Comment Central Sidebar Help

I’m trying to change the font in my sidebar, but no matter what I do it doesn’t seem to change.

Here’s the code:

#sidebar {
text-decoration:none;
font:1em Verdana;
margin-left:0px;
width:220px;
margin-top:-140px;
background: url(images/menu_back.png) repeat-y;
}

Whatever I change under font doesn’t make any difference at all… I don’t get it. Is there somewhere else I should be editing the code?

Basically I’m just trying to make the font non-bold and maybe a bit smaller.

Also you’ll noticed the text goes right to the edge of the sidebar (which I don’t like). If I add padding to the left this fixes the left hand side, but adding padding to the right doesn’t seem to fix the right hand side.

This is the site: https://legalaidottawa.net

I appreciate any help :).