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EMC news - An art exhibit from local Old Ottawa South business owner and photogra-pher Jérôme Scullino aims to help fund Alzheimer’s research at the University of Ottawa.

The Art for Alzheimer’s ex-hibition on Aug. 19 will sup-

port the non-profi t foundation You and Me for Memories, a foundation dedicated to rais-ing money for Alzheimer’s disease research.

Jérôme Scullino Photog-raphy Studio in Old Ottawa South will feature selections from Scullino’s personal work, Les Invisibles, a col-lection of photographs of the

elders from a small town in France.

The feature photograph, one of an elderly couple embrac-ing, highlights the impacts of a disease such as Alzheimer’s said studio manager Ashleigh Birkett. Scullino, not shy to offer his help when it comes to help fundraise for a cause, jumped at the chance to help

the organization.“It is important to the studio

to give back to the community any way we can,” Birkett said. “From someone who comes to our studio or even ourselves, we have all been affected by this disease and we want to help.”

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EMC news - The recent de-cision to close the Somerset Community Police Centre does not sit well with some area resi-dents.

The Ottawa police made the announcement that the commu-nity police centre located at 393 Somerset St. West would close for good on Aug. 7. The centre would be relocated to space at city hall in September. Robert Dekker, vice-president of the Centretown Citizens Com-munity Association reported he has heard from many con-cerned residents in the area.

“There is concern with the station gone, the safety the community currently feels will be gone and they are apprehen-sive of what could happen.”

Dekker is not happy with what he called a sudden deci-sion to close the building.

“We were surprised. We re-ceived notice at 1:30 p.m. on a Friday before the long week-end? We thought we would get more notice,” Dekker said.

The association, Dekker added, had heard there was po-tential for the centre to close, but had hoped to have taken part in a consultation process on where the new centre could be.

“I think maybe I am being presumptuous, that the asso-ciation was owed a phone call, but it would have been nice,” Dekker said.

Cost of rent for the build-ing is the given reason for the closure. Police chief Charles Bordeleau said that various provinces are facing sustain-ability issues and have to learn to re-allocate resources.

See ASSOCIATION, page 9

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EMC news - Learn a few line dancing steps, take a bounce or two with the chil-dren in the bouncy castle or fi ll everyone’s bellies full of barbecue delights.

When it comes to holding a community day in Overbrook, organizers said they want resi-dents to see all that Overbrook has to offer.

The free event begins at noon with a barbecue feast of hot dogs. Sheila Perry, president of the Overbrook Community Association, has been work-ing with community partners, residents and the city to make this year’s community day a success. The event includes a

bouncy castle, a chance to learn how to line dance or watch a youth-police basketball game showdown. There will also be an outdoor movie playing once the sun sets. Perry said this day will give the community a chance to enjoy all the great things about their home.

“It is a really, really special event,” Perry said. “This is a wonderful way to get to know your community.”

This year marks the fi rst anniversary of the Overbrook Community Centre’s re-open-ing and from the moment the day begins, organizers promise there will be a ton of activities for everyone who attends.

With activities taking place inside and outside the commu-nity centre, Perry added people will have a hard time choosing what to do fi rst.

The community centre will be showcasing programming and there will be a chance to get crafty or watch youth

and police battle for bragging rights as the winner of a bas-ketball game with a DJ to set the mood.

Ottawa fi refi ghters, police, paramedics, bylaw offi cers and city representatives have been invited to the event to promote community safety.

“It is really important that you are working on a good rapport with the city when it comes to working on safety in the community,” Perry said. “And making knowledge available for what a commu-nity can do to make it safe is part of that. We have a lot to celebrate as a community, but we have a lot of work still to do and these individuals can offer support.”

And the community has really come together to make this day happen, she said.

The event was made pos-sible through the help of the community’s partners.

From a donated lunch through Ottawa Community Housing, a story reading or-ganized by Ottawa Public Library and a bouncy castle provided by the community’s baseball neighbours, the Ot-tawa Fat Cats, Perry said she is amazed at how much work everyone has done to make the

day a possibility. “It is fabulous, it a grow-

ing progress, it takes a team to pull all this together and you can really feel everyone help-ing out,” Perry said. “A fair bit of work goes into this, with a lot going on behind the scenes. There is a true partnership with what is happening here, it is wonderful when you get a good group make it happen.”

The other partners include the Overbrook-Forbes Com-munity Resource Centre, the city, the East Ottawa Optimist Club and the Community De-velopment Framework

The day will also feature the unveiling of Overbrook’s fi rst Paint It Up! mural project. More than 18 youth have par-ticipated throughout the month of August to help paint a mural that depicts life in Overbrook.

The offi cial unveiling will take place at 2 p.m.

After a full day of activities, families will have a chance to go home and take a nap before the community association celebrates its fi rst movie night with the screening of the fi lm The Lorax at 8:30 p.m.

For more information on the community day, residents are encouraged to go to www.overbrook.ca.

File In 2011, the Overbrook community celebrated the re-opening of the Overbrook Community Centre during a community day event by promoting programing at the centre. This year’s event takes place on Aug. 18.

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EMC news - A downtown bike tour will give partici-pants a chance to stop and eat the cherries.

The 2012 Urban Agricul-ture Bike Tour on Aug. 29 is organized through Just Food. The tour begins downtown and will take cyclists through Sandy Hill, the Glebe, Old Ot-tawa South, Old Ottawa East and over the Rideau River to Alta Vista for a total of a 12-kilometre bike ride.

The tour is being held to inform participants the impor-tance of having a sustainable food system in their city.

Tyler Levitan organized this year’s event and invited everyone to join the ride.

“If people are interested in community gardens, and the sustainable food movement in the city, and want to meet like-minded people to learn some gardening skills and also have a really good time, they should come out,” Levi-tan said

“It is also just a nice time to spend the afternoon on your bike.”

The ride is intended to promote community gardens, Levitan said, so individuals who wish to learn more about how a community garden is built are encouraged to come out.

This is the fi fth year Just Food has organized this bike tour, but it’s the fi rst time the tour will include a stop at a home owner’s garden, too.

Old Ottawa East resident Maryna Nowosielski has a garden unlike any other. A mix of fruit trees, roses, green beans and strawberries, No-wosielski has planted it all together.

“You can mix and match. It is good when you grow your beans in with the fl owers. It contributes to proper growing and looks really pretty too,” Nowosielski said.

Nowosielski’s garden will be a stop on Levitan tour.

A resident of the Glengarry Road for 35 years, Nowosiel-ski continually changes what

her garden looks like and grows every year and she has offered the same advice to new gardeners who will stop by.

“Just do what ever you like, because you will be changing it anyway. But learn what likes to grow where. After that, it doesn’t matter,” she said.

Levitan said he wanted to feature Nowosielski’s garden because it truly has every-thing and it’ss a sight to see.

Over a four-hour period, the tour will visit seven com-munity gardens, including the stop at Nowosielski’s garden. Families are encouraged to come out, and Levitan said. No one has to cycle the entire 12 kilometres if they do not wish to.

“Ask questions about any-thing,” Levitan said. “That is the point. Ask anything about what makes gardening unique or how to garden while on the tour.”

There will be free, locally grown snacks available during the ride.

The tour costs a suggested donation of $5 to participate, which will be donated to the Ottawa Food Bank. More in-formation about the event is available at www.justfood.ca.

SubmittedJust Food bicycle tour organizer Tyler Levitan stands in the BUGS community garden, located at the Glebe Memorial Park, which is one of the gardens the tour will visit on Aug. 29

Annual bicycle tour promises a tasty rideJust Food event takes participants to seven community gardens in the city

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EMC news – While the real SuperEx rides its logistical rollercoaster to secure a new home, World’s Finest Shows is bringing a little magic to the nearby Rideau Carleton Raceway this month.

Beginning Thursday, Aug. 16, the raceway’s grassy grounds will be transformed into a wonderland of rides, games and shows to keep the whole family entertained over two weekends until Sunday, Aug. 26.

The event is sponsored by the Central Canada Exhibi-tion Association, which ran SuperEx at Lansdowne Park for more than 120 years until 2010, when it was cancelled due to the historic site’s rede-velopment.

SuperEx’s midway pro-vider, World’s Finest Shows, created last year’s fi rst Mid-way Magic event to tide fami-lies over while SuperEx is on hold. It was hosted at the Ot-tawa Baseball Stadium in the city’s east end.

Joe Pavia, Ottawa repre-sentative for World’s Finest Shows, said this year the base-ball team didn’t have its lease

fi nalized with the city before World’s Finest Shows needed to decide on a venue, so they went with the raceway.

“When we had to make de-cisions it just wasn’t timely,” he said.

While the Rideau Carleton Raceway is not as central as the baseball stadium, Pavia said the venue has some no-ticeable perks.

“The raceway has some-thing we always love to have: it has real grass. And if you’re bringing a family it’s nice to not be on pavement,” he said. He added that the raceway is better equipped with services like water and power.

While World’s Finest Shows knew its event was magical last year, this year the organizers have made it more offi cial with a roster of magi-cians, illusionists and hypno-tists taking the stage over the two-weekend fair.

Popular hypnotist Fernan-dez is the star, and will of-fer his “hypnotic comedy” at 4 and 8 p.m. each day on weekends. Ottawa magician Ian Quick will also offer two shows each day on the weekend, which are “fi lled with laughs, thrills and jaw-

dropping effects,” according to the Midway Magic press release.

But it’s Quick’s understudy, 14-year-old Gabe Roberge, that visitors should watch for.

The young Sandy Hill ma-gician will perform twice a day on weekends at the big-gest gig of his short career.

“I’ve never been asked to do this many shows for one person, so I’m very excited about that,” said Roberge, who will begin Canterbury High School’s drama program this September.

Since he was about four years old, Roberge has lived and breathed magic. His small

bedroom is crammed with hundreds of gags, props and books that have made him the magician he is today.

His decks of cards alone occupy a four-level desktop drawer set, sorted into dozens of rows of red and blue decks just waiting to fascinate his next audience.

“Magic is everything,” he said. “I spend 24/7 thinking about it, working on it, prac-ticing, trying to fi nd new stuff to add to my show.”

His Midway Magic shows will offer family-oriented magic and comedy, where he’ll invite kids on stage to participate in his tricks.

He’ll make a two-litre bottle of pop appear out of no-where and pull a roll of toilet paper out of his mouth to get people laughing.

“That’s probably the hard-est thing for me ... just getting people laughing, to all join in and have a good time,” he said.

Nixing the traditional cape, top hat and wand for a more casually colourful attire, Roberge considers himself a “modern magician” who combines comedy with fresh magic that will leave his audi-ence in awe.

“I try to keep it away from pulling a rabbit out of a hat and pulling a quarter from a kid’s ear. I try to keep it fresh so people are always interest-ed in what’s happening next,” he said.

Roberge will perform twice every Saturday and Sunday during the fair, which runs Thursday, Aug. 16 to Sunday, Aug. 19 and Thursday, Aug. 23 to Sunday, Aug. 26.

For complete details visit www.midwaymagic.ca.

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Emma JacksonSandy Hill magician Gabe Roberge, 14, will mystify audiences at Midway Magic this month.

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Canada’s sweetheartOttawa’s most decorated athlete, Barbara Ann Scott-King, was joined by Mayor Jim Wat-son and others to offi cially open the Barbara Ann Scott Gallery at city hall on Aug. 9. Sandy Hill native Scott-King grew up skating on Dow’s Lake and went on to become the only person to hold the European, North American, Canadian and World championship titles and the Olympic gold simultaneously in 1948. The new gallery features memo-rabilia from her beginnings with the Minto Figure Skating Club to her ascent to world champion.

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EMC news –A crackdown on cellphone use while driv-ing has resulted in 39 tickets issued to motorists in the east end during the fi rst week of a month-long blitz by Ottawa police.

The tickets were issued over a three-hour period at various

intersections in the east end dur-ing the fi rst week of August.

Drivers were caught texting in their laps while sitting at a traffi c light, and talking on the phone through the speaker-phone function.

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EMC news - By the end of this month, there should be a ramp allowing people to wheel their bike up beside the stairs to get up the hill to cross Hart-well Locks.

It’s a small, simple addi-tion, and although it has taken eight years to make it happen, it will allow thousands of cy-clists to use the locks to cross the Rideau Canal, particularly during the National Capital Commission’s Sunday Bike Days.

It’s just one of thousands of small projects completed each year to tweak conditions to make life easier for cyclists in Ottawa, says Robin Bennett, the city’s project manager of cycling programs.

Ottawa’s extensive net-work of pathways and decent complement of painted bicycle lanes allow the city to boast that it is one of the most bike-friendly cities in the country.

But if the city wants to hit its target of 12,000 trips taken by bike in 2021 (there were 4,500 in 2001), it needs to link those cycling routes together.

Things like the new “bike box” at the north end of Bay Street at Wellington Street are the type of thing that re-

ally work to connect cycling routes, said Colin Simpson, a transportation planner at the city and project manager of the Laurier segregated bicycle lane.

“It’s a great addition be-cause it supports an important feeder line,” he said.

A left turn at busy Wel-lington Street is the most intimidating part of cycling from Ottawa’s downtown, in-cluding the east-west Laurier segregated lane to the Ottawa River pathway and the Portage Bridge to Gatineau.

Adding a bike box there to give cyclists the priority to turn left before cars is a way to make all the rest of the city

and NCC pathways and lanes more accessible and easier to use, Simpson said.

Segregated lanes are the way of the future, participants heard at the Velo-City bicycle conference in Vancouver this June.

They are what make the difference between improv-ing conditions for people who already cycle, and getting new people on the roads, said Simpson, who attended the conference.

“We hear from people who are taking up cycling because of this lane,” said Alex deVr-ies, vice president of the local advocacy group, Citizens for Safe Cycling.

Unlike segregated lanes, bike boxes don’t need a trial period or “pilot project,” – they can just be done right away. That’s something Simp-son wants to see more of.

“We need to go further and do it faster,” he said.

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With mysterious and novel things like bike boxes popping up in Ottawa, the city is fast be-coming recognized as a leader in cycling infrastructure.

Buffered bike lanes on Bay Street are another Ottawa fi rst on Simpson’s list. He wants to make the painted lines of an existing northbound bicycle

lane on Bay Street wider by painting a wider diagonal strip to the left of the bike lane, causing cars to leave more buf-fer room for cyclists.

Another big fi rst will be a grade-separated bicycle track along Churchill Avenue be-tween Byron and Carling.

When that road is recon-structed next year, it will have a raised track between the sidewalk and vehicle lanes that will give cyclists a feeling of safety similar to riding on the sidewalk.

Being among the fi rst in the province to construct these types of cycling facilities is giving Ottawa the edge in help-ing plan the provincial rules for cycling infrastructure.

The upcoming bike facil-ity guidelines, referred to as Book 18, will be completed by the end of the year, thanks in large part to the efforts of city transportation planner Robert Grimwood.

“It puts us in a position to provide input on implementa-tion … It gives us a chance to be leaders,” Grimwood said. “Ottawa has very clearly been the most engaged municipal-ity.”

There are 13 municipalities participating in drafting Book 18, which for the fi rst time will include guidelines for how to build bicycle lanes of different styles, bike signals, “cross-rides” (intersection crosswalks that cyclists are allowed to bike though) and all manner of infrastructure that could be built for bikes.

Book 18 won’t provide hard and fast rules, but Grimwood said the Ontario Traffi c Man-ual, which the document will become part of, is considered the “Bible” of infrastructure planning.

“It will be used,” he said.

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EMC news - Not unlike neighbourhoods rallying against tall buildings, there are groups who say they like bike lanes – just not here.

While cyclists can argue that small changes and a few painted lines can make all the difference in getting new cy-clists on the road, some coun-ter that maybe that’s not the best idea, and maybe the lanes aren’t making them any safer.

Or, perhaps the benefi ts to a few cyclists don’t outweigh the frustration bicycle lanes might cause for others, such as residents, businesses or motorists.

Two such groups are BBRAGFAR (Bay/Bronson

Residents Action Group for Fair Access to the Road) and the Responsible Cycling Co-alition (RCC).

Both make it their main business to oppose the city’s two-year pilot project testing out a curb-separated bicycle lane on Laurier Avenue West.

While both groups are simi-lar in size (around fi ve to eight people) and in their ability to garner media attention, they oppose the bike lane for very different reasons.

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For some residents of Lau-rier Avenue West, seeing two lines of curbs bisecting the street when they look out their windows is hard to swallow.

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street, between Lyon and Bronson, there used to be 69 parking spaces.

Now there are none.The city says that section

of Centretown now has more parking than before (124 spaces replaced 122), despite the removal of spaces on Lau-rier, because new street park-ing was created on adjacent streets.

But that’s no comfort for many Laurier residents, who number around 2,000 in sev-eral buildings.

Their concern is repre-sented by the cumbersomely named BBRAGFAR, a small group that says there are not enough cyclists using the bike lane in their section of the street to warrant leaving the curbs up for another year of

the pilot project.“A service for which we

pay taxes was taken away from us for the sake of a few cyclists,” said Norm King, one of BBRAGFAR’s fi ve members.

They want the city to keep the segregated lane farther east, but convert it into a “sharrow,” a painted shared car and bike lane, and allow parking over the sharrow markings when it’s not rush hour (Toronto is piloting that idea on College Street).

There’s less traffi c and therefore less risk of injury to cyclists on those blocks, so there is no need for a segre-gated lane – parking would be more benefi cial, King says.

BBRAGFAR also bemoans the lack of consultation before

the lanes were put in. But King admits he did

know about the handful of public meetings he could have attended to express his opin-ion – but he thinks the city had a responsibility to come meet directly with Laurier resi-dents, and no one did.

Seeing snow removed from the bike lanes at the same time as the rest of the street – often before sidewalks are cleared – only serves to add to their frustration, King says.

There are many elderly or disabled folks residing in the area, and the alternate loading and drop off zones don’t serve them as well as the parking spaces they grew accustomed to enjoying.

See BIKE, page 7

Laura MuellerInnovative cycling fi xes like this new ‘bike box’ at Bay Street and Wellington Street are helping put Ottawa out front of other Ontario municipalities when it comes to bicycle infrastructure.

Ottawa’s newcycling ‘links’ are making it a leader in connecting cycling facilities

Cutting across 400-se-ries highway on-ramps to continue straight on a road or bike lane is a daunting risk for cyclists.

Cycling lanes that disap-pear or appear out of nowhere, like this one in the middle of O’Connor Street, create collision potential.

Sharrow markings in lanes that aren’t wide enough for both bikes and cars, like at Laurier and Elgin, create risk.

Debris or crumbling asphalt in a bike lane or near the curb can force cy-clists into the traffi c lane

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Bike lanes pit cyclists against cyclists ... and driversContinued from page 6

It’s diffi cult for people with mobility concerns to cross over the barriers in the middle of the street, King added.

“The use of bicycles isn’t the issue,” King said. “We just don’t want to have the front of our buildings blockaded for no reason.”

“Our chair has a bike,” King adds, referring to Janine Hutt, the head of BBRAGFAR.

VEHICULAR CYCLISTS

For Kanata resident Avery Burdett, there’s a big risk in encouraging inexperienced cyclists to get on the road by offering them a false sense of security in a bike lane – a mirage that’s heightened on Laurier because of the curb separating cyclists from ve-hicles.

Burdett is a founding mem-ber of the RCC, and for him, driving (and he is careful to use that word) a bicycle is a simple and time-tested pro-cess – it’s just not one that most people bother to educate

themselves about. And it’s not a skill that most people are encouraged to learn, he says.

He’s what’s referred to as a vehicular cyclist, and fol-lowing the principles set out by John Forester in Effective Cycling in 1976, he treats his bike like a car on the road. It’s a theory based on research that shows being a skilled cy-clist is the best way to prevent injury or death, Burdett says.

He rides with confi dence because he knows how to, Burdett says. He has taken the nationally-syndicated Can-Bike training course and he has spent years riding the roads with other cyclists in the Ottawa Bicycle Club. That’s what he thinks everyone else should do before hitting the road.

He says the focus on build-ing infrastructure for bicycles is purely political: “They want to get people out of cars – and it’s not going to work … It has to be recognized that skills will reduce the risk of people getting injured. We’re the thorn in the side of their plans.”

Still, Burdett wouldn’t be upset to see more cyclists on the road – as long as they are trained to the exacting stan-dards he holds himself to.

“No one who is a commit-ted cyclist would want to dis-courage people from getting on a bike,” he said.

He says improvements to roads and intersections could make it easier for people to cycle – but those improve-ments would also benefi t all road users and motorists, he added.

ADVOCACY

Cycling advocacy in Ot-tawa seemed to go through a shift starting about four years ago.

That’s when Hans Moor took over as president of Citi-zens for Safe Cycling (CfSC), and it’s also around the time when the group handed over Can-Bike training courses to be run by the city.

“It’s not the same group as it was,” said Burdett, who was once involved with CfSC. “It’s basically an environmen-

tal group now.”Moor, who moved to Ot-

tawa from Holland in 1998, says his fi rst decade or so in Ottawa gave him the impres-sion that the people who cycle here are mainly focused on an athletic pursuit. But after he took over the advocacy group, he noticed that there were many cyclists in Ottawa who shared his mindset: that riding a bike is simply an effi cient, healthy and safe way to get around.

“Our message is a bit more moderate than in the past – it appeals to more people,” Moor said.

Moor likens the range of cycling groups to the differ-ent types of motorists. That includes everyone from regu-lar commuters to Formula One racecar drivers, he says. “Elite” cycling groups like RCC represent the cycling equivalent of Formula One drivers. CfSC leans more to the average commuter.

CfSC doesn’t disagree with everything other groups are saying (Moor also thinks that more money could be spent

on cycling education), but he’s reluctant to get into de-bates with groups that hold an opposing view.

In the end, Moor says his impression is that not many

decision makers listen to the anti-bike lane or elite vehicu-lar cycling groups.

“It doesn’t have much of an impact on where cycling is going in Ottawa.”

Laura MuellerCyclists should learn how to ‘drive’ their bicycles before hitting the road, according to Avery Burdett, a founding member of the Responsible Cycling Coalition.



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We recently had one of those Sunday after-noons where our newborn screamed as only a colicky baby can for 15 minutes. In the same quarter of an hour, my six and seven-year-old boys started wrestling to the death on their bedroom fl oor, the cat vomited at my feet from the humidity, just as Ottawa received its fi rst signifi cant rainfall in over a month and water started pouring through the living room ceil-ing.

The aftermath was not pretty. No resilience, no problem-solving, no understanding or em-pathy for the poor cat. To put it simply, we all freaked out.

Much of this – or at least our reactions to it – could have been prevented by a good night’s sleep the night before. Unfortunately, with a two-week-old baby on hand, my husband and I had spent the better part of midnight to 5 a.m. rocking or feeding or singing to our crying baby. We were exhausted.

I decided that day that I had to take matters in hand. There would be no more fi ve- hour over-night stretches of screaming baby. I vowed that

from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m., I would not leave my bed, and the baby would be by my side, and she would learn to respect the precious commodity of sleep in our household.

Who says you can’t sleep train a newborn?At the risk of jinxing a good thing, my

method has worked. Little Darling seems to sense that it’s time for bed as soon as the TV goes off, the lullabies go on, the lights go down and we put our jammies on before the last feed of the day. Granted she tends to fall asleep in my arms, me propped upright for most of the night on a collection of cushions and pillows. But you know what? We’re sleeping. We’re sleeping so well, in fact, that I often wake up in a panic because fi ve or six hours have gone by without interruption. I check to make sure Little Darling is still breathing – she is —and then proceed to wake her for a feed.

At 6 a.m. I get up, make coffee and open the curtains before waking Little Darling for the day. She doesn’t have an opportunity to cry. She wakes up slowly as I talk to her, change her, tickle her toes and take her to the daytime feeding station in the living room. The boys generally help out with the fi nal part of the day-time announcement by banging out the White Stripes on piano or guitar and then wrestling to the death on the living room fl oor.

It’s only been a week. And you know ba-bies have a tendency to alter their routines just as you get used to things. At the same time, a week is a third of Little Darling’s life. And frankly, at this stage of the game, I’ll celebrate whatever sleep I can get.

Protecting our most precious commodity – sleep

Year after year we are seeing less predictable weather.

It’s costing the farmers dearly this year and the dry times will cost us all over the coming months and years.

Adapting our actions to deal with climate change is a simpler task than adapt-ing our lives to deal with weather that can damage our economy.

The price we pay for fruits and vegetables will be the

fi rst effect felt by consumers. If dry weather becomes the new normal, some produce may not be available at all or the season will be shorter.

Because local corn and hay feeds cows but is in short supply, farmers across much of Canada and the central United States will likely be forced to sell off beef cattle.

There could be a glut and prices might drop in the short term which could be followed by a spike.

Unpredictable weather may mean unpredictable beef prices.

Beyond the food on our tables, there will be other, less obvious effects if dry, hot weather becomes the norm.

At Pinto Valley Ranch in Fitzroy Harbour, the owners plan to sell nearly half their horses because feeding them hay at current prices isn’t possible. That will mean reduced opportunities for Ottawa kids to try riding,

which in turn will almost certainly mean fewer riders for the equestrian industry in the future.

If watering bans become the new normal, backyard gardens and community allotment gardens won’t be able to provide as much food for city folk. That in turn in-creases demand for imported foods.

If we’re forced to stop watering lawns, they will die and homeowners will have to invest in drought resistant

plants or pave the front yard.Golf courses are suffering

and the cost of installing ir-rigation systems could be the difference between staying in business or shutting down for some course owners.

The sports fi elds used by children and adults are in rough shape because of the dry weather. When the qual-ity of play drops far enough, we’ll need to add the cost of resodding fi elds to the property tax bill.

All those costs for con-

sumers pale in comparison with the trouble ahead for farmers.

Some plants do well in wet weather while others can survive dry times, but what can farmers plant when the weather is completely unpredictable?

If our summers are going to be extreme – dry, wet, hot or cold – we will all pay dearly.

It makes investment in climate science seem like a good deal.

Drought comes with a price for everyone

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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTIONHow should the city deal with the emerald ash borer infestation?

A) Treat the trees even if it’s an expensive option.

B) Cut down aff ected trees and hope the bugs don’t spread further.

C) Wait until the damage is done and replant trees other than ash.

D) What are ash borers?

PREVIOUS POLL SUMMARYDue to a technical problem, last week’s poll question did not appear on our website.

Last week’s question: How often do you use your bicycle to get around town?

A) Every day. My bicycle is my primary mode of transportation.

B) Often. I cycle to work every once in a while or recreationally.

C) Occasionally. I ride my bike a few times each year, but not frequently.

D) Never – I don’t even own a bicycle.

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“Managing within that en-velope is a challenge we’re facing,” he said. “We looked at that we’re paying rent, $60,000 a year. How can we partner up with the city to save money?”

By changing the location of the Centretown station, the department will drastically reduce rent costs to run the station.

Dekker is not convinced. “I understand social re-

sponsibility, but at what point do we worry about the safety of the residents?” Dekker said.

The building was closed over several months in 2011 for renovations, re-open-ing in April. At the time, the community police offi cer in charge of the centre Const. Khoa Hoang said the interim period had been extremely diffi cult for staff, the com-munity, and business part-ners. Upon re-opening, the centre was fl ooded with resi-dents, happy to have the cen-tre back.

Now, Dekker said, it will be gone for good.

“One email from a resident asked, ‘how many (offi cers) boots will it take to replace a sign?’ And that is the ques-tion, isn’t it?” Dekker said.

Dekker is referring to the element of safety the commu-nity police centre has offered,

simply by being in the neigh-bourhood.

The centre will move from directly beside a methadone clinic to an offi ce in city hall. Somerset West has not had too much criminal activity, and Dekker and area resi-dents have credited that to the centre’s presence.

Residents are worried that criminal activity in the area will increase after the centre moves to a new location, he said.

The new location also poses some concerns. The move, Dekker said takes the centre away from residential homes.

“Are people going to go to the new centre? They might call 911 instead,” Dekker said.

Dekker suggested a space, such as a community centre could have also been used to house the community police centre.

“A location like the Jack Purcell Recreation Associa-tion could have worked and people may have been more receptive to the move,” he said.

But according to Sgt. Ste-phane Tracy, the move will not cause disruptions or af-fect programs and services offered by the downtown community police centre.

Dekker said he hopes this is the case.

“I know the offi cers out of

that building were fabulous and we are anticipating that the level of interaction will not change,” he said.

Tracy said the number of offi cers for the area and the centre itself won’t change, adding that the level of ser-vice will remain the same.

“Moving will not affect what the community police centre does,” Tracy said.

Dekker said in light of the removal of the centre, the community association’s safety committee will be watching for any increase in criminal activity in the area.

Dekker encourages resi-dents who live in the area to

contact the committee if there are any concerns.

“The committee will gauge how this new change will go,” Dekker said. “We may not know until Septem-ber what the impact is of the centre moving but we will be keeping an eye on it.”

The centre will relocate to city hall on September. Crime prevention information can be picked up at any of the other community police centres in the city.

For urgent police matters, police have requested resi-dents go to the Ottawa Police Station at 474 Elgin St. or call 613-236-1222 ext. 5766.


EMC news - An eco-friend-ly organization wants people in Ottawa to learn all about where used tires go.

The group plans to create a mini-park in two spaces of a parking lot in the Byward Market near the intersection of Dalhousie and George streets on Aug. 19, with a bench sit-ting on a path surrounded by fl owers and mulch – all made out of recycled rubber.

Ontario Tire Stewardship Andrew Horsman said this park is his organization’s chance to showcase what hap-pens to a recycled tire.

The executive director said he wants the city of Ottawa to learn about the products which will be featured at the park, aiming to have the municipal-ity begin to use eco-friendly products such as used rubber when building parks, curbs or play areas in the city.

“The Pop-up Park gives people the idea of what real world use can be of their old tires,” Horsman said. “What we are trying to do with this space is to inform people of where their scrap tires go, they don’t get burned – they

get turned into sustainable products.”

The Ontario Tire Steward-ship is a non-profi t organiza-tion responsible for develop-ing and applying the use of Ontario’s used tire program and is funded by industry or-ganizations. Horsman said the goal of the event in Ottawa is to educate people on how rubber can be used as an al-ternative building material for construction of city parks or roads.

A recent survey conducted by Ontario Tire Stewardship found 89 per cent of Ontar-ians felt their communities would benefi t from the use of recycled tire products in com-munity projects.

The event highlights sus-tainable living and maximizing recycled rubber products, turn-ing them into everyday items including rubberized tiles, sidewalks, mulch and roof shingles, Horsman added.

“It is taking place in a parking lot, taking up park-ing spaces, to also highlight the need to use other modes of transportation,” Horsman said.

The eco-friendly mini-park will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Park expo aims to teach residents about green living

FileResidents have raised some concern over the closure of the downtown community police centre located at 393 Somerset St. West. The centre will be relocated to city hall in September.

Association will keep watch: Dekker

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Birkett added it is also impor-tant to the studio to give back to the community.

You and Me for Memo-ries is a volunteer group that raises money for Alzheimer’s research done by Dr. Richard Bergeron, a physician with the University of Ottawa’s faculty of medicine.

The foundation was created in 2008 by St-Jean’s brother, David, and his friend, Bruce Levis, who both had mothers who suffered from the dis-ease.

At one time, the group raised all its money through one annual fall gala, but now holds several small fundrais-ing events throughout the year at local long term care homes. This will be the fi rst business-organized fundraiser for the foundation.

Over the past four years the organization has raised more than $175,000.

St-Jean said the goal this year will be to sell more than 1,000 tickets, which are on sale for $80 each.

AN EVENING TO REMEMBER

Karen St-Jean, the founda-

tion’s director of media rela-tions and events sponsorships, said the idea for the fundraiser arose when she approached the photography studio for a donation for their annual fall gala, An Evening to Remem-ber.

Scullino, who also had a family member suffering from Alzheimer’s, showed St-Jean his photographs taken of an elderly couple embrac-ing from the Les Invisibles series.

“I started to cry, it remind-ed me of the way my father was with my mother,” St-Jean said. “It was when I saw the photograph that a conversa-tion started about the possibil-ity of holding an event at the studio.”

Briket agreed that it was through the emotional conver-sation of what it is like to have a family member live with the disease which led the studio to offer to hold the one day fund-raising event.

This isn’t the fi rst time that the photographs of Les Invisibles have been on dis-play, Brikett added, but it is the fi rst time the photos will be displayed the way Scullino wants them to be.

“The studio felt being able

to exhibit the photos would bring awareness to the disease and to the studio. It is a project of Jérôme’s (Scullino’s) that is very dear to him, they have never been shown the way he wanted it to be, and this is his chance,” Brikett said.

The staff of three began canvassing the area, from lo-

cal businesses to residents to inform them about the up-coming fundraiser as well as gather more gifts for the fi nal draw.

All the proceeds from the draw will go to the founda-tion and Scullino will donate half of the proceeds from any photograph prints sold to the

foundation.The exhibition will also fea-

ture a draw, where the chance to win one of Scullino’s print, along with other prizes will be handed out.

Tickets to enter the draw are $20.

The event is scheduled to run from 1 to 5 p.m. at 1171

Bank St. St-Jean said people can

also donate to the foundation online at www.youandmeformemories.ca or attend the fi fth-annual You and Me for Memories gala, An Evening to Remember at the Ottawa Convention Centre on Sept. 29.



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Supporting the Next Generation of Sports: A Collective Responsibility

Do you remember how proud you felt when

Denis Potvin won the Stanley Cup for the

first time in 1980? Or the chill you felt when

Elizabeth Manley reached the second step of the

podium at the Calgary Winter Olympic Games

in 1988? Or the emotion you felt when Kristina

Groves won a silver medal in the 1500m and a

bronze medal in the 3000m speed skating event

at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games in

2010?

Any athlete can tell you that you need talent and

a lot of hard work to compete with the best in

the world. But athletes will also say that a strong

support team is important to their success. This

means involved parents, devoted coaches, and

committed volunteers.

When an athlete steps onto the podium

and reaches the pinnacle of his or her sport,

it reflects the culmination of their effort

and countless hours of training. But this

achievement is also the success of a greater team,

and even the community as a whole. This team

is made of those people that have encouraged

them since the beginning, watched their every

step and followed them throughout their career.

After all, these athletes are part of our family,

our friends and are our neighbours. As members

of our community, it is important that we

support our athletic leaders of tomorrow.

Of course, only a handful of athletes will ever

reach the professional level in their respective

sport or discipline. It is the same for the

Olympics. Many aspire, but few manage to make

it to the Games. However, the Olympic dream

is still alive in young athletes today and it is for

this reason that we must encourage their dreams

and aspirations. By supporting young athletes

of today, we are contributing to the professional

athletes of tomorrow.

In short, we must appreciate and develop

amateur sports in Ottawa. It is up to us to get

involved – whether it is on the local, regional or

provincial level – with the goal of fostering our

athletes.

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games will take

place in Sochi, Russia, more than 7000km from

Canada. In 2016, it will be Rio de Janeiro’s

turn to host the world’s greatest athletes. But

for many of these participants, their Olympic

dreams start right here in Ottawa.

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EMC news - Ottawa driv-ers who use electric cars to get around have got their fi rst free spot to charge up while they run errands.

What’s believed to be the fi rst public electric car char-ger in Ottawa was installed at the Place d’Orléans Shopping Mall on July 16.

“It’s being used and we’re receiving compliments from customers,” said Place d’Orléans general manager Chris St. Amand.

“It’s sort of a growing community of electric car drivers.”

The project started because Myers Orléans Chevrolet Buick GMC was looking for an Orléans location to install an electric car charging sta-tion.

“We know there are going to be more electric vehicles in the future,” said general sales manager Andrew McA-lear. “We wanted to establish a location where our clients could charge up.”

They considered several locations but they needed to fi nd a location where the parking lot was owned by the retailer.

Place d’Orléans ended up fi tting the bill best for the universal charging station, which charges any electric car.

“We fi gured that would be the number one loca-tion,” McAlear said. “A lot of people walk through Place d’Orléans from January to December and there is a clear location underground.”

Neither McAlear or St. Amand were aware of any other free public charging stations currently in Ottawa.

The spot is marked in the underground parking, in the fi rst row to the left upon en-tering underground parking from the north side of the mall. It’s close to the carwash station that is also under-ground.

The signs indicate that it is a spot for electric car charg-ing and ask users to respect a two-hour parking limit.

St. Amand said that there are some early issues with customers who don’t drive electric cars parking in the spot.

“So we’re now putting up additional signage to say that that space is intended for elec-tric cars only,” he said. He added that there are adjacent spaces that the charger’s cords can reach.

For the electric vehicle McAlear is used to selling, the Chevrolet Volt, it takes about four hours for a full charge.

“It’s meant for a top-up or replenishment,” he said. “They’re asking that they be considerate; don’t leave your vehicle there charging all day.”

This is an early experiment for the shopping mall, but

management likes the idea so far and are open to expanding the program to include addi-tional chargers in the future.

The electric car communi-ty in Ottawa is small – McA-lear says he sells about 10 to 12 Volts a year – but owners

are connected, using message boards and mobile apps to share charging stations.

While there are other charging stations in the city, they require a credit card to pay for usage.

“We were unsure about

how much electricity it actu-ally consumes but the infor-mation that we have is it’s very nominal,” St. Amand said. “We want to encour-age customers to have green practices, so if we can sup-port that, we’re happy.”

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been for the ice house, and the Barnett ice box grandfather bought, we would not have had a way to keep food from spoiling.

But the ice house served another purpose as well, even though we kids were forbid-den to use it for anything other than to store ice from the Bon-nechere River.

It was a retreat on a hot day, but we had to sneak in and sneak out.

When the winter was at its coldest, and the river had fro-zen solid, father would cut huge blocks of ice, pile them on the fl at bottom sleigh, and haul the load to the ice house.

He would be at the job for days: drilling, sawing, and stacking the blocks in the ice house in neat rows. Once he had enough that he thought we could survive until the next year, he made many trips to the saw mill for sawdust.

Every square inch of ice was covered with the sawdust to protect it from the little bit of summer warmth that pen-etrated the wood walls.

It was usually Audrey or Everett who were sent for a new block of ice.

The ice house was pitch-black inside, and so they worked by feel rather than by seeing what they were doing.

When the house was built, a big wood slip lock was made to keep the door secure, and which could be used to open and close the door from either inside or out.

That was a great comfort to me, as I was always terrifi ed of being locked inside some place and not being able to get out.

That door was supposed to

be opened only when a block of ice was being taken out. But that didn’t mean that was always the case.

Although I was much too timid to do this on my own, I knew that my brothers would often slip into the ice house and spread out on the top blocks to cool off on a blister-ing hot summer day.

They would wait until fa-ther was in a fi eld, and mother was busy in the kitchen, and then they would sneak open the big wood slip lock and put as much fl esh as they could.

They had to be very care-ful to rid themselves of any sawdust when they emerged, however.

Mother made big jugs of iced tea, and Audrey would be sent for shards of ice, which would be washed thoroughly in a clean bowl, and then dropped into the tea.

For reasons which escaped me at the time, ice for the cold drink was never taken from the ice box.

But when grandfather saw the many hardships mother had to endure when she mar-ried a back-woods farmer after living so long in a big city, he bought a brand new wood ice box in Renfrew, and as well as keeping our food fresh, it served as a nice piece of fur-niture for the kitchen.

It sat kitty-corner and moth-

er always had a potted plant on the top of it, which at the time, I thought brought a touch of elegance to the kitchen.

Since I was the youngest of fi ve, I was given jobs mother thought I was capable of do-ing.

One was emptying the melted ice water from under the ice box. It dripped into a large white porcelain basin and I was always checking it because it was sure to spill it on the kitchen fl oor.

So several times a day, I got down on my belly, and stuck my hand in the basin to see if it was ready to be emptied.

In the winter time, the water was poured into the reservoir on the end of the Findlay Oval.

Anything we could do to cut down on dragging water from the pump out in the yard when the snow was knee deep, we did it.

But in the summer, the wa-ter was poured on the garden, or on mother’s fl ower beds. It was no small blessing that I never really appreciated back then; but we had the river, and so we had ice.

We had an ice house to store it in, and so were always able to keep our perishables fresh, we had a grandfather who had enough money to buy us an ice box.

We were poor, but in many ways we were blessed.

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Carl Nigi, originally from England, left school at the age of 16 to begin working.

“I was reading at about a seven-year-old level,” he said. “I was basically a functioning illiterate.”

He knew by age 10 that he had a problem.

“I remember I had conversa-tions about it,” he said. “I tried everything that educators and specialists offered, and I mean everything. I spent thousands of dollars doing it.”

Nigi said specialists were able to diagnose the symptoms but offered little in the way of support.

“They were never able to give me anything helpful to actually overcome it,” he said. “It was only after joining the workforce that I realized I wasn’t stupid.”

He went back to college in his 20s to learn fi ne-furniture making.

One day, a teacher put a name to his problem.

“My teacher said, ‘Look, Carl, you are dyslexic,’” Nigi said, adding an offi cial diag-nosis was the only thing that saved him from failing the course.

At age 21, Nigi was offi -cially diagnosed as severely dyslexic, but he didn’t fi nd the help he needed for 18 years.

Nigi was 39 years old when he found help with the Davis Dyslexia Correction program. The program was developed

by Ron Davis – a severely dys-lexic adult – to correct reading learning disabilities. Now Nigi is a facilitator.

The program offers help for people diagnosed with a number of learning disabili-ties, including learning math and writing, attention defi cit disorder (ADD) and attention defi cit hyperactive disorder (ADHD).

“It gets to the root cause of dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, non verbal learning disabilities,” he said. “We use (the word) dys-lexia because it was the fi rst name ever given to what peo-ple now call language-based learning disabilities.”

The program boasts a 97 per cent success rate, said the 44-year-old, who runs Overcom-

ing Dyslexia in Kanata.

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Leah Edwards knew her sons were struggling with tra-ditional learning.

Both Blair, 16, and Kyle, 18, had learned their alphabet and knew their colours before starting school. But once they entered the classroom, they started to fall behind.

“As soon as they started school, they forgot all of that,” she said, adding they were di-agnosed with ADD and put on what she called a “huge amount of medication.”

“It was a band-aid,” Edwards said. “My children weren’t wild…just a lot of trouble and diffi culties at school.”

Edwards found out about Nigi’s program about a year ago. Before starting the pro-gram, “Blair was (reading) at a soft Grade 2 (level),” said Ed-wards. “By the end of his fi rst day he was at a mid-Grade 7 level. Not only had he learned the alphabet, he’d mastered the alphabet.”

When the family went out to celebrate Kyle’s 18th birth-day this year, Blair read the menu for the fi rst time, said Edwards, adding it was a big accomplishment.

As for Kyle, he is heading to college for underwater com-mercial skills this fall.

“If someone had ever told me that Kyle would be med free, I would have told you, you were on crack,” said Ed-

wards, adding both sons are off medications.

She added the program is not an instant fi x and those tak-ing the program have to want to be there.

“It’s not a cake walk,” Ed-wards said, adding the family generally works on four to fi ve words a session, twice a week.

In his fi rst year as a facilita-tor, Nigi said he came across a 12-year-old boy who was about three years behind his grade level.

“When I asked about prob-lems in schools, he said, ‘Well, I don’t know. I think I’ve got brain damage or something,’” said Nigi, adding the boy’s ad-mission hurt.

By the end of the one-week program, Nigi had the boy reading at his grade level.

“It gives them tools that they can basically understand and overcome the problems of their dyslexia, or ADD, or ADHD and give them under-standing and success. And that’s far bigger than a cure,” said Nigi.

Dyslexics are usually visu-al, multi-dimensional thinkers, who are highly creative, said Nigi, adding that’s why the Davis program calls dyslexics gifted.

“If someone is highly skilled and creative we call them gifted,” he said. “If we try to cure dyslexia, really cure it, it would be like trying to cure somebody of their sense of humour.”

However, Nigi said he fi nds he is often contacted as a last resort.

“That’s usually what I fi nd, people come try me after they’ve tried everything else.”

Nigi treated a 14-year-old male who was reading at a Grade 2 level. He had been di-agnosed with ADD and put on medications.

“I had him reading at a good Grade 7, soft Grade 8, and that’s just in one week,” he said, adding the teen was able to go off his medications.

He said the boy’s mother was thrilled, and called to let Nigi know that, “His worst days after the program are like his best days on medication.”

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Nigi said dyslexia is often misunderstood in the tradition-al education system. Students may be labelled as inattentive, lazy, or a problem.

“These kids are being mar-ginalized, (they’re) not given enough help in school,” he said.

“A non dyslexic telling a dyslexic what their experience is going to be is a little like a man telling a woman what her experience in pregnancy is go-ing to be,” said Nigi. “I can’t give her the benefi t of my wisdom because I don’t have any.”

The Davis program offers insight from the point of view of a dyslexic.

“What the program says is this isn’t a disability. It’s actu-ally a talent – a perceptual tal-ent. If we do some very simple things and practice some very simple things we can actually overcome it,” said Nigi of dys-lexics of all ages. “The disabil-ity part becomes a thing of the past.”

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EMC news - Ottawa-Orlé-ans MPP Phil McNeely was at the Montfort Hospital on Aug. 8 to announce additional nurs-ing hours in Ottawa.

Ottawa will receive up to

26,807 nursing hours in 2012-13 dedicated to patients arriv-ing by ambulance.

Allocating more nursing hours to patients arriving in the emergency room via am-bulance prevents a backlog of ambulances and paramedics.

The nurses will be working with patients who do not have life-threatening conditions.

“We’re providing better emergency care by funding new nurses who are dedicated to

helping patients arriving by am-bulance,” said McNeely, who is also the parliamentary secretary to the minister of health and long term care. “This means pa-tients will get the care they need while allowing paramedics and ambulances to respond to other emergency calls.”

There were 18 different communities that received funding for the additional hours, with Ottawa receiving $1.5 million.

SubmittedOttawa-Orléans MPP Phil McNeely making the funding announced at the Montfort Hospital on Aug. 8.

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Please note: The Ottawa Humane Society has many other companion animals available for adoption. Featured animals are adopted quickly! To learn more about adopting an animal from the Ottawa Humane Society please contact us: Website: www.ottawahumane.ca Email: [email protected]: (613) 725-3166 x258

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Blossom is a spayed female, orange tabby Domestic Shorthair cat who is about three years old. She loves to cuddle with grown-up friends for attention and affection. Blossom has a very friendly disposition with humans but likes all of the attention to herself so needs to be the only feline in your home. She needs lots of interesting toys to keep her entertained. An owner who will keep her active to help her shed a few pounds will help her live a long and healthy life! For more information about these or other animals available for adoption, please call the Adoption Centre at 613-725-3166 ext. 258 or visit www.ottawahumane.ca.

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Fleas, an annual external parasite, are mostly harmless. The biggest problem caused by fl eas is itching. However, some pets or people may be allergic to fl ea sa-liva, which causes fl ea allergy dermatitis (super-itchy spots with hair-loss); young, sick or elderly pets can become anemic from too much blood loss.

These wingless insects are capable of jumping long distances. While cat and dog fl eas prefer to feast on animal blood, they will turn to a human host if needed.

The life-cycle of a fl ea has four stages:

Eggs, which fall from the host into the environment

Larvae, which live off of the fallen fecal matter of adult fl eas found in carpets and in lawns.

Pupae, which is the cocoon. They do not emerge until a host is detected (via warmth /vibration)

Adults, which feast on blood.

If you do have a fl ea-infestation, it is important to treat the pet’s environment as well, to eliminate fl ea eggs and larvae.

There are many over-the-counter prod-ucts that help solve fl ea problems such as fl ea sprays (both for the pet and environ-ment), shampoos, or collars. While the costs may be lower for over-the-counter products ($5 to $30), they often need to be reapplied to solve a fl ea infestation.

Prescription-only solutions such as topical treatments (Advantage, Revolution) or pills (Program, Sentinel) are more expensive and require a vet visit for a prescription. They are usually dispensed in a six-month package, to be applied monthly for the fl ea season.

They are safer, easier and more effective than over-the-counter products. These products often have additional benefi ts, such as heart-worm protection and tick,

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Cocotte is a spayed female, calico Domestic Shorthair who is just over two years old. This tri-coloured feline loves to wake up early in the morning and has an attentive and affectionate disposition. She loves to play with toys and be near her human companions. She loves to use a scratching post! Cocotte loves attention and would like to be in a home where she can have company for most of the day.

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Aug. 15 & 29A crime has been committed at the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum! Young detectives, ages six to 14, will use their super sleuthing skills to solve the mystery. Cost is regular admission plus a $10 workshop fee. Runs Wednesdays from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 18 Come out to the Overbrook Community Day on Aug. 18. The day begins at noon and goes until 4 p.m. There will be a free barbecue provided and lots of family activities and information tents. For more information please visit www.overbrook.ca

Community corn boil at the Cumberland Farmers’ Market. Every week at the market you will fi nd a wide variety of local goods such as seasonal produce, meats, breads, pastries, specialty foods, skin care products and artisans goods. It is located at the RJ Kennedy Community Centre at 1115 Dunning Rd. Visit www.cumberland-farmersmarket.ca or call 613.833.2635.

Aug. 25Friends of the Farm are host-ing Art on the Farm, with a rain date of Aug. 26. Spaces are still available, and all me-dium are welcome. The event will take place at the west exit of the Prince of Wales roundabout at the corner of the National Capital Comis-sion Driveway and Maple Drive. For more information, please go to the website at friendsofthefarm.ca, email [email protected] or call 613-230-3276.

Sept. 5 and 12The Village Squares, a traditional couples square dancing club, is offering two free open house evenings of instruction for beginner couples at 7:30 p.m. in the Roy G. Hobbs Commu-nity Centre, 109 Larch Ave. No experience necessary. Caller Paul Adams and club members will give a warm welcome. Complimentary re-freshments will be provided at the end of the evening. The dance season

Sept.15Join Ottawa’s hilarious and sensational Afro-Caribbean Group, ‘Ni Wewe Tu’ on Saturday, Sept. 15, for an evening of entertainment in celebration of Jamaica’s 50th Year of Independence. Jamaica Mi Soon Come is a skit about an unruly group of people travel-ling to Jamaica on “Soon Come Airlines” to celebrate Jamaica’s 50th. They get increasingly frustrated with the fl ight delays and heated arguments, Jamaican style, ensue. When they fi nally arrive, their friends and rela-tives welcome them back to Jamaica. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children age’s six to 12. To purchase tickets and for more infor-mation, please call 613-834-1718 or visit the web site, niwewetuchoralgroup.org.

Sept. 17Calling all golfers for Habitat for Humanity National Capital Region’s Annual Chipping In Golf Tournament for on Monday, September 17 at Cedarhill Golf and Country Club. Come out for a fun day of networking, prizes and friendly competition while raising much-needed funds for Habitat NCR to build

homes and build hope across the region. For more information, call Gail at 613-749-9950 ext. 223, send an email to [email protected] or go to www.habitatncr.com

Sept. 22-23, 29-30The artists of the 17th annual West End Studio Tour invite you to visit their studios in the Westboro/West Welling-ton neighbourhoods on the weekends of Sept. 22-23 and September 29-30. Spend an autumn weekend wandering one of the city’s most vibrant and eclectic areas as you visit the 14 artists of the tour. Enjoy works from painting to fabric art and from etch-ing to photography. The West End Studio Tour offers a multitude of styles and mediums that will engage and entertain.

TuesdaysThe Hogs Back 50+ Club meets every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the front room of the Boys and Girls Club, 1463 Prince of Wales Dr. at Meadowlands and Hogs Back. Bring a bag lunch or come for cards, crafts, friendly chatter and camaraderie. Drop in and check it out. For more information call Shirley at 613-225-8089.

WednesdaysBuns in the Oven, a free program for pregnant moms led by a nurse and a parent educator at South Nepean Community Health Centre, 4100 Strandherd Dr., suite 201, runs on Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in May. For more information or to register, please call Su-san 613-288-2825, ext. 2134.

Fridays

Five-pin bowling league is encouraging senior citizens over the age of 50 to par-ticipate in an activity that provides regular moderate exercise. Members range in age from 50 to 90. There is no registration fee. Bowling takes place each Friday af-ternoon between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Walkley Bowling Centre, 2092 Walkley Rd. Participants are placed on mixed four-person teams. To register, please call Roy or Jean Hoban at 613-731-6526.

Saturdays The Elmdale Lawn Bowling Club is open from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays in June at 1 MacFarlane Ave. Bring the family and let members introduce you to this fun and active sport. For more infor-mation call 613-248-0632 or www.leaguelineup.com/elmdalelawnbowlingclub.

OngoingAs part of efforts to trans-form Dundonald Park to a vibrant place, the Cen-tretown Community Health Centre is collaborating with a variety of community groups and organizations. They hope to increase park use by the local community with activities taking place throughout the summer. Monthly calendars will be available for pick up at Cen-tretown Community Health Centre, 420 Cooper St. You can also visit the Cen-tretown Community Health Centre website at www.centretownchc.org for more information.

Too late for university? Think again! Carleton Uni-versity Bridging Program offers mature students a way to qualify for university ad-

mission, improve academic skills, and build confi dence. Only $200 for a 12-week, part-time course. Register now for September. Call 613-520-2600 ext. 1024 or visit www.carleton.ca/cie.

Free Yoga at Dundonald Park Wednesday evenings starting at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. Akhanda style Hatha Yoga led by Manohar. Bring a blanket, towel or mat, or make friends with the grass. Weather permitting. Sessions are 1.5 hours on average; past sessions have generally range between one to two hours in length.

Friday and Saturday evenings the Chinese Alliance Friend-ship Club hosts Line and Folk Dancing in the Park at Dundonald Park from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, please contact Mrs. Jiang at 613-680-8863 (Chinese) or Sally at 613-580-2424 ext. 26144 (English).

Enjoy unique and captivating activities all summer long at the Canada Agriculture Museum. From donkey care and bread making to after-noon milking and ice cream making, there is a daily demonstration sure to please everyone. Visitagriculture.technomuses.ca or 613-991-3044 for info.

The Overbrook Community Association is currently looking for volunteers to deliver their community newsletter. Right now zone co-ordinators are needed for deliveries in sections east of Lola Street. Bundles of newsletters are available at Reception at the Overbrook Community Centre, 33 Quill St., for volunteers to deliver over the next week or please contact [email protected] for more information on how to volunteer.

Ottawa Newcomers’ Club invites women new to Ot-tawa to join our activities and meet some new friends. Activities include: bridge, Scrabble, walks, luncheons and dinners, book club, Otta-wa sights/events, travel cafe and craft and chat. Please check out our website at: www.ottawanewcomersclub.ca. For more information call 613-860-0548 or ottawanew-

[email protected]. The Eastern Ontario Um-pires Association (EOUA) is looking for individuals, male and female 18 years of age and over, who are interested in offi ciating fast pitch and slo-pitch softball. The EOUA is affi liated with Softball Canada, Softball Ontario and Slo-Pitch Ontario. Ontario is proud to boast one of the best umpire programs in the country. If you are interested in learn-ing a new avenue of the game of softball, we are al-ways looking for individuals like you. Training and clin-ics are provided. Please call George at 613-722-2620 for more information.

Teen Book Club takes place at Ottawa Public Library’s Carlingwood branch. Chat about books and share your favourites with other teens. The club is for ages 12 and up and takes place the last Tuesday of the month (Aug. 28) at 7 p.m.

A campaign to establish a Department of Peace in Canada is undertaking its fi rst membership drive. For $10 people can support a national effort to bring the political peace agenda to the federal government. For more information and to join as a voting member of CPI, visit departmentofpeace.ca or email Ottawa East’s Iman Ibrahim at [email protected].

This summer’s Torchlight Shakespeare production of Henry V tours parks across the region starting in July and runs until August 18. Directed by Geoff McBride and starring Margo MacDon-ald as Henry, the production promises blood and battle, bravery and romance, all with the Fool-ish twists audi-ences have come to know and love. For more informa-tion please go to www.fools.ca.

Old Time Music and Coun-try Dance takes place on the fi rst Friday of every month at the Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr. from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. The cost is $5 per person. Yearly memberships available. Free for musicians and singers. Come have a good time with us.

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