In October 2020, Ottawa’s City Council approved the CSWB Plan’s priorities. The Plan will focus on addressing local priorities related to: 1. Discrimination, marginalization, and racism 2. Financial security, and poverty reduction 3. Gender-based violence and violence against women 4. Housing 5. Integrated and simpler systems 6. Mental well-being (including substance abuse and social isolation) CAWI will be conducting the following virtual consultation sessions, please use the links below to join any of these conversations.
The City will be holding six bilingual online facilitated consultation sessions to get your opinions and ideas on the City’s first-ever combined Parks and Recreation Facilities Master Plan (PRFMP), in support of the new Official Plan (OP). You are invited to share your knowledge and experiences to help us plan for the future of municipal parks, recreation and community activity spaces.
The City of Ottawa's Natural
Systems and Rural Affairs branch is currently hosting an online public
consultation for the Beckett's Creek Subwatershed Study and they are inviting
residents to provide feedback on the draft recommendations for this study. Please have a look.
It is difficult to express our disappointment and outrage at the senseless disregard for the huge efforts of the volunteers to get the rink ready for the community.
As you know Marc Blais and his team have been working tirelessly to get our Outdoor Rink ready. Yesterday the rink was closed for maintenance. Marc sent us this message this morning.
"Last night, between 4-7pm, I had kids on our closed ice, and also kids driving their cars on our freshly flooded ice."
We are very happy to announce that the Cumberland Outdoor Rink is officially open tomorrow thanks to the tireless work of Marc Blais. He has put in a huge number of hours including a couple of 'all nighters', watering every few hours to build the base. We express appreciation for his hard work on behalf of all the users. There have been lots of kids out already. We hope a few more people will step up as we have 23 out if 64 - 2 hour shifts - left to fill for supervising. If you offered to help earlier, please respond to our follow-up emails.
Just in time for Christmas the Cumberland Township Historical Society has published its latest book on the early history of the township including meticulously detailed family trees of 72 founding families of Cumberland Village, Bearbrook, Navan, Leonard, Sarsfield, Vars, and St.-Joseph d'Orléans. Congratulations to CTHS for this comprehensive work.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
With a challenging winter of continued social distancing coming up, the outdoor rink will be welcome entertainment and pleasure for everyone in the community.
Thanks to the significant input provided by residents, the newly proposed Ward Boundary proposal keeps Cumberland attached to the Eastern, older part of Orleans, south to Innes Rd.
Former Cumberland Township Councillor Linda Dunn’s submission to the City of Ottawa reflects significant reasons why the process (which significantly affects Cumberland Ward) should be delayed until after the crisis of the pandemic.
