Notices and other information from the City of Ottawa that is of relevance to our neighbourhood.
Our councillor is trying to get a new type of development limit enacted, so that buildings dozens of stories tall don’t suddenly get built adjacent to a neighbourhood. This was prompted by the plan for a high-rise at 1050 Somerset (near the bridge over the railway tracks). Her newsletter has maps and details:
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e716e95bbc50cda804f90c666&id=0eb0c4163f
Nick is working on writing a proposal to the city to see what could be possible, all ideas are welcome.
More details to follow as they are made available.
From: Andrew.Hickey@ottawa.ca
Subject: Reminder – Churchill Ave south closure – March 3rd
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:27:05 +0000
Good afternoon,
Just a friendly reminder about the impending re-start of construction on Churchill Ave. on Monday, March 3rd.
Churchill Ave southbound will be closed from Byron to Carling. OC Transpo buses #16 and #150 will be re-routed.
Note that the Princeton/Clare to Carling section will re-open in July to southbound traffic once the pole relocation and transfer of all utilities to the new poles is complete.
All the details can be found on the Councillor’s website.
http://ourkitchissippi.ca/construction/churchill-construction-update-february-2014/
Regards,
Andrew
Andrew Hickey
Manager, Community Relations and Communications
Gestionnaire, Relations avec la communauté et Communications
Office of Councillor/Bureau de la Conseillère Katherine Hobbs
Ward/Quartier 15: Kitchissippi
T: 613-580-2424 ext. 26689
Our Kitchissippi
Twitter and Facebook
City of Ottawa/Ville d’ Ottawa
110 Laurier Avenue West/110 ave Laurier Ouest
Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1
On a lighter side, a local comedy group is “interviewing” our city councillor. I’ve seen them before, acting out responses to questions from the audience. For example one guest was asked by the audience “what was your worst night ever?”, she then told a story about having to stay at a really cheap hotel. The actors improvised, and somewhat exaggerated the scene, wandering through the hotel room and imaginarily picking up things, like blood soaked sheets and discovering some disgusting messes and a knife in the bathroom.
Could be an interesting night, funny and revealing if you can come up with the right questions.
– Alex
Crush Improv brings you Spotlight On… Katherine Hobbs!
Saturday, February 22 @ 8pm
Centrepointe Studio Theatre
Tickets are $12
http://centrepointetheatre.ca/en/events_tickets/february2014/Spotlight_On_3/index.htm
On Friday February 28th, the City of Ottawa will be holding its first of four Wildlife Speaker Series sessions. Dr. Stan Gehrt, world renowned wildlife ecologist from Ohio State University, will provide insight on how people in urban and rural developments can coexist with coyotes. Dr. Gehrt will share his extensive knowledge and experience to provide a better understanding of coyotes, including how and why they live in settled areas. He will also show how residents can avoid problems with coyotes, such as taking preventative measures around their properties. In addition to the presentation at 7pm, information booths will also be on-hand for residents to acquire more information on Ottawa’s wildlife and natural environment. These booths will be on display from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. For further information please visit Ottawa.ca.
City of Ottawa Wildlife Speaker Series
Session #1 – Coyotes
Friday February 28th, 2014
7pm (information booths will be open from 6pm-9pm)
Ben Franklin Place
101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa
2014-02-06Wildlife01-Poster.pdf
From: Audrey.Bond@ottawa.ca
Sent: 19/02/2014 2:01:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: PLEASE SHARE: Wildlife Speaker Series – Session#1 – February 28th
Great News: The first City of Ottawa Wildlife Speaker Series Session is just over a week away!
On Friday February 28th, 2014 at Ben Franklin Place, the City of Ottawa will be holding its first of four Wildlife Speaker Series sessions. Dr. Stan Gehrt, world renowned wildlife ecologist from Ohio State University, will provide insight on how people in urban and rural developments can coexist with coyotes.
In addition to the presentation at 7pm, information booths will also be on-hand for residents to acquire more information on Ottawa’s wildlife and natural environment. These booths will be on display from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
The City will hold three more events in the Wildlife Speakers’ Series this year. The series is intended to increase residents’ knowledge and appreciation of wildlife and promote coexistence through understanding and respect.
To help us spread the word to interested residents, we would greatly appreciate if you could let them know about this opportunity – in your newsletters, in tweets, by email.
Here are a few communication tools to assist in this promotion:
Thank you for helping us get the word out to those that may be interested in this fun and informative evening.
Audrey Bond
Planning and Growth Management Department / Services de l’urbanisme et de la gestion de la croissance
Policy Development and Urban Design / Direction de l’élaboration de politiques et de l’esthétique urbaine
110 Laurier Avenue, 4th Floor.
Ottawa K1P 1J1
613-580-2424 ext. 27904
Previously mentioned in Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2014-01-27.
From: MousaH@ottawapolice.ca
Sent: 31/01/2014 10:55:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Consultation on Future deployment of Conducted Energy Weapons (CEWs)
La version française suit l’anglais dans ce courriel / French version follows the English in this email
Consultation on Future deployment of Conducted Energy Weapons (CEWs)
Hello,
My name is Uday Jaswal and I am the Superintendent of the Patrol Directorate at the Ottawa Police Service (OPS).
I am assisting with a review being conducted by the OPS with respect to the current deployment of Conducted Energy Weapons (CEWs), commonly referred to as ‘tasers’.
As part of the review, the OPS is consulting the public and community groups to gain a better understanding of community questions and comments related to CEWs.
We would appreciate your valuable input as it will form part of our review and will help contribute to a report to the Ottawa Police Services Board in the spring of 2014 outlining recommendations for future deployment.
There are several ways by which you can provide your feedback:
For more information, please visit ottawapolice.ca/cew or read our media release.
Regards,
Superintendent Uday S. Jaswal
L’éventuel déploiement des pistolets électriques (PÉ) au Service de police d’Ottawa
Bonjour,
Je m’appelle Uday Jaswal et je suis le surintendant de la Direction de la patrouille au Service de police d’Ottawa (SPO).
Je participe à un examen mené par le SPO en ce qui a trait au déploiement actuel des pistolets électriques (PÉ), communément qualifiés de « pistolets Taser ».
Dans le cadre de l’examen, le SPO consulte le public et les groupes communautaires pour améliorer sa compréhension des questions et des commentaires de la collectivité à propos des PÉ.
Nous apprécierions recevoir votre apport inestimable puisqu’il sera partie prenante de notre examen et qu’il alimentera un rapport à l’intention de la Commission de services policiers d’Ottawa au printemps 2014, qui résumera les recommandations sur l’éventuel déploiement.
Il y a plusieurs façons de fournir votre rétroaction :
Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez visiter www.ottawapolice.ca/cew_fr ou lire notre communiqué.
Cordialement,
Le surintendant Uday S. Jaswal
Hamid Mousa | A/Community Development Coordinator
Phone: (613) 236-1222, ext. 5028
E-mail: mousah@ottawapolice.ca
Ottawa Police Service | Community Development Section | Executive Services Directorate
474 Elgin Street | P.O. Box 9634, Stn. T | Ottawa, Ontario K1G 6H5
ottawapolice.ca
Katherine Hobbs’ new February newsletter is out, and mentions a couple of items that may impact our neighbourhood (Island Park road work by Hydro Ottawa, bus detours onto Scott while the LRT is being built). Here’s a summary of the topics:
– Alex
From: MousaH@ottawapolice.ca
Sent: 29/01/2014 12:00:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Reminder notice for registration for ~Let’s Chat: Have Your Say / Parlons-en: Exprimez-vous~
Dear Community Member,
Space is still available for next week’s Let’s Chat session on Feb.6th… Please ensure that you have registered. We welcome you to share the attached invitation poster with others.
Let’s Chat: Have Your Say
Join the ongoing conversation about racial profiling and the next phase of the Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project.
Thursday, February 6th, 2014
RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr, Clark Hall
6:00 – 9:00 pm
REGISTER: ottawapolice.ca/race
Get involved, provide feedback, and stay engaged. For more information, contact us at 613-236-1222, Ext. 5028 or by email at pia@ottawapolice.ca.
A nos membres de la communauté,
Il y a encore de l’espace disponible pour l’engagement le 6 février. S’il vous plaît vous inscrire. Nous vous invitons à partager l’invitation avec vos partenaires à l’interne et l’externe.
Parlons: Exprimez-vous
Joignez-vous à la conversation. Continue au sujet du profilage et de la prochaine phase due Projet de collecte de données fondées sur la race aux contrôles routiers.
Le jeudi 06 février, 2014
Salle Clark, Centre RA, 2451, promenade Riverside
18h 00 à 21h
Inscrivez-vous à : ottawapolice.ca/race
Impliquez vous, faites nous part de vos observations et participez à la réalisation du projet. Pour plus d’information, téléphonez au 613-236-1222, poste 5028 ou contactez nous par courriel à pia@ottawapolice.ca.
Hamid Mousa | A/Community Development Coordinator
Phone: (613) 236-1222, ext. 5028
E-mail: mousah@ottawapolice.ca
Ottawa Police Service | Community Development Section | Executive Services Directorate
474 Elgin Street | P.O. Box 9634, Stn. T | Ottawa, Ontario K1G 6H5
ottawapolice.ca
On December 21st 2013, we had the unveiling of two city of Ottawa sponsored monuments at the fieldhouse. The unveiling was attended by numerous residents, Cowley family members, councillor Katherine Hobbs and MPP Yasir Naqvi.
Just to follow up on the unveiling event (see previous post), we have a few photos, videos and articles to mention.
The Champlain Oaks web site has several articles on the production of the oak tree slice, and a little write-up about the event. They also point out a larger article that describes the event and background story by Steph Willems and published by Ottawa Community News.
A slice of an oak tree cut down for house development was preserved and the rings labelled with key dates. It’s now on display outside the fieldhouse in a custom case, with the addition of two new park benches you can sit on while admiring it.
Inside the fieldhouse, the timeline of neighbourhood history (enhanced with photos and museum grade professional text in both languages) was mounted on the wall.
Here are some of the people responsible for getting it done (see Katherine Hobb’s full speech for the full list), from left to right: Mark and Brian (builders), Katherine Hobbs (city councillor), Yasir Naqvi (MPP), Daniel Buckles and Debra Huron (community organizers).
We also have videos of the unveiling:
You can also view the whole ceremony and speeches in 20131221-tree-whole.mp4 and 20131221-timeline-whole.mp4 Sorry about the clattering noise, due to a camera microphone malfunction. A high definition 720p version exists, but was too big to post here.
From: morganbarnes@hydroottawa.com
Sent: 15/01/2014 4:23:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Island Park Drive System Expansion Project and Community Meeting
Dear Kitchissippi Community Association,
You are invited to attend an upcoming community information meeting regarding Hydro Ottawa’s plans for a system expansion project that will begin along Island Park Drive in the spring of 2014. This work is being undertaken to ensure reliability of the electricity supply in the growing Westboro area.
The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 30th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Churchill Seniors Centre located at 345 Richmond Road. Residents of Island Park Drive and Kitchissippi ward Councillor Katherine Hobbs, have already been notified about this information session by direct mail. Hydro Ottawa will also be placing an advertisement in the January 23rd issue of the local EMC newspaper (attached). We would also invite you to post information about this meeting on your website to help us inform residents.
While the commencement of this project is months away we wanted to provide your association with as much advance notice as possible as there will be increased construction presence while the project is ongoing, including excavation activities and construction vehicles. Traffic control will also be implemented to ensure Island Park Drive remains accessible and safe for residents. Design drawings showing the construction zones and equipment storage areas, the planned locations of underground cables and chambers as well as details on how we will protect area trees and manage traffic flow, will be available at the information session.
Please contact Brian Thompson, Distribution Design, if you have any questions about this project. He can be reached at brianthompson@hydroottawa.com or 613-738-5499 x7264.
Sincerely,
Morgan Barnes
Morgan Barnes
Communications Officer | Public Affairs
Tel: 613 738-5499 x568 | Fax: 613 738-6409
Hydro Ottawa
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