Category: Community Events

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

Garage Sale – June 1

The 2024 Kitchissipi Ward-wide Yard Sale is scheduled to happen on Saturday, June 1, starting at 8AM (usually ending around 1pm but it can go longer). Our city councillor Jeff Leiper is hosting a map of sale locations. Write to him if you want to be added, but it’s not necessary.

[Poster for the 2024 Kitchissippi Ward Yard Sale]
Kitchissippi Yard Sale 2024 – poster.pdf

Here’s a possibly useful 2017 article about preparing for a garage sale in the Kitchissippi Times.

For late breaking news and posts about the garage sale, see https://champlainpark.org/category/community-news/garage-sale/

Spring Cleanup 2024 – May 11

Time to limber up and to get ready to stoop, scoop, lunge and squat our way to a cleaner community!

It’s a great way to get some exercise and help make our neighbourhood beautiful at the same time.

When: May 11th (in case of rain May 18th)

Where: meet outside the Champlain Park fieldhouse at 10am and pick up a garbage bag and gloves. We’ll also provide snacks to tide you over! Children should be accompanied by an adult.

What: Choose a part of the neighbourhood and pick up any garbage you see and make our neighbourhood clean and beautiful. Dispose of the garbage bag with your normal household garbage/recycling/composting.

[A happy garbage recycling bin - generated by DreamStudio.ai]