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In 1867, the Roderick Stewart farm (located at what is now Julian Avenue) was known for its popular shooting range. The stone house was built in 1832 and demolished in 1961. It’s pictured here in 1920.

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Who lives here: The bone yard

Our series continues with a look at one of the most educational front yards in the neighbourhood

Story and photo by Shaun Markey

WHO LIVES HERE? Which Kitchissippi-area home are you most curious about? It could be an old home, a new one, a big one, or a small one.

Send an address and a photo to editor@kitchissippi.com and we’ll do the rest bony hand. Children are encouraged, via little signs that Debbie has placed in the display, to open the jars and inspect the contents. One mini display in a bottle shows exactly what happens to a mouse when it decides to nibble on an electrical wire. He or she certainly paid the ultimate price to see what plastic wire tastes like. Now that’s a snack with a jolt!

Debbie puts the garden and display to bed in the winter but in the spring she brings out the skeletons, bones and fossils with their labels and jars and begins again. One elementary class from Broadview Public School shows up almost every week, clipboards in hands, to study this front yard skeletal extravaganza.

She recalls a time when a little girl came to her door with her grandmother to ask if she could borrow the skull of a squirrel for a class project.

Westboro’s Debbie Lawes has a museum-worthy collection of shells, bones, skulls, and other natural wonders on display on her front lawn at 577 Dovercourt Ave. For extra photos, see the web version of this article at kitchissippi.com.

Debbie dutifully turned over the skull.

A few days later the skull was returned with a nice thank you note from the little girl.

Debbie says that while many adults are repulsed by the sight of animal skulls and bones, children are not.

They are fascinated by the displays

and she’s convinced it’s a good thing.

“It’s nice to remind children that you don’t have to leave the neighbourhood to learn about wildlife,” says Debbie.

Furthermore, she adds, her displays prompt children to be observant of the natural world in an all too often, as she describes it, “device-addicted society.”

When asked why she would pick up the bones of long deceased animals she has a quick reply: “Why wouldn’t you? They’re perfectly good skulls!”

As a journalism graduate and a science writer by profession, Debbie comes by her interest in the natural world and wildlife honestly. She notes her daily ritual of walking Bailey, her 11-year-old black Labrador /Border Collie mix, as the source for many of her finds for the display.

Debbie acknowledges a life-long interest in wildlife, an interest which led to her participation as a Director of the Ottawa Carleton Wildlife Centre for 20 years and recent appointment as chair of the Ottawa Valley Wildlife Centre on Moodie Drive. When she stepped down as Chair of the Bird Care Centre, the parting gift she received, naturally enough, was a very nice raccoon skull.

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Who Lives Here is a mini series that takes a closer look at some local homes and the people who live there.

When Debbie Lawes’ son-in-law successfully built a new terraced front garden for her home at 577 Dovercourt Ave., little did she know that it would mark the beginning of a unique outdoor educational initiative that continues to enthrall elementary school age children throughout the neighbourhood.

It started innocently enough when Debbie decided to decorate the new tiered garden with some seashells and a few 350-million-year-old fossils from Blue Beach on the Bay of Fundy.

Since the first two tiers of the garden, which stretch across the front of her property, are at eye level of younger pedestrians, they were quick to take notice of the attractive shells.

But the local kids really started to pay attention when Debbie added the skulls and bones of various species of small animals to the garden display – complete with labeled descriptions.

On some days, it is not unusual to see large groups of children stopped on the sidewalk staring intently at the various animal bones on display. The collection includes duck skulls, a rabbit skull, and a squirrel skull and its

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The Kitchissippi Times has learned that Catherine Landry of ‘Call Betty!!

Events’ has been hired to produce the two day summer festival celebrating all things local. A follow-up event is planned for September.

“There will be street closure. There will be performances, live urban art installations, pop-ups, loads of things for the kids, diversity – all kind of things going on,” says Catherine.

With only two months to go, she has been busy engaging business owners and “moving at the speed of light.”

“Bringing community and local business together – and fusing them.

That’s the heart of the festival,” she says.

As reported earlier this year, last year’s event was an underwhelming replacement for Westfest and resulted in a financial deficit, causing the Westboro BIA to go back to the drawing board. Business owners were also split on the benefits they saw.

Earlier this year, Board Chair Dr. Dan Hwang had said Fuse would be

split into multiple events over the summer but after careful consideration, the Fuse taskforce, headed up

by Sheba Schmidt, decided on a weekend event late in the season. “It’s going to be amazing. We’re very excited now,” says Sheba.

Although details of the two day festival will be revealed next month, plans are already underway. The Piggy Market is planning a daytime pop-up farmer’s market so that festival-goers can meet farmers and growers. In the evening there will be a “charcuterie and chardonnay” artisanal food tasting under the Winston Chandelier.

Continued from page 2 pened to her at 9 or 10 years of age: “There was a robin that fell into the creek and everyone voted that I should be one to go in and get it. We formed a human chain and I was the person at the end that saved the robin. It’s a wonderful feeling to help wildlife.”

Some may think Debbie’s front yard terraces appear to be reaching their limit of display material. Not so, she says firmly. Friends and neighbours stop by routinely with more bones and skulls, all of which she happily accepts and prepares for display. She points enthusiastically to the entire skeleton of a cat – found at the

base of the Carlington ski hill – that is almost ready to be included in the display.

At Halloween, Debbie’s display does double duty. “I take a bunch of the skulls and put them in a big pot with a spoon. We shine a light on it.

It’s my witches brew!” She estimates that over 200 children get a big kick out of this special exhibit.

Despite all the interesting and cool things in Debbie’s display, very little has gone missing. “We’ve lost a couple of skulls but that’s it. Everyone is respectful.”

When not working on the display

and the garden, Debbie and her husband, Mark Henderson, also a professional writer, are busy with numerous writing assignments. Her extended family includes three stepdaughters all of whom live in the Ottawa area.

Always mindful of what’s going on in the community, Debbie was quick to notice the recent controversy over the NCC’s proposal to construct a parking lot from their maintenance yard adjacent to the Ottawa River Parkway in the west end. Debbie wonders aloud if the neighbours might be more inclined to accept a bird sanctuary. As she points out, the

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There is even talk of a pig roast. And Holy Hot Yoga! at All Saints Church will donate proceeds to the Cornerstone housing project.

Catherine is particularly excited about Second Floor Superstars – an opportunity to meet and greet Westboro business owners who aren’t at street level.

As for the September event, Sheba says there was a desire to have a separate event focused on fashion. For now, the big job is in the hands of the retailers to come up with innovative ideas to showcase their business and goods.

Fuse is aimed at Westboro residents but is also designed to entice visitors to eat, shop and play. “I got involved because of my passion for local,”says Catherine. “We hear people complaining about Ottawa. People need to realize we’ve got it really good here.”

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“I am one of those rare Kitchissippi residents who was born in Westboro and grew up spending summers at Westboro Beach. Now I take my grandkids there year round.

Westboro Beach is a beautiful place and certainly has changed a great deal since I moved in more than 40 years ago. I have served on our community association since it was founded in the early 1990’s to fight the expansion of the Champlain Bridge. Along with work in areas such as

zoning, LRT, traffic, and being treasurer, I get to work with the amazing Groomer Dave Adams on the SJAM Winter Trail. Imagine having such a trail at your front door!

“My latest project is to encourage people to start a Monarch butterfly sanctuary garden in their own yards by growing milkweed and bright flowers. These butterflies really need our help if they are to survive. Happily, the NCC has now become a

supportive partner in our initiative to make us a unique riverside community. Over the past several decades, I have been involved in a lot of volunteer activities from taking water samples to checking on the health of the Ottawa River, to serving on several local and national boards. It may have been a lot of hard work, but it also is a lot of fun. You meet the most wonderful people when you are working together on a good cause.”

Humans of Kitchissippi is a special street photography project designed to introduce readers to some of the people who live, work, and play in Kitchissippi. Each instalment of HOK contains three elements: a photo, a name, and a quote from the subject that reveals a little bit about who they are. Go to kitchissippi.com to view our ongoing collection of humans.

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Are we protesters? We didn’t start out that way and I wonder what have we come to when encouraging lawful behaviour is seen as a gesture of protest. To be clear, we put a sign on our lawn to encourage people to observe one of the fundamental rules of the road. We were not trying to shake the established order. It seemed more like a reminder, an “excuse me you are stepping on my foot would you mind ceasing” kind of gesture.

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Good communities pull together. This is about more than cheering for the Senators, Red Blacks or Fury. The deeper sinews of community are expressed by jointly made decisions and agreements to be bound by common rules. As any local community organizer will tell you, this is not always easy. It requires tolerance to make communities work; respectful treatment of differences and an agreement that even if the rules never fully suit our every wish and whim, we agree to be bound by them for the greater good. This is what enables a community to thrive.

It is one of our many fortunate inheritances as members of the Ottawa community that we don’t normally need to really think about what it takes to enable a community to thrive. We don’t normally need to think about what builds it up and what insidiously can tear it down. Recently, I came across a surprising limit to the bounds of our community in my own Kitchissippi neighbourhood of the Civic Hospital.

My wife and I and our three children live at the entrance to Reid Park

by Sherwood Drive. We have become increasingly worried by the flagrant disregard for the stop signs at the corner. Lots of kids and dog walkers use this corner to get to Reid Park. A growing number of cars use Sherwood to get to Parkdale or Carling Avenue. Unless there is respect on both sides, the results could be catastrophic.

After watching drivers – some of whom don’t even slow down at the corner – we were inspired to pick up some of the City of Ottawa, Safer Roads Ottawa signs that encourage drivers to observe the rules of the road. Ours said: Please stop for kids. This seemed to us to be a reasonable attempt to try and encourage lawabiding behaviour. Can’t we all just get along? It seems not.

Within a week, our signs had been stolen four times. We had assumed this was probably teenagers acting out some adolescent energy or possibly some copy cats trying to get their own signs the easy way. These turned out to be incorrect guesses. A week ago my wife saw someone in the midst of stealing our sign. She was surprised to see two adults depositing the sign in their car and driving off. What happened next surprised us even more. I was looking at the scene of the crime the next morning when I came across what I thought was a piece of garbage on our lawn. It was a message (in all caps) from the thieves: TO OUR DEAREST PLASTIC PLACARD PROTESTOR (sic) WE FIND YOUR NONBIODEGRADABLE SIGN POLLUTION OFFENSIVE TO OUR

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A special walking tour of Kitchissippi But first, let’s dial that time machine back 150 years

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Have you ever wondered what Kitchissippi would look like if we could go back in time? What would we see? What would be familiar?

1867 marked the unification of the Dominion of Canada, but it also marked the start of the neighbourhood’s transition from being purely rural. Soon trains would arrive, farms would become subdivisions, and industrialization would hasten changes in manufacturing, consumption, work and the urban landscape.

This special edition of “Early Days” will take you back to 1867 and bring to life our neighbourhood at that time; the people, the buildings, the way of life.

Life in 1867

Take a tour through Kitchissippi, as a time traveller

Let’s climb into our time machine and set the dial back 150 years. Before we arrive, do note that modern day street names and reference points have been added to the following text in [square brackets] so we can better situate ourselves in today’s landscape.

Let’s begin at Woodroffe Avenue, circa 1867. Take a good look around.

There is not a single house on the south side of Richmond Road all the way to Churchill. In fact, it’s just miles of farmland, fences and the occasional barn or outbuilding. At this point in time, homes are built on the north side of Richmond, closer to the river.

The first dwelling you’ll see is a 1.5-storey log home on Richmond Road owned by the Thomson family

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There were less than 50 houses in all of Kitchissippi and the population numbered about 220. (To compare, the Kitchissippi of 2017 has 21,000 households and a population of 44,000!) The entire ward was in Nepean Township, still relatively new itself (the first settlers having arrived

in 1811). Most residents emigrated from Ireland, Scotland or England and the vast majority of them farmed. A rare few ‘commuting’ Ottawans built here for the tranquility. Farm properties were long, thin parcels of land that typically stretched from the Ottawa River to Carling Avenue, but were only about five modern city blocks wide.

There was only one road that cut through Kitchissippi – Richmond Road – and it was the lifeline to civilization. It had been macadamized in 1853 with compacted crushed stone, and operated as a toll road from Parkdale to Bells Corners. Only three other official roads existed, all running off Richmond: sideline roads at Woodroffe, Churchill and Parkdale.

There were no trains through the area. The first would arrive in 1870.

Everyone travelled by horse or by foot. There were no merchants or industry. Electricity, telephone, water service (except for wells) and sewer were still many years off. The settlement didn’t even have a doctor close by.

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the river. Traces of the original paths of the Algonquins and the original Richmond Road are visible but the land east of Churchill is used for hunting and stockyards.

Back up to Richmond Road is the stone “Syringa Cottage” on “Buffalo” John Heney’s property [Canadian Bank Note], across from the old stone “AylenHeney House” which will still be standing in 2017 [Kirkwood]. The Heney farm contains several other buildings including a small house that is set well back from the road [Wesley at Dawson].

Beyond this point, we reenter farmland owned by noteworthy pioneer families of Kitchissippi.

Hon. James Skead, who is three years away from opening a major steam saw mill at the beach, ultimately creating Westboro, has been investing in Kitchissippi land since 1859. In 1867, Skead owns nearly 300 acres. A small house on his property [Hilson] is rented to tenants.

Next is “The Elms,” or as it will later be known, The Convent.

Built about six years before, a visitor to 1867 would learn former Buckingham lumberman George W. Eaton, occupies it with his family of 14! Across Richmond is the “Manor House” [Mailes and Patricia], which will find a new owner as the calendar turns to 1868: Captain Daniel Keyworth Cowley.

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1867 will end on a sad note when William Thomson passes away on December 27 at the age of 76.

Next in succession we see another small Thomson house; a grand villa, newly built by the Surveyor of Customs in Ottawa, Major Archibald Douglas [Dominion Avenue]; the home of carpenter Robert Mather; the twoyear-old All Saints Church, built in the middle of the wilderness to serve the farms of Nepean; and finally, the new brick schoolhouse for ‘School Section 2’ [corner of Richmond and Churchill where Gezellig is located] built the year before to replace the original, and rustic, 1851 school. The School Master is Robert Whillans.

Crossing Churchill, the Birch family log home, “The Ovens,” can be seen on the right. It’s the first house on the south side of Richmond [between Eden and Edgewood Avenues].

The Birch family are pioneers dating back to 1838.

Moving eastward, we come to a more developed area. Robert Hardy constructed a small home where the School Master (or Mistress) would live [Otto’s]. Just next to it is the house and shop of Scottish blacksmith, William Archibald. Well behind it is a modest house [the recently closed location of Trailhead at McRae] on a five acre plot of land farmed by 65-year old John Sharp. Set even further back is a grand two storey frame house [Metropole] belonging to Ottawa architect Thomas Fuller, who, the year before in 1866, completed his most famous project, Ottawa’s Parliament buildings. A smaller house can be seen towards the river [Remic at Premier] on a large parcel of land owned by Charles Pinhey, son of Pinhey’s Point founder, Hamnett Pinhey.

There is hardly a house north of future Scott Street.

Interestingly, there is little development along

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[at Lockhart Avenue], but a bit closer to the water is the property of Nicholas Barrie, who also owns the popular two storey log inn and tavern on Richmond Road [the Lord Richmond Apartments].

Barrie’s tavern, run by Irishman Thomas Kennedy, is not designed for tourists, but for travelling farmers and area labourers, but maybe if you’re really thirsty (and don’t stand out too much in your modern day clothing) they’ll serve you a pint and let you wet your whistle.

Let’s keep walking east. We see two farms, belonging to brothers Mason and Leonard Hyde. Both have log houses, though Mason’s is far larger and also functions as an inn.

Leonard’s farm will be the site of a notable event in August 1868, when the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Canada Central Railway will be held at the rear of his farm [Courtney Avenue if it ran north to the river].

We then come upon the first familiar sight, as least to the modern time traveller because it still stands: the “McKellar-Bingham” house [located at the foot of Windermere Avenue]. Constructed by John Thomson around 1840, Kitchissippi residents of 1867 will tell you the farm is maintained by his nephew Willam Aylen; a massive 450-acre operation with 35 cows, 80 sheep, eight pigs and four horses. He had sold the farm the year before to Andrew Pritchard, but was allowed to continue to use the land. Pritchard will later sell to Archibald McKellar in 1873.

A little further is the Thomson family’s home, called Maplelawn. [It’s still called Maplelawn in 2017, and it’s the location of Keg Manor.] It was built in 1831, but since we’re dropping by in 1867, we find 13 people living there, and no steakhouse. At this time, the Thomson family own 40 cows and 14 horses, but are suffering financially and have the property up for sale.

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Continued from page 7 its popular shooting range. Their amazing stone house, built in 1832, will be tragically and senselessly demolished in 1961 [Julian Avenue]. Well south of Richmond Road is thickly wooded forest [past Iona]. The land by the river in this area has been owned by recently deceased Ruggles Wright, son of Philemon Wright, the founder of Hull. In 1867, one small house stands here, occupied by widow Anastasia Britt [Northwestern].

The framed Hinton farmhouse [Holland at Byron] is home to Robert Hinton and his family.

Robert’s father Joseph relocated from Richmond in 1867 and will make significant contributions to the growing community, helping establish the post office and grammar school, and donating land for the Nepean Town Hall. In 1879, the village will be named Hintonburg in his honour.

At the river’s edge is the old 1840s Nicholas Sparks mill [north end of Parkdale], which, in 1867 has been long closed though some of its buildings and worker houses still stand [Parkway off-ramp].

This area largely consists of cultivated fields.

At Parkdale Avenue is the eastern tollhouse for Richmond Road, operated 24/7 by James Fenton.

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These tolls pay for the maintenance of Richmond Road.

Moving east, the Richmond Road of 1867 gets busy again. In immediate succession on the south side is John Anderson’s relatively new, brick “Farmer’s Hotel,” Richard Bishop’s stone house (which will later become the home of village doctor, I. G. Smith), the white frame home of future Carleton County Judge William A. Ross [behind Grace Manor], and Sparks Street bookseller John Durie’s landmark home “The Lindens” [Melrose].

Further south from Richmond, in quiet isolation, are the stone houses of Scottish friends Robert Reid [Reid Park] and George Bayne [Fuller Street], who arrived from Scotland on the same boat in 1827. In 1867, Reid’s stone house is the only three storey home in all of Kitchissippi (and will survive until its tragic demolition in 2017).

On the north side of Richmond at Parkdale is the old square stone home of retired military man Donald Grant (for whom the street behind would later be named), another Grant-owned house, James Fitzgibbon’s frame house (which exists in 2017 as one section of the Holy Rosary Church), and finally the elderly Joseph McGaw’s “Cave

Creek Hotel” [Carruthers].

McGaw’s is more tavern than inn, due to its meager stabling facilities.

As a visitor in 1867, you’d quickly find out that travelling farmers care more for the proper housing of their horses than they do the quality of the food or rooms.

There is a series of creeks and caves in this area which will later be dynamited for fear of collapse.

A major cave running underneath the future Rosemount and Carruthers is a delight for children of the era. Beyond this point is only Judge Armstrong’s “Richmond Lodge,” [Garland] which still stands in 2017. East towards Ottawa is still sparsely developed, with open fields to the river. Mechanicsville won’t exist for another five years, but when the railway arrives this entire area will boom, commencing a new era of Kitchissippi history.

See the web version of this story at Kitchissippi.com for maps and photos.

Dave Allston is a local historian and the author of a blog called The Kitchissippi Museum (kitchissippimuseum.blogspot.ca). His family has lived in Kitchissippi for six generations. Do you have early memories of the area? We’d love to hear them! Send your email to stories@kitchissippi.com.

Civic Hospital neighbourhood sign vigilantes Continued from page 5 tutes standing up for what you believe in any more than a frat prank constitutes civil disobedience. If the vigilantes have a real problem with a stop sign or stop signs in general then a real protest would mean trying to publicly convince people of your point of view.

Should the police be involved? It’s not often that vigilantes call for a greater police presence, so this argument bears special consideration. Is this really how we as a society think our police should be deployed on a regular basis? Do we think of ourselves as a community that only follows rules when it is backed by force? My vote is no. Civil societies do not need the police to monitor all rule following. I would prefer to have our police focus on serious crime.

Is urban signage gaudy? The vigilantes’ impressive stream of adjectives would have us think so, but here they are either erratically inconsistent or protest too much. Their professed aesthetic sensitivity is hard to reconcile with the fact that within one block of the theft there were at least five other signs advertising everything from student painting and renovations to real estate for sale and sold signs. None of these signs appeared to attract their ire. It seems to me that it was not how the signs looked, it was what they said that was the problem. For the record with municipal, provincial and federal

elections all occurring over the next two and a half yars, our vigilantes might wish to bear in mind that it is a criminal offence to steal or deface a political lawn sign. Last election, Canadians were charged with mischief and stolen property for such behaviour.

Have we failed as parents? This is a sensitive point. No parent would lightly throw this accusation out, but, since it was raised it needs to be asked. The basics of streetproofing our kids entails teaching them to look both ways and use the cross-walk which, in turn, depends on drivers following the rules of the road, particularly (does it really need to be said?) stopping at stop signs. Street proofing kids also means street proofing drivers. It involves the whole community to keep an eye out, especially near schools and parks. To do otherwise, would be to raise our kids in fear. And speaking of not giving in to fear, we would like to teach our children not to be intimidated by bullies and vigilantes skulking in the shadows. That’s one reason why we will be getting more signs – lots of them. The other reason is that we still believe in our community and are willing to take a stand with it.

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walk, to ride our bikes, to take the bus or the train, to explore, to share. We want to pass our neighbours sometimes on foot, not just in the car. Indeed, we tend to prefer proximity, to our fellow denizens and services, to the spacious lots of the suburbs or the large homesteads of rural Ottawa. We want not to cocoon but to co-exist. We want more than a home; we desire a community.

The other major constant has been our natural northern border. It’s from here we found our name: the Algonquin people called it the Kitchissippi, meaning Great River. Yes, as Heraclitus points out, it changes every day. Cer-

tainly the river of the spring of 2017, rising to record levels and crashing onto the recreational paths, was fiercer and more imposing than that of any other year.

But like the people of Kitchissippi, the river has a constancy even as it fluctuates and evolves.

We don’t know exactly what the future will look like. But even as we evolve with our community, we can pause and appreciate what we have in each moment along the way. We are here for a reason. Some of us will arrive and depart, but many aren’t going anywhere. Kitchissippi is more than a neighbourhood or a river. It is all of us.

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Of course, Kitchissippi is not just one community but, to borrow a phrase from Joe Clark, the former prime minister and main character in a recent GCTC production, a community of communities. Our subsection of Ottawa is a large area with many different neighbourhoods.

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he Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that no man steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. It’s a bit of a paradoxical axiom and I’ve often wondered why the man would walk into the river in the first place, but despite its imperfections it has become a defining expression of the constancy of change.

If it’s true, it could be argued that no resident walks through the same neighbourhood twice. A community is constantly evolving and so are its people. Residents move in and out, facilities open and close and buildings are torn down and replaced by newer structures.

Indeed, anyone of us in Kitchissippi would be forgiven for concluding that if there’s been one constant in our borough over the past decade, it’s construction.

Ottawa is growing rapidly and is fulfilling ambitious plans for transit and bike-friendliness, so every part of the city has experienced roadwork and new development, but I doubt there’s another neighbourhood that has seen more growth and change than Kitchissippi.

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The End of an Era Local historian plans a move

By Dave Allston Wellington Village is a well established neighbourhood that was largely developed in two distinct spurts: the mid1920s after the land was first subdivided and offered for sale; and the early 1940s during the housing shortage after the depression had ended, and soldiers were returning from war. The neighbourhood has thankfully for the most part avoided gentrification and infill which has changed so many others.

Many families in Wellington Village have taken root here, and some can boast of multiple generations residing within its borders, in some cases within the same house.

The number of houses in Wellington Village that have been single-family owned are down to a rare few, and that number is about to be reduced by one.

Bruce Chapman is a fixture of Gilchrist Avenue, the son of Fred and Laura Chapman who had 38 Gilchrist built seventy-eight years ago, back in 1939.

Three months prior to their wedding, the couple hired young Western Avenuebased house-builder Wilfred J. Carriere to construct their family home.

Bruce came along a few years later in 1945, and 38 Gilchrist is the only house he has ever resided in. He knows the area and its anecdotal history better than perhaps anyone, and has a particularly impressive memory for dates.

Pulled in by the lure of the railway, Bruce spent his childhood years enamoured with the trains that travelled down Scott Street, on the old CPR tracks that ran where the Transitway runs today.

Bruce boasts that as early as age 2 he was able to hear distant trains approaching, and would race outside to catch a glimpse.

Later he began photographing them, and indeed has accumulated arguably the pinnacle collection of vintage Ottawa railthe Original

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Bruce turned his passion into employment, and after spending his school years at Elmdale, Connaught and Fisher Park, got a job in January 1965 out of the Ottawa West trainyards. His first role was as Train Order Operator, where he was responsible for verifying the arrivals and departures at Ottawa West, and issuing clearance passes. Later he had the opportunity to travel along the line, all the while taking photos and documenting history as it was unfolding. When the Ottawa West yard sadly closed in 1967, Bruce captured its final days.

Fifty years later another era ends when Bruce moves from Gilchrist Avenue. He notes that it is both difficult and a relief to go through a lifetime of items and downsize. Leaving the home you’ve resided in for 70 years can’t be easy. Highly respected in the local railway history circles, Bruce has found homes for a large portion of his items, but is of course keeping much of his amazing archive. As much as it will be an adjustment for Bruce to move, it won’t be easy for many of his neighbours to get used to it either.

An icon of the neighbourhood who won’t soon be forgotten.

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By Randy Kroeker Residents who use Armstrong Street to bypass Wellington West traffic may have noticed a new sign at the corner of Pinhey Street, a short block north of Morris Formal Wear. “Moving to 1280 Innis Road August 2017”, on the side of the Hubert Heating building. This peaked our curiosity in the virtual Newswest newsroom, and this investigative neighbourhood reporter was dispatched to look into it.

Hubert Heating has been located at 101 Pinhey Street since its founding in 1922 by Henry Hubert and other family partners, a full 94 years ago. In time, Henry’s kids Rob and Sandy welcomed long-time staff members Eddie Brinkie and Mary-Anne Charbonneau into the partnership before retiring.

Rob will soon complete selling his ownership share to the sole remaining living partner, Jodie Charbonneau, Mary-Anne’s daughter. Jodie recently met with Newswest for an interview.

Newswest : So how did you end up in this business?

I was a Hearth Brat, what we call kids who grow up in the business. I started hanging out in the store weekends and after school from the age of 12. Then there were the summer jobs. After graduation I worked a few other places as an admin for a home builder, in health care, and for a battery manufacturer.

My mom asked me to come back to Hubert to help out in the office. Over time, as partners and finally when my mom retired, I increasingly came downstairs to help with sales, took over more responsibility and eventually

ended up “The Last ‘Man’ Standing”.

Newswest: Who else is on your team?

We have General Manager Kim, a fellow Hearth Brat who grew up in the business; Rob who is Warehouse Manager; and we have a couple of excellent two-man installation crews led

by Tom who is Foreman. We plan to stick to our current size and continue to leverage new office technology going forward.

Newswest: Why are you moving?

The business is expanding and we have outgrown the space. Our territory is Ottawa-wide and 90% of our business is referral and multi-generational, so we can be anywhere in the city. Unlike other heating companies we remain specialized in residential heating of mostly Canadian and some European products. After a lot of research we ended up with Innis Road for our new location.

Newswest: Any unusual customer stories?

Last week a customer called up to say since 1952 he has been enjoying a morning coffee in front of the same wood stove we installed. Called just to tell us that. We sold wood-burning products before switching to mostly gas units in the 1980’s.

On behalf of Newswest and the hood, thank you to the Hubert Heating team for decades of service and best wishes for your new location.

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Living “Green”

Passive house makes an active statement

By Debra Huron In a neighbourhood where intensification and huge new builds are blighting the once tree-lined streets, Champlain Park residents Mike and Robin Peixoto have opted to build an ultra-green and smaller footprint home for their 4-person family.

In July, they expect to move into the first passive house in Champlain Park—and one of only a few in this city—with daughters Lauren, 13, and Izabel, 10.

Their home will be heated by the sun. It has no furnace, and at the moment, no solar panels. Mike, who teaches green architecture at Algonquin College and owns the architectural firm Arco-Verde, says that their large south-facing roof will eventually be fitted with panels. The garage roof might be, too.

“The reason it’s called a passive house is because it relies on solar energy for heat,” he explains. Windows are placed where they will have maximum exposure to the sun. “Then, once the energy is inside, your envelope has to be sufficient so that it keeps that energy in. You’re not really relying on

equipment, hence the term passive.”

With a footprint of 700 sq. feet, the house takes up less space on their 135 foot-deep lot than the post-WW2 bungalow they bought 7 years ago and tore down last fall.

For years, this eco-conscious couple dodged the idea of tearing down their former home. Aware of the impact that demolition has on landfill, they originally planned to build a two-storey addition. This would have meant staying with a conventional heating system, or attempting to integrate solar with a furnace. Insulation in the original house was abysmal, with a blower test showing 7 air changes an hour.

“That was a lot of wasted energy,” says Mike.

They decided to keep the footprint on the lot small and insulate with one level of Roxul board and 3 levels of Roxul batt insulation (made from volcanic rock, not fibreglass), thus creating a house with 0.6 air changes per hour. Mike says this kind of building design takes the house into “the stratosphere realm” of R values.

The roof will have an R value of 110, compared to a typical roof’s R

“The home’s space heating will come from green-powered electricity that runs a heat/cooling pump.” value of 60, which Mike describes as “generous.” Many roofs are much lower. Windows from Austria are triple-paned and called “net gainers” because they keep the sun’s heat inside the house.

The family’s goal in building new rather than repurposing an old house involves creating private space for maturing children, family space on the main floor, and a third-storey loft.

Robin says, “We have many names for the loft. We all want it. Our younger

OTC Changes to Route 14

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By Alayne McGregor I just learned that OC Transpo is proposing splitting route 14 so that it won’t go any further south than Gladstone Avenue. This will remove a direct route to downtown from Carlington and from the Civic Hospital neighbourhood where I live.

I use the route 14 regularly. It’s important to me because it goes directly to locations on Gladstone I use regularly -- the library, restaurants, the GigSpace concert hall, the Gladstone Theatre. It’s also a crosstown bus route that runs well south of downtown, avoiding Transitway/LRT

blockages and providing a faster linkage to transfer to other routes.

For many people, it also provides a important cross-town connection to the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital.

If the change is made, I would have a long walk or an inconvenient and untrustworthy bus transfer to get to the 14 and it would no longer be practical to use.

With this change, the route 14 would instead go to the LRT station at Tunney’s Pasture. But we already have three other buses -- the 56, 80, and 86 -- which go to Tunney’s. Other

destinations should be equally important.

This is a really stupid idea that should be dropped -- especially since it seems to have been made without any consultation. I urge residents to write to Councillor Leiper, Jeff.

Leiper@ottawa.ca; to Councillor Brockington, Riley.Brockington@ottawa.ca to Mayor Watson, Jim. Watson@ottawa.ca and to Transit Commission Chair Councillor Stephen Blais, Stephen.Blais@ottawa.ca to oppose this change.

daughter calls it her slumber party location.” Mike jokes that it will be his “man cave in the sky,” a place to commune with his drums and guitar and keyboard.

An important feature of the house is its lasting value. Robin and Mike want to grow old in this house. To make this happen, the design allows space, on all three floors, for an elevator. “We’re not installing one now, but it’s possible for the future,” Mike says.

The bungalow they tore town was 1600 sq.ft., and the new home will be just 410 sq.ft. larger (1320 sq. ft. on the first and second floors combined, and 690 sq.ft. for the loft). From an energy efficiency perspective, stacking living space over a small footprint makes sense, says Mike. The home’s space heating will come from green-powered electricity that runs a heat/cooling pump.

The new home retains a large backyard and a medium-size Norway maple in the front yard. “We will be able to appreciate the tree in the front yard better now,” says Robin, because their second-story bedroom windows open right into its canopy.

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Hintonburg’s 40 km Limit Change is on the way

By Dickson Davidson We are well into spring and the 40 km/hr signs are popping up all over Hintonburg.

After just more than a year of participating with the residents of Hintonburg, street by street, door by door, the petitions to change the speed limit from 50 km/hr to 40 km/hr on all residential streets were summarized and consolidated.

On March 16 they were delivered to the City of Ottawa and shortly after, approved and put into effect. The City, which was very helpful and supportive throughout the petitioning process, indicated that they would set up the work order for 40 km/hr speed limit signs to be made and posted at the next available shop time.

That work order has come up, and so have the signs, all over Hintonburg. The area to be covered is from Holland, to the O-Train line, and from Scott to the Queensway.

Spencer Street will benefit too -- from Parkdale to Rockhurst. The Hintonburg Community Association would like to thank all the residents of Hintonburg for taking the time to participate in this project, and the City of Ottawa for being so helpful and supportive, in completing this process.

We hope that it makes a positive change to the many aspects of living in this terrific neighbourhood of Ottawa.

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It pays to ask questions

By Cst Dawn Neilly, OPS As the old joke has it, there are only two seasons in Ottawa: winter and construction.

We’ve done winter so that leaves us with construction to get through. This could mean big projects like light rail or just maintenance you have to do around your own property. And it’s just that kind of activity that will draw out the door knockers looking to rent, sell or service something.

The person at your door will often be very plausible and, before you know it, you’ve been persuaded to sign some-

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‘A Warm Hug’

By Lorrie Marlow, Mechanicsville Community Association The Mechanicsville Community Association and Somerset Community Health Centre recently held a Naloxone Workshop with Mark Barnes and Respect RX Pharmasave of Vanier.

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thing or to hand over cash. You could have let yourself in for a new water heater or agreed to repair work that will start once you’ve made a deposit. You find out after the fact that the new water heater isn’t the bargain you thought or that the person who had promised to repair your front walk has taken the money and run.

How does this happen? It’s a case of unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the fact that Canadians, by and large, are trusting individuals. We find it easy to believe what we’re told by the glib talker at the door. There may well be

OHIP numbers from involved residents prior to the meeting in order for Mark to prepare kits for free distribution.

Mechanicsville also reached out to the City of Ottawa Safer Roads program and obtained free “Slow Down, Children Playing” signs and bike safety items to give away as well.

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someone who comes to your door who is legitimate and trustworthy, but it’s up to you to determine if that is, in fact, the case. It pays to ask questions.

Energy company Enbridge warns that utility companies, municipalities and government agencies don’t send salespeople door to door..

They advise that you ask for photo ID and get the name of the person and the business. You should not share any personal information, and ask for a copy of any materials they show you.

Remember: they may want something from you but you are not obliged to give anything to anyone at your door, whether it’s your money or your signature.

Have a great constru… er, summer!

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Patience and Perseverence Pay Off

Troubled community compensated

By HCA Security Committee The Hintonburg Community Association is pleased to announce that it has received victim compensation funds from the Ministry of the Attorney General under the Civil Remedies for Illicit Activities (CRIA) program.

The HCA had submitted a claim for the considerable costs and volunteer effort expended because of one chronic problem property in Hintonburg.

The process was formally initiated by the Attorney General of Ontario in 2009 after the Ottawa Police Department filed an extensive case against the owner and the property. The case was concluded in July 2015 with an agreement by the owner to sell the property with half of the revenue being forfeited to the Attorney General of Ontario for distribution under the CRIA program. As part of the agreement, prospective purchasers also had to undergo a review prior to purchase and be approved by the Attorney General to ensure no similar problems would continue.

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that anyone who experienced monetary or non-monetary losses as a result of the unlawful activity was entitled to make a claim for compensation. The HCA had substantial costs as well as expending over 1000 hours of volunteer time working on this problem property from 2005 to 2015.

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This victim compensation money received through CRIA will be re-invested in the Hintonburg community for positive initiatives to support families and youth, including more park activities and festivals.

All the patience and hard work by community members, and it was very hard work, has paid off in a safe and vibrant Hintonburg.

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Celebrating Community Leadership on Canada’s 150th want to honour local residents who embody the qualities and values that make Ottawa, Ontario and Canada great.

I am very pleased to announce the #OC150 Award. We will be recognizing 50 women, 50 men and 50 youth (ages 12-25) who have dedicated their time and talent in the service of our community of Ottawa Centre. And we need your help to find them. We want to celebrate people who have contributed to: • Celebrating diversity/inclusion • Building community/capacity • Protecting the heritage of Ottawa Centre • Protecting the environment • Promoting a healthy community

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What better way to observe the 150th anniversary of Confederation than to celebrate the community builders whose contributions have made our national capital a place we are all proud to call home.

To be eligible, nominees need not live in Ottawa Centre but their work must have had a direct im-

pact on our community.

I encourage you to talk to your family, friends and neighbours and complete the nomination form to recognize anyone who makes our community a better place to live, work and play. You can complete the form online at www.yasirnaqvimpp.ca, or get a copy via email from ynaqvi. mpp.co@liberal.ola.org, or you can drop by the Community Office at 109 Catherine Street, Ottawa.

Submissions must include at least two reference letters from prominent members of the community, but more are always welcome. The application deadline is September 1, 2017.

The award recipients will be recognized at a special ceremony towards the end of the sesquicentennial year. We will be joined by a special guest to celebrate our community builders along with their family and friends.

Please help recognize the people who work so hard to make our community the vibrant and welcoming place we call home.

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2017 is a very special year for our country as we commemorate 150 years of Canadian Confederation.

Much like Expo ’67 was for Canada’s 100th birthday, 2017 is an important opportunity to reflect on our country’s past, present and future.

To celebrate this special occasion, Ottawa is home to a yearlong celebration including massive signature events for the whole city to enjoy, all the way down to local community events. Through Ontario government’s support and partnership, we have worked hard to ensure many of these events include free admission so that everyone is able to partake in the festivities. Please visit www.ottawa2017.ca for a full calendar of the special events taking place throughout the city.

In the past 150 years Canada has grown to become one of the most welcoming, friendly and peaceful nations in the world.

This would not have been possible without our nation’s most important asset - our people. That’s why in a year focused on celebrating our province and country, I

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By Blaine Marchand The new “it” neighbourhood”… “intensification”… “gentrification… “hot house market”. These are a few of the attributes thrown about to describe the vibrant neighbourhoods that make up the catchment area served by the Rosemount branch library. Such adverbial praise leads one to assume the area is cohesive economically and socially. But this is far from true.

As with any thriving community, the reality is that Rosemount’s catchment area is diverse and mixed, as historically it has been. Yes, there are many single family homes and charming old apartments; there are new environmentally friendly block houses and upscale condos. But there is also accommodation for those who are challenged, down on their luck, or going through difficult times. Not all residents in the neighbourhoods are fully literate or have access to their own computers.

Near Rosemount, for instance, is a residence run by Salus, a registered charity that provides life-changing housing and support services to people living with mental or psychological issues. Salus provides hope to these individuals as they go through their journey of recovery. For residents of the Salus building, access to Rosemount Library is critical.

Michael Sheridan, a Salus resident, is the fifth of seven children born to Holocaust survivors. Out of fear, Michael’s parents converted to Catholicism when they came to Canada. It was only later in life that Michael and his siblings discovered the Jewish origins of their mother and father. In his teenage years, the now 58-year old, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. With that condition come feelings of inadequacy, of anxiety, of paranoia. For Michael, visits to Rosemount are an integral part of his

routine.

“The library is homey. It has a personal and quaint feeling which is so appropriate for me. I am at peace there.

I get so discouraged when I am in other places. I have difficulty focusing. The library helps me to do that. And the librarians are so friendly. They know me by name. They help me with my re-

“I get so discouraged when I am in other places. I have difficulty focusing.” search and print things off for me.”

Michael makes regular use of the newspapers and likes doing the crosswords. The computers at the branch give him access to e-mails. The DVDs, especially the documentaries - ones on music and art - are favourites. He prefers the large picture books. CDs are also important to Michael, who took classical music piano lessons as a child and occasionally plays background piano for a group In the Wind Artists Collective. As he sometimes uses a cane, easy access to the building is a plus.

He is aware that discussions are underway to find a new location for Rosemount as expansion in its current location is not possible. Michael accepts this but stresses a priority is that the library remain in the immediate neighbourhood. Rosemount branch, he affirms, must remain versatile and serve the large cross-section of the catchment area’s population.

“The library has helped me on this leg of my journey. It is an accepting place that is inviting to people like me. It is a vital part of the community in which I live.”

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Gearing Up For Canada’s 150th

By Catherine McKenna, MP Ottawa Centre This year marks a big year for our country as we celebrate 150 years of confederation. As the capital of the country, our city is the ‘place to be’ to celebrate and I encourage you to go explore and get involved.

At the beginning of May, I went to A Taste of Mexico inside the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Park. This is one of many Ottawa 2017 installations for a series called Ottawa Welcomes the World where, over several months, embassies and high commissions takeover the building for a few days at a time to promote their cultural heritage.

When I visited, the room was full of energy as visitors tasted food, listened to music, and shopped at vending stalls. Over 40 embassies and high commissions will participate this year. More information can be found on Ottawa 2017’s website.

Looking ahead to June, festival and event-goers in Ottawa will have lots to do to warm up for Canada Day activities - Italian Week, Glow Fair, TD Jazz

“I believe it’s important we take stock of all the great things that are happening every day in our city.”

Festival, and the Tim Horton’s Dragon Boat Festival to name just a few. I’m looking forward to being out and about in Ottawa Centre on July 1st meeting constituents and taking in festivities in the riding, including Canada’s big birthday celebration on Parliament Hill.

For those who want to celebrate Canada 150 by connecting with nature, the Rideau Canal, Ottawa River, biking trails, and parks are easily accessible. As I

mentioned at the Mayor’s Breakfast on April 27th, Ottawa has the potential to become the greenest capital in the world and we are lucky to have nature so close to our front doors.

Dow’s Lake Pavilion rents pedal boats, paddle boards, canoes and kayaks all summer long, and I personally like to explore Ottawa Centre by bike on sunny days.

I believe it’s important we take stock of all the great things that are happening every day in our city. That’s why at the end of April, I started a new social media campaign called#OwnOurOttawa /#FêterNotreOttawa as a way to showcase all of the amazing things that Ottawa has to offer.

People are sharing photos of their children eating ice cream from local creameries, families out on bike rides, and their favourite parks, restaurants and statues.

With more than 10 museums, kilometers of cycling and walking trails, and hundreds of parks, there’s plenty to do. It’s Canada150 and I hope you take some time to explore your city and #OwnOurOttawa.

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Goodbye Grade 7

School’s out for summer

By Anna Borris The last few days of school in 1963 were made memorable by an atmosphere of high anticipation, paralyzing fear, and the overall buzz of excitement that accompanied the breathless, shimmering heat.

Our classroom was a sauna.

Our hair was damp, our arms stuck to the paper and there was a permanent lineup at the water fountain. The normally good-natured teachers became irritated at the slightest provocation.

Our geography class was studying Switzerland and one day our teacher brought in slices of Swiss cheese and pieces of chocolate for us to try. By the time the plate reached the last kid, the now limp cheese had little oily drops on top and the rich delicious chocolate pieces were almost a puddle.

Games in the schoolyard continued as usual. We divided up into teams for baseball which was my favourite sport. To my delight, my team included a Grade Eight teacher, an athletic nun who was a wicked batter and sprinted around the bases with her black veil flying behind her.

During the last week, school buses picked us up and took us to Hogs Back Park for our school picnic where we ran three-legged races, played tug-of-war, dodgeball and generally wore ourselves out in the heat.

Then, on the last day of school came the moment we had been dreading - report cards were handed out. The results were either “pass” or “fail”. My friends and I huddled in a group, waiting anxiously for our names to be called.

“I think I’m going to be sick. I know I flunked,” moaned Judy. “If you flunked, I did for sure.” I told her. “Your marks were higher than mine. Now I feel sick too”. Finally, with a huge collective sigh of relief, we realized that we had all passed. Next fall we would be kingpins of the school. We would be in Grade Eight.

Now we were free. We looked forward to swimming at Plant Bath, and Westboro Beach. There would be trips to Lac Philippe with a bunch of cousins. We would be packed into two cars passing each other occasionally, yelling, waving out the windows and singing “Wolverton Mountain” at the

top of our lungs.

Sometimes carnivals would set up in one of the local parks, bringing a few rides, games of chance and cotton candy booths. One year there was a peanut parade, starring the dapper, and very famous, Mr Peanut. He wore a black top hat and monocle and threw out little packages of peanuts to the onlookers. That would never happen in the 21st century – the risk of an attempted murder charge would be too great.

Judy’s parents were both at work, so her house was a natural girls’ gathering place. We could make popcorn, listen to Connie Francis records and watch “The Secret Storm”, “The Edge of Night” or other edgy afternoon serials. Of course, the boys we liked were an endless topic of conversation.

On quieter days, we could always bike to the Rosemount library and spend the afternoon curled up with a good book. It was a treat to sleep in late, waking up to the sound of a push lawnmower and the barking of a neighbour’s terrier. These were the trademarks of summer in the 60s.

In only eight weeks, all this fun would come to an end when school bells would ring us back to class.

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JUNE 23 – FRIDAY NIGHT OF WORSHIP AND MINISTRY Join us for an evening of praise and worship at St. Mary’s Parish (100 Young St.) from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday June 23. The speaker will be Father Sean Wenger, CC (Companions of the Cross). Prayer Teams will be available. A reception will follow in the lower hall. For more information, please email Lise Going at night. worship.ministry@stmarysottawa.ca or call 613728-9811, ext. 720.

JUNE 24 - STRAWBERRY SOCIAL You are cordially invited to the Highland Park Lawn Bowling Club’s annual Strawberry Social and fund raiser (strawberry shortcake, tea, coffee and lemonade), to be held on Saturday June 24 between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Clubhouse, 439 Golden Avenue (corner of Golden and Byron Avenues). Cost: Adults $8, children $6.

JUNE 24 - ABOVE & BEYOND TOASTMASTERS CLUB’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Hear one of our Charter Members give her inspirational keynote address as she takes us down memory lane. In addition, founding members, and past presidents will share their memories.

Terrific Table Topics will add to the fun, and there will be plenty of time along the way to reconnect with old friends, make new and CELEBRATE! Saturday June 24, at 6 p.m., 75 Cleary Ave. Cost is $25 and includes a sumptuous buffet, celebratory cake made by one of our members, beverage, gratuity and tip. Activities include 50/50 and Door Prizes. Reserve your ticket by contacting l_bouthillier@yahoo.ca.

JUNE 26 – HOW TO TAKE BETTER VACATION PHOTOS Learn how to more effectively tell the story of your vacations through pictures. Also, learn how to use light, foreground, people and framing to not only create a better picture but to enhance the sensation of “being there” when viewed by others. Presented by Lynda Buske and Chris Taylor from the Ottawa PC Users’ Group. Please register online. Happening at the Carlingwood Library on Monday June 26 at 6 p.m. For more information, go to biblioottawalibrary.ca.

JUNE 27 - ST. GEORGE’S PARISH ANNUAL STRAWBERRY TEA Come and enjoy an afternoon tea along with bite-size sandwiches and mouth-watering locally grown strawberries served with cake and ice cream. Tuesday, June 27, St. George Parish (415 Piccadilly) from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Bring your family and friends! Children: $5, Adults: $10.

JUNE 27 - SUMMER FLOWER SHOW The Ottawa Horticultural Society Summer Flower Show will be taking place June 27. Come and hear about Front Yard Edibles from Jordon Bouchard of Just Food Ottawa. 7:30 p.m. at Tom Brown Arena (141 Bayview Ave).

JUNE 30 - ARTS NIGHT You are invited to come and see artists demonstrate, talk about, and perform their art. This month’s guests include Linda Wiken, literary artist; Hannah Ranger, artistic feltmaker; and Audrey Saparno, singer/songwriter accompanied

by Shalini Ahuja, drums. 7:30 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 30 Cleary Ave (off Richmond Road). Admission: $5. For information call 613725-1066.

JULY 1 - CANADA DAY PARTY AT THE WESTBORO LEGION Wear your red and white and join us on Canada Day at the Westboro Legion to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday while enjoying some great live performances with some of our finest local musicians. Wilf, Roger, Al and friends will be performing between 2:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. in our air-conditioned main floor hall with a fantastic dance floor. Admission is $10 single/ $15 per couple. Put on your best dancing shoes and come and join us for the fun. Everyone is welcome at the Westboro Legion, what a great opportunity to visit us for the first time and make new friends – on Canada’s 150th. Tickets are available at the door or in advance in the upstairs bar at the Legion (389 and 391 Richmond Rd.) Visit rcl480.com for more information.

JULY 6 - STRAWBERRY SOCIAL Woodroffe United Church (207 Woodroffe Ave.) invites you to our annual Strawberry Social on Thursday, July 6. Between 5 and 7 p.m., we will be serving a ham and salad supper and one of the best treats the season has to offer - strawberry shortcake. $15 per person, children 10 and under free, family max $40. Tickets are available through the church office at 613-722-9250.

JULY 13 - RAG AND BONE PUPPET THEATRE PRESENTS SNIPPETS 150 Join Rag and Bone Puppet Theatre at the Rosemount branch of the Ottawa Public Library as they bring your favourite Canadian songs and stories to life in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday as part of the AOE Neighbourhood Arts 150 project. Each performance is tailored to the surrounding neighbourhood and will feature guest readers and lots of audience participation.

Ages 4-12. Thursday July 13 at 10:30 a.m. For

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JULY 26 - LEARN STORYTELLING THROUGH PLAY Aboriginal storyteller, Lesley Parlane, will show you how to create and use your own storytelling cards to build your own stories. Ages 4-12 at the Rosemount branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

Registration required. July 26 at 10:30 a.m. For information go to biblioottawalibrary.ca.

OCTOBER 21 - NEPEAN HS CLASS OF ‘67 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY REUNION Members of the Nepean HS Class of 1967 are organizing a Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion, to be held at Nepean High School on Broadview Ave on Saturday, October 21, 2017. All grade 12 and 13 graduates from 1967 and classmates who graduated after grade 12 in 1966 are invited to come back and relive memories of their high school days, meet their former classmates and mingle with current staff and students. For more detailed information, please visit the reunion web site:https://sites.google.com/site/nepean67reunion/welcome-1.

CAMP AWESOME IS LOOKING FOR CAMPERS This one-week long day camp from July 24- 28 offers a fun-filled program for children 4 to 12 at Kitchissippi United Church (630 Island Park Dr. behind the Royal Ottawa).The program includes outdoor play, stories, songs, crafts and snacks.

The camp runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; pre-camp and post-camp care is also offered. The cost for the week is $80 (some subsidized spots are available). For more information and camp registration forms please go to kitchissippiuc.com/whatwe-offer/camp-awesome or contact Camp Coordinator, Kirsten Gracequist at kgracequist@ kitchisisppiuc.com or call 613-722-7254. All are welcome!

WESTBORO LEGION’S BINGO AND LEAGUES Bingo every Wednesday night at the Westboro Legion. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. for Café 480 and games begin at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Join us with your friends, or come and meet new friends. Funds raised are donated back to community organizations. We also have bid euchre, darts, pool and sandbag leagues on a weekly basis. For more information visit rcl480. com or call 613-725-2778.

month? Apply to join the volunteer team at Ten Thousand Villages! Volunteers spend time doing tasks around the store like receiving inventory, interacting with customers, ringing in sales and helping with other tasks that make for the smooth running of the store. Stop by 371 Richmond Road to get an application. For more information go to tenthousandvillages.ca/ blog/2017/04/you-can-volunteer-too.

YOUR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS For up-to-date news on your neighbourhood, stay in touch with your community association.

Information about events, traffic changes, development, neighbourhood clubs, volunteer opportunities and board meetings is available from the following Community Association websites.

Champlain Park Community Association champlainpark.org

Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Association Chnaottawa.ca

Friends of Churchill Seniors Centre friendsofchurchill.com

Hintonburg Community Association hintonburg.com

Hampton-Iona Community Group hamptoniona.wordpress.com

Island Park Community Association islandpark.wordpress.com

McKellar Park Community Association mckellarparkcommunity.wordpress.com

Mechanicsville Community Association facebook.com/MechanicsvilleCA

Wellington Village Community Association wvca.ca

Westboro Beach Community Association www.westborobeach.ca

Westboro Community Association lovewestboro.wordpress.com

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