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S a l e s R e p r e s e n t a t i v e

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29Year 45, Issue 51 December 22, 2011 | 36 Pages yourottawaregion.com

DEAR SANTAKanata elementary school children write letters to Santa Claus.

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Four escape house fi reuninjured

JESSICA CUNHA AND BLAIR EDWARDS

[email protected]

A mother and her three children escaped a house fi re as heavy black smoke fi lled the two-storey build-ing on the morning of Monday, Dec. 19.

Ottawa fi refi ghters responded to a call around 11 a.m. for a fi re on MacNeil Court in Katimavik.

Armand Pigeon, a resident of MacNeil Court, said he was walking to his car when he noticed smoke bil-lowing out of a neighbour’s windows.

“I wanted to make sure she and all her kids were out of the house,” he said.

Pigeon rushed to the house and saw the woman exit with her children, ages one, two and fi ve.

“She was in shock,” said Pigeon, who called 911. The fi refi ghters and rescue vehicles showed up

quickly, he said, adding the woman and her children had only moved into the house three months ago.

“It’s such a sad time of the year to lose all you got,” he said. “I wish there was something I could do to help these people.”

The mother and her children all escaped the house uninjured, said fi re spokesman Marc Messier.

The fi re started and was contained to the living area, but there was heavy smoke damage throughout the home, he said.

Damage to the building and contents was estimated at $115,000. The fi re was under control by 11:20 a.m. as crews continued to ventilate the house.

The cause of the fi re is under investigation.

HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMASOne-month-old William Agnew celebrated his very fi rst Christmas by meeting the big man in red at the Hazeldean Mall this month. The Katimavik infant made the nice list as he snuggled up to Santa Claus.

Jessica Cunha photo

‘It’s such a sad time of the year to lose all you got’: neighbour

DECK THE HALLSA Morgan’s Grant family brings out their inner Griswolds by decorating their house.

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John Young students fi ll 62 boxes for Attawapiskat

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An impoverished northern Ontario reserve is receiving some much-needed support from students at John Young El-ementary School.

Students in two classes at the school be-came concerned after hearing about the housing crisis and lack of necessities in the Attawapiskat First Nation commu-nity – so they took action, fi lling 62 boxes with much needed items on Dec. 12.

Families on the reserve have been liv-ing in tents, sheds and run-down houses. Many have no heat to keep out the cold weather. The situation in Attawapiskat has deteriorated so much the community recently declared a state of emergency.

Two teachers at John Young, William Morton and Helen Nowell, asked their students to collect donations of blankets, warm clothing, heaters and presents to send to members of the Attawapiskat.

“(We) were answering a lot of questions and concerns from children who had been hearing so much about Attawapiskat re-

serve and the needs of that community,” said Morton in an email. “(We) found a real-life learning activity that would al-low the students to feel that their efforts would truly and directly impact the situ-ation.”

After the John Young classes managed to fi nd a truck bound from Ottawa to Tim-mins, Ont., with a fl ight to Attawapis-kat that had been organized by a char-ity group, students got to work collecting various necessities to ship to the reserve community.

“The classes went to work and ended up loading 62 boxes onto the truck,” said Morton. “Blankets, heaters, warm cloth-ing for all ages and some presents and notes of support were packed up with care.”

Morton said the exercise has helped the students engage in critical thinking.

“This often creates a passionate need in these learners to act and to attempt to solve a problem,” he said. “This group of learners now know that they can have a direct impact on the world and its prob-lems at a very early age.”

Submitted photoStudents in two classes at John Young Elementary School fi lled 62 boxes with much-needed items for those living in the Attawapiskat First Nation community.

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Library to offer depot serviceBLAIR EDWARDS

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The Hazeldean library branch will offer a “depot” service from the building’s meeting room while the library is closed for fi ve months for renovations.

Patrons will be able to pick up held books, return materi-als and check out express-reads at the meeting room after the library is closed from Jan. 23 to June 15, 2012.

The service should start about a week after the library branch closes, said Danielle McDonald, a division manager with the Ot-tawa Public Library.

“(It’s) because it will be such a long closure,” said McDonald.

Services will also be available at the Beaverbrook branch dur-ing that period as the Hazeldean library undergoes much-needed renovations, including an up-date and centralized location for borrower and information ser-vices within the branch.

There will also be upgrades to make the branch more acces-

sible.A similar depot service will

be offered at the Beaverbrook branch when it is closed for con-struction of the West District Library starting in the summer of 2012.

The changes are needed be-cause the Hazeldean branch has remained virtually unchanged for 30 years, noted a city report. This renovation will make it vi-able for another 10 to 15 years.

The new Bookmobile service in Bridlewood is also set to start in January of 2012.

Staff from the Hazeldean branch will be transferred to other branches during the clo-sure, but will still respond to re-quests for visits from day cares, schools and community orga-nizations. The Homebound ser-vice will operate normally.

Regularly scheduled pro-grams such as book banter, ba-bytime, toddlertime, storytime, teen programs and the Kanata Writer’s Group will be held at the Glen Cairn Community Centre.

File photoThe Hazeldean library will offer a limited service from its meeting room during renovations.

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KOURIER-STANDARD STAFF

The Ottawa Catholic School Board elected a new chair and vice-chair at its annual general meeting on Dec. 13.

Kanata Catholic school trustee Ted J. Hurley was elected as the vice-chairman of the board.

“The board of trustees refl ects our spiritual theme – Though Many, We are One Body in Christ,” said Hurley, who is in his fourth year as a trustee, in a state-ment. “We each bring our individual gifts

to the table and then we make decisions as one.”

Trustee Mark D. Mullan was elected to succeed the outgoing chairman, Gordon Butler.Mullan, who represents Alta Vis-ta/Gloucester-Southgate zone, has served as a trustee for 15 years and was most re-cently vice-chairman of the board.

“I look forward to continuing our work in the year ahead to ensure our schools are welcome and safe places for students to achieve success,” Mullan said in a statement.

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TALKING POLITICSMayor Jim Watson, left, held a meeting with area Progressive Conservative MPPs on Dec. 13, including Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack McLaren (not pictured). They discussed topics of mutual interest, including the city’s transit plans and waste diversion. MacLeod said that she and McLaren house the city’s two dumps in their ridings, so that topic is of great interest.

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OTTAWA PARAMEDIC SERVICE

When making plans during the holi-day season, make sure you also plan to stay safe. The Ottawa Paramedic Service wants you to get the most out of your holiday season by staying out of the hospital and following these basic safety tips.

HEALTH

• Find out your physician’s operating hours for the holidays and fi nd out who you can see when the offi ce is closed.

• Find the location and times of the nearest walk-in medical clinic

• Make sure you have enough prescrip-tion medications on hand, especially if you are going on a trip.

• Keep the Telehealth On-tario number handy, 1-866-797-0000, if you need health advice anytime, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

IN YOUR CAR

• Before you take to the road, be sure your vehicle is in good working order and carry a win-ter survival kit that includes a cell phone, maps or GPS de-

vice, candles, matches, thermal blanket, jumper cables, snow brush, small shovel and a fi rst aid kit.

• Keep a car window slightly open to prevent the accumulation of poisonous carbon monoxide gases when the vehicle is idling. Carbon monoxide is an odour-less and colourless gas and can easily seep into homes or cars.

PLAYING OUTSIDE

* When tobogganing or skiing, make sure you choose a hill that is away from trees or open water. Paramedics recom-mend the use of head protection when tobogganing or skiing on steep hills.

* Know the signs and symptoms of hy-pothermia and frostbite.

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Just to show you how far we have progressed, here is an article in a recent Toronto newspaper entitled “How to snail-mail your

holiday greetings.”“Snail-mail,” of course, means “mail.”

In other words, a Toronto newspaper thinks that you need to know how to write a Christmas letter and put it in the mail.

Who knows, maybe we have progressed so far down the electronic slippery slope that nobody knows a how to write some-thing on paper, put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it, carry it to the nearest postal outlet and slide it through the proper slot.

The Globe and Mail article describes the holiday greeting card as “an ancient art form.” Complicated advice is offered, such as “make a list.” Also: “Assemble all the addresses before you start, and make sure to write them down in the same place for next year.”

Wow. Also, when sitting down to write Christmas cards, make sure there is a chair underneath you.

Here’s another suggestion: “Add a personal touch.” This means that “cards should include the recipient’s name (writ-ten by hand), as well as a quick sentence or two.” An example is helpfully included:

“Hope you’re keeping warm out in Moose Jaw.”

Are you with us so far? Is this getting too complex for you?

The Globe article goes on to suggest that whatever little event you include in your quick sentence or two, “be sure that said event is a positive one.”

This means that your little quick sentence shouldn’t say “too bad about the Leafs,” or “the furnace is broken.”

That’s too bad in a way because for some people the only news that really has a lasting impact on them is the bad news. And, as we know, sometimes bad news can be quite entertaining.

Decades ago, there was a family of my parents’ acquaintance who regularly in-cluded in their Christmas card a detailed

account of every illness, injury and other misfortunate that had befallen everyone in the family and a few others who hap-pened to live nearby. It went on and on, nicely handwritten on all the available sides of a Christmas card. There was nothing positive in it, just this seasonal litany of unhappiness.

Unbeknownst to them, we began to fi nd this amusing. Every year, when the card arrived, we would assemble for a dramatic reading, clucking sympathetically at some of the more serious illnesses and howling in laughter at the account of hangnails, stubbed toes, fl at tires, toothaches, runny noses, lost wristwatches and body parts that somehow don’t just feel right.

What a loss it would have been if that family had restricted its coverage to posi-tive events.

The Globe article goes on to provide some genuinely useful advice, such as the suggestion that family photographs are not appropriate for co-workers and that newsletters are for relatives and close friends only and “avoid using them as a platform for bragging.”

The subject of newsletters has long been a controversial one among snail-mailers. I used to hate them until I wrote

one one year and realized how much less painful to the writing hand the Christmas card process had become. Now I ask my-self the question: “Did anything newswor-thy happen this year?” If no, no letter. If yes, I write something and try not to make it a platform for bragging.

If the snail-mailed Christmas card has indeed become an ancient art, not all of its practitioners will feel total grief at it replacement by the e-card. That family photo looks much better on a screen when you email it, and the savings on cards, printer ink and postage can be consider-able. What you worry about is people bragging about their computers.

The ancient art of the Christmas cardCHARLES GORDON

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It’s December, in Canada. It’s going to snow. Maybe not anytime soon by the looks of recent weather, but it’s going to snow.

This isn’t really news to anyone who lives here in Kanata, but whenever an inch or two of the white stuff hits the ground during the fi rst snowfall of the season, you just have to listen to the morning traffi c report on the radio to hear the number of car crashes.

This is the time of year Ottawa police and Ontario Provincial Police offi cers are called to re-spond to numerous collsions across Ottawa. Some are nothing more than a fender-bender, while oth-ers result in serious injury and even death.

Every year drivers have to go through a period of readjustment to winter weather. One concern this season is the unusually warm weather we’ve been experiencing, which will result in another “fi rst snow” situation leading to yet another pe-riod of readjustment to the wintry conditions.

With a signifi cant snowfall expected this week just in time for the holiday weekend, paying at-tention to driving conditions and adapting your driving habits takes on added meaning.

You may have top-of-the-line, just-installed brakes, or snow tires, but your car can’t stop in a

December snowstorm the way it did during a hot July day.

After a heavy snowfall, people are going to slow down. It makes sense if you can’t see the lines on the road.

Getting around in the winter is not anyone’s idea of fun, but it has to be done. As motorists making use of the roads, we all have a responsibil-ity to look out for each other.

It is important to allow more time for travel-ling to your destination, and to allow more space between your vehicle and the one in front of you.

Gone are the days of jumping into the car, turn-ing the key, putting the car in gear and running out onto the open road.

Soon you will need to take time to warm up the car and scrape off the windshield and brush the mounds of snow off the roof of your vehicle.

It’s not pleasant, but during winter driving con-ditions, more so than in summer weather, we all share the road, and we all have to put up with the same delays, frustrations and conditions.

If we all put in a little extra time and caution when we head out on to the roads this winter, we’ll all arrive at our destinations in one piece this season.

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Hoedown will wreck Kanata sports fi elds

To the editor:Re: Showdown over Hoedown at Walter

Baker, Dec. 8, KKS.It is galling and outrageous that an

event promoter can sashay into Kanata and commandeer the crown jewel of Kanata parks to earn himself a tidy profi t at the expense of existing long-term users.

The promoter has declared that this park was the most beautiful and well-kept park that he had ever seen. There is a good reason for this. In the mid-1980’s, a very talented landscape architect, Allan Cameron, was tasked with designing Walter Baker Park. He held wide-ranging consultations with the user community including baseball, football, and soccer. I still have drawings of the many proposed plans.

The end product was at once functional for various activities and esthetically pleasing.

It combined numerous sports fi elds surrounded by meandering pathways, ponds, wooded areas and Allan’s big idea of the toboggan slide.

Later, the Kanata Recreation Complex arenas, and the Kanata Theatre were added.

Let us not be deceived that there will be only minimal damage.

This venue will need extensive fencing to keep out event crashers and presum-ably large stages. The tens of thousands of visitors cannot help but damage the sports fi elds involved especially if it rains. It is also disturbing that the promoter intends that this will be an annual event. Once the foot is in the door, many other promoters will catch on to a good thing and perpetually tie up scarce sports fi elds.

As noted by West Ottawa Soccer (re-cently formed by the amalgamation of west-end clubs including Kanata Soccer), there are a variety of good alternatives.

First, it is peculiar that the Hoedown is not going to Lebreton Flats where it was held last year.

Another excellent venue would be Scotiabank Place, but then the promoter

would have to pay market rates. Since we are dealing with a fait accompli, we can only hope that the promoter will be held accountable for any damage, and that the city keeps this issue in mind in subse-quent years.

For any application for a repeat per-formance in 2013, it would only be fair to give traditional users suffi cient time to lobby against it.

At the end of the day, soccer represents far more Kanata voters than does the Hoedown.

Barry FelsteadBeaverbrook

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Compromise needed to accommodate festival

To the editor:I was just as dismayed to read that

the city would be closing soccer fi elds to accommodate the Country Hoedown as I was when I read that West Ottawa Soccer wanted the event moved.

Neither position refl ects reality.The reality is that concert promoters

have discovered Kanata. If you have ever been to Canada Day in Kanata, you know that the toboggan hill is a great place to watch a concert.

When you add in Ron Maslin Play-house as a ready to go venue, the Kanata Recreation Complex rinks space as possible minor stages, and the parking lot and washrooms, you have quite an amazing summer music venue.

A successful Hoedown will not only make the event choose Kanata as its home, but it will likely mean other music fairs and festivals will look seriously at it as a future venue.

So if the Hoedown and others are going to be coming to Kanata, we have to fi gure out how to accommodate them along side an undisrupted soccer season (baseball too). The one-or-the-other approach is not realistic, productive, or a prudent course of action. Canada Day in Kanata man-ages to hold a fabulous event on the site without damaging or disrupting sports programs, so a solution is possible.

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BLAIR EDWARDS

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The students at W. Erskine Johnston Public School are de-livering a special Christmas to eight fi nancially disadvantaged families in Kanata.

The elementary school stu-dents have collected food and presents and assembled Christ-mas hampers of gifts, cloth-ing, toys and food for each of the families, as selected by the Kanata Food Cupboard.

“The families don’t have any-thing and (without our help) they’re not going to have a happy Christmas,” said Nasir Nayed, a Grade 3 student at W. Erskine Johnston.

Every year, families sign up for the Adopt a Family program at the Kanata Food Cupboard.

Last year, more than 300 fami-lies registered for the program.

The Food Cupboard sends out a list of desired items for the hampers to the classes at W. Er-skine Johnston, which has par-ticipated in the program for four years.

“It’s important to me to sup-

port the kids in the community to be role models to kids, to show them there are less fortunate

people out there,” said Heather Martinak, a teacher at W. Ers-kine Johnston.

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BLAIR EDWARDS

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More than 30 community members offered ideas to a pair of architects working on the design of the West District Library during a meeting held at the Mlacak Centre on Thurs-day, Dec. 15.

Planning for the new library is currently underway. The OPL approved a two-storey ad-dition to the existing library and selected Canadian compa-ny Moriyama and Teshima Ar-chitects to design the building.

The architects offered a num-ber of concepts for discussion by the public to get an idea of what the community would like to see in the new library.

The residents split up into work stations to brainstorm ideas for the new library, with each table focusing on different themes such as seniors, teens, functional elements and sus-tainability.

“There’s going to be an on-line survey for the people who didn’t come today,” said Dani-elle McDonald, a division man-ager with the Ottawa Public Library.

Anyone who would like to look at the design plans or fi ll out a survey can visit the web-site: www.biblioOttawa.ca.

The West District Library will be 25,000 square-feet and construction is expected to start in the summer of 2012, with the building scheduled to open in January 2014.

The budget for the architect is just over $562,000, with the overall project slated to cost $10 million.

Moriyama and Teshima Ar-chitects has over 40 years of experience and has worked on a number of local projects, in-cluding the Canadian War Mu-seum, the University of Ottawa Desmarais Building and City

Hall.The West District Library

will serve residents in West Carleton, Goulbourn and Kana-ta and will be located at the ex-isting site of the Beaverbrook library branch at the Mlacak Centre.

Richard Stark, the manager of facilities and planning and development at the Ottawa Pub-lic Library, said the expansion will allow the library to offer

more materials and services.The Beaverbrook library

is currently ranked third in terms of circulation, but only half or a third the size of other branches, he said.

“The central theme of Bea-verbrook is it’s overused and overcrowded,” he said. “It’s one of the most heavily used branches in our system.”

The design will consider providing improved wireless service, space for seniors and children’s groups and im-proved programs for commu-nity groups, said Stark.

Kanata North Coun. Mari-anne Wilkinson said the city still needs to fi gure out where to provide more parking spaces at the Mlacak Centre.

“That parking has to be in place before they start con-struction this summer,” said Wilkinson.

“The central theme of Beaverbrook is it’s overused and overcrowded ”

• Richard Starkmanager of planning

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BLAIR EDWARDS AND JESSICA CUNHA

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The concert promoter bring-ing the Capital Hoedown to Wal-ter Baker Park has lost millions of dollars over the past two years and owes roughly $40,000 to several Ottawa businesses.

Concert International Inc., which runs the annual country music festival, said the major-

ity of its past expenses have been paid and arrangements have been made to pay off the amount owing to vendors.

“Really in the scheme of things it’s not a lot of money,” said Ray Skaff, the director of communications with Concert International. “It’s a minor in-cident in the bigger (picture) but needs to be kept in perspec-tive.”

This year’s Hoedown will fea-

ture performers Sheryl Crow, Reba McIntyre, Taylor Swift and Brad Paisley, in a concert that will take place Aug. 10 to 12 at Walter Baker Park.

The country music festi-val was previously held at the Rideau Carleton Raceway then moved to LeBreton Flats for one year before the decision was made to bring the Hoedown to Kanata.

Concert International has put down deposits with the City of Ottawa against any damage to the concert venue at Walter Baker Park, said Skaff.

“(The reason) we moved to Walter Baker Park (is), for one, it’s a beautiful park and we’re anticipating doubling our atten-dance (from) last year and that venue works well with that,” said Skaff. “Lebreton Flats isn’t big enough, that’s why we’re moving.”

The city isn’t fi nancially vul-nerable by allowing the compa-ny to stage the festival at Walter Baker Park, said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson, who spoke to city staff on Dec. 16 about the issue.

“They said what (Concert In-ternational) have to pay for the rent and the $100,000 they have to put up to repair the facility has to be received in advance – if not it won’t go ahead.

“The history of (the compa-ny paying off its debts) is not great,” said Wilkinson. “We can’t afford to subsidize them.”

Wilkinson said the city will later assess the success of the concert.

“If it doesn’t work out this year, this is the one time at this location – it’s a one time only,” she said. “If it works out well and doesn’t cause damage then it can be held again.”

Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley was unavailable for comment as he was away on va-cation.

Jason Chan, owner of Ottawa Scene, a printing company, said his company is owed $8,900 from the Capital Hoedown for last year’s event at LeBreton Flats.

Chan said his company was owed $12,000, and received a money order for $3,000, with Concert International agreeing to pay the balance 30 days after services were delivered.

That would have been in Au-gust, said Chan.

Since then he had received a letter promising payment by Nov. 30, which has since lapsed.

Chan said he attempted to contact the company by phone and email about the outstand-ing bill with no success.

“I’m not going to hold my breath that we’re going to get paid,” Chan said. “They’re just going to keep breaking prom-ises.”

The Hoedown owes Knock on Wood Communications and Events, an Ottawa public rela-tions and marketing company, $25,000 for services during the 2010 and 2011 festivals, said Stephanie Kersey, a spokesper-son for the company.

“On Sept. 8, 2011, Denis Ben-oit from Concert International met with our representatives from (Knock on Wood) and their bookkeeping service to discuss the outstanding debt payable to our company (approximately $25,000) for marketing services and expenses incurred on their behalf,” said Knock on Wood in an e-mail statement. “Mr. Ben-oit acknowledged the debt and advised that he would be taking care of it in its entirety within 10 days. No payment has been received and Concert Interna-tional has ignored our repeated follow up attempts (voice mes-sages and e-mail).”

Skaff said he had no com-ments to make about an article in the Ottawa Citizen that stated the festival’s CEO, Denis Benoit had been convicted in 2009 and served jail time for fraud and misuse of visa work permits in the state of New York, in the United States.

“Those comments or informa-

tion in the Ottawa Citizen arti-cle is personal in nature,” said Skaff.

In a letter signed by Benoit and submitted to the Kourier-Standard by e-mail, Benoit said the concert promotion and festi-val industry is very diffi cult.

It often takes three to fi ve years before a festival becomes profi table, he said.

“Capital Hoedown is current-ly operating at a defi cit, however, the 2012 budget has nothing to do with any prior arrangements or obligations and next year’s event will be nothing short of spectacular.

“We remain in close contact with all of our vendors and ev-erything will be settled,” said Benoit. “Many promoters close up shop and don’t pay their bills following a disastrous fi nancial outcome of an event, as the Ot-tawa community has experi-enced in the past, but we’re an organization with integrity and we honour our commitments; we’re not going anywhere.”

Tickets for Capital Hoedown went on sale at the end of No-vember and so far 18,000 tickets have been sold, said Benoit.

“…Ottawa is in for a truly memorable live music experi-ence.”

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File photoCanadian country music singer Marshall Dane performs at the Crazy Horse saloon in Kanata on Nov. 22, during the announcement Capital Hoedown is coming to Walter Baker Park Aug. 10 to 12, 2012.

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War Amps help children lead healthy, active lives

JESSICA CUNHA

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Jamie Lunn was born miss-ing a part of her right arm.

“My parents were uncertain about what kind of life I’d have,” said the 23-year-old.

Her parents were contacted by the CHAMP (Child Amputee) program offered by The War Amps.

“They told them I would be fi ne,” said Lunn.

She was on hand to give a pre-sentation at The Probus Club of Western Ottawa’s meeting on Dec. 13, about The War Amps and the services it provides.

“My parents never let on that I was any different, so I wasn’t any different,” she said.

Lunn grew up playing sports, helping with chores around the house and other activities en-joyed by all children.

“The War Amps provides all recreational limbs to kids so they can play,” said the young woman, who was born and raised on a farm in a small com-munity outside of Peterbor-ough.

“I’ve been able to live a healthy and active lifestyle because of them.”

Recreational limbs are pros-thetics that are specifi cally tai-lored for activities and sports.

“I played a lot of sports,” said Lunn, who plays baseball, bikes and swims. “I can hold dishes in the sink when I’m washing them.”

The CHAMP program pro-vides fi nancial assistance to

child amputees and their fami-lies for artifi cial limbs, counsel-ling and regional seminars, un-til the age of 25.

After that age, the type of assistance changes, but never stops completely.

“They will provide you with support for the rest of your life,” said Lunn, a public awareness offi cer with The War Amps. “It’s really, really wonderful.”

She said the cost of a passive artifi cial arm can run upwards of $15,000, while an electric arm can cost as much as $25,000. Legs are even more expensive, with a price of $35,000, and the government provides no funds for active artifi cial limbs.

“That’s not including repairs it may need,” said Lunn. “Peo-ple aren’t able to afford these; that’s where The War Amps comes in.”

She said the program is help-ful to children and families be-cause kids grow so quickly they may need a new prosthetic ev-ery six months.

“As an amputee we don’t pay anything,” said Lunn.

The seminars provided by The War Amps also helped her to feel like she wasn’t the only child who was missing a limb.

“There were no other ampu-tees in my community and I felt very alone,” she said. “The War Amps seminars helped me to feel included.”

As a public awareness offi cer, Lunn has been giving speeches about the programs offered by The War Amps for years.

“I can’t believe how young you are and how much you’ve accomplished,” said one of the members of the Probus Club. “When you say things can be accomplished no matter what, you’re right.”

The War Amps offers a host of programs, including:

• JUMPSTART: provides addi-tional support to children with multiple amputations.

• PLAYSAFE: children who

have lost limbs in preventable accidents while playing give presentations to other children about how to stay safe while playing.

• DRIVESAFE: children who have lost limbs in vehicle ac-cidents give presentations to adults about the importance of safe driving.

• Canada’s Military Heritage Series: tells the stories of Ca-

nadian veterans from the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War, all from a Canadi-an perspective.

• Operation Legacy: members of the CHAMP program teach younger generations the impor-tance of remembering the sacri-fi ce of Canada’s fallen soldiers and veterans.

Lunn said The War Amps relies solely on personal and

corporate donations and is not funded by the government.

Ninety per cent of all dona-tions go directly to the pro-grams while only 10 per cent is used for administration pur-poses, which is one of the lowest management costs for a charity in Canada, she said.

For more information, visit the website at www.waramps.ca.

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Jessica Cunha photoZdenek Kvarda, the program director for The Probus Club of Western Ottawa, poses with Jamie Lunn, who gave a presentation about The War Amps and the services it provides.

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JESSICA CUNHA

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The Arbour family decked their halls – and their house – for Christmas this year by setting up a light display set to Christmas tunes.

Paul Arbour, the president of the Briarbrook, Brookside, Morgan’s Grant Community Association, strung up hundreds of lights outside his home on Goward Drive and set them to fl ash along to classic carols.

“We have people stop in front of the house all the time,” said his wife Kath-leen, while their two children, Joey, 4, and Anne, 2, danced to the music on the front lawn. “Paul loves Christmas and I think he just has fun doing it.”

Paul said the family used about 80 sets of lights this year.

“At the end of the season we visit the stores and pick up a few stands at clearance prices and pack them away. We end up with a surprise every year in October when we open up our boxes of decorations,” he said.

The family starts stringing the lights in October and turns them on in November. It takes about 30 hours of work to set everything up, she said, but only one day to tear it all down.

“It just gets bigger every year,” said Kathleen.

“We’ve always done lights.“It’s just fun.”The Arbours started the music and

light show about two years ago when Paul came across an automated music box. This year, he made his own and set the music with an FM transmitter (station 90.3 FM) to help cut down on the noise.

“We originally started putting up lights on our old house and got a good deal on a prebuilt music player that fl ashed the lights in sequence,” said Paul.

“I realized that I am a techie and computer programmer so I likely could do it better than a canned light show. I like the challenge of putting these things together and the sense of accomplishment of building these things from scratch.”

The music and light show uses a va-riety of tunes, from classic carols to rock-infused songs.

“There’s a lot of Trans-Siberian Or-chestra,” said Kathleen, adding they choose the music based on how easily the lights can be co-ordinated to the sound.

For those waiting to see the music

and light show there is a seven-minute delay between song sets, said Paul.

The time spent setting everything up is all worthwhile when the family witnesses others enjoying the event.

“We love it,” said Kathleen. “I really like to make Christmas a

little bit more magical, and bring a bit of cheer to those dreary winter days,” said Paul.

“I think that others in the neighbor-hood have stepped up the game now that we’ve started doing this, and I plan on continuing to raise the bar.”

To see a video of the light display, visit www.yourottawaregion.com.

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Courtney Symons photoOttawa Senator Colin Greening points to a pair of running shoes that he thinks Kevin Nguyen would look good in at Kanata’s Sport Chek on Dec. 19.

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Youth from the Ottawa Boys and Girls Club got a special surprise at Kanata’s Sport Chek on Dec. 19, when three Ottawa Senators showed up to help them do their Christmas shopping.

Around eight youth were granted a shopping spree at Sport Chek, and hock-ey players Jared Cowen, Erik Condra and Colin Greening helped them pick out some items for themselves and their families.

After meeting the Senators, the group split up to canvas the store for Christmas goodies.

“I’m going to pick out the coolest stuff, so you should come with me,” Greening joked.

Kevin Nguyen, a 15-year-old from Otta-wa, took Greening up on his offer and the two picked out a pair of running shoes together.

“I’ve never met the Sens before, so this is a really great opportunity,” Nguyen said, never taking the smile off his face.

Nguyen doesn’t play hockey, he said, but he loves to watch it. He plays badmin-ton though, and the pair headed off into the equipment section to pick out a new racket.

“The kids are in here to get a little bit of Christmas come early,” said Sport Chek employee Matt Chaisson. “They can get some sporting goods, some shoes, we’ve had some sweaters. I think they’re going to be looking for some Sens jerseys and get some autographs.”

And while the shopping spree was meant to outfi t the kids, many chose to do their holiday shopping for their families as well.

Thirteen-year-old Angelo Augustin from Ottawa tried on a pair of basketball shoes with the help of Condra.

“I’m getting some sneakers, some stuff that I want, and then something for my family,” Augustin said.

“I have no idea what my dad’s going to want, but I’m going to get my mom an Adidas sweater,” he said, adding that his two younger brothers love soccer so they perhaps would like a soccer ball.

Augustin, however, is a basketball play-er. While that isn’t Condra’s sport, he still helped Augustin pick out a pair of new shiny black Nikes.

“Sport Chek is doing a great thing so that people get some good Christmas gifts,” Condra said. “It’s good to come out and help the community.”

The partnership between Sport Chek, the Senators and the Boys and Girls Club was a great way to celebrate Christmas, employee Chaisson said, but also to set these youth up for life.

“Getting kids involved in sports early on is a good way to keep them busy,” he said. “You learn a lot of great life les-sons being involved in sports and other activities. I think it’s important to get them started early and keep them in it lifelong.”

The Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa was established in 1923 and helps children and youth build self-esteem and stronger social skills.

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First time kindergarten students can prepare for classes by learning skills with the School’s Cool program.

The Western Ottawa Community Re-source Centre’s (WOCRC) Ontario Early Years Centre Carleton (OEYC) is offering the free program to children age three to fi ve who haven’t attended preschool or nursery school, and are registering to begin classes for the fi rst time in Septem-ber 2012.

“It’s kind of a seamless approach to the entry into school,” said Melanie McCool, one of the two facilitators of the School’s Cool program, which is funded in part by United Way. “It prepares them for all the transitions and skills needed in the classroom.”

The six-week course will begin in Jan-uary, with four morning classes a week, from 9 a.m. to noon, and works to develop the abilities needed in kindergarten.

“A lot of the feedback we’ve gotten from teachers has been very positive and (the children have) been leaders in the classroom as a result of what they’ve learned,” said McCool, who’s worked at the early years centre for more than nine years.

The School’s Cool classes can help chil-dren with separation anxiety, developing routines and communication skills, how to share and take turns, and how to fol-low directions.

“It helps them separate from their par-ent or caregiver; it helps with routines and transition times,” said McCool. “They learn how to express themselves through feelings and it helps with their communication skills and self-help skills.

“We work on their language skills, fol-lowing directives, learning how to dress and undress themselves, including wash-room skills, and of course all the math concepts – your counting, your numbers. It’s a big draw for a lot of parents.”

The program completes a report on each child to determine what their abilities are before and after taking the course.

“It’s a lot of work but it’s very reward-ing because you get to see the pre- and post-evaluation,” said McCool. “You get to see the vast change in the children; it’s pretty cool.”

She said the School’s Cool classes also help parents to adjust.

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File photoStudents registering for school for the fi rst time in 2012 can get a friendly welcome by attending the free School’s Cool program, offered by a local early years centre.

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HOLIDAY CHEERYolande Perry, a resident of the Garden Terrace retirement residence, passes by the Holy Trinity choir at the Holiday Inn & Suites with Anne Williams. The hotel hosted a special holiday lunch for seniors on Dec. 15 while Holy Trinity provided the musical entertainment in the form of the grades 7 and 8 and high school choir, and members of the band.

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Silver Creek fi nishes record yearJESSICA CUNHA

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Kanata-based band Silver Creek had a record year in 2011.

With a United Kingdom tour, a new album release and countless shows played across Ontario the band is looking forward to 2012 bringing big-ger and better opportunities.

“It made the year go really quickly. Hopefully (next) year will be bigger than (this) year,” said Silver Creek vo-calist and guitarist Shawn Tavenier, who grew up in Glen Cairn and now resides in downtown Ottawa. “There’s a lot of work ahead but for now we just kind of feel good just letting out a sigh and being happy with the work that we’ve done.”

The band released its third full-length record on Dec. 9. Titled “Princ-es and Kings,” the record is just one-minute short of an hour in length and features 15 tracks.

“It’s pretty introspective – thinking about where we are as a band, where we are as people, what it means to be playing music when a lot of your friends have long since settled down and done stuff with their degrees,” said Tavenier, a Holy Trinity Catho-lic High School graduate. “I’ve been struggling to kind of tie the themes on the record; I think that “Princes and Kings” is a very apt title. The two words put together that way denote a kind of progression, from smaller to larger, which is maybe what we’re hoping for.”

Silver Creek consists of guitarist Blair Hogan, who lives in Carleton Place; Jeff Rogers, from Village Green, on keys and vocals; bassist Mark La-forest, from the downtown core; and drummer Shane McEwan, a Bridle-wood resident.

The band held its CD release party at Mavericks, a downtown bar and music venue, on Dec. 9.

“It was a sell-out show and an abso-lute blast,” said Tavenier. “We played

the record start to fi nish.”The band spent 12 days recording

the tracks in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The members would get up around 10 a.m. and work in the studio until 2 a.m., with a few breaks in between for food.

“We stranded ourselves in this little tiny American town and we didn’t re-ally have anywhere else to go,” said Tavenier. “You get into this really strange universe. It’s fi ve guys in a re-ally, really creative mode.”

Ottawa musician, turned producer Eric Eggleston helped the band pro-duce the new album, which features a range of musical styles including indie-rock, roots-rock, spaghetti west-ern and Americana.

“It’s not that easy – I’ve been describ-ing it as roots-rock, Americana. But I think it’s a little broader than that,” said Tavenier. “Considering the im-print Canadians have left on the genre (I) to describe it as North Americana. I read that term somewhere and I re-ally liked it.

“I think at the end of the day it’s just a Silver Creek record.”

Tavenier’s favourite song is “Slow Time,” the fi rst track on side B.

“It was a very different writing pro-cess,” he said. “This time in particular it was really exciting. It was exciting at the start and it’s exciting now. We were all kind of curious to see where it was going to go.”

Another favourite is titled “Belle-fonte,” after the town.

“It sounds like the town, it sounds American. It sounds like a drunken Salvation Army band playing at a band shell in a park,” said Tavenier. “Calling that song ‘Bellefonte’ and the town itself was a catalyst for us going in a completely different direction, trying a bunch of new things and be-coming better for it.”

UK TOUR

Silver Creek hit 11 cities in 17 days

during its UK tour with Nepean artist and headliner Sarah McClurg.

“She got in touch with us and said she needed a band to go with her and a band to open the shows with their own material,” said Tavenier in a previous interview. “She fi gured she could kill two birds with one stone with us open-ing with our own material and then playing for her sets.”

McClurg met the band through a mutual photographer and friend.

“Once I heard them play I realized they were such a great band, I wanted them to come on tour with me,” she said.

Tavenier said the band’s time over-seas was a whirlwind of shows and activity.

“We kind of crisscrossed that whole island. It was amazing,” he said. “People listen differently over there. There’s a real focus on original music. Even in pubs they don’t want to hear covers.”

Now that the band is back on its home turf and its third album is com-plete, Silver Creek is assessing its next step.

“(We want to) play as much as pos-sible,” said Tavenier. “We’re going to try our best to get the record into the hands of people who we think can help us move it forward. It’s just trying to keep the momentum going; we’ve had a big year, a big year can slide into a small one pretty quickly.”

The band has an upcoming show in Carleton Place at Valley BBQ, which used to be Tilly’s Smokehouse, on Dec. 30, where it will play the new material from “Princes and Kings.”

“It’s a great little spot. They’ve been doing a lot of live music,” said Tave-nier.

“People love music; it’s sort of the one thing you can count on. We’re just lucky that we do something that peo-ple love.”

For more information on Silver Creek, visit the band’s website at www.silvercreekmusic.ca.

Jen File photoSilver Creek members, from left, Jeff Rogers, Mark Laforest, Blair Hogan, Shane McEwan and Shawn Tavenier, fi nished a record year with a United Kingdom tour, a new album release and a number of shows across the province.

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It’s amphibian season at the Ron Maslin Playhouse.

First it was Kermit the Frog in his celebrated comeback. Now it’s the turn of the much beloved characters from the stories created by Arthur Lo-bel and adapted as a musical by brothers Robert (music) and Willie (book and lyrics) Reale.

A Year in the Life of Frog and Toad, directed by Karen Boese, follows Kanata Theatre’s long standing practice of fi lling the empty days between Christmas and New Year with light-heart-ed entertainment for kids of all ages.

Sonia Francis, the Music Di-rector, and Kaitlin Boese, the choreographer, are responsible for bringing to life the more than 20 musical numbers in the show.

Lobel’s daughter, Adrianne, commissioned the musical based on her father’s charac-ters. She designed the set for the Broadway debut and her hus-band, actor Mark Linn-Baker played Toad. The work received three Tony Award nominations.

The musical follows the wood-land adventures of the worry-wart toad and a perky frog, with their assorted colorful hopping, crawling and fl ying compan-ions, over the course of a year.

The title roles of Frog and

Toad will be played by Jonathan Arnott and Lionel King respec-tively.

Others in the cast are Ron Gardner (Snail), Allison Hous-ton (Mother Frog), James Hrkach (Father Frog), Paul Hrkach (Young Frog), Dan Bar-en (Large and Terrible Frog), as well as Alexandra Boese, Cassy Nagy, Emily Tang, Jackie Kor-mylo, Abbey Flockton, Spencer Kahler, Karoline Page, Saylor Frost, Genna Sylvain, Jonathan Francis, David Francis, Claire Bosnich, Emma Clarke, Sean Behncke, Mark Bujaki, and Alex Henkelman in an assortment of roles such as Lizard, Turtle, Mouse, Mole, and Bird.

A crew of more than 40 build-ers, designers, sewers, sound and lighting technicians, stage and production managers and other volunteers has worked for months to bring Frog and Toad to Kanata.

A Year in the Life of Frog and Toad runs in the Ron Maslin Playhouse, 1 Ron Maslin Way, in Walter Baker Park at the follow-ing times:

• Tuesday, Dec. 27: 1 & 4 p.m.• Wednesday, Dec. 28: 7 p.m.• Thursday, Dec. 29: 1 & 4 p.m.• Friday, Dec. 30: 1 p.m.Tickets are $8.Kanata Theatre’s box offi ce

number is 613-831-4435 and the website is www.kanatatheatre.com.

Arts and Culture

Swamp creatures reign supreme

CHRISTMAS SPIRITThe TD Canada Trust Bank in the Farm Boy Plaza on Hazeldean Road got into the Christmas spirit, donating $1,000 to the Kanata Food Cupboard. Over the last several months, customers contributed to the cause through the purchase of gently used books and other activities held at the branch. At left, Karen Waters, client co-ordinator of the Kanata Food Cupboard, accepts the donation from Lynn Johnston, small business advisor with the branch, and Farag Youssef, branch manager, on Dec. 14.

Sabine Gibbins photo

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JINGLE BELLSJack Donohue Public School hosted a holiday concert on Dec. 7, delighting the large audience with performances by the grades 7 and 8 bands, strings club, guitar club, primary and concert choirs, and the line-dancing club.

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On Street Verifi ers Wanted

Metroland Media Group & the EMC are looking for Independent Contractors to ensure that our products are being delivered to the public. Audits will take place Thursday evenings & Fridays.

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OFFICE CLERKLOCATION – OTTAWA, ON

STATUS – FULL TIMEBest Theratronics Ltd. is a Canadian company of TeamBest™. We became a member of the Best family in May 2008. We manufacture external beam therapy units and self-contained blood irradiators. We have created a new product line of cyclotrons (B14p, B35p and the B70p) for radioisotope production. The team brings with it a diverse range of knowledge from around the world. TeamBest™ is driven by one primary goal - to provide the best products and services to customers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Reporting to the Manager Inside Sales & Customer Support, the incumbent will have the following responsibilities:• Responsible for all categories of fi ling – Central Records• Ensures Record Management Procedures are followed• Provides Switchboard relief for lunch and all breaks on a daily basis• Prepares daily bank deposit• Responsible for answering the 1080 & 1090 lines (Customer Support & Service)• Responsible for all incoming and outgoing mail operations• Provides general typing support – letters, contracts etc.• Responsible for the preparation of local courier envelopes• Responsible for the coordination of local Chamber Embassy document run via local courier• Assist with mail outs – marketing brochures etc.• Performs other related duties as required

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:• Secondary School Diploma with 2 years of general offi ce experience required• Experience in Records Management and mailroom functions preferred• Excellent English verbal/written communication skills essential• Bilingual – French communication skills an asset• Must be able to work independently and within a team environment• Computer literate in Microsoft applications preferred• Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities and meet strict deadlines

SALES REPRESENTATIVESPECIALIZED IN HVACR PRODUCTS

FOR OUR OTTAWA REGION BRANCHES

The Sales Representative will promote The Master Group products, to dealers, contractors and engineering firms within an assigned territory. He will identify new key accounts and

will develop and maintain business relations with customers.

Send your resume to [email protected] visit our career section on master.ca.

QUALIFICATIONS• Mechanical engineer• 5-7 years HVACR sales experience • Bilingual• Strong technical and refrigeration products sales knowledge• Strong time management skills• Outstanding interpersonal skills• Excellent presentation skills• Ability to handle multiple priorities • Strong written & oral communication skills ADVANTAGES• Competitive compensation with performance related bonus • Good benefits package• Mileage allowance• Sales and marketing materials• Friendly atmosphere• Growing company

Leader in the air conditioning, refrigeration, ventilation and heating sectors for almost 60 years now and 2010 winner as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies, The Master

Group is the largest independent distributor in Eastern Canada from the Greater Toronto Area eastward to the Maritimes.

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The Bell Capital Cup is return-ing to the Nation’s Capital with 410 teams vying for a chance to hoist the Allen J. MacDonald Memorial Trophy.

The 13th edition of the annual atom and peewee hockey com-petition will run from Dec. 28 to Jan. 1, with opening ceremonies scheduled for Dec. 27, at the Bell Sensplex in Kanata.

“This hockey extravaganza will showcase great minor hock-ey action,” said Cyril Leeder, tournament chair and Ottawa Senators president, in a press release.

The 2012 Bell Capital Cup will include teams from 19 divisions and more than 7,000 players. Teams from Canada, the United States, Finland, Germany and South Korea will be competing.

The Ottawa-area will be well represented, with a number of teams competing for the top spot, including the Kanata Blazers, Nepean Raiders, Ottawa Sting and Gloucester Rangers.

“As always, the highlight of the festival will be the 1,000-plus hours of tournament games played at the Bell Capital Cup,”

said Leeder. Other events to take place dur-

ing the Bell Capital Cup include Sens games, the Sens Skills, Pro Hockey Zone skills competitions and the Scotiabank and Canadi-an Tire all-star games.

Kanata native and former Sens forward Todd White will serve as honourary chair at this year’s event.

More than 850 games will be played on 33 ice surfaces across Ottawa, from Stittsville to Navan. All championship games will be played at Scotiabank Place.

The board of directors of the Ottawa International Hockey Festival is expecting around 25,000 visitors to the area for the tournament, and about 12,000 hotel rooms to be rented for this year’s event.

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The fi ve-day tournament will offi cially kick off on Dec. 27 at the Bell Sensplex with the Bell Capital Cup Fanfest and Esso Friendly Games, which are open to the public.

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taking place on Dec. 29 and 30.Players also get the added bo-

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The Bell Capital Cup provides young athletes with an oppor-tunity to compete against their peers at a high level, meet new friends and develop skills both on and off the ice in a fun yet competitive setting.

“I would like to take this op-portunity to thank the tourna-ment organizers and volunteers who have been working hard to provide the participants and their families with an unforget-table experience in our nation’s capital,” said Leeder.

Tournament passes sell for $12 and cover all fi ve days. Day pass-es go for $5, senior day passes for $3. Children under 12 attend for free. Ticket sales are used to sup-port local minor hockey associa-tions and charities.

The annual festival has raised more than $2.3 million in sup-port of minor hockey and local charities since its inception in 1999. Last year, the event raised just under $260,000.

For more information visit the website at www.bellcapitalcup.

File photoThe Bell Capital Cup returns to the Nation’s Capital on Dec. 28 with 410 teams vying for a chance to hoist the Allen J. MacDonald Memorial Trophy.

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• SATURDAY, DEC. 31The Kanata Dance Club invites you to the annual New Year’s Eve Gala for singles and couples over 30 from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Location: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr., Ot-tawa. Tickets are $ 75 per person and include admission, supreme buffet dinner, prizes and party favors and a glass of champagne at midnight! Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Dinner is served at 7:30 p.m. Dancing is from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dance to celebrity DJs Randy & Louise. Purchase tickets online at our website: www.kanatasinglesclub.net. Email: [email protected]. On Facebook: search Kanata Dance. On Twitter: search KSCDance-Club. Primeline: 613-860-1036.

• SUNDAY, JAN. 1Global Awareness: Cambodia & Canadian Multiculturalism invites everyone to its New Year 2012 Celebration. Features meditation for beginners & experienced (developing a peaceful mind and stress relief) from 1:30-4 p.m. at the Cambodian Buddhist Temple, 5883 Hazeldean Rd., Kanata. Megha Leelaratna, co-founder & administrator, Sirin Research Centre, will be the guest speaker. RSVP by e-mail: [email protected].

• UNTIL JAN. 6The Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre’s Ontario Early Years Centre Carleton is offering a School’s Cool program in Jan. and Feb. 2012. School’s Cool is designed to help children age 3-5 who haven’t gone to nursery school get ready for school. Six-week pro-gram, four mornings/week from 9 a.m.-noon. Applications can be picked up at 2 MacNeil Crt. or online at www.wocrc.ca. Space is lim-ited. For more information, contact Melanie and Susan, at 613-591-3686.

• SATURDAY, JAN. 7March Kanata Skating Club is hosting the 2012 Skate Canada – Eastern Ontario Special Olympics Regional Invitational Competition on Jan. 15. The Kanata Sports Club is organiz-ing an afternoon of Trivia, socializing and Sens ticket raffl e to support the event. Starts at 1 p.m. at 10 McKitrick Dr., Glen Cairn, above the Jack Charron arena. Enter a team of 8, or as smaller groups or individuals. Cost $10 per player (youth 12 years of age and older may participate). Net donations will go directly to 2012 Special Olympics competition. Register by sending an email with the name of trivia players in your party to: testchair@

marchkanataskatingclub.com.

AMC Theatres and Geneva Centre for Autism have teamed up to bring families affected by autism and other disabilities and sensory issues a special opportunity to enjoy The Ad-ventures of Tintin at 10 a.m. AMC movie audi-toriums will have their lights brought up and the sound turned down, families will be able to bring in their own gluten-free, casein-free snacks, and no previews or advertisements will be shown before the movie. Additionally, audience members are welcome to get up and dance, walk, shout or sing. Tickets can be purchased on the day of the event. Informa-tion: www.amctheatres.com.

• JAN. 8 & 11Rural Root Theatre will hold auditions for the spring show, “The Curious Savage” directed by Roy Ballantine at 7 p.m. on both days. The theatre is also looking to fi ll a number of crew positions. Visit www.ruralroot.org for more details.

• MONDAY, JAN. 9CFUW-Ottawa general meeting with guest speaker Chantal LeClerc, Interim CEO, Champ-

lain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). 7:30-9:30 p.m. at St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church, 2400 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa. For more info contact Jill Moll at [email protected] or 613-237-2535. www.cfuw-ottawa.org.

• TUESDAY, JAN. 10The Probus Club of Western Ottawa meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 33 Leacock Dr., Kanata, at 10 a.m. for coffee fol-lowed by a guest speaker. January’s speaker will be Allison Knight, legal counsel for the Offi ce of the Information Commissioner of Canada. The Probus Club is for retired and semi-retired men and women who appreciate and value opportunities to meet others with similar levels of interest. For further informa-tion call Pat Thompson at 613-591-1390.

• USED BOOKS NEEDEDKanata United Church will be collecting used books for their 21st annual mega book fair scheduled for Feb. 24 & 25. The book drop off facility will be open as of Jan. 2, until Feb. 10 and is located at the church entrance at 33 Leacock Dr., Kanata. Please, no textbooks, en-cyclopedias, Readers Digest or magazines. All proceeds go to charity programs including the

Kanata Food Cupboard. For further informa-tion or inquiries, please call 613-592-2226.

• CHRISTMAS TREESThe Royal Ottawa Hospital’s 25th annual Christmas tree sale begins Saturday, Dec. 3 and runs through to Saturday, Dec. 24, or until the trees are all sold out. The trees are Nova Scotia balsam fi r, cut just before being shipped to Ottawa. All profi ts are used to provide activities and experiences for clients and families. The lot is located on the grounds of The Royal, 1145 Carling Ave. and will be open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• SATURDAY MORNINGSBeaverbrook residents interested in the pres-ent and future of our distinctive community are invited to join in a friendly discussion, while enjoying coffee and goodies, each Saturday morning between 9 and 11 a.m. in the lower meeting room of the Beaverbrook Community Centre, 2 Beaverbrook Rd. En-trance is off the parking lot at the west end of the Beaverbrook Mall. For further information contact Mary at 613-435-4184 or [email protected].

Ottawa police provide crime prevention tips for the holiday seasonOTTAWA POLICE SERVICE

With the holiday season upon us, the police would like to re-mind residents of a few steps to ensure everyone has a safe holi-day season:

• When shopping, make sure that you always lock your vehi-cle.

• Place parcels in the trunk and minimize the number of bags that can be seen.

• Keep track of your debit and

credit cards. Always protect your PIN number.

• Take note of where you parked and the door you entered from so when you leave, you are not walking around with a large number of parcels and attracting

unnecessary attention.• On garbage day, do not throw

out your “big ticket” boxes all at once. Cut the boxes up and fold them inside out to hide the origi-nal content pictures.

• If away, ask that someone

clean your driveway to give an appearance of occupancy.

• Leave lights on a timer and have a friend check your house daily.

Ottawa police offi cers wish you a safe and happy holiday season.

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KINGS CROWNEDThe bantam Kanata Kings A1 team won the Bantam Blizzard Blast in Auburn, New York, which ran from Dec. 3 to 4.

Send your team’s photos to us [email protected]

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Kanata Sports Club supports Special OlympicsKANATA SPORTS CLUB

The Kanata Sports Club is hosting an afternoon of Trivia, socializing and a Sens ticket raffl e at the Jack Charron Arena on Jan. 7 starting at 1 p.m.

The money raised by the event will

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The sports club is asking all of its mem-

bers to participate in the fundraiser.Participants can enter a team of eight

or smaller groups and individuals will be placed on a team of eight.

The cost of entering the event is $10 per participant. Youth 12 years and older may participate in the event.

Participants can register by email with the names listed of the trivia play-ers to: [email protected].

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