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Plans for Montreal Road are shaping up and the community will soon get to have their say about it. OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Montreal road between North River Road and St. Laurent Boulevard will be completely redone See what’s happening by visiting starting in 2018. www.ottawacommunitynews.com/ The city will hold an open house ottawaregion-events/ on the proposed changes on March www.facebook.com/ottawacommunitynews 9 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Wabano @OTcommunitynews Centre for Aboriginal Health, 299 Montreal Rd. Leading up to that event, proLOOK INSIDE FOR YOUR posed designs were unveiled at a CANADIAN TIRE FLYER stakeholders meeting on Feb. 22 in an effort to finalize designs. A select group of business owners, residents and community members attended this session and there, the group had a chance to see first hand the changes that could be coming. Proposals include a separate cycling path 1.5 metres high on the north side of Montreal Road, an on-road painted line cy- SAVE cling path on the south side, and a $ change from four lanes, with parking to a hybrid of three lanes from Reg 299.99 20V Li-Ion Combo Kit. North River to the Vanier Parkway. Sale 199.99 1 1
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What does International Women’s Day mean to you?
Laura Dudas, president of the Blackburn Community Association and Girl Guide leader
“As a mom, it’s also an opportunity to teach my children, in particular my daughter, that there are no limitations on what women can do and that when they are faced with instances of gender inequality, they must speak up and take action.”
Nuala Durkin, volunteer at St. Mary’s Home.
“Women’s Day is a worldwide event celebrating women’s achievements, big and small. Words cannot describe the significance of giving. The most simple acts of benevolence and random acts of kindness are incredibly important.
Tierney Sterling, 17, co-president of Sacred Heart High School
“The fight for equal rights for women is far from over and I believe education is the key to change. We are fortunate to live in Canada, a country where there is tremendous opportunites for women not only to work as equals, but also to take on leadership roles.”
Women across the city share their thoughts Around the world, on March 8, events will be held to mark International Women’s Day. And across the city events are planned to celebrate the many achievements of women – accomplishments that include everything
from the cultural to political. While the first International Women’s Day was celebrated by the United Nations in 1975, the event goes back even further – to the early 1900s when in 1908 women marched through New
Joan Olinik, 70, veteran military wife, volunteer at the Perley Rideau Veterans’ Health Care Centre
“I went through the ‘60s and ‘70s when women’s rights were getting started. We had to fight for all kinds of things. I still think there’s inequality. I think women have to band together and I think we need to speak and be strong.
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York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights, according to its website. The day also highlights the need for gender parity; a goal that according to some counts will take another 170 years.
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Among the local events, Ottawa-Vanier MPP Nathalie Des Rosiers is hosting an event March 10 at her office 237 Montreal Rd., featuring cocktails. Mayor Jim Watson is hosting his breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on March 8 at city hall with guest speakers Maryam Monsef, Minister of Status of Women and Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Seating is limited and RSVP is required.
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Also proposed is a flexible four-lane road from the parkway to St. Laurent, with a priority lane for transit-only, and parking during off-peak times. The changes, according to the city’s senior project engineer Angela Taylor, are meant to greatly improve use of the arterial road for all modes of transportation - including pedestrians and cyclists. “This is all about balancing multi-model needs,” Taylor said. Taylor told the group that after meeting with them, the city would begin the detailed design process. Aside from making room for cyclists, pedestrians will also have an easier time walking down the street, with wider
sidewalks and shorter crossing distances at the intersection of the Vanier Parkway and Montreal Road. There, the proposal is to remove the exclusive turning lanes to allow for greater separation of pedestrians and cyclists from vehicular traffic. It will also shorten the time it takes to cross the road. Transit stops would also change in the proposal, optimizing bus stop locations to improve travel times. Eastbound, stops would change from 12 to eight and westbound, stops would change from 11 to nine locations. The plans also call for the potential to have additional passenger shelters along the route. Parking along the road would also be modified, removing 24 on-street parking spots along the south side
(eastbound direction) between Savard Avenue and de L’Eglise Street. According to the report, parking demand east of the Vanier Parkway can be accommodated along Montreal Road and side streets. There would be no change to parking west of the Vanier Parkway. Curb cuts would be reduced, such as access from Montreal Road to the Scotiabank parking lot at the corner of Hannah Street, to access only from Hannah Street. A median will also be introduced to enforce left-turn restrictions in areas such as Durocher Street and Montreal Road. The entire plans will be available to view at the open house, as well as online at Ottawa.ca/montrealroad after March 9.
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Trucking routes explored at latest CSST meeting BY Michelle Nash Baker michelle.nash@metroland.com
A meeting aimed at consulting New Edinburgh residents about trucking routes took a different turn. More than 50 residents filed into an open house at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church on Feb. 22 to discuss trucking routes and noise concerns regarding the upcoming Combined Sewer Storage Tunnel. Many were eager to check out a noise analysis for the construction that will start in March. Work will take place at a number of sites in the Heritage Conservation District neighbourhood, including one in Stanley Park that will double as a digging and staging site. The other site will be where the shaft is dug at Queen Victoria Street and River Lane. Prior to the open house, Ziad Ghadban, the project lead for the city, said the open house was aimed at providing residents
with an opportunity to give input into the selection of the truck routes through New Edinburgh, review background information on the project, learn about the expected noise levels during construction, and review construction activities in Stanley Park. For residents, it was simple – no trucking route proposed is acceptable. David Slinn, vice-president of the New Edinburgh Community Alliance (NECA), was vocal about this, turning the open house format into a meeting – calling out city staff on a number of questions about the project many residents feel remain unanswered. “It seems affordability have been weighted more than the community’s concerns,” Slinn shouted to the crowd, after calling for quiet in the loud room so he could ask city staff questions. According to the city, nothing is cast in stone, but residents remain concerned as work is set
to start within the next month. Trying to turn the meeting back to its calmer, open house format, Alain Gauthier requested residents speak to the individual staff in the room. That is when more than half the room shouted back they had the same concerns. “The city is saying that this is a project no different than any other, but the evidence to us suggests there is a difference,” Slinn said. Many of those who attended the open house were either choosing to not complete a city form asking for residents to rate the best trucking route or highlighting a route that has since been dropped from the proposal. In a draft report, nine trucking route options were explored, including allowing trucks along the Minto Bridges, across the Rideau River on either a pulley system or a temporary bridge, through the park towards the Vanier Parkway, or down resi-
dential streets. The Minto Bridge option and the pulley option were not carried forward because of cost, risk to the infrastructure and safety concerns. Slinn and many of the residents expressed desire for the temporary bridge over the river as the only option that could mitigate their concerns. “From the view of NECA, the board has decided there are no acceptable trucking routes on the street,” Slinn said. “We were disappointed that the bridge option was ruled out even before the public was consulted.”
“The city promised up genuine consultation, and we would hope they meant it.” Slinn said as a father of a three-year-old, he is considering moving from the neighbourhood because, living in between both construction sites, he is concerned about the impact it will have on their home life. “New Edinburgh will be a ghost town if this project goes through,” Slinn said. Many neighbours living between Stanley Park and Queen Victoria are concerned that noise from rock drills, loaders, concrete trucks, excavators and
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Thanks to a multimillion dollar donation, natural science research in Canada just got a major boost. The Canadian Museum of Nature announced it received the $4 million gift from the Vancouver-based Ross Beaty family on Feb. 23 at the museum. “This is a game changer,” said Meg Beckel, the museum’s president. The largest-ever donation, the museum said the money will support three research initiatives at the museum • $2 million will fund the creation of a national cryogenic facility to curate tissue samples and genetic material. The facility is expected to open next summer • $1 million will create the Beaty post-doctoral fellowship on species at risk, the fellowship is expected to begin in the spring of 2018. • $1 million will support a program to digitize the museum’s extensive collection of Arctic specimens. All three initiatives will be based out of the museum’s national research and collections facility, the Natural Heritage Campus, in Gatineau, Que. Mark Graham, the museum’s vice-president of research and collections said the creation of a cryogenic facility is a very big deal to the scientists. “It will be the first of its kind in Canada,” he said. The facility will include an examination room and large
supercooled vats filled with liquid nitrogen to house tissue samples and genetic material. Graham added this facility would put the museum on par with other world-renowned museum and research facility’s such as the Smithsonian.
“This is very cool and as fun a gift you could get.” Ross Beaty
Beckel said the post-doctoral funding will allow for the museum to mentor the next generation of scientists and that by being able to digitize the arctic specimens, researchers from all over the world will be able to study the collection all by simply going online. Ross and Trisha Beaty were on hand for the announcement. “This donation is an invest-
ment,” Ross said. “Biodiversity is the essence of life on earth. It nourishes us physically and nourishes us mentally.” Ross, a geologist and entrepreneur and his wife Trisha, a physician first visited the museum in 1998 with their five children. Over the years, Ross said when he returns to the city, he always makes a point to stop by. “This is something the Ottawa community should be proud of,” Ross said. As a thank you, the museum presented Ross and his family with a framed photograph of a new species of beetle, known as the weevil. New to science, the museum’s entomologist Bob Anderson named the new species Sicoderus beatyi in the family’s honour. Ross was ecstatic about having a weevil named after him. “This is very cool and as fun a gift you could get,” Ross said.
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Ross Beaty talks science at the Canadian Museum of Nature on Feb. 23. Ross, a geologist and mining e n t r e p r e n e u r, and his wife Trisha, a physician, donated $4 million to the museum specifically for its research and collections efforts.
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A truly Canadian voice silenced Stuart McLean of CBC radio’s Vinyl Café was a Canadian superstar. And what did he do? He simply told stories. Yes, famous and beloved across the country, Stuart gained his fame by telling us stories about Dave, owner of a second-hand record store, his wife Morley and their children, Sam and Stephanie. It was a combination of Stuart’s unique storytelling technique combined with the universal appeal of the stories themselves that led to his success. You only had to hear his voice to know you were in for a treat. He had a mischievous twinkle in this voice at times, a sound that made you nervously laugh in anticipation of what was coming. His stories would hold his audience spellbound over the airwaves, with listeners embracing every word. Who can ever forget the Christmas turkey story or the snowy trip to Cape Breton or changing the location of an outlet in the kitchen and oh, so many more. How many times did each of us foresee what was going to happen, wonder why Dave did not anticipate it and then chuckle at the
outcome? History is littered with great storytellers — Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen and the more modern J.K. Rowling. The American humourist and folksy raconteur Will Rogers was one who perhaps foreshadowed Stuart in some respects. And don’t forget the Ottawa Valley’s own Mary Cook among our engaging storytellers. But Stuart seemed to take storytelling to a new level. It was not hard to identify with those who sang his praises following his unexpected death from cancer. His stories spoke to people. They taught us the importance of the unimportant. They showed us that the world is a good place. All this was true and all were reasons for his popularity and success. Yes, Stuart, we will miss you and your stories. We will miss your humanity, your impeccable timing and the way you could hold our attention, waiting for that next thought to drop. You are Canada’s story, Stuart — quiet, unassuming, observant, funny, but most of all, human. Goodbye, Vinyl Café.
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he horror of drug overdoses has moved out of the alleys of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and into the living rooms of Kanata. That has jolted a lot of people into the conversation who weren’t there before. But the conversation so far is incomplete: How to talk to kids about drugs? How to make sure that drugs to counteract overdoses are available? Most of the discussion has focused on those two points. Less discussed is another question: How do we stop the drugs from getting to the kids? That may be the most important question, in the long run, but we’ve almost stopped talking, as a society, about the law enforcement side of the drug issue. Perhaps this is an unintended consequence of the so-called “War on Drugs” — a term that dates back to the Nixon presidency in the U.S. Over
ing so-called soft drugs. Marijuana will soon be legal in Canada. It already is in several U.S. states. But it’s hard to see how a similar approach can be effective in dealing Funny Town with the opioid crisis that has already taken so many lives. Marijuana has its drawbacks, and the years, the phrase has come War there is evidence that it can do longon drugs has battleto symbolize the run harm to young people. But it ineffectiveness of approaching drugs doesn’t kill them almost instantly, the as primarily a law enforcement issue. way overdoses of opioids can. Critics of the War on Drugs say The potency of some synthetic that it has fostered the growth of opioids, such as fentanyl, is truly huge illegal drug empires, while at the terrifying. same time failing to stem the flow of We can talk to the kids as inillegal drugs. Further, the emphasis telligently as we are capable. But on punishment gave criminal records some of them are going to want to to people who were guilty only of experiment. They may be troubled, possessing illegal substances. unhappy, lonely or simply curious. In recent years, the War on Drugs We can talk to them, offer whatever approach has been the object of guidance we can, but as a society we mockery and there has been a back- have to keep the pills out of their ing away from it, especially concern- hands.
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And it doesn’t look like we can do that without a massive effort to stop the importation and distribution of the illegal substances. In other words, a war on drugs. To be sure, part of the effort will involve persuading foreign governments, such as China, to crack down on producers and exporters. Also, work needs to be done to deal with the problem of the over-prescribing of opioids, because legal opioids are a serious problem, too. But there’s also a powerful need for good old-fashioned law enforcement — catch those who are manufacturing, distributing and selling illegally, sometimes online, and punish them strongly In the ongoing discussion, which has been stimulated by some courageous parents in Ottawa, we need to hear more about that. Governments cannot content EDITORIAL: MANAGING EDITOR: Theresa Fritz, 613-221-6225 theresa.fritz@metroland.com NEWS EDITOR
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themselves with issuing talking points for parents and making sure everybody has naloxone kits. They need to come up with an enforcement plan. They need to show us they are cutting off the supply. The kids and their parents deserve that much.
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Who would have thought you could add the goodness of ruby red beets to chocolate cake? The beet’s natural sweetness and moisture adds a delicious and unique flavour that perfectly pairs with chocolate, making this delectable cake tender and moist. Preparation time: 20 minutes Roasting time: 60 minutes Baking time: 50 minutes Serves 8 Ingredients 3 beets (about 1 lb/500 g) 2 cups (500 mL) all-purpose flour 1/2 cup (125 mL) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder 1-1/2 tsp (7 mL) baking soda 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt 3 Ontario Eggs 1/4 cup (50 mL) vegetable oil 1-1/2 cups (375 mL) packed brown sugar 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla 3/4 cup (175 mL) hot water Icing: 1 cup (250 mL) 35 per cent whipping cream
1 tbsp (15 mL) granulated sugar 1 tbsp (15 mL) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder Preparation instructions Trim both ends of beets. Wrap beets with foil and place on baking sheet. Bake in 400 F (200 C) oven for 45 to 60 minutes or until tender when pierced with sharp knife. Unwrap and let beets cool slightly; slip off skins. Roughly chop and place in food processor and process until smooth. Measure out 1-1/2 cups (375 mL) of beet puree. Reduce oven to 350 F (180 C). Spray nine-inch (23 cm) round baking pan with cooking spray and line with circle of parchment paper. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; set aside. In large bowl, whisk together eggs, oil, brown sugar, vanilla and beet puree. Add flour mixture to beet mixture alternately with hot water, beginning and ending with flour mixture, stirring until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in centre
comes out clean. Let cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Turn cake out and let cool completely. Icing: In large chilled bowl, using electric mixer on high, whip cream, sugar and cocoa, until firm peaks form. Pipe rosettes or frost top of cake and dust with cocoa, if desired. Tips: Omit cocoa from whipping cream and add 1
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everal months ago when my eldest son was 11, he got into some trouble with a supply teacher. The teacher had asked how many people in the class would give money to a homeless person. My son was one of three out of the 26 students who didn’t raise their hands. Asked to defend himself, he replied, “I’d rather give money through the church or an organization because I wouldn’t be sure the person wouldn’t use the money to buy fentanyl.” An innocent, but wellreasoned answer. I’m sure he was haughty about it. In any event, he was asked to sit outside the class. I credit his limited understanding of fentanyl to his regular reading of Maclean’s magazine, something I’ve tried to discourage as his little mind develops. What he missed, of course, is that fentanyl isn’t merely a
problem “on the streets.” Last year, hundreds of people in Western Canada died of opioid or fentanyl overdose, a tragic pattern that has the potential to repeat itself across the country. Unlike typical street drugs, fentanyl has its roots in the pharmaceutical world, a powerful painkiller that’s been prescribed for postsurgical patients for nearly two decades. The drug has found its way underground, with many illegal dealers lacing other drugs with the deadly opioid. In many cases, however, those who get high or overdose on fentanyl aren’t even aware they’re taking the drug. They may even believe they’re taking something legal. It’s horrifying to think of the complexities of potential exposure to this drug. But parents cannot stick their heads in the sand.
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Anyone who’s ever been a teenager, is a parent to a teenager or has encountered one knows that adolescents don’t like being told what to do. It’s just one of the reasons why it’s important to incorporate the subject of drugs into family discussions before the kids are likely to be exposed. Lecturing kids or frightening them into understanding that all drugs are bad and to be avoided is a no-go, especially with fentanyl, which doesn’t seem to fall into any black and white category of
good versus bad. I took my chance when my younger son, now 10, was asking if he could take some Advil for a minor back strain he was feeling after a rigorous gym class. There he was, climbing on the kitchen counter, to reach the high shelf where we keep vitamins and other seemingly harmless over-the-counter drugs, when I stopped him in his tracks. “You need to let me get that for you,” I said bluntly. “It’s important that you don’t help yourself to medicine, not even vitamins.”
That was my opener. Were they aware that two young girls had died in Ottawa this week? Not knowing the full circumstances surrounding the drug deaths, I explained that sometimes kids are taking things from friends or others that they believe to be relatively harmless pain killers or even candy, not realizing they are laced with a deadly drug. I turned the conversation to them. Had they heard anything about this? Did they have any feelings about drugs? “Some kids in my class can’t eat peanuts or eggs because they will break out in rash or they can’t breathe,” said my younger son. It was a decent metaphor. “That’s right,” I said. “For the same reasons their parents warn them not to eat foods unless they know the contents, you should avoid taking any medicines or small candies from friends or strangers. It’s important, even as you get
older, that you don’t take these things without checking with us.” I wanted them to know that I love them a lot. I wanted them to know that there will be many times in their adolescent years that people will try to pressure them in different ways and they have to try to be strong in their convictions and trust in their decisions. I walked away from the discussion feeling unsure. Did I tell them enough? Too much? At the end of the day, however, this is the beginning of a decade-long conversation about drugs. The real challenge will be the tricky push-pull of eventually parenting teenagers and hoping, praying that I’ve given them enough grounding in the early years to help them navigate the peer pressure that is so omnipotent in the adolescent years. Only time will tell.
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While councillors were around the table discussing the city’s climate change policy on Feb. 21, Ottawa 2017 promotional guru Guy Laflamme was filling up the gas tanks of 150 cars in Montreal as part of a publicity stunt to get Montrealers to head to the capital this summer. Mayor Jim Watson defended the move and said representatives of Montreal have marketed the city’s 375 anniversary celebrations here — so why shouldn’t we do the same? When asked about the timing of the stunt, Watson said the Ottawa 2017 Bureau acts inde-
pendently and that it shouldn’t be seen as at odds with Ottawa’s environmental policy. “We aren’t anti-car here in the city of Ottawa,” Watson said. “Some people think cars should be banned, but people still drive cars and they still drive long distances to get to tourist and vacation destinations..” Watson said the money for the gas wasn’t taxpayer funded, and likely came from sponsorship dollars. Watson said the city is working with VIA and OC Transpo on getting people to the capital, but added we can’t ignore cars. Laflamme said he was offended by the assumption that he’s somehow anti-environment. Laflamme said the bureau is
independent of the city and half the budget is from sponsors or self generated. “We don’t know the schedules of any given city committee,” he said. That being said, Laflamme doesn’t think the stunt had any carbon footprint, because people would have been filling their tanks anyway. Footing the bill for 150 cars just fostered some goodwill toward Ottawa. Laflamme said he considers himself a friend of the environment and drives a scooter in the summer months to reduce his own carbon footprint. Ottawa 2017 bought somewhere between $5,000 and $6,000 in gas, but easily tripled that in value of the editorial coverage they received, he said. Laflamme says since Ottawa will be the hub of the 150 cel-
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the older girls stood off to one side, whispering, with heads bent, and a look on their faces that would scare a saint. We knew it had something to do with Cora. She hadn’t been to school for weeks. The senior girls certainly knew, but their lips were sealed. Except among themselves. All Iva said was “poor Cora,� which made us all wonder if she had
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Weekly Sabbath Services (Saturday) at 2:00 p.m.
Public Lecture Church of God International Invitation
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Saturday March 11, 2017 Come out and meet Armor of God presenter Bill Watson and learn What is going on ‌ in Bible Prophecy! Doors open at 1 pm Lecture start time 2 pm For more information visit www.cgicanada.org Beacon Hill North Community Centre, 2130 Radford Crt (Best parking is behind Annunciation of the Lord Parish off Ogilvie Rd)!
Please join us for an enriching Service and Discussion Locations on our website: www.cgiOttawa.ca Welcome! No Collections–This Is a Free Educational Service
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Worship Service Sundays 10:00 a.m.
Beacon Hill North Community Cente- 2130 Radford Ct. (parking at Annunciation R.C. Church off of Ogilvie Rd.) Pastor Sandy Leeson • Office - 613-5634676 “I am not ashamed of the Good News about Jesus Christ. It is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.â€?
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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: ottawaeast@metroland.com
March 3
On March 3 at 7:30 p.m. the MacKay Concert Series presents “La Valse d’Amélie.” Montreal pianist Jana Stuart, will perform music from films such as “Amélie,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” and “Les intouchables,” followed by favourites from Chopin’s nocturnes, Debussy’s impressionism, and Rachmaninoff ’s preludes. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $15 students at Books on Beechwood, Leading Note, and at the door, 39 Dufferin Rd. Nostalgia entertaining 6 to 10 p.m. at the Orléans Legion, 800 Taylor Creek Dr. for your listening and dancing pleasure. Buffet dinner available 5 to 7 p.m. for reservations call 613-590-7227. For further information call 613-830-9984.
March 4
The Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre will host an auction dinner charity event, A night aboard the Titanic on March 4 at the Conference and Event Centre, 200 Coventry Rd. Cocktails start at 5 p.m., dinner starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $85 and can be purchased online at eventbrite.com or call Chantal Cadieux, 613-741-6025 ext. 121, email ccadieux@eorc-creo.ca.
VoIP 101 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Main branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Today’s internet has transform the telecommunications industry. Reasonable quality internet connections have served to facilitate the effective use of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) as an alternative to the traditional landline telephone. Jeff Dubois, Publicity Chair, Ottawa PC Users’ Group examines a number of free and low-cost options to replace or augment your existing telephone service. To attend this free event please register with the Ottawa Public Library.
March 11
Come for a dinner and dance in the Glebe at a traditional and fun (perfect for families) celebration of St. Patrick’s Day on March 11 at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m. ) at 194 Fourth Ave.
March 13
March Break, from March 13 to 17, is just around the corner, and the Ottawa Public Library is offering fun, educational, and free programs throughout the city for children ages 4 to 12!
This year’s March Break theme is Storytelling through Images and Words, as part of OPL’s year-long celebration of storytelling in honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary. The programs will spark children’s curiosity by exploring the science and craft of storytelling through books, animation, film, puppetry, visual arts, and more! Parents can find March Break programs online at biblioottawalibrary.ca.
Media Streaming 101 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Main branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Broadband internet has significantly transformed the delivery of media content to our households. With more content readily available, a growing number of Canadians are cutting the traditional cable and satellite umbilical cord and opting for online alternatives. Jeff Dubois, Publicity Chair, Ottawa PC Users’ Group examines some of the alternatives, restrictions and solutions used to maximize your March 17 streaming experience. To attend this It’s the time of year again that the free event please register with the Otyoung artists (12 to 19) of Ottawa tawa Public Library. are invited to submit their work for the opportunity to have their artwork displayed in a City of Ottawa community gallery. This is the pro- March 23 gram’s 21st birthday and creative Protecting Your Computer from pieces are already making their way 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the St. Laurent to us ready for the jury. Branch of the Ottawa Public LiThis year we are already seeing a brary. The average time it takes for rise in digital art – such as video, in an unprotected computer to be comfact this is the first time we have seen promised after connecting to the Invideo submissions. The submission ternet is under 15 minutes. Don’t let deadline is March 17. Several exhibi- it be yours. Chris Taylor, President tions will take place, including one in of the Ottawa PC Users’ Group will Orléans at the Shenkman Arts Cen- show you the simple steps you need tre. Application is available online at to take to keep your computer from ottawa.ca. being hacked. To attend this free
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