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First-time Bay Ward Coun. Mark Taylor is already making waves as the only fi rst-time councillor elected to chair a city committee.

Taylor will head up the community and protective services (CPS) commit-tee, which is charged with overseeing much of the city’s social services such as housing and long-term care, as well as parks, recreation, arts and emergen-cy services such as fi re, paramedics and bylaw.

Taylor said it was an honour to be chosen to lead the committee, which is tasked with making decisions on matters “near and dear

to his heart.”“I call it the ‘quality of life committee,’ be-

cause the stuff that it does is the stuff that a lot of people see and feel across the city,” he said.

“It’s the kind of things folks use as a mea-suring sticks for ‘Am I living in a good city, a caring city?’ ”

Taylor said he made CPS was one of his top choices because it addresses issues that are prevalent in his ward.

“One of the sad realities is that obviously that committee, among other things, mar-shals a lot of the social services aspect of what the city does, and unfortunately, there is a big sector of Bay Ward that is a consum-er of those services,” Taylor said.

“So I think there are a lot of synergies

there between our ward and the commit-tee.”

Bay Ward also has the largest concentra-tion of senior citizens in Ottawa, and that’s something Taylor will consider as he ap-proaches his role as chair of CPS.

Leading that committee will also give him the ability to look at how it can be more ef-fi cient. He wants to see the policies made in that committee tied more closely to how they actually impact residents.

“I want to make sure we talk about things that we are going to be able to turn into ac-tion,” Taylor said, instead of never-ending discussion in committee and subcommittees that don’t materialize into actual policies.

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The holiday season is upon us, and newly-elected Bay Ward Coun. Mark Tay-lor looks back at 2010 as a year of highs and low, but he also looks forward to cel-ebrating the season with his friends and family.

Winning the council seat in Bay Ward this year on election night wasn’t Coun. Mark Taylor’s high point of 2010, but it was close.

“I sustained a high through March until October,” Taylor explained of this year, which he spent the majority of his days knocking on doors in Bay Ward as part of his campaign. “To meet people in the community was just amazing, and you don’t know what stories are behind every door you knock on.”

The year 2010 also brought along low points for Taylor – including the lack of sleep and so little free time he had for his family.

While he felt his family was giving back so much throughout the year and offering him support, he had a feeling of sadness that he couldn’t be there for them in return.

“My low point was the constant feeling I had that I wasn’t giving back to them,” he said. “We were severely out of bal-ance.”

Taylor said one of the most important pieces of advice he can give to people this holiday season is to enjoy each other – in-cluding family and friends.

He added that people should take the opportunity to spend time with loved ones.

“Nobody ever gets to the end of their life saying, ‘I wish I’d gone to work a few more days,’” he said.

Taylor and his wife, who each have a daughter from previous marriages, are making sure the family is together this holiday season.

Taylor and his 16-year-old, and his wife and her nine year-old, are making the

trip to Mont Tremblant from Dec. 23 to 25 for an old fashioned family Christmas.

Since they spend half the holiday with their daughters, Taylor and his wife have a tradition of going to a local shawarma restaurant in Michele Heights.

“From there we’ll go and see the latest Christmas movie that’s been released, and we tend to fi ll in the time with some kind of charity work and helping the community,” he explained.

Holiday traditions started for Taylor as a young boy growing up with a single

mother. In the days leading up to Christmas,

Taylor was like any typical child – shak-ing the presents and trying to fi gure out what was under the tree.

But it was tradition that every Christ-mas morning, he would run to the tree and see tons of unwrapped gifts.

“My mom told me that Santa didn’t have time to wrap the presents on Christmas Eve,” he laughed. “So my tradition was when Santa came to the house, the pres-ents he brought were never wrapped.”

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SEVERN STUDENT WINS CARD DESIGN CONTESTBay Ward Coun. Mark Taylor recently visited Severn Avenue Public School to award Grade 5/6 class student Ali Shibly for designing Taylor’s Christmas card this year. Ali got a framed copy of his card, as well Ottawa Senators tickets. The whole class received free City of Ottawa baseball hats.

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Surrounded by family and deep-fried comfort food, Kitchis-sippi Ward Coun. Katherine Hobbs is looking forward to cel-ebrating her family’s annual tra-ditions this year.

While Hobbs is looking for-ward to the holidays, she’s an-ticipating a busy year of serving the people of Kitchissippi Ward on city council.

Hobbs has recently been ap-pointed to various committees including community and pro-tective services, planning and board of health.

She said she’s excited to start working on these newly-formed committees because she can ex-ercise her creativity and be in-volved in something where she can work from the ground up.

“When you go into something brand new, it’s different,” she said. “Personally I like breaking new ground, and having a job

that I haven’t done before.”While planning in Kitchissippi

is a hot topic right now, includ-ing the 114 Richmond Rd. con-vent controversy, Hobbs wanted to be part of that committee to help create positive change.

“It doesn’t matter about prop-erty values, but rather a good quality of life,” she said.

Hobbs added that she’ll be looking to other cities which are examples of good intensifi cation in her new role on the planning committee.

So far, the extension of the Somerset Community Health Centre coverage area into Kitchissippi has been the only signifi cant issue for Hobbs’s committees, but she expects that to change in the new year.

“Everyday, people can call in and if they have a problem, we can help solve it for fi nd an an-swer,” she said.

Hobbs will be spending the holidays with her family – in-cluding her parents, who often

go out of town for Christmas.While she plans to have Christ-

mas dinner with them, she’s also going to be dropping by the Car-leton Tavern in Hintonburg and

the Newport Restaurant in West-boro to help out at their free an-nual Christmas dinners.

“They’re both such incred-ible community partners,” said

Hobbs. “It always bowls me over, the giving nature of the commu-nities. And it’s not just at Christ-mas time.”

She said she’s looking forward to serving some tables and get-ting to know more people in the community at the annual events.

Hobbs, who has Irish back-ground, has an annual tradition with her family every Christmas morning to have an “incred-ibly unhealthy” fried breakfast – complete with potato bread, eggs, sausage and ham.

“Afterwards you feel awful, but that’s what everyone likes the best,” she said.

The family’s potato bread is a favourite – and Hobbs’ mother is the only one who knows the recipe.

The fi rst year her parents went away for Christmas, she remem-bers spending the holidays with her siblings and they unsuccess-fully searched up and down the house for the delicious bread.

“I’m still getting over it,” Hobbs laughed. “It was one of the most depressing Christmas-es.”

Hobbs doesn’t usually deco-rate her house for Christmas – she never hosts her family holi-day parties. But every year she’s made a point to show off a bean bag Santa she’s kept for 40 years.When Hobbs was 15, she spent her fi rst Christmas away from her family when she went to vis-it her grandmother in Florida.

“I was kind of sad,” she said. “It was nice to see my grandpar-ents, but I missed my family.”

On Christmas morning Hobbs received the Santa from her grandmother – who passed away not too long ago.

“I never have Christmas at my place, but this might be the only thing I put out,” she said. “I can’t believe I still have this.”

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The 33rd edition of Winter-lude will be highlighted by a celebration of Parks Canada centennial, the National Capital Commission revealed during the unveiling of the lineup for this year’s festival.”

“Winterlude celebrates Cana-dian achievements, values and traditions and helps to enrich the social and cultural fabric of Canada,” said Marie Lemay, the

NCC’s chief executive offi cer. “Winter in the capital is synony-mous with Winterlude, and with the addition of new partners and collaborators, we hope that it will continue to evolve and grow.”

The festivities will kick off at the Canadian Museum of Civili-zation on Feb. 4, and will include events at four sites, including the Crystal Garden in Confed-eration Park and the skateway in Ottawa, and the Snowfl ake Kingdom at Gatineau’s Jacques-

Cartier Park in addition to the museum.

The fi rst day of Winterlude coincides with Parks Canada’s 100th anniversary, and the NCC is planning festivities to cele-brate the world’s oldest national parks service.

The day’s program will fea-ture special lighting effects, an interactive fi re experience, amazing sound performances, a DJ dance party and, at 9 p.m., a fi reworks extravaganza to cel-ebrate the 100th anniversary of

Parks Canada. “Parks Canada is pleased to be

a part of this extraordinary fes-tival in 2011, even more so as we celebrate our 100th anniversary next year,” said Alan Latourelle, Parks Canada’s CEO.

“Perhaps the best way to cele-brate Parks Canada’s centennial year is to come out and enjoy the outdoors, in the snow and in the sun, in the true spirit shared by Parks Canada and Winterlude,” said Latourelle.

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This winter also marks the 41st season of skating on the Rideau Canal Skateway, a UNES-CO World Heritage Site.

Activities on the Rideau Canal Skateway will include skating lessons, an interactive hockey zone, Portraits on Ice by Library and Archives Canada, the Win-terlude Triathlon, a bed race, and the third annual Great Canadian Beaver Cup Pond Hockey Classic.


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Drivers weren’t left out in the cold last week if parking meters didn’t spit out the ticket they paid for, but it is unclear what will happen if they freeze again in the future.

“It will be on a case-by-case basis,” said city spokesperson Jocelyne Turner, adding that “all residents will be taken care of ” if a parking meter is frozen and they are ticketed.

The issue began last week, when a sudden cold spell jammed up the buttons on the new pay-and-display machines the city installed earlier this year.

The company that operates the meters – Precise ParkLink – said it will monitor weather conditions and de-ice the machines as a preventative measure in the future.

Turner said that will happen twice a week from now on in the winter months.

The deal signed between the city and Precise ParkLink guarantees a certain amount of revenue for the city, so Precise ParkLink has to make up the difference if fees are lost because the meters aren’t working.

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River Ward Coun. Maria McRae has many fond memories of Christmases past, but one act of kindness sticks out in her mind as an excellent example of her constituents’ generosity.

It was December 2002 and the Holy Cross church near Walk-ley Road and Riverside Drive was busy recruiting volunteers to serve its annual Christmas dinner to hundreds of seniors, shut-ins and people with dis-abilities from around the city. But all of a sudden, a week be-fore Christmas, the massive din-ner was cancelled due to a liabil-ity scare.

“I couldn’t imagine all these people going without their dinners that they were expect-ing,” McRae said. “Because the church thought the dinner was cancelled, they had told all the volunteers not to make dinners. So I had to get on TV and tell people to start cooking.”

For her part, McRae had to phone her family and in-laws in Sudbury and explain that she wouldn’t be home for Christmas, because she and her husband would be delivering much-need-ed Christmas dinners instead.

In slightly more than a week, McRae and a team of volunteers – with the church back on board – managed to pull the dinner back together just in time for Christmas morning.

“We actually organized an entire Christmas day dinner, so that hundreds of people ended up having a Christmas day din-ner delivered to their house. We had hundreds of people volun-teer. It was very touching, it was very moving to see how many people were relying on that,” she said.

McRae added that the special feeling of Christmas morning was different, but present in a new and moving way.

“We were all up really late in the night on Christmas Eve and the next morning we went to the church to start receiving food, and it was so quiet. It was eerie. That would have been a morn-ing when we’d usually be with our family,” she said.

She recalls one particular vol-unteer was unusually touched by the situation.

“That day, I went with a teen-aged kid who was so keen on seeing what happened to fami-lies who didn’t have anything on Christmas day. He spent the day with me and went on deliveries

with me and he was just shocked with the whole thing,” she ex-plained. “He went from telling me what the kids got from Santa in the morning to, ‘Whoa, this is bigger than that.’ ”

McRae said she’ll never for-get that Christmas she spent in

Ottawa, but she said she’s not surprised so many volunteers pulled together to help out.

“It’s a very giving communi-ty,” she said.

McRae’s holiday plans this Christmas will include the an-nual drive to Sudbury, where

both her family and her hus-band’s family still live. She said they will bunk with her husband’s mother on Christmas Eve and spend Christmas day visiting siblings and their very excited children.

McRae said she cherishes the family traditions that have sur-vived the years since her child-hood, including the treat of open-ing one gift on Christmas Eve at her parents’ house, and the fact her mother still puts together a stocking for her every year.

“My husband and I are with all of our family all at the same time and we’ve tried to espouse differ-ent traditions from our families into what we do,” she said.

McRae said she will be bar-gain hunting during the Boxing Day sales in Sudbury, especially for half-price wrapping paper and trimmings.

“I don’t buy any Christmas wrap at full price, so I’m always on the lookout for Christmas wrap at 50 per cent off or cheap-er. So we go to Sudbury, fi nd all this Christmas wrap dirt cheap and haul it back to Ottawa,” she laughed. “I’ve been known to get out of bed at 5:00 in the morning to fi nd a deal, and I’m not just up, I’m up, showered and ready to go.”

Photo by Emma JacksonRiver ward councillor Maria McRae dons a festive cap as she poses with a tiny Christmas tree in her city hall offi ce. She said her family sent her the little tree her fi rst year in offi ce.

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Donations to the Ottawa Hu-mane Society are down due to an error at the printer, so orga-nizers are making a public ap-peal for much-needed funds.

The Ottawa Humane Soci-ety (OHS) usually sends out a friendly reminder to past do-nors and new adoptive parents asking for donations at Christ-mas time. The reminder, which typically goes out on Nov. 3 ev-ery year, was sent out a week late. This delay resulted in a 40 per cent downfall in donations for the OHS.

“There was a problem getting the reminders back from the printers, which caused the delay of getting it out to our donors,” said Bruce Roney, executive di-rector of the OHS.

This reminder that comes in the mail is directed to donors who typically donate once a year and with this shortfall in dona-tions, the OHS has said it could directly affect the animals.

“This is important for the care of the animals,” Roney said.

Over the holidays, the OHS has two special programs. Vol-unteers for the shelter come to feed the animals and care for them, as well, for dogs that have

not been adopted; foster fami-lies will take them in over the Christmas break.

“We have all our families lined up,” Roney said. This program is only for the dogs, as the OHS has tried it with cats in the past and has found it is more stressful on the animal then it is worth.

When it comes to adopting out an animal over the holidays, OHS spokesperson Mandy Che-peka said the procedure does not change.

“We have a very strict proce-

dure, so we do not have to take extra caution over the holidays, because we already have,” Che-peka said.

In fact, Chepeka indicated the holidays season might be the perfect time to adopt because the whole family typically is home and will have the time to get to know the animal.

“It is a perfect time to bond with the animals,” she said.

And as January comes, the OHS does not expect too many Christmas puppies on their doorstep.

“January and February are not busy times for us. We usu-ally see an increase in animals coming through our doors in the spring, because of springtime litters,” Chepeka said.

As the year comes to a close, the OHS urges the community to remember the animals and the OHS over the holiday sea-son, despite the mistake in get-ting the reminders out to the community donors.

“I’m hoping because we are trying to get the message out, that people will remember the importance to donate,” Roney said. “I am not too worried though, the community has been there in the past and I be-lieve they will help us out now too.”

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working relationship with May-or Jim Watson (Taylor worked in Watson’s constituency offi ce when Watson was an MPP), Tay-lor said he didn’t receive any specialtreatment when he was chosen as CPS chair.

“He’s been very open and inclusive of everybody. I don’t think I am getting any special benefi t,” Taylor said.

Taylor’s other big task will be his seat on the planning committee, which deals with development issues. Infi ll and intensifi cation are pertinent across the city, but particularly in areas Taylor represents, such as Woodpark, Whitehaven and Queensway Terrace North, he said.

As the head of a committee, Taylor will also sit on the new fi nance and economic develop-ment committee, dubbed “FED-co.”

McRAE GOES GREEN

River Ward Coun. Maria McRae got her wish to lead the city’s newly formed environment committee, which is an offshoot of the former environment and planning committee.

“With the environment com-mittee, I am very passionate about those issues and I think we have to bring a pragmatic face to the environmental issues that we have at the city,” McRae said.

“We have not done the best job communicating some of the good environmental initiatives that we have done, so I want to try to do that.”

Councillors were chosen to sit on committees and boards dur-ing a council meeting on Dec. 15.

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mittee, she said.McRae said he top priorities

as the head of that committee will be the Ottawa River cleanup, initiating a dialogue about gar-bage and getting people talking about and supporting green ini-tiatives.

“I believe fundamentally that we have to pick up garbage abso-

lutely every week. Every single week,” McRae said. “The form we pick it up in, though, is up for debate.”

As an advocate of the green bin program, McRae wants to get residents on board and talking about disposing of their trash in a green bin, instead of a garbage bag.

“You’re still throwing garbage out but you’re doing it in a differ-ent way,” she said. “So we have to continue talking about how we move people along to start thinking about our impact with the green bin and how it relates to garbage.”

But McRae also said environ-mental initiatives must be prag-matic.

“It can’t be an idealistic envi-ronment committee that is going to put forward ideologies that are going to be rejected by coun-cil,” she said.

McRae’s nominations refl ect a slightly different cross-section of interests than her pervious memberships. In the last term, she was a representative for com-munity housing, transportation, the library board and the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA). Now, in addition to the environment committee, she will sit on fi nance and economic development committee, the Ot-tawa Board of Health and Hydro Ottawa Holding Company Inc.

She is a lifelong learner, so she wants to take on new challenges, and it was time to let other people have a try on groups like RVCA, McRae added.

McRae was widely touted as a likely candidate for one of two deputy mayor’s seats, but she declined that opportunity be-cause she was more interested in chairing a committee.

“I think that we need, as mem-

bers of council, to not be self-ish in our choices, and I think it would be selfi sh to expect to chair a committee and to serve as deputy mayor and to be doing other things as well,” she said. “My focus is on these environ-mental issues, and the mayor was very gracious but very generous in giving me my fi rst choice and in 100 per cent standing behind what I wanted to do.”

HOBBS KEEN ON PLANNING

New Kitchissippi Ward Coun. Katherine Hobbs said she’s ex-cited to start working on the committees she has been ap-pointed to because she can ex-ercise her creativity and be in-volved in something where she can work from the ground up.

She will serve on commu-nity and protective services, planning, the Ottawa Board of Health and the governance re-newal subcommittee.

“When you go into something brand new, it’s different,” she said. “Personally, I like break-ing new ground, and having a job that I haven’t done before.”

While planning in Kitchis-sippi is a hot topic right now including the Westboro convent controversy, Hobbs wanted to be part of that committee to help create positive change.

“It doesn’t matter about prop-erty values, but rather a good quality of life,” she said.

Photo by Laura MuellerIn her fi rst act as head of the environment committee, River Ward Coun. Maria McRae delivered an update on the city’s green bin organ-ics recycling program on Tuesday, Dec. 21. Since the program launched in January, 53,000 tonnes of waste have been diverted from landfi lls.

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EDITORIAL

Before the inevitable mellowing out of Christmas Day, there is a lot of irritation that has to be overcome.

The components of that irritation are familiar to you.

People losing their minds in their cars, rushing around on their all-weath-er tires, engaging in road rage in shop-ping centre parking lots.

Not being able to get out of jammed shopping centre parking garages.

Icky Christmas muzak, featuring car-ols sung by Elvis, Mariah Carey and the Chipmunks, from Nov. 1 on.

Media-fuelled frenzy over the toy that everyone is going to feel guilty not buying for their child. This is now accompanied by Internet-fuelled frenzy as canny buyers resell that toy at hyper-infl ated prices.

Newspaper advice columns warning about inappropriate behaviour at offi ce Christmas parties.

Offi ce Christmas parties, where the guests are now so worried about inap-propriate behaviour that they spend all their time looking at their phones.

People who did behave inappropriate-ly driving home from offi ce Christmas parties.

All of this, when not life-endangering, is tough on the spirit, and it should be

a relief to arrive home safely, take off your boots and plunk down in front of the television set.

Except that the only thing on the televi-sion set, aside from poker and wrestling and real housewives from somewhere, is a movie about a man and a woman who want to announce their engagement on Christmas Eve but can’t because Rudolf got lost on 34th Street and has to be res-cued before the Christmas pageant can go on, and the man and the woman quarrel over some misunderstanding, meanwhile the Spirit of Christmas is being held hos-tage by an evil banker and only Hannah Montana can persuade him to let it go, but fi rst she has to sing a Christmas song and her band is stuck in a snowbank in Beverly Hills and none of the usual angels are available, so the call goes out to the neighbour’s collie dog . . .

That’s on every channel and you know how it turns out — with big fl uffy globs of snow falling slowly and everybody hugging and looking up in the air and saying “Happy Holidays” to each other.

The preponderance of Christmas movies on our airwaves must be particu-larly annoying to those of us who don’t celebrate Christmas, but it is annoying enough to everybody.

But just as all Christmas music is not icky — think of the traditional carols, the Messiah, even the Charlie Brown music of Vince Guaraldi — not all Christmas entertainment is pointless and insulting. The play Nativity that just concluding its run at the National Arts Centre is an en-joyable combination of spirituality, music and farce. Despite its irreverent treatment of the subject (coyotes in the manger!), it doesn’t seem to have offended anyone, which goes to show that audiences are more resilient and open-minded than they are often given credit for.

And of course there are the classic mov-ies that you can watch again and again — the original Miracle on 34th Street, just about any version of A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life (with its brilliant portrayal of the hellish life of Bedford Falls had there been no George Bailey) and White Christmas (just to hear Rosemary

Clooney sing and watch the world’s most ridiculous plot device: Bing Crosby going on network television to ask people to keep a secret from his old general, Dean Jagger).

A couple of the newer ones aren’t so bad. A Christmas Story (1983) has its mo-ments and there is nothing like watch-ing Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa to comfort the truly grouchy among us.

The problem is that Hollywood has to keep pumping out new holiday movies each year, the majority of which associ-ate the miracles of the season mostly with couples getting engaged.

It all makes you look forward to the New Year, when people can go back to doing what they do best on TV — run-ning through hospitals and shooting at helicopters.

Surviving the Christmas movie

CHARLES GORDON

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Dealing with winter driving

It’s December in Canada. It’s going to snow. This isn’t really news to anyone who lives here. And yet, whenever a centimetre or two of the white stuff hits the ground during the

fi rst snowfall of the season, you just have to listen to the morning traffi c report on the radio to hear about the increased number of car crashes.

You could make a game of it, really, if it were not so tragic. Making it even more sad is the fact that many of these crashes could have been prevented.

CBC News reports that, traditionally, the fi rst snowfall of the year is the day with the highest number of collisions throughout the year. Insur-ance company Aviva Canada reports that there are 50 per cent more car insurance claims in the winter months in Canada, and that the company made $37.8 million in collision claim payouts between December 2009 and February 2010.

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation’s web-site says it all – “stay alert, slow down, and stay in control.”

Yes, you may have top-of-the-line, just-installed brakes, but your car can’t stop in a December snowstorm the way it did during a sunny day in

July. Also, after a heavy snow, people are going to slow down. It makes sense if you can’t see the lines on the road.

Yes, getting around in the wintertime is not anyone’s idea of fun, but it has to be done, and it can be done safely. As Red Green so eloquently says, “We’re all in this together.”

It is important to allow more time when trav-elling, and to allow more space between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you.

Gone are the days of, well, just a few days ago, when we could jump into the car, turn the key, put the stick into drive and – having looked both ways of course – head out onto the open road.

Now, it’s warm up the car, scrape off the windshield. Oh, and don’t forget to shovel yourself out from the lovely little Mt. Everest the snowplow driver left at the end of your driveway.

It’s not pleasant, but in conditions like these, it drives home the point (pun intended) that we all share the road, and we all have to put up with the same delays, frustrations and weather conditions. But if we all put in a little extra time and caution, we’ll all arrive alive, safely.

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The holidays have arrived and during the next couple weeks, people across Ottawa will be surrounded by sweet treats and decadent holiday dishes.

While many people will indulge in a number of high fat meals over the next few weeks, there’s no reason to wait until 2011 for your get-healthy New Year’s resolution to start, according to two Ottawa health workers.

“It’s a holiday tradition to eat high-fat foods,” said Bruce Marshall, manag-er of health and wellness programs at Carleton University. “Whether you’re serving food or serving yourself, you have to be looking at smaller portions. In Canadians’ minds, we’re taught to clean your plate, and then we seem to overindulge.”

Marshall said eating in moderation is a key to keeping those extra pounds off during the holiday season

But it can be difficult, he said, espe-cially when there’s more baking hap-pening during the holidays and more family get-togethers where large meals are served.

Jaclyn Madill, manager of programs for Dovercourt Recreation Centre, agrees that people can still eat sweets and high-fat foods over the holidays with their family – but in smaller por-

tions.“Splurge in moderation,” she said.

“I always try and think this way.”People should make an effort to in-

clude healthier choices, like fruits and salads, during holiday meals, Marshall said. And instead of serving soda pop, fruit punches offer a sweet alternative with less sugar.

“Fruit can replace sweets,” he said. “We always got oranges in our stock-ings.”

Madill said the holidays also bring more time for people to exercise since they’re off work, and everyone should be working out in one way or another over the winter break.

She added that the fall and winter is the busiest time of year for fitness at Dovercourt Recreation Centre

“Winter brings people inside,” she said, adding that spinning classes are a good example of exercises people do when it’s too cold outside.

There’s also a huge rush in Septem-ber because back to school time brings people back into routines, and January is especially busy following holiday in-dulgence.

Madill said the best way to get mo-tivated over the holidays is to grab a friend and get a routine started with them.

“Group activities are motivating,” she said. “Their commitment to each

other keeps them active.”Marshall agrees that keeping a rou-

tine during the holidays is important to help keep the weight off – even if it just means walking around the mall during extended hours and window shopping.

The Dovercourt is also busy this time of year, offering special holiday classes so people can keep in shape, including palates, yoga and group fit-ness.

Madill said high enrolment numbers in January show that people are trying to get in shape in the new year, and she does start seeing the numbers slowly dwindle as the year goes on. It’s im-portant to start a new workout routine

as soon as possible to keep unwanted weight off, she said.

“My goal is to resist the drop off as much as I can, and help clients contin-ue to embark on a new lifestyle over an extended period of time,” she said.

Gary Holub of Health Canada also said people should check out the de-partment’s website to find holiday food safety tips as well as household safety.

“We stress those sorts of tips,” said Holub. “We make sure that Canadians are more aware.”

Those who are interested in Do-vercourt’s holiday workout pro-grams can check out the website www.dovercourt.org

‘No excuse’ for not staying fi t over the holidays

Ottawa, December 14, 2010

How do we fi rst learn about Emergency Rooms (ER)?

I was 12, visiting a farm in Cantley, Quebec. My brother Stan and I spent hours exploring the barn.

We found hay stacked from ceiling to fl oor. We jumped from bales perched several meters up, to those down below.

The fun lasted until Stan took aim at pile of hay from high above, and landed on a fl oor, hidden under only centimeters of hay. There was a loud “crack!” He got up holding his broken arm. He turned pale. We ran for help.

My mother drove him to the closest ER. The wait took forever. I didn’t see him until next morning.

How much has changed? Long ER wait times are still the norm.

But there’s been signifi cant progress. Dedicated nurses, doctors and other health professionals ensure most emergency patients receive timely care.

Take our hospital, for instance. Critically injured patients and those with life threatening conditions are seen within moments.

Otherwise, an ER nurse aims to see a patient within 15 minutes, assigning them to one of three streams of care.

For those with minor problems, “the walking wounded”, Ontario’s wait time target is less than 4 hours. Thanks to government’s work with

hospitals to divert cases to family doctors or walk-in clinics, and to improve our ability to “fast track” patients through ER when they do visit, the number of such visits declined by 15% since last year. And 75% of patients spend less than 4 hours in ER.

For sicker patients who need more care, but not admission to hospital, the wait-time target is 8 hours or less. This is the largest group of ER patients. Over the past year, visits from these patients grew by 16%. Despite the surge, we cared for 85% of within 8 hours. In fact, we treated 5,800 more patients (33 per day) within 8 hours than we did last year.

We’re getting better.

Yet the system is slowest for those waiting for admission to a hospital bed. The target wait time in this case is 8 hours. Here, we have not improved.

Why?

Hospitals operate most effi ciently at occupancy levels of 88% to 92%. Unfortunately, for several years we’ve operated every day at more than 100% occupancy (with more patients than beds). As a result, we achieve an 8-hour wait less than 20% of the time.

Delays happen not because of ER ineffi ciencies, but because acute care beds are increasingly occupied by patients who would ideally receive their care outside the hospital, but for whom there is a shortage of care in the community.

It’s easy to point fi ngers at each other to “fi x” the system. But no single government, hospital, community or health provider can do it alone.

Improvements in ER happened when we all worked together.

Let’s do the same to build a plan that ensures every patient receives care in the most appropriate setting.

Nicolas Ruszkowski is VP Communications and Outreach at The Ottawa Hospital. Each week, he will share behind-the-scenes insight from the hospital. E-mail him at [email protected]

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DOVERCOURT GARNERS EAT SMART AWARDDr. Isra Levy, medical offi cer of health, addressed an audience at the Dovercourt Recreation Centre on Dec. 16. Dovercourt is the fi rst recreation centre in Ottawa to be awarded the Eat Smart award, which recognizes Ontario schools, workplaces and recreation centres that meet exceptional standards in nutrition, safe food handling and a smoke-free environment.

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Cathy Pearen has never been alone on the holidays.

With a very tight-knit group of family and friends, she’s sur-rounded by everyone she loves during the season. But for the past decade she’s also given back on Christmas Day, serving Hin-tonburgers and those who live outside the community at the annual Christmas dinner held at the Carleton Tavern.

“I fell in love with volunteer-ing and I’ve been doing it ever since the dinner started,” said Pearen.

Now in its 10th year, the an-nual free dinner is open to every-one – whether they’re in need, or if they don’t have anyone else to spend Christmas with.

Cheryl Parrott is involved with the Economic Development Committee in Hintonburg which is one of the sponsors for the event.

She said the committee has always been involved in holiday dinners in the city and when the Carleton Tavern’s owner decided to open the restaurant’s doors on Christmas, the committee want-ed to help out.

Over the years, the tavern

building is still standing and the annual dinner takes place in the pub.

The number of volunteers also grew over the years and now the event has evolved into a big, well-organized celebration.

Over the years, Parrott said it’s become clear there’s not just an economic need in Ottawa, but also a social need.

She said Christmas can be one of the loneliest days of the year for those who might not have a family to share it with.

“We don’t want anyone to be alone at Christmas,” Parrott

said. “It started because of an economic need, but we also real-ized there’s also that need to not be alone at Christmas.”

Mark Vallillee has also been volunteering his time at the tav-ern a year or two after it started, and he said it’s a great way to spend the holiday as someone who’s single with no children.

He also volunteers his time at the Shepherds of Good Hope – among a number of the other organizations.

“I try and give back and this is a great experience here,” he said.

He added that he has met some memorable people over the years while volunteering – and even has a couple fans who greet him every year at the tavern’s Christ-mas dinner.

“There’s one girl who’s here every year in the same sweater, and as soon as she sees me she lights up,” Vallillee laughed. “If only she was 40 years younger!”

Parrott said that there’s a misconception that the dinner is just for those who are needy, and there’s a donation box for anyone who would like to come to the dinner and donate some food.

Pearen added that she’s seen people “dressed to the nines” at the dinner, and the event is a true community effort.

The guest list has increased dramatically over the years and Parrott said it seems like it’s a combination of word-of-mouth, more of an economic need, and there are many people in Ottawa who don’t have anyone to share the holidays with.

Pearen said it gets so busy that nobody has a chance to eat alone and it’s a great opportunity for people to get to know one an-other.

The event will have old favou-rites including live music and

home deliveries of food.Parrott said they still need

donations of turkeys, ham and baked goods for the dinner as well as new gifts for adults, especially for men, that can be dropped off at the Carleton Tavern.

She said they fi nd it’s often men who are alone for the holi-days and gifts like sweaters, warm socks, mittens, gloves, hats, gift certifi cates, bus tick-ets and telephone cards are wel-come.

While Pearen is on her feet serving customers between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Christmas Day, she has dinner to come home to with close friends.

“One of my friends stays back and puts on Christmas dinner, and I literally collapse. I always serve buffet in my home,” Pear-en laughed.

But while she might need a foot rub when the dinner’s over on Christmas, she said she couldn’t imagine not volunteering on the holiday.

“The incredible show of volun-teerism and spirit is something that I’ll never get over,” she said.

For more information or to do-nate contact Cheryl or Vance at 613-728-7582 or [email protected] before Christ-mas.

Photo by Kristy WallaceVolunteers Mark Vallillee and Cathy Pearen spend their Christmas giving back to the community at the annual Hintonburg Christmas dinner.

Nobody’s lonely for Christmas at Hintonburg’s Carleton Tavern


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BY BRYNNA LESLIE

The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario kicked off its Christmas celebrations earlier this month with a visit from the Ottawa Senators.

“One young man found out the Senators were coming and hasn’t stopped smiling since,” said Nora Ullyot, one of ten child life specialists at CHEO, whose job it is to normalize the hospi-tal environment for children.

Ullyot and her colleagues work to replicate things that kids do at home and at school. The weeks leading up to Christ-mas are spent doing crafts, mak-ing presents for family and play-ing Christmas-themed games.

The job of a life specialist, explains Ullyot, is to create an environment where “kids can still be kids,” something that’s especially important during the holidays.

“We recognize that no time is a good time to be in hospital,” said Ullyot, who has been in her position for 32 years. “But it is particularly stressful at Christ-mas.”

The life specialist team works year-round helping the children occupying the 156 beds and out-patients to understand their illnesses or injuries. They may provide age-appropriate expla-nations, for example, using dolls to show what a surgical proce-dure will look like. Life special-ists also spend much of their time coordinating activities and planning events so kids don’t feel they’re missing out.

“The kids are not going to see Santa at the mall,” said Ullyot, “so we make sure they see him here.”

Every year, a few days before Christmas, the inpatients gather in the cafeteria for a Christmas party and the fi rst of two visits from Santa Claus.

“Last year, though, we realized that a lot of kids were missing out because, if they had certain medications running and they needed to have a nurse on hand, they weren’t able to come to the cafeteria,” said Ullyot.

This year, the life specialist team decided to change the ven-ue, holding four individual par-ties, one in each of the units.

“Each fl oor has a playroom,” said Ullyot. “Having Santa visit each fl oor means more children can be involved and it will allow the staff to take part.”

Christmas Day is extra spe-cial for the children at CHEO. Not many people realize, says Ullyot, that Santa Claus spends the entire night fl ying around the world, before spending the day at the hospital, going room to room.

“If the children are in isola-tion and he cannot go into the room, he’ll wave at the window,” explained Ullyot. “Or if some-one’s been asleep when we’re in a unit, then Santa’s very accom-modating and will come back as soon as they’re awake. He’s here for the whole day.”

Ullyot said families come to see CHEO as a second home, and it’s especially evident at Christ-mas. CHEO provides turkey din-ner for those visiting the chil-dren on Christmas Day.

“Last year we had a whole family stay over. Mom, dad and the patient all had matching py-jamas, and they all had their pic-ture taken with Santa together.”

Santa set to bring CHEO patients extra dose of Christmas cheer

Community


SOUNDS OF THE SEASONProud parents and loved ones packed into the Broadway Avenue Public School gymnasium and enjoyed some holiday favourites on the evening of Dec. 16. The concert featured the school’s Grade 7-8 bands playing Christmas tunes.

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EMMA JACKSON

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As another winter settles in to the Ottawa area, the Coats for Kids program is in full swing at the Goodfellow Cleaners where used coats and snowpants are be-ing collected for children in need at four locations across the city.

Riverside South resident and owner Charles Goodfellow said he’s happy to help kids keep warm in the nation’s very chilly capital, where the cost of living - and coats - can be staggering for disadvantaged families.

“My wife and I have two young boys of our own and I know what its like to go out and purchase coats. They do outgrow them quickly, and they are expensive. There is a need for this (kind of charity) in Ottawa. There are a lot of people in Ottawa who are less fortunate,” he said.

Standing beside the festively wrapped cardboard box in the doorway of his 665 Earl Arm-strong Dr. location, Goodfellow said the response has been very positive so far.

“As you can see, it’s overfl ow-ing. There are a lot of coats com-ing in, and we’re having a great

response,” he said, adding that since the beginning of Decem-ber they’ve collected at least 150 coats, 100 of which have already been delivered to the Salvation

Army for distribution. He said it helps that his four

locations – Riverside South, Bill-ings Bridge, Bells Corners and Barrhaven – are affl uent areas,

where families have more to give away.

“We’re fortunate that where we’re situated parents do not have to worry about their kids.

The program is growing tre-mendously, I would say this year just compared to last year the re-sponse has been unbelievable,” he said.

Last winter Goodfellows and Hillary’s, another local dry cleaning company, teamed up to run the program and collected about 500 coats together. This year, Goodfellows is going alone and hopes to collect about 400 coats by the end of January, al-though he said he won’t say no to coats past the deadline.

“We’ll probably run it until the end of January, but we’ll still take them in, there are always people who bring things in after the date so we’ll just take care of it,” he said.

Goodfellow said the experi-ence has been very positive for him.

“For me personally, the longer I have been in business, as I get older, the more I want to become involved in the community and give back,” he said. “This is just a great way to do that.”

Coats can be dropped off at any of the four Goodfellow loca-tions during business hours. For more information visit www.goodfellowcleaners.com.

Photo by Emma JacksonRiverside South resident and business owner Charles Goodfellow stands beside an overfl owing box of do-nated coats in his Riverside South drycleaning location at 665 Earl Armstrong Dr. The business is collecting used winter coats for disadvantaged kids.

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Christmas is the busiest time of year for city shelters, and not just because there are more people looking to escape from the cold.

“It’s a diffi cult time of year for many people, so we make it busy. We try to give the men something positive to focus on,” said Shirley Roy, community and media re-lations manager at the Ottawa Mission, a 223-bed emergency shelter for men. “Most people who are staying at the shelter have experienced a crisis of some sort, which very often has included a family break-down. That means they have no family to go to at Christmas.”

The staff and volunteers have been working tirelessly on Christmas program-ming to try and keep the residents busy with festive distractions, including week-ly movie and bingo nights, a euchre tour-nament and board games on New Year’s Eve.

The Mission’s 250 volunteers have or-ganized other evenings throughout the month, like making Christmas cards, gin-gerbread houses and decorating cookies.

Across town at Cornerstone, which provides emergency shelter and interim housing for women, staff fi nd Christmas busy in other positive ways.

“It’s the time when we get the most sup-

port from the community,” said Yvonne Garvey, Cornerstone’s resource develop-ment manager. “There are a lot of fi nan-cial donations, with offi ce groups taking up collections at their Christmas parties and faith groups taking up collections for us.”

Cornerstone provides gift packages to the women residents at an annual party in the week leading up to Christmas.

“A month or so ago we put out a holiday newsletter to the community with a wish list,” said Garvey. “We asked for the types of donations we can use year round like bus tickets, socks, food donations, and fi -nancial donations.”

Drop-in centres like Centre 454 also of-fer essential support services, meals, and festive social activities to the homeless seven days per week.

“When the weather gets severe, we serve about 300 people per day,” said Mary-Mar-tha Hale, the executive director of Centre 454.

Every weekend in December, a photog-rapher has been taking family portraits of clients at Centre 454 to use as keepsakes or Christmas gifts. Earlier this month, the centre served Christmas dinner and gifts to 600 people with the help of 100 volun-teers from the Anglican Diocese, and do-nations from the Salvation Army and the mission.

Caring community members bring holiday spirit to shelters

Photo by Michelle Nash

SINGING WITH THE OLD GREY MAYORSMayor Jim Watson and several former mayors from the pre-amalgamation era, Allan Higdon, Claudette Cain, Brian Coburn, Doug Thompson and Marianne Wilkinson got together to sing Christmas carols at the Rockcliffe Retirement Residence on Dec. 19. The group has been performing together since 2001 and affectionately call themselves “The Old Grey Mayors.” Everyone joined in the Christmas fun, with resident Beatrice Ross playing the piano for the carollers.

Photos by Kristy Wallace

CHRISTMAS AT THE CUBE GALLERY

Top: From left Pat McLeod, a member of various community associations in Ottawa’s west end, greets party-goers at the Cube Gallery door with Tamara Fulmes, event organizer, at the annual West Wellington Business Improvement Area’s Christmas party on Dec. 15.

Right: People chowed down on snacks and enjoyed drinks at the Cube Gallery as part of the Wellington West BIA’s annual holi-day party on Dec. 15.

JENNIFER MCINTOSH

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Canadian Blood Services is asking for Ottawans to remem-ber to give the gift of life this holiday season. While most people are sitting by the fi re or enjoying turkey dinner, there are those who will be fi ghting for their lives and waiting for the precious gift of blood.

Collecting blood during the holiday season is traditionally

a challenge as many donors are away or are busy with family ac-tivities.

“We simply need more Cana-dians to book appointments this holiday season to donate blood, particularly the week before and the week after Christmas,” Anne Campbell, director of donor clin-ics for Canadian Blood Services (CBS), said in a press release.

The staff at the Queensway Carleton Hospital is doing their part. In a mobile donor clinic at

the hospital on Dec. 7, they rolled up their sleeves to give the gift of life.

Ann Luu, communications specialist for CBS, said that during the hour-and-a-half the mobile donor clinic crew was at the hospital, they collected 11 units of blood — or 91 per cent of their 12-unit goal.“That donor clinic was a real success,” she said. “But the demand is still really high and we need blood.” Patti Boyd, director of labora-

tory services at the Queensway Carleton Hospital said that the regional hospitals are working together on their contingency plans to address blood and blood product shortages. “Through CBS we get daily and bi-weekly inventory status updates and we meet annually with their hospi-tal liaison specialist to review our usage and make projections for the demand,” she said. Boyd said the hospital staff are com-mitted to blood donation. Before

the recent clinic the Queensway-Carleton hematologist urged staff to donate.

Boyd added “Blood donation is really important; each donation can be separated into the red cells, plasma and platelets which can save more than one life.”

The next mobile donor clinic will be held at the Nepean Sport-splex on Dec. 29 from noon to 6 p.m. In Ottawa alone, CBS needs to collect 3,578 units of blood be-tween Dec. 13 and Jan. 2.


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HOLIDAY SURVIVAL TIPS

• Remember, this is the holiday season. Before starting to set the table, turn on some holiday music, pour yourself a glass of wine or a cup of hot tea and enjoy your task.

• If you have established an overall theme when decorating your home for the holiday season, remember to save a portion of those key decorating resources for the dining room table.

• By avoiding the use of fresh fl owers, the table decor will last throughout the holiday season without further attention.

• Table centre pieces should not exceed 12 inches (30 cm) in height so as not to interfere with the sight line of those at the table.

• Place mats and table cloths are equally acceptable.

• Don’t try to save your lovely holiday candles. If candles are on a dining room table, they should be lit during dinner.

• Forks are placed on the left hand side of a place setting, knives and spoons on the right. Th e blades of knives face towards the centre of the place setting.

• Cutlery is used starting from the extreme outside edges of the place setting and working inward (i.e., toward the centre).

• Note: Dessert cutlery (fork, spoon or both) are placed in a horizontal position at the very top of the place setting with the handle of the fork pointing to the left and the handle of the spoon pointing to the right.

• Wine and Champagne glasses are placed on the right hand side of a place setting above the knives and spoons. Th ey are arranged in the order in which they will be used. Th e water glass is always placed to the left of these glasses closer to the centre of the place setting. (Note: In the “Christmas Blue” accompanying photo, we have decided only to serve sparkling wine throughout the meal.)

• Napkins (preferably linen) may be folded in many diff erent ways and placed in a variety of positions (e.g., on chargers, on bread & butter plates, in glasses). However, they should never be placed on the right hand side of a place setting. When folded in the traditional rectangular or “square” manner, place the napkin beyond the forks with the folded edge parallel to the forks and with the open corner at the bottom left . NEVER EVER place the napkins under the forks!

• Th e bread & butter plate is placed on the left hand side of the place setting either directly above the forks or to the left of the forks (and napkin, if your napkin is in that position).

• Th e bread & butter knife is placed in a horizontal position across the bread & butter plate with the handle pointing to the right and the blade facing down.

• Place/name cards are optional. When used, place them in a horizontal central position above the dessert cutlery. It is best to have names written on both sides of the card.

• For an additional touch of elegance, a touch of pizzazz, place chargers at each individual place setting when you set the table. Chargers are simply oversized plates (of metal, glass, porcelain, wood, plastic, etc.). Th ey usually stay on the table for the entire meal. Plates/bowls for each course are placed directly on top of them. Th ey are only removed from the table if plates of a certain size or shape for a particular course cannot be arranged comfortably on the chargers. Sometimes when setting a table, it is fun to put at each place setting a “show plate” which is removed aft er people are seated at the dining room table and before the fi rst course is served. (Note: Frequently, the handsome plates with a big pink bow fi ll that role in our home on special occasions.)

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Kids from across the city were given the chance to have a hap-pier Christmas with $200 in gift certifi cates from VIC Manage-ment Inc. — owners of Carling-wood Shopping Centre and Bill-ings Bridge Plaza.

The third annual Cop Shop on Dec. 15 saw 25 children hand-picked from six local schools given $200 to shop for Christmas presents.

Frank Fenn, Carlingwood’s manager, said that the idea for the Cop Shop came from their sister shopping centre in Hali-fax.

“They had a community po-licing offi ce and it was done to improve community relations between the police and the local kids,” he said.

“And it was a huge success, aside from the benefi t to the rela-

tionships between police and the kids, we really found some kids really need the extra help during the holidays.”

Ottawa Police Sgt. Patricia

Ferguson said six schools in the area — Bayshore Public, Severn Avenue Public, Our Lady of Fati-ma, École Élémentaire Publique Charlotte Lemieux and Queen Elizabeth Public School — se-lected one student to receive the prize.

“Some schools used art con-test and other projects,” she said. “But it was totally up to them.”

Travis Murphy, a student at Pinecrest Public School, said that he doesn’t know why he was selected.

“I was just lucky I guess,” he said.

Travis said he bought some gifts for his mom, but was spend-ing his last $30 on a game for his Playstation 3.

The kids were given a whole day with local police offi cers — including a pizza lunch.

Const. Ken Kitt has been in-volved with the program for the last two years, and said he gets as much out of it as the kids do.

“It gets me off the streets for a day and gives me a chance to connect with the kids,” he said. “I really enjoy it.”

Photo By Jennifer McIntoshTravis Murphy was on his last $30 of the gift certifi cate he re-ceived from VIC Management Inc. Shown with Const. Ken Kitt, he chose to get himself an early Christmas gift at EB Games.

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Over 8,000 hockey players will descend on Ottawa from Dec. 29 to Jan. 3 for the 12th annual Bell Capital Cup.

The tournament, which runs from Dec. 30 to Jan. 3, will see teams come from as far as Beijing.

“Average-wise, I’d say we are expecting around 8,380 players,” said Matt Bennett, the general manager for the Bell Capital Cup. Last year’s cup saw 8,500 players take part.

Players from 19 divisions will take to the ice during the fi ve-day competition, with 493 teams vying for a championship spot.

“When everything is all said and done,

we’ll have 993 games played,” said Bennett.Fourteen teams will be attending from

various parts of Europe and Asia, and for the fi rst time South Korea will take part in the cup tournament, said Bennett.

The Ottawa-area will be well repre-sented, with 265 teams competing for the top spot, including the Kanata Blaz-ers, Nepean Raiders, Ottawa Sting and Gloucester Rangers.

“Every district in the ODHA (Ottawa District Hockey Association) will be rep-resented this year,” said Bennett.

Teams will also be coming from British Co-lumbia, Nunavut, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Twenty-two rinks will play host to the games, from Navan to Aylmer to Kanata, said Bennett, with every championship game being played at Scotiabank Place.

“I think it’s defi nitely going to be one of the most memorable hockey experiences they’re going to have,” said Bennett. “On the ice they’re meeting kids from differ-ent cities, different countries.”

This year, the fi rst-annual Fan Fest will

be held at the Bell Sensplex on Dec. 29. Ottawa Senators National Hockey

League alumni will be present, along with a Hockey Hall of Fame exhibit and a sports memorabilia auction with funds going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern Ontario, said Bennett.

“It’s just to kind of welcome everybody into town and get everybody in the mood for the week ahead,” he said. “We’re hop-ing to make it an annual event.”

Players also get the added bonus of at-tending an Ottawa Senators game.

“On Dec. 29 we’re going to send 6,100

kids to the Sens game against Carolina, and about 500 kids to the Leafs (vs. Sens) game (on Jan. 1),” said Bennett.

He said the Bell Capital Cup is expect-ed to bring in around $15 million for the local economy.

Tournament passes sell for $12 and cover all fi ve days. Adult day passes go for $5 while senior’s day passes are $3. Children under 12 attend for free. Ticket sales are used tosupport local minor hockey associations and charities.

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They’re newcomers to the sport of tram-poline, but the three Tyo brothers from the Carlingwood area have quickly bounced their way to the top of the provincial ranks, combining to win fi ve medals at the fi rst Ontario Cup Dec. 4-5 in Burlington.

The eldest brother, Grade 8 Notre Dame High School student Benjamin, led the way with gold in the double mini trampoline event and silver in the Level A, 14-and-un-der individual contest, followed by Grade 6 Our Lady of Fatima student Vincent with a pair of bronze in the same competitions, and eight-year-old Francis, who took DMT gold in Level C, 12-and-under.

“They’ve been leaders for our club,” says Heather Ross McManus, a 2004 Olympian who coaches the boys at Spring Action on Rideau Street. “The oldest brother, Ben, looks out for the younger ones and it’s been a really good example for the rest of the team with the older teammates look-ing after the younger athletes. They’ve been really helpful.”

The bouncing brothers’ path towards trampoline began when Benjamin was fi ve years old, recounts their mother, An-drea, who decided it was time to sign up her son for gymnastics when she found him hanging out on the ceiling after fear-lessly scaling a door frame.

The Tyos practiced artistic gymnas-tics for several years until Benjamin ran into frequent injury problems training 20 hours a week at age 10 and switched to a discipline that was a bit softer on the limbs.

With a nice medal haul from last spring’s provincial championships and the superb start to this season, Andrea is a “proud mamma” to see the success her boys have achieved just over a year into their new sport, which is a great activity for their health – as well as that of their beds and couches.

“They have a major, major forbidden rule,” Andrea notes, explaining the club is the only place they are permitted to bounce; the small trampoline at home is

even off limits. “They are not allowed to jump on it, because there’s no supervi-sion. And I think they would break all our furniture.”

Another big benefi t Andrea sees in trampoline along with husband Richard – who often assists the brothers with their mental preparation – is the self-discipline it requires.

“I think it’s also good because the three of them can really put their heads to-gether for this sport,” adds Andrea, whose boys are karate brown and black belts along with their older sister, a competi-tive dancer. “They compete against each other in one way, but they also take it that they’re a team.”

There is, naturally, a bit of a sibling ri-valry that exists, which their coach some-times sees shine through when they tackle each other during warm-ups.

“Last year, me and Vince were almost at the same level, so we were always com-peting to see who could do this skill better or get the harder skills faster,” explains Benjamin, who teamed up with Vincent to win synchronized bronze at last year’s provincials.

Although they possess somewhat simi-lar skills, the brothers have their own dif-ferent goals for this season. Francis would like to earn a qualifying position for the Eastern Canadian championships (even though he won’t be eligible to attend the event until age 10). Vincent would like to move up to the top of the provincial podi-um, and he views that as a realistic target since Benjamin soon plans to switch into the Novice stream with an eye on reach-ing the national championships in Prince Edward Island.

That wouldn’t come as a shock to Ross McManus, who credits Benjamin’s back-ground in artistic gymnastics and an in-fectious work ethic as the main keys to his rapid rise.

Two other Spring Action athletes also won medals at the Ontario Cup – Avery Wheat (gold individual, silver DMT in Level C 12 & under) and Paul Erickson (gold DMT, bronze individual in Level C 13 & older).

Brothers bounce their wayto trampoline success

Photo by Dan PlouffeThe Tyo brothers from left – Francis, 8, Vincent, 11, and Benjamin, 12 – won fi ve medals at the season’s fi rst Ontario Cup trampoline competition earlier this month.

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It’s still a long road ahead for skip Rachel Homan’s Ottawa Curling Club rink, but the team that features lead Lisa Weagle, second Alison Kreviazuk and third Emma Miskew are keen to return to last season’s heights as they compete in full-time in the senior ranks for the time this year.

Coming off a world junior sil-ver medal this past March, Team Homan started off the 2010-11 season with a bang as they be-came the fi rst-ever back-to-back winners of the World Curling Tour Shorty Jenkins Classic event in Brockville, but then hit a bit of a lull with mediocre re-sults in October and November before winning the Ontario zone play-downs two weekends ago – the fi rst step towards getting back to the provincial, national and international stage.

“It’s been busy, and that caused us to maybe have a slump for a bit,” says Kreviazuk, who puts in full-time hours at the rink and at work as a bank teller. “It’s been a pretty up-and-down season, but I think we learned a lot from our losses and we’re back out of that

now.”Trips to Winnipeg and Nova

Scotia on top of several others on weekends within Ontario took a toll on the group, but they hope that their good performance to win the zone title shows that they’ve turned a corner in ad-vance of the Jan. 7-9 regional

qualifi er for the provincial cham-pionships.

“We’re trying to peak at the right time,” notes Weagle, a 25-year-old former Nepean High School student. “We’re heading into the part of the season where certainly that’s starting to mat-ter, and I think we’re getting

there.”Weagle is the new addition to

Team Homan for this season, as previous members of the lineup – Alison’s younger sister, Lynn, and Laura Crocker – continue to compete as juniors.

“Rachel called and just asked me if I’d be interested in play-ing with them, and I thought it’s not the kind of opportunity you turn down,” smiles the Univer-sity of Ottawa communications grad who had taken a break from competitive curling when she be-gan working at Heritage Canada. “Now that I’m at the point where I’m getting comfortable with my career path, it was the perfect timing to get back into it. It’s been great.”

Weagle joined a group that has amassed quite the resume, with their 2010 Canadian junior cham-pionship followed by the silver medal from the junior worlds in Flims, Switzerland topping the list.

“It was a really cool experi-ence, and it was nice to be able to go somewhere for it too – not just hang around Canada,” recounts Miskew, a Brookfi eld High School grad who resides near the airport. “Playing on the ice in Switzerland against different

countries was really cool, and it was defi nitely a good learning experience as well.”

Now that they’re up against the very best in the world of any age, the possibility of playing in an international championship is a bit more of a stretch, but Miskew felt just as much fi re heading into her fi rst senior season.

“I didn’t fi nd it harder to get motivated at all,” explains the Carleton University industrial design student, noting their taste of the Olympic pre-trials event last season still provides fuel. “Now we’re at a point where Olympics is an ultimate goal. Al-though there’s nothing this year to play for the Olympics, it’s still something to strive for.”

An Ontario title and an appear-ance at the Scotties nationals is the big target for Team Homan this season, although they’re keeping their focus on fulfi lling each step of that journey.

“We all really, really want the same thing,” adds Kreviazuk, a graduate of Sir Robert Borden High School and the University of Ottawa leisure studies and psychology programs. “We have the same goals, and we all re-mind each other throughout the year what we’re practicing for.”

Photo by Dan PlouffeLisa Weagle, left, Alison Kreviazuk, right, and Emma Miskew throw lead, second and third rocks respectively for Team Homan, who are competing in their fi rst full-time season at the senior level following a world junior silver medal last year.

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Coloured in grey with only 33,000km!Coloured in grey with only 33,000km! PR3359PR3359


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Cruise control, alloy wheels, leather,Cruise control, alloy wheels, leather, with 32,976km! US1600with 32,976km! US1600


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4X4, 20” wheels, DVD and NAV with4X4, 20” wheels, DVD and NAV with 20,229km US160420,229km US1604


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ABS breaks, remote entry, rear wiper,ABS breaks, remote entry, rear wiper, 54,031km! US1616A54,031km! US1616A


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