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For more than six months after Greely resident Alex Hayes was killed by a drunk driver, his family and friends have desperately searched for answers. Those struggles will continue, stepfather Mark Lesaux said, after the driver was sentenced in an Ottawa courtroom on March 18. Samira Daoud, 41, was sentenced to six years behind bars for impaired driving causing death, plus 30 days concurrent for a breach of probation. Ontario Court Justice Célynne Dorval also barred Daoud for driving for 10 years. “I’m not happy with the decision,” Lesaux said. “As far as I’m concerned when you decide to get behind the wheel and drive, it’s like a loaded gun. It should be considered murder. “When you kill somebody and take somebody’s life, how can you justify six years of jail… my son’s gone for life. I just don’t understand the logic.” Daoud was driving at over three times the legal limit when she hit Hayes on Sept. 9. Hayes was cycling home on Bank Street – just south of Mitch Owens Road – shortly after he left his shift at MacKinnon’s Foodland at 9 p.m. See ‘Judge’, page 4
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Mark Lesaux, stepfather of Alex Hayes, comforts Hayes’s brother Logan Deliabio outside the Ottawa Courthouse after learning of Samira Daoud’s sentence on March 18.
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Woodroofe to Cresthaven via Chapman Mills, Beatrice, Strandherd, Longfields and Marketplace to the new southwest Transitway at Barrhaven Centre • Route 177 will travel in both directions along Kilbirnie, Dundonald and Greenbank, instead of in a one-way loop • Route 181 will be cancelled because Route 173 will offer service to Bayshore instead • Route 186 will be shortened to end at Barrhaven Centre to allow people at access the new southwest Transitway and other local routes Express route changes include: • Route 70 will be shortened to start on Maravista at Cedarview before traveling along Maravista to Weybridge to its regular route • Route 71 will run in the opposite direction through the community to link up with the new southwest Transitway • Route 73 will be shortened to start on Strandherd Drive at Jockvale • Route 76 will now start on Kennevale at Cobble Hill and travel along Kennevale to its regular route • Route 77 will travel on Oriska Way and the new southwest Transitway to/ from Fallowfield Station in the morning and afternoon See the OC Transpo website: www.octranspo1.com for a list of meetings.
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Thousands of dollars will be invested into the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre for renovations to enhance the services for Somali, Haitian and Arab new immigrants in the community. The $324,000 dollar investment will provide the centre with one year of funding for the renovation costs at the centre. The announcement was made on March. 21 by Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli after a tour of the partially renovated space at the health centre. The funding is provided through the Community Capital Fund, a $50 milliondollar investment plan through the Ontario government and is administered through the Ontario Trillium fund. “This is creating tremendous services for this community... and makes a connection with the new people coming here and the people who are already here,” Chiarelli said. Executive director Wanda MacDonald gave Chiarelli a tour of the renovations and is overjoyed at the progress at the centre so far and looks forward when they will be able to provide more ser-
vices and aid in making some of their existing services such as the volunteer program even better. “Four hundred and fifty active volunteers and it is a strongly growing program that offers a variety of different placements for people, putting their skills to work,” MacDonald said. At the health centre, MacDonald explains they offer international trained professionals a chance to work with staff and other organizations to have the opportunity to follow in the career field they are most interested in. Northern Lights Educational Services also received a grant of $109,600. “This will certainly give us a good chance to provide better quality services for the communities in the west for our youth and newcomers for sure,” Arif Akpinar Northern Lights Educational Services operates out of the health centre and gives support for newcomers in the west end of Ottawa. The funding will help the non-forprofit organization complete the needed reconstruction to offer a fully accessible space and strengthen the language and job search services at the centre over the course of one year.
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Judge: guilty plea an ‘important mitigating factor’ Continued from front His body wasn’t found until just after midnight the next morning, where after being thrown nearly 40 metres from the spot of the collision, investigators believe Hayes was likely killed instantaneously. Lesaux said both his wife Penny – Hayes’s mom – and his son Shane, 14, could not face returning to court after hearing some of the facts during the last hearing on Feb. 28. “I think it’s giving people the wrong impression,” Lesaux said of the sentence. “It’s telling people that it’s OK to drink and drive and kill.” The crown had sought a jail term of seven to 10 years, while the defence countered with three to six. Daoud pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death on Dec. 15. Dorval said the guilty plea was an “important mitigating factor” in her decision. “I accept that she is genuinely remorseful for her actions and that her pleas and subsequent attitude at the detention centre are indicative of that remorse,” she said. Lesaux said he was skeptical of her remorse because he saw Daoud wave and smile to her family members. She sat in the prisoner’s box wearing a white shirt and grey pants and mostly covered her mouth and chewed her fingernails. Dorval cited precedents ranging from four years for a person with an exemplary background to eight years for a youthful offender who caused the death of two children and a young person as reasoning for her verdict. She outlined 10 aggravating factors: • Daoud has a prior criminal record for impaired driving from August 2006, and has 13 total counts of breach of court orders – mostly alcohol-related. • She was on probation at the time of the collision. • She was supposed to abstain from consumption of alcohol.
• She was driving with a suspended licence, having been so since July 1999. • Her blood alcohol was nearly three times the legal limit – .23 milligrams per 100 millilitres – and was unresponsive and rude to police officers. • She told police she had no idea she had hit anyone. (Because of the distance Hayes had travelled when he was hit, Dorval felt was “further evidence of her intoxication.”) • She was offered a ride home and chose to drive. • She had open alcohol in her vehicle. • She was driving erratically as evident by numerous 911 calls on Sept. 9. • She has shown an inability to sustain sobriety. Dorval said Daoud’s “horrendous childhood” was considered. She was born in a small village in Ethiopia, publically circumcised at a young age, was wed through an arranged marriage to a much older man when she was 12. She was required to take care of her nine siblings and repeatedly raped as a young woman. “The Court does not condone, but understands why she is addicted to alcohol,” she said. “Once again, however, I must distinguish the addiction to alcohol from the act of driving. “The nature and frequency of Ms. Daoud’s contacts with the police over alcohol-related issues do show that when she relapses, she drinks to such excess that she poses a danger for herself and others. She chose to drive her vehicle and put other lives at risk. That decision is independent of her addiction to alcohol. Her actions in this context carry a high level of moral blameworthiness.” Prior to Dorval entering the courtroom, friends and family were asked to remove or cover their “More time for the Crime” T-shirts, which they had also worn at the last appearance. She called the shirts “inappropriate.”
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“This is akin to a political protest in the courtroom, in the same manner as if they had attempted to hold up placards, which would never have been permitted,” she said. “Given the sensititives of this cause and the trauma suffered by the victim’s family, I chose not to ask them to leave the courtroom (on Feb. 28). “This type of demonstration should never occur again.” While Dorval said only the court facts played into her ruling, she said the horrendous impact that Hayes’s death has had on his family and the community played into the ruling. “Alex was a very unique and special young man who supported his mother in every way he could,” she said. “They were very close and his has left his mother in emotional turmoil which affects every aspect of her life. The extended family has witnessed the devastation that the death of Alex has caused. The number of citizens who chose to attend the sentencing hearing, in support of the family, reflects the community’s interest in the Court’s decision on sentencing.” Hayes’s aunt Sue Hosson said Penny has been overwhelmed by the support of the Greely community. She has undergone counselling since her son’s death. “Any mother can relate to losing their children,” she said. “It’s such a tragedy.” A tragedy the immediate family is still trying to cope with. “I wanted to scream,” Lesaux said when he first heard the sentence. “Nothing’s going to change it. Nothing’s going to bring Alex back. Alex is gone. It brings a little bit of closure, it’s never going to go away. I walk by his bedroom everyday, I see his pictures everyday. The feelings are never going to go away. I’m always going to be lost without him. That’s never going to change anything. I’m scarred for life. My family’s scarred for life.”
Friends and family of Alex Hayes are determined to have his death signify a change in the legal system. Almost 1,000 people have joined the Facebook group “more time for the crime...alex hayes,” with some members vowing to write their local MPs and MPPs in an attempt to see tougher sentences levied against impaired drivers who cause death. Many in attendance at the sentensingsigned a petition after the verdict. “It landed exactly where I thought it would,” Hayes’s aunt Sue Hosson said. “I didn’t expect to come here and feel relief.” As Hosson and others – namely Hayes’s stepfather Lesaux who is calling for a maximum sentence – prepare to lobby federal and provincial politicians in advances of future elections, she admits she has another thought on her mind. Hosson added she is concerned for students at Hayes’s school, the Ottawa Technical Learning Centre, and plans to make a presentation to them in the near future regarding substance abuse. Hosson stressed that she is not upset at Daoud, given her addiction to alcohol because of her bad upbringing. “Sentencing is not the only issue, it’s the addiction,” she said. “Nobody wins here today, including Samira’s family. “She (Daoud) has to live with that guilt for the rest of her life.” Hosson said she understood Ontario Court Justice Célynne Dorval’s decision to disallow the “More time for the Crime” T-Shirts at the March 18 sentencing, despite the fact people were allowed to wear them at the previous hearing. She felt their message was felt on Feb. 28. “This little thing accomplished quite a bit,” Hosson said. - Daniel Nugent-Bowman
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Shots fired in Barrhaven STAFF Two people are facing charges after a gunshot was fired into a Barrhaven house in the early-morning hours on March 20. The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit said the incident occurred at the 100 block of Tartan Drive and that the shot was likely fired from a next-door neighbour into the residence. The police obtained a search warrant and seized a prohibited firearm and sev-
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trucks from using the bridge, the 25 to 28 per cent reduction in AND EMMA JACKSON traffic on Bridge Street will accrue,” Tansley said. “I think you might actually This is the first in a three-part see an increase in transport series of articles examining the trucks. But I hope I’m dead effects of the new Strandherdwrong about that. It’s dangerous Armstrong bridge. This first enough walking as a pedestrian week examines the bridge’s logison Bridge Street now.” tics. Next week’s installment will Rideau-Goulbourn coun. look at the impact the new bridge Scott Moffatt is in agreement will have on school boundaries. with Tansley. “I am skeptical on that beIn the never-ending lead-up cause I’m extremely familiar to the Strandherd-Armstrong with the road and I know that bridge’s completion scheduled the majority of traffic comes for March 2012, the vast strucfrom the through traffic from ture has been lauded for the imBoundary Road,” Moffatt said, pacts its expected to have duradding that the city will conduct ing peak-time traffic. a study on the bridge’s effectiveBut while the bridge should ness once it’s built. “Nothing’s pay immediate dividends to resgoing to change that. It doesn’t idents in Riverside South and take a rocket scientist to look at Barrhaven, those in neighboura map and see that Manotick is ing Manotick aren’t expecting the shortest point between the similar results. two major roads. Construction began on the “I’m hopeful that we do get 141-metre-long overpass – which some good results and it allevisome critics have branded a ates some of the pressure for bridge that runs “from nowhere the long term. to nowhere” Then we’ll – in fall 2010. have to look The $48-milat more longlion Building “It will be better than term options Canada project – split equally nothing if it works, but to really address the probbetween the if it doesn’t, it’ll be a lems on Bridge three levels of Street.” g o v e r n m e n t disaster. ” Tansley said – has been nearly 20 years Brian Tansley those problems will only in the making, intensify in started as an the coming idea to link the years. City of Nepean A retirement residence, (now Barrhaven) and the City Manotick Villa on the Rideau, of Gloucester (now Riverside is slated to open on the street South). in late 2012, equipped with 126 The six lanes of traffic – two rooms, 41 underground parkbus lanes, two cycling lanes, ing spots and 11 surface area and pair of recreational paths spaces. – are also supposed to take trafAdditionally, phase one of a fic off of the Hunt Club bridge five-part Minto development and Manotick’s Bridge Street will begin in the spring, which bridge. The city review is callwill add 210 homes in the viling for a 25 to 28 per cent traffic lage. In total, 1,400 homes are reduction during peak hours. expected to be built within the However, one year away from next decade. completion, not everyone sees it Tansley estimates at least that way. 2,500 more cars will be on the Manotick Village and Comroads as a result. munity Association president “It’ll be right back up to the Brian Tansley said much of the unacceptable level that it’s at traffic congestion in the village is now, even if the Strandherdcaused by transport trucks comArmstrong bridge works,” he ing from Montreal. The trucks said. “It’s not really a solution aim to bypass Highway 417 in for us. It’ll be better than nothOttawa by exiting at Boundary ing if it works, but if it doesn’t Road and heading west, using it’ll be a disaster.” Manotick as the quickest access Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre point to Highway 416. Poilievre, however, feels the Given that Manotick is essentially a straight line westbridge will help limit the traffic ward, with only two small turns in Manotick. He said city numonto Manotick Main Street and bers indicate 500 less vehicles Bankfield Road, truckers are will be on Bridge Street during likely to continue to head over peak hours. Bridge Street. “For Manotick it’s about re“Unless there’s something seducing traffic in the village,” rious on Bridge Street to calm Poilievre said. “Right now, south the traffic to otherwise dissuade of Hunt Club, there’s no way to or discourage the transport get across the river without go-
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Construction on the Strandherd-Armstrong bridge is in the early stages. It is scheduled for completion in March, 2012. ing through Manotick. A lot of trucks are winding their way through the narrow streets of the village to try and get themselves across the river. That causes some congestion, particularly at the corner of Bridge Street and Main Street.” River Ward councillor Maria McRae, whose southern communities suffer from very congested peak hour traffic along Hunt Club Road, said the new bridge will make a significant impact on the Hunt Club overpass. “Residents of Riverside South and Barrhaven will no longer have to go north to cross the river. So you eliminate any driver who went north just to cross the bridge. A lot of them are going
to end up going south to the 416, so fundamentally we’re going to change traffic patterns just by building that bridge.” Gloucester South-Nepean councillor Steve Desroches said he’s looking forward to how the bridge will tie Ottawa South communities closer together. “This is really about binding my ward. I’m one of the few councillors who has to leave his ward to get from one end to the other. “This is about connecting two communities,” he said. “Really the option of not having a bridge is not sustainable. Having a bridge would serve the growth that we’re experiencing right now and will experience
in the future.” Desroches added that the bridge will allow better access for emergency vehicle drivers who currently rely on the same congested bridges that residents do. It will make for more efficient transit routes that can connect to the southwest transit way in Barrhaven rather than having to go all the way to the southeast transit way in South Keys. “Our city’s history is a history of bridges, because of the river networks that crisscross the capital,” Desroches said. “We rely on bridges to connect our community, and they’re needed to connect our transit networks.”
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Ten students from Ottawa Christian School’s Grades 7 and 8 have been chosen to compete in Ottawa Regional Science Fair at Carleton University on April 1 and 2. OCS students had their biannual science fair projects judged at the school on March 8. There were 35 competitors in the event. “Students were encouraged to choose their topic and begin their projects in December. There were three categories students could choose from; a study, experiment or innovation. From there, the project could be done on anything that interested the student,” said George Hoytema, Grade 8 teacher. A team of 20 scientists and engineers from the school’s community judged the projects. Students were interviewed by the judges to evaluate what they learned about their subject. They were also judged on the visual quality of their display and the scientific method they used in doing their project. “Some students went to great effort to use scientific methods such as sample size and keeping experiments consistent,” commented one of the judges. Hoytema said most students tend to do the experiments and also said that the there was a wide range of topics. “It starts with an interest they have,” said Hoytema. “Then
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These four students from Ottawa Christian School will advance to the Ontario Christian Schools Science Fair at Redeemer College University. They are Mikaela Hummel, Jonathan Hoytema, Chris Berti and Nathaniel Adams. they have to see if (they) can find a way to test it.” Grade 8 student, Simon Thompson did his project on making a paper glide float on a wave of air. Simon said his favourite part was “designing and testing the flight.” He also added the hardest part was “coming up with a conclusion about the way the air affected the flight.” Another Grade 8 student, Silke Kubanek calculated and compared carbon impact on a conventionally-made chicken burger and compared it to a locally made chicken burger.
“It was interesting to look at the results. The conventionallymade chicken burger produced five times more carbon,” said Silke. The hardest part of the project was the math and converting different units of measurements. She also said she was nervous about the questions asked by the judges. All the grades participated in the science fair, showcasing their particular projects to parents and teachers. However, only Grade 7 and 8 projects were judged. A parent noted that their
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children gain confidence and perseverance when competing at the Science Celebration. The students are able to pick a topic that is of interest to them, and as they do their research they gain confidence and knowledge in it. Perseverance comes into play because the process for research, experiments and presentation takes time, sometimes a lot more than expected.” “One of the things that is unique is we’re coming at everything from a Christian perspective,” said Principal, Paul Triemstra. He said events like the science celebration are great because “students get excited about their work” and it provides students with an opportunity to “really dig into their work and talk about this world as being God’s world.” He added despite the school being smaller than public schools, “the students do very well.” The top ten students will move on to the Ottawa Regional Science fair and the top four students will compete at Redeemer
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have pushed her much closer to the eight-year mark. To review, this is a woman – as outlined by Dorval’s 10 aggravating factors during her reasoning in court – that has a prior criminal record for impaired driving, was on probation at the time of the offence and was driving with a suspended licence. At the time of the collision, her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit. She does not remember hitting Hayes despite the fact that he was thrown almost 40 metres from the crash site. Earlier that evening, she declined a ride home and was driving erratically to the point where numerous witnesses called 911. Sure, Daoud has had a troubled past, which one wouldn’t wish upon anyone, that has led to her alcoholism. But as Dorval said, “I must distinguish the addiction from the act of driving.” Daoud likely didn’t when she started her truck on Sept. 9. And given these short sentences, neither have the courts to date.
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ostalgia, as they always say, is not what it used to be. In fact, it is becoming bigger. We used to think of nostalgia as having to do with big cars with tail fins, the Cold War and dance bands on Saturday night. Now, as our society changes at a rapid clip, more and more things we used to think of as the latest thing are heading for nostalgia land. The printed book, perhaps. Maybe the daily newspaper, at least on paper. Look what is already there: television sets that are too heavy to carry, VCRs, CDs and — suddenly — video stores. Remember the chain video store on the corner? Look again. Your grandchildren won’t remember them. And here’s a question: will they have any memory of baseball? Various events bring this thought on. The days are suddenly long and with that comes an urge to play outside after supper. Mind you, this being Ottawa, playing outside would mean playing in the slush, but still, it could be baseball any day now. At a gathering of a particularly intense group of fans the other night, an audio tape of an old baseball game was playing.
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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town Remember audio tape? It was a Montreal Expos game played in the early autumn of 1986, the last game with Duke Snider in the broadcast booth. Snider, a great outfielder and a great broadcaster, died late last month. You don’t have to be ridiculously old to remember when the voices of Snider and Dave Van Horne, calling the Expos games on Ottawa’s country music station, were the sound of summer. Snider went away in 1986. The Expos went away in the season of 2005. Only country music radion seems to have thrived. You can’t say the same for baseball, especially in this country. The Expos are gone. The Blue Jays have not been drawing anything like the crowds they did in the last millennium. What used to be known as the Lynx Stadium has no Lynx in it. Baseball
there fights for survival while the parking lot shrinks. In our neighbourhood, the park across the street, which used to be busy with Little League ball every night, now has soccer (and an terrifying array of minivans parked beside it). It is true that huge salaries are still made by baseball players south of the border and huge profits are made by owners and broadcasters and the people who resell tickets on the Internet. But the ordinary person has lost the ability to identify with millionaires and billionaires, particularly when the behaviour of many of them has been less than exemplary. Their pictures are not taped onto kids’ bedroom walls. Worse than the lack of adulation is the lack of emulation. Kids still want to be Sidney Crosby. Do they want to be Roy Halliday? The game won’t survive if people don’t play it. Even in the U.S., there are signs that young athletes are turning to basketball or football, rather than baseball. Here it is hockey, of course, and, increasingly, soccer, and, even more increasingly, stuff kids play while sitting in front of a computer screen. It is not fun to consider baseball as something we used to do, like square
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dancing or renting videos. The game, while considered too slow by some and not violent enough by others, has many qualities that other games lack. Unlike hockey, it has no clutch-and-grab, no headshots. Unlike football, coaches do not send in the plays. Oddly, athletes and fans in other countries are finding this out, while baseball edges into nostalgia in North America. In Asia and Latin America, particularly, baseball is hot. Here, we miss the Expos and we miss what used to be the enthusiasm for the Blue Jays. We miss seeing kids in the park across the way learning how to field ground balls. The nostalgia grows as the days get longer.
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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, Australia in 2007, asks individuals to turn off the lights and reduce their energy use for an hour on March 26, from 8:30 to 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 conservation officer Roger Marsh put it at City Hall’s unveiling of an Earth Hour banner on March 7. This is the fourth consecutive year that Ottawa will take part in the event. Hosted by the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), Earth Hour saw a record 128 countries participating in 2010. But there is always room for improvement, said Paulette Roberge, head of communication for Ottawa’s WWF bureau. “The main focus this year is to try to get Canadians to think beyond the hour,” she said. “Yes, we’ve had a very success-
ful campaign since 2007, but it’s not enough to have people do it for only one hour.” Canadians should think of ways to minimize carbon emissions 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 ten nations contributing to climate change, and we don’t have to be,” she said. Many large businesses across the city will participate by turning off the lights in their buildings, Roberge said. Canadians at home can do the same, perhaps dusting off their board games and lighting some candles. Last year, Hydro Ottawa measured a six per cent decrease in electricity use, which is enough to power 58 homes for a month. The provincial average of energy 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 WWF website at wwf. ca/earthhour.
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An Ottawa soldier killed two years ago in Afghanistan is one step closer to being immortalized in Riverside South, after Gloucester South-Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches put up signs marking the future spot of Brian Good Avenue. Barrhaven resident Trooper Brian Good left behind a wife and two teenaged daughters when he was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in January 2009. Last week, Desroches erected two large signs on Earl Armstrong Drive between Spratt and River roads in Riverside South that read “Future Avenue – Lest We Forget” with an image of the future street sign bearing his name. The road is slated for construction around 2012, depending on how development progresses in the rapidly growing suburb. Desroches said he wanted to start commemorating the soldier as soon as possible. “I was concerned that that road was still several years away so I took the initiative to have the city develop some temporary signs that would honour Trooper Brian Good and his sacrifice,” Desroches said, noting that local developer Urbandale partnered with the City of Ottawa to cover the approximately $500 it cost to make the temporary signs. The trooper’s wife Sandra Good, who still lives in Barrhaven with 17-year-old daughter Jessica and 15-year-old Kayla, said she hasn’t seen the signs yet but expects it will cause a mixed reaction for her and her family. “It’s sad on one point because it brings back the loss, but also he would be so proud. He wanted to serve his country and he was very proud of
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New signs demark the coming of Brian Good Avenue, named for a local soldier who was killed in Afghanistan in January 2009. the work he was doing, so he would be very honoured,” she said. “It’s just really nice, especially for my girls, to see that their dad wasn’t just forgotten.” Sandra Good first participated in commemorating her late husband at a ceremony in November 2009 where the city announced plans for the road sign. “It’s quite touching, me and the girls were just thrilled. Of course we want to honour his memory in this way,” she said, noting that they will likely visit the temporary signs as a family in the near future, as an act of remembrance. “We’ll all go together, and be there for support.” Desroches said the road will be similar to Spratt Road, with residences backing onto it and some commercial development. “Certainly a lot of people will see the street and recognize the sign,” he said.
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Beyond the tap: a look at the city’s drinking water JENNIFER MCINTOSH jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com
Most of us don’t think about how the water in our tap gets there every day, but according to Tammy Rose, manager of drinking water services for the city, every household gets an average of one cubic metre of water pumped to their home daily. The cost for that averages out to about $1.27 versus the nearly $2 it costs for half a litre of bottled water. The Britannia Water Purification plant draws from the Ottawa River, which is a large watershed — measuring 146,300 square kilometres — or bigger than the surface area of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island combined. Rose described the water source as pristine, with virtually no outside pollutants. “A lot of the tea colour comes from organic decay,” she said. “And there are microbials.” Rose said the city uses the five elements of a safe water drinking system developed out of a report on the E. coli contamination in Walkerton, Ont. in 2000. The first step starts with the source water, or the Ottawa River and keeping it as clean as possible. The second step is treatment barriers. “The key is to have many parts to the treatment so even if one part fails, the other ones are still in operation,” Rose said. During this stage the river water is treated with sulphuric acid and alum — a compound used in Roman times to treat water. Then flocculation happens, where the particles come out of suspension in the form of floc or flakes and the particles are removed. Then fine particles are removed through filtration. Next the water is disinfected with sodium hydrochloride and then chlorinated with carbon dioxide, ammonia and fluoride. Finally, chloramine, a combination of chlorine and ammonia, is now added to the water before it travels through the distribution system. Chloramine is an effective and longlasting disinfecting agent that is safe for drinking, cooking and bathing.
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An inside look the Britannia Water Puirification plant that draws from the Ottawa River. Once water is treated, it is sent into the transmission system, then to water storage and finally consumed. “The chloramine helps to preserve the water and keep it clean as it travels through the system,” Jim Guthmann, the Britannia plant manager, said. “Sometimes the water can travel from treatment to a home in minutes, but in some cases it takes up to 10 days to go to areas like Manotick.” The third step in the multiple-barrier process is the distribution system. The city maintains 2,850 km of water main and more than 206,000 services — including valving, hydrants, leak detection and cathodic protection — all of which are 100 per cent monitored. Rose said that the whole system is pressurized; meaning that in the case of the January break of Woodroffe Avenue’s water main, the system shoots water out, rather than taking in possibly contaminated ground water. “It’s virtually impossible for ground water to get into the system,” she said. As part of the fourth step, the city performs 100,000 water quality tests per year, with 300 test parameters — including
physical, microbiological, chemical and aesthetic — and all the data is reported to the public annually. The fifth step is to have properly certified personnel. The requirement, which became part of the recommendation, once the inquiry into the Walkerton incident found that Stan Koebel, plant manager did not have sufficient training. The incident killed seven people from E. coli contamination and made 2,500 people ill. At Britannia the city employs 170 treatment and distribution operators who receive 40 to 50 hours of training per year. The Britannia plant treats about 289 megalitres of water per day. The Lemieux Island plant does about 400 megalitres per day. Despite the media attention over sewage overflow, the water in Ottawa’s drinking water was rated as one of the safest in the world in the Ministry of Environment’s chief drinking water inspector’s 2006-07 annual report, released in June 2008. “We have the fourth cleanest drinking water in the world,” Rose said. Travelling the marble hallways of the
Britannia plant, it could be mistaken for a museum rather than a water treatment plant. But, just down the hall is a series of settling tanks where the water sits once the filtration process is started. The temperature is a cool 10 degrees Celsius and a staff member says that in this early stage sometimes fish can still be found in the water. The water is moved around in steel and concrete tubs to be filtered and mixed with alum. The water is then sent to “settling tanks” where the floc settles and moves to the bottom to have the particles removed and sent to waste management. Once the water is filtered and settled, it continues along the system to be chlorinated and finally out into the system. The blackout in 2003 or major ice storms haven’t been able to stop the plant’s operations, which are backed up by a large natural gas generator and several diesel ones. Some of the challenges for the facility include aging infrastructure and an aging workforce — along with the challenges of climate change which could change the pathogens in the water. But, all in all, the Britannia plant runs like a finely-tuned machine, with constant surveillance and a smaller scale test plant to try out new treatment possibilities. “It’s a really great thing to have,” Dixon Weir, manager of drinking water services said. “We can test out things like Ozone on a dinky scale. In that case we found it didn’t offer an advantage and were able to avoid a multi-million dollar test.” Weir said the city is in good shape and extends services to the Township of Russell. Council approved the extension of the City of Ottawa’s drinking water supply to Russell in 2006. The existing Township municipal residential drinking water system serves Embrun, Russell and Marionville. Weir said that extended to the provision of drinking water supply about a year ago. “They found that having us (City of Ottawa) taking care of their drinking water to be a better investment,” he said. “So obviously we are doing a good job.”
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“This conference is an opportunity not to be missed,” said Joyce Drouin, Elder Abuse Prevention Coordinator at NROCRC. “Knowledge is power, and the way to prevent elder abuse is to be informed and aware of the ‘many paths’ or options available to support seniors and caregivers when elder abuse is evident.” Interested seniors and service providers will participate in a solution focused dialogue about elder abuse and its devastating effects on victims and families alike. Key note speaker, the Honourable Judge André Cousineau, will provide a testimonial of “Seniors Help-
Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre (NROCRC) is hosting a conference “Courage is Contagious: Strength of Seniors” on Wednesday April 13 at the Travelodge Ottawa Hotel and Conference Centre at 1376 Carling Ave. Funded by Justice Canada, the conference will address issues of elder abuse at the local level. The conference is part of the National Victims of Crime Awareness Week from April 10 to 16.
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MARCH 31 The Friends of the Jock River will be holding their Annual General Meeting on at 7:30 at the community meeting room (upstairs) at Loblaws in Barrhaven. Come on out to hear plans for the new year, including river clean-ups, a spring tree plant at scenic Twin Elm on the Jock and a guided tour of the Richmond Fen. For more info, 613 823 3643 or visit www. jockriver.org.
APRIL 2 Free community volunteer income tax clinic from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Live and Learn Resource Centre in Metcalfe. Trained volunteers can help you complete your income tax and benefit returns. To make an appointment, contact Kim Ethier at ketheir@nrocrc.org, or 613 596-5626, ext. 303.
APRIL 6 Greely Gardeners Group monthly meeting will be held at the Greely Community Centre, 7 p.m.1448 Meadow
Drive, Greely. Discover new and exotic trees and shrubs that will grow well in our area. Annual membership is $10, or $2 for visitors. For information call Gary at 613-821-7445 or www. greelygardeners.org.
APRIL 15 The Manotick Legion Branch 314, is hosting an Easter dinner and celebrating spring with a dinner of ham, chef salad, rolls, corn and green beans. Chocolate cheesecake is slated for dessert along with tea and coffee for $18 per person. The price is $18 each and everyone
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APRIL 16 Barrhaven Family Resource Centre’s children’s used toy, equipment and clothing sale at École Secondaire Catholique Pierre-Savard, 1110 Longfields Dr. Cash sales only. From 9 a.m. to noon.
ONGOING Every Friday at 8 p.m. Darts Night at the Greely Legion. This is a fun group and not part of a league. Open to all.
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John Batson plays the eccentric chocolate inventor in the Greely Players’ version of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, which opened March 23. Tickets are available for performances running until March 27 at the Greely Community Centre.
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The 2010-11 season is officially over for the Nepean Raiders. Back-to-back 5-2 losses to the Brockville Braves in Games 6 and 7 on March 16 and 18 spelled the end of their first-round Central Canada Hockey League series. The Raiders got off to a 2-0 lead after Photo by Daniel Nugent-Bowman the first period of Game 7 thanks to goals Brockville Braves centre David Roy celebrates his first-period power-play goal on Nepean by defencemen Ryan Johnston and Zach Raiders goaltender Dan Altshuller at the Nepean Sportsplex in Game 6 on March 16. Carriveau and carried a 2-1 advantage into the third period. However, goals by Mark Belvedere, Sebastien Gingras and David Roy put the Braves up by two, before Belvedere potted his second of the game into an empty net. Nepean also saw a lead slip away in Game 6. The Raiders allowed a five-on-three goal F I N A N C I A L to open the game off the stick of Roy, but We specialize in all areas of lifestyle protection, as well as your financial Buddy Robinson and Kenneth Neil scored 34 seconds apart at the beginning of the growth which is why you should deal with Dolphin Financial. We advocate second period to put them up 2-1. on your behalf to ensure that you have the best value on the market. The Raiders looked to be slowly taking over the game after a sluggish start and were on the power play after Gingras was called for interference. Scott Domenico appeared to score past fallen Braves goaltender William Betts 211 Stoneway Drive at the end of the man advantage, but www.dolphinfinancial.ca the goal was immediately waved off by Nepean, Ontario 613.791.1NOW (1669) referee Chris Hodgins. Hodgins deemed dolphinfinancial@bell.blackberry.ca K2G 6R2 that Domenico had interfered with Betts
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by knocking him over, and penalized the Raiders forward as well. Braves’ Colin MacLean and Maxime Dumond scored in the final minutes of the second to allow Brockville to carry a 3-2 lead into the intermission. The Raiders tried desperately to tie the game early in the third, but everything unravelled around the midway mark. Cowie was called for a crossing all the sideboards of the defensive end, which incensed coaches and players on the Raiders’ bench because a Braves player had tripped defenceman Zach Carriveau just seconds before and the play went unpenalized. Tyson Wilson scored just 12 seconds into Cowie’s infraction. Power-play advantages were 10-2 in favour of Brockville. The Raiders won Game 5 in Brockville 3-2 on March 15 to move to within one game from a spot in the semifinal where they would have faced the Pembroke Lumber Kings. Cowie recorded three points while goaltender Dan Altshuller made 49 saves in the Game 5 win. Without leading scorer Brent Norris, who was out with an undisclosed injury, Cowie and Domenico stepped up their offensive games mightily. Each chipped in with 11 points in seven games, putting them just one point behind Cornwall Colts’ Jacob Laliberte for the overall lead.
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ROCKIN’ OUT March Break camp at the Nepean Sportsplex was well attended last week. Pictured are participants in the LEGO Camp who took part in curling activities on March 17. They are Nicholas Jones, Arryn Spriggs, instructor Kelsey Seal and Michael Sheehan.
Applications being accepted for Nepean Hotspurs tourney STAFF In conjunction with its 41st anniversary, the Nepean Hotspurs Soccer Club announced that the 17th Nepean Hotspurs Friendship Tournament will be held on the weekend of June 11–12. Teams must register using the tournament online registration system, which can be accessed through the Hotspurs web site at www.hotspurs. on.ca. Teams will be registered on a first come first served basis. Participating teams are guaranteed a minimum of three games. The tournament is open to club teams with players in good standing and registered in the tournament class with their respective District/Provincial Associations, Leagues, or Federations. Teams playing in an Ontario Soccer Association (OSA) Level 2 League or higher (and equivalent level teams from other provinces (such as “AA” in Quebec)) are not eligible for entry into this tournament. Teams playing in an Ontario Soccer Association (OSA) Level 3 League are eligible to apply but will only be accepted if there are sufficient teams to form an L3 age group, or if they can be placed in an L4 group in a higher age group. Entry fees, cheque or money order, of $330 (U9U11), or, $395 (U12-U18) per team should be made payable to “Nepean Hotspurs Soccer Club”. The closing date for applications is Sunday, May 15.
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