Bike to Work Month

From: Mandy Wilson <mandy.wilson@envirocentre.ca>
Sent: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 2:55 pm
Subject: May is Bike to Work month – get your community involved!

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With the support of our core partner: The City of Ottawa, along with other great community organizations; we are working toward getting more people to try commuting by bike!

Last year, there were over 2,500 participants who cycled more than 8 times around the planet!

This year, we’ll be giving away over $10,000 in prizes throughout the month.

We are including our Workplace Handbook and Poster to help you get things rolling:
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Spring Cleanup 2017 – April 29

LIFE’S MESSY.

APRIL 29 WE CLEAN IT UP.

Champlain Park is looking for volunteers for our annual Spring Cleanup. The snow is melting extra fast, and trash accumulated over a long winter has started to appear.

The cleanup, part of the City’s Cleaning the Capital campaign, is a chance for neighbours of all ages – kids, teens, and adults – to get together, say hello, and help spruce up the neighbourhood.

We’ll meet at the fieldhouse on Saturday, April 29 at 10 a.m. Juice, coffee, and cookies will be served. There is a map so that people can choose an area to work on. We’ll wrap up by noon. In case of rain, we’ll meet instead on Sunday, April 30.

The designated cleanup areas are the south side of Premier above the transitway; the boulevard on Northwestern and the path at its north end; and along the fence on Patricia and Pontiac and in the NCC forest between the fence and the parkway. It can also include the area along the river at the foot of Carleton, or any other public spaces you think could use some help.

We recommend wearing pants and long-sleeved shirts, appropriate footwear and gloves. The City will provide garbage bags.

If you have any questions or suggestions, call Andrea Murphy or Ian Reid at 613-715-9504.

Andrea has tweeted a cleanup summary and a rusty treasure photo at https://twitter.com/AndreaMurphy12/status/858409677532606464

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2017-04-24

This week’s topics:

  • Missing female.
  • Have you seen this woman? – ATM charitable theft, scam tips.
  • OPS Information Session and PREP Test Workshop.
  • Share the Road!
  • Report hate crimes on line.
  • Statement by Chief Charles Bordeleau – Handling demonstrations.
  • Break and enters on increase – Sign of spring, photos of stolen items useful in this day of social media.

There’s also a press release about successful Beech Street drug and weapons crime arrests.
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Membership Drive Starts – May 1

Champlain Park Membership Drive

It’s that time again! This year, we need your help!

CANVASSERS are the core of our Community Association’s fundraising effort. Revenues collected from our annual membership drive enable a variety of activities in our community, including:
Contributing directly to your community’s well-being; and Providing financial resources for development-related activities.

This year, our Community Association needs 20 volunteers to help out with the membership drive.

Our goal this year is to increase our Community Association memberships to 75 percent of all households.

Duties: Canvass approximately 20 homes on your street or nearby

Required: 1-2 hours of your time

The 2017 Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Membership Drive
Begins: May 1,2017.

To volunteer as a canvasser please contact:
Boris Jacouty
Phone: 613-890-6938
email: champlainpark@hotmail.ca

For related news about the membership drive, see https://champlainpark.org/category/community-news/membership/

Sidewalk Construction in the Neighbourhood

As mentioned previously, the old asphalt sidewalks are being replaced by concrete ones. So both Clearview:

Replacing the sidewalk on Clearview avenue. The temporary pedestrian path is behind the fence to the right.

Construction detail of concrete forms on Clearview for the new sidewalk.

and Premier avenue are being done:

Work on Premier Avenue sidewalks. This is taken on Friday April 21 2017, a bit after 1pm and there aren’t any cars parked on Premier!