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News - The city wants to make infill homes in old neighbourhoods smaller – without changing how many people can live there.

Reducing the height of storeys in new infill homes in the city’s urban area is one of the changes city planners are hoping to make to ease the intensification of downtown and postwar neighbourhoods. The proposed changes were presented at an information session in Sandy Hill on Oct. 15.

In an effort to combat new homes dwarfing neighbouring dwellings, the city will reduce the height of three-storey houses in R3 zones from 12 and 11 metres to 10 metres. Homes in denser R4 zones would shrink to 10 and 8.5 metres from the currently allowed 11 and 9.5

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Community – To say the Britannia community has changed a bit since 1873 would be a ridiculous understatement.

While the population, built form and demographics are vastly different than 140 years ago, a strong sense of community remains, especially inside the area’s oldest church.

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A brighter night Hundreds joined together for the Light the Night Walk on Oct. 19 at city hall to remember loved ones lost to cancer and to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. Blood cancer survivors carried white lanterns, supporters carried a red light and those with gold lanterns walked in memory of a loved one. Vincent Rourke, 4, waits with his lantern outside city hall for the Light the Night Walk to begin. The Overbrook boy was surrounded by family as they set off down Queen Elizabeth Driveway.

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metres. In less dense singlefamily home neighbourhoods, which have R1 zoning, the height would drop from 11 to 8.5 metres. The change would mean lower ceilings and shorter storeys – three metres – but not fewer storeys. The building code calls for each storey to be 2.6 m in height.

“We are trying to accomplish a better fit within the permitted uses,” said Alain Miguelez, program manager of intensification and zoning. “At least the mass is closer.”

The old height limits were an artifact of amalgamation, said Steve Gauthier, the planner leading the infill study.

The city simply took all of the building heights permitted in zones from the formers municipality and adopted their average as the rule for Ottawa.

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niversary this year, Britannia United Church, located at 985 Pinecrest Rd., started life as a Methodist congregation, with the original structure located at present-day Carling Avenue and Britannia Road. The church is planning a retrospective during a special anniversary service on the morning of Oct. 27.

“There’s been a lot of change in the community since the little church on the

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“We keep the past up front and look to it to see what works, and carry that with us… On the 27th, we’re going to be looking forward. We’re saying, ‘yes, we know the past, but how do we as a church and congregation move forward?’”

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In 1899, a streetcar line connected the area, including the popular Britannia Beach, with the city proper. The gulf steadily shrank as the city reached out to meet, then surround, the community.

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– once the congregation had raised enough money to build the beginnings of the structure.

Starting first with the fellowship hall, more sanctuary and community space was added on as budgets allowed.

During the Oct. 27 service three congregation members, of widely differing ages, will reflect on what the church means to them.

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“These (new height rules) are based on what we see in the field,” Gauthier said.

Another change would prohibit balcony or staircases from project-

changing how the city defines “setbacks,” the technical term for creating yards. For small lots of less than 15 m deep, the backyard must be the same as the height of the building or four metres – whichever is larger. Previously, the rules allowed developers to

ing into the space required for side or backyards.

Creating more consistent back yard sizes is another goal the city heard loud and clear from residents who participated in the consultations.

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The Rideau River footbridge connecting Donald and Somerset streets would be constructed in the first phase between 2014 and 2019, as would the conversion of the old Prince of Wales rail crossing into a pedestrian bridge. The city plans to construct a footbridge over the Rideau Canal from Fifth Avenue to Clegg Street between 2020 and 2025.

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The calculation is less straightforward for larger lots. For lots between 15 and 29 m deep, the backyard setback must be the larger of either the building’s height or 25 per cent of the lot depth. Lots between 30 and 45 m would have to have rear-yard setbacks of the largest of the height of the building, 25 per cent of the lot depth or the lot depth minus 22.5 m from the front lot line.

That concerned Rakan Abushaar, one of the principles of Black Iris Developments, which converts a lot of old homes in the city’s core into apartments. Putting a specific distance setback on larger lots would mean a homebuilder couldn’t construct a proportionately larger dwelling on a larger lot, meaning homes built on lots 30 m or 40 m deep would be the same size.

That would lead to a loss of property value for people trying to sell lots of that size, Abushaar said.

Gauthier said the goal is to have a consistent pattern of backyards.

He will be meeting with a group of homebuilders to get additional feedback from their perspective.

Some of the residents at the Sandy Hill meeting were concerned the new

rules could do little to prescribe the look of new homes.

While planners have heard from people that the architecture of infill they’ve seen is an “insult to their neighbourhood,” Miguelez said, the city cannot legally require a building to look a certain way. It can, however, make “strong suggestions,” though urban design guidelines, which the city is likely setting itself up to update, he said.

But there is something the city could do to prevent big “boxes” from being built that max out the building envelope on a lot, said Old Ottawa East resident Paul Goodkey. He suggested allowing more flexibility for developers to move around the mass allowed for their buildings by adding a smaller section, sort of like an addition, onto the building instead of making it a tall box. Gauthier was intrigued by the feedback, but noted that idea would conflict with the goal of consistent back yards.

The planning committee is expected to consider the changes in March of 2014.

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News - On Nov. 1, Ontario energy consumers will face an occurrence that’s become the commonplace and expected – another hike in the cost of electricity.

This represents a roughly 21 per cent increase over average rates from the same time three years ago, and a 63 per cent increase from five years ago, according to figures from the Ontario Energy Board.

Following a similar bump in April, the new figures bring the cost of electricity to 7.2 cents per kilowatt hour during offpeak times, 10.9 cents/kWh for mid-peak, and 12.9 cents/kWh for on-peak usage.

Take a walk down an urban or suburban street in Ottawa at 10 or 11 at night and the fresh scent of clothes drying will often waft across the sidewalk as residents looking to lower their bills use high-consumption devices like clothes driers in offpeak times. Despite this conservation effort – one pushed aggressively by the Ontario government – off-peak rates are rising faster than on-peak rates, meaning residents pay ever more despite changing their lifestyles in order to conserve energy and save money.

The same outcome applies to other efforts that have higher buy-ins, such as ditching a home’s incandescent bulbs in favour of compact fluorescent lightbulbs or replacing old appliances with newer, high efficiency ones. Such efforts can only go so far toward mitigating the cost to the consumer when the price of electricity is rising at such dramatic rates.

Operating mostly during peak periods, the province’s small and medium-sized businesses and larger industries face the same cost challenges,

on top of the pressures of a changing marketplace. For many, temptation lies in lowercost jurisdictions located just across Ontario’s many borders.

Later this fall, the Ontario government will update its long term energy plan – a document last updated in 2010 – to chart a course forward with the province’s energy grid. Critics of the government are saying Premier Kathleen Wynne must use this opportunity to seriously reconsider the policies and decisions made under her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, and make an effort to mitigate the impact of skyrocketing electricity rates in the hopes of retaining businesses and rekindling investment in the province.

In addition to rising rates, the gas plant scandal that has almost consumed much of the legislative agenda and news cycle this past year has increasingly drawn the public’s attention to Ontario’s complex and often misunderstood energy grid. That much of the cost to scrap and relocate two Toronto-area generating plants, estimated at more than $1 billion, will be reflected on hydro bills only increased the public focus and added a side of outrage.

“I would say the Liberals made really bad choices in the energy file,” said Peter Tabuns, NDP energy critic and MPP for Toronto-Danforth. “We’re getting hit by high prices because we have to pay profits (to energy producers) ... It’s no wonder that people and businesses find it hard to pay for excessive capacity.”

The recent announcement that Ontario will refurbish the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station and Bruce Power nuclear plant, rather than pursue new builds pegged at more $10 billion, came with a price

tag of $180 million – roughly the same amount already spent on environment approvals and project planning for the nowabandoned new nuclear facility. “(Ontario) doesn’t have the demand and couldn’t pay for it anyway,” said Tabuns, referencing projected power demand used to craft past policies – projections that have since fallen short of estimates.

“It was apparent years ago that this (proposed) plant wasn’t necessary and was not affordable, so why spend $180 million (in planning)? Wasting $180 million used to matter in Ontario. It was funny to me that $180 million wasn’t something that jumped out at people after the expenses of the gas plants.”

Tabuns has called for the province’s auditor general to investigate the province’s expenditures on the nuclear file.

The complex green energy file – especially the investments in solar and wind energy production made under the province’s Green Energy Act – “didn’t come cheap” and “wasn’t handled well,” said Tabuns.

Solar and wind production is heavily subsidized, with contracts put in place to guarantee net revenue for producers, due to the unreliable nature of those energy sources. The Ontario Power Authority’s feedin-tariff (FIT) and microFIT programs ensures guaranteed prices far above the wholesale cost of electricity over a fixed term for producers, with the province being the sole buyer.

The operators of gas plants , which pick up the slack when wind and solar aren’t producing power, enter into an agreement with the OPA to ensure profitability. Operators are paid for to cover the costs of operating the plant at capacity, though in

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The province’s electricity infrastructure has been the focus of controversy and political scandal as of late, but the future should see it tied more closely with the economy, say experts. reality many plants produce much less than what they can due to fluctuating demand.

These payments and others are reflected in the “global adjustment” added to power bills.

The global adjustment reflects the actual cost of generation, rather than the going rate for electricity, and is a large part of the year-over-year increases ratepayers are seeing.

The global adjustment joins the harmonized sales tax (which was added to hydro bills in 2010) and the debt retirement charge (left over from the breakup and reorganization of Ontario Hydro under the Mike Harris-led governments of the 1990s) on residents’ bills.

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energy critic Lisa MacLeod, who serves as MPP for Nepean-Carleton, reiterated PC leader Tim Hudak’s pledge to scrap the FIT program if elected.

MacLeod said province’s focus should be on tailoring the energy plan with the view of increasing jobs, the revenues from which would help tackle the province’s $260 billion debt.

“We need several different elements in our capacity-building system – hydro, nuclear, and gas, but we shouldn’t be subsidizing our energy,” said MacLeod, adding the scrapping of the new nuclear build could harm investment over the long term.

“By cancelling the nuclear build, the Liberals are effectively saying that they don’t think the economy can be restored. The energy demand now is low due to the loss of manufacturing jobs, but you have to think of the long term, not the here and now …”

Energy and the economy need to be linked. It’s very difficult to get manufacturing plants back due to the unpredictability of the (energy file) and it doesn’t create confidence for companies to bring their businesses here due to skyrocketing energy rates. Business owners tell me the global adjustment is killing them.”

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Costly energy threatens economic recovery: critics, economists Continued from page 3

With interest payments topping $10 billion per year on a growing debt load, Ontario needs new revenue sources to get the budget imbalance under control and many would prefer that cash to come from new taxpayers, rather than existing taxpayers.

Green Party of Ontario recently criticized the lack of efficiency and conservation in the energy sector via a media release posted on the party’s website.

“The Liberals’ inaction on con-

servation is costing us money, wasting resources and failing to prepare Ontario for the future,” stated party leader Mike Schreiner, calling the inaction “irresponsible.”

Schreiner cited a report from the Environment Commissioner of Ontario that criticized the province for creating barriers for municipalities seeking to create local energy systems – a move that could help the conservation cause, and perhaps the economy, too.

“Innovative local energy solutions create jobs and save money,” stated

Schreiner.

The C.D. Howe Institute, a public policy think tank, added its voice to the debate in September with the release of a paper titled “A New Blueprint for Ontario’s Electricity Market,” authored by economist and professor A.J. Goulding.

Goulding states the province needs to make changes in the roles and functions of its energy institutions, starting with the need to “isolate policymakers from implementation agencies.”

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oversupply, a mismatch of generator capabilities and needs, rising prices to final consumers, a lack of transparency in prices, and volatile and contradictory policies,” he said. “The government’s failure to rely on either sound planning or market principles has meant that the province has not procured generation capacity at a long-run least cost.”

Besides the politically expedient gas plant decisions, which occurred in the lead-up to the 2011 provincial election, prior decisions were made that unnecessarily added to the burden shouldered by ratepayers.

In December, 2011, then-auditor general Jim McCarter slammed the McGuinty government for rushing into its Green Energy Act (2009) without thinking of the final cost to ratepayers, saying the environmental goals could have been achieved for a fraction of the cost.

For starters, the wind turbine investment deal with South Korea-based Samsung, which was the showpiece of the act, was created and approved “with no formal economic analysis” to determine if it was a good deal for the province and its ratepayers, with no consultations occurring with either the Ontario Energy Board or the Ontario Power Authority. McCarter also stated that of the 50,000 jobs expected to be created by the act, a figure touted by Liberal candidates during the 2011 election, the majority would be short term, one-time construction jobs.

Since the gas plant scandal broke, followed by the resignation of McGuinty, the Liberals now claim the act created 31,000 green energy jobs of all types.

The fallout from the scandals, as well as the responsibility of moving the energy sector forward under the minority government, now falls on Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli, who was named energy minister in February.

Despite the unenviable task of moving forward from increasingly unpopular policies he had no part in crafting, Chiarelli maintains his ministry is making positive headway and defends the Liberals’ initial investments in the energy sector.

He said the system inherited by the Liberals back in 2003 was “unreliable” and lacked sufficient maintenance.

Since that time, the Liberals have invested $21 billion in generation capability and maintenance and more still in transmission line upgrades, he said.

“Rates are based on what you invest in the system,” said Chiarelli.

“There was a spike in prices in order to play catch-up.”

Mitigation measures in the form of the Ontario clean energy benefit and the Ontario energy and property tax credit were two of programs created to help consumers, said Chiarelli, adding that benefits exist for northern residents and industry as well.

Without revealing the contents of the upcoming long-term plan, Chiarelli did say the province is “starting to turn the corner” on rate increases.

“The biggest step taken is cancelling new nuclear,” said Chiarelli.

“That would have been a rate increase going forward … and we have assured reliability based on what we have.”

A need for $4 billion in system improvements was eliminated through conservation, he added, and a renegotiated contract with Samsung earlier this year took $3.7 billion out of the agreement with the Green Energy Act partner.

Chiarelli said that recent changes to the FIT program would see more tax revenue flow to hosting communities than before, while providing more local input (but not veto power) for those communities. Early work is starting to encourage regional energy planning, he added.

Chiarelli stayed mum when asked to speculate whether rates could trend downward, rather than simply slowing their upward course.

“I’m not predicting anything right now,” said Chiarelli. “The (long-term plan) will deal with the projected rate.”

He added, “All existing types of generation and transmission will be in the (long-term) plan in one way or another - it just depends on how it’s prioritized. But, there will be renewable energy moving forward, along with hydro, gas, and a nuclear base load.”

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“If you did that, you’d have to give up something else,” he said.

Hans Moor, president of local bicycle advocacy group Citizens for Safe Cycling, was also on hand to praise the plan. Moor, who grew up in the Netherlands, said the city’s cycling vision is based strongly on ideas successfully implemented in his home country.

“The plan is good,” he said.

Adding bike lanes that help people get to light-rail transit stations will boost both cycling and transit use, Moor said.

He also applauded the city’s recognition that 40 per cent of trips by all modes are between points within a neighbourhood, so the city’s plan includes bicycle lanes and pathLaura Mueller/Metroland ways to make those trip safer. Citizens for Safe Cycling president Hans Moor points out how the city’s proposed cycling The idea is to encourage peo- plan for the next 20 years will be a boon for cyclists. ple to make those trips to local destinations by bike, even if they live in the suburbs.

“People say ‘I am not going to hop on a bike and cycle downtown,’ but they can still cycle to their Starbucks or library,” Moor said.

Connecting cycling facilities with new pedestrian bridges at Donald and Somerset streets, the Prince of Wales bridge to Gatineau and a bridge at Fifth Avenue and Clegg Street will be a huge boon for cyclists, as will a network of bike lanes the city will prioritize plowing in the winter, Moor said.

The draft plan will be considered and potentially altered by the transit commission on Oct. 24 and the transportation committee on Nov. 15. Council has final say on Nov. 26.

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News - More than 100 residents flowed through city hall and attempted to wrap their heads around a clutch of longterm plans outlining the development, transportation and infrastructure plans for the next 20 years.

The city held the first of a series of public information sessions on the Liveable Ottawa initiative – an effort to concurrently update the three major master plans that govern how the city grows up to 2031: the Official Plan, transportation master plan (including plans for cycling and pedestrian routes) and the infrastructure master plan for water and sewer works.

“We’re just trying to figure it out,” said Michel-Adrien Sheppard, who leads the transportation committee of the Centretown Citizens Community Association. “There is so much detail and so many components that fit together.

“How do we find our place in this complicated document?” he said.

Sheppard said after pouring through the documents and a sea of poster boards during the Oct. 15 information session, he and the other community association members were pleased with what they saw.

“They seem to touch all the subjects,” he said. “It’s well put together … Their philosophy and vision seems good to me.”

The group was looking for things like pedestrian safety measures, cycling routes and “complete streets” that provide for all modes of transportation that help residents get around their neighbourhood.

Those components were all there, Sheppard said, but his question now is whether, how and when those ideas would be implemented.

Sheppard would also like

to see more frequent reporting on pedestrian safety and better monitoring and action on dangerous intersections.

The Centretown community association knows intensification will continue to densify its neighbourhood, which is preferable to allowing homes to be built in places like the greenbelt, Sheppard said.

Intensification was also on John Forsey’s mind. While the plan sounds great, said the former Manor Park Community Association president, it can fall down when specific developments are proposed.

“The plan makes sense.

It’s just a matter of pressure from individual developers,” he said.

Another Centretown resident, Michael Lambert, was more concerned about something outside his neighbourhood. The glaring omission overriding his assessment of the plans was the lack of a light-rail link to the airport.

“If Ottawa wants to become a world-class city, the airport needs to be on the main transit line,” Lambert said, noting that larger cities like Toronto and Vancouver are making it a priority to link their rail lines to airports.

While he understands the rail spur would have an additional cost, he’s not sure how much it would be. But he is convinced the upper levels of government would be interested in kicking in some funding to send light rail to the airport.

Forsey was also contemplating transit to the airport.

He’s been following the plans and is especially interested in transit, having sat on an advisory group for the first phase of light rail – the Confederation Line.

He sees the missing airport link as a tradeoff between being able to afford transit for residents who commute and visitors to the city.

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NOTICE OF COMPLETION Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Carp Snow Disposal Facility Background In January 2012, the City of Ottawa initiated a study to establish a new snow disposal facility in the City’s west end. The City’s strategic snow disposal plan (2002) had identified the need to provide for 308,000 m3 of disposal capacity within one or more snow disposal facilities in the west end. This MCEA study was conducted as a Schedule B project in accordance with the requirements of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment, as amended 2011, an approved process under the Environmental Assessment Act. The Process Public Open House (POH#1) was held in February 2013 to present the problem definition. Public Open House # 2 was held August 6th 2013 to present the results of the various site investigations undertaken during 2012/2013 to characterize the site and the environment; identify the alternative designs and mitigative measures being evaluated; and describe the recommended preferred design/solution. Both POHs were held at the Goulbourn Municipal Building Council Chambers at 2135 Huntley Road, Ottawa ON. Information presented at the POHs is available on the City of Ottawa website (see below for link).

The recommended solution involves the development of a snow disposal facility (SDF) on a 23.4ha property located at civic address 2125 Carp Road that can accommodate approximately 350,000 m3 of snow collected from Kanata and nearby areas. The SDF development will include a 1-2ha meltwater pond to treat the runoff from the snow melt and a 4-5ha stormwater pond to treat storm water from on-site and off-site sources. Several mitigative measures have been proposed to minimize impacts from the SDF development and include a right-turn deceleration lane along Westbrook road, improving drainage beneath Westbrook Road, construction of a berm along the east property limit to mitigate noise, landscaping along the east and north limits for visual screening, and a liner beneath the meltwater pond and its outlet to protect groundwater quality.

Comments received from the POHs and from the agency circulation, the public and other participants have been incorporated into the final report. All comments received were collected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Environmental Assessment Act, and have become part of the public record.

The final report is available for public review at the following locations: http://ottawa.ca/en/carp-snow-disposal-facility-0 City of Ottawa Client Service Centre 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, K1P 1J1 Ottawa Public Library, Stittsville Branch, 1637 Stittsville Main Ottawa ON K2S 1A9 (telephone 613-836-3381 for hours) This project is being planned in accordance with Schedule B of the Municipal Engineers Association Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2011). If concerns arise regarding this project, which cannot be resolved in discussion with the municipality, a person or party may request that the Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environmental assessments. Requests must be received by the Minister at the address below within 30 calendar days of the first publication of this Notice. A copy of the request must also be sent to the City contact below. If there is no request received within the designated time (no later than November 24th, 2013), the City will proceed to detailed design and construction.

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Britannia United Church is marking its 140th anniversary this year. The church has evolved with the times, while retaining its community focus.

As other congregations dwindle, Britannia is growing Continued from page 1

Britannia United has bucked the trend of dwindling, aging congregations by heading in the opposite direction, attracting new members (and increasing numbers of young ones) by changing with the times, much like the surrounding community, while remaining rooted in inclusivity. Each week an average of 160 to 180 congregation members show up.

“When I came to the church (13 years ago), our oldest committee member said that if you want to survive as a church, you need to change,” said Baldwin. “That’s been my mantra.”

In 1977, the church was made fully wheelchair accessible, heralding the many changes aimed at inclusivity that were to follow.

Knowing that acceptance, tolerance and love, coupled

with a supportive community, lead to positive outcomes for gay youth, the church placed universally-recognized rainbow flags outside the hall last year, next to the church’s sign.

Those flags began disappearing, so Baldwin had the rainbow incorporated into the sign and logo for the church itself, preventing tampering.

Among the congregation are a growing number of LGBT residents, as well as a growing African demographic.

Baldwin wants the church to be accepted as part of the community, and wants it to reflect the diverse community that surrounds it.

“It’s important to have a place where kids feel they belong, and where they get to see a cross-section of life,” said Baldwin. “The issues may have changed, but the welcome you’ll receive is the same.”

As part of the 140th anni-

versary celebrations, members are raising funds to add landscaping and a flower bed along the north side of the property. The Quarter-Quarter Mile Fundraiser is seeking to raise a quarter mile of quarters, totaling $3,960.

Intended as a legacy project, the church has so far raised more than a third of this sum.

Baldwin said that given the congregation’s continued commitment to practicing good stewardship with its funds, the church retains the original look. The big fellowship hall that was once planned didn’t come to fruition, as the church felt its money could be put to better use in the community.

“It’s built like a shoebox, and looks like a school,” admitted Baldwin. “Before we had the sign put in, we’d have people drive into the parking lot, asking where the church was.”

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Minister of the Environment Ministry of the Environment 77 Wellesley Street West 11th Floor, Ferguson Block Toronto, ON M7A 2T5

All public meetings will be held at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, unless otherwise noted. For a complete agenda and updates, please sign up for e-mail alerts or visit Public Meetings and Notices on ottawa.ca, or call 3-1-1.

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Monday, October 28 Ottawa Police Services Board 5 p.m., Champlain Room

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News - The rail vision laid out in the city’s latest (and yet to be approved) transportation master plan includes a new O-Train stop at Gladstone Avenue, which is both positive and concerning for local residents.

A community design plan process is currently underway for the Gladstone area, aimed at guiding future development on either side of the OTrain line between Gladstone Avenue and Somerset Street. The two CDP processes occurring to the north and south of the area – Carling/Preston and Bayview Yards – both saw the addition of much higher allowable densities given their proximity to transit stations.

Residents living in the mainly lowrise area that makes up the Gladstone CDP know change will come, and with it some benefits and drawbacks, but for the most part oppose what’s been seen at Bayview and Carling.

With the federal Public Works department expected to sell off a large part of its Oak Street warehouse complex in the near future – the large facility that abuts both the O-Train line and the Somerset Street bridge to the north -- land will eventually become available for a mixed-use development on that site. Given the city’s policies on land use, intensification will be a guiding factor for any redevelopment.

Dalhousie Community Association president Michael Powell said the prevailing fear is that prospective developers will use the proximity of the planned Gladstone station as a rationale for seeking building heights far and above what is currently allowed under R4 zoning, which works out to about four storeys.

“Obviously there will be higher density on the Public Works site than in the surrounding neighbourhood, but what that change will look like needs to be clarified,” said Powell. “The answer always seems to be highrises and I don’t think that is something many want to see.”

Powell also expressed concern about road access into the site, citing “talk” of a road bridge over the OTrain tracks to facilitate access to and from the west.

“We don’t think that’s appropri-

ate,” he said, adding that the dead-end side streets west of Preston are part of what makes the neighbourhood successful, due to the pedestrian and child-friendly nature of low-volume, low-speed streets.

The Gladstone CDP is in its early stages, with a public open house held Oct. 15 bringing residents up to speed on the process. At the meeting, planners working on the file displayed the main points expressed by the public and technical advisory groups working on the process. Those groups are made up of citizens and community stakeholders, as well as professional staff from public agencies.

The findings emerging from initial consultation show strong support for maintaining the small-scale fabric of buildings along Preston and its side streets, while intensifying vacant lots and sectioning off larger lots into smaller parcels for redevelopment.

Adding diversity to the area in terms of retail type, dwelling type and dwelling prices was also mentioned.

Reflecting Powell’s sentiment, the advisory groups found “not much appetite for towers along the O-Train track.” In their view, higher densities – whatever form that might take – should be placed furthest away from existing residential areas.

Dana Collings, a program manager in the city’s community planning and urban design branch, acknowledges the feelings expressed by nearby residents.

“We’re hearing from residents on the smaller streets saying they don’t want a lot of change,” said Collings.

“The Public Works lands are a large lot, which raises a lot of questions.

How do you break that down, how do you put in streets … and what kind of uses do you put in there?”

Collings said that mixed-use zoning allows a range of uses, adding that the city will probably look at establishing a “minimum threshold of intensity” after consulting on what that threshold should be.

That said, he stressed that the process is still in its early stages, with a draft concept and vision not expected until later in November, following a second PAG meeting and design workshop.

Approval of a final plan for the area is slated for June of next year.

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Public Works’ Oak Street complex would be the focus of the most intensive, mixed-use development in the Gladstone CDP. Sections of the federal property are expected to be sectioned off and sold in the near future.

NOTICE OF PASSING OF A ZONING BY-LAW

BY THE CITY OF OTTAWA TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the City of Ottawa passed By-law Number 2013-320 on the 9th day of October 2013, under Section 34 of The PLANNING ACT.

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AND TAKE NOTICE that any person or public body, who, before the By-law was passed, made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to City Council, may appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board with respect to the By-law, by filing with the Clerk of the City of Ottawa, a notice of appeal setting out the objection to the By-law and the reasons in support of the objection. An appeal must be accompanied by the Ontario Municipal Board’s prescribed fee of $125.00, which may be made in the form of a cheque payable to the Minister of Finance.

A notice of appeal can be mailed to the City Clerk at 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 1J1, or by delivering the notice in person, to Ottawa City Hall, at the Information Desk in the Rotunda on the 1st floor, 110 Laurier Avenue West.

A notice of appeal must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on the 13th day of November 2013.

Only individuals, corporations and public bodies may appeal a zoning By-law to the Ontario Municipal Board. A notice of appeal may not be filed by an unincorporated association or group. However, a notice of appeal may be filed in the name of an individual who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf.

No person or public body shall be added as a party to the hearing of the appeal unless, before the by-law is passed, the person or public body made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the council or, in the opinion of the Ontario Municipal Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.

Should the By-law be appealed, persons or public bodies who wish to receive notice of the Ontario Municipal Board hearing can receive such notice by submitting a written request to the planner identified in the explanatory note that accompanies this Notice.

An explanation of the purpose and effect of the By-law and a description of the lands to which the By-law applies is attached.

Dated at the City of Ottawa this 24th day of October 2013.

Clerk of the City of Ottawa City Hall 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 EXPLANATORY NOTE TO BY-LAW No. 2013-320 By-law No. 2013-320 amends the City of Ottawa Zoning By-law 2008-250. The amendments pertain to anomalies found in the Zoning By-law, including both general regulations as well as site-specific properties where anomalies have been identified and require correction so that the appropriate regulations are in place.

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The board’s committee of the whole approved a plan to provide bus service for an estimated 5,300 eligible high school students last week.

Currently, parents of high school students who attend public schools must pay the costs of their children’s bus passes if they reside inside the urban transit boundary, defined as living within one kilometre of an OC Transpo bus stop – unless their school lies outside of it and is more than 3.2 kilometres away from their home.

This amounts to nearly $780 per child over a 10month period, which might not seem like much to some, but the cost can be onerous depending on the number of high school-age children and the families’ economic circumstances.

While the board offers financial assistance to economically-challenged families, some might be afraid or embarrassed to ask for help.

It’s hardly an original idea. The English Catholic board already provides bus service for its high school students. The plan is a natural next step for the board to take after combining with the Catholic board to

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The board is hoping the change will improve attendance at some schools and address an “inequity” caused by the lack of bus service in urban parts of Ottawa.

But the move comes with a $4.2-million price tag, money the board hopes to recoup from the Ministry of Education through upgrading its transit needs from moderate to moderate-to-high.

Until then, the board will dip into other funding sources, such as its capital reserve fund.

Granted, it’s a gamble. Superintendent of facilities Mike Carson said the board is currently overspending its transportation budget by $2.8 million – tacking on the cost of bus service for high school students would bring that shortfall to $7 million.

Potentially, the board can expect to receive $6.3 million from the ministry, reducing that deficit to $700,000. If the ministry refuses to upgrade the transportation funding, the board will be forced to either scrap the project or pare down its budget to make financial room.

Really, it all boils down to the question of whether providing busing is a nice-to-have or an essential service for students.

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And then I thought about the conversation.

Was it really awesome that I’d ordered a glass of water? Was it really super that he was going to bring it?

In today’s terms, yes. As the comedian Louis CK puts it: “We go right to the top shelf with our words now.” He has a routine which, if you can stand a few bad words (he goes right to the top shelf with them too), is very funny. Awesome, actually, in comparison with some of the things that are usually described as hilarious.

Speaking of which, he points out that “hilarious” is now used to describe almost anything.

“I saw Bob today.”

“That’s hilarious.”

And he really gets going on the word “amazing,” which thankfully I didn’t use to describe the water when it finally arrived.

“What if Jesus comes down from the sky ... ?” he asks. “What are you gonna call that? You used ‘amazing’ on a basket of chicken wings.”

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Swearing is a bit like that too. Those of us who practice it often find that we’ve used the strongest terms possible on some trivial thing like a nail that won’t go in straight. There’s nothing stronger to use on something truly horrible, like Carling Avenue.

Language inflation has sparked some countervailing trends, such as the use of reverse imagery among the hipper segment of the population. Something good is bad. Something really good is sick. But inflation sets in here as well: things are often described as sick when they aren’t even bad.

There is also a danger of confusion in the use of this kind of vocabulary. What if the player you’re describing as bad really is bad — that is, bad-bad as opposed to bad-good? How do you differentiate? What if somebody is sick-ill, as opposed to sick-bad-good? It could take a while to figure out if a doctor is needed.

You can see what amazing thoughts can follow from a simple glass of water in a restaurant. Another way of approaching the situation is through the use of understatement.

You hear this often in reference to athletes and musicians. Among jazz musicians, the supreme compliment that can be bestowed on another is: “She can play.”

That’s good, because it leaves a lot in

reserve, in case she can really play. But I’m not sure it can be applied in all situations. For example, could I have said: “You can pour” when the server brought the water?

And later, when the server asks the table how the meal is, could you say: “He can cook,” rather than: “This is awesome”?

These days, it could be perceived as an insult. Which brings us back to the original situation: the ordering of the water. Could you get away with a simple thank-you, or is that being rude?

These are incredible problems, you have to admit.

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fter the hoopla around this month’s throne speech, you’d be forgiven for thinking there’s a federal election around the corner.

The flashy banner ads featuring distinctly Conservative Party blue; images of hardworking Canadian families seeking respite by an unidentified body of water; a group shot of people dressed in doctor uniforms, hardhats and carrying briefcases. Not to mention the Economic Action Plan signs still slapped over every government website and construction project.

Think about the cost to the taxpayer for these ads for a single-day event that gets more free media than any other in the country, with the exception of, perhaps, the Stanley Cup playoffs. It was enough to make me regurgitate my leftover turkey sandwich.

The throne speech is meant to lay out the government’s agenda for the next session of Parliament.

In the wake of the extended summer recess triggered by

BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse Harper, yet again, proroguing Parliament a few months ago, Canadians (well, politics-watchers) were waiting, in anticipation for something good. The government must have needed the extra recess time to come up with something truly innovative, right?

They must have needed the extra time to tackle some of those really tough issues like pork-barrelling in the senate and health care and consumer debt.

But no. Instead of addressing many of the serious and long-term threats to our economy and collective well-being, the speech read more like a shopping list of disparate campaign topics. Forget healthcare, the environment and Aboriginal people – these things are not uber-important to our gov-

ernment. But cable bundling and cell phone fees, these short-term wedge issues are sure to get votes. And these are now topping the list of our government’s priorities.

The speech employed some lovely rhetoric, sure to please almost every Canadian. Delivered by Gov.-Gen. David Johnston it was filled with distinctly partisan, but ultra-pleasing language – so much so, I’m surprised he agreed to read it at all.

“Canadians work hard for their money…” “Canadian families work hard to make ends meet.” But then again, who doesn’t like hardworking families?

Another pleaser was the promise to reduce red tape in government, particularly at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Who wouldn’t like

CRA dealings to be less cumbersome? And yet this empty promise – largely immeasurable – will unlikely amount to anything but a few converts to the Conservative fold.

They bragged yet again about the cutting the GST by two percentage points, a move that most economists see as one of the most costly political moves the Conservatives have ever made.

Following the budget release in March, the Parliamentary budget officer reported that every percentage point cut had cost the government $7 billion per year since 2006.

That’s a lot of lost revenue.

They boasted about creating jobs for Canadians – no mention of the fact that most of the jobs created in Canada over the past five years have been low-paying, part-time positions, mostly in the service sector. And never mind that older workers – those over 55 – are now displacing young people in the labour force or that job growth still doesn’t begin to match the growth in the labour force.

Sadly, for all the hoopla,

the speech was so typical of our democratic institutions these days – short on substance and long on rhetoric. But then, anyone who can read between lines can see this speech wasn’t so much about resetting the government’s agenda as it was about the next election.

It was, clearly, a speech

Expect to see more of those Conservative Party blue placards in the meantime. Don’t worry too hard about the government using your tax dollars to campaign between elections, though. Take comfort knowing they’ve managed to get you a really great deal on your next cell phone contract.

Instead of addressing many of the serious and long-term threats to our economy and collective well-being, the speech read more like a shopping list of disparate campaign topics.

designed to woo votes, focused on short-term solutions to real or imaginary problems – the ones that really, you know, get people’s goats.

I assure you – provided politicians are trustworthy and keep their words – we’ve got at least two years before we head to the polls again to elect members of Parliament.

But perhaps I’m being too harsh. There was one line in the speech that offered a ring of authenticity: “We know families are better placed to make spending decisions than governments.” Based on what the speech told us about the government’s impending priorities, that’s very likely true.

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In meantime, transit agency encourages riders to auto-reload Laura Mueller

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News - A paltry two per cent of Presto card users take advantage of the auto-reload feature – a figure OC Transpo would like to improve.

“Some changes are being leveraged and some are not,” said OC Transpo general manager John Manconi. “We need to think of the customer experience from end to end.”

The city has handed out 175,000 of the cards it distributed for free to promote the new fare system, but only 121,000 of them are actively being used, Manconi said.

OC Transpo also wants to improve on the low numbers of people taking advantage of features like monthly pass auto-reload, automatic top-ups for the “e-purse” cash balance when the balance is getting low.

Auto-reload is one of the major features intended to make things easier for riders because they won’t have to wait in line at an OC Transpo service centre to buy next month’s pass – it can be done online, and automatically. Automating the process is supposed to lead to fewer and shorter lineups and less strain on OC Transpo’s services.

The launch of Ottawa’s Presto system was delayed last year after being plagued with technical issues.

Now, the major complaint from users is the 24 to 24-hour delay between when they manually reload their balance or renew monthly pass online and when it will be recognized

by the Presto system when they tap their pass on a bus.

Manconi re-iterated that OC Transpo is working with Presto’s parent agency, Metrolinx, to shrink that time window. A four-hour delay is the target, but Manconi couldn’t say when that might happen.

That’s because Metrolinx is currently working on upgrades to make the Presto system compatible across all the municipalities that use it, including the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton.

Making too many big changes to the system all at once could make it prone to crashing, so the 24-to-48hour delay issue might have to wait until that’s done.

That change might come by the end of the year, but neither Manconi nor Metrolinx official Rob Hollis would commit to a firm timeline.

SEPARATE PARA SYSTEM

After being blasted by accessibility advocates for neglecting to include the Presto system on accessible Para Transpo vans, OC Transpo has decided to implement a separate electronic fare system.

The customized system will provide people with disabilities with an electronic tool to book and pay for trips on 91 Para Transpo mini-buses the city operates.

If riders want to pay for trips individually, they will have to use the Para Purse feature for Para Transpo and switch to Presto’s e-purse, tickets or cash on conventional transit. However, Para Transpo will begin accepting Presto cards as a monthly pass if the rider can show the printed receipt verifying a pass was purchased.

It will also offer printed receipts so users can claim tax credits for eligible trips.

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The partially collapsed Somerset House, which has been described as an ‘eyesore’ held up by metal bracing since 2007, will finally be restored.

Somerset House to get new lease on life Laura Mueller

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News - A decrepit building that’s blighted the corner of Somerset and Bank streets for six years is set to get a new life.

The historic Somerset House, which partially collapsed during extensive renovations in 2007, will be rebuilt with its heritage components intact and a new, modern addition at its rear to replace the part that collapsed.

That two-storey addition will provide another entranceway at the northeast corner of the building. That’s where steel bracing has held up the remaining walls of the building since the collapse.

Sally Coutts, a heritage

planner with the city, said the project’s architect Derek Crain will preserve the heritage details like the windows, lintels and all the exterior detail work that makes the building one of Centretown’s iconic buildings.

“This is an accurate restoration,” she said.

The Somerset House is a good example of an early 20th century commercial building in the Queen Anne Revival style, according to a report to the city’s built heritage subcommittee.

It was built in two phases, the first section between 190002 and an addition was added in 1912.

Members of the subcommittee were pleased to see the plan presented, as was Heritage Ottawa president Leslie

Maitland.

“Would like to thank all of you for turning the corner on a very important building,” she told the committee.

Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes echoed support also expressed by local merchant and community groups. The reinstatement of the building – and especially its heritage features – at the important corner will greatly improve the area, Holmes said.

City and provincial policies encourage additions to heritage buildings to be designed in a contemporary style, like the one proposed for Somerset House. It would add a glass and brick box-shaped addition that’s smaller than the original building at the back of the Somerset House.

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Transportation policy change in works for secondary students Jennifer McIntosh

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News - The Ottawa public school board could start offering yellow school buses to high school students thanks to a decision by a committee on Oct. 17.

Lillian Neitzel, a Kanata mother whose two older children started high school this year said she wasn’t aware until a week before school started that she would be responsible for providing the teens with a bus pass to make the more than six-kilometre trip each day.

The board has a transportation policy that says students living more than 3.2 km from their home school will be bused, but that only applies to those children living outside the urban transit area. The urban transit area is the part of the city served by public transit.

Neitzel said the bus passes will cost $1,600 for the school year.

“Despite all the information nights I attended before my kids went to high school, there was no communication sent home that I would have to pay for their transportation,”

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The Ottawa public school board is looking to change a policy for high school students inside the urban area so that busing will be provided for those who live more than 3.2 kilometres from their designated school. she said, adding walking a safe route – away from heavily forested areas would be 7.2 km each way and take more than an hour.

“There’s really no option, they’d have to bus,” Neitzel said.

The Ottawa Catholic School Board currently buses all high school children that live more than 3.2 km away from their

home school.

The Ottawa Student Transit Authority is currently working with the public board on a effectiveness and efficiency review that would upgrade their transit needs from “moderate” to “moderate to high.”

The upgrade would come with increased funding for transportation. The review – which OSTA general manager Vicky

Kyriaco said gives the transportation consortium specific guidelines on increasing efficiences – would be done in 2014.

“One of the ways we have to do that is align the two board’s transportation eligibility guidelines,” she said, adding looking at school bell times and new technology to optimize mileage are some of the ways the consortium could find efficiencies.

The motion, put forth by Orleans area trustee John Shea and Beacon Hill-Cyrville trustee Katie Holtzhauer, asked staff to consider the possibility of starting to bus high school students in September 2014.

Superintendent of facilities Mike Carson said the board is currently overspending its transportation budget by $2.8 million. Adding in the high school students would bring that total to $7 million.

“But if we get increased funding because of the E and E review then we would receive $6.3 million in ongoing funding,” he said, adding that would reduce the shortfall to $700,000.

Carson said the staff recommendation was to start busing

high school students in the fall and use the board’s reserves to come up with the shortfall.

Currently the board has 7,400 students that are eligible for yellow school buses and another 1,000 that qualify for OC Transpo bus passes. The new criteria would mean transporting an additional 5,300 students.

“I think this is an important piece of harmonization (the transportation eligibility guidelines),” Holtzhauer said.

“We have heard from one family that the financial impact is real. The time is now.”

Shea thanked his east-end colleague for her help in drafting the motion and said the public board could lose students to the Catholic board unless the change is made.

“We talk a lot about equity and access,” he said. “I think this is a real concrete way we can address that.”

Lynn Scott, trustee for West Carleton, Kanata and Stittsville, said she was on the board when the decision was made to stop busing high school students in 1998. She added she’s please to see the change, but the board should also consider eligibility for busing students

from rural areas to special program schools – like Canterbury High School or Colonel By Secondary School.

“We do need further information about equity of access for students outside the suburbs,” she said. “Some students are getting door-to-door service and others are not.”

Donna Blackburn said some parents may be in need of financial assistance for bus passes but are afraid to ask.

“I find that there are preconceived notions about where need is in this city,” she said. “I can tell you that there’s a food cupboard in Barrhaven and I doubt it’s there for fun.”

Shirley Seward, who represents the zone in Ottawa west, said when her children were in high school, there was a lot of talk from parents who chose to simply do without other things than ask for a subsidized pass.

“It can be tough to admit to the principal, the vice-principal and the secretary that you can’t afford,” she said.

To implement busing for high school students, staff would need direction from the board by the end of November. The board was set to vote on the issue on Oct. 22.

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Community - There’s been a change of leadership at the Hintonburg Community Association.

Matt Whitehead was elected president of the association at an Oct. 7 board meeting, replacing outgoing president Jeff Leiper in that role.

The association abides by a self-imposed two-year term limit for positions on the executive.

Previously the association’s traffic committee chairman, Whitehead has been a resident of Hintonburg and a member of the association for the past five years.

During that time, the neighbourhood has become a hotbed of development activity, a situation that seemed to reach critical mass this year following a series of increasingly tall condo projects proposed for lots near the perimeter of the community.

On Sept. 26, the HCA voted to pass a symbolic motion that called on the city to freeze the approval process of any building over 10 storeys via an interim control bylaw.

Ideally, this would last until an effective community design plan was in place for the community, though the group learned at the meeting that such a bylaw would be difficult to achieve.

The community is currently working with Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs to craft an effective planning-based defence against to the tower influx.

Whitehead said he noticed the positive changes occurring in Hintonburg when he moved to the area and wants future changes to benefit the community.

“It’s all about managing the changes … to ensure the neighbourhood retains its vibrancy and what people love about it,” said Whitehead.

In addition to monitoring potential developments, the community is also facing the effects from the future conversion of the Transitway from bus

to LRT – a project that would likely see buses diverted along Scott Street from Tunney’s Pasture eastward for an extended period of time.

Whitehead’s work with the association’s traffic committee kept this as their main focus, in the hopes of having Scott Street emerge from the construction period better than it was before.

Whitehead wants to see the various design changes that will make Scott a “complete street” for vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians occur at the same time.

“We want Scott Street to – eventually – be a great street, and not the semi-highway is now,” said Whitehead.

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Ecology Ottawa volunteers Frank Farrell, left, and Karen Hawley were among those who turned out to oppose TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline proposal at an event held at the Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena in Stittsville on Oct. 10.

Richmond, might impact the aquifer and hence her water supply.

She said that she received something of an answer, with the possibility that additional shut off valves might be installed in that area and that TransCanada might establish an emergency response team close to the area.

Ecology Ottawa and the Council of Canadians and

other environmental activist groups sent representatives to protest the proposed pipeline.

Some carried banners warning people about the 3.8 million litre oil spill at the Kalamazoo River in Michigan and volunteers handed out brochures describing the project as the “Energy Waste Pipeline.”

“There’s more to the story than what’s going on inside,”

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TransCanada spokesperson Philippe Cannon said that safety is TransCanada’s number one priority and noted that the Energy East pipeline will be monitored on a 24/7 basis. With any drop in pressure along the pipeline, that area can be isolated in a matter of minutes, he said.

In addition, the valves in the pipeline in that area will shut off automatically if conditions persist, regardless of what action is taken or not taken by the monitoring staff.

In fact, he said that TransCanada has an even better safety record than the 99.99 percent industry-wide safety record for pipelines proclaimed by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association.

He said that TransCanada has never had an oil pipeline rupture.

He said that “incidents” do happen and are reported but that they are not spills but rather situations which arise at oil pipeline pumping stations where any spilled oil is contained within the pumping station.

Cannon said that TransCanada invests each year in safety, touting that the company has the “leading industry record and plans to keep it that way.”

He also explained about the “PIG,” or pipeline investigation gauge, an instrument that uses magnetic technology and sensors to detect any flaws or defects on the inside of a pipeline. The device is used not only to clean a pipe-

line but also in situations of a pipeline conversion from natural gas to oil as is being proposed in the Energy East situation. The device is used to travel through the emptied pipeline, checking the pipe centimeter by centimeter. It can detect any defect or bump in the pipe. The result is that TransCanada digs up the section of pipe identified by the PIG and either repairs the pipe or replaces it.

Then the pipeline is pressure tested using water before any oil would be transported through it.

Cannon noted that the pipeline being converted to oil from natural gas in the Stittsville area was installed in 2005.

He dismissed concerns that eliminating one of the two current natural gas pipelines running through this rightof-way would impact the future availability and price of natural gas in the Ottawa area.

He said that TransCanada has done all of the calculations and TransCanada will be able to continue to deliver all of the natural gas needed by its customers who distribute it locally.

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News - Residents and environmental activists gathered at Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena on Oct. 10 to hear details of the proposed TransCanada Energy East Pipeline project.

If approved, the 4,500-kilometre pipeline will carry nearly one million barrels of crude oil per day from refineries in Alberta and Saskatchewan to Eastern Canada.

A portion of the pipeline will pass just west of Stittsville and is now a twin natural gas pipeline. Under the TransCanada proposal it will become both a natural gas pipeline and a crude oil pipeline.

TransCanada must hold consultations with all individuals, groups and agencies affected by the project before submitting a formal application to the National Energy Board, the federal agency that regulates interprovincial pipelines.

Amber McCoy of Richmond said she was concerned about how a spill from the pipeline, which would run just west of the village of

said Andrea Harden-Donahue, energy and climate justice campaigner with the Council of Canadians.

Harden-Donahue was handing out pink information sheets containing various “talking points” countering some of the claims being made by TransCanada about the Energy East pipeline project such as relieving dependence on foreign oil, creating jobs and pipeline safety.

The information sheet stated that “The Council of Canadians opposes the Energy East pipeline” because it would pose a threat to local water supplies, would promote expansion of the tar sands in Alberta and would delay any switch to alternative energy sources.

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“The best advice I give them is to take the medication they

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News - Nepean resident Lynne Kett-Hiscoe plans to turn the town pink in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The 59-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 51.

“My kids and my friends convinced me to go,” KettHiscoe said of getting a mammogram. “I put it off because I was busy working during tax time. But I finally went in March and they told they had found something.”

Kett-Hiscoe said since her diagnosis she had a lumpectomy – a surgery to get rid of the mass – and later underwent a mastectomy.

“The doctors told me they didn’t get it all,” she said of the lumpectomy, adding the lump was found in March eight years ago and she didn’t have surgery until the following August. After the surgery she had to heal before undergoing eight rounds of chemotherapy to rid her body of the cancer that had moved into her lymph nodes.

“The doctor said if I had waited six months to have a mammogram I probably wouldn’t have survived until I had the surgery,” Kett-Hiscoe said.

She is one of a number of ambassadors across the province working with the Canadian Cancer Society urging women between the ages of 50 to 69 to get a mammogram every two years.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and according a survey commissioned

are prescribed. If you do that, it’s half the battle,” she said.

The cancer society recommends women aged 50 to 69 have a mammogram every two

years, either through a referral from their doctor or calling the Ontario breast screening program directly at 1-800-6689304.

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Lynne Kett-Hiscoe, left, is pictured with Maria Redpath from the Canadian Cancer Society. Kett-Hiscoe was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 51 is now taking part in the cancer society’s Women to Women movement in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. by the society in August, 39 per cent of women 50 to 69 don’t get screened for cancer regularly. The same survey showed that 47 per cent of Ontarian women don’t know that a mammogram is the best way to screen.

Kett-Hiscoe said the society is handing out an item called a Thingamaboob.

A Thingamaboob is a series of beads on a keychain.

The smallest bead on the keychain represents the average size lump found by getting regular mammograms; the next bead on the keychain represents the average size lump found by a first-time mammogram.

The second largest bead shows the average size lump found by clinical breast exam-

inations, and the largest bead represents the average lump size found by women performing regular self-examinations.

According to the society, one in four cancer diagnoses is breast cancer. There have 9,300 diagnosed cases of it this year in Ontario and 1,950 women will die from it.

“Early detection and treatment is the key,” Kett-Hiscoe said.

Kett-Hiscoe has been cancer free for a number of years and now works as a peer counsellor for people currently undergoing treatment.

“I was able to talk to lady in Toronto during my treatment and that really helped,” she said.

She said women are concerned about whether or not

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by Robert Greenslade The eleventh annual Homes for the Holidays tour on November 15, 16 and 17, is only days away and anticipation is building for this very special event. The tour, now its eleventh year, supports end-of-life care programs offered by Hospice Care Ottawa, including those at the May Court Hospice.

“Homes for the Holidays will help us improve hospice services in Ottawa and reach our goal of increasing the number of area beds,” noted Lisa Sullivan, Executive Director of Hospice Care Ottawa. The tour is open daily from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and features six outstanding homes in the neighbourhoods of Rockcliffe Park, Rothwell Heights, the Glebe, Old Ottawa South and Island Park Drive.

Prominent area florists and designers will volunteer their decorating skills to the homes: three reflecting a specific seasonal theme (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day) and three highlighting the festive spirit of the holidays. For example,104 Black Maple Private features a “Very Special Christmas Eve”. This home is one of a collection of six elegant residences on the street. Mood Moss Florist and Jacobsons Gourmet Concepts combine their decorating talents to this home.

Another Rockcliffe Park home, the residence of the Swiss Ambassador to Canada (494 Lansdowne Road North), is a stately French Château-style home, decorated for the tour

by Tivoli Florist. This house was acquired by the Government of Switzerland in 1948 and enjoys frontage on picturesque McKay Lake.

Striking 13 Massey Lane in Rothwell Heights is decorated by Stoneblossom Floral Gallery. The home features mature trees and is notable for its cedar shingles, copper roof accents and front canopy.

A “Christmas Morning Wonder” (Tinseltown offers the Christmas decorative magic here) awaits visitors to 8 Thornton Avenue, just steps from bustling Bank Street. It’s interesting to note that the homeowner and her father worked closely to design the exterior and interior of this sun-drenched home.

A relatively new home, designed by Barry Hobin and decorated by Mill Street Florist, 900 Colonel By Drive’s stucco and stone exterior gives way to a light and airy interior and preserves ties to its past by retaining the property’s 150-year-old stone wall.

And visitors will not want to miss 512 Island Park Drive, decorated by Michael Courdin Design, for the “New Year’s Eve Celebration”! This contemporary home features many windows which give the house a strong connection to the outdoors.

Participants will also want to visit the completely revamped Holiday PopUp Shop, this year located at the Official Residence of the Irish Ambassador (291 Park Road). Visitors will be able to get a head start on their holiday shopping and browse the children’s corner, affordable artwork, jewellery, seasonal décor, and delicious preserves prepared by some of the region’s top food purveyors (and visitors can pause for a coffee or tea too). And the best news is you won’t have to go far for tickets! Tickets are available at 25 outlets across the city and via PayPal too. For outlets and information about Hospice Care Ottawa and the tour, go to hospicecareottawa.ca R0012356147

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The city will introduce changes to a level crossing in Barrhaven after a fatal collision between a Via Rail train and an OC Transpo bus claimed six lives last month.

NOTICE OF PASSING OF ZONING BY-LAWS AND ADOPTION OF AN OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT

BY THE CITY OF OTTAWA Notice is hereby provided that the Council of the City of Ottawa passed Zoning By-law Nos. 2013-315, 2013-316, 2013-317 and 2013-318 and adopted OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment No. 127 on the 9th day of October 2013.

The OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendments affects properties within the study boundary which includes the lands north and south of Montreal Road from North River Road to St. Laurent Boulevard and the lands north and south of McArthur Avenue from North River Road to east of the Vanier Parkway. More details on the properties affected by the OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment and Zoning By-laws can be found at the Study’s website under Montreal Road District Secondary Plan: http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-consultations/vanier-site-speciďŹ c-policy-review The purpose of OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment No. 127 is to delete the Site SpeciďŹ c Policy for the former City of Vanier and introduce a Secondary Plan for the Montreal Road District. The Secondary Plan is the policy direction to guide the long term design and development of lands in the area.

The purpose of the Zoning By-law Amendment is to implement the zoning in the study area to reect the new Montreal Road District Secondary Plan. By-law Nos. 2013-315, 2013-316, 2013317 and 2013-318 will implement the Montreal Road District Secondary Plan.

For further information on the above, please contact Melanie Knight, Planner, at 613-580-2424, extension 28439 or by e-mail at Melanie.Knight@ottawa.ca.

Any person or public body who, before the Zoning By-laws or the OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment were enacted, made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to City Council, may appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board with respect to any of the four Zoning By-laws or the OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment, by ďŹ ling with the City Clerk of the City of Ottawa, a notice of appeal setting out their objection to the Zoning By-law(s) or the OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment and the reasons in support of the objection. Each appeal must be accompanied by the Ontario Municipal Board’s prescribed fee of $125.00, which may be made in the form of a cheque payable to the Minister of Finance.

News - The city will reduce the speed limit, trim trees and eventually add a new warning light at the rail crossing where six people were killed when a bus and train collided last month.

The changes include reducing the speed limit to 50 kilometres per hour from 60 km/h in both directions approaching the Fallowfield crossing.

Sign clutter around the crossing will be reduced and replaced with signs that emphasize the slower speed limit.

The city will cut down dying trees and vegetation and move viable trees to other locations to improve sightlines, said city manager Kent Kirkpatrick.

Those changes were set to be completed on Oct. 17 – a day after Kirkpatrick announced them during a transit commission meeting.

The city is also working with Via Rail to add an additional blinking warning signal in the northbound direction that would go off several seconds in advance of a train crossing. The cost of adding that signal and the timeline for it to be installed and synched with Via’s signaling system are not yet known, Kirkpatrick said.

He emphasized the changes are not based on any orders, direction or recommendations from the Transportation Safety Board, the federal body taking the lead on the crash investigation.

The city came up with the changes after receiving observations from the board during

a private briefing on Oct. 11.

The observations were based on evidence gathered from a Sept. 28 re-enactment of the crash.

When asked why the city decided to undertake these changes now, Kirkpatrick said the city now has the benefit of the Transportation Safety Board’s observations.

Around 530 in-service buses cross the rail tracks at that location on any given weekday.

The city is not looking at applying any of these safety improvements to the other level crossings in the city. The idea of having buses come to a full stop every time before crossing the tracks did not come up, Kirkpatrick said.

During its investigation, the board will be looking at bus, crossing and “human factors� that contributed to or caused the Sept. 18 crash between an OC Transpo and Via train.

Thirty-three people were injured in the tragedy.

Thank you!

Over 23,600 participants made the 2013 Tim Hortons Cleaning the Capital very successful!

Between September 15 and October 15, community volunteers joined in a total of 465 projects to keep Ottawa’s parks, roadways and green spaces, clean, green, graffiti and litter-free.

Thank you to participating schools, neighbourhood associations, community organizations, businesses, families, friends and individuals who participated.

We hope to see you all again in April 2014.

Thank you to our many sponsors who made this year’s cleanups such a great success:

A notice of appeal can be mailed to the City Clerk at 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 1J1, or by delivering the notice in person, to Ottawa City Hall, at the Information Desk in the Rotunda on the 1st oor, 110 Laurier Avenue West.

A notice of appeal must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on the 13th day of November 2013.

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Only individuals, corporations and public bodies may appeal a zoning by-law or an OfďŹ cial Plan amendment to the Ontario Municipal Board. A notice of appeal may not be ďŹ led by an unincorporated association or group. However, a notice of appeal may be ďŹ led in the name of an individual who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf.

No person or public body shall be added as a party to the hearing of the appeal unless, before the Zoning By-laws or OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment were enacted, the person or public body made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the council or, in the opinion of the Ontario Municipal Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.

Should the Zoning By-law(s) or the OfďŹ cial Plan Amendment be appealed, persons or public bodies who wish to receive notice of the Ontario Municipal hearing can receive such notice by submitting a written request to Melanie Knight, Planner with the City.

Dated at the City of Ottawa this 24th day of October 2013.

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News - City councillors wrested back control over noise exemptions for large construction projects after city staff asked them to give up that authority.

Bylaw chief Linda Anderson proposed changes that would have seen her staff sign off to allow late-night noise on major city construction projects that have a large impact on roads and traffic – as well as large private construction projects that could impact city streets and services, like the Rideau Centre expansion.

“Residents understand that it’s going on and it’s a neces-

sary evil,” Anderson said, adding that bylaw services doesn’t receive a lot of complaints about construction noise.

The city already allows exemptions to the noise bylaw when the work is deemed critical or urgent, such as the continuous pouring of concrete through the night at Lansdowne. But those cases required the approval of the ward’s councillor – something Anderson wanted to forgo. Instead, the city’s community and protective services committee decided to keep the requirement for the councillor’s consent. If the councillor disagrees, the matter would be brought to city council for a decision.

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City councillors resisted an effort by city staff to take over authority for exempting large city-building projects, like the Lansdowne Park reconstruction, from a bylaw restricting late-night noise. tions on how loud the noise could be and how long it could continue – for not more than

eight hours in a single day and not for durations of more than 11 days in a row.

Committee chairman Coun.

Mark Taylor said council has approved a lot of large citybuilding projects, so he could see the rationale for the proposed changes.

“There does seem to be a need for a more fluid process for these exemptions,” the Bay Ward councillor said.

But College Coun. Rick Chiarelli blasted the changes, saying they would be similar to “streamlining” the city tried to undertake for the siteplan process several years ago. Councillors approved the change thinking they’d be kept in the loop when staff approved a plan, he said, but now their offices are only being told a couple days before site plans

are approved.

“The notification around this place has dwindled to the point when it’s just in time,” Chiarelli said.

It’s “fantasy” to think the city hasn’t dealt with construction on this scale before, Chiarelli said, and the real issue is removing the ability for communities and councillors to have input into noise exemptions.

Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun.

Tim Tierney said approvals for noise exemptions should rest with councillors to keep them accountable to their constituents. Noise exemptions for other reasons, such as concerts and special events, would follow the existing process.

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Community - Action Sandy Hill wants student housing to stay on campus and has created a petition calling for the University of Ottawa to follow suit.

The community association is concerned about a planned 165-bed student residence slated for a lot on Henderson Avenue, as well as a proposal that calls for a roughly 750-bed residence within a 10 minute walk of the campus.

The petition, posted on ipetitions.com, calls on the university to “develop new student residences on their Main Campus west of King Edward Avenue and/or their Lees Avenue Campus, and to refrain from any further development in Sandy Hill.”

The petition has collected 239 signatures as of Oct. 17.

Action Sandy Hill has been increasingly vocal about the practice of converting homes into student housing.

While the association couldn’t be reached for comment, its website states the rationale behind the petition.

“The University of Ottawa has grown by more than 15,000 fulltime students in the past dozen years. In that time it has added

I hope to see you and your neighbours at next week’s information session to discuss new, low-rise infill housing construction in your community. Earlier this year, I worked with the Deputy City Manager of Planning & Infrastructure to add our Ward to the Second Stage of Low-Rise Infill Housing Study.

Previously, this study was confined to the urban core.

Stage II of the study is focusing on ways to regulate height, massing and rear and side setbacks to ensure compatibility with established neighbourhoods.

Intensification should make a positive contribution to the character and quality of our neighbourhoods.

Your input is important and I welcome you to share your experience related to new, low-rise housing File construction. Are there specific developments or Action Sandy Hill has created a petition calling on the University of Ottawa to locate new properties you would like to discuss? student residences on campus, a move that follows a number of concerns over student behavPlease join me and City staff: iour, including incidents on St. Patrick’s day in 2012. fewer than 300 residence beds.”

The association points to its 2007 decision to support the mixed-use rezoning of the east side of King Edward Avenue, which was being pushed by the university, in exchange for Henderson Avenue retaining its residential zoning.

Recent plans to convert a vacant church and retirement home into student-friendly housing, as well as the conversion of several

private homes, is also listed as a causal factor.

A development application filed with the city in late September concerns a mixed-use, nine-storey student residence building proposed for the corner of Laurier Avenue and Friel Street.

The applicant, Viner Assets, Inc., wants the collection of lots to accommodate a “purposebuilt student residence,” with

would contain retail space, a fitness centre and a student amenity area on the ground floor.

At 180 units, the proposal – if approved and built – would address some of the need of the university’s expanding student body, but not completely alleviate it.

This means more developments would be needed to accommodate the student body growth.

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Julia Gutsik, centre, recently received an arts and education grant for her dance program Luv 2 Groove. ment the arts curriculum by providing students with the opportunity to get active with the art of dance. This unit allows students to work directly with one or two dance artists over five days for one hour each day. Students will have the opportunity to learn

different styles of dance starting from the ’70 s through to the 21st century.

It also includes disco, breakdance, new jack swing and other popular dances.

Over the five days, students learn choreography, creation, and improvisation.

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Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod announced the local 2012-13 grant recipients at Greenfields Pub in Barrhaven on Oct. 5.

Ben Ladouceur, a Barrhaven native, was also se-

think supplementing my writing with tutor is the best option I can hope for.”

While he continues to work on his craft, Ladouceur said he wants to help break down some of the cultural mystification surrounding poetry.

“When I am doing readings in public I am cognizant of the fact that some people are as into it, so I try and warm people up,” he said. “I think poetry is the perfect thing to read on the bus or the subway but a lot of people don’t see it that way.”

Barrhaven pop singer Mandia Nanstios, who performed during the announcement, also received grant money, along with: • Craig Conoley • Nicolas di Gaetano • Anna Fahr • Dipna Horra • Yaovi Hoyi • Heather Anne Menzies • James Ransom • Capital Brassworks • The Feathertale Review • Theatre 4.669 Over the last year, $112,319 in grants was allocated to professional artists and arts organizations in Nepean-Carleton.

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News - A Greely woman is hoping Ottawa students get into the groove with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council.

Julia Gutsik said her dance camps at schools follow the Ontario curriculum and the grant for $4,200 will help her offer camps to schools where students might not otherwise be able to afford to participate.

“I have received the grant for the last two years and it is great to be able to offer the program in more places and help kids to get active,” she said.

Gutsik, a dancer for the last 24 years, has a bachelor degree in dance and kinesiology and went back to school to get her teaching certification before starting her company four years ago.

Gutsik said she mostly works with kids in the primary grades, specifically those in junior and senior kindergarten.

“But I have programs for all kids,” she said.

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lected for a grant.

Ladouceur, who now lives in Toronto, received his second grant for a poetry compilation.

Since he finished his masters degree in aboriginal studies at Carleton, the Canterbury High School grad has dedicated himself to his writing.

He said he has published nine chap books – pamphletsized novellas with no bindings – and looks forward to having his first book for sale in stores like Chapters.

He has finished the writing and now plans to continue shopping it to publishing companies.

“It’s a harder sell when you’re talking about poetry,” he said, adding the compilation of works he recently finished were inspired by his study of the First World War. “I also like to write about the queer culture in Toronto,” Ladouceur said.

Ladouceur said he’s happy to receive grant money, but writing full time still isn’t an option.

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Community - Don’t be alarmed when if you see the walking dead shambling down Bank Street this Halloween – in fact, it’s in your best interests to become their victims.

A new promotional event being created by the Bank Street Business Improvement Area will see volunteer zombies handing out lanyards to their victims, each of which contain a barcode that puts people in the running for three grand prizes. Each barcode has the potential to open one of three prize-filled coffins laid out at La Prep, on the corner of Bank and Cooper streets.

Occurring from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 31, the festive promotion is part of the newly rebranded BIA’s outside-thebox marketing strategy. “(Zombie) recruitment has been great,” said BIA executive director Christine Leadman, adding the group has partnered with members of Capital Pride for the promotion. Leadman has headed the Bank Street BIA since September after serving as the director of the Glebe BIA. Inside the three coffins, which will be opened on Oct. 31, will be gift certificates in the amounts of $500, $1,000 and $1,500, redeemable at Bank Street businesses.

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Zombies claw their way toward visitors at the Diefenbunker, part of a special seasonal series of tours running until Nov. 2.

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News - A band of hipsters in skinny jeans and bookish glasses gathers at the Diefenbunker guardhouse gate, antsy to take part in something called Incident at the Bunker: A Zombie Adventure.

Few could have guessed that by tour’s end they would be armed to the hilt with Nerf guns firing wildly in all directions at the marauding undead bent on a brains-gorging feast. And yet that’s what happened.

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bunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, in collaboration with the Haunted Walk of Ottawa, put together the Halloween-themed tour that seamlessly weaves entertainment and education.

Participants learn the standard stuff – former bunker built to withstand five-mega-

ton nuclear bomb, could hold 535 select people, massive blast door – but that’s just filler for the frightful fun found along the way.

Here’s the set up – according to a press release promoting the event in Carp.

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“The terrifying event that happened next has never been disclosed to the public – until now – 20 years later. Using the latest in time-travel technology, we will journey back and discover the bunker’s most shocking secret.”

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Excellent script, creepy scenes, odd incidents part of fun Continued from page 25

A tour guide in a black frock and, oddly, a lantern straight out of a Dickens story, leads the group of 20-somethings to the Butler Hut for a briefing.

“I’d really like to apologize to any of you who were here last year, or lost loved ones here last year,” he says.

“But we’ve really improved things.”

The excellently written script is hilarious throughout.

For instance, before walking down the lengthy blast tunnel the guide introduces a stern plainclothes guard in dark glasses.

“He’s two days from retirement,” he said, sounding the opposite of ominous. Many giggled and predicted the guard may share the fate of a red shirt on Star Trek.

The group explored the many government rooms and

winding passageways while hearing of the strange events that took place the day the bunker ceased operations. Just inside the solid steel entryway door, a Beta-like video message from a scientist is played, her last known correspondence. In the medical room where an autopsy was performed on a soldier infected by a mysterious contamination on that fateful day two decades ago, two decaying bodies illicit “Gross,” and “That’s disgusting,” from a few less-than-sympathetic tour-takers.

The tension would build gradually yet noticeably.

More zombies would appear suddenly or were spotted on screens – dragging themselves relentlessly down nearby hallways.

An intrepid reporter who tagged along for the tour – which felt more like an epi-

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The danger mounted to the point that every member of the group was given a task meant to defend the whole.

In the Bank of Canada vault – built to protect the gold as, presumably, millions of Canadians melt under nuclear fallout – a red light added to the creepiness while a pile of Nerf guns with bullets of speciallymade serum were conveniently located between the group and a mob of zombies.

It was not a happy ending.

More tours take place on Oct. 26, 27, and Nov. 2. They last about 75 minutes. Tickets are $18.75 for adults, $16.75 for students and $10.75 for children. For more information visit www.hauntedwalk. com.

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News - A struggle over where to put cars in increasingly dense suburbs dominated an Oct. 17 discussion about building better suburbs.

The city wants to guide the building of more complete suburban communities that make efficient use of utilities while serving areas that are intensifying the fastest, said Lee Ann Snedden, the city’s manager of planning policy development and urban design.

“This is where we are getting our growth … The suburbs are unique,” Snedden said. “We need to figure out what’s the best way to make it liveable for people.”

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder said in the past, development standards for the urban area have been applied to the suburban area, but now the city is looking to be more creative.

While city planning exercises like community design plans look at development and the size of homes, building better suburbs is about “all the other stuff,” Snedden said – schools, parks, utilities, trees and parking.

Neil Thomson, director of planning for the Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association, said he wasn’t impressed with the Building Better Suburbs process. He attended one of three concurrent meetings held in Kanata, Barrhaven and Orléans on Oct. 17.

“It’s not about complete communities,” he said. “It’s about how many homes and cars we can crush into a small area.”

Thompson said the city

should take a more holistic approach to building suburban communities.

“They’re asking us to look at solving individual problems in isolation,” he said. “Let’s look at a suburb as a whole community.”

Andrea Sells, an Old Barrhaven resident who previously worked in real estate, said the dense new suburbs being built now are becoming “simply unliveable.”

People often don’t have a good sense of the size of the home they are buying before it’s built and once it’s constructed and people can see how small it is, it’s very difficult to resell, she said.

“All those plans look wonderful and then once you move in, it’s smaller than you envisioned,” Sells said.

People shouldn’t discount market demand for those compact homes, said Sheldon Dattenberger, a consultant from Delcan who is working on the project for the city.

“If there wasn’t a market for them, they wouldn’t build them,” he said.

But smaller homes and smaller lots come with parking headaches, participants said.

Donna Hinde, the consultant from the Planning Partnership who ran the session, asked if the participants thought providing more rear laneways would be a solution to the parking problem, but that didn’t go over well with participants.

“They are an eyesore and a haven for criminal activity,” said Richard Stead, president of the Cedarhill Community Association. “It’s something

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Donna Hinde, a consultant for the Planning Partnership, leads a discussion about how to build better suburbs during a meeting at the Cedarhill Golf and Country Club on Oct. 17. that goes back to the horseand-buggy era. Why do we need to have them in the suburbs?”

Barrhaven resident Don Halpenny’s concern was over maintenance of the lanes – whether it’s the city’s responsibilities or the residents have to come together to devise and fund a maintenance plan for things like snow clearing.

Harder said it’s common for people to park on their lawns or widen their “walkways” into ad hoc driveways, she said.

Daniel Coates lives in Fraser Fields and said the onstreet parking situation in his neighbourhood is getting out of control. Residents park on the street to leave their driveways open for children to play and park their vehicles along both sides of his street instead, which creates a narrow and unsafe street that even snowplows can’t traverse, he said.

“You drive through these

new neighbourhoods and it’s like driving through a parking lot,” Stead said.

Coates was intrigued by Hinde’s suggestion of choosing one side of the street for parking and potentially switching sides on a scheduled timeframe, such as every two months. That’s done in many Ontario municipalities, she said.

The matter of where to put sidewalks is closely tied to the parking issue, participants

said.

Brad Nixon, a Findlay Creek resident, said he hopes the city will encourage the placement of sidewalks adjacent to driveways.

“If they build a sidewalk partway up your driveway and leave a boulevard space between the road and the sidewalk you can’t park two cars in the driveway,” he said.

“People are forced to park on the street.”

Many participants recognized the value of sidewalks, but concluded they shouldn’t be everywhere.

“On a major roadway you’d be crazy not to have them,” said Eric Stephen, a resident of Old Barrhaven. “In an ideal world they should be on all streets,” but that’s probably not practical or affordable, he added.

Coates said putting sidewalks everywhere would not only cramp yards, it would drive up taxes.

Dattenberger, who is advising the city on infrastructure matters, said the goal is to balance the construction of infrastructure like sidewalks by putting them places they will actually be used.

Claude Gagné, a director with the Convent Glen-Orléans Wood Community Association, said she would like to see some of the elements for new suburbs retrofitted into existing communities like Convent Glen.

“We would like the city to consider older suburbs, where in fact, there are still things that need to be added to make them more vibrant neighbourhoods,” she said. “We have big trees, we have nice parks, but they’re completely empty.”

She supported elements like splash pads going into newer neighbourhoods to make sure the parks are used, but doesn’t want the city to forget about older suburbs who could also benefit from development.

The consultation will continue for 10 months. Early in the new year, the city will release proposed draft standards based on the feedback. The plan is expected to be considered by the city’s planning committee next June. Comments can be submitted to the city by emailing city planner Stan Wilder at stanley.wilder@ottawa.ca.

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Famous songs on the set list include Coming In On a Wing And a Prayer, Keep the Home Fires Burning, The White Cliffs of Dover and Lili Marleen.

“It’s all the favourite songs of our veterans,” Létourneau said. “They’re the songs that lifted the spirits of everyone living through the conflict.”

Létourneau has worked at the Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre for 12 years, and said she has come to know which songs veterans cherish most.

“With the quick aging of our veterans, I feel it is important to keep singing the songs of their era to remember, honour and thank them,” she said.

Guitarist Garry Elliott will join Létourneau on stage for

the show, which takes place Sunday, Nov. 10 from 2 to 3 p.m.

Organizer Bill Robertson said everyone is invited to enjoy the show, and noted it will be an uplifting concert rather than a religious service.

“We hope the songs will appeal to a lot of people,” he said. “We’ve received quite a bit of interest so far.”

Létourneau is a professional musician who performs regularly at the Perley. She is also the musical director at St. Andrew’s Church.

She and Elliott will perform the same concert at the Canadian War Museum on Saturday, Nov. 9.

Tickets for the Metcalfe concert are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Contact Martha Robertson at 613-8211708 or Nelda Isaac at 613821-2075 for tickets.

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The Bank Street BIA’s latest shopping campaign runs until Oct. 31.

Promotion all part of business group’s campaign to rebrand Continued from page 25

Even the barcodes that don’t unlock the prize coffins will still provide the zombie’s victims with special offers from participating BIA members.

Earlier this year, the BIA launched a rebranding initiative to bring a new look and heightened visibility to Centretown’s Bank Street strip. In addition to a new logo and slogan, the initiative sought to renew storefronts and sidewalks, while pursuing innovative seasonal promotions.

“This is the start of the rebranding,” said Leadman.

“The direction of our board

was that they wanted to see new activities, and experiment – try it, see what happens and get involved.”

Leadman said the businesses operating along that stretch of Bank have always been a community, “but they haven’t felt like that over the past while.”

The BIA’s new approach aims to change that.

“With more activities, people will see that Bank Street is moving in another direction,” said Leadman.

The group is excited that a yet-unnamed, high-end clothes store will soon be moving into a vacant storefront along the strip and are encouraged by

developments in the long-running Somerset House saga.

The vacant former hotel and pub, the site of a partial building collapse several years ago, could see redevelopment in the near future, something Leadman said can’t come soon enough.

“We think that will be a big boost for the street,” she said.

“It has been an eyesore. I think the owner is keen to move forward.”

While Halloween has yet to pass, the BIA is already looking towards the Christmas season, with a Bank Street gift card program expected to come into effect in November.

Class Environmental Assessment Report Available for Review The City of Ottawa has prepared an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) to support the Community Design Plan for Phase 2 of the East Urban Community. The EMP identifies the stormwater management solution for the study area, which is bounded by Renaud Road to the north, the CPR railway tracks to the south, Mer Bleue Road to the east and Phase 1 of the East Urban Community to the west.

The Environmental Management Plan has been completed as a Master Plan under the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) process. The Master Plan identifies the stormwater management infrastructure requirements for future development in the study area. This notice serves as a Notice of Completion for the following projects: stormwater management pond (Schedule B); and diversion of drainage between watersheds (Schedule C).

The East Urban Community (Phase 2) EMP report details the study process, findings and recommendations. Consultation for the EMP has included technical advisory committee meetings and public open houses as part of the class environmental assessment process and is documented in the report. The public is invited to review the EMP at the following locations: Ottawa Public Library - Main Branch 3rd Floor (Ottawa Room) 120 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, ON K1P 5M2 Tel.: (613) 580-2945

Ottawa Public Library – Orléans Branch 1705 Orléans Boulevard Ottawa, ON K1C 4W2 Tel. (613) 824-1962

City Hall Client Service Centre 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Tel. (613) 580-2400

Orléans Client Service Centre 255 Centrum Boulevard Ottawa, ON K1E 3V8 Tel. (613) 580-2400

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For further information, or to provide written comments, please contact: Amy MacPherson City of Ottawa Planning and Growth Management Department 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 Phone: (613) 580-2424, ext. 14873 Fax: 613-580-2459 E-mail: amy.macpherson@ottawa.ca

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board delivers the highest quality education through our outstanding full-time and part-time staff—our greatest asset. Come join our highly skilled, diverse and dedicated team.

We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, pension plan, opportunities for professional development and advancement.

Register at www.applytoeducation.com and apply to OCDSB Job Posting # 533822 Successful candidates will use their skills to provide high quality play-based education for Junior and Senior Kindergarten students in a full-day Early Learning Program. The ECE may also lead an extended program (before and/or after school).

For more information and a full job description including mandatory qualifications, visit our careers page at www.ocdsb.ca. Should you have any difficulties when registering through Apply to Education, please contact their Customer Service 1-877-900-5627 ext. 224 Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or via email: info@applytoeducation.com.

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Written comments must be provided within thirty calendar days from the date of the first issuance of this Notice. If concerns regarding the project cannot be resolved through discussion with the City, a person may request that the Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order) which addresses individual environmental assessments. Requests must be received by the Minister at the address below by November 25, 2013. A copy of the request must also be sent to the City of Ottawa Project Manager, Amy MacPherson. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

The Honourable Jim Bradley Minister of the Environment 77 Wellesley Street West 11th Floor, Ferguson Block Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 Phone: (416) 314-6790 Fax: (416) 314-6748 E-mail: minister.moe@ontario.ca This notice first issued October 24, 2013.

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Use decorations with caution.

Keep your pets away from lit pumpkins and electrical cords to avoid shocks and burns.

If you observe an animal in immediate distress or danger at Halloween or any time, please contact the OHS emergency services at 613-725-1532.

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Arts - Melodramatic music, pregnant pauses and a few good attempted murders: this is what audiences can expect from The Murder Room, the latest farce from Isle in the River Review theatre troupe in Osgoode.

Jack Sharkeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British-style comedy is meant to have audience members rolling in the aisles while cast members may be rolling each other into graves â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or trying to, at least. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tremendous spoof, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tongue-in-cheek, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overexaggerated characters, all of whom think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re smarter than they really are,â&#x20AC;? said codirector Gord Hawkes, who is sharing directorial duties with Lynn Jolicoeur. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all a couple bulbs short of a chandelier.â&#x20AC;?

The farce follows a golddigger named Mavis, who opens the play with a failed attempt to murder her new husband Edgar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the story of her trying to off her new husband in

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Hawkes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And in the process his daughter shows up and is technically the heir. So now the gold-digger must deal with the daughter.â&#x20AC;?

The daughter arrives with a rich young American on her arm. An inspector and a ditzy housekeeper round out the characters, which is played by an all-star cast pulled from several nearby theatre groups.

Just Kiddin Theatre founder Andrie Nel, Anne Peterson and Kris Zebarth from the Greely Players and ITR veterans Katrina Bussey and Ian Bell will join Manotick resident Alan Arbuckle on stage beginning Nov. 15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have easily one of the best casts Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen,â&#x20AC;?

Hawkes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re eager, attentive and ready to learn.â&#x20AC;?

Hawkes has been working with the theatre company for about 12 years and has directed four shows in the past.

He said ITR loves to produce farces and comedies because the cast and crew want to make the audience laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without an audience thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no performance,â&#x20AC;? Hawkes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People come to theatre to escape, and farce allows them to escape in such a magical and relaxed way.â&#x20AC;?

He said The Murder Room is family-friendly and will appeal

to anyone aged 10 and up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The humour is funny on so many levels, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visual comedy and silly banter,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The Murder Room runs at the Osgoode Community Centre Nov. 15 to 17 and Nov. 21 to 23.

Shows on Nov. 15, 16, 21 and 22 begin at 7:30 p.m. The Nov. 17 matinee begins at 2 p.m. and the dinner show on Nov. 23 begins at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors and $48 for the dinner show.

ITR president Judy Beltzner encouraged people to buy their tickets early, especially for the dinner show, so the cast and crew can prepare.

She also made a case for becoming an ITR patron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a patron you get benefits that include advance purchase options, you get priority seating and you get a tax receipt,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way to support ITR and give a little benefit to yourself.â&#x20AC;?

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money for bus rapid transit,” she said. “I don’t know if I have the 13 votes yet, but we certainly have quite a few.”

Wilkinson said she plans to fight the cuts to bus rapid transit in three arenas: at the transit commission on Oct. 24, the transportation committee on Nov. 15 and at council.

“The fourth is at the (Ontario Municipal Board),” she said. “I would even appeal it.”

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Marianne Wilkinson is threatening a provincial appeal if the city passes its proposed Transportation Master Plan.

The plan to fast-track lightrail across the city to Orléans, Bayshore and Bowesville by 2023 has left Kanata out in the cold, said Wilkinson.

The project’s $2.5-billion price tag comes at the cost of pulling planned upgrades to Kanata’s bus rapid transit system as well as the delay of several roads projects such as the expansion of March Road to four lanes and the realignment of Goulbourn Forced Road.

“We’re putting so much into light-rail there’s not much left for roads,” said Wilkinson.

“But you have to have some service.”

In drawing up a plan to extend light rail beyond the Greenbelt, city staff neglect-

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Dozens of residents turned out to take a closer look at the city’s proposed plans outlining development, transportation and infrastructure projects over the next two decades during an open house held at the Kanata Recreation Complex on Oct. 17. ed to consider the options of bringing the line to Kanata and Barrhaven, choosing instead to extend the service to Orléans, she said.

“There’s been a political decision to take light rail out

from the Greenbelt out to Orléans without taking a look at what (the impact was) on bus rapid transit through the rest of the city,” said Wilkinson.

Wilkinson said she hopes to convince her colleagues

to make modifications to the Transportation Master Plan, namely by cancelling the extension of light rail to Orléans.

“If we can get it deferred (to Orléans), we can get the

Plans to extend the Transitway from Eagleson Road to Canadian Tire Place and south to Fernbank Road in preparation of large developments in west Kanata and the Fernbank lands were left out of the proposed update to the Transportation Master Plan.

If council moves ahead with the proposal, there won’t be any money for large capital transit projects, such as the Kanata Transitway extension until 2048, according to city staff.

“That whole system is completely gone,” Wilkinson said.

“Why are we planning to take light-rail to Orléans, which already has a good bus system,

without having anything going to Kanata at all?”

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Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley said a light-rail extension to Kanata was never planned before 2031 anyway, but that he was concerned about missing transit and transportation links in Kanata.

“The plan’s not perfect, there’s no doubt about it,” he said. “We have to find ways to fix it.”

A plan to widen Hope Side Road to four lanes together with construction of several roundabouts to ease the commute for Bridlewood residents and future residents of the Fernbank lands was left out of the updated transportation plan proposal.

“Designers of the plan expect to have 30,000 cars cutting through neighbourhoods of Kanata to find an arterial road to the east,” he said. “Those 30,000 cars are either going to try to go across Terry Fox or Eagleson or across Stonehaven to get to Richmond if Hope Side Road isn’t done.”

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The city has already collected developer fees earmarked for infrastructure improvements to handle that influx of traffic, he said.

“We (shouldn’t) take that money and put it out in Orléans.”

Council also should also reinstate construction of a new road and bus rapid transit link between Iber Road and Terry Fox, said Hubley, to ease

the commute of south Kanata residents.

“They’re expecting those people to drive over to Stittsville and then come over to Hazeldean or Carp Road or some other road to get to

Trick or Treat with the Mayor Mayor Jim Watson invites you to an evening of safe Halloween fun in support of the Ottawa Food Bank’s Baby Supply Cupboard.

Saturday, October 26, 2013 – 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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West-end residents were given the opportunity to comment on the Building a Livable Ottawa initiative during an open house at the Kanata Recreation Complex on Oct. 24, where several senior city staff, including Schepers, were on hand to answer questions.

The Livable Ottawa initiative is an effort to concurrently update the three major master plans that govern how the city grows up to 2031: the Official Plan, Transportation Master Plan (including plans for cycling and

Trick or treat with the Mayor and your favourite costumed characters in Jean Pigott Place and enjoy classic Halloween movies in Andrew S. Haydon Hall. The fun continues outside on Marion Dewar Plaza where you can decorate your very own miniature pumpkin and enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides.

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News - The latest effort by Ottawa police to crack down on prostitution in the Vanier area saw more than a dozen people arrested on Oct. 14 and 15.

A total of 14 men were arrested in the sweep. Eleven of those qualified to attend the pre-charge diversion program, which includes attending “john” school, a project that applies a restorative justice approach to the effects of prostitution within our communities and focuses on education.

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the highway,” he said. “That’s not going to work.”

“The plan as it’s been tabled does not meet the needs of Kanata so we need to make some changes to it,” said Hubley. “I think the plan is good, we just have some modifications to make.”

West-end commuters will benefit from extending light rail from Lincoln Fields to Bayshore , as well as from improved bus service on March Road, said deputy city manager Nancy Schepers.

“For Kanata, one of the big benefits is they will be able to have the Bayshore to Moodie Transitway,” said Schepers, referring to plans to switch from bus lanes on Hwy. 417 to separate Transitway lanes.

Also included in the Transportation Master Plan is the expansion of Hope Side Road, Old Richmond Road and West Hunt Club to Highway 416, as well as the construction of several roundabouts to improve the downtown commute for Bridlewood residents.

The Transportation Master Plan was drawn up using data from 2011, and is open for revision every five years, she added.

“It’s almost impossible to say this plan is exactly what’s going to happen before 2048,” Schepers said.

pedestrian routes) and the infrastructure master plan for water and sewer works.

Qiao Yan, a Kanata Lakes woman, said she was disappointed Kanata wasn’t included in the light-rail proposal.

“For me it’s very difficult,” said Yan, a student at Carleton University. “Every day I need three hours on the road.”

Shirley Penner, a Mogan’s Grant resident, said she’s worried about traffic on March Road with an estimated influx of more than 7,000 people in a development north of Klondike Road.

“It’s getting hard to get out of Morgan’s Grant,” she said. “If you put in 7,000 people it’s going to be impossible.”

Matt Muirhead, president of the Kanata Lakes Community Association, is pressing council to modify the Transportation Master Plan and consider extending light-rail to Kanata.

“We in Kanata and Stittsville, the entire west end, have been excluded from the light-rail plan,” he said. “If it’s going to be built all the way to the east, it can be built all the way to the west as well.”

Muirhead has asked Schepers to cost out a plan to bring rail to Kanata.

Most of the dozens of people who attended the open house weren’t saying much, simply asking questions of city staff, said Barb Backland, a city community consultation specialist.

“They’re just taking it all in,” she said.

The draft plan will be considered and potentially altered by the transit commission on Oct. 24 and the transportation committee on Nov. 15. Council has the final say on Nov. 26.

There is still one public information session left to take place in Orléans: Oct. 24 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex Covent Glen Room, 1490 Youville Dr.

The remaining three were charged with a variety of offences including communicating for the purpose of prostitution, mischief and solicitation. One of the three was also charged under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, Resisting Arrest and breach of probation. A total of eight criminal charges were laid during the sweep.

Police conduct such sweeps in response to community complaints as one of their strategies to combat prostitution related issues.

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Funeral procession plans look to address safety concerns Jennifer McIntosh

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News - As life changes, so does the business of dealing with its end, said Kelly Funeral Home general manager John Laframboise.

“It used to be in the country or small towns people would pull over for a funeral procession,” he said. “But now it’s harder to recognize.”

Daytime running lights on every car – instead of only on cars linked headed to a cemetery – and the lack of a hearse make it difficult to pick out a procession amid the daily commute.

Corrine Lavictoire, president of Professional Processions, said a hearse used to be the most common visual cue of a cortege, but with more and more people opting for cremation instead of burial, there isn’t the need to have

the larger vehicle available for the casket.

“A lead car is typically a sedan,” Laframboise said, adding police escorts to help mourners get to their destination have become an unaffordable expense for most people.

Enter the Professional Procession emblem.

The markers, made to look like banners or flags on the front hood or side-view mirrors of the procession cars, have a white cross with the word funeral superimposed over a purple background.

Lavictoire said the idea came from a funeral home that had come to her with a problem.

“They were having trouble even getting out of their own parking lot,” she said. “So we sat down and brainstormed.”

Laframboise said that a few years ago there was a campaign to have a flashing purple light – similar to ones used by snowplows – sit on top of the lead car in a procession.

“It wasn’t well publicized though and never really went

anywhere,” he said.

Lavictoire said with society moving at such a fast pace, we lose some of the tradition and ceremony that once went with a funeral.

“I think it’s important to validate life,” she said. “And making the procession recognizable allows drivers to pause and give quiet respect.”

A crash in Chicago this August, where one person was killed and seven people hospitalized while in a procession, highlighted the need for safety measures.

“Too often the public can’t recognize a funeral procession, causing difficulties in keeping the line together and potentially causing accidents,” Laframboise said.

The launch of the Ottawa partnership between Professional Processions and Kelly Funeral Homes in early October was the first of its kind.

“When people are mourning and planning the services, the last thing they need to worry about is how they are going to get from point A to point B,” Lavictoire said.

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Bake table had several purposes in Depression-era kitchen

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ven at a young age, I was aware of the sameness of all the farm kitchens in Northcote.

There was always a creton couch, although the shapes varied. Some had one end curved upwards, so a pillow wasn’t needed to rest your head; our couch lay flat and there wasn’t really a mattress on it. Instead, it had several layers of quilts that protected you from the coil springs. This couch was where the farmer put his weary head after his noon dinner for a few minutes rest before he headed back out to the fields or the barns.

Every kitchen had a cook stove.

Some people just called it simply the range, but Mother called our big lumbering iron stove the Oval.

The other constant in a farm

MARY COOK Memories kitchen was the bake table. This differed greatly from the big pine table that stretched out to sit at least 12 people when necessary. The bake table was much smaller.

Longer than it was wide, it had a small drawer at one end. Ours had a white porcelain top and it stood several inches taller than the big table we ate our meals at every day.

Why it was called the bake table, I have no idea, because Mother never once baked on it. Perhaps it was because this is where pies were set to

cool off and freshly made loaves of bread waited to be wrapped in splitopen brown paper bags saved from orders from Briscoe’s General Store.

The little drawer, much longer than it was wide, held our supply of flour bag tea towels, neatly folded and ironed, of course.

The bake table sat close to the back door, but unless there were pies and freshly baked bread spread out on it, Mother liked to keep it bare.

Heaven forbid that you should put a wet mitt, a school bag or anything else that would leave a spot on the shiny white porcelain.

Mother kept the bake table spotlessly clean and when company was expected it was wiped with a wet dish cloth whether it needed it or not. Then a little white square table cloth was put on it and -- if one had survived the sea-

son -- a bright red geranium plunked down in the middle.

The bake table had another use too: when company overflowed and the old pine table couldn’t hold another soul and extra seating was needed, the bake table was put to use.

It was moved out from the wall and this is where the youngest of us ate our meal, well away from the kitchen table and the company.

The little table could only seat four people, one at each end and one on each side.

I didn’t much care for eating at the bake table. It removed me from the joyous activity surrounding the big table, but as well, because the bake table was so much higher, we had to take pillows off the beds to sit on or else our chins would be in our dinner plates.

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My cousin Ronny loved to eat at the bake table. Then he didn’t have to watch his table manners and it wasn’t unusual for him to take off his plate anything he didn’t like and put it in his pants’ pocket and dispose of it after the meal.

The kitchen was the biggest room in our old log house, but there was no built in cupboards. Dishes were kept in the back-to-the-wall cupboard and pots and pans either sat on top of the warming closet of the Findlay Oval or stored in it.

The bake table was the perfect place, when we hosted the Saturday night house party, for the eleven quart baskets of sandwiches and the slab cakes brought in by the neighbours for the late-night lunch. When you walked by you could smell the egg salad sandwiches and the maple icing on the slab cakes.

Mother loved the bake table. I think now it was because it had a porcelain top and wasn’t made of pine like most of the furniture in that old log house. Mother liked any piece of furniture that wasn’t made of pine. She once said pine rhymed with poverty. I was too young to know the meaning behind the comment.

Sometimes Mother sat at the bake table. She would put her sewing basket on it and do some mending or she would spread out the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was considered her table and all of us, including Father, knew better than to put as much as a pencil on it.

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Spice up Halloween with colourful pumpkin cupcakes Lifestyle - These spicy morsels will be the hit of your Halloween party. To save time, use purchased frosting in place of homemade. You’ll find everything you need such as candies and sprinkles at your local bulk food store, to make “spook-tacular” decorated cupcakes. Preparation time: 30 minutes. Baking time: 30 minutes. Decorating time: 30 minutes. Serves 12.

Ingredients

• 50 ml (1/4 cup ml) butter, softened • 150 ml (2/3 cup) granulated sugar • 1 egg • 150 ml (2/3 cup) pumpkin puree • 50 ml (1/4 cup) milk • 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla • 300 ml (1-1/4 cups) all-purpose flour • 5 ml (1 tsp) baking powder • 5 ml (1 tsp) cinnamon

• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) baking soda • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) ground ginger • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) nutmeg • 1 ml (1/4 tsp) ground cloves • 1 ml (1/4 tsp) salt • decorator frosting (see recipe) Preparation

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Sports - Kayla Maduk said she’s Steven LeGrow’s MiniMe. Sports - From repeated wins in the same taekwondo event, to the same weight class, style and joint roster spots at the world championship this week, it’s evident where she learned to compete in taekwondo.

LeGrow, 35, is the Canadian captain of the men’s team, currently in Benidorn, Spain, for the world championship competition.

Maduk, 17, has been training with him since 2007, though she started training at the age of three, joining her older brother and father at a west-end studio. She moved to a Blackburn Hamlet centre when she set her goals on world championships as a pre-teen.

And it worked – they both qualified for the 2011 world championship in New Zealand, where she won a world title in her second-degree black belt weight class for junior women in patterns, and a silver medal in sparring.

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Kayla Maduk practises a kick during a training session at Team Blackburn Martial Arts and Fitness centre with instructor, coach and fellow national team member Steven LeGrow.

Both are competing this week in Spain at the world championships for taekwondo.

LeGrow was retired from the sport when he opened the Team Blackburn centre in 2001, but he came out of retirement in 2008, shortly after Maduk joined him and set her sights on a world title.

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martial artists closer in age to Maduk, who is in her last year as a junior.

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At 18, competitors move into the senior age group, but have to stay in the thirddegree black belt level – the level Maduk is in right now.

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have to be at least 21. LeGrow competes in the sixth-degree black belt, the highest division at the world championship level.

Maduk is moving up into the third-degree black belt level at this world championship, a step higher than the title she’s defending from 2011.

“I still have the heart of a world champion,” she said.

“I just need to take someone else’s title.”

With world championships every other year, this is the second time LeGrow and Maduk have travelled to the competition together. They also travel together with other students to study under different coaches from around the world.

As the centre’s owner, and an instructor, LeGrow spends almost all his time at the small gym, training as he coaches.

Maduk makes her way over after school in Barrhaven as often as six days a week.

Training together so much means it’s easy for the two of them to quickly jump into a sequence of moves – called a pattern – and perform it perfectly in sync.

The patterns event – a choreographed set of moves for each belt level - is both of their strengths, and the event Maduk is reining world champion in.

It’s a good sign for the coach and student to have such similar styles, LeGrow said. “If you look at a good instructor-student relationship, the patterns will be similar.”

“They call me his Mini-Me,” Maduk said, adding that the two are the only Canadians who have qualified for all five events as this week’s championship kicks off.

They both have calm personalities and cringe when thinking about hurting someone during a competition.

They both want to compete, “but do it with class,” Maduk said.

Neither will have to miss each other’s competitions this world championship, because the junior and senior events are on different days. Still, Maduk should be able to go onto the mat without needing last-minute help from her coach, LeGrow said.

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Sports - The Ottawa Fury FC will move into a temporary home as players await the major rebuild of Lansdowne Park to be completed.

Carleton University will host the team’s spring 2014 North American Soccer League games at Keith Harris Stadium, just off Bronson Avenue.

The 10-game spring season runs from April 5 to June 7 – at Carleton – before the league

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QUALIFICATIONS: MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/MUST HAVE: Current registration with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP), Licensure in Part A PharmD, Masters in Pharmacy, Pharmacy Residency (ACPR) preferred Relevant Experience: Recent hospital pharmacy experience is preferred.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: We are looking for an innovative and resourceful cyclotron scientist to join our development team. This role will assume significant responsibilities for project planning, design, commissioning and operation of new accelerator systems.

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SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS: t The preferred candidate will have an Advanced Degree in physics or engineering with cyclotron specific work experience t Special training in accelerator beam dynamics and/or pulsed radio frequency techniques specific to cyclotron applications is required. t Demonstrated experience in Accelerator applications Proposal development.. t Computer programming and/or modeling experience in cyclotron disciplines. t Demonstrated experience in managing a group in a commercial setting. t Skilled at the precision assembly/disassembly and validation of cyclotron equipment t Skilled at making detailed observations, making an hypothesis and then testing that thesis t Proactive, self motivated, results focused t Attention to details and capable of working with high level concepts t Ability to work effectively in a team environment t Excellent written and communication skills required t Will be required to travel to manufacturing facility in Ottawa and customer sites t Flexible and comfortable at working under time constraints t Fluent in different languages regarding international business, preferably Italian and French

Best Theratronics Ltd. offers a competitive salary and benefits package, an opportunity for career development and a casual work environment All applicants should apply in writing with a cover letter and resume to Human Resources: Email: jobs@theratronics.ca or Fax #: (613) 591-2176 NOTE: Only successful candidates shall be contacted for interviews.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: ottawawest@metroland.com

Oct. 24

The Ottawa Independent Writers will feature a lecture at its Oct. 24 on the theme of “Do authors need a literary agent? Experienced agent Carly Watters will discuss using an agent to land a publishing contract.

Guests can attend for a fee of $10.

The meeting takes place at 7 p.m. at the Good Companions Centre, 670 Albert St. For more information, call 613-425-3873 or visit oiw.ca.

Oct. 25

The Curvy Girls Scoliosis Support Group of Ottawa is for pre-teen and teenage girls dealing with scoliosis.

The group’s next meeting will be held on Oct. 25. Come join the fun as the Curvy Girls stir up some Halloween fun -- new members and parents welcome. Through monthly meetings, discussion forums and fun events, the girls share their stories, build friendships and learn that they are not alone in their scoliosis journey. Contact us at curvygirlsottawa@gmail.com or 613-233-7182.

Oct. 26

The Friends of the Farm is holding a used book drop-off for our Used book sale fundraiser to be held in June. No magazines, encyclopaedias, or text books please. The drop-off will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Building 72 at the Central Experimental Farm arboretum, located east off the Prince of Wales Drive roundabout.

For more information, call 613230-3276 or email info@friendsofthefarm.ca.

St. Matthias Church is holding its Fall Flea Market on Oct. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The event, taking place at 555 Parkdale Ave. will feature houshold articles, toys, jewelry, collectibles, books and good used clothing. For more information, call 613-728-3996.

Oct. 27

All are invited to join Britannia United Church’s 140th Anniversary celebration on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 10:15 a.m. Sunday services on Oct. 13 and 20 will reflect the themes for the special anniversary morning service on Oct. 27. Following the anniversary service, attendees are invited to watch a presentation highlighting Britannia’s church history.

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Woodroffe United Church’s fall bazaar will take place at 207 Woodroffe Ave. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Items available include china, books, bake table, silent auction, toys, flea market, jewelry, used

furniture and much more. For more information, please contact the church at 613-722-9250.

Oct. 28

all donated by local businesses, individuals and celebrities. The centre provides an after-four homework club for grade 7-12 students, an English as a Second Language Program, an emergency food bank, as well as a day program and various support services for seniors. Tickets for the event are $50 and can be purchased online at caldwellfamilycentre.ca, at the Caldwell Family Centre, Unit 20, 1100 Medford St. or by calling 613-728-9292.

A free information session about dyslexia hosted by Susan Barton will take place on Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. at the Travelodge Hotel on Carling Avenue. Dyslexia affects approximately 15 per cent of our population, but only five per cent are correctly diagnosed, leading to children falling behind in school.

These often bright children end up with low self esteem and never get to realize their true potential. Space is limited, so please reserve your free seat online at opendoored-es2. eventbrite.com.

Oct. 29

Nov. 1

A lecture presenting an analysis and critique of the new militarism in Canada and the decline of the peacekeeping tradition, “War, Memory and Reaction: Reshaping History in Harper’s Canada,” will be presented

by Ian McKay at 7:30 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church at 30 Cleary Ave. A question-and-answer session and refreshments will follow the lecture. Admission and parking are free. For more information, call 613-725-1066.

The Caldwell Family Centre will be hosting the charity auction and buffet dinner the Harvest of Hope, catered by Dave Smith, at the Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 29. The evening will include food, fun and music with door prizes and auction items,

The seventh annual Hintonburg Diwali Festival at will take place on Nov. 1 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Plant Recreation Centre, located at 930 Somerset St. W. The event will feature Bollywood dancing, Pooja, lighting of lights. Admission is free and Indian refreshments will be provided by Indian Express. Donations to Plant Pool Recreation Association for children & youth programming are appreciated. For information, contact Cheryl at 613-728-7582.

Nov. 2

The Friends of the Farm is hosting a craft and bake featuring an incredible selection of items to choose from, and don’t forget to pick up some delicious baked goods. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Building 72 at the Central Experimental Farm arboretum, located east off the Prince of Wales Drive

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roundabout. For more information, call 613-230-3276 or email info@ friendsofthefarm.ca.

Parkdale United Church is holding its Yuletide Bazaar on Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 429 Parkdale Ave. The event will feature baked goods, linens, jewelry, crafts and a silent auction. For more information, call 613-728-8656.

First Baptist Church, located at the corner of Laurier Avenue and Elgin Street, will host its annual Christmas bazaar on Nov. 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pick up some inexpensive gifts, delicious preserves, or mouth-watering Christmas treats. Browse our ever-popular jewelry table, choose from an array of crafts, toys and collectibles or pick up a great potted plant. For information, call 613-2343261 or visit firstbaptistottawa.ca.

Nov. 7-10

Looking for an inexpensive, family-friendly theatre experience? This November, the Lakeside Player will be performing the classic tale of Snow White in traditional British panto style. This means no sitting on your hands: the audience gets to cheer the good guys and boo the bad guys. Purchase tickets ($7 for kids, $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors) online at lakesideplayers.com. The musical comedy runs from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10.

Nov. 15

St. Martin’s Parish Hall will be the scene of an exciting book launch for author Guy Thatcher on in support of Hospice Care Ottawa on Nov. 15. The event gets underway at 7:30 p.m. at 2120 Prince Charles Rd. near Carlingwood Shopping Centre. The new book, A Journey of Days Continues, recounts the author’s second modern pilgrimage across France on Le Chemin St-Jacques, crossing the Pyrenees and joining the famed Camino de Santiago. Donations at the event will go to Hospice Care Ottawa. For information contact Marilyn Collins at 613-820-9084.

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50. The cry made by sheep 53. Handheld image enlarger 57. Inventiveness 58. Column style 59. Impudence 60. 33 1/3 records 61. Berkeley’s sister city CLUES DOWN 1. Lymph node plague swelling 2. Freshwater duck genus 3. Dog attacks 4. Eilat Airport 5. Visualize 6. A young pig 7. Wyatt __, OK Corral 8. Point one point S of due E 9. Those who give freely 10. Small slice of meat, especially veal 11. Dislike intensely 12. Egyptian sun God 13. Animal lair 16. Dutch flowers 18. A Greek harp 22. O. Twist’s author’s initials 23. Periods of time 24. __ Claus

25. Actress Lupino 27. Green regions of desert 28. Any competition 29. Salem, MA, teachers college 30. Container for display 31. Ink writing implement 33. Hogshead (abbr.)

35. As much as one can eat 36. Puts in a horizontal position 37. Cotangent (abbr.)

39. Vitamin H 42. Book hinges 43. Voiced musical sounds 44. In the year of Our Lord 46. Japanese entertainment firm 47. Comedian Carvey 48. Bird reproductive bodies 49. Rests on a chair 50. River border 51. Largest continent 52. Plural of ascus 53. Prefix for ill 54. Small bark 55. Geographic Information System 56. Mauna __, Hawaiian volcano

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20

Aries, it’s important to know that someone close to you supports you no matter what. Don’t let self-doubt overwhelm you. Others support you for a reason.

Set your long-term goals and work hard to make them a reality, Taurus. Goals can help you stay on track and provide much-needed motivation when you hit rough patches.

Gemini, even though you may not be getting all of the recognition you hoped at work, others are paying attention to your accomplishments. Just be a little patient.

Romance could be heading in your direction, Cancer. If you are in a relationship, then that relationship might grow even stronger. Plan a romantic getaway soon.

Leo, you may want to keep some thoughts to yourself this week.

Others may not be fond of you rocking the boat at this time, so let things settle down.

Surround yourself with people who can make you feel good and provide lots of support, Virgo. This week you may need all of the encouragement you can get.

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CLUES ACROSS 1. 1st, 2nd & 3rd in baseball 6. Sew up a hawk’s eyes 10. N’Djamena is the capital 14. Be a connector 15. To accustom 17. Cornflower 19. Former CIA 20. Bark sharply 21. Actress Barkin 22. Cathode-ray tube 23. Shallowest Great Lake 24. Surface of a plane figure 26. Bird of prey 29. A large number 31. Chums 32. Express pleasure 34. Capital of Yemen 35. Sanctify 37. Hyperbolic cosecant 38. Central Standard Time 39. Seed of the legume family 40. Drove in golf 41. Without difficulty 43. Without (French) 45. Politicians (informal) 46. Not happy 47. Spiritual being 49. Male child

Expect a self-esteem boost when you begin to feel better about all of your options, Libra. Although you may not be in love with all of the possibilities, many are very appealing.

Scorpio, you have an uncanny sense of imagination and your creativity will be running strong this week. Share some of your ideas with a trusted friend or family member.

There are many cosmic energies working in your corner, Sagittarius.

You just need to be in tune with the changes that are happening all around you.

Capricorn, anticipate some confusion regarding your social life this week. This can grow into a stressful situation if you let it. Instead, keep a level head and trust that things will work out.

Aquarius, career concerns dominate your thoughts these next few days, but you have other things on your mind as well. Devote ample time to all of your concerns.

Pisces, exotic thoughts creep into your head, but you have some mundane chores that need tending to as well.

This weeks puzzle answers in next weeks issue

Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes.

To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

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