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

This week’s updates:

• Ottawa Race Weekend
• King Charles visit
• Breakfast with Bruce Fanjoy
• Stittsville Food Bank volunteer and donor appreciation event
• June 10 info meeting about a proposed hotel and aquatic centre on Palladium Drive
• May 31 Connections community event
• Drilling/testing along the Trans Canada Trail
• Dagenham Park concept plans (Westwood)
• Wild parsnip annual program
• COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for high risk individuals
• May 24: Goulbourn Lawn Bowling Open House
• May 24: Goulbourn Township Historical Society VE Day presentation
• May 30: Fringewood Park Cleaning the Capital
• June is Let’s Bike Month
• June 2 Stittsville bike workshop
• June 12 Canadian Red Cross emergency preparedness workshop
• June 7 Welcome to Stittsville Multicultural Festival - call for volunteers
• Relay for Life - congrats to students form South Carleton and Sacred Heart
• Stittsville Volunteer Awards this week

Have an excellent week!

—Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Victoria Day schedule changes
• Victoria Day fireworks at Hazeldean Gardens on Monday
• Emergency preparedness workshop June 12
• Make the right call:
  3-1-1 for damage to park equipment or city facilities, or to report vandalism
  ottawapolice.ca/report for mischief, hate-motivated incidents
  9-1-1 for crimes in progress, life-threatening emergencies, fire
• Parks maintenance update
• Tips for boulevard gardens
• Wetlands at risk
• Welcome to Stittsville multicultural festival on June 7: call for volunteers
• Cleaning the Capital in Fringewood on Friday
• Congrats to the Amberwood Village Residents Association
• Borehole drilling along Carp Road
• Road safety reminders: speed; impaired driving; distracted driving

Have an excellent long weekend!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Crossway Park concept design for a new playground
• Reminder about motorbikes in parks and on trails/pathways
• Call 3-1-1 to report issues to the City
• National Road Safety Week
• National Nursing Week
• Transportation Master Plan - deadline for comments on capital projects is Monday
• 1412 Stittsville Main - new housing proposal for a 3-storey apartment building
• North Stittsville future neighbourhood update
• South Stittsville future neighbourhood update
• Draft zoning by-law deep dive
• Upcoming construction on Bobolink and Abbott Street East
• Ottawa Alert - subscribe for emergency updates
• Upcoming event highlights

Have a great week!

–Councillor Glen