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The controversial ‘Great Coyote Cull Contest’ wrapped up in Osgoode on March 15, but local and provincial wildlife protec-tion groups are still waiting on the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to fi nd out if the contest and others like it are even legal in the fi rst place.

Public outcry against the contest began at the end of 2010 when the Osgoode Town-

ship Fish and Game Conservation Club be-gan advertising the contest, which allowed hunters already trapping and hunting coyotes to enter a draw to win a Mossberg shotgun. Although club president Gord At-kinson repeatedly defended the contest in the media, noting in an offi cial statement that coyote season is open year-round and there are currently no limits on how many a hunter can kill, the Ontario Wildlife Co-alition has called the contest’s legality into question with the ministry, because the

Fish and Wildlife Act states it is illegal to hunt for gain. The group has sent four let-ters through their lawyer since December 2010, and so far has received no response.

“It really confi rms that it is illegal, be-cause if it weren’t they’d be standing be-hind it,” said Donna DuBreuil, an Ottawa resident and a volunteer with the coalition. She said the coalition won’t stop pressing the issue even though the competition is over.

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SOUTH EDITION: Serving Riverside South, Hunt Club, Blossom Park and surrounding communities

MORE TIMEFamily and friends of Alex Hayes, who was killed by a drunk driver, are asking for stiffer penalties af-ter Samira Daoud received a six-year prison sentence.

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REDIRECTING TRAFFICThe fi rst in a three-part series by Ottawa This Week examines how the Strandherd-Armstrong bridge will change traffi c patterns.

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TENNIS STARBlossom Park native Gabriela Dab-rowski was ranked fi fth last year as a junior, but now in a more competitive circuit, the young athlete has to prove her mettle on the court.

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BRIDLEWOOD ST. PATTY’S DAYMargaret Mulvihill (front) and Josie McCarvill enjoy an afternoon of Irish songs, jokes and stories on St. Patrick’s Day at Bridlewood Retire-ment Residence in Blossom Park. The Jim Glover Bytown Band entertained residents and their families with old-time songs such as Danny Boy and My Wild Irish Rose.

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A bungalow in Blossom Park was se-verely damaged after a fi re broke out in the basement and quickly moved through the rest of the house on the afternoon of Monday, March 21.

According to neighbours, it was a vol-unteer fi refi ghter who made the 911 call around 12:24 p.m. Monday after seeing smoke pouring out of 1494 Kingsdale Ave., just off Albion Road.

Neighbour Joe Ianni said an elderly lady lives in the home by herself, but she had gone out around 9:30 a.m. She came home around 1:30 p.m. to a ravaged home, he said.

Ianni, who captured most of the event on his cell phone, said he saw 4.5-metre fl ames shooting out of the back bedroom windows.

Fire department spokesman Marc Messier said the fi re started in the base-ment and spread to the attic.

“Heavy fl ames and smoke were coming out the rear bedrooms windows on the main fl oor when fi refi ghters arrived,” he added.

By the time the fi re was out, most win-dows had been smashed and the roof had been opened up.

No one was hurt in the incident. Mess-ier said the cause of the fi re is under in-vestigation.

Blossom Park fi redestroys single home

Photo by Emma JacksonA bungalow at 1494 Kingsdale Ave. was destroyed after a fi re broke out in the basement and quickly spread through the rest of the house. No one was hurt in the fi re.

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An Ottawa soldier killed two years ago in Afghanistan is one step closer to being immortalized in Riverside South, after Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches put up signs marking the fu-ture spot of Brian Good Avenue.

Barrhaven resident Trooper Brian Good left behind a wife and two teenaged daughters when he was killed by an im-provised explosive device in Afghanistan in January 2009. Last week, Desroches erected two large signs on Earl Armstrong Drive between Spratt and River roads in Riverside South that read “Future Avenue – Lest We Forget” with an image of the fu-ture street sign bearing his name.

The road is slated for construction around 2012, depending on how devel-opment progresses in the rapidly grow-ing suburb. Desroches said he wanted to start commemorating the soldier as soon as possible.

“I was concerned that that road was still several years away so I took the ini-tiative to have the city develop some tem-porary signs that would honour Trooper Brian Good and his sacrifi ce,” Desroches

said, noting that local developer Urban-dale partnered with the City of Ottawa to cover the approximately $500 it cost to make the temporary signs.

The trooper’s wife Sandra Good, who still lives in Barrhaven with 17-year-old daughter Jessica and 15-year-old Kayla, said she hasn’t seen the signs yet but ex-pects it will cause a mixed reaction for her and her family.

“It’s sad on one point because it brings back the loss, but also he would be so proud. He wanted to serve his country and he was very proud of the work he was doing, so he would be very honoured,” she said. “It’s just really nice, especially for my girls, to see that their dad wasn’t just forgotten.”

Sandra Good fi rst participated in com-memorating her late husband at a cer-emony in November 2009 where the city announced plans for the road sign.

“It’s quite touching, me and the girls were just thrilled. Of course we want to honour his memory in this way,” she said, noting that they will likely visit the temporary signs as a family in the near future, as an act of remembrance. “We’ll all go together, and be there for support.”

Desroches said the road will be similar to Spratt Road, with residences backing onto it and some commercial development.

“Certainly a lot of people will see the street and recognize the sign,” he said.

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Photo by Emma JacksonNew signs demark the coming of Brian Good Avenue, named for a local soldier who was killed in Afghanistan in January 2009.

Brian Good Avenue becoming a reality in Riverside South

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DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN

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Family and friends of Greely resident Alex Hayes have been searching for answers since he was killed by a drunk driver.

That struggle will continue, stepfather Mark Lesaux said, af-ter the driver was sentenced in an Ottawa courtroom on March 18.

Samira Daoud, 41, was sen-tenced to six years behind bars for impaired driving causing death, plus 30 days concurrent for a breach of probation.

Ontario Court Justice Cé-lynne Dorval also barred Daoud from driving for 10 years.

“I’m not happy with the deci-sion,” Lesaux said. “As far as I’m concerned when you decide to get behind the wheel and drive, it’s like a loaded gun. It should be considered murder.

“When you kill somebody and take somebody’s life, how can you justify six years of jail… my son’s gone for life. I just don’t understand the logic.”

Daoud was driving at over three times the legal limit when she hit Hayes on Sept. 9. Hayes was cycling home on Bank Street – just south of Mitch Ow-ens Road – shortly after he left his shift at MacKinnon’s Food-land at 9 p.m.

His body wasn’t found un-til just after midnight the next morning, after being thrown nearly 40 metres from the spot of the collision. Investigators believe Hayes was killed instan-taneously.

Lesaux said both his wife Pen-ny – Hayes’s mom – and his son Shane, 14, could not face return-ing to court after hearing some of the facts during the last hear-ing on Feb. 28.

“I think it’s giving people the wrong impression,” Lesaux said of the sentence. “It’s telling people that it’s OK to drink and drive and kill.”

The crown had sought a jail term of seven to 10 years, while the defence countered with three to six.

Daoud pleaded guilty to im-paired driving causing death on Dec. 15. Dorval said the guilty plea was an “important mitigat-ing factor” in her decision.

“I accept that she is genuinely remorseful for her actions,” she said.

Lesaux said he was skeptical of her remorse because he saw Daoud wave and smile to her family members. She sat in the prisoner’s box wearing a white shirt and grey pants and mostly covered her mouth and chewed her fi ngernails.

In her reasoning for her ver-dict, Dorval cited precedents ranging from four years for a person with an exemplary

background to eight years for a youthful offender who caused the death of three people.

Dorval then outlined 10 ag-gravating factors:

• Daoud has a prior criminal record for impaired driving from August 2006, and has 13 total counts of breach of court orders – mostly alcohol-related.

• She was on probation at the time of the collision.

• She was supposed to abstain from consumption of alcohol.

• She was driving with a sus-pended licence, having been so since July 1999.

• Her blood alcohol was nearly three times the legal limit and she was unresponsive and rude to police offi cers.

• She told police she had no idea she had hit anyone. (Be-cause of the distance Hayes had travelled when he was hit, Dor-val felt was “further evidence of her intoxication.”)

• She was offered a ride home and chose to drive.

• She had open alcohol in her vehicle.

• She was driving erratically as evident by numerous 911 calls on Sept. 9.

• She has shown an inability to sustain sobriety.

Dorval said Daoud’s “hor-rendous childhood” was consid-ered. She was born in a small village in Ethiopia, publically circumcised at a young age, was wed through an arranged mar-

riage to a much older man when she was 12. She was required to take care of her nine siblings and was repeatedly raped as a young woman.

“The Court does not condone, but understands why she is ad-dicted to alcohol,” she said. “Once again, however, I must distinguish the addiction to al-cohol from the act of driving.

“The nature and frequency of Ms. Daoud’s contacts with the police over alcohol-related issues do show that when she

relapses, she drinks to such ex-cess that she poses a danger for herself and others. She chose to drive her vehicle and put other lives at risk. That decision is independent of her addiction to alcohol. Her actions in this con-text carry a high level of moral blameworthiness.”

HAYES SUPPORTERS ASKED TO REMOVE SLOGANS

Prior to Dorval entering the courtroom, friends and family

were asked to remove or cover their “More time for the Crime” T-shirts, which they had also worn at the last appearance.

She called the shirts “inap-propriate.”

“This is akin to a political protest in the courtroom, in the same manner as if they had at-tempted to hold up placards, which would never have been permitted,” she said. “Given the sensitivity of this cause and the trauma suffered by the victim’s family, I chose not to ask them to leave the courtroom (on Feb. 28).

“This type of demonstration should never occur again.”

While Dorval said only the court facts played into her rul-ing, she said the horrendous impact that Hayes’s death has had on his family and the com-munity played into the ruling.

“The number of citizens who chose to attend the sentencing hearing, in support of the fam-ily, refl ects the community’s in-terest in the court’s decision on sentencing,” Dorval said.

Hayes’s aunt Sue Hosson said Penny has been overwhelmed by the support of the Greely community. She has also since undergone counselling.

“Any mother can relate to los-ing their children,” she said. “It’s such a tragedy.”

A tragedy the immediate fam-ily is still trying to cope with.

“I wanted to scream,” Lesaux said when he fi rst heard the sen-tence.

“It brings a little bit of clo-sure, it’s never going to go away. I walk by his bedroom every day, I see his pictures every day. The feelings are never going to go away. I’m always going to be lost without him. That’s never going to change anything.

“I’m scarred for life. My fami-ly’s scarred for life.”

Woman gets six years for Greely hit-and-run

Photo by Daniel Nugent-Bowman Mark Lesaux, stepfather of Alex Hayes, comforts Hayes’s brother Logan Deliabio outside the Ottawa court-house on Elgin Street on March 18. Samira Daoud was sentenced to six years in jail for impaired driving causing death after killing Hayes on Sept. 9.

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Friends and family of Alex Hayes are determined to have his death signify a change in the legal system.

Almost 1,000 people have joined the Facebook group “more time for the crime...alex hayes,” with some members vowing to write their local MPs and MPPs in an attempt to see tougher sentences levied against impaired drivers who cause death.

On March 18, Samira Daoud, 41, was sentenced to six years in prison for killing the 16-year-old Greely resident last fall.

Many in attendance signed a petition after the verdict.

“It landed exactly where I thought it would,” Hayes’s aunt Sue Hosson said. “I didn’t expect to come here and feel relief.”

As Hosson and others – namely Hayes’s stepfather Mark Lesaux who is calling for a maximum sentence – pre-pare to lobby federal and pro-vincial politicians in advances of future elections, she admits she has another thought on her mind.

Hosson added she is con-cerned for students at Hayes’s school, the Ottawa Technical Learning Centre, and plans to make a presentation to them in the near future regarding sub-stance abuse.

Hosson stressed that she is not upset at Daoud, given her

addiction to alcohol because of her bad upbringing.

“Sentencing is not the only issue, it’s the addiction,” she said. “Nobody wins here today, including Samira’s family.

“She (Daoud) has to live with that guilt for the rest of her life.”

Hosson said she understood Ontario Court Justice Célynne Dorval’s decision to disallow the “More Time for the Crime” T-Shirts at the March 18 sen-tencing, despite the fact people were allowed to wear them at the previous hearing.

She felt their message was felt on Feb. 28.

“This little thing accom-plished quite a bit,” Hosson said.

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The National Capital Com-mission’s new sound and light show on Parliament Hill was recognized by several leading Canadian organizations last week.

The show, called Mosaika: Canada Through the Eyes of Its People, received recognition from Canadian e-Tourism, Fes-tivals and Events Ontario and the Boomerang Awards for both quality and creativity of the show and its promotional pro-grams and materials.

“Productions such as Mo-saika, which reach out to all Ca-nadians on multiple platforms, serve to refl ect in the Capital Region and throughout all of Canada, our shared history, cul-ture and achievements,” Marie Lemay, chief executive offi cer of the NCC, said in a statement.

“We are delighted to see Mosaika recognized by these premiere Canadian organiza-tions.”

The free bilingual show launched last year is present-ed nightly from July through

September.The Canadian e-Tourism

Awards, presented by the Cana-dian e-Tourism Council, recog-nized Mosaika with an award for the best innovative use of technology.

The show received a pair of awards from Festivals and Events Ontario for best promo-tional campaign and best poster. Each year, the non-profi t orga-

nization honours the best prac-tices in the province’s festivals and events industry.

Mosaika also won a Boomer-ang award for best interactive technology. The 16th edition of the annual awards was orga-nized by Infopresse and honours the best in interactive market-ing technology.

The show is a 30 minute pre-sentation that tells the story of

Canada with a moving narra-tive and projections onto Parlia-ment’s Centre Block.

It uses lighting effects, ani-mated projections and a tapes-try of words, music and sounds to tell the tale.

“The awards are a great recog-nition of this incredible produc-tion and its promotional prod-ucts,” said NCC spokeswoman Denise LeBlanc.

LeBlanc added that in addi-tion to having the show on Par-liament Hill, something NCC has done for 25 years, they have also had pre-shows that people across the country were able to be part of.

By logging onto www.mo-saika-sl.ca, visitors can create videos or post messages that are considered for integration into the pre-show, which is updated regularly throughout the sum-mer with these contributions. Those who record a video on the website are able to view their messages online — digitally pro-jected on “virtual Parliament Buildings” — with the chance of having them projected on the real ones on the evening of a show.

“People have really been en-thusiastic to sharing their mem-ories about Canada and their feelings towards their country,” said LeBlanc.

According to NCC, last year’s edition drew record-breaking numbers and was seen by over 1.2 million spectators.

The NCC says Mosaika will be back this year from July 6 to Sept. 5 on Parliament Hill.

NCC Parliament Hill light show scoops four awards

Submitted photoMosaika is a 30 minute presentation that tells the story of Canada with a moving narrative and projections onto Parliament’s Centre Block.

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In the never-ending lead-up to the completion of the Strand-herd-Armstrong bridge, sched-uled for March 2012, the vast structure has been lauded for the impacts it’s expected to have during peak-time traffi c.

But while the bridge should pay immediate dividends to res-idents in Riverside South and Barrhaven, those in neighbour-ing Manotick aren’t expecting similar results.

Construction began on the 141-metre-long overpass – which some critics have branded a bridge that runs “from nowhere to nowhere” – in fall 2010. The $48-million Building Canada project, split equally between the three levels of government, has been nearly 20 years in the making and started as an idea to link the City of Nepean (now Barrhaven) and the City of Gloucester (now Riverside South).

The six lanes of traffi c – two bus lanes, two cycling lanes, and pair of recreational paths – are also supposed to take traf-fi c off of the Hunt Club bridge and Manotick’s Bridge Street bridge. The city review is call-ing for a 25 to 28 per cent traffi c reduction during peak hours on Bridge Street.

However, one year away from completion, not everyone sees it that way.

Manotick Village and Com-munity Association president Brian Tansley said much of the traffi c congestion in the village is caused by transport trucks com-ing from Montreal. The trucks aim to bypass Highway 417 in Ottawa by exiting at Boundary Road and heading west, using Manotick as the quickest access point to Highway 416.

Given that Manotick is es-sentially a straight line west-ward, with only two small turns onto Manotick Main Street and Bankfi eld Road, truckers are likely to continue to head over Bridge Street.

“Unless there’s something se-rious on Bridge Street to calm the traffi c to otherwise dissuade or discourage the transport trucks from using the bridge, the 25 to 28 per cent reduction in traffi c on Bridge Street will ac-

crue,” Tansley said.“I think you might actually

see an increase in transport trucks. But I hope I’m dead wrong about that. It’s dangerous enough walking as a pedestrian on Bridge Street now.”

Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt is in agreement with Tansley.

“I am skeptical on that because I’m extremely familiar with the road and I know that the majority of traffi c comes from the through traffi c from Boundary Road,” Moffatt said, adding that the city will conduct a study on the new bridge’s effectiveness once it’s built. “Nothing’s going to change that. It doesn’t take a rocket scien-tist to look at a map and see that Manotick is the shortest point be-tween the two major roads.

“I’m hopeful that we do get some good results and it allevi-ates some of the pressure for the long term. Then we’ll have to look at more long-term op-tions to really address the prob-lems on Bridge Street.”

Tansley said those problems will only intensify in the com-ing years.

Manotick Villa on the Rideau, a retirement residence, is slated to open on the street in late 2012. The villa will have 126 rooms, 41 underground parking spots and 11 surface area spaces.

Additionally, phase one of a fi ve-part Minto development will begin in the spring, which will add 210 homes in the vil-lage. In total, 1,400 homes are expected to be built within the next decade.

Tansley estimates at least 2,500 more cars will be on the roads as a result.

“It’ll be right back up to the unacceptable level that it’s at now, even if the Strandherd-Armstrong bridge works,” he

said. “It’s not really a solution for us. It’ll be better than noth-ing if it works, but if it doesn’t it’ll be a disaster.”

Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre, however, feels the bridge will help limit the traffi c in Manotick. He said city num-bers indicate 500 less vehicles will be on Bridge Street during peak hours.

“For Manotick it’s about re-ducing traffi c in the village,” Poilievre said. “Right now, south of Hunt Club, there’s no way to get across the river without go-ing through Manotick. A lot of trucks are winding their way through the narrow streets of the village to try and get them-selves across the river. That causes some congestion, par-ticularly at the corner of Bridge Street and Main Street.”

River Ward Coun. Maria McRae, whose southern commu-nities suffer from very congest-ed peak hour traffi c along Hunt Club Road, said the new bridge will have a signifi cant impact on the Hunt Club overpass.

“Residents of Riverside South and Barrhaven will no longer have to go north to cross the riv-er. So you eliminate any driver who went north just to cross the bridge. A lot of them are going to end up going south to the 416, so fundamentally we’re going to change traffi c patterns just by building that bridge.”

Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches said he’s looking forward to how the bridge will tie Ottawa South

communities closer together. “This is really about binding

my ward. I’m one of the few councillors who has to leave his ward to get from one end to the other. This is about connecting two communities,” he said. “Re-ally the option of not having a bridge is not sustainable. Hav-ing a bridge would serve the growth that we’re experiencing right now and will experience in the future.”

Desroches added that the bridge will allow better access for emergency vehicle drivers who currently rely on the same congested bridges that residents

do, and will make for more ef-fi cient transit routes that can connect to the southwest transit way in Barrhaven rather than having to go all the way to the southeast transit way in South Keys.

“Our city’s history is a his-tory of bridges, because of the river networks that crisscross the capital,” Deroches said. “We rely on bridges to connect our community, and they’re needed to connect our transit networks.”

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In the fi rst of a three-part series examining the effects of the new Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge, Ottawa This Week looks at the impact the bridge will a have on area traffi c patterns. Next week’s installment will look at how it will affect school boundaries.

Manotick unlikely to reap Strandherd-Armstrong reward

Image from Google MapsA city review is calling for a 25 to 28 per cent reduction in traffi ce along Manotick Bridge Street during peak hours once the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge is complete.

‘Fundamentally we’re going to change traffi c patterns just by building that bridge.’

Maria McRae

River Ward Coun.Photo by Emma Jackson

Crews are already on site working to construct the Strandherd-Arm-strong Bridge, which is slated to open March 2012.

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The Riverside South Commu-nity Association is looking for volunteers to act as “street reps” in an effort to better serve the rapidly growing community.

After a two-year gap with-out a street rep co-ordinator, Riverside South resident Ayn Benfaida has taken over the role, and held an introductory meeting on March 15 to gather the community’s current street representatives and kick start a campaign to fi nd more volun-teers.

She said out of approximate-ly 55 to 60 streets in Riverside South, only 23 currently have street reps. Some of the larger streets are split into sections, so the association is hoping to fi nd about 40 new volunteers.

Benfaida said a street rep’s role is simple, but important.

“A street rep is someone that the community can turn to for anything that might affect their street and the community. So we

use it as a formal link between the community association and the residents,” she explained, noting information can pass in both directions – either from

the association to the residents, or vice versa. “If there’s a com-munity issue we can identify the streets that will be affected and bring feedback to the asso-

ciation, so we have a good feel for how residents feel about things.”

Benfaida said another job of the street rep is to make sure residents are aware of the asso-ciation in the fi rst place.

“Because there is a lot of new development in the community, a lot of people don’t even know that we have a community as-sociation,” she explained. “The street rep may be going door to door and notifying people that we do have an association, and talking about the types of events we put on and the benefi ts of be-ing a member.”

Benfaida said current street reps will be fanning out to va-cant streets in the coming weeks to recruit for new volunteers. Larger streets such as Canyon Walk and Shoreline drives do not have street reps, along with a host of smaller streets in the neighbourhood. For a complete list of vacancies or to volunteer, residents can visit the associa-tion website at www.riverside-south.org .


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In what other country are there four distinct seasons to celebrate and complain about? I love living in Canada.

Summer is gorgeous, of course, with its hedonistic heat and its moody storms.

Autumn is my favourite season – many people fi nd the waning of the summer sun depressing but I fi nd the cooler weather invigorating and the refracted sunlight beautiful.

I’ve seen over 40 winters come and go, yet I still have my breath taken away by the beauty of the fi rst fresh blanket of snow, every year.

And now, enter spring. Did you know that green

has a smell? The green of springtime certainly does. It’s the scent of new life pushing its way up through the melt, coaxed along by the warm rays of the sun. The tulips and daffo-dils in the farmhouse fl owerbed are just starting to push spears up through the earth. The lilies will perk up next, then the al-lium, and fi nally the big hosta

leaves will unfurl. I get the urge to stir things up

in springtime – to start a new exercise regime (I mucked out the horse stall and took the dog for a walk all in one afternoon!), cut my hair and try out a new recipe for salsa. This year I’m also looking for work, so there are lots of new beginnings.

The Spring Equinox arrived on Sunday, March 20, at 11:23 p.m. So did the sign of Aries. Maybe that is why I feel so energized and renewed. My birthday calendar is about to fl ip over too. Our daylight hours and night time hours are about equal, and everyone seems to be in a better mood than they were a month ago. Spring fever is contagious.

I think the Farmer and I have conceded that Misty is not preg-nant. Her summer fl ing with the Belgian stud, Prince, was just that. A fl ing. The Farmer measured her belly one day, and it had reduced in size the next week. Her belly isn’t growing – she just has an extra-fl uffy coat of winter fur and she bloats when she eats a lot of grain. But she isn’t expecting.

We might send our horse to be trained, fi nally, so we can ride her. That’s what I would like to do, anyway. Otherwise she is just a big pet. Maybe we can get her to help pull some logs out of the bush too. She likes to have a purpose.

The ewes have about a month to go before they begin giving birth. The sheep salon will be open for business shortly, so that we can get them all sheared before their due dates. We’re waiting as long as possible, be-cause we will have to keep the ewes in the barn once they are shorn – otherwise they might catch a chill. When we (gently) tackle them for a shearing we will also give them each a shot of selenium to guard against white-muscle disease in their young. We are getting smart and learning from the previous year’s lessons.

I hope the Farmer agrees to let me try my hand at shear-ing. I will have to wear gloves because I am allergic to the lanolin in the wool, but I think I am strong enough to hold the sheep down. Anyway, you just have to cover the ewe’s head with your leg and she gives up the fi ght and plays dead.

It’s got to be easier than plucking a goose. And less smelly.

This is starting to get exciting DIANA FISHER

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Nostalgia, as they always say, is not what it used to be. In fact, it is becoming bigger.

We used to think of nostal-gia as having to do with big cars with tail fi ns, the Cold War and dance bands on Saturday night. Now, as our society changes at a rapid clip, more and more things we used to think of as the latest thing are heading for nostalgia land.

The printed book, perhaps.Maybe the daily newspaper, at least on

paper.Look what is already there: television

sets that are too heavy to carry, VCRs, CDs and – suddenly – video stores. Remember the chain video store on the corner? Look again.

Your grandchildren won’t remember them. And here’s a question: will they have any memory of baseball?

Various events bring this thought on. The days are suddenly long and with that comes an urge to play outside after supper. Mind you, this being Ottawa, playing outside would mean playing in the slush, but still, it could be baseball any day now.

At a gathering of a particularly in-tense group of fans the other night, an audio tape of an old baseball game was playing.

Remember audio tape?It was a Montreal Expos game played

in the early autumn of 1986, the last game with Duke Snider in the broadcast booth. Snider, a great outfi elder and a great broadcaster, died late last month. You don’t have to be ridiculously old to remember when the voices of Snider and Dave Van Horne, calling the Expos games on Ottawa’s country music sta-tion, were the sound of summer.

Snider went away in 1986. The Expos went away in the season of 2005. Only country music radio seems to have thrived.

You can’t say the same for baseball, especially in this country. The Expos are gone. The Blue Jays have not been draw-ing anything like the crowds they did in the last millennium.

What used to be known as the Lynx

Stadium has no Lynx in it. Baseball there fi ghts for survival while the park-ing lot shrinks.

In our neighbourhood, the park across the street, which used to be busy with Little League ball every night, now has soccer (and a terrifying array of mini-vans parked beside it).

It is true that huge salaries are still made by baseball players south of the border and huge profi ts are made by owners and broadcasters and the people who resell tickets on the Internet. But the ordinary person has lost the ability to identify with millionaires and bil-lionaires, particularly when the behav-iour of many of them has been less than exemplary. Their pictures are not taped onto kids’ bedroom walls.

Worse than the lack of adulation is the lack of emulation. Kids still want to be Sidney Crosby. Do they want to be Roy Halliday?

The game won’t survive if people don’t play it. Even in the U.S., there are signs that young athletes are turning to basketball or football, rather than baseball. Here it is hockey, of course, and, increasingly, soccer, and, even more increasingly, stuff kids play while sit-ting in front of a computer screen.

It is not fun to consider baseball as some-

thing we used to do, like square dancing or renting videos. The game, while consid-ered too slow by some and not violent enough by others, has many qualities that other games lack. Unlike hockey, it has no clutch-and-grab, no headshots. Unlike football, coaches do not send in the plays.

Oddly, athletes and fans in other coun-tries are fi nding this out, while baseball edges into nostalgia in North America. In Asia and Latin America, particularly, baseball is hot.

Here, we miss the Expos and we miss what used to be the enthusiasm for the Blue Jays. We miss seeing kids in the park across the way learning how to fi eld ground balls. The nostalgia grows as the days get longer.

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Remember tail fi ns? Remember baseball?

Forget, for one minute, that a six-year prison sentence seems too light for a drunk driver re-sponsible for killing a teenager – especially one who was returning home from a job he used to fi nancially assist his mother.

It goes without saying, justice will never be served when it comes to the death of Greely resident Alex Hayes.

Yet family and friends of Hayes undoubtedly have a point that the legal system offers penal-ties that are far too lenient against impaired drivers who cause death.

But all they can do is accept the sentence levied against Samira Daoud – the 41-year-old woman responsible for Hayes’s death – and try to plot a course to lobby politicians to encourage stricter punishments in the future.

Ontario Court Justice Célynne Dorval cited jail terms starting at four years for a person with an exemplary background to eight years for a youthful offender who caused the death of two children and a young person.

Given Daoud’s past, which includes a lengthy criminal record, Dorval’s ruling certainly could

have pushed her much closer to the eight-year mark.

To review, this is a woman – as outlined by Dorval’s 10 aggravating factors during her reasoning in court – that has a prior criminal record for impaired driving, was on probation at the time of the offence and was driving with a suspended licence.

At the time of the collision, her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit. She does not remember hitting Hayes despite the fact that he was thrown almost 40 metres from the crash site. Earlier that evening she declined a ride home and was driving erratically to the point where numerous witnesses called 911.

Sure, Daoud has had a troubled past, which one wouldn’t wish upon anyone, that has led to her alcoholism.

But as Dorval said, “I must distinguish the ad-diction from the act of driving.”

Daoud likely didn’t when she started her truck on Sept. 9.

Given these short sentences to date, neither have the courts.

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It’s the reason I was so horrifi ed with the service I received at an Ottawa store recently. A loyal customer, it was the second time I had visited the store this month. The fi rst time, I dropped over $200 on new shoes and boots for the boys, who had grown like weeds since Christ-mas. This time, I found myself stuck. As I readied them for two days of March break camp at the community centre, I realized their brand new runners were locked up in the school.

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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTION

Is the city doing enough to fi x pot holes after the winter melt?

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B) Absolutely - the roads are in great condi-tion and the ride has been smooth.

C) With the terrible winter we’ve had and the amount of pot holes, the city is doing its best

D) What pot holes? I don’t drive.

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Do you think the 2011 city budget passed by council last week was worthy of applause?

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blind eye for the last several years. We know that the min-istry’s hoping its going to die down, but the bottom line is this (campaign) is not going to stop. It has to get resolved and we think it has to be done in a fairly transparent way.”

The contest is meant to cull the blossoming coyote popula-tion in rural Ottawa, which has in recent years encroached on developed areas and led to in-creased levels of pet and live-stock deaths. By culling the population, the Osgoode con-servation club hopes to save livestock and pets from harm and return the species’ natural balance.

The legal issue comes from the interpretation of the pro-vincial Fish and Wildlife Act.

“Basically if you look at Fish and Wildlife Act, section 11 states clearly that you’re not allowed to trap or hunt for the perceived value of any gain. That’s very clearly established,” DuBreuil said, explaining that the contest was vibrantly adver-tised with posters proclaiming the various prizes available.

A spokesperson from the min-istry said the section 11 ban on gain generally refers to “mon-etary gain” but whether win-ning prizes counts as gain is

ambiguous. “I think that that’s one interpretation that people have put on it,” the spokesper-son said. She couldn’t explain why the ministry had failed to respond to the coalition’s letters

and inquiries.Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa

MacLeod, a member of the Pro-gressive Conservative party, said she believes the contests are completely legal, because

hunters are already hunting coyotes as part of their daily life. Her frustration comes from her perception that natural re-sources minister Linda Jeffrey has failed to take a defi nitive

stance on the issue of rising coyote populations.

“They have been continu-ally told that we’ve had near-crisis levels of coyotes in our suburban and rural areas, so there has been a challenge in our communities and the gov-ernment has done nothing,” MacLeod said. “It’s such a hot potato that the minister doesn’t want to have to take a stance for fear of wedging herself be-tween suburban and rural resi-dents. She’s effectively turning a blind eye.”

The minister could not be reached for comment.

Other legal issues such as trespassing and hunting outside legal boundaries have also been raised by concerned residents, such as Metcalfe resident Lynda Craig who said she witnessed several incidents where resi-dents were hunting in illegal areas.

“I know that hunting goes on and it’s always gone on, but this competition seemed to change their behaviour and it almost became an entitlement. They were suddenly everywhere,” she said. “The legality is a trespass-ing issue. You can’t tell a coyote where one guy’s property ends and another starts.”

Atkinson and the fi sh and game conservation club could not be reached for comment.

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File photoCoyote populations have been on the increase for several years, prompting a number of coyote cull contests throughout the region. Although their legality has been called into question by some conservation groups, the ministry of natural resources has not taken a stance on the matter.

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LAURA MUELLER

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“Ker-chunk!”It’s a sound Ottawa drivers

loathe to hear.While warm temperatures

are something to look forward to in the spring, they also bring the arrival of potholes – your tire rim’s nemesis.

While it is well known that “freeze-and-thaw cycles” lead to potholes, what does that actu-ally mean?

Potholes are more likely to happen when it’s warm, said Jason Staniforth, who oversees the city’s pothole-repair crews.

But cold temperatures are also needed to create the perfect conditions for a pothole.

The process of creating a pot-hole begins when water begins to creep under the pavement, usually following heavy rainfall or other precipitation. As tem-peratures rise during the day, melting snow and ice also con-tribute to water-logged roads.

The cycle continues from there, Staniforth said.

“When it freezes overnight, it pushes the asphalt up,” he said.

“When it melts again, it pushes the asphalt back up and vehicu-lar traffi c tends to break it up, creating a pothole.”

Potholes can be created when water builds up between layers of asphalt, or between the as-phalt and the ground itself.

It’s hard to assess whether there are more potholes than last year, but heavy rainfall so far in 2011 is likely putting more strain on the city’s streets.

“I can’t speak to whether there are more or less this year, but last year there was less pre-cipitation,” Staniforth said.

That meant crews had more opportunities to get out and patch up the roads last year. The work needs to be done when conditions are dry in or-der for the patch material to bond to the road, Staniforth said.

However, if a pothole is bad enough, city crews will still patch it up even if the road is wet. Even if the patch isn’t per-manent, it can prevent the pot-hole from becoming even big-ger.

The city uses two methods to tackle potholes.

Traditionally, roads were repaired using a “coldpatch” method. Cold-patch asphalt doesn’t need to be heated before it is shoveled into the pothole and stamped down.

In the past couple of years, the city has also started using “hot patch” asphalt to repair potholes. The mix of liquid as-phalt, sand and different sized gravel needs to be kept hot to fl ow, and hardens to a more du-rable surface as it cools.

The city keeps the material warm with 14 “hot boxes” that crews tote around the city.

“If the pothole is dry, it’s a more permanent fi x than cold mix,” Staniforth said.

Crews are out with the hot boxes “whenever possible” dur-ing pothole season, Staniforth said, which basically means anytime it isn’t raining or snow-ing.

What makes a road more likely to become riddled with potholes?

As the city’s roads reach the end of their lifecycles, they are more likely to crack under the pressure of weather changes, Staniforth said.

“We fi nd that some of those we have to return to more fre-quently than others,” he said.

Roads that have a high vol-ume of traffi c tend to get more potholes.

So far this year, the city has received 929 calls from residents about potholes, Staniforth said.

Last year, there were a total of 541 calls to the city’s 311 line regarding potholes. That was down from 981 the year before, but there wasn’t much precipi-tation in 2010, so that created fewer pothole-headaches for the city.

“If people see something that is a problem, a call to 311 notifi es us that it’s there and we can at-tend and get the pothole fi lled,” Staniforth said.

Crews also fi ll in potholes no reported through the city’s 311 system.

“When crews are out, they don’t just fi ll potholes that are identifi ed through 311, they fi ll whatever they see,” Staniforth said.

That’s why the city doesn’t track the actual number of pot-holes each spring – it’s too diffi -cult to pin down.

Potholes popping up across the city

Follow these tips to help reduce the wear and tear on your car due to potholes:

• Pay attention to tire pressure – it will help protect your vehicle’s wheels and tires from being dam-aged from pothole impacts.

• Don’t swerve to avoid potholes. Swerving can cause the front wheel and tire on the car to hit

the edge of the pothole at an angle, which might do more dam-age than hitting it straight on.

• Don’t brake just because you see a pothole: heavy braking compresses the front suspension of the car and could force the tire and wheel down into the pothole, instead of gliding over.

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Arts and Culture

The Greely Players opened their spring musical, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, at the Greely Community Centre on Wednesday, March 23.

The musical’s 41-person cast includes actors from across the city, with several Ot-tawa South students taking the stage as the fi ve golden ticket winners.

A number of young children from Greely and Ottawa South have been cast as Oom-pa Loompas, Willy Wonka’s funny-looking workers whose costumes remain a surprise for audiences at the six performances running until March 27.

Photos by Emma JacksonJohn Batson (above) plays the eccentric chocolate inventor in the Greely Players’ ver-sion of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, which opened March 23. Manotick resident John-Alan Slachta plays poor Charlie Bucket and Greely resident Melissa Larochelle plays gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde.

South end sweet on Willy WonkaThe Greely Players prepare for their foray into Willy Wonka’s magical world.

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The green movement in the media tends to be skewed toward the younger demographic. However, plenty of older individuals are making strides to adopt earth-friendly changes and spread the word about helping the environment. Seniors comprise a considerable chunk of the population. Also, with high numbers of seniors retired or working minimal hours, they are a demographic that has a lot of time to devote to go-ing green.

Seniors are not new to the issues of go-ing green. Many grew up during the Great Depression, when recycling and reusing were par for the course. How-ever, doing so back then was a necessity rather than a widespread social move-ment. Seniors are also less reticent to go without modern conveniences that may do more to hurt the planet than protect it. They are used to walking or bicycling to get around. And the con-cept of hopping on a train or bus in-stead of driving individual cars is some-thing many embrace.

Retailers, housing developers and other business-minded individuals are fi nding that it pays to target the senior market in terms of going green. This demo-graphic that grew up on being frugal fi nds many benefi ts to incorporating green concepts into their lifestyle.

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* 94 percent of Boomers had taken steps in the last 6 months to go green.

* 79 percent wanted to do more to reduce their carbon footprint.

* 81 percent were concerned about what type of world they’re leaving for their grandchildren.

* 25 percent said that a green house is one of the smartest investments a person can make.

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In an effort to encourage others to donate, a Mooney’s Bay resident is giving her earnings from the month of March to help the Japan earthquake relief effort.

Rebecca Cragg, who runs Camellia Teas of Ot-tawa out of her home, launched a series of events that will run throughout the month of March to help raise money for Japan.

Cragg, who spent seven year teaching English in Japan, hosted a Suibokuga event where guests practiced the Japanese art of brush painting bam-boo trees.

“I thought if people come here learn a little bit of painting, they would feel a different relationship

with Japan, not just the focus on the misery and the horrifi c images they see on news,” said Cragg.

When she thinks of the tsunami, she thinks of her painting teacher’s home, Cragg said.

“It is heart breaking, shocking and unimaginable seeing those footages on news.”

Those that attended the painting session on March 15 were taught how to make a little painting of bamboo.

Cragg said bamboo is a symbol of strength and vitality.

“It is a symbol of very powerful life loss,” she said. “Each leaf might be a person who has lost their lives.”

Having spent more than a decade working with Japanese people both in Japan and here in Canada, Cragg be-lieves the country will be able to over-come what happened to them.

“They are an incredibly strong and noble people who have a strong will to survive,” she said.

Cragg believes through approaching an aspect of the culture that is beauti-ful, traditional and enriching, one can also balance the sadness they feel with a sense of gratitude, appreciation and wonder for the beauties of Japan and its traditional art.

During her seven years in Japan, Cragg trained intensively in Japanese

arts, Japanese brush painting, tea cer-emony and kimono dressing.

The massive earthquake and tsuna-mi two weeks ago devastated a large part of eastern Japan, leaving at least 6,500 people dead and thousands miss-ing.

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The city kicked off its registration for Spring Cleaning the Capital on March 15, with great expec-tations for this year’s edition of the litter pick-up program.

The 2010 program smashed the previous year’s participation record by more than 4,000 people, and Gloucester-South Nepean, represented on council by Steve Desroches, won the award for an overall participation rate of 17.8 per cent throughout the fall and spring clean-up programs, a new record for the city.

This year, city councillors are hoping to set the participation bar even higher between April 15 and May 15, when community members are encouraged to gather a group of volunteers to clean up a public space in their neighbourhood.

Residents can register for the program online, proposing the location they want to clean up, when they want to do it and with how many volunteers. Once registered, groups can pick up a clean-up start kit containing gloves, garbage and yard waste bags. Residents can also register to help with graf-fi ti removal, with the city providing safety equip-ment and removal tools to do the job.

The offi cial Spring Cleaning the Capital weekend falls on the weekend of April 22 to 24, encompassing Earth Day on April 22 and running through Easter weekend. However, residents can complete their projects anytime between April 15 and May 15.

The program is not without incentives, either. Sponsored prizes will be handed out to early-bird registrants who sign up before April 14, and big and small clean up rewards will be given away through several major partners including Tim Hortons.

At the 2010 wrap-up and 2011 launch in Febru-ary, Mayor Jim Watson said Gloucester-South Nepean’s record was one to be reckoned with, and that wards with lower participation should be tak-ing advice from Desroches to get their residents involved.

“The gauntlet has been dropped now for council-lors to try and beat that for next year. This is sort of like the Superbowl of cleanups,” he joked at the time.

According to Watson, volunteers across the city logged $3.9 million in sweat equity over 2010’s two clean-up sessions.

Residents can register online at www.ottawa.ca/clean or by calling 311.

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More than a year after pass-ing amendments to drug and pharmacy regulations, the On-tario government announced last week that new rules are now in effect. that allow for the installation of drug dispensing machines throughout the prov-ince.

These machines allow pa-

tients to fi ll prescriptions 24 hours a day, seven days a week under the watchful eye of an Ontario-registered pharma-cist.

Using a two-way video moni-toring system, patients will be able to interact with a pharma-cist remotely via the machines.

The machines also utilize a scanning system that allows for

the prescription to be verifi ed by the pharmacist, who then is able to authorize and monitor the dispensing of the drugs.

“Remote dispensing makes it more convenient for people – es-pecially those in northern and rural areas – to get the medica-tions they need, when they need it,” said Health and Long-Term Care Minister Deb Matthews in

a statement.The regulations, fi rst amend-

ed in December 2009, were set out by the province in conjunc-tion with the Ontario College of Pharmacists.

The college is also responsi-ble for accrediting, monitoring and enforcing the regulations including those pertaining to the dispensing machines.

A pair of MedCentre ma-chines, produced by Oakville, Ont.-based PharmaTrust, was fi rst installed at Toronto’s Sun-nybrook Health Sciences Centre as part of a pilot project in June 2008. Although the units are ca-pable of dispensing more than 2,000 types of drugs, regulations prohibit them from fi lling pre-scriptions for narcotics.

Era of remote drug dispensing arrives

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He describes his sport as “feel-ing like you’re in a car accident for a minute – on a good run,” but bobsledder Cody Sorensen now owns a bit of a reward for getting bashed about in a metal fuselage all over North America and Europe.

He’s a fi nalist for Ontario male athlete-of-the-year.

The 24-year-old recently re-turned home following his fi rst season as a brakeman for Canada’s top international sled piloted by Lyndon Rush that fi n-ished fi fth in the 2010-2011 over-all World Cup standings.

“I think Lyndon was a little disappointed in the season,” re-counts Sorensen, who was the

only four-man team member besides 2010 Olympics bronze medallist Rush to compete in every World Cup race due to injuries and retirements. “He had high expectations coming off the Games, but I couldn’t be happier with how we did, and if anything, it’s a good start three years away from the next Games with a pretty brand new team.”

Also nominated for the award that will be presented April 14 in Toronto are badminton play-er Nyl Yakura of Pickering and disk sport athlete Cameron Har-ris of Aurora. Canadian bobsled teammate Heather Moyse, a 2010 Olympic champion, is up for the province’s top female athlete honour, “so it’d be kind of sweet if we can both take it,” says So-rensen.

The recognition covered the 2010 year that saw Sorensen win the fi rst two World Cup bronze medals of his career in Park City, UT and in front of family and friends in Lake Placid, NY. The Glebe Collegiate Institute grad picked up an even more prestigious medal at the end of February by placing third in the combined team competi-tion at the Bobsleigh and Skel-

eton World Championships in Königssee, Germany.

“Coming third behind the Germans, with home court advantage, was pretty good,” notes Sorensen, who competed with Rush in the two-man race alongside the rest of the Cana-dian team featuring Moyse and Kaillie Humphries and skele-ton’s Jon Montgomery and Mel-lisa Hollingworth. “It was funny – I was the only one on the team without an Olympic medal, but they’re all giving me high-fi ves as we’re coming through. It was a pretty fun experience.”

The nomination also recog-nized the dominant season So-rensen enjoyed on the Ameri-ca’s Cup circuit with pilot Serge Despres leading up to the 2010 Olympics, which they narrowly missed out on when two other Canadian sleds were chosen ahead of them to compete in the fi nal World Cup race that count-ed towards qualifi cation.

“That was extremely frus-trating,” Sorensen recalls. “But I’ve kind of let that go now and refocused on the next couple years.”

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Photo by Dan PlouffeWorld Championships bronze medallist Cody Sorensen won a total of one gold and three World Cup bronze medals during the 2010-2011 bobsleigh season.


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with Despres was “a good role model,” he believes.

“Serge is 31 and he didn’t throw all his eggs in the bob-sleigh basket,” Sorensen ex-plains. “He’s worked in the summers and then when bob-sleigh didn’t work out, he had a job lined up and money in the bank.”

Now that he’s back home, Sorensen’s main goal is to fi nd a job that will help him make use of his University of Guelph business degree instead of working for his mother’s land-scaping company in Ottawa South as he has the past few summers.

“You never know what could happen,” Sorensen adds. “I could pull a hamstring next year and not even be on the team.”

A move back to Calgary is another option the former OF-SAA-champion hurdler is con-sidering.

“It’s kind of hard when the rest of your team is out there,” notes Sorensen, who also won World Cup bronze in Cesana, Italy, plus bobsleigh and skel-eton combined team gold in Innsbruck, Austria. “If the coaches don’t really see you, they’re not really thinking of you.”

As Sorensen knows well as someone who was competing in university track-and-fi eld one spring and then became a bobsleigh national team mem-ber the same summer after at-tending an open tryout camp in Toronto, his place isn’t secure despite a world championships appearance in the Canada-1 sled.

“That’s the unfortunate as-pect of the sport – you get a pro football player who’s a pretty good sprinter and he’s taken your spot within a couple of weeks,” Sorensen explains. “You’re always on your toes in terms of your training and maintaining your spot because nothing’s guaranteed for the next year.”

Sorensen plans to devote himself to bobsleigh at least through to the 2014 Olympics, and there’s also the possibility he could become a driver down the road.

“Sochi is the goal for sure,” smiles Sorensen, who’s learned to love his new sport even though it’s much more unpre-dictable than the straight, un-frozen running track. “At 24 years old, there’s nothing better than doing this now.”

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Submitted PhotoWorld Championships bronze medallist Cody So-rensen (third in sled) also won a total of one gold and three World Cup bronze medals during the 2010-2011 bobsleigh season.

Submitted photoWorld Championships bronze medallist Cody Sorensen said the 2014 Olympics is on his radar.

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EMMA JACKSON

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When Blossom Park native Ga-briela Dabrowski made the deci-sion to split her time between Ottawa and Florida to play ten-nis at 15 years old, she knew she was following a brightly lit path to a successful career.

Giving up a normal high school experience for a rigorous training schedules at Saddle-brook Tennis Academy in Flor-ida was no easy transition, but Dabrowski, now nearly 19, has no regrets.

“It was diffi cult at the begin-ning when I came here for the fi rst time, but I learned quickly that it wasn’t a big deal and I had different priorities,” Dab-rowski said from her Florida residence. “I don’t think about it like I’m missing out, I look at it as I’m following my dream, and the sacrifi ce will hopefully be worth it.”

The 18-year-old ranked fi fth in the world as a junior last year, at which point she gradually started adding more profession-al women’s tournaments to her schedule.

Today she’s ranked around 500th in women’s tennis – having left the top of the junior circuit only to be at the bottom of an even more competitive women’s circuit – but Dabrowski hopes to raise her rank this summer as she tours North America.

Her current tour includes a number of International Tennis Federation tournaments across the United States. She recently played doubles in the semi-fi -nals of a Michigan tournament, winning a few thousand dollars despite having never played with her partner before.

“Luckily our games clicked to-gether quite well and we played pretty solid doubles,” she said.

Dabrowski said she hopes her season will culminate in a

chance to play in the women’s Rogers Cup, Canada’s most an-ticipated professional tennis event endorsed by the Women’s Tennis Association, which takes place this year in Toronto between August 6 and 14. Dab-rowski wants a shot at a wild card spot, noting her chances are better since she’s an Ottawa native.

“It’s a good thing I am Ca-nadian, because then I have a better chance of getting a wild card. But if there are a bunch of girls that are requesting a wild card into the cup, they’ll hold a pre-qualifying tournament,” she said.

Her ultimate, if currently far-off, goal is to make it to the US Open in September, but she said her rank as it stands isn’t enough.

“I would love to play there, but I don’t think my ranking is high enough. But if I play bet-ter in the summer and put my rank up, I’d be able to play in the qualifying round. That would be my goal,” she said.

On a more practical level Dab-rowski said she wants to start winning more money at her upcoming professional tourna-ments, because she is entirely self-funded, having forfeited any government or Tennis Can-

ada support when she stopped training at the National Tennis Centre in Montreal last Septem-ber. She said several disappoint-ing coaching incidents and is-sues around disorganization prompted her to leave the train-ing centre, which she visited for months at a time sporadically between 2009 and 2010.

“All these things kind of add-ed up. I didn’t feel like I was ever working on my mistakes and get better on my strength. I was playing tournaments whether I was confi dent or not,” she ex-plained.

Dabrowski, an only child, has been in Florida since January,

having been home for Christ-mas for the fi rst time in fi ve years. Her father comes with her across the border, leaving her mother behind in Blossom Park to continue working at the City of Ottawa until the two come home in May. Dabrowski said it’s hard to leave Ottawa behind for so long every year, a tradition she’s continued since 2007, but it’s gotten easier in time.

“It gets harder if I’m here for a longer period of time. But we’ve all learned to deal with that and take it as something that’s tough but we’re handling it. I still talk to my mom near-ly every day, as does my dad. That helps so much,” she said, although it’s impossible to re-place home with a telephone. “I miss being home, and sleeping in my own bed, and having my own kitchen. I have some really good friends at home too that I miss. Sometimes I even miss the snow,” she laughed.

One person she doesn’t have to miss is her father Yurek, who took a leave of absence from his job at Ottawa’s Westin Hotel to coach his daughter and help her hone her natural tennis skills. Despite knowing very little about tennis, Yurek dropped everything to offer Gabriela a chance.

“He just started to educate himself when I started play-ing and costs for coaches were so high. He took matters into his own hands,” Dabrowski ex-plained. “He does so much. I train with him and I’ll do fi tness with him. His knowledge of ten-nis is just so great. He cooks and helps with laundry, too. He’s re-ally great.”

Dabrowski will be back in Ot-tawa in May and will start play-ing tournaments across Canada and the US throughout the spring and summer.

Local tennis star hopes to play Rogers Cup

Photo submittedGabriela Dabrowski at the Saddlebrook Tennis Academy in Florida, with her father Yurek.

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EDDIE RWEMA

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The 59th edition of the Cana-dian Tulip Festival will mark the return of the Tulip Ball and its signature fl oral gowns.

Major’s Hill Park and Com-missioners Park near Dows Lake will once again play host to hundreds of thousands of tu-lips during the festival that runs from May 6-23.

The festival will kick off on May 6 with the Tulip Ball at the new Ottawa Convention Centre, festival organizers announced Monday at a news conference,

along with an exhibition of fl o-ral gowns designed by award-winning fl oral artist Joel Marc Frappier.

“The fl oral dresses were a big hit in 2006, and so we are bring-ing them back,” said Geneviève Ménard Hayles, executive direc-tor of the Canadian Tulip Festi-val.

This year’s edition of the festival will be called Kaleido-scope, and will feature three ka-leidscope-inspired beds planted by the National Capital Com-mission.

The NCC gardeners are said to have planted half a million

bulbs in the heart of Canada’s capital region. In total more than one million tulips from 50 varieties are ready to bloom.

The Tulip Festival generates close to $40 million in economic activity for the local economy, by bringing thousands of tour-ists to the city, said Mayor Jim Watson.

“It is a great economic boost to our economy,” he said. “It is a lot of fun to come and see some of the most beautiful fl oral ar-rangements this country has to offer.”

The Tulip Festival dates back to 1945, when the Dutch royal

family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa, a way of saying thank you for hosting Dutch Princess Juliana and her daughters in exile during the Second World War and for Canada’s role in the liberation of the Netherlands.

Since then, the tulips have become an important symbol of international friendship and spring.

“Canadian veterans are our heroes. However, we can never thank them enough,” said Dutch Ambassador Wim Geerts. Each year, Netherlands sends 20,000 bulbs to Canada.

As part of the festival’s line-

up of entertainment, Beatles tribute band John Paul George Ringo will present a “rocku-mentary” experience at Major’s Hill Park that retraces the story of the legendary rock band from its formation to breakup.

There will also be screening of Bollywood movies as part of celebrating Year of India in Canada.

Earlier this month, the festi-val received a major fi nancial boost from the Ontario Govern-ment Celebrate Ontario tour-ism funding program which provided $355,000 for the 2011 program.

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• APRIL 2West Ottawa Rotary Club and University of Ottawa Music Students presents Music for Humanity to eradicate polio takes place at 1st Unitarian Church, 30 Cleary Ave, Ottawa. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds go to the Rotary Polio Eradication Initiative. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated over $400 million to polio eradication and challenged Rotary International to match the contri-bution. Attendance at this concert will help Rotary respond. There will be music by Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Casterede and Mendez, Turina, Paganini, Ibert and Bartok for solo and combined instruments. Tickets are $20 and students are $10. For more information visit: www.rotaryclubwestottawa.ca or call 613-746-8037

The Eastern Ontario Umpires As-sociation (EOUA) is looking for individuals, males and females over 18 interested in offi ciating fast pitch and slo pitch softball. The EOUA is affi liated with Softball Canada, Softball Ontario, Slo-Pitch Ontario and USSSA. Ontario is proud to boast one of the best umpire programs in the country. If you are interested in learning a new avenue of the game of softball, we are always looking for individuals like you. Training and clinics are provided. Please call Stuart 613-744-3967 or Dave 613-791-6767 now.

• APRIL 6A unique dining experience with zero greenhouse gas emissions held at the Fairmont Château Laurier from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.The event will take place in the Laurier Room With Honourary Chair: David Chernushenko, City of Ottawa councillor and Emcee, Olympian MJ McCann. Evening highlights include a fully candle-lit ambience where you and your guests will savour an organic, local gourmet, six course meal with complementary wine introduced by the Château Laurier’s Executive Chef Alain Gobeil and Sous Chef Shane Colton. There will also be a Live and Silent Auction with one-of-a-kind items like a sport training day with an Olympian. Tickets are limited. individual tickets are $150 and for a table of six is $810. All tickets can be purchased online at: www.zeroenergydinners.com or call j/m/a Event Planning at 613-271-2713

The Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association (RPCRA) will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday, April, 6. The meeting is open to all RPCRA mem-bers and to the public at large. The meeting is held every fi rst Wednes-

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• APRIL 9Become a Softball Ontario Certifi ed Fast Pitch or Slo-Pitch Umpire. The Level-I clinic will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the RA Centre on

Riverside Drive. To register please contact George Findley at 613-722-2620. Knowing the proper me-chanics and rules of the game prior to stepping on the fi eld will make for a more respected offi cial. The Level 1 umpire clinic would also be benefi -cial to coaches and players, giving them a better understanding of softball, while providing insight into the role offi cials play in the game. Topics cov-ered at this clinic include: Rules and Defi nitions,

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Riverside Churches 3191 Riverside Dr. invite you to an interactive “Messy Church” event, celebrat-ing Easter, “Beyond the Bunny”. Crafts, music, worship and celebration for the whole family, fol-lowed by supper.4:00-6:00. Call 613 731-1646.

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Manotick’s Sucre, Salé choco-late shop has continued its reign as a local chocolate champion.

The independent catering and chocolate shop run by Greely resident Michelle Guil-lemet and Manotick resident Rémy Borderes won the Peo-ple’s Choice award at the sev-enth annual Carefor Chocolate Brunch and Competition on March 19, which pits Ottawa’s best pastry chefs against one another. The event is dedicat-ed to raising funds to support the charitable work of Carefor Health & Community Services.The event featured Ottawa’s fi n-est restaurants, caterers and chocolatiers, each vying for the chance to be crowned the win-ner of either the People’s Choice or Judge’s Choice awards for the best chocolate dessert in Ot-tawa/Gatineau.

“This award means a lot to us, we are indeed humbled by the win,” said Guillemet, chef and co-owner of Sucre, Salé. “When we prepare our deserts we try to make them a little bit out of the ordinary.”

Last year Sucre, Salé won the Judges’ Choice award with its Alice in Wonderland-themed rabbit and chocolate eggs, and in 2009 it took home both the People’s Choice and Judges Choice awards.

This year, Guillemet decided on a “mother of pearl” theme for her showpiece, which began with a towering string of choco-late beads – the bottom one big-

ger than a basketball – which gently arched over an under-the-sea scene of chocolate shells, pearls, leaves and rocks.

The display took more than a week to build, she said, and three full days were dedicated to making 400 individual desserts

for the guests to taste. “This year I changed it a little

bit, we wanted to do some domes. So inside we have a crémeux, its more of a fi lling, and then we have a crispiness and then a cake,” she explained.

People clearly liked them, crowning Sucre, Salé this year’s favourite. But Guillemet said that’s not why they participate in the event.

“We all go there to win, but it’s also for a very good cause that’s very close to me. What they’re doing for elderly people, it’s a good cause to me,” she said.

In addition to bragging rights for a year and the opportunity to promote their chocolate des-serts to a crowd of 400-plus phil-anthropic supporters of Care-for, Sucré, Salé also received the Carefor Chocolate People’s Choice Trophy, a $500 cheque and the opportunity to adver-tise in Carefor’s publications for

one year. Each year, Carefor Health &

Community Services invites competitors to participate in the annual Carefor Chocolate Brunch & Competition fund-raising event. Competitors range from small truffl e shops, caterers and chocolatiers to large local restaurants, baker-ies and hotels from the Ottawa and Gatineau regions.

“Our goal is to be able to fi nd an event that is family friendly, respectful of our mission which is compassion and comparing. What better way to celebrate all of that than with chocolate,” said Donna Deknatel, market-ing manager at Carefor.

Carefor announced at the event that it had reached its fundraising goal of $30,000.

A Little Italy pastry shop, Pas-ticceria Gelateria Italiana, won the Judge’s Choice award this year.

Photo by Emma JacksonMichelle Guillemet spent more than a week building her chocolate showpiece for the Carefor Chocolate Brunch and Competition on March 19, shown unfi nished above, and three days making 400 des-serts. Her Manotick bakery Sucre, Salé won the People’s Choice award on Saturday.

Manotick bakery wins tastebuds of the people – again

OTTAWA THIS WEEK STAFF

Big changes are coming to OC Transpo bus routes, and mem-bers of the public will have a chance to weigh in at a series of openhouses.

On Wednesday, March 23, the city’s transit commission was set to receive a report outlining a re-design of the transit map (view the report at www.octranspo.com). The changes are aimed at making the transit system more fi nancially sustainable by cut-ting down on duplication and making routes more direct.

The report was released after Ottawa This Week’s press dead-line – watch yourottawaregion.com and next week’s edition for more coverage.

The changes will likely mean some riders will have to walk far-ther to get to their bus stop, OC

Transpo boss Alain Mercier told city councillors in February.

Right now, 98 per cent of Ot-tawa residents live within 400 metres, or a fi ve-minute walk, from their stop. The changes could push that to 800 metres, or 10 minutes, for many users.

The city could also reduce the number of buses running dur-ing off-peak hours for certain routes.

In all, only 60 of OC Transpo’s routes will remain untouched or could be enhanced.

But those 60 routes represent about 90 per cent of transit trips that will remain the same.

The fi nal, approved route changes will take effect on Sept. 4, after public consultation and a second round of debate by the transit commission.

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LAURA MUELLER

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Express bus routes will make fewer stops in the morning start-ing April 17 in an effort to get commuters downtown faster.

Buses will still drop off pas-sengers if they request a stop.

Kanata, Stittsville, Richmond and Bells Corners routes will make drop-offs only between the Queensway to Westboro sta-tions. OC Transpo says custom-ers who normally board express routes at these stations can use other routes.

Express routes will continue to make all stops in the after-noon rush hour.

There will be a few other

tweaks to bus service as part of OC Transpo’s regular quarterly service changes.

Commuters who work in Gatineau will be able to hop on the 96 bus to Kanata on the Que-bec side of the river for a few af-ternoon rush-hour trips.

Route 63 will be expanded to start earlier in Stittsville.

Other changes include cut-backs to east-end routes due to declining ridership. Routes 101, 102, 105 and 118 will have re-duced service.

The Rack & Roll program, which makes bike racks avail-able on some bus routes, will be expanded to include Route 94. Other routes included in the Rack & Roll network are

12, 85, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 106 and 118. Racks are sometimes avail-able on other routes as well; there are more than 350 rack-equipped buses. Use the travel planner at www.octranspo.com to check which routes will have racks.

These changes are all part of the regular service adjust-ments OC Transpo makes every quarter, but more sub-stantial changes were set to be announced earlier this week (after this newspaper’s press deadline).

On March 23, the city’s tran-sit commission was set to dis-cuss even more changes and cutbacks to bus routes across the city that will likely mean passengers will have to walk further to their stops. Watch www.yourottawaregion.com and next week’s newspaper for updates.

Fewer stops make for faster express busesTransit adjustments foreshadow

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WILL PICK UP & RE-MOVE any unwanted cars, trucks, boats, snowmobiles, lawn- tractors, snowblowers, etc. Cash paid for some. Peter, All Pur-pose Towing. 613-797-2315,613-560-9042 www.allpurpose.4-you.ca

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Maple Run Studio Tour: Mar 26 & 27Seniors Music Days: April 5, 13,

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ARTICLES 4 SALE

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SCOOTER SPECIAL 25% Off Select Models

Buy/sell Stair lifts, Porch lifts, Scooters, Bath lifts, Hospital beds etc. Call SILVER CROSS 613-231-3549

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SUPERKIDS TUTORS: in-home, all subjects, references. 613-282-4848, [email protected]

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HUNTER SAFETY CA-NADIAN FIREARMS COURSE at Carp April, 15, 16th, 17th. Wenda Cochran 613-256-2409

HUNTER SAFETY Ca-nadian Firearms Course. Courses and exams held throughout the year. Free course if you organize a group, exams available. Wen-da Cochran, 613-256-2409.

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DOG SITTING, Ex-perienced Retired Breeder providing lots of TLC. My Home. Smaller dogs only. Referenc-es available. $17-$20 daily. Marg 613-721-1530.

GOLDEN DOODLE & Labradoodle pups ready to go, Shawville $450, vet checked, first needles and dewormed 613-223-5015

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SAVE UP TO $800 on a new high efficiency furnace and air condi-tioning bundle from Di-rect Energy. Call 1-866-917-8630 be-fore April 30th. Terms apply

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DREAM STUDIOSOffers Hatha Yoga, Ballroom, Latin, Line Dance Lessons; Certi-fied Instructors. Also Natural Nail Mani-cures or French Tip; Beautiful Large Home Studio; Best Prices. Michelle (613) 599-3104

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GUITAR INSTRUC-TION; Professional, award-winning guitarist with over 45 years ex-perience now accept-ing guitar & bass stu-dents. Beginner to ad-vanced. Call Brian at 613-831-8990, Glen Cairn.

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WORLD CLASS DRUM-MER (of Five Man Elec-trical Band) is now ac-cepting students. Pri-vate lessons, limited en-rollment, free consulta-tion. Call Steve, 613-831-5029.w w w. s t e v e h o l l i n g -worth.ca

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KANATA - NEW TOWNHOUSES FOR RENT: Stunning Execu-tive Townhouses, 4+1 bdrm, 2000 sq.ft, fin-ished basement, 5 ap-pliances, garage, available April 01 and June 01; Allan 613-831-6003; [email protected]

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HOUSESFOR RENT

KANATA TOWN-HOMES FOR RENTFirst Month Free, 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bath-rooms, 5 appliances and more, located in Established area, On site Management Of-fice, 323 Steeplechase Dr. (just off Stonehaven Dr) Kanata, K2M 2N6, call 613 592-0548

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ADMINISTRATIVE AS-SISTANT There is a va-cancy for an adminis-trative assistant in our company. Candidate must have good knowl-edge of computer tools such as Microsoft Word and Excel. Inter-ested persons should forward their compre-hensive applications to [email protected] for consideration.

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OTTAWA’S Largest Lawn and Property Maintenance Company pays $120-$360 DAI-LY for outdoor Spring/Summer work. Hiring honest, competi-tive, and energetic indi-viduals to fill our vari-ous 2011 positions. Apply online @ www.SpringMastersJobs.com

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Job Title: Freelance reporter/ photographersNumber of Positions: Several Department: Editorial Department Location: Ottawa

Do you have a fl air for writing? Do you have a passion for news and features and capturing the essence of every story? Are you detail-oriented, with superior written and verbal communication skills?

Metroland Media is seeking reporter/photographers for occasional freelance assignments in downtown and South Ottawa, Barrhaven, Nepean, Kanata, Stittsville, Kemptville, Perth, Renfrew, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, West Carleton and surrounding areas.

Interested candidates should submit their resume along with writing samples and clippings by April 15, 2011 to:

Suzanne LandisManaging Editor

Email: [email protected]

Are you a self starter who likes to meet people?

Do you love everything about living in Smiths Falls?

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Smiths Falls This Week has an immediate opening for an advertising consultant

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THE POSITION:• Identify and cold call prospects to develop new business• Negotiate and structure sales agreements• Develop and build strong relationships with clients• Respond promptly to sales enquiries, and provide thorough customer follow up• Consistently deliver against aggressive revenue targets • Generate insertion orders• Contact advertisers regarding campaign optimization, growth strategies, and op-portunities• Act as an ambassador of the brand

ABOUT YOU:• 1-5 years experience in sales/account man-agement with a proven history of achieving and surpassing sales targets • Experience in online or media sales preferred• Strong negotiation, presentation, and telephone skills• Experience in, and high comfort level with, cold calling to develop new business• Ability to build and develop eff ective relationships with clients and within the sales team• Solid organizational and time management skills • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dead-line oriented environment• Strong written and verbal communication skills• University or College Degree a defi nite asset • Valid Drivers License and a reliable automobile

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