NEWS - Performance Printing
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<strong>NEWS</strong><br />
Connected to your community<br />
Community Meeting:<br />
Brewer Park Community Biodome Garden<br />
Brewer Park Community Garden invites all neighbours<br />
and local residents to attend a meeting to discuss the<br />
innovative Biodome Project. This special type of raised<br />
garden, which is housed within a Biodome structure,<br />
will address food security in Ottawa by extending our<br />
growing season.<br />
Sunday, June 2<br />
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.<br />
Brewer Pool meeting room, 100 Brewer Way<br />
All members of the public are welcome<br />
The Biodome Project is made possible with support<br />
from Councillor Chernushenko and the Neighbourhood<br />
Connection Office at the City of Ottawa.<br />
For more information, please visit<br />
brewerparkcommunitygarden.weebly.com/ and<br />
ottawa.ca/en/neighbourhood-connection-office<br />
or email mostercanada@gmail.com or guy@ecoace.ca<br />
Travelling Tent Show<br />
0530.R0012125231<br />
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Local vegetables and other goodies from the Main Farmers’ Market will be available in<br />
Sandy Hill this summer thanks to a group who has organized to host four mini farmers’<br />
market events in the neighbourhood.<br />
Mini farmers’ market<br />
coming to Sandy Hill<br />
Michelle Nash<br />
michelle.nash@metroland.com<br />
EMC news - A group of<br />
residents in Sandy Hill will<br />
launch a small-scale farmersʼ<br />
market in the community this<br />
spring and summer.<br />
The first Sandy Hill Market<br />
will be this weekend at the<br />
Bettye Hyde Spring Fair on<br />
June 1.<br />
“It will be a pilot project for<br />
this year,” said Susan Young,<br />
organizer for the market at<br />
a recent Action Sandy Hill<br />
meeting.<br />
The plan is to collect the<br />
veggie goods at the neighbourhoodʼs<br />
closest market,<br />
in Old Ottawa East and<br />
bring the produce to planned<br />
monthly events in Sandy Hill.<br />
SANDY HILL MARKET<br />
DATES<br />
• June 1 - Bettye Hyde Spring<br />
Fair<br />
• July 6 - Bettye Hyde daycare,<br />
activities for families from<br />
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.<br />
• Aug. 10 - Art in the Park<br />
at Strathcona Park<br />
• Sept. 21 - The Action Sandy<br />
Hill barbecue, Sandy Hill<br />
Community Centre Park.<br />
The goal, organizers say is<br />
to see if residentsʼ interest<br />
grows, to ultimately have the<br />
market grow to become a<br />
weekly occurrence next summer.<br />
The market will move<br />
around the community, depending<br />
on which event it will<br />
piggy-back onto, but the idea<br />
is to host the market once a<br />
month.<br />
The Main Farmersʼ Market<br />
takes place every Saturday until<br />
Oct. 26 at St. Paulʼs University,<br />
in Old Ottawa East.<br />
On the Action Sandy Hillʼs<br />
website, Young goes on to say<br />
that the group is anxious to see<br />
if residents of Sandy Hill will<br />
take advantage of the farm<br />
produce at arms reach at these<br />
already established neighbourhood<br />
events.<br />
Interested patrons or volunteers<br />
are encouraged to visit<br />
the Action Sandy Hill website<br />
at www.ahs-acs.ca.<br />
City to outline transportation<br />
priorities this summer<br />
Be sure not to miss this unique theatre<br />
experience on the grounds of our historic site.<br />
The travelling tent show has arrived!<br />
Friday, May 31 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.<br />
Billings Estate National Historic Site<br />
2100 Cabot Street<br />
613-247-4830 $15 per person<br />
Facebook.com/billingsestate<br />
10 Ottawa East News EMC - Thursday, May 30, 2013<br />
ottawa.ca/museums<br />
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Just over half of the 8,068<br />
participants completed all 34 of<br />
the questions in the first online<br />
survey, which councillors applauded<br />
as engaging the largest<br />
number of citizens of any city<br />
public consultation. The area<br />
including the Glebe, Old Ottawa<br />
South, Old Ottawa East,<br />
Carleton University and Dowʼs<br />
Lake had the highest participation,<br />
with 500 respondents<br />
from those neighbourhoods.<br />
Orléans was the second highest<br />
with 252 respondents, followed<br />
by Lowertown, Sandy<br />
Hill and the University of Ottawa<br />
with 248.<br />
“Since answering the questions<br />
was not mandatory, it is<br />
not possible to know where<br />
residents stopped completing<br />
the survey,” city public engagement<br />
specialist Barbara<br />
Backland wrote in an email.<br />
“The survey was broken down<br />
into sections, so residents<br />
could have skipped around the<br />
survey and answered whatever<br />
was of interest to them.”<br />
The city also held a public<br />
open house in January that attracted<br />
179 people, a development<br />
forum with 31 industry<br />
representatives and a community<br />
forum with 110 representatives<br />
in February.<br />
Those consultations will<br />
guide revised recommendations<br />
for updates to the cityʼs<br />
Official Plan that will be tabled<br />
at planning committee on June<br />
25.<br />
A draft report outlining how<br />
pedestrian, cycling, transit and<br />
road projects are prioritized<br />
will be tabled at the transportation<br />
committee in July.<br />
Consultation on both the<br />
transportation master plan priorities<br />
and the Official Plan<br />
amendments will continue<br />
throughout the summer, with<br />
council consideration and voting<br />
scheduled to take place<br />
in October and November.<br />
The entire exercise should be<br />
wrapped up by mid-December.
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