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DRIVE-THRU PIZZAFirefi ghters look over the scene after a driver smashed into the College Square Pizza Pizza outlet on Sept. 9. The driver was left shaken and bruised, while the store had to be closed pending a structural inspection. See story on page 3.
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
As the clock ticks on the upcom-ing withdrawal date for classes at Algonquin College, a group of young mothers is pondering what to do if the daycare doesn’t open soon.
“The withdrawal date is Sept. 19 and we aren’t sure; we were left with no options,” said Angela Scherr, a 23-year-old business ad-ministration student.
Scherr, who is in her fi nal year, with plans to graduate in April and head to university, said she has a smaller class list than some of her friends because she attend-ed summer classes, but times are still tough.
“I am watching the other kids on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and we are taking turns on the Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we have no time for assign-ments,” she said.
And there was no time to plan.
See YOUNG page 4
Daycare crunch
at college
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Walkers smash goal for ParkinsonsJENNIFER MCINTOSH
The 16th annual Parkinson Society Ottawa’s SuperWalk, held at Andrew Haydon Park on
Sept. 10 managed to raise a re-cord breaking $146,493.
Parkinson Society Ottawa director Hilary Evans said the number of participants was as-tounding.
More than 750 walkers, sup-porters and volunteers gathered to celebrates the participants who raised the funds.
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Support worker strike shuts
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SPECIAL REPORTPart one of a Metroland Media three-part series looks at the issue of suicide. 16
REMEMBERThe city marks the 10th anniver-sary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States. 22
PLANNING AHEADThe NCC wants input on how Ottawa will look in the distant future. 20
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Continued from front
This year’s slogan was There is Hope in Our Walk.”
The walk in Ottawa happens simultaneously each year with 90 other cities and towns across the country that hold walks on the same weekend.
The festivities at Andrew Haydon Park were kicked off with a speech from the mayor and following the walk there was a performance by musi-cian Maria Hawkins.
Funds raised will support the organization’s mission to ease the burden of Parkinson ’s
disease and fi nd a cure through support services, education, research and advocacy.
According to the Parkin-son Society of Ottawa web-site, there are more than 8,000 people and their care givers affected by the disease in our region.
Photo by Joan AndersonMore than 750 walkers enjoyed a walk for Parkinson’s at Andrew Haydon Park on Sept. 10. The day raised more than $140,000 for to help those with the disease and to fund research.
Walk brings hope
Car smashes into College Square pizzeria
NEVIL HUNT
Customers inside the Pizza Pizza outlet at College Square were shocked when a motorist almost turned the restaurant into a drive-thru on Sept. 9.
A compact car jumped the curb, crossed a walkway and struck the front of the pizzeria shortly before 2 p.m., depress-ing the front wall by about 30 centimetres. The restaurant is located just off Navaho Drive.
Ottawa fi re captain Robert Leclaire said two diners were seated right where the car made contact with the brick wall.
“Insulation and stuff went fl ying inside,” Leclaire said, adding the diners weren’t hurt. Luckily, the plate glass win-dows above the brick wall didn’t smash.
The driver of the small Toyo-ta that struck the wall was shak-en and suffered some bruises, Leclaire said. The woman driv-ing the car, who appeared to be in her 30s, was unsteady on her feet as paramedics and fi refi ght-ers assisted her from the front seat of her car to a stretcher.
Students from nearby Al-gonquin College milled about, snapping photos of the crash on smartphones. Pizza Pizza and the attached Subway were closed, and Leclair said the city would need to call in a structur-al engineer to assess the build-ing. He said he was concerned that the wall might collapse when the car was removed from the scene.
Driver, diners jolted, but no serious
injuries
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Scherr said when she talked to staff at the college’s learning centre in late August, she was given the impression that a strike was unlikely to happen, so when the trio of women walked to the centre on Sept. 1 to fi nd the doors locked, it was quite a shock.
Even the logistics of withdrawing are ter-rifying as it would mean possibly having to give back student loans that have been partly spent, trying to live off the wages of a part-time job and surrendering the chil-dren’s treasured spaces at the daycare.
Not to mention potentially losing child care subsidy from the city because they wouldn’t be students any longer.
GRAD DELAYED
For Scherr, it will mean delaying gradua-tion and the making of a better life for her and her two-year-old son Anthony.
The group wants to take action, but isn’t sure how to push forward.
They have started a letter-writing cam-paign to local media, the union and manage-ment in an attempt to shine a light on their situation.
“The two sides haven’t even begun negoti-ating again,” she said.
On Sept. 13, Scherr took on another child for her friend who is in the nursing program, but the practice is simply not sustainable.
“I can’t get any assignments done while I
have them,” she said, adding that three or four children under the age of three make doing anything other than caring for them nearly impossible.
Five hundred support staff walked at Al-gonquin walked off the job on Sept. 1, along with 8,000 others from the province’s 24 col-leges.
Sandra Markus director of communications for Algonquin College said before the strike deadline that the college would work on a contingency plan to keep things run-ning as smoothly as pos-sible.
“We may have some stu-dents waiting in line lon-ger for services and fewer choices at the cafeteria, but everything will go for-ward as scheduled for the school year,” she said.
But for the small minority impacted by the daycare closure, it could cost them their diplomas.
The sticking points in the talks have been pensions, wages, benefi ts and job security.
On the fi rst day of the strike, Edna Sebag – who usually works as a client services offi cer at the college – said the strike isn’t about the money, but job security for her col-leagues.
“Every one seems to be focusing on the
money,” Sebag said. “But that’s not it, we are looking for job security.
“If you work part time at the college your hours aren’t guaranteed, you have no ben-efi ts and no pension. It’s a two-tiered sys-tem.”
But Don Sinclair, CEO of the college em-ployee council, said the deal the union was
offered is the best the col-lege can offer in this eco-nomic climate.
The deal proposed by the colleges to OPSEU included a 1.5 per cent salary increase in year one, another 1.5 per cent in year two and a 1.75 per cent increase in year three.
The college’s bargain-ing team said the offer will raise the average an-nual salary of support staff by $1,845 to just more
than $58,000 after three years. Sinclair said what the union wanted –
three per cent per year for three years – just isn’t possible, but said management is ready to get back to the bargaining table at any time.
Scherr and her friends aren’t taking sides, but they would like to see the college day-cares declared an essential service.
“We can’t do it without the daycare; some-thing has to be done,” she said.
Young moms stuck without daycare
“We can’t do it without the daycare; something has to be done”
Angela Scherr
New thrift store opens
SaturdayAfter months of hard work
and planning, the Salvation Ar-my’s brand new Merivale Thrift Store has opened its doors.
The large, department-style store offers a wide selection of products including clothing, shoes, toys, books, housewares, electronics, furniture and brand new mattresses.
To help kick-off the latest Ottawa location in style, the Merivale store will be hosting a grand opening event this com-ing Saturday, Sept. 17, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The profi ts from the store will help families and individuals who need assistance in the com-munity.
The Merivale Thrift Store is located at 1616 Merivale Rd., near the Merivale Mall. The telephone number is (613) 228-5282.
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The Ottawa Riverkeepers have received an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant to help promote and analyze data from the organization’s 900-kilometre trip down the Ottawa River that got underway in early July.
Ottawa Riverkeeper Meredith Brown has been leading a team, which includes scientists, canoe experts and historians on the fi rst river-long study of the wa-terway, dubbed the Great River Project. The three-month long trip that began on July 4 is studying the state of the Ottawa River from Fort Temiscamingue, Que., to Montreal where the river fl ows into the St. Lawrence River.
Natasha Wilson, executive director of the Ottawa Riverkeepers, said the $58,000 grant will offer the organization the abil-ity to pay for the trip as well as have the funds to analyze data collected and edu-cate the public about the results.
“This money will be used to help fund the community events, education and materials needed to complete this jour-ney,” Wilson said. “We are very excited to continue to work with the Trillium Foun-
dation.”The Ottawa Riverkeepers have been
receiving funding from foundation since 2002, money Wilson said is integral to promote the importance of keeping the watershed safe.
The expedition has already covered the fi rst 300 kilometres of the river and the third stage of the fi ve-leg journey got underway on Aug. 13. The funding has also allowed the Riverkeepers to invite 10 students to participate in the leg of the project.
“This money is being used to get students on the water,” Wilson said. “To make them ambassadors of the Ottawa River and hopefully become future leaders of keeping the watershed safe.
“We have a diverse range of students from both Quebec and Ontario and from all areas of the watershed,” Wilson said.
After an information session, the students departed from Rapides des Joachims in Quebec and planned to fi n-ish their portion of the trip at Portage-du-Fort, also in Quebec, on Aug. 20.
It wasn’t all work for the young travel-ers, however: the students had a day of whitewater rafting on Aug. 18.
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Submitted photoA 900-kilometre trip down the Ottawa River continues, and will at one point include a crew of 10 high school students. The students will take part in the third leg of the trip which will cover 220 kilometre of the Ottawa River.
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
Robert Gillett, president of Algonquin College, has announced he will retire at the end of next year.
The 67-year-old has been at the college for 16 years and has been an educator since he started teaching at high schools 43 years ago.
Gillett announced the decision at an annual staff breakfast held at the col-
lege on Aug. 25.“There was a general intake of breath
and then a standing ovation,” said Gil-lett, who will be fi nishing out his con-tract, which ends Dec. 31, 2012.
Since joining the college in 1996, Gil-lett said he has seen a lot of change in the college’s infrastructure and use of technology.
“We went from just using box comput-ers to using simulation techniques and mobile technology,” he said. “We are do-
ing everything we can to come into the digital age.”
As for the bricks and mor-tar, Gillett said the college has built new campuses in Perth and Pembroke to make things run more effi ciently, as well as consolidated and added on to Woodroffe campus to help with the space issues.
“I really believe we gave the college a more modern look and brought it into the 21st cen-tury,” Gillett said.
When he wasn’t championing for more funding or planning for new buildings, Gillett said he had the most fun at gradua-
tion ceremonies or out in the communi-ty where he could hear about how being a student at the college impacted lives.
When Gillett began at the college, it boasted a little more than 10,000 stu-dents. Now there are 19,000 students to begin classes in the fall.
“I love to hear the personal stories,” Gillett said. “I am also very proud of the way Algonquin is viewed in the commu-nity. Now people see it as an equal to our universities. I value that.”
Some of the challenges Gillett said he faced were dealing with lack of funding and available space.
“We have for many years said we aren’t given enough funding for what we do and I still feel that way,” he said. “We have done what we can to work more ef-fi ciently and advocate for more space. I am confi dent that will continue to hap-pen.”
Gillett has cut the ribbon on seven new state-of-the-art buildings during his tenure, including a 1050-bed residence, the advanced technology centre, and the police and public safety institute.
Four more building are on the way to completion before he retires at the end of 2012.
Gillett isn’t committing himself to any concrete retirement plans yet and says he wants to stay in the public eye volunteering on all the boards he cur-rently serves.
“I love my job, but it’s time to go,” he said.
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Submitted photoRobert Gillett, president of Algonquin College, has announced he will retire at the end of next year.
Submitted photoTVOKids host Gisele Corinthios engages the crowd of kids and parents who came to see her read at the Ruth E. Dickinson Library on Aug. 26 as part of her Read with Gisele tour of libraries across Ontario.
Nepean preschoolers and their family members shared the magic of reading with TVOKids host Gisele when she visited the library at Centrepointe on Aug. 27.
Gisele, star of TVO’s early learning program block Gisele’s Big Backyard, read the book Au-gustine, written and illustrated by Melanie Watt. Each child at-tending the reading received a
book bag, a bookmark and a free copy of the book.
Kids can also participate in Gisele’s Big Backyard Book Club online at tvokids.com, where they can watch videos of Gisele reviewing books and see kids an-swering questions about the sto-ries, share feedback on how the stories made them feel, and sub-mit their own reviews of books they have read.
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Notice of Public MeetingNew Chapman Mills Elementary School
Grade, Program, and Attendance Boundary Study
Monday, September 26, 2011Adrienne Clarkson Elementary School, Gymnasium
170 Stoneway Drive, OttawaPresentation at 7:00 p.m.
The Board is seeking community input on a proposed grade structure, program, and attendance area for a new Chapman Mills elementary school to be built at the corner of Chapman Mills Drive and Leamington Way. The new school is planned to open in January 2013.
Schools which may be impacted by grade structure, program, and/or boundary changes include: Adrienne Clarkson ES, Barrhaven PS, Berrigan ES, Cedarview MS, Farley Mowat PS, Jockvale ES, Mary Honeywell ES, John McCrae SS and Longfields-Davidson Heights SS.
Background material can be found at www.ocdsb.ca under Schools/Accommodation/Program Reviews or call 613-721-1820.
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Your dog can help raise funds for specially trained dog guides at the Pu-rina Walk for Dog Guides, helping Ca-nadians with visual, hearing, medical or physical disabilities.
The fi ve-kilometre walk is free for residents and their canine compan-ions, who raise funds by attracting pledges and making personal dona-tions for the parade of pets.
Lions Clubs across the national capital region are joining forces to or-ganize the event on Oct. 16, including clubs from Kanata-Hazeldean, Cum-berland, Rockland, Navan, Gloucester North, Ottawa South, Stittsville and Gloucester.
Kanata-Hazeldean Lion Peter Hen-ry, who is visually impaired, and his friend and guide Zeus, an enthusias-tic Labrador retriever, are busy rais-ing funds and seeking registrations at various locations in the region.
“Access to specially trained dog guides is the key to a productive and happier life for people with disabili-ties,” said Henry. “This is a fun, pet-friendly event that goes a long way to helping people.”
It costs close to $20,000 to raise and train each dog guide and match them with the appropriate client, but with fundraisers such as the Purina Walk for Dog Guides, they are provided at no charge.
The walk starts at De La Salle high
school, 501 Old St. Patrick St., just off the Vanier Parkway.
Registration for the walk starts at noon.
The walk will start at 1 p.m. and the Lions expect most walkers to be done
by 2:30.Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson will be in
attendance at the closing ceremonies, at the Rockcliffe Retirement Resi-dence.
Henry, Zeus and the rest of the Li-ons hope residents will step up and step out for this important cause.
For more information, to register or to support Henry, go to sites.google.com/site/ncpw2011
Submitted photoLions Club member Peter Henry and his guide dog Zeus are joined by nine-year-old Sarah McCarthy at an information table previewing the Purina Walk for Dog Guides. The walk gives all dogs and their owners the chance to fund-raise for guide dogs to be trained to help Canadians with visual, hearing, medical or physical disabilities.
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Now that we are all safely back at school or work (or retire-ment) and now that Sept. 11 commemorations are over and
the provincial elections are on, could we now begin living our lives without being frightened all the time?
The politics of fear certainly didn’t begin with 9/11, but that horrible day certainly helped it along. Now, politi-cians at all levels are leaving no rock unturned in their attempts to frighten us into voting for them.
Fear of terrorists has, of course, brought us an unbroken string of restric-tions on our liberty, an endless series of inconveniences to travellers, an upsurge in suspicion among groups.
Fear of crime has become a political staple, despite convincing statistical evidence to show that we are experienc-ing less crime, not more. The media are accomplices in this: those crimes that do occur are covered in gruesome detail and featured most prominently. On television and in fi lm, even in popular literature, the climate of fear is helped along by daily helpings of gore. In series after se-ries, book after book, movie after movie, crime is on the loose, and very violent crime at that.
If we, contrary to the evidence, fear for our lives, who can blame us?
This does not bring to an end the list of fears to which we are subjected. Some of them are actually worth thinking about, such as fear for the environment. Pollu-tion, crazy weather, threats to drinking water – all are real. Oddly, we seem to react less to them, in terms of changing our behaviour, than we do to the fi ctional crime waves we see on TV. We just go on polluting and being wasteful, at the same time we lock ourselves away from imagi-nary monsters.
Another pretty good fear is the one for our economic security. Bankers are lurching around like Keystone Kops, corporations are eliminating jobs instead of creating them, governments are (a) stimulating the economy and then (b) not
stimulating the economy and the stock market is going crazy. This refl ects the mood of the people who invest in it. They are scared. Should they be? All we know is that the economy would be in better shape if they weren’t.
Then there is the fear of taxes. This is a creation of politicians and many Canadians will experience it this year as voters go to the polls in a bunch of provinces, including this one. Despite the fact that we have been paying taxes for hundreds of years and taxes give us schools and highways and hospitals and defence and police protection, taxes are now scary, something like one of those guys in goalie masks you see on the late movie.
No one said that we were rational people, but isn’t it strange that the people who are there to save us from the waves of crime and terrorism that we fear exist courtesy of something that is deemed to be so scary, namely taxes?
Never mind. The premier of Ontario is being labelled a “taxman,” as are the premiers of other provinces and all the premiers will deny being taxmen and vow not to do anything to raise taxes.
Which is nice, except that in an un-fearful world someone might recognize
that some of the real problems we have – think of health care, think of transit, think of poverty – can only be solved if the government spends some money on them, and that spending money to solve them probably involves higher, not lower, taxes.
But there is nobody more fearful in the world than a politician who thinks he might have to announce a tax hike.
Somehow in this supposedly terrifi ed world, we manage to live our lives, get safely from Point A to Point B, avoid contact with arch-fi ends, experience the odd smile, and wake up healthy the next morning. If only our politicians and investors could smile a bit too.
Trying to get by in a scary world
CHARLES GORDON
Funny Town
It takes a nation to save a child
Let’s talk about suicide.Suicide is the second leading cause of
death for youth ages 10 to 24, according to recent numbers from Statistics Canada.
Studies show a signifi cant percentage of adoles-cents contemplate a plan or attempt suicide with-out seeking or receiving help.
The issue exploded onto the radar of Ottawa parents last year after the parents of Daron Rich-ardson publicized the details of their 14-year-old daughter’s suicide on Nov. 15, 2010.
During a press conference following his daugh-ter’s death, Richardson said he and his wife talked about diffi cult subjects with their daughter like al-cohol and drug abuse and sex.
But they never discussed mental health.“I wish we did talk about it before,” he said. “But
we just didn’t think it was there.”Dr. Ian Manion, a CHEO clinical psychologist,
said in many cases parents don’t seek help because of the stigma of mental health issues.
This week, we begin a three-part series that dis-cusses the issue of youth suicide and what we as a community can do to combat the problem.
Because the fi rst step in facing any problem is talking about it.
We’re hoping this series will help educate people
about mental health issues and enable parents, family, friends – everyone – identify the resources available in the community.
It only takes one caring person to make a differ-ence, but we have to be comfortable with asking the hard questions.
One of the fi rst steps should be taken by our gov-ernment – did you know that Canada is the only G8 country without a national suicide prevention strategy – basically a playbook that allow different agencies and groups to work together to combat the issue.
On a grassroots level, we need to teach the issue in schools, provide suicide-prevention training for any adult who works with groups of children.
Parents must learn how to identify potential mental health problems, a skill that begins with knowing how to talk to their child.
Children lack emotional maturity and they have never been taught the language skills need to ex-press their emotions.
So many keep it bottled up inside – and some just can’t handle it.
This is a national problem in need of a national solution, from the ground up.
It takes a village to raise a child – it might need a nation to save them.
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Two Sexual Health Centre satellite clin-ics were set to open in the city this week.
A new Sexual Health Centre satellite clinic was set to open in Barrhaven on Wednesday, Sept. 14, while the Kanata of-fi ce was moving and expanding its servic-es as of Tuesday, Sept. 13.
The new Barrhaven drop-in centre – in partnership with the Pinecrest-Queen-sway Community Health Centre – is locat-ed at 4100 Strandherd Dr., suite 201, at the South Nepean Community Health Centre.
“About a year ago we evaluated our ex-isting satellite clinics,” said Andrew Hen-driks, program manager for the healthy sexuality and risk reduction program. “We looked at the infection rates, the preg-nancy among young women, abortion rates and we did that on a geographical level, a neighbourhood level. We felt that Barrhaven was an important area to offer these sexual health ser-vices.”
The new offi ce will of-fer services on Wednes-days, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
“STI (sexually trans-mitted infection) rates have been steadily in-creasing in the last 10 years in Ottawa – chla-mydia and gonorrhea specifi cally among youth,” said Dr. Isra Levy, the city’s medical offi cer of health. “Increasing the ease of access to OPH (Ottawa public health) sexual health services is a crucial step in eliminating gaps in the priority ar-eas of our city.”
The expansions are part of a three-year strategy by the Ottawa board of health to address gaps in sexual health services in the city.
“By expanding the Kanata satellite clin-ic, and opening a brand new clinic in Bar-rhaven, OPH is increasing its service to our communities,” said Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, who is also a member of the board of health. “These new clinics will increase the reach of sexual health ser-vices throughout the city.”
RECORD NUMBER OF VISITS
The new clinics will provide free testing for STIs, birth control, free counselling on healthy sexuality, HIV testing and other sexual health services.
“After a record number of visits to the Sexual Health Centre on Clarence Street in the second quarter of this year, it is clear that increasing our capacity for sex-ual health services in Ottawa needs to be a
priority,” said Diane Hol-mes, chair of the board of health and Somerset ward councillor. “I am proud to say that these new clinics will help meet these needs.”
The new Kanata drop-in centre is located at the West End Family Care Clinic at 80 Michael Cowpland Dr., and offers extended hours: Tues-days, from 5 to 8 p.m. and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information on the Sexual Health Centre satellite clinics, visit otta-wa.ca/health or call the OPH information line at 613-580-6744.
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Two new sexual health satellite clinics open
Photo by Courtney SymonsOttawa public health and the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre celebrate the opening of two new sexual health clinics in Barrhaven and Kanata. From left, associ-ate medical offi cer of health Dr. Vera Etches, Ottawa board of health member Timothy Hutchinson, executive director of Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre and South-Nepean Community Health Centre Wanda MacDonald, Barrhaven Coun. and mem-ber of the Ottawa board of health Jan Harder, Somerset Coun. and chair of the Ottawa board of health Diane Holmes, medical offi cer of health Dr. Isra Levy.
“These new clinics will increase the reach of sexual health services throughout the city. ”
Jan Harder
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Ottawa police have charged a 35-year-old Ottawa man follow-ing two pharmacy robberies, including one in Nepean that involved a foot chase.
Sept. 8, at about 12:15 p.m., a lone male suspect entered a gro-cery store along the 200 block of Grant Carman Drive. The sus-pect proceeded to the pharmacy and passed a note making a de-
mand for prescription drugs.The suspect was armed with
a knife at the time. The suspect fl ed on foot with an undisclosed quantity of prescription drugs and was then arrested by police a short distance away following a brief foot pursuit. No inju-ries were sustained during the course of the robbery.
The Ottawa police robbery
unit is investigating and has linked the suspect to a previous pharmacy robbery on Aug. 17. They believe the same suspect entered a pharmacy situated along the 1000 block of Carling Avenue and passed a note mak-ing a demand for prescription drugs. No weapon was seen.
The suspect fl ed with an un-disclosed quantity of prescrip-
tion drugs. No injuries were sustained during the course of the robbery.
A 35-year-old Ottawa man is charged with two counts of rob-bery, two counts of wearing a disguise, two counts of breach of undertaking, and single counts of uttering threats and possession of a weapon danger-ous to the public.
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JENNIFER MCINTOSH
A fundraising event for the Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) Foundation’s Care Grows West campaign packed a punch on Sept. 10 – bringing the cam-paign a mere $250,000 from the goal of $35 million.
The Rhythm and Rum Ball managed to raise $180,000 in one evening for the cam-paign.
Patrons got a taste of Barbados, thanks to the campaigns connection to the Greenberg family, which has a taste for the Caribbean island.
“As a frequent visitor who knows the ins and out of Barbados and loves this island and its wonderful sun, sea and sand as well as its music, people, its food and hospitality, I think everyone enjoyed themselves at the Rhythm and Rum Ball,” gala patron Shirley Greenberg said in a press release.
The evening featured rum punch reci-pes, tropical appetizers and live enter-tainment from the Nepean Panharmonics Steelpan Band as well as a performance by the Merrymen – a Caribbean band who came out of retirement and fl ew to Ottawa especially for the event.
Guests were given door prizes and one lucky winner scored a trip for two to Bar-
bados courtesy of the Barbados Tourism Authority.
A gift in the form of a $5-million do-nation was also made public during the event by hospital foundation executive director Melanie Adams.
“It’s very gratifying to see how much
support our community gives to our hos-pital, ensuring QCH is there for you when you need us,” said QCH Foundation chair Ron Prehogan. “I think of the thousands of individuals that will benefi t from our redevelopment project and new services such as the Irving Greenberg Family Cancer Centre, the new dialysis unit, a second MRI and CT scanner, expanding ambulatory care facilities and surgical suites. It’s tremendously rewarding to be a part of it.”
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In the last Ontario election, the Liber-als were elected by 52.1 per cent of vot-ers.
The number of electors casting bal-lots has been steadily declining since 1990, when it was 64.4 per cent.
This year, Elections Ontario is look-ing to increase those numbers.
In a bid to battle apathy, for the fi rst time the elections authority is making it possible to vote all month. There are also a number of changes to make vot-ing more accessible to people with mo-bility concerns or disabilities.
Voters can still head to the polls on Oct. 6 and cast their ballot as usual.
But if it’s inconvenient or impossible for you to get to the returning offi ce on Oct. 6, you can mail in a special ballot any time between now and Oct. 5.
To do so, download a special ballot ap-plication form from http://wemakevot-ingeasy.ca or call 1-888-668-8683 or email [email protected] to have a form sent to you. The special ballot can be taken to
the returning offi ce in person.If you would rather vote by mail, you
can request a special ballot kit, which must be returned a minimum of six days prior to Election Day.
For voters who need assistance be-cause they physically cannot go to a returning offi ce or because of a dis-ability that prevents them from reading or writing, election offi cials can make home visits with special ballots ahead of Election Day.
There will be mobile polling stations at a number of long-term care facilities and hospitals. Dates and times will be posted at each location.
Voters also have 10 days to head to ad-vance polls, from Sept. 21 to 30.
For more detail on how to vote, visit the Elections Ontario website at http://wemakevotingeasy.ca. The site has in-formation on what to do if you are tem-porarily living outside Ontario, are in hospital or if you are from Ontario but temporarily living outside of your elec-toral district – something that applies to many post-secondary students.
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“It’s very gratifying to see how much support our com-munity gives to our hospital, ensuring QCH is there for you when you need us ”
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Dust off those antiques and sharpen up your bargaining skills because Sheldon Smithens and Scott Cozens, the Canadian Pickers, are heading to the Ottawa area.
The pickers are not sure if they will be wind-ing down the back roads of Lanark or Renfrew counties, or at a fl ea market in the Ottawa sub-urbs, but the History Television stars are coming to town to kick some tires, and name a price.
“I don’t think we’re exactly sure where we’re going,” admitted Cozens, during a telephone in-terview from Calgary, Alta.
“We’ll take a fl yer or go to a fl ea market, or go knock on some doors.”
They are scheduled to be in the greater Ottawa area from Thursday, Sept. 22 to Tuesday, Sept. 27.
If you think you have something valuable enough to land you a spot on the show, they are encouraging you to let them know.
“If you are interested in being on Canadian Pickers, and have lots of vintage items, memora-bilia, collectibles, or antiques to sell for cash, then let us know,” stated a press release. “Our hosts want to meet people and hear their stories.”
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Anyone interested in being part of the upcom-ing Canadian Pickers episodes is asked to call 416-531-2500, ext. 657, or email canadianpickers@cinefl ix.com to see if you qualify.
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The Western OttawaCommunity Resource Centre
Celebrating 25 years ofBringing Care and Community Together
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Please join us as we celebrate the successesof the past 25 years
Monday, September 19thTime: 4:30 – 6:30pm
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DAN PLOUFFE
Unpredictability ruled the day as the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL) season opened at the Kanata Recreation Complex with 12 matches over three days this past weekend.
The Hawkesbury Hawks, the league cellar dwellers for the past three sea-sons, are a perfect 2-0, claiming the 0-2 defending national champions from Pembroke as one of their victims.
The Nepean Raiders opened their season with an 8-2 pasting of Smiths Falls and then blew a 2-0 lead the next night to Carleton Place.
And not many would have picked the Ottawa Jr. Senators to win both games considering their coach and general manager resigned before the start of the season, but that’s just what happened with dominant 6-1 and 5-2 victories.
Don’t count Darren Graff amongst the surprised. The man who takes over general manager and assistant coach duties for the moment knew the potential his Ottawa lineup car-ried.
“We’ve got a good core of returning veterans. We’ve got a playoff team here, I think,” Graff said, highlight-ing the fi rst line of Drew Anderson, Conor Brown and Devon Rice as one of the league’s best. “We’ve got a good hockey club, an entertaining hockey club that’s going to come out and work hard. I don’t see why we can’t make some noise.”
Ottawa’s no. 1 unit combined for 18 points in the two games, while Ed Zdolshek posted a pair of solid victo-ries in goal.
With former Hawkesbury head coach and general manager Martin Dagenais calling the shots behind the Jr. Sens bench in the interim, Graff says the club plans to add a new staff member in the coming days or weeks and then decide who will occupy what role thereafter.
Peter Ambroziak resigned for fam-ily reasons prior to training camp, al-though he stayed on to run the camp until the regular season began.
“I was really looking forward to working with him this year,” Graff says. “The skillset he brings was on par with anybody else in this league. Unfortunately it was just not a good situation at the moment. Coming back to Canada with a young fam-ily, it can be a little overwhelming at
times.“Great guy, gonna miss him.”The Nepean Raiders emphasized
the fact that their 8-2 blowout victory over Smiths Falls was only one game, and that fact became all the more noticeable the next night when four consecutive second-period Carleton Place goals proved their undoing in a 6-4 defeat.
The season-opening shallacking did however hint at what kind of po-tential this year’s Nepean lineup car-ries.
“We know we’ve got a lot of skill,” said Raiders captain Craig Cowie, who had a pair of goals and a pair of assists in the 8-2 win but was held off the scoresheet against Carleton Place. “We’ve worked on building a lot of speed in practice, and it showed. They couldn’t keep up with us.”
In his fi rst season with the Raiders, Cowie was part of the team that fi n-ished atop the league standings with Pembroke and made it to the fi nals, and he sees the same fl ashes in this year’s squad.
“There are a lot of similarities – a lot of speed and a lot of skill,” said the 20-year-old Nepean native. “It worked for us then. Hopefully we can pull through at the end this time.”
The Kanata Stallions appear to have some work left to do before they host the Fred Page Cup eastern Cana-dian championships later this season. They lost 4-1 to Cornwall and then 6-3 to the suddenly high-fl ying Hawks.
Photo by Dan Plouffe Keenan Hodgson, left, was one of six goal scorers for the Nepean Raiders in their 8-2 season-opening victory over Smiths Falls.
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“We’ve got a good hockey club, an entertaining hockey club that’s going to come out and work hard. ”
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JESSICA CUNHA
After two long years of plan-ning the Constance Creek Wild-life Refuge in Dunrobin is set to open in September.
Lynne Rowe, founder of the rescue for injured or orphaned animals, said she’s thrilled ev-erything is coming together for the Sept. 18 grand opening.
“That is extremely satisfying after two years,” she said. “We can make this happen. We can provide for the animals.”
The Ministry of Natural Resources is in the process of granting Rowe approval to open. Her project also received a number of grants to fi nish de-veloping her property to house small mammals and an adjoin-ing pasture for deer.
“I’m confi dent by the grand opening we’ll have our authori-zation,” she said.
Her garage has become a rac-coon quarantine room – each litter of raccoons must be kept separate for two weeks to avoid spreading infections and dis-eases. She has cages set up to house small mammals such as squirrels, a dividing fence to keep domestic animals away from the wildlife, and a medical
trailer to treat the animals.“Here we are two years later
and my property has been trans-formed,” said Rowe, adding the only things left to do is fi nish painting and installing a chain-link fence around her property. “(The deer enclosure) has been inspected and is off-site from here.”
The pasture will provide a wide-open area for deer to be rehabilitated and introduced back into the wild with minimal transport and moving involved, she said.
GRAND OPENING
“This place is going to look great for our grand opening,” said Rowe. “It’s going to be a re-ally fun day.”
The big day is set for Sunday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Onsite entertainment will in-clude a magic show, face paint-ing, live music, a petting zoo and a tour of the wildlife facili-ties.
“People will be able to see what we’ve accomplished and hopefully get involved,” said Rowe, adding she’s still looking for ongoing fi nancial support from the community. “I still des-perately need that.”
She said none of this would be possible without the count-less volunteers who have been donating their time to build the wildlife refuge.
“I have met some of the most wonderful people,” she said. “They really care about the
place; they really care about the animals.”
On Aug. 18, a number of em-ployees from Lush donated their time to help with painting, fi nishing the fencing and other small jobs around the property.
“Now that we get to have
people come in and legally ac-cept wildlife it feels like a huge gain,” said Melissa Kerr, a long-time volunteer with the refuge. “Wildlife will have a home. Yeah, I’m excited. We’re moving forward.”
Rowe said she’s looking at starting an internship program at the refuge where she’ll teach people about caring for animals and running a sanctuary.
“We need volunteers here ev-ery day,” she said. “We’ll make it a very rich experience for them.”
Because there are few wild-life centres and they tend to fi ll up quickly during the spring months, Rowe said she’ll likely see animals come from as far away as Prescott, Alexandria and Renfrew.
“I was just hit hard at the overwhelming amount of de-mand (for a wildlife rescue,” said Rowe.
Two summers ago a person brought an orphaned fawn to her farm and the closest place that could take it in was in Napa-nee, Ont., she said. That spurred her to take action and begin to construct the Constance Creek Wildlife Refuge.
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Jessica Cunha photoClaire Arseneau, Melissa Kerr, Alison Collins and Melissa Lyon paint the garage which will be the raccoon quarantine room at the Con-stance Creek Wildlife Refuge. The centre is set to host a grand open-ing on Sept. 18.
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Charanjit Wadehra has donated count-less hours of his time to volunteering efforts was presented with the Frank Valentine Award at the Kanata Seniors’ Council annual general meeting on Mon-day, Sept. 12.
The former Bell High School teacher was awarded the prestigious honour be-cause of his long-term involvement vol-unteering in the community.
“I had zero idea,” he said after being chosen. “I was surprised.”
The award is given to a senior over age 55 who volunteers his or her time, focus-es on seniors’ needs, provides outstand-ing leadership and works for change.
Wadehra has been volunteering since he retired as a physics teach in 1993. Since then he’s been involved with vari-ous organizations:
• As the business crime prevention co-ordinator for the Ottawa police for 18 years.
• As a volunteer driver with the West-ern Ottawa Community Resource Centre for 18 years.
• The Indo-Canadian Association for one year.
• On the board of the Kanata Seniors’ Council since the beginning in 1996.
• On the board of directors for the Council on Aging for three years.
• Raising funds for the Heart Institute at the University of Ottawa for six years.
• The co-ordinator for the Punjabi Se-nior Group for 15 years.
• The Ottawa Community Immigration Services Organization for two years.
“I dedicate this one to my wife,” said Wadehra after he received the award, be-
cause of the late nights and early morn-ings.
His wife, Promila said she’s happy he volunteers so much of his time since she can’t due to medical reasons.
“I’m pleased someone has taken these responsibilities,” she said. “He’s involved in so much volunteer work. I’m very hap-py about it.”
During his down time, Wadehra enjoys playing bridge, square dancing and fi x-ing any broken item that comes across his path.
He’s also working on the ninth annual Dhadkan – meaning heartbeat – fundrais-ing event for the University of Ottawa’s Heart Institute.
The event will be held at the Ottawa Convention Centre on Oct. 14, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $150 each and include all drinks, food and entertainment.
This year, the event is featuring guest speaker Dr. Sudodh Verma, along with Californian comedian Tapan Trivedi.
“We have raised $7.3 million for the Heart Institute,” said Wadehra.
The Frank Valentine Award is named after Frank Valentine, who advocated for seniors’ issues in Kanata and was the instigator behind the formation of the Kanata Seniors Council in 1996.
Wadehra said he’s known Valentine since the beginning.
“I have known Mr. Frank Valentine since the very inception of the Kanata Seniors’ Centre,” he said during his ac-ceptance speech.
Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkin-son said she was happy Wadehra was the winner.
“I was really pleased to hear it was you,” she told him.
Long-time volunteer receives Valentine awardCommunity
Jessica Cunha photoCharanjit Wadehra poses with his wife, Promila, after receiving the Frank Valentine Award on Sept. 12. Charanjit dedicated his win to her, thanking her for her understanding.
Name a local hero
Crime Prevention Ot-tawa is calling for nomi-nations for the third an-nual Community Safety Awards, to be held on Nov. 7 at Ottawa City Hall.
The awards honour all those who make a differ-ence through their com-munity safety and crime prevention efforts.
Nominations are being sought for individuals, groups or programs in the following categories: com-munity safety volunteer,
community safety pro-gram, community safety leader, business leader in community safety, youth leader, enforcement pro-fessional, and City of Ot-tawa community safety award.
Nominees come from all walks of life. They are the women, men and young people who volunteer or work in the areas of com-munity safety and crime prevention.
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“The Community Safe-ty Awards celebrate the commitment of all those who work or volunteer to make Ottawa a better, safer place to live,” says Crime Prevention Ottawa
executive director Nancy Worsfold. “Their stories are inspiring. We believe they should be shared to encourage others to build better neighbourhoods, create safer environments and prevent crime.”
City residents and or-ganizations can nominate any individual, group or program for an award. The criteria and nomina-tion form can be found at: www.CrimePreventionOt-tawa.ca.
The deadline for sub-missions is Oct. 11.
Crime Prevention Ot-tawa contributes to crime reduction and enhanced community safety in Ot-tawa through collabora-tive evidence-based crime prevention.
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LAURA MUELLER
William Ross is something of a magician.
First, his sleight-of-hand tricks impressed his friends
at school.Eventually, he moved on to fooling
staff and fellow patients at the Chil-dren’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario’s mental health ward.
But before that, Ross tried to pull his trickery on Ottawa police offi cers, who had to cart him to CHEO in a squad car to prevent the amateur Houdini from escaping his handcuffs and harming himself.
And lately, the 17-year-old Ottawa resident has been working magic on his own life, astounding family and friends with his seemingly supernatural ability to bounce back from the darkest dead-end track.
In less than a year, Ross went from what appeared to be a pretty well-ad-justed teenager who loved BETA testing video games and cooking, to a shadow of himself, obsessed with compulsive thoughts of trying to end his life. And now, mere months later, he has rebound-ed, an outcome his mother, Suzanne Ross, could barely bring herself to dream of.
Suzanne, who comprises a large part of her son’s support system, still lives by a phrase repeated to her by a rela-tive of her own: “You can be cautiously optimistic when things are going better, knowing that there could still – and probably will – be slips and things that are going to happen,” Suzanne says. “It’s not going to happen overnight.”
DIMMING THE LIGHTS
By the same token, William didn’t get to that dark place – a deep depression he likens to all the lights being turned out – overnight.
“Everything up until that point was like dimming out the lights,” he says.
William says he really began to slide down the slippery slope to self destruc-tion after last summer.
Some romantic relationships that went foul didn’t help his tendencies towards obsessive compulsiveness and anxiety, William says.
But it was surrounding himself with a social circle that turned out to be more focused on partying and backstabbing than trust and friendship kicked the process into high gear.
He was partying too much. Peer pres-sure led to alcohol and “mild” drug use.
“I’ve had a little bit of a shadowy, dark past,” he says. “Over time, things had just gotten worse.”
When Suzanne looks back, she real-izes that all the classic warning signs were there.
Her son wasn’t sleeping at night, but he would sleep during all hours of the day – when he was home. Most of the time, he was out with friends – partying, although she didn’t know it.
“I thought it was a normal progres-sion – to give him a bit of indepen-dence,” she says. “He never gave me a reason not to trust him.”
Eventually William lost the energy to do any of the activities he was so passionate about. He didn’t care to test out video and computer games to help work out the bugs before they hit the market. The sharp-witted teen’s interest in school waned. And most obviously
for Suzanne, her son completely stopped taking over the kitchen of their two-sto-rey Orleans home to whip up a culinary masterpiece.
“When I look back those are all signs,” she says. “If you notice a change in your child’s behaviour, pay attention to it, because it may be nothing, but in our case it was a clue.”
The clues started long before Wil-liam’s back-to-back visits to CHEO last autumn, which wasn’t his fi rst visit to the hospital’s mental-health ward.
In fact, it all started in the very home in which William still lives with his mother, father and brother.
William’s spirit started to crack when he was only six, but it wasn’t until more than six years later that William fi nally admitted to his mother why. He had been raped by someone close to the family.
By that point, William was already un-dergoing therapy for anxiety, a process that lasted three years.
“I talked about how I didn’t really trust people; how I didn’t really trust myself,” he says.
He thought releasing the secret helped him get over that hurdle, but looking back, he says he was wrong. His world continued to crumble.
It wasn’t until last year, he began to pick up the pieces.
By the end of the summer, William couldn’t force himself to stop fi xating over harming himself.
Every object, from ballpoint pens to
pieces of string, became weapons of self harm in William’s obsessive gaze.
Luckily for William, it only took one at-tempt for him to recognize he needed help.
Less than 12 hours after putting three thin, shallow cuts into his chest with an X-Acto knife, William was talking to a psychologist at CHEO.
Before his family even clued in to what was happening in his head, Wil-liam asked his mother to drive him to the hospital before he couldn’t stop him-self from severely hurting himself.
“I knew that I wanted it, but I didn’t want it,” he says. “It was like in the short term, I had wanted to hurt myself, but I knew that eventually I might not want this, and I just needed help.”
William spent three weeks at CHEO
Photos by Laura MuellerWilliam Ross has made huge strides in tackling his demons since last summer, when he tried to take his own life and ended up at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario for treatment. Spray-paint art is a recent addition to William’s repertoire. Right, he creates a painting earlier this spring as a gift for his grandfather.
PICKING UP THE PIECESGrappling with suicidal thoughts
leaves youth feeling isolated. Part one of our three-part series
tells how realizing they aren’t alone can be like fl icking on a light switch – and the tragedy that can happen
without that illumination.
OUT OF THE DARKNESS A series about youth suicide
Part 1: Two youths struggle with suicidal thoughts - with radically different outcomes
See page 17
If you’re a teen in crisis or their guardian, the Youth Services Bureau has a free, 24-hour help line. Call 613-260-2360 or 1-877-377-7775 (toll free) [email protected]
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GEOFF DAVIES
Jesse Graham loved to win. And often, he did.
On the soccer pitch, in the class-room, in excited debates or board
games, Jesse found joy in things that pushed his limits. He loved to push back.
Those who loved him smile as they remember his mile-wide competitive streak. They laugh to think of his fi red-up rants, notorious for leaving everyone in stitches. He was a fi erce friend, a devoted son, and now a full year has passed since his death.
The beam in Jesse’s basement bed-room was low, so it was easy enough for his father, Jeff, to lift up his dangling body and untie the noose. It wasn’t quite six in the morning by the time Jesse – brother to Katie, Zachary, Kelsie, Jarred and Lauren – was stretched out on the fl oor of their home in Balderson, Ont., with his mother and father bent over him, performing CPR.
By the time the paramedics arrived, the boy who loved to win, who dreamed of becoming prime minister or practis-ing law, was dead.
“We never had a real inkling that Jesse was suicidal,” says his mother Shelly, who is a nurse.
“He never once said to us ‘I’m de-pressed.’ He didn’t look depressed… he didn’t do all the things… the signs of suicide that you look for. He didn’t give anything away.”
Randy Thompson, 19, and Jesse were best friends through high school, right up until Jesse hanged himself in the early hours of June 18, just days away from graduation, at the age of 17.
“I went through a couple months of just numbness,” says Randy.
He was right there to witness the changes in his friend.
At 16, Jesse was a ball of fi re. He was clean-cut, not into the same drinking and dosing scene as some of his peers. He went to youth group at his church every Thursday. He liked to hang out with the brainier kids. He liked debates, not chit-chat, and attacked them with the same ballistic energy that made his teacher hide the classroom dodge ball and his friends steer clear of him during soccer games.
A year later, he wasn’t himself. His parents noticed it, his friends did too. He was angry.
“He’s 17 and lots of boys get angry at 17, because they’re fi nding their way. So you try to give him space; give him enough room to kind of fi gure things out,” says Shelly.
Obstacles multiplied and hope dwin-dled. Jesse kept his pain to himself. He never sought help, but he sought com-fort elsewhere. Beer, liquor, cigarettes, pot, sometimes harder stuff. Jesse tried to get out of his own tormented head,
but it made things worse.Jesse’s grades fi rst started slipping
as he began Grade 11. For a guy remem-bered as exceptionally bright, with test results placing him among the country’s most gifted kids, this was unusual.
Shelly’s description of her son fi ts both a perfectionist and a buzzing mind. Noth-ing, even the simplest assignment, was worth handing in unless it was just right.
Not long before, he used to cruise through the curriculum without a prob-lem. But now he was lagging behind, and getting in trouble in the classroom to boot. What was happening?
LOOKED LIKE DEFIANCE
“We didn’t have a clue. It looked like laziness, it looked like defi ance,” says Shelly. “We realize now it was none of the above. He was frustrated with him-self and he didn’t know what was wrong with him.”
Toward the end of his life, Jesse started to fi gure it out. After doing some research online, he announced to his family that he thought he had Attention Defi cit Disorder. The family doctor con-curred, and started him on Concerta, a psychostimulant similar to Ritalin. That was a couple of months before his death, says Shelly.
ADD, says Shelly, was just part of his problems. The other part wouldn’t become known until after Jesse’s death, after his suicide note was published on the front page of a major daily newspa-per.
The Grahams’ phone rang one day, a few weeks after Jesse’s death.
On the line was Louise Brazeau-Ward.Brazeau-Ward is an internation-
ally-renowned expert on dyslexia. She started the Canadian Dyslexia Associa-tion, after witnessing her own son’s struggles with the condition. At Heri-tage Academy, the specialty school she runs in Aylmer, Que., she teaches kids how to overcome dyslexia.
The article in the newspaper said your son had ADD, she said to Shelly, but why didn’t it mention his dyslexia?
Dyslexia? The Grahams had never
suspected their son had the condition, which impairs ones ability to read and write.
No one, not even his teachers, had noticed anything out of the ordinary.
But there were signs, and you could see them in his suicide note. Lisa Taylor does screening and testing for the asso-ciation. With her 20 years of experience in the fi eld, they were brutally obvious.
“I call them no-brainers,” she said in an interview at her Kanata offi ce.
Taylor says she spent two hours pick-ing out possible indicators in Jesse’s note: capital letters reversed; hesita-tions, where Jesse started writing one letter and chose another; back-and-forth switches between cursive and printing.
“At 17, you don’t reverse your B’s and D’s.”
On behalf of the Canadian Dyslexia Association, Brazeau-Ward offered to test the Grahams’ two youngest chil-dren – Jarred, 12, and fi ve-year-old Lauren – for dyslexia, as the condition is hereditary and often shared among family members. They made the offer “in Jesse’s honour”, declining payment for tests that can cost around $450 each.
Turns out the hunch was right. The association’s testing found Jarred to be mildly dyslexic. After a separate assess-ment by the school board, he now uses computer programs to level the educa-tional playing fi eld. Lauren proved to be too young for test results to be conclu-sive, but her mother expects she’s not out of the woods yet. Meanwhile, their cousin was also identifi ed as having similar learning disabilities, just as she was putting high school behind her.
On the living room couch of the fam-ily home, Jeff can still quote the words from his son’s fi nal message. “I hate myself,” Jesse wrote. “My life’s a lie.”
“I believe the lie was he put on a happy face. He had all this pain inside,” says Shelly.
Now that Jesse’s gone, no test can be done to prove it, but his parents believe he suffered from dyslexia, and that it helped pushed him over the edge.
“It makes me wonder how many kids are out there that haven’t been picked up.”
before asking to be discharged, but a breakdown the next day sent him back to CHEO in a police car after authori-ties were called to his home when he threatened to harm himself.
Help came in the form of talking. William went back to CHEO, and through the Children and Youth - Spe-cialized Psychiatric and Mental Health Services program (a partnership with the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Cen-tre), he dedicated himself to tackling his demons.
There, he tried everything. From counselling to art therapy to deep breathing, William says he was open to anything.
“I was tired of fi ghting myself,” he says.
He stayed on that track after he left CHEO and started a stint in the outpa-tient program at the Royal Ottawa.
For three months, he made daily treks to the Royal to attend family therapy, individual therapy, stress therapy, to learn calming techniques, meditation and different ways of cop-ing. But most importantly, he was able to connect with other people who were in the process of overcoming their own issues.
“It was the talking – it was the other people, and it was knowing I’m not alone,” William says. “Knowing there are other people going through differ-ent issues, other people going through similar issues, other people going through the same issues.
“Knowing there are other problems, problems that are worse and problems that are – not necessarily better, but different – I learned that I’m not alone, and that was the biggest thing.”
Now, more than a year after he hit rock bottom, William says he has a new defi nition of “normal.” Knowing that he is just one of many people dealing with mental illness has made all the difference. And now he thinks of men-tal illness as what it is – just one type of the many ailments that may strike a person in his or her lifetime.
It was when people stopped treat-ing him differently that he was able to make progress, he says. Just having people there to listen – not judge, offer advice, or give opinions – made his road to recovery possible.
William says he doesn’t have any regrets today because the experienced helped shape him and make him a stronger person. But that could have been much different if he had succeed-ed in his attempts to kill himself.
“If I had killed myself, I would have somehow gotten myself back to life so I could kill myself again for doing that. That’s how stupid it was,” he says.
When he thinks back to that point in his life, he often reminds himself – and others going through a similar ordeal: “No matter how bad your situation is, you’re always comfortable somewhere.”
Getting to the comfortable place isn’t impossible, William says, and he is liv-ing proof.
‘My life’s a lie’: Jesse GrahamUnable to cope with his
emotions, Jesse committed suicide
at 17
‘It was knowing I’m not alone’
Shelly and Jeff Graham hold up a photo of their son Jesse who committed suicide just over a year ago. The Balderson couple hopes his story helps others in similar situations.
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JENNIFER MCINTOSH
The grand opening of the Cen-trepointe Studio Theatre was a vision 25 years in the making according to artistic director for the City of Ottawa theatres, Charles McFarland.
“It’s great to be here tonight celebrat-ing the vision of Barbara Feldman, the founding manager of Centrepointe The-atre,” he said.
The expansion of the theatre – used by international stars and local theatre groups – has been in the works since the 1990s and was set to go ahead in 2002, but for amalgamation and lack of funding.
The theatre has been in use since a May preview show of Hamlet by the Ottawa Shakespeare Company, but of-fi cially kicked things off with a perfor-mances by Ottawa band the Peptides.
Following the Peptides, patrons were serenaded by Mark Masri – who will be playing at the Shenkman in December.
McFarland said the theme of this year’s line up is going to be Where You Live, highlighting the availability of great shows locally.
“We can see amazing things right here in our neighbourhoods, without having to go downtown,” McFarland said.
With a performances in the areas of rock, pop, Celtic, jazz, folk, classical, Canadiana, comedy and live entertain-ment – there promises to be a show for every taste and style.
Following the opening of the new the-atre was Celtic Thunder, with names like the Crash Test Dummies and John Prine set to hit the stage later in the sea-son.
Italian sensation Zucchero will be at Centrepointe in October, and in keeping with the international fl avour, patrons can catch Australian Pink Floyd just a week later.
There also promises to be comedic de-lights with the Arrogant Worms hitting the stage in November.
In the spring Mel Brook’s musical Young Frankenstein will run for two days.
Over at Shenkman, things get started off with Fred Eaglesmith in October, followed by 54-40 in November.
On the comedic side, the Good Love-
lies are slotted for Dec. 13, followed by Mark Masri and a rendition of Led Zepplin’s IV in late December and early January.
The lineup was met with applause from the audience at the studio theatre’s opening.
McFarland said the new theatre was more than equipped to handle any kind
of performance thanks to the start-of-the-art lighting equipment made possi-ble by a Trillium grant given to the local theatre company GOYA.
“Barbara’s vision made it possible for me to call and ask for what I think is one of the largest grants every given to a community theatre group,” said Gord Carruth, founding president of GOYA. “And the confi dence in our theatre group and the fact that we are the only
one doing exclusively Canadian shows is why we got it.”
Jim Tsarouhas, executive vice presi-dent of Tofcon Construction Inc, said that Tofcon was founded with the mind to work on projects that would benefi t the community.
“This was the fi rst foray into a com-munity theatre project,” Tsarouhas said of the new Centrepointe Studio Theatre. “And we are proud to be a part of it.”
Centrepointe sets the stage for more shows
Photos by Jennifer McIntoshThe Peptides, a local band, performed for patrons at the grand opening of the Cen-trepointe Studio Theatre and the announcement of the 2011-2012 lineup.
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LAURA MUELLER
The National Capital Commission wants to create a plan for the Ottawa re-gion that is as much about cultivating a Canadian identity as it is about plan-ning the future of the region.
The NCC is launching a series of consultations this fall termed “Capital Conversations,” and for the fi rst time ever, it will fan out across the country to get the perspective of Canadians from across the nation to have a say in what happens here in the next 50 years.
It’s called Horizon 2067, and the NCC says it is the most ambitious and far-reaching planning exercise it has ever undertaken.
“More than any other area, we have the responsibility to tell the Canadian story,” said André Préfontaine, execu-tive director of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
“A capital is a place of meaning and infl uence, and it represents the country to the rest of the world as the center of foreign diplomacy.”
The society, which publishes Cana-dian Geographic magazine, is the NCC’s partner in the initiative and will run a series of feature stories on Horizon 2067.
The very high-level plan will be an “overlay” for all planning in the capital region. It needs to be a “meaningful ini-
tiative for all Canadians,” said Pierre Dubé, the NCC planner in charge of the plan.
The idea is to create a “people place,” he said. The NCC uses terms such as “vibrancy,” “commemoration” and “cel-ebration” to describe what it will try to achieve with the plan.
One specifi c goal is to fi nd a way to better integrate public servants and their isolated “campuses” with the ur-ban fabric of the city.
But there are challenges ahead. The Horizon plan can’t override or replace the plans set out by the 13 municipali-ties that encompass the capital region, and it remains to be seen how engaged the rest of Canada will be in the pro-cess.
And when it’s done, in 2013, it remains to be seen how the cross-jurisdictional plan will be implemented and who will pay for what.
But Marie Lemay, chief executive of-fi cer of the NCC, said the plan and the research and consultation that go into it will be a valuable tool for all levels of government, and other agencies.
“All of the players realize we cannot do it alone,” Lemay said, adding that the process will be about building on and leveraging the resources of the dif-ferent stakeholders.
The fi rst consultation, called “Capital Conversations,” kicks off in Ottawa on Sept. 27, followed by events in Quebec City; Halifax; Victoria and Edmonton.
The three-year process will cost $750,000, said NCC spokesperson Lucie Carron. The consultation will add an
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Photo by Laura MuellerMarie Lemay, CEO of the National Capital Commission, right, speaks to the media about the NCC’s plans to go nationwide with its consultation on a 50-year plan for the capital region.
NCC looking to all Canadians to shape capital region’s
“A capital is a place of meaning and infl uence, and it represents the country to the rest of the world as the center of foreign diplomacy.”
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SEPT. 17Bayshore Home Health is hosting a Fall Festival fundraiser for the Hospice at Maycourt from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Woodroffe United Church, 207 Woodroffe Ave. Home party vendors and crafters, barbecue, games for the kids, a bake sale, teddy bear fi rst aid tent plus a chance to meet and mingle with the Nepean Raiders hockey team, and and fi re safety from 10 to 11a.m. Admission is free.
• SEPT. 18Heritage Ottawa walking tour of the Chaudiere indus-trial district at 2 p.m. Cost is $10. Meet at the former Naval Association building on Victoria Island. The area around the Chaudiere Falls has been the core of Ottawa-Gatineau economic life from aboriginal times until the present. The walk will look at sites of this industry on both sides of the river as well as the falls and the potential for heritage redevelopment. Guide will be Chris Warden, co-author of the 1990 Chaud-iere district master plan for the NCC. Information at 613-230-8841 or www.
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Sustainable Food Practices workshop (organic food and gardening, local food, wild foods), lead by Kathryn Guindon at Barrhaven United Church, 3013 Jockvale Rd., from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Suggest-ed donation of $5 to cover presentation costs. Informa-tion at www.barrhavenunit-ed.org
Longfi elds Community Church invites everyone in Barrhaven to an afternoon of family fun at its property at 3376 Wood-roffe Ave., south of Strand-herd. An afternoon of good food, great activities and wonderful music, all oriented toward families: bouncy castle, crafts, games, videos, activities. Free admission. For information call Rev. Darren Milley at 613-295-6192 cell or darren@longfi eldschurch.com
• SEPT. 19 TO 23Attention veterans: Royal Canadian Legion provincial service offi cer John Morrison will visit the Bells Corners Legion branch 593. Veterans wishing to speak with him should contact Len Grummett at 613-820-3018 before Sept. 9 to arrange an interview.
• SEPT. 20 AND 21Art Lending Ottawa offers fi ne art to buy or rent at First Unitarian Church, 30 Cleary Ave., from 7 to 9 p.m. Free admission and parking. Call
613-224-8028 for information or visit www.artlendingofot-tawa.ca
• SEPT. 21Heritage Ottawa free public lecture, entitled An Ear-lier Settler than Philemon Wright? will be presented at 7 p.m. at the Ottawa Public Library Auditorium, 120 Met-calfe St. After the fall of New France and the short disrup-tion which followed, fur trad-ers continued to operate up and down the Ottawa River. This lecture will be in English. Questions are welcome in either offi cial language. In-formation at 613-230-8841 or www.heritageottawa.org
• SEPT. 23Fish fry supper and silent auc-tion at Bells Corners United Church, 3955 Richmond Rd. at Moodie Dr. Full dinner including New Zealand cod, dessert and beverage, served 4:30 to 7 p.m., with takeout available. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for children under 12. Information and ticket sales at 613-820-8103.
• SEPT. 23Jakes’Gift, a play about a reluctant veteran’s return to Juno Beach. Presented at 7 p.m. at the Manotick Legion, 5550 Ann St. Tickets available at the Manotick Legion ($15) or Offi ce Pro on Manotick Main Street. The play is writ-ten and performed by Julia Mackey.
Photo by Jennifer McIntosh
HIT THE ROADJohn Newman, owner of this 1959 Thunderbird Convertible offers a ride to Easter Seals kid Emile Lepine and his father Francis as part of the Dream Ride Day, held at SAR Sound and Performance in Nepean on Sept. 10.
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A solemn ceremony to honour local fi refi ghters who died in the line of duty also paid tribute to those who lost their lives during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
Hundreds gathered on Friday, Sept. 9, for the 10th annual service for fallen fi refi ghters that began with a march of about 150 fi refi ghters from the Ottawa Police Headquarters on Elgin Street to the Ottawa Firefi ghters Memorial on Laurier Avenue.
Several dignitaries, including Ottawa Fire Chief John deHooge, Mayor Jim Watson and U.S Ambassador David Ja-cobson, delivered messages that paid tribute to those who had selfl essly given their lives in the line of duty, including the 343 fi refi ghters who lost their lives on 9/11.
“As we rush out of the burning build-ing, it is the brave men and women of Ottawa Fire Service that are rushing in that building to save lives,” said Watson. The mayor said that each and every day fi refi ghters risk their own lives in order to save and protect the lives of others.
“They deserve so much gratitude for the work they do to keep us all safe.”
Speaking only two days before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Watson told those gathered at the service that the events of that tragic day changed people’s lives and the world forever.
As the news of the attack broke, Wat-son recalled rushing to the nearest tele-vision set to watch in horror at what was unfolding not only in New York, but at also at the Pentagon and in Shanks-ville, Pa., where one of the four hijacked jet liners crashed.
“One particular image that stands out in my memory are the numerous fi re-fi ghters who tirelessly searched for vic-tims,” said Watson. “Their effort to save lives was truly heroic.”
The service at city hall was also marked by the unveiling of a plaque at the Ottawa Firefi ght-ers Memorial by Jacobson, which included a piece of steel taken from the remains of the World Trade Center.
“To those who rushed in and never rushed out and to all of you who risk your life so that so many others may live, I can only say thank you,” said Ja-cobson.
He said he was humbled to be among some of Ottawa’s brav-est men and women.
“Shortly after Sept. 11, rest-ing among the cards, fl owers and Teddy bears outside my embassy, someone left a fi re-fi ghter’s jacket,” Jacobson said. “And written in that jacket was a thank you to the fi refi ghters who had lost their lives in New York. It said, ‘You rushed in so that so many others could rush out.’ ”
DeHooge said the day of re-membrance serves as a trib-ute to all fi refi ghters who have made the ultimate sacrifi ce.
“(The events of 9/11) strengthened our resolve to protect our communities. It has brought Canadians and Ameri-cans closer together,” deHooge said. “Today we honour our local heroes. We are here to re-fl ect on their service to human-
ity and to their fellow fi refi ghters.”The fi re chief presented fl owers and
certifi cates to the families of the fallen fi refi ghters and a bell rang out after each name was read.
Retired fi refi ghter Peter Ryan, fi ght-ing back tears, said he was there to re-
member all those that have gone.“It doesn’t matter whether it is Ot-
tawa or somewhere else,” said Ryan who served with Ottawa Fire Service for nearly 40 years. “When we loose someone we all feel it. It is like loosing a member of your family.”
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Firefi ghters pay respects to 9/11 heroes
Photos by Eddie RwemaOttawa fi refi ghters march to city hall as part of a ceremony to honour fallen colleagues during the 10th annual Firefi ghter Memorial Service held on Friday, Sept. 9.
Firefi ghters at work are depicted as part of the the Ottawa Firefi ghters Memorial on Laurier Avenue.
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Are you bright? Are you hard-working?Are you bright? Are you hard-working?Do you feel you have potential?Do you feel you have potential?
Perhaps you haven’t found the right company toPerhaps you haven’t found the right company to “click” with or the right opportunity to really show“click” with or the right opportunity to really show what you can do. We may have a career for you as awhat you can do. We may have a career for you as a
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Job description:• Various tasks related to the promotion of a company in the fi eld of windows and doors• Target Marketing to generate leads for “Canadian Built Home Products” windows and doors installation
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WHO ARE WE?Metroland Media, Ottawa Division, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and Ontario’s most trusted and respected community media source. Our digital media division manages a network of leading community, specialty and vertical websites across Ontario, reaching over 6 million unique internet users every month.
THE OPPORTUNITYWe are looking for New Business Acquisition Sales Representatives to sell the com-pany’s fastest growing product - Deals4U.ca This innovative program promotes local businesses to local consumers through a special “daily deal.” You’ll use your knowledge of what’s great about our city to develop and grow the local market by securing com-mitments from the most desirable local households, businesses, and services including restaurants, spas, nightclubs, retailers, theaters, tourism venues, and more. This position offers salary (commensurate with experience) and generous commissions based on revenue, sales targets and company goals
WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO• Develop and cultivate leads using multiple sources including cold calling and door-to-
door prospecting• Continuously set up face-to-face meetings with qualified prospects (15-20 appts. per
week) to present our marketing solutions• Generate compelling proposals for potential advertisers, demonstrating how our pro-
grams will meet their business needs • Explore and exhaust all possible leads to ensure that we don’t miss out on any oppor-
tunities• Maximize advertising revenues by acquiring prospect commitment• Address customer requests/concerns in a timely and appropriate manner, ensuring
superior client satisfaction at all times• Consistently meet and/or exceed monthly, quarterly and annual targets
ABOUT YOU• Proven track record as a hunter, exclusively focused on acquiring new clients and con-
verting new business leads• Previous sales experience, with preference given to those with digital advertising sales
experience• Top notch presentation/communication skills, with a natural ability to build positive
relationships with potential clients• Extensive knowledge of the local digital media/advertising landscape• Sound knowledge of sales and marketing practices• Highly skilled in all Microsoft Office applications
STUFF THAT’S NOT ON A RESUME• Type-A personality, highly competitive, self-motivated and driven by results• A hunter mentality, with the confidence and drive to excel at generating and closing
new business• Highly motivated by monetary incentives• Extremely ambitious with an outstanding work ethic and unprecedented drive for im-
mediate results• Energized by deadlines/pressure with a passion for exceeding targets• A believer in digital media, where it is today and where it’s going
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?• The opportunity to be part of a company at the cutting edge of the digital media industry• Ongoing development and opportunities for advancement• We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll get a comprehensive benefits package, including
3 weeks vacation and a group RRSP plan• The sky’s the limit; our uncapped commission plan provides unlimited earning potential• The opportunity to work with other talented and awesome people
Looking for your next career challenge? If so, Metroland Media Group is the place to be!
Interested candidates are requested to forward their resume, cover letter and salary expectations to [email protected].
Please reference “New Business Acquisition Representative” in the subject line.
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Job Posting
New Business AcquisitionSales Representative
WHO ARE WE?Metroland Media, Ottawa Division, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corpora-tion and southern Ontario’s most trusted and respected community media source. Our digital media division, manages a network of leading community, specialty and vertical websites across Ontario reaching over 6 million unique internet users every month.
THE OPPORTUNITYAs we continue to expand our successful digital sales initiatives, we are currently seeking an energetic, talented and self-assured Manager of Digital Media to drive new business sales throughout the Ottawa region. We’re looking for a motivated leader who demonstrates a sense of urgency, without creating unnecessary chaos. The ideal candi-date will have strong management experience and a proven track record for attaining outstanding results through the motivation and development of a sales team. This role requires knowledge of the digital advertising space, the competitive landscape and a solutions oriented approach to selling.
WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO• Manage and develop a team of “hunters” who are exclusively focused on generating
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customer satisfaction at all times• Ongoing reporting, tracking and forecasting
ABOUT YOU• A track record of successfully driving revenue, with a focus on acquiring new business• Previous experience in a sales leadership role, with preference given to with digital
advertising sales experience• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop successful “hunters” • Top notch presentation/communication skills, with a natural ability to build positive
relationships • Extensive knowledge of the local digital media/advertising landscape• Highly skilled in all Microsoft Office applications, with expert knowledge of Excel
STUFF THAT’S NOT ON A RESUME• Type-A personality, highly competitive, self-motivated and driven by results• A confident and influential leader with the ability to motivate and inspire• Proactive and optimistic, with a “can do” attitude• Can be decisive and demonstrate timely decision making, often under complex and
demanding circumstances • Energized by deadlines/pressure with a passion for exceeding targets• A believer in digital media, where it is today and where it’s going
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?• The opportunity to be part of a company at the cutting edge of the digital media
industry; you’ll never get bored in our fast-paced, constantly evolving and challenging environment.
• We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll get a comprehensive benefits package, including 4 weeks vacation and a group RRSP plan
• The sky’s the limit; our uncapped commission plan provides unlimited earning poten-tial
• The opportunity to work with other talented and awesome people
Looking for your next career challenge? If so, Metroland Media Group is the place to be!
Interested candidates are requested to forward their resume, cover letter and salary expectations to [email protected]
Please reference “Manager, Digital Media” in the subject line.
Metroland is an equal opportunity employer.We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. C
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