Starting with the rest of the month of November, the Convent Glen Orleans Wood Community Association’s Outreach Committee will be running a monthly photo contest. For this first (shortened) month, the theme will be ‘Fall’ while the leaves change and drop off their trees. The only ‘rule’ for this contest will be that to win, …
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Oct 30
November 2024 Newsletter
Happy Hallowe’en from the Community Association! 🎃 CGOWCA Pilot Project – A Community Forum Starting in November 2024, the Convent Glen Orleans Wood Community Association is launching a new pilot initiative: a Community Forum. The newly formed Outreach Committee is trying this out for the community and are hoping to keep it as a safe, …
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Oct 29
CGOWCA Pilot Project – A Community Forum
Starting in November 2024, the Convent Glen Orleans Wood Community Association will be launching a new pilot initiative: a community forum (minus the Facebook algorithm). I wanted to share some of the reasons we wanted to try this out for the community and what we hope to do to keep it as a safe, productive …
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Oct 28
Budget 2025: Active Transportation Priorities
Matthieu Gagnon, Vice-President, CGOWCA Board Last spring, I did a series on my personal blog about what I consider the top priorities for active transportation in Orléans. I came up with four general objectives and wrote a post about each of them: Since budget consultations are coming up, I thought it would be good to …
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Oct 27
Life Under the Leaves
Photo credit: Seetal SungaNadia Ouellette, Environment Committee This time of year, many neighbours are vigilantly raking and disposing of leaves. Last November, our newsletter highlighted the benefits of leaving the leaves. The effort to remove leaves from your property is harmful to pollinators, but well-meaning people may not realize the harm they are inadvertently causing. …
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