Yoga Class Starting – October 2

Yoga returns to the Champlain Park field house.

One hour Hatha yoga will be offered by experienced instructor Sandy Joanise beginning on Monday October 2 2023 at 6:30pm. No experience is required.

The cost will be determined by the number of participants. There will be no drop-in classes with a one night fee. You must sign up for the ten-week session which runs until December 11th. (No class on Thanksgiving Monday October 9)

All community members who sign up must have purchased a 2023-2024 Champlain Park Community Association membership $20.00 (This year the membership is being conducted on-line)

A yoga mat is required and if you want a blanket might help as well.

Many expressed interest through the Facebook posting so please come to the field house (149 Cowley Avenue) on Monday October 2 at 6:15 to register.

Laurie Fagan

Hockey Pool – October 11

Annual Champlain Park Hockey Pool – picks due Oct 11th

From: Nick X.

Join the 4th Annual Champlain Park NHL Hockey Pool!!!

To participate, it’s easy, open to all in the neighbourhood and free, simply:

1) Choose 15 skaters (forwards or defencemen) and 1 Goalie

– To ensure we all don’t pick the same top players, you cannot choose the following 15 players:

C. McDavid, L. Draisaitl, N. Mackinnon, N. Kucherov, M. Tkachuk, J. Hughes, J. Robertson, M. Marner, A. Matthews, D. Pastrnak, M. Rantanen, K.Kaprizov, E.Pettersson, T. Stutzle, T.Thompson.

You can choose any other players.

– Scoring: most points at the end of the season wins.

Goals and assists each count for 1 point
Goalie wins count for 1 point each
Goalie shut-outs count for 5 points each

2) Email your team list (15 skaters, 1 goalie) to Nick at chparkevents@yahoo.com by end of day October 11.

– Provide me with your player list, your first name and first initial of your last name and name of your street where you live (i.e. John D from Daniel Ave).
– Updates will be provided to all participants via a free hockey pool website.

Winner will be announced via our website at the end of the season and gets bragging rights as “Champlain Park’s Hockey Pool Champion” and in the process dethrones the current 2022-23 champion Dave H from Carlton ave – congrats to Dave for winning last year! and for the record Dave B from Daniel Ave won the 2021-22 pool the year before – can anyone dethrone the Daves?

If you have any questions email Nick at chparkevents@yahoo.com

Community Association Board Meeting Agenda – September 27

Agenda

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Board Meeting

Wednesday September 27, 2023
7:30 PM via Google Meet
Everybody Welcome

Board meetings will have an open session for community residents to observe business discussions. Non board community members will also be invited to participate at certain times by the chair and there will be “in camera” topics for the board members only. Please contact the secretary via champlainpark@gmail.com to request a link to join the meeting.

Open session

Approval of minutes of May 11, 2023 – Liz
Civic Engagement Report from September 20th FCA meeting – Richard – 3-5 minutes
CPCA Membership and Finance – Lynne – 10 minutes
a. Finance Report
b. Membership Report
AGM: Dates, list of topics, guest speaker (?), election
Champlain Park History Book – 10 minutes – Decision – Alex
a. Status Update
b. Discussion on whether to help financially
c. Or a book launch
Meeting on functioning and structure of the Board- follow up – Richard
Discussion and Decision – 20 minutes – Lynne
a. Some options for Board Structure description for ONCA revision of by-laws.
b. Consider how to advertise Board positions for AGM 2023/24 election.
Contracts, Insurance, CPP Process Review and Discussion – 15 minutes – Heather and Lynne
Other Business
Next Meeting

Agenda last updated at 15:35 on September 24. Contact the secretary to add topics.

Tree Poster Exhibit

Update – it was taken down on Friday September 16 and removed from the Tree Fest web site. Blink and you miss it!

Seen yesterday going up on the fence at the north side of Champlain Park – a tree poster exhibit. Possibly something to do with Wednesday September 20th being National Tree Day. Yes, there’s a mention of the exhibit “Photosynthesis III: Pollinators and the Urban Forest” being up for a month on the Tree Fest Ottawa web site. And they’re also doing the tour mentioned in the previous post.

National Tree Day Garden Tour – September 20

via Daniel Buckles:

Join pollinator specialist Jessica Forest and ethnobotanist John Arnason for a tour of the Champlain Park gardens and mini-forests, to celebrate the connections between trees and pollinators in urban settings. 4-6 pm, Wednesday September 20. Location and registration here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/national-tree-day-celebrating-pollinators-and-the-urban-forest-tickets-717289410937

Champlain Bridge Construction Update – August

Just got a message from the NCC saying that the bridge work is winding down, but continuing into the fall. Details at
https://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/closures/champlain-bridge-rehabilitation-project-completed-ahead-of-schedule
https://ccn-ncc.gc.ca/fermetures/la-refection-du-pont-champlain-se-termine-plus-tot-que-prevu

Here’s the table of key upcoming dates…

Dates	Hours	Motorized access	Cyclist and pedestrian access
Aug. 21–25	Day (5 am–10 pm)	2 of 3 lanes open	Cycling lanes available, follow signage. Pedestrians use the sidewalk.
Aug. 21–25	Night (10 pm–5 am)	Full closure	Sidewalk open, walk your bike.
Aug. 26–27	All times	2 of 3 lanes open	Cycling lanes available, follow signage. Pedestrians use the sidewalk.
Aug. 28–Sept. 15	Day (5 am–10 pm)	Full access	Cycling lanes available. Pedestrians use the sidewalk.
Aug. 28–Sept. 15	Night (10 pm–5 am)	Full closure	Sidewalk open, walk your bike
Sept. 16 and beyond	Day (5 am–10 pm)	Full access	Cycling lanes available, follow signage. Pedestrians use the sidewalk.
Sept. 16 and beyond	Night (dates and times to be determined)	Possible future bridge impacts being limited to off-peak hours or overnights

Hamlet in Our Park! – July 21

Coming to Champlain Park on Friday July 21 2023 at 7:00 PM…

You’re Invited
Theatre in the Park
90 Minutes of Mayhem
Original Music
6 Live Actors
and
A Supporting Cast of Cartoonish Puppets
All are welcome. Pay what you can

Our Champlain Park Community Association is supplying free cookies at the cookie table between 5:30 and 6:30 PM.

20230721 Fools Hamlet Poster.pdf

For more about the play and the performers and the digital programme, please see https://fools.ca/hamlet/

If there’s rain, see https://fools.ca/rain-policy/ for when the show goes on (and bring an umbrella).

Wading Pool Open

A bit belatedly, the wading pool web page has been updated. It’s the same schedule as last year, from June 23 to August 18 this time (but with fresh updated links!).

River Parkway Renamed Kichi Zībī Mīkan

From the NCC. Posted here partly so I’ll have a place to find the new name and copy it with the proper accents 🙂 There’s also a sound clip on their web site for pronouncing it. It means Great River Road in the Algonquin language, sort of similar to the old Ottawa River Parkway name in semantics!

I am writing to inform you that the NCC Board of Directors has approved Kichi Zībī Mīkan (kitchi zee-bee MEE-khan) as the new name for the SJAM Parkway. Please see the below news release or our website for details.

Membership Drive Continues

The Champlain Park Community Association is continuing its annual membership drive, with some important changes.

Instead of a door-to-door campaign, residents are asked to pay the $20 fee via e-transfer and we’ve added a cheque drop-off payment option (see below).

We have about a quarter of the neighbourhood’s households joined so far, which is a great start. We would like to add more members to our list.

So, how do I join?

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