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EMC news - Minto has agreed to meet regularly with Manotick groups to ensure everyone is chasing the same goals.

Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt has organized the bi-monthly meetings, which will bring councillor, community and developer into the same room.

He said the purpose of the meetings is to keep the lines of communication open. “The big thing is to make sure everyone is on the same page and learn-ing things at the same time,” Moffatt said. “We want to make sure the communication is good as we move forward with the fi rst phase (of devel-opment) and other phases.”

Minto is currently building the fi rst phase of a large hous-ing development southwest of the village core, off Manotick Main Street. The fi rst three families will move in at the end of the year, with more coming in early 2014.

Along with Moffatt, rep-resentatives from Minto, the Manotick Village and Com-munity Association, the BIA and the Manotick Culture, Parks and Recreation Asso-ciation will meet every second month to discuss concerns, share information and work together on community proj-ects.

“It’s just a matter of keep-ing tabs on the small things that sometimes might also get overlooked,” Moffatt said.

Susan Murphy, vice presi-dent of development with Minto Communities, said Minto is open to this kind of

co-operation because it keeps the developer in the loop.

“Its more to have a vehicle to communicate in terms of activities that are happening with the BIA and the com-munity associations so there’s better communication and co-operation,” Murphy said.

For example, Minto is now aware of the upcoming Dick-inson Days celebration on the fi rst weekend in June, Murphy said.

Klaus Beltzner, president of the Manotick Village and Community Association, hopes the meetings can go be-yond information sharing and lead to real deliverables on projects of “mutual interest” such as better pathway con-nections, roads, cycling infra-structure and crosswalks.

“I like the idea of working with shared ideas and plans rather than have these evolve independently and then af-terwards try to stitch things together,” Beltzner said in an email. “It will be an op-portunity for the community and Minto work together on enhancing and connecting neighbourhoods and the vil-lage.”

The fi rst meeting was held in April. The group will meet again in June.

‘Tri-party’ meetings keep Manotick, Minto in the loop

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On the runPreston Martin, a 10-year-old Manotick athlete, fi nished fi rst in the Beaver Chase Series two-kilometre race held near the Kanata Legion in Morgan’s Grant on May 13. More than 50 runners participated in the race, including children and older adults from the Manotick area. The race was the fi rst of Run Ottawa’s Beaver Chase series of run this spring and summer. The next event will be held on Tuesday, June 11.


EMC news - The Manotick Farmer’s Market is growing faster than its vendors’ veg-etables as it gears up for an expanded season in Dickinson Square.

The market opens on Satur-day, June 1, three weeks ear-lier than last year, and will run every Saturday until Thanks-

giving weekend. New vendors are setting up

shop, including a bakery and several local meat producers.

But it’s all the extras planned for the season that make the market an exciting destination this summer.

Market president Paul Mus-sell, who owns Carmel Farms south of Manotick, said the market has a long list of com-munity activities planned for

the season. “We’re trying to have some-

thing happen every weekend,” he said.

Whether it’s an event run by Watson’s Mill - such as the Manotick art show in June - or market-run activities like a horse-drawn wagon, Mussell said there’s always more than fresh food available.

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Each week the market will offer a free commu-nity tent, where non-profi t groups can promote their organization and reach out to visitors.

The market will also feature a different prod-uct each week.

On July 6 the market will offer free horse-drawn wagon rides around the square. On Au-gust 10, an Authors Day will invite local writers to promote their books. Hockey expert Liam Ma-guire is already confi rmed, Mussell said. Mussell said he is still looking for local entertainers to do some busking in the park as well.

Osgoode resident Christina Leese, who owns the Hot Potato Co. food truck which offers lo-cal, gourmet baked potatoes, said the market will start its season on the right foot as it takes part in

the Dickinson Days parade on Friday, May 31. “I’m excited; it should be lots of fun,” she

said. The market will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

on June 1 to tie in with Dickinson Days, the village’s annual community celebration. Regu-lar market hours will return on June 8, when the market will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Leese’s company participates in several farmers’ markets around the city, but she said Manotick’s market is special.

“It’s a very healthy, vibrant market,” she said, adding that she loves how local everything is. “Literally the source of my food is all around me. I can’t think of a nicer place to park (my truck).”

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EMC news - Teens have a chance to shape their village at an upcoming workshop in Manotick.

A rural outreach worker from the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Re-source Centre will host a pizza night on Friday, May 24 where youth can discuss what kind of recreational programming they’d like to see in the village - and the barriers they have to accessing them.

“There are tons of issues and all sorts of accessibility issues,” said Courtney Flynn, who is organizing the work-shop. “We want to have a clear understanding of what those issues are.”

The evening will be held at the Manotick arena between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. She said pizza, treats and small prizes will be up for grabs.

Flynn is part of a Manotick Working Group which includes members from the city’s parks and recreation department, the community police centre and health and resource centres. The group was initiated in response to the ongoing fen-tanyl abuse problem among Manotick youth.

Recently the group con-

ducted a service scan to see what kinds of programs and resources exist for youth in the village. This included ev-erything from Girl Guides and cadets to city services, Flynn said.

The scan found there are high costs to participate in current programs, and they are often interest-specifi c (drama, sports, etc) rather than a gen-eral youth drop-in. The report also found that the programs draw on a core group of youth who already have leadership and initiative skills, rather than reaching out to youth at risk.

Flynn said feedback from the May 24 workshop as well as a survey targeted to local teens will be compiled into a report and given to the city for consideration. There is no guarantee that the report will yield any results, however.

“It’s going to be submitted to Coun. Moffatt and we’ll see what (the parks and recreation department) can provide,” Flynn said. “My role is to start linking people together who are passionate about seeing something happen.”

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Creating a youth drop-in centre like the successful Osgoode Youth Association

has long been a dream in Manotick, but so far a leader has yet to appear.

“There’s money available, but it’s the choices made about where we spend the money,” said Jan Hynes during a board meeting of the Manotick Vil-lage and Community Associa-tion on May 15, where Flynn presented her fi ndings. “It re-quires a champion.”

Fellow board member Jan-ice Domaratzki, who has sev-eral teenaged children, said bringing a proper youth cen-tre to Manotick is top of her agenda.

“The kids need a place to go that isn’t the skateboard park,” she said. “The kids need a saf-er place to hang out that isn’t their parents’ basement.”

The Osgoode Youth As-sociation was championed by Carol Nixon in 2000, because youth in the community were loitering and vandalizing due to boredom.

Several years of advocacy, community support and fund-raising eventually resulted in the city handing over the old fi re hall on Osgoode Main Street.

Today, the city pays for building maintenance includ-ing heat and hydro, but O-YA fundraises for operating and programming costs.

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Manotick church wants your e-wasteEmma [email protected]

EMC news - A Manotick church is hoping to spark an e-waste exodus this weekend.

Manotick United Church will host is second annual e-waste recycling event on May 25 to help the church, commu-nity and environment.

“We had more than eight tons of electronics last year, so we thought there’s a need for this,” said organizer Catherine McVie, who said Manotick residents don’t have a regular place to dispose of their old electronics.

“There are permanent drop-off sites but nothing that’s con-venient for Manotick.”

The church, located at 5567 Manotick Main Street, is col-lecting old computers, televi-sions, cell phones and other

e-waste from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The items will be recycled as part of the Ontario Electron-ics Stewardship program.

The church receives a small stipend based on the total weight of electronics collected, which McVie said will supple-ment the church’s outreach programs.

Those include the food cup-board, food baskets for families in need and a quilting group that provides a warm welcome

to new Canadians. Last year the church made about $1,200.

McVie said the fundraising aspect is a small element of the event.

“It’s not a huge fundraiser, but we all have a concern for the environment, anyway,” she said.

In 2012, Ontarians helped recycle more than 75,000 tonnes of electronic waste, a 45 per cent increase from 2011 and more than any other pro-gram in Canada, according to the Ontario Electronic Stew-ardship website.

Since the program began in April 2009, it has diverted more than 185,000 tonnes from Ontario landfi lls.

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EMC news - We all know Greely’s got a few idols, and Metcalfe’s not kiddin’ about its young performers. But now Osgoode’s out to prove its got talent, too.

A new talent contest set for Canada Day invites youth to put it all on the line for a chance to be crowned Osgoode’s best per-former.

Osgoode’s Got Talent will begin at 6 p.m. on the outdoor stage at the community’s Can-ada Day celebration. Twelve semi-fi nalists will compete for four spots in the 8 p.m. fi nals. Judges will then pick the top two performers, but ultimately the audience will choose the winner by way of a ballot.

Organizer Debbie Gallagher, matriarch of the musical Galla-gher family, took over the stage portion of this year’s Canada Day event.

She said she wanted to get

the entire community involved in the entertainment lineup.

“It’s so hard these days to get people to come out to these events without that personal tie,” said Gallagher, who has helped with Osgoode’s Canada

Day festivities for more than 20 years.

“Parents and grandparents much more enjoy seeing their kids on stage than someone

they don’t know.” Leading up the show, auditions will be held at the Osgoode Youth Associa-tion on Thursday, May 30 and Thursday, June 20. Each audi-tion is limited to 20 audition spots, which must be pre-reg-istered, and are limited to fi ve minutes each including set-up and tear-down. Semi-fi nalists will be chosen in three talent categories: vocal/instrumental,

dance and other. The ‘other’ category could include perfor-mances like stand-up comedy, a magician’s act or a novelty act, Gallagher said.

Performers are also split into three age groups: nine and un-der, 10 to 15 and 16 and older. Gallagher said the performers don’t have to be from Osgoode.

Members of the public are in-vited to attend the auditions and enjoy an evening of music and entertainment at the youth cen-tre, said O-YA’s outreach co-or-dinator, Carley Scharf.

She said the partnership is a win-win for everyone, because the youth association usually hosts its youth-focused b.side cafe on Thursday evenings. Audience members can enjoy a drink and learn about O-YA’s programs while supporting friends and family at their audi-tion, she said.

“We’re really trying to out-reach to youth and families who have never heard of O-YA,” Scharf said. “Youth (in other villages) that are younger don’t have access to vehicles, but it’s nice to let them know that we have a space here that they can use.”

The auditions begin at 6:30 p.m. at 5479 Osgoode Main Street May 30 and June 20.

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This time of year the news media, searching for ways to make hockey playoffs meaningful to the non-hockey population, focus on the

fans, big crowds of them in matching colours, shaking towels in matching colours, yelling, dancing, or – as in Toronto – looking sud-denly suicidal.

The cameras prowl around the city looking for hockey fans being interesting – which is to say, noisy and excited. Naturally, the cameras fi nd the public areas where noisy and excited people gather. In Ottawa, that would be the so-called Red Mile downtown. People with painted faces and colourful costumes are there. Along the Red Mile, and its equivalent in other cities, the cameras enter the bars, where people are all too happy to wave and shout and chant and look like newsworthy fans.

But there are other, less newsworthy fans in our city. Perhaps they are the majority. Fortunately for them, the cameras do not seek them out.

For these fans their fanaticism is private. They stay out of the public places. Their faces remain unpainted and they wear their normal clothes. Yet in their own way, they are making the adjustment to playoff mode.

This requires changes in their behaviour patterns. Dinner, instead of being at the usual time, now must be earlier, to be over in time for the game. Or it must become a different kind of dinner, in order to be eaten off the lap in front of the TV set. Or it must be so late as to be verging on fashionable.

Social life becomes more complicated. A dinner party scheduled weeks ago suddenly is found to coincide with the game. It can’t be shifted: that would be rude. So calculations have to be made. Are the guests fans? Would they mind eating at 5:30, before the game? Would they mind eating at 10 p.m., after the game? Can they persuaded to eat Chinese food off their laps, in front of the TV, with chopsticks?

And if the guests are not hockey fans?

There are people in the world who think about other things and are oblivious to what happens on the ice. They want to talk about Syria. How many times can you sneak away from the conversation during dinner to check the score? And what will be your excuse – stirring the dessert, making the coffee, a sudden nosebleed, another sudden nosebleed?

And how to explain to your guests the sudden elation/depression you feel around 10 p.m? Depression could be Syria, I suppose.

Another trial facing the private fan has to do with his/her children/grandchildren. They can scarcely be shielded from the fanaticism that is all around them. But they can’t be allowed to stay up until 10 on a school night either. As a consequence, a small but signifi -cant proportion of the fan base only sees the fi rst period.

But even that one period has its own chal-lenges. The commercials have to be muted – which leads to the spectacle of silent video game monsters and Justin Trudeau in his un-dershirt. Further, a quick escape strategy has to be plotted to divert impressionable young eyes away from the fi ghts. “Quick: Weather Network!” goes the cry whenever the gloves are dropped.

In some games, the children see more low

pressure systems than slapshots. They must wonder why people paint their faces for this.

Even among private fans, the pressure builds, the anguish and the ecstasy, the groans and cheers, and the tough part, at the end of it, is to explain to the children and grand-children of private fans that it’s only a game, that you shouldn’t be mad at your team, you shouldn’t hate the other team and life goes on, win or lose.

While you’re doing that, the screen fi lls with all the grieving painted faces in one city and all the hysterically happy painted faces in the other. Quick: Weather Network!

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Time to confront concussions

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The death of a Barrhaven teen after sustain-ing a severe head injury during a rugby game last week has highlighted the need for more education about concussions and brain

injuries.Rowan Stringer, 17, a John McCrae Secondary

School student and the captain of her school rugby team, was tackled hard and hit her head and neck on the ground during a game on May 14.

According to comments from her parents, Rowan had suffered two head injuries the week leading up to her fatal injury.

The fi rst time, she told her parents and took a pain reliever, the second time she only told her friends about the injury.

We don’t know if these were concussions, but the family has authorized an autopsy to fi nd out the fac-tors leading to her death.

Ottawa’s public school board is now taking a hard look at its safety policies to see if they can be improved and make sure players aren’t playing with injuries. But we can’t place the onus on just the coaches – it’s impossible for them to monitor every single hit. All of us – parents, family members, fellow players, properly armed with the knowledge about the dangers of head injuries can help prevent

athletes playing with concussions.The president of the Brain Injury Association of

Canada has suggested, during an interview with the media, that Rowan might still be alive today if there was better awareness among coaches, players and the general public about the dangers of repeated concus-sions.

The danger of suffering an injury, ranging from bumps and bruises to broken bones and head injuries, is a fact of life for all athletes. Nothing will change that. But athletes properly educated about the dangers of head injuries, can intelligently decide whether or not they are fi t to participate in a game or competi-tion.

A big part of the problem is athletes don’t want to report head injuries because they’re afraid they will miss games. Education is a universal cure for poor decision making and a key component for preventing and treating sports-related concussions.

Schools and sports associations should provide coaches, players and parents with the training and knowledge to both identify and treat concussions and head injuries. Research shows that if an athlete takes a hit to the head and suffers headaches afterwards, they may have suffered a concussion.

An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.

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EMC news - Teach kids how to lead a healthy lifestyle and we’ll prevent a lot of kidney dis-ease.

This was the message from Ottawa Hospital kidney expert Dr. Shiv Jindal at the Kidney Foundation’s annual general meeting on May 14.

The Eastern Ontario chap-ter met at Southminster United Church in Old Ottawa South to celebrate a year of success, and for the fi rst time invited several speakers to address current is-sues in the fi eld. Jindal spoke passionately about the need for prevention at a very young age, before any risk factors for kid-ney disease have even set in.

“We should not be talking about organ failure, because it’s too late,” he told the audience of about 40 people. “We should be talking about vascular health, which is the common link.”

Jindal said genes and factors like gender and ethnicity play a minor role in kidney disease. While the genes are there, it’s our lifestyle choices that cause them to develop kidney disease, he said.

Avoiding unhealthy habits from the outset is crucial, Jindal said, and parents and educators must play a key role in making sure children are eating well, getting enough exercise and learning how to lead a healthy lifestyle in the future.

When bad habits are allowed to continue, blood vessels are damaged and we don’t even know it, Jindal explained. The damage occurs across the entire body. There are no tests to prove it, and as the damage gets worse it then starts to effect organs. By the time the organs are dam-aged, there is little we can do to reverse the problem, Jindal said.

And the problem is getting worse. Kidney disease has tri-pled in recent years, Jindal said, and in Ottawa there are 200 new patients each year. About 1,000 Ottawa residents are on some sort of dialysis, and another 550 attend the hospital’s progressive renal insuffi ciency (PRI) clinic. Between 150 and 175 residents are waiting for a new kidney.

Jindal said he would like to see a small pilot project in Otta-wa that teaches families and ed-ucators what a healthy lifestyle actually looks like, and how to promote that with children.

“Despite all our marketing, all our publicity, nothing is working,” Jindal said. “Maybe we have to take a different ap-proach.”

SUCCESS STORIES

Despite the new format, the foundation still found time to celebrate its volunteers and suc-

cess stories from the past year. Manotick resident David Pres-

ley received an excellence award for his door-knocking campaign during the foundation’s annual March Drive. Presley’s wife Lyn accepted the award of his behalf, as David is currently recovering from his kidney transplant at the end of April.

“Unfortunately he can’t be here, but fortunately he can’t be here,” Lyn quipped as she thanked everyone for their sup-port as David recovers.

The Presleys waited fi ve years for a kidney transplant. The news of an available kidney came on April 29 after a weekend at the Alive to Strive fundraising run in support of the foundation.

He went into surgery about 12 hours later, and by early Tuesday morning was in recovery.

“It has been a long fi ve years leading up to this,” Lyn wrote in an email to her supporters that day. “Our thoughts and ex-treme gratitude is very much with the donor family who, in

their time of grief made the de-cision to give life to others.”

Stittsville teacher Marianne Graham was recognized for her “infectious enthusiasm” as she and her family raised $12,000 for the foundation at a commu-nity event last year.

Frank Fenn and Lucie Du-guay from the Carlingwood Mall received the Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka award for an event they held at the west-end mall in Feb-ruary, where they signed up 300 new people to be organ donors.

A former staff member had needed a kidney transplant, and Fenn and Duguay decided to support him with their fund-raiser. Along with signing up 300 new donors, they also raised about $5,000 for the foundation.

Linda and Marcel Moncion, who own the Your Independent Grocer in Riverside South, were also recognized for outstanding support of the foundation.

Manotick News reporter Emma Jackson accepted an award for EMC Metroland’s on-

going coverage of organ dona-tion issues.

FIFTY-FIVE YEARS LATER

By coincidence, the AGM brought together several key people on the 55th anniversary of the fi rst kidney transplant in the British Commonwealth.

Dr. John Dossetor, a kidney expert who co-ordinated that fi rst transplant in Montreal, attended the meeting with his wife.

He was joined by Nola John-son, who donated her kidney to her twin sister Moira on May 14, 1958 when she was just 15 years old – making Canadian and kid-ney research history.

“It’s strange that this (coinci-dence) would happen,” Johnson said. “When May 14th comes around I think about it but we don’t mark it.”

Moira became ill in March, and Dossetor knew she was ex-periencing renal failure.

At the time, transplants could only be done between identical twins - and it was only by chance that the girls’ mother mentioned Moira did indeed have a twin.

“We had to test to prove we were identical,” remembered Johnson, who volunteered her kidney as soon as she knew a transplant was a possibility. “It was just a week before they de-termined there could be an op-eration.”

But it wasn’t that simple. Be-cause the girls were minors, they had to face a family court judge to determine if they were able to consent to donate and receive kidneys. By the time it was de-cided, it was May.

Though the operation had never been done in Canada or anywhere else in the Common-wealth, Johnson said her mother didn’t want to go to the United States where the doctors had more experience.

“She had faith in the doctors,” Johnson said.

With good reason. The trans-plant was successful, and Moira lived for 29 years with Johnson’s kidney.

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Linda Moncion, left, with her husband Marcel and Kidney Foundation volunteer Lyn Presley, show off their awards from the Eastern Ontario chapter’s annual general meeting on May 14. All three were recognized for their eff orts to sup-port the Kidney Foundation.

“She gave her sister 29 years of life,” Dossetor said.

Since the sisters shared so many genes, Johnson’s donated kidney eventually

became diseased, and Moira was on dialysis for several years before she died from breast cancer in 1987. John-son also has kidney disease, but is not yet on dialysis.


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EMC news - Greely Elementary School has come a long way from the two-room schoolhouse of the 1960s.

On Friday, May 24, staff, students and school alumni will celebrate the school’s 40-year legacy in the village with songs, speeches and a special art installation.

The current school building was constructed as an open concept school in 1972, and it was offi cially dedicated in 1973.

Walls were added later, as were additional wings and renovations to improve the building.

Before the school was built, stu-dents in grades three to six attend-ed class in a traditional two-room schoolhouse, with two portables in the yard. The school was surrounded by fi elds and, often, cows.

During construction, staff and stu-dents were relocated to the school at Herberts Corners.

Principal Helen Jarvis, who has lead the school for the past four years, said a lot has changed in Greely since the 1970s.

Houses have sprung up around the three-acre school yard, and the cows have eventually been pushed further south as development takes over the area.

“At a certain stage they were hap-py to say there were no more cows in the school yard. Isn’t that the best?” laughed Jarvis.

“It cost $425,000 to build the whole school, and think about the (value of the) houses around there now,” she added.

The anniversary celebration be-gins at 12:30 p.m. at the school on Parkway Road.

Dignitaries including Osgoode

Coun. Doug Thompson, retired Greely teacher Judie Matthewson and school trustee Mark Fisher will all speak to the occasion.

Jarvis said the celebration was the brainchild of the school council.

“Greely has a small but very com-mitted school council which plans successful fund-raising events such as the Holiday Fling every Novem-ber, which provide technology such as interactive white boards, library books and sporting equipment,” she said.

“It was our parents that noticed we were at our 40th anniversary and

thought it was an event that needed to be celebrated.”

The school’s 225 students will carry the celebration with songs and performances, Jarvis said. The choir will offer several numbers, and the kindergarten class will perform a song from the 1970s.

But even students not scheduled to sing on May 24 will leave their mark on the celebration.

As part of a painting commis-sioned for the anniversary, local art-ist Jill Peters allowed every student in the school to provide a “fi nger dot” to her painting, which will be

unveiled at the event. Jarvis said that’s just one of many

special projects the school has under-taken this year.

“We have a new logo, we have new school colours, we have a new banner,” she said.

But none of these updates have altered the amount of spirit in the school.

“We’re still small, we’re still in the heart of Greely and we’re still a re-ally special school,” Jarvis said.

For more information or to RSVP to the school event, call 613-821-2291.

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EMC sports - Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend race director John Halvorsen knows everyone can’t be a world-class runner, but the two-time Olympian still wants thousands of runners to have an elite experience during the May 25 and 26 extrava-ganza.

And that’s a big deal, in more ways than one.

After all, an Ottawa Race Weekend record 42,573 runners participated in 2012, making it Canada’s largest multi-distance race event.

Injury and Achilles tendon surgery prevented Halvorsen’s qualifi cation for a third Olympic Games in 1996, but he was an icon on the North American running scene in the 1980s and 1990s, after coming to Ottawa from his native Norway as a young teenager when his dad took a job at the Norwegian embassy.

His parents have long since re-turned to Norway, but Halvorsen remains in the National Capital area despite retaining his Norwegian citi-zenship.

When he fi rst arrived here, teachers at Sir Robert Borden High School al-lowed him to use a dictionary to fi nd certain words, but his learning curve was quick and Canada soon became his new and comfortable home.

He went on to earn his engineering degree and MBA at the University of Ottawa, and to win two Canadian club and fi ve Canadian interuniversity cross-country championships, in ad-

dition to racing in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games. His best Olympic placing was 16th in the 10,000 metres in Seoul, while four years later he ran faster to place 19th in the same event in Barcelona, Spain.

The 5-foot-8, 130-pound runner was also named Runner’s World male road racer of the year in 1989. Now about 170 pounds, the 46-year-old married father of three youngsters, ages 14, 12 and 10, remains physical-ly active and connected to the sports community in the National Capital area.

Living just across the Ottawa Riv-er in Kingsmere, Que., he coaches at the local Nakkertok cross-country ski club, skis, cycles and continues to run.

“I had a good run at running for years, and it was a great experience,” says Halvorsen, though convinced he could have run faster.

For 10,000 metres on the track, he ran a world-class time of 27 minutes 43 seconds.

“I know I could have better times, because my best times were not when I was in top shape,” says Halvorsen.

After working 18 years in Otta-wa’s high-tech industry, primarily in marketing and product management, he became Tamarack Ottawa Race weekend’s new full-time race direc-tor in late January.

FULL-TIME STAFF

Halvorsen works with fi ve other full-time staff, the board of directors, a volunteer race committee and nu-

merous other volunteers.The other full-time staff are com-

munications director Susan Marsh, operations manager Joe DuVall, event manager Al Macartney and assistant operations manager Ryan Cameron.

One of the part-time staffers is long-time race director Jim Robin-son, who spearheaded the evolution of Ottawa Race Weekend into one of the most-talked-about running week-ends in North America.

“Honorary everything,” says Halvorsen of the retired Robinson, who now works as a part-time advi-sor for Ottawa Race Weekend.

Halvorsen became involved with the organization in 1999 and went on to hold positions that include part-time race director and chairman of the Run Ottawa board of directors.

No longer just about a marathon, as the event was when it began in the early 1970s, Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend is home to the marathon, half-marathon, 10K, 5K, 2K and kids 1K. The marathon will feature a re-cord of more than 6,200 runners this year, but the 10K and half-marathon will each attract the biggest fi elds, of more than 11,000.

Sponsorship plus entry fees cre-ate an annual Ottawa Race Weekend budget of $2.8 million, including $400,000 for the elite racers.

“Our primary focus, from a time and budget perspective, is organizing the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend because that’s the main event that draws the substantial portion of our revenues … but we also have other events,” says Halvorsen.

The budget also accommodates organization of several Run Ottawa races during the year, including in-formal Beaver Chase trail runs, the Army Run which may attract more than 20,000 runners this September, the Jim Howe memorial, January’s Richmond road race, and Kanata’s Canada Day road races with 10K-, 5K-, 1.2K- and 100 metre-races.

As race director, Halvorsen says he’s called on for leadership, account-ing and general management.

For this month’s race weekend, Halvorsen sees his role as providing more leadership and vision: “Obvi-ously, we’ve been around for a long time, so we’re not talking about rein-venting the wheel, but it’s messaging. Sponsorship is another huge role.”

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EMC sports - He also remains in-volved with organizational details, like working with its supplier on course signs and structures. “We’re talking six-fi gure costs here, just for structures and signage,” says Hal-vorsen.

Logistics, including those involv-ing security, are also part of the pie.

SECURITY

Security remains an important part of running the race weekend, a concern punctuated by last month’s bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon.

“Our event now is public enough that we have to expect it’s possible, whether it’s an emergency of this na-ture (with bombs) or an emergency of lesser nature that still needs some thought process to deal with it,” says Halvorsen.

For the fi rst time, Ottawa Race Weekend offi cials and public re-sponders will take part in a table-top emergency exercise, so people know how to respond if there’s an extreme emergency.

“We’re probably unique in the sense that we have an on-site medi-cal team that can address a ton of medical issues,” says Halvorsen.

That weekend team consists of 40 doctors and 150 nurses from the Ot-tawa Hospital.

The event also features ski patrol members on bikes and roving pa-trols, who pick up runners in trouble and work in collaboration with Ot-tawa and Gatineau paramedics, fi re-fi ghters and police.

There will also be signs remind-ing Ottawa Race Weekend partici-pants not to leave bags unattended. There may also be additional secu-rity at baggage checks.

Meanwhile, The Tamarack Race Weekend staff continue to look for

effi ciencies in its operations.“We try to reuse, but we also try

to improve. In the perfect world, we would do things different, but we don’t live in a perfect world,” says Halvorsen.

“We can’t close any road we want because of traffi c impact. Our ap-proach is that we see where we’d like to be. We’ve seen what the main races are like, either with Jim (Rob-inson) travelling to them or my run-ning experience, so we ask how we can get there.

“An example is the marathon, which was a two-loop course for years. Both Jim and I knew no world-class marathon has a two-loop course, it just doesn’t happen, unless you’re talking the Olympics, and then it doesn’t matter because you’re only talking 60 runners.

“Second of all, we have a city with a lot of tourist attractions. We are still the capital of Canada. We have a lot of national and regional monuments, whether it’s a war mu-seum, the art gallery or Parliament Hill. So we said to ourselves, how can we make a course that incorpo-

rates as much of that as possible, still living in the context of traffi c diffi culties, construction, and all that kind of stuff.”

BIG ECONOMIC IMPACT

Meanwhile, Halvorsen and the race weekend team continue to strive to make the course attractive to out-of-town runners, which make up about 40 per cent of entrants. Ot-tawa Race Weekend also generates an economic impact of $27 million in the region.

That impact is similar to what the region has experienced for such prominent events as the Juno Awards and the National Hockey League All-Star Game.

“Having reached that point now, and having city and NCC (National Capital Commission) offi cials un-derstand that, has been helpful for

obvious reasons.

The support we get now (from the city) is quite good,” says Halvorsen. “There are still some challenges once in a while, but that’s nothing unusual.

“Our biggest beef (is the lack of) government grants,” adds Halvors-en. “We’re either classifi ed as a charity, which we are not, or as a sporting event, which apparently doesn’t “get any funding, unlike other festivals that are arts-related that get funding. We’ve almost yet to receive anything.”

Meanwhile, Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend can boast about be-ing home to the largest running expo event in Canada, with more than 100 vendors for the Thursday-through-Saturday event.

On the pavement, the race sched-ule Saturday has the 2k at 4 p.m., 5K at 5 p.m., and 10K at around 6:30 p.m.

Sunday is home to the marathon

(the only Ottawa Race Weekend event with more male entrants), kids marathon (in which participants run their marathon’s last kilometre after doing the equivalent of 41 kilome-tres of exercise) and half-marathon. Those start times are 7, 8 and 9 a.m. respectively.

Halvorsen loves to watch the competitive elite races, but he says many non-elites also play a special role in race weekend.

For example, the race director says it’s emotional seeing average runners so excited while fi nishing their fi rst marathon or half-mara-thon, with friends and other specta-tors on hand.

“The emotion at the fi nish line can be huge,” says Halvorsen.

“It’s rewarding to know you played a role in that, and they’re ex-cited and happy to do the event that you created.”

Race weekend will generate $27 million in Ottawa regionBLAIR EDWARDS/METROLAND

The Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend will attract more than 40,000 runners, people of all ages and skill level, to its May 24 and 25 event.

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Camp Quality benefi ts from big car show in LombardyLaurie [email protected]

EMC events – Since Camp Qual-ity opened in Lanark County in 2000, members of a local car club

have been donating to a cause that benefi ts children with cancer.

“I remember the initial phone call,” said Glenn Mooney, director at Camp Quality.

“It was Terry Irish who called me

and we’ve been partners with them ever since. They’ve been wonderful with their ongoing support.”

Camp Quality is currently taking registration for children ages fi ve to 18 who would like to experience a

fun week of summer camp in Au-gust.

“Typically, (children) are referred to us through word of mouth or through CHEO,” Mooney says. “We don’t turn anyone away.”

Last year, there were 33 children who took part in the camp that runs the fi rst week in August.

Mooney and his wife Pam started the eastern Ontario Camp Qual-ity. They don’t own the campsite at Providence Point near Lanark, but only rent it for the week to provide this service, typically to children who have ended their cancer treat-ments.

“We were asked… we couldn’t say no,” he said.

They don’t have children of their own, but 18 nieces and nephews…and a Newfounland dog named Bear.

“Camp Quality is a good time for kids to come and have some fun and it also gives their parents some re-spite,” Mooney said.

“If a child is a fi rst-time camper, we usually invite their siblings to at-tend as well.”

Mooney says that there are a number of volunteers who accom-modate a single camper. There are two for each child, plus support staff of doctors and nurses on site.

Some of the friendships forged between the child and his or her camp counsellors (who are all adults usually in their 20s or 30s) have lasted for years.

“We have some matches who have been together for three and four years,” he said. “Kind of like Big Brothers and Big Sisters.”

CAR SHOW

It’s been for almost a half-centu-ry that the Antique and Classic Car Club of Canada (ACCCC), Rideau Lakes Region, has been shining up its rigs for the spring car show in Lombardy. This year’s event is slat-ed for May 25 and 26.

“We’ve been having this car show since about 1965,” said Andy Hold-ham of Manotick, president of the ACCCC, who has a 1936 Chevy classic of his own.

“And every year since Camp Quality has been in existence, we have donated between $1,000 and $1,500 to help children who are un-dergoing cancer treatments.”

Members of the club live in Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Almonte, Perth, Kemptville, Manotick, Win-chester, Metcalfe, Russell, Greely, Kanata, Barrhaven and Orleans, but Holdham said most of the members are from the Smiths Falls area.

“We’re from all over… and we at-tract a great deal of people,” he add-ed, including from Ontario, Quebec and northern United States.

This two-day event will feature fl ea market type vendors of crafts and automotive specialists in and surrounding the agricultural build-ing, complete with ’50s and ’60s music and an evening beef barbecue for anyone who would like to grab bite to eat.

There will also be a car corral for those who wish to sell their old clas-sics. A $10 fee will apply for those wishing to take advantage of this opportunity.

Sunday is the main event, with a car show slated from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – with free registration from 8 a.m. to noon. – complete with 15 different categories of judging.

From modifi ed vehicles, to origi-nal classics, pro stock and restored antiques, there will be judging by fellow owners with awards presen-tations at the end of the afternoon, approximately 3 p.m.

“These old cars are neat to look at, but even neater to watch and hear one drive by,” Holdham said, as the car show will feature a drive-by of sorts as the old buggies are cranked over for a parade around the race-track.

“We normally parade about 18-20 vehicles and I’m hoping to get up into the 1950 models,” he said. “It’s neat to hear the chugging of the old 1916 Model T owned by a member, Terry Irish, or a 1923 Buick with a different sound all together and we’ll extend that (parade) up to the ’50s and ’60s models.”

Holdham said this event is about the camaraderie, networking and having fun with other like-minded car folks.

“It’s about seeing cars and talk-ing to people with the same interest, and maybe seeing restoration of a car like one you’re working on… it’s about getting advice and fi nding parts, or just about having fun and enjoying the old cars,” he said.

One of the highlights for the ACCCC is having fun with the kids at Camp Quality.

“We always go camp and take the kids for rides in the old cars,” said Holdham.

“Their faces just light up when they take a ride in some of those cars,” added Mooney. “They hop on into the rumble seat and away they go.

“The Antique and Classic Car Club have been a great support to us for the past 13 years, both fi nan-cially and with their involvement at camp.”

Camp Quality will be on site dur-ing Sunday’s car show for anyone interested in more

For information on the car show, call 613-692-2438. For more in-formation on the camp visit www.campquality.org.

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EMC news - The Ottawa Public Library wants people to peek into a crystal ball and imagine what the library should look like in the future.

Notably, the library wants to know what it should stop doing – not just new things it

should take on.The central questions posed

in the online survey – the fi rst phase of the public engage-ment process – ask what the library should continue doing, what should it start doing and what should it stop doing in the next fi ve years.

“We know that we are changing,” said Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, chairwoman of the Ottawa Public Library board.

“We are not currently de-livering library services in the best way,” she said.

The campaign is online at imagine-opl-bpo.ca now and will be open for public com-ment until June 15. Those who

participate will be eligible to win an iPad.

People can post ideas and vote on other people’s ideas. A day after the campaign launched the top idea, speed-dating for volunteer opportu-nities, had already received almost 250 “likes.”

While discussing the pos-sibility of closing library branches is politically unpopu-lar, it might be time to re-open that debate, Harder said.

“Do we continue to support and sustain our 33 branches and our Bookmobile?” Harder said. “Or do we look at other opportunities that people may suggest and they may say will serve them just as well.

“Is that the best use of the taxpayers’ money?” she added. Adding user-pay programs to the library’s repertoire should also be considered, Harder said.

“I am not afraid to start charging for some stuff,” she said. “Right now it’s a free ride at the library and I don’t think that it needs to be.

“I’m not looking to make money, but I don’t think we should be hindered from be-ing relevant by not wanting to charge someone $25 for having something unique that people want,” Harder said.

Harder said she’d like to see the libraries have more fl exible space. She suggested putting

the shelves on wheels so they could be moved around and the space repurposed to offer more programs.

“So the space that you’re using isn’t necessarily a large amount, but it is vibrant, vital and mobile,” Harder said.

Reducing the size of ref-erence sections and instead focusing on helping people fi nd the information in new ways should also be a priority, Harder said.

“We’ve got a big job ahead of us. We do want to make sure we’re staying relevant,” she said.

Library chief executive of-fi cer Danielle MacDonald said she wanted to undertake the

consultation “primarily be-cause it makes good sense to connect with our customers.”

But the library also wants to hear from people who don’t use the library about why, and what might make them begin accessing library services in person or online.

“We know there are new op-portunities but we also know there are choices,” MacDonald said.

The consultation will set the direction for an update to the library’s strategic plan that should take form early next year. It will be the fi rst time the library has done a major over-haul of its master plan since the city amalgamated.

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We are asking additional questions as part of the application process, so that when employers bring in temporary foreign workers, no Canadian workers are displaced as a result of outsourcing.

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Aunt Lizzie’s strange gifts never served much use

Father’s sister Aunt Lizzie, very wealthy we thought, lived in

Regina and once a year she came out to the homestead in Renfrew County, just to check up on her only brother, and as Mother said, to make sure the farm hadn’t slipped into the Bonnechere River.

Aunt Lizzie didn’t think Mother was good farm mate-rial. She thought anyone who had lived most of her life in New York City, cer-tainly wouldn’t amount a hill of beans in the backwoods of Renfrew County!

Every time she came to visit, the house was in turmoil.

Everything had to be scrubbed within an inch of its life, and my sister Audrey and I had to give up our bed and the little washstand we shared at the top of the stairs.

Even the top had to be cleared off, so my collection of little stones I cherished...small little stones I picked up on the farm and which I loved dearly, had to be put in a little paper bag and tucked away for keeping in a safe

place. Audrey’s hand mirror and comb, too, had to fi nd a new home for Aunt Lizzie’s visit.

Even though she was his sister, Father was always in a lather when Aunt Lizzie came for her yearly visit. She insisted on bringing him something which served no earthly purpose, and which she thought he shouldn’t live without.

And often the hand-me-down box, usually included a present for Father which made little or no sense what-soever.

Like the kimono. Father had never laid eyes on a ki-mono before, but he insisted on wearing it when we had neighbours in for euchre one Saturday night.

Even Mother couldn’t talk him out of putting it on, but when Uncle Alec after deal-ing out the cards, asked Fa-ther what in tarnation he had on over his shirt and trousers, Father decided the kimono just wasn’t for him.

When Aunt Lizzie visited us in Renfrew County, she never failed to bring Father some outlandish gift, which

she insisted was just what he needed.

One summer it was a dress shirt with a high round cellu-loid collar, which Father had to wear to church the Sunday she was there.

It took both Mother and Aunt Lizzie to button it around his neck, and when he got home he said his head ached and his ears were ring-ing. He never wore the shirt again.

I thought the small stiff straw hat with the narrow brim, and the narrow black ribbon looked much better than the big old tattered one Father wore around the farm.

Aunt Lizzie bought it at Walker’s Store in Renfrew and she never let Father for-get that she had paid a whole .75 cents for it!

That didn’t make him like

it any better, especially when he saw the identical hat on a woman in the Lutheran Church one Sunday!

Well, one summer, Aunt Lizzie arrived, and as usual, the house was in a turmoil. She re-arranged the furniture without even an if-you-please to Mother, all of which was promptly moved back where it belonged the minute the train left Renfrew station. That year, Aunt Lizzie told Father that she wanted to go into Renfrew to do some shopping for him, as what she had in mind was too bulky to pack in her cow-hide suitcases.

Father wasn’t too pleased, but Mother told him to get it over with...there would be no living with his sister until she had her way.

And off they went in the

Model T on the Saturday. I couldn’t wait to see what Aunt Lizzie had in mind for Father.

When they got home, Fa-ther was like a thunder cloud, changed into his bib overalls and headed for the barn. Aunt Lizzie came in with a shoe box under her arm.

She opened it on the kitchen table, and there was a pair of men’s shoes the like of which I had never seen before.

They were black shiny patent leather, with white leather insets under the laces, and the toes were so pointed, Emerson said you could kick the eyes out of a snake at 50 paces!

Aunt Lizzie insisted Father wear them to church the next day, which he did with great reluctance, but the minute he got home, they were exchanged for his black well-worn work boots. Aunt Lizzie said he should wear them all day to break them in.

Father sat and looked at the shoes for the longest time, and I could tell he was thinking long and hard.

He put the new shoes back on and headed for the barn to do the Sunday night chores.

When he came in for sup-per, you wouldn’t recognize the new black and white leather shoes.

They were covered with manure, grass and mud, and you couldn’t tell where the white insets started and the black toes began. Even Father’s socks were ready for the Monday washing!

I knew without question, Father who was meticulous about both himself and the barns, had deliberately ruined the shoes.

Aunt Lizzie fl ew into a fi t, grabbed the shoes and went out to the rain barrel with a whisk and a rag.

She agreed then they should only be worn to church on Sunday. Her train left before the week was out, and she wasn’t around to see if Father was in his new shoes at the Lutheran Church.

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Modifi ed racquets and balls are not new. The equipment has been around for a while, as has the “graduated length” concept. Coaches have used bits and pieces for years seeing the advantage from the perspective of success, fun and safety. The diff erence this time is that all these elements have been brought together in a much more systematic way than ever before. Tennis companies now carry the full line of half-court and ¾-court progressive equipment including graduated, balls, racquets, lay down lines and nets.

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EMC news - While some onlookers might only see marathon racers stretching their limbs before the big race, there will be a group of nine men also stretching in prepa-ration for a different kind of marathon.

During the Ottawa Race Weekend marathon, the Heri-tage Hands Ottawa Drum Club will be performing for a total of four hours on May 24 to en-courage the more than 10,000 racers across the fi nish line.

“We will be drumming until every last runner or straggler has crossed the line,” said Mi-chel Monette, co-founder of the club. “We won’t leave until everyone else is gone.”

Monette and longtime friend Charles St-Jean have been drumming most of their lives, starting together in the De La Salle Cadets when the two were only 15 years-old and lived next to each other in Lowertown.

In 1998, St-Jean brought some of the old drummers to-gether for a reunion and since that meeting the group has been playing at shows and for fun in the Ottawa area.

“It’s passion and friendship that keep us together,” St-Jean said.

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“It’s physically demand-ing,” said Armand Vienneau, a drummer in the group. “It can take a lot out of you.”

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Passionate about drum-ming, the club members say they perform more for the en-joyment than for money these days, taking gigs where they can get them.

“It’s the rush,” Monette said.

The group used to play be-fore football games at Lansd-owne Park and said they loved performing in front large crowds, but say their most en-joyable audience members are children.

“They just surround us when we play,” Vienneau said.

Even though there are nine members in the group, the men say they are always looking for more experienced drum-mers to join.

“We are not getting any younger,” St-Jean said. The troop will be performing by the War Museum from 7 to 11 a.m. on May 24.

For more information about the group, please visit www.heritagehandsottawa.ca.


Armand Vienneau and Jean Pierre Huard drum a tune or two in preparation for the Ot-tawa Race Weekend. The two are in the Heritage Hands Ottawa Drum Club, who will be performing during the marathon race on May 24.

Marathon drummers to strike a beat at race weekend

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Preparation Time: 10 min | Serves: 4

LAYERED SALAD TO GO

Nutritionals: Calories 431 | Total Fat 16.8 g (Saturated Fat 2.5 g, Polyunsaturated Fat 1.3 g, Monosaturated Fat 4.5 g) | Cholesterol 5 mg | Sodium 416.4 mg | Potassium 439 mg | Total Carbohydrates 57.5 g | Dietary Fiber 10.9 g | Sugars 1.7 g | Protein 14.7 g | *Manganese 32% | *vitamin B6 27.8% | *Folate 26.7%*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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The West Ottawa Church of Christmeets every Sunday at

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St. Richard’s Anglican Church

Sunday Services: 8am and 10am

Thursday Eucharist: 10amNearly New Shop/Book Nook

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St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church2400 Alta Vista Drive (613) 733 0131

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EMC news - Fourteen years ago, a girl named Rachel Scott was sitting on the grass out front of her school when two boys approached her and shot her fi ve times.

She didn’t know it at the time, but her life and death would help create a positive chain reaction all the way to Ottawa.

Scott died on the grass in front of Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. She was the fi rst of 13 students killed during the massacre.

A popular and friendly girl, Scott always reached out to other students and friends in need, but it was not until her death that her infl uence on her town, her country and now the world has spread all the way to the students at two schools in Ottawa.

Before she died, Scott had written an essay on how peo-ple should treat other people. Her father found her writing and deciding to share it with the world, creating Rachel’s Challenge, a program about how to stop bullying.

Ridgemont High School teacher, Toula Makris heard about the program and decided Scott’s message was important to share with her students and the students at another local school, Rideau High School.

“I thought it was a really important to bring this mes-sage to the kids,” Makris said. “And the kids have been so im-pacted by this presentation.”

Kristy Krings of Rachel’s Challenge came to both schools during the week of May 13 to tell Scott’s story and to present the anti-bully-ing program.

“Right now in your schools, in your community, there are people who are going through things and a simple act of kindness can change that,” Krings said.

The program is about fi ve challenges: change how you feel about others, dream big and write down those dreams, choose positive infl uences, speak with kindness, and re-mind those you love how spe-cial they are.

The challenges are simple at heart and Krings explained this is why Scott believed cre-ating positive change in the world was possible.

According to Makris and Rideau’s school guidance counselor, Wendy Lamble, the students reacted well to the challenges.

“Students you wouldn’t think would even care were emotional and wiping away tears throughout the assem-bly,” Makris said.

Between the two schools 200 students participated in the program and workshops. Krings said she couldn’t be-lieve how enthusiastic and how much the students at the school embraced the chal-lenges.

“I have rarely felt so wel-come, but this community has been amazing, the students have been amazing and I have had a great time working with the kids,” she said.

Krings said Scott’s message can reach out to all ages and the important thing to remem-ber is anyone can change the world or make a positive im-pact on someone else’s life.

Scott, Krings explained was always reaching out to others and after she died, these in-dividuals reached out to her

family to tell how important their daughter was.

It was these stories, Scott’s writings, poems and drawings and the images from that hor-rifi c day at Columbine High that make up the presentation of Rachel’s Challenge.

Although the students who Krings presents to these days may have been very young or not even alive when the kill-ings at Columbine took place, Krings said each student still manages to relate to the story.

“For most students Colum-bine is a big shock, they were babies when it happened,” Krings said. “But it’s a story about a real person and that is what I think resonates with them.”

Lamble said her students will be taking what they learned in the workshops and applying it to school events, assemblies and other already-organized school clubs.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what the students do with what they learned,” Lam-ble said.

Makris said she has already been encouraged by her stu-dents, who are already talking about holding a ‘cupcakes for kindness’ bake sale and other little events to promote kind-ness in the school.


Toula Makris and Kristi Krings take a moment after a Rachel’s Challenge presentation at Ridgemont High School on May 14. An emotional Makris helped host members of Ra-chel’s Challenge so students, including some from Rideau High School, could participate in workshops to help promote anti-bullying and positive change.

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This is Rachel Scott’s diary. The hole on the right comes from one of the fi ve bullets which killed Scott during the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999. It was in Scott’s death that her writings have become the voice of a world-wide anti-bullying program, Rachel’s Challenge. The program visited to Ottawa schools on May 13-14.

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EMC sports - A Morgan’s Grant teen has won the pro-vincial championship title for fi gure skating.

Joni Benedeczky, 16, won fi rst place at the 2013 Skate Ontario STARSkate competi-tion, which was held in Fort Erie, Ont., this past March. The West Carleton Secondary School student was up against four other competitors in the fi nals in the senior bronze men category.

“I won fi rst place, and I am really happy to hold the provincial champion title in my category,” said Joni in an email. “There are many things to consider in a solo. It’s not just about the jumps and the spins. It’s about putting them together gracefully; putting your heart into it and making it look easy and enjoyable to watch.

“I was very happy with my results since I performed a clean program.”

The Grade 10 student has been a member of the March Kanata Skating Club for eight years, two of those as a CanS-kater and six at the StarSkater level.

“In the year that I was fi n-ishing the CanSkate program, I had the opportunity to see the older and more experienced skaters perform during our ice show,” he said. “I loved it so much that I decided to contin-ue on to the StarSkate program where with hard training, you can set higher standards for yourself.”

And Joni is a hard worker. In just under fi ve months of

practicing double jumps, he could land them all.

“It took lots of hard work, but it all paid off,” he said.

Joni’s coach, Micheline

Metcalfe, has been working with the teen for two years.

“He is an excellent jumper; it would be accurate to describe him as a natural,” she said in an email. “He is also light, quick and agile on his feet.”

Metcalfe added Joni has a strong work ethic and keeps at his drills until his goals are ac-complished.

“I am really pleased with his progress,” she said. “His im-provement is quite astonishing considering the very short span of time we have been together, and he is a joy to coach.”

She said Joni’s enthusiasm is obvious, and he’s in the arena practicing at ever oppor-tunity.

“His commitment does not begin and end with him – he also works with the younger skaters, both as a partner for the girls’ dances and also as a CanSkate professional assis-tant.

Most of the coaches in our club remark on Joni’s punctu-ality, reliability and generosity of time in terms of setting-up and putting-away the CanS-kate materials. You can always count on him to help out.”

Three Glen Cairn Skating Club members also placed at the provincial competition. Eliza Moore received bronze in the junior silver ladies cate-gory, Lucas Nguyen won silver for pre-juvenile men under-14, and Tim Pham won gold in the gold men freeskate category.

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Corresponding with Joni, he said he was grateful to talk about the sport from a male skater’s perspective.

“When performed by male skaters, unfortunately (it) does not look masculine enough in everyone’s eyes,” said Joni.

He loves the sport but points out there are cons for male fi g-ure skaters. Joni has endured bullying for participating in something he enjoys.

“I fi nd that teenagers (boys and girls) have something

against male fi gure skaters. I’ve been called gay before, but I just ignore those people,” he said. “Nobody knows what fi gure skaters go through. We train lots and lots and it’s pretty amazing how far we can push ourselves.”

The sport requires a lot of strength and power. Skaters need “the speed of a sprinter, the balance of a tightrope walker, and the endurance of a marathon runner,” said Joni.

“I fi nd it amazing how fi g-ure skaters can rotate three times in the air, and land on a three-millimetre-wide blade, on one foot,” he added.

“During the take-off of a jump, one has to carry two to four times their own body weight. Not only that, but on the landing of a jump, you have to support seven times your body weight on the land-ing of a triple. We need to ac-quire an enormous amount of strength.”

When it comes to bullying and stereotypes, Metcalfe said she works with her skaters to build a positive self-image.

“I don’t have any magic solutions to eschew the action and results of bullying and misguided stereotypes,” she said.

“Through my method, I focus on building strength of character and reinforcing self-esteem through the setting and achievement of goals. This success seems to instill a sense of pride and accomplishment, which seems to make my stu-dents resilient to the above.”

Up next for Joni is a desire to compete on a national level.

“I do not know for sure how far I would like to take fi gure skating, but it would be nice to compete nationally. It would be a great and enjoyable expe-rience,” he said.

“I’m working on improving my spins, perfecting my dou-ble jumps, and I am starting to work on my triples, which will hopefully open some doors to different levels of competitions in the years to come.”

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EMC news - After a long, bleak winter, many Ottawans are now content to bask in the warm rays of a bright sun.

While vitamin D is a won-derful thing, each year many Canadians fi nd themselves diagnosed with skin cancer, even those who take precau-tions and fall outside of the common age range for the af-fl iction.

The Ottawa Hospital is hoping to become a leader in treating the many forms of skin cancer by combining all dermatology services into one location at its Civic Campus.

The hospital plans to estab-lish a melanoma rapid diag-nosis and management clinic, as well as a psoriasis systemic therapy clinic, in order to re-duce wait times for patients.

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It kicked off the initia-tive with a May 16 media tour of the Parkdale Clinic’s Mohs surgical unit, guided by doctors Jim Walker and Jillian Macdonald of the Ot-tawa Hospital’s admittedly cramped dermatology unit.

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this area would be doubled in size,” said Walker, adding, “The lab would be doubled (in size) and we’d increased from three to fi ve surgery rooms, and increase our operation from three days a week to fi ve days a week.”

Ottawa Mayor Jim Wat-son is serving as honorary campaign chairman for the initiative. His involvement stems from personal experi-ence: Watson has twice been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer. The fi rst diagnosis came, oddly enough, during a health exhibition at Queen’s Park while he was serving as an MPP.

“I’m very appreciative of the fact my skin cancer was caught relatively soon, but sadly there are many people in our community that don’t have that early detection and as a result are not as fortunate as I am,” said Watson.

“We’re blessed in Ottawa to have some great physi-cians, great scientists and re-searchers, but we need more capacity. We know that with an aging population and a growing population, plus ev-erything from the depletion of the ozone layer and its impact on skin, that the problem will get worse before it gets bet-ter.”

Watson served as a test subject while Macdonald demonstrated a routine skin exam, where doctors look for suspicious cancerous or pre-cancerous lesions.

Like all cancers, early de-tection ensures the best pos-sible outcome for patients.

Often thought of as a worry for middle aged people and the elderly, skin cancer is fi ckle and doesn’t follow rigid boundaries.

Ottawa resident Jessica Trotto was on hand to relate her experience with skin can-cer. Trotto, a self-described “country bumpkin” who loves the sun and was a past user of tanning beds, was diagnosed with a cancerous lesion near her eye while still in her early 30s.

Now 36, Trotto said she was shocked when the diag-nosis of basal cell carcinoma was handed down.

While helpful physi-cians at the hospital guided her through the process, the month-and-a-half wait to rid her body of the cancer drew out her fear.

“The wait is terrifying. I would have nightmares of the skin cancer growing over-night,” said Trotto. “It’s im-perative to reduce those wait times and get those people in as soon as possible.”

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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is given a skin exam by Dr. Jillian Macdonald at the Ottawa Hospital’s dermatology unit on May 16, as Dr. Jim Walker looks on. The hospital is launch-ing a campaign to raise $3 million to fund a new, comprehensive dermatology centre at the Civic Campus.

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EMC news - The fi rst aid and cardiopulmonary resusci-tation (CPR) course that Cair-ine Wilson offers as a part of the Grade 12 exercise science class could have been the dif-ference between life and death for the father of one student.

Student Alex Carter may have saved her dad’s life, per-forming CPR after returning home from school on April 15 and realizing her dad was hav-

ing a massive heart attack. The 911 dispatchers asked

if anyone in the home was comfortable performing CPR, which Carter had learned dur-ing her class. After four days in intensive care, he was able to come home.

Principal Kevin Gilmour said that the school was very proud of the student as para-medics said she may have saved her dad’s life.

Exercise science teacher Krista Corneil said she in-cludes the certifi cation, the

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The course tries to give students all certifi cations they can, to help with future em-ployment and of course, in case they need to use it – like in Carter’s case.

“They said if you know CPR, you should get going,” Corneil said. “So she got go-ing.”

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On Saturday, May 25, 145 golf-ers will gather at Metcalfe Golf and Country Club for a day of golf and camaraderie to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County.

Good weather and great golfi ng conditions will hopefully make for a wonderful afternoon of golf.

The tournament is a follow-up to the Scrivens Classic bonspiel in February, which raised $10,000 for the charity.

Metcalfe resident Patti-Anne Scrivens and her family have orga-nized local fundraisers like Hunks for Hammers and the Nunavut Snowsuit Fund.

So when her brother-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at a young age, they decided to start fundraising for the Alzheimer’s So-ciety as well.

“It’s his only brother and he’s in his early 60s and he’s to a point where he’s in bad shape,” said Kar-ley Bezanson, tournament organizer and girlfriend of the family’s oldest son.

“They had never done a golf tour-nament before and I’m a big golfer, and I’ve organized golf tournaments before,” she added.

Bezanson said sporting events like the curling bonspiel and now the golf tournament entice bigger turnouts.

The golfi ng events feature good natured competition, all for a good cause.

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The parent council at Os-goode Public School is host-ing its annual Spring Fling fundraising event on Friday, May 24 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. It is a wonderful afternoon and evening fi lled with games and activities for children. Also enjoy an art and bake sale, a community barbecue and a silent auction.

May 25:Open House and Spring Ba-

zaar, May 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Brunstad Christian Church, 1981 Century Rd. W (one km west from Car Canada). Baking, crafts, plants, raffl e, hot lunch, cof-fee bar, BBQ, face painting, car wash. 613-447-7295.

Greely Gardeners Group annual spring plant sale, Sat-urday, May 25 from 9 to 11 a.m. at Andrew Shields Park, 1455 Old Prescott Road,

Greely. Open to the public. Here is your opportunity to purchase the best values in garden perennials in the area. Prices start at $0.50, and with a few possible exceptions, no plant is priced at more than $5. There will be hostas, primulas, sedums, ornamental grasses, ground covers, plants for shade and plants for sun. Come early, most plants are sold before 10:30. Contact Gary or Heather at 613-821-7445 or [email protected].

Time and Talent Auction, Sat-urday, May 25 at 7 p.m. at St. James Church, 1138 Bridge St. in Manotick. Have you been looking for someone to assist you with gardening, window washing, or some computer trouble? How about some legal services or prepar-ing a dinner party? Come and join us for wine, dessert, and bid on some of the many ser-vices on offer from members of our community.

Drive up, drop off, do good! The Manotick United Church will host an electronics recycling on Saturday, May 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Bring your old TVs, computers, monitors and other electronics. The event is part of the Ontario Electronic Stewardship program.

Spring Bazaar and bake sale at the Gloucester South Seniors Centre, 4550 Bank St. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.on May 25. Home baked goods, plants, books, nearly new and used items, jewelry, attic treasures etc. Refreshments available. Info call 613-821-0414.

May 26:The Knox Players of Knox Presbyterian Church, Manotick present a musical worship event, Rescue in the Night, Sunday, May 26 at 10

a.m. Join us as we hear the story of Daniel in the lion’s den. A free-will offering will be taken. For more informa-tion contact the church offi ce at 613-692-4228 or [email protected].

May 31:St. Catherine School’s spring fl ing, community BBQ and silent auction will take place Friday, May 31 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at the school, 2717 8th Line Road in Metcalfe.

June 1:Osgoode community garage sale on Saturday, June 1 from 8 a.m. to noon. Register between May 1 and May 28 to get your home on the map. Registration forms are available at Pat’s Pit Stop, Raymond’s True Value Hardware and Foodland until 5 p.m. on May 28. Maps of homes participating in the community garage sale will be available at the above locations on May 30 and June 1. For further informa-tion, please contact Gayle Freeburn at 613.826.2156 or [email protected].

June 5:Greely Gardeners Group monthly meeting, Wednesday, June 5 at the Greely Com-munity Centre, 1448 Meadow Drive in Greely at 7 p.m. Our special guest speaker for the evening will be Mary Reid from Green Thumb Garden Centre, who will talk about low maintenance gardens and share some hints for helping us to keep our gardens from occupying all of our time. Membership for 2013 is still only is $10. Visitors cost: $2. For further information contact Lee at 613-574-0214 or www.gree-lygardeners.ca.

Ongoing: Live and Learn Resource Centre and Metcalfe Home Day Care will once again offer drop-in playgroups every Friday for providers only. Session takes place from April 5 to June 21, from 9 to 11 a.m. If you are not a MHDC provider, there is a fee of $60. Registration takes place Tuesday April 2. Please call Leigh at 613-821-2899.

Get Working Café is a sup-port group for the unem-ployed and underemployed in our community. Meet every Monday morning from 8 to 10 a.m. at St. James Anglican Church in Manotick. Together we support one another in our journey towards employment consistent with our talents. For further information call Myles Frosst at 613-897-1601, or e-mail [email protected].

Come to the Osgoode legion for darts on Tuesday, Wednes-day and Friday evenings start-ing at 7:30 p.m. Experience not required. The bar is open Tuesdays through Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. unless otherwise posted.

The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St., Leitrim for a full schedule of activities every week includ-ing contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, fi ve hundred, shuffl eboard and chess. Membership is $15 per year. The club is easily accessible by OCTranspo #144 and free parking. Call 613-821-0414 for info.

Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance. First Friday of every month. 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. $5/person at the door or yearly memberships avail-able. No charge for participat-ing musicians and singers. Join us for a good time. Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Drive, Greely.

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