clarifi es who can vote at monthly board meetings.

Elected board members are now the only people who can vote at the monthly meetings, a move that clarifi es confus-ing language in the former constitution.

Old Ottawa East has been gaining traction in getting its collective voice heard at city

hall, said Dance, who will complete the second half of his two-year term as president this year.

In addition to a “critical effort” to lobby for the ca-nal footbridge, the commu-nity association’s feedback on issues such as infi ll design guidelines, digital billboards, transit changes and the Lans-downe project have been well received, Dance said.

From the growing Main Farmers’ Market to the Brant-wood Park fi eld house renova-tions and the rink, new initia-tives have been well received, he said.

Ongoing projects like park

improvements, the children’s garden and the nature trail are also ongoing achievements.

In the future, the association will likely look at opportuni-ties for more meeting space, such as a community centre, and ongoing park improve-ments such as the addition of benches. The possibility of building a skateboard park in Ballantyne Park is also up for discussion.

Long awaited traffi c-calm-ing measures will fi nally be coming to Hawthorne Avenue, reported transportation chair-man Ron Rose. Speed humps and sidewalk bulb-outs will go in next year.

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EMC news - The Vanier Community Association is one step closer to launching its own website.

The site, www.vanier-asso-ciation.com, will be launched by the new year. The associ-ation’s communications com-mittee chairwoman, Kristina Sparks, has been working on the new website for the past few months and on Nov. 13, she made a presentation to the rest of the association.

“The association has always had a web-presence on To-gether 4 Vanier’s website, but we felt it was time to have our own site,” Sparks said. “This will give us an opportunity to post more of the association’s information.”

The site will be bilingual, with a French/English tab at the top right corner of the home page.

The new platform will pro-mote what the group does, highlight events taking place, areas of activities in the asso-ciation, a place to either con-tact or join the association and a gallery page to promote the events, photos that have taken place in the neighbourhood.

There will also be a “friends of Vanier page,” where an or-

ganization can purchase a space to promote or highlight its own presence in the com-munity.

The website developer, Va-nier resident Patrick Paquette, came to the Nov. 13 meeting to answer any technical ques-tions about the new site.

The website, Paquette said, has been built with long-term, multi-member capabilities.

Each committee in the asso-ciation, such as the health and safety committee, will have its own page where minutes from meetings, discussions and ideas can be posted.

The events page, a Gmail calendar, can be continually

updated by committee mem-bers to post upcoming events and meetings.

“The goal is to eventually be the go-to site for Vanier,” Paquette said.

He added the website can be used as a tool to organize the association’s documents and to showcase its accom-plishments.

Once launched, residents will be able to check out the latest news, see what neigh-bours and board members are talking about because of a di-rect link to the association’s Facebook and Twitter pages and mark down all the events taking place on the calendar.

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The Ottawa East EMC welcomes letters to the editor. Senders must include their full name, complete address and a contact phone number. Addresses and phone numbers will not be published. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and content, both in print and online at www.yourottawaregion.com. To submit a letter to the editor, please email to [email protected] , fax to 613-224-2265 or mail to Ottawa East EMC, 80 Colonnade Rd. N., Unit 4, Ottawa, ON, K2E 7L2.

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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTIONShould revenue sharing terms for a new casino be a factor in the city’s decision to allow one to be built?

A) Yes. If OLG won’t off er the same terms as the new slots deal, we shouldn’t allow a new casino.

B) No. The broader economic impact of a new casino is enough to go ahead.

C) No. We shouldn’t be building a new casino under any circumstances.

D) I don’t care. It all seems like a political shell game anyway.

PREVIOUS POLL SUMMARYHow should the city encourage growth in job-depressed areas?

A) Off er businesses a ‘tax holiday’ to set up shop in job-poor wards such as Orléans.

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D) Do nothing. It’s up to the market to determine economic activity.

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I went to fi ll out one of those online forms the other day and when I got to about the second page of it, I found out that it had been pre-populated.

Yes. There was a note there saying that as a convenience to me, parts of the form had been pre-populated. The room, all of a sudden, felt crowded.

But what it meant was that parts of the form had already been fi lled in with information that the website already knew about me. That wasn’t very much, as it turned out, just my name and not even my phone number. You can imagine, however, how alarming it would be to be subject to more extensive pre-population.

This, in a way, is what all the concern about online privacy is about. People put stuff about themselves up there and it hangs around and hangs around. There are probably a lot more people than you think who know where you live, your telephone number and email address. And there are others who know things about your buying habits.

If you are worried about your personal pre-population exceeding that, you have to be careful. For example, I would never tell put it online that the other day I decided to use Baseline and Heron as a quicker way to get from west to east.

Nobody does that, right? Well, the Queen-sway looked really slow, so I made one of those instant decisions that took me right to the Idiot Drivers Hall of Fame. Mind you, it took quite a while to get there. There were all the stoplights, and then the 25 minutes it took to get from Heron Road Bridge to Riverside.

The fi rst 20 minutes on Heron Road were spent wondering why nobody was moving, es-pecially me. The next three minutes were spent wondering why nobody bothered to put up a CONSTRUCTION sign until we were almost at the construction and the two minutes after that were spent wondering why somebody couldn’t have let us all know 25 minutes ago the left lane was the one that was going to end.

All the information available in the world, all the ultra-modern means of transmitting it and we sit there on Heron Road, motionless and clueless.

Surely this information could have been pre-populated somewhere. The radio didn’t have anything and it’s against the law to fi ddle with your phone to fi nd out. A caveman sitting where Heron Road is now would have had just as much information as we did.

All of which leads to a profound conclu-sion: We have all kinds of information avail-able to us, more than ever before. Your phone probably has more information in it than all the world’s libraries in 1912, for all I know. So yes, we have all kinds of information available to us. We just don’t have the right kind.

Some day soon all this will be fi xed. We will have the equivalent of smartphones im-planted in us, perhaps. They will tell us which lane to be in, which roads to avoid, when the snowplow is coming, which parking lots are not full, which stores still have the toy we wanted to buy for Christmas.

We will be pre-populated like crazy.But will this make us happy? Probably not.

We will be distracted by too much informa-tion, confused over having too many choices. You can see it happening now and it can only get worse.

It is possible that we will long for the good old days when there was only one thing at a time we needed to now and we knew how to fi nd it. Strange as it may seem, we may one day look nostalgically back on being stuck in traffi c, on Heron Road, blissful in our ignorance on the way to the Idiot Drivers Hall of Fame.

Awaiting the pre-population explosion

CHARLESGORDON

Funny Town

The city should be applauded for mov-ing ahead with a plan to deliver the

full spectrum of recycling possibilities to apartment dwellers.

A plan approved by a city committee last week would see all types of recycling services – including green bins – available to people living in new multi-residen-tial buildings.

Garbage isn’t a sexy topic, but it is an expensive one.

If residents of this city don’t divert trash from the Trail Road landfi ll into coloured recycling bins, we’ll fi ll up the dump and be forced to send our waste fur-ther afi eld. The cost will be enormous – just as the cost of building a new landfi ll would be enormous – so it’s best to delay that outcome, and recycling is the solution the city is backing.

In 2010, 53,349 tonnes of organic waste were collected from Ottawa homes; in

2011, that number rose only slightly to 55,063.

A few people who live in apartments have been part of a pilot project to see how green bins might work for all multi-residential build-ings. There are challenges presented by multi-unit residences, because places such as apartment complexes rarely have space to store green bins.

The city’s plan under re-view would require landlords to construct waste handling

systems for future buildings.The cost of adding recy-

cling space during the con-struction of a new building is minimal when compared to retrofi tting. It’s a small price to pay and the sooner new buildings come with recycling space, the more waste can be diverted from the landfi ll.

Given that the city is en-couraging intensifi ed devel-opment, we can expect to see more people in apartments in the future. Making sure all

those apartment dwellers can sort and store recyclables is critical.

There will be challenges, and some were discussed at a recent meeting of the city’s planning committee. If bins are not located near apart-ment entrances, people with mobility issues will have a hard time participating. Councillors are understand-ably worried about putting in place a policy that may leave residents on the outside looking in.

Hopefully this will be the fi rst step towards adapting the green bin program to work at existing multi-unit residential properties, which would allow organic waste diversion to become even more widespread. It is entirely conceivable that solutions implemented at new buildings could be retrofi tted to work at existing structures.

But until that time the city is taking the appropriate steps to ensure that even if some people can’t or won’t do their part and recycle, Ottawa is moving in the right direction on the waste management fi le.

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CITY OF OTTAWAPROPOSED OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT

The City of Ottawa is considering an Official Plan Amendment for the purposes of supporting the development of the Ottawa Light Rail Transit (OLRT) Project. The amendments will affect Wards 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 18.

Official Plan policy is proposed to require the submission of an OLRT Proximity Study as supporting technical information when planning applications are submitted within the Development Zone of Influence. The Study is to examine the potential impacts on OC Transpo’s current and future operations and/or the integrity of the OLRT Project’s facilities, properties and structures. The Development Zone of Influence is determined by a combination of alignment depth, geotechnical conditions and sub-surface development and is proposed to be included as an Annex to the Official Plan.

The OLRT Proximity Study Guidelines, outlining the requirements for the study, are also proposed to be adopted.

FURTHER INFORMATION

To view the application or any information or materials related to the application, please contact the undersigned planner, or go to Ottawa.ca/devapps and input the File Number D01-01-12-0010 in the “Search” criteria, to access any related plans, studies or reports.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The City of Ottawa would like to receive any comments concerning this proposal. Please forward comments to the undersigned planner via mail, telephone, facsimile or e-mail by December 14, 2012. Comments received will be considered in the evaluation of the proposal.

Dated at the City of Ottawa this 16th day of November, 2012.

Wendy Tse, PlannerPlanning and Growth Management DepartmentCity of Ottawa110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th FloorOttawa, ON K1P 1J1Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 12585Fax: 613-580-2459E-mail: [email protected].

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Could outsourcing dinner save us money?My husband is

probably the fi rst man in the his-tory of paternity

leave to take his role seriously. Okay, maybe not. But he’s

doing an awesome job. While I hide out in my offi ce all day (you know, breadwinning), he’s rocking baby and feed-ing baby and taking baby for walks. Then he’s supervising homework and cooking din-ner and making lunches and cooking dinner. Oh, and did I mention cooking dinner?

It may come as no surprise that – like so many women before him – he has become completely overwhelmed with his domestic duties. One day, as I approached him – up to his eyeballs in clean laundry, baby gurgling on the living-room fl oor – he said, “I think we need to outsource something.”

Interesting.“What do you have in

mind?” I asked him, knowing he’s got an arm’s-length list of home renovations projects he’d like to be doing in lieu of baby care.

“The food, the meals,” he said. “I feel like I’m always in the kitchen.”

It’s true. I know it. I’ve been meal-planning and lunch-making for my family for seven years. It’s a huge pain in the you-know-what – everything from coming up with original ideas, to chop-ping, to timing and shopping.

As my pal, Kay, quipped the other day, “not another

eff-ing dinner.”We live in an age where

we can outsource everything, from personal shopping to housecleaning. For a family on a budget, it may be hard to think about adding an ex-pense. But in a way, outsourc-ing dinner makes total sense and it may save you more than just time – it could save you money, too.

Canadians waste approxi-mately $27 billion of food each year, according to a re-port released in October from the Value Chain Management Centre, an Ontario-based

organization that conducts research on waste. In 2010, uneaten leftovers at home accounted for more than half of that amount – 51 per cent. Surprisingly, only eight per cent of food waste was attrib-uted to restaurants.

One possible explanation is that restaurants have systems for ordering and preparing food. In other words, they cook what they buy and people tend to eat what is cooked.

Food at home is another story. Most people go into the grocery store with good inten-tions: They load their carts up with fresh produce, then bask in the glory of fridges full of greens. But a busy week at work, a sick child, one too many extracurricular activity and the good intentions to cook go out the window. Sud-denly, Friday pizza night is starting to occur three nights a week and all that food ends up

in the green bin.Eleven years ago, Julie

Broczkowski, a chemical engineer by profession, launched her business, The Magic Fridge. Like most personal chefs, the crux of her business model is to cater to households. What makes her stand out, however, is that she doesn’t just make a bunch of stuff and bring it to you. For $200, plus the cost of groceries, Broczkowski will help you plan a menu, do your grocery shopping and cook approximately eight meals in your own kitchen.

“When I fi rst started out I thought seniors would be my target market,” says Broczkowski. “But the vast majority of my clients are families where both parents work, the kids have activities, and they’ve become sick of landing at McDonald’s three nights a week.”

Broczkowski says people may be intimidated by the cost at fi rst glance, but they quickly realize that having the grocery list tailored to the meals, which are prepared and frozen the day the groceries are purchased can actually save them money in the long run.

“A lot of my clients have been paying for their food twice,” says Broczkowski. “They go grocery shopping, put everything in the fridge, then wind up eating out. So I say, instead of paying for take-out, pay me. For $200, they can have two weeks’ worth of Monday-to-Thursday meals and no waste.”

And to my friend, Kay, who posted this on Facebook at midnight last month: “If you need me, I’m probably lost in the back of the Tupper-ware cupboard #makingkid-slunches,” it turns out, you can outsource that, too.

BRYNNALESLIE

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EMC news - When Antonio Misaka tried to organize an event for his tech-based non-profi t group with the city, he was met with a brick wall.

“Sometimes we don’t know how things work when it’s re-lated to the city,” said the Bri-tannia Heights resident who works as the system manager for CompuCorps, a technol-ogy training and mentorship charity that recycles electronic devices.

Misaka wanted to organize an e-waste drop-off in partner-ship with the city, but he had “no clue how to get informa-tion” from city hall.

Sarah Smythe, a commu-nity educator from Stittsville, works with children in Kanata and wants to teach them how to be more involved in their community.

Misaka and Smythe had very different reasons for wanting to engage in civic life when they decided to attend a trial workshop run by a new local organization called the Citizens’ Academy.

The idea for the academy sprung from founder Ken Victor’s experience observing a similar program in Syracuse, N.Y., last winter. Victor, a lead facilitator with Leadership Ot-tawa, quickly enlisted his col-league, Manjit Basi, to bring the model to Ottawa.

The idea is to bring citizens from all walks of life together with experts to spark a respect-ful discussion about the pro-cess of engaging with the city and fostering change.

“We came back and on our drive we were just going a mile a minute,” Basi said. “This is what dialogue and learning needs to look like.

“What inspired us was that

maybe learning how your mu-nicipal government works, which is the level of govern-ment closest to you, can actu-ally have citizens engage in a more meaningful and strategic way.”

The pair decided to craft an academy that refl ects Ottawa’s unique character.

“Ottawa is full of people who care, who want to do things to make their commu-nity better and to make their city better, but sometimes they are overwhelmed,” Basi said. “They don’t know how, they don’t know the right people, they don’t have the networks and they don’t know the pro-cess. Sometimes they don’t even know their rights and how they can engage.”

Misaka and Smythe joined approximately 60 people packed into a basement room at the Hintonburg Community Centre on Nov. 15 for the sec-ond of two English-language classes. The academy also of-fered French courses and on-line sessions as part of a pilot project to test out their model.

The group plans to fi nd ad-ditional funding and refi ne the courses in hopes of offering them in eight-week runs start-ing next fall. Basi is insistent

the courses would always remain free for citizens, but offering sessions tailored to groups to businesses could be done for a fee to keep the orga-nization afl oat, she said.

The Nov. 15 session was intended to be about how to get involved in recreation de-cisions for their communities, who is responsible and how those decisions are made. But presenters and participants were keen to engage in a dis-cussion about how the city of-fers recreation programs and facilities and who they are geared towards.

Rideau-Vanier Coun. Ma-thieu Fleury, a sports manage-ment graduate and former city lifeguard, kicked off the discus-sion with a series of statements to get people thinking, includ-ing a question about whether the city is building health care or “sick care.” He asked the audience to think about what kinds of goals the city is try-ing to reach when it develops recreation programs.

The group also heard from Kelly Robertson, a West Car-leton resident who is the city’s manager of recreation pro-grams, who outlined how the outdoor rink program is a great example of delivering recre-ation programming through community partnerships. The city provides grants and infra-structure to community groups to run a free-access outdoor skating and hockey rink during the winter.

That topic of community partnerships dominated the discussion. Participants want-ed to know how the city seeks to engage residents in plan-ning the recreation offerings for their communities and why there aren’t more partnerships with schools and universities that already have facilities in which the city could run pro-grams.

Mohamed Sofa, a com-munity activist who works at the Pinecrest Queensway Community Health Resource

Centre, was the last presenter. There were many nodding heads in the audience as he described a collaboration he and other groups set up in his neighbourhood called RecNet so they can collectively deter-

mine what community needs are not being met.

But how those ideas can get traction at city hall is another matter and a question that was left somewhat unanswered during the session. Robert-

son indicated that an idea can start with just one citizen, but whether it will become a pro-gram offering is dependant on so many factors.

Ultimately, however, ignit-ing activism is the point of the Citizens’ Academy.

“We need citizens to talk about it,” Sofa said. “Until we feel (the need) in the city, noth-ing will happen.”

Boot camp preps residents to tackle city hallGroup looking to train citizens on howto eff ectively engage in civic life

‘Ottawa is full of

people who care,

who want to do

things to make

their community

better and to make

their city better, but

sometimes they are

overwhelmed.’MANJIT BASI



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EMC news - The United Way has reached the midpoint of its $30-million fundraising goal and campaign organizers are urging donors to keep the momentum going.

“We have every confi dence in Ottawa,” said campaign co-chairperson Angie Poirier. “Ottawa is the most generous (city), with one in six donating to the campaign.”

Since the campaign launched on Sept. 27, it has raised $16.4 million.

This year’s campaign has made its recipients the focus and the United Way has show-cased them with videos on its website.

“It’s the stories we hear about are the lives that are di-rectly changing,” Poirier said. “A life becomes a life and is turned around.”

The goal is for people to feel connected with the orga-nizations their donations help. Every little bit helps, said the campaign organizers.

“It’s the measurable change,” said Poirier. “If the money isn’t there, then the in-dividuals don’t get to change. These people wouldn’t have

the lives that they come to know if we didn’t have the money and resources to help.”

Poirier and campaign co-chair Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury have both at-tended numerous events dur-ing the past six weeks aimed at motivating donors.

“I was anticipating going into workplaces and (helping) with the launches, but wasn’t anticipating becoming so moved by those who are ben-efi ting from United Way and seeing what it actually means to people,” Poirier said.

Fleury said the fundraising efforts of the younger genera-tion of donors are exhilarat-ing.

“Youth have the energy,” he said.

Poirier said the ideas the younger donors have are unique and motivational.

The United Way has a his-tory of staging workplace campaigns, with employees donating portions of their pay-cheques or holding fundraisers of their own.

“It is about team building,” Fleury said.

He added anyone can do-nate to the cause on the United Way’s website, www.united-wayottawa.com.

United Way confi dent as campaign reaches half-way point

Flurry of help for those in needMichelle [email protected]

EMC news - The Vanier community is hoping for a snowstorm of support at its seventh annual food bank fundraiser.

The Vanier Community Service Centre will hold its an-nual Snowfl ake Breakfast on Dec. 7. The event welcomes residents, businesses, partners, politicians and neighbours of Vanier to come eat breakfast and raise money for Partage Vanier, the area food bank.

Last year, the event raised more than $20,000 with more than 500 people in attendance. Organizers are looking to match that same amount this year.

The breakfast will take place at the Centre Pauline-Charron at 164 Jeanne-Mance St. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at Centre Pauline-Charron or at the Vanier Com-munity Service Centre.

Partage Vanier feeds ap-proximately 500 low-income families in Vanier each month.

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Carolers sing at last year’s Snowfl ake Breakfast in support of Partage Vanier. The community’s seventh annual fundraising event is aiming to raise $20,000 for the local food bank on Dec. 7.



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Striving Towards ‘Community Inspired Development

In cities across our province, the issue of sustainable development and intensification has been widely discussed. This is particularly true in our own community, where recent projects have created much debate on sustainable, balanced, and smart planning, and development policy and implementation. Much of this debate centres around the role of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), its process and decisions, and the impact those disputes ultimately have on our community.

The OMB is an independent tribunal established through provincial legislation. The OMB hears appeals and applications on a wide range of municipal and land-related matters including official plans, zoning by-laws, subdivision plans, consents and minor variances, land compensation, development charges, aggregate resources, ward boundaries, and more.

During last year’s Ontario provincial election, I proposed an OMB reform package that would facilitate ‘community inspired development.’ I believe that we can improve the community development process by making it more transparent and accessible to people. Growth should be a collaborative process that involves residents, community associations, developers and elected officials working together to achieve a plan that best suits the needs of the community.

Specifically, these reform options include: changing the Planning Act to require municipalities to adopt completed Community Design Plans (CDPs) into their official plans; compel the OMB to give deference to municipal council decisions; requiring mandatory mediation in all development appeals; and introducing anti-SLAPP legislation to protect the participation of individuals and community groups advocating or speaking out on these and other issues.

On October 15, I was proud to introduce Bill 132, Protection of Public Participation Act, 2012. If passed, the Bill would provide protection to citizens and community groups advocating on matters of public interest, and offer relief from meritless lawsuits that aim to keep them quiet or deter others from speaking out.

‘Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation’ (SLAPPs) are legal proceedings that have the effect of silencing or intimidating individuals and citizen groups who speak out or advocate on issues of public interest; such as reporting environmental violations, complaints to government agencies, speaking at public meetings, participating in tribunal hearings, engaging in public campaigns, or contacting the media.

Bill 132, which is available on my website, proposes substantive legal measures to address the serious issue of SLAPPs by creating a specialized test for courts to quickly recognize and dismiss a SLAPP, and order appropriate remedies for costs. These issues were examined thoroughly by an ‘Anti-SLAPP Advisory Panel’ which submitted a comprehensive set of recommendations to the Attorney General of Ontario. Building on these proposals, Bill 132 would enact each of the recommendations in to a comprehensive legislative framework.

Bill 132 has been endorsed by many organizations, such as, the Hintonburg Community Association, the Federation of Urban Neighbourhoods (Ontario), EcoJustice; Greenpeace Canada, and the Canadian Environmental Law Association. I am grateful for their support.

Further, on October 27, I held my 3rd Annual Sustainable Community Summit, where over 80 members of our community engaged in an important public dialogue to explore potential avenues for the reform of the OMB and the use of CDPs. We were joined by three presenters who gave their unique perspectives on this topic, including Jay Baltz, a member of the Hintonburg Community Association, January Cohen, a development lawyer at Soloway Wright, LLP, and Neil Malhotra, Vice President of Claridge Homes.

Participants engaged in breakout groups to discuss their experiences and present their feedback for reform. Overall, four options were discussed: maintain or improve the status-quo; abolish the OMB; create Local Appeal Boards; or enhance community inspired development. I was very impressed with the quality and depth of these conversations.

I continue to seek feedback, and encourage you to get involved in this process. For further information, please visit my website, where you can find copies of the presentations, as well as the workbook which was provided to participants. I invite you to review these documents, and to send me your thoughts, experiences and suggestions as to how we can best implement community inspired development in our province. I will be writing a detailed report to be shared with the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing on behalf of our community, which I will share with you once complete.

For more information on any of these topics, please visit www.yasirnaqvimpp.ca, or you can contact my Community Office. Please note that my office has recently moved to 109 Catherine Street. As always, you can reach me by telephone at 613-722-6414 or by email at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you.


EMC news - The facade of the old Ogilvy Building department store on Rideau Street will be saved as part of a mall expansion, but some heritage advocates say that’s not enough.

A plan to conserve at least part of the derelict structure has long been part of the Rideau Centre’s stalled ex-pansion plans, but the issue is back on the table now that the mall’s owners have an-nounced expansion will be done by 2015.

Cadillac-Fairview original-ly received approval for the addition in 2006 but decided not to proceed. Now, city staff

has been told the new expan-sion proposal will be submit-ted by the fall of 2013.

Cadillac-Fairview and the architect it hired, Barry Pa-dolsky, are concerned that waiting until then might lead to the destruction of the Ogilvy Building’s remain-ing historic elements, so they are planning to dismantle the structure as soon as possible to avoid harsh winter condi-tions. The city’s heritage staff concurred.

But Heritage Ottawa presi-dent Leslie Maitland wasn’t buying the argument. During a planning committee meet-ing on Nov. 13, she expressed concern that the city was once again allowing a form of “de-molition by neglect.”

“The Ogilvy Building didn’t just deteriorate on it’s own over the last 20 years, it was left to deteriorate,” she told councillors. She called for enforcement of the neglect bylaw the city already has on its books.

The city has increasingly been willing to allow devel-opers to tear down heritage buildings if they save the facades, Maitland said, and that’s not ideal.

“It’s not an appropriate her-itage conservation for the skin of buildings to be stuck onto a completely new structure,” she said.

The building, located at 124-126 Rideau St., at the corner of Nicholas Street, was built by Charles Ogilvy

in four stages between 1906 and 1934. Ogilvy started in the dry goods business and eventually expanded into a full department store, which “parallels the North Ameri-ca-wide development of the department store as the most important retail phenomenon of the late 19th and 20th cen-turies,” according to the city’s documentation on why the building received a heritage designation.

“Ottawa was unique among Canadian cities because its two leading local depart-ment stores, Ogilvy’s and Freiman’s, were suffi ciently successful to discourage the entry of national chains into the city until the 1960s,” the report states.

Ogilvy building facade to be saved

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EMC news - An abandoned school on the former Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe went up in fl ames on Nov. 12.

Ottawa fi refi ghters received a call shortly after 3 a.m. that there were fl ames coming from a building at the former base.

Firefi ghters found the build-ing engulfed in fl ames.

They worked all through the night and the next morning to keep the fl ames under control.

Firefi ghters pumped water from Montreal Road to the site to fi ght the fi re.

The cost of damage to the school has not yet been an-nounced. A development project is slotted for the land in coming years. The arson unit was set to investigate the fi re because of the large estimated loss.

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An abandoned school on the old Canadian Forces Base Rockcliff e went up in fl ames on Nov. 12. Firefi ghters spent hours battling the blaze.

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EMC news - As the mayor and city clerk assured coun-cillors that Ottawa would get a new revenue-sharing agree-ment if a new casino is built, the Ontario Lottery and Gam-ing Corporation confi rmed that wasn’t the case.

During a city council meet-ing on Nov. 14, city clerk and solicitor Rick O’Connor as-sured city councillors that a new money-distribution agree-ment for the slots at Rideau Carleton Raceway would not be binding on a new facility, as the OLG looks for a private developer to build a new ca-sino in Ottawa.

“We’re going to have a new arrangement and a new agree-ment if council decides on a new casino,” Mayor Jim Wat-son said. That understanding was based on discussions he has had with the OLG over the past couple of weeks, Watson said.

Not so, says OLG spokes-man Tony Bitonti.

“(The current agreement)

will apply to a new casino as well,” Bitonti said. “The new agreement takes effect April 1 (2013), and then if and when a new casino is built, that will be the same funding agreement with the City of Ottawa.

“Nothing changes.”O’Connor confi rmed there

are a couple of outstanding process issues he needs to get answers on.

One issue that still needs to be clarifi ed is a provision ty-ing the new agreement to the location of the current slots at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. O’Connor said it’s his under-standing that if the raceway wins a bid to become the new casino, the OLG could choose to either keep the same mon-

ey-sharing agreement or come back to the city with a new of-fer.

“That sounds like an odd situation,” said Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney.

Attempts to negotiate with the OLG have not received a good reception, O’Connor said. The corporation was hes-itant to even adjust the text of the agreement to include the proper legal name of the City of Ottawa, O’Connor said. There is very little opportunity for dialog on the terms of the agreement, he said, adding that it is “akin to a mother giv-ing an allowance to her child.”

Despite questioning the agreement, councillors voted 20-3 to approve the new deal, which has no expiry date.

Over the past fi ve years, the city has received between $4.3 and $4.4 million annually from 1,250 slot machines at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. The new agreement would put $1.3 million more into the city’s coffers each year if slot revenue remains the same.

The agreement means the city gets 5.25 per cent of fi rst $65 million of net slot rev-enue, three per cent on next $135 million, 2.5 per cent of the next $300 million and half a per cent of the remainder of net slot revenue.

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Improving the lives of women in needMargaret (Peggy) Lister, president of Cornerstone Housing for Women, is honoured with Mayor Jim Watson’s City Builder Award during the Nov. 14 meeting of city council. Lister has held that role at Cornerstone for 10 years and has worked to make Ottawa a better place for four decades. She recently spearheaded an initiative to develop a new Booth Street facility to provide healthcare and support for 42 women who are seniors or younger women with complex needs, such as mental health challenges. ‘Peggy is a compassionate and motivated leader who has developed the organizational capacity of Cornerstone and has increased its eff ectiveness in providing results that truly improve the lives of many women in need of assistance,’ a city press release states. Rideau-Rock-cliff e Coun. Peter Clark, right, Lister’s ward councillor, was also on hand.


When Ian Colquhoun and his team opened soléa in Ottawa at 943 Carling Avenue ten years ago, they had no idea how the community would take to the concept of offering both pedorthic services of a Certified Pedorthist and the largest selection of fine comfort footwear in Ottawa at one convenient location. After a decade and thousands of satisfied clients with happier feet, they have their answer.

First, for the uninitiated, a Certified Pedorthist is a well-trained health care professional who specializes in the use of footwear and supportive devices to address conditions that affect the feet and lower limbs. These specialists can analyze and correct gait and posture problems with the use of orthotics, custom-crafted footwear inserts that, when properly designed and manufactured, can bring relief to a host of foot, leg, back pain and mobility issues. soléa and their clients are fortunate

to have the talent, dedication, and services of Derek Gilmer, C. Ped. (C), C. Ped. Tech, one of the few Ottawa area Certified Pedorthists who holds both designations of Canadian Certified Pedorthist and Certified Pedorthic Technician. What this means is that at soléa, the person who assesses your foot issues is the same person who designs and manufactures your orthotics and who trains the staff to help you select the proper footwear for your orthotics. This fall, Derek is offering complimentary consultations to clients of soléa Pedorthic Services and they are now available on an appointment basis.

Just about every client of soléa Pedorthic Services is amazed at the relief from pain that their new orthotics provide. Rather than feeling tired and drained at the end of their day, they walk with renewed energy that’s testament to a freedom in mobility they may not have experienced in years. They have learned what the soléa team has known for years-proper foot alignment may help provide the foundation for pain-free leg, hip, lower back and upper back mobility.

The drive to satisfy the demand for comfort footwear that is both stylish and functional came from the need to serve both women and men who require orthotics but don’t necessarily want to wear orthopedic looking shoes. The success of any orthotic appliance is based not only on the skills of the pedorthist but on the quality and fit of the shoe it is to be inserted into. To this end, soléa researches and holds all the shoe and accessory lines it carries to a very high standard. Such well known names as Finn Comfort, Mephisto, Dansko and Gabor, to name only a few, are not only stocked at soléa, but carried in full seasonal offerings for those who desire comfortable footwear year round. As well, Certified Pedorthist, Derek Gilmer trains each soléa sales associate to help ensure the best match for the client of orthotics and shoe. For those with discriminating taste, soléa provides shoes that look decidedly fashionable without sacrificing quality or function.

UNLIKE MOST ORTHOTICS CLINICS THAT RELY UPON COMPUTER-GENERATED ORTHOTICS AND THAT

OUTSOURCE THEIR MANUFACTURING, THE CLIENTS OF SOLÉA PEDORTHIC SERVICES BENEFIT FROM

HANDS-ON, TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE AND LOCAL MANUFACTURING CRAFTED BY HAND.

This level of service ensures unmatched quality control and a superior quality of product and ensures a maximum level of mobility improvement. There is a fast turnaround time of ten working days for most custom made orthotics.

But no matter where you might have received your orthotics, you’re more than welcome at soléa. Rather than choosing from a limited selection of footwear at an ordinary shoe retailer, at soléa you can select from a wide array of styles and fashions, chosen to meet most budgets. And, at soléa, you can be assured of the highest levels of professional and personal service that will help maximize the benefits of your custom orthotics by correctly matching them to the right shoe.

soléa is located at 943 Carling Avenue at Sherwood Drive, just west of Dow’s Lake and easily accessible from the Queensway via the Parkdale Avenue exit or a short walk from the Carling Avenue O-Train station. The pedorthic clinic is by appointment only and the phone number is 613-728-6905.

soléa has free parking and is open Mondays through Wednesdays from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm and is also open Saturdays from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and Sundays from 12 noon to 5:00 pm. soléa can be reached at 613-728-6905 or by email at [email protected] or you can visit the website at www.solea.ca to view soléa’s services and extensive lines of fine comfort footwear. Leave your pain behind and step out in style with soléa.

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EMC entertainment - Pocket a nail fi le, count your smokes and roll up your sleeves for a one-night-only, fun-fi lled extravaganza at Ot-tawa’s only jail.

The Carleton County Gaol will be alive again with sound on Nov. 22, the fi rst time since closing in 1972. Rockabilly-country band Dang Guilty and the burlesque troupe Capital Tease will be performing at Mugshots Jail Bar, also known as the 8th fl oor or death row, of Ottawa’s county jail at 75 Nicholas St.

Gorgeous George of Planet Ink will be the offi cial jail-house tattoo artist, offering free tattoos for anyone brave enough to get inked in a jail cell during the concert.

And to keep the party go-ing, the rum will be fl owing from the evening’s sponsor, Sailor Jerry Rum.

A three piece ensemble, Dang Guilty, comprises two high school classmates, Joel Hayward on vocals and gui-tars and bassist James Rooke, along with Andy Clapson on drums.

“You have the gallows, the cells and etchings on the walls and information plaques spread out,” Rooke said. “All the rooms, halls and stairwells are separated by black steel bars. I don’t really believe in (the) paranormal, but you can feel the history. It’s a bit creepy.”

The band is a little con-cerned about how the sound is going to reverberate in the steel and concrete room.

“I can’t imagine an electric rockabilly trio (playing at the location) let alone the screams and chaos of jail guards and prisoners back in the day,” Rooke said.

He added he will be getting his fi rst tattoo at the event, a bass clef, fi tting he said, as he has played the bass his whole life.

“It’s a big part of who I am,” Rooke said. “I wouldn’t regret it when I get older.”

The former jail was in oper-ation from from 1862 to 1972 and throughout that time only fi ve offi cial hangings were ever recorded, but it’s reputed that the eighth fl oor, death row, may have been fi lled with more than 150 inmates, based on unmarked graves

found during construction of the Mackenzie King Bridge and surrounding area.

The county jail has since been turned into Hostel Inter-national Ottawa Jail-Hostel.

The hostel holds tours of the eighth fl oor, but this will be the fi rst time the former jailhouse will host an evening

event. The most famous public

execution took place on Feb. 11, 1869, when 5,000 people gathered to watch Patrick James Whalen hang from the gallows.

Whalen is infamous for killing father of Confedera-tion, Thomas D’Arcy McGee.

It was the only assassination of a member of Parliament in Canada’s history.

Whalen spent his fi nal days in the jail and it has been re-ported his ghost still haunts it to this day.

Like Johnny Cash, the band is looking forward to follow-ing in the singer’s footsteps by

playing in a prison. “We regularly get compari-

sons to being a modern John-ny Cash,” Rooke said. “It’s not quite Folsom Prison, but for Ottawa it’s the next best thing.”

The jailhouse rock begins at 9:30 p.m. Admission is $8 at the door.

JAMES ROOKE

Ottawa rockabilly-country group, Dang Guilty will play at the Carleton County Gaol on Nov. 22. The band and bur-lesque troupe Capital Tease will perform on the eighth fl oor of the Hostel International Ottawa Jail-Hostel, also known as death row.

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Blues singer keeps up battle against bullies


EMC news - Blues in the Schools creator Maria Hawkins says she is deter-mined to stop every last bully that roams the halls of Ottawa schools.

For the past fi ve years, Hawkins has been running the motivational program Stop the Bullying in Ottawa schools. The one-hour presentation teaches students from kinder-garten to Grade 8 the impor-tance of becoming leaders and to not stand around and watch others get bullied.

“I want them to feel that it’s important to do the right thing,” Hawkins said.

To help get her message across, the blues singer uses music.

“It allows the kids to pro-cess what I have said in a different way,” she said. “It allows me to get more out of the group and reach every last student.”

Instead of focusing on nega-tive stories about children who

were bullied, Hawkins uses positive reinforcement, mak-ing every student attending her presentation participate in anti-bullying activities.

“They walk into the gym and see me and think, ‘Oh great, what is this about,’ but once I get them going, I make sure every butt is up and mov-ing and shouting and partici-pating,” Hawkins said. “It’s important that each student is engaged in the message.”

The program is offered to any school in the National Capital Region that signs up.

This is the fi rst year Hawkins does not have any fi nancial support and because of the cost of the program – $200 for the hour – schools are no longer lining up to take part.

“It has been hard and I am just making enough to barely survive,” she said.

But stopping the program is not an option, Hawkins said.

“It is really important to teach these children bullying is not accepted.”

The singer’s ultimate goal

is to take the program out of the classroom and into the community, something she said would require a lot of support from the city.

“Everybody is targeting the kids, but we need to bring the parents into the dialogue and a community event would be able to do that,” she said.

Hawkins said she doesn’t have the funding to hold such a large event. For now, she said she would be happy if she could double the number of children who attend her pro-gram.

“This generation is one that is highly into communication and technology and with this new social generation, the type of bullying is stronger,” Hawkins said.

Schools can sign up for the program by contacting Hawkins directly at 613-292-1283 or by visiting her web-site at www.stopthebullying.ca.


Blues in the Schools creator Maria Hawkins is dedicated to stopping bullying and her program, Stop the Bullying, teaches children from kindergarten to Grade 8 the impor-tance of being a leader, not a bully.

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It seemed to me that not much money changed hands back in the De-pression.

Of course, there wasn’t much money around. Mother pretty well ran the house on what was in the sugar bowl holding her egg money, which came from selling eggs, cream, butter, chickens and sticky buns door-to-door in Renfrew on Saturdays and of course, in the summertime, a few more pennies were real-ized when she could add fresh vegetables from our ample garden to her wares.

Father always had a few coins in his pocket, but they were few and far between.

It seemed to me back then that most of the commerce of the day was done by barter-ing. Mr. Briscoe at Briscoe’s General Store wasn’t interested in trading what he sold for chickens, vegetables, cream or butter. After all, the entire Northcote farm area had an ample supply of those things themselves. But he always welcomed Mother’s sticky buns. These she traded for sugar and green tea.

For the rare times old Dr. Murphy had to drive out all the way from Renfrew and there were very few coins in the egg money bowl, he would be paid for his visit with a freshly plucked chick-en, a sealer jar or fresh cream, and of course, eggs. There was always an ample supply of eggs and Dr. Murphy, it

seemed to me, never expected to get cold hard cash for his trip out from Renfrew.

The stores in town were a different matter. Those owned locally were used to bartering with the farming community. But you could never make a deal with Walker’s Store, which was owned by some

big fi rm in Toronto. It had to be cold hard cash.

But it wasn’t unusual to see Mother making a deal at Scott’s Hardware or Aiken-head Store, trading a fresh chicken for chicken wire or freshly churned butter for cough medicine. There really was a Mr. Scott and a Mr. Aikenhead and they seemed to know cash was scarce.

I doubt Mother was ever

turned away because she hadn’t the money to pay for what she needed. It seemed to me Father was continually bartering with other farmers in Northcote. It wasn’t at all unusual to see him walking a young heifer out the lane with a rope around its neck and coming back with a colt.

Or he would load a sheep in the back of the old Model T and come back with a couple of newborn piglets. It was how the farm community survived the terrible Depres-sion that closed in around them.

Although we depended heavily on the hand me down boxes that came regularly from from Aunt Lizzie in Re-gina, it wasn’t at all unusual

for the clothes to be traded amongst the neighbours. I once got a lovely coat from my little friend Joyce who had outgrown it. I doubt we had anything to give her in return -- they were so much better off than we were. After all, Joyce lived in a brick house and had a toilet.

As regular as clockwork, we had visits from Rawleigh and Watkins door-to-door salesmen. They travelled by horse and buggy, and we could always tell when they were coming in our long lane, because they both had big brass bells around their horse’s necks which gave plenty warning they were on their way.

They were both great sales-men and it was hard to resist their wares. It wasn’t unusual for Mother, when she had bought over her limit to start bartering with them. They bantered back and forth and when the salesmen realized there wasn’t enough money to pay for what Mother had cho-sen, they could either take the couple pounds of butter and a few eggs, or pack up and leave. They usually accepted the barter.

It seemed to me back then, that bartering was simply a way of life. There was no embarrassment to trading one thing for another. It was just another tool that helped people of the 1930s survive.

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Mary Cook’s Memories

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EMC news - If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

That’s the message that se-niors at a Rotary Club fraud prevention presentation heard at the Orléans branch of the Ottawa Public Library on Nov. 14.

The ABCs of Fraud presen-tation, which is endorsed by Ottawa police, has been going to different library branches this fall to educate seniors.

West Ottawa Rotary Club members Bob Harrison and Linas Pilypaitis spoke to a group of seniors at the Orléans branch.

Seniors are more vulnerable to fraud due of several factors, and are often seen as more susceptible, Harrison said.

“When I grew up, I was trusting someone with a hand-shake,” he said. “The doors in my house were never locked.”

These days, scams are a dime a dozen and it’s impor-tant that people – especially those more vulnerable to scams – take steps to protect themselves.

While just over half of all scams arrive by email or elec-tronic communication, there are also telephone and door-to-door scammers.

A scam is where some-one is supposed to give you something for your money. They’ll end up giving nothing

or something –not exactly as promised.

“Everyone in the world is trying to get your money,” Pi-lypaitis said.

The pair acted out an ex-ample of a scam for a fake se-curity company. Harrison, the fake security salesman, sold Pilypaitis, acting as a senior, a heavily discounted alarm system.

Besides providing a down payment Pilypaitis let Har-rison do a full scope of the house, and let him know dates when there would be nobody home – leaving an empty house to rob.

“Nobody needs to know when you’ll be away from your home,” Pilypaitis said.

They gave some tips to protect identity and personal information, including not to leave mail in a box that any-one could access. Some mail, like tax returns, include infor-mation such as a social insur-ance number.

Once a year, fi le a report for a credit history to check and see if anyone else has tried an unauthorized credit check, said Pilypaitis.

They warned against the use of money transfers for anything that might not seem legitimate.

A good rule of thumb is never give to any credit card information to anyone, unless you have initiated the contact, Pilypaitis said.

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EMC lifestyle - Firm chees-es offer a great fl exibility of use. They keep very well. They are delicious by themselves and can also be used in a thousand different ways in the kitchen. Pastas, cooked dishes, quiches, omelets, gratins, sandwiches and salads couldn’t survive by without them! At any meal, these cheeses add taste and nu-tritional value.

Gratins are often laden with heavy cream and butter, and cheese. This lightened version is just as delicious and won-derfully comforting. To serve with roast meats or poultry, omit the ham.

Preparation time: 15 min-utes. Cooking time: one hour. Servings: four as main course or six as side dish.

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• 1 bunch leeks (two to four)• 1 tbsp (15 ml) each of olive oil and butter• 2 cloves garlic, minced

• 1/2 tsp (2 ml) dried thyme leaves• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) each of salt and pepper• 1 tbsp (15 ml) Dijon mustard• 1/2 cup (125 ml) chicken or vegetable stock• 1 cup (250 ml) diced ham (about 125 g)• 1 kg potatoes (fi ve to six medium)• 1/4 cup (50 ml) freshly grated parmesan or asiago cheese

PREPARATION

Cut leeks in half lengthwise and wash well. Slice white and light green parts.

In a nonstick skillet, heat the oil and butter over medium heat. Stir in the leeks and gar-lic and cook until slightly soft-ened, for three to fi ve minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat. Season with thyme, salt and pepper. Stir in the mus-tard, stock and ham and then set aside.

Peel and thinly slice the po-

tatoes to about a quarter inch (half a centimetre) thick. Place one-third of the potato slices in a buttered eight- to 10-cup (two to 2.5 L) gratin or shallow baking dish. Spoon half of the leek mixture over top. Repeat layers once. Top with remain-ing potatoes.

Cover with buttered parch-ment paper, pressing buttered side down. Bake in an oven at 400 F (200 C) for 45 to 50 minutes or until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife.

Remove parchment paper. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 15 minutes to melt cheese and lightly brown potatoes. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

Tip: A mandolin or food processor makes even, thin potato slices. To make slic-ing easier, cut potatoes in half crosswise and place fl at edge down on mandolin.

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The pride of OzgoodeStephanie La Rochelle performs Over the Rainbow for members of council and the audi-ence during council’s Nov. 14 meeting. The Greely resident was the runner-up in CBC’s television show contest to choose the actor to play the lead of Dorothy in the Mirvish production of Wizard of Oz in Toronto this winter. Mayor Jim Watson and Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson, La Rochelle’s city councillor, look on in the background.


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EMC news - Santa’s job is a little easier now that the Cana-dian Toy Testing Council has unveiled the top 10 toys on the market for 2013.

More than 500 children be-tween the ages of six months and 12 years tested toys for a period of eight to 12 weeks.

Their feedback formed the basis for the council’s Chil-dren’s Choice Awards, which it hands out annually just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Though toys seem to in-creasingly require batteries or a high-tech touchscreen to op-erate, the council’s kid testers gravitated towards toys that in-volve a little imagination.

For children under two, Little Tikes won for its Dis-coverySounds activity garden that plays music and includes many windows and cubbies to explore.

“I like the sounds that the garden makes,” said Ethan Gayed, 5, who announced the Children’s Choice Award for Little Tikes.

A Fisher Price kitchen and dining room set, complete with plastic pizza, cookies, dishes and pans was also a huge hit.

“We can make food and pre-tend to cook things,” said six-year-old Barrhaven resident Lyra Erhardt. “And then we can pretend to eat it.”

Building toys were also popular. The Ed Creator Da-Vinci Block gears, which won in the three years and up cat-egory, use magnets to stick to-gether in an infi nite number of combinations and designs.

Bill and Betty Bricks, which won for fi ve-year-olds, are a set of traditional wooden blocks that turn into towering skyscrapers in no time.

Playmobil won for seven-year-olds with its Future Planet ranger headquarters play set.

While building the space station is fun, playing with it afterwards is the best part, said Dillon Snasdell-Taylor, a seven-year-old Carp resident who announced Playmobil’s Children’s Choice Award. The Playmobil set did have one high-tech feature: a working solar panel that powers a large fan on top of the space head-quarters.

Board games like Pick N’ Choose – which requires play-ers to sculpt, hum and act out clues – the rapid-fi re jewel game Mine Shift and strategic ogre-outsmarting game Race to the Treasure all won awards as well.

This is the council’s 60th anniversary, and Liliane Ben-oit said the independent toy testing authority relies on more than 200 Canadian families to determine which toys stand up to the test of safety and durabil-ity, how well they function and how much fun they deliver.

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Ottawa resident Ethan Gayed, 5, announces a Children’s Choice Award for the Little Tikes DiscoverSounds activity gar-den at Algonquin College on Nov. 13. The Canadian Toy Testing Council awards the market’s best toys annually for ages six months to 12 and up. Below left, Richmond resident Zachary Brennan, 8, and seven-year-old Carp resident Dillon Snasdell-Taylor announce a Children’s Choice Award for Playmobil’s Future Planet headquarters set, while below right, four-year-old Constance Bay resident Calyssa Dyck, left, cooks a pretend meal with Barrhaven’s Lyra Erhardt, 6, and Kanata’s Nathan Favreau, 2.

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Anderson, who partnered with John Collins Jiu-Jitsu,

said they wanted to tie in with Remembrance Day since it landed on the weekend.

“We wanted to do some-thing to tie into Remembrance Day,” said Collins. “It puts ev-erything in perspective.”

Anderson, an Ottawa South resident, taught a variety of self-defence strategies, in-cluding close-armed and close-quarter combat.

“I think this is a time of year when people have more thought to what people went through,” he said. “It’s our tribute to those who went through the war.”

Anderson said training had to be “quick and effective” in order for the troops to grasp and retain the lessons.

“The techniques are de-signed for the beginner,” he said. “It’s got to be simple; it’s got to be fast.”

Anderson fi rst became in-terested in the combat tech-niques after reading about a Second World War spy school in Oshawa, Ont.

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“I only know this much,” he said, holding his thumb and pointer fi nger close together, “of what they (the veterans) know.”

Julie Ethier said it’s im-portant these techniques are taught to the younger genera-tions or else they will be lost.

“It reminds me that World War II, that era, how little time ... they had to be trained for the situation,” she said. “It’s part of history that’s get-ting harder and harder to hang on to.”

As the veterans of the Sec-ond World War pass away, so too does their knowledge.

“If I don’t show this, it’s gone,” said Anderson, whose class also collected items for the Ottawa Food Bank. “These things disappear ... a part of our history disappears with it.”



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In the letter, Perry said the community association was aware of the concerns of the neighbouring residents about the impact of an east-end bridge at Kettle Island.

But it is the best location to reduce the fl ow of interprovin-cial traffi c fl owing through the Overbrook and King Edward communities, the letter stated.

The association added that in choosing Kettle Island as an option, mitigation measures are needed, such as noise barri-ers and pollution solutions for the neighbourhoods affected.

“We support this option with the proviso that the Na-tional Capital Commission and other bridge sponsors work to minimize the impacts of such a bridge on existing Ottawa and Gatineau commu-nities along the chosen route,” the letter said.

The association also wants to see a thorough study of pe-destrian and cycling routes, in-

cluding having a bridge solely for pedestrian and cycling traffi c and says that above all, an interprovincial bridge should incorporate transit, high-occupancy lanes, bicycle and broad sidewalks. They are also calling for fewer trucks in Ottawa’s downtown core,

“It is our association’s view that all development in the Na-tional Capital Region should be designed and where prac-ticable, retrofi tted to include priority provision for public transportation use,” Perry said in the letter.

The fi rm in charge of the in-terprovincial crossing environ-mental assessment – Roche-Genivar – has been examining three corridors: Kettle Island, Lower Duck and Gatineau Airport/McLaurin Bay. The company held its fi nal con-sultation regarding fi nding the technically preferred corridor in June.

The preferred corridor is expected to be announced be-fore the end of the year.

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A consultant who worked on the guidelines pointed out that there is currently no maximum distance for how far away from the building the owner can place waste receptacles.

“We’re trying to fi ll a void,” Rory Baksh said.

But Blais and Taylor said the distance is just one ex-ample of how a resident could be affected by the guidelines. The councillors worried that the list was aimed at pleasing city planners, developers and garbage collectors, but was not

as concerned with whether it would serve residents’ needs.

“It’s great to say it’s going to be more effi cient or more attractive to look at and all these things these guidelines talk about, but how is it going to impact Joe and Jane Ottawa resident who is going to use it?” Blais asked.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder said she was also concerned the guidelines are “too grandiose” and she wondered who would monitor the requirements to ensure they weren’t making it diffi cult to maintain hygiene.

“Are we really forgetting

about the bigger picture?” she asked.

Still, staff that worked on the project said without the guide-lines there will be a bigger problem in the future. Coun-cillors were satisfi ed with that and the planning committee approved the new guidelines with no changes.

If approved by full council, the guidelines would be used at the site-plan stage to guide developers and city staff on how to achieve the solid waste requirements for new multi-residential buildings such as apartments and townhomes.

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EMC news - The minute last year’s Parade of Lights was over, groups started thinking about how to design show-stopping fl oats for this year’s Nov. 24 parade.

“They have a look at all the other groups and sit there mesmerized by each other more than anything,” said Bob Rainboth, chairman for Santa’s Parade of Lights. “It creates a rivalry.”

Last year’s groups will be out to beat the 2011 grand champion, the Navan Lions Club. Awards were also given out to best band, elementary school, high school and Christ-mas spirit, among others.

Rainboth, a fi refi ghter in Orléans, organizes the parade with the Ottawa Professional Firefi ghters Association.

Now in its 15th year, the three-kilometre parade through Orléans attracts huge crowds, making it a family tradition for many.

Families come from all over the city and surrounding

towns to see the giant parade, Rainboth said.

Some groups put hundreds of hours into their elaborate fl oats, competing with one another for who can show up with the best spirit.

“Some people like to tinker year round,” he said. ‘Some peo-ple go hard for a week or two.”

Rainboth has been organiz-ing the evening parade ever since it started, and has seen its success grow.

Many groups return year after year, bringing new twists to their entries.

The fi refi ghters’ association has its own fl oat with snow-making machines, which chil-dren ride on while the fi re-fi ghters collect donations.

“(The snow) just fl ings out – it’s quite a showstopper,” he said.

As for other community fl oats?

“I don’t like to give secrets out,” Rainboth said, adding there was “a lot of really cool stuff coming.”

Firefi ghters will be col-lecting both new toys, with-out wrapping paper, and cash donations for Christmas presents for children in need. They have a partnership with toy wholesalers to purchase additional toys with the do-nations.

Olympic athletes Michael Tayler, Angus Mortimer, Ste-ven Jorens and Dominique Bosshart will serve as hon-orary parade marshals, with the Governor General’s Foot Guards and the Kemptville

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The parade will shut down St. Joseph Boulevard on Nov. 24 at 6 p.m. sharp, running from Youville Drive to Cen-trum Boulevard.

Because of the road clo-sures, parking and the large number of attendees, Rain-both recommended that peo-ple arrive between 5 and 5:30 p.m.

“After 5:30, the roads slowly start shutting down,” he said.

“Because of St. Joseph Boulevard being the way it is, it’s the perfect opportunity to grab a drink or get a bite to eat. By default, we’re helping the area.”

There is no fundraising goal, with organizers instead focused on bringing the com-munity together to get into the Christmas spirit.

“More than anything, I want people to come and be a part of this,” he said.

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Fleas, an annual external parasite, are mostly harmless. The biggest problem caused by fleas is itching. However, some pets or people may be allergic to flea saliva, which causes flea allergy dermatitis (super-itchy spots with hair-loss); young, sick or elderly pets can become anemic from too much blood loss.

These wingless insects are capable of jumping long distances. While cat and dog fleas prefer to feast on animal blood, they will turn to a human host if needed.

The life-cycle of a flea has four stages:

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If you do have a flea-infestation, it is important to treat the pet’s environment as well, to eliminate flea eggs and larvae.

There are many over-the-counter products that help solve flea problems such as flea sprays (both for the pet and environment), shampoos, or collars. While the costs may be lower for over-the-counter products ($5 to $30), they often need to be reapplied to solve a flea infestation.

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Why the long faces?Cathy Leeson of Kemptville takes in the exhibits at the Ottawa Pet Expo, held at the Ernst & Young Centre on Nov. 10, with basset hound brothers Baxter and Milo.


Nov. 22The Salvation Army Hope in the City Breakfast will take place on Nov. 22 from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Ottawa Convention Centre. The Hope In The City Breakfast marks the start of the Salvation Army’s Christ-mas fundraising campaign which raises funds to sup-port critical programs and services in our community. This year’s keynote speaker is social commentator and editorialist Rex Murphy. Tickets are $65; table of 10 is $500. To order tickets call 613-233-8428 ext. 221 or email [email protected].

Nov. 23-24Handel’s Messiah will be presented by St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, 130 Glebe Ave. near Bank Street at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings. Choirs with a professional orchestra and soloists Phyllis Knox, Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure and Philippe Sly. Music director Kirkland Adsett will perform. Enjoy Handel’s superb oratorio as a launch to the Christmas season in the intimate surroundings of a candlelit church. Advance purchase general admission tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students. Advance purchase reserved seating is $35 for adults and $25 for students. A $5 premium applies at the door. Purchase

online at www.stmatthewsottawa.ca or at the church on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 613-234-4024 for more information. Tickets are also on sale at Compact Music and CD Warehouse locations.

Nov. 24The Community Christian School will host its annual Christmas Craft and Gift Show on Nov. 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Com-munity Christian School at 2681 Glen St. in Metcalfe. The event features local busi-nesses and artisans offering a wide array of fabulous gift items that are sure to please even the most discerning in-dividuals on your gift list this Christmas. There will be a Christmas-cookie decorating station for children, as well as a canteen serving a delicious luncheon and refreshments for your enjoyment. Parking and admission are free.

The Ottawa Classical Choir presents an Enchanted Eve-ning with Julie and Maria on Saturday, Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper St. Tickets are available at CD Warehouse locations, Compact Music, Leading Note, Books on Beechwood and at www.ottawaclassicalchoir.com. Tickets for students are $25 and adults are $30 and for a reserved ticket the costs is

$35. For more information email [email protected] or go to the web-site www.ottawaclassicalchoir.com.

Rod Clipperton reads the Dylan Thomas classic A Child’s Christmas in Wales featuring seasonal music performed by Robert Pal-mai, organ, soprano Marya Woyiwada, Canterbury High School’s Vocum and the Canterbury Trebles on Sat., Nov. 24, at 4 p.m. at the Glebe St. James United Church. Tickets are $15 for adults. Children age 10 to 12 are free, but donations are welcome. Tickets area available through the Church, Compact Music stores and at the door. Net proceeds to the Acquired Brain Injury pro-gram at the Ottawa Hospital’s Rehabilitation Centre in Allison Woyiwada’s honour. For more information, email [email protected] or call 613-235-4144.

Nov. 27Are you between 13 and 17 years old? Come and join the Orléans Teen Ski Club this winter for some great ski-ing and snowboarding. The club is a community based non-profi t ski club run by volunteers for the benefi t of our members. Check us out at www.otsc.ca for membership benefi ts and outings. Regis-tration night is at 7 p.m. at the Ray Friel Complex on Tenth Line Road. Please contact Ed Geier at 613-834-8794 or Jim Yip at 613-830-6402 for more details.

Nov. 29Ottawa Independent Writers monthly meeting will take place on Nov. 29 on 7 p.m. at Library and Archives Canada, Room 156, 395 Wellington St. The meeting will look at Humour in Writing – When and How to Use It; When to Avoid It. Author and current Ottawa East EMC columnist Charles Gordon will discuss the uses and abuses of humour in writing. Tickets for guests are $10. For more information please call, 613-731-3873 or www.oiw.ca.

Nov. 30The Christmas Hamper Project of Ottawa is appeal-ing to the community for donations of toilet paper, diapers, powdered milk and soup. Because some holiday wish lists are more basic than others, the Christmas Hamper Project of Ottawa is now signing up donors. Adopt a hamper for someone who will be alone during the holidays, or for a family. Contribute as an individual, a family, a department or workplace. For more infor-mation see www.christmashamperproject.com. Adop-tion deadline is Nov. 30.

Nov. 30 – Dec. 1: Bethlehem Live at Trinity Bible Church. The church is presenting an outstanding special live Christmas ex-perience on Friday, Nov. 30 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 4 to 8 p.m. For more information, please call 613-826-2444 or visit www.trinitybiblechurch.ca.

The Greely Players presents Christmas in the Village: A musical celebration of Christmas on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Adult and youth choirs will offer Christian and popular music, dramatic readings, solos, humor and an opportunity to join in singing some Christmas carols. There will also be a silent auction. The event takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. at Parkway Road Pentecostal Church in Greely. Tickets $10 (age fi ve and un-der free), available at the door or by calling 613-826-3680 or 613-821-1756.

Dec. 1The Annual Fisher Park Community Centre Christmas craft show and sale. More than 100 vendors offer unique handcrafted items. Local charities include Bicycles for Humanity, Guatemala Stove Project, Causeway, the Tabitha Foundation, Church Groups and Child Crafters. This event is held in Fisher Park School, 250 Holland Ave. on Dec. 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free admis-

sion, free parking at the front of the school on Holland Avenue and at the back of the school on Harmer Avenue. Food and drinks are avail-able. For information call 613 798-8945.

The Christmas gift and craft show at the Greely Legion runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 1. Free admission and parking. Free gift bag with donation in support of the Osgoode Ward food cupboard. Photo with Santa, $5. Pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Shop locally for all your Christmas needs.

St. Catherine Santa Breakfast and silent auction takes place Saturday, Dec. 1 from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Metcalfe Community Centre and Larry Robinson Arena. To donate auction items or for more information, please contact St. Catherine parent council at [email protected].

Breakfast with Santa with the Cumberland Lions Club at Maple Hall, 2552 Old Montreal Rd. from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost for the pecial Christmas breakfast menu is $6 for adults and free for children, with the donation of a gift. You can be Santa’s helper, and help him fi ll his toy sack. Non-perish-able food items will also be accepted. Special activities for the children throughout the morning and live musical entertainment. In the spirit of giving, we will be accepting gifts and donations on behalf of the Orléans -Cumberland Community Resource Centre. Visit www.cumberlandlions.ca for details.

Christmas Farmers’ Market from 9 a..m. to 4 p.m. at 1115 Dunning Rd. and 2557 Old Montreal Rd., in the hall at St. Andrew’s United Church. More than 60 local vendors bring you a wide variety of food products and artisan goods. The Vintage Christ-mas Village of Lights will also be opening starting from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum. Horse-drawn wagon rides, visits with Santa, light dis-plays and more. Information:

www.cumberlandfarmersmarket.ca or 613-833-2635.

Dec. 2The rededication of Parkdale United Church sanctuary doors will take place on Dec. 2. Parkdale recently had a fi re at the southwest corner of the main sanctuary. The doors and part of the brick wall were destroyed. Since then, repairs, restoration and replacement of the doors have been completed. On Dec. 2, during the morning worship service, Dr. Bailey will conduct a ceremony rededicating the new doors to the Glory of God. The local neighbourhood, which helped to support the restoration efforts, will be invited to the ceremony. All are welcome. Parkdale Church is located 429 Parkdale Avenue.

Alta Vista Carol Sing at 7 p.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 1758 Alta Vista Dr. in support of the Heron Emergency Food Centre. Two large choirs, the Choeur du Moulin and the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Choir, will be accompanied by the Ottawa Wind Ensemble. They will be joined by Fraser Rubens, tenor soloist. Inter-spersed with the performance will be carol-singing for all to join in. Admission is free with collection baskets for voluntary monetary donations to the HEFC.

Dec. 8A Christmas Carol will be performed by John D. Huston as Charles Dickens on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. at Glebe-St. James United Church, located at 650 Lyon St South. Enjoy this critically acclaimed solo theatrical version as Huston brings all the characters to life and pro-vides the narration. Seasonal refreshments and treats will be served during the inter-mission. Tickets available through the Glebe-St. James Church offi ce from Tuesday through Friday. Contact the church at 613-236-0617. Tickets are also available at Compact Music, located at 785 Bank St., and at the door. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for children and under and $60 for a family of two adults and up to three chil-dren 12 and under. Proceeds will support the church’s building fund.

Dec. 22St. Columba Church, located at at 24 Sandridge Rd. in Manor Park, will host its annual sale of fresh holly, jams, jellies and baked goods on Dec. 22 starting at 10 a.m. For more information please call 613-749-5103.


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per packl’emb.

Shampoo or conditioner

Shampooing ou revitalisant, Dandruff shampoo

Shampooing antipelliculaire

2$5for pour

PER3 CUSTOMER

Bottled meal replacement Substitut de repas en bouteille,

For people with diabetesPour personnes diabétiques

PER CUSTOMER3

PER CUSTOMER3

PER CUSTOMER3

UNITS PER CUSTOMER6

for pour

ALWAYSSelected feminine pads and panty shields Serviettes hygiéniques et protège-dessous sélectionnés

Air fresheners

- Stick / bâton, 170 g- Spray / vapo., 227 g

Spray / vapo., 226 g

Stick / bâton, 212 g

UNITS PER4 CUSTOMER

OLAYSelected facial care products Soins visage sélectionnés

Details / détails p. 2

ea. ch.

Saturday and Sunday, NOVEMBER 24 and 25

Samedi et dimanche 24 et 25 NOVEMBRE

with the purchase of products

à l’achat de produits

3$10for pour

Alkaline batteriesPiles alcalinesAA x 4, AAA x 2, C x 2, D x 2, 9v x 1

UNITS PER CUSTOMER6

ONT.

Fruit cocktailCocktail aux fruits, 1 L

OASISFruit juice /jus de fruits

, (Exception : Premium)Pack of

PER CUSTOMER2

Soft drink Boisson gazeuse

2 L

PER CUSTOMER3

On November 23 and after

November 24Le 23 novembre

et après le 24 novembre

WHITE SWANFacial tissuesPapiers-mouchoirsBox of

UNITS PER CUSTOMER6 3$13$1for pour

DOVESoap bars / pains de savon

4 x 90 g

3$103$10for pour

499499per pack

l’emb.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24 ONLYSAMEDI 24 NOVEMBRE SEULEMENT

UNITS PER CUSTOMER6

99¢ea. ch.

99¢ea. ch.

79¢ea. ch.

PER CUSTOMER3

Bathroom tissueRolls Papier hygiéniqueRouleaux

Regular / régulier , 2412

3-ply3 épaisseurs 12

Laundry detergent

1.47 LPacs

Sachets 24

PER CUSTOMER3 399ea. ch.

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The joys of eating despite

diabetesIf you are living with diabetes, you are well aware of how diet directly in influences blood glucose control (sugar levels in the blood). Did you know that there are many ways to reduce the calories and sugar in your diet without depriving you of the joys of eating? Here are a few examples:

manufacturer’s labels. You will find helpful information on the product’s content, including calories and carbohydrates;

vegetables to your plate;

use a lot of colours and flavours;

prepare healthy meals, plan ahead! Delicious nutritional supplements such as Glucerna and Nutribar Type 2 bars are specially formulated for people with diabetes who want a healthy snack that won’t interfere with their blood glucose levels;

drinks or recipes, replace sugar or brown sugar with a sweetener proven to be safe for people living with diabetes, such as products by Splenda.

Making small dietary changes can sometimes have a big impact on your health. Your pharmacist is always there to advise you on how to better control your blood glucose.

COMPLETE FLYER ALWAYS AVAILABLE IN STORE

CIRCULAIRES COMPLÈTESTOUJOURS DISPONIBLES EN SUCCURSALES

Luc ChainéPharmacist Owner262 ch. Montreal,

Vanier, Ontario 613-741-5050

R00

1175

2608

Ottawa East EMC

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