Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2020 Blackburn is Beautiful Nature Photo Contest! We received so many wonderful submissions through Facebook and email, and it was difficult to pick the winners. The Environment Committee is pleased to present the following winners and runner
The BCA Environment Committee was thrilled to be one of the winners of the TD Park People Grants program for 2020. Due to the COVID-19 situation and physical distancing protocols, the TD Park People Grants program has a modified approach this year, with each group
Published in The BANAR June 2019 Although Mother Nature threatened to snow on the original date of the Spring Clean Up, we had a great turnout of 180 wonderful volunteers who came out when the sun shone on our rain date, Sunday April 28th. Together,
Published in The BANAR September 2018 by the Environment and Transportation Committee As part of Parks Month, the Blackburn Hamlet Community Association’s Environment & Transportation Committee held its first OUT-is-IN Park Day in the Hamlet on June 9th in Harold Diceman Park. It was a beautiful day
Published in The BANAR June, 2018 With the arrival of the first nice day of spring, the 18th annual Blackburn Hamlet Spring Clean Up, held on Saturday, April 21st was a huge success! This year was one of the biggest turnouts with over 150 volunteers
Why did we perform this survey? Back in January 2018, Ecology Ottawa approached community associations across the city of Ottawa to better understand neighbourhood and community led environmental concerns in order to improve their community engagement strategy. While our Committee certainly had many environmental issues