Planning a Future for Rural Recreation

Do you walk in the park? Skate at the arena or outdoor rink?  Go to meetings at the community centre?  Look forward to an active retirement?  Participate in community events and functions?

These are just some of the areas where our parks and recreation services make our rural areas a better place to live and work.  But the future of recreation services is facing challenges.  Our city is large, diverse, segmented, and unique, with varying interests and expectations and it is continuing to grow. 

Recreation and Community Services wants to have a discussion with you about the direction you think we should follow for the next 10 to 20 years.  Because we can’t have individual chats, we have developed a process to ‘talk’ over the next few months. We hope you will take time from your busy life, to answer our questions.  Your responses will help shape the Parks and Recreation Master Plan.

To provide a better understanding of where we are and where you think we should go, the staff of Recreation and Community Services have developed ‘White Papers’ on four basic topics including Tax and Subsidization, Revenue Generation, Accessibility and Inclusion and Service Delivery. In these papers you will find information about the past and the present, plus questions to help you tell us what the future could be. 

We need to hear from as many of you as possible.  From groups and individuals. From citizens and businesses. Everyone in the community, as well as those who are yet to come to Ottawa, will have a stake in the answers. 

In early May, the white papers will be posted on the City of Ottawa web site: ottawa.ca, with some hard copies available for reading at facilities and libraries. You will have two months to make your suggestions.  In late summer, the responses will be turned into an overview of the direction that you have contributed to.  The conclusions will be presented to Council in December and provide the direction for the Parks and Recreation Master Plan.

Help us develop a dynamic way to offer recreation opportunities in the City of Ottawa, for the next ten to twenty years. 

For more information contact: Diane Huffman or Craig Cornell of Recreation and Community Services at 613-580-2424

Spring 2009 Well Water Sample Drop-off Schedule
http://ottawa.ca/residents/health/environments/water/schedule_en.html
 
Sunday May 3
MacKinnon’s Foodland, Greely                    8 am to 9 pm
Metcalfe Variety Store                          8 am to 10 pm
Vernon Variety Store                            8:30 am to 8 pm
 
Tuesday May 5
Rideau Community Support Services, Manotick     9 am to 4 pm
Burritt’s Rapids General Store                  7:30 am to 8 pm
Osgoode Foodland, Osgoode                       8 am to 9 pm
 
Monday May 11
Goulbourn Municipal Building, Stittsville               7:30 am to noon
Richmond Community Centre                       8 am to noon
 
Tuesday May 12
Richmond Community Centre                       7 pm to 9 pm
Ashton General Store                            6:30 am to 6 pm
Mac’s Milk, Munster                             6:30 am to 6 pm
 
Tuesday May 19
 J.T. Bradley’s Store, Navan                    8 am to 6 pm
Peladeau Grocery, Vars                          9 am to 8 pm
Dorval 77 Inc, Sarsfield                                8 am to 6 pm
Haddad S & S Foodliner, Cumberland              9 am to 9 pm
 
Sunday May 24
Lighthouse Restaurant, Constance Bay            7 am to 9 pm
Harbour Store, Fitzroy Harbour                  8 am to 9 pm
 
Monday May 25
Riddell Fire Station 45, Rural Kanata           9 am to 9 pm
Dunrobin Meat & Grocery                 7 am to 8 pm
 
Tuesday May 26
Darvesh Grocery, Kinburn                        8 am to 8 pm
Faith’s Foodliner, Carp                         8 am to 9 pm
Corkery Fire Station 84                         7 pm to 9 pm

Applications for 2009 Non-renewable Community Project Funding and Crime Prevention Ottawa Project Funding are available

Non-profit community organizations in Ottawa are invited to submit applications for new projects that address Community Project Funding priorities and community initiatives in crime prevention.

Non-Renewable Community Project Funding is available for projects that:

• Encourage positive and sustainable change in planning, service delivery, improved health and/or safety in neighbourhoods.
• Promote the healthy development of children and youth through recreation, leisure, arts and cultural activities.
• Promote healthy living and physical activity in seniors.
• Encourage the integration of low-income, at risk, isolated or otherwise marginalized residents into their neighbourhoods, through activities and programming.
• Promote equality on the basis of race, ethnicity, income, gender, official language and ability.
  

Crime Prevention Ottawa Funding is available for projects that:

• Contribute to the actualization of Crime Prevention Ottawa's strategic plan (available at www.CrimePreventionOttawa.ca), and
• Target specific crime issues, like violence against women, or improve neighbourhood safety, and
• Address risk factors associated with crime, such as family violence, addictions, etc, and
• Are designed based on research and effective practices, and
• Will plan for development and sustainability of their projects in collaboration with Crime Prevention Ottawa.
  

More information, including program guidelines and applications for 2009 Community Project Funding and Crime Prevention Ottawa Project Funding, is available at municipal Client Service Centres and online at www.ottawa.ca/funding or www.CrimePreventionOttawa.ca. Applications must be postmarked or received by 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, 2009.

Eastern Ontario Development Fund program - Business Stream
http://www.ontariocanada.com/ontcan/en/eodf_main_en.jsp

The $80 million Eastern Ontario Development Fund (EODF) is available from the Province of Ontario to attract investment and support job creation in eastern Ontario.

Objective: Support and promote business retention, expansion and attraction for small, medium and large businesses to secure new jobs (and/or add value to existing ones) and sustainable economic growth in Eastern Ontario.

Assistance

• 15% grant, maximum value $1.5 M
• Minimum project size $500k over 5 years
• Proponent brings 50% of investment
• Other government program stacking to 35% of project value permitted
• Provide up to 20% on contracting, 10% holdback until commitments met, clawback provision

Candidates

• For profit business with ability to provide three years of financial statements
• Minimum of 10 employees (calculations for full time equivalents/part time/seasonal staff)
• Limited to one approved project per year
• Eligible sectors include: Manufacturing, Processing, Tourism (e.g. hospitality & entertainment), Business Services

Projects

• Must be for new activities, e.g. new investment, new product/process, acquisition of technology, etc.
• Refinancing, acquisitions, “bail-outs”, restructurings, start ups, relocations from within Ontario ineligible; certain sectors and types of projects ineligible, e.g. residential development, free-standing restaurants, golf courses, personal care, retail
• Company commits to create minimum of 10 jobs (those companies with between 10 and 20 employees must create new jobs equal to 50% of current) over 5 years.

Trees for Tomorrow Distribution

Take part in planting 100,000 trees in the City of Ottawa by 2010 through the Trees, Reforestation and Environmental Enhancement (TREE) Program.  One potted tree will be available to Ottawa residents on a first-come, first-served basis while quantities last. Limit one tree per household. Please note: if you have received a tree under previous Trees for Tomorrow distributions, you will not be eligible to receive another tree under this program. 

City Council has recently approved improvements to the TREE 2009 program and we are pleased to announce that you may now have your tree delivered to your municipal address. Trees will remain available for pick up as well. Trees will be available for pick up or delivery in the months of May, June, September and October; the number of trees provided each month will be based on availability. There is no fee for delivery or pick up.  Following registration, you will be sent a delivery or pick up notification letter in the mail in the month prior to your delivery or pick up. This letter will indicate the date(s) and location for tree pick up or the approximate delivery week.

Get it, plant it, grow it. Register today at www.ottawa.ca/TREE.

“Growing Your Opportunities” two-day workshops
Value Plus ™ - Quest for new farm value
Presented by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Who should attend?: Farm and rural based entrepreneurs who want to learn how to tap into new marketplace and value added opportunities.

Over the two days you will:
• Explore case studies of how innovative rural and farm businesses developed their value added ideas and opportunities
• Follow a new product from conception to integration into the marketplace
• Take home lots of practical and useful tips

Workshop is limited to 25 participants. Pre-registration is required.

Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm, in Edwards
Wednesday April 22 and April 29 - 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $75, including lunch both days
Hosted by Ottawa’s Countryside
For more information, contact Bonnie Gray at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 613-791-4436

Spring Cleaning the Capital
April 15 to May 15, 2009

Show your community pride and join the nearly 70,000 volunteers who take part in the City’s Spring and Fall Cleaning the Capital campaigns! Clean up around your workplace or an area in your neighbourhood and help keep Ottawa clean, green, graffiti-free and litter-free!

Each year the Spring and Fall Cleaning the Capital campaigns encourage and support community involvement in the City’s cleanup efforts. Entire communities - including schools, neighbourhood organizations and associations, businesses, families, friends and individuals take up the Cleaning the Capital challenge. Last year, during our spring and fall events, close to 70,000 participants completed over 1,200 registered cleanup projects. With your participation, we can be bigger and better in 2009! Register your spring litter cleanup and/or graffiti cleanup project until May 15 by completing the online registration form: www.ottawa.ca/clean

Rural Development Applications
Information is available online for development applications subject to public consultation at www.ottawa.ca/devapps. Recently updated development applications in rural Ottawa are listed below:

Ward 5: West Carleton-March

205 Maple Creek Court
D07-12-08-0239:  Site Plan Control - Receipt of Letter of Undertaking from Owner Pending
Status date: Mar 9, 2009
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7I6GBJ

1200 Diamondview Road
D02-02-09-0009:  Zoning By-law Amendment - Comment Period in Progress
Status date: Mar 11, 2009
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7MV7E9

Ward 19: Cumberland

5607 Rockdale Road
D07-16-08-0021: Plan of Subdivision - Councillor Does Not Concur
Status date: Mar 18, 2009
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6F1Y2V

Ward 20: Osgoode

5123 Hawthorne Road
D07-12-08-0180: Site Plan Control - Councillor Concurs
Status date: Mar 18, 2009
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6BA3B3

Ward 21: Rideau-Goulbourn

5089 Rushmore Road
D02-02-08-0117: Zoning By-law Amendment - Zoning By-law in Effect
Status date: Mar 2, 2009
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7IVWYE

2775 Moodie Drive
D02-02-08-0097: Zoning By-law Amendment - Notice of Committee Meeting Sent
D01-01-08-0011: Official Plan Amendment - Notice of Committee Meeting Sent
Status date: Mar 16, 2009
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6BBOGW
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6BBPDC

2002 Carp Road
D02-02-09-0014: Zoning By-law Amendment - Comment Period in Progress
Status date: Mar 25, 2009
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7M5OGH