Hank Jones
Graham Findlay
Vera Jones
Lets you & I all work together on this project, starting today!
Call Vera now at 613-832-2745 or send Hank an email at acorn@treenuts.ca right away!EXPERT ESTIMATES
show the full cost to acquire, own and operate the TORBOLTON CULTURE CENTRE for TEN YEARS is only $2M, TOTAL!Our TORBOLTON CULTURE CENTRE PROJECT 2010 wants to recycle the rural 17000 ft2, 5.9 acre West Carleton surplus Torbolton School now, FOR YOUR USE, as the PERMANENT HOME for the ARTS & SCIENCES of the greater West Carleton region, to become a bustling, multi-use...
CULTURE NEXUS, as well as Ottawa's
ADAPTATION ACTION HUB, and as Canada's
GREEN COUNTRY LIVING SHOWCASE, too!
And, believe or not, even more.
Just read our prescient TORBOLTON TIMES below to the big picture ...
Today is the first day of the rest of your life -- include getting the Torbolton Culture Centre up & running.
Go Torbolton Culture Centre!
- Tell Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson you want his support to help create our TCC. Phone Jim at 613-580-2496. Email Jim
- Tell your City Councillor you want their support to help create our TCC!
- Tell your provincial parliamentarians you want their support to help create the TCC.
- And your federal parliamentarians, too!
Click to find out how you can join our 'TORBOLTON CULTURE CENTRE WAVE' in only two minutes, for free, today! Show that YOU want the TORBOLTON CULTURE CENTRE now. 'Torbolton Culture Centre Wave' signers can also get involved. Be sure to tell us your personal interest in using or visiting the future TCC by including 'COMMENTS' when you sign! Encourage interested family, friends and neighbours to sign, too. The more onboard, the better our chances of having a TCC sooner!
Its smart because we get the needed facility and keep nature, too! Ever have your cake and eat it too? No? But we can and we will. Our Torbolton School is on the chopping block. It is as rural as a school can get these days. But it is building that that we ruralites can definitey use, big time. An Architect's Dream, the site can be retrofitted to today's standards for health, safety and environmental friendliness at a tenth of the cost of replacement! Its an architect's dream: start small, and step along. Every step is an incremental advance - no need to wait till all is done to get any benefits. However, once all is done, the new building can be better even than today's new build. We could even go for LEED Silver certification. 
A number of those interested in recyling the site to other uses have noted their need for learning workshops and teaching. For example, the 
Some say we are just adding to the time for screaming before we hit the wall. Its better that we ramp up bigtime starting yesterday. On this one it will be much better to overshoot than undershoot. Any extra would be a cushion. The Torbolton Culture Centre could house Canada's first Adaptation Action Centre, for Ottawa, for the province and even for all of Canada. It could be the hub of adaption, serving all adapter groups with a central clearinghouse for information and administration. It could inspire the 
The Torbolton Culture Centre is sited for full sunshine dawn-to-dusk and full windage. Our own
A good sized, combined set-up that would still not really take away any floorspace or yardspace and would still generate multi-kilowatts could be situated at the Torbolton Culture Centre. Everyone could see and imagine these devices on the their own homestead roof or yard, and even building dwellers could foresee a profitable set-up on their roof. These technologies are green. Would it be possible to generate enough power for the Torbolton Culture Centre and still have excess to sell to Ontario Hydro? 
The hydrogen shuttle bus connects the station to the centre, refueling at the station as well. At the centre, which is sited fully open to sunlight dawn-to-dusk and wind 24/7, all the electric cars of onsite visitors and tenants are plugged into the charger powered by the centre's solar/wind energy installations. Surplus power feeds the Ontario grid profitably. Geothermal heats/cools the building. Light pipes bring in natural light. Passive solar conservatories built onto the building's south wall provide additional heat, light and pure air from their year-round indoor greenplants (some supplying the organic tea room). Sun-powered fishtanks in the conservatories could provide fresh tilapia, for goodness sake! Nuts from the Torbolton Culture Centre's own nut grove could also be tabled. Clearly a 21st century vision for the families of tomorrow, today. 
. Here's how it would work. The studio itself would be sited in the Torbolton Culture Centre adjacent to the gym. The professional exercise machines given us by the YM/YWCA would be programmed for individual use under the guidance of Y experts, sort of a '
A TCC Eco-farmers Training School (TCETS) would classroom-train selected eager young Ottawa families wanting to become professional eco-farmers in this new agroecological agrarianism, intern them on existing eco-farms as semi-skilled labour, certify them on completion, help to launch them onto the land and help to sign up 250 household shareholders each. Together, all our eco-farms would feed Ottawa's quarter million households 60% of their nutrition and collectively earn upwards of a half billion $$ annually. The school could also host a TC EcoFarm Co-Op, an office at the Torbolton Culture Centre which would track Ottawa's Eco-farm ag-production, smooth out glitches in distribution and R&D new flex-farming methods enabling eco-farms to yield average or better harvests in spite of malicious weather. 
This method does not have to create heat or cool. It is in fact just your household fridge at work on your house. It pumps heat out of the house in summer, storing it in the gorund. In winter it runs backward, pumping this same heat stored back into the house. So, its a heat pump. It uses about a quarter of the enegry needed if you use a furnace to make new heat in winter, and much the same a your central air-conditioner in summer. However, since the one pump does both jobs, your house does not need its furnace nor its air conditioner. Heat pumps (read 'geothermal') is becoming popular in new houses being built with larger lots. How about retrofit? Use the Torbolton centre to demonstrate this in a conversion that turns the Centre into a LEED building! 
The 
As a once-upon-a-time school building the Torbolton Culture Centre has all the educational facilities (except, no chem lab - darn!). So, Mellissa Demers, 
Many have a geographically wide area of interest or are relativley geography independent. Many would find the Torbolton Culture Centre offers a good site for their activities. With excellent telecommunications, The Torbolton Culture Centre's country location and diverse activities would provide all the servies and opportunities many NGOs seek. 
As well, if the Adaption Action Centre (see article above) gets underway at the Torbolton Culture Centre soon, eco-farm production will jump quickly, and the value of the centre as a farmer's market will be obvious. There is ample space outdoors for summer events. and much space indoors for winter events. 
This is exactly the need that the internet offers. So, expect the Torbolton Culture Centre to have a powerful website. Information in and informations out will be ongoing. E-commerce, B2B, messaging, archiving, promoting, advertising, buying, selling, fund-raising and more, will transpire 24/7. The website will support the tenants and the administration of the centre, helps earns its keep, assure its facilities are fully occupied at all times, and 'leave no stone unturned'. 
The Ottawa Public Library is investigating the possibilities that the Torbolton Culture Centre's built-in library facility will be adaptable to housing a state-of-the-art modern library. City Councillor Jan Harder, Chair of the Ottawa Public Library Board, has sent staff to investigate the site. We could soon hear the decision. We have our fingers crossed that the Centre will be found suitable and plans can be made to move ahead with installation. Meantime, we all need to work together to put together a viable plan for establishing the Torbolton Culture Centre ASAP! 
John Adams, a long time practioner living just up Woodkilton Road not far for the school, is not alone by any means in the region's extensive martial arts community. There are many individuals and organizations. Some may find the centre convenient for their routine programs, but also will find it well situated for activities and events that draw participation from across the region. The Centre's spacious Gym, changing facilities and classrooms offer varied venues. Its country air is healthful and its wide open outdoors promotes wellbeing. The Centre's plan for having a 'Y-Outpost' Fitness Studio spanning fitness, health and wellbeing would be a natural fit with the martial arts. 
There are a number of such activities around the region, where a nurse practioner works therapies for non-critical but needy ailments. The Torbolton Culture Centre has just the rooms for these therapies, ongoing or periodic. As well, with a more local perspective in mind, there is a community of several thousand households that could use not only the aforementioned services but could also support a medical lab and a regular clinic. The tenants of the centre itself could also counts themselves among their clientele. The Torbolton Culture Centre could then house a broader spectrum of the medical services than might seem obvious at first. 
As well, this would enable us to provide other services such as research and presentations. So, please add us to your list of interested parties." Note also that the Torbolton Pioneer Homestead concept, including the Pioneer Log Cabin, has a dynamic museum feel to it. Clearly, the Torbolton Culture Centre could well-serve the historical interests of the broader community.
Many of these folks could be more mobile if there was a teaching place for helping them learn ways and means while in this safe place. Judy Bedell's personal dream is to create such a site for the region, which she calls a 'Mobility Park', to teach and practice folks in the best ways of being mobile given today's realities of stairs, steps, ramps, doorways, city streets, traffice, winter's snow and ice, and more. Technology exists to help, but it has to be well learned. More sophisticated technologies offering even more help are possible and could be developed with sufficient field data. The Torbolton Culture Centre's unique Mobility Park could help in at least three ways. It would help help people use today's technology better. It could be a proving ground for tomorrow's technology. And it could inspire new and better technologies in the future. 
Their 
With a permanent place in hand, consignment sales, shows, demonstrations and more would be easily done. Teaching arts and crafts skills, giving workshops, offering facilities for DYI's for a fee could make their pottery, turn wood, sculpt, and more, all in a profitable setting for our artisans. One very inteesting idea would be to have a branch of 
It is easy to visualize a Montessori School at the centre taking its students to academic heights not often attainable anywhere else. With nature at your doorstep, as well as a co-located state-of-the-art public library at hand, students will have year-round indoor and outdoor extreme learning opportunities not available elsewhere in Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec or Northern New York, for that matter. The Torbolton Culture Centre would be the ideal site for a Montessori school or something very much like it. With the OCDSB keeping its hand (and Algonquin College, Carleton University and Ottawa University, too), who knows what educational ecstasy would await our families! 
So, how about a field bubble? Then there could be varied activities year round in the bubble. Sure, soccer would be played I am sure, but other events could be equally enjoyed under the bubble. Track and field, jamborees, volley ball, tennis, lawn bowling, and more. Besdides these various sports and recreation activities, bubbles are good sites for periodic events such as exhibitions, tradeshows, revivals, arts&crafts sales, bake sales, farmer's markets, and more! Maybe you have an event in mind already. And I bet you have even better ideas, too. 
Think museum here. A fully functional pioneer log cabin in the back corner of the site would teach its student guests the full experience of pioneer living. Its wood range, dug well and vegetable garden (old varieties of course) would immerse its modern day pioneers, such a scouts, guides and others, in the reality of everyday pioneer living. Building the cabin, its well, its fencing and its chattel in the first place will be a huge learning experience, hopefully with the help of our local hand crafters, historians, antiquarians and naturalists, and the use of local materials and horses, too. 
The Tea Room would be a thriving business, serving not only the others at the centre, but drawing people from across the region to its unique fare. Its teaching modern nutrition, and demonstrating recipes, would be instruct families on how to feed better and live healthier lives. It would be teaching from harvest to feasting, how to move food from field to fork. 
Many insects, such as bees, butterflies, wasps, moths, syrphids, as well as birds and bats are pollinators (there were over 800 species of pollinator bees, alone, in Canada!) Most are starving because of the way we mono-farm and manage our homestead yards (lawn-deserts). The Torbolton Culture Centre will have a demonstration pollinator garden (with the help of the 
With over 30 years of research and development in the region, the Eastern Chapter of the Ontario Nut Growers (
The centre is envisaged as being the permanent home for the arts and sciences community for the greater West Carleton region. It is seen as a multi-use centre, busy daily, attracting users, visitors, clients, customers and tenants from a wide geographic area in the Ottawa area and its surroundings. The committee will chose the best business model for the centre and develop the centre's business plan. Possible business models include commercial, conservancy or public. Once the model has been chosen, the plan itself will follow. The committee will then prepare for the official launch of the centre. The committee will be composed of selected project participants who are both willing and able to take a seat. It is expected that some seats will change as the committee proceeds with it exciting task!