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Oral History workshop - Telling you the Truth

3/30/2016

 
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Every life holds many stories. Has your life been "normal" or wildly unconventional? No matter which, there's bound to be something fascinating about it. A memoir - whether it is one short piece about a family trip or a whole book about your childhood - offers your personal truth to others in a way that is deeply gratifying and transformational. This workshop will teach you some basics about memoir and the literary devices you can use to tell your story in a clear and compelling way.
Instructor: Suzanne Nussey holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She works as a freelance editor, focusing on texts in biblical studies, spirituality and psychology, and coaches authors of memoir and biography. She has taught creative writing classes at the university level and has facilitated a writing workshop in a local women's shelter. Short-listed in several Canadian literary competitions, Suzanne won the Creative Non-Fiction contest for EVENT magazine and the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, and published "Telling the Truth: Some Thoughts on Memoir Writing" in the New Quarterly. She has lots of stories to tell about living in Old Ottawa East for over 20 years.
Old Town Hall, 61 Main Street
April 19 - May 31 (6 weeks), no program May 10
Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
$160
Registration for Spring 2016 is now open.  CLICK HERE to proceed to the secure online registration site.

Getting back on track with road design in Ottawa

3/18/2016

 
Article written by Graham Saul. Reprinted from The Lowertown Echo, Vol 6, Issue 5: Dec 2015. 

Lowertown residents know that King Edward Avenue is a perfect example of car culture gone wild. The city sacrificed pedestrian and cycling safety, and chopped down a beautiful tree-lined boulevard to make King Edward into a highway in the downtown core. But King Edward Avenue was not an accident, it was the logical extension of bad urban planning. Recent events at city hall hold out the possibility that we can avoid this kind of mistake in the future, and maybe even move King Edward Avenue in the right direction.​
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Postcard featuring a young lady walking down King Edward Boulevard, circa 1915
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King Edward at Rideau looking north, 1915 -- Photo courtesy of pastottawa.com
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King Edward at Rideau looking north, 2015 Photo courtesy of pastottawa.com
​In 1965, an obscure planning document called the U.S. Highway Capacity Manual introduced the concept of “level of service”. This simple idea fundamentally changed the way we design our streets and helped lock us into a car-centric approach that has undermined our communities. 

Last month, Ottawa’s City Council took an important step to correct this mistake and put us on the road to safer and healthier neighbourhoods. 

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