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YEAR 26, VOL.28, No. 10 THE OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION REVIEW JUNE/JULY 2000

SAVING THE TAJ MAHAL: PEDAL POWER ON DELIVERY VAN TURF

BY DAVID HOFFMAN Il ntemet or not, North America's I bicycle messengers are not going

■J away. Reviled by pedestrians and drivers alike, they are surviving the world wide web just like they survived the fax machine. What's more, they, are returning to the parcel delivery of decades ago.

For 20 years, bike messengers made their niche with trips of less than two miles, carrying in their bulky shoulder bags. But the modem messenger can only carry about a cubic foot weighing up to 30 pounds.

Until now. The cargo bike can carry up to 36 cubic feet and 200 pounds at nine mph. Ottawa has three cargo bikers, delivering magazines and newspapers year-round on preset delivery routes where speed is not an issue.

I distribute controlled-circulation, computer magazines to downtown offices and shops using a trailer built from recovered bike parts. The other two replenish newspaper boxes using commercially-built 'BOB' trailers. All of us*enjoy slipping through traffic and always finding a place to park. Our incomes are comparable to messenger biking.

Delivery bikes used by retailers half a century ago were typically heavy, single-speeders with pedal 'coaster' brakes and a smaller front wheel under an oversized carrier basket. Payload was about twelve cubic feet or thirty pounds. They and larger models were widely used by milkmen, grocers, brewmasters and tradesmen.

What delivery niches can Ottawa expect to see filled by cargo bikers? In cities like Berkeley, California, a messenger company uses four cargo bikes to deliver office mail and food and has been taken on by an independent book retailer trying to reclaim market share with better and cheaper delivery than big chains like Bames and Noble or Amazon.com.

E-commerce hurting bike

messengers is a myth in New York City. Business is actually up because internet retailers are using them to deliver products bought on the Web. They are taking on all the best riders, driving up biker incomes.

Delivering 10% of local urban cargo by 2003 is the goal of Bike Cart Age in Victoria, BC. Their first contract is to distribute a local magazine. With their ability to carry plastic tubs or livingroom sofas, interest has been shown by local supermarkets, drug stores and caterers.

Thirty years ago, kids delivered newspapers and groceries by bike. Today, an organic food retailer provides produce delivery by bike in Esquimalt and Victoria. Hauling 18 bins of produce at a time, riders say the work is invigorating, self-paced and low-stress.

With seven 8-foot trailers, Bikes At Work runs an all-bicycle delivery service in Ames, Iowa, a midwestem town too small to support urban-core bike messengers. The company delivers groceries, magazines and recyclables. The University of Iowa uses them to collect 13,000 lbs/ 5900 kg from 150 locations and take it to a depot three miles away using a single bike pulling two trailers at once. If the company becomes bonded, it may start handling bulk mail delivery.

Insurance giant United Services Automobile Association in San Antonio, uses 80 tricycles for maintenance and delivery at the world’s largest office building. The building's service level is a kilometre long. The cost of maintaining eighty tricycles can easily be exceeded by a single electric cart having a bad year. Around Texas, many oil refineries, chemical plants and aluminum processors use on-site travel trikes in place of motorized carts or cars.

And then there are quads, four-wheeled human powered vehicles designed to transport cargo.

London, England courier LynxRedstar uses an articulated recumbent quad to deliver up to 150 kg, as much as a small van. One is even equipped with a refrigeration unit to deliver salmon to hotels.

Washington, DC is home to Scrooge, a bike messenger who can carry 200 pounds of freight and accepts heavier items regular bike messengers can't. A Bogota, Columbia, bakery replaced 200 delivery trucks with 800 cargo bikes, dramatically cutting costs and providing much-needed jobs. In Amsterdam, courier giant DHL uses bicycles exclusively for their weight and distance class. The Swiss postal service uses 3,700 delivery bikes and 4,000 bicycle trailers. Bicycle delivery networks exist in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, Santa Cruz and Berkeley, California, New York City, Boulder, Colorado and Ghent, Belgium.

Canadian bicycle messengers can now deduct the cost of lunches as a fuel cost, thanks to a federal appeal court ruling. While an average man uses 2,700 calories per day, a bike messenger will use 4,000. The extra calories are valued at $11-13 a day, an annual tax savings of $500.

What does all of this have to do with the Taj Mahal? Single-speed

cargo bikes thriving in India since the 1930s as pedalcab tricycles employ 10% of the adults in Agra, home of the famous Taj Mahal. They slow the rate at which internal combustion engines dissolve Agra's ancient monuments, to say nothing of airborne lead breathed by Agra's school children. Each Agra pedicab driver eliminates the annual emission of 11 tons of lead and 4,000 tons of particulates which 2-strokê taxi engines produce.

Cargo bikes may have long been absent in car-happy North America but not elsewhere. They haul more tonnage in Asia than all the world's motor vehicles combined. In major urban centres most fresh produce in market centres is brought by bicycle and tricycle. In Beijing, a furniture store hires cyclists to wear advertising and pedal around the city seven hours a day all week, for $80 a month, comparable to what migrant workers earn. Cycling is easier work than construction.

Even the World Bank has changed its policies to encourage greater use of bicycles in developing countries for personal and cargo transportation. Most people around the world can't afford a car. Plenty of barriers stand in the way but things are changing.

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OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT BY JOHN GRAHAM

UPDATE ON PATTY’S PUB As I reported last

month, the owner of _Patty’s Pub on Bank

Street is. proposing to add a patio on the former used car lot directly north of the pub. The province’s Alcohol and Gaming Commission is now considering this proposal and it is likely that the proximity of the proposed patio to residential housing will require City approval as well.

At our June meeting we hope to hear the decision of the Commission as to whether it will organize a hearing on this matter. Glenn Elder, chair of OSWATCH, reported residents in the area appear to be actively organizing to respond to this proposed development. More on this matter will appear in future columns. Should there be a hearing, OSCA plans to make a presentation.

NEW DEVELOPMENT AT CHURCH HILL

The OSCA Board heard a presentation by Robert Wallingford, the new owner of the property on Sunnyside Avenue immediately to the east of St. ‘Margaret Mary’s Church. (Children for years in Old Ottawa South have tobogganed on this hilly terrain, known as Church Hill.)

Accompanied by his architect, Mr. Wallingford presented plans for three row houses of approximately 2,000 sq feet over three storeys (asking price not yet determined.) The row houses will be set back approximately 40 feet from the street, permitting a carport for each unit to be ‘buried’ in greenery.

OSCA Board members appeared to like the design. Some, however, cautioned that the sharply sloping terrain will mean that the rear façade of the full three storeys plus the basement will appear massive unless properly treated. The architect, John Donkin, appreciated the potential

problem and had some suggestions for minimizing it.

To proceed, the proposed development will require a re- zoning to R3 J, which is typical of the neighborhood and a variance to accommodate the lack of garages. The developer promised to consult

with neighbors of the property. I’ll come back to this proposal in future columns.

WINDSOR PARK Mayor Jim Watson intervened on

behalf of OSCA on the Windsor Yard issue. Thanks to his efforts, the City not only tore down the building but also took away the fencing, removed the asphalt and planted grass. Up to that point, the City had been asking OSCA to contribute to the rehabilitation of the yard.

Councillor Inez Berg also deserves our thanks for contributing funds from her own budget so that the City was able to remove a small stretch of roadway extending from Windsor Avenue into the park to join the former City yard. Many thanks to both Jim and Inez for restoring much needed park land to the neighborhood.

TRAFFIC ON RIVERDALE City official, Rob Dworkin,

presented the Board and several interested residents the results of a number of initiatives designed to research traffic problems on Riverdale Avenue. Highlights of the presentation apd ensuing discussions follow: • response by residents to a

questionnaire evaluating the speedhump on Riverdale was disappointing, only 24 individuals in the Riverdale neighborhood responded. A consultant expert in traffic safety will analyze a)these responses; b)technical data on traffic flows and speeds recently collected and c)ramifications for OC Transpo and emergency vehicles.

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The consultant will then make recommendations on these traffic calming measures as well as others across the City (including the raised intersection at Grosvenor and Sunnyside.) No date for receiving this report has. been established.

• From Mr. Dworkin’s perspective, the addition of new stop signs on the street does not appear viable as there is no obvious place for a new sign (poor compliance might result), the street is an important bus route and finally, the City does not want to discourage cyclists.

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pass these on to the Police, who will contact the vehicles’ owners and issue a warning.

• Recent monitoring of vehicle speed on Riverdale indicates it is typical of other streets in the City having a ‘runway’ affect to them. The long term solution is to reconstruct the street, an option that does not appear viable within the next decade, given current City maintenance plans.

* The OSCA Board will return to this issue at a future meeting to consider the consultant’s report on ,traffic calming measures as'well as the Main Street traffic study, due within the next month or so.

OSCA BARBECUE I hope to see all of you at the

annual OSCA barbecue at Brewer Park Tuesday June 20. As usual, the quality of the hamburgers and hotdogs will be surpassed only by the incessant teasing of the cooks and the chatter of neighbors having a good time.

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PARKING SPACES FOR THE DISABLED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY

Holders of disabled parking permits are reminded that if they park on private property (e.g., apartment building parking lots) in spaces designated for the disabled, they must have permission from the property owner to do so. Even though these spaces are clearly marked as being reserved for disabled persons, they are usually reserved for the use of tenants, not visitors. Persons using the

spaces without authorization from the property owner risk having their vehicles ticketed and towed away. Property owners are requested to prominently display a notice advising the public that spaces reserved for disabled parking on their property are for t(ie use of their tenants or persons specifically authorized by them to park there. Info: Tom Keely, 798-8999.

PLACES DE STATIONNEMENT POUR LES PERSONNES HANDICAPÉES SUR LES TERRAINS PRIVÉS Les détenteurs de permis de stationnement pour personnes handicapées ne doivent pas oublier que s’ils stationnent dans un emplacement réservé aux personnes handicapées sur un terrain privé (p. ex., le stationnement d’un immeuble d’appartements), ils doivent obtenir la permission du propriétaire du terrain. Même s’il est clairement indiqué qu’elles sont réservées aux personnes handicapées, ces places de stationnement sont habituellement , destinées aux locataires, et non aux visiteurs. Les personnes qui utilisent ces places sans obtenir l’autorisation du propriétaire risquent de recevoir une contravention et de se faire remorquer leur voiture. On demande aux propriétaires d’afficher dans un endroit bien en vue un avis informant le public que les places de stationnement pour personnes handicapées sur leur terrain sont réservées aux locataires et aux personnes qui ont obtenu leur autorisation de stationner dans ces emplacements. Renseignements : Torn Keely, 798-8999.

CITY OF OTTAWA SPAY/ NEUTER CLINIC Thousands of homeless and unwanted dogs and cats are needlessly euthanized each year.

Be a responsible pet owner - have your pet spayed or neutered. The reduction in the pet population resulting from sterilization is a benefit to the community in general and, in the long term, reduces the cost to taxpayers of animal control.

For information about pet sterilization or to book an appointment, see your veterinarian or call the City of Ottawa Spay Neuter Clinic at 798-8970.

CLINIQUE DE STERILISATION DE LA VILLE D’OTTAWA

Des milliers de chiens et de chats errants et non désirés sont inutilement

euthaoasiés chaque année. Soyez un propriétaire responsable, faites stériliser votre animal familier. Les efforts pour contenir par

stérilisation la population des animaux familiers représentent un avantage pour la communauté et, à long terme, réduisent les coûts du contrôle des

animaux que les contribuables doivent payer. Pour obtenir des renseignements sur la stérilisation

des animaux ou pour prendre rendez-vous, consultez

votre vétérinaire ou appelez la Clinique de

stérilisation de la Ville d’Ottawa, au 798-8970.

JLEnviroCentre Home Comfort Kit saves money, increases energy efficiency

EnviroCentre, a not-for-profit environmental Service enterprise supported by the City of Ottawa, can help you with your renovation plans this spring. Their Home Comfort

Service wifi locate the sources of drafts, window moisture.the need for insulation and will ensure your renovation plans are as energy efficient as

possible, saving you money by making your whole home more efficientThis professional service is largely subsidized by the federal government and is available for only $150.

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Le Service de confort à domicile vous assure des Economies d’argent et d’énergie

L’EnviroCentre, service environnemental sans but lucratif appuyé par la Ville d’Ottawa, : peut vous aider à planifier vos rénovations ce printemps. Son Service de confort à domicile repérera les sources de courants d’air et d’humidité des fenêtres et les

: endroits qui doivent être isolés, vous aidera à établir des plans de rénovation aussi éconergétiques que possible et vous permettra d'économiser en améliorant le Rendement énergétique de toute votre maison. Ce service professionnel est Subventionné en grande partie par le gouvernement fédéral et vous est offert au prix

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Call the Terry Fox Athletic Facility, at 247-4883

Ce qui distingue les camps de jour d'été de la Ville d'Ottawa

des autres camps, c'est le personnel.

Le personnel de nos camps de joursd’été a reçu l’accréditation du programme HIGH FIVE, détient des

certificats de secourisme, de RCR et de santé et séciirité, et a reçu la

formation suivante : Le soleil et le bon sens, Service à la clientèle,

Sensibilisation aux handicaps, Gestion du comportement et Sensibilisation à

la violence faite aux enfants. Nous nous efforçons d’offrir des programmes qui soient

respectueux de l’enfant, formateurs et propices à leur épanouissement. Notre but est de créer un milieu qui

favorisera la créativité, la collaboration, l’engagement et l’assurance de votre enfant.

Nous offrons des programmes de qualité à des prix abordables dans un milieu communautaire à l’ambiance

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SPORTBUS 2000 • UNE NOUVEAUTÉ Un nouveau programme de camps de sports absolument

sensationnel pour les jeunes de 9 à 13 ans. Nous vous offrons un thème sportif différent chaque semaine. Notre

autobus vous conduira vers des installations sportives exceptionnelles de la région d’Ottawa où vous profiterez

de sorties inédites et passionnantes. Vous pourriez même rencontrer des vedettes sportives locales.

Appelez à l’Installation d’athlétisme Terry-Fox, au 247-4883.

Vending at a Festival or Special Event ? Anyone intending to sell FOOD or GOODS, WARES OR

MERCHANDISE: at a festival or special event in Ottawa must obtain a license from the City of Ottawa. License Inspectors patrol festivals and special events to ensure licenses have been

obtained by vendors who require them. Failure to obtain a license may result in a fine.

APPLICABLE LICENSE CATEGORIES: REFRESHMENT VEHICLE: Vendors with motorized and non-motorized vehicles from which food and beverages are sold must obtain a Refreshment Vehicle License. VICTUALLING: When food is sold (other than from a vehicle) the vendor must have a Victualling License - even if the food comes to the event from a licensed restaurant. When selling food, it is the vendor's responsibility to have the vending equipment inspected by a Regional Health Inspector. ITINERANT SELLER: Anyone selling goods, wares or merchandise, even if already licensed to do so in a fixed business premise, must obtain an Itinerant Seller's License. WHERE TO APPLY City Hall, 111 Sussex Dr., 1s1 Floor Rideau Pavilion Client Service Centre - Business Services Zone Hours: 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday; 8 am to 4:00 pm July 4 to September 1

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des inspecteurs sont chargés de vérifier si tous les vendeurs sont bien munis des permis exigés. Les

personnes qui omettent d’obtenir un permis s'exposent à

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CATÉGORIES DE PERMIS VÉHICULES DE RAFRAÎCHISSEMENTS : Les

personnes qui utilisent un véhicule, motorisé ou non, afin de vendre de la nourriture et des boissons doivent obtenir un permis pour véhicule de rafraîchissements.

RESTAURATION À UN ÉVÉNEMENT SPÉCIAL : Les personnes qui vendent de la nourriture (à partir d’une

installation autre qu’un véhicule) doivent obtenir un permis de restaurant, même si les aliments proviennent d’un

restaurant déjà muni d’un permis. De plus, il incombe au vendeur d’aliments de faire inspecter son équipement de

vente par un inspecteur-hygiéniste régional. VENDEUR ITINéRANT : Quiconque vend des biens, articles ou marchandises doit obtenir un permis de

vendeur itinérant, même s’il est déjà muni d’un permis de vente dans un établissement fixe.

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CITY COUNCILLOR'S COLUMN BY COUNCILLOR INEZ BERG

OSCA BBtt & CONCERT

BREWER PARK Thursday

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POOD Served * 5:30

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WHITTON AWARDS HONOUR RESIDENTS

he Whitton Awards Ceremony, May 31, was a great success. Assembly

Hall at Lansdowne Park was filled as family, friends and neighbours celebrated accomplishments of 29 outstanding Capital Ward volunteers.

It was an honour to present Whitton Awards to Old Ottawa South residents: Community Activism to John Graham; Sports & Recreation to Bob Adamyk, Jeff Hume and John Loop: Business & Commercial Activities to Arthur McGregor and Terry Penner and Arts & Culture to Abby Pollonetsky.

I surprised Mayor Jim Watson with a one-time Special Whitton Award honouring him for his public recognition of volunteers.

Thanks to all sponsors without whom we could not stage this wonderful event. Thanks to Allison Woyiwada and Hopewell School band who entertained marvellously. Thanks also to Brad and Heather Cairns of Framed! for framing the certificates.

WINDSOR WARD YARD RECLAIMED

I am impressed with efforts to reclaim this part of Windsor Park. The old building, asphalt yard and chain link fence are gone. The City covered the cost saving the community an onerous burden. I also put over $3000 from my budget toward removal of the end of Windsor Avenue and adding top soil, grass and trees.

Since I first waging the fight in early 1998 on behalf of Old Ottawa South, to save this piece of parkland from being sold off, I have not felt such happiness. With shrinking budgets and green spaces, I view my role in returning this park space back to the community as one of my most satisfying achievements. I thank Pat Kealey, Gary Lum, their team of community volunteers and Mayor Watson for his support.

WINDSOR PARK PLAY STRUCTURES

The beautiful new preschool play structure and swings are in place in Windsor Park, thanks to hard work of community volunteer»and contractor John Milks. In addition to the $7,500 City Self-Help grant, I contributed over $ 1,500 from my budget to assist completion. I look forward to the official opening Wed June 14. Thanks to Georgina Hunter, Anne Marie Corbett, OSCA and community

donors and volunteers who worked hard on this project.

RIVE RDALE TRAFFIC CALMING

Recently, I observe an increase in the number of cars parked on each side of Riverdale and a decrease in the traffic speed. I had recommended the community try this easily implemented, effective, cost free (when

parked legally) traffic, calming measure.

It has advantages fixed measures do not. It effectively narrows a greater portion of the road, it reduces motorists' perception of a wide speedway and it is unpredictable.

Cars cutting through are unable to develop a patterned response because placement of parked cars differs from day to day. It may not be rocket science, but it seems to be having some success. Keep up the good work Riverdale residents!

Following suggestions made by police at a recent OSCA meeting, I agreed to help fund some signs for residents for a lawn sign experiment with cautionary reminders to motorists.

Recommendations made in the Main Street Traffic Calming & Streetscaping study would see the intersection of Riverdale and Main squared off, eliminating the slip-off lanes to and from Main. This should reduce speeds onto Riverdale.

City staff reported on their traffic monitoring and police enforcement on Riverdale at OSCA's May meeting. Average speeds have dropped sinqe installation of the speed hump in 1997. The City will report back in September on other traffic calming measures in place.

STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST SCHOOL CLOSURES

A recent report to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board again recommends school closures. In all options, Mutchmor is targeted for closure. Ldss threatened but also targeted are York Street, Elgin Street, Viscount Alexander and Centennial.

Alarmed school council reps, trustees, other elected officials and staff met and many concerns were expressed. All agree June 26 is too tight a deadline for public consultation so school communities can respond to the options. We oppose having only one meeting in September for concerns to be delivered and we oppose October as the date for a final decision.

Closure of Mutchmor will

overburden local schools like First Avenue and Hopewell. It is imperative all schools and communities stand together in a united front in opposition to the closure options.

Recent predictions of explosive population and economic growth throughout the OCDSB's jurisdiction show closing schools is not a wise planning choice now. And, as seniors downsize and younger families move in, neighbourhood schools will be needed more than ever.

Closing and selling schools without more complete demographic data is short-sighted and will limit diversity, balance and viability of communities. Solidarity between communities inside and outside the Greenbelt is critical.

Ottawa, and all municipalities, should oppose short sighted closures. Hopefully, a majority of regional council can be convinced to pressure the board to withhold the decision on closures until after the next municipal election and until more accurate projections on pre-school populations are forthcoming. I fully support and thank Lynn Graham and all those working on these initiatives.

AROUND THE COMMUNITY

I enjoyed the Hospice at Maycourt's Tulip Tea and Open House May 7. The Hospice's "House on the River" project will see an existing wing outfitted with 10

overnight beds. Please support this very supportive institution.

It was great fun to visit Hopewell School with the Mayor recently, to speak with students on environmentalism and give out Millennium white pine seedlings. Many students signed an Olympic flag to be given to Canadian athletes going to the Summer Olympics in Australia. The flag will hang in the Canadian athletes compound to remind them all Canadians are cheering them on.

Students from St. Margaret Mary came to Windsor Park to plant trees as part of the Mayor's Task Force on Re-treeing Ottawa and received millennium white pine seedlings. Micheline Martin from the Royal Bank, accompanied by Leo the Lion, presented the Mayor's Task Force on Re-treeing with a $10,000 cheque.

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

I look forward to seeing you at OSCA's Summer BBQ & Concert, Brewer Park June 22. I will be serving hamburgers and hot dogs as usual. Have a safe, happy, and peaceful summer!

CAN I HELP? Inez Berg City Councillor 111 Sussex Dr Ottawa, ON, KIN 5A1 Tel: 244-5367 Fax: 244-5373 E-mail: bergi@citv.ottawa.on.ca

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KEEPING OTTAWA CLEAN & GREEN

BY MAYOR JIM WATSON

sk any of the thousands of visitors to our nation’s capital what their first

impression of our city is and they will more than likely answer “clean”. It is a distinction that sets us apart from most major cities and it is important that keeping Ottawa clean remains a priority. Since June 4-10 is Canadian Environment Week, I thought I would focus on the city’s environmental initiatives.

SPRING CLEANING THE CAPITAL

To help keep our community tidy, thousands of volunteers donated their time to the annual Spring Cleaning the Capital Campaign in April and May. This year’s campaign built on the success of previous years, with a record 18,000 participants taking part. Since the program’s inception seven years ago, nearly 80,000 volunteers have registered clean-up projects and over 70,000 kg of litter has been collected.

Thank you to the organizers, our partners and sponsors, and especially to the volunteers for their hours of work in maintaining the tidiness of our nation’s capital! If you see litter why not help out? For major problems, please call our 24 hour city hotline at 244-5444.

MORE TREE FUNDING Work is also being done to ensure

that our community’s green spaces are well looked after. Recently, I had the pleasure of announcing over $800,000 in funding for city trees. The City of Ottawa received $609,000 in support of the city’s Tree Replacement and Management Strategy from the provincial government. This amount was supplemented by the city’s contribution of $203,000. The

strategy is designed to maintain the city’s woodlots hit by the ice storm in 1998 that destroyed or damaged over 50,000 trees.

TASK FORCE ON RE- TREEING OTTAWA

I started this task force after the ice storm as a means to

establish strategies for replacing and maintaining Ottawa’s trees. Since then, over $130,000 has been contributed to this initiative, with a recent $10,000 donation from the Royal Bank Financial Group Foundation.

Thanks to the generosity of companies like the Royal Bank, many of the trees that were destroyed have been replaced, ensuring the health of community trees for future generations.

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD ARTS PROGRAM

On June 8, winners from this first- ever art contest for students in the Ottawa-Carleton area, their classmates and principals will attend a special ceremony and reception at Parliament Hill where their framed works will be presented to the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Environment and the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Over 1,500 participants forwarded artworks which will be judged by a distinguished arts panel. Students submitting art will receive a limited edition “Mayor’s Environmental Award” medallion, donated and minted for this initiative by Inco.

CAN I HELP? Contact me: Tel: 244-5380 Fax: 244-5379 Mail: 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 5A1 E-mail : watsonj@city. Ottawa, on.ca

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TRANSPORTATION: MAKING COMMUNITIES WORK I have always believed municipal government is

[particularly important because it's the level of government closest to us and most visibly responsible for the quality of life we enjoy in our communities.

As Regional Chair, I think transportation issues are a perfect example of what I am talking about. Whether it is efficient vehicle travel to and from work or safe pedestrian travel to and from school for our kids, transportation issues touch all of us 'where we live.'

Residents of Old Ottawa South will know exactly what I am referring to. The Region of Ottawa-Carleton has been very busy on a wide range of transportation-related issues since I became chair in 1997. Among them have been measures to calm and slow down traffic in certain areas and we rely heavily on neighbourhood input when we investigate the need to make changes and when we make decisions to do something.

Many Old Ottawa South residents are concerned about how busy Bronson Avenue is becoming and we at the region are acting there as well.

Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet and I have tabled to motion to halt the Bronson - Portage Bridge extension because it would increase Bronson traffic.

The region has also launched a modest light rail

initiative in hopes of eventually reducing private vehicle traffic in the. area. The first trains will be delivered in January 2001 to run between Greenboro Station and Lebreton Flats using existing rail that runs through Çarleton University.

We've been busy in other ways too. We launched public sessions on how to properly install child safety seats and, with private sector participation, we introduced a "Good Bears Buckle up" project to ensure safe vehicle travel for children.

Taking care of business on the transportation front is vital to improving the quality of life enjoyed by residents of Old Ottawa South and residents elsewhere in our region.

As we move into the 21st century with predictions of high growth in the new city of Ottawa we are creating, reckoning with transportation issues must remain a top priority.

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DEAR EDITOR, PATTY’S PUB PATIO

e were shocked to read John Graham’s President’s column in the

May OSCAR. He spent more time addressing the "positive benefits" of allowing Patty’s Pub, which backs onto residential streets, to create an outdoor pub seating 100 to 200, than he spent addressing the legitimate concerns of Old Ottawa South residents who would be negatively impacted.

Outdoor seating of this size is equivalent to a beer hall, totally out of line with any other outdoor patio in Old Ottawa South or the Glebe.

An outdoor pub is not like most businesses, as Mr. Graham would have us believe. It would bring a huge number of people and cars, and resulting noise, to the nearby residential streets late into the evening.

The City of Ottawa’s current by- laws do not allow such an establishment and we are asking the City to maintain the current by- laws, which recognize that this type of establishment is inappropriate for

DEAR EDITOR, My family and I (me, my husband and our two

I children, 6 and 3) are residents of Old Ottawa South living on Aylmer Ave. Recently, we had a catastrophe at our home that may be of interest (and concern) to residents

the neighborhood. When combined with previous

increases in floor size (30%) and licensed capacity (24%), this third increase would result in a fundamental change to the nature of Patty's Pub since 1997 -- from a local pub originally licensed for 89 to a drinking establishment licensed for 217-317.

Based on past experience, local residents have good reason to distrust the owner’s assertions that even though the area for which he is applying is capable of seating 200, that he would limit the number of seats to 100.

Yes, Bank Street is a business area, but let’s bring in businesses consistent with the character of the area and that respect the interests of local residents. We hope that all Old Ottawa South residents will join us in opposing this proposal, just as neighbors united to block the conversion of the Strand into a licensed pool hall Tor 200.

Yours truly, Beth Everson and Helen Beck

of our neighborhood. On Thursday May 11, we had a

sewer pipe in our basement that leaked every time we used the water in our house. I had a plumber come in only to find out that there was a very blockage in the pipe. I had to call a

sewer specialist (Scooter Rooter) to come in to blow out the blockage. They forced 20001bs (may not be an accurate number) of air into the pipe only to have sewage in the pipe forced back into my basement.

To release this pressure and to find the blockage, the crew had to dig up my garden, driveway and fence. They then put a camera into the pipe and found that a neighbor to the north of me had put up a new deck and their post and concrete was now in my sewer pipe.(with a permit from the City).

After going six days with no water, I found out through many

hours on the phone with the City, lawyers and contractors that the sewer pipes in our area are not documented and that nobody knew that these pipes were there, including the City.

People in our area should know that this could happen to them and they should find out if their sewer lines run through neighbors properties’ and if they have the legal right to have them there.

If you would like to contact me, you can reach me at home 730-0588, work 725-9965 ext 379, cell 282-8588 or by e-mail iavnerobertson@home.com

Jayne Robertson

BOARD UNVEILS TRANSITION PROJECTS

BY CARLMARTIN The Ottawa Transition Board has named almost 50

I transition projects and the project leaders who will help create the new City of Ottawa, Jan 1, 2000.

The projects will amalgamate and restructure the 12 existing municipal administrations into the new City of Ottawa. Project teams will gather information on existing municipal services, receive public input, analyze data and make recommendations to the Board on how they should be delivered in the new City.

Employees seconded from the 12 Ottawa-Carleton municipalities will develop plans to restructure and redesign municipal functions with the

help from members of the public and outside experts. The duration of each project will depend on size and scope of municipal function.Implementation plans are expected to be in place by January 1, 2001.

Information and regular updates appear www.ottawatransition.on.ca and will appear regularly in local newspapers during the transition.

You can obtain information on specific projects by contacting the Transition Board: 580-4751 ext. 5568, fax: 580-4752, e-mail: info(a>,ottawatransition.on.ca or mail: 111 Lisgar St., Ottawa, Ont, K2P 2L7.

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REGIONAL REPORT BY CLIVE POUCET, REGIONAL COUNCILLOR

DEAR OSCAR READERS: Be careful who you give your heart to, they may not give it back. When I was a

youngster growing up in Ottawa, I was I

able to take the streetcar from Westboro all the way to Britannia Beach in less time and more safely than you can drive today.

What mother today can put a ten year old with his friends on the streetcar and tell the driver to watch out for them until they get to the Britannia station? My mother did and my friends and I would come home from the beach tired and happy. Often we would fall asleep on the streetcar and the driver would wake us up when we got to our stop on Wellington Street.

That’s the kind of community environment good public transit permits both inside your neighborhood and between neighborhoods. You can’t do that in an urban landscape of big box malls and six lane roads.

This is the vision that I’m working for at the Region and is at the heart of the present conflict over trucks on King Edward and the MacDonald-Cartier Bridge. The Mayor of Gatineau, Monsieur Labine insists that Gatineau must have 24- hour truck traffic on King Edward and our reply is ‘no, you don’t’.

This is a clash not of personalities but two different visions of urban growth.. Take one look at Gatineau and you will see what I mean. Gatineau is a spaghetti of four lane urban roads, parking lots and big box stores. If you want to buy ten kilos of soap powder or spend 10 per cent less on a washing machine, a Gatineau mall is the place to go. The problem is reductions on some consumer items at the mall come with a heavy price for the community - acres of asphalt and densely travelled, high volume roads.

Residents on the Hull side have themselves begun to fight the constant intrusion of wider roads, trucks and cars into their community on McConnell-Laramie Boulevard. But much of the island of Hull and the city of Gatineau has already been eviscerated by a 1950s style of development based on the philosophy ‘there isn’t a road which can’t be widened.’

We have gone down a very different route on the Ottawa side of the river. We’ve kept our downtown communities vital and we’ve built our busways and now we’re moving

towards a light rail system. If you think about it, the difference between the two sides of the river is really quite striking.

On the Hull side, bridges like the Champlain, the MacDonald-Cartier and the

proposed Kettle Island bridge all exit into industrial-commercial areas and six lane roads. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Monsieur Labine prefers downtown bridges with 24 hour truck traffic including the proposed Kettle Island Bridge. His communities have nothing to lose and something to win.

But it’s a different story on our side of the river. The Champlain Bridge exits onto Island Park Drive and the community of Westboro. The Macdonald-Cartier exits onto King Edward, the Byward Market and Sandy Hill, while the proposed Kettle Island exits into Manor Park.

So it should be no surprise that Ottawa politicians want to move the trucks which use the MacDonald- Cartier bridge onto a ring road outside of our high density downtown. Our preference is Cumberland where it can hook into the 417 without the new construction tearing up any established neighborhoods..

Closer to home, we see this same struggle over how our Region should grow in the battle over the Bronson and Alta Vista Expressways. Many of us feel that the right solution is not more cars and highway lanes but to reserve these corridors for light rail and keep our green space around the Rideau River at Lees Avenue and Bronson. Modem light rail is fast, comfortable, efficient (two rail tracks moves the equivalent of 18 lanes of road traffic) and at the same time creates a minimum of disturbance to

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Maybe I’ll never fall asleep on the way home from the beach again but my vision for healthy neighborhoods and safe streets remains a region built around rail lines which move people from the suburbs to the downtown and across existing bridges to Hull.

BANK & CAMERON INTERSECTION SAFETY • No right turn on red from 7-9 am

and 3:30-5:30 pm, Monday to Friday;

• Adjustments to signal timing to allow for an advanced pedestrian crossing phase;

• No Parking has been changed to No Stopping on the east side of Bank Street; and

• Edgeline paint has been applied around the northeast and southeast comers for greater definition.

KEEPING UP WITH JIM Last weekend before the Glebe

Centre Rockathon, Mayor Watson and I shared a few moments together at lunch. I felt that I had been holding my own in the “out and about sweepstakes” and made the mistake of listing my day’s accomplishments.

Up at seven to supervise some tree planting at Fourth and Bank, then off to Heron Park North for a community clean-up, then down to Brewer Park for the tree planting there, a constituent problem on Marco Lane, then a stop for a coffee and sandwich before going to rock in the Rockathon.

Jim had done 'most of the above and an event in Alta Vista, plus after the Rockathon, he was off to Westboro. No matter what the future holds for Mayor Watson, he will be remembered as the Mayor of Ottawa who raised the bar on community presence to a record height.

All the best, Clive Doucet Regional Councillor, Capital Ward 111 Lisgar Street Ottawa, Ont, K2P 2L7 Tel: 560-1224 Fax: 560-6075 Email: doucet@rmoc.on.ca Website: www.rmoc.on.ca/wardl 7

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ECOS UPDATE BY MICHAEL J. LOEWEN, ECOS CO-CHAIR

COMMONWEALTH STUDENTS ASSOCIATION On May 10, 2000 ECOS was

invited to participate in a .river cleanup project

conducted by the Commonwealth Students Association. The students from across Canada were in Ottawa to take part in a Commonwealth conference and took time out of their busy schedule to clean up a portion of the Rideau River shoreline near the Hurdman Bridge off Lees Avenue.

This site was identified in the ECOS Action Plan for the Rideau River completed as part of the ECOS 2000 Millennium project. I addressed the students and provided some safety advice to the participants who worked along the river.

ANOTHER AWARD FOR

ECOS • At lunch among the tulips at Dow’s Lake, the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects awarded ECOS their 2000 Certificate of Merit for service to the environment in recognition of its contribution to sensitive, sustainable design of the environment. I accepted the award on behalf of ECOS along with John Wright an association member and long standing ECOS supporter. The award really belongs to the tireless volunteers who have put in countless hours of time to the environment in

- Old Ottawa South.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN OLD OTTAWASOUTH

At the end of May, ECOS played host at Brewer Park to a group of international students taking part in the AQUAtox 2000 network. The network was established in 1998 by IDRC to help students understand the importance of protecting their communities’ water resources through practical scientific experiments. 93 schools worldwide, including 36 from Canada, have taken part in the project. The students from Canada (Northwest Territories), Cuba, Mexico, Nepal and the

* Ukraine were brought to Ottawa in order to share experiences and describe the impact of their research on their community.

As part of their visit, the students collected water samples from the Rideau River at Brewer Park and analyzed them at the Canadian Museum of Nature laboratories. The Museum is currently conducting the Rideau River Biodiversity Project in close cooperation with area residents and groups such as ECOS.

SPRING TREE PLANTING On May 6,2000 ECOS conducted

its annual tree planting at Brewer

Park. This spring ECOS volunteers planted some 150 bushes around Brewer Pond and the newly created embayment on the Rideau River. The planting was a total success. Thanks to all who participated. In mid June ECOS will be planting an additional 15 trees in the same general area.

ROUNDTABLE ESTABLISHED

On June 12, the Rideau River Roundtable will be formally established in a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The creation of this permanent group of stakeholders and community groups for the stretch of the Rideau from Rideau Falls to Smiths Falls, represents a major milestone in ECOS’s efforts to promote stewardship along the River.

ECOS has spent many days over the past year working with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority and the Canadian Museum of Nature planning this Roundtable. In addition, ECOS supported the Roundtable by preparing a stewardship report as well as a comprehensive scoping study on the health of the Rideau.

Even though this Millennium Bureau of Canada project is now completed, one of ECOS’s regular partners, Muskies Canada, will be on the Roundtable. In addition, as professional engineer and water quality expert and resident of Old Ottawa South will serve on the Roundtable. In January 2001, ECOS will consider applying for membership on the Roundtable.

WETLANDS FESTIVAL PROGRAM POSTPONED

We reported in the May 2000 that we would launch the Interpretive Program and stage a wetland festival in late June 2000. These events will now be held in late July 2000. Flyers will be posted to let you know when and where these events will be held.

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e are well into summer now, and how our lifestyles have

changed! The weather has been fantastic and the days are long. In Canada, we try to make the most of our short summer and tend to be much more active through the week, especially on the weekend or while on holiday.

After “hibernating” all winter, the weekend is the time we fit in gardening, running, walking, cycling, rollerblading or ' playing soccer, football, rugby, tennis, baseball and golf. A weekend at the cottage involves not just relaxing but also canoeing/kayaking, swimming, waterskiing and more gardening! A vacation involves all of the above, and more!

These occasional outbursts of physical activity on an unconditioned body can actually be harmful and can cause or contribute to the physical symptoms you may be experiencing throughout the week. ‘ Effective exercise should be regular, consistent, and enjoyable. However, if the majority of your physical activity takes place over only one or two days of the week, aches and pains can be avoided if you take the necessary precautions.

1. Properly warm up before and cool down from vigorous activities. A brisk walk or light run will loosen muscles and increase circulation. It is not wise to immediately stretch or vigorously exercise “cold” muscles.

2. Stretching should be done before and after exercise and only when the muscles have been warmed up first. A well-stretched muscle which is warmed up will encounter fewer injuries and outperform one that is not.

3. Pace yourself. Too much activity over a short period of time will lead to physical and mental fatigue which greatly increases the risk of injury.

4. Utilize as much protection from

environmental factors such as the sun, humidity and air pollution as possible. Take frequent breaks if possible. If not, avoid exercising in the middle of the day and get out in the morning or evening.

5. Drink plenty of water. Exercise combined with heat

and humidity leads to extreme water loss through perspiration and breathing. Your body requires water for many functions including temperature regulation. Failure to replenish fluids before, during and after exercise can have disastrous effects. Drinks containing caffeine and alcohol can inhibit water absorption

In the event of an injury’ such as a sprain or strain, the immediate care would be to apply ice directly to the inflamed or swollen area. Cold applied promptly after an injury can slow down or minimize acute inflammation. Crushed ice in a plastic bag, gel ice pack or even a frozen bag of peas can be applied hourly for no longer than 12 minutes at a time. A chiropractor or other health care professional should be consulted with regards to any injuries sustained.

Many professional and elite athletes incorporate chiropractic care into their training ^.programs, however, it is just as valuable to anyone who exercises, from the “weekend warrior” to the avid gardener. Chiropractic care promotes balance in the body and ensures the nervous system is functioning properly. The nervous system, which is protected by the skull and spine, controls and coordinates all of the systems, organs, tissues and cells of our bodies. This is vital for recovering from injury, preventing injury and increased performance.

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PLAY BALL! THE UMPIRE-IN-CHIEF BY LYNDA RIVINGTON

Doug Diak (left) umpiring a Glebe Little League game. Photo L Rivington

The boys and girls of Glebe Little League are out playing

(baseball and softball at diamonds all around the area, Lansdowne, Brewer, Windsor and Brantwood Parks. And at every game you see the GLL umpires in their distinctive blue shirts, grey pants and umpiring caps. Most came up through theg ranks as players and around age *13 decided to try their hand at officiating.

This sea&>n there are 32 umpires; last year there were 36. They get paid a small amount per game, a nice way to earn some pocket money for teenagers. These young men and women all come under the watchful eye of the League’s umpire-in-chief. Keith Willis held the job for four years and Doug Diak is now in his third year in the position.

Both began umpiring 10 years ago after a season of coaching their sons, Scott and Nick, in the minor division. Doug started because he was appalled by the quality of umpiring and decided he could contribute more by being a good umpire than by being a coach.

When Keith thinks about his first game as an umpire at the old Lansdowne Park diamonds, he recalls that his whole family threatened to come and heckle him.. .and they did! But, his son Scott, who hadn’t watched baseball since he stopped playing, signed up to play again.

UMPIRE-IN-CHIEF

In 1994, Keith became umpire-in- chief when Greg Crossett stepped down. The job overlapped with his one of referee-in-chief for the Ottawa Centre Minor Hockey Association, a position he held for five years along with refereeing for 10 years. When office demands became too heavy, Keith turned the reins over to Doug in 1998. Both continue to ump.

What does the position of umpire- in-chief involve? Doug describes the position as having two parts. The first is to train and help the junior umpires

develop and perfect technique, build confidence and become comfortable on the field.

The second involves scheduling 250-300 games per year, spring and summer, in minor, major, junior and sënior divisions and three girls softball divisions.

UMPIRE TRAINING

Every year umpires arè required to take a Level I clinic ran by the umpire-in-chief. Doug says he looks for objectivity, the ability to see things as they are, a knowledge of the rales and a willingness to learn.

It is also important “not to be easily offended with criticism from the fans. Umpires must realize they cannot please both sides at the same time.” He adds, “umpires don’t deliberately make bad calls but they are human”.

Keith explains the umpire-in-chief

puts more experienced umpires with rookies but, “It is important to get rookies behind the plate as soon as possible.” Keith encourages kids to try umpiring “because it gives them another aspect of the game. Most play baseball but seeing the game as an official is different. Umpires have to learn and study the rale book. They have to learn to deal with and tolerate a certain level of catcalling. And they have to learn not to abuse their authority.”

The umpire-in-chief goes to the various diamonds to see how all the kids are doing and encourages them to call with problems or questions after a game, especially if it concerns abuse by a parent or coach.

FAN CRITICISM

Criticism is something both umpires and parents in the stands have heard. As Keith notes, “there has been the odd occasion when an adult in the stands has had to be informed that yelling at an umpire, especially a young kid, is inappropriate. Adults should keep in mind the umpire is still learning the

game just like the players are. Nobody gets through without making mistakes so fans should be patient.”

Doug has noticed Little League fans now are more understanding than they used to be. He attributes this to people being better educated about minor sports and to umpires willing to talk to spectators after a game.

EXTRA TRAINING

Umpires require certain levels of training to officiate at different levels of games. With Level I, an umpire can do house league games; with Level II, District levels; Level III provincials and with Level IV a national championship game.

Keith has Level III and has umpired Big League and men’s league games but finds umpiring for Glebe Little League is enough.

Doug has Level III and, in 1996, was selected by the District to go to Little League Headquarters in

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for a one week umpiring session which gave him Level IV certification.

He has umpired Districts for eight years and also provincial and Canadian championships. In 1998 he did three provincial championships, one senior Canadian championship, one Big League Canadian championship and six junior Canadian championships. Doug is also a certified Ontario Baseball Association umpire and does men’s league games for the National Capital Baseball League. He umpires an average of 100 games per year.

Keith and Doug enjoy working with kids. Umpiring is their contribution to Little League baseball and one of the ways they serve their community. All Glebe Little League players, umpires and parents benefit from the standards Keith and Doug set and the role models they have become to our children.

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING JUNE 15, 2000, AT 5:30 P.M.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR BOARD MEMBERS. ARE YOU INTERESTED?

We welcome people who live or work in Centretown, the Glebe and Ottawa South and, in particular, we would like to hear from individuals with accounting expertise and links with the multicultural and francophone communities.

The Annual General Meeting will take place at 420 Cooper Street (just West of Bank Street)

To be on the ballot, nomination applications must be received by June 5, 2000, at 5:00 p.m. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor.

Join us after the AGM for an INDOOR STREET PARTY!

• Come and meet your neighbours, co-workers, staff and board members

• Enjoy socializing and entertainment • Become a member and/or volunteer of CCHC • Child care available • Fabulous door prize!

For more information, call Joan Wahay or Lynn Hampton at 233-4443. 6-

Keith and Todd Willis. Photo L. Rivington

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SELECTING CARE FOR YOUR CHILD BY LYNE TREMBLAY, ANDREW FLECK CHILD CARE SERVICES When you decide to return to

work, leaving a child is probably one of the most

difficult experiences you must cope with. Choosing day care is an important decision affecting how you and your child(ren) adjust to the new situation.

"Where do I start?" is one of the questions parents frequently ask themselves. First, know what you want and what options are available to you. There are three types of licensed day care services available in the Ottawa-Carleton region.

1. Licensed Day Care Centre is a facility licensed to serve children of varying ages in a group setting. Provincial licensing ensures minimum standards of care. Centre-based care is offered through public and private for-profit and not- for-profit agencies and can be in a variety of settings - schools, workplaces, etc.

2. Licensed Home-Based Child Care provides care in a caregiver's home, are selected, screened and monitored by a licensed home child care agency. Homes must meet provincial standards.

3. Nursery School programs usually part-time, for children 2 Vi to 5 years old, provide good socialisation and help them prepare for school.

Home-based child care is available from homes independent of licensed agencies. Parents are responsible for screening and monitoring. Financial

subsidies are available through licensed programs only.

Having decided which type of day care meets your requirements (location, affordability and ages accepted), you should arrange to visit.

What will you look for? Licensed Child Cave: Making an Informed Choice suggests the following: • welcoming staff ready to answer

your questions completely and openly;

• children who seem happy, enjoying each other's company and playing cooperatively;

• teachers actively involved with children by playing, listening and talking with them;

• opportunities for children to run, climb, play alone or in groups, build, read, listen to music;

• • messy activities such as painting, sand and water play;

• individual attention to each child - hug, smile, help.

Don’t be shy about asking questions, you have a right to do so and the information will help you make a decision right for you and your child. •>

Information on location, cost, hours, ages, language(s) and other details about licensed day care programs is available from Child Care Information, 700 Industrial Avenue, Suite 600, Ottawa.

A free, bilingual telephone information service is available at 736-1913, as well as four bilingual publications.

THE FINE ART OF SELF CARE BY JANICE FALLS

This is a continuation of a series on self care and wellness by Janice- Falls, a counsellor living and working in Old Ottawa South. You have to make taking

care of yourself a priority; I no one else is going to do

it for you. Yet the myth of indulgent selfishness continues to prevent many of us from safeguarding what should be a basic necessity. The real indulgence comes in not practising self care, in allowing ourselves to become depleted, even to the point of breakdown or burnout.

There is a simple analogy from the airline industry which I often draw on. Should the need for oxygen masks arise, whose needs do you take care of first, yours or others’? It is only by securing your own supply of oxygen first that you are then in a position to be truly helpful to others.

The same applies to self care - taking care of your own physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual health enables you to give from a state of wholeness rather than from one of deficiency.

So what does it mean, practically speaking, to place yourself first? It begins with taking time to listen to what your own needs might be. What are your body, mind and heart telling you? It means taking time for reflection in a consistent and conscious manner through such means as journal writing, meditation, yoga, prayer or just sitting quietly with awareness. These practices require little more than our focussed attention but how challenging that •can be!

Meeting others’ needs at your own expense can become a way of life, so consider your priorities. What are you doing to take care of yourself so that your contribution does not leave you * gasping for breath? This, is a challenge that all of us face daily. Fortunately, it is within our personal power to meet this challenge and raise self care to a fine art.

Janice Falls is a counsellor for personal and spiritual growth, helping people learn the fine art of self care. For further information call 730-0373.

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BY ALEX CULLEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR June is Seniors' Month and this June, the Council on Aging,

I Ottawa-Carleton celebrates 25 years of dedication to enhancing the quality of life for all seniors in the region. Thé Council came into being in 1975, the foresight of leading community agencies and individuals. It is time to recognize the valuable legacy of former presidents, volunteers, executive directors and staff.

The early years focussed on establishing the Council as a voluntary, non-profit organization. IF began as an arm of the Social Planning Council. The first staffer was hired in April, 1975, the only paid staffer until 1980.

In 1978, the Council received funding for the first time from the United Way. In 1981, it received

■funding from the Ministry of Community & Social Services. A year later, it began receiving an Elderly Persons Centre grant, including a municipal contribution.

Early committees focussed on education, health, housing, recreation, social services, transportation and Francophone concerns. From mid the ‘80s to the early ‘90s, work centered on conducting community needs assessments, advocacy activities and service development projects.

Working groups and committees reported * on mental health,

community support services, long- term care, housing, francophone services, economics and demographics. The Council also created guides to long-term care, retirement facilities and consumer information on medication awareness and elder abuse.

From the mid ‘90s to the present, the Council experienced turbulent times. New avenues for survival were developed in fundraising, membership and Friends of the Council. Despite staff cuts and relocation, the Council completed projects and advocacy work on healthy lifestyles, hospital discharge planning, adult day care and community support services, visiting, self advocacy, aging in place, aging, an in and out-of-hospital guides for seniors. Several community forums were held, most recently on home care and regulation of retirement residences.

Demographics tell us the Council on Aging will be needed more than ever as we enter the next millennium. Seniors will need a strong voice to speak out on their issues to the public and to governments at all levels. This requires participation of volunteers and members who give time, financial help and expertise to the Council. For more information, call 789-3577.

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SUMMER - A GREAT TIME TO

VOLUNTEER

BY CHERYL LEDGERWOOD At The Glebe Centre, July and August bring sunny days and

Jwarm weather and an increased need for volunteers. Whether helping with resident activities as regular volunteers take their holidays or with special summer activities, f caring and committed volunteers are critical to success of programs promoting physical, mental and social wellness of our 265 residents.

Indoor and outdoor walks and friendly visiting offer a great degree of flexibility for those limited or varied time availability. Small and large activities, weekday mornings afternoons, as Well as some evenings and Saturday morning, require regular commitment but offer a wide range of possibilities.

Opportunities are numerous. Here are just some: • twice a month on Mondays to

escort frailer residents on van trips; • Thursday afternoons, help with

crafts and baking; V talking about events past and

current and discussing of kinds of topics are needed for the “Tea and Chats” on Monday, Tuesday or

Thursday; • playing one-on-one games like

cards or puzzles would be very welcome;

• work with residents to establish and maintain balcony gardens;

• a group of three or four to host a monthly resident tea;

• help with Monday & Friday morning stretching and strength classes for our most frail residents

• help with Tuesday morning sing-a- longs

• host Wednesday evening informal social

• “Mom and Tot” team for a special program of baking, games and reading.

While volunteers are needed and recruited on an ongoing basis, because of the time required to screen, orient and place volunteers, anyone wishing to volunteer over the summer months should call by June 23 to schedule an interview and orientation date.

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s we come to the start of a Summer Season, staff at Ottawa Library South Branch

extends its thanks to all of the neighbours who made the task of serving you such a joyful one. We are privileged indeed in having such a high profile in the community. Even if I'm riding a bus in Hull, someone is bound to recognise me and mention it at the first opportunity! Privileged also to have earned your trust and friendship in the past while. Your ongoing support as we become an amalgamated Library service is much appreciated.

Once- again, we hope you will continue to keep visiting us, your local library and using the many services we offer as you remember the pleasure of reading a good novel on the beach or under the shade of that big tree I see sticking out of your backyard.

Have a good summer everybody,

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

PARTY AROUND TOWN Celebrate the beginning of

summer and our summer reading club. 45 min Pre-registration. Wed July 5-2 pm.,

WATER WONDERS Make a boat that can float around

town. For nautical 4 to 8 year olds. 45 min. Pre-registration. Wed July 12-2 pm.

BARNYARD BUDDIES Make a farmyard friend. For ages

4 to 8. 45 min. Pre-registration. Wed July 19-2 pm.

BUBBLE-MANIA Float right over town with giant

bubbles. Family fun for all ages. 45 min. Pre-registration. Wed July 26 - 10:15 am.

LET'S GO FLY A KITE Fabulous flying fun for ages 5 to

9.45 min) Pre-registration. Wed Aug 2-2pm.

BUILD AROUND TOWN Construct your own town. For 5 to

9 year old architects. 45 min. Pre-registration. Wed Aug 9-2 pm.

CITYSCAPE Build your own diorama of a city.

For ages 5 . to 9. 45 min. Pre-registration. Wed Aug 16-2 pm.

PARTY AROUND TOWN AGAIN!

The end of summer is just around the comer. Extend the fun V little longer with a party to celebrate the end of the Summer Reading Club. 45 min. Pre-registration.

STORYTIME FOR AGES.3 TO 5.

Mon 10:30 am. 45 min. July 10- Aug 14 inclusive.

FUNKY FILMS FOR AGES 4 TO 8

Thurs 2 pm. 45 min. July 6-Aug 10 inclusive.

If you have any questions please give us a call at 730-1082.

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Mayor Watson, Leo the Lion, Micheline Martin, Royal Bank and Inez Berg with St. Margaret Mary students at Windsor Park. Photo City of Ottawa

NEW TREES FOR OTTAWA BY MELANIE KWONG ■iWnlmlii ayor Jim Watson announced

I the City of Ottawa will I receive $609,000 from the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing for the City's Tree Replacement and Management Strategy. The strategy is designed to maintain the city's wood lots hit hard by the ice storm two years ago. This money will be supplemented by the city's contribution of $203,000.

Mayor Watson also received a $10,000 donation from the Royal Bank Financial Group Foundation to the Mayor's Task Force on Re-Treeing Ottawa. The presentation was made at Windsor Park at a tree-planting ceremony where four new trees made available through part of the donation, were planted by Mayor Watson and students from St. Margaret Mary's School.

"It is through the generosity of companies like the Royal Bank that the task force has been successful in replacing so many of the trees damaged in the ice storm two years ago." said Mayor Watson. "The support from the provincial

government and this latest donation means we will have new trees for our city and the means to maintain others damaged by the storm."

"We are responsible to our communities and want to offer the kind of support that will lay strong and health foundations. It is exciting to know our contribution here today will remain an important to the Ottawa community for many, many years," added Micheline Martin, Royal Bank regional Vice-President, Ottawa.

The Mayor's Task Force on Re-Treeing Ottawa was established by Mayor Watson in 1998 following the devastating ice storm. Approximately 6,000 trees on city property were lost as a result of the storm. The Task Force, made up of City, environmental and community representatives has a mandate to investigate and assess various options for replacing and maintaining Ottawa's trees. Over $120,000 has been contributed to this fund since its inception.

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he Students' Design Clinic is in I its twenty-second year of

operation, offering low-cost design and drafting services to the community. The clinic is a student run, not-for-profit business in operation from May to August.

CLINIC BACKGROUND The clinic was created to provide

students with the opportunity to gain experience and expand their skills , while offering a valuable service to the community. They offer design ideas and advice to home owners on projects ranging from decks, renovations, additions, restorations and new homes.

The clinic has been incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation since 1991 and is the only service of its kind in the country to have survived for twenty two years.

Although the clinic operates out of the School of Architecture at Carleton University, operations are self-directed by the students. The

clinic is affiliated and includes a Board of Director comprised of local professionals.

CLINIC MISSION • to provide the community with an

affordable advisory service related to home design, renovation and repair

• to provide architecture students with experience and work opportunities related to their chosen vocation

• to promote contacts among architectural students and practising architects

• to promote a public understanding of architects within the community To schedule an appointment for a

free, one-hour consultation or for more information, please call Ewa or Gillian at 520-6682.

The Students' Design Clinic is a unique and vital force in Ottawa's home building/renovation community and we thank you for your time and consideration.

YOUTH INFRINGEMENT SECOND SMASH YEAR FOR STUDENT THEATRE FESTIVAL HI ttawa's only completely

I independent student run S theatre festival has just finished its second great year.

Youth Infringement, created last year by two Ottawa area high school students, Kinnon Elliott and Emily Pearlman, is a large scale theatrical festival and this year consisted of nine original plays written and produced entirely by young people.

A generous grant from the Community Foundation of Ottawa-Carleton made it possible for producers Pearlman, (18) and Anna Seifreid (17) to realize their vision where students age 12-22 have a forum explored the limits of their creativity in all aspects of dramatic arts.

The grant also enabled the 70+ students involved to attend workshops with area professionals

and each play was linked with a professional director in the community who acted as mentor to each cast and crew in hopes of forming links between the amateur and experienced arts community.

Old Ottawa South was very well represented including The Dodo Syndrome writer/director Alex Contreras, Unanimously Anonymous writer/director Arianne Matte and Bug actors Katie Black and Gab Go'sseline.

Students involved came from a variety of different high schools and public schools from as close as Glebe and Lisgar to as far as Bell and Colonel By.

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WHEN CAN I RETIRE? BY RICK SUTHERLAND, CLU, CFP, R.F.P.

e-are frequently presented with this dilemma from our clients.

The answer to this question is complex and distinct for everyone. In this short article we will try to give you a slight nudge and offer you a direction to get started. The initial process is quite rudimentary. However, you may have unique circumstances where the services of a professional planner would be necessary to come up with a realistic and workable plan.

Prior to estimating your realistic target retirement date, you must set yourself some life goals. This is where you can dream a little. Determine how many years you would like to work before you would consider retirement. Then forecast the number of years that you wilPbe in retirement mode. If your goal is to retire at the age of 60, you may have 20 to 30 years to live on your savings and pensions. This is based on your average life expectancy, and adding a few years to err on the side of caution.

You then want to select a retirement income goaf As a guide you can look at the income you would need if you were to retire today. Consider that you may have paid off your mortgage and your children would be independent. Dream about your retirement lifestyle and decide how much income you would need if you were retired

tomorrow. Next you must project your income need into the future. The average inflation rate for the past forty years has been about 3.5%. A net income of $35,000 today will be worth $70,000 to $80,000 in twenty to twenty-five years.

If you are fortunate to have a private employer pension plan, ask your employer to provide you a pension projection at your assumed retirement age. Then integrate this projection along with assumed government pensions into your calculations. The difference between pensions and your income goal is the amount that you must fund from savings.

Finally, you should decide how much money you are able to save before your retirement years. Assume a rate of return, we usually recommend 8%, and forecast the future value of your private savings. It is this fund that you must draw upon to make up your retirement income shortfall. Once you know these facts, and anything else that may be unique to your situation, you can then determine whether you have to save more money, defer your retirement date, or maybe retire a few years earlier.

This is a monthly article on financial planning. Call or write to Rick Sutherland CLU, CFP, R.F.P. with your topics of interest at 798- 2421 or e-mail at rick@invested- interest.ca

PRIMARY LITERACY PROJECT |H major new speech and /VS language initiative, the

ÉF • ^1 Primary Language Literacy Project, was launched by the Speech and Language Services of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the First Words Preschool Speech and Language Program of Ottawa-Carleton on Wednesday, May 10 at the Adult High School.

The Primary Language Literacy Project is an innovative new initiative designed to promote success in school by encouraging first language use at home. Critical research shows that a child's first language must be developed to a high level in order to assure academic success in a second language.

"In Ottawa- Carleton, there is a fast growing population of children who are at risk for difficulties in school due to linguistic diversity and a tremendous need to provide these children and their families with the support they require," reports Jim Grieve, Director of Education, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.

"Children who don't speak English or French need to be encouraged to successfully develop their first language."

The Primary Language Literacy Project is creating a range of culturally sensitive, multilingual (Arabic, Chinese, Somali, French, English) resources including videotapes, booklets and workshops. Some of the topics covered include Developing Language through Reading and Story Telling and Developing Language through Music and Play.

This material supports and builds on the important role that informed parents and caregivers can play in their children's education and in the all.-important development of solid communication skills.

"We're especially pleased to announce the launch of this strategic project during Speech and Hearing Awareness Month," noted Shelina Merani, Manager of the Multicultural Liaison Program, Ottawa-Carleton Immigrant Services Organization.

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THE WINDSOR CHRONICLES - PT 3

DEAR BOOMER,

he signs of spring: the snow I melts, the hockey boards come

down, and humanoids harvest the poops. It all happened in quick succession this year. The snow was still hiding behind the hockey boards when the city workers came to take them down; the boards were still stacked in the middle of Windsor Park the day of the Seventh Annual Poop Picking Harvest.

The harvest brings out the best in humanoids. I don’t know why they try so hard during the winter to clean up after us when it’s evident they have so much fun in the spring to "harvest what they’d missed when the snow was on the ground. They come to the Windsor Park harvest fields, dressed in their colorful, traditional poop picking costumes. Something very folkloric about the attire: their garden gloves and rubber boots; plastic garbage bags and trowels.

What I love best is the merry songs the happy poop pickers sing while bending over their labors. Some of the songs go back a long time, I’m told. My favorite comes from when the Industrial Revolution was transforming traditional poop picking. It’s the song about the race between a legendary poop picker, John Henry, and the steam-driven poop picker that was threatening everyone’s job.

When John Henry was a little boy The first words his lips did tell Was, “I’m gonna be a poop pickin ’

man ‘Cause I got no sense of smell Lord, lord, I got no sense of smell. ’’

There’s a disturbing trend in the poop picking harvest, however. Each year, we see fewer dogs. More humanoids leave us at home while they harvest. This is ungrateful. Where would the poop pickers be without our hard work over the winter months? We planted the seeds; it’s only fair that we’re there to share in the festivities. So where was Zep? Where were Obie and Diva?

Fortunately, my Alpha is of the old school that believes in letting me see if I can add fresh material to the harvest while he toils at bringing in the past winter’s bounty.

When the day of this year’s poop picking dawned, She-Who-Must-Be- Obeyed was away on a business trip. My Alpha couldn’t leave the Lump at home while he and I did our jobs.

Two years ago, the Lump slept in his baby carriage while the rest of us worked. Last year, he watched, strapped down in his stroller. This year, my Alpha was rash enough to let the Lump loose, armed with a trowel.

The Lump decided his contribution to the day would be to dig a hole in the baseball diamond. This cut down on our efficiency as Alpha and I would prowled among the bleachers and along the river bank. Whenever we found -a poop, Alpha had to return to the baseball diamond to negotiate with the Lump for the temporary use of the trowel.' After much squawking and complaining from the Lump, Alpha secured the trowel for just long enough to scoop our find into the plastic bag. Then the Lump got the trowel back and returned to shortstop position to resume his engineering project.

In future years, perhaps the Lump will dig a hole sufficient to bury the entire harvest. He’ll have to graduate from a trowel to a back-hoe. By mid- afternoon, the poop pickers had brought in eleven bags full of the winter’s accumulation. Not just our souvenirs, but humanoid debris as well - bottles and cans, paper and styrofoam. By the time we all gathered for our team photo, Windsor Park and the riverbank were looking pristine again. Just the kind of place you like to trot through with a grin on your dewlap and your tail held high.

See you there tomorrow. Zoscha

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After class you will have lunch together in our dining room where the food suits all tastes. The children in this club must be at least seven years old and accompanied by a senior (55 and up). WHEN - Mondays, 1.0am- noon, July 10 to July 31, COST -$50. All supplies and lunch included. Payment must be made by July 4. Questions? Phone 230-5730 between 9am and 4pm.

MINI BOOK SALE in the Abbotsford Lounge between 9am and 4pm, Tuesday June 20 to Thursday July 6 (excluding weekends of course). You have your own time to make your selection for your summertime reading and pay purely nominal prices for the ones you choose.

SUMMER DINNER & SHOW, Monday, August 14 from 5:30-8pm. Here is where you have to mark your

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Tantalizing dishes prepared by Glebe Centre Chef Pierre; after dinner entertainment by Sound Mekanix, a barbershop quartet for "major and minor tune ups"! You have the date and time above. Cost to members $15 and $17 for non-members. To reserve a seat, payment must be made at registration and because Chef Pierre must know numbers to create his magic for the table, deadline for reservations is August 4.

CHRIS ROGERS will instruct you in SUMMER AEROBICS on Wednesdays 10 to 11 am in. the multi-purpose room, July 5 to July 26. Keep your heart healthy and your body fit with this low impact class developed for active seniors. Cost is $ 18 for members and $24 for non-members.

There are lots of other activities going on and you are invited to call in and visit 950 Bank Street or phone 23.0-5730. Fou instance, our INTERNET CLASS on Tuesdays. If you were ever going to Team about computers, this summer would be a great time to start. Volunteers from the National Capital Freenet share their knowledge in question and answer classes. Get your hands on a computer here and learn. Phone for details.

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ST. MARGARET MARY PARISH . NEW DISHWASHER '

BY ROSEMARIE MORRIS The people of the Parish of Saint Margaret Mary and

[many volunteers involved in community outreach programs express their appreciation to the Community Foundation of Ottawa-Carleton and the New Sun Fund for the grant of $4,370 that was received in January, 2000.

This grant was provided to cover the cost of a commercial dishwasher installed as part of the recent kitchen renovation. The Parish has also installed on the dishwasher a plaque that acknowledges the Community Foundation of Ottawa-Carleton.

Several groups serving the broader community now benefit from the efficiency, hygiene, and environmental friendliness of the new dishwasher which permits the use of

c^ina dishes and cutlery rather than styrofoam plates and plastic.

The dishwasher has been a welcome addition for the weekly Sunday Supper and Song Program as well as for the Carleton University student suppers. The teams of volunteers who prepare and serve meals each week are glad to have their labour reduced.

Now that the renovation is finally complete, the dishwasher is available for use by the Kitchen Cooking Club of the Saint John Deaf Community as well as for programs sponsored by the Ottawa South Community Centre.

For those of us who used to wearily wash dishes and pots after these events, the high speed of the new dishwasher is a bonus!

ESCAPADE 2000 Calling all outdoor enthusiasts!

Gear up your bike, put on I your skates or lace up your walking shoes for Escapade 2000 on Sunday, July 2. The National Capital Commission is organizing Escapade 2000 to help Canadians discover the natural areas of Canada's Capital Region. Escapade is free and open to everyone. No registration is required.

During this unique recreational event you can ride, skate, run, walk or roll along the National Capital Region's extensive network of roads, parkways and recreational pathways. You can complete the entire 60-kilometre circuit or use one of the designated shortcuts. Entertainment, activities and basic services will be available at seven hubs along the Escapade route, which also serve as entry points to the circuit.

The Escapade 2000 route passes through Old Ottawa South. A number of streets will be closed or reduced to one-way traffic in order to ensure the safety of Escapade participants. The

street closures will be in effect from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm. Residents and businesses directly affected by these street closures will be notified individually in June and informed of alternate routes. We hope these closures will not create any inconvenience for your community and we look forward to seeing you at Escapade 2000 on July 2.

Date: July 2, 2000 Time: 9 am to 4 pm Cost: Free Route: Total of 60 kilometres Start/ Finish: At any of the 7 hubs Direction: One-way traffic only For general information about

Escapade 2000, contact the National Capital Commission at 1 800 465-1867 or 239-5000 or on the Internet at www.capcan.ca (Click on "Millennium Events").

For specific information about road closures in your area, contact Melissa Adams, Project Officer at 239-5434. For information on volunteering call 239-5373.

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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

These famous lines from the love-sick Duke of Illyria begin

L__l Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which will be produced this year during Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences' summer camp.

Held at the Billings Estate Museum, Simply Shakespeare (the name of the camp) is enjoying such success in its fifth year that there are two sessions this first summer of the new millennium!

Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare's jolliest plays, is said to have been written for a celebration at Queen Elizabeth's court on the twelfth night of Christmas (January 5). With secret identities, ship-wrecked and rescued siblings and a strong Commedia dell'arte theme, the play is a cunning masterpiece of trickery, humour, misplaced courtship and punctured pomposity.

The twenty young actors in the camp present a script that has been edited by Salamander Theatre's Eleanor Crowder to provide everyone with a chance to shine, enough depth to challenge them and a rollicking good play!

This is not new ground for Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences, Ottawa's only theatre for young audiences company, Salamander has been working with children and teens since 1993. The company is currently touring three shows throughout Ontario - A World of Stories, Excalibur and Beowulf - performing in front of 30,000 children annually.

Schools around Ottawa regularly experience Salamander Theatre's presence with workshops such as Playmaking & Jouons Ensembles (theatre basics), Hero Talk (theatrically examining themes of

Ottawa-Carleton residents looking for answers to brief

| J factual questions can now e-mail requests to the Ottawa Public Library’s downtown branch and receive a response within two business days.

The new e-mail reference service is meant for people who want quick facts such as points of grammar, statistics, company names and addresses. More complex questions requiring in-depth research will receive a list of the best sources to check either on the Internet or at the library.

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courage and honour) and Calling The Shots (mixed media). . One of the more popular in-school workshops for the company is Speaking Shakespeare, which became the inspiration for the Simply Shakespeare summer camp five years ago. The summer camps have produced several of Shakespeare's beloved plays, including All's Well That Ends Well, Henry Land Winter's Tale.

This year, the production is Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will (Shakespeare's own title and subtitle). The campers will present their talents the way Elizabethan touring companies might have - under a huge tree with the audience gathered around! That huge tree lives at the Billings Estate Museum where the camp takes place.

Campers have access to the grounds of the Estate, as well as a few of the outer buildings. As well as the benefits of plenty of space in which to rehearse, campers come to appreciate and practice the essentially physical nature of Shakespearian comedy: the large gestures and broad humour inherited from the Commedia dell'arte form.

Salamander Theatre keeps enrollment at a maximum of twenty campers per session. Two sessions of Simply Shakespeare are planned for this summer: session one from July 4-21 and session two from July 24-August 11. Information is available at Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences. Contact Linna Rowlatt at 569-5629.

There are few other opportunities for young people between the ages of 10-16 to experience Shakespearian theatre in the way Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences is offering it!

the "Contact Us" section on the Library’s Web site.

A one-stop location for information, the Ottawa Public Library’s Reference Services on the 3rd floor at 120 Metcalfe has extensive collections in both print and electronic formats. Trained, knowledgeable staff will help users find what they need from the hundreds of government documents, financial and consumer reports, encyclopaedias, directories, atlases, almanacs, national and international telephone books, indexes, back issues of newspapers and magazines, local history material, and career and job-related resources available.

Dr. Monique Frize of Osgoode, pioneering educator,

I researcher and feminist and the first woman engineer to graduate from the University of Ottawa, was honored May 30 at the 7th YMCA- YWCA Women of Distinction Awards, earning the Trimark Lifetime Achievement Award. She helped shape the field of clinical engineering within biomedical engineering and is the first female chairholder of the Nortel/National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Established in 1974 by the Winnipeg Y, The Women of Distinction Awards, now celebrated in 17 Canadian communities, recognizes women considered role models, who have contributed to advancement of women and demonstrated initiative and a pioneering spirit. Other recipients included:

Rogers Television Award for the Arts - well-respected Gloucester photographer Michelle Valberg,

Business -. Elizabeth Millar driving force behind the campaign to reduce wage discrimination in the Federal Public Service and other jurisdictions,

Voluntary Sector - Barbara MacKinnon has provided exceptional leadership to Causeway, the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Pinecrest Queensway Health and Community Resources Centre,

Education - Barb McNally, teacher, chair of school committees, university lecturer, Education Interaction Director at Nortel, Director of PARTNERS (Programs and Resources to Nurture Engineering Research and Science), President of the Ottawa-Carleton Learning Foundation and Vice- President of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation,

Community Volunteer - Nazira Tareen, leader in the Ottawa Muslim Women’s Auxiliary, teacher of Islam and worker with new immigrant families,

Health - Louise Morrin, senior physiotherapist at the Ottawa Heart Institute, current editor of the Canadian Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation Newsletter and involved two ongoing studies in cardiac rehabilitation,

IT & Science - for accomplishments in research and teaching in chemistry, Dr. Susannah Scott was named Cottrell Scholar of Research Corporation (USA) in 1997, received the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award in 1999 and the University of Ottawa's Young Researcher of the Year award.

Young Women’s - Leadership - Jeannette Doe, 22-year-old Manotick entrepreneur, strongly advocates mentoring and co-op programs and has had co-op students working in all her three businesses.

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SKIPPED PAYMENTS NOT A SOLUTION

BY BILL JEWEL

hinking of skipping a mortgage payment because now it's easier

to do than ever? Don't! Not unless it's an absolute necessity or you have no other choice. It's just too expensive. Most lenders enable customers to skip a payment either on a on-off situation or on a match-one miss-one basis if the customer has prepaid a certain amount, but is this convenience worth it in the long run?

Let's take an example. You may think that if you don't make your mortgage payment of $828, all you'll have to make up is $828. Big mistake. The unpaid interest is capitalized (added to the outstanding principal).

The longer you take to make it up, the more the foregone payment will cost you. Say that it's your 25th payment of $828 you want to skip when your outstanding mortgage balance is at $97,603..If you don't repay it by the end of the 5th year, your outstanding balance would be $94,186 instead of $93,115.

So over three years, the deferred payment adds over $1,000 to what you owe. And if you never make up the skipped payment, this adds $5,601 more in interest costs, had all the payments been made when due. Keep in mind, too, that mortgage interest is a non-deductible expense paid with after tax dollars.

You, can repay the skipped payment at any time at no cost but often this is tough to do if the original reason you skipped a payment was out of financial necessity. It may be advisable to see if you can work out

some other arrangement first. A "skip-a-mortgage

payment holiday", with no questions asked, is not in your best interest. For every day that you don't pay, up goes your interest cost. So before skipping a payment ask your banker to work out the interest

costs for you. Then see if there are some other alternatives such as returning to normal monthly payments if you are making accelerated weekly/biweekly payments.

Ideally, the best mortgage is no mortgage. Your goal should be to pay down your mortgage as qiiickly and painlessly as possible. Two painless solutions are to switch from monthly to more frequent payments and to shorten your amortization. Set yourself a goal, kind of like "freedom 55" to be mortgage free. See how long the amortization should be to take you there and whether you can handle the payments.

When it comes right down to it, taking a hiatus from mortgage payments because you need a breather or you need a vacation is not the way to go. There are other credit products on the market such as a personal line of credit, your credit card or a personal loan (often on sale at prime) for these purposes.

Skipping a mortgage payment may sound good on the surface. But, like many things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it often is.

Bill Jewel is manager of the Toronto Dominion Bank, Glen Ave and Bank St.

Photo: Barbara Greenwood-Dufour

PET PERSONALS

REFORMED BOXER SEEKS HOME Cloud is a one-year old orange male cat with one cloudy eye.

This is probably a result of a cat brawl. Despite of his past, he is now healthy, sociable, extremely

adorable and loves being petted. He is currently an indoor cat.

If you would like more information about adopting Cloud, please call 729-9645.

CAR SHARING SPREADS BY CHRIS BRADSHAW On May 12, Vrtucar started car-

sharing operations with a first Jcar at the City of Ottawa parking lot at Bank and Chamberlain. The company, incorporated by two community activists and planners, Wilson Wood and Chris Bradshaw in late February, was able to sign up the 10 minimum members by early May to sustain one car.

Regional Chair, Bob Chiarelli kicked off the service as an alternative for those wanting to avoid car-ownership and trying to reduce driving or at least, having to have a parking spot. He said his two grown daughters live a short walk of the car and will ask them to use the service rather than going to his west end home to borrow the family car.

This new service coincides with regional transportation department’s launching of TrayelWise, to promote transportation alternatives. One example is funding to allow ÔC Transpo to expand its “Rack ‘n’ Roll” bike racks on the front of buses. The alternatives are intended to overcome the downside of car-ownership and use. Car-sharing can reduce members’ driving by over 50%.

Car-sharing, offered in seven Canadian cities, as well as in over 100 in Europe, started in Germany and Switzerland in 1988. The first Canadian club started in Quebec City, in early 1995.

Members reserve a car when they need to drive, picking up the car at a nearby parking lot by accessing a

lockbox that has the ignition key of the car they were assigned by phone. It differs from car rental in five important ways: 1. use is for ^s little as one-hour 2. users don’t pre-pay for a certain

amount of kilometres 3. formal membership is required to

screen members once, rather than for each trip

4. rates include gas and collision insurance

5. cars are located- individually, to reduce the user’s travel distance. The cost is much lower than

owning since 85% of fixed car costs are shared with an average of 8-12 other people. Members must be 25 or over and have their driving record scrutinized. If accepted, they pay a one-time, refundable $500 membership fee and chose one of three rate packages: Occasional, Regular, or Frequent. Each package has its own rates for kilometres and hours and a separate monthly access fee for administrative overhead of $10-30.

A typical three-hour trip runs about $16. Payment is via monthly itemized invoice. For the $75-a- month or more, cost of a parking spot, a person could sell their car and get about 15 hours of use, gas and all insurance included and no longer need the parking spot!

If you are interested in finding out more, visit www.vrtucar.com or phone 798-1900.

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Ottawa Powerboating School safety training vessel.

SAFE BOATING AND THE LAW New boating regulations require

proof of operator I competency. Competency

means having a basic knowledge of operation and applies to all sizes and

types of powered pleasure craft. Youth were identified as needing

the greatest amount of education so

anyone bom after April 1, 1983 is obliged to have a Pleasure Craft

Operator Licence. Parents must now

ensure their children have proof of competency to use the family boat or

borrow the family tender at the yacht club.

The Canadian Yachting Association (CYA) Coast Guard

approved operator competency course, SPARK Start was developed

for both seasoned boaters and basic beginners.

The minimum requirement for a

competency card is to pass a test on safe, common-sense boating practices with mark of 75% or better. CYA

schools with certified instructors are also offering refresher programs and full length courses.

The only way to be granted your card without writing the test is with

proof of completion of a boating

education course prior to April 1,

1999.

OPERATOR COMPETENCY • Persons bom after April 1, 1983

must have proof of competency to operate any powered recreational

vessel. • As of 2002, anyone operating any

powered recreational vessel less

than 4 metres, including personal

watercraft, must have proof of

competency’ • As of 2009, anyone operating any

powered recreational vessel

regardless of size must have proof of competency.

> Anyone under 12 years may not

operate a powerboat over 10 hp unless accompanied/supervised.

• Anyone 12-16 years may not

operate a powerboat over 40 hp unless accompanied by an adult.

• Anyone under 16 years may not

operate a PWC (Personal Water Craft)

For more information or a copy of

Safe Boating Guide, call 1-800-267-6687 or visit www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca. For info on

boating and upcoming courses, call

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Schools, 721-8683 or visit www.boattraining.com.

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animals die because of the use I of so-called "humane" or live traps. Some die directly due to stress and/or injuries caused by their frantic

efforts in trying to get out of the trap. The majority, however, are the young

orphans that are left to die a slow painful death of starvation and cold

because their mother has been trapped and relocated.

The Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre estimates that up to 60% of the

orphans that overwhelm wildlife centres are ones "created" by the outdated and increasingly

unacceptable practice of trapping. Relocating wildlife from around our

homes can also cause serious problems for homeowners. The

Centre asks you to consider:

• babies abandoned in attics often fall between walls requiring costly

removal of drywall while those

babies left to die in burrows under steps or decks will create significant smell problems

• the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act prohibits relocation of

raccoons, skunks and foxes beyond a one kilometre radius, making trapping a waste of time.

• charges and fines are possible as are charges under the Criminal

Code if unnecessary suffering to an animal results from trapping

• Neighbours left to rescue and care for these created orphans are both

sad and angry that they are having to clean up someone else's mess

The Centre reports that calls from people complaining about a neighbour trapping are up

dramatically as are ones from

individuals stating they are boycotting stores that sell traps.

All of this is unnecessary,

particularly when the Ottawa-

Carleton Wildlife Centre is able to

provide free advice on humane, effective and inexpensive

alternatives. Call 726-6965 for

solutions to wildlife problems that will benefit both you and the animals.

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DECISION MAKING AS IF SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT MATTER

BY MIKE NICKERSON

Prof. Joe Scanlon enjoying his exercise program at Carieton University Photo Carieton Univ.

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BY JOE SCANLON, PROFESSOR OF

JOURNALISM, RET’D

Bill C-469, the "Canada Well-Being Measurement

Act" (CWBMA) could transform the decision making process. What we count and what we measure signifies what we value.

When all we count is monetary transactions (GDP), talk about environmental quality and social cohesion does not produce action. When we legitimize other factors by measuring and reporting on them, they become visible. That visibility enables anyone to see how policies and actions affect the measures and encourages decision makers to pay attention to them.

The purpose of the CWBMA is to establish a set of indicators to measure "the economic, social and environmental well-being of people, communities and ecosystems in Canada." The Act would require public input to determine the "the broad societal values on which the set of indicators should be based."

There are two things you can do to advance Bill C-469. One is to encourage people to think about and discuss what well-being means to them. What do we value? How can we tell if the circumstances related to those values are getting better or worse? Think of issues that matter to you.

How can we tell if the situation is getting better or worse? This is the information needed to establish an effective monitoring system that can inform good decisions. Please help us collect this information and expand the network of interests needed to assure that the potential of this Act is not watered down for lack of public participation or .strategic coordination.

The second thing you can do is to

lobby your MP. Our experience so far has been that when people review the Act and background materials, they see the sense of it and add their support. The trick with MPs is to get their attention. They are very busy. They do, however, respond to persistent constituents.

Ask your MP what s/he thinks of the "Canada Well-Being Measurement Act". S/he can get full details from the Ottawa office of Joe Jordan MP. Check back every week or two until you get a response. Contact information for all MPs is available from 1-800-667-3355

The Act is politically safe because it only requires that we pay attention to factors that people identify as important. What will happen when these concerns are legitimized by regular reporting and witnessed moving up or down is another story. This is the domain of stages two and three of the 7th Generation Initiative.

A Public Participation Kit is available from the 7th Generation Initiative with suggestions for holding discussions about the questions above. It includes a feedback sheet so we can collect the opinions that will determine what should be measured.

For more detail, see: http://www.cvberus.ca/choose.sustai nZindex3.html or ask us for a free copy of the new edition of "Measuring Well-Being". Write postage free to:

Joe Jordan M.P. 7th Generation Initiative Rm. 422, Confederation Building House of Commons Ottawa, ON, Kl A 0A6

or contact: Mike Nickerson, Coordinator, sustain@web.net or phone (613) 269-3500.

ince November, I’ve lost more than 10 kilos (22 lbs), am 7 cm less around the waist and

feel 10 years younger; the result of diet and exercise and workouts at Carleton's Fitness Centre.

In November, my physician said my blood pressure and cholesterol were up and I was overweight. At 67, I was a prime candidate for a heart attack. On his advice, I cut back on whole milk, butter and plain white bread. I started eating fish and began snacking on fruit and vegetables instead of soft drinks and chocolate bars. I cut out fried foods. During the winter, I took brisk 30-minute daily walks or skated to the Arts Centre and back. Now I cycle 10 to 20 kilometres.

A friend recommended a lecture, "Powerful Fitness for Healthy Aging," by Greg Poole, Associate Director of Athletics at Carieton University. Greg's told us that as we get older, especially after 50, our bones and muscles deteriorate. This doesn't need to happen. Regular workouts with weights can stop the deterioration, rebuild our muscles and reduce the pain from arthritis.

Strength training also reduces the incidence of falls in older adults. We also improve our general fitness with cardiovascular exercise, decreasing chance of heart attacks and cancer. Women particularly profit. Strength training is a good preventative for osteoporosis and regular cardiovascular exercise reduces the risk from estrogen-linked cancers (breast, ovary, uterus).

After hearing the lecture, I signed up for Carleton's Weight Lifting for Older Adults program. Instructor Roger Adams told us certain 'fast twitch' muscle fibres are not activated by normal activity. These are the

ones we lose with aging. Weight training can make up for that. But weight training is not designed for weight loss; diet and exercise are also important.

Before taking the class, I thought weight lifters were serious athletes or body builders. I worried about feeling out of place. The class eliminated my concerns. It takes place when the weight room is closed and all class members are older adults. We learned how to warm up and stretch and cool down and stretch afterwards. Doing weights results in microscopic damage to muscles which need time to recover; at least a two-day break between workouts.

On one machine* I’m now at 100 pounds, up from 40. I still struggle with a machine for my shoulder muscles but no longer feel embarrassed with others around. Our instructors showed us how to use stretchy bands and dumbbells for exercise at home.

I prefer Carieton. It's only a few minutes walk from my home in Old Ottawa South. But I also get a chance to chat with students and faculty, if not in the weight room at least in the sauna.

When I returned to my doctor, he told me very few patients listen to his advice. There's been one other payoff. Sipce I didn't smoke, my doctor said a little drinking is okay. I am thoroughly enjoying my weight loss, my reduced blood pressure, my over all feeling better and my regular glasses of red wine.

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OCDSB TRUSTEE REPORT BY LYNN GRAHAM, TRUSTEE, ZONE 9 (CAPITAL &

BRUYERE-STRATHCONA WARDS), OTTAWA-CARLETON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD

SCHOOL CLOSURES THREATEN DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOODS Anew elementary

school closure process is underway. The OCDSB must close some schools inside the Greenbelt in order to build schools in the rapidly growing suburbs outside the Greenbelt. Provincial funding for new construction will flow only to school boards that are operating existing schools at 100% capacity, on average (a classroom count multiplied by the maximum number of students per classroom). Trustees have decided that schools inside the Greenbelt should have an average operating capacity of 90%. Many outside the Greenbelt are well over 100%.

The "Central Family" of schools includes Cambridge, Centennial, Elgin, First Avenue, Glashan, Hopewell, Lady Evelyn, Mutchmor, Viscount Alexander and York. Since these schools have an average operating capacity of 79%, a staff report presents options for closure and Centennial, Elgin, Mutchmor, Viscount Alexander and York are named in one or more of the scenarios. The public has until June 26 to examine and respond to the staff proposals. At the end of the summer, staff will make their final recommendations and trustees will vote on closures in October 2000 to take effect by September 2001.

School and community leaders are studying the options and there may be some solid pedagogical rationale for recommending one or more closures. However, schools in the "Central Family" are reasonably full and some "surplus" space can be put to good use; for instance, child care and adult education groups can and do rent classrooms. Before and after school and on weekends, schools are used for community recreation programs. Furthermore, the trend is to view schools as community hubs where education, health and social services (among others) partner to serve local needs.

How will this be possible if schools that remain open have to absorb large numbers of students from closed schools? We are experiencing explosive growth in Ottawa-Carleton's technology sector and there is growing interest in living downtown. Does it really make sense

to close schools in the downtown core?

IMPACT ON

HOPEWELL The staff report is not

recommending Hopewell for closure; however, since its current capacity is at 77%, the options add students to Hopewell's population, which

is now at 716. All staff scenarios recommend the closure of Mutchmor, the redirection of Mutchmor kindergarten to grade 6 students to First Avenue, and the redirection of all students in congregated gifted classes from Mutchmor and First Avenue to Hopewell. If this comes to pass, the report estimates that Hopewell will have an operating capacity of 95% (880) students by September 2001.

Flexibility in time-tabling and programming will be lost and community use of school space will decline. It's hard to imagine 880 students managing when it comes to outdoor playground space.

I hope you will get involved in this debate, which is so important to the future of our public education system.

APPRECIATION It is the end of another school year

and I would like to express thanks to Principal Pat Hendry and Vice-Principal Denise Poirier who make a wonderful administrative team at Hopewell, Nancy Bickford and Catherine Hyde for their leadership as co-chairs of .the Hopewell School Council, Joan Spice, Hopewell parent, for co-ordinating the "Central Family" committee, which will respond to the staff recommendations; and to Mayor Jim Watson, City Councillor Inez Berg, Regional Councillor Clive Doucet and MPP Richard Patten for their support when it comes to education matters.

Thanks to all readers for your interest in our schools and students. Have a safe and relaxing summer. Please contact me at any time. Lynn Graham Ottawa-Carleton District School Board 133 Greenbank Road Nepean, Ontario, K2H 6L3 Tel: 730-3366 Fax: 730-3589 E-mail: lynn_graham@ocdsb. edu. on.ca

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The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has released

I closure options for public schools inside the Greenbelt. The report presents scenarios that would close 13 or 14 schools. The Board is scheduled to make its decisions in October and affected schools will close June 2001. We have â few short weeks to provide input to Board staff who will bring down final recommendations in late August.

For our ‘Central Family of Schools’ (10 schools in Centretown, the Glebe, Ottawa East, Old Ottawa South, Sandy Hill, Lower Town and Hintonburg), there are three options which would result in two or three schools closing. These include Mutchmor and one or more of York, Viscount Alexander, Centennial and Elgin Schools.

In one option, McNabb would re- open. Schools not targeted for closure, First Avenue, Hopewell, Lady Evelyn and Glashan, would absorb displaced students. All ten schools, with the possible exception of Cambridge Street, would experience serious impacts under one or more of the scenarios.

On Thursday 25 May, parents from ‘Central Family’ schools, community association representatives and members of the public were joined by Trustee Lynn Graham, Regional Councillor Clive Doucet and City Councillors Elisabeth Arnold and Inez Berg to begin to discuss staff options. A number of general concerns were identified.

One significant concern is the enrolment projections. The Board has assumed no population growth over the next four years for the Central Family; in fact, a small decrease in student enrolment is identified. However, this is one of the fastest growing regions in the country and a- number of recent studies of major North American cities have confirmed a return to downtown living.

Councillors Doucet and Arnold pointed to the growing success of our regions “restore the core” initiative. Members • of the community, including MPP Richard Patten, are working to put in place a joint Region/school board initiative to ensure the best demographic projections possible before irrevocable school closure decisions are made.

Another concern is overcrowding. Under all closure options, the Central Family as a whole would operate at about 96% of capacity in September 2001. This utilization would be about the same four years down the road in September 2004. Since Trustees agreed that closures would be based on a minimum of 90% inside the Greenbelt, there was confusion as to why so many closures are on the table.

A third area of concern is the impact on our students and our communities. In all proposals, Hopewell, First Avenue and Glashan will be close to, at or over 100% capacity. Computer labs at these schools will almost certainly have to close at this utilization rate. Hopewell will have over 900 students. Yard space is already in seriously short supply. Unlike schools elsewhere in the Board, many of ours have no land for portables.

With the closure of York or Viscount Alexander, Lowertown or Sandy Hill will lose their only neighborhood school. York students from Kindergarten to grade 6 will be transported by school bus, to Centennial, McNabb or Lady Evelyn several kilometres away. Many now easily walk to their neighborhood school.

For over a century, Mutchmor and Elgin have been vibrant centers of education and community life. Closure will profoundly affect their neighborhoods. Elgin shares its gym with the Jack Purcell Community Centre. The school, the after-school program and many adult and community groups use this gym day and night, seven days a week. Centennial is now home to a very high needs student population drawn from all over the Ottawa-Carleton region for the specialized programs offered.

Despite concerns identified, many participants at the meeting recognized that with continuing provincial funding cuts, preventing all closures would be next to impossible. They want to find a way to reduce the number to one or two. Others are not convinced that any closures are necessary and want to fight to prevent these from happening. But participants did agree on a number of things.

First, they are launching a lobbying campaign to obtain the best possible demographic projections and communicafe the need to keep schools open to promote the health and vibrancy of downtown communities. Mutchmor school council member Mitchell Beer announced that the school’s campaign would be kicked off at the Great Glebe Garage sale on Saturday May 28 with flyers and posters.

Second, they will develop a better closure scenario based on clearer criteria and educational needs of students. Meetings are scheduled each Monday evening to draft a response to meet the Board’s June 26 deadline. All interested parents and community members are invited to attend. The May 29 meeting will take place at York Street School and the June 5 meeting at First Avenue Public School, both at 7:30 p.m. The June 12 meeting location is to be determined.

Welcome to the good-bye for another school year. It’s

I certainly been a busy and productive one with ‘thank-yous’ owing to many people who have put in hours of time and effort contributing to the school through volunteering.

These hours have been spent providing pizza lunches, organizing the GST auction, going out on field trips and being in the classroom - just to name a few activities! We are fortunate to have a committed and energetic group of individuals.

Events of note: • Grade 3 and 6 classes made it

through the annual testing. Congratulations on this endeavor.

• Lady Evelyn basketball team played in a regional competition. They played well and showed great team effort!

• The annual school swim at Clifford Bowey pool was great fun and well

If you can help in any way or want further information, contact Joan Spice, 230-2442 or j.spice@home.com, working group co-ordinator and member of the

attended! Thanks to the volunteers who organized this event and also for the much needed snacks! Nothing like some pool fun to whet (wet!) the appetite!

• On a social note, the “Evening at the School” auction took place Friday June 2, 2:30-10:30pm and was a fun-filled evening supervised by Mr. Hopper, Mr. White, Mrs. MacDonald, Mr.. Ridgeway and Ms. Lutsch.

• The grade 4/5 s are supplementing their classroom learning with field trips to the Museum of Science and Technology, the Canadian War Museum and Parliament. These trips round out knowledge gained and bring theory to life for the participants.

That about wraps up the 1999- 2000 school year. Many thanks to those who have contributed to this column. Have a happy and healthy summer!

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For the children at Bytown Cooperative, the most obvious

incarnation of the 'co-operative' nature of the centre is duty day. A number of times a year, each child brings along a duty mum or dad or grandparent or caregiver to share the Bytown experience.

The duty parent gets an up-close look at how their child spends their time at the pre-school and gets to know the other children in the class. Best of all, duty parents usually get a chance to play with the toys - not taking a child's turn - no, never — but I'd have to say the huge Thomas the Train set is lots of fun for all ages. Parents help with putting names on artwork, smocks on kids, and other activities where an extra pair of adult hands is needed.

The child on duty also gets to bring a snack for everyone. Snack is usually nutritious and always fun. Some kids have been known to share cupcakes on birthdays and other, seasonal treats like ghost cookies at Hallowe’en.

Lacking in imagination, some

parents, myself included, have brought the same snack for each and every duty day. The kids rave about Bernard's Banana Bread and as my son will be graduating to junior kindergarten in the fall, I'll share the recipe for the next round of duty days.

As the school year comes to a close, I'd also like to thank the staff at Bytown for their on-going dedication and energy on behalf of all parents. Very few spaces remain for Bytown for- September 2000. If you are interested in a spot call Cathy Brown at 730-4384

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IT’S OVER WHEN THE LADY SINGS

t’s June, when a kid’s fancy turns to summer holidays and leaving Hopewell’s halls, if not forever,

then at least for ten long weeks. For me, it’s a little different. I’m

graduating -1 mean my fourteen year old graduates at the end of June, so I must move on too, and this is my last column on behalf of Hopewell.

While my son can hardly wait to leave, I feel sad. I love the school, its range of children from tiny four year olds to strapping teens with gigantic feet ( the boys, that is!) I’ll miss the teachers, administrators, School Council and families, the amazing spirit and wonderful events.

It’s the School where my daughter six years ago picked up the euphonium and never put it down, except to play trombone in the Ottawa Youth Orchestra. It’s the school where my son took to the trumpet like a natural while he changed from boy to man in hardly the blink of an eye.

It’s the School that gave me a base from which to write storybooks about Annabella and her tycoon and this year about Lilli and Zach and their creative mother. It’s the school I have loved to cover for the OSCAR over the last two years. No wonder I feel the way I do!

Many thanks to the Hopewell Public School community: you gave each of us ‘graduates’ so much. We hope we were able to return some in kind.

END NOTES •School board staff

recommendations that could close from one to three schools in our area became public May 24. There are only five weeks (until the end of June) for families to give their reaction and input. Board staff will produce final recommendations by the end of August for decisions by Trustees just before municipal elections. Schools will close in June 2001. Don’t miss your chance to influence these important decisions. Contact Hopewell School Council Co-chairs by leaving a message at the Hopewell Office, 239 2348.

• If your child is not returning to Hopewell in the Fall, let the School Office know before the holidays. It’s open on June 26 from 8:30- 4:30 pm.

• Before the last day of school, families will receive notice of what consumable supplies (such as workbooks) they will need for their kids in September, since Hopewell’s budget can no longer cover these materials.

• Hopewell will open a few days early before classes resume on September 5 to allow new registration. The list of supplies students will need to bring will be available then and class lists will be posted in the Atrium after 10 am on August 31.

NOTABLE MOMENTS • 3,500 books devoured during Read-

a-thon raised over $ 6400 for School projects and brought over 775 books into the Library

• office administrator Christine Marleau ran in the National Capital Marathon in the name of the late Maeve Hellyer Stewart and raised over $ 675 in pledges from the staff and community;

•Lynn Senecal-Watson’s Intermediate students presented their own innovative adaptation of Hugo’s Les Misérables;

• Grade 12 Students from Glebe Collegiate tested their original short stories for children in front of constructive critics in Merri Legris’ JK class;

• the Grass Yard is looking good with Spring clean-up well underway and installation of tetherballs;

• a generous Volunteer Tea provided by the School administration and staff celebrated countless hours spent by family members at the School;

• chicks and butterflies emerged under the watchful care of JK students;

• the intermediate boys basketball team took a silver medal in the Regional Championships;

• 80 Grades 3-6 kids participated in the Annual Chess Tournament;

• SK students produced a wonderful new, illustrated cookbook From our Mothers ’ Kitchens, that included Rudmilla’s Chocolate Milk (just “4 pours of milk, 1 teaspoon of chocolate)” and Edie’s Roll-ups (“ flat roll-up things for as many people who want them and two pieces of big chicken that’s wet!”);

• five Intermediate Hopewell Bands are off to the music festival at Canada’s Wonderland! Happy and safe holidays everyone!

UP COMING EVENTS- • Year-end Barbecue, Friday, June 9

(Raffle for Gourmet Dinner for 4) • School Council, Tues June 13,

Library, 7:15 pm. • Junior Choir concert, June 15,7pm,

gym • Grade 6 Graduation, Tues June 20,

Library, 2:30 pm. • Grade 8 Graduation, Thurs June 22,

Large Gym, 4 pm. • Last Day of School, Fri June 23 • First Day of School, Tues Sept 5

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MEMORIES 1999-2000 BY MARCIA LYNCH, PRINCIPAL

nee again, it is with a great sense of accomplishment we look back over the 1999-2000

academic year. Many students demonstrated their talents at our liturgies, school production, sports events, public speaking and Science Innoventions. In particular, we wish to highlight this year's school production - Hidden Stones, a play created and performed by the students of St. Margaret Mary School.

Hidden Stories was the creation of all 165 students of our remarkable small school. Every child had a valued part to play, be it a dance, a song, a story on stage or the endless tasks of writing, design, construction and backstage assistance. Though one could be tempted to single out individual accomplishments, the fact is that this was a collaborative effort. The whole was much greater than the sum of its parts.

The grand finale, presented on April 28 at the Alumni Theatre of Carleton University, cannot speak to the months of effort and enthusiasm that proceèded it. Nor can it reveal the importance of the process, moving from initial inspiration through to ultimate manifestation.

There were many layers to this rich and complex story. It began with a small group of creative souls and the catalyst of vision. They asked how different strands of the arts could be combined into a community building tool.

Next came the framework - how to integrate the curriculum, how to give students the opportunity to take ownership of the process, how to allow them to go beyond perceived limits and be who they really are. When children are given the chance to demonstrate what they can do, they surprise and delight us.

Building community has always been one of the strengths of St. Margaret Mary School. Though the children were the true stars of this production, many others came together to support them, from staff and parents to a nameless but dedicated core of artists to the larger community through such organizations as the Community Foundation of Ottawa and the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board.

There are stories within stories. The one we saw on stage captured a moment in time; the rest are carried within each of the people who played some part.

With St. Margaret Mary Parish, we celebrated our faith. Children from grade 2 celebrated the Sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Eucharist and grade 6 students celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation.

We thank Rev. Don MacLellan and his Parish Team for their time, support and dedication and we wish Rev. Don all the best in his future endeavours. Students and staff demonstrated their commitment to Catholic education by assisting organizations in our local community - UNICEF, Emergency Food Shelter, Toy Mountain Campaign, Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Hunger Foundation.

We continued to implement our No-Bullying Program and introduced our Peer Mediator Program in April. Our dynamic and supportive Catholic Advisory School Council once again significantly enhanced our arts, science and physical education programs. This year the students participated in Jiu-Jitsu classes, swimming at Brewer Arena, and soccer and basketball workshops that were facilitated by Carleton University team members.

Next year, we will continue to implement our innovative Quality Daily Physical Education program. We thank all parents who supported these programs and we look forward to working with you next year.

As we prepare for the next academic year, we will continue to prepare our students for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. I thank students, parents and staff for supporting the shared vision at St. Margaret Mary School. If you are interested in registering your child at our school, please contact us at 730-9328. Have a safe summer.

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WELCOME KG AGE STUDENTS! We are pleased to announce

the launch our Kindergarten lAfter-school program,

beginning in September 2000. Southside has recognized there is a need in our neighbourhood for afternoon care for 4 and 5 year olds attending morning kindergarten.

The new program will run from 11:30am to 5:30pm, with a stimulating and enriched curriculum, including outings and many special activities, science and nature proj ects, and the usual creative artwork. The time is now to register for this exciting new program. For more information, please call Joanne at Southside.

But don't worry, our morning preschool program will run as always, 9 to 11:30am, Monday to Friday. Registration is on-going for the preschool, however, we have only limited space available, on selected mornings.

THE SOUTHSIDE YEAR Another year has flown, watching

our young ones explore and experience the world. Unbelievably, it is time once again to look back on the school year. The children created 'paper prayers' again this past December for World Aids Day; and for the third year running, Southside participated in the McLeod- Stewarton/Southminster Churches Christmas Hamper program. These are two very worthwhile projects that help to foster caring for those less fortunate in our community.

One very memorable trip to Carleton University Alumni Theatre was made last month to see a children's theatre production of 'Jillian Jiggs'. Last but not least, Class of2000 graduates will be celebrating their achievements at the annual Family BBQ, Tuesday, June 20, 5 pm, at Brewer Park.

If you would like further information on our school, please call Joanne at 730-5819. We are Jocated in Southminster United Church, Bank and Aylmer. Have a great summer!

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The idea of society may be the most difficult abstraction in

lour conceptual repertoire, swallowing every other concept we possess. Nothing is outside of society. Every idea we have, our understanding of every material thing there is, we ourselves, become components and artifacts of society and its conversation.

No wonder the idea is so bitterly resisted. For, as soon as we accept this concept of an over-arching social entity, our individual claims to privilege, autonomy and even dignity are diminished accordingly. Our whole existence- is seen to be conditioned by and relative to the society around us.

Prior to this idea, only God was outside of and inclusive of everyone and everything*. But with the discovery of society , even the idea of God is relativized to a particular conversational process, with cultural facilities and features of its own creation.

This almost theological conception of society as the ground of all personal understanding must take increasing hold on our thinking as global conversation knits the world's distinct societies into a single fabric. It will seem increasingly natural (as first occurred to Hegei) to conceive the totality of global conversation as a kind, of "World Spirit", like unto God, and to identify the working consensus of all humanity with reality itself.

With this cognitive reconciliation achieved, we might hope to evolve some form of global federation that seems quite unrealistic today. But until this comes to pass, we face the problem of governing a single global society comprised of any number of overlapping conversations and sub-cultures, at terrible extremes of wealth and poverty and cultural variation.

As this is written, around the turn of the millennium, some 200 distinguishable conversations assert their separate identities as sovereign states. Within these states, and across their boundaries, innumerable conversations flourish, competing and often contending. It is this fragmented situation that we have in mind in speaking of the post-modern world and its government.

Vast as it is, the idea of society is fully exhausted in the possibilities for lawful and criminal behaviour. For the idea of society is fundamentally that of an aggregation of human activities and relationships that maintains a recognizable identity and character over time. All these activities and relationships must be either permitted or forbidden: carried on with society's blessing or in its despite.

To be sure, there is a huge gray

zone of activities that are formally illegal but tolerated and also of activities that are formally legal but restricted by peer pressure, public opinion and privately applied sanctions. But the very existence of this border area merely serves to underscore that law itself is a living process and an artifact of the social conversation.

Every conflict of interest and values, every question of social behaviour must either be or not be justiciably susceptible to resolution at law. And what is not justiciable is either too trivial for the law to bother with, too expensive or intrusive for law to enforce or too contentious for law to arbitrate and resolve.

Our idea of law derives from at least four conceptually distinct but overlapping sources. Although these are by no means of equal force, each contributes to our idea of what the law should be and thereby plays some part in shaping what the law (as at some given date and jurisdiction) actually is, The authority of law is strongest when these sources are in good agreement, and progressively weakened when conflicts between them arise.

To begin with, there is Positive Law - the decrees of sovereign power (e.g. a democratically elected parliament). These decrees (and contemplated decrees^ are judged by at least three other standards, apart from due process and utilitarian calculations of collective self-interest.

The most primitive of these standards is the intuition of fairness. Impossible as it is to define this notion precisely, there may well be a consensus that a certain law is unfair. There will be cost and danger if legislators and jurists choose to violate this feeling. Insofar as lawgivers will usually prefer to accommodate such a consensus without strong incentives to the contrary, it must be -considered a source of law.

Custom, precedent and consistency afford yet another source specifically of Common Law which may conflict both with the decrees of duly constituted power and with our sense of fairness also.

Finally, and (as I would argue) most fundamentally of all, there is a source of law implicit in the logic and necessities of social relationship itself in what I have elsewhere called the logic of conversation. Certain actions, certain kinds of behaviour, strike us as good because they help

relationship run more smoothly and freely or to better advantage. Others seem wrong because they hinder it from doing so. In a sense, the latter seem inconsistent and self-cancelling. If everyone played that way, the game would be impossible or not worth playing.

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Now you might not be aware of all the benefits of belonging, so the Club gives you a chance to try it out for minimal charge. Accompanied by a member, you can go three times for $10.70 a day (18 and over) or $5.35 (under 18). This lets you use all the Club's facilities: clay tennis courts, bowling green and outdoor swimming pool.

Other member benefits include free tennis clinics during May and June for beginners and free coaching on the bowling greens. They also run a special children’s program during the summer while you play.

Not a member and not in the mood for physical activity? No problem! Anyone at all can wander over and enjoy the good food at the Courtside Café, open 7 days a week, 8 am to 10 pm, with the bar open until 1 am. Bet you didn’t know that a great little restaurant is tucked away in pur community.

Don't feel like cooking Friday evening? Go and enjoy the Chefs BBQ surprise starting at 5 pm, which could be anything from swordfish or filet mignon to lamb or T-bone steak. Or enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of

the Wednesday Pub Night, starting at 5 pm with great specials, including 25 cent wings. Again, you don’t have to be a member.

Sunday mornings, a Brunch Buffet with traditional breakfast fare of eggs, bacon, home fries, pancakes, french toast etc., as well as roast beef, chicken, salads and great desserts is served from 9 am to 2 pm, $10.95 for adults, $6.95 for children under 10,.

Gino Milito, Chef and Catering Manager also caters to weddings, anniversaries or any other special occasion, which can be held at the club or your home. Call 730-4430 for more information. Again this is available to anyone.

The Club also puts on regular social events such as Saturday dances. For example, a Mexican Fiesta Dance will be held July 15 and a Fashion Show on Pub Night, June 28. Or just drop by and enjoy a cool drink and snack and watch some of the tennis activity from the informal verandah of the Café. You don’t have to be a member to enjoy.

I really suggest that you go and experience the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club, just one more good reason to live in Old Ottawa South! For more information, check out the website at www.otlbc.cvberus.ca or call 730-7207.

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Each month, The OSCAR features one of our regular advertisers. Please tell n . r L M . them you saw ttiim in The OSCAR and that you appreciate their Business Of the Month contribution to our amimunity.

HOPEWELL KITCHEN HOPEWELL KITCHEN opened one year ago with Monica Emery, well known in the Ottawa food

community, at the helm. HOPEWELL KITCHEN located in the heart of Old Ottawa South is on the southeast comer of Hopewell and Leonard. This funky, colorful shop provides seasonal, healthy, home-cooked food with a creative edge, at reasonable prices.

The take-home menu changes weekly and is listed on the phone. Fresh bread from the French Baker and desserts are available daily. The freezer is full of old time favorites and lots of appetizers are always on hand. HOPEWELL KITCHEN also provides full catering services from menus that change with the seasons. Monica’s main “chefette” is Nancy Frank, formerly co-owner of MNM Fine foods for eight years. Nancy is one of the founding members of the Ottawa Woman’s Culinary Network.

HOPEWELL HOUSEWARES, an area of the shop, carries everything from works by local artists such as sun catchers by Audrey Farber, chocolate mint geraniums from the Herb Garden, liver pate from Mariposa Duck Farms, Algonquin Herbal Teas, hand painted floor cloths by Linda Curran to lots of funky housewares.

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CLASSY ADS. CLASSY ADS are free for Old Ottawa South residents and must be submitted in writing or by e-mail to The OSCAR, The Old Firehall office by the deadline. Your name and phone number must be included. Only your phone number will appear unless you specify. Please make sure your phone number is correct. The Editor retains the right to edit or include. The OSCAR takes no responsibility for items, services or accuracy.

FOUND CAREGIVER WANTED

Fleece jacket found at Windsor Park May 10. Call 730-4260.

Crib, playpen, double stroller, potty, cotton diapers, bedrail, toys, clothes (0-2), mise, baby items. Call 730-4260

Heavy oak 8' oval table & 4 blue oak chairs $700, Kandinsky print $150, Blair Sharpe wâtercolor orig $950.

Call 235-8274 to view

OOS Aylmer Ave. family seeks responsible mid-day dog-walker for friendly female yellow lab, last week June, month of July, M-F.

Call 730-2934

LOOKINGTO RENT

2-3 bed apt/house to rent in OOS. Call Sandra 730-0045

Clean, quiet, secure apt/dup/house in OOS Aug 1 for clean, quiet professional. Refs.

Call 775-7377 days, 738-0905 days

Prof senior couple downsizing, seek quiet, clean, secure apt/townhouse in OOS, Sept/Oct. Call 613-273-4569 or e-mail: rlbrown@rideau.net

Resp, caring, enthusiastic babysitter for 6-year-old boy July/part Aug, 3-4 days/wk, 9am-3pm, Bank/Sunnyside, $ 8/hour. Call 730-2060.

Urgent, pt-tm caregiver, my home (students welcome), 2-3 evgs/wk, 2 children. Call Cindi 731-6722

Babysitter 14+, boy pref, for 12 yr old+friends, wkdys, summer months. Call 738-8246 days, 730-7570 evgs

Nanny for 2 children, 1,3 lA yrs, my home, Sept, pt-tm. Call 730-2533

CARE AVAILABLE

Rather than lose our nanny of 5 years, we would like to share in our home, start Sept. 2 girls 5 yrs, 3 yrs. - Call 730-3979

17 yr, mature, reliable available for child care this summer, all day Mon & Fri/nights/wknd. Call 730-0643

Bilingual mom of 21mth boy, daycare my home, backs on Windsor Pk, meals, crafts, outdoor play. Call Nicole 730-4408

Home daycare space June, all ages welcome. Call 730-0807