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Officer in trainingFour-year-old Ottawa resident Ayrianna Beatty tries out a police cruiser thats just her size at a Police Week event in the Toys R Us parking lot in Nepean on May 11. The event kicked off Police Week, which featured members of the traffic, escort, marine, canine and emergency services units of the Ottawa police as well as members of the OPP, RCMP and military police.

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When Kidney Foundation staff chose May 14 to hold the eastern on-tario chapters annual general meeting,

they didnt know they were marking the 55th anniversary of the first kidney transplant in the commonwealth.

But when several key players from the historic surgery started to show up at southminster United church to take

part in the meeting, a buzz began to grow.

dr. John dossetor, a canadian phy-sician and kidney expert who co-ordi-nated that first transplant from McGill University in Montreal, attended the

meeting with his wife. he was joined by Nola Johnson, who

donated her kidney to her twin sister Moira on May 14, 1958 when she was just 15 years old making canadian and kidney research history.

its strange that this (coincidence) would happen, Johnson said.

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eMc news - Fourteen years ago, a girl named rachel scott was sitting on the grass out front of her school when two boys approached her and shot her five times. she didnt know it at the time, but her life and death would help create a posi-tive chain reaction all the way to ottawa.

scott died on the grass in front of columbine high school on april 20, 1999. she was the first of 13 students killed during the massacre.

a popular and friendly girl, scott always reached out to other students and friends in need, but it was not until her death that her influence on her town, her country and now the world has spread all the way to the students at two schools in ottawa.

Before she died, scott had written an essay on how people should treat other people. her father found her writing and deciding to share it with the world, creating rachels chal-lenge, a program about how to stop bullying.

ridgemont high school teacher, toula Makris heard

about the program and decided scotts message was important to share with her students and the students at another local school, rideau high school.

i thought it was a really im-portant to bring this message to the kids, Makris said.

and the kids have been so impacted by this presenta-tion.

Kristy Krings of rachels challenge came to both schools during the week of May 13 to tell scotts story and to present the anti-bullying program.

right now in your schools, in your community, there are people who are going through things and a simple act of kind-ness can change that, Krings said.

the program is about five challenges: change how you feel about others, dream big and write down those dreams, choose positive influences, speak with kindness, and re-mind those you love how spe-cial they are.

the challenges are simple at heart and Krings explained this is why scott believed creating positive change in the world was possible.

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Notably, the library wants to know what it should stop doing not just new things it should take on.

The central questions posed in the online survey the first phase of the public engagement process ask what the library should continue do-ing, what should it start doing and what should it stop doing in the next five years.

We know that we are changing, said Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, chairwoman of the Ottawa Public Li-brary board.

We are not currently delivering library services in the best way, she said.

The campaign is online at imagine-opl-bpo.ca now and will be open for public comment until June 15. Those who participate will be eligible to win an iPad.

People can post ideas and vote on other peoples ideas. A day after the campaign launched the top idea, speed-dating for volunteer opportuni-ties, had already received almost 250 likes.

While discussing the possibility of closing library branches is politically unpopular, it might be time to re-open that debate, Harder said.

Do we continue to support and sustain our 33 branches and our Bookmobile? Harder said. Or do we look at other opportunities that people may suggest and they may say will serve them just as well.

Is that the best use of the taxpay-ers money? she added.

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Harder said shed like to see the libraries have more flexible space. She suggested putting the shelves on wheels so they could be moved around and the space repurposed to offer more programs.

So the space that youre using isnt necessarily a large amount, but it is vibrant, vital and mobile, Harder said.

Reducing the size of reference sec-tions and instead focusing on helping people find the information in new ways should also be a priority, Harder said.

Weve got a big job ahead of us. We do want to make sure were stay-ing relevant, she said.

Library chief executive officer Danielle MacDonald said she wanted to undertake the consultation pri-marily because it makes good sense to connect with our customers.

But the library also wants to hear from people who dont use the library about why, and what might make them begin accessing library services in person or online.

We know there are new oppor-tunities but we also know there are choices, MacDonald said.

The consultation will set the direc-tion for an update to the librarys stra-tegic plan that should take form early next year. It will be the first time the library has done a major overhaul of its master plan since the city amal-gamated.

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According to Makris and Ride-aus school guidance counselor, Wendy Lamble, the students react-ed well to the challenges.

Students you wouldnt think would even care were emotional and wiping away tears throughout the assembly, Makris said.

Between the two schools 200 students participated in the program and workshops. Krings said she couldnt believe how enthusiastic and how much the students at the school embraced the challenges.

I have rarely felt so welcome, but this community has been amaz-ing, the students have been amazing and I have had a great time working with the kids, she said.

Krings said Scotts message can reach out to all ages and the impor-tant thing to remember is anyone can change the world or make a positive impact on someone elses life. Scott, Krings explained was always reaching out to others and after she died, these individuals reached out to her family to tell how important their daughter was. It was these stories, Scotts writings, po-ems and drawings and the images from that horrific day at Columbine High that make up the presentation of Rachels Challenge.

Although the students who Krings presents to these days may have been very young or not even alive when the killings at Colum-bine took place, Krings said each student still manages to relate to the

story.For most students Columbine is

a big shock, they were babies when it happened, Krings said. But its a story about a real person and that is what I think resonates with them.

Lamble said her students will be taking what they learned in the workshops and applying it to school events, assemblies and other already-organized school clubs.

Im looking forward to seeing what the students do with what they learned, Lamble said.

Makris said she has already been encouraged by her students, who are already talking about holding a cupcakes for kindness bake sale and other little events to promote kindness in the school.

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MICHeLLe NASH/MetRoLANdToula Makris and Kristi Krings take a moment after a Rachels Challenge presentation at Ridgemont High School on May 14. An emotional Makris helped host members of Rachels Challenge so students, including some from Rideau High School, could participate in workshops to help promote anti-bullying and positive change.



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EMC news - While some on-lookers might only see marathon racers stretching their limbs be-fore the big race, there will be a group of nine men also stretching in preparation for a different kind of marathon.

During the Ottawa Race Week-end marathon, the Heritage Hands Ottawa Drum Club will be per-forming for a total of four hours on May 24 to encourage the more than 10,000 racers across the fin-ish line.

We will be drumming until every last runner or straggler has crossed the line, said Michel Monette, co-founder of the club. We wont leave until everyone else is gone.

Monette and longtime friend Charles St-Jean have been drum-ming most of their lives, starting together in the De La Salle Ca-

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In 1998, St-Jean brought some of the old drummers together for a reunion and since that meet-ing the group has been playing at shows and for fun in the Ottawa area.

Its passion and friendship that keep us together, St-Jean said.

The group average age is 60, which the men joke is why they will be stretching too before the marathon.

Its physically demanding, said Armand Vienneau, a drum-mer in the group. It can take a lot out of you.

The group performs both old historic military rhythms and new songs they composed together.

The only drumming club of its kind in Ottawa, members from all across the city come to play with the group.

Passionate about drumming, the club members say they per-form more for the enjoyment than for money these days, taking gigs where they can get them.

Its the rush, Monette said. The group used to play before

football games at Lansdowne Park and said they loved perform-ing in front large crowds, but say their most enjoyable audience members are children.

They just surround us when we play, Vienneau said.

Even though there are nine members in the group, the men say they are always looking for more experienced drummers to join.

We are not getting any young-er, St-Jean said.

The troop will be performing by the War Museum from 7 to 11 a.m. on May 24.

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MICHELLE NASH/METROLANDArmand Vienneau and Jean Pierre Huard drum a tune or two in preparation for the Ottawa Race Weekend. The two are in the Heritage Hands Ottawa Drum Club, who will be performing during the marathon race on May 24.

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EMC news - The Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre has announced it is a recipient of a $5,000 grant through the Youth and Philanthropy Initia-tive.

The YPI is the signature program of the Toskan Casale Foundation, which engages thousands of schools and students worldwide. The mission of the YPI is to provide secondary school students a hands-on, reality-based experience.

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EMC news - The Manotick Farmers Market is growing faster than its vendors vegetables as it gears up for an expanded season in Dickinson Square.

The market opens on Saturday, June 1, three weeks earlier than last year, and will run every Sat-urday until Thanksgiving week-end.

New vendors are setting up shop, including a bakery and sev-eral local meat producers.

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who owns Carmel Farms south of Manotick, said the market has a long list of community activities planned for the season.

Were trying to have some-thing happen every weekend, he said.

Whether its an event run by Watsons Mill - such as the Manotick art show in June - or market-run activities like a horse-drawn wagon, Mussell said theres always more than fresh food available.

Each week the market will of-fer a free community tent, where non-profit groups can promote their organization and reach out to visitors. The market will also feature a different product each week.

On July 6 the market will of-fer free horse-drawn wagon rides around the square. On August 10, an Authors Day will invite local writers to promote their books. Hockey expert Liam Maguire is already confirmed, Mussell said.

Mussell said he is still looking for local entertainers to do some busking in the park as well.

Osgoode resident Christina Leese, who owns the Hot Potato Co. food truck which offers local, gourmet baked potatoes, said the market will start its season on an exciting foot as it takes part in the Dickinson Days parade on Fri-day, May 31.

Im excited; it should be lots of fun, she said.

The market will be open from

8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 1 to tie in with Dickinson Days, the villages annual community cel-ebration.

Regular market hours will re-turn on June 8, when the market will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Leeses company participates in several farmers markets around the city, but she said Manoticks market is special.

Its a very healthy, vibrant market, she said, adding that she loves how local everything is. Literally the source of my food is all around me. I cant think of a nicer place to park (my truck).

For more information visit www.manotickfarmersmarket.com.

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Moira became ill in March, and Dossetor knew she was experiencing renal failure.

At the time, transplants could only be done between identical twins - and it was only by chance that the girls mother mentioned Moira did indeed have a twin.

We had to test to prove we were identical, remembered Johnson, who volunteered her kidney as soon as she knew a transplant was a possibility. It was just a week before they determined there could be an operation.

But it wasnt so simple. Be-cause the girls were minors, they had to face a family court judge to determine if they were able to consent to donate and receive kidneys. By the time the judge had given his ap-proval, it was May.

Though the operation had never been done in Canada or anywhere else in the Com-monwealth, Johnson said her mother didnt want to go to the United States where the doc-tors had more experience.

She had faith in the doc-tors, Johnson said.

With good reason. The transplant was successful, and Moira lived for 29 years with Johnsons kidney.

It worked out quite well, Dossetor said. She gave her sister 29 years of life.

Since the sisters shared so many genes, Johnsons donat-

ed kidney eventually became diseased, and Moira was on di-alysis for several years before she died from breast cancer in 1987. Johnson also has kidney disease in her remaining kid-ney, but is not yet on dialysis.

Still, Johnson said shes aware how remarkable her story still is 55 years later.

We knew it was impor-tant, she said.

Early prEvEntion

Teach kids how to lead a healthy lifestyle and well pre-vent a lot of kidney disease.

This was the message from Ottawa Hospital kidney expert Dr. Shiv Jindal, who spoke at the AGM.

It was the first time the foun-dation invited several speakers to address current issues in the

field. Jindal spoke passionately

about the need for prevention at a very young age, before any risk factors for kidney disease have even set in.

We should not be talking about organ failure, because its too late, he told the audi-ence of about 40 people. We should be talking about vascu-lar health, which is the com-mon link.

Jindal said genes and factors like gender and ethnicity play a minor role in kidney disease. While the genes are there, its our lifestyle choices that cause them to develop kidney dis-ease, he said.

Avoiding unhealthy hab-its from the outset is crucial, Jindal said, and parents and educators must play a key role in making sure children are eating well, getting enough exercise and learning how to lead a healthy lifestyle in the future.

When bad habits are al-lowed to continue, blood ves-sels are damaged and we dont even know it, Jindal explained. The damage occurs across the entire body. There are no tests to prove it, and as the damage gets worse it then starts to ef-fect organs.

By the time the organs are damaged, there is little we can do to reverse the problem, Jindal said.

And the problem is getting worse. Kidney disease has tripled in recent years, Jindal said, and in Ottawa there are 200 new patients each year.

About 1,000 Ottawa resi-

dents are on some sort of di-alysis, and another 550 attend the hospitals progressive renal insufficiency (PRI) clinic. Be-tween 150 and 175 residents are waiting for a new kidney.

Jindal said he would like to see a small pilot project in Ottawa that teaches families and educators what a healthy lifestyle actually looks like, and how to promote that with children.

Despite all our marketing, all our publicity, nothing is working, Jindal said. Maybe we have to take a different ap-proach.

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Despite the new format, the foundation still found time to celebrate its volunteers and success stories from the past year.

Manotick resident David Presley received an excellence award for his door-knocking campaign during the founda-tions annual March Drive. Presleys wife Lyn accepted the award of his behalf, as David is currently recovering from his kidney transplant at the end of April.

Unfortunately he cant be here, but fortunately he cant be here, Lyn quipped as she thanked fellow volunteers for their support as David recov-ers.

The Presleys waited five years for a kidney transplant, and the news of an available kidney came out of the blue on April 29 after a weekend at the Alive to Strive fundraising run

in support of the foundation. He went into surgery about

12 hours later, and by early Tuesday morning was in re-covery.

It has been a long five years leading up to this, Lyn wrote in an email to her supporters that day. Our thoughts and extreme gratitude is very much with the donor family who, in their time of grief made the de-cision to give life to others.

Stittsville teacher Marianne Graham was recognized for her infectious enthusiasm as she and her family raised $12,000 for the foundation at a community event last year. Graham donated her kidney to her husband Bill six years ago.

Frank Fenn and Lucie Du-guay from the Carlingwood Mall received the Rabbi Re-uven P. Bulka award for an event they held at the west-end mall in February, where they signed up 300 new people to be organ donors. A former staff member had needed a kidney transplant, and Fenn and Du-guay decided to support him with their fundraiser. Along with signing up 300 new do-nors, they also raised about $5,000 for the foundation.

Linda and Marcel Mon-cion, who own the Your Inde-pendent Grocer in Riverside South, were also recognized for outstanding support of the foundation.

Manotick News reporter Emma Jackson accepted an award for EMC Metrolands ongoing coverage of organ do-nation issues.

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EMMA JACKSON/METROLANDlinda Moncion, left, with her husband Marcel Moncion and Kidney Foundation volunteer lyn presley, show off their awards from the Eastern ontario chapters annual general meeting on May 14. the Moncions were recognized for their ongoing support of the Kidney Foundation as own-ers of the independent grocery store in riverside South. presley accepted an excellence award on behalf of her hus-band David, who is recovering from a kidney transplant operation.

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This time of year the news media, searching for ways to make hockey playoffs meaningful to the non-hockey population, focus on the fans, big crowds of them in matching colours, shaking towels in matching colours, yelling, dancing, or as in Toronto looking sud-denly suicidal.

The cameras prowl around the city looking for hockey fans being interesting which is to say, noisy and excited. Naturally, the cameras fi nd the public areas where noisy and excited people gather. In Ottawa, that would be the so-called Red Mile downtown. People with painted faces and colourful costumes are there. Along the Red Mile, and its equivalent in other cities, the cameras enter the bars, where people are all too happy to wave and shout and chant and look like newsworthy fans.

But there are other, less newsworthy fans in our city. Perhaps they are the majority. Fortunately for them, the cameras do not seek them out.

For these fans their fanaticism is private. They stay out of the public places. Their faces remain unpainted and they wear their normal clothes. Yet in their own way, they are making the adjustment to playoff mode.

This requires changes in their behaviour patterns. Dinner, instead of being at the usual time, now must be earlier, to be over in time for the game. Or it must become a different kind of dinner, in order to be eaten off the lap in front of the TV set. Or it must be so late as to be verging on fashionable.

Social life becomes more complicated. A dinner party scheduled weeks ago suddenly is found to coincide with the game. It cant be shifted: that would be rude. So calculations have to be made. Are the guests fans? Would they mind eating at 5:30, before the game? Would they mind eating at 10 p.m., after the game? Can they persuaded to eat Chinese food off their laps, in front of the TV, with chopsticks?

And if the guests are not hockey fans?

There are people in the world who think about other things and are oblivious to what happens on the ice. They want to talk about Syria. How many times can you sneak away from the conversation during dinner to check the score? And what will be your excuse stirring the dessert, making the coffee, a sudden nosebleed, another sudden nosebleed?

And how to explain to your guests the sudden elation/depression you feel around 10 p.m? Depression could be Syria, I suppose.

Another trial facing the private fan has to do with his/her children/grandchildren. They can scarcely be shielded from the fanaticism that is all around them. But they cant be allowed to stay up until 10 on a school night either. As a consequence, a small but signifi -cant proportion of the fan base only sees the fi rst period.

But even that one period has its own chal-lenges. The commercials have to be muted which leads to the spectacle of silent video game monsters and Justin Trudeau in his un-dershirt. Further, a quick escape strategy has to be plotted to divert impressionable young eyes away from the fi ghts. Quick: Weather Network! goes the cry whenever the gloves are dropped.

In some games, the children see more low

pressure systems than slapshots. They must wonder why people paint their faces for this.

Even among private fans, the pressure builds, the anguish and the ecstasy, the groans and cheers, and the tough part, at the end of it, is to explain to the children and grand-children of private fans that its only a game, that you shouldnt be mad at your team, you shouldnt hate the other team and life goes on, win or lose.

While youre doing that, the screen fi lls with all the grieving painted faces in one city and all the hysterically happy painted faces in the other. Quick: Weather Network!

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Time to confront concussions

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The death of a Barrhaven teen after sustain-ing a severe head injury during a rugby game last week has highlighted the need for more education about concussions and brain injuries.

Rowan Stringer, 17, a John McCrae Secondary School student and the captain of her school rugby team, was tackled hard and hit her head and neck on the ground during a game on May 14.

According to comments from her parents, Rowan had suffered two head injuries the week leading up to her fatal injury.

The fi rst time, she told her parents and took a pain reliever, the second time she only told her friends about the injury.

We dont know if these were concussions, but the family has authorized an autopsy to fi nd out the fac-tors leading to her death.

Ottawas public school board is now taking a hard look at its safety policies to see if they can be improved and make sure players arent playing with injuries. But we cant place the onus on just the coaches its impossible for them to monitor every single hit. All of us parents, family members, fellow players, properly armed with the knowledge about the dangers of head injuries can help prevent

athletes playing with concussions.The president of the Brain Injury Association of

Canada has suggested, during an interview with the media, that Rowan might still be alive today if there was better awareness among coaches, players and the general public about the dangers of repeated concus-sions.

The danger of suffering an injury, ranging from bumps and bruises to broken bones and head injuries, is a fact of life for all athletes. Nothing will change that. But athletes properly educated about the dangers of head injuries, can intelligently decide whether or not they are fi t to participate in a game or competi-tion.

A big part of the problem is athletes dont want to report head injuries because theyre afraid they will miss games. Education is a universal cure for poor decision making and a key component for preventing and treating sports-related concussions.

Schools and sports associations should provide coaches, players and parents with the training and knowledge to both identify and treat concussions and head injuries. Research shows that if an athlete takes a hit to the head and suffers headaches afterwards, they may have suffered a concussion.

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What women really wantTHIS WEEKS POLL QUESTION: Should the death of a young rugby player force schools to take a second look at athletic safety in Ottawa?

A) Yes. It is an oppotunity for teachers, coaches, par-ents and students to learn more about head injuries.

B) Yes. Hazardous sports like football, rugby and hockey have no place in the school system.

C) No. The teens death was a isolated incident and isnt an indication of a wider problem.

D) Do we really need another reason to turn young people away from physical activity?

PREVIOUS POLL SUMMARY:Do you think a Senators playoff run helps to raise community spirit in Ottawa?

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EMC news - An effort to strike a balance between protecting commu-nity character and maintaining prop-erty owners rights in Old Ottawa South will set the stage for zoning reviews across the city.

The fi rst two projects for the citys new zoning consistency team will be used as a test case to set the direction for a review of infi ll homes in the citys urban neigh-bourhoods, set to kick off next month, said city planner Alain Miguelez, the program manager of intensifi cation and zoning.

In Old Ottawa South, a conten-tious plan to rezone a property at 9 Rosedale Ave. sparked a need to look at what types of buildings should be allowed to be constructed along the Rideau Canal between Bank Street and Bronson Avenue.

Infi ll is now a signifi cant trend and a happy predicament for the city, Miguelez said. The zoning reviews for Colonel By Drive and a second pilot project review of three proper-ties on Greenbank Road will help the citys planning department frame how it tackles the issues on a larg-er scale as part of the Phase 2 infi ll

study, Miguelez said.When it comes to Colonel By, a

planning consultant found it wouldnt do much good to downzone the area to allow less density or fewer types of homes.

Instead, a planning consultant hired by the city is recommend-ing keeping the zoning but adding a height limit and a restrictive heri-tage overlay, which requires homes to be built in a compatible manner if they are demolished or destroyed by something like fi re.

Its the same type of tool used to guide homebuilding on the other side of the canal, on Queen Elizabeth Drive.

Height limits would drop from 11 metres to nine metres, which would still allow for a three-storey home, said Nancy Meloshe, the planning consultant the city hired for the proj-ect. Only three of the existing 39 homes along that stretch are taller than nine metres.

The mix of housing styles is something residents really value, and a couple people wanted to ensure the new restrictions wouldnt prevent the construction of homes in modern ar-chitectural styles.

Miguelez said keeping the more lenient zoning will allow the area

to become home to more residents, which aligns with the citys intensi-fi cation goals, while encouraging the existing homes and the neighbour-hood character to be retained.

It would be a disservice to those big old homes to not allow them to change with the times, Miguelez said.

The R3 zone allows for homes to be converted to contain up to four dwellings, up to 10 residents in a group home or retirement home, a duplex, townhome or semi-detached dwelling, a home-based business or diplomatic mission.

Residents who live in the homes along the stretch said they are less concerned about whether people live in townhomes or semi-detached dwellings and more concerned about the height of the homes and ensuring their scale is compatible with neigh-bouring dwellings.

It also means any additions to homes would have to be in the rear of the house and smaller in scale, so they arent visible from the street.

That concerned a couple of resi-dents, including Wallace Dowswell, who added that overall he was hap-py.

This will reduce the incentive to demolish and rebuild, he said. Were allowing change, but con-trolled change.

Changing the zoning for the area would also be a bad idea because it would mean several of the homes would no longer conform to the ar-eas zoning something the city calls non-conforming rights. The city tries to avoid that because it creates a tangled mess for homeowners to ac-quire insurance if the home is sold to a new owner and can therefore make homes diffi cult to sell.

There is one additional restric-tion that would apply to three or four properties that have lots larger than 40 metres deep. Those property own-ers would face a restriction aimed at limiting how far back into the lot and therefore how large a home or addition could be.

The Colonel By and Greenbank zoning consistency changes will be presented to the citys planning com-mittee for approval on June 25.

The changes will be accompanied by a related but smaller review of three properties in Knoxdale-Meri-vale Ward: 171, 173 and 175 Green-bank Rd.

That review was initiated following

the approval of a zoning amendment for 149-153 Greenbank Rd. to per-mit the construction of a fi ve-storey apartment building comprising 61 units.

Meloshe found that the properties are ripe for more intense develop-ment and is recommending boosting the building height limit from 10 m to 15 m, prohibiting a few uses in-cluding community centre or a drive-through and increasing the size of the backyard. The property owners are in agreement and Meloshe expects them to bring forward a plan for a retirement residence.

Miguelez said what his team learned during the Colonel By zon-ing discussion could be applied to a broader swath of Old Ottawa South. That could come up during Phase 2 of the citys small-scale infi ll homes review, which is getting underway this month and will be the topic of a public meeting in June.

But Meloshe said the homes along Colonel By are distinct from the rest of the neighbourhood.

It struck us as interesting that the properties along Colonel By are dif-ferent in terms of the character of the houses, the stateliness of the houses and the size of the properties, she said.

Targeted rezonings appease communitiesCitys fi rst zoning consistency projects set the stage for broader infi ll review

FILEA rezoning to allow this homes off Colonel By Drive in Old Ottawa South to be replaced with a larger house kicked off a review of the areas zoning.



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DianeDeans

Councillor/ConseillreQuartier Gloucester-Southgate Ward

Wake Up! Get a working smoke alarm rebate coupons available

Changes to the Ontario Fire Prevention Code came into effect on March 1. The new regulations require every house to have a working smoke detector on every floor including the basement. Smoke detectors more than 10 years old are required to be replaced under the changes.

The City of Ottawa has launched the Wake Up! Get a Working Smoke Alarm program to educate residents about the importance of having a working some alarm. As part of this, my office has been given a limited number of rebate coupons for Gloucester-Southgate residents who have recently purchased new smoke alarms. If you would like to receive a rebate coupon, please contact my office. They will be given out on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Civic Appreciation Awards nominations due Friday, March 31

Each year the City of Ottawa takes an evening during National Volunteer Week to celebrate and acknowledge some of the 225,000 plus volunteers who work so hard in our community. This years ceremony will be held on May 3 at City Hall.

Sixteen awards will be handed out including three Citizen of the Year awards, the Brian Kilrea Award for outstanding contribution to amateur sport, and 12 Dis-tinguished Civic Awards in the categories of: arts and culture, recreation and sport, education, environment, health, heritage, humanitarianism, rural/agriculture and community activism.

Nomination forms are due by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 31. If you know a volunteer who has made an outstanding contribution to our community, I encourage you to nominate them for a Civic Appreciation Award. Nomination forms are available at any Client Service Centre, Library, and Community Centre or online at Ottawa.ca

Development plans for the Blossom Park Shopping Centre

I have received information on a proposed site plan for the Blossom Park Shopping Centre, at the corner of Bank Street and Queensdale Avenue. The applicant is proposing to build two new buildings at the centre, one to house a bank and the other a drug store. The pro-posal also includes an additional 100 parking spaces. If you would like more information on this proposed site plan please contact my office directly.

Launched DianeDeans.ca!

I am very pleased to announce the launch of DianeDeans.ca. My web site can provide you with more information on the latest events and priorities in our community, and my work on your behalf at City Hall. It will be updated regularly, to ensure you have the most current information. If you have suggestions of what you would like to see on the site, please drop me a line.

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Councillor/ConseillreQuartier Gloucester-Southgate Ward

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3100 Conroy Road Open House Reminder!

I would like remind all Gloucester-Southgate residents about the Open House I will be hosting on Saturday May 25, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at 3100 Conroy Road (located on the west side of Conroy Road at Thurston Drive) to celebrate the newly constructed City of Ottawa Operations Yard. The Open House will offer residents a great opportunity to have an inside look at how the City manages seasonal operations, ask questions of City staff and tour the facility. There will be City vehicles parked on display for residents to explore and children will be permitted to sit on both winter and summer vehicles. I invite you all to attend and enjoy some complimentary light refreshments and small bags of compost, while quantities last. I look forward to seeing you on May 25th, 2013.

Doors Open Ottawa on June 1st and 2nd.

The doors of Ottawas most interesting buildings will be unlocked, giving the public the rare opportunity to look behind doors and into spaces not normally open for exploration. This is a great weekend to get out with the family and take a look at some of the buildings that make our city unique. In Gloucester-Southgate Ward, the Sri Sathya Sai Spiritual Centre of Ottawa-Carleton located at 1694 Hunt Club Road (at Sable Ridge Drive) will be open on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and the Ottawa Paramedic Headquarters at 2465 Don Reid Drive will be open on Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free. For a full list of locations, please visit www.ottawa.ca/doorsopen.

Imagine the Library you want! Join the discussion!

2013 marks a year of transformation for the Ottawa Public Library and they are looking for your help! The Library is inviting library users to provide their input by participating in their Online Ideas Campaign! The Ottawa Public Library will embark upon the first phase of consultation related to its Library of the Future Project and the development of a renewed strategic plan. Based on the overarching theme Imagine, the online ideas campaign will run from May 15 to June 15 and will solicit opinions and comments from citizens on the vision of the future for the Library. This will allow the Library to continue to deliver relevant, efficient and equitable services that meet its customers needs. The campaign is based on 5 themes: Learning, Leisure, Community Development, Creation and Celebration. By joining the discussion residents will also be entered into a draw for an iPad! The ideas campaign website is accessible from the Librarys website at: www.biblioottawalibrary.ca or directly at: www.imagine-opl-bpo.ca. For more information please email [email protected] or call 613-580-2496.

Voting is now open for Apps4Ottawa contest

The City of Ottawa is committed to improving citizen engagement and enhancing transparency and one way they are doing this is by providing public access to their data. Developers have created a variety of apps in four categories; On the Move, Having Fun, Your City, and Data Analysis and Visualizations and now its your turn to take part! Residents are invited to visit http://apps4ottawa.ca to view and vote on their favourite

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