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Glebe, Ottawa South - According to industry experts, there are over 33 physical problems that will come under scrutiny during a home inspection when your home is for sale. A new report has been prepared which identifi es the eleven most common of these problems, and what you should know about them before you list your home for sale. Whether you own an old home or a brand new one, there are a number of things that can fall short of requirements during a home inspection. If not identifi ed and dealt with, any of these 11 items could cost you dearly in terms of repair. That’s why it’s critical that you read this report before you list your home. If you wait until the building inspector fl ags these issues for you, you will almost certainly experience costly delays in the close of your home sale or, worse, turn prospective
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ON THE MOVEJunior kindergarten students will start the next school year at Mutchmor after trustees gave the nod to a short-term fi x.
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FARE HIKEIt’s smaller this year, but it’ll still cost 2.5 per cent more to take the bus after the Transit Commission approved its draft budget.
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EDDIE RWEMA
Segregated bike lanes are coming to Centretown after city council last week en-dorsed a pilot project that will see dedicated lanes running east-west along Laurier Av-enue between Elgin Street and Bronson Av-enue.
“Ottawa is leading the way on urban cy-cling,” Mayor Jim Watson said in a state-ment.
“This is an important step in healthy liv-ing that will bring more people downtown and boost business and tourism, as Ottawa becomes known for being the cycling capi-tal.”
Cyclists will travel adjacent to the side-walk each direction and be separated from motor vehicles by a physical barrier. The lanes are expected to be ready for cyclists by the end of this summer.
A statement from the city said Laurier Avenue West was selected because it has the highest number of cyclists in the down-town area.
The section of road is straight and fl at with many key destinations for bicycle commuters.
The plan is not without its critics, howev-er. The Bank Street Business Improvement Area have strongly opposed the plan, say-ing the city chose a street that is too busy and congested to support a segregated bi-
cycle lane.“We don’t feel it is safe, it is going to cause
an inordinate amount of disruption both to vehicle traffi c and to businesses and com-mercial enterprises along that corridor,” said Gerry Lepage, the BIA’s executive di-rector.
Lepage said the measures taken to try to realign the street to make it safer simply do not reach a standard he believes is safe.
“We think the geometry of the street was never intended to facilitate a bike lane,” Lepage stressed. “The frequency of cars is simply too great to facilitate a practical and realistic bicycle lane as is keeping it open in the winter.
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City approves segregated Laurier bike lanes
Submitted Photo A photo illustration shows what the recently approved segregated bicycle lane on Laurier Avenue might look like as seen from the corner of Laurier and Lyon Street. Critics of the pilot program say the lane will disrupt residents living in the area as well as businesses.
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EDDIE RWEMA
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees voted on Feb.22 in favour of a plan that would see junior kindergarten students from First Avenue Pub-lic School transferred to Mutch-mor Public School.
The board’s decision, which will affect children slated to start junior kindergarten at First Av-enue in September, is intended to be a short-solution to the over-crowding issues plaguing area schools.
First Avenue, which was built to hold 400 students, currently has more than 550 students en-rolled.
“I am not entirely enthusi-astic, but this is so far the least disruptive option,” said Zone 9 trustee Rob Campbell.
The other option on table was to send Grade 6 students from First Avenue to nearby Glashan Public School.
That school is currently fac-ing dwindling enrolment as its late French immersion program is being phased out. Glashan school council was expecting to see the board redirect First Av-enue Grade 6 students to ensure the school maintains a viable
population.Gisèle Durocher, co-chair of
the Glashan school council, pleaded with the trustees to overturn the staff recommenda-tion and consider the Glashan option to employ what she called the school’s current effective re-sources.
“Benefi ts to the Grade 6 stu-dents include access to the al-lotment of computer, gym and library facilities they would not
have had at a crowded school,” said Durocher.
She added that the cost of bus-sing students to Glashan is lower than the cost of bussing junior kindergartens to Mutchmor.
It is estimated the cost of bus-sing students to Mutchmor will be about $45,000 per year, com-pared with $30,000 to Glashan.
But based on comments sub-mitted by parents at a Jan. 10 public meeting expressing con-
cerns about the potential for student disruption, school board staff said Mutchmor was viewed as the preferred option.
Trustee Shirley Seeward said she was disappointed the rest of the board didn’t consider the Glashan option.
“As I understand, the option of moving Grade 6 EFI to Glashan was also on the table and I would have thought that would have been a win-win situation.
So I have to confess I am disap-pointed with these recommenda-tions,” said Seeward.
A projected 77 JK students will be redirected to Mutchmor this September and will return to First Avenue to start senior kindergarten.
Trustees also endorsed a staff interim recommendation that redirects senior kindergarten early French immersion stu-dents at Stephen Leacock Public School to Roland Michener P.S. in Kanata, where the junior kin-dergarten program was moved last year.
Katimavik Elementary School’s incoming junior kinder-garten students will be redirect-ed to Castlefrank Elementary School, while Grade 4 students entering the middle French im-mersion program will be re-directed to either Bridlewood Community Elementary School or W. Erskine Johnston Public School, depending on whether they live north or south of the Queensway.
The board also directed staff to consult on the proposed time-lines, scope and consultation plan for an accommodation re-view and report to board at its meeting of March 22, with its fi ndings and recommendations.
Trustees endorse transfer plan for First Avenue JKs
Photo by Eddie RwemaParents and school council representatives had mixed feelings on the decision that was voted by the Trustees.
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A 27-storey condo tower planned by Claridge Homes for Nepean Street has been ap-proved by city council despite objection from residents in the surrounding community.
The building, which is slated to hold more than 230 units and seven levels of underground parking at 89 and 91 Nepean St., was previously zoned for build-ings about 12 storeys in height.
In exchange for the additional height, the developer was re-quested to provide some sort of “community benefi t,” which could be anything from better park space to affordable hous-ing or a day-care centre.
“I think its way too high and the site is too small,” Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes told the city’s planning committee in its meeting on Feb. 22.
She said it was premature to consider very tall buildings in that section of Centretown un-til comprehensive urban design and streetscaping guidelines have been determined through the mid-Centretown community design plan, which is currently in progress.
Meanwhile, Claridge has come forward with a proposal for another 27-storey building to be built at 70 Gloucester St. The lot is adjacent to the Ne-pean Street project; the two sites would function as one with underground parking shared by the two buildings. As a re-
sult, the planning committee imposed a “holding provision” on Claridge, which extends the time that the city has to deal with its application.
The holding provision can be lifted once the requirements of the site plan control are met and the monies for community ben-
efi ts are secured.Holmes suggested that next
time Centretown residents want to be consulted on such projects in the early stages, adding that the decision had been made be-hind closed doors between the developer and the planning de-partment.
“This is not a transparent pro-cess,” she said
Charles Akben-Marchand, president of the Centretown Citizens Community Associa-tion, said the building was too tall on a small chunk of land.
“We want to be sure the resi-dential nature of the neigh-bourhood is preserved,” Ak-ben-Marchand told the city’s planning commiittee.
Whether the community or city councillors like the pro-posed towers or not, chances are the Ontario Municipal Board would allow the development to go ahead anyways, Holmes said.
“It’s clear that we are giving major fi nancial benefi ts to de-velopers,” she said. “Now we need to look at what we can get in return.”
So far, about $700,000 in ame-nities, such as landscaping on road right-of-ways on Nepean and Cooper streets and improve-ments to Jack Purcell Park (in-cluding a pathway through to Waverly Street), have been sug-gested. Holmes said a fund to pay for new affordable housing in the area is also being consid-ered.
With fi les from Laura Mueller.
File photoCity council has approved the construction of a 27-storey condo tower at 89 and 91 Nepean Street, a site that was originally zoned for a maximum 12-storey structure.
City approves Nepean Street condo development
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The city’s transit commis-sion passed its draft budget last Thursday, raising fares an aver-age of 2.5 per cent and opting to add more free seniors’ days, buy a number of double decker buses and keep the price of the UPass the same as last year.
Transit committee chair-woman Diane Deans (Glouces-ter-Southgate) said the last three
years have seen fare hikes of 7.5 per cent annually, and she vowed to put a stop to such large fare jumps this year.
“To me, it’s counter-intuitive. If you want more people riding public transit, you don’t have huge fare increases,” she said, noting that there’s a limit to how small a fare increase can be. “Some people would like it to be zero, but costs go up.”
The regular adult pass will rise $2.50 per month to $94, and
the adult express pass will in-crease by $2.00 up to $116 per month. The rural pass will jump $3.25 to $145 per month.
Students got a relatively easy ride in the draft budget, with the UPass holding at $145 per se-mester because student associa-tions at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University didn’t include an escalator clause in last year’s referendum, which means students only voted on a pass that costs a maximum of $145. The commission was hop-ing to raise the cost to $148.63, but allowed the UPass program to be extended at the same price so that student associations can
have time to hold new referen-dums with clauses that allow for infl ationary far hikes.
Outside the UPass, monthly student passes will rise $1.75 for regular riders and $2.50 for ex-press users. Rural student passes will increase by $2.25.
Day passes, monthly commu-nity passes and cash fares will stay the same, and tickets will increase by fi ve cents each.
Deans said the city is taking a more “sensitive approach” to how it handles OC Transpo this year, as it looks at redundancies and ineffi ciencies in the system and tries to streamline service.
“It’s a different approach, in
the past they would propose to lob off entire routes, and now they’re talking about doing it much more sensitively than they have in the past,” Deans said.
One idea on the table is to make express routes truly ex-press by limiting passenger pick-up along transitways after a certain point inside the city, in an effort to speed up route times and make sure that express bus-es coming from rural and subur-ban areas aren’t bogged down by urban users.
The draft transit budget will be up for fi nal approval at the budget deliberations and council meeting beginning March 8.
City takes ‘sensitive’ approach to transit changes
EDDIE RWEMA
Glebe and Old Ottawa south residents met on Feb.24 to dis-cuss new zoning provisions for Lansdowne Park, which is the subject of the appeal to the On-tario Municipal Board.
The purpose of the meeting was to ensure the Glebe Com-munity Association and Old Ottawa South Community As-sociation take full account of residents’ concerns at media-tion or hearings conducted by the OMB, to which they are ap-pealing.
Changes to zoning at Lansd-owne Park, as a result of plans by the Ottawa Sports and En-tertainment Group to rede-velop the property, have been appealed to the OMB by the two associations.
Mediation is scheduled for March 7-10, with a formal hear-ing expected on May 9.
“Our purpose is to provide you with an understanding of the issues and obtain your views to inform our position in mediation and hearings,” Bob Brocklebank, past president of the Glebe Community Associa-tion, told the gathering.
“We wanted to be sure that the community has confi dence in what we are doing,” he said.
Lansdowne has been zoned for a major leisure facility that would accommodate major urban city-wide sports, recre-ational and cultural facilitiesThe changes also allow taller buildings along Bank Street and lower buildings towards the Rideau Canal.
Different speakers opposed the zoning, saying it was incom-patible with the surrounding community. They also raised concerns that the scale of de-velopment permitted may ex-ceed capacity of transportation infrastructure.
EDDIE RWEMA
The Ontario government plans to spend $500,000 worth of investment to help the Ottawa tourism industry draw more domestic and international visi-tors through conventions and conferences.
Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi announced the money will support efforts to market the nation’s capital and its new convention centre to the rest of the world.
“What we are doing is trying to sell Ottawa as a must-visit des-tination for more international conventions and more tourists,” said Naqvi.
Naqvi added the Convention
Development Fund will help Ot-tawa draw 19 new conventions bringing in 53,000 new visitors, generating an estimated $57 mil-lion boost for the local economy and providing additional sup-port for 19,000 existing tourism jobs in Ottawa.
“Conventions are big business in Ottawa – they support hun-dreds of local jobs, generate rev-enue for local business, and help turn new visitors into repeat tourists.”
Tourism is Ottawa’s third largest industry, contributing $2.2 billion to the city’s economy annually
“Ottawa Tourism is pleased that the province is providing resources for this very impor-tant component of the tourism
industry,” said John Murray, chairman of Ottawa Tourism. “These investments will pro-vide for a signifi cantly enhanced sales approach when targeting the Convention market.”
In 2008, convention visitors spent more than twice as much as other visitors to Ontario and generated over $1 billion.
The Convention Development Fund builds on the collaboration of local tourism and convention partners by providing matching funds for eligible costs. The Ot-tawa Convention Centre is un-dergoing a major redevelopment that will almost triple its capaci-ty and greatly enhance its appeal to convention, meeting and trade show planners. It will reopen in April.
Photo by Eddie RwemaWestin Ottawa general manager John Jarvis, left, Yasir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa Centre and Ottawa Tourism chairman John Murray and CEO Noel Buckley announce $500,000 in tourism funding for Ottawa.
Province pumps $500,000 into Ottawa tourism
Photo by Eddie RwemaFormer Glebe Community Association president Bob Brocklebank said the associations appealing the Lansdowne redevelopment at the OMB want to make sure they have the confi dence of the community.
Associations preparefor upcoming OMB hearings
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Commission approves 2.5 per cent fare hike, UPass fees to remain unchanged
EMMA JACKSON
Canada’s fi rst library vending machines are entering a new chapter as they celebrate their fi rst anniversary this month at the Hunt Club-Riverside Com-munity Centre off Paul Anka Drive, where the library kiosks’ popularity among residents has been steadily growing.
As of January 2011, more than 7,100 items had been checked out of the two library kiosks since the pilot project began in March 2010. More than 1,000 of those items were checked out in January alone, according to Jennifer Stirling, manager of digital services for the Ottawa Public Library (OPL).
Between March and Decem-ber 2010, kiosk usage averaged about 600 items a month, spik-ing to around 1,000 in October and November and falling back down in December.
Despite the uneven upward trend, there’s no doubt the com-munity has welcomed the new technology.
“From what we’ve heard from the councillor, there’s been a really good response,” Stirling said, adding that the Hunt Club-Riverside Community Centre was a good location for the pilot because it is not getting a library of its own any time soon. “It was an opportunity to look at wheth-er we could provide service without needing to provide staff or when we didn’t have space. It was a good trial to see if that kind of service would work.”
The approximately 475 li-brary items in the “kiosk col-lection” are treated like books from any other library branch, labelled with stickers denoting them specifi cally for the kiosk. Returns can be made right at
the community centre in a drop box between the youth machine and the adult machine, both of which include fi ction, non-fi c-tion and DVDs.
Patrons simply swipe their card and key in the item number, and the book drops to the fl oor
– as easily as buying a candy bar, and without any fees.
When kiosk books are re-turned to other branches, they are shipped to the Greenboro branch where they are sorted and held until a Greenboro staff member restocks the vend-
ing machines. Greenboro staff also collect re-turns from the drop box and check them in.
Although the kiosks don’t
come close to matching the level of output from a real branch – Greenboro had more than 41,000 items checked out in January alone – other community cen-tres lacking a nearby library branch could also use the kiosk service to give the community more options. Stirling said the OPL will be evaluating all the data and inputs from the Hunt Club kiosk in the next quarter to see if the pilot would be a viable permanent program.
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After a year, library kiosks growing in popularity
Photo by Emma JacksonGreenboro library staff member Jocelyn Peever restocks the library kiosks at the Hunt Club-Riverside com-munity centre, the result of a pilot project which over the last year saw more than 7,000 items checked out from the vending machines.
EDDIE RWEMA
A youth-led community garden in Ottawa has received a $5,000 grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation to help kids become more active and eat healthier.
Through the Green Star Enterprise, 10 teens were recruited to maintain six plots at the Kilborn allotment gar-den, harvesting and sharing produce with the Ottawa community.
“The program intends to build a youth advocacy group for increased access to health eating and physical activity in their community,” said Ken Campbell, president of Green Star En-terprise.
He said the program engages the
teens as agents for change by contrib-uting their unique perspective and de-sire to take action.
The teens have been visiting area schools teaching young people about food, building a garden network and improving their life skills. They are also planning to partner with other local community organizations that are work-ing on community gardens and local nu-trition policies in the Ottawa region.
More than half of Canadian chil-dren between the ages of 5 and 17 aren’t active enough to support opti-mal health and development. Almost 40 per cent of those served by food banks in Ontario are children.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario is giving back to the com-munity by supporting grassroots or-
ganizations to make it easier for kids, their families and communities to eat healthier and be more physically ac-tive.
Through Spark Advocacy Grants – part of the Foundation’s Spark To-gether for Healthy Kids program – $1.4 million has gone to support 133 proj-ects across Ontario to help improve children’s lives.
According to Campbell, the pro-gram provides the youth with oppor-tunities to participate in youth work-shops geared towards enhancing their prowess while gaining hands on expe-rience.
They are also given creative freedom to package and market the vegetables they grow by using various media out-lets and their own talents.
Youth group receives Heart and Stroke grant
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In a move that will poten-tially create a less restrictive atmosphere at Ontario festivals, fairs and other outdoor events, the McGuinty government an-nounced several changes to the province’s liquor laws last week.
Among the changes the prov-ince is considering are remov-ing the requirement for beer tents at outdoor festivals, allow-ing people to wander with their drinks and extending the hours of alcohol service at events like weddings or other private cel-ebrations from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m., which is the current regulation for licensed establishments.
The Liberal government is also looking at allowing the sale of all-inclusive vacation pack-ages in the province.
The proposed changes would be accompanied by changes to penalties imposed for the viola-tion of Ontario liquor laws.
Currently, festivals like West-fest, held every year in West-boro, have restrictions on where alcohol can be served, usually in a designated beer garden lo-cated away from entertainment, exhibits and vendors.
“Now, especially keeping in mind their new location, where they’ll have a bigger area for concerts – which will be penned – they will be able to sell alcohol in that whole area,” said Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi. “So it’s not like people will be able to take alcohol to the street, there will still be a penned area, but it will be beyond just the beer tent.
“This is something festivals
like Westfest have been asking the government to do for some time.”
Naqvi said the changes were less of a “revolution” and more of an attempt by lawmakers to bring the liquor laws in Ontario to the same standard as other places in Canada and the United States, something with which Ot-tawa Bluesfest executive direc-tor Mark Monahan concurred.
“In general terms, this would level the playing fi eld for all fes-tivals in Ontario – old or new – and put them in the same league as other events across North America,” he said in an email.
The proposed changes will also be a boon to events like the Ottawa Folk Festival which in the past has been licensed, but there were restrictions imposed on where merchandise vendors were able to set up. The changes will allow those vendors to lo-cate in the licensed area and fes-tival-goers will be able to browse their wares, drink in hand.
According to Naqvi, the gov-ernment will now hold consulta-tions with various stakeholders over a period of about a month and the changes could be imple-mented before the festival sea-son begins this summer.
The changes currently under consideration are the latest in a series of tweaks made to Ontar-io’s liquor laws by the McGuinty government.
In 2010 the Liberals intro-duced tougher impaired driv-ing laws, including a zero blood alcohol tolerance for drivers un-der 21 and an ignition interlock program for repeat offenders.
The province also began per-mitting the licensing of movie theatres and bingo halls in 2009.
Outdoor festivals, fairs to benefi t from liquor law changes
EDDIE RWEMA
An anti-abortion group at Carleton has sued the univer-sity claiming the administration broke its own codes of conduct regarding human rights and ac-ademic freedom.
The $225,000 lawsuit, fi led in Ontario Superior Court Feb.18 by Carleton students Ruth Lobo and John McLeod, claims the university breached its own hu-man rights policies.
“Carleton University has been censoring and discriminating against Carleton Lifeline on the basis of their political beliefs,” said Albertos Polizogopoulos, the Ottawa lawyer representing the students.
Carleton Lifeline is asking the court to declare that Carleton University and its administra-tion have breached their own internal policies regarding free-dom of expression, academic freedom and discrimination.
The lawsuit also requests that the university be ordered to com-ply with these internal policies.Polizogopoulos said the univer-sity has refused to reveal the legal justifi cation or university policy on which they rely to sup-port their actions towards Car-leton Lifeline.
“Their behavior is actionable and Carleton Lifeline wants to ensure that this does not happen again,” he said.
In October last year, Carleton University had members of Lifeline handcuffed, arrested, charged and with trespassing for attempting to display an exhibit that the university administra-tion deemed disturbing and of-fensive due to the graphic nature of the display.
During the October demon-stration, students held up post-ers showing pictures of aborted fetuses along with images from the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide in the Tory Quad, one of the busiest spots on campus.
Ottawa police arrested four stu-dents, all members of Carleton Lifeline, and a fi fth student from Queen’s University and charged them with trespassing.
Carleton University said in a statement it will defend itself vigorously against the claim fi led by the group. The statement noted that Carleton University has always acted in a manner that attempts to balance the Life-line group’s right to exercise free speech with the desire to allow other members of the campus community to choose whether or not they wanted to see the im-ages that make up the Genocide Awareness exhibit.
“To that end, the University repeatedly offered the Lifeline group the use of Porter Hall, a venue that is used for town hall meetings, speeches and other events on campus, in addition to a table in the University Centre Galleria for the purpose of leaf-leting and directing people to the exhibit,” the statement said.
Submitted photoIn October last year, Carleton University had members of Lifeline handcuffed, arrested, charged and with trespassing for attempting to display an exhibit that the university administration deemed disturbing and offensive.
Anti-abortion group fi les suit against Carleton
EDDIE RWEMA
A team of researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario has received $4.5 million in federal funding to embark on an ambitious project to that will study the genetic causes of a range of rare disorders.
Working through Genome Canada, the team led by geneti-cist Kym Boycott of the CHEO Research Institute will share the grant with another research team at the University of Brit-ish Columbia.
Boycott and her team will
study more than 70 childhood genetic disorders, while the UBC team will investigate six of the most challenging types of cancer to affl ict children.
“Every gene that we discover as part of this initiative will al-low us to study ... the pathways about how this gene interacts in the body,” she said.
Boycott will use new genomics technology developed in Canada that allows sequencing of genet-ic material. She said she hopes to have the initial fi ndings avail-able to the medical community by the end of April.
Minister of state for science
and technology Gary Goodyear made the funding announce-ment at CHEO on Feb.22, stress-ing that the investment will help fi nd important new treatments for children with cancer and rare genetic diseases affecting thousands of Canadian chil-dren.
About 25 patients and their families in the Ottawa area are set to be part of the study.
“They want to know exactly what’s going on with their chil-dren and why it’s happened,” Boycott said.
\The researchers will use leading edge sequencing tech-
nology to rapidly scan the DNA of the entire human genome that is contained in tumor cells.
Since 2000 Genome Canada, a not-for-profi t corporation dedi-cated to developing and imple-menting a national strategy in genomics and proteomics re-search, has received $915 mil-lion in funding commitments from federal government.
“Canada is now poised to take a leading position in disease gene discovery, opening up ex-citing new possibilities for di-agnosis and treatment,” said Dr. Pierre Meulien, president and CEO of Genome Canada.
Photo by Eddie RwemaDr. Pierre Meulien, president and CEO of Genome Canada, said the country is poised to take the lead in ‘disease gene discovery’ af-ter the announcement of a $4.5 million federal funding initiative last week.
Researchers aim at fi nding treatment for pediatric cancers
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By Melodie Cardin, Special Events and Communications Coordinator,ByWard Market BIA
With Winterlude fi nished and spring still a good ways away, kids and adults alike are starting to get cabin fever. If you’re not able to get out of town this March break, there are great “Staycation” activities right here in Ottawa’s downtown.
There are several fun, kid-friendly ways to spend an afternoon in the ByWard Market. Whether or not the canal is still open, you can enjoy a Beaver Tail and hot chocolate at the original Beaver Tails on William St.
If your kids are interested in art, you can have a look at March Break camps at the Ottawa School of Art, or for some shorter-term fun, take them to Artissimo sessions at the National Gallery of Canada. There are even some free options for seeing art – take the kids to see Maman, the giant spider outside the gallery, or the newly acquired Hundred Foot Line at Nepean Point. You can also take them on a tour of the Bytown Museum, situated right next to the Locks, a great little Museum with a great kids’ space.
For an afternoon of arts and crafts, head to the Sassy Bead Co. on William St or to Lenus Beads on Dalhousie for supplies, and get your kids making their own jewellery, or take them to Bang On, on
William St., where they can make their own t-shirts. Close by, you’ll fi nd Lost Marbles, where you can fi nd some great items for crazy fun with the kids. There are also a couple of bookstores with great options for kids – Librairie du Soleil on George St, Nicholas Hoare on Sussex Dr, and Argosy Books on Dalhousie.
You can also take your kids on a tour through Nest, a toy store on Dalhousie St. that specializes in European-made toys.
If you’re stopping for lunch, there are several fun places to take your kids in the Market – try Zak’s Diner, on ByWard, a popular option for burgers, fries and shakes or Ahora, a colorful little Mexican eatery with a delightful ambiance on Dalhousie St. It’s economically priced so you can afford to take the whole family. Just want a snack? Head to the ByWard Market building for cookies from Moulin de Provence, caramel apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory or Montreal-style bagels from Continental Bagel Co. You can also get great treats at Aux Délices on ByWard, Piccolo Grande on Murray St., Pure Gelato and Sugar Mountain on William St. Or, put together your own at-home picnic with sausages, cheeses and breads from the Continental Deli on York, or La Bottega Nicastro on George St. For dessert, try Memories, which has what has often been voted the World’s Best Carrot Cake.
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The Rideau Carleton Race-way is partnering with Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson in an ef-fort to convince city council to endorse the installation of 21 casino tables in its entertain-ment centre.
It is hoped the local tables will keep more gaming revenues in-side the province and the City of Ottawa.
“We’d like to try a pilot proj-ect to launch tables to level the playing fi eld between us and our competition, and hopefully re-patriate funds from provincial residents and tourists, that are currently leaving the province,” explained Alex Lawryk, senior advisor and spokesperson for the Rideau Carleton Raceway. The area’s closest casino is Lac Leamy in Gatineau, which May-or Jim Watson said during Feb. 23’s council meeting is taking away precious gaming revenue that could be put to use on the Ontario side of the river. The City of Ottawa could stand to make around $2 million in extra revenues if the casino service is added, Lawryk said.
Currently the raceway has
several casino tables that allow patrons to visit a virtual dealer to play games like Black Jack and Roulette. Lawryk noted that adding real casino tables, which would be staffed by actual deal-ers, would fi ll a gap in the re-gion’s gambling offerings.
“This program doesn’t ex-ist for Ottawans right now, you have to go out of province or down to Gananoque or to anoth-er OLG venue,” he said. “There is a void in terms of our product offering, and we’re quite excited about the possibility.”
Thompson will ask council to endorse the plan at the regular council meeting on March 10, by sending a letter to the province indicating that it supports the raceway’s proposal.
If the council endorsement passes and the province grants approval for the project, the pro-cess of amending the raceway’s zoning to allow casino tables in-side RCR’s zoning will begin.
Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans raised concerns that the endorsement process has skipped committee debate
and gone straight to council, but Thompson said it’s a reason-able method because there isn’t much to discuss at this point.
“Council can say, ‘We, as an elected group, don’t want to do that,’ and it would be a dead issue. If council decides, ‘We would like to say yes, and we think it’s a good thing to start the process,’ then there’s a pro-cess with lots of public consul-tation,” he said, noting that the zoning amendment and neces-sary traffi c studies would create many opportunities for public input.
However Deans said she’d rather see the public be heard on the overarching topic rather than the zoning details.
“To go from a slots operation to a full service casino is a sig-nifi cant change, and I believe it’s important to consult the public before council decides that’s something that we should be doing,” she said, noting that rezoning is a property issue process and wouldn’t address the public’s concerns about having a casino in general. “I don’t think city council should assume the public’s position on (having a casino). It hasn’t been on the public agenda for well
over a decade.”Deans said she is also con-
cerned about added traffi c on the already congested Albion Road through Blossom Park, if Lac Leamy regulars start driv-ing to Ottawa South instead of Gatineau.
“This will clearly exacer-bate the problem. You will have many, many more people. All those people that Mayor Wat-son is saying go over the bor-der to gamble, they’re all going to shortcut through Blossom Park,” she said.
Lawryk disagrees, believing the impact will be small.
“We’re not talking about a big increase in terms of patron count. This is not going to stress the Albion Road,” he said.
Currently the Rideau Car-leton Raceway has a racetrack, 1,250 slot machines operated by the Ontario Lottery and Gam-ing corporation (OLG), and a charity bingo hall. Several vir-tual casino tables were added in Dec. 2010, and have been very popular.
The OLG is currently review-ing its gaming strategy across the province, and Lawryk said he hopes the RCR’s proposal can be part of the new plan.
Councillor to propose new casino tables at Raceway
File PhotoOsgoode Coun. Doug Thompson is looking to bring gaming tables to Rideau Carleton Raceway to boost revenues for the city.
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Watching people break out in revolt all over the Middle East, Canadians wonder when it will happen here.
The answer is it won’t, because, relative to other parts of the world, we don’t have that much to revolt about.
On the other hand, we could speak up a bit more than we do now.
Take, for example, seniors. We have been hearing for years about the coming power of the over-65 demographic. And suddenly it is here. The fi rst wave of the baby boomers has turned 65. Those who got there fi rst have been patiently wait-ing for reinforcements. Now they are here and many more are coming.
The power is here. It just hasn’t been used yet. But there are issues where the voice of the over-65s could be raised. A nice test of the power of seniors would be the question of whatever it is that’s happening to buses in Ottawa these days.
The specifi c are a bit hard to follow but the generalities follow a pattern that has been familiar for decades. It goes like this: OC Transpo faces declining ridership and revenues so it increases fares and cuts routes. For decades people have been telling OC Transpo
that cutting service and raising fares is not the way to get more people to ride the bus. Some day it will sink in. Maybe the over-65s can help that process along.
Everybody recognizes that having more people ride the buses is a public good. It reduces traffi c, cuts pollution and so on. But more people will only ride the buses if the buses are there. It sounds like the likelihood of them being there is decreasing.
This is where seniors could test their newly arrived political clout. The latest proposal nixes the idea of a half-price fare for seniors. It adds a couple of free days, Monday and Friday, providing se-niors travel after noon, an idea that has rightly been criticized as social engi-neering of a most condescending sort.
Is this something to email your coun-
cillor about, or stage a protest at city hall, some Monday or Friday after noon?
Maybe not. The cost issue is a good one, but it may not be paramount to many seniors. Not all are impoverished, nor do they want to be treated as if they are.
More crucial is the question of route cuts. The Transpo planners want, as usual, to cut some routes, and those would not be the ones zooming from the outer ’burbs along the Transitway to downtown. No, the routes we will lose will be the ones that meander through residential neighbourhoods, the ones that take a while to get downtown but stop close to where you live and, inci-dentally, take a lot of the neighbourhood kids to school and back.
Those routes are the most vulnerable because they are the least cost-effi cient, and you know what that means. It means effi ciency fi rst, you second.
Another proposed effi ciency is to reduce the number of stops for those routes that survive. The upshot is a lon-ger walk to the bus, maybe a nice bit of exercise in the spring and summer, but not so great in the winter, and not great at all for those who don’t move as easily as they used to.
All this produces a great occasion for seniors to do some roaring and frighten a few city councillors and bureaucrats. The changes, as they have been outlined, are irrational, as usual, and seniors will feel it more than most.
The idea of public transit is to get people out of their cars. That’s always a good idea. In the case of some seniors, it’s a very good idea.
But people need to be given a reason to get out of their cars. So far, Transpo isn’t doing it. But the decision-mak-ers should know that seniors, unlike younger folk, always vote. As long as they can get to the polls.
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Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson put his money on a dark horse last week when he announced he’s looking for a council endorsement to bring casino tables to
the Rideau Carleton Raceway in Ottawa South.He faces some formidable opposition in the
form of Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans who has questioned his methods, which don’t allow for public consultation before council decides what side of the gambling fence it sits on. No doubt he will also hear complaints from anti-gambling groups, residents concerned about traffi c, and perhaps even the odd bingo hall which stands to lose some business as the race-way continues to offer more services.
But at the heart of the matter, Thompson’s message rings true: if people are gambling any-way, why not make a few bucks for Ottawa while they’re at it?
As a city we complain about rising property taxes, rocketing transit fares and increased utility and user fees. Even when council makes all the concessions it can to keep tax increases to a minimum, we complain they’re much too high. So why not embrace an easy $2 million in revenue that’s already being spent just a short
trip across the Ottawa River at Lac-Leamy? We’ve already made $37 million in revenue from the slots and races since they started operating at the Raceway – so unless the plan’s opposition wants to shut the entire entertainment centre down, the ethical argument is moot.
In the grand scheme of things, $2 million is just a drop in the budget bucket. But that money could be used to start a much-needed social program, to begin building a new recreational facility, or saved to protect future sensitive wet-lands. Maybe it could be used to fund a gambling addiction support centre.
There is certainly an argument to be made against encouraging government-endorsed ad-dictions such as gambling. In reality, however, most people who currently visit the Gatineau casino are gambling responsibly, in the same way most people drink responsibly. For the small group of people who are susceptible to a gam-bling addiction, the city has a responsibility to monitor the issue.
But the fact is most money spent in casinos is spent responsibly, and the city should be getting a piece of the action – if only to boost their bottom line.
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I’m not a horse; I’m a blanket. People are always using me to cover them-selves and it’s so annoying.”
My four-year-old son is the funni-est guy I know. Seriously. If I was half as funny as him, I’d have a daily column. He’s so funny and creative and active that, well, sometimes I feel bad that I have to send him off to public school every day.
Don’t get me wrong. He’s doing well in junior kindergarten. At the meet-the-teacher interview in February, I found out he’s the leader of his group, that he has a clear sense of justice, and that he and his classmates have mastered the entire year’s mathematics curriculum.
“I realized I was so far ahead that I just stopped teaching math altogether,” said the teacher. Seriously? Seriously. She wasn’t being funny.
I wasn’t quite sure what to say, if only because the interview was conducted in French (not my mother tongue). But also because I couldn’t believe the teacher had just explicitly claimed she was dumbing down the entire curriculum to make sure the 40 students she was teaching didn’t get too far ahead of other kids in the province, who are all much dumber than they were 10 years ago when the curricu-lum was more rigorous, apparently.
Upon refl ection, though, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what she said.
Should I be surprised? We live in a soci-ety where when life gets tough, we lower the bar. In January, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) released new guidelines for physical activity, which actually reduced the minimum recommended amount of daily exercise required for both adults and children.
Old recommendations suggested adults
get 30 minutes of moderate-rigorous physical activity per day and children get 90 minutes per day. The new recom-mendation is 150 minutes per week for adults (or just over 20 minutes per day), and a minimum of 60 minutes per day for children.
The sad fact is that just seven per cent of Canadian children and 15 per cent of adults are meeting the new, lower require-ments. Even sadder is that universities, the CSEP, Health Canada, and others are trying to sell the new guidelines as an improvement over the old ones.
Among the half dozen or so reasons justifying the new guidelines, the most laughable was that “the inactivity crisis deserves up-to-date guidelines.” Yes, I suppose it does. But if the goal is to get Canadians healthier, fi tter, shouldn’t those guidelines be more rigorous? Ap-parently not.
The justifi cation behind the dumb-ing down of our exercise regime goes something as follows: If the recommenda-tions make exercise seem too diffi cult, it will discourage people from engaging in physical activity at all.
I don’t get it. We have an obesity epi-demic in this country. We’re all getting fatter. Children are fatter. Adults are fatter. Even our pets our fatter. (I noticed my cat was looking pear-shaped the other day). But do we tax junk food? No. Do we cut off the cable television? No. Do we establish morning marching and stretch-ing? No. Here in Canada, to combat the obesity epidemic, we reduce the daily recommendations for physical exercise.
Like the kindergarten teacher who put away the abacus mid-February, the establishment has hidden the old recom-mendations away in the cupboard in the hopes that a soft approach will reap big-ger rewards.
I’m not a betting woman, but if I were, I’d wager we’ll all still be sitting on our butts this time mid-winter. The only dif-ference is that this time next year we’ll be able to use the new recommendations to justify our sedentary lives, because, well, we don’t want to get too far ahead of the rest of them.
Dumbing it downBRYNNA LESLIE
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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTION
What should the city’s stance on new gaming tables at Rideau Carleton Raceway be?
A) Gambling is a great source of revenue. The city shoud take advantage.
B) There’s already too many outlets for gamblers – we don’t need any more.
C) We should only allow it if there are suffi cient addiction programs in place.
D) It would only add to the traffi c woes on Albion Road.
LAST WEEK’S POLL SUMMARY
What does the SuperEx’s 2011 hiatus mean to you?
A) Nothing. I never went to it anyway.
B) I’m worried when it does come back, it won’t be the same.
C) I’m looking forward to it coming back better than ever in 2012.
D) I’ll really miss it. The fair was an annual family tradition
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A documentary fi lmed by a Carleton University student that explores the diffi culties faced by people living in First Nation re-serves in Northern Ontario is set to premiere next week.
Life on the Reserve is a tale of the signifi cant challenges that people living on reserves have to deal with, as well as the hope they have for their community, as told by the residents them-selves.
Graham Shonfi eld, a second-year public affairs and policy management student, volun-teered last summer at a north-ern Ontario First Nation re-serve.
When he was 15, he travelled to Kenya and worked on a de-velopment project, but nothing prepared him for the conditions he experienced at Gull Bay.
Shonfi eld knew a little bit about First Nation people be-fore his trip to Gull Bay: that they were the fi rst people to live in Canada and that after being exploited by European settlers, they faced numerous problems.
As a city-kid, all he knew about their problems was what
he saw on the TV, which often he said often cast the subject in a very negative.
“I’m trying to convey a mes-sage of hope,” said Shonfi eld. “Whenever I heard about First Nations, it was often only about confl ict, land claims, tragedy, and I just wanted to show a dif-ferent side to them – a side of
hope that most non-aboriginals rarely see”
Shonfi eld said he was moti-vated to shoot the documentary by the people he met while liv-ing on the reserve.
“I volunteered in Gull Bay for two months and during that time I met a lot of incredible people.
“I tried to go in there open-minded and free of judgment, but some stereotypes kept creep-ing into my head. Although some stereotypes were unfortu-nately true, I found that most were shattered to pieces.”
He says the people that he met on the reserve were caring, in-telligent and funny.
His documentary follows a few members of the Gull Bay First Nation community as they talk about their daily lives at the reserves.
“After hearing these stories and meeting these people, I just thought that more people need-ed to know about what living on a reserve is really like and know about the solutions that the community is implementing themselves,” said Shonfoield.
Filmed over three days, he hopes the documentary will help educate people about the challenges facing people living on reserves, an experience to which most non-aboriginals and new Canadians cannot relate.
“Next time people think it’s not OK for people a world away not to have clean drinking wa-ter, they should look in their backyard, we have people in Ontario who don’t have clean drinking water.
“I’m hoping to change per-spectives and show that Aborig-inals are not exactly what you see in the news and that they are amazing people.”
Proceeds from the screen-ing at the Mayfair Theatre on March.9 will go back to Gull Bay First Nation reserve.
Submitted Photo Carleton student Graham Shonfi eld, centre, has made a fi lm about life at Gull Bay First Nation reserve.
Taking a different look at life on a native reserve
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Agencies have to keep up with volunteer needs
EMMA JACKSON
In Ottawa’s complex volun-teering sector, agencies never stop struggling to bring volun-teers into their organizations – but it’s not always for a lack of willing people.
According to Keenan Wellar, executive staff leader at the in-tellectual disabilities support charity Live Work Play, often the biggest barriers to recruit-ing volunteers come from the agencies themselves, who he said are often unwilling to em-brace new technologies and new methods to reach out to various demographics.
“I think many agencies are using the same or very similar recruitment methods and of-fering same opportunities that they have for years and years, and then they’re surprised when volunteers with different inter-ests and ways of communicat-ing aren’t knocking down their doors,” Wellar said, noting that the rise of social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter are among some of the most useful – and ignored – methods of recruitment.
“Some people don’t under-stand that social media is part of your overall communications strategy,” he said. “It is a tre-mendous benefi t to us, there’s no better market. You can’t pay to have someone speaking from the heart like that, giving those little microtestimonials (on-line). And of course their con-tacts will look to that.”
Wellar said the worst thing an agency can do is use an over-arching ad calling for general volunteers. He said men espe-cially need ads that give job-spe-cifi c details, so that they know exactly what they’re getting into.
“The open-ended appeal is dif-fi cult, there are these extreme demands on volunteers and they
have to slot out their interests very carefully,” he said. “They are very wary of going through the process and then being ex-pected to commit to more or something different than they had in mind.”
Citizen Advocacy, which matches volunteers to residents with disabilities who need some company or help with errands, makes a huge effort to personal-ize its advertisements through online databases such as Volun-teer Ottawa.
“What seems to be working for us is really trying to target more specifi c groups. Instead of a gen-eral ad saying ‘we’re looking for volunteers’, we’re actually cre-ating a story about somebody specifi c,” said Hilary Albers, who co-ordinates volunteers for Citizen Advocacy. “Something like, ‘Tim really likes sports and cars, and he’s more comfortable hanging out in his apartment but he’d like someone to come spend time with him.’ I think that way you can attract people who can relate to that person. I think having a more personal
approach is always very helpful and meaningful.”
When it comes to Facebook and Twitter, however, Albers said those tools are great for some agencies but are not one-size-fi ts-all, especially for the type of volunteer Citizen Advo-
cacy is looking for. “I think a lot of the demo-
graphics that we’re gearing to-ward might not be your typical Facebooker or tech-savvy per-son. Maybe the younger crowd and students for sure, but older prospective volunteers don’t use
that tool, and a lot of our proté-gés (clients) don’t use that as a tool,” she explained, noting that the agency is busy enough with-out maintaining Facebook and Twitter pages.
“To ask someone to maintain a Facebook page, it’s almost like a full time job. You have to com-mit to it, you have to have some-thing new and exciting to say, you have to draw people to it. That is a job in itself,” she said.
Wellar said he doesn’t under-stand the “old-school” mental-ity that often rejects new tools like Facebook, but he said an even bigger barrier for agencies is their level of bureaucracy.
“The number one complaint we hear is that the process was a turn-off,” he said. “It’s great to go online and have a Face-book page or email, but if you don’t have anyone monitoring it, that’s terrible. If it was days before I got a response, I would think, ‘Do I really want to get in-volved with this agency?’”
Citizen Advocacy’s process is certainly lengthy, involving an information session, a two-hour personal interview, a reference check and a police record check, but Albers said it’s absolutely necessary.
“We take the time to get to know our prospective volunteer advocates, we want our matches to be successful and long term. We’re looking for people who can commit to at least a year if not longer. It’s about developing relationships,” she said.
The common element seems to be that every agency is differ-ent, but that they need to keep up with changing trends and be able to adapt to meet their vol-unteers’ needs, said Omaima Faris, the volunteer co-ordina-tor for the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organiza-tion (OCISO).
“It’s really hard for the agen-cies, but you really have to be creative and fl exible to go with the fl ow with the volunteers, be-cause we need them,” she said. “They may need us for some pieces, but essentially we need them for our services.”
Flexibility and quick response times key to recruiting, agency says
Photo by Emma JacksonTargeting specifi c groups rather than using general calls for help dur-ing volunteer recruiting drives seems to work well for Citizen Advo-cacy, said volunteer co-ordinator Hilary Albers. ‘I think having a more personal approach is always very helpful and meaningful.’
Photo submittedAccording to Keenan Wellar, ex-ecutive staff leader at Live Work Play, volunteer agencies need to take advantage of social media such as Facebook and Twitter to give their recruiting efforts a boost.
From LAURIER on page 1 “It is disruptive to residents,
it is disruptive to commerce, and we believe it is simply not a safe corridor for cycling.”
City staff will monitor the pi-lot project over the next two cy-cling seasons and report back to council with their fi ndings. At the end of the pilot, coun-cil will consider whether to
remove the bike lanes or make the project permanent.
The board of Citizens for Safe Cycling said in a state-ment it supports the pilot project because it will provide cyclists with a much-needed route through downtown, and it will encourage more people to use active modes of trans-portation.
“The Laurier Avenue lanes will make cycling in Ottawa much more appealing, especial-ly to people who would other-wise avoid the downtown core because they are afraid to bike in heavy traffi c.”
Last summer, the city sur-veyed 271 residents, business and community associations.
Although the public voted
overwhelmingly in favour of a bike lane on Somerset Street (49 per cent supported that op-tion), Vélo Québec (a non-profi t group the city consulted) rec-ommended a segregated lane for Laurier Avenue, which only eight per cent of the public sup-ported.
Laurier was actually the third choice, behind Gladstone
Avenue.But Laurier was judged to
be the best option based on a number of criteria, including current and potential bicycle traffi c, links with surrounding areas and bike-storage facili-ties and the impact on transit stops, parking and shopping. The only criteria that Laurier wasn’t deemed the best option for was the potential for im-pacting automobile traffi c.
With fi les from Laura Mueller
Approved route was only third choice in downtown core
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In what could be the critical blow to their playoff hopes after a lacklustre ef-fort, the Ottawa Jr. Senators were defeat-ed 2-1 by the Kemptville 73’s at the Jim Durrell Complex on Feb. 23.
“We didn’t want to do this,” said Ottawa head coach Peter Howes after the game. “It’s sort of like a cat with nine lives. We had four lives and we wanted to keep it in our hands.”
Howes said he had stressed to his play-ers the importance of doing the hard work themselves, winning the games they had to win and not relying on other teams to slip up.
“But when we don’t have all 20 guys committed, it’s not a good thing.”
Ottawa’s top lines went AWOL for long stretches of the fi rst and second periods, and it wasn’t until the third period with the game in the balance that they started to take the game to Kemptville.
“When the (Carl) Faucher- (Dylan) Gib-erson- (Christian) Leger-line are the ones who are providing the biggest spark on the team, you’re not going to win many games,” Howes said.
Things got a little bleaker for the Jr. Senators on Feb. 25, when they dropped a close 4-3 game in Brockville. The loss, coupled with a win by the Bears over Kemptville, means the Jr. Senators are
three points back with two games re-maining.
They were to play the Braves again on March 2 at home before closing out the season against the Nepean Raiders at the Jim Durrell on March 5.
Kemptville took an early lead through Josh Pitt less than two minutes into the game. Pitt trailed behind an odd-man rush to collect a big rebound and fl ipped it past goaltender Dean Shepherdson to record his 10th goal of the season.
The home team struggled to gain a foothold in the back-and-forth game until Andrew Hampton collected a pass from Dalen Hedges, powered his way into the slot and snapped a shot past Kyle La-mothe to tie the game at 1-1. The goal was Hampton’s 15th of the season.
The 73’s continued to frustrate the Jr. Senators’ attack in the second period, and while Lamothe had some luck when Ot-tawa rang a couple of shots off his posts, a stifl ing Kemptville defensive effort lim-ited any legitimate scoring chances for the home team.
Pitt would seal the game for Kemptville at 7:50 of the third period. Racing in on a breakaway, he kept Shepherdson guess-ing long enough to wrist a shot over the goalie’s glove.
The Jr. Senators pushed for a tying goal, but the 73’s kept their defensive re-solve long enough to walk away with the win.
Jr. Senators postseason dreams all but shattered
following loss to 73’s
Photo by Matthew JayJr. Senators defenceman Camron Edwards (26) lines up a shot on goaltender Kyle La-mothe as 73’s blueliner Ben Hutton waits to collect any rebounds during Kemptville’s 2-1 win over Ottawa on Feb. 23 at the Jim Durrell Complex.
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BY DAN PLOUFFE
They didn’t have to travel since it was their own association hosting the tour-nament, but all three Ottawa Ice teams made a trip to heartbreak hotel with some crushing losses this past weekend during the Ontario ‘AA’ ringette championships at the Jim Durrell Complex and Nepean Sportsplex.
The disappointing fate wasn’t new for the Junior under-16 Ice – the same group that came up short two years ago when they were ranked No. 2 in the province.
This time, the sting was even stronger as silver-medallist Waterloo handed Ot-tawa a 5-4 overtime loss in the division semi-fi nals, followed by an 8-7 defeat to Nepean in the bronze medal game.
Christie Kellam led the way offensively with 10 goals and 10 assists for the Ice, who earned a 5-1 record in the prelimi-nary round.
For Ottawa’s Belle U19 squad, their heartbreak came in a tie-breaker mini-game to decide which team would advance to the playoff round after ending up in a three-way tie for the fi nal spot with a 5-1 preliminary-round record.
Nepean skated off with a 1-0 overtime victory in that contest and went on to win the bronze.
The Tween U14 Ice drew praise from the gold medal-winning Pickering-Ajax club as the best team they faced this season, but Ottawa didn’t get the wins to match, dropping close contests in all four of their defeats to go beside two victories.
“We had some tough losses,” acknowl-edges Ice Tween coach Jenna McBride, herself a ringette national team player. “We hit a lot of posts and struggled to put
the ring in the net. We have some disap-pointed ladies, but it’s provincials, so it’s a fun experience for them.
“Some of them, it was their fi rst time playing in overtime at provincials, so it’s a learning experience about how to han-dle that situation.”
Despite the disappointing results against the province’s best, McBride was proud to see her team improve all season long and compete hard at the Ontario championships.
“The girls really played their hearts and souls out,” notes McBride, who en-joyed having the tournament in Ottawa so that a bigger crowd of family and friends had the chance to come out and watch. “They’ve all contributed and worked so hard this season.”
It was an intense schedule for each of the 36 teams that competed in the three divisions with at least two games a day for the fi rst three preliminary-round days of the Feb. 24-27 tournament.
That was especially true for McBride’s assistant coach, Lane MacAdam, whose daughters Laurel, Kirsten and Kali played on the Ice Tween, Junior and Belle squads respectively. It means an awful lot of time at the rink for the family, but non-stop ringette suits them just fi ne.
“I think this sport is alive and well,” MacAdam adds. “People think that we’re losing players to hockey, but I think we’ve kept the numbers. When people see the game for the fi rst time, they realize how fast and exciting a sport it can be.”
Pickering beat Waterloo to win the Tween championship, while Whitby bested Waterloo in Junior and St. Clem-ents was dominant in Belle to also fi nish ahead of Waterloo.
Nepean wins two bronze, Ottawa shut out at home
ringette provincials
Photo by Dan PlouffeThe Ottawa Ice battled hard but couldn’t quite make it onto the provincial podium as they hosted the Ontario ‘AA’ ringette championships last weekend.
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The Nepean-Kanata Barracu-das and the Greater Ottawa King-fi sh each won a gold medal at the 2011 Ontario junior short-course swimming championships, host-ed by NKB last weekend at the Nepean Sportsplex.
Liam Veregin of the Kingfi sh topped the 12-year-old boys’ fi eld in the 100-metre backstroke and also won silver in the 200-me-tre back, while the Barracudas girls’ relay team of Josée Bar-rette, Jessica Yu, Janet Zhao and Madison Pulfer captured gold in the 400-metre freestyle race for 13- and 14-year-olds.
Other area medallists includ-ed Jacob Paduch (silver, 11 & un-der boys’ 50-metre breaststroke),
Meagan Michie (silver, girls’ 50-metre breaststroke) – both from GO Kingfi sh – and Barracudas swimmer Cattuong Le (bronze, 11-year-old girls’ 100-metre breaststroke).
NKB relay teams took bronze in the girls’ 11-12 200-metre med-ley, bronze in girls’ 15-17 200-me-tre medley, bronze in girls’ 13-14 400-metre medley and silver in girls’ 13-14 200-metre medley, while the GO boys’ relay team won bronze in the 14-15 200-me-tre medley.
Hundreds of the top youth swimmers from across Ontario kept the Sportsplex pool deck buzzing during the Feb. 24-27 event. Photos by Dan Plouffe
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Two years ago, the current Hillcrest Hawks senior players sat in the stands as their school acted as one of host sites for the 2009 OFSAA boys’ basketball cham-pionship and watched the cross-town St. Matthew Tigers win the provincial crown.
Two weeks ago, those players were back in the same gymnasium with the Tigers, but standing on the court this time, play-ing in a national capital semi-fi nal game that would decide who gets to compete at the 2011 OFSAA ‘AAA’ championships.
With a girls’ volleyball game scheduled for the same day, the start time of their contest was bumped up to 2 p.m., which allowed several classes to put down their books and cheer the Hawks on to a 75-56 victory and a berth in the March 7-9 On-tario high school fi nals in Niagara Falls.
“The last game on our home court, we beat St. Matt’s – now that’s a nice memory to have going out,” smiles Grade 12 Hill-crest post player John Lenz. “The core of our team’s been together since Grade 9, and ever since we hosted OFSAA a few years ago, we saw ourselves there in the future.”
Last week, the Hawks also played in the ‘AAA/AAAA’ city fi nal, pulling back within two points in the fourth quarter after falling behind by 13 against a well-polished Sacred Heart opponent that wound up taking the game 55-44.
“My guys fought hard, and that’s one thing they don’t do is give up,” says Hill-crest coach Gary Monsour. “It’s nice to
see a team like Sacred Heart was once ranked No. 4 in the province, so it gives us some hope. I mean, we can play with them, so I think we’ll be competitive with teams (at OFSAA).”
Led by three-point threat Wajdi Abu-mengal, the Hawks’ guard contingent that also features starters Emad Abdelmagid and Issack Egueh combines to present a formidable challenge for provincial rivals since they’re all diffi cult to keep up with off the dribble and carry the potential to shoot the lights out.
“We run with them and when they’re on their game, it’s pretty hard to stop us,” Monsour adds.
“It just opens up the inside game for our big guys (Lenz, along with Gurkaran Bajwa) when they have to extend their defence.”
Monsour doesn’t know all of the OF-SAA-bound teams, but he expects Toron-to’s Oakwood Collegiate Institute will be one of the top entries. The Hawks’ goal is to win their fi rst-round match-up and then go from there – which could be a long way if they’re playing their best and hitting their shots from the outside, Mon-sour notes.
“It’s going to wild. It’s going to be a lot of fun,” says Lenz, who was awarded a $1,000 academic scholarship earlier this year from a tournament in Hamilton that he plans to put towards university en-gineering studies. “We know a little bit about what to expect, having seen some OFSAA games before. We know we have to be at our best if we’re going to be suc-cessful.”
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Photo by Dan PlouffeIssack Egueh and the Hillcrest Hawks are hungry for the chance to compete in the school’s fi rst OFSAA boys’ basketball championships since 2003.
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Ottawa athletes brought home a pile of medals – includ-ing eight gold – from the second week of Canada Winter Games competition in Nova Scotia.
Leading the way was para cross-country skier Margarita Gorbounova, who won each of her women’s standing events to capture three gold in total.
Jimmy Pintea was a double-gold medallist in table tennis, helping Ontario to a men’s team title and earning the mixed doubles title as well. Shannon Zheng also won a medal in the table tennis competition as she prevailed in fi ve sets over Que-bec to take women’s doubles bronze.
Quincy Korte-King, profi led in the Feb. 25 edition of Ottawa This Week, made good on her wish to land atop the podium as she claimed gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe competi-tion.
Lisa Nasu-Yu, who fi nished second in pre-novice at Skate Canada’s Eastern & Western Challenge earlier this year, bested the Challenge champion to grab gold in the women’s sin-gles fi gure skating competition at the Canada Games, while ice
dancers Samantha Glavine and Jeff Hough won silver.
Joseph Rogers prevailed in a three-set men’s singles match to help Ontario edge B.C. 3-2 in the badminton team event fi nal and capture gold.
Kelly Moore was a double-medallist in alpine skiing, plac-ing second in the women’s sla-lom event and third in the super combined.
More than 2,700 athletes com-peted in 20 sports from Feb. 11-27 at this year’s Canada Winter Games, which are held every four years.
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS ADVANCE THROUGH PLAYOFFS
The Ashbury Colts upset Gar-neau to advance to the national capital ‘A/AA’ boys’ contact hockey championship series against fellow underdog St. Paul. The Colts edged Garneau 4-3 on Feb. 24 to advance to the best-of-three fi nal that will de-termine Ottawa’s representa-tive at OFSAA.
The Hillcrest Hawks fl exed their muscles in national capi-tal ‘AAA/AAAA’ boys’ contact hockey play, dominating St. Pe-
ter 9-2 to win their semi-fi nal playoff match on Feb. 23. The Hawks will now face St. Joseph in the best-of-three city cham-pionship series – an opponent they beat 6-1 during the regular season.
The St. Mark Lions will play for the national capital girls’ ‘A/AA’ championship thanks to their 5-1 playoff victory over Os-goode last week. The Lions will now take on the Louis-Riel Re-
belles, who beat St. Mark 2-0 in the regular season, in the best-of-three league fi nal.
Both the Canterbury boys’ and girls’ curling teams moved into the semi-fi nal round of the national capital high school
playoffs with quarter-fi nal vic-tories last week. The Canter-bury ladies, who went 7-1 in the regular season, downed St. Joseph 9-7, while the boys re-mained unbeaten by knocking off St. Pius 7-2.
Canada Winter Games athletes bring home eight gold
Submitted photosSnowboarder Quincy Korte-King competed in her fi rst World Cup and fi rst Canada Winter Games, winning gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe competi-tion.
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BY DAN PLOUFFE
Those De La Salle volleyball girls sure know how to party. With the way the senior girls’ spikers celebrated their four-set national capital ‘AA’ volley-ball championship victory over Gisèle-Lalonde last week, the only question is what they’d do to top it should they wind up winning next week’s OFSAA high school fi nals.
But with the energy and cre-ativity shared by all the Cava-lier players, they shouldn’t have any trouble coming up with an encore presentation.
With both fi nalists already guaranteed an entry for the March 8-9 provincial tourna-ment in Barrhaven, the city championship game didn’t seem to carry that much importance, but that’s without considering the De La Salle pride factor.
The Cavaliers had their per-fect record spoiled by a regular-season loss to Gisèle-Lalonde, and they’d fallen to the same ri-vals in last year’s city fi nal.
“This victory for us was very important,” notes coach Yan Le-roux. “It was on our hearts.”
As much as they fully sa-voured the national capital title, the semi-fi nal game that earned De La Salle a place in OFSAA was even more dramatic. It came down to a fi fth set against Samu-el-Genest for all the marbles.
“It was so nerve-wracking,” describes Cavaliers middle Kaly Soro, a Grade 10 student who only started playing volleyball last year.
“It was crazy. There was so much pressure and you just want to get that last point – it was too much to handle.”
With around 350 fans, cheer-
leaders and DJs watching on their home court, De La Salle pulled out a 15-13 victory in the fi nal frame to secure the OFSAA berth.
“The crowd went wild, ev-eryone was crying,” Soro adds. “It was just a really, really fun match – highlight of my year.”
It was a crowning achieve-ment for a team that’s had its eyes on that prize for a very long time. The Cavaliers had well over 100 practices since the squad was selected last May and traveled to 11 tournaments, in-cluding three trips to U.S. com-petitions.
“It’s a great feeling to have
worked so hard to get to where we are now,” smiles Myriam Sarazin-Frey, De La Salle’s di-minutive setter who scored the last point of the city fi nal with a big hit.
All the time together has led to exceptional team chemistry, with players always saying hi to each other in the hallways, laughing constantly, and prac-ticing their other shared love – dancing.
“The girls love to sing and dance – and the whole team, not just a few of them,” Leroux ex-plains. “That’s special for me to see, and for the girls.”
There was a bit of a drawback
to Ottawa hosting the provin-cials – the players wouldn’t get to have the same kind of fun they do on the road. But after the victory over Samuel-Genest, Leroux had a surprise in store for his players – he’d be paying for a hotel to stay in anyhow.
“It’s going to be the best of both worlds,” Sarazin-Frey says. “It’s great that you can have your friends and your family to cheer you on – and we get to stay at a hotel.”
With eight returnees from the De La Salle team that fi nished in the Top-10 at OFSAA last year, there is the potential for big things from this high-power of-
fensive squad. With all starters – including Christine Ausman, Lindsey Gresham, Christine Ausman and Valéria Quintanar – capable of hitting and scor-ing double-digit point totals in a game, the Cavaliers will offer a formidable challenge to the province’s top schools.
“I think we have a good chance of winning OFSAA, but I’ve never been,” signals Soro. “I’m just so pumped for it.”
GRYPHONS GRAB OFSAA BERTH
The Glebe Gryphons will represent Ottawa at the ‘AAAA’ girls’ volleyball championships March 8-9 in Newmarket after pulling back from two sets down to outlast John McCrae 17-25, 24-26, 25-14, 25-16, 15-6 in a play-in game last week.
Seniors Yasmeen Dawoodjee and Erika Martin helped turn the tide in the match with some inspiring words before third set when the team’s mood was de-fl ated.
“It wasn’t so much what they said, but there was a lot of posi-tive energy heading onto the fl oor despite what had just hap-pened,” coach Kirk Dillabaugh explains by email, noting his team controlled play from that point on. “We just rode the wave of momentum through the last three sets.”
Bobbie Martin was named player-of-the-match, but it’s the Gryphons’ overall consis-tency and depth that are their big keys to success, Dillabaugh highlights.
The defending provincial-champion Louis-Riel Rebelles will return to OFSAA in Niag-ara Falls along with ‘AAA’ run-ner-up Béatrice-Desloges.
Photo by Dan Plouffe The De La Salle Cavaliers fully enjoyed the feeling of payback as they dumped the team that blemished their undefeated record and deprived them of the 2010 city title by winning a four-set national capital senior girls’ volleyball fi nal over Gisèle-Lalonde last week.
De La Salle fl ies through to OFSAA volleyball tourney
BY DAN PLOUFFE
When Camp Fortune hosts the OFSAA snowboard festival on Friday, March 4, it will mark the fi rst time the event is held outside southern Ontario and represents an opportunity for Ottawa to play a little catch-up in the snowboarding game, says a Team Ontario coach at the re-cent Canada Winter Games.
“It’s a really cool event,” states Ottawa’s Cassandra Smith, who is assisting the OFSAA organiz-ers from Arnprior District High School. “This is really the op-portunity for these kids around here to have an event in their own location to show what they can do. The kids are getting ex-cited for the fact that it’s going to be here.”
Lisgar’s Rachael Penman will lead the contingent of Ottawa riders at OFSAA, having posted the fastest time – out of girls and boys – on the giant slalom cours-es at last week’s national capital championships.
Penman will be joined by her fellow national capital gold-med-allist Lisgar girls’ teammates for OFSAA, along with the second- and third-place schools, Sacred Heart and All Saints.
Sacred Heart also qualifi ed the city’s top boys’ squad for OF-SAA, along with Glebe and All Saints, while individuals that will compete include Tara Hoff-man (from Sir Robert Borden), Emma Wolna (Glebe), Alexan-dria Roy (Woodroffe), Jeremy Bissett (Sir Robert Borden), Os-car Dziewiecke (Mother Teresa)
and Mark Adams (Lisgar).Naturally, the young riders
will be stoked for the chance to showcase their talents, but the event could also serve as an im-portant building block for the capital region that doesn’t seem to have very developed programs in the view of Smith, a Merivale High School grad who recently moved back home after coaching in Alberta for a decade.
“From everyone I’ve talked to at the local ski hills and the snowboard shops, it sounds like we’re really sort of breaking the ice around here,” Smith ex-plains. “With Ottawa the size it is and the number of facilities there are, we should be able to have athletes that are on the ju-nior national team and looking towards snowboarding careers.
In fi ve or 10 years’ time, we should be able to build that com-munity.”
To achieve that goal, the na-tionally-accredited coach is cur-rently working with the high schools to increase interest in their snowboarding programs, develop more coaches and let the riders know about opportunities to train and compete in events outside of the scholastic loop.
Plus she’s also created her own club, called the Akademy snowboard team, which will be holding a March break camp at Calabogie Peaks.
“Being a part of a program helps you develop in steps,” notes Smith, adding that trying new things alone is also an important part of snowboarding culture that must be maintained. “Also,
someone else can take a look at what you’re doing and give you educated and experienced ad-vice on the next direction to take to try things out.”
For snowboarding to grow in Ottawa, Smith believes that the high school circuit will need to build towards the provincial team, which will involve raising awareness of the opportunities available for youth through the Association of Ontario Snow-boarders.
“There are so many high schools that have snowboard teams and have some really tal-ented athletes, but the a lot of the kids haven’t really got to ex-perience the broad spectrum of events that they could be going to,” Smith adds. “OFSAA’s an awesome experience for the kids, and I think in a couple years, we’ll start seeing that some of the top kids have come from the high school circuit.”
Local OFSAA event offers chance for snowboarding growth
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• MARCH 5:Christ Church Cathedral Girls’ Choir will perform Songs of Fervour in their second annual gala concert and silent auction.With an eclectic selec-tion of works by Baldassare Galuppi, Eric Whitacre, and Timothy Piper, and featured guest soloist Julie Nes-rallah, this will be the choir’s major concert this year. The event takes place at Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the silent auction and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. The silent auc-tion continues during intermission, and a cash wine/soft drinks bar will be available. For more information about the choir and the concert, visit the website: http://www.calendar-wiz.com/calendars/popup.php?op=view&id=36479892&crd=christchurchcathedralottawa
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• MARCH 6Concert-in-the-Glebe is pleased to present Trio Tourmaline, sopranos Joyce Lundberg and Sylvia Larrass with Scott Richardson, on bass and keyboard. Selections by Byrd, Pal-estrina, Purcell, Monteverdi and oth-ers will be included in the concert entitled Sacred and Profane: Renais-sance and Baroque. The concert will take place at 2:30 p.m. in Glebe St. James United Church, 650 Lyon St. at First Ave. Admission is $15, and $10 for students and seniors. Admission by donation is always welcome. For more information, contact the church at 613-236-0617 or visit www.glebestjames.ca
• MARCH 6 The Jazz Vespers Concert featuring Mike Tremblay and Mark Ferguson. A performance that’s sure to please! Join us at All Saints/First United church for an inspirational, spirit-fi lled performance with readings, refl ections and uplifting music. All are welcome. Doors open at 4:00,
service starts at 4:30. Free will offer-ing at the door. 347 Richmond Rd., Westboro 613-725-9487.
• MARCH 6The Ching Hua Chinese Language School will be start a new course, Mandarin for adults, starting March 6, 2011. Classes will run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The weekly classes will focus on conversational (beginners) Mandarin and will run until June 11. The 10-week course costs $50 per student. Classes will be held at St. Anthony School, 391 Booth St. For information, email [email protected]
• FEBRUARY AND MARCHMPP Bob Chiarelli will be hosting “How to Get Your Money Back” information sessions for seniors throughout Ottawa West-Nepean. Make sure that you receive all of the rebates and credits you’re entitled to! For the session closest to you, please call 613-721-8075.
• MARCH 10The Ottawa Humane Society Auxil-iary meets at 1:30 pm on the second Thursday of each month at the Park-dale United Church, 429 Parkdale Avenue (between Wellington Street and Gladstone Avenue). Please call Diane Bartlett-Fraser at 613-836-1492 for more information. New members are welcome
The Auxiliary raises money to help the animals at the Ottawa Humane shelter and has a very active craft group.
• MARCH 14-18March Break children’s programs at the Alta Vista Library. Call 613-737-2837 to register. Rock and roll radio: Learn how to make and record a radio ad with CKCU, Ottawa’s community radio station. Ages 6-12. Monday, March 14, 10 a.m. (90 min.)Snip!Snap! What is that?: What can you make with paper and scissors? Stories, facts, videos and crafts. Ages 6-12. (Bilingual) Tuesday, March 15, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.).Rock out with Billings Estate: Discover why paleontology rocks this March Break! Did you know that Billings Estate was home to Canada’s fi rst offi cial paleontologist? Explore some of Elkanah Billings’ fi ndings, learn about fossils and make your own to take home. Ages 6-12. (Bilingual) Tuesday, March 15, 2 p.m. (45 min.) Fold it right there: Origami work-shop. Ages 6-12. Wednesday, March 16, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.)Rubber powered paper airplanes:Make a free fl ying model airplane out of balsa wood and paper. It can fl y up to two football fi elds. Ages 9-12. Wednesday , March 16 , 2 p.m.
(90 min.)Paper caper: Paper crafts and paper fun. Ages 6-12. Thursday, March 17, 2 p.m. (60 min.) Stone soup: Stories, rhymes and songs. Family program. Friday, March 18, 2 p.m. (45 min.)
• APRIL 10Concert at St. Joseph’s Church, Sandy Hill. 7 p.m. Tickets $10 at the door. Come and enjoy an evening of inspirational singing with Marc Coderre and friends, featuring Bonnie Fox-McIntyre, Karen Lahaise, Louise Rathier, Debra Scarpelli. www.circlenine.org
• MAY 5-8Ottawa Independent Writers Basic Training Memoir Writing Weekend and take part in memoir writing workshops led by Ottawa author Emily-Jane Hills Orford who will explain how to write a compelling family story or dedicate your time to writing in the privacy of your room or on the grounds at the Marguerite Centre in Pembroke. Cost (including meals and accommodations): Basic Training in Memoir Writing $383.25 for OIW members; $438.25 for non-members; Retreat: $283.25 for OIW members; $338.25 for non-members.Info: Carl Dow, (613) 233-6225 or [email protected]
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WEDDINGS, BAP-TISMS & Funerals, location of your choice. Also available Small wed-dings, my home, weekdays. The Rev. Alan Gallichan. 613-726-0400.
HOUSECLEANING
House cleaning service To give yourself some extra tine allow us to re-move a grime. Call 613-262-2243. Refer-ences and experience. We are always at your service. [email protected]
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ANTIQUE FURNITURE REFINISHING & RE-PAIRS. J&D Antiques. Free estimates and pick-up. Jill or Don, 613-264-1918. www.jdantiques.ca
CARPENTRY, REPAIRS, Rec Rooms, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates, 25 years experience. 613-832-2540
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CERTIFIED MASON10yrs exp., Chimney Repair & Restoration, cultured stone, parging, repointing. Brick, block & stone. Small/big job specialist. Free esti-mates. Work guaran-teed. 613-250-0290.
DRYWALL-INSTALLER TAPING & REPAIRS. Framing, electrical, full custom basement reno-vations. Installation & stippled ceiling repairs. 25 years experience. Workmanship guaran-teed. Chris, 613-839-5571 or 613-724-7376
INTERIOR RENOVA-TIONS; Renovating bathrooms, decks, tiles, hardwood flooring, in-stalling faucets, sinks, suspended ceilings. Call Mark,613-323-4523.
MELVIN’SINTERIORPAINTING
Professional Work. Reasonable Rates. Honest . Clean. Free Estimates. Referenc-es. 613-831-2569 Home 613-355-7938 Cell. NOJOB TOO SMALL
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WILL PICK UP & RE-MOVE any unwanted cars, trucks, boats, snowmobiles, lawn- tractors, snowblowers, etc. Cash paid for some. Peter, All Pur-pose Towing. 613-797-2315,613-560-9042 www.allpurpose.4-you.ca
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Busy cabinet refacing company looking for full
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Must have own tools and transportation, top
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Fax resume to 613-737-3944 or email resume to:
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Buy/sell Stair lifts, Porch lifts, Scooters, Bath lifts, Hospital beds etc. Call SILVER CROSS 613-231-3549
CAREERTRAINING
SUPERKIDS TUTORS: in-home, all subjects, references. 613-282-4848, [email protected]
416 MINI STORAGEon Hwy 43, various unit sizes.
Security fenced (24hr key pad access).613-258-1146
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HUNTER SAFETY CA-NADIAN FIREARMS COURSE at Carp March, 25, 26th, 27th. Wenda Cochran 613-256-2409
HUNTER SAFETY Ca-nadian Firearms Course. Courses and exams held throughout the year. Free course if you organize a group, exams available. Wen-da Cochran, 613-256-2409.
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LABRADOODLE PUPS (yellow lab X Standard Poodle) Born Dec 29, ready to go, vaccinat-ed and dewormed 613-223-5015
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MUSIC, DANCEINSTRUCTIONS
GUITAR LESSONS:E x p e r i -enced teacher and performing musician offer-ing guitar lessons, all levels in my studio or in your home. Murray 613-821-9177
WORLD CLASS DRUM-MER (of Five Man Elec-trical Band) is now ac-cepting students. Pri-vate lessons, limited en-rollment, free consulta-tion. Call Steve, 613-831-5029.w w w. s t e v e h o l l i n g -worth.ca
HOUSESFOR RENT
4 BEDROOM HOUSE 8739 Copeland RD Ashton. Fully Furnished with garage $1600/month includes heat and light. Mature adults only. For details call 613-838-3960
INCREDIBLE PRICE – KANATA – FOR RENT: Stunning Executive Townhouse, 4+1 bdrm, 2000 sqft., finished basement, 3.5 baths, 5 appliances, garage, $1,650/mo + Utilities, contact Allan 613-831-6003; [email protected]
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DOG SITTING, Ex-perienced Retired Breeder providing lots of TLC. My Home. Smaller dogs only. Referenc-es available. $17-$20 daily. Marg 613-721-1530.
GOLDEN DOODLE PUPS ready to go $450, vet checked, first needles and dewormed 819-647-3551
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required for up-coming season. Must have transportation to Vil-lage of Richmond.Please call 613-838-4066 or email resume to: [email protected]
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NEEDED NOW-AZ DRIVERS & OWNER OPS-. We seek profes-sional safety-minded drivers to join a leading int’l carrier with finan-cial stability; competi-tive pay and benefits; great lanes; quality freight; on dry vans on-ly. Brand new trucks available. Lease pro-gram Available. Call Celadon Canada, Kitchener. 1-800-332-0518 www.celadoncanada.com
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Looking for the perfect job that offers meaning-ful work with limited hours? One that will al-
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ADTRAN Networks is currently accepting re-sumes for a permanent part-time Administra-tive Assistant.
This position is in our new offi ce facility located in the Kanata North Business Park and requires working 25 hours per week, 5 hours/day per-forming general offi ce administration duties including booking travel, scheduling meetings, answering incoming calls, receiving offi ce visi-tors, maintaining supplies, liaison with admin-istrative functions at our head offi ce, and other duties as needed in supporting staff. Prior work-ing experience needed in offi ce administration. Must be computer savvy with reasonable skills in MS Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint and Outlook/email. Must be a self starter, capable of multi-tasking, requiring limited supervision.
Email resumes to: [email protected]
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HELP WANTED
ROUTE SUPERVISORLinen and uniform ren-tal company looking for a route supervisor to su-pervise 2 drivers’ routes. Responsible to look after the customers on the routes, replacing the driver when ill or on vacation. Must have good communication and customer relation skills. DZ license is a definite asset. Competi-tive salary and benefits.Please e-mail [email protected]
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Renfrew Hydro Inc. maintains and distributes electrical power to approx. 4,200 residential and commercial customers within the Town of Renfrew. We are currently seeking a certifi ed power line maintainer to assist our crew in their day to day operations.
Under the direction of the Crew leader, the power line maintainer will be responsible for all duties related to overhead and underground distribution circuits, 44kV and below. Qualifi ed applicants who meet the following criteria will be considered:
• Grade 12 minimum• Journeyman Powerline Technician Certifi cation licensed to work in Ontario.• Valid Class “D” Drivers License with a Class “Z” Air Brake Endorsement.• Competent in the construction, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of the
electrical distribution both overhead and underground.• Ability to read and interpret distribution system construction drawings and supporting
documents.• Knowledge of E&USA Safety Rules, Occupational Health & Safety Act, ESA Ontario
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• Must be physically able to perform the essential duties in all weather conditions.• Must have strong written and oral communication skills and be able to establish
and maintain an effective working relationship with internal/external customers and electrical industry partners.
The successful applicant must have the ability to perform the essential duties of the position including regular standby duties and responding to emergency call-outs. The successful applicant is expected to reside within 15 minute normal travel time of the Town of Renfrew.
In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer a comprehensive benefi t package as per our Collective Agreement.
Qualifi ed applicants are invited to apply, in confi dence, by submitting a resume, stating education, work experiences and references to:
Renfrew Hydro Inc.29 Bridge St.Renfrew, OntarioK7V 3R3Email: [email protected]: President
Applications will be accepted until Friday March 18, 2011. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Job Title: Newspaper Layout Technician – permanent part-time
Number of Positions: 2 Department: Editorial Department Location: Ottawa
Metroland Media – Ottawa Region is seeking a qualifi ed layout technician to paginate pages and fl ow editorial content. The successful candidate will work with an award-winning team to produce work of a consistently superior quality.
The job requires:• Superior layout skills;• Ability to produce superior work under deadline pressures;• Ability to take direction from supervising editors and to work independently;• Good communication and grammar skills;• Profi ciency in pagination programs, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator;• A good understanding of the principles of community journalism.
The successful candidate will be a graduate of a graphic design program and/or have two years layout experience. The position requires an enthusiastic, creative self-starter who enjoys working with others to produce work that meets and exceeds quality and deadline standards.
Interested applicants should forward resumes by 5 p.m. Friday March 31, 2011 to:
Patricia Lonergan- Managing EditorEmail: [email protected]
No phone calls please.
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Job Title: Freelance reporter/ photographersNumber of Positions: Several Department: Editorial Department Location: Ottawa
Do you have a fl air for writing? Do you have a passion for news and features and capturing the essence of every story? Are you detail-oriented, with superior written and verbal communication skills?
Metroland Media is seeking reporter/photographers for occasional freelance assignments in downtown and South Ottawa, Barrhaven, Nepean, Kanata, Stittsville, Kemptville, Perth, Renfrew, Smiths Falls, Carleton Place, Arnprior, West Carleton and surrounding areas.
Interested candidates should submit their resume along with writing samples and clippings by March 18, 2011 to:
Suzanne LandisManaging Editor
Email: [email protected]
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Accounts Payable Clerk – Part time Contract - KanataCCR has been providing contamination control products to the biotechnol-ogy, pharmaceutical and microelectronics industries for the past 20 years. Located in Kanata, we are a private company that believes in working hard yet having fun at the same time. Our team enjoys a relaxed and respectful work environment. Primary duties of the part-time Accounts Payable clerk will include: data en-try, matching invoices and packing slips, entering invoices in AP batches be-fore printing and posting, processing cheque runs, preparing bank payments, fi ling and a variety of accounts payable and clerical related duties. The successful candidate will possess similar experience and be familiar with AccPac (a/p module), possess a customer service and professional approach. The position off ers fl exible part time hours (20 hours per week), Kanata loca-tion and free parking. $13.00 to $16.00 hourly will be off ered for this fi ve month contract. While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those selected for an inter-view will be contacted. Please email your resume to [email protected]
No telephone calls please.
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