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WORLD CHAMPAn Ottawa athlete celebrates three decades of being the world champ in kickboxing, winning the world title mroe than 20 times in his career.
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SPORTING CHANCEAlmost $2,000 extra in funds will help non-profi t Kidsport Ottawa ensure children from low income families can take part in sporting activities across the city.
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TEARFUL GOODBYEJacques Legendre gives a heart-felt farewell as he retires from public offi ce after almost two de-cades representing the residents of Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward.
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LAURA MUELLER
With the cloistered life quick-ly becoming a relic of the past, convents around the city are looking like prime real estate for new development – and Overbrook is no exception.
Unlike the highly controver-sial development of a former convent site in Westboro, the Overbrook community isn’t focused on the historic impor-tance of the site at 127 Presland
Road. Not much is known about the building, which is home to a Roman Catholic order of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary.
In Overbrook, neighbours are focused on the scale of the de-velopment, which they say will dwarf the single-family homes around it.
The developer, Group Lepine, has suggested two eight-storey towers, connected by a lower four- and six-storey section; however the rezoning would
allow up to 29 metres in height – enough for an extra story (Group Lepine says the extra height allowance will be used for high ceilings). The complex would house 307 units, all one or two bedrooms.
That’s completely different than the rest of the neighbour-hood, which has a maximum height of 11 metres. The next tallest building is a six-storey apartment tower down the street. Outgoing Coun. Jacques Legendre and the community
association have already had some success reducing the building’s size – when it was originally proposed in 2009, it was supposed to be 12 storeys tall (10 storeys in the lower sec-tion) and contain 335 units.
But that reduction isn’t enough, opponents say.
“We always assumed develop-ment was on the way,” said Scott Richardson, who has been lead-ing the charge to get the devel-oper, Group Lepine, to change
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MICHELLE NASH
With construction taking over at the Overbrook Commu-nity Centre, all programs and staff members have temporar-ily relocated.
All the programs will move to neighbouring school gyms, cen-tres and the Bernard-Grandmaî-tre arena. Michel Baronette, the Overbrook Community Centre director, is one of the last peo-ple to leave. He will move into a temporary offi ce at the Ber-nard-Grandmaître arena along with the rest of his staff.
Baronette made sure the pro-grams themselves will continue through construction, but the doors to the centre closed on Nov 30 and won’t reopen until construction fi nishes in the spring.
“I have a few programs run-ning this weekend, but then that is it and we are out by Wednes-
day,” Baronette said. When it came to moving the
programs, the most important thing was to make sure the pro-grams were still within walking distance for residents who went to the Overbrook Community Centre.
“Most of the community that comes here walks. And it is un-derstandable they would not want to take a bus or feel un-comfortable travelling too far for their programs,” Baronette said.
For the move, Baronette contacted area schools and set up temporary places for the centre’s programs to continue throughout the winter. Along with the programs that have re-located to the Bernard-Grand-maître arena, there are four schools in the area that will host programs: Queen Mary Street Public School, R.E. Wil-son Public School, Vision-Jeu-nesse Catholic School and St. Michael Catholic School. The Richelieu-Vanier Community Centre, Cryville Community Centre and the Tom Brown Are-na in the west end will also host some of the centre’s programs.
“I think for the most part, everyone is understanding and
patient and looking forward to coming back,” Baronette said.
Sheila Perry, the president of the Community Council of Overbrook, petitioned for the expansion. “It is going to be wonderful when it is all done, but during renovations with
anything, you have to move, that is just part of it,” Perry said.
Baronette added that the ren-ovations and the move of the programs could be a blessing in disguise as more people will have opportunities to take part in the centre’s programs who
may not have before. The $3.1 million Overbrook
Community Centre expansion will add 7,500 square feet to the facility, which will see a new gymnasium, multi-purpose room and a wheelchair acces-sible conference room.
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Overbrook centre offi cially closes for renovations
fi le photoRenovations at the Overbrook Community Centre will add 7,500 square feet to the existing building and add a new gymnasium and multi-purpose room. The construction is expected to fi nish in April of next year with staff and programs moving back by May 2011.
Staff and programs moved out until
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Standing in front of a circus mirror, Lilli Furfaro laughs at her shapes, grabs a map from the quest master and walks into the ‘Who am I’ exhibit at the Canada Science and Technology museum.
The travelling exhibit gives participants a chance to under-stand what type of personality they have and the importance of strong self-esteem.
The Musée de la Nature et des Sciences de Sherbrooke created the “The Who am I” exhibit in partnership with the Dove Self-Esteem Fund.
“Self-esteem is a huge part of your personality and it is impor-tant to talk about and help kids feel good about themselves,” said Manon Lebeau, exhibition tour coordinator. Dr. Ian Man-ion is the executive director of the provincial centre of excel-lence for child and youth mental health at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and explained the parent’s responsibility in the development of self-esteem by the manner in which they speak and encourage their child.
“The role of a parent is direct-ly linked to the role a child plays in their own self-esteem,”
Manion explained, adding that the most important thing a parent can do is speak accurate-ly and positively to their child.
“Being a parent is hard; there is no training for it. You can only do what you think is right,” he continued.
Warning signs for low self es-teem include lack of confi dence, self-deprecating comments, re-sistance to going to school and symptoms of depression.
“The most important thing is to let your child know you are there for them and that you care,” Manion said.
Listening can also play an im-portant role in parenting self es-teem. A parent needs to listen at least as much as they are talking to their kids, Manion indicated.
The role a school can play re-mains similar to the role a par-ent has, he continued, and the important part is to understand students are different and en-courage them accordingly.
For Lebeau, creating this type of exhibit came from the impor-tance of promoting a strong self image while making it fun for all ages.
“It is important we have an educational exhibit with different levels of learning,
Lebeau said. “It was also im-portant to have a portion for the parents to take part in, so they know they can help make a dif-ference in their child’s life.”
Lilli’s mother, Paula, did not initially play along with the quest.
“I have been with myself a lot longer than she has,” Paula said. However, when Lilli took the sig-nature test, a test which offers an explanation to why you slant a certain way while you write, Paula found out something she did not know – sparking her in-terest even more.
“This is great, it is really in-teresting and it really has them learning,” she said.
The Canada Science and Tech-nology museum will host the ex-hibit until March 21.
Photo by Michelle NashThe ‘Who am I’ exhibit at the museum offers kids of all ages and their parents a chance to participate in a quest to fi nd their personality.
A quest for self-esteem
LAURA MUELLER
He didn’t take offi ce until Dec. 1, but last week, new Ot-tawa Mayor Jim Watson’s stamp was seen on a model for reform at city hall, including a call for an independent commission to oversee OC Transpo.
The city’s 2010-2014 Gover-nance Review also proposes splitting the planning and en-vironment committee into two bodies, and combining the au-dit, budget and fi nance commit-tee with the corporate services committee. That new committee would be called fi nance and eco-nomic development – aligning with Watson’s campaign prom-ises to put fi nances and econom-ic development at the forefront.
The report, which comes from
the city clerk’s offi ce, also rec-ommends the appointment of an integrity commissioner, and the establishment of a registry to track gifts and lobbyists, as well as an array of other accountabil-ity measures, including posting expenses on the city’s website on a monthly basis.
In a memo sent along with the report, Watson states: “We should be looking at how tech-nology and social networking can enhance policy making, and how we can best involve citizens in policy development.”
That review will include ex-amining how the city’s gover-nance model is working 10 years after amalgamation and how to “enhance truly local decision making.”
Another change would be to the deputy mayor’s role. Cur-
rently, deputy mayors are ap-pointed on a rotating schedule, but the report suggests appoint-ing two permanent deputy may-ors. It is unclear how the two councillors appointed to that role would be chosen.
The governance review, which was prepared with input from the 2006-10 council, as well as committee chairs, will be the fi rst item on the agenda at the new council’s fi rst meeting on Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. Councillors will also be surveyed about which committees they want to serve on, and the results will be re-viewed by the nominating com-mittee at a meeting on Dec. 15.
Although she has retired from politics, former Kanata South councillor Peggy Feltmate has been asked to join the board of Ottawa Community Housing.
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Jacques Legendre is getting ready to take on a new role as he steps down from municipal politics; the role of full-time grandfather.
Legendre spent 19 years as the council-lor for Rideau-Rockcliffe and decided to step down this year to spend more time with his family. It was a diffi cult deci-sion, Legendre said he felt torn between his aging and growing family and his love to help the community.
“I am looking forward to spending time with my family and my grandchildren before they all grow up and don’t want to spend any time with their parents let alone their grandfather,” he said.
When Legendre fi rst stepped onto the scene in 1991, he had not previously been engaged in politics.
He admits he was afraid to knock on doors and ask residents to vote for him. As it turned out, knocking on doors re-ally was the best and easiest part.
“It wasn’t nearly as scary as I had feared and I enjoyed going door to door and talking to everyone,” he said.
Legendre’s approach to politics always was to put the community fi rst and it be-came the most important element to him over the years.
“I am comfortable with the way I did things and I hope people appreciated my
approach to politics,” Legendre said.But with 19 years in the councillor seat,
Legendre is bound to have some regrets.“There are some votes I do regret and
some votes where I made the wrong call,” he said.
One political accomplishment he’s proud of playing a role in, though, was giving bilingualism an equal place with the services and jobs held in the City of Ottawa.
Legendre fought to make sure all se-nior management needed to be bilingual and although, at the time, there were only two other councillors who where French, it was easily voted in.
Legendre also worked at making Crime Prevention Ottawa a reality with the help of other councillors and city partners.
“I think this was a game changing kind of thing. It may have been a small initia-tive but it had a huge impact on the city and the residents,” Legendre recalled.
Legendre was choking back tears as he said thank you to his friends and con-stituents during his goodbye speech last week.
“I can’t explain why I got so emotional. All kinds of things fl ashed through my mind, but I think it was when I thought of my grandchildren that made me lose it,” Legendre said after his farewell speech.
Looking forward to the next chapter in his life, he admitted turning off the poli-tician in him may not come easily.
“It is not something I will be able to turn off, and you can believe I will be watching closely.”
Legendre looks forward to life after city hall
Photo by Michelle NashJacques Legendre spends his last few days as city councillor refl ecting on the accomplish-ments he has been a part of over the years. Stepping down just shy of 20 years in politics, he intends to closely watch the new council.
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The City of Ottawa will take on $92-million in new debt to pay for articulated buses.
The city’s debenture committee ap-proved the debt to cover the cost of 226 new buses to be purchased as part of a $155.7-million deal approved in April.
Ottawa is receiving the buses at a discount from the company, New Flyer, after a deal to sell them to Chicago fell
through.The buses are expected to last about 15 years, and over that time, it will cost $12.8 million per year to service the debt. The buses are expected to lower the city’s costs over time because it will cost less to maintain them. Fuel costs will also be reduced.
Even coupled with the $125 million in debt the city approved for infrastructure projects over the summer, city treasurer Marian Simulik said only fi ve per cent of the city’s revenue will go towards ser-
vicing its debt, which is below council’s limit of 7.5 per cent.
Also last week, the city’s corporate services and economic development committee heard that the city’s capital and operating budget will post a $960,000
defi cit by the end of the year. The city manager’s offi ce is $100,000 over bud-get, while human resources has listed a $470,000 defi cit. The largest shortfall is in information technology, which is $540,000 over budget.
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The environmental study on the inter-provincial bridge has hit roadblock, with funding from Quebec not yet secured.
Phase 2B of the environmental assess-ment on the crossing was expected to be-gin at the end of 2010. The original date for this portion of the study was to be completed at the end of 2012, with the fi nal environmen-tal approval completed in April 2013.
Funding from Ontario, the National Capital Commission and Quebec must be confi rmed for the study to proceed. There’s been no word from Quebec’s ministry of transportation as to whether they will fund the proj-ect or not.
Both the NCC and Ontario have already committed to the project.
Marie Lemay, CEO of the NCC stated at the NCC board meeting that the fi nal environmental ap-proval is now slated to wrap up in April 2014.
“We need fi nancial confi rma-tion from the two partners before we can continue,” Lemay said.
“I am not saying there is any signal we won’t get their signa-ture, I think it is the process that is taking time,” added Lemay.
The fi rst portion of the study,
which took four years, examined the im-pact an interprovincial bridge would have on the communities. It also narrowed down the potential locations to: Kettle Is-land, Lower Duck and McLaurin Bay.
Quebec had until Wednesday, Dec. 1, to sign for the study to avoid delays, which was after press time.
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Underlying the debate over the future of Lansdowne Park is the premise that the Ottawa Rough
Riders will return to the Canadian Foot-ball League in a new Lansdowne Park home.
And underlying that, in turn, is the premise that Ottawa and Valley fans will turn out in big numbers to support their team. Although the last couple of versions of Ottawa football teams would not support that premise, we can at least hope so, particularly in light of the boost in CFL interest that always accompanies the Grey Cup game.
And of course, the Rough Riders – let’s forget the Renegades, shall we? – had great success, both on the fi eld and at the box of-fi ce, in their best days. But we need to note that the best days were a long time ago and both the CFL and Ottawa have changed.
Both may have become too big.In its best days, the CFL won the
hearts and minds of Canadians, not to mention their dollars, not by being a big deal but by being a small one. The fans didn’t come out to see millionaire stars from the U.S. but to see people who were a part of their community, people who grew up there and people who came from
elsewhere but stayed there to live.So it was with the Ottawa Rough
Riders of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. It was professional sports on a human scale, played by people we knew who didn’t drive around in cars a whole lot bigger than ours. The recent death of Jay Rob-erts, a Rough Riders star of the 1960s, brings that thought home. He was a guy who was born in Iowa, grew up in Ten-nessee, went to college in Kansas, came to Ottawa to play football, stayed and become a beloved part of the city.
He was one of many Rough Riders from that era who have enriched the community and continue to do so.
American or Canadian, the players of the CFL, lived in their communities year-round. Because salaries were not
high, many of them had jobs there in the off season. Most famously, Russ Jack-son taught school in Ottawa, but many others worked in local businesses, sold investments, sold insurance. You could fi nd Jay Roberts, playing pickup basket-ball around town (and very well too). You could fi nd Rough Riders in the gyms, the restaurants and sometimes in the tavern too, not surrounded by an entourage, but by ordinary folk.
It was easy to root for players like that. They were sort of like us – bigger, more athletic, but not a whole lot richer. They didn’t travel around in limousines. They didn’t fl y off to Florida as soon as the season was over. It felt like they were part of the community and they were.
When the CFL changed, it was because over-ambitious owners in the ’70s began paying huge salaries to Americans with big reputations. At the same time, play-ers began to be moved around the league like so many chess pieces. It was then that the CFL ceased to be about commu-nity in many cities.
The Grey Cup excitement shows that there is still interest in the game across the country, potentially. But it is hard to escape the feeling that the CFL, to work
again in places like Ottawa, needs to fi nd a way to bring back that community identity. And it may not be too much of a stretch to say that the renovated Lansdowne Park will need that too. The business equivalent of the bloated Amer-ican superstar is the mammoth multina-tional big box store. And, continuing our stretch, we all know what the business equivalent of the old ’Riders is, don’t we? Right: the locally owned store.
To sum up: What’s bad for the CFL is bad for Lansdowne Park, not to mention bad for Ottawa. Simple, isn’t it, when you let sound football thinking guide your city planning.
CHARLES GORDON
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’Tis the seasonIt’s the season for a lot of
things – celebrating many faiths and cultures, spending time with loved ones, decorat-ing, baking, shopping and visiting friends. It’s a season of wish lists, eating too much turkey, and bickering with Uncle Milt for having too much eggnog.
For many though, not having enough food, warm clothing or family is a crunch at the worst of times, but the Christmas season seems to be that much harder.
It’s the time of the year that communities band together for each other. Collections of coats for little ones in the capital raised more than $160,000 this year.
According to the Christmas Exchange, there are close to 10,000 families in the region needing help this season. This is a local charity that was cre-
ated in 1915 to help struggling families left behind while the soldiers were overseas dur-ing the First World War. The Exchange serves all Ottawa residents, regardless of age, ethnicity, creed or culture.
For those who have never faced the overwhelming challenge of living on a fi xed income, it is diffi cult to appreci-ate how tough the holiday sea-son can be for other families.
People, through no fault of their own, fi nd themselves in a time of need because of a sudden work lay-off, an ill-ness, the death of the family breadwinner, or as a result of spousal abandonment leaving the children behind.
The Christmas Exchange runs two programs ¬– food assistance funded entirely by donations and proceeds from fundraising events and co-ordi-nation services funded in part
by the United Way in 2009/10.Food assistance provides ei-
ther a food hamper or redeem-able store voucher to families and individuals who are verifi -ably in need and who would not otherwise receive seasonal assistance from any other com-munity organization.
Co-ordination services are handled through a centralized web-database that collects the names of all the individuals and families referred through a network of over 300 community organizations.
Thanks to hundreds of vol-unteers, thousands of children and their families will have a little merrier holiday season this year.
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The Capital Region will soon be the fi rst area in Canada to have bike routes integrated into Google Maps.
Ottawa will be the fi rst of nine cities (including Gatineau, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Kelowna and Waterloo) to include bike-trail data and cycling routes into the direction fi nd-er on Google Maps (maps.google.com). The tool al-lows people to search for directions using a several types of transportation, including driving, walking and public transit.
The new cycling feature will use colour-coded roads to indicate their suitability for biking. Dark green will be used to show dedicated bike-only trails; lighter green will indicate a dedicated bike lane along a road; and a dotted green line will show roads that do not have bike lanes but tend to be suit-able for biking.
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An off-duty police officer who was barefoot when he chased a criminal through the streets of downtown Ot-tawa is the first person to receive the police service’s highest recognition – the chief ’s commendation.
Const. Mannix Velho was given the award for chasing and catching a sus-pect who had been at large for 12 days and was considered dangerous. Velho spotted the suspect, who had a history of violent offences and dangerous pur-suits on Aug. 24 when Velho was not on duty. He kicked off his sandals to chase the suspect, who had already eluded the police three times, accord-
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“Const. Velho clearly demonstrated a high standard of police conduct given the potentially high risk to the public,” the release stated. “Had it not been for Const. Velho’s keen observations and courageous actions, the suspect would have put the public and other officers in danger.”
The chief ’s com-mendation is the high-est of three levels of commendation letters introduced in April as a way to recognize outstanding efforts and actions by mem-bers of the Ottawa Po-lice Service.
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its approach. Richardson lives on Prince Albert Street, directly behind the proposed apartment building, and is the main force behind the Save Overbrook campaign aimed at getting the developer to make changes to the apartment-com-plex plan (visit www.saveoverbrook.com for more information).
While they are not opposed to inten-sifi cation in general, members of the community association feel that ground-oriented housing, such as a triplex or fourplex, would be better suited to the well-established neighbourhood.
“We know something is going to go in there … We’re not opposed to that,” said Elizabeth Parcher, who also lives on Prince Albert. “But the magnitude of this is just enormous.”
With construction happening right in her backyard, including digging for the
parking garage, Parcher even worries that her backyard will slide into the hole created for the parking garage, because her home sits on higher land.
One of the community association’s concerns is that the development will increase the number of rental units in a transient community where 59 per cent of the homes are already rental units.
While it’s important to have rental housing available, there is not a lot of buy-in for community involvement when such a high percentage of people don’t own their homes, said Sheila Perry, president of the Overbrook Community Council. The community association, while active, is small and doesn’t include membership from a full cross-section of the neighbourhood. There aren’t enough volunteers to push the association to an-other level in terms of its events and par-ticipation in the wider community.
Richardson said the type of housing
proposed for the new building – one- or two-bedroom apartments, won’t encour-age long-term residents who set down roots in the community. He’d rather see something that encourages community building and connections between Pre-sland and the rest of the neighbourhood, rather than a self-contained monolith, as he sees the Group Lepine proposal.
“It just doesn’t build up the commu-nity this way,” he said.
The new apartment building would be 27 metres away from houses to its rear, such as Parcher’s (those homes run parallel to Prince Albert Street) and 39 metres away from a shorter, four-storey apartment building to the east.
Adding so many people at that location would clog up the already-gridlocked Vanier Parkway even more, and require the city to put in another traffi c light at Presland, which would be a third signal in the short distance between the Queen-sway and Queen Mary. Presland current-ly ends as a cul-de-sac at Vanier Parkway, with no vehicle access, although there is a signaled pedestrian crossing.
It’s a blind turn, which is a safety con-cern for Parcher. Plus, with a re-align-ment of Coventry Road in the works (for the St. Laurent Shopping Centre ex-pansion), intersection work at Presland will create even more traffi c headaches, Parcher said.
But the developer’s traffi c study says the apartment building would be well-situated to take advantage of an arterial road (Vanier Parkway), the 9 and 103 bus
routes and nearby cycling links. In fact, Presland is designated as a cycle route in the city’s cycling master plan.
With more cars come more parking problems, the association says. While there will be a lot of underground park-ing in a two-storey garage – 205 residen-tial parking spaces plus 98 underground spots for visitors – the association says the neighbourhood is ill-equipped to deal with the inevitable infl ux of on-street overfl ow and visitor parking.
Legendre spoke in support of the cur-rent proposal before leaving offi ce last week, saying the developer has listened to the public and worked to ensure the apartment complex will have less of an impact on the neighbourhood, although he’d like to ensure the materials chosen for the outside of the building enhance the look of the area.
The city’s planning and environment committee is set to discuss the possibil-ity of amending the zoning bylaw at a Jan. 12, 2011 meeting, but residents are trying to get that delayed in order to get the new Rideau-Vanier councillor, Peter Clark, up to speed.
While the developer has said it wants the building completed in the next two years, the few remaining nuns at the con-vent have told neighbours they expect to remain living at the convent for about two years.
As to whether the Save Overbrook cam-paign will lead to any changes, Robinson says, “I’m hopeful.”
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As the holidays approach, the Centre for Women and Violence is getting ready to weather the storm.
Located in the Eastern Otta-wa Resource Centre, the group helped over 2,000 clients last year.
Christine Duchesne, the program’s manager, councils women who have come in on their own, through referrals and through police reports.
“It is hard to say whether one time of year is busier than any other, but holidays can certain-ly add stress to an already un-steady relationship,” Duchesne said.
She noted that the past year has been exceptionally busy and, while diffi cult to pinpoint the cause, she suggested it could be any number of stressful fac-tors, such as the tough economy people have been suffering.
Although located in the east, the centre does not turn any-one away, even if they are not originally from the area. It is common for women who work in the area to stop by, but having the centre farther away from a
woman’s home could also be-come a factor.
“We accept anyone and will not turn you away, however, sometimes a woman may not know of services in their own area and in those circumstanc-es, we refer them to a centre closer to home,” she said.
The ‘circle’ of violence is something commonly witnessed at the centre. It involves a hon-eymoon stage, a tension-fi lled stage where the woman feels like anything they do could set off their partner and then there’s the violence. Most women stay because their partner asks for forgiveness and promises it will never happen again.
“This circle continues un-less a woman becomes strong enough to leave, then the hard-est thing is to help build up that woman’s confi dence again,” Duchesne said.
Chantal Perron is a counsel-lor who also spent a decade working at Harmony Housing, a women’s shelter.
“What is different with work-ing at a shelter is there is a lot of multi-tasking between handling the crisis line and the families and making sure they feel safe,” Perron said.
The shelter rarely had va-cancies while Perron worked there.
“It is hard to get in and that is why the role of a transition-al worker also becomes so im-portant,” she said.
Transitional workers offer a different kind of support aside from counselling. They will go with a woman to court so she does not have to face her abus-er alone. They will also work at fi nding subsidized housing.
Perron indicated she’ss wor-ried January will be a busy time for the centre.
“After the holidays we tend to also see a lot of people,” she explained. “It could be be-cause some women try to keep the peace for the kids to have a good Christmas as well as the amount of alcohol consumed during the holidays.”
For women who are experi-encing a tough or violent time at home, Perron and Duchesne urged them to come in, even if only to talk.
“Do not be afraid to ask for help and if you are not sure you are in a situation of vio-lence, we are here to help you understand and to give you op-tions.’ Perron said.
Circle of violence gets stronger during the holidays
Image suppliedThe circle of violence consists of various types of abuse, including emotional, physical and sexual.
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KidSport Ottawa will receive an extra $1,750 in funding to help disadvantaged kids take part in sports, thanks to a $100,000 do-nation to umbrella charity Kid-Sport Ontario from the Foranzi Group.
Foranzi Group, a national sporting goods retailer that stores such as Sport Chek and Athletes World, donated the money through its nationwide Power of Sport for Kids pro-gram, which could help as many as 35 extra kids join a sports team in Ottawa in the coming year.
KidSport Ottawa grants are given to children aged 5 to 18 years old who face fi nancial barriers that prevent them from taking part in organized sport.
Grants range from $50 to $350, and can be used to help offset the cost of registration or equipment. Since 2005, Kid-Sport Ottawa has provided ap-proximately 350 kids around Ot-tawa with grants to help play for the sports team of their choice – anything from hockey and football to horseback riding and martial arts.
The Ottawa Internationals Soccer Club has had 69 partici-pants play on its teams thanks to KidSport Ottawa since 2005, more than any other organiza-tion in the city – and staff are proud of it.
“I think its really important for kids to take part in any sport, so anything that gets these kids in is really great, especially since the KidSport program tar-gets organized sports,” said Bob Monaghan, vice president of boys leagues at the club. He par-ticularly appreciates how Kid-Sport maintains the anonymity of the children it sponsors.
“The real key is that nobody knows they’re sponsored. The teammates don’t know, and the coaches don’t know. I think that’s a real plus and the way its done is excellent,” he said.
Parents apply directly to Kid-Sport and when the grant is ap-proved the charity simply sends the sports club a cheque to cover the child’s fees.
“If it’s a bit under, we just take it and make up the differ-ence,” Monaghan added.
Natalie Brett, program coor-dinator for KidSport Ottawa, said the anonymous approach stems from their goal to help
kids participate like every other child.
“We do that so the children don’t feel singled out, so that the families don’t feel like they’re charity cases. They belong like everybody else,” Brett ex-plained. “The privacy of it is a large component to our mental-ity of integration and equal op-portunity.”
To be eligible, children’s fami-lies must fall under the Cana-dian low income cutoff (LICO), according to Natalie Brett, the program coordinator for Kid-Sport Ottawa. For a family of four, this means the family’s total income would fall around $40,000, with little extra cash for luxuries such as organized sports. Brett said the program prioritizes fi rst-time applicants who want to play in recreational leagues.
Foranzi Group also dedicated a quarter of its $100,000 dona-tion to applications for OFSAA (Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations), which governs and organizes high school sports in Ontario. High school applicants to KidSport Ottawa will have access to this $25,000 to help offset the costs of playing high school sports,
which Brett said have been slowly rising.
“The nice thing is if we get an application for a youth want-ing to play a high school sport, we can take it from the $25,000 reserved for OFSAA instead of from our local pot,” she said. Brett stressed the funding will help bring joy to children of
all ages, as well as contribute to healthier communities and well-rounded students.
“It’s a very positive announce-ment that we want to high-light.”
For more information about KidSport’s applica-tion requirements, visit www.kidsportottawa.ca.
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He is a man of few words, but when he speaks, people listen.
Those were the words outgoing Mayor Larry O’Brien used to describe ousted Beacon Hill-Cyr-ville Coun. Michel Bellemare during council’s fi nal meeting on Nov. 24.
Bellemare, a fi ve-term councillor who was not re-elected on Oct. 25, refl ected on the importance of “balance and keeping things in perspective.”
While he highlighted many accomplishments of this council and other councils during his time in municipal politics, Bellemare said the legacy of the Class of 2006 is a vision for a “bold and effective” rapid transit plan that will lead to the creation of an underground city.
“It will transform Canada’s Capital,” he said. The transit strategy is just one of the projects
the outgoing council will pass on to new council-lors to “pursue and perfect,” Bellemare said.
Bellemare was fi rst elected to Ottawa-Carleton regional council in 1994 at age 27 and was re-elect-ed every term until this year. He was unseated by Tim Tierney, who squeaked by with 49.34 per cent of the vote to Bellemare’s 47.58 per cent – a differ-ence of less than 200 votes.
The new council was sworn in on Dec. 1. Check www.yourottawaregion.com and watch next week’s paper for coverage of the event.
Photo by Laura MuellerOutgoing Mayor Larry O’Brien (left) honoured for-mer Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Michel Bellemare dur-ing the last meeting of city council on Nov. 24.
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LAURA MUELLER
From homeless people to the well-off, everyone in his diverse ward has something to offer, said outgoing Rideau-Vanier Coun. Georges Bédard.
Bédard was one of 10 outgoing council members honoured at council’s fi nal meeting on Nov. 24.
He thanked every member of his complex ward – the “ward that never sleeps” – for mak-ing the area come to life. It’s the
poorest area of the city, he said, and it wasn’t easy to serve, but it was always an honour.
Bédard congratulated the new council, which he said could make the future even brighter, “…if we all work together.”
Joking that he had to obey
the “Cullen fi ve-minute rule” instituted to keep councillor’s remarks concise, Bédard ended his speech by thanking his fel-low councillors.
Bédard has served in munici-pal politics since 1974, when he fi rst ran for city council. In 1980
he entered the public service, eventually becoming the federal government’s chief negotiator for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
He was re-elected to city coun-cil in 2003 and 2006, but was nar-rowly ousted by Mathieu Fleury in the Oct. 25 election. Fleury bested Bédard with 45.69 per cent of the vote to Bédard’s 55.84 per cent.
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Council chambers was fi lled with pomp and circumstance – and a few touching moments – during the fi nal meeting of the old council’s term on Nov. 24.
With 10 councillors heading out the door – some retiring, some ousted from their seats – the meeting was a chance for staff and council to express their thanks, and for the outgoing councillors to say
goodbye.Mayor Larry O’Brien was honoured
last, and started his speech by lauding the professionalism of city staff, before admitting he was “a bit of a novice” when he was elected.
“Quite frankly, sometimes in the early days I thought there were a bunch of clowns here,” he said, referring to mem-bers of council. “I realized very quickly when I got in there that those clown shoes have very big shoes to fi ll.”
He thanked his fellow councillors for their patience during his transition, and added that experience in the business world did not prepare him for working as an elected offi cial.
“None of the skills you learn as a CEO are applicable to the public service,” he said.
While he said “change isn’t always comfortable,” O’Brien said he is proud of the debate, argument and change the city undertook under his leadership.
O’Brien was given a piece of art depict-ing the city’s logo made up of a collage of photos of Ottawa created by city pho-tographer Roger Lalonde and the city’s graphics department.
Each outgoing councillor received a framed image from their ward as a part-ing gift.
The new council was sworn in on Dec. 1. Visit www.yourottawaregion.com and watch next week’s paper for coverage of the new council’s inauguration.
Photo by Laura MuellerMayor Larry O’Brien received a piece of art depict-ing the city’s logo made up of a collage of photos of Ottawa created by city photographer Roger Lalonde and the city’s graphics department.
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New Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson was already busy solidifying his reputation as a fi scal conservative last week.
The city’s bureaucracy will be under a spend-ing and hiring freeze until council passes the 2011 budget in the spring, according to a memo sent to councillors by city manager Kent Kirkpatrick on Nov. 26.
“This decision is as a result of discussions be-tween myself and the Mayor-elect wherein we agreed on the need to create as much fi nancial fl ex-ibility as possible and achieve as much of a fi nan-cial surplus to year end as we can,” he wrote.
“Fiscal restraint” was one of the key planks in Watson’s election platform. During the campaign, he promised to “take immediate action to trim city budgets.”
That promise was in response to the city’s 14 per cent tax increase over the past three years, break-ing former mayor Larry O’Brien’s famous “zero means zero” tax increase assurance made during the 2006 campaign.
City hall feels the freeze
Outgoing mayor bids council adieu at fi nal meeting
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With an unprecedented $401 million in infrastructure proj-ects already underway, the City of Ottawa is adding another $8.5 million worth of projects to the list.
But some councillors aren’t happy, saying the city should have been able to get more fund-ing. Ottawa was allowed to apply for up to $30 million in addition-al projects, and the value of the work the city actually applied for was $20 million – the proj-ects city staff believed could be completed by the March 31, 2011 deadline.
In the end, the provincial and federal governments decided to give the city an extra $8 million worth of projects.
“How much money did we leave on the table?” Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes asked dur-ing a council meeting last week.
Earlier in the week, Wayne
Newell, the city’s manager of infrastructure services, alluded to the answer during a briefi ng.
Newell said the city didn’t expect such a long delay by the federal government to confi rm whether the city was to receive the funding. Ottawa applied last August and was told it would have an answer back in two or three weeks. That answer didn’t come until last week.
“We had to make some adjust-ments,” Newell said.
Still, the $8 million in extra projects will make a difference to communities, Newell said.
The largest project is a $3.8 million effort to re-line sewers in west Nepean.
The Vernon library branch in the city’s south end will get an entrance ramp for $150,000, while the Ruth E. Dickinson Library in Barrhaven will be renovated for $550,000.
There will be some upgrades to city arenas. Dulude Arena in Carlington (($100,000) and the
Manotick Arena and the Tom Brown Arena in Hintonburg ($170,000 each) will all get alter-nate gender change rooms.
The city will only put up $5.2 million of the $8.5 million need-ed for the projects, because the rest of the funding comes from the federal and provincial gov-ernments. The city’s portion will be funded using develop-ment charges, and will not put additional pressure on next year’s budget, city staff said.
OTTAWA AHEAD OF THE GAME
With only two per cent of construction work predicted to be incomplete by the time the March 31, 2011 deadline hits, Ot-tawa is faring better than many of its urban counterparts. Most cities will have eight or nine per cent of projects incomplete, ac-cording to Newell.
That two per cent represents $8 million in costs the city may have to pay without help from other levels of government.
The projects must be done by March 31 for municipalities to receive one third of the fund-ing from both the federal and provincial governments. The
infrastructure stimulus fund was launched in 2009 in order to kick-start the economy.
Not only that, but the city is estimating the projects will only cost them $365 total, $36 million under budget.
The projects that are antici-pated to go over the deadline are Terry Fox Drive and Hazeldean Road, a $65 million project that includes a bridge over the Carp River, the largest infrastructure project in the province.
Rain hampered some of the weather sensitive projects, New-ell said. In September alone, 22 of the 30 days saw rainfall.
The city has applied to the upper levels of government to ask for extensions for those two projects.
To fi nd out about the status of construction projects in your neighbourhood, visit www.otta-wa.ca/residents/construction.
ECONOMIC STIMULUS
The infrastructure projects were meant to give the faltering economy a jolt, and city staff predicted last year that Ottawa’s projects alone would lead to the creation of 7,300 jobs.
Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches wanted to know how many jobs were actually created, but city staff said it would be too diffi cult to pin down a number, adding that job creation was “on track” with estimates.
John DeVries, president of the Ottawa Construction As-sociation, said the industry is pleased with the status of the projects and the infl ux of funds.
“Everything is defi nitely mov-ing great now and there might be some problems come the deadline,” he wrote in an email. “But pretty small in comparison to the entire pot of funds.” He said the industry is expecting a slump in construction work next year to compensate for the deluge of money spent on infra-structure projects.
Ottawa will reduce its capital works budget by $133 million over three years (until 2012). Michael Fitzpatrick, the city’s media relations manager, said “in theory,” no projects will be delayed in the coming years, as most of the stimulus projects done this year were fast-tracked and would have been completed in the coming years anyway.
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David Usher will be putting a new twist on some old favou-rites and is even dabbling with the French language.
Fans will get a chance to hear his new sound at an intimate concert at the Shenkman Arts Centre on Dec. 8
Usher fi rst hit the Canadian rock scene in the early 1990s with a group of friends from University. The band, Moist, re-leased its fi rst album in 1994 and continued to work together un-til Usher went solo in 1998.
He has released seven albums to date as a solo artist. His latest album, The Mile End Sessions, came out this past September.
The album offers a new take on some old favourites.
“I am really happy with the way the songs turned out,” Ush-er said, although revamping of the songs took longer than he initially thought it would.
“Some things take time to fi nd the right sound and you want it to be the best it can be,” he con-tinued.
The new album also offers a French song, one which has al-ready peaked to the top 10 radio list in Quebec. Co-written by Marie-Mai St. Gelais, the song gave Usher a chance to sing in French and work with a great friend.
“You want to work with peo-ple you trust…. and Marie-Mai is amazing,” Usher said.
The concert will offer an in-timate setting for fans, with breaks between the songs and a set list which will change, de-pending on what Usher and his bandmates think is right.
“We are having a great time,” he said. “Playing like this is new to us and we are really en-joying seeing how things come together.”
Usher’s tour has him playing in small venues in Ontario and Quebec starting in Toronto on Dec. 3.
Photo suppliedDavid Usher gets set to play an intimate concert this coming month at Shenkman Arts Centre. Usher released a new album this fall with a twist – a song in French. In just four weeks, the song, ‘Je repars’ broke into radio top 10 in Quebec.
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New program provides free skates to kids
JESSICA CUNHA
Four hundred children from across the Ottawa region will soon be lacing up new skates at outdoor rinks across the city.
The Sens Foundation, along with the City of Ottawa and Canadian Tire Jump-start, announced the launch of the I Love To Skate program at Scotiabank Place on Saturday, Nov. 27.
The initiative will provide fi nancially disadvantaged children the opportunity to learn how to skate with qualifi ed in-structors.
“We just take skating for granted up here in Canada. A lot of kids can’t afford skates,” said Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. “This isn’t just about brand new skates, it’s about creating memories.”
Participating children will get vouch-ers for free hockey skates, sticks and pads.
“That’s what communities are about,” said Stittsville Coun. Shad Qadri. “Look-ing after each other, looking after future generations.”
I Love To Skate will begin in mid-Janu-ary and last for four weeks. Children are chosen by the city through an applica-tion process.
“Being Canadian and skating go hand in hand and every child deserves the op-portunity to learn,” said Qadri.
Photo by Jessica CunhaSens Foundation president Danielle Robinson and Stittsville Coun. Shad Qadri announced the I Love To Skate program in partnership with Canadian Tire Jumpstart at Scotiabank Place on Saturday, Nov. 27, along with par-ticipating youth Kevin Toussaint, 11 and Ja-nel Sajoies, 7.
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Community CalendarWe welcome your submissions of upcoming
community, non-profi t events. Please email events to [email protected]
by 4:30 p.m. on Friday
• DEC. 3Come out to the Eastview Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, 294 Cyr Avenue. The Ladies Auxiliary are hosting their annual Christmas dance on Friday, December 3 from 8 PM to Midnight. Music by Al Visser. A light lunch will be served. Free Admission – all are welcome. For more information, contact the Branch at 613-741-9539. www.rcl462.ca
A musical and meditative introduction to the Baha’i Faith with singer songwriter Rose-Marie Peterson at 7:30 p.m. Ottawa Bahá’í Centre, 211 McArthur Ave. All are welcome. Contact 613-565 0806 or [email protected]
• DEC. 3 AND 4The School of Dance presents Dances by Youth for Youth featuring a company of profes-sional dancers and students from Canterbury High School, École secondaire catholique de Casselman, École secondaire publique De La Salle and St-Lawrence Intermediate School. Performances take place at Arts Court Theatre on Dec. 2, 3 and 4 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 or $10 for students and seniors. For tickets and information please call 613-238-7838.
• DEC. 4Third Wall is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a staged reading of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral at 8 p.m. It’s a performance
that put the theatre company on the map. It’s a one night only show featuring several of the original cast members. The performance takes place at St. James United Church, 650 Lyon St. South. Tickets are $45, including tax receipt and post show reception. For more information, please call 613-236-1425 or [email protected]
Christmas: more than toys and tinsel. Riverside Churches, 3191 Riverside Dr. invite you to an interactive “Messy Church” event with crafts, music, story, worship and celebration for the whole family. Followed by supper. 4:30-6:30 p.m. For info, call: 613 733-7735.
From10:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m. Project Tembo will host a Tanzania fundraising event to support the education of Massai girls and provide micro-business loans for Massai women living in two Tanzanian villages. The event features a very special guest speaker, Ian Smillie, who is an Order of Canada recipient, a UN Secu-rity Council expert, and the author of many books focused on African issues including, “The Importance of Micro-fi nance Programs in Developing Countries”. It also includes a bustling African marketplace, a silent auction and an African luncheon. Advance ticket sales only: $40 including luncheon ($20 tax receipt) or $20 excluding luncheon ($20 tax receipt). Call 613-406-6002.
Holy Rosary Parish, 20 Grant St., is holding their Christmas Bazaar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Baking, jewelry, novelties, crafts, gifts, knitting and silent auction, canteen plus 50/50 tickets. All are welcomed, please join us.
Fisher Park Community Centre Christmas Craft Show and Sale. From homemade culinary de-lights to intricate works of art, there is some-thing for everyone on your gift-giving list. This year our featured charity will be Bicycles for Humanity. The event will be held in Fisher Park School from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., 250 Holland Ave. (at the Queensway overpass). Free admis-sion and parking. For more information call 613 798-8945.
• DEC. 4 AND 5Come out to the Eastview Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, 294 Cyr Avenue. Entertain-ment includes The Classics playing on Saturday, Dec. 4 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., and on Sunday, Dec. 5 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Free admission – all are welcome. For more information, contact the Branch at 613-741-9539. www.rcl462.ca
• DEC. 5Ujamaa Market Day, celebrating family, com-munity and culture, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. at Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Ave, Mac Hall. Support local businesses this holiday season from the home-based and small business sector of Ottawa’s community. Light refreshments will be on sale. Children and youth will entertain throughout the day. Please bring your reusable bags so we can do our part for the environ-ment. For more information please contact Tarrah at 613-567-0600 or email [email protected] or visit www.jakukonbit.com.
Christmas bazaar: Annunciation of the Lord Church, 2414 Ogilvie Rd., Ottawa. 613-745-7774 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Crafts, white elephant, bake sale and tea room.
• DEC. 6Musica Viva Singers presents Viva Vivaldi!, an annual Christmas concert, directed by Marg Stubington, at 7:30 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral, 420 Sparks St. Vivaldi’s Gloria will be featured along with works by Hatfi eld, Raminsh, and others. Special guests are Shan-non Linton, Cara Gilbertson, and chamber orchestra. Tickets, $15 (adults); $12 (students/seniors), available at Compact Music, The Lead-ing Note, and Book Bazaar. www.musicvivaot-tawa.ca
• DEC. 6 AND 7The Foyer Gallery in support of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Art Sale & Fundraiser at the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus Mall, 1053 Carling Ave., 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Foyer Gallery art-ists present an exciting and diverse collection of works, employing a variety of artistic styles and mediums. Foyer Gallery is a non-profi t artist-run Gallery located at the Nepean Sportsplex.
• DEC. 11Come out to the Eastview Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, 294 Cyr Ave. The Ladies Aux-iliary are hosting their annual Christmas Bake Sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free admission – all are welcome. For more information, contact the Branch at 613-741-9539. www.rcl462.ca
ONGOINGArt Show, daily until Dec. 29. Richlieu-Vanier Community Centre, 300 des Pères-Blancs Ave. Your chance to get an original painting by Éve-line Janis which you will enjoy for a lifetime.
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DAN PLOUFFE
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say the Ottawa Fury under-17 girls’ soccer team produced the national capital’s biggest accomplishment in youth soccer his-tory last week when it captured the region’s fi rst-ever Super-Y League championship in Tampa, Fla.
“To win something of this magnitude is really big not just for our club, but for the entire city,” Fury coach Jimmy Zito says. “The whole season was great. It just got better and better. There was no down part, nothing that really held us back – it was great the entire time.”
The U17 Fury girls likely represent the greatest col-lection of talent ever assembled on a single Ottawa team. With a roster chock full of national champions with Team Ontario – and even an international CON-CACAF champ – the Carleton University-based soccer stars from across the city now own a North American title as well, thanks to their undefeated run at the Unit-ed Soccer Leagues fi nals Nov. 19-23.
On the heels of an 8-0 season in the New England con-ference, the Fury won a pair of games and tied another two in preliminary-round play before claiming shutout victories over Cleveland (2-0 in the semi-fi nals) and London (3-0 in the championship game) to clinch the crown.
In the playoff round, Breanna Burton and Marissa Duguay scored for Ottawa, while tournament MVP Lauren Hughes counted three of her six goals overall. Abbey Lindblad, Alex Skeggs, Melissa Erturk, Laura Callender and goalkeeper Rachelle Beanlands also had
MVP-calibre performances, Zito notes, as his team al-lowed just two goals in fi ve games against their top con-tinental opponents.
“I had a back-four that was just air-tight,” Zito adds. “I had two goalkeepers that conceded two goals the en-tire tournament. Defence wins championships – that’s no secret to anyone.”
The triumph meant that much more to Zito since he lost a Super-Y league fi nal by a single goal with another U17 Fury team a few years ago. It was the fi rst USL title for the club, whose W-League team has been to the pro-fessional women’s league fi nal-four on numerous occa-sions, but never won the big prize.
A few other Fury squads illustrated just how diffi cult it can be to win it all – both the U16 and U14 Fury boys teams didn’t lose in the preliminary round, but missed out on the playoff round nonetheless due to ties. The U15 and U17 boys, along with the U15 girls, also com-peted at the league fi nals in Florida, which meant the Fury U17 girls had a big Ottawa booster section for the championship game.
“They were cheering and hooting and hollering the whole time. It’s a really big thing for the club,” de-scribes Zito, who hopes the title will lead to more for the Fury in the future. “The kids see that it is a possi-bility now, it’s not a pipe dream, so hopefully this is the fi rst of many.”
The match was the last time many of the Fury players will suit up together on the same team, with as many as eight bound for the NCAA next season on full athletic scholarships. Zito explains that’s the major reward for years and years of hard work by the girls, but the fi nal
memory they’ll have from their Fury youth days will certainly be a lasting one.
“When the whistle went, the girls went absolutely nuts. I was shaking,” Zito recalls. “That’s the biggest goal I’ve had with the Fury since I began six years ago. For it to come true, and for my owner John Pugh to give me this opportunity, I’m still over the moon, living in la-la land right now.”
Fury fl ourish in Super-Y League fi nals for Ottawa’s fi rst continental crown
Photo suppliedOttawa Fury coach Jimmy Zito says there were really no down moments for his U17 girls this season as they outscored their United Soccer Leagues opponents by a combined total of 54-5 en route to the city’s fi rst Super-Y League championship.
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When Ottawa South resident Jean Yves Theriault stepped into the ring thirty years ago, it didn’t cross his mind that he could someday become the kickboxing world champion, not just once, but 23 times in his lifetime.
But on Nov. 15, 1980, 25-year-old Theriault beat his formi-dable opponent Robert Biggs in the fi rst round – infl icting 60 stitches with a high kick – and won the fi rst world cham-pionship of his career. Today, he is celebrating the 30th an-niversary of the fi ght that shaped his life.
“There was a design there, a design by greater forces than me,” he said. “My destiny was unfolding in front of me.”
Theriault began training at Ottawa’s Therien Jiu Jitsu and Kickboxing School when was 17, achieving a blue belt in Jiu Jitsu before switching to kickboxing. “I was distracted for 30 years with this kickboxing thing,” he laughed, adding that he now has his black belt in Jiu Jitsu. “I pursued kick-boxing and obviously did relatively well. As I went along, I found that people really enjoyed my style of fi ghting, I drew an interest and I could win. It was a snowball affect, and it got bigger and bigger until the point of reference in the sport was me.”
From that point on, “Iceman” was born – Theriault’s self proclaimed alternate personality, which he honed into while in the ring. “Iceman was a sort of Jekyll and Hyde thing. I’m a passive person, and I don’t like violence. I’m a competitive sport person, but I’m also a son to my mother, a father to my children, a brother to my siblings.”
Theriault said he needed Iceman’s persona to separate his fi ghts from the rest of his life. “I would morph into that crea-ture when I was preparing for the fi ght. It was a protective mechanism, because he would push everything else in my life away in order to focus on what was important at the mo-ment.” It also helped him remain a winner. “Iceman helped me detach myself from the emotional part of myself, be-cause otherwise I’d come in second. If you see pain in your opponent’s face and back off, all of a sudden you’re on your bum and you’ve lost.”
But Theriault recognizes that his passion for kickboxing, at which he was considered the world’s best for decades, took a toll on other parts of his life. “It got harder and hard-er to get out of the mindset. I wasn’t leading a completely balanced lifestyle,” he said, explaining that martial arts pro-grams traditionally emphasize the importance of balancing the physical, emotional, spiritual and professional elements of your life. “But I was lopsided.”
The major consequence of this unbalance, he said, was his subsequent divorce, noting that at that time of his life it would have been hard for anyone to live with him. He maintained a gruelling schedule as world champion, fi ght-
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ing around the world in Western Europe and all across the U.S. and Canada. He also took on more and more speaking gigs, where he would teach and talk to business groups, schools and any other or-ganization that wanted to hear from the kickboxing champion. The National Film Board made a movie about him in the early 1980s, and he published sev-eral instructional books and tapes.
He came to realize, however, that his most cher-ished projects stem from helping others. “As a fi ght-er you entertain the masses, but it’s a selfi sh game: I do this for me. But the responsibility of a champi-on title, you suddenly become very aware that you have a great vehicle.” And he’s put some mileage on it: to this day, Theriault is incredibly involved in his community. He has volunteered with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the RCMP’s drug awareness program, Big Brothers, and the Children’s Wish Foundation, where he was the honourary fundrais-ing president.
In between his good works, he also teaches at the handful of Therien martial arts franchises around the city, having stayed close friends with founder John Therien since he fi rst started training in 1972. Theriault said he believes strongly in the value of martial arts training for kids.
“They’re going into something with structure, something that teaches discipline, honour, integ-rity – all the values that parents are looking to pass on to their kids. These are what I recognize to be important to raise productive adults, people that are well-rounded and understand the difference be-tween good and bad,” he said. He emphasized the difference between traditional martial arts and the increasingly popular ‘mixed martial arts’ (MMA), which he doesn’t feel properly follow the disciplined mindset of the traditional arts. “Martial arts is a structured, militarized sport. MMA is in and of it-self all over the map. It’s not a specialty in striking like boxing, it’s not specialty in self defense like Jiu Jitsu,” he explained. “I can almost guarantee if I were to sit with a parent watching the UFC fi ght on TV, where one is sprawled out and being pummeled, I would ask that mother, ‘Would you like your child to do this?’ and they would say no.”
Although Theriault has been retired as a fi ghter for 15 years, he said he’s just getting started as a teacher and a member of his community. “I feel I have much, much more to contribute. And if it’s one person at a time on a mat in a gym teaching someone how to stay fi t and avoid disease, that’s my lot and I like it.”
Photo by Emma JacksonTwenty-three time kickboxing world champion Jean Yves Theriault practices with 19-year-old Chelsea McPherson, who has her second degree black belt in Jiu Jitsu, at the Therien School of Martial Arts.
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Title: Groundskeeper Supervisor/ Cemetery Foreman (Noc: 8256) Terms Of Employment: Permanent, Full TimeSalary: $18.00 To 19.50 Per Hour, 40 Hours Per Week(Increase To $19.50 Per Hour After 3 Months Service) Benefi ts: Full Medical Benefi ts Including Dental Package Life Insurance And Pension Contributions.Anticipated Start Date: January 17, 2011LOCATION: Ottawa West
Skills Requirements:Education: High School Graduate Or Equivalent ExperienceCredentials (Certifi cates, Courses, Licenses): Not RequiredExperience: Minimum 1year Experience In Similar Position Working With Heavy EquipmentLanguages: Speak EnglishWork Setting: Cemetery, Landscape MaintenanceType Of Machinery: Backhoe, Tractor, Dump Truck, Heavy Duty Commercial Mower, Weed Trimmer/edger/roto-tiller, And Small Engine EquipmentPosition Duties: Supervise And Coordinate The Work Of Cemetery Labourers Including Cemetery Building / Road / Walkway / Maintenance Workers And Cremation Operators.Supervise And Coordinate Horticultural Maintenance Of The Properties Including Management Of Trees, Flowers And Lawns.
Will Train Cemetery Labourers On Job Duties And Company Policies Including But Not Limited To Interment Verifi cation.May Perform Duties Of Cemetery Labourer As Required.
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Essential Skills: Oral Communications Working With Others Attention To Detail Tight Deadlines Ability To Multi-task With Interruptions Commitment To Making Positive Contribution Transportation: Possess A Valid Driver’s LicenseOther Information: Qualifi ed Applicants From Communities Facing Barriers To Employment, Disadvantaged And Aboriginal Backgrounds Are Encouraged To Apply.
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As one of Canada’s largest not for profi t leaders in wildlife conservation, research, and advocacy, are seeking to fi ll the following position:
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The Administrative Assistant is responsible for a wide variety of administrative duties, including secretarial duties in addition to more complex functions and services such as coordinating translations and drafting sensitive correspondence.
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scholarship applications.• Co-ordinate all translation activities for Canadian Wildlife Federation.
QUALIFICATIONS:
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Travel as required.
Applications should be forwarded [email protected] by Friday, December 3, 2010
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Job Title: Full-Time - Advertising Sales Representatives
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Are you looking for a fast-paced, creative and chal-lenging work environment? Is working with energet-ic, passionate people focused on winning the right place for you? Metroland Media – Ottawa Region offi ce has excellent opportunities for individual’s that are committed to building a career in sales; this is an entry level position with huge growth potential. You will be asked to produce results and devote time and eff ort required to consistently improve results.
The candidate we seek will demonstrate exceptional abilities in... • Prospecting and closing customers with advertising sales opportunities. • Cold-calling new or non-serviced businesses in Ottawa and surrounding area. • Creative thinking style and an ability to problem-solve • Self-starter with loads of initiative who needs minimal direction • High energy and a positive attitude • Excellent verbal and written skills • Literate in computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel • Driven for success • Excellent organizational skills
This is a career position. You like to produce results and devote whatever time and eff ort is required to consistently produce improved results. Remunera-tion includes:
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Post Secondary Education an asset but not a pre-requisite.
Interested candidates are asked to forward their resumes to:
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The Ottawa Elite Running Team’s dream of a second-place fi nish in its debut appearance at the Canadian cross-country running championships didn’t materialize on Nov. 27 in snowy Guelph, Ont.
Minus two members on the comeback trail from injuries, Josh Karanja and Mike Woods, the men’s team fi nished just off the national podium in fourth place.
Seventeen-year-old Glebe Collegiate Institute student Yves Sikubwabo placed eighth in his fi rst test against the best senior-aged athletes in Canada, covering the 10-kilometre course in 30 minutes, 44.8 seconds.
Franco-Ouest student Emma Galbraith led the Ottawa Lions to a fi fth-place team result in the junior women’s event with her 24th-place showing individually, while Alta Vista resident Rebecca Stall-wood fi nished 23rd in the senior wom-en’s race.
The previous weekend at the Cana-dian Interuniversity Sport cross-coun-try championships in Sherbrooke, Que., Hillcrest High School grad Allan Brett placed fourth in the men’s race en route to leading his Guelph Gryphons to a con-vincing team title.
Injuries hamper Ottawateam’s push for podium
File photo by Dan PlouffeYves Sikubwabo, a student at Glebe Collegiate, placed eighth at the Canadian cross-country championships in Guelph, Ont., on Nov. 27.
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