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A new play structure for Frank Ryan Park
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It's time to say good-bye to the classic wood
play structure in Frank Ryan Park.
The Queensway Terrace Community Association in
partnership with the City of Ottawa installed
a new structure this summer.
As a play equipment project, an accessible
digger has been added with part funding
from the association.
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The New Play Structure
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Grant School gets Heritage Status
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For complete details click
here
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Grant School, 1922
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Community Drive Safe Program
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This year the QTNorth Community Association, in
partnership with the City of Ottawa and the City
of Ottawa Police, introduced mobile radar guns within
our community. The gun will be placed on various streets
to remind our residents to drive safely and within the 50 Km/H speed
limit. Ottawa Police will follow up with radar gun enforcement.
Our Community has many children, pets and play areas, but few sidewalks. Help
us keep our Community safe for all.
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The Mobile Radar Gun at work on Norton Ave.
Looks like someone is driving safely!
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Spring Clean-up
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Each year the QTNorth Community Association asks
for volunteers to help clean up the winter debris
from our parkland areas.
Our last cleanup on Saturday April 30, 2005 was a great success
despite cool and wet weather that morning.
Two crews of volunteers worked at Frank Ryan Park and at the
Elmhurst Woods and NCC parklands.
A record total of 54 residents from our community collected
40 bags of refuse.
Garbage included plastic bags, most empty but some with dog poop,
cups, cans, candy wrappers and cigarette packages.
We also found an engine block!
Once again our community spirit came to the forefront and we look
forward to next year’s cleanup.
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Our 2005 Volunteers Hard at Work!
Thanks to all our volunteers for their help.
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The Rinks at Frank Ryan Park
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A big project the Association
Board of Directors took on in 2004
is the operation of the Outdoor Rinks
at Frank Ryan Park. In
partnership with the city’s Parks and
Recreation Department, we signed on to
put in the icepads, maintain them
and provide supervision of the rinks
and fieldhouse.
The city put up the boards and lights
and replaced the very old oil-fired
furnace in the fieldhouse. A
small but dedicated team of volunteers
led by Joseph Trus has done a
wonderful job. Skaters are very
happy with the condition of the ice.
The fieldhouse was a mess when we took
over but gradually it is looking pretty
good as volunteers have started cleaning
it up.
A special thanks has gone out to Ed
Crilly of Crilly Chassis Works
Welding and Fabrication on Campbell
Avenue. This company did a
masterful repair job on one of our
hockey nets and then supported our
community by waiving the repair bill.
This unexpected surprise proves that
community spirit is still out there.
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Skaters enjoy the Rink at Frank Ryan
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Tree Planting
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In 2002 concerns were raised about the thinning of
the Elmhurst Woods Naturalization Area
(an Urban Forest) between Elmhurst and Henley Streets.
This thinning was due to the ice storm in 1998 and city
cutting of diseased and hazardous trees.
According to the Ottawa Forests Advisory Committee, our forests make
Ottawa a better place to live. Trees have been proven to:
- Improve air quality by removing sulpher dioxide, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, ozone and trapping dust particles
- Block UV rays
- Cool our streets and houses in summer
- Slow the wind
- Reduce soil erosion and moderate surface runoff
- Protect wildlife
- Slow down traffic along streets
- Improve our sense of well being
- Increase property values
Grants have been received from the city that have funded
an expansion of the southeast corner of the Elmhurst Woods
which had been groomed clear by the city for decades.
In October, 2003, 82 saplings were planted at the site
under the direction of the Forestry Services Program
of the city of Ottawa.
Click
here
to read The News article reporting on this planting.
A second grant was approved by the city to fund further planting
within this area.
Our second tree planting in partnership with the City of Ottawa took place
on Sunday May 16th 2004 at the same Tavistock and Henley Street location.
The purpose of this planting was to:
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replace saplings damaged over the winter;
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mix in new species within the planted
area; and
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expand the planted area.
We had 21 residents and two city supervisors turn out to plant 110 saplings.
A special thanks goes out to the Henley Street volunteers who came out to help.
Red oak, black cherry, basswood and red maple were planted.
This gives us a wide variety of species now planted in this conservation area.
Planting supervisor Julie Jackson from the city counted just 6 saplings
out of 82 that didn’t survive last October’s planting.
“This is a very high survival rate” she was glad to say.
We’ll be weeding and watering if necessary this summer and if most survive we’ll
consider this community environmental project successfully completed.
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Our 2004 volunteers digging to help our environment.
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