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Metcalfe residents look at village plans EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com

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Residents from Metcalfe, Vernon, Kenmore and Marionville met with city planners on Nov. 21 to discuss the future of their villages in the context of a larger Ottawa municipality. Planners presented several new policies that would apply to all villages across the municipality, before asking residents to break into village-specific discussion groups to vet drafts of individual village plans. Metcalfe’s vision statement, which was compiled based on comments received at a spring consultation, called for balanced, moderate population growth while maintaining the historic town’s architecture, greenspace and character and improving access to businesses, services and recreational opportunities. Residents including Metcalfe Community Association president Shari Rowan expressed the need for more bike paths, paved shoulders and connectivity between neighbourhoods in the small town east of Bank Street. They also complained about the village’s perpetually poor water quality. Although bringing city services like water and sewage into the village was a suggested solution, planner Bruce Finlay reminded residents that with city services comes rapid growth. “If you get a water supply in the village, moderate growth goes out the window,” he told the table of about 10 residents. “There’s a cost to some of those changes.” Across the room at the Kenmore table, a lively debate ensued about the need for more growth in the small village southeast of Metcalfe. One enthusiastic resident armed with a pen attempted to rewrite the entire vision statement printed on a city planner’s display board, as he explained that Kenmore can’t maintain growth as the vision states because there is no growth to begin with. Residents complained that the village is stagnant and needs to encourage more services, businesses and residential growth. See OTTAWA on page 4

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HELP IS CLOSE TO HOME Real estate agent Elaine Taranu (right) and Metcalfe’s Main Street Bar and Grill owner Katia Bachir showcase the gift bins that will be set up in the bar until Dec. 17 to collect gifts for Naomi’s Family Resource Centre, which offers temporary shelter to women and children escaping abuse. Turn to page 10 for the full story.

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Grade 4 student suspended at Greenboro school EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com

A Grade 4 student at St. Marguerite D’Youville Catholic School in Greenboro has been suspended indefinitely after threatening another student and reportedly bringing a knife to school.

“If that student returns to school and their behaviour hasn’t changed, the suspension’s length was inconsequential” Tom D’Amico Tom D’Amico, superintendent of schools for Catholic schools in the South Keys area, confirmed that the girl was suspended but would not confirm the presence of a weapon or how long the suspension will last.

“The real focus is not on the length of a suspension, but whether we include other tools including support for other students, so that when the student returns they’re not just walking in as if nothing happened,” he said. “If that student returns to school and their behaviour hasn’t changed, the suspension’s length was inconsequential,” he explained, noting that suspensions can range from one to 20 days. The suspension was the result of a series of incidents beginning several weeks ago when a Grade 5 student stepped in to stop the accused student and a friend from slapping another girl. Afterwards, the Grade 5 student was kicked from behind while sitting in an anti-bullying assembly at the school on Lorry Greenberg Drive. The accused student, who is in Grade 4, then told the Grade 5 student and her friend that she would bring plastic bags and knives to school so she could suffocate and stab them. The student was made to write an apology letter, which reportedly contained even more threats. On Monday, Nov. 21 the accused stu-

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St. Marguerite D’Youville Catholic School on Lorry Greenberg Drive in Greenboro. dent apparently brought a knife to school with her. The police were called and she was suspended. D’Amico said the student underwent a threat assessment. These are usually conducted by a group of professionals including the board’s behaviouralist, the school’s resource officer, school administrators, teachers and a psychologist, which D’Amico said “roughly outlines” the group that interviewed the student. He said the threat assessment is meant to keep students, teachers and the offending student safe. “They look at creating an action plan, they bring forward as much informa-

tion as they can and create a safety plan for the students, staff, and potential victims, and then they look at any required discipline,” he said. D’Amico stressed that such violence and harassment goes beyond bullying, and will be treated as such. “Everything gets lumped into bullying, and the term bullying is really not the same as student who makes a threat. We don’t usually have a threat assessment when we’re dealing with bullying. Threat assessments are used when we feel the student has a potential for violence and we intervene,” he said. St. Marguerite D’Youville principal Carole Parent wouldn’t comment.

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Nicholas McLeod has been leading the fight against a condo board rule he calls discriminatory against students. with that,” he said. The condo board’s AGM was supposed to take place the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 22 but was postponed to Tuesday, Dec. 6 in order to deal with the issue. Although renters are not allowed to attend the meeting, McLeod said he’s confident that his petition will receive the 25 per cent quorum it needs to overturn the ruling. “The sense I feel in the community is that many are appalled at what’s happening. So I’m very confident that the people of the community will stand up and say no,” he said.

Site plans to speed up LAURA MUELLER laura.mueller@metroland.com

A strategy to prevent development plans from getting stuck on politician’s desks had at least one city councillor worried last week. Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans wanted assurance that a new policy wouldn’t prevent councillors from getting all the facts before they sign off on developments in their wards. “I was assurance that ... the clock doesn’t start ticking until the application is deemed complete,” she said. Deans said she has had developers call her office to accuse her of holding up their applications, but she said she is still waiting for the necessary studies to be completed before she can sign off on the application. Planning and growth management manager John Moser confirmed that all studies would need to be done before councillors would be expected to comply with a new seven-day dead-

line to sign off on certain types of site plans. Larger development projects are subjected to site-plan control, which allows the city to regulate things like the building and site design, driveways and parking, servicing and the building’s relationship to surrounding buildings or properties. Another change to save time is in the length and details of reports city committees will receive. The planning committee and the agriculture and rural affairs committee will now get one- to two-page briefs, instead of lengthy reports detailing the full history of each development. The changes were needed because only 32 per cent of site plans that can be completed by the planning department (without the need for public meetings) were approved on time in 2010. That’s down from 43 per cent the year before, but the figure dipped as low as 24 per cent in 2006.

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A South Keys condominium board has postponed its annual general meeting until early December after a group of students received the support they need to potentially overturn a recent rule against renting to groups of unrelated tenants. Board members for the Carleton Condominium Corporation No. 24 on Southgate Road passed a motion on Oct. 20 stating that unit owners can only rent to single families. This includes parents and children, married couples or people in a ‘conjugal relationship’, two or more persons intending to live together permanently, two or more persons who own the unit or someone who is a caregiver for someone else. It does not include an exemption for two or more people who are otherwise unrelated. Carleton student Nicholas McLeod is leading the fight against the condo board’s recent rule, which he says discriminates against student renters who are virtually the only group who rent as unrelated tenants. In order to overturn the ruling, McLeod needed to secure a petition with 15 per cent of the condo’s homeowners stating they disagree with the ruling – a quota he filled just before the obligatory 30 days were up. “We fulfilled the 15 per cent and then some. There was no problem

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City uses heavy hand to put brakes on go-kart track LAURA MUELLER laura.mueller@metroland.com

The city is breaking out a “draconian” tool to prevent Midway Family Fun Park from setting up a go-kart track in the near future. Capital Coun. David Chernushenko asked the city’s planning committee to enact a bylaw blocking the midway from setting up an outdoor karting track until after April, when a community design plan dictating the area’s growth and development for the next 20 years should be complete. That move was in response to community members “flipping out” upon seeing an update on the midway’s website that announced go-karts are coming in the summer of 2012. The Heron Park Community Association said many residents had no idea a go-kart track would be allowed, and they are worried about the noise it would create. “It is a move that we believe would fundamentally and negatively change the character of the neighbourhood,” said Maritala Robinson, past vice president of the community association. The site’s

zoning allows an amusement park use, including outdoor activities such as a gokart track, but Chernushenko and community members said the midway’s owners promised not to put outdoor activities at the site. That’s also the direction the community design plan will take. “I was assured there would be no outdoor use,” Chernushenko said. “We envisage a significant change in how this land is going to be used.” In reality, said midway owner-operator Damien Dee, he never made that commitment. “I’ll go straight on the record. I have never said we would never do go-karts,” Dee said, adding that he explained to residents at a community meeting last winter that the midway didn’t have plans to put in a go-kart track right away, which concerned some community members at the time. I said, ‘Yes, we do plan on doing them eventually,’” Dee said. Dee said that despite the “summer 2012” announcement on the website, he planned to start looking at setting up the track about a year from now, and it could become a reality in the next two or three years. But Dee’s partner, co-owner Sean

Caulfeild, told Ottawa This Week last March that there would be no go-karts. “We are not doing outdoor go-karts. We are not doing anything outdoors – zero,” Caulfeild said in March, “We don’t want to diminish any residents anywhere in our new neighbourhood from the quite enjoyment of their home.” Dee admitted that his partner’s comments may have confused some people, but Dee maintained that no one from the midway said there would never be a plan to add go-karts. Still, Dee was upset by the latest move from the city, which won’t become official until it’s passed by council on Dec. 14. “I don’t understand the objection,” Dee said, emphasizing that the track would be closer to busy Bank Street than the homes on Kaladar. “For them to shut the door on us … I want to be able to have the option (of a go-kart track).” If city council approves the interim control bylaw, the midway would be blocked from setting up a go-kart track until April 26, 2012 – after the community design plan is set to be completed. But in the meantime, Chernushenko worried that the

Ottawa South villages map out their future From METCALFE on page 1 Vernon residents were also calling for more growth in their town that touches the far southern edge of the city’s boundary. One resident who wished to remain anonymous said she would like to see big box stores, a major grocery store and other businesses in the town. Currently

the village clustered around Highway 31 doesn’t even have a gas station, let alone a viable grocery store. “Vernon has nothing. We have a post office, maybe one mechanic. We lost our grocery store, we have no gas there now. And Metcalfe has no gas,” she said. City planner Robin van de Lande, who has lead this village update since it be-

gan last spring, said those problems can’t be helped on such a specific level. Instead, planners can change the zoning in certain areas to create village cores that help attract businesses on their own. One of van de Lande’s key ideas to help this problem is the creation of a new land designation for villages called

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midway would set up another “outdoor activity use” such as a climbing wall at the site as a ploy to establish that use. The fear is that in the future, if the city tried to block a go-kart track, the midway could argue that it already has a historic right to outdoor activities at its location. A draft of the CDP envisions switching the area that includes the midway from an industrial use to more of a mixeduse area, which could include retail and homes. City staff, including the city’s manager of policy development and urban design, Richard Kilstrom, said an interim control bylaw is a “very heavy tool” to use in this case and didn’t support the planning committee’s move. But Chernushenko said his hands were tied. He said if there was a less-harsh measure he could use, he would have. “Your words, a ‘thermonuclear device,’ might be overkill. If I had a Nerf bat at my disposal, I would use a Nerf bat,” he said. Dee said he will fight the temporary bylaw and any move to change the midway property’s zoning as part of the community design plan.

Village General. It’s a residential land use designed to help home-based businesses expand beyond what’s currently allowed in the city-wide bylaw. The proposed land use, currently part of the draft Consolidated Village Policies report for which van de Lande is collecting feedback, could potentially allow homebased business owners to expand their employee base, clientele and marketing without having to rent a storefront outside their home. “It’s really difficult to start a business in a village, incredibly difficult,” van de Lande said. “Essentially we found that you could have a single person operation, or you could work in the city. There are very few opportunities to grow a business in the village.” Currently the home-based business bylaw applies across the city uniformly, and restricts the number of external employees, clients and signs allowed on site. “They’re city based provisions, and we heard very strongly that that doesn’t make any sense in the rural area,” van de Lande said. The Consolidated Village Policies draft report will create standardized land use designation terms and definitions for all villages across the municipality, to replace the jumble of pre-amalgamation village plans which each had their own set of terms. Other proposed standardized village policies include new rules for retirement homes mandating them to be built in the village core and guidelines for residential care facilities, which should be built close to and in conjunction with emergency services, recreational opportunities and the village core. Feedback on the consolidated village policies plan and specific village plans must be received by Friday, Dec. 30. Comments can be submitted by email to plan@ottawa.ca, or to van de Lande in person or letter at 110 Laurier Ave. W, 4th Floor. Van de Lande can also be reached by phone at 613-580-2424 ext 43011.

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WORKSHOPS Jade Pichette is the creating safer spaces co-ordinator at Pink Triangle Services. When she first attended the Rainbow Youth Forum she was one of the only openly trans youths in the school board, now she’s on the planning committee. Pichette, along with a team of people from Pink Triangle Services led a series of workshops for students on everything from coming out to queer phobic bullying and transrealities. The workshops are evaluated by the students at the end of the day and help to

shape what will be covered at the forum next year. During her involvement with the forum, Pichette said the number of students who attend has grown exponentially. “We have students from across the city and even some rural areas come out,” Pichette said. While Pichette said homophobia and bullying still exist, she is happy to see so many community groups pressuring the school boards to do better. Pichette said Pink Triangle and other organizations will always be there to support students who want to start rainbow alliances in their schools, but they have to know about the initiatives. “The boards have to allow them (all kinds of clubs) under the Safe Schools Act,” Pichette said, adding that Pink Triangle youth services and other organizations are there to offer support to students experiencing bullying. “Jamie Hubley’s death was very public, but unfortunately it isn’t that unique. There are still a lot of gay teens committing suicide,” Pichette said. Alex Thomas, Pink Triangle’s Trans-Action co-ordinator, led the workshop on transrealities and helped kids to break down gender barriers and learn some of the terminology and thinking in the trans community. Kids learned how to be supportive of friends coming out. “There are a lot more kids coming out younger,” Pichette said. “Now kids in grades 7 and 8 are coming out and the support has to be there.”

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The recent death of Kanata teen Jamie Hubley was on the minds of public school students and staff at the seventh annual Rainbow Youth Forum on Nov. 24. The one-day forum brought together students from grades 7 to 12 to discuss gay, lesbian and transgender issues, including homophobia and bullying. More than 300 students and a number of Ottawa Carleton District School Board staff packed the gymnasium of the Confederation Education Centre on Woodroffe Avenue for the day’s opening remarks. The annual forum was billed as a day “about us, for us and by us,” by the student emcees. Jennifer Adams, the board’s director of education mentioned the recent suicide of Jamie Hubley, the only openly gay student at his Kanata high school. “We’ve had some bumpy things happen this fall,” she said, adding that Jamie’s death has “encouraged lots of communication.” “All of you belong in our schools,” Adams said in welcoming the students and staff. She said the forum invited intermediate students – those in grades 7 and 8 – to take part this year because questions about sexuality come up before students are in secondary schools. Following a moment of silence for Jamie, one of his friends spoke. Stephanie

Wheeler, a Grade 12 student at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School, said she knew Jamie for about seven years, including his two years at A.Y. Jackson. She said Jamie was bullied for being openly gay, and that she was briefly bullied when she stood up for him. “I don’t know how Jamie did it every day,” Stephanie said. “I used to say, ‘It will get better,’ but I was wrong. We have to make it better.” She said she wants to motivate people to do more and be who they want to be. “No one can tell you you can’t do something,” she said. The forum provided students with the opportunity to choose from 16 workshops during the day, including sessions on homophobia in sports, how to help a friend, and coming out. Teachers also attended panel discussions and workshops.

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Five cyclists mowed down on March Road. Commuter killed on Queen Street. Compelled not only by these cycling deaths in Ottawa during the past few years but also the near misses they see every day, more than two dozen cyclists gathered on Saturday, Nov. 26 to come up with recommendations to submit to the Ontario coroner for an upcoming report. Organized by Mike Powell, chairman of the city’s roads and cycling advisory committee, the Saturday morning session sought to gather input from the cycling community and other concerned citizens on the topic of cycling safety. The cyclists at the session raised ideas ranging from better enforcement of the rules of the road, to creating a

more consistent and meaningful accident reporting process, to the implementation of a province wide cycling safety awareness campaign. The session was in response to an invitation by the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario for the public to submit comments and recommendations to be considered as part of a review of cycling deaths across the province from 2006 to 2010. Powell was encouraged by a session that produced some productive discussions about cycling safety. “The overwhelming consensus of ideas here today were reasonable ones,” he said. “We’re not talking about crazy things or banning cars or anything like that. I think there’s a recognition here that – most people here are motorists as well – that there’s a give and take needed and different situations require different things.” The responses gathered at the session, Powell said, would be translated into a combined submission to the coroner’s office on behalf of all those in attendance. Split into smaller working groups of six or seven people, the cyclists spent four 20-minute sessions addressing four different questions: • What are your biggest cycling safety concerns? • What changes, if any, would you suggest be made to built cycling infra-

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More than two dozen Ottawa cyclists gathered at city hall on Saturday, Nov. 26 to talk about cycling safety and contribute a series of recommendations to a Ontario coroner’s review of cycling deaths across the province. structure? • What changes would you make to cycling awareness and education? • Are there any legal changes that can make cycling safer? Diane Dupuis, secretary of the Kanata Nepean Bicycling Club, said it was a worthwhile event and was pleased to see cycling safety issues catching the attention of officials at the provincial level. “I think it will have a greater impact than if it was done at the municipal level,” she said. “Hopefully the recommendations won’t get buried in the report, they will get implemented and some good can come out of this so that we can prevent cyclist deaths in

the future.” Another cycling advocate at the session, Citizens for Safe Cycling president Hans Moor, said he was impressed by the constructive nature of the discussions. “I’m always nervous that it becomes a bit of a bashing against drivers, but you could hear a lot of positive feedback,” he said. “I think it was very important that people recognize that cyclists are not holy either, that they make a lot of mistakes. It was good to see that cyclists are actually worried about other cyclists’ behaviour.” To view the joint submission generated from the Ottawa session, visit www.yourottawaregion.com .

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n a bid to increase transparency at city hall, one worries if Ottawa will actually end up stifling democracy. A proposed lobbyist registry is ruffling some feathers at city hall, but perhaps community advocates should be the ones with their guard up. This shouldn’t be the reaction to a policy meant to tell us who is influencing decisions at city hall, but in trying to come up with a comprehensive way to track who is lobbying political decision makers, the city is on its way to crafting a draconian version of a lobbyist registry that could discourage regular citizens from calling up their councillor about a neighbourhood issue. The registry would distinguish between different types of lobbyists, paid and unpaid, but all would be required to list their names. Councillors would have to record each contact with those designated as lobbyists, whether it’s a casual curbside conversation about snowplowing or a business lunch about an upcoming development application. That distinction makes Ottawa’s proposed registry “the most sweeping in the country” according to the Lobbying Law Bulletin. “It is no exaggeration to say that, if adopted in its current form, the bylaw would alter the role of citizen engagement and

neighbourhood activism in Ottawa’s democratic, political process,” writes Guy Giorno, whose study on the topic is cited in the City of Ottawa report recommending the lobbyist registry. In other jurisdictions, “lobbying” is defined as a paid relationship. Where there is money, there is influence, and those who are paid to influence decision makers are deemed “lobbyists.” Not so in Ottawa, if this registry is adopted. In a move that’s “radically different” from any other jurisdiction, Giorno writes, volunteers working on behalf of non-profit organizations and community groups would also be considered lobbyists. While communities should be celebrating a victory in government openness, they may instead be finding ways to cope with the additional complexities of revealing how often they speak to their councillor, and about which topics. The registry proposal goes as far as preventing former city employees from volunteering with a community group, if part of their role as a volunteer would include making representations to an elected official. Mayor Jim Watson has the right idea: Transparency should be paramount. But not at the expense of engaged, grassroots community members.

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Tension and high drama on the number 87

retired guy’s life needs some excitement now and then, which is why I decided to take a ride on a city bus. The bus has been the main topic of conversation in the newspapers and on the radio and TV. If you were looking for drama, the bus was the place to find it. When I worked downtown, I used to take the bus all the time. This was a few years ago, before there started to be drama and tension on the bus. The way I remember it, I got on the bus in the morning, usually got a seat after the high school kids got off, read the paper for awhile, got off at my stop and walked the rest of the way to work. It was decidedly lacking in drama. The bus drivers were nice, although none of them sang. The passengers behaved themselves. Occasionally someone would have his headphones turned up too high so that a tinny whine leaked out. But that was it. I figured the real drama was happening in the cars, from what I heard from my colleagues who drove to work. They had tales of delays, traffic jams, crazy drivers on the Queensway, road rage and such. My time on the bus couldn’t comSouth Edition

CHARLES GORDON Funny Town pete with that. Nothing much happened. The same thing going home. I might have to wait a bit, but that wasn’t too dramatic. I might have to stand for awhile, but there were worse things in life. The bus might take half an hour instead of 20 minutes if the traffic was bad but I had a book to read. The thing I liked best was that I arrived home in a decent frame of mind, unlike the car drivers, who had those veins in their necks bulging from trying to keep from screaming. Obviously, from reading all the reports, times had changed. The bus had become a combination of Blackboard Jungle and Saturday at the Opera. I had to see it. But something went horribly wrong.

First, the bus arrived on time, which wasn’t supposed to happen. Then the bus driver was friendly. Then there were no unruly passengers on board. Then the bus driver didn’t sing. Nor did he talk on a cell phone. It was too quiet, as they say in the movies, just before it gets noisy. Quiet was OK once I got used to it. I had a book to read. The bus hopped onto the Transitway and got downtown in a hurry. Getting across downtown was another matter, but nobody on the bus seemed to be impatient about it. No passengers yelled at the driver or vice versa. The bus got to the Rideau Centre and I got off, thinking: “That was weird.” Well, maybe there would be some drama on the ride back. I had lunch downtown, did a little browsing for this and that and then went to wait with lots of other people for the bus. Several pulled up, none of them mine, which was OK because I wanted to see if any drivers would walk off and refuse to go any farther. None did. Hmmm. Soon my bus arrived. I got on. The driver was friendly. I got a place to sit and read my book. The passengers minded their own business. The auto-

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BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse

y husband and I are celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary this week. I’m thinking of getting him a set of winter tires. I realize this doesn’t sound very romantic. And if my husband bought me tires for our anniversary, I’m not sure how much longer the marriage would last. In fact, a friend recently cited a dust-buster birthday present as one of the catalysts for her divorce. This, and the lead-up to Christmas, got me thinking about the various ways in which people give gifts. I often buy things for people that I’d like to receive myself, thinking this is a decent strategy. But when my six-year-old whispered in my ear that he knew, with no uncertainty, that “papa wants $200-space Lego for Christmas,” I realized how this type of thinking could quickly become folly. Really, gifts should be received with thanks, regardless of what they are. After all, nobody deserves a gift. A gift is a token of affection from one person to another. Still, people often complain about gifts – an ugly sweater from mom, a litter box for their imaginary cat. But while there are circumstances where people don’t put a lot of thought into gift-giving, I think we should give the givers the benefit of the doubt and presume that, even if they have bad taste, they probably have some good motivation behind their choices. And while we’d all like to think our

spouses, children, friends and family know us well enough and are thoughtful enough to pick out things that we really like, unless we communicate clearly our preferences, we shouldn’t be too sad if the hubby picks up a non-stick frying pan for Christmas, thinking it’s thoughtful because “you’re always complaining about eggs sticking to the pan.” I don’t expect people to be mind readers. When I’m out at the Byward Market, I indicate to my children a few different pairs of earrings I like, or a book I’d like to read. And I’ve told my husband, in no uncertain terms, that I don’t consider home appliances or cleaning products to be legitimate gifts. Ditto for tools and office supplies. So I’ll give him a few ideas, but ultimately I like him to choose the gift he’s going to give me, himself. I like the element of surprise. But you know, at the end of the day, I get a little fed up with the whole giftgiving culture. I can’t stand the mall at Christmas. I don’t like the rush. I don’t like the pushy sales people. I don’t like making quick decisions. So this year my friends and I have decided to challenge each other to make gifts. For various reasons – growing families, large student loans, new mortgages – everyone is on a tighter budget. But mostly, we do it because it forces us to be thoughtful. It forces us to be creative, to think ahead, and plan, and spend a little bit of time each evening – possibly for weeks – thinking about the important people in our lives. To me, this is the best kind of giving. But since I can’t make winter tires, I’m just going to fork over the money to the retailer and surprise my husband in advance of our romantic anniversary dinner this Saturday. And even though it’s not my cup of tea, I’m pretty sure he’ll consider it to be one of the most thoughtful – maybe even romantic – gifts he’s ever received. At the end of the day, it’s all in the presentation.

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homes, the children are displaced from school and their friends. It’s a very difficult situation,” said Taranu, the former CEO of YWCA Canada. Gifts for both women and children are sorted between a women’s Christmas room and a children’s Christmas room. Anyone who has used the centre’s services in the past year is then invited to come by and choose gifts for their family from the rooms. “The moms will go into the children’s room and choose a gift to put under the Christmas tree, and the kids will go into the mothers’ room to choose a gift for their mom. It’s really nice because it’s not only an “I receive” situation, it’s also the satisfaction of giving something to your mom,” explained Taranu. The shelter’s executive director Verna Leger said the program is important because the first Christmas after leaving an abusive situation can be very stressful. “In that first year their income may have dropped substantially. They may have to go on subsistence until their court process is finished. So it can be a strain financially, just when the cost for your heating and lights go up,” Léger said. Gifts for women can range from personal gifts like hairdryers and bath towels to kitchen items like kettles, coffee makers and cookware. For children, toys and stuffed animals as well as arts and craft supplies, clothes and CD players top many lists. Naomi’s shelter is relatively small, hosting up to nine people at a time. But since the average stay is only about two weeks and the centre runs many other day-time support programs throughout the year, there could be several hundred women and children invited to use the Christmas gift service each year. Even so, there are sometimes surpluses which Léger said never go to waste. If there is an excess of one item, other shelters or support services in the Ottawa area may be contacted. If there are toys for an age group the shelter didn’t particularly serve this year, other shelters can benefit from those extras as well. Some extra

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Real estate agent Elaine Taranu (right) and Metcalfe’s Main Street Bar and Grill owner Katia Bachir are collecting gifts for women and children until Dec. 17 to for Naomi’s Family Resource Centre, which offers temporary shelter to women and children escaping abuse. items are also saved in case women or children celebrate a birthday while staying at the shelter, and stuffed animals are used in the welcome bags that children receive when they arrive with their mother. “The women are most, most appreciative,” Léger said. Gifts can be donated in the Metcalfe area at the Leitrim Home Hardware at 4836 Bank Street, The Main Bar and Grill on Victoria Street in Metcalfe, and the Live and Learn Re-

source Centre in Metcalfe’s old town hall on Victoria Street. In Winchester, gifts can be dropped off at the Royal Bank on Main Street. Chesterville’s TD bank on Queen Street will also be collecting along with the Scotiabank on Main Street in South Mountain. Gifts will be collected until Saturday, Dec. 17. For more information contact Elaine Taranu at 613-614-2885. To contact Naomi’s Family Resource Centre, call 613-774-2838.

Councillor wants answers on Occupy costs LAURA MUELLER laura.mueller@metroland.com

One city councillor wants to know how much Ottawa is paying for protests that “cross the line.” Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess asked staff to calculate how much the city paid to deal with Occupy Ottawa protesters, who camped out in Confederation Park from Oct. 15 to Nov. 23. Although the couple-dozen protesters occupied a federally owned National Capital Commission Park, Bloess said that the city had to pitch

in, including workers from Ottawa Public Health and the police force. The police spent about $24,000 over the 40-day protest, $16,000 of that on Nov. 23, the night the NCC issued eviction notices to protesters. City spokesman Barre Campbell said other departments aren’t ready to release their ﬁgures, but the full report is expected to come to city council in December. While Bloess said he respects the right to protest, he wanted to remind council that it doesn’t come without a cost.

“Each time there is an incident, there is a cost to the city,” Bloess said. “It’s not just absorbed in.” Having that dollar ﬁgure in hand might inﬂuence how the city approaches similar situations in the future, Bloess said. “How do you accommodate protesters, so it doesn’t become a free-for-all in our parks?” he asked. “There is a difference between a protest and squatting in the park. “There is a place for legitimate dissent, but there is a limit to what people can do under the guise of protest.”

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SECOND IN A THREE-PART SERIES BY DON CAMPBELL, THANA DHARMARAJAH NEVIL HUNT AND LAURA MUELLER Garbage in Ontario is a mess. Durham and York are building a controversial incinerator to burn 140,000 tonnes of garbage a year. On Nov. 7, the provincial Ministry of the Environment gave the go-ahead for Orgaworld — the facility that processes Ottawa’s organic waste — to accept diapers, dog waste and compostable plastic bags but the City of Ottawa has yet to give the green light. Simcoe County — a community that attracts vacationers and retirees — faces a dire situation with less than six years of life left for three of its four landfills. Communities are flailing as they try to manage waste within their own borders. Some are already sending garbage out of town. Some are still working on setting waste diversion targets. Others are revising them. And some like the Region of Waterloo don’t have waste diversion targets at all. At least six communities surveyed by Metroland (for this Special Report on provincewide Trash Troubles) have landfills that will run out of space within 10 years. The mountains of trash that Ontarians are throwing into the garbage instead of their blue boxes are forcing other communities to try to find more space in their already bulging landfills. But the Metroland report shows new landfills are difficult to build because government of Ontario approvals required to create new facilities are hard to get, lengthy and costly. “You can spend six, seven, eight years preparing and not get an approval at the end of the day,” said Adam Chamberlain, a Toronto environmental lawyer. “Approving a landfill in Ontario is not for the faint of heart.” In fact, the Ministry of Environment hasn’t approved a single new landfill site since 1999. During that time 147 small landfills have closed, leaving Ontario with 958 existing active landfills. But many of those are small and not classified as capable of taking on a major municipality’s trash. About 85 per cent of Ontario’s

waste goes to only 32 Ontario landfills classified by the ministry as “large.” The main reason trash is creating problems is that municipal landfills are filling up with garbage that should be recycled or reused, including cardboard, plastic bottles, milk cartons and paper. The biggest offender is plastic. A report by Stewardship Ontario shows that about 176,500 tonnes of plastics — including 30,906 tonnes of plastic bottles — were chucked into the garbage instead of the recycling box in 2009, the last year for which provincewide figures are available. That means three-quarters of all that plastic — including 44 per cent of plastic bottles — ends up in landfills. Another culprit is paper packaging, the cardboard boxes and milk and juice containers that could be recycled as well. About 34 per cent of that material, or 122,396 tonnes, ends up in landfills too. One Ontario landfill operator, Bob Beacock, regularly spots these recyclable items as they tumble out of the garbage trucks at the Brock site, east of Toronto. But he only has time to rescue the odd scrap metal or tire. “We can’t just get out of the machine and start picking out pop cans,” the Brock site operator said. “You just know you’d be here 16 hours a day. That’s the public’s obligation.” Like most municipalities, Ottawa is trying to send less trash to landfills. The key is diverting waste to other places – recycling and composting – and that requires residents’ involvement. Reducing the use of landfills can save taxpayers money because new landfills come with hefty costs. It’s up to cities and towns to convince residents that the cost-savings are worth the effort of recycling or composting, or that their efforts can have a positive impact on the environment. “Do we do it to save money on our taxes or do we do it because it’s the right thing to do?” asks Marie McRae, an Ottawa city councillor and chair of the city’s environment committee. McRae said the Trail Road landfill – which takes Ottawa residents’ solid waste – will be full at current rates by 2035. Use of the black, blue and green bins could extend that by years or even decades.

Starting in November 2012, Ottawa residents will see a change in pickups: • Green bin every week. • Black and blue bins on alternate weeks. • Other solid waste once every two weeks, although people can request weekly pickup in certain circumstances, usually when the home is producing diapers. McRae estimates the city and its taxpayers will save $9 million annually by going to biweekly garbage pick-up. She said biweekly garbage collection will trigger greater use of the green bin because it will offer residents a way to dispose of “yucky stuff ” every week. “Not everyone will participate,” she said, “and we expect

the people who are recycling and composting now are likely to do it more.” Marilyn Journeaux, the city’s manager of solid waste services, said the best case scenario would see residents reduce the current solid waste going into the Trail Road landfill; saving tax money and helping the environment at the same time. Today, Ottawa residents dump 200,000 tons of solid waste into the landfill. Journeaux said that number could be greatly reduced by sending 100,000 tons annually to Plasco for gasification, with another chunk sent to Orgaworld for composting. The city’s contract with Orgaworld costs taxpayers $7 million annually. While the contract allows the city to send 80,000 tons of organic waste for compost-

ing, last year residents only sent 55,000 tons for composting. Residents will need to have a clear understanding of what can go in the green bin when the city goes to biweekly garbage pickup. The city’s website can tell you which items go in which bin, and McRae said homes with children will have another source of information. “There are bins in the schools and the kids are the ones who know which bin to use,” she said. Almost anything can be composted or recycled today, but there is still some confusion. McRae said grocery store bags, Styrofoam or cling-wrap doesn’t belong in the blue bin and should be placed in the regular trash.

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Bethlehem Live offers glimpse of Christmas past EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com

Take a journey to Bethlehem this weekend as Trinity Bible Church recreates the biblical world of Jesus’ birth. On Friday, Dec. 2 and Saturday, Dec. 3 families can gather at 4104 Stagecoach Rd. to join the throngs of people travelling to Bethlehem to be counted in the census. Despite a dangerous road fraught with beggars, bandits and the occasional Roman guard, travellers will get a chance to witness glorious and sometimes miraculous things on their trip to the ancient city. King Herod’s luxurious palace will give way to the fire-lit camps of wise men drawn to the city by an encouraging star. Herds of live animals and groups of shepherds looking for lost sheep will lead you to choirs of angels singing in the forest. Fight your way through a very real marketplace and pay your taxes before trying unsuccessfully to find lodgings in the overflowing city. Chances are the innkeeper will tell you to sleep in the stables. And there you’ll find him: a very real baby lying in a manger, with two loving parents watching over him. Listen to the nearby prophet as he explains the meaning of this babe’s birth,

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Trinity Bible Church Pastor Shawn Ketcheson will be wise man during Bethlehem Live. A collection of baskets and other trinkets advertise the two-night event in the narthex of the Osgoode church before the elaborate outdoor structures are completed. before moving inside for some refreshments and a moment of reflection on the meaning of Christmas. This is Bethlehem Live, the annual Christmas pageant put on by about 60 members of Trinity Bible Church south of Osgoode. The elaborate theatrical tour takes about 30 minutes to complete, and ranges from the woods around the church to the sanctuary-turned-marketplace inside.

“It’s one of the most magical events you can take your family to at Christmas time,” said Pastor Shawn Ketcheson, who inherited the event when he took over the congregation about four years ago. “It’s gorgeous. You’re surrounded by trees, there’s snow around you, and there’s candles with lanterns lighting the way. Whether you’re a believer or not it’s just an incredible experience.”

Apart from the standard wise men and shepherds, a cast of Roman guards, thieves, beggars, vendors and other village people will complete the feel of the first Christmas night more than 2,000 years ago. “You get an experience of what it might have been like to have been travelling, because everyone had to travel for the census,” said Ketcheson, who will play a wise man around their outdoor

bonfire. As an added touch, each person who embarks on the journey will be given some coins – a rather perilous cargo. “All along the journey, just like the journey of life, people are trying to get your money from you. Bandits, beggars, thieves. But you don’t want to get rid of your money because you’ll have no money to pay your taxes,” Ketcheson explained. The event has expanded to two nights this year because last year’s turnout was so huge. About 400 people visited the interactive nativity pageant last December, and Ketcheson said this year they are hoping for 500. From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday night, families from all backgrounds, religions and belief systems are welcome to join the journey to celebrate the spiritual side of the Christmas season. While the church isn’t looking to convert anyone or grow their membership through the event, Ketcheson said he hopes the journey will convince people to consider that Jesus truly is their saviour. “It seems overwhelming but if you pause and just observe people on the journey, it’s surprising what it does to people, its very powerful,” he said.

Registration filling up for Riverside South sleigh rides EMMA JACKSON emma.jackson@metroland.com

Sleighs will jingle and lights will twinkle this weekend as the Riverside South Community Association once again hosts its Christmas sleigh rides through the village and its annual neighbourhood lighting contest. Following the community

association’s Santa breakfast in the morning of Saturday, Dec. 3, the association will offer sleigh rides beginning at 5:30 p.m. through the growing Ottawa South neighbourhood. The horse-drawn sleighs will leave from the Rideauview Community Centre and wind their way through nearby streets to check out some of the houses

decorated for the annual neighbourhood lighting competition. While families wait for their sleigh ride at the community centre, a band from local church The Gathering will sing festival Christmas carols and volunteers will help kids decorate cookies. Everyone can enjoy some free hot chocolate. Throughout the evening,

guest judge Gloucester SouthNepean Coun. Steve Desroches and community association president Scott Hodge will check out all the houses registered for the lights competition and will announce the winner later that evening. Houses must register in advance in order to be judged. Horse-drawn sleigh rides are

free for association members, $5 for non-member individuals, and $10 for non-member families. Families must reserve a time slot in advance. Many time slots before 8 p.m. are already full. Registration forms for the sleigh rides and the lighting competition can be found at www.riversidesouth.org.

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Growing up is hard to do. Especially when you’re a stubborn middle-aged man with kids of your own – and you’re played by a 14-year-old barely old enough to understand your fictional plight. Albert Williams is the crotchety main character of King of the Castle, Just Kiddin Theatre’s newest play coming to the Metcalfe town hall from Dec. 8 to 11, when he’ll take a Christmas quest to come to terms with the fact that his parents are moving on with their lives. Thirty kids aged 9 to 14 and split into two hard-working casts will tackle this heady topic with six performances that director and writer Andrie Nel insist are far from depressing dramas. “It sounds like a serious drama, but it’s actually comedy. Its about Albert’s crotchety way of saying to his parents, ‘How can you do this?’ and we have a fantastic mother character that puts up with him,” Nel explained. Although the setting is Christmas-themed, it’s not a Christmas play with a typical Christmas message. “That’s just a backdrop to a story about a son who is really bothered by the fact that his parents have abandoned the family home and downsized and moved to another community,” Nel said. The premise was partially inspired by Nel’s own experience of her parents moving to a smaller house and giving up the family home. “It’s about that inner conflict that you want what’s best for your parents but you don’t want

to let go of the symbols that define your childhood.” In an unprecedented twist, King of the Castle is actually a follow up to Just Kiddin Theatre’s 2008 production Father Figure, which centred on the same family. Kemptville resident Noah McEvoy played Albert then, and four years later is one of two young men playing the Archie Bunker-type character again. “Noah, who has lived four years since then and is extremely committed to theatre, is portraying Albert in a different way. It’s still beautifully done but with more layers,” Nel said. Fourteen-year-old McEvoy’s counterpart is Greely resident Jacob Hope, who is a little younger but who Nel said has tackled the character exceptionally well. Nel said the biggest challenge as a director is helping her cast understand the mature topics she’s trying to portray, but the payoff is huge when they finally get it. “The exciting part is the kids learn to empathize with these situations beyond their immediate focus. They’re forced to consider other peoples thoughts and try on other people’s situations,” she said. Of course, not every character has to wade through such meaty topics, and there are a number of “kooky characters” to keep the audience laughing throughout the performance. The two groups will alternate performances between Thursday, Dec. 8 and Sunday, Dec. 11. Evening and matinee performances will be held at the Old Town Hall in Metcalfe. Tickets are available at www.justkiddintheatre.com.

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Kemptville resident Noah McEvoy plays Albert Williams, a crotchety and stubborn father in King of the Castle. This is McEvoy’s second time playing the character, who first appeared on Just Kiddin Theatre’s stage in the 2008 production Father Figure.

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Broderick McRae, left, joins Noah McEvoy and Nick McKenzie in rehearsal for King of the Castle, Just Kiddin Theatre’s latest play. The young actors portray three generations of Williams men confirming the adage ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.’

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Small mistakes put smudge on solid Jr. Senators run MATTHEW JAY matthew.jay@metroland.com

While the Ottawa Jr. Senators have managed to put to rest many of the inconsistencies that plagued them over the past six weeks, a series of lapses in an otherwise even game against the Brockville Braves put a blemish on their recent success. After limping through the second half of October and first two weeks of November with only three wins in 12 games, the Jr. Sens have picked up points in their last four games, including a 4-3 loss in overtime to the Braves at the Jim Durrell Complex on Nov. 23 and a 7-4 victory over the 73’s in Kemptville two days later

Despite getting out to an early lead through a goal from Ben Robillard only 1:56 into the first period, a careless turnover by forward Devon Rice allowed Braves defenceman Zach Todd to score on an odd-man breakaway midway through the period. Braves leading scorer Ben Blasko made it 2-1 for Brockville with about two minutes left in the first after weaving through several Jr. Senators players and sliding the puck past a sprawling Eddie Zdolshek, who appeared to misjudge his positioning in the Ottawa net. Ottawa looked a better team as they came out for the second, however, and regained their lead before the halfway mark of the period.

Deric Boudreau made the most of a Conor Brown pass to even the score at 2-2 after about five minutes and Drew Anderson caught Brockville goalie Andrew Pikul out of his net on a wrap-around to score his 15th goal of the season and put the home team ahead 3-2. The lead would only last until the 13:08 mark of the third, when centre Hayden Hulton capitalized for the Braves on the power play to knot the score at 3-3. “We didn’t come out to play in the first period,” said Jr. Sens head coach Rick Dorval after the game. “Instead of being ahead in the first period and continuing to play hard throughout the game, we had to play catch-up in the second and I think we ba-

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sically tired ourselves out. We didn’t have much juice in the third period.” In overtime, Brockville completed their comeback with less than a minute remaining, with winger Mike DeBello took a quick pass from David Ferreira following a turnover and scored past Zdolshek on the ensuing breakaway. “We came out of a slump and we’re playing some pretty good hockey,” Dorval said. “We deserved those two points tonight. A couple mental lapses and that’s the difference.” Those lapses cropped up again in overtime, according to Dorval. “That overtime winning goal is not acceptable,” he said. “You put some of those guys out there to do the job and they’re the guys that fail you. It seems to be the issue every night here that when things aren’t going well, it’s the guys that are supposed to carry the load here that are letting the rest of these guys down.” On Nov. 25, against Kempt-

ville, the Jr. Sens allowed the 73’s to build up a 4-1 lead before storming back to win the game 7-4. Jeremie Gauthier scored the game-winning goal for Ottawa. Brown, Anderson, Dylan Giberson, Jonathon Buttitta, Thierry Gibeault and Trevor Packard also scored for the Jr. Sens, who got a first-star performance from captain Liam Burtt, who had three assists. Goaltender Charlie Millen got the win in his first action for the Jr. Sens this season, saving 12 of 16 shots. Despite the loss to Brockville, the recent results have been enough to keep Ottawa in second place in the Central Canada Hockey League’s Yzerman Division with 35 points going into Wednesday’s game against Cumberland, four ahead of the Pembroke Lumber Kings who have two games in hand. Overall, the Jr. Senators currently occupy fifth position in the league, but are eight points behind the fourth-place Cornwall Colts and 15 points behind the league and division-leading Nepean Raiders.

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To settle the Estate of the late Dr. T.W. Humphries Antiques: (2) cabinets; (2) wing back chairs; sofa; secretary desk; tea cart; curio cabinet; (4) misc. chairs; telephone table & chair; grandmother clock; round wood table & 3 chairs; rocking chair; trunk; Thunder jug; Royal Albert dishes; Royal Doulton figurines; large quantity of pin wheel crystal; (12) oil paintings; wash set Furniture: wood dining room set w/6 chairs & hutch; cloth sofa and chair; leather sofa & loveseat; (2) Sony flat screen tv’s (30” & 40”); (2) recliner chairs; (2) coffee tables & end table sets; 3 pc entertainment centre; bedroom set (single bed, 2 bureaus, dresser, mirror & desk); girls canopy bed, dresser, bureau & mirror; (2) wooden single beds, dresser & bureau; (2) knick knack shelves; (2) ottomans; (2) dressers; nesting tables; buffet; (2) bar stools; treadmill; exercise bike; desk; vacuums; (10) lamps; assorted dishes; (10) wall mirrors; fans; knick knacks; laundry hamper; fans; area rugs Miscellaneous: Kubota GR 2100 diesel lawn tractor, power steering, hydraulic deck, approximately 2 years old; walk behind snow blower; mitre saw; shop vaccum; misc. tools; chain fall; garden tools; ladders; window air conditioner Restaurant Equipment: Habco Fridge (2 dr); Blodgett Oven; stainless steel tables; small freezer; misc. kitchen items Seized Property: iphone; stroller; scooter; gps; small tools; ipod; binoculars; playstation; watches

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We welcome your submissions of upcoming community, non-profit events. Please email events to OTWevents@ metroland.com by 4:30 p.m. Friday.

•DECEMBER 3: The snow has arrived and we would like to invite you to the Osgoode Township Museum for some of our exciting Winter Workshops guaranteed to get you into the HOLIDAY SPIRIT! On Saturday, Dec. 3 the adult and teen Christmas Lantern Workshop will teach you how to make various types of fun and festive Christmas lanterns to decorate your home. Program is $25 per person and runs from 1 to 4 p.m. Please call the museum at (613) 821-4062 to register. The Osgoode Township Museum is located at 7814 Lawrence Street (corner of Bank Street / Hwy 31) at the flashing light in Vernon. The Riverside South Community Association will host its annual Breakfast with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 3 between 9 and 11 a.m. at the Rideauview Community Centre. Bring a new, unwrapped toy for the toy mountain and visit with Santa for a photo. Come back at 5:30 p.m. for sleigh rides, carols and hot chocolate. Don’t forget to turn on your Christmas lights for the neighbourhood lighting competition. Register in advance for sleigh rides and the lights contest at www.riversidesouth.org. The Osgoode Cooperative Nursery School’s Annual Breakfast with Santa and Silent Auction will take place on

Saturday, Dec. 3 from 7 to11 a.m. at the Osgoode Community Center. Join us and get your picture taken with Santa, enjoy some yummy breakfast and shop our exciting silent auction. Please contact ocns_publicity@yahoo.ca for more information. Sleigh decorating contest, Santa Claus Parade, OYA Christmas festivities, and Flick the Switch party at Osgoode Public School to follow in the afternoon and evening.

•DECEMBER 3-4: The Our Lady of the Visitation parish hall at 5338 Bank St. will host its annual bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 3 and Sunday, Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. To rent a table for the event, contact Marie Trojan at 613-822-1777.

•DECEMBER 4: The Findlay Creek Community Association will host its annual Breakfast with Santa on Sunday, Dec. 4 with three sittings between 8 and noon at Fred Barrett arena. Santa will be available for photos and kids can decorate cookies and enjoy some live music. Tickets are $8 for nonmembers and $5 for members. Ticket information at www.findlaycreek.ca. Our Lady of the Visitation church on Bank Street will host its Three Choir Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 4 at 3 p.m. Enjoy performances from the Concordia German-Canadian Male Chorus, the Ottawa-Carleton Male Choir and the Our Lady of the Visitation Children’s Choir.

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