the gift of digitization: 38 years of the glebe report

Serving the Glebe community since 1973 Issue no. 421 FREE

December 10, 2010 Vol. 38* cvn No. 11

WHAT’S INSIDE

JANUARY 14 ISSUEEDITORIAL DEADLINE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15

ADVERTISING DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29

Abbotsford . . . . . . . 35

Art . . . . . . . . . . . .36-37

BIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Books. . . . . . . 40, 42-43

Business . . . . . . . 18-19

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

GCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

GNAG. . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Glebe History . . . 12,39

Grapevine . . . . . .46-47

Holiday Stories . . . 6-11

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Music . . . . . . . . . .28-30

Religion . . . . . . . . . . 45

Schools . . . . . . . .32-34

Mark your calendarsOngoing GNAG winter program registration In person GCC, online at www.gnag.ca

December 11 Snowflake Special, 6-9 p.m., GCC

December 11 Mayor’s Christmas Celebration, 3:30-7:30 p.m., Aberdeen Pavillion

December 12 Bytown Voices: Caroling, 12-3 p.m.

December 18 Great Glebe Gathering of Santas

December 22 The Pantry closes until January 3

Dec. 24-Jan. 2 Glebe Community Centre closed.

January 9 GNAG Enchanted Ball, 1-3 p.m., GCC

January 15 MicroFIT Solar Energy Seminar 12:00-4 p.m., GCC (see page 21)

January 20 Taste in the Glebe, 5:30-8 p.m., GCC

January 30 Pre-To-Three Health & Wellness Forum 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., GCC (see page 15)

The gift of digitization: 38 years of the Glebe Report

Do you have an interest in local history, community affairs or municipal politics? In the course of fulfilling a professional or volunteer role have you been called upon to do some research on the Glebe? Then, undoubtedly you have turned, at one time or another, to the Glebe Report, the newspaper of record since 1973, to read the history and understand the context and impact of important decisions, trends and events in the community. To facilitate your search of the archives, the Glebe Report has taken steps to give the Glebe com-munity a gift that will just keep on lighting up curious minds and informing community leaders as well as historians. Digital access to the Glebe Report.

Now, don’t get too excited just yet. Do not run off to the Ottawa Public Library or Library and Archives Canada minus your shoes. Just hold your enthusiasm in check until January 3, 2011 when you will be able to access and search the archival material from your very own computer – all in your stocking feet. Of course, you always can choose to brave the elements and trudge down to the library for a good ol’ fashioned read – online.

The Board of the Glebe Report Association would especially like to acknow-ledge and thank Ashwin Shingadia for his time, energy and perseverance in guiding this critical initiative to completion. For more on the story, see pp. 2,3.

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Directors of the Board of the Glebe Report Association are pleased to be offering the digitization of the Glebe Report as a gift to the Glebe community. Left to right: first row are Micheline Boyle, Jeanette Rive, Ashwin Shingadia, June Creelman and Valerie Bryce. Second row are Dudleigh Coyle, Ian McKercher and J.P. McAvoy. Sending her regrets – Leslie Fulton

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BY ASHWIN SHINGADIA

For many months, the Glebe Report has been working behind the scenes on digitizing its archives from 1973 to the present with a view to making them fully searchable, and accessible online to all – Glebites, Ottawans, Canadians and global netizens (Internet users). This is quite an achievement for an in-dependent, not-for-profit community newspaper, sustained by volunteers and advertising. It will bring the Glebe Report in line, technologically speaking, with the larger commercial newspapers as it brings you this service online.

WHY DIGITIZATION? The old newspaper copies are fragile, yellowing and difficult to handle. This

has an impact on reprinting of archival material which tends to disintegrate and produces blurred rather than clear images. Another good reason to pursue this project is that it saves storage space; a hard drive/DVD takes up less room, and provides better access to contents for the Glebe Report production team, writ-ers, and researchers. It also provides information to the public online through the web and other links. Further, all national papers such as The Globe and Mail and Ottawa Citizen, have implemented more sophisticated search and access systems, justifying the effort in terms of efficiency and savings in time, effort, labour and costs.

THE DIGITIZATION PROCESSThe first critical step is to use state of the art equipment to scan the papers.

Then, the data are indexed according to the client’s needs and CDs are created. Search, view and print software all can be put on the same storage CD, so no additional software is needed for personal computers. Load the CD and you are ready to go. The imaging company converts newspapers and other paper docu-ments to CD/DVD, Internet-based graphics formats, PDF and OCR/searchable documents. The firm uses standard commercial software packages or custom designed or both. The quality of OCR imaging depends on the condition of the original newspaper – whether the ink has bled through the pages or not; whether the newspapers have been “bundled” and bent or not, and the physical condition of their storage such as dampness, wetness or dust.

THE DIGITIZATION STORY AT THE GLEBE REPORT (GR)Originally, volunteers undertook some indexation work using Cindex soft-

ware which they found to be inadequate given the task at hand. Subsequent-ly, the GR undertook research regarding digitization (or imaging), industry standards and quality, and a number of companies that provide these services. Given that prices, quality and methods vary from company to company, a re-quest for proposal (RFP) was prepared and approved by the Board, setting forth the scope of work, specifications and timelines. The main criteria set forth were the quality of work and company background rather than price.

We found several companies to be suitable and invited them to submit pro-posals including a sample “mock-up” of the Glebe Report as it would appear digitally on the web. Newspapers can be scanned in various ways: newspaper to film, newspaper on film to digital images (cheapest), newspaper to digital image, and index or use optical character recognition (OCR) to scan a news-paper as needed. A scanned image is processed through OCR software and is output to an electronic searchable document in PDF format.

AND THE WINNER WAS…Brechin Imaging Services of Kanata won the competition. Co-founder and

General Manager Jacqueline Vincent collected the hard copy papers in batches from the GR office, returning them as work was completed. This company has done work for Library and Archives Canada, Canadian Museum of Civiliza-tion, IDRC, and has large scale newspaper digitization experience with Yale, Brown, Princeton and Ohio State universities. It is also responsible for digit-izing Charles Dickens’ original serial books from the 1800s which are archived at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States. It was soon clear that the archives were in good hands and that we could all breathe a sigh of relief.

In the case of the Glebe Report, Brechin digitally captured images using a copy stand. TIFF images were post-processed to remove background paper discolouration and, then pages were cropped and straightened to uniform sizes to optimize OCR capture accuracy of each individual page of the newspaper. Brechin staff indexed the data so that individual pages could be accessed and easily searched using Adobe Acrobat 5 or higher, either on a home computer or one at the Ottawa Public Library. The project also included searchable key words in order to facilitate web-based searches through Google Search.

Brechin’s General Manager Jacqueline Vincent was very generous with her time in coaching and training members of the on-site production team to utilize and update the digital file. Below you see a picture of some of the production team in a training session during the final stages of the digitization project.

WHAT TO DO WITH ARCHIVAL HARD COPIES OF THE GLEBE REPORT?Of course, going digital does not suit everyone and a print version of the

paper still ranks first in the minds and hearts of many readers. Consequent-ly, after much detailed discussion, it was decided that paper copies would be maintained both in the office and off-site. Much of the work of cataloguing the existing file copies was left in the capable hands of retired librarian Micheline Boyle, who with the assistance of GR Chair Ian McKercher, GR’s previous editor, Elaine Marlin, and Dudleigh Coyle, arm wrestled thousands of pages into orderly submission with just her trademark white gloves and her talent for organizing. Below, you see Micheline and Ian in the Glebe Report office at the Glebe Community Centre, sorting through some of the last of the copies to be filed and stored.

HOW, WHEN AND WHERE WILL THE GLEBE REPORT ARCHIVES BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC?

As of January 3, 2011, the general public will be able to search the archives of the Glebe Report

1. Directly from the Glebe Report website: glebereport.ca which is hosted by Sum Inc. The contents include articles, photos and advertisements. Links to other websites may also be developed. Brechin has provided the PDFs with titles and keywords that will help ensure they can be found on Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other search engine.

2. From the Ottawa Public Library (OPL), Main Branch, which has re-ceived a copy of the archive mini-disk, as well as a monthly hard copy and digital versions of future issues of the Glebe Report. The contact at the OPL is Jean MacGregor, co-ordinator of Adult and Information Services.

3. At Library and Archives Canada, access to the archives will be in the form of hard copy which are available now and digital files which are still being processed. The date of accessibility in digital format will be announced as soon as it becomes available.

MUSINGS ON THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERSWith the rise of the Internet, it seems there is a general decline in demand

for newspapers and an increased thirst for online activities. Websites of news-papers have become very popular as they are reliable and are a base for content for other media. Dennis Skulky, president and CEO of CanWest Publishing, talks about a future where newspapers deliver a print-based version to one home, a digital version to a personal computer user next door, and yet another electronic version – Ipod or hand-held device to another (David Akin: Ottawa Citizen, 25/4/2009, p A14).

Newspapers retain their market relevance because they remain one of the quickest and easiest ways to answer the question, “What’s new and might be of interest to people who live where I live”. The old form consisted of an article, photograph or news graphic. The new form is an article with links to others – a photo gallery, an animated graphic, a blog, an audio file, a video report, pod-cast, searchable database, PDF of key records, e-mail alerts and headline lists, RSS feeds, interactive quizzes or maps or other material. The consumer is now participating and is empowered, because blogs and other web vehicles enhance the individual’s identity and build a greater connection with communities of common interest.Increasingly, the audience is far-flung (Kirk Lapointe: Ot-tawa Citizen, 30/4/2009, p. A11).

Ashwin Shingadia, a Glebe resident, is chair of the digitization committtee at the Glebe Report.

Ashwin Shingadia presenting Jean MacGregor ot the Ottawa Public Library with the hard drive of the PDF archive of the Glebe Report.

Left to right: Jacqueline Vincent introduces Micheline Boyle and Gwendolyn Best to searching the PDF archive

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Glebe Report board of directors and production team: Front row, left to right, Julie Houle Cezer, Jeanette Rive, Sheila Pocock, Ashwin Shingadia, June Creel-man, Valerie Bryce and Micheline Boyle. Second row: Zita Taylor, Judy Field, Dudleigh Coyle, Ian McKercher, J.P. McAvoy and McE Galbreath. Sending regrets were Gwendolyn Best and Leslie Fulton.

Emma Nadarajah and Jacqueline Vincent of Brechin Imaging Services holding a Glebe Report issue prior to photographic capture of each page.

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Let help. Buy our Gift Cardsand provide them with a healthful, great-tasting, andnutritious “gift” – the perfect complement to the busyholiday season. And to help you maintain your energy forthese last few days, we will give you one of our fabulous 24oz. smoothies for each $25 in Gift Cards purchased. Offerends December 31st. Merry Christmas!

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EDITORIAL PAGE4 Glebe Report December 10, 2010 LETTERS Glebe Report December 10, 2010 5

Poets of the Glebe display

Before it’s too lateLocal residents produce model of OSEG site plan

Editor, Glebe ReportI am gratified by the response to the “Poets of the Glebe”, the centre-fold

display in the November issue. After the introduction to those pages explained (rather curtly) that professors and journalists could have their say elsewhere, it was warming to the heart that the first phone call expressing pleasure was, indeed, from a Carleton professor. A generous response.

The Glebe Historical Society is now preparing a display of these eight Glebe poets to feature in the window of the Metro store. There will be 12 poets fea-tured – the eight that appeared in this paper and four others, who, for reasons of space, could not be included here. The four poems are “Corner Store” by Christopher Levenson, “Age” by the late George Johnston, “Springsong” by Robin Mathews and “The Moment” by Margaret Atwood, who lived for her first six years on First Avenue. Again, apologies for many other aspiring poets not featured. Work hard, write well and we will love you.

Clyde Sanger

Editor, Glebe ReportI was appalled by an editorial in the November 26 Ottawa Citizen, which

suggests “so far so good on the retail” component of plans to redevelop Lans-downe Park. I wrote an immediate rebuttal to what I considered to be a mis-conceived argument that was insulting in tone. By labelling Glebe residents as “trendy” folks who need to have their “hurt feelings salve[d]” by some of the retail nirvana, the editorial ignores the real mix of housing and residents that characterizes the Glebe. It also resorts to cheap-shot language that contributes nothing to the debate, the outcome of which is not only vital to the neighbour-hood but also to every Ottawa taxpayer.

To imply that the district now does not have the “amenities that make living downtown a pleasure” ignores what Bank Street, along with the downtown core, already offers. Examples: The Glebe doesn’t need another grocery store. It has two. It doesn’t need another “small pharmacy to dispense Tylenol.” Again, the neighbourhood has two. There’s already an excellent LBCO on Bank. Why move it?

Key questions that must both be put to our new council and addressed be-fore it’s too late: what will the retail development at Lansdowne, as now ill-conceived, do to Bank Street? Preserve its main street quality? Not likely. The development is much more liable to suck it dry.

JC Sulzenko

Editor, Glebe ReportThe City of Ottawa has been unable to produce a three-dimensional model

of the proposed development at Lansdowne. Some Glebe residents have pro-duced an accurate 1:750 scale model of the zoning to investigate the impact of the development on the site and neighbourhood. This photograph shows the site plan view looking east along Holmwood Avenue where the former Sylvia Holden Park used to be. Note the enormous buildings approved for the south side of Holmwood which curtail the light to the existing houses and propose condominiums which never see any sunlight.

The model may be viewed by arrangement with the undersigned. There will also be a “Lansdowne Park Anti-Social Club Meeting” at Irene’s Pub every Monday or Tuesday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. We extend an invitation to May-or Watson and developer-representative Greenberg to attend and express their thanks to the people of Ottawa for letting them walk away with this astonish-ing gift of 42 acres of public land to private developers.

Frank Johnson

CALL Zita Taylor at 613-235-1214, e-mail: [email protected], if you are willing to deliver a route for us.

Weaving our communitySudden illumination of behind the scenes reality can sometimes seem quite

overwhelming. Whether international in scope as with Wiki Leaks, or local, as with cases of the misuse of the coercive powers granted to police, it is difficult to process the implications of such actions without an in-depth understanding of the related historical, political, institutional and legal contexts. Such events, particularly when they reveal patterns of behaviour, rip at the fabric of our society. Contrary to the defensive impulse “to circle the wagons,” this is the time to devote some human resources to a long and thoughtful examination of the issues underlying these revelations. At the local level, at least, it seems feasible as well as necessary, to undertake corrective action to reduce some of the generalized anxiety, to reassert respect for Charter rights and to restore faith in the role of the police in the community. I certainly hope that decision-makers in the police force take a serious look at these events as an opportunity to re-envision and re-invest in the public trust which is, after all, the ultimate wellspring for their authority. Might we bear in mind that strengthening posi-tive exercise of authority as in community policing, can make a substantial contribution to social cohesion.

And social cohesion is needed in order for communities to be able to pro-cess change productively. While competing economic and political interests sometimes seem poised to wash over us, isolating residents one from the other, there simultaneously exists among us, a strong yearning to reach out and re-inforce the fabric that connects us. With social cohesion as an underpinning, community can become an evolving matrix of human connections. These may range from the banal to the sublime. Participating in this ongoing creation is akin to our offering threads to be woven into an ever changing tapestry. One higher profile form of this is the ongoing work of association members who analyze issues, develop policy and execute local programs that touch the way members of the community live their daily lives. Equally important in shaping and nurturing social cohesion, however, are the unsung contributions made by local families. Sometimes we get to tell their stories. In this issue, we bring you past and present family stories specifically about celebrating the holidays. By so doing, we honour at least some of the traditions that enrich the palette with which we weave our community together.

Julie Houle Cezer

Welcome to:Marcia AronsonAmara IsfeldM. Harris

BEST

OUR VOLUNTEER CARRIERSNina & Jasmine Acharya, Jennie Aliman, Tyler, Luke & Claire Allan, Charlie & Sydney Allen, Marcia Aronson, Avril Aubry, Lucy & Thomas Baird, Adrian Becklumb, Inez Berg, Mary Lou Bienefeld, Daisy & Nettie Bonsall, Robert & Heidi Boraks, the Bowie family, Emilie Bradley, John Francis Brandon, Susan Brant, the Brown family, Valerie Bryce, Alex Clarke, Jack & Will Coffey, the Coodin family, Elizabeth Cowan, Scott Cowan, Eleanor Crowder, Sophie Crump, Richard DesRochers, Oscar & Jane Dennis, Tina Dennis, Marilyn Deschamps, the Diekmeyer-Bastianon family, Pat Dillon, Sarah Dingle, the Dingle family, Giuliana, Al, Nina and Olive Di Stefano, Clive Doucet, Nicholas Doucet, Callum Duggan, Trent Duggan, Education for Community Living (GCI), Donna Edwards, Beth Farley, the Faught family, the Ferguson family, Matthew & Esmerelda Fernandes, Judy Field, Hannah & Joseph Fraser, the Good family, Stuart & Andrew Gordon, Gary Greenwood, Ginny Grimshaw, Emma Gunther, the Hamer-Wilson family, M. Harris, Matthew Hovey, Eric Hollebone, Gill Hunter, Christian Hurlow, Niall & Nolan Hymande, Jack & Lily Inskip-Shesnicky, Joan Irwin, Amara Isfeld, the Johnston family, Patrick & Joseph Kelly, Carly & Reilly Kimber, Liam Kirkpatrick, Mary & Imre Kovacs, Bonnie Kruspe, the Kuffner family, the Lambert family, the Langevin family, Joanne Lucas, Sam & Dawson Lyon, the Macdonald family, Maria MacIntosh, Emily & Oliver Maddox, the Magner family, Pat Marshall, Madeline & Tara Martin, Gordon McCaffrey, Fiona & Timothy McCarthy-Kennedy, Isaac McGuire, Ellen & John McLeod, Katie Millington, Julie Monaghan, Diane Munier, Sana Nesrallah, Tracy Parish, Tracy, Frank & Spencer Paveck, Alexandra Pipe, the Pritchard family, the Quinn family, Beatrice Raffoul, Mary & Steve Reid, Carley Richmond-Ward, Hannah & Thomas Rogers, Emile & Sebastien Roy-Foster, Myma & Alex Okuda-Rayfuse, Carter & Clara Saunders, Ellen Schowalter, Zachary, Anik, Richard & Liam Seaker, Anita Sen-gupta, Casimir & Tristan Seywerd, the Short family, Kathy Simons, Judith Slater, Sobriety House – Bill Dalton, Kristen Soo, Victoria, Rebecca, Nicholas & Patrick Spiteri, the Stephenson family, Mrs. Stevenson, Alex & Claire Stoney, Joanne Sulek, JC Sulzenko, Alexandra Sunderland, Karen Swinburne, Eric & Steven Swinkels, Ruth Swyers, Emmet & Niamh Taylor, John & Maggie Thomson, Daphne Towers, the Trudeau family, Caroline Vanneste, the Veevers family, Sophie Veronneau, Ward Walker, Katja & Tanja Webster, Sandra Webster, the Weider family, Elena Wells, Howard & Elizabeth Wong, Gillian & Jake Wright, Sue Ann Wright, Nora Wylie, the Young-Smith family, Zelda Yule.

Notes from the boardroomThe Glebe Report is published by the Glebe Report Association (GRA),

a federal non-share capital corporation incorporated under the Canadian Corporations Act.

The GRA is managed by a Board of nine directors who are elected for three-year terms at staggered intervals. Directors may serve a second term before stepping down.

Glebe Report Board of Directors (one vacancy) Ian McKercher Chair June Creelman Vice Chair Micheline Boyle Secretary Jeanette Rive Past-Chair Ashwin Shingadia Digitization Dudleigh Coyle Human Resources Valerie Bryce member at large J.P. McAvoy member at large

Three directorships will open in June, 2011.

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The Glebe Report aims to draw on the wide range of interests and view-points of people residing or working in the Glebe and to bring pertinent in-formation on current and emerging issues to their attention. We seek articles that explain background, create context and convey up-to-date information on common concerns, in addition to content focusing on initiatives, projects, programs, events, services and businesses in the community. We also invite profiles, opinion pieces, books reviews, creative writing and essays, photog-raphy and art work for consideration. All age groups are welcome to submit material.

ARTICLES AND LETTERS• Material must be received in the office by 5 p.m. on editorial deadline

date. Send photo captions or credits in the body of the e-mail.• Word Count: articles of 550-600 words; letters of 150-350 words.• For articles, send one line of relevant biographical information on the

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• If minors are identified, written permission from parents must be sent to the editor before the publication date.

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Photograph of the 1:750 scale model showing the aerial perspective along Holmwood Avenue looking east. The Lord Lansdowne tower (12 floors) is in the foreground on the right. It is dwarfed by the tower across the road. The Sylvia Holden Park has vanished and even the condominiums tower over the existing homes and are in permanent darkness. The sunlight simulates that of noon on the Equinox.

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6 Glebe Report December 10, 2010 Glebe Report December 10, 2010 7HOLIDAY STORIES HOLIDAY STORIESCelebrating Nochebuena in PeruLe Réveillon de Noël

MARC LANDREVILLE

La fête de Noel a toujours été et sera toujours un temps pour les bonnes vieilles traditions familiales. Mais aucune tradition n’est plus chère ou plus cé-lébrée par les canadiens français catholiques que le Réveillon. La tradition du réveillon vient directement de leurs ancêtres français (eh oui, de France). Elle consiste en un repas somptueux qui est pris au retour de la messe de minuit. Autrefois, ce retour de l’église était long et la Liturgie que honorait les trois Naissances en forme des lectures et chants durait plusieurs heures. Les gens arrivaient chez eux gelés, affamés, et privés de sommeil mais pleins de joie. Voilà en quelques mots l’origine de notre fameux réveillon.

Venant d’une famille franco-ontarienne catholique de sept enfants, une famille relativement petite pour les années cinquante, soixante et soixante-dix, j’ai pu vivre plusieurs réveillons et observer sa lente évolution. Quand mes frères, ma sœur et moi étions tout petits, le réveillon se fêtait plutôt par mes parents, mes oncles et mes tantes; nous devions être couchés mais on ne pouvait pas s’empêcher de jeter un coup d’œil sur l’action qui se dérou-lait jusqu’aux petites heures du matin. Avant et durant la messe de minuit, ma sœur (l’ainée des enfants) veillait sur nous. A cette époque, on allait à la messe de neuf heures ou dix heures le matin, le jour de Noël, et on ouvrait les cadeaux tout de suite après.

Ce n’était qu’à l’âge de neuf ans que je participais vraiment au réveillon. On allait soit à la messe de 21h ou minuit, tout dépendant des conditions mé-téorologiques la veille de Noel, et aussi des visiteurs au courant de la soirée. On ouvrait toujours les cadeaux après minuit. La table de ma mère était im-mense et les fruits de sa popotte succulente des trois semaines précédentes la

BY VERONICA FLORES

Moving to Canada from Peru as a child, there were many holidays and traditions that I had to give up. But those surrounding Christmas were not among them. For Roman Catholics in Peru, who make up 81 to 90 per cent of the population, the celebration of the holiday is not rad-ically different from the traditions and rituals of Roman Catholics in Canada. There are, however, some key distinctions that, from a child’s perspective, make the celebration of Christmas more exciting and mem-orable. For one, children get to stay up late and celebrate with the adults. Unlike many Canadians, Peruvians celebrate Christmas on December 24 – Nochebuena (or “Good Night”) – the night of Christ’s birth. Christmas is a late-night affair. Families attend late-night mass and do not sit down to eat Christmas dinner until around 10 p.m. This is less popular with the young ones because their hungry stomachs anxiously await a feast of turkey, apple sauce, tamales and panetone (a sweet bread with dried fruits similar to a fruit cake). How-

ever, the late dinner keeps people awake when the clock strikes mid-night on the eve of Jesus’ birth.

Children do not have to wait a painstaking nine hours of restless sleep to open their gifts the next morning. Gifts are opened immedi-ately following Christmas dinner. As in Canada, the whole family gathers around a Christmas tree and, most importantly, an ornately decorated nativity scene that is hand-carved and hand-painted with llamas and al-pacas in place of camels and sheep. This tradition only differs in the An-dean regions of the country, where people wait until January 6 to ex-change gifts (the day of the arrival of the three wise men at the man-ger). While children believe in Santa Claus, he does not have a place in Christmas traditions. With the ex-ception of the high-altitude regions of the Andes, there is no snow. Con-sequently, it would make it very hard to explain why a jolly man would be wearing a red winter suit and sliding down fictitious fireplaces. In fact, late December marks the beginning of summer in South America.

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Bonhomme, bonhomme sais-tu jouer? Sais-tu jouer de ce violon-là? Sais-tu jouer de ce violon-là? Zing zing zing de ce violon-là REFRAIN Bonhomme! Tu n’est pas maître dans ta maison Quand nous y sommes...

2. Bonhomme, bonhomme sais-tu jouer? Bonhomme, bonhomme sais-tu jouer? Sais-tu jouer de cett’ flûte-là? Sais-tu jouer de cett’ flûte-là? Flûte flûte flûte de cett’ flûte-là (bis) Zing zing zing de ce violon-là (bis) REFRAIN

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Excitement abounds and does not end with the opening of gifts. Fireworks are a popular diversion at many Peruvian celebrations and Christmas is no exception. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of drawing my name in the sky with sparkling wands. Past midnight, the adults continue the celebration into the early hours of the morning with dancing, music and drinking, the echoes and sounds of which are just within reach of the sleeping chil-dren – cousins and siblings – snugly tucked into bed. While on the mor-ning of the December 25, Canadians are just waking up to Christmas, Peruvians are still soundly sleeping, recuperating from a night of celebra-tion. At Christmas, Peruvians dem-onstrate their thankfulness and devo-tion not through piety and solemnity, but rather by demonstrating how much they enjoy life.

In the spirit of sharing, I include a traditional recipe for tamales that you can easily make at home.

Veronica Flores lives and works in Ottawa and is a former resident of the Glebe.

Tamales (16 portions)

Ingredients:1 can of evaporated milk¾ lb butter1 cup of chicken broth5 cups of white corn flour (Masa Harina)3 garlic cloves, minced½ lb onions (3-4 medium sized onions)½ cup chile peppers (aji panca*), ground (or chili powder)salt and pepper1½ lbs cooked chicken, choppedcorn husks soaked in boiling water4 hard-boiled eggspitted olives, chopped

Preparation:Dough: • In a pot, add milk, ½ lb melted butter and chicken broth. Add the

corn flour and stir until it comes together. Season generously with salt.

Filling:• Fry the garlic, onions and chili peppers/paste in ¼ lb of but-

ter, season with salt and pepper, add the chicken and the water, cook until heated through.

To Roll:• Place a corn husk with the larger end toward you, pointed end

away. Place 2 Tbsp of dough and spread into a square leaving about an inch all around. The ‘tail’ will have no dough.

• Fill with a small amount of olive and a slice of boiled egg and 1 Tbsp of chicken filling. Fold the husk over to cover the filling with dough and close into a package with the ‘tail’ folded in. Secure the package with butcher’s twine.

• Place in a pot with a metal steamer in the bottom (so tamales don’t touch the bottom or sit in water). Steam over medium heat for one hour. They are done when the dough comes away from the husk when opened.

(TIP: line the bottom of the steamer with left over corn or banana leaves.)

Source: Recetario Nicolini: Que Cocinare Hoy? Nueva Edicion, Nico-lini and Mexico The Beautiful Cook Book, 1996 Harper Collins Pub-lishers Inc., recipes by Susanna Palazuelos, text by Marilyn Tausend, photographs by Ignacio Urquiza.

N.B. MASA HARINA is now widely available at Latin American food stores or larger chain grocers. Corn husks and banana leaves are also available in large bundles at Latin American food stores for a good price.

*Aji panca is a type of chili pepper from Peru. If unavailable, ask for Aji Amarillo (yellow chili) paste at any Latin American food store.

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recouvraient complètement, ainsi que tous les comptoirs et même deux petites tables d’enfant. Elle dressait la table de ses meilleures assiettes, la coutellerie en argent et les verres en cristal et tout dans un décor de fête. Le menu était typique : dinde, jambon, tourtières, pommes de terre, légumes, des pains pour tous les goûts, crudités, boulettes de viande à la suédoise, divers fromages et sauces, et même des cretons (pour mon père). Pour les desserts, tout était fait maison: des biscuits aux brisures de chocolat, des sablés, des beignets, des tartes et tartelettes au sucre et aux fruits divers (pommes, fraises et bleuets cueillis l’été précédent), une salade de fruit; elle ajouta éventuellement un au-tre dessert moins traditionnel pour nous: English Trifle. Il ne manquait surtout pas de boisson chez nous: vin, bière, apéritifs, jus divers et boissons gazeuses (surtout du Pop Shoppe). Il y avait toujours de la musique mais nous chantions plutôt les bonnes vieilles chansons à répondre canadiennes françaises ** que les chants de Noël: c’était aussi un temps pour se raconter des blagues et de se taquiner l’un l’autre. Ce n’était surtout pas un évènement calme et ordonné; tout le monde se parlait à tue tête, il y avait beaucoup de va et vient et on pou-vait s’installer n’importe ou il y avait une place, soit la salle à dîner, le grand salon, ou la salle familiale. Plusieurs années plus tard, quand ma sœur et cer-tains frères furent mariés, et que la famille grandissait, ma mère préparait deux fondues à la viande au lieu d’une dinde et un jambon; résultat favorable, on se retrouvait tous ensemble autour de la même table et elle passait plus de temps parmi nous et non près du fourneau. Nous nous souviendrons toujours de ces moments de joie et de plaisir en famille

De nos jours, la famille se rassemble chez un de mes frères le jour de Noël pour un grand souper. Ma mère n’a plus la grande re- sponsabi-lité de nous accueillir chez elle, mais elle ne s’empêche pas de préparer ses délicieuses tourtières, ses biscuits, ses tartes et ses beignets. La grande tradition du réveil-lon, elle, est toujours vivante dans chacune des familles respectives de ses enfants.

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BY CLARE ROGERS

My grandfather was Swedish, and my Mum grew up just outside of Stockholm. The rest of my family came from England, so Christmas in my home is a combination of the two cultures. We start our Swedish Christmas celebrations with Santa Lucia on December 13.

Actually the week prior to the thirteenth, we make special Swed-ish sweet bread called Lussekatter as well as Pepperkakor, Swedish gingerbread. In the early morning of that special day, the eldest daugh-ter of the house wears a long, white dress with a red ribbon around her waist, a crown of candles and car-ries a candle. She leads her siblings, girls in white dresses, boys in white pants and shirts, to her parents’ room carrying coffee, hot chocolate, the Lussekatter and Pepperkakor. They sing a special song about Santa Lu-cia bringing light to the darkness and then everyone shares the spe-cial breakfast. The light is especially important in Sweden because of its higher latitude, which means it is dark for a larger part of the day than in Ottawa.

When I was younger, my siblings and I “did” Santa Lucia for any vis-iting family members and it was always one of the highlights of my Christmas. I loved singing in Swed-ish even though I did not understand the words, and when I got older, hav-ing the honour of wearing the crown of real candles, was such a thrill. I can’t tell you how special it was when my own daughter did Santa Lucia for my mother.

Traditionally, Swedes set up their trees a couple of days before Christ-mas and leave their trees up until Epiphany, January 6, which is the twelfth day of Christmas. Now, we generally wait until the week before Christmas and our tree looks just like everyone else’s except there are a few tomte on my tree. Tomte are little Christmas gnomes who, according to Swedish myth, live on a farm or in the forest. Tomte, along with the Jul-

bock, the Christmas goat, bring the gifts to the home on Christmas Eve. Traditionally, someone might dress up as tomte and deliver funny rhymes while handing out the gifts.

We also make a gingerbread house, which is very delicate and decor-ated in a traditional manner with fine, white icing but no candies. The house will be surrounded by typical Swedish Christmas characters such as the tomte, Santa Lucia and Jul-bock. The decorations in a Swedish home are often made of gingerbread, and many of you will have seen the traditional straw ornaments at IKEA which is also where we get our spe-cial food and Julbock.

Traditional Christmas Eve, Julaf-ton, dinner is usually a smorgasbord or a Swedish Christmas buffet with ham, pork, or fish, as well as a var-iety of sweets. In my family we have all the traditional Swedish food but we don’t do a smorgasbord. We have about eight courses, six of which are fish of some kind and we finish with rice pudding. For most people, that doesn’t sound very appetizing, but after a lifetime of eating these dish-es just at Christmas, we really look forward to treating ourselves with our favourites which are definitely Janssons frestelse (Jansson’s tempta-tion) and köttbullar (meatballs). The rice pudding, Risgryngröt, has one almond in it. The person finding it either gets to make a wish, or – it is believed – is destined to get married the coming year. This belief varies among families; in our family you have to give everyone at the table a kiss on the cheek. There is another special feature to the meal and that is singing Swedish Christmas songs and toasting our guests with Swedish Akvavit or aquavit, a flavoured spirit.

Swedish Christmas traditions are what make the holidays special for my family but I wouldn’t give up tur-key or shortbread for anything.

Clare Rogers is a very familiar face around the Glebe Community Centre as she is administrative as-sistant for GNAG.

and they’ll agree: only after Kalle Anka is it time for presents.

My sister Valerie and her husband live in Montreal. As Muslims, they celebrate Eid Ul-Adha, known as the festival of sacrifice. This festival is always celebrated with enthusi-asm and can last several days. They attend early prayers at the mosque and the focus for all Muslims at this time is on sacrifice and acts of char-ity. Those that can afford it buy a whole lamb and share it with others: one third goes to the needy, one third to family and friends and the rest to themselves. They have found a local farmer and are happy to support him during these tough economic times.

My youngest sister Joanna lives in London, England with her husband and her little girl who waits for Fath-er Christmas to fill her stocking and wishes her friends a Happy Christ-mas. After watching the Queen’s message on the BBC, they cook a goose to enjoy on Christmas Day and finish the meal with Christmas pud-ding smothered in hard sauce and a nice port.

My own family still follows the traditions I knew when I was a child. We set up the creche, light the can-dles on our Advent wreath, decorate gingerbread houses, trim the tree, at-tend mass on Christmas Eve, hang stockings and then enjoy clemen-tines and Christmas cookies by the fire. My daughters also open their presents to each other – the “sisters” presents. On Christmas morning, we have cranberry foccacia with tea and coffee before stockings and presents. In the afternoon, there are visits with older family members and in the evening, we join neigh-bours for a full turkey dinner with sticky toffee pudding, fruitcake and mincemeat tarts. When we are all full, have exchanged gifts and some are slightly tipsy, we have a game of Scrabble, four teams of however many people are with us that year. We have learned some interesting words, as the sense of competition is always fierce. My Scrabble board gets fresh wine stains every year, but what a great way to finish our Christ-mas Day.

Sheila Pocock is an Ottawa-based accountant who enjoys celebrat-ing Christmas with her family and friends.

the whole family could relax and enjoy it. I often drove down from Ot-tawa with my daughters to join them. My sister Mary also lived in Toronto but passed away from breast cancer in 2004. She and her husband used to go up north to their retreat outside Collingwood where they shared pot-luck dinner with neighbours, skated on the duck pond and tobogganed down driveways lined with Christ-mas lights. The evening was spent with friends around warm fires, drinking mulled wine and eating de-licious food.

My brother Philip lives in Ger-many where the Christmas markets or Weinachtsmarkts are in full swing in December. Stands sell crafts, Brat-wurst, potato pancakes and waffles with cherry sauce as well as Gluwein, a warm spicy wine. He tells me that friends and co-workers stand outside at the markets drinking Gluwein as they toast each other and Christmas.

My sister Tessa lives in a small town in Sweden, where the fam-ilies put up new Christmas curtains each year. On December 1, they put small electric lights in the windows to brighten up the long dark days of winter. Large candles light porches and paths of shops, restaurants and homes. Neighbours and families get together to share a “jul bord” or Christmas table full of meatballs, Christmas ham, small sausages, six types of herring, hard cheese, pickled cabbage, pickled beets and bread. She discovered that the big-gest Christmas tradition happens at 3 p.m. on December 24 when they turn on the television and watch “Kalle Anka” or Donald Duck. It is a half hour of old clips of Donald Duck and the same show plays every year. It has been airing since 1958 and is a favourite. She says to ask any Swede

BY SHEILA POCOCK

Growing up in the 1950s and 60s, our family Christmas traditions were like those of many other Canadians – advent calendars, setting up the creche – the youngest put baby Jesus in on Christmas morning – midnight mass, stockings, presents, turkey and all the trimmings. My mother baked dozens of assorted cookies for our family of nine – up to 200 dozen – and pounds of fruitcake which she decorated with marzipan and royal icing after a month of dousing with Irish whiskey. We all stirred our wishes into the cake batter which she mixed in a large cooking pot.

This special pot has since been handed down to my daughter Emi-ly at her wedding shower. She was thrilled to receive this family treas-ure. The Christmas cake was decor-ated with candied cherries which mum cut to look like wreaths and holly and several little snow babies stood on the snowy icing top. My mother passed these on to me recent-ly and these little babies now grace my fruitcakes along with two vintage snow baby siblings my daughter and son-in-law bought for me one year. When I asked my Cape Breton hus-band about his Christmas traditions, his memories were much like mine – family, friends and lots of food.

My sisters and brother have moved around the globe, creating new trad-itions as our families expanded. My sister Kate lives in Toronto where she, her Jewish husband and three chil-dren celebrate Hanukkah and Christ-mas. They light the menorah, spin dreidels, eat latkes, grated by hand and enjoy chocolate coins. Then, as Christmas approaches, they decorate a tree and hang stockings for Santa. Opening presents on Christmas mor-ning always starts with the youngest.

To avoid the hectic pace of Christ-mas Day, Kate began cooking ham-burgers on Christmas, leaving the turkey dinner for Boxing Day when

Mike (my son-in-law), Heather (Emily’s best friend and our old neighbour), Katie holding Em’s puppy Lily and Emily with last year’s gingerbread cre-ation – they have been doing this for years and have such fun. Notice 243 above the door.

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Hanukkah: the Jewish festival of lightsBetty Scrivens’

Christmas ShortbreadOnly three ingredients are needed as the secret is in

the mixing and the baking. Traditionally, proper prep-aration requires you to leave butter at room temperature overnight to soften.

Ingredients:½ lb salted butter½ cup extra fine granulated sugar1¾ cup all purpose sifted flour

Preparation:• Add sugar gradually to butter, beating well after each addition.

Then, add small amounts of flour at a time and mix well after each addition.

• Place dough onto a floured surface and knead well several times. Pat with back of the hand and roll the dough gently out to desired thick-ness and cut in rounds. Mark each with three fork marks.

• Bake on a lightly buttered cookie sheet at 315º F on the lowest rack for 15 minutes; then move the cookies to the rack above and set the oven to 325° F. Bake for another 30 minutes.

• Watch carefully, as they burn easily. I found it best to sit near the oven window and remove the shortbread cookies when they turn golden.

• Taste test and enjoy with friends and family. For storage, place short-bread in a cookie tin with wax paper between the layers.

HOLIDAY STORIESHOLIDAY STORIES

BY TEENA HENDELMAN

The dark month of December is the time for festivals of lights.

On the evening of December 1 (the 25th day of Kislev in the Heb-rew calendar), we lit the first candle of Hanukkah as was done in Jew-ish homes in Ottawa and across the world. Each night we added a candle until there were eight candles burning in our hanukiah (or menorah) on the last evening of the holiday, Decem-ber 8. Actually there is a ninth can-dle, the shamash, which is lit first on each night and used to light the other candles. Traditionally the shamash is positioned at a different level (higher or lower) than the other eight candles

in the hanukiah. The candle-lighting ritual is accompanied by chanting of the blessings for the lighting.

After the candles are lit, families sing holiday songs, give gifts and or money (called Hanukkah gelt – either real coins or chocolate coins), eat traditional latkes (potato pancakes) or sufganyot (jelly donuts), play dreidel (spinning top game), and generally celebrate.

The dreidel, or sevivon in Hebrew, is a four-sided spinning top that children play with on Hanukkah. Each side is imprinted with a Hebrew letter. The let-ters are an acronym for the Hebrew words Nes Gadol Haya Sham, “A great miracle happened there,” referring to the miracle of the oil that took place in the Beit Hamikdash.

Hanukkah is a holiday to celebrate the victory in 165 BCE of the Hebrews, led by the Maccabees, over the Hellenists-Assyrians, who desecrated the Temple and suppressed the practice of the religion. Jews regained control of Jerusalem and rededicated the Temple. The name “Hanukkah” derives from the Hebrew verb meaning to dedicate. The story that has come down to us over the ages is that the Maccabees lit the eternal flame in the Temple with rit-ually pure oil. Although they had enough oil for only one day, it miraculously burned for the full eight days of the celebrations. Likely, the holiday was fixed to last 8 days because the earlier harvest festival of Sukkot could not be cele-brated during the enemy occupation.

Teena Hendelman is a longtime Glebe resident and a familiar face at com-munity meetings and celebrations.

and Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember has been to prepare the bird and stuffing, ready for the oven.

If Mother was away for any rea-son, I was only too happy to try my hand in the kitchen and, with my limited repertoire, I kept us from starving. I pity the fellows who for any number of good reasons, haven’t been given the chance to learn some basics around the kitchen. My wife Betty always encouraged our boys to participate in kitchen duties, so they all developed an interest in culin-ary skills and are very handy in that important family activity. My cook-ing efforts of late have gravitated to preparing the turkey and making the dressing so that it includes different kinds of nuts, raisins or mushrooms. The boys are supportive, over mild objections from Betty, but kid me about the various surprises they find in the dressing such as figs, apricots and macadamia nuts.

It wouldn’t be as enjoyable I sup-pose if I had to cook all the time. I’m lucky that Betty takes pride in serv-ing a good meal. She doesn’t try to be fancy but her meat, potatoes and apple pie type of fare is very good. I think it’s because she stirs some love into every pot, and the boys certainly appreciate what they have learned from her over the years.

Betty’s crowning achievement comes to the fore every Christmas season in the form of shortbread. She would like to pass on to all who are interested, the method that she learn-ed from her mother who, in turn, de-veloped the recipe by experimenting with just the basic ingredients rather reluctantly passed on by women in her hometown of Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Those on the receiving end of a tin of Betty’s shortbread confirm that they have never tasted any better. My only contribution to its produc-tion has been to eat the “too brown” and misshapen ones. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.

Bruce and Betty Scrivens, longtime Glebe residents currently live at the Lord Lansdowne.

BY BRUCE SCRIVENS

I was always comfortable partici-pating in the family kitchen. Mother saw to it that my brother Don and I were doing our share of vegetable preparation and dishes, but I was always more adventurous in the cooking department, with varying results.

I remember a startling event one year. Mother was preparing the Christmas turkey. My chin only came up to the edge of the kitchen table so I must have been quite young and it was well past my bedtime. Turkeys in those days didn’t come plucked and drawn. In fact, on one occasion we had a live turkey wandering around in the basement until the appointed hour, when Dad, with a well-placed chop of his axe, started its journey to our dining table. I didn’t care to wit-ness the execution but helped pluck and then left the carcass in Mother’s care to singe off the remaining pin-feathers with a candle. Anyone who has not had the chance to pluck and remove pinfeathers cannot truly ap-preciate the effort and preparation involved.

So there we were, late at night and past my bedtime and a lone candle burning. (If you could substitute the smell of burning pinfeathers for in-cense, it could have been likened to a séance). As Mother was digging into and withdrawing its innards, the carcass suddenly emitted a LOUD squawk of displeasure. It made us both jump. I remember thinking for a split second that the carcass (no head or feathers) was still alive and giv-ing its last indignant objection. Then both of us started to laugh at being so startled. Evidently, it was caused by the sudden expulsion of air trapped in the windpipe or some other orifice that let go as Mother was “adjusting” its innards. The chance of that hap-pening to you the way we buy our birds now is slim. Aren’t you sorry? That is another example that makes me smile when I hear someone talk about “the good ol’ days”.

That experience didn’t frighten me. In fact, my job each Christmas

Christmas memories from the kitchen

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HOLIDAYS IN THE GLEBEIt’s that special time of the year when

we celebrate the spirit of the holiday season, share season’s greetings with family, friends, colleagues, clients and customers, and reach out to touch and warm the lives of people in need.

The Glebe BIA is pleased to be pre-senting and promoting special program-ming in the spirit of the holidays in the Glebe. Once again, we’re ‘Lighting up the Glebe’ with white lights adorning trees and many BIA businesses are add-ing garland greenery and lights to their building façades and window displays to create magical winter nights through the holidays and Winterlude.

We were delighted to once again sup-port and promote another inspirational ‘A Walk Thru Bethlehem’ event at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church on December 4. And we encourage everyone to take part in the popular Mayor’s Christmas Celebration at the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park on Saturday, December 11 from 3:30-7:30 p.m.

The BIA is also happy to be bringing back the ‘Bytown Voices’ to regale passersby throughout the Glebe with uplifting Christmas carols on Sunday, December 12 from 12-3 p.m. They’re sure to be singing “Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire” when they stop at Il Negozio Nicastro where they’ll be featuring hot roasted chestnuts and other festive treats.

Plan to dress up in a Santa suit and join all the other Santas strolling the sidewalks of the Glebe on Saturday, December 18 from 12-3 p.m. for the third annual ‘Great Glebe Gathering of Santas’. Everyone’s invited to Starbucks patio at 2 p.m. for the VIP judging that will select and award prizes to the greatest, jolliest and coolest Santas. Or, bring a child and his or her wish list to visit the ‘real’ Santa at Starbucks patio from 12-3 p.m. where he’ll be fuel-ling up for his journey delivering presents ‘round the world. Be sure to fuel up yourself with a yuletide coffee or hot chocolate courtesy of Starbucks.

And, please do take a moment to contribute to the Salvation Army kettle campaign locations in the Glebe and help those in need. For more information, visit our website at www.glebebia.com

A BUSY TO BANNER YEARThis is also the time when we look back on the year that was and look for-

ward to the New Year to come. While the BIA faced the continuing challenge of the unconventional Lansdowne Park redevelopment process and lack of clarity around timing for the proposed Bank Street reconstruction and burial of overhead wires, 2010 also brought many highlights. These included: our AGM and social event at Irene’s in January; delicious ‘Choc Oh La!’ event in Feb-ruary; sponsoring the Great Glebe Fire Fundraiser silent auction and bands; Canadian Tulip Festival promotions in May, featuring giant painted tulips on street corners and tulips blooming in planters; the Great Glebe Garage Sale Sidewalk Sale; a TD Ottawa Jazz Festival marching band and free concert in June; Chair’s chat event in July; sponsoring Glebe’s Got Flavour! and popular ‘Reel Deal’ Outdoor Movie Nite in Central Park in September; welcoming back RBC staff to their restored branch at First Avenue; October’s Harvest to Halloween promotions, including decorative installations, an /A\ Channel Morning shoot, Hoe-Down event and sponsoring GNAG’s Great Glebe Pump-kin Patch party; working with Carleton University’s Main Street program; the AGM/board elections and holiday social at MVP Lounge in November; and holiday promotions in December.

The BIA has also just installed new banner hardware and colourful ‘wel-come’ banners at gateway locations to the Glebe. The City of Ottawa will be installing similar welcome banners paired with park banners at five Glebe park entrances on new custom designed banner poles in the New Year. The BIA worked with out-going Capital Ward councillor Clive Doucet to leverage the joint banner program and investment in conjunction with city cash in-lieu of parkland funding. At a surprise send-off hosted by the GCA and GNAG, the BIA was pleased to present one of the banners to Clive in recognition of his contribution to the Glebe BIA board and Capital Ward. It’s fitting that the banner reflects the Glebe’s urban village character, showcases the iconic Aber-deen Pavilion and is made from recycled materials.

Of course, many of this year’s achievements were made possible with the tenacious work and camaraderie of BIA coordinator Natalie Spooner, who puts the ‘team’ in teamwork.

NEW YEAR AND NEW DIRECTIONS

With the year and my work with the Glebe BIA both wrapping up, this is my last BIA column in the Glebe Report. It has been a real privilege to have worked with the former Glebe Business Group and Glebe business leaders to establish the Glebe Busi-ness Improvement Area and to have worked on behalf of its 300 plus mem-bers to help launch and mobilize the BIA. Glebe BIA members epitomize what entrepreneurs contribute to our city economy and enviable quality of life. It has been rewarding to serve on the GCA, Glebe Centre and Ontario BIA association boards and to col-laborate with other Ottawa BIAs and work towards forming an umbrella association that will help bring them all under one banner.

It has also been a pleasure and honour to have liaised and worked with the inspiring Capital Ward community on common challenges and initiatives – all the impressive people with the GCA, FOL, OSCA, OECA, GNAG, GCC and Glebe Centre, in councillor Doucet’s office, residents and volunteers and of course the Glebe Report.

The Glebe is truly a welcoming village at the heart of Canada’s Capital – and one with a bright future.

Catherine Lindquist is the outgoing chair of the Glebe BIA.

The Glebe, a truly welcoming villageGLEBE HISTORY BIA

Bank Street merchants in the Glebe and found that almost half were against the idea. Doug McKeen of McKeen Electronics said the mer-chants rejected the plan because “they didn’t really know what it was all about.” McKeen had been a strong advocate of setting up the BIA since it was first discussed two years ago. “Bank Street would look a lot better and it would have increased business,” he said. FIRST AVENUE SCHOOL SAVEDAfter intense lobbying by the com-

munity, Ottawa Board of Education trustees reversed an earlier deci-sion to tear down and replace the 82-year-old school. The estimated cost of renovations was $2.5 million, as opposed to the replacement cost of $2.1 million. First Avenue Home & School chairperson Liz McNabb said the figures weren’t strictly com-parable since the renovated school would be considerably larger than the proposed new building.

ON-STREET PARKING TRIALA system of on-street parking

permits to Glebe residents without driveways was to be implemented on an experimental basis in Janu-ary 1981. Initially, one permit per building would be issued on a first-come, fist-served basis. The permits were expected to cost two dollars per month.

ABBOTTSFORD DEMOLITION CHALLENGED

“Battle shaping up over Abbotts-ford House” ran the front-page head-line in the December 1980 Glebe Report. The city and a number of Glebe residents appeared ready to put up a fight if the management of the Glebe Centre decided to go ahead with plans to demolish the house. The 108-year-old building was built in 1872 for Alexander Mutchmor and was reputed to be the oldest building in the Glebe. It became the Protestant Home for the Aged in 1887. Since 1973, it had been used as a senior-citizens drop-in centre.

BUSINESSMEN REJECT BIA PROPOSAL

Glebe merchants rejected an ar-rangement which would have seen them pool money to make improve-ments to the appearance of Bank Street. The City of Ottawa polled

Ian McKercher

This retrospective is filed monthly by Ian McKercher of the Glebe Historical Society (GHS). The GHS welcomes the donation or loan (for copying) of any item that documents the past in the Glebe (photographs, maps, surveys, news articles, posters, programs, memorabilia, etc.). You can contact Ian at 613-235-4863 or [email protected].

Glebe Historical Society ArchivesNo recent acquisitions. Do you have anything you’re willing to share?

Thirty Years Ago in the Glebe ReportVol. 8 No. 12, December 12, 1980 (24 pages)

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Being the president of the Glebe Community Association has its chal-lenges and rewards. If you’ve read my past columns, you are very familiar with the challenges. So it’s time I told you about the rewards.

This community is blessed with many people who work hard to make our neighbourhood the best it can be. I feel honoured to be able to work along-side several of them. And last month, it was very rewarding to work – and celebrate! – with several of these great citizens in honouring another one.

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The Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest continues their “Be in the Band” program in January of 2011. This three-month pilot project will put young musicians (ages 12 to 17) who want to be in a band together with other potential bandmates. The Ottawa Bluesfest organization has recruited a number of professional lo-cal musicians to mentor the aspiring future stars and along with GNAG will provide all the necessary tech support and equipment for the kids to truly enjoy a high-quality, ensemble experience.

Bluesfest, in partnership with GNAG, created a band room and rehearsal space at the St. James Tennis Club adjacent to the Glebe Community Centre. The room is set up with a drum kit, keyboard, guitar amps and a sound system. “The idea is to offer this program to students who currently sing or play an instrument and have an interest in working with others to create music,” says Bluesfest’s executive director, Mark Monahan. “The ultimate goal is a possible performance for families, friends and future fans on-stage at the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest.” Be In The Band is coming back January 2011. Stay tuned for more details or contact the GNAG office at 613-233-8713.

A VERY SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE SPECIALOn December 11, GNAG is hosting its annual winter party, the Snowflake

Special. The magnificent Scotton Hall will be converted into a winter wonder-land. This long tradition will attract a full house of talent and happy (painted) faces. We would like to extend our thanks all of our volunteers, too many to mention, for organizing this incredible community festival. Please join us for a free evening of entertainment, face painting, crafts, sleigh rides, delicious treats and so much more. The evening will close with an amazing performance by Junkyard.

HOLIDAY BREAK CAMP, DECEMBER 20, 21, 22 AND 23GNAG has an incredible line-up of activities for this year’s Holiday Break

Camp. We are offering full-day adventure and excitement for children 5-12 years old who attend OCDSB or OCSB schools. Activities include specialty workshops, inner tubing at Le Domaine de l’Ange Gardien, swimming, a trip to the movies, crafty creations, wacky games and much, much more. Register today while spaces are available. Call Glebe CC for more details at 613-233-8713 or 613-564-1058.

Glebe Community Centre will be closed from December 24 until January 2. GNAG would like to extend best wishes to the community for a wonderful holiday season.

PRE-TO-THREE HEALTH AND WELLNESS FORUMGNAG wants you to be part of its first annual Pre-To-Three Health and Well-

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Pre-To-Three will bring together some of the best practitioners, fitness and wellness professionals, early-years educators and businesses to share their knowledge and expertise with young families. The event will also include a trade show that brings together business vendors, key presenters and informa-tion booths on health, fitness, education and recreation.

Would you like to get involved? Would you like to share your expertise? How about making a presentation? Or meet young families who may need your services? Along with the information you can provide, vendors or prac-titioners are welcome to offer giveaways or contribute to the Pre-To-Three “swag bags”, which will contain coupons, samples, information packages and other great goodies. Please note, however, that while this a perfect marketing opportunity for your business, Pre-To-Three is a NO SALES event.

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In mid-November, 37 GNAG dancers and 14 observers attended Coastal Dance Rage (CDR) in Ot-tawa. This is a dance convention that features well-known choreographers instructing a series of dance classes over a weekend. Organized by Kai-lena Van de Nes, GNAG’s principal dance instructor, parents and dancers met at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday at the GCC, where a big yellow bus picked them up to travel to the convention centre.

There were two main rooms at the convention centre – one for dancers 12-and-under, the other for dancers 13-and-up. Featured choreograph-ers for the weekend included tWitch (hip hop), Tucker Barkley (Jazz-funk), Ryan Lohoff (tap), Shannon Mather (lyrical/contemporary), Ian Eastwood (hip hop), Tabitha D’umo (hip hop) and Blake McGrath (jazz). Over 600 dancers attended the con-vention from all across Canada and the United States of America.

To wrap up the first day of the convention, dancers had the op-portunity to enter a freestyle battle, where they got onstage for about 30 seconds and danced to randomly se-lected music. The best of the group were to move onto the contempor-ary round and the finalist was to have a chance to perform once more in the faculty show. Out of 30 par-ticipants in the junior category, 14 of them were GNAG dancers, in-

cluding Shirley Zhu, Caley Proulx, Julia Monahan, Sophia Monahan, Tate Rechan, Lane Rechan, Emma Fournier-Sabry, Victoria Spiteri, Rebecca Spiteri, Lindsay Bevan, Niamh Taylor, Markley Wakeland, Madeline Culletier and Josefina Mas. The girls were some of the strongest on stage, and they should all be very proud of their achieve-ments.

At the end of each dance class, choreographers awarded a scholar-ship to the hardest-working dancer. GNAG dancer Sophia Monahan was presented with a scholarship on the second day in her jazz class with Blake McGrath. A scholarship was also awarded at the Faculty Show to Julia Monahan for being the overall hardest-working dancer in the teen category.

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Attendees included Clive’s family, his staff, GCA board members, the pres-idents and board members of the Ottawa East, Ottawa South, and Heron Park Community associations, the executive director and board members of the Glebe BIA, the executive director and staff of the Glebe Neighbourhood Activ-ities Group, Glebe Community Centre staff, the editor and board members of the Glebe Report, and several Glebe residents. And it was indeed a surprise. It was great fun to watch Clive bound up the stairs of the community centre and burst into Scotton Hall – with a gift, no less – and then stop and look confused at the gathering of his family, friends and colleagues. It’s not often that Clive seems at a loss for words, but this was one of those times!

In addition to the wonderful opportunity to thank Clive, we were also able to express our thanks to Glebe Community Centre staff member Patti McKay, who is retiring after 32 years of service. It was so nice to relax and enjoy some rare social time with other hard-working members of the Glebe and Capital Ward. It was a rewarding end to a challenging year in the Glebe. May you and your loved ones also have a rewarding end to 2010, and a bright start to 2011.

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November was a busy month for the Lansdowne Park Conservancy (LPC). Official registration on November 15 of its competitive bid for the develop-

ment and management of Lansdowne Park with the city of Ottawa was fol-lowed by the well-attended November 17 press conference and unveiling of the proposal at the Canal Ritz. We were pleased to have in attendance senior personnel from NBBJ, the internationally acclaimed design firm retained for the project.

As anticipated, on November 18, the city procurement department rejected the bid. On November 19, we commenced an internal review process under the rules of “substantive objection” within city procurement, not city council. Part of this process is the appointment of a mutually agreed upon fairness commis-sioner, whose job will be to determine if the overall objectives for the city have been met, and seek best value for the taxpayer.

The city can choose to ignore this part of the by-law, as well. However, it would naturally lead us to seek redress from the Superior Court. Clearly we wish the corporation of the City of Ottawa would honour its responsibility and duty which is to find best value for the shareholder/taxpayer, and in so doing, return credibility and honour to our city and nation’s capital.

MEETING THE MAJOR GUIDELINES OF THE CITYThe guidelines set out by the city for the development of Lansdowne Park

boil down to four key elements which are: 1. stadium, 2. green space, 3. revenue model and 4. outside management. The Conservancy meets all the requirements and has retained the services of

NBBJ, arguably one of the foremost recognized professional sports stadium firms in the world. NBBJ has partnered with a variety of project management and construction companies on the most cost effective and timely delivery of projects including park elements. All subcontracting will be open and competi-tive.

HOW WILL THE CONSERVANCY OPERATE?The conservancy will be a non-profit charitable foundation. Members of the

prestigious board will receive no compensation; it’s about giving back to our city and nation’s capital. The Board of Advisors will include representation from the City of Ottawa, NCC, Parks Canada, agriculture/rural, the arts/cul-ture, heritage, sports, tourism, community and business. The park will remain 100 per cent public, but will be professionally managed.

FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES TO OTTAWAThe Conservancy bid is competitive, at a cost of $98 million for the entire

park, including the stadium. It is $200 million less expensive than the other proposal. Competitive bidding works! Since management is non-profit, all site revenue surplus is returned to the taxpayer. Over the 30 year period, this will mean a $300 million savings to the City of Ottawa and not a single dime of tax-payer cost. The savings are equivalent to a 1 per cent property tax deduction, every year, for the next 30 years. (The complete proposal, including financials, may be seen at www.lpc-cpl.ca The Proposal).

ADDITIONAL BENEFITSIn addition to keeping the park 100 per cent public, there will be a $6.4

million heritage restoration to the Horticulture Building in its present loca-tion, a $3 million heritage renovation to the Coliseum Building and red brick administration building, and a $1.4 million outdoor concert shell. Moreover, the conservancy will provides a $5 million outdoor heated mineral water train-ing and leisure pool and pavilion, protection of the entire Sylvia Holden Park and grass strip, no private construction, and a building height restriction of 11 meters (stadium excepted).

TOURISMThe Conservancy non-profit management model is based on the Central Park

Conservancy (CPC) in New York. New York City, including boroughs, has a population of roughly 15 million people, and about 20 million people within two hours of the city. The annual economic benefit of the CPC to the City of New York has been calculated by AppleSeed Inc. to be $1 billion.

In Ottawa, with about 1 million inhabitants and close to 4 million within a two hour drive, the projected benefit of our plan to Ottawa, area hotels, res-taurants and business is $50 million annually. Additional studies conducted by the CPC also demonstrate that the quality of life increases for local citizens by virtue of having spaces for relaxation, sports, culture, dining, small shopping and maintaining a connection with nature within the city.

City dwellers as well as visitors always crave beautiful places and that is the aim of the Conservancy.

ALTERNATIVE WITHOUT A COMPLETE STADIUMThe stadium option, necessary to meet city guidelines and be eligible for the

competitive process, is not necessarily the best way to proceed. It is, in fact, more profitable not to rebuild the south stands, and simply use that space for additional playing fields for local amateur sporting events and the soccer fields needed by the 50,000 young members of the Eastern Ontario District Soccer Association.

The 60 years of experience of our design partner NBBJ strongly points to the fact that we should put stadiums near rapid transit. This conclusion is supported by the City of Ottawa’s own stadium location study conducted by CRG Research in 2008 – city-owned land at the Rapid Transit Hub where the O-Train and the Transitway intersect near the Ottawa River and LeBreton flats. The Bayview site is the most centrally located and easily accessed site of the entire Ottawa/Gatineau region. By contrast, the Lansdowne site was only ranked sixth (#6) in that same study. (See www.vo-ao.ca for Bayview, Informa-tion for Developers).

THE MAIN QUESTION? First, answer what is best for Lansdowne Park. Then, examine the best sta-

dium location. It will be up to council to decide where to direct development of a complete stadium. The LPC has shown Lansdowne is self-financing with or without football, and this allows the city to make the right decision. The Con-servancy successfully delivers on Lansdowne Park with or without a complete stadium, keeps the park 100 per cent public, self-sustaining and adds prestige to our city and nation’s capital.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?Tens of thousands of dollars have been required to fund this proposal. The

work of the Conservancy, at the moment, is shouldered by three individuals, with legal counsel. We need your financial support to see this bid through to completion. We take no salary but your help to cover costs will allow us to pro-mote this viable and competitive alternative. Please visit our website at www.lpc-cpl.ca for more information and opportunities to donate online, or call us at 613-898-1284. You can also donate directly to the “Lansdowne Park Con-servancy” account at any ScotiaBank (Tr#002, Acct#0026212) – or by mail to:

Lansdowne Park Conservancy 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 417 Ottawa, ON K1S 5P5Let us work together to ensure this beautiful space is preserved and kept 100

per cent public for our children and their children.John E. Martin, Michael Gazier, Andrew Dickson are Lansdowne Park Con-

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BY JAMIE HARKINS

Having already pursued many other avenues over the last two years, the Friends of Lansdowne (FOL) are preparing for a legal fight with the city in the hope that an Ontario court will stop the redevelopment of Lans-downe Park by the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG). Speaking to a full house at the May-fair Theatre on November 28, retired CBC journalist and Glebe resident, Doug Ward said the legal challenge before the Superior Court of Ontario is “the last thing we have” and will prove to be a good fight. Ward, who has joined the Friends of Lansdowne legal challenge, added that the new council coming into Ottawa City Hall must realize that FOL will not be going away and will continue to move forward on stopping this Lans-downe Partnership Plan.

“This is an abomination,” said Ward. “This is an embarrassment to the city and we are going to do what we can to stop it. We’ve got a very strong case.”

The Superior Court of Ontario ap-plication put forward this past Sep-tember by FOL seeks an order to suppress the Ottawa by-law [passed June 28, 2010] approving the Lans-downe Partnership Plan with OSEG. The application was filed under Sec-tion 273 of the Ontario Municipal Act, which states any individual can quash a city by-law for illegality.

Steven Shrybman, lead counsel for FOL and a lawyer for Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, said the group is now just waiting for the city to respond to the evidence put forward to the court and once that happens – likely in January – the cross-examination will begin. He said any notion that this fight is over “should be put to bed”. He hopes the case will be de-cided before any shovels are put into the ground.

“We’re very much still in the game and fighting for a decent, reasonable and fair outcome to this whole pro-cess which is redeveloping the park,” said Shrybman. “This fight goes on and the legislation is serious and very substantial.” Shrybman laid out the case before a packed house. At the top of the application is an allegation of improperly suspended procure-

ment. In relation to the deal between the city and OSEG, FOL cites 23 instances of bad faith which fail to meet the standard of candour, frank-ness, impartiality and fairness under the Ontario Municipal Act.

Some examples of bad faith men-tioned by Shrybman in his hour long presentation include OSEG receiving a 50-70 year lease on the site which “de facto” makes public land private; misrepresenting the fact that the deal calls for the city to receive payments only if there is money left over after all debts and expenses are met; and that OSEG has only committed to fielding a CFL team for five years of the lease.

Walter Hendelman, a concerned resident who attended the presenta-tion, said the humour and spirit of the protest style event which includ-ed Pete Seeger type songs about the development was “outstanding” and that it was great to see such good at-tendance. He said the group now has to focus on raising $60,000 to help pay for the litigation which is ab-solutely necessary to stop the city council from proceeding.

“These civic leaders, can we call them leaders even, have continu-ally befuddled, if not deceived, if not willfully deceived the public throughout this process,” Hendelman said. “Just seeing it all laid out step -by-step like that is really gratifying – to see that we have just cause for proceeding – and I think we can raise lots of money to cover the bills and stop this process. It’s a travesty.”

Brian Tansey, who helped organ-ize the Mayfair event, said he was very happy with the turnout and that the management of the theatre was “actually turning people away at the door.” He said the momentum is growing against the Lansdowne Plan and the next event at the May-fair, titled the Lansdowne Follies and scheduled for February, should prove to be an even bigger success.

“It’ll be a fun, uplifting and funny amateur hour with skits and choirs and all kinds of stuff,” Tansey said. “It’s just to have some fun together and raise a little money.”

Jamie Harkins, a writer with an interest in community affairs and sports, currently works in the Glebe.

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“We strive to make every expect-ant mother not only glow, but feel

absolutely radiant during this most memorable time of her life,” explains Tracey Blasioli, owner of Queen Mother Maternity, which opened on Bank Street, October 5 of this year. “Our business philosophy is simple,” she continues. “Our goal is to pro-vide stylish, quality clothing and ac-cessories, superior customer service and an unforgettable shopping ex-perience.”

The new maternity clothing store aims to fill the void for fashionable, trendy, maternity clothing within the nation’s capital. The store carries everything from business attire to cocktail dresses and casual apparel, as well as leather diaper bags and gift certificates. “We carry many different brands,” says Tracey, “most of which are exclusive to our store. Our gar-ments aren’t obviously ‘maternity’ and we also have plenty of dresses, as there seems to be a lack of fancier maternity garments available in Ot-tawa.”

Queen Mother Maternity endeav-ours to offer its customers a wide array of fashion-forward, trendy gar-ments that can be worn during and after pregnancy. The store carries lines manufactured in Canada, the United States (Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco) and Australia. Many product lines are made with natural fibres, using plant-based dyes.

Tracey went to design school in Montreal and worked as a designer in the garment industry in Toronto before returning to Ottawa. Her store is in the Glebe because of its rela-tively central location, as well as the fact that it is a pedestrian-friendly shopping neighbourhood. She also likes the fact that there are other

nearby businesses catering to expect-ant mothers and families with young children.

While she sees her customer base extending across the city, she says it has been great to have the un-expected walk-in customer shop for gifts for expectant friends or family members. Most importantly, Tracey is feeling right at home in the Glebe. “I would really like to thank neigh-bourhood residents, clients and other local businesses who have been so supportive in my first few weeks of business” she exclaims.

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love themAttention cat lovers of the Glebe!

Looking for the ultimate cat tree? Maybe a stroller to walk your kitty around the neighbourhood? Perhaps you are looking for the latest and greatest feline cat-toy entertainment? Cats-R-Us has opened up on Bank Street and is offering pretty much everything your special cat could hope for.

The “exclusive cat boutique” is a new store catering to cats and cat-lovers who want to pamper their kitty. Meowët & Chandon premium

organic catnip, luxury cat beds, “paw-breakers” catnip candies and veter-inarian-recommended cat drinking fountains are bound to please even the most finicky of felines. For their owners, there are cat t-shirts, door-mats, books, mugs, bags and scarves. This is no general pet supplies store, but is everything cats, and cats only!

The cat-lover behind Cats-R-Us is Anne Woolley, who after working for years in the public service and as a dental office manager, decided to pursue her calling in the cat business. Anne has five cats of her own, some of whom visit the store and all of whom act as testers for the products she sells. Signs around the shop show a “five-paw” rating to show that all five of her furry friends at home used and approved of the product.

Cats-R-Us opened on October 15 and is adding new products every week. Anne spends a lot of time comb-ing the Internet to find the latest and greatest items for cats, many of which she imports directly. Hence, they are not available elsewhere in Ottawa. She also makes an effort to offer ex-clusive products such as organic cat-nip and wool catnip balls she makes herself, as well as unique items made in Canada such as NVR Miss cat litter boxes made from recycled materials, and Stuart Katt design items by local artist Philip Dingman.

One of her most striking product lines at Cats-R-Us are the Cloud 9 cat trees, which are designed and made in Maple, Ontario. Some of these multi-leveled cat trees are al-most seven-feet tall and include cat hammocks or fun motifs. Cloud 9 is recognized among cat breeders and pet owners for their creative designs and durability.

Most of all, Anne and her children – who help her out at the store – love to talk to fellow cat lovers and share their product knowledge and en-thusiasm for their feline friends. She is anticipating a busy holiday season for cat lover gifts and Cats-R-Us is having a holiday sale from Decem-ber 11 to 19.

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definitely not your average photog-raphy studio. Owner/stylist/photog-rapher Gilda Furgiuele is turning the notion of portrait photography being a boring-and-stiff experience completely upside-down, bringing a sense of style, glamour and, most of all, fun into the studio experience.

What makes Royale Boutique dif-ferent from most other studios? For starters, it is also a vintage cloth-ing store. How do photography and vintage clothing fit together, you ask? Royale Boutique specializes in pin-up, old Hollywood glamour and boudoir photography, offering cli-ents a chic and quaint place to “get dolled up in unique vintage clothing and have the photographic evidence to make that well-dressed day last a lifetime.” Experiencing the “Royale treatment” starts with an appointment to talk about the portrait and what the client hopes to achieve, finding the right theme, the right clothes and the right feel to create the desired look. Clients can choose from among the vintage clothing collection available at the studio or bring their own from home.

On the day of the shoot, Gilda does it all: the hairstyling, the makeup, the clothes and the photography.

The atmosphere in the studio is re-laxed, cool and fun as she strives to make the shoot a unique experience in itself. Once behind the camera, Gilda goes to work to bring the look to life and express the inner personal-ity of the person she is shooting. She had been an artist for years before studying photography at the Ottawa School of Art and obviously loves the creative aspect of composition in building the story within the photo.

After the shoot, Gilda turns her attention to the photofinishing, com-bining her sense of style and profes-sional training to make each image unique. She provides all photos digit-ally in photo books or on CDs and can also prepare specialty items like printed, coffee-table books. When there are no shoots going on, the stu-dio transforms into a vintage cloth-ing store. Gilda has been active on the vintage clothing scene for years and each item she sells is handpicked for its uniqueness, quality and style.

Royale Boutique also has a sig-nificant online presence. Gilda is a regular blogger on topics related to the fashion and photography scenes in Ottawa, and the studio has a Face-book group with an active following. Royaleboutique.com also has ex-tensive galleries of Gilda’s portrait, fashion, vintage and rock-and-roll images on display and lists studio promotions and events. The boutique is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment.Royale Boutique Photography103 Fourth Avenue, 2nd Floor

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Making microFIT work for youComings and goings in 2010

GLEBE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

BY JULIE HOULE CEZER

This year has been notable for changes in the business landscape of the Glebe. While some six businesses have closed, thirteen new businesses have opened during this past calendar year and some six establishments have changed ownership. Seven have moved within the Glebe and nine businesses have al-ready relocated outside the neighbourhood. However, at press time, three addi-tional businesses: David’s Teas, Naji’s Lebanese restaurant and BV.O2 web marketing, have also indicated that they are just on the cusp of opening their doors in our neighbourhood.

We say a fond au revoir to businesses that over the years have provided excellent service to Glebe customers and during 2010 either closed or moved elsewhere in the city. We remember well, Art Guise, The Body Shop, Prime Crime, Melz Kids Village and Sugar Mountain. Should we choose to go fur-ther afield in Ottawa, we can still visit Disegno, Byblos, World Mosaic, Planet Botanix, Senes Environmental Consultants, The Conference Publishers, Bird and McCuaig and ACR communication. Most recently, we have been witness-ing a stream of visitors to Patrick McGahern Books which will soon be moving to the Byward Market, where the owners will focus on selling rare and antique books.

Some established Glebe businesses have also changed ownership in the last year; they include Glebe Fitness, Glebe Spa and the UPS Store as well as three local eateries: the Arrow and Loon, Roast ’n’ Brew, and Sushi Go, all of which have updated their menus. In the last two cases, they have also brought a new look to the premises as well as expanded their services to include catering as well as on-site meals.

Those businesses that have happily chosen to relocate within the Glebe in 2010 include Brio Bodywear and Glebe Fashion Cleaners, Game Power and Joe Mamma, Kaleidoscope Kids’ Books which was temporarily housed in Ot-tawa South but re-opened in its permanent space on Bank, and finally Spa Royale, now located in the block of Bank Street just south of Chamberlain.

We also wish to extend a warm welcome to the numerous new businesses in the Glebe. We strongly encourage our readers to think of patronizing these and other local stores not only for holiday purchases, but for weekly shopping as well. Do satisfy your curiosity and go in to inquire about the services and meet the staff of the new stores: walking south along Bank from Strathcona, drop in at The Flour Shoppe, Interiors by Cefaloni, Cats R Us, Thann, Juno Gems and Queen Mother Maternity all at ground level on the east side of Bank; Tripp photography and Glebe Costume Rental (above the Running Room); on Second Avenue, visit Confident Smiles and Aromatize, and on Fourth Avenue, walk up to Royal Boutique Photography.

Finally, we want to thank all members of our business community, new and old, for their ongoing and active support of community affairs and events. By working together, we can continue to make the Glebe a vibrant neighbourhood that cares about the people who live, work and visit here. A bountiful holiday season to you all.

Home heating is not a luxury in Ot-tawa. I have heard from constituents that they can’t afford to keep their homes warm this winter. Low-income families and seniors, in particular, are finding it harder to make ends meet. This year, the cost of home heating has increased by 30 per cent in Ottawa. The increase was partially fuelled by the HST, which raised sales taxes on home heating from 5 per cent to 13 per cent. This is a far cry from Stephen Harper’s promise of affordability to working families.

At the same time, we are trying to reduce our energy use. We recognize that consumption as usual is not sustainable, either financially or environmentally. However, retrofitting energy-inefficient homes is costly and the government has cancelled programs that would assist Canadians with the financial costs of green retrofits. While you have to pay the price for the government’s poor tax policies, the biggest polluters in this country receive over $2 billion per year in subsidies.

It’s time for fairness and practical steps to make your life more affordable. That’s why New Democrats are proposing the following steps to reduce the cost of home heating and invest in green retrofits:

1. Drop the 5 per cent federal sales tax on your home heating now.2. Re-introduce the EcoEnergy retrofit program. 3. End subsidies to the big polluters.By removing the federal portion of the HST from your home heating, you

can immediately feel the relief in the cost of home heating. The introduction of the EcoEnergy retrofit program would allow you to make

your home energy-efficient and fight climate change. Before Stephen Harper shut down the EcoEnergy program, the program helped to retrofit 500,000 Canadian homes and save an estimated 3 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) per home. That amounts to 1,500,000 tonnes of GHGs a year after 4 years of retrofits. The program cost $745 million over those 4 years and is estimated to have leveraged an additional $4 billion in retrofit investment by private individuals. The Department of Natural Resources Canada says the average program claimant cut their home-energy bill by 20 per cent, a perma-nent saving for the family budget.

The EcoEnergy program was also vital for creating local green jobs in the construction, evaluation and maintenance fields.

The costs associated with our plan would be covered by the cancelation of subsidies to the biggest polluters. After all, we made a commitment to the world at the Copenhagen conference on climate change to cancel those sub-sidies. These three practical steps would advance affordability, sustainability and fairness in our economy. We have invited the government to work with us in implementing these ideas. I look forward to your feedback and if you wish to stay updated on our campaign; please visit www.heatyourhome.ca.

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BY CAROL MACLEOD

In recent weeks, we’ve been inundated with talk about climbing electricity rates. Steps have been taken to temporarily cushion our bills, but logic tells us that sooner or later we must pay the real cost of electricity. Over the years, the Environment Committee of the Glebe Community Association has organized EnviroFairs to offer neighbours tips to save electricity. Some of the sugges-tions have been to buy energy-efficient appliances, to connect appliances and computers to power bars that can be turned off, to change to CFL or LED light bulbs or to dry laundry on a clothesline. While those ideas offer ways to reduce consumption, here’s another that can take a big bite out of your electricity bill. It’s called microFIT.

The Environment Committee and Yasir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa Centre are co-hosting a seminar on microFIT, Making Money from Solar Energy, on Sat-urday, January 15, 2011 at the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue. The Ontario government introduced its micro feed-in tariff or microFIT pro-gram last year. Under the program, Ontario Power Authority enters into a 20-year contract which pays individuals for electricity they produce by sun, wind, geothermal, water or bioenergy. The electricity is fed back into the electrical grid.

The seminar will provide information about the ins-and-outs of the micro-FIT program, updates on developing solar technology, how to link to the grid, how the microFIT program suits downtown buildings, what you need to con-sider before making an investment and what you might expect in payback. Presentations focus on technology, specifics of installing and connecting to the grid, including city bylaws and how to form community solar cooperatives. Finally, neighbours will talk about their experiences installing solar panels and connecting to the grid.

The seminar, which is organized around installer displays, starts at noon, leaving you an hour to discuss specifics. Then, seminar sessions, which allow time for questions, will run from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. in Scotton Hall. The Pantry will be open for beverages and snacks. Watch the January issue of the Glebe Report for a program. For more information and/or to RSVP, please visit www.glebeca.ca or [email protected] or call 613-722-6414.

Carol MacLeod is a member of the Environment committee of the Glebe Community Association.

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The Glebe at the pollsBY IAN MCKERCHER

Do Glebe voting patterns differ from the rest of the Ward #17 (Capital Ward) or the City of Ottawa at large? The short answer? Not much.

The city posted complete final election results four days after the October 25 civic election http://www.ottawa.ca/city_hall/elections/index_en.html. All statistics given here come from that source. Percentages are rounded to one decimal point.

THE ADVANCED POLLOf the 25,229 registered voters in Ward #17, 1,035 (4.1 per cent) chose to

vote in the advance polls. Advance poll votes are accounted for separately, as a block within each ward, and are not ascribed to individual polls. It is therefore impossible to tell if Glebites were more active users of the advance polling sta-tions than other citizens in the ward.

It also slightly skews some of the statistics below (i.e., Clive Doucet’s total ward vote of 4,430 includes 227 advance-poll votes, but we don’t know how many of them came from the Glebe, so his percentage of the Glebe vote may be higher or lower than indicated.)

VOTING DAYThe Glebe is home to 9,952 registered voters, or 39.4 per cent of the 25,229

voters in Capital Ward.

CHART #1: VOTER PARTICIPATION

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Ward #17(including

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The City607,357

Mayor 4,805 (48.2%) 12,181 (48.3%) 13,218 (52.4%) 269,547 (44%)

Councillor 4,726 (47.5%) 11,894 (47.1%) 12,905 (51.2%)

The Glebe4,805 votes cast

Ward #1713,218 votes cast

The City

Clive Doucet 1,857 (38.6%) 4,430 (34.0%) 15%

Andy Hayden 77 (1.6%) 369 (2.8%) 7%

Larry O’Brien 415 (8.6%) 1,463 (11.1%) 24%

Jim Watson 2,354 (49.0%) 6,543 (49.5%) 49%

The GlebeOctober 25

4726 votes cast

Ward #17October 25

12,905 votes cast

AdvancePoll1011 votes cast

Bob Brocklebank 1150 (24.3%) 2207 (17.10%) 227 (22.5%)

David Chernushenko 1956 (41.4%) 5335 (41.3%) 382 (37.8%)

Eugene Haslam 291 (6.2%) 1084 (8.4%) 74 (7.3%)

Isabel Metcalfe 725 (15.3%) 2515 (19.5%) 182 (18%)

Domenic Santaguida 554 (11.8%) 1475 (11.4%) 118 (11.7%)

Is it just a myth that the Glebe is full of public-spirited, politically active citizens? We almost all live within a five-minute walk of a polling booth, yet we barely squeak past the city average of voter participation.

CHART #2:VOTER SUPPORT OF THE MAIN MAYORAL CANDIDATES

(sharing 97.8% of votes cast*)

* The 16 other mayoral candidates shared 2.2% of the vote.

No surprise that Clive Doucet did more than twice as well in his home ward and neighbourhood than he did across the city. However, it was mostly at the expense of Andy Hayden and Larry O’Brien. Jim Watson was as strong here as anywhere in the city and out-polled Clive by 10 per cent in the Glebe and 15 per cent in the ward as a whole.

CHART #3: VOTER SUPPORT OF MAIN COUNCILLOR CANDIDATES IN WARD #17

(sharing 97.7% of votes cast*)

* The two other candidates shared 2.3% of the vote.

Former GCA Chair Bob Brocklebank picked up almost half his total vote in the Glebe. Still, David Chernushenko out-polled him by 17 per cent in his own backyard and was as strong in the Glebe as he was across the ward.

Ian McKercher is a Glebe resident with a keen interest in local history and politics.

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Thank you for helping local farmers keep onfarming, for reducing your carbon footprint, and for sharing our passion for all things fresh and flavourful, local and fun. See you in 2011.

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The holidays are around the corner and, as always, there’s so much to do and so little time! Remember, we’re here to help. Whether it’s a last minute gift idea or a thermometer for your turkey, we have what you need. Not sure what to get that hard-to-buy-for person? Consider a Home Hardware gift card.

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Glebe Report December 10, 2010 27HEALTHHealth centre volunteers gain by giving

BY JOHN JULIAN

Wednesday afternoon: A buzz of excitement is coming from the pro-gram room at the Centretown Com-munity Health Centre (CCHC) where a spirited game of Wii bowling is underway.

At the centre of the action is a small, blonde woman. She welcomes new arrivals, encourages people to join in the game, offers tips and instruction to players, engages in good-natured banter, mediates the minor disputes that crop up and con-stantly works to ensure that the tone is fun, inclusive and encouraging. Julie runs the weekly Wii drop-in as a volunteer and she is determined to make it a warm and welcoming en-vironment for anyone who chooses to participate.

“I really believe in the commun-ity health centre slogan – ‘Every One Matters’”, she says. The participants vary dramatically from week-to-week – lonely seniors looking for a little company, unemployed people trying to boost their spirits, people with physical and mental-health issues, homeless people, and at least one self-described Wii fanatic who just loves to play the games. “Every-one who walks in gets treated the same,” Julie says. “This is a com-munity. Friendships are formed. We all help each other out.”

Julie is confident and articulate, a walking example of what she calls CCHC’s “contagious, positive ener-gy”. Yet she is also quick to point out that she benefits from the weekly Wii sessions as much as any of the participants. When she first walked through the door of the health centre more than six months ago it was as a client, looking for nutrition coun-selling and to sign up for the Good Food Box program. She found a place that was welcoming and non-judgmental. She participated in vari-

ous health-related programs and in the process, her skills and talents became obvious to CCHC staff. For Julie, volunteering became the next step in her health journey. “I am volunteering for my own health and well-being. I help myself by helping others. When I needed the help, it was there. Now it is my turn to pay it forward.”

Indigo Holley, CCHC’s volunteer program coordinator, says that Julie is an excellent example of how vol-unteering is a win-win-win situation. “People volunteer for many different reasons – they all have gifts to offer but they also have needs that they can meet by volunteering.” Some volunteers are new Canadians look-ing for opportunities to improve their language skills and gain Canadian experience. Some are retired with time to fill. Others need to develop basic workplace skills so that they can enter the job market. Some sim-ply want to give back to the com-munity. Nearly all find an increased sense of self-confidence and satis-faction from the work they do. Sev-eral volunteers have moved into paid positions within the centre and others

Volunteer Julie celebrates a strike with a member of the Wii bowling group.

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Mariam Ali has no difficulty emp-athising with the young moms who attend the “Buns in the Oven” group where she volunteers. It is a program that offers pre-natal education for expectant mothers and many of the women attending are new Canadians just as Mariam was when she arrived from Ethiopia nearly 10 years ago. Now the mother of a seven-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son, she remembers feeling lonely and

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Julie and Mariam are just two of the dozens of volunteers that allow CCHC to serve many more people than would be possible with staff alone. “Volunteers are key to our model of delivering services,” says Christina Marchant, director of Community Health Promotion and Early Years at CCHC. “Some pro-grams, like the walking group, the chair exercise group, the Wii drop-in and tai chi class are entirely led by volunteers. Others, like the Good Food Box, Women of All Cultures, and Buns in the Oven depend heav-ily on volunteers to meet their ob-jectives.”

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BY CAROLINE BROWN

If you tune your ears in to the cur-rent music scene, you will hear great things about a Venezuelan youth or-chestra system called ‘El Sistema’. Founded 35 years ago by Dr. José Antonio Abreu, its mission is to al-low children from all backgrounds to access a safe environment where their musicality is nurtured and they can grow as both individuals and val-ued group members.

There are now 180 ‘Núcleos’ or community schools throughout Venezuela that draw 350,000 young students to their doors. It is impres-sive how, in a country struggling with poverty and crime, this govern-ment-funded organization has been able to lift children from poor socio-economic backgrounds into an arena flush with life-enriching opportun-ities. They build skills in communi-cation, literacy and help one another as older students guide the newcom-ers. The group practice sessions, held six days a week, instill perseverance and a confidence that will follow them throughout their lives. Perhaps the most poignant expression of all the benefits is found in Abreu’s state-ment “teach children the beauty of music and music will teach them the beauty of life.”

One notable pupil to have emerged from El Sistema is conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel. He stud-ied under the youth program from an early age. After studying con-ducting with Abreu for four years, he was appointed musical director for the Simon Bolivar Youth Orches-tra. Many may remember his visit to Ottawa in 2007 when he led the National Arts Centre Orchestra to rave reviews. Today, at the age of 29, he is the principal conductor for the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.

We are lucky enough that music is readily available to our children here in the Glebe. However not everyone in Ottawa is so fortunate. As a result, in 2007, the Leading Note Founda-tion (LNF) was formed to bring El Sistema to the children of low in-come families in the city. Founded by Tina Fedeski, Gary McMillen and Margaret Munro Tobolowska, the LNF provides free instrumen-tal and choral opportunities through their two programs OrKidstra and

BY MEGAN MARSHALL

With the holidays right around the corner, many are panicking over gift ideas. Be it stocking-stuffers or a stand-alone gift, music is ideal. The recipient will either love the selection you’ve made for him/her, or re-gift it to someone who would appreciate it. For the most part though, your gift(s) will go on giv-ing inspiration over and over again. Most shoppers have a basic idea of what music moves the lucky recipient before they make a purchase; however if this is not the case, here’s a musical gift guide for this holiday season.

Teenagers (ages 10-15): Taylor Swift’s recent release Speak Now is guaran-teed to be a hit amongst females, whereas Kings of Leon’s new release Come Around Sundown will prove to be a cool gift for males.

Young adults (ages 16-19): Arcade Fire’s Suburbs is a must-have indie rock album. The Stars’ “Five Ghosts” is a great idea for those more inclined to electro/pop-rock.

Adults (ages 20-25): Sarah Harmer’s Oh! Little Fire is a light, bright folk album sure to please any audience. Local artist Jim Bryson’s latest album, Fal-con Lake Incident, a collaboration with the Weakerthans, is a witty folk-rock album appealing to everyone.

Adults (ages 26-30): Mumford and Sons’ debut album Sigh No More has already taken the UK by storm and is infiltrating Canada now. A brilliant blend of lush harmonies, witty lyrics, and beautiful orchestration makes for a solid folk rock album. For those with a little more funk in their step, the obvious choice is Black Keys’ album Brothers, filled with heavy bass lines, vintage sounding vocals and compelling rhythms – you’ll want one for yourself too.

Adults (ages 31-40): Musical master-mind Daniel Lanois’ latest musical group and album, Black Dub, features guitarist Chris Whitley’s daughter Trixie (vocals, keys and percussion), Daryl Johnson (bass) and Brain Blade (percussion). Together they create a fusion of jazz/R&B/rock. Surprise someone with this gift of epic genius. Another choice is Eric Clapton’s Clapton album, recently re-leased. If you’ve ever heard Clapton, you will appreciate the continuity of talent.

Adults (ages 41+): Neil Young’s Le Noise recorded in one take, produced by Daniel Lanois. Simply electric! Local chanteuse Lynn Miles’ Fall For Beauty provides warm folk melodies and grip-ping vocal clarity. Former Led Zeppelin vocalist, Robert Plant, has mellowed (slightly) with age and his latest album Band of Joy is an excellent integration of roots, rock and blues. For jazz fans, Char-

lie Haden’s Quartet’s Sophisticated Ladies is a perfect gift featuring vocalists Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Renée Fleming, Melody Gardot and others.

Remember that gift certificates are also available at music stores, should you be worried about your selections.

Happy holidays!Megan Marshall is the manager of Compact Music on Bank Street and regu-

larly reviews local music events.

KidSingers. Executive Director Fedeski who runs the Leading Note sheet music store on Elgin with her husband McMillen, explains that she has always believed, from a young age, that music should be available to everyone, regardless of social or economic background.

The LNF provides a local case study of how brilliant El Sistema is. Children aged between five and fifteen can take part in the various programs, where world music and songs are learned and celebrated. However, when the children get together, they learn so much more beyond the act of music making. Many of them are here as new Can-adians and through music they are able to develop self-confidence, teamwork and mutual respect; val-ues which are fundamental to com-munity life. Fedeski comments, “With over 24 languages spoken amongst the children, it is inspir-ing to see how music really is the universal language that all children can speak. They are united through playing and singing together.”

More impressive still is that the LNF relies on donations and com-munity generosity to survive. Since 2007 they have received a staggering $90,000 in instrument donations. Music students from the University of Ottawa along with high school students repeatedly return to volun-teer with these young musicians. El Sistema is definitely a community builder, which is perhaps why it has travelled so widely and with such success. From the very beginning, it has grown exponentially – evolv-ing from just a modest program that introduced rural Venezuelan chil-dren to music, into what is now a leading teaching system on a global scale. More than 25 countries have modelled youth music programs on El Sistema, including Scotland, Eng-land and Australia. Not only was the LNF the first institution to introduce the system to Canada, but it was the first to use it outside South America. El Sistema has now reached the chil-dren of New Brunswick as well as Calgary. As the inspirational found-er of this musical phenomenon, Dr. José Antonio Abreu was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2008 for his unwavering efforts to develop children’s quality of life through music.

It is striking how the western and economically developed world is now turning to the less economically developed systems of South America for inspiration on combating social poverty. Poverty is everywhere; it just varies between locations. Mod-ern technology has promoted iso-lation within our homes, allowing us to do almost everything through the Internet or using our phones. El Sistema reminds us how important music is and how its interactive na-ture can bring communities together. The children of El Sistema are taught to realize they are just one line in

a whole score and it is important to recognize that we can all benefit from that level of self awareness and neighbourly compassion.

A holiday performance by both the KidSinger and OrKidstra will be held on December 18 at 3 p.m. in the Bronson Centre. For more informa-tion, visit their website www.lead-ingnotefoundation.org and you can also donate using canadahelps.org.

Caroline recently moved to the Glebe from England. She graduated this summer from the University of Leeds and loves being involved with the community.

Left to right : Gary McMillen, chair of The Leading Note Foundation [LNF]; Tina Fedeski, executive director of LNF; Frank Dyson, senior representative of the Ontario Trillium Foundation; Margaret Tobolowska, artistic director of LNF; Yasir Naqvi, MPP Ottawa Centre

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Big Soul Project: We are dancing in the joy!

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BY DIANE McINTYREFor the past year the Fourth Avenue

Baptist Church has been home base of Big Soul Project (BSP), a vibrant community choir. Every Monday evening, Big Soul Project’s choir and groove band come together from all over the National Capital region to play and sing and laugh and dance as they share in making music together. What the members of the choir have in common is that they all realize that music can be transformative and singing together is very uplifting. Full of heart and soul, this energetic group harmonizes in three or four parts with songs of hope, love, joy and peace.

Big Soul Project is a choir that nurtures individuals, welcomes newcomers, and builds community within while it supports the broader community. Over the past few years, BSP has participated by entertaining at numerous community benefits in-cluding Rise up for Haiti, the Fund-raiser for Kairos, Prayers for Peace at City Hall, Bempong’s school fund-raiser at Ottawa University’s Tabaret Hall, and sung and danced on the covered bridge in Wakefield for the Stephen Lewis Foundation inspired ‘grannies’.

Under the musical direction and artistic leadership of Roxanne Good-man, the choir has enjoyed a height-ened profile in 2010. Roxanne in-spires everyone to feel the music and let it out. She brings out the best in us all and leads us into unknown ter-ritory. During the past year, BSP per-formed a full set, entertaining on the Gospel Stage of Bluesfest, provided backup to Grammy award-winning artist Lady Tremaine Hawkins, and filled the house for a lively afternoon at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield. This holiday season brought BSP performances to The Palisades, the Edgewood Care Centre and Santa’s Village in the Rideau Centre where Santa did the “bump” with Roxan-ne while the audience joined in the singing in a spontaneous outburst of Christmas cheer.

On December 4, BSP’s Celebrating Christmas Concert rocked Domin-

ion Chalmers United Church with host Adrian Harewood as the master of ceremonies. Over 100 perform-ers were in the choir and the band. The show presented Christmas, Gos-pel and contemporary music with original arrangements by Roxanne Goodman and featuring the sweet sounds of Bertram Boldon’s mastery on steel pans. BSP was joined by a “souled out” audience who joined in the singing and dancing. The choir’s reputation preceded it as all tickets to the show were sold in advance of the concert. Compact Music had sold most of their tickets before the show was even advertised.

Big Soul Project was formed in 1999 with an objective to bring gos-pel music to a broader community. And now BSP is gaining a reputa-tion of being one of the busiest, and most-entertaining, groups in the city. We are mostly about having fun. There is an undeniable energy at BSP gigs, one that you can sense from the opening notes. Come to hear us. Close your eyes and listen, feel the music wash over you, or just watch the faces of the people sing-ing on stage. There’s always a conta-gious vibe in the air. Just sit back and enjoy the ride or sing along. BSP evenings often unfold differently from what we expect, but you may find yourself dancing in the aisles with us.

For more information about this dynamic choir and band, you can check the website www.bigsoulpro-ject.ca where you can hear some of our music. BSP produced a CD in 2009, Dancing in the Joy and it is available at Compact Music stores. If you like to sing, if you like to move, you are invited to join us for open practices on January 10, 2011 at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church. An information session for prospective new members will begin at 6:30 p.m. You can meet members of the choir, experience Roxanne’s unique vocal warm-up, and join in the rehearsal from 7-9 p.m.

Diane McIntyre is a Glebe resident who enthusiastically sings with the Big Soul Project.

At the flicks with Lois and PaulBY PAUL GREENBY LOIS SIEGEL

The Little FugitiveDirected by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin (1953)

The Little Fugitive is an independent, low-budget film gem from the past, situated in Brooklyn, New York. It demonstrates that children often have a natural ability to act. This one feels more like a documentary than a feature film. Joey Norton (Richie Andrusco) and Lennie Norton (Richard Brewster) are excellent in their roles as two brothers who fight like other siblings, but who, deep in their core of their being, really care for each other.

The story emerges out of a misunderstanding. Seven-year-old Joey thinks he has killed his older brother Lennie. It’s all a practical joke, but Joey is duped and runs away. His destination is Coney Island – every kid’s dream – where there’s a grand amusement park with a merry-go-round, bumper cars, pony rides, a beach and cotton candy galore. Joey sneaks money from home and heads out to a fantastic adventure. We follow him as he wanders around the park, exploring all the great things such a place has to offer. Shot in black-and-white, the film shows us scenes of the crowds of Coney Island and the people on the streets of New York. It is all accompanied by a haunting soundtrack played on a lone harmonica.

The Little Fugitive is perfect for the holiday season. It’s a great film to see with your children or to view alone, as it certainly allows you to reminisce about times past.

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Sweet LandDirected by Ali Selim

If you like beautifully shot, romantic films, directed with style, then you will like this film. Sweet Land isn’t overly sweet. It’s charming, humorous and touching in a sophisticated way. The location is rural Minnesota in the 1920s. The story centres on an arranged marriage and the complexity of a German lady immigrating to American. Inge arrives to what may seem like the middle-of-nowhere ... small town, farm country, to marry a young Norwegian farmer, Olaf.

The film took Selim 15 years to finance. While working on the script, he directed television commercials. No Hollywood studios were interested in making the film. Sweet Land was shot in 24 days, and local residents served as extras and provided farming props. The acting is superb. You might recognize Alex Kingston who plays Brownie in the film. She is best known as Dr. Eliza-beth Corday, formerly on television’s “ER.” Sweet Land also stars Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty, John Heard and Alan Cumming.

And the cinematography by David Tumblety is breathtaking. After years of struggling to make it in the film industry, Selim is finally there. He recent-ly directed six episodes of “In Treatment,” the Emmy-winning HBO drama starring Gabriel Byrne as a not-as-steady-as-he-seems shrink with a stream of high-profile patients. And Selim has co-written a script with Sweet Land star Tim Guinee for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s company about the 1963 college basketball season in which Mississippi State finally agreed to participate in an integrated NCAA tournament. Selim now lives in Los Angeles.

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Les Herbes Folles (Wild Grass)Directed by Alain Resnais (2009)

About 15 years ago, Alain Resnais made a remark-able film called Smoking / No Smoking in which the entire story turns on whether the protagonist lights, or does not light, a cigarette. I mention this apropos of nothing in particular except to suggest that with Resnais, who has given us such iconic films as Hiro-shima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, one never knows what to expect.

This brings us to Wild Grass, a delightful flight of fantasy that turns on the fate of a wallet, or more

precisely, Georges and Marguerite whose lives become tangled because of said wallet. Marguerite (Resnais veteran Sabine Azéma) is attractive, forty-something and has just had her purse stolen after buying a new pair of shoes. Subsequently, we encounter Georges in an underground parkade where he chances upon Marguerite’s wallet. For his part, Georges (another Resnais veteran André Dussollier) is white-haired and in his late fifties, possibly hav-ing a mid-life crisis or just turning curmudgeonly … or, in today’s parlance, he may have issues. We know this because while Georges is examining the wallet, two young women walk by. It’s all he can do to prevent himself from berating them for the clothes they are wearing, clothes that are a deliberate provocation aimed clearly at him, or so he feels. There are hints of some dark occurrence in the past … yes, Georges has anger management issues, or worse.

Thus is the stage set for a series of improbable encounters, humorous at first and then increasingly ominous. Georges is never quite able to disperse that cloud that seems to hover over him constantly. Like Buñuel in the 1970s, Resnais, now in his late eighties, is seen here at the top of his game, effort-lessly playing with form and convention and confounding the viewers’ ex-pectations.

In this film, driven more by incident than by dialogue, nothing is ever quite what it seems. Unable to dial Marguerite’s number – we know she is a den-tist and holds a pilot’s licence – Georges shows up at the local commissariat where, in a delightfully underplayed scene, he reluctantly turns over the wal-let to a perplexed gendarme (the talented Mathieu Amalric).

Georges and Marguerite do meet, but only after numerous missteps and phone conversations gone awry. Oddly enough, she catches him at the local cinema where he has just watched the 1954 Korean War drama The Bridges at Toko-Ri, whose aviation themes offer a hint of things to come.

A word here about Sabine Azéma: with a beauty that bespeaks her vulner-ability and that great shock of red hair, she is nothing less than radiant. We also know she is rattled by Georges because her patients are starting to feel her pain. (NB: give this film a wide berth if you have a dental appointment the next day.)

While I make no claim to understanding the surreal closing sequence, I won-der if it doesn’t have something to do with the 18th century structure glimpsed in the opening frames. No matter, as I revelled in the wit and sophisticated byplay between the actors along the way.

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GCNS in full swingBY SEEMA AKHTAR

The GCNS youngsters continue to have a blast. They’ve recently been spotted going to school in pyjamas, with their favourite stuffed animals in tow, to participate in hibernation and bear week. The GCNS has an Algon-quin student assisting in the classroom until mid-December, two Heritage Col-lege students coming in to do activities with the children once-a-week and a music program that is in full swing. The nursery school still has space for your 2 ½ to 4 ½ year old in the Monday-to-Thursday afternoon program from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. Please contact us at 613-233-9708 or [email protected], or visit www.glebepreschool.com to regis-ter.

Stay tuned for the Great Glebe Grape Draw on February 27, 2011. You’ll be able to buy tickets (three for $10 or one

for $4) at the Taste in the Glebe on January 20, 2011 and from all GCNS parents. There will be lots of amazing prizes, including wine (of course!), and many wonderful products and gift certificates from local businesses. The money raised will help the GCNS keep its fabulous programming going.

Seema Akhtar is the communications chair of GCNS and a mom of three children.

SCHOOLSGood Morning students gain a new perspective

students learned about space in art by painting larger houses on the bot-tom of their page and smaller ones above them. Understanding that we see things differently based on where we are in relation to them was a new concept for some.

And schoolage children? Well, when they tackle perspective, they’ll be shown a piece like Magritte’s ‘The Son of Man’ – you know the one, – suited man in bowler hat, bright green apple obscuring his face. Then, they’ll be off to tackle their own cre-ations, inspired by what they saw and how the work was explained to them by their teachers.

It’s things like this morning’s breakfast table revelation that make me truly appreciate what my children learn at the school and the teachers who make the most incredible efforts to inspire and foster their creativity. I can’t wait to see what they do with cubism.

Glebe resident Joanne Gallop is a freelance writer, parent volunteer on the GMCAPS board and mom of two enthusiastic students.

BY JOANNE GALLOP

If you’re a parent, at some point in the last 24 hours, your child has prob-ably said something that surprised you. For me, it was this morning: “Mommy, that’s in the foreground and that’s in the background,” my four-year-old daughter informed me over breakfast. She was right, of course. From where she was sitting, the Cheerios were indeed in front of the milk. But where on earth did she come up with that? The Creative Arts Program at Good Morning, of course.

It turns out that perspective is a theme at school. And the amazing thing is that every class learns about it – from the two-year-olds in preschool right up through the seasoned Grade fours in the after-school program. It’s just the approach that’s different. The youngest children, for example, played games like “Little Mouse”. It’s a felt board colour game where a mouse hides behind one of the houses and the children guess which one. “Little Mouse, Little Mouse are you in the red house?” Kindergarten

Outdoor perspective by Kindergarten Creative Arts students

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Ingredients:½ cup (1 stick) butter ½ cup sugar ¼ cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon molasses ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg 2 cups flour ¼ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon baking powder 30-40 Life Saverslarger and smaller cookie cutters

Directions:1. Pre-heat oven to 350°F. Cream together butter and sugar, add molas-

ses and vanilla extract. After mixing, add an egg and then the flour, salt and baking powder. Mix well. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour.

2. Remove wrappers from Life Savers and sort them by colour into plas-tic bags. Use a hammer to crush Life Savers.

3. Roll dough out onto a floured surface and use the larger cookie cutter to cut shapes. Use a smaller cookie cutter to cut shapes into centres of the larger cookies; then place them onto a greased cookie sheet. Use a spoon to sprinkle the crushed candy into the hollowed-out centres of the cookies. If cookies will be hung as ornaments or decorations, poke a small hole in the top of each cookie before baking.

4. Bake 9 to 10 minutes. The candy should be melted and bubbling and the cookies just barely beginning to brown. Remove baking sheets from oven and place on wire racks to cool. Allow cookies to cool on pans at least 10 minutes; otherwise, the candy centres may separate from the dough.

5. String with ribbon if you want to hang as an ornament. Makes 2 to 4 dozen cookies, depending on how large you make them. Enjoy!

Building fun with Vicky

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We Day inspires Montessori youth to help others

Gearing up for the holidays

Real Christmas spirit

BY D. BATE AND GRADE 6 STUDENTS OF GMS

We Day, sponsored by Free the Children, offers youth across Canada an in-sightful and unforgettable day, as they witness inspirational speeches and per-formances. Free The Children, founded in 1995 by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger, is the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in in-novative education and development programs in 45 countries.

Grade 6 students from Glebe Montessori School (GMS) recently attended We Day in Montreal. Inspired by this outstanding event, our students wanted to share their experiences and encourage others to find out what this program is all about. James and Quinton expressed their admiration for speaker Michel Chikwanine. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Michel was forced into a life as a child soldier in a war that claimed the lives of 5.8 million. He witnessed many atrocities, but miraculously, he managed to escape to the jun-gle, where he was rescued. James and Quinton were impressed at how Michel used his experiences to bring attention to the plight of others in the Congo and show how one can surmount great obstacles.

Ilan also attended We Day, he discussed the moving story of speaker Spen-cer West. When Spencer was born, the doctors were forced to remove both his legs. He described Spencer as positive, happy, and grateful, in spite of the challenges he faced. Our students were touched by his spirit. Alexander, another GMS student, spoke about how impressed he was with Hannah En-dicott–Douglas. Better known for her role as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables, Hannah is also Free the Children’s ambassador for elementary schools across Canada. Most recently, she took part in a vow of silence to demonstrate her commitment to children’s rights. GMS senior students joined in the vow of silence. After this experience, they spoke with younger students about the importance of children’s rights and liberties.

Asked about their final messages to others, our students stated: James: “Keep trying; don’t give up!”Ilan: “Try and work together; if you try to do everything by yourself, you

won’t succeed.”Alexander: “If you have a chance to save something or someone – do it!

Don’t hesitate. Don’t miss that chance.”Quinton: “Don’t take advantage of what you’re given; appreciate what you

have. Never mind labels. Be happy with what you have!” The senior elementary class involvement with Free the Children is ongoing.

These students, in partnership with GMS’s student body, staff and parents, have been instrumental in implementing programs and events to raise funds that have helped build schools and wells in Kenya, and support children in need of assistance worldwide. Their final message: It is our responsibility to help others and each of us can make change happen. For more information on We Day and Free the Children, please visit http://www.freethechildren.com/ or http://weday.freethechildren.com/.

The collaborative exercise in writing was undertaken by Grade 6 senior ele-mentary students at Glebe Montessori School. Dijana Bate is the director of Glebe Montessori School.

BY ISABELLE FLANNIGAN

First Avenue Public School is gearing up for the holiday season. On December 3, First Avenue had a sing-along and a gift-giving assembly. A representative from the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) of Ottawa Carleton came by to collect gifts donated by our students for the less fortunate children in our community. The students of First Avenue have been par-ticipating in this event for a number of years and last year donated nearly 300 gifts.

Holiday concerts are now in full swing. The first was on December 9 at 9:30 a.m. and the second will be an evening concert. The First Avenue choir is proud to present their first evening holiday concert on Wednesday, December 15 at 6 p.m, when they will be performing outside the school’s front door. We welcome all members of the community and hope you enjoy the show.

At the end of October, many students came to school dressed up in Hallowe’en costumes. Our Grade 4 students held a black and orange day where they sport-ed an assortment of artistic hats that they had spent the week creating. Like every Hallowe’en, there were parties, plenty of candy and the children had tremendous fun.

Isabelle Flannigan is the vice-principal of First Avenue Public School.

you.’’ Just think how much it would mean to them to see a letter like that! That note can make someone feel so good because it will remind them of someone they love or just that some-one cares for them. We can make a difference; we just need the right at-titude.

The feeling of waking up on Christmas morning, waiting for a nice breakfast and waiting to open up your presents is nice. Every-body should get to feel that way. Even though they are not rich, they still deserve something that makes them feel that way. It is not about the amount you give, it is about the warmth you feel and the feelings of the person you helped. That is real Christmas spirit. Even if you can’t donate to Shepherds of Good Hope, donate to another cause. If you don’t have money, used clothes are also very helpful.

In December, our class would like to make more sandwiches and send notes with them so we can share the love around Christmas time. We have now been asking the staff for donations to buy some of the food to make the sandwiches.

We would also like to ask you for donations that you think you can af-ford. If you feel you can make a do-nation, please drop it off at Corpus Christi School at 157 Fourth Avenue in the main office. Thank you so much.

Katie and Michelle are students at Corpus Christi School.

BY KATIE AND MICHELLE

Our Grade 6 class at Corpus Chris-ti Catholic School is making sand-wiches for the Shepherds of Good Hope this year. Every month we will make approximately 150 sand-wiches or thirteen loaves of bread for the people at Shepherds of Good Hope. All of the students in our class and some of the staff members in our school provide the materials to make the sandwiches. The materials we use to make the sandwiches are cheese, lettuce, ham, margarine and bread. We make the sandwiches at the end of the month, every month, because that is when most people are in need of food. Our class members can always look back on this and say that they actually did something to help people in need.

The last time we made sandwiches, it was very successful. It put us all in awe when our teacher Mrs. White dropped off the sandwiches at the end of the month, and one of the cli-ents from the Shepherds said that he had thought he had “died and gone to heaven,” because there was lettuce and cheese on the sandwiches. Usu-ally, there’s just ham.

On Christmas, we hope to make approximately 180 sandwiches or more, so that not just we can have a good Christmas meal. Also, every individual student has written at least five letters to a person at the Shep-herds of Good Hope, saying some-thing like ‘‘you will never be forgot-ten’’ or ‘‘someone will always love

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Students preparing sandwiches for the Shepherds of Good Hope

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34 Glebe Report December 10, 2010 Glebe Report December 10, 2010 35COMMUNITY

BY PATRICIA GOYECHE

The play reading group meets regularly on Monday afternoons at 1 p.m. in the Abbotsford lounge. New readers are always welcome. Check out this and all of Abbotsford’s varied programs by picking up a copy of our program guide in person at Abbotsford (950 Bank Street) or by looking for it on the website under Abbotsford Community Services ‘Program Guide’ at www.glebecentre.ca.

Many thanks goes to the many volunteers, merchants, members and friends of Abbotsford for making the 35th Annual Christmas Bazaar indeed….The Best Bazaar in the City!

Abbotsford play reading

BY ANNE C. SMITH

“The play’s the thing!” exulted Hamlet. And that’s exactly how the Abbotsford play-reading group feels too. “We just love reading plays – it’s a joy!” confirms Pat Dillon as she flips a loonie into a tiny basket on the table. It’s Monday afternoon and the group is ready to start. For a dollar apiece drop-in fee, the players begin to distribute scripts and check out their parts.

This group has been going strong for eighteen years. Usually they read a light-hearted comedy such as Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, or a murder mystery like Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest. But this after-noon it’s a tragedy about the final days of Admiral Horatio Nelson, Terence Rattigan’s A Bequest to the Nation.

Ana Merritt is the group’s stage manager. Together with Patricia Goyeche, program coordinator at Abbotsford, she works closely with the Ottawa Library, choosing scripts using their ‘homebound service’, reading possible plays for interest and characters, and with the library’s

help, locating sufficient copies so that all can have, or at least share, one of them. Finally, having checked the chosen script to make sure that there are neither too many nor too few parts, Ana assigns roles.

The group – Ana, Pat, Mabel, Len, Susan, Doug, Nina and Yvette – is gathered in the lounge reading the last act of A Bequest to the Nation. The play readers are plunged sud-denly into Nelson’s 1805 world. Emotion and tension grow. The con-flict between Frances, Lady Nelson (Nelson’s spurned wife) and Emma, Lady Hamilton (Nelson’s notori-ous mistress) has reached the boil-ing point. Nelson is torn between his love for Emma and his duty to lead the British navy against the French and Spanish fleets.

The Abbotsford play readers, or-dinary people in ordinary clothes, without benefit of costumes, scenery or sound effects, have metamorph-osed into heroes of Trafalgar, victims of blighted love, and mourners of Nelson amid the sound of London’s tolling bells. All the world’s a stage indeed.

Abbotsford Players at play

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Immaculata High School: first place fundraisers

Multicultural celebrations at Glashan

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BY DARLENE CHARRON

Immaculata’s team has been “Running for the Cure” since 1996. We walked or ran on behalf of various special people in our lives who are currently bat-tling breast cancer or who are celebrating a significant year in remission. De-termined and dedicated students and staff outdid themselves by surpassing the $32,288 earned by the school team challenge October 1 deadline so that at the end of the month, the total had risen to $33,363.14! The 110 member team was led by student team captains, Anna Pearson and Kelly O’Connor. Special kudos go to Nick Glennon, who finished the 5 km distance in first place out of over 12,000 participants.

TOP ADULT AND STUDENT FUNDRAISERS We’re proud that retired teacher and breast cancer survivor, Diane Orsini,

raised $1,650 for Team Immaculata along with board trustee, Kathy Ablett, who finished with a $9,075 showing. Student co-captain, Anna Pearson, cap-tured top honours with $1,656. Other remarkable fundraisers were Carolyn Quinlan with $1,000 online, Hailee Voegelin with $750, Sienna Santaguida with $688 and Madalynn Seger with $649. Check us out at: www.runforth-ecure.com/goto/ImmaculataHighSchool orhttp://www.ottawacatholicschools.ca/imh

Darlene Charron is a teacher-librarian at Immaculata High School.

BY KAMAL AND STEFAN

If you are looking for a multicultur-al school, Glashan is the place to be. With over 64 different nationalities, it is an extremely welcoming and culturally diverse school. Students from all over the globe live their life and learn at Glashan. These nation-alities include students from India, Ethiopia, China, Spain, France, Italy, England, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, Russia and Fin-land. And this is only a small sample from our list.

With the holiday season approach-ing, there will be many different holidays to celebrate. Eid is one of the main holidays that will be cele-brated. During the Eid holiday (cele-brated by Muslims) all members of the family gather, have a delicious meal and afterwards have a cup of tea and chat. Another holiday cele-brated during this time of year is Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa celebrates the joy and love of family and culture. During this five-day holiday, family members express their love for one another with many traditions, such as Ancestral Roll-Call in which Kwan-zaa participants tell of a person who has inspired them.

Hanukkah is a very famous and re-spected holiday and is celebrated by many people at Glashan. Hanukkah is celebrated by the Jewish commun-ity and is an event that takes place from December 1, as of sunset to December 9 at sunset. Hanukkah is most famous for its lighting of the menorah. The menorah is a special religious candleholder with nine can-dles. The middle and tallest candle is used to light the rest. This menorah is used to remember the miracle that took place in the temple of Jerusa-lem, when the Jews only had enough

olive oil to light the Eternal Flame for one day, but miraculously the Eternal Flame burned for eight days.

St. Nicholas is another largely celebrated holiday at Glashan P.S. The story of St. Nicholas states that once upon a time a man with three daughters was in trouble. He was poor; therefore, his daughters did not have a dowry (a dowry is something of value that a woman’s family used to offer to prospective husbands). The larger the dowry, the better the chance of finding a better husband.

Another holiday widely celebrated is Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year (also called Lunar New Year) is the most important celebration in the lunar calendar. It is celebrated by countries and territories with signifi-cant Chinese populations all around the globe. Chinese New Year is a fif-teen day celebration with a special tradition or activity conducted every day. This year, Chinese New Year will start February 3 and continue over the following two weeks.

And last but not least, Christmas is a widely celebrated holiday all around the world. This year, hun-dreds of millions of people will be celebrating this holiday, buying gifts and spreading joy. There are many different cultures and countries that celebrate this holiday differently but in the end, we’re all waiting for Santa to leave presents in our homes.

So whether you celebrate Kwan-zaa, Chinese New Year, Eid, Christ-mas, St. Nicholas Day, or any other holiday not mentioned in this article, rest assured that Glashan will cele-brate your holiday with you happily. So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuk-kah and have a happy holiday sea-son.

Kamal and Stefan are students in Grade 7 at Glashan Public School.

Immaculata team in CIBC Run for the Cure

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December 13-January 8

The Fire Virgin premieres December 10

Students of Bhat Boy strut their stuff at the little gallery in the lobby of the Glebe Community Centre this month. A group of 28 talented students that take classes at the Centre are exhibiting their works of Canadian landscapes at the Gallery from December 13 until January 8.

The show features Debbie Rubin’s Morning Mist a painting of a red canoe on an early summer morning with mist on the lake, and Jan Phillips’ View from Bhat’s Cottage, a stunning depiction of light on water. If you prefer paintings of the cold, Celine Langevin’s Valse Froide features a spruce tree beautifully iced with snow.

If you are interested in signing up for one of Bhat Boy’s afternoon classes at the Glebe Community Centre, registration for next term begins on December 9. The class will be on architecture, no experience necessary, just the ability to have fun. Tea and cookies are served at every class.

The Fire Virgin, a 15-minute film by Bhat Boy is premiering on Friday, De-cember 10 at Snapdragon Gallery. The evening is being presented by Montreal artist and musician Marina Malvada, who stars in the short film about a woman who reclaims her virginity.

Young filmmakers Emily Feist and Emanuela Campanella, will also be showing a short documentary about Bhat Boy. Host, musician and Goth cult figure Marina Malvada did the original music for the film The Fire Virgin; she and Bhat Boy have been collaborating on projects since they met at art college in the 80s. The event is for ages 14 and up. Wine, non-alcoholic beverages and cheese will be served. There will be a video presentation at 7 p.m., with encore performances at 7:45 and 8:30 p.m. Snapdragon Gallery is located at 791 Bank Street at the corner of Third Avenue.

From 6-9 p.m. on the same evening, Glebe artist Bhat Boy will be unveiling a series of new cubist cityscapes inspired by Swiss artist Paul Klee at the Gor-don Harrison Gallery at 494 Sussex Drive (across the street from the American Embassy). All are welcome: wine and cheese will be served.

ARTARTGiovanni up close and personal with Philip CraigWhere does your passion for painting come from?

My surroundings.

Do you prefer working in the studio or outdoors?Even though I do a lot of photography and sketching outdoors, I produce

best in my studio.

What or who has most influenced your style (s) of painting?My influences range from the Renaissance to modernists and all in between,

but mostly now, I am influenced by my wife Diane.

Did the work you did at the CBC have any influence on your art?Very much so. I learned to work to a deadline and create with others in mind.

Do you have a sense of what direction you are moving with your art?Hopefully, I am getting better.

What changes has success brought to you and your family?I have more time to travel and paint, and it is a bit like the eye of a hurricane.

You have travelled a great deal. How do you feel when you return to the Glebe?

I love the Glebe, I grew up here and I wish I could spend more time here.

You are well-known for your generosity in donating your paintings to dif-ferent charities. Which charities do you choose and why?

I try to help those who can’t help themselves, locally and internationally. I have learned a lot from my friend Dave Smith.

What kind of impact do you think you have made or will make on the world with your art?

Probably none.

Shannon your daughter is a painter so, explain her style to me?Her style is very spare and full to the brim with energy. She is a power to

reckon with, I stand in awe when we work together in my studio.

Do your wife and son enjoy painting?They all paint to some extent but tend to express themselves just as well in

other mediums. My son Jonathan is a special effects makeup artist, for ex-ample.

When you have free time how do you like to spend it?Cooking and entertaining friends and family, but mostly spending time with

my grandson Cole.

Do you have a website the readers can go to and view more of your work?It is a poorly maintained website, but you may enjoy a visit, philipcraig.ca.

How are you spending the Christmas holidays?At home with family.

What is your favourite meal?Curry

What do you enjoy collecting?I am not a big collector of anything specific, but I am always dragging some-

thing home from a trip. I am currently working on a vintage MGB with my son Jordy.

Tell me about your last fundraiser, where you painted 60 paintings and sold them for $1,000.

My wife Di came up with this idea to support Operation Walk after speaking with our friend Dr. John Gordon and his wife Betty, who travel as volunteers to Guatemala to operate and perform knee and hip replacements with a group of Canadian doctors and nurses. We raised $60,000 for this cause by producing sixty paintings and giving them as a reward for anyone that donated a thousand dollars to the cause. We had a big party at the studio and passed out the paint-ings. What a blast; it was like Christmas morning.

What is your New Year’s Resolution for 2011?Get fit!

What would the readers be surprised to know about you?That I wake up at 5 a.m. in the morning and I paint every day.

Giovanni is a photographer and publicist based in Ottawa. For more infor-mation see Facebook – Giovanni John www.facebook.com/giovannipublicist.

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View from Bhat’s Cottage by Jan Phillips

Morning Mist by Debbie Rubin Valse Froide by Celine Langevin

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Peering into the past of the Glebe post officeBY DANNY HANDELMAN

If any of you recall the omnipresence of Dave Belwa in the Glebe neigh-bourhood, ( cfr Glebe Report issues of March 2002 and August 2005), who as a postman made his daily rounds of businesses and homes from 1982 until 2005 and is immortalized in the collective papier mache sculpture hanging in the Glebe Community Centre stairwell, you might also be drawn to peer into the past of the post office(s) in the Glebe. I have gleaned a few fascinating facts about the history of that institution and while the evidence is incomplete, I would like to share what I have found and invite others with a similar interest to share complementary information.

As far as I can see, the first Glebe post office was located from July 1, 1901 to April 2, 1918 at Moreland’s Hall, a grocery store on the premises

of the present-day Fifth Avenue Court, at 819 Bank Street with Hardwick Moreland, Jr. serving as postmaster. Coincidentally, this location was also the meeting site of four different Chris-tian-denominations: Anglican, Presby-terian, Baptist and Methodist. (It was the Methodist group that went on to construct the Glebe Community Cen-tre). The post office remained there for approximately two decades, moving to 787 Bank Street on April 19, 1921. The following year, it changed its name to Glebe Sub Office. The earliest post-mark that I have been able to locate on a post office document or piece of mail is October 15, 1930 (figure 1). The ear-liest envelope I have been able to locate is from 1930 (figure 2).

In 1943, the Ottawa-Glebe post of-fice took in $27,007 in revenue which was the equivalent of $343,165.03 in 2010. This consisted primarily of sales of postage stamps, postal stationery and postage paid in cash, as well as commission and revenue taxes derived from money orders and postal notes,

rent of letterboxes and drawers. In my research, the earliest postal item in the 1940s from this post office appears to be the envelope that appears below (figure 3). Consequently, it ranked sixth in total revenue amongst Ottawa’s 45 post offices. In contrast, the Ottawa Main, Ottawa-Eastview, Ottawa-Lebreton Flats, Ottawa-Mount Sherwood, Ottawa-Stewarton posted only $284,300, $5,756, $18,153, $7,382 and $21,568, respectively, in revenues.

OUR POSTMASTERSAfter Hardwick Moreland resigned in April 1918, Samuel Korn, became the

postmaster from June 7, 1918 to October 23, 1918 working out of his station-ery store at 787 Bank Street. After Korn’s death, Sara Seaman was temporar-ily responsible for the post office for less than two months from December 27, 1918 to February 11, 1919. The next owner of the stationery store, Jacob Smolkin, served as postmaster from February 26, 1919 to March 22, 1921. Upon Smolkin’s resignation, T.B. George of T.B. George &Co., another sta-tionery proprietor who occupied 787 Bank Street, took up the position as post-master during the period from April 19, 1921 and March 31, 1925 (in 1923, the stationery store was replaced with the Glebe Book Store). John Leonard Dawson was the final postmaster of the named Glebe post office, holding that position the longest from May 20, 1925 to December 31, 1959, after which time the post office was replaced by Station E at 99 Fourth Avenue (figure 4).

Danny, a life-long Glebe resident, is a collector of Canadian town postmarks and Canadian postage due mail. For this article, he consulted the National Postal Archives of Canada website, Ontario Post Offices Volume II: by County and District by R.C. Smith, the Bank of Canada inflation calculator, Report of the Postmaster General for the year ending March 31, 1943, and Ian McKer-cher who directed his attention to the Might City Directories.

COMMUNITY GLEBE HISTORYThe Backyard Beat

BY CST. KHOA HOANG

It wasn’t that long ago that popu-lar belief and scientists held the view that biology played a role in separ-ating races of people – that people of various ethnicities were viewed as being fundamentally different from one another. Not only was everyone physically different, but so was their behaviour, belief, and even intelli-gence. Clearly, we must have been made vastly different from one an-other.

This theory created a great vehicle for racism, bigotry, and allowed everyone to stereotype each other without remorse. I re-member as a child in the late 1980s being given extra math home-work work because I was “born with it”. Well let me tell you something, this little Asian boy hates math like a dirty cruiser on a nice summer day and dropped out of physics class in high school. (Don’t try this at home!)

But the world was also flat once.Recent breakthroughs in the map-

ping of human genome challenged what we thought was true. Today’s scientists have confirmed that all human beings share 99.9 per cent of the same DNA coding, regard-less of ethnicity or sexual orienta-tion with the exception of identical twins who share 100 per cent of their genetic makeup. We are all virtually identical to one another … Scary, I know!

There’s not much separating all of us except for individual perceptions, full of personal biases and experien-ces that skew the very lens we view the world through. Like a binocular, we easily focus on the negative dif-ferences with a tunnel vision that blocks out the obvious. We are the same.

Fear of the unknown can prevent us from understanding each other. And in the absence of understanding, we use the limited knowledge we have to assume and pass inaccurate judgments on each other. It’s what we do best; convince ourselves that we know the unknown. As a non-religious person who simply lives by the playground code to treat others the way he wants to be treated, I’ve worked hard to educate myself about religion because I felt it was import-

ant. I’ve spent a lot of time taking religion courses to satisfy my curios-ity, and have been to prayer sessions in temples, churches, mosques and synagogues.

Whether you believe in Christ, practice scriptures of the Torah, or follow the Qur’an, all religions share a similar history of suffering and promote strong foundations of hu-mility to become the best person you can be. The holiday season is an ex-cellent time to meet your neighbours and learn something new. The Mere

Exposure Theory states that the more you’re exposed

to someone, the more positive you associate that person.

Truth is we all want what’s best for our families, but the trick

is to include each other under that umbrella. I’ve

often challenged others to spend less time focussing on the

0.1 per cent, and more time acknow-ledging our similarities and com-monalities which make up 99.9 per cent of who we are. We all need a sense of belonging and purpose. So as soon as we can overcome our biases, there lies a vast opportunity to work together in a symbiotic rela-tionship that is equally beneficial to everyone.

It takes real effort for us not to judge a book by its cover, to show patience to those who are impatient, and to commit to a New Year’s reso-lution that benefits others. Every shoplifter I’ve arrested had money to pay for the item, and many homeless people I’ve spoken to had been suc-cessful at some point in their lives.

I’m certainly no different and often reminded by those who know me best that my path into policing was quite a pleasant surprise. I too had many op-portunities to become trapped within the pitfalls of adolescence and peer pressures.

So from my family to yours, have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a wonderful New Year.

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understand-ing.” – Albert Einstein

Constable Hoang is the Central-West Community Officer with the Ottawa Police Service. He can be reached at 393 Somerset West or 613-236-1222 ext. 5287.

Figure 1. A 1930 Glebe Money Order Office date stamp on 20¢ post-al note counterfoil (detached from postal note)

Figure 2. A 1930 registered envelope with Glebe circular date stamp to Saint John, New Brunswick, paying 3¢ domestic letter rate and 10¢ registration rate with indemnity of up to $25. Return address of G.E. Ellerett, 16 Findlay Avenue.

Figure 3. 1949 registered envelope with Glebe circular date stamp to London England, paying 20¢ airmail letter rate to zone A countries and 20¢ registra-tion rate with indemnity of up to $25. Manuscript “Passed for export JLD” and Glebe Money Order. Town Only postmark (from 1939-1950s mail to for-eign countries, especially registered, would be under scrutiny to determine if currency or items of value were being exported). Return address of Capt A.T. Sesia, 184 Fourth Ave Apt 101. Note: the same circular date stamp is used in Figure 2, but different registration marking.

Figure 4. A 1962 registered envelope with Postal Station E: double-ringed rubber big circle to Barrie Ontario, with 28¢ postage meter paying for a 1-2 oz letter and 20¢ registration rate with indemnity of up to $25.

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The Poets’ Pathway preserves creative space

BOOKS LITERARY LIFE

BY FRANKIE LECLAIR

Ottawa is a full of cultural pockets where residents can get away from it all and rediscover pieces of the past. An initiative designed to conserve Canada’s literary history, is one such pocket that weaves its way through the city’s green space to honour poets. It’s the Poets’ Pathway, a walking and bicycling trail that runs from Britannia Beach to Beechwood Cemetery with stops along the way to commemorate Canadian poets.

The thought first came to the mind of Bill Royds as he walked through the snow of McCarthy Woods. The crunching of the snow under his feet reminded him of a poem by Archibald Lampman, Winter Uplands.

After that walk, an idea was born. With the help of others including George Wilson, this inspiration led to the proposal by a committee struck for this very purpose to dedicate 35 kilometres of green space to past poets. With the sup-port of the Greenspace Alliance of Ottawa, the trail commemorating Confed-eration Poets and Ottawa poets was established. In 2007 Jane Moore learned about the Poets’ Pathway. As a former teacher of literature, Moore took a deep interest in conserving the classic works by Canada’s writers. Moore who joined the committee is now an important contributor in further development of the Poets’ Pathway.

This idea has its historical roots in the late 1800s view held by the Fathers of Confederation that Ottawa should become a cultural centre. Beyond politics and bureaucracy, their objective was to establish Ottawa as a place where art-ists could let their ambitions thrive; thus, the emergence of the Confederation Poets, a group of Canadian men who became famous around the world for going against the grain of European poetry. “They were writing about the land here and a Canadian voice was being heard,” says Moore.

The Confederation Poets are now buried at Beechwood Cemetery in an area called Poets’ Hill which is dedicated to them. When the idea of forming a path came to light, the committee chose a trail that would follow a stretch starting from Britannia Beach and the Ottawa River (which has been seminal in shap-ing the Canadian history in this area) and move south across the Rideau River, through McCarthy Woods – where the idea was born – then back along the Rideau River to Poets’ Hill at the Beechwood Cemetery.

Although historically the Confederation Poets may be the most famous in Canadian literary history, the Poets’ Pathway is inclusive of all sides of history – women, French Canadians and new Canadians. “Our idea is to be inclusive,” says Moore. “We want all voices.”

The Poets’ Pathway is not only an initiative to preserve artistic culture. It also preserves green space in Ottawa, linking walking and biking trails through-out. It’s a place where artists can go, children can play and older people can enjoy during all the seasons of the year. “We want people to be able to ... have that moment of peace and recognition of their country and their history,” says Moore.

In 2008 the committee applied for a heritage grant proposal and by Novem-ber 1 this year, with the help of the Beechwood Foundation and continued sup-port from Councillor Clive Doucet – a poet himself – and the City of Ottawa, three plaques were placed at the three anchors of the path: Britannia Beach, McArthur Woods and Beechwood Cemetery. These are the first of 12 planned plaques to be placed along the path.

With the assistance of Arc Magazine, a poetry publication based out of Ot-tawa, an opening ceremony for the Poets’ Pathways was held at Poets’ Hill in the Beechwood Cemetery, the final resting place of the Confederation Poets. In a symbolic gesture of preserving the culture of Canadian poetry, a new poet chosen as a finalist for the Archibald Lampman Award did a reading. The com-mittee fulfilled the first part of their goals, and now, Jane Moore says they are gathering their resources again to take the next step. There are many ways to further develop the project, and Moore is seeking to get funding to implement new ways for Canadians to enjoy the path and discover Canadian poets of the past.

To learn more about the Poets’ Pathway, go to greenspace-alliance.ca/poets-path or e-mail [email protected] or call Jane Moore at 613-723-6196 or Ben Glossop at 613-521-2250.

Frankie Leclair is an Ottawa writer with a special interest in the arts.

If your book club would like to share its reading list, please e-mail Micheline Boyle at [email protected]

Here is a list of some titles read and discussed in various local book clubs:

1 Abbotsford Book Club 2 Broadway Book Club 3 Can’ Litterers 4 Cercle de lecture de l’Amicale francophone d’Ottawa 5 Dow’s Lake Book Club 6 OnLine Audio Book Club: www.DearReader.com 7 OnLine Fiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com 8 OnLine Nonfiction Book Club: www.DearReader.com 9 OPL Sunnyside Branch Sunny Reads10 Seriously No-Name Book Club11 The Book Club12 Anonymous 113 Anonymous 214 Kaleidoscope Book Club for Adults Who Like Kids Books15 OnLine Teen Book Club: www.DearReader.com 16 OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club 7-917 OPL Sunnyside Branch Mother-Daughter Book Club 10-12

WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE READING

TITLE (for adults) AUTHOR

Three Day Road1 Joseph Boyden Sacred Hearts2 Sarah DunantThe Golden Mean3 Annabel LyonEulalie la cigogne4 Veronique-Marie KayeThe Help5 Kathryn StockettSecret of Eden6 Chris A. BohjalianThe Late, Lamented Molly Marx7 Sally KoslowThe Lunatic Express: Discovering the World8. . . Carl Hoffman The Reluctant Fundamentalist9 Mohsin HamidNetherland10 Joseph O’NeillFalling11 Anne SimpsonBridge of Sighs12 Richard RussoThe Thirteenth Tale13 Diane Setterfield

TITLE (for children & teens) AUTHOR

Greener Grass14 Caroline PignatDead Is Just a Rumor15 Marlene Perez Clementine books16 Sara PennypackerMary Poppins17 P. L. Travers

Holiday stories light the lights in children’s eyes

As the days get shorter and the nights longer, we are drawn to thoughts of warmth and comfort – candlelight, a fire burning in the fireplace and sharing the holidays with those that we love. Snuggle up in a chair with a mug of hot chocolate and your favorite small person, and share these stories of comfort, joy and warmth.

Drawn from countries and cultures all around the world, the eight stories in Fireside Stories: Tales for a Winter’s Eve each celebrate different aspects of the winter months. As the first snow falls, you will hear how a group of courageous Russian animals guards its winter cabin against hungry wolves. You will see how a knock on the door can change the fortunes of a cobbler’s family. And as the frost melts and the sun returns, you will hear a legend about the shiv-ering Canadian animals who set out to steal a bag of warmth from the world above to keep winter away

forever.

Hanukkah, the Festival of Light, is observed by the lighting of candles on a menorah. In addition to the shamash, or lighting candle, one candle is lit each night for eight nights to symbolize the number of nights a single day’s worth of consecrated olive oil burned to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple of Jeru-salem. We have a number of books which explain and celebrate this miracle.

For the youngest readers (ages 1-3) Hanukkah: A Counting Book, written in Yiddish, Hebrew and Eng-lish counts not just the candles on the menorah but also different symbols associated with Hanukkah such as

dreidels, gelt and latkes.

Another counting book, On the First Night of Cha-nukah, invites little readers (ages 3-6) to sing along with this whimsical introduction to Hanukkah. As dreidels spin and latkes sizzle, a family celebrates the miracle that happened long ago.

The Menashe family is ready to celebrate Hanukkah when a furious blizzard covers all the apples and po-tatoes in Latkes and Applesauce: A Hanukkah Story. Will there be no latkes and applesauce this year? The starving and kindhearted family starts to lose hope until they take in a stray cat and dog – who end up making

a miraculous discovery. A won-derful read-aloud for all ages.

Families that celebrate both Hanukkah and Christ-mas will enjoy Light the Lights. This picture book, perfect for sharing with the entire family, tells of a household’s joyous celebrations of Hanukkah and Christmas. The book’s title reflects a motif common to both: candles in a menorah glow brightly in Emma’s house during the eight days of the Jewish holiday; later, lights shimmer beautifully from her family’s Christmas tree.

Christmas abounds in traditions involving light as well. From the original spotlight, the Star of Bethlehem, to flaming plum pud-dings and beautifully lit Christmas trees, the longest nights of the year are brightened with light and joy.

Kate DiCamillo’s first picture book, Great Joy, is a luminous story about the miraculous and powerful secret that is joy. Set against the grainy illustrations of Bagram Ibatoulline, this is the story of a young girl who finds her voice and the perfect words to share at her Christmas pageant. This new holiday classic is

available in French, as well as in a large hardcover pic-ture book and a smaller hardcover gift edition.

The Spirit of Christmas by Nancy Tillman is an-other book infused with the light and spirit of the season. With poignant verse and magical, nearly musical, artwork, this book celebrates all of the special moments that become the holiday mem-ories we carry throughout our lives. Kids of all ages can appreciate the message of togetherness and love that shines through this story.

Our shelves are bursting with stories, classic and new, that will shine through some dark winter nights. Why not stop by and select some fireside reading to give an excuse for a snuggle in the chill of the evening?

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Winter Uplands by Archibald LampmanThe frost that stings like fire upon my cheek,The loneliness of this forsaken ground, The long white drift upon whose powdered peak I sit in the great silence as one bound; The rippled sheet of snow where the wind blew Across the open fields for miles ahead; The far-off city towered and roofed in blue A tender line upon the western red; The stars that singly, then in flocks appear, Like jets of silver from the violet dome, So wonderful, so many and so near, And then the golden moon to light me home –The crunching snowshoes and the stinging air, And silence, frost, and beauty everywhere.

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Your neighbour shoots and scores Launching The Amber Coast BOOKSBOOKS

BY CARA SCHACTER

Last year, my dad stepped out of his car on 300 highways, faced on-coming traffic and shot. He has yet to be ar-rested. In fact, he is still living in your neighbourhood.

Mark Schacter shoots with a Canon 1Ds Mark III, a digital camera. During 2009-2010, he travelled across Canada taking pictures for his first photography book, entitled Roads, which is self-ex-planatory. Each photograph includes a Canadian road. Two territories (Nuna-vut excluded for logistical reasons) and all ten provinces are represented throughout.

So, what’s with all the roads? The road, as Mark puts it in the preface to his book, is, “the ubiquitous sign of hu-man presence in and movement across the landscape … the road is a remind-er of the human urge … to conquer, to overcome, to withstand, to appropriate, to build, to make a mark, to communi-cate, to carve out territory and, above all, to get somewhere.” While the sub-ject of the book is, no doubt, roads, they are far from the subject of the photo-graphs. The roads in Roads simply work to string together the 160 photographs and create a comprehensive and congruent collection.

As daughter of the artist, my credibility as a neutral third party is non-exist-ent. Instead of telling you how fresh, rich and unusual I think Roads is, I will steer clear of opinion and adhere strictly to fact.

The book is brilliantly laid out (that is a fact). The first photograph depicts the stately façade of a mountain in Kananaskis Valley, Alberta, which is fit-ting for the dramatic images to come. The end of the preface is marked with a photograph featuring a blurred white truck along a highway, an enticing invi-tation for readers to climb aboard for a real joyride down the roads of Roads.

Many of the isolated and rural towns that Mark photographs are the kind of towns the average traveller would observe only long enough to find a Mc-Donalds with a drive-thru. But Mark consistently captures both humorous and striking images in his photographs. Part 2 of Roads, “Being Lucky”, addresses

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“Motorcyclist” shot near Pincher Creek, Alberta appears on page 68 of the book.

this plethora of unlikely shots. Mark explains how being lucky “is something that can, at least in part, be planned for.”

I was lucky enough to meet up with the artist, in the kitchen, and ask him a few questions while he filled the cat dishes and toasted a bagel:

Most people don’t contemplate roads. Have you always attributed meta-phorical significance to roads?

Yes. I think part of what it is to be a photographer is to see things, even mun-dane things in ways that most people don’t see them.

There are no Glebe photos in the book but there is one that was taken nearby: the Bank Street Bridge shot. That site is quite a popular subject for photography. Were you not worried about being cliché?

I wanted to shoot the bridge because it’s a beautiful structure. I tried to see it from an unusual angle – down low, close to pavement. Shooting it at night with the streak of red tail lights on the left adds an air of mystery that you don’t see in most photographs of the bridge.

How would you describe your aesthetic? What sort of scenes appeal to you?

My photos are full of hard lines and angles. Maybe that’s why I like roads so much. I go for starkness. Industrial scenes and scenes where there are only a few or no people.

Yeah, I noticed that. Why no people in your photographs? I could probably count the number of people appearing in your book on one hand.

I was a middle child with two sisters. I always wanted a brother. I grew up in a small town with long and cold winters, but I didn’t skate well and was always the last kid picked for the hockey team. That scarred me for life and I always felt very lonely.

Can I borrow the car?No.Cara Schacter is a Grade 12 student in the Literary Arts program at Canter-

bury High School. The book has been published by Fifth House Publishers and is currently available in bookstores across Canada. Signed copies of Roads are available exclusively at Benjamin Books in Ottawa.

BY ASHWIN SHINGADIA

The Amber Coast: A Latvian Family’s JourneyBy Ilse ZandstraLlumina Press 2010, 264 pp

The Amber Coast: A Latvian Family’s Journey by Glebe resident Ilse Zandstra was launched in the cosy Program Room in the renovat-ed Ottawa South Public Library on November 27. In her introduction, Elizabeth Weber, Ilse Zandstra’s friend from Colombia, pointed out that the author had previously writ-ten two children’s books in Spanish called Ukuku which are still popular in Peru. Ilse then went on to present a short slide show of photos of her family and Riga (capital of Latvia), which were not in her book. Her readings included varied excerpts re-lating to the decision to flee, the Ger-man Camp Ohmstede for displaced persons, her grandmother Omit’s folk remedies, Sweden and Pier 21 in Halifax.

The Amber Coast describes the ex-periences of her family’s journey to Canada, their flight from Latvia, and their arrival and adaptation to a new country. All the while, they are trying to preserve their traditions, language and culture. The book reads like a suspense story. The family escapes as the Soviet Army advances towards Riga in 1944. Ilse, a baby, her mother and her brother (Peter) are separated from their father, Janis Zalite, who searches frantically for them in the countryside. After a perilous voyage, they reach German occupied Poland to find chaos, with nowhere to stay and no one to help them, although

when the children get sick, a kind woman does come forward to help them out. However, they are subse-quently shipped off to a “displaced persons” (DP) camp in Berlin. where the conditions are extremely un-healthy – cramped, unsanitary, cold with no food. Janis, a marine engin-eer, is very resourceful. “A marine engineer in wartime is always in demand, like a beautiful woman at a ball,” (p. 98) he declares and man-ages to find a way to get not only to Goteborg, Sweden, but ultimately manages to reach Montreal in 1951.

Ilse is at her best when writing about Latvia, a small country of just over two million people, conquered by Germans, Poles, Swedes and Rus-sians. After the First World War, Lat-via was an independent republic until

annexed by the USSR in 1940. It gained its independence once again in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union and is now emerging as a parliamentary democracy. Al-though the last of the Russian troops left in 1994, a large Russian minor-ity (30 per cent) still remains under the watchful eyes of Moscow. Latvia joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004. Ilse’s cousin, Janis Freimanis, was elected a deputy to the Saeima (Parliament) for the Lat-vian Peoples Front.

In 1990, Ilse with her family, friends and others from the diaspora visited Latvia, staying aboard the Baltic Star, which acted as a “float-ing hotel” anchored in Riga harbour. She describes the “fear” instilled in people by a totalitarian regime, mak-ing them suspicious of each other and heightening the tension between Russians and Latvians. Russian of-ficials subjected the passengers to unnecessary “checks” every day on their way in and out.

Memories of Russian and German atrocities are still alive. People re-member the month of June 1941, the Year of Horror, when 15,000 inno-cent persons, entire families, includ-ing children – were rounded up and placed in heavy trucks, loaded into boxcars and then dumped starving in the Siberian Taiga (boreal forest). The German army, in turn, occupied the country and proceeded to unleash the holocaust, killing 70,000 Jews and 2,000 gypsies. Nearly 100,000 conscripted Latvian soldiers also died fighting at the German front (p. 63).

Yet, the Zalite family was happy to be re-united with friends and rela-

tives after forty years. They got re-acquainted with the Song Festival and visited churches and familiar landmarks in Riga. As the author explained at the launch, the title of the book, The Amber Coast refers to high quality amber from the Baltic coast. “It is washed onto the shores of the Baltic. I have picked some my-self and most Latvian women wear amber jewellery”, she said. Her mo-tivation for writing the book was for her children as well as for others. It is “a story of how and why Latvians immigrated to Canada, the USA and elsewhere” which leads to better understanding of the community.

The short version of the story once in Canada is that Ilse’s father found work with Canadian Vickers. Both Ilse and her brothers, Peter and Ro-land, attended McGill University where she met her husband Hubert with whom she later travelled to the Phillipines, Colombia and Peru. She now lives in Ottawa. Originally a sci-ence writer, Ilse has also written chil-dren’s books. Brother Peter became a Canadian diplomat, retired and re-turned to Latvia.

I agree with Aivars Stasko, a mem-ber of the Latvian community, who said, “The Amber Coast is so riveting that I could not put down the book until finishing it.”

The author can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone: 613-236-9736. To learn more about the book or to order it, go to the Internet at: http://www.theambercoast.com

Ashwin Shingadia is a Glebe resi-dent who enjoys writing on local issues and events.

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The question of Christmas

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BY REV. CLARKE DIXON

What is the true meaning of Christ-mas? So many of the movies and TV shows we will be watching this season will be asking us to consider that very question, if not leading us to an answer. I usually find, however, that not much thought goes into what makes Christmas authentic. So here is another question we can consider for Christmas: what does an authen-tic Christmas look like?

As I write this, our church is gear-ing up for the second running of our annual “Walk Through Bethlehem.” By the time you read this it will be all over, bar the cleaning and clear-ing up. While I remember the many positive reactions of people who took the tour last year, one com-ment I found kind of humorous: “Your portrayal of Christmas was quite authentic.” Now, on the one hand, this was a big compliment as we converted our somewhat use-less dirt floor basement space into two rustic scenes worthy of scenes from ancient times, or what we think ancient times were like. Also, the live animals wandering around our courtyard gave the feeling that you really were at a stable.

But our portrayal of Christmas was not as authentic as it might have seemed. For starters, of all those in the shepherd scene, only one was really shepherding – the rest were young boys in need of the shepherding skills of our main shepherd. My three boys, taking after their father, were defin-itely not in line for wearing any kind of halo and joined the shepherds, under the watchful eye of our main shepherd. Then, there were our an-gels. The angels were the girls from our Sunday school. I’m not sure how angelic our Sunday school teach-ers would say they normally are, but they did well. Our outdoor Mary (my wife) was far more concerned with the sheep getting too close for com-fort, than the comfort of her newborn baby – which of course was more of a recently imported toy. Then there were the llamas. Yes, live animals are a feature of our “Walk Through” but not having easy access to camels, llamas will do. Never mind where they could be found when Jesus was born. So was it authentic? Or did people leave pondering the true meaning of Christmas?

Now I remember as a young lad set-ting for myself the New Year’s goal of reading through the Bible starting with the New Testament. I also re-member being somewhat dismayed that starting in the Gospel of Mat-thew, I would have to read through all that Christmas stuff again when we had just spent a whole month thinking about it. To my surprise I was through the Christmas story in ten minutes and off into the life of a thirty-something Jesus. Then into Mark’s Gospel, where the Christ-mas story does not even get a men-tion. Then into Luke, where again ten minutes gets you past Christmas. Then into John’s Gospel where, like Mark, there is no mention of a baby Jesus, or a manger, or shepherds or wise men. And apart from Old Tes-tament prophecies, that’s about it for the Christmas story in the Bible.

Interestingly, though Mark in his gospel account mentions nothing of the birth of Jesus, a full third of his work is dedicating to recording the final week of the life and teaching of Jesus leading up to his crucifixion and resurrection. It makes me won-der if when we set out to find the true meaning of Christmas we aren’t mis-sing the mark. It makes Christmas an end in itself; it makes it a celebra-tion with its own point, disconnected from the rest of the year and the rest of life. The story of Christmas in the Bible points beyond itself. We quickly move from baby Jesus, to a focus on an adult Jesus, with a sharp concentration on a dead Jesus and a celebratory lifting up of a risen Jesus. The Biblical account does not stop there but goes on to invite us to con-sider a returning Jesus. So perhaps when we ask “what is the true mean-ing of Christmas?” we stop short of asking the question Christmas really points us to consider: “Who is Jesus and why should I know?”

My family and I want to wish you a merry and meaningful Christmas. I hope that you can take the time to join one of the Glebe church families for the many Christmas celebrations. I pray that you will ask the questions to which Christmas is pointing.

Reverend Clarke Dixon can be reached at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church at 613-236-1804. To read more from Pastor Clarke please visit revdee.worpress.com.

Christmas crèche of yesteryear

BY PEGGY NIXON GUALTIERI

It was December 1963. My husband Nino and I and our then three small children lived in the picture postcard village of Ste-Adèle-en-Haut, Quebec in the Laurentians, fifty miles north of Montreal. Nino was pastor of the Ste. Adele Protestant Church. As well, he spent two days of each week at McGill University working toward his post-graduate degrees. We looked forward to his home coming each Wednesday with delight, but the Wednesday before Christmas of 1963 was filled with especially excited anticipation, for the chil-dren and I had prepared a tableau.

Julia, just four years old, but already so gently maternal toward her siblings, was our Virgin Mary. I draped her dark hair and sturdy little body in yards of Copan blue material left over from my trousseau sewing of eight years past. Joanna, just two years old and fiercely protective of her baby brother, was Joseph. She was so proud of her costume, covering her tiny form from head to toe, in bits of material bought in Turkey and the Middle East on our honeymoon. Mark was six months, our blond, curly-haired, blue-eyed Jesu Bambino. We wrapped him in swaddling clothes of flannelette and laid him in his carry seat, camouflaged with sheaves of wheat left over from my decorat-ing the church at Thanksgiving.

Julia watched at the window, careful not to disturb the regal splendour and soon called out “Mommy, Mommy. Daddy’s home!” A last minute dash by me to soften the living room lights and call for Joanna, “Where are you sweetie, Daddy’s home!” “Here you are,” and they gathered around Mark who had been waiting wide-eyed and patient in his 20th century manger.

I ran to the door to greet Nino and to alert him that something very special was happening. I led him to the living room and there were angels, our own Holy Trinity, framed by the glow of the Christmas tree lights and the halos of their own inner beauty.

Nino and I stood with our hands and arms entwined and the only sound was Nino whispering “How beautiful, how beautiful,” as tears filled his eyes. Four years later, our newly born, lovely dark-eyed Sarah was our Jesu Bambina and Mark became a shepherd to join Mary and Joseph.

A few years later still, my brother and his family shared Christmas Day with us. The children and their cousins disappeared to the playroom on the third floor of our home, here in Ottawa. After much excited preparation, they pre-sented us with a Christmas pageant. They all were garbed in outfits from the costume trunk and the three wise men carried a chocolate box filled with gold, a cookie tin with frankincense and a teapot with myrrh.

All of these children are young adults now, with their own children. They are raising them in a different time – a century of change in just two decades. So much of the mystery and awe has gone from religious faith; and much of our own conviction that this world is a secure and just place in which to dwell has turned to bouts of cynicism, even despair.

But still – still – this is a joyous time of year. The Virgin Mary now with her fiancé, Joseph and her recent fiancé, the curly haired shepherd and dark-eyed Jesu Bambina, all will be with us for the holiday season. Nino and I wrap our hearts in the warm memories of the days when our home was filled with the sounds of our children being loved and loving in return. We remember the Christmas tableaus and the presents and we wonder whether this earth may ever know peace for our children … and their children … and their children.

Submitted from the family memoirs by Nino Gualtieri. Note: Peggy died of cancer in October 2008 and Mark, the first Jesu Bambino, died in July 2007.

GLEBE CHURCHES

CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic) Fourth Avenue at Percy Street, 613-232-4891 www.blessedsacrament.ca Pastor: Father Joe Le Clair Masses: Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 9:30 a.m. Saturdays, 4:30 p.m. Sundays, 8:15 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 8 p.m. (elevator available, loop system for people with impaired hearing also available)

ECCLESIAX 2 Monk Street, 613-565-4343 www.ecclesiax.com Sundays: 11:07 a.m.,* Art & worship service View community art gallery by appointment. *NOTE: Sunday service time of 11:07 a.m. is the right time!

FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Fourth Avenue at Bank Street, 613-236-1804 www.fourthavenuebaptist.ca Minister: Rev. Clarke Dixon Services: Sundays, 11 a.m. Junior church and nursery available (parent/tot room available at the back of the church)

GERMAN MARTIN LUTHER CHURCH 499 Preston Street at Carling Avenue, 613-233-1671 Pastor: Christoph Ernst Service: Sundays, 10 a.m., with Sunday school (first Sunday of month, 11:15 a.m., English service)

GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH 650 Lyon Street at First Avenue, 613-236-0617 www.glebestjames.ca Minister: Rev. Christine Johnson Music Director: Robert Palmai Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. (wheelchair access, FM system for people with impaired hearing)

OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH 600 Bank Street, 613-594-4571 www.ottawa-ocuc.org Minister: Rev. Wilson Chan (cell: 613-889-0838) Fridays: Prayer meeting at church, 8 p.m. Sundays: Worship, 11 a.m. (English with Mandarin translation) Sunday school: 9:30 a.m. (for all ages)

THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (Quaker) 91A Fourth Avenue, 613-232-9923 http://ottawa.quaker.ca Clerk: Bob Clarke, [email protected] Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., silent Quaker worship

ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Reflect, Focus, Delight – Make church a part of your life. Bank Street at First Avenue, 613-235-2551 www.stgilesottawa.org Minister: Rev. Ruth Houtby Worship: Sundays, 10:30 a..m. Church school and nursery care available (Wheelchair access at First Avenue door.)

ST. MATTHEW’S, THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN THE GLEBE 130 Glebe Avenue near Bank Street, 613-234-4024 (office/weekday access 217 First Avenue) www.stmatthewsottawa.on.ca Rector: The Rev. Canon Pat Johnston Open doors: Please come in and visit, Mon.-Fri., 11:30-1:30 p.m. Weekly service: Wednesdays, 7:15 a.m., Eucharist & fellowship Thursdays, 10 a.m., Eucharist & coffee Thursdays, 10 a.m., drop-in nannies/stay-at-home parents group Sundays: Eucharist, 8 a.m., Choral Eucharist, 10 a.m. Choral Evensong, 4 p.m., Dec. 5, 19

CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Friday, December 24: Christmas Eve *2 p.m. Children’s service with Pageant *3:30 p.m. Children’s service with Pageant *5 p.m. Children’s service with Pageant *6:30 p.m. Family mass *8 p.m. Family mass – Celebration of the Nativity 10 p.m. Family mass 12 midnight Traditional solemn celebration

* Tickets are required (for crowd control only, no payment necessary)

Saturday, December 25: Christmas Day 9:30 and 11 a.m. masses

Friday, December 31: New Year’s Eve, 6 p.m. mass

Saturday, January 1: New Year’s Day, 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. masses

GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCHSunday, December 12, Advent 3, 10:30 a.m. White Gift Sunday, December 19, Advent 4, 10:30 a.m.

Friday, December 24, Christmas Eve 4:30 p.m. Christmas Pageant with communion 8 p.m. Lessons and Carols with communion

Sunday, December 26: 10:30 a.m.

ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFriday, December 24: Christmas Eve 11:00 pm. A traditional service with communion

Sunday, December 26, 10:30 a.m.

ST. MATTHEW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Sunday, December 19: 7 p.m. Nine Lessons and Carols

Friday, December 24: Christmas Eve 5 p.m. Choral Eucharist and Children’s Pageant 11 p.m. Choral Eucharist with Brass Quartet

Saturday, December 25: Christmas Day 10 a.m. Choral Eucharist

ECCLESIAX Friday, December 10, 7 p.m. Community Christmas Party Friday, December 24: Christmas Eve, 7 p.m.Sunday, December 26: Boxing Day, 11:07 a.m.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONSALTA VISTA CAROL SING, 19th

Annual Concert, Sun., Dec. 12, 7 p.m., Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 1758 Alta Vista Drive. Come sing the carols of the Season with dedicated volunteers from the Choeur du Moulin, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Choir and the Ottawa Wind Ensemble. They will be joined by Dr. Fraser Rubens, ten-or soloist. Free admission and ample parking. Donations in support of the Heron Road Emergency Food Centre would be appreciated. Info: Francine Brisebois at 613-791-9115.

FRIENDS OF THE FARM have the perfect solution for an inexpen-sive gift: two informative and enter-taining books for the naturalist or historian on your Christmas list. For the Love of Trees celebrates the heri-tage collection of trees in the Central Experimental Farm Arboretum. Ottawa’s Farm is about the men and women who lived and worked at the Farm during its first hundred years. Both are available from the Friends of the Farm, 613-230-3276, www.friendsofthefarm.ca.

HERITAGE SUGAR SHACK OUTING. Join Friends of the Farm on March 8 for a one day bus tour to a Heritage Sugar Shack in Rigaud, Que. Early-bird bonus before Jan. 15. Includes transportation and heri-tage lunch. Info: 613-230-3270 and www.friendsofthefarm.ca.

MARCH OF DIMES is celebrat-ing its 60th Anniversary in 2011 and needs your help. The charity is seeking volunteers to help support its door-to-door campaign in Janu-ary. Please join a sixty-year tradition of generosity and help children and adults with disabilities in your com-munity. We still need canvassers and captains. For more information or to volunteer please call 1-800-263-3463 ext. 7705 or e-mail [email protected]. To learn more about March of Dimes’ programs and ser-vices for people with disabilities, please visit www.marchofdimes.ca.

THE NEW ART FESTIVAL (for-merly Art in the Park) is looking for volunteers to help at this year’s fes-tival. We need people who love this festival as an important Glebe event to work on site just before, during and after the event first weekend in June. The festival operates as a non-profit and only pays skeleton staffs who work for 6 months/year to orga-nize the festival. If interested, email [email protected].

OLD OTTAWA SOUTH GAR-DEN CLUB welcomes well-known peony expert, Mary Pratt, to its Janu-ary meeting. Mary will share her pas-sion for, and knowledge of, peonies and bring some much-needed colour to our mid-winter meeting. Jan. 11, The Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Ave. 7-9 p.m. Call 613-247-4946.

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FOUNDORIGINALS OTTAWA CHRIST-MAS CRAFT SHOW, Salons of the Civic Centre, Lansdowne Park, Dec. 9-19 (closed Dec. 13). Weekdays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sat. and Sun.: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Adults: $7, seniors (65+): $4, youths (13-17): $4, children (12 and under): free when accompanied by an adult. Info: www.originalss-how.ca.

OTTAWA McGILL ALUMNI CHOIR CHRISTMAS CON-CERT AND SING ALONG, Dec. 18, 2 p.m., Ottawa Korean Com-munity Church, 384 Arlington Ave. Free-will offering. Refreshment to follow. All welcome.

THE OTTAWA REGIONAL YOUTH CHOIR directed by Kev-in Reeves will present “Christmas Wishes” with guests Matthew Lar-kin, organist, and the Emmanubells, at Knox Presbyterian Church, Elgin at Lisgar, on Fri., Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets at door: adults, $20; stu-dents, $10.

ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH. Sun., Dec. 19 at 4 p.m. Celebrate Christ-mas with the Choir of St. Andrew’s Church, directed by Thomas An-nand, presenting Vivaldi’s Gloria with chamber orchestra, followed by candlelit carol singing. Also, join us Dec. 24 (pageant at 7:30 p.m., mid-night carols & readings at 11 p.m.), Dec. 25 (11 a.m. informal carol sing-ing around the piano with festive food), and Sun., Dec. 26 (11 a.m.) St. Andrew’s Church, Wellington at Kent, 613-232-9042, www.StAn-drewsOttawa.ca.

WRITE FOR RIGHTS on Sun., Dec.12, from 2-4 p.m. at South-minster United Church: Be part of Amnesty International’s worldwide writeathon in support of human rights. Adults and children can write to and on behalf of human rights de-fenders around the world at South-minster United Church on Sun., Dec. 12, from 2- 4 p.m., Southminster is located at the corner of Bank St. and Aylmer Ave., across the street from the Sunnyside branch of the Ot-tawa Public Library. A donation of a toonie per letter to cover the cost of stamps to overseas destinations will be welcomed.

This space acts as a free community bulletin board for Glebe residents. Drop off your GRAPEVINE message or COMMUNITY NOTICE at the Glebe Report office, 175 Third Avenue, including your name, address and phone number or e-mail [email protected]. FOR SALE items must be less than $1,000.

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Where to find usIn addition to free home delivery, you can find copies of the Glebe Report at Acorn Early Learning Centre, Adishesha Yoga, Arbour, The Arrow & the Loon, Berry’s Pet

Food, Bloomfields Flowers, Brewer Arena, Brewer Pool, Bridgehead, Brittons, Cats R Us, Civic Shawarma & Pies, Corpus Christi School, Ernesto’s Barber Shop, First Avenue School, The Flag Shop, Forno Antico, Francesco’s Coffee Company, GamePower, Glashan Public School, Glebe Community Centre, Glebe Fashion Cleaners, Glebe PharmaSave Apo thecary, Glebe Side Kids, Glebe Smoke Shop, Glebe Tailoring, Glebe Trotters, Glebe Video, Home Natural, Hillary Cleaners, Irene’s Pub, Isabella Pizza, Jericho Café, Kardish Foods, Kettleman’s Bagel Co., Kumon Centre, Lady Evelyn School, Mayfair Theatre, McKeen Metro Glebe, Mister Muffler, Morala’s, Mutchmor School, the OCDSB, 107 Fourth Avenue Wine Bar, Ottawa Antique Market, The Palisades, The Pantry, Personal Concepts, Prana Chiropractic, Pink Nail Salon & Spa, RBC/Royal Bank, Reflections, The Royal Oak, 7-11, St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Scotiabank, Second Cup, Silver Scissors, Slaysh, Starbucks, Third Avenue Spa, UPS Canada (Fifth Avenue Court),W Hair, Wallack’s, Von’s, Watson’s Pharmacy and Wellness Centre, The Wild Oat and Yarn Forward & Sew-On.

Babies of the Glebe 2010DEADLINE JANUARY 3, 2011

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Please send your baby’s colour photo along with his or her name, date of birth, parents’ names, address and contact number by January 3, 2011 to [email protected]. If by e-mail, please attach with your text, a jpg file of your high-resolution colour photo OR send your text with a printed photo by snail mail to

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WANTEDCONDO. Former Glebe residents ‘coming home’ after 10 years on a prairie adventure. Looking for semi-detached/row unit or 2 bedroom+ condo. Willing to undertake some renovation. Contact us if you are in-terested in selling now or in the near future at 306-525-2889 or email [email protected] or [email protected].

HOME FOR 2 CATS. Two cats, brother and sister, need a home for one year, May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2012. Owners ( on Holmwood Ave.) going on sabbatical leave. These two extremely spoiled cats need a home with a yard. Will pay monthly fee for care. Call Gabriele or Jim, 613-237-8037. Email: [email protected].

HOME TO PURCHASE. Couple enjoying living in the Glebe, present-ly renting and wishing to purchase in the area. If you are think of selling this winter/spring please call Rhonda and Leo at 613-252-0580.

NANNY REQUIRED FOR NAN-NY-SHARE. Two families seeking energetic, mature live-out nanny be-ginning Dec. Care needed for two very happy and easy-to-care for chil-dren (22 and 18 months old) in an es-tablished nanny-share. Working days are Mon.-Thurs., with possibility of a 5-day-week in the new year. Care primarily in one home in the Glebe well suited for indoor and outdoor play, walking distance to the library, community centre, music class and parks. E-mail us at [email protected]. with a resume outlining your experiences and qualifications, availability, salary expectations and references.

PART-TIME NANNY OR NANNY SHARE WANTED, 3 days/week, 3 hrs/day, Feb. 15 to Apr. 15. Full-time nanny/nanny share required after Apr. 15. Experience with 9-12 month old babies required. Email [email protected].

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Holiday Break Camp 2010Amazing full-day adventure for children 5 - 12 years

Monday, December 20Specialty workshops

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Tuesday, December 21Inner tubing at La Domaine de l’Ange Gardien

Wednesday, December 22Adventure games at GCC & swimming at Plant Bath Pool

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$150 for the break or $48 per dayCall the Glebe Community Centre for full program details (613) 233-8713or visit our web site at www.gnag.ca

The G.C.C.will be closed for the holiday season (Dec. 24 - Jan. 2)

On behalf of GNAG we wish you a safe and happy holiday!

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