Advertisements and other items of possible interest to the neighbourhood. These typically will be from a third party and may be commercial in nature.
Via Lynne:
School yard fundraiser for one of our local schools! Churchill Alternative PS serves children in our neighbourhood (it’s the OCDSB alternative program school for this area). Learn about the yard renewal and donate through the link below. Charitable receipts are possible!
By the way, that’s the school on the hill at Byron and Churchill. Also see their proposed yard map.
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Goldenrod Community Garden Plot Waitlist 2022 – ALERT
Goldenrod lost all the names/data on our waitlist around the end of September 2021. Anyone on that list must sign up again.
Please sign up by going to Goldenrod Garden’s homepage and clicking the link for Plot Waitlist 2022.
Everyone is welcome and we do apologize for this. Please know that this list is not “first-come-first-served”. We will be pulling names at random when it’s time to assign plots for next year.
Thank you for your support and your kindness. Goldenrod had a spectacular first year. Please join us in 2022!
Catherine O’Toole
Board Member
Goldenrod Community Garden
catherine@ibtype.com
Tania wrote last night:
Found a health card in the neighbourhood this morning. Card is for a 7 year-old child with birthday at the end of November.
Would love to return it to the rightful owner.
Tania.
On Apples, Pick-up Trucks and Food Security
The Community Forest project needs a pick-up truck or vehicle with a trailer to collect a MacIntosh apple tree from the Just Food Farm in Blackburn Hamlet (near Orleans) and bring it to the neighbourhood. Thursday afternoon (October 28) or Friday during the day would be ideal. If you have access to truck or trailer, please contact Daniel Buckles (613-807-8048).
The apple will be the last planting of the season in the new terraces at Champlain Park, along with two American Hazelnuts (a native shrub with showy flowers and edible nuts). Our Community Forest will not only showcase a native “Tiny Forest” east along Pontiac, a “Native Pollinator Garden” at the entrance to the river, and a glimpse at “futures forests” in our warming world, but also options for “Food Forests” in urban environments.
“Where will our food come from?” is a question posed in the context of Ottawa’s new Official Plan in an opinion piece by a neighbour you might find of interest here.
Update from the “Pit Crew” of Champlain Park.
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Our neighbour on Daniel Avenue, John Sadler, has passed away this spring. I often stopped for a pleasant chat with him when I was walking by and he was outside working on his property or washing his immaculate white car. Kelly wrote a good article about him in the Ottawa Citizen:
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/egan-john-lived-alone-we-didnt-let-him-die-that-way
Our nearby neighbours are having their food festival this fall over several weeks. There’s even a calendar to keep all the action straight. Local neighbour Dennis Van Staalduinen, who runs the Wellington West BIA, appeared in an Ottawa Citizen interview on the event.
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Their description from https://wellingtonwest.ca/taste-returns-for-2021/:
TASTE of Wellington West is back again for another year of modified festivities to showcase the very best flavours and features of our beautiful neighbourhoods in Hintonburg and Wellington West. As always, we are using this annual festival as an opportunity to raise money for our charity partner, The Parkdale Food Centre.
This year we will have an exciting combination of both virtual and in person events showcasing the food, art and fun of Wellington West. Visit our TASTE 2021 webpage for more details on all these festive features and more to come.
You are invited to the virtual Federal All Candidates Debate, Monday, September 13, 2021, at 7 pm.
Original post: https://champlainpark.org/2021/08/27/federal-all-candidates-virtual-debate-september-13/
Earth Speaks: Making Governments Truly Democratic
This Tuesday, September 14
7:30pm – 9pm
It’s election time, and Climate Change is a top voter concern. The promotion and implementation of real democratic practices in the various layers of government – through Proportional Representation and Citizens’ Assemblies – is essential to address the existential threat of the climate crisis in the long term. This Tuesday, September 14th, at 7:30pm, join guest Peter Black, of Fair Vote Canada, for a discussion of Proportional Representation and the potential for implementing it in Canada.
Continue reading “Presentation on Proportional Representation – September 14”
As part of the nation-wide “100 Debates on the Environment” initiative, Evidence for Democracy is organising a debate in Ottawa-Centre on September 8 at 6 pm. RSVP here, and share the Facebook event here.
The 2021 Federal Candidates for Ottawa Centre:
Ecology Ottawa is co-hosting three election debates as part of GreenPAC’s nation-wide “100 Debates on the Environment” initiative.
The first is in Ottawa West-Nepean, on Wednesday, September 8 at 6pm with First Unitarian Congregation. RSVP here, and share the Facebook event with your contacts here.
The second is in Kanata-Carleton, on Thursday, September 9 at 6pm. RSVP here, and share the Facebook event here.
The third is Ottawa-Vanier with Lowertown Community Association, Vanier Community Association, For Our Kids Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario Committee of Canadian Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) on Thursday, September 9 at 8 pm, RSVP here, and share the Facebook event here.
You are invited to the virtual Federal All Candidates Debate, Monday, September 13, 2021, at 7 pm.
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