Family Day Skating Opportunities

Besides our own rink, there are a couple of skating parties happening this Monday, one sponsored by MPP Yasir Naqvi at the Tom Brown arena and the other sponsored by mayor Jim Watson at the Sens Rink of Dreams.

From: ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Subject: REMINDER: Come Join our Family Day Skating Party!
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:14:37 +0000

REMINDER: Yasir Naqvi, MPP Ottawa Centre invites you and your family out for a

Family Day Skate Party!

Start a new Family Day tradition and join us for an afternoon of skating and hot chocolate at Tom Brown Arena

When: Monday February 15, 2016
Time: 1:00p.m. – 3:00p.m.
Where: Tom Brown Arena
141 Bayview Road, Ottawa
(Between Albert St and O’Meara St)

Wishing you and yours a happy Family Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGnFoTY-bF0

For more information please call us at 613-722-6414 or email ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Don’t be shy – all skill levels are welcome!

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:00:21 +0000
From: jim.watson@ottawa.ca
Subject: Family Day Skating Party / Séance de patinage le jour de la Famille

Ottawa Garden Days Invitation

From: michel@gauthiersalame.com
Subject: Ottawa Garden Days Invitation
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 20:12:03 +0000

Bonjour Dear Community Leaders,

We are getting ready to celebrate Garden Days and we need your help.

Yes, Ottawa is preparing to participate in the national celebration of gardens and gardening, see attached Ottawa Garden Days presentation.

Gardens, public and private, are important to our quality of life, in every sense of the word, as you may know. I am sure that your community association is aware of garden groups in your community.

We would truly appreciate if you could past on the attached invitation to them inviting them to participate and celebrate what gardens do for your community, by organizing an activity in your community.

At the Ottawa Garden Council our aim is to have activities in every city ward and to be Canada’s most vibrant Garden Days city.

With that in mind, we are looking for Garden Days Ambassadors in every City wards. Attached is the role of an Ottawa Garden Days Ambassador. If you know someone that loves gardens or gardening and might be interested, please past it on.

Thank you for supporting this initiative and remember “Gardens Make Our Communities Grow”.

We are known as a green Capital, our big vision is to make Ottawa, “A Garden Friendly City” and Capital.

Bonjour,

Le Conseil du jardin d’Ottawa aimerait avoir votre appui pour faire un succès des Journées du jardin d’Ottawa 2016. Ci-joint une présentation, on excuse en anglais mais si vous visitez, http://www.lesjourneesdujardin.ca/, vous aurez une présentation en français de ce qu’est Les Journées du jardin.

Si vous connaissez un groupe dans votre communauté qui s’intéresse au jardin et/ou le jardinage, svp leur faire parvenir cette information. Notre objectif est d’avoir des activités dans tous les quartiers de la ville.

On recherche des personnes, ambassadeurs, qui pourrait travailler avec nous pour faire un succès des Journées du jardin d’Ottawa dans votre communauté. Si vous connaissez une personne svp lui envoyer l’information, on excuse en anglais seulement pour le moment.

Merci de votre collaboration et ensemble on peut faire valoir l’importance des jardins, publiques et privés, pour nos communautés. « Les jardins ça fait pousser nos communautés »

Notre vision c’est qu’Ottawa ne soit pas simplement une Capitale verte mais une « Ville amie des jardins ».

Michel Gauthier

Ottawa Garden Council
Conseil du jardin d’Ottawa
T: 613 301 4554
info@gardensottawa.org

Ottawa Garden Map/Carte des jardins d’Ottawa
http://www.gardensottawa.org/

Ottawa GARDEN DAYS – Garden Forum Presentation.pdf

Les Journées du jardin d’Ottawa 2016 – une invitation à participer.pdf

Ottawa Garden Days 2016 – Invitation to Participate.pdf

Garden Days 2016 – Ambassador Invitation.pdf

Elmdale BookFest – February 19-20

BOOKFEST 2016

The Elmdale Tradition Continues, Feb. 19-20.

Bookfest, Elmdale Public School’s annual second-hand book sale, is an opportunity to find a great read while supporting god causes. With more than 20,000 titles there’s something for everyone, all at low, low prices. Complete with raffles and a bake sale. More info at http://elmdalecouncil.com/bookfest-2016/

WHEN: Fri., Feb. 19, 9:00am to 9:00pm, and Sat., Feb. 20, 9:00am to 4:00pm
WHERE: Elmdale Public School, 49 Iona St. (just east of Island Park Drive. Access the gym from Java Street. Follow the signs)

Come early on Friday for the best selection, come back Saturday for SURPRISE SALES!

Got a box of books you’d like to donate? We’d be glad to come and get them. Email us at elmdalebookfest@gmail.com . Proceeds from the sale go toward Elmdale Public School projects, and local charities chosen by our student-led Elmdale Cares Committee.

Elmdale-Public-School-Bookfest-Poster-Final-2016.pdf

Census Jobs, some at Tunney’s Pasture

From: Postorino, Joseph
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:27 PM

[…]

For the Census in 2016 we have developed a Community Supporter Toolkit (CST) that will be available to organizations around the end of January. This will contain a variety of electronic and print media tools that you can use to help promote Census jobs and the benefits of completing the census questionnaire within your organization and with the broader community. I have attached the PowerPoint presentation describing what you can expect within the Community Supporter Toolkit. You can use this presentation within your organization to determine what tools within the CST best suit your needs.

One of our main objectives with the upcoming census is community engagement and organizations such as yours serve an important role within your communities. At this time there are 35,000 census related positions that require filling. Most of these jobs are enumerator positions and we are looking to staff them with people from communities that they will be working in. As a start, I have provided you with a promotional jobs pdf. that can be printed, or attached to a newsletter and used to advertise census jobs. Please feel free to share this with your networks where you deem appropriate. Information concerning Census jobs can also be found at: http://www.census.gc.ca/ccr16d/ccr16d_000-eng.html

Once you have had time to look over the Community Supporter Toolkit presentation, please feel free to contact me and we can discuss how we may be able to work together going forward. I can be reached at 613-951-0567 or at joseph.postorino@canada.ca. If there is a particular day or time that works best for you let me know and we can arrange to talk at that time. Also, if you have any questions, comments or issues with the material, please let me know.

Thank you,

Joseph Postorino
Outreach Officer | Agente de sensibilisation
Census Communications | Communications du recensement
Statistics Canada | 100 Tunney’s Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6
Statistique Canada | 100, promenade Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6
joseph.postorino@canada.ca
Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-0567
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada

CCR-008-16-E_recruitment_admail_card.pdf
CCR-008-16-F_recruitment_admail_card.pdf

Yasir Naqvi New Year’s Levée – January 9

From: ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Subject: REMINDER: New Year’s Levee this Saturday
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:36:16 +0000

Dear friends,

Please join me and our new MP Catherine McKenna for our annual New Year’s Levee this Saturday.

DATE: Saturday, January 9, 2016
TIME: 2p.m. to 4p.m.
LOCATION: Dovercourt Recreation Centre, 411 Dovercourt Avenue

For more information or to R.S.V.P. please contact my office at 613-722-6414 or ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org.

All are welcome – bring a friend!

See you Saturday,

Yasir

Yasir Naqvi, MPP
Ottawa Centre

Newswest AGM – November 23

Subject: Newswest AGM Nov. 23
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:43:02 -0500
From: Cheryl Parrott <cheryl.vance@sympatico.ca>

Newswest Annual General Meeting – Mon Nov. 23 at 7pm in the Hintonburg Community Centre, 1064 Wellington St. W. We encourage you to come and be a part of your community newspaper. Membership is $5.00.

Newswest is a non-profit, volunteer run community newspaper formed in 1978. It is one of the longest surviving community newspapers in Ottawa. Newswest is written by the community for the community.

Since 2003 Newswest has been published within the Kitchissippi Times but remains an independent publication. Newswest covers the area bordered by the O-train tracks and Woodroffe Avenue, between the Ottawa River and Carling Avenue. This area includes the neighbourhoods of Mechanicsville, Hintonburg, Champlain Park, West Wellington, Hampton Park, Westboro Beach, Westboro, Highland Park, McKellar Park, Carlingwood and Civic Hospital. Over 16,000 copies of Newswest are distributed free-of-charge 12 times a year to homes and retail locations in the Kitchissippi area.

Rosemount Library Expansion & Development Group

From http://wvca.ca/2015/11/rosemount-library-expansion-development/ via Joan Dorsay:

From READ – the Rosemount Expansion and Development group:

Do you care about Rosemount – YOUR COMMUNITY LIBRARY? Then please follow the activities of READ through our email list as well as facebook group, twitter and our website.

Rosemount Library is the second most used library per sq/ft of all 32 branches AND has been the #1 branch priority for the Ottawa Public Library for three years. Yet, other libraries lower on the list have had expansions and redevelopments. Now is a critical time for Rosemount, especially with all the surrounding development that is occurring.

READ (Rosemount Expansion and Development) is a group of local volunteers throughout Rosemount’s catchment area that want to help expand and redevelopment Rosemount Library. We are working closely with library staff and with politicians at various levels of government on this issue.

We would like YOU to follow our occasional email updates and our social media presence so that you know what’s going on. We may need, in rare instances, to engage library users in advocacy or planning and this is the way to find out.
PLEASE CONNECT TODAY!

Email list: Email READRosemount@gmail.com put ‘join list’ in the subject heading
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/READRosemount
Twitter: @READRosemount
Website: http://www.readrosemount.ca/

Friends of the Experimental Farm – Tree Tour November 15

Subject: FCEF Events for November – updated October 28
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:09:35 -0400
From: Info at Friends of the Farm <info@friendsofthefarm.ca>

Hello, here are the FCEF Events for November. We have added the time and location for the Tree Tour. Please help us get the word out, thank you.

Nov 12 9am to Nov 21 12 noon. Friends of the Farm ‘Fall Frenzy’ On-line Silent Auction. Going, going, gone! Bid on great holiday gifts and services without leaving home, use PayPal, cash or cheque, pickup at Bldg 72 Arboretum. Go to Fall Frenzy at http://fcefottawa2015.eflea.ca/view or email info@friendsofthefarm.ca

November 15 Friends of the Farm Guided Tree Tour. Tree forms and shapes, tree identification, winter preparation, free and open to the public, register at info@friendsofthefarm.ca, donations kindly accepted http://www.friendsofthefarm.ca/events.htm#trees 2-4 p.m. at Bldg 72.

Friends of the Central Experimental Farm
Building 72, Arboretum, CEF
Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6
Tel: 613-230-3276
Fax: 613-230-1238

Home

Charitable Number 118913565RR0001

The Friends of the Central Experimental Farm preserve, protect, maintain and enhance the Dominion Arboretum, Ornamental Gardens, and other public areas of the Farm, in partnership with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, for the educational benefit and enjoyment of the public; and promote the Farm’s historical significance and heritage values.

Volunteer Tree Rep for Champlain Park needed

Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:55:30 -0400
From: Debra Huron <dhuron@sympatico.ca>

Do you care about protecting the big trees in Champlain Park, and would you like to be part of a group active in Kitchissippi Ward that is doing just that?

The current tree rep from Champlain Park is going to be away from Canada for a few months and BIG TREES of Kitchissippi is looking for someone from Champlain Park to represent Champlain Park community association on the ward-wide group.

To learn more and apply for this exciting position as a tree protector in Kitchissippi, contact
Debra Huron 613 859 8049
or dhuron@sympatico.ca

Check out this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BIGTREESofKitchissippi/

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United for Refugees / Ensemble pour les réfugiés

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:30:23 +0000
From: jim.watson@ottawa.ca
Subject: United for Refugees / Ensemble pour les réfugiés

(le français suit)

This past Thursday, I announced United for Refugees – a community initiative focused on raising money to support the sponsorship and settlement of people affected by the crisis in Syria.

You have likely seen the devastating photos or read the heartbreaking stories of parents and their children torn from their homes and loved ones in the worst global humanitarian crisis of our time.

Together, we are rallying the community to help families come to Ottawa and begin rebuilding their lives.

I am asking you to make a contribution to this important initiative.

United for Refugees is committed to getting resources to where they are needed the most and will have the greatest impact. I urge you to continue to support United Way Ottawa through your workplace campaigns this year, but ask you to also consider digging a little deeper to support this pressing issue.

Ottawa, and the whole of Canada, has an important role in accepting these refugees. Please join me today in making an impact. Let’s show our city’s compassion by giving refugee families new starts in Ottawa.

Sincerely,

Jim Watson
Mayor

This campaign is a collaboration between United Way Ottawa, the Community Foundation of Ottawa, the City of Ottawa and Refugee 613.

Jeudi dernier, j’ai lancé l’initiative communautaire Ensemble pour les réfugiés qui met l’accent sur la collecte de fonds qui serviront à soutenir le parrainage et l’établissement des personnes touchées par la crise en Syrie.

Vous avez sans doute déjà vu les photos troublantes ou lu les histoires déchirantes des parents et de leurs enfants arrachés à leurs foyers et obligés de quitter leurs proches, le tout dans le contexte de la pire crise humanitaire à sévir dans le monde aujourd’hui.

Ensemble, nous tenons à mobiliser la communauté afin d’aider les familles nouvellement arrivées à Ottawa à se bâtir une nouvelle vie.

Je vous invite à faire un don à cette importante initiative.

Ensemble pour les réfugiés s’engage à obtenir les ressources nécessaires pour combler les besoins les plus pressants et à utiliser ces ressources où elles auront le plus d’effet. Je vous prie de continuer à soutenir Centraide Ottawa par l’entremise de vos campagnes en milieu de travail, mais je vous invite à considérer également débourser un peu plus cette année afin de soutenir ce problème urgent.

Ottawa, comme l’ensemble du Canada, joue un rôle important dans l’accueil de ces réfugiés. Veuillez vous joindre à moi pour changer des vies. Témoignons de notre compassion en donnant aux familles de réfugiés un nouveau départ à Ottawa.

Sincèrement,

Jim Watson
Maire

Cette campagne est une collaboration entre Centraide Ottawa, la Fondation communautaire d’Ottawa, la ville d’Ottawa et Refugié 613.