Winter Session Activities Starting in January

January marks the start of another session of many activities happening in the neighbourhood. See the full calendar for a date oriented view, or this list of the classes and clubs in alphabetical order:

Bridge Club – Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Garden Club – Tuesday, January 9 2018
Karate Classes for Over 60 – Thursday, January 11 2018
Mindful Movement and Meditation – Monday, January 8 2018
Monday Night Fitness Class – Monday, January 8 2018
Yoga – Wednesday, January 10 2018

Others like skating on the rink depend on the season, for them please see the Activities menu on our home page.

Boughs, boughs, boughs for sale

Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:41:47 -0500
From: Laurie Fagan <laurie.fagan@cbc.ca>

Boughs, boughs, boughs for sale

The Champlain Park Garden Club has many extra bundles of boughs left over from the two wreath making workshops this past weekend. They are nice for a mantle or decorate your railing and the smell is incredible.
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Wreath Making Workshop – December 3

It’s nonsense when people say they aren’t at all artistic. Come out and make a lovely 18 inch Christmas wreath for your front door (or back) on Sunday December 3 at the Field House – there are 2 workshops – one at 1 pm & the second at 3:30. All you need is a pair of garden gloves and hand garden pruners and a desire to create a wonderful wreath with 4 kinds of fresh evergreens. The cost is $28.00 and that includes the wreath base, all the boughs, and berries, twine and wire. You can bring ribbon, pine cones, small feathered birds or whatever else you’d like to embellish with.

To sign up contact laurie.fagan@cbc.ca

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Garden Club with Ed Lawrence – September 12

Laurie would like to point out that Ed Lawrence will be appearing on Tuesday at the gardening club meeting, possibly his final appearance at the club. He’s locally (Ontario) famous for a call-in radio show about gardening, http://www.gardeningwithed.com/abouted.php

More about the Garden Club at https://champlainpark.org/garden-club/

Fall Season Activities Starting

Just a reminder that Fall Activities are starting soon. There are:

The Bridge Club – Wednesdays at 2pm, starting on September 13.
A new Fitness Class – Mondays at 6:45pm, starting on September 11.
The Garden Club – Meets monthly on the second Tuesday, starting on September 12.
Karate Classes – Wednesdays at noon, starting on September 6.
Karate for Seniors – Tuesdays at 10am, starting on September 5.
Mindful Movement and Meditation Classes – Mondays at 5:30pm, starting on October 2.
Yoga Classes – Wednesdays at 6:30pm, starting on September 13.

Additionally a book club is being started, details coming soon.

Quite a busy season! See the full calendar at https://champlainpark.org/full-calendar/

Garden Club talk on Design your Edible Oasis – March 14

From: Judy Billingsley
Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:44 PM
Subject: The Champlain Park Garden Club meeting

Hi Everyone:

The next garden club meeting will be on Tuesday, March 14th. We will welcome Telsing Andrews of Aster Lane Edibles in Kinburn who will be presenting a slide show and talk entitled “Design your Edible Oasis”. If you want to check out the website before the meeting here is the address: http://www.asterlaneedibles.ca/ The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the field house in Champlain Park, corner of Cowley and Clearview.
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Garden Club: Pruning – February 14

From: Judy Billingsley <judyandy@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 3:33 PM
Subject: Fw: Champlain Park Garden Club meeting

Hi Everyone:

The next garden club meeting is on Tuesday, February 14th when we welcome Mark Burleton, Manager of Grounds and greenhouses with the NCC, as our guest speaker. Mark will talk about that all important topic, pruning, a garden necessity. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the field house in Champlain Park, corner of Cowley and Clearview. Hope you can make it. If you were one of the members who didn’t receive my email notice for last month’s meeting please let me know if you receive this notice.

Judy Billingsley

For more information about the Garden Club, please see https://champlainpark.org/garden-club/

Garden Club High Line – January 10

A message from Laurie Fagan of the Garden Club:

Champlain Park Garden Club – Tuesday January 10/17 – Come and take a trip on New York City’s High Line. It’s the urban raised railway in Manhattan that is now a garden oasis in the big apple. Join us for the slideshow and talk at the Champlain Park field house at 7:00 pm. Drop in fee $5.00

Thanks
Laurie

Winter Sessions of Clubs and Classes Starting

An updated list of the clubs and classes which are starting Winter sessions this month:

4-Jan-2017 Bridge Club
9-Jan-2017 Aerobic Classes
10-Jan-2017 Garden Club
11-Jan-2017 Yoga Classes
11-Jan-2017 Karate Classes
17-Jan-2017 Mindful Movement and Meditation Class

Others like skating on the rink depend on the season, for them please see the Activities menu on our home page.

Wreath Making Workshop – December 4

Come and make your own holiday wreath for your door at the Champlain Park Garden Club workshop on Sunday December 4 at 12:30 (it runs about 1 to 1.5 hours).

Using a grapevine wreath base you will build a fresh wreath with 4 kinds of evergreens and berries. No experience necessary just garden gloves and a hand garden cutter (snips).

Cost is $28.00 plus we’ll have a few holiday cookies and punch. It’s lots of fun. To register call Laurie at 613-728-1945.

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