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Child care advocates confront minister ‘We can’t afford’ national program: Conservative MP NEVIL HUNT nevil.hunt@metroland.com
South Nepean Park became the backdrop for a political rumble on Aug. 10, with the federal minister of Human Resources and Skills Development taken to task by supporters of a national child care program. Minister Diane Finley arrived at the park to mark the fifth anniversary of the federal government’s universal child care benefit, which currently delivers $100 per month to about 1.5 million families for each child under age six. Child care advocates have called for a federal program to provide government-funded care for children across the country. See WAITING LIST page 4
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ON THE FLY Ottawa’s Phoenix lay it on the line at the Aug. 11 to 14 Canadian Ultimate Championships, earning a bronze medal in the Open class of the event held at Ultimate Parks Inc. in Manotick Station. For coverage of the national event, see page 5.
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If you’ve ever wondered where your lunch comes from, and think the food supply system in Barrhaven could be improved, a community project that launches next week wants your input.
Where’s the Food? is a research and action project that will investigate food issues. How many people go hungry in south Nepean? Do we have a community garden? Are our children eating healthy lunches at school? See SNAPSHOT page 3
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Continued from front Goals of the project include: • Building connections within the community. • Highlight community strengths. • Identify ways the community can enhance the food services and resources that are available. The Where’s the Food? project uses a toolkit developed specifically for Ottawa neighbourhoods to understand the food issues in the community. Volunteers work together to gather information that forms a snapshot of existing food services, programs, and issues that are important in the community. By identifying issues and gaps, the group can use the research to create a plan for action. Over the next few months, the volunteers in the group will meet once a month in Barrhaven. Sreya Roy, a community developer with the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre, said anyone in the community is welcome to take part. The project organizers have invited politicians, business owners, sports associations and food banks to attend the first meeting on Aug. 24. “Anyone who lives or works in Barrhaven,” Roy said about the target group needed to get the project moving. “We want to create awareness
Manotick Legion to host veterans from Afghanistan mission STAFF To mark the end of the Canadian Armed Forces mission in Afghanistan, the Manotick Legion is hosting an event to honour those who sacrificed. As part of a Royal Canadian Legion’s Dominion Command, the Manotick branch is hosting an Afghanistan Veterans Appreciation Day at the Manotick Legion on Sunday, Aug. 21. “They want to send out a message of appreciation to all of our Afghanistan veterans,” Manotick Legion youth education chair and executive committee member Jean Lanouette said.
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If you have an interest in our local food supply, and any gaps or risks, check out the first Where’s the Food? meeting on Aug. 24. and have next steps we hope the community can take forward.” For example, organizers say there are about 43,000 people that receive food from the Ottawa Food Bank each month, but no one knows how many people are hungry in Barrhaven. There are farmers markets, community gardens, and grocery stores all over the city – but how easy are they to get to for people in Barrhaven?
The first community meeting will be held Wednesday, Aug. 24 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the South Nepean Satellite Community Health Centre, 4100 Strandherd Dr. Bus tickets and childcare are available, and meetings will be held in a wheelchair accessible location. For more information about the project, visit www.justfood.ca/foodforall/wheres-the-food
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Waiting list for child care in the thousands: advocate Continued from front They criticize the current system, saying the money is of little use to parents who can’t find a daycare space for their children. Finley spent time defending the government’s decision to hand out monthly cheques instead of creating a federallyrun system. She insisted the issue is choice for parents, and that national daycare would remove that choice. Finley did not address the issue of the cost of a federal program when answering a question about ways to finance a national system. Carleton-Mississippi Mills MP Gordon O’Connor, who was on hand to introduce Finley, provided a frank response to a question after the press conference. He said cost is a critical factor in the government’s decision. “I hope I’m not contradicting what Minister Finley said, but we’ve calculated the cost of a national program to be $16 billion a year,” he said. “That’s $16 billion every year. “We can’t afford that. Governments can’t meet every need, everywhere. It’s parents that decide to have children, not the government.” In addition to the mixed message about why the Harper government has declined to create a fed-
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Carleton-Mississippi Mills MP Gordon O’Connor, left, and Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Diane Finley chat prior to Finley’s speech on Aug. 10 in South Nepean Park. Finley was on hand to mark the fifth anniversary of the universal child care benefit. eral child care program, Finley also had to deal with some vocal critics. As Finley began to speak inside a small tent set up for the occasion, at least five people arrived wearing T-shirts bearing the website name ivotechildcare.ca – a grassroots movement to maintain child care spaces for children under the age of five. Decked out in one of the brilliant yellow shirts, Diane O’Neill – who says
she has worked for more than 30 years in child care – managed to speak to Finley before she left the tent. BARRHAVEN SPACE “I’m really surprised that you would come here to Barrhaven,” O’Neill said, adding that many Barrhaven parents can’t find daycare space for their children. “There are more and more people waiting for child care in
this community.” O’Neill added that “the only daycare spaces being created are for-profit,” which she said affects the quality of care, and asked why the federal government won’t create a national system. In response to O’Neill’s question, Finley said the federal government knows there is a shortage of child care space. “That’s why we have given an additional $250 million to the provinces;
Labour Day event for the family DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN daniel.bowman@metroland.com
The Barrhaven Lions Club is hosting a fun day on Labour Day to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The Sept. 5 event will mostly be focused towards children and will require the assistance of volunteers, Barrhaven Lion and organizer Dave Voisey said. “This year, we’re just going to fund it,” he said of the semi-annual event. “We’re going to have some bounce games and things for kids like balloons and train rides – things like that.” Voisey said the event started about 20 years ago as a fundraising effort for the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s annual telethon. The event used to consist of full-day activities each Labour Day Monday, but eventually had to be scaled back after being cancelled last year. Now the Lions will be accepting donations and will send their own monetary gift to the association afterwards.
“It just became to physically demanding for our club,” Voisey said. In addition to all the children’s activities, which will also include face and finger painting, there will also be a trunk sale where adults can park their cars and sell items stored inside. “It’s always been really focused on the kids before,” Voisey said, “except that we’d have a bingo, a bake sale and a book sale.” Voisey said 20 spots for cars will be reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis. The event will be held in the parking lot of Ross’ Your Independent grocery store at Greenbank Road and Strandherd Drive from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Because there is no rain date, Voisey said he will wait until after 10 a.m. that day to delay or cancel the festivities. “We just wanted to say thanks to the community without bringing them out and having them buy tickets,” he said. Those interested in volunteering can contact Voisey at 613-825-4371 or dvoisey@rogers.com
because we’re trying to help,” the minster said. Asked why the federal government doesn’t combine the money transferred to the provinces with tax credits provided to businesses and use the funds to create a national child care program, Finley said a government program wouldn’t work for all families. She said rural families may have no local child care options, and that parents who work nights or weekends may have no centre available to care for their children while they are on the job. The event wrapped up with Finley cutting a cake, with pieces distributed to a crowd of children gathered in the tent for her speech. Some of the people wearing ivotechildcare.ca T-shirts attempted to stand behind Finley to ensure their message was picked up by news cameras, while
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a lot of practice, and you’ve got to train really hard – there’s no secret. And we want it. We’re very determined.” The Capitals weren’t the only local national medallists. GLUM picked up a silver medal in the masters category, handling all challengers except for Victoria’s Nomads. Ottawa occupied half of the podium’s three steps in the open division, with the Ottawa-Toronto GOAT team taking silver
behind Vancouver’s Furious George, and the Phoenix earning bronze. The Phoenix, for their part, enjoyed home-field advantage for all it was worth. “I had two perfect cups of coffee each morning of the tournament. That’s a big deal,” says captain Luke Phelan, highlighting a good night’s sleep, comfortable surroundings and nutritious meals as other hometown benefits. “And you can’t
complain about perfect weather and perfect fields. It doesn’t get much better.” With a 5:30 a.m. start to each day, and three high-intensity, 90-minute games per day in the heat, the four-day nationals can be downright exhausting. “It’s one of the most physically demanding sports I’ve ever played,” says Phelan, whose squad compiled a 7-2 overall record at nationals. “There is a lot of jostling and a lot of impact
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players is simply that they’re the city’s best. “We’ve played together for awhile, a lot of guys train hard, and you know what? We take it seriously,” says Phelan, adding that off-season training and coaching in the Ottawa Carleton Ultimate Association’s junior ranks to build a new generation of talent is all part of the package. “This isn’t running around in the sun in our flip-flops. We treat it like a real sport, and everyone that joins the team takes it seriously. We put in the time and the work.” Over 1,400 players competed on 68 teams in the nationals five divisions, which also included the mixed category – where Montreal and Vancouver teams took gold and silver – and junior, where Vancouver’s Shock topped Toronto’s Overdrive. The tournament returned to its Ottawa roots for the 25th edition of the event that began with 10 teams in 1987. “Ottawa is the best place to hold a national tournament,” says Di Filippo of Toronto. “Having UPI – a set of fields made for ultimate – is amazing. It should always be here. It’s a great venue, there’s friendly people, and the fields are the best in the country.”
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Ottawa and Toronto are fierce rivals in just about all sports, but in the self-refereed game known for its co-operative nature, a group of 22 ultimate Frisbee players proved the merits of joining forces this past weekend. The Capitals women’s team – made up of an equal number of members from the provincial and national capitals – were rewarded with a trip to next July’s world championships in Japan after winning the Canadian title at the Aug. 11 to 14 nationals event held at Ultimate Parks Inc. in Manotick Station and at Carleton University. “We came together to try to put together a strong team to compete with American teams, to start,” says Carla Di Filippo, noting the Ottawa and Toronto clubs usually only play together in the fall, except in the summer before worlds, which are every four years. “You also need a strong team to compete against the west coast. So in an attempt to try to be Team Canada next year, the Capitals formed.” It’s still quite a challenge for a team to live in different cities, but they alternate visits for practice weekends and the captains of each city’s group regularly communicate with one another. “It’s not easy, but we are doing the same practices, we have the same plays, everything’s the same except we’re just miles apart,” Di Filippo adds. “When we come together, that’s when the magic happens.” That magic was certainly on display at nationals as the Capitals scored the maximum 15 points in all their preliminaryround games en route to a 5-0 record. They then downed Vancouver’s Traffic 14-12 to earn an easier path to the final, where the rematch with Traffic produced a convincing 15-6 victory for the Ontario ladies. “We’re big on fitness,” Di Filippo says, identifying the keys to her squad’s success. “It’s
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Five big lottery winners in Nepean STAFF Nepean has five very happy residents after the Aug. 10 drawing of the 6/49 lottery. Dario Elvina, Nestor Rivada, Ricardo Kalvgdan, Seveniano (Ben) Calingasan and Tim Shanks were among the group fo 18 coworkers at Smart Technologies to share a $7.07-million prize after winning the jackpot in the Aug. 10 Lotto 6/49 draw. Group leader Tim Shanks has diligently been collecting the lottery pool money and buying lottery tickets for the past five years in hopes they would win a big jackpot. Group member Collin Willard was the first to discover they were big winners, only a day after the company they work for in Kanata announced layoffs affecting almost all of the group members, some of whom have been working together for almost 10 years. “I picked up a winning numbers print-
out on my way to work, and I was in the parking lot in my truck when I checked our numbers and saw that we had won the big jackpot,” said Willard. “I started to see a few people going into work that were in the group so I went to tell them, but nobody believed me. They thought it was a joke ticket, especially after the news from the day before.” Shanks and Willard began to share the news immediately with the rest of their coworkers, and then went to the nearest retailer to validate their ticket as a winner. “Word spread around the plant like wildfire,” said Willard. “Most of the people that heard the news were happy for us. We just can’t believe our luck.” “This has removed the stress from so many people’s lives, particularly after the announcement we had at work the day before” said Willard. The winning ticket was purchased at Mac’s Convenience on Moodie Drive in Nepean.
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he Conservative government has dragged its heels on a federal daycare program for years. Instead, the government sends a monthly cheque for $100 to families for every child under age six. Last week, Human Resources and Skills Development Minister Diane Finley stuck to the party line during a press conference in Barrhaven, saying the $100 cheques are all about choice for parents, while a federally-managed system would remove that choice. But what choice does a parent have if there is no child care available to buy? That’s the case for thousands of parents on waiting lists in Ottawa. The numbers across the country are staggering. If you don’t think you have a stake in affordable and accessible child care, you are mistaken. By stepping up with a federal child care system, the government would immediately free up a huge chunk of our potential workforce. Suddenly parents working part-time would be able to work full-time. Other parents who stay home today would immediately have time to work some of the time outside the home.
One government minister at the Barrhaven event last week said cost – not parental choice – is the key issue. Carleton-Mississippi Mills MP Gordon O’Connor said the price tag for federal daycare would be $16 billion annually. But that number – which sounds inflated – would be in part offset by other savings. Add up all the $100 cheques, many of which go to families that don’t need the financial help. Cut out the cheques each month and the government saves about $2.4 billion annually. Remove the tax credit companies receive if they create child care spaces today. The government could also expect an expanded tax base as more people hit the labour market, freed from stay-at-home care. A YWCA report issued in March reviews prior research that concludes that “over the long term, every public dollar invested in quality early learning and child care programs returns $2.54 in benefits to society,” mainly through improving cognitive abilities. The federal government can take the easy way out and insist we can’t afford national child care. But really we can’t afford not to.
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or the last 20 summers, ever since the train ceased to be an affordable option, we have driven the Trans-Canada Highway across northern Ontario to Kenora and sometimes beyond. It’s a trip not enough people take, as you can tell by the increasing number of closed restaurants, motels and gas stations along the way. Last year’s casualty was the Busy Bee, a homey restaurant-gift shop at Nairn Centre, west of Sudbury. This year it’s the Rossport Inn, an adornment to the former fishing village on Lake Superior since 1884. Border hassles and our rising dollar have cut into tourism from the U.S. The economic decline of Northern Ontario, particularly in the pulp and paper towns, is reflected along the highway. Yet it is a highway well worth taking – a very drivable road with many passing lanes and breathtaking views along the north shore of Superior. Fortunately – or not, depending on how you look at it – it is never crowded. Always on the lookout for meaningful trends along the highway, I am somewhat pleased to be able to report that the Ontario government has put shiny new outhouses at rest stops along the highway. Oh, and people painting their Barrhaven•Ottawa South
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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town names on rock faces is back. For some reason, the more beautiful the setting, the more people feel a need to make their mark on it. After a while, the writing on the rocks took a back seat to the building of inukshuks. This was nice at first, but got to be a bit annoying. You remember how cute it was back in the 1980s when people began doing The Wave at football, baseball and hockey games. It seemed then like a nice bit of audience participation but the copycat syndrome took over and The Wave became a cliché. You couldn’t escape it. Amazingly, it persists to this day in some backwaters. The inukshuk, a few rocks piled together in a certain way, was a beautiful idea in its original context, but has
now become so widely imitated as to become meaningless. Inukshuks are everywhere along the northern Ontario Trans-Canada. Some of them live up to their meaning in Inuit, “in the likeness of a human.” Most of them do not. Most of them look like somebody started to pile up some rocks in a certain way, then get bored and went off to do something else. In the old days, people used to paint their names on the rockfaces along the highway. “Joe loves Irma, July 6, 1978.” This wasn’t pretty and it’s just as well that it doesn’t happen everywhere. On the other hand, the tops of the rockfaces were left pretty much as God made them. Now, it’s pretty well impossible to find a rockface along the Trans Canada Highway that doesn’t have a pile of rocks on top of it. And the piles don’t look like anything except other piles, other clichés. “Joe loves Irma” may be a cliché too, but not to Joe and Irma and at least the painted message allows us to think fond thoughts about the moment they may have had before the paint can came out. Now, bright new fluorescences tell the 2011 story of Joe and Irma and others of their ilk. Maybe that’s for
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the best. It’s probably a bit nannyish to worry about piles of rocks falling on somebody’s head (but what a uniquely Canadian story it would be!). The real problem is that there is no longer a rock surface along the Trans-Canada that somebody has not piled rocks on. And how many of them even know why? Since the Ontario government can spend all that money on fancy new outhouses, maybe it can funnel some more funds on finding constructive ways for people to make their mark – a guest book? It’s probably too much to hope that people will some day decide to leave no mark at all.
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EMMA JACKSON AND JORDAN WOLFE emma.jackson@metroland.com
The National Capital Commission has began a new green partnership with charitable housing group Habitat for Humanity to salvage building materials from the NCC’s doomed residential properties in support of Ottawa’s low-income families. The NCC was created in the late 1950s as a manager of federal lands and buildings in the National Capital Region. It is in the process of demolishing 14 homes across Ottawa and Gatineau that were purchased in the 1960s to reserve the land for future greenbelt rehabilitation, which are now too run down to maintain. The lands will be re-established as part of the greenbelt, while the houses’ many doors, windows, structural beams and even the kitchen sink will be donated to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore facility selling used building materials to raise money for housing projects across the city. “The money that’s raised in the store helps supports all of our operating costs and helps us with the purchase of land. So we were so excited about an opportunity for a partnership,” said Donna Hicks, CEO of the National Capital Region branch of Habitat for Humanity. “There is so much usable material in a house. Rather than see the whole house go to landfill – which is very expensive to cart it away, isn’t very good for our envi-
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NCC real estate chief Mary Ann Waterson and local Habitat for Humanity CEO Donna Hicks announced a partnership on July 19 that will offer used building materials from demolished NCC properties to the charitable housing group. ronment and certainly isn’t ensuring a future for our children if our landfills are all full – we salvage material, we sell it, we house more low-income families.” The NCC’s environmental strategy calls on the federal body to recycle and reuse as much as possible from their demolished buildings. According to the NCC’s chief of asset management and
real estate Mary Ann Waterson, the organization already has a landfill diversion rate of 94 per cent. This partnership will help bring those numbers even higher, she said. “There have been a couple of years I’ve been looking at ways to reuse, recycle and reduce waste on our sites. With this new partnership we’ll be able to even further
increase that. So for us at the NCC that’s very important,” Waterson told a small crowd gathered on July 19 in front of the summer’s first house up for demolition, located at 2830 Lester Rd. in Ottawa South. Out of the 14 homes being demolished by the NCC this summer, Habitat has already looked at five and found that three have salvageable items. The remaining nine homes will be inspected between now and September for reusable goods. Waterson said some houses don’t yield many reusable items because of their age or upkeep, and the level of NCC investment. The house on Lester Road, for example, features upgraded and relatively new windows that can be used again. Other properties may have original windows that are no longer up to code or in good enough shape to reuse. As Habitat for Humanity volunteers gutted the inside of the early 1950s house, carrying out kitchen cupboards and other reusable items, Hicks said this house will yield a number of saleable treasures. “Definitely the kitchen and bathrooms, we’ll take some of the wood, we’ll try and rescue the hardwood floors,” she said, noting that people love to buy old hardwood. She added that the windows and doors are in good shape, and some of the interior structural materials might be salvageable as well. See HABITAT page 10
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Public school board will march in Pride Parade EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com
The Ottawa Carleton District School Board will march in its first Ottawa’s Capital Pride parade on Aug. 28 in an effort to show students, staff and the rest of Ottawa that the board is an open and inclusive institution. “Participating in pride is a very public statement about our openness and how we want students and staff to feel,” explained Barrhaven-Knoxdale-Merivale trustee Donna Blackburn, who is openly gay and spearheaded the board’s inaugural involvement in Pride Week. “The message I want to be very clear to all members of the board’s family, from students to the director of education to our support staff, is that everyone can participate.” Indeed, Blackburn is hoping many staff, students and parents will join the public board’s yellow school bus to show support for the board’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered population. The parade will travel down Wellington Street towards city hall, finishing at Festival Plaza. The board’s bus will feature banners on either side proclaiming “something to the effect of being open,” Blackburn said, noting the messaging hasn’t been finalized. The board’s associate director Walter Piovesan will drive the bus, and several trustees will carry another banner out front.
The group will toss frisbees and biodegradable pens into the crowd as well. Although this is OCDSB’s first time officially participating in Capital Pride, Blackburn said she doesn’t think it was because the board felt it was a bad idea. Rather, it was perhaps just a case of nobody suggesting it until Blackburn was elected in October 2010. “I’ve had no push back. I approached the director of education at the time, Barrie Hammond, and our (board of trustees) chair Jennifer McKenzie and they were like, ‘Yeah of course.’ They didn’t hesitate,” Blackburn said. She said she has not received any negative comments from parents, either. Capital Pride chairperson Doug Saunders-Riggins said he’s thrilled to have the public school board march in the parade, because of its positive impact on students. “I think it goes to show that the board is more supportive of the students’ lifestyles and being open to who they are on school grounds. It shows the school is more accepting and more willing to show their support to those students,” he said. Participating will also demonstrate support for staff and parents in the GLBT community, he added. “There are probably a lot of staff, not only teachers but support staff as well, who are part of the GLBT community and this shows their employer is supportive of who they are as well.” The public board already en-
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Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustee Donna Blackburn spearheaded the board’s participation in Capital Pride this summer. courages gay-straight alliances, or GSAs, in schools to provide a safe space to talk about sexuality issues and to fight homophobia. It has also conducted an extensive and controversial student survey covering everything from parental income to student
sexual orientation, in an effort to better know the board’s student body and gear its resources toward appropriate programs. It also organizes an annual Rainbow Youth Forum each fall to discuss GLBT student issues.
Pierre Savard school to get two sports fields STAFF Pierre Savard secondary school will get two new sports fields, a bus loop and an area for future portables. The Barrhaven school has applied to the city for a rezoning that would allow the new features. The two sports fields will be bounded by a running track and set up for soccer
and football, said Miguel Lanthier, a spokesperson for the French Catholic school board. The fields should be completed by December of 2012, he said. The bus loop will accommodate school buses. There are currently no plans to add any portables at the school, but the rezoning will ensure there is space available if portables must be added in the
future, Lanthier said. The expansion will “create facilities that will benefit the targeted school population from this community and the neighbouring community at large,” according to a report to the city’s planning committee, which was set to discuss the rezoning on Aug. 15. The school is located at 1110 Longfields Dr.
Habitat recycles materials Continued from 9 The items are sold through the ReStore business because Habitat tries to make their housing projects as new as possible for the families moving in. The money made at the used materials store helps cover some of the cost of buying new materials. It costs $130,000 in cash and $75,000 in materials and services to build a new home for a low-income family, and about $35,000 to renovate an existing building – although most of the trades work and some materials are donated. Purchasing a house for renovation can sometimes be more costly
than building new, especially if it’s not donated or can’t be bought cheaply. Habitat for Humanity is currently working on three projects in the area. The most pressing is for a family with two disabled children, who need a renovated bungalow close to CHEO by September. Habitat is fielding housing donation prospects, and the Delta Hotel has currently donated $75, 000 to help renovate. They are also renovating a house in Nepean and building a new house in Carleton Place with the help of Nepean project management company Tiree. A new build typically needs 350 volunteers, while a renovation requires about 75.
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Antique boat show makes waves with unique vessels JOSEPH MORIN Joe.morin@metroland.com
History, elegance, and the kind of craftsmanship that belongs to a different era highlighted the annual Ottawa International Antique and Classic Boat Show on the weekend. The Manotick Classic Boat Club hosted their show on the shady banks of Long Island Locks on Saturday, Aug. 13. This was their 36th annual show and the great summer weather along with the picturesque setting of the locks made for a perfect day for visitors. Forty boats were registered for the show and visitors also enjoyed antique cars, speedboats as well as a model boatbuilding project for children. Ray Saunders is the chairperson of the Ottawa International Antique and Classic Boat Show. He said the show is one of the longest running antique boat shows of its kind in the country. “We have great partnerships,” he said. For example, the docks used by visitors to the show needed repair. The Manotick club provided the wood and Parks Canada came up with the labour to repair the docks.
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NEW TRIP New this year at the show was a boat that took visitors for a tour of the area free of charge courtesy of Pirate Cove Marina in Kemptville. The show features a popular boatbuilding section for children. Home Depot supplied all the wood used to build the boats and Harvest House cuts all the wood to a boat shape. There is no charge for the event and visitors love it. There were at least 75 years of boats at the show. Some were a cabin cruiser design from the 1950s and others were restored vintage boats from the early 1900s. Each and every craft had its own story to tell. One special boat was a 1950 Peterborough Boat owned by Carol Ann Arsenault of Kemptville. Her boat named Little Soggy Bottom won the Peoples Choice Award as well as the Classic Boat of the Show Award.
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One boat, owned by John and Susan Richardson of Manotick, is the only one of its kind left in North America or according to John. Originally constructed in 1935 by the Dodge Boat and Plane Corporation, the seven-metre pleasure and working boat had seen better days when it was spotted by its current owners. “It was in pretty rough shape,” remembers John. “When I got it I had to strip it entirely. Most of the planks were rotting.” The boat is now called the Campster, a name derived from John and Susan’s grandson Cameron. The engine is a 1955 Chrysler Marine Crown flat-head six rated at 117 horsepower. The Richardsons bought Campster in 1999. Before that the boat had been used strictly for fishing and was starting to rot away. A fellow by the name of Don Roney found the boat in 1990 and had refurbished it just enough to be used as a fishing boat. The Campster is a labour of love. Twelve coats of varnish were applied over two years. The entire inside of the boat was stripped and sanded down. The floor was replaced as was the 1941 ACE motor. The boat’s history includes years of working in the Thousand Islands area delivering groceries to the south shore of Lake Ontario and to the islands. The shipyard where the Campster was born was most likely in a small corner of the Dodge automobile plant in Detroit. The shipyard began producing various watercraft in 1922. By 1929 the shipyard had been relocated to Newport News, Va. and employed 700 workers. At one time, they were able to produce 40 boats a day. Historians feel that the Dodge Boat and Plane Corporation built some of the most beautiful launches and runabouts. These boats are now collectors items.
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This 1935 Doge Cabin Utility boat has a long history.
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Ninety-one neighbourhoods are being dissected thanks to a University of Ottawa investigation. The Ottawa Neighbourhood Study – an ongoing project that breaks down each neighbourhood’s health, socio-economic factors and other characteristics – received a $75,000 cash infusion from IBM’s Centennial Grant program. The study, which was devised by researchers at the University of Ottawa in 2005, now includes partners from the United Way, the Champlain regional health authority, the city, Ottawa public health, the Coalition of Community Health and Resource
Centres and others. Dr. Elizabeth Kristjansson, with the University of Ottawa, said the idea came about in 2005 as a research project, but had always been intended to be used by service providers. The project received funding and started gathering information about the city’s 91 neighbourhoods using census and Ottawa public health data. For example, in the area of Bayshore, data shows a good ethnic and cultural mix but low voting rates, poor access to grocery stores, low availability of recreation and 24 per cent of residents living below the lowincome cut off. The census data on voting and income is updated each census year, but public health
information is done slightly more often – every three to five years. Kristjansson said better than the funding is the help from 75 IBM volunteers who will help to update the website. “We hope to see people able to add data to the study from their mobile phones,” she said, adding that another of the goals is to be able to package the methodology to allow other cities to copy the work Ottawa has done. Michael Allen, president and CEO of United Way Ottawa, said that all of the agencies looking for funding in the area of early childhood education this year accessed Ottawa Neighbourhood Study data and used it in their applications.
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“There are a lot of things anecdotally we know about the areas we serve,” he said. “But having this data has helped us to develop our community development framework enormously,” he said. Early childhood data looks for school readiness and the availability of early learning programs in each neighbourhood. Proximity to libraries, doctors offices, pharmacies and grocery stores are also elements considered in the compilation of data for each community. Allen used the example of one donor, who wanted to use his funds to start up homework clubs. Using the data, United Way was able to look and see which areas would benefit most
from the help. The grant is part of an IBM program giving out $1 million to 11 non-profits and education groups around the world. IBM director Karen Williams said the fact that the Ottawa study was the only Canadian project to be chosen world wide was an indicator of its high calibre. Williams will lead the team of volunteers from IBM as they improve the project’s website and data collection software. “The volunteers will work with organizers to make the site more user friendly,” Williams said. “There is a high level of commitment from IBM staff. In the longer term we also hope to help package the concept for use in other communities.”
Altshuller wins gold DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN daniel.bowman@metroland.com
Nepean native Dan Altshuller is returning home from the Ivan Hlinka Memorial under-18 tournament with a gold medal around his neck. The 17-year-old goaltender helped backstop Team Canada to a 4-1 win in the championship game of the tournament over Sweden in Breclav, Czech Republic on Aug. 13. After losing the opening game of the event to the Swedes 5-1, Altshuller didn’t allow a goal until the final match. The unsanctioned International Ice Hockey Federation under-18 tournament is named after Ivan Hlinka, a former Czech player who also coached the Pittsburgh Penguins from 2000
to 2002. All players who played at the Ivan Hlinka event are eligible for the NHL draft in June 2012. Altshuller is eligible to return to the Central Canada Hockey League’s Nepean Raiders for the 2011-12 season. His Ontario Hockey League rights are currently owned by the Belleville Bulls. Last year with the Raiders, Altshuller went 19-13-10 with a 3.22 goals-against average, a .906 save percentage and one shutout. He had a 3.73 goals-against average and a .911 save percentage in the Raiders’ seven-game loss to the Brockville Braves in the opening round of the playoffs. Altshuller also helped Team Ontario win a gold medal at the World under-17 Challenge last January in Winnipeg.
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It was a father and son’s day out for 3-year-old Liam and his dad Douglas Walker, peeking into a shiny red car that perfectly matches Liam’s shirt.
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Noah Bellamy and Corbin Campbell, both 7, pause to admire a great big Ford F250 at the Kiwanis Club of Nepean’s annual charity car show. Over 150 classic cars of all shapes, sizes and colours zoomed into the Loblaws parking lot at the corner of Robertson Road and Moodie Drive in Bells Corners on Aug. 13. They saw a 50 per cent increase from last year in the amount of cars. Proceeds from the event went to the Queensway Carleton Hospital.
From left to right, siblings Tyler Racine, 13, Ryan Racine, 14, and their dad John Racine work on their father-and-sons project: The Orange Crush, a 2007 Mustang GT.
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Dr. Eamon opened her practice in Kemptville 1988, after receiving her Doctor of Optometry Degree from the University of Waterloo and her Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph. The practice has expanded and is now situated in a spacious office on Van Buren Street. High technology diagnostic instrumentation is used to detect the presence of eye diseases. The latest designs of optical lenses are dispensed in designer frames and contact lenses are designed and fitted. Every year Dr. Eamon participates in several worthwhile charity functions including visits to area schools to talk about the importance of your eyes, donating old glasses to under developed countries, and this past year participating in World Vision Day. World Vision Day was an initiative of Optometrists around the world to donate their fees for eye exams to help those in poorer countries to obtain glasses and care for their vision. Dr. Eamon, Debbie, Melissa and Helen (seated)
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Barrhaven teen tackles cancer, wilderness Fareed Ali says 11day expedition got him out of his shell NEVIL HUNT nevil.hunt@metroland.com
Fareed Ali has an unusual outlook on life for an 18-year-old. “I feel reborn,” he says while sitting on the patio of the Starbucks on Strandherd Drive. His feelings aren’t due to a religious experience, but have swept over him because at one point he didn’t know if he would live beyond his teen years. With cancer in remission, he’s ready to live again. Ali’s return to life as a regular teenager was given a kick start last month when he was invited on an 11-day sea kayaking and camping trip around Georgian Bay, along with seven other young people who were also former patients at pediatric oncology centres across Canada. Ali calls himself a “city kid,” which made the trip an eye-opener in many ways.
“I’ve been camping before, but this was the first time I’ve done anything like this,” he says. “It got me out of my shell.” The shell Ali found himself inside was formed during his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer. The first symptoms puzzled Ali and his parents. “It was last July (2010) and I would play soccer or basketball and I couldn’t get my breath,” he says. “We thought it was asthma.” A chest X-ray soon showed a tumour had taken over Ali’s right lung. Because he was under 18 at the time, he was sent to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) for treatment. What followed were eight months of treatment. The cancer has now been in remission for more than three months, although Ali says the treatments left him tired and the steroids he had to take caused him to add weight he’s already burning off at a nearby gym. “I was always at home,” he says of his eight months of cancer care. “My friends would go Photo by Jean-Charles Fortin out, but I had no energy.” A group of eight young cancer survivors and their guides take a breather during an 11-day sea kayak and camping trip on Georgian Bay in July. The group included Barrhaven teen Fareed Ali, who spent eight of See PADDLERS, page 23 the last 12 months fighting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Continued from 22 Ali first heard about the sea kayak trip offered by On the Tip of the Toes Foundation from one of the staff at CHEO. Ali and a teen from Orleans, who also received cancer treatments at CHEO, were asked if they’d be interested. Ali says he took some time to think about it, while his mom was quicker to provide advice. “She said, ‘You’re going,’” Ali says with a smile and a shrug that says his mom was right all along. Even though he still has some fatigue from his treatment, Ali says he was able to paddle four or five hours each day of the trip. He says it took three days to get comfortable with the paddling and his abdominal muscles hurt for a while, but the payoff was a chance to live in the moment. “It’s really relaxing to be out there and see the waves,” he says. “The water is so clear and you can see huge fish swimming.” The 11 days together with other youths, guides and the organizers had a profound effect on Ali’s outlook on life, and his interactions with others. “It was good to be around people who understand my story,” he says. “I was always a social person, but after treatment it felt weird going out. I kind of held back. Now I feel back to normal.” Ali says he pushed his own limits during the adventure, turning around his dislike for being in the water. He enjoyed swimming in the fresh water so much, he was even willing to jump off a small cliff into the lake, something he thought he’d never do. Ali is a graduate of St. Paul High School and has lived in Barrhaven for the last two years. His treat-
ment at CHEO meant he had to take last year off from school, and he will enter Algonquin College this fall. He’ll start in criminal justice, but his experience being around caregivers has pulled him in a new direction. “Before, I wasn’t so se-
rious about school,” Ali says. “Now I’m looking at child life studies.” With so many alternatives available and his life ahead of him, Ali says he’ll keep his options open. “I’ll see what I like,” he says, “and play it by ear.”
Eight young people with cancer face a different type of challenge From July 9 to 19, eight 16- to 20-year-olds from different pediatric oncology centres across Canada set out to explore Georgian Bay by sea kayak. To help prepare them for this expedition, Amelie Grenier, actress and spokesperson for On the Tip of the Toes Foundation, and Caroline Brunet, triple Olympic medallist in canoe-kayaking and 10-time world champion, came to give the adventurers some tips before their departure. The group will be blogged about their trip at www. pointedespieds.com “For the past 15 years, On the Tip of the Toes Foundation has been all about compassion for youth and passion for nature,” said François Dufour, executive director of the foundation. “Through these expeditions, we’ve developed unique expertise in wilderness therapy for young people stricken with cancer. They come back from the experience transformed and filled with a source of motivation that stays with them for their entire lives.” “There are no words to describe the experience I had on my trip to the Yukon in the winter of 2007,” said Emilie Van Winden, 27, from Candiac, Que. “The Tip of the Toes expedition really changed me. I was able to let everything go, forget about my sickness and the chemotherapy and just think about myself and concentrate on actually living. Taking part in the expedition forced me to push myself, and I realized I could start to live an active life again, despite the artificial hips I have because of my leukemia.” Last month’s 11-day expedition on Georgian Bay started in Killbear Provincial Park and took the group to remote and isolated areas, far from civilization. They travelled in teams of two in sea kayaks with only the minimum necessities. When darkness falls, they set up camp and spent the evening discussing their experiences. On the Tip of the Toes Foundation has been organizing wilderness therapy expeditions for Canadian youth diagnosed with cancer since 1996. In the past 15 years, the foundation has set up expeditions to allow over 250 young cancer victims to discover 26 destinations across Canada. The participants have expanded their horizons on foot, in sea kayaks, in canoes, on dog sleds, on snowshoes and on snowmobiles. Far more than simple outdoor expeditions, these adventures offer the participants an opportunity to spend time with others like themselves to share, talk, understand each other and create bonds of friendship while facing the new challenges of unique outdoor adventures. To learn more about the foundation, please go to www.pointedespieds.com
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Licensed Truck and Coach Mechanic (310 T Technician) The ideal candidate will be a qualified licensed Truck & Coach Technician with at least 5 years experience, possess a valid Ontario driver’s license, and have the ability to inspect, diagnose and repair mechanical and electrical problems efficiently. You must be able to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral and work well both independently and as a team member. We offer a terrific opportunity and the flexibility to achieve your personal and career goals with a competitive remuneration and benefits package.
Should you wish to be considered for these or any other positions please submit your application to www.joinkott.com
StairWorld designs, manufactures, delivers and installs carpet grade and hardwood stairs for the local tract home builders; as well as custom pre-fabricated stair and railing systems. In-house design capability covers the full range from basic stairs, to “showcase” systems involving exotic species, unusual materials or complex design elements. StairWorld is looking for: Spray Finisher • Experience in all: prep work, sanding, staining, and spraying clear lacquers. • Valid driver’s license • Reliable transportation of equipment, to and from job sites • Good verbal skills and problem solving Stair Assemblers The Stair Assembler is responsible for: • Assembling stairs • Millwork assembly • Fulfilling orders as need Required Experience • Carpentry, framing, or stair building experience, • Able to problem solve in a fast-paced environment • Good Leadership and teamwork skills. To apply for these or any of our other open positions go to www.joinkott.com
Designer – Wood Structure Products We are looking for Designers with a great attitude to join our growing team. We offer a terrific opportunity and the flexibility to achieve your personal and career goals with a competitive remuneration and benefits package. The successful candidate will possess: • Strong knowledge of and hands-on experience using MITEK E-Frame design software. Experience with MITEK version 7.25 would be an asset. • A minimum of 3 years of work related experience in either truss, wall or floor design. Experience in all areas of truss, wall or floor design would be an asset. • Strong attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast paced environment • Excellent professional work ethic • Strong communication and organizational skills • Verifiable professional references To apply for this position or any other open positions, submit your application to www.joinkott.com We are an equal opportunity employer. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. 491211
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Materials Manager Establish, maintain and manage a team to effectively provide the services needed to bid, procure, receive, store, control and issue material (and services as appropriate), and ship product in accordance with the company’s cost, quality, and delivery requirements. Minimum of 7 years experience, preferably in a high tech manufacturing environment with a College diploma or University degree in business.
preparation, preparing journal entries, completing account reconciliations, the preparation of payroll and various financial analysis. The Senior Accountant will also be involved and provide support to the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Clerks. Must have a strong understanding of the full accounting cycle and Canadian GAAP. Must have good organizational and communication skills and strong attention to detail. Working knowledge of ERP is an asset.
Fiber Optic Quality Assurance Engineer/Technician Must be able to establish incoming inspection and sampling methodology fulfilling product and customer requirement. Able to carry out First Article Inspection for various kind of products and according to customer needs. Timely and accurate MRB (Material Review Board) disposition and decision. Continuous improvement in IQA area.
Office Manager The Office Manager performs and/or oversees a variety of associated managerial tasks such as corresponding with customers and suppliers, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll. The ideal Candidate will have an upbeat attitude, exposure to managing in a small office environment and experience in facilities and rental services environment.
Requirements Possess degree in engineering or any technical discipline. Minimum 5 years of experience in managing Incoming Quality Assurance preferably in high tech dealing with optical parts. Good technical knowledge in metrological equipment. Good knowledge in statistics. Well versed in certification systems i.e ISO.
Custodian Typical Duties: Dusting, sweeping, mopping, scrubbing floors, Carpet cleaning, Cleaning of washrooms, Removal of garbage, snow and general ground maintenance.
Fiber Optic Technician/Assembler Responsible for manufacturing of Fiber Optic Patchcords and / or components. Must have 5 years plus experience in mass production environment. Senior Accountant The successful candidate will be involved in financial statement
Skills Ability to work independently in a fast paced, environment. Attention to details Good communication skills, Knowledge of chemicals and equipment related to profession. Required Qualifications: ‘G’ class drivers license along with a clean driving record, Minimum 3 years of building/company cleaning experience; Sound knowledge of all cleaning duties and responsibilities; Good interpersonal communication and organizational skills;
Interested candidates may submit their resumes to: OZ Optics 219 Westbrook Road, Ottawa, ON K0A 1L0 Attention: Human Resources or by fax to 613-831-2151 or by e-mail to hr@ozoptics.com For more information, visit www.ozoptics.com Or drop resume off at the OZ Optics Reception Desk
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The Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre hosted a barbecue on Aug. 11 outisde the Merivale Mall, with the day’s receipts going towards school supplies for kids. The resource centre’s Tools 4 School’s program handed out 282 backpacks filled with supplies last year and organizers expect the number will continue to increase. The average cost for the program to equip one child is $50. Anyone can help by donating: • New or gently used backpacks.
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• Pencil cases. • Erasers, pencil sharpeners, highlighters and crayons. • Geometry sets and calculators. • Glue and glue sticks • Binders (no more than two inches), notebooks and lined paper. The resource centre will also accept contributions towards the Adopt a Backpack program, allowing individuals to donate the cost of a complete backpack filled with supplies for a child’s upconing school year. For more information, call Kim Ethier at 613-596-5626, or visit www.nrocrc. org
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Ottawa River Riders will host the annual Guide Dog Run charity motorcycle ride to benefit Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind on Sunday, Sept. 11. Ottawa River Riders is a motorcycle enthusiasts’ club in the Ottawa region. They are a non-brand specific touring club, whose motto is Friends Riding Together. The Guide Dog Run is a 200-kilometre ride through eastern Ontario; a surprise route unveiled during registration. Registration is from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., followed by the ride, and an afternoon barbecue and social with loads of prizes. Riders will also meet future guide and assistance dogs, tour the facilities, and learn more about Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind. All motorcyclists in the area are welcome to participate in the Guide Dog Run. Cost is $15 per person, which includes a score card and a barbecue ticket. All proceeds support Canadian Guide Dogs for
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Motorcyclists in the area are welcome to participate in the Guide Dog Run. the Blind. The Guide Dog Run starts from the National Training Centre of Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, 4120 Rideau Valley Dr. North, in Manotick. For more information call 613-692-7777 or visit www.ottawariverriders.ca
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Thanks to a dry, hot summer, the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) has issued a warning for those wanting to boat on the Rideau River watershed. Authority staff will continue to monitor low water levels and flows – which were below long-term averages for the end of July – and could impose mandatory cutbacks, the RVCA said in a release on Aug. 8.
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Some of Ottawa’s potential future police officers were learning the ropes at the Nepean Sportsplex, starting Aug. 15. The City of Ottawa’s police adventure camp – a week-long camp for 11- to 14-year-olds – kicked off for the first time as a way to more youth in summer programming prior to their high-school years. Like some of the other “tween camps” that took place earlier in the summer such as ones focusing on modelling, personal fitness and city exploration, the point of the policing session was keeping the campers engaged. “It’s exciting because it’s different than other camps. It also gives them hope for their future careers,” said camp co-ordinator Heather Kelly, adding many of the children in attendance said they wanted to pursue policing as a career. After signing in for their first day, the young cops were given a chance to create a crime scene behind the Sportsplex and try to solve the ones invented by their peers.
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Isaac Keiwan, Shane MacIsaac, Clay Linder, Mark Lachaine and Pascal Blais investigate a crime scene during their first day of police adventure camp at the Nepean Sportsplex on Aug. 15. This was the first year of the city-run youth camp for 11- to 14-year-olds. “I like solving crimes,” said Barrhaven resident Isaac Keiwan, 13, when asked why he wanted to attend the camp. Aside from the putting on their detective hats, the campers also had a visit from the Ottawa police’s K9 unit and went on the Ottawa Haunted Walks tour downtown. But, Kelly said, even with all
the policing activities, recreational components like swimming and kick-boxing lessons have to be scheduled to keep the campers fit. “You have to be creative with the programs and have unique games,” she said. “It’s hard sometimes because, let’s face it, they’d rather be at home by themselves.”
With little significant rain in area weather forecasts, the RVCA has already initiated the first level of the Ontario low water response program. The first phase recommends voluntary conservation measures. The last time the RVCA issued a Level 1 low water declaration was in September 2005. To learn more, visit www.mnr. gov.on.ca/en/Business/Water/ 2 C o l u m n S u b Pa g e / S T E L 0 2 _ 164583.html
Changes in the works for country-estate development STAFF Plans for a nine-hole executive golf course, part of a countryestate development in northwest Barrhaven, have been scrapped according to City of Ottawa documents released on Aug. 4. Onassa Springs, a development just north of Cedarhill Golf and Country Club, are now scheduled to add 16 more lots to their 114 hectares of land running along the westerly curva-
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Ottawa South students have collected nearly 25,000 milk bags to make sleeping mats for Haiti in just under 6 months, helping Haitian families stay healthy while keeping one Riverside South resident just about run off her feet. Retired school librarian Wendy Kool has been the brains behind the multi-school project, which grew out of a milk bag collection program through Riverside United Church. The church was collecting bags for the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission of Canada to crochet them into durable, bug-resistant sleeping mats for the thousands of Haitians still living in tents since the January 2010 earthquake. The mats head to Haiti with Doctors Without Borders, who use them instead of bubble wrap to pack their medical supplies. Once they’re set up, the mats are distributed to needy families. But since every adult mat requires 500 milk bags, Ottawa’s churches just didn’t have the man power to collect enough material. That’s when Kool decided to harness Ottawa’s student power. “My first thought was to go to the schools and get them involved, because it’s such a green recycling project that keeps the
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Riverside South resident Wendy Kool has been collecting donated milk bags and teaching people how to crochet them into sleeping mats since February. Four area schools have already collected 25,000 bags to turn into mats. bags out of the landfill, so they were excited,” she said. Kool went to four schools in the Riverside South and Barrhaven area and showed elementary students how Haitians have to live because their homes were lost in the earthquake. She then taught them how they can help: by collecting milk bags, first, and then by learning how
to cut and crochet the bags into much-needed mats. Her plea for help was met with a rallying cry. Students from St. Jerome Catholic School, Steve MacLean Public School, Mary Honeywell Public School and Farley Mowat Public School all jumped on board with the usual verve of grade-schoolers with a new project.
“They got a report every Monday and that gave kids the incentive to bring them in, and they even started competitions between classrooms. It motivated them to see what they were producing,” Kool said. She meticulously kept spread sheets of all the bags collected from each school each week. Some weeks collections at a single school topped 400, enough to make a child-sized mat and still have some left over. Between February and the end of June, the schools collected nearly 25,000 bags – enough for 50 adult mats or 83 child mats. Throughout the summer months, demand for bags as women’s groups, churches and even packs of teens crochet their way through them is being met with a drop-off box at Moncion’s Your Independent Grocer in Riverside South as well as ongoing collections from churches and individuals. Kool drives around town collecting the bags, which she then sorts by colour and brand in her basement and divides into kits. The kits come with a template showing volunteers how to cut the bags into long strips and then crochet them into a fluffy mat. And the interest never stops growing. “It just snowballs, I’ve got 27 kits out right now. There’s a hands-on approach to it, the items are getting to the people who need it,” she said. “The fact
that it’s keeping all those bags out of our landfill, it’s a winwin project, and it’s so easy to learn.’ Although she’s always looking for help so she can delegate some of the work, she said she doesn’t mind how popular the program has become. “This is a very simple project that is helping in a big way. It’s providing a little bit of comfort. They were a people in need before the earthquake, so it just heightened everything and increased the need for this type of thing. It’s not a matter of sending money, its sending supplies from something we have an excess of.” To help with pick-up, distribution, cutting or crocheting, Kool can be reached at crochetmats@ rogers.com
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Community Calendar AUG. 20 Plant sale from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Scobie Farm, 6274 Rideau Valley Dr. North, six kilometres south of Manotick. Great selection of hostas, grasses, sedums, hardy mums and other perennials. Proceeds to Trinity United Church, Kars.
AUG. 21 Afghanistan Veterans Appreciation Day at the Manotick Legion, 5550 Anne St. Open house from a.m. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., open to all. Free hot dogs and pop. Activities throughout the day. Veterans Appreciation Reception from 4 to 6 p.m. A special meal will be served for Afghanistan veterans and their family and special
guests. Reservations required. Please help us make a success of this event. It is important that you call the Legion to give numbers concerning attendance for the dinner at 613-692-3243 or jeanlanouette@rogers.com
AUG. 27 The Canadian Grandmasters Fiddling Competition and Show comes to the Shenkman Art Centre in Orleans. Preliminaries at noon and finals at 7 p.m. Special guest artists are Ivan and Vivian Hicks from New Brunswick. For tickets call 613-580-2700, visit www.shenkmanarts.ca or in buy person at the theatre box office. More info at www.Canadiangrandmasters.ca
SEPT. 5 Barrhaven Lions Fun Day at Ross’s Your Independent Grocer, 3777 Strandherd
Dr. Bounce rides, Lions Club train, face painting and fingerpinting from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Live entertainment plus trunk sale/garage sale. To reserve trunk sale spot or for information, call Dave at 613-825-4371 or email dvoisey@rogers.com
SEPT. 12 1st Manotick Beavers Colony A fall registration at Rideauview Community Centre from 7 to 8 p.m. Visit 1stmanotickbeaverscolonya. blogspot.com for registration forms.
SEPT. 12 After a successful 30th anniversary season, the Ottawa Brahms Choir under the direction of Kurt Ala-Kantti invites old and new members to join us in our 31st season for a wonderful programme of choral works. All vocies are
welcome, especially tenors and basses. No audition required. Rehearsals start Sept. 12, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Southminster United Church at Aylmer and Bank streets. Call 613-749-2391 or 819-568-8169 or visit www. OttawaBrahmsChoir.ca for information.
ONGOING Behind the scenes or in the forefront, you can make a difference in the lives of seniors in your community. Rural Ottawa South Support Services (ROSSS) has current volunteer opportunities that are created with volunteer flexibility in mind. The centre provides training and orientation. If you would like to become a volunteer, please call Bev Johnston at 613-692-4697.
ONGOING Workshops will be held in
Riverside South, to teach volunteers how to cut the outer milk bags from the four-litre packages, and crochet them into sleeping mats for needy families in distressed areas of the world. Using the milk bags for this purpose is keeping them out of our landfills, making this iniative a winwin for all. Even if you do not know how to crochet, you can participate and learn this simple project. Students can earn volunteer hours by helping with the cutting of the bags. For information contact: crochetmats@rogers.com
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ONGOING The new Barrhaven Community Concert Band needs musicians. Rehearsals will be held Thursday evenings starting in September. Visit www.barrhavencommunityconcertband.com for details.
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Strandherd and Andora likely to see road improvements
STAFF Barrhaven is in line for multiple road modifications by the city at Strandherd Drive and Andora Avenue, pending feedback from area residents. The City of Ottawa announced its intention to improve four different areas of the intersection, located just southwest of Jockvale Road, includ-
ing: • The installation of a pedestrian crossing signal and roadway lighting. • A sidewalk on the north side of Strandherd Drive from Andora Avenue to Jockvale Road. • A multi-use pathway with lighting from Harthill Way to Strandherd Drive at Andora Avenue. • A new multi-use pathway from
Harthill Way to Strandherd Drive at approximately 250 metres west of Jockvale Road. Any person who wishes to raise objections to the modifications must contact the city clerk, in writing, by Aug. 19. People can also contact Mike Giampa at the city’s planning and growth management department at 613-5802424, ext. 23657.
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