This week’s updates:

• A reminder about accessibility & how you can help
• Stittsville events including the Restore Reads book Fair; Zonta Club “Paint the Ladies Orange”; Kiwanis Movie Night; Pride Week Flag Raising; Saturday parkrun; Sunday Market @ The Barn; more.
• Chief Stubbs visited Stittsville and we talked about traffic enforcement
• Update on a potential future Poole Creek Pathway extension
• Glen Cairn stormwater pond maintenance
• Hazeldean @ Savage - development information meeting
• OC Transpo: Route 61/62/63 detour update + fare capping for Presto
• Cleaning the Capital: Stittsville was #1 in the spring + fall registration starts this week
• Heat warning

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• More road safety reminders

• Drowning Prevention Week

• Council approves the Transportation Master Plan

• OC Transpo’s starring role at Bluesfest

• Hazeldean @ Savage development info meeting

• Police Chief Eric Stubbs is coming to Stittsville – what are your questions and feedback

• Stittsville Main Street hanging flower pilot

• Hazardous Waste Depot at Canadian Tire Centre today

• Lasagna Jamboree at Village Square Park

• Pride Week Flag Raising in Stittsville on August 17

   

Have an excellent week!

—Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Road safety reminders
• E-bike and e-scooter rules
• Congrats to the SVA for a successful “Music and Movies at the Park”
• West Side Pride today Alexander Grove
• “Welcome to Stittsville” Newcomer’s Guide
• Stittsville Main Street hanging flower pilot
• Ottawa Alerts via Alertable - weather and other emergency notifications
• Map of existing and future schools in Stittsville
• Development updates
• Palladium Drive stormwater pond maintenance
• Johnwoods sidewalk renewal
• Transportation Master Plan at City Council this week
• Get your tickets for the Lion on the beach travel lottery!

Have an excellent week!

—Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Staying cool during extreme heat
• Road safety reminders after several serious collisions involving pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists
• Ottawa Safety Council is hiring crossing guards in Stittsville
• Remembering Damien Brown-Graham
• Ottawa Police Mounted Unit (horses) visit Stittsville
• Stittsville Main Street - adopt a flower pot in this year’s pilot project
• Development updates
• Local events, including the Stittsville Village Association’s Music & Movies in the Park, and West Side Pride
• OC Transpo & Bluesfest
• Contacting Canada Post to report vandalism or damage to mailboxes
• Rail bridge replacement on Carling Avenue between Moodie and Hertzberg

Have an excellent week!

—Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Canada Day - thank you to event organizers
• Groundbreaking at “The Station” on Stittsville Main
• Ottawa Symphony Orchestra at Alexander Grove
• Upcoming events glengower.ca/events/
• OC Transpo - 246,000 trips on July 1, next up Bluesfest, plus a local map
• Vacant office building transformed into transitional housing
• Crossing guard recruitment in Stittsville
• Robert Grant Avenue - construction update and overnight work
• Call 3-1-1 for parks maintenance & be nice to your neighbours
• Let’s Bike Month - congrats to our Stittsville riders who logged 4,600km in June!

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Canada Day events and activities in Stittsville
• Fireworks safety reminder
• July 2: Ottawa Symphony Orchestra at Alexander Grove
• Lion on the Beach fundraising raffle
• Transportation Master Plan, and a potential new pathway from Stittsville Main to Amberwood, plus an update on Robert Grant Avenue construction
• OC Transpo facility tour, employee appreciation, plus summer service, Canada Day, Bluesfest
• Hydro Ottawa answers on power outages
• Improvements in Paramedic response times
• Welcome Isabelle Skalski, new councillor for Osgoode Ward
• Overnight construction at Robert Grant Avenue & Abbott
• Wild Parsnip spraying update
• Reminder about accessible parking permits
• Road safety reminder
• Congrats to local graduates!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Indigenous Celebration for National Indigenous Peoples Day at Holy Spirit Parish

• Events this weekend including Foley-Peeters Party in the Park (Yakabuski Park); Bryanston Gate Community Picnic; Stittsville Lions bottle drive and launch of the Lion on the Beach travel lottery; Stittsville Family Bike Ride
• Stittsville Porch Music Festival continues next Thursday
• Looking ahead to Canada Day events in Stittsville
• City of Ottawa will be examining three options for landfills and waste-to-energy incineration
• Stittsville Main Street secondary plan update
• Transportation Master Plan coming to committee
• 1518 Stittsville Main Street (“The Station”) construction info
• Foxes and other animals
• OC Transpo and route 262
• Tony Graham Youth work-out pass valid for CARDELREC
• E-scooter safety
• Extreme heat resources from Ottawa Public Health

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Welcome to Stittsville Multicultural Festival - THANK YOU!
• June 19: Stittsville Porch Music Festival
• Saturday events: Lions BBQ, Fundraiser market, Nannipat’s Lemonade, Hazeldean Gardens car show
• June 22: Stittsville Family Bike Ride
• Stittsville Public School - an award-winning story from Alex for Habitat for Humanity
• Canadian Red Cross emergency preparedness + new Alertable app from the City of Ottawa
• Planning & development: 2775 Palladium proposed hotel & aquatic centre; Abbott’s Run at Planning & Housing Committee; potential Secondary Plan changes for Stittsville Main Street
• Transit Committee recap: LRT construction update, bus fleet issues
• Tony Graham Youth Workout Pass
• Let’s Bike Month - Stittsville Main cycling shortcuts
• Automated Speed Enforcement (speed camera) coming to Abbott Street
• Hello to Boris in Ukraine

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Welcome to Stittsville Multicultural Festival: Saturday, June 7 from 12pm-4pm at Village Square Park
• Multicultural & Human Rights Calendar
  Lots happening on Stittsville Main Street: “The Workshop”, upcoming groundbreaking, flowers
• Let’s Bike Month, including our Family Bike Ride on June 22
• 1883 Stittsville Main Street - Site Plan meeting
• Johnwoods sidewalk replacement
• Your feedback on Climate Ready Ottawa
• Tuesday: Info meeting for a proposed hotel and aquatic centre on Palladium Drive
• Thursday: Emergency Prep workshop with the Canadian Red Cross
• Today: “The Big Give” at Chapel Ridge Church
• Saturday: Big Wheels Expo at the Ottawa Stadium
• Call 3-1-1 for Wild parsnip on public property
• Congrats Ann Arnone

See you at the festival!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Welcome to Stittsville Multicultural Festival on June 7
• Volunteer Awards recap glengower.ca/volunteer/
• Alcohol in parks pilot
• Administrative Payment System
• Development updates & info sessions glengower.ca/development/
• Police wrap up Road Safety Week
• Ottawa Fire kicks off “Wake Up!” campaign
• Lots of upcoming events: glengower.ca/events/
• Greg McPherson is on the road for mental health
• Erica Wiebe inducted into the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen