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EMC news - A group of Ottawa-area paddlers are making the trek of a lifetime, paddling in a canoe from Ottawa’s Victoria Island to the capital of the U.S.A., Washington, D.C. as a part of the Capital to Capitol by Canoe trip.

Covering about 50 kilometres a day, the group will paddle on rivers, lakes, canals, harbours and bays, They’ll cover the St. Lawrence Seaway, Lake Champlain, the Hudson River and Chesapeake Bay, and anticipate arriving in Washington in six weeks.

It’s a diverse and varied group that ranges from Westboro canoe adventurer Max Finkelstein and his 13-yearold son Isaac, to American paddlers meeting with the crew along the way.

Some of the paddlers have been friends for years, while others are just getting to know each other now as teammates.

Their reasons for taking the trip are as diverse as the crew, but they primarily focus on respect for water as a resource and the protection of the waterways and history surrounding them.

“What brought us together is, despite our backgrounds, we all recognize water as the most valuable resource,” said paddler Nicholas Tilgner, who has worked as a guide on the Yukon River.

Group members hope they can draw attention to the need to restore the rivers by making the trip, which is supported by the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

This includes Canada and the United States working together to have ecologically healthy rivers running between the two countries.

Dot Bonnenfant, one of the paddlers, said that there is a forgotten history along many of Canada’s waterways.

The group incorporated this information into the official launch, made from Victoria Island on Aug. 5.

As the trip is dedicated to Algonquin elder grandfather William Commanda, his daughter, Algonquin elder Evelyne Commanda was at Victoria Island to perform a blessing.

Victoria Island was the launch site for the group because it has been the traditional spiritual meeting ground for the Algonquin people for centuries; many of whom travelled the Ottawa River.

“This is pretty important history to us, and it’s lost.

People take this for granted,” said Glebe resident and former city councillor Clive Doucet as he motioned to the Ottawa River.

The first-day paddle saw them travel to Orléans, where they camped at Petrie Island, hosted by volunteer group Friends of Petrie Island.

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Beacon Hill resident Norm Radford, a retired federal employee, will paddle from Ottawa to Washington, D.C. as a part of the Capital to Capitol project.

Car falls into sinkhole on highway 174 Crews were cleaning pipe before collapse A paralympian reaches a goal at the finish line in London.

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EMC news - The peak of rush hour came to a halt on Sept. 4 at 5 p.m. when a car fell into a sinkhole on highway 174.

Mayor Jim Watson announced the city found a supplier for 18 sections of sewer pipe needed to fix the damage

caused by the sinkhole two days later, on Sept. 6.

The city had difficulty finding a supplier for the 3.6-metre diameter pipe.

“I completely understand the aggravation that people are experiencing as everyday life is disrupted by this failure of infrastructure,” Watson said at a press conference. “We fully understand the need to get this fixed as quickly as humanly possible.”

The section of pipe under the eastbound lanes of highway 174 was slated for a $1.5-million renewal and crews were on site for the first time cleaning the pipe hours before the sinkhole

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The storm sewer pipe under the westbound lanes is newer, dating to about 1975, and is not at risk of a similar collapse, Gonthier said. The pipe that failed was 50 years old.

The sinkhole is located on the eastbound Jeanne d’Arc off-ramp off the highway.

One car went into the sinkhole, with the only a portion of the rear bumper left above ground.

The sole occupant of the car, a 48-

year-old man, was able to exit the car on his own, and was able to exit the sinkhole with help from bystanders.

Fire department spokesperson Marc Messier said the driver told firefighters he noticed a dark spot on the road, but was unsure of what is was, thinking it could be fresh asphalt.

“He had started slowing down due to traffic on the on-ramp,” Messier said.

“When he got up close to it, he realized it was collapsing and couldn’t stop.”

After being treated by paramedics for a minor leg injury, he was released.

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It wasn’t far from home for Beacon Hill’s Norm Radford, who is ready for the entire journey from one capital city to another.

Now retired, Radford has participated in long distance cycling trips and is a former marathon runner.

He said he’s looking forward “to an adventure of a lifetime (for) such a worthy and important cause.”

Group members will change as the trip goes on, with some members joining for certain legs, and other guest paddlers joining in for several days at times.

The 11-metre canoe will hold eight to 12 paddlers at a time, and will occasionally leave the water when needed to drive to the next river or passageway on the group’s route.

Tourists may be in for a shock they see the canoe approach the New York harbour, which will likely be the most challenging part of the route, said Tilgner, with a sharp contrast to the remote northern routes he is used to navigating.

“No one makes this kind of trip, ever. This will be the first time as far as we know, that anyone has ever done this,” Doucet said. “It’s a way of keeping our rivers healthy.”

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He declined transportation to hospital. Fire crews and police then off the portion of the highway, as it came to a standstill from the 417-174 split to Montreal Road.

After firefighters cleared the area and secured the perimeter, they turned the site over to city crews to determine the source of the problem. City crews were on location into the night to assess the cause of the collapse and begin making repairs.

The car moved a few metres down the pipe and was soon settled under the eastbound lanes near the highway median, Gonthier said. The city encourages commuters to take OC Transpo, which will be given priority use of the remaining highway lanes, and stagger commute times to reduce the amount of traffic congestion.

The first two sections of pipe were scheduled to arrive in Ottawa on Sept. 7, with the remaining sections shipped throughout this week.

The city’s infrastructure manager, Alain Gonthier, said the city does not know how

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EMC - The Cardinal Creek Business Association held their second meeting at the Portabello Manor, and heard an update on plans for Trim Road construction and from Invest Ottawa.

Joe Mojsej, senior project

manager with the city, gave a presentation on the Trim Road construction.

He said it will be a twoyear project, but because only two lanes will be worked on a time, allowing Trim Road to stay open for the duration of the project.

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to St. Joseph Boulevard will cause a 75-day closure to the road from the eastbound highway 174 on-ramp to Taylor Creek Drive.

The exact timeline for the road closure is still unknown at the time in that two-year window, he said.

Business owners expressed concern that there wouldn’t be enough notice of traffic rerouting, and that they would be surprised by road closures.

Mojsej said that some of the past Orléans road closures businesses referred to were

developer-based, while this is a city-run project.

He talked about the city’s methods of communication with affected residents and said that there would be specified block captains, or delegates, who would be receiving regular updates.

“We’ve been planning this for a year and a half,” Mojsej said of the Trim Road realignment project.

He said that the city would take measures to ensure that businesses are still as accessible as possible during the

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Projects are fluid, and some timelines and traffic patterns are due to change, Mojsej said.

During Ottawa’s Bank Street reconstruction, there were more challenges because the street was much more narrow than Trim Road, and entire sections had to be closed.

Biggest risks to delays are unplanned events and realty acquisitions not completed in time, he said.

He also answered questions concerning power outages, and explained that occasionally, lines are severed during road construction.

He was scheduled to meet with the Cardinal Creek Community Association on Sept. 12 to discuss impact to homeowners. Some homes may have driveways slightly relocated and may experience water disruptions.

The Trim Road construction will likely start at the end of September or early October, if contracts can be finalized.

The group also heard from Peter Stewart from Invest Ot-

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Stewart said that since restructuring and renaming the former Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI), the group has become more east-end friendly.

Invest Ottawa’s mandate does not exclusively focus on high-tech companies, as OCRI did.

Stewart talked about the importance of communication with customers during the Trim Road construction.

“What’s really important is that you get it out to customers,” he said. “It’s for your customers, it’s for your business. If they get there and you’re complaining, it’s easier for them to go the other way.”

He also talked about different resources that businesses can use, including frequent presentations geared towards small business owners.

A full schedule can be found at www.investottawa. ca.

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EMC news - The pilot of a single-engine plane was able to walk away from an emergency landing in a dirt field on the afternoon of Sept. 5, crediting his training for the safe end of his solo trip.

The plane remained upright during the landing, skimming over the hard dirt and the remaining stumps of hundreds of corn stalks that appeared to have been harvested recently.

The 1997-model Katana two-seater lost power shortly after takeoff from Ottawa airport, said Ottawa fire department acting district Chief Donald Smith.

“He took off on a test flight and had engine trouble and lost power,” Smith said. “He tried to get back to the airport.”

The pilot avoided nearby power lines before landing in a plowed section of field northeast of the intersection of Fallowfield and Merivale roads.

“He did a great job,” Smith said of the landing, adding there was little damage to the plane and the pilot was feeling fine despite the challenging landing.

The male pilot, who did not identify himself, was wearing a shirt with an Ottawa Aviation Services logo when he walked out of the field.

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EMC news - Thanh Hai Ngo was one of five people recently appointed to the Canadian Senate.

Ngo was one of two appointees from Ontario and is the first Vietnamese-Canadian senator in Canadian history.

The Orleans man is a former teacher and was chair of the Employment Insurance Board of Referees and a citizenship judge.

Ngo immigrated to Canada after fleeing the communist takeover in Vietnam. He remains active in various Vietnamese communities across the country.

He founded the Ottawa Vietnamese Non-Profit Residence Corporation which provides housing with rents geared to income for seniors and low-income families.

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Kiwanis Idol hosts competition at Place d’Orléans Brier Dodge

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EMC news - One Orléans singer made the top 11 performers at the Kiwanis Idol competition held at Place d’Orléans on Sept. 1 and 2.

Michelle Treacy, 16, qualified for the top 11 singers in the competition after the round of 22, held on Sept. 1.

The top 22 singers were chosen after earlier auditions held at the Merivale Mall in July and August.

It wasn’t the first year for Treacy to take part in the annual talent competition; she performed in the Kiwanis Idol Red Carpet Concert that took place on June 30 at Scotiabank Place with the top singers from the 2011 competition.

She placed in the top five in the 2011 competition, and qualified for the top 22 in 2010.

Treacy said she enjoys performing a wide range of songs, but her idol is Lady Gaga.

“I like her messages that

she sends out,” she said. “She taught me that even if there are five people watching, always perform like you’re in front of 30,000.”

She hopes to one day be performing for 30,000 people, with a dream of one day selling out Madison Square Garden in New York City.

She’s already crossed over the border to expand her music career, just returning from a month in Los Angeles to network and work with different producers.

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“Now I’m trying to really write my own music by myself and see how that goes,” she said, adding that she’d love to sing one of her own songs at a future showcase at Scotiabank Place.

“I’m working very hard, I’m going to get that dream one day,” Treacy said. “It’s going to happen, no doubt in my mind.”

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In Ottawa’s rural areas, involvement in the 4-H clubs that give kids hands-on agricultural experiences have remained steady. Cooper said the Metcalfe area’s participation rates, particularly in the dairy sector, are as high as they’ve ever been, if not higher.

She said part of the fair’s strength comes from its adaptability. The Metcalfe Fair will celebrate 156 years this September – an anniversary that predates both the city of Ottawa and the formation of Canada.

While it has stuck to its rural roots with horse, cattle and sheep shows every day, a fiddle and step-dance competition and popular competitions for best pie, biggest pumpkin and best quilt (among many other categories), it has also embraced what modern audiences want, said Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson. “I find the executives are very progressive minded, they’re always looking to the

future. New attractions, they’re always looking for new ideas,� he said.

The fair has added a popular demolition derby that draws crowds on the fair’s opening night, and over the years has added attractions like a fashion show, tractor pulls and lawnmower races. This year it will add a classic car show and a truck pull, and has adopted the marketing motto, ‘Make it your fair.’ The Arnprior Fair, which took place August 9 to 12, also features a demolition derby and truck and tractor pulls alongside the traditional livestock and exhibit halls.

The Navan Fair, which ran the same weekend, added a ladies’ minivan class to their demolition derby this year.

The Richmond Fair, which takes place Sept. 13 to 16, even has a BMX bike show in their lineup, as well as a youth talent show.

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EMC news – We may be living in an increasingly urban world, but the rural fair isn’t going anywhere – at least not in Ottawa.

Indeed, the educational opportunities at agricultural fairs are even more important than ever, according to Metcalfe Fair spokesperson Cheryl Cooper.

She said that as more kids grow up in the city, rural agricultural fairs play an important role in showing the next generation where their food comes from. “Fifty or 75 years ago most people came from a farm. Now we need to actively teach that (farm knowledge),� she said. “Not everybody has the opportunity...to grow vegetables or to see a giant pumpkin.�

The Metcalfe Fair offers an annual ‘Barn Door Exhibit’ that welcomes schoolchildren to see and touch the produce that ends up on their dinner tables. Livestock farmers bring their cows, sheep, pigs, rabbits and chickens and other producers showcase their grains, wool and other items that most kids would rarely see.

And it’s not just rural families coming to the fair.

Cooper said that as the idea of eating locally takes hold, more and more urban families are bringing their kids to the weekly farmers’ market and to the annual fair to see first hand what farmers do. “Certainly they’re bringing their families and they want their children to learn where their food is coming from. It’s not just for the rides and the midway,� she said.

The city’s environmental movement is leading this charge to embrace local produce. Savour Ottawa is a collaboration of area farmers that provides a resource for consumers looking to buy local, sustainable food. The theme for Ecology Ottawa’s 2012 Eco Gala in October is ‘Celebrate Local Harvests’ and will include a four-course meal sourced from local producers.

A new farmers’ market popped up in Manotick this summer to promote local and sustainable produce.

have a midway and evening entertainment.

She said maintaining the focus on the fair’s rural traditions is more important than ever. “The exhibitors of livestock are getting less and less, but there’s more and more people who need to know where their food is coming from. So we’re educating people that way,� she said.

She said the fair’s biggest challenge is the encroachment of subdivisions and development. “At one time we were sitting pretty in the town of Carp, and we weren’t totally surrounded by houses,� she said. “There are subdivisions around every agricultural ground now.

So we, the organizers of agricultural fairs, are growing (but) we have to work within our boundaries of being landlocked.�

The Carp fair, for the time being, has solved this problem by limiting on-site parking and shuttling visitors to the fair from off-site parking instead.

Cooper said no matter the challenges, area fairs are still going strong – and Metcalfe’s especially. “We’re the oldest and certainly the last fair of the year,� she said. “As other agricultural events have seen their end, we took on the regional shows ... and that gives us some added strength.�

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ndertaking the task of re-drawing federal electoral boundaries is surely daunting, but it serves to ensure all Canadians are as equitably represented in the House of Commons as possible.

While the recent announcement of a proposed federal electoral map makes several positive moves for voters in the city of Ottawa, it also fails to address an issue that many residents of this city can relate

to: the urban-suburban-rural divides.

The total number of electoral districts required in Ontario has grown by 15 to 121, triggered by 2011 census data showing this province’s population has grown by more than 1.4 million since 2001.

According to the proposal created by a federal electoral boundaries commission, a number of new ridings have been created in areas of dramatic population growth across the province. Some ex-

isting riding boundaries have likewise been adjusted.

Among them are the proposed new riding of Nepean and the renamed riding of Carleton-Kanata, formerly Carleton-Mississippi Mills.

There are positive aspects to both of these moves, but they were easy decisions to make.

Move the western border of the renamed Carleton-Kanata riding to the city limits, break off the well-populated suburban chunk of the massive Nepean-Carleton riding and

name it Nepean. Job done.

But there are missed opportunities here. Residents in rural places like Carp, Fitzroy Harbour and Dunrobin are still at the mercy of the suburban voters in Kanata. The voices of voters in Dwyer Hill, North Gower and Metcalfe are still drowned out by residents of Stittsville, Riverside South and Greely – larger, denser suburban nooks in what is mainly a rural riding.

The situation is slightly dif-

ferent in the east end, where pockets of voters in places like Cumberland, Carlsbad Springs, Vars and Sarsfield remain in the sprawling Glengarry-Prescott-Russell riding, despite the fact they pay city property taxes.

These examples stand out as missed opportunities for the commission, opportunities to ensure voters receive fair, balanced representation in the House of Commons.

Presently, it must be difficult for an MP, such as

Nepean-Carleton’s Pierre Poilievre or Carleton-Mississippi Mills’ Gordon O’Connor to balance the way they represent their constituents. They are beholden to two different viewpoints, but one of those viewpoints gets them elected, the other – owing to their smaller numbers – doesn’t.

The federal electoral boundaries commission should be doing its utmost to make this balancing act easier for our elected officials, so they can serve an electorate with common concerns.

If it involves redrawing the entire Ottawa electoral map to ensure the population is balanced, so be it.

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Giving a nod to the wave CHARLES GORDON Funny Town

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aving is important. We don’t do it enough either.

The other day, in one of those inevitable construction lineups on Highway 7, I watched the guy in front of me wave to the flagman as we started moving after a long delay. The flagman waved back. I waved too. He waved back at me.

It was nice. Now, what did it mean? What were we all saying to each other? The guy in front, was he saying “thanks for waving me on, for changing the STOP sing to the SLOW sign�? Or was he saying: “No hard feelings: it’s not your fault I had to sit here for five minutes.� Or was he saying: “Thanks for standing out in the hot sun all day so that all of us don’t go crunching into some construction machinery?�

What about the flag guy? Was he saying “thanks for being so patient� or was he saying “thanks for waving?�

It could have been any or all of that, or none of it. Probably what mattered most of all was that we were human beings acknowledging that we’re all in this together, which, when you think about it, we don’t do often enough.

On our lakes there is an old tradition that people in boats wave at people in other boats as they pass. Who knows what that means, perhaps something about members of the community of boaters saluting each other. The funny thing is you notice it when it doesn’t happen. And if it does happen, it can change the way you think about the other boater.

Say he’s driving some great big noisy overpowered ocean liner of a boat that you think

has no business being on a lake this size. And as you’re thinking that, he gives you a friendly wave. Oh well, you think, at least he waved.

Waving is a connection. Sometimes it’s an unpleasant connection, such as the well-known one-finger wave which usually occurs in traffic. Other times the connection is fleeting and distant. Children wave at a passing train.

Passengers wave back. What does it mean for either of them? Yet they couldn’t not do it.

The wave as “thank you� figures prominently in our daily lives. You know the situation: You’re coming out of a gas station or a side street into a heavy stream of traffic and somebody slows to let you in. When you are safely into the traffic, you wave your thanks.

With your whole hand. And you mean it.

Without people like that, willing to give up a few seconds of their busy lives, we’d be living in chaos, gridlock interrupted by some people barging into traffic and others slamming on their brakes.

There would be a lot more one-finger waving then.

The funny thing is that, even though the sacrifice we make in letting someone in is tiny, we still expect to be thanked for it. We want to see that wave. When we don’t, we are annoyed. “Wave, dammit,� we mutter from behind the steering wheel.

The same thing goes for when we hold open a door for someone. It’s certainly no trouble, but we expect thanks for it. It may be sheer vanity but it may also be that we like people to acknowledge that we exist.

Such acknowledgement is all the more important in an age when so many of our dealings are with computers, robots and other gizmos that know us only as a number, if at all.

So we wave our thanks and feel thankful for waves. Mind you, for some of us, no thanks are required. Simply doing the good deed is reward enough.

Those would be the saints among us. Too bad more of us are not like that, but then we’d all be saints and who would we look up to?

And who would we look down at?

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adults -- as measured by their ability to hold down jobs or acquire post-secondary degrees -- while others seem stuck in the endless cycle of generational poverty.

Tough cites a number of sociological experiments that suggest that emphasizing things like problem-solving, empathy and morals early on can make all the difference.

To put my own spin on his findings, it would seem that kids who face adversity, but are taught ways to deal with it, emerge with a lot more â&#x20AC;&#x153;grit,â&#x20AC;? to use Toughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word, which is essentially the resilience to deal with lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sometimes harsh realities.

On the other hand, those who face daily adversity in an unsupportive environment and those sheltered from failure â&#x20AC;&#x201C; such as the majority of kids in middle-class families â&#x20AC;&#x201C; donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to have what it takes to eventually become well-functioning adults.

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Given the number of external influences that contribute to the shaping of personality, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely minimal. But at the very least, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth thinking about how to provide opportunities for our kids to botch something completely once in a while. Flat cupcakes may just be a good place to start.

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between our ability to sink or swim as adults. In How Children Succeed, Tough provides an overview of neurological and psychological research studies that seem to suggest how well we eventually cope â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in school, work and society -- comes down to certain personality traits we acquire as children â&#x20AC;&#x201C; notably, curiosity, persistence, grit, self-control, delayed gratification and conscientiousness.

Unlike cognitive skills that can typically be taught through rote learning and measured by IQ and standardized tests, these non-cognitive functions are harder to assess and perhaps even more difficult to teach.

As the above cupcake example demonstrates, fostering these personality traits can take time. And it can be difficult, if not impossible, to acquire these skills in our middle-class world where there seems to be no room for failure.

The paradox â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the subject of Toughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, which is essentially about education reform in the United States -- is that a lot of kids face adversity every day. Poverty, violence and substance-abuse are the norm for many children. What Tough sought to figure out is why some kids in these environments emerge to become highly functional

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friend recently posted on Facebook that her four-year-old son botched a batch of cupcakes for his playgroup. To ward off disappointment, she baked another batch on the sly and allowed her son to pass them off as his own. He proudly marched into the playgroup party the following afternoon, bragging about his newly-acquired baking skills, none-the-wiser about his momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stealth cooking exercise.

Reactions from our mutual friends ranged from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so sweet!â&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the best mom ever!â&#x20AC;?

But I think she missed a golden opportunity.

What if, instead of protecting him from his failure, she had told him overtly that he had failed? What if they had spent the next half hour discussing the reasons why the cupcakes didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rise in the oven? What if they had tried to find ways to make the failed batch into something successful â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a little icing to hide the flat tops, perhaps?

What if they had baked the second batch together to see if they could correct their mistakes from the first round?

The takeaways from this innocent little baking exercise could have been far more rewarding. Like science experiments, cooking offers a chance to learn how to deal with failure in a relatively safe space.

And according to a new book by author and Canadian-born journalist Paul Tough, learning to handle adversity when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re young may mark the difference

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Students hold benefit concert for former music teacher Fundraiser to help pay for music therapy Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

EMC news - After undergoing major brain surgery, friends and family of an Old Ottawa South music teacher want to use music to help her on the road to recovery.

The benefit concert is in honour of former Hopewell Avenue Public School music teacher Allison Woyiwada and will look to raise money to help with medical expenses and post-surgery therapy costs.

The concert will take place at the Southminster United Church on Sept. 22 and the money raised will help to pay for therapy and accommodation costs at the restorative program at Saint-Vincent Hospital.

Woyiwada’s daughter, Marya Woyiwada, has rallied her mother’s friends, family, former students and colleagues to help.

“I sent everybody an email and didn’t have a single person say no,” Marya said. “I have no real monetary goal set for the concert, I am just hoping lots of people would open their hearts and wallets and help provide her the best rehabilitation possible.”

Marya said that without fundraising, her mother has few options available for therapy.

“Nothing is really covered, aside from her hospital stay, everything

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When Allison Wayiwada retired from Hopewell Avenue Public School in 2008 her students awarded her with an Oscar. A benefit concert on Sept. 22 will be held in honour of the former music teacher to aid in the costs associated with post-aneurysm surgery. has to be paid out of pocket,” she said.

Woyiwada taught for 28 years at Hopewell before retiring in 2008.

The passionate music teacher continued to pursue her love for music

with performances and directing for the Savoy Society of Ottawa.

She was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm in December 2011 and underwent surgery in May. Since the surgery, Marya said the road to

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recovery has been tough and watching her mother’s ordeal, Woyiwada wants to ensure once she is released from the hospital the best type of care is waiting for her.

“It has been like two steps for-

ward and then two steps back,” she said. “It has felt a little bit like a rollercoaster ride.”

Former student and trumpeter Nick Cochrane will be among those performing at the concert.

“I immediately wanted to help,” he said. “I know with the years of teaching she has been involved with so many students, I can’t imagine it will be a problem to get people to the concert, or contribute to the cause.”

It was when he was in Woyiwada’s class that he first picked up the trumpet. Now more than 12 years later as a graduate of the University of Ottawa’s music program, Cochrane said he credits his former teacher for the inspiration to pursue a career in music.

“Studying with her has given me a really solid foundation and encouragement to keep playing,” Cochrane said.

“The amount of benefit I got, from the work she did when I was a student, defied expectation.”

Cochrane will not be the only former student performing. The Hopewell school jazz band will perform the opening number at the concert.

Tickets for the concert can be purchased at the Ottawa Folklore Centre or online at woyiwada.blogspot.ca, where a full list of the performers is available. The concert begins at 7 p.m. A trust account has also been established for Allison and donations can be made payable to Robert McMechan, marked “in trust for Allison”, 28 Glengarry Rd., Ottawa, K1S 0L5.

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EMC news - The pilot of a single-engine plane was able to walk away from an emergency landing in a dirt field on the afternoon of Sept. 5, crediting his training for the safe end of his solo trip.

The plane remained upright during the landing, skimming over the hard dirt and the remaining stumps of hundreds of corn stalks that appeared to have been harvested recently.

The 1997-model Katana two-seater lost power shortly after takeoff from Ottawa airport, said Ottawa fire department acting district Chief Donald Smith.

“He took off on a test flight and had engine trouble and lost power,” Smith said. “He tried to get back to the airport.”

The pilot avoided nearby power lines before landing in a plowed section of field northeast of the intersection of Fallowfield and Merivale roads.

“He did a great job,” Smith said of the landing, adding there was little damage to the plane and the pilot was feeling fine despite the challenging landing.

The male pilot, who did not identify himself, was wearing a shirt with an Ottawa Aviation Services logo when he walked out of the field.

The pilot of a small, singleengine plane, in red, walks away after an emergency landing in a Nepean corn field on Sept. 5. The pilot was the sole occupant and was uninjured.

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EMC news - Thanh Hai Ngo was one of five people recently appointed to the Canadian Senate.

Ngo was one of two appointees from Ontario and is the first Vietnamese-Canadian senator in Canadian history.

The Orleans man is a former teacher and was chair of the Employment Insurance Board of Referees and a citizenship judge.

Ngo immigrated to Canada after fleeing the communist takeover in Vietnam. He remains active in various Vietnamese communities across the country.

He founded the Ottawa Vietnamese Non-Profit Residence Corporation which provides housing with rents geared to income for seniors and low-income families.

Ngo is also co-founder of the International Committee

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EMC news - One Orléans singer made the top 11 performers at the Kiwanis Idol competition held at Place d’Orléans on Sept. 1 and 2.

Michelle Treacy, 16, qualified for the top 11 singers in the competition after the round of 22, held on Sept. 1.

The top 22 singers were chosen after earlier auditions held at the Merivale Mall in July and August.

It wasn’t the first year for Treacy to take part in the annual talent competition; she performed in the Kiwanis Idol Red Carpet Concert that took place on June 30 at Scotiabank Place with the top singers from the 2011 competition.

She placed in the top five in the 2011 competition, and qualified for the top 22 in 2010.

Treacy said she enjoys performing a wide range of songs, but her idol is Lady Gaga.

“I like her messages that

she sends out,” she said. “She taught me that even if there are five people watching, always perform like you’re in front of 30,000.”

She hopes to one day be performing for 30,000 people, with a dream of one day selling out Madison Square Garden in New York City.

She’s already crossed over the border to expand her music career, just returning from a month in Los Angeles to network and work with different producers.

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Using Skype, she’s been able to co-write her own songs with writers as far away as Australia.

“Now I’m trying to really write my own music by myself and see how that goes,” she said, adding that she’d love to sing one of her own songs at a future showcase at Scotiabank Place.

“I’m working very hard, I’m going to get that dream one day,” Treacy said. “It’s going to happen, no doubt in my mind.”

Orléans’ Meaghan LaGrandeur, 21, had also qualified for the top 22 singers who performed on Sept. 1.

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Police chief tours Beacon Hill-Cyrville Brier Dodge

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Pictured with OSU President, Bill Michalopulos are the winners of the annual OSU Graduate Bursary Award. Pictured from left to right are: Heather Ogilvie (Carleton University), Shannon Magee (Carleton University), Edson Lai (Queens University), Megan Lawson (Trent University).

Missing Gord Goodkey (Carleton University).

EMC news - Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau got a tour of the Beacon Hill-Cyrville ward from Coun. Tim Tierney on Aug. 31.

The tour took two-and-a-half hours and covered a range of issues in the ward.

“We basically went around the ward and I collected feedback from residents on where they figured some of the hot spots were,” Tierney said.

Overall, Tierney said the top concern in the ward is speeding.

On Sept. 4, he said he noticed an increased police presence in several residential areas that complained of speeding, most of which were also school zones.

They also discussed fast traffic on Blair Road, specifically between Ogilvie and Montreal roads.

“Obviously number one on the list is speeding,” Tierney said. “I highlighted a few.”

They also visited the NCC-owned boat launch on Blair Road, where late-night noise has been an issue.

Tierney said it’s just usual teenage shenanigans on Friday and Saturday evenings, but they discussed the idea of patrol cars doing checks on a more regular

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Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney, right, and Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau complete a ridealong through the ward on Aug. 31 to highlight some minor issues. basis.

Along Cyrville Road, several businesses have dealt with recent break and enters. They went to one of the businesses that had suffered a break-in, M&T Glass.

They discussed options to make break and enters more avoidable, such as put-

ting up extra lighting in outdoor areas – something M&T Glass has since done.

Tierney said the ride long was productive and he’s confident the chief is up to date on issues in the Beacon Hill-Cyrville area.

“He’s very concerned and he does follow up,” Tierney said.

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Sugar bowl was sometimes lacking Take a Veteran to Dinner MARY COOK T here was no doubt about it, Father needed a new suit.

The only one he owned was threadbare, and even though he hadn’t grown an inch, the cuffs on the legs were above his ankles.

No doubt because Mother had tried to wash it one Monday and now even the sleeves were too short. There was no getting around it. He needed a new suit, and the ad in the weekly Renfrew Mercury was just what the doctor ordered – three pieces for $14. Father said there was no money for such frivolity. Mother said going to the Lutheran Church on Sunday dressed like a tramp, raised the purchase well above frivolity.

I knew Mother had waited until the big wood box of hand-me-downs had come from Aunt Lizzie in Regina to make sure there wouldn’t be something suitable from Uncle Jack. But as always, whatever Uncle Jack once wore had to be severely altered before it would fit Father. Uncle Jack was about Father’s height, but there the similarity ended.

My sister Audrey said he looked like a pineapple. I have no idea how she knew what a pineapple looked like, because I never knew one to come into the house, but I did know Uncle Jack was more round than long. His arms were huge and hung well below his hips, and it always looked like he was carrying a bag of grain under his jacket.

Without altering the suit, you could put at least two of Father in it.

Now Mother, when she moved to the farm out in Northcote, tried her best to master the old pedal Singer sewing machine and she did

Mary Cook’s Memories well on simple things like clothes for Audrey and me, making aprons and even simple house dresses out of Dan River cotton, but when it came to trying to make Father fit into one of Uncle Jack’s suits, she failed miserably.

barns and Mother made sure my sister Audrey and I kept up with what was expected of us in the house too. But you’d think we were all getting a new outfit, not just Father, as the day of this major purchase drew closer.

It would be a long time before the blue sugar bowl had in it enough for what Father called a frivolity like a new suit.

Sunday morning saw him at the Lutheran Church in the same old suit he had worn for years.

It always ended up that the suits, after being taken apart, became jumpers or skirts for my sister and me.

The Mercury had come in the middle of the week and Mother said there was just about enough money in the blue sugar bowl in the back-to-the-wall cupboard to buy the suit. What was lacking would be made up when Mother peddled her eggs, butter and chickens on Saturday in Renfrew. So it was decided Saturday was the day Father would be getting his new $14 suit. The excitement ran high that week in our old log house in Northcote.

That didn’t mean we could ease off on the workload.

Chores were done as usual morning and night in the

Mother took the blue sugar bowl out of the cupboard a few days before we were to head into Renfrew. She dumped the coins out on the kitchen table with a couple crumpled $1 bills. Then she moved the money over to the top of the ice box and stacked the coins in little piles on top of the bills. The blue sugar bowl went back into the cupboard. She figured she’d have to sell at least four chickens, five or six pounds of butter, and six dozen eggs to make up the difference between what was sitting on the ice-box and what the suit would cost.

The day before we were to head into Renfrew, just before we were to sit down to eat at noon, Father came

into the kitchen with a long piece of harness in his hands.

He stood silently at the back door, never taking his eyes off it. “Broke. Just as I was putting it on Queenie. This is the piece I have fixed at least a dozen times. I’m afraid it won’t take another fixing.

Can’t use the team without it.”

He didn’t have to say any more. Mother went to the ice box and slid the coins into her hand with the bills.

She looked at it for a minute and walked over to the door and handed it to Father. It would take just about all of it to replace the worn-out harness that should have been replaced long before. Horses and their harness meant survival back in the 1930s. A farmer couldn’t farm without either.

Nothing more was said about the $14 suit. We went into Renfrew as usual on Saturday for our few supplies, bought only after Mother made her house calls along the back streets of the town with the cleaned chickens, butter and eggs. That day she had sticky buns as well.

It would be a long time before the blue sugar bowl had in it enough for what Father called a frivolity like a new suit. Sunday morning saw him at the Lutheran Church in the same old suit he had worn for years.

Mary Cook will be speaking on the “Joy of Memories” at the Friends of the Experimental Farm annual general meeting on Sept. 19. All are welcome to attend this free event at the Neatby Building, located at Carling Avenue and Maple Drive. Call 613-2303276 or visit friendsofthefarm. ca for more information.

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of the previous dinners, this year’s event in Ottawa will occur on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Tudor Hall in Ottawa. Cocktails will be available starting at 5 p.m., with dinner following at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $50 per person, but there is no cost for veterans and their spouses.

The evening will include an introduction of veterans in attendance, a dinner, a guest speaker and much reminiscing. For more information about this event, please visit www.veteransdinner.ca. Hosts and honourees may call 613-239-4035 to order tickets.

EMC news - The idea for Take a Veteran to Dinner Night was born of a strong desire to show appreciation of the efforts and sacrifices of Canadian veterans in past and current conflicts.

This non-partisan event is simply an opportunity for community members to personally thank area veterans and their spouses by treating them to dinner. That is, a host buys a veteran’s ticket as well as their own and both host and veteran attend the dinner together. Hosts often invite veteran and spouse couples when appropriate.

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Ottawa police warn of necklace thefts late morning or during the afternoon.

The male driver is described as about 55 years of age, of South Asian or Middle Eastern decent, with tanned skin.

One female suspect, approximately 25 to 30 years of age was described as South Asian, Middle Eastern or Hispanic, with tanned skin.

The second female suspect, approximately 50 to 60 years old, was described as South Asian, Middle Eastern or Hispanic, with tanned skin.

All three spoke English with an accent.

The male driver has used different vehicles which are either a dark colour four-door sedan or a white, gold or dark colour minivan.

If you are approached on the street by anyone wanting to sell you a gold necklace or any other jewelry, please refuse and report it to the Ottawa police at 613-230-6211.

Anyone with any information regarding these incidents is asked to contact the district investigation section at 613236-1222, ext.3566 or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477 (TIPS).

EMC news - Since Aug. 10, there have been 20 reported thefts by scam artists on the streets of Ottawa.

Police say the scam sees two female suspects approach a woman and ask for directions or attempt to sell a gold necklace.

The female suspects place the gold necklace over the victim’s neck, in some instances stating the necklace is a gift. When the suspects remove the necklace they had placed on the victim’s neck, they also remove the victim’s own gold necklace without their knowledge.

Only after the suspects have left the scene does the victim realized what just occurred. In some cases, a vehicle was involved whereby a male driver was seen picking up and dropping off two female suspects.

The theft of necklaces have occurred in different parts of the city, specifically in store parking lots and neighbourhood streets including the Villa Marconi Retirement Residence, Herongate Mall, Montfort Hospital and an Esso gas station on Prince of Wales Drive. These thefts have taken place predominantly either

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Stir in the flour until it forms a smooth paste. There’s no need to cook this mixture.

Add the milk all at once and stir well. Microwave on

high, uncovered, for four to five minutes. During this time, stir the sauce once every minute, scraping around the bottom of the bowl to mix in all the flour paste.

When the sauce is slightly thickened, cook it one to two minutes longer on high. This time, stir the sauce every 30 seconds to prevent lumps from forming and the sauce from boiling over. The sauce is done when it’s thickened and bubbly.

If you’re making creamed salmon on toast, place the 1/2 tsp. butter, frozen peas and onion in a small microwavesafe dish. Cover and cook on high for two minutes.

Stir the onion mixture and the salmon into the white sauce. Cook on high for one to two minutes longer, stirring every 30 seconds, to heat the salmon.

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The recipe is for a “basic white sauce,” and it’s made with three ingredients – butter, flour and milk.

In France, they call it “one of the great sauces,” but they also have another name for it – the “sauce mere” or “mother sauce.” And that’s probably the best name for this sauce because it’s the starting point for so many different recipes.

It can be flavoured with cheese, herbs, mustard or wine, and served over vegetables, meat, poultry or fish.

Although the basic white sauce has been used in both home and professional kitchens for years, it became a lot simpler to make with the introduction of the microwave oven.

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Everyone knows the creative process can be rewarding and fulfilling for adults without being messy. But, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it: sometime getting your hands dirty is half the fun. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just for kids anymore.

Whether you want your creativity to be mucky and yucky, or clean and pristine, there is bound to be something interesting near you listed in the City of Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Recreation eGuide available at ottawa.ca/recreationguide.

There is probably no better way to make a mess than through pottery.

Artists at the Nepean Visual Arts Centre produce more than 50,000 pieces of art each year. This year, some of them can be yours. Think about Discovering Your Voice in Clay, Sculptural Handbuilding or maybe a Wheel and Hanbuilding Combo.

For a splash of colour in your work area there are painting classes of various media offered across the city. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, you can work with oil, acrylic, watercolour or mixed media, explore abstract expression or classic portraiture.

Does Canvas and Cocktails sound appealing?

For something artistic and practical, learn to make a table, tray or mirror frame mosaic. Using stained glass tailored to suit the individual (beginner or improver), learn about techniques and materials and take home the completed project of your choice.

If you would like to eat your art, there are cooking classes available for young and old alike. Classes involving sushi, phyllo pastry and wine are on the menu, with cake decorating for dessert.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry, if you really want to keep your hands clean while being creative, there are several classes available across the city and in your neighbourhood that involve drawing, sketching, calligraphy and creative writing.

The art of photography, which used to be messy, may have gone digital in recent years, but there are still plenty of opportunities to explore this medium in City classes. Get an introduction to the medium, sharpen your skills or simply learn how to Take Your Camera for a Walk.

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Browse online at ottawa.ca/recreation to discover affordable fall and winter programs. Visit your favourite facility where knowledgeable and friendly staff will help you discover your next adventure. You can also call 3-1-1 for more details.

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EMC news - Cairine Wilson Secondary School is named after the first female Canadian senator.

But due to a mix-up before back-to-school, the sign at the front of the school instead paid tribute to 1990s Wilson Phillips singer Carnie Wilson.

The school isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being renamed after the pop singer and it was just a humorous misstep, said trustee John Shea.

Shea spent several years lobbying to have the previous sign updated; it was installed in 1975.

When the new sign went up on Aug. 31, it only took a day for the emails and calls to start

coming in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What can you think but just laugh?â&#x20AC;? Shea said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hilarious; it was obviously an honest mistake.â&#x20AC;?

He said that the sign change was an easy fix and there was no additional cost to make the correction.

The quick fix was made on Sept. 1, so students and teachers returning to school on Sept.

4 were greeted by the proper name â&#x20AC;&#x201C; though photos of the original sign had already made their way around via social media.

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Brighter tomorrows for our community Giving back to the community has always been a core part of Hydro Ottawa’s mandate

For the past 11 years, Hydro Ottawa and its employees have generously contributed more than $1 million in support of United Way Ottawa’s Community Campaign. The corporate matching dollars from Hydro Ottawa’s campaign are directed to its Brighter Tomorrows Fund.

Brighter Tomorrows Fund grants help agencies who serve people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless invest in energy-efficient technologies and products. As a community company, contributing to the well-being of Ottawa has always been a part of Hydro Ottawa’s core mandate. By working with the United Way, we can ensure that the dollars we donate are truly making the biggest difference in our community.

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2012 Hydro Ottawa Brighter Tomorrows Fund grant recipients and special guests.

Thanks to the success of our 2011 United Way campaign, this year Hydro Ottawa has awarded $85,696 in grants to the following agencies:

Daybreak Housing provides safe and rent-geared-to-income housing with support services for single adults who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless or living in poverty, specifically those with mental illness, issues of substance abuse or people in abusive relationships.

BENEFITS OF GRANT: Installation of new ENERGY STAR fans in the common areas of five homes.

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BENEFITS OF GRANT: Replacement of 15 old refrigerators with energy-efficient models. This will save low-income tenants about $60 per year in electricity costs.

National Capital Region YMCA-YWCA provides emergency shelter, youth transitional housing and a monthly supportive housing program for students, newcomers to Canada, individuals in transition due to separation and divorce, those living in unsafe or unstable housing, and individuals coping with issues related to physical/mental health, or substance abuse.

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BENEFITS OF GRANT: Installation of energy-efficient windows at an apartment complex for people at risk of homelessness.

Ottawa Salus offers affordable, supportive housing and community support services to people with mental illness who are homeless or at risk of being homeless.

BENEFITS OF GRANT: Installation of one new boiler ensuring comfort for tenants in these supportive housing apartment buildings.

Shepherds of Good Hope serves the needs of the homelessness, including temporary shelter services, supportive and transitional housing, and support services such as the Soup Kitchen, grocery and clothing programs, evening drop-in and the Christmas Hamper program.

BENEFITS OF GRANT: Modifications to stoves to improve the safety and efficiency of the appliances.

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New rules for wood-burning heaters Existing hydronic heaters exempt from proposal Laura Mueller

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New rules to regulate hydronic heaters in the city’s rural areas were tweaked in response to concerns expressed earlier this summer.

The rules, which are new to Ottawa but common in smaller rural Ontario municipalities, are meant to govern where property owners can place the wood-burning boilers on their lots, and on which properties they are allowed.

The changes followed comments voiced by both owners of the heat-producing boilers, neighbours bothered by the smoke the devices spew onto their properties and representatives from the industry.

The standalone devices are common means of heating homes – and sometimes pools – in rural areas.

The issue was first brought to the attention of the city’s agriculture and rural affairs committee on Jan. 13 by Carlsbad Springs resident Dan Renaud and Glen Roberts of Cumberland. The committee approved revised rules on Sept. 6.

Renaud and Roberts detailed their frustration as neighbours’ wood-burning boilers sat di-

rectly adjacent to their properties. If the smokestack isn’t tall enough and the boiler is close to a neighbouring home, heavy smoke can drift across a neighbours’ property.

With that in mind, the city drafted new rules that would prevent people from putting a boiler on their property if it’s a small lot. The proposed rules also include provisions for how far away the unit must be from a neighbouring home and how tall the smokestack must be.

After a public consultation in May, the proposed mini-

“What about the right to breathe fresh air?”

Carlsbad Springs resident Dan Renaud

mum setback for a heater’s distance from a neighbour was reduced, and agriculture zones were excluded from the 8,000metre square lot minimum.

The height requirement for smokestacks was also reduced, as was the distance between neighbours that would trigger a height increase for the smokestack.

The finalized rules also exclude automatically fed pellet boilers and controlled combustion.

But the city couldn’t find a way to avoid “grandfather-

ing” existing hydronic heaters in Ottawa, which displeased Renaud and Roberts. Since the most logical and effective way to regulate the devices is to use zoning provisions, said city staffer Geraldine Wildman, any hydronic heaters that are already in place are allowed to remain.

In Renaud’s case, he says smoke from his neighbour’s wood boiler has prevented him from working at his carpentry shop in the spring. For Roberts, the concern is health. His wife has a chronic cough and must use an inhaler, which the couple attributes to the smoke coming from their neighbour’s wood-burning boiler.

City lawyer Tim Marc said it’s an “awful situation” that likely results from improper use and maintenance of the devices. The boilers smoke more if green materials are used instead of dry wood or pellets, and some people even burn garbage and other materials, which produces dangerous toxic smoke.

“What about the right to breathe fresh air?” Renaud said. “What is my option? To walk around with a fresh air tank?”

For people dealing with a problem hydronic heater on a neighbour’s property, their only recourse will be taking their neighbours to court, Marc said.

The rules still need city council’s final approval.

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As one of the suspects was making a purchase he displayed a handgun and demanded money.

The suspects fled with an undisclosed amount of cash to a waiting white four-door sedan, possibly a Honda or Hyundai. The licence plate may contain the numbers 443.

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EMC news – The brain cancer battles of two Steve MacLean Public School members – one a 38-yearold mother who lost her battle last summer, the other a Grade 2 student currently fighting for her life – have inspired an entire community to find a cure.

Greely resident Heather Geddie was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in 2009, and fought for two years until she passed away in July 2011. Two of her three children, then aged 9 and 15, had attended Steve MacLean Public School in Riverside South.

A group of parents from the school were so inspired by Geddie’s positive attitude that after her death they decided to host the South Ottawa Race Day, which will fundraise for brain cancer research at the Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sat. Sept. 29.

But well into planning for the big event, the community received a second blow this spring when another Steve MacLean family discovered their daughter Sofia has an inoperable brain tumour. She would have been going into Grade 2 this year, but is instead fighting her disease at CHEO. The race day will include a twokilometre family walk/run, a fivekm walk/run, a 10-km route and a half marathon or half marathon relay through rural Ottawa South.

A free barbecue, a children’s corner provided by the Manotick co-operative nursery school and speeches from Geddie’s family will take place after the races are all finished.

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Riverside South resident Karen Sinclair holds a photo of her friend Heather Geddie, who died from a brain tumour last summer. Sinclair and three other parents from Steve MacLean Public School will host a fundraising race day in her memory on Sept. 29.

But it’s not just the small organizing group that has come together, said co-organizer Karen Sinclair. Businesses, dance studios, students and parents who never met Geddie or Sofia have jumped on board.

Dance Roots studio choreographed an awareness flash mob at the school last June, and a ladies’ night fundraiser in February sold out more than 400 tickets in just a few days. On Sat. Sept.

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Road will host a live band fundraiser for Sofia, which will contribute to the race day’s totals.

“It’s amazing how interwoven this has become,” Sinclair said.

Geddie was an enthusiastic athlete, and Sinclair, who was close to Geddie, said it made sense to pair their fundraising efforts with something active. Adding Sofia’s cause to the banner has only served as a poignant reminder that brain cancer is preva-

lent everywhere, she said.

Sinclair said the group hopes to raise $40,000, which the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s board of directors will help direct to a worthy brain cancer research project.

Fellow organizer and Steve MacLean parent Chris Hill, who didn’t know Geddie, said he was motivated by her positive attitude and the community’s response during her illness.

He said the event will help people

grieve her loss and celebrate her life while helping to end cancer.

“I think people wanted an outlet to express their grief and express their inspiration,” he said.

Geddie was born in Nova Scotia but grew up in Kanata, where she graduated from the Earl of March Secondary School. She studied Recreational Marine Management at St. Lawrence College in Kingston and then worked for two years at a small shipyard before moving back to Kanata in 1997.

A great lover of sports, Geddie spent the last eight years of her life in Greely where she focused on family activities including playing tennis, spending time at the cottage in Calabogie and skiing at the Peaks, according to her biography on southottawaraceday.ca. She and her family also developed strong ties to the church community in Manotick, and her husband Kevin will perform with the Manotick Village Singers on the race day.

Her children Breanna, Ryan, and Colin will all take part in the event, and her parents will talk to the crowds about their daughter’s fight.

Sinclair said Geddie remained positive throughout her entire illness, and was always thinking of others before herself.

“She honestly never said a bad word about anybody, she was always looking on the bright side and thinking of how to help people,” Sinclair said. “She was quite a humanitarian in that sense and we wanted to keep that positive outlook going.”

For more information, sponsor a participant or to register for the event visit www.southottawaraceday.ca.

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

Sept. 14 to 16

Friends of Library and Archives Canada hosts an annual giant used book sale at St. Laurent Centre, 1200 St. Laurent Blvd, Centre Court.

Vinyl LPs, CDs, children’s books, and specially priced gems. More info: 613-9431544 Email: friends.amis@ lac-bac.gc.ca.

Sept. 15

Cruise Don’t Bruise Bikers Against Violence, a fundraiser motorcycle ride to raise money for Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre’s programs against violence. Starts at Beacon Hill Shopping Centre, 2339 Ogilvie Rd., at 9 a.m. Information at 613-741-6025.

Join Ottawa’s hilarious and sensational Afro-Caribbean Group, Ni Wewe Tu on Saturday, Sept. 15, for an evening of entertainment in celebration of Jamaica’s 50th year of independence. Jamaica Mi Soon Come is a skit about an unruly group of people travelling to Jamaica on Soon Come Airlines to celebrate Jamaica’s 50th. They get increasingly frustrated with the flight delays and heated arguments, Jamaican style, ensue.

When they finally arrive, their friends and relatives welcome them back to Jamaica. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children age’s six to 12. To purchase tickets and for more information, please call 613834-1718 or visit the web site,

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follow the links to the Walk2Hear webpage.

Sept. 16

St. Pat’s Walk the Block 2012 registration at 8 a.m. and start at 9:30 a.m. Participant lunch at 11:30 a.m. Departing St. Patrick’s Home, 2865 Riverside Dr. Prizes for top fundraising walkers, and giveaways for all participants.

Donations of $20 or more will be issued a charitable tax receipt. Pick up your walker registration form at reception or at www.stpats.ca/foundation/walk%20the%20block. html. For more information, to donate prizes, or to volunteer, please email foundation@ stpats.ca or call 613.260.2738.

The event is free and all are welcome.

The Ottawa Voyageurs Walking Club hosts a six- and 11kilometre walk to benefit the Orleans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre. Start time 10 to 11 a.m. from the Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd. Participation is free. Donations to the centre appreciated. Info: Kathy Luten, 613-830-7437 or www. ottawavoyageurs.ca.

Sept. 17

Calling all golfers for Habitat for Humanity National Capital Region’s annual Chipping In Golf Tournament at Cedarhill Golf and Country Club. Come out for a fun day of networking, prizes and friendly competition while raising much-needed funds for Habitat NCR to build homes. For more information, call Gail at 613-749-9950 ext. 223, email fundraising@habitatncr.com or go to www.habitatncr.com.

Sept. 22

Walk2Hear, the signature fundraising event of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association will be held on Sept. 22 at Vincent Massey Park. Registration from 8:30 to 9 a.m. and a barbecue lunch provided at 11:30 a.m. For more information on registering for the Walk2Hear, or to pledge financial support, please visit www.chha.ca and

Yard sale, rain or shine, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at South Gloucester United Church at Rideau and Albion, just west of the Rideau Carleton Raceway. Reusable treasures, books, crafts, baking, new and nearly new items. Donations of clean, working items (No TVs, electronics or clothing please) can be dropped off on Thursday evening, Sept. 20 between 6:30 and 9 p.m.

Sept 22 and 23

Glebe Fine Art Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre 175 Third Ave. featuring the work of 29 local artists including the work of Canterbury visual arts students.

Sept. 28

Discovery Café presents Let’s Do Business! given by Jerry Tomberlin, dean of the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. Discovery Café is a series of public lectures on the last Friday of the month at Blackburn Hamlet Community Church, 2598 Innes Rd (between the TD Bank and the Blackburn Arms). Coffee/tea/desserts are provided. Visit www. blackburnhamletcommunitychurch.ca for more.

Oct. 20

Harvest Gold Dinner and Dance fundraiser for the extension of St.Helen’s Anglican Church, Orléans.

Buffet dinner, museum tours, silent auction, live auction, and dancing at the Canada Aviation Museum, 11 Aviation Pkwy. Tickets are available by calling St.Helen’s at 613-824-2010 or email: harvestgoldtickets@gmail. com.

Mondays

The Ottawa Pub Dart League plays from October to April at various venues in the city.

If you are interested in joining or venue sponsorship, please visit www.theopdl.ca.

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IS YOUR MORTGAGE TAX DEDUCTIBLE? Karl Ruban and Fraser Smith first introduced the principles of The Smith Manoeuvre to their clients in Ontario in 2003. Since that time, thousands of Canadian taxpayers have used this innovative strategy to convert interest that is non deductable to deductable for tax purposes.

A typical homeowner will pay interest of $12,000 per year on a $300,000 mortgage at 4%. If they employ The Smith Manoeuvre, that $12,000 will be a tax deduction, using a 40% average tax bracket, converting interest to be deductable for tax purposes will reduce taxes otherwise payable by $4,800.

Karl Ruban, Senior Financial Planner with Assante Capital Management Ltd. is conducting a free seminar Thursday, September 20th at 7:00 pm at Blackburn Community Centre, 190 Glen Park Drive, for those interested in learning how to implement The Smith Manoeuvre.

To register, please phone Jeanne at 1-877-494-7744.

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participate in an activity that provides regular moderate exercise. There is no registration fee. The league is a fun, non-competitive league, experience not required.

Bowling takes place each Friday afternoon between 1 and 3 p.m. at Walkley Bowling Centre, 2092 Walkley Rd. Participants are placed on mixed four-person teams. To register, please call Roy or Jean Hoban at 613-731-6526.

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The Cumberland Farmers’ Market 2012 season is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, until Oct. 13 at the RJ Kennedy Community Centre, 1115 Dunning Rd. For information visit cumberlandfarmersmarket.ca or call 613-833-2635.

Ongoing

Ottawa Newcomers’ Club invites women new to Ottawa to join activities and meet some new friends. Please check the our website at: www.ottawanewcomersclub. ca For more information call 613-860-0548 or ottawanewcomers@hotmail.ca.

The Gloucester South Seniors’ Chess Club, 4550 Bank St. meets every Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m. Immediate openings. Please contact Robert MacDougal, 613-8211930 for more information.

There is a Mom and Me Playgroup meeting at East Gate Alliance Church. It takes place the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. More information can be found at www.eastgatealliance.ca or by contacting debbie@eastgatealliance.ca or 613-744-0682.

Women’s competitive volleyball league looking for individual players. League runs end of September to end of April. Cost is $170.

Located in Blackburn Hamlet on Wednesday evenings from 8 to 10 p.m. Contact Marg Walters at mewalters@rogers. com.

Girl Guides of Canada offers programs locally for girls from five to 17 years of age.

Meetings, camps, leadership and skills are all part of the opportunities provided. Go to www.girlguides.ca to find the unit closest to you and complete the online registration.

The Active Living Club invites active seniors and adults 50-plus to join us in the outdoor activities of hiking, cycling, canoeing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

All outings start at 10 a.m., from different locations in Ottawa-Gatineau, and range from one-and-a-half to three hours. Call City Wide Sports at 613-580-2854 and press 1 for administration or email cws-psm@ottawa.ca.

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Bittersweet B final win for Blair in London compared to Canada’s 3:28.82.

“It was disappointing, especially because we were in contact,” said the Merivale High School grad who now studies humanities at Carleton University. “If we had our best race, I think we could have qualified.”

Blair said it wasn’t so much a case of the Canadians racing poorly, it was just that their competition enjoyed standout races.

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EMC sports - If you’d told Ottawa’s David Blair prior to the Paralympic Games that his Canadian crew would win their race on the final day of rowing, you can bet he’d have been on top of the world.

And that’s precisely what played out in London, but the big surprise was that Canada’s LTA4+ mixed coxed four adaptive rowing team was racing in the B final for seventh to 12th place.

Canada won the race in three minutes, 31.17 seconds – close to one second ahead of France. But make no mistake – the Canadian team’s performance in London was a bitter disappointment on the heels of gold and silver medals at the 2010 and 2011 world championships, although they did get to end their Paralympic experience on positive note.

“Obviously given our track record, we wanted to be in the A final,” Blair said on the dock at Eton Dorney. “But that wasn’t in the cards, so we all needed to reset and come here today focused with a new goal, and that’s what we did.

“It was a good confident, relaxed feeling warming up.

It feels good to come out in first in whatever race you’re in. That was nice.”

A national team member for only two years and the youngest member of the Canadian crew, Blair’s teammates had warned him that the Paralympics would be unlike any other competition he’d previously participated in, and that turned out to be the case when he made his Paralympic debut

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David Blair, right, and other members of the Canadian mixed coxed four adaptive rowing team got to finish their Paralympics with some smiles as they won the B final at Eton Dorney in London. Blair visited Trillium Elementary School in Orléans at the end of February to speak to students, who had been doing a Paralympics unit. on Friday, Aug. 31.

“My first race going down, I knew I would get a surge of energy just by knowing where I am, hearing everything that’s going on,” recounted Blair, whose team was over

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“If you look at our times, they’ve been pretty consistently around there. It was more that other crews from other countries upped the bar in a big way and we weren’t capable of responding.”

Despite the disappointment, Blair sounded somewhat at peace with the result.

The 20-year-old was already thinking about the future and taking another crack at the Paralympics come 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

“I spent every day trying to get ready for these Games,” he said. “About a week ago I realized I never want to stop improving. I’m never going to be at that point where I can say, ‘Yes, OK, this is the best I’m ever going to be.’ I came in here knowing that I’m going to give it my all and when I come back next time I’m going to be even faster.

“I’ll definitely do it again.”

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EMC news – The brain cancer battles of two Steve MacLean Public School members – one a 38-year-old mother who lost her battle last summer, the other a Grade 2 student currently fighting for her life – have inspired an entire community to find a cure.

Greely resident Heather Geddie was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in 2009, and fought for two years until she passed away in July 2011. Two of her three children, then aged 9 and 15, had attended Steve MacLean Public School in Riverside South.

A group of parents from the school were so inspired by Geddie’s positive attitude that after her death they decided to host the South Ottawa Race Day, which will fundraise for brain cancer research at the Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sat. Sept. 29.

But well into planning for the big event, the community received a second blow this spring when another Steve MacLean family discovered their daughter Sofia has an inoperable brain tumour. She would have been going into Grade 2 this year, but is instead fighting her disease at CHEO. The race day will include a twokilometre family walk/run, a fivekm walk/run, a 10-km route and a half marathon or half marathon relay through rural Ottawa South.

A free barbecue, a children’s corner provided by the Manotick co-operative nursery school and speeches from Geddie’s family will take place after the races are all finished.

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Riverside South resident Karen Sinclair holds a photo of her friend Heather Geddie, who died from a brain tumour last summer. Sinclair and three other parents from Steve MacLean Public School will host a fundraising race day in her memory on Sept. 29.

But it’s not just the small organizing group that has come together, said coorganizer Karen Sinclair. Businesses, dance studios, students and parents who never met Geddie or Sofia have jumped on board.

Dance Roots studio choreographed an awareness flash mob at the school last June, and a ladies’ night fundraiser in February sold out more than 400 tickets in just a few days. On Sat. Sept.

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Road will host a live band fundraiser for Sofia, which will contribute to the race day’s totals.

“It’s amazing how interwoven this has become,” Sinclair said.

Geddie was an enthusiastic athlete, and Sinclair, who was close to Geddie, said it made sense to pair their fundraising efforts with something active. Adding Sofia’s cause to the banner has only served as a poignant reminder that brain cancer is prevalent

everywhere, she said.

Sinclair said the group hopes to raise $40,000, which the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s board of directors will help direct to a worthy brain cancer research project.

Fellow organizer and Steve MacLean parent Chris Hill, who didn’t know Geddie, said he was motivated by her positive attitude and the community’s response during her illness.

He said the event will help people

grieve her loss and celebrate her life while helping to end cancer.

“I think people wanted an outlet to express their grief and express their inspiration,” he said.

Geddie was born in Nova Scotia but grew up in Kanata, where she graduated from the Earl of March Secondary School. She studied Recreational Marine Management at St. Lawrence College in Kingston and then worked for two years at a small shipyard before moving back to Kanata in 1997.

A great lover of sports, Geddie spent the last eight years of her life in Greely where she focused on family activities including playing tennis, spending time at the cottage in Calabogie and skiing at the Peaks, according to her biography on southottawaraceday.ca. She and her family also developed strong ties to the church community in Manotick, and her husband Kevin will perform with the Manotick Village Singers on the race day.

Her children Breanna, Ryan, and Colin will all take part in the event, and her parents will talk to the crowds about their daughter’s fight.

Sinclair said Geddie remained positive throughout her entire illness, and was always thinking of others before herself.

“She honestly never said a bad word about anybody, she was always looking on the bright side and thinking of how to help people,” Sinclair said. “She was quite a humanitarian in that sense and we wanted to keep that positive outlook going.”

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

Sept. 14 to 16

Friends of Library and Archives Canada hosts an annual giant used book sale at St. Laurent Centre, 1200 St. Laurent Blvd, Centre Court.

Vinyl LPs, CDs, children’s books, and specially priced gems. More info: 613-9431544 Email: friends.amis@ lac-bac.gc.ca.

Sept. 15

Cruise Don’t Bruise Bikers Against Violence, a fundraiser motorcycle ride to raise money for Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre’s programs against violence. Starts at Beacon Hill Shopping Centre, 2339 Ogilvie Rd., at 9 a.m. Information at 613-741-6025.

Join Ottawa’s hilarious and sensational Afro-Caribbean Group, Ni Wewe Tu on Saturday, Sept. 15, for an evening of entertainment in celebration of Jamaica’s 50th year of independence. Jamaica Mi Soon Come is a skit about an unruly group of people travelling to Jamaica on Soon Come Airlines to celebrate Jamaica’s 50th. They get increasingly frustrated with the flight delays and heated arguments, Jamaican style, ensue.

When they finally arrive, their friends and relatives welcome them back to Jamaica. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children age’s six to 12. To purchase tickets and for more information, please call 613834-1718 or visit the web site,

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follow the links to the Walk2Hear webpage.

Sept. 16

St. Pat’s Walk the Block 2012 registration at 8 a.m. and start at 9:30 a.m. Participant lunch at 11:30 a.m. Departing St. Patrick’s Home, 2865 Riverside Dr. Prizes for top fundraising walkers, and giveaways for all participants.

Donations of $20 or more will be issued a charitable tax receipt. Pick up your walker registration form at reception or at www.stpats.ca/foundation/walk%20the%20block. html. For more information, to donate prizes, or to volunteer, please email foundation@ stpats.ca or call 613.260.2738.

The event is free and all are welcome.

The Ottawa Voyageurs Walking Club hosts a six- and 11-kilometre walk to benefit the Orleans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre.

Start time 10 to 11 a.m. from the Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd. Participation is free. Donations to the centre appreciated. Info: Kathy Luten, 613-830-7437 or www.ottawavoyageurs.ca.

Sept. 17

Calling all golfers for Habitat for Humanity National Capital Region’s annual Chipping In Golf Tournament at Cedarhill Golf and Country Club. Come out for a fun day of networking, prizes and friendly competition while raising much-needed funds for Habitat NCR to build homes. For more information, call Gail at 613-749-9950 ext. 223, email fundraising@habitatncr.com or go to www.habitatncr.com.

Sept. 22

Walk2Hear, the signature fundraising event of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association will be held on Sept. 22 at Vincent Massey Park. Registration from 8:30 to 9 a.m. and a barbecue lunch provided at 11:30 a.m. For more information on registering for the Walk2Hear, or to pledge financial support, please visit www.chha.ca and

Yard sale, rain or shine, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at South Gloucester United Church at Rideau and Albion, just west of the Rideau Carleton Raceway. Reusable treasures, books, crafts, baking, new and nearly new items. Donations of clean, working items (No TVs, electronics or clothing please) can be dropped off on Thursday evening, Sept. 20 between 6:30 and 9 p.m.

Sept 22 and 23

Glebe Fine Art Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre 175 Third Ave. featuring the work of 29 local artists including the work of Canterbury visual arts students.

Sept. 28

Discovery Café presents Let’s Do Business! given by Jerry Tomberlin, dean of the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. Discovery Café is a series of public lectures on the last Friday of the month at Blackburn Hamlet Community Church, 2598 Innes Rd (between the TD Bank and the Blackburn Arms). Coffee/tea/desserts are provided. Visit www. blackburnhamletcommunitychurch.ca for more.

Oct. 20

Harvest Gold Dinner and Dance fundraiser for the extension of St.Helen’s Anglican Church, Orléans.

Buffet dinner, museum tours, silent auction, live auction, and dancing at the Canada Aviation Museum, 11 Aviation Pkwy. Tickets are available by calling St.Helen’s at 613-824-2010 or email: harvestgoldtickets@gmail. com.

Mondays

The Ottawa Pub Dart League plays from October to April at various venues in the city.

If you are interested in joining or venue sponsorship, please visit www.theopdl.ca.

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Bowling takes place each Friday afternoon between 1 and 3 p.m. at Walkley Bowling Centre, 2092 Walkley Rd. Participants are placed on mixed four-person teams. To register, please call Roy or Jean Hoban at 613-731-6526.

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The Cumberland Farmers’ Market 2012 season is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, until Oct. 13 at the RJ Kennedy Community Centre, 1115 Dunning Rd. For information visit cumberlandfarmersmarket.ca or call 613-833-2635.

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Ottawa Newcomers’ Club invites women new to Ottawa to join activities and meet some new friends. Please check the our website at: www.ottawanewcomersclub. ca For more information call 613-860-0548 or ottawanewcomers@hotmail.ca.

The Gloucester South Seniors’ Chess Club, 4550 Bank St. meets every Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m. Immediate openings. Please contact Robert MacDougal, 613-8211930 for more information.

There is a Mom and Me Playgroup meeting at East Gate Alliance Church. It takes place the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. More information can be found at www.eastgatealliance.ca or by contacting debbie@eastgatealliance.ca or 613-744-0682.

Women’s competitive volleyball league looking for individual players. League runs end of September to end of April. Cost is $170.

Located in Blackburn Hamlet on Wednesday evenings from 8 to 10 p.m. Contact Marg Walters at mewalters@rogers. com.

Girl Guides of Canada offers programs locally for girls from five to 17 years of age.

Meetings, camps, leadership and skills are all part of the opportunities provided. Go to www.girlguides.ca to find the unit closest to you and complete the online registration.

The Active Living Club invites active seniors and adults 50-plus to join us in the outdoor activities of hiking, cycling, canoeing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

All outings start at 10 a.m., from different locations in Ottawa-Gatineau, and range from one-and-a-half to three hours. Call City Wide Sports at 613-580-2854 and press 1 for administration or email cws-psm@ottawa.ca.

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