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YEAR 28, VOL.30, No. 4 THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW APRIL 2002

CARLETON U STUDENTS HELP WITH ‘SMART GROWTH’

BY LEO DOYLE

Norma Reveler

Sweet Smell of Success A dessert created by the Old Ottawa South shop “Cakes By Tatiana” recently won the Sugar Bowl. See pages 12-13 for details. In the photo, a store employee with one of the cakes for sale.

arleton University architecture students have come up with designs illustrating how some m Bank Street could be

redeveloped for mixed use. The students looked at 13 sites along the street in Old Ottawa South. The designs focused on developing attractive housing above Bank Street shops, and called for a street more densely populated and better able to support neighbourhood businesses, and services such as public transit. Mixed-use neighbourhoods tend to be safe and attractive as residents are less car dependent.

The goal of the project is to encourage citizens and property owners, in particular, to imagine some of the many possibilities for redevelopment on Bank Street. Ken McConkey, who is considering mixed-use development for his property at the comer of Sunnyside and Bank (former site of Pioneer gas station) was among the property owners invited to view the student designs, which were presented on April 3 at Southminster United Church.

The project, initiated by Carleton University Architecture professor Rafael Gomez-Moriana, is supported by the Ottawa South Community Association (OSCA). It is one of

three projects designed to enhance “smart growth” in the community and to maximize the benefits flowing, from the planned reconstruction of Bank Street.

Building on inner city lands that are already well-served by existing infrastructure is smart growth, rather than allowing growth to take place in outlying suburbs that require costly new roads and other infrastructure. Smart growth uses infrastructure more efficiently and helps create more sustainable, interesting and walkable communities.

A second initiative is the collection of market data that can be used to make informed choices on new and existing business development. Students studying entrepreneurship at Carleton’s Eric Sprott School of Business were asked to research and compile information needed by a new business when it’s trying to decide where to locate. OSCA awarded a small contract to the students in January for this project.

Keira Torkko, an OSCA volunteer who is coordinating the project, says, “The students are working to determine why small businesses choose to locate in Old Ottawa South, and what we can do to encourage new small businesses to open or move to

the neighbourhood.” She adds, students Tracy

Miglioranza and Thomas Grant are “working hard to interview the local business and residential communities about their needs and what types of businesses they believe would complement the existing mix”.

More information on this project can be found online at http://www.ottawaimby.ca and their

research will be made available at the end of the semester. Torkko encourages all residents to go online and complete the residents’ survey.

The third initiative involves working with Ottawa officials to bring Bank Street zoning in the neighbourhood into compliance with objectives set out in the 1980 Ottawa South Neighbourhood Plan. The plan

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PLANT A TREE, PLAY INSIDE A CATERPILLAR, MAYBE WIN A BIKE

BY LAURIE GRAHAM Di on’t just hug a tree; plant one! A gala ECOSFest

J tree-planting event is being held in Old Ottawa South’s Brewer Park on April 27, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Everyone’s invited to come and help plant hundreds of trees and shrubs along the shoreline, around the pond, and in other areas throughout the park. This is a family event, and kids are encouraged to participate. There will be shovels on site but if you can, bring an extra one along.

Tags will be provided so that planters can put their names on the trees they plant. In this way, they can identify their trees in future years, and follow the progress as each grows.

The Ottawa Folklore Centre is providing live entertainment, and celebrity chefs will be on hand to help prepare the free refreshments. The first hundred attendees will receive a free gift bag.

And all attendees can enter a free

draw for a mountain bike, donated by Sunoco.

Festival participants of all ages can listen to talks on wildlife native to the river and on water quality, including live displays.

Wildlife naturalist Mike Rankin will be there with his turtles, and his cohort Hedrik Wachelka with his fish. If that’s not enough, come and hear wildlife expert Michael Runtz do his animal calls, and then join him in a bird and wildlife nature tour along the banks of the Rideau River.

Kids can cheer on volunteers from Cognos as they set up turtle basking sites in the pond, participate in a nature hunt with prizes, have their faces painted, and play in a large,

inflatable caterpillar. Since 1992, the Environmental

Committee of Old Ottawa South (ECOS) has been actively involved in projects aimed at restoring the natural habitat of Brewer Park. In 1996, ECOS member and landscaping expert John Wright drafted a conceptual plan for the site, which was subsequently endorsed by the community.

Since that time, the group has transformed a parking lot into a grove of trees, created a fish embayment, built - with the help of boy scouts - a pedestrian bridge, and installed eight interpretative plaques on the site.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

EVERYONE HAS ROLE TO PLAY IN PREVENTING SUBSTANCE ABUSE

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PEAR EDITOR: We applaud OSCAR’s decision to give front

. cover prominence to the problem of substance abuse by our youth in our communities. School Councils from Glebe, Hopewell, Lisgar and other schools are working together to bring more awareness to this problem which affects not only the youth of Glebe Collegiate, but youth throughout Ontario.

According to the City of Ottawa report entitled Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use Among Students in the City of Ottawa, produced by the People Services Department of the City of Ottawa, in April, 2001, these are the facts:

* Smoking and alcohol use tend to start at the elementary and intermediate levels;

* 60.8% of students in the city of Ottawa from grades seven to ten had used alcohol at least once;

* 18.8% had used cannabis; * 20.4% had used cigarettes; * 19 % had used other drugs

combined; * A small but significant number

of students within the city are problem drinkers, 8.2% compared with the provincial rate of 7%;

* 28% had heavy drinking episodes this past year;

* 13.5% of students with driver’s licenses, from all boards in the city, have driven within one hour of drinking;

* One-third of students reported exposure to drug sales in their

neighborhood in the past 12 months.

These statistics represent — our future - our kids, our community. As concerned parents, we have started a community effort to bring awareness of the problem to the public, and prevent and reduce the use of alcohol, cigarettes and other drugs by students.

As a first step, we organized a town hall meeting on April 11, 2002 at the Main Hall of the Glebe Community Centre, from 7 to 9 p.m.

We invited experts and community leaders to come and talk about the subject so that we can learn about what is really happening in our schools, on our streets and in the homes of our communities.

In every community, everyone has a responsibility to make it a better place.

We hope that the public will recognize the significance of this problem and become an active participant in our Prevention of Substance Abuse Program, where everyone has a role: students, parents, role models and mentors, business and community leaders, and educators.

Luz Maria Alvarez-Wilson Co-chair Glebe Parents Association Lee Shapiro Co-chair Glebe Parents Association Brent Fournier Vice-chair, Hopewell School Council

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LINKING VOLUNTEER ENERGY TO COMMUNITY NEEDS

BY LYNDA RIVINGTON Over 40 non-profit agencies will be participating at a

I volunteer fair at Billings Bridge Shopping Centre on April 25 and 26 during National Volunteer Week. “Experience Matters” is the theme of this year’s National Volunteer Week, running April 21- 27. It is directed at both older adults and young people.

Older adults with a lifetime of experience can use volunteering as a way to give something back to their communities and make the transition from the world of work to their retirement years. At the same time, volunteering can give young people the chance to gain much-needed experience.

As Sheila Jenkins, assistant director of Volunteer Ottawa, points out, “Volunteering is a two-way street and experience really does matter.” She says people volunteer for a number of reasons - to help others, to act on a cause they believe in, to apply their skills and experience, and to discover new interests, as well as to gain a feeling of accomplishment, make new contacts and meet new people.

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Shopping Centre, Volunteer Ottawa matches the needs of its member agencies with volunteers offering their skills and abilities. It’s one-stop shopping for volunteerism and the voluntary sector.

Founded in 1955 and funded by the United Way, Volunteer Ottawa is committed to building the capacity of the Ottawa community through strong leadership and quality services. Their location close to the Billings Bridge transit station makes them easily accessible to people who travel by bus and to residents of Old Ottawa South. In addition, they have flexible hours to meet the needs of people who can’t get there during regular working hours.

SERVICES OFFERED BY VOLUNTEER OTTAWA

Jenkins says it’s important for

people to know that Volunteer Ottawa exists and what they do. “Our main service is recruitment and referral. We have over 300 non-profit agencies that are members of Volunteer Ottawa. For example, people can make an appointment to come in and talk with a volunteer interviewer who will match their interests, skills and abilities with an available position,” she says.

Volunteer Ottawa doesn’t place volunteers; it’s a referral service for member agencies. It interviews approximately 150 prospective volunteers each month.

They also recruit through their website, the Volunteer Round Up column in the Ottawa Citizen, telephone interviews and through exhibits in malls and during agency fairs. They refer close to 6,000 volunteers each year to non-profit agencies in Ottawa.

Volunteer Ottawa also offers a service in collaboration with the Canadian Mental Health Association called The Pathway Program, which connects consumers of mental health services with volunteer opportunities in the community.

Another service involves leadership. Volunteer Ottawa has teamed with The Community Foundation of Ottawa to offer Leadership Ottawa, a program that develops informed, skilled and inspired leaders in the voluntary, public and corporate sectors.

Through community events like the National Volunteer Week celebrations, Volunteer Ottawa increases awareness of volunteerism and creates interest for voluntary action in the region. They also partner with many local organizations to offer special events promoting volunteerism.

In addition, Volunteer Ottawa offers online workshops, customized training sessions to respond to an organization’s specific training or development needs, consultation on different issues and a resource library.

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changes in volunteerism over the years. In the 1950s and 1960s, more women were available for traditional kinds of volunteering, such as daytime driving because they weren’t in the work force. With more women working out of the home, daytime drivers are one of the biggest needs of numerous non-profit agencies.

People also come to volunteering now with an idea of what they want to gain, such as job skills plus work experience that will give eventually lead to a letter of reference.

Another change is the number of new Canadians who want to volunteer, many of whom speak neither French nor English, but want to volunteer to learn about Canadians and their customs. Many agencies are extremely helpful with new Canadians and establish a buddy system to help them.

Further, high school students are now required to complete 40 hours of community service before they graduate. Not only can Volunteer Ottawa help match them with some work, but last year they worked with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board to develop program materials and provided every Ottawa high school with a guide to youth volunteering.

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These changes make it essential that agencies assess their needs. With people arriving at Volunteer Ottawa with a sense of what they want to do,

Jenkins notes, “We have to engage people, especially with all these baby boomers retiring, and agencies have to figure out how to recruit them and use their skills.’’

For example, many people want short-term volunteer jobs, some want six months of meaningful work, while others may want to volunteer “virtually”.

Some people can volunteer one day a month, some volunteer as a group for a certain event, corporations encourage their employees to get out and participate, and families sometimes volunteer together, such as at Centrepointe Theatre. Teenagers are often referred to help out at special events such as the Tulip Festival and walks and marathons.

In addition, volunteer summer jobs will soon be posted on Volunteer Ottawa’s web site. Camps, the Boys and Girls Club, and museums are just a few examples of where volunteers are needed during the summer.

The Billings Bridge Shopping Centre has been a strong community partner of Volunteer Ottawa.

Jnekins says, “There are so many interesting things to do and so many groups have a wide range of interesting activities. Volunteering is a wonderful way to contribute to your community.”

Make a commitment during National Volunteer Week this month. Call Volunteer Ottawa at 736-5270 or check out their web site at www. volunteerottawa. ca.

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or those of you who read my last column, Leo Doyle and I did manage to make a

presentation to the city’s Transportation Committee on March 5.1 think we managed to change a few minds because in the end the committee did agree to provide funding to Bank Street reconstruction for this year, largely as a result of Councillor Clive Doucet’s decision to move about $3 million of funds allocated to re-pave streets in the Glebe to the Bank Street project. The paving projects had been put in by city staff with no community consultation and included no streetscaping initiatives.

The money allocated will not be enough to finish the project this year as its total cost will be about $5.2 million, but it should ensure that at least half of the work will be done this year. Just how the work will be broken down will depend on technical and engineering considerations, but after discussing the issue with board members I think we would prefer the northern half of Bank Street (that’s the section from the bridge over the canal to somewhere south of the Belmont- Glen intersection) to be done first as it is the area with the heaviest pedestrian traffic and the area where

there are the greatest safety concerns, especially around Hopewell Public School.

While some of us may be disappointed that the project will not be completed in a single year, breaking it into two parts may be of some help to our merchants as it may reduce the extent of the disruption along the street and also should reduce the amount of time the street is actually under construction each year. There should be a second open house sometime next month or so to show the final designs, which incorporate the comments made at the open house in December and work done by the working group since then. A final public hearing will be then held at the Transportation Committee where the project should get its final approval.

ST. MARGARET MARY SCHOOL AND BYTOWN DAYCARE

As most of you will know by now, the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board has voted to close St. Margaret Mary School at the end of this school year. While this closure will result in a net loss of educational facilities in the community, it is also going to have other negative impacts as well. Bytown Daycare, which has been an institution in the community for 22 years, is housed at the school. With the closure of St. Margaret Mary, it faces a real challenge in finding alternative space in the community.

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At its last meeting, the board voted to asked the Catholic School Board to provide some special consideration to Bytown Daycare to allow it to stay at the school for the next year so that it can have the time to find alternative accommodation.

At the same meeting, a working group of board and community association members was charged with looking at the alternative community uses of the school building, and what the financial issues might be.

The working group will provide a preliminary report at the next board meeting in April. The Catholic School Board is required to provide other school boards, and then other public bodies in the city, with an opportunity to purchase the property before it is disposed of on the open market. Given there is a significant lack of community facilities in Old Ottawa South, it would be a shame to see the school lost to a residential development.

WINDSOR PARK RINK WINS AWARD

What makes OSCA special is that

most of the programs and services it runs are provided by local volunteers. They are a dedicated and innovative bunch. One example is the crew headed by Gary Lum which looks after the outdoor skating rink at Windsor Park. They are responsible for flooding the rink, clearing it of snow and making sure the ice surface is in tip top shape. Given that we have not had the best winter for maintaining an outdoor skating rink, I’m particularly glad to tell you Gary’s team has just won an award from the city for the quality of their ice surface and for their maintenance work in general. Great work guys and a heartfelt vote of thanks from the community for a job well done!

SPRING SPORTS PROGRAM Just a reminder that registration

for the spring sports program will take place on Saturday, April 6 in the morning. This year the program committee is looking at reihvigorating the children’s soccer program and will be hiring a new coordinator. Their goal is to make our soccer program one of the best in the city.

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Bring your hockey nets. Don’t forget the hotdogs and soft drinks.

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THE OSCAR - OUR 28TH YEAR APRIL 2002

AND THE ROLLER COASTER EVENING OF LAUGHTER GOES TO...

BY PEGGI MCNEIL

WESTBORO ACADEMY CHOIR SINGING AWAY WINTER BLUES

BY KAREN IVINGS Plan to join your friends and neighbors for a fabulous

I evening of laughter and fun while raising money to fix up the Firehall in Old Ottawa South.

A gala auction - our “Spring Affair” will take place in the Atrium at Hopewell Avenue Public School on May 31, from 6:30 p.m.

Come join us to try to outbid your fellow community members for enticing and interesting offerings, and to contribute to a really great cause. By this, we mean the redevelopment of your Firehall - the heart of the Old Ottawa South community.

Tickets are $10 each and include admission, magnificent hors d’oeuvres donated by local businesses and one glass of wine or a beer. Tickets can be purchased by contacting any member of the fundraising committee below, or any member of the OSCA board of directors, or by visiting the Firehall on Sunnyside Avenue. Get your tickets early as numbers are limited.

We’ll be offering a live auction with a surprise auctioneer guaranteed to help you loosen your purse strings and liven up the evening. A silent auction will allow you to stealthily purchase excellent items and services in a more peaceful environment.

Some 80 items - some wacky, some wild, some aesthetic, some adventurous - will be available. Care to golf at the Hunt Club? Cross country ski with an expert followed by a chalet cheese fondue and wine event? Perhaps a catered dinner for eight suits you?

What about a treasure hunt for up to 40 of your friends that promises a roller coaster evening of laughter and stories that will make memories that last a lifetime? Soccer coaching? Dog walking? Cookie making?

You name it, we have it! Closer to the event, check out the complete list of auction items at www.oldottawasouth.ca. We are looking for event-day volunteers. Call any member of the organizing committee to offer your time and energy.

If you have an item or a service to donate for this great cause, call one of the people below, or get your tickets from:

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We sing for spring. With the winter weather holding on,

_we have had to rely on a .spring-time atmosphere indoors. Our Westboro Academy choir just keeps singing away the winter blues. They were recently invited to perform at National Defence Headquarters, in conjunction with International Day for the Elimi- nation of Racism.

They were proud to participate and their performance was awesome. Thanks go to Mme. Kim, Mme. Wendy and all the children for their diligent preparation, as well as to NDHQ organizers for the invitation and very special reception. The children had a wonderful time.

International Week was a great opportunity for the children to share their diverse backgrounds and to learn about other cultures. Countries were studied and displays were prepared for the grand finale at the end of the week.

Parents watched as the children put on a fashion show representing attire from different countries and

cultures, and then everyone toured the school to view the children’s displays. The best part, of course, was the ample and delicious feast, Kristopher’s samosas, Lebanese cheese, curried chicken, Gazpacho,

and much, much more, followed immediately by March Break.

Beethoven has been on the agenda for grades four to six. The study of his life and music was made

more complete by a trip to the National Arts Centre for Initiation A Beethoven. Students in grades four to six are also on their way to a volleyball tournament to play and/or cheer for the Westboro Academy Cardinals.

Intramural volleyball has been a good warm-up, and helped everyone get in the mood for the big day.

Report cards and awards for second term performance have been celebrated.

The third term is underway and spring must be lurking out there somewhere. Until the crocuses and daffodils cheer away the snow, we’ll just keep singing.

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CITY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT BY CLIVE POUCET, CAPITAL WARD

There were always birds Upon the marshes. The sounds chattering in the air Like the conversation of angels. In the spring, they would arrive Flying from the south in clouds That laid a shadow between earth And sun. The Mi ’kmaq people said the marsh Was the place where the world began. - From Looking for Henry

Dear OSCAR Readers: By the time you read this city council will have traversed

I the final council meeting on the 2002 budget. As we go into it, Capital Ward has done well. We’ve gotten $100,000 for consultants to renew the Glebe Traffic Community Plan and $200,000 to replace the Glebe Community Centre roof and reface the outside of the basement walls. Further, there is money in the 2003 budget to complete the entire renovation. There is also money in the Lansdowne Park budget - $1.2 million for removal of the McElroy and Sprung buildings and to begin greening the parking lot between the Cattle Castle and the canal.

At committee, we were also successful with a strong 7-1 vote to remove the Airport Parkway Twinning Study. The strength of this vote took everyone by surprise, but the facts speak for themselves. Eighty-three percent of the traffic on Bronson is now commuter traffic. The Hunt Club ramps have jammed access to the airport as well as doubling traffic on Bronson. It is clear that closing the Hunt Club ramps at peak periods - Monday to Friday is the most effective and cheapest way of clearing access to the airport. Pierre Benoit, the CEO at the airport supports this action.

Adam Chowaniec, president of Tundra Semiconductor, and Richard Mahoney, a senior Ottawa barrister - both residents of the Glebe - made effective presentations at committee against the twinning and in support of gating the ramps at peak periods. Clearly, the committee listened.

It’s also clear that commuter traffic on Bronson is related to residential development south of the airport. I don’t think we should be developing in the Leitrim area for environmental reasons as well as the difficulties of serving this area with road and transit connections. And I will be introducing a motion at council to stop development in Leitrim.

Transport Canada is presently conducting an Area Wide Risk Assessment after being requested to do so by 15 independent experts. The reason for the request is concern about a toxic plume migrating from an old Transport Canada hazardous materials dump. Proven carcinogens like 1.4 dioxane are present in the old dump.

In a study reported in the January 26, 2002 Lancet Medical Journal on

21 hazardous waste sites in Europe, of a similar size, there was a 33 per cent increase in birth abnormalities for those women living within three kilometers. Transport Canada’s Area Wide Risk Assessment should determine whether or not the Gloucester Landfill Site poses this level of risk to human health.

The Leitrim area is also home to a class I wetland, which functions as a carbon sink. If the water table diminishes, thousands of litres of methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide (all greenhouse gases) will be released into the atmosphere. Keeping the Leitrim area as free as possible of housing will also reduce the strain on Main, Riverside, Bank and Bronson. Nor is there any great argument for going ahead with it. The city’s growth predictions have been reduced and growth has increased inside the greenbelt. In fact, Ottawa and Abbotsford, B.C. are the only two municipalities in Canada where, according to the recent Statistics Canada census, population in the central metropolitan areas has exceeded growth in the surrounding municipalities.

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Michael Jenkin and Leo Doyle made very fine presentations to committee on the rebuild of Bank Street in which they illustrated in an excellent power point presentation just how wider sidewalks, safer intersections and pedestrian friendly lighting add up to a great smart city initiative. I have no doubt they are right - that once landlords see what a pleasant, urban street Bank Street is when the rebuild is completed, we will start to see the parking lots vanish to be replaced by pleasant brick buildings that combine residential and commercial uses on the ground floor.

I have requested that reconstruction of Fourth, Fifth and Monkland be deferred until a streetscaping study has been completed for these streets. It is my strong feeling that no street should be rebuilt in Capital Ward without a streetscaping study being undertaken. Fifth Avenue, for example, is a major east-west pedestrian corridor and I would like to see wider sidewalks along one side with a protective verge.

My experience with the City

Works Department is that unless we have a streetscaping study in place, construction happens according to engineering guidelines developed in the 1950’s. This means the asphalt for cars is maximized and the sidewalk minimized. The most recent example is Gordon which is a short two block street running from Fifth to Holmwood. It is an entirely residential street that serves no commuter purpose whatsoever. Yet, when it was recently rebuilt, the standards are such that you can drive four cars abreast down it with two tiny roll-up, roll-down sidewalks at the edge.

Streetscaping studies take time and consultation with the community. The streetscaping for Bank Street has taken long and complicated discussions with parents at Hopewell, the principal, representatives of the business community and the Old Ottawa South Community Association. This kind of process should occur for all streets to ensure they add value as well as replace asphalt and sewers.

In general, I wish I could say that I was in support of the new city’s first budget, but I am not. In spite of the successes that we have managed to bring to Capital Ward, the budget as a whole is a sprawl budget. For every 25 cents, we are putting into new public transit capacity, we’re putting 75 cents into new roads to “accommodate” new growth. We’re not even keeping up with the ridership growth on OC Transpo. Given this kind of disparity, is it any wonder people prefer their cars?

The new city’s budget is the same kind of budget the region and the old

municipalities have put together for 50 years. The formula is the older communities are left to fight over crumbs while the bulk of the money for new capacity flows out to service green fields like Leitrim with sewer, water lines and road widenings.

For example, there is more than $80 million flowing into Kanata for just two new road projects. Kanata has a population of 60,000 people, while Somerset and Capital Wards, with a combined population of 70,000 people, is seeing about $10 million in total. This includes the Plant Bath Reconstruction, a project that like the Glebe Community Centre has been a priority for 10 years.

One of the many things that I learned in Porto Alegre is that there has to be equity in the city expenditures between suburban and urban areas. In Porto Alegre, they were spending too much on the older neighbourhoods and not enough on the suburban.

As a result, their downtown and inner city neighbourhoods were meticulously maintained with beautiful parks, pleasant vistas and tree-lined sidewalks while their suburban areas often didn’t have basic sanitation, day care and health services. Their “participative budgets” changed this. We have had the reverse problem in Ottawa. For 50 years, the city has sucked money out of the older communities to endow Nepean and Orleans, now Barrhaven and Kanata, with brand new infrastructure while the central areas are left to decline.

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CATHOLIC BOARD VOTES TO

CLOSE INNER CITY SCHOOL BY DON CUMMER

n the night of March 5, about 60 residents of Old Ottawa South - many of them

parents of - children attending St. Margaret Mary school - attended a meeting of the Ottawa Carleton Catholic School Board. They came to listen to the final debates on the fate of the school and hear the final verdict of 10 trustees.

For nearly three months, they had been working hard to counter the arguments put forward by school board staff to merge St. Margaret Mary School with Corpus Christi School in the Glebe.

A vote of 5-5 would keep the school open. Going into the meeting, the Working Group that had orchestrated the campaign to save the school felt confident of three votes, hopeful of four, and had reasonable expectations for five.

After hearing presentations from the St. Margaret Mary School Council, Bytown Daycare, and Old Ottawa South residents Kelly Adams and Gary MacDonald, the trustees began to debate among themselves. As the trustees spoke, the audience kept score of those who seemed in favour of keeping a community school open in Old Ottawa South, and those who agreed with the administration’s arguments that they would not only save money and strengthen Corpus Christi school by closing St. Margaret Mary.

John Chiarelli (Knoxdale- Merivale/Baseline) opened the discussion by pointing out that by closing the school, the board would leave an “outrageous” gap in the centre of the city where there would not be a Catholic School for several miles. Score one for St. Margaret Mary.

Des Curley (Orleans/Cumberland) said he had counted the number of letters he received. He complained that people had been deluging him with mail, but then maintained he had not received enough letters to indicate strong community support. Score: save school 1, close school 1.

Jacqueline Legendre-McGuinty (Beacon Hill-Cyrville/Innes) expressed her annoyance that, in all of the presentations, no one had bothered to say what a good school Corpus Christi was. And it wasn’t so far away, she said. Score: save school 1 ; close school 2.

June Flynn-Tumer (Bell-South Nepean) maintained that parents should not be concerned about putting their children on buses to attend Catholic schools. Those who wouldn’t make an extra effort to send their children to a Catholic school perhaps did not deserve the benefits of a Catholic education, she argued. Score: save school 1; close school 3.

Arthur Lamarche (Kanata) said that staff recommendation presented a win-win situation: Corpus Christi would be strengthened, and students attending St. Margaret Mary would

benefit from a school able to provide a wider range of activities. Score: save school 1 ; close school 4.

John Curry (West Carleton/Goulboum/Rideau/Osgood e) asked for assurances from staff that there was capacity for growth at Corpus Christi. Upon being assured that there was - that consolidating the schools would put Corpus Christi at 96 percent capacity - he said he would be pleased to move the recommendation for consolidation. Score: save school 1; close school 5.

Betty -Ann Kealy (Kitchissippi/Bay) said that the idea of consolidating schools in a growing neighbourhood to get 96 percent capacity “scares the Dickens out of me”. These are growing communities, she said, and very soon the schools will be over-crowded. She noted that Old Ottawa South and the Glebe are very different and distinct neighbourhoods. Score: save school 2; close school 5.

Last to participate in the debate was Kathy Ablett (River/Capital). She listed her reasons for keeping the school open: 1. maintain the Catholic presence in the city core; 2. maintain the flexibility to respond to demographic change; 3. keep Bytown Daycare open; 4. if St. Margaret Mary were closed, the Catholic system would lose many students to Hopewell; 5. St. Margaret Mary is a remarkable school in its own right. Score: save school 3; close school 5.

After trustee Ablett had spoken, it was time to vote. Saving St. Margaret Mary would require the votes of both of the remaining trustees, who had not yet spoken. Mark Mullan (Alta Vista/Gloucester-Southgate) voted to keep the school open. Score: save school 4; close school 5.

The fate of the school rested with the chair, Thérèse Maloney Cousineau (Rideau-Vanier/Rideau- Rockcliffe/Somerset). The Working Group had focused a great deal of effort trying to bring the chair on side. She was, after, all, an inner city trustee and knew that inner city schools face different challenges and have different advantages than suburban and rural schools. Many of the people who had been working to save St. Margaret Mary had also worked with her in previous years to save schools in her zone. She voted

to close the school. Final tally: save school 4; close school 6.

St. Margaret Mary parents, the Church Council representatives, and the administrators and staff of Bytown Daycare, who were on hand for the vote, took the results hard. After three months of diligent effort - sign campaigns, letters to trustees, public meetings, parades, and countless hours working the phones

- it all ended so abruptly. Bytown Daycare is now looking

at ways to work with the school board to stay in the building. A working group of OSCA has been struck to explore ways to maintain the building for community or education purposes. Some of the parents of St. Margaret Mary students are examining what avenues are available to keep the school open.

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TRIBUTE TO THE SCHOOL WITH THE BIG, OPEN HEART

BY JANICE FALLS By now you will know that our “little school with the big

heart” is to close in June after 73 years of service to this community.,

My heart is saddened by this news for three reasons. First, at a personal level, our family has been connected to St. Margaret Mary school for the past 12 years. Beginning with Bytown Co-operative daycare, it has been 12 years of family BBQs, Christmas pageants, fundraisers, art shows, welcoming new teachers, and sending others on their way with gratitude. The kind of events to be found at St. Margaret Mary, of course, are unique in their own way and special to us.

We chose this school because we were interested in a small learning community where we felt the level of personal attention and student/teacher/parent interactions would far outweigh the absence of a gym or more modem facilities. The intimacy of this environment afforded us the opportunity to get to know one another as individuals and encouraged each other to offer his/her own contributions, which were many.

My second concern is the loss to this community of an educational alternative for our children. Hopewell Public School is a fine choice for public education. It is now the only

choice in the immediate area. The small-school, Catholic-based

alternative is no longer available to us. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to speculate on the long-term effects of eliminating inner city schools. Families will continue to have children who need a school to attend. When the inner city schools are closed or beyond capacity, where will these children go?

The third reason lies in what is being done to our education system in general. Putting constraints on our children’s education is extremely short sighted. As we continue to cut costs by eradicating programs, teachers and schools, we are losing our ability to ensure that the needs of our children are being adequately met. In order for all of us to reap the benefits of education, we must be willing to make the investment, even, heaven forbid, to spend money.

So I feel sadness about this decision, yet I am unwilling to move into bitterness. Change comes into all of our lives regardless of our resistance to, or support for it.

Despite my belief that this was not a wise decision, this is a change to which we will each adapt.

The spirit within each child and parent cannot be shut down. They may be able to close this school but they cannot close our hearts.

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BY DON CUMMER St. Margaret Mary’s School is closing. What’s next for

iBytown Co-operative Children’s Centre, and some 50 families that rely upon its child care each year?

Since its inception in 1980, Bytown has occupied rooms at St. Margaret Mary School on Bellwood Avenue. The co-op had developed a very successful partnership with the school. This arrangement created a unique environment for children, especially those attending kindergarten at the school. The children attending other schools - and those attending the morning nursery - also benefitted enormously from child care facilities located in the intimate but lively atmosphere of a community school.

Bytown has been a warm and welcoming place for both children and parents. The nursery school program is unique in Old Ottawa South for its parent participation. This creates a caring environment for a preschooler’s first experience in a school setting. Bytown parents have found the co-op to be a nurturing and stimulating haven in which to leave their children for the first time.

Bytown teachers have developed and delivered a rich education program to promote skills and

prepare children for a more formal education in the school system. Not only have they been committed to each individual child in their care, but they have been involved in community activities as well.

On March 5, in a 6-4 vote, trustees of the Ottawa Carleton Catholic School Board chose to consolidate St. Margaret Mary with Corpus Christi School in the Glebe. The school board’s intentions for the school building are not yet clear.

Bytown’s administration and board of directors have asked senior board officials about whether there is a possibility to remain in the building for the short term. They have also discussed with the OSCA board options for community interest in the building. At the same time, they are also exploring the possibility of moving to a different location, preferable in Old Ottawa South.

Bytown is optimistic that it will continue to serve Old Ottawa South for many years to come.

The staff and board are very grateful for the strong support of many friends and residents in their efforts to save St. Margaret Mary. That dedication to the community, the children, and to the centre provides a lesson in the true meaning of “community”.

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OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT BY LYNN GRAHAM, TRUSTEE, ZONE 9

(CAPITAL AND RIDEAU-VANIER WARDS) The Board recently approved a Draft Accountability Budget

Jof $565 million in operating funds for the 2002-2003 school year. Staffing is now underway for September. In the budget are over $10 million in reductions to school operations, facilities, central departments, and a range of programs and services. Among the cuts are: - the classroom computer budget ($2

million) - the occasional (supply) teaching

budget ($2.6 million) - school closures ($1 million). The

schools under consideration for closure as of September 2002 are: J.H. Putman Public School, Lakeview Public School, Lamira Dow Billings Elementary School, Riverview Public School in Cumberland, and J.S. Woodsworth Secondary School - central departments ( $1 million

plus) - vice-principals ($510,000) - custodial services, trades and

maintenance ($1 million), and - elimination of grades 7 and 8

transportation inside the Urban Transit Area ($350,000)

There have been too many cuts to programs and services over the past four years. And, as the above list demonstrates, the quality of our public education system will again be compromised in 2002-2003.

In order to avoid making an additional $24 million in reductions, which would have had serious consequences for our special education students and students most at risk, the Draft Accountability Budget includes expenditures of $ 24 million of anticipated but not yet committed revenue from the province.

In fact, we have requested up to $50 million in additional revenue from the province for the 2002-2003 budget to cover the difference between the actual costs of running the school system and the theoretical costs in the provincial funding model. School boards across Ontario are facing deficits due to the “gaps” in the following grant categories: salaries and benefits; special education; transportation; textbooks and other school supplies; and facilities operations, maintenance and renewal.

Trustees will review the OCDSB draft budget later this spring when the province announces the General Legislative Grants (GLGs) for the school year 2002-2003 for school boards across Ontario The province must increase revenues as further cuts will have a devastating impact on our schools and students.

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For instance, OCDSB results from the provincial Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) Grade 9 Mathematics assessment, carried out between January and June of 2001, are now on the website. The board results can be found in the system profile while individual school results can be found in each school profile.

SALE OF PROPERTIES The sale of properties to date has

raised nearly $ 11 million for the board’s Capital Reserve Fund, to be used for school renovations or new school construction. Sales include the former Ottawa Board of Education headquarters at 330 Gilmour Street and five former schools: Crichton, Overbrook, Parkway, Queensway and Ramsayville.

2002-2003 SCHOOL YEAR

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are key dates for school year 2002-2003: The first day of school will be September 3,2002; Christmas Break runs December 23, 2002 to January 3, 2003 inclusive; March Break is set for March 10, 2003 to March 14, 2003 inclusive; and the last day of school is June 26, 2003.

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Tatiana Vorobej cooked up a sweet deal. Her award- winning dessert caked her Bank Street shop, "Cakes By Tatiana, ” in publicity. She beat out ten other local bakeries and restaurants to recently win the Ernst and Young Sugar Bowl Dessert Competition. Sixteen local celebrities chose the winner based on the presentation, texture, imagination and flavour of each of the entries. But the icing on the cake was that the event helped raise money for the Red Cross Disaster Services of Ottawa. The daughter of a West German mother and a Ukrainian father, Tatiana grew up making ethnic dishes. She went on to apprentice under pastry chefs at the Four Seasons Hotel chain across the country. Then, she opened businesses on Elgin Street and in the Glebe, before moving to Old Ottawa South - an area she says she loves and believes will continue to grow and evolve. And she hopes the attention that was showered on her shop due to her Sugar Bowl win will bring more people to the area. The OSCAR spoke with Tatiana about her winning entry and the business she established five years ago in the neighbourhood.

OSCAR: Why did you decide to set up shop here?

Tatiana: We were in the Glebe before. I wanted to be in Old Ottawa South because I feel that the area is growing. So basically, I wanted to be here at the inception of that, and we’ve been here now five years. I figure it’s a growing community and I like the idea of being flanked by residential. I don’t want to be stuck in the market. It’s a totally different clientele of people. It’s much more transient and I’m not interested in that. I like the idea of being in some ways localized. Old Ottawa South is sometimes seen as the second cousin to the Glebe, but it’s not.

OSCAR: But in the Glebe you would also be flanked by residents.

Tatiana: Yes, but it was almost like it was at the saturation point in the Glebe. I just thought that this was an area that was up and coming, and growing and evolving. I don’t think that the Glebe is evolving at all, so I prefer Ottawa South because it’s evolving.

OSCAR: How do you see it evolving and what made you move from the Glebe?

Tatiana: Even five years ago, the types of stores here weren’t nearly as dynamic as they are now. And the really well-established stores in this area, I find excellent. The owners are excellent entrepreneurs so it’s a no brainer. You’re surrounding yourself with places that have a great track record, and new places that are somewhat different, and I love that. It’s a little bit eclectic, which I

enjoy. I think I just felt also there was a real niche market here for high-end pastry, and that’s what I do. I don’t do generic. I do something that is a little more specialized. We’re somewhat of a destination point in terms of sugar art and wedding cakes because of the work that I do. I’ve been doing it for 20-plus years now. In that sense, I could have located anywhere. But it was that we wanted to be able to have really original products and to have a niche, and there was really nothing here like that. And then there was the fact that it was an area that was growing -1 like that idea.

OSCAR: Can you talk about the competition that you won?

Tatiana: This one was called the Second Annual Sugar Bowl Dessert Competition. It’s sponsored by Ernst and Young, and it’s an enormous fundraiser for the Red Cross. It was our first time entering it. I felt it was a great in terms of a fundraiser but also a great venue to showcase what we do. I entered a piece. I didn’t do something traditional. I went in thinking I’m doing something totally funky and contemporary. But I also wanted an incredible splash of colour because it’s spring, and also because it’s a kick-off. There has to be something that sets my work apart in everything that I do. So we did a cake that was perhaps unpredictable, but still kind of fun. I gather that’s what the judges liked. The flavour was a Belgian dark chocolate cream marbled with a white chocolate amaretto ganache inside. So it had really different

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textures in it. It was this kind of funky Mad Hatter tilted Dr. Seuss cake. It had multi colours and was sort of all over the place. It was just a really fun cake. I can say ultimately what we’re looking for when we do dessert is that it looks great and that it tastes even better. All the entries (in the competition) were very different. It was nice because you could see a full spectrum of choices.

OSCAR: What inspired the concept for the cake?

Tatiana: Again, I didn’t want to do anything predictable. When we walked in, I think people were a little stunned that it was a cake. Because it just looked like something perhaps that was a little bit out of this world. The event was sold out, so there were hundreds of people there who got a chance to try it. The original cake was auctioned off, and we had miniature versions that were sampled.

OSCAR: The cake must have cost a fair amount to make?

Tatiana: The cake that I brought with me to auction off was a $400 cake. Mostly with pieces like that, you’re looking at the labour because everything is handcrafted.

The flowers on it are handcrafted. It is sugar art; it must be created by hand. That’s a great part of it’s value - the aesthetics. I have employees working with me, but in terms of the sugar art, I do all of it. That’s what I specialize in. It’s taken me 20 years to get to the level that I’m at and to have the reputation that we have. This is what I do. It’s like, you can’t ask a painter to paint a painting and then his apprentice does it. It’s like my signature. I sign what I do. It’s got my mark on it because it’s how I envision the piece to end up. The employees do a lot of ground work in order to allow me the time to really craft. They have a really good understanding too of the fact that because we create from scratch here - we’re not a production shop - we are here to make things that are one of a kind. I’m classically trained and I believe in doing things by hand, and not by a mix. And we do not see mixes in this store and we use only top of the line product, and I think it shows in the end result. I think people are willing to pay to have something that’s a cut above. And I would like to think that we’re doing that.

OSCAR: How much did the cake sell for?

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Samples of cakes created by Tatiana

Tatiana: I don’t. I was doing multiple things at that time - giving out samples, etc. But I know the event raised $15,000 for the Red Cross that night.

OSCAR: So will you be entering the contest again next year?

Tatiana: Yes, they’ve already asked, and I’d love to. It was great exposure for the shop as well we felt it was a great opportunity to get out there and say here’s a good cause. And we’re showcasing something that we do in an area that not everyone is familiar'with. Not everyone drives down to Old Ottawa South. It is a major thoroughfare, but a lot of people don’t stop. So now we’re hoping that gives them another reason to stop. We’re very lucky because we were featured on the New RO the day of the event, and then because we won we were on the day after too. So it was great publicity for the shop. It’s great for this area. As a result, people may discover my shop who may have not discovered it before. And in turn, they are going to discover this entire stretch of Bank Street called Old Ottawa South.

OSCAR: Is there anything you want to do in the future in the shop?

Tatiana: Absolutely. You have to have a master plan and always be thinking ahead when you own a small business. I’m going to do more teaching. We started teaching a year and a half ago here, and every course that we’ve had has sold out. So I know that there is a demand, and I think in the next half

year or so, I’ll be able to supply that demand even more. Eventually, I would like to write a book on pastry. But it has to be a really good- book. It has to match what my shop is like. I’ll do it when the time’s right. No rush. And also eventually, I would like to be a little bit of television. It will take awhile, but that’s where I see myself. We were just on the New RO and I loved it. I get a kick out of it.

OSCAR: You don’t think that will take too much time away from the store and your sugar craft?

Tatiana: It’s a balance. And that’s why I’m saying I won’t put a time frame on it. I’m not sure when; it’s long term.

OSCAR: Do you teach the classes right here in the store?

Tatiana: Yes. We do small classes. To date, they have been one-day intensive courses. It’s usually $150 per day per student. It’s like a condensed version of a night course with much more hands on. I teach the same way as I teach my apprentices. With the students, it’s like I have another employee in front of me. You can’t just learn what to make, you have to learn how, and in pastry you have to understand theory. If you don’t understand the theory, you don’t know why things do and don’t work.

OSCAR: Do you live in this neighborhood?

Tatiana: No, I need breathing space. But I live within walking distance because I love this area. And also, I wanted to be close enough to my shop so that I could feel that I was still part of the community, but still be far enough out that I’m on the cusp of it. So do you walk here every day religiously. And I walk home. It’s my 25 minutes of planning my day, and of clearing my mind afterward.

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GLEBE GRYPHONS WIN CITY HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP. . .AGAIN!

BY GRAHAM LONG The snow has melted, the rinks have closed and, once again,

the Glebe Collegiate boy’s hockey team are city champs. For the third time in the last four years and the second year in a row, the Gryphons proved to be the class of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.

Glebe sat in second place in their division following the regular season and hopes were high as they anxiously awaited the arrival of the playoffs. Coaches Murray Wilson, Chris Andrews and Luke Banks knew that their main job would be to keep the players focused on the game at hand instead of thinking about the championship.

A first-round match-up with Louis Riel proved to be an excellent warm- up for the boys. They proved to be too strong for the Blackburn school, cruising to an easy 4-0 victory. Next came a semi-final encounter with the arch-rival Lisgar Lords, who had lost only one game all year.

McNabb arena was the scene for this much-anticipated battle and fans from both schools were out in full force to cheer on their respective teams. They were treated to perhaps the most exciting high school game of the season. The Gryphons battled back from a 1-0 deficit and were

victorious, thanks to excellent goaltending from Dan Metcalfe and a late goal from Steve Marriner to seal a 2-1 Glebe win.

On to the finals. A rematch of last year’s championship pitted the Glebe squad against the Hillcrest Hawks. The Gryphons drew first blood after Ben Walsh netted an unassisted goal in the last minute of the first period. Drew Willis put Glebe up by two after Hillcrest goalie Dave Newton coughed up a rebound right to the Gryphon’s captain, who was left with an open net.

Hillcrest came back to make it 2-1 on a late power play goal, but it proved to be too little too late.

Walsh potted an empty-netter - his second goal of the game - with less than 20 seconds remaining to secure the title for Glebe. A sea of blue-and-white clad Glebe players spilled over the boards to pile on top of star goaltender Metcalfe to celebrate following the final buzzer.

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In her day job, Woyiwada has been the music teacher at Hopewell Public School for 20 years. At the school, she conducts five bands on an extracurricular basis and helps students develop an appreciation for music.

With Savoy, Woyiwada is in her second season as music director. She is currently hard at work on The Gondoliers, which runs until April 20 at the Centrepointe Theatre. She has also previously performed with Savoy, including being the lead soprano in six Savoy productions between 1986 and 1995. She actually sang both soprano roles in two previous productions of The Gondoliers.

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Woyiwada also offers private music lessons and summer music camps. She has also published 14 musicals for children and two song collections. Why does she like teaching music to children? Because the kids deserve it,” she says.

She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Brandon in Manitoba and “took up teaching music to children to show them how cool it is to play music”.

In 2000, she was nominated for a “Y” Women of Distinction Award for her role in bringing music to students at Hopewell. In 2001, the United Way presented her with its Community Builder Award in recognition for all her years of contributing to her community and the United Way.

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Working evenings and weekends on a production for the Savoy Society is a big time commitment that involves at least two or three days per week from September to April. “But it’s really cool,” she says.

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The dinner hosted by Zachary included pizza, and the screening of a movie. It raised $375. Zachary became interested in landmines, and in raising money to rid the world of landmines, while doing a project on war and peace at school. He thought landmines and their consequences were a good topic for discussion at school as well as a worthy cause. Zachary plans to host another dinner next year and hopes that other Hopewell students will join in this good work. Way to go Zach.

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TIME-BINDING BY RICHARD OSTROFSKY, SECOND THOUGHTS BOOKSTORE An interesting way to capture

the qualitative difference I between plants and animals and humans is due to Alfred Korzybski, the founder of General Semantics: Plants are energy-binders, Korzybski said. They live by gathering solar energy and nutrients in their immediate vicinity. Animals are space-binders who forage and hunt over a range of territory.

But we humans are time-binders. It is our special gift to combine memory and anticipation - past and future and sheer imagination - to inform and direct the moment-by- moment present.

Other writers have variously emphasized the roles of teaching, planning and promising, cultural heritage and counter-factual fantasy in the biology of our species. The special virtue of Korzybski’s phrase is to suggest how these faculties connect and mutually reinforce each other. Past and future are bound up together in our present, as is not the case for any other creature.

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Recently too, we have lost much of our optimism, and have little investment in the future. Nor have we any very solid grounding in the here-

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The event will be officially opened at 2 p.m. by honourary chair Jim Watson. If you wish to support the event, you can pick up a pledge form at The Glebe Centre, choose a team and collect donations for them in advance.

The teams are made up of members, staff, volunteers, friends and family of The Glebe Centre and Abbotsford Senior Centre, local business groups, firefighters, police and the celebrity team named “Watson’s Warriors,” which is led by Jim Watson.

Viewing of the rockers will be possible from the Rock-a-Thon café. Scotiabank is the major sponsor of the event, while local businesses are also contributing by providing rocking chairs, cafe tables and partners’ chairs.

A variety of entertainers, ranging from the opening act of Polished Brass and ending with Elvis Presley impersonator Dan Burgess, have been scheduled during the rocking. Once again, a rock-a-thon raffle is also in the plans. A Konica Big Mini Zoom camera from Japan Camera along with a three-hour photographic class with outdoor photographer Mike Beedell is the first prize; an overnight stay at Le Moulin Wakefield Mill with a return trip on the steam train is the second prize; and a two-hour sightseeing tour of Ottawa in a 1939 Rolls Royce is the third prize. Tickets are $2 each, three for $5, or ten for $10 and can be purchased at The Glebe Centre Auxiliary Gift Shop, the Abbotsford Senior Centre reception desk or West Coast Video at 1123 Bank Street.

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measurement/reporting, are steps in this direction.

But I am not hopeful they will succeed. They require a degree of candour from each government department or agency, matched by a degree of political sophistication from parliamentarians, journalists and the electorate, that is at present scarcely imaginable. Ministers and civil servants would have to write about the real conditions aiid dilemmas facing them, and about the real limits of political power in effecting social change. Voters would have to recognize candour when they hear it, and reward truth-telling politicians by returning them to office. Journalists and opposition leaders would have to abandon their sport of hardball “Gotcha!” for some more complex,

responsible version of accountability. I am not holding my breath,

waiting for any of this to happen.

The crux, it seems to me, is to take Fuller’s notion seriously. Time- binding - our capability and habit of nourishing the present from the past and future - is at the core of our predicament as a species. The fossil fuels we bum and the myths we re- enact are ransacked from the past. Our hopes, goals, projects and investments are scavenged from some imagined future.

When policy-makers talk about sustainable development, they should be aware that time is the ultimate human resource - the one we must use intelligently and conservatively if we are to live at all.


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calls for more intensive, neighborhood and pedestrian-oriented development along Bank. It was developed by the community in the late 1970s and adopted by the city as a legal planning document in 1980.

Although it is nearly 25 years old, the plan is a very forward looking document. Many of its objectives are consistent with smart growth. Unfortunately, when Ottawa’s official plan was adopted in 1997, zoning regulations for Bank Street were not brought into compliance with the objectives of the neighbourhood plan. This omission has allowed developers to obtain permission to erect a single story Tim Horton’s donut shop, with plenty of parking, on the site of the Strand Theatre. This low-density use of the Strand Theatre site is unfortunate, and contravenes both smart growth and neighbourhood plan objectives. Smart growth guidelines suggest that urban land that is centrally located be accessible to pedestrians and cyclists, and well- served by public transit.

The goal is to “foster development that better reflects the objectives of the local community and smart growth principles,” notes Kamila Tomcik, an urban planner who volunteers on OS Watch.

OSCA president Michael Jenkin points out that “by helping the city develop its regulatory mechanisms, we can ensure that growth happens in ways that make the community a more liveable and enjoyable place to be.”

“If we want to see the benefits of smart growth in our neighbourhood, it’s important for the community to take some initiative. We think these projects will allow us to demonstrate that the neighborhood is an attractive location for new business development,” he adds.

Arthur McGregor, owner of the Ottawa Folklore Centre, adds, “I’m glad that the community is showing interest in the business health of Old Ottawa South.”

When the three projects are completed, OSCA is considering holding a town hall to give all residents an opportunity to discuss development issues.

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THE WINDSOR CHRONICLES PART 22

DEAR BOOMER, It’s time to discuss inter-species communication. You and I

I communicate very effectively together. We communicate well with all the other dogs in Windsor Park. We know what we’re saying to one another. When we have disagreements, we know how to resolve them.

But communicating with humanoids is a different matter. They are so thick-skulled and such lousy listeners. And they are so unfair.

Look at how much time and effort they put into making sure we understand their spoken language. They are a rather primitive species and depend more than most self- respecting animals on the use of words. We try to humour them. We leam “No!” and “Bad dog!” in our puppy years. Then the humanoids enrich our vocabulary with “Come”, “sit”, “lie down”, and “paws”. Along with this comes words like, “good dog”, which has a very nice cadence to the ear.

I’ve mastered other words such as “No ball”, and “drop.” The first expression means that we’re not going to the park, or that there is too much snow in the park. It implies that

Alpha is going to try to find some way to keep me entertained other than our favourite pass-time. The term “drop”, as far as I can tell, means, let’s play that game where I tease you by chewing the ball and running away when you try to take it from my mouth. This game proves very popular with the Pup and other pups of his age.

So, we agree: we’ve got a pretty good command of the humanoid language.

My question is this: Why are they so dense when it comes to understanding our language?

Never mind the way they ignore our spoken requests. If I sit outside the back door and bark to let me in, I respect their right not to. They know what I want; it’s not what they want. This is negotiation.

What puzzles me most is the way they don’t understand our language when we’re communicating with one another. This misunderstanding happens most often in the park when we’re getting acquainted with new dogs. We wag tails. We sniff each other. If it looks like a good match, we crouch lower on our front paws, ready to bound away in a game of tag.

But occasionally we need to sort things out. And this entails barking, snapping, growling, and making as much noise as we can. It entails trying to wrestle each other to the ground, to see who will be the first to lie back with the throat up. And for those who are ready to acknowledge they’re not the top dog, it entails piteous yiping and yipping and yowling. It’s all communication. It’s what we do to keep everything on an even keel over the long term. Once we’ve settled on who is Alpha dog, we can get on with the playing.

Some humanoids don’t understand this. Some come after us. Some try to kick us to break us apart. And then the humanoids start arguing among themselves. Funny thing about these humanoids, though: After they snap and growl and bark at each other, they don’t seem to be friends afterward.

Maybe we should take them to humanoid training classes.

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ABBOTSFORD GEARING UP FOR

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BY GORDON HAUSER Abbotsford Senior Centre at 950 Bank Street is geared up

Ifor its spring session. If you are 55 or older, we have something of interest for you and it’s all listed in our program guide. Here are some of the activities that may interest you: Once again we are offering our “Take Meditation Not Medication” workshop on May 1. The workshop is an introduction to the benefits of channeling your energy. It’s a how-to course by an expert. She will teach you how to relax and end your stress and anxiety.

On Tuesday April 23, we will feature fashionable clothes for your summer wardrobe. Shopping can be tiring so let the clothes come to you. From noon to 3 p.m. in our multi-purpose room, take your time to feel the specialty knits and discuss the colours.

We still have instructors available with our computers to show you how to bring yourself into the 21 st century in terms of communication. You don’t have to own a computer to use one. Come and learn on ours.

We even have an artist who can help you produce art with Corel Draw on the computer. It’s one-on-one instruction, and before you start you can see print outs of some of the art others have made. So if you would like to produce your own greeting cards, here is the perfect way to let the computer help you be creative.

There is, of course, many more interesting things to do here, from a “Body Awareness” course through to Kripalu Yoga to point-and-shoot camera instruction.

Call 230-5730 to get a program guide or to talk to someone about your needs.

ENSURING LIFELONG GOLF BY KEITH ELLARD Golf is played outdoors on

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However, the golf swing is anything but innocuous and relaxing for the low back, especially when the golfer is unfit. In fact, back pain is the No. 1 injury in both professional and amateur golfers.

Consider the following statistics. The golf swing generates spinal compressive forces that are eight times body weight and shear forces of 125 pounds (amateurs) and 73 pounds (professionals). It is, therefore, not surprising that a recent study found that 55 percent of PGA, LPGA and SPGA members suffered from chronic low back pain and exhibited significantly greater spinal degeneration than non-golfers with low back pain. This is why professional golfers such as Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh include chiropractic in their training regimens. They also recognize the role that it plays in enhancing sport performance.

Whereas professionals are prone to overuse injuries, poor technique and improper warm-up are likely culprits in amateur golfers. Two of the most popular methods of treatment include rest and anti- inflammatory medications such as aspirin and Advil.

Unfortunately, neither of these methods can restore proper function to injured/dysfunctional muscles and joints, leaving a golfer predisposed to re-injury. They also fail to address the issue of improper warm-up exercises and poor technique that led to injury in the first place.

With these issues in mind, I will be hosting a complimentary class on April 24 at 6:10 p.m. to educate golfers and teachers alike. This class not only teaches proper warm-up and how to recognize individuals at risk for injury, but also provides simple exercises that protect and stabilize the spine. If you are interested in attending this 40-minute workshop, please call 237-9000 to reserve a seat.

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The season of Lent spelled support for the Canadian

I Hunger Foundation at St. Margaret Mary School this year. To raise money for the foundation’s farming project in El Salvador, students took part in a Spell-a-thon. The farming project helps farmers work together so they can buy seeds and fertilizer at reduced cost as well as transport and sell their produce together.

Students in grades one to six studied words related to the foundation’s work and collected sponsorships. Last year’s Spell-a- thon raised hundreds of dollars for this important and life-giving venture, and this year may well raise even more.

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All grades are enthusiastically preparing for arts performances of various kinds, including dance, music and drama.

The St. Margaret Mary School community would like to send a big thank you to everyone in Old Ottawa South who supported the campaign to save the school by placing signs in their windows, writing letters, offering encouragement, and joining our colourful and joyful parade.

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