Fall 2017 Glabar Park Gazette

Find the Fall 2017 Glabar Park Community Alliance Gazette posted on the website. It contains information on our AGM, to be held Tuesday September 19, as well as Summer Fun Day info and the upcoming rink season.

Please note that we do not currently have volunteers to distribute the Gazette like we did in previous years. If you can volunteer to distribute the Gazette on your street (or more), please contact glabarparkca@gmail.com and we’ll coordinate getting printed versions of the Gazette in your hands. Thank you!

Fall 2017 Gazette

Glabar Park AGM – Sep. 19th

This year’s Annual General Meeting will be held at the Ottawa Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 2200 Benjamin Avenue, between 7 pm and 9 pm. All residents over 18 years of age are automatically members of the GPCA and are both invited and encouraged to attend.

The business of this Annual General Meeting will include:

  • Approval of 2016 AGM Minutes
  • Treasurer Report (including auditor report)
  • Reports on Zoning, Traffic and Recreation
  • Elections of Board of Directors
  • Auditor Appointment
  • Bay Ward/City report from our Councillor
  • Any new business arising from the floor

Summer Fun Day 2017 – thank you!

Thank you to everyone that volunteered and everyone that participated.  We would also like to thank the various sponsors of the amazing Fun Day we had on July 29th:

  • Bridgehead (Fairlawn Plaza) donated coffee
  • Colonnade Pizza (Fairlawn Plaza) donated pizza
  • Shoppers Drug Mart (Fairlawn Plaza) donated the gift basket raffle prize
  • St. Paul’s United church contributed to the senior’s tent
  • Starbucks (Carling and Woodroffe) donated Iced Tea
  • Tim Hortons (Carling and Woodroffe) donated Timbits

GPCA directors and volunteers organized, decorated, BBQ’d, and supervised the Fun Day and movie night.

GPCA contributed to the senior’s tent, and sponsored the food supplies, bouncy castle, decorations, face painting, water balloons and movie night.

Summer Fun Day 2017 – update

Just an update on various Fun Day items:

  • It’s supposed to be 25C and sunny this Saturday.  Hurray!
  • There will be:
    • a tent with various tables to eat at and find shade from the sun
    • a face painter
    • BBQ with hamburgers, hot dogs, pop
    • an obstacle course bouncy castle
  • Movie night: starting around 9pm, we’ll be showing Moana in Kingsmere Park
    • bring:
      • lawn chairs (back) or blankets (front)
      • snacks and drinks for yourself
      • bug spray
      • other things to make yourself comfortable watching a movie in the park
  • Bike parade:
    • decorate your bikes
    • meet at 11:30am at Glabar park, go down Hare, cross Lenester, turn right at Harmany or Benjamin, down Kingsmere and around to the park entrance
    • trophies and freezies for participants