Convent Glen Orléans Wood Community Association

🌳 Help our community grow! The Convent Glen Orléans Wood Community Association has officially launched our new "Community Roots" sponsorship program! We’ve replaced generic tiers with meaningful levels that show exactly what your business "powers" in Convent Glen Orléans Wood. Whether you're a small startup or a long-time pillar of the community, there's a place for you in our forest: 🌱 The Sprouting Leaf (In-kind/up to $150): Support through offering prizes or services. 🌿 The Local Branch ($150): Powers things like new outreach initiatives and small events. 🌳 The Community Limb ($500): Funds recurring favorites like park cafes and clean-ups. 🌲 The Neighbourhood Trunk ($1,000): The engine for flagship events like our BBQ and Carnival. 🪵 The Living Roots ($2,500+): Leaf a legacy through permanent community infrastructure. Get local visibility and support your neighbors with all new perks. Existing sponsors will have access to all new benefits at the appropriate level, and can still take advantage of perks from the old program for the rest of their year. 🔗 See the full details & perks: cgow.ca/sponsors 📧 Ready to join? Send a DM or Email us at [email protected]

🎉 All 300 trees have been reserved! 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who has reserved a tree! Remember to come to the pick-up location you have chosen on Saturday May 9 to pick up your tree. We will be expecting you! Our tree giveaway is made possible thanks to the generous funding from @cdntreesforlife Pick-up locations: 📍OTTAWA EAST Saturday, May 9 • 10am - 12pm Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Centre 1490 Youville Drive, Orléans 📍OTTAWA CENTRE Saturday, May 9 • 2 pm – 5pm Laroche Park 51 Stonehurst Ave, Mechanicsville 📍OTTAWA WEST Saturday, May 9 • 10am - 12pm Eva James Memorial Community Centre 65 Stonehaven Drive, Kanata We are thrilled to also be working with local partners from the @bridlewoodcommunityassociation , the @cgowca Environment Committee, and the @mechanicsvilleca .

Glashan Public School would once again be participating in the CAFES' free Mother's Day Tree Give-Away event. This year the event is on Saturday May 9th 2026, the day before Mother's Day, and CAFES is giving away free trees to residents in Ottawa for planting at home. It is a great opportunity for families to plant a tree! I have attached the postcard in English and French to this email and included a short description below. _______ CAFES Ottawa is hosting our fourth annual FREE tree give-away on May 9th 2026 with support from Trees for Life - just in time for Mother's Day! Trees come in 2-gallon pots and are intended for front and backyard planting. Planting instructions will be provided. Trees are available for pre-order on the CAFES website (cafesottawa.ca/mothersday) and will be available for pick-up at three different locations across Ottawa on Saturday May 9th. You can go online NOW to pick out your desired species, and choose your nearest pick-up location at checkout. See pick-up locations and times below: Ottawa East Saturday May 9, from 10am-12pm Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex, 1490 Youville Drive, Orleans Ottawa Centre Saturday May 9, from 2pm-5pm Laroche Park, 51 Stonehurst Avenue, Mechanicsville Ottawa West Saturday May 9, from 10am-12pm Eva James Memorial Community Centre, 65 Stonehaven Drive, Kanata This is a great opportunity to give mom a tree for Mother's Day. See you there! Erica Shardlow Trees and Greenspace Coordinator CAFES Ottawa [email protected] www.cafesottawa.ca

Glashan Public School would once again be participating in the CAFES' free Mother's Day Tree Give-Away event. This year the event is on Saturday May 9th 2026, the day before Mother's Day, and CAFES is giving away free trees to residents in Ottawa for planting at home. It is a great opportunity for families to plant a tree! I have attached the postcard in English and French to this email and included a short description below. _______ CAFES Ottawa is hosting our fourth annual FREE tree give-away on May 9th 2026 with support from Trees for Life - just in time for Mother's Day! Trees come in 2-gallon pots and are intended for front and backyard planting. Planting instructions will be provided. Trees are available for pre-order on the CAFES website (cafesottawa.ca/mothersday) and will be available for pick-up at three different locations across Ottawa on Saturday May 9th. You can go online NOW to pick out your desired species, and choose your nearest pick-up location at checkout. See pick-up locations and times below: Ottawa East Saturday May 9, from 10am-12pm Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex, 1490 Youville Drive, Orleans Ottawa Centre Saturday May 9, from 2pm-5pm Laroche Park, 51 Stonehurst Avenue, Mechanicsville Ottawa West Saturday May 9, from 10am-12pm Eva James Memorial Community Centre, 65 Stonehaven Drive, Kanata This is a great opportunity to give mom a tree for Mother's Day. See you there! Erica Shardlow Trees and Greenspace Coordinator CAFES Ottawa [email protected] www.cafesottawa.ca

Come on down to des Voyageurs school gym now until noon today for a FREE family social event with sports and other fun kids activities. We’ve had a great time running these events the last few months!

We’re headed back to des Voyageurs for our last (indoor) drop in play social of the season! Please bring indoor footwear and feel free to bring your own play equipment. We’re also happy to announce that this event will feature our bicycle coffee cart from our Community Cafe events! It should be a great way to help parents stay caffeinated 😉 RSVP using the link in our bio! __________________________________________ Nous retournons à la maison des Voyageurs pour notre dernière séance de jeux libres (en intérieur) de la saison ! Veuillez apporter des chaussures d’intérieur et n’hésitez pas à apporter votre propre matériel de jeu. Nous sommes également ravis d’annoncer que notre chariot à café à vélo, comme lors de nos événements Café communautaire, sera présent ! De quoi permettre aux parents de garder un peu de caféine 😉 Inscrivez-vous via le lien dans notre bio!

📣 📣 Attention all Cairine Wilson grads! CW is celebrating its 50th anniversary on May 2nd, 2026. The event will include dinner, dancing, and plenty of memories and reminiscing. Get your tickets using the link in our bio. —————————————————————————— Avis à tous les anciens élèves de Cairine Wilson ! CW fêtera son 50e anniversaire le 2 mai 2026. Au programme : dîner, danse et de nombreux souvenirs partagés. Achetez vos billets via le lien dans notre bio.

There are several recurring and upcoming events with explicit needs for volunteers from the community to help out. If you’re looking for other ways you can get involved in the community, check out our ‘Start Here‘ page. https://cgow.ca/volunteer .

At the end of 2024, we explicitly set out to start growing our community association membership and newsletter subscription base. We now have over 200 members and our newsletter reaches nearly 600 people each month. We’re hoping to get your help to register your friends and neighbours in the community by running a membership drive, featuring ✨prizes✨ for residents who encourage the most new signups (provided those people are residents living inside our Geographical Boundaries). If you aren’t already a CA member, join today! You can still participate if you’re a brand new member: https://cgow.ca/membership-drive .

The Photo and Video Archive is our attempt at a community-owned, locally-sourced repository of high-quality visuals. By building this crowdsourced repository, we are creating a shared resource that belongs to the neighbourhood: https://cgow.ca/photo-archive. We are looking for “stock-style” photos and/or video that captures the everyday reality of our corner of Orléans. This includes the beauty of our ravines and river paths, but also the mundane—the intersections we cross, the homes we live in, and the ways we move through the community. You could look to capture something you really love or something you seek to improve. This media allows us to make our perspective visible to the rest of the city.

The Community Association is taking some time early in 2026 to survey residents once again as part of our Strategic Plan. We have already started some initiatives that you told us were a priority on our previous survey in Fall 2024. Please take a moment to fill out the new survey to let us know how the association can contribute to a strong and vibrant community. The survey will take 5 or 10 minutes to complete: https://cgow.ca/survey . Please fill out the survey by March 22, 2026.

Join us between now and noon for a FREE drop-in social play event, at Orleans Wood Elementary School.