Category: Children related

Topics and activities related to enriching our children lives within our community

Games Night – January 9

Come and join us for a fun community Game Night! Spend time with friends and neighbours and play games at the Field House on Thursday January 9 from 7-9 pm. See the original post for details.

[20241212 Playing Spirit Island at the Champlain Park field house games night]
Playing Spirit Island at the Champlain Park field house games night, December 2024.
I had asked which game was most complex in the stack of available games, and this one came out on top. So our table tried playing it. I’m still not sure about how the combat system works.

Games Night – December 12

Come and join us for a fun community Game Night! Spend time with friends and neighbours and play games at the Field House on Thursday December 12, from 7-9 pm. See the original post for details.

Here are a few DreamStudio.AI generated photos of game night, inspired by playing King of Tokyo last month…
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Ping-Pong Club and Tables?

We were thinking of fun things to do with our neighbours, and the idea of ping-pong or table tennis came up.

If you have a spare table, could we use it? We think we could fit two of them in the field house and store them away in the back room between sessions.

[Fieldhouse with a couple of AI generated ping pong tables]

A ping-pong club could work, if there’s enough interest. There already is an Ottawa wide club, universities, the RA Centre, and the larger community centres have tables.

Perhaps the city could build us an outdoor table, but that would need to be tough enough to survive winter and vandals, and thus be very expensive! Some do exist, this is one in Optomiste Park in Vanier.

[Optomiste Park Vanie Ping Pong Table, via Google Maps]

So, any interest in a ping-pong club and are there any spare tables? If you want to play or have a table, please drop a note to chparkevents@yahoo.com or come to the next games night to talk with the rest of us.