Serving Ottawa's Westboro Beach Community
In case you missed it, last week we had our second annual Christmas Parade. Santa and his elves did not disappoint! They wove through the neighbourhood and delighted everyone with their holiday spirit, their energy and good cheer.
In addition to delighting all of the neighbours, the parade collected two truck loads of food for the Westboro Region Food Bank and $506 in cash for the Food Bank. Well done everyone!
This will be a virtual AGM. You need to register here and then you will be sent a zoom link for the Nov 22nd meeting. As this
7:00 pm Call to order and welcome.
Our newly elected MP Yasir Naqvi will join us at the start of the AGM. Yasir will say a few words be available to answer any questions you might have.
Following Yasir, we have a presentation by Joshua Elliot from the City of Ottawa Water Quality Team. His presentation: From source to tap: Fun facts about Ottawa’s drinking water will look at how Ottawa’s drinking water system has evolved over the last 150 years. We’ll learn some fun facts along the way as we consider how advances in water treatment and testing technologies have helped shape Ottawa’s approach to purifying and supplying high quality drinking water. There will be time for Q&A.
Josh is a process engineer with the Water Quality Assurance group at the Britannia Water Purification Plant. Along with a team of technical and operational staff, Josh works to improve the quality and safety of Ottawa’s drinking water. Josh has a background in both chemical engineering and civil engineering while the water quality team also includes staff with further expertise in microbiology and analytical chemistry.
7:50 pm
8:20 pm Jeff Leiper, our City Councillor will be joining us to answer your questions and we’re sure there will be many.
Jeff Leiper is a former community association activist working in Kitchissippi on a wide spectrum of issues and neighbourhood events. He was first elected to City Council in 2014, and has served on the Planning and Environment Committees as well as the Transit Commission. He worked closely with Mayor Watson to develop a music strategy for Ottawa, and continues his advocacy efforts on behalf of Ottawa’s arts and culture sectors. He is a vocal proponent of cycling in Ottawa.
8:45 pm Adjournment
NOTE: Everyone is welcome to join our AGM. Voting is restricted to those who live in the Westboro Beach catchment area, as defined here. We are bordered by the SJAM in the North and West, Island Park in the East and Workman in the South.
Additionally, in advance of the meeting, we will send a link for the AGM documents, including formal agenda, chairperson’s report, treasurer’s report and last year’s AGM minutes.
Tonight @ 7pm- Virtual Event: Introduction to Garden Sharing. Click on the link below for more details. https://fb.me/e/1jNgt6iWk
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 7pm – 8pmGarden Sharing Westboro Beach presents: Introduction to Garden Sharing with Moe Garahan, Executive Director of Just FoodOnline Event: ****MEETING LINK: Please email michaellaughton2@gmail.com for the meeting link. ****In this presentation Moe will discuss the practice of garden sharing and offer useful insight and tips and tricks to a successful garden and a successful garden partnership.Moe has been working on food and farming issues in Ottawa since 1995. Focused on community development and community economic development approaches, she has facilitated the establishment of many ongoing community and regional food initiatives in Ottawa, (including Just Food) while supporting provincial and national food initiatives. Since 2004, she has been the Executive Director of Just Food, working with teams to integrate food access and food localism within the mixed urban and rural settings of the Ottawa region.Thank you to the Westboro Beach Community Association and the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa West for their support of this initiative.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7pm – 8pmGarden Sharing Westboro Beach presents: Soil Health, Urban Gardens, and small space composting with Sundaura Alford-PurvisOnline Event: ****MEETING LINK: Please message michaellaughton2@gmail.com for the meeting link. ****In this presentation Sundaura will introduce the basics of building soil health and fertility in urban gardens and discuss some composting methods suited to small spaces.
Sundaura Alford-Purvis has been working in the horticultural industry since 1998 and was an avid gardener for over a decade before that. She has worked for the last 15+ years as a landscape designer and has taught sustainable landscape design through Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario.
She is now preparing to launch hands-on courses on cultivating healthy land relationships through A Cultivated Art Inc., while continuing her work as the executive director for the Canadian Society for Organic Urban Land Care.
Her particular focus these days is on the role that horticulture, an industry that is effectively the gatekeeper of the vast majority of urban green spaces, can play in restoring healthy, equitable relationships between humans and the rest of nature, especially in urban environments.
Thank you to the Westboro Beach Community Association and the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa West for their support of this initiative.
This debate is organized by our local community associations. There are 8 candidates running in Ottawa Centre, and all 8 will be participating. The moderator will be Amada Pfeffer.
If you wish to attend the debate, no prior registration will be necessary, please link directly to the Zoom Webinar at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84305249267?pwd=a3BrWFVrWldCdXRZQVpja2g5Ry8xQT09
Passcode: 958826
For those who are interested in more information on the re-naturalization of Atlantis Woods and Selby Plains, take a look at this detailed report from Carleton University
Learn how to make simple repairs to your bike at a special bike repair clinic.
Van Lang Field House
29 Van Lang Private
Thursday June 24
5:00 to 7:00pm
A few years the Westboro Beach Community Association successfully reached out to the NCC to create a pollinator garden on Selby Plain at the end of Atlantis Ave. Last summer butterflies, bees, insects, and birds were seen happily visiting our garden.
A pollinator garden is not your typical garden. It’s a delicate ecosystem which provides a home for many insect species such as bumble bees, ants and lady bugs as well as a feeding area for butterflies and birds. The garden is filled with native flowering plants, ones that naturally grow in our environment as well as piles of wood, logs, branches and leaves. It may look wild but the garden provides an area for bumblebee queens and other insect larvae to spend the winter. Birds use these sites too for forage for food and utilize brush piles for shelter from predators and the cold (National Audubon Society).
Volunteers have worked hard to remove weeds and invasive species like Buckthorn and have encouraged native species such as thistle, asters, mullein to grow. We added a generous donation of native species plants from Fletcher Wildlife Garden in 2020 and in May, 50 milkweed seedlings grown through the spring by a neighbour were planted. The Champlain Park Pollinator Garden Committee donated 29 different types of sprouts which are being tended by a neighbour over the summer and will be planted in the Autumn. A large water barrel has been donated so that we can easily water the garden in the summer.
We welcome you to visit the garden. Our volunteers have built a path through the garden so all can wander through and view the plants. A local artist is painting a beautiful sign for the garden and it will be going up soon.
We hope that our Pollinator Garden will encourage you to think about planting a haven for insects and birds on your own property.
Meet our artists: Naylissah Aristide (left) and Kiara Whiteney (right)
The Westboro Beach Community Association’s (WCBA) proposed Let’s Add Art Mural 2021 project is a unique collaborative opportunity to add art to the local community in a well-traveled public location and to engage youth . This artworks project highlights a community that is committed, raises community awareness and it is meant to show that this place is a place for positive interaction and a place to gather and feel safe.
The intended mural will cover the wall that is located on the eastern wall of the OCH residential building at 30 Van Lang Private (please see the photo below). The mural location is highly visible for all users from the shared pathway that links Lanark Avenue and the OCH Van Lang Community to Westboro Station.
We are still a little short of money to make this wall art a reality. We need another $1000. This money will go towards paying these talented, young artists, the costs to prep the site and art supplies to create and maintain the mural.
Please send what you can to make beautify our community and support these artists!
Send your donations by e-transfer to:
infowestborobeach@gmail.com
Westboro Beach Community Association 