Glebe Report

When Sarah Thompson and Jaimie Rigby learned they would lose their lease on their Dailey Method studio space after four-and-a-half years in Fifth Avenue Court, their first thought was whether to close the business. It was the energy and enthusiasm of their devoted clients, staff and neighbours that convinced them to carry on.

The Mutchmor rink will be reinstalled this fall, but the announcement of the decision is a mix of good news and bad.

One Saturday morning in September, my kids and I headed to the Repair Café to try to save our beloved toaster from landfill. The experience was memorable and transformative.

In late September, I took a walk through Brown’s Inlet Park. Just five years ago, Virginia Carver and I, then co-chairs of Glebe Community Association’s environment committee, had spearheaded a “BioBlitz” in the park. At that time, we noted that many trees were beginning to show the effects of concentrated dog pee at the base of their trunks.

Grandmothers in the national capital region are coming together once again to raise funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign to help African grandmothers struggling to support families ravaged by HIV/AIDS. The fifth annual GRAND Market is coming back to Lansdowne Park’s Horticulture Building on November 17.

There’s guilt-free shopping inside Abbotsford House at The Glebe Centre where fashions are recycled and sold for a bargain. “Dorothy’s Boutique,” named after long-time boutique volunteer Dorothy Martyn, is open Monday through Friday.

For the Glebe Report’s November Poetry Quarter, we asked area poets to ease into the next season and write on the theme of “ease.” How to explore the notion of ease, at once both noun and verb? An easy ride? Perhaps, but raising the possible intrusion of its hangers-on, unease and disease.

Glebe writer Anne Le Dressay has published her long-awaited fifth volume of poetry, Positions of the Soul. She will be reading from her work at Abbotsford House and Octopus Books over the next several weeks.

This month’s musical offerings include the Tone Cluster Choir with an evening of art and music; “Two’s Company” piano recital at Southminster with Serhiy Salov and Philippe Prud’homme; Big Soul Project’s Christmas concert; Caelis Academy’s presentation of the Messiah; and a dramatic reading of A Child’s Christmas in Wales at St. Matthew’s.

Lake Baikal in the mountainous regions of east Siberia is the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake. The marginal lands surrounding it were among the earliest areas where buckwheat, a fruit seed belonging to the rhubarb family rather than a true grain, was first cultivated.