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Graffiti app to tap into problem BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER michelle.nash@metroland.com

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Grade 5 students Jude MacDonald and Jamie Harrington from Manor Park Public School had the chance to learn a thing or two about coding at a special event, Code on the Hill, where the students learned digital skill building from Actua and Canada Learning Code and Kids Code Jeunesse on June 14 in the East Block courtyard. The event aimed to inspire curiosity around coding and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

In an effort to battle graffiti issues in this city, one councillor is looking to take the fight digital. Beacon Hill-Cyrville’s Coun. Tim Tierney asked staff at an information technology subcommittee in April to find a better way to allow residents to report graffiti in their neighbourhood and help police track the taggers. “Since the beginning I have been active on fighting graffiti,” Tierney said, adding he originally made a commitment to fight the issue, which was rampant in his ward in 2011. Since 2010, reports on graffiti in his ward have dropped dramatically, thanks to planned stings that allowed police to catch a couple of vandals who had been marking up the neigh-

bourhoods. Originally, there were around 1,322 reports to 311. In 2015, only 263 graffiti tags were reported. Tierney said he is really pleased with the drop, but he wants to see the numbers hit zero. And he thinks the best way is to make reporting graffiti easier. “There needs to be an app for people to do it instantly,” Tierney said. “People always want to report but it’s not easy.” The councillor said he has been doing a tremendous amount of research looking for the best app to offer residents the ability to report a tag on a fence or utility box with geo-tagging – so the addresses are accurate and don’t make it hard for residents to identify cross streets. See PATTERNS, page 2

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This information, in turn, Tierney said, would be shared with the police so they could track patterns and help narrow down where a particular tagger lives. “If you see patterns around schools, or a particular street, maybe that is where the tagger lives,” he said. Currently, staff have been working on what the app will look like and how it will work. Tierney said he was most recently sent a demo and is

impressed with what he sees so far. His goal is to have the 311 app available for download by 2018. The project, said Jamie Kwong, executive director of Vanier’s business improvement area, Quartier Vanier, would be something she would love to see. “We report to 311 only the (graffiti) we don’t remove,” Kwong said, explaining those are the ones on vacant commercial properties. The BIA hires a company to remove the graffiti in Vanier, but added that a

reporting application that makes tracking easier would be worthwhile. Mark Kaluski, president of the Vanier’s BIA, echoed Kwong saying the organization is supportive of a tracking tool. “We report to 311 for their stats but feel that a more robust database, with an upload to the police database, would be an effective tool,” Kaluski said. “We’re supportive of this initiative that could help the police better track incidents and allocate resources in problem areas.”

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Mackenzie O’May, 9, digs into a cupcake she decorated herself at a cupcake decorating station on June 11 at DessertFest. DessertFest was held at the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park on June 10 and 11. It included a range of desserts from all different vendors, and activities for kids.

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RCMP annual Sunset Ceremonies start June 23 BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER michelle.nash@metroland.com

For the second year in a row Wimzie and Const. Melissa Clancy are partners. Beginning on June 23, Clancy and her horse Wimzie will perform a choreographed show to music in the RCMP Musical Ride Sunset Ceremonies at the Musical Ride Centre. Clancy is part of a troop of 32 riders who performs in the RCMP’s Musical Ride, a performance of intricate drills and figures timed to music. These movements, all done in unison, demand the utmost control, timing and coordination. And interestingly enough, many of the riders, like Clancy only learned how to ride a horse after joining the RCMP. “There is a big learning curve," Clancy said. Clancy first joined the police unit in 2009. She, like many others. took a five-week equestrian course.

She said it wasn’t easy, but even after falling off her horse early on, she got back on and continued to become a skilled rider. Performing in the musical ride is typically a two-year job for these officers – who are stationed in Ottawa and train at the Manor Park-based centre. After one year of riding a particular horse, Clancy said riders and horses get switched, but this year, Clancy is once again paired with Wimzie - a beautiful brown horse. "I was always interested in the ride," Clancy said. "You get to travel across Canada, and you are meeting people from all the different communities. I'm proud to be a part of it." Clancy added that performing is an emotional experience. "Sometimes when you do the show you get goose bumps," she said. The ride normally travels to 50 different communities across Canada each year between the months of May and October, all

while helping raise thousands of dollars for local charities. Typically, the communities are all in the same province, with the Ride only travelling to one to two provinces during the tour. This year, for Canada's 150th celebrations, the ride will tour to 10 provinces. "Being a part of Canada's 150 celebrations, for the RCMP, mounties on horseback is iconic," Clancy said. "For me, it will be a very proud moment." Since 1989, the sunset ceremonies is a special show, thanking the community for its support, as well as the opportunity to see the Musical Ride in Ottawa every June. This year the ceremonies run will run from June 23-25 at the centre, starting at 5:30 p.m. where everyone can check out the kids zone, petting zoo, and police displays. The pre-show will start at 6 p.m. and include: • Equestrian Abilities Show • Mounted Arms Display •RCMP/Ottawa Police Ser-

Const. Melissa Clancy and her horse Wimzie are a part of the RCMP’s Musical Ride troup. This year’s Sunset Ceremonies will take place at the Musical Ride Centre from June 23-25. vice Pipes and Drums and Dancers • Central Band of the Canadian Forces The main event with Clancy and Wimzie begins at 7 p.m. Admission is free. However the RCMP Foundation will be accepting donations on site in support of Canadian youth initiatives in the community.

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Above, Simon ‘Klassic’ Xavier dances in front of the newly unveiled mural at Mozaik. Below, Moses Koonoo, a Vanier resident, got artistic with the sidewalk chalk placed out near the newly unveiled mural which is inspired by an Inuit story. Below, is part of one of the murals unveiled at the party.

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Hopewell students help Vanier school get new playground BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER michelle.nash@metroland.com

After a surge of fundraising dollars, R.E. Wilson will get a new playground for its kindergarten students. The task to raise nearly $65,000 at the beginning of the school year was a daunting one, admitted school principal Todd Saunders. He knew it would only be made possible with local community support. And in the end, that is what has made the new playground — which the school board aims to install this summer — a possibility. Of those local helping hands was another group of students at another Ottawa school. Every year Hopewell students host a winter craft sale. This past Blizzard Bazaar raised $11,059. The funds raised at the event are typically donated to international organizations. Only this year, the students were interested in donating to a cause locally. A decision completely left up to the Grade 6 students in the Take Action Group at the school — the students researched local organizations in need and pitched the ideas to their peers for a vote. And the students voted in favour of R.E. Wilson. “This is beautiful,” said Hopewell principal Amy Hannah. “This has a direct impact and I think will forever connect us with R.E. Wilson.” Hannah and the Grade 6 students attended a barbecue celebration at R.E. Wilson on June 15.

There the Hopewell students had the opportunity to meet and play with the Grade 6 students of R.E. Wilson. Hopewell also presented the cheque to the school. “I find this all absolutely amazing,” Hannah said. Saunders echoed Hannah, saying the playground is now possible because of Hopewell’s and other local organizations' support. This was Saunders' first year at the McArthur Avenue school and also his first time embarking on a fundraising campaign of this size. In the summer of 2016, the school’s wooden playground equipment was deemed unsafe and removed from the yard. All that was left was the sand. Saunders said one of the most important things the school wanted to see accomplished with the new playground is embracing different cultures with the play area. He said he would like to include the artistry, culture for students of First Nations and Inuit and Métis decent. Parent Council co-chairs Audrey Hollywood and Jessica Robillard said the task at first definitely seemed frightening. Everyone wanted to see fundraising completed this year in order to get the playground installed in the summer. “This means a lot,” Hollywood said of the Hopewell school donation. “Now we can have a playground that is accessible for everyone.” Hollywood and Robillard gave credit to the kindergarten teachers

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Students from Hopewell Public School visited R.E. Wilson Public School to hand over a cheque for $11,059 to the school to help R.E. Wilson get a new playground for its kindergarten students. for their creative side this year for managing to entertain the kids with just sand. “They were amazing,” Robillard said, adding the teachers would create treasure hunts and other sand-based activities to keep the kids happy. Aside from Hopewell’s donation, a local company, CGI, donated funds, as well as the Rotary Club and the Community Foundation of Ottawa. The school board chipped in the biggest portion of the costs.

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n a recent visit to our house, my aunt noted that our household seemed to be rather organized. It’s doubtful she was referring to cupboards, overflowing with towels and Tupperware, nor was she making comment on our overall tidiness. We can only uphold tidy appearances — after days of intense cleaning and stashing — for about five minutes after the arrival of guests. Specifically, she said to my 11-year-old son, “You really seem so prepared for everything — soccer practice, swimming lessons, school lunches — I don’t know how you do it!” To which my son replied, “Oh, it’s thanks to Mom. She has the calendar in her head.” Wide-eyed and laughing out loud, I was reminded of a lengthy illustration that made the rounds on the Internet this spring. French artist Emma made a splash in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper with “The gender wars and household chores.” In it, she articulates what feminists call “the mental load,” the intense burden of logistics planning that, more often than not, falls to women in the nuclear family unit. Her illustrated commentary highlights the work women do that often falls under the radar, chronicling several day-in-the-life moments of a family with children, poignantly positioning mom as the project manager of the household. “When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he’s viewing her as the manager of

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.”..if the women are carrying the mental load, the men should, at the very least, be implementing it.” household chores,” notes the artist. What exactly is this mental load? Well, as my son said, a big part of it is “the calendar in my head.” “The mental load means always having to remember,” notes Emma. She offers a few examples: “Remember that you have to add cotton balls to the shopping list; remember that today’s the deadline to order your vegetable delivery for the week; remember that we should have paid the caretaker for last

month’s work by now; that the baby grew another 3 centimetres and can’t fit into his trousers; that he needs to get his booster shot …” and on it goes. A few weeks ago, in my attempt to plan a birthday party for my son, I reached out to one of the dads at a sporting event. “We’re thinking of the 17th,” I noted. “I’ll have to check with my wife,” he responded. “She’s in charge of the calendar. I don’t have a clue what’s going on most of the time.” My husband’s a pretty liberal guy. He does laundry. He woke up for early morning feedings. He cooks dinner several times per week. But despite all of this, I’m the one who conceptualizes it. That’s the mental load. As Emma notes, it’s the women that brings all the disparate pieces together — planning the meals, shopping accordingly, overlaying every family member’s calendar in different colours in Google. (Yes, I do have some help from Google). The mental load is the stress that no one sees and it often goes unappreciated. It’s me planning and preparing dinner, organizing the soccer carpool to try and free up some time, driving child and friends to carpool and leaving other kids in my husband’s trustworthy hands, only to return home three hours later to find the dinner dishes still on the table. It’s mapping out every kid’s activities, planning to be at a military base in Kanata at 8 a.m. on a Sunday, sending email and text reminders

to my spouse to have the other two ready for swimming on the other side of town, only to return from my precisely planned transit route to find the kids still in bed. “I thought swimming was at 9:30,” he said. And it’s difficult to off-load the mental load. After whining to my therapist, she suggested I share some of the planning with my husband. As a result, I haven’t logged into the school registration system — for field trips, school uniform orders, verifying grades and pizza days — since April 2015. In fact, I don’t even have the log in information. But it doesn’t work. I frequently receive email reminders from teachers to register for a trip on the day of the deadline, (which I then have to forward to my spouse and overlay in my calendar, because I’m the project manager). I lose track of those elements of my children’s schedules, which sees me booking orthodontist appointments on the same day as standardized testing, despite half a dozen emails warning us, on pain of severely sharp looks of disgust from the school administration, not to do this. And my kids haven’t had a pizza day in two years. There’s no easy answer, but it seems to me that if the women are carrying the mental load, the men should, at the very least, be implementing it. When I figure out how to make that happen, I’ll let you know.

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East-end Celebrate Summer offers lots of free activities BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER michelle.nash@metroland.com

Organizations in Gloucester are giving residents something to celebrate this summer. The annual Celebrate Summer event will take place on June 23 and June 24. Originally started as a barbecue hosted by Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney, the event has turned into something much larger in the past seven years.

“After the first year, it really picked up steam,” Tierney said. “I think, in some ways, there is a parallel to the old Gloucester Fair days.” Tierney said since the event has grown from a barbecue to a fair, he no longer organizes it on his own — and it is something that a number of local organizations have helped make possible. “That’s why its called Celebrate Summer — because whether I’m the councillor or not, I hope this

event continues to exist,” he said. With two free days of food and entertainment, Tierney said this year will also have a number of new additions, including Disney princesses, street performers and a boot camp for those feeling like they want to get into a health kick. Of course, Tierney added, the old favourites will be back — including the dunk tank, which he will participate in. “If you don’t like your tax bills, then come dunk

me,” he said. The event, which typically draws about 5,000 people, is also a fundraiser for the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard and the Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre. There will also be rides,

which do cost money — $27.50 in advance or $37.50 the day of the event. The free activities include a bouncy land, face-painting, a pancake breakfast and a hotdog lunch. City and community information booths will also

be on hand, including OC Transpo, who will have information on the changes that will occur once the city’s light rail transit is up and running in 2018. For more information about the fair visit timtierneyottawa.ca.

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Just say no to all-night noise

ight rail is a positive for most people in the city. Fewer cars, faster commutes. Who could grumble? Yet there will be a few negatives. Some people will have to deal with noise from the occasional trains. The good news is the trains won’t run past anyone’s home all night. It’s a different story when it comes to maintenance yards. Those facilities will be active when the trains aren’t running – the middle of the night is perfect for cleaning and upkeep. Because of the potential for all-night racket, the city must do all it can to keep the noise down. And instead of building a yard and then trying to mitigate the noise coming from within, the city should ensure future yards are as far from residents’ homes as possible. That brings us to Moodie Drive in Nepean. The city’s preferred location for a future rail maintenance yard is east of Moodie, 232 metres from the nearest home in Crystal Beach. Yet there are two other sites – not “preferred” in part due to cost – west of Moodie, about five times as far from the nearest bedroom.

The extra $15-million cost of the more distant sites is due to the need for an overpass or underpass to get trains over or under Moodie Drive. That may seem a steep price to pay, but that overpass or underpass is going to be built when the next stage of light rail is extended to Kanata. That work could begin very soon after the first train rumbles to Moodie Drive. The $15 million will not be wasted, it just needs to be spent a little sooner so the maintenance yard is built where it makes sense. The additional bonus is that the sites distant from Crystal Beach will be side-by-side with the future rail line to Kanata. Trains will have an easy in-and-out, instead of in the city’s preferred option – a dead end yard further from the main line. Yes, we should be thankful that light rail will reach Moodie Drive by 2023. We should be thankful that the provincial and federal governments have pitched in funding to get it done. But we shouldn’t delay further funding if it means an all-night rail yard bangs and clangs next to a community because we built it in the wrong place.

When neighbourhoods become trendy, taxes go up

hat is happening to the Granite Curling Club of West Ottawa is part of a distressingly similar pattern in growing cities. The Westboro club’s property tax bill has tripled, posing an unexpected financial challenge to the club and its members. This isn’t the first time this has happened in Ottawa and it won’t be the last, unless some creative thought can be brought to bear on the issue. Imagine it. You’re minding our own business, operating in a neighbourhood where you’ve been for more than 50 years and all of a sudden the neighbourhood becomes hot. People have decided it’s the place to be. Businesses have decided they want to move there. (And, in the case of Westboro, the city has decided it wants to locate light rail stations there.) Then what happens? New houses are built. Old houses are torn down to

CHARLES GORDON Funny Town make room for bigger ones. Property values increase. Rents go up. Taxes go up, including yours. And what did you do to deserve this? Nothing. You just stayed where you were. For that, you and other oldtimers in the area are paying a higher price. Some of the old-time businesses will close, replaced by others whose owners have deeper pockets. Many of those will be chains, diminishing the local qualities of the neighbourhood. This has been happening in Westboro for some time. It is happening now in Hintonburg and will start happening somewhere else in the city any

minute now. Recognizing that it needs to be stopped is easier than figuring out ways to stop it. Taxes need to be fair. Fairness dictates that affluent areas have higher assessments than less prosperous ones. For example, it’s fair to tax those who profit by selling their properties in hot neighbourhoods. It is not unfair that those who fuel the fire by paying inflated prices for properties wind up paying higher property taxes. And it is probably not unfair to increase the assessment on those who put on massive additions and expand the city’s roster of hot tubs. But those who just stayed put and watched the neighbourhood boom around them? What did they do to deserve a tax hit? Still, it is difficult to conceive of a solution that favours long-timers over newcomers. You can’t have next-door

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neighbours with radically different assessments, assuming that one isn’t radically overbuilt compared with the other. Maybe the only solution is a longterm one, an attack on the factors that make property values increase so dramatically (and which, incidentally, make affordable housing increasingly scarce). Some of those factors are built in to our economic system, the product of supply and demand. Not much we can do about them. But we can attack a large cause of the rise in property values — namely, speculation. In the more fevered centres of rising prices, attention is being paid to this. Ontario and British Columbia are taxing property purchases by non-residents. More could be done. News reports in recent months highlight instances of houses that are purchased and sold again, sometimes several times, withEDITORIAL: MANAGING EDITOR: Theresa Fritz, 613-221-6225 theresa.fritz@metroland.com NEWS EDITOR

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out anyone living in them. It shouldn’t be beyond the capabilities of our lawmakers to put a stop to that. Anything that helps make city life affordable again can only help our neighbourhoods.

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Expansions, renovations for eight schools – provincial funds announced BY MELISSA MURRAY mmurray@metroland.com

Eight local schools will receive money from the province to help revitalize them as they accommodate new students in the fall. Education Minister Mitzie Hunter was joined by Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli on June 12 at Agincourt Road Public School as Hunter announced $18.3 million for Ottawa schools for renovations to three schools and the expansion of another five. The money will go toward additions to Agincourt Public School, Sir Robert Borden High School and Merivale High School, and renovations to Woodroffe Avenue Public School, Pinecrest Public School, Bell High School, Briargreen Public School and Gloucester High School. Last year the board undertook two accommodations reviews. The western area review included a look at 26 schools, including four high schools.

At the end of the process, the board decided to close D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School, Greenbank Middle School, Leslie Park Public School, Grant Alternative School and Century Public School. A sixth school, J.H. Putman, would close after the opening of a new intermediate wing at Agincourt Road Public School. High schools in the review will now accommodate grades 7 to 12 and an international baccalaureate program for west-end students will begin at Merivale High School this fall. The eastern secondary review looked at Colonel By, Gloucester and Rideau high schools. In the end, the board voted to close Rideau, and students will be redirected to Gloucester this fall. The schools receiving students from the closures will receive provincial funds for the renovations and expansions. “It’s very exciting news,” said board chair Shirley

Seward in an interview following the announcement. “We went through two very challenging and comprehensive accommodation reviews and this means even better learning spaces for our students.” The addition at Agincourt will accommodate about 300 students. Seward said the project should take 18 months to two years. “We’re really pleased this money is coming so soon after the reviews.” Work done at other schools includes additions like increasing gym space, she said. Some of the smaller projects will get underway this summer and could be finished by the time students come back to school this fall. “We do the accommodation reviews for learning reasons and financial reasons; this announcement starts a good precedent to show that investments will be made after successful reviews,” Seward said. “It’s a very good sign that our hard work is paying off.”

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Healthier choices at food bank BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER michelle.nash@metroland.com

The Ottawa Food Bank is about to make a big change to what it offer clients.. The food bank, which provides for 41,540 people every month announced they are investing more than $400,000 annually to improve the type of food offered. Dubbed the Health Smart initiative, the program will replace salty, unhealthier foods with more protein and more nutritious options. The Ottawa Food Bank executive director Michael Maidment joined Erin O’Manique at the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard to make the announcement on June 15. “I'm really thrilled about this announcement,” Maidment said. “This will provide better quality food for people.” Maidment said this shift was the result of years of hard work – mostly growing the food bank’s funding base to make the change possible. The final bit of work took place in the last eight months,

where the food bank consulted with its local program operators and partnering organizations on what food choices would best benefit users. It also worked with Ottawa Public Health to review the foods typically purchased. The result is more protein, more milk and more fibre-rich foods – something O’Manique said the Gloucester organization typically supplemented with its own operating budget. “This means I might be able to stabilize my budget,” she said. In 2016, the Gloucester Food Bank saw a dramatic increase in the number of clients it served as many of the Syrian refugees settling in the city, settled in the food cupboard’s catchment. The strain on the organization was something O’Manique said she would not have been able to sustain. Although the demand from refugees has dropped, the food cupboard still serves 2,000 people every month. This change, O’Manique added will allow for the local

food bank to purchase other items for its clients. “We are filling the gap so they don't have to,” Maidment said. The changes might seem small, Maidment said – switching canned tuna in oil to canned tuna in water – but the health benefits, he said is the only point. Other changes to the way the food bank handles food purchasing and distribution included spending $25,000 on the current Refresh program – which offers fresh produce to the community food programs. This boost in funding will address the winter months. Aside from healthier tuna, the other new foods clients will get is canned lentils, chickpeas and other fibre-rich beans, more ground beef, milk and frozen fish – currently Alaskan pollock which O’Manique said she has been running out of since the local program began receiving the fish. According to Maidment, all of the city's food programs will have the new, healthier choices this month.

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City to deal with piled up trash BY JENNIFER MCINTOSH jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

Residents called on the city to deal with trash piling up around Sandy Hill on June 15. The city’s community and protective services committee approved a two-year pilot program that will give bylaw officers more tools to deal with an influx of so-called bunkhouses in the downtown neighbourhood. Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury worked with the community association and the Town and Gown Association on the project for a year, he said. Rob Forbes, the Action Sandy Hill representative on the Town and Gown Association, said it’s often the same landlords and properties being ticketed, with very little in the way of improvement. Owners of rooming houses are required to have private trash pickup, but bunkhouses, or single family homes used to rent multiple rooms without permits can still have curbside pick up done by the city. Forbes said the problem has

“exploded,” with upwards of 20 people living in one home. The pilot would limit the number of garbage and recycling bins to be stored in the back or side yards, with the exception of a single green bin that can be stored out front. If containers must be stored in the front yard, the new rules state that they should be enclosed and not visible from the road. A notice of violation would be stuck to the offending properties door, something Action Sandy Hill board member Larry Newman said he’s in favour of. “The pilot program will change the look of Sandy Hill,” Newman said. Chad Rollins, also on the board of ASH, said bylaw services can’t keep up with the number of complaints. “There’s a backlog of about 200 complaints since November,” he said. “Clearly they need more tools.” Rollins said the community needs the city’s help to maintain the quality of life in their neighbourhood. In a rare turn of events, the Association of Communities for Reform Now

and the Eastern Ontario Landlord Organization came out on the same side of an issue. “We don’t support landlords that fail to meet their obligations to residents and to the city,” Rollins said. Roger Chapman, manager of bylaw services with the city, is concerned with the resources to be able to handle the implementation of the pilot program. Chapman said staff has worked collaboratively with the councillor's office on the pilot program, but no new resources will be added to the neighbourhood. There’s only one officer for the neighbourhood. “There are already 400 complaints this year,” Chapman said, adding he thinks the number of complaints will top 1,000 this year. College Coun. Rick Chiarelli, who has been pushing for the city to develop a bylaw around illegal rooming houses, said he thinks the pilot program may result in fewer complaints as guidelines become clearer. The pilot will coincide with a review of R4 zoning. Council will get the final vote on the pilot program June 28.

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New Summer Service Starts June 25 All Signs Point to 2018 New summer schedules, service adjustments and new route numbers take effect Sunday, June 25. Many of the changes happening will help us get ready for rail and prepare for the opening of the O-Train Confederation Line in 2018.

New Route Numbers We are continuing to introduce new route numbers for many routes throughout the city.

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New Schedules and Service Changes Schedule changes this summer will reflect lower seasonal ridership levels and respond to changing customer needs. New timetables are available for many routes. For more information about these changes, new timetables or trip planning, go to octranspo.com, visit an OC Transpo Customer Service Centre, or call 613-741-4390.

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Ottawa firefighters equipped with opioid antidote, training BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Ottawa’s state of readiness amid an “opioid crisis” has expanded with the training of hundreds of firefighters to use naloxone to temporarily reverse an opioid overdose. “The whole purpose of the firefighters engaged in this is they’re often the very first at a medical emergency,” Mayor Jim Watson said June 13 at the fire department’s training centre on Industrial Avenue. “It will save lives, plain and simple,” he said. Since training began on May 23, 760 firefighters — 600 urban and 160 rural — out of the service’s almost 1,500 firefighters now have the expertise. Almost 70 trucks in the fleet are equipped with naloxone at a cost of almost $14,000. “The firefighters getting trained was a very important step to make sure we have coverage across the whole city,” Watson said, adding the decision to train the service was made a couple of months ago following a spike in overdoses. “We have responded to a few calls since we’ve had them (the Narcan-brand naloxone doses) on the trucks,” said Ottawa Fire Chief Gerry Pingitore. “We haven’t used it yet, but we’ve certainly took the training that we’ve learned to help the paramedics with the successful outcomes.”

Firefighters responding to calls in which patients are unresponsive have the capability to administer naloxone if a drug overdose is suspected. Opioids include fentanyl, morphine, codeine, methadone and heroin. Given the growing problem of opioid addiction, expanding the city’s antidote network was essential, particularly for first responders responding to a scene where more than one patient has overdosed. “That was one of our biggest fears, and that’s another reason to have them on the fire trucks, the police cars and the ambulances,” Pingitore said. In Ottawa, 2015 statistics — the most recent available — reveal that 48 people died of an unintentional drug overdose, according to Ottawa Overdose Prevention and Response Task Force, which is comprised of Ottawa Public Health, area hospitals and community agencies, all working to track statistics, promote education and develop public safety messaging. The fire department joined this task force three months ago. Of the 48 deaths, 29 were due to opioids, and 14 involved fentanyl. The day of the mayors' meeting in Toronto, Hoskins announced plans to finance the hiring of more addiction and mental-health workers, such as nurses and outreach workers, to address opioid addiction and overdose.

The plan also includes distributing naloxone kits to public health units in each community across the province. The syringeequipped kits will be passed on to front-line organizations, such as shelters and community health centres. Since March, more than 85,000 of these kits have been handed out for free by participating pharmacies, health units and other community organizations It is unlikely that Ottawa Community Housing could get on board with this. “We don’t have the infrastructure in place at Ottawa Community Housing because there’s not a nurses' station, per say,” Watson said. “But community health centres are scattered throughout the city, and I think it’s a good start.” School boards are considering acquiring the kits, said Watson. Ottawa police officers are the next to receive training and be stocked with naloxone. The service approved a naloxone distribution pilot project plan in May. The service’s goal is to begin distribution as soon as possible, once the training model is developed, confirmed Const. Marc Soucy, Ottawa police spokesperson. Currently, drug unit officers carry naloxone for their own safety. “For the time being, we think the three emergency services make the most sense,” Watson said.

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Green thumbs keep Old Ottawa South looking good BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER michelle.nash@metroland.com

There is a group of volunteers in Old Ottawa South who love to get their hands dirty. The group, affectionately called the Green Dreamers, has taken it upon themselves to garden in all of the city-owned gardens in the neighbourhood. Green Dreamer Winnie Pietrykowski is one of the core group of green thumbs that tends to the gardens twice a week, in an effort to make the community look pretty. “The city wasn’t maintaining the garden beds,” Pietrykowski said. “This project is about greening the neighbourhood and making it beautiful.” The group started three years ago, as a side project to a city-run pilot project that created storm sewer management on Sunnyside Avenue with rain

a big one. “We spent the first two years upgrading the soil,” she said. Now into its third year, Pietrykowski said the gardening has become easier. “This year we are actually doing a lot more planting,” The plants have mostly been donated or purchased thanks to funding from the local community association. And help is not hard to find — but, Pietrykowski adds, Michelle Nash Baker/Metroland more volunteers are always Group members of the Green Dreamers collect compost welcome. “This is about taking pride for Old Ottawa South public garden beds, at the city’s Field in our community,” she said. Facility near Moodie Drive. Having taken over the orgardens. The project is aimed city-owned gardens, and the ganizing role from the original founders, who have since at reducing water run-off and project just grew from there. After working with the city moved out of the community, slowing down traffic. A similar project was cre- to identify its abandoned gar- Pietrykowski said she continated in Sandy Hill on Stewart dens, the group created a pro- ues to participate because it’s a Street. Pietrykowski said at the posal to formally adopt the feel-good project. “One of the really nice time, the city presented the idea gardens. In the beginning the job was things is you get to know your of the community adopting

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Letter: Another use for U.S. embassy building Editor: It was fascinating to read the opinion ‘Former U.S. embassy building should be put in good use’ by Charles Gordon in the June 15 issue of the Ottawa East News. I respect his thoughts on it having been a respected columnist for the Ottawa Citizen for donkey’s years and he knows our capital city very well. However, I who was the Head, Thematic Research for the National Museums Corporation from 1970-1975 and involved in the creation of the People of the Longhouse (Iroquois), The Buffalo Hunters (Plains Indians) and The Children of the Raven (West Coast Cultures) Halls for the National Museum of Man at the Victoria Memorial Museum at Argyle Street would certainly prefer to see this building dedicated as a living memorial to our First Nations People. And it is about time that this honour has been conferred. There is much to be proud of Canada’s original inhabitants and we should endeavour to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming their traditions by housing and interpreting them under one roof and not as a collective of bits and pieces at other museums. In the 2011 National Household Survey, there were 1,836,035 people in Canada who were reported from 617 First Nations communities and descendants of the original inhabitants who had lived here for many thousands of years before explorers arrived from Europe. And that number represented 5.6 percent of the Canadian population. That itself legitimizes the First Nations Peo-

ple having their own National Museum in the National capital. Let us expose the amazing cultures and traditions of our First Nations People to the 35.8 million Canadians and to the world through tourists who will visit this National CanadianFirst Nations People Museum . Let them understand their cultures and traditions through two and 3-dimensional exhibits, artefacts, dioramas, video clips of storytelling by their elders, the significance of the Haida masks, totems, their social complexities like the Iroquois Four Sacred Rites, And let them explain to us through exhibits the plethora of Iroquois ceremonies and festivals like the Maple Ceremony, the Seed planting ceremony, the Corn sprouting ceremony, the Pow-wow and such. Let the First Nations People explain all this to us and the world, educate us and make us proud of them. For those who would say what would the 1930s Beaux-Arts style building have to do with our First Nations People? For them, I would say, let’s give the problem to a brilliant architect like Douglas Cardinal to solve it with a facade that would complement the Canadian First Nations People, without harming the structure of the front of this historical building. And I am confident that he will come up with a “Wow” something that would be acceptable to the majority of us Canadians. Mr. Asoka Weerasinghe Gloucester, ON

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Surviving electric storms in Renfrew despite Mother’s many fears

could sense Mother’s fear. She moved from the stove where she was working to take a quick glance out the window to the West Hill. I sat on the creton couch holding one of my favourite dolls, which helped the nervousness I felt because of Mother’s growing concern over what she saw beyond the river to the back reaches of the farm. Black clouds were coming closer, and thunder could be heard in the distance, like a heavy barrel being rolled across the kitchen floor. Even though it was the middle of the day, Mother lit two coal oil lamps and set them in the middle of the table. For some reason, she felt safer if the kitchen wasn’t so dark. There wasn’t much Mother feared. She could work among the livestock as well as someone born and raised on the farm, and often at night, when it was blistering hot, she would take a kitchen chair and sit outside on the back stoop, alone in the darkness. But an electric storm had her blood run cold. And one was coming, there was no doubt about it. She was sure it was just a matter of time until our old log house was struck by lightning and everything we owned would be burned to the ground, and unless we took extreme precautions, so would we. Fire and an electric storm, I knew, were the

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Memories only real fears Mother had. And that day, the storm sweeping toward us had turned the sky black as pitch, and by the time it hit the barnyard, the rain was pelting down and you could scarcely see beyond the pump. Father, of course, was in the barns, and there he would stay. Not to escape the lightning, but the rain. Father had no fear of a storm, even though we once lost 11 cows when the big maple tree on the West Hill was struck by lightning. But that day was never far from Mother’s mind whenever a storm hit. Those of us in the house had to sit on chairs in the middle of the floor. No being near an outside wall or a window! It wasn’t unusual, if the storm seemed to be a real dilly, for Mother to hang a blanket in each of the two kitchen windows to shut out the storm, and she fully believed that by doing so, she could actually keep out the lightning. She also thought if we had something made of rubber in our hands, that too was a safeguard, and so there sat my sister Audrey, who thought it sheer nonsense, sitting inside the house with our feet stuck into two pairs of rubber boots! If we could get our hands on a rubber ball, so much the better. And if the phone rang off the wall, we were forbidden to go anywhere near it! And that day, our

number rang two or three times, and we just sat there and looked at it. Now, the storm was raging. Mother counted the seconds between the lightning flash and the clap of thunder, which she said was a sure way of telling how close it was. At that young age, I caught the fear of an electric storm from Mother. Hiding under the covers in my bed was no solution, because it was vital that I be downstairs in case we got hit. Of course, if a storm came in the middle of the night, we were all ordered out of our beds, and made to sit in the middle of the kitchen until it blew over. Father, of course, never moved a muscle, and slept through the most raging storms as if they were happening in some other country. But he would hear again from Mother how electric storms were much worse in Renfrew County than they were in New York City. Living beside the high buildings, she said, shielded her from the fierceness, but out in the country there was nothing to stop the roar of the thunder or the cracking of lightning. The storm was over almost as soon as it came, and all I could hear was the distant rumbling of the thunder, as it headed away from Northcote. The lamps were blown out, the windows opened to daylight, and Mother’s Rosary put back in her bedroom. We survived yet another raging electric storm in Northcote. Interested in an electronic version of Mary’s books? Go to https://www.smashwords.com and type MaryRCook for ebook purchase details, or if you would like a hard copy, please contact Mary at wick2@sympatico.ca.

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It’s as predictable as the change in season: the second the weather warms up, the Ottawa Humane Society has an influx of seriously hurt cats who’ve fallen from open windows or a balcony. It’s called High-Rise Syndrome — a potentially deadly but common annual happenstance. There are two such cats at the OHS right now — Chico the tabby, who has been on strict cage rest with a broken pelvis since March 29, and Ti-Gars the Himalayan, who arrived June 3 suffering from a fractured hip. In separate incidents, both fell from third-floor balconies, suffered painful injuries, and face long recoveries. It is a myth that cats always land on their feet. Cats perch in dangerous, high places. Many guardians believe their cats will not fall. But they do fall. Sometimes a cat that has been watching a bird will become so focused, she may step out into thin air. “It doesn’t have to be this way,” said Bruce Roney, OHS executive director. “A couple little changes could mean the difference between life and death for your cat.” Never let a cat outside unsupervised, Roney said. Securely screen or close windows, he said. If Your Cat Should Fall: • Never assume that your cat has been killed, even if you look down and see her lying lifeless. • Do not give up looking should your cat disappear after a fall. It is not uncommon for cats to hide in bushes or creep into buildings if the fall has upset or frightened them. • Call your veterinarian immediately. For more information, please visit www.ottawahumane.ca

150 Maple Grove Project On June 27, come out and welcome our neighborhood’s newest maple grove! Our sesquicentennial anniversary creates an incredible opportunity for special legacy projects. One of these special ventures is to plant 150 native Canadian maple trees in each of Ottawa’s 23 wards. The trees are sugar, red, and silver maples, and are about 5-7 feet tall. In order to create a true maple tree grove, all 150 trees will be growing and living in the same space. Our forestry staff have been hard working, and you may have already noticed our new trees at Kingsview Park. Kingsview Park is located at the northern end of North River Road in Vanier along the Rideau River. In honour of our new maple grove we will be hosting a free community barbeque on June 27th from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Please join us for hot dogs, freezies or a game of frisbee. If you can’t make it to our BBQ make sure you check out our beautiful new maple trees another time. As always if you have any questions or concerns please contact my team.

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Mayor Jim Watson shakes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s hand after Trudeau formally announced on June 16 at the Belfast yard that the federal government will fund Stage 2 LRT. construction, who paused work for an hour to surround the platform where Trudeau made the announcement. Trudeau didn’t take questions from the media. Mayor Jim Watson said Trudeau committed to funding the fedeal portion of Phase 2 of the LRT project two years ago, in an evening call to Watson’s rarely-used landline phone at home. “True to your word, today you have delivered,” Watson said to the prime minister.

The city had already been planning Stage 2 of the LRT project based on the commitment of the federal government to fund their share of of the second phase. Still, it’s always good to see the plans finalized, said Mark Laroche, Ottawa International Airport president and CEO. “It’s never set in stone until the financing is announced, so today is a great day,” Laroche said. “(This) just put everything in super-fast mode because, as the

mayor announced, he wants the link to the airport to be operational by 2021, which means there’s a lot of work to be done.” Leslie said the announcement won’t be a surprise to anyone who has been following LRT news and the city’s plans as they’ve moved forward, but people wanted to see a formal announcement from the prime minister. “This was a real announcement, real dollars. They’ve gone through Treasury Board,” Watson said following the announcement. Cumberland Coun. Stephen Blais, who is also the city’s transit committee chair, said having every level of government on board “certainly provides a level of security in the marketplace.” He said he’s been encouraged by conversations with entrepreneurs and landowners about future development that can take place around the stations confirmed to be built at Place d’Orléans and Trim Road. “The Ottawa LRT will make a huge difference in people’s lives,” said Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli. “The Stage 2 LRT project is definitely going to get people moving.”

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Max’s big ride fuels inspiration for Ottawa researchers BY ERIN MCCRACKEN

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A tailwind is key to successfully pedalling 600 kilometres. Andrew Sedmihradsky and his six-year-old son Max received one from Mother Nature and a second from the University of Ottawa’s faculty of medicine after they travelled on their cargo bike from their home in Hamilton to Ottawa June 4 to 12. Their goal is to shine a spotlight on Duchenne, the most common form of muscular dystrophy, affecting about one in 3,600 boys. Max was born with the condition that is caused by genetic mutations that lead to progressive muscle weakness and degeneration, which can prove FOR SALE

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Capital Taxi launches eCab app Chantiry added the city needs more companies who are innovative and competitive. Unlike the eCab app, launched last year by Coventry Connections — which operates Capital Taxi — and aimed to connect customers with a cab, and works in any city to connect local cab companies with

can create custom preferences as well as create favourites and pre-set settings. Waiting to wave down a taxi The tablets in the cars will cab in this city might just bereplace the current metres and come a thing of the past. dispatch system. Capital Taxi announced a Customers will be able to new way to book a ride on June view their trip in real time on 12 at Lansdowne Park. a map, as well as their fare and The company has launched once they book a trip, they rethe Capiceive all of the tal Taxi app driver’s inforwhich allows “This offers customers a peace of mind.” mation and users to book number. - Capital Taxi driver George Chamoun. car“This a cab directly offers from their customers a smartphone or tablet. customers, this app is designed peace of mind,” Chamoun said. According to Marc André specifically for Ottawa’s Capital A Capital Taxi driver of Way, once the cab is booked, Taxi’s 350 company cars. more than 20 years, Chamcustomers can expect to wait Capital Taxi driver George oun said the one thing he has no more than five minutes for Chamoun showed off how the always loved about the job is their ride. new app works, and said he the freedom to be his own boss, “This is a big day for us,” loves using it, which includes and work around his family life Way said. “We are finally mov- a new dispatch system for the schedule. ing in the right direction.” drivers and all of the cars now Having had the tablet inThere is also the opportunity have new tablets installed in stalled in his cab since March, to book rides in advance, pay their cabs. Chamoun added he is enjoying for their ride either via the app, Showing off the app in his that it can help map out routes or in the cab — receipts will be taxi cab, Chamoun said thinks — but added there are very few issued at the end of the trip. this app will offer customers ex- streets and routes the 20-year West Carleton-March Coun. actly what they have been look- veteran didn’t already know Eli El-Chantiry attended the ing for — information at their about. announcement, where he con- fingertips. The application is free for gratulated the company for The app offers one-click users to download and availwhat he called taking a step in booking, the ability to track the able for Apple and Android the right direction. car that was ordered, customers devices. BY MICHELL NASH BAKER

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