Garage Sale Followup and Dotmacracy

Thanks to everyone who participated in the garage sale last Saturday! It was a good time for everyone, and we raised quite a bit of money for the new playground. We will be having another BBQ in the near future, so stay tuned!

Tonight is the first round of the Dotmacracy for the new playground! Bring your kids up to the Common Unit (3019 Fairlea Crescent, first building on the right) to let them have their input on the new playground equipment. We will be sending the results off to the designer as soon as we have enough votes in. Let your children have their say! There will also be an option of voting for adult exercise equipment, so parents are also encouraged to come have a look at what might be possible for our community.

The raffle for the Senators hats is still ongoing! We will have the draw for these in August, so save up your money for tickets. Email fairlealtbk@gmail.com for ticket information.

We are also still looking for volunteers! If you want to help, either with the build day (September 15th) or with anything in between, click on the "Join the Effort" button to the right, and sign up!

Garage Sale This Saturday!

This weekend is our big garage sale! Remember, 10% of all sales goes to the new playground, so come on down, or set up shop and sell! If you can't be around, we are taking donations of saleable items at the office to be sold at the front. If you are interested in selling, contact Deana in the office or Bev for more information.

Dotmacracy day - June 28, at the common unit (the office). Bring your children down and let them have their say in how the new playground will be designed! Free snacks for all who come down to vote. Limit one per voter. Come on, kids, it's all about you!

Donations! We are now accepting donations for the new playground. Tax Receipts are available courtesy of the South East Ottawa Community Health Centre (SEOCHC) for amounts over $20.

Scrap Metal Drive! We are collecting all kinds of scrap metal, including cans, recycling cans, etc. We are taking them down to be recycled, all profits going to the kids park. Please deposit any metals in the blue bin in front of unit 15, 3019 Fairlea Cres. Cleaned and sorted preferred.

Garage Sale, Raffle and more!

Come out and join us for the Fairlea Community Garage Sale, June 23. That's next Saturday!

If you have any extra pop cans or other scrap metals, drop them off at Unit 15, 3019 Fairlea Crescent, in the big blue bin!

Like the Senators? Love the Senators? Want a genuine autographed Senators baseball hat? Take a look a this!

The Ottawa Senators have generously donated a pair of signed baseball caps for our new playground! We will be selling tickets for a raffle all summer. The draw will be on August 24th, so get your tickets now! For the senator fans, there are two hats, one signed by Bobby Butler, and one signed by Peter Regin. If you're interested, contact fairlealtbk@gmail.com for tickets! It's $2 per ticket, or 3 for $5. Get yours today!

25th Anniversary Follow-up

Thanks to everyone who came out to the 25th Anniversary of the Fairlea Park Housing Co-Op! We all had a great time!

The next event we're having is the Fairlea Co-Op Community Garage Sale! June 23rd, stay tuned for details!

The afternoon started with the arrival of Officer Gary McCoy, and kicked off with food, followed by face painting and games. At 1:45 the Co-Op president stood up to announce the 25th Anniversary. She was followed by Angela Toth-Blais from Chaseo, and then , finally, our Special Announcement, the New Playground! The kids were excited and got to rope off the old playground in official police tape. As the afternoon heated up, there was a water fight, and most of the kids got soaked. Some of the adults, too!

Everyone had a great time, and just about everybody had their face painted. We're really looking forward to working with our community in the future!

We Won a New Playground!!!

We won a New Playground! Courtesy of Let Them Be Kids, a non-profit organization that focuses on building healthy communities for children and families.

The new playground will be designed with the assistance of our children, for the benefit of the Co-Op and surrounding community. We are building a fun, safe place for kids to be kids.

The new playground is being announced today amidst the 25th Anniversary Celebration for the Fairlea Park Housing Co-Op. 25 years of Co-operative living! Hooray!




 


The new playground build date is September 15th, so make sure to mark that day on you calendar. The park will be built with 100% volunteer labour, so make sure you sign up!

In addition to help on build day, we will need help fundraising. The more we raise, the nicer the new playground will be! If you don't have time to lend, you can always help out with a donation, or by as little as friending our Facebook Page.

Don't know if you'll have time? Keep checking back here, or visit us on Facebook to find out what we'll be doing next! This website will be updated regularly with news and events all summer long. Come on out and get involved!

We would like to thank Let Them Be Kids for choosing us as one of the communities they will be helping this year. We will be looking forward to their help throughout the months ahead with planning and organization, and at the end will match us dollar for dollar on new playground equipment!