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SILVER CROSS Dorothy Brownrigg received a missing Silver Cross Medal in Osgoode that once belonged to her late brother. 7
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Plasco Energy Group Ltd. is currently lobbying the provincial government to give its Trail Road incineration facility just southwest of Barrhaven permanent status. And if the Ministry of Environment’s latest contaminant standards are the measuring stick for a successful application, Plasco CEO Rod Bryden likes his company’s chances for receiving a commercial license. The company – whose trial period began in September 2006 with operation commencing in January 2007 – had its status expire at the site on Jan. 21. Therefore, Bryden and other Plasco executives unveiled the results of the site’s latest 16-day source testing from last December at the Walter Baker Sports Centre on Jan. 27. The results released by Plasco showed the group is well below the ministry’s acceptable level of particulate matter seeping into the environment such as lead, mercury, cadmium and dioxins and turans. Bryden said his only concerns throughout the environmental screening process are whether the ministry felt Plasco answered the appropriate questions fully and whether the tests were conducted accurately. See ‘Bryden’ page 3
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Continued from front But because the ministry is tasked with protecting the environment, Bryden says it shouldn’t find any problems with Plasco. “The level of emissions is remarkably clean,” he said of the 18 tests that were each conducted over four-hour periods. “We are very confident that this is representative of the way this system will continue to operate. “I have no doubt that we will be successful in obtaining our (Certificate of Approval).” The plant uses high heat and converts 400 tonnes of garbage a day into gases, making 20 megawatts of energy – enough to power 7,000 homes. The plant can convert almost anything that doesn’t go into residents’ recycling boxes. Ministry spokesman Kate Jordan said the government will review all the work Plasco has done as well as take into account feedback offered from the public. The goal is to ensure the company has complied with the health-based standards – which are some of the toughest in North America. “It’s to make sure that it is protective of the environment and the community and that they have demonstrated that they can safely run the facility,” Jordan said, adding that she couldn’t speculate on the outcome. Even though Plasco will soon be cri-
tiqued by the ministry, Bryden knows there is room for improvement after the site gets its anticipated permanent status. “I don’t think we can make the emissions much better,” he said. “It’s hard to make them lower than they are, but we believe we can be more efficient in the conversion than we do.” While he doesn’t think the technology is available yet, Bryden said he hopes to use part of the Trail Road site to take syngas and make it into a transportation fuel. “It’s been an interesting journey and it’s not over yet,” said Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder, who has chaired the public advisory committee for the plant. “It’s very exciting to see how things are evolving.” Should Plasco obtain its certificate, the next obstacle would be entering into a deal with the city, something Bryden feels shouldn’t be a problem. Although a tax analysis was not part of the latest round of testing, Bryden ensured the crowd it would only move with inflation. Bryden said he anticipates $68 per tonne cost, compared to $110 per tonne that’s charged in the Durham Region, with the City of Ottawa paying nothing in capital costs. Bryden added that the price of power has not been set yet because the Trail Road site was just a demonstration
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Plasco CEO Rod Bryden speaks to a gathering at the Walter Baker Sports Centre on Jan. 27. Bryden is hopeful Plasco will be granted permanent status by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. plant. The meeting at the Walter Baker Sports Centre is part of a series of public consultation regarding plans for the facility. Bryden said that’s been part of Plasco’s mandate from Day 1. “In the conducting of the demonstra-
tion at Trail Road, when we began, we ensured the community that our intention was to be transparent,” he said. “From the very beginning, if we had a problem we said so.” For full results visit www.zerowasteottawa.com.
Tobin’s conditions changed Next appearance scheduled for Feb. 10 DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN daniel.bowman@metroland.com
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John (Jack) Tobin appeared in an Ottawa courtroom on Jan. 27 to have a variation of his release changed. Tobin, the son of former Newfoundland premier Brian Tobin, will no longer have to appear in court for the numerous administrative appearances before a trial begins. He will be represented at his next appearance by lawyer Norm Coxall. Tobin is charged with impaired driving causing death in connection with the
death of his friend Alex Zolpis in the early-morning hours of Dec. 24, 2010. The incident occurred on the roof of a ByWard Market parking garage where police say Tobin was driving over the legal limit. Police were called to the scene following reports that a man, Zolpis, was pinned under a rented pickup truck. He has release on bail after his first court date on Christmas Day when he was ordered to live with his parents in Manotick. Tobin’s next court date is scheduled for Feb. 10.
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Idol performers prove Greely’s got talent EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com
KRISTY MARIE HAGERMAN nior award went to 10-year-old Isabella Munevar-Pelton, who sang an energetic “Change� by Carrie Underwood. The junior runner-up was Savannah Elder with “Should Have Said No� by Taylor Swift. Munevar-Pelton was awarded $50, and the other junior finalists received $25. Hagerman received $100 for winning the senior competition. Both division winners, however, won prizes much more everlasting than a cheque: recording time at Blue Bear Sound studio in Riverside South, and a professional photo shoot from local photographer Phill Potter to kick start the young singers’ portfolios.
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The village of Greely was brimming with talent on Jan. 30, as 10 young performers took the stage for Greely Idol, the final event of the annual Greely Winter Carnival. As the festival wrapped up, Greely’s most talented singers were just getting started at the packed auditorium of the Greely Community Centre, where the weekend’s top five finalists for junior and senior divisions belted out tunes ranging from 50-year-old classics to hot new pop. Fourteen-year-old Kristy Marie Hagerman won the senior competition with a near-flawless and dramatic version of “Papa Can You Hear Me,� originally performed by Barbara Streisand for the 1983 film Yentl. “It feels really great, it’s something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time,� said Hagerman, who has won the junior competition in the past. She said she’ll tackle Canadian Idol next if she can. “I hope so, if they bring it back,� she laughed. Hagerman’s 11-year-old sister Brooke competed in the junior division, singing a soaring rendition of “You Light up my life� which she dedicated to her father. But competition was tough, and the ju-
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‘Founder of Stonebridge’ likely to be recognized Local builder Bruce McNabb could have bridge named after him DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN daniel.bowman@metroland.com
Considering Bruce McNabb is credited with making Barrhaven’s Stonebridge community what it is today, the tribute he’s likely to receive seems fitting. Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder put forward a motion at city council on Jan. 26 to have the Jockvale bridge named after the long-time area planner and designer. It will be considered at the next council meeting on Feb. 9. “I consider him to be the person responsible for the beautiful community of Stonebridge,” Harder said of the man who retired last year after 30-plus years of work. “I think anybody who has ever been to Stonebridge in Barrhaven, they can attest to the wonderful job that he did.” The Jockvale bridge crosses the Jock River and is situated on the boundary between the Barrhaven and Gloucester-South Nepean wards.
Stonebridge is location just south of the river. The city’s building code services branch has confirmed that there is no conflict with the proposed name under the street naming guidelines. Harder said any renaming would not have to go through the city’s Commemorative Naming Policy procedures because bridges do not apply under the act. “It was just a question of finding something appropriate to name after the man that I think is the founder of Stonebridge,” she said, adding that McNabb also contributed lots of funds to Manotick projects. “It was important to me to do something that would honour his contribution.” While the bridge renaming still needs final council approval, Harder doesn’t foresee any problems. She said she hopes to make a special presentation at a planning committee meeting to McNabb and put a plaque the bridge later in the year.
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Eight-year-old Isabelle Sim (left) and Wendy Sim taste one of the 22 samples as part of Shiverfest’s inaugural Chili Cook Off at the Manotick Legion on Jan. 29. Local residents and businesses offered up their best recipes for 178 judges to try. Black Dog Bistro from Manotick Main Street took home top honours, Manotick Prime finished second and federal Liberal Nepean-Carleton candidate Ryan Keon came third.
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Greely naturalist awarded Order of Ontario EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com
Bright winter daylight shines through Elizabeth Le Geyt’s bedroom window at the Orchard View Living Centre on Manotick Station Road, highlighting a little breakfast table set with a woodland duck table cloth. A Harrod’s mug of pens and pencils sits atop a pile of birding newsletters, newspaper clippings and magazines. The Peterson Field Guide to Birds is a prominent hardcover placed close to the window, outside of which hang countless bird feeders, suet cages and woodpecker logs to attract her favourite group of species on the planet: birds. The 96-year-old bird watcher, nature lover and mother of five grown sons was awarded the Order of Ontario last week, in honour of her contributions to the environment and her long-time birding column in the Ottawa Citizen, which she has been writing since 1973. Although crippling arthritis keeps Le Geyt from venturing very far from the retirement centre that has been her home since 2000, her ground floor room allows her to monitor her feeders, which are busy with birdlife year round. “It’s amazing, my entertainment,” the England native laughed. Her feeders have attracted a number of avian visitors, from the friendly and cheerful black-capped chickadee to a family of large pileated woodpeckers.
Blue jays loudly cajole each other over the squirrel-proof cylinders, and she’s even eaten her breakfast with a flock of wild turkeys on her windowsill, who arrive in increasing numbers to feast on the seeds that are dropped and knocked to the ground by other visitors. “All I can see are these great iron-clad backs, because their heads are down. And then suddenly up will come one of these scrawny necks and the ugly great head at this level here, eyeball to eyeball,” she laughed. As a testament to Le Geyt’s dedication to the world of birds, even these brutes received some praise from the life-long naturalist. “They’re absolutely gorgeous, especially when you get them close. Their plumage is so intricate, and not only that I’ve found that they’ve got some iridescence on their backs,” she explained. Le Geyt’s love and appreciation for the natural world reaches back, she says, to “the very beginning” when she was in her pram, an appreciation that was later enforced throughout her education at a specialized English boarding school in Sussex that had a strong emphasis on the natural world. Her personal interest has turned into a more serious advocacy role as she has watched bird populations decline throughout her nearly 60 years in Canada, particularly around her Manotick home where she lived for more than 40 years.
“Gradually there was decline, decline, decline, and the warblers didn’t come any more and I had half the ducks on the river, and in the bush there were still wood thrushes and things but instead of six pair there was maybe only one oven bird calling back there,” she said. “You didn’t realize what was happening until suddenly they were gone. It’s so sad.” Le Geyt maintained a wild backyard off River Road in Manotick beginning in 1957 with her husband, who eventually left her to raise five boys on her own when the youngest was only seven. In the 1980s and 90s, she also ran a homemade bird sanctuary of sorts for more than 20 years as part of an orphaned bird program at the Wild Bird Centre on Moodie Drive. “I had all of them in to start with in my sun porch area in various cages, with the swallows out free with a cable strung across the whole room so they could perch up there,” she said, noting that robins were by far the most common bird in her homemade sanctuary. Once they were fledged the young birds would hang around the garden, still needing to be fed. “I would go out on the steps and call them, ‘Robins are you hungry?’ There were always about 12 or 14 of them and they’d come down around the picnic table, around the edge, which is where I always fed them.” Her sanctuary saved countless young birds, from rowdy goldfinches and swallows to kingfishers and
gulls who made particular use of a kiddie pond in her backyard. Today Le Geyt is limited in her ability to seek out the countless types of birds living in the Ottawa area – she hasn’t seen a warbler since she moved to the residence, for example – but she’s able to live vicariously through the many Ottawa birders who send her sighting reports hoping to make it into her column each week. She bought a computer in her 80s because she was the only columnist left who was typing and faxing her work into the Citizen’s newsroom, and now she receives between 40 and 70 emails each week reporting sightings and offering digital photos. But most days Le Geyt is content to watch the community of personalities who visit her feeders, bringing their children and grandchildren to visit the naturalist each year. “They have emotions and they have memory. They’re all individuals, absolutely,” she said, noting that humans take such natural wonders for granted. “We are so arrogant. We are the ‘Great I Am,’ and we’ve always got that attitude to the animals, too. We are up here and they are down there. I’ve learned a lot from these birds, I’m telling you.” Le Geyt was unable to attend the Order of Ontario ceremony in Toronto last week, and is hoping to meet the Lieutenant-Governor in Ottawa sometime in the spring to receive her medal.
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Osgoode woman receives Silver Cross Medal on behalf of fallen brother A lost medal re-awakens memories of a family at war and the dedication and sacrifice of generations of Canadian soldiers. joe.morin@metroland.com
The story of a lost Silver Cross Medal came to an end on Sunday, Jan. 30 at the Osgoode Legion. The Silver Cross Medal is awarded to surviving mothers and the widows of airmen and sailors who die for their country. Originally given to Mary Ellis Lewis, the mother of Gordon Samuel Lewis, who lost his life in the early months of the Second World War, the cherished medal was eventually lost during a household move. It has now been replaced. Gordon’s sister Dorothy Brownrigg, who is 94 years old, has fond memories of her brother. She has lived through the loss of most of her family including her mother. The 60th anniversary of her brother’s death on Jan. 29, 1941 brought back to her family the importance of the missing medal. After talking to her member of parliament Pierre Poilievre, and applying for a new medal at the Department of National Defense, she received word that a new Silver Cross Medal would be issued. Brownrigg said her brother was a great Canadian. “My husband and I, along with my brother, went to Hogs Back in Ottawa for the day. We had a radio that we stuck in the fork of a tree. There was an announcement that came over the radio about Canada going to war and Gordon said, “if my country is going to war then I will be the first to go,” she remembered. Gordon Samuel Lewis went over to England as a signalman with the First Canadian Corps of Signals. “I can remember my mother with a broken heart when he died” Brownrigg said. She says that when she received the new medal she added her wedding ring to it. “I loved my brother very much,” she said. Dorothy’s family has always been quick to defend their country. She was born right in the middle of the First World War. Her father Neil Gatens Lewis, went over to Europe as part of the 207th battalion to fight. He left just months after she was born. Her grandfather had his own history of serving his country. He fought for the British in the Crimean War in the Battle of Balaclava, which would later be captured in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. A spokesperson with the Department of National De-
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John Light, former constituency assistant to MP Pierre Poilievre, presents the Silver Cross Medal to Dorothy Brownrigg in remembrance of her brother, Gordon Samuel Lewis, who fought and died in WWII.
LEAPing into bill payment NROCRC program to help people with energy expenses DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN daniel.bowman@metroland.com
The Nepean Rideau Osgoode Community Resource Centre (NROCRC) is aiming to assist people with paying their ever-increasing energy bills. The group’s Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) came into effect on Jan. 1, offering assistance to residents on low income who might experience difficulty paying their Hydro One or Hydro Ottawa utility bill. Unlike the Winter Warmth program – which provides assistance with Enbridge Gas bills for winter months only – LEAP is a year-round emergency financial program
where Hydro customers can get assistance once per 12month period. Phil Elwell made a brief presentation about the program to the Greely Community Association board during its monthly meeting on Jan. 12. He said that NROCRC is willing to help people make a payment up to $500. “We’re looking for people to be aware that they can come to our agency,” the housing loss prevention worker said afterwards. Residents wishing to apply will need to supply family and financial information which is used for application purposes only. For more information people can visit NROCRC in the Merivale Shopping Mall in Nepean or call 613-596-5626. The group also has an office in Barrhaven at the South Nepean Satellite Community Health Centre, 4100 Strandherd Rd., Suite 201. Call 613-596-5626 to make an appointment at that location.
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Commuters must grin and bus it
Mayor Jim Watson has obviously learned a few tricks about passing city budgets after watching the struggles of his predecessor, Larry O’Brien. First, don’t make promises you can’t keep – “zero means zero” ultimately was the political epitath to O’Brien’s battles at the budget table. Second, avoid conflict. Case in point: the suggested transit cuts for the 2011 draft budget. The draft budget suggests the city will seek $22 million in cuts this year and next, not to mention a 2.5 per cent hike in bus fares. Which routes are going to be cut? We don’t know. How many routes will be cut? We don’t know. The city will hash out the messy details in March – after the budget has been passed. It’s a great way to smooth the way for the approval of the budget – no one can raise a stink during public consultation, because no one has any idea what the cuts are. These tactics are shifty at best. But smart as well. It allows the public to focus on the bells and whistles included in the budget, such as $20
million in new spending, money offset by the $25 million for social services uploaded by the provincial government. There’s $10 million for housing and poverty reduction; $2 million for economic development; half a million for environmental initiatives. The carrot of new spending is in sight while the stick is locked safely away until after the budget passes. In all fairness, Watson is tackling a difficult problem – the ballooning costs of transit in the City of Ottawa. Cuts to public transit have never been a popular subject come budget time. Commuters will have to accept the reality that it looks like the city is finally going to clamp down on transit costs. That will mean higher bus fares, reduced service and probably a lot more crowded buses – a reality that will continue until the city welcomes light rail improvements. Eventually, some commuters – those who can afford it – will consider the option of travelling to work by car. Those who can’t will just have to grin and bus it.
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Wayne Gretzky is 50 and how old do you feel? The signposts of ageing are many and they get more comical as you go along. You remember becoming a teenager, bidding farewell to all that childish behaviour, and welcoming new varieties of even more childish behaviour. You remember being old enough to drink legally, old enough to leave home for work or university, an adult. This is perhaps the first feeling of being old. Then your baby sister goes off to university. Then you become one of those older people you used to smirk at as a teenager – a married person, with a mortgage and a job, who stays in on weeknights. Where does the time go, you ask. But the process has barely begun. You have children of your own and that’s around the same time that you notice that the police officers are no longer older than you. The children become teenagers and you begin sounding like your parents. I’m old, you think. And it’s all downhill from there. Soon, you are older than the police officers, older than the minister at the church, older than the dentist. Your children grow up, turn 30. You become a grandparent. You take naps. Surely it can’t get older than this. But it can. Last week you open up the newspaper and it says Wayne Gretzky
CHARLES GORDON Funny Town has turned 50. So there you are. You, as a grown-up, watched Gretzky as a kid. Now Gretzky feels old. How does that make you feel? Perhaps it is not as shocking to you as all that. In this Facebook era, people are reconnecting with old friends, going to high school reunions, where they are surrounded by old people. Somehow they sense that they are not kids anymore. And neither is Wayne Gretzky. He is older than the sportswriters now, older than his dentist. But there is a reassuring point in all this. Wayne Gretzky is 50 but he is not irrelevant. Almost all of the dozens of records he set still stand. Someone broke one the other day but it was an obscure thing – most career overtime goals, or something like that. For the rest of it, he
is still the guy. But so are you, when you think about it. Your old records still stand. Sure, they are different kinds of records. But no one flips pancakes the way you do, or finds a parking space, or empties the dishwasher. You can climb ladders like nobody’s business and you never run out of windshield washer fluid. Just because Gretzky is 50 doesn’t mean he’s finished either. He can look forward to future accomplishments, such as the kind of stuff you’ve been doing. You hold the record for reading the most consecutive Dr. Seuss stories aloud. You could be the best at remembering the names of bit players in western movies. You can identify any car made in the last 50 years. You scored six goals that time, when you were older than Gretzky, at the neighbourhood rink. You saved a cat. No one tells a joke like you do. And you just get better the older you are. You can make a soufflé. You can play Beatles songs on the recorder. You can watch four games on TV simultaneously. You can figure out what’s wrong with the computer. And you know how all those sports columnists have been writing about what a considerate guy Gretzky is?
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Well, you’re pretty considerate too. You hold the record, shared with a number of others, for never forgetting an anniversary. You are absolutely terrific at putting things into alphabetical order. The Sudoku is child’s play to you, mostly. You make great things out of leftovers. No one is better than you at finding the bright side of things. No one can find a lost ball the way you can. Maybe when Wayne Gretzky gets to be old he’ll have stuff like this to brag about too.
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Ottawa won’t be re-opening the debate over whether to expand its urban boundary. Despite Innes Ward Coun. Rainer Bloess’s hope that council would consider a larger expansion to the urban boundary, every other councillor voted to support the previous council’s decision to limit the boundary expansion to 230 hectares. The boundary places restrictions on development. In 2009, city staff recommended expanding the limit by 851 hectares to allow for 20 years of population growth, but in a 12-11 vote, the previous city council decided to limit the expansion to only 230 hectares (which would allow for 15 years of growth). Mayor Jim Watson said he is happy council supported the original decision. He said he feels the city’s position is strong and it has a good chance of winning at the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). City lawyer Tim Marc pegged Ottawa’s chances of winning at the OMB around 70 per cent. Watson said the potential $400,000 cost hasn’t changed his position or council’s position that they are “on the right track.” “This is an important issue for us,” Watson said. “It determines at the end of the day who is going to make decisions with regards to growth and planning, and
I believe it should be elected officials.” Developers that own land in the area that wasn’t included in the urban boundary expansion have appealed the decision to the OMB because it restricts their ability to build on their land. While Bloess said he predicted the city would have less opposition from developers if it decided to expand the urban boundary by at 851 hectares, the city’s outside lawyer on the matter, Bruce Engell, said reversing the last council’s decision would make the city look fickle. Engell said he couldn’t predict whether the number of applicants who are fighting the case to the Ontario Municipal Board would have dropped it if the city decided to expand the allocation. “Would it make it (OMB hearings) go away? I can’t offer you any certainty that they would,” Engell said. At a council meeting the next day, Engell said he could only think of one person who would drop their OMB appeal against the city if the boundary was expanded by 851 hectares. There are 10 lawyers pitted against the city representing OMB appeals on this case, Engell said. Making matters even more complicated during the planning committee meeting, the room was filled with lawyers and representatives from the development groups that are taking the city to the OMB. Some of those developers want to see the boundary expanded by between 2,500 and 3,000 hectares – a far cry from the 230
hectares the city approved. There were also a number of residents present at the planning committee meeting. Some, such as Amy Kempster, said the city needs to have consistent policies: if Ottawa has a policy to encourage intensification in the official plan, Kempster argued, the city shouldn’t expand its urban boundary more than necessary. Former Knoxdale-Merivale councillor Gord Hunter, who retired in December, also spoke at the planning committee meeting.
Hunter, who chaired the planning and environment committee for 18 years, said councillors now have a chance to reverse the last council’s incorrect decision to limit the expansion. “It was really disheartening to see this small amount of expansion suggested by the staff was cut back for what I see as crass political reasons,” Hunter said. He said the city will need to expand its urban boundary to at least 851 hectares in the future, and the city should be looking farther into the future than just the next 15 years.
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Hockey Day comes to west end Festivities aplenty across city on Feb. 12 JENNIFER MCINTOSH jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com
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It was a bit of a rough landing for St. Joseph Catholic High School grad Alex Labranche and his University of Ottawa Gee-Gees as they lost last week’s Capital Hoops Classic to the Carleton Ravens 78-65 at Scotiabank Place.
Hockey Day is coming to the west end. Thanks to the Knoxdale-Merivale Community Associations (KMCA), hockey aficionados in the ward will have a chance to hit the ice on Feb. 12. The event will take place at the Manordale Rink on Knoxdale Road from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Trend-Arlington Community Association vice-president James O’Grady said the goal was to get eight teams to sign up for the event. “Between games, entertainment, special guests and food and beverages will make this first-time event a great experience for all participants and spectators alike,” O’Grady said. “Ev-
eryone is welcome.” Organizers are looking for teams of four players — comprised of two players, 14 years or older and two players, 13 years or younger — to take part in the Hockey Day in Ward 9 Shinny Hockey Tournament. The deadline for registration is Feb. 7. O’Grady did say that singles could sign up and would be kept on a list. “We will do what we can to get everyone on a team,” he said. The tournament will also feature live entertainment by the Shriner Clowns, music, special guests, a BBQ and refreshments. A sign up sheet is available at www. hockeydayward9.ca. The event is the second function put on by the newly-formed Knoxdale-Merivale Community Associations (KMCA) — a group made up of the ward’s community associations — that organized an all-candidates debate during the election campaign.
“A number of community came together to share information, knowledge and experiences, seeking, through cooperation, to strengthen the communities of old Nepean in an amalgamated Ottawa and to improve the quality of life of their residents. Running ward-wide events is one way in which the KMCA is working together,” O’Grady said. In Barrhaven, the Havenlea-Chapman Mills Community Association will be hosting the Fourth Annual Winter Family Fun Day, in concert with Hockey Day, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cresthaven Park. Bring your skates for shinny hockey, family skating and to test your skills on the ice. There will be off-ice games and activities including bouncy castles and sleigh rides. There also will be a special hockey game at 12:30 p.m. with some of Ottawa’s finest. Parents are free; kids $2.
Goaltender Altshuller nets goal for Raiders Raiders win one, lose one in CCHL play DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN daniel.bowman@metroland.com
With the Nepean Raiders’ (22-1710) Central Canada Hockey League schedule mired in the dog days, a 1-1 week for the period ending Jan. 30 will likely be long forgotten come season’s end. But one particular play will undoubtedly standout whenever the Raiders hang up their blades for the offseason.
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With the Raiders leading the Smiths Falls Bears late in the third period, goaltender Dan Altshuller registered a goal into an empty net to cap off a 5-3 victory on Jan. 28. The road win over the Bears ensured the sixth-placed Raiders remained three points ahead of the Bears as the playoffs near. Brent Norris led the way offensively with two goals, while Tanner Williams and Greg Trichilo added singles. In addition to his goal, Altshuller made 30 saves in the victory. Two days later, the Raiders and their starting goalie didn’t fare as well though. Altshuller was pulled after he al-
lowed five goals on 19 shots in a 10-4 loss to the Brockville Braves on Jan. 30. Ryan Mulder replaced Altshuller and gave up five goals on 22 shots. David Roy scored four goals for the Braves – who are third in league standings. Norris again scored twice and Craig Cowie and Ryan Johnston netted the other goals. The Raiders play four games during the upcoming week. Nepean has three straight road contests against Cumberland (Feb. 1), Ottawa (Feb. 2) and Brockville (Feb. 4) before rounding out its week at the Nepean Sportsplex against Hawkesbury on Feb. 6.
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New Canadians making most of volunteer opportunities Week three in our Volunteering in Ottawa series explores how newcomers to Canada benefit from volunteerism.
EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com
When Ouafaa Bouzid moved her family from Morocco to Ottawa in June 2009 so her daughter could attend university, she wasn’t expecting to get a job right away. Few new Canadians do, for a number of reasons, most due to a lack of English skills and Canadian work experience. Bouzid, who was an executive assistant for 20 years in her home country, was lacking both. “When we came and we settled, my most important thing of all was to go back to school to improve my English. I speak French, but it wasn’t enough. To find a job, you need your English,” Bouzid said. This was an obvious first step in her journey to settling into her new country. Her next step was less obvious, however, but is quickly becoming a popular one among new immigrants: she became a volunteer. When Bouzid took a volunteer receptionist position at OCISO, the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization in Hintonburg, the effect was nearly instantaneous. Not only did Bouzid get offered a job at the same centre four months later, she also became fluent in the English language. “I was around my colleagues who were
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As a newcomer to Canada from her native Morocco, Ouafaa Bouzid learned to speak English fluently when she volunteered as a receptionist at the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. speaking and talking English the whole day, so it helped me to improve my English,” she said. “I was stuttering, I didn’t know how to answer, I was afraid. So now it’s getting much better.” Bouzid’s experience is becoming increasingly common in Ottawa’s volunteer sector, and is one of the biggest trends in volunteering according to Volunteer Ottawa’s Jeff Bond. “Ottawa is one of the top four Canadian cities that’s a destination point for newcomers, so our landscape is changing. We’ve taken more of a role in help-
ing people to engage this demographic,” he said, adding that newcomers are often looking for personal benefit while at the same time a chance to help the community. “A lot of these individuals who want to engage their community, there may be a real purpose and goal behind it. They’re looking to gain Canadian experience, develop skills, or develop a Canadian network. This is a great way to achieve those goals.” Omaima Faris, volunteer co-ordinator at OCISO, said about 30 per cent of the organization’s volunteers are newcomers looking for experience – sometimes more than an agency is able to offer. “The newcomers that are coming now are highly skilled, internationally trained professionals, and they’ve got a lot to offer, a lot more than your regular volunteer job is even looking for. So stuffing envelopes, dropping off meals to homes, they can do all that and they’re happy to do that, but their skill set is at a different level,” she said. “The challenge for volunteer co-ordinators is looking at the talents and skills that they bring and seeing where they can invest those skills in their agency.” Even in a low-skills volunteer position, however, a new Canadian has a lot to gain. “There are a lot of challenges and barriers that newcomers face. Isolation, the change of weather, the employment challenges. They come highly skilled and they’re not quite sure where they
fit,” Faris said, adding that the immigration process can sometimes lead to false hopes about how quickly an immigrant will find a good job. “They come here and they’re all excited about being in Canada, and then as the struggles start to arise, especially not finding employment, someone’s confidence in themselves, their capacities and their abilities can slowly deteriorate. “With volunteering, that can assist. It doesn’t give them a job, but it gives them a sense that their skills are valued. That really helps boosts them up so at their next interview, they walk in a very different person than a person who hasn’t volunteered.” There are also cultural barriers to volunteering. Some immigrants come from countries where the police cannot be trusted, so getting a routine police records check in order to volunteer can be a huge challenge, Faris explained. The other barrier is that some cultures don’t embrace volunteers in the way Canada does, and highly-skilled immigrants may not recognize that working for free is the path to a Canadian job in their field. “Sometimes people are graduated, and they say ‘ok, we have our degrees but we can’t find a job,’ ” said Bouzid. “But you need Canadian experience to get a job, and from the volunteer job you can get a Canadian job. It’s a path to follow, so I’m telling them as a newcomer, don’t give up.”
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Enjoy a chili supper from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Trinity United Church, Main St. Kars. Adults $10, children, $6, family of four, $30.
The Havenlea-Chapman Mills Community Association (HCMCA) will be hosting the 4th Annual Winter Family Fun Day, in concert with “Hockey Day in Ottawa”, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Cresthaven Park. Bring your skates for shinny hockey, family skating and to test your skills on the ice! There will be off-ice games and activities including bouncy castles and sleigh rides! There also will be a special hockey game at 12:30 p.m. with some of Ottawa’s finest. Parents are free; kids $2. Concessions on site.
• TUESDAY, FEB. 8 The beginning of a New Year is a time to reflect on the changes we want or need to make and resolve to follow through on those changes. From personal growth to improving relationships, better health and greater accomplishments, there are changes that we want to see in every facet of life for 2011. As the new year begins, a new course entitled Toward a Meaningful Life: A Soul-Searching Journey will be offered in Ottawa this winter, starting Feb. 8. Rabbi Menachem M. Blum of the Ottawa Torah Centre will conduct the six course sessions at 8 p.m. at Soloway JCC 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa. For information, call (613) 8437770 or visit www.myJLI.com for registration and other course-related information.
• MONDAY, FEB. 14 The Ottawa Women’s Canadian Club luncheon will be held at 12:30 p.m., in the Ballroom of the Fairmont Chateau Laurier. Sue O’Sullivan will be speaking on “The Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime”. For luncheon tickets, contact Monique Bertrand at 613-737-6075 or visit www.owcc.ca.
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The Monarch Butterfly: Jean Lauriault, an environmental specialist and a Canadian Museum of Nature Associate, discusses his participation in the development of the North American Monarch Conservation Plan and 16 years of travels to Mexico to study the monarch. Learn about the biology of the monarch, its incredible journey, and the ongoing conservation challenges. Larkin House, 76 Larkin Drive, 7:30 pm. Non-members $3.00 Info: 613 - 825 - 4257
The Goulbourn Jubilee Singers host their 3rd Annual Music Trivia Night, Richmond Legion Hall. Teams of 4-6 players answer 10 questions in 10 categories to win a BIG prize with a value of $400. Tickets $18, includes refreshments and door prizes. Advance ticket sales only. Can’t make up a team, come anyway and join the others.Call 613-825-3357 or 613-838-6078 or www.gjsingers.com. The event starts at 7:30 p.m.
Weaving a Hospital Web That changed with the launch of a new www. ottawahospital.on.ca
Nicolas Ruszkowski Nicolas Ruszkowski VP, Communications Ottawa Hospital Professor Pierre Bélanger taught New Media at the University of Ottawa, in 1994. The internet, web-sites and instant messaging was still considered novel. Perhaps even a little obscure. We actually devoted hours of class time to learn about search engines, web-sites and messaging. Today, four-year olds can do this with no instruction. But we were still asking: what is the art of the possible? What will communications look like thanks to the internet? They would be instant. They would force real-time dialogue. They would become brief, bite-sized, “user-friendly”. They would change people’s expectations of good communications.
The site is built on 5 principles. It is inclusive, not only of different professions, departments or programs, but of our patients, visitors and community. It is bilingual, so that everything is available in English and French. It is accessible, whether you are visually impaired or not. It is dynamic; inviting visitors to share feedback and patient stories so we can always improve. Finally, it is patient and user-centered. For instance, visitors can use the Directions and Maps section of the site to plan their itinerary from home, to hospital, back home. They can search our physician directory alphabetically, by name or specialty. And they can search information about programs, departments or clinics by keyword. For the first time, users can also follow us on Twitter, at OttawaHospital, and Facebook, on The Ottawa Hospital Facebook Group. We will use these tools to inform the community of important news, as well as maintain an ongoing dialogue about how best to serve our patients. Don’t just take our word for it. Visit www.ottawahospital.on.ca and tell us what you think.
All of that, and more, has come true. People of all generations and service providers from all sectors have embraced the internet, social media, and social networking. Until recently, however, The Ottawa Hospital had been slow to embrace these changes. Our web-site looked like it had been built not long after 1994. It was hard to update, and didn’t allow instant communications. It didn’t seek out patient and visitor advice, nor promote dialogue. It was not “user-friendly”. In short, it did not live up to expectations of good communications.
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Ensuring the best environment for elderly patients Nicolas Ruszkowski Nicolas Ruszkowski VP, Communications Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, January 24, 2011 My first ski instructor was Fernand Bonnevie. I saw him at Christmas. He is 96. He doesn’t ski anymore. Even walking is too difficult. He gets 24-7 care from a live-in caregiver (his wife died years ago), children and grandchildren. Not in a hospital or long-term care setting, but from his old house in the alpine village of Val d’Isère. Does it complicate things? To an extent, yes. He doesn’t benefit from doctors conducting complex procedures to make it easier for him to walk. Would he prefer a long-term care space? Not a chance. From his house, he uses binoculars to spy on an Alpine Ibex who is also struggling with old age. He worries about the Ibex, but cherishes his ability to relate to the world outside. Between advanced but invasive care and quality of life, Fernand chooses quality of life, surrounded by the nature and people he loves.
The choice raises important questions for all health providers who care for the elderly. Are acute care hospitals a good setting for people like Fernand? Is there a better way? A consensus is emerging between hospitals, community healthcare providers, caregivers and care coordinators such as the Community Care Access Network: once they have treated seniors, acute care hospitals are not well suited to providing them the comfort, dignity and quality of life they should expect. Home, where patients can enjoy the independence from which so much of their dignity derives, along with the company of loved ones, is better. That is why our social workers – along with our leadership and a host of other health professionals – are working with the Community Care Access Network, the Local Health Integration network and other partners in health to implement Home First. Home First is a new approach to care that immediately starts the discussion, upon admission to hospital, about the best place and options available to patients and families after discharge. The approach puts every stakeholder in the system on the same page, seeking ways to reintegrate elderly patients into the community as promptly, compassionately and safely as possible. To find out more, visit http://champlainlihin.on.ca 446012
Resident honoured for artwork Woman ‘went back to roots’ with latest career DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN daniel.bowman@metroland.com
Barrhaven resident Sue Dwyer has always loved painting, but it wasn’t until recently that she decided to incorporate her passion into her career. Judging from her newfound fame, Dwyer is glad she did. The 43-year-old will be part of the International Women’s Day Centenary gala on March 8 after her painting “Serene Goddess on the Loose” was selected from submits from around the world. The gala will take place in Ayr, Ont., just west of Cambridge. Dwyer completed her painting – just like the other 100 artists – on a two-footby-two-foot canvas. She had her daughter Aryn, 7, pose as a young woman sitting in prayer to help reflect what a female means to her. Now her work will be professionally critiqued for the first time, since she took up art as a hobby when she was six. “I’ve never really participated in an actual show,” she said. A graduate of Sheridan College’s technical illustration program, Dwyer immediately got a job in advertising once she received her diploma. But Dwyer decided to resume her artistry five years ago because she had trouble finding adequate childcare for her son William, 9, when he was diagnosed with
autism. So Dwyer quit her job and started her new career by painting whimsical animals. Now she mainly does commissioned work – either large portraits or murals – tailored towards children through her home-based company Suzie Q Designs. “I needed to find an outlet for me to do,” she said. “So I went back to my roots.” While she admits going from a steady job to sporadic work was a little daunting at first, Dwyer loves a lifestyle that has also included painting characters and designs on the walls of Two Monkeys Coffee & Tea House in Barrhaven and Cheeky Monkeys Playhouse in Kemptville – the latter of which has over 100 bits and pieces of work. “I paint between six and eight hours a day,” she said. As she waits until March, Dwyer is busy painting furniture for customers and mentoring young artists looking to get their portfolios ready for Canterbury High School. She’s also fostering the creativity of her two children, each of whom have a work station in her basement studio. However, Dwyer is quick to point out, neither William nor Aryn need much guidance. “It’s in their genes,” she said with a laugh. For photos, see www.yourottawaregion.com
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