Part of the City of Ottawa’s Spring Cleaning the Capital programme

Helping to Keep Glebe Parks Safe, Clean, Green, and Fun!

What and Where:

The Glebe Community Association’s annual park clean-ups, part of the City of Ottawa’s Spring Cleaning the Capital programme, at each of our neighborhood’s thirteen beautiful City parks.

When:

Saturday, May 4, 2024 starting at 10:00 a.m. (pouring rain date: Sunday, May 5).

The Opportunity:

These events can easily be turned into great opportunities for neighbours to gather for some fun park play and a little bit of community service as part of our ongoing effort to help keep our community’s parks safe, clean, and green. 

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! 

What to Do:

Play in the park! 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 carefully removed and safely contained by adults with gloves). In green areas, it is advisable to “leave” the leaves alone and let nature do its thing. 

What to Bring:

If you can, bring along a rake, work gloves, a container (like an empty can of soup), and a few smaller, compostable bags to help consolidate (and safely store) any garbage we find into one garbage bag’s worth (or hopefully much less!) at each park (to minimize our use of larger single-use plastic bags). You could bring a larger, back-up garbage bag in case it is needed. Bring your cleanup project garbage home whenever possible.

Need more Information?

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 parks@glebeca.ca
Capital Park: Ella Street Emelie Braschi
Central Park East Park & the Exploration Garden: Bank Street, East side at Powell Elizabeth Ballard, Meghan Storey
Central Park West Park: 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. info@glebeannex.ca
Glebe Memorial / Glendale Park: Glendale Avenue Angus McCabe; Glebe Rink Rats
Fire Station Park: O’Connor at Fifth Avenue Walter Hendelman, Mary Ormerod
Lionel Britton Park: 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 parks@glebeca.ca
Sylvia Holden Park and Dog Run; O’Connor Street between Holmwood and Fifth Heather Duggan