Showing posts with label Royal Botanical Gardens. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Ontario Trails News - News from trails all around Ontario

Trail News - OTC Supports Trails

Each week the OTC office or a volunteer helps make trails in Ontario better. The OTC is currently involved in many trail projects, lending a hand.
Your membership supports this work. 
Over the past few months we have helped the:
 
i) Niagara Trails Committee - The OTC has been active in Niagara region, working with the Niagara trails committee, the region, and the individual cities of Port Colborne, Welland, and Thorold. The situation had progressed to the point where the three cities in the Seaway are prepared to negotiate a lease with the trails committee to manage the section of trail the region and Welland suspended their portion of the lease. The OTC has connected its lawyer with the committee to completing Corporation. The date for negotiations we forwarded by the committee to the OTC. They are very grateful for help.
II) Toronto Trails Committee - met with counselor Denzil Minnan-Wong, offered staff support to the committee. Met with Scott Laver and Karen Sun with Toronto parks and forestry, they are supportive and a draft terms of reference is being reviewed. Work continues with cycle Toronto and their trail committee to synchronize projects and the relationship between cyclists and the city. Working with the Cycle Toronto Trails Committee to look at a Toronto Trails Committee meeting and trail issues at the 401 and Yonge Under Pass
iii) Ontario Place Revitalization: have participated in one face-to-face and two conference calls regarding the provinces revitalization of Ontario Place. Have made comment on access, management, use, design, nimby, relationship the neighborhood, relationship to the exhibition, trail naming process and presentation material content.

Expect a call from an OTC Board Member - we want you back and we want your feedback! 

iv)  Akwasasnae, Renfrew, North Dumfries – RFP’s: working with some groups the OTC office has lent my personal and OTC support to projects in Akwasasnae, me Renfrew and North Dumfries. The Renfrew RFP has been posted to Google drive us reference.
v)  Hamilton Burlington Trails Committee: have participated in one face-to-face meeting and two conference calls, and will be in a face-to-face meeting with this committee on January 29. New relationships with Royal Botanical Gardens in the city of Hamilton are very, very promising, hoping for new memberships in. This committee and McMaster University have applied to host trailhead 2014 (as back-up) or Trailhead 2015. Work continues to facilitate trails connectivity between waterfront, Pan-Am games, the City and Key points.
vi) Website: have worked to secure contractors, manage contractors, manage outcomes, of the various elements of the website refresh. These people will be doing a run through as part of the January 28 board meeting. Website refresh to be live soon. Our website is ranked in hte top 3% of websites worldwide, and gets about 1,000,000 UNIQUE visitors a year.
vii) Horse Help Canada: wrote a grant with the HEAL program out of Campbellcroft Ontario, for November 1 Ontario Trillium Foundation funding - site visit by OTF moved to February 5th. OTC will be on site to assist this community program.
viii) Georgian Bay Coastal Trail: developed an on-line strategic assessment document for this trail committee. Collated and analysed survey results, presented a one day Board Staff think tank, produced an outcome report and have managed to guide staff and board with input since completion assisting them with their organizational development.
Your Membership funds our travel, expertise and guidance.

viii) Communications - each week's newsletter is produced on Thursday, Trailwise, each is circulated to about 850 people. This also includes amendments to the e-mail distribution list as people request to be added or removed. We cover a wide rage of topics about trails.
ix) Daily work - Each day there's daily work on the website, Trailhead Ontario pages, Facebook, Twitter and blog accounts. Every day people recirculate information we distribute.
x) Ontario Trails Strategy - the OTC attended all meetings of the Ontario trails strategy including the aboriginal sessions. Our commentary included discussion about the occupiers liability act (and follow-up conference call), liability, white paper or trails master plan for the province, the reassessment the nature of trail conflict, when it's really about a lack of capacity and competition for available space - i.e. fund for development; a project inventory; regulation easement; tax breaks; and ongoing meeting process; and management process for the 51 challenges were what we called for.

xi) Ontario Trails Coordinating Committee meeting - the meeting was held in Toronto on December 12, document attached on the Google drive for reference - the focus of the meeting was the outcome report they provided from the consultations. Attached the Google drive for reference, importantly the ministry has developed a management structure, seeing three pillars of engagement with the community to tackle the 51 challenges. I could not be more pleased as this reflects the 4 committee structure, OTC recommended to the Ministry in 2005. The Ontario Trails Coordinating Committee will be smaller, and function similar to the way the OTC Board of Directors functions. Members of the trails community will be called in at committee level on specific issues. This is happening already with the OLA conference calls and the Ontario Place Revitalization Project. Next meeting is to be held in the spring.
We also manage the education program, youth program funding and are looking at our advocacy, communication and supports every day! Thank You.
 
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Ontario Trails - Ski, Sled, Hike, Bike or Paddle Ontario's Trails

Peel adopts active transportation plan
Mississauga
Multi-use trails, bicycle lanes and sidewalk improvements are among several measures outlined in Peel's Active Transportation strategy endorsed today by ...


Secord trail advocates seek council support
Niagarathisweek.com
A group working to establish a permanent Laura Secord Trail and annual commemorative ... event” as part of that year's War of 1812 anniversary celebrations, ...

Never too early for water safety
Belleville Intelligencer
Thanks to Quinte Conservation's education co-ordinator Nicole Campbell, the conservation agency now offers the Spring Water Awareness Program — a revitalized program for local schools and homeschoolers tailored to promote safety while exploring ...
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Secord trail advocates seek council support
Niagarathisweek.com
A group working to establish a permanent Laura Secord Trail and annual commemorative ... event” as part of that year's War of 1812 anniversary celebrations, ...


Back To Nature Workshop
The Back to Nature Network Provincial Workshop is scheduled for March 7 and 8, 2012 at Royal Botanical Gardens (as many of you who belong to the listserv already know). Our keynote speaker is Dr. Frances (Ming) Kuo (see below for further details).  In addition, Dr. Kuo will be leading a panel discussion with workshop attendees on the afternoon of March 7. Registration is now open online at http://tickets.rbg.ca/PEO/show.asp.  The fee for the workshop is $50, but we are determined that cost will not be a barrier to participation; if it is, please contact me directly.

Centurion Cycling Takes it up a Notch in 2012
PR Web (press release)
Subaru Centurion Ontario (Horseshoe Valley, Ontario). A hidden gem of cycling just one hour north of Toronto in the Town of Oro-Medonte, Horseshoe Valley is where a series of horseshoe-shaped hills are relentless yet the quiet of the roads is amazingly ...
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Superintendent moving on after over a decade at Quetico Park
Atikokan Progress
Promotion of the park's winter tourism opportunities has aimed to increase off-season usage of Dawson Trail Campground's 30 km of ski trails...

Fish license-free this coming family day in Ontario
EMC Arnprior
The freebie weekend applies only to Canadian residents, and anglers must stick to the conservationlimits outlined for their area. Alesha Caldwell with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters administers the program, which encourages communities ...
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McGuinty Government And Right To Play Creating Opportunities For Aboriginal Youth

Ontario is helping more than 1,000 Aboriginal children and youth develop leadership skills to strengthen our future workforce, with support from partners.
The Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) program has expanded to 39 First Nation communities across the province. PLAY is designed to develop young leaders within the community and empower them to create positive change.
The program has created more than 30 full-time jobs for community mentors who work with Aboriginal youth to take part in training workshops, plan community events and participate in sports. Fifty jobs have also been created for Aboriginal youth to work with community mentors to deliver programs.
Creating more opportunities for youth to succeed is part of the McGuinty government’s plan to support families, create new jobs and build a brighter future for all Ontarians.

Walking With A Camera: Toronto Photo Walks: Liberty Village
Toronto Photo Walks: Liberty Village. Okay, posting has been sparse for a variety of reasons. More on that later. This weekend I managed to make it out to the ...
walkingwithcamera.blogspot.com/.../toronto-photo-walks-liber...

Bubbling over white water in Minden
Minden Times
A delegation from Whitewater Ontario visited Minden Hills councillors at their ... a three-time Olympian and high-performance manager of Canoe/Kayak Canada.

More than Snow, Sleds, and Shenanigans.
LOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie
Excited to ride in the event, Triplet isn't worried about there not being enough snow. Darrell Maahs, Past President and the Sault Trailblazers liaison for Snowarama, isn't worried either: “With the exception of a few locations where the trail will be ...
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Action taken to close snowmobile trails
Lake of the Woods Enterprise
3, where the Sunset Trail Riders provincial Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs trail crosses the Shoal Lake Road. JON THOMPSON/For The Enterprise By JON THOMPSON High-level talks with provincial Aboriginal Affairs staff on Feb.
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Ridershorses to test their limits
Standard Freeholder
COM CORNWALL – Several passionate horseback riders from the area are getting ... “Usually inOntario we try to have one international ride a year and nobody ...

Paris in the springtime, or a Valentine getaway
Montreal Gazette
Ontario Parks vacations The Ontario Parks network includes 330 parks. ... granting access to snowshoeing, bobsledding, ice climbing and snow tubing.

This year's Ontario Midget Championships is being hosted by Soo Finnish Nordic in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, March 10 and 11. The organizing committee ...
www.nordicskiracer.com/news.asp?NewsID=5962

Fraser and Birosh excel at Nordic Eastern Canadian Championships
Bay Today
North Bay Nordic athletes and coaches returned from another successful race weekend in Gatineau, Quebec. Nakkertok Ski Club was the site of the Eastern Canadian Championships, a North American (Noram) competition and Ontario Cup Series race.
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Ontario's best compete in Sault Ste. Marie
SooToday.com
What: The competition will consist of 82 competitors' from across the province who, through a series of preliminary competitions, earned the opportunity to apply theircross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship skills in both a three-person team relay...
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Nordic Cross Country Championships: Latest News & Videos ...
...of approval to the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations' request to close Huntsville's main drag for cross-country ski races. The organization is ...
economictimes.indiatimes.com/.../Nordic-Cross-Country-Cham...
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