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Year 2, Issue 4 November 17, 2011 | 24 Pages www.yourottawaregion.com

SAINTS & LIONSThe Immaculata Saints and St. Mark’s Lions do their best but fall short in Tier 1 national fi nals.

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MANLEY SKATES INTO HALL OF FAMEOttawa native and Olympic medalist fi gure skater Elizabeth Manley was one of the notable athletes on hand for the offi cial opening of the new Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame at Ottawa City Hall on Nov. 7. The hall of fame originally opened in the Civic Centre in 1968 and spent the last six years at Scotiabank Place, but Mayor Jim Watson lauded the higher-visibility location in City Hall’s heritage building. Admission to the hall of fame is free and it’s open Monday to Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Rural crime levels may be lower per capita than in urban spaces, but smaller communities face unique problems when it comes to crime.

Crime Prevention Ottawa (CPO), a task-force to reduce crime and increase com-munity safety in Ottawa, recently released

a literature review addressing rural crime prevention.

Created out of the city’s 2005 budget and fi rst implemented in 2006, CPO has taken on projects in high-crime urban areas like Vanier and Bayshore.

Michael Justinich, one of three employ-ees with CPO, said that in talks with city councillors, he realized there was more needed to be done about rural spaces.

“We started hearing from suburban and rural areas, and they were asking, ‘What are you doing for us?” A valid question, Justinich said, considering that around 80 per cent of Ottawa’s landscape is rural.

Osgoode, Rideau-Goulbourn and West Carleton are entirely rural communities, in addition to rural areas within Gloucester, Kanata, Nepean and Cumberland.

See CRIME on page 4

Local task-force tackles rural crime

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After years of clambering, Riverside South residents will fi nally have a Cana-da Post outlet in their community.

Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre announced Thursday, Nov. 10 that Cana-da Post will install a retail outlet in the Good Health Pharmacy on Spratt Road. The post offi ce is scheduled to open on Dec. 8, just in time for the Christmas rush.

“We’ve been getting a lot of calls about it, people asking for it, because it’s quite a distance for them right now,” Poilievre said. Currently residents must drive to Manotick or all the way past Hunt Club on McCarthy Road to pick up their par-cels.

Rob Cameron, owner and pharmacist of the Good Health pharmacy, said the post offi ce has been a long time coming. He originally asked Canada Post to set up shop when he opened in 2007, but they said no. Then “out of the blue this summer” they called Cameron to say they were ready to go.

Riverside South Community Associa-tion president John Bruce said the com-munity is “ecstatic” about the addition.

“Everyone’s embracing it. It’s a Cana-dian right to have a post offi ce and we haven’t had one and it’s about time,” he said. Bruce added that it will be espe-cially helpful for local businesses that

have to drive out of the area to post any registered mail.

The outlet will offer a full-service post offi ce including mail box rentals, pack-age pick up and specialty stamp collec-tions.

The outlet will be entirely staffed and paid for by the pharmacy, which acts as a dealership for the crown corporation.

Cameron said it will cost the phar-macy about $35,000 for Canada Post to create the space, and on top of that the pharmacy will have to purchase inven-tory. Cameron will also tweak some as-pects of the building to create a secure mail room.

At the same time, the pharmacy will be segregating other parts of the relatively large building to allow other retail out-lets such as a drycleaners or insurance brokers to share the pharmacy’s space.

Cameron said the post offi ce addition is a big step for Riverside South.

“It’s going to be huge. It’s just one more step to bringing Riverside South into a full-fl edged community with full services for their residents,” he said. “I’ve had nothing but positive re-sponses.”

Poilievre presented Cameron with a blown-up stamp depicting Watson’s Mill in Manotick, which was circulated as a specialty stamp in 2010. A local photog-rapher took the photograph and submit-ted it as part of a “Flags Over Historic Mills” series.

Canada Post to open in Riverside South

Photo by Emma JacksonNepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre presents Good Health Pharmacy owner and pharmacist Rob Cameron with a stamp of Watson’s Mill to hang in the new Canada Post outlet that will open Dec. 8 in Riverside South.

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A fi fth patient with a bacteria infection commonly known as C. diffi cile was ad-mitted at the Children’s Hospital of East-ern Ontario on Nov. 10, offi cials said.

The original three cases were discov-ered at the hospital on Oct. 31 and the hospital declared the outbreak on Nov. 3, two more cases were reported last week.

Three of the patients have been dis-charged and two are undergoing treat-

ment, according to a statement from CHEO. The patients are in isolation at the hospital, with visitor restrictions in effect for the entire unit.

CHEO said it is working with Ottawa Public Health and taking all the neces-sary steps to stop further spread of this infection. Guidelines and best practices from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care are being closely followed.

“We are asking them to make sure they are wearing gowns and gloves when

they enter the room and we are keeping visitors and immediate families to a minimum – par-ents and caregivers only,” said Belanger.

The main symptoms of C. dif-fi cile are diarrhea, fever and ab-dominal pain or tenderness.

A person can carry the bacte-ria for some time before symp-toms show up and they start to feel unwell.

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The lack of schools in Findlay Creek was once again a hot button issue at the community association’s annual general meeting on Monday, Nov. 7.

Speakers included traffi c experts, en-vironmental representatives, Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches and even Ottawa Police Chief Vern White him-self, but the star of question period was Gloucester South-Nepean public school board trustee Mark Fisher.

Fisher has been working with the com-munity association since he was elected last October to push for a public elemen-tary school in the growing Ottawa South community, and he said progress has been slow.

“Things haven’t progressed much since the last AGM, but we’re seeing the needs identifi ed in the right places,” he told a crowd of about 75 people.

The neighbourhood just south of Leitrim Road is slated to have its own pub-lic school in 2014, but for many parents that’s not soon enough.

Currently students are bused to schools outside the neighbourhood, with many attending Elizabeth Park Public School on the Department of National Defence’s base near the Ottawa International Air-port.

Parents at the meeting complained about the state of the school, which is leased from DND on a year-to-year basis. Some parents said it is in need of upgrades, al-though school principal Marc Slesar said in all his years at the school as a teacher,

vice principal and principal he has never felt the leased school was neglected.

“We get everything that the other schools get, and on the same timelines. It’s treated always in the best interest of the students,” he said.

Fisher said the lease agreement with DND is a large component of the com-munity’s campaign to get a new school in Findlay Creek, because the lease is rou-tinely under review and if terminated could cause a scramble to accommodate

kids until a school is built. “As we look at moving forward with a

new school in Findlay Creek, there are two things to watch. One is the extensive growth in Findlay Creek, and the second is our ongoing relationship with DND,” he said. The school board’s superintendent of facilities Michael Carson said the school board is “in the process of fi nalizing a re-newal of the current lease agreement for an additional term” but that if the lease were to be terminated, the school board

would be entitled to “adequate notice” be-fore having to vacate the building.

Carson noted that the school board has an excellent relationship with the DND and that communication between the land-lord and tenant is continuous and open.

If the lease were to be terminated at some point, Fisher said the silver lining is that such a situation would give the Findlay Creek community more clout in fi ghting for a school in their own neigh-bourhood.

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Photo by Emma JacksonGloucester South-Nepean public school board trustee Mark Fisher (right) said the fi ght for a school in Findlay Creek is slow, despite growing urgency in the community.

School question still big at Findlay Creek AGM

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From CRIME on page 1University of Ottawa PhD

candidate Jennifer Fraser as-sembled the study, titled Rural Crime Prevention: A Literature Review, which examines exist-ing international reports on ru-ral crime prevention.

The report highlighted vari-ous differences between rural and urban crime. Rural crimes, for example, are less likely to in-volve a weapon, and victims are more likely to know the perpe-trators.

Rural residents also feel slightly more safe from crime than city dwellers, according to Canadian surveys.

Ottawa South community po-lice offi cer Nicole Gorham said that rural residents often “let

their guards down” in the coun-try because they believe crime isn’t as apparent in rural areas.

That is a misconception, however, and Gorham said that many criminals travel to the outskirts to rob houses because rural houses are more likely to have guns.

Furthermore, because of their sparse population and the commute that residents often have to make, rural homes are largely unsupervised and less likely to be spotted mid-crime than in urban areas.

While drug and alcohol use is often thought of as a “city prob-lem,” the numbers are almost the same in urban and rural lo-cations.

The difference is that rural

residents have less access to drug or alcohol abuse treatment programs, making it more diffi -cult to recover in a rural setting. Additionally, there is a higher acceptability of impaired driv-ing in rural settings, as buses are unavailable and taxis are expensive.

“More often than not, a car accident in the rural area is a fatality,” Gorham said, noting that she would love to see better public transit available in rural regions to help alleviate teen mischief, boredom and drunk driving.

Unfortunately, a crime com-mitted is not necessarily a crime reported.

“One of the problems we hear across every neighbour-

hood, everywhere is that people aren’t reporting crimes,” Jus-tinich said.

Part of the problem is confu-sion – when to call 311 versus 911, or whether something is truly a crime – but another part is fear.

“People are reluctant to re-port in the city because of the fear of the drug dealer next door,” he said.

“Interestingly enough, if someone rural reports their neighbour in an isolated area, then the neighbour is going to know who called it in.”

Youth in rural spaces often get involved in crime because of very simple, unfortunate facts: There isn’t enough age-appropriate programming to

give them something positive to do, or they don’t have the trans-portation to get to that program-ming.

“That issue comes up all the time,” Justinich said.

Osgoode Village in Ottawa South has a unique youth asso-ciation offering positive and ac-tive programming that Gorham said has made a huge difference to the level of youth mischief, petty crime and vandalism in the community.

“The association is very con-nected to its teens, and they are engaged,” Gorham said.

She added that Greely, Met-calfe and other rural communi-ties she services in the Ottawa South area could greatly benefi t from similar youth centres.

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The Leitrim Wetland board-walk construction will get under way in Findlay Creek this fall as the South Nation Conservation Authority starts cutting a 460 metre path through the provin-cially signifi cant wetland.

Cutting will begin in late fall with construction of the board-walk taking place throughout the winter and into the spring and summer of 2012. The board-walk is expected to open next fall.

The boardwalk is being com-pleted with the help of Tartan and Tamarack Homes, who set aside $200 from every sale for a conservation fund to preserve the wetland directly south of the Findlay Creek community.

The wetland is provincially signifi cant, containing three distinct habitats: marsh land, mature cedar swamp and calcar-eous fen, the latter being “quite rare” in the Ottawa region ac-

cording to the authority’s water resource specialist Katherine Watson.

“The Findlay Creek commu-nity is very fortunate in that it’s located next to one of the city’s natural gems, the Leitrim wet-land. The wetland is provincial-ly signifi cant, and designated as an area of natural and scientifi c interest,” Watson told about 70 residents at the community as-sociation’s annual general meet-ing on Monday, Nov. 7.

The wetland is home to many different species, including 90 resident bird species year round and another 40 species during migration periods. Great blue herons nest in the old growth forest, and the red shouldered hawk and short-eared owl, both species at risk, can be found there.

The wetland also contributes to the headwaters of Findlay Creek, which is an important cool water system in the South Nation watershed.

Once the boardwalk is com-

plete, residents will be able to walk through all three types of habitat with a lookout in the fen region. The boardwalk will link to the small conservation area on the west end of the wetland, where picnic tables and benches will be installed.

A stonedust pathway will also connect the boardwalk to the actual Findlay Creek north of Findlay Creek Drive.

Watson said the project is a good chance to teach adults and children alike about the unique biodiversity of the important wetland.

“We’re really excited about this project. We think it will bring lots of opportunity for in-terpretive hikes and educational activities,” she said.

The conservation authority’s board of directors chairman Lawrence Levere was also the AGM on Nov. 7, and expressed his pride in working with the community to preserve the wet-land.

“You have a small conservation

area that is a jewel now and will be a jewel for many, many years to come,” he told the crowd.

Watson said she anticipates even more community involve-

ment in the future.“We’re really looking forward

to working with the Findlay Creek community to ensure good stewardship of the wetland.”

Leitrim boardwalk construction underway

Rural Ottawa just as vulnerable as urban areas

Photo by Emma JacksonA sign marks the head of a future boardwalk through Leitrim Wetland in Findlay Creek.

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LAURA MUELLER

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Diapers and dog feces can now be ac-cepted at the facility that processes Ot-tawa’s organic waste – but that doesn’t change what you can put into your green bin.

The provincial Ministry of the Envi-ronment gave the go-ahead for Orgaworld to accept diapers, dog waste and com-postable plastic bags on Nov. 7.

But that doesn’t change anything for Ottawa residents, according to a memo from the city’s lawyer.

“The decision does not impact the city’s own green bin program, which prohibits the inclusion of plastics, diapers, feces, etc.,” wrote city solicitor Rick O’Connor in a memo to members of city council.

According to the city’s contract with Orgaworld, the facility also needs the city’s consent to accept those types of waste from other places (Orgaworld can process organics from anywhere in On-tario or Quebec).

When Orgaworld originally received the ministry’s approval in 2009, diapers and dog waste were left out because the MOE was worried about the possibility of foul odours. Any type of plastic bag is forbidden as well – including the “green” compostable bags that have been adopted by many stores.

It didn’t take long for Orgaworld to ap-peal. But both the city and the MOE op-posed that appeal.

River Coun. Maria McRae declined to speak about the decision on the advice of the city’s legal department. Once city lawyers and the solid-waste department have a chance to go through the 116-page decision, they will give councillors a more

comprehensive analysis of what the deci-sion means for Ottawa, O’Connor’s memo states.

Orgaworld’s 10.2-hectare site on Haw-thorne Road is approved to process 1,200 tonnes of organic waste (residential, commercial, institutional or industrial) per day, or 150,000 tonnes per year.

The city’s environment committee was set to receive an update on its contract with Orgaworld during a meeting on Tuesday, after this newspaper’s deadline. For updates, please visit www.yourotta-waregion.com

Orgaworld wins appeal – but green bin unchanged

LAURA MUELLER

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Ottawa is talking the talk on saving ur-ban trees from being cut down, but now it needs to walk the walk, say city staff.

It has been two years since the city en-acted a bylaw aimed at protecting trees larger than 10 centimetres in diameter on private properties larger than one hectare in the urban area. The bylaw also applies on “distinctive” trees of more than 50 cm in diameter on properties of less than a hectare. The city needs to approve a report to chop down a tree in those situations.

The policy’s heart is in the right place, but it’s not doing much good because city staff are completely swamped and unable to keep up with the work needed to enforce the bylaw, according to a report the city’s planning committee heard on Oct. 8.

Since the bylaw came into effect in June of 2009, the city has reviewed tree conser-vation reports for 119 new developments and 96 developed sites.

All of those reports must be vetted by a planning department forester, and right

now, the City of Ottawa only has one on staff.

The department’s draft 2012 budget in-cludes a request to hire another forester to help enforce the bylaw.

That was good news for Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs, who said the is-sue was of “critical importance” to resi-dents in her ward and across the city.

“There’s no teeth to the bylaws that ex-ist about cutting trees down (that) you don’t have permits for,” she said.

City staff proposed another change to make the bylaw more effective.

Staff suggested switching the rule so that sites larger than one hectare would need to follow the “distinctive” tree rule, rather than the 10-centimetre rule those owners must currently abide by.

Following the 10-cm rule just made for an “onerous” process, when most requests dealt with diseased or unsafe trees, or sim-ply regular tree maintenance, according to Martha Copestake, the city’s planning forester.

The Eastern Ontario Landlord Organi-zation agreed.

Tree bylaw changes set to ease maintenance

File photoThe provincial Ministry of the Environment gave the go-ahead for Orgaworld to ac-cept diapers, dog waste and compostable plastic bags on Nov. 7.

John Dickie, the chair of the organization, said trees are an at-tractive feature landlords do their best to keep and maintain.

“They don’t remove them un-less they have to due to safety and maintenance issues,” he said.

The changes will still create the same result for which the bylaw was created, Copestake said.

“This is consistent with the original intention: to protect big old trees in residential neighbour-hoods,” she told the committee.

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They fundraised, cycled, and supported local cancer research to the tune of $1.8 million.

Recently, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation recog-nized its top fundraisers in September’s Ride the Ride-au, fuelled by Nordion – a 100-kilometre Ottawa to Merrickville bike tour in support of research at The Ottawa Hospital – for their outstanding contributions and to show them the impact of their fundraising.

The event, which raised $2.7 million in just two years, has quickly grown to become the top cancer fundraiser in eastern Ontario. This year, more than 715 riders – from Starbucks baristas to CEOs of major corporations – took part in the event.

The top fundraising team for the second year was the Brick Peddlers, led by event champion Robert Merkley of Merkley Supply Inc. Ottawa’s construc-tion and homebuilding industry has embraced the event – other teams recognized included ones from the Ottawa Construction Association, Minto, Boone Plumbing and Heating Supply, and PCL, among others.

Individual riders who raised $10,000 or more were also inducted into the Peloton Club at the event. The top fundraiser was Mike Caletti, who raised $68,988. Other members included Dr. Joel Werier, Mike Bray, Greg Capello, Claude Des Rosiers, Roger Greenberg, David Herlihey, Greg Kane, Neil Maholtra, Brock Marshall, Robert Merkley, and Charles Armand Turpin.

“The overwhelming support that we have received from some of the biggest names in the Ottawa business community shows how crucial cancer research is,” said Tim Kluke, President and

CEO of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation.CEO of title sponsor Nordion Steve West, who also took part in the ride, said as a company, “Nordion is extremely proud to support Ride the Rideau as it continues to contribute to cancer research that will benefi t patients in the Ottawa region, and around the world.”

Funds raised from this year’s event are supporting a number of related cancer research initiatives, including clinical trials and the development of novel targeted therapies.

“Each cancer, like each patient, is different,” said Dr. Duncan Stewart, CEO and Scientifi c Director of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a Ride the Rideau participant. “By developing personalized therapies that are tailored for each pa-tient, we will be able to give people treatments that are more likely to work from the very beginning.”

Registration for Ride the Rideau 2012 has opened. To learn more about and sign up for the event, to be held Saturday, September 8, 2012, visit www.ridetherideau.ca.

The Kaniacs – The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Board Chair Greg Kane, centre, and his sons, Graeme, left, Oliver, right, and Adam Kane – were recognized as one of Ride the Rideau’s top fundraising teams. Greg Kane was also inducted into the Peloton Club.Photo: Tracey Tong/the Ottawa Hospital Foundation

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A parade of business dignitaries lined up to applaud the city for its 2012 draft budget.

The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce hired a group of experts and accoun-tants to analyze the city’s budget, and they determined the city is doing a “good job at managing the public purse,” said Erin Kelly, executive director of the Chamber.

Sticking to predictable tax increases is the biggest benefi t to businesses that the city can offer in its budget, Kelly said.

“Stability is a competitive advantage in today’s world,” she said.

Kelly was one of a handful of business luminaries who spoke at a special bud-get meeting of the city’s fi nance and eco-nomic development committee on Nov. 7. The committee oversees areas such as city administration, Service Ottawa, the light-rail implementation offi ce, acces-sibility and support for council’s activi-ties. The committee endorsed its portion of the budget during the meeting.

But the back-patting didn’t end there.Jeff Westeinde, chair of the board

of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) said the budget will “bring more focus and urgency and cre-ate the winning conditions we need to prosper.”

City council’s leadership has already led to more collaboration across the business sectors, Westeinde said, add-ing that he, too, supports predictable tax increases.

But it wasn’t all congratulatory.

Kelly said the city really needs to fo-cus on building reserve funds to pay for infrastructure upgrades and other capi-tal projects. Borrowing money should be limited to large-scale projects, she said, and the cost of regular infrastructure maintenance should come from operat-ing expenses and reserves.

City treasurer Nancy Simulik said the city plans to contribute $178 million to reserves in 2012.

Kelly also expressed concern over the city’s plans to cut down on staffi ng costs by reducing the growth of the munici-pal civil service. She said growth should happen when necessary, so as not to “sti-fl e prosperity.”

On a related note, Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley asked how many staffers would have to be cut to avoid any salary cost increases. Simulik said the equiva-lent of 500 full-time positions would have to be eliminated if the city wanted to keep staffi ng costs fl at from one year to the next. Contracted salary increases (including cost of living increases) will amount to $50 million in 2012, Simulik said.

Glebe resident Bob Brocklebank, the only citizen to speak on his own behalf at the meeting, asked the committee if Ottawa has a plan to deal with anticipat-ed cutbacks to the federal public service – the largest employer in the city. He also called for more “active oversight” from city councillors when it comes to how the city spends its money. An annual confer-ence on the state of the city’s economy would go a long way to ensure initiatives are actually working, Brocklebank said.

City council is set to vote on the fi nal budget on Nov. 30.

Business leaders applaud city budget

EMMA JACKSON

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Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson is spearheading the creation of a Greely business association in an effort to make the Ottawa South village more attractive to businesses in the future.

Thompson hosted a meeting on Wednes-day, Nov. 16 at the Our Lady of the Visita-tion banquet hall on Bank Street to kick start an interim association, gauge inter-est levels, and elect an interim executive.

He said he hopes to have a fully-fl edged business association set up by January, when he would likely step out of his cur-rent organizational role to let the busi-nesses take over.

He said a business association is impor-tant as the village grows residentially and starts to build more amenities close by.

“The village is growing very quickly. There is a huge, strong growth in residen-tial development and we do have a core of very successful businesses throughout Greely and the outer edges,” Thompson said. “With the expansion of the village residential market and the growth of businesses, I thought it was important to have a strong business presence.”

A large commercial plaza is already in the works south of Parkway Road on the eastern side of Bank Street, where local

developer Dan Anderson is building the Greely Village Centre. It will include a sat-ellite offi ce of the Metcalfe Family Dental Centre, Cooper Physiotherapy, and a num-ber of retail tenants.

Even so, the village currently lacks its own bank, restaurant and hardware store – meaning residents must drive elsewhere to fi nd what they need.

Watch www.yourottawaregion.com and Ottawa This Week for updates.

Photo by Emma JacksonDeveloper Dan Anderson’s Greely Village Centre is helping to expand the busi-ness base in Greely. Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson is spearheading a Greely busi-ness association to help attract more busi-nesses and lobby the city for resources in the area.

Thompson spearheads Greely business lobby

When it’s fairly traded, a scarf could become a vehicle for sustainable econom-ic development for artisans around the world.

This year, one scarf in particular will give Ottawa residents the opportunity to ease the impact of the drought in the Horn of Africa, according to organizers of the Ten Thousand Villages annual sale that takes place at the Mennonite Church on Kilborn Avenue.

Developing continuing relationships with artisans in low-income countries is what Ten Thousand Villages, and the an-nual festival sale, are all about.

For Kathy Neufeld, who has volun-teered at the sale for over 20 years, the annual sale means considering the long-term impact of each dollar she spends.

“One of the things Ten Thousand Vil-lages aims to do is make a connection be-tween the person who makes the product and the person who buys it,” Neufeld said in a statement.

“This is why I’m giving up my week-ends in November: it’s because I believe in what the artisans are doing and what

the program does for the artisans.” The scarf is just one of the ways Ot-

tawa residents can connect with arti-sans around the world at this year’s sale. There’ll be a large selection of coffees and chocolates, Christmas ornaments, pottery, jewelry and other fairly-trade goods from artisans in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Living gift donations will also be available at the sale. As an alter-native to traditional Christmas gifting, donations can be made in a loved one’s name to provide education, clean water, food and new opportunities to men, wom-en and children in developing countries.

This year’s festival sale runs every Fri-day from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. throughout the month of November at the Ottawa Men-nonite Church, 1830 Kilborn Ave.

For more than 35 years, Ottawa Men-nonite Church has partnered with Ten Thousand Villages.

Ten Thousand Villages is a non-profi t program of the Mennonite Central Com-mittee and is a member of the World Fair Trade Organization.

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The Riverside South Community Association will host its annual general meeting on Thursday, Nov. 17.

From 6 to 7 p.m., residents are invited to the Ride-auview Community Centre to check out displays and information booths from community groups, developers, and city offi cials that impact the com-munity. From 7:15 to 9 p.m. the association’s execu-tive will discuss their accomplishments from the past year, disclose their fi nancial statements, elect new board members and open the fl oor to new ideas and suggestions from association members.

Association president John Bruce will be step-ping down from his role as president because he said the association needs new ideas and new di-rection.

“Associations are like living organisms: unless you inject new life, new ideas, they become stale and stagnant,” he said, noting that he believes he’s left the association in a good fi nancial position with a solid base to build on. “I’ve worked with some good people and done some things I’m proud of to leave behind.”

Bruce volunteered to be treasurer of the board in November 2007, only two days after he’d moved into the Ottawa South neighbourhood. Shortly af-ter the president at the time got sick, and he took over that role as well, without any training or ex-perience.

“I just thought, ‘Let’s see what I can do to make it work and run smoothly,” he said.

Another president took over eventually, but was absent a lot and wasn’t planning on holding an AGM in 2010. Bruce, as treasurer, organized one instead and became president again in February.

Bruce said he hopes the community will step up to fi ll some of the vacancies on the board this Thursday, which include the social and events co-ordinator, street rep co-ordinator and equipment manager. There are also a number of streets still without street reps.

“I only hope that the community gets involved because they will lose what they have taken for granted,” he said. “We all have busy lives, but without volunteers these things just will not hap-pen.”

Bruce said he is considering staying on as the advertising and sponsor representative, because he has had considerable success in that area in the past year.

File photoRiverside South Community Association president John Bruce listens to a pre-sentation from Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches at a June open house at the Rideauview Community Centre. The association will host its annual general meeting this Thursday, Nov. 17, where residents can hear presentations from local developers, community groups and city offi cials.

Riverside South AGM this ThursdayPresident stepping down but encourages community to get

involved EMMA JACKSON

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Please, check your children at the door.

The South Keys-Greenboro Commu-nity Association is hosting its fi rst ever neighbourhood pub night this Saturday, Nov. 19 at O’Grady’s Outpost on Tapiola Crescent. Beginning at 7 p.m., the asso-ciation is inviting adults in the South Keys-Greenboro community to chew over their neighbourhood issues with a pint.

Association president Marnie McKin-stry said the point of the pub night is to get adults out without the kids so they can meet their neighbours and let loose with some new ideas for the community.

“Most of what weve done this year was for kids, so we’re hoping this will get some adults out just to meet some new people and get to know your neighbours.

The association will provide free appe-tizers. A note on the association’s website also marks the occasion as a celebration of sorts for a successful year:

“2011 has been a very busy year for our association, packed with well-attended family festivals, neighbourhood clean-ups and community advocacy meetings. We think it’s time to celebrate our suc-cess with a party at our local pub, and it won’t be any fun without you,” the web-site read.

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It was inevitable that offi cial Ottawa would tire of the occupation of Con-federation Park by protesters linked with the world-wide Occupy Wall

Street movement. A number of reasons have been cited but the offi cial one is that the National Capital Commission has to begin planning for Winterlude and that there is no space in the capital’s winter festival for people in tents.

Typically short-sighted, the NCC, in deciding to part company with the Occupy Ottawa protesters, has failed to recognize the potential value in keeping Occupy Ottawa around. There was no need to play the heavy and risk all that bad publicity. The NCC’s goals could have been met without quarreling sim-ply by letting Occupy Ottawa stay and building Winterlude around it.

Let’s consider: Do the rest of us really need Confederation Park right now? It’s nice in the spring and fall for people to grab a coffee on a park bench, great in the summer when the jazz festival is around, but in the winter? Not really. It’s a short-cut to and from the Rideau Centre. Those park benches get cold. So Occupy Ottawa has not really incon-venienced anyone. The inconvenience arrives with Winterlude when the park is suddenly alive with the sound of chis-

els and the creation of ice sculptures begins.

That’s what the NCC is worried about – the Occupy people getting in the way of the sculptors and the tourists and the corporate sponsors and whatnot. But listen: the tourists would be delighted to be around real, live Occupiers; what exciting stories they could bring home. The corporate sponsors have fancy hotel suites they can hang out in if the sight of tents gets them down.

But the most important reason for keeping Occupy Ottawa in the park is that ice sculpture is just made for politi-cal protest.

Imagine the park if the Occupiers were allowed to participate in the ice sculpting. Instead of all those familiar loons and polar bears and ornate things that look like chandeliers, we’d be see-

ing ice sculpture with real relevance.Imagine seeing evil bankers carved

in ice, their hearts appropriately cold. Imagine the collapse of capitalism in a tableau glistening in the sunshine. Imagine the challenge of creating a fair taxation system out of ice.

These protesters have already demon-strated their creativity in many ways. Who’s to say they wouldn’t be up to this challenge?

In fact, it almost seems as if they have been thinking along those lines. Here’s a spokesman for Occupy Ottawa quoted last week in response to the NCC’s stated need to have the park back.

“We know that there are events that are planned in future and we will work with the NCC to ensure that those events can be attended by the general public and we can have a nice time together.”

Doesn’t it sound as if he can’t wait to get in there and carve some ice – per-haps a statue of Europe, melting, or a bust of Bernard Madoff.

It is sad that he and his friends won’t get the chance. Ottawa has a proud history of turmoil just waiting to be immortalized in ice. Think of the Pipe-line Debate, the Coyne Affair, Belinda Stronach Crossing the Floor, the G20 Protest, several Nights of Long Knives

and various famous gestures by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. These guys in tents were just the ones to bring some politi-cal relevance to Winterlude.

But they have to somewhere else. Say, how about LeBreton Flats? There’s a space that no one seems to need.

On the bright side, a lowered visibility for the Occupy folks may not be all bad. The movement may be running out of steam and risks becoming boring. The possibility of confrontation with the au-thorities can bring out the rock throw-ers in hoodies, which won’t help the movement. It might be time to regroup and change tactics. Still, it’s a shame to miss Winterlude.

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Senders must include their full name, complete ad-dress and a contact phone number. Addresses and phone numbers will not be published. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and content, both in print and online at www.yourottawaregion.com. To submit a letter to the editor, please email to [email protected] , fax to 613-224-2265 or mail to Ottawa This Week, 80 Colonnade Rd. N., Unit 4, Ottawa, ON, K2E 7L2.

More winter fun: Occupy WinterludeCHARLES GORDON

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Pedestrian advocacy needed

He’s small, unprotected and takes his life into his hands nearly every time he takes to the streets.

But to read any of the stacks of plans the City of Ottawa has written regarding transportation, that lowly pedestrian is actually king.

You wouldn’t know it by looking at our roads.Even downtown, where walking is the most com-

mon way to get around, the foot-powered among us have to deal with a list of challenges including (but certainly not limited to): unplowed walkways, crum-bling sidewalks, sidewalks too narrow for the level of foot traffi c they attract, sidewalks cluttered with “street furniture” such as parking metres, cars that park on sidewalks, pedestrian signals that don’t last long enough for your average athlete to make it across the street, aggressive red-light right-turning drivers… and the list goes on.

And who is looking out for these poor pedestri-ans at city hall? There is a transportation planner charged with putting the city’s pedestrian plan into practice. But that is only part of her job, and in a city of almost a million people, we should have at least three or four dedicated pedestrian planners, accord-

ing to Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes.The city’s plans are good, but when streets, side-

walks and crosswalks are being designed, those good plans don’t seem to make it into the engineering side of the projects, Holmes said during her summit on pedestrian safety on Nov. 8.

She’s urging pedestrians to take matters into their own hands. Without a cohesive and noisy group of people to advocate for walkers, nothing will change, Holmes said.

Eight pedestrians were killed on Ottawa roads last year alone – a pretty average year for fatalities of our streets’ most vulnerable users. Forty walkers were killed on Ottawa streets between 2005 and 2010.

Those deaths added to the total of 115 pedestrians killed in Ontario in 2010 – a fi gure that spurred the province’s chief coroner to launch an inquest.

November is a particularly dicey month for side-walk users. Between the time change and drastic dif-ferences in lighting conditions and weather, drivers and pedestrians need to be extra alert this month.

So be careful and aware on the roads this month, and every month. As Holmes says, it’s up to pedestri-ans to “take back the asphalt.”

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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTIONDoes Ottawa need a strong, vocal advocacy group for pedestrians?

A) Absolutely. It’s dangerous out there for pedestrians, who need better protections.

B) Ottawa already has plans, they don’t need an advocacy group to implement them.

C) It would be better to empower the existing pedestrian advisory committee.

D) If pedestrians get their own advocacy group, I want one for drivers too.

LAST WEEK’S POLL SUMMARYWith so many options in the national capital, how do you observe Remembrance Day?

A) I take a trip down to the National War Memorial to pay my respects.

B) I head to my local legion to remember those who have fallen with those veterans who remain.

C) My school or workplace observes a mo-ment of silence at 11:00 a.m.

D) I don’t do anything formal, but I wear a poppy and observe the day in my own way.

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Money makes the world go around, but what do we really know about it? Not much, according to most

fi nancial institutions taking part in fi -nancial literacy month. And this is not about knowing the difference between stocks and bonds. It’s more about – what they called in the old days – know-ing how to balance a chequebook. But with credit so widely available and fi nancial education so unavailable, most Canadians, so statistics suggest, are getting taken for a ride.

One of the fi rst steps toward fi nan-cial literacy is understanding how to develop a budget. I encourage my children to do this before they hit the white elephant table at the local school fundraiser each Christmas. We count out their quarters, nickels, and dimes, do some quick math, and fi gure out how much they have to spend before they go in. It’s important to me that they understand both the value of the money, and how much they actually have in hand, (something most adults don’t get). This saves them the embar-rassment of getting to the “checkout” with a 20-dollar bill, (an unfathom-able amount to their little brains), and thinking they cannot afford a 25-cent item. (This happened to a little girl last year.)

Working out a budget is easier than you think. It’s really about fi guring out everything you spend in a month.

There are certain costs that are fi xed – such as rent, mortgage, or your bus pass – and others that are variable, such as groceries, utilities, coffee, and entertainment. (If you have minimum payments on loans or credit cards, in-clude these as a fi xed costs for now.)

If you’re having trouble getting started, try paying cash for everything for one month, and save every receipt – for groceries, gas, even a pack of gum. Dump the receipts in a shoebox each evening. This will give you a good idea of your variable costs. Annual or semi-annual costs, such as Christmas gifts, property taxes, and gym fees should also be broken down and included in your monthly budget.

Keep in mind, it’s against human nature not to spend available money. One way to avoid this is to have your pay directly deposited into a savings account, instead of into your chequing account. On the fi rst of each month, transfer your budgeted spending dol-lars (minus your annual or semi-annu-

al costs) into your chequing account. Continue to pay cash for everything. Once your chequing account is empty, you have no more money to spend that month.

The fi rst month I ever tried this my available cash ran out one week before the month’s end. It was an eye opener to force myself to live without that cash for a week. Even though I knew there was money in my savings ac-count, I didn’t touch it. Instead, I made some pretty creative meals out of what was left in the cupboards and I stayed away from the mall.

Money always seems complicated because it has so much control over our lives. One of the best ways to take back that control is to force yourself to understand money at its most basic level. Here’s the formula: cash in must be greater than cash out. It’s that sim-ple. Before you start worrying about debt-levels and saving for RRSPs, it’s imperative to make that formula part of your life. Looking around at all your neighbours driving brand new cars, purchasing big homes and cottages (that they probably can’t afford), and fl ying to Florida every winter, you’ll probably have to learn to live without some of that luxury. But in the end, it’s worth it. You’ll be fi nancially liter-ate. You’ll own the money, rather than having it own you. And that just may make you feel like the richest person in the world.

Budget your way to fi nancial literacy

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November is not just a grey, chilly and blustery preamble to winter. To the wife of

a hunter, November is about the absentee husband. Now, this can be a good thing or a bad thing. It’s all in how you look at it.

Some hunting husbands look forward to their two weeks of deer hunting all year long. In the months leading up to November, they troll outdoors stores and websites looking for the latest in new gear for watching, photographing and otherwise capturing wild game. They watch hours of hunting shows on Wild TV, learning new tips and tech-niques for bagging the big one. Then they wait.

As the opening day of the hunt approaches, many hunt-ers will kiss their wives and families goodbye as they head out for a weekend, a week or even two weeks in the bush with their comrades-in-cam-oufl age (or, in the case of deer season, fl ame orange). They have packed bullets, beer, ba-con and baked beans. It’s been proven—you can live on that for several days. There may

or may not be a toothbrush in their travel bag. It isn’t always deemed necessary. And anyone who dares to shave at a hunt camp would not only risk ridi-cule from his cabin mates but he might also throw the luck of the hunt.

The wives of these hunt-ers are known as ‘hunting widows’. Knowing that their husbands are gone for several days, they may take up redeco-rating the living room, or at least moving furniture around. Some hunting widows will go shopping, with their husband’s VISA card. This might be just something she was planning to do anyway, or it might be a bit of a dig at the husband who has left her alone with the kids while he goes off to play in the woods with his friends.

My hunter doesn’t go far from home to hunt. He may take a day trip to the St. Law-

rence for geese, but mostly he stays on our own 200 acres, which he has mapped and laid out with trails cut through the woods and stands in the trees. He rises at 5am, kisses me goodbye, and slips down-stairs to put the coffee on for his thermos. Then he goes out to the bush, climbs up onto his

tree stand, and watches the sun rise. Now that the leaves are gone, I can often see his orange coat through the trees from my kitchen window, 50 acres away. When the girls were little, he would leave a walkie-talkie beside their beds so they could talk to him when they woke up. I’m glad my hunter doesn’t go too far from home. I kind of like having him around. We don’t get to see each other much during the

season, however. He goes from the sunrise hunt to work to the sunset hunt...and then he falls asleep on the couch.

A friend of mine has a hubby who takes two weeks off work every year for deer sea-son. He hunts in Quebec, as he owns property there. One year it was unseasonably warm and the deer were not moving. The forecast predicted more of the balmy weather for the next week. He called his wife after a few days to say that he would be calling off the hunt and coming home.

“Oh no you aren’t!” she told him. “You can stay at the cottage until the weekend!” Apparently she had been looking forward to the time on her own, and didn’t want him to come home to wait out his vacation loafi ng about the house. When he did arrive home, she handed him a list of chores to keep him busy until he returned to work.

It was another warm one this year, and I haven’t heard of many lucky hunters return-ing with buck or doe trophies for their wives. Oh well, at least it keeps them happy, busy and out of trouble.

Through the eyes of the hunting widowDIANA FISHER

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“The wives of these hunters are known as ‘hunting widows’.”

After serving as parliamen-tary assistant to the minister of education in his last term, Otta-wa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi has been given a new parliamentary assistant role and will be chair-man of the management board of cabinet at Queen’s Park.

Naqvi will serve as parlia-mentary assistant to Finance Minister Dwight Duncan as he focuses on the economy and cre-ating jobs, a news release from Naqvi’s offi ce said.

“It was a tremendous honour to be asked to serve as the par-liamentary assistant to the min-ister of fi nance,” said Naqvi in a statement. “I look forward to the new challenges that await me”. Parliamentary assistants work with ministers to make sure government objectives are achieved. They regularly repre-sent ministries during legisla-tive debates and are responsible for special projects.

Naqvi was most recently par-liamentary assistant to former education minister Leona Dom-browsky,

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When the city completes a technology shift to create a Service Ottawa system, residents will be able to make service re-quests by email, Facebook or even Twit-ter.

That change will start to take place this month, but deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos assured city councillors that traditional methods of contacting the city, such as phoning 311, will still be available.

The new options will provide better ser-vice and better two-way communication, said Krista Oswald, a city staffer who gave the fi nance and economic develop-ment committee an update on the project on Nov. 7. Service Ottawa will include automatic reports and notifi cation to the person who made the request.

“This is one of the key initiatives that will actually change how people experi-ence the frontline services,” Kanellakos said.

It will also change how city staff works by streamlining requests.

For example, if someone calls the city to request tree trimming for an unsafe branch, city foresters would automatical-ly receive that instruction on their mobile devices, and the person who called it in would be automatically notifi ed that the trimming is taking place. Right now, that notifi cation doesn’t occur, and the process is delayed by paperwork.

With the introduction of Service Ot-tawa, the city is aiming to ensure all the information it gives out, whether it’s over the phone, in person at a service centre or

online, is the same. Right now, there can be some discrepancy as information is located in many different places and not always updated. Storing information in a central Service Ottawa database should fi x that, Oswald said.

There will be other features, too, includ-ing virtual tours of city facilities, an op-portunity for businesses to create online profi les and a real-time notifi cation sys-tem to instantly add information about “unforeseen events” or emergencies to the greeting of all city phone lines.

By the end of the year, Oswald said 145 service transactions will be able to be completed online. That fi gure represents almost 70 per cent of the top calls to 311.

Automating many of those requests by putting them online will cut down on the city’s labour costs by eliminating the equivalent of 47 full-time jobs, Oswald said.

By the end of 2012, when the transition is complete, 400 city phone lines will be reviewed and consolidated into the 311 service, and two service counters and two call centres will also be consolidated.

Other Service Ottawa initiatives in-clude: buying teleconferencing equip-ment to reduce travel costs for staff, add-ing more advanced technology to manage the city’s vehicle fl eet and retrofi tting city buildings to make them more energy ef-fi cient.

The project will cost $79 million to implement and is expected to save $40 million annually by trimming operating costs.

With fi les from Geoff Davies.

Many city 311 services to be online by 2012

LAURA MUELLER

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A pair of paramedic dispatchers found themselves on the front line of an emer-gency, and three years later they are be-ing hailed as heroes.

Kanata resident Tara Josey and Or-leans resident Nadine Leduc were having coffee at a shop in Ottawa south in Janu-ary of 2008 when they heard gunshots from the parking lot and ran outside to fi nd a wounded man motionless in the parking lot.

While panicked bystanders fl ed, the two women, who were both employed as paramedic service communications of-fi cers at the time, administered fi rst aid

until paramedics arrived.“We take calls and hear it all the time,

but being there and seeing it was totally different,” Josey said.

“At the time, we didn’t really know what was happening. We didn’t really think about it.”

The women were too busy helping the injured man to think of the potential danger of a shooter in the vicinity.

“It didn’t fully sink in until later,” Jo-sey said.

Mayor Jim Watson recognized Josey and Leduc’s efforts with Awards for Heroism during the Nov. 9 council meet-ing. On Oct. 28, Governor General David Johnston gave both women Medals of Bravery.

Photo by Laura MuellerMayor Jim Watson honoured Nadine Leduc (centre) and Kanata resident Tara Josey (right) with Awards for Heroism during a city council meeting on Nov. 9.

Paramedic dispatchers applauded

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BIRTHDAY GIRL WISHES TO HELP

Four-year-old Findlay Creek resident Mia Jolicoeur, right, used her birthday wish to bright-en the lives of some of the patients at the Queensway Carleton Hospital on Oct. 28.Since she turned one, instead of birthday gifts Mia’s family and friends have donated money for various charities. This year, Mia decided she wanted to “help sick people feel better.” This year’s donations raised $250, enough for 20 pumpkin fl oral arrangements. Mia, her older sister Madeline and her parents Ben and Julie delivered the fl owers to patients on Oct. 28. “I just want to make them feel happy,” she said.

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The Ottawa Police have begun their annual hunting and ATV patrols through rural Ottawa in an effort to enforce the rules and keep the public safe during hunting season. Throughout the month of November, police will patrol ATV routes in conjunction with the Ministry of Natural Resources to enforce provin-cial and federal legislation governing hunting, fi rearms and off-road vehicles.

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Children at the Tiny Hoppers day care in Riverside South are selling Christmas poinsettias this season in the hopes that they might make someone’s wish come true on the other side of the world.

Proceeds from poinsettia sales will go to Elimu, an Ottawa-based educational charity that is working to build a nurs-ery school in the coastal area of Kenya.

Tiny Hoppers staff member Melanie Bedard said the day care has been sup-porting Elimu’s efforts for a number of months because they know how impor-tant early childhood education is to a child’s future.

“It’s near and dear to our hearts,” Be-dard said. She added it’s an excellent op-portunity to educate their Tiny Hopper kids about different parts of the world. “We feel it’s really important for our kids here to understand the difference between schools here and over there.”

In October, Elimu began building the

Kenyan nursery school in the village of Sabaki, which will serve about 100 chil-dren under the age of six, but it is still raising money to complete the building.

Currently the closest primary school to the 5,000 person town is one kilome-tre away, so most children are held back until they are able to walk the distance themselves. Currently, the options for children under six are skipping early childhood education altogether, or at-tending the current nursery school in a rented building that is too small, dark and cramped to serve the children prop-erly.

The project will cost about $25,000 to complete.

Cream or red poinsettias are sell-ing for $11, with $4.25 going directly to Elimu. Orders must be placed by Friday, Nov. 25 and the fl owers will arrive about two weeks later, Bedard said.

Residents interested in placing an order can visit the Tiny Hoppers loca-tion in the Riverside South plaza at Earl Armstrong and River Roads.

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When Pete Hammond found out he had cancer in the mid-1990s, he felt a sense of relief.

“My honest fi rst reaction was I was su-per grateful, because this is an honour-able way out,” he said.

The reason Hammond was grateful was because he was sick – not physically, but mentally.

His story, as well as three other Ottawa musicians, will be told at the Guests at Voices: Musicians for Mental Illness con-cert that will benefi t the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health.

Hammond wanted to get involved in the fundraiser because, more than 15 years ago, he remembers seeing everything physically tear up in front of him at work. He suffered a panic attack so bad that he ended up curled in a ball on the board-room table, locking himself in the offi ce.

“My job was to count screws. Thou-sands of them,” Hammond said. “On a good day, this would drive me nuts. But this wasn’t the day for it.”

He said he should’ve seen it coming, but he didn’t understand what depression or panic attacks were at a young age – so he didn’t think to get help.

“Everyone to a certain extent has some-thing going on in their head and certain situations bring it out,” Hammond said. “But I felt like I had lost my mind and I wasn’t coming back. This wasn’t the dra-matic, bullshit teenager stuff.

I really thought I broke something in my head and I wasn’t coming back. (I thought) the best thing for me was to go into the woods and blow my brains out. That’s terrifying.”

When he contracted chicken pox, he found out he had cancer when he got his chest X-rayed.

“It was a relief, that’s how sick I was,” Hammond said. “I said, I don’t have to go blow my brains out and I can see how this

goes. If this kills me, it’s better for my family if I go out like this.”

But Hammond fought the cancer, and survived. While he says there’s “no such thing as post mental illness,” he feels healthy now. And since his 20s, he’s worked in suicide intervention, started his band Loud Love to keep people’s spir-its up, and is a self-professed “clown.” He even wants to have an element of humour when he performs at the benefi t concert.

“It’s just something I feel really, really passionate about, because what the hell else am I going to do in this world?” said Hammond.

“It’d be great to go out and make tons of money, but having a second chance at life, I have to do something meaningful.”

Amy Read, the concert’s organizer, re-cently went public with her personal ex-perience with mental illness. She felt she was ready to do it after dealing with an anxiety condition since she was only six or seven years-old.

She suffered through crisis periods, including in her early 20s when a friend died.

“I hit a major wall,” Read said, adding she’s now in a period of recovery.

Over the last decade, she slowly began telling family and friends and most re-cently did a television interview where she spoke publically about it.

“There’s still a fear there, and judgment of what people will think of me,” she said. “But I’m facing that fear and doing it any-ways.”

She hopes the concert will educate peo-ple and raise awareness of mental illness – and hopefully start to de-stigmatize it.

The event will feature singer-songwrit-ers Hammond, Amanda Rheaume, Ana Miura, and Lynne Hanson who will per-form in a song-circle and lend their voices and personal stories of mental illness.

The concert takes place Nov. 17 begin-ning at 7:30 p.m. at the National Art Cen-tre’s Fourth Stage. Tickets are available at the NAC box offi ce or on Ticketmaster.

Photo submittedPete Hammond will be one of the musicians performing at the Guests at Voices: Musi-cians for Mental Illness concert that will benefi t the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Men-tal Health on Nov. 17.

Musicians open up about mental health at fundraiser concert

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Osgoode Legion remembers at Metcalfe cenotaph

Photo by Emma JacksonSergeant at Arms Sam McGee leads the Osgoode Legion’s colour party to the Metcalfe cenotaph on Friday, Nov. 11 for the Osgoode Ward Remembrance Day ceremony. Veterans, military personnel, dignitaries and members of the public gathered in the Metcalfe Town Hall courtyard for the service.

Photo by Emma JacksonSilver Cross mother Dorothy Brownrigg lays a wreath on behalf of all mothers in Osgoode Township who have lost children through service. Osgoode Legion branch president Wib Cowan accompanies her.

Photo by Emma JacksonRows of wreaths wait to be placed at the Metcalfe Cenotaph before the Osgoode Legion’s Remem-brance Day ceremony on Friday, Nov. 11. Wreaths were laid by Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre, MPP Lisa MacLeod, Osgoode Coun. Doug Thomp-son and a number of community groups. Students from Metcalfe Public School, Osgoode Township High School, and the Community Christian School in Metcalfe laid wreaths as well. About 200 peo-ple gathered for the annual ceremony outside the Metcalfe Town Hall.

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RC Ottawa is the city’s only remote control car club, and af-ter 20 years it has found itself parked in an industrial corner of Ottawa South.

Tucked away on McKeown Drive in Greely, a dimly lit ware-house hums with the sound of Wednesday race night: the echo-ing clink of tools as club mem-bers tinker with their vehicles, the announcer’s good-natured heckling on the loudspeakers, animated conversations and their spontaneous bursts of laughter, and, of course, the buzz of electric cars zipping around the carpeted track.

For two years the club has used the warehouse to race their electric vehicles through rough courses that include tight cor-ners, bumpy terrain and high jumps that send cars careening through the air with an unpre-dictable chance at landing up-right. Marshals stand along the track to upright cars that have fl ipped, crashed or accidentally fl own off the course entirely.

Mihai Gutuescu, 32, runs the Dynamic Hobbies store in Ne-pean and is one of several lead-ers who keep the not-for-profi t club afl oat. He joined the club in 1992 when he was in Grade 6. His friend Mike, who manned the microphone on Wednesday, Oct. 12 when Ottawa This Week went to visit, introduced him to the hobby.

“You quickly get addicted to it like everything else, and you have to make your car better and faster,” he said, noting that he’s now among the most experi-enced drivers in the club simply because he’s been doing it for so long.

Every Wednesday and Sun-day club members gather at the warehouse – which they are oc-cupying until the landlord can fi nd a ‘real’ tenant who actually pays rent – to race their cars. Depending on how many people show up it can take eight hours to go through qualifying rounds and then “the mains” where drivers race for a week’s worth of bragging rights.

Gutuescu said the club has lost a lot of younger members in re-cent years because of their new location, since Greely is rela-tively out of the way and parents

don’t want to stick around until 11:30 or 12 on a Wednesday so their kids can race in the fi nals.

The club is looking for new members, and Gutuescu said it’s relatively easy to get started. He said the fi rst point of contact is usually at a hobby store where a customer comes in looking to build or buy a remote control car, where staff ask if he plans to play with it or race it.

“More often than not, the per-son will say, ‘Well, I was going to play with it, what do you mean ‘race it’?’ That’s the very fi rst time someone’s ever heard of it. So you explain it to them and say feel free to come and watch,” he said.

He said that as remote con-trol car racing becomes more mainstream, cheap knock-off products are fl ooding the market which can turn customers off if their new car breaks as soon as they get it.

At the store, “it’s a lot of man-agement of mistakes,” Gutuescu said. “We encourage people come to the club, learn what to buy, it can be fun. And to buy used stuff from people who know what they’re doing.”

Gutuescu said building your fi rst car can be relatively easy, too. Companies are now packag-ing ready-to-drive kits that don’t require as much skill or time to put together. He said most mem-bers start with such a kit, then move to higher quality products as they gain skills.

To begin racing at a hobby club, start-up costs hover around $1,000, Gutuescu said. Half of that covers the charger and the remote, which are once-in-a-de-cade purchases. The other half comes from the car itself. After that the maintenance costs are fairly low.

“It depends on how you crash. You can have nights where you break four or fi ve things, but it’s fairly inexpensive,” he said. Shocks are only about $9 to re-place, for example. Electronics are more expensive to replace, but usually they only break out of misuse or because they have been used fully and had run their course anyway. On a regu-lar race night, he said to expect to break at least a few items. “If you’re not breaking stuff you’re not trying hard enough,” he laughed.

At the end of July, the club hosted their fi rst annual Cana-dian RC Offroad Championship to raise money for CHEO. Club member and South Keys resi-dent Billy Sutton organized the event, which raised about $7,000 for the children’s hospital. Re-mote control enthusiasts came from as far as Sudbury, St. Cath-erines, Quebec City and parts of New York.

“From a racing stand-point

it was a lot of fun, everybody seemed to be really happy with it. Some of the races were really amazing,” Sutton said.

The race was held outside un-der a rented tent at the Aviation Museum and had 168 entries. The event was such a success that they are already planning for 2012 – and so are many hob-byists across North America.

“Since the event happened all people are talking about is com-ing back,” he said, noting that at a recent race week in Las Vegas many drivers were excited about the event. “So next year we’re ex-pecting a lot more people, prob-ably 250.”

This November the club host-ed the King of the Rug Indoor Shootout sponsored by hobby car manufacturer Tamiya Canada, which took place at the Greely indoor track from November 11 to 13.

Gutuescu said the amount of time put into building your car and practicing is huge compared to the small amount of time you actually spend steering your miniature car around the track - but it’s worth it.

“That six minutes is really fun and that’s what you’re doing it for. Its model racing; it’s not the same as sitting in a car or fl ying in a plane, but you do that one thing once that looks and feels exactly like it would, and that’s why you do it. It’s kind of crazy but its fun,” he said.

Photo by Emma JacksonMihai Gutuescu has been racing remote control cars since he was in Grade 6. He now runs the Dynamic Hobbies store in Nepean and is one of the leaders of RC Ottawa which races regularly at an indoor track in Greely.

Remote control race track a hidden gem in Greely

“If you’re not breaking stuff you’re not trying hard enough.”

Mihai Gutuescu

Photo by Emma JacksonClub members race their cars every Wednesday and Sunday around a carpeted track featuring sharp turns, bumpy terrain and jumps. It can take eight hours to get through the qualifi ers and the fi nals.

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WHO ARE WE?Metroland Media, Ottawa Division, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corpora-tion and southern Ontario’s most trusted and respected community media source. Our digital media division, manages a network of leading community, specialty and vertical websites across Ontario reaching over 6 million unique internet users every month.

THE OPPORTUNITYAs we continue to expand our successful digital sales initiatives, we are currently seeking an energetic, talented and self-assured Manager of Digital Media to drive new business sales throughout the Ottawa region. We’re looking for a motivated leader who demonstrates a sense of urgency, without creating unnecessary chaos. The ideal candi-date will have strong management experience and a proven track record for attaining outstanding results through the motivation and development of a sales team. This role requires knowledge of the digital advertising space, the competitive landscape and a solutions oriented approach to selling.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO• Manage and develop a team of “hunters” who are exclusively focused on generating

new business/clients• Utilize your expertise to maximize revenue and develop strategies to ensure superior

execution from your team • Consistently monitor team performance relative to targets and adjust plans

accordingly to ensure that targets are achieved• Mentor your team and strive to make them better; we expect them to continually

improve as a result of your expert leadership • Work through obstacles/objections with your team members, while ensuring superior

customer satisfaction at all times• Ongoing reporting, tracking and forecasting

ABOUT YOU• A track record of successfully driving revenue, with a focus on acquiring new business• Previous experience in a sales leadership role, with preference given to with digital

advertising sales experience• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop successful “hunters” • Top notch presentation/communication skills, with a natural ability to build positive

relationships • Extensive knowledge of the local digital media/advertising landscape• Highly skilled in all Microsoft Offi ce applications, with expert knowledge of Excel

STUFF THAT’S NOT ON A RESUME• Type-A personality, highly competitive, self-motivated and driven by results• A confi dent and infl uential leader with the ability to motivate and inspire• Proactive and optimistic, with a “can do” attitude• Can be decisive and demonstrate timely decision making, often under complex and

demanding circumstances • Energized by deadlines/pressure with a passion for exceeding targets• A believer in digital media, where it is today and where it’s going

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?• The opportunity to be part of a company at the cutting edge of the digital media

industry; you’ll never get bored in our fast-paced, constantly evolving and challenging environment.

• We’ve got your health in mind; you’ll get a comprehensive benefi ts package, including 4 weeks vacation and a group RRSP plan

• The sky’s the limit; our uncapped commission plan provides unlimited earning poten-tial

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WHO ARE WE?Metroland Media, Ottawa Division, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and Ontario’s most trusted and respected community media source. Our digital media division manages a network of leading community, specialty and vertical websites across Ontario, reaching over 6 million unique internet users every month.

THE OPPORTUNITYWe are looking for New Business Acquisition Sales Representatives to sell the com-pany’s fastest growing product - Deals4U.ca This innovative program promotes local businesses to local consumers through a special “daily deal.” You’ll use your knowledge of what’s great about our city to develop and grow the local market by securing com-mitments from the most desirable local households, businesses, and services including restaurants, spas, nightclubs, retailers, theaters, tourism venues, and more. This position off ers salary (commensurate with experience) and generous commissions based on revenue, sales targets and company goals

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO• Develop and cultivate leads using multiple sources including cold calling and door-to-

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The Immaculata Saints and the St. Mark Lions suffered similar fates on Sat-urday, Nov. 15 as both schools put up a good battle but wound up falling to east-end opponents in the senior Tier 2 and Tier 1 national capital high school football championship fi nals on Saturday, Nov. 5 at Minto Field.

The Saints lost 14-13 to the Sir Wilfrid Laurier Lancers, while the Lions dropped a 17-2 contest to the St. Peter Knights, who won their fourth consecutive senior title.

“We’re naturally disappointed, but the score I don’t think is indicative of the game,” says St. Mark coach Paul Brown, whose troops were the better team after falling behind 17-0. “There were just a couple breaks here and a couple breaks there, but it was really a close game.”

The Lions couldn’t have experienced a much more demoralizing moment than in the fi nal minute of the fi rst half. St. Mark was fi nally driving in on the Knights, but wound up fumbling the football inside the St. Peter fi ve-yard line. The fact that the Lions, led by quarterback Nick Gor-gichuk along with Christian Fournier and Andrew Ellis, came back and contin-ued to press for points in the second half against such a strong opponent impressed Brown.

“I was really proud of them,” says Brown, who also savoured the experience of coaching his son, Curtis. “They’re a tremendous group of kids and they put their whole heart and soul into this. Unfortunately you don’t always get the bounces your way, and (the fi nal) was case and point.

“But our guys hit hard and fought hard, so they should be proud of themselves.”

Making it to the championship game re-mains a cause for celebration, highlights Brown, whose squad knocked off St. Mat-thew in the semi-fi nal round.

“It’s getting harder and harder and hard-er (to compete with St. Peter). They’ve got a lot of big, strong young men with a lot of football experience,” says Brown, who

received strong contributions from grad-uating players Taylor Moran, Kyle Wilson and Dan Ferguson. “I expect St. Pete’s to run the table for many years. They’ve got a great setup. They’re a big school, lots of kids play football and they have great coaching. Those three things make it re-ally hard to overcome.”

Only four schools entered the top tier league this season, which meant Immacu-lata had to overcome more rivals in the 12-team Tier 2 loop to reach their champi-onship game.

The Saints lost just once in the regular season, and then avenged that defeat with a playoff victory over Holy Trinity, fol-lowed by a win over St. Patrick’s to reach the fi nal.

Immaculata trailed 8-0 for much of the

game, but three-straight big passes from quarterback Gilbert Chiasson covering over 80 yards, followed by a 100-yard Chad Ouellette interception return, gave the

Saints a pair of touchdowns and a 13-8 lead.

“To be down that many points and then see our guy return that 100 yards for a touchdown made all the time we put in as coaches worthwhile,” says Immaculata coach John Whyte. “I’m very proud of them with the way they played.”

Sir Wil pounded the ball on the ground over and over again for the winning touchdown drive, although the game be-came “secondary to anything else” when Chiasson had to be taken from the fi eld on a stretcher with a feared neck injury after taking a hard block in the fi nal minutes.

“He was upset he couldn’t fi nish it for the team,” notes Whyte, who was hopeful his player wasn’t too terribly hurt since he was conscious and had full feeling throughout his body while lying on the ground.

Whyte was very pleased to watch the development of some of his veterans such as Chiasson, Josh McLean, Devin Brazeau and Nick Dorion in recent years, and highlighted the role local clubs such as the Ottawa Colts played in helping his squad.

“We just started six years ago, and we’ve been in the fi nal twice,” Whyte adds. “The program is growing and hopefully we can keep going from there.”

St. Peter also won the national capital junior football title 15-7 over Sir Wil in the middle portion of the championship day triple-header.

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Saints and Lions fi nish one step shy of football titles

Photo by Dan PlouffeQuarterback Gilbert Chiasson (right) and the Immaculata Saints lost by just one point to the Sir Wilfrid Laurier Lancers in the national capital high school senior football Tier 2 championship game on Saturday, Nov. 12 at Minto Field.

• NOVEMBER 19:The Osgoode Township Museum’s Craft Day for kids will take place on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 1:00 until 3:00 p.m. Come join us at the museum and let’s make mittens! Learn how to make your very own pair of fun and colour-ful mittens out of recycled materials. The cost is $5 per child. Call (613) 821-4062 to register.

Check out the South Gloucester United Christmas Bazaar with handmade crafts, decorations, baking, raffl e, books, luncheon and more on Saturday, Nov.19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Located at the corner of Albion and Rideau Roads, just west of the Rideau Car-leton Raceway.

• NOVEMBER 25: Greely’s 1st Pathfi nders troupe will host a youth dance on Friday, Nov. 25 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Greely Community Centre. Admis-sion is $5. For more information email [email protected].

Slam Poetry Night: Head to the Alta Vista Li-brary for an unforgettable high-energy poetry slam. There will be two rounds of competition, performances will be limited to 3 minutes and each poem must be the original work of the competitor. Call 613-737-2837 x29 for more information and to register in the competition. First and second prizes.Friday, November 25, 6:30 p.m.

• NOVEMBER 26: You are invited to the annual Christmas Craft and Gift show presented by the Community Christian School in Metcalfe. Local businesses and artisans will offer a wide array of fabulous gift items that are sure to please even the most discerning individuals on your gift list this Christmas. Saturday, Nov. 26 at CCS, 2681 Glen St. Doors open from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be Christmas cookie decorating, as well as a canteen serving a delicious luncheon and refreshments for your enjoyment. Parking and admission are free.

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Selling your home without the help of an expensive real estate agent is becoming a popular choice, says SolveProproperties.com founder, Alfonso Cuadra.

More and more people are fi nding that the current real estate agent system is unfair.

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Founder, CEO, and President of SolvePro-properties.com, Alfonso Cuadra, knows that his biggest success in his 11 years of real estate experience was that he never used an agent.

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- COO, Phil Duarte - VP, Brooks Foater - CFO.

With the entrepreneurial spirit in mind, what SolveProproperties.com has created is a franchising model. As a result, they were able to enter 15 different cities before ever launching.

Entrepreneurs who want to come on board are welcome as either franchise owners or sales representatives. There is no experience required as Solve-Proproperties.com has designed a complete training program to help the franchise owners and sales representa-tives learn this new and fresh approach to Real Estate.

Launched in Ontario and Quebec (ImmoSolu.com) this year, SolvePro-properties.com plans to go Canada-wide in the fi rst quarter of 2012.

If you feel this opportunity is right for you, contact SolveProproperties.com directly at: 1-866-336-7229 or email [email protected].

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FURNITURE WAREHOUSE SALE!THE CITY IS MAKING US MOVE FOR THE NEW LIGHT RAIL.

MUST GO!ALL UNSOLD ASHLEY FURNITUREALL UNSOLD ASHLEY FURNITURE

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November 18,19 & 20

SO WE’D RATHER SELL IT... THAN MOVE-IT!

CASH & CARRY OR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY

FURNITURE SELECTION CONSTANTLY CHANGING

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LOTS OF ITEMS

SOLD AT COST!+

DON’T MISS THIS! DON’T MISS THIS!

You’ll Find!You’ll Find!

Sofas, Loveseats, ChairsSofas, Loveseats, Chairs

Tables, Dining GroupsTables, Dining Groups

Entertainment Units, DesksEntertainment Units, Desks

Bedroom Groups, Lamps, RugsBedroom Groups, Lamps, Rugs

plus more!plus more!

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