OC Transpo Name the Trains Contest – December 8

OC Transpo
Name the Trains Contest

If you know of a child or youth aged 16 or under who wants to be part of Ottawa’s history? OC Transpo are looking for creative, fun and unique names for each of our 40 train cars: 34 O-Train Confederation Line train cars and 6 O-Train Trillium Line train cars. Submit your name idea from now until Dec. 8, 2017 for your chance to have it featured on an operating O-Train car starting in 2018.

See http://www.octranspo.com/ready4rail for more about using the new rail service. And http://www.ligneconfederationline.ca/ for weekly newsletters (with photos) on construction progress.

In related news, there are bicycle repair spots at 10 OC Transpo stations. Locally, there’s a new one installed on the path at the Westboro station, see https://ottawa.ca/en/residents/transportation-and-parking/road-safety/cycling-safety#bike-repair-station

CPCA Executive Meeting – November 28

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Executive Meeting Open Session
Tuesday November 28, 2017
7:30 PM at the Fieldhouse

Exec meetings will have an open session for community residents to observe exec business discussions. Non exec community members will also be invited to participate at certain times by the chair and there will be “in camera” topics for the executive only.

Agenda

Open session

  1. Approval of previous minutes of executive meeting October 19, 2017, and review of action items – All
  2. Report of interim executive motions – All
  3. Whether to put draft AGM minutes on the website: Decision – Liz (5 minutes)
  4. Current Financial Statement (see file CPCA Finances October 31, 2017) – Joan (5 minutes)
  5. Suggestions for allocating the $500 donation recently received and other donations – Joan and Adrian (15 minutes)
  6. CPP Approval Motions – Adrian (20 minutes)
    These may include

    • Christmas Sleigh Ride
    • Winter Carnival
    • Fieldhouse Community Speaker
  7. Champlain Park Improvement Project – will discuss briefly what this is, and plans moving forward – Adrian (10 minutes)
  8. Membership drive and strategies for increasing the number of members. (For discussion) – Jennie (15 minutes)
  9. Executive Activity Reports – Information – Roland ( 3 minutes)
  10. Other Business
  11. Next meeting

Preventing Climate Disaster – December 6

From: Anthony Garoufalis-Auger at Ecology Ottawa <anthony.garoufalis-auger@ecologyottawa.ca>
Date: November 25, 2017 at 1:44 PM
Subject: Join Us: Preventing Climate Disaster @ Ottawa Public Library

Join us Wednesday December 6 at the Ottawa Public Library for a panel discussion….

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On behalf of Ecology Ottawa, I would like to invite you to attend Preventing Climate Disaster: A Panel Discussion on Federal Climate Policy. At the mid-point of the Liberal government’s mandate, it’s time to check in on our government’s progress and examine the next steps on delivering its international climate commitments.
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High Tech Car Key Security

Following up on https://champlainpark.org/2017/10/26/thefts-from-vehicles/ there’s a story about unlocking electronic key fob cars:

From: “Neilly, Dawn R”
Date: November 21, 2017 at 1:09:03 PM EST
Subject: RE: theft from vehicle

Hi Everyone,

I found this article in the CAA magazine it’s on page 8 from the below link or I took a snip of it above. It’s a good read and I wanted to share as again we do get a lot of theft from vehicles.

Click to access CAA%20Magazine%20-%20Winter%202017.pdf

Take care
Dawn

Cst. Dawn Neilly-Sylvestre| Badge #1520
Community Police Centre – 1064 Wellington St
Ottawa Police Service | P.O. Box 9634, Station T, Ottawa, Ontario K1G 6H5
613.236.1222, Ext: 5871 | 613-295-2790| neillyd@ottawapolice.ca

146 Northwestern Development Proposal Update

Application details for the development proposal for 146 Northwestern Avenue now are posted on the Committee of Adjustment web page at:

http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=7320&doctype=AGENDA (to be heard Dec. 6)

On the Agenda, please scroll down to items 12 (Consent to sever) and 13 (Minor variance). Click on the address for each to have access to the associated .pdf documents, listed on the right side of the page.

As stated on the previously published Notice, info requests may be directed to Theresa Thomas at Novatech, and Duncan Bury and Heather Pearl, CPCA Planning & Zoning Committee.

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

[Wreath on a Door]
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Kitchissippi Ward Forum – November 27

From http://kitchissippiward.ca/content/kitchissippi-ward-forum-november-27-600-800pm also see https://www.facebook.com/events/143884399668848/

We are excited to announce our next Kitchissippi Ward Forum will be coming up towards the end of the month!

As always, this is an opportunity to the community to come together to discuss key issues within the Ward, collaborate, and get updates from our various community stakeholders, as well as from our office.

This time, we will have another special guest speaker – Stephen Willis, the City of Ottawa’s new General Manager of Planning, Infrastructure and Economic development. So if planning concerns are important to you, this is a can’t miss forum!
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