Community Meeting – Champlain Park Urban Forest and Green Spaces

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Urban Forest and Green Spaces

When:   Thursday, November 17, 2016
Time:     7 pm to 9 pm
Where: Champlain Park Fieldhouse

Learn about recent efforts to foster a healthy urban forest and green space in Champlain Park:

  • Community mapping of trees and tree health
  • Tree planting in the NCC forest
  • The Little Woods at Clearview and Patricia

Bring your ideas for enhancing the green spaces in the neighbourhood and reducing the environmental footprint of our community.

All are welcome!

Water Rangers Meeting – become a Citizen Scientist – November 29

Want to know more about the river that runs past our shore? Do you wish you could swim safely either at Westboro Beach or in the Carleton Avenue area?

Are you interested in fishing and wonder what kind of fish you might catch near our shores? You and your friends could become citizen scientists and build up a storage of knowledge about the river, its health, issues around it, and how we can improve it in our own neighbourhood and also in its entire length.

Come to a meeting on Nov. 29 at 7:15 p.m. at the Champlain Park Field House on Cowley Ave, in Champlain Park. Kat Kavanagh, the Designer and Executine Director of the Water Rangers Website will explain how the Water Rangers web site can be used to build up knowledge of local areas of the river over time by recording information on the web site on a regular basis. For example one of you could record such items as when ice has formed in the fall at a particular spot (say the bay at Carleton Ave), and when it has gone out of that bay in the spring. Where city information is available that could be used to add to the knowledge.

Kat Kavanagh, Executive Director
http://waterrangers.ca/

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Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-11-07

This week’s topics:

  • Invitation from Councillor Jeff Lieper – Community meeting about Bayswater/Somerset violence.
  • STEP in November – Red lights and stop signs.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for Nov. 7
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:02:11 -0500
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for November 7, 2016. Please feel free to pass it on to anyone who might be interested in reading it. Any comments, information or requests to be added to or deleted from the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com. If you need to get in touch with Cst. Dawn Neilly directly, please use neillyd@ottawapolice.ca.

Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellington Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-11-07.pdf

Champlain Park’s Annual General Meeting – November 22

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA)
Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Tuesday November 22, 2016
at the Champlain Park Fieldhouse
7:15 to 7:30 PM: Refreshments
7:30 PM: Business Meeting

Guests:

  • Councillor Jeff Leiper: Updates on Champlain Park Issues (20 minutes)
  • Catherine McKenna, MP, Ottawa Centre (sends her regrets)
  • A representative of the Ottawa Mosque

(Q & A will be hosted by each guest)

Business Items:

  1. Approval of minutes of 19 Nov 2015 AGM – Liz (2)
  2. Community Plan – Nick (5)
  3. Election of Executive for 2016/17 and Call for Volunteers – CoChair1 (5)
  4. Reports (5 minutes each)
    • Treasurer – Joan
    • Membership – Boris
    • FCA (Federation of Citizens’ Associations) – Roland
    • Planning and Zoning – Duncan
    • Social – Carol
    • Environment – Nick
  5. Other Business
  6. Adjournment

Election of Officers and Call for Volunteers:

  • You can ask to be nominated for any of the listed positions.
  • Names of current nominees are listed on the chart. Most are current executive members who are willing to stay on.
  • However we are actively seeking new board members.
  • Some positions can be shared, as there is always plenty to do. For example, we have 2 Co-Chairs.
  • We also have an executive position called “Member at Large”. This allows people to be on the executive without a specific “portfolio” and to contribute in a variety of ways as per your interests. Some of our current board members started as Member at Large and then “specialized”.
  • Please see the CPCA organizational chart to get some ideas of how you might contribute if you are interested in becoming an executive member or non-executive volunteer.
  • If you are thinking of joining the executive/board in the future, attending some of our open executive meetings (advertised on our website) is a good way to familiarize yourself with the work of the community association.

To be added to the slate of executive/board member nominees for the election, contact CoChair1 CPCA, at champlainpark@gmail.com

Please provide: Name, Position/area of interest

Also see the Community Plan for a description of our activities. Contact the listed co-ordinator if interested in a specific volunteer area.

Christmas Sleigh Ride – December 22

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All Aboard ! The annual sleigh ride is back!

What a great way to start the holidays!

The sleigh is currently scheduled to depart:

From: The Fieldhouse
When: 6:15pm – 8:00pm
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2016.

We’ll update the status on the website if there are delays due to weather or other problems.

If the horses are unavailable, we’ll just meet at the Fieldhouse for a party.

Weather permitting, the plan is to have the horse-drawn sleigh gliding through the neighbourhood starting at around 6:15 p.m. at the Fieldhouse.

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We hope to have carols along the way and may even work in a stop at a place reputed to be the local hideout of Old St. Nick.

Christmas sugar cookies.The evening should wrap up at the Fieldhouse, where there will be hot drinks and treats.

Please feel free to bring Christmas cookies or snacks for sharing at the party.

Jim Cocks, 613-728-7881, has very generously donated his time, yet again, to organize the event.

If you’re able to volunteer any time with set-up, cleanup, treats or hot chocolate, please let Jim know at email jim.co@sympatico.ca (One can never have too many elves!)

Please call Jim at (613) 728-7881 asap for details or email him at jim.co@sympatico.ca. We thank-you in advance!

For reference, here’s a PDF of the copy of map.
Please appreciate that the map is only an approximation of the route.

Here’s the PDF poster for this year’s sleigh ride:
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Halloween Fun Run Wrap-up

From: PETER LAUGHTON
Date: October 30, 2016 at 5:38 PM
Subject: Champlain Park Halloween Fun Run THANK-YOU!!!!!

The count is in and it looks like we have collectively raised over $600 for Right to Play Canada this year – a record haul!!! We will be sending the cheque to them this coming week.

Thanks so much to all of you for coming out and being so generous with your time and donations. See you next year!

Pete

The Starting Lineup
The Starting Line-up, photo courtesy of Amanda Shaw
Fun Runners Dashing through the Woods
Fun Runners dashing through the Woods, photo courtesy of Paul O’Blenes

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-10-31

This week’s topics:

  • Halloween safety – As mentioned in an earlier post.
  • Crime Prevention Week – Focus on fraud.
  • Constable Selection Process for women.
  • Seeking witnesses – Homicide case.
  • Missing man.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for Oct. 31
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:08:01 -0400
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for October 31, 2016. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who might interested in receiving it. Any comments, information or requests to be added to or deleted from the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com. Queries for Cst. Dawn Neilly may be sent directly to neillyd@ottawapolice.ca.

Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellington Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-10-31.pdf

Ottawa West Dojo – Wednesdays at the Fieldhouse

Now obsolete, please see https://champlainpark.org/karate-classes/ for the current classes.

The Ottawa West Dojo is now holding karate practices at the Fieldhouse on Wednesdays from noon to 1pm and additionally in the evening from 8:00pm to 9:15pm. See the attached PDF for details and clickable links.

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