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Residents tell councillor Beausoleil and Chapel intersection is not wanted.

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News - Do you love fi nd-ing new ways to reuse or re-cycle?

Are you looking for a neat new art piece for your living

room? If that’s the case, a group

of Grade 6 students at As-sumption Catholic School are working on hosting just the art show for you.

It’s early days for the stu-dents of Amy Howe’s Grade

6 class and their upcoming art show, but they’ve already reached out to local artists and begun brainstorming types of art they will be creat-ing for the big event.

Planned for Earth Day, the students have decided to tie

the theme to environment-savvy art pieces.

Howe said it was her stu-dents who decided on the idea of hosting a community art show.

The students are still hash-ing out the details of how to get the community participat-ing, but one thing is for sure – they want Vanier to be in-

volved. “We want to make it huge,”

Howe said. “We want the community to be as much a part of this as we are.”

The class is participating in the Entrepreneurial Achieve-ment Program business ad-venture.

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Moms looking to revive Pineview association

Assumption School students plan Earth Day art show


News - The third time might just be the charm when it comes to trying to start up a community-wide association for Pineview.

Not that there hasn’t been an association in the east-end neighbourhood tucked beside the Pineview Golf Course and Cyrville Road before.

Three years ago, resident Joe Sabb announced he was reviving the community asso-ciation which had been dor-mant for more than 20 years. But it was a tall order for just one man, and the events and plans were few and far be-tween.

Again, in 2011 another res-ident, Paul Francoeur, wanted to start the Pineview East Community Association to bridge the gap between two sides of the neighbourhood.

Now, two neighbourhood moms, Lynn Lau and Heather Scott, are hoping to work with these individuals and revive

the community association. “I think it’s a really nice

thing to have in a communi-ty,” Lau said. “It can improve the quality of life. I have been here for three years without one and things are OK, but could be better.”

Lau and Scott actually met eight kilometres away from their homes at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Chatting at fi rst because their sons were the same age, Lau said it eventually came up that they both lived in Pineview.

“It was almost serendipi-tous,” Lau said. “The fact that we both live near each other and wanted to have lo-cal events we discussed the great things about Pineview and the things that lack and ways to get our neighbours interested in events.”

Lau and Scott have con-nected with Sabb through their area councillor, Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tier-ney.

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News - What happens when you are out shopping or playing in the park and you have to go?

One local organization is look-ing to make public washrooms more accessible and available for anyone who has to go.

The Gotta go! campaign started a couple of months ago with one thing in mind -- creating a network of safe,

accessible, free, clean and environ-mentally responsible public toilets and water fountains at parks, major transit stops and key public spaces to meet the needs of residents and tourists in Ottawa.

Campaign organizer Marianne Eriksson informed Lowertown resi-dents at a Feb. 10 meeting about the campaign at its monthly meeting on Feb. 10. According to Eriksson, one of the fi rst things the organization is doing is gathering information,

ideas and comments from residents. “We want to know where you

think would be a good place, con-cerns or ideas,” Eriksson said. “Sometimes we are simply talking about putting in one public toilet in a location that could have a benefi -cial impact.”

According to the campaign, the Crohns and Colitis Foundation sur-veyed their members in 2008 and found that more than 85 per cent of them have been caught need-ing a toilet in a hurry and although the city does have public rest-rooms in large parks or community spaces, use is limited to the hours it is open to the public and some are

seasonal. “There have been complaints that

people use laneways in the market,” Eriksson said.

She said the group is also com-piling a list of current public wash-rooms to best identify the ideal spots for public washrooms.

Concerns about cleanliness, she added, could be addressed by hav-ing self-cleaning washrooms.

“We are looking at what other capital cities are doing, as well as looking at design capabilities for the washrooms,” she said.

Not an inexpensive endeavor, the organization plans to help off-set any start-up costs by making advertising

space available for businesses. Lowertown Community Associa-

tion board member Elizabeth Ber-nstein told Eriksson that a recent walkability audit the association conducted in the summer collect-ed some information about public washroom needs and offered to share the information with the cam-paign.

“(Going forward) we can share with you and help build the research rather than work separately,” Bern-stein said.

To fi nd out more information, send comments or ideas, contact the Gotta go! campaign at [email protected]

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News - Ready to butt out once and for all?

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, there is no time like the present with the chance to win a brand new car on the line.

On March 1, the Cancer

Society launches its 2014 Driven to Quit challenge across the province and here in Ottawa, Barbara Holland-er, regional coordinator for the Smokers Helpline, said the contest is a great way to encourage smokers to quit.

“Our main thing is to en-courage people to make an attempt to quit,” she said.

In some cases, Hollander added, it can take as many as seven tries to successfully quit.

“People need to identify what their main motivation is. Sit down and say, “Why do I really want to quit?” It could be their health, or fi nances, or to get more physically active – but identifying the motiva-tion is important.”

Aside from personal mo-tivation, the opportunity to

be entered into a draw to win the choice between a Dodge Avenger or a Dodge Jour-ney or one of seven regional prizes of $1,000 cash could help this time be the win a smoker needs, Hollander said.

Registered participants will receive a confi rmation email that includes a $4 discount coupon for either Nicorette or Nicoderm.

Each participant is required to have a buddy, someone to offer support, hand holding, smoke-snatching and words of encouragement – anything the quitter needs, Hollander said.

Buddies have the opportu-nity to win one of eight $100 cash prizes.

Registration is currently open for anyone who has already quit or plans to quit by the end of the month at DrivenToQuit.ca or by calling 1-877-513-5333 or by visiting a Canadian Cancer Society Community offi ce.

New this year, participants can create a public profi le online where they can share their journey with friends and family for support.

The contest offers loads of support, Hollander said, with tips, tools and a help phone line for participants.

“We offer you one reason to quit and three ways to help,” she said.

Participants can call or text the free helpline, or visiting the website.

According to the cancer so-ciety, tobacco use is the num-ber one cause of preventable disease, death and disability in Ontario and is killing more

than 13,000 Ontarians every year and roughly 36 people a day.

Twenty minutes after a smoker quits, Hollander

said their blood pressure and pulse rate will return to nor-mal.

Two weeks to three months after, circulation improves, walking becomes easier, and lung function may increase by up to 20 per cent.

One year after quitting, the risk of heart disease is cut in half.

Risk of smoking related heart attack is cut in half and 10 years of being smoke free cuts the risk of dying from lung cancer in half.

“Quitting smoking is a process; people get frustrated if they have tried a few times, so remember what happened last time and try again,” she said.

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News - Mayor Jim Watson’s idea to name a yard between city hall and the courthouse after Nelson Mandela is up for public scru-tiny.

Watson revealed the idea during his “state of the city” speech to city council on Jan. 22.

“It would be a small, but meaningful way to recognize the man who inspired people the world over,” the mayor said.

The proposal is under consideration by the city’s commemorative naming committee, which is seeking the public’s feedback.

If approved, the area in front of the city hall heritage building facing Elgin Street, in front of the Human Rights Monument, will be re-named.

Comments on this proposal must be direct-ed to Diane Blais in the city clerk’s offi ce by emailing [email protected] no later than March 14.

The South African leader dedicated his life to ending that country’s apartheid regime died on Dec. 5, 2013. Mandela was South Africa’s fi rst black chief executive, elected as president from 1994 to 1999 after serving 18 years in prison for plotting to overthrow the government using violence.

He was the fi rst living foreigner to be made an honourary Canadian citizen and the fi rst for-eign leader to be made a member of the Order of Canada.

Mandela visited Ottawa in 1998 and unveiled a plaque honouring John Peters Humphrey in front of the Human Rights Monument outside city hall’s heritage building.

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News - The closure of the Beausoleil and Chapel intersec-tion couldn’t come fast enough for area residents.

The Lowertown intersection was opened at the end of last year in an effort to fi nd a way to make a safe crossing for the three Lowertown schools; York Street Public School, Sainte-Anne Catholic School and De La Salle High School.

A dead-end street, Chapel Street was originally opened at Beausoleil Drive because of construction on Rideau Street. Now, at a request from Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury to allow staff to analyze the op-portunity to create a safe pedes-trian crossing, the street is now open for through traffi c. This is something that raised concerns among a number of Sandy Hill, and hasn’t made some Lower-town residents happy, either.

Residents from both neigh-bourhoods aired their concerns at a public meeting on the sub-ject on Feb. 12 at the Rideau Branch library.

Fleury’s staff has worked closely with the province and has been reviewing the Ontario Highway Traffi c Act to see what could be done about the inter-section.

According to Fleury, the vol-ume of people crossing at that point is not enough to warrant a signaled crossing, but to put in the stop sign up is a step in the right direction.

During the question and an-swer format at the meeting, Fleury fi elded questions mainly about the roadway opening, par-ticularly about vehicular traffi c moving along neighbouring streets.

“I recognize that this is a community piss-off with cars going through the neighbour-hood,” Fleury said. “But the in-tent is to get a safe crossing. It’s

a short (term solution) -- albeit long in your opinion, for it to be open, but it’s to get to a solu-tion. I am sorry about the cars going thorough, but it’s a short-term solution to fi nd a long-term answer.”

Therese Goneau, a member of Ottawa-Vanier MPP Madeleine Meilleur’s staff, also attended the meeting. Goneau, who had been working with Fleury on the issue, said Meilleur personally talked with staff at the Ministry of Transportation to try to fi nd a solution for the intersection af-ter becoming frustrated with the length of time it was taking to fi nd a safe solution.

City staff who attended the meeting also said that the time-line is incredibly tight in com-parison to anything that has been done in the past. One of the popular potential solutions suggested by some in the com-munity, creating a cycling-only stop sign for the intersection, is something that has not been done before in the city and pres-ents its own problems.

Regardless of the efforts be-ing made, residents wanted both more and less. A request for the closure of the street came up

again and again, with some resi-dents asking the councillor why they are “being held hostage” to the school crossing issue and stating the longer the road is open, the bigger push will be for it to remain open.

Johan Hamels, parent council president for De La Salle High School, referred to himself “one of the bad guys” who wanted to street opened in an effort to help make the area safer.

“We have had kids who have been seriously hurt,” Hamels said.

“This is what we have ad-vocated for some time and we think even a temporary solution to make it open for cyclists is an improvement over what it was.”

Some agreed in part with Hamels, but added that the cost of cars coming through the community wasn’t necessarily the best tradeoff.

Others agreed the most im-portant fact was trying to keep children crossing the street safe.

“We should keep in mind why this started,” said Sandy Hill resident Chad Rollins. “It’s a pedestrian issue. I don’t under-stand all the anger -- we should

think about the students. Make it safe and deal with the cars.”

Jennifer Cavanagh said she crosses the intersection with her fi ve year old all the time, sometimes coming incredibly close to getting hit. She said she would like the intersection closed to cars, and also have more measures in general, like speed bumps on Beausoleil to ensure it becomes a safe cross-ing.

Adding speed bumps can be expensive; Fleury said and can take a long time to implement.

Lowertown resident John Woodhouse said he felt what everyone in the room was trying to tell Fleury and city staff is to fi x the intersection.

“It’s damn dangerous out there,” he said. “Slow the cars down and if you can’t, get rid of them.”

The roadway will remain open, with the plan to close it to traffi c and turn it into a cycling crossing as early as the spring.

Painting pedestrian crossing lines at the intersection is also part of the plans, which can not be done in the winter and is aimed to be completed in the spring.

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Residents who oppose the opening of Chapel Street and Beausoleil attend a public meeting on Feb. 12 to ask Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury to close the street sooner, rather than later.

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News - Growing medical mari-juana will soon be allowed in certain industrial parks in Ottawa.

The city’s planning committee ap-proved new zoning rules to accommo-date the federal government’s changes to the medical marijuana access pro-gram on Feb. 11.

The city has already received nine notifi cations from local businesses who are interested in applying for a federal medical marijuana growing license on April 1. The facilities will be allowed in general and heavy in-dustrial zones in both the urban and rural areas.

But for some councillors and mem-bers of the public, the 150-metre sep-aration distance between the facilities and residences or institutions was not enough.

Orlans Coun. Bob Monette wor-ried that children at daycares allowed to be located in industrial parks would be too close to the facilities. He dis-sented on the committee’s vote to ap-prove the rules.

“This use is no dirtier, to be blunt,

than any other use permitted in an in-dustrial zone,” said Carol Ruddy, the city planner in charge of the study.

She said the normal separation distance for an industrial use is 70 m. The largest distance she encountered for a marijuana growing facility set-back was a kilometre, Ruddy said.

Kanata South Coun. Allan Hub-ley said the city should be looking at the higher end of that setback dis-tance range in order to protect nearby

homes from things like fi res at mari-juana grow-ops.

Lee Ann Snedden, manager of policy development and urban design, said growing marijuana isn’t consid-ered to be a “sensitive land use” due to the tight federal regulations on how the facilities are designed. The only reason her staff supported a larger set-back from residential areas was due to “perceived issues” with the facilities, she said.

Ruddy said increasing the separa-tion distance would result in creating “dead zones” around the facilities.

“This is lands we’ve set aside for employment uses… we need those lands, they are important,” she said.

“Quite frankly the (planning) de-partment’s position is (that larger sep-aration distances) sterilize lands from a particular use,” Snedded added.

Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess agreed, saying the city needs to protect eco-

nomic development opportunities on lands it has set aside for employment uses, like industrial parks.

She added that federal regulations won’t’ allow any odours to escape from the facilities.

“They must have sophisticated HVAC systems and (air) scrubbers,” she said. The federal laws for medi-cal marijuana are far more strict than many other industrial use, many of which have unregulated emissions, Ruddy said.

The facilities will require annual federal inspection, which is more fre-quent than other types of facilities, Snedden said.

All production, storage and de-struction of marijuana must be loca-tion inside the facility – no outdoor growing is allowed. No clients are allowed to access the buildings and delivery vehicles must enter inside the facility to pick up the product. The buildings must have outdoor surveil-lance equipment.

If city councillors had rejected spe-cifi c zoning rules for medical mari-juana growing facilities, it would have been considered an agricultural use by default and therefore allowed in a number of rural zones, including ag-ricultural, rural countryside, mineral aggregate and extraction zones, envi-ronmental protection zones and devel-opment reserve areas. Those land uses area allowed in approximately 75 per cent of the city’s rural land area.

Facilities must be 150 metres from homes and institutions

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The dark areas on the map show industrial areas where medical marijuana growing facilities will be allowed to operate in the city’s central area if on Feb. 26 city council approves zoning rules recommended by the planning committee.


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Last week the city turned down a request from the Ottawa public school board to build a desperately needed school in Kanata.

The board recently secured provincial funding for construction of the school, a process that could best be described as wringing water from a stone, judging by the long list of similar requests in other areas of the city, such as Orléans, Findlay Creek and Stittsville, communities that are still waiting for a go-ahead from the province.

The money must be used in a limited time frame – in essence a use-it-or-lose-it situation.

The city has given the project a big thumbs down, arguing that a school doesn’t belong in an industrial area near companies like Nordion Inc., which creates medical isotopes using radioactive materials.

There’s no actual safety concern, but the city is concerned about a backlash from the public based on irrational and groundless public perception.

Nordion says it doesn’t want the school as a next door neighbour in case it chooses to expand its busi-ness.

But is this really a concern the city should seri-ously entertain?

As for the issue of allowing a school in an “in-

dustrial” area, there is precedent, says the board, referring to two schools in Ottawa as well as a French public school in Kingston.

The board has already launched an appeal, as the city failed to meet the 120-day deadline to make a decision on zoning applications before the Ontario Municipal Board is allowed to take a hand.

The board’s application was fi led more than 200 days ago, but the city was forced to delay a decision as it had neglected to inform neighbouring busi-nesses, such as Nordion, about the zoning request.

According to Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, the lines of communication between the public school board and the city are poor at best.

Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson has been working to fast-track the school at a pre-determined alternate location that is almost fully serviced (i.e. not yet fully serviced), saying it should fi t the board’s time frame.

The whole situation seems to be a comedy of errors. Whoever is to blame, the board and the city need to improve communication.

Both will spend tens of thousands of dollars – tax-payer dollars – on fi ghting this out at the Ontario Mu-nicipal Board, a confl ict that could have been defused with the help of a little goodwill and co-ordination.

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The big fuss over the 50th anni-versary of the Beatles arriving in North America shows you that the Baby Boomers are still very much

in control of the news media. Nobody else much cares.

The Beatles story way overshadowed an-other recent anniversary – the 30th birthday of the Macintosh computer – which is of far more interest to a younger generation. By the time the Mac’s 50th comes, the Boomers will be but a memory and the Mac can get all the attention it deserves, providing it hasn’t been replaced by something else, such as a little dot you can paste on your cheek that telephones people, plays movies and does spreadsheets.

One of the things that is so striking about all this is how fast current affairs become ancient history. Most of the people who screamed when John, Paul, George and Ringo appeared on the Ed Sullivan show are now getting pensions. They will tell you it happened overnight. Most of the places the Beatles played are now parking lots, or, more likely, parking lots surrounding condos.

We like to think that things last, but a lot of things don’t.

The other day I was driving in Toronto and

saw a lovely old bank building on a corner. There was a coffee shop in it. Once there was a bank on each of those four corners. Now there is a coffee shop on each of those four corners. And you know what? Someday soon coffee shops will become a memory too.

People will say: “Remember 50 years ago when there were coffee shops?”

That will be too bad, because the spread of the coffee shop, whether locally or inter-nationally owned, has been one of the more encouraging developments in what is called progress these days.

Coffee shops are way better than casinos, for example, much healthier than sports bars, less painful than tattoo parlours, less intru-sive than condos. Coffee shops will probably last longer than sports memorabilia shops

did, and probably longer than video rentals, too.

But they will not be forever. Coffee will go out of fashion, replaced by some other bever-age. Or people may decide, as many seem to be deciding already, that they don’t want to leave the house. They want to stay home and use their own fancy machine to make coffee, or whatever beverage replaces it.

Meanwhile, what happens to those former bank buildings now occupied by coffee shops? Some kind of store, you might think, but isn’t it true now that shopping in stores is rapidly being replaced by shopping online (the revival, now that you think about it, of catalogue shopping)?

Stores are over. The thing that replaces the coffee shop has to be something people will leave their houses to attend. Games could do the trick – at one point you could get people out of their houses to go bowling or even play miniature golf. But they can do that at home on the Wii now. Same goes for bingo, although I did see what looked like a big game going on in a shopping centre the other day.

It could be a restaurant, but there are already too many restaurants. The same goes for bars. Actually, what there are not enough

of are parking lots, but parking lots are de-cidedly out of fashion among urban planners and civic politicians these days.

Maybe they’ll come back. The fact is that we probably won’t recognize what goes there. No one, 50 years ago, knew what a video store was. No one, 30 years ago, knew that people would line up to drink coffee fl a-voured with vanilla and containing soy milk.

That’s why planning for the future is not a walk in the park, as we would advise the new boss of the National Capital Commission, and probably why a lot of us would sooner spend our time thinking about 50 years ago.

CHARLES GORDON

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I’m not sure what was go-ing on last May, but there are a lot of babies in our midst.

Between friends, family and acquaintances, I know four expected within a week. As any pregnant woman knows, people just love to give advice – most of which I’ve been too stubborn to accept over the years – but I have a few tips for you-moms-to-be.

It all starts in that fi rst month – post-delivery. For one precious month, just slow down and do ‘nothing.’

We have images of super-women in our midst – like the European member of parliament with her baby in a sling, or the corporate woman who returns to work within a month, pumping between meetings – these should not be our aspirations. The Chinese have a tradition they call the Golden Month – believing that mom and baby should just stay connected, and pretty much stay in bed, giving them a chance to bond and wait for mom’s body to recover – and probably a copious amount of time to watch television.

If your pregnancy hasn’t already spelled this one out for you – prepare to let go of control. This starts with a baby who’s feeding and sleep-ing on demand and continues with preschool children who are toilet training, pinch-ing fi ngers in cabinets and removing her clothing as fast as you’re putting it on, when you’re in a rush to get out the door. On the down side, this can make us frustrated, angry and feel like failure much of the time. On the fl ip side,

however, children have this marvellous way of making time stand still.

And when we take the time with them, offering fl exibility in our schedules, choosing to enjoy the 20-minutes sitting on the potty waiting for the “tinkle sound,” and having meaningful conversations, life slows down for us, too, in a marvellous and meaningful way.

Let other people help. If you are lucky enough to have friends and relatives nearby, let them visit you and baby on the condition that they stay for short periods – just enough time to fold a load of laundry. And if the baby falls asleep, be assertive and tell them it’s time for you to go lie down too. Resist the urge to stay up, exhausting yourself, making them tea and toast.

Exercise can wait. Again with the superwoman theme, we all know these marvel-lous women who pop out a baby, defl ate like a balloon and start working out like hell within a couple of weeks of the delivery. It’s oversold. In the fi rst weeks, rest is the most important element. After that, if you feel like working out don’t train for a marathon or a Tough Mudder, just do some kegels. And that’s you, done your workout for the day!

While this may sound like a contradiction, given the content of this column, I offer this last tidbit of wisdom: shut your ears to all the advice from around you. We have so much access to confl icting information and everybody, from the teenager across the street to the bachelor that works at the convenience store, has an opinion about how you should feed, sleep and discipline. We live in a time where motherhood has been scrutinized and, in a weird way, professional-ized. Despite everyone’s best efforts, however, we have yet to determine how to raise the perfect child, which I can only presume to be the ultimate goal. So it’s best to just ignore everyone.

Motherhood is a very personal venture. Allow your instinct to take hold. As long as you’re following safe practices, you get to choose whether to breastfeed or bottle feed, whether to use a stroller or a sling (or both), if the baby sleeps in a cot or in your arms, and whether you play classical music or classic rock to lull baby to sleep. Paradoxically, it may be the most control and the least control you have over any situation in your life. Make the most of it! And welcome, precious babies!

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News - Jeff Morrison wants to enhance local engage-ment. The former president of the Centretown Community Health Centre, president of Gramercy Place condomini-um board and current director of government relations with the Canadian Pharmacists As-sociation, said he believes he will be able to have stronger conversations and enhanc-ing partnerships for Somerset Ward.

Morrison and his partner both live in Centretown and the 43-year-old fi rst moved to Ottawa 24 years ago to attend the University of Ottawa, and has lived downtown for the past 12 years.

Q: Why are you running for city council in Somerset Ward?

A: Two things: every sin-gle person I have talked to, particularly as my role as president of the Centretown Community Health Centre, feels that we are a good com-munity that could be more. I think there is a cry for change and we don’t’ want someone who can change, we want someone who has a track re-cord to make change. I think I have that track record.

Q: Detail your past political experience or activism, wheth-er it’s volunteering, campaign-ing, donations or employment at any level of government or political party.

A: In late 2012, I led a campaign to redevelop the Somerset House property. It was getting more and more

worn down and our cur-rent councillor wasn’t able to get the job done ...Within three months, the owner said enough is enough and settled the lawsuit and the work on that site should start this year. Last year, regarding the down-town casino debate in March, I assembled nine community health centres to say ‘No, it’s wrong.’ That was at a time when nobody was opposing it. Within just a few months, we not only managed to sway the opinion, the fi nal motion that was passed included measures to mitigate problem gambling. We won that hands down.

In December 2013, after a year and a half of lobbying for an expansion of the Cen-tretown Community Health Centre, we got the funding. I don’t just talk about change – I want to make it happen.

Q: How are you going to fundraise for your campaign?

A: You reach out to friends, family, to supporters, you try to inspire people – and that is already happening and if you can inspire people, that is a great fundraising strategy.

Q: Do you have any poten-tial pecuniary interests or a fi nancial or family confl ict of interest?

A: I don’t think so. For eight years I did work

for the Canadian Construc-tion Association and lob-bied for billions of dollars for construction in the 2006-2007 budget ... Through that I know a lot of construction leaders, but I think that is a plus to the role of councillor. I think it’s important to have

strong partnerships between the two. That is how you get things done. People will want to work with who they trust. I know there are people in Centretown who do not like the development history. I get that, but you need to build trust. You need to build stron-ger partnerships. And not just with developers, but with the NCC (National Capital Com-mission), the provincial and the federal governments. With many years of working in gov-ernment relations, if you can build strong relations, you can get things done.

Q: What do you think the biggest issue was in Somerset Ward this term and how was it handled? What will be the big issue next term?

A: Last term the biggest issue was transit. Of course there was a lot of controversy of how it was going to be han-dled. I think it’s been handed well. This time, I believe its improving the viability of Centretown. That needs to change. The last movie theatre moved out of Centretown –why can’t we have these types of services?

I think rather than focus-ing on the built environment and how can we create a liv-able environment we need to ask how do we make our current public spaces, like Bank Street, Preston Street, the canal more livable. This stereotype that Ottawa is the city that fun forgot needs to change ... People move downtown because they want the convenience, the ameni-ties and when these servic-es, business, or lack of use of public spaces disappear people become disillusioned. I think this notion of livabil-ity and vibrancy is going to be key issue. There are four themes I would like to focus on: partnerships, the notion of vibrancy, try to better engage people and have those discus-sions on diffi cult subjects and bring innovations like a bylaw that requires green roofs on certain properties, we need to not just doing things the same things.

Other candidates currently registered in Somerset Ward are: (incumbent) Diane Hol-mes, Martin Canning, Denis Schryburt, Lili Weemen and Thomas McVeigh.

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The program encourages students to build a business and raise money for local charities.

Administered by the Learn-ing Partnership, it connects public school classes with local business to teach the students how to run a suc-cessful business.

In order to have a greater under-standing of what artists can create, the class invited local Vanier artist Geoff Derry to their class on Feb. 10 to teach them about other art medi-ums.

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She said the goal now is for each student to create one piece of art and to help decide the set-up for the show, which will include a series of art stations available for guests to have the opportunity to engage in

their own artistic activity. Themes for stations will include

things like splash paint, sculpting, drawing, and plastic bag art. The goal is to have a few local artists aid in running stations.

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Howe said as the show’s date gets closer, more help may be needed.

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Arts - Chilly pedestrians on Bank Street are wrapped up in scarves and toques, unaware that a slice of the South Pacifi c is just steps away.

The Bytown Ukulele Club is tun-ing up.

At least once a month, dozens of ukulele players fi ll the basement room at the Clocktower Brew Pub at Bank and Pretoria Avenue in the Glebe, sharing their love for one of the simplest musical instruments to learn.

Sue Rogers is the group’s self-confessed “facilitator for life.” Be-fore the evening’s playing begins, she zips around the room welcom-ing newcomers and catching up with some of the group’s 400-plus mem-bers. Her enthusiasm for the tiny ukuleles is infectious.

Rogers said she was hooked the moment she saw a ukulele perfor-mance at the Ottawa Folk Festival.

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She said the ukulele draws people in because it’s fun to accompany yourself on songs and because play-ers fi nd it easy to move from begin-ner to intermediate.

“Some people can learn in less than an hour,” Rogers said, adding she’s taught some of her co-workers to play over their lunch hour.

First-timers are welcome at every regular BUG meeting.

“That’s how you learn; being sur-rounded by it,” she said, adding all ages can take part. “Some of our youngest are eight and nine years old and you can see them playing next to their grannies.”

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The four strings of a ukulele need only be strummed with one hand to make a sweet sound. The other hand takes care of chords, but thankfully for newbies, there are many songs that require just two or three chords.

The Clocktower’s big screen TVs show no sports – members can in-

stead follow along as chord diagrams and lyrics are shown for the players. At some of the pub’s tables, music stands have been replaced with iPads, each holding thousands of songs. All the players are welcome to join in and sing as they play.

The room – which holds a maxi-mum of 90 uke players – is bedlam at 6:45 p.m. as everyone tunes up or fi nishes their dinner. The harmony begins promptly at 7 p.m.

And if a pub isn’t your thing, you may see BUG members out in the community, playing farmers markets and the like.

“All our events are interactive so people can try out the ukuleles,” Rogers said.

You can look for dozens of BUG players at the Vernon Canada Day celebration.

Along with the small size of the instruments comes a small price tag: another reason for the instrument’s continuing popularity, in addition to portability.

Players can start out with ukule-les – they come as soprano, concert, tenor or baritone – that cost less than $50 at city music stores, although you can spend more than $1,000 on one hand made in Hawaii.

What’s also striking about ukule-les is that their tiny size bears little relation to how much fun they de-liver, both for players and listen-ers. During a recent beginners night at the Clocktower, there were few smiles while songs were played as the budding musicians concentrated on TV screens and their fi nger place-ment to create the chords. But as the fi nal note of each song was played, faces would light up and the smiles and laughter were unstoppable.

If the contrast between full-size adults and pint-size ukuleles make you laugh, head to the Internet and search for “Israel” and “Ukulele” to watch the late Israel Kamakawiwo’ole play his favourite instrument.

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Right: Carolyn Carrothers smiles after wrapping up a song at a BUG beginners night on Feb. 5 at the Clocktower Brew Pub on Bank Street

Far right: Most beginning ukulele players can’t manage a smile while concertrating on their fi ngers and chord changes.

Some of our youngest are eight and nine years old and you can see them playing next to their granniesSUE ROGERS

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Lau said meeting with Sabb made them all the more excited to get things started.

Right now, the two women have launched a blog, pin-eviewcommunity.wordpress.com, a Facebook page, face-book.com/PineviewCommu-nity and a Twitter account, @PineviewOttawa to spread the word.

Lau, who moved to the area from Edmonton said she was a part of a community associa-tion in her old neighbourhood and it was the easiest way to make friends, join groups and host events.

“Here there is nowhere for anyone to run into each other and simply make friends,” Lau said. “An association is an easy in to get to know your neigh-bourhood and community.”

Both moms would like to see local play groups or local classes, perhaps initiated by the association. Currently, the two have frequented other commu-nities to fi ll the gap they feel is currently at play in Pineview, including attending playgroups in Blackburn Hamlet and going to the Gloucester North Branch library – a 45 minute walk from

their home. “We just want to have some-

thing close that we can walk,” Scott said.

The two launched an online survey at surveymonkey.com/s/577B535 to help fi gure out what their neighbours would like in a community association, in events and how residents feel about living in Pineview. There are still a few hurdles, Lau said, to take a successful run at start-ing a community association, including fi nding community space to host meetings. Tierney said he wants to offer support

for the group. “I am a huge supporter of

community associations,” Tier-ney said. “I am going to help as much as I can. Whether it’s through my offi ce to help fi nd space to host meetings and engaging residents and help promote any way I can. If that means passing out fl yers, I will be willing.”

The plan is to host an an-nual general meeting at the end of March. The results of the survey and nominations for a board of directors would take place at the meeting.



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Well, that all made perfect sense to me.

That Saturday, it was being held at Aunt Bertha and Uncle Alec’s home, just across the 20-Acre Field, so that meant the place would be fair jumping. With their large family, our fi ve and goodness knows how many other kids from the Northcote area, it would be a rip roarin’ night.

I asked Audrey, who I thought was the smartest girl in Renfrew County, if she thought it would be another night of magic. The magic I was talking about was a secret between my sister and me. “It could be,” she said with a grin.

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I knew without asking that out in the summer kitchen, 11-quart baskets would be sitting wrapped in clean

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I could see the big white granite teapots teaming on the back of the cook stove, everything was ready for a great night of fun. Aunt Ber-tha would have opened the parlour, and people spread out wherever they could fi nd a place to sit or stand.

The very youngest of the children, and that included me, would soon tire of watching the adults at their card games, and we would head upstairs to play jacks or marbles or snakes and ladders.

The bedrooms were large at Aunt Bertha’s, much larger than ours across the fi eld. But like ours, the beds were made up of soft downy feather ‘tickings,’ puffy and inviting.

Upstairs we could hear the laughter and the tables being slapped when someone yelled “Euchre!”

It would be a late night. Much later than we younger ones were used to. And it didn’t take long for one after the other of us to crawl onto one of the downy beds – just to rest a bit, as Joyce would say. There were so many of us that we had to lay cross ways on the beds, so that everyone had a place.

Beatrice, who was a great story teller, would start into

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Audrey would say the same words she said every time I asked. “It’s just Ren-frew County magic, Mary, just Renfrew County magic.”

It would be many years before I would know that it was my father who would wrap me in a blanket after the Saturday night party came to an end, and carry me to the sleigh and tuck me into my own bed. Magic indeed!

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News - One small infi ll develop-ment in Old Ottawa East led to a rare vote split on city council – but still passed.

A raft of amendments needed for the construction of an eight-unit, four-storey apartment building at 99 Greenfi eld Ave. were approved at council by a vote of 16-8.

Capital Coun. David Chernush-enko, who represents the area, urged his council colleagues to reject a series of 17 variances requested by the developer to construct the 14.5-metre-tall building on an unusual wedge-shaped piece of land that used to house the local legion hall.

The site already had R4 zoning that would allow a building of that style, height and density, but the de-sign didn’t meet some of the require-ments for things like setbacks from neighbouring lots.

“I believe it continues to set the tone that infi ll, because it’s in a chal-lenging site, should necessarily get whatever is asked for,” Chernush-enko said.

Planning committee chairman Coun. Peter Hume told council-lors not to latch onto the item as the “cause célèbre of bad infi ll.”

He said the amendments make sense because they allow the build-ing to be “customized” to the shape of the lot.

“It’s what you want to see when you get these tight sites,” Hume said.

During the planning committee meeting, said Katherine Grachuta, a planner from FoTenn working on behalf of the developer, said the vari-ances were necessary due to the awk-ward shape of the lot.

She said the variances will actu-ally provide more privacy for neigh-bouring residents by allowing balco-nies to be offset from King’s Landing units.

The amendments were opposed by eight councillors: Rick Chiarelli (Col-lege), Chernushenko, Mark Taylor (Bay), Marianne Wilkinson (Kanata North), Shad Qadri (Stittsville), Keith Egli (Knoxdale-Merivale), Di-ane Deans (Gloucester-Southgate) and Diane Holmes (Somerset).

The development also led to a rift in the community, with some resi-dents bitterly opposed and some in strong favour – even among neigh-bours at the King’s Landing develop-ment next door.

Some residents who lined up to speak at the Jan. 28 planning com-mittee meeting when the application was considered said the building

would provide much-needed accessi-ble accommodations to allow seniors to remain in the neighbourhood. Oth-ers claimed the new building was too close to King’s Landing and would

ruin the privacy of neighbours in that development.

John Dance, president of the Old Ottawa Community Association, told the planning committee the develop-

ment is another example of spot-rezoning – something that reduces neighbouring residents’ certainty about what kind of development thy can expect on nearby lots.

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Councillors split 16-8 but still voted in favour of amendments that will allow construction of an eight-unit, four-storey apartment building at 99 Greenfi eld Ave.

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News - Forget dreaming in tech-nicolour, residents of Blackburn Hamlet are dreaming in a different colour: green.

The community association held a meeting on Feb. 6 to talk about tree planting in the hamlet.

The goals of the tree planting ini-tiatives are to increase the number of trees planted, and give the city input on where trees are best placed.

The city is already undergoing its own tree planting program in areas where trees have been lost because of the Emerald Ash Borer infestation that has affected most of Ottawa.

But by the community undergoing their own planting days with volun-teer labour, the neighbourhood can benefi t from more trees.

Barb Sweazey from the commu-nity association spoke with the resi-dents who attended about the place-ment of trees, and where Blackburn Hamlet could use them.

Getting feedback helps the as-sociation give feedback to the city about where trees are best planted in the community. The city forestry department will listen to community feedback and take it into consider-ation when planning their own plant-ing projects.

The plan for the fi rst stage of resident planting is to put fi ve to 10 “smallish trees” and fi ve to 10 shrubs at Joshua Bradley Park and Tom Budd Park. The fi rst, small planting session, will take place in the spring.

In the fall there will be a larger planting session, with many more trees planted around the hamlet, said community association president Laura Dudas.

“The goal is to use (the spring plant) as a pilot and then in the fall really celebrate and plant as many trees as we can,” she said. “This is a chance to say, how do we really want our community to look in 10, 20, 30 years as far as trees.”

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Sarah Dehler from the Briarbrook Morgan’s Grant Community Asso-ciation, presented the work that her community association has done with the Shirley’s Brook project in spring 2013.

She said they had success in Kana-ta by having people “adopt” different trees, and agreeing to water them over the summer. Watering can sig-nifi cantly contribute to a tree’s sur-vival rate.

If people are available to water, larger trees are more feasible. If no one is available to water, planting

more smaller trees is a better way to go, she said.

There are a fair number of trees which don’t survive, so residents need to be prepared to see not all make it through the year.

She also suggested short planting sessions, as the physical labour can be quite tiring.

“I really see tree planting as a community building activity,” De-hler said. “There’s nothing like get-ting that dirt underneath your fi nger nails.”

The fi rst tree planting will be held May 24 at 9 a.m. The information will be posted on the community association’s website at www.black-

burnhamlet.ca. Residents are also able to take

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News – After 37 years invested in helping Ottawa students succeed, Rene Bibaud isn’t quite ready to con-sider retirement.

“Who knows?” said the Adult High School principal, who started his teaching career at Merivale High School in 1977 at “a very youthful age.”

Bibaud was recently named one of Canada’s Outstanding Principals – a nationally recognized award that brings with it an executive-level lead-

ership training program. News of the prestigious recognition, which will be presented later this month during a Toronto ceremony, was accepted humbly by Bibaud.

“They’re very generous with their comments,” he said of letters of sup-port from Ottawa Carleton District School Board staff, adding, “There’s no such thing as an unassisted goal – I’ve been surrounded by strong stick-handlers.”

Many of Bibaud’s colleagues, in-cluding public board director of edu-cation Jennifer Adams, wrote of his strong presence at the school and how he serves as a “role model” for the student body.

Bibaud, in turn, applauded staff and students, parents and community partners for helping maximize the po-tential of the students – many of them new to Canada – who graduate from the Rochester Street facility.

After stints in many public board secondary schools, Bibaud relished the challenge of overseeing the oper-ations of the board’s only adult high school. He said one of his goals is to bring the outside world into the hall-ways and rooms of the facility to see what occurs inside.

“Seventy per cent of our students are new to Canada,” he said. “I’m humbled by their voyage, their re-siliency and their resolve, and I’m privileged to be part of that journey. It is a very unique environment – very multi-cultural … It’s a great way at the twilight of my career to be in-volved in something so unique and different.”

The Adult High School is more than an education facility, said Bibaud, given its function as a social hub for many of its 1,200 students.

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News - The Gloucester Fair is growing.

The regional fair will move from four days in the last week of May, to 10 days at the end of August.

The new, extended version will kick off on Aug. 15 and run until Aug. 24.

Harley Bloom who is on the fair’s board of directors, said the longer run and new dates aren’t the only exciting additions.

“We are very excited with the possibilities,” he said.

Festivities will kick off with a monster truck show

and a demolition derby. Bloom said there will also be one headliner and other local entertainers on stage through-out the fair.

The change in timing and length will mean more plan-ning, but the basic infrastruc-ture has been in place for years, said the fair board’s president Maurice Lafortune.

Originally started as an offshoot of the City of Gloucester’s parks and rec-reation department, the fair started in the parking lot of the Earl Armstrong Arena on Ogilvie Road, nearly three decades ago. The fair board is a working one and Lafortune said members can be found

throughout the fairgrounds driving fence spikes into the ground or pitching in wher-ever else they’re needed.

It was moved to the Rideau Carleton Raceway in 1997 largely because it had out-grown its home.

“The Rideau Carleton Raceway have been great partners to us,” Bloom said.

Bloom said the board be-gan to consider taking over the late-August dates a few years ago when the Super Ex was suspended in 2011.

“We are not looking to take over for the Ex,” Bloom said.

Bloom said the Glouces-ter fair will still maintain it’s smaller, regional fair feel, de-

spite the extended timelines and addition of more rides and attractions.

This year, the fair will have the largest midway in the city, featuring the Zipper, Scram-bler and Fireball, among oth-ers. There will also be a kid’s zone with a petting zoo, pony rides, the bird of prey show and DooDoo the Clown.

Bloom and Lafortune said what makes the fair special is the fact that it has hosted more than 1,000 physically and mentally handicapped children during its existence.

“We offer them a day at the park for free,” Bloom said.

The change in timeline from May to August may mean organizers will have to reach out to families or agen-cies in the communities so the

kids can have a chance to take advantage of their day.

Traditionally, the one-day event during the fair has been sponsored by Hydro Ottawa. The utility company provides funding and volunteers to help out.

Another big event is the annual Smoked to the Bone barbecue competition, spon-sored by D& S Southern Comfort BBQ. There are amateur and professional cat-egories. Bloom said there are $20,000 worth of prizes.

“Having (the competition) in August will make it the season fi nale for the Cana-dian Southern BBQ Associa-tion,” Bloom said.

Even though there are a lot of events planned, Bloom said organizers will be look-

ing for input from the public in the coming months to see what Ottawans would like to have.

“We are thinking about a pet day and maybe an ulti-mate frisbee or soccer tour-nament,” Bloom said, add-ing organizers may look to the public for a newer, more regional name for the fair as well.

While there are no bus routes to the Rideau Carleton Raceway, Bloom said he is looking into whether the city can extend bus service for the duration of the fair, or if the board can organize some kind of shuttle service.

“We want to make this a real family-friendly event,” he said. “We are very excit-ed.”

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Lifestyle - Ratatouille is a traditional French stewed veg-etable dish, typically prepared in the summer, in the area of Provence or Nice, France. The original recipe used only zuc-chini, tomatoes, green and red sweet peppers, onions and gar-lic. The dish today adds egg-plant to the mixture.

Ratatouille works as a side dish, or as a meal with rice, pasta or polenta. Preparation time: 15 to 20 minutes. Cook-ing time: about 40 minutes. Serves 8 to 10.

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• 25 ml (2 tbsp) extra-virgin olive oil• 1 red onion, cut into thin wedges• 5 cloves garlic, minced • 15 ml (1 tbsp) each dried basil and oregano• 1 large sweet green pepper, cut into chunks• 2 zucchini, cut into chunks• 1 eggplant (about 750 g/1.5 lb), cut into chunks• 4 tomatoes, chopped

• 1 can (796 ml/28 oz) whole tomatoes• 45 ml (3 tbsp) tomato paste• 5 ml (1 tsp) granulated sugar• Salt and pepper• 50 ml (1/4 cup) minced fresh parsley• 175 ml (3/4 cup) crumbled feta cheese

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Stir in the tomato paste, sugar, and salt and pepper to taste and cook for seven min-utes. You can make this ahead, covering it and refrigerat-ing for up to two days. When ready to serve, stir in the pars-ley and sprinkle feta on top of each portion.

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Does Christian Science really heal sickness and sin? A public lecture by Christian Science practitioner and teacher, John Q. Adams from New York, New York.

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An Organ Concert featuring well known organist Mervyn Games on our fine Casavant organ from 11:00 to 12 noon following the service and release of a special centenary CD.

An Open House in the Sunday School following the concert, with displays related to the church’s history. 12 noon to 2:00.

And of course from 10:00 to 11:00, all are welcome to attend our regular service, and children to attend Sunday School!

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First Church of Christ, Scientist in Ottawa is celebrating its centenary!

The weekend of February 22nd and 23rd marks 100 years since the first service in our edifice. In recognition of this milestone, we extend a warm and special invitation to those who have attended our church or Sunday School over the years and also to the wider community of Ottawa to join us in the following events.

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Sports - A trendy new fi tness and dance style with roots in the circus is popping up throughout Ottawa, including Barrhaven, where a hoop dance enthusiast has just begun offering classes.

“It’s huge,” said instructor Il-eana Grgic of the new trend, but you’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of it.

Though hoop dance has expe-rienced a surge in interest over the last few years, it is still only known in certain circles.

Nonetheless, many who try it end up hooked, said Grgic. She is certainly one of them.

“I just love it so much and love spreading the joy of it,” she said.

Hoop dance is a more sophis-ticated version of hula hooping, with the goal being self expres-sion, self-confi dence, fi tness and fun.

“When we say ‘hooping,’ the fi rst thing that probably pops into people’s minds is that you stand there and you hoop around your waist, and ‘Doesn’t that get boring?’ But it’s really way more than that,” said Grgic.

Hoop dancers aim to give expression to music by rotating specially made hoops around any and all parts of their bodies in a rhythmic, spinning motion.

In Ottawa, the dance originat-ed with a circus act in 2004, and subsequently with classes being

offered by Sophie Latreille in 2005. Now, many more classes have started, with the benefi ts of hooping including fi tness, self confi dence and even increased libido.

Rather than the plastic, fl im-sy hoops of childhood, these hoopers use specially weighted, wider hoops that spin at a slower

speed, and are easier to keep up. While it’s not hard to keep

the hoop going, there is plenty of skill involved in the dance.

Grgic has been hooping for three-and-a-half years, and, like the origin of the dance in Ottawa, fi rst got interested in it through the circus.

While homeschooling her

son, Grgic enrolled him in a circus school, which, among ac-tivities like unicycling and acro-balancing, included hooping.

“Hooping caught my eye, and I didn’t really think too much about it except to kind of throw it on my bucket list at that time,” she said.

But it wasn’t long until she bought her own hoop and tried it out at weekly hoop jam at Strathcona Park.

“I started hooping around my waist and watching all these people do all these cool things with the hoop and it totally in-spired me,” she said.

During years of classes, Grgic discovered the hoop dance com-munity, including free jams at Strathcona Park and Ottawa city hall, classes in Orléans, the Glebe and Dovercourt, and the hoop pioneers in Ottawa like So-phie Latreille and Trish Stolte.

Now, Grgic takes her hoops everywhere, including on vaca-tion, where she enjoys explain-ing to the inevitable onlookers just what she is doing.

In Barrhaven, she is now part of the growing hooping trend, starting her own classes this past fall at the Stronger You dojo at 3570 Strandherd Dr. under the name Hoopla.

“It’s very exciting for me,” she said.

“Just opening up that world for people or the idea of that world for people is thrilling for me.”

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Hoop dancer and instructor Ileana Grgic shows off her hooping abilities with two hoops at Mulligan Park.

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Feb. 20A Down East kitchen party and fundraiser for the Ottawa Foodbank. The event will feature live music and a Maritime menu on March 2 at the Westboro Legion, located at 389 Richmond Rd. For more informa-tion, call 613-725-2778. The doors open at 2 p.m., and the live music starts at 2:30 p.m. IODE Walter Baker Chapter will meet Feb. 20 at 1 p.m. at 229 Colonnade Rd. South. Women of all ages are invited to attend and learn about volunteer work. For more information, please visit our website at iodewalterbaker.weebly.com or call Alia at 613-864-6779.

Interested in Gardening? Come join the Nepean Horticultural Society! Our Feb. 20 meeting will feature guest speaker Mary Reid from the Green Thumb Garden Centre, who will be discussing lawn care and maintenance. The meeting takes place at 7:30 p.m. at City View United Church, located at 6 Epworth Ave. Everyone is welcome - admis-sion for non-members is $4. Light refreshments will be served. For more information call 613-721-2048.

The Overbrook Community Association presents “How can we create SAFER STREETS in Overbrook?” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 20 at the Overbrook Community Centre. Representatives from Safer Roads Ottawa, RightBike and Velo Vanier will offer creative ideas to improve the experience of pedestrians, cy-clists, drivers and families playing in our parks. Everyone is welcome to join the conversation and share their ideas and concerns. Email [email protected] for more information.

Feb. 20-21The Elmdale Public School Book-fest 2014 will take place on Feb. 20 from 3:45 to 8:30 p.m. and Feb 21 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., in the school gymnasium at 49 Iona St. As always, there will be a huge selec-tion of well-organized books and lots of popular titles priced from 50 cents to $3. Funds raised go towards new library books and educational resources for classrooms. Do you

have books to donate? We will pick them up! Please contact [email protected] to make ar-rangements.

Feb. 22The Iona Park Winter Carnival will take place on Feb. 22 from 4 to 6 p.m. Come join your neighbours for an afternoon of skating, activi-ties, warm food and chatting by the campfi re. Everyone welcome! Please bring a travel mug for cof-fee/hot chocolate and a pair of spare mittens for a meet your neighbour mixer! Mixer mittens will be do-nated after the event.

March 2A Down East kitchen party and fundraiser for the Ottawa Food-bank is coming to Westboro. The event will feature live music and a Maritime menu on March 2 at the Westboro Legion, located at 389 Richmond Rd. For more informa-tion, call 613-725-2778. The doors open at 2 p.m., and the live music starts at 2:30 p.m.

March 4On March 4, the Church of the Ascension’s traditional Shrove Tuesday pancake supper will serve up from-scratch organic pancakes,

real maple syrup, and apple sauce alongside ham and sausages. Supper proceeds benefi t the Centretown Emergency Food Bank, so please bring a non-perishable food item if you can. The supper takes place from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Church of the Ascension, 253 Echo Dr. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for children under 4 and $3 for children under 2, or pay what you can. For more information, visit churchoftheascension.ca.

March 8Amethyst Ottawa is celebrating its 35th anniversary helping women in our community. In honour of International Women’s Day, Jennifer Clark & Associates are hosting a not-for-profi t networking luncheon in support of Amethyst Ottawa at the R.A. Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr., on March 8 from 12 to 3 p.m. Guest speakers include Majic 100 radio, Algonquin medicine man Pete Bernard, and TV personality Kathie Donovan. Several lunch options are available. Tickets in advance ($45) include a donation to Amethyst Ottawa.

March 10An open house for all survivors of polio is being held on March 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Woodroffe Unit-ed Church. Parking is available on

site and the church is located near several major bus routes. For more information call Eileen Lavigne at 613-729-6307. A warm welcome awaits you.

March 15Join us at Southminster United Church, located at Bank Street and Aylmer, for a concert production of the Jules Massenet’s opera Werther. The performance, produced by Toronto company by Opera by Request, will feature children from Christ Church Cathedral, Jean-E. Hudson, Jeff Boyd, Norm Brown and Erinne-Colleen Laurin. For more information, contact Norm Brown at [email protected] or Jean-E. Hudson at 613-724-2889.

March 20IODE Walter Baker Chapter will meet March 20 at 1 p.m. at 229 Colonnade Rd. South. Women of all ages are invited to attend and learn about volunteer work. For more information, please visit our website at iodewalterbaker.weebly.com or call Alia at 613-864-6779.

OngoingThe Ottawa Newcomers Club is de-signed to help women new to Ottawa or in a new life situation acclimatize by enjoying the company of other women with similar interests. We have morning, afternoon and evening events such as skiing, Scrabble, bridge, fun lunches, book clubs, Gal-lery tours, dinner club, and crafts. For more information visit our web-site at www.ottawanewcomersclub.ca or call 613-860-0548.


Prayer, Healing, and You! Practical help, right where we need it.You’ll: Explore how healing is possible through the practical application of scientific prayer.

Hear experiences that show people have put this prayer-based healing system into practice.

John Adams is an international speaker and practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing. He originally moved to New York City from the Midwest to pursue an acting career, studying with Lee Strasberg and Herbert Berghoff. Adams was healed of a serious

drug habit through his study of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This healing changed his life, bringing renewed commitment to his spiritual journey. He sold his businesses and in 1985 took up the full-time work as a practitioner of Christian Science healing.

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