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I'm a game programmer, doing pretty much everything (from Wii, Kinect to iPad). On the side, just for fun, I write file systems (for the nifty BeOS/Haiku operating system) and experiment with metadata.

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-10-17

Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for October 17
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:21:41 -0400
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

1. National Teen Driver Safety Week is a public awareness campaign to educate young drivers about road safety.

“Drivers aged 15 – 24 make up the largest number of injuries and deaths on our roadways,” said Ottawa Police Traffic Sergeant Eddy Yeoumans. “Distracted driving, speeding, impairment and failure to use seat belts are commonly involved in collisions with young drivers behind the wheel.”

Young drivers also make up the largest number of single vehicle collisions.

“When you are driving, make it your number one priority,” said Sgt. Yeoumans. “Your life, your passengers’ lives and the lives of other road users are at stake. Nothing should take your attention from the roadway.”

We all have a responsibility when it comes to helping young drivers be safe drivers.

Parents:

  • Teach children safe driving behaviour by being a safe driver yourself.
  • Monitor your teen’s driving, even after they get their licence.

Passengers:

  • Don’t distract the driver.
  • Speak up if the driver is speeding or using the phone.
  • Wear your seatbelt.

Drivers:

  • Make safe driving your number one priority.
  • Follow the speed limit. Speeding makes the vehicle harder to control and increases stopping distances required to avoid hazards or unexpected road conditions, as well as other vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians.
  • Texts and phone calls can wait until you are at your destination, or safely pull over and stop driving to use your phone.
  • Buckle up, no matter how short the distance you are driving.

1. La Semaine nationale sur la sécurité des adolescents au volant est une campagne de sensibilisation publique visant à éduquer les jeunes conducteurs quant à la sécurité routière.

« Les conducteurs âgés de 15 à 24 ans sont associés au plus grand nombre de blessures et de décès sur nos routes, » a déclaré le sergent Eddy Yeoumans, de la Section de la circulation de la Police d’Ottawa. « La conduite inattentive, la conduite avec facultés affaiblies, les excès de vitesse et la non-utilisation des ceintures de sécurité sont couramment des facteurs lors de collisions quand des jeunes sont au volant. »

Les jeunes conducteurs sont aussi liés à la plus forte proportion des collisions mettant en cause un seul véhicule.

« Lorsque vous conduisez, faites-en votre toute première priorité, » dit le sergent Yeoumans. « Votre vie, celles de vos passagers, et les vies d’autres usagers de la route sont en jeu. Rien ne devrait détourner votre attention de la route. »

Il incombe à chacun d’entre nous d’aider les jeunes conducteurs à devenir des conducteurs sécuritaires.

Parents:

  • Inculquez à vos enfants la conduite sécuritaire en étant vous-même un conducteur prudent.
  • Surveillez la conduite de votre ado, même après qu’il ou elle a obtenu son permis.

Passagers:

  • Ne distrayez par le conducteur.
  • Si le conducteur roule trop vite ou utilise son téléphone, prononcez-vous là-dessus.
  • Portez votre ceinture de sécurité.

Conducteurs:

  • Faites de la conduite sécuritaire votre grande priorité.
  • Respectez la limite de vitesse. Rouler trop vite rend le véhicule plus difficile à maîtriser et augmente les distances requises pour éviter des obstacles ou des conditions routières inattendues, sans compter les autres véhicules, les cyclistes et les piétons.
  • Les textos et les appels peuvent attendre que vous soyez arrivé à destination, ou rangez-vous prudemment en bord de route et cessez de conduire avait d’utiliser votre téléphone.
  • Bouclez votre ceinture, qu’importe la distance de votre déplacement.

Review of Ontario Municipal Board – November 9

Subject: Review of Ontario Municipal Board
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 13:50:38 +0000
From: Yasir Naqvi, MPP (Constituency Office) <ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>

Dear friends,

Thank you for your interest in the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB).

Along with you, I have long advocated for changes to OMB to ensure community-inspired development. I am proud that the Ontario government has undertaken a comprehensive review of how the OMB operates and its role in our province’s land-use planning system to help make it more efficient and more accessible to all communities.

As part of the review, our government is consulting the public on possible changes to the OMB that, if adopted, would:

  • Allow for more meaningful and affordable public participation;
  • Give more weight to local and provincial decisions and support alternative ways to settle disputes;
  • Bring fewer municipal and provincial decisions to the OMB; and,
  • Support clearer and more predictable decision-making.

As the MPP for Ottawa Centre, I have often heard from residents that the OMB must be reformed so that it can better serve the unique needs of our community and incorporate better land-use planning principles. To provide your ideas, I invite you to be a part of the Ottawa consultation on Wednesday, November 9, 2016.

Consultation details:

Wednesday, November 9, 2016
5pm – 9:30pm
St. Anthony’s Banquet Hall
523 St. Anthony Street, Ottawa (off Preston Street)

The changes under consideration would improve everyday life for Ontarians by providing easier public access to information about the OMB and its processes through an expanded Citizen Liaison Office. The proposed changes would more clearly specify what can be appealed to the OMB, in addition to the mechanisms through which the OMB hears these appeals.

For more information on how to participate, and to review the public consultation document, please visit http://www.ontario.ca/OMBreview.

Please feel free to distribute this consultation information widely. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact my office at ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org or 613-722-6414.

Sincerely,

Yasir

Yasir Naqvi, MPP
Ottawa Centre

LRT Stage 2 Presentation Materials Available

If you’re interested in maps and station plans of where the O-Train will go, more of them are now available online. Though for our neighbourhood, it’s pretty well settled that it will be in the existing transitway trench beside Scott street.

– Alex

From: Stage2 – Etape2 <stage2@ottawa.ca>
Date: October 4, 2016 at 11:48 AM
Subject: Stage 2 LRT September 2016 Public Consultation presentations now available online/Les présentations des consultations publiques de septembre 2016 sur l’Étape 2 du TLR maintenant accessibles en ligne

Thank you for joining us at the Stage 2 Light Rail Transit (LRT) September 2016 public consultations. For your reference, please go to the link below to access or review the presentation materials.

Click on this link September 2016 Public Consultations. Scroll down to the end of the page and you will see the September 2016 Public Consultations header with links to each presentation.

Regards,

The Stage 2 Team

Merci de vous être joint à nous lors des consultations publiques de septembre 2016 sur l’Étape 2 du Train léger sur rail (TLR). Veuillez aller au lien ci-dessous pour accéder aux présentations.

Cliquez sur ce lien : Consultations publiques de septembre 2016. Allez au bas de la page, où vous verrez la rubrique Consultations publiques septembre 2016, qui s’accompagne de liens donnant accès à chaque présentation.

Recevez nos salutations distinguées.

L’équipe de l’Étape 2

Ottawa BudgetSpeak 2016 – October 13

Invitation

You are invited to BudgetSpeak, a consultation focused on moving resident-identified priorities forward.

When: Oct. 13, 2016, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Jean Piggott Place, Ottawa City Hall

Please RSVP

In preparation for both the 2015 and 2016 Budgets, City Councillors Chernushenko, Fleury, Leiper, McKenney and Nussbaum hosted a series of consultations with residents to get a better sense of their priorities – and the funding options – for the municipal budget. The hundreds of residents who participated in these sessions consistently ranked transit affordability, provision of social services and safe mobility for all modes of travel as their top priorities.

With these priorities identified, this year’s consultation will focus on the “how” instead of the “what”. It will consist of short plenary presentations on all three issues, roundtable discussions and advice from residents to their councillors on what specific initiatives could usefully be considered for inclusion in our 2017 municipal budget deliberations at committee and council.

Quick links

More information – http://www.tobinussbaum.ca/news-events-actualites-evenements/updates-mises-a-jour/budgetspeak-2016

To Register – https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/budgetspeak-2016-parlonsbudget-2016-tickets-28006939510?utm_term=eventurl_text

Feel free to contact our office if you require any further information.

Thanks,

Lisa Baird

Councillor’s Assistant
Office of Councillor Jeff Leiper, Kitchissippi Ward/Ward 15
City of Ottawa – Ville d’Ottawa
t: 613-580-2485
e: lisa.baird@ottawa.ca

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There are also larger posters available:
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Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-10-03

This week’s topics:

  • STEP in October – Distracted driving and speeding (interesting to compare the fatality counts).
  • Be Safe, Be Seen initiative – Complimentary bike and pedestrian lights available.
  • Launch of “Best Fit Car Seat” video.
  • Youth Advisory Committee – Looking for nominations.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for Oct. 3
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 13:17:14 -0400
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for October 3, 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. Queries for Cst. Dawn Neilly may be sent directly to neillyd@ottawapolice.ca.

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

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-10-03.pdf

CPCA Executive Meeting Agenda – October 6

Agenda

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Executive Meeting

Thursday October 6, 2016
7:30 PM at 251 Keyworth (Heather Pearl’s house)

Exec meetings will have an open session for community residents to observe exec business discussions. Non exec community members will also be invited to participate at certain times by the chair and there will be “in camera” topics for the executive only.

Open session (Approx 1 hour)

  1. Greenspace Alliance: Proposed event on May 27th, 2017 (Paul Johanis guest) 10
  2. Approval of previous minutes of executive meeting Aug 30, 2016 and review of action items (All) 5
  3. Report of interim executive motions (All) 5
  4. Setting timings for agenda items for executive meetings (Joan) 5
  5. AGM planning: CoChair1 and All 25
    1. exec members to confirm nomination for new term
    2. list business items and responsible exec member
    3. other presentations: Topics, Presenter
    4. roles – chair, set-up, refreshments(?)
  6. SJAM Winter Trail Request for donations from CA’s: Vote on whether to contribute, amount, mechanism (grant or project form) CoChair1 5
  7. Approval of Proposal Process (Nick) (filename: cpca-comm-improvement-call-and-template-sept-3-2016.doc) 10
  8. Community Project Proposals: Printing Pontiac Meeting, Ski Trail Clearing (Adrian) 5
  9. Rosemount Library Report (Nick) 5
  10. Update 145 Carleton (Duncan, Heather) 5
  11. FCA Priorities Questionnaire (Roland) Link to Quest: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VN5WRQN 5

SJAM Winter Trail Grooming Funding

I just came across a tweet from @SJAMWinterTrail mentioning their new web site http://www.wintertrail.ca/ with information about the Sir John A. Macdonald parkway riverside multi-use pathway trail winter snow grooming project and a request for donations. There’s also a related crowd funding site at https://fundrazr.com/SJAM.Winter.Trail, which makes nice use of the trail map as a progress indicator.

The Winter Trail web site is nicely done; besides a crisp concise look it has good coverage of the topic and related questions. If you hunt around the Internet, you can find a video about the trail, which includes our local neighbour Dennis, at https://twitter.com/SJAMWinterTrail/media or on YouTube:

I definitely appreciate the easier walking of a groomed trail in winter, particularly after an ice storm makes the uneven foot pounded snow path treacherous or a heavy snow confuses the solid walking path with soft trails left by skiers. Judging by the very popular test last winter, the skiers enjoy it too!

– Alex

NCC Ottawa (Civic) Hospital Relocation Survey

The NCC is consulting the public about the new location of the Civic hospital. Since one of the locations is the nearby Tunney’s Pasture campus, and it’s a locally used hospital, I think it’s worthwhile to point out the NCC’s survey, which is available until October 6th. Have a look at:

http://www.ncc-ccn.gc.ca/property-management/what-we-manage/ottawa-hospital-site-review

– Alex

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-09-26

This week’s topics:

  • Did you see Annie Pootoogook?
  • Road safety reminder.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for Sept. 26
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:35:29 -0400
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for September 26, 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. Queries for Cst. Neilly may be sent to neillyd@ottawapolice.ca.

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

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-09-26.pdf