Happy spring everyone! The Glebe Community Association’s annual park clean-ups, part of the City of Ottawa’s Spring Cleaning the Capital programme, are underway, most taking place this year on Saturday, May 13 starting at 10:00 a.m. (pouring rain date: Sunday, May 14).
These events have always been great opportunities for neighbours to gather for some fun park play and community service as part of our ongoing effort to help keep our community’s parks safe, clean, and green.
On the cleaning front, the main goal is to pick up litter; for parks with play areas, this includes giving the sand a rake over to remove any other dangerous items (to be removed by adults).
If you can, bring along a rake, work gloves, and a container to help consolidate (and safely store) any garbage we find into one garbage bag at each park (to minimize our use of larger single-use plastic bags).
The Glebe is fortunate to be home to twelve beautiful City parks along with other green spaces. They are a source of daily joy, peace, health, and wonder for residents young and old. Come together with your friends, family, and neighbours to the park clean-up near you, make some new acquaintances – and create some more wonderful neighbourhood moments and memories!
Below is a listing of GCA Parks Committee contacts who plan to be on hand at the parks that morning. Always feel free to contact us at parks@glebeca.ca to get involved with and organize for this and other Glebe parks initiatives in the years to come.
Glebe Parks & Volunteer Leads:
| Park Name & Location | Lead Name |
| Brown’s Inlet: Broadway Avenue | n/a |
| Capital Park: Ella Street | Emelie Braschi |
| Central Park East & the Exploration Garden: Bank Street, East side at Powell (2023 date: April 22) | Elizabeth Ballard, Meghan Storey |
| Central Park West: Bank Street, west side at Powell | Connie Boynton |
| Chamberlain Park / Chamberlain Park Tennis Courts (on Glendale between Lyon & Percy | Jason & Janine Anderson |
| Dalhousie Park: Bell Street S. | Sue Stefko, Scott Templeton |
| Glebe Memorial / Glendale Park: Glendale Avenue | Angus McCabe |
| Lionel Britton: Fifth Avenue at O’Connor | Meghan Schreiner |
| Patterson Creek Lagoon: Clemow Avenue East of Bank | William Price |
| Patterson Creek Park (NCC), Linden Terrace | Jane Bower |
| Sen. Eugene Forsey Park: 964 Bronson | n/a |
| Sylvia Holden Park and Dog Run; O’Connor Street between Holmwood and Fifth | Heather Duggan |