November 2025 Newsletter

Pumpkin Alley – November 1^st, 2025 at 6:00 PM

You’re Invited to the 2^nd Annual Convent Glen Pumpkin Alley!

The Convent Glen Orléans Wood Community Association is thrilled to host pumpkin alley again on Friday November 1^st, 2025 from 6 – 8 PM. Join us in Voyageur Park (south end) and bring your carved pumpkins with battery powered tea lights (no candles) to light the path for a wonderful post Halloween tradition.

Our mission includes fostering community connections through the creation of local events that allow members to engage with one another. 

 Bring your family, friends, and neighbors to enjoy …

• Free coffee and hot chocolate 
• Kids games and glow in the dark fun
• Bring your carved pumpkins to light the path
• Prizes will be awarded for pumpkin carving
• We will collect and donate pumpkins to local farms

We will need volunteers to help with kids games, organizing the contest and prizes.  Reach out to me, Arnold, or [email protected].

Let’s come together to celebrate our vibrant community. We can’t wait to see you there!

Invasive Species Info Night

Environment Committee

The Environment Committee will be hosting an info night on the evening of November 26th at Roy Hobbs Community Centre. More info to come.

2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Thanks to everyone who attended the AGM, in person and virtually. It was great to see continued interest in the wellbeing of our community.

New Board Director(s) Elected

• Caroline Fahmy
• Rachelle Thibodeau (chair of Environment Committee)

Board Members Re-elected

• Josée Bidal Thibault (continues as President)
• Matthieu Gagnon (continues as Vice President)
• Arnold van den Hoeven
• Lorna Lyttle (chair of Bridge Committee)

Thanks to Gillian Cantello for her dedicated work as outgoing board member/chair of the Environment Committee.

Circular economy; let’s keep it rolling!

Chantal Boudreau, Environment Committee

According to the Government of Canada, a “circular economy retains and recovers as much value as possible from resources by reusing, repairing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, repurposing, or recycling products and materials”. It’s about using resources wisely, thinking about waste as a resource instead of a cost, and finding innovative ways to revalue outputs, usually during the initial design phase. 

Jeanne d’Arc Blvd Speed Harmonization – Update

Matthieu Gagnon, Vice President

The City has released a report for the harmonization of speed limits along Jeanne d’Arc Boulevard, which was approved by the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee on October 23, 2025. The Community Association presented a delegation at that meeting.

The Latest from ‘The New Orleans’

From Rob Attrell, Board Director and Outreach Committee Chair

• A Fiscally Prudent Path to True 15-Minute Neighbourhoods City-Wide
• The Suburban Dream and Its Hidden Contract: Trading True Freedom for the Freedom to Drive
• Your Bike Can’t Do That? You Might Have the Wrong Bike
• More Than a Bike Ride: Kidical Mass Capping Off a Year of Pedal and Play Success in Orléans
• Why Prioritizing Municipal ‘Candy’ Leads to a Budget Bellyache
• The Anatomy of a Suburban Ride: A Two-Wheeled Urbanism Ride-along

Subscribe today and follow the journey at TheNewOrleans.ca.

CA Board of Directors Meeting – November 10 – 7:30 PM

Every month, the Board of Directors of the Community Association holds a meeting to discuss ongoing community association matters. Members of the community and other stakeholders are welcome to attend, please let us know if you’d like to join the meeting via email at [email protected] and we can pass along an invite.

You can also see minutes from previous board meetings here, to see what we’ve been chatting about: Board Meeting Minutes.

Community Association Starter Kit

Here is a decent list to get you started on engaging with your community, but of course there’s also lots you can do that doesn’t involve the association at all, and of course this all might just not be your thing, and that’s OK too (although I didn’t think it was mine either and it definitely is). This list isn’t in a particular order, but I did think about their order while sorting and grouping them.

Community Submission Box

If you want to share something of your own with the community, feel free to let us know about it at the link below. We’d be happy to publish letters from the community in our newsletter and on our website.