When: Saturday April 30 at 9:30 a.m. Rain date: Sunday May 1st at 9:30 a.m. Where: Blackburn Community Hall 190 Glenpark Drive Along with many other communities of the Ottawa area, the Blackburn Community Association holds an annual Spring Clean-Up. Please volunteer to help us
After a two year hiatus, the Blackburn Hamlet Community Garage Sale is back! The sale will be held on Saturday, May 7th from 8:00 am – 2:00 pm (subject to public health guidance on major events at the time of the sale). The entire community
In 2020, the BCA recognized that there was a pressing need to update our website in order to reflect the activities that the BCA was managing. From the Fall of 2021 to March 2022, our dedicated volunteers Steve Vesely and Lynn Lefevre took on the
Brent Lawrie, VP of the BCA Blackburn Hamlet has three excellent outdoor skating rinks that were opened this year on December 27, one of our earliest openings in recent years. There are three locations — Bearbrook Pool and Norman Johnston School, each of which hosts
Despite the blowing snow, spring is (almost) in the air! Local youth aged 10-14 are invited to channel their energy and creativity and submit an original and unpublished poem – in English or French – to the BCA’s Spring Poetry Prize Competition. The theme of
by Maureen Forsythe BCA Youth Director In December 2021, the Blackburn Community Association invited local youth aged eleven to seventeen to write a very short story that reflected what it’s like or what it means to be growing up in today’s world. Eighteen aspiring young
