Councillor Glen's Stittsville Updates

This week’s updates:

• Congrats to Kiwanis Club of Kanata-Stittsville on a successful Kids 4 Kids Talent Showcase
• Upcoming events in Stittsville
• Cleaning the Capital continues
• Jane’s Walk on Stittsville Main Street, May 3
• Nominations due today for Volunteer Awards
• Stittsville Main Street zoning changes?
• North Stittsville - new neighbourhood open house
• OC Transpo - New Ways to Bus launches Sunday
• Ottawa Police issue a warning about “distraction thefts”
• It’s bear season
• Monday is election day, please make a plan to vote
• Thank you Amélie!

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

- Passover begins

- Weekend event rundown: Easter FUNdraiser Market; Seniors Marketplace; Goulbourn Township Historical Society geneology talk; West Side Pride AGM; Spice of Life Wine & Cheese; Puppy Yoga, A Choired Affair, a breakfast for first responders, a cheque presentation from the Rotary Club to Friends of Stittsville Wetlands; Para Hockey tournament!

- Cleaning the Capital - registration and clean-up events continue

- Street sweeping starts

- OC Transpo - New Ways to Bus April 27, bus maintenance, Transecure and Safe Driving Awards

- Deep dive into the Transportation Master Plan

- 1174 Carp Road - retirement home proposal

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Transportation Master Plan - new road and transportation projects for Stittsville

• New Ways to Bus - open house Saturday at CARDELREC, 10am-noon

• Puppy Yoga

• Cleaning the Capital begins

• Income tax clinics at the library

• Volunteer Award nominations

• Welcome to Stittsville Multicultural Festival on June 7

• OC Tranpso’s Safe Driving and Transecure Awards

• Federal election reminder

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Last day of Ramadan, Eid Mubarak!
• Severe weather and emergency preparedness
• Ottawa Stewardship Council contributes $7,000 to Friends of Stittsville Wetlands
• Chapel Ridge Free Methodist Church - One Church One Day prayer event
• Queensway-Carleton Hospital Visionaries Breakfast raises nearly $500,000
• Fire at Flewellyn-Jones House
• EnviroCentre’s Transit Symposium
• Committee approves food gardens in the City right-of-way
• Stormwater pond maintenance at Paul Lindsay Park
• Planning: 425 Culdaff, 2 Pretty Street, Draft Zoning By-law
• Plant Your Place - free tree program
• Deadline to apply for a Stittsville Community Micro-Grant is March 31
• Nominate a volunteer for our annual awards
• Register for Cleaning the Capital
• Welcome to Stittsville Multicultural Festival on June 7
• Today: Eco West Enders Kids Clothing Swap
• April 5: New Ways to Bus info session
• April 8: Transportation Master Plan info session
• Federal election reminders
• Lionhearts deliver over 75 turkeys to the Stittsville Food Bank

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Potholes, including that big one on the Carp Road offramp
• Reminder to slow down!
• Bonne Journée Internationale de la Francophonie!
• International Day for the Elimination of Discrimination
• Cleaning the Capital registration
• Stittsville Community Micro-Grants
• Stittsville Volunteer Awards
• Welcome to Stittsville multicultural festival
• Transit Committee recap and Transit Operator & Worker Appreciation Day
• EnviroCentre - “Connecting the Dots on Transit” event
• April 5: New Ways to Bus open house
• 5618 Hazeldean / Abbott’s Run Phase 2
• New Zoning By-law draft #2
• Ottawa Police CAMSafe program
• Income tax clinics at the Stittsville library
• St. Thomas Anglican Church used clothing sale
• Lionhearts Open House
• Please stay off sports fields!

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Registration is open for Cleaning the Capital
• Stittsville Community Micro-Grants
• Volunteer Award nominations
• Drop-in today at the library
• Sunday service begins for LRT Lines 2/4
• Tax deadline and VUT declarations due March 20
• Update on refugee welcome centres
• Potholes – report via 3-1-1
• Lions St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast
• St. Patty’s Market
• Kiwanis Kids-for-Kids Talent Show auditions
• April 5: New Ways to Bus open house
• Congrats Collinda Joseph
• Support local businesses
• Thank you to hydrant heroes!

Have an excellent week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• International Women’s Day
• Drains / catch basins
• Potholes
• Update on Carp Road construction
• City of Ottawa Twitter/X
• Stittsville Community Micro-Grant Program
• Volunteer Award nominations
• Library tax clinics
• Property tax and Vacant Unit Tax declaration due March 20
• New Ways to Bus open house on April 5
• Support Canadian, support local

Have a great week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Ramadan Mubarak!
• Multicultural calendar
• Parking ban in effect today starting at 10:00am
• Snow clearing continues
• Clearing fire hydrants and drains
• Report potholes to ottawa.ca/311
• Coldest Night of the Year raises nearly $23,000 for Lionhearts
• Black History Month celebrates 130th anniversary of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes
• Traffic safety meetings for Kittiwake (Timbermere) and Maple Grove (Fairwinds)
• Converting the City’s vehicles to zero emission
• Power outages in Stittsville (including Jackson Trails)
• Co-existing with coyotes
• Tree cutting at 6171 Hazeldean Road
• Stittsville Community Micro-Grant Program
• Nominate a volunteer for our annual Stittsville Volunteer Awards
• Reminder to pick up your dog waste!
• Congrats to George Darouze and Karen McCrimmon; thank you to all candidates
• Welcome Mandy and Marlova!

Have a great week!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Shovel out a fire hydrant
• Update on snow removal operations
• Thanks to plow operators
• Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser for Lionhearts tonight! cnoy.org/ottawastittsville
• Upcoming traffic safety meetings for Kittiwake, Maple Grove
• Draft tennis & pickleball strategy
• Volunteer Award nominations are open glengower.ca/volunteer/
• Applications now being accepted for Stittsville Community Micro-Grants glengower.ca/micro-grant
• Upcoming events this weekend & beyond glengower.ca/events/
• Remember to vote! Advance voting today, voting day on Thursday, February 27: elections.on.ca

Have an excellent week … and if you see a snow plow operator, give them a wave or a thumbs up to say thanks!

–Councillor Glen

This week’s updates:

• Snow!
• A reminder to dig out hydrants
• Police look for witnesses to Carp Road collision on Thursday
• National Flag Day and Council’s motion to buy Canadian
• Family Day activities Monday at CARDELREC
• Open Table Dinner at St. Thomas
• Goulbourn Township Historical Society presents “Goulbourn Women of Influence”
• Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser on February 22 https://cnoy.org/ottawastittsville
• Outdoor tennis & pickleball strategy
• OC Transpo updates: Ridership, electric buses, reliability, and the Severe Storm Schedule
• Springbrook Drive - meeting about speed humps
• Heavy trucks on West Ridge
• Ontario Election Debate on Monday

Have an excellent week!
–Councillor Glen