Category: Advertisements

Advertisements and other items of possible interest to the neighbourhood. These typically will be from a third party and may be commercial in nature.

The Comedy of Errors, in Our Park! – July 19

Coming to Champlain Park on Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM! With cookies!

A Company of Fools presents

The Comedy of Errors

90 Minutes of Mayhem (and laughs)

https://www.fools.ca/comedy-of-errors

[Poster for 2025 Company of Fools production of The Comedy of Errors]

This year, they’ve ramped up the madness. The tale is set in a land of warp pipes, Goombas, and mustachioed plumbers.

(Pssst. Don’t tell Shakespeare!)

All are welcome. Pay what you can.

AND

The Champlain Park Community Association Cookie Table is back

Free Cookies for all between 5:15 PM and 6:45 PM

Volunteers for cookie table set-up/take-down will be much appreciated.

Please contact Heather through the web site.

Wild Orchids of the Ottawa Area – June 11

Jean Hollebone on “Wild Orchids of the Ottawa Area”

Wednesday June 11, 7:30-8:30 at Champlain Park field house

[A Lady Slipper orchid blossom]All Champlain Park Residents and friends are invited to come to a free talk organized by the volunteers of the Biodiversity Garden along Pontiac Ave.

Jean Hollebone will speak about “Wild orchids of the Ottawa Area” at the Champlain Park Field House (entrance Cowley Avenue near Clearview). Jean is a former president of Canadian Orchid Society and currently on the Executive of the American Orchid Society.

The date of this talk will allow attendees to be aware of public field sites to visit near Ottawa where wild orchids are still in bloom.

Naturehood Spring Bird Walks – May 2 to Early June

Friday Morning Spring Bird Walks

Date: Friday morning (May 2 – early June)
Time: 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Location: Champlain Park Pollinator Garden (Carleton and Pontiac)
Leader: Jennifer Neate

Description:

Come out and greet some of the resident and migrant birds of your naturehood on this family-friendly walk. All skill levels are welcome. For beginner birders, we will practice some basic skills that will help you to locate, identify and get to know some of your bird neighbours. Bring your curiosity, and a set of binoculars if you have them. Apps like Merlin and eBird are optional learning tools that can be helpful to bring along.

[Bird picture]

Registration is not required but if you would like to be notified of cancellations due to weather, send an email to jen@spiritwalkers.ca with the subject: “Naturehood Bird Walks.”

Vintage and Valentine’s Show – February 9

Champlain Park Vintage and Valentine Show – this SUNDAY

Unlike past years when the sale was on Saturdays – this year the sale is on SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9 from 10-3 at the Champlain Park field house.

There is a lovely selection of vintage clothes, shoes, handbags, cashmere, home decor.

If you are able please bring a donation for Parkdale Food Centre. They are in need of cooking oil, peanut butter, pasta sauce, canned beans, shampoo, toothpaste/toothbrushes.

[Vintage and Valentine Show 2025 Poster]
20250209 Vintage and Valentine Show.pdf

Gardening Initiatives Workshop – February 8

You are invited to a Community Gardening and Green Initiatives Workshop by the Peoples Official Plan Coalition

Saturday February 8
10:00am – 3:00pm
Trinity United Church
1099 Maitland Ave, Ottawa

This workshop will bring together organizations with experience in community gardening, green initiatives and stewardship of public land including: food gardens; pollinator gardens; etc.  We will discuss and share current challenges in order to prioritize action items prior to the March Ottawa City Council meetings regarding:

  1. The Community Garden Action Plan (discussed at the Community and Social Services Committee) 
  2. Use of and Planting within the Right of Way (Garden Boulevard) (discussed at the Transportation Committee

Topics will include, but not be restricted to:

  • Community food gardening
  • Pollinator/native plant gardening
  • Invasive plant control
  • Rewilding/Naturalization (including any policies that interfere with this)
  • Tree planting
  • Insurance
  • Community Engagement in setting policy and operational aspects related to planting on public lands.

Please use this registration form.

We hope to see you or a group/organization representative there!

For more info please contact Harry Fischer, ottawagarden1957@gmail.com, 613 293 7173

Please note that Trinity United Church is a plastic bottle free zone.

Daybreak Gift Cards Wrapped

An update from Laurie Fagan, following up on the original post:

We have reached our goal of 67 gift cards for the residents of Daybreak Housing. We have five houses across the city (4 for men and one for women). Then this year we opened 2 new houses for refugee women (mostly from French Africa).

I huge thank you to all the residents who kindly donated gift cards – it will be most appreciated.

Happy holidays to all and this generosity reaffirms why I love living in Champlain Park.

See photo below (we still have 13 to wrap).

[Stacks of gift cards wrapped in festive paper]