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Capital Ward honours their own at Whitton Awards BY FRASER ANDERSON

The Capital Ward community came out in record numbers for the fifth annual Whitton Awards ceremony on March 6. Over 300 people filled Assembly Hall at Lansdowne Park to honour the hard work of the thirty-one volunteers receiving awards.

Following the cancellation of the City's volunteer appreciation ceremony during budget deliberations several years ago, Councillor Jim Watson initiated the Whitton Awards, named after Ottawa's first female mayor and former Capital Ward alderman Charlotte Whitton, to recognize citizens who contribute so much to our community.

"I always look forward to the Whitton Awards" said Councillor Jim Watson. "They remind every- from Ottawa South, has contributed one of the dedicated people that his time and effort to the success- make Ottawa, and Capital Ward, fui Brewer Pond naturalization such a great place to live and project. Penny is a founding mem- work." ber of the Glebe Report community

Kate Greaves and Suzanne newspaper and is also a co-founder Watters, Student Council Co-Presi- of "Educating for Peace" which pro- dents at Glebe Collegiate Institute vides teachers with material on presented the Environment awards, peace education and conflict reso- which went to Wendy Earl, Penny lution. Sanger and John Wright. Wendy, an Celia Franca, founder of the Ottawa South resident, is part of an National Ballet of Canada, co- initiative called Adopt-a-River- founder of the National Ballet bank which helps preserve shore- School and co-director of the School lines in the Ottawa area. John, also of Dance presented the Arts and

BY 'CATHRYN BRADFORD GLEBE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION It's hard to believe, with fresh

snow lying on the ground as I write this, that it will soon be time for the Great Glebe Garage Sale. But the date is set for Saturday, May 24th only a few weeks away! so it's time to start thinking of cleaning out the garage, attic, basement, etc. in preparation for our annual marathon sale. The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a severe rain date of May 25th.

As in every year, all Glebe residents are invited to participate as vendors in the Sale, which is sponsored by the Glebe Community Association. All we ask in return is that you register for the Sale, and that you donate at east 10% of your proceeds to the Food Bank. In return, you will receive all the publicity that a garage sale with 10,000 potential vendors can muster, a spot on our Garage Sale map, an advance donation bag for the Ottawa Neighbourhood Services,

Photo: Roger Lalonde Whitton Award winners at March 6 ceremony

Culture awards. One of the recipients was Malak

Karsh, the distinguished photographer, known internationally for his pictures which capture the heart and soul of Ottawa and Canada. Malak was the initiator of the popular Tulip Festival in Ottawa and helps raise funds for charities such as the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa- Carleton.

Other arts recipients included Jacques P. Hamel for his work with Ottawa's Local Architectural Advi- sory Committee and Kate McGregor

Great Glebe Garage Sale May 24 and ultimately, cash for your household castoffs and treasures. Plus a tidy garage, of course!

If you're new to the Glebe, you may wonder what happens on the day of the GGGS. Simply this: at an early hour, Glebe residents emerge from their cozy homes and set up their displays of sale goods on their lawns, driveways, or porches. Shortly after, starting at about nine in the morning, our community is inundated with thousands of garage-salers and scouts for antique shops, looking for that ulti- mate bargain or treasure. Bank Street itself is packed with shop- pers visiting our wonderful shops. The Sale continues everywhere until mid-afternoon, when hopefully most of the goods will be sod. Anything that is left can be donated to the Ottawa Neighbourhood Services, who will be diverting their fleet to our community on that day. The Food Bank will also be sending their volunteers around during the afternoon, to collect the

10% (or more!) donations. The fun continues into the evening as well, with many of the residents holding special block parties to coincide with the Sale.

Registration is simple: fill in the coupon on page 2 of the Glebe Report, and drop it off at the Glebe Community Centre, 690 Lyon St. S.

Please write down special sale items this helps our publicity and contributes to the success of your Sale. A registration kit will be delivered to you in plenty of time for the Sale date.

On a final note: this is my last year as Coordinator of the Garage Sale. If you would like to wear the crown as Garage Sale King/Queen, please get in touch with me at 234- 3198. You should be familiar with the community's geography, a good organizer and communicator, creative, and able to tra' vel many miles in a single day fuelled only by enthusiasm and a neighbourhood child's lemonade.

for her service as a promoter of local artists in the region.

Rod Bryden, Chairperson and Chief Executive of the Ottawa Sena- tors, assisted in presenting the Sports and Recreation awards. Al and Marilyn Gillich and Kenneth Ross were honoured for their dedication to one of our community's best run programs- the Glebe Little League.

Other winners were: Adelle Slegtenhorst and Fern Shea of Ottawa East; Hilary Casey for her involvement with the Ottawa Speed- skating Club; and Bill McCauley for volunteering his time with the Ottawa Centre Minor Hockey Association.

The Honourable Mitchell Sharp, former Minister of Finance, at- tended to help present the Business and Commercial Activities awards. Greg Best, owner of Bank Street Framing, was acknowledged for his promotion of Bank Street businesses and his work as Chair of the Glebe Business Group. Doug Casey of the Glebe was also recognized for

Continued on page 11.

Councillor Watson runs for mayor On Monday, April 7, Capital Ward

City Councillor Jim Watson ended months of public speculation when he officially declared his candi- dacy for the office of Mayor of Ot- tawa. .

His campaign kickoff will take place at the Glebe Community Centre, 690 Lyon Street at 2:00 p.m. Sunday April 13.

INSIDE

Glebe Questions.... 18

Arts 24,25

Books 32

Next Deadline April 21, 1997

Quote of the month Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not. Leo Tolstoy

Letters 5

GCA 6

Skate 12

Business 15

Health 17

NEWS Earth Day activities

Earth Day is the biggest environmental event in the world. Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has striven to raise environmental awareness by encouraging acts of local stewardship. Each year, mil- lions of Canadians join in solution- based activities aimed at improving their "own backyard."

RMOC KICK-OFF SUNDAY APRIL 20

The week begins with the Ottawa Lynx baseball game on April 20. Patrons who wear green to the game will be eligible for spot prizes. Contest entries for the High School Mural Contest will be displayed and the Salvation Army Blue Bag-It Program will be there to collect used clothing.

RMOC EARTH DAY CEREMONY, TUESDAY APRIL 22 10 - 11 AM The Earth Day Ceremony, held at

RMOC headquarters, will provide a venue for Mayors and politicians in the RMOC to offer their personal environmental commitment for the upcoming year. Rideau Valley Middle School students provide entertainment. The Regional De- partment of Health will launch its Alternatives to Pesticides Cam- paign.

ECOFESTIVAL AT BREWER PARK, SUNDAY APRIL 27

;12 TO 4 PM Earth Day Ottawa is working with

the Environmental Committee of Ottawa South (EGOS) to plant 400 trees on the levee above Brewer Pond. This will give the public a

chance to plant, view the Butterfly Garden and learn about the restoration project that ECOS has been involved in since 1990.

ABORIGINAL TALK Gordon Williams, an elder of Cree

descent, will give two short talks at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. on the aboriginal ceremonies relating to the earth and the use of the sacred elements.

CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY AREA Childrens' activities will operate

from the gazebo, where children can make environmental crafts, enjoy face painting and play on the Cos- mic Adventures portable play area.

ECOFORUM An EcoForum inside Brewer

Arena will allow local organizations to showcase environmental issues and conservation initiatives, including an Alternative Trans- portation Display. MURAL COMPETITION WINNERS Local high schools will be invited

to submit 4'x8' murals on an environmental theme. They will be displayed at the Lynx Game on April 20. Winners announced on April 27. Prizes awarded by Mountain Equipment Co-op.

To find out how you can take part in Earth Day Ottawa, call 733-TREE (733-8733).

Earth Day sponsors are Nortel, Majic 100, Viridis Environmental Inc., Energy 1200, Canada Trust, Mountain Equipment Co-Op, Con- sumers Gas and the Regional Department of Health.

Glebe C C heritage celebration

L.to R: Suzanne McGlashan, Jennie Aliman(GCCRWC), John Kane (GCA) and Coun.Watson on February 17, with Glebe Community Centre's heritage certificate. mum NE am No= am so moo

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On March 26 the Glebe Neigh- bourhood Activities Group held a celebration at the Glebe Community Centre to commemorate the building's heritage designation which was received on February 17th, Heritage Day. A number of Glebe residents came to the event which also marked the Fundraising Kickoff for the Glebe Community Centre Renovation Fund.

Presentations were made by Stu- art Lazear, Senior Heritage Planner, City of Ottawa and Edgar Tumak, Architectural Historian. The Her- itage plaque was unveiled by Coun. Jim Watson, GNAG Chair Mary Pal and Diane McIntyre, Glebe Com- munity Association President.

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Expanded Glebe Centre needs volunteers BY CHERYL LEDGERWOOD

The recent expansion and changes at the Glebe Centre have meant exciting new possibilities for anyone interested in volunteering 2-3 hours a week. Those with some weekend time available, can help out at "Gifts & Miscellania" a charming variety shop offering a selection of personal care and paper products, cards, stamps, and bus tickets, as well as small gift items.

Plans are also in the works to

Spring programs at Abbotsford Senior Centre

This spring, join the friendly crowd at Abbotsford Senior Centre at 954 Bank Street, in a variety of fun and educational programs. Just look at a few of the activities on offer: Strength Training for Se- niors: proven to be of great benefit to total body health as well as in preventing falls. Walk and Talc a program designed to utilize the great out- dpors when weather permits and in- corporating weights, stretching ex- ercises and walking patterns. Making and Improving Home

Adopt a planter box Last year many of those big con-

crete/wood planter boxes at Glebe street corners were once again adopted by volunteers and cared for all summer. Many thanlcs are due to all those who gave their time, plants and gardening skill to improve the appearance of our neighbourhood. Flowers look much better than weeds and trash! Those dreadful boxes at Lyon and Fifth had a total facelift given by the brave group of people who tacked them. What an improvement! Spe- cial thanks to Mary Kovacs, community volunteer par excellence, who look after boxes at Bank and Second for many years, and now decided to give those energies to other projects.

The goal of this Adopt-a-planter box project is to have each of the boxes adopted by a volunteer care-

open the Café, where it is hoped that the welcoming smiles of volunteers, the aroma of fresh coffee and the availability of fresh baked goods will entice residents, families, visitors and staff to make this a popular and busy rendez-vous. Anyone who can appreciate what a new hairdo can do to lift the spirit, might consider escorting residents to and from their hair appointments at the newly renovated hair salon. Bronson Place (the new nursing home addition) also has a special

Videos: learn how to edit, add music and narration. Silver and Precious Metals: identify and appraise what you own. Reflexology: give your feet a treat! Yoga: designed just for seniors - a wonderful stress reliever. Art Appreciation: slide lectures. Calligraphy, Stained Glass, Pottery, Crafts and much more! Spring classes start soon. Call 230-5730 for more information.

giver who will plant, nurture and maintain them. The City of Ottawa no longer includes such planter boxes in their budget. The choice of plant material is yours, we advise tough and large lasting varieties as good choices! This year we are off to a splendid start with Stephanie Montgomery and her group; they will deal with all the boxes on Bank Street from First to Fifth. Volunteers from last year are more than welcome to offer again, and we need new enthusiastic gardeners as well.

Please call Barbara Hicks at 236- 7275 or John Zvonar at 232-9155 to register or indicate that you are willing to continue looking after your boxes from last year. I'm hoping some adventurous folk will look after the ones at Bronson and Glebe??

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need for volunteers to assist with activities between 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

With 264 elders now living at the Glebe Centre, our exercise programs, crafts, cooking and gardening activities, games, tea and chats, discussion groups (to name but a few) will need enthusiastic, caring volunteers to help make it all happen. For more information call Volunteer Services at 238-2727 ext. 323.

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This beginner level class is for seniors (55 plus) who want to become more confident in speaking English. The course will include conversation, listening and pro- nunciation. Improve your English- language skills and make new

friends in a relaxed atmosphere. Thursdays, 1 - 2:30 p.m. from April 24 - June 26. Cost, $37 to members of Abbotsford; $43 for non-members. Call 230-5730 for information.

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EDITORIAL NOTES Your community needs you

COVER STORY If you are longing for Spring you'll understand why, on that first warm

Sunday in April, I stopped to photograph a young Glebe girl as she lay basking in the sun on a patch of grass relinquished by the snow. Three of her friends had just abandoned their street hockey to join her in welcoming spring.

Two days later, here we are, going to press under much chillier condi- tions, but it won't be long now...will it? At the risk of inviting a backhand from Mother Nature such as the Winnipeg snow storm, I just have to say, "Good-bye winter, snowbanks, ice, heavy coats, snow shovels, gallumphy snow boots... Bleaaaghlim Hello Springtime, and bird song and green grass and....You know the rest.

GET OUT AND VOLUNTEER - IT'S FUN! Congratulations to Glebe resident Irma Lange who is soon to be awarded

for her years of volunteerism with the King's Daughters Dinner Wagon. As this story (p.22) points out, the week of April 13 - 19 is Volunteer Ap- preciation Week, and thousands of volunteers across the Ottawa-Carleton region, and indeed everywhere, should take a bow. In these leaner, meaner times volunteers are becoming an increasingly necessary part of everyday life. They are a godsend and we should take time to appreciate them and their many good works.

In our own neighbourhood there are many volunteer opportunities arising each spring. The Glebe Community Association requires volunteers of all kinds, most urgently for the Great Glebe Garage Sale. The Glebe Neighbour- hood Activities Group is also an organization that counts on fresh volunteers to come forward every year. Their Annual General Meeting takes place April 23 at the Glebe Community Centre.

CONCERNS ABOUT BRONSON AVE. The first item covered in this month's Glebe Community Association col-

umn ( p. 6) concerns Bronson Avenue. It is worthy of particular attention by Glebe residents, as it draws attention to the Region's possible plans for Bronson Avenue in the Glebe. While the concerns of Glebe, Dow's Lake or Ottawa South residents about the future of this regional road have never been the subject of a Regional Councillor update or questionnaire, they are no less present, or real, and they are growing steadily, along with the ca- pacity of Bronson Avenue to carry an ever widening stream of traffic. The GCA would like to have more volunteers to help focus on this issue.

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JK children enjoy soccer: Let them play Editor, Glebe Report,

I am writing to urge the GNAG to reverse its decision to drop JK soccer from its spring league. Denying Glebe four-year-olds the opportunity to play organized soccer is not the best solution to the space problems created by the league's growing popularity. As head coach of my daughter's JK & SK team last year, I was impressed by the league's organization and the enthusiasm and commitment of the many volunteers, especially Bruce Akins, the league convenor. In- deed, the league's excellent reputation extends well beyond the Glebe as at least 25% of my team's players were not Glebe residents. While my team represented a small sample of players, it would not surprise me if at least 10-20% of the league's players were not from the Glebe. It is most unfortunate that the GNAG has chosen to deal with the league's growing popularity by restricting players by age rather than by area of residence. Given that the vast majority of the league's volunteers are from the

'Glebe, it is not clear why Glebe

Too much government? Editor, Glebe Report,

Seeing three smiling familiar faces on your front page (Feb. 7 issue) i.e. Watson, Patten and Mc- Garry, I was struck by a strange thought Why do we have so much Government? In fact aren't we over governed considering that 3 highly paid (by us!) public servants are spending their valuable time on photo opportunity? Do we really need a provincial M.P.P., a Regional

four-year olds should pay the price for the league's quality. Non-Glebe residents could be admitted if space permits.

Moreoever, I found the GNAG's printed response to the many com- plaints about this decision stating that four-year-old children "lack sustained interest, ability and energy," and that "parent-volunteers had difficulty organizing and in- structing a large portion of their teams" generally untrue. Out of 17 players on my team, 11 were in JK (or younger), several were very good players and what the, rest lacked in ability they made up for in joy and enthusiasm. Indeed, the average attendance for my team was about 14 players per game.

In my opinion, the overriding fact was that JK children thoroughly enjoyed participating in the prac- tices and playing the games. The current cohort of four-year-olds should not be denied the same wonderful opportunity enjoyed by their older siblings and friends to play organized soccer. A better solution must be found.

Larry Schembri

Councillor and a City Councillor to look after our local needs? That is of course, not counting the Federal M.P. who presumably has national matters to attend to. Come to that, that is also not counting our school trustees. Am I missing anybody out there? Come to think of it maybe Harris is right in trying to cut back some of the wood.

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GCA What future do you see for Bronson Ave.?

By Acting G.C.A President John Kane

We can now confirm that the Re- gion will expanding the ramps at Hunt Club for complete north/south access onto the Airport Parkway. The work on these ramps will start this year. In 1998, barring budget problems, full north/south access will be implemented at Walkley Rd. and the Parkway. This was confirmed by the Region at a meeting organized by the Dow's Lake Resi- dents Association (DLRA) in March.

In addition to the new ramps the Draft Transportation Master Plan includes as a "second priority" by 2006, the twinning of the Airport Parkway (additional lane in both directions) and the widening of Bronson Avenue from the Dunbar Bridge to the Rideau Canal. Longer term goals suggest linking Bronson Avenue with the Portage Bridge.

The timing of the additional lanes up to the Canal may in fact, be ac- celerated. It seems that the in- complete third lane (northbound) on the Dunbar Bridge is now considered a safety issue so there will be additional pressure to complete this sooner than mentioned in the Transportation Master Plan. With the exception of the bridge com- pletion, this may not require major construction or cost. It appears that the shoulder northbound is of sufficient strength that only paving is required to complete the lane. The intersection at Sunnyside can easily be adjusted to allow a complete third lane from the Dunbar Bridge to the Canal.

During the meeting with the Re- gion, the DLRA offered several suggestions in an attempt to slow cars as they approach the Glebe:

- Reduce speed limits to 50 km/h from Sunnyside Avenue Currently the speed limit is 70 km/h south of Sunnyside; north of Sunnyside to the Canal it is 60 km/h with a change to 50 km/h on the Canal Bridge.

Additional speed limit signs. Current signs are easily missed especially the 50 km/h sign on the Canal Bridge.

Increased police enforce- ment. Both speed and traffic light violations are becoming more fre- quent. Cars speeding through yel- low and red lights are becoming the rule rather than the exception.

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buses on Bronson. It was thought that more buses would have a calming impact on traffic. It would also hopefully provide better bus service.

- Visual change. Although regular users of Bronson are aware they are entering a residential area, speed is not automatically reduced. It may be helpful to have some scenery change or stronger indication that cars are approach- ing a residential area.

All of these suggestions will, hopefully, have an impact on the driving habits of commuters passing through the Glebe. There is, however, a larger issue. The Region appears to be intent on providing a north/south route to the downtown core using Bronson Avenue It is my contention that additional access to the Airport Parkway, despite what the Region believes, will increase the volume of cars and trucks through our neighbourhood. This will result in longer periods of traffic congestion in the morning and evening. Traffic congestion will lead to more and more cars cutting through the Glebe seeking, a faster route via Bank Street or Queen Elizabeth Drive.

With the planned widening of the Airport Parkway and the privati- zation of the Airport there will no doubt be demands to widen Bronson to six lanes right through to the Portage Bridge. The Region has in- dicated that such plans would be too costly because it would require the expropriation of a considerable number of properties along Bron- son. However, Regional Councillor Holmes has already suggested that the Region is considering extending six lanes to Fifth Avenue

Is the "vision" of six lanes from the Dunbar Bridge to the Portage Bridge an exaggeration? Perhaps, but why build a six-lane bridge if there are only four lanes on Bron- son? How valuable will property be on Bronson with a three hour bottleneck in the morning and one in the evening? Expropriation may not be as costly five years from now? The Draft Transportation Master Plan stresses the importance of transportation alternatives and the protection of existing communities. If you are content that the Region is looking after your best interests in this regard further action on your part is not required. If you feel that they are not, the GCA wants you. We need your input, your ideas and most importantly your participation.

COMMUNITY SAFETY Through the Centretown Com-

munity Health Centre, local community associations have developed a Community/Police Information

Exchange (CPIE). The purpose of the exchange is to provide better communications between the Police and local communities through a partnership agreement. The CPIE has developed a set of matched goals and initiatives as a first step in opening communications between Police and community groups. Many of the initiatives are similar to what Glebe residents have already accepted as the norm. Some of the proposals are articles in local community papers, police attendance at local community meetings and a specific contact person at Regional Police Headquarters. The GCA will continue to support this initiative and will discuss and hopefully formally approve our participation as a community association.

PARKING ISSUES If you read last month's GCA col-

umn you will recall that the City was looking for input on the changes in parking restrictions during the exhibition. Councillor Watson's office agreed to field the expected onslaught of calls . . . no calls. As of March 25th, our last GCA meeting, there were no calls.

CASH-IN-LIEU OF PARKING Once again Cash-in-Lieu of

Parking has reared its controver- sial head. The GCA reviewed an application for 580 Bank Street which is 16 parking spaces short of what is required. The Rosebery Avenue Resident's Association Inc. has expressed concerns regarding this specific application and Cash- in-Lieu in general. This particular request is interesting because the business is located just a few steps from a City metered parking lot. This lot, both residents and business owners will tell you, is un- derutilized. Even in the evening the lot is not used because it is metered until 9:00 p.m. Despite the telling signs of business clos- ings at that end of Bank Street in the Glebe the City stubbornly continues to stick to this policy.

The GCA has in principle opposed Cash-in-Lieu of Parking but this specific application was not supported or (voted on) opposed because there was no quorum.

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE The final numbers are in. The

current membership of the GCA consists of 1,673 households, 3,212 adults and 1,161 children. Cindy Delage, Martine Bresson, Val Swin- ton and all the area directors and block reps did an excellent job. Thanks. Let's try for at least 2,000 households by the year 2000!

MONTFORT WOODS The GCA passed a resolution in

support of the Fairhaven Coopera- tive Community's opposition to the rezoning of the Montfort Woods lo-

cated just north of the Montfort Hospital. The rezoning of the area would allow for medium housing development consisting of 266 townhouses and apartments.

BANK STREET FLOWER BOXES Stephanie Montgomery and

friends are looking for help in maintaining the Bank Street flower boxes in the Glebe between First and Fifth Avenues. All that is required is your time. Flowers will be provided by Green Thumb, a lo- cally owned business. Contact Stephanie at 235-9188.

GREAT GLEBE GARAGE SALE Don't forget the Great Glebe

Garage Sale Saturday May 24. For more details see the article in this issue of the Glebe Report. Kathryn Bradford, the outgoing coordinator, would love to train a willing successor. She also requires numerous community volunteers to help. Please give her a call at 234-3198.

NEXT MEETING The next meeting of the Glebe

Community Association will be April 22. This could be a 'very important meeting. Pleak-rnark it on your calendar and attend."'

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Our Annual General Meeting will

take place Wednesday May 14 at the Glebe Comm-unity Centre in the Main Hall at 7:30 p.m. The proposed panel discussion will concern education. Final details of the AGM and our nominating committee will be in the May 2 Glebe Report Mark May 14th on your calendar. We are looking forward to filling the hall.

If you are considering joining the GCA please call either John Kane 235-1782 or Diane McIntyre 234- 6418 for information. We welcome your involvement.

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Would you like paper or plastic? BY HILARY CHOP

I don't know if it is negligence, laziness or just the simple fact that it seems such a small part of our busy lives that it goes unnoticed. Every day that I work at Loeb-Glebe I watch pounds of them being escorted out the door towards an uncertain destiny. I'm sorry to say that I am even an accomplice.

I'm talking about bags: paper, plastic, big ones, little ones. The human compulsion to use as many bags as we do is incomprehensible to me. Do you know that Canadians take home 55 million plastic bags a week (Pollution Probe Foundation, 1988)? What happens to them when they get to your houses? If every bag that wallcs out of the store is used for garbage, then the solid waste problem is definitely getting way out of hand, and I'm sorry to say, I wouldn't count on recycling as a viable excuse. Recycling is becoming a conscience-easing dis- posal method that justifies consumption. The validity of recycling is even, questionable, particularly when it comes to recycling plastic.

Did you know that our sanitary laws forbid plastic containers used to store food to be recycled for the same purpose? Recycling ought to

be approached as an 'end,' rather than as a 'means.' Don't forget that recycling is the last R. First you must reduce, reuse and refuse. People seem to forget those three. Recycling is easier than reducing, reusing and refusing, but I think it is the only one that doesn't require creativity.

I am writing this article to give you a few pointers on how to ease the pain of reducing, and reusing. First, ask yourself, what exactly are you protecting your produce from, when you put it in a little plastic bag? Take oranges for example: they come with their own package. It even comes off! 'There is nothing that your fruits and vegetables can't handle between the grocery store and your home, if they've made it through the harsh chemicals that they've been treated with prior to making your acquain- tance.

Of course, there are items such as grapes or mushrooms that are small enough to warrant being put in a plastic bag. Why not save the bag from your next loaf of bread, or bagels, and use them for such items?

Now, about those larger plastic bags.1The same principle applies.

Bring them back. Loeb-Glebe now credits you 3( for every recycled plastic bag you bring in to carry your purchases. Make a point of having a plastic bag on you at all times. That way, if you make a spontaneous purchase you are prepared. Better still, get yourself some cotton bags. They are comfortable to carry, and very durable.

It is amazing how little credit plastic is given. How many of you have actually had a bag break on you? I have been doing my own gro- ceries for nearly five years, and I

have never had a bag break on me. Sure, there have been some war wounds: a tear here, a hole there, but they still managed a few more rounds. Double bagging seems to

NEWS have resulted from a 'ripping-bag phobia.' Amazing but true: there are people out there that need their two or three items double bagged because they are either taking the bus, or walking.

Try to see what is behind some of the choices that you unconsciously make about the three Rs. These decisions might seem petty in the grand scheme of things. I can only tell you that the little decisions that we have the power to make have had a large enough impact in getting us to where we are now. From here on, it is like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book. Get together with your friends and think about where you want to take this story.

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do students competed against On- tario's best and emerged victorious in spirit if not in body, and no wonder given the distance travelled in rented vans, the laps swum at the hotel's pool, and the vast quantities of food consumed during our brief whirlwind weekend.

For many this was their first experience at a major tournament and to their credit they demonstrated patience, perseverance, and dis- cipline while awaiting their turn to compete. This is particularly difficult for first time competitors, given the hours and months of training leading up to a tournament, especially when the realiza- tion sinks in that their turn may last minutes, perhaps a bit more if they win the first match and move on to the next opponent On the other hand, time stretches when one is actually engaged in combat, and sometimes the match seems to go on for hours.

Regardless of the outcome, it is a personal victory to have competed against the best, something very few students actually do.

Facing the fears and uncertain- ties of first time competition, over- coming them, and receiving the support of friends who have shared the journey in the most important award that can be achieved.

Congratulations to all Glebe students who made the effort! Ed Jeannot-Black Belt-Bronze; Peter Iswolsky-Black Belt-Bronze; Sasha Iswolsky-Red Belt-Silver; Matt Pal-

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And of course congratulations to Peter Williams, 2nd Degree Black Belt ITF, who made it happen! For information regarding ITF Taek- won-Do at the Glebe Community Centre drop by any Tuesday or Thursday between 6 and 8 p.m. and watch a class.

The Savoy Society of Ottawa is pleased to present one of Gilbert & Sullivan's hidden treasures, Princess Ida! Although a lesser- known work, Princess Ida has some of the best music Arthur Sullivan ever wrote. This comedic operetta has a plot line as mixed up and hilarious as H.M.S. Pinafore or The Mikado and is just as much fun! There are oodles of surprises to keep you laughing all through the show and beautiful music to enjoy!

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BY ALICE HINTHER March did not exactly go out like

a lamb but these last few days have given a bit of hope that spring really is just around the corner!

One sure sign of spring in the Glebe is soccer registration. This years registration began on March 24 but will continue until April 11. Please call the Glebe Commu- nity Centre at 564-1058 for more information.

Other popular events are the Spring Craft Fair, the Spring Flea Market and the Ottawa Guild of Potters Sale. This year the Craft Fair will be held on April 12 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Be sure to drop by to browse through the two levels of over 80 crafts people. If you are looking to find the perfect Mother's Day gift or something to brighten your own home for spring, you'll be sure to find it here.

The Spring Flea Market will be held April 19 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. There are still tables available to rent so whether you are looking to buy or sell your treasures the Flea market is the place to be.

On April 24 - 27 the Ottawa guild of Potters will once again be holding their annual Spring Potters Sale at the Centre. The hours of the sale are: April 24, 6-10 pm, April 25, 10 am - 10 pm. April 26. 1- am-6pm, April 27, 10 am - 5 pm.

If you are a potter yourself, the Pottery Studio is taking applications for new members. The cost is $107 for a 3 month session (April - June) or $45 per month. Please call the GNAG office at 233-8713 for more information.

On April 20 GNAG will host a benefit fund raising event for the

Glebe Community Centre Renovation Fund. The Small Works Big Heart Art Exhibition and Sale, organized by local artist Jaya Krishnan will be held in the Main Hall of the Centre from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. with opening ceremonies by Councillor Jim Watson at 1 p.m. There will be a raffle of donated works and prizes, refreshments donated by Loeb Glebe and music. The Pantry will also be open. Artists will donate a portion of their sales to the Renovation Fund so please come out and support this worthy cause. Glebe Community Centre Renovation Fund t-shirts will also be on sale at this time and are always available for sale through GNAG at 233-8713.

GNAG is always looking for new members and new ideas to help make our community a great place to live. If you are interested in joining us either as a board member or as an occasional volunteer please call Jenny Aliman at 237-1347.

Please mark the following important dates on your April calendar: April 11 - Last day for GNAG Soc- cer Registration. April 12 - GNAG Craft Fair - 10 am - 5 pm April 18 -Karaoke Night Youth Dance 7 - 10:30 p.m. $3 at the door, 11 - 14 years, Awesome prizes donated by; EnEquilibre, Corel, Game Power, Cash Converters, Compact Music, etc. Refreshments provided by: McKeen Loeb. April 19 - Spring Flea Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. April 20 - Small Works Big Heart Art Exhibition and Sale 12 - 4 p.m. April 24 - 27 - Ottawa Guild of Potters Sale.

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CAPITAL COLUMN Need local input on plans for municipal reform

By Councillor Jim Watson

SPRING CLEAN UP Spring is finally here!

Hopefully, by the time you read this, the snow will have melted. However, after the snow melts, we are faced with the debris left from the fall.

The City will be holding its fourth annual spring clean up campaign, Spring Cleaning the Capital, from May 5 to 11. The campaign gets more popular every year. If you are interested in organizing a clean up campaign in a park or a part of the neighbourhood, the City will provide you with plastic bags, gloves, and compostable leaf and yard waste bags to help you in your effort. To register, call the City's 24 hour information and customer service line at 244-5444.

1997 ROAD WORKS A number of streets are sched-

uled for road and sewer construction this year. During the spring or summer, crews will be working on:Crescent Heights from Opeongo Road to the dead end; Queen Eliza- beth Drive between First Avenue and Fifth Avenue. If there is money left over (which is unlikely), road work may also take place on Glebe Avenue between Bronson Av- enue and O'Connor Street; Fifth Av- enue between Queen Elizabeth and Bank Street; and on Howick Place. If not done this year these last three projects will probably be done in 1998.

WHITTON AWARDS The Whitton Awards ceremony

was held on March 6 in Assembly Hall at Lansdowne Park.

Congratulations to the Glebe's award recipients: Jennie Aliman, Greg Best, Neil Bregman & Kather- ine Jeans, Doug Casey, Wendy Daigle Zinn, Jacques P. Hamel, Ken- neth J. Ross, Malak Karsh, Mary Lovelace, Dianne Lupinska, Mary Pal, Penny Sanger, Eleanor Stan- field and Trevor Lyons.

Thank you again to our sponsors: Bank Street Framing, Ogden Enter- tainment, Zippy Print, Rogers Com- munity 22, Emerald Ivy Florist, Loblaws - Isabella, Gilbey Canada, Molson Breweries, Labatt Brew- eries, Regional Councillor Brian McGarry, Acacia Fraternity, 52nd Girl Guides - Lansdowne District, and the Hopewell Avenue School Stage Band for another wonderful performance. April 11, 1997 Glebe Report-10

PARKING LOT HOURS OF OPERATION

Unfortunately, my bid to reduce the paid hours of operation of parking meters at the City's off- street lots so that they coincide with the hours of on-street meters was rejected by City Council, with only Councillors Stéphane Emard- Chabot, Elisabeth Arnold and myself voting in favour.

I was disappointed with Council's decision, because I believe that reducing the paid hours for meters is necessary for the health of businesses in the central area.

CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL As a result of concerns for chil-

dren's safety, the School Bus Load- ing Zone on the west side of Lyon Street South in front of Corpus Christi School was replaced by a No Parking zone, and a new School Bus Loading Zone was established on the south side of Third Avenue adjacent to the school, and is in effect from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, Monday to Fri- day, from September 1st to June 30th. There are no homes directly affected by this change, and it will alleviate safety concerns expressed by the school principal and president of the school council.

GLEBE COMMUNITY CENTRE The Project Manager for the next

stages of the Glebe Community Centre renovation project has been appointed. I am delighted that the renovation project is proceeding as scheduled, and I am certain that the Project Manager will work effec- tively with the renovation working committee to see the project through these next stages.

I congratulate GNAG for a job well done with the Heritage Designation Celebration on March 26. I was pleased to take part in the ceremony, and see so many people out to help with the celebration.

DOGS IN PARKS

City staff have undertaken a comprehensive review of the Dogs in Parks Designation Policy for all city parks. Allowing or prohibit- ing dogs in parks has always caused conflicts in communities. As a result, staff have attempted to develop a policy that establishes fair and consistent criteria for the designation of parks which at- tempts to balance the access to parkland by dogs and their owners, and other park users.

In the Glebe and Dow's Lake, staff have made the following rec- ommendations; Brown's Inlet - maintain existing Dogs Allowed designation; Capital - maintain existing No Dogs designation; Central - maintain existing Dogs Allowed; Chamberlain - maintain existing Dogs Allowed designation; Glebe Community Centre - proposed

change from Dogs Allowed to No Dogs; Glebe Memorial - maintain existing No Dogs; Lansdowne - mixed No Dogs and Dogs Allowed (Dog run); Lionel Britton - maintain existing No Dogs; Patterson's Creek

maintain existing Dogs Allowed designation; Senator Eugene Forsey

proposed change from Dogs Al- lowed to No Dogs; and Sylvia Holden

maintain existing Dogs Allowed. For more information please call

Jules Bouvier at 244-5300 x 3383.

MUNICIPAL REFORM Congratulations to Regional

Councillor Brian McGarry for his work in putting together a resolution for process in an effort to get the municipal reform issue back on track. Much has been written about this, but in summary Brian's motion (which I supported at City Council) calls on the province to form a citizen's panel to hear from the public on what form local government should take.

The panel will forward its recommended model to all 11 municipalities and the Region who will have to deal with it by October 1, 1997.

If a substantial majority of the Councils do not agree on a model then the province will appoint a commissioner who would impose a solution.

My motion to correspond with the Minister to advise him that we at the local level would like some input into the composition of the panel also passed.

I want to ensure the panel is truly representative of our entire region, and I hope we can find common ground to adopt a "home grown solution." This may require everyone to accept some compromise in an effort to build a local government structure that will better serve our citizens.

My basic objectives on this issue

are: fewer numbers of governments fewer politicians eliminate duplication of

services increase level of efficiency lessen the financial/tax burden

to taxpayers. We must also ensure that if and

when a model is adopted and approved by the provincial government, that we allow the necessafy time to properly implement the changes. The transition period must allow for proper public input and ensure that both our staff and taxpayers are kept at the forefront of what could be dramatic changes.

I salute Brian for his work on this issue. He is to be commended for getting the ball rolling and hopefully his process will finally bring an end to this debate - a de- , bate that is more politician and media driven than driven by the public.

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Other award winners were: Neil Bregman and Katherine Jeans, owners of a video production company called Sound Venture; and John Couse, the owner of Woody's and Lieutenant's Pump on Elgin, for his coaching and sponsorship of the Ot- tawa Centre Minor Hockey League Association.

The Community Activism awards were co-presented by another of Canada's distinguished leaders, The Honourable Flora MacDonald. Some Glebe residents were recognized for their dedication to the Glebe Neigh- bourhood Activities Group (GNAG) and for their part in helping the community's efforts to halt the pro- posai for a new community centre at Brewer Park.

Jennie Aliman is a GNAG board member who has helped organize many events such as the Snowflake Special and the successful Youth Café at the Glebe Community Centre. Jennie is busy as Chair of the Glebe Community Centre Renovation Working Committee (GCCRWC). Another former GNAG Chair and member of the GCCRWC is Wendy Daigle Zinn. Wendy is also the founding member of the Ottawa Chapter of the Kids Help Phone, a national toll free help-line service for children and youth.

Mary Lovelace has done almost every job imaginable at GNAG from organizing craft fairs to her most recent position as Treasurer. She works closely with another Whitton Award recipient, Mary Pal, the Chair of GNAG. Mary Pal took on this role just as the proposal to close the Glebe Community Centre was announced and she played a key role by helping rally the community's opposition to the City's plans.

Another active GNAG member to receive an award was Dianne Lupin- ska. Dianne finds time to work with the Glebe Co-operative Play- group and the Parent Advisory Council for Corpus Christi School. She is also a founding member of the Ottawa Chapter of the

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Others praised for their community involvement included: Louis Gignac for his efforts with the Heron Park North Community Association; Wendy McRae for her work with the Ottawa East Com- munity Association; Ken "The General" Grant for his hu- manitarian efforts.

The Whitton Awards would not be possible without the help of corporate sponsorship, and once again local businesses were incredibly generous in helping to honour our community volunteers.

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The reception was a big hit, with food donated compliments of Ogden Entertainment and beverages provided by Molson and Labatt Brew- eries, Loblaws, and Gilbey's Canada.

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qi1 By Sr.Cst. Gary Schuiteboer There is a growing demand from

the public to see police increasing their ability to respond to public nuisance which can threaten individuals. Examples of such public threats would be drunks, panhan- dlers, disturbances, special attention areas and youths congregating. In response to these concerns Dis- trict One assigned a Community Re- sponse Unit to specifically deal with these issues.

Approximately once every five weeks one of the five foot patrol officers who patrol the centre town area is assigned to work this pro- active initiative.

They say that a change is as good as a rest. This may be true most of the time but I would argue that there is nothing at all relaxing about being assigned to the Com- munity Response Unit. I tend to refer to it as a modern day un- marked paddy wagon. The vehicle that is used is unique in its appearance if you were to compare it to the other police vehicles. From the outside it is just another navy blue passenger van. However the clients who have become familiar with the C.R.U. will know of the large aluminum prisoner box that is contained within the walls of this otherwise unassuming vehicle. This metal insert can accommodate up to six individuals to allow for transport to the holding cells at 474 Elgin. This unique GMC Astro Van has other options that do not usually come as standard equipment for the typical family vehicle. There is a fully equipped emergency medical box, a needle dis- posal container, fire extinguisher and a fully functional police computer. A red emergency dash light has been made available to the unit so that the officer assigned to the C.R.U. can improve arrival time when responding to an emergency call. There are occasions where the C.R.U. is used to supplement area patrol units as a back up to the many calls that must be answered during a busy afternoon shift.

The original intention of the Community Response Unit was to assist the beat officers with the various special attention requests that had been identified and gath- April 11, 1997 Globe Report-12

ered during their regular working hours. These requests for special attention were usually made after the officer had completed their regular tour of duty. The area patrol units are extremely busy and have limited down time and as a result they have difficulty accommo- dating the various requests for special attention. The problem was solved when Inspector Susan O'Sul- livan suggested that the beat officers leave their day shift beats once every five weeks and work an afternoon shift patrolling centre town on the Community Response Unit.

In the Glebe, the special attention requests include patrolling the park behind Number 10 Fire Sta- tion at Fifth and O'Connor. Fre- quently large numbers of very loud and boisterous youths gather there during the cover of night to engage in underaged drinking and damage to property. A casual police presence can discourage these "social occasions" and definitely encourage a change of venue. There are other areas within the centre town district that require regular police visits. In fact a list of known locations where prostitutes and drug users engage in their illegal activities is constantly being revised and updated so that the officer assigned to the C.R.U. can achieve un- welcome interruptions.

Another very important assigned duty that the unit is responsible for includes picking up individuals who are intoxicated to the point where their personal safety is in jeopardy. People who have consumed a large amount of alcohol may not realize the danger they will encounter when unprotected skin is exposed to the frigid tem- peratures. I have seen some of these individuals lose fingers and toes as a result of frostbite. A box of woolen mittens and hats donated by the Red Cross has been made available to the officer working the C.R.U. The officer can give these items out to those individuals in need of protection from the elements. Quite often these people are so intoxicated that if the police did not arrest them for being drunk in a public place or convey them to a detox centre, they could possibly die of an overdose, by freezing or from staggering onto the roadway and being hit by a passing car. In the middle of summer the over-ex- posure to the intense heat and severe sunburn are dangers that can also cause them very serious problems.

As I have already mentioned the Community Response Unit does not appear from the outside to be a police vehicle. I must admit that when I was first assigned to do a

shift on this unit I found it quite humorous to see the look of my intoxicated clients when they discovered the driver of the blue passenger van was actually their old buddy Skate. Of course over time the novelty has worn off but the regulars have become very suspicious of any slow driving navy blue van. This probably would ex- plain the quick movements of individuals hiding the odd bottle of wine as you pass by in your blue family van.

ASK SKATE My purpose has always been to

become more involved with the concerns of the Community I patrol.

The Glebe Report has been an excellent medium to give advice on the different subjects that involve the police and the community. If you have a concern you think could be of interest to others, stop me on the street or write to:

Skate's Beat, c/o the Ottawa Carleton Police, Community Services, 474 Elgin St., Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2J6.

So until next time .. . see you on the beat!

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St.James Tennis Club opens May 3 BY GENIO STARANCZAK

The St. James Tennis Club officially opens its 1997 season on May 3. The club, adjacent to the Glebe Community Centre, between Second and Third Avenues, is a family oriented institution that provides a full range of services to the tennis player. Last year the club played host to 412 members, including 266 adults and 146 juniors.

For the beginner or rusty player the club offers lessons at modest rates. Sessions are supervised by fully trained instructors who limit class size to 6-8 people, so more time can be spent on individual training needs. The classes are held every two to three weeks during May and June.

Social tennis players can sign up for the doubles round robin held every Monday and Thursday night from May 5 to mid September. Round robins are fun and provide members an excellent opportunity to meet other players at the club.

More competitively oriented players can try out for the St. James City league teams. Last year the club fielded teams in Divisions I, II and IV, winning the Regional

championships in Division I.

St. James also offers a full range of services for juniors. Novice youngsters can sign up for free tennis lessons throughout May and June. More advanced juniors can join the Sunday Cup, which focuses on skills and round robins. For those keenly interested in improving their level of play, the club offers half day camps starting in late June.

In addition to its regularly scheduled events, the club sponsors a serie% of tournaments throughout the year. Tournaments are organized so that players of all abilities can participate and compete. Finally, during the late summer the club plans an extravaganza, featuring exhibition matches among top players in the city.

For those interested in joining the club or obtaining more information about the events planned during the year, please drop by the club house located on Third Avenue near Lyon, or phone 237-5469 starting April 19. We look forward to seeing you on registration day, May 3.

Seven steps to bicycle safety Before you take your bike out for

that first spin of the year, take a few moments to do a quick safety check.

Start at the front of the bicycle and move towards the back. Check every nut and bolt to ensure that they're tight.

Wipe your bike over with a damp cloth and check the frame, rim and cranks for cracks.

Inflate the tires to the proper inflation marked on the sidewall. Check the tires for excessive wear. Also check the tires for signs of drying and cracking. All of these could lead to tire failure or flats.

Spin the wheel. Does it spin easily? Is there a lot of side-to- side movement? Are the rims bent? Are spokes loose or broken?

Check the brakes. Do the brakes engage and disengage eas-

ily? Do the brake pads come in contact with the rim? Are cables loose or frayed?

Any safety equipment on the bike, such as lights, bells and re- flectors, should be checked.

Next, lift the bike an inch or so off the ground, then let it drop. Listen for unusual rattles. This is a good test to find loose compo- nents.

Once you feel confident that the bike is safe, take it for a short ride around the neighbourhood. During this road test, shift through all the gears, re-test the brakes and make sure everything is running smoothly before you go for a longer ride.

If you are unsure, take the bicycle to a reputable bike shop where safety checks should be offered free-of-charge.

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NEWS Regional Councillor report

B y Regional Councillor Brian McGarry

NO INCREASE IN COST OF REGIONAL SERVICES FOR MOST RESIDENTS IN 1997 REGIONAL

BUDGET Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council

approved the 1997 Regional Budget which reduces the cost of regional services for the majority of residents in Ottawa-Carleton.

Residents of Ottawa, Gloucester, Nepean, Vanier and Cumberland will see a decrease in the overall cost of regional services that will vary from a $1.50 decrease in Ot- tawa to a $81 decrease in Vanier. On average, residents in the urban municipalities with a home valued at $150,000 currently pay $1,345 for regional services, including water and sewer costs. However, residents of Kanata, Rockcliffe Park, Goulbourn, Osgoode, Rideau and West Carleton will see an increase in the cost of regional services that is directly related to the phase-in cost for police. The phase-in was implemented after the Province determined that all municipalities in Ottawa-Carleton would pay an equal share of the municipal tax for policing by the year 1999.

One of the challenges associated with the 1997 budget was the need to accommodate a $12.6 million reduction in provincial funding. Re- gional staff had to identify over $9.2 million in economics and ef- ficiencies to deal with the funding reduction. The balance of $3.4 million came from reductions in the welfare caseloads, service level adjustments and reductions in purchased services.

Regional Council also approved the Ottawa-Carleton Police Services budget of $100 million. The 1997 police budget includes provisions for the hiring of 42 police officers, which combined with the redeploy- ment of existing officers, will see an enhanced presence of 200 more officers on the streets.

Following the tabling of the Re- gional Budget on January 7, the Planning and Environment Commit- tee recommended a two cent reduction in the water and sewer rate. This reduction is designed to help offset the additional cost associated with the additional police officers and the implementation of a uni- form mill rate for garbage and blue box. Regional Council approved the water and sewer rate reduction, re- sulting in a $15 (or 3.7%) reduction on the average residential water bill.

In an effort to balance fiscal pressures with the need to ensure improved transit service to the west, Regional Council decided to give the go ahead to Phase 1 of the West Transitway extension. Con- struction of Phase 1 will include Acres Road to Pinecrest and is es- timated to cost $48.5 million over five years. Consideration of Phase 2, from Pinecrest to Southwest Transitway, which would have cost $76 million has been deferred to the year 2006. In the meantime, Queensway lanes will be utilized to ensure access to the Southwest Transitway. I was not in favour of this total transitway package in that I felt there were other priori- ties before extending westward. However, on balance the above is a reasonable compromise.

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35 years of Grace BY CLYDE SANGER

On April 6, 1962 Grace Laviolette started working at the recently opened Glebe Fashion Cleaners at 829 Bank Street. Clair Rodford, still the owner, put her to work in the shirt department, but soon she was upstairs, welcoming all sorts of clothes and their owners. In her early days on the job a local paper called Grace "the friendly seamstress" and she talks happily of the Ottawa Roughriders and the repairs she did for them, the badges she sewed on.

She still lives in Sarsfield, the village where she was born near Cumberland, and does the 22-mile

journey by bus daily. But she says she has always liked the Glebe and its people, and is now into her third generation of customers. "They send their kids along. I've been sewing buttons and cuffs for them from childhood."

Any big surprises left in clothes to be cleaned, like frogs or pet snakes in a pocket? No, she says, only rings and earrings. Her biggest find was $500, half in US notes, which she traced to a visitor in a motel. Recently she has shared work out front with the three Hong sisters, but is as spry as ever after 35 years. Congratulations and happy days, Grace!

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Ottawa resident wins National Diamond Contest

An Ottawa native has come up big and bright in a national draw for a diamond solitaire necklace worth thousands of dollars.

Noellie D'Arcy's name was drawn from approximately 10,300 ballots submitted at 83 retail jewellers from across the country. D'Arcy, who submitted her ballot at Ot- tawa's Davidson's Glebe Jewellers, was presented with a half-carat diamond solitaire necklace worth $4,000.

Hosted by DeBeers' Diamond Pro- motion Service, the "Win a Diamond Solitaire Necklace Contest" ran in

participating jewellers nation-wide from November 4 to December 24, 1996. Posters, brochures and counter cards invited customers to fill out ballots to win their choice of any one of eight different beautifully designed diamond solitaire necklaces.

The diamond solitaire necklace is the first significant diamond design trend since the wildly popular diamond tennis bracelet of the '80s. This international trend is called The Simple Diamond in Japan and The Venus Diamond in Italy.

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After the departure of the Norma Peterson store from Fifth Avenue Court several years ago to a downtown location, owner Gail Schioler has been continuously asked "When are you coming back to the Glebe?" Gail, a resident of the Glebe and native Ottawan, had planned to return to the community but running two stores so close together just wasn't practical. Now a small outlet at Joko's makes it possible for Glebe area women to find the latest colours and fashions of the Norma Peterson line at affordable prices.

All clothing is Canadian made; Norma Peterson designs and manu- factures in Toronto. The sizes are 4 to 24 and the line fits petites to tall as well. The colours are especially dyed to flatter and suit the individual woman. An unusual feature has always been a new shipment of colours and styles each week. Feedback from customers is

BY MARK WEBSTER A photograph produced by two

young Ottawa photographers located in the Glebe will be earning national recognition by the Canadian Association of Photographers & Il- lustrators in Communications (CAPIC).

Chrystia Yanishevsky and Michael Tardioli are sharing the 1997 BGM Imaging Award for Excellence in Corporate Photography, presented on March 25. Their uncontrived black & white image, showing three partners of the Ottawa architectural firm Griffiths, Rankin and Cook, is one in a series of eight studio portraits created for last year's Ottawa-Carleton Archi- tectural Awards.

The successful formula behind their photographs is two photographers; one camera. What it means is that Yanishevsky and Tardioli work so closely together, in the studio or on location, that credit for the final image cannot be boiled down to 'who clicks the camera shutter.'

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passed on to Norma and it's amazing how quickly she can respond to their requests. Function, comfort and versatility are the underlying essentials to any collection of the Norma Peterson line.

Norma Peterson's new downtown location will be opening as of April 15th, while Glebe residents can visit the new branch at Joko's. To Norma Peterson and Gail Schioler -

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their submission only if one photographer's name appeared on the entry slip. The two decided that Yanishèvsky would enter the image as 'the photographer', with Tardioli as the 'art director.' Now they celebrate their win and hope that their style will eventually receive recognition for what it really is: A combined vision of fine art photography. "Still, we don't feel our photography is the result of compromise," Tardioli explains. "We both agreed to set our sights on producing fine art images as opposed to shooting photographic portraits. It took over a year before we felt ready to print our first portfolio." They strive to achieve a

"timelessness" in their images, right down to the archival methods employed in printing the photos. 'We're driven to create images that must almost seem 'anti-commercial' next to more traditional portraiture," Yanishevsky adds. Anti-commercial or not, they continue to work for a number of Ottawa and Toronto firms and agencies looking for images that push the envelope of traditional portraiture.


NEWS OBE trustee report

By OBE Trustee Lynn Graham

INITIAL SURVEY RESULTS I would like to thank the 38

individuals who have to date responded to my March survey (Glebe Report and OSCAR je. Ottawa South Community Association Review). Here is an initial tabulation of the results. As can be see from the percentages, the response rate to all questions has been high. To save space, I have shortened the original questions.

Do you support the change in responsibility for education funding, as outlined in Bill 104 (draft provincial legislation)?

Yes: 26% No: 66% Of the 8% who did not respond, some support change in education funding but not the specifics outlined in the Bill.

In 1996 and 1997 the province reduced education grants to school boards across Ontario. The OBE was not affected as its revenues come mainly from the local property tax base. The province wants the OBE to "share the pain" and send $31 million of local tax dollars to Queen's Park. Do you agree?

Yes: 13% No: 84% No response: 3%

If the OBE is forced to give up the $31 million, would you support a tax increase?

Yes: 37% No: 58% No response: 5%

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Yes: 45% No: 39% Of the 16% who did not respond, some said they require further information on the debenture issue.

Do you agree that the OBE should offer some form of Junior Kindergarten?

Strongly agree: 34% Agree: 8% Disagree 21% Strongly disagree: 26% No response: 11%

Do you agree with the current level of support for programs at the Adult High School?

Strongly agree: 21% Agree: 21% Disagree: 21% Strongly disagree: 32% No response: 5%

Do you agree with the OBE providing and paying for non- credit literacy programs and ESL (English as a Second Language) programs for adults?

Strongly agree: 16% Agree: 29% Disagree: 24% Strongly Disagree: 18% No response: 13%

Should the OBE maintain current levels of support for transportation (no user fees allowed)?

Strongly agree: 11% Agree: 13% Disagree: 29% Strongly disagree: 39% No response 8%

Should the OBE continue to provide the current level of service for special education students?

Strongly agree: 55% Agree 29% Disagree: 3% Strongly disagree: 8% No response: 5%

While the survey response rate to date is limited, I believe the answers provide me with useful information for our current budget deliberations at the OBE.

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HEALTH Coffee: How does it affect your health?

BY CLAUDIA MCKEEN, B.SC.PHM. When I think "Glebe," I always

have an image of a steaming demitasse of rich espresso. If you enjoy the aroma of cappuccino or café au lait, you are in good company. In the last fifty years coffee has become the most popular organic beverage.

The first European coffee was sold in drugstores in 1615. It would be an understatement to say that coffee became immediately popular with many great minds. Napoleon believed it to be a wonder beverage for its qualities to increase energy and keep him alert. Frederick the Great of Prussia enjoyed coffee so much, that he decided to keep it only for the privileged class by having his physicians spread rumours that it caused sterility. Benjamin Franklin even ran a retail coffee business in the 1740s as a sideline to his printing enterprise.

In the twentieth century world population and per capita consumption of coffee have increased. This popularity was stimulated by numerous recipes for coffee. It has also raised a question about the effects of coffee on

health. Coffee contains various types of

compounds -besides water and certain minerals, vitamins and amino acids - caffeine is obviously very important. The caffeine content varies according to the sort. Of the two main sorts - Robusta and Arabica - the first contains about 2.2%, and the second 1.2%. Caf- feine is the pharmacologically active substance causing coffee to provoke well-known physiological and psychological effects that have made coffee so widespread and popular. Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system. This results in increased intellectual activity, learning ability and a briefer reaction time. The threshold value over which caffeine intake could cause trouble is about 550 milligrams for the average woman and 700 milligrams for the average man. One cup of coffee contains approximately 140 mg of caffeine, far from the limit.

Excessive consumption, equal to five to seven cups of strong coffee a day, may cause anxiety, affect soundness of sleep, and stimulate irregular heartbeat or chest pain.

There are some food drug

interactions which are noteworthy. A class of antibiotics known as quinolones may reduce the body's ability to get rid of caffeine. The result is an enhancement of the caffeine effects. Examples of these drugs are Cipro, Floxin and Noroxin. If you need to take these prescription antibiotics cut back on your coffee consumption.

Another known interaction is with grapefruit juice. It will have the same effect so if you want a little extra kick from that morning coffee, start with a grapefruit!

If you are pregnant or breast- feeding, you may want to decrease your current caffeine intake. Caffeine crosses into the placenta and into breast-milk and can affect your unborn baby or newborn infant.

The effects of caffeine vary according to individual differences

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and the amount you are used to. However, for an average healthy person there are no contra- indications except for the quantities of coffee.

A mediaeval physician, Paracelsus, once rightly said that nothing in itself is poison or cure, everything depends on the dosage. So, be reasonable and do not hesitate to enjoy rich creamy espresso while browsing through the Glebe.

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NEWS Glebe Questions

Ted and what's read

By Clyde Sanger

This had to happen. After I wrote in February about what were the favourite videos taken out by Glebites and had talked with Bob L'Ecuyer at Glebe Video, someone inevitably followed up with the companion question of what were the favourite magazines. It was in fact Ashwin Shingadia, of Ralph Street, an habitué like many of us of Britton's Smoke Shop. So I ended up having a coffee with an old friend, Ted Britton, on a quiet Fri- day morning and then spending a half-hour on a busy Saturday snooping around his store.

Britton's Smoke Shop (yes, it's spelled in that nice old fashioned way, in separate words!) has been here longer than most of us, and so has Ted. Appropriately, he was born on Ella Street, that street of Inquhing Minds, and grew up playing on Capital Park. He did a political science degree at Carleton, and was selling ads for Ottawa To- day and doing other things around Pineview Golf Club and was wondering what to make of his life when his much loved father Lionel died rather suddenly of cancer in 1978. He decided to take over the store -

"the best decision I made in my life."

In Lionel's day it had been a typical smoke shop, with lots of birthday cards and a big chair at the back where Dan Daniels shined your shoes. Next door was Mrs. Rancourt's Beauty Salon. Ted was well known among younger Glebites, coaching hockey and baseball teams, and indeed used to write the sports news for this paper.

So, as he slowly changed the nature of his store and attracted new customers, he kept the community with him. It is one of the great meeting places of the Glebe.

He sensed, he said, that "in the 1980s people were reading more, and certainly there was a prolif- eration of magazines. And business was good." First came home decorating, and then came computers. And music on stereo, and fitness and outdoor sports. Ted rode all these waves. Most magazines (unlike Bob's videos) are on a re- turnable basis, so his outlay is not


so large. He has, he says 5,000 titles in

English on display. They are divided into some 20 sections, which he started to list. When he got to Fashion, I misheard him and queried "Passion?" "Oh, we have that, too, at the back and high up," he said a little primly. And you will find Playboy there, next to Flex and Golf. One of them this month has the intriguing headline, "How to stop making stupid mis- takes."

His range is amazing. One woman was chuckling over The Journal of Polymorphous Perversity and Mike Dewan, Ted's assistant, capped it by offering her The Journal of In-e- ducible Results. Her friend Vin- cent looked at the prices and set- tled for a Mars bar. To my shame I

didn't know about two Canadian magazines, Paragraph and Story, which encourage young fiction and short story writers. Ted had 10 copies of Paragraph on display.

I counted no fewer than 175 computer magazines ("PC Magazine is very big," says Ted). Is the smoke shop computerized, with all these titles? Ted says he has resisted computers for 20 years, "but we're working on it now." And when I

played innocent and asked a group of women about home decorating, one said, "Are you British?" and gently led me to Canadian House and Home the favourite, as Ted had noted.

It did his store no harm that , in a space of 18 months, it sold three lottery tickets that took a $1 million prize (two of them to Glebites). Mike said, as though he had jinxed the place: "$160,000 is the biggest since I've been here."

In the afternoons John Dubé takes over and Ted does his own thing. What's that? You've guessed it. "I'm a newspaper junkie," he says. But he's also back playing golf, because he claims he doesn't get much exercise hurtling round his store, finding that magazine someone vaguely says he or she saw at the dentist's or around Chicago airport.

Utne Reader is a steady seller, he says, as well as Frank which many tuck inside their Sunday paper. What can't you get at Britton's? Well, I suppose, a shoeshine and hockey cards. I left the ever-busy Mike explaining to an eager collec- tor where the nearest card shop was: it's way up Bank Street.

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Gaining a Voice series demystifies media relations BY EDMOND MARC DU ROGOFF

If you ever wondered how the media works, what it takes to get coverage for your organization, how to handle an interview, or what to do if you had a problem with the way the media covered your story, then you must watch the TV series Gaining a Voice. This eight-part series, which started airing Friday, April 4th at 7:30 p.m. on Vision TV, channel 53 in the Ottawa region, gives community groups the tools to handle media relations and gain visibility through the media.

The goal of the series is to de- mystify media relations for those who have to handle the job and don't know where to start, meaning most of us. "Community and ethnic mi- nority groups often lack the exper- tise to handle media relations, and obviously don't have the money to hire professionals, as big corpora- tions and governments do," says Angelina Cacciato, the Executive Producer of the series.

Gaining a Voice is certainly television at its best. Informative, dy- namic, useful and often controver- sial, it takes the viewer behind the scenes, inside the newsrooms, to see how decisions about coverage are being made. Unlike many "educational" shows, it doesn't preach

or point fingers. Unlike many talk shows, it presents both sides of the coin: the frustration of the community groups when they feel ignored or misrepresented, and the frustration of the journalists when they feel they can't get the information they need.

Never boring, Gaining a Voice dares to present the opposing views of many groups, from the tradi- tionalist Real Women to the radical National Anti-Poverty Organization. People like Noam Chomsky and Lowell Green offer their ideas in counterpoint. Successful organizations like Greenpeace and Alzheimer Canada share their strategic insights. Well-known journalists, like Pamela Wallin and Michael Enright of the CBC, Peter Calamai, Tina Spencer and Sharon Burnside of the Ottawa Citizen, Haroon Siddiqqui of the Toronto Star and Colin MacKenzie of the Globe and Mail, offer specific pointers on how to gain the media's attention, how to "gain a voice."

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For more information about the project or any of our events, call 730-0714 or 798-1620.

Saturday April 19 a.m. - 2 p.m. Wild Wings: The Hidden World of Birds. Popular naturalist, author, and educator, Mike Runtz, has again agreed to open the season at the FWG. His stunning slides and entertaining narrative will give us a new insight into the world of birds. Mike's book (with the same title) will be also be available. A portion its sales go to the FWG. Help a worthy project, and hear a great speaker at the same time!

Saturday May 10, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. International Migratory Bird Day. Celebrate this important day

BY SCOUTER BILL VERNON The 36th Cubs, Scouts and

Beavers held their annual Banquet on February 27th at Glebe-St. James Church hall.

The banquet was a real success. We had more parents out to it this year than we did last year. I think it was a success this year because it was held on a Thursday night which is our Cub night. I hope that we have it on a Thursday night from now on.

During the evening we gave honour awards to leaders who had a number of years of service in the troop and in the cub pack. These leaders were Simon Davy, Joe Hill


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Sunday May 18, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Plant Swap Sale. The Canadian Wildflower Society (Ottawa Chap- ter) will be holding this event at the FWG. Come early to the Inter- pretive Centre; you're sure to find something special for your garden.

Sunday June 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Eco-Fair Mark the beginning of National Environment Week by dropping in to the FWG for our 2nd annual environment fair. This year's theme is wildlife. Learn more about the animals we share our environment with. Enjoy displays, exhibits, nature walks, sale items, and goodies. Support the environment! Bring your own mug for coffee or lemonade. Everyone welcome!

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Through Meals on Wheels close to 500 seniors, persons with dis- abilities and those convalescing are assisted in maintaining their health and independence each day. This is accomplished through the commitment of a team of 650 volunteers working with The King's Daughters Dinner Wagon.

The volunteers not only deliver the meal, they have a quick visit with their customers and ensure that everything is OK! For many the visit of the volunteer is as important as the meal. While the majority of meals are delivered hot at noon daily, frozen meals are also becoming popular. Frozen meals are delivered weekly in the morning rather than noon hour.

Irma Lange, a long-time Glebe resident, has been delivering meals since the program's initiation in 1968. The Ottawa City Union of the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons initiated the Ottawa Meals on Wheels program. Many of her customers have been on the service for months or years. Others, take the service only during an acute illness or while conva-

salutes volunteers lescing. Irma says "It is so reward- ing to see someone regain their strength a bit more each time we visit. The other remarkable thing about the customers is their diversity. Some are my age and others much older. Age does not de- termine a persons' health."

Volunteers who deliver meals come from all walks of life. Al- though many are retired, others contribute time while at work or by fitting it around work schedules. Not all have vehicles as both drivers and servers are needed. Volunteers feel they get so much out of their involvement because their customers are so appreciative of the service.

To honour the work of the volunteers and to thank them for their efforts Dinner Wagon will hold a reception on April 23rd at St. Elias Centre. Irma Lange will be receiving an award for 1,000 hours of service. Other volunteers receiving awards are Clara DeGruchy and Lucy Singleton. Congratulations to each of you!

National Volunteer Week is April 13 to 19.

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Saturday, April wth, 1997 ... not your usual walk through the Glebe

Join us for the official grand opening of Maple Tree Quilts, and the preview of the travelling Trunk Show featuring quilts and patterns from the renowned Four Corners Company, on exhibit until April 28.

Maple Tree Quilts offers quilters an exquisite selection of unique fabrics, notions and supplies. For quilt admirers we offer a delightful selection of quilted gift items and works of art.

With each pUrchase on opening day, your name will be entered in a draw to win a beautiful Anne of Green Gables wall-hanging.

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Jamaican National Chorale visits Glebe Singers

BY NORA HAMMELL On May 10 there will be a concert

of choral music given by a combined choir made up of the Ja- maican National Chorale and the Glebe Singers. The program will present a variety of music. High- lights of the concert will be Vi- valdi's Gloria, with orchestra, and Pachabel's Magnificat, with double brass quintet. There will also be songs from folk, gospel and Broad- way traditions.

The two choirs joined last year to perform in Kingston, Jamaica, during the International Chamber Music Festival. The singers who went from Ottawa last year are members of the Glebe Singers, an amateur community choir which has been together, under the direction of Janice Gray, since 1990. Ms. Anne McNamee, the pianist who ac- companies the Glebe Singers, was the organizer of the International Chamber Music Festival in 1995 and 1996, which is how the two choirs met. The Jamaican National

Earth Tones concert celebrates earth's splendor

BY LORRAINE HENDERSON Earth Day is just around the cor-

ner and Tone Cluster, a local, mixed chamber choir, is warming the air with 'Earth Tones,' a celebration of choral music about Earth and its elements in all their splendour. It will take place Saturday, April 26 at Glebe-St. James United Church.

Tone Cluster planned the performances to draw awareness to environmental issues. "Music creates an esthetic response to the environment," said Robin Grabell, co- director of Tone Cluster. "The moods that we're evoking in this music reflect communal values and the respect we hold for nature."

The concert repertoire is varied including a French madrigal, Le Chant des Oiseaux, an arrangement of Singin' in the Rain and a piece by Canadian composer, R. Murray Schafer Miniwanka (The Moments of Water). Describing the group's unique problem choosing the _repertoire co-director, Marg Stub- ington said, "We were searching for music loosely using the theme of the elements and came up with 6 majillion pieces on water and earth, but almost nothing on air and fire." Stubington composed three pieces which will be premiered April 26.

Two are based on poems about nature by Alice Walker. Beast is an angry piece about concrete rolling over the soul of Mother Earth. We Have a Beautiful Mother is a sacred

Chorale has sung for many years throughout Jamaica. It has recently been performing under the direction of Mr. Winston Ewart.

In preparation for the event, music has been sent back and forth between the Directors so that the choirs will have learned the music before they get together. There will only be a few days of busy re- hearsal as a combined choir.

The members of the Glebe Singers who made the trip to Jamaica had a wonderful time. They enjoyed many social and musical events and local outings. The Glebe Singers feel very fortunate to have the National Chorale visiting Ottawa this year. We hope that many community residents will help in welcoming our Jamaican guests. Mark your calendars to attend this extra special spring concert the evening before Mother's Day.

The concert is on May 10, at 8 p.m. in St. Matthew's Anglican Church, 271 First Avenue, near Bank Street. Donations at the door.

hymn featuring a flute part. Rain by Hone Tuwhare, a colourful description of how the senses are affected by rain, incudes a marimba part.

Featured instrumentalists, flautist Peggy Raths and marimba player Brian Pantekoek, will perform solo works and perform with Tone Cluster.

Tone Cluster was formed in 1994 and performs a wide repertoire of traditional and contemporary choral music for chamber ensemble.

The Earth Tones concert takes place Saturday, April 26 at 8:00 p.m. at Glebe-St. James United Church (650 Lyon St.). Tickets are $10/$7 geared to income, and are available at Arbour Recycled Prod- ucts, Place Muzik, HMV (Sparks) and Mother Tongue Books/femmes de parole.

There will be a donation box for the Peace and Environment Re- source Centre.

For concert information call 237- 9872, ext. 2056.

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For her Ottawa concert Dale Ka- vanagh will perform Three Dances from the Terpsichore by Michael Praetorius, Invocaci6n y Danza by

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ARTS Waterworks exhibition springs on winter's traces Artiz, a group of eight area

artists, will be exhibiting paintings loosely based on the element of water, ice transformed and snow melting in a blessed release from winter's jaws. Newly formed, with the aim of growing and exhibiting as a group, Artiz includes Heather Assaf, Bhat Boy (formerly known as Ian Van Lock), Susanne Clark, Geraldine Classen, Jaya Krishnan, Frank Potvin, Ellen Schowalter, and Lynda Turner. The artists vary greatly in style and employ a wide range of media.

Heather Assaf, who works in wa- tercolour, oils, pastel and mixed media, states: "The emphasis of my paintings is to explore the relationship of natural forms to each other and my relationship to nature as my subject. I am looking for that centredness in all of life, for a perfect balance that allows us to be one with our surroundings."

Bhat Boy's colourful intelligent paintings of the Glebe are familiar to many area residents. His time is divided between London, England and the nation's capital where he has executed several public com- missions and is founder of 'Art in the Park', an annual arts festival held in Central Park. Bhat Boy is

Small works, big heart BY MEREDITH OLSON

Would you like to acquire some great art and feel good at the same time? On Sunday April 20 from 12 Noon to 4 pm, you'll have just that chance when the Small Works, Big Heart fund-raising art exhibition and sale is held at the Glebe Com- munity Centre at 690 Lyon St. S.

Organized by Glebe artist Jaya Krishnan with assistance from other artists and members of the community, the event will feature art ranging from paintings and prints to pottery, wood carving, stained glass and folk art. All works will be reasonably priced.

The Glebe Community Centre Ren- ovation Fund will benefit by receiving a percentage of the sales.

Jaya said he thought of the sale as a way of helping the community centre get some much-needed

well known as a community activist and organizer. He is a prolific painter whose work can be found on every continent but Antarctica.

Susanne Clark describes her approach: "Starting with only a choice of colours I allow the imagery to arise spontaneously. It is a journey of discovery. I spend my time painting and teaching art for personal development." She works in various media including sculpture.

Geraldine Elizabeth Classen was born in West Yorkshire, England and studied art in England and in Canada. For the past sixteen years she has been co-owner of Penelope, a boutique in the Glebe, where original sweaters designed by Geraldine are featured. She has continued to sell both wall hang- ings and paintings, as a member of various guilds and associations for professional artists. Whatever the medium, it is exciting colour and the joy of creating which this artist loves.

Jaya Krishnan paints in acrylics on canvas and on paper. He states: "Nature is always my mentor. The play of colour, light and atmosphere is my subject matter." Contemplative, reflective, luminous paintings of Brown's Inlet have

funding. Also he and the artists involved felt it was a good way to try to support the Centre, a place where so much good is done for the community. Currently twenty five well-known local and Ottawa artists are taking part in the fund raising event. For information about joining please call Jaya Krishnan at 238-8676.

There will be musical entertainment, and The Pantry will be open. Councillor Jim Watson will perform the opening ceremony at 1:00 p.m. Refreshments to be provided by McKeen's Loeb-Glebe.

There will be raffle draws for door prizes, donated by area merchants and artists, throughout the event.

Don't miss Small Works, Big Heart. Come out and support the arts and your Community Centre!

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been the focus of several recent outdoor exhibits by this artist.

Frank Potvin works mainly in oil on canvas. He says: "My approach to painting is emotional, so that paintings are rendered in an im- pressionistic, wet on wet, impasto style. Beginning with sketches of scenes that inspire me, usually on location out of doors I complete my works in studio with creative additions."

Ellen Schowalter finds her starting point most often in the garden, or in the pure joy of colour. She tries to capture the vital energy of "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower, the force that drives the water through the rock." Oil on canvas, mixed media and collage are her preferred ma- terials. Folk Art is a major influ- ence for this artist who delights in found objects, animals and plant forms.

Lynda Turner notes: "I am an

Good news for jazz lovers

BY IAN BOYD

A refreshing new voice has come out of the Glebe. Local jazz vocalist Stephanie Vezina has just released her new CD, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Even if you hold only a passing interest in 'lounge' you should give this a listen. The languorous sounds of the '40s with Stephanie's expressive voice com- plement the original arrangements by well-known Ottawa guitarist, Justin Haynes.

This CD serves up the familiar and the obscure and Stephanie's voice is suited to all the songs and varied stylings on this effort. The band, with help from Ian Lefevre, shared production chores and they certainly captured the sound. The ten songs off this soft jazz CD

Ottawa artist specializing in original stone litho prints. My editions of prints are kept very small to maintain a very personal relationship between me and the image being created. The images are drawn on very large stones and printed with the aid of an old hand run press. The print media I use work well with paint, which is my other mode of expression. I have experience in oil, acrylic and wa- tercolour. To date, I have taught stained glass to night school students and have organized and run life drawing classes at Queen's University.

"Waterworks" opens Saturday, April 26, at Halpin's 66 Main St., (near the Pretoria Bridge) and continues until May 31, 1997. Vernissage takes place April 26, from 1-4 p.m. Enjoy the delicious cuisine and warm eclectic ambience at Halpin's while meeting and chatting with the members of Artiz.

feature sultry vocals complemented beautifully by clarinet, soprano sax and molded with a solid rhythm section and slick guitar. Stephanie and ensemble have successfully delivered these pieces with a modern, sometimes humorous interpretation that adds many fresh nuances while remaining true to the sentiment of the originals.

Stephanie currently resides in London, England but we hope that she will be back to participate in this year's jazz festival. Until then Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea can be purchased at the Turning Point on Cooper at Bank or at Compact Music 785 1/2 Bank St. in the Glebe.

Ian Boyd is owner of Compact Music.

Seventeen Voyces goes for baroque BY ISABELLA GRIGOROFF

Seventeen voices can do wonders with the rich and varied sounds of Baroque music especially when they are the voices of seasoned choristers intermingled with tal- ented student singers. That's what Kevin Reeves, tenor, music director, and a film producer in the Glebe, decided early this year when he asked 17 of Ottawa's finest choristers to form a new chamber ensemble. He named it Seventeen Voyces, fittingly using the old English spelling of voices.

Reeve's timing was good. Every- one he approached was enthusiastic about singing in a smaller choir

The Ottawa Guild of Potters An- nual Spring Exhibition and Sale, beginning April 24th, will be better than ever this year. For more than twenty years pottery lovers have been coming to the Glebe Community Centre each spring to see the greatest selection of pottery in Eastern Ontario.

This year, the works of more than 60 potters will be available. There will be pottery of all kinds and styles, both functional and decorative: ceramic art for your wall, functional art for your table, decorative porcelain jewellery, even decorative and functional items for

that has two main objectives: to sing for the sheer love of it, and to tackle challenging known and unknown masterworks of the 17th and 18th century. The group was eager and ready to take on cantatas and motets of Johann Sebastian Bach, certain choral works by George Fridrich Handel and other great, though lesser-known works of a large number of baroque composers, such as Johann Kuhnau, Antonio Caldara, Leo Hassler, Heinrich Schütz, and Giovanni Gabrieli. Sev- enteen Voyces was therefore launched early in 1997 under the musical direction of Reeves.

"We will not restrict ourselves to

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annual sale, there will be a juried exhibition. Unique and interesting work of ceramic artists from Ottawa and the surrounding areas will be on display.

Come and enjoy this annual sign of spring.

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Thurs. April 24 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Fri. April 25 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Sat. April 26 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sun. April 27 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Admission is free.

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June 7th, 1997 Telephone: 521-1350

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I, the artist will be responsible for my own cash transactions, including any sales tax that may apply.

I, the artist, waive any responsibility to the organizers for loss, theft, or damage to my submitted works or tools, (including musical instruments).

I, the artist, agree to pay a $15 registration fee, to be paid before the registration date of June 1st, 1997, after which a late fee of $25 will be imposed. The registration fee is non-refundable in the event of cancellation.

There will be an information meeting Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the Glebe Community Centre where participants can choose a task. A fee of $40 will be required from those participants not taking on a cooperative task.(5...

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baroque only; we will also sing modern compositions," says Reeves. "Our main purpose, however, is to tap into the extensive and fascinat- ing repertoire of baroque masterworks. A lot of worthwhile music by known and unknown baroque composers is available but there just hasn't been the opportunity to perform these works," he explains.

The new ensemble gave an inaugural performance at St. Matthew's Anglican Church in the Glebe in March, 1997, as part of St. Matthew's annual Lenten Recital Series. The positive feedback from both singers and audience after the concert convinced Reeves that the experiment was "too good not to continue" and he now has exciting plans for future performances.

Seventeen Voyces will present its second concert on Sunday, May 4, at 4:00 p.m. at St. Matthew's Church, located at 217 First Avenue. The concert will feature two Ottawa artists: Julian Armour, cellist, and Matthew Larkin, organist and music director of St. Matthew's and a tenor in Seventeen Voyces. Armour will perform Bach's Suite #1 in G Major. Larkin will accompany the choir on music by the 20th century Hungarian composer Zoltdn Kodály. The concert celebrates the 30th anniversary of Koddly's death, and will feature his haunting Missa Brevis. In addition, the choir will sing two motets by Bach: Lobet den Herrn also accompanied by Larkin

BY VLADIMIR TORRES "Who is Canadian?" Leonardo

asks. He, like many others, is a new Canadian who has arrived in this country seeking the future and the hope denied to him in his homeland. He, like seven others, is a character in the theatre play "Culture Shock," that opens April 11 at Arts Court. He could also be one of our neighbours in the Glebe.

A short walk along Bank street is enough to make one realize how our community is a clear expression of the Canadian multicultural mosaic. For every shopkeeper, restaurant owner, or random pedestrian, there is a life story. First, second or third generation Canadians keep very much alive the memories of their arrival and the beginning of the process of building a new life from scratch. Stories like these, that are so close to many of us, are the ones portrayed in this play.

The cast of "Culture Shock" consists mainly of new immigrants. Drawing heavily from their own life experiences they developed the script collaboratively. The play follows these characters from their

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Seventeen Voyces is a mix of promising young student singers in their early 20s and seasoned amateur singers mainly in their 30s and 40s who are "professionals in their own right," says Reeves. Many have given solo performances over several years. Most perform with other Ottawa choirs, including the Cantata Singers, the Ottawa Choral Society, Opera Lyra Ottawa and Musica Divina.

"Baroque music often includes multi-layered choral works written for many different voices, from four to eight or 12 and more, giving every individual singer a demanding and vital role," says Reeves. For example, the choir's inaugural performance included Antonio Cal- dara's Crucifixus written for 16 different voices. "This work was a challenge for each singer: it was also great fun because everyone felt that they were really contributing," notes Reeves.

Reeves and the singers offer their time and talents voluntarily. Reeves will look at fundraising in the future, but right now he and the group are mostly concerned about singing great musical worlcs. "St. Matthew's Church has been very helpful and supportive and has let us use its facilities for rehearsals and performances," says Reeves.

Seventeen Voyces plans to give three concerts a year.

Broken English Theatre presents Culture Shock April 11-20

arrival at the airport, through the initial stages of their life in Canada. We will see how they meet in an English as a Second Language course and share their individual struggles to adapt in a different society. The play shows the ups and downs of their daily life inte- grating light refreshing comedy and thought provoking drama.

The theatre is, among other things, a great aid to cementing the fabric of a community. It shows us who and how we are. It allows us a better understanding of our neighbours and what we have in common. "Culture Shock" runs from April 11 - 20 at the Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Avenue. Evening performances at 8:00 p.m., matinees at 1:00 p.m. Tickets $15 adults $8 students and seniors. Sunday matinees on April 13 and 20 only are "pay what you can." On the 20th there is also a raffle draw. Join us! Opening night features a free performance by Malaika. For tickets and information, call 564- 7240..


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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1997 at LAKESIDE GARDENS, BRITANNIA PARK, GREENVIEW AVENUE 7:00 P.M. TO 10:00 P.M.

The purpose of the NOSS is to create a Classification Framework which will be used to evaluate and rank natural and open space areas in Ottawa based on their environmental and social value.

The purpose of the third Workshop is to discuss:

Targets for achieving acceptable quantities and varieties of natural and open space areas; Standards to be set for guiding future land use/environmental planning decisions; and Sample of Management Plans, to guide future maintenance and management.

Your input is required to ensure that the Targets, Standards, and Management Plans reflect your views. Attendance at the first two workshops is not a prerequisite. If you are not on our mailing list, and have not received the NOSS Information Bulletin No. 3,

please contact Ms. Deborah Irwin of the Environmental Management Branch at 244-5300, ext. 3000.

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City of Ottawa business services include: Property and geographic information, location assistance, development approvals assistance, application fees information, real estate opportunities, business parks, information fact sheets and more. Come down and visit us between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at 111 Sussex Drive, Bytown Pavilion, 1st floor (across from the Client Service Centre). You may call at 244-5300 ext. 3652 or visit our web site http://city.ottawa.on.ca or send us e- mail to [email protected]

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Le troisième atelier aura pour objet d'examiner les propositions touchant les cibles a atteindre quant a la quantité et a la variété acceptables d'aires naturelles et d'espaces libres; les normes à établir pour orienter les décisions futures relatives àl'utilisation du sol et

la planification environnementale; les plans de gestion d'un échantillon de zones témoins (NOSS) en vue d'orienter les activités futures d'entretien et de gestion.

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BY NANCY BICKFORD "Hey, look, it got windows!" My six-year-old daughter pointed

excitedly as we drove down Bank Street past Hopewell School in late February. Between the grind of the 7:25 am bus deadline and what in our house has been an interminable series of strep throats, flu and colds, we'd somehow missed the exciting transformation of Hopewell school from a construction site to our school under renovation. It's amazing what a few windows can do. Now we can even tell where class- rooms are going to be, where the kids will have gym, what it will actually look like when it opens.

When it opens. Music to our ears! What seemed like so far away September 1997 is coming up very quickly. That means it is time to start planning for the move back to Hopewell, the parties, celebrations and official openings to mark the reopening of a new and improved Hopewell Avenue School.

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daytime ceremony geared primarily toward the students and an evening ceremony including families and community members.

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These school get-togethers are the kind of activities we love to attend, where we can see our kids perform, stay in touch with school staff and gab with neighbours. They won't happen without your help. We need volunteers now to plan these events to do fundraising, for refreshments and other items needed foi- the official opening and to issue invitations and design programs. We need to support the administration and teaching staff in preparing the school for tours, and there is much, much more to be done.

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INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN BUSH PROFILES BY NANCY MURDOCK &

KEVIN BUSH My family and I recently sat down

to dinner with an elderly couple whom we have known for some time. I assumed that the evening was going to unfold, as it had many times before, like a scene from the old television show, Leave it to Beaver. Knowing my passion for learning and teaching, my wife had already told me to "be good." Translated, this means; don't say anything contentious, don't dispute anything ambiguous and don't initiate a topic of conversation' which could require in-depth discussion.

The evening was progressing predictably, when one of our hosts, between helpings, blurted out: "The problem with schools today is that.

. well, in my day, everyone came from the same background ... you know, white Anglo-Saxon."

I glanced at my wife, her head flopped down as though it was weighing heavily on her neck because of immense fatigue. She awk- wardly tried to project the false notion that her napkin had fallen onto the floor, or that one of our children grabbed it frorn its original resting place. My gaze returned to our host who was now investigat- ing the scalloped potatoes on his plate with his fork.

I became acutely aware that our host was oblivious to the assump- tions and arrogance of his statement. In fact, as far as he was concerned, the remark was an accepted truth, not something that could be refuted. His comment was presented as something on the same level as, "Please pass the rolls," or "What unseasonable weather we've been having."

Although I am still reeling from the evening, I am comforted by the many personal experiences I have had that dispute the notion that homogeneity in our schools is best for our children. To the contrary, the variety of cultures and back- gounds which arrive on the doorsteps of Glebe Collegiate each morning have contributed greatly to bettering our school and community.

The following student profiles from Glebe Collegiate highlight the diversity of its student population. Rajib and Huda are only two examples of the strength of character which has infiltrated the hallways of todays schools.

HUDA YUSUF Huda is a 17-year-old honour

student who is in grade 11 at Glebe Collegiate Institute. Along with her academic accomplishments, Huda has been involved in extracurricu- April 11, 1997 Glebe Report-28

lar activities since grade 9. For the last two years she has

been a member of Peer Outreach, a group of students who help their peers who are experiencing diffi- culties and assist in directing them toward the proper professional help as needed. In addition this group works closely with the grade 9 students as members of their home- form, helping them adjust to high school and leading small group dis- cussions about issues affecting teens as well as with individual problems. The Peer Outreach group also works on school and community outreach projects, which include food drives, theatre presentations and other fund-raising activities. Huda has played a significant role as chairperson or co-chair of the following events:

Food Bank food drive held this past December, collected over 570 items from Glebe students;

Insight Theatre presentation last January brought actors from the Ottawa-Carleton area together with Glebe's grade 9 students to discuss teenage and societal issues;

Centre David Smith Centre Bowl- a-thon raised about $1200 to help the addictions recovery programmes of the Centre.

Currently, Huda is busy preparing the Ottawa Board of Education's WAVE (Working Against Violence Everywhere) Conference for grade 7 & 8 students in April. Needless to say, she possesses many attributes which have contributed to making Glebe and the surrounding community a better place.

In addition to being an integral part of Glebe's Outreach team, Huda is a peer tutor. As a peer tutor, she acts as a teacher assistant to Ms. Gillespie's grade 9 computer class, each school day. She is also an "International Guide and Inter- preter" at Glebe - a group of students who assist us with orienta- tion for our ESL students to a new school and new culture. These guides act as interpreters when new ESL students are registering at Glebe. They coordinate tours around the school introducing new students to their classes and keep a general eye on them, helping as needed. The students also help Glebe ESL students with translation if needed when talking to staff. Huda, as well as the others, plays an invaluable role in helping our new students feel a part of Glebe.

Huda's community involvement does not take a break after school or on week-ends. Along with her school success and involvement, she provides child care for the young pupils at her sister's elementary school. Huda also volunteers each Saturday at the Riverside Hospital in the Continuing Care Unit keeping

patients company, doing special events, working in the coffee shop and soon will be assisting in physiotherapy. On Sundays, she attends Islamic School.

These accomplishments speak well of her in their own right, but considering the fact that Huda arrived in Canada in March 1992 with virtually no knowledge of the En- glish language, these accomplish-

ments are truly remarkable. Huda was part of an ESL programme for only one year and is presently taking Grade 12 Advanced English. Presently, her command of the language is excellent.

Huda states that Glebe Collegiate has so many interesting activities, clubs and teams to join, that the only limiting factor is time. There is no doubt that Huda will maintain a high of level involvement in the life of Glebe throughout her high school years. In the future, she hopes to pursue her strength in the Maths and Sciences, enrolling in a university programme which com- plements her love for numbers.

RAJIB REZA Rajib is new to Glebe Collegiate

this year after completing a couple of years of schooling in Montreal. After only his third year in Canada, Rajib is quickly making a name for himself. Many of you may have heard his name over the speaker system after he won Glebe's first "Art Oratoire" gold medal. This public-speaking competition was held the first week of March at Nepean High School. Competing against many other schools within the Ottawa/Carleton area, this was an ideal opportunity for Rajib to demonstrate his French-speaking skills.

Rajib is a sixteen-year-old who has made schooling a priority. Af-

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ter talking with a number of his friends, he elected to make Glebe his home. With a full timetable facing him each day, Rajib finds that Canadian History with Mr. Kendal is his favourite. Rajib states that Mr. Kendal is a "good explainer with a great sense of hu- mour!"

Similar to many Glebe students, Rajib chooses to attend language School on Saturdays in order to better understand his ancestral tongue of Bangali. There are about 15 Glebe students from Bangladesh, many of whom take great pride in their heritage and culture. Al- though uncertain about his future, Rajib has the general goal of working to better the country of Bangladesh. In fact, the reason why he began learning French, was to better communicate the love for Bangladesh to others. There is no doubt that whatever Rajib decides to pursue in the future, his skills will be transferable to the international community -- "perhaps a doctor," says Rajib.

Rajib enjoys the atmosphere at Glebe stating that the students are honest, helpful and friendly. He argues that, at Glebe, students are given the opportunity to be themselves. He credits one individual in particular for rekindling his passion for Bangladesh and making Glebe a wonderful place .. . Peea. As a leader of Glebe's Multicultural Club, Peea helped Rajib take greater pride in his culture; she also "pushed" him to enter the Oratoire competition. What was the topic of his speech which won him a gold medal ... Bangladesh, of course.

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Prime Minister's Award BY HILL STEVENS

George Holland, Head of Science at Glebe Collegiate Institute, was recently named as a Regional recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in Science, Technology and Mathematics. This award is given for department leadership in a wide variety of activities. Mr. Holland has contributed to overall education of students in many ways. He established, and still teaches, a course in Outdoor Education, and expanded the Glebe Science Fair to be the largest in the Ottawa area. Mr. Holland initiated Glebe's participation in the Canada First Robotics Competition and ac- tively promotes external science contests at which Glebe students excel. He is indeed a worthy recipient of this year's award. In 1994, the previous Head of Science, Mr. Warren Sins won the same award. Unfortunately, this is the last year it will be given.

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Glebe Collegiate to celebrate 75th anniversary

Glebe Collegiate's school council welcomes new members

May is election month for parent representatives to the Glebe Colle- giate School Council, and we are looking for competent new members who will be representative of our diverse student population. This is an exciting time to be involved in education and we invite you to join us.

The Glebe School Council has been up and running for over a year. It is mandated by the provincial government to provide advice to the Principal and the Board of Education on many aspects of education.

We are proud of our accomplishments and look forward to an exciting year as we do our best to ensure that Glebe adapts well to the ongo- ing changes in education and the changing social climate.

At present the Council has twenty active and conunitted members who represent parents, teachers, non-teaching staff, students, and the community. The twelve parent positions are all open for election or re-election. Six positions will be for one-year terms; six for two-year terms. Members

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Make a permanent international friend. Welcome a Japanese High School Student into your home.

This is a great opportunity for your family to learn about another culture and create an interest among your children or grandchildren in learning a foreign language. We are looking for families of all shapes and sizes. A host family must consist of at least two related people. This could be husband and wife, parent and child, etc.

The visiting students are from Caritas Catholic High School for Girls in Japan and are between ages

should expect to attend an average of one meeting a month. Meetings for the coming year are scheduled on Wednesdays, subject to the ap- proval of the incoming Council. Please consider this opportunity to serve!

All parents of students who will be attending Glebe Collegiate Institute this fall are eligible for election as parent representatives to the Glebe School Council. Others willing to serve are invited to consider appointment as a community representative. For further information, please telephone one of the following members of the Glebe Parent Association's Nomi- nating Committee: Melanie Fan-

730-6082, Deborah McNeill 233- 4639, Bob Smith 237-1649 or Christine Wilson 235-3079. Nomi- nations will be received by any of the above until Thursday, April 24.

The election will take place at the combined Glebe Parent Association - Glebe School Council meeting on Wednesday, May 7, 1997, in the Staff Room at Glebe Collegiate at 7:30 P.M.

14-16. They come to Canada to study English or French and learn about our community and culture. Their days will be spent in class and on field trips. Their week nights and one weekend will be spent with their host families.

For information call Margaret McDonnell, Homestay Coordinator, 567-0058.

Global Partners Institute is a non-profit, educational and cul- tural student exchange organization, dedicated» to the growth of friendship and understanding among the people of the world.


SCHOOL NEWS BY JON BARRE' I, LISA WEAGLE,

MARCO LLAMAZARES AND PETER COLDHAM

From February 24 - 26 Ms. Heneberry's grade 6 class from Mutchmor Public School visited Camp Cameron, an outdoor education centre near Perth. It was a really great trip. We learned a lot about the outdoors, our classmates and ourselves.

The class had a blast the first day. It was so cold, slippery and icy, but that didn't matter. Our entire class slid down the giant ice hill for a whole hour. We went on a great hike, and in the evening we went down to the frozen lake and played a hockey-like game called broom-ball. It was so much fun! Some students slid down on their stomachs to get the ball! The adults and kids also played some pranks on each other. It was hilarious.

The second day we were divided into five groups and given an imaginary scenario: our plane had crashed and it would be one hour before darkness so we had to build a shelter and a fire. One of the group members had a pack with water, hot dogs, hot dog buns, marshmallows, and three matches. This was a great opportunity to co- operate, and work with not just your friends. My group built a shelter which could fit four people and was protected from the cold and snow. We also built a fire a few metres away from the shelter and

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Mutchmor students enjoy the great outdoors at Camp Cameron after imagining and discussing the possibility of our fire burning while someone was inside! One group's fire went out and they had to go to the adults' fire.

We also played a neat animal survival game. There were three categories; herbivores, omnivores and carnivores. There were also humans, fire, and a snowmobile (the dangers)! We had a mate, and we both had to get enough food and water, and find the mating station. Most people didn't make it. Almost every species became extinct! Af- ter a while we even began to feel like our animal. We realized how difficult it is to survive as a wild animal, especially if you are at the

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One of our group's main focuses was working together as a class. We seemed to have a bond the three days we were there. We all had to work together to make it happen. Each one of us depended on group efforts. Making dinner and cleaning up after it was done by us. We also had to take responsibilities for our dorms and our safety. Our class cooperation improved im- mensely during Camp Cameron. Student's weren't bickering, and everyone was very positive for the whole trip. A lot of the students made new friends, and everybody had fun.

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Once again, we expect to have over 20,000 gently used books, magazines, records, CDs, tapes and videos. Mark the dates and plan to shop for your summer reading. If you would like to donate items to the sale, please give them to a First Avenue student, drop them off at the school or phone Maha at 237- 0252 and we'll pick them up for you.

PUBLIC SPEAKING The annual Public Speaking con-

test took place at First Avenue on February 25th. After all students in grades 4, 5, and 6 presented a speech in front of their class, two students from each class were picked to present their speech to the rest of the school and an out-

wside panel of judges. These final- - ists were: Laine Johnson, Megan Taylor, Jessica Button, Brett Car- riere, Alex Hauken, Gordon Baird,

Nicola Gherson, Lev Bubis, Made- line Hall, Timothy Lamothe, Alain Bryden and Cecelia Sydor-Estable. First place when to Megan Taylor who represented First Avenue at the board-wide contest where she also won first place! Congratula- tions Megan! Megan will participate in the provincial finals to be held in Toronto in April.

HOME AND SCHOOL EXECUTIVE We're very fortunate at First Av-

enue to have an active Home and School Association run by a hard- working executive who have been together for almost two years. With the current changes in the education system in general, there has been extra work keeping on top of educational issues affecting all students and parents, often ne- cessitating quick responses and meetings to be held at very short notice.

This dedicated group of volunteers is: Maha Zayed, Presi- dent; Jennie Aliman, Vice Presi- dent; Kiran Mann, Vice President; Rosemary Cairns-Way, Past Presi- dent; Deb McNeill, Secretary and Linda MacDougall, Treasurer.

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BOOKS Have a great breakfast with The Cookbook

Hot off the press is a new cookbook written by two Ottawa residents, Janice Friis and Carol Wa- ters called The Cookbook - A Breakfast Companion of Whispered Recipes. It is crammed with more than 200 easy and nutritious recipes related to breakfast and brunch. There are kitchen tips, anecdotes, and literary quotes all about food and drink. A section for kids gives a number of fast and fun recipes for growing minds and bodies. There is another section with breakfast and brunch menus for special days of the year. Line drawings by the girls at Elmwood School add a unique and funny twist to the pages.

The first edition is a run of 1500. The launch is a breakfast party on April 19, at Food for Thought Bookstore on Clarence Street in the Byward Market, from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Books will be autographed and on sale there. For other locations, please call 567-0966.

Studies have proven that adults and children perform better after a breakfast has been eaten. The "first meal of the day" literally "breaks the fast" whether it is five, eight, 12, or 17 hours after a sleep. The authors say these recipes are chosen for a variety of purposes: simple and quick-to-make, nutri-

Join The Travellers in India John Leaning, long-time Glebe

resident, architect and grandfather par excellence has done it again. He has just completed The Trav- ellers in India. It is his fourth book in The Travellers series, that he originally created for his own grandchildren, but which he now makes available to grandchildren of all ages.

In this book with its flowing, magical illustrations and com- pelling complementary text, we move with the travellers as they venture high and low, across the vast and changing landscape of India, visiting its timeless cities and temples with their fantastical architecture and intricate decora- tion. Magic carpets, rickety antique buses, sailboats and ele- phants are employed to take them on their quest, which never deigns to stop short of disaster or its con- sequent adventures. The visual rendering of such musical names as Manikaran, Yamuna, Madurai, Ganesh and Tirukalikundrum run along with the antics of the tray-


tion rich, for fun times, to perk up an ordinary day, and for party times. Say the authors, "Because our friends had some great breakfast recipes, and we had favourite family recipes handed down for generations as well as trademark personal recipes we wanted to share them with others. Enjoy! Santé."

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Janice Friis was born in Ottawa,

graduated from Elmwood School, and after 20 years of living in many other towns and countries moved back three years ago with her husband Morten and two teens Chris- tian and Catherine. She lives in the

ellers, and are themselves a sub textual adventure.

The books are created under the alias Boffin, a pseudonym that de- rives from the author's wartime job with British Military Intelligence when he worked alongside people such as Alan Turing, one of the master minds behind the development of the computer.

Boffin's books are a far cry from modern computer technology in that they are hand drawn, handwritten and hand coloured. The Travellers in India continues the Travellers' tales, following upon their journeys to the Far Eastern Lands, across Canada and to the North Pole and Asia.

A fifth book is in process to be called The Travellers' Architec- tural Tale, which will be a journey through time (5500 years) and space, from the Egyptian pyramids to outer space structures of the future.

Copies of these books can be ob- tained from John Leaning at $25 each. Telephone 237-4375.

Photo: Ali Moayeri Carol Waters (I.)* and Janice Friis

Glebe and operates a design business called Janart Creative Ser- vices, and works as a volunteer for The Maycourt Club. She has a B.A. Hons. in Art History and English from Queen's University and has studied fine art in all the cities she has lived in. She is about to grad- uate as a graphics technician in printing, from a 2-year diploma program at Algonquin College. The Cookbook was designed, written and printed as a final year project for the program.

"Carpe diem, (live each day to the fullest)," is her philosophy in life, "and to find the best in every per-

son or situation that comes your way."

Carol Waters was born in Sydney, Australia and has lived in Ottawa close to 20 years. For 17 of those she has owned and operated the Australis Guest House in Sandy Hill along with her husband Brian and daughter Olivia. Prior to Ot- tawa she worked and lived in the UK and the Third World. An active member of the community, she has won many awards such as the Noel Kerr award, the Harvest Bake-Off award and the Star of the City award for Hospitality. She is an avid volunteer who enjoys being able to do good work for others "Because I deal with so many different people in my life, I'm learning every day."

The friendship between the authors started when they were painting sculpture boxes for a fund raiser at their daughters' school. Carol's dream to publish a cookbook on Bed & Breakfasts and Janice's bent to seek out challenges that involve art, food and writing found an exciting focus when the two discov-: ered the untouched market niche in the cookbook world - breakfasts. To see their finished product come Out to their breakfast party at Food for Thought Books, April 19th.

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Life in the Spirit BY REV'D CANON

LYDON K. MCKEOWN Near the Cross on Good Friday,

stood a group of women. In Galilee they had ministered to Jesus and the twelve apostles. When the time came, they followed on to Jerusalem and witnessed the crucifixion. They were still watching by Jesus' body when Joseph of Arimathea came and took the body down from the cross and carried it to burial in a nearby garden.

On the first day of the week when they came to visit the tomb, they saw that the stone no longer covered the entrance. What had happened to the body? Who had rifled the tomb? Hastily they entered in and just as hastily they stopped. There they confronted what seemed to them to be a young man clothed in a long white robe. He spoke to them gently and told them the most amazing news. "You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was cruci- fied. He is not here. He has been raised."

The Christian Gospel may be simple, but it is also very pro- found. Christians don't speak like those who claim to have all the answers and therefore have nothing more to learn. We don't speak as if our message is always easy and palatable because, if it was, then we

would not be bearing a true witness to the Gospel. The Church has spo- ken and will continue to speak as one that has been through fire and water and still feels the terror of the elements about us. We speak of a peace and joy that is based nei- ther upon shallow optimism, nor upon ignorance of this world's mis- eries and complexities. We speak as those who believe that the Risen Lord of love is central to our lives; that His word of reconciliation has been uniquely and decisively spo- ken and that He can transform the lives of men and women for whom He died and rose.

This world in which we live, of the sensual, the materialistic and many pagan beliefs, is a transitory world. The good news of Easter is of better things in the future. But they are strange things, things that we can only begin to understand in our pilgrimage here on earth. When we permit God to live and breathe in us then we will experience this new life that He will give to our mortal bodies. Resurrection life received from God is adventurous, expectant and confirms who we really are children of an all lov- ing Father. Alleluia!

The Reverend Canon Lydon K. McKeown is the rector at St. Matthew's Anglican Church.

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CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (Roman Catholic) Fourth Avenue at Percy Street 232-4891 Rev. Dr. Leslie Laszlo, Administrator Rev. Anthony O'Sullivan in Residence Rev. Dr. Leslie Laszlo, 233-8603 for Hungarian Community Masses: Weekdays: 8:00 AM Saturday: 9:00 AM 4:30 PM Sunday: 9:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:30 PM (Hungarian) (Elevator Access for the handicapped. Loop system for the hearing impaired)

FIFTH AVENUE FREE METHODIST CHURCH Fifth Avenue at Monk Street 233-1870 Minister: Rev. Stanley J.T. Hanna Sunday Services Worship Service 11:00 AM Evening Fellowship 6:30 PM Sunday School: Youth & Adult 9:45 AM; Children's 11 AM

FOURTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Fourth Avenue at Bank Street 236-1804 Minister: E.J. Cox Sunday Services: Morning Worship 11:00 AM

GLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH 650 Lyon Street 236-0617 Pastors: Ann McKeown and Jack Nield New Ventures in Celebration 9:30 AM (Family Service) Worship 11:00 AM plus Christian Development Program (ages 3-13)

ST. MATTHEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH Glebe Avenue near Bank Street 234-4024 Rector: The Rev. Canon Lydon McKeown Assistant Curate: The Rev. Janet Smith Holy Communion: 8:00 AM Choral Eucharist & Church School: 10:00 AM Choral Evensong: 7:00 PM (first & third Sundays) Weekday Eucharist: Thursday 10:00 AM Counselling by appointment 234-4024 (Handicapped accessible from parking lot. Loop System)

THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) 91 A Fourth Avenue 232-9923 Clerk: Betty Hurst Sunday Service: 10:30 AM

OTTAWA CHINESE BIBLE CHURCH Bank Street at Fourth Avenue (Fourth Avenue Baptist) Pastor: Rev. Yu-Hsiung Chen 232-5211 Sunday Services: Worship 9:15 AM Sunday School: 11:00

OTTAWA CHINESE UNITED CHURCH 600 Bank Street 594-4571 Minister: Rev. Otto Ng. Co-worker: Rod Bennett Sunday Services: Sunday School 9:30AM Cantonese/Mandarin & English 11:00 AM

OTTAWA DEAF FELLOWSHIP Total Communication Fifth Avenue at Monk Street Minister: Pastor Dick Foster Sunday Services: Worship 11:00 AM Sunday School 9:45 AM

ST. GILES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Bank Street at First Avenue 235-2551 Minister: Rev. Duncan Kennedy Youth Coordinator: Colleen Smith Sunday Service: Worship11:00 AM Church School 11:15 AM

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION AND ST. NICHOLAS (ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA)55 Clarey Avenue 236-5596

Clergy: The Rev'd Fr Andrew Morbey 523-1928 The Rev'd Dr Symeon Rodger 725-9215 The Rev'd Fr Lionel Dixon

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EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH (Hispanic Ministry) Bank St. at Fourth (Fourth Avenue Baptist) Pastor Rev. Pedro Morataya 741-0628 Sunday Service: 3:00 PM Wed. Prayer Meeting 7:30 PM


WORDS South branch library news

BY PAMELA ROSOLEN This will be my final column in the Glebe Report. I will be leaving

Ottawa in April as a result of my appointment to the position of Regional Director of the Saint John Regional Library in New Brunswick.

It has been my pleasure to serve the library needs of our community for the past seven years. While I will miss the many faithful library users in the Ottawa South Branch Library community, I know that our staff will continue to offer their high quality service.

TOP TEN The following are the top ten requested items in the Ottawa Public

Library system:

There will be one special Saturday programme,April 19. 2:00 p.m. St. George and the Dragon: fiery stories, films and crafts 5 to 8-year- olds. Pre-registration (45 min.)

Upcoming events in the children's section include: Babes in the Library. Music, rhymes and books for babies from

birth to 18 months. Tuesdays 1:15 p.m. May 6 to June 10 inclusive. Pre- registration.

Bébés à la biblio. Musique, comptines et livres pour les bébé de la naissance à 18 mois. Les jeudis a 10h30 du 18 mai au 12 juin inclusivement. Inscription.

Time for Twos. Stories and films for 2 year olds. Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m. May 7 to June 1 inclusive. Pre-registration.

Storytime for 3 to 5 year olds. Mondays at 10:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday stories and films for 4 to 6 year olds. Saturday at 10:30 a.m. May 3rd and May 10th only.

To register for any of our programmes, please call the South Branch Library at 598-4017.

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Lunches at Rasputin's now feature the exciting addition of Brian Harris to our kitchen. With a new look,

in a casual smoke-free environment Brian's style is home-cooking. The menu includes a variety of specials made with fresh ingredients

each day. Items such as a Grilled Chicken Sandwich, Pasta with Salad, or personally tailored pizzas.

Lunches are served Monday through Friday from llam till 4pm. The background music varies from classical to tranquil folk. So come in and say hello to Brian Harris and let him make you

feel welcome.

In its 16 year of business Rasputin's has earned a reputation as one of the Folk Rooms in Canada. Each week we present concerts, Open Stages,

Celtic Jams, Folk Jams, and more. This month we have Poetry with Cheaper By The Dozen (Apr 15); Music by Kingston's Kevin Head(Apr 18,19)

and Toronto's Katherine Wheatley(Apr 25,26).

1. Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 2. Boom Bust & Echo David K. Foot 3. The Partner John Grisham 4. Runaway Jury John Grisham 5. Hornet's Nest Patricia Cornwell 6. Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald 7. Deep End of the Ocean Jacqueline Mitchard 8. Angela's Ashes Frank Mc court 9. M is for Malice Sue Grafton 10. The Englishman's Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe

CHIDREN'S PROGRAMMES

This space acts as a free community bulletin board for Glebe residents. Drop off your GRAPEVINE message at the Glebe Community Centre including name, address and phone no. 'For Sale' items more than $1,000 not

FOUND * On Sun. Mar. 16 on Wilton Lane, a HOMEMADE TAPE "Vanessa's Mega Mix." Call 230-2589. * CALCULATOR found March 29 on Fourth Ave. near Chrysler Ave. 234-9993. * CAT, GRAY FEMALE, tortoise- shell markings. Friendly. Please call 232-6344.

FOR SALE *BIKE, GIRLS 20" Princess bike $20, coaster brakes, excel] condition, 231-4938.

PEREGO DOUBLE STROLLER, looks new; excell condition. Call Jenifer, 234-2830.

LOVESEAT, blue & grey, subtle south western look. excell. cond. & Victorian loveseat, cover & ruffle burgundy, greens & beige. Asking $150. Paid $500. 231-6457.

HIGH-END STEPPER for home exercise. Great workout! 230-8102.

BRIGHT RED TUBULAR BUNK BEDS w. ladder, all attachments, parts, bolts & orig, instructions incl. 1

single mattress. $325. 235-8879. EVERGREEN Little Tikes climber

for sale $300. Call 235-7588. EMPLOYMENT

*CLEANING LADY with references required bi-weekly. Call 230-8102.

WANTED CRAFTSPERSON to make a unique

small wooden mailbox 238-5761. SINGER/SONGWRITER is looking

for people serious about forming a band. Folk/pop/punk-rock. Ages 17 to early 20s, covers & original work. Ph Stacy 731-6888.

FURNISHED HOME OR APT wanted by professional couple, retired, for summer months. Downtown/Glebe area, 233-1942

EMPLOYMENT WANTED PLAN NOW, SPRING GARDENING,

interior painting, odd jobs, university students, exc. references 237-5827.

BABYSITTER AVAIL. Sept. or for summer holidays. Home day care. Lots of exper. Teaching background, close to Mutchmor school. Part- time or full-time kids. Lots of fun, home atmosphere. Refs. 230-3757 days, 234-8581 evgs.

NOTICES SPRING HYMN SING, April 24,

7:00 pm at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, Bank & Fourth.

BLOOD DONOR CLINICS scheduled Apr. 24, Student Day, 85 Plymouth St. 9:00 - 8:00; Apr. 30 Regular clinics held at 85 Plymouth: Tuesdays 9:00 - 5:00, Wednesdays 5:00 - 8:00, Thursdays 12:30 -

8:00; & Fridays 9:00 - 12:30. MAYCOURT CLUB presents a

Dinner & Fashion Show at St. Elias Centre, 750 Ridgewood Ave., Thurs. May 1, at 6 p.m. Tickets $50, call Shirley at 733-4681. Proceeds to the May Court Convalescent Home for Women.

CITY OF OTTAWA'S ACTIVE LIVING CLUB for Senior Adults offers a Spring Hiking Programme from Apr. 21 until June 27, 9:30 am to noon. Three levels: beg., inter. & adv. so participants can hike at their own pace. Cost $25, ($33 for non City of Ottav residents). Registration & info: 798-8734.

RUMMAGE SALE Fri. Apr. 25 noon - 6 pm & Sat. Apr. 26 9 am-noon at Southminster United Church, Galt St. entrance. *ANTIQUE SEMINARS AT BILLINGS ESTATE MUSEUM, 2100 Cabot St., Apr. 26/27. Learn how to date & identify ceramics, silver & other antiques at a one-day seminar. Pre- registration required. Cost $20. Call 247-4830. *DIVERTIMENTO ORCHESTRA CONCERT Apr. 19 at 7:30 pm at Rockcliffe Park Public School, 350 Buena Vista. Tickets avail, at the door. $8 adults, $6 students & seniors. 823-1200. * AUCTION - THE GOOD COMPANIONS Seniors' Centre holds their Spring Auction Sat. Apr. 12 beginning at 10 am. Viewing on Fri. Apr. 11 5:00-9:00 pm & Sat. at 9:45 am, 670 Albert St. All welcome.

THIRD ANNUAL GREAT USED TOY SALE May 10, 9:30 am - 12 noon, Main Hall of Glebe Community Centre, 690 Lyon St. S. Sponsor: Glebe Montessori School.

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NOTICES * SPRING RUMMAGE SALE Glebe St. James United Church, 650 Lyon St., April 19 Sat. 9 am - noon

FABRIC FLEA MARKET. Sell your surplus fabrics, knitting yarn, needlework supplies, notions & patterns. A fund raiser for the Champlain Park Community Assoc., May 10, 10 am to 3 pm. at The Champlain Park Fieldhouse, Info: Gail Cariou 722-6874, Kay Young 722-7955 or Laurie Fagan 728-1945.

GOOD MORNING PLAYGROUP accepting registration. Preschool for two-year-olds Tues.& Thurs a.m., & three-year-olds Mon., Wed. & Fri a.m. at St. Giles Church, First Ave. & Bank St. To register, phone Maggie Magner 567-7085.

EVENING CARE PROGRAM looking for grandparent(s). Playgroup for children (ages 2-7) of single parents meets twice a month, Fridays 5:30 - 10:00 pm at Free Methodist Church, Monk at 5th Ave. We would like grandparent(s) to visit & participate in our program. Call Lucie 230-8631 & leave a message.

IODE LAURENTIAN CHAPTER Annual House & Garden Tour, Thurs., May 15, 10 am - 4 pm. Features 4 beautiful houses & embassies. Tickets $16. Info: 746- 7057. Proceeds to education & social services.

CREATIVITY IN CHILDHOOD Sat. April 26, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Refreshing ideas for parents, caregivers & educators. Keynote talk plus 4 workshops. For information call 729-7545.

CANADIAN SHOWCASE CHORUS Sat. May 3, Centrepointe Theatre, Nepean. Special guests: Chordiac Arrest 2 pm or 8 pm. Tickets $16, Seniors/students/groups $14. Theatre Box Office 727-6650. * TO COMFORT THOSE WHO MOURN NAIM, a support group for widows & widowers meets Apr 15 at 7:30 pm at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Hall, 153 Woodroffe Ave. Ron Kolbus, City Councillor will talk on Life & Duties of a City Politician followed by group discussion & socializing. All welcome.

GRAPEVINE NOTICES

* CENTRETOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE offers 4 wk support/info group for caregivers of seniors with alcohol problems. Starts Mon. May 5, 7 - 9 p.m. Free.

TARA PLAYERS presents a benefit performance of Big Maggie by John B. Kean in support of Blessed Sacrament parish Wed. Apr. 23, 8 pm at St. Patrick's Hall, 280 Gloucester St. Parking avail. at 296 Nepean St. Adm. $10. Tickets: 232- 4891.

OTTAWA MONTESSORI SCHOOL 2nd Annual Used Book Sale & Open House, Fri. May 9 4:30 - 9 p.m. & Sat. May 10, 9am-2pm at Ottawa Montessori School, 335 Lindsay St.

OTTAWA NEWCOMERS CLUB invites women who have recently moved here to attend its meeting, Wed. May 7 at 7 pm. To register call 860-0548. * ARE YOU CARING FOR AN ELDERLY FAMILY member or friend? Attend a 4-part education & support series at Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre on Wednesdays, April 16 - May 17. Information: Christina Ditomaso, 741-6025. Cost $10 or $4/session.

ABOVE GROUND POOL brand new, unboxed 12' x24' x48" Atlantic model equipped. Bought at Mermaid Pools last Summer.

Paid $2,800 asking $2,100

Call 226-7200 or 226-6426.


CLEANING

LIALL- -Wife INC

PARTY SERVICE HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZERS HOME REPAIRS HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZING Time to tackle the

house - Let us help you with the basement, the kitchen cupboards, the windows, perhaps a coat of paint on the wall!

10% Discount (for cleaning only) Laurel 789-2246

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Glebe Community Centre 690 Lyon Street South Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3Z9

Tel: 564-1058 Fax : 564-7612 Ak INN= 1111111111111111P,

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4r Spring tk Summer Programmes at Glebe C.C. The Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group and the City of Ottawa

are currently accepting registration for their quality

Ar recreational programmes for all ages. Register today while spaces last!

Ar For detailed information, please call 564-1058.

G.N.A.G. also offers excellent.Workshops for adults! 4t, Bike Maintenance Wed. May 14 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Free! dr Perennial Exchange Thurs. May 15 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Free!

Rock Gardening Wed. May 7 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. $10.00

Try our fabulous Cooking Workshops !

Inventing With Maple Syrup Sat. May 3 10:00 a.m. - Noon $25.00 B.B.Q. Without Steaks & Burgers Sat. June 7 10:00 a.m. - Noon $28.00 Unusual Fruit Cooking Sat. July 5 10:00 a.m. - Noon $50.00

& Sat. July 12

Ar The Glebe's Pottery Studio

Ar G.N.A.G. offers memberships to experienced potters for independent work time. Call Vickie Salinas for details at 564-1058.

Ar Cost: $107.00 for a 3 month term or $45.00 per month. Price does not include clay.

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Services communautaires

Ati s Upcoming- 4th SPEC 1 EVENTS t Spring Craft Fair

Thinking about gifts for Mother's Day? Stop by and shop or simp y browse! 1

41t1 Ark Saturday April 12 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Free Admission

t Spring Flea Market t You don't want to miss out on some fantastic bargains. Come out and discover some wonderful old treasures. t Saturday, April 19 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Free Admission

ar. Annual General Meeting TA Glebe community members are welcome to attend the meeting. t Those who wish to become a volunteer or would like more drk information about G.N.A.G., please call 233-8713. dirk Wednesday, April 29 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

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