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LITTLE RAY’S BIG REPTILESFearless kids stopped by Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo on Bank Street in Ottawa South on March 14 to hang out with some not-so-furry reptilian friends, including Sunny the python, on the fi rst day of March Break. The zoo will be visiting several day camps throughout the week and will be open regular hours.
UNWANTED DRIVERSCity councillors are asking driving schools to steer clear of the Ridge-mont neighbourhood near the Walkley Road DriveTest Centre.
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POCKET CHANGEStudents and teachers at Holy Family are digging deep into their pockets to create a coin line that will bring clean water to African villagers.
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LAURA MUELLER
Twenty-one gaming tables are one step closer to coming to Rideau-Carleton Race-way as part of a two-year pilot project, after city council endorsed the plan which now heads to the provincial regulator for fi nal approval.
But the decision wasn’t without contro-versy, as some city councillors said the pro-posal was being pushed through without a full understanding of the impacts.
During a council meeting on March 10, Knoxdale-Mervivale Coun. Keith Egli wanted to delay a vote on the matter until the city’s medial offi cer of health, Dr. Esra Levy, could give council a report on the po-tential health impact of the move.
He received support from David Cher-nushenko, Diane Deans and Diane Holmes, but the majority of councillors wanted to get on with the vote.
Chernushenko, councillor for Capital Ward, said there are both fi nancial and hu-man costs to gambling.
“I would like to have more facts not just about the revenues, but what would be the cost to the city in terms of health, addiction.”
Levy agreed it might be useful for council-lors to have more information about health concerns, but Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais said Levy had enough time to bring a report to council on the issue if he thought it was necessary, and he did not.
Other councillors said the province al-ready funds resources to help people with gambling addiction.
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Rural Ottawa residents will see an extra 2.4 per cent (about $60 for an average home) tacked onto their tax bill this year.
City council made quick work of its budget on March 8, pass-ing the budget in about four hours with few changes.
After the budget passed, coun-cillors broke out in a standing ovation for Mayor Jim Watson, whose fi rst budget met his elec-tion commitment to keep the tax increase under 2.5 per cent.
Some councillors, such a Rideau-Rockliffe’s Peter Clark, weren’t happy with the congeni-ality around the council horse-shoe and said there should have been more debate.
“If we are going to start out the process with, ‘Thou shalt approve this budget,’ we don’t need all this discussion,” Clark said.
Most of the discussion on the budget happened during com-mittee meetings that have been
taking place since the draft bud-get was tabled in January. Those discussions led to a few tweaks before council voted on it last week.
The water and sewer rate is also going up 3.9 per cent, or about $24 for an average house-hold.
Last year’s tax increase was 3.77 per cent, and it was 4.9 for the two years before that to catch up from the 0.3 per cent increase in the fi rst year of the previous council’s term.
Councillors sped through each of the budgets for com-mittees such as environment and community and protective services. Council had already passed the operating budget before a handful of councillors (Rainer Bloess, Bob Monette and Doug Thompson) raised their hands to object to portions of the transit budget.
There was some discussion surrounding the perceived ben-efi t of purchasing 75 double-decker buses for OC Transpo. Some councillors, including
Monette (Orleans) suggested the money could be better spent to prevent route cutbacks. But Alain Mercier, the head of OC Transpo, said the ongoing sav-ings from the buses, which are cheaper to run and maintain, will pay off in the long run.
The move is expected to save the city $10 million a year by 2015.
Some councillors bemoaned the lack of investment in roads and sidewalks in their wards. The city is spending about $30 million on infrastructure re-newal in 2011, but it should be spending more than twice that amount in order to replace ag-ing infrastructure, said Wayne Newell, general manager of in-frastructure services.
Councillors did vote to add the election rebate program back into the budget for a year so city staff can study the impact the program has before deciding whether to axe it or keep it.
The program reimburses peo-ple who make contributions of $50 or more to municipal elec-tion candidates.
Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt wants to stream-line the budget process. He introduced a motion asking
council to consider developing multi-year budgets. The city treasurer’s offi ce will study that possibility, and council’s gover-nance renewal subcommittee will debate it, likely in the fall. Coun. Stephen Blais (Cumber-
land) also introduced a motion aimed at changing the budget process to adopt a “balanced scorecard” approach. That in-voles comparing the city’s pri-orities to its spending in differ-ent areas.
Taxes going up 2.4 per cent for rural residentsNews
Councillors congratulate themselveson passing the budget
File photoCouncillors sped through the budget deliberations on March 8, pass-ing the budget in just four hours with a 2.4 per cent tax increase for rural residents and a 2.45 per cent increase for urban residents.
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A last-minute move to keep snowmo-bilers off the Osgoode Pathway didn’t get any traction at city hall on March 10.
Innes Ward Coun. Rainer Bloess tried to revive Coun. Diane Deans’ attempt to allow only non-motorized recreation on a section of the path that runs through Osgoode Village.
Deans, who represents neighbouring Gloucester-Southgate Ward, tried to get councillors to approve a similar request at last week’s joint transportation, agri-culture and rural affairs committee meet-ing, but councillors rejected the idea.
“I believe our facilities should be dedi-
cated for use of active recreation only, we shouldn’t be creating those confl icts,” Deans said, referring to potential clashes or danger created by having skiers and pedestrians on the same path as snowmo-biles.
Capital Ward Coun. David Chernush-enko agreed, saying, “The unintended consequence is that (allowing snowmo-biles) actually drives away the kinds of users that we’re looking for – active rec-reation.”
The 21-kilometre pathway runs south from Leitrim to Buckles Street in Os-goode. The small section of the path that runs through Osgoode Village from Main Street to Buckles Street backs onto about 60 homes, whose residents were angry
about the possibility of hearing snow-mobiles between the 6 a.m. to midnight curfew.
“The curfew is more generous than the city’s noise bylaw is for any other thing, so that doesn’t seem reasonable,” said Karen Wallace-Graner, one of the Os-goode residents living along the path who has spearheaded the fi ght against allow-ing snowmobiles. “Residents still have to deal with the public nuisance. No one’s going to be out here at 2 a.m. enforcing that no snowmobile’s on there. No one’s going to be enforcing the speed limit, or that they have a snowmobile younger than 1996,” she said, referencing some of the snowmobiling conditions outlined in the approved policy.
But those residents will have to put up with the nuisance, as city council voted 17-6 to allow snowmobiles on the path.
The city received about 3,000 comments in total regarding the policy. There were also two petitions: one opposing motor-ized vehicles on the pathways (mainly in Osgoode) that garnered 690 signatures, and a petition with 1,574 signatures sup-porting the use of snowmobiles on the paths.
Snowmobiles have been allowed on the Osgoode path for the past two years as part of a pilot project. The pathway is part of the 187 km of trails the Osgoode-Carleton Snowmobile Club maintains in the area, which are used by its 700 mem-bers and open to residents.
Snowmobilers allowed on Osgoode Pathway
KRISTY WALLACE
Ottawa women now have a chance to get better breast cancer detection thanks to new breast can-cer equipment at the Ottawa Hospital.
“(This new equipment) lets our radiologist see more,” said Guy Morency, director of medical im-aging at the Otttawa Hospital. “This technology lets us get the best quality we possibly can.”
The hospital received more than $100,000 from TELUS’ Go Pink Campaign, which donated $25 from every pink Blackberry sold across Canada for new digital mammography machines in regional hos-pitals. The campaign started last May and raised more than $2.45 million nationally.
“I know from personal experience the wait for a new test after an inconclusive result from an older style analog machine can be agonizing,” said Jill Scharr, vice-president of TELUS community af-fairs. “Digital technology would have allowed the radiologist to get a better look the fi rst time.”
Scharr said the new equipment will be able to de-tect smaller tumors, saving lives and taxpayer dollars by reducing re-testing caused by inconclusive tests.
There are currently two mammography ma-chines at the Civic Hospital and one at the General Campus. Two more will be arriving shortly at the Riverside Campus.
Morency said these machines will also help re-duce wait times. The Civic Hospital sees 21,000 pa-tients per year from all age groups.
“The digital mammography machine allows our staff to process four cases per hour, up from three with the traditional mammogram X-rays,” Moren-cy said.
Geoff Doherty, a radiologist with the Ottawa Hos-pital, said the new machines have a much crisper image than the traditional mammogram.
The X-rays from the new machines look kind of like a high-defi nition television compared to the older machines, he said.
“We can fi nd smaller cancers in diffi cult-to-read dense breasts,” Doherty said.
According to the Ottawa Hospital Foundation, traditional mammogram X-rays do not penetrate dense breast tissue – so it’s harder to fi nd tumours. The new digital equipment generates magnifi ed images of breast tissue.
“This partnership with TELUS will continue to allow us to provide patient care with state-of-the-art equipment,” said Morency.
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City council has moved to ban driving schools from using a residential area near the Walk-ley Road DriveTest centre, a de-cision that doesn’t sit well with either instructors or student drivers.
The motion, introduced by River Ward Coun. Maria McRae, looks to halt driving schools from practicing in an area that stretches from Bank Street to Albion Road and from Walkley Road to Kitchener Avenue.
“This is just not acceptable, how do they expect us to pass if we don’t practice?” said Sarah Khan, a student driver.
“This is going to affect many student drivers who might opt for a different location where they can practice.”
The Walkley Road DriveTest Centre sees approximately 40,000 road tests each year, and most of those drivers practice in the nearby neighbourhood at least one time before their test.
Area driving instructors, who were sent a notice from the city to stop driving in the area last month, have called the move unfortunate and say it will deny students the chance to master the route.
“It is very important for them to know the route,” said Wafi k Tawadrous, an instructor with
the Ottawa Driving School. “This will affect them and many will switch to other locations.”
This is defi nitely not good news to us or the students,” he added.
Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney inherited a similar ban in his ward, where driving schools have been barred from practicing with students near the Canotek Road DriveTest Centre since 2007.
Tierney said he hears com-plaints from residents about in-experienced drivers hitting cars as they perform complicated maneuvers as well as a higher-than-normal level of traffi c in the neighbourhood due to the driving schools.
But there aren’t enough bylaw offi cers out enforcing the ban, Tierney said.
“Unfortunately, I have heard there are quite a few driving schools – and I’ve been out re-minding driving schools – that they shouldn’t be driving around our local streets,” Tierney said, adding that he would like to see more enforcement of the local-traffi c provision this summer.
Linda Anderson, chief of bylaw and regulatory services for the City of Ottawa, said the ban in the Ridgemont area has been in the works since the city adopted restrictions for the Can-otek Road area.
“The ink wasn’t even dry
and I was starting to hear from Coun. McRae and Ridgemont residents,” said Anderson.
She said Ottawa is not unique in placing the bans – other cit-ies, such as Oakville, have simi-lar restrictions.
The city tried asking the driv-ing schools to voluntarily agree not to use the neighbourhood, but they didn’t want to co-oper-ate, Anderson said.
She said the province could help alleviate this problem by
having more DriveTest Centres and spreading the testing out across the city, so it wouldn’t be concentrated in certain neigh-bourhoods.
She said the city doesn’t have the resources to ensure there is a bylaw offi cer enforcing the ban on a consistent basis, but bylaw offi cers focus on times when driving schools are expected to be busy.
With fi les from Laura Mueller
Photo by Eddie RwemaInstructor Wafi k Tawadrous thinks the ban will force student drivers out of the Walkley Road DriveTest centre.
Council asks driving schools to steer clear of Ridgemont neighbourhood
EMMA JACKSON
The South Keys-Greenboro neigh-bourhood could enjoy another com-munity festival this summer thanks to the Bank Street Walmart.
Walmart plans to give the South Keys Greenboro Community Associa-tion (SKGCA) a chunk of change to-wards a new summer fest at the store’s grand re-opening on April 1.
Store manager Chad Messier con-fi rmed that the community associa-tion will receive $2,000 to put towards a community carnival this summer, in an effort to connect with the commu-nity Walmart serves.
“We’ve worked with the association in the past for their charitable events and other things. We’re trying to sup-port their efforts in the area, and we want to continue that partnership,” Messier said.
Community association president Marnie McKinstry said they will soon work out the details of the event,
which will likely be a carnival on a weekend in July or August.
“What we’re trying to do right now is get our name out and get people aware of what the association is doing and what it can do for them,” McKin-stry said. “We’re trying to do things that will get people out of their houses and out to have some fun.”
On Family Day in February the as-sociation hosted its inaugural winter festival at Pushman Park, which at-tracted hundreds of residents.
A total of $20,000 in donations will be handed out at the opening of Walmart, which has been under reno-vation while it gains a full fresh pro-duce and grocery section.
Other organizations set to receive funding include the Ottawa Food Bank, the Ottawa Humane Society and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Messier couldn’t confi rm whether any other local community groups would receive donations, but he said he welcomes any group to come and talk with him about opportunities.
Walmart gives community association some summer lovin’
EMMA JACKSON
Soccer-loving kids have less than a week to register for the 2011 soccer season through the South Keys-Green-boro Community Association.
The last chance for registration will take place March 23 at the Greenboro Community Centre located at 363 Lor-ry Greenberg Drive, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The South Keys soccer season lasts six weeks beginning May 16. Four to seven year olds will practice and play at Pushman Park on Pebble Drive. Four and fi ve year olds will play from 6 to 7:15 p.m. on Mondays and Wednes-days, and six and seven year olds will play from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Eight to 10-year-olds will play at Greenboro Park Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Fees for all ages are $45 for the season, which includes a team shirt, photo and a year-end barbeque, as well as a tournament.
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A development proposal in Deerfi eld Village near Bank Street and Lester Road has resi-dents worried as the city pon-ders whether to allow another 44 units into a developer’s 200-plus unit project in Ottawa South.
Phase two of Deerfi eld Village is under way on the east end of the Ottawa South neighbour-hood, where developer Valecraft has started prepping the site where it already has zoning ap-proval to develop 224 homes in the form of townhouses, lofts and low-rise multi-unit build-ings. Now, despite residents’ con-cerns about the development’s already high density, Valecraft is proposing to develop another 44 units on a section of green space at the northern end of the property, which was originally reserved for storm water man-agement.
Ron Gascoigne lives near the corner of Stedman Street and Meandering Brook Drive, kitty corner to the new develop-ment. He said he is concerned about the parking plan for the approved site and doesn’t want to see any density added in the
form of more units. “I would like them to not ap-
prove that zoning bylaw and build more parking spots in that area instead,” he said, looking out his window toward the half-cleared site. He’s mainly con-cerned about parking plans for the entire development, which has yet to have its site plan ap-proved by city council. “Most of the homes in here have two
cars because there’s no transit service. Now in there (the de-velopment) the ratio of park-ing spots to homes is less than two per household. So I’m con-cerned that they’re going to use our streets here and probably park on Lester and Meandering Brook,” Gascoigne said.
Residents met with Glouces-ter-Southgate councillor Diane Deans on March 2 to get an up-
date on how their concerns had been addressed since the last public meeting in June 2010. Gascoigne, who attended the meeting, noted that Valecraft has listened to many of their concerns to date.
One major issue was that only one entrance was planned for the new development, off Me-andering Brook close to Lester. Residents said this would cre-ate too much traffi c on the resi-dential street and would create an unsafe intersection turn-ing onto Lester. To appease the residents, Valecraft agreed to add a second entrance into the new neighbourhood directly off Lester Road on the east end of the property, which is already complete. Gascoigne said this concession was a pleasant sur-prise.
“They listened to us and they built one off of Lester. So that’s good,” he said, noting that the city will also likely add a west-bound right-turn lane onto Me-andering Brook from Lester.
One outstanding issue, how-ever, is the push for a traffi c light at Lester and Meander-ing Brook, which is currently in contention concerning who would put up the funds. Accord-
ing to provincial standards, de-velopers are on the hook for a traffi c light bill if the site plan deems it 100 per cent warranted. In this case, studies deemed it 98 per cent warranted.
“Theoretically they don’t have to pay for it, but practically they really should,” Deans said. “So the issue is does it go in at 98 per cent, and who pays for it?”
Despite some concessions for the neighbourhood Deans said she will still work hard to come to a compromise with the developer concerning the extra 44 units. Although the amount of units doesn’t seem like a lot compared to the 224 already ap-proved, Deans said it all adds up.
“It’s a cumulative impact. When the residents purchased their homes they looked over the community design plan and it showed a signifi cant amount of open space on that site. So what they’re really talking about it taking away that open space and developing it,” she said.
Deans said the rezoning appli-cation for the extra 44 units will likely go to planning commit-tee on March 29. If so, the city’s recommendation will have to be released prior to that.
Photo by Emma JacksonDeerfi eld Village resident Ron Gascoigne wants the city to reject Valecraft’s proposal to add 44 units to a 224-unit development in the Ottawa South neighbourhood. He argues the plan is too high density for the neighbourhood and will create a traffi c nightmare for resi-dents living in the old section.
Deerfi eld Village residents oppose 44-unit expansion
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LAURA MUELLER
As he ticked off the days re-maining until his 100th day in offi ce, Watson also had his pen ready to check off a few election promises he kept in this year’s budget.
The mayor says he keeps a binder of his 65-or-so election promises at his desk, he opens it once a week to check the prog-ress he has made on those prom-ises.
“I see those campaign com-mitments I made as my contract with the public,” Watson said. “They gave me my marching orders on Oct. 25 (election day) and they expect me to follow through on those promises.”
So far, he has knocked off about 15 of those promises in his fi rst budget.
The biggest one was keeping this year’s tax increase to 2.5 per cent. It’s a commitment he made for each of the four years of his term.
The fi rst year, Watson’s “hon-eymoon” budget, will stick out as the easiest, particularly be-cause the province took on the cost of some social programs, freeing up about $25 million for the city this year.
Under former mayor Larry O’Brien’s tenure, the tax hike was small in the fi rst year of the term, was double the rate of in-fl ation in the last three years of the term, owing to the fact past councils raided the city’s reserve funds to head off tax increases.
“The city went through a number of years of tax freezes, and guess what happens the following year? The taxes go
up above the rate of infl ation,” Watson said. “We saw that in the last council.”
Both councillors and citizens expressed their support for a 2.5 per cent increase, Watson said.
“They see that as a fi gure that allows us to grow as a city, and also that it’s in the rate of infl a-tion,” Watson said.
Still, the city will be spend-ing more this year than last year, especially on social hous-ing – Watson made a $14-million commitment to bolster funding – and freezing recreation fees, another campaign promise.
He said much of the new mon-ey the city is spending is due to new developments and growth.
“As new subdivisions open,
there are more roads to plow and sidewalks to plow,” he said. “If you go down to Riverside South, month to month you wouldn’t even recognize it because there are so many houses going up there. You see what’s happening in the east end. You see what’s happening in Kanata – these are huge developments that are tak-ing place … The populations are exploding there and we have to provide those services.”
There are also 75 kilometers of new roads for the city to maintain, not to mention new parks, and that is not possible without adding more staff, Wat-son said.
This year, the city will add a net amount of 295 new posi-
tions, including 45 fi refi ghters, 24 paramedics and 75 bus driv-ers who will help the city save money be reducing the amount of overtime drivers work.
“It’s mostly people on the front line providing services be-cause our city is growing,” Wat-son said.
While making appearances at events is usually an election tac-tic, Watson said he won’t be cut-ting back on public appearances now that the campaign – and his fi rst 100 days – is behind him.
“I don’t want to lose touch with the community and the quickest way to lose touch is to get engulfed in splendid iso-lation down here at city hall,” Watson said.
TRANSIT ISSUES LOOM
Watson checked the budget off his list of accomplishments in his fi rst 100 days in offi ce, but transit issues will likely occupy the next 100 days.
Contract talks with the city’s bus-driver union are set to be-gin soon.
On top of that, the city’s tran-sit commission will hear ideas to make the bus system more effi cient, including route cut-backs, as well as a new business plan for OC Transpo.
“For far too many years, the system has been micromanaged and cobbled together to the point where it is no longer fi nancially sustainable,” Watson said.
The debate could prove to be the most divisive yet for this congenial council.
“It’s going to be a challenging debate because it becomes very personal,” Watson said, with councillors defending individu-al routes in their wards that will affect their residents.
Transit is also on the mayor’s mind when it comes to the city’s planned $2.1-billion light rail system.
Keeping the costs within the budget, which is estimated in 2009 dollars, won’t be easy.
“I’ll be fully at ease when the tenders come in,” Watson said. “Until those fi gures come in, we can estimate as best we can, but the reality is it will be up to bid-ders to come up with a price.”
But Watson said he’s com-mitted to seeing the project through.
“Until we have the numbers nailed down, I am not going to be celebrating the start of the proj-ect. But I am very much commit-ted to getting on with this,” Wat-son said. “I certainly will view it as a failure on my part if we’re not able to get the transit system on light rail construction started during this term of council.”
Photo by Laura MuellerOttawa Mayor Jim Watson marked 100 days in offi ce on March 9.
Watson celebrates 100 days with fi rst budgetOttawa Mayor Jim Watson is
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BLUES SCHOOLMontreal blues musician Mike Browne (left) and Rwanda-born Ottawa R&B artist the Mighty PoPo (right) worked with grade four students at St. Mary’s Catho-lic School throughout the week of March 10 as part of Blues in the Schools, culminating in a concert on March 11 where the students showed off their new-found funk.Photo by Emma Jackson
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About 50 women from different back-grounds gathered at the Ottawa Chinese Community Centre on Kent Street to cel-ebrate International Women’s Day – and to hear inspiring stories of immigrant women’s success in Canada.
“It wasn’t long ago that women weren’t allowed to vote or be elected,” said Ol-ivia Chow, New Democratic Party MP for Trinity-Spadina. “The woman’s role was to stay home and care for children, which we can do well. But we can do oth-er things well too.”
Chow, who joined the event by telecon-ference as keynote speaker, told her sto-ry of coming to Canada from Hong Kong when she was 13 years old.
She spoke about her struggles as a new Canadian – from not knowing English to being so shy in front of people she sat in the back of the classroom at school.
Chow told the audience about how she went from a fi ne arts major to volunteer-ing in hospitals and schools – and seeing the struggles of immigrant women in the community.
“That’s why I became a member of Parliament,” Chow said. “So voices of immigrant women are heard and refl ect-ed.”
As she fi nished her speech, she left the audience with the message that they shouldn’t let people bring them down, and that they have the power to make a
difference.“It’s Canada – the land of equal oppor-
tunity,” Chow said. “I hope that this In-ternational Women’s Day, we collectively make a commitment that we will make the lives of our daughters, mothers, grandmothers and sisters better – and make the lives of all Canadians better.”
The day also welcomed fi ve other speakers including Barbara Clubb, chief executive offi cer of the Ottawa Public Library and city librarian; Raquel Pad-ua, a policy program offi cer for Citizen-ship and Immigration Canada; Amal Elamine, a language interpreter for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario;
entrepreneur Huiping Her and psycholo-gist Jean Ju.
Her, who has been awarded the Top 40 Under 40 award for her work in starting her own translation company, told the women about her challenges in fi nding employment after graduating with a master’s degree in English in 1997.
She became tearful when offering ad-vice to other immigrant women.
“I don’t want to tell people how to do it, but I see a lot of immigrants and they have the no-mans-land mentality because they’re stuck in the past,” Her said. “They think of what they had in their home country, and they’re thrown into this new country, this new place – and in their mind, they haven’t moved on or developed a determination.”
Ju reiterated Her’s message, and added it’s important for immigrants to get in-volved in the community and volunteer.
She said she remembers taking her six year-old daughter to the mall during the holidays where she would volunteer her time wrapping presents.
Her volunteerism rubbed off on both of her children, who now give back to the community through volunteer efforts.
Ju added that new Canadians – espe-cially women – shouldn’t feel inferior be-cause their English isn’t perfect.
“I had a professor who told me that people who can integrate into two cul-tures are more resilient,” she said. “Peo-ple who can handle two cultures well can be tougher and stronger.”
Chinese community celebrates successful immigrant womenCommunity
Photo by Kristy WallaceRaquel Padua, a policy program offi cer for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, spoke of her experiences as a new Canadian at the Ottawa Chinese Community Centre’s celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8.
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The weakest of all arguments is that we’re in the 21st century. You hear it all the time. Some-body makes a proposal. Some-
body else opposes. Then the supporters say to the opponents: “Don’t you know it’s the 21st century?”
Those of us who grew up in the 20th century remember the argument. It’s just been updated a bit.
There are provincial government pro-posals to loosen liquor laws at outdoor events. The police say they’re worried. The police are accused of not knowing it’s the 21st century.
The police have a feeling that drunken louts in the new century will closely resemble drunken louts in the previous one.
There is a proposal to put up some giant fl ashing billboard by the new convention centre, shining video and maybe, just maybe, advertising down on Rideau Canal skaters, tourists and dis-tracted motorists. “It’s the 21st century,” the proponents say, when others ask why we need to complicate the natural beauty of that part of the city with hu-mongous fl ashing pixels.
The canal, of course, was built in the 19th century, before such electronic miracles were possible. Skating on the
canal was brought to us in the 20th cen-tury by a man, NCC chairman Douglas Fullerton, who thought that the skating alone provided all the entertainment people would need. He was even critical of the early, non-electronic version of Winterlude, for putting entertainment on the ice to interfere with the skaters.
He would not want to be skating in the 21st century with that thing beaming pictures down on his head.
In the 21st century that we all rec-ognize it is possible to do all sorts of things that were not possible in the 20th. This does not, however, mean that we have to do them.
Take Twitter, for example. With Twit-ter, you can tell the entire world, more or less, what you think in 140 characters or less. On the day the great editor and writer Jim Travers died, tributes began
appearing on Twitter, little notes saying how much Travers was appreciated, how much he would be missed. It was kind of a tribal ritual, with virtually everyone on Parliament Hill and many people be-yond it, adding their abbreviated voices.
Travers, who loved to laugh, would have laughed. Here was this technologi-cal miracle and people, one after the other, were using it to write fi ve or 10 words saying, in effect, “I’m sad too.” It’s not that they weren’t sincere, it’s that this piece of 21st century technology trivialized their sincerity.
A few days later, a memorial gather-ing was held at the Ottawa Conference Centre – a railway station for much of the 20th century. Many of the same people came and many others, 500 in all, and they behaved in an old-technology way. They talked and they listened and they laughed and they cried and they hugged each other. There was more power and emotion in that gathering than in a billion tweets.
The 21st century gives us the choice. We can tweet or we can show up. Show-ing up still works best.
In Ottawa, the second-weakest of reasons for doing something is that the city’s image needs changing. People think Ottawa is dowdy, we are told by
proponents of giant electronic bill-boards. We need to show some more fl ash.
Well, do we really? What’s dowdy about Ottawa? We have, thanks to the NCC, no billboards along the Canal and the parkways. Most people don’t com-plain about that. Some rather like it.
What else don’t we have that other cit-ies do? We have restaurants and night-clubs and festivals and theatres and galleries and shopping centres. We can even put together a bit of a traffi c jam. We also have a few things that other cities don’t have, such as a relatively peaceful life and an ease of access to the countryside. Even in the 21st century, why should we be apologizing for that?
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Yes, it’s the 21st century-so what?
A test of endurance
The old adage “slow and steady wins the race” doesn’t seem to be something Ot-tawa Mayor Jim Watson buys into.
Ottawa’s mayor has blown through his fi rst 100 days in offi ce with nary a fl inch, and blew even faster through the city’s 2011 budget – in a mere four hours, with little protest from his fellow councillors applauding him from around the table.
He’s been spotted at what seems like every single community event in the city since inau-guration, popping into a Kanata school concert at 9 a.m. and showing up at an Orleans art show half an hour later, keeping a running commen-tary on Twitter all the while.
The question is, can he keep it up? Watson may not be a long distance runner, but
he could learn a lesson from one if he expects to keep up the pace heading out of his honeymoon stage and into the real work of mayoral mar-riage.
He’ll especially need a strong endurance strategy if he hopes to fast-forward the city’s light rail plans, getting the controversial project underway this term, as he told Ottawa This Week he plans to do.
In a noble effort to save the city some embar-rassment, Watson has supported several coun-cillors’ requests that city staff push the whole, painfully slow project ahead two years in order to avoid any clash with the 150-year anniversary of Confederation in 2017, instead of drawing out construction to 2019.
But skepticism for the light rail project runs as deep as the proposed tunnel under downtown and later this month Watson will likely face his toughest and longest battle yet to nail down the details of his transit plans for light rail and OC Transpo route cuts and amendments. He’ll also need some energy for OC Transpo contract talks beginning around the same time, which prom-ise to add some colour to his otherwise mono-chrome mayoral record so far.
And on top of all that, he still plans to run from one end of the city to the other attending the many community events he could be send-ing his deputies to. With a schedule like that, Watson risks burn-out or at least a damaging slip-up or two.
The moral, then, is a preventative one: slow down and take a breather, or risk losing the race entirely.
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If I’ve ever said anything critical or derogatory about public school teachers, I take it all back. Public school teachers are like nurses and people who work in homeless shelters. They are absolute saints, and whatever mistakes they make should be viewed in light of the dedication and service they provide to our society.
On a rare occasion recently, in celebration of La Francophonie, we were invited to my children’s school to play board games. We were there for one hour. I went in feeling happy and anticipating the positive opportunity the occasion would provide for me to connect with my sons’ classmates and peers. I left feeling like I should dash to the nearest spa and purchase each of the teachers, teaching assistants and student volunteers a full day of pamper-ing, every week for the rest of the year.
In the senior kindergarten class, the children were not all horrible. In fact, most of them were fi ne. Some were even interesting and amicable companions. But there were two that were not fi ne, and within 30 minutes those two threat-ened to push me over the edge. They were rude, they were disruptive, they lacked attention skills, they ruined the board game. And for all my eagerness to try to engage them, they had equal dissidence. Just when I thought I could
no longer stand it, my spouse appeared to relieve me from my duties.
And off I went to junior kindergar-ten. There, the kids were just so very needy. I’ve never seen so many boogies and tears and tantrums within the span of twenty minutes. Keeping in mind this was a day they’d been cooped up in the rain, with the added disruption of having parents in the classroom, I tried to feign sympathy and understanding. Really, I just wanted to get the hell out of there.
As much as the children made an impression on me, the teachers made an even greater one. They were unphased by what I can only describe as chaos which surrounded us. Moreover, they were able to take the chaos and turn it into something orderly and produc-tive. As if by magic, kids who had been picking their noses and throwing board game pieces across the room were trans-formed into polite students of poetry. In the other room, tears turned to laughter as the teacher incorporated the dramat-ic events of the day into a familiar song.
We have a tendency to rely too heav-ily on teachers, and we blame them for every ill in our society. Kids are fat? It’s the school’s fault. Kids disrespectful? School’s fault. Kids can’t read? It’s those darn teachers that just don’t know how to do their jobs.
Having come from a family of school teachers, I’ve probably been their big-gest critic.
But after what I saw the other day, my faith in the system is renewed. Far from failing us, I would argue that many of the public school teachers are miracle workers. If you don’t believe me, I dare you to go spend a day in the classroom in their shoes, and just see if you make it out alive.
BRYNNA LESLIE
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Don’t diss the teach
I didn’t raise any hockey players. My girls enjoy watching the game live with a bunch of friends, but none of them learned to play. My nephew, on the other hand, was probably handed a hockey stick and fi tted for skates as soon as he could walk.
My sister invited us to attend one of Riley’s hockey games the other night. I felt a little out of place, and noticed one or two people (high school classmates) looking at me as if they were wondering what the heck I was doing there. They probably thought I was there to take photos for the newspaper.
The Farmer and I had thought ahead, bringing our fake-fur blanket to sit on in the stands. I remember going to hock-ey games with my Dad as a kid, freezing my bum to the seat. No real need for blankets here though – the stands in our new municipal centre arena are posi-tively cozy, with heaters directed at the spectators.
As Riley’s team skated onto the ice, I couldn’t believe how big he was. I see him a few times a month when he joins us for Sunday dinner – and I buy him clothes – so I know he’s getting bigger but, really, this is ridiculous. I won’t go on and on or he will kill me. Just as he started doing his lunge stretches I swear I felt a presence settle in beside me. Dad was watching his grandson, and his favourite sport.
I was told not to yell, “Go, Panthers” because both teams on the ice had the same name. Riley is in Atom C3 so we tried to cheer “Let’s go C3, let’s go” but
it didn’t have much of a ring to it. I read somewhere that girls make re-
ally good hockey players – particularly goalies. I’m sure Hayley Wickenheiser (or is that Wickenhauser?) would con-cur. Aly Thibert and Mickayla Petersen are confi dent and quick on their skates and the puck rarely gets past them.
I felt a little foolish yelling out loud at the players at fi rst, but once you get caught up in the game, it’s pretty hard to keep your mouth shut. By the end of it I was hoarse. But probably not as bad as the woman in front of me, who kept letting out this screaming squawk every time the play got exciting. She made me jump every time she did it.
I had to catch myself from giggling and pointing at some of the players – their parents were probably sitting be-side us – but at age 9 and 10 the kids are various shapes and sizes. Some of them have a bit of growing to do in order to fi ll out their hockey jersey. But that doesn’t stop them from contributing to the play. They just have to move those legs a little faster.
I am not familiar with the rules of the game, nor can I follow it closely on the ice, so I won’t be giving a play-by-play of the action. Suffi ce it to say, we were all on the edge of our seats, from the puck drop through to the game-ending buzzer. Spurred on by the cheers of his proud parents in the crowd (I don’t know whether the play-ers can hear their names from the ice but I’m sure that energy travels), Ryan Hess glided up and scored the winning goal in the last few minutes. Don’t ask me to remember the score. Like I said, I’m no sports commentator. Just a new fan of a game that reminds me so much of my Dad. I could hear him yelling his low, gravelly encourage-ment to the players, and one in par-ticular: “Atta boy, Riley!”
Congratulations, all of you, and enjoy your March Break. I’ll be in the stands for the play offs!
Hockey Night in KemptvilleDIANA FISHER
Accidental Farmwife
photo by Emma Jackson
GREELY LIBRARYGreely residents Ryan Baker (behind) and Colin Stacey stopped by the brand new Greely library branch on March 14, the library’s fi rst day in its new location attached to the community centre on Meadows Drive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTION
Do you think the 2011 city budget passed by council last week was worthy of applause?
A) It was great work by the council to keep the tax increase below 2.5 per cent.
B) If it was so easy, why didn’t they fi nd a way to lower taxes?
C) Taxes weren’t too high – think of all the projects that will go unfunded now.
D) The applause was premature – they still have transit issues to worry about.
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EMMA JACKSON
On March 8, teachers wearing colourful wigs, costumes, beads and make-up weren’t dressed up for Mardi Gras, nor were they simply excited about Pancake Tuesday.
These colourful teachers and their outfi ts were the result of a huge fundraising effort from the students of St. Mary’s Cath-olic School in Ottawa South, who collected $8,147.21 worth of pledges to take part in a faux “swim-a-thon” to raise money for a new play structure in the school yard.
For every thousand dollar benchmark met, a teacher or two would perform a crazy dare to reward the students for their efforts. On Tuesday afternoon students gathered to fi nd out how much they had raised, and to watch their teachers pay the price.
Principal Marcia Lynch led a ‘Price is Right’-style presenta-tion of the amount – with the help of some eager primary students – and the audience helped move the helpers around until the total was revealed at a whopping $8,147.21. The to-tal was enough to fulfi ll six of eight possible teacher dares,
which the students watched with relish.
Teachers Brenda Hamilton and Mirella Vena got a “teacher make-over” in recognition of the $3,000 benchmark - com-ing out in stripes, wings and paint – and Travis Duhaime was transformed into “Mrs. D” when he donned a long blonde wig, green dress and fi shnet stockings while playing goalie for the students taking shots
on net in honour of the $4,000 benchmark.
Other teachers took pies to the face, sustained many buck-ets of snow dumped on their heads and had their hairy legs buzzed smooth to mark 5, 6 and $7,000 raised.
Justin Beiber also made an appearance, at least in spirit, when two “mystery teachers” took to the stage for a rousing lip-sync rendition of “Baby.”
Ludacris – or a believeable dop-pelganger - even stopped by to sing his part.
Lynch said that between pa-rental donations of about $9,500 from the past year, a $7,000 grant from the Ottawa Catholic School Board and the $8,147.21 raised by the students, the school has enough money for the $25,000 Henderson play structure.
Although the school current-ly has two structures, one is
wooden and will have to come down. Lynch said they were planning to install the park over the summer, but now that they have the money they can hopefully go ahead and have the park in place before the end of June.
St. Mary’s teachers pay the price for new park
Council approves two-year pilot project with 21 tablesFrom GAMES on page 1
Blais even said it would be better for people to gamble in Ontario than in Quebec, be-cause that way the money they are spending will contribute to money the province uses to fund gambling addictions programs.
The City of Ottawa will get about $2 million per year if the gaming tables are approved by the Ontario Lottery and Gam-ing Corporation and a rezoning application at the raceway is successful, according to a city report.
The move is also expected to create new jobs.
Osgoode Coun. Doug Thomp-son said you can’t dismiss the impact that gambling has on people, but he said the resourc-es provided by the province are adequate.
“It’s not like we’re opening a brand new facility there. It has been in existence there for about 10 years,” he said of the slots at the track, which is located in his ward.
Gambling is ubiquitous, Thompson said – lottery tickets can be purchased at any corner store and most racetracks offer slots and/or gaming tables.
“I don’t think that’s an issue,” Thompson said.
Councillors like Deans and Holmes worried that the gam-ing tables were being pushed through too quickly, with little public consultation on their im-pact.
“What is the amazing hurry here?” said Holmes, councillor for Somerset Ward.
Deans, councillor for Glouces-ter-Southgate, agreed, saying council was deviating from its normal process by voting on it without holding public consul-tation sessions.
For instance, she said people in her ward would likely have wanted to weigh in because the gaming tables could create traffi c concerns through their neighbourhoods. Deans tabled a motion that asked for a traf-fi c impact study if and when
a rezoning application is sub-mitted to allow for the gaming tables. The motion also asked that revenue from the gaming tables be placed in a reserve fund to directly address any is-sues highlighted in the traffi c study.
Members of the Findlay Creek Community Association generally support the gaming tables, but agree with Deans on the traffi c issue.
In a March 9 email to Glouces-ter South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches, co-president Eva Pigeon-Seguin wrote: “We have concerns about how the traffi c on Albion will affect the commu-nity because this road is already heavily used. With the unpaved shoulders, deep ditches, active Ottawa weather and the roadway that will soon open up to Albion – we are wary of issues down the line if this goes through.”
Thompson said he doesn’t think there needed to be more public consultation before coun-cil approved the pilot project.
“I think I represent the views of our residents quite well,” he said.
There will be more of a chance for public input in two years if the racetrack would like to con-tinue to have gaming tables, be-cause that would require a zon-ing change, Mayor Jim Watson said at the March 10 meeting.
Councillors also voted to update the city’s transportation master plan to include an assessment of the road infrastructure in the racetrack area, which is very close to the site of the new Ot-tawa Trade Show Centre. That update will happen in 2013.
With fi les from Emma Jack-son
Photo by Emma JacksonA brave teacher from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Ottawa South withstands a “polar dip” as students dump buckets of snow on her head. The event was part of a school reward for raising more than $8,000 towards a new play structure. Each $1,000 benchmark required another teacher to take a dare. Photo by Emma Jackson
St. Mary’s principal Marcia Lynch revealed numbers game show-style at a school assembly to cel-ebrate fundraising more than $8,000 for a new play structure.
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On March 26, Ottawa may face its darkest hour – in a good way.
Earth Hour, the worldwide event that began in Sydney, Aus-tralia in 2007, asks individuals to turn off the lights and reduce their energy use for an hour on March 26, from 8:30-9:30 p.m.
Last year, an estimated 10 million Canadians participated in the effort to raise awareness
about sustainability issues. Earth Hour has become the most successful voluntary event in the history of humankind, as Hydro Ottawa’s chief conserva-tion offi cer Roger Marsh put it at City Hall’s unveiling of an Earth Hour banner on March 7. This is the fourth consecutive year Ottawa will take part.
Hosted by the World Wildlife Federation, Earth Hour saw a record 128 countries participat-
ing in 2010. But there is always room for improvement, said Paulette Roberge, spokeswoman for the federation’s Ottawa bu-reau.
“The main focus this year is to try to get Canadians to think beyond the hour,” she said. “It’s not enough to have people do it for only one hour.”
Canadians should think of ways to minimize carbon emis-sions and cut down on energy consumption every day, said Roberge. She also stressed the need to switch to cleaner types of energy, like solar and wind.
“Although Earth Hour has
been phenomenally successful, the reality is that we’re one of the top 10 nations contributing to climate change, and we don’t have to be,” she said.
The Green Party will host a candlelit vigil on Parliament Hill on March 26, as they did last year.
At the museum of Science and Technology, Earth Hour en-thusiasts are invited to attend a free stargazing night and use Canada’s largest refracting tele-scope.
Many large businesses across the city will participate by turn-ing off the lights in their build-
ings, Roberge said. Canadians at home can do the same, perhaps dusting off their board games and lighting some candles.
Last year, Hydro Ottawa mea-sured a six per cent decrease in electricity use, which is enough to power 58 homes for a month. The provincial average of ener-gy consumption went down by four per cent, less of a drop than expected because of the colder than normal temperatures.
To learn more about Earth Hour and how to participate, visit the World Wildlife Federa-tion website at wwf.ca/earth-hour.
Lights out Ottawa
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Homegrown billiards DVD right on cueEMMA JACKSON
Among the countless billiards training videos available, usu-ally featuring hot shot celebri-ties and fancy tricks, a new type of billiards video has emerged from the unlikely location of Ottawa South, where a group of local residents combined their individual talents to produce an in-depth look at the mechanics of pool.
The project began with a fam-ily connection: Blossom Park resident Marie Trojan met Ay-lmer resident André Goyette, one of Canada’s top billiard players for nearly 40 years, when his nephew became her son-in-law.
When Goyette showed her the incredibly thorough train-ing curriculum he wrote to teach novice billiards players, Trojan immediately saw the potential for a high-end train-ing video.
From there, Focus on Bil-liards was born. Trojan and Goyette brought the Practise 2000 training book to John Hov-ey, who runs his fi lm production company Chromovision Pro-ductions off Mitch Owens Road
in Greely.Four years of scriptwriting,
organizing and preparing cul-minated in a gruelling nine day shoot in another Ottawa South
location, the banquet hall of Stanley’s Old Maple Lane Farm off Mitch Owens in the east end. By November 2010 the fi rst DVD was available for sale.
Hovey said the programme, which will become a six-disc set by the end of the year, is unique because it truly focuses on the intricacies of pool rather than the person playing.
“Most of (the other videos) are all about the billiards player, the celebrity player. They make the shots and they tell you what the shots are but they don’t tell you how they made them or what’s happening during the shot,” Hovey said. “We’ve dissected all the shots, so with diagrams and with close-ups and slow motion video we show people exactly what’s happening and what they need to look for in order to make the shots properly.”
Hovey said he knew virtu-ally nothing about pool before he started the project, but af-ter reading countless billiards books and watching every bil-liards video on the market, he knows almost everything – at least from a theoretical perspec-tive.
It helps that the team includes Goyette, a pool celebrity in his own right who was considered one of Canada’s top snooker players for about 20 years begin-ning in the 1970s. Before quitting snooker and moving to nine-ball
billiards in the 1990s, Goyette achieved six perfect snooker games of 147 points, something rarely achieved by any other professional pool player.
His written training program broke down 66 increasingly com-plex shots for eight- and nine-ball billiards, which became the basis for the six DVDs, four of which are dedicated to breaking each of the 66 shots down into fi ve minute video segments.
“We’ve picked all of the shots that could possibly happen and we’ve created a training for each of these shots and it gets progressively more diffi cult as it goes through the four discs,” Hovey said, noting that the sixth disc teaches some trick shots as a treat for the viewer spend-ing hours perfecting his or her game.
As an added family bonus, Goyette’s son wrote the mu-sic that appears sporadically throughout the series.
The discs are currently being sold through Canada Billiards stores across Canada and on the Focus on Billiards website. Al-though sales have been slow so far, Hovey said he expects it to pick up as word of mouth starts to travel.
Photo by Emma JacksonAylmer resident and Canadian billiards champion André Goyette (left) is the brains behind a new billiards training DVD produced by John Hovey (right) and his Greely production company Chromovision Pro-ductions.
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Holy Family coin line brings clean water to Cameroon
EMMA JACKSON
Students at Holy Family Catholic School are sacrifi cing more than TV privileges or Facebook this Easter season – they’re giving up their pocket change in the name of clean drinking water.
Beginning March 9, students and teachers at the Ottawa South school off McCarthy Road have been sticking loose change to a “coin line,” a strip of sticky yellow tape running the length of the main hallway.
The change will be collected for the OK Clean Water project, an Ottawa volunteer initiative that has partnered with villages in the Kumbo prov-ince of Cameroon, Africa to bring clean drinking water to the surrounding communities.
Every $10 buys fi ve metres of pipeline, which is used to bring fresh spring water from the hillsides into the villages. So far over the past three years, Holy Family students have raised more than $750 through their Lent fundraiser, equaling about 375
metres of pipe. So far about 27 villages have re-ceived fresh water pipeline systems through the OK Clean Water initiative.
Though the pipe is purchased for the villagers through charity, Holy Family principal Caroline Tarrant said the project is not just about giving – it’s about teaching.
“The villagers are taking ownership of the proj-ect. They dig the trenches and lay the pipelines,” Tarrant said. The project hires local engineers to help with any technical aspects, but villagers are trained to maintain the pipes.
Although the season of Lent – a Christian tradi-tion where followers give up something cherised from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday six weeks later – is usually about giving up instead of giving, Tarrant said the students are still sacrifi c-ing for the cause.
“The children are often earning the money they bring in, so they’re giving up money they’re receiving from home,” she said, noting that the gains are greater than the sacrifi ce. “I think it’s great for the kids to have awareness of the greater community.”
Coins will be collected until April 23, the day be-fore Easter Sunday. A cheque will be presented to OK Clean Water in early May.
Photo by Emma JacksonGrade 6 students Paige Pucci and Nolan Lehman show off the growing coin line at Holy Family Catholic School, where students are collect-ing coins for the OK Clean Water project in Cameroon throughout the period of Lent leading up to Easter.
Spare change from students helps African villagers
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DAN PLOUFFE
It was a season they never wanted to end. And the seven high school seniors on the De La Salle Cavaliers volleyball team made it last as long it could by playing in the maximum num-ber of matches possible in ad-vancing to the fi nal four at last week’s OFSAA ‘AA’ girls’ vol-leyball championships in Bar-rhaven.
Eighth-seeded De La Salle displayed a never-say-die atti-tude throughout the March 8-9 tournament, eventually settling for the antique-bronze medal awarded to the fourth-place fi n-ishers out of the province’s 20 best squads.
“We worked so hard to get here,” notes Cavaliers left-side Valeria Quintanar. “Even if we got this antique medal, I’m still proud of my team. We grew so much since the beginning.”
De La Salle went 3-1 in the round robin portion of the competition to place second in its pool and win a spot in the playoff round. The Cavaliers drew the undefeated two-time defending champions from General Amherst in the quar-ter-fi nals, but managed to pull off a 15-13 victory in the decid-ing set to advance to the medal round.
De La Salle then thrilled fans with the most dramatic game of the tournament in the semi-fi nals against Orléans’ Gisèle-Lalonde. In a rematch of the na-tional capital fi nal – which the Cavaliers won to avenge their only league loss of the season – Gisèle-Lalonde won the fi rst set, but De La Salle fi red back to take the second frame 25-19 and force a deciding set.
The Cavaliers jumped out to a 6-2 lead in the third, but had the momentum snatched away and found themselves facing three match points down 14-11.
But the never-say-die mental-ity kicked in and they battled to even the score at 14.
Up against their fourth game point at 15-14, De La Salle middle Kaly Soro fi nished what seemed to be a never-ending rally for all the marbles, although it wasn’t quite enough as the Cavaliers eventually fell 18-16 to Gisèle-Lalonde, who cruised on to an easy straight-sets win in the gold medal fi nal.
“To tell you the truth, the game against Gisèle-Lalonde was really diffi cult for me,” ex-plains Quintanar, who hit the last ball into the net. “I really just shot down on that one, but all my teammates came and
supported me. They didn’t let go.”
Less than an hour after their crushing loss, the De La Salle girls were back on the court with their full fun-loving spirit on display for the bronze medal match, joking around and sa-vouring the player introduc-tions prior to the game.
Their hearts were ready to battle, but De La Salle’s over-taxed starting lineup of Quin-tanar, Soro, Christine Ausman, Myriam Sarazin-Frey, Mylene Brunet, Lindsey Gresham and libero Gabrielle Choquette wound up fading in the decisive stages of their seventh match in two days to fall in straight
sets against top-seeded John McGregor Secondary School of Chatham.
“Oh my God, we always have team spirit, no matter what,” Quintanar describes. “Our team is so close. We’re like a fam-ily. We spend so many days to-gether – tournaments, morning practices, after school – I think I spend more time with them than my own family.”
That was certainly true dur-ing OFSAA since the Cavaliers stayed at a hotel even though the tournament was in town. That was coach Yan Leroux’s reward for reaching the pro-vincials after his players at-tended well over 100 practices
since last May.“The girls worked so hard all
year long. Wow,” exclaims Le-roux, whose team owned just a single club volleyball player, Quintanar of the Ottawa Fu-sion.
“The girls played so well, and I’m so happy for them.”
Hard work is defi nitely one part of Leroux’s philosophy, but having fun is a main point he also emphasizes. Nowhere is that more evident than when the Cavaliers sing and dance in the changeroom to a Lil Wayne song called Go DJ.
“Our team is a dancing team,” smiles left-side Christine Aus-man. “We have a ritual before every game where we play our song and we all dance to it. It just brings the team together and we get pumped up.”
After spending so much time with the group over the course of several seasons, Leroux knows it’ll be tough to say good-bye to his graduating players.
“The past 10 years I’ve coached at De La Salle, this is the best team I’ve coached from all aspects,” he says. “I wish there was a Grade 13.”
MIRROR PERFORMANCE FOR HILLCREST BASKETBALL BOYS
The Hillcrest Hawks expe-rienced a similar fate as De La Salle at the OFSAA ‘AAA’ boys’ basketball champion-ships in Niagara Falls.
They advanced through to the semi-finals with three victories, but then lost to the eventual tournament champi-ons and wound up in fourth place.
Emal Abdelmagid posted team-high point totals in the Hawks’ final two games.
The Glebe Gryphons were winless at the OFSAA ‘AAAA’ girls’ volleyball championships in Newmarket.
De La Salle volleyball ‘family’ savours fi nal OFSAA run
Photo by Dan PlouffeDe La Salle Cavaliers Kaly Soro, left, and Valeria Quintanar reject a spike attempt during a thrilling OFSAA semi-fi nal won by gold medallist Gisèle-Lalonde by a score of 18-16 in the deciding set.
EDDIE RWEMA
Ottawa has been selected to be among six cities that will play host to the 2011 Subway Su-per Series, a six-game clash be-tween the best Canadian play-ers from the Canadian Hockey League and a select team of Russian junior-age players.
The Ottawa 67’s will play host to Game 3 of the series on Thursday, Nov. 10 the Ottawa Civic Centre.
“We are very excited and we think its going to be a very good show,” said 67’s owner Jeff
Hunt.He said the event will mark
the return of international junior hockey to Ottawa after the 2009 World Junior Hockey Championships, which includ-ed games hosted at the Civic Centre..
“We are going to have a chance to show that again in November,” he said.
“We think it will be very pop-ular with fans who now know what world class junior hockey can be like. ... and I think the fans will be very supportive.”
The series is a key part of the identifi cation process for
Hockey Canada as it assembles its squad for the World Juniors, which will be played in Edmon-ton and Calgary starting on Dec. 26.
This past year, the Russians won the series for the fi rst time in the event’s eight-year his-tory.
“On behalf of the Canadian Hockey League we look forward to bringing the subway Super Series to CHL arenas next No-vember,” CHL President David Branch said in a statement.
“Given the success of the 2010 series the excitement behind this event continues to grow,
and following the result of the 2011 World Junior Hockey Championship the on-ice rival-ry between Canada and Russia is as strong as ever.”
Last season, the Russian team emerged with the series win for the fi rst time in eight years of this event.
They won four out of six games with 17 players who would later represent Russia and win gold at the 2011 IIHF World Junior Hockey Champi-onship in Buffalo, N.Y. Russia defeated a Canadian team that featured 20 CHL players from the 2010 Subway Super Series.
Ottawa to host leg of annual Canada-Russia showdown
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2011 SUBWAY SUPER SERIES
• Game 1 – Monday, Nov. 7 at Victoriaville, Que.
• Game 2 – Wednesday, Nov. 9 at Quebec City
•Game 3 – Thursday, Nov. 10 at Ottawa
•Game 4 – Monday, Nov. 14 at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
•Game 5 – Wednesday, Nov. 16 at Regina
• Game 6 – Thursday, Nov. 17 at Moose Jaw, Sask.
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• MARCH 26Pastured Poultry – Ecological Farm-ers of Ontario. In 1996, Joel Salatin wrote Pasturing Poultry for Profi ts and opened up the discussion on raising larger numbers of birds out-side in a manner that would give the birds protection from the elements and predation while having the benefi ts of sun, bugs and grass. This workshop will look at all aspects of raising poultry on pasture in a Joel Salatin manner in Ontario. Topics covered will include breed selection, brooding, feeding, pasture housing, shipping, and slaughtering to quota and organic certifi cation issues. Location: Seniors Room, Richmond Arena, 6095 Perth Rd., Richmond. Cost is $70 ($50 for Ecological Farm-ers of Ontario Members). Registra-tion: contact [email protected] or call 1-877-822-8606
• MARCH 30“Together for Vanier” Working Group on Drugs and Prostitution. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Centre Pauline Char-ron, 164 Jeanne Mance St. Everyone welcome!
Ottawa Independent Writers Month-ly Meeting: Publishing & Marketing Your Book. Your Book is Done: Now Get to Work to Make it a Profi table Business.Best-selling author Peggy McColl and author Roslyn Franken will explain everything you need to know about publishing, publicity, promotion and building a platform to transform your book into a mon-ey-making endeavour. McColl will also touch on effective online mar-keting techniques that anyone can follow. Library and Archives Canada,
395 Wellington St. Room Exhibition A. 7 p.m. $10 for non-members. Info: (613) 731-3873 or www.oiw.ca
• APRIL 2West Ottawa Rotary Club and University of Ottawa Music Students presents Music for Humanity to eradicate polio takes place at 1st Unitarian Church, 30 Cleary Ave, Ottawa. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds go to the Rotary Polio Eradication Initiative. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated over $400 million to polio eradication and challenged Rotary International to match the contri-bution. Attendance at this concert will help Rotary respond. There will be music by Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Casterede and Mendez, Turina, Paganini, Ibert and Bartok for solo and combined instruments
and by Rossini, Saint-Saens and Bizet (fm Carmen) for voice and piano Join us for refreshments after the concert. Tickets are $20 and students are $10. For more information visit: www.rotaryclubwestottawa.ca or call 613-746-8037
The Eastern Ontario Umpires As-sociation (EOUA) is looking for individuals, males and females over 18 interested in offi ciating fast pitch and slo pitch softball. The EOUA is affi liated with Softball Canada, Softball Ontario, Slo-Pitch Ontario and USSSA. Ontario is proud to boast one of the best um-pire programs in the country. If you are interested in learning a new avenue of the game of softball, we are always looking for individuals like you. Training and clinics are provided. Please call Stuart 613-744-
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APRIL 6A unique dining experience with zero greenhouse gas emissions held at the Fairmont Château Lau-rier from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.The event will take place in the Laurier Room With Honou-rary Chair: David Chernushenko, City of Ottawa Councillor and Emcee, Olympian MJ McCann. Evening highlights include a fully candle-lit ambience where you and your guests will savour an organic, local gourmet, six course meal in-troduced by the Château Laurier’s Executive Chef Alain Gobeil and Sous Chef Shane Colton. Each course will be paired with comple-mentary wine from Cono Sur Vine-yards & Winery, the fi rst certifi ed CarbonNeutral winery in the world.
Mingle and dine with our Clean Air Champions - Olympians, Paralym-pians and National Team athletes. There will also be a Live and Silent Auction: one of a kind items like a sport training day with an Olympi-an, and more. Pianist David Irving will provide live entertainment. Tickets are limited. Individual tick-ets are $150 and for a table of six is $810. All tickets can be purchased online at: www.zeroenergydin-ners.co or call j/m/a Event Planning at 613.271.2713 Proceeds will go to Clean Air Champions’ school programs. Clean Air Champions is a national charity that engages high profi le athletes (our Champions) to educate youth about air quality, climate change, and health, and inspire them to get active for the environment.
• APRIL 7-10First Avenue Public School Book Sale, 73 First Ave. (at O’Connor in the Glebe). More than 35,000 gently-used books, DVDs and CDs priced to sell. Books are organized by author and category, and include fi ction, children’s, mysteries, cook-ing, gardening, political and social sciences, religion, French language, biographies, and more. The sale will take place Thursday, April 7 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, April 8 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information, contact fi [email protected]. Find out more at www.fi rstavebooksale.com.
• APRIL 9“What’s your Story” Workshop with Ottawa author Nichole McGill. This half-day workshop follows a presen-tation McGill delivered at a recent meeting of Ottawa Independent Writers. It takes place on April 9, in Room 156 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St. 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MATTHEW JAY
Ottawa will join the growing ranks of professional soccer clubs in Canada this summer when Capital City Football Club take the fi eld as part of the Ca-nadian Soccer League.
The club, founded by Clar-idge Homes executive Neil Mal-hotra, will play its games at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility at Mooney’s Bay Park.
Malhotra, who also serves as president for the non-profi t club, said the team is looking forward to providing local play-ers with professional soccer op-portunities while also appeal-ing to the diverse population in
the capital region.“We’re trying to respect the
traditions of the game and at the same time create an afford-able and fun experience,” he said.
The club will play a 26-game schedule this season and will be looking to add a team to the CSL Reserve Division in time for the 2012 season.
The club will be holding an open tryout at the Coliseum sports dome on Bank Street on March 26 and 27. Malhotra said the club will be looking to fi ll 20 roster spots for the upcoming season.
The club will be partnering with Ottawa South United. The two organizations will be work-
ing together on coaching and player development initiatives as well as the creation of a “Eu-ropean-style” soccer academy for Eastern Ontario.
“It’s very positive in the sense that we have a lot of kids that graduate from youth soccer ... but a lot of good kids that don’t really have anywhere to go,” said OSU president Bill Micha-lopulos. “They want to stay in Ottawa, but they don’t have any-where to play really. So I think this bodes really well for the talent that’s being developed in Ottawa.”
The club has appointed Shaun Harris as the team’s head coach and technical di-rector. Harris is a former MLS
player who won the 2005 MLS Cup as a member of the L.A. Galaxy and has worked in the development program of Eng-land’s Everton FC.
Soccer in Canada has grown in leaps and bounds in recent years. Since 2007, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps have joined the top-tier Major League Soccer and Montreal Impact and FC Edmonton competing in the North American Soccer League.
Two weeks ago, FIFA awarded the right to host the 2015 Wom-en’s World Cup to the Canadian Soccer Association. Ottawa is among a group of seven can-didate cities vying to host the event.
Capital City FC joins the 14-team CSL and will com-pete against Brampton City United, Brantford Galaxy, London City, Montreal Impact Academy, North York Astros, SC Toronto, Serbian White Eagles, St. Catharines Wolves, Toronto FC Academy, York Region Shooters as well as fel-low newcomers Mississauga Eagles FC and Windsor Stars for the First Division champi-onship.
The season runs from the be-ginning of May until the Octo-ber, followed by playoffs.
The CSL is offi cially recog-nized as the third tier of soc-cer in Canada, below MLS and NASL.
Ottawa club joins Canadian Soccer League
Photo by Emma Jackson
ALL SHOOK UPElvis was in the building at Hunt Club Manor retirement residence on March 10, when local Elvis imper-sonator Paul Warren hosted a tribute to the king in support of the Kidney Foundation. The seniors’ home will hold a “rock-a-thon” on March 24 when residents will sit in rocking chairs to raise more funds for the foundation, as March is kidney month.
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ST. LAWRENCE RIVER CRUISES -World class cruising close to home.The hassle free way to travel. 2, 3, 5or 6 nights in private Staterooms.Included: Shore excursions, greatmeals & nightly entertainment.TICO:2168740. 253 Ontario St.,Kingston, 1-800-267-7868,www.StLawrenceCruiseLines.com.
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★★ 2010 CAMARO 3 AvailableWAS $47,145* NOW $40,980SS, RS PKG, sunroof, automatic
★★ 2010 Silverado Lt , Ext Cab 4x43 Available with diff erent packagesWAS $51,080* NOW $37,100Sunroof, Z71 pkg, 5.3 litr, XM radio
★★ 2010 Buick Lacrosse3 Available with diff erent optionsWAS $48,220* NOW $37,120RWD CXL, confi dence pkg, luxury pkg, Xm radio, sunroof, navigation
★★ 2010 Silverado LS 2500WAS $49,595* NOW $34,1004x4, crew cab, cruise, tint
★★ 2010 AVEOWAS $15,415* NOW $10,3505 door, 5 speed
★★ 2010 Cadillac SRX5 Available with diff erent packagesWAS $53,385* NOW $46,800FWD, 20” chrome wheels, DVD
★★ 2010 SuburbanWAS $67,705* NOW $44,850Assist steps, running boards, leather, sunroof, loaded
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