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For May, check out our upcoming events, community news, and so much more!
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On the sunny morning of Saturday April 25, more than 200 volunteers came out to join the Convent Glen Orleans Wood Community Association Environmental Committee to pick up garbage in our community for our annual Cleaning the Capital event. We expected to the event to be impactful, but we had no idea just how impactful it would turn out to be. Together, we picked up and removed a whopping 2,126 lbs of garbage from the Convent Glen area – that’s nearly a metric ton of waste removed from our soils, streets and waterways. Adults, kids, teens and families were in…
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A Celebration of Community, Culture, and 200 Years of Local History Something special is taking root in the communities north of the 174 this summer. The Convent Glen Orléans Wood Community Association (CGOW CA), together with the neighbouring Chatelaine Village Community Association (CVCA), is launching the inaugural Music in the Woods Summer Festival — a joyful, free, one‑day celebration designed to bring residents together through music, culture, and community spirit. We will be needing all of your energy and help to make this a wonderful (hopefully annual) summer tradition. Set beside the beautiful riverside parks near the Roy Hobbs Community…
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Spring is here, gas prices are rising along with the temperature and the number of people driving downtown is likely to keep increasing with RTO mandates and an increasingly unreliable transit system. Some of you may be tempted to try a bike commute. I personally resumed my bike commute recently after a very long winter, and I noticed that I had to rely a bit more on my ebike motor than I did in the fall. I have been thinking about how the ride downtown can be daunting for those who are not used to much physical activity. My first…
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Written by Chantal Boudreau from the CGOW Environment Committee On Saturday April 11th, the Convent Glen-Orléans Wood Community Association Environment Committee, with financial support from the City of Ottawa, hosted its second Clothing Swap, and it was a huge success! Together, our community donated 2,842 lbs of clothing and textiles, which were recirculated to members of our community and organizations that support them. That’s over a metric tonne of fabric that found new life instead of staying hidden in the back of a closet, or destined for the landfill. The clothing swap was only possible thanks to the hard work…
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Mental Health Awareness Month is every May in Canada. It opens up conversations about the different mental illnesses that affect many people in their everyday lives. It could be a family member, your neighbour, your co-worker, the young person at your grocery store, someone you see walking down the street and perhaps even yourself. But there is another experience that affects people more often than we acknowledge: Exclusion. It’s powerful and wears on our emotional well-being. Being left out doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it’s subtle, a gathering you weren’t invited to, a group chat you’re not part of, a…
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I was looking through comments on the community association Facebook group, and I wanted to address some comments. There are a number of people who seem to be of my parents’generation who have a vision of a quaint Orléans that was idyllic to raise a family. I thought it would be good to reflect on growing up in the suburbs. Was Orléans in the 80s and 90s indeed a great place to grow up, and, if it was, are the elements that made it so still present today. Growing up, there were a number of kids around my age on…
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For April, check out our upcoming events, community news, and so much more!
