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WEST EDITION: Serving Britannia, Carlingwood, Westboro, Island Park and surrounding communities

JENNIFER MCINTOSH

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Mark Taylor bested incumbent Alex Cullen in Bay Ward because of 10 months of hard work, according to the ousted councillor.

The newcomer handed Cullen a sound de-feat, with a lead of 1,109 votes or eight per cent.

“What an incredible 10 months and I’m expecting an incredible four years thanks to you and the voters in Bay Ward,” Taylor said to his supporters at Shoeless Joe’s on Carling Avenue when the results were released.

Cullen credited his opponent’s victory to bad timing on his part and hard work on his

opponent’s. “We entered late and we only had two months

of knocking on doors while my opponent had 10 months,” Cullen said. “We left the mayor’s race too late, I am not entirely surprised. We gave too much away and he earned it.”

Cullen’s advice for Taylor was to remember that he now represents a very diverse ward.

“He is going to have to learn to be a cham-pion for the seniors and the residents that live in poverty, even when it’s not popular around the council table to do so.”

Taylor declared his candidacy in January and throughout the campaign has put his money where his mouth is.

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Taylor takes Bay Ward from CullenPhoto by Jennifer McIntosh

Councillor-elect Mark Taylor speaks to supporters after his win in Bay Ward Monday night.

ELECTION RESULTSOttawa This Week brings you

election results of the councillors - incoming and remaining - who will serve in wards across Ottawa west until 2014.

4 KRISTY WALLACE

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A crowd of Katherine Hobbs support-ers crowded her campaign offi ce on Wel-lington Street Monday night, cheering for their new councillor for Kitchissippi Ward.

Hobbs won over incumbent Christine Leadman and challenger Daniel String-er with roughly 44 per cent of the vote Monday night.

She was at her campaign offi ce eagerly waiting for her results. When she won, the party started at O’Connells’ Pub on Wellington with a team of supporters, family and friends celebrating her win.

“I’m thrilled to win and serve the peo-ple of Kitchissippi,” said Hobbs.

“When I went door to door, people wanted to share information with me and they had great ideas about improve-ments here.”

Hobbs listed a number of issues as part of her campaign platform in hopes of benefi ting Kitchissippi Ward.

Intensifi cation and growth in Kitchis-sippi Ward is one issue that Hobbs hopes to look further into – including adding green space, supporting the idea of “pre-zoning” for traditional streets like Wel-lington and Richmond, capping building heights to fi ve stories and holding regu-lar town halls for residents to voice their opinions on what’s happening in their community.

She discussed the controversy sur-rounding the condominium develop-ment on a former convent heritage site at 114 Richmond Rd.

“There might not be much we can do in the way of the convent,” said Hobbs. “But in the future, I want to make sure the people of Kitchissippi do not lose their vote when it comes to develop-ment.”

Hobbs added that she is committed to enhancing youth and senior services while she serves out her term over the next four years and providing recre-ational facilities for both age groups.

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Teenagers living in Michele Heights might be too young to vote, but the youth led a fi erce campaign this year urging their community to get out to the polls.

“We wanted to try and raise voter awareness by connecting with the younger audience and with youth,” said Sharmaarke Abdullahi, Michele Heights Community House co-ordinator. “We presented it to our youth group and they loved the idea. And then it just snowballed from there.”

The Michele Heights Youth Council is a group of young adults who are working hard in their community to also advo-cate for safe roads, giving female youth more time on the area’s basketball court and fundrais-ing after the earthquake in Haiti.

The youth council is housed in the Michele Heights Commu-nity House, which is affi liated with the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre.

Earlier this summer, the area teens organized a mock election to help increase voter turnout

in the west end by fi ve per cent. “They broke off into two

groups presenting different is-

sues,” said Abdullahi. “Members of the community

voted on what they wanted

“Our youth have done a great job in telling people there is a point to voting.”

In the last municipal elec-tions, the Michele Heights voter turnout was only at 41 per cent.

Abdullahi said many people feel like their vote might not matter.

But with the youth spreading awareness, adults are starting to get excited about the elections.

“People are going to the all-candidates meetings,” said Abdullahi.

“Now people are understand-ing that it’s their responsibility and their right.”

He added that he has learned a lot about what these youth are capable of accomplishing.

“The kids’ true intentions were just to educate people about the process and for com-munities that might feel margin-alized – let them feel included in the process,” said Abdullahi.

“I’ve learned how infl uential non-voting citizens can be, espe-cially at a young age.”

The Michele Heights Youth Council started just this past spring.

For more information on the Michele Heights Youth Council, visit their website at: www.mi-cheleheights.com

Or, contact Abdullahi by email at: [email protected]

Teens encourage voters to head to the pollsCommunity

Photo by Kristy WallaceTeens living in the Michele Heights neighbourhood - located near the Bayshore Shopping Centre - have been encouraging adults in their community to vote in this year’s municipal elections.

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Candidate % vote actual vote

Ian Boyd 15.16% 1,908Michael Kostiuk 11.76% 1,480Maria McRae 59.55% 7,496Nadia Willard 13.54% 1,704

Ward 16 - River

McRae returns to River Ward

APRIL LIM

Special to Ottawa This Week

Maria McRae has represent-ed Ward 16 since 2003 and now she will add another term as councillor of the diverse and sprawling River Ward following a comfy victory.

McRae garnered 59.57 per cent of the vote – over 5,500 more ballots than runner-up Ian Boyd. Michael Kostiuk and Nadia Willard also fi nished well behind McRae, who celebrated her re-election at Wild Wings on McCarthy Road.

Supporters that fi lled the restaurant chanted “four more years!” as McRae took the podi-um to deliver her third consecu-tive victory speech.

McRae thanked residents for giving her a River Ward “hat trick,” and gave a special and tearful thank you to her parents and her husband.

McRae said she wants to en-sure the little details of the ward continue to be looked af-ter, especially when it comes to traffi c and safety. She added that

transit is an important concern not just in her ward but for the city as a whole.

“Transit is an issue that feeds into traffi c both from a volume perspective and a safety per-spective,” McRae said. “We are going to work street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourh-hood.”

McRae is looking forward to working with newly elected mayor Jim Watson, who repre-sented a section of River Ward as MPP, noting they worked on several city projects together in the Central Park and Caldwell communities.

“We have a great history to-gether,” McRae said. “We get along really well together and I’m looking forward to collabo-rating with him.”

McRae also hopes that people will become more involved in the community during her next term.

“I want to see some way to engage the community the way they’ve engaged me at the door,” McRae added. “I’m so inspired by the ideas I’ve heard.”

River Ward Coun. Maria McRae will return for a third term in Ottawa council chambers.

Municipal Election 2010

From “Taylor” on page 1

At a debate at Maki House in Crystal Beach on Oct. 13, Tay-lor committed to not taking the $6,000 car allowance given to councillors.

“It’s a small amount, but something I want to put back in the hands of taxpayers,” he said.

Taylor has also committed to having a ward offi ce and month-ly meetings with the various community associations. He has also limited himself to two terms.

The former executive assis-tant to Jim Watson and current Alumni relations manager at Algonquin College is familiar with the political stage and will have less of a learning curve than some of the other candidates.

The race built up to 11 can-didates while Cullen was out seeking the top spot at the council table and petered out eight after he re-entered the ward race.

George Guirguis came in third at just over 12 per cent of the popular vote. The local businessman held a large por-tion of his campaign out in the cyber world, with something like 115 campaign videos mak-ing their way onto YouTube.

Two-time candidate Terry Kilrea came in fourth with eight per cent of the vote.

“Congrats to Mark Taylor,” Kilrea’s Twitter feed read. “A great campaign and lots of hard work. Good luck and party to-night! You deserve it.”

Shawn Little, probably the candidate with the most experi-ence, thanks to the nine years he worked as councillor for Kitchissippi, only managed to secure six per cent of the vote.

Poet and activist Oni Joseph came just shy of four per cent of the vote, despite an impres-sive performance during the

ward’s many debates.Joseph did have the support

of Greg Ross, the candidate Cul-len endorsed while he was still running for mayor.

Erik Olesen and Peter Heyck captured about one per cent of the vote between the two of them.

Taylor will be sworn in on Dec. 1 and is ecstatic about his win and anxious to get to work.

“My deepest thanks to our en-tire Bay Ward team for an amaz-ing year,” he said.

“I was honored to work with you all and look forward to con-tinuing.”

Taylor wins Bay Ward

Candidate % vote actual vote

Alex Cullen 30.28% 4,323George Guirguis 12.53% 1,789Peter Heyck 0.69% 99Oni Joseph 3.81% 544Terry Kilrea 8.15% 1,164Shawn Little 6.32% 903Erik Olesen 0.43% 61Mark Taylor 37.78% 5,394

Ward 7 - Bay

From “Katherine” on page 1

“I’d like to look back in four years and see lots of recreation opportunities for children, rec-reation spaces and businesses in the area,” she said.

When it comes to the light rail transit system, Hobbs wants it to serve the Richmond-Welling-ton corridor where it is most busy. In addition to her platform on transportation and transit, Hobbs wants to improve bike safety and travel as well as im-prove OC Transpo reliability.

“It hasn’t been popular be-cause it isn’t great to have a route going through your back-yard,” she said. “But that’s one of the things I’m interested in – that transit goes forward and rolls along.”

In addition to her platform on transportation and transit, Hobbs wants to improve bike safety and travel as well as im-prove OC Transpo reliability.

She also thanked former

councillor Christine Leadman – who was in the incumbent in this ward – for everything she has done for the community.

“Christine Leadman has been serving in Kitchissippi Ward for four years now, and before that as executive director of the BIA,” Hobbs said.

“We have to thank her for ev-erything she’s done.”

If she was successful in this year’s election, Leadman want-ed to implement the Develop-ment Permit System.

This legislation has been ap-proved by the province but has not been implanted in Ontario yet.

It provides additional tools – but also constraints – to help move intensifi cation along while also having a positive in-fl uence on the community.

Hobbs said ultimately, she has to the voters to thank for her success.

“People have been fantastic to me,” she said. “Thank you to the people of Kitchissippi.”

Hobbs takes council seat in Kitchissippi

Candidate % actual

Katherine Hobbs 44.18% 6,116Christine Leadman 40.02% 5,540Daniel Stringer 15.79% 2,186

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Barrhaven Ottawa South This Week

The winds of change swept city hall on election night. Ottawa elected a new mayor on Monday, Oct. 25, as Jim Watson cruised to a lopsided victory collecting 131,258 votes, or nearly half of the vote, eas-ily trouncing the incumbent, Larry O’Brien by 66,405 votes.

“Tonight we are celebrating but the hard work starts tomorrow,” said Watson, who celebrated his win with hundreds of well wishers at the Ukrainian Banquet Hall on By-ron Avenue. “Each and every one of you embodies the spirit of our capi-tal. I’m truly honoured to accept this privilege to serve as your next mayor.”

Watson isn’t the only new kid on the block on council, with voters electing nine new councillors and unseating an unprecedented six in-cumbents.

O’Brien took only 64,853 votes, a result that marked the end of his four years sitting at the helm of city council.

Clive Doucet fi nished third with 40,147 votes or 14.9 per cent of the vote, signalling the end of his 13-year career at city hall where he served as councillor of Capital Ward.

Former Nepean mayor Andrew Haydon fell into the fourth spot tak-ing 18,904 votes, nearly seven per cent of the vote, followed by Mike Maguire who attracted nearly 2.5 per cent of the vote.

The remaining 15 mayoral candi-dates collected only three per cent of the vote, led by Robert Gauthier with 1,413 votes.

The polls attracted a low turnout

with only 269,547 registered voters casting a ballot in the 2010 mayoral election, down from 300,039 votes cast in the 2006 election.

PREDICTABLE MAYORAL OUTCOME

The results of the mayoral race came out as expected with Watson winning a landslide victory over O’Brien.

Watson led in the polls since he declared himself a candidate, hold-ing a double-digit lead over his op-ponents a week before the election.

This is Watson’s second kick at the can serving as mayor of Ottawa – he was elected mayor of pre-amal-gamation Ottawa in 1997.

In 2003 Watson was elected MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean and he served in Premier Dalton Mc-Guinty’s cabinet as minister of con-sumer and business services, health promotion and later municipal af-fairs and housing.

O’Brien trailed behind Watson for the entire election.

O’Brien congratulated Watson during his concession speech at Broadway’s Bar and Grill in Nepean on election night.

“I think people like Jim Watson,” he said. “Certainly (the win) was not about getting things done.”

O’Brien said his four-year term as mayor had its ups and downs.

Earlier this month, the incum-bent apologized to voters for his fi rst two years as mayor, calling them “a disaster”.

Watson will be joined by a host of neophytes to city hall including Tim Tierney, who defeated Michel Bel-lemare by 181 votes in Beacon Hill-Cyrville and Mark Taylor, a former aide to Watson, in Bay Ward.

The other new councillors are:• Scott Moffatt, who defeated Glenn

Brooks in Rideau-Goulbourn.• Katherine Hobbs who beat Chris-

tine Leadman in Kitchissippi Ward.•Stephen Blais beat Rob Jelllet to

take Cumberland Ward.• Matthieu Fleury defeated Georg-

es Bedard in Rideau-Vanier by 88 votes.

“He’s been blessed with a wonder-ful crew,” said O’Brien of Watson. “He has a council I would have been happy to lead.”

Watson will need the support of council to bring about his plan to shrink the number of councillors and to limit tax increases to 2.5 per cent per year as well as introduce a borough system allowing communi-ties to make local decisions.

Doucet told supporters at his Wel-lington Street campaign headquar-ters that he had no regrets.

“We didn’t lose,” he said. “We just didn’t win – there’s a big differ-ence.”

Doucet said he didn’t lose because he campaigned for “the right rea-sons:” a vision of a city linked from east to west by light rail and a pros-perous city fi lled with strong neigh-bourhoods.

Doucet said it is now time for him to step back from the public stage and refl ect on the future of the world’s cities, and perhaps visit some of them.

Doucet choked on his words as he closed his speech by saying: “But my home, my heart and my greatest hopes will always be for my city, the City of Ottawa.”

With fi les from Laura Mueller and Lois Siegel

Winds of change sweep city hallMunicipal Election 2010

Actual Votes:131,258

Percentage: 48.70%

Andy Haydon

Clive Doucet

Mike Maguire

40,14714.89%

18,9047.01%

6,6172.45%

Election results

Other candidates who received less than 1 per cent of the votes

Jim Watson is our new mayor

Cesar Bello 0.34% 926Idris Ben-Tahir 0.27% 729Joseph Furtenbacher 0.11% 299Robert Gauthier 0.52% 1413Robert Larter 0.08% 219Robin Lawrance 0.11% 300Vincent Libweshya 0.05% 122Fraser Liscumb 0.04% 104Daniel J. Lyrette 0.06% 166Julia Pita 0.1% 265Sean Ryan 0.13% 360Michael St. Arnaud 0.07% 200Jane Scharf 0.43% 1169Charlie Taylor 0.42% 1125Samuel Wright 0.14% 371

Larry O’Brien

64,85324.06%

Candidate % vote actual votes

Unoffi cial Results as of 11 p.m. Oct 25, 2010

Photo by Lois SiegelJim Watson celebrates victory on October 25, 2010

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Approaching the parking lot around midnight, I saw lights blazing and recognized it as a movie set. It wasn’t a movie

set when I left my car there a few hours earlier and my fi rst thought was not, “Oh, good, a movie!” It was, “Oh no, how am I going to get my car out of there?” Perhaps some of the sense of wonder has gone out of my life.

After I determined cameras were not rolling, I trudged past a lot of people who didn’t seem to be doing anything over to where my car was. Except that my car wasn’t there. Around the spot where I thought I had left it was a grey car with a Pennsylvania licence plate.

I stood there looking puzzled long enough for a movie person to offer assis-tance. “I’m looking for my car,” I said.

“What does it look like?” he asked.I was starting to say that it was grey

when I noticed that the grey car with the Pennsylvania licence plate had a famil-iar-looking dent behind the back door.

“Um …,” I said.“It’s a sticker,” the movie guy said,

reaching over and peeling the Pennsyl-vania plate off, revealing my Ontario plate.

Too stunned to ask him anything else

– such as, what’s my car’s motivation? – I got in, backed out, helpfully directed by several movie people, and drove off. As I bounced along Sussex Drive, I pondered what profound conclusions could be drawn from this experience.

The best I could come up with is that you think you know Ottawa but you don’t.

I’ve lived here for 36 years and still can’t predict what will happen. I often arrive way too early for events because I fi gure that everyone in town will be there and I’ll have to drive around for hours to fi nd a place to park. When I get there, I park right in front of the door and fi nd 14 people inside, not counting me.

Or it can work the other way. My fi rst traumatic memory of the city is

of trying to drive my family across the Champlain Bridge to see the autumn leaves in the Gatineau. How could I have known that everybody in Ottawa drives across the bridge into Quebec to look at leaves? It’s not as if there are no leaves in Ontario.

For a while, I was working on a theory that people in Ottawa will go to anything if it’s free. And there’s something in that. But there are some very expensive events, galas and whatnot that are sold out every year. So then I developed the theory, equally fl awed, that people in Ottawa will go to anything if it costs them $500.

In terms of outdoor behaviour, my working theory is that Ottawa people will go to anything if they can take a lawn chair to it.

None of this explains why a parking lot on Clarence Street would turn itself into Pennsylvania. Unless, the movie is really about a Pennsylvania car, played by mine, that, through a series of wacky coincidences, winds up in a lot in Ottawa.

Of course, Mr. Google helps here, and through him, I learned that the movie is called The House at the End of the Street. It involves murder in Pennsylvania and has been described online as “Psycho-

esque.” So you can see why Ottawa would be

the logical place for it, although there are no reported plans for fi lming in the Senate.

One thing I’ve learned in 36 years in Ottawa is that Psycho-esque behaviour is all around us. True, it is mostly confi ned to the letters-to-the-editor pages, but you can sense the undertone of violence as people rage on about whether pedestri-ans should walk on the left or the right side of the bicycle paths.

As a famous fi lm character might have said: “I have a feeling we’re not in Penn-sylvania any more.”

EDITORIAL

New mayor, fresh start

COLUMN

Ottawa car stars in new movie – or maybe not

Congratulations Mr. Mayor.Voters have given you a

four-year mandate to lead city council in governing the City of Ottawa.

The position is nothing new for you; you were mayor of Ot-tawa before amalgamation. But a lot has changed since then.

Amalgamation brought together a mish-mash of rural, suburban and urban communi-ties; a variety of councils have struggled over the past decade to address the needs of this fam-ily of former municipalities.

It’s a big city now, facing some large problems: suburban growth, pollution, higher-than-infl ation annual tax increases to name just a few.

Council has many issues on its agenda, including a multi-billion dollar light rail project, cleaning up the Ottawa River and the city’s struggles to maintain its planning vision

in the face of objections from developers, who are often supported by the unelected Ontario Municipal Board.

Voters were a bit frustrated with council’s performance over the past four years, which, we’re sure you’re aware helped you at the polls.

Everyone who voted for you shared a common trait – hope.

Hope that a Jim Watson-led council will turn the problems facing Ottawa into opportuni-ties and solutions.

Opportunities to build a world-class transit system, promote business and tourism and build a city where we can live, work and play.

The people who voted you into offi ce are counting on strong leadership from the mayor’s offi ce.

That doesn’t mean issuing edicts from the mount – as mayor, it will be your role to

set the legislative agenda and forge consensus on council.

Ottawans don’t have an appetite for tax increases – residential taxes have gone up exponentially over the last four years despite the pledge of “zero means zero” from your predecessor.

We’re happy to hear your vision for growth does not in-clude urban sprawl and we’re hoping council will be able to work with developers and com-munities to form a consensus on infi ll development.

We also hope you will move quickly to introduce your prom-ised borough model of munici-pal government, giving more decision-making power over local issues to communities.

You have a lot on your plate Mr. Mayor, but take a few days to enjoy your election win.You have the support of the great-est city in Canada behind you.

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Flexing his funny bone once again

LAURA MUELLER

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One thing you can’t accuse Charles Gordon of is being impartial.

The longtime Ottawa humour col-umnist has taken jabs at everything from the Mike Harris government to Sunday shopping, and now his in-formed satirical wit can be found in the pages of Ottawa This Week.

Being opinionated is all Gordon has ever known. Circumventing the usual career trajectory for a newspa-perman, he went straight from being a political science student and pithy political commentator for Queen’s University publications to serving as the editorial page editor for Brandon, Manitoba’s Sun newspaper.

It was 1974 when Gordon fi rst hit the pages of the Ottawa Citizen, and the city has never been the same since.

While he had brief stints as the newspaper’s books and city editor, among other roles, he was perhaps best known as one of the voices of dissent amongst a largely right-wing slate of columnists, and the newspa-per’s token “pinko male” in the 1990s.

Although he says he “never quite got the hang of the reporting thing,” readers know they can turn to Gor-don for a reality check that’s rooted in well-researched facts – and be enter-tained at the same time.

His goal, he says, is to keep readers laughing, but also to spin some kind of lesson out of his prose.

“Without making them feel like they are being lectured at, of course,” Gordon says. “It’s my way of deliver-ing a message.”

Since his 2005 retirement from the Citizen, Gordon has imparted his ex-pert style of wordsmithing to others – specifi cally, new journalists training to be part of a free and open media in Rwanda as part of the Rwanda Initia-tive.

The project, which is run out of Car-leton University’s School of Journal-ism, aims to address the shortage of journalism educators in Rwanda and help improve journalism standards in the country – no small task for an opinionated retiree from halfway around the world who had no teaching experience.

Despite the language and cultural barriers, Gordon says he felt like ex-posing the African students to his world of opinion writing was some-thing that left an impact on them.

“It wasn’t a concept that was famil-iar to them,” he says. “The press there

isn’t ‘free’ as we think of it.”Contributing to the knowledge

Rwandan journalists will use to in-form their post-genocide coverage was a fulfi lling retirement venture for Gordon, but he was ready to get back into what he knows best – writing col-umns.

He began his revival with a weekly column on www.straightgoods.com and now he is excited to reconnect with his audience and provide them with weekly insight into his Ottawa – “Funnytown.”

Gordon is a three-time fi nalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour (in 1986, 1995 and 2002) and has won silver medals for humour and column writ-ing in the National Magazine Awards.

He has six published books, includ-ing one novel (The Grim Pig, 2001), the most popular of which (At the Cottage) led to a sequel – Still at the Cottage.

In addition to our pages, you can also catch Gordon planted in front of the television watching his beloved baseball, tennis and basketball or playing his jazz trumpet in local wa-tering holes.

In fact, you can catch Gordon at the National Arts Centre on Nov. 12 reuniting with his university band-mates (Tim Murray, Jerry Heath, Sol Gunner and Scott Warren) for the 50th anniversary of their collaboration. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.

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The event raised over $200,000 for the Leuke-mia and Lymphoma So-ciety of Canada.

Photos by Patricia Lonergan Melissa Clarke carries a tribute to her aunt, Terry, who was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2008. Clarke said her aunt wanted to participate in the fundraiser, but had to return to hospital the day of the walk. Fourteen members strong, Terry’s Team raised over $2,200.

Right, volunteers prepare balloons, with luminaries inside, for participants to carry during their fi ve kilome-tre walk.

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Bucking the trend of downsizing at some area newspapers, Metroland Me-dia – Ottawa Region is expanding. Four new community newspapers launched on Thursday, Oct. 28 and all will bear the name Ottawa This Week, but each one will have content targeted to the diverse neighbourhoods it serves.

“We are very excited to be launching four new papers in some very vibrant ar-eas of the city,” says Deb Bodine, editor-in-chief of Metroland Media – Ottawa Region. “While the mainstream media is fi lled with tales of layoffs and downsiz-ing in the newspaper industry, it’s a great feeling to be the one that’s beating the odds and hiring talented staff for both print and online products.”

Over 35 full-time staff members have been hired, and over 2,000 carriers will be delivering 100,000 copies of the tab-loid-sized weekly papers within their community each Thursday. With the ad-dition of Ottawa This Week, Metroland Media – Ottawa Region now publishes 15 community papers that reach 320,000 households, including some of Canada’s oldest newspapers, the Perth Courier and The Renfrew Mercury.

“We are very excited to be expanding across the city of Ottawa,” says Chris McWebb, VP and publisher of Metroland Media – Ottawa Region. “Ottawa is a vi-brant collection of communities, which is a perfect match for our commitment

to providing readers with the most im-portant news and information affecting their neighbourhood.”

Ottawa This Week will provide hy-per-local content to the communities it serves with hard-hitting news, profi les of residents, thought-provoking editori-als, entertaining opinion columns and coverage of sports, upcoming events and arts and culture. Its accompanying web-site, YourOttawaRegion.com, will offer residents daily news updates and multi-media content.

“There is a defi nite opportunity to provide readers with more focused local content, while offering advertisers tar-geting and fl exibility that was not previ-ously available – a win/win combination for everyone,” continues McWebb.

“We are also very proud to be the only newspapers in the region to be using 100 per cent recycled newsprint,” adds Bodine. “Despite the fact it is more ex-pensive than the whiter paper used by others, we truly believe it is the right way to go.”

Not only will Metroland Media – Ot-tawa Region bring more local stories to the homes of Ottawa West, the company is also committed to partnering with the community. Our focus is to be a part of our communities from the ground up, helping to brainstorm, build, and cele-brate with both business and community groups. Many of our staff sit on boards, volunteer at events, and take pride in the communities we cover and live in.

Metroland has been forming gener-ous partnerships throughout the city. We were proud to sponsor the fi rst-an-

nual Light the Night Walk in Ottawa by taking part in the event and hosting the turn-around watering station. We also sponsor the United Way Campaign and Habitat for Humanity.

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Mooney’s Bay and area; East will serve New Edinburgh, Rockcliffe, Vanier, Pin-eview and area and South will serve Riv-erside South, Hunt Club, Blossom Park and area.

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Westboro convent site raises questions of use

KRISTY WALLACE

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The site of a former convent in West-boro is testing some neighbours’ faith in the city’s planning process.

A section of the Planning Act never used before in Ottawa is now being tabled as an option to deal with the old convent site and the development surrounding it.

The decision comes after months of consultation with community members, city offi cials and Ashcroft, the developer of the land. The convent site was desig-nated heritage in April 2010, and Ashcroft brought forward its idea to build condo-minium sites around it.

Lorne Cutler, president of the Hamp-ton-Iona Community Group, said height and density were major issues surround-ing the Ashcroft plans.

‘They came forward in March with plans that the community was quite up-set about,” said Cutler. “A few days later, they submitted it to council for their re-view and comments.”

In May 2010, he said the city appoint-ed an independent design review panel which reviewed Ashcroft’s proposal based on its design, heritage and the ar-chitecture.

The density and height of the condo-miniums were brought down from 700 units in March to just under 600.

On Sept. 28, Coun. Diane Holmes intro-duced an option of using section 37 of the Planning Act, which has never been used in Ottawa.

The section says if the developer gives something back to the community – such as heritage designation or something for public use – higher density can be given

in exchangeCurrently, all plans have been put on

hold until a Nov. 16 meeting of the city’s planning and environment committee, where a compromise under section 37 may be considered.

Cutler says he was told there would be a public meeting about decisions being made, but hasn’t heard a date for that.

Michael Fitzpatrick, chief of public af-fairs with the City of Ottawa, said talks are currently in the works.

“We’re looking for alternative uses and will come back with some options,” he said.

Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick said Ashcroft has fi led a motion with the Ontario Mu-nicipal Board.

Under the Planning Act, a developer has a right to have their application heard within 120 days. Ashcroft hasn’t heard back from the city within that time frame.

Ottawa’s heritage advisory committee recently heard about zoning from archi-tect Roderick Lahey and planning and urban designer Ted Fobert, who are rep-resenting Ashcroft. The pair presented their plan to allow the committee to give their comments on the zoning applica-tion.

Lahey, who presented at the meeting, said the maple trees on the site would be saved and they would make it “pedestri-an-friendly,” using walkways, widening the sidewalk and creating a storefront as part of the condominiums.

The main problem the committee had with the plans was the height of the de-velopment. Committee members will draw up a memo that includes their con-cerns and comments.

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Rich history surrounds former Westboro conventKRISTY WALLACE

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Historical reminders still linger on the ceilings of the former Soeurs de la Visitation Monastery d’Ottawa.

In large, artistic lettering, religious mottos in French are still painted on the ground fl oors’ ceilings. These mottos that reference saints also run along the hallways and the dining room.

These paintings will be gone soon, since heritage des-ignation only protects the 100 to140 year-old stonework, woodwork, bell tower and windows, among other parts of the former convent.

For 10 years, Ottawa west resident David Jeanes has been a member of Heritage Ottawa and has spent time researching the history of the former convent that might soon be home to condominiums.

“I’ve gone by the convent many times on the bus or by car,” said Jeanes. “I’ve always noticed the roofs behind the wall and wondered what was behind.”

Jeanes pursued his interest in the old building and dug a little deeper into stories and information that lay behind the tall, grey concrete walls – and the nuns who lived quietly in isolation behind them.

SKEADS MILLS

It wasn’t always nuns who lived on the Richmond Road property. A gothic-style house attached to the for-mer monastery was built by Sidney Frapp during Cana-da’s Confederation era. When Westboro was founded in the 19th century, it was called Skead’s Mills – named after a senator and lumber man, James Skead.

Skead was one of four prominent owners who lived in the house before it was sold to the 400 year-old Soeurs de la Visitation order.

The house’s gothic style was very unique to the Con-federation era, and Jeanes said there were 12 built in the area and six are currently left.

“These houses became the standard house for an up-per-class person of that era,” said Jeanes. “Some of the people who lived in this house were signifi cant and prominent in business, public affairs and politics.”

The owner of the house around 1909 offered it to the Royal Ottawa hospital – which declined because the

$25,000 asking price was far too much.

SOEURS DE LA VISITATION

When a group of eight nuns from the Soeurs de la Visitation order left France and immigrated to Canada in 1910, they had fi nancial help from a convent in Mary-land to buy the house and use it for their convent. They recruited three more nuns in Canada.

“This was an order of nuns who were cloistered and contemplative,” said Jeanes. “They didn’t run hospitals, they didn’t teach, they didn’t go out and help the poor. They stayed in their convent and looked to the power of prayer. They would pray for people, but they wouldn’t actively get involved face-to-face with the public.”

The 11 nuns shared the house’s eight bedrooms while the rest of the convent was built attached to the house in 1913. With help from Ottawa’s Catholic community, this new convent would give them bigger rooms and the facilities they needed to support themselves – which in-cluded a hospital, pharmacy and even their own pallia-tive care facility where the older nuns would go to die.

The main focus of the U-shaped convent centred around a courtyard, which included a statue of the Vir-gin Mary and fl owerbeds.

“One of the things about their life was they wanted a very peaceful and contemplative existence. To walk around and look at nice things was part of having the right attitude towards their prayer,” said Jeanes. “These were not the kind of nuns who gave themselves a very hard life, sleeping on bare boards. They actually attract-ed daughters of wealthy families and they provided a fairly comfortable existence.”

Once a woman would become a nun within the order, their life became completely enclosed behind the large concrete walls of the monastery.

The only exception to this rule was a half-hour long visit from close relatives once a month.

Even then, the nuns would talk to their family behind a screen which was a hole in the wall

They also didn’t talk much to each other. The tall walls that are erected around the former convent al-lowed the nuns to have recreation time for half an hour a day where they could walk the pathways and even ride a bicycle.

“But they stayed within the original rules of the order very strictly so they wore the long black garments and the head covering under the hood,” Jeanes said. “These nuns stuck very close to original rule.”

The nuns also provided a service for the community. If someone was in crisis, they would go see the nuns and ask them to pray.

“It was kind of like a prayer-on-demand,” Jeanes laughed.

During hardships like the First and Second World Wars, Jeanes said it’s possible that people would ask the nuns to pray if their loved ones were going off to war.

He added that the nuns even had a little shop inside the monastery where the public could go and buy purs-es, crafts and other items they made.

MARIAN CONGRESS

The convent was signifi cant for the Catholic commu-nity in 1947, when Ottawa hosted a Roman Catholic con-ference called the Marian Congress. Hundreds of thou-sands of Roman Catholics came to Ottawa and paraded a statue of the Virgin Mary. They brought the statue to the Soeurs de la Visitation Monastery d’Ottawa.

“The only place this statue came was at this convent in the west end,” said Jeanes. “It was a focal point of Catholics in Nepean.”

The convent was at its peak around 1959 when it housed 35 nuns. They even had a mini hotel of one or two bedrooms attached to the convent where a visiting priest might go to stay, or someone who was in a ma-jor life crisis and had nowhere else to turn. The room was isolated and the person staying there would have no contact with the nuns – windows in the rooms couldn’t even look out into the nuns’ private gardens.

The number of nuns in the convent slowly dwindled down to 16 by the late 1960s. Towards the end of their time there, it was down to only eight.

“As they were getting into their 60s and 80s, provid-ing medical care for each other wasn’t working,” said Jeanes.

They moved to another convent in Pembroke this year that isn’t part of their order, said Jeanes, but they will try and maintain isolation in one wing of their new location.

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Michael Ignatieff ’s round trip across Canada came to an end at Sala San Marco on Preston Street last week.

More than 300 Liberal support-ers turned out for the cross-country tour’s fi nal question-and-answer session with the party’s leader; an evening dubbed Open Mike.

Ignatieff ’s 57,000-kilometere mo-torcoach journey to more than 180 communities may have helped him connect with voters.

The summer-long trip provided Ignatieff with a chance to bring the party’s priorities into line with Ca-nadians. The Liberal faithful hope his new to-do list will make him the country’s next prime minister.

“Education, health care and re-building Canada’s reputation in the world,” Ignatieff responded when asked the country’s needs.

The questions from the audience at Sala San Marco covered a wide

range of issues but returned many times to health care.

When asked about elder care, Ig-natieff said it’s a critical issue as Baby Boomers retire and require more assistance. He said a Liberal government would propose an elder care leave program to give workers up to six months paid leave to look after their parents at home.

On the issue of a national phar-macare program, Ignatieff said he would negotiate a national standard across the provinces so that there is “equality for being a Canadian citi-zen.”

A question about Canada’s failed attempt to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council brought out a more passionate Ignatieff.

“We used to have a great reputa-tion in the international commu-nity but Harper has thrown all that away,” he said.

He talked about how the Liberals

under prime minister Lester Pear-son were once at the forefront of the international community and instrumental in establishing the United Nations.

“You need to trust the advice of professional public servants in the Department of Foreign Affairs,” said Ignatieff, the son of a former Canadian ambassador to Yugosla-via.

“We now have to earn our way back in (to the Security Council).”

He said that will require greater co-operation with the UN and the development of better internation-al relations.

On the current economic situa-tion in Canada, Ignatieff said his emphasis would be on training and education, not more stimulus pack-ages.

“We can get the defi cit under con-trol because we did it before,” he said, pointing to Liberal MP Ralph Goodale in the audience. Goodale was fi nance minister from 2003 to 2006.

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After 57,000 kms, Liberals hope

their leader has turned a corner

Photo by Chris Klus‘Education, health care and rebuilding Canada’s reputation in the world.’ Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has refi ned his priorities after a summer-long bus tour across Canada.

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are emergency departments so busy? Why don’t I have easier access to my patient re-cords? Can you do more to manage the pain I’ve had since my hip replacement? Are those child-like people in white lab coats really doc-tors? Now, in my role as Vice-President, Communi-

cations and Outreach at The Ottawa Hospital, I often think of Babcia. Wait times, high occupancy, patient records,

pain management, quality and safety of care; the issues she worried about then are still completely relevant today. How would she feel about that? She would hate that we still deal with the

same problems, but she’d appreciate our progress. She would love writing to one hospital CEO,

instead of three, since the merger of the Gen-eral, Civic and Riverside hospitals into The Ot-tawa Hospital. She would be impressed to know The Ot-

tawa Hospital serves 1.2 million Eastern On-tarians, and sees more patients in a year than any other academic health science centre in Canada. She would remind me that hospitals, im-

perfect or not, were always there for her and Dziadzio. Fractures were painful, but surger-ies allowed my grandparents to walk well into their nineties. She would want to know what hospitals do,

in spite of their challenges, to ensure they still provide the comfort, care and hope our com-munities need to keep thriving. This column is for Babcia, and anyone else

who cares about their healthcare. Nicolas Ruszkowski is VP, Communications

and Outreach at The Ottawa Hospital. Each week, he will share behind-the-scenes insight from the hospital. E-mail him at [email protected]

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Queensway Carleton begins fi nal phase of expansionJENNIFER MCINTOSH

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The Queensway Carleton Hos-pital is growing again.

Just weeks from its 36th anni-versary, the hospital has offi cial-ly announced the fi nal phase of its expansion.

“In four short years we will be looking out that window and seeing a whole new building,” said Andrew Falconer, QCH chief of staff.

“In the past 36 years we have really grown from a community hospital to one that serves the whole region.”

The centrepiece of the hospi-tal’s plan includes a new four-storey building that will add 13,000 square metres to the ex-isting structure. Another 6,500 square metres will be renovat-ed.

In the future, another two fl oors – including one that could accommodate an extra 34 beds – could be added to the new building.

“Ottawa’s west end is one of the fastest growing communi-ties in the country,” Ottawa-West Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli said.

The expansion will mean a 40 per cent increase in the number of operating rooms, bringing the number from seven to 10. It will also add 15 kidney dialysis stations, and a second MRI and CT scanner.

Ambulatory care, diagnostic imaging, administration, labo-ratory and pharmacy services will also see upgrades.

The $126-million project is ex-pected to be completed by early 2014.

In addition to the new 18,580 square metres of space in the fi rst two phases of the expan-sion, a number of the Queen-sway Carleton programs have now partner with other hospi-tals in the region to expand and increase access.

Seemingly always under con-struction, the hospital has al-ready opened the doors to the new $96-million Irving Green-berg Cancer Centre earlier this year.

“I know when we did the fi rst part of the expansion staff were just delighted,” June Lemmex, past chair of the QCH Founda-tion said. “They told me, ‘Now we are able to provide the kind of care we want to.’”

Photo by Jennifer McIntoshFrom left, former chair of the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation June Lemmex, current chair Pe-ter Strum, MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean Bob Chiarelli, chair of the Queensway Carleton Hospital’s Care Grows West campaign Dr. Nishith Goel, hospital president and CEO Tom Schonberg, and hospital chief of staff Dr. Andrew Falconer, break ground on the fi nal phase of the hospital’s expansion. The expanded and renovated hospital is expected to be in full operation in 2014.


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Pat O’Brien wants sex work-ers to be protected, but he also relates prostitution to drugs, crack houses and pimps – and he wants to make sure his com-munity is protected.

That’s why O’Brien, president of the Hintonburg Community Association, recently held a meeting with police and other community members to see how they’re interpreting the recent prostitution ruling. He’s also hoping that community groups will get involved in the fi nal de-cision.

“We’re saying to the govern-ment – at the municipal, federal and provincial level – that when it comes time to come up with a solution, talk to the communi-ties,” he said. Ontario Superior Court Judge Susan Himel re-cently struck down three provi-sions: communicating for the purpose of prostitution, pimp-ing and operating a common bawdy house.

It’s still against the law for sex workers to stop or attempt to stop motor vehicles, and to impede the fl ow of pedestrians or vehicle traffi c.

GRACE PERIOD

Himel originally delayed her order from taking affect for 30 days at the end of September, but a “grace period” is now in place for it to be extended for an additional 30 days.

O’Brien said Hintonburg used to be an area with high prostitu-tion and drug use in the 1990s and early 2000s.

He said the community worked together to implement programs, get citizens involved and create community patrols.

“The issue we’ve primarily had with prostitution was not prostitution itself, but every-thing that comes with it,” said O’Brien. “We have a completely different community today.”

Because of this community work in trying to abolish pros-titution in Hintonburg, O’Brien said it’s important that com-munities be involved in the ul-timate decision regarding sex workers.

“It’s the citizens with practi-cal experience who have worked in this area for years and years who should be consulted,” he said. “We want to be part of the decision-making, which we think would be better than just having something imposed.”

Chris Bruckert, a University of Ottawa criminology profes-sor and former sex worker, said she understands that communi-ties are concerned. But, she said the relation between sex work-ers and drugs isn’t so clear cut.

While she acknowledges that there are sex workers who are drug users, they don’t always accompany one another.

“This idea that with one comes the other, that’s a ques-tionable assertion,” Bruckert said. “The empirical evidence does not support that.”

She adds that if communities are concerned with sex workers who are also drug users, there are already laws in place for

drugs and crack houses.“The police have a very large

toolbox and there are adequate laws in place to deal with nui-sance,” she said. “In my opin-ion, we have to realize that there are too many laws to regulate sex workers.”

O’Brien said he’s heard from residents in Vanier’s commu-nity association who have com-plained about feeling insecure in their own neighbourhood because of drug use and prosti-tution.

He said it’s important for the

community to feel safe, while making sure sex workers are safe as well. There have to be solutions to drug problems and crime in a community where prostitution is being practiced, O’Brien said.

“The solutions are best made in consultation with the com-munities affected,” he said.

In the case of Hintonburg, O’Brien said nobody defended the recent decision at his meet-ing with the police and commu-nity.

However Bruckert said com-munities need to be careful in making generalizations about Canadian society as a whole, and how Canadians view pros-titution.

She said an Angus Reid poll came out before Himel’s deci-sion that indicated 50 per cent of Canadians want prostitution decriminalized.

“Sex workers live in places like Hintonburg and Vanier,” Bruckert said. “You have to ap-preciate that sex workers are a part of the community. You have to acknowledge the multiplicity of the community and exercise caution.”

She added that she’s surprised that a community association would be concerned with the re-cent prostitution decision.

“Even if her judgment took effect, they would be able to work in small establishments and apartments,” she said. “It seems to me a community inter-ested in the safety of sex work, and interested in the neighbour-hood, would really embrace

these laws.” O’Brien said that the recent

discussion has people talking about the issue, which is a good start. “Whether you agree with the ruling or not, society tack-led this as opposed to swept this under the rug or did the hush-

hush,” he said. “Let’s see what we can do as community to en-sure that those in the communi-ty practicing the profession are safe, and ensure the communi-ties are safe.”


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Hintonburg group takes action after prostitution ruling

Photo by Kristy WallacePat O’Brien heads the Hintonburg Community Association, which is seeking to protect the community in reaction to a recent ruling that affects prostitution. Ontario Superior Court Judge Susan Himel recently struck down three provisions: communicating for the purpose of prostitution, pimping and operating a common bawdy house.

“You have to appreciate that sex workers are a part

of the community.”

Chris Bruckert, University of Ottawa

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Ottawa This Week will play an important role in making sure that the communities throughout our city have a local voice all of their own. I am pleased to welcome Ottawa This Week to our community, and I look forward to reading your paper for years to come!

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October 28, 2010

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER

On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am delighted to extend warm greetings to the readers of Ottawa This Week as this fine publication launches its inaugural issue.

A community newspaper is a dynamic forum for the exchange of opinions and ideas, and a vibrant reflection of the public it serves. I am confident that this new publication will do much to keep people living in the Ottawa region well informed about the issues that matter most to them.

I commend the management and staff of Ottawa This Week for providing area residents with a new voice. I am confident that your readers will find valuable information on the pages of your newspaper.

Please accept my best wishes for success now — and in the weeks and years to come.

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PC leader vows end to local health networks

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Ontario Progressive Conser-vative leader Tim Hudak has vowed to eliminate the prov-ince’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN) if he wins next year’s election.

Hudak was in eastern On-tario on Friday, Oct. 22, to meet with seniors groups at the Montgomery Royal Canadian Legion Branch on Kent Street in Centretown, offering up talk-ing points that are likely to be included in next year’s stump speech.

Many communities in east-ern Ontario are facing a doc-tor shortage, prompting small-town mayors and councillors to call for help in attracting new physicians. Hudak says he has answers.

“We should reward doctors who serve in underserviced or rural areas,” said Hudak during

a visit to the town of Perth, just west of Ottawa. He added that, if he is elected premier next year, he will seek to accelerate the accreditation of new Cana-dians with foreign credentials, and would open up more spaces to educate more doctors.

HEALTH NETWORKS

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government created Local Health Integration Net-works to delegate health care decisions to regional bodies, rather than concentrating poli-cy within the province’s health ministry.

The LHIN concept came un-der fi re from Hudak, who called them “an expensive layer of middle management…They do nothing for front-line staff.”

Hudak estimated the provin-cial government spends about $250 million on LHINs and that his government would close them down and redirect the money to where it is needed.

Numerous hospitals in east-ern Ontario are in competition to attract new doctors to their communities.

“They’re beautiful facilities

with a rewarding lifestyle,” Hu-dak said of the various towns seeking MDs. “If we expand the pool of doctors…we’ll have more doctors in rural Ontario.”

Hudak also said he wants to replicate what the British Co-lumbia government has done, appointing a cabinet minister to follow through on cutting red tape in the government.

“I’d like you to spend more time with your family, more time with your small business, rather than time with your paperwork satisfying the pre-mier,” said Hudak.

Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington MPP Randy Hill-ier spoke during the Perth stop, telling his supporters that he was ready for next year’s battle.

“Next October will be a wa-tershed moment for this prov-ince,” Hillier said, alluding to the next election.

“Ontario needs change. It’s time for government to leave us alone. We don’t need a govern-ment that will prescribe our ev-ery move.”

Hudak said he wants to pick up seats in suburban Toronto, Ottawa and northern Ontario in next year’s vote.

Hudak wants to fast-track foreign

accreditations

Photo by Desmond DevoyOntario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak addresses the party faithful on Oct. 22, during a swing through eastern Ontario. He promised to scrap the local health network model established by the current Liberal government.


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Safe community initiative gets funding boostJENNIFER MCINTOSH

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Ottawa’s west end communities are going to be a lot safer thanks to a $154,000-windfall from the provincial government on Oct. 14.

The funding was given to the Pinecrest Queensway Community Health Centre’s United Neighbours Program, along with a three-year commitment for funding.

UNITED NEIGHBOURS

“The United Neighbours initiative recognizes and develops that strength by bringing together residents of all ages and backgrounds,” Bob Chiarel-li, provincial minister of infrastruc-ture and MPP for Ottawa West-Nepe-an, said.

The goal of United Neighbours is to enhance sustainable broad-based community development and to give residents the tools to make their neighbourhoods a better place to live.

GOOD PLACE TO LIVE

“In the years it has been running we have helped to establish neigh-bourhood watch programs and other initiatives,” said Tammy Corner, a community developer with the health centre.

“But the people on the ground re-

ally drive the bus.”Chiarelli said that although we see

fl are-ups in the media about crime in parts of the city, Ottawa is still a city worth living in due to community or-ganizations like United Neighbours.

The west-end initiative encourages residents to take ownership and respon-sibility for issues in their community.

Wanda MacDonald, executive direc-tor of PQCHC, said this is done by getting people to talk in meetings and coffee shops.

“By doing that, we’re getting peo-ple engaged in those discussions and looking at ways that they can become involved in contributing to the goals of the overall project,” she said.

Photo by Jennifer McIntoshFrom left, Frank Dyson of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Moe Charlebois and Tammy Corner from the Pinecrest Queensway Community Health Centre and Bob Chiarelli MPP Ottawa West-Nepean gather to announce a three-year funding commitment to the United Neighbours program.

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Five years ago, Dr. Robert Cushman started his work at the Champlain Local Health In-tegration network with a week-ly paycheque and a Blackberry, now he heads up a region that covers the area from Deep River to Hawkesbury.

His response is to Auditor General Jim Carter’s recent criticisms concerning waste and over-use of consultants.

“Sure there is room for im-provement, but to talk about doing away with them isn’t the answer,” he said.

“When things were all done through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care everything was very Toronto centric and the communities were under-served.”

Cushman said community needs are best determined at the local level.

“Maybe we will move to re-gional health authorities, but

I don’t think the answer is to move backwards,” Cushman said.

On the horizon, the folks at the Champlain LHIN will be working with the community care access centres (CCACs) to developing aging at home prac-tices — something that would greatly benefi t hospitals like the Queensway Carleton Hospital — which had to cancel scores of elective surgeries last winter due to full beds. In an earlier in-terview with Metroland Media,

chief of staff Dr. Andrew Fal-coner said one of the reasons for the bed shortages were the number of elderly patients wait-ing for alternate levels of care.

Since then, the hospital, the CCAC and the LHIN have been working with local retirement residencies and nursing homes to place patients in interim care beds until they are ready to go home. The Total Joint Assess-ment Clinic, a centralized triage centre at the QCH, is another program that was developed in

partnership with the LHIN. The program, slashed wait

times for knee and hip replace-ment surgeries by giving pa-tients the options to choose their hospital and surgeon.

Cushman said these develop-ments were possible because LHIN staff works on the ground with the hospital and health care practitioners.

“Is there room for improve-ment?” Cushman said.

“Yes. But I think we are head-ed in the right direction.”

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CEO defends Champlain LHIN in wake of AG report

JENNIFER MCINTOSH

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Nortel Networks has sold its sprawling Carling Avenue cam-pus to the federal government, for the tidy sum of $208 million.

The campus was on 370 acres of land and is comprised of 11 buildings – totalling over 185,807 square metres.

The sale agreement provides for Nortel to continue to occupy parts of the campus for vary-

ing periods of time to allow for them to work on their global re-structuring.

Nortel, once the continents’ largest maker of telecommuni-cations equipment, announced the deal on Oct. 19.

In a press released sent out on the same day, a spokesperson for the company said they expect the sale to close at the end of the year.

The company fi led for bank-ruptcy protection in January

2009 and has been auctioning off parts of its business in an effort to pay back debt holders.

After Nortel vacates the build-ing, all leases will be assumed by Public Works and Govern-ment Services Canada.

The lease with Ciena will be shortened from 10 years to fi ve and will result in a $33.5 million repayment – to come from the sale proceeds.

Minto’s executive vice-presi-dent Greg Rogers said the sale

was a good deal for the federal government.

“We had participated in the bidding process, with a mind to obtaining the property and leas-ing it back to the federal govern-ment,” he said.

Minto’s involvement in the bidding battle went three rounds.

Rogers speculated that the feds wanted to buy the property rather than lease because of the unique security needs of the De-

partment of National Defense, which is likely to be the newest tenant.

“I wish we had won but the federal government is getting buildings and land at a phenom-enal price,” he said.

Other commercial property owners could benefi t from the sale as the other technology companies. Those who could benefi t include Ciena, Avaya, Ericsson and Genband will now be looking for new homes.

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■ Chris McWebb, VP & publisher Chris loves the community newspaper

industry. He started his career in the mailroom of the London Pennysaver and progressed through the distribution side of the business over the next few years. In 1989 he moved to Peterborough where he joined Metroland in 1991, eventually being promoted to regional director of distribution and advertising. When Metroland acquired the Runge group of papers in the Ottawa Region, Chris jumped at the opportunity to take the helm as publisher and move his fam-ily to Ottawa. Since then it has been his dream to expand across the city in print and online. Chris lives with his lovely wife Tina and his amazing sons, Sam, 12 and Shane, 7, just outside of Stittsville where he enjoys spending time with his family and helping coach both boys’ hockey teams.

■ John Willems, Regional General Manager

John has been active in media for almost 21 years; the last 19 of which have been with Metroland. During this time, John has held a variety of senior postings including several years in Met-roland and Torstar’s digital operations. As regional general manager, John over-sees many of the day-to-day operations of Metroland’s 15 community newspa-pers in Ottawa and the valley. John is an active volunteer in both the business and residential community in Ottawa.

■ Deb Bodine, Editor-in-ChiefSince beginning her career in com-

munity journalism writing a humour-

ous shopping column for Metroland in 1987, Deb Bodine has worked her way up through the ranks in the edito-rial departments of Metroland Media Group. Deb has been editor-in-chief at Metroland Media – Ottawa Region for 14 months; for 10 years previously, she held the same position at Metroland’s To-ronto group of community newspapers.Deb loves the community newspaper industry and is delighted to be relocated in the beautiful Ottawa region where the air is fresh, the sky is blue and the scenery is exquisite.

■ Patricia Lonergan, Managing Editor, Web Coordinator

A graduate of Carleton University with combined Honours in Journalism and Political Science, Patricia got her start as a reporter/photographer in Nova Scotia, which led to a promotion to editor of the Annapolis Spectator. Even-tually she moved back to Ottawa to join the team at the Orleans Star and Weekly Journal, where she helped launch their new web platform as well as an Ottawa urban start-up, the City Journal. She served as editor-in-chief at City Journal and later the Orleans Star and Weekly Journal before assuming the role of editor of the Canadian Gazette. She was recently named managing editor of the four Ottawa This Week newspapers. Over the years Patricia earned numer-ous awards, both individually and as a part of a team, at the regional and national level.

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-Ottawa Region since February, fi rst as an advertising and marketing consul-tant, now as sales manager for the urban group of community papers. Prior to joining Metroland, Terry was an Ot-tawa-based publishing, advertising and marketing professional specializing in print media. Active in Ottawa’s newspa-per industry since 1985, he has 25 years experience as a sales manager, marketer and publisher of community newspa-pers. Terry is also the founder of several regional and national magazine titles including Ottawa At Home and Story-teller, Canada’s Fiction Magazine.

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Welcome home – to a concert in WestboroKRISTY WALLACE

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Nicole Colbeck has always loved music – and house con-certs.

As co-founder of a music com-pany called Nutshell Music, the Westboro resident spent lots of time co-ordinating large events and was heavily involved in Bluesfest and Ottawa’s Folk Fes-tival in addition to other popu-lar concerts in the city.

She’s also hosted house con-certs for the last 12 years – eight of those years at her Stittsville home and four years now at her current Westboro house, where she serves up Westboro House Concerts.

The name is just how it sounds. Every six weeks or so, Colbeck will invite an artist – usually folk – to come play at her house and allow an audi-ence to enjoy the concert.

Moving around the furniture in her living room and dining room, she transforms her West-boro home into an intimate folk venue.

“It’s very much about having a heart for supporting artists. That’s always been a passion for

me,” said Colbeck. “Also just be-ing able to see that your space can do it – there’s an excitement to that.”

There are about 12 other house concerts in the Ottawa area; one as close by as Hintonburg.

Colbeck said the idea is par-ticularly popular out in the Prairies and might have evolved from kitchen parties.

“If anything, I think it may have come out of the fact that people wanted to support art-ists,” she said. “Rather than clicking through the channels, an artist would rather spend the night playing – even if it’s to a very small group.”

Her concerts have a cap of about 35 people, which can sometimes get a bit snug.

When Colbeck fi rst started hosting house concerts, she said it was mostly friends and family who attended the shows. Over the years, her audience has shifted from loved ones to the artist’s fans – and general mu-sic lovers.

“People have come back just because they’ve had a good time,” said Colbeck.

She said all house concerts have different rules and pro-

tocol, but the idea of bringing some strangers into her home has never bothered her.

She said in her case, she never gives out her address publically and she often corresponds with audience members by email or phone before they come into her home.

“There’s a big element of trust. You have to be able to trust people,” she said.

She adds that she’s never had a problem – or even a noise com-plaint – in her years of offering the concerts.

The only problem she had was that a person who left without

paying, which only happened one time.

She adds that no two house concert hosts are the same, and each have different rules or might offer something differ-ent.

In addition to having an in-timate setting with an artist, Colbeck said another bonus to going to a house concert is the social aspect for the audience.

“The break here is often 30 or 40 minutes, and it’s usually on a Saturday night,” she said. “There’s time where you’re meeting people in your com-munity who are like-minded because they’ve come to a house concert as well. It’s a gathering. It’s a rich evening.”

She said just about any size house could host a concert, and she would love to be able to also coach people on hosting them too.

“You can never have too many people doing this,” she said. “It’s a fun evening even as a host. Even if you don’t want to host, come and walk in and re-ally soak it in. It’s fun.”

To track down Colbeck, search for “Westboro house concerts” on Facebook.

Photo by Kristy WallaceWestboro resident Nicole Colbeck hosts concerts at her home every few weeks. Each is a social occasion: ‘There’s time where you’re meeting people in your community who are like-minded,’ she says.

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It’s celebrated in Hinduism, Sikhism and Jain-ism. The Diwali Mela – or Festival of Lights – cele-brates the triumph of good over evil every October or November.

This year, the celebration is happening once again at St. Paul High School on Draper Avenue on Oct. 30 from 4 to 8 p.m.

“There are lots of celebrations happening all over India with different stories,” said Biju George, head of the India Canada Association.

The association hosts many events throughout the year including the annual Diwali Mela.

George said it will be the same favourites this year – including Indian cuisine, jewelry and many other items on sale.

“There will also be a cultural program,” said George. “A different group will be performing this year, and they’ll be local talent.”

Those who attend this year’s event can also look forward to popular fi lm songs, folk-pop music and dances from different regions.

“You will have a chance to enjoy the Gol Guppa, Chatt Papri, Kachori and many more goodies,” said George.

He said the association expects between 500 and 1,000 people to come out and celebrate.

“Getting all these people together is not an easy thing,” said George. “But all people join in this cel-ebration.”

For more information visit the India Canada As-sociation website at: indiacanada.org

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Courtesy photoLast year’s Diwali Mela at St. Paul’s High School brought in entertainment for all to enjoy.

Road Warriors

The Bell Warriors celebrated a 39-27 victory over the host Gloucester South Raiders in the National Capi-tal Amateur Football Association Tyke league semi-fi nals this past Sunday, Oct. 24 in Leitrim.Bell will now face the Gatineau Vikings in the ‘A’ Cup championship game on Sunday, Oct. 31 at Nepean Sportsplex. The Peewee Warriors will also compete for the big prize on Halloween following their 36-35 home-fi eld win over Gloucester South on Saturday, Oct. 23. They’ll take on the Orléans Bengals.

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The men behind the statuesKRISTY WALLACE

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For two years, the day usu-ally started in a warehouse near Almonte. Dust fi lled the air as blistering cold weather seeped through the walls. Using chisels, hammers and 10-pound saws, Ryan Lotecki and Marcus Kucey-Jones carefully crafted the mar-ble fi re hydrant statues currently scattered along Westboro’s Wel-lington Street.

“We live in a society where things come out of a box,” said Kucey-Jones. “But this didn’t.”

The pair were successfully awarded an opportunity to cre-ate public art along the street after showing their sketches and work to judges. It came as part of the city’s efforts to revitalize Wellington – with one per cent of that budget funding public art.

Kucey-Jones and Lotecki trav-elled to Europe where they got a tour of Italy’s marble quarries.

“It was our choice of material,” said Kucey-Jones. “There was no suitable stone in our area and to do it in marble, it was necessary to get it from Italy.”

The statues lining the street are made completely from marble since it is the most predictable type of stone that is the easiest to work with, Lotecki said.

The fi re hydrant theme is in-corporated at the base of each statue – and there is a reason for this.

The pair said they needed a symbol that carried through each piece to allow for continuity.

Photos by Kristy WallaceMarcus Kucey-Jones and Ryan Lotecki are the artists behind the Wellington Street marble statues. The pair divided the work to create the 18 statues scattered along the stretch.

Artists explain the work, and their vision, behind the Wellington marbles

A fi re hydrant, of all things, is a symbol that’s inclusive of all communities.

“The fi re hydrant is an object that decorates communities everywhere, and they’re an integral part of community,” said Lotecki. “It connects ev-erybody.”

After scouting the businesses and buildings along Wellington, Lotecki and Kucey-Jones got their inspiration for the tops of the fi re hydrants.

The 18 statues scattered along Wellington each

have a different top that refl ects a nearby organi-zation – like a piano that’s perched on top of the statue in front of a music store.

Once they had their ideas in place, they got to the chiseling, cutting and shaping.

“The hydrant part of it required mathematical equation to carve it out,” said Kucey-Jones.

“But the majority of other parts of the sculpture was really just using your eye and direct carving. Each one presented different challenges.”

They also needed a lot of pa-tience to work on each statue – which took two months each to complete.

The most challenging part of creating the statues were the top parts that refl ect the community. Lotecki said the ones that were most diffi cult were the statues de-picting vegetables.

“It was all imagination,” he said.

“You have to start right away, imagining where it’s going to be and hope it’s not going too far.”

They added that as artists, there are many things they have to keep in mind when creating public art.

“You have to open your mind, but also remember that it’s in people’s face,” said Lotecki.

“And you have to make sure it’s not hurting them in any way and that they’re not offended by it. You’re trying to give a gift on behalf of the city.”

While the statues aren’t par-ticularly offensive, Kucey-Jones said he’s heard people say that the $255,000 budget they had to work with was too much, and should have gone to something else - like keeping the streets clean.

SMALL FOOTPRINT

Kucey-Jones has also heard oth-ers say that they created a carbon footprint by bringing the marble over from Italy.

However, he said the jury who chose their work said they had the design with the lowest car-bon footprint. And, the budget included everything from tools, to bringing the marble over, to rental space over the two-year project.

Kucey-Jones has also heard is that their work reminds some people of male and female body parts.

“I’ve heard things that are just ridiculous,” said Kucey-Jones. “But on the whole, the response has been really good.”

Lotecki added that as an artist – especially one who creates pub-lic art – they expected the criti-cism.

“There were days that I didn’t like it,” he said.

“But maybe people who aren’t sold on it right away will realize it’s a part of their environment. Like their favourite tree, or shop window.”

Whether people are saying good things or bad, the pair is happy that their hard work has gener-ated talk along Wellington Street – and Westboro as a whole.

“Public art has an important role,” said Kucey-Jones. “It gives our city a voice. And anything that makes people stop and think is good thing.”The team wanted a symbol common to all pieces. They settled on the ubiquitous fi re hydrant, found in every community.The team wanted a symbol common to all pieces. They settled on the ubiquitous fi re hydrant, found in every community.

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Jersey Shore, Mad Hatters top Ottawa Halloween trendsKRISTY WALLACE

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When you hear knocking on your door this Halloween, don’t be surprised if the trick-or-treater is teen pop icon Justin Bieber.

Or even the eccentric Lady Gaga.Halloween is here, and stores across

Ottawa West are selling out of many in-teresting and unique costumes this year.

“The Alice in Wonderland is the most popular this year,” said Samantha Sudds, costume co-ordinator with Value Village on Clyde Avenue. “The Alice costume we’re sold out of. A lot of the Mad Hatter costumes are selling too.”

The Alice character has been the most popular women’s costume this year, with Lady Gaga wigs also selling out.

Brian MacInnis, store manager, added that warrior costumes this year are sell-ing out for men – refl ecting a new televi-sion series Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

“Transformers costumes are also pop-ular too,” he said. “And with a lot of clas-sic comics coming back, we’ve been sell-ing a lot of Wolverine costumes.”

MacInnis added that the classic witch, pirate and hippie costumes are still popu-lar – but a unique cast of a reality televi-sion show has also made for interesting costumes.

“Jersey Shore costumes are also very popular,” said MacInnis. “I’m very seri-ous.”

Monster Blowout Franchise Repre-sentative and District Manager Carol Connolly agrees that the Alice in Won-derland and Mad Hatter costumes at her stores have been selling out, as well as Super Mario and Luigi costumes.

“We have Jersey Shore. We just got them so I imagine we won’t have them to-morrow,” she laughed. “We’ve been sell-ing everything like mad.”

Ron Lahaie, Halloween co-ordinator at Value Village in Ottawa South, said his store usually gets university and col-lege students who have unique costume ideas.

He said with the popularity of vampire movies, there have been a lot of sold-out vampire costumes.

But this year, he said he noticed people want something different.

He remembers one customer’s request that still makes him laugh.

“The other day, someone was look-ing for a Justin Bieber wig. It didn’t say Justin Bieber on it, but it looked like his hair,” said Lahaie. “We had an actual toupee that looked like a Justin Bieber haircut.”

MacInnis said his store usually holds a post-mortem after the Halloween shop-ping is over to discuss what they can im-prove on and how the season went.

As early as June, staff get together to discuss what costumes they’ll be order-ing.

“It’s our Christmas,” he said.

MacInnes added that they often look at what movies will be coming out to decide what kind of costumes they’ll order for

the next year.“The A-Team costume will be popular

next year,” he predicted.

Kristy Wallace PhotoEmployees from Value Village on Clyde Avenue model some costume ideas during a Halloween costume fashion show.

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Something evil was lurking in the dark on Saturday, Oct. 23.

Under the moon-light, 27 zombies gathered on the Tabaret Lawn at the University of Ot-tawa to take part in this year’s edition of the Thrill the World dance, a worldwide simultaneous dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

The event breaks down each step of Thriller into simple and easy to remem-ber moves so anyone can become a danc-ing zombie.

Thrill the World has been happen-ing in Ottawa since 2007. Starting with just four people, the Ottawa event has grown year by year.

Photos by Hadas ParushAbove, from left, Kathleen Guglielmi, Jake Gibbons and Audrey Perreault imitate walking zombies after their participation in the worldwide Thrill the World dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller on the Ottawa University Campus, on Saturday, Oct. 23.

Zombies dance Saturday night away at U of O. Ottawa’s zombies were part of a simultaneous worldwide dance.

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NOTICE TO RESIDENTS AND USERS OF MERTON, SCOTT AND LOWREY STREETS

Merton Street Sewer Upgrades at Scott Street Contract No. ISB09-2061

- CONSTRUCTION START - The City of Ottawa Infrastructure Services Department has awarded Ottawa Greenbelt Construction Company Limited the contract to carry out the construction of the Merton Street Sewer Upgrades at Scott Street. Weather permitting, the construction is scheduled to commence in late October, early November 2010 and be completed by spring/summer 2011.

The project involves upgrading storm and sanitary sewers under Scott Street, replacing the road and sidewalk where needed and installing a monitoring chamber and a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system. This system requires the installation of an 18-metre high mast/tower located between Scott Street and the transitway.

As part of this contract, the existing combined sewer overfl ow pipe located underneath Scott Street and the transitway must be slip lined with a new pipe. In addition, a separate storm sewer will be constructed on Scott Street. During this construction, Merton Street will be closed at Scott Street and will also temporarily be converted into a two-way street so that local traffi c can enter and exit onto Lowrey Street.

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An initial vision planned for Lansd-owne Park includes reduced space for the farmers market, a taller tower at the base of the Bank Street Bridge and roads circumventing the retail and resi-dential section.

The public had a chance to view the plans during the Stage 1 site plan meet-ing.

The meeting was the fi rst chance to see how the three components of the park development – the stadium, urban park and retail/residential mixed-use area – would fi t together.

There will be two towers on the site: one at the corner of Bank Street and Holmwood Avenue, which will feature retail storefront space with condos above, and another at the base of the Bank Street Bridge, which has been in-creased from a proposed 1,959-square-metre structure to 3,175 square metres, or around 14 fl oors. That building is a potential site for a new art gallery.

The taller buildings will help give the site “landmark status,” said city plan-ner John Sit. Another tall structure on the site is the Beacon, a 27-metre-tall piece of public art which houses a fi ltra-tion system to provide clean water for a future splash-pad, as well as irrigation.

Other buildings on the site along Hol-mwood Avenue will be three- to four-sto-rey structures with retail on the ground level.

A network of roads is proposed for the park to take visitors through the commercial and retail section of the development off Bank Street. The main driveway off Bank gives visitors a view of the Aberdeen Pavilion and would lead motorists to one of the entrances to the underground parking lot.

“It is predominately pedestrian, but it will tolerate cars,” Richard Brisbin, one of the plan’s architects, told a group during a breakout session on the mixed-used section.

Aberdeen Square, the area in front of

Aberdeen Pavilion, would be a multi-use space with an area for the farmers market that is about half the space the market currently takes up. Landscape architects said the site would allow for 150 vendor stalls in a more space-effi -cient confi guration, but audience mem-bers decried the reduction in space.

Marta Farevaag, one of the landscape architects working on the urban park, said Aberdeen Square was only recently included as part of the urban park sec-tion, and the design for the square will evolve as the architects are able to con-sult with user groups.

The urban park also includes an heir-loom orchard, a 15,000-square-metre Great Lawn and a network of hard-sur-face pathways to allow crews to set up performances throughout the park.

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City planner John Smit emphasized that it is a two-stage site plan process. While the fi rst stage focused on bring-ing the three elements together into one vision and creating the basis for how the site will be organized, feedback received in Stage 1 will be used to help fi ne-tune the design for Stage 2, the au-dience was told.

“City staff and partners will continue to work to refi ne the design,” Smit said.

The second stage of the process is set to be completed by June 2011, when council is expected to give its fi nal ap-proval to the project and construction can commence.

Cannon Design will take on the sta-dium aspect of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) devel-opment, while OSEG will focus on the mixed-use area. Philips Farevaag Smal-lenberg Landscape Architects won the design contest to plan the urban park.

The site is being designed with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environ-mental Design) neighbourhood develop-ment, which focuses on integrating of the principles of smart growth, urban-ism and green building.

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Courtesy of the City of OttawaA network of roads is proposed for the park to take visitors through the commercial and retail section of the development off Bank Street.

The public had a chance to view the initital vision planned for Lansdowne Park during the Stage 1 site plan meeting.

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The infl uenza vaccine is now available at doctors’ offi ces, community health cen-tres and walk-in medical clinics through-out the city.

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“The fl u vaccine is safe, free and the most effective way to protect yourself and your loved ones from the fl u,” said Dr. Nadine Sicard, Ottawa’s associate medical offi cer of health. “Getting the fl u vaccine is an easy way to avoid missing school or work, or passing on the fl u to those around you”.

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This year’s Canadian fl u vaccines will cover three strains: the 2009 H1N1 strain, a new H3N2 strain and an infl uenza B component, which was included in last year’s vaccine.

Sicard also reminds Ottawa residents of these key steps to avoid the fl u:

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BY LAURA MUELLER

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With so much change proposed for the redevelopment of Lansdowne Park, some critics are asking the city to look to the past before it looks into the future.

The public fi nally got a look at plans for the site dur-ing the Stage 1 site plan meeting on Oct. 14, and while the proposed retail and condo buildings drew a lot of attention, Heritage Ottawa is hoping to spread the word about how the changes will impact the historic value of the site.

There are two heritage buildings at Lansdowne; the most recognizable is the Victorian architecture of Ab-erdeen Pavilion, known as the Cattle Castle.

But the second structure – the more humble Horticul-tural Building – could prove to be a sticking point for the whole development.

Plans released on Oct. 14 show the Horticultural Building moved to the north side of the Aberdeen Pavilion to make way for a series of gardens and or-chards planned for the site. Even if the building was not relocated, it would have to be moved in order to allow construction of the underground parking lot that would hold 1,100 cars for the retail and stadium section of Lansdowne, along with 250 spaces allot-ted for the residential section of the development. Heritage advocates say they don’t want the building moved and they will ask Toronto-area MPP Michael Chan, the minister in charge of culture, to place a stop-work order on the project.

“This is our line in the sand,” said David Flem-ming, president of Heritage Ottawa.

Under provincial legislation, the minister has the authority to stop work on a culturally signifi cant building if alteration or removal is likely to dam-age it.

“In any other place in the world, you don’t move a (heritage) building to build a parking lot,” said Flemming.

Representatives from Philips Farevaag Smallen-berg Landscape Architects, the group that is work-ing on the urban park section of Lansdowne that encompasses the Horticultural Building, said that the decision to move it was “complex.”

“There is no question that it is not the best heri-tage practice to move a building,” said Marta Fare-vaag during an Oct. 14 site plan meeting.

A historical overview prepared by Common-wealth Historic Management Ltd. last February falls short of what is needed to really assess the potential impact of moving the building, says Heri-tage Ottawa.

“Heritage Ottawa urges the disclosure and public discussion of the Cultural Heritage Impact State-ment before any discussion of rezoning, in confor-mity with the legislation and principles of trans-parency,” the group said in a statement released in September.

Another issue is the cost of moving such a deli-cate building, Flemming said. The city has pegged the potential relocation cost at about $3 million, which would be taken out of the $35-million budget for the urban park at Lansdowne.

“They are taking (almost) 10 per cent of that bud-get to move a building so a developer can build a parking garage,” Flemming said. “That’s pretty weak, as far as the justifi cation goes.”

Even though the Horticultural Building would be relocated to benefi t site developer Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG), that $3-million cost will be paid by the city, Flemming said.

“I think it’s scandalous,” he said. The city’s heritage committee will review the

matter on Nov. 4. It then heads to the committee of the whole on Nov. 19, and council will vote on it on Nov. 24. Flemming said he isn’t holding out hope that councillors will change their minds and refuse to allow the building’s relocation.

The fi nal plans for Lansdowne won’t be approved until June of 2011, after the second stage of the site plan process.

With regards to the Aberdeen Pavilion, the On-

tario Heritage Trust has told the city and developers they must maintain sightlines to Aberdeen from Bank Street. The provincial heritage organization has a say in the development because it contributed about $2 mil-lion towards the building’s renovation.

In August, the Heritage Canada Foundation named Lansdowne as one of Canada’s 10 most endangered her-itage sites.

That danger increases if changes like the relocation of the 96-year-old Horticultural Building are permitted, Flemming said. Even if the building does end up being moved and remains intact, part of its heritage value will be lost.

“It takes it out of context,” Flemming said of moving the building. “Part of what makes it a heritage build-ing is not just the bricks and mortar – it’s what it rep-

resents.”Moving the building without a safety reason compro-

mises its heritage value, Flemming said.According to a history of the building prepared by

Heritage Ottawa member Andrew Elliot, the Horti-cultural Building was designed in the Prairie style by Francis Conroy Sullivan, the only Canadian pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The two-storey front section at one time housed an en-trance hall and banquet room.

The back section served as both an exhibition area and curling rink.

Currently, the building’s rear space is used to store equipment and the front area is largely unused.

It was designated in 1994 under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.

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Football Faucons fl ying highDAN PLOUFFE

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The Franco-Cité Faucons are one step away from an undefeated season in the National Capital Tier 2 senior football league. And as the second-year team reaches for the milestone on Friday, Oct. 29 at Holy Trinity, the program that brings togeth-er players from all city French Catholic schools shows no signs of slowing down.

“So far, so good,” smiles Serge Boisvert, the Fau-cons’ coach who launched the city’s fi rst French-language high school football squad in over 20 years last fall. “I think every team’s got the same goal – to go all the way. But I think the only people that can beat us is ourselves.”

Although the Smyth Road school has enjoyed plenty of on-fi eld success – the Faucons went 4-2 in the 2009 regular season and then lost 3-1 in the semi-fi nals to league-champion St. Patrick prior to their 5-0 start this year – that’s not how Boisvert measures the program’s overall success.

“Football is a great way to keep them in school,” explains Boisvert, noting he wouldn’t have gone to college and university himself had he not been playing football. “That was the reason I stayed in school.”

When he compared students’ attendance and grades from previous semesters, Boisvert saw across-the-board improvements during the semes-ter they were in the football program.

On top of spending a portion of their school day training as part of the Franco-Cité sports-études (sports-study) program, the students’ course work is also football-related. In math, for instances, they might use football stats in their problems, and in language classes, they’ll read football books.

The French Catholic school board’s two-year pi-lot project also allows students from other school boards without football teams to attend Franco-

Cité for a semester before returning to their home schools. Of the Faucons’ 42 players, 15 are visiting students – mostly from Samuel-Genest, a couple from Garneau and Franco-Ouest, and one player from Béatrice-Desloges on the outskirts of Orléans, Olivier Miguel.

“I really wanted to experience the high school feeling of football,” notes Miguel, who leaves for school at 7:30 a.m. and gets home around 8 p.m. af-ter hour-and-15-minute bus rides each way. “It’s a lot harder, but you adjust. And the team spirit is the best. We’re all like brothers. It’s just awesome.”

The Grade 12 defensive captain is certainly en-joying his team’s undefeated campaign thus far, in-cluding a pair of shutouts.

“It’s a good feeling, and I hope it keeps going be-cause I just want to get to the fi nal and graduate with a championship,” Miguel says. “We want to show that Franco has a lot of talent and make St. Pete’s scared for next year.”

Before the Faucons can try to give the two-time defending champions a run for their money in the Tier 1 ranks, they’ll have to get approval to carry on the football program year-round because of dif-ferent transfer rules for the top-level league and the provincial championships.

Boisvert expects to fi nd out later this month if the year-long idea will get the thumbs up, which would also give him the chance to work with play-ers in the off-season to improve their conditioning – a necessity in his eyes to be able to compete with the likes of St. Peter.

“We’re ready for it – our coaches and our system will be ready for it,” says Boisvert, who also looks forward to having a fi eld to play on next season af-ter construction forced his team to practice on the school’s baseball diamond all year. “At St. Peter, it’s like a machine that’s constantly turning. We want to build something like that.”

Photos by Dan Plouffe

Alvan Julien and his Franco-Cite Faucons escaped the clutches of the Colonel By Cougars in a 24-14 victory last week. Two play-ers from Franco-Ouest also suit up for the Faucons thanks to the French Catholic school board’s pilot football program.


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• NOV. 4Martini Madness is a tasty fundraiser, for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada. It includes an art and exhibit sale, a silent auction and a martini sam-pling station.Chill out with friends, family or co-work-ers, as we work together to fi nd the cure! This event takes place at Lago Bar in the Dow’s lake Pavillion. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at thedoor.

The Woodpark Community Association annual general meeting at 7 p.m. at the Carlingwood Library.

• NOV. 6The SLOWest Coffeehouse at Bridgehead is held the fi rst Saturday of every month at the Wellington Street Bridgehead (1277 Wellington St.W.). These will be informal evenings of connection and conver-sation enriched with the work of local musicians, poets and storytellers.In November, the series will feature poets Anne Le Dressay and Mary Lee Bragg.

Ottawa Contra Dance presented by Old Sod Folk Music Society. An evening of contra dance with the live music of 3 Dollar Bills. No partner necessary. All dances taught and called by Adina Gordon. The dance starts at 8 p.m., with a beginners’ lesson at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $12 for adults, $10 for students, and free for youth 16 years and under. The dance takes place at Churchill Recre-ation Centre (345 Rich-mond Rd.).

• NOV. 12 TO 14Naru 2 U anime convention will be held at the Trav-elodge Hotel And Conven-tion Centre (1376 Carling Ave.). Featuring 404 Impov, Oto-wa Taiko drummers, SJ-games, Elan games, 24-hour manga library and gaming room,AMV contest, masquerade, Nominoichi, workshops, panels and more. Visit www.naru2u.com for information.

• NOV. 17Woodpark Community Association board meeting

at 7 p.m. at the Carling-wood Library.

• NOV. 20It’s fun to be Ukrainian Zabava 2010 - A fundrais-ing event for the Svitanok Ukrainian Dance Society at the Ukrainian Orthodox Hall (1000 Byron Ave.) starting 6 p.m. Enjoy live music by Zirka, a tradition-al dinner and performances by Svitanok. Contact 613-831-5822 or [email protected] for information and tickets.

Ottawa Contra Dance presented by Old Sod Folk Music Society. An evening of contra dance with the live music of the Old Sod Band. No partner neces-sary. All dances taught and called by Adina Gordon. The dance starts at 8 p.m., with a beginners’ lesson at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $12 for adults, $10 for students, and free for youth 16 years and under. The dance takes place at Churchill Recreation Centre (345 Richmond Rd.).

• NOV.24The Westboro Community Association annual general meeting will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Churchill Seniors Centre on Richmond Road/Churchill Ave. Westboro residents (members and non-mem-bers) are all invited to attend. Your feedback shapes the agenda for the coming year, so the WCA needs to hear about your top issues.

• NOV. 25 TO 28Ottawa Guild of Potters Sale, the most comprehen-sive sale of pottery in the region featuring functional and decorative pieces by more than 70 potters. Free admission. Thursday: 4 to 10 p.m.; Friday: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hel-lenic Banquet Centre (1315 Prince of Wales Dr.).

• NOV. 27The Hintonburg Commu-nity Association is hosting its 2010 Holiday Craft Fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hintonburg Communi-ty Centre (1064 Wellington St., upstairs in the gym).

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