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Community - A neighbourhood known for its thriving arts scene will soon see a new addition to its diverse artistic landscape. A group of young people are spending their summer break crafting a urban art mural that will be affixed to the outside of Charlie’s Groceteria, located at the corner of Carruthers Avenue and Ladouceur Street. Guiding the kids through the process are Cassandra Dickie and Mike Davis, members of Ottawa Urban Arts – a group that aims to bring together the many elements of a community and foster artistic expression.
After meeting last week to brainstorm and discuss what elements they would like to put in the mural, the group will assemble their creation this week at the Hintonburg Community Centre. Later this summer the pieces will be attached to the exterior of the participating business. The mural project, part of the city’s youth engagement mural project, was helped by a grant from Crime Prevention Ottawa through its Paint It Up! program. Members of the Hintonburg Community Association applied for the grant. “We’ve been involved with the program the last four years, and have done 18 projects with Paint It Up!” said Dickie. “CPO gives grants to a partnership of youth organization, the location owner and the artist group… (Davis and I) both come from a background of graffiti and street art, which evolved into an active art form. See PROGRAM, page 13
Laurier bike lane made permanent with little fanfare Laura Mueller
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News - A once-controversial bike lane on Laurier Avenue was made permanent with little opposition and the blessing of local residents. Business groups that had been vocally opposed to the city’s first segregated lane for bicycles were absent as the city gave its blessing to make the lane a permanent fixture on Laurier Avenue West between Bronson Avenue and
Elgin Street. But one business owner, Ottawa’s famous hot-dog stand man, Terry Scanlon, waited all day to tell the committee he liked the lane. “Since the introduction of the bike lane, my sales have improved,” he said, adding he feels the complaints from other restaurants are not well founded. Cyclists stop to buy bottles of water from his cart, he said. A survey conducted amongst business owners on Laurier elicited 30 responses with 67 per
cent unfavourable towards the lanes. Twenty-three per cent of business respondents liked the lanes. “It seems to me there is enough information to show bike lanes save lives, and I support it,” Scanlon said. The two-year pilot project approved in February of 2011 saw pre-cast curbs, planters and collapsible posts installed along Laurier at a cost of $1.3-million. The city has set aside $150,000 to remove the lanes, but that
money will instead be put towards improvements. Tweaks to the lane have been made throughout the two-year pilot project in response to the concerns and that speaks to the project’s success, said Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes. Hans Moor, president of local advocacy group Citizens for Safe Cycling, was involved in establishing the lane and has been a strong proponent all along. See RAISED, page 23
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