Spring Cleanup 2017 – April 29

LIFE’S MESSY.

APRIL 29 WE CLEAN IT UP.

Champlain Park is looking for volunteers for our annual Spring Cleanup. The snow is melting extra fast, and trash accumulated over a long winter has started to appear.

The cleanup, part of the City’s Cleaning the Capital campaign, is a chance for neighbours of all ages – kids, teens, and adults – to get together, say hello, and help spruce up the neighbourhood.

We’ll meet at the fieldhouse on Saturday, April 29 at 10 a.m. Juice, coffee, and cookies will be served. There is a map so that people can choose an area to work on. We’ll wrap up by noon. In case of rain, we’ll meet instead on Sunday, April 30.

The designated cleanup areas are the south side of Premier above the transitway; the boulevard on Northwestern and the path at its north end; and along the fence on Patricia and Pontiac and in the NCC forest between the fence and the parkway. It can also include the area along the river at the foot of Carleton, or any other public spaces you think could use some help.

We recommend wearing pants and long-sleeved shirts, appropriate footwear and gloves. The City will provide garbage bags.

If you have any questions or suggestions, call Andrea Murphy or Ian Reid at 613-715-9504.

Andrea has tweeted a cleanup summary and a rusty treasure photo at https://twitter.com/AndreaMurphy12/status/858409677532606464

SpringTide Youth Charitable Craft Fair – June 10

SpringTide

Ottawa’s Youth Craft Fair

SpringTide craft fair is an amazing opportunity for the youth of Ottawa to do some charity work and make some money. There are only a few rules to this craft fair: only handmade products, only youth vendors (age 8-16), donate at least 25% of proceeds to a registered charity. So get creative and apply today!

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Open Doors Open Hearts at the Ottawa Mosque – March 11

Subject: Family Fun Activity Day and Open House at Ottawa Mosque on Sat., March 11
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:03:08 -0500
From: Carol Arnason <carol.arnason@ocsb.ca>

[…]

The Ottawa Mosque Association is having a Family Activity Day and Open House to start off the March Break. Heather Pearl and I attended a meeting with our Muslim neighbours and discussed some possibilities for activities to build bridges between Ottawa residents and Muslims who attend the mosque. It will be held on Saturday, March 11 from noon to 5pm. It is open to the general public.

This first event will appeal to all ages with activities for adults, youth, and children. For example, adults can ask religious experts anything they want to know about Islam or have your taxes done for free by professional tax experts who will be available. Teens can participate in cultural arts and crafts such as applying henna tattoos. Children will have an activity area with games and crafts. Of course, there will be food and drink. Bilingual youth will be tour guides.

[…]

New Event Calendar System

We’re experimenting with using a Google calendar as our list of events, in hopes that it will be easier for you to use and for us to update. Please let us know if it doesn’t work for you.

Here is the event listing in embedded format, which you can also find on our front page at https://champlainpark.org/

There is also an ICS calendar file at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/4mdn2hhapkr1aj0889luvqgips%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics and the web page equivalent is at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=4mdn2hhapkr1aj0889luvqgips%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Toronto, though those may change once we stop experimenting.

Support for Ottawa Mosque Event – February 3

Subject: support for Ottawa Mosque
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 22:33:14 -0500
From: Alex Hay <alex.hay@ocdsb.ca>

Hi Carol,

This is one idea — see attachment. I spoke to the Imam at the Mosque, as well as a leader of the Board; they both said that this action would be appreciated. If you’d be willing to use the CPCA list to get the word out, that would be great.

Peace,

Alex

Here’s a link to a Facebook event for the same action:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1759271724400740/

mosque-poster-20170203-event.pdf

And here’s what it looked like:
Mosque Supporters.jpeg

There’s also a good writeup with pictures on Mary Ellen Kot’s blog: http://maryellenkot.blogspot.ca/2017/02/rally-at-ottawa-mosque.html

Winter Carnival Photos and Thanks

Champlain Park Families come out of hibernation to reconnect and to enjoy sleigh ride, outdoor rink, fiddle music, and chili at Winter Carnival 2017!!!

Carol Arnason, Social Committee Coordinator on the CPCA Executive, reports a large turnout of neighbours and a very successful party on Saturday afternoon, January 28, 2017. We welcomed visits from our elected representatives in all three levels of government: City Councillor Jeff Leiper, MPP Yasir Naqvi, and MP Catherine McKenna. Our Federal Environment Minister was judge of the Chili Cook-Off Contest and diplomatically celebrated all of the cooks until she awarded the Metro Gift card prize to Joscelyn Coolican, long time volunteer from Carleton Ave.

Thank you from the Champlain Park Community to the following enthusiastic volunteers who made it a memorable fun event:

Sarah Kotyck and Natalie Raffoul were the awesome organizers of Winter Carnival 2017.
Jim Kot had rink in great shape and Graydon ran outdoor activities.
Champlain Park Community Association sponsored free sleigh rides, free coffee and hot chocolate, and free entertainment.
Jason Keats, creator of balloon animals, kept the children amused.
Linda Landreville, Katie and Olivia Bolger, served food and hot drinks.
Chris and Sharon Kelly provided the sleigh rides.
Triple Trouble, Canterbury High School students, entertained with fiddles and step dancing.
Bridgehead supplied coffee and hot chocolate at a discount.
Neighbours donated chilis and baked goods for the lunch counter.

Here are a few photos by John Arnason from this year’s Winter Carnival:

CPCA Winter Carnival organizers Sarah Kotyck (left) and Natalie Raffoul (right) with volunteers Olivia and Katie Bolger.

Triple Trouble provided musical entertainment, sponsored by the Champlain Park Community Association

Turning a corner. Sleigh and horses provided by Chris and Sharon Kelly, sponsored by the Champlain Park Community Association.

Jason Keats, Carleton Ave. resident, entertains children with balloon animal creations.

Fun and games on the outdoor rink managed by Jim Kot.

Christmas Sleigh Ride – Thanks

Subject: Thanks to Organizers for Awesome Sleigh Ride Event!
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:02:04 -0500
From: Carol Arnason

Many thanks to organizer, Jim Cocks, for once again building community spirit with the Christmas Eve sleigh ride. Best Christmas wishes to Tom Sauve and family for arranging Santa’s surprise visit to distribute candy canes at the Sunnymede stop. Thank you to Kelly Egan, Alex Smith, Adrian Bradley, and Jeanette Rule for advertising the event. Thank you to Dennis Van Staalduinen for leading our carol singing en route. Thank you to Olivia and Katie Bolger for preparing and serving hot chocolate. Thank you to Bridgehead for hot chocolate supplies. Many thanks to all the volunteer bakers in our neighbourhood for donations of holiday treats. Thanks to the Champlain Park Community Association for sponsoring the free sleigh ride.

The comment from our Costa Rican guests was: “We have nothing like this in Costa Rica -no community associations!” Merry Christmas everyone and see you at the CPCA Community Winter Carnival on Saturday, January 28,2017.