CPCA Executive Meeting – May 5

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Executive Meeting Open Session
Thursday May 5, 2016
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 (Approx 1.25 hours)

  1. Approval of previous minutes of executive meeting Mar 17, 2016 and review of action items (All)
  2. Report of interim executive motions (All)
  3. Community Garden (Laurie)
  4. Engagement of the Community and how to ensure that we get volunteers to organize our 3 traditional social events (All)
  5. Carol Arnason’s report to CPCA on meeting with Jeff Leiper to discuss park improvements (report to be distributed at the meeting)
  6. Getting additional revenues from nearby retailers and private businesses: financial donations/sponsorships, in kind donations/sponsorships and advertising. What has been tried so far? What can we try? (Boris)
  7. Infill II update – meeting for CA update on May 1 (CoChair1)
  8. Fieldhouse roof and teenagers (Laurie)

Yard Worker Available

I am Will Egan, a 20 year old hard working university student who is starting to work with Stats Canada on the Census at the end of May. I am looking for work before training starts.

I can do yard work of all kinds including lawns, gardens, lifting, etc. I can also clean garages and homes including basements and attics.
I have done work for many neighbours and if you want references I can provide them. I charge $12.00 an hour.

My job, with Stats is finished the end of July so I will be available for the month of August.

My # is 613-858-2037 or 613-728-1945.

Thanks Will Egan

You may also want to see our yard workers list at https://champlainpark.org/yard-work/

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2016-05-02

This week’s topics:

  • Free bike tune-ups – First 3 weeks of May at City Hall.
  • Next OPS recruitment session.
  • Criminal investigation into online child exploitation.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for May 2
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 14:07:09 -0400
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for May 2, 2016. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who might be 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.

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

NeighbourhoodWatch-2016-05-02.pdf

Weekend Training in Tree Mapping

June 3-5, 2016

Dr. Andy Kenney and Forester Astrid Nielsen will lead you through the steps for identifying tree species, assessing tree health and mapping the location of trees in Champlain Park. The resulting inventory will show the economic value of trees to people due to energy conserved, stormwater filtered, air quality improved and carbon dioxide removed. And help the community retain its forest canopy.

The Workshop sessions take place on the following

Friday, June 3, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Saturday, June 4, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Sunday, June 5, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Participants must commit to attend at least 80% of the full workshop

Location
Meet at the Champlain Park Fieldhouse

Cost
Registration is $20 per person, includes refreshments and a field manual, space it limited to the first 25 registrants on a first come, first serve basis

Registration

To register please complete Tree Mapping Workshop registration form
For more information
Contact Adrian Bradley (adrian.bradley@sympatico.ca) or Daniel Buckles (dbuckles@sympatico.ca)

This workshop has been organized under the Urban Forest and Green Spaces projects of Champlain Park

Fibre to the Home Coming Soon!

Some of you may have noticed the Bell Canada trucks busy working in our area, this April of 2016. They seem to be installing fibre optic cable (made by Corning going by the writing on the cable) and drop boxes to connect to subscribers. Looks like we’ll have very high speed Internet in the ‘hood soon!

Power Pole Stack
In case you’re wondering what’s on a typical pole in our neighbourhood, here’s a list:

  • The big grey metal can at the top is an electrical power transformer, operated by Ottawa Hydro. Provides electricity to your house.
  • The metal arm of a street light is next one down on the pole, not sure if that’s owned by Ottawa Hydro or the city. Doesn’t matter too much since the city owns Ottawa Hydro.
  • The grey tube on the bottom left is for splicing home phone lines into the old fashioned telephone cable (many pairs of copper wires wrapped in a black covering, one pair for each customer), operated by Bell Canada.
  • Next is a small cable TV junction box followed by the bigger aluminum box with lots of fins that contains cable TV electronics, run by Rogers. Everyone on the block shares the coaxial cable, but it’s operating at radio frequencies so it can handle more data than twisted pair. I recall that Rogers did a similar upgrade of the neighbourhood around the year 2000, so they could handle Internet in addition to TV.
  • Finally on the far right is the black blob which is the fibre optic junction box (a Corning OptiSheath Multiport), with around 8 jacks where lines to individual homes can be plugged in. Unlike electrical plugs with just need simple contact, the fibre optic ones precisely line up the two ends of fibre optic strands the size of a thread so they touch snugly and light can pass through. Light is at even higher frequencies than radio waves, so even more data can be transferred. They also seem to use multiple cables back to the network, about four per block. That’s probably the ultimate in data transfer for the next century.

– Alex

Building Better Connections Webcast – Reminder May 4

Subject: Fwd: Reminder: Building Better Connections Webcast
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:13:35 -0400
From: pearhea@aol.com

Note the option to watch a live webcast on the evening of May 4, 2016. Mr. Campbell’s presentation will cover the importance of public consultation and engagement, design excellence, sustainability for the future, and the public realm. The City also will preview two new Planning Primer courses, Committee of Adjustment 101 and How to Present at a Standing Committee.

Heather


See the original post for more. You can view the webcast at 7pm on the city’s Building Better Connections web page.

Update on Ottawa’s Urban Forest Management Plan

Subject: Fwd: Update on the City of Ottawa’s Urban Forest Management Plan project
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:26:02 -0400
From: Heather Pearl <hpearl2012@gmail.com>

Here is an update on the project to develop an Urban Forest Management Plan. The city-wide high level of public interest in protecting what is left of the urban forest, and reversing the unsustainable, severe, cumulative losses to the tree canopy that occurred during the past seven years, has crystalized around this project.

The Phase I Stakeholder Consultation Report summarising the input from last fall’s public consultations is now posted on the Forestry Web page.

Heather Pearl
pearhea@aol.com

From: Urbantree/Arbreurbain <urbantree@ottawa.ca>
Date: 27 April 2016 at 15:00
Subject: Update on the City of Ottawa’s Urban Forest Management Plan project

Hello;

I am writing to give you an update on the City of Ottawa’s Urban Forest Management Plan.

Our consultants have been working on the draft plan throughout the winter and early spring. It will be submitted to city staff for review soon. We will make it available to the public later this summer in preparation for the Phase 2 consultations which will take place in late September / early October. The dates for the Phase 2 consultations will be finalized early this summer.

Please keep your eye on http://ottawa.ca/urbanforest for the draft plan and the dates for the consultations this fall. The Phase 1 Stakeholder Consultation Report is also available there. The report outlines the feedback collected at the visioning sessions that were held last November and through the surveys submitted at that time.

I will send the information about the fall consultations to this list, as soon as we’ve got our plans finalized.

Thank you for your continued interest in this important project.

Martha

Martha Copestake | MFC, BScFE
Forester – Planning / experte-forestière – Planification
Policy Development and Urban Design / Élaboration des politiques et Design urbain
City of Ottawa | Ville d’Ottawa
613.580.2424 ext./poste 17922
http://ottawa.ca/planning / http://ottawa.ca/urbanisme

Rideau River and Climate Talk – May 5

Subject: Roundtable Speaker Series on Climate Change along the Rideau
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:35:21 -0400
From: Rideau Roundtable <rideauroundtable@gmail.com>

Hello everyone:

As community organization leaders and leaders in the not-for-profit sector around Ottawa, we wanted to invite you to attend a talk on May 5th at 7:00 by climate scientist Paul Hamilton and water management expert Paul Lehman. This talk on climate change in and around the Rideau watershed (the poster for the event is attached) is part of the Rideau Roundtable’s annual speaker series – the theme this year is climate change. The venue for this talk is the Kanata Seniors Centre – 2500 Campeau Drive (part of the Mlacak Centre, behind the library).

Paul Hamilton has been studying and documenting climate change in the north for years, working with other limnologists to determine what the climate patterns looked like across the millennia. Paul Lehman is the General Manager of the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority and his group uses climate science to determine how to establish the appropriate water levels along his river’s watershed to avoid flooding while allowing the river to remain a sustainable ecosystem and to allow it to support community and commercial uses. If you are interested in how climate change will effect those of us living and working in the Ottawa area, this is the talk to attend. Attendance is free and there is lots of free parking available at the facility.

On a related issue, many of you will know that 2014-2015 was a very successful year for the Rideau Roundtable. We carried out a very well received voyageur canoe race during Rideau Paddlefest, creating lots of buzz about our organization in the general public and in our partner organizations in Smiths Falls and community; we hosted a voyageur canoe tour for the diplomatic community during the Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC) Ottawa Paddlefest event in May; our Rideau Experience (REX) program carried out 19 interpretive tours of the Rideau waterway involving hundreds of participants; we helped a number of people get their Paddle Canada “Big Canoe Leader” certification; and we hosted a very successful speaker series that garnered a lot of support from our members and from the general community.

Immediately prior to this presentation on the impact of climate change on the Rideau River, we will be having our Annual General Meeting at the same venue (5:00PM to 6:30PM). Why not come out to the talk early and participate in the AGM and take the opportunity to join or renew your membership with the Rideau Roundtable. Our 2015-2016 membership fees are $15 for an individual membership or $25 for a family membership.

Once again, we look forward to seeing you at the speaker series event and at our AGM.

Sincerely

Kenneth Gourlay
Membership coordinator

Peter Au
President

ClimateChangeOnTheRideauPoster

Hintonburg Fabric Flea Market – April 30

The Hintonburg Fabric Flea Market is April 30, 2016. The event is from 10-3 at the Hintonburg Community Centre, 1064 Wellington Street just east of Parkdale Avenue. Bargain prices for quality fabrics, notions and all things sewing related. Free parking $2 entrance fee for charity. Some of the charities supported are: Doctors without borders, Salvation Army Grace Manor, Humane Society and the Cat Rescue Network. For more information or to book a table questions call Kathleen at (613)-729-8434 or email at fabricfleamarket@hotmail.com.

Hope you can make it out.
HintonburgFabricFleaMarket


There also seems to be a web site about the event at https://www.facebook.com/HFFM0505/ and a corresponding event listing at https://www.facebook.com/events/1710486649193879/

– Alex

Local Break-ins

Subject: Break-ins – Champlain Park
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:27:35 -0400
From: Sarah Livermore <sarah.livermore@hotmail.com>

Hello Champlain Park community members:

There have been break-ins in the Champlain Park area.

Constable Dawn Neilly-Sylvestre has done a check and there have been two reported break and enters from April 17th and 18th in our neigbourhood. One was on Clearview Avenue and the other was on Patricia Avenue. In both cases reported, the rear door was kicked in and the residents were away from the home.

Constable Neilly-Sylvestre would like residents to inform the police about any break and enters. Any information will assist the in linking the instances and in catching a suspect. As well, any video or image surveillance should be sent to either Constable Neilly-Sylvestre (neillyd@ottawapolice.ca) or Detective (Det) Angela Robinson (robinsona@ottawapolice.ca).

If you witness a suspicious person who is not normally seen in your area, please call the police and let them know. Be as specific as possible. State what you believed they were doing (i.e. checking out different houses or cars); what they look like; the last known direction of travel; and if they were on foot, bike or car.

The number to call if a break and enter is in progress is 911. If you are calling after-the-fact, call 613-230-6211 and Ottawa Police Service officers will be sent to you. Again, any video is to be sent to Det Angela Robinson (robinsona@ottawapolice.ca) or to Constable Dawn Neilly-Sylvestre (neillyd@ottawapolice.ca).

As an FYI, here are important phone numbers you should keep on your fridge (or on your phone):

  • life threatening emergency or crime in progress: 911
  • other emergencies: 613-230-6211
  • telephone report: 613-236-1222 ext. 7300

I would ask that anyone who has made a report to inform me, so I can assist Const. Neilly to track the incidences.

Thank you.

Sarah

Sarah Livermore
sarah.livermore@hotmail.com