Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-12-19

This week’s topics:

“All Valuables Removed”
Revised holiday hours at Ottawa Police stations.
Successful investigation into drug trafficking – Big bust, oddly no fentanyl.
Preventing fatal collisions – Review and communication group created.
Increased investigative resources – Due to more homicides.
Suspect to be identified – Parkdale robbery.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for December 19
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:26:03 -0500
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for Dec. 19, 2016. Please feel free to pass it on to anyone who might be interested in receiving it. Any comments, information or requests to be added to or deleted from the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com. If you need to contact Cst. Dawn Neilly directly, please use neillyd@ottawapolice.ca.

Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellington Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-12-19.pdf – file removed 20220428 to protect the names of people where charges were withdrawn.

Car Contents Theft Prevention

Subject: Holiday tip from the Ottawa Police Service
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:38:41 -0500
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

The holiday season is the perfect time to remind vehicle owners that removing all valuables from view in your vehicle will reduce the chance of a break-in.

Remove shopping bags, loose change and electronics; and download the All Valuables Removed card to display in your vehicle.

For more crime prevention and safety tips, go to http://ottawapolice.ca/.

http://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/safety-and-crime-prevention/prevent-theft-from-vehicles.asp

La période des Fêtes est le moment tout indiqué de rappeler aux automobilistes que ranger à l’abri des regards tout article de valeur se trouvant dans votre véhicule aide à réduire les chances d’un vol par effraction.

Retirez donc les sacs d’emplettes, la menue monnaie et les appareils électroniques; et téléchargez le carton d’avertissement « Objets de valeur retirés », que vous pourrez afficher dans votre véhicule.

Pour d’autres conseils en matière de prévention du crime et de sûreté, consultez le http://ottawapolice.ca/.

https://www.ottawapolice.ca/fr/safety-and-crime-prevention/prevent-theft-from-vehicles.asp

All_Valuables_Removed_-_Accessible_version_EN.pdf

Paid Parking on Wellington & Richmond Road?

Councillor Leiper’s office is looking to hear whether you support or oppose paid parking. A presentation on the Kitchissippi Parking Study is included below.

Consistent with the Municipal Parking Management Strategy, the City of Ottawa Parking Services has deemed that paid parking is warranted along Somerset St / Wellington St / Richmond Rd, but will not include it as a formal recommendation in the Kitchissippi Parking Strategy unless there is concurrence from the two BIAs (Wellington West BIA & Westboro Village BIA) and the Community Associations that are adjacent to the main street between the O-Train tracks and Golden Ave.

Ultimately, an objective of the City’s parking program is to optimize turnover in order to better ensure available and convenient parking for visitors. With this in mind, there are two options being put forward by the City of Ottawa Parking Services which would support this purpose, but to different extents.

Option 1 (if concurrence for paid parking):

Paid parking along Richmond Rd / Wellington St W / Somerset from the O-Train tracks to Golden Ave at a rate of $2/hr, in effect from Monday to Friday between the hours of 8:00am-5:30pm (The Westboro Village BIA is asking their members if they would also support paid parking on Saturdays)
Uniform time limit of 2 hours along Richmond Rd / Wellington St W / Somerset from the O-Train tracks to Golden Ave, in effect 7-days a week

Option 2 (if no concurrence for paid parking):

No additional paid parking
Uniform time limit of 90 minutes along Richmond Rd / Wellington St W / Somerset from the O-Train tracks to Golden Ave, in effect 7-days a week

We are asking that you provide either your support (Option 1) or opposition (Option 2) to paid parking no later than Monday, January 9th, 2017.

Thank you so much and please don’t hesitate to reach out with any follow-up questions, concerns or comments.

Kindly,
Fiona

Fiona Mitchell-Gougeon
Councillor’s Assistant | Adjointe au conseiller
Office of Councillor Jeff Leiper, Kitchissippi Ward 15
City of Ottawa | Ville d’Ottawa
110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1
t: 613.580.2424 ex. 15823
e: fiona.mitchell@ottawa.ca

2016-11-23-kitchissippi-parking-strategy-ca-mtg.pdf

For your opinion to be officially noted, send an e-mail to Fiona Mitchell-Gougeon by January 9th. See http://www.kitchissippiward.ca/ for more contact information.

If you have comments for your Champlain Park neighbours, feel free to add them to this post or reply to the post e-mail if you are a subscriber. If they end up being meaty comments, you might want to also mail them to Fiona. To view the latest comments, see the bottom of this post on the web site (sadly, you only get e-mail notification of new comments if you submit a comment).

Just for fun, and for residents to see the neighbourhood opinion, you can vote in this unscientific (votes aren’t verified as being from people in the neighbourhood) poll. Note that comments submitted within the poll are hard for people to see, so it’s better to comment on this post instead.

– Alex

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-12-12

This week’s topics:

Shooting on Bayswater.
Hintonburg Community Association meeting re shooting on Bayswater – December 13.
Cruelty to animal case – Dog kicked to death.
Ottawa Police Service holiday hours.
Seeking Mahmoud Kayem.
Computer scam – Fake Windows maintenance in person this time.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for December 12
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:40:59 -0500
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for December 12, 2016. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who might be interested in receiving it. Any comments, information or requests to be added to or deleted from the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com. If you need to contact Cst. Dawn Neilly directly, please use neillyd@ottawapolice.ca.

Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellington Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-12-12.pdf

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-12-05

This week’s topics:

Be on the lookout – Indecent acts.
STEP in December – Impaired driving, lane changes.
Information and PREP test workshop.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for December 5
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:57:15 -0500
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for Dec. 5, 2016. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who might be interested in receiving it. Any comments, information or requests to be added to or deleted from the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com. If you wish to contact Cst. Dawn Neilly directly please use neillyd@ottawapolice.ca.

Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellington Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-12-05.pdf

Survey on Neighbourhood Safety

Roland, our civic engagement person has a request:

The Federation of Community Associations (FCA) is kindly requesting you fill out a short 3 minute online survey on Community Safety and Security. We ask that you fill out the survey by December 6th.

Survey Link:
FCA Policing and Community Safety Survey

Many thanks,

Roland Dorsay

Winter Carnival – January 28

When : Saturday January 28, 2017
Where: Champlain Park Fieldhouse
Time: Noon – 3:00pm

Snow, rain or shine, this festive annual event takes place on the last Saturday in January.

Hope to see you there!

Activities

12:30-2:30pm Free horse-drawn sleigh rides

After lunch skating, hockey skills competition, and prizes throughout the afternoon

2pm live music, games

Spread the word

Please spread the word, and bring your friends and family.
Admission, hot chocolate and coffee are FREE.

Food & Beverages

There will be Chili cook-off , baked goodies, juice, hot dogs and more for sale in the Fieldhouse.

Your help

If you are able to bring a chili or baked goodies, or helping out in any other way, PLEASE contact one of the organizers to let us know.

We would be VERY grateful!!

Event organizers

As of December 2017 (in case you are volunteering for the 2018 carnival):
Sarah Kotyck email: sarahkotyck@gmail.com
Natalie Raffoul email: nraffoul@cbrcanada.com

Previously:
Sarah Kotyck email: kotyck@rogers.com
Natalie Raffoul email: nraffoul@cbrcanada.com

Poster for the 2017 event:champlain-park-winter-carnival-2017-poster-v1.pdf

Water Rangers Meeting Summary

I went to the Water Rangers meeting last night and can tell you a bit about it.

The Rangers goal seems to be to increase awareness of the river by having people go out and measure it and then report their results on an interactive map at http://waterrangers.ca/. It’s a good spring and summer activity for families with children, to both learn about measuring things and to become aware of what the river is like and what affects it.

The Rangers can provide training sessions (including groups and classes) and can lend some equipment, and have done research into finding out what’s readily available (pool strips from Walmart for measuring water acidity and hardness are much cheaper than similar ones from a scientific supply store, and even a bit more accurate).

We tried some hands-on tests with tools from Kat’s utility bag of river science to sort out some jars of water into ocean, northern lake, uninhabited southern lake, and cottage lake. Electrical conductivity gave away the sea water (very salty, conducts electricity well) and along with pH acidity let us figure out the origin of the rest of the jars. I wonder how my souvenir bottle of Detroit river water would have stacked up 🙂

Of course, these are just measurements of things that are related to river health. The actual health, which you define for your own purposes, could be the number and variety of fish, other people may consider birds, tadpoles, plants and other living things as their sign of river health, or your definition could be water quality safe enough to swim in.

Whatever it is, you can find factors that affect river health and count them, measure them, photograph promising signs and post it all to the Water Rangers map. The idea is that over time you can look at the map and see if things are getting better, using the history of your observations and those from other people.

A lot of this started in Westboro, with concerns about the water quality at their beach. That led to various investigations and eventually was a factor in founding the Ottawa River Keeper. However, some of the work they did does show where the city directly affects the river and water safety e.coli counts – the outfalls of storm water into the river. We have several on our riverside, and Westboro resident and river fan John Almstedt said he’d pass on the map they had which covered our area. It’s from the River Watchers web site at https://sites.google.com/site/ottawariverriverwatch/champlain-park

There are lots of smaller storm drains not shown, like the ones from the parkway road to the river (salty road water!). Or there’s the rusting out culvert going from the north edge of the woods behind the school, under the parkway, to the river edge (near the “o” in “Sir John A.”). They all lead into the river. At least we’re modern enough that it’s storm water, not sewage, going into the river.

Anyway, once the weather turns to summer, it should be quite pleasant (as well as educational) to go out and see how the river is doing.

Evening Karate Practice Added

Just a note to let you know that evening karate practice classes have been recently added, see https://champlainpark.org/2016/10/31/ottawa-west-dojo-wednesdays-at-the-fieldhouse/ for details.