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Shakespeare in the Park: two free plays in July
JUNE 2007: The Hintonburg Community Association is delighted to be sponsoring Shakespeare in the Park again this summer. Once again, the Shakespeare Young Company will honour us with their preview performance on July 3 at 7 pm. The young actors in this Salamander Theatre training program will present Measure for Measure, directed by Eleanor Crowder, in their sixth Hintonburg appearance. In case of rain, the show will go on -- indoors. A Company of Fools will return on July 11 at 7 pm with their second Hintonburg show, Twelfth Night, directed by Margo MacDonald. Admission is free, but at the end of each play the actors will pass a hat for donations to support their work, much as was done in the Bard’s own time. All are welcome, young and old. Bring blankets or lawn chairs to sit on and change to buy drinks. Both plays are presented in Hintonburg Park, directly behind the Hintonburg Community Centre (1064 Wellington Street near Fairmont). For more information: www.salamandertheatre.ca and www.fools.ca.Neighbourhood Planning Open House
MAY 2007: The City of Ottawa is inviting all residents of Hintonburg,
Mechanicsville and West Wellington to an Open House on Tuesday 19 June
from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Hintonburg Community Centre (1064
Wellington Street W near Fairmont). There will be a free BBQ (with hot
dogs) and the entire first floor of the Community Centre will be
devoted to background information and the latest developments in the
neighbourhood planning project. A vision for the community will be
presented and City staff will be available to answer your questions.
The City and the neighbourhood stakeholders -- including the Hintonburg
Community Association -- really want to hear from you so do, please,
take advantage of this opportunity to influence the future of your
community! For more information...- Quick! What do you want your neighbourhood to become?
- What can we expect from a neighbourhood plan?
- Neighbourhood planning: the arts influence
- City of Ottawa information: Neighbourhood Planning
Neighbourhood planning: the arts influence
APRIL 2007: The Hintonburg Community Association made a presentation on 25 April to the Community Task Force for the City of Ottawa's Neighbourhood Planning Initiative for Hintonburg, Mechanicsville and West Wellington. The "deck" outlines some current expert thinking about how the arts can enrich communities, cites a case study of Quebec City's Saint-Roch neighbourhood which has a history similar to Hintonburg's, details the HCA action plan for culture and summarizes the arts vision currently being developed for the Neighbourhood Plan.Inquiry from Councillor Leadman: How to deal with problem properties
From the April 5 minutes of Community and Protective Services Committee of the City of OttawaAPRIL 2007: Councillor Leadman distributed copies of a Motion she asked the committee to consider. The committee agreed that since she was asking for a staff report back, that it should be dealt with as an inquiry. In light of the department’s existing aggressive work plan, Susan Jones, Director of Bylaw Services suggested the Motion be amended to be a six month timeframe instead of a three month timeframe and Councillor Leadman concurred with this extension of time.
The inquiry follows: Whereas as the Ottawa Police Services Board meeting of February 19th, a motion recommended that Ottawa City Council review the various options available with respect to habitual problem landlords, in light of the new, broader powers found in Bill 130 (e.g. Including the New Westminster, B.C. model and other models in Manitoba and Nova Scotia), as well as identifying the necessity for requesting additional statutory authority from the Province of Ontario;
And whereas many neighbourhoods in Ottawa, such as the Hintonburg Community, are faced with habitual problem properties that continually receives excessive calls for service;
And whereas some municipalities have developed innovative and successful approaches to deal with problem landlords and property owners where a fee and / or other punitive actions are taken;
Therefore Be It Resolved that the City of Ottawa review the different models being used in other municipalities such New Westminster BC, Winnipeg Manitoba, Saskatoon and Regina Saskatchewan, and report back in six months time with a recommendation for a new tool or bylaw that would be suitable for our City.
The councillor explained that she had met with staff and [they] are going to work together to establish this initiative to bring forward in her community. She hoped that they would become a model that can be used in other wards.
Neighbourhood planning: go online to tell the City what you think
APRIL 2007: Share your vision for the future of our neighbourhood -- online surveying is the way! In partnership with local community members, the City of Ottawa is undertaking a Neighbourhood Planning Initiative in the neighbourhoods of Hintonburg, Mechanicsville and West Wellington.This initiative will shape the future development of buildings, public spaces, water and sewer, transportation, human services, and more for the entire neighbourhood -- including lighting, sidewalks, bike paths, landmarks and 'street furniture'. Now is the time for Hintonburg residents to provide input that will influence the three plans underway now.
Beginning 9 April, the City will be conducting a series of online surveys for six consecutive weeks. Each survey should take only about 10 minutes to complete. At the end of each survey, you can sign up for a 'lucky draw' for prizes from local businesses.
Please take a few minutes to share your comments -- every week. Let's seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape our neighbourhood for the next 20 years!
enRoute magazine loves Hintonburg too
APRIL 2007: In
its April 2007 number, enRoute (Air Canada's in-flight magazine) names
Hintonburg as one of its favourite emerging neighbourhoods. In their
first survey five years ago, "We looked for places across the country where
like-minded people could find a vibrant cultural scene in their own
backyard...' says the introduction to the article entitled Canada's Next Great Neighbourhoods. "We thought it was time to revisit the list and see which communities were emerging next. "Writer Fateema Sayani starts her "day in the life" of Hintonburg at the Parkdale Market: "With heirloom tomatoes, purple beans and micro-greens from the Bryson Farms stall at the Ottawa Parkdale Market in hand, early birds head north to Remic Rapids Park to watch the sun rise over John-Félice Ceprano’s freestanding rock sculptures." For lunch, she recommends the Melrose Groceteria (1082 Wellington) where Helen’s Cuisine serves "shawarma, tabouli, delicious baklava – and pot roast."
The QUAD gets a nod too
Turning her eye to culture in the QUAD arts district, Ms Sayani remarks that "upstart galleries abound. Cube Gallery is home to locally established modern artists... [and] James Robinson, the owner of nearby Parkdale Gallery, paints on-site..." Back to the food scene, Ms Sayani mentions Urban Element (where cookbook authors teach in "a retrofitted fire hall with an industrial kitchen") and Hino Restaurant (1082 Wellington) "for fine Asian-fusion cuisine."
Hintonburg is profiled along with nine other areas such as the Old East End in St. John’s, Toronto's Roncesvalles Village and Victoria's Harris Green in the upscale monthly which has a large, world-wide distribution.
Also noted:
- A Fine Thing Antiques, 1096 Somerset Street W
- The Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong Street
- Dogz Spa & Boutique, 1116 Wellington Street W
- Ravensara Gifts and Collectibles, 1200F Wellington Street W
- Absinthe Café Resto Bar, 65 Holland Avenue
Big turnout for neighbourhood planning day
FEBRUARY
2007: On Saturday 24 February, the City sponsored a series of workshops
and a public information session about the neighbourhood planning
initiative now underway. About 40 "stakeholders" took part in five
workshops looking at issues such as streetscaping, heritage, security,
urban design, public art, diversity and traffic. The reports from these
workshops are meant to help define the focus for the planning process. Later in the day, the public was invited to drop in to the Hintonburg Community Centre and have a look at displays about the three planning initiatives, a Creative Neighbourhoods "wish" map and a City Archives exhibit that included an 1894 survey map of the Village of Hintonburg. City staff were present to gather feedback and commented that they had rarely seen such a large turnout, estimated at more than 400 participants. The next public meeting is planned for the Spring.
- For more information, read What can we expect from a neighbourhood plan?
- City of Ottawa: Neighbourhood Planning
ArtsPark sponsorship: A highly visible investment in your community
FEBRUARY 2007: The Hintonburg Community Association is looking for your support in staging the 4th annual ArtsPark on Sunday, May 13. It's a one-day festival of art, design, music and performance held every year on Mothers' Day in the park adjacent to Parkdale Market — a signature event in the QUAD arts district that attracts thousands of visitors.
When
you join the Hintonburg Community Association, the City of Ottawa and
other noteworthy partners in bringing ArtsPark to the community, you
are supporting hundreds of local artists, musicians and performers. The growth in galleries, arts-centred businesses and artists' studios in our neighbourhood over the last few years hasn't happened by accident! Events such as ArtsPark help establish Hintonburg as a cultural “hot spot” and attract new residents and businesses.
Our aim is to cover our event costs and generate a small profit. Proceeds from ArtsPark have supported children's arts projects, a temporary “guerrilla” gallery and two QUADview photo contests.
Sponsorship packages are available in units of $250 and, with upwards of 60,000 advertising impressions, you can't go wrong at any level. In fact, one of last year's sponsors declared that it was “the best advertising money I've ever spent.”
The $500+ Sponsor package
- your business logo prominently displayed on all promotional material — posters, info cards, programmes, website, etc — with over 60,000 potential impressions or views
- feature listing for one year on the HCA website Business Directory with logo and website link (see our online Business Directory for a sample) — your contribution keeps working for you for an entire year
- your supplied signage erected onsite the day of the event along with your promotional literature
- “Presenter” status for donations of $1000 or more
- your business name or logo on all promotional material with over 60,000 potential advertising impressions
- your supplied promotional literature distributed onsite on the day of the event
- highlight listing on the HCA website (see our online Business Directory for a sample)
Sponsors wanted: the Hintonburg Centennial 5k/1k Run/Walk
FEBRUARY 2007: The Hintonburg
Centennial 5k/1k Run/Walk (on Sunday, July 15, 2007)
will draw more than 100 participants, nearly 30 volunteers and
extensive coverage in the local press. We’re holding the
event as a fundraiser so that the Community Association can keep working to build a better
Hintonburg.
The Centennial Run/Walk will start at the Parkdale Market and run through our community, with activities for the whole family including a 1k fun run for the kids, BBQ, music, an expo by local groups promoting their community and commercial activities.
We are offering participants free T-shirts with their registration and the event will be extensively promoted on this website, through the Running Room’s national website, Kitchissippi Times advertising (two ¼ page, colour ads – one in May, one in June), in our communications with hundreds of Association members and 5000 flyers in local businesses and local Running Rooms. In all, it’s expected that several thousand people will see our sponsors’ logos in print, on the web and on the race shirts!
To accommodate as many local businesses as will want to participate, we are offering several shirt logo options:
- 6 small logos on back approximately 2 ½” x 1 “ -- $250
- 6 medium logos on back approximately 5” x 3” -- $500
- 2 large logos on back approximately 8”x 4” -- $1000
ArtsPark 2007: Calling all artists and vendors
FEBRUARY 2007: The organizers of the fourth annual ArtsPark are now inviting submissions from artists, photographers and vendors. This outdoor event at Parkdale Park on Sunday, May 13, 2007 (Mother's Day) will feature a juried show from those who live or work in the area around Hintonburg's QUAD arts district as well as a Designer Showcase.
ArtsPark has created a loyal following, typically attracting 2000 or
more people and last year's event featured work from about 30 local
artists. There is no fee for exhibiting but artists are expected to be
on site. To apply, submit no more than three sample images by email to arts@hintonburg.com and be sure to include your name and telephone number. Depictions of life in Hintonburg are particularly welcome.The ever-popular ArtsPark Designer Showcase features work from fine art jewellers, textile, clothing and other designers who create limited-run original pieces that are produced locally. Tables are available for $50.
This is an outdoor event and weather-dependent. The program for the day, running from 10am to 4pm, will include children's activities, live music and heritage walking tours. For more information contact Charles Reynolds of the Hintonburg Community Association, 613-729-5680 or arts@hintonburg.com. The deadline for all applications is March 23.
No change recommended to prostitution laws
JANUARY 2007: The Hintonburg Community Association (HCA) is pleased to learn that a Parliamentary sub-committee examining prostitution laws has recommended against changing them. The HCA had been concerned that the committee might be pre-disposed to recommending decriminalization of prostitution since many of the members of the committee are known to favour looser laws. The committee was struck in 2003 at the behest of NDP member of Parliament Libby Davies who is known to favour eliminating prostitution laws as a way to make the lives of prostitutes in such dangerous places as Edmonton and Vancouver safer.The HCA had been concerned that few community groups were to be heard from in the course of the committee's proceedings and worked diligently to ensure it would be afforded a chance to present the community's views. In the winter of 2005, we had the chance to make a formal presentation to the committee and to submit a copy of our booklet Dispelling the Myths. We followed up with several committee MPs who visited our community for several hours one evening to hear more about some of the challenges we've experienced and for first-hand accounts of how street-level prostitution affects communities such as ours.
The HCA representatives reiterated the position that eliminating the "communication" laws that prohibit soliciting would eliminate a key tool needed by police to conduct "john" sweeps and cut down on harassment on our streets while affording the women working as prostitutes no additional protection. We detailed our arguments that street level prostitution is inextricably linked with issues of homelessness and addiction and that decriminalization would have only a negative impact in addressing these issues.
The committee's report recognizes the testimony of the HCA and other community groups in outlining the harm done by street level prostitution in residential neighbourhoods and does not recommend that current laws be changed.
For more information about the report or the HCA's successful response to street level prostitution in our community, please write to us with your name and number and we will get back to you.
2006 Hintonburg Holiday Lights winner
JANUARY
2007: One award is being given for the 2006 Holiday Lights Competition
sponsored by the Hintonburg Community Association. "Best Block"
recognition was earned by the residents of Irving Avenue between Laurel
and Gladstone even though there was some tough competition from other
areas in Hintonburg, notably sections of Armstrong Street that had some
real show-stoppers.In the end, however, judges remarked on the Avenue's household participation rate (probably close to 90%) and creative approach. In addition to lights dangling almost everywhere, there were large inflated "snowdolls", animated carolers in a special display window, wreaths large and small, several nativity displays -- all illuminated -- and many twinkling Christmas trees visible in front windows. One home was so expansively decorated that the owner chose a 50-50 display -- green lights along the soffits one night, red lights outlining windows the next.
Congratulations residents of Irving Avenue! You're the ones to watch next year.
Kringle made the holiday warmer
JANUARY
2007: Thanks to our many volunteers who helped make this year's Kringle
event a success! Special thanks go out to Sgt Jean Lamothe for his
assistance in making sure Santa was on hand for the big day and
especially to QUAD artist Angela McGowan for the beautiful new backdrop
she donated to the HCA to make our pictures with Santa the best yet! Many thanks, also, to Laura Shantz, Paulette Dozois, Wayne Rodney, the Bacques (for their help in making and serving hot chocolate), Jeff Leiper -- and especially Monique Lachapelle and her group of Hintonburg Community Centre volunteers for ensuring the kids had a great time. We look forward to seeing you next year!
Ho Ho Ho ... Christmas happens In Hintonburg
DECEMBER 2006: The community of Hintonburg invites you to a free
Christmas dinner at the Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong Street
(at Parkdale) from 11am to 3pm on Christmas Day. This sixth annual event is generously sponsored by the
Saikaley family, owners of the Carleton Tavern, and is co-sponsored by
the Hintonburg Economic Development Committee and His Mercy Friendship
Centre.Come and spend Christmas with your neighbours and friends while listening to some great music organized by "Midnight Mike and the Open Stage Revue". Donations of wrapped and labeled gifts for children and especially for adults (warm socks, mitts, hats), baked foods and goodies are welcome. Contact Cheryl or Vance at 728-7582 (hedc@sympatico.ca) for more information.
2006 Holiday Lights Competition
Just for the fun of it -- show off your creativity! 
NOVEMBER 2006: Bring a little extra sparkle to Hintonburg this festive season -- be part of the Hintonburg Community Association's Holiday Lights Competition. Get those ladders out and trim the trees or the eves or your windows or who knows what -- and then get the recognition you so richly deserve!
Just for the fun of it at this most-fun time of the year, the HCA is sponsoring another Holiday Lights Competition. Your display doesn't have to be outrageously expensive -- we judge based on originality and creativity. We will be looking for entries in three categories: best domestic, best block (round up your neighbours now!), best commercial. Have a look at last year's winners to see what we mean.
To get into the running, just leave us a message (613-798-7987 or email) with your name and address. Judging will take place in mid-December and winners will be announced in early January.
The fine print: The HCA reserves the right to publish the winners' names and addresses and use photos of the entries for non-commercial promotional purposes.
Show us your creative flair, Hintonburg!
Christine Leadman is Kitchissippi's new Councillor
NOVEMBER 2006: The results of the November 13 municipal election saw
Christine Leadman selected as Kitchissippi's new Councillor with almost
6000 votes. Turnout was high on election day with Gary Ludington
receiving over 4500 votes and Vicky Smallman in third place with almost
3600 supporters on her side. The fourth candidate, Daniel Narwa,
received 372 votes. One of the Councillor-elect's first official
engagements, on November 17, was attending a preliminary stakeholder
meeting on the Hintonburg Neighbourhood Plan.
Ms Leadman is currently Executive Director of the Westboro Business
Improvement Area. She is a strong arts supporter and accepted the
Council for the Arts in Ottawa 2006 Business Recognition Award on
behalf of the Westboro BIA last February. Read about her views on
the arts in Hintonburg and in greater Ottawa.Ho Ho Ho ... Christmas Happens In Hintonburg.
The Community of Hintonburg invites you to join them for a free Christmas Dinner at the Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong Street, (Armstrong at Parkdale right next to the Parkdale Market). The dinner is from 11am - 3pm on Christmas Day.This sixth annual Christmas Day dinner is generously sponsored by the Saikaley Family, owners of the Carleton Tavern and is co-sponsored by the Hintonburg Economic Development Committee and His Mercy Friendship Centre.
Come and spend Christmas with your neighbours and friends experiencing the warmth of the Hintonburg Community Family. Listen to some great music from musicians in the community organized by "Midnight Mike and the Open Stage Revue".
Donations of wrapped and labeled gifts for children and especially for adults (warm socks, mitts, hats), baked foods and goodies are welcome. Let’s make this a Christmas to remember.
Contact: Cheryl or Vance 728-7582 (hedc@sympatico.ca)
Quick! What do you want your neighbourhood to become?
NOVEMBER 2006: Two municipal rockets have been launched in Hintonburg: a first-ever Neighbourhood Plan and a Community Design Plan. The latter is related to infrastructure replacement; the former is an outgrowth of the City's Official Plan (Ottawa 20/20) and several companion documents. Both are on short journeys through our part of Ottawa and both give all of us a chance to greatly influence what our neighbourhood will be like for the foreseeable future. MoreYour candidates' views on the arts
OCTOBER 2006: The Hintonburg Community Association asked all Council candidates in Kitchissippi -- Christine Leadman, Gary Ludington, Daniel Narwa, Vicky Smallman -- to answer our questions about the arts. More...QUAD arts district: groundswell
SEPTEMBER 2006: Since the Hintonburg Community Association declared the community an "arts district" about three years ago, the whole city has come to embrace the QUAD (an acronym for Quartier des artistes / Arts District). Perhaps the first to notice this grass-roots uprising was a local cultural magazine, Hipster and Poser. Then Ottawa Magazine began paying attention. Then the daily newspapers and most recently, Ottawa Xpress, the influential weekly tabloid. Their ArtsWatch columnist Allison Collins, in the September 21-27 number, applauds the QUAD initiative in an article entitled "How the west was fun". She notes "two more leaps of faith (a.k.a. new art galleries)" -- the new Gallery 7A (7A Hamilton Avenue N) and the re-imagined, "intimate" Pukka Gallery that shares space with several other cultural enterprises at the new Engine Room at 430 Parkdale. These spaces join the Cube Gallery which was perhaps the forerunner of the commercial cultural awakening for the neighbourhood and the adjoining Studio 7A Gallery. Says Collins, "Unbeknownst to me, a serious community of creative types has long been rooted here" and entices readers to "go west my friends, go west."OCTOBER 2006: Curator Peter Purdy and artist James Robinson have announced the new Parkdale Gallery at 225 Armstrong Street, just across from the Parkdale Market and around the corner from the two Hamilton Street galleries. The first show, opening Wednesday 15 November, will feature native art.
Proposed LCBO store closure
SEPTEMBER 2006: As a result of the emails and phone calls about the possible closing of 'our' liquor store, Richard Patten asked Barry O'Brien, Director of Corporate Affairs at the LCBO to meet with community members who had expressed concerns. We met with him and an Ottawa member of the Liquor Control Board in August and learned that they do intend to close the store when the new store beside the Loblaws Superstore opens.The termination of the lease at Holland Cross some years ago precipitated the move to 1224 Wellington which was always considered too small. The LCBO continues to be surprised at how well the store does. In spite of very high sales (not the highest per square foot in Ottawa as we had been told), there are many problems -- they can't keep the shelves and coolers stocked because of lack of storage space, deliveries are hampered by lack of space for trucks to unload and the store can't carry as wide a product range as larger stores.
The 20 or so residents and business owners who were at the meeting pointed out that this is a walking community, a community where many people choose not to own a car, and where we can do most of our shopping on foot, on Wellington Street. The Liquor Store is an important anchor store for other businesses; it draws many employees from Tunney's Pasture to the street. These employees will not be likely to shop in Westboro on their lunch hour.
We told the LCBO to consider the proven ability of Loeb to compete with the Loblaws Superstore and suggested that not everyone likes to be faced with a large choice in a large store. We also pointed out that if this store closes, there will be no centrally located liquor store between Kirkwood and Metcalfe Street. They did acknowledge that the area to the east of Hintonburg is underserved and told us that they were looking for a site near Preston or Booth -- to open in about 5 years.
Barry O'Brien told us that the staff will present our concerns and the staff recommendation to the Board members of the LCBO at their next meeting on September 20. There is still time to send your views to the LCBO and our elected officials:
- Barry O’Brien, Director of Corporate Affairs LCBO
- Richard Patten
- Jim Watson
- Dalton McGuinty
- Shawn Little
UPDATE 22 SEPTEMBER 2006: The LCBO, in a letter to the Hintonburg Community Association, explained that they had reviewed the closure of the Wellington Street branch but were still planing to close the store when the new, larger outlet opens further west on Richmond Road near Kirkwood. The action is planned for January 2007.
The Hintonburg Safety Partnership
SEPTEMBER 2006: Who can forget the summer of 2004 here in Hintonburg: drug houses, rampant prostitution, johns cruising the hood 24/7 all of which left us feeling unsafe on our streets and in our homes. Thanks in part to our highly visible and successful “Harmony in Hintonburg Walkabouts” we proved ourselves to be a community to be listened to! The media, the Mayor, the police -- we had the attention of all the partners that we needed to create a safe, caring, secure community.And that is exactly what we set about doing: the Hintonburg Safety Partnership was formed to look at long-term solutions to some of Hintonburg’s recurring problems. Some of the issues we have been working on include problem properties, slum landlords, recreational needs of the children of Hintonburg and strengthening the relationship between the community and its partners. The partnership is made up of community members, the Kitchissippi Councillor, City staff as needed (from health, by-law, fire, rooming houses, police), local school reps, a local school principal, residents and community business owners.
Hintonburg has long proven itself to be a caring community -- with our campaign to keep Ottawa’s only "detox centre" open, to the ever successful Hintonburg Hip-Hop Program, to our free movie nights -- we are a diverse community with needs as diverse as the people themselves. Our success has been bringing all these players to the table in support of making our community safe and, in the process, being the model that other communities look to as they enter into the same journey.
Kitchissippi Task Force on Problem Properties
SEPTEMBER 2006: It takes a lot of resources and the involvement of many agencies to address problem properties. The Hintonburg Community Association has written to the owners of some of these properties asking for their efforts to resolve the problems. No one agency working alone has the answer but working together much can be accomplished. Steady progress has been made to date through dedication to the process. Thirty-eight properties were brought to the Task Force and dealt with during 2005; 28 of these properties had the problems resolved. The other 10 properties remained on the list in 2006 with 6 of those being resolved so far. Ten new problems were identified in 2006 with 3 of those resolved to date, a few others almost resolved and another few where innovative solutions are needed.Pukka Gallery reopens 16 September 2006
SEPTEMBER 2006: The "re-opening" show features paintings and drawings by Ottawa artists Kate Barry, Gary Goodacre, Petra Halkes, Meaghan Haughian, Howie Tsui, Sharon Van Starkenburg. A special performance of The Cake Show, 16 September, features Visual artist Karina Bergmans and artist/curator Jenny McMaster who will be collaborating for the inaugural Cake Show performance -- an exploration of the desire, festivity and fantasy which accompany this quintessential party dish. Performances involving cake and its ritual manifestations will take place throughout the evening from 7-10pm. There will be cake songs, cake fashions, cake consumption and a cake procession that will be sure to keep everyone dreaming of cake for days.New location
Until recently a mechanics garage, The Engine Room, located at 430 Parkdale Avenue between Wellington and Gladstone, is the Hintonburg Community's newest arts destination and home to artists studios, Podco Podcasting, Acacia Consulting and Research, Creative Neighbourhoods Inc, and the new location of Pukka Gallery. Pukka Gallery is a commercial gallery that features exhibitions of local visual artists. The exhibit continues until October 7. The gallery will be open weekends from noon to 5pm at 430 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa (south of wellington beside the old fire hall). www.pukkagallery.ca
Heritage school building to be redeveloped
SEPTEMBER 2006: The former Sacré Coeur School building at 19 Melrose Avenue has been sold to the Regional Group. They plan to adapt the current building for a residential condominium project (keeping the current building). The proposed development will require a rezoning to residential, since the current zoning is institutional. It is also a designated heritage building and therefore development will require permission from the City under the Heritage Act.Gladstone Avenue rehabilitation: City report
AUGUST 2006: As of August 18, 2006, work is proceeding according to schedule. The following is a brief description of work expected and approximate timeframe that we anticipate that it will be undertaken.Water and Sewers
All sewer installations have been completed. New watermain and services are complete from Melrose Ave. to Irving Ave. The remaining watermain, between Irving Ave. and Bayswater Ave., will be completed by August 25/06. All water services and watermain testing should be completed by the first week of September.
Utilities, New Street Lighting, and Traffic Signals
Underground installations have been completed from Melrose Ave. to Irving Ave. and at the Bayswater Ave. intersection. Hydro Ottawa is expected to relocate two poles, at the southwest corner of the Fairmont intersection, after the Labour day weekend. Traffic and streetlight installations will continue and are expected to be complete by Oct 31, 2006.
Concrete Curb and Sidewalks
Melrose Ave. to Irving Ave. -- Sidewalk construction began on Friday Aug 18, 06; Irving Ave. to Bayswater Ave. -- Not expected to start until September, 2006.
Asphalt Paving
Melrose Ave. to Bayswater Ave. -- Base course asphalt expected to be undertaken early October, with surface course and completion set for October 31, 2006. All entrance and miscellaneous asphalt work within this area will be completed then. Bayswater Ave. Intersection base course asphalt is now complete.
Landscaping
All landscaping is scheduled to be undertaken towards the end of October and early November, 2006.
Traffic
Traffic control will remain until landscaping is complete. Traffic signs and line painting will be completed before November 15/06.
The above schedule of work is weather dependent and could be adversely affected if we experience inclement weather over the next few weeks. There could also be additional unforeseen circumstances or required changes that could delay the above work.
Shakespeare in Hintonburg Park
JULY 2006: The Hintonburg Community Association is delighted to announce that the number of Shakespearean performances in the QUAD arts district will increase fourfold this coming summer.A perennial favourite, Shakespeare Young Company, will return to present their sixth Hintonburg performance. The young actors in this Salamander Theatre training program will perform All's Well that Ends Well on July 6, 2006 at 7pm in the park behind the Hintonburg Community Centre (1064 Wellington Street).
We are thrilled to host a Company of Fools production of Two Gentlemen of Verona the following week on July 11, 12, and 13, in the same park. The show will start at 7:30 each night and will run until about 9:00. For the last fifteen years, A Company of Fools has performed the works of William Shakespeare like you’ve never seen them before -- please come help us celebrate their Hintonburg debut.
Admission is free, but at the end of each play the actors will pass a hat for donations to support their work, much as was done in the Bard’s own time. Bring blankets or lawn chairs to sit on and change to buy drinks (to support the Hintonburg Community Association). In the case of rain, the shows will go on -- inside the Community Centre. All are welcome, young and old.
The Arts Bloom in the QUAD for Mother's Day
MAY 2006: If it's May, the Parkdale Market must be opening soon and ArtsPark must be back on Mother's Day. Right on both counts. In addition to these two bellwethers of Spring in Ottawa, there's a flurry of other arts activities in Hintonburg's QUAD arts district over the weekend of May 12 to 14, 2006 and it's well worth reserving a little family time to take it all in.Friday evening at 7:00, The Stables artists' collective is launching an open house weekend in their studios at 155 Loretta Avenue near Gladstone. See work from QUAD artists Stephanie Bak, Philip Craig, Tami Galila Ellis, Megan Hinton, Patti Normand, Erin Robertson, Robert Stevenson and Joyce Westrop. The show continues through Sunday. A little further west, Gallery 3 on Wellington near Caroline is always worth a visit and they'll be featuring selected works from their own stable of 50 Canadian artists.
The Market, ablaze with flowers of all kinds, opens officially on Saturday 13 May and the Hintonburg Economic Development group will be staging their family-friendly Tulip Festival the same day complete with music, wagon rides, arts and crafts activities.
Expect a "full house" on Sunday. The third annual ArtsPark takes place in the park adjacent to the Parkdale Market (Parkdale Avenue at Armstrong) on Mother's Day, Sunday 14 May. More than 30 artists, photographers and sculptors will be showing work from 10am to 4pm. And there's a full line-up of theatrical performances and music including the Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences at 10am (bring chairs or blankets), a preview of the new Orpheus musical comedy Victor/Victoria at noon and singer Lucky Ron at 1pm.
The popular Jewellers' Fair is back with locally-created art jewellery and three textile designers will also be showing new work, all made in the neighbourhood. You can also take a one-hour guided heritage walk through Hintonburg at 11am or 2pm -- your chance to find out what's really behind all those incredible historical facades. There's lots more going on at ArtsPark and www.hintonburg.com is the place to get all the details.
Cube Gallery, just a stone's throw from the Market on Hamilton Street and a relative newcomer to the QUAD, will be hosting Art by Architects in addition to a "live art" event -- the ongoing painting of a large wall mural outside the gallery by artist and owner Don Monet.
"With an arts weekend like this in Hintonburg, you can really see how the QUAD idea has caught on in just three years," says Charles Reynolds of the Hintonburg Community Association. "Even before declaring Hintonburg an arts district, we always knew there was a cultural critical mass in the area and the great line-up for ArtsPark with its emphasis on 'local product' is testament to the wealth of creative talent in the QUAD -- and the determination of a neighbourhood to focus on the positive."
ArtsPark bills itself as "a very urban village fair" and the expanded arts weekend this year will keep your whole family on the go. Our advice: get the chores done early and don't leave the neighbourhood!
- ArtsPark is presented by the Hintonburg Community
Association in collaboration with the City of Ottawa, Coldwell Banker Sarazen
Realty (Steve Brouse), Friction Design Group, Windmill Development Group;
AnythingGoesOnline.ca, BeaconLite, Caisse Populaire Vision, Click Track Audio,
Collected Works Bookstore, Euphoria Hair Concept, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Giant
Tiger Stores, Infonium.ca, Kitchissippi Times, Merge Business Solutions, National
Arts Centre, National Printers, Photo Features, Takaki Automotive... and
scores of hard-working volunteers.
- Schedule subject to change. This is an outdoor event dependent on the weather.
QUAD Sidewalk Gallery
MARCH 2006: If you weren't able to stroll down to Wellington Street just west of Bayswater during the week of 20 March 2006, you missed a very temporary "windows" (some would say "guerilla") exhibition of paintings. Organized with the kind cooperation of landlords P&T Associates, this novel sidewalk exhibition ran for just three days... and then new tenants signed a lease. (Does supporting local artists bring good luck to landlords?) The exhibit featured work from some of the members of The Stables artists collective: Stephanie Bak, Tami Galila Ellis, Megan Hinton, Patti Normand, Erin Robertson, Robert Stevenson and Joyce Westrop. If you missed this display, don't fret! The work shown here will also be part of a group show 12-14 May at The Stables on Breezehill Avenue in Hintonburg -- part of the QUAD Arts Weekend which features ArtsPark. (Other landlords interested in hosting fine art should contact the HCA at arts@hintonburg.com.)
| 2005 Creative Lights Competition |
Who Won? Hintonburg is sparkling for the holidays this year and the judging for the Creative Lights Competition was tough -- and close! Three members of the Hintonburg Community Association toured the village on December 9 and judged entrants using five criteria: creativity, impact, uniqueness, difficulty and "blend".
- Best domestic:
2 Pinehurst, the home of the Goldings (they had some real competition from
other properties on Armstrong and Grant Streets)
- Best block:
actually a rear laneway serving homes on Bayswater and Breezehill (running
between Gladstone and Laurel) -- a very original approach!
- Best commercial:
Character Salon, Wellington Street at Melrose Character was also judged the
best overall in the competition with a score of 23.3 out of a possible 25
points.
| December Community Highlights |
The HCA's annual Craft Fair (photos
above) drew hundreds and shoppers for a lively mix of gift-buying, good food,
music, silent auctions and a raffle. There were fewer crafters this year but
some said the overall quality of the work was superior. The event is the
major fund-raiser for the Association.
The festive season kicked off along Hintonburg's Wellington Street with two well-attended events: the annual family Kringle at the Community Centre and the Salvation Army's Light Up The Grace at the Grace Manor. Kringle, organized by the Hintonburg Community Centre welcomed its largest crowd ever for holiday craft-making, hot chocolate, cookies and a visit from Santa. Further down the street, Santa was also passing out goodies to a sizable crowd enjoying the relatively warm evening, a wonderful choir and the Salvation Army band along with dignitaries and elected officials.
| HCA Committee Updates |
Arts
This last year has seen Hintonburg's QUAD arts district initiative flourish. With the addition this month of Cube Gallery at 7 Hamilton Ave N., Hintonburg is continuing to grow as an active and vibrant cultural centre. The Arts committee is looking at Wellington Main Street and the Parkdale Market as areas that could be beautified through the use of streetscaping and other means. In late November, volunteers from a local half-way house worked with the Committee to decorate the tree outside the Community Centre.
- A note of interest: A report from Hill and Associates indicates that the K1Y postal area (Ottawa West) has the second highest percentage of artists in the region. The national average is 0.8% and we sit at 2.2%. Rockliffe/Vanier (postal code K1M) is the highest with 3.3%.
If you are not yet a member of the HCA and would like to be, contact us at 798-8741 or info@hintonburg.com. Our current rates are $ 5 per year per household or $ 20 for a 5-year membership.
Security
The Security Committee continues to actively work with local government, police and the community to ensure that any and all problem areas and problem properties are dealt with in a fair and expedient manner. Some of the issues they are currently dealing with are safe zones, body rub parlours, and Peanuts Restaurant. In regards to Peanuts, the Alcohol & Gaming Commission of Ontario has announced a 45-day suspension of the liquor licence to be served from January 2, 2006 to February 16, 2006. No liquor can be served in the restaurant -- it can remain open and serve food.
Traffic
There is an update on the Gladstone Avenue reconstruction plan. The City of Ottawa has commenced work on the preliminary design for its rehabilitation. The design project limits extend from Melrose Avenue in the west to Booth Street in the east. As part of this work, the City will be constructing new sewers, watermains, pavement, and sidewalks. Street lighting will also be upgraded to current City standards.
Zoning
The Zoning Committee is concerned with ensuring that any new development is compatible with our community and enhances our neighbourhoods. We are also deeply involved in trying to improve city policies that determine what is built in Hintonburg and in the city at large. The Zoning Committee, which generally meets on the 3rd Monday of the month, always welcomes new members. If you are interested please contact Jay at 798-1301 for more information. Current issues are an appeal to the Official Plan dealing with stationary noise sources. This is in the final stages of mediation and new regulations to address the issues are being developed by the City. Also, the owners of the old firehouse at 424 Parkdale have made an application to the Committee of Adjustment to permit the addition of a medical use space (therapeutic massage). The committee talked with both the owner and the prospective tenant and has no objections. The Security Committee also approved this. The committee is also following up on an agreement to review the plans for 53-5-7 Stirling Avenue before construction of 2 triplexes begins. A meeting with the owner will be set up.
- Joining
a committee
If you are interested in joining any of our committees, please send us an email letting us know which committee you would like to be a part of, and we will forward your name and coordinates to the chair(s) of that committee.
| Local Hero |
Wayne Rodney, Pinhey Street resident and HCA Board member, got fed up this summer looking at the grass growing longer and longer beside the Transitway along Scott St. In 2004, he helped a resident of Pinehurst Avenue, who was cutting the grass himself with his own mower. Shortly after July 1, 2005 Wayne decided that enough was enough and he started phoning the City -- it took quite a few calls to various departments, including OC Transpo. Finally he found the right person, in Parks Maintenance. But Wayne learned that the land belongs to OC Transpo so a purchase order from them has to be sent to Parks in order to get the mowing on a maintenance schedule. It looks like the transitway land is now on the City’s schedule, but we’ll only know for sure next year.
Wayne says that he felt embarrassed that so many people, passing through Hintonburg along the transitway or Scott St. on their way downtown, were seeing this unkempt stretch of long grass day after day. Thanks Wayne!
- Do you know a local hero -- someone who cares about our neighbourhood, or your street, and works to make it better? We’d like to hear about it. Please send a short article to info@hintonburg.com or call 798-7987 to tell us about it.
| QUADVIEW Winner Announced |
The winner of the QUADview photo contest was announced in October by Hipster and Poser, the online zine. According to the publisher, "All the entries were remarkable and reflected the Hintonburg neighbourhood's charm and distinctive appeal." Some 60 images had been displayed at ArtsPark 2005 for public voting followed by an exhibit of the finalists at the QUAD's Pukka Gallery. From that show, the finalists were narrowed to just five. After online voting at the H&P website where some 200 votes were received, Shelagh Corbett was declared the winner for her black and white image called Elmdale House. The photo will be published in the forthcoming book, Hipster and Poser: A Companion Guide to Ottawa, the Character of the City.
| Shelagh Corbett, Elmdale House |
The other finalists |
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| J. Fraser: San Rocco Barber Shop | |
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| A. Marklew: Abandoned Chair | |
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| A. Marklew: Entrance | |
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| T. Teske: Tracks in the Snow |
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