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ENJOYING WINTER WHILE IT LASTSTara Tosh Kennedy and her son, two-year-old Liam Kennedy, took some time to rest and eat popcorn at the Hampton Iona Community Group’s annual winter carnival on Feb. 27. For more photos from the carnival, see page 12.

FAMILIES IN NEEDThe pastor at a Britannia church hopes efforts to help refugees in the area spreads city-wide.

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The Westboro community is being con-sidered for a new transportation plan that would encourage more people to walk, cycle, carpool and use public transit in the area.

Last week council approved the Trans-portation Management Implementation Plan for Richmond Road in Westboro – but the plan is subject to funding approval in the 2011 budget.

“I think it will be approved. It’s already

been approved in its fi rst stage,” said Kitchissippi Ward Coun. Katherine Hobbs. “There won’t be any problem with that.”

Hobbs said the initiative is needed to help reduce the amount of vehicles clog-ging up Richmond Road – especially during rush hour – so the street can function bet-ter without having to widen it.

The plan includes increasing the number of sidewalks, installing bicycle lanes, and introducing new bus shelters to name a few changes.

Hobbs said the plan will be implemented over the next 15 years.

“It won’t be as fast as we like,” she said, adding that new bike lanes will likely be one of the fi rst things residents will notice on the stretch of Richmond Road.

Hobbs said she has received positive feed-back from the community about the new transportation plan.

“The main feedback from people was it wasn’t happening soon enough,” she said. “They wanted to get this in place as soon as possible.”

Gary Ludington, head of the Westboro Community Association, said he and some

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SUDS FOR A CAUSEThe owner of Kichesippi Beer is donating a portion of sales to help fi nd a cure for juvenile diabetes.

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Early on a winter evening, Pastor Terry Orchard cradles his Bible and heads down to a small, run-down mo-tel in Britannia. He knocks on a wood door that’s worn and chipped. A man from Haiti answers, wearing a big cross around his neck. The man opens the door just a crack. A bed, that his children likely share is visible behind him.

Orchard asks the man if he needs any food. The man hesitates for a minute, and shakes his head “no.” A small hand suddenly emerges from the man’s side and gently grasps his white shorts that have stains and tiny rips. A boy, as young six or seven years old, peeks out behind the protection of his father - curious to see who’s at the door.

Later, Orchard learns that the fam-ily did need food for that night – the man just had too much pride to ask for help.

The Britannia Baptist Church pas-tor lives down the street from this motel, which houses refugee families while they patiently wait for subsi-dized housing.

While the families wait, they also receive help from the church led by Orchard in an initiative called Mis-sion to Moms – a new organization that helps make life a little easier for them.

“We want to be proactive in helping these families,” said Orchard. “People often say that these families have ben-efi ts and social assistance – but it’s not enough. You can only stretch what you have so far.”

That’s why Mission to Moms has a mandate to collect food, clothing, toys,

furniture – even offer moving services – to refugee families in Ottawa’s west end who are in transition to subsi-dized housing.

Other churches have also started helping with the cause as Mission to Moms waits to receive charitable sta-tus.

Orchard said Mission to Moms started out of the Britannia Baptist Church because the need was so ap-parent in his neighbourhood.

“We made connections with new-comers,” he said.

One woman he made a connection with comes from Haiti and lives in a nearby shelter.

The woman, who didn’t want her name used, is currently living in a single room with her three children as she waits for subsidized housing. She has about fi ve months left until she can move into her new home.

Mission to Moms has been vital to her and her children’s survival, she said, adding that she usually receives about $600 a month from her social as-sistance checks.

“It means a lot for sure,” the single mother said of Mission to Moms. “I don’t have enough money to buy toys for my children or food. It helps so much.”

Orchard said many of these fami-lies fl ee places like Haiti, Rwanda and Sudan because of the poor economies, but also because of political oppres-sion.

Many of the women have husbands who have abandoned them and are even separated from some of their children who might still be in their home country.

The refugee children who are here in Canada often run risks of getting involved in gangs, said Orchard, and

the Britannia Baptist Church has a choir specifi cally for these children to help keep them busy and give them a sense of purpose.

Mission to Moms also helps families in all phases of transition, from their arrival to motels up to their move into subsidized housing.

Kanata resident Martha Lavictoire is Mission to Mom’s program co-ordi-nator and she often helps these fami-lies make the move into new homes.

She also helps set them up with furniture since many don’t have any when they fi rst move.

“I have two little kids and I’m mar-ried, and it’s still hard,” said Lavic-toire. “I couldn’t imagine what it is like for these refugee moms. They don’t even speak English. My heart goes out to them.”

Orchard hopes Mission to Moms will eventually expand to cover the en-tire city, since there are so many other motels and shelters in Ottawa that are housing refugee families.

He added that whether these fami-lies are part of a church or not, he wants to help them.

Orchard said he wants to raise awareness of what refugee families go through in Ottawa and that people will gain a better understanding of the issue.

“Often within any community, you have two bubbles of population – those who are well off and those who are struggling through no fault of their own,” Orchard said. “People have ste-reotypes of what it’s like to live in that lifestyle, but I think it is so quick to judge based upon lack of experience.”

For more information on Mission to Moms or how to help out, visit the Britannia Baptist Church website at www.britanniabaptistchurch.com

Photo by Kristy WallacePastor Terry Orchard has been leading Mission to Moms – an organization that helps refugee mothers and families who are transitioning into subsidized housing, and life in Canada.

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By Melodie Cardin, Special Events and Communications Coordinator,ByWard Market BIA

With Winterlude fi nished and spring still a good ways away, kids and adults alike are starting to get cabin fever. If you’re not able to get out of town this March break, there are great “Staycation” activities right here in Ottawa’s downtown.

There are several fun, kid-friendly ways to spend an afternoon in the ByWard Market. Whether or not the canal is still open, you can enjoy a Beaver Tail and hot chocolate at the original Beaver Tails on William St.

If your kids are interested in art, you can have a look at March Break camps at the Ottawa School of Art, or for some shorter-term fun, take them to Artissimo sessions at the National Gallery of Canada. There are even some free options for seeing art – take the kids to see Maman, the giant spider outside the gallery, or the newly acquired Hundred Foot Line at Nepean Point. You can also take them on a tour of the Bytown Museum, situated right next to the Locks, a great little Museum with a great kids’ space.

For an afternoon of arts and crafts, head to the Sassy Bead Co. on William St or to Lenus Beads on Dalhousie for supplies, and get your kids making their own jewellery, or take them to Bang On, on

William St., where they can make their own t-shirts. Close by, you’ll fi nd Lost Marbles, where you can fi nd some great items for crazy fun with the kids. There are also a couple of bookstores with great options for kids – Librairie du Soleil on George St, Nicholas Hoare on Sussex Dr, and Argosy Books on Dalhousie.

You can also take your kids on a tour through Nest, a toy store on Dalhousie St. that specializes in European-made toys.

If you’re stopping for lunch, there are several fun places to take your kids in the Market – try Zak’s Diner, on ByWard, a popular option for burgers, fries and shakes or Ahora, a colorful little Mexican eatery with a delightful ambiance on Dalhousie St. It’s economically priced so you can afford to take the whole family. Just want a snack? Head to the ByWard Market building for cookies from Moulin de Provence, caramel apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory or Montreal-style bagels from Continental Bagel Co. You can also get great treats at Aux Délices on ByWard, Piccolo Grande on Murray St., Pure Gelato and Sugar Mountain on William St. Or, put together your own at-home picnic with sausages, cheeses and breads from the Continental Deli on York, or La Bottega Nicastro on George St. For dessert, try Memories, which has what has often been voted the World’s Best Carrot Cake.

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The Ottawa Theatre School is now an accredited college, which will allow the Westboro institu-tion to compete against the likes George Brown College in Toron-to for aspiring thespians.

The school has been recently designated as an Ontario Pri-vate Career College – meaning students there can now receive a college diploma as well as qualify for the Ontario Student Assistance Program.

“It also opens up the caliber of students attracts those out-side of Ottawa,” said Bruce Bissonnette, the Ottawa The-atre School’s artistic director. “We have to jump through the same hoops as a regular college does.”

It took the school two years to receive its college status and Bissonnette is excited that the theatre school will now be a new choice for high school graduates or those who want a three-year diploma in theatre.

Bissonnette said one of the things that has separated Ot-tawa Theatre School from other colleges is they have created partnerships with local profes-

sional theatre companies like the National Arts Centre and the Great Canadian Theatre Company.

“Students are actually work-ing alongside current profes-sional actors,” said Bissonnette. “That experience itself is so in-valuable.”

Student Jodi Morden will be in the fi rst graduating class

to receive a diploma from the school.

She said it has been helpful in honing her acting skills through singing lessons – and even yoga classes.

The co-productions she has been a part of have also helped her as a theatre student, she said.

“It’s only getting better and

we’re getting top name Ottawa actors,” Morden said. “We have constant exposure. One of my favourite things about this pro-gram is the co-productions.”

Bissonnette said he hopes the school’s status change will help produce high-calibre acting tal-ent in Ottawa.

“When you inject high talent in the community and they stay, they tend to create work. And, more theatre companies start popping up,” he said.

Bissonnette said the school’s marketing campaign hasn’t started yet, but they want to start getting the message out on social media websites like Face-book and have advertisements on OC Transpo busses.

He added that the school now has recruiters who will be vis-iting high schools to give stu-dents more information on the school.

“Half the battle is becoming visible,” Bissonnette said. “I’ve got two people on staff just to re-cruit and let people know there’s a new choice.”

The public’s response has been good, he said, and many parents in today’s economy are happy that there’s a local choice for students who want to earn a

theatre diploma.And while there are no plans

for partnerships with other schools like Algonquin College and the University of Ottawa yet, Bissonnette said the idea isn’t out of the question.

“I would embrace partner-ships,” he said, adding that the school has a University of Ot-tawa professor on staff. “We’ve had small talks about future connections.”

Bissonnette hopes that over-all, having college designation at the Ottawa Theatre School will help generate a strong the-atre community where it’s al-ready evolving in Ottawa

He said there are more the-atres making headway in Ot-tawa and the city is becoming a leader in the dramatic arts.

Morden adds that it’s impor-tant for prospective students to embrace their love for drama if it’s something they enjoy.

“You learn a lot about your-self,” Morden said. “If you want to become an actor, it’s not an impossible thing. But it takes hard work and dedication.”

For more information on the Ottawa Theatre School, visit its website at www.ottawatheatre-school.com .

Ottawa Theatre School takes giant leap forward

Photo by Kristy WallaceBruce Bissonnette, the Ottawa Theatre School’s artistic director, is proud that the school is now designated an Ontario Private Career College.

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The city’s transit commis-sion passed its draft budget last Thursday, raising fares an average of 2.5 per cent and opt-ing to add more free seniors’ days, buy a number of double decker buses and keep the price of the UPass the same as last year.

Transit committee chairwom-an Diane Deans (Gloucester-Southgate) said the last three years have seen fare hikes of 7.5 per cent annually, and she vowed to put a stop to such large

fare jumps this year. “To me, it’s counter-intui-

tive. If you want more people riding public transit, you don’t have huge fare increases,” she said, noting that there’s a limit to how small a fare increase can be. “Some people would like it to be zero, but costs go up.”

The regular adult pass will rise $2.50 per month to $94, and the adult express pass will in-crease by $2.00 up to $116 per month. The rural pass will jump $3.25 to $145 per month.

Students got a relatively easy ride in the draft budget, with

the UPass holding at $145 per semester because student as-sociations at the University of Ottawa and Carleton Univer-sity didn’t include an escala-tor clause in last year’s refer-endum, which means students only voted on a pass that costs a maximum of $145. The com-mission was hoping to raise the cost to $148.63, but allowed the UPass program to be extended at the same price so that stu-dent associations can have time to hold new referendums with clauses that allow for infl ation-ary far hikes.

Outside the UPass, monthly

student passes will rise $1.75 for regular riders and $2.50 for ex-press users. Rural student pass-es will increase by $2.25.

Day passes, monthly commu-nity passes and cash fares will stay the same, and tickets will increase by fi ve cents each.

Deans said the city is taking a more “sensitive approach” to how it handles OC Transpo this year, as it looks at redundancies and ineffi ciencies in the system and tries to streamline the ser-vice.

“It’s a different approach, in the past they would propose to lob off entire routes, and now

they’re talking about doing it much more sensitively than they have in the past,” Deans said.

One idea on the table is to make express routes truly ex-press by limiting passenger pick-up along transitways after a certain point inside the city, in an effort to speed up route times and make sure that express bus-es coming from rural and sub-urban areas aren’t bogged down by urban users.

The draft transit budget will be up for fi nal approval at the budget deliberations and coun-cil meeting beginning March 8.

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In a move that will poten-tially create a less restrictive atmosphere at Ontario festivals, fairs and other outdoor events, the McGuinty government an-nounced several changes to the province’s liquor laws last week.

Among the changes the prov-ince is considering are remov-ing the requirement for beer tents at outdoor festivals, allow-ing people to wander with their drinks and extending the hours of alcohol service at events like weddings or other private cel-ebrations from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m., which is the current regulation for licensed establishments.

The Liberal government is also looking at allowing the sale of all-inclusive vacation pack-ages in the province.

The proposed changes would be accompanied by changes to penalties imposed for the viola-tion of Ontario liquor laws.

Currently, festivals like West-fest, held every year in West-boro, have restrictions on where alcohol can be served, usually in a designated beer garden located away from entertainment, exhib-its and vendors.

“Now, especially keeping in mind their new location, where they’ll have a bigger area for concerts – which will be penned – they will be able to sell alcohol in that whole area,” said Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi. “So it’s not like people will be able to take alcohol to the street, there will still be a penned area, but it will be beyond just the beer tent.

“This is something festivals like Westfest have been asking

the government to do for some time.”

Naqvi said the changes were less of a “revolution” and more of an attempt by lawmakers to bring the liquor laws in Ontario to the same standard as other places in Canada and the United States, something with which Ot-tawa Bluesfest executive director Mark Monahan concurred.

“In general terms, this would level the playing fi eld for all festi-vals in Ontario – old or new – and put them in the same league as other events across North Amer-ica,” Monahan said in an email.

The proposed changes will also be a boon to events like the Ottawa Folk Festival which in the past has been licensed, but there were restrictions imposed on where merchandise vendors were able to set up. The changes will allow those vendors to locate in the licensed area and festival-goers will be able to browse their wares, drink in hand.

According to Naqvi, the gov-ernment will now hold consulta-tions with various stakeholders over a period of about a month and the changes could be imple-mented before the festival season begins this summer.

The changes currently under consideration are the latest in a series of tweaks made to Ontar-io’s liquor laws by the McGuinty government.

In 2010 the Liberals intro-duced tougher impaired driving laws, including a zero blood alco-hol tolerance for drivers under 21 and an ignition interlock pro-gram for repeat offenders.

The province also began per-mitting the licensing of movie theatres and bingo halls in 2009.

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The Ontario government plans to spend $500,000 worth of investment to help the Ottawa tourism industry draw more domestic and international visi-tors through conventions and conferences.

Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naq-vi announced the money will sup-port efforts to market the nation’s capital and its new convention centre to the rest of the world.

“What we are doing is trying to sell Ottawa as a must-visit destination for more interna-tional conventions and more tourists,” said Naqvi.

Naqvi added the Convention Development Fund will help Ot-

tawa draw 19 new conventions bringing in 53,000 new visitors, generating an estimated $57 mil-lion boost for the local economy and providing additional sup-port for 19,000 existing tourism jobs in Ottawa.

“Conventions are big busi-ness in Ottawa – they support hundreds of local jobs, generate revenue for local business, and help turn new visitors into re-peat tourists.”

Tourism is Ottawa’s third largest industry, contributing $2.2 billion to the city’s economy annually

“Ottawa Tourism is pleased that the province is providing resources for this very impor-tant component of the tourism industry,” said John Murray,

chairman of Ottawa Tourism. “These investments will provide for a signifi cantly enhanced sales approach when targeting the Convention market.”

In 2008, convention visitors spent more than twice as much as other visitors to Ontario and generated over $1 billion.

The Convention Development Fund builds on the collaboration of local tourism and convention partners by providing matching funds for eligible costs.

The Ottawa Convention Cen-tre is undergoing a major re-development that will almost triple its capacity and greatly enhance its appeal to national and international convention, meeting and trade show plan-ners. It will reopen in April.

Photo by Eddie RwemaWestin Ottawa general manager John Jarvis, left, Yasir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa Centre and Ottawa Tourism chairman John Murray and CEO Noel Buckley announce $500,000 in tourism funding for Ottawa.

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Sometimes it’s hard to ask people for donations. That’s why Paul Meek, owner of the Kichesippi Beer brew-ery, has decided to sell growlers of the company’s Natural Blonde with 50 cents of each sale going to the Juve-nile Diabetes Research Foundation.

“We’re mixing family and work,” said Meek, whose son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes about fi ve years ago. “We always looked for ways to try and do more.”

Meek said he has no set goal for the amount he would like to raise, and that this will be an ongoing campaign until a cure is found for the disease – which is also known at Type 1 diabetes.

Meek said the response from the community has been great. After just two days of the campaign, the brewery had already sold 120 growlers, which are 1,890 millilitre bottles often used

for the sale of draft beer.“That’s just the tip of the iceberg,”

he said.Meek is also heavily involved in the

TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes which takes place in June.

He wants other parents of children with juvenile diabetes to know that there are others going through the same thing.

“You come home from hospital and you’re totally overwhelmed,” Meek said. “But you’re not alone.”

While not every family might be able to donate the amount Meek is hoping to achieve through his sales, he said it’s important for parents and families to come out to the Walk to Cure Dia-betes, email other parents or just keep the dialogue going.

“There’s a difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes,” said Meek. “Type 1 has nothing to do with diet. And there’s no cure.”

Kerry Winnemore, manager of

fundraising and development for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Founda-tion, said Meek’s leadership to help raise funds to fi nd a cure for diabetes has been outstanding.

“Whether challenging the corpo-rate community to give back or cam-paigning for our annual TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes, Paul’s energy moti-vates us all,” said Winnemore. “The efforts of Paul and his team bring us ever closer to fi nding a cure for Type 1 diabetes.”

For more information on the Juve-nile Diabetes Research Foundation, visit their website at: http://www.jdrf.ca/

People looking to purchase a growl-er of Kichesippi Beer’s Natural Blonde can visit the brewery at 866 Campbell Ave., just off Carling Avenue. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday and 12 to 6 p.m. Saturday. A growler of Natural Blonde costs $10.75 plus a $4 deposit for the bottle.

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Photo by Kristy WallacePaul Meek, owner of Kichesippi Beer, will be donating 50 cents from every growler he sells to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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A team of researchers at the Chil-dren’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario has received $4.5 million in federal funding to embark on an ambitious project to that will study the genetic causes of a range of rare disorders.

Working through Genome Canada, the team led by geneticist Kym Boy-cott of the CHEO Research Institute will share the grant with a team from

the University of British Columbia.Boycott and her team will study

more than 70 childhood genetic disor-ders, while the UBC team will investi-gate six of the most challenging types of cancer to affl ict children.

“Every gene that we discover as part of this initiative will allow us to study ... the pathways about how this gene interacts in the body,” she said.

Boycott will use new genomics tech-nology developed in Canada that al-lows sequencing of genetic material.

She said she hopes to have the initial fi ndings available to the medical com-munity by the end of April.

Minister of state for science and tech-nology Gary Goodyear made the fund-ing announcement at CHEO on Feb.22, stressing that the investment will help fi nd important new treatments for chil-dren with cancer and rare genetic dis-eases affecting thousands of Canadian children. About 25 patients and their families in the Ottawa area are set to be part of the study.

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A devastating 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Christ-church, New Zealand last week has one Ottawa west resident wishing he was back home.

“I was shocked, really,” said Carlingwood area resident Hayden Fraser, who’s origi-nally from New Zealand. “My family’s fi ne, but there are a lot worse off than ours.”

When Fraser heard the news last week that a major earth-quake had struck his country, he said his fi rst instinct was to call home.

Luckily his mother, father and sister all survived the quake. But he wasn’t sure of their fate at fi rst.

“I couldn’t contact them, so I was a bit scared. And just fro-

zen,” Fraser said.That fright turned to relief

when he fi nally contacted his family and found out everyone had survived.

Fraser’s mother described to him what it was like the day of the earthquake. She was at work, he said, and got under her desk when it hit. When she got up from the desk, all the shelv-ing in her offi ce at completely collapsed.

The four-foot-11-inch-tall woman jumped over piles of the fallen shelving and went outside where buildings had collapsed and roads were crack-ing.

He said his mother told him people were looking for survi-vors and trying to help other people.

“People were having this overwhelming sense of duty to help out,” Fraser said. “Strang-ers were helping strangers, so that was a positive thing that came out of this. Barriers had been broken.”

Fraser said there are dif-ferent sections of society that

might not usually get along in New Zealand, but those con-fl icts were being pushed aside so people could help each other.

The quake on Feb. 22 was the second one to hit New Zealand in fi ve months, and Fraser said he had a feeling there could be another one.

“It was building up for some-thing. This one was a lot more powerful,” he said. “It was just one too many.”

Fraser said he wishes he was back in New Zealand just to be close to his family.

His uncle’s family also sur-vived the quake but lost their home. The family has a handi-capped child and so Fraser’s immediate family is helping them out.

He added that from what he knows, his family has enough food and water.

Even though he’d like to be back in New Zealand, Fraser said he most likely won’t be making the trip there.

He has lived through an earth-quake before and describes how it feels like a big truck is driv-ing by, without the sound.

While he keeps in touch with his family and waits to hear from friends, he said he feels jittery every time he heard a truck drive by.

“People’s lives are being ripped apart,” he said. “It’s a feeling of ‘Why us again?’ ”

New Zealand quake gives jolt to local man’s family

‘People were having this overwhelming sense of duty to help out, strangers were helping strangers, so that was a positive thing that came out of this. Barriers had been broken.’

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The Rideau Carleton Race-way is partnering with Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson in an ef-fort to convince city council to endorse the installation of 21 casino tables in its entertain-ment centre.

It is hoped the local tables will keep more gaming revenues in-side the province and the City of Ottawa.

“We’d like to try a pilot proj-ect to launch tables to level the playing fi eld between us and our competition, and hopefully re-patriate funds from provincial residents and tourists, that are currently leaving the province,” explained Alex Lawryk, senior advisor and spokesperson for the Rideau Carleton Raceway. The area’s closest casino is Lac Leamy in Gatineau, which May-or Jim Watson said during Feb. 23’s council meeting is taking away precious gaming revenue that could be put to use on the Ontario side of the river. The City of Ottawa could stand to make around $2 million in extra revenues if the casino service is added, Lawryk said.

Currently the raceway has

several casino tables that allow patrons to visit a virtual dealer to play games like Black Jack and Roulette. Lawryk noted that adding real casino tables, which would be staffed by actual deal-ers, would fi ll a gap in the re-gion’s gambling offerings.

“This program doesn’t ex-ist for Ottawans right now, you have to go out of province or down to Gananoque or to anoth-er OLG venue,” he said. “There is a void in terms of our product offering, and we’re quite excited about the possibility.”

Thompson will ask council to endorse the plan at the regular council meeting on March 10, by sending a letter to the province indicating that it supports the raceway’s proposal.

If the council endorsement passes and the province grants approval for the project, the pro-cess of amending the raceway’s zoning to allow casino tables in-side RCR’s zoning will begin.

Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans raised concerns that the endorsement process has skipped committee debate

and gone straight to council, but Thompson said it’s a reason-able method because there isn’t much to discuss at this point.

“Council can say, ‘We, as an elected group, don’t want to do that,’ and it would be a dead issue. If council decides, ‘We would like to say yes, and we think it’s a good thing to start the process,’ then there’s a pro-cess with lots of public consul-tation,” he said, noting that the zoning amendment and neces-sary traffi c studies would create many opportunities for public input.

However Deans said she’d rather see the public be heard on the overarching topic rather than the zoning details.

“To go from a slots operation to a full service casino is a sig-nifi cant change, and I believe it’s important to consult the public before council decides that’s something that we should be doing,” she said, noting that rezoning is a property issue process and wouldn’t address the public’s concerns about having a casino in general. “I don’t think city council should assume the public’s position on (having a casino). It hasn’t been on the public agenda for well

over a decade.”Deans said she is also con-

cerned about added traffi c on the already congested Albion Road through Blossom Park, if Lac Leamy regulars start driv-ing to Ottawa South instead of Gatineau.

“This will clearly exacer-bate the problem. You will have many, many more people. All those people that Mayor Wat-son is saying go over the bor-der to gamble, they’re all going to shortcut through Blossom Park,” she said.

Lawryk disagrees, believing the impact will be small.

“We’re not talking about a big increase in terms of patron count. This is not going to stress the Albion Road,” he said.

Currently the Rideau Car-leton Raceway has a racetrack, 1,250 slot machines operated by the Ontario Lottery and Gam-ing corporation (OLG), and a charity bingo hall. Several vir-tual casino tables were added in Dec. 2010, and have been very popular.

The OLG is currently review-ing its gaming strategy across the province, and Lawryk said he hopes the RCR’s proposal can be part of the new plan.

Councillor to propose new casino tables at Raceway

File PhotoOsgoode Coun. Doug Thompson is looking to bring gaming tables to Rideau Carleton Raceway to boost revenues for the city.

JENNIFER MCINTOSH

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Mayor Jim Watson, city staff and coun-cillors fi elded questions from residents about the future of the city at a multi-ward public budget consultation at the Nepean Sportsplex on Feb. 22.

Watson congratulated council and staff on sticking to his policy of a 2.5 per cent increase and a freeze on recreation fees.

“I am really proud of the way we worked together to make this happen and I think we are moving forward as a city,” he said.

Despite meeting the 2.5 per cent tax in-crease goal, residents had concerns about transit, intensifi cation and future infra-structure spending.

The water bill – to be tabled in a sepa-rate budget in April – is likely to go up by 3.9 per cent, or an average of $24 annually per household.

Watson said he was also proud of the 2.5 per cent increase on transit fares – signifi -cantly lower than the 7.5 per cent increas-es of previous years.

“That’s (7.5 per cent) three times the rate of infl ation,” he said. “We have to make changes to OC Transpo to make it more ef-fi cient or it will continue to gobble up one or two per cent of the budget each year.”

The city will also be expanding transit service for seniors. There is already free service on Wednesday, which will be ex-tended to Monday and Friday afternoons.

Gloucester-Southgate councillor and chair of the city’s transportation com-mittee Diane Deans said that the city had

tried to get the federal government to de-clare OC Transpo an essential service dur-ing the 54-day work stoppage in late 2008 and early 2009.

“The test they perform is to ask weth-er the service represents an immediate health and safety concern if it is stopped. In this case we had other services, such as taxi chits for low-income residents and ParaTranspo, so it was deemed it wasn’t necessary,” she said.

Ken Shipley, with the Friends of Lansd-owne, asked why the city was on the hook for the renovations of Frank Clair Stadi-um when the developers will benefi t.

City manager Kent Kirkpatrick said developers are making their own invest-ments and the city is confi dent that the proposal is the best choice for Lansdowne. “We look forward to our day in court.”

Brad Spooner, program manager at NROCRC, questioned the city’s plans for future budgets where there was no $25-million cash infusion from the province’s uploading to dip into.

“I think it’s a great budget and I look for-ward to the increased funding for housing, but will it continue?” he said.

College Coun. Rick Chiarelli said while the funds from the province will only be $5 million, the city can continue to move for-ward because the expenses from the pre-viously downloaded programs is a burden the city will no longer have to bear.

“We now can take those funds and put them back into general use and use them for the benefi t of the city and its resi-dents,” he said.

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Watching people break out in revolt all over the Middle East, Canadians wonder when it will happen here.

The answer is it won’t, because, relative to other parts of the world, we don’t have that much to revolt about.

On the other hand, we could speak up a bit more than we do now.

Take, for example, seniors. We have been hearing for years about the coming power of the over-65 demographic. And suddenly it is here. The fi rst wave of the baby boomers has turned 65. Those who got there fi rst have been patiently wait-ing for reinforcements. Now they are here and many more are coming.

The power is here. It just hasn’t been used yet. But there are issues where the voice of the over-65s could be raised. A nice test of the power of seniors would be the question of whatever it is that’s happening to buses in Ottawa these days.

The specifi c are a bit hard to follow but the generalities follow a pattern that has been familiar for decades. It goes like this: OC Transpo faces declining ridership and revenues so it increases fares and cuts routes. For decades people have been telling OC Transpo

that cutting service and raising fares is not the way to get more people to ride the bus. Some day it will sink in. Maybe the over-65s can help that process along.

Everybody recognizes that having more people ride the buses is a public good. It reduces traffi c, cuts pollution and so on. But more people will only ride the buses if the buses are there. It sounds like the likelihood of them being there is decreasing.

This is where seniors could test their newly arrived political clout. The latest proposal nixes the idea of a half-price fare for seniors. It adds a couple of free days, Monday and Friday, providing se-niors travel after noon, an idea that has rightly been criticized as social engi-neering of a most condescending sort.

Is this something to email your coun-

cillor about, or stage a protest at city hall, some Monday or Friday after noon?

Maybe not. The cost issue is a good one, but it may not be paramount to many seniors. Not all are impoverished, nor do they want to be treated as if they are.

More crucial is the question of route cuts. The Transpo planners want, as usual, to cut some routes, and those would not be the ones zooming from the outer ’burbs along the Transitway to downtown. No, the routes we will lose will be the ones that meander through residential neighbourhoods, the ones that take a while to get downtown but stop close to where you live and, inci-dentally, take a lot of the neighbourhood kids to school and back.

Those routes are the most vulnerable because they are the least cost-effi cient, and you know what that means. It means effi ciency fi rst, you second.

Another proposed effi ciency is to reduce the number of stops for those routes that survive. The upshot is a lon-ger walk to the bus, maybe a nice bit of exercise in the spring and summer, but not so great in the winter, and not great at all for those who don’t move as easily as they used to.

All this produces a great occasion for seniors to do some roaring and frighten a few city councillors and bureaucrats. The changes, as they have been outlined, are irrational, as usual, and seniors will feel it more than most.

The idea of public transit is to get people out of their cars. That’s always a good idea. In the case of some seniors, it’s a very good idea.

But people need to be given a reason to get out of their cars. So far, Transpo isn’t doing it. But the decision-mak-ers should know that seniors, unlike younger folk, always vote. As long as they can get to the polls.

CHARLES GORDON

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Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson put his money on a dark horse last week when he announced he’s looking for a council endorsement to bring casino tables to

the Rideau Carleton Raceway in Ottawa South.He faces some formidable opposition in the

form of Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans who has questioned his methods, which don’t allow for public consultation before council decides what side of the gambling fence it sits on. No doubt he will also hear complaints from anti-gambling groups, residents concerned about traffi c, and perhaps even the odd bingo hall which stands to lose some business as the race-way continues to offer more services.

But at the heart of the matter, Thompson’s message rings true: if people are gambling any-way, why not make a few bucks for Ottawa while they’re at it?

As a city we complain about rising property taxes, rocketing transit fares and increased utility and user fees. Even when council makes all the concessions it can to keep tax increases to a minimum, we complain they’re much too high. So why not embrace an easy $2 million in revenue that’s already being spent just a short

trip across the Ottawa River at Lac-Leamy? We’ve already made $37 million in revenue from the slots and races since they started operating at the Raceway – so unless the plan’s opposition wants to shut the entire entertainment centre down, the ethical argument is moot.

In the grand scheme of things, $2 million is just a drop in the budget bucket. But that money could be used to start a much-needed social program, to begin building a new recreational facility, or saved to protect future sensitive wet-lands. Maybe it could be used to fund a gambling addiction support centre.

There is certainly an argument to be made against encouraging government-endorsed ad-dictions such as gambling. In reality, however, most people who currently visit the Gatineau casino are gambling responsibly, in the same way most people drink responsibly. For the small group of people who are susceptible to a gam-bling addiction, the city has a responsibility to monitor the issue.

But the fact is most money spent in casinos is spent responsibly, and the city should be getting a piece of the action – if only to boost their bottom line.

Casino tables a good bet for Ottawa

The aging demographic: hear it roar

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I’m not a horse; I’m a blanket. People are always using me to cover them-selves and it’s so annoying.”

My four-year-old son is the funni-est guy I know. Seriously. If I was half as funny as him, I’d have a daily column. He’s so funny and creative and active that, well, sometimes I feel bad that I have to send him off to public school every day.

Don’t get me wrong. He’s doing well in junior kindergarten. At the meet-the-teacher interview in February, I found out he’s the leader of his group, that he has a clear sense of justice, and that he and his classmates have mastered the entire year’s mathematics curriculum.

“I realized I was so far ahead that I just stopped teaching math altogether,” said the teacher. Seriously? Seriously. She wasn’t being funny.

I wasn’t quite sure what to say, if only because the interview was conducted in French (not my mother tongue). But also because I couldn’t believe the teacher had just explicitly claimed she was dumbing down the entire curriculum to make sure the 40 students she was teaching didn’t get too far ahead of other kids in the province, who are all much dumber than they were 10 years ago when the curricu-lum was more rigorous, apparently.

Upon refl ection, though, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what she said.

Should I be surprised? We live in a soci-ety where when life gets tough, we lower the bar. In January, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) released new guidelines for physical activity, which actually reduced the minimum recommended amount of daily exercise required for both adults and children.

Old recommendations suggested adults

get 30 minutes of moderate-rigorous physical activity per day and children get 90 minutes per day. The new recom-mendation is 150 minutes per week for adults (or just over 20 minutes per day), and a minimum of 60 minutes per day for children.

The sad fact is that just seven per cent of Canadian children and 15 per cent of adults are meeting the new, lower require-ments. Even sadder is that universities, the CSEP, Health Canada, and others are trying to sell the new guidelines as an improvement over the old ones.

Among the half dozen or so reasons justifying the new guidelines, the most laughable was that “the inactivity crisis deserves up-to-date guidelines.” Yes, I suppose it does. But if the goal is to get Canadians healthier, fi tter, shouldn’t those guidelines be more rigorous? Ap-parently not.

The justifi cation behind the dumb-ing down of our exercise regime goes something as follows: If the recommenda-tions make exercise seem too diffi cult, it will discourage people from engaging in physical activity at all.

I don’t get it. We have an obesity epi-demic in this country. We’re all getting fatter. Children are fatter. Adults are fatter. Even our pets our fatter. (I noticed my cat was looking pear-shaped the other day). But do we tax junk food? No. Do we cut off the cable television? No. Do we establish morning marching and stretch-ing? No. Here in Canada, to combat the obesity epidemic, we reduce the daily recommendations for physical exercise.

Like the kindergarten teacher who put away the abacus mid-February, the establishment has hidden the old recom-mendations away in the cupboard in the hopes that a soft approach will reap big-ger rewards.

I’m not a betting woman, but if I were, I’d wager we’ll all still be sitting on our butts this time mid-winter. The only dif-ference is that this time next year we’ll be able to use the new recommendations to justify our sedentary lives, because, well, we don’t want to get too far ahead of the rest of them.

Dumbing it downBRYNNA LESLIE

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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTION

What should the city’s stance on new gaming tables at Rideau Carleton Raceway be?

A) Gambling is a great source of revenue. The city shoud take advantage.

B) There’s already too many outlets for gamblers – we don’t need any more.

C) We should only allow it if there are suffi cient addiction programs in place.

D) It would only add to the traffi c woes on Albion Road.

LAST WEEK’S POLL SUMMARY

What does the SuperEx’s 2011 hiatus mean to you?

A) Nothing. I never went to it anyway.

B) I’m worried when it does come back, it won’t be the same.

C) I’m looking forward to it coming back better than ever in 2012.

D) I’ll really miss it. The fair was an annual family tradition

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Agencies have to keep up with volunteer needs

EMMA JACKSON

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In Ottawa’s complex volun-teering sector, agencies never stop struggling to bring volun-teers into their organizations – but it’s not always for a lack of willing people.

According to Keenan Wellar, executive staff leader at the in-tellectual disabilities support charity Live Work Play, often the biggest barriers to recruiting volunteers come from the agen-cies themselves, who he said are often unwilling to embrace new technologies and new methods to reach out to various demo-graphics.

“I think many agencies are using the same or very similar recruitment methods and of-fering same opportunities that they have for years and years, and then they’re surprised when volunteers with different inter-ests and ways of communicat-ing aren’t knocking down their doors,” Wellar said, noting that the rise of social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter are among some of the most use-ful – and ignored – methods of recruitment.

“Some people don’t under-stand that social media is part of your overall communications strategy,” he said. “It is a tre-mendous benefi t to us, there’s no better market. You can’t pay to have someone speaking from the heart like that, giving those little microtestimonials (online). And of course their contacts will look to that.”

Wellar said the worst thing an

agency can do is use an overarch-ing ad calling for general volun-teers. He said men especially need ads that give job-specifi c details, so that they know exact-ly what they’re getting into.

“The open-ended appeal is dif-fi cult, there are these extreme demands on volunteers and they have to slot out their interests very carefully,” he said. “They are very wary of going through the process and then being ex-pected to commit to more or something different than they had in mind.”

Citizen Advocacy, which matches volunteers to residents with disabilities who need some company or help with errands, makes a huge effort to personal-ize its advertisements through online databases such as Volun-

teer Ottawa. “What seems to be working for

us is really trying to target more specifi c groups. Instead of a gen-eral ad saying ‘we’re looking for volunteers’, we’re actually creat-ing a story about somebody spe-cifi c,” said Hilary Albers, who co-ordinates volunteers for Citi-zen Advocacy. “Something like, ‘Tim really likes sports and cars, and he’s more comfortable hang-ing out in his apartment but he’d like someone to come spend time with him.’ I think that way you can attract people who can relate to that person. I think having a more personal approach is al-ways very helpful and meaning-ful.”

When it comes to Facebook and Twitter, however, Albers

said those tools are great for some agencies but are not one-size-fi ts-all, especially for the type of volunteer Citizen Advo-cacy is looking for.

“I think a lot of the demo-graphics that we’re gearing to-ward might not be your typical Facebooker or tech-savvy per-son. Maybe the younger crowd and students for sure, but older prospective volunteers don’t use that tool, and a lot of our proté-gés (clients) don’t use that as a tool,” she explained, noting that the agency is busy enough with-out maintaining Facebook and Twitter pages.

“To ask someone to maintain a Facebook page, it’s almost like a full time job. You have to commit to it, you have to have something

new and exciting to say, you have to draw people to it. That is a job in itself,” she said.

Wellar said he doesn’t under-stand the “old-school” mentality that often rejects new tools like Facebook, but he said an even bigger barrier for agencies is their level of bureaucracy.

“The number one complaint we hear is that the process was a turn-off,” he said. “It’s great to go online and have a Facebook page or email, but if you don’t have anyone monitoring it, that’s ter-rible. If it was days before I got a response, I would think, ‘Do I really want to get involved with this agency?’”

Citizen Advocacy’s process is certainly lengthy, involving an information session, a two-hour personal interview, a reference check and a police record check, but Albers said it’s absolutely necessary.

“We take the time to get to know our prospective volunteer advocates, we want our matches to be successful and long term. We’re looking for people who can commit to at least a year if not longer. It’s about developing relationships,” she said.

The common element seems to be that every agency is differ-ent, but that they need to keep up with changing trends and be able to adapt to meet their vol-unteers’ needs, said Omaima Faris, the volunteer co-ordinator for the Ottawa Community Im-migrant Services Organization (OCISO).

“It’s really hard for the agen-cies, but you really have to be creative and fl exible to go with the fl ow with the volunteers, be-cause we need them,” she said. “They may need us for some pieces, but essentially we need them for our services.”

Flexibility and quick response times key to recruiting, agency says

Photo by Emma JacksonTargeting specifi c groups rather than using general calls for help dur-ing volunteer recruiting drives seems to work well for Citizen Advo-cacy, said volunteer co-ordinator Hilary Albers. ‘I think having a more personal approach is always very helpful and meaningful.’

Photo submittedAccording to Keenan Wellar, ex-ecutive staff leader at Live Work Play, volunteer agencies need to take advantage of social media such as Facebook and Twitter to give their recruiting efforts a boost.

KRISTY WALLACE

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Every second Saturday from the beginning of November to the end of March, Janice Gray can be found helping more than 100 people at Parkdale United Church.

Many are among Ottawa’s poorest, who need a meal once their social assistance has been spent. Some are lonely. Others want a safe space where they can have a hot meal served to them on a cold day.

“They don’t have to go through a lineup and fi nd a place to sit,” she said. “They get seated with their friends and they’re served. There’s a little bit of dignity to it.”

No matter what the guests’ reasons are for coming, Gray has overseen the In From the Cold program at the church since its inception eight years ago.

“First I used to come in for food preparation,” remembers Gray in the church’s spacious basement kitchen.

Now, she coordinates the 60 volunteers each week and helps out throughout the day – wheth-er it’s taking the garbage out or helping people up and down the stairs who might have walking problems and need scooters.

Gray started as a secretary at the church, so she had a chance to see the In From the Cold take off and she knew she wanted to get involved.

“You really feel good after you’ve done this,” she said. “People are so appreciative and you get far more than you give when you’re volunteering. It’s just a wonderful feeling to be able to help people in need.”

Gray oversees and organizes people involved in the kitchen work, sign-in table – even securi-ty people who volunteer watch-ing the doors for two hours at a time.

She said if it wasn’t for volun-teers and donors, the program wouldn’t be what it is today.

Gray added that visitors who come for a hot meal come from all over the city, not just the sur-rounding neighbourhoods.

During the bus strike in early 2009, she said the church had

about half the guests they usu-ally do.

“They come from all over the city, and they were so sorry they couldn’t come,” Gray said. She added the In From the Cold pro-gram is a team effort and volun-teers as far as the Vernon United Church come and lend a hand.

She said the people who are mostly served include single men who might not have any-where else to go.

“They’re by themselves,” Gray explained. “They might have a hot plate or a stove, but they love to come in here and have this hot meal and be around happy people talking and laughing.”

Even though the program will be wrapping up at the end

of March, Gray said it’s not too soon to sign up for next year.

For more information, call the Parkdale United Church of-fi ce at 613-728-8656.

Photo by Kristy WallaceJanice Gray, a volunteer for the In From the Cold program at Parkdale United Church, enjoys her helping out during the cold months of the year.

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KRISTY WALLACE

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Feminism might sometimes be known as the F-word, according to Erin Wil-liams, director of the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women, but it doesn’t have to be a bad word.

In fact her organization is co-hosting an upcoming event in honour of Interna-tional Women’s Day on March 8 called I’m Not a Feminist, But . . . , a title that pokes fun at how people understand feminism.

“We understand that there can some-times be a hesitation towards feminism. But what’s important is not necessar-ily the word,” said Williams. “Let’s stop focusing on the word and focus more on what it means – which is equality.”

I’m Not a Feminist, But . . . will be held at Library and Archives Canada on March 8. The day also marks the 100th an-niversary of International Women’s Day celebrations around the world.

Williams said it’s the third year the event has run at Library and Archives, and it helps make feminism fun and rel-evant to women and men in the commu-nity.

The event highlights women’s achieve-ments in Ottawa through its annual Femmy Awards. In addition, it allows lo-cal, national and international feminist agencies to share and network with each other.

“It’s important that we celebrate the successes we’ve had as women and cele-brate each other in a positive space,” said Williams. “And, we need to bring to light things we still need to achieve.”

One of the major issues that Williams said women are still facing is violence.

For example the Aboriginal communi-

ty still faces issues with missing women, she said.

Williams added that women are still fi ghting battles with pay equity, child care, housing and access to education.

“The list is long,” she said. “The sta-tistics cut across all demographics, but there are women who are at a higher risk due to marginalization.”

She added that getting men involved and educated is also important.

The reasons women might not come forward after a sexual assault might be because they feel shame and stigma, Wil-liams said, and they might feel they are to blame for what happened.

“We need to bring men into the conver-sation so they can speak out and debunk these kinds of myths,” Williams said.

While these issues won’t be directly discussed at the event, Williams said she hopes men and women will become more informed on what feminism really is at the event.

It’s going to be a fun event, she said, and will be a fantastic opportunity for partici-pants to have a good time while network-ing with different agencies.

Past participants have enjoyed the event because it was approachable and fun – and it even included free on site child care.

“It’s really important to build bridges on a common ground, and humour can be a common ground,” Williams said. “We’re hoping that women and men will come out. We’re trying to get Ottawa more open and aware of its achievements.”

I’m Not a Feminist, But . . . will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Library and Ar-chives Canada on March 8.

For more information visit OCTE-VAW’s website at www.octevaw-cocvff.ca

Feminism event speaks to both men, women: group

Photo by Kristy WallaceErin Williams, director of the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women, says both men and women are invited to the upcoming I’m Not a Feminist, But . . . event for International Women’s Day on March 8.

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WHEEEEEEE LOVE WINTER!Maggie Grills, 2, enjoys some time on the slides at the Hampton Iona Community Group’s winter carnival held at Iona Park on Feb. 27.

From left, Wendy Atkin, Hailey Findlay, 3, and Terry Findlay kept warm by the fi re set up behind the hockey rink at Iona Park.

From left, Judith Shane and Mary Dalton, both members of the Hamp-ton Iona Community Group’s board, took some time at the winter car-nival handing out hot chocolate.

Residents young and old came out to enjoy a game of hockey at the Iona Park skating rink during the Hampton Iona Community winter carnival.


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ple concerns with the plan.First, he said initially there were talks

of the plan costing $6 million.However, Hobbs said she’s confi dent the

plan will get approval and that the budget is seeking $200,000 in funding for 2011.

There will be additional funding re-quests in future years, Hobbs said, so it will be implemented more gradually.

Ludington also has concerns because the plan is built around the projected Westboro population in 2021 – which he says is the population now.

“With the number of units being built and the amount of vehicular traffi c, we’re there today,” he said. “We’re seeing a lot of cut-through traffi c.”

Hobbs said there will be aspects of the 15-year plan done more immediately than others – like the bike lanes – which will create a noticeable change in Westboro.

“When you look at 2021, that’s when it will all be completed,” she said. “But there will be a lot going on in the next few years that will enhance the whole travel-ing experience.”

Overall, Hobbs and the community are in agreement that the plan was needed for Westboro where the community is now a destination for people in Ottawa.

The plan wouldn’t have worked 10 years ago, said Hobbs, when Westboro was a far different neighbourhood than it is today.

“I hope that more people will visit on

bikes,” said Hobbs of her hopes for the new plan. “It’s a wonderful area to walk through. We want to keep the street inter-esting and comfortable.”

Ludington agrees that the new trans-portation plan will benefi t Westboro.

“It is long overdue and it’s a step in the right direction,” he said.

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WALKING • Increasing the number of sidewalks, especially around transit stations • Installing pedestrian countdown signals • Investigating a new multi-use pathway connecting Richmond Road with the Dominion Transitway Station

CYCLING • Adding weather-protected bike racks • Introducing on-road shared use lanes and bicycle lanes • Improving the pathway connection along Scott Street at the Westboro Transitway Station

TRANSIT: • Adjusting the space between bus stops • Introducing additional bus shelters • Investigating additional queue jump bus lanes • Deferring a decision on an additional transit station on the river parkway until the Western LRT Corridor Environmental Assessment study is complete

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KRISTY WALLACE

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Jenna Ladd, a 23-year-old liv-ing in Westboro, was the young-est Canadian to run the Boston Marathon last year and as a vi-sual arts graduate and physical trainer, Ladd she has proven to be a young woman who can do it all.

She’s run a number mara-thons throughout her life and this year she plans to raise the bar again when she’ll be run-ning in Hamilton to raise funds to help lymphoma patients.

On the side, she sells portraits she paints for extra cash and works as a physical trainer – while also fi nding time to spend with her friends and boyfriend.

“I’ve been blessed to work in places that promote balance in your life, and it really is impor-tant to fi nd balance,” Ladd said. “I’m very, very fond of my cal-endar and I schedule in every-thing.”

She said the secret to achiev-ing as much as she does is put-ting a plan in place and creating a schedule that’s reasonable.

Ladd has always been a run-ner, and said she’s been running since she learned to walk.

Endurance was always some-thing she could handle very well, and she spent her years in school running cross country and track and fi eld.

She taught one of her room-mates, Heather Kelly, the art of endurance when they were liv-ing together.

“I’m defi nitely not as strong as Jenna,” Kelly laughed. “She’s

huge into the long distance, but I just wanted to complete a 10 ki-lometre race.”

Ladd entered her fi rst mara-thon in third year university and immediately became ad-dicted to it.

“It’s the best feeling. Complet-ing a marathon feels indescrib-able,” Ladd said.

“It’s like a drug and you just

need to do it again. The feeling of completion is overwhelm-ing.”

Ladd started training compet-itively and was discovered by an international coach while train-ing in a track in fi eld centre in Toronto.

The Westboro woman ran the Boston Marathon last year and said it was a unique experience.

“That was the best race I’ve ever had. I had a ton of sup-port,” Ladd said, adding that she felt lucky to run the famous marathon at such a young age when many runners make it a lifetime goal.

This year, Ladd will be com-peting in a marathon in Chicago and a 30 kilometre race that ben-efi ts lymphoma in Hamilton.

She’s very close with her boyfriend’s family and when his father developed lymphoma, she knew she wanted to use her talents to help.

Her grandfather also died of leukemia, and she knew the cause was a perfect fi t.

“I recommend everybody try running a marathon for a cause,” Ladd said. “You’re run-ning to save lives.”

She hopes to raise $2,000, but someday would like to get a

team together and raise $20,000 to $30,000.

When she’s not running, Ladd is also a trained artist – painting mostly portraits of people.

She said that’s been one activ-ity she took part in before she ran.

“I was very foreign in my art classes,” she laughed. “I’d come in from a run and start paint-ing.”

Ladd said no matter what she’s doing to fi ll her busy life, she hopes she continues to love doing what she’s doing.

“I never want to end up not feeling like it’s a chore,” she said.

Kelly added that one thing she’d like people to know about her friend is that she’s dedi-cated and always has a smile on her face – even after running a marathon.

“When I lived with her, she’d get up at 5 a.m. to train and run and by 7 a.m. she’d make our house breakfast and head off to school,” said Kelly. “She’s so dedicated and she’s so encour-aging.”

To help Ladd in her upcoming run for lymphoma, information can be found at www.fl ashfi t-ness.blogspot.com

Photo by Kristy WallaceJenna Ladd is only 23, but the Westboro resident has accomplished a lot – ranging from the artistic world to the athletic world. The athlete and artist was the youngest Canadian to run the Boston Marathon last year, and this year she’s running to help lymphoma patients.

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Ottawa athletes brought home a pile of medals – includ-ing eight gold – from the second week of Canada Winter Games competition in Nova Scotia.

Leading the way was para cross-country skier Margarita Gorbounova, who won each of her women’s standing events to capture three gold in total.

Jimmy Pintea was a double-gold medallist in table tennis, helping Ontario to a men’s team title and earning the mixed doubles title as well. Shannon Zheng also won a medal in the table tennis competition as she prevailed in fi ve sets over Que-bec to take women’s doubles bronze.

Quincy Korte-King, profi led in the Feb. 25 edition of Ottawa This Week, made good on her

wish to land atop the podium as she claimed gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe competition.

Lisa Nasu-Yu, who fi nished second in pre-novice at Skate Canada’s Eastern & Western Challenge earlier this year, bested the Challenge champion to grab gold in the women’s sin-gles fi gure skating competition at the Canada Games, while ice dancers Samantha Glavine and Jeff Hough won silver.

Joseph Rogers prevailed in a three-set men’s singles match to help Ontario edge B.C. 3-2 in the badminton team event fi nal and capture gold.

Kelly Moore was a double-medallist in alpine skiing, plac-ing second in the women’s sla-lom event and third in the super combined.

More than 2,700 athletes com-peted in 20 sports from Feb. 11-27 at this year’s Canada Winter

Games, which are held every four years.

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS ADVANCE THROUGH PLAYOFFS

The Ashbury Colts upset Gar-neau to advance to the national capital ‘A/AA’ boys’ contact hockey championship series against fellow underdog St. Paul. The Colts edged Garneau 4-3 on Feb. 24 to advance to the best-of-three fi nal that will de-termine Ottawa’s representa-tive at OFSAA.

The Hillcrest Hawks fl exed their muscles in national capital ‘AAA/AAAA’ boys’ contact hock-ey play, dominating St. Peter 9-2 to win their semi-fi nal playoff match on Feb. 23. The Hawks will now face St. Joseph in the

best-of-three city championship series – an opponent they beat 6-1 during the regular season.

The St. Mark Lions will play for the national capital girls’ ‘A/AA’ championship thanks to their 5-1 playoff victory over Os-goode last week. The Lions will now take on the Louis-Riel Re-belles, who beat St. Mark 2-0 in the regular season, in the best-of-three league fi nal.

Both the Canterbury boys’ and girls’ curling teams moved into the semi-fi nal round of the national capital high school playoffs with quarter-fi nal vic-tories last week. The Canter-bury ladies, who went 7-1 in the regular season, downed St. Joseph 9-7, while the boys re-mained unbeaten by knocking off St. Pius 7-2.

Ottawa competitors bring home eight Canada Winter Games gold

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The Nepean-Kanata Barra-cudas and the Greater Ottawa Kingfi sh each won a gold medal at the 2011 Ontario junior short-course swimming champion-ships, hosted by NKB last week-end at the Nepean Sportsplex.

Liam Veregin of the Kingfi sh topped the 12-year-old boys’ fi eld in the 100-metre backstroke and also won silver in the 200-me-tre back, while the Barracudas

girls’ relay team of Josée Bar-rette, Jessica Yu, Janet Zhao and Madison Pulfer captured gold in the 400-metre freestyle race for 13- and 14-year-olds.

Other area medallists in-cluded Jacob Paduch (silver, 11 & under boys’ 50-metre breast-stroke), Meagan Michie (silver, girls’ 50-metre breaststroke) – both from GO Kingfi sh – and Barracudas swimmer Cattuong Le (bronze, 11-year-old girls’ 100-metre breaststroke).

NKB relay teams took bronze in the girls’ 11-12 200-metre med-ley, bronze in girls’ 15-17 200-me-tre medley, bronze in girls’ 13-14 400-metre medley and silver in girls’ 13-14 200-metre medley, while the GO boys’ relay team won bronze in the 14-15 200-me-tre medley.

Hundreds of the top youth swimmers from across Ontario kept the Sportsplex pool deck packed and buzzing throughout the Feb. 24-27 event.

Barracudas, Kingfi sh win Ontario swimming gold

Photos by Dan Plouffe

Photo submittedOttawa snowboarder Quincy Korte-King won gold in the women’s halfpipe at the recent Canada Winter Games in Nova Scotia.

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They went in as the youngest team to ever represent Ontario, and then skip Rachel Homan’s rink of Ottawa South’s Emma Miskew, Nepean’s Alison Kre-viazuk and Westboro’s Lisa Weagle became the youngest team to ever advance to the play-off round at last week’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Char-lottetown, PEI.

“(In contention for a national title) was right where we wanted to be,” says Weagle, who threw lead rocks for Ontario. “Our goal was to make it to the fi nals and then see what happens from there. Obviously we came up a little short, but I think we have a lot to be proud of this week. We turned some heads and I think surprised ourselves a little at how well we did.”

The Ottawa Curling Club la-dies were certainly the stars of the competition as they blasted out to a 5-0 start to sit atop the standings alongside the even-tual champions from Saskatch-ewan.

Team Homan completed the event with a 9-5 overall record, falling one win short of a na-tional podium position. Despite previously knocking off Nova Scotia in the 3-4 page playoff to earn a berth in the semi-fi nals, a new Scotties format called for Homan and co. to play their 14th match in nine days to defend their bronze medal position against the east coasters.

This time, Nova Scotia got the upper hand with a 9-7 victory, leaving the Scotties rookies with a fourth-place fi nish that was impressive nonetheless in their fi rst senior nationals ap-

pearance.The additional time on the ice

wasn’t the greatest gift for Wea-gle in particular since she bat-tled a shoulder injury all week and even had to be replaced by fi fth Sherry Middaugh for a game against Nova Scotia mid-way through the tournament.

“I certainly didn’t feel like I was 100 per cent, which was disappointing – you come this far and this isn’t something you want to happen when you’re at the Scotties,” Weagle laments. “It only bothered me when I was

sweeping, but with enough Ad-vil and adrenaline, I wasn’t feel-ing too bad during the games.”

Team Homan’s debut per-formance at the Scotties estab-lished once and for all that the youngsters truly are one of Can-ada’s top rinks despite their age, and also offered a positive sign as they chase after the country’s 2014 Olympic berth.

In front of a national audi-ence on TSN, the Ontario rep-resentatives showcased the changing face of women’s curl-ing with their big-weight shots

and evolutionary technique, all the while soaking up as much of the Scotties experience as possi-ble during the Feb. 19-27 event at the Charlottetown Civic Centre.

“It was everything I imagined and just so much more,” adds Weagle, a Nepean High School grad.

“It’s an incredible atmosphere and the people in PEI were just so amazing and such good hosts. To be able to play on the ice here in an arena on TV is just an absolute dream-come-true for me.”

Weagle was the newest mem-ber of Team Homan, asked to join the rink this season since former lead Lynn Kreviazuk, Alison’s sister, was still eligible to compete at the junior level.

The 25-year-old previously played in the Ontario champion-ships in both junior and senior, but hadn’t been curling as much as she focused on building her professional career in recent years.

“It’s been a really, really in-credible experience. I think it’s going to be really diffi cult to go back to real life next week,” laughs Weagle, who works in Heritage Canada’s communica-tions department. “At this time last year, I wasn’t curling com-petitively, so for me to be at the Scotties is just a huge accom-plishment.”

Team Homan fi nishes fourth in Scotties debut

BY DAN PLOUFFE

When Camp Fortune hosts the OFSAA snowboard festival on Friday, March 4, it will mark the fi rst time the event is held outside southern Ontario and represents an opportunity for Ottawa to play a little catch-up in the snowboarding game, says a Team Ontario coach at the re-cent Canada Winter Games.

“It’s a really cool event,” states Ottawa’s Cassandra Smith, who is assisting the OFSAA organiz-ers from Arnprior District High School. “This is really the op-portunity for these kids around here to have an event in their own location to show what they can do. The kids are getting ex-cited for the fact that it’s going to be here.”

Lisgar’s Rachael Penman will

lead the contingent of Ottawa riders at OFSAA, having posted the fastest time – out of girls and boys – on the giant slalom courses at last week’s national capital championships.

Penman will be joined by her fellow national capital gold-med-allist Lisgar girls’ teammates for OFSAA, along with the sec-ond- and third-place schools, Sa-cred Heart and All Saints.

Sacred Heart also qualifi ed the city’s top boys’ squad for OF-SAA, along with Glebe and All Saints, while individuals that will compete include Tara Hoff-man (from Sir Robert Borden), Emma Wolna (Glebe), Alexan-dria Roy (Woodroffe), Jeremy Bissett (Sir Robert Borden), Os-car Dziewiecke (Mother Teresa) and Mark Adams (Lisgar).

Naturally, the young riders

will be stoked for the chance to showcase their talents, but the event could also serve as an im-portant building block for the capital region that doesn’t seem to have very developed programs in the view of Smith, a Merivale High School grad who recently moved back home after coach-ing in Alberta for a decade.

“From everyone I’ve talked to at the local ski hills and the snowboard shops, it sounds like we’re really sort of breaking the ice around here,” Smith ex-plains. “With Ottawa the size it is and the number of facilities there are, we should be able to have athletes that are on the junior national team and look-ing towards snowboarding ca-reers. In fi ve or 10 years’ time, we should be able to build that community.”

To achieve that goal, the na-tionally-accredited coach is cur-rently working with the high schools to increase interest in their snowboarding programs, develop more coaches and let the riders know about other op-portunities to train and compete in events outside of the scholas-tic loop.

Plus she’s also created her own club, called the Akademy snowboard team, which will be holding a March break camp at Calabogie Peaks.

“Being a part of a program helps you develop in steps,” notes Smith, adding that try-ing new things alone is also an important part of snowboard-ing culture that must be main-tained. “Also, someone else can take a look at what you’re doing and give you educated and expe-

rienced advice on the next direc-tion to take to try things out.”

For snowboarding to grow in Ottawa, Smith believes that the high school circuit will need to build towards the provincial team, which will involve raising awareness of the opportunities available for youth through the Association of Ontario Snow-boarders.

“There are so many high schools that have snowboard teams and have some really talented athletes, but the a lot of the kids haven’t really got to experience the broad spectrum of events that they could be go-ing to,” Smith adds. “OFSAA’s an awesome experience for the kids, and I think in a couple years, we’ll start seeing that some of the top kids have come from the high school circuit.”

Local OFSAA event offers chance for snowboarding growth in region

Submitted PhotoA Nepean High School grad, Lisa Weagle wasn’t curling competi-tively this time last year, as she was spending time concentrat-ing on her career. The 25-year-old works in the communications department at Heritage Canada.

File photoLisa Weagle, second from right, Alison Kreviazuk, third from right, and the Team Homan Ottawa Curling Club rink were seen across the country on TSN quite frequently as the Scotties Tournament of Hearts rook-ies impressed in their debut at the national championship.

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They didn’t have to travel since it was their own associa-tion hosting the tournament, but all three Ottawa Ice teams made a trip to heartbreak hotel with some crushing losses this past weekend during the Ontar-io ‘AA’ ringette championships at the Jim Durrell Complex and Nepean Sportsplex.

The disappointing fate wasn’t new for the Junior under-16 Ice – the same group that came up short two years ago when they were ranked No. 2 in the prov-ince.

This time, the sting was even stronger as silver-medallist Wa-terloo handed Ottawa a 5-4 over-time loss in the division semi-fi nals, followed by an 8-7 defeat to Nepean in the bronze medal game.

Christie Kellam led the way offensively with 10 goals and 10 assists for the Ice, who earned a 5-1 record in the preliminary round.

For Ottawa’s Belle U19 squad, their heartbreak came in a tie-breaker mini-game to decide which team would advance to the playoff round after ending up in a three-way tie for the fi -

nal spot with a 5-1 preliminary-round record. Nepean skated off with a 1-0 overtime victory in that contest and went on to win the bronze.

The Tween U14 Ice drew praise from the gold medal-win-ning Pickering-Ajax club as the best team they faced this season,

but Ottawa didn’t get the wins to match, dropping close contests in all four of their defeats to go beside two victories.

“We had some tough losses,” acknowledges Ice Tween coach Jenna McBride, herself a rin-gette national team player. “We hit a lot of posts and struggled

to put the ring in the net. We have some disappointed ladies, but it’s provincials, so it’s a fun experience for them.

“Some of them, it was their fi rst time playing in overtime at provincials, so it’s a learning experience about how to handle that situation.”

Despite the disappointing results against the province’s best, McBride was proud to see her team improve all season long and compete hard at the Ontario championships.

“The girls really played their hearts and souls out,” notes Mc-Bride, who enjoyed having the

tournament in Ottawa so that a bigger crowd of family and friends had the chance to come out and watch. “They’ve all con-tributed and worked so hard this season.”

It was an intense schedule for each of the 36 teams that com-peted in the three divisions with at least two games a day for the fi rst three preliminary-round days of the Feb. 24-27 tourna-ment.

That was especially true for McBride’s assistant coach, Lane MacAdam, whose daughters Laurel, Kirsten and Kali played on the Ice Tween, Junior and Belle squads respectively. It means an awful lot of time at the rink for the family, but non-stop ringette suits them just fi ne.

“I think this sport is alive and well,” MacAdam adds. “People think that we’re losing players to hockey, but I think we’ve kept the numbers. When people see the game for the fi rst time, they realize how fast and exciting a sport it can be.”

Pickering beat Waterloo to win the Tween championship, while Whitby bested Waterloo in Junior and St. Clements was dominant in Belle to also fi nish ahead of Waterloo.

Ottawa Ice shut out at home ringette provincials

Photo by Dan PlouffeThe Ottawa Ice battled hard but couldn’t quite make it onto the pro-vincial podium as they hosted the Ontario ‘AA’ ringette champion-ships last weekend.

‘The girls really played their hearts and souls out. They’ve all contributed and worked so hard this season.’

Jenna McBride

Ice U14 coach


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• MARCH 4 Trivia Night fundraiser at Lisgar Collegiate from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Adults admission is $8 and students are $5. Light refreshments included. For more information contact [email protected] or 613-239-2696.

• MARCH 5:Christ Church Cathedral Girls’ Choir will perform Songs of Fervour in their second annual gala concert and silent auction.With an eclectic selection of works by Baldassare Galuppi, Eric Whitacre, and Timothy Piper, and featured guest soloist Julie Nesrallah, this will be the choir’s major concert this year. The event takes place at Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the silent auction and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. The silent auction contin-ues during intermission, and a cash wine/soft drinks bar will be available. For more information about the choir and the concert, visit the website: http://www.calendarwiz.com/calen-dars/popup.php?op=view&id=36479892&crd=christchurchcathedralottawa

• MARCH 5

By the Book, a used bookstore and cafe operated by the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Associa-tion (FOPLA), is holding its monthly half-price book sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 363 Lorry Greenberg Drive. Drop by for great buys on hundreds of books – most of them under $2.

• MARCH 6Concert-in-the-Glebe is pleased to present Trio Tourmaline, sopranos Joyce Lundberg and Sylvia Larrass with Scott Richardson, on bass and keyboard. Selections by Byrd, Pal-estrina, Purcell, Monteverdi and oth-ers will be included in the concert entitled Sacred and Profane: Renais-sance and Baroque. The concert will take place at 2:30 p.m. in Glebe St. James United Church, 650 Lyon St. at First Ave. Admission is $15, and $10 for students and seniors. Admission by donation is always welcome. For more information, contact the church at 613-236-0617 or visit www.glebestjames.ca

• MARCH 6 The Jazz Vespers Concert featuring Mike Tremblay and Mark Ferguson. A performance that’s sure to please! Join us at All Saints/First United church for an inspirational, spirit-fi lled performance with readings, refl ections and uplifting music. All

are welcome. Doors open at 4:00, service starts at 4:30. Free will offer-ing at the door. 347 Richmond Rd., Westboro 613-725-9487.

• MARCH 6The Ching Hua Chinese Language School will be start a new course, Mandarin for adults, starting March 6, 2011. Classes will run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The weekly classes will focus on conversational (beginners) Mandarin and will run until June 11. The 10-week course costs $50 per student. Classes will be held at St. Anthony School, 391 Booth St. For information, email [email protected]

• FEBRUARY AND MARCHMPP Bob Chiarelli will be hosting “How to Get Your Money Back” information sessions for seniors throughout Ottawa West-Nepean. Make sure that you receive all of the rebates and credits you’re entitled to! For the session closest to you, please call 613-721-8075.

• MARCH 10The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary meets at 1:30 pm on the second Thurs-day of each month at the Parkdale United Church, 429 Parkdale Avenue (between Wellington Street and Glad-stone Avenue). Please call Diane Bartlett-Fraser at

613-836-1492 for more information. New members are welcomeThe Auxiliary raises money to help the animals at the Ottawa Humane shel-ter and has a very active craft group.

• MARCH 14-18March Break children’s programs at the Alta Vista Library. Call 613-737-2837 to register. Rock and roll radio: Learn how to make and record a radio ad with CKCU, Ottawa’s community radio station. Ages 6-12. Monday, March 14, 10 a.m. (90 min.)Snip!Snap! What is that?: What can you make with paper and scissors? Stories, facts, videos and crafts. Ages 6-12. (Bilingual) Tuesday, March 15, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.).Rock out with Billings Estate: Discover why paleontology rocks this March Break! Did you know that Billings Estate was home to Canada’s fi rst offi cial paleontologist? Explore some of Elkanah Billings’ fi ndings, learn about fossils and make your own to take home. Ages 6-12. (Bilingual) Tuesday, March 15, 2 p.m. (45 min.) Fold it right there: Origami work-shop. Ages 6-12. Wednesday, March 16, 10:30 a.m. (45 min.)Rubber powered paper airplanes:Make a free fl ying model airplane out of balsa wood and paper. It can

fl y up to two football fi elds. Ages 9-12. Wednesday , March 16 , 2 p.m. (90 min.)Paper caper: Paper crafts and paper fun. Ages 6-12. Thursday, March 17, 2 p.m. (60 min.) Stone soup: Stories, rhymes and songs. Family program. Friday, March 18, 2 p.m. (45 min.)

APRIL 5: Westboro Nursery School registra-tion is now open for the 2011/12 school year and spaces are fi lling up quickly. Westboro Nursery School (in the Dovercourt Recreation Center) will be hosting an open house for all new families and prospective fami-lies from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The school offers both morning and afternoon programs for children two and a half to four years-old. For more informa-tion, please visit: www.westboron-urseryschool.ca

APRIL 9: Y’s Owl Maclure Cooperative Centre is hosting a fundraising event at the Hampton Inn. The event features an evening of fi ne food, ballroom dancing and demonstrations by local dance instructors. Tickets cost $75 per person and there are advance sales only. For more information, contact Sue at 613-737-3268 or Hugh at 613 - 721-1500.

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STAYING IN TIMEMembers of the Nepean High School senior concert band were among 3,000 elementry and secondary students who took part in the Capital Region Music Festival at Earl of March Secondary School in Kanata from Feb. 24 to 27.

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