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Emotions are running high in New Edinburgh. After displaying questionable conduct at a community association meeting, Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum apologized. Nussbaum was asked to apologize by members of the New Edinburgh Community Alliance and residents after a meeting on Feb. 22 resulted in Nussbaum losing his cool. The meeting focused on work that is set to begin mid-March for the Combined Sewer Storage Tunnel in the neighbourhood. The project will link a sewage tunnel from New Edinburgh to LeBreton Flats to stop overflow from dumping into the Ottawa River. In the Heritage Conservation District neighbourhood of New Edinburgh, there will be three construction sites, including one in Stanley Park which will double as a digging and staging site. Another site will be where a shaft is dug at Queen Victoria Street and River Lane. For residents who are facing nine hours of construction per day over three years, which includes a pile driv-

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Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum was asked to apologize after a a community association meeting in New Edinburgh on Feb. 22. That apology came on Feb. 27 in an email. ing, trucking muck from the three sites, and constant construction noise, the news that their councillor wasn’t 100 per cent behind their fight to stop the chaos before it starts did not sit well. After Nussbaum left the meeting, the board and residents in attendance

decided the councillor’s behaviour was unacceptable and requested the apology. That apology came on Feb. 27 in an email circulated to the NECA board. Ottawa East News has received a copy of that apology. “I am writing to apologize for the way I spoke to members of the board

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There can only be one winner. The Canada Games Council visited Ottawa on March 2, touring several of the city’s facilities that make up Ottawa’s bid for the 2021 summer games. The visit was the last step in the bid process before the council selects the host city for the games. “It’s like sports; there can only be one successful person and that’s the unfortunate part because really all four communities can do a great job,” Wayne Carew, chair of the Canada Games Council, said during his visit to the city. The committee started its week in Sudbury, then visited Kitchener and Waterloo, the Niagara region and finally made its way to Ottawa. “We are pretty excited about what we’ve seen and what we are going to see for the rest of the day,” Carew said at a break for lunch at the Nepean Sailing Club. Carew said he enjoyed the tour of Carleton University’s campus, which would be home to the athlete’s village. “It’s a beautiful campus; it’s very compact for the athletes and the games are all about the athletes so that’s what we kind of look for,” he said. As much as the day was about checking out the facilities to make sure that they can accommodate the 270 summer events and more than 3,400 athletes, the visit is also about meeting the people in the community and those that will run the games. The members of the

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Members of the Canada Games Council toured Ottawa on March 2 as part of the process of deciding which city will host the Canada Summer Games in 2021. There are four regions vying to host the games. council have previously spent nine to 10 hours reading the city’s submission. “This isn’t about the paper, it’s about the people. We’ve read the paper. We want to meet the people that are going to make a commitment to put the games on,” Carew said. After the visit, the committee will rescore each potential host city before making its recommendation to the national board. A final decision on who will host the 18-day, 2021 summer games will be made in Toronto on March 30 with representatives from each city in attendance. Mayor Jim Watson said the committee saw a cross-section of the venues and the highlights of the city’s bid during the tour. “I feel very confident, but it’s in the hands of the committee and we’re just trying to

showcase some of the great venues that we have,” he said. He said the city does face a bit of a challenge as it would be the largest city to ever host the Canada Games. “That’s the one challenge we have to overcome to let them know that while we may be a big city of a million, we are also a city that’s made up of dozens of smaller communities.” Hosting the games could cost as much as $43 million, but the city’s portion would be $10.5 million. The games would also mean about $8 million in facility upgrades. The bulk of the funds would go to spruce up the Nepean Sportsplex – to the tune of $5.8 million. The Terry Fox Athletics facility would get a $1 million facelift. - With files from Jennifer McIntosh

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Group creates 150 great things to do in 2017 BY Michelle Nash Baker michelle.nash@metroland.com

There is a group that gathers in Old Ottawa South every Saturday morning that is looking to create the greatest Canadian conversation in over 150 years. In fact, they are so committed that they have developed a list of things to talk about, things to do and ways to get people together. The point? It’s to celebrate Canada’s big birthday this year. The goal? Well that’s to get all of Ottawa in on the conversation and party. “We are hoping to see small scale community action,” said one of the participants, Gail Stewart. “In 1967 there were a lot of ordinary people doing their own projects, and yes, there are events taking place in the city, but up to now, it’s mostly things with high ticket prices or one-off parties.” Stewart and six others have been meeting every week at Ottawa Public Library’s Sunnyside branch since last spring to discuss Canada’s 150th celebrations, the plans the city is doing and

what their country turning 150 means to them. Over the course of the year, Stewart said they began to develop the list, which in the end, serendipitously ended up being 150 things, Stewart explained. Fellow list maker Tim Lash said the list itself is a conversation of how residents can look forward to another 150 years. “This is about what it means to be Canadian,” Lash said. “It’s also about connecting with people, maybe people you didn’t already know.” Tracy Morey, who has attended the weekly sessions on and off, said she is excited about what’s to come. “I think you will find a lot of good will come from people’s neighbourhoods,” Morey said. Residents of all the library’s surrounding neighbourhoods, the Glebe, Old Ottawa East and Old Ottawa South, Stewart said the group even had drop-in participation from Sandy Hill and New Edinburgh. “I was pleasantly surprised with the level of participation,” Stewart said. “There were six faithful members, but then you would get these great drop-ins with great ideas.”

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From left, Isla Jordan, Gail Stewart, Tim Lash, Tracy Morey and Niki Divito are just a few of the members of a group that meet every week at Ottawa Public Library’s Sunnyside branch to discuss Canada’s 150th celebrations. Stewart added that one of the main things that has come out of this weekly conversation is the desire to have something concrete from this year’s sesquicentennial.The full list of ideas is available at canada150cafe.wordpress. com. Anyone interested in the dropping by the Sunnyside library on Saturday mornings are welcome, Stewart said. "The drop in is open for all," she said.

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“I am conscious of the fact that there is significant concern, anger and mistrust on this file on the part of community members. My job is to do everything I can to address those feelings in a productive and positive way. I fell short of doing so at your meeting.” “As your representative at city hall, I appreciate how important it is to work constructively with the community to mitigate the negative impact of the CSST (tunnel) project on New Edinburgh.” David Slinn, vice president of the community association, said he accepts Nussbaum’s apology and said he looks forward to continuing to work with the councillor concerning the construction. “Tobi (Nussbaum) remains an integral part of the community’s fight to obtain information and proper mitigation and appropriate mitigation, in terms of the three years of serious disruption that is about to come on New Edinburgh,” Slinn said. “And we will continue to

work with him to help protect the quality of life.” In the sewage tunnel petition the councillor did not sign, those who did expressed concern over safety, environmental, health and heritage issues with the project. So far, 75 residents have signed the petition. Slinn said even though time continues to slip away and the start of construction looms, residents refuse to back down. “The stakes are too high,” he said. To be clear, Slinn added he and many of the residents who live directly in front of or beside the construction sites have maintained time and time again they are not opposed to the project, which aims to catch the remaining 30 per cent of sewage that runs into the Ottawa River during heavy rainfalls. They say their protest has always been about the process for the project that dates back to 2009, when an environmental assessment was conducted, to when it was released, to when Nussbaum first learned about the project in 2015, when he was

a rookie councillor. Another year and a half would pass before residents living directly in the construction zone would find out about the work, that will cut Queen Victoria Street in two to connect the sewage tunnels underground, and boost noise levels to a minimum of 85 decibels (as loud as a Boeing 737 aircraft about to land) from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. “It’s a bit rich for the city to say they consulted us,” Slinn said. “Frankly it's five years too late for consultation. What they are doing now is a bit like a prisoner being told, you’ve been sentenced to three years of torture, but you didn’t get to defend yourself at the trial, but hey, let’s talk about the torture now.” “This is all about how to make it less bad. And so far the only mitigation we have heard about is a wooden fence that will cover the construction area instead of a chain-link one.” Slinn is speaking about the only mitigation measure residents have received for work at the Queen Victoria and River Lane site. Ottawa East News reached out to Nussbaum to comment on the apology email, but was unavailable before press time.

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St. Patrick’s Parade will take place on March 11. sponsors’ banners.” Aside from banner-carriers, the parade also collects food and money donations for the Ottawa Food Bank. All volunteers must be 16 years

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Snowshoe racer Kevin Dooks will travel to Austria this month to compete at the international level against athletes from all over the world. Dooks, 29, is a Special Olympics athlete from the Queenswood Heights neighbourhood who races in the 400 and 800 metre distances, as well as the relay. He’ll travel as part of the Canadian delegation of more than 100 to compete in Austria after years of preparation to qualify. In the Special Olympics, racers are placed into heats based off how they do in the preliminaries. Dooks had to place high enough in his heat at the conference level in 2014 to advance to the provincials in 2015. He made it to nationals last winter, where he won a gold and a silver — enough to qualify him to the world games. He said he was “very excited” when he found out that he was named to the Canadian team. His dad, Brian Dooks, said most Special Olympians sign up to get some exercise and fresh air, so the family has been thrilled with his son’s accomplishments. When Brian first found out Kevin qualified

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widely available as possible. The city plans to have doses in every fire and police vehicle. The province has made naloxone freely available. If someone still chooses to consume a drug – and that would be a bad decision – we can make the outcome less risky if allow them to test their drugs for fentanyl. Test kits exist. If one of our levels of government makes them available to would-be drug users, those people can find out if there is fentanyl in a drug they have purchased. A user who sees a positive result for fentanyl can avoid potential death or addiction. And at the same time, they learn that the person who sold them that pill or powder cannot be trusted. Drug testing like this has been offered at some concert festivals in the past, and it is controversial. Some will say testing condones or encourages drug use. But which is better: 1,000 people use drugs at a festival and one dies, or 1,000-plus people use drugs at a festival and no one dies? That’s the crux of harm reduction. It’s why we provide free needles to IV drug addicts. It’s what the Insite safe-injection site in Vancouver does. It simply saves lives. Drug-testing kits have potential. They should be part of the discussion.

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Police charge ‘prolific’ offenders in robbery spree By Melissa Murray mmurray@metroland.com

Ottawa police have laid more than 50 charges after making arrests in a long list of robberies at gas stations and convenience stores that date back to December. The men have been charged with offences stemming from 23 robberies. Police Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch said the two accused are among the most prolific in the region.“These were significant arrests,” Haarbosch said. “I don’t know that I recall anyone locally being charged with this many robberies at the same time. Certainly, it’s one of our most prolific offenders in recent history.” Up to March 2, police have been busy investigating 42 business robberies. Last year at this time there were 28. “Our retail robberies were up year to date fairly significantly and we’ve seen now, after these

two counts of conspiracy and one count of attempt to commit an indictable robbery. There were as many as five robberies in one night in February. Haarbosch said that is likely because gas stations and convenience stores, which are targeted because they are open 24-7, don’t keep large amounts of cash in the registers. The men were demanding cash and in some cases took some lottery tickets, no weapons were shown and there’s no gang connection. No one was injured in any of the robberies. Haarbosch said the men were known to police. The locations hit were on Hazeldean Road, Merivale Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Carling Avenue, Strandherd Drive, Richmond Road and Iris Street. Haarbosch said each of the locations provided decent quality surveillance video, which helped police link the suspects to the robbery spree.

arrests were made, as well as a couple of other arrests, unrelated, our retail robberies have dropped right off since.” The two men, 25 and 26, both of Ottawa, were arrested after two robberies on Feb. 21. The first robbery was in the 400 block of Moodie Drive and the second was in the 1800 block of Robertson Road. The men were located in a vehicle before midnight and one suspect was arrested following a vehicle and foot pursuit, while the second was arrested in the vehicle. Initially, the men were charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of conspiracy. The 26-year-old has been charged with failure to stop for police, 20 counts of robbery, 20 counts of wearing a disguise, four counts of conspiracy and two counts of attempt to commit an indictable offence. The 25-year-old man faces three counts of robbery, five counts of wearing a disguise,

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This month’s Vanier Community Association will take a look into the past. After many questions from new and old residents alike that felt they missed out on participating with a 2013 cityconducted consultation for the city Secondary Plan regarding Vanier’s Montreal Road, the Montreal Road District Secondary Plan, the association decided to host a meeting. The March 14 meeting will be focused on how city planner Melanie Knight consulted

with the community, how the city reached out to community members at the time and the results of the study, and how the main elements of the plan were inherited from the former City of Vanier plan. The special meeting was at a request from residents, who lately have been questioning the designated heights of properties and new developments for Montreal Road, and some people have raised concern about the density along the road. The goal is for residents to walk away from the meeting with a better understanding about the plan.

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It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Robert Alfred Edwards, suddenly at home on Sunday, February 26, 2017 in his 77th year. Loving husband of Carole (nee Kerr) for 57 years. Loving father of Teresa Edwards (Stuart), Barb (Stephen DeLisle) and Vicki (Mike Ogilvie) and predeceased by son Brian. Proud Poppa of Jessica (Justin), Adam (Melanie), Monica, Amelia (Romano), Rachel, Ashley and “Poppa Bob” of Sativah, Silas and Sophie. Survived by his siblings Vivian (Bud Lackey), Katherine (Jim) Hover, Harold (Donna) Edwards, Jack (Dorothy) Edwards, Charlie (the late Kay) Edwards, Linda (Wayne Bennett), Danny (Maureen) Edwards, and sisters-in-law Marian Edwards and Clara Edwards, Sue (Joe Wynn) and brother-inlaw Russell (Diane Kerr). Predeceased by his parents Newman and Essie Edwards, sisters Edith (late Ken) Cole, Shirley (late Woody) Drew and brothers Albert, Wayne and James. survived by many nieces, nephews, friends and neighbours. Bob worked in shipping/receiving at RCA Victor for 19 years and left the company before it closed to open Edwards Lumber in the 1970’s. He also took over the running of the family farm upon his dad’s death. Bob loved farming and everything to do with the outdoors. He loved camping, hunting and fishing. Bob said “he would never be rich, but he was rich with so much love from family and friends”. Friends were invited to visit the family at the Lannin Funeral Home, Smiths Falls on Thursday, March 2, 2017 from 2:00PM-4:00PM and 6:00PM-8:00PM. A funeral service was held at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church on Friday, March 3, 2017 at 11:00AM. As expressions of sympathy, donations to Holy Trinity Anglican Church or the Lung Association would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences available at www.lannin.ca

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or territory and an email address. All entrants must be 14 years old or younger, and only one entry is allowed per child. Online entries must be received no later than April 30. Winning names are chosen by instructors of the RCMP musical ride branch, and the winners and names will be announced in May on the RCMP website. “We look forward to meeting some of the winners during this year’s cross-country tour in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday. The tour will include visits to all 10 provinces and one territory,” said Egan. “Get your entries in and you can play a role in the musical ride of the future.” Those whose names are chosen will receive prizes, including a 2017 Musical Ride pennant, a framed photo of the foal, a T-shirt and pins. Entries can be submitted to www. rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/name-foal-contest or by mail to Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Musical Ride Branch, c/o RCMP Name the Foal Contest, P.O. Box 8900, Ottawa, Ont., K1G 3J2.

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t wasn’t as if Emerson had done some dastardly deed like stealing money out of the sugar bowl, but what he did earned him a sound cuff on the ear from Mother. What he did was say, “God, I sure would like a real hockey stick, instead of the one Father made out of a piece of wood.” It wasn’t that wanting the hockey stick got him into trouble; it was saying “God” outside of praying. It was a sin to take God’s name in vain, and Mother wouldn’t tolerate it, and that’s all there was to it. Mother didn’t say a word. She didn’t have to. The cuff on the ear said it all. And yet, it seemed to me, as I watched Emerson take his punishment, that adults were forgiven for taking the Lord’s name in vain. Father never quite got the word God out. He would say, “by gad,” which to me was too close to the actual word for comfort. And as I sat and thought about all the ways God’s name was worked into everyday conversations, I had a very hard time figuring out what was right and what was wrong — and then there were the times when it seemed perfectly normal. Mother had a host of sayings all relating to God’s mercy, such as the time old Granny Hines FOR SALE

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