Category: Community Events

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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Hallowe’en Fun Run – October 27

via Todd Shannon’s post on Facebook…

Back by popular demand (at least in our household…), please SAVE THE DATE for the 11th Annual Champlain Park Hallowe’en Fun Run!

Start and finish line will be on the east side of the Fieldhouse, near the swings. We’ll get started at 9:30 with the ~1 mile (1.6km) route, followed by the ~800m route.

A few volunteers would be much appreciated to be on-course marshals so that no one gets lost in the haunted woods…

A $10 donation is encouraged (but not mandatory) to participate, with proceeds this year directly benefiting Achilles Canada, which provides opportunities and support for those who are blind or visually impaired to enjoy running and other sports.

Any questions, please ask in the comments on Facebook.

Otherwise, hope to see you on the 27th, and looking forward to all of the great costumes!
[Poster for 2024 Haloween Fun Run]

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.

Hockey Pool – October 11

Annual Champlain Park Hockey Pool – picks due Oct 11th

From: Nick

Join the 5th Annual Champlain Park NHL Hockey Pool!!!

To participate, it’s easy, open to all in the neighbourhood and free, simply:

1) Choose 15 skaters (forwards or defencemen) and 1 Goalie

– To ensure we all don’t pick the same top players, you cannot choose the following 15 players:

C. McDavid, L. Draisaitl, N. Mackinnon, N. Kucherov, M. Tkachuk, J. Hughes, M. Marner, A. Matthews, D. Pastrnak, M. Rantanen, K. Kaprizov, A. Panarin, J.T. Miller, C. Makar, W. Nylander.

You can choose any other players.

– Scoring: most points at the end of the season wins.

  • Goals and assists each count for 1 point
  • Goalie wins count for 1 point each
  • Goalie shut-outs count for 5 points each

2) Email your team list (15 skaters, 1 goalie) to Nick at chparkevents@yahoo.com by end of day October 11.

– Provide me with your player list, your first name and first initial of your last name and name of your street where you live (i.e. John D from Daniel Ave).
– Updates will be provided to all participants via a free hockey pool website.

Winner will be announced via our website at the end of the season and gets bragging rights as “Champlain Park’s Hockey Pool Champion”, unless they wish to be anonymous.

If you have any questions email Nick at chparkevents@yahoo.com