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 September 2018 by Brent Lawrie, FUNFAIR Chair This year’s FUNFAIR started off with great weather Friday night, which continued through to Sunday afternoon, it was one of the best FUNFAIRs weather wise and a great way to kick off an incredible
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
Published in The BANAR June, 2018 by Evelyn Budd We have Roger Smiley to thank for encouraging Laura to come to the BCA’s AGM meeting in 2008 and get involved. Laura became the Community Relations director that evening. In 2009 she became Vice-president and in
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
Published in The BANAR April, 2018 by John ApSimon, President GAGA* George Bushell, who has been the founding influence on the community gardens in Blackburn Hamlet at Orient Park and on the gardens on our Anderson Road site at Weir Road, is leaving the city.