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CGOW Monthly Photo Contest

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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CGOWCA Pilot Project – A Community Message Board

Starting in November 2024, the Convent Glen Orleans Wood Community Association will be launching a new pilot initiative: a community message board (minus the Facebook algorithm). I wanted to share some of the reasons we wanted to try this our for the community and what we hope to do to keep it as a safe, …

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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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October 2024 Newsletter

Editor’s Note: If you’re a regular reader of the newsletter, you will notice that starting last month the association has started posting news and updates more frequently on the website, with the newsletter serving up a summary of the news and activities for the month. Check the website regularly or subscribe to updates to stay …

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Benefits of the Orléans Corridor Secondary Plan

Matthieu Gagnon, Vice-President, CGOWCA Board At our annual general meeting on September 24, we were lucky to have Robin van de Lande come to present on the Orléans Corridor Secondary Plan Study which is in the final stages of being adopted (pending Ontario Land Tribunal case OLT-23-000243). In May, a first development application was published …

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