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THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1989 A9, Local Church, house nominated for heritage awards OMB decides Ottawa bylaw can restrict new embassy offices By Jack Aubry Citizen staff writer By Jack Aubry Citizen staff writer TWt nmrnm Wayne Hiebert, Citizen to apply for a rezoning to open chancelleries in residential buildings rather than open without city control. The two Sandy Hill homeowners who successfully fought the bylaw in 1988 did not appear at the new hearing. They sold their houses during the past year. Ottawa gave Maria Amati special permission to sell her house on Wilbrod Avenue last November to the Guinean embassy for a chancellery. And Henri and Threse Bourque sold their Daly Avenue house in September to Neeje Association for Women and Family, which intends to establish a small students' residence in the house.

Both homeowners had argued the city bylaw made it hard for them to sell their large houses, which they said were ill-suited as single-family dwellings but perfect for chancellery offices. Ottawa passed its bylaw in response to complaints from residents in Sandy Hill concerned about the presence of armed RCMP guards in security huts in their neighborhoods. The bylaw was passed on the advice of a special task force representing Ottawa, the region and the federal government. The bylaw limits the size of the huts and allows only one at each embassy. The restoration of an 1860s Sandy Hill church and the renovation of the nearby Pa-net House have been nominated for Ottawa heritage awards.

The Ottawa Architectural Conservation Awards recognize the $800,000 in restoration work on the Anglican Church of St. Alban the Martyr, at 454 King Edward Avenue. The city-sponsored award for adaptive reuse goes to the Panet House, at 189 Laurier Avenue East, which was converted from a residential building into offices. Both projects were overseen by architect Barry Padolsky. Ottawa Council is expected to rubber-stamp the winners Dec.

6. They get a bronze plaque for the exterior of the buildings. The church restoration includes replacing the roofing, restoring all stained glass windows, rebuilding the pipe organ and re-plastering the nave, chancel and sanctuary walls. St. Alban 's membership has included Sir John A.

Macdonald and six of his cabinet ministers, and more recently Ottawa's first female mayor, Charlotte Whitton. Panet House, saved many times from the wrecking ball since it was built in 1876, was converted after Andrex Holdings bought the building from the city in 1987. The major portion of the restoration was the reinstatement of its mansard roof. The building has been sold to a group of four national arts service organizations for its headquarters. There are six bachelor apartments on the top floor.

Reversing an earlier decision, the Ontario Municipal Board has upheld an Ottawa bylaw which will prevent embassies from opening more offices in residential neighborhoods. It also places restrictions on RCMP guard huts. OMB Chairman Harry Lancaster ruled this week that it was within the city's jurisdiction to pass a bylaw that declared chancelleries to be commercial operations. It makes it illegal to set a chancellery up in residential areas without a zoning change. A three-member panel of divisional court judges in Toronto this summer ordered the OMB to reconsider its 1988 rejection of the bylaw.

Barry Padolsky, an award-winning heritage architect, said the bylaw may make it more difficult to preserve old mansion-like houses, especially in Sandy Hill and the Glebe areas. He said the bylaw will mean a loss of some affluent potential buyers foreign states and the city should take counter-measures to permit other uses for the mansions. Jerald Bellomo, the city lawyer who successfully argued Ottawa's appeal, said embassies will have Citizen file photo St. Alban's church, above, and Panet House projects nominated for award Treating pooches right ends posties' nightmare I ,77: DAVE BROWN jest Citizen staff BROWN'S BEAT i 6 OWN A MASTERPIECE Bedroom Muster Bedroom 167" I I'd" I iny Room 16V U'l" fDinint; Room 121(1" 117" Canada Post letter carriers serving Rockcliffe Park have found a sensible solution to a mailman's nightmare. The bad, but real, dream is that Rockcliffe dogs are allowed to roam free, uncontrolled by bylaws.

Next to cats, dogs love to put the run on mailmen. But the village's pampered pooches love the people in the grey uniforms, thanks to Guy Desjardins. His solution was simple, but isn't in the books. Desjardins simply stopped trying to make the dogs stay away from him, and used reverse psychology. He now has the dogs running to him.

He carries dog biscuits, and his daily handouts have made him a person not to be threatened and certainly not chased away. Rockcliffe dogs are not stupid. Like their owners, many have been to fine schools. The system works so well that two other carriers serving the village, Jean-Marie Gauthier and Mike Lafontaine, have adopted the method. Brownie points Another letter carrier, Bill Edwards of Rosenfeld Crescent, Kanata, wants brownie points heaped on an unknown dog rescuer.

The Edwards family was in the process of moving into their new home when Shadow, a Siberian husky, went missing. She was disoriented by the move and ran away. She was missing for three days Edwards later got the story from Hazeldean Veterinary Clinic. Shadow was hit by a car on the Queensway. Somebody stopped and loaded her into a car and delivered her to the nearest clinic which treated the dog and tracked down the owners.

She had a dislocated hip and will recover. Dog owner Doug Paget of Flannery Drive says he owes much thanks to two women who stopped to help when he recently had a dog crisis on Riverside Drive near Bank Street. His pup, Zorro, got loose, ran into traffic and was hit by a car. That left him with more than he could handle, because he had with him his baby son Zakary and his golden Labrador, Pepper The two unknown women helped him get his responsibilities, including the injured pup, home. It was a considerable distance.

He wants them to know Zorro is fine. What appeared to be serious injuries was only a cut lip. Paul Jensen of Benlark Street, Nepean, is mechanically adept but needed a little advice. He called several garages and spoke to mechanics, but they make money fixing cars, not giving advice by telephone Jensen says he got lucky and found a man who listened to his symptoms, diagnosed his problems and told him how to fix it. Even more amazing, he says, is that a few days later the man called back to see if the problem had been solved The man who cared was Adrian Dearman at Beaver Lincoln Mercury.

Carol Sheppard witnessed an attempted purse-snatching last week, and it left her with good feelings Her attention was drawn to a woman's screams for help in Steinberg's. She turned to see a man trying to wrestle a purse away from an elderly woman. Men in the area rushed at the thief, who managed to get away but had to give up the purse to make his escape. He lost the tug-of-war to bakery manager Bob Bonneville, who returned the purse. Customers moved in quickly to calm the woman and somebody gave her a cup of coffee "There are people ready to help," was the good feeling Sheppard walked away with.

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