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Join a Trailhead Event, watch for new Branding! Other Communities see their projects continue: Windsor-Essex Leamington Discovery Routes Hopeful Check out Ontario's hiking and walking trails at http://www.ontariotrails.on.ca/trails/activity/hiking-walking Lyme Disease Stakeholder Reference Group, As was discussed at our last meeting in May, I am pleased to announce that the ministry has created off-trail signage reminding people that they are in a tick area and to take precautions to avoid getting a tick bite and to check for ticks (see attached). These paper-based signs will be posted in provincial park campgrounds and bathroom areas. The signs are bilingual and have been distributed to Ontario Parks and are available to order for free at Service Ontario. To order off-trail signs from Service Ontario, please follow the steps below: 1.            Go to: https://www.publications.serviceontario.ca/pubont/servlet/ecom/MainServlet?selectedLocale=en&utm_source=so&utm_campaign=orignal&utm_medium=keyword/  2.            Type “Lyme Signage” in the search bar. The two off-trail signs will show up. 3.            Register for an account. 4.            Order the quantities of your choice and wait for delivery. Jason (on behalf of the Lyme Disease Stakeholder Reference Group Secretariat) For more information on the working group or its products contact: Jason Globerman | Senior Policy and Program Advisor Infectious Diseases Policy and Programs Unit Health Protection and Surveillance Policy and Programs Branch| Population and Public Health Division Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care 393 University Ave. 21st Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 2S1 416-326-7138| jason.globerman@ontario.ca Ontario Trails is pleased to support this program and we have ordered 200 signs we will distribute to members at Trailhead Education Symposiums. This spring, summer, and fall get outdoors on a conservation trail! The Ontario Trails Council supports the public use of this important Conservation Ontario program! Check out all the great off-road cycling trails Ontario has to offer: http://www.ontariotrails.on.ca/trails/activity/cycling---off-road We have completed our Towards a National Trails Policy document. If you would like a copy e-mail Candian Trails President, Patrick Connor at execdir@ontariotrails.ca and we'll send you a copy! Workshops on Wheels  Join us for a fun ride – or walk! Explore new routes. Share your ideas on how we can encourage more people to choose to walk or cycle as we create a new Cycling and Trails Master Plan for Kitchener. Each ride is co-hosted by city staff and a local resident. All skill levels are welcome to participate. Each ride is five to ten kilometers with lots of rest stops and fun conversation with your neighbours along the way.  No registration is required. Rain or shine. In extreme weather situations, please visit this webpage to see if the ride or walk is cancelled. Be sure to subscribe to Bike Kitchener email updates for cycling news and updates on the master plan. About Kitchener’s new Cycling and Trails Master Plan Kitchener has a solid foundation for active transportation enjoyed by many residents across the city. Our new Cycling and Trails Master Plan will serve as the catalyst for building a city where people willingly and joyfully choose active transportation for getting around. Community engagement is essential to creating the new master plan – please be involved and share your ideas! Over the next year, city staff will be reaching out all across the city to hear from people about how we can make Kitchener a great place to walk and bike. The ultimate goal is to double the number of trips taken by walking and cycling every five years. To achieve that goal, it’s important to build a connected network and the master plan will identify the long-term investments required to build pedestrian and cycling infrastructure for recreational users, commuters and everyday transportation needs. Dates for the start of the consultation on our Trails Master Plan are now available – they are happening across the summer. As much input as we can get to support the recreation, leisure, health and multi-user needs for trails (and indeed, the tourism aspects) would be appreciated to balance the strong need to address active transportation needs of the City would be appreciated! Please feel free to pass on these dates to your contacts – or pass on interested local contacts to me as you see fit! https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-services/cycling-and-trails-master-plan.aspx Danny Pimentel Active Transportation Planning Project manager City of Kitchener, 200 King Street West, Kitchener, ON N2G 4G7 T.: 519-741-2200 ext. 7371 TTY: 1-866-969-9994 F.: 519-741-2747 Email Danny Pimentel Map this Location. Upgrades and repairs are being done to the Scout Rock Trail in Timmins by student workers of the Mattagami Region Conservation Authority. Part of the work is being financed by the Wintergreen Fund in Timmins. That was acknowledged this week despite the steady rain. Among those who were on the trail checking the progress Tuesday were MRCA general manager Dave Vallier, at left, student workers Bradley Bonsall, Kameron Brousseau, Wintergreen chair Michael Doody, Tyler Dacosta, Taylor Buczkowski, MRCA field supervisor Kevin Gagnon, and Wintergreen volunteer Kees Pols. Join us in Seeley's Bay on November 1, 2018, where we will be talking about the business of trails. A Trailhead Ontario "Partners" Event. NEW - Join Ontario Trails by processing your membership online.  LOOK FOR THE FINDJOO BADGE!   We want to thank the following organization who recently became an Ontario Trails Member - NEW - Township of Laurentian Valley - NEW Check out their trail at: http://www.ontariotrails.on.ca/trails/view/laurentian-valley-skating-trail We thank all Members for your continued support. We always have room for your trails event - be sure to add it to our online listings! Officials: 21 of 55 Ontario forest fires remain out of control - Ontario Trails advises - call ahead - plan ahead, avoid accident or injury. One of Mississauga’s most significant redevelopment projects is moving forward. One of the lasting legacy projects of the late Mississauga councillor Jim Tovey, who represented the Lakeview area in Ward 1 from 2010 to 2018, was a conservation area called the Lakeview Waterfront Connection. According to the Credit Valley Conservation Authority, the project will transform the currently degraded section of the shore into a beautiful naturalized conservation area, which is expected to become a hub for waterfront recreation and a hotspot for wildlife migration. MORE>>>>>>>>>> Download a copy of our proposal to host a Trailhead Trails Education Symposium in your community. Download Here

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Ontario Trails News - NTC, snowmobile and other funds make Discovery Routes better!

Aspin hands out funding to boost area cycling and snowmobiling trails

Friday, July 10, 2015   by: Chris Dawson

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Discovery Routes Chair Mark King addressed the crowd during today's funding announcement at the North Bay Waterfront. 

PHOTO BY CHRIS DAWSON.

MP Jay Aspin dished out $122,630 in federal funding to enhance regional cycling and snowmobile trails in the area. 

The announcement was made at the bandshell located next to the government dock on the north shore of Lake Nipissing in North Bay this morning. 

   

“Our beautiful region is a magnate for tourism dollars employing a significant number of people in our regional tourism sector. Recreation has become a rapidly growing tourism activity,” said MP Jay Aspin in a release.  

A FedNor investment of $24,615 will allow the Discovery Routes Trails Organization to develop a feasibility study and an implementation plan for the Voyageur Cycling Route, a 400-kilometre trail network that would connect Sudbury to the Ottawa Valley.

The hope is that the study will allow the group to potentially position the region as a premier cycling destination. 

“We are thrilled to partner with the Government of Canada through FedNor to advance this important initiative,” said Mark King, Chair of the Discovery Routes Trails Organization.

“This will help us boost tourism throughout the area by expanding Northeastern Ontario’s cycling network.”

King believes connecting to those other markets is key but he believes Northeastern Ontario has the potential to become a world class cycling destination just like places in Europe. 

"There’s no reason in the world why we can’t take the opportunity to make something like that happen so there is no doubt in my mind that cycling is a growth industry and it will probably get bigger and bigger as we start to see more increases in fuel costs and vehicle costs and just the way we change our transportation system," added King.  

In addition, a $98,015 Infrastructure investment will enable the North Bay Snowmobilers Club and the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs to establish a new bridge on North River, further enhancing the local trail network.

The funds were provided to the National Trails Coalition (NTC) through the $10 million National Recreational Trails (NTC) program.

The NTC works with local organizations to fund projects.

Ontario Trails Blog - Information about trails and trail activity in Ontario Canada by Ontario Trails Council

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Fishing from kayaks grows as healthy outdoor recreation
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Ontario Trail Membership

Membership renewals for 2013 are going out December 1st, 2012 We are sending them to you as our contact person - but is there someone else that has to absolutely get the invoice in your organization? We wish to make sure they land on the right desk! Board members or staff will be calling to confirm over the next weeks.

OTC Membership is Value for Money : How do we stack up? This year we will have1,000,000 unique visitors to the OTC website. For trails there is no other leader - not even nationally - and I quote from Context Creative:

"ComScore is a leading analytics organization that provides industry standard rankings used by many companies to assess their performance and investments in the digital world; many agency planners only go off ComScore numbers in their media buying initiatives. There are a couple of other trail sites as well, but Suite66 wasn't able to locate another one big enough to be reported in ComScore. So this is also impressive that OTC is present there.

 

For the month of September 2012, Canadian stats:

OntarioTrails.on.ca: 65,764 UVs (Unique Views) / 329,511 PVs (Page Views)

ComScore reports the following for comparison:

national outdoor org  50,440 UV’s / 249,000 PV’s

national geographic org:  41,000 UV’s / 114,000 PV’s"

So please tell you administrators that even in terms of a couple of hundred dollars in marketing expense, more people will see and use your trails because of your presence on the OTC website. The site is no longer supported by the province - so we need your financial support to manage, update and improve the site every day! Join Today - Use Paypal!

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Trailhead Ontario:June 9-11, 2013Our Favourite Place, Peterborough

Our Plan for 2013 – We are working with the full support of  Our Favorite Place (RTO8), Peterborough and the Kawartha’s Tourism and a number of local trails groups to bring you the best Trailhead Ontario yet!. There are a lot of new trails and trail tourism partnerships in RTO8. The Ontario Trails “Trailhead Ontario 2013″ Committee is  is pleased to announce the Holiday Inn Waterfront Peterborough as the location of our conferencing. Site locations for our trail education program are being determined now.

New for 2013 -Regional Tourism development includes trails. Trail packages, trail experiences, trail destinations. This takes a blending of major destinations, natural topographies, parks, conservation, county forest and up to 18 different trail activities. What’s in your “Trail Mix”? What’s our plan for marketing this unique matrix of dynamic outdoor experiences so that the world can find the world’s best range of trail fun right here at home. 

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Member Requests

1) How do you support donors on your trail signage? Please send examples to OTC.

2) Please renew your OTC Membership - TODAY 

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Trails are the future - if you really want to be part of the trails movement in Ontario, you need to be a member of the OTC."

- Forbes Symon, Director of Planning and Development, County of North Grenville

3) Liability Survey Arising from our meeting with the ADM and staffs October 1, 2012
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Please complete ASAP

4) Hamilton Conservation discount passes - Additional rewards :-)

5) Anybody aware of any sanctioned "free run" dog trails? Came up at Toronto Beltline Trail Meeting. Please call OTC Office with information

6) Credit Valley Conservation looking for support from Shell Fuelling Change Project

7) OTC Mobile App - for iProducts and Windows



8) Jeff Muzzi wants information on forestry and trails master plans, as well as comprehensive trails plans so that he can help his county work with all facets of trail development, tourism, active transportation, health and land management. Contact Jeff at Manager, Forestry Services, Renfrew County 613-633-9683
JMuzzi@countyofrenfrew.on.ca

9) Petawawa Parks and Recreation Department is looking for a few volunteers to start a trails club/committee. Are you interested in making Petawawa a great place to walk, hike and bike on trails through out the Town. Want to find out more give us a call at 687-5678

10) Anne Wier with Economic Development, Leeds and Grenville Counties wishes to have more information from communities that have successfully used gas tax or gas tax surplus funds to build trail. Please contact Anne at: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ann-weir/16/a28/719

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Check out the latest trail opening here.

12) Thanks to The Great Waterway for their support. Contact Graham Burke if your RTO wants to do the same!

13) Millennium Trail PEC Blog - often looking for volunteers

14) Each week 100 folks talk about us and we reach over 21,000 on facebook alone. Check us out

15) Membership section of OTC website updated - get your login and password today!

16) Director section of the OTC website updated - get your login and password today! New content added - Guideline for Interpreting Financial statements and Past Meeting Minutes.

17) CPRA Looking for Infrastructure and Parks Volunteer e-mail John Lohuis at Niagara Parks
 

18) Add your trail

19) Add your event

20) Perth County Meeting

21) Prescott-Russell look for links on website for Masterplan

22) Ontario Nature have their Christmas cards

23) The Toronto Bruce Trail public bus hikes

24) Follow the Education Program on Facebook

25) Follow the Education Program Updates on Twitter

26) OTC Education Partner


27) Trail Priorities Survey

28)Trail Reform Now Survey

29) Trail Projects 2012

30) Ontario Trails Maps

 

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