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Theatre helps four-year-old
JESSICA CUNHA
Kanata Theatre members are giving up their one night off during a show run in March to host a fundraiser for a four-year-old boy with physical disabilities.
Connor Haynes is physically dependant on his family. He has no control of his muscles, can’t hold his head
up or sit up. He can’t speak and his family is unsure how much he can see. Although Connor has been through a gamut of testing at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, results have been inconclusive.
“He smiles a lot,” said his grandmother Jenefer Haynes, who is president of the Kanata Theatre. “He never complains. He’s got this lovely personality.”
As Connor gets older, his parents need help accommo-dating his needs, said Haynes, who lives in West Carleton. Growing at the rate of other children his age, his parents are fi nding it diffi cult to carry him up and down stairs.
This is where the theatre comes in.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Everyone involved in the production of Cash on Deliv-ery has given up their one night off to volunteer their time for a special performance, with all the proceeds go-ing to Connor’s trust fund.
The money raised will help the young boy’s parents buy a new wheelchair accessible van and build an addi-tion on to their home so Connor’s rooms – bedroom, bath-room and others – can be located on the main fl oor.
“The whole idea of the fundraiser is to build Connor the rooms he needs on the ground fl oor,” said Haynes, who’s been involved with the Kanata Theatre for 35 years.
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READY TO ROCKSam Trew of the All Saints Catholic High School girl’s curling team, prepares to send the rock down the sheet at the 64th Gore Mutual Ontario School Curling Championship at the Huntley Curling Club on Feb. 19. The girl’s lost the consolation round 9-7. See page 10 for the full story and photos.
Jessica Cunha photo
Troupe holds fundraiser for boy with physical disabilities
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Non-profi ts balk at city cutbackLAURA MUELLER
A plan to put off hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for community orga-nizations brought non-profi t groups out in droves to denounce the decision.
More than 30 representatives spoke dur-ing a budget discussion at the city’s com-munity and protective services meeting on Feb. 17, and most came with the same mes-sage: “Don’t cancel the community sustain-ability fund for 2011.”
As part of a strategy to meet budget pres-sures, the city is axing a $450,000 contribu-tion this year that is intended to help com-munity groups pay for staffi ng and other programs.
Lynne Browne of the Alliance to End Homelessness echoed many other groups’ concerns about the cutback to the commu-nity sustainability fund.
“(This budget) quietly erases this com-munity resource without public consulta-tion,” she said.
Browne said there is a public perception that the 2011 draft budget is Mayor Jim Watson’s budget and is not to be tampered with.
“It will just be rubber stamped,” she said.
Browne and other groups expressed con-cern over council’s willingness to supply $400,000 to support a bid for a FIFA soccer tournament (only one councillor, Capital Ward’s David Chernushenko, dissented) while at the same time cutting almost the same amount from non-profi t groups.
The community sustainability fund still has about $2 million in base funding that has been contributed since 2007, said Steve Kanellakos, the deputy city manager of city operations. The additional $450,000 that was cut this year represents additional funding that was supposed to be added based on the city’s 10-year plan for the fund.
The $502-million community and protec-tive services budget was passed by the com-mittee and will have to be considered by full council before it receives fi nal approval.
Refuge owner seeks to save Beaver Pond animals
BLAIR EDWARDS
The owner of a West Carleton wildlife refuge is asking a developer for permis-sion to rescue hibernating animals that have lost their homes because of clear cutting in the Beaver Pond forest devel-opment.
Lynn Rowe, the founder of the Con-stance Creek Wildlife Refuge, said the tree-cutting could displace dozens if not hundreds of animals.
Rowe has sent an e-mail to Urbandale about the issue and is waiting for a re-sponse.
“We feel pretty desperate about the situation and the animals and want to feel we can do something at least,” said Rowe.
Rowe estimates dozens to hundreds of animals hibernating underneath the ground could be crushed by the tree cut-ting machinery.
Mary Jarvis, director of planning and land development for Urbandale, said the company won’t allow Rowe onto the land.
“We’re not granting permission for anyone to get on the site,” she said. “It’s a construction site.”
Jarvis said the developer has fi nished tree clearing and is moving on to the next stage of the development, perform-ing geo-technical analysis of the land.
BIRDHOUSES
Ever since the tree clearing in the Bea-ver Pond forest started last month, Rowe has been building bird houses and make-shift animal dens on publicly-owned land near the development.
Rowe and a group of volunteers have built four birdhouses and six more are in the works; the group hopes to build at least 20 birdhouses over the coming weeks.
Rowe said she has received e-mails and phone calls about injured or dead porcu-pines found on or near the Beaver Pond development.
Rowe set up shelters for porcupines and other small animals near the devel-opment using Rubbermaid boxes with holes cut out of them and fi lled with straw.
The shelters are anchored to the ground with logs.
HIBERNATION
Hibernating animals have a slowed metabolism and have no chance of sur-vival if they are woken up during that period, said Anita Utas, a volunteer with the Constance Creek Wildlife Refuge.
Porcupines don’t hibernate during the winter but stay close to their den during cold weather.
Several porcupines have climbed up trees during the clear cutting, but when the trees are cut down the animals can fall to their death or be injured, Utas said.
“A lot of the animals who have nowhere to go end up on the tops of the trees and some of them can’t fi nd any shelter so they’re freezing to death,” she said.
Utas said she has received reports of dead deer, porcupines and beavers.
The tree cutting also disturbs animals’ food stores, she added.
“We were hoping that Lynn Rowe would be allowed to be sent in and look for animals in distress.”
File photoLynne Rowe, here with two of her domestic animals, Lyra the goat and Pipsqueak the pony, is asking Urbandale to allow her to rescue animals displaced by tree cutting in the Beaver Pond forest development.
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Suburban bus users, get ready to walk
LAURA MUELLER
Riders should prepare for sweeping changes as OC Transpo looks at overhauling almost 200 bus routes.
But unlike in the past, the city isn’t just taking a transit map and slashing routes, said OC Transpo general manager Alain Mercier. The company is build-ing a better system that every-one has reasonable access to, he said.
For some residents, particu-larly those in the suburbs, that will likely mean more walking.
Mayor Jim Watson pledged to save $22 million by next year on transit by cutting out “milk runs,” and the business plan OC Transpo revealed to the city’s transit commission on Feb. 16 proposed just that.
The preliminary plan propos-es 47 routes that will either be eliminated or consolidated.
Merging routes 63 and 64 in Kanata, for example, could save the city $175,000 a year.
Ineffi cient neighbourhood loops could be cut from 10 sug-gested routes. Making the 18 in
Overbrook take a more direct route could save $184,000 each year, for instance.
That will also help alleviate the costly problem of empty bus-es driving around the city, said Coun. Diane Deans (Gloucester-Southgate), who is the chair of the transit commission.
The city could also reduce the off-peak hours for certain routes.
In all, only 60 of OC Transpo’s routes will remain untouched or could be enhanced.
But those 60 routes represent about 90 per cent of transit trips that will remain the same as they are now after the transit map changes.
For the routes that will change, Mercier indicated it would like-ly mean some riders will have to walk longer distances to get to their bus stops.
Right now, 98 per cent of Ot-tawa residents live within 400 metres, or a fi ve-minute walk, from their stop. The changes could push that to 800 metres, or 10 minutes, for many users.
A recent summary of an American Public Transit As-sociation review found that the
city is over serviced by transit, and if the city doesn’t cut back on funding the system’s op-erations, it will show up on tax bills.
“It’s all about living within our means,” Deans said.
The proposed changes would save $145 million over six years.
Mercier confi rmed that Coun. Keith Egli (Knoxdale-Merivale) was on the right track when he commented that it seemed tran-sit users in suburban wards would end up having the longest walks to a bus stop.
For seniors, and particularly in the winter, that’s not accept-able, said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson.
“It’s a fairly lengthy way for some people to handle, but we do have to optimize our system because costs are getting out of control,” Wilkinson said.
Controversial routes being ex-amined include the 5 in the city’s east end and the 65 Express bus from Kanata.
“The 65 Express route would cause a lot of concern to a lot of people, because the express routes are the ones people de-pend on to get to work,” Wilkin-
son said.There will likely be less impact
on riders in the city’s core, said the only urban ward councillor on the transit commission, Tim Teirney (Beacon Hill-Cyrville).
“I’ve looked at my ward and there doesn’t seem to be too much of an impact in that area,” Teirney said. “The same can’t be said for Orleans or Cumber-land.
The city will also be upgrad-ing its bus fl eet over time, in-cluding adding 75 double decker buses by 2016, which will save around $10 million.
More detail on potential route cutbacks and changes will be presented to the transit commis-sion on March 23, and the public will have a chance to comment at a series of public meetings be-tween that date and April 7.
Overhaul of OC Tranpo routes will mean fewer stops and more walking
Laura Mueller photoCouncil is looking to cut ineffi cient bus routes and merge others.
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Haynes said Connor’s parents were reluctant to ask for outside help but when she pitched the idea of the fund-raiser, “They were just thrilled. We want it to be a really fun night. It’s great to hear people laugh.”
She said the cast and crew have been extremely generous in giving up their time.
“Without the blink of an eye, every-body is on board. It’s astounding how generous people are being.”
There is monetary assistance to out-fi t a bathroom for Connor and put a lift in the van, but there is no help for the actual extension or van itself, said Haynes.
Haynes has already sold a number of tickets and has received donations from people in the community to put in Connor’s trust.
“It’s amazing the kindness and gener-osity,” she said.
Connor has been invited to a rehears-al of the play to meet the cast and crew since he’ll likely be unable to attend the performance, said Haynes.
Connor, his fi ve-month-old sister Gra-cie Mae and parents, Ed and Jane, live on a small farm in Lanark. The family moved out there because Connor “loves to be outside,” said Haynes. He takes part in therapeutic horseback riding in Perth, where he is laid across the horse’s back in order to massage his muscles.
“He’s able to hold his head up a little
bit now,” said Haynes. Connor also attends classes three days
a week at Maple Grove Public School in Lanark, when he’s not ill.
“He has a lot of friends, especially a little girl who loves to hold his hand,” said Haynes. “He loves it when the chil-dren sing.”
‘A SPECIAL NIGHT’
The special performance of Cash on Delivery will take place on Monday, March 28, at the Kanata Theatre, 1 Ron Maslin Way. Tickets are $25 and include a champagne intermission, and park-ing is free. The comedic play is intended for adults, and attendees should be over
the age of 14, said Haynes. Tickets will not be processed through
the Kanata Theatre box offi ce since the night is being run on volunteered time. To purchase tickets, people can mail a cheque to Haynes: Jenefer Haynes, 201 Thomas A. Dolan Parkway, Dunrobin, ON K0A 1T0. For more information, people can call 613-832-3023.
Haynes requested that if people want to donate to the cause but are unavail-able for the night of the performance to refrain from purchasing tickets. In-stead, they can donate to Connor’s trust fund, which is set up at the Royal Bank of Canada in Stittsville. For information on donations, contact Haynes at [email protected] or call 613-832-3023. There are no cash receipts since Connor is not a registered charity.
The young boy’s maternal grand-mother, Sarah DeMarco, said the family appreciates all the help and support.
“Connor has opened doors we would never have walked through otherwise,” wrote DeMarco, who lives in Rich-mond, in an email. “It is not a life that grandparents would choose for their grandchild but as we share our lives with Connor, it’s confi rmed as Connor keeps growing, we have to put ourselves ‘out there’ and appeal to your sense of humanity as a parent, a grandparent, a brother, sister or all of the above, to open your doors for an evening in Con-nor’s name.”
“It will be a special night for the peo-ple that come,” said Haynes.
‘It’s amazing the kindness and generosity’Community
Submitted photoKanata Theatre is hosting a special fundraiser for Connor Haynes, 4.
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‘Stay tuned, there’s still more to come’: Curry
BLAIR EDWARDS
Trustees approved short-term mea-sures aimed at reducing overcrowding at two Kanata elementary schools dur-ing an Ottawa Carleton District School Board committee meeting on Feb. 16.
The plan moves on for fi nal approval at a full board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 22.
Four schools are bursting at the seams in Kanata: Katimavik Elementary School (199.9 per cent above enrolment capac-ity), Jack Donohue (126 per cent) Roch Carrier (148.8 per cent) and Stephen Lea-cock (156.6 per cent).
Staff recommended the redirection of kindergarten and French immer-sion programs at Stephen Leacock and Katimavik elementary schools to reduce enrolment pressure and give the board some breathing space.
The short-term measures are band-aid solutions at best, said Kanata trustee Cathy Curry – but a badly-needed band-aid.
“The reality is we need to make some changes to get through the school year,” she said.
The real changes and long-term solu-tions are yet to come, she added.
HIGH SCHOOL ADDITIONS
Those recommendations will come in December from two accommodation review committees (ARCs) set up in Kanata north and south to study bound-aries, programs, transportation, growth patterns – everything in the collective school bag.
Curry anticipates the ARCs will take a good long look at adopting a grades 7 to 12 structure for high schools, a model used by the Ottawa Catholic school board.
Moving grades 7 and 8 to two Kanata high schools, A.Y Jackson and Earl of March secondary schools, will require money from the Ontario Ministry of Ed-ucation to build additions, said Curry.
An architect has already drawn up plans showing options for expanding the two high schools for the ARCs.
Moving the grade 7s and 8s to A.Y. Jackson and Earl would create space
needed for the introduction of full-kin-dergarten, said Curry.
Full-day kindergarten must be in place in all Ottawa schools by 2015-16, said Curry.
REACTION
In the meantime, the board needs to introduce emergency measures at Kati-mavik and Stephen Leacock elementary schools to relieve overcrowding, said board staff.
Trustees approved a plan for next year to:
• Move the senior kindergarten pro-gram at Stephen Leacock to Roland Mi-chener along with some French learning resources.
• Move the junior kindergarten pro-gram at Katimavik to Castlefrank El-ementary School.
• Redirect Katimavik’s Grade 4 middle French immersion program to W. Eers-kine Johnson Public School and Bridle-wood Community Elementary School.
• Tack on 12 portables at Roch Car-rier, but otherwise maintain the current boundary and grade structure.
“No students who are actually in a school will move,” said Curry, adding that the changes could be later reversed by the ARCs.
Some of the parents who spoke at Wednesday’s committee meeting said they were worried the changes would force them to send their children to dif-ferent elementary schools.
“It’s disruptive for transportation and child care,” said Jennifer Guerra, who said the changes will mean one of her children will enroll for Grade 2 at Kati-mavik and the other in kindergarten at Castlefrank in 2012. “Our day-care pro-vider will have children at four schools,” she said.
Adjusting pick-up and drop-off points would help parents adjust to the chang-es, she said.
Sheila Ball, co-chair of the Katimavik School Council, said the changes don’t go far enough.
“It doesn’t make a large enough im-pact,” she said. “We will still be double capacity next year.”
Katimavik Elementary’s bathrooms are in desperate need of an overhaul and student common areas such as the gym-nasium and the library are overtaxed.
“The washrooms are insuffi cient, out-dated and overused,” said Ball. “The hallways are crowded and insuffi cient.”
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The Ottawa public school board was scheduled to make a fi nal decision on temporary measures to reduce overcrowding in Kanata schools during a full board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 22.
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It’s just a game, except when it isn’tAs kids develop awareness of the
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This is almost always diffi cult. What are you going to tell the subteen in your house when she fi nds out that Miley Cyrus’s father told a magazine that the hit TV show Hannah Montana destroyed his marriage? How will you explain what her father means when he says “I’m scared for her.”
You understand well enough. Fame and big money do strange things to people and not all of them react well. But the girl and her doting father live this enchanted life on TV and the worst problem is that they run out of Diet Coke or the dog barks. Marriages don’t break up on the Disney Channel and 18-year-olds don’t have birthday parties in bars.
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fessional sports, in other words.The realities of professional sports
can be as unpleasant as life in the Cyrus family and do you really want your young hockey fanatic to carry that knowledge around with her?
Mind you, from quite an early age that young hockey fanatic has suspected that real life is not all it’s cracked up to be. She gets a preview of life’s unfair-ness when she is told that she has to go to sleep while still feels like practising her slapshot in the living room. Finding out that there can be no candy without fi rst eating the vegetables only confi rms the existence of a dark side.
— People in Ottawa are sad to see Chris Kelly go, a little hockey player will say.
— Yes, you answer, but … but that’s just the way it is.
— Why?— Because the Senators want to win?— Why?— Because winning is better than
losing.— But don’t you always say that
having fun playing the game is more im-portant than winning? Remember, you said that when I was crying after losing that game.
— Yes, I remember saying that. And I believed it.
— Don’t the Senators believe that?There you are, stuck with the necessi-
ty of explaining why professional sport is not really like sport the way you’ve been teaching it.
And you haven’t even come to the part about head shots and cheating and taking funny pills and all the things grown-ups do to win games even though winning isn’t supposed to be as impor-tant as having fun.
After that you get to explain why they should keep cheering for the Senators anyway even though Mike and Chris are gone. This is just a business, you’ll say. Eventually they will understand, which is sad in a way.
CHARLES GORDON
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The world revolves around foodIf you thought the entire world revolved
around money, it doesn’t. The world revolves around something much more basic, even though getting enough of it can be more diffi cult than amassing money or fi nding an oil well.
The world revolves around food... and water.You cannot move very far without an adequate
food supply. You cannot fi ght an effective war without it. In North America, food has never been considered an outrageously priced com-modity and we all assume that it will remain affordable, for as long as we need it.
A cautionary comment from the Ontario Fed-eration of Agriculture (OFA) suggests that food, once spared the indignity of competition on the open market, may fi nally have run smack into the real world.
Just about everything else that we consider a necessity has gone up in price.
Gasoline prices have continued to rise, some-times at an alarming rate, and that has affected the cost of getting inexpensive food from the farmer to the marketplace. Add to that the in-creasing cost of seed, fertilizer, processing and distribution, and the stage is set for an increase in food prices. The negative effect of global
warming and weather is another factor that is affecting the harvests in places like Russia and India. Commodity price fl uctuations, export con-trols and the reality of unstable governments in Third World countries, suggests that global food production may be at risk.
Locally, farmers appear to be like the rest of us — trying to stay ahead of the next curve that world prices may throw at them.
The cost of food in Canada has increased over the past 30 years. Despite the increases, Cana-dian food is still the best food around and the most affordable. According to the OFA, a genera-tion ago, the cost of breaking daily bread took 20 per cent of an average income. These days that is down to 11 per cent. This past Feb. 12 has been pegged as Food Freedom Day. This is the day the average Canadian has made enough income to cover their grocery bills for the entire year.
The OFA is calling for a National Food Strat-egy to stay ahead of increasing costs to our food-producing system and eventually higher food costs for Canadians.
The idea sounds like a good one given what we have seen with just about every other commodity being shaped by a global perspective.
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LAURA MUELLER
Newly minted transportation committee chair Marianne Wilkinson (Kanata North) is already thinking down the line to Kana-ta’s commuter woes in the future.
She is asking city staff to look at extend-ing the surface light-rail line from Lincoln Fields to Bayshore as part of the next phase of the city’s rapid-transit plan.
The fi rst phase will involve constructing a rail line from Tunney’s Pasture in the west to Blair station in the east, including a tunnel through the downtown.
The transit plan will create a hub and transfer point at Lincoln Fields, and Wilkinson said she is worried that com-muters travelling down-town from Kanata will be faced with already-packed trains coming from Baseline when they transfer at Lincoln Fields.
She envisions the pos-sibility of creating a rail “spur” heading west to Bayshore, similar to the “spur” that is planned to extend rail towards Bar-rhaven between Lincoln Fields and Baseline.
That would ease the transfer for west-end commuters, who are al-ready underserved by the city’s transit sys-tem, Wilkinson said.
“All I was trying to do is get a co-ordina-tion of the planning studies for where the routes are going to so, so that when we do have the funds to go west, we can handle go-ing in both directions, which I think makes sense,” Wilkinson said.
The city currently has two studies un-derway, and Wilkinson wants to see them linked. The fi rst study is looking at a sec-tion of the Transitway from Tunney’s Pas-ture to Pinecrest, which will connect bus rapid transit from the city’s west end to the future light-rail line.
The second study is determining the route for that light-rail line, which will run surface rail from Bayview (linking with the downtown rail tunnel) to Baseline station.
“I really just want to take those two ex-isting environmental assessments and tie them together so we have the information going in both directions before we have to make a decision, which is probably is many years away,” Wilkinson said.
It’s just an idea at this stage, and even if Wilkinson gets her way, it would only mean her idea is included an option in the report. If it would be too expensive to fi t a Bayshore extension into the city’s $2.1-bil-lion light-rail transit (LRT) plan, it likely wouldn’t become a reality. And that’s still several years down the line – the study for the western LRT link to Baseline won’t be completed until 2012, and construction would happen after that.
“We don’t even have a Transitway link all the way to Kanata. You do have one for Orleans, you do have one for Barrhaven and South Keys. It seemed kind of crazy not to have it fi nished at least to the green-belt,” Wilkinson said.
“We should be looking at how we can make the system work well for the most people,” she said.
An extension to Bay-shore in the earlier phase might save costs down the line because light rail will eventually be extended to Kanata in the long-term future, Wilkinson said.
“It would make more sense … to wait until the rail is coming and just build the rail, and not build the bus lane and then con-vert it, because when they do that there is a lot of ex-tra cost,” she said.
Mark Taylor, the councillor for Bay Ward, where the western LRT link will be located, said he wasn’t in favour of Wilkin-son’s idea because he worried that it would add to the cost of the project.
“With all deference to Marianne, I am mindful of what she’s trying to accom-plish. I’m mindful of the cost though, as well,” Taylor said. “I think what we need to do is proceed with the plan that we have in hand.”
Taylor said it’s just a matter of time be-fore LRT is extended to Kanata, and while Wilkinson’s idea might speed up that pro-cess a bit, it’s not worth the risk of extra expense.
“I think we owe it to folks to do what we said we were going to do before we move on to something else,” he said.
City staff are “already moving in that di-rection” of co-ordinating the two studies, Wilkinson said. She will discuss the idea with staff and, if required, seek approval through the transportation committee, which she leads.
It seemed kind of crazy not to have it fi nished at least to the greenbelt.
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System has let us down
To the editor:Like many homeowners in the Kanata
area, I feel the “system” has let us down badly by allowing a small area of land known as the Beaver Pond Forest to be developed. And like many homeowners, I don’t know what to do.
This letter was an eleventh hour appeal to the only people who are in a position to stop this destruction. It is a terrible thing and in my opinion an indictment of a sys-
tem that can allow a developer’s rights to supersede the greater public good.
On a related note, and I wish I had in-cluded this in my letter, the Canadian economy is hugely dependent on natural resources. We should be global leaders of environment management practices and stewardship at the federal, provincial, and regional level. This is not setting an example for others to follow. It is another example poor decision making and vision-less planning – all in the interest of short term economic gains.
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The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) is now offering City of Ottawa ski passes to its patrons.
OPL is partnering with the city to bring forth this pilot project for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 winter seasons.
OPL has 75 passes in its collection that can be borrowed from the library like any other circulating item.
The pass provides free access to the Mooney’s Bay ski centre trails for one person. The pass is a laminated card that circulates in a CD case for secu-rity purposes.
The loan period of the pass is one week and it can be used multiple times during that period. The barcode on the front of the pass must be scanned at the facility entrance. The borrower must have the laminated card on their person at all times while using the trails.
“Thanks to our collaboration with the City of Ottawa, OPL can add this valuable offering to its regular collec-tion and services,” said city librarian Barbara Clubb.
For more information visit www.BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca or call In-foService at 613-580-2940.
JESSICA CUNHA
Former federal Liberal nomi-nee Scott Simser has been select-ed as the Green Party of Ontario provincial candidate for Carleton-Mississippi Mills.
He was the only one to put his name for-ward with the Green Party.
Simser, who ran for the Lib-eral Party nom-ination in 2007 and 2009, said the Green Party was a better fi t for his ideals.
“My think-ing evolved,” said the 45-year-old. “The Green Party is new and has exciting ideas; I’ve always had a passion for the environment.”
He said he thinks it’s important to get a number of Green Mem-bers of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in at Queen’s Park.
“Queen’s Park needs a shake-up,” he said. “It needs the Green Party to be there. In some way the people have not been satisfi ed with these governments in the past (the Conservatives, Liberals and NPD) so they should give the Green Party a chance.”
Simser, who grew up in Kanata north, living there for 19 years before moving to Toronto, now re-sides in Katimavik with his wife and three children. He holds a bachelor of administration from the University of Ottawa, a MBA from the University of Toronto and is currently taking three courses at the University of Ot-tawa.
Simser, who was born with a hearing impairment, said his main priorities are the environ-ment, the economy and a more decentralized government.
SMALLER GOVERNMENT
“We think the government in Queen’s Park is too centralized,” said Simser, who works as a tax analyst with the Government of Canada. “I’d like to see a smaller government, more decentralized – more responsive to the local community.
We think the communities know best.”
He said he wants to see commu-nities hold more power and have more of a say in how their gov-ernment is run.
“A centralized government can’t effectively control every-thing. So why not decentralize it and let the people make the deci-sions. You can do more with less,
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Scott SimserGreen Party
with a smaller government.”The Earl of March Secondary School graduate
said there is too much red tape for small busi-nesses, adding there are too many agencies with-in the provincial government that are redundant or ineffective.
He said the Ontario Municipal Board should be drastically reduced or eliminated all togeth-er.
“Governments need to be more transparent and accountable,” he said, adding ministers should be more open and forthcoming with their expenses.
“Why can’t you just post it to a website? Prove you’ve got nothing to hide.”
PROTECT THE LAND
Sensitive and environmentally-signifi cant lands should be looked at before they’re bought by developers, said Simser.
“We’d look at sensitive lands within the city boundaries and see what their statuses are (then) buy them now before the developers get them.”
Growing up with the Beaver Pond in his back-yard, Simser said what happened there is sad.
“I’m very sad to see it go. What we’ve decided as the executive is we have to look forward to the future.”
He said he would look into the Nature Conser-vatory of Canada, of which he donates to, to buy environmentally sensitive lands.
“They buy land; they get by on the donations people give them.”
Simser said the party doesn’t agree with landfi lls and thinks the Carp dump was a bad choice.
“We look to Europe,” said Simser, who added product packaging across the ocean is more environmentally friendly. “They have very am-bitious recycling programs. It’s very different there then the way we do it here.”
He said the government is taking part in too many expensive programs.
“You want the communities and municipali-ties to be responsible for conservation,” said Simser. “It’s up to us to conserve.”
The provincial election will take place Oct. 6. “I’m looking forward to it,” said Simser. “It’ll
be out of sight.”
Library offers city ski trail pass
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JESSICA CUNHA AND BLAIR EDWARDS
The All Saints Catholic High School girls curling team hugged each other after losing the consolation fi nal of the 64th Gore Mutual Ontario School Curling Championship on Feb. 19.
“We played pretty well,” said team member Katie Vance. “We fought great this morning. I’ve had a great time.”
All Saints lost their grip on a 7 to 4 lead over Grey Highlands Secondary School heading into the fi nal two ends of the game played at Huntley Curling Club in Carp.
In the fi nal end the score was tied at 7-7 and then the Flesherton school scored another two points for the 9-7 win.
“They did very well,” said All Saints coach Roger Trahan. “I know all the girls play to win but fourth in the province isn’t bad.”
During round robin play, All Saints fi nished second in their pool but lost 7 to 5 in a semifi nal match against Grimsby Secondary School.
Patrick Fogarty Secondary School took home the gold in the girl’s fi nals against Grimsby Secondary School, with a score of 7-6.
On the boy’s side, London Central Sec-ondary School won their fi nals match 4-2 against Moira Secondary School, while Haliburton Highlands Secondary School fi nished in third place against Markham District Secondary School, with a fi nal score of 9-6.
HUNTLEY CLUB
Team members Chantal Allan, Brit-tany Black, Sam Trew and Katie will now prepare for the upcoming city high school curling championship on March 2.
All Saints sits in a three-way tie for
fi rst place in their division of the Na-tional Capital Secondary School Athletic Association’s varsity girls curling, with a 7-1 record.
The team was scheduled to play a quar-ter-fi nal game against John McCrae Sec-ondary School on Wednesday, Feb. 23.
The city championship will be held at the Nepean Sportsplex on March 2.
Next stop (hopefully), the provincials, said Trahan.
All four girls curl competitively at Huntley Curling Club – a huge advantage for a high school team, Trahan said.
“Out of the top eight teams going to the provincials, maybe only half of them will have three or four club members on their team,” he said.
Chantal, a Grade 12 student at All Saints, took over as the team’s skip this year after playing for the team for the past two years.
“She’s doing a really good job,” said
Trahan. “She has both games – she can throw the big weights and the small weights.”
Bittany and Sam, Grade 11 students, have been curling together at Huntley since Grade 7 while Katie, a Grade 9 stu-dent, is a new addition to the team.
All Saints is a close-knit team, said Chantal.
“We actually do a lot of team bonding,” she said.
Shortly before the Gore championship, the team visited a beauty parlour in Bar-rhaven where they had their nails done.
“Every time you get a compliment on your nails you think of your team,” said Chantal.
That camaraderie translates into work-ing well as a unit on the ice, she added.
“A huge part of our game is being able to read each other. “Knowing how to bring someone up when they’re down gives you a defi nite advantage.”
All Saints curlers lose consolation fi nal
Left: Sam Trew and Katie Vance sweep the rock up the sheet.
Bottom left: Brittany Black throws the stone.
Bottom middle: Chantal Allan lines up a shot for her team while Grey Highlands skip Sarah Ward looks on.
Bottom right: Chantal Allan directs her teammates Sam Trew and Katie Vance.
Jessica Cunha photos
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The City of Ottawa is making it easier for visually impaired residents to pay their bills, by introducing braille, large-print or CD-Rom tax bills as part of a one-year pilot project announced last week.
About a dozen people received large-print or e-text tax bills in past years, but the city wants to look at expanding the program. An aging population and new regulations in the Accessible Ontario Disabilities Act have pushed city depart-
ments to make services more accessible to people living with disabilities.
All homeowners in Ottawa will still receive printed water and tax bills, but those who request another format will also receive an additional version of their choice: braille, large print or e-text on a CD.
Call the city’s revenue department at 613-580-2444 to make your request.
The service is being offered as a one-year pilot project with Ottawa-based T-Base Communications at a cost of $5,000 to the city.
City offers braille, e-text billsNews
CHECK, MATETwo students from Holy Redeemer Catholic Elementary School take part in the chess club, which meets over the lunch hour.
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A better dress code makes a difference to the patient experience
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For the fi rst time since I started this column, you, the reader, have inserted yourself into the introduction. This week, the hospital’s new dress code made local and national headlines: on Canada AM, CTV News Net, CTV Ottawa and the Ottawa Citizen. Many of you responded – whether in support or against the policy, with the question: why?
Why a dress policy at all? Why now? Why among frontline clinical staff. The questions are all legitimate, particularly since they show some that we have more work to do to clarify exactly what our dress code is intended to do.
Over the past year, consultation and feedback from patients, staff, and professional practice groups throughout the hospital – as well as a review of existing research – confi rmed that a key to ensuring patients’ comfort and safety is the ability to easily recognize members of their care teams. In other words, everything we’ve heard from people like you, as well as employees, is that our appearance has an
impact on a patient’s experience of the hospital.
That is why, all professionals at The Ottawa Hospital – whether they are nurses, physicians, other health professionals or support staff – are being asked to dress in a manner that clearly identifi es them to patients. Anyone can read see the dress code on-line at www.ottawahospital.on.ca
Until readers do get a chance to read it, I should address one aspect of the policy, the dress code for nurses, has proven particularly contentious.
Contrary to some reports, Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses still have control over what scrubs they wear. If they wish to wear graphic prints on their scrubs, they can do so. That said, nurses are being asked to wear lab coats, so patients and families can easily recognize them.
This idea came directly from the hospital’s nursing professional practice group.
Likewise, other health professionals will dress in accordance with the guidelines for their professional group. Support services staff, including transportation and housekeeping staff, will also wear hospital employer-issued uniforms at all times.
In addition to strengthening the quality of patients’ experience of the hospital and staff, we know that these changes will improve infection control, while ensuring that all members of The Ottawa Hospital Family will continue to portray a professional image.
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Oceans poised to make waves
JESSICA CUNHA
New Kanata band Oceans is set to make waves in the Ottawa music scene.
The experimental pop group brings an experimental sound to the stage.
“We like to try and push boundar-ies without seeming like we’re pushing boundaries,” said William Assaad, who sings vocals and plays guitar. “We can make it sound different.”
The band – which is comprised of As-saad, Kate Sargent, 19, on vocals and bass, Jamie Kronick, 22, on drums and Joseph McDonald, 21, on guitar – is try-ing to build up its name in the Ottawa scene.
“We want to gain as much notoriety in Ottawa as we can,” said Assaad, 21. “It’s a really loving community.”
Oceans is working with Amos The Transparent’s Jonathan Chandler to produce the band’s fi rst EP. The as-yet-unnamed album is set to be released in the spring.
“I’m just excited to be working on the album,” said Chandler, who heard about
Oceans through a mutual friend. “I was blown away (when I heard them).
“It’s more complex, that’s what drew me to them.”
Assaad and Sargent fi rst started play-ing and writing music together while both were attending All Saints Catholic High School. Assaad said they’ve always worked well together and with the addi-tion of Kronick and McDonald, every-thing came together.
“It changes for the better,” said Assaad about the additions.
As for the name choice, Assaad said it plays to what the music sounds like.
“We wanted something germane to what our sound would be. We kept com-ing up with scenic things and Oceans ended up sticking.”
The band’s plan for the next year is to put out a full-length record and “play as many shows as we can,” said Assaad, who added Oceans might try out for this year’s Live 88.5 Big Money Shot – but it would be a last-minute decision.
Oceans will be playing at Café Dekcuf on March 11 at 9 p.m. with Rah Rah and Fire and Neon.
Jamie Kronick photoWilliam Assaad and Kate Sargent are part of new Kanata band Oceans. The band will be playing Café Dekcuf on March 11.
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MARCH BREAK20112011• CAMPS• CAMPS • ACTIVITIES• ACTIVITIES • RESTAURANTS• RESTAURANTS • EVENTS• EVENTS
March Break is a great time for kids. They need to get away from the ev-eryday stress of school as much as adults need to get away from their full time jobs. What better way to help kids relax and enjoy their time off than to send them to a March break camp? (By the way, this gives parents a nice break too.)
Before you make a camp decision for your child, there are a lot of factors to consider. You will want to do your homework before you drop your child off for the day to be cared for by people you hardly know. It’s not easy. There are so many camps to consider and they come in all shapes and sizes. There are day camps, overnight camps, golf camps, horseback riding camps and science camps to name a few.
Here are some general considerations:Your child’s interestsWhat does your child like to do? Children know what they like and don’t like. Ask them for their input. If your child is active and loves to play sports, a sports camp is probably right for him or her. If your child is creative, then choose a camp that offers arts and crafts. Camp choices are as varied as children themselves. Choose a camp with the specifi c focus geared toward your child.
Day Camp versus Overnight CampDepending on the age, maturity and independence of your child, he or she may or may not be ready for an overnight camp. Some overnight camps accept chil-dren as young as six years old. Only you can decide when the time is right.
Convenient LocationLocation is important because you will have to drop off and pick up your child ev-ery day. You’ll want to consider your drive time and also keep in mind the hours of the camp.
CostOf course, the cost is something to consider. The cost of camp should refl ect the service provided. When comparing camps by price make sure that you are comparing apples to apples. Some camps include lunches, while others include snacks, t-shirts, hats, extended hours and off site fi eld trips. Price alone, can be misleading. I’ve always be-lieved, “You get what you pay for”.
ResearchWith pencil in hand, contact the camps you are considering and ask some specifi c questions. Not all camps are created equal, so ask the same questions to each camp director and compare their answers. You need to feel comfortable with their an-swers before you make your choice. This is not an exhaustive list, but here are a few questions to get you started:
1. Who do you hire as counselors? Are they experienced? How old are they? Are they certifi ed in CPR and First Aid? Have they undergone a criminal record check?
2. What are your hours for the camp program? for pre and post camp care? Is there an additional cost for extended hours?
3. What is the ratio of campers to counselors? Ratios of 8:1 are common. A maximum of 10:1 is probably the maximum ratio you would want.
4. Are snacks or a lunch provided? Is the lunch program optional or mandatory?
5. Can you provide a list of references or testimonials? Word of mouth is the best reference. Ask around and fi nd out where other parents are sending their children.
6. What if my child doesn’t like the camp? Do you offer a guarantee? What is your cancellation policy?
7. Where can I fi nd more information about your camp? Do you have a web-site? Can I register online? Can I pay by credit card?
The best way to determine if a particular camp is right for you is to ask a lot of questions. Camp directors are used to answering questions about every detail of camp. If you don’t get the answers you are looking for, keep searching. You need to feel good about your decision. After all, you want your child to have an awesome camp experience that will forge memories to last a lifetime.
Matt Barr is the owner of Camps Canada, a summer camp based in Ot-tawa, Ontario. As a voice for Canadian Camp Owners and Camp Directors, Matt is a frequent guest on radio and television programs across the coun-try discussing the latest trends and issues in camps. He can be reached by email at: [email protected]
By Matt Barr
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Waste reduction in schools is an important part of creating a greener community, and many children and teachers are imple-menting creative initiatives to reduce their school’s carbon foot-print. Charities, like TD Friends of the Environment Foundation (TD FEF), are helping to support these projects.
“Spring is about new beginnings, so why not reduce your impact by organizing a ‘walking school bus’ in your neighbourhood or encouraging your children to decorate old school folders instead of buying new ones,” says Mary Desjar-dins, Executive Director, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation.
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Virtual youth centre a haven for troubled teensJESSICA CUNHA
The Kanata Haven Youth Cen-tre has something different to offer teenagers in the way of support and services than The Zone, said board member Diane McNulty.
“Our board felt that Kanata could easily support two youth centres, especially ones that offer different and diverse program-ming objectives and service a dif-ferent group of youth clientele,” said McNulty about the virtual refuge.
The Zone, which is run by the Western Ottawa Community Re-source Centre (WOCRC), offers adult-supervised drop-in pro-gramming two nights a week, special events and workshops for teens.
Both The Zone and The Haven focus on education, healthy life-style choices and community vol-unteerism, but McNulty said the main difference is the ages both centres serve. The Zone serves youth up to 18, while The Haven works with those up to age 24.
“Although (The Zone) offers some great programs and has the backing of the WOCRC, many of our old youth centre clientele were either too old or felt they did
not fi t in with their type of pro-gramming,” said McNulty. “Es-sentially they (the youth) came to us and asked if we could do some-thing – and after much research and community consultation, the Kanata Haven Youth Centre was born.”
She said once youth reach age 23-24, the centre helps them move towards services geared to adults if it’s still required.
‘SECOND FAMILY’
The Haven, which is run online through its website and Facebook page, works with the “hard-to-ser-vice” youth population which can include those involved in danger-ous activities such as drug abuse, violence, or youth who feel they have nowhere to go when issues in their lives get diffi cult.
“For a lot of youth it’s their second family,” she said about the support offered. “For some it’s their fi rst family.”
This is echoed on The Haven’s website, where youth can post comments about how the centre has helped them. “The centre is a great place because it’s more than just a place to hang out, it becomes more of a second fam-ily,” wrote one person.
“I would like to give you a very
sincere thank you. You have helped me through diffi cult times and have helped guide me to a very promising future,” wrote another.
McNulty said she estimates over 90 per cent of the troubled youth who have used the centre have turned their lives around.
“We start small and provide quality work; from there oppor-tunity can come knocking,” said McNulty.
The centre provides short-term counselling and helps youth who are going through personal cri-ses. McNulty said they have the added bonus of a large network of community professionals who are always willing to lend a hand, whether it’s the police, counsel-lors, teachers or service workers.
“Kids don’t just have crises be-tween working hours,” said Mc-Nulty, who added they are trying to get a 24-hour help line up and running.
VIRTUAL REALITY
The Kanata Haven Youth Cen-tre grew out of the old Kanata Youth Centre (KYC), which used to operate where The Zone is now located at 170 Castlefrank Rd. The KYC, which was run by a board of directors, closed its doors in
2008 and was reopened as the WOCRC’s youth centre.
McNulty, who volunteered at the KYC for nine years, said the programming the centre offered depended on what the youths’ needed at any given time. She re-called one time where there was a
large number of teen pregnancies so the centre offered workshops on pregnancies and raising a child. They also offered program-ming to teach teens how to avoid the issue in the fi rst place.
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Diane McNulty photoKanata Haven Youth Centre members Estri, Jenna Harding and Brittany Taetz play around with puppets from the Kanata group Rock the Arts at the 2010 Canada Day in Kanata.
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“There’s no point in coming up with programs if the youth aren’t involved,” said McNulty. “We tend to think outside the box.”
McNulty, along with fi ve other board members, keeps The Haven running on-line where kids can interact, get answers to their questions and fi nd out what the centre is doing in the community.
“We connect with the youth online be-cause we don’t have a centre; we don’t have the drop-in component (anymore),” she said. “But that doesn’t mean we don’t con-nect physically – we still get together every month to plan new and exciting events.
“I always try to encourage face-to-face (interactions) because you don’t get the subtle nuances through email.”
McNulty said youth who needed some-one to talk to have shown up at her door.
“A lot of times people gather at my place. Even though a lot of them know where I live, no one has ever abused the privilege.”
She also hosts pizza nights to get ev-eryone together and talk about upcoming events, issues and programming.
Terri Tomchyshyn, a board member with The Haven, got involved after the KYC closed its doors, but her daughter used to frequent the spot. She said knowing where her daughter was helped her to keep calm whenever she didn’t come home. Tom-chyshyn would call McNulty at the centre
to confi rm her daughter’s whereabouts.“It saved me a lot of stress,” said Tom-
chyshyn. “It made a huge difference as a parent.” She added she wants to see The Haven promoted more so youth in the area know they have a range of options if they need support.
“I think the more word we can get out to youth that there’s a haven at The Haven, that they have some place they can go to virtually, if not physically, it can help.”
HELPING HAND
The Haven has a core group of 10 youths who interact regularly using the virtual centre and participate when it puts on community events.
“Others come in when they can,” said McNulty.
The Haven takes part in Canada Day in Kanata every year, which has the biggest turnout in youth participation.
McNulty said the youth who take part are learning key skills that will help them throughout their lifetime, such as inter-acting with the public, hosting bands and maintaining security throughout the day.
The centre also takes part in the city’s Cleaning the Capital campaign every fall.
Music is a big part of many youths’ lives so The Haven has tried to incorporate that as much as possible, she said. The Haven is helping youths make their own videos, teaching them about equipment and edit-
ing.The Haven aims to help youth enhance
their quality of life through educational, recreational, social and artistic programs.
“It’s youth driven,” said McNulty. Jenna Harding, The Haven’s youth rep-
resentative and board member had been going to the old centre since she was 11 years old. Now 18, Harding said it made a difference during her adolescent years.
“You learn so much and there’s so much support there,” said the Carleton Universi-ty student. “It’s nice to know there’s some-one there for you.”
Harding started going to the centre after her brother joined and now gets involved in all the community projects hosted by The Haven. She’s studying criminology in the hopes of one day becoming a victims’ service worker.
The Haven was recently deemed a not-for-profi t but is still waiting on charity status.
McNulty said they’d like to see a physi-cal location for The Haven by the summer so they can better help youth in the area.
“Kanata’s gotten so big. We really should be able to help our kids.”
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Arts and Culture
Places and Spaces
JENNIFER MCINTOSH
For Peggy Hughes art is a passion.It is evident while watching the Kanata
resident hang her more than 25 pieces for her show at the Atrium Gallery, which started on Feb. 18.
She remembered the inspiration for each piece and kept a watchful eye on the hanging process while talking about her technique and plans for the future.
“The name from the show actually came from peoples’ reactions to my work in the past,” Hughes said, adding that people often “see” places they have been through her abstract work.
“I get asked all the time if I have been to Mexico or parts of South America. I haven’t, but it’s what people are seeing in the work,” she said.
Although primarily self-taught, over the past 35 years Hughes participated in a variety of workshops with internation-ally-known American and Canadian art-ists. She continues to be a life-long learn-er and in March 2005, began teaching workshops on composition using mixed media and collage techniques.
“I have also been a member of the Ot-
tawa Mixed Media Artists group since the beginning,” Hughes said.
Hughes said her work comes out as she is painting, rather like a carving that takes shape once the sculpture cuts into the clay.
“I am very into design but I don’t let the work get hemmed in by what I think I want to do,” she said, adding that a lot of her work currently on display at the Atrium is refl ective of a recent trip to Newfoundland.
“You can really see the rocks and the shapes,” she said.
Hughes uses acrylic paint for the most part and almost every painting has layers of texture as part of the design.
Hughes explores abstract and non-rep-resentational subject matter; fl orals, still-life and landscapes infl uence her semi-abstract work.
The show at the Atrium will run until March 23 and Hughes will have a simulta-neous show, named “Trinary” running at the Cube Gallery on Wellington St. West from March 1 to 27.
It’s a lot of work, but it’s a real labour of love.
“It’s really great to get out and talk to people about my work,” Hughes said.
Local artist holds show at Atrium Gallery
Peggy Hughes hung her work at the Atrium Gallery at Ben Franklin Place on Feb. 18 to ready for her show Places and Spaces through my Inner GPS.
Jennifer McIntosh photo
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Farmers Market elects new board of directorsOTTAWA FARMERS MARKET
The Ottawa Farmers Market elected a new board of direc-tors and executive.
Robin Turner of Greely’s Roots and shoots organic farm was elected president joined by:
• Vice-president: Andy Terauds, Acorn Creek Farm, Carp• Treasurer: Greer Knox, Log House Perennials, North
Gower
• Secretary: Greg Leese, The Hot Potato Company, OsgoodeElected to the board of directors are: • George Wright, Castor River Farm, Metcalfe• Mel Foster, Foster Family Farms, North Gower• Lawrence Henderson, Pretty-Fours, Kanata• Mike Kositsin, Ottawa Valley Honey, Almonte• Colin Samuels, Jambican, Osgoode• Walter Henn, Bear Brook Farm, NavanLinda Cook from Greely will continue as manager.
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The Kanata Kings Bantam B team brought their top game to the seventh an-nual Capital House League Tournament at the Bell Sensplex the weekend of Feb 11-13 when they took home the champion-ship title.
The Kings fi nished the tournament with a 2-1 win against the Rayside Tiger
Cats, from Sudbury.The Kings have enjoyed a banner sea-
son to date, winning the Maxville tourna-ment in November and as fi nalists in the Gloucester Cougar Cup, which took place in January.
The Kings were commended for their noble sportsmanship while up against some unruly teams at the Alliston Tour-nament last month as semi-fi nalists.
Kings crowned in Capital House tournament
The Kanata Kings Bantam B team took the championship title at the seventh annual Capital House League Tournament at the Bell Sensplex the weekend of Feb 11-13. The team fi nished with a 2-1 win against the Rayside Tiger Cats from Sudbury.
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UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
PASTORA. DUMMITT
2031 MAIN STREET STITTSVILLE • 613-831-7207Sun 10:00 am Sunday School & Adult classesSun 11:00 am Worship ServiceSun 6:00 pm Celebration ServiceWed. 7:30 pm Bible StudySat 7:30 am Prayerwww.stittsvilleupc.com 283594
BRIDLEWOOD BIBLE CHAPELA New Testament Church
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Pastors: Al MacMillan Keith MacAskill
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85 Leacock DrivePastor: Rev. Louis Natzke
Christ Risen Lutheran Church
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WORSHIP 10:30 A.M.SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:15AM
BIBLE STUDY 9:30AM
GLEN CAIRN UNITED CHURCH140 Abbeyhill Dr., Kanata
Rev. Brian Copeland
10:00 am: Service of Worship and Sunday School
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MORNING WORSHIP 10 AMNot too young crew children’s church
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Free Methodist
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SundaySunday9:00am: Worship Service, Nursery, Sunday School
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Sunday Worship Services 9 am & 11 amKidz Zone (ages 3 yrs. - Grade 5) at both services
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St. Patrick’s Fallowfi eld Roman Catholic Church
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Saturday 5:00pmSunday 9:00am & 11:00amMon,Wed,Thurs,Fri 8:30amTuesday 6:45pm15 Steeple Hill Cres., Nepean, ON613-591-1135
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FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH1078 Klondike Road, Kanata 613-591-3246
“A Church Rooted in Christ and Fruitful” - Rev. Colin N. McKenzie, Sr. Pastor
- Rev. Carlo De Vito, Pastor of Family Ministries
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Sunday 10:00am Bible Classes for people of all ages 11am Worship Service with Nursery & Children’s Ministry
6:15pm Evening Service with a focus on music & teaching
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1600 Main Street, Stittsville
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Sunday Worship Services begin at 10amNursery, C-KIDS, Youth Ministries, Life Groups
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990 Teron Road, Kanata, ON 613-592-1213
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Sunday Eucharist 8:00 am - Said 9:15 am - Choral Music, Sunday School & Nursery 11:00 am - Praise Music, Sunday School & Nursery
St. Paul's Anglican ChurchSunday Eucharist
8:00 am - Said9:15 am - Choral Music, Sunday School & Nursery11:00 am - Praise Music, Sunday School & Nursery
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44 Rothesay Drive, Kanata, ON, K2L 2X1
613-836-1764Email: [email protected] Website: www.holyredeemer.ca
Parish Mission StatementThe Holy Redeemer Parish Community lives the Way, the Truth and the
Life by reaching out with the Good News to Welcome, to Serve and to Care.
Weekday MassesTuesday, Thursday & Friday 9:00 a.m.Wednesday 7:00 p.m
Sunday Mass Times:Saturday: 5:00 p.m.Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Pastor: Rev. Pierre Champoux
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A.Y. Jackson wins stock market challengeA.Y. JACKSON SECONDARY SCHOOL
A team of four students from A.Y. Jackson Secondary School won the 10th Annual Stock Market Challenge, hosted by Junior Achievement of Central On-tario and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) on Feb. 10.
The students competed against 28 oth-er teams as they bought and sold fi cti-
tious companies’ shares.Starting with $500,000 the A.Y. Jack-
son team’s portfolio ended the trading period at $1,522,955, an increase of 305 per cent.
“This year’s Stock Market Challenge was a fantastic success, and once again gave an impressive group of young people the opportunity to learn about the world of investing,” said Jane Eis-
brenner, president and CEO of Junior Achievement of Central Ontario.
“We congratulate the team from A.Y. Jackson Secondary School and we wish them much success as they manage their personal portfolios in the future.”
At the corporate Stock Market Chal-lenge fundraiser later in the day, the team from Deloitte came away with the top prize.
The event raised $100,000 toward the delivery of Junior Achievement Middle School Programs Dollars with Sense to Grade 7 students throughout Toronto, Peel, Halton, Durham, York and Simcoe.
“The funds raised will support our continued efforts to inspire and educate young Canadians to experience free en-terprise, business and economics,” said Eisbrenner.
Education
LAURA MUELLER
A mobile phone application that thrusts users into an “augmented reality” of their city took home the top prize in the city’s Apps4Ottawa contest.
Ekwa Jacob Duala-Ekoko won the best overall app for his Ottawa Guide: an android app that displays real-time digital information about the user’s current location on objects such as landmarks or attractions using a phone’s camera – a technology called “augmented reality.”
Winners in the Apps4Ottawa contest were announced on Feb. 15.
The contest challenged local developers to come up with mobile and computer-based applications, or “apps,” that use the city’s streams of data to help users navigate and enjoy resources the city has to offer.
But the winner of the peoples’ choice award created a controversial app that can no longer be used because OC Transpo pulled a data stream.
Where is my Bus, created by Jonathan Rudenberg, used OC Transpo’s GPS data to tell users – as the name suggests – where their bus is located.
The app quickly became popular, until OC Transpo abruptly made the GPS data unavailable, citing the data’s questionable reliability at this time.
Alain Mercier, general manager of OC Transpo, said the transit authority would be keeping the data under wraps until it could ensure the accuracy of the information, even though it has already been released and conforms with the city’s open data policy.
At a recent transit commission meeting, Mercier said the data also stands to bring in a lot of revenue for OC Transpo – about $1.1 million initially, which would grow over time, he said.
“We’re looking for approximately a 75 per cent increase in other revenue sources tied with leveraging that kind of information,” Mercier said.
Duala-Ekoko’s Ottawa Guide tied with Rudenberg’s bus app for the peoples’ choice award.
The Best Student app was awarded to Tyler Pearce for his OttawaFun.ca app, which allows people to use their computers to discover points of interest throughout Ot-tawa.
Over 90 applications were entered into the contest in fi ve categories: Having Fun in Ottawa; Getting Around; Green Environment/Sustainability; Community Building; and Economic Development. The top prize in each category was $5,000.
The city needs to celebrate the kind of innovation that the Apps4Ottawa contest led to, said Guy Michaud, direc-tor of information technology services and chief informa-tion offi cer for the city.
“We need to keep the open data movement going,” he stated in a press release. “The Apps4Ottawa contest may be over but we will continue to work with the community and with staff to expand our open data initiative, making even more data sets available in the future.”
For more information about open data in Ottawa, visit www.ottawa.ca/open and www.apps4ottawa.ca.
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GOLDEN GIRLSThe Kanata Novice B Rangers celebrate winning the 17th annual Durham West Girls Hockey Tournament held from Feb. 11 to 13.
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Stop looking around for an existing home that “sort of fi ts what you are looking for.” Why not consider a new home that you can have tailored and custom designed to exactly what you are looking for. Thanks to new technologies and building products, new home buyers are getting a better home today than they were several years ago. At the same time, they enjoy greater choice and more features at all price levels, along with an unprecedented level of builder service.
Only a new home offers you the opportunity to select the features and options that will make the home uniquely yours
- from carpets and paint to kitchen cupboards and layout. Most builders will customize the home to suit your particular requests. This means that your new home will be designed specifi cally for your life style and built to refl ect your individual touch and character.
Today’s new homes emphasize maximum light and spacious-ness. New homes have fl oor plans and amenities often not found in older homes such as soaring ceilings, ample closet space, main fl oor laundry rooms, home offi ces, and other similar features.
Thanks to the new technologies in building products on the market, new home buyers are getting a better quality home to-day than in the past. Today’s new homes are better insulated then ever before. High effi ciency furnaces and high performance windows result in increased indoor comfort and, of course, low-er energy bills.
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Only new homes offer a complete warranty for your security and piece of mind. Buyers in Ontario get the best warranty pro-tection in North America. In Ontario, it is legally mandatory that every new home be covered by the Ontario New Home Warranty Program. Included is deposit protection up to $20,000, and ex-tensive protection for up to seven years. In the unlikely event that it is necessary to contact the warranty program for service, they have an offi ce right here in Ottawa.
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Ottawa’s fi rst performance of Broadway’s Tony Award-win-ning sensation, Disney’s The Lion King, is July 14, and the Kilimanjaro Grannies are proud to host an exclusive African-themed gala dinner in the Na-tional Arts Centre’s Panorama and Fountain Rooms prior to the performance.
Experience the breathtaking musical from the best seats in the house.
Then rub shoulders in the main foyer at a Post-Show Recep-tion to which the cast and crew have been invited. The Lion King – making its premiere in Ottawa -- runs for four weeks from July 14 to Aug. 7.
The Kilimanjaro Grannies saw that hosting a gala evening would be a unique fundraising opportunity. Proceeds from the fundraising gala will go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign to help turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Since March 2006, Canadian grandmothers have been raising funds and awareness for their Af-rican peers through a wide vari-ety of events, including the dar-ing climb of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro in October 2007 by the Kilimanjaro Grannies.
To date they have raised over $85,000 of the $10 million that has already made its way to over 300 grassroots projects in 15 sub-Saharan countries.
This event also recognizes and celebrates the dedicated Cana-dian women, especially those in the Ottawa area, who devote countless hours to bring hope to those in need and to make a dif-ference in their lives.
The evening begins at 5 p.m. with NAC Executive Chef Mi-chael Blackie’s unique three-course African-themed dinner for 350 guests in the Panorama and Fountain Rooms.
Then prepare to be mesmer-ized by the breathtaking specta-cle of animals brought to life on-stage by a multitalented cast of 40 performing to the pulsating rhythms of the African Pride Lands from premium orchestra seats.
End the evening on a perfect note with light refreshments in the NAC’s main foyer while min-gling with cast members – a once in a lifetime opportunity to fi nd out how they make their animal characters come to life. This pri-
vate post-show reception is lim-ited to platinum and gold gala ticket holders.
To provide ongoing opportu-nities to raise funds and aware-ness, a symbolic Tree of Life will be on display in the NAC lobby for the entire run of the show; donations will be accepted prior to and during intermission at each performance.
Donor names will be added to the tree’s bare branches, giving life to the tree with each dona-tion.
Kanata’s All Saints Catholic High School creative arts stu-dents, under the guidance of Graham Mastersmith, have gen-erously donated their time to de-sign and create this unique Tree of Life display.
Advance purchase of tickets to Disney’s The Lion King en-sures priority seating in South-am Hall’s orchestra section – the best seats in the house. Tickets to the general public go on sale April 9.
Gala package tickets go on sale February 17, and are available in person at the NAC box offi ce or by fax at 613-947-7112.
The platinum gala package ($250) includes dinner with wine, a premium ticket to the performance, entry to the post-show reception, and commemo-rative Disney’s Lion King show merchandise items. Group limit is 350.
The gold gala package ($175) includes a premium ticket to the performance, entry to the post-show reception, and a com-memorative Disney’s Lion King show merchandise item. Group limit is 150.
The silver gala package ($125) includes a premium ticket to the performance. Group limit is 100.
Each package also includes an autographed copy of the Kili-manjaro Grannies’ photo jour-nal book “Kilimanjaro: A Pur-poseful Journey.”
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THURSDAY, FEB. 24The Kanata Seniors Centre presents Learning Series at 1 p.m. – Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre will present on the wonderful service they provide seniors in the community. Free, please call 613-599-4480 to register. 2500 Campeau Dr.
FRIDAY TO SATURDAY, FEB. 25-26Kanata united Church’s annual book sale, Kanata United Church, 33 Leacock Dr., All proceeds go to charities including the Kanata Food Cupboard.
SATURDAY, FEB. 26• The Kanata Seniors Centre presents Renewing Joints- Part II at 9 a.m., seminar on shoulder joint care, injury, treatment and surgery. Free, please call 613-599-4480 to register. 2500 Campeau Dr.
• The Kanata Civic Art Gallery is holding a new artist reception from 1-3 p.m. to welcome four new juried members: RicharD Murphy – photographer; Bar-bora Balaban – potter; Gina Bielincki – painter; Elisabeth Randell – painter. The new show will hang until March 20. 2500 Campeau Dr. 613-580-2424 ext. 33341, www.kanatagallery.ca.
SUNDAY, FEB. 27•The Parish of March will host the Anglican Chorale of Ottawa and their di-rector, James Caswell, to lead an Evensong service. This excellent choir does not have a church of their own, but sings Evensong at various parishes in the Ottawa region and travels to the UK every year to act as “choir-in-resi-dence” in a UK Cathedral. Please come join us at this very special Evensong service, 4:30 p.m. St John’s Anglican Church, 325 Sandhill Rd., Kanata. 613-592-4747, www.parishofmarch.ca.
• St. Xenia of Petersburg Russian Orthodox Cathedral is hosting its 21st Bliny Brunch at the onset of Easter Lent, starting at 12:30 p.m. 2 Colchester Square (at Campeau) in Kanata. Tickets are $30, for adults and students and $5 for children 12 and under. Bliny Brunch with caviar, smoked salmon and other traditional fi llings, assortment of sweets, coffee and Russian tea, featuring chilled fl avoured vodkas, sparkling wines and St. Petersburg beer. Auction, folk dancing, gypsy music and more. Call 613-225-5782 or visit www.stxenia.ca for more info.
MONDAY, FEB. 28 • The Earl of March Secondary School Council is sponsoring four information evenings on topics related to Teen Mental Health. The topic is “Technol-ogy and Teen Mental Health” and will cover such subjects as online social media, technology addictions, “sexting,” and an open question opportunity. Starts at 7 p.m., 4 The Parkway, Kanata.
• Kanata North ward council meeting from 7-9 p.m., plans to expand the Beaverbrook Library, city budget. Program room at the Kanata Seniors Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr.
TUESDAY, MARCH 1The Kanata-March Horticultural Society is presenting an evening with guest speaker Isabelle Fletcher, who will inform members and guests about the natural wonders found at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, 821 March Road (entrance laneway is on Klondike Road), Kanata. There is a $5 guest fee that can be applied toward a KMHS annual membership. For further information: www.kanata-horticul-tural.com or e-mail at [email protected] .
FRIDAY, MARCH 4St. Xenia of Petersburg Russian Orthodox Cathedral is hosting the Russian Vodka - Zakuski (appetizer) Pairing Workshop starting at 6:30 p.m. 2 Colchester Square (at Campeau) in Kanata. Tickets are $60 per person with a max. capacity of 20 people. A hands-on culinary experience exploring the making of gourmet Russian Zakuski (appetizers) and the pairing with tradi-tional fl avoured vodka. Partial proceeds towards the Haiti Orthodox Mission earthquake relief. Reservations: 613-591-0728. Info: www.stxenia.ca.
SATURDAY, MAR. 5• CFUW/Kanata is celebrating International Woman’s Day with a breakfast at Wildwood Restaurant, 54 Springbrook Dr., Stittsville, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The guest speaker, Constance Backhouse, a distinguished professor from the University Law School, will be discussing feminist journeys. Tickets cost $20. Contact Barbara Kincaid at 613-592-2144 for more info.
• From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Beaverbrook Branch on Campeau Drive, the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library will hold “Book Ends,” a sale of gently used books, CDs, DVDs etc. Come for our great selection at great prices. Funds raised go towards enhanced library services in the local community.
We welcome your submissions of upcoming community, non-profi t events. Please email events to [email protected] by noon on Monday.
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Kilimanjaro Grannies present The Lion King
Submitted photoThe Kilimanjaro Grannies will host a gala dinner at the NAC prior to a performance of The Lion King.
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