REMINDER!!

Join us again this year as the HCMCA hosts the Community-Wide Spring Clean Up in coordination with the City's annual Spring Clean the Capital!

Please plan to join us on Saturday, April 28, from 9am-noon, to collect garbage as well as to identify and remove graffiti in the area.  We will start a free BBQ lunch at about 11:30 for our participants.

We will distribute garbage bags from the St Andrew School Parking Lot.

Take some time to meet your neighbours, help clean our neighbourhood, and then come back to the distribution point to enjoy a hotdog.

Date:  Saturday, April 28

Time: 9 am to noon - Clean up

11:30 am - BBQ

Where: St Andrew School Parking Lot.

Fundraising underway for permanent pathway bridge at Chapman Mills Conservation Area.

The Rideau Valley Conservation Foundation (RVCF) and our community is participating in the 2012 Molson Community Cheer Contest and needs your vote to build a permanent pathway connection in the Chapman Mills Conservation Area.

The beautiful Chapman Mills Conservation Area on the Rideau River in southern Ottawa is the gateway leading to a 12 km network of lovely forest trails, riverside boardwalks and wildflower/wetland meadows teeming with life.

Current use of the trails is limited to warmer weather months due to the need to remove a floating sectional bridge which provides a key connection across an inlet of the Rideau River.  The bridge must be removed in the fall and re-installed each spring due to ice damage.

The Community Cheer Contest could bring $50,000 towards building a permanent bridge allowing the trail to be open year round.

This new, safe and secure link eliminates the environmental problems of the old bridge, avoids the dangerous temptation for people to try and cross the ice on foot, and opens up a whole new world of close-to-home active outdoor recreation facilities.  The RVCF is currently looking at fundraising opportunities to finance this essential project.

The RVCF has submitted this project as an entry in the Molson Community Cheer Contest, an online voting contest that will award $50,000 to the winning entry.  The chosen project will be selected on a number of criteria including the overall number of votes received up until February 10, 2012.

Please help cheer us on with your online vote for a Permanent Pathway Bridge at Chapman Mills by visiting www.stevedesroches.caand clicking on the direct link to the RVCF profile on the Community Cheer website.  You can also visit the website athttp://www.ourcommunitycheer.com.

To attend the parade: please visit  www.barrhavensantaclausparade.com for details.

The float will have an "Outdoor Rinks" theme as many people in our community, including the teachers and students from St Andrew and Farley Mowat Schools use and share the rinks.

To help prepare the Float, join us at Cresthaven Park on Sunday, November 20 at 1:30 pm.

To join the float on the parade, please meet us by 5pm on the North side of Chapman Mills Drive, behind the Strandherd Crossing Plaza.

We are Float # 21.

All Kids and Adults participating with our float are asked to bring a hockey stick and (if you wish) helmet, and to wear a Hockey Jersey.

Please let us know in advance at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are going to join us.

Hope to see you there!

The City of Ottawa will be holding public consultations on the design of the new splash pad on October 25, 2011 between 5pm and 7pm in the library of Adrienne Clarkson Elementary School, located at 170 Stoneway Drive, Nepean.

At the public consultation, residents will be asked to choose their favourite from two different concept plans. Both concepts include variations of upward spray jets, a downward sprayer and one or more cannons.

Splash pad construction would begin in the spring of 2012 at Stonecrest Park, to be open for use in the summer months.

In the News:

On October 11, Deputy Mayor and City Councillor Steve Desroches announced that the city will be installing a splash pad at Stonecrest Park on Stoneway Drive in Ward 22.  More information is available at www.stevedesroches.ca.