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EMC news - Museums are often magical places, but this March Break Watson’s Mill will take its mystique a step further.

On Monday, March 12 kids aged six to 12 can spend the day at the Manotick museum learning one of the world’s oldest forms of entertainment: magic.

Education offi cer Cam Trueman will lead the camp, and said he already has a few

tricks up his sleeve. He’ll at-tempt to read the kids’ minds during an ancient coin game, and he’ll teach them how to pull off some other impressive coin and card tricks through-out the day.

“All of these tricks proba-bly go back to Ancient Egypt. As long as there have been people there have been magic and illusions,” he said. “There are a few I’m still trying to master, but I’ll be ready.”

The kids will also make some magical crafts and play

games outside if weather per-mits.

Trueman said the mill has never hosted a magic camp be-fore, and will be a nice change for the kids. “It’s a camp with a little bit of a twist,” he said.

Cost for the day camp is $20 for members and $25 for non-members, which includes a snack. Kids should bring their own lunch.

The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the carriage shed across from the mill. To regis-ter call 613-692-6455.

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Photo by Emma JacksonWatson’s Mill education o� cer Cam Trueman will pull out his bag of tricks during the March Break magic camp on Monday, March 12.

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City councillors reject heritage designation for Long Island home

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EMC News – Ottawa’s desire to provide fi re truck access to an island led to a squabble over the city’s heri-tage responsibilities.

The city purchased a home at the north point of Long Is-land in 2009 as a way to get access to a dam that provides the only way for fi re trucks and heavy vehicles to get onto Nicholls Island to the north and the approximately 20 homes on that island.

That kicked off a heritage review of the home on the property, which was built in the 1860s.

While the city’s heritage staff found that the property and its open spaces contrib-ute to the heritage and cul-tural value of the Long Island Lock Station and the Rideau Canal, the home itself didn’t meet the criteria to be desig-nated a heritage building and afforded the extra protection and requirements for upkeep.

That didn’t satisfy the ad-visory group charged with assessing built heritage in Ottawa. Chris Mulholland, chairman of the Ottawa built heritage advisory committee, said there was an opportunity for the city to do more to pro-tect and enhance the heritage value of the home and the property.

“We felt there should be a higher standard of care for the city when it comes to build-ings it owns,” Mulholland said.

The group disagreed with city staff’s assessment of the home’s heritage value. Mul-holland said it should have been rated higher because of its connection to the canal.

“We erred on the side of

heritage,” he said.The advisory committee

recommended that the city designate the building as heri-tage, despite the objection of city staff.

But city councillors dis-agreed, voting against the designation during a March 1 meeting of the agriculture and rural affairs committee.

The ward’s councillor, Scott Moffatt, said it would cost too much to restore the home and maintain it to heri-tage standards, especially if it doesn’t meet the provincial criteria for what should be considered “heritage.”

If the home was designated and the cost was too much for the city to bear, it could have sold the property, but that might have resulted in the new owner blocking access to Nicholls Island.

The only other access to the island is via a small Parks Canada swing bridge on Nicholl’s Island Road that cannot support heavy ve-hicles, including fi re trucks, Moffatt said.

Moffatt said making the site city property also provides a link between two municipal parks: David Bartlett Park to the south and Beryl Gaffney Park to the northwest.

Mulholland countered that, saying the city could likely have negotiated an agreement to maintain public access through the site, even if it was privately owned.

Moffatt said he would like to see the home torn down because it is in a state of dis-repair, but he would also like some beams to be saved and used to construct a gazebo-type structure that could house some interpretative historical panels.

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Robin Lehner hardly knows yet exactly how wide the door has just opened for him.

But the Ottawa Senators’ top goaltending prospect sees his latest callup to the National Hockey League for exactly what it is — a chance to help the team keep piling up the wins.

“It’s always a good opportunity when you’re up here,” the 20-year-old Lehner said after being summoned from the Binghamton Senators in the wake of the hand injury suffered by Craig Anderson that will sideline the Ottawa starter indefinitely.

“(When) I see the ice, I’ve just got to try to do my best and try to help the team (stay) on a roll. I’ve been watching them a lot and they’ve had great success with Andy and (Alex Auld). I’ve just got to try to get the chance and keep it rolling.”

Lehner certainly did his part in his first two appearances after his callup, backstopping the Senators to a 5-2 victory over the New York Islanders and then recording his first UPCOMING SENATORS GAMES

Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators: Saturday, March 10, 7 p.m. (CBC)Montreal Canadiens at Ottawa Senators: Friday, March 16,7 p.m. (CBC)Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa Senators: Saturday, March 17,7 p.m. (CBC):

SCOTIABANK PLACE EVENTSHedley: March 14, 7 p.m.Van Halen: March 21, 7:30 p.m.2012 JUNO Awards: April 1, 7:30 p.m.Harlem Globetrotters: April 7, 3 p.m.Larry The Cable Guy and Bill Engvall: April 13, 7:30 p.m.Stars On Ice: April 29, 4 p.m.Red Hot Chili Peppers: April 30, 7:30 p.m.Bryan Adams: May 4, 8 p.m.Chris de Burgh: May 5, 8 p.m.Johnny Reid: May 12, 7:30 p.m.Il Divo: May 20, 8 p.m.Monster Spectacular: May 26, 7:30 p.m.

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the trade deadline. Buffalo’s blue line misses the offensive contributions of the injured Christian Ehrhoff, but also boasts Jordan Leopold and Tyler Myers. In goal, Ryan Miller continues to battle through an up-and-down season.

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Ottawa Senators goaltender Robin Lehner is doing his best to help fill the void in the absence of injured starter Craig Anderson (Photo by Andre Ringuette/NHLI via Getty Images).

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It’s been a long, frustrating decline this season for the Canadiens, who have slid to the bottom of the Eastern Conference in recent weeks and will most likely be spectators when the playoffs begin. Goals have come at a premium for Montreal this season, but Max Pacioretty and Erik Cole have been effective leaders in that area for an attack that also relies heavily on the likes of

David Desharnais and Tomas Plekanec. Steady defenceman Hal Gill was dealt away at the deadline, leaving Tomas Kaberle, P.K. Subban and Josh Gorges to lead the way on the blue line. Carey Price remains the Habs’ workhorse in goal.

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“I believe when he comes here, he’s a different person,” said Senators general manager Bryan Murray. “He works real hard and he plays real hard, and we know he can play in the NHL. We’ve seen him do that. He’s a big guy with good athletic ability. We know we can put him in and we’ll have a chance to win.”

They’ve also seen plenty of evidence that Lehner can win the biggest games of them all. He wasn’t the starter when Binghamton entered the American Hockey League playoffs a year ago but by the first week of June, the B-Sens were hoisting the Calder Cup and Lehner was named the most valuable player of the post-season.

The native of Goteborg, Sweden, arrived at Senators training camp in September aiming to challenge for the backup job with the big club. But Ottawa management decided Lehner would be better served playing 60-plus games with the B-Sens and being the cornerstone of another playoff contender there. It hasn’t exactly worked out that way.

With about a month left in the season, the B-Sens reside in the East Division basement aren’t likely to make it back to the post-season. Lehner is 8-16-1 with a 3.38 goals-against average, though his last start before his callup was impressive — he stopped 36 of 38 shots he faced as Binghamton whipped the Portland Pirates 6-2.

“It’s been a tough season for all of us down there,” said Lehner, a second-round pick (46th overall) by the Senators in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. “It hasn’t been what we all wanted it to be. We’re a young team, we’ve had some injuries,

but it’s the way it is.”Perhaps it’s rather telling

that there are almost as many members of last season’s Calder Cup championship team now in Ottawa than there currently are still in Binghamton. While Lehner clearly stepped up his game when it mattered in the playoffs a year ago, his education as a professional has hardly stopped during the current campaign’s struggles.

“Everything you go through helps you now,” Lehner said when asked if last season’s Calder Cup experience might come in handy now during a critical stretch in Ottawa. “Yesterday is going to help me now, everything you go through. And I’ve gone through a lot. I’ve gone through walls and (made it) through them. It’s all good experience.

“It’s the same thing everywhere — goalies and players go through rough times.

I had a seven-game losing streak through the middle of this season. It’s tough. It was my first really long losing streak and it’s tough mentally. You want to win for the team. It’s so much more fun and you’re not as miserable. I learned a lot and it doesn’t affect my goal.”

The stretch that lies ahead should provide another step on the path to the NHL. It’s one that the Senators hoped to afford Lehner right from the season’s outset, though they hardly imagined it would come this way.

“In the second half of the year, we really hoped we could get him some games,” said Murray. “We didn’t know where we’d be in the standings, but we’re a little better than we anticipated at this point, so we held off on doing that. And Craig was having such a good run. But as I’ve said to him, things happen and you get a chance.”

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New Greely signs hope to boost stagecoach identityEmma [email protected]

EMC news - Greely will welcome visitors, residents and passers-by with brand new village signs this spring.

The Ottawa South village’s old wooden signs are falling apart, and the city of Ottawa plans to update them with four large signs that follow a standard design implemented across the city.

At approximately $1,500 each, the city’s four-foot wide signs are cut in a loose oval shape, with flourishes on the top and bottom. The words “Welcome” and “Bienvenue” appear above the large village name, and underneath a city of Ottawa logo is encircled with more flourishes.

There is also a square panel attached to the bottom featur-ing the Greely Community Association’s website and a blank space to promote local events.

Despite the need to fol-low city guidelines, there

was some flexibility to add a bit of Greely’s personality said community association member Howard Crerar, who worked with fellow residents Gillian Toll, Brandon Narum and several others to develop the new design.

At the top of the burgun-dy signs, the group placed a prominent silhouette of a Victorian-era stagecoach – a symbol Crerar said should someday encompass Greely’s identity.

“What we’re trying to do is make an identity for this town, and it all is basically centered around Meadow Drive,” Cre-rar said.

The historic road was a main thoroughfare for travel-lers coming and going from Bytown and the surrounding areas. “(People) have no idea about Greely.

“What we want to do is start branding it. There was a lot of travel and they used stagecoaches, so that’s our logo,” he said.

Crerar said the community association and residents have had some input into the signs’ design, resulting in something the entire village can be proud of.

“We came up with some-thing we feel really, really

good about,” he said.Crerar said the sign re-

placement is “phase zero” of a multi-stage project to asso-ciate stagecoaches with Gree-ly’s history as a travel hub in early Ottawa.

He is currently working with another group of resi-dents on a gateway feature for

the village that would teach residents and visitors about the makeshift toll booth that was Greely’s main purpose in the 1880s.

“When you’re in Ottawa and you see a stagecoach, we want people to start thinking ‘Oh yes, that’s Greely.’ But we’re a long way from there, we’ve just started,” Crerar said.

Existing Greely signs on Bank Street and Stagecoach Road will be replaced, and Crerar hopes to add signs at the north entrance of Meadow Drive on Bank Street and on Old Prescott Road south of Mitch Owens.

According to Lawrence Dunks in the public works de-partment, each village usually gets one sign in each direction on major roads.

Dunks said all old signs would be removed when new signs are installed.

Dunks said the signs will likely be in place by April or May.

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EMC News – A $76-million plan to extend the O-Train to Riverside South will be on the table for discussion as the city embarks on a refreshed city-wide transportation policy.

After Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans asked staff to advise on whether the plan would be feasible, Deans’ transit commission endorsed the idea on Feb. 29.

It doesn’t mean the plan is going forward right away, but it does give the idea added weight as a project to consider adding to the city’s transpor-tation master plan (TMP). An update to the master plan will begin this year to revise which transportation policies and fa-cilities will be needed to meet the city’s long-term needs.

Coun. Steve Desroches said he will be pushing for the O-Train extension idea to be included in the next TMP.

Desroches said he is pleased with the feasibility report that calls for the ex-tension of the O-Train eight kilometres south past the air-port to a station at Bowesville Road in Riverside South with intermediate stations at South Keys and Leitrim.

Transit planner Pat Scrim-geour said there is not enough density or transit use at the airport and CE Centre to jus-tify a train stop there.

“We need to consider this option if we are going to in-

crease transit use to serve the growth in south Ottawa,” said Desroches. Gloucester-South Nepean has seen the highest rate of growth in the city of Ottawa with more than 50 per cent increase in population since 2006.

“We know that the south is growing very rapidly and we want to build transit for the communities in Findlay Creek and Riverside South and we want the south rural commu-nities to also benefit from the transit system in south Ot-tawa,” Desroches said.

The extension of the O-Train would reduce the num-ber of buses required in the OC Transpo fleet by 12, as the O-Train would replace bus service that would otherwise operate between Bowesville and Hurdman stations thus reducing bus operating costs by approximately $3 million, according to the report.

If the O-Train were to be extended to Leitrim and River-side South it is estimated that there would be an additional 3.6 million customer trips each year. It is anticipated the extension would attract 1,200 new riders to the O-Train.

Desroches emphasized that the spectacular growth of the city’s south end is adding more pressure to traffic on road networks around the Ot-tawa International Airport.

Desroches said the airport is an important part of “our local economy.”

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Maplefest at MacSkimmingJoin the OCDSB for pancakes, sleigh rides, live music, sugar bush tours and more at Maplefest, which will take place on Sunday, March 25, from 10:00 to 2:00 at the board’s MacSkimming outdoor education centre. The centre is located at 3685 Wilhaven Drive, Cumberland. The cost is $3 per person – pancakes, refreshments and maple syrup are extra. Call (613) 833-2080 if you have questions.

Congratulations Osgoode Township High School (OTHS)The strong OTHS curling tradition continues with a 6-3 win over All Saints High School, the City Champs over the last two years. The game was tied 3-3 coming home and OTHS stole 3 for the victory. The OTHS curling team, which is comprised of students Stuart Leslie, Jessica Armstrong, Chris Fliesser and Adam Taylor, and coaches Evan Cooper, OTHS, and Bob Reynolds, Metcalfe Curling Club, will now be heading to Provincials in Niagara Falls.

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EMC news - The Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind and Rideau Valley Conservation Authority have joined forces to host a giant rain barrel sale this spring, in an effort to support their charitable work while protecting the area’s precious water resources.

Residents are invited to or-der the refurbished rain bar-rels, usually made from old vegetable shipping containers, online for $55.

The barrels will be deliv-ered to a pick up spot near the Guide Dogs headquarters on Rideau Valley Drive on April 14. The two charities will split the revenues from the sale, for which they receive $10 for ev-ery barrel sold.

The Guide Dogs charity hosted its fi rst sale last spring, and this year invited its neigh-bour, the conservation author-ity, to join.

“They were looking into holding a rain barrel sale themselves, and they realized the company four doors down was already holding one. So rather than compete we de-

cided to join forces and share the revenue,” said Guide Dogs communications offi cer Chad O’Halloran.

Charles Billington, execu-tive director of the conserva-tion authority, said the pro-gram is “a perfect fi t” for the RVCA because rain barrels, especially refurbished ones, are so benefi cial for the envi-ronment.

First, rain barrels limit the amount of rain water run-off into storm sewers and nearby waterways. Run-off can carry all sorts of contaminants like dog feces, vehicle drippings and pesticides.

As the rain barrel traps the rain water, it can reduce erosion from run-off. It also provides ready-to-use, good quality rain for watering the garden throughout the sum-mer.

“It’s what the plants want. It comes down from the clouds and has the good nitrogen and stuff the plants need in it, but not the additives that we need in it for drinking water (like fl uoride and chlorine),” Bil-lington said. “It’s totally, to-tally environmentally friendly.

It just makes me smile all day long,” he laughed.

In light of the city’s recent water rate hikes, which will increase water prices by six per cent in 2012, seven per cent in 2013 and 2014 and no less than fi ve per cent every year after that until 2021, rain barrels can provide a cheaper method of keeping gardens green and cars clean.

“It provides a source of good quality water for your garden all summer long with-out having to use municipal water,” Billington said.

Last spring the outdoor water ban in Barrhaven, Riv-erside South and parts of Manotick prompted many rain barrel sales across the region, including the inaugural sale at Canadian Guide Dogs.

“We were looking for dif-ferent ways to fundraise and with the water ban in effect last year we jumped on the op-portunity,” said O’Halloran.

They raised just un-der $1,000 last year, and O’Halloran hopes to continue the trend this spring with their new partners at the conserva-tion authority.

O’Halloran said he doesn’t believe the area is saturated from last year’s infl ux of rain barrel sales.

“Last year’s water ban has brought the subject into the forefront,” he said. “I think it’s a product that people who are conscious of the environ-ment would want regardless of a water ban.”

Billington said there are always people “waiting in the wings” to get a rain barrel.

“The ultimate goal is to get at least one or maybe two on every building. This is an easy way to get one,” he said.

Each rain barrel includes a leaf and mosquito fi lter bas-ket, an overfl ow adaptor that allows multiple barrels to be connected in a series, 1.2 me-tres of overfl ow hose and a spigot that attaches directly to a garden hose.

Additional overfl ow hose can also be purchased if nec-essary.

Orders can be placed at www.rainbarrel.ca/guidedogs for pick up at 4082 Rideau Valley Drive in Manotick, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 14.

Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind is a national, non-profi t charitable organization founded in 1984, which aims to “assist visually-impaired Canadians with their mobil-ity by providing and training them in the use of profession-ally trained guide dogs,” ac-cording to the website.

The RVCA monitors more than 4,000 square kilometres of Eastern Ontario affected by the Rideau watershed.

It strives to protect the nat-ural resources in the Rideau Valley, particularly water re-sources that are especially at risk of contamination and misuse.

For more information about the charities visit www.guid-edogs.ca or www.rvca.ca.

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File photoRefurbished vegetable containers like these will be on sale this April in support of the Canadian Guide Dogs and Ride-au Valley Conservation Authority.



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EMC news - Bird Studies Canada hosted a forum in Manotick last week to discuss how governments, conserva-tion groups and other organi-zations can better protect spe-cies at risk in the area.

The forum, held at the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority on Rideau Valley Drive on Feb. 29, brought to-gether a range of groups from the area to share ideas and ini-tiate partnerships.

Along with Bird Studies Canada, groups including the Ottawa Stewardship Council, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Bishops Mills Natu-ral History Centre, the Ca-nadian Wildlife Federation, Seburn Ecological Services, Raisin Regional Conservation Authority, the city of Ottawa and Friends of Limerick For-est all made presentations, as well as individual speakers.

BSC Ontario program man-ager Debbie Badzinski said she has been leading work-shops around the province for two years trying to bring like-minded groups together.

“A lot of the SAR (species at risk) issues are general to all species, so this is to share knowledge, and to increase opportunities for partner-ships,” she said.

Most groups focused on species other than birds, such as turtles, frogs and snakes. “It’s nice to come together and hear what projects are going on, because if they’re working on turtles and we’re working on birds, maybe we should combine forces and do more of a habitat-based study or something more compre-hensive,” Badzinski said.

Local biologist David Se-burn focused on the decline east of Ottawa of western chorus frogs and Blandings turtles, the latter considered threatened on the provincial SAR list. Both have all but disappeared from the eastern side of the region despite rela-tively strong populations west of the city.

“There’s a big difference between east and west,” he said.

Blandings turtles have been a hot topic in the ongoing fi ght against developing the South March Highlands in Kanata, where the city estimates about

105 Blandings turtles current-ly live.

Blandings turtles have been on the decline partly due to their large range, which can include up to 10 different wet-lands a year and involves life-threatening road crossings. Growing raccoon populations are also a problem as raccoons target the turtles’ eggs, Seburn said.

The city of Ottawa also ad-dressed the Blandings turtle, announcing that after two years of population monitor-ing the planning department has decided a conservation plan is necessary for the South March population.

City planner Nick Stow said they plan to contract a private consulting fi rm in the fi rst half of March to commence the conservation plan, and will re-lease fi ndings from a wildlife crossing program under Terry Fox Drive at a public consul-tation in March.

The other recurring theme at the forum was the diffi culty of securing resources.

Badzinski said long ap-proval delays and limited funds from provincial and fed-eral programs can especially impact smaller organizations who can’t absorb fi nancial de-lays like larger groups.

“The proposals are diffi -cult to write, they take a lot of time, so I think some of the smaller groups have limited capacity to do that.

“Funding delays are a huge challenge that we basically have to risk manage every year,” she said.

Aleta Karstad from the Bishops Mills Natural His-tory Centre said often funding is requested for a particular month or season because it’s the only time the work can be done properly, but often mon-ey will be approved months after the window of opportu-nity has closed.

This creates waste, she said, because they use the money but it yields little to no results in the off-season.

Conservation groups discuss species at risk in Manotick

Photo by Emma JacksonCity planner Nick Stow talks about the decline of the bobolink, a bird whose grassland habitat is threatened by development in the outskirts of Ottawa.


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EMC News – Toronto-area MP Olivia Chow visited Otta-wa city hall on Feb. 29 to con-vince city council to support her national transit strategy.

The New Democratic mem-ber of Parliament for Trinity-Spadina has introduced a bill to create a Canada-wide strategy for public transit and provide funding to go along with it.

Her idea is to dedicate one cent of the 10-cent per litre gas tax to transit. Right now, the federal government gives fi ve cents per litre to the provinc-es, which can then distribute the money to municipalities based on how many people live in each city.

There are restrictions on what municipalities can do with that money, but Chow’s plan would require the prov-

inces to ensure that one cent from each litre of gas sold would be put directly into transit initiatives.

It’s incumbent on the fed-eral government to do some-thing to help cities, Chow said. Because their ability to generate revenue is largely limited to property taxation, municipalities only generate about 10 per cent of the taxes collected by all levels of gov-ernment, Chow said. But cit-ies and towns are picking up more than half the bill to re-place the country’s infrastruc-ture, including roads, bridges and sewer and water systems – up from around 30 per cent in the 1960s.

“Cities are picking up the tab,” Chow said.

In the 1980s, the amount of outstanding infrastructure work that needed to be done

across Canada amounted to $12 billion. Now, that fi gure has ballooned to $133 billion, she said.

That constrains municipali-ties from putting money into their other responsibilities, in-cluding transit, Chow said.

Her gas-tax idea would generate around $400 million each year, costing the average driver around $16 per year.

“That doesn’t amount to much. People can handle that,” Chow said.

Chow made her presenta-tion at the Feb. 29 meeting of the transit commission, which lent its support to the plan.

“This is an issue that all levels of government need to be engaged in,” said Glouc-ester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans, chairwoman of the transit commission.

NDP MP lobbies city to support national transit plan

Capital Exhibition Centre open for businessPhoto by Emma Jackson

Town crier Daniel Richer was on hand to offi cially open the Capital Exhi-bition Centre near the airport on Tuesday, Feb. 28. The centre opened in January and has already hosted several large scale events, including the NHL All-Star Game gala, the Ottawa Boat and Sports-mens’ Show, the light rail transit trade show and several concerts. The 220,000-square foot facility in Ottawa South was jointly funded by the city of Ottawa, Shen-kman Corporation and investors. Demand for the centre grew from the Lansdowne redevelop-ment project, which will repurpose the current trade show space in the Glebe.


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My five-year-old came home from school the other day, dutifully put away his snow gear and sat down at the dining table.

“I’m hungry, Mom,” he said.“What would you like to eat?”“Something wet, please.”Excuse me? I couldn’t help but laugh. I

expected him to say “a piece of cheese,” or “apple slices,” or “a granola bar.” But some-thing wet?

His response made me realize that we spent a lot of time thinking about food at our house.

As my 16-year-old babysitter noted the other day, “I’ve never seen someone consider food as much as you do.”

She wasn’t implying that we are obsessed with nutrition. Of course, like many parents of young children (and most 30-something women mid-metabolic-slump), I frequently contemplate the health benefits of food. But we also think of food in another way at our house.

I’m not a “foodie” by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I only taught myself to cook a handful of years ago, starting with baby food purees. But I have a tendency toward boredom, I’m generally on a budget and I have an aversion to processed foods. All of this means I prepare most food from scratch at home.

And I like to talk about food; in fact, I like to talk about it a lot. Not in the gourmet sense, but in the meal-planning sense.

We generally have a cooked breakfast on weekdays. As we sit down to eat together as

a family, it’s not uncommon for me to ask the children what they would like to eat for dinner that night.

We think about flavours and different veg-etables. I talk about how I may cook them, or flip through one of my cookbooks for ideas, showing the boys pictures. I often clip recipes out of the morning newspaper and read them aloud.

In the afternoon, following homework and playtime and music practice, my five-year-old often wields a small chopping knife for salad or stir-fry, eating one veggie for every one that makes it into the bowl.

My older son spends many minutes setting the table, sometimes wrapping knives and forks in napkins, as he’s seen them do in restaurants, or seeking out special placemats. They take turns making vinaigrettes or other condiments.

And while we do talk about the nutritional benefits of various foods, we also take the time to talk about flavours and cultures. Sometimes we buy foods they’ve seen their in friends’ lunchboxes. This leads to discus-sions about their friends and what they did at school. I encourage the children to employ formal table manners, using a knife and fork, placing napkins in their laps, elbows off the table, and chewing slowly with their mouths closed.

Until recently, I’ve taken these meal times for granted as a normal family experience. But as I talk to friends and neighbours, I real-ize that our consideration of food and the fact that we sit at the table for, on average, four-teen meals each week as a family, is a rare blessing, given the pressures of modern life.

Of course, sometimes we forget our manners, and usually once a week we eat takeout pizza with our hands in front of the television.

But as our lives get ever busier, I will do my best to protect the family meal fiercely. Because, as my son’s request for “something wet” demonstrates, there’s so much more to food than just eating.

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Capital muse

It’s time to take a step back, and look at the big picture.

The national capital region desperately needs an eastern interprovincial bridge.

Truck traffic is clogging the downtown core, turning what should be the most pedestrian friendly part of the city into a small sample of Highway 401.

Gatineau city council has been eager to embrace the Kettle Island option with

open arms.While the glass is half

empty for Ottawa residents who oppose the proximity of the proposed corridor, the benefits are overflowing for Gatineau, something Ottawa seems to overlook.

It benefits workers on Montée Paiement, which would directly connect to the bridge through the Kettle Island crossing, corridor five.

The Gatineau Sports Cen-tre opened only a few blocks away from Montée Paiement

not even two years ago, and would no doubt benefit from the easy access the bridge would provide.

But it seems that some residents would rather see the bridge project thrown in the trash permanently if that’s the alternative to hav-ing it in their backyard.

Yes, it isn’t agreeable to have a bridge close to your residential property. No one is going to be able to argue with that. But at the end of the day, it has to go

somewhere if it’s going to be built.

There are Ottawa residents who are currently faced with the demands of the trucking traffic flow who need relief in the form of a bridge – yet other Ottawa residents are quick to reject a proposal for infrastructure development in the region.

Infrastructure develop-ment comes hand in hand with living in an urban area, it’s an undeniable thing with time, just as hair grays, and

wrinkles form with age. There are better develop-

ment options than others, and ways to reduce the impact on residents, but the outright rejection of a bridge for the ‘not in my back yard attitude’ will ultimately stunt the city’s growth. There’s also a courtesy that isn’t being extended very well to our Quebecois neighbours to factor in what is ultimately a slam dunk of a decision for them. It’s time to be produc-tive and get on with it. It’s

time to embrace making the corridors the least impactful on affected residents, and stop saying, “anywhere but here.”

Because in the future, sporting events, conferences, businesses and people will look at the national capital region – which should be a unique fusion of Ontario and Quebec that offers the best of all things Canadian at once – and start saying the same thing.

Anywhere but there.

Taking our interprovincial bridge opportunity



By Jim Watson

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Recently, the updated designs for the Lansdowne revitalization were revealed in the Council Chambers of City Hall. The assembled group of Councillors, residents and interested observers were treated to a vivid animation of what the new Lansdowne will look like when it is completed.

I think the entire city can be very proud of the work that the Lansdowne Design Review Panel, including Councillors Peter Hume and David Chernushenko, has completed. They worked long hours to ensure that the new Lansdowne will become true urban parkland with an appropriate mix of residential and commercial interests to complete the picture.

Well known and very talented building and landscape architects have worked long and hard to create a great addition to the city, while giving new life to the historic Aberdeen Pavilion and Horticulture Building. The new Lansdowne features three main parts:

• Alarge,urbanpark;• Alivelymixed-usearea;and• Are-imaginedstadiumandCivicCentre

The New Lansdowne is all about bringing people together, in big ways and small. There will be one of the most spectacular parks in Canada, something the people of the Glebe and Old Ottawa South will enjoy, alongside residents from across the City and visitors from Canada and the world. There will, of course, be days for football, soccer, hockey and concerts in an innovative recast of the stadium and arena. And there will be shops, boutiques and places to have a meal.

The Horticulture Building will be more than the storage shed it is today. But, most of all, the new Lansdowne will be green, not shades of black and grey. There will be four times as many trees and three times as much parkland as exist today. There will be 7 kilometres of sidewalks and pathways and more than a kilometre of benches and seating walls where we can sit and rest our feet.

This park − and the whole Lansdowne site − will be a model of best environmental practices as we strive for LEED Neighbourhood Development certification. Lansdowne will be one of only a few developments striving for this new certification in Canada. It will be a place that is oriented to pedestrians, uses green building technologies and a new innovative storm water management system.

I am very excited about this plan for our new Lansdowne and believe that it addresses most of the concerns that havebeenraisedaboutthisimportantcity-buildingproject. Lansdowne has been dormant for decades and this plan will see it come back to life as Ottawa’s great meeting space, just like it was when it first opened in the 1800s.

To see photos and a video of the proposed site, go www.jimwatsonottawa.ca and click on “The New Lansdowne” banner.

Jim Watson, Mayor110 Laurier Avenue West

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Sweet way to savour maple syrup

EMC lifestyle - I still re-member years ago visiting a sugar shack with my father. As we walked in the door, we were enveloped by the sweet-smelling steam billowing off the evaporating pans where the sap was boiling.

And I remember the year that my husband and I tapped the maple trees close to our house.

We watched for hours as the sap boiled down in a large canning kettle over a make-shift outdoor fire. We eventu-ally ended up with more than seven litres of maple syrup.

That experience gave us a new understanding of the formula that it takes nearly 40 litres of sap to make about one litre of maple syrup. We savoured every drop of that syrup.

March is the month when new maple syrup is produced and if you’ve never seen how this process takes place, it’s worth a trip to a sugar bush.

Maple syrup can be used for more than pouring over pancakes. Here are two easy recipes that use it in appetiz-ers.

One is for a cheese spread that has just a hint of sweet-ness.

The other is for a hot ap-petizer -- scallops wrapped in bacon, brushed with maple syrup, then broiled. Because the scallops are quite rich, I suggest serving no more than three or four per person.

Maple Cheese Spread125 gram package cream

cheese, softened to room tem-perature

1 cup grated medium ched-dar cheese

1 tbsp. maple syrup

Combine the three ingredi-ents in a food processor, and mix until smooth. Chill two hours before serving. If you don’t have a food processor, use an electric mixer.

This spread has just a sug-gestion of sweetness. It’s best served with crackers that don’t have a strong flavour of their own so they don’t overpower the taste of the spread.

I like to serve it with thin, lightly salted crackers such as wheat or rice crackers.

Maple Scallops4 medium or large scallops

per person2 slices of bacon per per-

son1/4-1/2 cup maple syrup

(1/4 cup will do eight scal-lops)

If the scallops are frozen,

thaw, and pat them dry with paper towels. Preheat your oven broiler. Take a baking tray that has a 1/2” lip around the entire edge, and line it with aluminum foil. Set a wire cake rack on the foil.

Cut each slice of bacon in two pieces, each about three to four inches long long. Wrap a slice of bacon around a scal-lop, and fasten it with a tooth-pick. Place this on the wire rack. Repeat with the remain-ing scallops and bacon, then liberally brush each one with maple syrup.

Set the baking dish about four inches from the broiler. Broil the scallops for five minutes, then turn them over. Brush again with more maple syrup. Broil for another three to five minutes until the bacon is cooked until almost crisp.

Serve hot on plates with a knife and fork.

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Notice of Public Open HouseJockvale Road Widening Project

Project Limits and Scope The City of Ottawa is undertaking the design for the widening of Jockvale Road. The project will result in the detailed design to enable the complete reconstruction of a portion of Jockvale Road between Paul Metivier Drive and Cambrian Road to a four lane arterial road standard. This includes a roundabout at Jockvale Road and Cambrian Road, sidewalks, multi-use paths, cycling lanes, turning lanes and a median. Two new bridges will replace the existing Jock River bridge, water and gas mains will be relocated at the Jock River and a storm sewer system south of the Jock River will be installed.

The design will be completed following the Public Open House and ready for construction in the Spring 2012.

Public Involvement and Public Open House

The project is being planned according to the Jockvale Road Environmental Assessment (EA) Study completed in January 2009.An earlier Public Open House was held in June 2010 and general public input and comments are welcome throughout the project process. At this time you are invited to attend a Public Open House:

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At the meeting, design plans for the widening of Jockvale Road will be displayed. City Staff and their consultants will be available to answer questions. This meeting will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about the project and to provide comments in a casual environment. Comment/questionnaire forms will be provided for written comments.

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EMC entertainment – Greely is alive with the sound of music as the Greely Players gear up to produce The Sound of Music for the first time in 17 years.

The production begins March 28 and wraps up April 1. It stars seven children and teenagers from the Ottawa South area as the Von Trapp children, including several alumni from last year’s kid-centric production Willy Won-ka.

Manotick resident Cameron Plant played petulant German boy Augustus Gloop last year, and will now make the leap to “impossible” Austrian boy Friedrich this year. Embrun resident Hayden Chesser who played Mike TV last year will now play Friedrich’s brother Kurt.

Karolle Screaton, who plays the lead role Maria, said working with the kids has been a special treat.

“They’re all so talented and so much fun to be around, so comfortable putting them-selves out there and trying something different,” Screaton said. “You think about work-ing with seven kids and you might expect it might be diffi-cult to keep them on task...but they’re smart, they’re quick, they’re with it.”

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Anne Peterson said the play is coming together with a lot of talent.

“We have a wonderful group of singing nuns this year, they’re just lovely,” she said, noting the children are doing well, too. “The kids are amazing with how fast they learn,” she said.

One of the nuns, Holly Vil-leneuve, played one of the Von Trapp children when the musical was first produced in Greely in 1995. Her mother Janet Villeneuve is also a nun in the play.

Peterson said it felt like the right time to restage the story.

“It’s just a well-loved play. It’s a great family friendly production and the audience usually loves it,” she said.

Screaton is a Manotick Sta-tion mother of five, and said she has a lot in common with the free-wheeling Austrian governess.

She said she relates to her character’s ‘fish out of water’ feeling while transitioning from a nun to a governess in an Austrian baron’s home dur-ing World War Two.

Screaton moved from Cal-gary to the Manotick area about four years ago. Screa-ton, now 34, said she bounced around in her career and was too busy with kids to really in-tegrate herself into the Ottawa South community.

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ing kind of awkward and not knowing where your place is,” she said. “You get to the point where you’re like ‘Yes, (the kids are) going to school and now I can go back and do my thing!’ and then you’re going, ‘What’s my thing again?’”

Her daughter convinced her to audition for the play, and Screaton was shocked to achieve the lead role.

“It’s a little like hitting a home run your first run at bat. I really didn’t expect to get this part,” she said.

Screaton studied drama, choral singing and perform-ing arts where she grew up in Calgary and participated in a number of productions during high school.

She was even awarded the top spot at Mount Royal University’s theatre program, but had to turn it down when her family couldn’t pay the tuition. She took a job right away and never pursued the stage again.

But now Screaton said she’s found her “thing” once and for all.

“Every day I find my voice a little bit more, and I find my confidence a little bit more, so I think by the time the produc-tion comes along it will be rock steady,” Screaton said.

Tickets are on sale online at www.greelyplayers.ca or by phone at 613-821-5407.

The production runs every

day from Wednesday, March 28 to Sunday, April 1 at the Greely Community Centre.

Producer Joan Bruce-Ni-bogie said patrons should get their tickets early.

“For the past couple of years, matinee shows have been sold out at least a week beforehand,” she said in a press release.

“I don’t want people to be disappointed at not being able to get a seat.”

Photo by Emma JacksonManotick Station resi-dent Karolle Screaton will play Maria in the Greely Players’ March production of The Sound of Music. It’s her first time on stage since high school. She said landing the lead role was like “hitting a home run your first run at bat.”

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Photo submittedThe Von Trapp family children are jumping for joy in anticipation of the Greely Players’ production of The Sound of Music. From left to right: Isabella Kondrat, Georgia Gibbons, Cameron Plant, Evelyn Ahmad, Hayden Chesser, Taryn Waldorf, and Gabrielle Murphy.




EMC news - The Our Lady of the Visitation church is looking for new fundraising

ideas for 2012 after it raised more than $112,000 in 2011.

The Bank Street church has been fundraising diligently for more than a decade to complete a new parish hall, renovate the nearby rectory and repave the parking lot and surrounding outdoor spaces.

On Saturday, March 10 the fundraising committee will host a brainstorming session at the now-complete hall to decide how best to raise an-other $100,000 in 2012.

For the past fi ve or six years, committee chairperson Marie Trojan said the church has aimed to raise that amount

annually to fi nish the project once and for all.

The remaining tasks include paving the parking lot and fi n-ishing some curbing and land-scaping, which should all be completed in 2012.

“There’s a point when you want the construction to be over and done with,” said Trojan, who noted that the unpaved lot presents a safety issue for parishioners and af-fects how often the church can rent out the hall.

Past fundraising activities have ranged from personal

pledge campaigns to harvest suppers to auctions to high-stakes raffl es offering vehicles as a grand prize.

Another car raffl e is high on Trojan’s list of potential fund-raising activities, although she said they need to do it right af-ter their attempt two years ago became a struggle to recover costs.

“We learned you need to have nine or 10 months of ticket selling time, you need to do it in weather where you can get out in fl ea markets and things.

You need to have the car there on occasion, or a cut-out of the car. Signage is also important, and to have a big sales team,” she said.

In 2010 they netted about $10,000 but this year hope to bring in more like $30,000, she said. Trojan also hopes to revamp the annual auction in May with an online compo-nent, and possibly bring in a celebrity auctioneer to raise interest.

Part of the proceeds could also be given to another char-ity, Trojan said.

All possible fundraising activities will be open for discussion at the March 10 meeting, where parishioners can comment on the best way forward and even bring new ideas to the table.

Trojan said she expects the fundraising will continue after 2012 to help pay down the mortgage and fund special projects such as insulating the church’s vaulted ceilings.

“The fundraising will con-tinue in an aggressive but re-spectful pace so we can knock down that mortgage,” Trojan said.

The meeting runs from 9 to 11 a.m. in the parish hall.

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My sister Audrey said we had a divided household.

She tried to explain it to me, but I wasn’t old enough to grasp the full meaning. I knew it had something to do with voting and something to do with religion. But in my young and impressionable mind, I thought if you had a divided household, it could also mean there would be some sort of partition cutting the old log house in half. Audrey ran out of patience trying to explain it all to me, but she did say it had nothing to do with slicing our house in two.

One year I got a fi rmer picture in my mind when Lent came around. Mother, who had been a Catholic all her life, but went to the Lutheran Church when she moved out to Northcote, still liked to stick to some of the rituals of the Catholic Church.

Of course, Father was not at all pleased with Mother making even a slight reference to “that other church,” as he called it.

Mother would never eat meat on Friday. Fa-ther thought that was sheer nonsense. He liked his meat three times a day and it didn’t matter what day of the week it was.

So Mother cooked the usual big supper on Fridays, but never put as much as a scrap of it on her own plate. She often scrambled eggs instead, which Father thought should only be put on your plate at breakfast and then with a

heaped serving of fried salt pork beside it.Well, Mother thought it would be a good

year for all of us to give up meat on Fridays during Lent. How to get Father to agree was the issue.

Father loved his food. Although he was as thin as a willow, he could, as Mother often said, “eat any man twice his size under the table.” It was nothing for him to pile three pork chops onto his plate, and there wasn’t much left to a pot roast by the time he was fi nished with it.

No, Mother was going to have her work cut out for her if she thought she was going to get Father to give up meat during Lent.

She had already talked me and my sister Audrey into giving up something for the entire duration of Lent, which to me was taking this idea too far. Audrey gave up butter. I loved but-ter and it would take more than a holy day to make me give it up for a few weeks.

So I decided I would give up humbugs. I hated humbugs with a passion. Mr. Briscoe, who had no idea I disliked the little odd-shaped striped candies, always pressed one or two into my hand when we fi nished our shopping. Good

manners drilled into us by the time we were walking prevented me from doing anything but thanking him with all the enthusiasm I could muster. But as soon as I got outside, I would chuck them into a potted plant, or take them home to feed to my pet calf, which seemed to thrive on them.

That fi rst Friday in Lent, when we came home from the Northcote School, Mother was already busy at getting supper. I knew something was in the air, when I couldn’t smell roasting chicken, sausages, or beef cooking.

The big fry pan was sitting on the reservoir, but there was no meat in it. Pots were boiling and sticky buns were on the bake table. But there was no meat in sight.

On the way home from school, my sister Audrey said don’t be surprised if there was trouble at supper that night. She wouldn’t elaborate and my stomach was in knots by the time I came downstairs from changing out of my school clothes.

Mother was bustling between the Findlay Oval and the table when Father and the broth-ers came in from doing the evening chores. They took turns washing up at the bench near the back door, and Father walked over and took his place at the head of the table.

Mother moved the big fry pan to the front lid of the stove, slapped in a slab of butter, and reached up into the warming closet and took out a platter of herring. It came from a barrel father had salted away in the summer kitchen in the late fall. The fi sh made a sizzling sound

as it hit the hot pan, and Father turned around in his chair to take a look at what was going on behind his back.

Audrey was ordered to load the bowls with the vegetables and put them on the table. By the time she got that done, Mother had the fi sh on a platter and put it in front of Father. He was sitting there with his knife in one hand and his fork in the other, both pointing towards the ceiling.

He took another look at the Findlay Oval. Audrey leaned over and whispered in my ear, “He thinks there is a roast of beef in the oven.”

Well, Mother took her place at the other end of the table and asked Father to say the Grace. I noticed he didn’t have his eyes shut that night and the Grace was shorter than usual.

The bowls of vegetables and creamed pota-toes went around the table and Father took the biggest piece of fi sh off the platter.

I never took my eyes off him. When he had helped himself to everything, he half turned in his chair towards the Findlay Oval.

He looked right at Mother. All he said was, “Where’s the meat?”

Mother let out a big sigh. She went to the ice box and took out a plate of cold head cheese, and slapped it down in front of Father who cut a two-inch slice and piled it on his already overfl owing plate.

When supper was over, and we were clean-ing up the kitchen, I asked Audrey when Lent would be over.

“Not soon enough” was all she said.

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EMC News - Teens can combine their love of literature with technical prowess during the Ottawa Public Library’s second annual teen video con-test throughout March.

Teens aged 13 to 18 are invited to make a one-minute video about their favourite book for a chance to win an iPad or a Kobo e-reader. The contest is part of Teen Tech Week, which aims to show the younger demographic that libraries are much more than just books.

In the case of the Ottawa library network, digital offer-ings include e-books, down-loadable music from Freegal, blogs, smart phone apps and WiFi. The iPad grand prize is compatible with all e-books available at the library, and with all wireless connections across the library network.

Video entries must be one minute or less, and be submit-ted on YouTube using the tag OPLtvc2012.

They can take the form of a book trailer, a parody, review, dramatization of a favourite scene, a photo slide show or any other format, as long as it relates to the teen’s book of choice.

Teen librarian Christine

Chevalier said last year’s win-ning videos were exceptional, and she hopes to see the same quality this year.

“We were obviously hop-ing for great submissions, but they surpassed our expecta-tions,” Chevalier said of last year’s entries. “It was inter-esting to see the range, some were really funny and some were dramatic.”

Last year’s first place video was a dramatic scene from The Outsiders by S.E. Hin-ton. Second place was a video about the Chronicles of Nar-nia’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and third was a film about George Orwell’s 1984.

However it’s not just the classics available for video interpretation. Modern series like the Twilight saga and Harry Potter were also popu-lar topics in the 2011 contest, of which many entries are still available on YouTube.

Chevalier said the contest reaches out to teens where they’re already spending their time.

“Its library related but at the same time they’re using all this digital media and they’re on YouTube already, so it’s a ‘Go where they already are’ idea,” she said.

Teens can submit more

than one video, as long as each video is about a differ-ent book. The videos must be filmed, acted and edited by teens. Videos must be posted under the 2012 tag by March 31, and corresponding entry forms must be handed in at a library branch by that time as well.

The top 10 finalists will be announced at the awards night on Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Ben Franklin Place in Nepean. The finalists will be invited to attend but the order of the prizes will not be re-vealed until the awards night.

Jane Venus, manager of lifelong learning and literacy at the library, said in a state-ment that she hopes the con-test will encourage teens to make use of the library’s digi-tal offerings.

“This is a way to bring to-gether what teens are reading with new technologies to in-spire creativity,” Venus said. “Most teens are extremely comfortable with current tech-nology and are very imagina-tive. We’re looking forward to another year of great submis-sions.”

For more information, con-test rules and regulations visit www.biblioottawalibrary.ca/teens under the Teen Tech Week tab.

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EMC news - There’s more to a woman than just her looks: that’s the message pre-teen girls will explore at a self esteem workshop in Osgoode over the March Break.

On Monday, March 12 a small group of girls aged 8 to 12 will take part in So Glad 2 Be Me, a body image work-shop designed to show young girls that looks do not define them.

“I developed this program to target this age group, be-cause they are very vulner-able,” said workshop leader Jen Charbonneau. “The mes-

sages they get from the me-dia and from society, they’re really challenged to accept themselves as who they are and not just what they look like. Now is the time to reach those young girls and say no, there’s more too you than just what you look like.”

The workshop promotes positive self esteem, aware-ness and understanding of healthy body images within young girls and provides prac-tical tools for managing chal-lenges, Charbonneau said.

The group will explore themes like media messaging, what makes a person who they are, dealing with stress and

navigating the daily drama of friendships and relationships.

“Its about understanding we’re not all built the same, that its not about whether she’s taller than me or thinner than me, or if her hair is lon-ger,” Charbonneau said, not-ing that the message applies to all women. “It doesn’t mat-ter the age group, we women think we need to look a cer-tain way to be beautiful, and it’s just not true.”

The workshop takes place at the Osgoode Youth Asso-ciation from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The fee is $55. To register, email [email protected] or call 613-623-9553.

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BestTheratronicsLtd.offersacompetitivesalaryand benefits package, an opportunity for career development and a casual work environmentAll applicants should apply in writing with a cover letter and resume to Human Resources: Email: [email protected] or Fax #: (613) 591-2176

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The Town of Carleton Place is recruiting its first permanent full-time Economic Development Officer. This position reports directly to the CAO.Position OverviewThe Economic Development Officer will work to improve the economy of the area by attracting new businesses, encouraging investment opportunities, increasing job opportunities and identifying opportunities for sustainable growth and development.The complete job description and application details can viewed at www.carletonplace.ca under ‘What’s New’.Applications must be received before 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday March 14th, 2012.Applicant information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Privacy legislation and Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act, which will be used strictly for municipal purposes only. The Town of Carleton Place is an equal opportunity employer.

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We are currently recruiting dynamic, energetic and dedicated professionals to fulfill the following career opportunities:

FULL-TIME• RegisteredNurses–MentalHealth• ClinicalSecretaryo Qualifiedcandidateswillhaveexperienceintranscriptionandtheuseofdictationmachine.

• PeerSupportWorker–MentalHealtho Qualifiedcandidatesarerequiredtobe(orhavebeen)arecipientofmentalhealthservicesforseriousmentalillness(disclosureisrequired).ThePeerSupportWorkerprovidesthereal-lifeexperiencewithmentalillnessandmentalhealthserviceswhichtrainingcannotreplicate.

PART-TIMEandCASUAL• RegisteredNurses–MentalHealth• RegisteredNurses–ElectroconvulsiveTherapy(ECT)• ClinicalDietician

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We thank all applicants for their expressed interest; however, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted

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Queenswood Stables English Riding Lessons and Day- camps. Register now! Children and Adults all levels. www.queenswoodstables.com (613)835-2085.

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Firewood- Cut, split and delivered or picked up. Dry sea- soned hardwood or softwood from $50/face cord. Phone Greg Knops (613)658-3358, cell (613)340-1045.

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Seasonal Merchandiser for outdoor garden centres. Must have valid driver’s license, heavy lifting required, no experience necessary. Ottawa and eastern Ontario. Contact [email protected].

Truck Mechanic Wanted Lo- cal trucking company of 40 units looking for a mechanic, licence preferred , apprentices welcome to apply. jeff.jut- [email protected]

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Saturday, March 10: Euchre Tournament, Greely

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ing at Our Lady of the Visi-tation Parish Hall, March 10 from 9 to 11 a.m. Find out what is in store for 2012 and see how you can help. Many events require volunteers and will not be possible without your support. Bring your en-thusiasm and ideas! If you can’t make it but would like to join in, please email [email protected].

Kenmore minor softball registration will be held March 10 from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Kenmore hall. Late regis-tration allowed only if space is available. Visit www.kenmor-eminorsoftball.ca for fee and levels.

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Church at 1450 Yorks Corners Road for an Irish stew dinner on Friday, March 16 from 5 to 7 p.m. $10 for adults, $5 for kids ages 5 to 7, and free for kids under 5. For tickets call 613-445-5690.

Saturday, March 17: A Good Old Fashioned

Irish St. Paddy’s Day House Party at 2 p.m. Greely & Dis-trict Legion Branch 627. Ad-mission is $5. Enjoy fi ddling, step dancing, Irish songs, va-riety show and more. Supper at 5 p.m. includes Irish stew for $8.

Wednesday, March 21: Interested in fi nding out

how Jesus and the spirit of God can make a difference in your life? Come to an in-troductory Alpha talk at Trin-ity Bible Church, 4101 Stage-coach Rd. on Thursday, Mar. 22 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information contact [email protected].

Ongoing: Kars Public School needs

good quality used children and adult books, movies, etc. for their annual community book sale on April 20 and 21. Please bring your books to Kars Public School, 6680 Dorack Drive, during school hours until April 13. Call Me-gan Dodge at 489-0631 for more info. A portion of pro-ceeds will be donated to Help Lesotho charity.

The Osgoode and District Lions Club is organizing the 2012 Osgoode Trade and Home Show at the Osgoode Community Centre on April 20 and 21, 2012. The trade show committee is always looking for new exhibitors with products or services to showcase to the public. Con-tact Trudy Quinn at [email protected] or 613-826-1649.

Children’s soccer returning to Metcalfe in May and June! Non-competitive, skills devel-opment, inexpensive soccer for children in JK to Grade 10 will be run at McKendry Park in Metcalfe again this summer. We are a parent-run fun league for beginners and we have a team for children with special needs as well. Parents, no soccer experience is required on your part either! For more information, please email [email protected].

Get Ready, Get Set, Kin-dergarten is a four-week pro-gram for children turning four in 2012. Through fun crafts, stories, songs, games and learning activities, your child will expand the skills to pre-pare him/her for the start of kindergarten. This program begins Tuesday, March 20 at the Community Christian School in Metcalfe and runs four consecutive weeks. Cost is $75. Register early. For more information call 613-821-3669 or visit www.com-munitychristianschool.ca.

The Community Christian School in Metcalfe is collect-ing unwanted cell phones, toner cartridges and digital cameras for recycling through

the Think Recycle program, hoping to raise $500 for sound equipment and help the environment at the same time. Please drop off your items at the school, 2681 Glen Street, Metcalfe. Contact at 613-821-3669 or email [email protected].

Osgoode Olde Tyme Fid-

dlers Association invites you to its traditional old tyme fi d-dle and country music dance at the Osgoode Community Centre, every fourth Friday of the month from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Bring your fi ddle, guitar, and musical talents! Welcome to all new members. Tickets are $5 per person for non-mu-sicians, available at the door. For more information please call 613-224-9888.

Mondays and Thursdays: The Gloucester South Se-

niors Chess Club, 4550 Bank Street (at Leitrim Rd) meets every Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m. Immediate open-ings available for more chess afi cionados. Please contact Robert MacDougal, 613-821-1930, for more information.

Thursdays:Who switched off my

brain? Every Thursday enjoy this DVD series by Dr. Caro-line Leaf which includes inter-active discussion about the 13 ways to detox your thoughts and live a life of physical, mental and emotional whole-ness. Everyone is invited to this life course at 7275 Park-way Rd. Church in Greely, 7 p.m. on Thursdays. For in-formation call 613-821-1056 or check www.parkwayroad.com.

Every second Thursday: Join ROSSS for “What’s

For Dinner?” cooking class at Moncion’s Your Independent Grocer in Riverside South followed by an hour of gro-cery shopping. Attend a food demonstration, sample the creation and receive a copy of the recipe. Transportation includes door to door pick up in Osgoode, Metcalfe and Greely for $7. For information contact 613-821-1101.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Patience is a virtue, Aries. The best will be in store for you later in the week. There’s not much chance for adventure Monday or Tuesday, but things pick up on Wednesday.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21Taurus, a good night is in store this week. The night brings rewards you did not expect. Working hard yields more than financial success.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21Trust your instincts, Gemini. Someone who seems like they have your best interests at heart really may have ulterior motives. Heed Capricorn’s sage advice.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, you may feel like you’re the only one keeping the ship from sinking. However, this is not the case. Behind-the-scenes work is taking place, too.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, it seems as if drama is always following you. That’s because you tend to be the life of the party or prefer all eyes be on you. Think about being less conspicuous.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, it’s hard to keep friends if you are overly critical of the way they live their lives. Remember, no one is perfect — including you. Keep an open mind.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, start thinking about curbing your spending. Your finances are in trouble if you don’t make some changes. More is going out than is coming into your accounts.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, there’s not much you can do about the current situation. Complaining about things won’t solve anything, so why waste the breath? Better news is on the horizon.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21You’re in over your head, Sagittarius. Too many projects and not enough helpers can leave you feeling over-whelmed. You may want to tackle one thing at a time.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, new beginnings have arrived and you’re excited about all of the prospects. Others may share your joy but not to the extent that you do.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, it’s alright to be cautious with your decisions, but taking much too long could indicate you’re not ready for a change. Soon a spouse or partner will grow impatient.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20It’s hard to accept help sometimes, Pisces. But help is what you need right now. Accept it with open arms.

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38. Not kind 39. Times past 40. Bird of the family Cracidae 41. Metric linear unit 44. Father of Psychology Wilhelm 45. Commonly encountered 48. Swiss river 49. Heavy unglazed drapery fabric 50. Community Relations Officer (abbr.) 51. Sidewalk materialCLUES DOWN 1. Protoctist 2. Coat with plaster 3. Nocturnal birds of prey 4. Airforce of Great Britain 5. Before 6. Communist color

7. Partners with mamas 8. Arabian gulf & sultanate 9. Cony 10. Plunder 11. Make bigger 12. Dress up garishly 14. Gin with dry vermouth 17. Opposite of LTM 18. Feels ongoing dull pain 20. A major division of geological time 23. Unsusceptible to persuasion 24. Norwegian playwright Henrik 25. Empire State 26. Ethiopia 29. The man 30. Officers’ Training Corps

31. Of an African desert 32. Furniture with open shelves 35. Yeddo 36. Union general at Gettysburg 38. Moons of Jupiter author Alice 40. Plant that makes gum 41. Acarine 42. University in N. Carolina 43. The quality of a given color 44. WW2 female grunts 45. Licenses TV stations 46. They __ 47. The 13th Hebrew letter

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, communication is a big deal for you this week. Every time you open your mouth, you have a grand audience just waiting on what you have to say.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, attempt a more lighthearted approach to a difficult situation. If you don’t let it bother you, there may be an easy solution that comes to mind much faster.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, don’t worry if the spark seems to have sizzled out of your relationship. While there may be a bump in the road, this is by no means the end of the whole thing.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, have some fun at work. Just because it is a means to making money doesn’t mean it has to be serious and boring every day. Be creative in your methods.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23You are at the top of your game this week, Leo. Expect to sail through projects at the speed of light. Also anticipate others turning to you for advice because of the vibe you give.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Don’t expect others to be mind readers, Virgo. If you have something to say, simply say it. It is better than going through the guessing game of your feelings.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, the simple act of expressing yourself will ease any personal issues you are keeping inside. Talking about things can help you feel more secure, as well.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, focus on keeping yourself in great shape. Feeling under the weather can be taxing on the body and the spirit. Eat healthy and get more exercise.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, taking time to notice your feelings can go a long way toward mitigating stress and bringing peace of mind. It also creates other opportunities to relax.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, focus on fitness as the warm weather is once again right around the corner. You’ll want to look and feel your best when it comes time to enjoy the great outdoors.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, don’t fret too much over a situation that’s been troubling you. Realizing the situation is a great first step. Now seek the help of others to determine a solution.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20You may notice changes to your home life, Pisces, and it may be causing anxiety. The celestial plane is creating the turmoil.

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