2012: The year that was
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Board OKs plan to address overcrowding Continued from page 5
• On April 16, the city’s library board approved $140,000 for the Hazeldean branch of the Ottawa Public Library to become the first branch to feature radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to track books. Instead of using bar codes that must be scanned manually, the RFID tags send out a signal that allows books and other materials to be tracked automatically when they are checked out and leave the library branch and when they are returned. • Recreational players and former pros in the National Hockey League and Canadian Women’s Hockey League laced up their skates to participate in Hockey Helps the Homeless Ottawa at the Bell Sensplex on April 20. • The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board approved a plan to address chronic overcrowding in Kanata schools on April 24. Trustees approved a plan that called for additions to South March Public School and Earl of March Secondary School as well as changes to boundaries and programs for elementary schools. The board also approved construction of a new elementary school in Kanata north and changes to Glen Cairn Public School, making
it an intermediate school for grades 7 and 8 students starting in 2013. • For the second time in four months, a capacity crowd turned out to voice opposition to a proposal to build a highrise apartment on Teron Road and The Parkway in Kanata. About 200 people filled the hall at the Mlacak Centre on April 30 to openly express displeasure with a proposed zoning by-law amendment application to make way for a nine-storey apartment complex. Kanata founding developer Bill Teron had the overwhelming support of the audience as he read a prepared statement against the submission on the grounds that it is not in keeping with the community vision. May
• A junior kindergarten class at W. Erskine Johnston Public School taped the hatching of chickens and live streamed it over the web, allowing parents and people across the world to monitor the class project. Jo-Anne Pulley, the class’s teacher, went live with a web cam focused on an incubator containing 16 eggs which were provided by a farmer in Kinburn on May 2.
• Disney star Jasmine Richards was at Earl of March Secondary School on May 7 to perform her single You Have the Power to Earl of March and A.Y. Jackson students. Richards is known for her roles in Camp Rock and Naturally Sadie. • A Quebec man dressed as a knight and his horse visited the children at the Kanata Montessori School in Glen Cairn on May 11. Vincent Gabriel Kirouac, 23, stopped off at the private school during his cross-country journey to promote chivalry. • Skateboarders of all ages viewed two potential designs of the new skateboard park for the Richcraft Recreational Complex during a public meeting at the Mlacak Centre on May 23. • A Glen Cairn woman scored the runner’s version of a hat trick during the Ottawa Race Weekend on May 26. Leah Larocque won the women’s five-kilometre race, her third in a row since she first competed in the event in 2010. The 23-year-old finished with a time of 17:36, more than a minute ahead of her closest competitor, Ioulia Nikonorova, who finished with a time of 18:37. See KANATA, page 7
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Lucinda Nowell’s first season in the national level stream provided more than the 15-year-old Kanata Rhythmic Gymnastics Club athlete could have asked for as she competes in the Canadian senior championships May 22-26 in Regina.
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